Sunday, November 24, 2019

Politics Corner, November 24th

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Beijing supporters in Hong Kong who claim the protesters do not represent the people really need to shut up now. A record number of Hong Kongers turned out to give pro-democtracy candidates a landslide. [Reuters]




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The Secretary of the Navy wasn't going to quit so he got fired instead. He was accused of making a deal with the White House to do exactly what his boss, the Secretary of Defense is going to do. Being fired might look better on his resume than quitting. [AP]


Sanjay Gupta sure took his time to have his say on the Trump not-a-physical-but-we-won't -say-what-it-really-is. Of course he finds it suspicious. [CNN]


What are you looking here for? Leave us out of it. [NBC]


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The House Intel Committee has a treasure trove of video, audio and photographs from Lev Parnas. Nunes is fucked. [ABC]


For something that's a whole lot of "There's nothing to see here, please disperse - look there's Hunter Biden!" there has been a blizzard of emails attempting to justify Trump's denial of allocated aid to Ukraine. [Business Insider]


Schiff says the Inquiry is not over but they won't wait on the White House. He wants Bolton too but won't take him to court. Considering how many Trumpanistas are on the bench now it's probably a good idea not to set bad precedent. [Politico] [CNN]


Does Trump know you? That depends. Did you do what he told you to do? Then he probably doesn't know you anymore. [USA Today]


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We've got the nasty details of what's happening in China's concentration camps. More than a million people are inside, mostly muslim Uighurs. China has no excuse. The world knows about it. Nothing will be done. [AP]


Netanyahu refuses to step aside as Prime Minister of Israel after being indicted for bribery. The Supreme Court has been asked to kick him out. If that doesn't work a member of his party wants to primary him out of office. [Reuters]


Of course the White House was responsible for blocking condemnation of the Armenian genocide. Whatever the dictator wants the dictator gets from Trump. [Axios]


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