Thursday, December 5, 2019

Politics Corner, December 5th

"Lady Freedom" by skpy is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 


Another reminder that no matter how wide the Impeachment gets it will never encompass all the awful of the Trump Administration. We're still separating children from their families at the border, placing them in atrocious conditions, locking them up when they've committed no crime, and in the worst cases letting them die. We're still finding out how this is allowed to happen. [ProPublica]


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Trump sent National Park Rangers to the border and the guy running the National Park Service didn't have a clue. Let's fire them both. [USA Today]


Homeland Security gave up on facial recognition scans as soon as it became public. Widespread outrage works. Now lets get rid of that Peloton ad. [Reuters]


It's Kevin Cramer's turn to debase himself for Trump and block a bill in the Senate to recognize that the genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire that was so bad that the word genocide was created to describe it was indeed a genocide. This fact (and it is fact) is only controversial in Turkey where Trump's bestie is Dictator. The bullshit excuse? It's bad timing because...and they're our NATO ally....None of our other NATO allies seem to be bothered by these excuses and have all condemned the genocide and nothing has happened to them yet. And Trump treats our actual allies far worse than our negotiated ally Turkey. So what did Cramer get? A North Dakota company got an awful lot of money to build a wall on the border, not with nearby Canada but far away Mexico. Let's fire them both. [NBC]


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Congratulations! It's an impeachment! Part oh who even knows anymore? Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has asked for Articles of Impeachment. [ABC]


Don't confuse Pelosi with someone who will put up with your shit. [CNN]


Once upon a time people who were being investigated under suspicion of felonies were advised not to cross state lines. Giuliani is in Ukraine trying to cover his tracks. [AP]


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Kavanaugh just got another case of beer from Trump. [CNN]


Fox News' favorite white supremacist is getting even more expensive. How many My Pillow commercials will it take to pay the eventual settlement when Karen McDougal drops her suit against Fox over Carlson accusing her of extortion on air? Or maybe they'll tempt fate and let the suit go to court where Trump could be called to testify or maybe that ass from the National Inquirer who caught and killed McDougal's story for Trump. Nah. But it's going to take a lot of money to make it go away. [Deadline]


No amount of money is going to make Myanmar's atrocities against the Rohingya go away. But Myanmar may get out of the charges anyway. Even if they win at The Hague the world will know what they've done. If you feel superior go back and read my top story again. The world knows about that too. [Reuters] [ProPublica]


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