[Townhall] Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ) told Fox Business on Sunday he has heard quiet concerns among House Democrats who represent districts President Trump won about the ongoing impeachment inquiry.
Van Drew represents New Jersey's 2nd congressional district, a district that went to Trump in the 2016 election. The congressman was one of the two Democrats who voted against the impeachment inquiry resolution.
Van Drew told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo he plans on voting against impeaching Trump when the time comes unless, "there’s something new or something we have not heard or something that really rises to the level of treason or high crime, that would be different. But we do not see that. We see little different variations, hearsay, discussions, somebody heard something that somebody else said."
"Impeachment as you know, our Founding Fathers had vigorous debate of whether they would even allow impeachment in the Constitution," he continued. "You don’t disenfranchise voters. Millions upon millions of voters. Voters choose their leaders in America."
Bartiromo asked Van Drew if there are other Trump-district Democrats who are going to be voting against impeachment.
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Which is why they are so desperate to make it a secret ballot. But that could backfire since they wouldn’t know who voted against it for later retaliation.
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When they ritually set themselves on fire, I'll believe they are really having second thoughts about their coup attempt. Until we see the mass suicides of Dem's attempting the 'honorable' way out, I'll not believe it a bit.
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When they ritually set themselves on fire, I'll believe they are really having second thoughts about their coup attempt.
Psychopaths feel no guilt or shame so this will never happen. Just because this guy has enough intelligence to understand that the coup might backfire doesn't mean he's not a reptile.
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[PJ] On Friday, as former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was testifying, President Trump made a series of tweets criticizing her performance as ambassador, which got Democrats so triggered that his tweets were read soon after they were made, and the narrative presented was that the tweet was witness intimidation. ME damit! It's all about MEEEEEE !
"Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad," Trump tweeted. "She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors."
"They call it 'serving at the pleasure of the President,'" Trump continued. "The U.S. now has a very strong and powerful foreign policy, much different than proceeding administrations. It is called, quite simply, America First!" Trump also noted that he's done far more for Ukraine than his predecessor than Obama.
This triggered Adam Schiff. "What we saw today is it wasn't enough that Ambassador Yovanovitch was smeared. It wasn't enough she was attacked. It wasn't enough that she was recalled for no reason, at least no good reason. But we saw today witness intimidation in real-time by the president of United States," Schiff said. "Once again going after this dedicated and respected career public servant in an effort to not only chilled her but to chill others who may come forward. We take this kind of witness intimidation and obstruction of the inquiry very seriously," he added.
Really? First of all, Yovanovitch wouldn't even have known about the tweet until after her testimony had Schiff not posted the tweets in the first place, but regardless, where's the intimidation? I can't see any. If Schiff was taking this seriously, he wouldn't be lobbing absurd charges for the purpose of piling on more ridiculous charges against Trump, hoping something will stick.
But what really gets me is how it's been almost seven years since Barack Obama left one of his ambassadors to die in a terrorist attack on a U.S. consulate, and the same people who defended the Obama administration endlessly over that are feigning outrage over Trump's tweet expressing his opinion. Democrats have been crying "impeach!" over everything for years, and now every time Trump expresses an opinion, we're hearing "intimidation." The same party that defended the Obama administration's failure to protect our consulate in Libya from an attack that claimed four American lives, including that of a U.S. ambassador, are now trying to tell us that we should be outraged over a harmless tweet‐a tweet that, regardless of what one thinks of the content, was written after Yovanovitch started testifying, and as far as Trump knew, she wouldn't have even had an opportunity to see until well after her testimony concluded? A tweet that she'd have been oblivious to had Schiff not brought it up.
[Washington Examiner] An official at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine testified U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told him President Trump "doesn’t give a shit about Ukraine" and only cared about "big stuff" benefiting his own presidency.
David Holmes, a political counselor based in Kyiv, spoke with congressional investigators behind closed doors on Nov. 15, and his 213-page interview transcript was released Monday evening.
Holmes recounted a July 26 phone call between Sondland and Trump he overheard while sitting at a restaurant in Kyiv with Sondland and two other staffers. Holmes told the House that Sondland told Trump that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "loves your ass," and when Trump asked if Zelensky was going to do the investigation, Sondland told him "he’s going to do it" and "will do anything you ask of him."
The call took place the day after Trump’s controversial phone call with Zelensky, which sparked a whistleblower complaint. In the call, immediately after Zelensky expressed interest in purchasing anti-tank weaponry, known as Javelins, from the United States, Trump asked Zelensky "to do us a favor" by looking into a CrowdStrike conspiracy theory. The president also urged Zelensky to investigate "the other thing," referring to allegations of corruption related to Joe and Hunter Biden stemming from the younger Biden’s lucrative position on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company. Trump told Zelensky to speak with Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr.
Holmes said Sondland called Trump on his cellphone and appeared to connect through the White House switchboards. Holmes said he could overhear what Trump was saying because Trump was speaking so loudly, Sondland had to move the phone away from his ear.
Could we have a look at your cellie please? Oh, you no longer have that selector? No problem, the WH communications detachment will have a record of the call.
When asked whether he was concerned foreign actors such as the Russians may have intercepted the call, Holmes said, "It was surprising to me that he ‐ yes."
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This is one of the shittiest aspects of the Shitshow: the absurd, head-spinning, up-is-down and night-is-day BS about how Trump is a Russian agent -- wait, er, I mean a Ukrainian agent.
First Russia was benign and Romney was a benighted warmonger living in the 70s. Then Russia became evil, the Fourth Reich, and Putin was Satan incarnate. Now Ukraine's president is a wicked toady of Trump-- even though, I guess, er, Ukraine's opposed to Russia and Trump supported Ukraine with Javelins and sold Patriots to Poland and pulled out of the INF Treaty and authorized our Special Forces in Syria to fire on Wagner Group/Russian soldiers... Whatever, he's evil I tell ya.
Do these shitheads have even the faintest idea as to what they're alleging?
Do they have even a single coherent, intelligent thought regarding Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Turkey?
[Babylon Bee] The impeachment hearings have been thrown into chaos after President Trump announced that he supports impeachment, forcing Democrats to oppose their own impeachment inquiry.
"Impeachment? I'm for it. Great idea. Best idea, maybe ever," he said, adding that he's "getting kinda sick of all this winning anyway."
"Sure, why not. Impeach me. I love it. Whatever. Now I'm gonna go watch Joker again. Great film. What's that guy's name? Phoenix something. Bob Phoenix, that's it. Tremendous actor---absolutely perfect."
Democrats quickly condemned his statements. Pelosi said, "It's clear that Trump wants to be impeached because he's not good at being president. Well, we're going to show him a thing or two by forcing him to stay in the White House and finish out his term."
"And Joker is alt-right propaganda," she said, falling for Trump's ploy to make Dems condemn one of the most successful, beloved films of the year.
One pundit on CNN suggested that Trump is supporting impeachment at the request of Putin or the guy from Ukraine or "whichever conspiracy thing we're pushing this month, I forget."
At publishing time, Democrats had also withdrawn from the 2020 race to teach Trump a lesson.
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hold on... would you believe... BELARUS? Belarus, that's it!
[NYPOST] Last week, Israel once again faced a barrage of rockets from Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... while most of the mainstream Democratic candidates whistled and looked away.
Candidates don’t have to comment on every event happening around the world, but the silence of much of the Democratic field feels like more than passing disinterest. And when Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
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Sanders also lent credence to the Paleostinian narrative about Israel’s supposedly sinful birth. "Acknowledging these realities," he lectured, "does not ’delegitimize’ Israel any more than acknowledging the sober facts of America’s own Founding delegitimizes the United States."
Wrong. America doesn’t have to defend its very existence.
Spot on. Sanders is such a moron. His foreign policy views are beneath sophomoric. It's shameful that such a fool could get anywhere near the nomination of a major political party.
[Jpost] ’On both the northern and southern fronts, the situation is tense and fragile and could deteriorate into a confrontation," IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi said in late October. Israel was facing a complex set of threats among Iranian proxies and allies and was increasing its pace of preparations.
We now know that one of those preparations was to strike Bahaa Abu al-Ata, who was planning terrorist attacks and had been deeply involved in Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... ’s escalation against Israel over the past year.
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[Jpost] Could uprisings in Iraq and Leb, coupled with US sanctions, permanently impair Iran’s influence in the region?
In the past few weeks, frustrated and fed-up demonstrators have taken to the streets of Leb and Iraq to voice grievances against their governments. The perception of Iranian infiltration and influence certainly continues to impact this political shake-up in both regions.
These protests have toppled two governments in just three days. Saad Hariri
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The people in power in Leb and Iraq are getting their bread buttered by Iran, they will do their utmost to suppress the demonstrators. If they fail, they may not make it into exile.
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[The Wrap] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is questioning the accuracy of Clint Eastwood’s film "Richard Jewell" ahead of its premiere on Wednesday.
In a letter obtained by TheWrap, AJC editor-in-chief Kevin G. Riley challenged the portrayal of the newspaper in the film, according to an unnamed colleague Riley said had seen it. Riley said Eastwood depicted Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs trading sex with an FBI agent in exchange for a tip on a story, but he stated that there is no evidence this ever happened and that Scruggs herself is deceased.
Riley also defended the paper’s reporting of the Richard Jewell case, challenging the notion in the film that the paper ran its story based on questionable sourcing, that the paper’s decision making was unsound and that the paper failed to challenge law enforcement’s investigation.
"This is essential because the underlying theme of the movie is that the FBI and press are not to be trusted. Yet the way the press is portrayed often differs from reality," Riley said in the letter to TheWrap on Monday. "As more and more filmmaking has come to Atlanta and Georgia, we’ve gotten a taste of just how difficult it can be to cover this industry. I share this information in the spirit of a fellow journalist who knows how crucial it remains to have solid information when covering demanding stories. It’s also ironic that a film purporting to hold the media to account disregards such crucial facts."
Warner Bros. did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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The paper that lied about Richard Jewell complains they're being lied about...
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Considering that your only defense was that YOU make Richard a public figure, and therefore exploited the judicially created fiction that as such the 14th Amendment of equal protection before the law does not apply to said public figures, you'd better keep a low profile rather than invite attention to such miscarriage of justice.
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"Wonder what they said about the film about paedophile harvey milk?"
They sighed longingly and wished they could be such a "man"...
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^ Found the bigot! I bet you're the kind of fascist freak who'd have a problem with consenting adults plucking out glass eyes in Starbucks and skull-f-----g one another with humanely-blunted kid-friendly unicorn horns! Weirdo.
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[American Thinker] For the past several years, most of us who have been following the seditious Deep State activities against President Trump and many of his close associates have been eagerly awaiting a reckoning. A presidential campaign, then administration, was spied upon by the previous administration, using fabricated domestic and foreign intelligence, with the willing assistance of the mainstream media.
President Trump has been accused of being a Russian agent, a Putin stooge, and a traitor by high level executives of ex-President Obama’s justice and intelligence agencies. A two-year $30 million special counsel investigation, that we were told would unearth "mountains of evidence" of Trump-Russia collusion, was a big dud, exonerating the president of his supposed treason.
Meanwhile these accusations and investigations have ruined the reputations and finances of many Trump associates. Now it’s on to so-called "impeachment inquiry" hearings, attempting to remove a duly elected president based on third-hand hearsay and disagreement with foreign policy approaches that are totally under the purview of the president, not the unelected administrative State Department apparatchiks.
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[PJ] In the three years since Colin Kaepernick knelt his way off of the San Francisco 49ers and out of the National Football League, the one thing the drama has lacked is ambivalence. People either hated him or viewed him as a social hero who was being mistreated and prevented from playing the game he loves.
Now everybody just hates him.
Throughout his supposedly unwanted hiatus from football, Kaepernick and those representing him have insisted that he is staying in playing shape and merely wanted a chance to showcase his skills for a team.
Last week, the NFL offered him that chance. The Nike hero was supposed to work out for twenty-five teams in Atlanta last Saturday.
As most of you probably know by now, the workout was derailed a bit because Kaepernick did what he truly does best: act like an insufferable prima donna.
At 2:30 p.m. Eastern time, with about two dozen scouts waiting at the Falcons’ facility, Kaepernick announced that the workout would be moved to a high school an hour away. Many scouts threw up their arms and headed straight to the airport. Dozens of reporters and cameramen drove south to the high school field.
The NFL -- which often gets things like this wrong -- responded like adults, but if you read between the lines here, you can see that they’re really over Kaepernick:
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"You fools are still following Football?
It's time to get ready red, eh, for Rootsball!
Don't go for the headfake;
Make every last snowflake
Fear time's blitzing linebacker's footfall."
Kaepernick... or Nazi? Only his hairdresser knows for sure.
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Or, Stick a pick in it -- he's done!
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[American Thinker] Woke as ever, Starbucks touted its rising profit from same-store sales as an indicator that its policies and plans, presumably its open-bathroom policy, was working.
That was the policy put into place to allow all comers, whether the homeless, the drug-addicted, or the general bums to use the store bathrooms without buying a thing. It happened in response to a racial incident with some non-paying customers who wanted to use the facilities, including the table space and the bathrooms, or else "racism." Starbucks was all apologies and bent over backwards to accommodate everyone involved.
Not so fast.
A Texas study finds that actually, there might be a problem, according to this report from Yahoo! Finance:
Starbucks' (SBUX) changes to its bathroom policy appear to be impacting foot traffic for the coffee giant, despite sales that have outpaced expectations, according to recent data.
Since opening its bathroom doors to the public in the wake of a controversial incident in Philadelphia, the coffee giant has seen a 6.8% drop in store attendance per month relative to other coffee shops nearby, according to the findings of a joint study from the University of Texas at Dallas and Boston College.
"When you throw open the policy to let people come in and just use the bathrooms and the tables, maybe people come in and find the bathrooms are dirty, and the tables are crowded," David Solomon, Assistant Professor at Boston College Carroll School of Management, told YFi PM. "And so they don't buy the coffee as well."
Starbucks was quick to decry the report as nonsense, citing its fine overall store numbers.
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And then there's this little gem in which a homeless freak dumped a bucket of hot diarrhea on a lady's head on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The bum was arrested but is now back on the street.
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[PJ] On Friday, as former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was testifying, President Trump made a series of tweets criticizing her performance as ambassador, which got Democrats so triggered that his tweets were read soon after they were made, and the narrative presented was that the tweet was witness intimidation.
[Babylon Bee] The impeachment hearings have been thrown into chaos after President Trump announced that he supports impeachment, forcing Democrats to oppose their own impeachment inquiry.
[NYPOST] Last week, Israel once again faced a barrage of rockets from 
