"I want to say something to your Republican friends and family since I don't have any Republican friends and do not speak to my Republican relatives."

Sprachlosigkeit ist immer ein Zeichen geistiger Überlegenheit.

House GOP members are 'absolutely disgusted and exhausted' by Trump's behavior, former GOP congressman says
Former Republican congressman Charlie Dent said Thursday some of his former colleagues in the House of Representatives have privately told him they are "absolutely disgusted and exhausted by the President's behavior."

Dent told CNN's Ana Cabrera on "Newsroom" that House Republicans are standing with the President at the moment because of base pressure, but said "they resent being put in this position all the time."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/29/politics/...behavior-cnntv/

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“In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba.
I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome."
I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over.
I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill.
I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City.
I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing "Amazing Grace" in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

These were the presidents of my lifetime.
These were not perfect men.
They were not perfect presidents, god knows.
Not one of them was that.
But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job.
They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings.
They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.

And now comes this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators.
Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.

The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend.
A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition.
And a cheap, soulless bully besides.

Watch him make fun of the woman again.
Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut the fuck up even when it is in his best interest to do so.

Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents.
They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.

Watch him again, behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man?
Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious?
Watch the assembled morons cheer.
This is the only story now."

~ Charles Pierce, Esquire

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“In my life, I have watched Helmut Schmidt talk about the necessity to deploy new land-based cruise missiles in Western Europe.
I saw Helmut Kohl holding hands with Ronald Reagan at that cemetery in Bitburg.
I saw Willy Brandt having tears when Germany reunited.
I saw Gerhard Schröder snapping after his narrow defeat in the election of 2005.

These were the chancellors of my lifetime.
These were not perfect men.
They were not perfect chancellors, god knows.
Not one of them was that.
But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job.
They tried, at least, to reach for something during their chancellorship that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings.
They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.

And now comes this hopeless, fat-arsed former secretary for agitprop, the reincarnation of Giulio Andreotti (except for his erudition and his mastering of his mother tongue) and the audience of equal-minded politicians and journalists, of claqueurs.
Now she makes all the decisions which in the long run (or even the shorter run) might ruin her country.

Watch her again, behind the seal of the Chancellory of the Federal Republic of Germany. Isn't she the female knight of the sorrowful countenance?
Watch the assembled morons cheer.
This is the only story now and I do hope it will end soon."

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Ich hoffe, mb hat sich nichts schlimmes angetan.
Während die Dems weiter die Bevölkerung mir dem Impeachment-Langweiler zu fangen versuchen, geben die Amis allein am Black-Friday 7,4 MRD $ aus, ein weiterer Rekord.

Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #8910

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Ich hoffe, mb hat sich nichts schlimmes angetan.
Während die Dems weiter die Bevölkerung mir dem Impeachment-Langweiler zu fangen versuchen, geben die Amis allein am Black-Friday 7,4 MRD $ aus, ein weiterer Rekord.

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Trump won't lose his job – but the impeachment inquiry is still essential
The process is required by the constitution, seems to be shifting voters’ opinions, and will render the president unpardonable

Not even overwhelming evidence that Trump sought to bribe a foreign power to dig up dirt on his leading political opponent in 202o – and did so with American taxpayer dollars, while compromising American foreign policy – will cause Trump to be removed from office.
That’s because there’s zero chance that 2o Republican senators – the number needed to convict Trump, if every Democratic senator votes to do so – have enough integrity to do what the constitution requires them to do.
These Republican senators will put their jobs and their political party ahead of the constitution and the country. They will tell themselves that 88% of Republican voters still support Trump, and that their duty is to them.
It does not matter that these voters inhabit a parallel political universe consisting of Trump tweets, Fox News, rightwing radio, and Trump-Russian social media, all propounding the absurd counter-narrative that Democrats, the “deep state”, coastal elites, and mainstream media are conspiring to remove the Chosen One from office.
So if there’s no chance of getting the 20 Republican votes needed to send Trump packing, is there any reason for this impeachment proceeding to continue?

Yes. There are three reasons.
The first is the constitution itself. Donald Trump has openly abused his power – not only seeking electoral help from foreign nations but making money off his presidency in violation of the emoluments clause, spending funds never appropriated by Congress in violation of the separation of powers, obstructing justice, and violating his oath to faithfully execute the law.
A failure by Congress to respond to these abuses would effectively render the constitution meaningless. Congress has no alternative but to respond.

The second reason is political. While the impeachment hearings don’t appear to have moved Republican voters, only 29% of Americans still identify as Republican.
The hearings do seem to have affected Democrats and independents, as well as many people who sat out the 2016 election. National polls by Morning Consult/Politico and SSRS/CNN show that 50% of respondents now support both impeaching Trump and removing him from office, an increase from Morning Consult/Politico’s mid-November poll.
Presumably anyone who now favors removing Trump from office will be inclined to vote against him next November. The House’s impeachment could therefore swing the 2020 election against him.

The third reason for the House to impeach Trump even if the Senate won’t convict him concerns the pardoning power of the president....

...If Trump is impeached by the House, he can never be pardoned for these crimes. He cannot pardon himself (it’s dubious that a president has this self-pardoning power in any event), and he cannot be pardoned by a future president....

The House will probably impeach him before Christmas and then his chance of getting a pardon for his many crimes will be gone.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...inquiry-removal

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #8911

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Ich hoffe, mb hat sich nichts schlimmes angetan.
Während die Dems weiter die Bevölkerung mir dem Impeachment-Langweiler zu fangen versuchen, geben die Amis allein am Black-Friday 7,4 MRD $ aus, ein weiterer Rekord.

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Die Schwachen jubeln auch ueber Belanglosigkeiten. :-)

Nichts von dem wird das Impeachment eures verbrecherischen Fuehrers aufhalten. Und auch diese Woche wird alles andere als langweilig werden -ganz egal was die Losers vorgeben. :-)

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More bad news:

"Trump Approval Among Blacks Tops 34 Percent in Emerson Poll"

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-appr...ws_3155737.html

Auch wenn nur die Hälfte wahr wäre, ist das der Todesurteil für jeden Dem-Kandidaten.

Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #8916

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More bad news:

"Trump Approval Among Blacks Tops 34 Percent in Emerson Poll"

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-appr...ws_3155737.html

Auch wenn nur die Hälfte wahr wäre, ist das der Todesurteil für jeden Dem-Kandidaten.

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Fox News' Judge Napolitano outlines likely articles of impeachment against Trump
Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News' senior judicial analyst, said on The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie that he believes the House Intelligence Committee unearthed evidence to justify "about three or four" articles of impeachment against President Trump.

Napolitano said House Democrats have evidence to impeach the president for bribery, election law violation, obstruction of justice and witness interference. He added that they may also have evidence that Trump lied under oath in written answers to former special counsel Robert Mueller about his conversations with Roger Stone regarding WikiLeaks.

https://www.axios.com/fox-news-judge-nap...f26a438c73.html

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #8918

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[quote=nahal|p270851]Ich hoffe, mb hat sich nichts schlimmes angetan.
Während die Dems weiter die Bevölkerung mir dem Impeachment-Langweiler zu fangen versuchen, geben die Amis allein am Black-Friday 7,4 MRD $ aus, ein weiterer Rekord.

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Die Schwachen jubeln auch ueber Belanglosigkeiten. :-)

Nichts von dem wird das Impeachment eures verbrecherischen Fuehrers aufhalten. Und auch diese Woche wird alles andere als langweilig werden -ganz egal was die Losers vorgeben. :-)

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:-)))
Richtig.
Dass es den Menschen unter diesem "Führer" so gut geht ist eine Belanglosigkeit.

Leute, die so wie Willie-Boy denken und sprechen haben Trump erst möglich gemacht.
Diese abgehobene Hochnäsigkeit wird ihm eine zweite Amtszeit bescheren.

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Key manufacturing index contracts for the fourth straight month
The ISM's November manufacturing report released Monday contracted for the fourth straight month.

Why it matters: It's an unexpected decline as most industry watchers expected the reading to rise. Surveys have shown manufacturing output declining for more than a year.

The ISM index sits at 48.1 for November. Anything under 50 on the reading indicates that manufacturing activity is declining.
Manufacturing has added just 2,000 net jobs in 2019, Barron's notes. That's due not only to a slowing pace of job growth from 2018's 264,000 manufacturing jobs added, but also to net job losses the past two months, including 36,000 net job losses in October.
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Justice Department ‘laying groundwork’ for Trump criminal investigation based on Ukraine revelations: report
According to a report from Politico, there is evidence that the Justice Department may be ramping up their own investigation of Donald Trump based on recent revelations about his Ukraine scandal.

The report leads off with, “Legal experts see signs that DOJ is laying the groundwork for a potential criminal probe into whether the president and his top advisers broke federal laws by withholding a White House meeting and nearly $400 million dollars in foreign aid from Ukraine unless the country’s new leaders agreed to investigate Trump’s political rivals.”

“In Washington, D.C., the FBI has already contacted an attorney for the whistleblower who first revealed the scheme,” the report continues. “In New York, federal prosecutors are expanding a probe into Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, who played a pivotal role in the Ukraine campaign. And on Capitol Hill, lawmakers busy with impeachment are collecting documents and testimony that could help fuel any DOJ probe into the president and others around him who were involved in the scheme.”

According to the report, a possible investigation against Trump would likely put Attorney General William Barr on the hot seat with his own department if he tries to interfere with career investigators.

As Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) put it, “This is a dereliction of duty by Bill Barr to not treat this as a criminal matter. It’s Bill Barr protecting the president. The way to handle it would have been to appoint a special counsel to investigate all these matters.”

According to the report, revelations about Ukraine that began trickling out back in October caught the attention of Justice Department officials.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/justice...lations-report/

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #8918

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Fox News' Judge Napolitano outlines likely articles of impeachment against Trump
Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News' senior judicial analyst, said on The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie that he believes the House Intelligence Committee unearthed evidence to justify "about three or four" articles of impeachment against President Trump.

Napolitano said House Democrats have evidence to impeach the president for bribery, election law violation, obstruction of justice and witness interference. He added that they may also have evidence that Trump lied under oath in written answers to former special counsel Robert Mueller about his conversations with Roger Stone regarding WikiLeaks.

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A psychologist dissects Trump’s unusual narcissism: He is ‘stranger than any diagnostic category can convey’
In an op-ed for The Atlantic this Monday, Northwestern University psychology professor Dan P. McAdams gave his insights into why President Trump’s most loyal supporters are so unwavering in the face of his clear “narcissistic personality disorder.”

Trump has seen “droves” leave his administration in response to his narcissistic governing style. According to a recent study cited by McAdams, the turnover rate in the current White House is higher than any other recent administration.
“In the long run, it is tough to work with, or to love, a narcissist,” McAdams writes, adding that Trump’s staffers “live at the whim of an impulsive, self-centered man whose fragile self-esteem soars and then threatens to plummet from one moment to the next. Their boss demands constant praise and unquestioning fealty. For most, the end result is frustration and disappointment.”

But despite the constant upheaval within the White House, outside there is a “straight line” approval rating that doesn’t seem to budge.
“That line is consistently lower than what other presidents have shown,” McAdams writes. “Trump’s approval ratings have generally hovered in the low 40s. Unlike all other presidents, he has never exceeded a 47 percent approval rating. But he has rarely dipped much below 37 percent.”

One reason for this is that Trump’s most loyal followers live in a bubble where they rarely hear negative coverage of “their hero.”
“Trump supporters and Trump detractors live in different worlds,” McAdams continues. “They may not speak to one another about politics, knowing that such a conversation is likely to end badly. They get their news from different sources. They stay faithful to their respective political tribes.”

So why is there such a difference when it comes to loyalty to Trump when comparing White House staffers to his supporters outside the White House? According to McAdams, it’s because the millions of American voters who adore him “do not have to interact with him directly.”

“If they want to get a little closer, they can attend a Trump rally. In the local sports arena or civic center, they can sit just a few hundred feet away from the president, cheering and chanting. They can express their love for the him in the presence of thousands of others who love him too. They can laugh at his jokes and partake of the anger and disgust he expresses toward his enemies. Excitement fills the arena. What outlandish thing will he do? What will he say to capture the headlines of the next day? A Trump rally is a safe space for Trump supporters. They can sit back and enjoy the performance, because whatever he says cannot directly threaten them. He will be gone tomorrow.”
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