The centerpiece of Republicans’ case for impeaching Democratic president Joe Biden is the allegation that he and his son Hunter each accepted a $5 million bribe from Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma when Biden Sr. was vice president. But in the last week, that accusation has revealed quite a different problem, one that implicates Republicans.
Why doesn’t someone who takes pictures of a classified document in a secure location and publish them, then lose their security clearance? Shouldn’t that be automatic?
I wouldn't have my precious children if it weren't for IVF procedures and frozen embryos. Considering embryos as people is so far outside the realm of science - it's a religious belief that goes against science in every way. It's nakedly about power and control. No pretense anymore. The minority will only rule if the majority lets them. I'm still laughing at the NY Times article about how all of us activists are "exhausted." Sure we're tired of dealing with this BS, but we only get more and more resolved, organized, and determined every day. I'm so grateful for Heather, and to be in the company of all of you!
MT Greene and the others who photographed the classifieds documents should be prosecuted, or at the least expelled from Congress. [How did they get their cameras into the safe room? Who blew that?] Personally, I think prison, or more severe punishment is justified. Turns out the dots that most politicians refuse to connect are, in fact, written by Putin's agents to help put his puppet, Trump, in power. DOJ and the Courts are slow to protect us. I wonder how many moles are involved?
Having grown up as a pastors kid in former East Germany (where Putin was stationed as a young KGB) what I now experience in the US just feels like the wrong movie. Christian nationalism has never occurred to me as something possible. And preferring dictators to a Liberal society seems just absurd and contrary to all i stood up for and got in trouble with.
After years of MAGA nonsense, even good news is appalling. Elected representatives are aggressively propagating Russian disinformation. And further, they are not paying a price for it.
In the meantime, people rising to the level of Supreme Court Justices regularly inject religious belief into decisions. Leaving Samuel Alito aside, Chief Justice Tom Parker in Alabama wrote in his concurring opinion. “We believe that each human being, from the moment of conception, is made in the image of God, created by Him to reflect His likeness.”
Of course, allowing the kids to buy semi-automatic weapons to blow apart their classmates is guaranteed by the Constitution according to their reading…
They're fools, all these Putin agents on the Republican side of Congress.
Our Heather correctly sees their next threat to democracy in the U.S. -- not just following the bread crumbs laid out by Putin's operatives, but also "Reworking the nation to impose Christian nationalism."
Putin has his cohort of eastern orthodox old men in long skirts and chains of jewelry, just as U.S. Republicans have their orange heavily made-up fat man, as well as their much younger Howdy Doody speaker of the House pushing his group hatred and religio-nationalism scripts.
Dems across America can respond. I know it's difficult. None went to any university where people learned the arts of quoting others. But they should appear in groups of three and four exactly to do that -- speak in public to the great American public issues in which their own best have been invested -- all across this land is your land, this land is my land:
Not only are the Republican'ts incapable of governing (as the paucity of their legislation proves), they are also incapable of holding hearings that provide credible information before they leap to conclusions about corruption and malfeasance. Their need to stage impeachment hearings without having a shred of evidence would be sad and pathetic if it weren't so dangerous. Restoring faith in the Congress will depend on our electing competent, honest, hard-working legislators in November.
The grand scheme…in one way or another - is to force their ideology and their beliefs and their values down our throats. Wake up folks…get out there and organize and work our butts off. Or come November we will not recognize what we have become…
I just hope with all my heart that if Democrats regain control of the House that one of the first things they'll do is open a House investigation of Reps. Comer, Grassley, Jordan, et al! Something about all this business with Smirnov stinks to high-heaven and the DOJ might need to get to the bottom of it. Using fabricated information from Russian sources to attempt to impugn, smear, and impeach a sitting President is pretty serious stuff. "How complicit were they??" "How did they get hold of this information??" are but some of the questions that might need answering. Time to turn the tables.
I have never been so terrified of my own country. My grandparents fled to this country to be free of intolerance, tyranny and hate. I was born into a world at war and amid Holocaust. I grew up and old in a country with huge flaws but with the possibility that it would always, if sometimes haltingly, move toward that place my grandparents hoped for. I can't grasp that the whole dream could descend into nightmare. These people are just...awful.
The education system that serves Alabama, and, indeed, the so-called Christian right, has clearly failed. 70 years ago, growing up in West Virginia, I learned that our country was founded by people escaping religious persecution, and they were strongly AGAINST any form of religion in government. And I learned that many of our Founding Fathers were Episcopalians.
Good day Professor. I bet it was heart wrenching for you because it was heart wrenching for us. I try to be positive here because that’s what we are. But I can’t understand the minds of these people Jim Jordan. I’ll leave it at that. thank you Professor I’ll probably have nightmares, but you are the best we must always face the truth regardless of how difficult it is I guess and hope for a brighter day tomorrow…sleep well all stay positive and stay true blue. America and Constitution and democracy it gives us a good life…. peace all. I’m sorry I had a rough day too. I’m tired and my grammar and punctuation is not the best.
Once again, allegations of "weaponization" of the justice system are really the accusers referring to themselves. For the GOP (Grovelers Obeying Putin), almost every accusation is a confession.
Why is proven interference in our Elections and Congressional processes not considered an "Act of War" or "Open Hostility"? And, why aren't people who participate considered to be "adhering" Or "aiding" prosecuted for their crimes? Just askin'.
Comer and Grassley were duped because they are already so steeped in their party myth that such American institutions as the FBI, the Justuce Department, and procedures like voting are being g corrupted. It's ironic that they are partly right, but the source of the corruption is their gullibility being manipulated by the likes of Smirnov. Smirnov probably is smirking less as the FBI proved its competence.
Sorry! McCarthy is a Republican, of course, not a Democrat. Fixed.
Why doesn’t someone who takes pictures of a classified document in a secure location and publish them, then lose their security clearance? Shouldn’t that be automatic?
I wouldn't have my precious children if it weren't for IVF procedures and frozen embryos. Considering embryos as people is so far outside the realm of science - it's a religious belief that goes against science in every way. It's nakedly about power and control. No pretense anymore. The minority will only rule if the majority lets them. I'm still laughing at the NY Times article about how all of us activists are "exhausted." Sure we're tired of dealing with this BS, but we only get more and more resolved, organized, and determined every day. I'm so grateful for Heather, and to be in the company of all of you!
MT Greene and the others who photographed the classifieds documents should be prosecuted, or at the least expelled from Congress. [How did they get their cameras into the safe room? Who blew that?] Personally, I think prison, or more severe punishment is justified. Turns out the dots that most politicians refuse to connect are, in fact, written by Putin's agents to help put his puppet, Trump, in power. DOJ and the Courts are slow to protect us. I wonder how many moles are involved?
Having grown up as a pastors kid in former East Germany (where Putin was stationed as a young KGB) what I now experience in the US just feels like the wrong movie. Christian nationalism has never occurred to me as something possible. And preferring dictators to a Liberal society seems just absurd and contrary to all i stood up for and got in trouble with.
After years of MAGA nonsense, even good news is appalling. Elected representatives are aggressively propagating Russian disinformation. And further, they are not paying a price for it.
In the meantime, people rising to the level of Supreme Court Justices regularly inject religious belief into decisions. Leaving Samuel Alito aside, Chief Justice Tom Parker in Alabama wrote in his concurring opinion. “We believe that each human being, from the moment of conception, is made in the image of God, created by Him to reflect His likeness.”
Of course, allowing the kids to buy semi-automatic weapons to blow apart their classmates is guaranteed by the Constitution according to their reading…
Why is the country ‘breaking bad’?
They're fools, all these Putin agents on the Republican side of Congress.
Our Heather correctly sees their next threat to democracy in the U.S. -- not just following the bread crumbs laid out by Putin's operatives, but also "Reworking the nation to impose Christian nationalism."
Putin has his cohort of eastern orthodox old men in long skirts and chains of jewelry, just as U.S. Republicans have their orange heavily made-up fat man, as well as their much younger Howdy Doody speaker of the House pushing his group hatred and religio-nationalism scripts.
Dems across America can respond. I know it's difficult. None went to any university where people learned the arts of quoting others. But they should appear in groups of three and four exactly to do that -- speak in public to the great American public issues in which their own best have been invested -- all across this land is your land, this land is my land:
Jamie Raskin, Mallory McMorrow, Katie Porter;
Sheldon Whitehouse, Gretchen Whitmer, Ro Khanna, Justin Jones;
Pete Buttigieg, Eric Swalwell, Jasmine Crockett, Amy Klobuchar;
Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Ilhan Omar, Maxwell Frost;
Liz Warren, Raphael Warnock, Josh Shapiro, Zoe Lofgren;
Dan Goldberg, Gavin Newsom, Ted Lieu, Madeleine Dean;
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Wes Moore, Gary Peters, Robert Garcia;
Maxine Waters, Hakeem Jeffries, Jerry Nadler, Richard Blumenthal;
Chris Coons, Abigail Spanberger, Summer Lee, Jared Moskowitz;
Adam Schiff, Shontel Brown, Mikie Sherrill, Pramila Jayapal.
Not only are the Republican'ts incapable of governing (as the paucity of their legislation proves), they are also incapable of holding hearings that provide credible information before they leap to conclusions about corruption and malfeasance. Their need to stage impeachment hearings without having a shred of evidence would be sad and pathetic if it weren't so dangerous. Restoring faith in the Congress will depend on our electing competent, honest, hard-working legislators in November.
The grand scheme…in one way or another - is to force their ideology and their beliefs and their values down our throats. Wake up folks…get out there and organize and work our butts off. Or come November we will not recognize what we have become…
I just hope with all my heart that if Democrats regain control of the House that one of the first things they'll do is open a House investigation of Reps. Comer, Grassley, Jordan, et al! Something about all this business with Smirnov stinks to high-heaven and the DOJ might need to get to the bottom of it. Using fabricated information from Russian sources to attempt to impugn, smear, and impeach a sitting President is pretty serious stuff. "How complicit were they??" "How did they get hold of this information??" are but some of the questions that might need answering. Time to turn the tables.
I have never been so terrified of my own country. My grandparents fled to this country to be free of intolerance, tyranny and hate. I was born into a world at war and amid Holocaust. I grew up and old in a country with huge flaws but with the possibility that it would always, if sometimes haltingly, move toward that place my grandparents hoped for. I can't grasp that the whole dream could descend into nightmare. These people are just...awful.
The education system that serves Alabama, and, indeed, the so-called Christian right, has clearly failed. 70 years ago, growing up in West Virginia, I learned that our country was founded by people escaping religious persecution, and they were strongly AGAINST any form of religion in government. And I learned that many of our Founding Fathers were Episcopalians.
Good day Professor. I bet it was heart wrenching for you because it was heart wrenching for us. I try to be positive here because that’s what we are. But I can’t understand the minds of these people Jim Jordan. I’ll leave it at that. thank you Professor I’ll probably have nightmares, but you are the best we must always face the truth regardless of how difficult it is I guess and hope for a brighter day tomorrow…sleep well all stay positive and stay true blue. America and Constitution and democracy it gives us a good life…. peace all. I’m sorry I had a rough day too. I’m tired and my grammar and punctuation is not the best.
Once again, allegations of "weaponization" of the justice system are really the accusers referring to themselves. For the GOP (Grovelers Obeying Putin), almost every accusation is a confession.
Why is proven interference in our Elections and Congressional processes not considered an "Act of War" or "Open Hostility"? And, why aren't people who participate considered to be "adhering" Or "aiding" prosecuted for their crimes? Just askin'.
Comer and Grassley were duped because they are already so steeped in their party myth that such American institutions as the FBI, the Justuce Department, and procedures like voting are being g corrupted. It's ironic that they are partly right, but the source of the corruption is their gullibility being manipulated by the likes of Smirnov. Smirnov probably is smirking less as the FBI proved its competence.