Anonymous wrote:

Eh. We have Cabinet members finding out that they are fired by tweet. Agencies finding out that they are not more from news articles.

Taylor was just doing his job. Republicans should criticize Trump and the WH, not Taylor.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jared to lead the White House war room.

Will this be while he is establishing peace in the Middle East and reforming the federal federal bureaucracy. *

They could look at 1000 resumes and not find a worse choice. Although I guess he can be trusted to lie on command.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/impeachment-inquiry-10-04-2019/h_65cc8b912ff623e15fba629d4ffc1dab

Who's in charge of strategy: Officials said Kushner and White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney are the officials most focused on developing an impeachment strategy.

While some said Kushner was in charge of the strategy, others said Mulvaney was at the helm.

“He's the President's senior adviser,” one administration official said of Kushner. “Of course he's important, but in no way is he running this.”

OMG what a shirtshow

Also they really picked a good photo to make people hate Kush even more



He looks like a less earthy Pete Campbell from Mad Men

This reminds me of an old SNL skit where Nixon is telling his daughter they were just joking around with the recordings, making "party tapes."

Richard Nixon: That’s right, uh.. uh, yeah, yeah.. [ chuckles ] You see.. my administration.. had the greatest sense of humor that this country has ever seen. You see.. most of the time, we were.. making “party” tapes. Me, and Haldeman, and Ehrlichman, and Dean could joke for weeks on end. We actually.. played to the microphone..
[ slow dissolve to a flashback scene of Nixon’s March 21st meeting with John Dean in the Oval Office ]

Richard Nixon V/O: ..We’d do anything to crack wach other up! And I remember, that day, Dean was on a roll, so I just followed his lead, and.. “played along” with the “joke”..

John Dean: [ standing over Nixon’s desk; a microphone is unseen underneath a small lamp on the desk ] ..Plus.. there’s a real problem.. in raising money.
[ Dean holds up handwritten sign: “Let’s Pretend There’s A Cover Up”; Nixon laughs, removes lampshade to reveal hidden microphone ]

John Dean: Uh.. Mitchell.. Mitchell has been working on raising some money.. feeling he’s got, you know.. he’s one of the ones with the most.. to lose

President Richard Nixon: [ covers microphone with hand, tries not to laugh ] Martha!

John Dean: ..but.. there is no denying the fact that the White House – Ehrlichman, Haldeman.. [ points to himself ] ..Dean – are all involved in some of the.. early.. money decisions.

President Richard Nixon: [ stands slightly to speak directly into the microphone ] How much money do they need?

John Dean: Well.. I would say these people are going to cost, uh.. uh.. [ looks to Nixon for help, who sticks both thumbs in the air to silently cue Dean to pick a high number ] ..a million dollars! Over the next.. two years.
[ Nixon and Dean pound on the desk to subdue their laughter ]

President Richard Nixon: We could get that.

John Dean: [ stifling laughter ] Uh-huh.
[ Nixon scribbles on a pad, then, laughing silently, holds it up to reveal the message: “Let’s Talk In Incomplete Sentences” ]

President Richard Nixon: Uh.. uh.. You, uh.. on the money.. if you, uh.. need the money, I mean, uh.. you could get the money. Let’s say, uh..

John Dean: Well, I think if we’re going to, uh..

President Richard Nixon: What I meant is, uh.. you could get, uh.. you could get a million dollars. And you could get it in cash.
[ Dean stick two pencils up his nose, resembling a walrus; Nixon practically falls out of his chair laughing at the sight]

(Rest of the transcript is here: https://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78tnixon.phtml)

Release the transcripts!!!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I said rat fink and I'm not wrong, but in this case I should have said

So he definitely knew it was quid pro quo (all of them did) and laid it out, etc. And was (rightly) concerned that Trump would double cross Ukraine. Trump is Russian asset so it was a legit concern IMO.

Ukraine is lucky the whistleblower talked.

You're so clueless it's sad.

Anonymous wrote:Jared to lead the White House war room.

Will this be while he is establishing peace in the Middle East and reforming the federal federal bureaucracy. *

They could look at 1000 resumes and not find a worse choice. Although I guess he can be trusted to lie on command.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I said rat fink and I'm not wrong, but in this case I should have said

So he definitely knew it was quid pro quo (all of them did) and laid it out, etc. And was (rightly) concerned that Trump would double cross Ukraine. Trump is Russian asset so it was a legit concern IMO.

Ukraine is lucky the whistleblower talked.

No, they are still stuck with Russia and an unreliable US. They've known not to trust us for months. Now we know why.

Ukraine isn't lucky at all.

+1, the new president has now had to back out of his promise to stand firm in Donbass - they have ceded it to Russia, and have also "started" a Biden investigation. It is all so hallow now that this is in the open, but Ukrainians died in Donbass in the last weeks due in part to the hold up of American money. And for Trump, these are all pawns in his game of "let's play President" - he doesn't give a rats a$$ about anyone but himself.

Meanwhile, Putin is getting everything he wants and more. Next will be ending sanctions, because Ukraine was a fraud, or some such.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I said rat fink and I'm not wrong, but in this case I should have said

So he definitely knew it was quid pro quo (all of them did) and laid it out, etc. And was (rightly) concerned that Trump would double cross Ukraine. Trump is Russian asset so it was a legit concern IMO.

Ukraine is lucky the whistleblower talked.

No, they are still stuck with Russia and an unreliable US. They've known not to trust us for months. Now we know why.

Ukraine isn't lucky at all.

Anonymous wrote:I said rat fink and I'm not wrong, but in this case I should have said

So he definitely knew it was quid pro quo (all of them did) and laid it out, etc. And was (rightly) concerned that Trump would double cross Ukraine. Trump is Russian asset so it was a legit concern IMO.

Ukraine is lucky the whistleblower talked.

I said rat fink and I'm not wrong, but in this case I should have said


So he definitely knew it was quid pro quo (all of them did) and laid it out, etc. And was (rightly) concerned that Trump would double cross Ukraine. Trump is Russian asset so it was a legit concern IMO.

Taylor: The nightmare is they give the interview and don't get the security assistance. The Russians love it. (And I quit.)

So he definitely knew it was quid pro quo (all of them did) and laid it out, etc. And was (rightly) concerned that Trump would double cross Ukraine. Trump is a rat fink so it was a legit concern IMO.

Anonymous wrote:As a lawyer, I love these exchanges between the guy trying to get the crime on the record and the guy who wants to crime over the phone so there aren’t receipts. It makes me wonder if there are recordings out there?

lol yes

OF COURSE I WOULD NEVER ROB A BANK! NO WAY! I LOVE BANKS. (Call me later.)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:also said he would quit if ukraine didn't get the money

Volker? Taylor?

Taylor. Said it was his nightmare and that he would quit.

As a lawyer, I love these exchanges between the guy trying to get the crime on the record and the guy who wants to crime over the phone so there aren’t receipts. It makes me wonder if there are recordings out there?