Friday, November 22, 2019

Messing with the wrong dude, dude

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Didn't read all of this, but I read enough to see that Solomon is pissed.


Justice Kavanaugh as new Chief Justice

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Chief Justice Roberts is said to have a conflict of interest and cannot preside over any impeachment trial in the Senate.

Another tell in their intentions toward this trial?

If the GOP got really aggressive, they could replace Roberts with Kavanaugh.  But that would require a Senate vote.  Not likely to happen, but there would be a chance that it could.


How many will be persuaded by this?

Peggy Noonan wrote speeches for Bush and maybe Reagan.  Now she appears to be joining with the Democrats and advocating for his impeachment.  She represents the Pierre Delecto point of view in the GOP.

We got a one-sided show in the House.  If this makes it to the Senate, and if there's another one-sided show, it might well be close.

But it shouldn't be.

We should know a lot more.  We should know how this story came to be.  Without the whistleblower and without the evidence of how this whistleblower got his story to Congress, we are missing an important part of the story.  We should also know a lot more about the backstory of how the Russian collusion story can be concocted.  Taking all of that into consideration should show that the President did the right thing.

Noonan's point of view matches those of the Establishment.  How Trump gets treated will be a tell to how the trial will go in the Senate.  If the POTUS gets a fair trial, it will do some damage to the Democrats, and they may be wise to take heed of that.  If the Establishment in the Senate dictates a one-sided treatment in the Senate, then all of these people will be on the judgment seat.  They may think they are judging Trump, but they are on trial as well.  Many people aren't buying this point of view of theirs.



Thursday, November 21, 2019

Now it's getting dangerous

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My opinion here is that impeachment is very unwise.   Yes, it could be dangerous.  If this effort comes to fruition, and the Senate removes Trump on such a flimsy charge, while rendering it based upon a flagrantly partisan basis, it will enrage nearly half the electorate.  If not, it may well enrage the other half.

One can wonder then how a stable society could result from such foolishness.  How do you go on from this?  Does a civil war ensue?

It reminds me of what I read about secession here in Texas.  A quote comes to mind:  "When the rabble hiss, well may the patriots tremble".

Indeed the times may be getting dangerous.


The weirdness continues

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Holmes was with Bolton, I think.  Fiona Hill was a Trump advisor?  Strange bedfellows.


Sondland

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11.21.19:

Free Republic:  Sondland's hotels are getting bad reviews on Yelp.  It is a link to a Daily Beast article, which I won't link to.  It caught my eye that there are a lot of Trump supporters who are being hammered by the leftists.  Yet they worry about Trump's tweets.  In other words, witness intimidation.

11.20.19:

It is a thing and it isn't a thing.

The trouble with the Dems is that they don't have Sondland by the gonads.  If they did, Sondland would tell them what they want.  What he's telling them isn't good enough.

For example, Sondland is saying that in his opinion there was quid pro quo, but actually, Trump told him that there wasn't.  Not good enough for them to establish quid pro quo.

But as I have been saying all along, my opinion is that quid pro quo isn't a crime.

It's not bribery either, nor is it extortion.  Not good enough.



The Ukraine scandal timeline ( Burisma )

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This may conform to Beck's blackboard video. ( of course, I haven't checked )