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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs anyone's hair on fire?
Not just me and you ... how about the folks that work for us? trump is a traitor. trump is abusing his office. trump is cheating us, endangering us in foreign policy. WHEN WILL SOMEONE DO SOMETHING TO STOP THE LAWLESS LAWBREAKER?
So trump is blocking release of whistleblower info on himself ?????
maxsolomon
(33,440 posts)Until then, don't expect anything.
Justice moves at the speed of the Federal Courts. Which is to say, glacially.
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)trump uses social media to the disadvantage of our antiquated courts ... restrict trump or allow courts to use his tweets as his intent to break the laws
ArcticFox
(1,249 posts)Are the American People going to do anything to depose Trump if he refuses to step down? Would it even show in the counts if we vote him out, or will it all be rigged to look like he won?
Our institutions are already failed. It looks like Trump's base has most of the guns. We're sliding down the slippery slope to fascism as we sit here. I don't think Trump will have a problem if he just stays on, even if we all know he lost the election.
maxsolomon
(33,440 posts)Don't out-cynic me!
ArcticFox
(1,249 posts)Let's not drive a wedge between us over who can be more cynical.
It's just, every day I see another parallel to Germany ca. 1939
maxsolomon
(33,440 posts)Not wedging.
ArcticFox
(1,249 posts)No wedgie taken
Brawndo
(535 posts)It will unfortunately take force once the election is either stolen or canceled. But it is a deadly mistake to think that his cult has most of the guns. We have a vast numerical advantage.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)We the people.
We have tools with which to express our collective will. When the people come together and bare their teeth, tyrants fall.
This is our time in the barrel. Will you choose to stand for liberty? Will you choose to submit to tyranny?
The choice is yours, citizen, as it always is and has been.
Can't rely on 2020 election. Mueller, Coates, Wray, Comey have all told us UNDER OATH that the election is under attack "as we sit here." Anyone who relies on that election to save the Republic is a fool.
"Stand up! Keep fighting!" (Paul Wellstone)
Vinca
(50,322 posts)Miigwech
(3,741 posts)ArcticFox
(1,249 posts)The next election, Democrats marry not even have a chance.
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uponit7771
(90,370 posts)... revealed is revealed to be true.
If only half what we think is true the country is 100% screwed ... infested by Russians and MAGA Cultist in the military and the national intelligence including screwed up economy etc etc.
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)Miigwech
(3,741 posts)The White House Fact Sheet titled "The August 6, 2001 PDB" released at the same time as the PDB section, in question-and-answer format.
The White House briefing of 10 April 2004 on the release of the PDB. In the kind of stylized exchange that typifies Washington, the two briefers were identified only as "senior administration officials." Actually, they were Jim Wilkinson, the National Security Council spokesperson, and John Bellinger, the National Security Council general counsel. Interestingly, when Mr. Wilkinson agreed to check on what President Bush said when he received the PDB (p. 4), Mr. Bellinger interrupted to say "we will not take that question, because that's not the sort of thing that we would discuss, is the interaction between the President and his briefer." Earlier in this very briefing, however, Mr. Wilkinson had spent two paragraphs discussing the PDB interaction, giving President Bush the credit for having asked the questions that prompted the preparation of this particular PDB.
The original White House briefing on 16 May 2002 by then-spokesman Ari Fleischer, about the PDB. CBS Evening News had broken the story on the evening of 15 May 2002 that President Bush had received a briefing only weeks before September 11th mentioning the possibility of hijacking by Bin Laden. The White House responded both in Mr. Fleischer's morning briefing, and in a special briefing by national security adviser Condoleeza Rice later on 16 May. Mr. Fleischer left the impression in this briefing that the PDB came about because the President had "asked for a compilation" of the "spike-up of information early on in the summer."
The White House briefing on 16 May 2002 by Dr. Rice. Dr. Rice did not mention that the title of the PDB section was "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US," and described the PDB as "very non-specific," "nothing really new here," "an analytic piece about methods that they had available to them," "an analytic piece that tried to bring together several threads - in 1997, they talked about this; in 1998- they talked about that; it's been known that maybe they want to try and release the blind Sheikh "
The White House briefing on 17 May 2002 by Mr. Fleischer, in which he said, "The President was aware that bin Laden, of course, as previous administrations it's been well-known that bin Laden was determined to strike the United States. In fact, the label on the President's -- the PDB was, 'bin Laden determined to strike the United States.'" Within two days, the missing preposition from the title ("Strike in US" was supplied on the front page of the Washington Post. (Note A3)
The White House briefing on 21 May 2002 by Mr. Fleischer. The third question was whether the White House would share the PDB with the Congress (it did not), in answer to which Mr. Fleischer described the PDB as "the most highly sensitized classified document in the government."
Cartaphelius
(868 posts)vanished the moment what's-his-face absconded with our country.
Intent on stealing every penny possible from scheme's so far and wide.
Joyously destroying everything that he hated and daring anyone to stand in his way.
All the while, hiring every known criminal, ohhhh.... Wilbur..." to ensure they all would
steal enough to be at the White House Champagne Presser, (sans the Press),
at an all-expenses- paid-excursion-on-the-taxpayers. Well, until they get to Rama Lego
in-your-ass-and-gimme-your-money-keep-it-coming), that is.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)to stop his criminal organization.
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)That's all we can do at this point.
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)but they do need to get real about GOP not playing by the same LAWS (not rules)
malaise
(269,237 posts)ITTMF!
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)I'm wrong all the time, but #WhistleblowerGate feels different. And it's something everybody can understand. And it's escalating quickly.