August 23, 2019

CNN interview with Butina's boyfriend about Don Jr

and meeting with Russians in 2015. Skip to 11:00 mark.

August 23, 2019

Here's the CNN interview.

Skip to 11:00 mark.

August 23, 2019

I believe tRump is having an old fashioned "nervous breakdown".

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/expert-answers/nervous-breakdown/faq-20057830

"The term "nervous breakdown" is sometimes used by people to describe a stressful situation in which they're temporarily unable to function normally in day-to-day life. It's commonly understood to occur when life's demands become physically and emotionally overwhelming. The term was frequently used in the past to cover a variety of mental disorders, but it's no longer used by mental health professionals today."

"Nervous breakdown isn't a medical term, nor does it indicate a specific mental illness. But that doesn't mean it's a normal or a healthy response to stress. What some people call a nervous breakdown may indicate an underlying mental health problem that needs attention, such as depression or anxiety."

"Signs of a so-called nervous breakdown vary from person to person and depend on the underlying cause. Exactly what constitutes a nervous breakdown also varies from one culture to another. Generally, it's understood to mean that a person is no longer able to function normally."

He doesn't need any more "stimulation" or the chaos he said he craves and thrives on. He needs a giant Xanax and a padded room before he causes any more harm to the planet.

August 23, 2019

130 Dems favor an impeachment inquiry now.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/democrats-impeachment-whip-list/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/31/us/politics/trump-impeachment-congress-list.html

August 22, 2019

Constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe: Framers would tell us to impeach him right now

"What specific crimes should Donald Trump be impeached for?

"Donald Trump is violating his oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Trump is doing that by inviting hostile foreign powers to invade our country, invade our sovereignty, invade our election system. Donald Trump is allowing this so that he can personally profit and enrich himself in violation of the domestic and foreign emoluments clauses of the Constitution. Donald Trump is allowing himself to be compromised by hostile foreign powers and is covering that up through obstructing justice and tampering with witnesses and committing any number of other felonies to hide his tracks."

"All of those examples would lead to articles of impeachment. I also believe that Donald Trump should be impeached for how he is exploiting racial divisions to incite hatred and violence in America, violating human rights at the U.S.-Mexico border, and is in general disgracing the office of the presidency and the people of the United States."

"Despite its flaws, the United States Constitution has long been seen as a model for emerging democracies around the world. How have Donald Trump and his administration changed that view?

"The United States looks bad. There was a time when various countries were asking me to help them write their constitutions, such as Václav Havel in the Czech Republic and Nelson Mandela in South Africa. I think the odds that people abroad would look to American experts to help them write their constitutions now is considerably less. Although our Constitution looks good on paper, it has not fared terribly well in recent iterations, in terms of the people we are appointing to interpret it and the people we are appointing to preserve and enforce it."


https://www.salon.com/2019/08/22/constitutional-scholar-laurence-tribe-if-the-framers-could-be-resurrected-theyd-want-impeachment/

August 22, 2019

Donald Trump's actions are signs of a "severe, continuous, mental disturbance"

"Dr. Lance Dodes makes the case that the president suffers from a dangerous sociopathic disorder".

This is the doctor who was on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell tonight. He is one of the doctors who signed "Duty to Warn".

"To understand his actions, it is essential to keep in mind that sociopaths have only one goal: to enhance themselves, and that in pursuing their self-interest, they lack both normal human empathy for others and a normal human conscience. Cheating, conning, lying, stealing, threatening are all done with no remorse."

"When stressed with facts that would require them to admit failure, or even that others know more or are more capable than them, sociopaths lose track of reality, becoming delusional with insistence on the truth of what they psychologically need to maintain their superior view of themselves. Indeed, nobody matters except to the degree they can serve the sociopath's perverse needs."

https://www.salon.com/2019/03/04/harvard-psychiatrist-donald-trumps-actions-are-signs-of-a-severe-continuous-mental-disturbance_partner/

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-mental-illness-king-israel-msnbc-1455644

https://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/

August 20, 2019

List: The 126 House Democrats calling for an impeachment inquiry into Trump

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/democrats-impeachment-whip-list/index.html

Two more added to the list today.

August 19, 2019

Which candidates do you think will realistically beat tRump

and which candidates are your ideal choices for POTUS and VP (if tRump wasn't even in the picture)?

I posted a DU poll months ago and 90% said they vote for who they think will beat the GOP candidate and they don't necessarily think it is the same candidate as their "ideal" choice.

August 15, 2019

Epstein's victim V. Giuffre said Epstein and Maxwell wanted her to have a baby

and give it to them for $200,000 a month. Now I have heard everything. This is from the journalist with the Miami Herald who has been reporting on this story.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article233704797.html

August 14, 2019

Trump's State-by-State Approval Ratings Should Scare the MAGA Out of Him

*Map available at link at bottom.

"The online polling firm Civiqs has published a new set of state-by-state job-approval ratings for Trump as of August 11, and it shows how the president’s overall standing (a 43 percent approval rating nationally, which happens to match the current RealClearPolitics polling average) might translate into electorate votes. It’s not a pretty picture for the president, to put it mildly.

"Civiqs shows the president’s net approval ratios being underwater (i.e., negative) in 10 states he carried in 2016. These are, by the way, polls of registered voters, not just “adults,” so they should be a relatively sound reflection of the views of the electorate.
If you credit these polls at all, Trump’s reelection will require (1) a big late improvement in his approval ratings, which is possible but unlikely based on long-standing patterns during his polarizing presidency; (2) a campaign that succeeds in making the election turn on theoretical fears about his opponent rather than actual fears about a second Trump term, which won’t be easy either; (3) a big Republican turnout advantage, which is less likely among the larger presidential electorate than it was in 2018; or (4) some diabolical ability to thread the needle despite every contrary indicator, which superstitious Democrats fear for obvious reasons.

"If the fourth scenario — a win against all the evidence — is Trump’s best hope for reelection, he’s the one who needs to experience some fear and trembling heading toward 2020. If anything, there’s evidence that he is likely to undershoot rather than overshoot his approval ratings as the sitting president of a country whose direction lacks any kind of public confidence. Beyond that, even those who succeed by selling their souls to the devil don’t have the collateral to pull that off twice.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/trumps-state-by-state-approval-ratings-should-scare-him.html

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212377141