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Watch @jonkarl for the

artappraiser — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 02:55:57 +0000

In reply to (11) UKE-GATE IMPEACH GRAB BAG - CRITICAL THREADS

Watch @jonkarl for the whistleblower latest on @ABCWorldNews https://t.co/HPCu69sbHE
— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) October 9, 2019

What Putin got, by Molly

artappraiser — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 16:14:51 +0000

In reply to (11) UKE-GATE IMPEACH GRAB BAG - CRITICAL THREADS

What Putin got, by Molly McKew:

The Trump/Ukraine scandal has an immediate impact on our security & enhances the ability of the Kremlin to keep stirring chaos inside the United States.

My latest in @POLITICOMag https://t.co/09TkmpFpHT
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) October 6, 2019

More complicity to consider

moat — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 17:57:04 +0000

In reply to Rick Perry, Jared caught in

More complicity to consider and, to top it off, Giuliani writes a suitable epitaph for himself:

“I may or may not know anything about it,” Giuliani told POLITICO when asked if he knew about Perry’s efforts to install new people on the board.

Ye hardly knew ye.

Rick Perry, Jared caught in

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 17:08:00 +0000

In reply to While they may be open to a

Rick Perry, Jared caught in tar baby - better energy sources out there, I tell ya...

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2019/10/05/rick-perry-ukraine-trump-03...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/us2eu/48003234841/in/photostream

While they may be open to a

moat — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 15:32:33 +0000

In reply to Looking at this piece, I

While they may be open to a vote specific to Trump misdeeds alone?

That's the perilous question the Opportunists must be asking themselves. But the meaty part of the question is whether it is possible to keep the damage within a designated area.

At the moment, much of the actual evidence of the Mueller investigation is being kept frozen in urine jars at Barr's hunting lodge. If the impeachment is carried out by the Senate, those jars will begin to thaw. The cards Manafort has been holding will no longer have value. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

Cue the "ding dong the witch is dead" music with the guards doing the can-can.

{Edited to add]

Support for the above argument that a firewall cannot be built between the current behavior of POTUS and the Mueller investigation is the reporting by Natasha Bertrand that Justice Department hasn’t interviewed key Russia probe witnesses. The sole focus of the DOJ going into foreign sources of intel suggests that they cannot afford to explore the actual investigation and what was discovered in the course of it.

Someone was writing the other

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 09:34:49 +0000

In reply to Five Thirty Eight is now

Someone was writing the other day about a polling phenomenon (I forget name) whereby when certain kinds of news hits, good or bad, certain subsets of the polling population stop responding.

So rather than this being a sign that Trump's becoming less favorable, it just may be his fan base is shutting out pollsters, staying mum for the moment until this scandal flurry & fury like so many others passes by.

There was this revelation the

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 09:30:02 +0000

In reply to Rudy's the man, Trump's fave

There was this revelation the other day about Boris showing up habitually late for presentations, scribbles a few notes on a napkin, then delivers a completely disheveled performance, all confused, but sucking the audience in with uproarious laughter - and then he repeats the same "accidental" sorry-I'm-late planned-unplanned speech somewhere else.

Somehow on some plane, Trump & Rudy are succeeding. It's something we don't understand, but then we don't really understand how the GOP got such firm majorities everywhere and don't have their base totally pissed at them. What's amazing and scary is that Impeachment (or conviction) certainly isn't a sure thing, no matter what the revelations of the last week/year. Someone at 538 was trying to describe a 2 point drop in Trump popularity as "perhaps" a sign of final free-fall. What's more likely it's normal variation - Trump has stayed around 42% ± 2% popularity for 1 1/2 years now - it's an incredible feat of defying gravity. Us mere earthlings would be wise to pay attention.

Rudy's the man, Trump's fave

artappraiser — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 06:23:31 +0000

In reply to Rudy keeps on giving:

Rudy's the man, Trump's fave surrogate, best talking points, yuge ratings, bigly:

Rudy has been booking himself on TV, with Trump’s blessing.

Via @swin24 https://t.co/SllkSlLeaH
— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 4, 2019

Pence implicated:

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 07:51:39 +0000

In reply to Trump wants dirt on Pence,

Pence implicated:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pence-gave-ukraine-the-message-too

Five Thirty Eight is now

artappraiser — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 06:49:43 +0000

In reply to (11) UKE-GATE IMPEACH GRAB BAG - CRITICAL THREADS

Five Thirty Eight is now tracking the polls on mpeachment:

Wondering how Americans are feeling about impeachment? My amazing colleagues @FiveThirtyEight put together a tracker that's updating *hourly* with the latest polls so you can see public opinion evolve in real time. https://t.co/efgQdLNVAg
— Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux (@ameliatd) October 2, 2019