China is the one to watch, not Russia. Yes USA needs to be energy independent and not back these dictators.
I say we should watch any dictator that has nuclear weapons. Especially one that's aggressive as Russia. You have this affinity for Russia and can't explain why. It's like a high school crush or something. That doesn't work in the real world. We can't govern ourselves by emotions. Cold hard logic and strategy only.
America is aggressive too. It uses its military power to defend its interests. And will back any country that supports its interests, including islamists, dictators, human right abusers etc. It has no moral authority to criticise any country, including Russia.
No matter how popular Trump is among his small base, no Republican politician is going to support him if he becomes burned and they risk losing their seats. There's a poll out that says 22% of Republican voters right now support impeachment if it's proven that Trump used the office of the POTUS to bully the Ukrainian president to dig up dirt on Biden. The Dems need less than 20 Republicans in the Senate to remove Trump from office. The whistleblower is going to testify before Congress, as is the intelligence inspector general who said the whisteblower's complaint was legitimate. The Director of National Intelligence, a Trump appointee, just testified and basically agreed with the facts of the complaint. That's two Trump appointees who've already turned on him. I think so many Republicans are personally sick of Trump and hate the guy, it wouldn't take a hard push to get them to kick him out of the clubhouse.
America inteferes in other countries and kills politicians and installs despots. The list is long. Our late president Jacques Chirac was against the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. Now we see the mess created in Iraq. Only Iran has gained. The irony of U.S. policy.
Yeah Iraq was a bad idea. Still you have a crush on Russia as if that makes sense. If Russia becomes more powerful you would have one man ruling the world, I guess that makes sense to you. You see America's faults and turn a blind eye to a dictator and country that has done nothing for yours. Highschool crush projected to the stage of the real world. All of the stuff America is guilty of has been happening for centuries but it's far worse under dictators. Maybe you should become a politican since you're so comfortable being hypocritical.
He's not wrong, though. We are definitely where we are politically because of capitalism, or at least the bastardized, predatory kind of capitalism that the GOP espouses. Here's what the GOP cares about, in descending order: 1. Tax cuts 2. Tax cuts 3. Tax cuts 4. Deregulation 5. Tax cuts Everything else they do is simply a means to that end. The modern day GOP takes trickle down economics as gospel and exists to make rich people richer, and they don't even pretend to hide it anymore. The fact that the current president is a mentally-unstable buffoon is not even really all that important when you think about it. No matter which Republican became president, their agenda was never going to change.
If that were the House it would be one thing. Getting 20 sitting senators (a lot of whom are in deep-red states) to vote to kick a Republican out of office is a pretty big ask.
Trickle down IS stupid so..... 1) Keynesian economic policy 2) Minimum wage bump after a real analytical study in what the appropriate amount should be instead of an amount pulled from out a suits ass. I fixed capitalism for you that easily. No far left baffoon fuckery needed.
Trump Signs Autism Act by Michelle Diament | October 2, 2019 President Donald Trump approved an extension of the nation’s primary autism law, authorizing $1.8 billion in spending on the developmental disorder in the coming years. The act, which originated in 2006, allocates funding for research, prevalence tracking, screening, professional training and other government activities related to autism. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., who authored the legislation, hailed its passage. https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2019/10/02/trump-signs-autism-act/27246/
Turkey's attack on Kurds in Syria betrays those doing the fighting against ISIS — and dying https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/news...30c9f3468de5c368d447c7afdc025ac9.fit-760w.jpg Leaving the Kurds to be slaughtered was not only dishonorable and treacherous, it was profoundly ignorant.
Why Evangelical Christian Leaders Care So Deeply About Trump Abandoning The Kurds https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trum...O1RCGsvhG1_ch4StLL9AfGzjnQSjOB18blKMRIJ7MlNxM So why do they care about the Kurds and not black christians in America. My take is that the dominant religion in the east is Islam, so there is work for them to do converting people to Christianity. Here the dominate religion is already Christianity so there isn't much use for negroes, as far as they are concerned. So your quality of life and rights to liberty and pursuit of happiness is of no concern to them, only what you believe, no shock there. If it back fires on Dotard, that's something actually good that can come from it.
This is only the impeachment inquiry....gathering evidence. When the actual impeachment TRIAL starts, everything will be public. The congressional subcommittee conducting the impeachment inquiry is bipartisan. The republicans know what's going on behind closed doors and are probably running to report it to the POTUS like they did last time. Where do you get this crap that witnesses don't have access to legal counsel??lol They all lawyer up and have a right not to answer and plead the fifth.
An impeachment 'inquiry' without a formal vote, yes? On the witness /lawyer point: during testimony, do they have a lawyer right there representing them when they answer questions? I'm not familiar, so do you know the answer?
