If Democrats take the House back in November, their current ranking member of the Financial Services Committee becomes the chair of the committee, and has the power to subpoena Trump’s bank records.
That member is Maxine Waters. Vote.
— Denizcan Grimes (@MrFilmkritik) July 1, 2018
Wow. Look. A list of things that Republicans are scared Democrats will look into if they take back the House.
Man, this list is so partisan. The audacity of Dems here. It’s almost like every single one of these things…deserves congressional scrutiny.https://t.co/wTndAAGCOs pic.twitter.com/yF0PMVwrXO
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) August 26, 2018
think about the real statement this GOP report is making
“if Democrats win the House, they’ll investigate all the shit we tried to sweep under the rug or ignore”
— Dylan Scott (@dylanlscott) August 26, 2018
.@jonathanvswan: "Lawyers close to the White House tell me the Trump administration is nowhere near prepared for the investigatory onslaught…and they consider it among the greatest threats to his presidency"
Reminds me of this recent @paulwaldman1 piece:https://t.co/WzSCWnq5Yo
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) August 26, 2018
Dear Trump: The media's not out to get you.
The media's out to get ratings.
America's out to get you.
The media's just covering it.— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) August 26, 2018
But consider the feelings of His Base!…
Email this morning from a Trump supporter: “Where in the Constitution does it mention a person must be fit to serve as president?”
— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) August 26, 2018
(Nah, let’s not bother.)
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
rikyrah
Maxine Waters
Ted Lieu
Adam Schiff
Elijah Cummings
These are just.some folks that I want to see with subpoena power.
Vote vote vote November 2018!
magurakurin
@rikyrah:
John Lewis, too.
scuttlebutt on Twitter…. indictment for Don Jr. this week…
arrieve
@magurakurin:
Oh please. But only if he brings all his friends and family with him. I’ve been mostly offline the past couple days, and I’m doing a brief catch up in Starbucks in Ghent, Belgium. Looks like I haven’t missed much, which in this world, is kind of reassuring.
NotMax
Actually, the original text of the Constitution (Article 2, Section 1) addresses the “Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office.” Since superseded and further modified by the 25th amendment.
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah: Vote early, vote often.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
@rikyrah: All to old. They should step aside along with Pelosi.
Amir Khalid
My gob is smacked.
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
Ted Lieu is still under 50.
Quinerly
Good morning from “The Fabulous Flying Quinerly Traveling Roadshow’.” Poco and I are starting our 1000 mile drive back from the coast of NC to St. Louis. Have a great day, everyone! I’m hoping for another lively and productive Infrastructure Week. Probably my only post on this thread. Lift off!
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
hahhahahahhahahaa
he’s so nuts, his own father won’t talk about him on the record.
…and the shouting. the shouting. what wrong with these people.
OzarkHillbilly
Just another witch hunt. I am getting more than a little tired of lawyers pleading their case in the media instead of court.
Chyron HR
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
Just wait ’til they breed His son and daughter together, to keep the messianic bloodline pure.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
They need to step aside for a young whippersnapper.
(Schiff’s my age.)
Mustang Bobby
Good morning, Friends, and greetings from the suburbs of Cincinnati as I wrap up a long weekend visit with my parents. Good time, doing honey-do’s for them, and spending time with Dad as he celebrates his 92nd birthday.
One of those honey-do’s was taking Mom’s 2003 Mini-Cooper for an oil change. Not only could they not do it because the drain plug was stripped out, they had Fox News on in the waiting room. Before I left I changed it to MSNBC. (We made an appointment to get the drain plug fixed this week.)
Immanentize
Good morning All,
Classes start today for me and my students. Woot! Best hours of my week are always those in the classroom.
@OzarkHillbilly:
Me too, but sometimes, the media is the only place that will listen to your BS. I actually had a “no media” policy (with two exceptions) when I was actively representing clients full time. They always wanted my clients to lose, so why bother?
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: And too many times they go on to complain how their client can’t get a fair trial because of all the press coverage (at least 50% of which was driven by their own publicity stunts). I know the game is just to get their name out there front and center, their clients interests be damned, so that next year they can charge another hundred or 2 per hour.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I’m on a compositing jag, here’s Griffith Observatory with the Milky Way.
evodevo
@Mustang Bobby: Yes. EVERY car repair/maintenance place ALWAYS has Fixed News on. I usually ask for the remote lol
Baud
@Amir Khalid: So you admit he’s over 30.
Schlemazel
@Baud:
Not to mention they did not deliver the rainbows and unicorns I told myself they had promised!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Can’t trust anyone over 30.
JPL
@magurakurin: It’s possible, but the sources that I found from a google search said it’s from Haaretz and Roger Stone.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Schlemazel:
All we got were a bunch of jackasses.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Ocasio-Cortez is 28. Her time will come as well ; )
Platonailedit
@OzarkHillbilly:
‘cuz, zero dimes to get free ads for themselves?
bemused
@OzarkHillbilly:
When the “Frack Master”, Chris Faulkner was telling MP’s how wonderful horizontal drilling under urban areas was and said “we’ve drilled under Fort Worth, under hospitals, under schools”, I can only hope he was just pulling it out of his barrel of BS and hasn’t really happened.
This morning I read that congressional aides called Duncan Hunter and his congress buddies the “bro caucus” for hanging out, drinking during the day at DC bar popular with republicans when they were supposed to be working for their constituents. Add “bro caucus” to the Russian collusion/money laundering caucus, evangelical handmaid caucus, Q conspiracy theory caucus, chicken-shit caucus, etc. GOP, what a party.
This republican era will be known for the most corrupt, money grubbing time ever. It’s a tsunami of swindlers seizing the open, unchecked opportunities to grab all the loot they can.
NotMax
@evodevo
Dealership where I took landlady with her car had TV in waiting room on to whichever station it is that shows Star Trek reruns.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Fixed
OzarkHillbilly
@bemused:
It’s happened.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud:
All we got were a bunch of jackAls. Fixed.
JPL
If the rumors are true about Don Jr. being indicted for perjury, his father would rejoice. Finally something else would take the media’s attention from John McCain. For the president loyalty only runs one way.
bemused
@OzarkHillbilly:
I was afraid it had. I should go research where, etc. but I’m afraid to read how often or extensive it is. Lousy way to start the day but then, all days are like that unless I avoid news completely.
Nothing, absolutely nothing is too low or despicable for filthy looters to go.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: Look at you, preserving the English language and shit.
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
Fracking has certainly fucked up Ohio, not that we needed help in that category.
Baud
BTW, where are all the media stories about gas prices? They’re getting up there.
rikyrah
@magurakurin:
Does the little Baby Jesus love me enough for that??
Dorothy A. Winsor
You all are full of hope this Monday morning. Let’s see what the week brings.
The café here usually has FOX on. Mr DAW searched and found where they hid the remote, and now he changes it every time he’s in the area, assuming no one beats him with a cane. He doesn’t go as far as MSNBC, just CNN. He doesn’t want anyone stroking out.
OzarkHillbilly
@bemused: The only place I have read of is in Texas, where the state lege has passed laws overturning local regulations to ban fracking within city limits. I suspect OK is the same, possibly other oil producing red states.
NotMax
@Baud
Make American Gas Atmospheric.
;)
rikyrah
@Amir Khalid:
When I say..
The curve for Unqualified White Men is REAL…
What did you think that meant?
rikyrah
@Quinerly:
Morning to Poco and the tribe ? ?
Chetan Murthy
@OzarkHillbilly: Damn. That is some Fucked. Up. Shit. Growing up in Weatherford & Mineral Wells TX, there were a shit ton of my classmates whose houses drew well water. They’re gonna fuck up their aquifers, and then what’ll they do?
idiots. Can’t drink petroleum.
Dorothy A. Winsor
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Every now and again I have to do something to make up for all the times I have slaughtered the language.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
He said he likes soldiers who haven’t been captured. What part of that is unclear to people.
OzarkHillbilly
@Chetan Murthy:
You can if you really try.
OzarkHillbilly
Petty to his core.
A Ghost To Most
@bemused:
Ask the widow/sister of the two men killed in Frederick, CO how she feels about well lines near houses. That house blowed up real good.
Baud
What’s funny about the McCain hagiography on the news is that they all make him more liberal than he was.
rikyrah
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
He is a disgusting human being ??
Baud
I hope the Clintons live for another 20 years because I don’t want to witness how the media handles their passing.
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: John Kelly still serves him.
Lapassionara
@OzarkHillbilly: he is a first-class jerk. Petty, vindictive, and self-absorbed. And those are his good qualities.
Good morning, everyone.
A Ghost To Most
@Baud: Compared to the average fascist Ruspublican, he was a liberal.
bemused
@OzarkHillbilly:
Silica sand fracking has been a big issue in southeastern Minnesota counties. Fracking companies swooped in, bought out land from local folks and got down to business before people started to scream about how it affects their communities. Of course, lot of tension between local pro-frackers who made money and anti-frackers.
I remember the stories about pipelines under housing development areas that broke and polluted those communities and no residents knew or were told those pipelines were even there.
But hey, too much regulation. I have heard republican types spout that line all my adult life. They never, ever question whether the deregulation they say they want (usually very vague on specifics) and one reason why they vote for republicans, will be good for them or seriously harmful to them and their families. They only get warm to regulations when it smacks them in the face.
OzarkHillbilly
2 weeks ago my neighbor received a letter from an OK law firm seeking to purchase the mineral rights to her 40 acres in the north eastern corner of Washington Co. (we reside in the NW corner) There is no oil or ng shale in this part of the Ozarks so they aren’t planning on fracking. My first thought was they are looking for new locations for injection wells for fracking waste but to the best of my knowledge we are far away from any viable oil or gas exploration sites. Doe Run owns several parcels over there and I suppose it is possible these lawyers are fronting for a company thinking of doing some prospecting for lead but the demand for lead is down. There is a history of iron mining here with the Pea Ridge mine just down the road from me being reopened and assayed for iron and rare earth metals so that is also a possibility. I really hope it isn’t injection wells they are planning.
My neighbor just flat out refuses to even think about selling her mineral rights, even after I explained that some of her neighbors over there are likely too and that she could miss out on some additional retirement income (good on her). I think I am going to call these lawyers and see what I can learn (probably not a damned thing) if she will allow me to “represent” her.
bemused
@A Ghost To Most:
It’s not like there aren’t tons of these stories that are horrifying and should have been preventable. It’s sickening that too many american voters don’t stand up for themselves in the voting booth.
Amir Khalid
Over the past two weeks I have restrung all three guitars. I seem to be getting somewhat better at it, although I did manage to break Sister’s old G string by winding it the wrong way. Restringing will never be my favourite part of guitar ownership, though: handling 0.009″ diameter wire is always going to be a bit scary.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: It is funny how that happened.
Tokyokie
@Mustang Bobby: Several years ago, I read about a study that concluded that the make and model that was best predictive of the owner’s political leanings was Mini Cooper with liberal. So in other words, the ownership is either completely clueless as to their customer base or intentionally pissing them off.
Amir Khalid
@OzarkHillbilly:
Depends on the viscosity of the stuff.
eric
@OzarkHillbilly: Also look into FOIA requests to the local and state regulatory agencies about the area.
OzarkHillbilly
@Amir Khalid: I find 5w-20 to be quite palatable myself.
OzarkHillbilly
@eric: Good idea, thanx. Probably state is the only regulatory agency. Pretty much anything goes as far as the county is concerned.
bemused
@Baud:
I started to gag when I first heard McCain died thinking oh, here we go again, days long media excessively flowery eulogies. It’s slightly more tolerable for me when it’s not a republican but not by much. I can’t help but wonder how bored the media talking heads are having to repeat the same stuff over and over trying to word it differently.
Ken
Has anyone tried to recover earlier versions of the Excel spreadsheet? I have a suspicion it started out with the title “Note to committees: Don’t investigate these – PR”.
Luthe
@bemused: They forget that most regulations are written in blood.
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning ?al!
I’ve been busy yapping on the other threads. At this point in the Traitor administration, I prefer to talk about death.
bemused
@Luthe:
Truth.
rikyrah
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Excellent, Bill.
WaterGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: A fellow Chicagoan, I see!
J R in WV
@OzarkHillbilly:
And then you die. Now we’ve made a poem, the three of us!
ixnay
@Amir Khalid: Mr. Ixnay here. Dan Erlewine’s book “How to Make your Electric Guitar Play Great” is a treasure trove of guitar adjustments, tunings, stringing advice, different ties on tuning posts, etc. Available through Stew-Mac, a great source of luthier gear and parts.
Luthe
@Chetan Murthy: Wasn’t this the plot of one of a recent Bond movie?
J R in WV
Wife happens to own some mineral rights (not related to our farm tracts!) in upper WV where her grandfather once did some wildcatting 80 years ago with his brothers. We get letters from O&G developers from time to time offering like money per acre and a percentage of production.
But part of our impeached Supreme Court is that they recently reopened a court case that was long ago settled that property owners did not have to pay production costs out of their royalties. Of course the companies want someone else to pay their production costs. Who supports justices financially>??
Oil and Gas companies!!! That’s who!!!
MattF
@OzarkHillbilly: I’d look for a geologist or geological engineer for help. There are all sorts of weird rocks that could be valuable if markets go sufficiently crazy– e.g., if Chine decides to fucktrump by cutting back on rare earth exports. It’s quite possible that it’s just a matter of looking stuff up.
artem1s
Auntie Maxine will be the one of the one/two punch. Nancy Smash, two, intends on running the House and getting shit done – people need that as much as they do their revenge. I wish everyone would quit taking her comments out of context. Mueller can continue to get the knockout. As far as I’m concerned impeachment and Congressional hearings have become corrupted vehicles to spread lies about your political enemy (thanks GOP). I’ve never cared about impeachment – I do care about convictions for corruption and collusion.