“FOX & Friends” took on a WWF feel this week when FOX News correspondent Geraldo Rivera said that he would like to give a beating to the whistleblower behind the Ukrainian story: “I would love to wap him, but that is another story.” Silly Wabbit, beat downs are for kids.
Geraldo captures the widening and unsettling divide in this country in his take on the controversy:
GERALDO RIVERA (FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT): After listening to the Democrats, they believe that they have it now.
That everything else, Russia collusion, Stormy Daniels, taxes, making money on hotels, and all that. They are going to put everything away and they are going to laser focus on this. This is gonna be what the impeachment is all about, maybe one or two little other things fall in.
So it’s going to be the president of the United States in a conversation that was intercepted by a rotten snitch — I’d love to wap him, but that’s another story.
Imagine this poor president, his whole tenure in office has been marked by snitches, and rats, and backstabbers, it’s amazing how he functions at all.
Notably, Trump’s acting National Intelligence Director testified that he believed that the whistleblower did the right thing. Not a beat down or “wapping” mentioned.
Impeachment Cold Open – SNL
Trash. Wouldn’t it be funny if sometime the liberals in entertainment made fun of the actual lawlessness and corruption and stupidity of the Democrats? Mock Barack? Creepy Joe? Oh no! THAT wouldn’t be allowed. How refreshing to see something other than Republican/conservative bashing from Hollywood idiots who aren’t even funny?
Here’s something funny. Barack Obama’s good pal Justin Trudeau from Canada really liked blacking up not just his face, but his hands, his knees, his whole body. And then stuffing a banana in his pants. This is hilarious. What a joke it is that some fruit like Justin could be elected in the first place. If Canada reelects this guy, shame. For shame Canada.
Quid Pro Joe has revealed his FASCISM – zhe’s not even an elected official, and just a little light shining into this shady past and what doe zhe do? Dictates to zhis pals in the Media to silence opposition, and dictates to Congress to impeach his rival. The man is insane and would make a demented tyrant blush. I cannot respect anyone gullible enough to vote for him
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
– William Casey, CIA Director
“MSM Defends CIA’s ‘Whistleblower,’ Ignores Actual Whistleblower”
September 27, 2019 • 21 Comments
“While championing a CIA agent who should be considered an operative until proven otherwise, much of the press is ignoring the plight of Chelsea Manning, who exposed actual U.S. war crimes, writes Caitlin Johnstone.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/09/27/msm-defends-cias-whistleblower-ignores-actual-whistleblower/
Excerpt:
The political/media class of the United States do not care about whistleblowers. They do not care about truth, and they do not care about justice. They do not care about holding power to account, because they exist only to serve power.
I don’t pretend to know what the CIA’s game is here; it probably isn’t to remove Trump from office because everyone knows that will not happen and failed impeachments historically boost a president’s popularity. But I do know that everyone cheerleading for this fake “whistleblower” while ignoring the real ones has exposed themselves.
The same media people that call this person a “whistleblower” also call Assange, Manning, and Snowden “cyber terrorists.”
Later in June, Republicans called on the Democrat-led House Oversight Committee to hold a hearing focusing on the State Department’s review, but so far have been ignored.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/state-department-ramps-up-investigation-into-email-records-of-former-clinton-aides
State Department ramps up investigation into email records of former Clinton aides
The Trump administration’s State Department is intensifying its investigation into the email records of dozens of former department officials and aides to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
As many as 130 officials have been recently contacted by investigators from the State Department, current and former officials told the Washington Post. According to the outlet, those targeted were contacted by the department about emails they sent years ago that have been retroactively classified and could now count as possible security violations. Investigators began communicating with former officials around 18 months ago, but they appeared to suspend the effort before ramping it back up in August.
Although some who are under scrutiny view the recent activity as the Trump administration’s decision to wield power against political adversaries, senior State Department officials said they are simply following standard protocol in an investigation that initially started during the Obama administration.
“This has nothing to do with who is in the White House,” one official said. “This is about the time it took to go through millions of emails, which is about 3 and a half years.”
“The process is set up in a manner to completely avoid any appearance of political bias,” another official added.
Former Obama administration officials, however, told the Post that the investigation is an “aggressive crackdown” by an administration that has had its own problems with handling classified information.
The list of State Department officials being questioned includes assistant secretaries of state responsible for U.S. policy in the Middle East, Europe, and Central Asia, as well as several ambassadors. It also includes many current and former bureaucrats who passed along important messages to Clinton from outside officials. Many of those targeted have been found “not culpable,” while some were sent follow-up letters saying that investigators “determined that the [security] incident is valid” but that they did not “bear any individual culpability.”
The State Department review began after the FBI investigated Clinton’s use of an unauthorized server, hosted in the basement of her home in Chappaqua, New York, during her time as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. Former FBI Director James Comey publicly recommended in 2016 that no charges be brought against Clinton or anyone else involved with her private email network, but he admonished Clinton and her team for being “extremely careless” in handling classified information.
This was during the 2016 election when Clinton was the Democratic presidential nominee, and she has often cited the FBI’s handling of the emails investigation as one of the reasons why she believes she lost the contest to President Trump.
One of the main controversies stemming from Clinton’s emails was how Paul Combetta, the tech aide who administered the server, deleted 33,000 emails despite a congressional order to preserve them. The FBI says it was only able to recover about 5,000 of the emails scrubbed by Combetta, and they were released in tranches up until earlier this year as part of a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch. Clinton has said she “never received nor sent any material that was marked classified,” but the FBI found 110 emails did contain classified information.
As recently as last week, Trump called the deletion of the emails “one of the great crimes committed” by Clinton. Also last week, the Democratic-led House initiated a formal impeachment inquiry, spurred by an intelligence community whistleblower complaint that raised concerns about a possible effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, who is running for president in 2020, and an alleged effort to conceal details of Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and communications with other leaders.
Earlier this summer, the State Department informed Congress that its review of the mishandling of classified information found 23 “violations” and seven “infractions” by 15 individuals. A “broad range” of disciplinary or administrative actions that could be taken include “counseling, reprimand, suspension, and/or separation,” according to a letter in June from Mary Elizabeth Taylor, the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs.
The individuals were not identified, nor was it revealed if they were still employed at the State Department, per agency policy, and Taylor said the number of people found culpable could increase.
Taylor sent a letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, who is leading the congressional oversight of the security review. Grassley has repeatedly asked for updates on the State Department’s review since 2017. In her letter, Taylor acknowledged that the large number of emails under scrutiny required “a significant dedication of time and resources.” Taylor said the agency was “making every effort to complete its review and adjudication” by Sept. 1, 2019.
Later in June, Republicans called on the Democrat-led House Oversight Committee to hold a hearing focusing on the State Department’s review, but so far have been ignored.
Clinton’s security clearance was withdrawn in the fall of 2018 at her request, along with those belonging to Clinton’s former chief of staff Cheryl Mills and others.
President Donald Trump’s first Homeland Security and counterterrorism adviser, who resigned after a year in the office, said on “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” on Sunday that he is “deeply disturbed” and “frustrated” by the “entire mess” that began in July with Trump’s phone call with a young Ukrainian president and suddenly this week sparked a firestorm of calls in Congress to impeach the president following the disclosure of an extraordinary whistleblower complaint.
“I’m deeply disturbed by this as well, and this entire mess has me frustrated,” said former Homeland Security advisor Tom Bossert, now an ABC News contributor.
Bossert was sharply critical of Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who was also a guest on the show. He expressed a combination of frustration and bewilderment that some members of the Trump team continue to spout debunked conspiracy theories about the hack of the Democratic National Committee [DNC] computer servers during the 2016 election campaign.
“It’s not only a conspiracy theory. it is completely debunked. I don’t want to be glib about this matter but last year, retired former Senator Judd Gregg wrote in The Hill magazine Five Ways or Three Ways to Impeach Oneself and the third way was to hire Rudy Giuliani.”
“At this point, I am deeply frustrated with what he and legal team are doing in repeating that debunked theory to the president. It sticks in his mind when he hears it over and over again. And for clarity here, George, let me just repeat here, again, that it has no validity.”….”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trumps-national-security-advisor-deeply-disturbed-ukraine/story?id=65925477
Thomas P. Bossert is an American lawyer and former Homeland Security Advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump…….. he served as Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to President George W. Bush
“Founders: Removal from office is not the only purpose of impeachment”
September 26, 2019 5.33pm EDT
https://theconversation.com/founders-removal-from-office-is-not-the-only-purpose-of-impeachment-124254
‘Franklin concluded that impeachment was a process that could be “favorable” to the president, saying it is the best way to provide for “the regular punishment of the Executive when his misconduct should deserve it and for his honorable acquittal when he should be unjustly accused.”
TRUMP’S FORMER HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISOR..
DESCRIBES CROWDSTRIKE AS “DEBUNKED CONSPIRACY THEORY”
President Donald Trump’s first Homeland Security and counterterrorism adviser, who resigned after a year in the office, said on “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” on Sunday that he is “deeply disturbed” and “frustrated” by the “entire mess” that began in July with Trump’s phone call with a young Ukrainian president and suddenly this week sparked a firestorm of calls in Congress to impeach the president following the disclosure of an extraordinary whistleblower complaint.
“I’m deeply disturbed by this as well, and this entire mess has me frustrated,” said former Homeland Security advisor Tom Bossert, now an ABC News contributor.
Bossert was sharply critical of Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who was also a guest on the show. He expressed a combination of frustration and bewilderment that some members of the Trump team continue to spout debunked conspiracy theories about the hack of the Democratic National Committee [DNC] computer servers during the 2016 election campaign.
“It’s not only a conspiracy theory. it is completely debunked. I don’t want to be glib about this matter but last year, retired former Senator Judd Gregg wrote in The Hill magazine Five Ways or Three Ways to Impeach Oneself and the third way was to hire Rudy Giuliani.”
“At this point, I am deeply frustrated with what he and legal team are doing in repeating that debunked theory to the president. It sticks in his mind when he hears it over and over again. And for clarity here, George, let me just repeat here, again, that it has no validity.”
“The United States government reached its conclusion on attributing to Russia the DNC hack in 2016 before it even communicated it to the FBI. And long before the FBI ever knocked on the door at the DNC. So a server inside the DNC was not relevant to our determination to the attribution. It was made up front and beforehand. And so while servers can be important in some of the investigations that followed, it has nothing to do with the U.S. government attribution for the DNC hack.”
Edited from: “President Trump’s Former National Security Advisor Deeply Disturbed By Ukraine Scandal. Whole World Is Watching”
ABC News: 9/29/19
Regarding Above:
I happened to see this interview when it was aired on ABC’s “This Week”. Even host George Stephanopoulos had trouble making out what the Crowdstrike conspiracy is in relation to Ukraine. But apparently said conspiracy had been widely pushed in rightwing media.
Peter?
New name, old format.
Peter is butt hurt because she lost her sheet and turned on everybody like the gurl that she is….such a mess
You’re wrong, T S. Estovir is gay and had a crush on Peter. Peter got grossed out and had to shake him off.
Steve? What’s up with this Estovir? He’s always posting crap about toilets and grinder. Further down this thread he’s promoting Log Cabin Republicans. Then he posts religious stuff like we should think he’s holy. Poor Turley. Bet he doesn’t mean to draw nutcases like that.
Peter and is a transgender who bred Anon1 hole but that beatch in Gainesville went to University Club looking for more seed and got instead the clap, just like a liburturd
I saw the exchanges. Estovir came on to Peter talking toilets and grinder. And Estovir keeps posting Log Cabin Republican stuff.
Enjoy!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/he-was-the-nbas-best-ref-then-he-went-to-a-catholic-seminary-11569758417
He Was the NBA’s Best Ref. Then He Went to a Catholic Seminary.
Steve Javie’s retirement plan: spending seven years studying to be a deacon
– Ben Cohen
Sept. 29, 2019 8:00 am ET
Near the end of his long career as an NBA referee, Steve Javie took a summer vacation with his wife. They decided to burn his unholy amount of frequent-flier miles and Marriott points on a trip to Saint Thomas. He was thinking about retirement, and this seemed like an ideal place to settle down. Javie could play golf, hit the beach and live in a tropical paradise.
It did not quite work out that way. Instead he would spend the next seven years committing himself to Catholicism.
“The calling comes and you go, ‘Uh oh, I gotta listen,’ ” he said.
Javie officiated his last NBA game in 2011. He soon began studying at his local seminary. He was recently ordained as a deacon by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. And this unexpected turn of events is how he found himself in church one Sunday morning wearing elaborate vestments to deliver a homily. He began with a confession.
“I’m a sports guy,” he said.
Javie comes from a long line of sports guys. The son of an NFL referee, he played and umpired minor-league baseball. When he eventually chose basketball, Javie had a 25-year career in the NBA and consistently ranked as one of the league’s top officials. “He was the best referee I ever worked with,” said his former colleague Joey Crawford, “and I worked with everybody.”
Crawford says that referees must have unimpeachable judgment, steady control of the game and deep knowledge of the rules. A good ref has one or two of those three traits. “He had all three,” he said. But even the best refs are prone to mistakes, and those errors can follow them forever. “You’re a scumbag for the rest of your life,” Crawford said. “Steve is not a scumbag. He’s the farthest thing from it. Players and coaches and people in our league have a different attitude about who we are and what we do. Steve really screwed that one up.”
Javie is still the face of NBA refs even in retirement. As the rules analyst for ESPN, he remains a constant presence on television, a floating head with unmistakable slick hair who explains questionable calls.
There is something oddly religious about the whole thing. The NBA summons Steve Javie to interpret the rules for the masses. He’s the closest thing there is to a basketball deacon.
The idea of becoming an actual deacon was not something that crossed his mind until very recently. As he put it: “My Bible used to be the sports page.”
But his old colleagues insist the man they used to call “Father Javie” was unusually qualified for this unlikely vocation. He wasn’t just a sports guy. He was also a religious guy.
When a bum knee forced Javie to hang up his whistle at the age of 56, he needed something else to do, and his friends were not entirely surprised when Javie decided to spend his retirement becoming a deacon. They knew that he attended daily Mass and had become more devout toward the end of his career. What did shock them was how long it would take to make a lifetime commitment.
“Seven years,” Javie said.
“Seven years?” Crawford replied.
It turns out there are few places in the world where the process of becoming a deacon is as demanding as it is in the Philadelphia diocese. The application lasted an entire year. His reward for being accepted: six years in a Catholic seminary.
Steve Javie took classes in everything from the history of the church to the science of preaching as he earned his master’s degree in theology
Javie took classes in everything from the history of the church to the science of preaching as he earned his master’s degree in theology. He says he’s never studied so hard in his life. “Deacons need to be as qualified as priests,” said Michael Pascarella, a deacon in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s office for clergy. “With all the challenges facing the church today, we need competent, qualified men serving in this role.”
There are nearly 20,000 deacons in the U.S., and they have many of the same responsibilities as priests. They even agree to a vow of celibacy if their wives predecease them. Javie is a typical deacon in most ways: 95% are older than 50 and 92% are married, according to U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops data. But in some ways, he’s an outlier: 11% have graduate degrees, and closer to 0% are professional referees.
But his old job didn’t come up much in school. Kelly Anderson, an assistant professor of biblical studies, never would have known about Javie’s work with Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James if one of his classmates hadn’t mentioned it. She didn’t think about it again until she was out to dinner one night and glanced at the television during an NBA game on ESPN. She was not expecting to find herself staring at someone she knew from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary.
“Oh my god, that’s my student!” she said. “I almost fell off my chair. And then I looked him up on Wikipedia.”
His graduating class had to choose one of the new deacons to represent them on the altar during their ordination mass in June. They picked Javie.
When he gave his first homily the next day, Crawford was there to see his old colleague in action.
“It was like he’d preached for 30 years,” Crawford said. “I told him afterward: The next time I come to something like this, you’ll be the Pope.”
He’s not exactly in Vatican City yet. Javie was assigned to his local parish here in the Philadelphia suburbs, and he’s learning there are some differences between Catholic deacons and NBA referees. He used to be told that he was blind, for example, and now he’s free to wear reading glasses.
While nobody was excited to hear from him in NBA arenas, hundreds went silent in church on a recent Sunday morning here. It was time for Javie’s homily.
Javie had been away on a golf trip with NBA refs earlier in the week thinking about what he might say to his congregants. His inspiration came while he was searching for an errant shot. Instead he found another golfer’s shank. When he picked up that ball, he noticed there was a message on it. He still didn’t have his ball, but now he had a sermon.
Javie reached for that previously lost golf ball in his pocket on Sunday and read it to his church: “I once was lost, and now I’m found.”
“I really believe that searching, finding and rejoicing relates to our Gospel reading today,” Javie said.
Write to Ben Cohen at ben.cohen@wsj.com
Why is this jerk-wad always posting religious crap?
Anonymous – why are you such a jerk-wad?
Anonymous, Estovir is one of those Log Cabin Republicans who wants the church to recognize Gay Rights.
Yuri…….A few months ago, we had dinner with a bunch of liberals (a “group” of liberals..What is that called……. a bevy? a gaggle? a covey? a litter?😊)
They were all yellow dog Democrats, politically active and highly educated:: 2 PhD’s, 3 Episcopal priests, an artist, an architect, and a politician.
NONE of them had ever heard of Log Cabin Republicans! I said, in disbelief, “You must be kidding!” They asked me “what the hell is a Log Cabin Republican?”
Honestly.
Cindy when I see the words “Log Cabin Republicans” I always imagine a group of Republicans making pancake syrup.
At home we prefer maple though
Estovir…..that’s funny.
I have always admired them…..Years ago a member told me they named themselves honoring Lincoln because he was homosexual. I think with his rommate/ housemate in law school ?
Anyway, that’s what I was told.
honoring Lincoln because he was homosexual. I think w
A fantasy cooked up by a writer named Philip Nobile, IIRC.
Tia IB…….thank you.. I have wondered about that.
Tia iv … That B on your moniker is rogue.
Cindy Bragg – the story is that Lincoln shared a bed with another male. Not unusual for the times. However, it made the gay Republicans happy. 😉
Paul C……….Yes, it did……and it made the litter of liberal Dems at dinner even happier 😊
Too funny.
A psychologist, researcher, Alfred Kinsey colleague by the name of C. A. Tripp wrote a book, published after his death, entitled “The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln”. It was denounced by his ex-partner (lover?) Phillip Nobile as they were both gay and worked together. Nobile denounced the book in, of all things the Weekly Standard.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050115021600/https://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/107koqzy.asp
I learned years ago to disregard most things from the Kinsey team and to let intimate details about peoples private lives remain intimate and private. Additionally to investigate the dead for x, y and z decades after their death so as to assuage your own proclivities is desperate, dishonest and the findings will be unreliable.
Overall I think homosexuals are people who are conflicted, angry, did not choose their orientation but can choose to be happy and monogamous or, as many heterosexuals, disavow monogamy and run the risks therein. I know very few heterosexual married couples at my Catholic Church who are happy, successful or on one marriage. The number drops further when inquiring about their children and grandchildren. Whenever we have an elderly married Catholic couple stand after Mass to receive a blessing from the priest and be recognized by the congregation for marriage of 30, 40, 50 or more years, they are truly outliers, which is a larger indictment of us.
Life, like all human cells, is based on relationships: with ourselves and with each other. We are failing miserably in the 21st Century.
On that cheery note….
Have a good night, everyone.
Estovir…..Thank you for that interesting background story.
Also interesting about your church and divorce, which I assume is very accepted now in the Catholic church.
The only time I saw my father cry was when his parents divorced. He was 35 years old.
Cindy:
They’re collectively called a coven, I believe.
mespo…..lol……..or in Hill and Bill’s case, a “murder”……..teehee
“Log Cabin Republicans executive director latest to resign in protest”
CNN Digital Expansion 2016
By S.E. Cupp
Updated 4:16 PM ET, Tue August 27, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/27/politics/log-cabin-republicans-director-resigns/index.html
Excerpt:
Henry’s resignation is the latest in a long line of defections over the past few months, including Robert Turner, Jordan Evans, Rachel Hoff, Jennifer Horn, Eli Lehrer, Rich Tafel and Sarah Longwell.
The group, which claims to be “the nation’s largest Republican organization dedicated to representing LGBT conservatives and allies,” published an op-ed in the Washington Post last week endorsing President Donald Trump, which sparked Turner, Horn and Evans’ departures.
Horn, a longtime Republican operative, said of her resignation from the organization’s board, that she could no longer represent a group who endorsed another four years of the Trump administration and his targeting of gay and minority communities.
“It’s not just the LGBTQ community this President targets. When we look at immigrants, people — anyone that he thinks he can somehow use to anger his base — he doesn’t care if he has to divide on racial lines, on ethnic lines, on educational lines,” Horn told MSNBC. “He will divide and damage and destroy this country in any manner he thinks he needs to advance his own political power.”
Anonymous…….S.E. Cupp became a big disappointment several years ago.
BTW, I know three lesbians, former Dems, who hate the T at the end of LGBT.
Donald Trump has been in the entertainment business for decades. That means he has supported gays for decades
These critics are so stupid. Even Trump’s hair! probably done by a gay hairdresser!
😃
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Well, this is funny. I hope it is the full panel pic:
https://i.imgur.com/vhNruVx.jpg
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Again, a lot of people seem incapable of making arguments for their position. They quickly resort to violence or threats thereof.
I think Geroldo can make a good argument against this whistleblower. He should do so!
I agree, Jill.
The Violence & Murders, ( ElPaso/Ohio, etc…), against pro American Trump supporters have been happening for 4 years now.
We’re on the 2nd AG & if AG Barr doesn’t start throwing those Traitor Aholes in orange jumpsuits & cuffs & charge them in a non commie controlled courts there will be an ugly civil war in just months that no one but the criminal traitors want & have to have to survive.
The public at large doesn’t support anything about the commie Dims/Rinos so they’ll turn over the tables & start the fights.
In my view it’s already begun & people need to calling their Reps & raise hell to stop this before it gets even further out of hand.
Lunatic, take your meds
This isn’t a “whistleblower.” This is just another example of operatives and moles in place to sabotage the president.
It boggles my mind that Joe and Hunter Biden stand accused of very serious international crimes, but merely asking one of the nations involved to investigate has been met with threats of impeachment. There was no quid pro quo or abuse of power. At this point, such operatives have undermined the privacy of a president’s communications with foreign leaders. This destabilizes us geopolitically, and would make every head of state very hesitant to speak to us, for fear they would end up Democrat tabloid fodder.
Investigate the Biden’s? Good! How else would voters find out relevant facts unless the country inovolved looked into it.
This was one hell of a strong arm move to try to protect Biden from investigation. Now, if Ukraine engages in a good faith investigation into legitimate allegations of criminal and corrupt activity, it will be accused by Democrats as “meddling” in US elections. It’s ham handed, but it does seem effective with a surprising number of people.
So, where are we now? Democrats can behave like organized crime, but there’s nothing we can do about it, as it might hurt their chances in the next election, and be accused of tampering with the election? The only acceptable outcome is voters’ complete ignorance of any Democrat wrongdoing or crimes? We have seen dictatorships behave this way, and this appears to be what the Democrat leadership is going for. Lawlessness, total lack of accountability, brash shut down of transparency, and propaganda.
It’s like in 2016, when Democrats absolutely howled that Hillary was caught deleting emails, and hiding her communication on an illegal server, in violation of the records keeping act, and the laws regarding classified information. They were not furious that she broadcast confidential information on the Cloud, the lies, the lack of transparency, or the fact that she was under subpoena and destroyed evidence. No. They were furious that voters found out about it
I truely hope that moderate Democrats regain their party, because it is madness as it stands.
That said, of course threatening violence is wrong.
However, what is the criminal or civil recourse for political activists leaking or, in some cases, composing, stories about the President in order to undermine his Presidency. Is there any appropriate recourse? These are soft coup attempts, death by a thousand cuts, by people who refuse to accept the outcome of a lawful election.
They are not just protecting Biden, they are protecting Obama and the uncovering of wrongdoing in his corrupt administration. This is why Michelle and Barry are still putting in a full on effort at keeping up the popularity numbers for themselves personally. Plus Obama got key words out there on the airwaves that he wanted to be repeated: he’s most proud of running a “scandal-free” presidency. Scandal-free? Hahahaha. His plan? Let those words (lies) seep into the public discourse and penetrate the weak minds of the masses.
Listen to someone like Nuttychacha on this blog and you know they succeeded. Obama and his peeps know propaganda. They know that facts and truth don’t matter when you have brainwashed public sentiment on your side. This is how Obama got through his entire presidency. With the media protecting and insulating him and Joe. Working mostly on his popularity. Michelle too. That’s why exit polling showed support for Obama’s policies in the 20’s (in the 20’s!!!) while his personal approval was soaring up into the 60’s. He worked hard at it. I think that’s all Obama did. Party and hang out with celebs. And now he’s one of them. Got the mansions, the Netflix movie deals, the book deals, the millionaire lifestyles of the rich and famous — which is all the man ever wanted. And not one journalist has a single question for Joe Biden to answer. How about asking Barack Obama about his corrupt administration? Fat chance that’ll ever happen.
There’s no “presidency” here– there’s only a malignant narcissist who sought the presidency to fulfill his pathetic need for attention and adulation. The only “coup” was Trump , desperate because he was behind in the polls, colluding with Russian trolls by directing them where to most-effectively broadcast false information via social media about Hillary Clinton in key districts in key states. Despite losing the popular vote, he cheated, so he got into the White House where nothing but corruption and chaos have happened since. Trump is NO leader, and won’t defer to more-knowledgeable people, so he flounders around, screwing up constantly, breaks the law, then tries to blame an alleged “deep state”, the media and Democrats for his failures. Now, he’s trying to play the “victim”. Victim of what? His own corruption and arrogance. Plus, he’s trying another Kellyanne pivot–he was just trying to root out corruption in the Ukraine. It’s just a coincidence that he deliberately delayed military aid appropriated by Congress, and that the subject of his concern just happens to be the lead contender as his political opponent–right?
The depth of devotion of Trumpsters literally boggles the mind. They are literally delusional.
BREAKING: Multiple sources have confirmed that President Trump plans to step down from his office as President of the United States
Effective at noon on Monday, January 20, 2025.
(Ryan Fournier)
All federal employees take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution., not to protect and defend Trump, something he doesn’t understand. The only choice an American patriot has when confronted with a rogue, unethical president is to use the whistleblower law. This administration knows it is breaking the law because they hide telephone conversations and transcripts of calls between Trump and MBS, Putin and the Ukrainian President in the most-secure codeword protected stand alone server, intended for the most-sensitive state secrets. This, by law, is consciousness of guilt, admissible by law. As with the discussion with the Ukrainian President, there are no state secrets or even anything confidential in these calls. This database is not for hiding proof of crimes or for political purposes. Members of his staff may also face prosecution for obstruction of justice.
Karen, Trump’s occupation of the White House is wrongful –it was procured by collusion with a foreign government.
“–it was procured by collusion with a foreign government.”
The Mueller Report, found no evidence of collusion, and was signed off on by both AG Barr and Rosenstein.
There is, however, actual evidence of collusion with foreign governments by the Democrats, the Clinton campaign, and the Obama White House, State Dept, Intel Community, etc.
Since the Mueller Report failed miserably, the Dems are now pulling Plan B out of their asses. The “Ukraine phone call” plan of attack will also backfire. Calling it an “impeachment inquiry” is bull and Pelosi knows it.
The Mueller report cites instance after instance of Trump campaign collusion with the Russians, nottoo mention obstruction of justice by Trump himself. Nowhere does it say there was no collusion.
Why don’t you at least try to know what you’re talking about before posting.
Read the report or an accurate and detailed summary.
Like I was saying, the Mueller Report was a miserable failure for the Democrats. No collusion. No obstruction. Signed off by Attorney General and Deputy AG Rosenstein.
The last can of worms Pelosi and the Democrats want to open is an investigation into the Ukraine. That would be a disaster for the Obama admin and the Democrats. Not gonna happen. Dems will not risk exposing the Obama admin’s criminal weaponziation of the State Dept, the IC, etc. Way too much dirt that exposes Obama and his dirty cops, dirty deeds, etc and Dems do not want it aired out in public before the election.
Pelosi does not want a vote for impeachment in the House. She will stall. They just want to hammer away at the president for as long as they can. Dems know that IF there was a vote and it went to the Senate for trial, it would be a political disaster of epic proportions for them. So what that means is Trump will not be impeached. It is more likely at this point that he will be reelected.
So the Democrats are choosing to cripple Washinton instead of working with POTUS on ANYTHING for the good of the country. This is their chosen strategy. There will be NOTHING accomplished in Congress from now until the election. It is now entirely about a partisan information war being waged by Democrats.
Congress and the Media have approval numbers in the teens. In the TEENS! Both Congress and their Media allies are more unpopular than ever. Trump has approval numbers in the low 50s. Trump’s policies and economy are winning issues for Repubs.
All the Democrats have to run on is obstruction, resistance, and Orange Man Bad. Democrats are betting that public sentiment will swing their way. I wouldn’t.
Since January. the House has passed 5 times the number of bills the Senate has and of course Trump does nothing but watch TV and tweet. Washington hasn’t accomplished anything of note except a tax cut, which is default for the GOP, and trolling Obama accomplishments since Trump has been in office.
As I was saying, right now, well over 70% of the public DISAPPROVE of the job Congress is doing.
About 50% APPROVE of the job President Trump is doing.
The Dems are gambling big time with their ‘do nothing but resist, obstruct and impeach the MF’er’ strategy heading into the election. I say they are about to run hard into a big brick wall. Watch and weep.
Let’s go – we’ll see.
If you really thought so I don’t think you’d be arguing against it so strenuously.
Have you seen one “journalist/pundit/host” push back against the blatant lies Rep. Adam Schiff is saying during his interviews on cable tv? I haven’t. Not one push back or correction. Schiff’s outright lies and fabrications are allowed to stand. Pelosi’s as well. Shameful.
That’s why trust in the media and its approval numbers are in the teens. As low or lower than Congress.
Schiff doesn’t need to lie. The memo the WH released proves almost everything in the WB complaint – a complaint by the way deemed credible and urgent by the Trump appointed IC IG.
All Schiff does is lie. And no, it doesn’t prove anything impeachable. The IC “whistleblower” is not an actual whistleblower, but rather a part of “plot” to take down the president. Schiff has been part of orchestrating it. It is a partisan hit job and they all know it.
Karen, your problems are that the Trump appointed IC IG has deemed the complaint both credible and urgent and the released memo confirms the allegations.
The only one sabotaging the President is the President.
If you really thought so I don’t think you’d be arguing for it so strenuously.
Karen, I am a moderate democrat – Elect Amy Klobuchar our next president! – and both I and the swing district House members are now all on board for impeaching Trump. Strategy has nothing to do with it, doing the right thing does. Besides for being a lying braggart and scumbag unfit for office, he is now using the the power of his office to sabotage political competitors.
When you regain sanity you’ll grasp the seriousness of this.
Anon1 – I am sure you realize that this will be Amy’s last debate. 😉
No, I don’t, and neither do you, though you better hope it is.
Anon1 – what is Amy polling?
Not well at present Paul. How’s Trump polling?
Anon1 – better than Amy. And now I see that Hillary might have thrown her dress into the ring. This is going to get messy.
Trump’s favorability ratings have held steady, in the low 40s, for a long time .
That is the 538 average of dozens of polls, and is probably more reliable than any individual poll that might show him much higher or much lower.
I think he is currently at about 42%. This is about where Obama was at the same stage of his presidency.
That’s funny, but what makes me think you’re too dumb to don’t get it?
Trump has never gotten above the mid 40’s, including when he was elected.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Anonymous – the problem with 538 is that they got the 2016 election soooooooo wrong.
They did get it wrong. I think they were “less wrong” than most of the forecasts…..538 had Hillary with about a 70% chance of winning on the eve of the election…..but they were still wrong.
Amy is ‘toast’.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primaries/democratic/national/
Anyone who thinks that Klobuchar has a shot, needs to get out their thinkin’ cap.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/if-youre-polling-in-the-low-single-digits-youre-probably-toast/
…needs to get it out…and put it on. Anon1?
Paul C……….they didn’t like her dancing, ‘eh? 😉
Cindy Bragg – I do not think she will qualify for the next debate, assuming there is one.
“…using the power of his office to sabotage political competitors.”
Obama did that.
It is precisely why the Democrats do not want to open the investigation into Ukraine.
Sure, open an investigation. I’m sure that will go as well as the McCabe prosecution.
An investigation into Ukraine? Not gonna happen. That would be a complete disaster for Democrats. And it would expose criminal wrongdoing by the Obama admin and many of the key players whose names we’ve been hearing for a couple of years now.
Link please?
“…the swing district House members are now all on board for impeaching Trump.”
No, they’re not.
“There are at least 223 House Democrats — according to a CNN count — who publicly stated support for impeachment proceedings.”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/democrats-impeachment-whip-list/index.html
There are 235 House Democrats. Do the math.
All 223 Democrats are in “swing districts”? And only those Democrats are in swing districts?
If the House members in the swing districts are ” all on board”, are there no GOP House members in swing districts?
It actually looks like most of the House Democrats are on board, most GOP House members are not, and the “swing district factor” is not a major factor.
Try to keep up. I responded to a post by Karen where she called moderate democrats to reverse the party.s course. I noted that I am a moderate Democrat as are the swing district members, I.e,, dem swing districts, and we are on board fir impeachment.
Quit wasting my time with stupid s…t.
And you made a point of saying that 223 Democrats out of 235 support impeachment, as if that were proof of your “swing district” theory.
So, you want us to believe that all 223 are in swing districts? When there are not even close to that number that are considered swing districts?
I’ll keep up, but unfortunately I have to go by the words that you actually wrote. I won’t bother trying to keep up with weasel words when you make one statement, then claim that you really meant something else.
You’re too dumb to fish.
GFY
No, now that I know the Anon1 Code, where you didn’t really say what you said or mean what you said, I decided that it’s a waste of time to decode your statements.
“No now that I know the Anon1 Code, where you didn’t really say what you said or mean what you said, I decided that it’s a waste of time to decode your statements.”
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I figured that out, too. He’s Humpty Dumpty:
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”
Mespo, I address your comments directly and explain my reasoning. On the rare event I don’t, I am mocking you.
Hope that helps.
“The math” is that close to 100% of Democratic House members support an impeachment inquiry, and close to 100% of Republican House members oppose it.
If anon1 wants to claim it’s about “swing districts” rather than party affiliation, he can “do the math’ if he thinks he can make the case.
https://cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings
If someone is really serious about trying to claim that the Representatives in “swing districts” are “on board” for impeachment, here is some information about the number of House seats considered to be “safe”, and how many could be considered as “swing districts’.
If she has the votes, then Pelosi should call for a vote on the floor of the House now, to get them all on record, and proceed with impeachment, yes?
Calling it “a formal impeachment inquiry” means nothing but tossing red meat to their base and using it as a club to beat the president with. Ask Pelosi to call a floor vote. She won’t. This is dead in the water.
The “right thing” is following the judgment of the OLC which cleared the administration of any wrongdoing. The wrong thing is using lawfare to overturn an election.
That’s funny mespo.
The OLC does not have the power to clear anyone of “wrongdoing”, even if it wasn’t headed by the liar Barr.
Anin1:
It’s legal opinion is infinitely better than Pelosi’s, Schiff’s and even your.
mespo:
The OCL ruled on the complaint going to Congress, and they’re creative judgement is now moot.
The OCL has no role in what Congress decides to do with the complaint.
Elect Amy Klobuchar our next president! –
Klobberherworkers is quite the trend-setter what with eating salad with a comb.
Among her notable views is that the Census Bureau shouldn’t inquire into the citizenship of respondents (something it does in intercensal surveys), that the federal government should subsidize day care centers, that we shouldn’t have executed Timothy McVeigh, that we should have federal regulations to protect children (but not her staff) against ‘bullying’, that we should subsidize microbreweries through the tax code, and that we should have federal regulation of the content of school lunches.
IOW, typical Democrat trash, and a bitc* to boot.
DSS – I thought McVeigh asked to be executed.
I’m very disappointed to hear that TIA will not be voting for Amy. To end further suspense, I will not be voting for Trump.
TIA:
You recall correctly. Even the whory NYT ran a story on Amy Dearest:
“She was known to throw office objects in frustration, including binders and phones, in the direction of aides, they said. Low-level employees were asked to perform duties they described as demeaning, like washing her dishes or other cleaning — a possible violation of Senate ethics rules, according to veterans of the chamber.
Appraisals of perceived staff incompetence were delivered at all hours of the day and night:”
Typical feminist Anon1 hero. You know she can bring home the bacon; fry it up in a pan; then throw it at you. Presidential timber from the Dims deemed “moderate.”
I wonder if she publicly berates employees by twitter and then stabs them in the back after she has an underling fire them?
“Following a New York Times investigation last week into Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar’s alleged mistreatment of her employees — which included berating her staff and throwing objects — more than 60 former staffers have come to her defense.
On February 24, 61 people who previously worked for Klobuchar co-signed an open letter published on Medium, insisting that the senator was a caring “mentor and friend” to them. Although numerous outlets, including the HuffPost and BuzzFeed News, have published detailed reports of Klobuchar’s alleged volatility and habit of demeaning her staff, the co-signers of this letter specifically address the editors at the Times, who they claim omitted the “positive anecdotes and stories” they shared in interviews.
“We previously worked for Senator Klobuchar, and some of us were among the former staffers contacted by the New York Times and other media outlets to share our experiences about working in her office,” the letter reads. “We do not believe these reports adequately describe our thoughts on Amy Klobuchar, many of which we shared with the authors.”
The letter also characterizes Klobuchar as a boss who was “there for [staffers] after a loss in the family,” and someone who “pushed [them] to be better professionals and public servants” — two statements that contradict allegations published in the Times that Klobuchar made employees pay back money earned during their paid parental leave in certain situations, and that staffers cried “all the time” over Klobuchar’s treatment of them.”
https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/former-staffers-defend-amy-klobuchar-in-open-letter.html
Whistleblowers are an important part of a system to keep our government honest. A “journalist” who suggests beating up a whistleblower has lost his way but them this is Geraldo so what does one expect. What is more disturbing is the President suggesting the whistleblower should be killed….an invitation to someone who is willing to please the president and commit murder.
Cowards aren’t “important” to anything or anybody. Brave people are.
I guess the clears up the issue of whether the President is an “important” person!
JH:
Try reading it again and then again. You’ll get it.
No way! Out of all Trump’s shrinking but still millions of followers, they are all sane, rational, and peaceful. Why even in the small sample on this blog, on average one of them will threaten violence or herald a coming war less than once a day.
Geraldo’s a Patriot; the whistleblowing Brennan CIA plant isn’t. Fireworks are bound to ensue. Personally, my money is on the Capone Vault guy.
Speaking of a constitutional law scholar & the citizens of America that are about slap the crap out of the Commie Dims & Rinos like “good” muslim beats his wives. 😉
https://www.memeworld.com/meme/the-do-nothing-moron-brigade/
I would mention that this year is the centennial of Das Bauhaus but that is too esthetic for this crowd.
David Benson is the God Emperor of Making Stuff Up and owes me thirty-eight citations (one from the OED, one from the town ordinances and two from the Old Testament), an equation and the source of a quotation, after forty-four weeks, and needs to cite all his work from now on. – I have taken the behind-the-scenes tour of FLW’s Taliesin West, and have taken and audited courses in architecture. Why do you think you are better than we are?
I worked in Grady Gammage Auditorium before it opened and after it first opened. My blood is literally on the wall of the auditorium. I know the history of the auditorium better than the tour guides, since I was there at the beginning. Today they are doing two productions of Miss Saigon.
I have been in several Wright buildings in the Valley and when I travel I always explore interesting buildings. Personally, I am not a fan of the Bauhaus style, however I don’t hold that against you.
Bauhaus was far more than just architecture, o ignorant one.
David Benson is the God Emperor of Making Stuff Up and owes me thirty-eight citations (one from the OED, one from the town ordinances and two from the Old Testament), an equation and the source of a quotation, after forty-four weeks, and needs to cite all his work from now on. – I am more familiar with the architecture than the art and furniture. I am aware that it was a short lived movement.
Well, no.
By the way, if you read TNYT today you would know more about it.
Not to mention a spectacular house newly constructed in Chile.
David Benson is the God Emperor of Making Stuff Up and owes me thirty-eight citations (one from the OED, one from the town ordinances and two from the Old Testament), an equation and the source of a quotation, after forty-four weeks, and needs to cite all his work from now on. – so, you admit you would not have know about this had it not been for the Sunday NYT.
Nope.
True, but when your best song is Your Own Personal Jesus, then that is maybe the level of Devo and Whip It. Hardly worth celebrating IMHO. But whatevah!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Depeche Mode not Bauhaus, skanky. Sad to think someone of your like is even remotely familiar with DEVO
Benson:
Yeah you’re the great intellect around here! Posture much? Love to buy you for what your worth and sell you for what you think you’re worth.
If you need a tax loss…
https://www.bradenton.com/sports/article235600857.html
This topic is probably too plebeian to be of any interest to Benson.
Right you are!
NOTES TO ESTOVIR, AN ARCH-TYPICAL TRUMPER
Estovir you’re a mentor..??
Don’t make me laugh! Nor are you Christian by any stretch of the imagination. These prayers you post make a mockery of religion.
One can see that Estovir is a sniveling coward of a weasel resorting to homophobic taunts because that’s his level. Never has Estovir attempted to engage me in serious debate. Estovir lacks the imagination to form original talking points.
All Estovir knows are nasty little tricks. Like labeling people through repeated smears. Like, “I can’t form an argument so I’ll throw dog poo instead”.
Estovir, these tactics are used by every goon squad. That’s why they’re known as ‘goon squads’. Goons use those tactics professionally.
So Estovir it’s a joke when you refer to yourself as a ‘Mentor’ on these threads. And a pious Catholic deeply concerned for ‘life’.
Estovir, you’re the reason Millennials shun religion. ‘Too many Christians throwing poo around’. There’s nothing like the man with poo all over his hands to scare people off.
Hillary was right when she used the term ‘Deplorables’. It was foolish of her to apologize for such an apt description. Trumpers, by nature, get meaner all the time. It’s a culture where nasty is considered totally cool.
Trumpers revel in their nastiness while applauding it in others. Like, “Hey, brother, your nastiness is beautiful. You inspire me to get even nastier”. That’s how Trumpers bond.
Trumpers rush to support nastiness. That’s what makes them Trumpers; their zest for ganging up. Trumpers will pile on the one liberal in their midst. Like, “Hey they’re tossing poo around. I should back them up”.
Peter – there are people who can make a legitimate religious claim that homosexuality is immoral. You are violating their religious rights to condemn them for their beliefs.
Paul, I did a search for whiny beatchy troll in WeHo and this was the first hit.
Estovir – I will defend your position, however I will not engage in a fight between you and Peter. I support both of you on different points and there is no reason to anger either of you.
Estovir, et al. – this is the Geraldo fight sequence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZN7nm1Y8ls
Let me know if after you watch this if he could beat up anyone.
It wants me to sign in to confirm my age. Is this a video for homo smut?
😉
Paul, don’t tell Peter Shill, but I enjoy needling him about Grindr for the simple reason is that my HIV patients at clinic have told me about their experiences there. I encourage all of my gay patients who are sexually active to take Truvada. True story
So Peter, Im not a hater but you really need to start being nicer to gay men on Grindr. Otherwise you’ll end up being a bitter queen like David Brock.
Estovir – Grindr is the new bathhouses for the gay community. No the video is not smut, just a full on R rated brawl. 🙂
Estovir, I ‘know’ who you are. Your wife has told everyone that you’re a closet queen. Anyone can guess. Only closets queens employ that type of smear.
Expressing an opinion on another person’s beliefs – religious or not – is not a violation of anyone’s right.
Anon1 – you and the Supreme Court differ,
The 1st amendment has not been repealed. You may practice your religion and I can say whatever I want about it, and visa versa
Anon1 – the problem is when freedom of speech and freedom religion compete.
Paul, what a piece of **** you are. Another phony Trumper. Just the lowest of crap.
More deft argument from Hill. You forgot to call Paul an MF’er to close out your stunning rationality.
Mespo, perhaps you would prefer he describe imagined clandestine perverse “hook ups” by his debating opponent, a popular strategy here by several posters you don’t seem to have a problem with.
Anin1:
Non-sequitur deflection. Hill is an argument-bested cretin. No “what about Estovir” changes that.
mespo is another poster here to address Hill’s usually substantive posts and then here pretends he is as low of character as mespos scumbag allies.
Another obvious truth he misses.
correction:
mespo is another poster here who regularly fails to address Hill’s usually substantive posts and then here pretends he is as low of character as mespos scumbag allies.
Another obvious truth he misses.
Anin1:
You had it right the first time, pointing out a logical fallacy is addressing the substance of the post. Hill’s juvenile name-calling of Paul is one example of Hill’s myriad of failing to address the substance of the post. Keep swinging and we’ll keep slow pitching.
mespo, Hill’s comments on this thread followed another attempt by Estovir to discuss his sex life. It was if anything, at a higher level than that bottom feeder’s level. It is hard to imagine you have failed to notice this pattern of behavior though you never comment on it while here blasting Hill for replying in kind.
PS Estovir is not making legitimate arguments of any kind. He’s a creep who spends his time here imagining the sex lives of other posters and then describing these fantasies.
Paul, you’re a bigger creep! A typical Trumper. I’m not gay, you piece of ****! That’s Estovir smearing me. And here you are, deferring to the smear as though it’s actual fact.
And Paul, I’ve always thought you’re a creep. A creep like every Trumper. It seems you always have excuses for every smear of Trump’s.
Peter – as someone who has spent their life in the theatre, your sexual orientation means nothing to me.
Paul, you ‘are’ passive aggressive. It’s not my imagination. Pretending the smear is true. That’s a Trumper for sure.
Peter – I am ADHD.
Dang Paul, you’re good at this 🙂
Paul,
They have theaters in Arizona?
Estovir – we have a Mayo Clinic.
I am aware that Mayo recently extended their medical school program into AZ though I know nothing about it. Perhaps you have heard some reports as to how that venture is evolving.
Kaiser Permanente is also launching a new medical school in Pasadena which tells you how medical institutions flush with cash are getting on the wagon to influence the future of medicine.
I thought you were, too, for some reason. Didn’t you come out on a comment about 6 or 8 months ago??? Or was that somebody else??? Are you bi-sexual???
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
The Catholic Church teaches that gay sex is a sin. That makes it a legitimate moral position that Estovir can rationally hold. As such, it’s between the person and their faith. It’s not my job to condemn anyone for homosexuality (not Hill’s to condemn Estovir) but I will not be compelled to endorse it either.
Mespo, opinions endorsed by a religion do not therefore make them rational. I’m sure you can think of religious teachings you do not accept as rational. Also, if it is a religion’s right to condemn behaviors or persons – and it is – it is an individual’s or group’s right to condemn specific religious beliefs and religions.
Anon1:
Yeah the church had 2000 years to work out their theology. You’ve put in a couple of minutes. I’ll go with Jerome and Augustine as real authorities not you. Sorry.
Unbelievable.
https://www.texastribune.org/2019/09/27/greg-abbott-tree-sarah-eckhardt-travis-county/
Travis County judge: Gov. Greg Abbott “hates trees because one fell on him”
Abbott has been paralyzed from the waist down since 1984, when a tree crashed down on him while he was jogging.
Sept. 27, 2019
Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt apologized late Friday for saying Gov. Greg Abbott “hates trees because one fell on him” during a panel discussion at The Texas Tribune Festival.
A journalist from The Federalist, John Daniel Davidson, first reported the comment in a tweet. Davidson added that the crowd laughed after Eckhardt’s comments, which were made in the context of the Texas Legislature overriding local ordinances like Austin’s tree ordinance.
“In my panel today at the Texas Tribune Festival on ‘Public Enragement’ I spoke about the importance of being able to disagree without being disagreeable. Then I said something disagreeable,” Eckhardt said in statement late Friday. “I want to apologize to Governor Abbott. I made a flippant comment that was inappropriate. The comment did nothing to further the debate I was participating in, much less further the political discourse in our community, state, and nation. While the Governor and I disagree on a number of issues, that is no excuse to be disagreeable.”
A spokesman for Abbott could not immediately be reached for comment late Friday.
Travis County Republican Chairman Matt Mackowiak called Eckhardt’s comments “disgusting” in a statement late Friday.
“Judge Eckhardt apparently believes that his disability is open to ridicule if it helps her make a political argument. This joke represents a profound lack of compassion from Judge Eckhardt,” Mackiowak said.
“There is no place for insulting Americans with disabilities and Judge Eckhardt should know better.”
Abbott was 26 when he was paralyzed by a falling oak tree while he was jogging in Houston on a windy day in July 1984. The accident left Abbott, who uses a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down.
It’s about time Geraldo started to act like a Republican. Instead of a rhino
Geraldo is a Rhino?
Harry Truman was right. If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.