Monday, October 21, 2019

Light News Dump

Hillary Clinton did not mention Tulsi's name in her comments. She said a candidate is being supported by Russian troll farms and they're setting up fake sites to support her and funneling Russian dark money to support her candidacy. Hillary did say it was a "her", but isn't it telling that Tulsi was immediately like, "How dare you say that about me!" and everyone else was like "How dare you say that about Tulsi!" Umm....How did y'all immediately know she was talking about Tulsi if it's not true? She's not the only female candidate in the race. Almost like it's been an open secret for a long time that Tulsi is a Russian puppet and Hillary is just the first prominent person to say it out loud. Remember when Hillary tried to warn us that Trump was a Russian puppet? Maybe we should start listening to her.

The President of the United States Just Called the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution 'Phony'
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-president-of-the-united-states-just-called-the-emoluments-clause-of-the-constitution-phony/

The previous President was a professor of Constitutional Law.

The fashion industry emits more carbon than international flights and maritime shipping combined: the industry produces 10% of all humanity’s carbon emissions, is the second-largest consumer of the world’s water supply, and pollutes the oceans with microplastics.
https://www.businessinsider.my/fast-fashion-environmental-impact-pollution-emissions-waste-water-2019-10-2/

SCOTUS Vacates Ruling That Found Michigan Unconstitutionally Gerrymandered Congressional Districts | The United States Supreme Court on Monday cancelled a federal court's decision, which found Michigan's congressional voting districts were unconstitutional because they were gerrymandered to such a degree that it violated voters' First Amendment rights and the Constitution's Equal Protection clause.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/supreme-court-vacates-ruling-finding-michigan-unconstitutionally-gerrymandered-congressional-districts/

Marine Corps vet who served in Iraq faces deportation to El Salvador, where he left at age 3
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/466639-marine-corps-vet-who-served-in-iraq-faces-deportation-to-el

Lev Parnas Instagram Reveals Personal Note From Trump Thanking Him For His ‘Friendship'
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lev-parnas-instagram-reveals-personal-note-from-trump-thanking-him-for-his-friendship

Mitt Romney Liked Tweet About Removing Trump Using 25th Amendment
https://lawandcrime.com/politics/if-report-is-true-then-mitt-romney-liked-tweet-about-removing-trump-using-25th-amendment/

Republicans seek censure of Schiff as more witnesses prepare to testify in Trump impeachment inquiry
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry-live-updates/2019/10/21/c6630a30-f3e9-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html

Never-Before-Seen Trump Tax Documents Show Major Inconsistencies
http://propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-never-before-seen-trump-tax-documents-show-major-inconsistencies

He bought a public golf course in CA for 27 million. It was a distress sale because it went BK without opening due to a natural disaster removing the 18th hole. He allegedly renovates the place for 264 million. However the course stayed the same as was designed. He just fixed one hole. He declares the value at $10 million for tax purposes. So in his mind it is worth 17 million less than he paid for it in a distressed sale and after he put 260 million into renovations. Ditto for his  Scotland golf properties, hundreds of millions in renovations that never happened, money pocketed. Paid for with deutchebank (russian laundered) cash. Whose accounts at Deutschebank were managed by the son of ex-Supreme Court Justice Kennedy, who retired so Trump could appoint Kavanaugh.

Wisconsin Farmers Union: Trump administration is letting small farms go out of business
https://www.newsweek.com/sonny-perdue-wisconsin-trump-tariffs-china-small-farms-1464087

Mitt Romney operates a secret Twitter account where he defends himself against critics and slams Trump's policies | Slate's Ashley Feinberg uncovered an account which operated under the handle @qaws9876, and went by the name Pierre Delecto. The account, which has since been made private, joined Twitter in July 2011, one month after Romney announced his presidential campaign.
https://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-pierre-delecto-secret-twitter-account-2019-10
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/mitt-romney-has-a-secret-twitter-account-and-it-sure-looks-like-its-this-one.html

Mitt Romney opposes cutting capital gains tax rate for the rich | "I believe in low tax rates. I also don't think that higher-income people should have a lower tax rate than lower-income people. I don't believe in continuing to cut capital gains tax rates, even though people say, 'Well, that'll encourage the growth of the economy.' It's like, 'Yeah, but it also puts more money in the wealthiest Americans, and that's simply not fair.'"
https://www.axios.com/mitt-romney-capital-gains-tax-rate-rich-0403fa0d-f2c2-4335-aaf4-904a08905bc6.html

Marcus Johnson: Warren went out of her way to support Bernie for years, and not to alienate his 2016 supporters. Never said a bad thing about him even when he messed up big time. Now his campaign is going to try to utterly destroy her politically. #NotMeUs huh
https://twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1186042270186987521

From August: It is not enough not to be racist. We have to be anti-racist. We have to shut down white supremacy, domestic terrorism, and white nationalism.
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1163274446439899136

Chile: 7 dead, curfew imposed in 14 cities as Government tries to face protests
https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/biobiochile-english/english-chile/2019/10/20/chile-crisis-7-dead-curfew-imposed-in-14-cities-as-government-tries-to-face-riots-looting-arson.shtml

Lindsey Graham Recants Criticism Of Syrian Withdrawal, He Was Already Caught Labelling Kurds Terrorists, Now He Says Let Turkish Military Kill Them All
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-10-21/lindsey-graham-now-says-he-supports-trump-on-syria-pullout

The Justice Department revealed in a court filing Sunday that former Special Counsel Robert Mueller did not make either Donald Trump Jr. or former White House Counsel Don McGahn testify before a grand jury he used for his Russia investigation. The filing was in response to U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell's ruling Thursday that the Justice Department was withholding too much information from the House Judiciary Committee in its ongoing wrangling with Attorney General William Barr over Mueller's evidence. | Howell appeared perplexed by Mueller's decision. "The Special Counsel's reasons remain unknown," she wrote in her opinion. "The reason is not that the individuals were insignificant to the investigation. To the contrary, both of the non-testifying individuals named in paragraph four figured in key events examined in the Mueller Report."
https://theweek.com/speedreads/873091/mueller-didnt-make-donald-trump-jr-don-mcgahn-testify-judge-curious-know-why
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6502875-10-20-19-Unredacted-Doc-Grand-Jury.html
https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1185993556193923074?s=20

Must have been very painful for @SpeakerPelosi to absorb news of her brother, Tom's passing while leading a delegation in Afghanistan. Sympathies to her, the D'Alesandro family and the people of Baltimore, the city he faithfully served. RIP.
https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1186322478706167814
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/us/thomas-dalesandro-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

 A mandatory buyback program isn't synonymous with confiscation. The firearms would be made illegal and if you turn them in then the government pays you the market value for the rifle. If you don't, you're breaking the law, but the only way the police will find out is you're reported, use it, are seen with the rifle, etc. It would be just like possessing any illegal item.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave up on his month-long effort to negotiate a governing majority after September's dead-heat national election, opening the way for his chief rival to try his hand at cobbling together a coalition to run the country. If Israel's president gives former army chief of staff Benny Gantz permission to proceed, he would be the first politician other than Netanyahu given the mandate to form a government in more than a decade, although his own path to power is far from certain. Israel's complex — and gridlocked — political system all but ensures that the final outcome is not likely to be clear for weeks, and that a third election in less than a year may be required.

Man in MAGA hat sprays Trump protesters with bear repellant
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/10/21/maga-hat-man-bear-repellant-trump-protest-mxp-vpx.hln

The hatred of Hillary Clinton is so irrational. Claiming Hillary Clinton as the biggest failure in American political history is absurd. Failure of Reconstruction? Great Depression? Jim Crow? Vietnam War? https://twitter.com/adamkotsko/status/1186025325509206017 …
https://twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1186058826015035392

YEP, agreed....: I don't like Bernie or Warren so please keep at it. I hope Team Bernie throws everything they can at Warren. Huge political attacks. Please. Thanks 🙏🏾 https://twitter.com/ineedanswe/status/1186046466537742337 …
https://twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1186047098401243142

YEP, me too....I'm just waiting for the coastal multicultural neoliberal elites to drop the address for the Bernie lost again 2020 party in DC, I will be there with refreshments
https://twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1186043298517082113

Warren went out of her way to support Bernie for years, and not to alienate his 2016 supporters. Never said a bad thing about him even when he messed up big time. Now his campaign is going to try to utterly destroy her politically. #NotMeUs huh
https://twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1186041219509641218

This is reminiscent of the words of George W. Bush: “Either you're with us or against us.” The idea that anyone who opposes Bernie Sanders is against the working class is flatly absurd. But I can't say I won't enjoy their all out war on Warren. Bring out the popcorn! 🍿
https://twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1186041219509641218

Lev Parnas’ Private Instagram Has Multiple Pics With Giuliani, Trump and First Family
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/lev-parnas-private-instagram-has-multiple-pics-with-giuliani-trump-and-first-family

Facebook Discloses New Disinformation Campaigns From Russia and Iran
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/technology/facebook-disinformation-russia-iran.html

Prince Andrew took part in orgy with nine girls on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, alleged victim says
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-orgy-virginia-roberts-giuffre-channel-4-dispatches-a9164566.html

Tulsi Gabbard is being used by the Russians, and to a former U.S. double agent, the evidence is clear | Russia's success in attacking our democracy is not tied to their ability to recruit Gabbard (or anyone else) to parrot Russian talking points. Rather, their success comes with their ability to influence and manipulate, through amplification, certain messages and candidates that create division.
https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-being-used-russians-former-us-double-agent-evidence-clear-opinion-1466750

Trump’s Cabinet meetings have become about everything but the business of his Cabinet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-cabinet-meetings-have-become-about-everything-but-the-business-of-his-cabinet/2019/10/21/5f6e528c-f428-11e9-829d-87b12c2f85dd_story.html

Yang pledges to support the Dem nominee even if it's not him, rules out 3rd-party or independent run. "I would never do anything that would increase the chance of Donald Trump becoming president [again]. The goal is to beat that man, get him out of the White House!" #postlive
https://twitter.com/amybwang/status/1186390754706546688

Trump has for months been making versions of this claim about Obama being spurned by Kim Jong Un. Every version is baseless. From July: Obama never 'begged' for a meeting with Kim Jong Un
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/01/politics/fact-check-obama-never-begged-to-meet-with-kim-jong-un/index.html

Trump this afternoon: “We never gave a commitment to the Kurds.”
Pompeo one year ago: “Syrian Kurds have been great partners. We’re now driving to make sure they have a seat at the table.” Video
House Democrats zero in on 'abuse of power' in Trump impeachment inquiry
Pelosi is said to favor one sweeping charge related to Ukraine, but there's some debate about the need for additional charges.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/house-democrats-zero-abuse-power-trump-impeachment-inquiry-n1069431

The House voted along party lines to table (kill) the GOP resolution to condemn and censure House Intel Chair Schiff. The resolution was killed by a vote of 218 - 185. Independent Rep Justin Amash voted with Democrats
https://twitter.com/AlexNBCNews/status/1186417245259534344

For interested Americans I’ve found two ways to watch coverage of tonight’s Canadian election results: CSPAN-2 will be airing CBC coverage starting at 9 pm eastern and Global News is live-streaming their coverage starting at 7
https://twitter.com/dwbeard/status/1186412561664790534

YEP. https://twitter.com/KaraCalavera/status/1186437299212640257

(1) Hillary Clinton never called Tulsi Gabbard a "foreign asset".

(2) Bernie Sanders is a legit foreign asset according to the Mueller Report.

(3) You need not know you are a foreign asset to be a foreign asset. (Although some of you do know.)

and (4) being a vet doesn't inoculate you against being or becoming an asset (and, in fact, it might make you more the target).
https://twitter.com/solovyei/status/1186439187723014144

Hillary Clinton served the country overseas, she visited war-torn countries and third-world shitholes as First Lady (remember the 80+ country trip you fucking idiots?) and she stayed in Iraq and Afghanistan during the height of those wars. She fought the Clinton Administration and Republicans to investigate the Persian Gulf War syndrome, and the 9/11 First Responder bill is HERS, she fought Giuliani to get it passed in New York then fought Bush II and Republicans to get it passed in the US Senate. She has a lengthy record spanning decades of successfully fighting for veterans issues. Gabbard is a paid Russian asset.

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