paid the Russians to steal plans from Facebook for the Caucus app to sell through the NRA? It just doesn’t make any sense to me.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/03/us/elections/results-iowa-caucus-democrats.html

I’m sure it will change through the night. I saw another result that had him second.

Question to my fellow pedes...

If Bolton is allowed to testify, the house “prosecution” could ask him anything they want. For example, what are the codes to the nuclear football. Yea, I know he doesn’t know them but you get my point.

We know that the house is 100% anti-American and their TDS is greater than any attachment they have to the country. So it seems entirely plausible to me that questions could be asked of Bolton that would seriously endanger the country.

If that is true, then the president has no choice but to assert executive privilege which the courts would most likely uphold.

Many people want Bolton to testify so fully exonerate the president and I would like to see the president exonerated but it seems that, somehow, that needs to be done without Bolton testifying at the impeachment hearing.

It seems plausible to me that Bolton’s book was not cleared to be published. Listening to various pundits today, they kept asking “who cleared this at the white house”. There is also extremely unique “coincidences” with the Washington Post and Amazon relating to the timing of the book. I’m wondering if the transcript for the book was not cleared by the White House and the publisher, WaPo, and Amazon colluded on the timing that we could see Amazon’s CEO along with Bolton and several others on charges of Treason.

Am I fantasizing or is there any possibility of that?

Did anyone see any follow up on this? Was it really just a coincidental earthquake or did we take out one of their nuclear facilities or or or ???

Via the Chicago Tribune that Citizen Free Press pointed me to is an odd (to me) statement:

Trump’s decision to kill Soleimani was one that Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama had rejected, fearing it would lead to war

I don’t understand. We already were at war in Iraq and we already had huge dislike for Iran. So... what were they afraid of?

Actually, this is my current thought on why the Dems are so incompetent. Not that I think the Dems are competent, moral, or anything honorable BUT... you must admit that their Russian hoax, the Kavanaugh hoax, and now the Ukraine hoax have all been amazingly incompetently done.

Suppose... just suppose, that the deep state (Brennen, Clapper, Comey, etc) all have dirt on the Dems and the Reps and your cat and my dog. And, of course, the deep state doesn’t want to get sent to jail so they force the Dems to push for impeachment.

BUT... deep down, the Dems would like to see the deep state blackmailers do down and get that monkey off their back. So, while the Dems are being forced to try to impeach the president, they really are doing a pathetic job, dragging their feet, hoping and waiting for the deep state blackmailers to be sent to prison or at least indicted.

Yea... its a hair brian idea that just came to me but it started from a title from Judicial Watch. Something to the effect, if you take on the deep state, you get impeached. But... the deep state can’t impeach directly. They have to arm twist the house to do it for them. Thus spawned my theory.

I forgot to post this yesterday. While I was at an appointment yesterday, the usual squawk was going on. They had an news story that the bigger t.v. stations pulled away from the impeachment vote for other programming. This is much like the classic Heidi Game.

I interpreted that as no one ... not even Democrats are interested in the impeachment hoax.

According to "The Sill Report" and I've seen this other places as well, the house did not follow the proper procedure and they are still not following the proper procedure so the end result is (to my eyes) they did not really pass articles of impeachment.

Can anyone comment on this? For example 1) the full house did not vote beforehand to impeach the president 2) they did it in the wrong committee 3) they did not have proper authorization

This is why their "subpoenas" could not be enforced by the courts.

As I said, I've heard some of this before but it doesn't make much sense to me at this point as far as what is and is not "real" -- if there is such a thing at this point.

Now that the truth of Comey and the FBI is coming out and how they tried so hard to bring down a president, is anyone else beside me reflecting back on Mark Felt and his role in Watergate? How much of the information passed to Woodward and Bernstein was false? How much of it was done due to personal hatred because Felt had been passed over.

Felt eventually got convicted for “black bag jobs” — breaking into people’s homes without a warrant to spy. And somehow... claimed that that was ALSO because of Nixon. Huh???

I wish we had someone with balls after Nixon to thoroughly investigate the FBIs part.

Has the top brass at the FBI ever been worth a damn? They seem to have gotten the idea that they were above the law from the very beginning of their existance.

Does anyone have video of Pelosi saying something to the effect of leaving voting for Trump up to the voters is too dangerous.

All I have found so far is folks claiming that she said it.

1. A pinned thread for suggestions ... I thought there was one but I couldn’t find it via search.

2. A way to “save” posts so we can find them easily later.

Rand Paul is proposing allowing student loans be paid back via 401(k) contributions. This has several implications. It might be a decent compromise.

His op ed with a YT video and the HELPER act itself.

I'm hesitant to post links to news sites but Iran is having protests and riots. Do your favorite search to see it. One report (The Still Report on YT) says that over 500 people killed but the clip he shows says 200.

It would be nice if links including going to the comments would “nest” a new page inside the original and with a close button on the top right corner. Currently I am opening a new tab when I got to each link and then closing the tab but it is more cumbersome than it could be.