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Boom, there it is. Donny don’t need this tainted money. He’s already obscenely wealthy, so why doesn’t he just walk away from it, and not even give the appearanceof being corrupt?

It’s a concept so simple that even Clownstick von Douthat — the Face That Launched A Thousand Dumbfuck Columns — gets it. 

But Donny doesn’t get it, and he launches into another incoherent explanation about why it’s totes cool for him rake in billions off of some dodgy fake-money factory he co-owns with his felonious failsons and also the United Arab Emirates.

Ross once again cuts him off. 

Douthat: “But companies that are invested in by people in foreign countries, it seems like you could just walk away from that and then, you know, and then you would not be accused of corruption, right?”

Bro, Ross Douthat is doing you a solid. He’s giving you an out. Just say ‘yes,’ and run with it.

But the concept of ‘how about you just don’t be corrupt?’ is so alien to Donny that he has no fucking clue what Douthat is talking about. 

But this money goes up to eleven! Why would anyone walk way from it? 

Seriously, Donny can’t imagine why everyone isn’t as corrupt is he is.

Douthat: “There’s a Forbes story that said that your net worth went up by $3 billion since you—”

Donny: “Well, so did everyone’s”

Douthat: “My net worth did not go up by $3 billion.”

Donny: “Well, you should’ve had stock.”

Douthat: “I should’ve had stock?”

Even Ross is taken aback by Donny’s tone-deaf defense of his own naked greed.

While We the People still struggle to pay for basic goods and services, Dear Leader is out here bragging about how much he’s enriched himself off of taxpayer dollars. Oh, and if your net worth didn’t go up as much as Donny’s did? Well then, it sucks to be you, bro. Maybe you should have done some insider stock trading, like he did. Show some initiative! 

**Can you imagine if this 60 Minutes interview had aired the Sunday before the midterms, and not after? How many additional seats would the Democrats have picked up? **Ten? Twelve? All of them?

January 3rd can’t come soon enough. We need a Democratic House and Senate to investigate Donny’s fuckery, and put a stop to as much of it as they can.

Of course, Preznit Fuckwit knows that accountability is coming for him, and he’s reacting the only way he knows. He’s a penny-ante little mobster, so he immediately starts barking out penny-ante little threats. ‘Nice Democratic majority you got here. Be a real shame if something were to happen to it.’

Of course, every seedy little mob boss needs a seedy little mob lawyer — and so Donny sent Muggsy Blanche over to CNN’s State of the Union, to do his best to intimidate the incoming Democratic Congress. 

One problem for the Toddster, though: SOTU host Dana Bash was not impressed by Todd’s wankery.

Dana Bash: “But I do want to ask you about another thing that that president said. He said that the Democratic lawmakers are extortionists, and they should be imprisoned. Is that a possibility?”

Todd Blanche: “[long pause] Well, it depends on what the— the— the crime is and what they’ve done.”

Free clue for Stammerin’ Todd: there is no crime — and he knows it.

Congressional oversight isn’t a crime — what it is, is lawmakers doing their Constitutionally-mandated job to root out corruption in the executive branch. It’s what the outgoing Republican Congress should have been doing all along. Todd knows that, too.

But Todd’s caught between a rock and an overfull diaper. The Boss wants him to go on the Sunday shows, goddammit, and scare the shit out of the Democrats — and so he has no choice but to show up on CNN and try his best to sound all threatening and stuff, and then sweat and stammer when Dana Bash asks the simple question: for what crime? It’s all a cheap dog-and-pony show, and Todd knows that, too.

January 3rd is coming. Accountability is coming.

Tick fucking tock.

Oh, and Happy Piss-Drunk Pete Gets Impeached Week to all who celebrate.

Hakeem Jeffries: “I am a hard yes on the Hegseth resolution. The so-called Secretary of Defense has abused his power, undermined our national security, and engineered this reckless and costly war of choice in Iran, which has skyrocketed prices on the American people and made the country less safe. Pete Hegseth has got to go.”

Look, no way am I on Team Jeffries. I do not want him to be Speaker of the House. But it’s nice to hear him be unequivocally on the right side of an issue, for a change.

Shortly after US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared during a Tuesday press conference that he was proud of the alleged war crimes he's committed, a Democratic lawmaker representing one of the largest military communities in the US came out in favor of his impeachment.

Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.), who represents a significant portion of San Diego, explained why she would vote to advance Rep. Thomas Massie's (R-Ky.) articles of impeachment against Hegseth in a Tuesday social media post.

In supporting Hegseth's removal from office, Jacobs cited "the illegal Iran war, illegal strikes in Yemen (where he mishandled classified information via Signal), and over 200 murders in boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific," where the US military has targeted suspected drug trafficking vessels.

"He’s dangerous and needs to go," said Jacobs.

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee released a report Tuesday detailing how the Department of Justice mishandled investigations into sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, failing to interview witnesses.

“The crimes committed by Epstein after 2005 could have been prevented and justice served had it not been for the repeated failures of law enforcement and federal prosecutors,” the 136-page report states.

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This is a repost. Messed the first post up 😔

Rep.-elect Don Leonard of Ohio said Tuesday that “senior members of the Democratic House” have threatened to make his life “a living hell” unless he backs, without conditions, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to be the next Speaker of the House.

Source: https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas/117593526035379642

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is set to vote Tuesday on whether to advance an effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has accused lawmakers of undermining American troops in war zones by targeting him over mere “policy disagreements.”

The procedural vote will either block the impeachment resolution or set up a final vote Wednesday. With Democratic leadership backing the effort brought by GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, the outcome will likely hinge on whether Republican lawmakers break ranks after their sweeping losses in the midterm elections.

Hegseth dug in for a congressional fight in his first news conference in months on Tuesday, portraying Massie as a rogue lawmaker and arguing that he had committed none of the high crimes required in the Constitution for his removal. He framed the effort as an indictment against the nation’s service members and their successes while undermining American forces “in real time.”

“This is not patriotism,” Hegseth said. “This is sabotage.”

Massie’s resolution includes eight counts of impeachment. It largely focuses on the war in Iran but also includes references to Hegseth’s role in carrying out military actions in Yemen and Venezuela.

Massie, a Kentucky Republican leaving Congress in January after losing his primary to a Trump-backed opponent, says Hegseth has “knowingly executed and implemented unlawful orders.”

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If you wonder what is the relation to Europe (apart from that Turkey is part of Europe): Europe is one of the fastest warming regions of the world, more than twice of the average rise in temperature, and all countries in the Mediterranean and in the South-East are already paying a high price.

A US soldier with alleged links to Russia has been arrested by British counter-terrorism police.

The man, 41, was arrested as part of an investigation by counter terrorism policing, working closely with US authorities, the US military and the FBI, counter terrorism policing London said.

US army counterintelligence command said the allegations related to a “senior soldier”.

The man was arrested near Gloucester on Tuesday on suspicion of offences under section one and section three of the National Security Act and remains in custody at a London police station.A US soldier with alleged links to Russia has been arrested by British counter-terrorism police.

The man, 41, was arrested as part of an investigation by counter terrorism policing, working closely with US authorities, the US military and the FBI, counter terrorism policing London said.

US army counterintelligence command said the allegations related to a “senior soldier”.

The man was arrested near Gloucester on Tuesday on suspicion of offences under section one and section three of the National Security Act and remains in custody at a London police station.

Bari Weiss’s 60 Minutes edited its latest interview with Donald Trump to make the octogenarian’s responses appear much more sane than they actually were.

During one exchange between Trump and host Ross Douthat on the topic of Ukraine, the staff at 60 Minutes decided to trim several sections of Trump’s response that included false claims or total fabrications.