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.

YouTube had the top 10 songs for 10 years 1970 - 1979. They didn’t have the full song; just enough to know what it was.

Abba had a half dozen or more. Bee Gees and others had two or three each. But what was interesting was there was about 5 to 10 legendary songs ... they were never #1. Angie by the Stones, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, etc. They were usually #3 or so but never #1.

And then there was the one hit wonders who were consistently #1. The #1 hit for the year and you would never think of the song nor the person or group who did it ever... Just weird.

I equate this to the quickly changing mood of the public. One year they like The Hustle and then totally and completely forget about it. Meanwhile, real genius and talent gets recognized but only with a luke warm reception and often years or decades after the fact.

This is why you don’t want to elect the leader by popular vote but rather have the public’s impulsive moods filtered so that a more consistent, moderate, even handed system is the result.

I just got an email from Common Cause and they have 9 reasons to impeach the president. All of them are the tired old Democrat reasons -- even going as far back as the Russia hoax.

Wikidicka says that it was founded by a Republican... who worked in the LBJ office (I did't catch that the first time). Anyhow... I may have answered my own question. This isn't a Republican organization and its not bipartisan as it claims.

Anyhow, I climbed onto their web site (because a reply to the email came back with "we don't know how to read emails") and send them via their web form asking for ANY proof at all in their claims. I also said that I assume at this point, anyone not backing the President must have 1) been in Epstein's plane, 2) participated in the FISA corruption, or 3) are deeply embedded in illegal immigration in the form of human trafficking.

Stealing the line from Crowder: prove to me otherwise...

I"m really getting sick of this shit. This is at least the second email like this this week. Of course what they really want is a donation. I doubt if they even believe the shit they spew out.

Something just struck me. Warren and Sanders want to tax the “ultra wealthy” not to redistribute money but just because they don’t like the ultra wealthy. To me, that says that they are just immature jealous little children who just want to hurt people out of spite and feeling inferior.

But... isn’t what the Dems have been doing over the past three years exactly the same thing? So, they are being rather consistent. They lost and Trump is succeeding and that is really what they are upset about. It isn’t “politics”. Its just jealous envy in its raw naked form.

I was using Apollo to read Reddit. It was much nicer than clicking on the links.