Donald John Trump is no longer president: what does it mean for you?

Grim said:

0% chance at all in this election.

I just watched the DNC debate.

80% chance it's Biden.
20% chance it's Pocahontas Warren, if Biden goes full blown demented. He is so close to losing it. It's sad to watch, really.

Trump will eat poor Joe alive. Joe's been running for President since 1988. He has 0 chances vs a sharp shark like Trump.

The American people will use common sense and reelect Trump.

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Grim said:

Watch the confident lefties go after Candace Owens.

Candace proceeds to unload truth bombs on them and completely annihilates them.

Absolute savagery, Beautiful. This video will destroy the Dems' campaign:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cUQqPxw3hc
The black lady is educating white folks on racism. Next Level Triggering.


Watch Jim Jordan's reaction at the end.

Game over Dems. She just said out loud what most black people are thinking.

Trump 2020 is a sure thing now.





Also, in somewhat related news:

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Grim said:

Watch the confident lefties go after Candace Owens.

Candace proceeds to unload truth bombs on them and completely annihilates them.

Absolute savagery, Beautiful. This video will destroy the Dems' campaign:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cUQqPxw3hc
The black lady is educating white folks on racism. Next Level Triggering.


Watch Jim Jordan's reaction at the end.

Game over Dems. She just said out loud what most black people are thinking.

Trump 2020 is a sure thing now.





Also, in somewhat related news:

https://i.imgur.com/GLwplZK.png

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Trump says he deserves a Nobel Prize for 'many things' but says selection not fair
John Fritze and David Jackson USA TODAY
Published 1:58 PM EDT Sep 23, 2019
NEW YORK – President Donald Trump said Monday he believes he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for "many things" but carped that the award isn't handed out fairly.

"I think I'm going to get a Nobel Prize for a lot of things, if they gave it out fairly, which they don't," Trump told reporters during a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan at the United Nations.

Trump then argued that his predecessor, President Barack Obama, should not have received the award in 2009.

"They gave one to Obama," Trump said, claiming that the Democrat had "no idea" why he had received it. "That was the only thing I agreed with him on."

Trump has raised the prize before, including to criticize Obama. The issue arose during the early stages of Trump's talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un following reports that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had nominated Trump for the prize.

Trump at UN: Trump waves off Ukraine scandal, impeachment threat at UN

Asked last May whether he thought he deserved it Trump said "everyone thinks so" but that "I would never say it." In February he said that Obama received his shortly after taking office and added that, "with me, I probably will never get it."
Obama, like other recipients, did not know he was up for the prize: Nominations come from others.

In its 2009 citation, the Nobel committee said Obama was selected "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

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Nancy Pelosi to announce formal impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, source says
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will announce a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump Tuesday over the president's efforts to get Ukraine to investigate his political rival, Joe Biden, according to a source familiar with the matter.

It would set up only the fourth such clash between Congress and the chief executive.

Speaking at the Atlantic's Ideas Summit on Tuesday, Pelosi denounced Trump's conduct and hinted that his actions could push her over the edge to impeachment.

"I've said to people, 'As soon as we have the facts, we're ready.' Now we have the facts. We're ready ... for later today," Pelosi said at the Atlantic's Ideas Summit.

Pelosi is expected to make an announcement at 5 p.m. following a meeting with her caucus.

Trump, who was attending the United Nations summit in New York, said an impeachment inquiry would cause Democrats to lose the election in 2020.

“They say it’s a positive for me,” he said.

Seven Democrats who served in the military or with intelligence agencies wrote a Washington Post op-ed arguing that if the "stunning" Ukraine allegations are true, they merit impeachment.

Other lawmakers – including Democrats representing majority-Republican districts – stepped forward individually.

Trump had called Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, July 25 to urge him to fight corruption. He has acknowledged bringing up Biden in the conversation.

At that time, there had been a delay by the Trump administration in millions in military aid for Ukraine. Democrats say the facts appear to suggest Trump may have used the congressionally approved aid as leverage to try to pressure Zelensky to investigate Biden and his son, Hunter, who served on the board of an energy company in Ukraine.

Separately, a whistleblower in the intelligence community filed a former complaint Aug. 12 about a national-security matter which appears to be at least in part about Ukraine.

The House Intelligence Committee scheduled a public hearing Thursday with the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, to ask why he prevented the intelligence community's inspector general from detailing the whistleblower complaint to Congress. Maguire has said the complaint didn't qualify for disclosure because it didn't involve allegations of conduct by a member of the intelligence community.

Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., tweeted Tuesday that the whistleblower's lawyer, Andrew Bakaj, offered to have his client meet with the panel and has requested guidance from Maguire. Schiff said the meeting could happen as soon as this week.

The top lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee – Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. – also asked Bakaj for their panel to have a confidential meeting Friday with the whistleblower.

Many House Democrats say Thursday could be a tipping point if there hadn't been one already, noting that if Congress was stonewalled on getting these documents it would force their hand on impeachment.

Trump has promised to release a full transcript of the phone call with the Ukraine president on Wednesday and insisted there was no attempt to link the military aid to investigating Biden and his son.

“There was no pressure put on them whatsoever. But there was pressure put on with respect to Joe Biden. What Joe Biden did for his son that's something they should be looking at,” Trump said.

At a news conference in Delaware, Biden called for the administration to “stop stonewalling” and urged Congress to fully investigate the president.

“I can take the personal attacks,” Biden said. “But if we allow a president to get away with shredding the U.S. Constitution, that will last forever.”

For months, as House Democrats have pursued wide-ranging investigations of the Trump, Pelosi has been reluctant to begin formal impeachment proceedings, saying she believe the best way to remove the president from office is for Democrats to win the White House in November 2020.

Pelosi is considering several options in response to the controversy, including forming a special committee and introducing a resolution denouncing Trump’s actions, according to a senior Democratic source. “This is a moment,” the source said, adding Pelosi could modify her long-held stance opposing impeachment.

Pelosi is facing a caucus that has increasingly grown supportive of impeachment. Well more than half of all House Democrats support impeachment in some manner.

The Ukraine allegations changed the political equation. Seven first-term Democrats who served in the military or in intelligence agencies – Reps. Gil Cisneros of California, Jason Crow of Colorado, Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, Elaine Luria of Virginia, Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia – wrote a Washington Post op-ed Monday called the Ukraine allegations stunning and said they must be investigated.

“The president of the United States may have used his position to pressure a foreign country into investigating a political opponent, and he sought to use U.S. taxpayer dollars as leverage to do it,” the seven lawmakers said. “If these allegations are true, we believe these actions represent an impeachable offense.”

Others stepped forward one by one. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-N.Y., tweeted Tuesday that the president’s first responsibility is to keep the country safe, “but it has become clear that our president has placed his personal interests above the national security of our nation. I believe articles of impeachment are warranted.”

Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., said in a statement she was “deeply alarmed” by the reports of Trump’s abuse of power. “President Trump may have used the power of his office to pressure a foreign head of state for his own political gain. If true, these actions represent an impeachable offense.”

A House majority of at least 218 votes would be needed to approve articles of impeachment. That means Pelosi would need all but 18 members of her caucus of 235 Democrats and independent Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, a former Republican who supports impeachment, to support the effort, if all 199 Republicans are opposed.

House Democrats are already conducting investigations of Trump to determine whether he obstructed justice in the Russia inquiry, violated campaign-finance laws for paying off a porn star before the election, fell under the influence of foreign governments or profits unconstitutionally from his namesake business while in office.

But Republicans have argued that Democrats are grasping at straws after special counsel Robert Mueller established no conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and Russians who sought repeatedly to influence the outcome. Even if the House votes to impeach Trump, the Republican-controlled Senate is unlikely to remove him from office. Trump himself vowed to fight all subpoenas from congressional investigators, under what he called partisan harassment of his administration.

"What I really see happening is that Democrats are winding up the outrage machine again," said Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the third highest-ranking Republican in the Senate.

More on Congress investigating President Donald Trump:

What's going on with Trump and Ukraine? And how does it involve Biden and a whistleblower complaint?

‘Was this hearing a hot mess? Sure.’ Democrats weighing Trump’s impeachment face roadblocks at every turn

Impeach Trump? House Democrats face delicate choice as lawmakers, but not public, push for action

'Beating the impeachment drum': Republicans dodge latest Trump-Ukraine controversy

Published 4:28 PM EDT Sep 24, 2019

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Grim said:

Ohhhh China lovers!

Concentration camps?

China footage reveals hundreds of blindfolded and shackled prisoners with their head shaved.


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Drone footage has emerged showing police leading hundreds of blindfolded and shackled men from a train in what is believed to be a transfer of inmates in Xinjiang.

The video, posted anonymously on YouTube last week, shows what appear to be Uighur or other minorities wearing blue and yellow uniforms, with cleanly shaven heads, their eyes covered, sitting in rows on the ground and later being led away by police. Prisoners in China are often transferred with handcuffs and masks covering their faces.

Nathan Ruser, a researcher with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s international cyber policy centre, used clues in the footage, including landmarks and the position of the sun, to verify the video, which he believes was shot at a train station west of Korla in south-east Xinjiang in August last year.

Much of the focus of international criticism of China’s far-reaching anti-terrorism campaign in Xinjiang has centred on the extrajudicial detentions of more than 1 million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in internment and political re-education camps.

The number of formal arrests and prison sentences has also increased. According to analysis by the New York Times, local courts sentenced 230,000 people to prison or other punishments in 2017 and 2018, as the campaign got under way. Xinjiang accounts for less than 2% of the country’s population but about 21% of all arrests in 2017.

Ruser said the detainees were most likely being transferred to prisons in Korla from Kashgar, where the crackdown has been particularly severe. The area is believed to be home to several re-education camps but fewer detention centres.

“It counters the propaganda offensive China is trying to show,” he said, underlining the treatment of those within the penal system.

China has been taking diplomats and select groups of journalists on carefully orchestrated tours of Xinjiang and has defended its anti-extremism methods, describing them as a model for other countries to follow.

On Sunday, Australia’s foreign minister, Marise Payne, described the video as “deeply disturbing”.

The video was posted on YouTube by an account named War on Fear, whose stated goal is to fight fear inspired by hi-tech surveillance.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-of-blindfolded-and-shackled-prisoners-uighur




Earlier this year. January 2019:



'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's war on Islam



The Luopu County No 1 Vocational Skills Training Centre is hard to miss. It emerges suddenly, a huge campus towering over hectares of farmland.

Outside the compound, surrounded by tall white concrete walls lined with barbed wire and surveillance cameras, a police car patrols while several guards carrying long batons stand watch. The centre, which straddles a highway, is bigger than most of the surrounding villages – about 170,000sq metres. A banner on one building says: “Safeguard ethnic unity.”

Half a dozen people stand on the roadside, staring at the buildings. No one is willing to say exactly what this prison-like facility is or why they are waiting on its perimeter.



“We don’t know,” says an older woman. Another woman has come to see her brother but declines to say more. A young girl with her two brothers announces they have come to see their father. Her mother quickly hushes her.

They are reluctant to talk because the building is not a formal prison or university, but an internment camp where Muslim minorities, mainly Uighurs, are sent against their will and without trial for months or even years.

Researchers and residents say southern Xinjiang, where the Luopu County No 1 Vocational Skills Training Centre is located, has borne the brunt of the government’s crackdown on Muslims because of its density of Uighurs and distance from major cities.

“We have a saying in Hotan: If you go into a concentration camp in Luopu, you never come out,” said Adil Awut*, from Hotan City, who is now living overseas.

In December, the United Nations asked for direct access to the camps after a panel said it had received “credible reports” that 1.1 million Uighurs, Kazakhs, Hui and other ethnic minorities had been detained.



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Beijing has aggressively defended its policies and sought to portray the camps as benign and Xinjiang, where outbursts of violence occurred in the 1990s and 2000s, as peaceful thanks to government efforts.

A starkly different reality emerges in Luopu, also known as Lop county, where Guardian interviews with current and former residents and analysis of public documents reveal new details about the government’s continuing campaign in one of the worst-affected areas of Xinjiang.

Local authorities are expanding detention camps, increasing surveillance and policing, and co-opting residents through intimidation, force and financial incentives.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...you-never-come-out-inside-chinas-war-on-islam

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PsychoBandito said:

That article reads nicely, but he does not deny he spoke about it, just that he has a right to talk about it. And he doesn't need to pressure him on the phone, he just withheld 400mil in military aid. The pressure was already there.

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