Botany
Botany's JournalC. Pierce: There simply is no more loathsome creature walking the political landscape than the ...
... Majority Leader of the United States Senate.
There simply is no more loathsome creature walking the political landscape than the Majority Leader of the United States Senate. You have to go back to McCarthy or McCarran to find a Senate leader who did so much damage to democratic norms and principles than this yokel from Kentucky. Trump is bad enough, but he's just a jumped-up real-estate crook who's in over his head. McConnell is a career politician who knows full well what he's doing to democratic government and is doing it anyway because it gives him power, and it gives the rest of us a wingnut federal judiciary for the next 30 years. There is nothing that this president* can do that threatens McConnell's power as much as it threatens the survival of the republic, and that's where we are.
McConnell declared himself in opposition to Barack Obama right from the first day in office. There's even video. Most noxiously, in reference to our present moment, when Obama came to him and asked him to present a united front against the Russian ratfcking that was enabling El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago, McConnell turned him down, flat. Moreover, he told Obama that, if Obama went public, McConnell would use it as a political hammer on Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Obama should have done it anyway, god knows.) McConnell issued a watery denial of these charges, but there's no good goddamn reason to believe him.
He doesn't have the essential patriotism god gave a snail. He pledges allegiance to his donors, and they get what they want. He's selling out his country, and he's doing it in real-time and out in the open. This is worse than McCarthy or McCarran ever were. Mitch McConnell is the the thief of the nation's soul.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a25956710/mitch-mcconnell-op-ed-voting-bill-democrats/
A suggestion until the shut down is over everybody should change their sig line to #where'smitch
From A.O.C.'s mouth to God's ears. #where'smitch
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017528997#post9
BTW loves me some A.O.C.. 
There simply is no more loathsome creature walking the political landscape than the Majority Leader of the United States Senate. You have to go back to McCarthy or McCarran to find a Senate leader who did so much damage to democratic norms and principles than this yokel from Kentucky. Trump is bad enough, but he's just a jumped-up real-estate crook who's in over his head. McConnell is a career politician who knows full well what he's doing to democratic government and is doing it anyway because it gives him power, and it gives the rest of us a wingnut federal judiciary for the next 30 years. There is nothing that this president* can do that threatens McConnell's power as much as it threatens the survival of the republic, and that's where we are
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a25956710/mitch-mcconnell-op-ed-voting-bill-democrats/
China grants Ivanka Trump's defunct company five trademarks
Source: The Hill
White House adviser and first daughter Ivanka Trump's now defunct company has reportedly won preliminary approval for five trademarks in China.
The trademarks for child care centers, sunglasses and wedding dresses were approved Sunday, according to The Associated Press.
Another trademark covering brokerage, charitable fundraising and art valuation services was approved Jan. 6, the AP added.
Trump, whose company reportedly applied for the trademarks in 2016 and 2017, announced last July that she would shut down her company to focus on her work in Washington.
Her business dealings in China have drawn criticism because of her role in her father's administration.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/426271-china-grants-ivanka-trumps-defunct-company-five-trademarks
F*****g Grifters. Didn't Ivanka "shut down" her companies?
And "they" made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm.
And "they" spent 7 years and 77 million to investigate Bill & Hillary's money losing real estate deal that
was called "White Water."
And why do I think that Ms. Ivanka’s products will not be subject to heavy tariffs?
Russia/Putin were stringing Trump along about his Trump Tower Moscow project ...
.... it was never going to be built because:
The Russians used Trump properties all over the world ... NYC, Panama, Azerbiajian,* and other
places ....to get their ill gotten millions out of Russian and to launder that money and a Trump tower
Moscow would not have helped in those endeavors.
* https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal
BTW I might be wrong about this. Botany =
Nucking Futz. Building, after all, is what I do best, even when money is not readily available!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1086991976598245377How many times has Trump declared bankruptcy? And how many contractors,
suppliers, engineers, employees, and architects has skipped out on paying?
Thanx shit load Russia/McConnell/GOP?Fox News/electoral college for installing this
walking nightmare
DU help please ... I missed individual #1's speech
Did I miss anything?
Please sum up what was said in 3 sentences or less.
Outside of the Civil War the Trump/Russia assault on America is our greatest threat ever.
An active Russian asset is in the White House working right now to bring America
down from the inside in order to pay off some kind of debt to a hostile foreign power
and its dictator, Vlad Putin. Trump was installed by in large part by the actions of the
Russian cyber warfare operations called the GRU but they had to have had inside help
and boy did they get it because they had to know where, when, and how to micro
target their attacks on America's democracy*. You can see the Russian/Putin fingerprints
on Brexit, the Yellow Shirts in France, and Trump's actions as per NATO, Syria, Iran,
and our government shut down.
Steve Schmidt✔@SteveSchmidtSES
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The data to target US voters in a highly sophisticated disinformation campaign which was aimed into Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio. There is no way the Russians could utilize the voter file without fairly consistent contact and guidance from the campaign. It is starting
Steve Schmidt✔@SteveSchmidtSES
To smell to me that the investigators have Trumps’ campaign and possibly (probably) Trump dead to rights on a conspiracy with Russian intelligence to affect the outcome of a US selection. It’s not a poll that was delivered but the data models.
* https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2017/01/23/russians-suspected-hacking-local-dems/96965824/
He is nucking futz. / Another big Caravan heading our way. Very hard to stop without a Wall!
Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
Another big Caravan heading our way. Very hard to stop without a Wall!
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Our side has some new "good ones." Rep. Mikie Sherrill
On MSNBC right now and damn is she smart and well spoken.
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Lawyer Private Practice, U.S. Attorney, and now a Congress Critter.
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