Kansas Crimson

Today In: ETTD! (Everything Trump Touches Dies).

(Watch this space, 'cause, you know, it's still early.)

Imagine that for over more than 3 decades, you and your wife have contributed more than half a million dollars to the republican party and republican candidates. But then, you see an opportunity to possibly get the ambassadorship you've always coveted, so you become a bundler and funnel $1,000,000 to Trump's inaugural committee through 4 different LLCs and your dream comes true. Except, despite all that and the damage to your reputation, Lindsey Graham not only throws you under the bus, but doesn't even know your name. smh:

Graham also has a quote about how the president’s foreign policies are “too incoherent” to constitute quid pro quo.

Now THAT is an argument.

lulz

If true, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy.



A professional referee says in a lawsuit filed Thursday that disgraced doctor Richard Strauss masturbated in front of him in a shower after a wrestling match at Ohio State University, and he reported the encounter directly to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who was then the assistant coach.

“Yeah, that’s Strauss,” Jordan and then-head coach Russ Hellickson replied, according to the lawsuit, when the referee, identified in court papers as John Doe 42, told them about the incident. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Ohio, implies that Jordan's response to the incident, which the referee said happened in 1994, was essentially a shrug.

John Doe 42 is the second person to say he told Jordan directly about either being approached or molested by Strauss, who was found by independent investigators to have sexually abused 177 male students over two decades.

...The lawsuit was filed by 43 survivors against Ohio State, claiming the university's “ingrained culture of institutional indifference” enabled Strauss to sexually abuse former students and athletes from a half-dozen other sports.

...An investigation commissioned by the university and conducted by the Perkins Coie law firm found that what Strauss was doing was an “open secret” and that the coaches and administrators at Ohio State knew for two decades that the doctor was abusing students but failed to stop him, according to a report released in May.

Where's the ETTD thread?

I don't think anyone could have predicted this:

House GOP looks to protect Trump by raising doubts about motives of his deputies

House Republicans’ latest plan to shield President Trump from impeachment is to focus on at least three deputies — U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, Trump’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, and possibly acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney — who they say could have acted on their own to influence Ukraine policy.

All three occupy a special place in the Ukraine narrative as the people in most direct contact with Trump. As Republicans argue that most of the testimony against Trump is based on faulty secondhand information, they are sowing doubts about whether Sondland, Giuliani and Mulvaney were actually representing the president or freelancing to pursue their own agendas. The GOP is effectively offering up the three to be fall guys.

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Didn’t someone already ask, “how long until Trump says he never knew Rudy?”

some high-integrity folks at the top of the gop

Bannon's like, I ain't goin' to jail for you or Trump, Roger!

Uh oh:

Gym Jordan.

I did not know this:

Feral wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2019 6:05 am Today In: ETTD! (Everything Trump Touches Dies).

Feral wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 1:30 pm

Sondland didn't exactly say that. Others - yeah.

Mjl wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 7:34 pm

Feral wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 1:30 pm

Sondland didn't exactly say that. Others - yeah.

^^^ Yeah, not "exactly".

If a whistleblower were to have caused an impeachment hearing on Obama, would Democrats be trying to out the whistleblower?

Mjl wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 6:06 pm If a whistleblower were to have caused an impeachment hearing on Obama, would Democrats be trying to out the whistleblower?

There are certain hypotheticals which are just basically absurd........would you be asking "What if Trump was a man of integrity"? Of course you wouldn't.

zsn wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 7:19 pm

Mjl wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 6:06 pm If a whistleblower were to have caused an impeachment hearing on Obama, would Democrats be trying to out the whistleblower?

There are certain hypotheticals which are just basically absurd........would you be asking "What if Trump was a man of integrity"? Of course you wouldn't.

Better hypothetical: if Trump were a Congressman who was conducting impeachment hearings and accidentally outed the whistleblower last week by forgetting to redact his name in a document he released, would it go in the Dumbfuck thread?

Hadn't heard that one.