EL Ocho's comments re: Pelosi are accurate. Politics is, always was and always will be the dirtiest game on the planet. It should be renamed powertics as that is it's essence. Pelosi has been doing this all her life, she is indeed an Akido master of the game, may well be the savviest practitioner in D.C. She understands strategy layering, when to thrust, when to parry, when to use an opponent's strength against them. All pols have a problem this time around. Demographics. The later born millennials and early Gen Zs have disrupted a heretofore natural political stream of power. They have, via tech enabled echo chambers, MSM etc., grabbed chunks of power. Unearned power. They have served their useful idiocy. We will soon see where true power lies.
Another crime (below) and the NRA was just identified as a Russian asset in the 2016 election. So the Russians will be financing Trump’s impeachment defense through the NRA. This country is going straight to shit.
stupid watergate confirmed: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/politics/white-house-restricted-trump-calls-putin-saudi/index.html White House restricted access to Trump's calls with Putin and Saudi crown prince Washington (CNN)White House efforts to limit access to President Donald Trump's conversations with foreign leaders extended to phone calls with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, according to people familiar with the matter. Those calls -- both with leaders who maintain controversial relationships with Trump -- were among the presidential conversations that aides took remarkable steps to keep from becoming public. In the case of Trump's call with Prince Mohammed, officials who ordinarily would have been given access to a rough transcript of the conversation never saw one, according to one of the sources. Instead, a transcript was never circulated at all, which the source said was highly unusual, particularly after a high-profile conversation. The call - which the person said contained no especially sensitive national security secrets -- came as the White House was confronting the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which US intelligence assessments said came at the hand of the Saudi government. With Putin, access to the transcript of at least one of Trump's conversations was also tightly restricted, according to a former Trump administration official. It's not clear if aides took the additional step of placing the Saudi Arabia and Russia phone calls in the same highly secured electronic system that held a now-infamous phone call with Ukraine's president and which helped spark a whistleblower complaint made public this week, though officials confirmed calls aside from the Ukraine conversation were placed there. But the attempts to conceal information about Trump's discussions with Prince Mohammed and Putin further illustrate the extraordinary efforts taken by Trump's aides to strictly limit the number of people with access to his conversations with foreign leaders. Officials from the past two administrations said it was unusual to transfer a transcript that doesn't contain sensitive information into the code word computer system. "In my experience you would never move a transcript to the code word system if it does not have any code word terms. If the president is classifying and declassifying stuff he doesn't want to get out, that is an abuse of power and abuse of the system," said Sam Vinograd, a CNN national security analyst who served on President Barack Obama's National Security Council and at the Treasury Department under President George W. Bush.