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Cartoon: Guns In America

November 25, 2019, 10:31 am
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Cartoon: Fiona Hill Confronts GOP Conspiracism

November 25, 2019, 10:35 am
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Trump's Top Russia Expert, Fiona Hill, Blasts Republicans For Their Damnably Destructive Conspiracy Theories


Conspiracy Thinking, The Death Of Shared Identity And The Collapse Of Common Purpose


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Cartoon: The GOP Wants To Know....

November 25, 2019, 10:37 am
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Cartoon: Somebody Gets Killed On 5th Avenue. Who Dunnit?

November 25, 2019, 10:38 am
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Cartoon: Preaching To The Choir

November 25, 2019, 10:39 am
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Cartoon: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Arranges Quid Pro Quo

November 25, 2019, 10:40 am
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Bleeding

November 25, 2019, 7:52 pm
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"Thinking Is A Learned Skill. Most Trumpistas Don't Understand This. In Fact, They Can't."

November 25, 2019, 8:46 pm
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"Muhammad Ali Summarizes American History In 23 Words"

November 25, 2019, 9:02 pm
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Full Text Of Secretary Of The Navy Richard Spencer's Final Scathing Letter To Trump

November 25, 2019, 9:22 pm
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Here is the full text of Secretary Of The Navy Richard Spencer's final scathing letter to Trump: 
Dear Mr. President:
It has been the extreme honor of a lifetime to stand alongside the men and women of the Navy and Marine Corps team in the protection of the American people and the values we all hold dear.
Together we have made great strides over the past two years, strengthening the foundation of our readiness, and bolstering our constellation of allies and partners, to respond wherever needed with the honor and professionalism that have marked our force for the past 244 years.
Now more than ever, the United States Navy and Marine Corps stands ready and firm in every part of the globe, fueled at all times by our greatest resource – the men and women who wear the uniform. Many of them will soon miss their Thanksgiving dinners at home so that they can continue the watch beyond the curve of the horizon. They and their families are, and will forever be, my personal heroes.
As Secretary of the Navy, one of the most important responsibilities I have to our people is to maintain good order and discipline throughout the ranks. I regard this as deadly serious business. The lives of our Sailors, Marines and civilian teammates quite literally depend on the professional execution of our many missions, and they also depend on the ongoing faith and support of the people we serve and the allies we serve alongside.
The rule of law is what sets us apart from our adversaries. Good order and discipline is what has enabled our victory against foreign tyranny time and again, from Captain Lawrence's famous order "Don't Give up the Ship," to the discipline and determination that propelled our flag to the highest point of Iwo Jima. The Constitution, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, are the shields that set us apart, and the beacons that protect us all. Through my Title Ten Authority, I have strived to ensure our proceedings are fair, transparent and consistent, from the newest recruit to the Flag and General Officer level.
Unfortunately, it has become apparent that in this respect, I no longer share the same understanding with the Commander in Chief who appointed me, in regards to the key principle of good order and discipline. I cannot in good conscience obey an order that I believe violates the sacred oath I took in the presence of my family, my flag and my faith to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
The President deserves and should expect a Secretary of the Navy who is aligned with his vision for the future of our force generation and sustainment. Therefore, with pride in the achievements we've shared, and everlasting faith in the continued service and fidelity of the finest Sailors, Marines and civilian teammates on earth, I hereby acknowledge my termination as United States Secretary of the Navy, to be effective immediately.
I will forever be grateful for every opportunity to have served, from my days as a Marine, to the extreme honor of serving as the 76th Secretary of the Navy. My wife Polly and I stand in appreciation and admiration of the patriots who today forge the next link in the unbroken chain of our Navy and Marine Corps, and we urge all Americans to keep them, and their families, in their hearts and prayers through this holiday season and beyond.
Thank you once again for the opportunity to serve.
Respectfully yours,
Richard V. Spencer


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"The U.S. Is Under Attack By Trump," Says Admiral William McRaven Who Lead Bin Laden Raid

In Stern Rebuke To Trump, Gen. Mattis Sees "Storm Clouds Gathering" And America "Withering"

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/in-stern-rebuke-gen-jim-mattis-sees.html

Jim Mattis Describes Trump As A Dolt Who Does Not Read And Has No Interest In Learning

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/09/jim-mattis-describes-trump-as-dolt-who.html

General James Mattis Fires Back At Trump. (Gen. Barry McCaffrey Seconds The Motion)

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/10/general-james-mad-dog-mattis-fires-back.html

Reprise: General James Mattis Would "Rather Swallow Acid" Than...

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/reprise-general-james-mattis-would.html

It Is Time For The Press And The Public To Clamor For Ex-Trump Officials To Spill ALL The Beans
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/it-is-time-for-press-and-public-to.html
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Retired 4-Star General McCaffrey: “President Trump Is A Serious Threat To US National Security”


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Trump "Violates All Recognized Democratic Norms" Federal Judge Says In Biting Speech

Trump Is A National Security Threat: What Should We Do About It?

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NYT's David Leonhardt: "A Needless Surrender" By Democrats

November 26, 2019, 7:00 am
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Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On The Impeachment Inquiry - And What Needs To Be Done

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on-house.html

Let's Have A Reality TV Impeachment For Our Reality TV President

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/lets-have-reality-tv-impeachment-for.html

Alan: In addition to David article about forcing hostile witnesses to testify, see Ross Douthat's "

How Trump Survives: 

The lesson of past impeachments might be that it takes disasters, not just scandals, to remove a president from office." Douthat's article
 is linked at the end of Leonhardt's commentary.

"A Needless Surrender"

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The Democrats have the law on their side, but they shouldn’t have waited so long to have this fight.
Yesterday, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration was legally obligated to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry. Impeachment is a constitutional process, and President Trump was trying to act like a king by not allowing administration officials to testify, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote.
But it’s not clear how much the ruling matters. The administration will appeal, and the case — which specifically involves Donald McGahn, the former White House counsel — likely won’t be resolved for weeks. If Democrats wait for the appeal process to finish, the country’s attention will have moved on from the revelations of the past two weeks.
This problem was not inevitable, though. House Democrats could have gone to court months before they did to fight the Trump administration’s intransigence. Trump has long refused to cooperate with congressional oversight, including after the release of the Mueller report this spring.
Instead, congressional Democrats waited to confront the administration — part of their larger failure to develop a clear strategy on the Russia scandal this summer.
As CNN’s Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor, wrote yesterday: “It took [House Democrats] nearly four months after release of the Mueller Report to go to court on the McGahn issue. Imagine if they had gone to court after, say, only one month. We’d likely be done with appeals, or nearly so, by now.”
Likewise, Harry Litman, formerly the top federal prosecutor in western Pennsylvania, recently wrote in The Washington Post that Democrats “took so long to get off the dime.”
Had they acted more quickly, they might have found out more about Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine or at least forced top administration officials to refuse — in a much-watched hearing — to answer questions.
I’m not suggesting that a more aggressive approach by Democrats would have transformed the impeachment process. Both congressional Republicans and Republican voters seem willing to stick by Trump regardless of the facts.
But congressional Democrats should be cleareyed about what’s happening here: The president has little regard for the law. He is willing to break it if doing so benefits him.
Given that, Democrats should not be voluntarily surrendering any of their political or legal tools.

For more …

  • Judge Jackson: “Stated simply, the primary takeaway from the past 250 years of recorded American history is that Presidents are not kings.”
  • Litman: “[The administration’s] ‘absolute immunity’ claim is a kooky and newfangled concept essentially plucked out of thin air to keep McGahn, as well as former White House communications director Hope Hicks, from even showing up in Congress in the first place. But the administration’s submission is designed less to win in court,” than to “stall in the more important political arena.”
  • Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School: “Judge Jackson rightly and predictably rejected Trump’s extreme claim that McGahn is absolutely immune from having to testify in response to a House subpoena because nobody is above the law. The tough issues of executive privilege remain.”
  • Joyce White Vance, a former top federal prosecutor in Alabama: “The ruling on McGahn isn’t a final one. It can be appealed to at least the Court of Appeals in D.C. If McGahn loses & doesn’t want to testify, he can keep fighting.

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Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy Is The Most Recent GOP Addlepate To Be Duped By The Kremlin

November 26, 2019, 7:36 am
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Trump's Top Russia Expert, Fiona Hill, Blasts Republicans For Their Damnably Destructive Conspiracy Theories
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/fiona-hill-blasts-republicans-for-their.html

Louisiana Senator John Kennedy is the most recent addlepate to be duped by The Kremlin.



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Conservative Southern politicians used to claim civil rights protestors were doing the work of Communists in the Kremlin
Now they parrot fabricated Kremlin propaganda for political benefit days after Fiona Hill identified it as fabricated Kremlin propaganda w/crystalline clarity https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1198666401826967552 …

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WALLACE: Senator Kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for hacking the DNC & Clinton campaign? Russia or Ukraine?
KENNEDY: I don't know. Nor do you.
W: The entire intel community says it was Russia.
K: Right. But it could be Ukraine. Fiona Hill is entitled to her opinion

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"That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It," Rolling Stone Magazine

November 26, 2019, 8:11 am
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Netflix' New Documentary "The Great Hack" Reveals The Inner Workings Of "1984" In 2019

NPR: Tracking Down "Deep Fake Videos"


"This Video May Not Be Real... But You'll Swear It Is"

Whistleblower Chris Wylie Explains How Cambridge Analytica Helped Fuel U.S. "Insurgency"

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/10/mindfck-cambridge-analytica-and-plot-to.html 

"I Grew Up In Rural, Small-Town America - And I Can Tell You The Real Reason Why People Love Donald Trump," Britain's "The Independent"

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/i-grew-up-in-rural-small-town-america.html
"Thinking Is A Learned Skill. Most Trumpistas Don't Understand This. In Fact, They Can't."
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/thinking-is-learned-skill-most.html

Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy Is The Most Recent GOP Addlepate To Be Duped By The Kremlin
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/louisiana-sen-john-kennedy-is-most.html

Alan Archibald
"Thinking Is A Learned Skill. Trumpistas Don't Understand This. In Fact, They Can't"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/…/thinking-is-learned-…

Netflix' New Documentary "The Great Hack" Reveals The Inner Workings Of "1984" In 2019
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/…/netflix-newly-releas…
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That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It
Here’s what Russia’s 2020 disinformation operations look like, according to two experts on social media and propaganda.



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How Truth Is Determined In Rural America

November 26, 2019, 9:06 am
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The United States Of America: "We're #1!"

Tyranny's Best-Kept Secret: It's All About Epistemology
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/12/tyrannys-best-kept-secret-its-all-about.html

"I Grew Up In Rural, Small-Town America - And I Can Tell You The Real Reason Why People Love Donald Trump," Britain's "The Independent"

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/i-grew-up-in-rural-small-town-america.html

"That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It,"Rolling Stone Magazine


"Thinking Is A Learned Skill. Most Trumpistas Don't Understand This. In Fact, They Can't."
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/thinking-is-learned-skill-most.html

"The Reign of Morons Is Here," Charles P. Pierce, The Atlantic

"A Southerner Explains Tea Party Radicalism: The Civil War Is Not Over"

Bank On It. The South Is Always Wrong
Fuck The South

I Call "Bullshit" On Trump's "Spiritual Advisor" And New White House Employee

Conspiracy Thinking, The Death Of Shared Identity And The Collapse Of Common Purpose




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Underperforming Middle Schoolers

November 26, 2019, 9:23 am
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"In Rural America Truth Is Determined By Which Teach Cheers Loudest"
Imagine. An Epistomology That Insures Wrongness
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-united-states-of-america-were-1.html

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"You Have NO Choice," A New Frame For George Carlin's Classic Shtick "The American Dream"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/06/you-have-no-choice-new-frame-for-george.html

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George Carlin On The Ku Klux Klan. 
Ouch!
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/george-carlin-on-ku-klux-klan-ouch.html

Think About How Stupid The Average Person Is...
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/george-carlin-think-about-how-stupid.html




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Cartoon: War Criminal

November 26, 2019, 9:37 am
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Cartoon: The Stable Genius (With The World's "Best Brain" And "Best People")

November 26, 2019, 9:39 am
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Cartoon: No Putin Malfeasance Here

November 26, 2019, 9:40 am
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Cartoon: More Members Of Congress Decide To Spend More Time With There...

November 26, 2019, 9:43 am
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Even His Hand Is Cool

November 26, 2019, 10:55 am
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