Fourteen stitches, a black eye and a large bandage are no match for former President Jimmy Carter, who turned 95 last week. Just hours after suffering injuries from a fall in his home Sunday morning, Carter traveled to Nashville to kick off a week of volunteer work. Despite his injuries, the oldest living former US president and his wife Rosalynn Carter have been working on building the new porches of 21 Nashville homes this week as part of the 36th Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project with Habitat for Humanity.

Certainly not among our best presidents but Carter is, seemingly, one hell of a human being. He has more dignity in a single strand of hair than Trump's entire family put together.

“China has long pursued the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries,” foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told the South China Morning Post.

“We have no intention of intervening in the domestic affairs of the United States. Our position is consistent and clear.”

I guess they did not get the message that it was just all a big joke.

now intellectual property rights and technological espionage... not so much.

The WH said that they are done "playing nice with Democrats." I guess this has been the good cop portion of the term, so buckle up for full bore insane.

traderdave wrote:Fourteen stitches, a black eye and a large bandage are no match for former President Jimmy Carter, who turned 95 last week. Just hours after suffering injuries from a fall in his home Sunday morning, Carter traveled to Nashville to kick off a week of volunteer work. Despite his injuries, the oldest living former US president and his wife Rosalynn Carter have been working on building the new porches of 21 Nashville homes this week as part of the 36th Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project with Habitat for Humanity.

Certainly not among our best presidents but Carter is, seemingly, one hell of a human being. He has more dignity in a single strand of hair than Trump's entire family put together.

He's probably the best president post-presidency.

thephan wrote:The WH said that they are done "playing nice with Democrats." I guess this has been the good cop portion of the term, so buckle up for full bore insane.

Well it took the Supreme Court to get Nixon to cooperate. I understand that Trump has attempted to load the Court but I think, if push came to shove, that the rule of law would ultimately prevail.

Take a look at the recent press releases from Medicare. They read like fucking campaign ads! All this on the taxpayers' dime.

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom

Uncle Milty wrote:

traderdave wrote:Fourteen stitches, a black eye and a large bandage are no match for former President Jimmy Carter, who turned 95 last week. Just hours after suffering injuries from a fall in his home Sunday morning, Carter traveled to Nashville to kick off a week of volunteer work. Despite his injuries, the oldest living former US president and his wife Rosalynn Carter have been working on building the new porches of 21 Nashville homes this week as part of the 36th Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project with Habitat for Humanity.

Certainly not among our best presidents but Carter is, seemingly, one hell of a human being. He has more dignity in a single strand of hair than Trump's entire family put together.

He's probably the best president post-presidency.

William Taft and Grover Cleveland will probably disagree with you.

swishnicholson wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:What we are doing in Turkey/Syria, which seems out of nowhere, seems scary.

Not sure I understand the question as what we are doing is doing nothing.

swishnicholson wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:Not exactly.

WASHINGTON — In a major shift in United States military policy in Syria, the White House said on Sunday that President Trump had given his endorsement for a Turkish military operation that would sweep away American-backed Kurdish forces near the border in Syria.

I'd say that's pretty exactly. Our position is "you do you."

Withdrawing our troops from Syria is not pretty exactly “doing nothing.”

House subpoenad that doofus. October 16.

This letter from WH counsel to Pelosi will make a great SNL skit.

Wolfgang622 wrote:Stalin had people shot for less.

I'm listening...

momadance wrote:This letter from WH counsel to Pelosi will make a great SNL skit.

Donald Trump definitely wanted to be impeached. He welcomes a fight!

I am not sure I heard correctly, but did the WH position impeachment as unconstitutional? Also, something about Nixon inquiry was also?

I am not tracking this line of thought.

Wondering about the latest republican talking point about schiff not releasing the entire transcript of the volker texts. Is this really a thing? And why doesn’t schiff just release it to diffuse their argument?

Warszawa wrote:Wondering about the latest republican talking point about schiff not releasing the entire transcript of the volker texts. Is this really a thing? And why doesn’t schiff just release it to diffuse their argument?

Because it was an Intel Committee hearing and likely contains classified information. Volker is also texting with people with whom the State Department have forbade to testify and procure their end of the texts. You can't release them without corroboration. Volker's appearance was only a deposition. He'll be called to testify publicly eventually.

I think their argument (and a common argument amongst Republican knotheads) is that the impeachment inquiry is "unconstitutional" because Pelosi did not hold a full House vote to approve it.

traderdave wrote:I think their argument (and a common argument amongst Republican knotheads) is that the impeachment inquiry is "unconstitutional" because Pelosi did not hold a full House vote to approve it.

Right, which is a delay tactic because it's not required per The Constitution.

“It is the U.S. Secret Service, not the campaign, which coordinates with local law enforcement,” Michael Glassner, the campaign’s chief operating officer, wrote in a statement. “The campaign itself does not contract with local governments for police involvement. All billing inquiries should always go to the Secret Service.”

Report said the bills are over $840M. The US citizens are on the hook for this? TBF, I read elsewhere that other campaigns are as guilty, except they just jam the cities. However, there has never been a president that compaigned from day 2 of his them.

Hours from letting our allies the Kurds get literally annilhated by Turkey, Russia and ISIS.

Unbelievable.