Pelosi officially announces impeachment inquiry

[Fortybox]

Completely unrelated. Layoffs tomorrow, I'm good, but I drank so much I'm sweating.

Kind of early in the business cycle to be laying people off. Your company must suck.

[Alfster]

Completely unrelated. Layoffs tomorrow, I'm good, but I drank so much I'm sweating.

Wish you the best. This last year and a half has been crazy at my work too. Survived 3 layoffs, secured a retention bonus, and took on the work of my boss and his boss...with no extra pay. Just happy to still be employed.

And I also got to be the lucky one to let 50+ people know they no longer had a job.

[Alfster]

What exactly is moving at a crazy pace? We already have the transcript which shows absolutely nothing and has already debunked what the first "whistleblower" supposedly said.

The full "whistleblower" complaint made its way to congress today. Nunes had no comment. Dems had plenty. Sasse came out and said Republicans ought not circle the wagons to support Trump. There's far more to this than a single phone call.

Ukraine also came out and stated bidens case was a prerequisite to any phone calls.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Trump economy is great! Layoffs are fake news!

It's not a real layoff, it's a new VP layoff. I.e. new org structure and dead weight moved out. Prob a good thing, long run. But still, being 48 it's not a great feeling seeing a bunch of academia hired into positions they don't know much about.

[Tgo01]

Sasse came out and said Republicans ought not circle the wagons to support Trump. There's far more to this than a single phone call.

Please. Sasse has been a Never Trumper almost since day 1.

Sasse also told Democrats to cool it with the impeachment talk and told the media to do their jobs correctly for once. Sasse basically told EVERYONE to relax and let Congress do its job, but I see the fake news you consume didn't bother mentioning any of that.

Speaking of fake news, Chris Cillizza, who calls himself a journalist at CNN, had this to say about the transcript:

The Ukraine call 'transcript' is pretty darn close to a smoking gun

Last I checked "pretty darn close to a smoking gun" means absolutely nothing.

[Tgo01]

Not looking good for Team Impeachment/Team Fake News.

The DOJ has already investigated the call in question and said Trump did not break any campaign finance laws.

They also cleared him of any wrongdoing by not sharing the "whistleblower's" complaint with Congress fast enough, saying it didn't meet the definition of urgent under the law.

There is also talk that the lawyer the whistleblower has hired has donated to the Biden campaign.

Looking more and more like yet another manufactured witch hunt, but this is even worse because the person in question doesn't even have first hand knowledge of what happened, rather they heard what happened from someone who heard Trump speak. Talk about a game of telephone. The whistleblower said there was a quid pro quo and Trump pressured the Ukrainian president 8 times to investigate Biden. Instead there was no quid pro quo and Trump brought up Biden once in the context of cracking down on corruption, the entire point that money was withhold from Ukraine in the first place AND the exact same reason the Obama administration threatened to withhold aid to the country.

But let's keep on regurgitating the same fake news over and over again because we hate Trump more than we like facts.

[Seran]

CNN (and probably other "news" sources) deceptively edited their coverage of the transcript by making it sound like the favor Trump asked was in regards to investigating Biden's son, when in fact the favor was Trump asking Ukraine to investigate 2016 election interference.

Now suddenly Democrats are against investigating the 2016 election interference if it's Trump asking for it.

Damn, that's what everyone's missed from the get go Trump's completely honest interest in finding out which nefarious organization hacked the DNC emails and set him up to win by coordinating release schedules with WikiLeaks. I personally forgot that three years after election that it's a very important to bring it up the need for an investigation.. for the first time ever.

[Tgo01]

Damn, that's what everyone's missed from the get go Trump's completely honest interest in finding out which nefarious organization hacked the DNC emails and set him up to win by coordinating release schedules with WikiLeaks. I personally forgot that three years after election that it's a very important to bring it up the need for an investigation.. for the first time ever.

"We need to impeach Trump for wanting to investigate the 2016 election interference!"

This is too stupid even for you, Seran. Leave that shit for Briarfox.

[Seran]

Oh please. It's been proven that the hack of the DNC emails came Russia, so too did the hacked controller for some of Ukrain's military hardware. That it was brought up once in passing, while Biden and the prosecutor who was ran out by the US, IMF and EU come up more than that shows clearly where Trump's favor was going.

[Tgo01]

That it was brought up once in passing, while Biden and the prosecutor who was ran out by the US, IMF and EU come up more than that shows clearly where Trump's favor was going.

"Once in passing." That was the FAVOR Trump asked for. The "in passing" was mentioning Biden's criminal actions in regards to cracking down on corruption in Ukraine.

You're the new general of the TDS army until time4fun comes back. Congrats, Seran! I knew you could do it!