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1.16.20

Good morning. There are 292 days until the presidential election. Lev drops so many bombs on Trumpland, Ukraine does what our scumbags should be doing and the president is getting a summons today.

Note: Hmmm, there are a lot of different ways we could go with today’s rant. Instead, we’ll just say something nice about someone. Sen. Kamala Harris has a great idea, and if we had a working press corps instead of a gaggle of kiss-asses and ambition junkies or if it had come from McConnell, you would have heard about it.

Harris is arguing that judicial nominees should be halted while we wait to find out if the Senate will convict Trump. We freaking love this idea because obviously a criminal shouldn’t be picking judges. We actually thought this would have been a good offensive back in the Michael Cohen days when Trump became Individual One, but better late than never. Thank you, Kamala.

And no, we have not and will not forget about the Democratic senators who have voted to help Trump reshape the judiciary with a bunch of unqualified white guys. It’s why we’ve never seriously considered a couple of them who are running for president. We need to see some aggressive shit from our people in the upper chamber. If they want to be cowards, they can switch parties.

Note two: Some breaking news as we were putting TBS to bed. GAO has released a report saying the withholding of aid to Ukraine was illegal. So for all the Republicans who were clinging to the ridiculous defense that there was no crime, well, you’re fucked. More: Washington Post

Lev-erage

Well that definitely qualifies as a holy shit night. Indicted Giuliani buddy Lev Parnas took to Rachel Maddow’s show last night to take a giant deuce all over Trump and his cronies. Lev named everybody, throwing in Pence and Barr. He argued that it was ridiculous that Trump didn’t know him or what he was doing. The funniest part was Devin Nunes running to Fox to scream that he suddenly remembered meeting Lev.

Parnas’s interview was one bombshell after another, and the best the White House can come up with is to trot out the drunken press secretary to Fox News where she said you can’t trust someone who has been indicted. Lady, you just described Trump’s whole social circle.

Unfortunately for Americans, Susan Collins seems to think we don’t need to hear about this stuff. They are going to try to cover this up. Then we will end their careers. More: Associated Press, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, New York Times

Ukraine but we won’t

To the enormous shame of decent Americans everywhere, Ukraine is doing what our scumbag leaders won’t -- they’re investigating the threats against Amb. Yovanovitch. They’re also investigating the Russians’ hack of Burisma. So White House press corps, try earning your salaries and finding out why the hell Ukraine is doing this but we’re not. The nastier this has gotten, the fewer questions have been asked. Tragically, the press just isn’t up to this shit. More: NBC News

It’s time, Donnie

Yesterday, the House announced impeachment managers and transmitted the articles to the Senate. While Trump’s Fox morons were obsessed with the pens used to sign the resolution to transmit the articles, the rest of us were focused on the president of the United States being a criminal and a traitor.

Today, we will hear from the speaker, the House managers will do a ceremonial procession to the Senate at noon ET. Then, the articles will be read aloud. At 2, Roberts will be sworn in and he will then swear in all 100 senators. After that -- and this is our favorite part -- the Senate will send a summons to Trump. We’re so proud of the Democrats who made this happen. And we tolerate the Democrats who fought us every step of the way.

Today’s clips

Iran’s president said Thursday that there is “no limit” to the country’s enrichment of uranium following its decision to abandon its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal in response to the killing of its top general in a U.S. airstrike.
More: Associated Press

But for media outlets that view themselves as above taking sides, attempts to provide a sober, “balanced” look at presidential speeches often end up normalizing things that are decidedly not normal.
More: Vox

The State Department abruptly canceled two classified congressional briefings Wednesday that were supposed to focus on embassy security and the U.S. relationship with Iran, Capitol Hill aides said, infuriating lawmakers and staffers seeking answers on the fallout from President Donald Trump's decision to kill a senior Iranian general.
More: Politico

Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday that he won’t release women from confidentiality agreements they’ve signed relating to allegations of a hostile work environment at his company.
More: Associated Press

This media failure really could help Trump politically
More: Washington Post

The U.S. intelligence community is trying to persuade House and Senate lawmakers to drop the public portion of an annual briefing on the globe’s greatest security threats — a move compelled by last year’s session that provoked an angry outburst from President Donald Trump, multiple sources told POLITICO.
More: Politico

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back in the day...