The Trump Presidency :::

Any tweet that uses the words "Nunes" and "intelligence" is bound to be confusing.

 

I read a great analysis about all this which i now can't find.

The house never was the came in town because GOP can block

The senate is the dangerous investigation and time horizons are long including for the FBI

So the real danger to Drumpf is ongoing political embarrassment from CI, FBI and Senate, which weakens him and especially in the run up to 2018

Loss of the senate in 2018 would be a huge blow as then the DNC can go full muppet on his arse and destroy him for 2020

Lots of moving parts but there is certainly a path where Drumpf becomes politically radioactive,

This is why I think he will simply cheat in 2018 - BIGLY

 

This is fascinating

My own particular experience in this was as recently as 3-4 years ago, there were significant movements within fossil to engage on climate change. Unfortunately what happened is the dinosaurs won and the strategy has been cynical. Disengagement with the public discourse (which they lost) and head in the sand in order to wring every last $$

So that is what you are seeing with Drumpf. His moves won't revive coal - they simply protect margins.

His regulations were paid for and got.

Analysis: Trump’s climate change shift is really about killing the international order https://t.co/g00Bp4Rdc7

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 29, 2017

“Climate change is a highly inconvenient truth for nationalism, as it is unsolvable at the national level and requires collective action between states and between different national and local communities. Populist nationalism therefore tends to reject the science of climate change however strong the evidence.”

That reality is reflected in populist platforms around the world. In France, for example, the far-right National Front traffics in climate change skepticism. They've rolled out a “patriotic” environmentalist platform that opposes international climate talks as a “communist project. “We don’t want a global agreement or global rule for the environment,”​

 

Nune's deflection was about the worst most guilty arsed thing I have ever seen

Let's not pretend this was 3D chess

Anyone competent would have allowed a lame duck investigation then made sure it all went nowhere

This was pure panic

 

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but how could it not work? GOP controls the house by too big a majority and were careful to involve Nunes in the transition

IMO its more an epic fail by guys who never had to sweep an investigation under the rug before

The way you do it is get super excited and make huge statements, then spend 6 or 7 years delving into stuff - then come out with a lame report

 

Sources are saying that he found his ass with both hands in the dark.

 

There are legit questions as to the extent of the associations of actors in The White House with Russia. FFS, there were 10 (?) Benghazi investigations even though the first 2 said it was sad and bad but not wrong. Why not be as thorough when the question is not incompetence, but collusion and...well, I don't want to go there.

Yes, because it was a change in policy and could have had (and did) influence on the election.

But by comparing those two in terms of "panic" is different. The issue was about the emails regarding Weiner, by and large, the announcement of a new step in the investigation, not the actual investigation. The issue with Nunes is the lack of an investigation.