Finally the Process to Impeach President Donald Trump begins

I agree with you on this.......who is behind the private cabal of the elites should be investigated in detail...this should be our work *Know thy enemy.*  As I agree with the above libertarian article to a large degree, not totally, the enemy is not Trump, just a puppet of the enemy, a distraction...and I do agree with Josh...Trump is a lyer, as was Obama ad nauseum
This is the kind of puppet they need, who can slither out of challenge to the control system.

Whatever happened to the legitimate left, challenging the elites in Seattle decades ago?

Grayzone Project: Pushback:  Ukrainegate Impeachment Saga Worsens US-Russia Cold War (and vid)

https://youtu.be/bpASSqz1hGc

"As the House opens impeachment hearings for President Trump, Professor Stephen F Cohen warns that the US military assistance at the heart of Ukrainegate escalates the US-Russia Cold War."

Roaming Charges: Ukraine in the Membrane (and vid)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/15/roaming-charges-ukraine-in-the-m...

"...It's laughable that the US interest in Ukraine was in preserving what Taylor called a 'Rules Based Order.' Our rules, our orders. As the hearing rolled on, hour after improbable hour, we were presented with the preposterous spectacle of both the Biden camp and the Trump camps claiming they have been victimized by...Ukraine! It would be great if these hearings could impeach Trump and pre-impeach Biden..."

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I'm betting big $$$ that this impeachment will never make it as far as the previous one.

Megh you could be right but I'n thinking the House will vote to send it to the Senate for trial and the Senate will not convict... just like Clinton.  some Republicans are starting to realize Trump is a sinking ship but I doubt that is enough to cross party lines to vote to convict.

Either way this is going to wreck the Republican party for a long time.  

Watching down ticket republicans lose might be worrying for them though.

Soon the Republicans will run out of time. They would be able to get a replacement but they are so damaged that this replacement might not be more electable than Trump. None care if he is guilty so these political questions are the only ones that matter.

What if Trump loses the election and refuses to leave office? 

Impeachment Hearings Highlights Conflict Over US Policy in Ukraine

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/20/impe-n20.html

"...The entire debate over the Trump-Zelensky phone call is a diversion from the central issue in the inquiry. What has moved impeachment to center-stage in US politics is the furious reaction within the military-industrial apparatus to Trump's actions in two key areas of foreign policy, Ukraine and Syria. Democrat after Democrat in the questioning of witnesses on Tuesday invoked the 2014 CIA-backed and fascist-led coup in Ukraine as an historic advance for American foreign policy that was being placed in danger by Russia and by Trump's alleged accaommodation with Moscow. All of  them proceeded from the script enunciated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has repeatedly declared with Tump, 'all roads lead to Putin.' In that sense, the impeachment of Trump over Ukraine is an extension of the anti-Russia campaign that was launched by the Democratic Party and the intelligence agencies..."

The Jimmy Dore Show

https://youtu.be/HsE3JMdxijg

"The moment the impeachment hearing unraveled..."

"First, notice something. They're going after Trump not on his major crimes but because he went after a leading Democrat. Does that remind you of anything? Yes. Watergate. They didn't go after Nixon on his major crimes. They were off the record. It was because he had attacked the Democratic party." -Noam Chomsky - The Intercept (2019)

Bye bye Donald. You'll look great in an orange jumpsuit. Your Presidency has 3 -12  months and you're done. Any of the Democratic candidates can beat you. You're toast. Good riddance.

BTW,I have said this before but it's worth saying again. Jimmy Dore is a moron. He's a failed comedian copying Dennis Miller's act.

black agenda report? Isn´t this Democrat support?

Schiff Hits The Fan: First House Democrat Publicly Opposes Impeachment

Tue, 11/26/2019 - 08:38

with public support for impeachment waning and the risk of a potentially disastrous Senate trial looming, House Democrats have suffered their first impeachment defection after Rep. Brenda Lawrence of Michigan said she no longer supports the effort......

The Democrats will be wiped out in the next elections!

Will there be a new replacement party?

^ zerohedge, of course, is the site where guys sit around in the comment section moaning about how "We are a generation of men raised by women!"

(And no, it's not out of bounds to trash that site for its comments section, because the webmaster himself is called TYLER DURDEN.)

"If Trump wins 2020, #1 cause will be the Democratic and media figures who wasted his 1st term on a hawkish, insane conspiracy theory and a hawkish, overblown impeachment. Why did they? Because actually challenging Trump would challenge their own power in the system that created him."

https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1199397281239355393

NDPP wrote:

"If Trump wins 2020, #1 cause will be the Democratic and media figures who wasted his 1st term on a hawkish, insane conspiracy theory and a hawkish, overblown impeachment. Why did they? Because actually challenging Trump would challenge their own power in the system that created him."

https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1199397281239355393

Nope.  One of the reasons Trump is the only president never to have averaged over 50% job approval is because Democrats have pursued his corruption, abuse of power, and general disdain for the rule of law.

Intervening in Domestic Affairs

There is, however, the major issue looming in the background of this impeachment frenzy: the intervention by elements of the intelligence community in the domestic political affairs of the United States. There is no question that the whistleblower’s complaint served as the genesis of the ongoing impeachment proceedings.

The American people should be deeply concerned that an inquiry which could result in the removal of a duly elected president from office was initiated in secrecy by a member of the intelligence community acting outside the four corners of his legal responsibilities. The legitimacy of the underlying issues being investigated by the House Intelligence Committee is not at issue here; the legitimacy of the process by which these proceedings were initiated is.

To find out what happened, the whistleblower should not only be identified, called before the House Intelligence Committee, and other relevant Congressional committees, and be compelled to answer for his actions.

Impeachment is a constitutional remedy afforded to the U.S. Congress to deal with the political issues surrounding the conduct of a sitting president. If this constitutional remedy can be triggered by the intelligence community in a manner which obviates laws prohibiting the intrusion of intelligence agencies into the domestic political affairs of the United States, and done so in a manner where the identities of the persons and organizations involved, along with their possible motives, are shielded from both American people and those whom they elect to represent them in Congress, then a precedent will have been set for future interventions of this nature which undermine the very foundation of American democracy.

The political weaponization of intelligence represents a significant threat to the viability of the American constitutional republic that cannot be ignored.

Scott Ritter

The Resistance Digs Their Hole Deeper

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-resistance-digs-their-hole-d...

'No, you don't understand. It was the Russians, I tell you, the Russians!' And so, with a holiday recess for Adam Schiff's impeachment soap opera, and news that DOJ Inspector General Horowitz will unload in early December, the media vassals of the Deep State are giving you their own turkey gristle to chew on. 'The Rusians did it! Yes, really, they did! Believe us!'

The CIA, the FBI, the State Department have all been players in the coup to overthrow Mr Trump and the news media played along the whole way. They doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on their dishonest narrative and now they are trapped in it. They are desperate to evade responsibility for all this. Many people want to believe the story that Russia hacked the 2016 elections to help Mr Trump defeat Hillary.

The story is not true. The perps are being finally being found out. They are willing to bring the country down rather than face the consequences."

Just so there's no confusion about which side I'm on,  I wish the perps every success in this endeavour.

The CIA, the FBI, the State Department have all been players in the coup to overthrow Mr Trump and the news media played along the whole way. They doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on their dishonest narrative and now they are trapped in it. They are desperate to evade responsibility for all this. Many people want to believe the story that Russia hacked the 2016 elections to help Mr Trump defeat Hillary.

Trumpkins and Putinites.  Any length or lie to keep their man in power.  

Ukrainegate, the New Cold War and the Politics of Impeachment

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/02/ukraine-the-new-cold-war-and-the...

"...From Hillary Clinton's decision in 2016 that Russia stole the election through impeachment, the Democrats' strategy has been to use reactionary nationalism to sideline dissent. As evidence, the central finding of the impeachment inquiry to date is that Ukraine is woefully undersupplied with the weapons needed to fight 'Russian aggression.' 'We' learned that despite Pentagon rumblings at the time, the Obama administration did its patriotic duty by selling 'non-lethal' military equipment to self-described fascists in Ukraine. Mr Trump's crime was that his ham-fisted shakedown effort stood between the Ukrainian and American 'freedom missiles'.

To be clear, Donald Trump has a lot to answer for. He appointed neocon warmonger John Bolton, meaning that he has his name on the US-backed coup in Bolivia, the attempted coup in Venezuela and the genocide in Yemen that he inherited from Barack Obama. But if these are a problem - and they are, so is the Obama/(Hillary) Clinton coup in Ukraine. If Mr Trump had outright stymied the delivery of US weapons to Ukraine, he would have made the world a better place.

The question that has not been answered is why it was politically, legally or morally justified for the US - the Obama administration, to 1) use NGOs and the CIA 2) to join with real and virulent Urainian Nazis to 3) oust the Democratically elected president of Ukraine 4) in order to install a puppet regime that answers to the national security state? Passionate assertions that Donald Trump is corrupt face the question back: what part of this entire operation isn't corrupt?"

Will This Week's Impeachment Hearings Bring Anything New? (and podcast)

https://sptnkne.ws/A94e

"On today's episode of Loud & Clear, John Kiriakou is joined by Daniel Lazare, a journalist and author. The House Judiciary Committee begins its own imperialist hearings. The Intelligence Committee will vote to release the Ukraine Report tomorrow. Meanwhile, President Trump said he will not participate in the Impeachment hearings after all, calling the entire process 'unfair'..."

Ukrainian Roulette: The 'Ukrainegate' Gamble

https://www.blackagendareport.com/ukrainian-roulette-ukrainegate-gamble

"...By allying with the intelligence community, national security state, and corporate media to engineer a soft coup against Donald Trump, liberal democrats have signaled allegiance to our nation's most antidemocratic and unaccountable forces. 'Ukrainegate' is not a progressive push for justice and equality under the law, but an expression of a divide amongst our ruling class between a neoconservative foreign policy wing (to which establishment Democrats and Republicans belong) and an 'America First' xenophobic isolationism represented by Donald Trump and his supporters in Washington. It is transparent that these proceedings are a grab for power by one elite political wing against the other, and nothing more; a last ditch effort to ensure Trump isn't reelected..."

And at least one chump here still believes Republican b.s.

[*Must Read*]

The Issue-Less Impeachment: The Corporate Democrats Stand For Nothing, So They Impeach For Nothing

https://www.blackagendareport.com/issue-less-impeachment-corporate-democ...

"The impeachment of Donald Trump has nothing to do with social justice at home and abroad, global environmental stability or the rule of law anywhere on the planet. Rather, the corporate Democrats have methodically narrowed the scope of the indictment to exclude all the actual crimes of this president against humanity, peace, the environment and the rule of law - for the obvious reason that both corporate parties and all modern US presidents are collectively and individually guilty.

In limiting the indictment to Trump's attempted political extortion of Ukraine - for the purposes of influencing a US election - a laughable charge, since the Kiev regime is the creature of the US (Democratic) engineered overthrow of the previous, elected Ukraine government - the Democrats are effectively exonerating themselves and their Republican bretheren of the full spectrum of lawlessness that is everyday politics in the belly of the racist, imperial beast. Trump will be put in the dock for a (relatively) minor offense as a kind of purgative of the whole corporate system's rotten innards. It is like indicting the mass-murdering, criminal war-waging South African apartheid regime for gerrymandering elections in which Blacks, by law, could never vote. The cited offense is meaningless and all the rest is forgiven..."

Continued here.