Hell yeah! End of any democratic candidate presidency hopes in the upcoming election. Happy birthday indeed!
The readout is much worse than I figured it would be, which makes me wonder why Trump released it.
He may have believed that because it doesn't include an outright quid pro quo, although it does come close, that it would fall short of people's expectations. I think this was a miscalculation on his part.
He may have been counting on the media to repeat what he said about Biden stopping Ukraine from prosecuting Hunter, without adding that Hunter was never the target of prosecution to begin with. This is think will probably be how that ends up going.
Doesn't seem like that's going to be nearly as helpful to Trump as the first bit will be damaging to him, though.
Oh that is very interesting. Makes sense why Trump brought Mueller up right after Zelenzky mentioned the Javelins.A small item from the Trump-Ukraine call memo that will go under-reported:
It's notable that Zelensky specifically tells Trump that Ukraine is ready to buy more Javelin anti-tank missiles. In 2018, it was reported that the Ukrainian government specifically felt that it would not be permitted to buy exactly that model of missile from the Trump Administration if it provided too much assistance to the Mueller investigation.
That line demonstrates that Zelensky understands the stakes if he refuses Trump's request to work with Giuliani and Barr.
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That is incorrect a lot of them do. China has actually been doing a lot to clean up the air lately. In fact I was just visiting a girlfriend who was in Yantai for work who was helping them reduce trucks driving by shipping trucks on a big boat across the bay to reduce emissions in the area.
But China does still produce a **** ton of pollution and waste still. China has a far far far bigger impact on the world's pollution levels than the USA.
I think the vast majority of what any average American has to say about China, unless they've lived there for an extended period, can be discounted. This also applies to most foreign countries.
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I asked in another thread but didn't really get an answer.A very good explainer of the whole Joe Biden/Hunter Biden situation from the Kyiv post: the only good English language news source in Ukraine. It's less than five minutes long, and explains the role of all the relevant players (also, subscriptions are only $5/month and you'll learn a lot while supporting independent journalism in Europe's largest country).
For one thing, his support of Trump. For example, it appears that it's very possible that Pence delivered at least one of Trump's "investigate Biden's son or else" ultimatums to Ukraine.What the heck do never trumpers have with Pence? You can't even support him?
A very good explainer of the whole Joe Biden/Hunter Biden situation from the Kyiv post: the only good English language news source in Ukraine. It's less than five minutes long, and explains the role of all the relevant players (also, subscriptions are only $5/month and you'll learn a lot while supporting independent journalism in Europe's largest country).