Outburst? If you don't like me using charts, I'll have to use words.
- Denying climate change instead of adapting to it or, heaven forbid, preparing for the consequences.
- Dismantling of the EPA, and thus creating health risks for American citizens.
- Destroying the current and future markets for, e.g. Soybean, producers. Brasil thanks you for developing a new market for them, China.
- Europe pulled out of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) due to an untrustworthy partner, i.e. the USA.
- Creating distrust between intelligence partners, e.g. Europe has become more careful about what to share, since it may well end up being shared with the wrong countries, which is a risk for assets.
- Trust issues between NATO partners due to the president's underestimation of Putin's gameplan.
And more things that are not the main topic of this thread, e.g. healthcare.
On topic, what is your opinion on:
5 potential offenses in the phone-transcript
1. The president 'threatening' to misuse congressionally appropriated (military) funds,
2. extortion from a foreign head of state, of
3. a foreign intervention into the US political and electoral process,
4. through the mechanism of the gross violation of the civil liberties of 2 US citizens,
5. extorting the dishing of dirt on a political opponent
Attempted hiding of information to frustrate the work of house members (to ensure that the Constitution is respected).
Threatening the life of whistleblowers, by labeling them as spies (that can face the death penalty), could be added.
Cheers,
Bart
Bart, I don’t really have time for this, but let’s look at some of your arguments. Then I’m outta here.
- Denying climate change instead of adapting to it or, heaven forbid, preparing for the consequences.
You’re begging the question. You start with the baked-in assumption that climate change is damaging and driven by human activity. That’s nothing more than your personal opinion, absorbed from the crap you’re seeing in your news media. Climate has been changing throughout geologic history. There are plenty of “climate experts” who disagree with the assumptions you’re swallowing.
- Dismantling of the EPA, and thus creating health risks for American citizens.
Begging the question again. You always seem to start with a baked-in assumption. If you’re going to accept that this creates health risks for people, you’re going to have to prove it with some actual data. The statistics I see don’t agree with that assumption at all. We’ve been all over this subject elsewhere. In the U.S., you can walk into any hospital’s emergency room and be taken care of. Taken care of right now, I might add.
- Destroying the current and future markets for, e.g. Soybean, producers. Brasil thanks you for developing a new market for them, China.
I happen to agree with you on this one. I don’t like Trump’s tariffs. I think he’s making a mistake. On the other hand, not all the evidence is in. I’ll wait to see what happens.
- Europe pulled out of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) due to an untrustworthy partner, i.e. the USA.
The TTIP negotiations were launched in 2013 and ended without conclusion at the end of 2016. Trump wasn’t president until 2017.
- Creating distrust between intelligence partners, e.g. Europe has become more careful about what to share, since it may well end up being shared with the wrong countries, which is a risk for assets.
Yes. I don’t like this either. I also recall one of the main reasons for that: Hillary was using an unsecure server in a bathroom for top secret, limited access material. Had I done that while I was in the Air Force I’d have spent the rest of my life in jail.
- Trust issues between NATO partners due to the president's underestimation of Putin's gameplan.
Are these the “partners” that won’t come up with enough money to support their agreements on defense forces? Germany comes to mind.
As far as the “phone transcript” is concerned, have you read it? The 5 “offenses” you list are all bullshit pushed by the raging, red-eyed, Trump-hating “media.” They’re not in the transcript. And, as far as your assessment of what the House is doing, you’re making me ROTFL. What the House is attempting is called a “coup.” The Democrats have been trying to find ways to do this from the day Trump took office. There have been several coup attempts, beginning with Stormy Daniels and culminating in the limp tool of Mueller. They want to impeach him because they hate him, and “Hillary should have won.” But I’m glad they’re doing this. Trump’s approval rating has jumped up since they started, and millions of dollars for his coming campaign are flowing in. The whole thing is going to blow up in their faces, just as the Mueller thing did. Keep watching.
Cheers, yourself.