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posted by martyb on Friday November 01 2019, @02:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the Red-Queen-Race dept.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50246324

"The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution to formally proceed with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

The measure details how the inquiry will move into a more public phase. It was not a vote on whether the president should be removed from office.

This was the first test of support in the Democratic-controlled House for the impeachment process.

The White House condemned the vote, which passed along party lines.

Only two Democrats - representing districts that Mr Trump won handily in 2016 - voted against the resolution, along with all Republicans, for a total count of 232 in favour and 196 against."


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @04:13PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @04:13PM (#914639)

    How the fuck is this informative?

    "The US is collapsing..."

    That's information?

    That's OPINION, completely unfounded in any actual EVIDENCE.

    In the mean time, the economy's growing, to the point that the fed is actually starting to raise a little interest away from 0. Employment is massive (including especially for the terribly oppressed people with darker skin), and the systems of the democracy are so strong that partisans are sharpening knives for an unprovable sub-percentage point of hypothetical vote finagling (whether by suppression or cheating).

    The closest thing to collapse that we have is angry partisans huffing and puffing like Marvin the Martian and talking about obliterating the earth.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @04:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @04:25PM (#914644)

    In the mean time, the economy's growing, to the point that the fed is actually starting to raise a little interest away from 0.

    They were at that point in 2016 but now they've done multiple cuts this year, repo bailouts [newyorkfed.org] and don't call it QE4 while investments and exports are falling. None of this is Trumps fault but at least pay attention.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 01 2019, @04:34PM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 01 2019, @04:34PM (#914648) Journal

    Actually - I think the US may well be on the road to collapse. Consider all the money we borrow from China. Then, consider all the money we give away in various forms of bribes - errrr, I meant "aid". So, we dig ourselves ever deeper into debt, for the purpose of bribing other foreign nations to do what we want them to do. Call it empire, or oligarchy, or whatever, this is a surefire method of bankruptcy. To quote a boss I once worked for, "We do a lot of stupid shit around here."

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @05:32PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @05:32PM (#914694)

      So what if China is buying our debt. They only get paper that says we'll try to pay them interest. They can't repossess the Capitol.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday November 02 2019, @03:22AM (1 child)

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday November 02 2019, @03:22AM (#914934) Journal

        So what if China is buying our debt. They only get paper that says we'll try to pay them interest.

        Until they get to the point they see US trade skirmishes are more damaging than a true economic war. At that moment, they trash the US credit rating by selling the debt for cents on the dollar and nobody buys US debt for some good years. You reckon US-as-you-know-it survives such a scenario?

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 02 2019, @03:51AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 02 2019, @03:51AM (#914940)

          The US can comfortably ignore the secondary market. If our general state remains strong, why would the Chinese hurt themselves by trying to fire-sale our bonds? If we are weak, we'll have a harder time selling new debt anyway.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @05:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @05:18PM (#914680)

    Heh, sensitive snowflakes gotta mod bomb to make themselves feel important.

    Sorry pal, even RUNAWAY is agreeing. Pay more attention to reality, turn of Fox "news". Facts matter.