Thread for obviously newsworthy stuff

[Berzerker]

The Astros are being accused of cheating, former pitcher Mike Fiers said they had a camera set up in the outfield focused on the catcher. People in the dugout watched the video and banged a garbage can to signal the hitter what pitch was coming. They did this while winning the 2017 World Series.

[Uncle Sparky]

Americans aren't stupid enough to vote for a vanity presidential candidate...

[giblets]

Bloomberg has nothing better to do but run for president for vanity

[Dinner]

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-50324894/california-giant-bear-trapped-in-bin-helped-by-police

They think a black bear is giant?

[Dinner]

Not only did Biden do a qpq to get the Ukrainian prosecutor fired but a few Democrat senators threatened to with hold aid if Ukraine wouldn't help investigate Trump.

You didn’t used to be a conspiracy theorist. That nonsense has all been thoroughly disproven.

[Dinner]

It is going to backfire badly on Dems. Trump is prema facie guilty, his guilt is obvious as is that this is definitely an impeachable act. That said not a single Republican Senator would ever put country over party so this is doomed to fail after which Trump will claim complete vindication, get a bump in the polls, and probably even win re-election.

[Broken_Erika]

California giant bear trapped in bin helped by police

The black bear known as T-Shirt by the local community in Kings Beach, northern California, needed some extra help to escape.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-50324894/california-giant-bear-trapped-in-bin-helped-by-police

[-Jrabbit]

Just cuz I know Kid's watchin', I thought I'd post a couple paragraphs from this article in The Guardian, basically disproving the Trump/Giuliani Ukraine theory with some obvious and public facts:

According to the conspiracy theories, Crowdstrike has a Ukrainian base, and its founder Dmitri Alperovitch is a Ukrainian who set up Putin in revenge for invading his homeland. But Alperovitch, in real life, is of Russian extraction and is a US citizen whose family came to America in the Soviet era. Crowdstrike is based not in Kiev, but California.

Every aspect of the Crowdstrike conspiracy tale has been disproved. But this has not stopped Trump from demanding that Zelensky looks into it, albeit in a somewhat incoherent manner, in the now infamous 25 July call to the Ukrainian president.

Full article: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...P45Rm7wp-0e7RI

[giblets]

The Trump bump couldn't save Bevin

[Berzerker]

Not only did Biden do a qpq to get the Ukrainian prosecutor fired but a few Democrat senators threatened to with hold aid if Ukraine wouldn't help investigate Trump.

[rah]

I'm more interested in more verification of quid pro quo. Trump will be getting even more desperate.

[Berzerker]

Amy Robach of ABC News was caught on video saying her network spiked a story about Jeffrey Epstein to protect powerful people. She also said Epstein was murdered and the reason was he blackmailed people who wanted him dead before he could talk.

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/05/77648...ideo-of-anchor

[pchang]

This will be refreshing. Usually "show trials" have predetermined a guilty verdict.

[-Jrabbit]

Plus, there's no way that Trump has actually read the book.
Also highly unlikely that Junior actually wrote it.

[rah]

And the tarring and feathering by Trump against him will begin.

From the Guardian

McConnell predicts Trump would be acquitted in impeachment trial

Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell appears to have bulldozed directly through protocol by forecasting, before the articles of impeachment have even been drafted in the House and Trump put on trial in the Senate, that the president will be acquitted.

Any hope that any republican in the senate will even be listening to anything involved with this should be laughed at