Today's News (2019/12/12)

[solarbird]

There's a lot, but here's a few particularly... pointed articles, I suppose. Reading material, anyway.

Trump’s speech in Hershey revealed a presidency off the rails
It was one of his ugliest rallies yet — and put the stakes of 2020 in sharp relief.
https://www.vox.com/2019/12/11/21010774/trump-hershey-pennsylvania-rally

Internal Emails Reveal How Stephen Miller Leads an Extremist Network to Push Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda
This is what Miller’s white-nationalist policy agenda looks like — from inside the government
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/stephen-miller-immigration-trump-white-nationalist-emails-jon-feere-924364/

William Barr’s War on Reality, Truth, and the Law
Trump’s AG is brazenly assailing the IG report with lies.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/12/william-barrs-war-on-reality-truth-and-the-law/

Kamala Harris’ Next Act: Destroying Stephen Miller
Harris and more than a dozen Democrats wrote that Miller is “unfit to serve in any capacity at the White House” and called for his “immediate removal” over emails betraying his white nationalist viewpoints.
By Eric Lutz
December 9, 2019
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/12/kamala-harris-next-act-destroying-stephen-miller

Here, this is a reasonable summary of today's GOP defences against 45's impeachment, and their refutations.
I mean, really, this all comes down to the GOP going, "Sure, he did all that, but fuck you." But here are the arguments.
https://twitter.com/BarbMcQuade/status/1205353357180833792

The President Just Admitted in Court He Ran a Crooked Charity and We're All Just Gonna Shrug It Off?
Who among us has not spent $20,000 in other people's charity money on a six-foot portrait of ourselves?
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a30208282/trump-admit-crooked-charity-pay-2-million/