[Big Steve-3]

Was the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry done by Congress? Yes or no?

Yes.

[Pants-of-dog]

Yes.

Was the inquiry part of the system we call “congressional oversight”?

Yes or no?

[Big Steve-3]

Was the inquiry part of the system we call “congressional oversight”?

Yes or no?

Yes.

[Pants-of-dog]

So we agree that the WH deliberately ordered its staff to not cooperate with the system required for checks and balances.

This seems to be what Nadler claimed.

[Big Steve-3]

So we agree that the WH deliberately ordered its staff to not cooperate with the system required for checks and balances.

Yes.

However, as has been previously stated by another member, the executive has privileges that are exempt from congressional oversight.

This would be one of those privileges.

Anything else?

[Pants-of-dog]

Yes.

However, as has been previously stated by another member, the executive has privileges that are exempt from congressional oversight.

This would be one of those privileges.

Anything else?

Which privilege is that, exactly?

[late]

This would be one of those privileges.

Not what the judge said in the Watergate case...

[Big Steve-3]

Which privilege is that, exactly?

Executive privilege.

Time to move on.

[Big Steve-3]

Not what the judge said in the Watergate case...

Perhaps you need to be reminded that this is not the Watergate case.

[Pants-of-dog]

Executive privilege.

Time to move on.

Can you be more specific?

[Big Steve-3]

Can you be more specific?

Yes, I can.

"Time to move on" means I'm discussing this topic and it's time to discuss something else, as this one has been exhausted.

You really needed further guidance on that?

[Pants-of-dog]

Yes, I can.

"Time to move on" means I'm discussing this topic and it's time to discuss something else, as this one has been exhausted.

You really needed further guidance on that?

I am asking you to be specific about which privilege it is that allows Trump to avoid congressional subpoenas.

Do you know? Yes or no?

[Pants-of-dog]

@Indy

If you do not answer the question, amy I assume that you are not clear on what executive privilege is and how it applies?

[Big Steve-3]

I am asking you to be specific about which privilege it is that allows Trump to avoid congressional subpoenas.

Do you know? Yes or no?

I'm done discussing that topic. It's boring, as are your never ending questions without even a poor attempt to make a point.

Now, do you require further clarification on what "Time to move on" means?

[Big Steve-3]

@Indy

If you do not answer the question, amy I assume that you are not clear on what executive privilege is and how it applies?

Sure. I don't care what you assume.

Why would I?

[Pants-of-dog]

I'm done discussing that topic. It's boring, as are your never ending questions without even a poor attempt to make a point.

Now, do you require further clarification on what "Time to move on" means?

If you have no argument nor any intelligent criticism of Nadler's comments feel free to leave the thread.

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Back on topic, executive privilege was never intended to allow the executive from ignoring oversight.

[Big Steve-3]

If you have no argument nor any intelligent criticism of Nadler's comments feel free to leave the thread.

I commented on Nadler's comments.

I also find it funny that you possess such an over-inflated ego and overblown sense of self importance that you believe it's your place to suggest that someone leave a thread.

Instead, I believe I'll ignore your "suggestion" and do as I please.

Back on topic, executive privilege was never intended to allow the executive from ignoring oversight.

Where is that written?

You know, the Frisnee Pie Company never intended their pie tins to become toys, but they did.

[late]

Perhaps you need to be reminded that this is not the Watergate case.

Perhaps you should stop faking it. You are really, really bad at it.

There are limits to Executive Privilege, even more so in an impeachment. It's settled law.

[Ter]

Iranian factory makes U.S. and Israeli flags to burn

KHOMEIN, Iran (Reuters) - Business is booming at Iran’s largest flag factory which makes U.S., British and Israeli flags for Iranian protesters to burn.

At the factory in the town of Khomein, southwest of the capital Tehran, young men and women print the flags by hand then hang them up to dry. The factory produces about 2,000 U.S. and Israeli flags a month in its busiest periods, and more than 1.5 million square feet of flags a year.

Tensions between the United States and Iran have reached the highest level in decades after top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad on Jan. 3, prompting Iran to retaliate with a missile attack against a U.S. base in Iraq days later.

In state-sponsored rallies and protests in Iran, demonstrators regularly burn the flags of Israel, U.S. and Britain.

Ghasem Ghanjani, who owns the Diba Parcham flag factory, said: “We have no problem with the American and British people. We have (a) problem with their governors. We have (a) problem with their presidents, with the wrong policy they have.”

“The people of America and Israel know that we have no problem with them. If people burn the flags of these countries at different rallies, it is only to show their protest.”

Rezaei, a quality control manager, who declined to give her first name, said, “compared to the cowardly actions of the United States, such as General Soleimani’s assassination, this (burning an American flag) is a minimal thing against them. This is the least that can be done.”

For hardliners, anti-American sentiment has always been central to Iran’s Islamic revolution, and Iran’s clerical rulers continue to denounce the United States as the Great Satan.

Last November, however, many Iranians took to the streets to protest against the country’s top authorities, chanting “our enemy is not the U.S., our enemy is here.”

During protests this month that erupted after Tehran belatedly admitted shooting down a passenger plane by mistake, young demonstrators in Tehran refused to step on the American flag painted on the street.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran ... =worldNews

An excellent business opportunity !
I wish I could buy shares in that company, or do they fall under the sanctions ?


Edit : this post has unfortunately ended up in the wrong thread. It was supposed to go in "Iran, regime change or war?" I am sorry, it was by mistake.

[Patrickov]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-flags/iranian-factory-makes-u-s-and-israeli-flags-to-burn-idUSKBN1ZT065?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

An excellent business opportunity !
I wish I could buy shares in that company, or do they fall under the sanctions ?

No one does this (make things just to burn) more sophisticated than the Chinese.