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Here ya go: The Trump-era opinion that might stymie the Biden impeachment inquiry "A Trump-era opinion issued by the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel is being highlighted as a possible barrier for House Republicans in their impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden... "The Constitution vests the 'sole Power of Impeachment' in the House of Representatives ... For precisely that reason, the House itself must authorize an impeachment inquiry, as it has done in virtually every prior impeachment investigation in our Nation's history, including every one involving a President," Steve Engel, a top lawyer for the department, wrote in the opinion. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mccarthy-opened-biden-impeachment-inquiry-house-vote-matter/story?id=103149958

More deflection from you. You're the one who wrote this: " But, I get it, you are more hatred towards Trump, but that is clouding your reasoning and not necessarily gone of kilter yourself.? That is what is called making it personal. You make my alleged emotional state a reason to disqualify my arguments instead of addressing the argument itself. And that class of cheap shot is the last resort of someone who has no better argument to muster.

I pointed out that you claimed that the current 4.3% was an increase in the annual rate when actually it was a decline. Now, if you've got evidence that the 4.3% rate was actually an increase, by all means, share that with us. Are you seriously denying that inflation in the US has taken a sharp turn downwards and, in fact, that it leads all the other major fully developed economies and most of the rest of the smaller ones, in reducing inflation? You got evidence to support that? And are you blaming Biden for the worldwide inflation that followed the pandemic? It's his fault that most of the world experienced a sharp rise in inflation? A rational person would look for a common cause for that worldwide inflation. A blindly partisan one, not so much. A blindly partisan person would claim that the vicissitudes the US economy experienced due to Covid was not one President's but was the fault of his successor.

Another case of I-don't-like-Trump-but... Can you share with us what accomplishments of Trump changed the economic trends that he inherited? To make this easy for you to prove, I've posted these 2 graphs. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDP

Please. It's not like you don't have a record here. Your concerns the possible fraudulence of the 2020 elections. Your claim that Biden and Trump are equally dishonest. And now you're descending to a very low tactic by claiming that "my hatred towards Trump" is clouding my reasoning. Making it personal is the last resort of the resourceless. The bias that fuels your argument is blatantly apparent.

In his first 2 years he achieved major accomplishments despite having the narrowest of majorities in the Senate. That you think you can judge his "degradation" from video clips says a lot about you but nothing about him.

Given your clear adulation of Trump, it's no surprise that you regard his critics like this. Hero worshipping much?

Thank you for the fact-free rebuttal. You can't even acknowledge that you got an inflation claim wrong.

Actually, on an annual basis, core inflation declined from 4.7% to 4.3% "This pared-down measure — known as “core” CPI — fell to an annual rate of 4.3% in August from 4.7% in July." https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/13/heres-the-inflation-breakdown-for-august-2023-in-one-chart.html#:~:text=Inflation measures how quickly prices,2022%2C the highest since 1981. And while inflation did rise, over half of that comes from the rise in price of gasoline/petrol. And how does the US record on inflation compare to other economically developed nations? Still pretending that this is a US phenomenon that the Biden administration had some hand in causing? Still conveniently amnesiac about the effect of the Covid pandemic on the economy?

First off, you ************* , I have always strongly condemned Israel's treatments of the Palestinians and consider it an apartheid state. So try to keep some measure of control over your Pavlovian responses. As for the 9/11 dash line being pure theater, really? You don't think China has its eyes on controlling all the natural resources that are adjacent to those various islands? Please. You accuse me of being blind about Israel, which is false, while you offer overwhelming proof of your blindness towards China? You think Vietnam is cozying up to the USA because of mere Chinese theatrics.? That China's attempt to control the Paracels hasn't earned it the strong animus of the Vietnamese govt? Vietnam and U.S. Forge Deeper Ties as Worries Rise About China But as Beijing continues to encroach on waters claimed by Vietnam and as the United States looks for more partners to counter China in the Indo-Pacific, the former enemies have found common ground. Some experts believe Hanoi may take the unprecedented move of raising Washington’s designation up two notches, from the bottom tier of Vietnam’s bilateral ties hierarchy to the highest. “It is a very remarkable event because we all know that Vietnamese foreign policy is very cautious,” said Nguyen Khac Giang, a visiting fellow at the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore. https://archive.ph/xHBcJ You think that the Filipinos are happy about inviting the U.S. back? THE CHOICE THE PHILIPPINES DIDN’T WANT TO MAKE https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/06/philippines-united-states-military-china/674418/ Opinion: Facing China, Manila cozies up to US The Philippines aims to strengthen its security cooperation with the United States. This is not to antagonize China, Alexander Görlach writes, but it is borne out of a real need for self-defense. Speaking at the sham parliament, the president complained that his country had been encircled by the United States and that China's army would therefore need to grow into a wall of steel. His government is misrepresenting the truth, however, as it does so often; no one is interested in invading China. But the reverse may be true: All of the country's neighbors have a real fear that China could invade them. https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-china-in-mind-philippines-cozies-up-to-us/a-65015992 As for Xi learning from Russia's mistakes. What makes you think so? In fact, when an economy starts to head south, as Xi's reimposition of centralized control of the economy and the enlargement of the state sector of the economy progresses, resorting to war is a surefire way to mobilize support as the economic status of its citizenry declines.

Yes, actually China attacked India not so long ago in the Himalayas.. And it has also attacked ships of nations whose internationally recognized suzerainty (except for China and North Korea) over various islands in the South China Sea has not been recognized by China.

How does the UK compare to this?

Projecting much. Here's a link to the extremely right wing Heritage Foundation take on the issue and nowhere is wokeness mentioned: https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/bidens-pentagon-cant-recruit-new-soldiers-and-threatens-us-all#:~:text=Officials cite numerous reasons for,portend trouble for military readiness. I remember not too long ago having women serve in the military was considered to be woke, or whatever the equivalent word was then. Another problem not mentioned is bad pay: Veteran blames low pay on failed military recruitment https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/military/veteran-blames-low-pay-failed-military-recruitment/ When there's low unemployment in the civilian sector, which is the case now, recruitment suffers.

Whatever happened to your repeated promises to put me on ignore? This is so disappointing. At any rate, I wasn't replying to you but to evenkeel. Now, please, I beseech you, ignore me.

Trump lobbying key Republicans over attempt to impeach Joe Biden Republicans prominent in move to accelerate long-shot bid say they have been in close touch with twice-impeached ex-president https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/13/trump-impeachment-biden-republicans-lobbying

Thanks for the empty generalization.

This is your idea of evidence? It is to laugh.

Had you actually read the piece you would know why Hausfather chose those models. And the criterion wasn't the results.

Really? I guess it depends on what you mean by "war with the US". China has been continually aggressive against not just it's neighbors, but even Asian nations that it doesn't share borders with. If the US comes to their aid in the face of a Chinese attack, will China just retreat?

I concede you got me there. But your point about the wisdom of crowds is ridiculous. Based on what? Videoclips?

Can you please share with us the polls showing that people think Biden is suffering from dementia?

All you've done now is make an assertion that because some old people are senile, therefore Biden is senile. Oh I forgot, you do have the authoritative backing of the comedy writers for the Simpsons.

Because you're a disinterested neutral party.

Once again, the double standards of right wingers are confirmed. They're very quick to defend Trump from being held responsible for the economic consequences of the Covid pandemic. But when it comes to Biden, it's all his fault. In fact, the US is outpacing the rest of the most of the developed nations in its recovery from the massive inflation that afflicted most of the world. Anyone in command of an ounce of rationality would acknowledge that this inflation, being so widespread, cannot rationally be attributed to the actions of any administration. But the response to it can be. And it's clear that Biden's economic program has boosted the US out of descending into a recession. Remember all those predictions of an imminent deep recession facing America with high unemployment? Instead the US is enjoying historic low levels of unemployment. And inflation is falling faster in the US than in other major developed countries.

Really? The essence of science is a theory or model that predicts accurately. Models that were hypothesized before the advent of rapid global warmng, yet predicted it accurately, is not a remarkable achievement? Are you actually claiming that this is not strong confirmation of these models?