The Goat Pen

DooKSucks wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 9:34 am I also read that Elvis is still alive. I guess that must be true.

Crotch, Prof and eCat are part of what is wrong with this nation. It's sad.

eCat wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 9:10 am I am completely lost on the whole idea of a sitting president asking a country to investigate a political candidate for corruption being grounds for impeachment or grounds for anything really

I love that he asked China to do it. Hell I hope he asks Canada - and dares the house to impeach him. That's leadership.

JOE BIDEN, 23 JANUARY 2018: And that is I’m desperately concerned about the backsliding on the part of Kiev in terms of corruption. They made—I mean, I’ll give you one concrete example. I was—not I, but it just happened to be that was the assignment I got. I got all the good ones. And so I got Ukraine. And I remember going over, convincing our team, our leaders to—convincing that we should be providing for loan guarantees. And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev. And I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor. And they didn’t.

So they said they had—they were walking out to a press conference. I said, nah, I’m not going to—or, we’re not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. You’re not the president. The president said—I said, call him.

(Laughter.)

I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. (Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.

Well, there’s still—so they made some genuine substantial changes institutionally and with people. But one of the three institutions, there’s now some backsliding.

Also, the jobless rate for Hispanics also hit a new record low, while the level for African Americans maintained its lowest ever.

Professor Tiger wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 10:53 am More terrible, horrible news for Democrats and the media. Their tireless efforts to create a recession haven't worked, at least so far.

September unemployment rate falls to 3.5%, a 50-year low, as payrolls rise by 136,000

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/04/jobs-re ... -2019.html

Deep into that story was this:

Also, the jobless rate for Hispanics also hit a new record low, while the level for African Americans maintained its lowest ever.

Blacks have only talked about improving the economic condition of blacks and Hispanics for the last 60 years. Trump is actually doing it.

Tree wrote: The real problem is Democrats in charge of big cities continue to allow our fetllow Americans to live in shitty miserable conditions and then we have the gall to blame Republicans.