Welcome to the Good News Roundup. You don’t have to hate Donald Trump to work here, but statistically speaking you probably do.
Wow, what a week we had last week huh? The Cohen testimony, Trump stumbling at Hanoi, and then blowing up at CPAC.
Well Trump better get used to it, because it only gets worse for him from here.
Lets dive into the news and find out why.
The House Judiciary Committee plans to issue dozens of document requests on Monday to the White House and to President Donald Trump’s closest business associates as part of an obstruction of justice investigation, committee chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler said.
Nadler (D-N.Y.), appearing Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” said the Democratic-majority committee will "be issuing document requests to over 60 different people and individuals from the White House to the Department of Justice, Donald Trump, Jr., [Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer] Allen Weisselberg, to begin the investigations to present the case to the American people about obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power."
This is it people. This is why we fought so hard last year to make the Blue Wave a reality, and now is when the butt kicking begins in earnest. The Dems are already looking into Trumps papers, and there’s nothing Donny can do to stop them.
Sen. Rand Paul will vote to disapprove of President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration to secure billions for his border wall, clinching a bipartisan majority in opposition of the president’s move.
“I can’t vote to give the president the power to spend money that hasn’t been appropriated by Congress,” Paul (R-Ky.) said at an event in Kentucky on Saturday, according to the Bowling Green Daily News. “We may want more money for border security, but Congress didn’t authorize it. If we take away those checks and balances, it’s a dangerous thing.”
Paul becomes the fourth Republican senator to pledge to vote for the disapproval resolution when it comes up for a vote in the Senate this month, meaning the resolution will pass if Trump doesn’t withdraw the emergency. The House passed the resolution on Tuesday, with 13 Republicans siding with Democrats. Trump has vowed to veto the resolution, which would be the first of his presidency. Both the House and Senate lack the votes to override the veto.
So with Rand Paul we have four votes to override the National Emergency bullcrap, assuming paul and the other Republicans stick to their guns (ha!). Not that I have any faith in them, but it would be nice to be proven wrong here.
The off-script, expletive-dropping Donald Trump that we first met on the campaign trail in 2015 is back in front of cameras.
Trump took to the stage at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference this weekend for a long-winded and very quotable rant against the many perceived villains weighing down his presidency: namely the media, federal investigators and “socialist” challengers in the 2020 election. He started off the event by bear-hugging a staff with the American flag, setting the tone for the rest of his appearance — reportedly the longest speech of his presidency.
Yeah, Trump had a pretty bad week last week. To be honest my week wasn’t so good either: I’ve been diagnosed as Pre-Diabetic, so I got to make a few changes to my life. But that’s fine, I’ve been trying to lose weight for a while now, soon I will be doing just that.
But enough about me, Trump has been having a bad week (which he deserves), and he wrapped it up with a long rambling two hour speech, which his followers and some doomsayers are taking as Trumps second coming and the latest sign how we’re all doomed, as opposed to a frightened, angry man in the midst of a slow mental breakdown. I mean look at the link, he’s hugging a flag, the man is not right in the head.
Sadly the Political news this week is kind of thin, with most of it focused on Trumps rambling speech, but hey, check out some good science news:
Mice are already masters of lurking in the shadows, well out of sight of prying human eyes, but researchers in the U.S. and China just turned a few of them into serious superheroes. The mice, which are normally equipped with eyes capable only of seeing visible light, like us humans, have instead been given the ability to see near infrared light, effectively allowing them to see in the dark.
By injecting specially designed nanoparticles directly into the eyes of the mice, the animals exhibited the ability to see near infrared light. Even more remarkable, the vision augmentation doesn’t appear to have negatively affected the daylight vision of the mice.
So, we already got the dystopian part of Cyberpunk underway, about time they got around to the transhuman augmentation portion of it. This is pretty cool news. I can’t wait to be given infared vision like the mice.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares started the week on the front foot on signs the United States and China were close to striking a tariff deal to end their protracted trade war while the dollar eased as traders wagered Federal Reserve policy would remain accommodative.
Yeah, shows how starved for good news that this is all I can offer. What can I say some days are easier than others to get the good news. But yeah, US and China are close to ending the Trade war (presumably because Trump is too busy dry humping a flag pole to be bothered. Things should be fine as long as Ol “Art of the Heel” keeps his tiny tiny hands out of the pot.
That’s the Good news for this week. Have a good Monday.
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