When I read that Trump suggested shooting migrants in the legs [WARNING: autoplay video possibly w/ sound], I thought "Ah, classic Trump, saving the best shit for when he REALLY needs to hijack the nation's attention", but then you can see in the article that he said this in March. Listen to this!!:

Officials who spoke to the Times also recalled that Trump often suggested fortifying the border wall with a water-filled trench stocked with snakes or alligators.

omfg. I'm going to laugh about this in a few years, I hope, but I can't now, because:

When advisers told Trump some of his suggestions were illegal, he reportedly became frustrated.

“You are making me look like an idiot!” Trump shouted, according to the Times, citing multiple officials in the room. “I ran on this. It’s my issue.”

Please, people, hurry! He might be planning to attempt complete militarization of his base in the coming weeks. One of his tweets from a couple of hours ago has now officially branded the impeachment inquiry as a "COUP".

Rudy Explains it All. If you watch for a solid minute, you arrive at the part (@2:10) where he says:

"This is information that was given to me. I didn't go looking for Joe Biden. The Ukrainians brought me specific evidence of Ukrainian collusion with Hillary Clinton, the DNC, George Soros, George Soros's company. They put it in my lap."

(emphasis is mine)

Yeah. I don't think he's lying about that last bit. The problem for Rudy is that I'm one person doing part-time research on his drivel, and I can clearly see that he's being played. The Inspector General of the State Department agrees with me, and it's hard to imagine that there wasn't already some sort of extensive US IC catalog of Giuliani's decay into an unwitting agent of foreign intel agencies. I can go googling right now, it's not hard to find year-old articles where actual journalists are like "uuuhhhhh...?":

Giuliani’s work abroad does not appear to break any laws or rules. But it also appears to be unprecedented. Said Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney and a law professor at the University of Michigan: “I don’t recall seeing anything like this before.”

He's also been talking with Manafort about a Ukraine strategy.

One last thing... no one's said it, but maybe we're all thinking it(?): The recent instability here in the States might be dwarfed by the fallout to Ukraine, and who stands to benefit the most from weakening both nations? This is a pattern. If Russia is indeed behind the Ukraine scandal, they need to be sanctioned into oblivion by the next POTUS. Whoever that is.

I'm going to spare this place another post, but the State department watchdog turned over a 'packet of propaganda' [WARNING: autoplay video possibly w/ sound]:

"These documents provide further evidence of a concerted, external effort to conduct a disinformation campaign against a career U.S ambassador, who has been the subject of baseless attacks, including by the president himself," he added.

It's unclear where the documents came from, though Democrats quickly made clear after the briefing that they suspected Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney, was involved.

Can you imagine if there were a dictator in, like, a large, central Asian country that was motivated and capable enough to run a propaganda campaign that would fool a bunch of GOP loyalists and even POTUS himself, with the endgame being the destabilization of our country?

The only member of Congress to attend the briefing, Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) called this an "irrelevant distraction", which I don't agree with. Obviously, the packet's origins will require clarifications from Pompeo. Under oath. It's also nice to get a copy of Rudy's TV interview props that he keeps waving around while he promises that it's gonna destroy the Dems, and whatd'ya know, it's garbage.