holocaust bloopers posted:

Amazon AWS presents Bryce Canyon National Park

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Marie Yovanovitch, the ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, told House impeachment investigators last month that U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told her she should tweet out support or praise for President Donald Trump if she wanted to save her job, according to a transcript of her testimony made public Monday.

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According to the transcript, Yovanovitch she asked Sondland for advice on how to handle an onslaught of criticism from conservative media and Donald Trump Jr.

"He said, 'You know, you need to go big or go home. You need to, you know, tweet out there that you support the president, and that all these are lies and everything else,'" she told the committees. "It was advice that I did not see how I could implement in my role as an ambassador, and as a Foreign Service officer."

A Bad Poster posted:

Amazon drones flying over geysers and hot springs, malfunctioning and crashing into tourists.

MRC48B posted:

I was in Zion during the shutdown last year, some dudes were flying a drone around, wanted to push those assholes off the cliff.

Straight White Shark posted:

how could this brain genius have lost monies?

Hello Ketene posted:

Milo and POTUS posted:

I guess, in his instance, too many is >0

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/04/politics/pompeo-mckinley-contradiction/index.html

Pompeo's former aide just turbofucked him

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McKinley, who resigned amid the Ukraine controversy, raised concerns about former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch's removal, which was pushed by Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and has become a central part of the inquiry, according to a transcript of that testimony released Monday.
While Pompeo told ABC News last month that McKinley never raised the idea of issuing a statement of support for Yovonovitch, McKinley directly contradicted that statement while under oath, telling lawmakers he mentioned it on three separate occasions.

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McKinley testified that he chose to resign because of what he saw as the use of ambassadors "to advance domestic political objectives" and a failure of the State Department to offer support for those officials caught up in the impeachment inquiry.

"The timing of my resignation was the result of two overriding concerns: the failure in my view, of the State Department to offer support to Foreign Service employees caught up in the impeachment inquiry; and, second, by what appears to be the utilization of our ambassadors overseas to advance domestic political objectives," McKinley said. "To see the emerging information on the engagement of our missions to procure negative political information for domestic purposes, combined with the failure I saw in the building to provide support for our professional cadre in a particularly trying time, I think the combination was a pretty good reason to decide enough, that I had no longer a useful role to play."

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/markzbarabak/st...ingawful.com%2F

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According to a memo first published by the Washington Post, business services officials of the National Park Service in 2017 warned that four people nominated to serve on the panel had potential conflicts of interest.

Three of them were selected as members: Crandall, whose association includes some of the largest concessions management companies in the U.S.; Jeremy Jacobs Jr., co-chief executive of Delaware North Cos., Yosemite National Park’s former facilities operator, whose family has donated at least $167,700 to Trump’s campaigns and political committees; and Bruce Fears, president of Aramark, which holds a $2-billion contract to run hotels, eateries and campgrounds at Yosemite.

In 2017, Delaware North hired Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, the Denver-based law and lobbying firm where Interior Secretary David Bernhardt previously worked.

A few years ago, Delaware North became infamous for changing the name of a historic landmark in Yosemite, the Ahwahnee Hotel, to the Majestic Yosemite. The company made the change after losing out to Aramark in a bid to renew its concessions contract in Yosemite. Delaware North claimed it had intellectual property rights over the Ahwahnee name that could not be transferred to Aramark. Finally this year, the hotel’s name was restored after the U.S. government and Aramark paid the company $12 million to settle the legal battle.

Other committee members include Jim Rogers, former president of Kampgrounds of America, the largest privately owned campground system in the world, and Brad Franklin, government relations manager at Yamaha Motor Corp. USA, a producer of electric-powered bicycles.

Earlier this year, Bernhardt signed an order that allows electric bicycles to be used for the first time on federal trails in national wildlife refuges and national parks, a move he said will create “opportunities to explore areas of the great outdoors that were previously unreachable.”

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Each year, roughly 1 million Americans purchase senior passes, which allow people 62 and older to get free access to national parks and other federal recreation sites, and various discounts inside those public lands. In 2017, the Trump administration increased the cost of a lifetime senior pass from $10 to $80, and now it is mulling limitations to their uses.

Loden Taylor posted:

I'm not surprised. I got to meet McKinley in Afghanistan while he was the ambassador there. We were playing for the embassy's 4th of July celebration, and we were there while he and his staff hashed out some of the last minute details the day before the gig. He seemed like a great guy; he was very welcoming and friendly with us, and just from watching him work he was clearly a skilled professional who took his duties seriously.

Plus while we were playing "Cake By the Ocean," he and his wife came up and did our dumb dance moves with us, so dude's solid in my book.

Radical 90s Wizard posted:

Man, can Yellowstone just explode already

Riot Carol Danvers posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191409674656059392?s=19

What's ethics precious

Fallom posted:

What was Pompeo like at the CIA? Was he a capable director that turned into a self-serving sack of poo poo later on or did he try to run the place like his own little Trumpian fiefdom?

Fallom posted:

He was only there for a little over a year so I assume it was all spent making his assistant's life hell and collecting information for personal gain

KirbyKhan posted:

Current Event: I got my wedding video back y'all! Bombing the forums with this link like Turkey bombing the Kurds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSCJuWI_y8Q

Kesper North posted:

Poor cat. Some jerk probably got it at a shelter and dumped it as a prank. I hope it finds a good home.

hobbesmaster posted:

Considering it’s a stadium near NYC I assume it’s a mouse and rat buffet.

Crakkerjakk posted:

Engh, I'm pretty sure you've been able to kill Americans without consequence for a while if you're rich/powerful enough and the victims are less connected.

holocaust bloopers posted:

Shout out to MetLife having a feral cat colony and being cool about it.

holocaust bloopers posted:

Shout out to MetLife having a feral cat colony and being cool about it.

Chichevache posted:

Not even in the same state, bud.

holocaust bloopers posted:

Shout out to MetLife having a feral cat colony and being cool about it.

TCD posted:

It's like 5 miles.

I'd say that's "near".

BigDave posted:

Cats probably save MetLife a lot of money on exterminators.