ITS BEEN DAMN QUIET FROM THE TRUMP PEOPLE!
ITS BEEN DAMN QUIET FROM THE TRUMP PEOPLE!
Conundrum wrote:
ITS BEEN DAMN QUIET FROM THE TRUMP PEOPLE!
Because they now realize that Congressional Republicans are part of the DEEP STATE!!! Oh, the horrors, believe me.
Flagpole wrote:
It is a badass sweatshirt.
I agree, nice sweatshirt Flagbro, but why? Does it have to do with this thread? Did I miss some news?
Sadly while the world-wide respect for Trump and the United States plummets, the world-wide respect for Kim Jong un is actually starting to grow.
Trump is looking more and more like the crazy one instead of Kim Jong un. That is a very hard thing to do.
Interesting the discussion from a previous post was which event was the most damaging to Trump. There were so many to choose from.
So much winning!
Conundrum wrote:
Sadly while the world-wide respect for Trump and the United States plummets, the world-wide respect for Kim Jong un is actually starting to grow.
LOL, you guys are delusional
Hardloper wrote:
Flagpole wrote:
It is a badass sweatshirt.
I agree, nice sweatshirt Flagbro, but why? Does it have to do with this thread? Did I miss some news?
Sometimes there just needs to be some levity.
Hardloper wrote:
Flagpole wrote:
It is a badass sweatshirt.
I agree, nice sweatshirt Flagbro, but why? Does it have to do with this thread? Did I miss some news?
Uhhh . . . no.
No Real Man should EVER wear ANY article of clothing that has another man's picture (or jersey number) on it. Let's leave the middle school stuff in middle school, shall we?
Tyrone ReXXXing wrote:
Both ways wrote:
Good to see that the Dems have become such fiscal conservatives these days.
Perhaps, after Obama they saw the light.
lol, nice spin.
Dems aren't suddenly becoming "fiscal conservatives" nor "seeing the light after Obama" on deficits. No, they are pointing out the absurd level of hypocrisy by Repubs and you know it. And many of those quoted are right wingers aghast at the R's hypocrisy. Except they are not surprised, because they've seen it again and again: R's flip out about "WE WILL BECOME GREECE!! GREECE I TELLS YA!" when not in power, and block every spending bill as wasteful, and declare the debt the "BIGGEST THREAT TO OUR NATION!", and crucify D's for having the Debt rise during their tenure, but as soon as R's get a chance to call the shots, they blow the debt to the moon with unneeded tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, huge unnecessary military spending increases, and more spending increases to reward their donors (and yes, don't touch the social welfare/safety net they claim they will "Fix", because their base is actually full of old people and poor whites who rely on/want these things).
They've proven themselves to be the ultimate BS artists, with Trump the perfect leader/liar for them. The Tea Party is dead (now that the Black Guy with The Funny Name is gone).
You know this spot on, 100% true.
Too much incoherent drivel.
Are you for or against spending?
Well . . . Not Really wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
I agree, nice sweatshirt Flagbro, but why? Does it have to do with this thread? Did I miss some news?
Uhhh . . . no.
No Real Man should EVER wear ANY article of clothing that has another man's picture (or jersey number) on it. Let's leave the middle school stuff in middle school, shall we?
I'm with you on the jersey number thing, but a large picture of Kanye on a sweatshirt is funny AND badass.
Flagpole wrote:
Well . . . Not Really wrote:
Uhhh . . . no.
No Real Man should EVER wear ANY article of clothing that has another man's picture (or jersey number) on it. Let's leave the middle school stuff in middle school, shall we?
I'm with you on the jersey number thing, but a large picture of Kanye on a sweatshirt is funny AND badass.
Who?
Flagpole wrote:
Well . . . Not Really wrote:
Uhhh . . . no.
No Real Man should EVER wear ANY article of clothing that has another man's picture (or jersey number) on it. Let's leave the middle school stuff in middle school, shall we?
I'm with you on the jersey number thing, but a large picture of Kanye on a sweatshirt is funny AND badass.
Yes. He’s someone you’d want to be associated with. smh
Wordsmith wrote:
Tyrone ReXXXing wrote:
lol, nice spin.
Dems aren't suddenly becoming "fiscal conservatives" nor "seeing the light after Obama" on deficits. No, they are pointing out the absurd level of hypocrisy by Repubs and you know it. And many of those quoted are right wingers aghast at the R's hypocrisy. Except they are not surprised, because they've seen it again and again: R's flip out about "WE WILL BECOME GREECE!! GREECE I TELLS YA!" when not in power, and block every spending bill as wasteful, and declare the debt the "BIGGEST THREAT TO OUR NATION!", and crucify D's for having the Debt rise during their tenure, but as soon as R's get a chance to call the shots, they blow the debt to the moon with unneeded tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, huge unnecessary military spending increases, and more spending increases to reward their donors (and yes, don't touch the social welfare/safety net they claim they will "Fix", because their base is actually full of old people and poor whites who rely on/want these things).
They've proven themselves to be the ultimate BS artists, with Trump the perfect leader/liar for them. The Tea Party is dead (now that the Black Guy with The Funny Name is gone).
You know this spot on, 100% true.
Too much incoherent drivel.
Are you for or against spending?
WTF does that mean? Please explain...are you for or against “spending”? Or does it possible depend on what the spending entails? Could it be that details matter?
Hardloper wrote:
Conundrum wrote:
Sadly while the world-wide respect for Trump and the United States plummets, the world-wide respect for Kim Jong un is actually starting to grow.
LOL, you guys are delusional
Actually it is quite accurate. Respect for our president has gradually diminished since trump has been elected. England doesn't even want him to visit, he was booed abroad when called news fake, pence and his wife didn't stand when the Korean team marched in (they were the only ones). Yet Kim Jung Un and the South Korean President are making plans to visit each other and Kim Jung un sister is like a star at the olympics.
Trump lost the pr battle. The father of the prisoner who died is helping the us as far as PR, trump isn't.
Kim Jung Un became a dictator in a country that already had no freedoms including freedom of speech and freedom to challenge the government. Trump came to power in a democracy where freedoms are guaranteed. So what they are allowed to do is very different but let's look at it he similarities between the two anyway.
1) There is no freedom of the press in North korea. Trump constantly makes sweeping false generalizations in an attempt to reduce the effectiveness of the free press. They both hate free press.
2) Kim Jung Un forces his people to help praise and heap adulation on him. Trump does that same. (His cabinet meetins?)
3) Kim Jung Un locks up or gets rid of those who politically challenge him. Trump calls his political opponents treasonous, enemies of the state. He also chants about putting opponents in jail.
4) Both engage in ridiculous bombastic talk about how they will destroy other countries.
5) Both put family members in high positions to a secure their power.
6)_both love military parades.
7) Both are fat with very funny looking hair.
8) Both try to control the court system.
9) Both have megalomania and want their name and picture all over.
10) Both are crazy and dangerous.
Yeah, that’s a specific question wrote:
Wordsmith wrote:
Too much incoherent drivel.
Are you for or against spending?
WTF does that mean? Please explain...are you for or against “spending”? Or does it possible depend on what the spending entails? Could it be that details matter?
I know, what a dumb question. But it's what we should expect from someone who apparently couldn't understand a couple of clearly written points.
Conservatives ruin another peaceful counter protest by liberals.
Flagpole wrote:
Well . . . Not Really wrote:
Uhhh . . . no.
No Real Man should EVER wear ANY article of clothing that has another man's picture (or jersey number) on it. Let's leave the middle school stuff in middle school, shall we?
I'm with you on the jersey number thing, but a large picture of Kanye on a sweatshirt is funny AND badass.
Which of Kayne's qualities, political views and social views do you find commendable?
Conundrum wrote:
ITS BEEN DAMN QUIET FROM THE TRUMP PEOPLE!
Interesting read, from Michael Goodwin:
For law enforcement, Congress and even journalists, exposing misdeeds is like peeling an onion. Each layer you remove gets you closer to the truth.
So it is with the scandalous behavior of the FBI during its probe into whether President Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia in 2016. One layer at a time, we’re learning how flawed and dirty that probe was.
A top layer involves the texts between FBI lawyer Lisa Page and her married lover, Peter Strzok, the lead agent on the Hillary Clinton e-mail probe. They casually mention an “insurance policy” in the event Trump won the election and a plan for Strzok to go easy on Clinton because she probably would be their next boss.
Those exchanges, seen in the light of subsequent events, lead to a reasonable conclusion that the fix was in among then-Director James Comey’s team to hurt Trump and help Clinton.
Another layer involves the declassified House memo, which indicates the FBI and Justice Department depended heavily on the unverified Russian dossier about Trump to get a warrant to spy on Carter Page, an American citizen and briefly a Trump adviser.
The House memo also reveals that Comey and others withheld from the secret surveillance court key partisan facts that would have cast doubt on the dossier. Officials never revealed to the judges that the document was paid for by Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee or that Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the dossier, said he was “desperate that Donald Trump not get elected.”
A third layer of the onion involves the revelations in the letter GOP Sens. Charles Grassley and Lindsey Graham wrote to the Justice Department. They urge a criminal investigation into whether Steele lied to the FBI about how much and when he fed the dossier to the anti-Trump media.
The letter is compelling in showing that Steele said one thing under oath to a British court and something different to the FBI. The contradictions matter because the agency relied on Steele’s credibility in both the FISA applications and its actual investigation. Strangely, even after it fired him for breaking its rule forbidding media contact, the FBI continued to praise his credibility in court.
If that were all the senators’ letter accomplished, it would be enough. But it does much more.
It also reveals that two former journalists linked to Clinton, separately identified as the odious Sidney Blumenthal and a man named Cody Shearer, created and gave a State Department official additional unverified allegations against Trump.
The official passed those documents to Steele, who passed them to the FBI, which reportedly saw them as further evidence that Trump worked with Russians. But as Grassley, head of the Judiciary Committee, and Graham write, “It is troubling enough that the Clinton Campaign funded Mr. Steele’s work, but that these Clinton associates were contemporaneously feeding Mr. Steele allegations raises additional concerns about his credibility.”
The State Department official involved in the episode, Jonathan Winer, wrote an Op-Ed in the Washington Post Friday in which he confessed to the senators’ chronology while offering a benign description of his motives. Winer also admitted he shared all the unverified allegations from the Clinton hitmen with other State Department officials.
There are many more layers of the onion to peel, but here’s where we are now: It increasingly appears that the Clinton machine was the secret, original source of virtually all the allegations about Trump and Russia that led to the FBI investigation.
In addition, the campaign and its associates, including Steele, were behind the explosion of anonymously sourced media reports during the fall of 2016 about that investigation.
Thus, the Democratic nominee paid for and created allegations against her Republican opponent, gave them to law enforcement, then tipped friendly media to the investigation. And it is almost certain FBI agents supporting Clinton were among the anonymous sources.
In fact, the Clinton connections are so fundamental that there probably would not have been an FBI investigation without her involvement.
That makes hers a brazen work of political genius — and perhaps the dirtiest dirty trick ever played in presidential history. Following her manipulation of the party operation to thwart Bernie Sanders in the primary, Clinton is revealed as relentlessly ruthless in her quest to be president.
The only thing that went wrong is that she lost the election. And based on what we know now, her claims about Trump were false.
Of the charges against four men brought by special counsel Robert Mueller, none involves helping Russia interfere with the election.
And neither the FBI nor Mueller has vouched for the truthfulness of the Blumenthal and Shearer claims or the Steele dossier. Instead, the dossier faces defamation lawsuits in the US and England from several people named in it.
In fairness, one person besides Steele has been cited as justification for the FBI probe. George Papadopoulos, a bit but ambitious player in the Trump orbit, met with a professor in Europe early in 2016 who told him the Kremlin had Clinton’s private e-mails.
In May 2016, Papadopoulos told the story to an Australian diplomat and two months later, in July, the Australian government alerted the FBI.
However, a full timeline convincingly points to Steele as the initial spark. He was hired by a Clinton contractor in June of 2016, and filed his first allegations against Trump on June 20. Two weeks later, on July 5, he met with an FBI agent in London, The Washington Post reported, and filed three more allegations that month, including one about Carter Page.
At any rate, it is certain that Steele and other Clinton operators provided all the allegations about Trump himself that the FBI started with and that Mueller inherited.
For Clinton, creating a cloud over Trump’s presidency and helping to put the nation through continuing turmoil is a victory of sorts. America is fortunate it’s her only victory.
Good morning! How are all you LRC stable geniuses doing this fine AM?
DAMN YOU CLINTON(S)!!!