Trumpers say, “moving the goalposts,” ha ha. The Constitution is the only goalpost, and trumpers are the ones who have a problem with it.
How stupid are right wing economists? Stupid enough to keep believing that tax cuts pay for themselves.
non partisan analysis of the tax cut shows growth paid for just 5% of it. The rest...gifts to the rich.
Do not believe right wing economics. They are out to feather their nests. Or they are idealists without any common sense.
This is not a recipe for long term health and stability of the US economy, obviously. Poor and middle people need help, not to be asked to pay for generations for tax giveaways to the rich.
it's too late now wrote:
agip wrote:
$10 says an exception will be made and the fireworks will show up, untariffed.
but if I were the Chinese, I'd put massive slowdowns on the fireworks shipments, so they arrive on July 5th. That would get he country's attention.
It is rather too late to make a tariff exception for fireworks.
Apparently this year's july 4 will not be affected - those shipments are already a done deal, un-tariffed. But upcoming shipments may get hit with the tax.
those crazy republicans, taxing us left and right. Even on fireworks.
[quote]agip wrote:
What the dems lack is a loud voice. Someone who can shout about R corruption and lies with honesty and honor. We just don't have that. No one is out there calling it like it is. A real failing in D leadership.[/quote
You made a good point but still wrong. You need a strong moderate voice, not a bunch of candidates running for president on a platform of global warming hysteria, Russian hoaxes, open borders, Infanticide and socialism. This is a recipe for disaster. Your party has veered to far to the left.
Creepy Uncle Joe is probably your last best hope in 2020.
L L wrote:
Trump "moved" the 4th of July fireworks launch from The Mall to Est Potomac Park nearby.
He know he can't fill The Mall with Trump supporters so he is having it at the golf course near by.
There will be a simultaneous Capitol Fourth concert by the Capitol.
Trump will take credit for that crowd even though it is a separate event.
https://wtop.com/fourth-of-july/2019/05/a-capitol-fourth-will-go-on-separate-from-trumps-planned-july-4-celebration/
What?? What drugs are you on? Oh never mind, you have TDS. People see fireworks for just that and for family entertainment.
Truth serum is the drug I’m on, ha ha. It forces me to tell trumpers that donny was a big mistake. Ironically, truth is a quite painful drug, in your case.
great read explaining the dumashery of trumpists claiming 'treason' and malfeasance at the FBI.
rigged and sally should read it but they won't.
Make America Great Again wrote:
agip wrote:
It makes little sense to impeach now, before we see the bank fraud and money laundering at DB.
Dems also said it made little sense to impeach before they saw the Mueller report. Well, you saw the Mueller report, and now you are moving the goal post. So what are you going to do if the accounting and the bank records do not prove anything? Try to find another "scandal"? Your fishing expedition is looking worse than Ken Starr's.
You're quite the dumb c*nt ain't ya? Not as big of a dumb c*nt as that Rigged dumb c*nt, but you're still a dumb c*nt.
"It is tempting for normal people to ignore our president when he starts ranting about treason and corruption at the FBI. I understand the temptation. I’m the object of many of his rants, and even I try to ignore him.
But we shouldn’t, because millions of good people believe what a president of the United States says. In normal times, that’s healthy. But not now, when the president is a liar who doesn’t care what damage he does to vital institutions. We must call out his lies that the FBI was corrupt and committed treason, that we spied on the Trump campaign and tried to defeat Donald Trump. We must constantly return to the stubborn facts.
Russia engaged in a massive effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. Near as I can tell, there is only one U.S. leader who still denies that fact. The FBI saw the attack starting in mid-June 2016, with the first dumping of stolen emails. In late July, when we were hard at work trying to understand the scope of the effort, we learned that one of Trump’s foreign policy advisers knew about the Russian effort seven weeks before we did.
In April 2016, that adviser talked to a Russian agent in London, learned that the Russians had obtained “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of emails and that the Russians could assist the Trump campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to Clinton. Of course, nobody from the Trump campaign told us this (or about later Russian approaches); we had to learn it, months after the fact, from an allied ambassador.
But when we finally learned of it in late July, what should the FBI have done? Let it go? Go tell the Trump campaign? Tell the press? No. Investigate, to see what the facts were. We didn’t know what was true. Maybe there was nothing to it, or maybe Americans were actively conspiring with the Russians. To find out, the FBI would live up to its name and investigate.
As director, I was determined that the work would be done carefully, professionally and discreetly. We were just starting. If there was nothing to it, we didn’t want to smear Americans. If there was something to it, we didn’t want to let corrupt Americans know we were onto them. So, we kept it secret. That’s how the FBI approaches all counterintelligence cases.
And there’s the first problem with Trump’s whole “treason” narrative. If we were “deep state” Clinton loyalists bent on stopping him, why would we keep it secret? Why wouldn’t the much-maligned FBI supervisor Peter Strzok — the alleged kingpin of the “treasonous” plot to stop Trump — tell anyone? He was one of the very few people who knew what we were investigating.
We investigated. We didn’t gather information about the campaign’s strategy. We didn’t “spy” on anyone’s campaign. We investigated to see whether it was true that Americans associated with the campaign had taken the Russians up on any offer of help. By late October, the investigators thought they had probable cause to get a federal court order to conduct electronic surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser named Carter Page. Page was no longer with the campaign, but there was reason to believe he was acting as an agent of the Russian government. We asked a federal judge for permission to surveil him and then we did it, all without revealing our work, despite the fact that it was late October and a leak would have been very harmful to candidate Trump. Worst deep-state conspiracy ever.
But wait, the conspiracy idea gets dumber. On Oct. 28, after agonizing deliberation over two terrible options, I concluded I had no choice but to inform Congress that we had reopened the Clinton email investigation. I judged that hiding that fact — after having told Congress repeatedly and under oath that the case was finished — would be worse than telling Congress the truth. It was a decision William Barr praised and Hillary Clinton blamed for her loss 11 days later. Strzok, alleged architect of the treasonous plot to stop Trump, drafted the letter I sent Congress.
And there’s still more to the dumbness of the conspiracy allegation. At the center of the alleged FBI “corruption” we hear so much about was the conclusion that Deputy Director Andrew McCabe lied to internal investigators about a disclosure to the press in late October 2016. McCabe was fired over it. And what was that disclosure? Some stop-Trump election-eve screed? No. McCabe authorized a disclosure that revealed the FBI was actively investigating the Clinton Foundation, a disclosure that was harmful to Clinton.
There is a reason the non-fringe media doesn’t spend much time on this “treason” and “corruption” business. The conspiracy theory makes no sense. The FBI wasn’t out to get Donald Trump. It also wasn’t out to get Hillary Clinton. It was out to do its best to investigate serious matters while walking through a vicious political minefield.
But go ahead, investigate the investigators, if you must. When those investigations are over, you will find the work was done appropriately and focused only on discerning the truth of very serious allegations. There was no corruption. There was no treason. There was no attempted coup. Those are lies, and dumb lies at that. There were just good people trying to figure out what was true, under unprecedented circumstances." - James Comey
Mitch McConnell says he would fill a Supreme Court seat next year (a presidential election year) if a vacancy opened up.
That contrasts the reason that he blocked a vote on Merrick Garland when Obama nominated him in 2016.
This is no surprise. McConnell has no standards. Straight hypocrisy.
He has changed the Constitution forever going forward.
One, blocking Garland.
Two, ending the filibuster to seat Gorsuch.
From now on, the only way a Supreme Court seat will be filled is if the Senate is controlled by the same party as the president.
For example, if Trump is re-elected, Democrats regain the senate and RGB dies (or a Democrat wins, Republicans hold the senate and Clarence Thomas dies), there will be 8 Justices until some future election changes the political composition.
Gordon Frank wrote:
Make America Great Again wrote:
Dems also said it made little sense to impeach before they saw the Mueller report. Well, you saw the Mueller report, and now you are moving the goal post. So what are you going to do if the accounting and the bank records do not prove anything? Try to find another "scandal"? Your fishing expedition is looking worse than Ken Starr's.
You're quite the dumb c*nt ain't ya? Not as big of a dumb c*nt as that Rigged dumb c*nt, but you're still a dumb c*nt.
Grow up kid. The constant cursing and name calling isn't helping your cause. Show a little respect, otherwise you will be banned.
Our president is a child.
Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
I was actually sticking up for Sleepy Joe Biden while on foreign soil. Kim Jong Un called him a “low IQ idiot,” and many other things, whereas I related the quote of Chairman Kim as a much softer “low IQ individual.” Who could possibly be upset with that?
L L wrote:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/politics/mitch-mcconnell-supreme-court-2020/index.htmlMitch McConnell says he would fill a Supreme Court seat next year (a presidential election year) if a vacancy opened up.
That contrasts the reason that he blocked a vote on Merrick Garland when Obama nominated him in 2016.
This is no surprise. McConnell has no standards. Straight hypocrisy.
He has changed the Constitution forever going forward.
One, blocking Garland.
Two, ending the filibuster to seat Gorsuch.
From now on, the only way a Supreme Court seat will be filled is if the Senate is controlled by the same party as the president.
For example, if Trump is re-elected, Democrats regain the senate and RGB dies (or a Democrat wins, Republicans hold the senate and Clarence Thomas dies), there will be 8 Justices until some future election changes the political composition.
to be fair to mcconnell, who I consider a legit American villain, the filibuster is not in the constitution. It isn't even something the senate has used much historically. It's sort of an innovation. Hardly used for centuries, actually. Eliminating it is about Senate rules and the need for consensus...not the constitution.
hard for me to believe the Ds will play by the savage jungleball rules the Rs play by. I just don't see it. I don't see the supreme court approval issue as going past the next one.
agip wrote:
L L wrote:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/politics/mitch-mcconnell-supreme-court-2020/index.htmlMitch McConnell says he would fill a Supreme Court seat next year (a presidential election year) if a vacancy opened up.
That contrasts the reason that he blocked a vote on Merrick Garland when Obama nominated him in 2016.
This is no surprise. McConnell has no standards. Straight hypocrisy.
He has changed the Constitution forever going forward.
One, blocking Garland.
Two, ending the filibuster to seat Gorsuch.
From now on, the only way a Supreme Court seat will be filled is if the Senate is controlled by the same party as the president.
For example, if Trump is re-elected, Democrats regain the senate and RGB dies (or a Democrat wins, Republicans hold the senate and Clarence Thomas dies), there will be 8 Justices until some future election changes the political composition.
to be fair to mcconnell, who I consider a legit American villain, the filibuster is not in the constitution. It isn't even something the senate has used much historically. It's sort of an innovation. Hardly used for centuries, actually. Eliminating it is about Senate rules and the need for consensus...not the constitution.
hard for me to believe the Ds will play by the savage jungleball rules the Rs play by. I just don't see it. I don't see the supreme court approval issue as going past the next one.
and remember that Democrat Harry Reid was the first to start elimating the filibuster. He did so to get more Obama judges approved.
Lets Run Moderator wrote:
Gordon Frank wrote:
You're quite the dumb c*nt ain't ya? Not as big of a dumb c*nt as that Rigged dumb c*nt, but you're still a dumb c*nt.
Grow up kid. The constant cursing and name calling isn't helping your cause. Show a little respect, otherwise you will be banned.
You talking to Gordon Frank or Donald Trump?
Mueller Time wrote:
https://youtu.be/sYNe023unaI
"Charging the president with a crime is not an option we could have considered." Mueller explaining they didn't charge him because that action was not within their power.
Mueller Time wrote:
Mueller Time wrote:
https://youtu.be/sYNe023unaI"Charging the president with a crime is not an option we could have considered." Mueller explaining they didn't charge him because that action was not within their power.
"If we had confidence the president did not commit a crime, we would have said so."
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
