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I mostly agree! Until trump is out of office there is no point in concrete solutions. The republicans won with no firm policy outlines. They still don't. Democrats will release and propose plans when the 2018 congressional elections get underway. Face it trump was going to make ACA "Great", cheaper and better. Meanwhile the republicans don't need the democrats. They need budget and tax proposals that are realistic. Not trickle down economics from the rich. From billionaires. Put something realistic on paper, tell trump this is what we can expect to get. Then put it in from of Pelosi and tell her to put up or shut up. Reform the swamp. Deal with the lobbyists that make drugs and health care unaffordable. But get rid of the nutty ideas from trump and the tea party. Put it to Pelosi again. Go to the next election tell the electorate we hear you.We fixed ACA, look at the numbers. More insured, cheaper. We heard you. We made a mistake with trump.We helped kick him to the curb. We will be republicans with compassion. Vote for us.

This is a good example of prophetic news. As of that report it's just one guy's opinion, no matter how he's placed in the party - We have no idea what caused him to have it. That Ryan shut down the conversation is interesting but predictable and that's about it. I'd expect that conversation to have gone 'unless you have some pretty fucking specific evidence to back up that allegation, I suggest you shut your trap. We're supposed to all be on the same side here.' That's what Id have said if I were Ryan. The media will probably make it into something far larger than that without taking the time to do the proper research. Fixed it for you. Amazing from last summer, yet so able to peg the future. So analytically accurate of the present. The Trump Presidency Falls Apart After an extraordinary 10 days, the tenure of the chief executive may have deteriorated beyond his ability to repair it. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/all-the-kings-men/526980/ LA Times six part article: Our Dishonest President http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-ed-our-dishonest-president/?int=lat_digitaladshouse_our-dishonest-president_content-promotion_ngux_whisperer_editorial-whisperer_______

I predict he will find nothing and the left will go apoplictic. NEVER go to Vegas.

I don't get Fox Fake news. But they must, no they have to be blaming this on BO. There will be no more BS, no more hiding in the bushes, or anywhere else. Where was that poll on the number of days that trump has left?

Special Council Appointed Robert Mueller appointed special counsel to oversee probe into Russia's interference in 2016 election The United States Department of Justice has announced that a special counsel has been appointed to investigate Russian interference into last year's presidential election. Former FBI Director Robert Mueller has been assigned by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to "oversee the previously-confirmed FBI investigation of Russian government efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election, and related matters." http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/robert-mueller-appointed-special-counsel-oversee-probe-russias/story?id=47472673

Fixed it for you.

Vladimir Putin Denies Trump Leak: 'Very Bad' Lavrov to Be 'Reprimanded' for Not Sharing Secrets With Me Complaining of 'political schizophrenia' in the U.S., Russia's Vladimir Putin laments Trump isn't being allowed to work properly .. Speaking at a news conference alongside Italy’s prime minister, Putin quipped that Lavrov had not passed what he said were the non-existent secrets onto him and said that Russia was ready to hand a transcript of the meeting over to U.S. lawmakers if that would help reassure them. "I spoke to him (Lavrov) today," said Putin with a smile. "I'll be forced to issue him with a reprimand because he did not share these secrets with us. Not with me, nor with representatives of Russia's intelligence services. It was very bad of him." http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.789810 There is no possibility that comedians can make this stuff up. The vodka must be flowing freely in the offices of the FSB for the last couple weeks. "Very Bad" are President Putin's exact words.

Still a few days left in this one yet. I'm running out of popcorn And here it is: Trump asked Comey to end the investigation into Flynn.... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur Thankfully this is in the new week thread. Its called obstruction of justice.

Israeli intelligence officers are “boiling mad and demanding answers” after President Trump reportedly shared classified information from Israel with Russia, according to a new report. Two Israeli intelligence officers confirmed to BuzzFeed Tuesday that Israel had shared specific intelligence with the U.S. about Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) plots to smuggle explosive laptops onto planes. "We have an arrangement with America which is unique to the world of intelligence sharing," one intelligence officer told BuzzFeed. "We do not have this relationship with any other country." http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333670-israeli-intelligence-boiling-mad-at-trump-report The official Israel response give that trump will be in Israel this week. "‘Israel has full confidence in our intelligence-sharing relationship with the United States’" Former Mossad chief: Alleged Trump slip to Russia could be 'grave violation' Danny Yatom, the former director of Israel's spy agency, cautions of the impact of revealing classified information after reports of Trump sharing intel with Russia. If Monday night’s Washington Post report that US President Donald Trump recently revealed classified information to Russia is true, it would be a “grave violation” of intelligence sharing protocol and “could lead to harm to the source,” former Mossad director Danny Yatom told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. Yatom said he did not know if the reports of giving away an ally’s information were true “and I don’t know from where, I don’t know if it was from Israel,” but “if someone gives the US very sensitive information…it is prohibited to give the information to a third party – for sure not to Russia who has ties with Iran and Syria.” The former Mossad director added that, “if the information is sensitive, it can harm the security of the intelligence source or lead to other damage.” Regarding the Trump administration’s statements denying the sharing any intelligence methods or sources, he said “sometimes damage is caused from the content of the revelation, even if he does not say the methods and sources.” http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Former-Mossad-chief-warns-Trump-of-dangers-of-loose-lips-490882

More Americans want President Trump impeached than don't, according to a new survey by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling released Tuesday. Forty-eight percent of respondents said they would support Trump's impeachment, while 41 percent would oppose such charges. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333589-poll-42-percent-of-voters-support-impeaching-trump

Fox News Headline: Newt Gingrich: Trump owes the news media nothing Note: I wrote this before the latest despicable, dishonest smearing of the President, but that incident simplify magnifies my case. This simply reinforces the following, which I wrote earlier today. After almost four months of watching the news media’s unending dishonesty, hostility, and contempt toward the Trump administration, it is time to have a blunt conversation. The President owes Americans the defense of the United States Constitution. The President owes the American people a sound job as commander in chief, protecting the country. The President owes the American people a dramatically stronger economy with more jobs, better take home pay, and increased opportunities for investment growth; which will help people prepare for retirement, strengthen pension funds, and guarantee Social Security’s solvency. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/05/15/newt-gingrich-trump-owes-news-media-nothing.html Fox is a disgrace.

Pense, Ryan, Bo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_(dog) Braggart in Chief President Trump’s incessant need to prove how important and successful he is proved costly in a meeting with Russian diplomats. Why did Donald Trump last week reveal highly classified, potentially life-endangering, intelligence to Russia’s foreign minister? Because he wanted to impress him. “In his conversations with the Russian officials,” reports Reuters, “Trump appeared to be boasting about his knowledge of the looming threats, telling them he was briefed on ‘great intel every day.’” It fits a pattern; Trump loves dazzling guests. After his April meeting with Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago, he recounted the Chinese president’s supposed shock when Trump told him, over dessert, that the U.S. had just bombed Syria: Xi “paused for 10 seconds and then he asked the interpreter to please say it again.” When two Time reporters followed Trump around the White House last month, Trump told them that Ronald Lauder “went crazy” after being shown “the painting of George Washington above the fireplace.” Then Trump beckoned the reporters to follow him into his private dining room, where “You’ll see something that is amazing.” It turned out to be Trump’s newly installed flat-screen TV. It’s not exactly a secret that Trump brags. During the campaign, he boasted about the size of his penis. This March, he said he was the reason no NFL team had signed Colin Kaepernick. And he does so in private, too. In his infamous Access Hollywood tape, Trump crowed about his ability to get away with sexual assault, declaring that, “when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.” One might hope Trump would realize that Sergei Lavrov is not Billy Bush. In dealing with foreign leaders, presidents are not supposed to brag about the powers of their office. They’re supposed to pursue the national interest. But even in private, Trump appears obsessed with using the presidency to prove how important and successful he is. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/braggart-in-chief/526827/ Oh!! and after trump had McMaster go out last night and lie for him. Less than 18 hours later trump threw McMaster under the bus and admitted that he disclosed the information in tweets this morning. "As President I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly scheduled W.H. meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining to terrorism and airline flight safety," Trump said on Twitter. "Humanitarian reasons, plus I want Russia to greatly step up their fight against ISIS & terrorism." In a later tweet, Trump took aim at "LEAKERS in the intelligence community," a frequent target of his months-old administration. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-tweets-defends-sharing-information-russians-121114068.html McMaster, well your allegiances to the constitution and to your political master, trump, are now established.

The Terrible Cost of Trump's Disclosures The consequences of the president’s reported divulgence of top-secret codeword information to the Russians are only beginning... Russia is antagonistic to the United States, although Trump has repeatedly indicated his desire to be chummy with the Russians—after all, as he notoriously said during the presidential campaign, we are both killers, and so on the same moral plane. He apparently divulged the information to show off, which not only shows a lack of self-discipline: It shows, yet again, how easy this man is to play, particularly by veteran manipulators like his two experienced, talented, and thuggish guests. The crisis is made worse by virtue of Trump having just fired the FBI director, apparently for having pushed that Russia investigation too far. Quite apart from making himself and the country a laughingstock around the world, the president has now practically begged Vladimir Putin to toy with him, tantalize him, tease him, flatter him, manipulate him. He has shown the Russians (and others, who are watching just as closely) just how easy that is to do, and he has shown the rest of us that his vanity and impulsiveness have not been tempered by the highest responsibilities.... He then went into the history of China and Korea. Not North Korea, Korea. And you know, you’re talking about thousands of years … and many wars. And Korea actually used to be a part of China. And after listening for 10 minutes I realized that not—it’s not so easy. You know I felt pretty strongly that they have—that they had a tremendous power over China. I actually do think they do have an economic power, and they have certainly a border power to an extent, but they also—a lot of goods come in. But it’s not what you would think... The explanation was remarkable not only for Trump’s frank admission that he knew little about the background of the Korean Peninsula, but for his equally frank admission that the leader of a foreign country—and not just any foreign country, but a major American rival that Trump had repeatedly savaged rhetorically—could reverse his understanding of a key issue with just 10 minutes of persuasion. It is no wonder that the Russians were eager to get in a room with Trump, but Russia and China were not the only foreign countries to recognize how easily swayed Trump could be. The pattern began even before he was inaugurated, with a December phone call between Trump and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen. Not only was the conversation a major breach of protocol, Trump seemed to be flirting with abandoning American recognition that Beijing considers Taiwan a part of a unified China. He was eventually talked down from this by advisers—and his vacillation is one reason Xi was so eager to meet—but his impressionability had been established. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/trump-foreign-leaders-negotiate/526815/

Foreign Leaders Have Realized Trump Is a Pushover The pattern has become clear: A foreign official comes to President Trump. They speak. The official leaves with what he or she wants, and Trump emerges chastened, having reversed a major policy, or both.... According to The Washington Post’s Josh Rogin, NPR, and other reports, Chinese leaders began lobbying for a face-to-face meeting with Trump as soon as possible in his presidency. Ahead of the April visit by President Xi Jinping to the United States, Trump warned that their meeting would be “a very difficult one.” That was a reasonable prediction. Trump had spent much of the campaign assailing China, complaining that the country was a currency manipulator (which had not been true since 2014) and that he would take a much harder line than the Obama administration had. As it happened, the meeting with Xi was something of a love-fest. Trump and his spokesman have boasted since about the very good relationship they created with China’s leader, and hailed their friendship. If Trump was pleased with the outcome, Xi must have been ecstatic. The Chinese president emerged from the meeting with warm praise from Trump; a concession from the U.S. president that China was not manipulating its currency; and conciliatory statements about China’s ability to twist the arm of North Korea, its wild-eyed, nuclear-armed neighbor. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/trump-foreign-leaders-negotiate/526815/

It should really be blended into "A New week thread" surely the DZ doesn't own its own cloud or server farm. To keep up with trump f*#kups. IMO the picture of trump, the FSB spy and the Russian ambassador laughing it up in the oval office. All when US media...er "Fake Media" is excluded while RT is in the oval office.After firing Comey, after disclosing classified info. Says it all. Meanwhile in the field there are CIA officers with their lives at risk. Troops on the DMZ with their lives at risk. All to protect this idiot.

There are reasons why US media was excluded and RT was allowed to attend. The information revealed by the president, was said to have been provided to the US by an American ally through a highly sensitive intelligence sharing arrangement. The Washington Post said that the partner had not provided permission for the information to be shared with Russia. After the meeting, senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and National Security Agency. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-classified-information-russia-intel-white-house-minister-ambassador-lavrov-kislyak-isis-a7737706.html Trump revealed the information to Lavrov while boasting about his own sources of knowledge, according to an official familiar with it. “I get great intel. I have people brief me on great intel every day,” Trump reportedly said. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4508898/Did-Trump-leak-classified-info-Russians.html Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Crooked Hillary Clinton and her team "were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information." Not fit! 5:12 AM - 6 Jul 2016 Paul Ryan ✔ @SpeakerRyan It's simple: Individuals who are ‘extremely careless’ w/ classified info should be denied further access to it. http://spkrryan.us/29Cz47v 5:36 PM - 7 Jul 2016

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How about 2 years from now. About 1/2 hour on his other you-tube comments were similarly funny and accurate.

President George W. Bush didn't vote for trump. Millions of other republicans didn't either. Think of the reasons why. Reflect on the whole motivations on WHY the courts have rejected the Muslim travel ban. Er the "pause" in visa referral program study period. Think about Why that is. Political ideology isn't necessary right or left. If you read my posts you could ascertain that in fact I predominantly agree with John McCain. At the same time I think trump is a fascist. 29% of Americans support the Comey firing. 36% supporting trump's job. 25% supporting the Republican amendments to AHC. So when Rushmc mentions the poor track record of Obama and compares him to the dismal start to trump's administration. Sure I'm a liberal.

Shame really, now there will only be RT, Pravda, etc. That really is a surprising development. Paranoia is not limited to Spicer hiding in bushes outside the WH. CNN, Fareed Zakaria, GPS had two former CIA, NSA directors on today. IMO those are the smartest US citizens regarding international Geo-politics. One stated that Russia has more people employed in "framing" politics in foreign governments than it does military personnel. Which suggests a expanded CIA/NSA budget and one less Ford class carrier battle group. Should be the focus of a new budget. As a side note. SNL had a good skit on trump last night. There was another risque joke about trump. Not in the same league as the C**kholster one. But i was surprised none the less. IMO the slippery slope of lack of respect, is accelerating.

Terrible years: unemployment DOWN uninsured DOWN stock market WAY UP GDP UP Military deaths DOWN etc. But poor people are getting medical care at the expense of the state, homosexuals have gained rights, there was talk about immigration reform including a path to citizenship, and worst of all an effort was being made to reduce CO2 emissions. In other words, your nation was about to fall apart from the terrible progressive excesses. I think you mean allowing black,brown and yellow skinned, non Christians into the US. Then even worse than that. Have them gain socioeconomic advantage over white men. Let alone the outrage that Muslims, Mexicans could come to enjoy the same advantages of white men. The horror, the horror. What is also amusing is that this Falwell university would give trump a honorary law degree. Says everything about lawyers, the "university" and trump. Its akin to trump giving himself a Christian minister designate from his own trump university.

I'd guess it was a safety issue to get the jumper to a safe opening altitude in case something went wrong. i.e. oscillation The story lists 10 minutes power so presumably it could have climbed on its own to that altitude. It also lists a useful load of 440 lbs so it should have a good rate of climb with one jumper.

And develop a silently opening parachute? Isn't that called subterminal? Hang a 4 person chairlift under a drone with 9000' capability and you'd have something.

It's official, Trump is the worst President ever at leadership, and the best President ever at running the country the way it isn't supposed to be run. Don't take my word for it, just ask Trump Since he is a known liar he can't be the worst.

Ingus Augstkalns was lifted 1,082 feet (330 meters) into the air by a 28-propeller drone, dropped and parachuted safely back to the earth. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4500720/Drone-lifts-daredevil-1-082ft-skydiving-jump.html