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Shhhhhhhh This is to fun to watch
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"In Trump’s GOP, Jeff Sessions goes from fringe to prime time But in the party of Trump, Sessions is at the center of the action. He was an early backer of the real estate mogul’s candidacy, when most Republican officials were denouncing Trump’s comments about Mexicans and his promise to build a wall on the southern border. He is one of Trump’s most trusted policy advisers, assisting with his selection of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate. And with a prime-time speaking slot Monday night at the Republican National Convention, Sessions is a living symbol of an upside-down GOP in which a largely sideline player can become a heavyweight... As Trump gained momentum last year, the two men appeared drawn to each other. At a rally in Mobile last August, several months before Sessions would endorse him, Trump appeared with the senator, praising him as one of the few politicians he held in high regard, particularly when it came to immigration. “We have a great politician here,” Trump said. “We have a man here who really helped me. I sought his counsel because he’s been so spot on, he’s so highly respected.” Sessions has helped craft Trump’s immigration platform, chaired his national security advisory committee, loaned him a top communications aide specializing in immigration and counseled him on whom to add to his ticket as vice president... https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-trumps-gop-sessions-rockets-from-the-fringe-to-prime-time/2016/07/18/1fc04d14-490b-11e6-acbc-4d4870a079da_story.html?utm_term=.62c72a68c27d 'WASHINGTON – Sen. Jeff Sessions’ chief of staff has earned $27,175 working on Donald Trump's presidential campaign, according to the campaign’s expenditure reports. Rick Dearborn is listed as a policy consultant for the Trump campaign, which paid him the lump sum on June 29. Sessions, R-Ala., who endorsed Trump Feb. 28, was the first senator to do so. Dearborn started working on Trump’s behalf soon after that. Ethics rules allow Senate staffers to work on political campaigns while keeping their Senate jobs, but they must do the campaign work on their own time and cannot use official Senate resources. Staffers also must work at least one full day a week in the Senate office in order to continue to receive their Senate salary, according to the rules. Dearborn remains on Sessions’ staff and has not taken a leave of absence, said Christopher Jackson, a spokesman for Sessions. “We have followed all of the ethics guidelines,” he said. Ethics rules also state that Senate employees earning more than $123,175 this year may not earn more than $27,495 in outside income. Dearborn’s annual Senate salary is $169,459, and his payment from the Trump campaign is $320 less than the cap. At the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July, Sessions said Dearborn was using his vacation time to work for Trump. Dearborn was a floor whip for the Trump campaign at the convention, managing seating areas in and around the Alabama delegation. “I think he’s running this whole place,” Sessions said at the convention. “He’s just in the middle of it and he can make decisions just like that and people are coming up to him and he’s telling everybody what to do. I don’t even think they know how much he’s running this place. He’s just doing a great job.” Sen. Jeff Sessions says Donald Trump is redefining conservatism Over the summer, Dearborn was identified as one of Trump’s liaisons to Capitol Hill and a leader in his Washington-based policy office. On Sept. 8, the Washington Post reported that the policy office had largely disbanded after several staffers quit in August, saying they weren't paid as promised. Some of the former staffers did not blame Dearborn for the nonpayment. The only other Trump campaign payments to Dearborn were travel reimbursements in May, June, July and August, totaling $982. Dearborn is not the only Sessions staffer to work on Trump’s campaign. Former Communications Director Stephen Miller, who left Sessions’ staff in January, is listed on Trump's payroll earning $12,500 per month, according to Trump’s expenditure report for August. Dearborn joined Sessions’ Senate staff in 1997 and was his legislative director for more than six years. He left to work in the Energy Department under then-President George W. Bush, and returned to Sessions’ staff in 2004 as chief of staff. Contributing: Fredreka Schouten, USA TODAY http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/23/sen-sessions-chief-staff-also-paid-donald-trump/90913292/ So Stephen Miller, Sessions and trump worked hand in glove from the start of trumps campaign. Sessions was one of the FIRST to back trump. One of his closest advisors. Sessions then lent him a staffer for the whole campaign and in a sham violation of the ethics guidelines maintained that he was only working weekends for trump. While he personally stated " “I think he’s running this whole place,” Sessions said at the convention. “He’s just in the middle of it and he can make decisions just like that and people are coming up to him and he’s telling everybody what to do. I don’t even think they know how much he’s running this place. He’s just doing a great job.” If his lying under oath wasn't enough. Using his government paid staff for trumps campaign should define how the swamp smells. So no it doesn't hurt because your understanding of the close relationship between the two, is lacking.
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The essence of that lie ended up in the Starr report whereby he concluded that Clinton had lied under oath and obstructed justice. All arising from the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former Arkansas government employee, Paula Jones. The statement rings in my mind because when he made that statement I took it to be the complete end. The nail in the coffin so the speak of the Monica Lewinsky matter. Which in a round about way led to Starr and finally a $90,000 fine and disbarment for five years. We went from $90 million for the Clinton investigation. To habitual lying, to Counselor to the President for Donald Trump(Ms. Conway) selling shoes in a Presidential Press conference, to “Except as otherwise provided in such sections, the terms ‘officer’ and ’employee’ in sections 203, 205, 207 through 209, and 218 of this title shall not include the President, the Vice President, a Member of Congress, or a Federal judge.” As the absolute backstop to self enrichment. So for a president, vice president, a congressman, or a federal judge. No real sanctions apply. A lawyer, $90,000 fine and disbarment for five years. For others a joint and black skin, go straight to jail.
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Well, he's 70 now, but since his years are greater than anyone else's, just terrific years, so great, it is possible he'll be 79 in 4 years time Only partially right. Age is a red herring. - “his strength and physical stamina are extraordinary” -“laboratory test results are astonishingly excellent.” -"Actually, his blood pressure and lab results were astonishingly excellent.” -"will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.'
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Perhaps the leopards that previously walked through the halls of the Kremlin. Hid in the briefcases of Russian ambassadors when they visited the offices of the Russell and Hart buildings. I doubt many on a skydiving forum know about famous novelists. But the analogy is accurate. Subsequent to the last recession Wall Street bankers, scamsters and flim-flam men prowled the halls of NY, NY. brokerage houses. Wondering how they could change their spots. Waking in the middle of the night while the dreams of incarceration swirled in their brains. Praying to god that if they got one more crack at the giant public piggy bank. They would never again waste the gold they had stuffed in their pockets and mattresses in Monaco. Now eight years later. The nightmares of slamming prison cell doors are but a faded bad dream. They were all bailed out by the public purse. Now they control the public purse itself. Now the keys to the bank are theirs to lend to their friends as they wish.
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IMO everything went downhill the day Clinton stated on camera. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." He should have been jailed for that. Because now the situation has developed where habitual lying is tolerated.
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Study is flawed. Additional option should be. 4 years, because the trump family will be the first family to be worth $1 Trillion US dollars. Therefore all objectives of running for the election would have been met. As a result I had to answer boobies.
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Richard Painter, the former White House ethics lawyer to President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007, blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions after it was reported that he spoke with the Russian ambassador while Trump was on the campaign trail. When asked in the hypothetical during his confirmation hearing as Attorney General what he would do if he learned a member of Trump's campaign had communicated with the Russian government over the course of the 2016 campaign, Sessions responded: “I’m not aware of any of those activities ... I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians.” Officials said Sessions did not consider his conversations with Kislyak relevant to the lawmakers’ questions and did not remember their discussion in detail. And as a senior member of the committee, he regularly met foreign ambassadors, his spokeswoman said. Painter blasted the statement on Twitter. "Misleading the Senate in sworn testimony about one own contacts with the Russians is a good way to go to jail," Painter tweeted. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/321936-ethics-lawyer-to-george-w-bush-on-sessions-talks-with-russa Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday said that if the FBI finds any criminal activity related to President Trump campaign aides' alleged contact with Russian officials, then Attorney General Jeff Sessions should step aside for a special prosecutor. “If there is something there, and it goes up the chain of investigation, it is clear to me, that Jeff Sessions, who is my dear friend, cannot make this decision about Trump,” Graham said at a CNN town hall Wednesday night. "The question was presented to Graham following a report in the Washington Post that Sessions spoke to Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, during the presidential campaign. “There may be nothing there,” Graham said. “But if there is something there, that the FBI believes is criminal in nature, then for sure you need a special prosecutor.” http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/321933-graham-special-prosecutor-necessary-if-fbi-finds-criminal-activity-in-russia
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The wide separation of thrust sources would guarantee a rapid upset if power from one was interrupted.
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ROFLMFAO wanna make a bet? You lose you, delete your DZ account and disappear forever. Deal? After watching President Trump's address last night and observing how the Democrats disgraced themselves with their petulant behavior, I think they had better show willingness to compromise. If not they will looking for a career change come 2018. The trouble with trump and the speech is that there is never, not ever, NEVER, been a consistent, coherent message. -NATO -Immigration -US leadership - Washington corruption -Iran Above are merely the POLICY changes, flips, flops, walkbacks, in the first 1/3 of his speech. Not reflecting in any fashion the outright lies in the first 1/3.
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The Islamophobic Huckster in the White House -- NYT
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Right on target. According to bannon's plans China and Russia can go ahead and develop their spheres of influence because the US will have a 350 ship navy. The pressures on the worlds economies is increasing as debt has piled up since 2008.The last recession. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-05/a-record-152-trillion-in-global-debt-unnerves-imf-officials While US debt-GDP has gone from 64% to 104% http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt-to-gdp Mortgage delinquencies are at a 10 year high: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mortgages-delinquincies-idUSKBN15U20G Auto loan delinquencies at the highest rates since the last recession as well: https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-02-21/deepening-troubles-with-auto-loans-start-to-spread-pain Seems like a good time to pile on more debt so "trickle down economics' can be proven again.
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Welcome to the free market. Being first pays more than being right. What do you have against capitalism? Wendy P. As usual you are correct. Unfortunately people on both wings tend to believe their sources over another's. I'm as guilty of it as anyone. But lately I've looked with a more critical eye towards motivation and reward when it comes to my news sources. I agree that the day where every single newspaper has a couple reporters. Is over. News from Facebook, Breitbart and small websites that have authors that offer opinions on every single area of economics, politics, war, race, sociology, international relations, etc. All fall into the same sewer pipe of thought. How about adding lies to the equation. That when you find a news site that lies. That gives an answer to a problem without dealing with the potential failures of that option. Without mentioning the drawbacks, The end game, The 10-50-100 other factors that come into play in solving the problem. Is also lying to you as well. What about the politicians that won't answer a straight question with a straight answer. Who won't even take questions from someone. That in order to buy "A" you have to tax "Y" and if "A" doesn't equal "Y" the difference may have to be borrowed from "Z". What about the answers to complex problems that blame racial or religious groups to pander to a group of racists, fascists, to those who would hold one religion over the heads of another religious group. Does those motivations count as well?
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The Islamophobic Huckster in the White House -- NYT
Phil1111 replied to quade's topic in Speakers Corner
I'm sorry but this view is what's kept us from doing what's necessary to bring our troops home. Islam had hated the West since forever...nothing new there. Probably because we've been fucking their shit up since forever. Nothing new with our current military occupation of their sovereign soil. Stop defending these religious fucks. It needs to end. We both know there is only one way. Here is some help in case you need to develop a more nuanced and complete view. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/20/as-donald-trump-overthrows-the-old-order-a-look-at-the-new-order-the-ten-ideologies-of-america/ http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/02/28/geert-wilders-islam-not-religion-totalitarian-ideology/ 1.6 billion, or 23% of the worlds total population All dedicated to implementing Sharia law in the US, so they can kill all American males and steal US women. They have already infiltrated the CIA, the FBI and the NSA. Using a fifth column of Muslim Brotherhood agents. Its all there. P.S. Walmart has some good deals on AR's and bulk packs of IMI ball ammo. -
Trump blames . . . Obama for protests and leaks
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trump is doing nothing more than testing the elasticity of ignorance of his political base. Its difficult to know if this is bannon's idea or trump's. "In his critique of my book, Jeffrey Friedman continues his longstanding efforts to show that most political ignorance is inadvertent rather than rational. In his view, voters are ignorant because they believe our society “is a mighty simple place” and “think they have information adequate to [the] task.” They simply don’t realize there is lots of other information out there that could help them make better decisions.... This key distinction also explains why many people choose to vote, but do not choose to learn very much about the issues they are voting on. Voting usually requires very little time and effort, while studying more than minimal amounts of political information requires a lot. People with a modest sense of “civic duty” are willing to spend modest amounts of time and effort on activities that have only a small chance of making a difference. But, given the odds, they are unlikely to make big sacrifices or to set high informational standards... Widespread political ignorance is a menace regardless of whether it is rational or inadvertent. But the difference between the two explanations for it matters. Inadvertent ignorance is a much easier problem to address than rational ignorance. With rational ignorance and rational irrationality, by contrast, such simple solutions are far less likely to work. Rationally ignorant people choose not to acquire new knowledge because the incentive to do so is weak, not because they are blissfully unaware of the possibility that additional knowledge could improve the quality of their voting decisions.... Further reading: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2013/10/22/ilya-somin/why-most-political-ignorance-rational-why-it-matters-reply-jeffrey-friedman No offense intended. I'm just quoting from the article/book. -
I just love it how trump paints the Republican party into a corner and then sends Priebus over to negotiate. I guess thats a new chapter in the "Art of the Deal". "President Trump assured executives of major insurance companies Monday that the transition away from ObamaCare would be a "smooth one." In a meeting at the White House with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Cigna, Humana and other insurers, Trump said the replacement would be a great one for patients and "hopefully for the companies." http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/321336-trump-promises-smooth-transition-for-insurers-away-from-obamacare "Trump is making some big promises: His insurance reform will cover more people and cost less money. "We're going to have insurance for everybody," Trump told The Washington Post. "There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can't pay for it, you don't get it. That's not going to happen with us." "[They] can expect to have great health care. It will be in a much simplified form. Much less expensive and much better," he said." http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/15/politics/trump-obamacare/ Speaking of which: "An ethics attorney has filed a complaint against White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, accusing him of a “corrupt attempt to influence investigations by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) into criminal activity involving associates of Donald J. Trump (“Trump”) and Russian government.” The complaint was filed by J. Whitfield Larrabee, a Massachusetts attorney, who is no stranger to filing ethics complaints against the Trump team. During the campaign, Larrabee filed bribery complaints against Trump and then-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi over donations Trump gave to the Bondi campaign around the same time she decided not to join other attorney generals in bringing fraud claims against Trump U. Trump ended up paying an IRS fine to settle the allegations surrounding the alleged illegal donation." http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/bar-complaint-accuses-reince-priebus-of-corruptly-attempting-to-influence-fbi-investigation/ Of course its not as if trump has any direct ideas himself as to how to reform the ACA.
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"Trump lists two companies on his FEC filing possibly related to business in Egypt: Trump Marks Egypt and Trump Marks Egypt LLC." https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/tracking-trumps-web-of-conflicts/ Ah, the old GREED motive. Got it. Oh come on, I know that was a rhetorical question from you. I just thought i would answer it for the odd trump supporter who might be wondering. Wondering because they were working on a USAID project in Africa and are unaware of the trump family's propensity to self enrich. At every opportunity.
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"Trump lists two companies on his FEC filing possibly related to business in Egypt: Trump Marks Egypt and Trump Marks Egypt LLC." https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/tracking-trumps-web-of-conflicts/
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The danger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arIc1NlHvV0 The Reality?: http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/27/spacex-send-privately-crewed-dragon-spacecraft-beyond-moon-next-year
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Another 100 companies pulled advertising from Breitbart,
Phil1111 replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
Another 100 companies have reportedly pulled their advertising from the far-right news site Breitbart, as the momentum builds behind a grassroots campaign calling on advertisers to boycott the site. Audi, Visa, T Mobile and Lufthansa have joined the growing list of companies to withdraw, according to Sleeping Giants, the group behind the campaign, which claims that at least 1,250 advertisers no longer wish to be associated with it. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/breitbart-advertising-deals-companies-advertising-withdraw-pull-steve-bannon-alt-right-campaign-a7599156.html -
Fox news is using anonymous sources to vet their expert.....priceless. Of course total silence from Republicans.... True, or fake, if it comes from the mouth of the orange faced, man-child. Or alternatively Fox, Breitbart, etc. its all part of the drumbeat. Meanwhile WH staff get their phones checked for leaks and all the while they scour the interwebs for more claims of Muslim attacks on white Christians.
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The Islamophobic Huckster in the White House -- NYT
Phil1111 replied to quade's topic in Speakers Corner
I'm sorry but this view is what's kept us from doing what's necessary to bring our troops home. Islam had hated the West since forever...nothing new there. 'Germany hate crime: Nearly 10 attacks a day on migrants in 2016 Nearly 10 attacks were made on migrants in Germany every day in 2016, the interior ministry says. A total of 560 people were injured in the violence, including 43 children. Three-quarters of the attacks targeted migrants outside of their accommodation, while nearly 1,000 attacks were on housing. The interior ministry figures 3,533 attacks on migrants and asylum hostels in 2016 2.545 attacks on individual migrants 560 people injured, including 43 children 988 attacks on housing (slightly fewer than in 2015) 217 attacks on refugee organisations and volunteers Attacks on asylum shelters and migrants December 2015 - 12 people injured after fires broke out at two hostels in Wasserstein, Bavaria January 2016 - Live grenade thrown at hostel housing 170 people in the south-western town in Villingen-Schwenningen but fails to detonate February 2016 - Fire in Bautzen, eastern Germany, destroys roof of building planned to house migrants. Police say some onlookers cheered the fire and tried to prevent firefighters from extinguishing the blaze September 2016 - Residents clash with migrants in Bautzen February 2017 - Politician from the far-right NPD jailed for eight years for burning down a sports hall to be used to house migrants in Nauen, west of Berlin, in August 2015 In its statement, the interior ministry said it strongly condemned the violence. "People who have fled their home country and seek protection in Germany have the right to expect safe shelter," the statement read. MP Ulla Jelpke from the leftist Die Linke party said that the government was too focused on a perceived security threat from migrants while the real threat was coming from the far right. "Do people have to die before the rightwing violence is considered a central domestic security problem and makes it to the top of the national policy agenda?" she said, quoted by the Funke media group. "Nazis are threatening refugees and therefore our democracy." http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39096833 Meanwhile from the trumpenbunker...more lies. -
Kim Jong Nam assassinated with VX nerve agent
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http://www.economist.com/news/china/21717370-theres-message-america-too-furious-north-korea-china-stops-buying-its-coal -
The Islamophobic Huckster in the White House -- NYT
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I'm sorry but this view is what's kept us from doing what's necessary to bring our troops home. Islam had hated the West since forever...nothing new there. "Muslims in the United States military... 6,024 served in the military in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, with at least 14 being killed overseas" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslims_in_the_United_States_military "Islam is the third largest religion in the United States after Christianity and Judaism...there are 3.3 million Muslims living in the United States, about 1% of the total U.S. population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States "By 2010 an estimated 44 million Muslims were living in Europe (6%), including an estimated 19 million in the EU (3.8%) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Europe -
The Islamophobic Huckster in the White House -- NYT
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Not a problem unless McMaster is window dressing. "The Islamophobes are not wrong to sense that McMaster will be hostile to their worldview, according to those who know him best. McMaster spent much of his career fighting and winning wars in the Middle East, which required him to know the local cultures and treat Muslims like humans rather than scripturally programmed robots. “He absolutely does not view Islam as the enemy,” said Pete Mansoor, who served with McMaster in Iraq. “He understands that the world is not one dimensional, that the Muslim world is not one dimensional,” said John Nagl, who also served with McMaster. In other words, the complicated causes of terrorism require complicated solutions." McMaster’s nuanced views will likely be at odds with those of the president’s chief political strategist, Steve Bannon, and the other members of Bannon’s so-called Strategic Initiatives Group, a policymaking body he co-leads with the president’s son-in-law and chief of staff. Bannon believes the teachings of Islam and a supine West are primarily to blame for jihadist terrorism, as does his counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka. Both scoff at the idea that jihadism arises from a confluence of factors, most of which are not religious. “This is the famous approach that says it is all so nuanced and complicated,” Gorka told the Washington Post. “This is what I completely jettison.” http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/mcmaster-has-the-islamophobes-worried-good-214815