The Official Trump is Doing Awesome Thread

[RandomGuy]

State dept Appointee at the international symposium I’m at could not have seemed more like an ignorant stooge reading a presidentially mandated bloviating bullsh$t script. The whole week had been filled with blunt, honest, open discussions about capability gaps and potential solutions with partner nations. Then this dingbat gets up there and (very poorly) reads a terribly written statement about how wonderful this administration has been in this part of the world (not true). And while the rest of the panel from Norway, Finland, Canada, Iceland, and Denmark all speak openly and conversationally about the topic, he only responds from poorly written talking points. It was embarrassing. In a following panel another person mentioned “if you want to hear about all the huge terrific things we’ve done here, go ask the state department. But for the rest of us, here are some of the things we need to address...” (insert lots of laughs from the room.) UGH. Other state dept person I was sitting next to made sure to lean over and specify that this doesn’t represent the whole department and this person is a RECENT appointee. At least the international delegations were there for enough discussions to see that this one fool does not accurately represent us as a whole.

Trump's administration is literally a laughingstock.

Kakistocracy.

[Chris]

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[Chris]

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[Chris]

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[koriwhat]

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fuck yes! aid to other countries? fuck that shit and bring it back here for our own people. time to cut the world off and let them try and swim on their own!

[Chris]

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Legal Experts: White House NDAs Constitute Felony Bribery For Both Trump And The Signers (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/17/1788864/-Legal-Experts-White-House-NDAs-Constitute-Felony-Bribery-For-Both-Trump-And-The-Signers)

According to legal experts the non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) that the Trump Administration required White House staff to sign are felony criminal violations, and put BOTH Trump Administration officials and the signers in serious legal jeopardy.

Much has been written about how the White House staff NDA’s are unprecedented and unenforceable (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/everyone-signed-one-trump-is-aggressive-in-his-use-of-nondisclosure-agreements-even-in-government/2018/08/13/9d0315ba-9f15-11e8-93e3-24d1703d2a7a_story.html?utm_term=.5cc5d19156f3):

Dozens of White House aides have signed NDAs in exchange for working for Trump, who has long relied on such agreements in his business career, according to current and former administration employees.

But NDAs have not been widely used by past administrations outside the transition time between presidents,

in part because most legal experts believe such agreements are not legally enforceable for public employees.
However, these NDAs are not just unenforceable.

First, they are a clear violations of the Whistleblower Protection Act (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-trump-omarosa-nda_us_5b7456f5e4b0df9b093b7070):

Simply put, it is illegal for anyone in the Trump administration to impose a nondisclosure agreement on a member of the federal government

that in any way limits that person’s ability to communicate with Congress and expose waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement.
And it gets worse, much, much worse. These NDAs constitute bribery of public officials:

18 U.S. Code § 201 - Bribery of public officials and witnesses (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/201)
…
(c)Whoever—
…
(A) directly or indirectly gives, offers, or promises anything of value to any public official,…for or because of any official act performed or to be performed by such public official...; or
(B) being a public official,...directly or indirectly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally for or because of any official act performed or to be performed by such official or person;
…
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.

What needs to be understood is that a person’s constitutionally protected right to free speech is a “thing of value,”

and hiring a public official is an “official act.”

Further, because the NDAs forbid speech that could be injurious to Trump,

it is a thing of value to Trump in particular, not to the government

who is the actual prospective employer.

As far as the law is concerned,

it is no different from a cash payment to Trump for a government job.

If Trump were requiring that prospective employees pay him $1000 for a job he would be clearly understood to be soliciting a bribe.
Here’s where it gets interesting.

Signing the NDA is therefore

no different from paying the bribe in order to get the job, the thing of value to the prospect.

Again, no different from paying Trump $1000 for a government job.

Former White House ethics counsel (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/03/21/trump-senior-staff-who-signed-non-disclosure-agreements-may-have-broken-the-law/?utm_term=.faa360434d00):

[Norman] Eisen points to the federal bribery statute (18 U.S.C. 201) as a statutory tripwire that Trump stumbled across.

He says it is also clear that this is a personal concession to Trump,

not to the government (e.g. a policy that says “thou shalt not leak”).

“The thing that makes these NDAs, at least as described,

different is that they continue to vest rights personally in the president even after he leaves office,” he says.

“That shows that this is not a concession being made to the government in exchange for a job,

but a personal one being made to the man who occupies the office.

The president couldn’t of course demand a monetary payment from someone in order to be employed,

and neither should he be able to do this.”
White House staff may not have considered that they were committing a felony, :lol

and exposing themselves to two years in federal prison,

when they signed Trump’s NDA to secure their White House job, but they were.

Former director of the Office of Government Ethics:

Walter Shaub says simply that

“you can’t go around trading things of value for federal appointments.”

What’s apparent here is that

Trump has no idea that working for the American people is different from working for his family operation.
Add to that extortion and emoluments violations, as constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe spells (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/03/21/trump-senior-staff-who-signed-non-disclosure-agreements-may-have-broken-the-law/?utm_term=.faa360434d00)out:

“I’ve argued and believe that the NDAs Trump might have extracted from executive branch employees (if that story proves accurate) are

a form of extortion in terms of what they extract from government employees and have the stench of bribery as well,” he tells me.

“I also see them as akin to the domestic emoluments

a president is flatly forbidden by [Article] II from receiving from any state or from any component of the federal government because,

in effect, they add to the president’s congressionally fixed compensation something that amounts to a personal benefit contributed to him by federal employees as a condition of their jobs.”

He explains that even if “financial supplements to Trump’s White House salary …

aren’t in the form of cash but instead take the form of reputation insurance or enhancement shouldn’t obscure the principle at stake.”

He adds that these concerns are, of course, in addition to “First Amendment issues with enforcing the NDAs through prior restraints.”
What

we have is a criminal administration

behaving in a criminal manner and

not surprisingly breaking all sorts of laws in the process.

Anyone that joins this criminal organization is unavoidably swept into criminal conduct and at extreme risk for serious criminal penalties.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/17/1788864/-Legal-Experts-White-House-NDAs-Constitute-Felony-Bribery-For-Both-Trump-And-The-Signers?detail=emaildkre

[FrostKing]

Legal Experts: White House NDAs Constitute Felony Bribery For Both Trump And The Signers (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/17/1788864/-Legal-Experts-White-House-NDAs-Constitute-Felony-Bribery-For-Both-Trump-And-The-Signers)

According to legal experts the non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) that the Trump Administration required White House staff to sign are felony criminal violations, and put BOTH Trump Administration officials and the signers in serious legal jeopardy.

Much has been written about how the White House staff NDA’s are unprecedented and unenforceable (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/everyone-signed-one-trump-is-aggressive-in-his-use-of-nondisclosure-agreements-even-in-government/2018/08/13/9d0315ba-9f15-11e8-93e3-24d1703d2a7a_story.html?utm_term=.5cc5d19156f3):

Dozens of White House aides have signed NDAs in exchange for working for Trump, who has long relied on such agreements in his business career, according to current and former administration employees.

But NDAs have not been widely used by past administrations outside the transition time between presidents,

in part because most legal experts believe such agreements are not legally enforceable for public employees.
However, these NDAs are not just unenforceable.

First, they are a clear violations of the Whistleblower Protection Act (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-trump-omarosa-nda_us_5b7456f5e4b0df9b093b7070):

Simply put, it is illegal for anyone in the Trump administration to impose a nondisclosure agreement on a member of the federal government

that in any way limits that person’s ability to communicate with Congress and expose waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement.
And it gets worse, much, much worse. These NDAs constitute bribery of public officials:

18 U.S. Code § 201 - Bribery of public officials and witnesses (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/201)
…
(c)Whoever—
…
(A) directly or indirectly gives, offers, or promises anything of value to any public official,…for or because of any official act performed or to be performed by such public official...; or
(B) being a public official,...directly or indirectly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally for or because of any official act performed or to be performed by such official or person;
…
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.

What needs to be understood is that a person’s constitutionally protected right to free speech is a “thing of value,”

and hiring a public official is an “official act.”

Further, because the NDAs forbid speech that could be injurious to Trump,

it is a thing of value to Trump in particular, not to the government

who is the actual prospective employer.

As far as the law is concerned,

it is no different from a cash payment to Trump for a government job.

If Trump were requiring that prospective employees pay him $1000 for a job he would be clearly understood to be soliciting a bribe.
Here’s where it gets interesting.

Signing the NDA is therefore

no different from paying the bribe in order to get the job, the thing of value to the prospect.

Again, no different from paying Trump $1000 for a government job.

Former White House ethics counsel (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/03/21/trump-senior-staff-who-signed-non-disclosure-agreements-may-have-broken-the-law/?utm_term=.faa360434d00):

[Norman] Eisen points to the federal bribery statute (18 U.S.C. 201) as a statutory tripwire that Trump stumbled across.

He says it is also clear that this is a personal concession to Trump,

not to the government (e.g. a policy that says “thou shalt not leak”).

“The thing that makes these NDAs, at least as described,

different is that they continue to vest rights personally in the president even after he leaves office,” he says.

“That shows that this is not a concession being made to the government in exchange for a job,

but a personal one being made to the man who occupies the office.

The president couldn’t of course demand a monetary payment from someone in order to be employed,

and neither should he be able to do this.”
White House staff may not have considered that they were committing a felony, :lol

and exposing themselves to two years in federal prison,

when they signed Trump’s NDA to secure their White House job, but they were.

Former director of the Office of Government Ethics:

Walter Shaub says simply that

“you can’t go around trading things of value for federal appointments.”

What’s apparent here is that

Trump has no idea that working for the American people is different from working for his family operation.
Add to that extortion and emoluments violations, as constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe spells (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/03/21/trump-senior-staff-who-signed-non-disclosure-agreements-may-have-broken-the-law/?utm_term=.faa360434d00)out:

“I’ve argued and believe that the NDAs Trump might have extracted from executive branch employees (if that story proves accurate) are

a form of extortion in terms of what they extract from government employees and have the stench of bribery as well,” he tells me.

“I also see them as akin to the domestic emoluments

a president is flatly forbidden by [Article] II from receiving from any state or from any component of the federal government because,

in effect, they add to the president’s congressionally fixed compensation something that amounts to a personal benefit contributed to him by federal employees as a condition of their jobs.”

He explains that even if “financial supplements to Trump’s White House salary …

aren’t in the form of cash but instead take the form of reputation insurance or enhancement shouldn’t obscure the principle at stake.”

He adds that these concerns are, of course, in addition to “First Amendment issues with enforcing the NDAs through prior restraints.”
What

we have is a criminal administration

behaving in a criminal manner and

not surprisingly breaking all sorts of laws in the process.

Anyone that joins this criminal organization is unavoidably swept into criminal conduct and at extreme risk for serious criminal penalties.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/17/1788864/-Legal-Experts-White-House-NDAs-Constitute-Felony-Bribery-For-Both-Trump-And-The-Signers?detail=emaildkre
Only 6 more years

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https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1000863848402894848/wXdIlYg7_bigger.jpg (https://twitter.com/JohnWDean)
John Dean
(https://twitter.com/JohnWDean)
(https://twitter.com/JohnWDean)
✔@JohnWDean
(https://twitter.com/JohnWDean)
(https://twitter.com/JohnWDean)



(https://twitter.com/JohnWDean/status/1030323165728133125)


Memo To Trump’s White House Staff: FYI.

Very few people who worked at Nixon’s White House later included that fact on their resumes.

It doesn’t do much for a career to be on the wrong side of history,

nor to have worked for the worst president in American history.


12:19 AM - Aug 17, 2018 (https://twitter.com/JohnWDean/status/1030323165728133125)

"awesome" career advice from John Dean

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GOP consultant Rick Wilson crushes ‘politically spent’ Steve Bannon for trying to ‘slither back into the spotlight’
Bannon is going to keep trying to slither back into the political spotlight,” Wilson added,”

“He wants Trump to be a nationalist populist because

Steve Bannon is an authoritarian-curious kind of guy

who has infected the Republican party with an anti-conservative pro-nationalist message —

and for a while, Trump was their avatar.”

“This is Bannon trying to come back,” he concluded dismissively.

Wilson later

called out President Trump for destroying the dignity of the presidency,

adding the president,

“Rage tweets on the toilet in the morning while he’s engaged in petty tabloid and reality TV beefs with people.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/gop-consultant-rick-wilson-crushes-politically-spent-steve-bannon-trying-slither-back-spotlight/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Donald Trump and the Rise of Patriotism

When Donald Trump says he is anti-establishment he means that

he is against the protections of nature, poor people, peace, immigrants, minorities and women the state has traditionally provided, however lamely.
Donald Trump has replaced the concept of a government with the concept of a fascist oligarch state.

The focus of trade deals is “winning”.

The number one purpose of the United State government is not to provide for its people, but to keep immigrants out.

Environmental protections of the land in the United States are a joke to Trump,

as the only purpose is the growth of global business, a.k.a the 1%.

Remarkably, many people do not care.

The only product Donald Trump has delivered on is hate,

and this appears to be enough for almost everyone in the Republican party.

Donald Trump has proven that

patriotism represents

xenophobia,

environmental degradation,

global oligarchs,

fundamentalism,

police and

the military.

There is nothing else he stands for.

Clearly Trump is a nationalist, in a rather new way.

He is focused only on winning and self-interest. He doesn’t care about anything else.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/17/donald-trump-and-the-rise-of-patriotism/

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New York Times Anything but ‘Failing’


CNN:

“In his tweet, Trump again called the Times ‘failing,’

but the newspaper actually reported a healthy second-quarter profit (https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/08/media/new-york-times-second-quarter-earnings-2018/index.html?iid=EL).

Two years ago today, he also called the Times ‘failing’ and ‘dying.’

The Times‘ stock is up nearly 77% since that tweet.”

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2018/08/20/new-york-times-anything-but-failing/

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[FrostKing]

"he is against the protections of nature, poor people, peace, immigrants, minorities and women"

Nature - most Americans put higher importance in economy

Poor people - economy is booming

Peace - He just met with Kim....

Immigrants - he married one. Democrats still unable to comprehend illegal immigration =/= immigration

Minorities - treatment of majority is more important

Women - ?

[Trill Clinton]

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[rmt]

I don't get the knock on Trump for "speaks perfect English" - if that mattered to him would he marry 2 women with very strong foreign accents and listen to that all day long?

[Pavlov]

I don't get the knock on Trump for "speaks perfect English"Of course you don't.

[rmt]

Of course you don't.

Actually, that's something my dh considered - whether he could listen to my accent for the rest of his life.

[Pavlov]

Actually, that's something my dh considered - whether he could listen to my accent for the rest of his life.So you're used to that kind of thing.

[Trill Clinton]

I don't get the knock on Trump for "speaks perfect English" - if that mattered to him would he marry 2 women with very strong foreign accents and listen to that all day long?

Why do you think he said the officer spoke perfect English? What was he implying with that statement?

[Spurminator]

"He's great. Very articulate."

[ducks]

Why do you think he said the officer spoke perfect English? What was he implying with that statement?

so you are suppose to read minds and imply things now

[dabom]

so you are suppose to read minds and imply things now

That's what's speech is for dumb fuck. :lmao

[Isitjustme?]

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[Chris]

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1027546324428906496/7HtgOkhA_400x400.jpg

[Chris]

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ICE deporting actual Nazis :tu

Liberals could care less!

[Pavlov]

:lol Yeah, no other agency could've done that at all.

[Winehole23]

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[Spurminator]

ICE deporting actual Nazis :tu

Liberals could care less!

1. It's "couldn't care less," genius.

2. If you read the article you'd have noticed the deportation has bipartisan support. Not to say you wouldn't still lie about it, because you're a liar. But you should at least read the articles you post. If anything, it might help with the whole literacy thing.

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Trump Screwing Iraqi Translators Like They Were His Hotel Contractors

Last week, we noted (https://www.wonkette.com/stephen-miller-americas-last-bastion-against-humanity) that

ugly bag of mostly hate Stephen Miller

had quietly placed allies in a number of key government jobs to help Donald Trump in his mission of keeping refugees out of the USA,

because we no longer even pretend to be human any more.

the war on refugees has been noticed by the Defense Department, and

a lot of top brass are not at all happy about the exclusion of refugees from Iraq --

mostly translators and others who made it possible for US forces to do their mission in the country.

Reuters reports (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-refugees-iraq-exclusi/exclusive-pentagon-raises-alarm-about-sharp-drop-in-iraqi-refugees-coming-to-u-s-idUSKCN1L51N9) military officials held a "closed-door White House meeting" last week

to let the administration know promises were made.

Unlike some developers who blithely stiff contractors, (https://www.wonkette.com/deadbeat-donald-trump-a-cheap-sociopath-who-doesnt-pay-his-bills-bet-you-didnt-see-that-coming)

the military thinks it's important to fulfill promises to civilians who help it. Yes, even foreigns.

Reuters reports last week's meeting was mostly about the FBI's methods in conducting EXTREME VETTING of refugees --

yes, including those who risked their lives to help US troops during a civil war --

because that seems to be the main reason admissions have plummeted. Just how bad has it gotten?

As of Aug. 15, just 48 Iraqis have been admitted to the United States this fiscal year through a special refugee program meant for people who worked for the U.S. government or American contractors, news media or non-governmental groups, according to data provided by the State Department.

More than 3,000 came last year and

about 5,100 in 2016.

The sticking point seems to be an extended background check aimed at people from the nations on Trump's Muslim ban list;

the new screenings require not only that potential refugees themselves be investigated, but also include a new

requirement that they submit phone numbers and email addresses for many more family members than before [...]

Iraqis can raise flags for national security concerns for a number of reasons,

especially if their work for the military required them to keep tabs on militants and other potential threats.

Years after their work for the military has ended, it can be difficult to verify that their contact with suspicious individuals or groups was strictly related to their job.

https://www.wonkette.com/iraqi-refugees

[Blake]

ICE deporting actual Nazis :tu

Liberals could care less!

Lol you still suck at grammar

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New York judge says Trump ‘authorized and condoned’ his security guards to rough up protesters
New York State judge has shot down an effort by President Donald Trump to dismiss a lawsuit against his private security guards

for allegedly roughing up demonstrators who were protesting outside of Trump Tower months after he announced his presidential run.

The New York Law Journal reports (https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2018/08/21/protesters-alleging-assault-by-trump-security-team-can-proceed-with-lawsuit/) that Bronx Supreme Court Justice Fernando Tapia on Tuesday declined to dismiss the suit filed by protesters who claim they were roughed up by the president’s security team back in 2015.

Specifically, Tapia said that Trump himself “authorized and condoned” his security guards to rough up the protesters, and

he specifically cited the president’s statement that “maybe they deserved to be roughed up” on the grounds that

“it was absolutely disgusting” what the protesters were doing.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/new-york-judge-says-trump-authorized-condoned-security-guards-rough-protesters/

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Trump Goes on Rant Comparing ‘Deals’ to His Mother’s Turkey, Which Was ‘The Greatest’

President Donald Trump said deals have to “gestate” just like his beloved mother’s Thanksgiving turkeys.

It all started when Trump was talking about China.

“I have tremendous respect for China. I mean, the energy, the genius…it’s incredible what they have done.

We can’t do it, it’s got to be a two-way street.

We have only one-way streets,” Trump opined.

“You know what bothers me?

I have people coming to me, some people in Congress ‘sir, can you get this deal done immediately?'”

He then said that the deal wouldn’t be any good if he did that because

“it’s gotta gestate. The word ‘gestate.'” :lol

The president continued on, “Like when you are cooking a chicken. :lol

Time…Time… :lol

Turkey for Thanksgiving.” :lol

Then Trump said this: “My mother would say 8 hours. I said ‘8 hours?’…

She made the greatest turkey I ever had. It takes time. It takes time.

So when they run and say can you do NATO right now, can you sign it next week? :lol

I say, wait a minute…I like Mexico. :lol

I like the new leader. I think he’s gonna be terrific. A little different than us. I think I am doing better with him than with the capitalist. But he knows Mexico needs the United States.”

For the record,

cooking a turkey is usually called “roasting” not “gestating.”

In addition, according to

Butterball, roasting a turkey (http://www.butterball.com/how-tos/roast-a-turkey) does not take nearly 8 hours.

https://www.mediaite.com/donald-trump/trump-goes-on-rant-comparing-deals-to-his-mothers-turkey-which-was-the-greatest/

Trash's brain is seriously fucked, judged by the stream garbled shit coming out his mouth.

[Winehole23]

because DJT doesn't know how to roast a turkey? how moronic.

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because DJT doesn't know how to roast a turkey? how moronic.

in his pervasive ignorance, he doesn't know that the "turkey" metaphor is always pejorative, referring to fat, stupid, inelegant bird

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[Blake]

Lol trump bootlickers noticeably quiet here lately

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China PILES on ! :lol

Chinese State TV Mocks Trump in Sarcastic Video

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/world/asia/china-trump-trade-satire.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

and Pootin laughs his ass off as America is degraded by his boytoy / ballwasher

[Winehole23]

Lol trump bootlickers noticeably quiet here latelyassimilating the new talking points.

they won't be gone long.

[Blake]

assimilating the new talking points.

they won't be gone long.

Most likely true

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assimilating the new talking points.

the only Breaking News over at Fox News is the the illegal immigrant killing a pretty blond white girl.

[clambake]

the only Breaking News over at Fox News is the the illegal immigrant killing a pretty blond white girl.

that illegal immigrant murderer was being harbored by a hardcore republican.

lock him up too

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that illegal immigrant murderer was being harbored by a hardcore republican.

lock him up too

... is why Repugs campaign on racism and xenophobia based on illegal immigration, but NEVER do anything about it.

Repug businessmen, "our best people", exploit illegal immigrants, not MX's "best people", to the max, for profit.

[FrostKing]

Trump's sleaziness and yet continued support is a reflection on the Democrats. I wouldn't have abandoned their party if they didn't first abandon my race.

[Pavlov]

lol muh race

[FrostKing]

lol muh race
"Tyrone and Muhammad are just like me"

[Pavlov]

"Tyrone and Muhammad are just like me"Who said that?

You made a direct quote. Who said it?

Link?

[Winehole23]

"Tyrone and Muhammad are just like me"what is race anyway?

[FrostKing]

what is race anyway?
https://i.imgur.com/Bq6RRt2.jpg

[FrostKing]

Who said that?

You made a direct quote. Who said it?

Link?
You are with us or with Tyrone & Muhammad

[Pavlov]

You are with us or with Tyrone & MuhammadSo no one ever said that and you lied.

lol white people

You can quote me on that.

[FrostKing]

So no one ever said that and you lied.

lol white people

You can quote me on that.
Haha

Are you white or not, bitch?

[Pavlov]

Haha

Are you white or not, bitch?lol white people demanding to know people's race

[SnakeBoy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCAbBnWm4LM

[Chris]

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Trump

[clambake]

holocaust is fake news

[Blake]

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Trump


Let us proceed...

Lol Chris cheering on holocaust denial

[Chris]

Lol Chris cheering on holocaust denial

What are you talking about Blake?

[Blake]

What are you talking about Blake?

Lol Chris cheering on holocaust denial

[Chris]

Lol Chris cheering on holocaust denial

Is this a disconnect?

[Chris]

1032420035527098373

[Pavlov]

Chris is a big fan of coat hangers.

[Chris]

Come murder your baby. All proceeds will be transferred to the DNC. Thanks for your support!

[Blake]

Is this a disconnect?

You're just slow.

[Winehole23]

https://i.imgur.com/Bq6RRt2.jpgso it's like, skin tint or something?

what's the scientific basis for race classification?

[Winehole23]

the black athlete in the pic has really "good hair." are you sure she's not white?

if so, why so?

[Winehole23]

does skin tint go straight down to the bone?

[Reck]

Trump says if he gets impeached, everyone will go poor. :lmao

[boutons_deux]

White House Admits Trump Is Using Official Events For Midterm Campaigning

Top White House staffers make an extraordinary admission that government-funded events are part of the president’s midterm election strategy.

Top White House staffers on Tuesday said that “official” government events are part of President Donald Trump (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/donald-trump)’s efforts to help Republicans (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/republican-party) in the coming midterm elections ― an admission that public dollars are being used for partisan political purposes.

responding to whether Trump planned to visit “purple” congressional districts rather than the safely Republican ones he favors, pointed out that Cabinet members ―

including Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, acting Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler and Energy Secretary Rick Perry ― are already doing that.

“You know, the president’s Cabinet and senior staff have done 35 events with or affecting House districts in August already. Over 35 events in August already. I wanted to make sure I repeated that.

“The White House comments make it rather obvious that Trump and his senior staff are mixing campaign work with official work,

which, if not managed properly, :lol

would constitute violations of reporting requirements,

the Federal Election Campaign Act and federal laws prohibiting the use of official resources for campaign activity,” Holman said.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-official-campaign_us_5b7c896ce4b07295150dc45d?utm_medium=em ail&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__082318&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__082318+CID_c39883ee dfff958e2ae4f1e4ffc97b4b&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=HuffPost&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__082318

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump Basically Admitted To A Federal Crime

Trump tried to get himself out of trouble. But what he said in a new interview could put him in jeopardy.

President Donald Trump (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/donald-trump) said Wednesday that he paid two women during the 2016 campaign to stay quiet about affairs they say he had with them — essentially admitting that he committed a federal crime.

Trump acknowledged that he was involved (emphasis added).


EARHARDT:

Did you know about the payments?

TRUMP:

Later on I knew. Later on. :lol

But you have to understand, Ainsley, what he did ― and they weren’t taken out of campaign finance.

That’s a big thing.

That’s a much bigger thing.

Did they come out of the campaign?

They came from me.

I tweeted about it.

I don’t know if you know, but I tweeted about the payments.

But they didn’t come out of the campaign.

In fact, my first question when I heard about it was, did they come out of the campaign?

Because that could be a little dicey. :lol

They didn’t come out of the campaign, and that’s big. :lol

It’s not even a campaign violation."


He doesn’t seem to recognize that it’s possible to commit a campaign finance violation without routing money through an official campaign account.

He seems to think that everything is aboveboard because no official campaign funds were used to pay off the women.

Trump has it backward.

Had he used his own money to pay off Daniels and McDougal and routed it through his presidential campaign, there wouldn’t be a legal issue.

Cohen pleaded guilty to making one excessive contribution to the campaign by paying $130,000 to Daniels out of his own pocket and

facilitating a $150,000 excessive and illegal corporate contribution from the publishing company American Media Inc.

These payments constituted in-kind donations, according to Cohen’s plea agreement, and thus exceeded the $2,700 individual campaign contribution limit (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-cohen-donald-trump-campaign-finance_us_5b7c9401e4b0cd327df79b46).

One came from a corporation, which may not donate directly to presidential campaigns.

Neither of these two illegal donations was disclosed by the Trump campaign.



https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-basically-admitted-federal-crime_us_5b7da81de4b07295150f49f6?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__082318&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__082318+CID_c39883ee dfff958e2ae4f1e4ffc97b4b&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=HuffPost&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__082318


Trash and his early grade school vocabulary (but he could be intentionally dumbing down for his fucking dumb cult), his brain is fucked.

[Winehole23]

the notion that electoral and policy functions are separate is quaint. good luck getting the FEC to police any reporting that doesn't involve money.

[Winehole23]

Trump tweets white supremacist propaganda about South Africa.


The Anti-Defamation League blasted Trump for giving voice to white supremacists’ claims of “genocide” in South Africa.


“It is extremely disturbing that the President of the United States echoed a longstanding and false white supremacist claim that South Africa’s white farmers are targets of large-scale, racially-motivated killings by South Africa’s black majority,” the anti-hate group said in a statement (https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-extremely-troubled-by-presidents-tweet-on-south-africa).
https://nypost.com/2018/08/23/trump-weighs-in-on-south-africa-land-seizure-debate-on-twitter/

[boutons_deux]

Trump tweets white supremacist propaganda about South Africa.

https://nypost.com/2018/08/23/trump-weighs-in-on-south-africa-land-seizure-debate-on-twitter/

"Section 25 states that property must be expropriated only for "a public purpose or in the public interest" and "subject to compensation".

But the new amendment will now remove the "subject to compensation" rule,

sparking fury amongst land owners as their land can now be taken away from them without any reimbursement."

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/999601/South-Africa-white-farmers-racism-land-anc

hard to know what's going on, but I would not be surprised if blacks wanted vengefully to screw the whites

high crime rate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_South_Africa

[Winehole23]

no expropriations yet, farmer murders at a 20 year low.

surprised to see boutons supporting DJT's racist dog whistle.

[boutons_deux]

boutons supporting DJT's racist dog whistle.

You Lie

[Winehole23]

we can all read for ourselves, none of your cites contradict DJT.

[boutons_deux]

we can all read for ourselves, none of your cites contradict DJT.

I don't support DJT. You Lie

Racist Trash is concerned about shit hole Africa only when American white male nationalists and Fox point out supposed persecution of white colonial invaders.

[Chris]

1032676996751323136

Behar's feelings vs. Sabato's facts

Gotta love it.

[FrostKing]

I don't support DJT. You Lie

Racist Trash is concerned about shit hole Africa only when American white male nationalists and Fox point out supposed persecution of white colonial invaders.
You are a gutless white traitor. In my homeland you would be hanging with your ballsack in your mouth

[LkrFan]

Trump says if he gets impeached, everyone will go poor. :lmao

Are you serious? :lmao

[LkrFan]

This could be big!

1032669038349115392

He is just as dangerous to David Dennison as Cohen. I wonder how many stories he withheld from the public to that orange jackass? :wow

[LkrFan]

1032676407187570688

:lmao

[clambake]

is there honor among thieves?

[LkrFan]

1032690930275495936

:wow

[Chris]

Pee Pee tapes confirmed?

[FrostKing]

Amy Siskind - JEW
Adam Goldman - :lmao

Every.single.time.


Poland booted out these fifth columns in 1968

[boutons_deux]

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5b7e6a8f1900001d03502722.png?ops=scalefit_720_noup scale

[Winehole23]

1032676996751323136

Behar's feelings vs. Sabato's facts

Gotta love it.when you're vaunting a dunk on Joy Behar, you're not aiming very high.

lol low standards.

[Winehole23]

why do all of Trump's appointees and cronies have to sign non-disparagement agreements?

[FrostKing]

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5b7e6a8f1900001d03502722.png?ops=scalefit_720_noup scale


Bias. No credibility

https://i.imgur.com/qeUyPUu.png

[Chris]

when you're vaunting a dunk on Joy Behar, you're not aiming very high.

lol low standards.

stufoo

[Blake]

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5b7e6a8f1900001d03502722.png?ops=scalefit_720_noup scale

Is that the actual cover?

[boutons_deux]

http://time.com/5374572/donald-trump-time-cover-in-deep/

[Winehole23]

Amy Siskind - JEW
Adam Goldman - :lmao

Every.single.time.


Poland booted out these fifth columns in 1968tell us your conspiracy theory about the Jews.

they can't be behind all the criticism of Trump -- have you read Commentary lately?

[Chris]

1033067743673638912

[Pavlov]

lol Qanon Twitter.

[DMX7]

Bias. No credibility

https://i.imgur.com/qeUyPUu.png

Obama was better. Covers reflect it.

[FrostKing]

Obama was better. Covers reflect it.
I voted for Obama in 2008

By 2010 I knew he was an articulate speaking sham

By 2015 I was voting Conservative for the first time in my life

[DMX7]

I voted for Obama in 2008

By 2010 I knew he was an articulate speaking sham

By 2015 I was voting Conservative for the first time in my life

You were voting in federal elections in 2015? I actually think he wasn't that great of a speaker but overall he was very competent and managed to do a good job while being dealt a terrible hand (by Bush). What's going on now is ridiculous, and anyone who believes Trump when he says we'd all be poor if he were impeached has been totally duped.

[Reck]

You were voting in federal elections in 2015? I actually think he wasn't that great of a speaker.

Yeah I never understood that. He was a stutterting mess most of the time. I guess it's understandable though. Speaking to the entire world must be terrifying and at the same time having to be taken seriously.

And also, compared to Busch Junya, Obama was definitely a huge step up. Let's not even get into Trump's. :lol

[boutons_deux]

Obama was better. Covers reflect it.

8 years vs 18 months.

Trash will have more covers, well covered in orange jumpsuit

[boutons_deux]

White House Rejects Supremacist Label:

“No One Has Done More Than

Trump to Prove White People Are Not Superior”

WASHINGTON —Upbraiding the ESPN anchor Jemele Hill for calling Donald Trump a “white supremacist,” the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said on Wednesday that “no one has done more than President Trump to prove that white people are not superior.”

“It’s grossly unfair that Ms. Hill sought to portray Donald Trump as an upholder of white supremacy,

when everything he says or does directly undermines that whole concept,”

Sanders said.

“Anyone who thinks that Donald Trump is on some mission to make white people look good hasn’t been paying attention.”
Sanders urged the ESPN anchor to “do her homework” on Trump before making baseless allegations.

“Read his tweets,” she said.

“Listen to his speeches.

If you still think Donald Trump is trying to prove that white people are superior,

I tip my hat to you.”

Ending on a personal note, Sanders said that she was “a hundred-per-cent sure” that her boss is not a white supremacist.

“Donald Trump cannot even spell the word ‘supremacist,’ ” she said.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/white-house-rejects-supremacist-label-no-one-has-done-more-than-trump-to-prove-white-people-are-not-superior?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20082518&CNDID=43758549&utm_source=Silverpop&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Borowitz%20082518&utm_content=&spMailingID=14126031&spUserID=MTQzNTk4NzA3ODYzS0&spJobID=1462165016&spReportId=MTQ2MjE2NTAxNgS2 (https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/white-house-rejects-supremacist-label-no-one-has-done-more-than-trump-to-prove-white-people-are-not-superior?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20082518&CNDID=43758549&utm_source=Silverpop&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Borowitz%20082518&utm_content=&spMailingID=14126031&spUserID=MTQzNTk4NzA3ODYzS0&spJobID=1462165016&spReportId=MTQ2MjE2NTAxNgS2)

[LkrFan]

Bias. No credibility

https://i.imgur.com/qeUyPUu.png

That should tell you something. I guaran dam tee the owner of TIME magazine is NOT black. Yet look at how Obama is portrayed as you pointed out. Now look at how David Dennison is portrayed:

https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/trump-immigration-final.jpg

[LkrFan]

Here's another one:

https://us-east-1.tchyn.io/snopes-production/uploads/2017/06/liar-in-chief.jpg?resize=600,794

[LkrFan]

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5b7e6769200000430034afff.png?ops=scalefit_720_noup scale

It's not like this is JET magazine with black editors, etc. This is a reputable white owned, white operated magazine. And even they have had enough of his shit. :lol

[boutons_deux]

New York Prosecutors May Pose a Bigger Threat to Trump Than Mueller

The offer of immunity to the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer is reminiscent of moves law enforcement used as they were taking down the Mafia.

The man who knows “where all the financial bodies are buried (https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/26/politics/michael-cohen-allen-weisselberg-subpoena/index.html)” in President Donald Trump’s namesake organization may now lead prosecutors in the Southern District of New York directly to them.

It took

slightly more than a year for two of the president’s longest-serving employees,

considered by many to be the last who would ever turn on him,

to cooperate with federal investigators

—and, in Cohen’s case, directly implicate Trump in a crime.

SDNY prosecutors may now pose a more immediate threat to the president than Special Counsel Robert Mueller does.

Taken together, SDNY seems to be homing in on Trump—and former prosecutors told me its latest steps are reminiscent of processes in organized-crime cases.

“This is a classic move in investigations of a criminal organization,”

“They’re moving up the ladder.

Peripheral characters are given immunity,

witnesses testify,

but they’re ultimately keeping their eye on the prize.”

It is also arguably subject to less oversight than Mueller’s probe,

“I think there’s a lot of truth to that sovereignty notion,” Cotter said.

“Their strike zone is bigger in terms of DOJ supervision.”
“It resembles a mob case in so many ways,”

“If you were to just strip the violence out of a mob case, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference,”

The immunity deals are telling,

“Immunity is not given out like candy,” Honig said.

“I used it quite a bit in mob cases for people on the fringes of criminality.”

Cotter said that Weisselberg “is not the real bad guy here”:

“In a business where you’re not the owner,

when you misreport expenses,

the real benefit goes to the company—

not the employee, no matter how high level.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/new-york-prosecutors-allen-weisselberg-trump/568516/

note that Cohen/Lanny have been offering to accept immunity, but none given, yet.

Suggestion is that Mueller got everything he needed from raiding Cohen's office.

[boutons_deux]

Another Fox News Reporter Quits

Over Network's Pro-Trump Tone:

'People Are Losing Their Minds'

Adam Housley just announced he was leaving Fox.

https://www.alternet.org/another-fox-news-reporter-quits-over-networks-pro-trump-tone-people-are-losing-their-minds

good career move (if not already stained with Fox's urine) :lol

[FrostKing]

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5b7e6769200000430034afff.png?ops=scalefit_720_noup scale

It's not like this is JET magazine with black editors, etc. This is a reputable white owned, white operated magazine. And even they have had enough of his shit. :lol
Oh yah, there is no shortage of self hating Whites in the West. Look at Boutans

I discussed this with my father a few days ago: how were Western Whites duped into supporting for example equality. Can you find another example in History where a demographic seeked to weaken its own living standards. Unprecedented. And the end result is: soon to be minorities in their own nations :lmao

Boutans thinks Jammal, Pablo or Ahmad are gonna spend countless hours online preaching for treatment of whites like he does for people of color. Imagine how much brainwashing that required

[FrostKing]

Another Fox News Reporter Quits

Over Network's Pro-Trump Tone:

'People Are Losing Their Minds'

Adam Housley just announced he was leaving Fox.

https://www.alternet.org/another-fox-news-reporter-quits-over-networks-pro-trump-tone-people-are-losing-their-minds

good career move (if not already stained with Fox's urine) :lol

He's married to a black woman. None white children = my children's competition

[boutons_deux]

Fox News fans melt down after network reports Democratic Party far more popular than Republicans

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/fox_fns_ingraham_140601a1-800x430.jpg

Fox News fans refused to believe the network’s own polling when it conflicted with their political assumptions about the state of political opinion in America.

On Saturday, the conservative network tweeted an image showing the results of a new Fox News poll surveying public opinion of the two major political parties in America.

The poll showed the public had a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party, with unfavorable views of the Republican Party.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DldhBX3XgAIGlTq.jpg

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/fox-news-fans-melt-network-reports-democratic-party-far-popular-republicans/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Fox viewer tweets in above article affirm that you cultish Fox-viewing assholes are deluded POS

[FrostKing]

Fox News fans melt down after network reports Democratic Party far more popular than Republicans

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/fox_fns_ingraham_140601a1-800x430.jpg

Fox News fans refused to believe the network’s own polling when it conflicted with their political assumptions about the state of political opinion in America.

On Saturday, the conservative network tweeted an image showing the results of a new Fox News poll surveying public opinion of the two major political parties in America.

The poll showed the public had a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party, with unfavorable views of the Republican Party.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DldhBX3XgAIGlTq.jpg

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/fox-news-fans-melt-network-reports-democratic-party-far-popular-republicans/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Fox viewer tweets in above article affirm that you cultish Fox-viewing assholes are deluded POS


It illustrates we are more open-minded. Not one party sheeps

We want what's best for America (not Mexico, Nigeria, South Korea etc) no matter whom is in power

[AaronY]

It illustrates we are more open-minded. Not one party sheeps

We want what's best for America (not Mexico, Nigeria, South Korea etc) no matter whom is in power
Oh, ok.

[Spurminator]

I voted for Obama in 2008

By 2010 I knew he was an articulate speaking sham

By 2015 I was voting Conservative for the first time in my life

And by 2018 you had spent so much time amusing yourself by pretending to be a racist sociopath that you actually became one.

Sounds like a super interesting biography, tell us more.

[FrostKing]

And by 2018 you had spent so much time amusing yourself by pretending to be a racist sociopath that you actually became one.

Sounds like a super interesting biography, tell us more.
2006 in Deutschland is the first time I realized America isn't the undisputed "best country in the World". I discovered a place I would be willing to leave America (friends, culture, job) for

[ElNono]

Oh yah, there is no shortage of self hating Whites in the West. Look at Boutans

I discussed this with my father a few days ago: how were Western Whites duped into supporting for example equality. Can you find another example in History where a demographic seeked to weaken its own living standards. Unprecedented. And the end result is: soon to be minorities in their own nations :lmao

Boutans thinks Jammal, Pablo or Ahmad are gonna spend countless hours online preaching for treatment of whites like he does for people of color. Imagine how much brainwashing that required

False premise, but there's plenty of examples of progress in equality of rights affecting certain demographics that were strongly supported. Women's suffrage comes to mind, Civil Rights movement. The end of communism. A very recent one: Saudi's expanding some of their women's rights.

[rmt]

Fox News fans melt down after network reports Democratic Party far more popular than Republicans

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/fox_fns_ingraham_140601a1-800x430.jpg

Fox News fans refused to believe the network’s own polling when it conflicted with their political assumptions about the state of political opinion in America.

On Saturday, the conservative network tweeted an image showing the results of a new Fox News poll surveying public opinion of the two major political parties in America.

The poll showed the public had a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party, with unfavorable views of the Republican Party.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DldhBX3XgAIGlTq.jpg

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/fox-news-fans-melt-network-reports-democratic-party-far-popular-republicans/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Fox viewer tweets in above article affirm that you cultish Fox-viewing assholes are deluded POS




POLITICAL IDENTIFICATION
--------Democrat-------- --------Republican-------- Independent / TOTAL Solid Lean TOTAL Solid Lean Other 19-21 Aug 18 49% 42 7 39 31 8 12
Maybe it would help if Fox didn't use 25.64% more Dems than Repubs and lol at the 42% SOLID Dem to 31% SOLID Repubs (and lower respective LEAN).

[Pavlov]

POLITICAL IDENTIFICATION
--------Democrat-------- --------Republican-------- Independent / TOTAL Solid Lean TOTAL Solid Lean Other 19-21 Aug 18 49% 42 7 39 31 8 12
Maybe it would help if Fox didn't use 25.64% more Dems than Repubs and lol at the 42% SOLID Dem to 31% SOLID Repubs (and lower respective LEAN).
So Fox needs to go out of their way to find more Republicans in their randomized polls.

lol

[rmt]

Seems to me that most of the polls have way more Dems than Repubs. But that's not what's important is it? It's who turns out to vote and I guess Repubs are more reliable voters but the Trump HATE is STRONG.

[rmt]

And do you really think that only 12% identify as Independent? I would guess these days it's more like 40%

[Pavlov]

Seems to me that most of the polls have way more Dems than Repubs. But that's not what's important is it? It's who turns out to vote and I guess Repubs are more reliable voters but the Trump HATE is STRONG.:lol you're so pissed at Fox News.

[rmt]

:lol you're so pissed at Fox News.

Makes no difference to me - after 2016, I don't believe ANY poll out there, and I always check the political identification. I remember when they were saying Bill Nelson was ahead of Rick Scott - I didn't feel that way at all - people here seem pretty happy with the way FL is heading even if Rick Scott has a personality like cardboard and can't talk (for a politician) for s***.

[Winehole23]

IF I DON'T LIKE IT IT MUST BE FAKE

[Pavlov]

Makes no difference to me - after 2016, I don't believe ANY poll out there, and I always check the political identification. I remember when they were saying Bill Nelson was ahead of Rick Scott - I didn't feel that way at all - people here seem pretty happy with the way FL is heading even if Rick Scott has a personality like cardboard and can't talk (for a politician) for s***.Of course. Your politics are purely faith based.

[LkrFan]

Oh yah, there is no shortage of self hating Whites in the West. Look at Boutans

I discussed this with my father a few days ago: how were Western Whites duped into supporting for example equality. Can you find another example in History where a demographic seeked to weaken its own living standards. Unprecedented. And the end result is: soon to be minorities in their own nations :lmao

Boutans thinks Jammal, Pablo or Ahmad are gonna spend countless hours online preaching for treatment of whites like he does for people of color. Imagine how much brainwashing that required

Euros violently stole this country from the Native Americans. They also made Black people build this country against their will. Now you faggots are worried about being in the minority? :cry me a river son

[Chris]

Euros violently stole this country from the Native Americans. They also made Black people build this country against their will. Now you faggots are worried about being in the minority? :cry me a river son

I'm sure you'll be leaving as soon as you are able from this stolen land.

[LkrFan]

I'm sure you'll be leaving as soon as you are able from this stolen land.

:lol

[DMX7]

And by 2018 you had spent so much time amusing yourself by pretending to be a racist sociopath that you actually became one.

Sounds like a super interesting biography, tell us more.

But, but, but... He voted for Obama in 08'; therefore he is a credible voice on racism. Isn't that how it works? :rollin

[rmt]

Of course. Your politics are purely faith based.

On the contrary - I'm not looking for a husband or friend or someone to admire - in who I vote for - it's whoever will make my kids' futures better and our lives better (meaning financially). I can go to church for the faith based stuff.

[Pavlov]

On the contrary - I'm not looking for a husband or friend or someone to admire - in who I vote for - it's whoever will make my kids' futures better and our lives better (meaning financially). I can go to church for the faith based stuff.As I said, your politics are faith based.

Trump will make my children's lives better!

[baseline bum]

Seems to me that most of the polls have way more Dems than Repubs. But that's not what's important is it? It's who turns out to vote and I guess Repubs are more reliable voters but the Trump HATE is STRONG.


They always do since lots of Republican voters claim they're independents.

[baseline bum]

Euros violently stole this country from the Native Americans. They also made Black people build this country against their will. Now you faggots are worried about being in the minority? :cry me a river son

:lol

[DMX7]

On the contrary - I'm not looking for a husband or friend or someone to admire - in who I vote for - it's whoever will make my kids' futures better and our lives better (meaning financially). I can go to church for the faith based stuff.

That's a really sad comment; and I can't help but conclude that you take our democracy for granted after reading that.

It seems to me that you have little appreciation for the amount of blood, sweat and tears that have gone into building and preserving our democracy since its inception. Voting is supposed to be more than just a financial transaction. If we don't elect people who respect and believe in our values, laws, courts and other institutions then we won't have a democracy and things will simply be dictated to us at some point. There will be no voting in that case.

[ElNono]

Seems to me that most of the polls have way more Dems than Repubs. But that's not what's important is it? It's who turns out to vote and I guess Repubs are more reliable voters but the Trump HATE is STRONG.

That's because there probably are more Dems than Repubs? Isn't that the simplest, most logical explanation? I mean, the GOP hasn't won the popular vote in how many presidential elections in a row now? Urban places are generally way more populated than rural areas, and largely Democratic strongholds, so why wouldn't that make sense?

The thing is, with the electoral college, it really isn't a full blown popularity contest, and that's why certain polls need to be taken in light of a certain context. Obviously, you would need critical thinking skills for that.

[ElNono]

And there's obviously the hypocrisy that ballooning deficits that are going to ruin our children's future are only problematic when the president is a Dem (and a niglet at that). I'm sure some children are learning all sort of valuable lessons from grabbing by the pussy, cheating on the wife, paying off pornstars.. never been a better time from homeschooling, and explaining what's that all about :lol

[benefactor]

^:lol

[Reck]

Makes no difference to me - after 2016, I don't believe ANY poll out there, and I always check the political identification. I remember when they were saying Bill Nelson was ahead of Rick Scott - I didn't feel that way at all - people here seem pretty happy with the way FL is heading even if Rick Scott has a personality like cardboard and can't talk (for a politician) for s***.

You didn’t feel that way because you were uncomfortable with the fact that he was.

Something tells me you’re only bringing that up now because Rick Scott has a slim lead in the polls that you like. Isn’t that right rmt?

[boutons_deux]

so much winning

Trump’s Power to Fire Federal Workers Curtailed by Judge

A federal district judge in Washington

struck down most of the key provisions of three executive orders that President Trump signed in late May (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/business/economy/trump-federal-workers.html) that would have made it easier to fire federal employees.

The ruling (https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2018cv1261-58), issued early Saturday, is

a blow to Republican efforts to rein in public-sector labor unions,

which states like Wisconsin have aggressively curtailed in recent years.

In June, the Supreme Court dealt public-sector unions a major blow (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/us/politics/supreme-court-unions-organized-labor.html) by ending mandatory union fees for government workers nationwide. (Federal workers were already exempt from paying such fees.)

The ruling is

the latest in a series of legal setbacks for the administration,

which has suffered losses in court in its efforts to wield executive authority to press its agenda on immigration, voting and the environment.

The executive orders, which also rolled back the power of the unions that represent federal workers, had

instructed agencies to seek to reduce the amount of time in which underperforming employees are allowed to demonstrate improvement before facing termination, from a maximum of up to 120 days to a maximum of 30 days,

and to seek to limit workers’ avenues for appealing performance evaluations.

The orders also sought to significantly reduce the amount of so-called official time that federal employees in union positions can spend on union business during work hours.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/business/trump-federal-workers-unions.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

[rmt]

You didn’t feel that way because you were uncomfortable with the fact that he was.

Something tells me you’re only bringing that up now because Rick Scott has a slim lead in the polls that you like. Isn’t that right rmt?

I distinctly remember posting that I didn't think Nelson was really ahead when the polls said that. It's in my history, look it up if you don't believe me - I am positive - what I thought being on the ground compared to what the polls said. And remember I was saying this living in the middle of SE FL - highly Dem.

[Reck]

I distinctly remember posting that I didn't think Nelson was really ahead when the polls said that. It's in my history, look it up if you don't believe me - I am positive - what I thought being on the ground compared to what the polls said. And remember I was saying this living in the middle of SE FL - highly Dem.

Good luck defeating an incumbent senator. Especially with all the gun issues surrounding that state.

[rmt]

That's a really sad comment; and I can't help but conclude that you take our democracy for granted after reading that.

It seems to me that you have little appreciation for the amount of blood, sweat and tears that have gone into building and preserving our democracy since its inception. Voting is supposed to be more than just a financial transaction. If we don't elect people who respect and believe in our values, laws, courts and other institutions then we won't have a democracy and things will simply be dictated to us at some point. There will be no voting in that case.

LOL - you say that when they just find some liberal judge to halt things that the Executive branch definitely has control of. You think that the Dems/Hillary would do a better job respecting our values like life (abortion), liberty (bigger govt and more rules/regulations) and the PURSUIT of happiness (higher taxes/redistribution)? Give me a break. The spineless Repubs with their political correctness and weakness obviously aren't up to the job - what choice is left but to vote for someone like Trump - at least he's not spineless and can take the heat.

[rmt]

Good luck defeating an incumbent senator. Especially with all the gun issues surrounding that state.

We shall see - as I said - the Trump HATE is STRONG.

[Reck]

We shall see - as I said - the Trump HATE is STRONG.

Don’t see what Trump has to do with a senate seat in Florida but do you.

[rmt]

And there's obviously the hypocrisy that ballooning deficits that are going to ruin our children's future are only problematic when the president is a Dem (and a niglet at that). I'm sure some children are learning all sort of valuable lessons from grabbing by the pussy, cheating on the wife, paying off pornstars.. never been a better time from homeschooling, and explaining what's that all about :lol

The typical Repub candidate would not be able to take the attacks that Trump is taking. I'm not interested in a Pence-like - Christian (would never survive trying to reconcile his faith with political survival), moral, etc. type. Besides, we don't look to any man as role model - that'd be God.

[rmt]

Don’t see what Trump has to do with a senate seat in Florida but do you.

You don't think it matters (on both sides)? That Trump hate/support will NOT affect senate/representative seats (as in following through or blocking Trump agenda)? I do.

[rmt]

That's because there probably are more Dems than Repubs? Isn't that the simplest, most logical explanation? I mean, the GOP hasn't won the popular vote in how many presidential elections in a row now? Urban places are generally way more populated than rural areas, and largely Democratic strongholds, so why wouldn't that make sense?

The thing is, with the electoral college, it really isn't a full blown popularity contest, and that's why certain polls need to be taken in light of a certain context. Obviously, you would need critical thinking skills for that.

I have no doubt there are more Dems than Repubs but over 25% more - I don't know about that.

No need to cushion your view of my critical thinking skills or lack thereof, but I do appreciate the lack of vulgar language - I never did understand why people need to swear to make their point. I'm not the one who posted the poll, but once it's posted, it's fair game and it seems hardly anyone checks who is in the poll. No one knows what's going to happen until the votes are counted.

[ElNono]

The typical Repub candidate would not be able to take the attacks that Trump is taking. I'm not interested in a Pence-like - Christian (would never survive trying to reconcile his faith with political survival), moral, etc. type. Besides, we don't look to any man as role model - that'd be God.

Every single item I listed were self-inflicted wounds. So it's not that he's being unfairly attacked or anything, he's laying on the bed(s) he made. But waiving it off as just attacks from the opposition is just part of the hypocrisy and double-standard.

All that said, I certainly do love the fact that a solid chunk of the electorate seem to have decided that social conservatism is dead, and no longer a litmus test. It was about time, IMO.

[rmt]

Every single item I listed were self-inflicted wounds. So it's not that he's being unfairly attacked or anything, he's laying on the bed(s) he made. But waiving it off as just attacks from the opposition is just part of the hypocrisy and double-standard.

All that said, I certainly do love the fact that a solid chunk of the electorate seem to have decided that social conservatism is dead, and no longer a litmus test. It was about time, IMO.

Just fed up with the politicians - not the social conservatism - that's taught at home and at church.

[ElNono]

I have no doubt there are more Dems than Repubs but over 25% more - I don't know about that.

No need to cushion your view of my critical thinking skills or lack thereof, but I do appreciate the lack of vulgar language - I never did understand why people need to swear to make their point. I'm not the one who posted the poll, but once it's posted, it's fair game and it seems hardly anyone checks who is in the poll. No one knows what's going to happen until the votes are counted.

Well, I suppose it depends on where the random sampling happened. If it's somewhere in the North East, only 25% would probably look fishy. If it's twitter, wouldn't be surprising either, young/tech people generally identify with the left more.

Point being, it doesn't really invalidate the poll or it's results, but just like anything that gives you partial information, it's never definitive or pretends to paint a full picture.

[baseline bum]

The typical Repub candidate would not be able to take the attacks that Trump is taking. I'm not interested in a Pence-like - Christian (would never survive trying to reconcile his faith with political survival), moral, etc. type. Besides, we don't look to any man as role model - that'd be God.

The typical Republican candidate wouldn't brag about sexual assault, lust after a little kid on video, defraud a bunch of students with a fake university, hide his tax returns, suck up to Putin, be unable to get credit from American banks, be surrounded by a bunch of felons in his inner circle, appoint family to high positions, shit on the first amendment by trying to convince America the free press is the enemy of the people, endorse a child molester for the senate, give away classified information to Russia, etc. Fuck off with trying to normalize this pos.

[baseline bum]

Every single item I listed were self-inflicted wounds. So it's not that he's being unfairly attacked or anything, he's laying on the bed(s) he made. But waiving it off as just attacks from the opposition is just part of the hypocrisy and double-standard.

All that said, I certainly do love the fact that a solid chunk of the electorate seem to have decided that social conservatism is dead, and no longer a litmus test. It was about time, IMO.

Social conservatism isn't dead. They're about to get abortion eliminated in red states.

[Winehole23]

yep.

we're only six states shy of an Article V convention as well.

[ElNono]

Social conservatism isn't dead. They're about to get abortion eliminated in red states.

It's just not a litmus test anymore. While a Pence government would be a terrible thing at so many levels, he couldn't win a national election with today's electorate.

[baseline bum]

It's just not a litmus test anymore. While a Pence government would be a terrible thing at so many levels, he couldn't win a national election with today's electorate.

Of course he could, what a ridiculous notion. Especially if the Democrats field another crap candidate like Clinton. Pence would get enormous evangelical support, college educated conservative support, and he's a smooth enough talker that he wouldn't turn off undecideds nor drive large liberal turnout.

[ducks]

Atlanta Fed Raises GDP Forecast to 4.6%


https://www.streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?id=14546182

[ducks]

https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/39998565_1890025817712953_4068269005037633536_o.jp g?_nc_cat=1&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=fdd0df7362f9d9bfae4abea98ba1839a&oe=5C052D71

[Winehole23]

only 207 of 530 are millionaires, there are way more legislators in debt than I would have guessed.

https://www.rollcall.com/wealth-of-congress

[ElNono]

Of course he could, what a ridiculous notion. Especially if the Democrats field another crap candidate like Clinton. Pence would get enormous evangelical support, college educated conservative support, and he's a smooth enough talker that he wouldn't turn off undecideds nor drive large liberal turnout.

He couldn't win the rust belt, or Florida, IMO, and that's basically the game. I would even add PA. He's just as bad a candidate as any other career politician, with the added negative that he would bring religion to the forefront, which generally plays terrible outside of evangelicals. I do agree that Shillary was a terrible candidate and anybody has a shot against her, but against any other candidate, he just doesn't have the populist message... I would bet even on Mark Cuban beating him in an election, tbh...

[ducks]

They buy big houses in dc and their home state

Complaining they need more money
Build apartments in milary base make them stay there and they are protected and cut some of there pay

[Winehole23]

why do you hate rich people, ducks?

[benefactor]

why do you hate rich people, ducks?
I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say that it's because a string of poor life decisions led to him becoming a broom pusher in a computer shop.

Envy tbh.

[baseline bum]

He couldn't win the rust belt, or Florida, IMO, and that's basically the game. I would even add PA. He's just as bad a candidate as any other career politician, with the added negative that he would bring religion to the forefront, which generally plays terrible outside of evangelicals. I do agree that Shillary was a terrible candidate and anybody has a shot against her, but against any other candidate, he just doesn't have the populist message... I would bet even on Mark Cuban beating him in an election, tbh...

Trump sucked up to evangelicals every bit as much as Pence would, and you act like Trump is the only one beating the anti-immigrant drum. The GOP's white identity politics didn't begin with Trump, they have been at the forefront since Palin. What you call populism looks more like blood and soil nativism. Plus Pence would have three huge media empires behind him with Clear Channel, Sinclair, and Fox News.

[ducks]

I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say that it's because a string of poor life decisions led to him becoming a broom pusher in a computer shop.

Envy tbh.
I am not a janitor I am a computer tech that supports his wife and kids

[ElNono]

Trump sucked up to evangelicals every bit as much as Pence would, and you act like Trump is the only one beating the anti-immigrant drum. The GOP's white identity politics didn't begin with Trump, they have been at the forefront since Palin. What you call populism looks more like blood and soil nativism. Plus Pence would have three huge media empires behind him with Clear Channel, Sinclair, and Fox News.

What I call populism is not America-first, patriotism, etc. It's the imaginary bullshit that he's going to bring back manufacturing jobs (dumb Rust Belt and PA resonate with that stuff), the anti-globalism, etc. Not immigration, not white identity politics, etc.

Republicans don't have enough to win on their base alone (neither do the Dems). What won Trump the election can be resumed as the empty promises he made to the Rust Belt, which also resonate in places like PA, and barely squeaking by Florida.

Despite the fact that those people know Dennison is a fraud when it comes to that, Pence literally is your traditional Republican. He doesn't have the cred to pull off the anti-globalist meme or sell that bullshit from the get go. All those big media guys you listed were ready to roast Trump after the election, until he won.

I also think Florida was a state Shillary just lost herself for being a terrible candidate. Don't want to take anything away from Don, he won it fair and square, but 150k votes difference considering the damaged goods that was Shillary, I just feel a slightly less known candidate could've made up the difference. You also underestimate the effect of incumbency, IMO, Pence running now would be much more complicated than coming off 8 years of Dems administration.

Obviously, all opinion, I respect yours, but I also have mine.

[boutons_deux]

"Don, he won it fair and square" :lol

[baseline bum]

What I call populism is not America-first, patriotism, etc. It's the imaginary bullshit that he's going to bring back manufacturing jobs (dumb Rust Belt and PA resonate with that stuff), the anti-globalism, etc. Not immigration, not white identity politics, etc.

Republicans don't have enough to win on their base alone (neither do the Dems). What won Trump the election can be resumed as the empty promises he made to the Rust Belt, which also resonate in places like PA, and barely squeaking by Florida.

Despite the fact that those people know Dennison is a fraud when it comes to that, Pence literally is your traditional Republican. He doesn't have the cred to pull off the anti-globalist meme or sell that bullshit from the get go. All those big media guys you listed were ready to roast Trump after the election, until he won.

I also think Florida was a state Shillary just lost herself for being a terrible candidate. Don't want to take anything away from Don, he won it fair and square, but 150k votes difference considering the damaged goods that was Shillary, I just feel a slightly less known candidate could've made up the difference. You also underestimate the effect of incumbency, IMO, Pence running now would be much more complicated than coming off 8 years of Dems administration.

Obviously, all opinion, I respect yours, but I also have mine.

I don't know man, immigration always seemed at the top of the list when I'd see voters in Clinton's rust belt firewall polled when reading fivethirtyeight.com in 2016. Am I remembering incorrectly? I could be. Pretending to crack down on illegals is pure mainstream Republicanism.

[AaronY]

1033556784710148096

[boutons_deux]

"crack down on illegals is pure mainstream Republicanism"

the oligarchy has screwed the non-oligarchy, esp those in the bottom 2 quintiles.

To deflect from their own sociopathy as the real culprits responsible for screwing over people,

The oligarchy tells 1000s of lies, decades of racist propaganda, to scapegoat illegals, Mexicans, Welfare Queens in Cadillacs, "young bucks", as cheating, lazy criminals,

giving the white people, Repugs and Dems, on the bottom someone to look down on,

so they can tell themselves they aren't the bottom,

"there's somebody screwing me and (I'm told that) it's Those People"

And what shitbags do we get?

Stephen FUCKING Miller, and fucking racist JeBo,

the oligarchy's very own versions of a Hitlerian ethnic cleansers.

[ducks]

https://www.facebook.com/NationInDistress/photos/a.226861490778020/1574081309389358/?type=3&theater

[ducks]

both sides they wanted to do something about the illegals clintons gave speeches saying it but now trump is the left having a fit

[benefactor]

I am not a janitor I am a computer tech that supports his wife and kids
:lol married with kids and threatening to beat anonymous people up online

I find it troubling that you reproduced

[boutons_deux]

Measuring Presidents’ Misdeeds

During Watergate, historians helped catalogue accusations made against past Presidents; their findings may be useful again.

These days, even Nixon’s underhandedness begins to look upstanding.

William McFeely, now eighty-seven, and retired from the University of Georgia, covered Andrew Johnson and Grant.

“I think Nixon was pretty bad, but I think that even he had a respect for the Constitution, and for a constitutional sense of the value of the Presidency,” McFeely says.

“Trump trounces on those.”

Woodward, reviewing the 1974 findings, made a list of never-befores:

“Heretofore, no president has been proved to be the chief coordinator of the crime and misdemeanor charged against his own administration as a deliberate course of conduct or plan.

Heretofore, no president has been held to be the chief personal beneficiary of misconduct in his administration or of measures taken to destroy or cover up evidence of it.

Heretofore, the malfeasance and misdemeanor have had no confessed ideological purposes, no constitutionally subversive ends.

Heretofore, no president has been accused of extensively subverting and secretly using established government agencies to defame or discredit political opponents and critics, to obstruct justice, to conceal misconduct and protect criminals, or to deprive citizens of their rights and liberties.”

Trump has already done some of them—

not secretly but publicly, gleefully, and without consequence—

and is under investigation for more.

“However much Richard Nixon deserved impeachment and the end of his Presidency,” he says,

“what he did does not match the Trump Presidency in its malfeasance,

and in the depth of his failure as President.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/measuring-presidents-misdeeds?mbid=nl_Daily%20082618&CNDID=43758549&utm_source=Silverpop&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20082618&utm_content=&spMailingID=14134866&spUserID=MTQzNTk4NzA3ODYzS0&spJobID=1462329981&spReportId=MTQ2MjMyOTk4MQS2

[Blake]

:lol married with kids and threatening to beat anonymous people up online

I find it troubling that you reproduced

And has terrible communication skills

[benefactor]

And has terrible communication skills
...and he's been here for over a decade. You'd think he'd at least learn how to spell and properly make a thread. How can you be a computer tech and post on a message board for that long and you can't form a proper sentence?

:lol broom wielding retard
:lol Carl from Slingblade

[Chris]

Tossin' back IPAs all day breh, I'm so edgy.

[benefactor]

Tossin' back IPAs all day breh, I'm so edgy.
Yep...and I do it because I like them and can think for myself and make my own choices...instead of having others think for me.:tu

[ducks]

:lol married with kids and threatening to beat anonymous people up online

I find it troubling that you reproduced
I find it troubling what you want USA to become

[FrostKing]

Tossin' back IPAs all day breh, I'm so edgy.
I'm on that LAGER since returning from Europe

[Chris]

1033859904690380800

[Chris]

1033869200190787585

[benefactor]

I find it troubling what you want USA to become
Stop worrying about all that and go play with your kids, ducks. They miss you.

[Luka Doncic]

1033162713378127873

:lmao

[DMX7]

1033162713378127873

:lmao

:rollin

[Blake]

1033859904690380800

:lol "giving it back to the people"

How much have you gotten back so far, Chris?

[Blake]

1033162713378127873

:lmao

Good lord there's an example of one two feet across the table.

[Avante]

:lol "giving it back to the people"

How much have you gotten back so far, Chris?

Why can't you stay on topic ya little shit? Get the fuck out of here.

[Pavlov]

1033162713378127873

:lmao
Looks more like the Russian flag now tbh.

[AaronY]

Good lord there's an example of one two feet across the table.
He has a flag pin on his fucking jacket :lmao

[Reck]

Tossin' back IPAs all day breh, I'm so edgy.

Is it any of your business what other people do with their life, Chris?

Go fuck a maid or something.

[dabom]

1033162713378127873

:lmao

:lmao

[benefactor]

1033162713378127873

:lmao


Good lord there's an example of one two feet across the table.


He has a flag pin on his fucking jacket :lmao
:rollin

[boutons_deux]

In perverting the American flag with BFF Pootin on his mind, he can't even get the Russian flag right
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jHcAAOSwT6pVm5Eu/s-l300.jpg

[Blake]

Why can't you stay on topic ya little shit? Get the fuck out of here.

I'm directly on topic you fucking idiot.

Stop following me around and humping my leg.

[boutons_deux]

Trash is functionally illiterate

Trump Tweeted That 52 Percent of Americans Approve of Him —

It's Actually His Disapproval Rating :lol

Trump appears to be severely confused about a new Wall Street Journal poll.

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trump-tweets-wsj-disapproval-rating-approval-rating

[hitmanyr2k]

:lol

1034114817848758273

[Winehole23]

view from Canada:


Trump inaccurately referred to the preliminary agreement with Mexico as if it were a final trade agreement of its own, separate from North American Free Trade Agreement. He called it “the United States-Mexico Trade Agreement,” and he said he was not sure if Canada would be permitted to join it. He also threatened auto tariffs on Canada, saying, “The easiest thing we can do is tariff their cars coming in.”


In fact, the U.S. and Mexico have not made a separate trade agreement to replace NAFTA, nor come to a final accord of any kind. Rather, they have made a kind of sub-deal that will now be folded into the ongoing three-country NAFTA talks as Trump’s trade officials scramble to complete a three-country deal.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/08/10/us-and-mexico-make-nafta-breakthrough-increasing-chances-of-final-deal.html

[Reck]

Trash is functionally illiterate

Trump Tweeted That 52 Percent of Americans Approve of Him —

It's Actually His Disapproval Rating :lol

Trump appears to be severely confused about a new Wall Street Journal poll.

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trump-tweets-wsj-disapproval-rating-approval-rating




He probably saw the Rassmussen(:lol) poll whcih always has him well over 50% for some hacky partisan reason.

[Reck]

view from Canada:

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/08/10/us-and-mexico-make-nafta-breakthrough-increasing-chances-of-final-deal.html

Does not matter.

MAGAers are already claiming this is the best deal ever.

[Winehole23]

had to get something done before AMLO takes over

[boutons_deux]

'Art of the Deal' ghostwriter: Weisselberg flip will end Trump — equivalent to Nixon tapes (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/24/1790723/--Art-of-the-Deal-ghostwriter-Weisselberg-flip-will-end-Trump-equivalent-to-Nixon-tapes)

Schwartz knows Trump and his business better than just about anyone outside of Trump’s family.

And, simply put, he thinks the recent immunity deal Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg struck with prosecutors will end Trump.

Tony Schwartz
✔@tonyschwartz
(https://twitter.com/tonyschwartz)
The other shoe has dropped —

the smoking gun equivalent to Nixon’s tapes.

Alan Weisselberg knows everything.

Trump will resign as I always assumed. Only matter of time now.
10:08 AM - Aug 24, 2018 (https://twitter.com/tonyschwartz/status/1033008038800760833)

================

Weisselberg’s cooperation deal is “a potentially momentous turn of events for the president.”

it’s easy to see how Weisselberg’s cooperation will be a sufficient (if not necessary) condition leading to Trump’s eventual downfall.

In other words, this is a focking game-changer:

Weisselberg is deeply familiar with the Trump Organization’s financial housekeeping.

Trump — a man who rarely trusts anyone — confided in Weisselberg and relied on him to sign off on details of the company’s most significant deals.

Weisselberg oversees the trust that Trump set up to manage his interests in the Trump Organization while he’s in the White House, and

also had a prominent position inside the president’s troubled charitable foundation.

In short, he was privy to decisions at the Trump Organization that [Michael] Cohen was never allowed to take part in.

That kind of knowledge is gold to federal investigators.

Mueller’s team signaled long ago that it might take a closer look at the president’s business dealings as part of its examination of Russia’s assault on the presidential campaign.

It’s likely that the probe is exploring whether Trump or others on his business and campaign teams — including members of his family — discussed exchanging policy favors (lifting economic sanctions on Russia, for example, or shifting the U.S. stance on Russia’s military incursion into Ukraine) in exchange for financial or political quid pro quos.

Trump’s intersection with murky funding (https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-29/felix-sater-is-a-lean-mean-trump-russia-machine) from overseas sources, including Russia, goes back years

(as I’ve detailed before in columns about the Trump SoHo (https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-21/trump-russia-and-those-shadowy-sater-deals-at-bayrock) hotel and Trump’s partnership with the Bayrock Group (https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-23/hey-mueller-you-should-check-out-iceland)).

In a column (https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-16/cohen-isn-t-the-biggest-catch-from-trump-world) about Cohen and Weisselberg in April, I noted that Weisselberg was a possible candidate for a subpoena given the fact that

Mueller had already subpoenaed the Trump Organization for business records —

and given the fact that Weisselberg has had a front row seat in deals involving transactions like the Trump SoHo.


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/24/1790723/--Art-of-the-Deal-ghostwriter-Weisselberg-flip-will-end-Trump-equivalent-to-Nixon-tapes?detail=emaildkre

So what crimes/leverage can Mueller offer W to get him to flip?

[Brazil]

I find it troubling what you want USA to become

I find it troubling USA continues to produce illiterate and dumb as rocks grown ups like you

[StinkyWeezleteats]

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/images/misc/quote_icon.png Originally Posted by ducks (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=9519497#post9519497)
I find it troubling what you want USA to become




I find it troubling USA continues to produce illiterate and dumb as rocks grown ups like you

:bobo

[FrostKing]

https://i.imgur.com/vfIqtLH.png

[RandomGuy]

Stop worrying about all that and go play with your kids, ducks. They miss you.

I kinda doubt that. Ducks is the kind of POS whose kids slowly start to ignore him over time, because they realize their father was a jackass.

[rmt]

The typical Republican candidate wouldn't brag about sexual assault, lust after a little kid on video, defraud a bunch of students with a fake university, hide his tax returns, suck up to Putin, be unable to get credit from American banks, be surrounded by a bunch of felons in his inner circle, appoint family to high positions, shit on the first amendment by trying to convince America the free press is the enemy of the people, endorse a child molester for the senate, give away classified information to Russia, etc. Fuck off with trying to normalize this pos.

I guess I'm not getting my point across - that Trump is not your typical Repub Christian/evangelical candidate.

[baseline bum]

I guess I'm not getting my point across - that Trump is not your typical Repub Christian/evangelical candidate.

Your point is crying about how unfair the media has been. :cry Poor Benedict Donald never getting a fair shake. :cry

[rmt]

I don't know man, immigration always seemed at the top of the list when I'd see voters in Clinton's rust belt firewall polled when reading fivethirtyeight.com in 2016. Am I remembering incorrectly? I could be. Pretending to crack down on illegals is pure mainstream Republicanism.

IMHO, it's not about immigration or race - it's pure economics. Most typical Americans aren't following politics like people on this board - they're the ones in the middle just living life - not the extreme ends. They're mostly concerned about their family and what affects them and most likely will vote their pocketbooks. However, I always qualify with - the Trump hate is strong - and then emotion overtakes common sense/logic.

[Reck]

:lol Thinking Trump is any kind of Christian or evangelical or whatever.

I thought that was something they used as an excuse to vote for him. Not something they actually buy whole heartedly.

[baseline bum]

IMHO, it's not about immigration or race - it's pure economics. Most typical Americans aren't following politics like people on this board - they're the ones in the middle just living life - not the extreme ends. They're mostly concerned about their family and what affects them and most likely will vote their pocketbooks. However, I always qualify with - the Trump hate is strong - and then emotion overtakes common sense/logic.

Trump's entire campaign was about emotion and the feels. LOL trickle down upward wealth distribution being common sense.

[rmt]

Trump's entire campaign was about emotion and the feels. LOL trickle down upward wealth distribution being common sense.

I would think a lot of middle class Americans are feeling pretty good today - record high in S&P/Nasdaq/stock market - economy looking good - unemployment low - they're probably better off under Trump than Obama - that's what I mean about common sense (what directly affects them/their pocketbook being in better state) than immigration/race issues they see on TV.

[monosylab1k]

I would think a lot of middle class Americans are feeling pretty good today - record high in S&P/Nasdaq/stock market - economy looking good - unemployment low - they're probably better off under Trump than Obama - that's what I mean about common sense (what directly affects them/their pocketbook being in better state) than immigration/race issues they see on TV.
Middle class Americans don’t give a fuck about the stock market you dumb gook.

[baseline bum]

Middle class Americans don’t give a fuck about the stock market you dumb gook.

No shit. Most Americans, middle class included, live paycheck to paycheck. LOL Obama leading us out of Bush's Great Recession was meaningless but a strong economy now is all Trump?

[Winehole23]

No shit. Most Americans, middle class included, live paycheck to paycheck. LOL Obama leading us out of Bush's Great Recession was meaningless but a strong economy now is all Trump?20% of the people own 80% of the stocks. so maybe half of that cohort is upper middle class. like, upper, upper middle class.

the other 20% of stocks would mainly be owned by middle class folks -- like public sector (state and local employee/police/teacher/FD) pension funds. which are just getting creamed right now by underinvestment by states, financial repression at the federal level and its corollary, high management fees in private equity.

wages have been flat for 40 years, while medical costs, college and rent have gone up a lot over the same period.

so yeah, it's the economy, dummy.

[Winehole23]

regarding blind political hate, it's true that only thing that has surpassed Trump hate and Hilary hate in my lifetime is Obama hate.

sorta goes with the territory, but it sure doesn't help to be black.

[Chris]

:lol Thinking Trump is any kind of Christian or evangelical or whatever.

What is Trump's religion? Give us the skinny Reck.

[Chris]

Trump's entire campaign was about emotion and the feels.

Coming from a Liberal, this is hilarious :lol

[Spurminator]

What is Trump's religion? Give us the skinny Reck.

Narcissism.

[Chris]

Watch ANTIFA get rolled in Philly with Hulk Hogan music :tu


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[Chris]

Narcissism.

Thanks Reck.

[rmt]

Trump's entire campaign was about emotion and the feels.

We were talking about the voters/electorate and how they vote - not the campaigns (and it's not like Hillary's campaign was not how deplorable Trump [and his supporters] were).



regarding blind political hate, it's true that only thing that has surpassed Trump hate and Hilary hate in my lifetime is Obama hate.

sorta goes with the territory, but it sure doesn't help to be black.

I dunno know. I don't think there were (hundreds of?) thousands of people marching/protesting the weekend after Obama was elected/inaugurated, were there? I didn't like Obama's policies, but he himself was not unlikeable - he was as smooth as silk - kinda reminds me of Jamaal Wilkes :-) for those of you old enough to know him.

[baseline bum]

We were talking about the voters/electorate and how they vote - not the campaigns (and it's not like Hillary's campaign was not how deplorable Trump [and his supporters] were).


Honestly I don't what the fuck you're talking about in this thread. In the same post you were saying people vote logically based on the economy and then right after they vote based on emotion.

[Chris]

Honestly I don't what the fuck you're talking about in this thread. In the same post you were saying people vote logically based on the economy and then right after they vote based on emotion.

Sorry to interject, but I don't think it's so black and white. Trump tapped in to all facets to win the election. A woman (or man) with little to no knowledge about policy can vote strictly based on her emotion. The Democrats are experts at tapping in to that emotion, but are failing to deliver on policy. Hillary's warmongering rhetoric with Russia during the debates withstanding.

[Winehole23]

Coming from a Liberal, this is hilarious :lolalso, true.

Trump connected emotionally with voters. HRC not so much.

[Winehole23]

Trump is also an expert at failing to deliver on policy. if the GOP loses the House in the midterms he might well finish without any major legislative accomplishments.

better hope conservative POTUS appointments stay that way, DJT hasn't much else to brag on.

[Blake]

Sorry to interject, but I don't think it's so black and white. Trump tapped in to all facets to win the election. A woman (or man) with little to no knowledge about policy can vote strictly based on her emotion. The Democrats are experts at tapping in to that emotion, but are failing to deliver on policy. Hillary's warmongering rhetoric with Russia during the debates withstanding.

There's people like you that vote with complete abandon for logic by picking one team and sticking with it hell or high water.

[baseline bum]

Trump is also an expert at failing to deliver on policy. if the GOP loses the House in the midterms he might well finish without any major legislative accomplishments.

better hope conservative POTUS appointments stay that way, DJT hasn't much else to brag on.

The tax plan was pretty major.

[Winehole23]

that's the one big thing

[Winehole23]

in principle it could be undone, but it's not very likely

[Reck]

What is Trump's religion? Give us the skinny Reck.

Is sure as fuck not what you think it is.

If you want my opinion, he has none. He uses clingy and needy faggots like yourself to shill for him while he grabs bitches by the pussy while also raking in those donations from the evangelical christians. :lol

[Winehole23]

surprise, surprise, a study shows that economic confidence surveys are politically skewed.

buzzword: expressive reporting


https://static.politico.com/dims4/default/0a2ebdb/2147483647/resize/658x%3E/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F64%2F1f%2 Fbb00805d4daaa085d413c1149545%2Fscreen-shot-2018-08-26-at-6.51.11%20PM.pnghttps://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/27/trump-economy-partisan-influence-consumer-confidence-219602

[Winehole23]

Our study found that after Trump’s election, Democrats, as members of the losing party, became less likely to purchase cars and invest in real estate, as demonstrated by search patterns, even when controlling for geographic and demographic variation. And despite Republicans’ extremely high reported confidence in the economy, our study did not find a meaningful change in their purchasing patterns

[boutons_deux]

also, true.

Trump connected emotionally with voters. HRC not so much.

Trash LIED about his "policies" and Hillary did hardly policy talk

"drink a beer with" and "likeability" are not ways to run a govt. Fucking dumbed down Americans

[boutons_deux]

https://media.newyorker.com/cartoons/5b855d8a395bcc57d4c0aeb0/master/w_1298,c_limit/DC0828.jpg

The President CompromiseD

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump Directly Involved In FBI Headquarters Decision, Watchdog Report Says

The president participated in two meetings where officials decided to build a new FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., according to a government report.

Rep. Gerry Connolly, a northern Virginia Democrat who supports moving the FBI to the suburbs,

called for additional congressional hearings to uncover the extent of Trump’s involvement.

He said the project is rife with conflicts of interest for Trump, whose Trump International Hotel is essentially across the street from the FBI headquarters.
“When we began this investigation, the prospect that President Trump was personally involved in the government-led redevelopment of a property in close proximity to the Trump Hotel was dismissed as a conspiracy theory,” Connolly said.

while GSA employees confirmed the White House meetings with Trump, they received instructions not to divulge any statements Trump made at those meetings.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-fbi-headquarters-involvement_us_5b849b9be4b0cf7b002e516c?utm_medium =email&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__082818&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__082818+CID_94fb40e2 30801aedbe92dae5288c1eb4&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=AP&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__082818

[AaronY]

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[LkrFan]

Stormy: he's a 2-pump chump

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:lmao

[FrostKing]

Lol what a whore

[Blake]

Lol what a whore

No kidding.

But so is Stormy tbh.

[FrostKing]

No kidding.

But so is Stormy tbh.
Trump is a finisher. He finishes

[clambake]

Trump is a finisher. He finishes
apparently, almost before he starts.

[Blake]

Trump is a finisher. He finishes

Trumptards even imagine his sexual prowess.

[Pavlov]

apparently, almost before he starts.:lmao

[FrostKing]

apparently, almost before he starts.
Time is money for The Don.

[Pavlov]

:lmao a Pole making excuses for Dennison's premature ejaculation.

[clambake]

Time is money for The Don.

yeah, about a thousand dollars a second.

[boutons_deux]

Trump says Google, Twitter, and Facebook are on ‘troubled territory’ and ‘better be careful’

President Donald Trump has made more veiled threats toward Google and other web platforms,

after tweeting this morning that Google had “rigged” its search results (https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/28/17790164/president-trump-google-left-wing-bias-claims) to suppress positive news about him.

Trump told reporters during an Oval Office press meeting that

Google, Facebook, and Twitter were “treading on very, very troubled territory,” and

that they had “better be careful, because you can’t do that to people.”

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/28/17792764/trump-google-rigged-search-results-claim-response (https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/28/17792764/trump-google-rigged-search-results-claim-response)

[Spurminator]

:cry "why isn't www.MAGA4Ever.com as high in the search results as CNN.com?" :cry

[Spurminator]

Imagine being stupid enough to be motivated by this kind of transparent fearmongering.

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