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| 03-09-18 04:32pm - 2480 days | #201 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User  Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
Protecting the health and well-being of our republic is the duty of every citizen. It is vital people stay informed, vote, and mobilize to support causes they care about. Without that kind of activism, our republic will fail. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-09-18 05:27pm - 2480 days | #202 | |
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Onyx (0)
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| 03-10-18 03:42am - 2479 days | #203 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
"Platitudes?" Really? All I said is that it is the duty of all citizens to see to the well-being of the republic. When I was a kid, that was called "patriotism." I don't care what causes a person cares about. That's very personal, and I didn't want to engage in a hyper-partisan BS war about policy. Be the cause left or right or center (or something else entirely) it doesn't matter, it's just important that people petition the government to see that the policies they want are put into place. That's the simple root of democracy. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." Edited on Mar 10, 2018, 03:45am | |
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| 03-10-18 04:37am - 2479 days | #204 | |
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Onyx (0)
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| 03-10-18 11:44am - 2479 days | #205 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
I can propose all the policy specifics you want. What would you like to debate? I'm just not sure this is the right venue for a long, detailed policy argument, which is why I have refrained. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-11-18 12:12am - 2478 days | #206 | |
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Onyx (0)
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| 03-11-18 12:46am - 2478 days | #207 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
I like arguing too. I argue with pretty much anyone/everyone when it comes to politics. If they're receptive and open-minded enough not to just reiterate a bunch of partisan talking points it's fantastic. I can learn new things, and maybe they can too. I don't care if lk2fireone posts this thread, any more than I didn't care about the rants that came at Obama from the right. If it makes him feel better, so be it. I read them, shake my head, and despair for the republic--not because the policies will ruin us, but because I fear normalizing bad behavior by the president will damage the republic. But life is lived regardless of the whims and pettiness of the political class. Some of Trump's policies have hurt me badly, and he plans to keep bringing on the pain. Some are just stupid, corrupt, or morally and/or intellectually bankrupt. But no matter what the President or Congress does, I have the obligation to live my life to the best of my ability. I keep telling my friends that the republic has endured to this point, and will endure longer. People on both the right and the left disagree on policy, or the role of government in people's lives, but talking to both liberals and conservatives I find most value our republic, their state, and their community. They just have different ideas on what to do to make them better. Onyx, I appreciate your opinion, and try to put a good deal of thought and care in my responses. I don't want to really go into policy here--it would bore the PU community to tears and I feel this isn't the right venue. But if you're really interested in policies that help America, be they left, right, center, or totally out of the box, you'd be a worthy debate opponent. Email me off thread if you want to talk policy. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-13-18 09:11am - 2476 days | #208 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Sean Spicer admits the truth: Rex Tillerson, the outgoing Secretary of State, has severed our nation well. (Spicer also describes himself as a "horrable speller" in his Twitter bio.) Jon Levine | Last Updated: March 13, 2018 @ 8:38 AM Sean Spicer Fox News Sean Spicer did his best to tweet out some praise for outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday, but in the process accidentally dropped an embarrassing typo — saying Tillerson has “severed our nation well.” “Secretary Tillerson is a true patriot that has severed our nation well,” said Spicer. “Thank you for serving. Mike Pompeo will be an outstanding Secretary of State – the Senate should act swiftly to confirm him” | |
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| 03-14-18 08:44am - 2475 days | #209 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Fake news: Trump declares the US needs a Space Force. Decides that Ivanka Trump, First Daughter of the United States, will be the Commander in Chief. She will be the leader who will defend America against any aggression in Outer Space. ----- ----- Science Trump's Call For A 'Space Force' Makes Him The Laughingstock Of The Galaxy HuffPost Ed Mazza,HuffPost 11 hours ago President Donald Trump thinks the United States should launch a "Space Force," President Donald Trump thinks the United States should launch a “Space Force,” a branch of the military devoted to wars in space. “Space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air and sea,” Trump said on Tuesday at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. “We may even have a Space Force, develop another one, Space Force. We have the Air Force, we’ll have the Space Force.” At first, Trump said he wasn’t serious about the notion. “Then I said, ‘What a great idea!’ Maybe we’ll have to do that,’” Trump said. “So think of that: Space Force, because we are spending a lot and we have a lot of private money coming in, tremendous.” He also described the U.S. military as “vital to ensuring America continues to lead the way into the stars.” For the moment, however, his idea for a Space Force led to much laughter on Twitter: This article originally appeared on HuffPost. Comment Guidelines President Trump says hints at creation of a 'Space Force' Trump tells military members at Miramar Air Station in San Diego, California that space is a war-fighting domain. Newsweek What Is a Space Force? How a Trump Joke Became ‘a Great Idea’ Newsweek Shane Croucher,Newsweek 7 hours ago President Donald Trump said he wants to create an army capable of fighting wars in space in what began as a joke but he later said was “a great idea.” “My new national strategy for space recognizes that space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air, and sea,” Trump told a crowd of Marines at the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego, California. “We may even have a Space Force, develop another one, Space Force. We have the Air Force. We'll have the Space Force. We have the army, the navy. I was saying it the other day because we're doing a tremendous amount of work in space. I said maybe we need a new force, we'll call it the Space Force. And I was not really serious. Then I said 'what a great idea, maybe we'll have to do that'.” Trending: Trump Cleans House: VA Secretary David Shulkin May Be Next in Firing Line Donald Trump Space Force U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California, U.S. March 13, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque As the audience of Marines laughed and cheered, he added: “That could happen. That could be the big breaking story. Oh that fake news.” Trump continued: "So think of that: Space Force. Because we're spending a lot, and we have a lot of private money coming in, tremendous. “From the very beginning, most of our astronauts have been soldiers and sailors, airmen, coastguardsmen, and Marines. And our service members will be vital to ensuring America continues to lead the way into the stars. We're going to lead the way in space. “We're way, way behind. And we're catching up fast. So fast that nobody even believes it.” Trump appeared to be echoing a warning made by General John E. Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, in a statement to the House Committee on Armed Services on March 7. Don't miss: Stephen Hawking Once Gave England's Soccer Team a Pre-World Cup Formula For Winning “Today, deterrence is more than just our nuclear capabilities,” Hyten said. “Deterrence requires integrated planning for all capabilities, across all domains. This enables the synchronized operation and decisive response to adversary aggression anytime, anywhere. “We must make this concept operational for all domain warfighting throughout the DoD. We must normalize space and cyberspace as warfighting domains. “There is no war in space, just as there is no war in cyberspace. There is only war, and war can extend into any domain.” The notion of a future where rival states fight in space is not a new one. Space is already used by states for military purposes, such as satellites for surveillance, and it was a focus of weapons research during the Cold War. Back in 2015, the Department of Defense unveiled a new Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center (JICSpOC) "in conjunction with U.S. Strategic Command, Air Force Space Command, and the intelligence community". "The center will have the capability to develop, test, validate and integrate new space system tactics, techniques and procedures in support of both DoD and Intelligence Community space operations," the DoD said in a release. Most popular: Nursing Student Haley Anderson Murder Update: Ex-Boyfriend Arrested in Nicaragua "Ultimately, the output of the JICSpOC will enhance U.S. space operations, contribute to operational command and control within the DoD, and improve the nation's ability to protect and defend critical national space infrastructure in an increasingly contested space environment." JICSpOC was renamed in 2017 as the National Space Defense Center. Trump is not the first person to come up with the concept of a U.S. Space Force. Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican in Alabama and former chairman of the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee, floated the idea of a Space Force in 2017. “We have to acknowledge that the national security space structure is broken,” he said in a speech at the 33rd Space Symposium, reported Space News. “It’s very hard for a government bureaucracy to fix itself, and that’s exactly why congressional oversight exists. It’s the job of the Armed Services Committee to recognize when the bureaucracy is broken and to see that it’s fixed.” Rogers concluded: "My vision of the future is a separate Space Force within the Department of Defense." In January 2018, Russia accused the U.S. of trying to "militarize" space. This article was first written by Newsweek | |
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| 03-14-18 09:58am - 2475 days | #210 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Fake news: CNN (a news agency) reports that Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, lied when he stated he had no involvement in the purchase of a $31,000 dining room set. The truth will set you free. But finding the truth in the Trump administration is a difficult task. Because the Trump administration officials are most often the source of fake news. (They lie a lot. And believe people will accept their lies.) Washington emails show that Carson was definitely involved. ------ ------ https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/politics/...CNN+-+Most+Recent%29 First on CNN: Emails show Ben, Candy Carson selected $31,000 dining set Rene Marsh-Profile-Image Gregory Wallace Profile By Rene Marsh and Gregory Wallace, CNN Updated 6:35 AM ET, Wed March 14, 2018 Complaint filed over Carson's office expenses Washington (CNN)Newly released emails cast doubt on claims by Secretary Ben Carson and his spokesman that he had little or no involvement in the purchase of a $31,000 furniture set for his Department of Housing and Urban Development dining room. White House scolds Cabinet officials after embarrassing ethics reports Emails show Carson and his wife selected the furniture themselves. An August email from a career administration staffer, with the subject line "Secretary's dining room set needed," to Carson's assistant refers to "printouts of the furniture the Secretary and Mrs. Carson picked out." The documents were released following a Freedom of Information Act request from American Oversight, a liberal watchdog group led by former Obama administration officials, and offer a snapshot into how the agency acquired the furniture. HUD spokesman Raffi Williams initially denied the Carsons had any involvement in the dining set selection. "Mrs. Carson and the secretary had no awareness that the table was being purchased," he told CNN last month. A HUD spokesman went further at the time, blaming the purchase on an unnamed career staffer. "The secretary did not order a new table. The table was ordered by the career staffers in charge of the building," he said. A few days later, Carson personally addressed the issue, telling CNN in a statement that he was "surprised" by the more than $31,000 price tag and was having the order canceled. The company confirmed a few days after CNN reported the purchase that the agency officially canceled the order on March 1. "I briefly looked at catalogs for dining furniture and was shocked by the cost of the furniture," Carson wrote. "My wife also looked at catalogs and wanted to be sure that the color of the chair fabric of any set that was chosen matched the rest of the decour (sic)." Confronted Tuesday with the discrepancy between his past comments and the internal emails, Williams offered only this explanation: "When presented with options by professional staff, Mrs. Carson participated in the selection of specific styles." The newly released emails show discussions about the dining set going back to last May, when two Carson aides asked for repairs to the chairs of the existing furniture. "Could you all get the dining room chairs tighten up?" one of the aides wrote. "Most of them are loose and wiggling." Another called the chairs "fairly precarious" and wrote that she wanted to "avoid someone having an accident (and embarrassment!) should the chair collapse beneath them." About a week later, HUD received an estimate for $1,100 to repair the chairs, documents obtained by CNN show. One Newport Dining Table Top (96-144") in Medium Mahogany. The cost of this table is $3,113.00. Carson referenced this concern in his statement released earlier this month. The furniture, he said, was "characterized as unsafe" and was "beyond repair and needed to be replaced." Several months after considering repairs to the dining set in early August, HUD's scheduling office reached out to Candy Carson, the secretary's wife. "Hi Mrs. Carson!" the scheduler wrote. "There is a designer who will be in town next week on the 15th-17th to look at possibly redecorating the Secretary's office and bringing in new furniture. Are you available on any of those dates and would you like to come in and have input on the redecorating?" The scheduler noted an urgency to making a decision on the furniture: "We must have the order for new furniture in before the 21st in order to use the money allocated for this fiscal year." The emails do not include a response from Candy Carson, but in his statement to CNN earlier this month, Secretary Carson also acknowledged there was a deadline to make a decision on the furniture purchase. Carson said he and his wife "were told there was a $25,000 budget that had to be used by a certain time or it would be lost." A quote for the dining room furniture, released as part of the FOIA, came in at $24,666, just under budget. The career administration staffer sent the quote to Carson's office, specifically Carson's chief of staff and his executive assistant, casting further doubt on the agency's assertion that the purchase was made entirely by career staff. One breakfront from the James River Collection in Medium Mahogany finish. The cost of this item is $7,091. "Below is the price quote for all of the dining room furniture. I think this is a very reasonable price and the funds are available," the career official wrote. "We also have a justification for the cost (as you know, the furniture hasn't been changed since 198  so this should not be a problem," she added.In one email chain, the interior designer offered HUD officials links to two different bar carts and a bar cabinet that did not end up being part of the final purchase. An email shows the serving cart options came at the request of "leadership," but it doesn't specify who specifically made the request. Four months later, receipts show HUD moved forward with the purchase. The final bill came to nearly $7,000 more than the August quote, due to delivery and installation charges, as well as a small price increase for the upholstered chairs. The newly released emails contradict the expansive denials by a HUD spokesman when CNN first reported this story. The spokesman repeatedly told CNN at the time the Carsons were not involved in the purchase of the pricey dining set. One Hickory Chair Jefferson Sideboard from the Alexa Hampton Collection in Medium Mahogany finish. The base cost $5,279 and the wood top cost $1,209. In total, this piece cost $6,488. "New tables, chairs, in that room whatsoever -- zero awareness of this purchase being made," the spokesman said. "Neither one of them knew this purchase was being made. The secretary knew that the table and chairs were old because somebody fell out of a chair once. That's literally it. So they had nothing to do with the purchase, nothing to do with anything around that." The spokesman, who asked that his name not be used, even denied that Candy Carson had any interest in redecorating the suite. "I don't think it even crossed her mind, this separate room," he said. Revelations of the inconsistencies come just weeks after Secretary Carson used a biblical reference -- Psalms 91 -- in his defense: "Under his wings you will find refuge." | |
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| 03-14-18 10:21am - 2475 days | #211 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Fake news. Mea culpa. I vowed to stay away from this thread. I broke my vow. Reading about Trump and his administration, makes me wonder: how did Trump ever get elected, after smearing so many people with lies and insults? And he continues to smear people. And he treats them with no respect, even the people who work for him. So, even though we are supposed to respect our leaders, they are supposed to earn our respect. I have no respect for Trump, I consider him a bully, a braggart, a liar, a man who breaks the law and considers himself above the law. Instead of making America great again, he is making America a divided country, enciting hatred of races, immigrants, the poor, the dis-advantaged. Edited on Mar 14, 2018, 10:26am | |
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| 03-14-18 12:04pm - 2475 days | #212 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Trump suggests arming teachers to make schools a safer place. However, there are arguments that arming teachers might not make schools a safer place. For example, here is a news report of a teacher who accidentally fired a gun in a school and harmed 3 students: The teacher is a reserve police officer, and he was teaching the students gun safety. So I assume he has been taught gun safety (and would be considered a gun safety expert, since he is a resever police officer). ------------- ------------- California teacher injures three pupils by accidentally firing gun in classroom The Independent Harriet Agerholm,The Independent 5 hours ago A teacher in California has reportedly accidentally fired a gun in a classroom, injuring three children. Police were called to Seaside High School on Tuesday after Dennis Alexander, who was leading a class on gun safety, fired a semi-automatic weapon at the ceiling, local press reported. The incident comes amid fierce debate about gun regulation following a shooting at a Florida High School in which 17 people were killed. Survivors of the massacre have pressed for stricter gun control measures, but Donald Trump has suggested arming teachers. At Seaside High School, one 17-year-old student was hit in the neck by debris falling from the ceiling or by bullet fragments, Seaside Police Chief Abdul Pridgen said. None of the students were seriously injured and lessons resumed after the incident, according to police. Seaside High School in California: Google Mr Alexander is also a councilman and reserve police officer – a typically unpaid, part-time role – for the Sand City Police Department. An investigation into the event has opened and the force is considering whether a crime was committed. “We’re looking into any violation of city ordinance or the penal code and we’ll determine whether or not there are any applicable charges,” Mr Pridgen told the Monterey County Herald. Guns are banned on school premises, but there are exceptions for member of law enforcement, Mr Pridgen said. The father of the 17-year-old boy who was injured told KSBW Mr Alexander was planning to use the gun to demonstrate of how to disarm someone. He had just told pupils he wanted to make sure the weapon was not loaded when he inadvertently fired it. “It’s the craziest thing. It could have been very bad,” he said. The Monterey Peninsula Unified School District sent an email to the parents saying: “Upon learning of the incident, our human resources department, school site administration and the Seaside Police Department immediately began investigating the incident, including interviewing students in the class.” Mr Alexander has been suspended while officials investigate, the letter said. After Mr Trump indicated he would legislate to introduce arming teachers, his administration has left the issue of arming teachers up to states and local communities. The President also backed away from raising the age limit to buy assault-style weapons, saying there was “not much political support” for the policy. The NRA, which spent more than $11m (£7.91m) supporting Mr Trump during the 2016 election, announced it was suing the state of Florida last week over a new gun law signed by Republican Governor Rick Scott, banning the purchase of firearms by anyone under the age of 21, claiming it was unconstitutional. The law also allows the arming and training of school staff and introduced a three-day waiting period on all gun sales and a ban on bump stocks, a device that enables semi-automatic rifles to fire hundreds of rounds a minute. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for former student, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, who has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder over the shooting. | |
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| 03-14-18 10:47pm - 2474 days | #213 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
Trump won election because of an insecure middle class that's seen their economic opportunities wither while Congress dithers. He promised to jump start the economy with tax cuts, infrastructure spending, deregulation, and protectionist trade policies. I don't think people cared about whether he was a womanizer, a racist, fickle, or corrupt. They cared about whether they and their families would survive another four years with declining economic opportunities. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-15-18 06:59am - 2474 days | #214 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Great analysis. At least I can understand it. And believe it. I kept telling myself, why would people vote for him? Unless they were blind. But now I can accept that he won the election, and that it was not a miracle beyond comprehension. Sincerely, thank you. | |
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| 03-15-18 07:44am - 2474 days | #215 | |
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Onyx (0)
In-Activated by Staff Posts: 149 Registered: Nov 28, '17 |
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| 03-15-18 06:27pm - 2474 days | #216 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
Hillary Clinton was always going to be a controversial candidate for the Democratic Party. She carries a lot of baggage with people from her time as First Lady, and starting with a high disapproval rating like she did is a bad start for any candidate. Hillary failed the key test of 2016. When Bill Clinton ran he had a sign on his campaign headquarters wall that read: "It's the economy stupid." Though she outlined many policies, she failed to address the fundamental economic insecurity that was the crux of this election. Onyx, it's ironic that you talked about it being "Hillary's turn." That's how the Republicans decided their presidential candidates for decades. Dole, McCain, and Romney were all taking their turn for the Republicans. 1980 had a brutal primary battle between Reagan and Bush. 2000 had one between Bush and McCain. But usually the Republicans have one standout candidate in the wings. Remember in 2014 how commentators said it was Jeb Bush who was the prohibitive favorite for the Republican nomination? Brutal, bruising primary fights were usually the provenance of the Democratic Party. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-15-18 06:41pm - 2474 days | #217 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
A lot of Democrats and independents can't believe anyone would vote for Trump. They really haven't learned the lessons from the election. Look at the California Democratic Party Convention. They failed to endorse candidates for several competitive races which may mean no Democratic candidate will advance to the general election in vulnerable Republican districts (California has a top-two or "jungle" primary where the two highest finishing candidates in the primaries, regardless of party, advance to the general election), and didn't endorse five-term Senator Dianne Feinstein because she is "too moderate." People want politicians to deliver on the economy and security. Trump pounded those issues. Clinton didn't. Trump's election may invigorate progressives in the short term, but until they consistently show up for every election (not just presidential elections) it won't win progressives anything. Democrats have lost thousands of legislative seats at the state level and dozens of Congressional races because progressives don't vote regularly. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." Edited on Mar 15, 2018, 06:58pm | |
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| 03-16-18 05:22am - 2473 days | #218 | |
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Onyx (0)
In-Activated by Staff Posts: 149 Registered: Nov 28, '17 |
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| 03-16-18 04:46pm - 2473 days | #219 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Trump admitted to lying when he spoke with Canada's Prime Minister. It was not said as a shame-faced confession. Instead, it was a brag about way Trump is able to impress people with his bold style. ------ ------ Politics Seth Meyers: Donald Trump Just Spoke ‘The Truest Thing’ He's Ever Said HuffPost Lee Moran,HuffPost 13 hours ago Seth Meyers revealed an element of truth to one of President Donald Trump’s lies on Thursday’s broadcast of “Late Night.” Earlier this week, Trump openly admitted to “outright lying to Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, about the U.S.’s trade relationship with Canada,” said Meyers. “I had no idea. I just said, ‘You’re wrong.’ You know why? Because we’re so stupid,” Trump said at a Missouri fundraising event on Wednesday. Trump later walked back his story, but Meyers concluded that “in fairness, ‘I lie because I’m stupid’ is the truest thing Trump has ever said.” Meyers also likened the White House’s high turnover of staff to “that crappy restaurant you worked at in college.” “You’d like take two days off, and when you came back there were four trainees and a new manager and now there’s moussaka on the menu and you thought, ‘Oh, this place isn’t going to make it,’” joked Meyers. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 03-16-18 10:17pm - 2472 days | #220 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I hope that Stormy Daniels is able to subpoena Trump and Sessions and get them on the witness stand under oath. Then Robert Mueller can have a chance of putting both these assholes on perjury charges. How can you sue Stormy Daniels for violations of a non-disclosure agreement (that might not be legally valid) without admitting to the details of an affair? Also, Trump's lawyer said he was never paid by Trump or a Trump-related business for the $130,000. Trump's lawyer said the money came from the lawyer. And he was never re-imbursed. Can they put Trump's lawyer on the stand, under oath, and have him state the same? And then put him in jail for perjury, since there appears to be evidence that Trump (through his businesses) did give the lawyer the $130,000. Is this affair just a bunch of smoke about Trump's bullying ways? Or can Trump be brought down, for stupidity in aggressively trying to silence Stormy Daniels? Along with any obstruction of justice in the Mueller investigation? ------ ------ Trump lawyer seeks $20 million damages from Stormy Daniels -filing Reuters Reuters 3 hours ago (Recasts with court filing) By Makini Brice WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - A law firm representing U.S. President Donald Trump and the corporation that paid porn actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 in what she called hush money over an alleged affair with Trump said in a court filing that it was seeking at least $20 million in damages for multiple violations of a nondisclosure agreement. In a filing with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California made public on Friday, the Blakely Law Group also asked for a lawsuit by Daniels that seeks to nullify the agreement to be moved to a federal district court from a county court. Brent Blakely, who filed the action on behalf of Essential Consultants LLC and Trump, did not reply to a request for comment. Under the nondisclosure agreement, Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, could be subjected to a $1 million penalty each time the deal was broken. Daniels has alleged that she had an affair with Trump that began in 2006 and lasted several months. Michael Cohen, a private lawyer for Trump, has said he paid Daniels $130,000 of his own money during the 2016 presidential election campaign. Cohen has not explained why he made the payment and has not said if Trump was aware of it. Attorney Michael Avenatti, who represents Daniels, said on Friday, "This is simply more of the same bullying tactics from the president and Mr. Cohen. They are now attempting to remove this case in order to increase their chances that the matter will ultimately be decided in private arbitration, behind closed doors, outside of public view and scrutiny. "To put it simply - they want to hide the truth from the American people. We will oppose this effort at every turn." Avenatti has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles claiming Trump never signed the nondisclosure agreement, rendering it null and void. "The fact that a sitting president is pursuing over $20 million in bogus 'damages' against a private citizen, who is only trying to tell the public what really happened, is truly remarkable," Avenatti said. In a letter to Cohen on Monday, Daniels offered to return the $130,000 to an account designated by Trump so she could be released from the agreement, which she signed in October 2016. Cohen ignored the offer. Earlier on Friday, Avenatti told MSNBC and CNN that Daniels had been physically threatened and warned to remain silent about her relationship with Trump. Avenatti would not provide details about the threat. He said Clifford would elaborate on it during a CBS "60 Minutes" interview due to be broadcast on March 25. He told Reuters on Friday that six women had been in touch with his law firm to describe relationships with Trump, and that two had signed nondisclosure agreements. (Reporting by Makini Brice Additional reporting by Justin Mitchell and Karen Freifeld Editing by Toni Reinhold ) The Dagger The Dagger Kevin Kaduk,The Dagger 41 minutes ago | |
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| 03-16-18 11:00pm - 2472 days | #221 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Tomorrow (Mar 17, 201 is St. Patrick's Day. Let's celebrate by making America clean again by putting Trump in jail, for lies and brags and slander (which he does again and again, but defending it as political talk, which apparently frees him from telling the truth). Happy St. Patrick's Day, to PU staff and members and visitors. | |
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| 03-16-18 11:06pm - 2472 days | #222 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Read Andrew McCabe's Response To Being Fired Two Days Before His Retirement HuffPost Eline Gordts,HuffPost 3 hours ago Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Friday evening that he had fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, two days before McCabe’s retirement. Sessions said he made the decision after the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General and the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility reviewed McCabe’s conduct during the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton. McCabe responded in a lengthy statement, decrying his firing as an attempt “to taint the FBI, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals more generally.” Read his full statement below: I have been an FBI Special Agent for over 21 years. I spent half of that time investigating Russian Organized Crime as a street agent and Supervisor in New York City. I have spent the second half of my career focusing on national security issues and protecting this country from terrorism. I served in some of the most challenging, demanding investigative and leadership roles in the FBI. And I was privileged to serve as Deputy Director during a particularly tough time. For the last year and a half, my family and I have been the targets of an unrelenting assault on our reputation and my service to this country. Articles too numerous to count have leveled every sort of false, defamatory and degrading allegation against us. The President’s tweets have amplified and exacerbated it all. He called for my firing. He called for me to be stripped of my pension after more than 20 years of service. And all along we have said nothing, never wanting to distract from the mission of the FBI by addressing the lies told and repeated about us. No more. The investigation by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has to be understood in the context of the attacks on my credibility. The investigation flows from my attempt to explain the FBI’s involvement and my supervision of investigations involving Hillary Clinton. I was being portrayed in the media over and over as a political partisan, accused of closing down investigations under political pressure. The FBI was portrayed as caving under that pressure, and making decisions for political rather than law enforcement purposes. Nothing was further from the truth. In fact, this entire investigation stems from my efforts, fully authorized under FBI rules, to set the record straight on behalf of the Bureau, and to make clear that we were continuing an investigation that people in DOJ opposed. The OIG investigation has focused on information I chose to share with a reporter through my public affairs officer and a legal counselor. As Deputy Director, I was one of only a few people who had the authority to do that. It was not a secret, it took place over several days, and others, including the Director, were aware of the interaction with the reporter. It was the type of exchange with the media that the Deputy Director oversees several times per week. In fact, it was the same type of work that I continued to do under Director Wray, at his request. The investigation subsequently focused on who I talked to, when I talked to them, and so forth. During these inquiries, I answered questions truthfully and as accurately as I could amidst the chaos that surrounded me. And when I thought my answers were misunderstood, I contacted investigators to correct them. But looking at that in isolation completely misses the big picture. The big picture is a tale of what can happen when law enforcement is politicized, public servants are attacked, and people who are supposed to cherish and protect our institutions become instruments for damaging those institutions and people. Here is the reality: I am being singled out and treated this way because of the role I played, the actions I took, and the events I witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey. The release of this report was accelerated only after my testimony to the House Intelligence Committee revealed that I would corroborate former Director Comey’s accounts of his discussions with the President. The OIG’s focus on me and this report became a part of an unprecedented effort by the Administration, driven by the President himself, to remove me from my position, destroy my reputation, and possibly strip me of a pension that I worked 21 years to earn. The accelerated release of the report, and the punitive actions taken in response, make sense only when viewed through this lens. Thursday’s comments from the White House are just the latest example of this. This attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort not just to slander me personally, but to taint the FBI, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals more generally. It is part of this Administration’s ongoing war on the FBI and the efforts of the Special Counsel investigation, which continue to this day. Their persistence in this campaign only highlights the importance of the Special Counsel’s work. I have always prided myself on serving my country with distinction and integrity, and I always encouraged those around me to do the same. Just ask them. To have my career end in this way, and to be accused of lacking candor when at worst I was distracted in the midst of chaotic events, is incredibly disappointing and unfair. But it will not erase the important work I was privileged to be a part of, the results of which will in the end be revealed for the country to see. I have unfailing faith in the men and women of the FBI and I am confident that their efforts to seek justice will not be deterred. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 03-17-18 01:01am - 2472 days | #223 | |
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Trump: Master of the smear campaign. ------- ------- Politics McCabe says his Russia probe work sparked smear campaign before firing The former FBI deputy director also calls his ordeal 'personally devastating.' By ELANA SCHOR 03/16/2018 10:13 PM EDT The dismissal from his decades-long home at the department marks an ignominious end to a once-storied career for Andrew McCabe. The president has targeted him in highly personal terms. Conservatives have slammed him as tainted with bias. And on Friday night, the Department of Justice fired Andrew McCabe a little more than 24 hours before his scheduled retirement. The dismissal from his decades-long home at the department marks an ignominious end to a once-storied career for McCabe, who stepped aside as FBI deputy director in January. That departure came ahead of an inspector general’s inquiry that’s expected to criticize his handling of an October 2016 media report on his wife’s failed run for the Virginia State Senate and his handling of investigations into Hillary Clinton. But McCabe sees bigger forces at work in the Justice Department inspector general’s inquiry — which he views as part of a broader campaign to impugn him for his role in handling the FBI’s Russia investigation and his ties to special counsel Robert Mueller. “Look, it’s personally devastating. It’s so tough on my family,” he told POLITICO during a wide-ranging interview conducted earlier this month, before his firing. “But at some point, this has to be seen in the larger context,” said McCabe, 49, who says he has voted for every Republican presidential nominee until he sat out the 2016 contest entirely. “And I firmly believe that this is an ongoing effort to undermine my credibility because of the work that I did on the Russia case, because of the investigations that I oversaw and impacted that target this administration.” “They have every reason to believe that I could end up being a significant witness in whatever the special counsel comes up with, and so they are trying to create this counter-narrative that I am not someone who can be believed or trusted,” McCabe added. “And as someone who has been believed and trusted by really good people for 21 years, it’s just infuriating to me.” Sign up here for POLITICO Huddle While McCabe has been accused of a lack of candor during the inspector general’s review, it is still unclear exactly what led the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility to recommend his firing. During an hourlong conversation, McCabe declined to comment or elaborate on the accusations against him. He also declined to allege any direct undue influence by President Donald Trump or Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the investigation into Russian electoral meddling, which is now helmed by Mueller. But he recalled making what he described as significant moves to bolster the investigation during the tumultuous six weeks between Sessions’ recusal and the May 2017 appointment of Mueller, a former FBI chief who helped McCabe rise through the Justice Department ranks. McCabe said that when he was tapped as acting FBI director after Trump fired James Comey on May 9, 2017, he also learned that “I might not be in the position for a long time.” “I literally walked into the building every day expecting that I would be removed from my position before the end of the day,” he added. “And if that happened, I didn’t want anyone to be able to just walk away from the work that we had done” on the Russia investigation. One step McCabe said he took then: pressing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for a special counsel. Another step: briefing congressional leaders in both parties, who get highly classified briefings as the so-called Gang of Eight, about what he was doing. The Justice Department’s inspector general was already conducting a sweeping inquiry into the FBI’s decision-making process in closing its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server, then disclosing the discovery of new Clinton emails in a message to Congress in late October 2016. That inquiry includes a deeper look at the propriety of McCabe’s pre-election actions, and is the biggest of several unanswered questions raised by critics who say his bias should have disqualified him from playing such a central role in politically volatile investigations. In addition to the Justice Department’s inspector general, McCabe faces an Office of Special Counsel review into whether he violated a law prohibiting government officials from engaging in campaign activity. Among the issues under the inspector general’s purview was whether McCabe himself “should have been recused from participating in certain matters.” Fuel for that political conflagration, which ultimately snuffed out McCabe’s career and now threatens his full pension, stems from Wall Street Journal reports in October 2016 that raised questions about $467,500 in contributions that his wife’s state Senate campaign received in 2015 from the political action committee of then-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a close Clinton ally. Republicans have cited the six-figure donation as proof of a pro-Clinton bias by McCabe and the FBI more broadly. “That’s a lot of money for one state Senate seat,” Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said last year during an FBI oversight hearing, warning that “a cloud of doubt hangs over the FBI’s objectivity.” But McCabe’s most powerful foe may reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. “How can FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the man in charge, along with leakin’ James Comey, of the Phony Hillary Clinton investigation (including her 33,000 illegally deleted emails) be given $700,000 for wife’s campaign by Clinton Puppets during investigation?” the president tweeted in December. (Trump’s $700,000 number rounds up after adding more than $200,000 that Jill McCabe received from Virginia’s state Democratic Party.) Some in the GOP got more alarmed when McCabe showed up in politically charged text messages between FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and bureau attorney Lisa Page, who began a romantic affair before the election and while both were working on issues that included the Russia and Clinton investigations. Mueller later fired Strzok from his team after learning of the texts and another Justice Department inspector general inquiry into them. In one text message to Page, Strzok says that “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk.” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was among those seeing further proof of McCabe’s entanglement in pro-Clinton bias. “That sounds very worrisome to the American people that high-ranking FBI agents were actually conspiring to try to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president,” Paul told MSNBC in January. But when it came to his wife’s campaign, McCabe went into painstaking detail trying to dispel the notion of impropriety that Trump has burnished into Washington’s consciousness. Jill McCabe had voted for Republicans and Democrats, as her husband tells it, before getting approached about a state Senate bid after giving a quote to The Washington Post for a story about McAuliffe’s tour of the pediatric emergency room she helped run. McCabe told a Post reporter that day in 2014 that the Democratic governor’s pitch to expand Medicaid under Obamacare “has to be part of the solution.” After his wife decided to run, according to McCabe, he “immediately got counsel from my attorneys, ethics professionals at the bureau,” to determine how to construct a firewall between his FBI work and her campaign. “I’ve never met Hillary Clinton,” he said. “My wife has never met Hillary Clinton. Neither of us have ever met any Clinton, for that matter. She was supported by the governor of our state, who happened to be the leader of the Democratic Party in that state.” But when a Wall Street Journal reporter called in late October 2016 — nearly a year after Jill McCabe’s election loss — to ask about the propriety of his supervising the Clinton email investigation given his wife’s campaign donations, the deputy director authorized the FBI’s then-chief public affairs official to engage with the reporter. Such a practice, empowering the sharing of background information that can’t be directly cited, is relatively routine at federal agencies when reporters dig into complex stories. McCabe said he was “one of only three people in the FBI” empowered to approve the sharing of information with the press. When the reporter called the FBI again, asking about allegations circulating around the bureau that McCabe had bowed to Justice Department pressure to wind down a probe of the Clinton Foundation, McCabe said he again authorized the disclosure of more details in order to reorient the story in what he believed was a more accurate direction. The prospect that the Journal reporter “would put this incorrect narrative into his story, I thought, would be very damaging,” McCabe said. He acknowledged the obvious — “It would be damaging to me personally” — adding that “the more important factor is that it would be damaging to the FBI.” That decision to share information about an open investigation, and McCabe’s later handling of inspector general inquiries concerning his actions, forms the bulk of the critical report that propelled his firing on Friday. McCabe had long planned to retire on his 50th birthday, which is Sunday. | |
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| 03-17-18 01:08am - 2472 days | #224 | |
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Article continued: “I’d always imagined this was the point where I could kind of go out proud of things I’ve done and the sacrifices I’ve made and ways I’ve tried to protect this country,” McCabe said. “To think that my reputation has now been, or will be, eroded by this — it’s just, it’s mind-boggling. It’s been devastating.” What he wonders about now is the chain of events that began after he testified behind closed doors before the House Intelligence Committee on Dec. 19. “Within hours,” as McCabe put it, leaks to the press revealed that he had told lawmakers he could corroborate Comey’s recounting of conversations with Trump before the president fired his FBI director. And soon after that, as McCabe tells it, he heard that the Justice Department inspector general would expedite the portion of its long-planned report on the Clinton investigation that related to him. “FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits,” Trump tweeted on Dec. 23. “90 days to go?!!!” “I don’t know if anyone from the White House or within the Department influenced the IG,” McCabe said. “It’s a striking coincidence. One that can’t be seen outside the context of the president’s own public communications.” The inspector general’s report has yet to be released, but McCabe was feeling its black mark on his future even before his firing. When it finally does come out, he predicted, it will attempt to bolster the claim by Trump allies that previous FBI leadership “was corrupt, was politically biased, politically motivated.” “[For] some people, like the president and others who are intent on undermining me for the reasons I’ve stated, it will be very satisfying,” McCabe said. “I think most people will be like, ‘Really?’” | |
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| 03-17-18 07:19pm - 2472 days | #225 | |
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AP FACT CHECK: Trump wrong on Russia collusion question Associated Press CALVIN WOODWARD,Associated Press 5 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — In a series of blistering tweets Saturday, President Donald Trump falsely asserted that the House Intelligence Committee has concluded there was no collusion between his presidential campaign and Russia. Trump in his tweets lashed out at his perceived foes tied to the Russia investigation and exulted in the firing of FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, once a leader of the bureau's investigation into Hillary Clinton's email practices. The FBI's decision not to pursue criminal charges against Clinton infuriated Trump at the time, and still does. TRUMP: "As the House Intelligence Committee has concluded, there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump Campaign. As many are now finding out, however, there was tremendous leaking, lying and corruption at the highest levels of the FBI, Justice & State." — tweet. THE FACTS: He's wrong. That conclusion came from Republicans on the committee; it was not a committee finding. Democrats on the committee sharply dispute the Republican conclusions and will issue their own. Whatever the findings of the committee, special counsel Robert Mueller is leading the key investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and Russian contacts with the Trump campaign. The probe has produced a number of charges and convictions, none to date alleging criminal collusion. But Mueller continues to explore whether collusion occurred and whether Trump or others may have obstructed justice. Trump did not specify what he meant in accusing the agencies of corruption. McCabe was fired in advance of an inspector general's report that's expected to conclude he was not forthcoming about matters related to the FBI investigation of Clinton's emails. ___ TRUMP: "The Fake News is beside themselves that McCabe was caught, called out and fired. How many hundreds of thousands of dollars was given to wife's campaign by Crooked H friend, Terry M, who was also under investigation? How many lies? How many leaks? Comey knew it all, and much more!" — tweet. THE FACTS: Some context is missing here. This is true: McCabe's wife, Jill McCabe, ran as a Democrat for the Virginia state Senate in 2015, and the political action committee of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe gave her campaign $500,000 during her race. McAuliffe is a longtime associate of Hillary Clinton, branded "Crooked H" by Trump. Jill McCabe lost the race. Trump's complaint, as he spelled it out in the past, is that Clinton-linked money went to "the wife of the FBI agent who was in charge of her investigation." But that timeline is wrong. Andrew McCabe was elevated to deputy FBI director and didn't become involved in the Clinton email probe until after his wife's bid for office was over. The FBI said McCabe's promotion and supervisory position in the email investigation happened three months after the campaign. The bureau also said in a statement at the time that McCabe sought guidance from agency ethics officers and recused himself from "all FBI investigative matters involving Virginia politics" throughout his wife's campaign. ___ Find AP Fact Checks at http://apne.ws/2kbx8bd Follow @APFactCheck on Twitter: https://twitter.com/APFactCheck EDITOR'S NOTE _ A look at the veracity of claims by political figures | |
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| 03-17-18 08:01pm - 2472 days | #226 | |
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Politics Mike Huckabee Celebrates Firing Of Former FBI Deputy Director By Making Dead Dog Joke HuffPost Sebastian Murdock,HuffPost 6 hours ago Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) loves a good joke. Too bad he has never told one. On Saturday, Huckabee tweeted his delight at the news that Andrew McCabe, former deputy director of the FBI and 21-year veteran of the agency, had been fired the night before. McCabe would have been able to retire Sunday. “Breaking Wind from CNN!” he wrote. “Andy McCabe offered deal for lying to FBI and won’t get pension but will get passage in overhead bin on United flight to Oakland to work for scofflaw mayor.” Huckabee was referring to a dog that died this week after it was put in the overhead bin of a United Airlines flight. David Huckabee, the former governor’s son, killed a dog while working as a counselor at a Boy Scouts camp in 1998. Funny stuff, right? President Donald Trump also tweeted about McCabe’s firing on Saturday, and insisted once again that there had been no collusion between his 2016 presidential campaign and Russian operatives. While at the FBI, McCabe apparently wrote detailed memos about his interactions with Trump. He has since given those memos to special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating the relationship between the Trump campaign and Russia. So perhaps the real joke is on the president. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 03-17-18 08:45pm - 2471 days | #227 | |
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| 03-17-18 09:27pm - 2471 days | #228 | |
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 Gina Haspel for head of the CIA.If she was chosen by Trump, she has to be an excellent choice. The fact that she ran a CIA black site, where detainees in foreign countries were tortured, just shows her determination to fight evil people like Trump wants to do. Love her smile. Could she be Trump's next wife, after he blows off his current?  Edited on Mar 17, 2018, 09:30pm | |
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| 03-17-18 10:23pm - 2471 days | #229 | |
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Loki (0)
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ProPublica, who broke the story about Gina Haspel supposedly running the CIA's enhanced interrogation center in Thailand, has issued a correction. https://www.propublica.org/article/cia-c...tors-role-in-torture While she was head of CIA's station in Thailand, it was AFTER the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah occurred. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-17-18 10:34pm - 2471 days | #230 | |
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Loki (0)
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I somehow doubt Donald Trump is interested in dumping Melania for Gina Haspel. After all, Haspel was a career CIA officer, not the model or porn star that seems his type. Maybe President Trump heard "waterboarding" and thought "watersports" (peeing), and decided Haspel was the woman of his dreams? "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." Edited on Mar 17, 2018, 10:42pm (Loki: added second paragraph) | |
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| 03-18-18 07:55am - 2471 days | #232 | |
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Loki (0)
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Onyx, reporters sometimes make mistakes. Responsible journalistic operations admit them and issue retractions. That's always been the case. There are corrections of stories every day in the newspapers. It's SOP. There is a problem. Doing the right thing as journalists try to do by issuing retractions and corrections is not keeping up with the speed at which people consume and disseminate news. I hardly see how that's the fault of journalism. It's more a judgement on the impatience of people who expect 100% perfection from everything. ProPublica went to great care to explain why they reported what they did, and to set the record straight. They explain what happened in the article I posted a link to. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-18-18 08:01am - 2471 days | #233 | |
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| 03-18-18 08:47am - 2471 days | #234 | |
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Loki (0)
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Onyx, this isn't the first time you've expressed disdain for journalism. I don't expect that we see eye-to-eye on the need for a free press to protect us from government tyranny or malfeasance. I also don't believe everything I read or hear is going to be the truth. That skepticism keeps me from rushing to judgment. Note I did not attack Haspel's qualifications to be CIA director or endorse that she had overseen torture. I actually took care to show that the story was false. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." Edited on Mar 18, 2018, 09:10am (Loki: added second paragraph) | |
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| 03-18-18 09:14am - 2471 days | #235 | |
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| 03-18-18 09:45am - 2471 days | #236 | |
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Bottom line: don't be too quick to believe what you read. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-18-18 10:27am - 2471 days | #237 | |
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Supposedly, Gina Haspel ordered the destruction of some CIA torture tapes. Supposedly, this was a lawful order, because she was following the orders of her boss. The CIA investigated the destruction of the tapes, but filed no charges. Except: how many times do police departments investigate complaints about their own policemen for violence, abuse, shootings that end in the death of unarmed suspects, and no charges are filed? Talk about a one-sided view. The CIA is going to arrest a senior officer for destroying evidence that CIA did a possibly illegal act? Or an act that will create major criticism about the CIA? Of course, the CIA will admit it broke the law. It happens every day. Just look at Trump, who has stated repeatedly, that Comey (FBI) and McCabe (FBI) are liars and incompetents. The news will set you free. Especially the "real" news that Trump tweets. Let Gina Haspel have Donald Trump seized by black operatives and taken to Guantanamo Bay where she can torture the truth out of Trump about the Stormy Daniels affair and Trump's knowledge (the real knowledge, that only torture can reveal) about Trump's collusion with Russia and his illegal attempts to hide the truth from the Mueller investigation. The truth will set you free, Mr. Trump! | |
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| 03-18-18 11:28am - 2471 days | #239 | |
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Loki (0)
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Haspel will face the Senate Intelligence Committee for questioning about her activities in the CIA, as part of her overall confirmation by the Senate. The destruction of the tapes of Abu Zubaydah's torture will likely come up. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-18-18 02:46pm - 2471 days | #240 | |
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Business Jared Kushner’s Company Filed False NYC Paperwork About its Buildings and Pushed Out Tenants, AP Report Alleges Newsweek T.marcin,Newsweek 6 hours ago Before he was a top adviser in Donald Trump's White House, Jared Kushner's real estate company filed false paperwork in New York City claiming it had zero rent-regulated tenants in buildings that in fact had many, which led to the company being able to sell the properties quickly for millions in profit, reported the Associated Press Sunday. In one case, Kushner's company sold three buildings in Astoria—a neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York City—for $60 million just two years after it had bought the properties for much less. The incidents occurred while Kushner was the CEO of the Kushner Cos., but the paperwork did not have his signature, the AP reported, while noting it does show the business had questionable ethics. A watchdog group called the Housing Rights Initiative, which shared paperwork it compiled with the AP, found that Kushner's company filed at least 80 false construction permit applications from 2013-16 that claimed there were no rent-regulated tenants when that wasn't the case. In the case of the buildings in Astoria, for instance, there were 94 rent-regulated units, according to the AP. The Kushner Cos. told the AP in its exclusive report that it would not deny tenants their due-process rights while also saying such documents are outsourced to a third party and reviewed by independent counsel. "It's bare-faced greed," Aaron Carr, founder of Housing Rights Initiative, told the AP. "The fact that the company was falsifying all these applications with the government shows a sordid attempt to avert accountability and get a rapid return on its investment." Kushner, the son-in-law of President Trump, has had an especially embattled tenure in the White House. His security clearance was downgraded last month and he was unable to ever obtain a full security clearance, in part, because he was a central figure in the investigation headed up by special counsel Robert Mueller, CNN reported. Most recently, a report this month from NBC News alleged that Qatari officials had damaging information about the United Arab Emirates' influence on Kushner but chose not to hand it over to Mueller in fear of hurting the nation's relationship with the White House. Both Kushner and Ivanka Trump, his wife, were even the subject of firing rumors this month despite being related to the president. This article was first written by Newsweek | |
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| 03-18-18 02:57pm - 2471 days | #241 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Trump needs to clean house. Fire all the people under him who do not have absolute candor and honesty in all things. That's the standard by which McCabe was fired. That needs to be applied to Trump, himself, and the people he appointed and hired. (Of course, since Trump admitted or boasted that he lied to Trudeau, Trump himself will fall on the sword to protect the United States by resigning before he is impeached.) ---- ---- Exclusive: Sources contradict Sessions' testimony he opposed Russia outreach Reuters By Karen Freifeld, Sarah N. Lynch and Mark Hosenball,Reuters 1 hour 54 minutes ago By Karen Freifeld, Sarah N. Lynch and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' testimony that he opposed a proposal for President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign team to meet with Russians has been contradicted by three people who told Reuters they have spoken about the matter to investigators with Special Counsel Robert Mueller or congressional committees. Sessions testified before Congress in November 2017 that he "pushed back" against the proposal made by former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos at a March 31, 2016 campaign meeting. Then a senator from Alabama, Sessions chaired the meeting as head of the Trump campaign's foreign policy team. "Yes, I pushed back," Sessions told the House Judiciary Committee on Nov. 14, when asked whether he shut down Papadopoulos' proposed outreach to Russia. Sessions has since also been interviewed by Mueller. Three people who attended the March campaign meeting told Reuters they gave their version of events to FBI agents or congressional investigators probing Russian interference in the 2016 election. Although the accounts they provided to Reuters differed in certain respects, all three, who declined to be identified, said Sessions had expressed no objections to Papadopoulos' idea. One person said Sessions was courteous to Papadopoulos and said something to the effect of "okay, interesting." The other two recalled a similar response. "It was almost like, 'Well, thank you and let's move on to the next person,'" one said. However, another meeting attendee, J.D. Gordon, who was the Trump campaign's director of national security, told media outlets including Reuters in November that Sessions strongly opposed Papadopoulos' proposal and said no one should speak of it again. In response to a request for comment, Gordon said on Saturday that he stood by his statement. Sessions, through Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores, declined to comment beyond his prior testimony. The special counsel's office also declined to comment. Spokeswomen for the Democrats and Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee did not comment. Reuters was unable to determine whether Mueller is probing discrepancies in accounts of the March 2016 meeting. The three accounts, which have not been reported, raise new questions about Sessions' testimony regarding contacts with Russia during the campaign. Sessions previously failed to disclose to Congress meetings he had with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, and testified in October that he was not aware of any campaign representatives communicating with Russians. Some Democrats have seized on discrepancies in Sessions' testimony to suggest the attorney general may have committed perjury. A criminal charge would require showing Sessions intended to deceive. Sessions told the House Judiciary Committee that he had always told the truth and testified to the best of his recollection. Legal experts expressed mixed views about the significance of the contradictions cited by the three sources. Sessions could argue he misremembered events or perceived his response in a different way, making any contradictions unintentional, some experts said. Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, said Sessions' words might be too vague to form the basis of a perjury case because there could be different interpretations of what he meant. "If you're talking about false statements, prosecutors look for something that is concrete and clear," he said. Other legal experts said, however, that repeated misstatements by Sessions could enable prosecutors to build a perjury case against him. "Proving there was intent to lie is a heavy burden for the prosecution. But now you have multiple places where Sessions has arguably made false statements," said Bennett Gershman, a Pace University law professor. The March 2016 campaign meeting in Washington was memorialized in a photo Trump posted on Instagram of roughly a dozen men sitting around a table, including Trump, Sessions and Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty in October to lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation about his Russia contacts, is now cooperating with Mueller. According to court documents released after his guilty plea, Papadopoulos said at the campaign meeting that he had connections who could help arrange a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Papadopoulos continued to pursue Russian contacts after the March 2016 meeting and communicated with some campaign officials about his efforts, according to the court documents. Trump has said that he does not remember much of what happened at the "very unimportant" campaign meeting. Trump has said he did not meet Putin before becoming president. Moscow has denied meddling in the election and Trump has denied his campaign colluded with Russia. (Reporting by Karen Freifeld, Sarah N. Lynch and Mark Hosenball; Additional reporting by Jonathan Landay in Washington and Jan Wolfe in New York; Editing by Anthony Lin, Noeleen Walder and Jeffrey Benkoe) | |
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| 03-18-18 07:38pm - 2471 days | #242 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Trump (or his lawyers) sues Stormy Daniels for $20 million for violating the non-disclosure agreement she signed (but Trump himself did not sign). Will Trump be forced to state under oath, in court, that he had an affair with Stormy Daniels? Or can he take the Fifth Amendment, and say nothing? The Fifth Amendment says you can refuse to answer questions that might incriminate yourself. But how would admitting that Trump had an affair with Stormy Daniels be an admission of a criminal act? I doubt that it would be an admission of a criminal act. So Trump could not refuse to answer the question: did he have a sexual relationship with Stormy Daniels? Or could Trump claim executive privilege: That he is the President of the US. It seems a stretch that executive privilege would cover any affair Trump had with Stormy, which happened before he became President. So if Trump is forced into court, which should be legal, since he (or his lawyers) are suing Stormy, he might be forced to admit he had an affair with Stormy. And there might be a bunch of related issues: about the money for the non-disclosure agreement, etc., that could be illegal. But knowing the way Trump has lied in the past, he might just lie and deny the affair. What would be the best defense Trump could use to avoid admitting to the affair? Enguiring minds want to know. | |
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| 03-18-18 08:29pm - 2471 days | #243 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
The Supreme Court has ruled (Clinton v Jones, 1997) that a sitting president has no immunity to civil litigation regarding acts that occurred before taking office or that are unrelated to the official duties of the presidency. It is likely Daniels' lawyers would try to call Trump to testify, but it depends largely on whether the suit is heard in Federal or CA State Court. Federal Courts have been very strict in enforcing arbitration clauses, while state courts have generally been more lenient about allowing civil suits. Also the judge might rule in a motion that Trump, not technically a party to the arbitration agreement, would not have to testify. But being president will not help Trump in this case. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-18-18 08:31pm - 2470 days | #244 | |
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Onyx (0)
In-Activated by Staff Posts: 149 Registered: Nov 28, '17 |
Edited on Mar 20, 2018, 10:12pm | |
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| 03-18-18 08:47pm - 2470 days | #245 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
Whether or not the Stormy Daniels case is ignored by the populace is irrelevant. Justice works slowly, but usually inexorably. It's going to court, so it will be an issue that will continue to pop up in the news, good or ill. It's likely Onyx is right. Trump's base won't care, and his opponents will rejoice over his predicament, but in the end it won't help solve the problems of the country. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-18-18 09:05pm - 2470 days | #246 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
I'd like to see a privacy amendment added to the US Constitution. I'd like to see a market for data, whereby the individual owns their data and companies bargain for it. I'd like to see something done about the US debt crisis. Entitlement spending is projected to grow rapidly and we need to have a serious national discussion about the budget. We need Congress to stop mandating programs but not fully funding them with sufficient revenues. Eventually we're going to hit a brick wall where we need massive cuts to programs and to raise taxes dramatically to prevent economic disaster. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-19-18 09:21am - 2470 days | #247 | |
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Onyx (0)
In-Activated by Staff Posts: 149 Registered: Nov 28, '17 |
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| 03-19-18 05:28pm - 2470 days | #248 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
Onyx, you are right about me being mostly concerned about my privacy being protected from companies. The government has regulations that limit it's gathering information, and if those are broken, you have redress to the courts. No such limitations or redress is available against corporations. Cutting entitlements would be deleterious to the health and well-being of retirees and the poor. There is little political will to do it, mostly because that would drastically increase poverty, hunger, and homelessness and impair public health. Reforms to entitlements must be made, but I feel the answer lies in increasing government revenues to match expenditures. The problem is that Congress (both parties) has a penchant for spending any new revenues on new programs instead of shoring up the government's financial situation. I personally trust the FBI, CIA, and DOJ as little (very little) as I ever did. I don't buy the Trump line about them being "Deep State" enemies. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." | |
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| 03-19-18 07:11pm - 2470 days | #249 | |
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Onyx (0)
In-Activated by Staff Posts: 149 Registered: Nov 28, '17 |
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| 03-19-18 07:52pm - 2470 days | #250 | |
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Loki (0)
Active User Posts: 395 Registered: Jun 13, '07 Location: California |
I am well aware of what Snowden revealed. It was no surprise. Privacy, as I am told by all my techies friends, is an outdated concept. This disgusts me. Cutting entitlements sounds better than it would be in practice. Are you ready to have masses of starving homeless? Would you then increase law enforcement to deal with them? You'd save tax money on entitlements, but law enforcement and corrections spending would skyrocket. We already provide most mental health care in jails and prisons. It costs more to imprison people than to just provide the health care and housing in the private sector. The federal government is a better way to provide relief than private charity. One reason is that government can do it with better economy of scale. Another is that charities can discriminate. Another is that with government oversight, people with similar needs won't be accepted for aid in some places and denied in others. It's better that we tax everyone to provide assistance than rely on private donations, which would cause different funding in different locales. The benefits are measly now. I shudder to think what happens when the poor, disabled, and elderly are left to the whims of the private sector. "A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." Edited on Mar 19, 2018, 08:01pm | |
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