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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 16:45:34 GMT
Ah no to both of them. The Democrats have better choices . ABC News.... “Bernie Sanders is considering another run for president, according to his former campaign manager, even it means running against Elizabeth Warren. abcn.ws/2KwZDbY” And some responses... “I like Bernie, but not enough to vote for him. Give me a young passionate Democrat with morals and values! Preferably female, it is time for the men to give us ladies a chance! (No I wouldn't only vote based on gender.)” & “I look forward to the day we say Madam President and have a President my younger sister, mother and aunts can connect to, but right now I have my money on @repjoekennedy. But if a great female candidate like @kamalaharris or a surprise like @barackobama in 08 runs, (1/2)”. Harris/Kennedy is my dream ticket for 2020 with Kennedy running for president 8 years later. And I’m glad to see I’m not the only one zeroing in on Kamala Harris and Joe Kennedy III
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 17:05:50 GMT
Phillip Rucker....
“Lots of detail here on Trump’s call with Moon last night and rising concerns inside the White House that North Korea summit may not go well, via @davidnakamura & @carolleonnig”
Maybe this is why trump had the twitter rant this morning.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 17:42:41 GMT
Chris Lu....
“A Trump associate just named a confidential informant on network TV, highlighting both the hypocrisy of a president who claims to support law enforcement and the lengths that the Trump team will go to protect him. That should deeply trouble all Americans, regardless of party.”
My guess is the right will just shrug.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 17:45:39 GMT
trump.....
“I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!”
”I nearby demand”!!! Who in the hell does he think he is?
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 18:05:20 GMT
The Hill...
“NEW POLL: Vast majority of Americans believe Trump is looking out for big business interests hill.cm/FOCJWwe”
Duh.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 18:13:27 GMT
Alina Polyakova...
“Russian parliament voted unanimously on a law that would criminalize dissent, @vkaramurza and other Russians who want a better future for their country are the targets. These are the actions of a deeply insecure and nervous regime not a “great power”
Is this much different from what trump is doing? Or trying to?
trump is so paranoid, so convinced that “they” are out to get him we now have him declaring “I hereby demand”. A phrase I’m pretty sure the Founding Farthers were working to get away from when they formed this country.
I guess this is my version of a Sunday morning rant.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 20, 2018 18:22:01 GMT
“A Trump associate just named a confidential informant on network TV, highlighting both the hypocrisy of a president who claims to support law enforcement and the lengths that the Trump team will go to protect him. That should deeply trouble all Americans, regardless of party.” He has released confidential informaion, he should lose his security clearance!! ”I nearby demand”!!! Who in the hell does he think he is? Unfortunately he is the president, but thinks he is/acts like a dictator! The more this goes on, the more I truly wish to see him behind BARS!!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 20, 2018 18:23:24 GMT
A phrase I’m pretty sure the Founding Farthers were working to get away from when they formed this country. I needed that!!
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 18:30:24 GMT
Jon Favreau....
“Until one of these right-wing conspiracy theorists can tell us how the FBI tried to sabotage the Trump campaign by announcing they were re-opening the investigation into the Clinton campaign a week before the election, I’m all good with their red string corkboard bullshit.”
Again FiveThirtyEight has said it was Comey’s letter about nothing just days before the election that ultimately sunk Hillary. They based their assumption on average daily polls that showed Hillary’s numbers tanking once that letter was released.
donnie dimwit keeps ignoring that one little important fact.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 18:34:34 GMT
Matthew Gertz...
“This is a demand by the head of the Trump administration to open an investigation for political purposes. The point, yet again, is to create enough ambiguity to give Republicans an excuse to do nothing while Trump shatters norms.”
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 19:26:05 GMT
Something to ponder from Bill Kristol ....
“But let's not kid ourselves: At best, this is just more distraction and confusion from Trump, more political warfare. At worst, Trump's trying to make a demand Rosenstein can't comply with, and so is laying the predicate for firing Rosenstein and trying to curb the investigation.”
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Post by artgirl1 on May 20, 2018 19:35:28 GMT
Trump's behavior is typical of a narcissist. He keeps repeating HIS version of the truth, expecting that saying it will make it true.
It is also a great diversion for the real story that his administration is hopelessly inefficient, and crooked.
The fact that the Republican's stand by and allow his actions is beyond belief. Once Trump is revealed by the Mueller investigation, the Republican's who supported him should be charged with Accessories after the fact. They have allowed him to continue his behavior to undermine the United States.
And Roger Stone is so stupid. He kept calling Mueller by the name of Muller, this morning on Meet the Press. Let's face it, Trump and his orbit couldn't reach 3 digit i.q. collectively.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 19:49:32 GMT
The takeaway from this thread by Benjamin Wittes is trump wants to force out men of principle to be replaced by corruptible men...
“I normally ignore presidential tweets. This one requires attention, because it could genuinely produce a crisis with the Justice Department and the FBI. Here’s an explanatory thread that may (or may not) be useful. /1/“
“The President in this tweet announces that he will tomorrow formally demand of the Justice Department a specific investigation—to wit, one about whether the DOJ and FBI spied on the Trump campaign and if the Obama administration demanded such action of them. /2/“
“There is no doubt that he has the constitutional authority to make this demand. /3/“
“There is also no doubt in my mind that neither the attorney general (who is recused anyway) nor the deputy attorney general nor the FBI director can in good conscience comply with such an order. And I don’t believe they will. /4/“
“This is a nakedly corrupt attempt on the part of the President to derail an investigation of himself at the expense of a human source to whose protection the FBI and DOJ are committed.
See @qjurecic and my piece on this from yesterday. /5/“. Posted the article yesterday.
“So if the President really gives Rod Rosenstein or Chris Wray an order (as opposed to Twitter bluster) demanding a particular investigation not properly predicated under FBI/DOJ guidelines for this overtly political purpose, I believe both men will resign rather than comply. /6/“
“In other words, this tweet is different from other Trump craziness tweets. It’s one that promises a specific action on a specific date (tomorrow) with respect to a specific agency that will, if it takes place, precipitate a showdown. /7/“
“Trump is a wuss, so he may well back down. He was going to fire Rosenstein, and he wussed out. He was going to fire Mueller and he wussed out. So I don’t want to overstate this. There’s lots of ways this could peter out. But this tweet is no joke. /8/“
”As Quinta and I wrote yesterday, “Don’t underestimate this episode. It will have a long tail and big consequences—all of them terrible.” Those consequences, if you believe the President, may start tomorrow. /9/“
”Eyes open people. /10/”
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 20:51:09 GMT
trump..... “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!” ”I nearby demand”!!! Who in the hell does he think he is? Prompted this reply. PS - the "I hereby DEMAND" - priceless. Almost hysterical if it weren't so tragically sad. President toddler.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 20:54:21 GMT
trump..... “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!” ”I nearby demand”!!! Who in the hell does he think he is? Prompted this reply. PS - the "I hereby DEMAND" - priceless. Almost hysterical if it weren't so tragically sad. President toddler. “Round boy” 😀 Now that’s funny.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 21:06:28 GMT
The Hill...
“RNC chairwoman: "Republicans are set to defy history" hill.cm/3aCN4yD”
Let’s hope she is wrong because after trump’s tweet storm today it reinforces why the Democrats need to take the House and Senate to provide oversight on this nut since it’s clear the Republicans in Congress are MIA.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on May 20, 2018 21:12:14 GMT
PLurkerYou don’t have to be gaslighted by the “Kellyanne Conway’s” here, where their sets of opinions are hammered home to try to make you feel wrong for taking what the dumbass president said. The comments he made on that day regarding immigrants were NOT “undeniably clear”—-if his comments had been clear, there would not have been questions raised about them. It wasn’t until the next day that his comments were “mansplained” (as usual with him). Trump is known for that exact rhetoric—he excels at being inflammatory, provocative, and blurry in his talks. He does so, so that he can gauge the outrage (or not)—gauge the reactions so that he and his team can backtrack, re-explain, and control the narrative. He’s done this purposefully time and time again just so he’s able to bash certain media, groups of people, political parties, and specific businesses. Only a fool wouldn’t put this instance of speech patterns along with all the rest. He lies. ALL THE TIME. So it’s not a stretch for anyone to hear/read the words he’s stating and ask questions about what he really meant. (Because it will either be recanted the next day, or spun by his press team). Of course his supporters are going to cry Bullshit all the time, gaslight you, make you think you’re the one who doesn’t understand. I can accept the fact that his team—THE NEXT DAY—got their panties in a wad at anyone thinking he meant anything other than MS-13, HOWEVER when you read the transcript and take what he actually stated about the immigrants (his supposed facts), and do a little research, you’ll find his lies. If he was stopping loads of MS-13 at the borders, it would be front page news. He/ICE has arrested over 45,000+ NONCRIMINAL immigrants. (But never touts the stats of those gangs). He has repeatedly stated that (Mexican) immigrants are not the best, they don’t send the best. (Just like in his comments last week). So yes, he WAS generalizing immigrants which may have included the MS-13 gang members. did you know that MS-13 did not start in Mexico/South America, they originated in Los Angeles?! And did you know that they target immigrants and other gang members? So..keep asking, keep questioning, and don’t let the Kellyanne’s here deter your thoughts!!! PLurkerHere is a PERFECT EXAMPLE that unequivocally supports what I’ve posted about trump and his “blurring” of immigrants/gangs— ******* Seattle Times Seattle judge blocks U.S. from revoking man’s DACA protection; orders feds to stop saying he has gang ties Originally published May 15, 2018 at 5:05 pm Updated May 15, 2018 at 6:41 pm Daniel Ramirez Medina, right, walks with a man identified as his brother after a hearing in U.S. District Court in Seattle earlier this month. (Gene Johnson/AP) Daniel Ramirez Medina, right, walks with a man identified as his brother after a hearing in U.S. District Court in Seattle earlier this month. (Gene Johnson/AP) “Most troubling to the court, is the continued assertion that Mr. Ramirez is gang-affiliated, despite providing no evidence,” the judge wrote. Daniel Ramirez Medina, 25, came to the U.S. when he was 10, and was taken into custody at a Des Moines home when agents arrested his father. By GENE JOHNSON The Associated Press The U.S. government must stop asserting without evidence that a Mexican man it’s trying to deport has gang ties, a federal judge in Seattle ruled Tuesday. Pending a final ruling in the man’s case, U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez also forbid U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services from revoking Daniel Ramirez Medina’s work authorization or his enrollment in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA was launched under former President Barack Obama to allow those brought to the country illegally as children to remain for work or study. Ramirez, 25, came to the U.S. at age 10. He drew international attention when the government revoked his DACA status early last year and placed him in deportation proceedings, even though he has no criminal record and three times passed background checks to participate in the program. His arrest signaled an erosion of the program’s protections under President Donald Trump, and courts have since blocked the administration’s efforts to end it. In response to one of those rulings, authorities in April restored Ramirez’s DACA status — only to immediately notify him that they planned to revoke it again, effective Tuesday. The reason, they said, was his gang ties — allegations of which an immigration judge had already determined to be unfounded. That bothered Martinez. “Most troubling to the court, is the continued assertion that Mr. Ramirez is gang-affiliated, despite providing no evidence,” the judge wrote. “For these reasons, the court finds that defendants’ continued assertion that plaintiff is a gang member or gang-affiliated is arbitrary and capricious.” He ordered the government to cease “asserting, adopting, or relying in any proceedings on any statement or record made as of this date purporting to allege or establish that Mr. Ramirez is a gang member, gang affiliated, or a threat to public safety.” Citizenship and Immigration Services did not immediately return an email seeking comment. Nathaniel Bach, one of Ramirez’s attorneys, said the ruling means the government has to stop lying about his client and continue to grant him DACA status — both of which greatly improve his chances of remaining in the country. Ramirez was taken into custody at a Des Moines home when agents went to arrest his father, a previously deported felon. Agents insisted he had a gang tattoo — in reality, it merely had the name of his hometown in Mexico — and that he admitted having gang ties, which he denies. The government has offered no corroborating evidence of his purported gang involvement. At one hearing in immigration court, a government lawyer acknowledged having no indication that Ramirez posed a public-safety risk. An immigration judge in January found that Ramirez did not have gang ties, but ordered him deported anyway because he was in the country illegally and lacked DACA status, since it had been revoked. Ramirez has appealed that decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals. Martinez’s ruling has no direct effect on the immigration case, but it gives his lawyers ammunition to argue that he should not be deported, Bach said. “We’re very grateful,” he said. “It’s an unqualified win for Daniel and the rule of law.” Ramirez, who has a 4-year-old son who is a U.S. citizen, told The Associated Press after a hearing this month that he has been working as a field hand in California vineyards since regaining his DACA status and work authorization.” ******** The “proof is in the pudding” so to speak, trump IS (was and always has been) EXACTLY who we think he is.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 21:32:11 GMT
Axios... “Incoming NRA President Oliver North discussing the cause of school shootings: "If you look at what has happened to young people, many of these young boys have been on Ritalin since they were in kindergarten."” Well ok, that explains it. Idiot. And don't forget the violent video games that he attributes to violence in real life. Incredibly moronic!!!!!!!! (Is he living in the 1990s???)
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Post by imsirius on May 21, 2018 0:04:26 GMT
You tell him Lucius...😁😁
All in response to this gem...
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Post by prapea on May 21, 2018 0:16:18 GMT
I am starting to think trump is gay and had hots for Obama. Why in the everlovingfuck can he not leave Obama alone?
“I hereby demand” ....who died and made him the king?
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Post by imsirius on May 21, 2018 0:36:18 GMT
I am starting to think trump is gay and had hots for Obama. Why in the everlovingfuck can he not leave Obama alone? “I hereby demand” ....who died and made him the king? Trump was humiliated at the WH Correspondents dinner in 2011. He blames Obama although it was Seth Myers' jokes. Obama cracked up and Trump vowed revenge then and there. How dare Obama laugh at Trump?? Trump had already thrown out all the birther crap before that dinner. Trump is a sociopath..he can,t let it go.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 4:25:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 4:52:14 GMT
The Hill....
“Trump asking his aides whether he should proceed with North Korea summit: report hill.cm/sETDupV”
Well it’s a little late to wonder if he should proceed with the summit after all the bragging he did about it.
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Post by maryannscraps on May 21, 2018 12:17:26 GMT
Trump's behavior is typical of a narcissist. He keeps repeating HIS version of the truth, expecting that saying it will make it true. It is also a great diversion for the real story that his administration is hopelessly inefficient, and crooked. The fact that the Republican's stand by and allow his actions is beyond belief. Once Trump is revealed by the Mueller investigation, the Republican's who supported him should be charged with Accessories after the fact. They have allowed him to continue his behavior to undermine the United States. And Roger Stone is so stupid. He kept calling Mueller by the name of Muller, this morning on Meet the Press. Let's face it, Trump and his orbit couldn't reach 3 digit i.q. collectively. I totally agree with everything you say -- that's exactly how a narcissist acts. People believe him when he says it enough - I'm so amazed that so many people fall for this. Says something about our educational system. BTW Mueller pronounces his name "Muller". I figure you got to go with how the guy pronounces his own name. Even if he's wrong, LOL.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 14:14:17 GMT
NY TimesAnd reality sets in for president tiny hands... NY Times... “Trump Grappling With Risks of Proceeding With North Korea Meeting“
WASHINGTON — President Trump, increasingly concerned that his summit meeting in Singapore next month with North Korea’s leader could turn into a political embarrassment, has begun pressing his aides and allies about whether he should take the risk of proceeding with a historic meeting that he had leapt into accepting, according to administration and foreign officials. Mr. Trump was both surprised and angered by a statement issued on Wednesday by the North’s chief nuclear negotiator, who declared that the country would never trade away its nuclear weapons capability in exchange for economic aid, administration officials said. The statement, while a highly familiar tactic by the North, represented a jarring shift in tone after weeks of conciliatory gestures. On Thursday and Friday, Mr. Trump peppered aides with questions about the wisdom of proceeding, and on Saturday night he called President Moon Jae-in of South Korea to ask why the North’s public statement seemed to contradict the private assurances that Mr. Moon had conveyed after he met Kim Jong-un, the 35-year-old dictator of the North, at the Demilitarized Zone in late April.The president’s conversation with Mr. Moon, which was first reported by The Washington Post, came just three days before the South Korean leader was scheduled to arrive in Washington to meet with Mr. Trump on Tuesday. It was a sign of Mr. Trump’s discomfort, some officials speculated, that he could not wait to discuss the issue until Mr. Moon arrived for his meetings here, though there is no indication that the president is considering pulling out of the North Korea talks. Mr. Trump’s aides have grown concerned that the president — who has said that “everyone thinks” he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts — has signaled that he wants the summit meeting too much. The aides also worry that Mr. Kim, sensing the president’s eagerness, is prepared to offer assurances that will fade over time. Moreover, Mr. Trump’s decision this month to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal raises the stakes for the North Korea negotiation. If he emerges with anything less than what President Barack Obama got, which in Iran included the verified shipment of 97 percent of all nuclear material out of the country, it will be hard for Mr. Trump to convince anyone other than his base that the negotiation was a success. The aides are also concerned about what kind of grasp Mr. Trump has on the details of the North Korea program, and what he must insist upon as the key components of denuclearization. Mr. Moon and his aides reported that Mr. Kim seemed highly conversant with all elements of the program when the two men met, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has made similar comments about Mr. Kim, based on his two meetings with him in Pyongyang, the North’s capital. But aides who have recently left the administration say Mr. Trump has resisted the kind of detailed briefings about enrichment capabilities, plutonium reprocessing, nuclear weapons production and missile programs that Mr. Obama and President George W. Bush regularly sat through.
Grappling with North Korea in negotiations is a new experience not just for Mr. Trump, but also for everyone else in the upper ranks of his administration. South Korean officials say that John R. Bolton, Mr. Trump’s new national security adviser, has been in near daily contact with his counterpart in Seoul, trying to work out a strategy. Mr. Bolton has been clear that in his view the president should use the Singapore meeting to declare that the North must give up its entire arsenal and nuclear infrastructure before crippling economic sanctions are eased. The South has been advocating a more traditional confidence-building approach, in which concessions by the North result in a gradual lifting of sanctions. But Mr. Trump has said he will not repeat that technique, because it led to failure by his four immediate predecessors. Until now, administration officials have been saying they expect Mr. Kim to agree to denuclearization at the Singapore summit meeting and to set a schedule for a fast down payment over the next six months, which would involve turning over some number of nuclear weapons, closing production facilities and allowing inspectors to range the country.Those who have dealt with North Korea most intensively say that expectation will have to be scaled back if Mr. Trump expects success. “If Trump is truly expecting to see a handover of nuclear weapons in six months, without anything in return, that is very unrealistic,” said Joseph Yun, the State Department’s North Korea coordinator until he retired a few months ago. He predicted that Mr. Trump would be forced into the kind of step-by-step measures that his predecessors attempted, “because there is no other way.” Mr. Pompeo said on ABC News late last month: “This administration has its eyes wide open. We know the history. We know the risks.” He said the only measure of success would be “complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization,” a phrase first used in the Bush administration, for which it proved unattainable. Analysts at the C.I.A., where Mr. Pompeo was director before becoming secretary of state, have warned for years that they do not believe that Mr. Kim would trade away all of his nuclear weapons capability, no matter what the offer from the United States and its allies. But they have said there was a chance that he would suspend testing and give up some of the North’s capability — as long as it could be rapidly rebuilt — if he could win the removal of much of the American presence in the region. Mr. Bolton has repeatedly cited the case of Libya, which turned over all of its nuclear-related equipment in 2003, as a model to follow for denuclearization. Libya received promises of economic integration with the West, little of which happened. In 2011, its leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, was overthrown, dragged from a ditch and killed. The North Koreans noticed, and much of the statement issued last week was a denunciation of Mr. Bolton and a vow never to bend to “great powers” seeking a similar deal. The Libyan model isn’t a model that we have at all, when we’re thinking of North Korea,” Mr. Trump said. “If you look at that model with Qaddafi, that was a total decimation. We went in there to beat him.” That referred to Western military intervention in 2011, not to the nuclear disarmament that came eight years before. “Now that model would take place if we don’t make a deal, most likely,” Mr. Trump warned, seeming to repeat exactly the threat that the North Koreans had warned against. “But if we make a deal, I think Kim Jong-un is going to be very, very happy.” Mr. Trump may be right: Mr. Kim presumably has many decades ahead of him as North Korea’s leader and has much to gain from improved economic conditions. But he would be betting his entire country on any nuclear deal, and most intelligence analyses in recent years have cast doubt that he, or the North Korean elite, would be willing to give up the security provided by nuclear arms.
Michael Green, a professor at Georgetown University and a leading expert on Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote in Foreign Affairs that Mr. Kim was looking for something much larger than Mr. Trump was. “Trump may be preparing for the wrong game: a two-player round of checkers when Kim is steeling for a multiplayer two-board chess match,” he wrote. “On one board will be the future of North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs, what Trump came to negotiate. On the other will be what Kim and the other participants know is also crucially at stake: the future of geopolitics in northeast Asia.” Mr. Kim sees himself as a player in that game long after the Trump administration is over.
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Post by imsirius on May 21, 2018 14:26:53 GMT
He's on another twitter meltdown today....I read Mueller has said the investigation will be complete bySeptember....he is panicking!!
But THIS....just...wow. First Trump says Obama interferes with everything, then blames Obama for everything..now he claims This...yep..he is unhinged..
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 15:03:53 GMT
Once again a reminder that elections have consequences...
NPR.
“#Breaking: The U.S. Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote margin has delivered a major blow to workers, ruling for the first time that workers may not band together to challenge violations of federal labor laws.
Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch said that the 1925 Federal Arbitration Act trumps the National Labor Relations Act and that employees who sign employment agreements to arbitrate claims must do so on an individual basis.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing for the four dissenters, said that the 1925 arbitration law came well before federal labor laws and should not cover these “take-it-or-leave it” provisions that employers are now insisting on.
Notably, Ginsburg’s dissent is five pages longer than the majority’s opinion. And Gorsuch spends time in his opinion to respond point by point to the minority’s arguments.“
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 17:36:09 GMT
Kyle Griffin....
"t would not be absurd to think the FBI might have sent informants to speak to suspects in their counterintel investigation into whether anyone in the Trump orbit was working with Russia... In fact, it would have been accepted procedure for the FBI."
If they hadn’t with what we know today they would have been slammed for not doing their job.
Again if trump had nothing to hide the adult comment should be “I believe members of my campaign did nothing wrong and welcome the investigation to prove it”.
But when he does crap like he is doing the only question I have is “what is he hiding?” Not “is he hiding something” but “what is he hiding”.
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Post by Merge on May 21, 2018 17:39:39 GMT
This pretty much sums up where we are as a country:
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