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Post by artgirl1 on Jul 10, 2018 20:46:53 GMT
Just saw this on Instagram and the concept would bring me great happiness.
'If Obama still has his law license, he should volunteer to represent Cohen, and watch dt go ballistic.'
If only.............
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Post by artgirl1 on Jul 10, 2018 20:58:51 GMT
darcycollins
did you miss the IF?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2018 21:32:45 GMT
AP...
“BREAKING: President Donald Trump arrives in Brussels on eve of high-stakes NATO meetings after blasting allies on defense spending.”
What possibly could go wrong?
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Post by hop2 on Jul 10, 2018 22:34:58 GMT
That won't be fixed until the gun owners are made to face the consequences with full charges. Don’t you know that gun owners don’t want to be held responsible for the actions of their guns, Wait, what do you mean ‘the actions of thier guns’? I thought ‘guns don’t shoot people, people shoot people’ You can’t gave itboth ways. Either the PEOPLE are responsible or not.I mean if the GUNS are responsible there’s easy ways of dealing with that. If the guns aren’t responsible the the people are. In the case of toddlers having access the guns OWNER is responsible. Or, we can hold the guns responsible and outlaw them. See the supposedly responsible gun owners refuse to hold thier not responsible peers responsible for thier actions. They’ll blab on about what an accidental tragedy these toddler shooting are. Bull shit. Your gun used by a toddler to shoot then YOUR responsible period. Start with that law instead of covering this stuff up time after time over & over.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2018 23:31:53 GMT
Kyle Griffin...
“The Trump admin has announced, for the 2nd year in a row, that it's slashing grants to nonprofits that help people get health insurance under Obamacare.
The gov't will provide $10 million this fall, down from $36 million last fall and $63 million in 2016.”
Something to ponder.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jul 10, 2018 23:34:52 GMT
Kyle Griffin... “The Trump admin has announced, for the 2nd year in a row, that it's slashing grants to nonprofits that help people get health insurance under Obamacare. The gov't will provide $10 million this fall, down from $36 million last fall and $63 million in 2016.” Something to ponder. Buckle up. I’m afraid that 2019 is going to get REALLY bumpy...
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 10, 2018 23:45:41 GMT
More $$$ in his friends' pockets!
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Post by mrssmith on Jul 11, 2018 0:02:12 GMT
AP... “BREAKING: President Donald Trump arrives in Brussels on eve of high-stakes NATO meetings after blasting allies on defense spending.” What possibly could go wrong? From the NYTimes: President of the European Council Donald Tusk stated: You have to listen to the audio clip of him saying it. Truly scathing tone. You can tell he is fed up.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2018 0:47:12 GMT
He's lying again tweeting The European Union makes it impossible for our farmers and workers and companies to do business in Europe (U.S. has a $151 Billion trade deficit), and then they want us to happily defend them through NATO, and nicely pay for it. Just doesn’t work!The US exported $11.5 billion in agricultural products to the European Union last year. In fact, the 28 countries of the European Union are the United States’ fifth-largest export market for agricultural goods, like tree nuts and soybeans. LINK
What on earth does he gain by constantly lying about facts that are so easy to check and verify.
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Post by pierogi on Jul 11, 2018 0:56:06 GMT
He's lying again tweeting The European Union makes it impossible for our farmers and workers and companies to do business in Europe (U.S. has a $151 Billion trade deficit), and then they want us to happily defend them through NATO, and nicely pay for it. Just doesn’t work!The US exported $11.5 billion in agricultural products to the European Union last year. In fact, the 28 countries of the European Union are the United States’ fifth-largest export market for agricultural goods, like tree nuts and soybeans. LINK
What on earth does he gain by constantly lying about facts that are so easy to check and verify. It’s an established Russian tactic. Putin does it as well. There’s a name for it: vranyo. It’s more than just lying. It’s “I’m lying and you know I’m lying.” The lies are an extension of their power, and a form of contempt for their people and the institutions around them. By lying blatantly, it’s a statement that reality will be what they say it is, and as an authoritarian, you are forced to abide by it. It’s a fascinating, awful thing. Russians have never known anything different, but it’s alarming how amenable the GOP is to his lies. At least until you realize they’re just like him. I would also include Nigel Farage in that group. He’s another Putin protege.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 11, 2018 1:11:19 GMT
Birds of a feather or surround yourself with the best.............. Wife of new White House official targeted sexual harassment accusers on Twitter: report BY MORGAN GSTALTER - 07/06/18 09:02 AM EDT The wife of President Trump’s new deputy chief of staff for communications lashed out at women on Twitter who have accused Fox News officials of sexual harassment. Darla Shine’s husband, Bill Shine, is a former Fox News executive who has been accused of looking the other way while high-profile figures at the network reportedly harassed and discriminated against female employees. ** “I guess if you ignore the FACT that Gretchen would still be at FNC [Fox News Channel] if they hadn’t fired her for abysmal show ratings & how she kept kissing up to BILL & ROGER till the end!” Darla Shine’s tweet read of the former Fox News host who sued former Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes for sexual harassment and retaliation in 2016. ** “What a joke this is. Bill Shine built #FOXNEWS everyone currently there knows he was never accused of sexual harassment but too afraid to speak up,” she wrote. “So glad my husband isn’t a liar. Karma gets everyone in the end.” More at link: thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/395763-wife-of-new-white-house-official-attacked-sexual-harassment** Wife of new White House official made racially charged comments on Twitter: report BY MORGAN GSTALTER - 07/08/18 07:09 PM EDT “Just singing to one of my jams ‘Golddigger’ by Kanye West when I realized If I sing along to the verse ‘Broke N-----’ I might be a racist,” Shine wrote in July 2015. She tweeted over a dozen times about how black people should stop using the term, according to Mediaite. “Take the N word out of the music — don’t want to feel guilty for singing songs with the N word in it,” she wrote in another tweet. More at link: thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/396036-wife-of-new-white-house-official-made-racially-charged-commentsLady with class....................
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Post by tracyarts on Jul 11, 2018 1:13:22 GMT
What on earth does he gain by constantly lying about facts that are so easy to check and verify. His supporters simply do not care. I fact checked one of his lies to a supporter and she said "well, that's your opinion". I told her "no, it's fact, and here is the proof". She looked at the proof, sniveled up her mouth and nose, and said "whatever, I know what I believe".
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2018 3:46:13 GMT
Kyle Griffin...
“Ahead of Trump's visit, protesters in the U.K. have launched a campaign to play 'American Idiot' so many times that, by the time he arrives, the song will be the No. 1 single there.”
😁. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
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Post by cycworker on Jul 11, 2018 4:25:20 GMT
I’m pretty sure Nate Silver is talking “People here on Twitter.com could stand to treat stories from single, anonymous sources with more skepticism, especially if those stories haven't been confirmed by other news outlets. And *especially* especially if those stories reinforce your priors.” Geoff Bennett... “Source familiar tells NBC that Justice Kennedy had been in negotiations with the Trump team for months over Kennedy’s replacement. Once Kennedy received assurances that it would be Kavanaugh (his former law clerk) Kennedy felt comfortable retiring - @lacaldwelldc & @frankthorp” But it’s important to point out this is exactly the type of “deal” trump would do. And there is a connection between trump and Kennedy with the son. Now everything may be on the up and up. But trump has told so many lies and been associated with shady deals when he was/is trump the businessman that you can’t believe or trust what he says. I would bet good money that the story is true. NBC, if they've retracted it, will regret it when it's eventually revealed to be true. Kennedy's trying to protect his son.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2018 4:58:17 GMT
What on earth does he gain by constantly lying about facts that are so easy to check and verify. His supporters simply do not care. I fact checked one of his lies to a supporter and she said "well, that's your opinion". I told her "no, it's fact, and here is the proof". She looked at the proof, sniveled up her mouth and nose, and said "whatever, I know what I believe". The power of having been brought up on fairy tales and beliefs over facts.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2018 5:29:31 GMT
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Post by birdgate on Jul 11, 2018 8:06:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2018 9:13:21 GMT
His supporters simply do not care. I fact checked one of his lies to a supporter and she said "well, that's your opinion". I told her "no, it's fact, and here is the proof". She looked at the proof, sniveled up her mouth and nose, and said "whatever, I know what I believe". The power of having been brought up on fairy tales and beliefs over facts. and probably an ego bursting mother that thought her little snowflake could do no wrong!
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Post by Merge on Jul 11, 2018 11:59:46 GMT
He's lying again tweeting The European Union makes it impossible for our farmers and workers and companies to do business in Europe (U.S. has a $151 Billion trade deficit), and then they want us to happily defend them through NATO, and nicely pay for it. Just doesn’t work!The US exported $11.5 billion in agricultural products to the European Union last year. In fact, the 28 countries of the European Union are the United States’ fifth-largest export market for agricultural goods, like tree nuts and soybeans. LINK
What on earth does he gain by constantly lying about facts that are so easy to check and verify. Too many Americans don't bother to check and verify. They throw up their hands and say they can't possibly know what to believe or which sources are legitimate, so they're just going to go with Trump. He must be super smart and reliable, because he's rich and sticks it to people they don't like.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 11, 2018 12:14:06 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2018 12:50:57 GMT
Phillip Rucker....
“Trump unleashed a blistering attack on Germany and other NATO allies, wasting no time at the outset of a week of high-stakes diplomacy to hit at Washington’s closest partners. The latest in Brussels from “
So I take it things aren’t going well in Brussels.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2018 12:56:40 GMT
AP...
“VIDEO: Trump is claiming a pipeline project has made Germany "totally controlled" by and "captive to Russia" during a combative breakfast that kicked off what was already expected to be a fraught NATO summit. “
What trump is doing is trying to push the suggestion he is Putin’s puppet off on to someone else.
The Mueller Investigation must really be getting to him.
ETA from Clint Watts.
“Again, Putin getting a return on his investment in helping elect Trump. Projecting a falsehood onto Germany which more aptly describes him.”
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2018 13:06:04 GMT
And in other news..
Will Ripley...
“Source w/ knowledge of discussions bet’n Pompeo & North Korea says trip went "as badly as it could have gone." Source adds "N. Koreans were just messing around, not serious about moving forward." Source says Pompeo was promised mtg w/ Kim Jong Un - not getting one sent a big msg.”
Kim Jong Un got what he wanted and that was a meeting with a sitting US President. Russia and China got what they wanted and that was the suspension of military exercises/games.
The US got egg on its face.
Well done president tiny hands!
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Post by maryannscraps on Jul 11, 2018 13:10:17 GMT
AP... “VIDEO: Trump is claiming a pipeline project has made Germany "totally controlled" by and "captive to Russia" during a combative breakfast that kicked off what was already expected to be a fraught NATO summit. “ What trump is doing is trying to push the suggestion he is Putin’s puppet off on to someone else. The Mueller Investigation must really be getting to him. ETA from Clint Watts. “Again, Putin getting a return on his investment in helping elect Trump. Projecting a falsehood onto Germany which more aptly describes him.” Trump is well known for projecting onto others what he thinks or does himself. My DH has always said that - it's kind of an easy way to see what's going on in his mind. He's always accusing people of doing what he himself would do.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 11, 2018 13:20:51 GMT
“VIDEO: Trump is claiming a pipeline project has made Germany "totally controlled" by and "captive to Russia" during a combative breakfast that kicked off what was already expected to be a fraught NATO summit. “ What trump is doing is trying to push the suggestion he is Putin’s puppet off on to someone else. He has again forgotten or never learned about the Berlin Wall and why would Germany allow themselves to be controled by anything Russan/Putin??
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2018 13:54:06 GMT
Susan Glassner...
“Just got off the phone with former senior US official at NATO hq for the fireworks today. Mood: grim. Consensus: 'Trump is on a mission to blow up the summit'
I wonder what it’s going to take for the Republicans in Congress to realize “we won” came with an extremely high price.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2018 13:57:20 GMT
Kyle Griffin...
“Ivanka Trump’s Chinese-made products have been spared from her father’s new round of tariffs, which affect $34 billion worth of Chinese goods.”
OF COURSE THEY WERE...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2018 14:05:02 GMT
The New Yorker...
“Israeli, Saudi, and Emirati Officials Privately Pushed for Trump to Strike a “Grand Bargain” with Putin”
From the article.,.
During a private meeting shortly before the November, 2016, election, Mohammed bin Zayed, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, floated to a longtime American interlocutor what sounded, at the time, like an unlikely grand bargain. The Emirati leader told the American that Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, might be interested in resolving the conflict in Syria in exchange for the lifting of sanctions imposed in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
Current and former U.S. officials said that bin Zayed, known as M.B.Z., was not the only leader in the region who favored rapprochement between the former Cold War adversaries. While America’s closest allies in Europe viewed with a sense of dread Trump’s interest in partnering with Putin, three countries that enjoyed unparallelled influence with the incoming Administration—Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the U.A.E.—privately embraced the goal. Officials from the three countries have repeatedly encouraged their American counterparts to consider ending the Ukraine-related sanctions in return for Putin’s help in removing Iranian forces from Syria.
Experts say that such a deal would be unworkable, even if Trump were interested. They say Putin has neither the interest nor the ability to pressure Iranian forces to leave Syria. Administration officials have said that Syria and Ukraine will be among the topics that Trump and Putin will discuss at their summit in Helsinki on July 16th. White House officials did not respond to a request for comment.
The special counsel, Robert Mueller, and his F.B.I. team, tasked with probing Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, have been investigating whether the U.A.E. facilitated contacts between Trump’s team and Russian officials and sought to influence U.S. politics. Nine days before Trump’s Inauguration, Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and a confidant of Steve Bannon, met at M.B.Z.’s resort in the Seychelles with Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, whom the Emiratis used as a go-between with Putin. (An April, 2017, Washington Post story that I co-wrote revealed the Indian Ocean encounter and stated that “the UAE agreed to broker the meeting in part to explore whether Russia could be persuaded to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria, a Trump administration objective that would be likely to require major concessions to Moscow on U.S. sanctions.”)
Mueller’s team has also focussed on Trump transition-team meetings in December, 2016, that involved Emirati and Russian officials. One, at a New York hotel, was attended by M.B.Z., and another, at Trump Tower, was attended by Sergey Kislyak, then Russia’s Ambassador in Washington. During the December 1, 2016, meeting between Kislyak and Trump’s transition team, both sides wanted to discuss the conflict in Syria, and the Russian Ambassador proposed arranging a conversation between Michael Flynn, the incoming national-security adviser, and people he referred to as his “generals,” according to congressional testimony by Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser. To prevent intelligence agencies from eavesdropping on the conversation, Kislyak proposed using a “secure line,” prompting Kushner to suggest using the secure communications gear housed at the Russian Embassy in Washington.
M.B.Z. is regarded as one of the Middle East’s strategic thinkers. More than other Arab leaders of his generation, he hails from the school of Realpolitik. During the Obama Administration, M.B.Z. sought to establish closer ties between the U.A.E. and Putin, in the hope of encouraging Moscow to scale back its partnership with Iran, particularly in Syria. (Much like Israel, the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia consider Iran their biggest strategic threat. They also lacked trust in President Obama.)
As an inducement for Putin to partner with Gulf states rather than Iran, the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia started making billions of dollars in investments in Russia and convening high-level meetings in Moscow, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, and the Seychelles.
It is unclear whether M.B.Z.’s preëlection proposal came from Putin himself or one of his confidants, or whether the Emirati leader came up with the idea. But the comment suggested that M.B.Z. believed that turning Putin against Iran would require sanctions relief for Moscow, a concession that required the support of the American President. If Hillary Clinton had won the election, the idea of accepting Russian aggression in Ukraine would have been a nonstarter, current and former U.S. officials told me. But Trump promised a different approach.
Israeli officials lobbied for rapprochement between Washington and Moscow soon after Trump’s election victory. In a private meeting during the transition, Ron Dermer, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States and one of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest confidants, said that the Israeli government was encouraging the incoming Trump Administration to coöperate more closely with Putin, starting in Syria, with the hope of convincing Moscow to push the Iranians to leave the country, an attendee told me.
Like M.B.Z., Netanyahu made courting Putin a priority, particularly after Russia’s military intervention in Syria in 2015. The Israeli leader wanted to insure that Israeli forces could continue to access Syrian airspace, which the Russians partially controlled, to prevent the deployment of advanced weapons systems by Iran and its proxies that could threaten the Jewish state. A senior Israeli official declined to comment on Dermer’s message but said that “Israel does believe it is possible to get a U.S.-Russian agreement in Syria that would push the Iranians out,” and that doing so “could be the beginning of an improvement in U.S.-Russian relations over all.”
Separately, a former U.S. official recalled having a conversation after Trump’s Inauguration with an Israeli Cabinet minister with close ties to Netanyahu in which the minister pitched the American on the idea of “trading Ukraine for Syria.” The former official told me, “You can understand why Russia’s help with Syria is a far higher priority for Israel than pushing back on Russian aggression in Ukraine. But I considered it a major stretch for Israel to try to convince the United States that U.S. interests are well served by looking the other way at Russian aggression in Ukraine. Of course, Trump may disagree for his own reasons.”
After Trump took office, the idea was raised again, by Adel al-Jubeir, the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, and Abdullah bin Zayed, the foreign minister of the U.A.E., during a private March, 2017, dinner that included several other guests. “Their message was ‘Why don’t we lift the Ukrainian sanctions on Russia in exchange for getting the Russians to push Iran out of Syria,’ ” an attendee recalled the foreign ministers saying. A senior U.A.E. official said that he did not recall the discussion. The dinner attendee told me, “It wasn’t a trial balloon. They were trying to socialize the idea.”
The timing, however, could not have been worse politically, current and former U.S. officials said. In addition to the looming Mueller investigation, members of Congress were pushing at the time to expand sanctions against Russia, not reduce them. Trump told aides that he was frustrated that he could not make progress because of political opposition in Washington. The Americans who heard the Israeli, Emirati, and Saudi pitches in late 2016 and early 2017 assumed that the idea was dead. But ahead of the Helsinki summit, Trump started making statements that suggested he could be open to making a deal with Putin after all.
On June 8th, Trump called for Russia to be readmitted to the Group of Seven industrial nations. (Russia was expelled four years ago, after it annexed Ukraine’s Crimea region.) Then, during a dinner at the G-7 summit in Canada, Trump reportedly said that Crimea was Russian because the people who lived there spoke Russian. Several weeks later, when asked whether reports that he would drop Washington’s long-standing opposition to the annexation of Crimea were true, Trump responded, “We’re going to have to see.”
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Post by imsirius on Jul 11, 2018 14:30:25 GMT
What on earth does he gain by constantly lying about facts that are so easy to check and verify. His supporters simply do not care. I fact checked one of his lies to a supporter and she said "well, that's your opinion". I told her "no, it's fact, and here is the proof". She looked at the proof, sniveled up her mouth and nose, and said "whatever, I know what I believe". I believe that many of his base are now so embarrassed that they won't ever say they made a mistake. I have a friend whose DH is a huge Trumpsters and he said that he knows he lies and he knows he's probably in Russia's pocket, BUT “if I admit this, then I look like a f'ing asshole for voting him in.” So he just agrees... Stupid I know, but maybe many feel the same way.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 11, 2018 14:31:38 GMT
“Israeli, Saudi, and Emirati Officials Privately Pushed for Trump to Strike a “Grand Bargain” with Putin” Nah................
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