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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2018 5:30:26 GMT
Kampala Harris...
“Republicans just announced that they are scheduling a hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh starting on September 4. This is outrageous. No one will be able to look at his full record before the hearing – not me, not you, not anyone. It won’t have been made public”
So the Republicans are stonewalling the release of a chunk of Kavanaugh’s papers, especially those from his time at the Bush White House. And it seems he may have lied at his last confirmation hearing for the job he has now.
Once again how low the Republicans in Congress have sunk. Party over country is their motto that they actively live by.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2018 5:41:21 GMT
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Post by hop2 on Aug 11, 2018 11:19:44 GMT
After nice absence of his tweets for a couple of days, he’s back. This one caught my eye... “The NFL players are at it again - taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the National Anthem. Numerous players, from different teams, wanted to show their “outrage” at something that most of them are unable to define. They make a fortune doing what they love......” Oh I’m sure they know exactly what they are outraged about. But it The he continues putting his big foot in his mouth.. “ Be happy, be cool! A football game, that fans are paying soooo much money to watch and enjoy, is no place to protest. Most of that money goes to the players anyway. Find another way to protest. Stand proudly for your National Anthem or be Suspended Without Pay!” Funny, the more he whines, stomps his feet & demands the less I care who does what at the national anthem.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2018 14:33:38 GMT
trump...
“Why isn’t the FBI giving Andrew McCabe text messages to Judicial Watch or appropriate governmental authorities. FBI said they won’t give up even one (I may have to get involved, DO NOT DESTROY). What are they hiding? McCabe wife took big campaign dollars from Hillary people.....
Will the FBI ever recover it’s once stellar reputation, so badly damaged by Comey, McCabe, Peter S and his lover, the lovely Lisa Page, and other top officials now dismissed or fired? So many of the great men and women of the FBI have been hurt by these clowns and losers!“
The real question is will the office of the President get its stellar reputation back once trump is gone.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2018 14:39:01 GMT
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 11, 2018 14:39:27 GMT
trump... “Why isn’t the FBI giving Andrew McCabe text messages to Judicial Watch or appropriate governmental authorities. FBI said they won’t give up even one ( I may have to get involved, DO NOT DESTROY). What are they hiding? McCabe wife took big campaign dollars from Hillary people..... Will the FBI ever recover it’s once stellar reputation, so badly damaged by Comey, McCabe, Peter S and his lover, the lovely Lisa Page, and other top officials now dismissed or fired? So many of the great men and women of the FBI have been hurt by these clowns and losers!“ The real question is will the office of the President get its stellar reputation back once trump is gone. That’s rich coming from the guy who rips up all his memos so we have to pay tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to have someone tape them back together for the official record. SMDH.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 11, 2018 14:40:56 GMT
Of course he’s fighting for prison reform next, since so many of his cronies (and possibly himself and his family members) are likely to be headed there!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2018 14:42:09 GMT
And trump yet again...
“The riots in Charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division. We must come together as a nation. I condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. Peace to ALL Americans!”
Somebody must have pushed him to use “ALL Americans”. Too bad his actions don’t reflect that belief.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 11, 2018 15:24:13 GMT
Will the FBI ever recover it’s once stellar reputation, so badly damaged by Comey, McCabe, Peter S and his lover, the lovely Lisa Page, and other top officials now dismissed or fired? So many of the great men and women of the FBI have been hurt by these clowns and losers!“ When will the FBI recover from the damages that dt has done to it and the whole government?!?!?!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 11, 2018 15:25:01 GMT
Of course he’s fighting for prison reform next, since so many of his cronies (and possibly himself and his family members) are likely to be headed there! Well said!!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 11, 2018 15:33:31 GMT
Quick reversal!! Under investigation for insider trading, Trump ally will not seek re-electionBY SCOTT WONG AND TAL AXELROD - 08/11/18 10:34 AM EDT Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) announced Saturday he is suspending his reelection campaign in light of charges of insider trading. “After extensive discussions with my family and my friends over the last few days, I have decided that it is in the best interests of the constituents of NY-27, the Republican Party and President Trump’s agenda for me to suspend my campaign for re-election to Congress,” Collins said in a press release. He added he will continue serving the rest of his term and “fight the meritless charges brought against me.” ** The charges against Collins’s son were considered important leverage to convincing the congressman to relinquish his seat, said one New York Republican source. Collins could strike a deal with prosecutors, offering to plead guilty in exchange for his son and Zarsky avoiding jail time. “A natural conversation between the U.S. attorney and Collins’s attorneys is to go easy on the son and father in law if Collins resigns,” the New York source said. “I’m sure that’s a conversation that is going on right now.” ** More t link: thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/401381-rep-chris-collins-suspends-reelection-campaign-over-insider-trading
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2018 15:46:20 GMT
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The AtlanticFor your Saturday reading from NPR. I will add trump uses the “fear tool” for just about everything he pushes. I also linked the Atlantic story on how trump radicalized ICE. “Journalist: Fear Is A 'Very Powerful Tool' In Trump's Approach To Immigration” The Pew Research Center estimates that there are about 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States — and that approximately two-thirds of them have been here for more than a decade. Journalist Frank Foer says that for many years, there was a tacit agreement among politicians of both parties that there would be a pathway to citizenship for many of the long-term undocumented immigrants. "They rooted themselves within our communities. ... They raise children who are U.S. citizens," Foer says. "There had been this consensus that they could stay." But shortly after President Trump was sworn into office, he passed an executive order that criminalized anyone in the country illegally — opening the door for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) to deport any undocumented immigrant.Foer says that the policy was unprecedented: "Never before have we had such a large, dedicated police force whose mission is to remove undocumented immigrants from the communities in which they're rooted." Foer's new Atlantic cover story, "How Trump Radicalized ICE," reveals that immigration enforcement has been handed over to a small group of militant, anti-immigration hawks, who cultivate fear to accomplish their goal of driving out undocumented immigrants.In the past, Foer says, ICE was forbidden from operating in places like schools, churches and hospitals, which are known as "sensitive locations." Now, he says, "there's growing anecdotal evidence that ICE hasn't overturned the policy of sensitive locations, but they've given themselves ever greater latitude to operate in those places where they'd once been forbidden." Interview HighlightsOn the Trump administration's tactic of cultivating fear among undocumented immigrants The Trump administration knows that it can't round up 11 million undocumented immigrants, even with our profound investments in immigration enforcement over the decades, there's still not the bandwidth or the infrastructure to do that. So if you're trying to seriously and quickly diminish the number of immigrants in this country you have one very, very powerful tool at your disposal — which is that you have the power of the state to cultivate fear. And so Trump himself has propagated the sense of fear with his rhetoric. The executive orders that have been proposed — and in some cases rescinded because they were so overly broad — had the effect of succeeding even when they were failing, because the theatrics of those policies helped cultivate a sense of fear. On how ICE's reach into "sensitive locations," such as hospital emergency rooms, has affected undocumented immigrantsIn places like Los Angeles and Houston and other jurisdictions there's now a lot of empirical evidence that undocumented women are afraid to call in cases of domestic abuse because when they call in those cases they're afraid that their partners are going to get picked up and deported, and they're afraid that they themselves may end up on the radar of ICE by calling in a report of abuse. So asking the police for protection could perversely result in the destruction of their lives. On the belief that immigrants would self-deport if life became uncomfortable enough[Kansas Secretary of State Kris] Kobach had a theory that also goes by a more clinical name "attrition through enforcement," and the idea was that you could make life profoundly uncomfortable for immigrants. You could deprive them of benefits. You could increase a sense of fear. You can make it harder for them to get jobs — and all this pressure would add up. And at a certain point, [Kobach] argued that immigrants are rational, that their decision to come to this country and stay in this country is premised on an understanding of their own self-interest, and if the state was able to apply its powers properly, then it could induce a state of panic and terror that would cause immigrants to pack up their bags and leave on their own accord. On Attorney General Jeff Sessions' role in immigration policy
One thing that I was told constantly is that Jeff Sessions is the de facto secretary of homeland security — that he's the person in the administration who just lives, breathes immigration policy. It's the thing that he cares about most in the world. It's really the reason that he's suffered some of the indignities that he suffered at the hands of his own boss, who seems to imply that he wants him to resign constantly, and for Sessions it's worth soldiering on, because he's implementing massive policy changes in the demand that matters to him most. ... Sessions comes from small town Alabama and he shares with Trump this hostility to free trade, to globalization, and I think his views on immigration are of a piece with that. I also think that he has a cultural and racial hostility to immigration and the transformation of America — a fear of what multiculturalism will do to the country. On how both parties have increased expenditures to immigration enforcement
Since the 1990s, you've had both political parties racing to prove their bonafides on immigration enforcement. From Bill Clinton to Barack Obama, Democrats have willingly participated in the process of legislating ever greater expenditures to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, and the system has just started to bloat and grow. By the time Barack Obama started his second term we were spending more money on immigration enforcement — on ICE and border patrol — than on the DEA, FBI, ATF, U.S. Marshals Service combined. We were spending $18 billion on immigration enforcement, as opposed to the $14 billion that we were spending on all those other criminal law enforcement agencies. Half of all federal prosecutions were for immigration-related crimes. So everybody, every political party, nearly every politician on Capitol Hill, also played their part in creating this system.”
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2018 15:57:22 GMT
linkAnd then there is this from EJ Dionne at the Washington Post... “The path to autocracy is all too familiar” “How do democratic countries get to the point where they give up on self-rule? Under what circumstances do demagogues capture large audiences through irrational, emotional appeals unmoored from fact, logic or morality? When do politicians responsible for maintaining a democratic system surrender to dictators? These questions are more pertinent to us in the early 21st century than we would wish. During the 1990s, democracy was thought to be on the march. Now, we worry that the international tide is turning toward autocracy and authoritarianism. This is why Benjamin Carter Hett’s “The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic” should join your summer reading list. Hett is a professor of history at Hunter College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He joins the company of distinguished scholars, notably Richard J. Evans and Ian Kershaw, who have shed light on the social and political forces that brought a murderous regime to life through a democratic system. But if this is an oft-told tragic tale, Hett’s brisk and lucid study offers compelling new perspectives inspired by current threats to free societies around the world. In each era, we see the past differently, according to how we see ourselves and our own experiences,” Hett writes. “One era will notice things about the past that another will not. This is one reason why history is, and has to be, constantly rewritten.” It is both eerie and enlightening how much of Hett’s account rings true in our time. Consider this declaration from Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s chief propagandist: “Certainly we want to build a wall, a protective wall.” There is this dolorous observation from the socialist Ernst Toller: “The people are tired of reason, tired of thought and reflection. They ask, what has reason done for us in the last few years, what good have insights and knowledge done us.” As Hett notes, “The key to understanding why many Germans supported [Hitler] lies in the Nazis’ rejection of a rational, factual world. . . . Hitler could give voice to this flight from reality as could no other German politician of his time.” The larger story he tells resonates, too. Hett argues the Nazi movement was “a response to an overwhelming triumph of global liberal capitalism at the end of the Great War” and that the logic of a chaotic moment “pushed opponents of austerity to become opponents of liberal democracy as well.” The Nazi movement was rooted in anti-Semitism, bigotry and exclusion. But it also exploited economic discontent bred by orthodox economic policies that deepened the pain of the Depression. Conservatives everywhere should ponder the choices made by the German establishment, including big business, the military, culturally traditional Protestants and big landowners. They all helped bring Hitler to power because they hated the left — including the moderate Social Democrats, the backbone of the Weimar Republic — more than they loved republican government and political freedom. Hett writes that members of “the conservative establishment . . . could have stopped Hitler in his tracks. Instead, they chose to use him, although the Nazi-conservative alliance was always an awkward one.” He notes at another point: “Democracy was not working for them precisely because their interests could not attract the support of a majority, even a large plurality, of voters.” The politicians and power brokers who helped Hitler become chancellor believed they could deploy him to destroy the left, but also keep him under control. They achieved the first, but not the second. The consequences were catastrophic to those slaughtered in Hitler’s genocide, and to Germany as a whole. German conservatives had no desire to see their country pulverized by war and shrunken in size afterward. But their choices during the 1930s brought about exactly this outcome. There is a reluctance to draw lessons from the Nazi experience because personal comparisons between contemporary politicians and Hitler are always a mistake. Hitler’s crimes are in a category of horror all their own. But this should not stop us from heeding the warnings of a political era that led to the collapse of freedom in Germany. Seeing it “as the result of a large protest movement colliding with complex patterns of elite self-interest, in a culture increasingly prone to aggressive mythmaking and irrationality . . . strips away the exotic and foreign look of swastika banners and goose-stepping Stormtroopers.” Hett adds: “Suddenly, the whole thing looks close and familiar.” It does, and our task is to prevent this “whole thing” from ever happening again.” This is certainly sounds familiar when you read trump’s tweets.. “ Hitler could give voice to this flight from reality as could no other German politician of his time.”
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2018 16:47:21 GMT
This from trump ...
“The riots in Charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division. We must come together as a nation. I condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. Peace to ALL Americans!”
Prompted this reminder from Judd Legum..
“Knock the crap out of him, would you? I promise you, I will pay your legal fees” -- Donald Trump, February 2016”
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Post by dewryce on Aug 11, 2018 16:54:44 GMT
Serious question. Is there more than one type of racism?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2018 17:45:33 GMT
Benjamin Wittes....
“Ok Twitter, if @michaelavenatti is gonna run for President, he’s gonna need a slogan. Got a suggestion for him? Add it to this tweet thread.
Here’s mine to get things started: “The White House Doesn’t Move as Fast as the Ambulances I’ve Chased”
Best comment on that fool thinking it would be a good idea to run as President. Especially as a Democrat.
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Post by imsirius on Aug 11, 2018 17:52:14 GMT
Are there NO honest, upstanding people in the current GOP.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2018 19:15:44 GMT
And he is still at it...
The big story that the Fake News Media refuses to report is lowlife Christopher Steele’s many meetings with Deputy A.G. Bruce Ohr and his beautiful wife, Nelly. It was Fusion GPS that hired Steele to write the phony & discredited Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary & the DNC....
“Do you believe Nelly worked for Fusion and her husband STILL WORKS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF “JUSTICE.” I have never seen anything so Rigged in my life. Our A.G. is scared stiff and Missing in Action. It is all starting to be revealed - not pretty. IG Report soon? Witch Hunt!”
1. He keeps ignoring the fact the whole Fusion/Steele dossier was started by a Republican. To be honest we have no idea what the Clinton Campaign would have done with the dossier because Steele jumped the gun by giving it to McCain. Who turned it over to the FBI. But somehow in trump’s feeble little mind it’s all Hillary’s fault. And it’s important to remember that nothing has been disproven on that dossier.
2. He is after poor old Sessions again. What fun to be called a coward for doing your job.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2018 19:33:37 GMT
Serious question. Is there more than one type of racism? I once looked up the definition of either discrimination or racism, I forget which one, and definition said racism falls under the umbrella of discrimination. And it makes sense because discrimination is when a group of people feel they are better than or view a group of people as different, & believe it gives them the license to treat these other groups differently because they are “less than”. Instead of accepting the belief we are all equal some let the color of one’s skin, sexual orientation, sex, & religion give them an excuse to treat these folks differently in a negative way. And there are others that are discriminated against also like those who are poor or those who have disabilities. So if you move racism under the discrimination umbrella then I believe the answer to your question is yes.
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Post by Merge on Aug 11, 2018 19:51:57 GMT
Are there NO honest, upstanding people in the current GOP. There are. But the current, lying occupant of the White House sure had brought all the vermin out from under their rocks.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 11, 2018 19:57:19 GMT
Trump heightens attacks on Sessions: He's 'scared stiff and missing in action'
Class act, the president
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2018 20:03:02 GMT
MSNBC...
“Reporter: "Do you feel betrayed by Omarosa?"
President Trump: "Lowlife. She's a lowlife."
I guess you could say in this case “it takes one to know one”.
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Post by imsirius on Aug 11, 2018 20:09:41 GMT
MSNBC... “Reporter: "Do you feel betrayed by Omarosa?" President Trump: "Lowlife. She's a lowlife." I guess you could say in this case “it takes one to know one”. She wasn't a lowlife until she left the WH! She was with him for over 10 years! Fucknut.
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Post by imsirius on Aug 11, 2018 20:19:31 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 11, 2018 20:20:45 GMT
MSNBC... “Reporter: "Do you feel betrayed by Omarosa?" President Trump: "Lowlife. She's a lowlife." I guess you could say in this case “it takes one to know one”. She wasn't a lowlife until she left the WH! She was with him for over 10 years! Fucknut. He chooses and surrounds himself with lots of lowlife!! And yes, "it takes one to know one!"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2018 22:54:40 GMT
trump....
Hundreds of Bikers for Trump just joined me at Bedminster. Quite a scene - great people who truly love our Country!
Jeff Mason...
Summary of @realdonaldtrump NJ event: Bikers meet in clubhouse because of rain. Press pool brought in. Trump asks crowd if they like the media. Shouts erupt, including suggestion that press be sent out in the storm. President calls former staffer a low life. Event ends.
& this from Bill Kristol...
“Not to sound all Marxist or anything--but did it occur to any of the bikers that none of them would be admitted as members in a thousand years to the Golf Club where they got to spend a half hour at the sufferance of and as props for the mighty oligarch?”
So it would appear that trump used the bikers for a photo op to suggest he is either one of them or he is for them.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2018 23:27:57 GMT
Jerry Falwell...
“Are there any grownups w/ integrity left in the DOJ? When I was a kid, I watched Repubs join Dems to force Nixon out. Now Dems won’t join Repubs to lock up Comey, Lynch, Ohr, Rosenstein, Strzok, @hillaryclinton, @barackobama & maybe even @jeffsessions despite damning evidence!”
Words fail me on this one.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 11, 2018 23:52:44 GMT
Jerry Falwell... “Are there any grownups w/ integrity left in the DOJ? When I was a kid, I watched Repubs join Dems to force Nixon out. Now Dems won’t join Repubs to lock up Comey, Lynch, Ohr, Rosenstein, Strzok, @hillaryclinton, @barackobama & maybe even @jeffsessions despite damning evidence!” Words fail me on this one. He forgot the leader of the pack!
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Post by Merge on Aug 12, 2018 0:38:08 GMT
Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg of National Review correctly dresses down conservatives who refuse to openly denounce the crackpots and racists among them: Article link.
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Post by flute4peace on Aug 12, 2018 3:25:51 GMT
Of course he’s fighting for prison reform next, since so many of his cronies (and possibly himself and his family members) are likely to be headed there! Ha!
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