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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2018 15:31:08 GMT
"People won't tell their dentists what to do but they feel like they can give advice to the President."
"We couldn't afford to make a mistake. The tone had to be perfect."
OMG - what a burden they carried to "be best" and not let the country down and be judged as the representatives of an entire race --- and how quickly Trump came in and defecated all over the office.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2018 15:34:02 GMT
Brenden Karet..
”Jason Chaffetz, speaking about Jakelin Caal Maquin, a 7 year old girl who died in the custody of US Border Patrol: "That should be the message, don't make this journey, it will kill you."
One correction. She survived the trip, she died 27 hours after she was in the hands of the United States Government. Once they realized something was wrong she had to wait 90 minutes for medical help. It’s questionable that she was given any food or water for the 8 hours before the symptoms appeared. Eight hours that she was in US custody.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2018 15:55:11 GMT
Kyle Griffin...
”Top Trump Departures Yates Flynn Walsh Comey Dubke Shaub McFarland Corralo Spicer Priebus Mooch Bannon Gorka Icahn Lotter Price Powell Manigault Dearborn McCabe Porter Raffel Hicks Cohn Tillerson McEntee McMaster Shulkin Anton Bossert Pruitt Short Haley Sessions Kelly Ayers Zinke”
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Post by hop2 on Dec 15, 2018 16:43:03 GMT
OMG, George Papadopoulos is planning a 2020 run for Congress in a TBD Orange County district. Good luck getting through the primaries, let alone winning. Papadopoulos running for CongressAny criminal can run and win a Republican primary in the right place, and then right-leaning people will vote for the criminal rather than put a Democrat in office. Republican approval of Trump is high. They truly don't care about lies and criminal behavior as long as they get their anti-choice judges. I really don’t post political stuff on FB once in a while I’ll like some meme or other. I recently liked an article about investigating Trump and now I am de-friended lol Apparently it’s ok to be a single issue voter when it’s ‘I know Trump is an asshole but *judges*’ but it’s not ok to be a single issue voter if it’s ‘ Hello? Emoluments clause? Are we going to enforce it?’ Then they are all harping on coming here illegally is breaking the law we have to have laws. The law is the law and you have to go by the law, even when you don’t like the law, it’s the law. We are a nation of laws. Then you bring up the campaign finance issues and it’s all well the law isn’t clear, that law is stupid, you can’t expect a candidate to know where every dollar comes from or goes to. blah blah blah Wait a minute, I thought the law was the law and you have to go by the law even if you don’t like it. We are a nation of laws? I had them on hide anyway I wouldn’t have known I was unfriended except they sent me a message saying I was. Lol
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Dec 15, 2018 17:15:06 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Dec 15, 2018 17:22:13 GMT
The mouth runnith over ! Hatch says he regrets his 'I don't care' comment about Trump allegationsBy Clare Foran and Manu Raju, CNN Updated 9:04 AM ET, Sat December 15, 2018 Washington (CNN)Sen. Orrin Hatch, the outgoing Utah Republican and most senior GOP senator, issued a statement on Friday expressing regret for telling CNN "I don't care" when asked about President Donald Trump being implicated in crimes by Michael Cohen. "Earlier this week in an unplanned hallway interview with CNN, I made comments about allegations against the President that were irresponsible and a poor reflection on my lengthy record of dedication to the rule of law," the senator said in the statement. In the interview with CNN earlier in the week, Hatch strongly dismissed the federal government's allegations that Trump directed Cohen, his former attorney, to commit two crimes by facilitating hush money payments to silence stories about alleged affairs with Trump. Asked if he had any concerns that Trump was implicated, Hatch told CNN: "The Democrats will do anything to hurt this President." Informed it was alleged by the Southern District of New York, Hatch said: "OK, but I don't care, all I can say is he's doing a good job as President." More at link: www.cnn.com/2018/12/14/politics/orrin-hatch-president-trump-comments/index.html*** But then he says............... the mouth runnith over more!! Sen. Hatch calls Obamacare supporters stupidSen. Orrin Hatch blasted the Affordable Care Act while speaking about the massive GOP tax overhaul at the American Enterprise Institute. Source: CNN www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/03/02/orrin-hatch-obamacare-comments-fsc-orig.cnn
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2018 18:20:58 GMT
Treason Stickers...
”FUN FACT: this is the first Friday in history where the President, his campaign, his transition team, his inauguration, his administration, his business, his charity and his family are ALL under investigation for committing DIFFERENT felonies.”
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Post by lucyg on Dec 15, 2018 18:41:14 GMT
Any criminal can run and win a Republican primary in the right place, and then right-leaning people will vote for the criminal rather than put a Democrat in office. Republican approval of Trump is high. They truly don't care about lies and criminal behavior as long as they get their anti-choice judges. I really don’t post political stuff on FB once in a while I’ll like some meme or other. I recently liked an article about investigating Trump and now I am de-friended lol Apparently it’s ok to be a single issue voter when it’s ‘I know Trump is an asshole but *judges*’ but it’s not ok to be a single issue voter if it’s ‘ Hello? Emoluments clause? Are we going to enforce it?’ Then they are all harping on coming here illegally is breaking the law we have to have laws. The law is the law and you have to go by the law, even when you don’t like the law, it’s the law. We are a nation of laws. Then you bring up the campaign finance issues and it’s all well the law isn’t clear, that law is stupid, you can’t expect a candidate to know where every dollar comes from or goes to. blah blah blah Wait a minute, I thought the law was the law and you have to go by the law even if you don’t like it. We are a nation of laws? I had them on hide anyway I wouldn’t have known I was unfriended except they sent me a message saying I was. Lol Don’t worry! We’ll still be your friends!
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Post by lucyg on Dec 15, 2018 18:56:28 GMT
"It confounds the silence." You can’t tell from the Pence image, but this video is a MUST-WATCH.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Dec 15, 2018 19:00:38 GMT
You can’t tell from the Pence image, but this video is a MUST-WATCH. People are truly talented!! TFS!
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Post by lucyg on Dec 15, 2018 19:08:44 GMT
You can’t tell from the Pence image, but this video is a MUST-WATCH. People are truly talented!! TFS! @zingermack shared it. I only nagged.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Dec 15, 2018 19:13:26 GMT
No one said I was bright, particularly while I try to get Christmas done here............. Busy elves working hard!! Well supposed to be working hard!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2018 19:13:38 GMT
Josh Dawsey...
”Senior WH people were telling reporters this morning that Christie was likely choice. Then he said no. POTUS angry about rejections and notion that no one wants job. Mulvaney had unrelated meeting in West Wing this PM. And then he was chief of staff.”
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Post by maryannscraps on Dec 15, 2018 20:14:28 GMT
Treason Stickers... ”FUN FACT: this is the first Friday in history where the President, his campaign, his transition team, his inauguration, his administration, his business, his charity and his family are ALL under investigation for committing DIFFERENT felonies.” I wonder if he's tired of winning?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2018 20:59:11 GMT
Carol Leonning....
”Cannot-Make-It-Up Department. Interior Secretary under investigation for allegedly trying to enrich himself in office wouldn't leave job until he could have Christmas party with lobbyists and take pictures in front of stuffed polar bear”
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2018 21:26:44 GMT
Texas rulingI wondered how the individual mandate could be considered unconstitutional and because it was the entire law was overturned. New York Time - Opinion. Jonathan Adler & Abbe R. Gluck ” What the Lawless Obamacare Ruling Means” “It’s not based on a solid legal argument. It’s an exercise in raw judicial power. In a shocking legal ruling, a federal judge in Texas wiped Obamacare off the books Friday night. The decision, issued after business hours on the eve of the deadline to enroll for health insurance for 2019, focuses on the so-called individual mandate. Yet it purports to declare the entire law unconstitutional — everything from the Medicaid expansion, the ban on pre-existing conditions, Medicare and pharmaceutical reforms to much, much more. A ruling this consequential had better be based on rock-solid legal argument. Instead, the opinion by Judge Reed O’Connor is an exercise of raw judicial power, unmoored from the relevant doctrines concerning when judges may strike down a whole law because of a single alleged legal infirmity buried within. We were on opposing sides of the 2012 and 2015 Supreme Court challenges to the Affordable Care Act, and we have different views of the merits of the act itself. But as experts in the field of statutory law, we agree that this decision makes a mockery of the rule of law and basic principles of democracy — especially Congress’s constitutional power to amend its own statutes and do so in accord with its own internal rules. The individual mandate is the law’s controversial requirement that all Americans maintain qualifying health insurance coverage or pay a penalty. In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld this penalty as an exercise of Congress’s taxing power. In 2017, unable to get the votes to repeal the entire law, Congress just zeroed out the penalty. In this case, Texas and 19 other states argue that with zero penalty, the mandate lacks a constitutional basis because it will no longer be enforced like a tax. If that were all there was, the case would have little consequence because starting in 2019, the mandate is unenforceable. But audaciously, the states argued — and Judge O’Connor agreed — that the rest of Obamacare must fall, too. They claim that the mandate is so central to the A.C.A. that nothing else in it can operate without it. That’s not how the relevant law works. An established legal principle called “severability” is triggered when a court must consider what happens to a statute when one part of it is struck down. The principle presumes that, out of respect for the separation of powers, courts will leave the rest of the statute standing unless Congress makes clear it did not intend for the law to exist without the challenged provision. This is not a liberal principle or a conservative principle. It is an uncontroversial rule that every Supreme Court justice in modern history has applied. Sometimes severability cases are difficult because it is hard to guess how much importance Congress attributed to one provision, especially in a lengthy law like the Affordable Care Act. But this is an easy case: It was Congress, not a court, that eliminated the mandate penalty and left the rest of the statute in place. How can a court conclude that Congress never intended the rest of the statute to exist without an operational mandate, when it was the 2017 Congress itself that decided it was fine to eliminate the penalty and leave the rest of the law intact? The 55-page opinion devotes just two pages to the intention of the 2017 Congress. Instead, it relies on the perspective of the 2010 Congress that enacted the law, and two Supreme Court cases that were charged with asking questions about that 2010 Congress’s intent. While the dozens of pages rehearsing those old viewpoints may look superficially sound, that part of the opinion is smoke and mirrors, because the 2010 Congress’s intention is not relevant to this case — the 2010 law is no longer what is at issue. Congress is allowed to amend its own law, and the Constitution does not permit any court to undermine that power. Still, Judge O’Connor wrote that we cannot divine the intent of the 2017 Congress because Congress didn’t have the votes to repeal the entire law but wished it could. That’s ridiculous. Congressional intent is all about the votes. One would not say Congress wished it could repeal the Civil Rights Act if only a minority of Congress supported such a move. It is conservative judicial doctrine 101, as repeatedly emphasized by Justice Antonin Scalia, that the best way to understand congressional intent is to look at the text Congress was able to get through the legislative process. Instead, Judge O’Connor goes down a rabbit hole, hypothesizing whether the 2010 Congress would have enacted the entire law without the mandate and whether the law can function without it. What findings Congress made in 2010 are irrelevant to the interpretation of this later legislative act. Regardless, Congress’s own act of 2017 makes clear Congress thinks the law works without an operational mandate. To believe otherwise is to assume Congress enacts unworkable laws and that is not what courts are allowed to presume. Judge O’Connor’s claim to the contrary is the equivalent of saying that your 2017 tax cut isn’t valid because the 2010 Congress also enacted a tax bill, and wouldn’t have included your tax cut there. What happens next? The health law is likely to continue in place while the case moves to the higher courts. California, the leader of a group of states that stepped in to defend the law because the Justice Department refused to do so, will almost certainly go to the Fifth Circuit — the federal appellate court that presides over Texas — to have the effects of the decision paused and the case reviewed. The House of Representatives will also likely join the lawsuit once the Democrats take control. If the Fifth Circuit reverses Judge O’Connor, we think it unlikely the Supreme Court will take the case. If the Fifth Circuit upholds the ruling, we are skeptical a majority of the court would sustain this weak analysis. Chief Justice John Roberts is sensitive to allowing the court to be an instrument of politics, particularly when doing so violates separation of powers. Justice Brett Kavanaugh is an expert on statutory interpretation who has previously said that courts should “sever an offending provision from the statute to the narrowest extent possible unless Congress has indicated otherwise in the text of the statute.” To do otherwise would be for the court to substitute its own judgment for Congress’s. Justice Clarence Thomas has opined that the kind of hypothesizing analysis on which Judge O’Connor relied is inappropriate: Congress’s intentions “do not count,” he wrote earlier this year, unless they are “enshrined” in a text that made it through the “constitutional processes of bicameralism and presentment” — as everyone agrees the 2017 tax bill did. Friday was another sad day for the rule of law — the deployment of judicial opinions employing questionable legal arguments to support a political agenda. This is not how judges are supposed to act. Reasonable people may disagree on whether the health law represented the best way to reform America’s health care system, and reasonable people may disagree on whether it should be replaced with a different approach. Yet reasonable people should understand such choices are left to Congress, not to the courts.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Dec 15, 2018 21:32:38 GMT
Kyle Griffin... ”Top Trump Departures Yates Flynn Walsh Comey Dubke Shaub McFarland Corralo Spicer Priebus Mooch Bannon Gorka Icahn Lotter Price Powell Manigault Dearborn McCabe Porter Raffel Hicks Cohn Tillerson McEntee McMaster Shulkin Anton Bossert Pruitt Short Haley Sessions Kelly Ayers Zinke” (Frantically checking my cards...) I ***HAVE*** to have a Bingo by now on ONE of these dang things!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2018 21:54:20 GMT
Josh Dawsey... ”Senior WH people were telling reporters this morning that Christie was likely choice. Then he said no. POTUS angry about rejections and notion that no one wants job. Mulvaney had unrelated meeting in West Wing this PM. And then he was chief of staff.” Here's how I feel about Mulvaney and all the other GOP who have enabled Trump to torpedo the GOP. "You broke it. You bought it." Enjoy your broken toy, MFers.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2018 22:12:04 GMT
This from trump..
”Secretary of the Interior @ryanzinke will be leaving the Administration at the end of the year after having served for a period of almost two years. Ryan has accomplished much during his tenure and I want to thank him for his service to our Nation.......”
Prompted this from southpaw..
”It’s true. Hard to remember another cabinet secretary who racked up 17 federal investigations into his conduct in two years, a possibly unmatched“ accomplishment.
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Post by bc2ca on Dec 15, 2018 22:15:33 GMT
OMG, George Papadopoulos is planning a 2020 run for Congress in a TBD Orange County district. Good luck getting through the primaries, let alone winning. Papadopoulos running for CongressAny criminal can run and win a Republican primary in the right place, and then right-leaning people will vote for the criminal rather than put a Democrat in office. Republican approval of Trump is high. They truly don't care about lies and criminal behavior as long as they get their anti-choice judges. He is definitely district shopping, and there are plenty of Republicans in Orange County, although every district that was red flipped blue in November.
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Post by bc2ca on Dec 15, 2018 22:17:22 GMT
Josh Dawsey... ”Senior WH people were telling reporters this morning that Christie was likely choice. Then he said no. POTUS angry about rejections and notion that no one wants job. Mulvaney had unrelated meeting in West Wing this PM. And then he was chief of staff.” This did make me LOL. I can imagine POTUS refusing to take no for an answer and almost feel sorry for Mulvaney.
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Post by hop2 on Dec 15, 2018 22:46:19 GMT
Josh Dawsey... ”Senior WH people were telling reporters this morning that Christie was likely choice. Then he said no. POTUS angry about rejections and notion that no one wants job. Mulvaney had unrelated meeting in West Wing this PM. And then he was chief of staff.” Even Chris Christie is not stupid enough to sign into this now.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2018 22:56:29 GMT
ABC News...
”U.S. Army soldiers have removed barbed wire along the US-Mexico border in areas where the Trump administration has said more border security measures are needed after local community leaders raised concerns. abcn.ws/2GkuYBn”
I was going to put some pithy remark, but this is better from the Good Witch..
”So the US taxpayer has now paid for the useless wire fence to be installed and are now paying again for it to be dismantled. ”
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2018 23:13:28 GMT
linkShades of Benghazi. “Kurt Bardella Ten takeaways from James Comey's recent House testimony sure to make Trump furious”
From the article. 1. In a response to a question from House oversight chair Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., about the FBI’s authority to “launch a counterintelligence investigation into a major political campaign,” Comey says: “I don't know for a variety of reasons. I've never encountered a circumstance where an investigation into a political campaign was launched, and so I don't know how that would be done.” Translation: No political campaign has ever conducted itself the way Trump’s campaign did and so there is no past precedent to rely on. 2. “Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., who will become the House Judiciary Committee’s chairman in January, flat-out asked Comey if he agreed with the president’s “characterization that the special counsel’s investigation is a witch hunt.” Comey rejected the assertion, noting, “I do not.” 3. “Nadler then asked Comey how he would “characterize the special counsel investigation and its importance not only to our national security, but as a means of restoring public confidence in our election and law enforcement agencies?” Comey responded with a defense of the Mueller probe, saying: “Watching it from the outside, my judgment as an experienced prosecutor and investigator is it's been conducted with extraordinary speed, with extraordinary professionalism, and zero disclosure outside of public court filings. It represents the way our criminal justice system is supposed to work in investigating, and I believe it's incredibly important to the rule of law in this country that the work be allowed to finish.” 4. “This proceeding was also an opportunity for Comey to address some of Trump’s favorite conspiracy theories about the relationship between Comey and Mueller. Comey was asked if he was indeed “best friends” with Mueller as the president has alleged. “I am not,” Comey replied. “I admire the heck out of the man, but I don't know his phone number, I've never been to his house, I don't know his children's names. I think I had a meal once alone with him in a restaurant. I like him. I am not a — I'm an associate of his who admires him greatly. We're not friends in any social sense.” 5. “While he may not be best friends with Mueller, Comey was happy to vouch for his integrity: “There are not many things I would bet my life on. I would bet my life that Bob Mueller will do things the right way, the way we would all want, whether we're Republicans or Democrats, the way Americans should want.” 6. “Comey was asked about the president’s efforts to “undermine the credibility of his investigators at the Justice Department.” Comey’s response included an explanation of how damaging the president’s words can be to our institutions and to our national security: “It's shortsighted, and anybody who knows those organizations, knows it's not true. … Those kind of lies hurt the ability of the FBI to be believed at a doorway or in a courtroom. That makes all of us less safe. These are honest institutions made up of normal flawed human beings, but people committed to doing things the right way. When they're lied about constantly, it hurts the faith and confidence of the American people in them, and that is bad for all of us. I don't care what your political stripe is. … Our national security turns upon the ability of an FBI agent to convince the girlfriend of a jihadi that we will protect her if she cooperates with us. If we're seen as a political group of one kind or another, an untrustworthy group, that trust is eroded and the agent loses the ability to make that case.” 7. “As has been the case for two years, Republicans on the Oversight and Judiciary Committee used their time with Comey to try and undermine the Russia probe. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., incoming oversight chairman, gave Comey a chance to define the threat posed by Russia. “The aim of the Russian effort in 2016 was to destabilize, undermine, damage our democracy,” Comey told the committees. “That was their overwhelming goal. And so you have a foreign nation that is attacking the United States of America in an effort to undermine that which is essentially us, our democratic process. So that's a very serious threat. And understanding whether any Americans were part of that effort is incredibly important because the threat of those Americans by virtue of their alliance with the Russians would pose to our country.” 8. “Cummings followed up by asking what would happen if the special counsel’s investigation was impeded or ended prematurely. “Well, in my opinion, it would undermine our national security by not holding accountable people who might have been involved in either the Russians or people who worked with them, first,” Comey responded. “And second, it would send an absolutely appalling message about the rule of law in this country of ours. … The Russians' goal was for everyone in the world to have doubt about the nature and credibility of the American democracy, to dirty it up so it's not a shining city on the hill. So their attack had implications for that, the role of the American democratic experiment. And if someone were to order it stopped, the investigation into that, it would have a similar effect.” 9. “Returning to another one of Trump’s favorite conspiracy theories — that President Barack Obama ordered the FBI to spy on his campaign — Comey definitively rejected the theory, noting that “no one would dare ask me or anybody else at the FBI that because they know the reaction, which would be not only no, but hell no.” 10. “Towards the end of the proceeding, Comey was asked about the president’s habit of commenting on active investigations, and the former FBI director did not mince words: “I think we have become numb to lying and attacks on the rule of law by the president, all of us have to a certain extent, and it's something we can't ever become numb to.”
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2018 23:13:51 GMT
Finally. Things moving in the right direction:
"The stigma of being conservative is worse than that of being gay"
GOOD.
The stigma of stripping basic rights from people because of who they fuck, forcing women to carry children they don't want, and unwinding 50 years of civil rights progress SHOULD be worse than being gay.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Dec 15, 2018 23:57:27 GMT
POTUS angry about rejections and notion that no one wants job. But.... he has a long list of those who want the job!! Like 10-12........
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Dec 15, 2018 23:59:39 GMT
ABC News... ”U.S. Army soldiers have removed barbed wire along the US-Mexico border in areas where the Trump administration has said more border security measures are needed after local community leaders raised concerns. abcn.ws/2GkuYBn” I was going to put some pithy remark, but this is better from the Good Witch.. ”So the US taxpayer has now paid for the useless wire fence to be installed and are now paying again for it to be dismantled. ” Wonder if the local animals were getting caught in the coiled barb wire.
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