I’d love to see the White House Spokesperson be busted for flat out telling the truth. No lies, no misleading statements, no alternative facts (I hate that BS term), no misdirection. Just a straightforward, truthful response to a question.
ETA: "White House spokesman Hogan Gidley" ... never heard of the guy! Where are they getting these people from, anyway?
person #1: "it's your turn to go on TV and defend his BS."
person #2: "I'm not doing it; I did it when he insulted the last person. YOU do it."
#1: "nope. I'm not going to say this stuff! I'd get laughed off the TV!!"
#2: "well, me, neither."
Is working in the WH like living in the town in the short story 'The Lottery' where they have a lottery to choose who will be the next human sacrifice, or something like that?!?
He has been on before. Snotty, right up there with SHS!! Do they forget how dt mocked Session's southern accent?
I did like that it was Fox calling him out, there is another one too!!
GOP pro-birth, NOT pro-life, proven May 24, 2022 at ROBB School, Uvalde, TX.
Dissent is not disloyalty: it is democracy!
“A speech disorder is a lot easier to treat than a character defect.” -- Chesley B. Sullenberger III RBG RIP!
I am PRO-Children in schools where they should be safe!
Fox host points out exactly how Trump’s comments violate the law afterRepublican insists ‘Trump is a president of the law’ June 13, 2019 By Eric W. Dolan
A Republican congressman on Thursday insisted that President Donald Trump had done nothing wrong by admitting that he might accept help from foreign operatives in an election.
“This president follows the law. He has done nothing wrong. This is Democrats trying to swing from the left side at the wind with literally a very sad rhetoric. When I heard [House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounce Trump], I was stunned and saddened. President Trump is a president of the law, by the law, and of the people,” said Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) during an appearance on Fox News.
“Not just the speaker. Lindsey Graham called it a mistake this morning,” Fox News host Eric Shawn pointed out.
“The president has made it clear, he has in the past complied with the law as do members of Congress. We’re all governed by federal election laws. They need to be upheld. He will uphold them, he has done that in the future,” the Republican congressman replied, adding that the entire situation “was an act of despair by not only the Speaker but Democrats.” ** www.rawstory.com/2019/06/fox-host-points-out-exactly-how-trumps-comments-violate-the-law-after-republican-insists-trump-is-a-president-of-the-law/ How was it an act of despair by Democrats?!?!?! It was said by dt during an interview IN the Oval office with George Stephanopolous
Last Edit: Jun 13, 2019 18:29:23 GMT by revirdsuba99
GOP pro-birth, NOT pro-life, proven May 24, 2022 at ROBB School, Uvalde, TX.
Dissent is not disloyalty: it is democracy!
“A speech disorder is a lot easier to treat than a character defect.” -- Chesley B. Sullenberger III RBG RIP!
I am PRO-Children in schools where they should be safe!
”I meet and talk to “foreign governments” every day. I just met with the Queen of England (U.K.), the Prince of Whales, the P.M. of the United Kingdom, the P.M. of Ireland, the President of France and the President of Poland. We talked about “Everything!” Should I immediately.....
”call the FBI about these calls and meetings? How ridiculous! I would never be trusted again. With that being said, my full answer is rarely played by the Fake News Media. They purposely leave out the part that matters.”
Apparently dimwit donnie is on spin control. And I’m sure some of his loyal supporters will buy this very bad attempt of cleaning up the mess he made yesterday.
I saw that. 😂 Brings an entirely new meaning to “Save the Whales!”
🐳 Whomp whomp.
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ~ Unknown
“Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
I wonder if the thought of having to explain the whales tweet was the final straw? 🐳
Either that or she’s cashing out before she goes up a higher circle of hell, for all the bald faced lies she’s told daily. 😏
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ~ Unknown
“Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
I knew I should not have watched Hand maid’s tale. It has been so long since I read the book that I had forgotten much of it. It was probably better that way.
MSNBC: Breaking news............... Sarah Huckabee Sanders is leaving the WH. Going home to Arkansas.
We will have to put up with Hogan Gidley... And we KNOW already that he lies!!!
And they are already floating the idea of her running for govenor!
Could you even imagine?!
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I knew I should not have watched Hand maid’s tale. It has been so long since I read the book that I had forgotten much of it. It was probably better that way.
It’s scary!! I’m just now reading it for the first time. I had bought a copy when it first came out but never read it. Then, when 2016 happened, I thought I’d give it a read but couldn’t find my copy. Then I kept refusing to buy or borrow another one because I knew I had one, dammit! Finally I gave up and bought it for the Kindle.
Still haven’t found the original copy.
LUCYG Northern California
MoreCowbell says I’m a racist … hmm … 9/10/23
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"Reality has a liberal bias, I guess." --pierogi 7/9/18
I’m not against the Green New Deal, but they need to come out with the details and cost sooner as opposed to later if you want people to vote for it.
From the Atlantic..
“The Think Tank Struggling to Write the Green New Deal”
From the article...
“Almost seven months have passed since the November day when a few hundred young people, associated with a new climate-activism group called the Sunrise Movement, crammed into Nancy Pelosi’s office. America’s youngest congresswoman-elect ever joined them. “This is not about me,” said Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was effectively leading a protest on her first day on Capitol Hill. “This is about uplifting the voice and the message of the fact that we need a Green New Deal.”
Ocasio-Cortez is still a star. Presidential candidates are courting the Sunrise Movement’s favor. And the Green New Deal has transformed the climate fight both in the United States and around the world.
Yet it remains unclear what would actually be in a Green New Deal. While a handful of candidates have released their own attempts at a Green New Deal, the tight network of progressives most closely linked to the plan have offered little new detail. In particular, the think tank known as New Consensus—ostensibly in charge of turning the Green New Deal into real policy—has published almost nothing substantial about it.
“I think they’ve done a pretty good job of compiling the scope, the scale, and the goals of the Green New Deal,” Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez, told me. “I think we’re still in the process of getting people to imagine what we’re talking about.” aka as spin cause they got nothing. But in the current informational vacuum, the plan’s supporters have sometimes faltered, allowing pundits, lobbyists, and other politicians to rush in and define the Green New Deal’s terms. “One reasonable summary of what has happened is that everybody except the people who say they are doing the Green New Deal are doing the Green New Deal,” said an activist who asked not to be named to avoid damaging relationships with New Consensus. Read: A centuries-old idea could revolutionize climate policy
New Consensus aims to be the policy quarterback for the Green New Deal. It wants to combine ideas from dozens of fields—including economics, sociology, ecology, and climate science—to write a new, all-encompassing domestic agenda. It promotes industrial policy, a school of thought that says a country should invest public dollars in its high-tech manufacturing capacity to flourish. (Elizabeth Warren, who has proposed something similar, calls this idea “economic patriotism.”)
But for a quarterback, New Consensus is inexperienced on the field. Founded last fall, its only public work to date consists of an industrial-policy reading list and a 14-page white paper that briefly elaborates on a congressional Green New Deal resolution championed by Ocasio-Cortez.
That white paper was published on February 9, two days after the resolution itself. It says that the Green New Deal will eventually consist of “specific projects” that will come together into one “coherent whole,” but it does not name the projects or say what they will do.
“Don’t worry,” read New Consensus’s Twitter account on the day the white paper was published. “Policy deets are coming!”
Four months later, policy details have yet to arrive. New Consensus now aims to have a playbook for the Green New Deal described “at an appropriate level of detail” in January 2020, according to Demond Drummer, its executive director.
Why are policy specifics important? For now, the most detailed form of the Green New Deal can be found in the February resolution. Released by Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Edward Markey, it sticks to broad goals. It says that the United States must repair its infrastructure, upgrade all its existing buildings to be energy efficient, and generate 100 percent of its electricity through clean or renewable sources. But it never says how to get there. In interviews, Ocasio-Cortez has seemed open to a range of approaches. “It’s not as though the federal government’s going to wave a wand and say, ‘We’re going to do it all ourselves,’” she told Chuck Todd in February.“It could be Tennessee Valley Authority–style public programs, but it could also be public-private partnerships. It can work down on a municipal level. There could be some potential contracting involved.”
That level of detail is supposed to be New Consensus’s job. While New Consensus and Ocasio-Cortez have no formal relationship, the think tank sprang from the same cadre of left-wing activists (and alums of Bernie Sanders’s 2016 campaign) who initially launched Ocasio-Cortez herself.
“I don’t want to say that we’re deeply coordinating with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, because”—as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit—“we can’t,” Drummer says. But Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff has identified New Consensus as a direct inspiration for their work, and the Sunrise Movement has invited New Consensus employees to speak at its events.
“It’s like any other think tank. They do briefings and that sort of thing,” said Trent, the spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez. He described the division of labor among the Green New Deal’s allies: The Justice Democrats PAC works on electoral strategy, the Sunrise Movement leads the youth campaign, New Consensus “[creates] some space in the think-tank world,” and Ocasio-Cortez herself works on the inside in Congress.
“Senate Republicans blocked legislation on Thursday that would force campaigns to notify the Federal Election Commission and the FBI about attempts by foreign nationals to influence an election."
“Senate Republicans blocked legislation on Thursday that would force campaigns to notify the Federal Election Commission and the FBI about attempts by foreign nationals to influence an election."
I’m sorry, what? Did I just have a stroke? What was the reason/excuse given for this?
Senate rules allow any one senator to ask for unanimous consent to pass a bill or approve a nomination. But any one senator can object and block the request.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) objected to Warner's request, saying the reporting requirements within the legislation go "overboard."
"The UC that was presented is overboard, and this is something that should be done in a thoughtful way. It should be done in a bipartisan way," Blackburn said.
Warner countered that Blackburn's reading of his legislation was "not accurate."
"The only thing that would have to be reported is if an agent of a foreign government or a foreign national offered something that was already prohibited," he added.
How in the...is reporting attempted foreign influence in our elections bipartisan? How is this overboard? It’s illegal/prohibited...freaking do the right thing and report it you corrupt...
Federal Election Commission (FEC) Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub said Thursday it is illegal to accept foreign assistance during elections after President Trump publicly suggested he would accept foreign intelligence on opponents.
"I would not have thought that I needed to say this," Weintraub tweeted Thursday with her statement.
"Let me make something 100 percent clear to the American public and anyone running for public office: It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election," Weintraub said
“Senate Republicans blocked legislation on Thursday that would force campaigns to notify the Federal Election Commission and the FBI about attempts by foreign nationals to influence an election."
of course they did
BTW this is something that shouldn’t need a law, it should be obvious and yet they block it. Why block it if your not doing it?
Employees turn their back on Agriculture secretary over being relocated to Kansas City ** (CNN)Employees from the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, two Department of Agriculture research agencies, stood and turned their backs to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue in silent protest at an all-hands meeting Thursday.
Perdue announced earlier Thursday morning that the Economic Research Service, which provides research and statistical analysis for lawmakers, and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which allocates federal research funding, will be relocated to Kansas City from Washington, D.C. -- the final announcement in a process that began last year.
The moment of solidarity comes after both agencies -- the Economic Research Service last month and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture just this week -- voted overwhelmingly to unionize to push back against the move, which many view as politically driven.
Perdue announced the final relocation site in a letter that was distributed to employees Thursday morning. Perdue and the department have argued that the move will lower standard of living costs, save taxpayer dollars and move the agencies closer to "stakeholders." ** www.cnn.com/2019/06/13/politics/usda-employees-relocated-kansas-city-perdue/index.html
Guessing they are NOT happy to be moving......... Hoping they still have theri jobs tomorrow. The whole article is a very interesting read!
Last Edit: Jun 14, 2019 2:19:47 GMT by revirdsuba99
GOP pro-birth, NOT pro-life, proven May 24, 2022 at ROBB School, Uvalde, TX.
Dissent is not disloyalty: it is democracy!
“A speech disorder is a lot easier to treat than a character defect.” -- Chesley B. Sullenberger III RBG RIP!
I am PRO-Children in schools where they should be safe!
“Senate Republicans blocked legislation on Thursday that would force campaigns to notify the Federal Election Commission and the FBI about attempts by foreign nationals to influence an election."
of course they did
BTW this is something that shouldn’t need a law, it should be obvious and yet they block it. Why block it if your not doing it?
When you have a people like Trump elected to office and a party like the GOP that protects him, we need laws about EVERYTHING. And apparently, even that is not enough because someone has to be willing to enforce them.
Editor's Note: John Avlon is a CNN senior political analyst and anchor. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN.
(CNN)President Trump's invitation to foreign powers to interfere in American elections is the Founding Fathers' worst nightmare.
And every conservative congressman who's ever called themselves an "originalist" ought to quickly condemn it or be forever labeled a hyperpartisan hack and a hypocrite.
This isn't a tough call. The Founding Fathers were obsessed with foreign nations interfering with our elections and influencing our domestic debates. And it wasn't a naive or paranoid concern -- it was rooted in their understanding of how democratic republics had been undermined throughout history.
Trump just put a 'for sale' sign on his forehead
George Washington could not have been clearer in his farewell address: "against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government."
This warning was present even before the Constitution was ratified.
In 1787, John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson, "you are apprehensive of foreign interference, intrigue, influence. So am I." Adams went on to explain that with every election "the danger of foreign influence recurs."
It was this concern that motivated James Madison to prepare for the constitutional convention by writing "Notes on Ancient and Modern Confederacies," which detailed historic failures with particular attention to the growth of bitter domestic divisions that were exploited by hostile foreign powers, especially in ancient Greece and Rome. The goal, of course, was to learn from their mistakes so as not to repeat them.
It was a theme the founders continued to hit hard in the Federalist Papers. Alexander Hamilton wrote with particular intensity in Federalist 68: "Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption. These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one querter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?"
That was one reason the founders decided to make only native-born citizens eligible for the presidency. Their nightmare scenario was a foreign power gaining improper influence on a president -- the "chief magistracy of the Union."
Nor was this a distant concern. During the 1790s, Poland found its sovereignty undermined by Russia, despite boasting the first written constitution in Europe. As I wrote in my book "Washington's Farewell," "squeezed between Russia and Prussia, Poland found its sovereignty systematically undermined by Senate candidates who secretly served those neighboring states. With a weakened military, a series of partitions reduced Poland to a skeletal state."
”Trump tells Fox that he will not fire Kellyanne Conway over her Hatch Act violations.
"They have tried to take away her speech. And I think you're entitled to free speech in this country."
Ignoring the fact that there are rules in place that prohibit exactly what she did, and if they don’t like them they need to get rid of them instead of ignoring them (oh I shouldn’t have said that out loud)...
What is the difference between this and the kneeling NFL players? Or hell, I’ll go one farther, the news? The news is actually a better comparison in that it demonstrates the need for some positions being apolitical.
What is the difference between this and the kneeling NFL players? Or hell, I’ll go one farther, the news? The news is actually a better comparison in that it demonstrates the need for some positions being apolitical.
I know your question is rhetorical, but I'll answer anyway.
The NFL and the News Media aren't breaking any laws!!
What is the difference between this and the kneeling NFL players? Or hell, I’ll go one farther, the news? The news is actually a better comparison in that it demonstrates the need for some positions being apolitical.
I know your question is rhetorical, but I'll answer anyway.
The NFL and the News Media aren't breaking any laws!!
LOCK.HER.UP!!
Right? I’m just wondering how his base/sheeple don’t see the cognitive dissonance.
There has to be a special place in hell for this man.
Newsweek...
“MITCH MCCONNELL REFUSES TO CONDEMN TRUMP FOREIGN DIRT COMMENTS IN FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, INSTEAD BLAMES DEMOCRATS”
”Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to condemn President Donald Trump for saying he would hear out a foreign power that came to him with dirt on an opponent. Instead, McConnell blamed Democrats for being unable to move beyond the report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
As Democrats and some Republicans recoiled in response to comments Trump made during an ABC interview, McConnell sought to dismiss the concerns, depicting them as unjustified outrage.
"They just can't let it go, Laura," McConnell said Thursday night while speaking with Fox News' Laura Ingraham. "I said weeks ago, case closed. We got the Mueller report, the only objective evaluation that will be conducted.... He gets picked at every day over every different aspect of it."
McConnell criticized the Democratic response to the Mueller report, which has led to intensified oversight and Congressional subpoenas. Republicans have sought to shift conversations beyond the Mueller report, while Democrats have focused on the investigation's findings that indicate Trump attempted to obstruct the probe.
But the fundamental point is that they are trying to keep the 2016 election alive and the investigation alive when the American people have heard enough," McConnell argued. "They got the Mueller report; they would like for us to do some business. I would ask the Democrats in the House this: Is there anything you're willing to do other than harass the President for the next two years? Anything at all?" Benghazi mean anything to you?
McConnell has previously claimed that Democrats are "consumed by unhinged partisanship" in continuing to focus attention on the Mueller report. While the senator's claims echoed Trump's own statements that he is being subjected to "presidential harassment," a number of Republicans rebuked the president this week for his remarks about accepting information from a foreign