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But Trump — who trusts no one, or at least no one for long — has now decided that he must have an alternative strategy that does not involve having Justice Department officials fire Mueller."I think he's been convinced that firing Mueller would not only create a firestorm, it would play right into Mueller's hands," said another friend, "because it would give Mueller the moral high ground."Instead, as is now becoming plain, the Trump strategy is to discredit the investigation and the FBI without officially removing the leadership. Trump is even talking to friends about the possibility of asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to consider prosecuting Mueller and his team."Here's how it would work: 'We're sorry, Mr. Mueller, you won't be able to run the federal grand jury today because he has to go testify to another federal grand jury,'" said one Trump adviser.
https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/958403727429455872
What if, halfway through the speech, he reached behind the podium and produced the atomic football and then launched nuclear missiles against North Korea?
What if, halfway through the speech, he loudly and violently shit his pants and collapsed with a stroke?
Quote from: Nintex on January 30, 2018, 07:38:10 PMhttps://twitter.com/Acosta/status/958403727429455872Quote from: Great Rumbler on January 30, 2018, 07:48:57 PMWhat if, halfway through the speech, he reached behind the podium and produced the atomic football and then launched nuclear missiles against North Korea? Quote from: Jack Remington on January 30, 2018, 08:05:50 PMWhat if, halfway through the speech, he loudly and violently shit his pants and collapsed with a stroke?Didn't watch the SOTU because I was busy masturbating, but did any of these happen?
Quote from: samfish on January 31, 2018, 11:08:19 AMQuote from: Nintex on January 30, 2018, 07:38:10 PMhttps://twitter.com/Acosta/status/958403727429455872Quote from: Great Rumbler on January 30, 2018, 07:48:57 PMWhat if, halfway through the speech, he reached behind the podium and produced the atomic football and then launched nuclear missiles against North Korea? Quote from: Jack Remington on January 30, 2018, 08:05:50 PMWhat if, halfway through the speech, he loudly and violently shit his pants and collapsed with a stroke?Didn't watch the SOTU because I was busy masturbating, but did any of these happen?Politco's top headline this morning is the CDC director resigning, so I'm guessing last night was a snoozer.
Quote from: Jack Remington on January 30, 2018, 09:22:27 PMI would just point out that my record isn't that bad. I predicted Trump would win the nomination when PD and Mandark said he wouldn't win a single primary. Edit: I had around $500 on Trump winning the nomination while PD was still saying he wouldn't even get one primary.Let's not forget your 160 IQ, either!
I would just point out that my record isn't that bad. I predicted Trump would win the nomination when PD and Mandark said he wouldn't win a single primary. Edit: I had around $500 on Trump winning the nomination while PD was still saying he wouldn't even get one primary.
Thankfully, one didn't need to even watch it to get reviews of Kennedy's official response hours before it happened and what it means for Democrats:QuotePicking the scion of a political dynasty demonstrates the party’s “disinterest in the mood of their own grassroots base,” said Maria Svart, the national director of the group Democratic Socialists of America....In a statement to the PBS NewsHour on Tuesday, DCCC Chairman Ben Ray Luján said Kennedy’s “powerful message resonates with all voters.”“Congressman Kennedy is an inspiring leader who has a unique ability to break down complex policy issues and connect with our hearts and souls,” Luján said....Kennedy is one of a number of Democrats whose name has been floated as a potential 2020 contender to take on Trump.wow our souls connected to complex policy! John Kerry/Joe Kennedy 2020!
Picking the scion of a political dynasty demonstrates the party’s “disinterest in the mood of their own grassroots base,” said Maria Svart, the national director of the group Democratic Socialists of America....In a statement to the PBS NewsHour on Tuesday, DCCC Chairman Ben Ray Luján said Kennedy’s “powerful message resonates with all voters.”“Congressman Kennedy is an inspiring leader who has a unique ability to break down complex policy issues and connect with our hearts and souls,” Luján said....Kennedy is one of a number of Democrats whose name has been floated as a potential 2020 contender to take on Trump.
Jack, who does more for progressive policy on a random Tuesday than anyone on this board combined, is very smart and good at his job. That's why Donald Trump is president, an openly anti-LGBT Mike Pence is VP, both the senate and the house are controlled by Republicans, and every progressive policy passed in the past 9 years is now being dismantled.Keep up the good work, Jack.
That’s not really the argument.The way the Comey Letter was covered led people to believe that the Democratic nominee for POTUS was in imminent danger of being charged with a felony. This butt hung over basically the entire early voting period. At the same time, undecideds swung dramatically for Trump.All voters heard about her for 18 months was emails, emails, emails, with a spattering of Clinton Foundation, and obviously the 30,000 yoga emails she deleted contained the evidence where she organizes a plot to launder money through fraudulent Clinton Foundation donations to Haiti, so emails again.Then the letter drops, and now she’s about to be indicted on felony charges, and people are like, “fuck this shit.”I don’t know why anyone bothers to argue with me on this. It’s crystal clear from all the data. Simply put, I’m right. Nate Silver is right. Stro is wrong. Username is wrong. Tokyosandblaster is wrong. Whoever else I’m forgetting who always clicks like on Stro’s dumbshit posts is also wrong.
Still believing in the "data" I see. When everyone out there got it all wrong.
Ok, tomorrow, when the memo drops, and I'm in here talking about how maybe the FBI overstepped its boundaries and that we should strive to keep our institutions accountable to democratic forces... someone tell me to stfu.
Yes, let's yell at the group not currently trampling the constitution and blatantly engaging in corruption and lawlessness.
Honestly the constitution blows
(Image removed from quote.)Frank Luntz surrounded by bearded tough guys in MAGA hats is the one thing I never realized I never wanted to see on my TV screen.
Ugh we're gonna nominate Bernie aren't we
“The elite media is part of the deep state,” Gingrich said. “The elite media group has survived by being in collusion with the senior bureaucracy, the city of Washington, the senior reporters, the senior bureaucrats, the senior lobbyists, they all hang out together, they all talk to each other, they all compare notes.”Host Sean Hannity began to wax poetic about President Donald Trump’s accomplishments as laid out in the State of the Union and how the speech was well-received in polls conducted by CBS and CNN, and he wondered aloud why the media was not echoing the president’s optimism.“The elite media in the United States is not neutral. They’re not referees,” Gingrich asserted. “They’re the offensive wing of the other team.”“These are folks who are so deeply hostile to what Donald Trump is trying to accomplish that they are fully as much a part of the opposition as is Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer and that’s part of why you’re getting this unbelievably biased coverage,” he added.To put the icing on the cake, he balked at the Congressional Black Caucus’ reluctance to show any enthusiasm over Trump’s claim that black unemployment is at its lowest point in history, as if there’s no possible reason for black congresspeople to be less than enthused with Donald Trump.“If they’re not happy that their constituents have a job, if they’re not happy that the tax cuts really dramatically help their congressional districts, then who do they represent?” Gingrich asked.
IT’S BEEN MORE THAN A DECADE since South Florida Rep. Mark Foley was forced out of Congress for sending sexual text messages to teenage boys.But Foley tapped his congressional campaign fund to dine on the Palm Beach social circuit four times in early 2017, ending with a $450 luncheon at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches.Then there’s baseball-star-turned-senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky. He paid his daughter $94,800 from campaign money in the four years after he left office, only stopping when he’d bled his fund dry.And over the past 17 months, political advisor Dylan Beesley paid his firm more than $100,000 from the campaign account of Hawaii Congressman Mark Takai for “consulting services.”It’s hard to imagine what Beesley advised. Takai was dead that whole time.
Times/WTSP reporters analyzed more than 1 million records detailing the spending of former U.S. lawmakers and federal candidates. They found roughly 100 of these zombie campaigns, still spending even though their candidate’s political career had been laid to rest.To be sure, history is full of politicians stretching the definition of legitimate campaign expenses. But most of those cases at least involved a campaign of some sort.By contrast, former Rep. Steven LaTourette, R-Ohio, had been out of office for more than three years when he spent $4,555 on Ohio State football tickets.
One spent $940 at Total Wine.
Each Total Wine & More store is 20,000–50,000 square feet (1,900–4,600 m2) in size.
Former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, still has an active presidential campaign account that he used to pay almost $16,170 to his daughter through 2017, five years after he last sought office.KHOU Houston found Paul in Clute, Texas. Paul drove away without answering a single question. He and his daughter didn’t respond to other requests for comment.
Times/WTSP reporters requested interviews with all five FEC commissioners. Only two responded. They both declined.
Bernie's too old but if he runs in the primary I'll vote for him. Kamala Harris is probably the best choice. She's everything Trump isn't, and has been way more receptive to leftist pressures than Hillary. She's one of the only well-known who can probably please both the Bernie wing and Clinton diehards.I don't like her background with prison labor and Israel advocacy, but she's still a lot more convicted than your typical Democrat.
Quote from: Valhelm on January 31, 2018, 02:08:22 PMBernie's too old but if he runs in the primary I'll vote for him. Kamala Harris is probably the best choice. She's everything Trump isn't, and has been way more receptive to leftist pressures than Hillary. She's one of the only well-known who can probably please both the Bernie wing and Clinton diehards.I don't like her background with prison labor and Israel advocacy, but she's still a lot more convicted than your typical Democrat.Isn't Kamala Harris awful on health care?
Kennedy painted a dark portrait of America on the brink, Nazi marches and mass shootings, “and that nagging, sinking feeling, no matter your political beliefs, ‘This is not right. This is not who we are.’”Kennedy wasn’t defensive. He sees the hubbub over his shiny lips as another symptom of his larger argument: that when “far bigger” issues are actually at stake, it can seem like everything is the chaos, partisanship and politics of the past year.“All of us bear some responsibility for that too,” he said. “It is a fractured and divided country. There are undeniably a sizable percentage of our population that steadfastly supports the president. People who don’t support the president have to acknowledge that.”It’s even more a measure, he said, of how nervous the attacks show some of the president’s supporters to be.“They can point out too much Chapstick all they want—it doesn’t mean that the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice isn’t rolling back civil rights protections. It doesn’t mean that an economic plan put forth by this administration is largely zero sum—that it is benefiting somebody at the expense of somebody else,” he said. “It does not get away from the fact that the tone and the rhetoric our president has used has continued to divide America. And it’s not going to stop the fact that I think that’s wrong.”
Pabo MiespaceKennedy’s have always assisted the middle & lower class - people in Boston are completely different from people in New York City
Michael J Sauk · Los Angeles, CaliforniaJoe, you are our next President, John's term must be completed.
she's been elected to statewide office three more times than Obama, she'll have been in the Senate as long as he was, she'll be older than Obama is now in 2020times a wastin
Quote from: benjipwns on February 01, 2018, 02:49:27 AMfrom my elite ivory tower of not getting my hands dirty through the sacrifice and hard work of voting every four years; the bigger strike to me is the history as a career prosecutorIf we get to a situation where Harris and Sanders are 1 and 2, in whatever order, “career prosecutor” will become the new Iraq War vote.
from my elite ivory tower of not getting my hands dirty through the sacrifice and hard work of voting every four years; the bigger strike to me is the history as a career prosecutor
Quote from: Stro on January 31, 2018, 12:16:11 PMJack, who does more for progressive policy on a random Tuesday than anyone on this board combined, is very smart and good at his job. That's why Donald Trump is president, an openly anti-LGBT Mike Pence is VP, both the senate and the house are controlled by Republicans, and every progressive policy passed in the past 9 years is now being dismantled.Keep up the good work, Jack.You fucking dick, states and cities/counties exist, and that's where the best work is being done right now. Not coincidentally, that's also where my work is (and I would never, ever want to work at the federal level, fuck that shit). Right now I'm working on a project developing a strategic budget for the use of LA County Measure H funds to reduce homelessness. Last year I did economic modeling work on Universal Pre-K proposals in a couple cities. What the fuck do you do besides bash private citizen Hillary Clinton on a message board with like 30 users?Edit: and I didn't say everyone combined. I said you and Tokyosandblaster combined.
I'd bet money that Sanders won't win 2 primaries. Becoming the anti-establishment alternative candidate is easy when you're running against one person, and he or she is as unappealing as Hillary was. Next time the field will actually be competitive with multiple candidates who will win solid support in multiple states. Gonna be hard for him to stand out on a debate stage alongside politicians who are actually appealing on varying levels (Booker*, Harris, etc).*I'm not a Booker fan at all, but it's safe to say he's going to have some solid support and he's a good speaker
Quote from: Phoenix Dark on February 01, 2018, 04:26:16 PMI'd bet money that Sanders won't win 2 primaries. Becoming the anti-establishment alternative candidate is easy when you're running against one person, and he or she is as unappealing as Hillary was. Next time the field will actually be competitive with multiple candidates who will win solid support in multiple states. Gonna be hard for him to stand out on a debate stage alongside politicians who are actually appealing on varying levels (Booker*, Harris, etc).*I'm not a Booker fan at all, but it's safe to say he's going to have some solid support and he's a good speakerDonald Trump.
Maybe not as entertaining but he was charismatic and commanded a devout following. You don't go from nobody to 45% of the Democratic vote without serious chutzpah.
Top White House aides are worried FBI Director Christopher Wray could quit if the highly controversial Republican memo alleging the FBI abused its surveillance tools is released, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation tell CNN.
Wray has not directly threatened to resign after clashing with Trump over the possible release of the memo, the source added, because that is not his style of dealing with conflict.
