Donald John Trump: The 2nd Greatest President of the USA (by volume)

[Techne]

Lol. People still think O'Keefe is creditable? :crylaugh: :crylaugh: :crylaugh:

More creditable and credible than CNN... kind of demonstrates just how fake CNN is. Corrupt/Crony/Crackpot etc. News Network

 

[RanzB]

More creditable and credible than CNN... kind of demonstrates just how fake CNN is. Corrupt/Crony/Crackpot etc. News Network

Haha, when you're trying to make someone seem more credible than CNN, you know you've already lost, whether it's true or not.

O'Keefe is a lying hack, makes sense that the ZeroHedge crowd look up to him.

France's Marine Le Pen charged over funding scandal

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been placed under formal investigation over an alleged European parliament funding scandal.

The allegations were passed to French investigators who have opened a case.

The parliament suspects some €5m (£4m; $5.4m) went to assistants of Ms Le Pen's National Front (FN) who were not working for MEPs but were actually engaged in FN party work in France.

So according to marine1, rietrot and the rest of the Trumpites, she must be guilty, right?

 

[Techne]

Haha, when you're trying to make someone seem more credible than CNN, you know you've already lost, whether it's true or not.

O'Keefe is a lying hack, makes sense that the ZeroHedge crowd look up to him.

Meh, useless rhetoric. Here is more:
Haha, when you're trying to make CNN seem credible, you know you've already lost.

CNN is fake news for butthurt Hilary shills.

 

[RanzB]

Haha, when you're trying to make CNN seem credible, you know you've already lost.

Except I never tried to You're welcome to try to find a post where I did, but I'm guessing that unless 'Tyler Durden' has an article about it you're going to battle to find one.

 

[Techne]

Want a link to the concept of rhetoric?

 

[RanzB]

Another ZeroHedge link? Nah, I'm good thanks.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Denied: Afghanistan's All-Girl Robotics Team Can't Get Visas To The US

Their robot may have permission to travel, but six teenage Afghan inventors are staying put this summer.

They've been rejected for a one-week travel visa to escort their robot to the inaugural FIRST Global Challenge – an international robotics competition happening in Washington DC in mid-July.

The all-girl team representing Afghanistan hails from Herat, a city of half a million people in the western part of the country. To interview for their visas, the girls risked a 500 mile trek cross-country to the American embassy in Kabul – the site of several recent suicide attacks and one deadly truck bomb in early June that killed at least 90 people. Despite the recent violence, the teenagers braved the trip to the country's capital not once, but twice, hoping a second round of interviews might help secure their 7-day visas after the team was rejected on its first try. But no luck.

 

[cerebus]

Denied: Afghanistan's All-Girl Robotics Team Can't Get Visas To The US

Probably a bunch of terrorists anyway, can't be too safe.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

The Trump Administration Is Planning an Unprecedented Attack on Voting Rights

Choo-choo, all aboard the voter suppression train.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

This is quite something.

The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians

I read the Wall Street Journal’s article yesterday on attempts by a GOP operative to recover missing Hillary Clinton emails with more than usual interest. I was involved in the events that reporter Shane Harris described, and I was an unnamed source for the initial story. What’s more, I was named in, and provided the documents to Harris that formed the basis of, this evening’s follow-up story, which reported that “A longtime Republican activist who led an operation hoping to obtain Hillary Clinton emails from hackers listed senior members of the Trump campaign, including some who now serve as top aides in the White House, in a recruitment document for his effort”:

Officials identified in the document include Steve Bannon, now chief strategist for President Donald Trump; Kellyanne Conway, former campaign manager and now White House counselor; Sam Clovis, a policy adviser to the Trump campaign and now a senior adviser at the Agriculture Department; and retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, who was a campaign adviser and briefly was national security adviser in the Trump administration.

I’m writing this piece in the spirit of Benjamin Wittes’s account of his interactions with James Comey immediately following the New York Times story for which he acted as a source. The goal is to provide a fuller accounting of experiences which were thoroughly bizarre and which I did not fully understand until I read the Journal’s account of the episode yesterday. Indeed, I still do not fully understand the events I am going to describe, both what they reflected then or what they mean in retrospect. But I can lay out what happened, facts from which readers and investigators can draw their own conclusions.

 

[greg0205]

This is quite something.

The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians

Just read it off a twitter link and was going to post it here... Thanks OD, and yeah it really is.
Also, as I recall, both sides here have linked to the lawfare blog... I know I have... wondering if folk on the right will now disavow.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Just read it off a twitter link and was going to post it here... Thanks OD, and yeah it really is.
Also, as I recall, both sides here have linked to the lawfare blog... I know I have... wondering if folk on the right will now disavow.

Yeah, there's nothing at all partisan about Lawfare Blog, and they produce some great reading material. Benjamin Wittes runs a tight ship.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/25/us/politics/trumps-deflections-and-denials-on-russia-frustrate-even-his-allies.html

Correction: June 29, 2017
A White House Memo article on Monday about President Trump’s deflections and denials about Russia referred incorrectly to the source of an intelligence assessment that said Russia orchestrated hacking attacks during last year’s presidential election. The assessment was made by four intelligence agencies — the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency. The assessment was not approved by all 17 organizations in the American intelligence community.

According to WikiLeaks over 3400 articles were written repeating that 17 agencies lie, wonder if we'll see 3400 corrections someday ...

 

[Techne]

The Trump Administration Is Planning an Unprecedented Attack on Voting Rights

Choo-choo, all aboard the voter suppression train.

Choo choo, all aboard the "requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote" train. Even the fake journalist of that article is not against it.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Source: Did Obamacare Really Save Lives?

One of the popular objections to the GOP proposals to reform health insurance markets is that the Affordable Care Act (aka “ObamaCare”) saved thousands of lives per year, and hence that tinkering with ObamaCare will literally kill lots of people.
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Believe it or not, the data suggest that if anything, ObamaCare actually caused more Americans to die.

None of what I write in this piece should be construed as an endorsement of the GOP bills. But the claim that they would “kill lots of people” is not valid.
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the states that took advantage of ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion saw a worse impact on their mortality rates than the states that rejected the expansion.

Conclusion

Although I personally do not yet have a theory on the specific mechanism that may be responsible, I am confident in saying that the actual data do not support the breathless claims that rolling back ObamaCare will literally kill many thousands of Americans. Fans of the Austrian school should not be shocked, though, to discover that having the federal government get more heavily involved in the health sector has apparently made things worse.

 

[Unhappy438]

[video=youtube;dYeF2nhgqmU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYeF2nhgqmU[/video]

 

[Techne]

Manipulated footage to suit a narrative...
CNN is a nothing burger now. It is fake news. Time to move on.

 

[Unhappy438]

[video=youtube_share;Nxb2s2Mv6Pw]https://youtu.be/Nxb2s2Mv6Pw?t=9m50s[/video]

@9.50

 

[Unhappy438]

Stephen Colbert on Trump tweets: "Someone bleeding badly at your door and you say no, it sounds like your healthcare plan."

 

[RanzB]

Manipulated footage to suit a narrative....

And yet you'll listen when ZH tells you to watch this 'new' James o'Keefe video