US politics general thread

[buka001]

Hilarious thread.

Xarog defending down to the last man.

 

[buka001]

So Putin has a speach where he literally shows Russia nuking Florida and Hawaii with nuclear fueled cruise missiles and advanced ICBM's that can manouver around Aegis defense systems and not a single word on this from the POTUS?

Instead he was more concerned with a satirical impersonation of him by an actor.

Every president before him would have been all over this.

His silence on this defening, especially how loud he gets when NK tests an antiquated missile. Makes you think.

 

[cerebus]

Hilarious thread.

Xarog defending down to the last man.

Yeah this is the reason it's not a good idea to wager on future predictions with xarog. Come April when there's no indictments on Soros or Clintons for child slavery he'll just convene with his cohort of loonies and fabricate a new conspiracy out of whole cloth, argue incessantly, conclude that he was right when you can no longer keep up with his nuttery, and nothing will change.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Turns out Trump lied about this, too. :crylaugh:

Donald Trump misled the public about freeing UCLA basketball players

 

[C4Cat]

No one mentioned Anastasia Vashukevich yet?

 

[Hamish McPanji]

No one mentioned Anastasia Vashukevich yet?

Would tap



If she had proper dirt that could stick, she would be dead by now. I think it's gonna be a "he said, she said story" though

 

[C4Cat]

If she had proper dirt that could stick, she would be dead by now. I think it's gonna be a "he said, she said story" though

I agree it's probably nothing but she claims to have audio and video recordings

 

[Techne]

Donald Trump's public shaming of Jeff Sessions is shameful

(CNN)President Donald Trump continued his long-running public shaming campaign of Jeff Sessions Wednesday, with a tweet bashing his attorney general's behavior as "disgraceful."

Tweeted Trump: "Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc. Isn't the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!"
Here's what is actually disgraceful: The president of the United States is engaged in a one-sided smear effort against the man who, less than 18 months ago, he nominated to be the top law enforcement official in the country.

Even Trump Sounds Like a Gun-Grabber Now

America goes gun-crazy after every mass shooting.

Handgun sales rise markedly, even if the attackers strike overseas. The percent of airtime devoted to gun control surges on the cable news channels, holding there for days, sometimes weeks, and Web searches on the topic climb ever higher. The usual pro-gun and anti-gun groups mobilize to drive public opinion, and support for stricter gun control laws increases. The National Rifle Association retreats to its bunker until the storm passes, which it always does, and we return to the usual.

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In the aftermath of the Parkland killings, these patterns have asserted themselves. But as the wheel turns once more, something new has crept into the national disputation. Call it a mirage or attribute it to liberal wishful thinking, but the gun control argument has found new grounding in the culture and is asserting a firmer grip in political circles. Even President Donald Trump, who romanced the NRA during the campaign and was elected with its help, sounds like a gun-grabber these days.

At this rate the Democrats' "Make California Mexico Again" campaign will win in a landslide.

 

[cerebus]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics...e-presidential-seal-for-its-golf-courses.html

In what would likely amount to an illegal exploitation of the office of the presidency, the Trump Organization appears to have ordered replicas of the official presidential seal to be placed on Trump golf courses, according to a new report from ProPublica.
The Trump Organization placed orders sometime in the past few weeks for new tee markers sporting the seal, according to the report. Doing so would not only be an ethical violation by the president’s company—it could be illegal. A federal law prohibits anyone from using the seal for anything other than official government business.

:wtf:

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Trump Lawyer’s Payment to Stormy Daniels Was Reported as Suspicious by Bank

The bank used by President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer to wire $130,000 to a former adult-film actress flagged the transaction as suspicious and reported it to the Treasury Department, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The lawyer, Michael Cohen, wired the money to a lawyer for former actress Stephanie Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels, from an account at First Republic Bank . The money was received on Oct. 27, 2016, 12 days before the presidential election, another person familiar with the matter said. It isn’t clear when First Republic reported it to the government as suspicious.

Mr. Cohen said he missed two deadlines earlier that month to make the $130,000 payment to Ms. Clifford because he couldn’t reach Mr. Trump in the hectic final days of the presidential campaign, the person said.

After Trump’s victory, Cohen complained to friends that he had yet to be reimbursed for the payment to Clifford.

LOL.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Sam Nunberg's interviews on MSNBC and CNN are whacko stuff.

Tapper: Do you think Donald Trump knew nothing about that [Trump Tower] meeting?
Nunberg: "No. You know he knew about it. He was talking about it a week before...I don't know why he went around trying to hide it."

“Carter Page was colluding with the Russians.” Jake Tapper stopped to make sure he heard Nunberg clearly & Nunberg repeated “yes I believe Carter Page was colluding with the Russians.”

 

[cerebus]

Sam Nunberg's interviews on MSNBC and CNN are whacko stuff.

Yeah wow. Mind you he seems to be an alcoholic bottom feeder and about as reliable as a wet spaghetti bridge. It's more of an indictment on Trump's poor hiring judgement than anything else.

 

[cerebus]

Trump Lawyer’s Payment to Stormy Daniels Was Reported as Suspicious by Bank



LOL.

The most bizarre thing about the Stormy Daniels affair is that it's a relatively minor incident in the news cycle. The details are so scandalous and titillating that they would dominate the news for any other president.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

The most bizarre thing about the Stormy Daniels affair is that it's a relatively minor incident in the news cycle. The details are so scandalous and titillating that they would dominate the news for any other president.

There have been quite a few of those, yeah.

Mostly due to extreme bar-lowering and extreme hypocrisy by Republicans.

You can make a pages long list of things which if done or said by Obama/Clinton would have seen impeachment hearings within 24 hours. Taking guns without due process, spilling Israeli secrets to Russia in the Oval Office, 100 WH staffers working without proper security clearances, not doing anything about an ongoing cyberattack, rampant corruption, putting his children in the WH, etc.

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

This is what happens when you make a mediocre conman president.

We've had our Zuma moment;let's see the Americans have theirs.

 

[Xarog]

John Solomon of The Hill reports:

Former Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer’s role in securing $25 million in aid from his country to help the Clinton Foundation fight AIDS is chronicled in decade-old government memos archived on the Australian foreign ministry’s website.

Downer and former President Clinton jointly signed a Memorandum of Understanding in February 2006 that spread out the grant money over four years for a project to provide screening and drug treatment to AIDS patients in Asia. [..]

Downer, now Australia’s ambassador to London, provided the account of a conversation with Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos at a London bar in 2016 that became the official reason the FBI opened the Russia counterintelligence probe.

But lawmakers say the FBI didn’t tell Congress about Downer’s prior connection to the Clinton Foundation. Republicans say they are concerned the new information means nearly all of the early evidence the FBI used to justify its election-year probe of Trump came from sources supportive of the Clintons, including the controversial Steele dossier.

According to reports, the FBI is investigating millions of “mishandled taxpayer” dollars funneled to the dubious non-profit from Australian taxpayers.

http://thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03...gered-russia-probe-linked-clinton-foundation/

Also, it turns out that Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS/Steele on behalf of the DNC/Clinton campaign. Perkins Coie was also responsible for having Crowdstrike investigate the DNC hack instead of the FBI. An impartial investigation into the DNC leak will reveal Seth Rich to be the leaker, of course.

Funny how every last finger that points at Trump colluding with Russia can be traced directly back to the Clinton election campaign.

 

[Xarog]

The most bizarre thing about the Stormy Daniels affair is that it's a relatively minor incident in the news cycle. The details are so scandalous and titillating that they would dominate the news for any other president.

Not really. Americans knew they were voting for a horndog. Confirming that Trump is indeed a horndog does nothing to tarnish his reputation as a result.

The MSM has already thrown racist, nazi, homophobe, bigot, sexist etc. at Trump. What you're looking at is outrage fatigue.

 

[cerebus]

Not really. Americans knew they were voting for a horndog. Confirming that Trump is indeed a horndog does nothing to tarnish his reputation as a result.

The MSM has already thrown racist, nazi, homophobe, bigot, sexist etc. at Trump. What you're looking at is outrage fatigue.

Or maybe the GOP got fatigue from all that manufactured outrage at Obama and now they've got nothing left for Trump

 

[Xarog]

Or maybe the GOP got fatigue from all that manufactured outrage at Obama and now they've got nothing left for Trump

Let's put this in context. The DNC basically argued in court that it should be allowed to rig the voting process in its election because of first amendment rights. Compare the political implications of that to the political implications of the fact that Donnie boy shagged an adult model.

And yet which issue has actually received more airtime in the MSM?

 

[rietrot]

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-05/ryan-rejected-trump-says-not-backing-down

At the same time, other Republican Congressional leaders said they haven’t ruled out "a potential action down the line" if President Trump follows through with imposing sanctions on imported steel and aluminum, a GOP official said.

Interesting enough this is one of Trumps initial election promises and the establishment is fighting against it.