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rottingjohnny
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Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Sep 14, 2018 - 08:40pm PT
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Trump and his kangaroo supreme court better be careful what they ask for...
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 14, 2018 - 09:51pm PT
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Mueller has the returns
Just ask Bannon
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 14, 2018 - 09:54pm PT
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So how exactly did the Rooskies convince all those people who would have been better served by a Hillary victory not to vote at all?
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the Fet
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Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Sep 14, 2018 - 11:33pm PT
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Manafort knows all about the Trump tower meeting with the Russians. And if Donald knew about it in advance and obstructed justice afterwards. Mueller wouldn't give Manafort the deal he got unless Manafort had something to offer.
Funny how Giuliani said "the President did nothing wrong and Paul Manafort will tell the truth." Minutes later, he seemed to reconsider. A "corrected" statement removed the bit about Manafort telling the truth. Haha! "He'll tell the truth, uh wait a minute, that won't be good for us... we need to start prepping for when he tells the truth so we can call it a lie! Remove that section about telling the truth."
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Trump
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Sep 15, 2018 - 05:51am PT
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That’s a tough one Reilly. It’s pretty hard to honestly understand anything that we’d prefer not to understand, the way these brains of ours work. Most of us people prefer not to understand that about ourselves. But I’ll bet the other people idiots interested in psychology, and the other people idiots at Cambridge Analytica, had something to do with it. Please share with us what your investigations reveal. What do the other people idiots at the US intelligence communities tell us about what the Russians did?
If you’re waiting until you have 100% of the informstion before you form a belief, then you’ll probably be dead before you get to one. But if we blame other people for not doing that, well, human enough.
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 15, 2018 - 06:03am PT
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From Axios
Jonathan Swan
Scoop: Republicans secretly study their coming hell
Congressional Republicans are getting ready for hell. Axios has obtained a spreadsheet that's circulated through Republican circles on and off Capitol Hill — including at least one leadership office — that meticulously previews the investigations Democrats will likely launch if they flip the House.
Why this matters: Publicly, House Republicans are putting on a brave face about the midterms. But privately, they are scrambling to prepare for the worst. This document, which catalogs requests Democrats have already made, is part of that effort.
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It has churned Republican stomachs. Here are some of the probes it predicts:
President Trump’s tax returns
Trump family businesses — and whether they comply with the Constitution's emoluments clause, including the Chinese trademark grant to the Trump Organization
Trump's dealings with Russia, including the president's preparation for his meeting with Vladimir Putin
The payment to Stephanie Clifford — a.k.a. Stormy Daniels
James Comey's firing
Trump's firing of U.S. attorneys
Trump's proposed transgender ban for the military
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's business dealings
White House staff's personal email use
Cabinet secretary travel, office expenses, and other misused perks
Discussion of classified information at Mar-a-Lago
Jared Kushner's ethics law compliance
Dismissal of members of the EPA board of scientific counselors
The travel ban
Family separation policy
Hurricane response in Puerto Rico
Election security and hacking attempts
White House security clearances
The spreadsheet — which I'm told originated in a senior House Republican office — catalogs more than 100 formal requests from House Democrats this Congress, spanning nearly every committee.
The spreadsheet includes requests for administration officials to be grilled by committee staff, requests for hearings to obtain sworn testimony, efforts to seize communications about controversial policies and personnel decisions, and subpoena threats.
These demands would turn the Trump White House into a 24/7 legal defense operation.
The bottom line: Thanks to their control of Congress, Republicans have blocked most of the Democrats’ investigative requests. But if the House flips, the GOP loses its power to stymie. Lawyers close to the White House tell me the Trump administration is nowhere near prepared for the investigatory onslaught that awaits them, and they consider it among the greatest threats to his presidency. https://www.axios.com/2018-midterm-elections-republicans-preparation-investigations-180abf7b-0de8-4670-ae8a-2e6da123c584.html
For complicit Republican Congressman, it'll be a spread sheet in the most literal sense- Okay folks, let's see what you've got hiding in that prison pocket of yours.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 15, 2018 - 07:04am PT
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So how exactly did the Rooskies convince all those people who would have been better served by a Hillary victory not to vote at all?
Since it's all just speculation anyway, why not speculate on how much different things (you know all things considered) would be if H. Clinton or E. Warren had been elected.
Maybe someone can post some interesting graphs.
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Pewten
Trad climber
The Dark Side
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Sep 15, 2018 - 07:22am PT
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The Blue wave will turn Red with the help of my Russian military
along with the help of the GOP, there will be massive purging of voters, voter machine hacking, gerrymandering and other dirty tricks
The GOP has too much to lose if it loses power
so it won't
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ec
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ca
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Sep 15, 2018 - 09:04am PT
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Contractor, please cite the link on Axios for your post.
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Sep 15, 2018 - 09:07am PT
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I listed to "An American Life" (may be wrong title) last night, and the stories were on how they are clamping down on immigration. One point was about how the deportations are actually targeting those who have legally come in. It's just enraging; they spout "We want people to come legally! " But it's not true. If you have some spare time to listen to the program, well worth the time.
I would find it difficult to imagine any decent human being to still stand with GOP after hearing it.
Just horrible people behind the design if this deportation move.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 15, 2018 - 09:09am PT
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Tut, I’m sad that yer such a sucker.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 15, 2018 - 09:19am PT
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President Donald Trump has reportedly been fixated on unflattering news reports about his response to Hurricane Maria, which slammed Puerto Rico in September 2017.
Trump has particularly been irritated by video footage of him throwing rolls of paper towels to a crowd of relief workers on the island, according to The Washington Post. The footage prompted accusations that Trump lacks empathy.
"I'm not to blame for this," Trump said about Maria at one point, according to one of his advisers.
Trump continued to cast doubt on the final death toll from Hurricane Maria on Friday, and mischaracterized an academic study that estimated 3,000 deaths in Puerto Rico in the months after the storm.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Sep 15, 2018 - 09:27am PT
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To call Trump tone deaf would emply that he may have other redeeming qualities which he doesn’t.
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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Sep 15, 2018 - 10:26am PT
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Trump's fingers look too short to accurately shoot paper towels into anything
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August West
Trad climber
Where the wind blows strange
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Sep 15, 2018 - 10:48am PT
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So how exactly did the Rooskies convince all those people who would have been better served by a Hillary victory not to vote at all?
The usual suspects:
Fear mongering. Conspiracy theories and other lies. Bigotry.
The politics of hate and resentment.
It's ok to cut my social benefits to pay for a trillion dollar tax cut for the 1%. As long as it makes libtards cry, it is worth it.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 15, 2018 - 01:04pm PT
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Trump has a lot more to be concerned about than paper products
Though he has probably sheeit his pants a couple of times in the laxt two days
In addition to giving Mueller more information about his own case, Manafort could also help him connect the dots on several pivotal events that occurred while he was spearheading the Trump campaign and even after.
Those include Russia's hack of the Democratic National Committee; his offer of "private briefings" about the campaign to a Russian oligarch; and former Trump lawyer John Dowd's reported efforts to dangle pardons for him and former national security adviser Michael Flynn last summer if they stayed mum during the investigation.
Most importantly, he can give Mueller a firsthand account of a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between top campaign officials and two Russian lobbyists.
Manafort attended the meeting along with Donald Trump Jr. and senior adviser Jared Kushner. Trump Jr. initially released a statement saying the meeting was a non-event and unrelated to campaign business.
He had to amend the statement several times as new details about the meeting spilled out in public view. Eventually, it emerged that Trump Jr. agreed to the meeting after he was offered kompromat on Hillary Clinton as "part of Russia and its government's support" for Trump's candidacy.
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Norton
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The Wastelands
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Sep 15, 2018 - 01:38pm PT
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*During a 10-day period in Sept., Trump averaged 32 false/misleading claims a day. On one of those days, he made 125 false/misleading statements over a 2 hour period. That’s 1 lie a minute.
Try this in your everyday life, and see how far you get.
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 15, 2018 - 02:37pm PT
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We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy. We reached for the stars, and we acted like men. I understand they want to build a mighty wall with a plaque that reads; "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my security light beside the locked door to wake you from a dream that is no more!"
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the Fet
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Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Sep 15, 2018 - 03:00pm PT
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When Trump heard Maria killed 3,000 people he asked "Is Maria one of my daughters?"
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