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Those are not mutually exclusive statues.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑ At this point, nobody is certain if he's crazy or a theatrical liar.
Speaking of trolls, Alex Jones-Kirbmarc wrote: ↑Those are not mutually exclusive statues.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑ At this point, nobody is certain if he's crazy or a theatrical liar.
Most of all, though, Trump is a shit-stirring troll. He floods the news with idiocy, whether deliberately or not, and people discuss the idiocy while the important stuff gets less focus.
free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑Also my view of the process. Also which side is most responsible for dragging out the process? For instance , how long has Mueller been trying to get Trump to testify? If you don't think that that the Trump team has been pulling out all the stops to avoid a pathological liar, the Donald, to get any questions at all. That is probably what was behind the stunt where they yanked Acosta's press pass. Change the subject. Diversion.That's not how it works. This is a slow, grinding process. It is not unusual for it to go on for years. What we have seen is a very tight Mueller ship, with nary a leak in sight. But McConnell blocking protections for the probe is proof some people are scared shitless.
The dude is writing his final report, having pinged the unambiguous crims. It’s gotta be showtime.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 6:57 pmThat's not how it works. This is a slow, grinding process. It is not unusual for it to go on for years. What we have seen is a very tight Mueller ship, with nary a leak in sight. But McConnell blocking protections for the probe is proof some people are scared shitless.Brive1987 wrote: ↑I’m sure they could be pinged for something. It might even happen. The dude just has to pick up his game.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 6:36 amSo, you're willing to bet nothing will come of this? No Trump kids indicted, no obstruction?Brive1987 wrote: ↑He will need to improve his quantity and quality.
So far we have:
+ Papadopoulos who got 14 days for false statements to FBI
+ Manafort for pre Trump Ukrainian work and dicking his personal finances
+ Gates (who worked for Manafort) for similar peripheral offences
+ Flynn for false statements to FBI
That looks like a typical Washington staffer’s CV.
Slim pickings for a fishing expedition that began in May 2017 and which promised to land Trump for collusion to steal an election. It would be nice to connect at least one kipper with the neo-Soviets.
:mrgreen:
Apart from the lack of decorum, the whiteanting of bloated agencies, hurt liberal sensibilities and a general lack of PC, is the world truely a worse place for Trump? Compared say, to the Angela Merkel, Clinton, Obama legacies?Kirbmarc wrote: ↑free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑Also my view of the process. Also which side is most responsible for dragging out the process? For instance , how long has Mueller been trying to get Trump to testify? If you don't think that that the Trump team has been pulling out all the stops to avoid a pathological liar, the Donald, to get any questions at all. That is probably what was behind the stunt where they yanked Acosta's press pass. Change the subject. Diversion.That's not how it works. This is a slow, grinding process. It is not unusual for it to go on for years. What we have seen is a very tight Mueller ship, with nary a leak in sight. But McConnell blocking protections for the probe is proof some people are scared shitless.
Ayup.
Trump is good at one thing: saying and doing stupid but largely inconsequential shit that gets the attention of the media. He exploits this to make the media talk about random bullshit.
Do you hear the voices too?
It's all over NPR this morning.free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:24 pmApparently the caravan has disappeared since the election and there is little coverage of the military on the Mexican border. We can only hope that the authorities have learned their lessons from other, similar incidents:
Perhaps the Trump administration is actually far more prone to graft, nepotism and political corruption than the Obama administration. :think:Sunder wrote: ↑ I'm seeing a lot of the same old lazy bothsiderist talking points." If you investigate long enough you can pin a crime on anyone in Washington because they're ALL corrupt." Explain then why Republicans seem so incompetent when it comes to Locking Her Up given that they spent four years on Benghazi and two years on Her Emails. No arrests, no indictments, bupkis, nada. It almost seems like pinning a crime on someone in Washington is actually a bit tricky. Or maybe deepstate2stronk. Whatever.
Or maybe, crazy thought here: Maybe the people getting fingered for crimes to the point that even jurists who admit publicly that they wanted to let them of the hook but couldn't due to the weight of the evidence are actually more crooked than the people who despite years of effort still haven't been locked up? Maybe the retarded attempts at bothsiderism that don't hold up to even a microsecond's scrutiny are just throwing your own credibility down the shitter?
Just to start:Brive1987 wrote: ↑Apart from the lack of decorum, the whiteanting of bloated agencies, hurt liberal sensibilities and a general lack of PC, is the world truely a worse place for Trump? Compared say, to the Angela Merkel, Clinton, Obama legacies?Kirbmarc wrote: ↑free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑Also my view of the process. Also which side is most responsible for dragging out the process? For instance , how long has Mueller been trying to get Trump to testify? If you don't think that that the Trump team has been pulling out all the stops to avoid a pathological liar, the Donald, to get any questions at all. That is probably what was behind the stunt where they yanked Acosta's press pass. Change the subject. Diversion.That's not how it works. This is a slow, grinding process. It is not unusual for it to go on for years. What we have seen is a very tight Mueller ship, with nary a leak in sight. But McConnell blocking protections for the probe is proof some people are scared shitless.
Ayup.
Trump is good at one thing: saying and doing stupid but largely inconsequential shit that gets the attention of the media. He exploits this to make the media talk about random bullshit.
Breathing more fine particulate to own the libs :bjarte:The Trump administration has hailed its overhaul of federal pollution restrictions on coal-burning power plants as creating new jobs, eliminating burdensome government regulations and ending what President Trump has long described as a “war on coal.”
The administration’s own analysis, however, revealed on Tuesday that the new rules could also lead to as many as 1,400 premature deaths annually by 2030 from an increase in the extremely fine particulate matter that is linked to heart and lung disease, up to 15,000 new cases of upper respiratory problems, a rise in bronchitis, and tens of thousands of missed school days.
Less control on crime, terrorism and environmental accidents to own the libs. :bjarte:Trump's first legislative act as president was to do away with a bipartisan amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act, which required oil, gas, and mining companies to disclose their payments to foreign governments. During the Obama administration, the United States led the world in the creation of this sort of policy, inspiring parallel legislation in 30 countries, including Canada, Norway, and European Union nations. The law's aim was to provide transparency to areas such as transnational crime, terrorist financing, and "unhinged economic and environmental crime." Unsurprisingly, it's been opposed since its inception by oil giants like Chevron and then-Rex Tillerson-run ExxonMobil. (Indeed, Tillerson took his post as secretary of state mere days before Trump's decision to scrap the legislation.) In a move that's likely to shelter corporate malfeasance, the administration has whittled down the U.S.'s reputation as a global leader on extractive transparency.
Selling out US lands without any transparency to US citizens to own the libs.Rather than protecting U.S. citizens and their lands, many of the administration's policies have lined corporate pockets. Consider how, in November, the U.S. announced its intent to halt its participation in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, an international measure aimed at providing citizens insight into their government's extractive management. By withdrawing, the president will encourage secrecy in oil, gas, and mining payments on American lands, making it difficult, and perhaps impossible, for Americans to understand what, if anything, they’re receiving in return for their precious natural resources—and the environmental degradation caused by that extraction.
Starting a trade war and possibly wrecking the US economy to own the libs. :bjarte:The tax will raise input prices for American businesses, increasing their operational costs and putting pressure on profit margins.This is likely to feed through into weaker wage and employment growth, leading to poorer retail sales and declining economic growth. The Trump boom is already fading: this tax seems likely to hasten its end.
The tax will raise headline CPI inflation. How much inflation will rise depends on the extent to which producers are able and willing to absorb higher costs rather than passing them on to customers.The Fed might respond to rising cost-push inflation by increasing the pace of interest rate rises. This would dampen consumer demand at a time when it was already under pressure because of the wage and employment effects of the tax. Fed interest rate policy has previously accelerated consumer demand slumps, most recently in 2006-7, when the Fed continued to raise interest rates despite rising unemployment, falling house prices and weakening consumer demand. I suppose we might hope that the Fed would act more responsibly this time, but the “mood music” from the Fed these days is increasingly hawkish. I am therefore doubtful that this time would be different.
Making sure that nutters have access to firearms to own the libs. :bjarte:President Trump killed a regulation that would have tightened gun background checks Tuesday, signing a bill to undo one of his predecessor's executive actions following the San Bernardino shootings in 2015.
The Obama administration rule required the Social Security Administration to submit records of mentally disabled people to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, the FBI database used to determine whether someone can buy a firearm under the 1993 Brady Bill.
The rule would have applied to about 75,000 people who were “adjudicated as a mental defective" and who had applied for Social Security benefits, and had a mechanism to notify those affected so they could appeal. But congressional Republicans said the rule could ensnare people who had mental health issues but otherwise were competent to own a gun.
The Social Security Administration finalized the rule last Dec. 19. But under the Congressional Review Act, Congress has 60 legislative days to disapprove of any new regulation on straight majority votes. The vote was 57-43 in the Senate and 235-180 in the House.
Exposing kids to lead to own the libs. :bjarte:Environmental Protection Agency officials are proposing to eliminate two programs focused on limiting children’s exposure to lead-based paint, which is known to cause damage to developing brains and nervous systems.
The proposed cuts, outlined in a 64-page budget memo revealed by The Washington Post on Friday, would roll back programs aimed at reducing lead risks by $16.61 million and more than 70 employees, in line with a broader project by the Trump administration to devolve responsibility for environmental and health protection to state and local governments.
Old housing stock is the biggest risk for lead exposure — and the EPA estimates that 38 million U.S. homes contain lead-based paint.
Environmental groups said the elimination of the two programs, which are focused on training workers in the safe removal of lead-based paint and public education about its risks, would make it harder for the EPA to address the environmental hazard.
There's a reason so many Republicans retired before the last midterms. That tax cut was sheer madness, and everybody knew it. As you say, Republicans are hoping to pin the blame on the Democrats, and with the IQ and attention of the average voter, they may well succeed. If the economy tanks while Trump is still in power, there's a good chance it will backfire.free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑ How about this for owning the libs:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/us/p ... -cuts.html
Instead of saving money for a rainy day, Trump has taken the strong economy that he inherited from Obama and instead of doing the fiscally responsible thing and at least reducing the deficit somewhat he and his repub pals have put a structural deficit in that will continue to grow and eat more and more revenue as time goes on and create a crisis when eventually the economy slows down and and tax income will be hard pressed to deal with.
Chances are, by that time the Dems will be back in power with a devastated economy which the Repubs will blame on them. The Koch brothers and others will sponsor a new tea party movement that will get mobs of lower and middle class stooges to protest in favor of cuts to their social security, pensions, medicare, and other filthy "entitlements".
Don’t be so hard on yourself. No one accused you of being a commie.Kirbmarc wrote: ↑Perhaps the Trump administration is actually far more prone to graft, nepotism and political corruption than the Obama administration. :think:Sunder wrote: ↑ I'm seeing a lot of the same old lazy bothsiderist talking points." If you investigate long enough you can pin a crime on anyone in Washington because they're ALL corrupt." Explain then why Republicans seem so incompetent when it comes to Locking Her Up given that they spent four years on Benghazi and two years on Her Emails. No arrests, no indictments, bupkis, nada. It almost seems like pinning a crime on someone in Washington is actually a bit tricky. Or maybe deepstate2stronk. Whatever.
Or maybe, crazy thought here: Maybe the people getting fingered for crimes to the point that even jurists who admit publicly that they wanted to let them of the hook but couldn't due to the weight of the evidence are actually more crooked than the people who despite years of effort still haven't been locked up? Maybe the retarded attempts at bothsiderism that don't hold up to even a microsecond's scrutiny are just throwing your own credibility down the shitter?
I know, crazy talking, I'm a SJW commie libtard for even entertaining this idea.
You haven't read the links I posted, have you?Brive1987 wrote: ↑ I didn’t hit every single CFB link, but the other items were weighted to possible future consequences. Which may or may not happen. And deficit Inducing budgets are the norm. If it wasn’t tax cuts it would be social expenditure or neo-con foreign policy games.
Right now, are there material measurable (non anticipatory) impacts from the Trump presidency ?
Remember two years in, the President gets to own the economy be it good or bad. So what new wars, what new recessions, do we have?
An economy that is unsustainable, and a debt that will severely impact America's future? An erosion of presidential norms?Brive1987 wrote: ↑ I didn’t hit every single CFB link, but the other items were weighted to possible future consequences. Which may or may not happen. And deficit Inducing budgets are the norm. If it wasn’t tax cuts it would be social expenditure or neo-con foreign policy games.
Right now, are there material measurable (non anticipatory) impacts from the Trump presidency ?
Remember two years in, the President gets to own the economy be it good or bad. So what new wars, what new recessions, do we have?
So why aren't the press reporting that Trump is a serial liar and fabulist, Avicenna level 9000? Fuck, 'em. If they can't report the truth, they can't claim to be real press.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑ Trump couldn't tell the truth to save his life.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story ... 941600002/
Typical narcissistic behaviour.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑ Trump couldn't tell the truth to save his life.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story ... 941600002/
You don't get a sub to the Amazon Washington Post? I thought you worked for them. They have a running list of more than 5000 Trump lies.Lsuoma wrote: ↑So why aren't the press reporting that Trump is a serial liar and fabulist, Avicenna level 9000? Fuck, 'em. If they can't report the truth, they can't claim to be real press.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑ Trump couldn't tell the truth to save his life.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story ... 941600002/
If this was fiction you'd call it over-handed satire.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑
It's funny to see what happens when a crazy idea is planted in that idiot's brain-garden. Until I remember he has the codes to launch a continent's worth of nuclear annihilation. Then not so much funny.free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑ Make America Rake Again!
https://globalnews.ca/news/4676548/finl ... est-fires/
After her dad's rallies, one would think the Trump children would be cautious about emails. Apparently not.free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑ Ivanka has been busted for sending government related business on her personal email. Trey Gowdy needs to open an investigation pronto.
Lock her up!
https://thehill.com/homenews/administra ... usiness-on
The US have stood with Saudi Arabia for YEARS while Saudi Arabia committed war crimes, trained, financed and motivated terrorists, spread hateful messages, oppressed its own minorities, killed women for adultery and people for homosexuality or apostasy.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑
The Turks caught the Saudis in an evil and inexcusable plot, one that (perhaps even worse) was executed with all the grace and competence of a team of howler monkeys on methamphetamines.
All mention of the caravan of evil seems to have dropped off the map. Funny thing is, the suckers don't seem to notice that they've been played.free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑stunt.PNG
I know I don't believe it.President Trump said Thursday that he is thankful "for having a great family and for having made a tremendous difference in this country."
Trump made the comment when asked by reporters what he is grateful for on Thanksgiving shortly after holding a phone call with troops overseas.
“I’ve made a tremendous difference in the country,” Trump said. “This country’s so much stronger than it was when I took office and you wouldn’t believe it.”
“I mean you see it, but [it's] so much stronger that people can’t even believe it,” Trump said. “When I see foreign leaders, they say, ‘We cannot believe the difference in strength between the United States now and the United States two years ago.'”