US Politics Thread 2016-2020

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by MaDef

I said Trump is not the driving force behind these protests, there is a difference.

He spills oil into the fire, uses suggestive language and appeals to pathos und lowest instincts.



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[Skybird]

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/01/p...ony/index.html

The White House is blocking Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member of the administration's coronavirus task force, from testifying before the Democratic-led House next week, according to a spokesman from a key House committee.


White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere confirmed the decision.
"While the Trump Administration continues its whole-of-government response to COVID-19 [propagandablablablabla]) it is counter-productive to have the very individuals involved in those efforts appearing at Congressional hearings," Deere said in a statement. "We are committed to working with Congress to offer testimony at the appropriate time."



However, it appears Fauci is expected to testify in front of a committee of the Republican-led Senate committee during May. He will testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on May 12, per an aide to the panel's chairman, Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican.

Double standards for propagandistic reasons.

[Mr Quatro]

It's all about power Sky

It's all about power

It's always all about power

The communist use the excuse that it is all about power of the people,
but this is not true when just a few are telling a lot of people what to do

[Onkel Neal]

Trump!



I'm thinking about making "billions and billions" my ringtone, whaddya think?

[August]

Originally Posted by eddie

Who cares, let them protest. If they go too far, they get locked up. And everyone knows how fast the virus spreads in jail. Then they will cry to the Governor to save them! Again, no one will care!

Some fantasy you have there Eddie. Do you spend a lot of time thinking about it?

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

Trump!
I'm thinking about making "billions and billions" my ringtone, whaddya think?

Good idea, and then you could let it end with a bing!

[mapuc]

I got a catch on the headlines only

Trump is a threat to his own presidency

Those was the word I manage to see in the bottom of my tv screen, when I turned over to CNN, to get the news at 5, 5 sec. later it was gone.

Hmm wonder who, why and how this author have come to this conclusion

Markus

[August]

Politics of snitching: Dems more likely than Republicans to report neighbors during pandemic


By 44%-31% margin, Democrats would turn their neighbors in to police for hosting gatherings of 15-20 in breach of stay-home rules. By 60%-25%, Republicans would not.

https://justthenews.com/politics-pol...iends-breaking

[u crank]

.. the American Right has a philosophy, while the American Left has only an enemies list.... K Williamson

The unsealing last week of a series of documents in the Michael Flynn criminal case cemented the reality that a small cadre of high-level FBI agents set a perjury trap for President Trump’s then-national security advisor. Beyond exposing the depth of this despicable personal and political hit job on a 30-year military veteran, the newly discovered documents hold great legal significance.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/04...michael-flynn/

It was always a perjury trap to oust Flynn. The details dribbled out over the last two years tell that truth: the strategizing over how to put Flynn at ease; the back-and-forth over the required timing of the 1001 admonition (a warning to a target that lying to FBI agents is a federal offense); the plotting over how to frame that warning without alerting Flynn to the real purpose of their questioning; the FBI’s decision not to show Flynn the transcript of his call with the Russian ambassador, even though, as Priestap’s notes reveal, that would be the regular course of action.

The big question is will the Obama administration's DOJ, FBI and it's intel agencies every be brought to some kind of justice? Time will tell.

[August]

Originally Posted by u crank

https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/04...michael-flynn/


The big question is will the Obama administration's DOJ, FBI and it's intel agencies every be brought to some kind of justice? Time will tell.

That all depends on whether the Dems take over the executive branch next year. If they win most of this gets swept back under the rug where it would have always remained hidden if had Clinton won in 2016.

[u crank]

Originally Posted by August

That all depends on whether the Dems take over the executive branch next year. If they win most of this gets swept back under the rug where it would have always remained hidden if had Clinton won in 2016.

Well I honestly have a low expectation that any of these people will suffer any legal consequences regardless of who wins in 2020. The administrative state does not like to prosecute their own. If it doesn't happen then the best you could hope for is a public exposure and shaming and that they never hold any position in government again. They will have to rely on their TV gigs and book deals I guess.

The other question that needs to be addressed is who knew what? That goes for Obama and Biden. Hard to believe that the two most powerful men in that administration with access to the most important intellegence were not aware that something was not quite right.

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by u crank

https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/04...michael-flynn/


The big question is will the Obama administration's DOJ, FBI and it's intel agencies every be brought to some kind of justice? Time will tell.

I doubt it, unless a President is impeached, convicted and removed from office. There is nothing really which can be done in the way of bringing them to justice. I hate to say it but its all political history and I think its better that it remain there. We move on, it's now up to current and future administrations to fix what they deem broken and find people who will do their job and support them.


As for Flynn, I doubt he's crying in his pillow at night. Yes politically he's broken but still living in a big house enjoying a General Officers pension and benefits, life is good.

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by u crank

https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/04...michael-flynn/


The big question is will the Obama administration's DOJ, FBI and it's intel agencies every be brought to some kind of justice? Time will tell.

The only way that would happen is if there is successful armed revolt, and even then those vermin would be on the roof catching the last Huey bound for a tropical oasis or someplace Nazis who escaped Europe went.

[August]

[MaDef]

What did Trump do this time?