US Politics Thread 2016-2020

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by u crank

Trump should not submit to any interviews by Mueller's team. Not without a subpoena, and then fight that. Mueller's friendship with Comey is a glaring conflict of interest.

In my humble opinion.

I agree do I get a cookie?

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Dowly

*alleged friendship.

You are a stickler aren't you.

Let me rephrase that. Mueller's relationship with Comey is a glaring conflict of interest.

What you have here is an investigation by one former director of the FBI that has a central figure and potential witness who is also a former director of the FBI and succeeded Mueller in the job. I would bet that they have talked on occasion.

Then again there is pre Trump evidence that they were close friends.

That dramatic week had united the two men—both career public servants—deepening a friendship forged in the crucible of the highest levels of the national security apparatus after the 9/11 attacks.

Now, today, President Obama’s decision to appoint Jim Comey the next head of the FBI—to take over after Bob Mueller’s remarkable 12 years as director—brings a strong sense of continuity to the nation’s chief domestic law enforcement agency. Both known as Republicans but primarily as apolitical prosecutors, Comey and Mueller are set to begin a new chapter of a friendship that stretches back over a decade, as one man hands over the reins of one of the most critical agencies in the war on terror to the other.

https://archive.is/hTX6c#selection-1131.0-1131.511

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

I agree do I get a cookie?

You may have a cookie and some milk.

[Aktungbby]

THIS JUST IN:

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Charting a sharply different course from that of his predecessor in the White House, Donald J. Trump announced on Monday that he would discontinue the Obama-era practice of using lowercase letters.
In a series of early-morning tweets, Trump announced the ban on lowercase letters, calling them “SMALL” and “WEAK.”
“I WILL KEEP AMERICA STRONG BY USING ALL CAPS,” he tweeted. “THERE ARE NO SMALL LETTERS IN USA!”
“LITTLE LETTERS BAD!!!” Trump added, for emphasis.
Trump’s policy of zero tolerance for lowercase letters could have a sweeping impact on the federal bureaucracy if, as rumored, all government agencies are required to retrofit their computers and mobile devices with a permanent caps-lock key.
Additionally, civil-liberties groups argued that Trump’s war on lowercase letters flies in the face of the First Amendment, which implicitly protects the right to use letters of all sizes and fonts.
Amid the controversy, the White House appeared to walk back the new policy later in the day, as aides revealed that Trump will still use lowercase letters, in the style of the poet e. e. cummings, when communicating with Vladimir Putin.

[Skybird]

"Made in America" great again?



Its made in China.




https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/...ald-Trump.html

[u crank]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Or be thankful for small mercies.

Try to imagine the surprise of the first Russians who figured out the Secretary of State of the United States was conducting official business on a “private server.” Those two words do not convey the full transgressiveness of the behavior. Essentially the government is functioning out of the private home of a plenipotentiary. This is a person who not only believes she is above the law, she believes she is the law.

https://spectator.org/russian-collis...was-different/

When it finally sinks in this is real, a sinking feeling sends Putin’s heart plummeting. This is not American government, this is hooliganism. This is government by the bosses, of the bosses, for the bosses. There is something familiar about Clintonism… rings such a bell… it is so like… Putinism!

I am reminded of the famous parady quote by Pogo cartoonist Walt Kelly.

"We have met the enemy and he is us."

What they saw in Hillary’s come-and-get-it private server, what they saw in the DNC hacks, frightened Putin’s boys no end. Here was an American version of Putin, a power player who rigged elections and ignored the rules of engagement. Much too scary, too “stabilizing” for comfort.

And so the Russians finally dropped the Bomb. Not the Atom Bomb or the Hydrogen Bomb or the Neutron Bomb. They dropped a Truth Bomb and showed Americans we were about to put in our own Putin. You can’t trump the truth!

I'm thinking that someone should send Vlad a thank you note and a gift.

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by u crank

[...] I'm thinking that someone should send Vlad a thank you note and a gift.

Trump just did it, in Helsinki. Though he could not express it too well, so he has invited Putin to the White House

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Catfish

Trump just did it, in Helsinki. Though he could not express it too well, so he has invited Putin to the White House

He should give him a medal and a life membership at Mar a Lago.

Hillary would have been generous as well. More uranium shares and a larger reset button.

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Catfish

Trump just did it, in Helsinki. Though he could not express it too well, so he has invited Putin to the White House

Something funny happened in that room in Helsinki for two (2) hours and it wasn't Trump letting out a fart. I'm leaning into the actual truth of it all is that Putin did in fact get Trump elected POTUS with his team of Russian agents manipulating the news media, facebook, twitter, etc especially in the swing states.

What happen in that room? Will the democrats subpoena a copy of the transcript of the translator or call her to testify?

I don't think they will, but it is an option

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Will the democrats subpoena a copy of the transcript of the translator or call her to testify?

I don't think they will, but it is an option

From six days ago:

Republicans block subpoena for Helsinki summit translator

WASHINGTON — Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have blocked a move to subpoena the American translator from the Helsinki summit to testify about the private talks between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Dowly

From six days ago:

Republicans block subpoena for Helsinki summit translator

Guess this is why it is called "private". What an awesome distraction to running the country. If the jack wagons on Capitol Hill put this much effort into running the country perhaps things would be better. I'm not just talking about this administration. All administrations since inception.

So what is Stormy Daniels doing other than some ram-rod in a new porn movie? Oh, yes, she is on the divorce block for infidelity with Trump. Now she want privacy for her family yet is out on the stage wagging her tail while in complete undress.

You can't make this crap up!!!!!

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Dowly

From six days ago:

Republicans block subpoena for Helsinki summit translator

Thank you I didn't see that ... the democrats are not giving up though. It's sort of like they want to chisel Trump into Mt Rushmore in 2020 and take over the WH.

http://www.wweek.com/news/2018/07/24...on-with-putin/

Sen. Jeff Merkley Introduces Legislation That Would Bar President Trump From Meeting One-on-On With Putin

I do not even understand how someone purely intellectual wants to follow this extremely stupid pig, Donald Trump ... you should arrest the whole family and condemn them. After all, they are collectively folk and fatherland traitors.


Edit:
Gerhard Schröder gehört ebenfalls für Volks- und Vaterlandsverrat standrechtlich hingerichtet.

[Catfish]

You don't understand.. there's money in it. Only poor people can afford to be really honest, and stand to certain values. Once you cross the Rubikon..
The art is to make them all blind to your deeds. You are like them, you understand them.. you are not arrogant towards the unwashed masses, you are the real labour leader
With all those millions, and corpses in your cellar.

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Bleiente

I do not even understand how someone purely intellectual wants to follow this extremely stupid pig, Donald Trump ... you should arrest the whole family and condemn them. After all, they are collectively folk and fatherland traitors.

It's pretty hard to understand how anybody could have an intellectual discussion with statements like this. Why don't you give some hard and fast details for your beliefs instead of this kind of somewhat broad and and unintellectual posting.

Originally Posted by u crank

It's pretty hard to understand how anybody could have an intellectual discussion with statements like this. Why don't you give some hard and fast details for your beliefs instead of this kind of somewhat broad and and unintellectual posting.

Well that's totally easy - read "The Capital" by Karl Marx.
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