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I'd say that G lost his composure, but I can't remember when he last manifested any.
He actually looked as though he was about to stroke out.
Hyperbolic fearmongering.
SS, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP benefits, the economic recoveries from the GOP induced Great Depression and Great Recession, the TVA, NASA and MT. Rushmore too.
Like I said, your historical illiteracy is fatal to your sweeping generalizations and free range misinformation.
Why don't you drop into a B&N and grab one of these.
Gotta start somewhere.
No, not a reasonable inference from one candidate's remarks about one particular weapon.
Just you're obsessive fear of reasonable gun regulations at work here.
I don't mind pointing out to you your tiresome use of false equivalence. It's a tool of the lazy and the misinformed.
You need examples to prove your point. The numbers are NOT on your side.
Bug VS feature. Exceptions prove the rule. These are helpful concepts to those who care about the facts.
Also, the sanctimony and the hypocrisy belong overwhelmingly to the finger wagging religious right.
Bull shit, the Dems simply do NOT appeal to the same people the Southern strategy went after.
You righties complain a lot about political correctness. All that is really happening is that racist, sexist, religious bigots are being called out for their obvious words and actions confirming those bigotries.
Your pearl clutching for being called out for what you got away with for years is laughable.
Find something to contradict what I stated about the southern strategy or abandon your claim. Most of your posts confirm a tenuous grasp of reality, at best.
Mostly they confirm that you are hopelessly ill-informed, easily misled and prone to laughable conspiracy theories.
Grab that rabbit's watch while you're down there, OK?
'Were' is the operative word. The civil rights movement and the GOP 'southern strategy' response to that movement changed KKK membership forever.
Your ignorance of American history is abysmal and it's a real handicap for you on this board.
You're an ignorant fuck and way too easily frightened to be posting about other's emotions.
That's because the polices of both guys do not reflect the kind of bigotry that CAN be associated with black face.
Most righty politicians who've been caught have been KKK members and their political policies reflect that allegiance.
Like I said, what do the black people in VA know that you don't knw?
Only one who is hopelessly stupid or high, or both, would post such an arrantly nonsensical speculation as this:
You have no evidence. Trump is on the record supporting Putin's every word and action.
That'll be up to Canadians to decide and not hypocritical morally imbecilic Americans who support lying ass pussy grabbing sexual predators like Trump.
More leeway is a statement of fact that ANY 2nd term president can make. Again, what can you point to?
Nothing but nothing compares to standing next to Putin and saying "I don't know why they would....", thereby contradicting the findings of his own intel agencies.
Trump was forced to make the ridiculous claim that he meant that 'he didn't know why they wouldn't' the next day.
His complete inability to criticize Putin also is in stark contrast to Obama's words and sanctions.
You are badly misinformed, again.
Which part?
There is literally nothing in Trump's behavior and statements that DOESN'T support the claim that he is a treasonous fucking weasel.
Too bad you've been unable to marshal the herculean efforts you deploy to defend Trump to better effect in your real life.
You might be living in a better trailer.
He did, how did it manifest in his 2nd term? Comparing your treasonous Putin puppet to Obama is the real LOL.
What is the Trump whistleblower complaint about? Here’s a timeline of what we know.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/19/what-is-trump-whistleblower-complaint-about-heres-helpful-timeline/?wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
By Aaron Blake
September 19 at 11:02 AM
Thanks to some intrepid reporting from The Washington Post’s Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima and Shane Harris, we now know that mysterious whistleblower complaint pertains to President Trump’s communications with a foreign leader and involves some kind of “promise” that was made.
Beyond that, it’s still a mystery. But the series of events that preceded the whistleblower complaint — along with Trump’s Oval Office disclosure of highly classified information to top Russian officials in 2017 and a pledge he said he would make to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in June — has led to plenty of speculation.
Here are some notable events that occurred in the roughly two months before the whistleblower’s complaint on Aug. 12 -- and what we’ve since learned about the complaint:
June 11: Trump says he has received another “beautiful” letter from Kim. Trump also responds to news that Kim’s assassinated half brother was a CIA asset by saying he would tell Kim, “I wouldn’t let that happen under my auspices.”
June 18: Trump holds a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the ongoing U.S.-China trade war.
June 27-29: Trump attends the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan. There, he holds bilateral meetings with foreign officials including Xi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
June 30: Trump meets with Kim in the demilitarized zone and briefly becomes the first sitting U.S. president to set foot on North Korean soil.
July 1: Trump holds a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, which covers topics including Iran, the G-20 and Trump’s meeting with Kim, according to a readout from the White House.
July 9: Trump meets with the emir of Qatar, Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani
July 18: Trump meets with Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
July 22: Trump meets with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan.
July 28: Trump announces Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats will resign in August.
July 31: Trump holds a phone call with Putin. The call is first reported by the Russians. The White House doesn’t confirm it till late that evening, saying Trump “expressed concern over the vast wildfires afflicting Siberia” and, “The leaders also discussed trade between the two countries.” The Russians, in a much more substantial readout, claim Trump and Putin also spoke about restoring full relations one day.
July 31: Trump meets with President Khaltmaagiin Battulga of Mongolia.
Aug. 2: The United States officially withdraws from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia, as had been previously announced.
Aug. 2: Trump announces a trade deal alongside European Union leaders Stavros Lambrinidis (the E.U. ambassador to the United States) and Jani Raappana (deputy head of mission for the Finnish presidency of the Council of the E.U.).
Aug. 8: After Trump’s pick of Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Tex.) to replace Coats falls through, Trump announces Joseph Maguire would take on the role in an acting capacity. In doing so, he bypassed Sue Gordon, who had been Coats’s No. 2 at DNI and was a career intelligence official with bipartisan support. Gordon would also resign.
Aug. 9: A brief letter from Gordon to Trump is released. It makes her disappointment clear, “I offer this letter as an act of respect & patriotism, not preference,” she writes. “You should have your team.
Aug. 12: Whistleblower files complaint.
Sept. 13: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) subpoenas Maguire to compel him to disclose the whistleblower complaint. Schiff says the complaint was determined to be “credible” by Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, but doesn’t say much more.
Sept. 17: Maguire says he will not testify or hand over the whistleblower complaint. Schiff said Maguire told him he couldn’t “because he is being instructed not to, that this involved a higher authority, someone above.”
Sept. 18: The Post reports the complaint involves Trump’s communications with a foreign leader and some kind of “promise” that was made.
Sept. 19: Atkinson is scheduled to brief members of the House Intelligence Committee in a closed-door session. Trump responded to the report in a series of tweets.
....Knowing all of this, is anybody dumb enough to believe that I would say something inappropriate with a foreign leader while on such a potentially “heavily populated” call. I would only do what is right anyway, and only do good for the USA!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 19, 2019
It’s tempting to draw the conclusion that this somehow involves the Russians, for a few reasons: What happened in 2017, the lack of disclosure about the call, and the fact that the Russians alluded to some kind of talks about normalizing relations (which the White House made no mention of). But that’s highly speculative at this point. And the White House is often cagey about these talks.
Ditto North Korea. Just because Trump seemed to allude to not spying on North Korea doesn’t mean he actually followed through. The idea that the United States would ever make such a promise and mean it is tough to swallow (even as we can’t really rule out anything these days).
There are also a ton of interactions with foreign leaders over this period. The G-20 was about a month and a half earlier and included a bunch of bilateral meetings, including with the Saudi crown prince, whose relationship with the White House has also been controversial.
In recent days, Trump responded to an attack on Saudi oil fields by suggesting the United States would defend the Saudis and that he was waiting for some kind of instructions from them.
These are, of course, only the meetings that are known publicly. We’ll keep filling out this timeline as we learn more.
And that will win me the game of Hypocrisy Bingo.
And I will exclaim....
Donald Trump's 'Promise' to a Foreign Leader Is More Than Just Troubling
How much of this perilous nonsense are we willing to tolerate?
By Charles P. Pierce
Sep 19, 2019
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a29123631/donald-trump-national-security-whistleblower-promise/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_esq&utm_medium=email&date=091919&utm_campaign=nl18097260&src=nl
I never thought I'd see the day when a serious concern for national security would be allayed in my mind by the fact that the President* of the United States never has made a promise he couldn't break.
Yes, it has well and truly hit the fan. From, as you undoubtedly know by now, the Washington Post:
Trump’s interaction with the foreign leader included a “promise” that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the U.S. intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint with the inspector general for the intelligence community, said the former officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
It was not immediately clear which foreign leader Trump was speaking with or what he pledged to deliver, but his direct involvement in the matter has not been previously disclosed. It raises new questions about the president’s handling of sensitive information and may further strain his relationship with U.S. spy agencies. One former official said the communication was a phone call.
Sooner or later, we'll find out to whom El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago made one of his customarily worthless promises. If we're all very lucky, it will be to some bush-league satrap like the ruler of Qatar. If we're not lucky, it will be to somebody who won't take the president*'s usual modus operandi as helplessly as various New Jersey glaziers once had to, and the president* will be forced to start eating his KFC with a geiger counter.
What we do know is that the communication involving the promise was sufficiently alarming that some conscientious spook blew the whistle on it. What we also know is that our acting Director of National Intelligence has fought like a rabid badger to keep that information a way from the responsible congressional committees.
Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson determined that the complaint was credible and troubling enough to be considered a matter of “urgent concern,” a legal threshold that requires notification of congressional oversight committees.
But acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire has refused to share details about Trump’s alleged transgression with lawmakers, touching off a legal and political dispute that has spilled into public view and prompted speculation that the spy chief is improperly protecting the president.
The Post has followed up with an interesting timeline. The entry for August 8 is particularly piquant.
Aug. 8: After Trump’s pick of Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Tex.) to replace Coats falls through, Trump announces Joseph Maguire would take on the role in an acting capacity. In doing so, he bypassed Sue Gordon, who had been Coats’s No. 2 at DNI and was a career intelligence official with bipartisan support. Gordon would also resign.
Four days later, the spook blows the whistle.
One hesitates to say enough is enough but, this time, seriously, enough is truly enough. The president*, who knows nothing about anything and whose word is worthless, is promising god alone knows what to god alone knows who, but whatever it happened to be was scary enough to spook the spooks, and damaging enough to risk corrupting the usual oversight process.
How much of this perilous nonsense are we willing to tolerate? When corruption and incompetence collide, there's a lot that hits the fan.
So it's fine for all elections below the presidency?
Don't tell me you wouldn't be crying bloody murder if Clinton had lost the popular vote by the same margin as Trump and won the presidency, you fucking hypocrite.
Moronic claim. Trump hasn't fixed shit, he creates shit.
Obama had much to fix, thanks to the last fairy dust economics GOP presidency. Thanks again for the Great Recession you deficit chicken hawks.
No asshole, again, when there is congruity between electoral vote and popular vote there is no thwarting of a majority vote win.
Why you can't see when you've made a specious argument is really pathetic.
Trump's 'win' was an abomination as is the way he is governing and conducting himself. Without competence, without dignity.
You're the one who owes the country an apogee for inflicting an incompetent, lying, amoral jackass on this country and on the world.
No telling how high Obama GDP would have been without GOP obstruction and GOP Gov shutdowns.
Idiot. The issue is the disparity between an electoral vote outcome and the popular vote outcome.
Obama won both, both times.
Another failing grade for you on 'which one of these is not like the other'.
Steep learning curve for you, just like when you were looking dreamily out the window of that substandard school you went to.
Dreaming about riding that new BMX bicycle instead of paying attention to what was in front of you.
we see the results in your every post.
Those higher GDP numbers WERE part of his campaign promises. Just because you're a sloppy thinker and not a close reader doesn't excuse your misrepresentations of reality.
Why were the voices of nearly a 3M voter plurality not 'recognized' in '16?
The electoral college is an anachronism that gives disproportionate electoral representation to mostly
rural America.
The 'takers' who also receive a disproportionate redistribution of Federal tax revenues.
No, 75K votes over 3 States WAS a fluke. Notwithstanding the obvious flaws of the electoral college, the article does not apply to an historically unpopular incumbent president.
Anybody but Clinton has morphed into anybody but Trump.
I long for the days when Sean was an energetic douchebag lying to the American public about crowd sizes and pretty much every time he opened his word salad spewing mouth.
His 'up there for a cup of coffee' duration as PS at least gave us Mellissa McCarthy's priceless portrayals of his prickly demeanor on SNL.
Two meanings for prickly there.
Sweeping hyperbole and misrepresentation. Like Trump claiming that Mexico would pay for a wall and "I won't have time for golf".
If only this could find its way onto a campaign poster or into a debate with Trump.....
Little Bitch Corey Lewandowski Testifies Before the House Bitchily
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
Honestly, at some point, yesterday, I would not have been surprised if the ghost of James Madison had shown up at yesterday's hearing of the House Judiciary Committee and just started sodomizing former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski with his walking stick.
Just sodomizing the shit out of him while slamming his head on the witness table and yelling, "That's. Not. How. This. Shit. Works. You. Little Bitch."
The thing is that, even after getting raped and beaten by a Founding Father, Lewandowski would have said, as he did repeatedly, "The White House has directed that I not disclose the substance of any discussion with the president or his advisers to protect executive branch confidentiality," before he crawled out with bloody anus and bruised head to await his Trump treat in the form of a tweet.
It's hard to pinpoint the dickiest moment that Lewandowski had as he just decided to either stonewall or answer like a smartass child who everyone watching thinks, "I don't believe in spanking, but, goddamn, that little son of a bitch needs to be spanked."
Maybe it was when Rep. Hakeem Jeffries asked (admittedly dickishly himself), "Are you the hit man, the bagman, the lookout, or all of the above?" and Lewandowski responded, "I think I'm a good-looking man, actually." Jeffries should have countered, "This is obviously perjury since I've never seen a pathetic motherfucker who hates himself so much."
Maybe it was when he told Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee that she used her time for "just a rant." Or when he called Rep. Eric Swalwell "President Swalwell" to mock him for his failed campaign. There's contempt and then there's trying hard to be as contemptuous as possible in some weird dick-size battle.
Either way, Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler should have had the sergeant-at-arms cuff Lewandowski and dragged his ass out of the chamber like a fucking pervert at a playground. And, yeah, that's not the way the House is supposed to behave and it likely breaks some rules, but, fuck it, tell Lewandowski to take it to the courts and fight his treatment.
That's the approach the Trump administration uses with every flouting of the law. And it would have actually gotten some great headlines: "Corey cuffed as Democrats sick of Trump's shit; 'I'll fuck his orange face blue,' says raging Nadler, 'and wipe my dick on his stupid hair.'" (And, by the way, to an extent, Nancy Pelosi agrees with me.)
However, towards the end of the day, one person was finally able to slap Lewandowski in his nuts and get that prick to squirm. When the Democrats on the committee finally gave 30 minutes to House Judiciary Counsel Barry Berke, shit got real.
Just let the lawyers do this job. They don't give a fuck about being liked. And Berke tore into Lewandowski, getting the slimy worm turd to say flat out that he lies when he's talking to the media, thus putting his entire credibility into question.
"I have no obligation to be honest to the media," Lewandowski said after an MSNBC clip showed him lying. And when Berke played a Fox "news" clip, Lewandowski said, "I don't think I was under any obligation when speaking to Fox News to not engage in hyperbole." Which is basically the way everyone at that shit network acts. Hell, their motto oughta be "Fox News: We're Not Under Any Obligation to Not Engage in Hyperbole."
Berke calmly sliced and diced the visibly irritated and uncomfortable Lewandowski, throwing at him quotes from his book (which the asshole tried to turn into an ad for himself) and from the Mueller Report, forcing him to affirm that he had lied and lied and lied publicly, again and again, and so why the fuck would anyone trust he's telling the truth.
But it was likely too little too late. You can come up with 100 ways that Democrats did the right thing with this hearing, but the messaging was for shit, and the ability to rally the troops around a strategy has to come from the messaging, not some hope that something will give at some point.
And while he's got snarky little fuccbois like Lewandowski who are ready to snarl and snap going to bat for him, it's gonna take a whole lot more muscle to get at Trump than Democrats are showing now.
As for the media, of course, Lewandowski was on CNN this morning to fuckin' lie some more.
Here's what I think, shithead.
First of all no one defends anyone wearing blackface at any time, at any stage in one's life.
That said, there is nothing in the public life of either man, statements or policies since elected, that remotely suggest that either are anything like the bigoted moron in the WH and those who blindly support him.
I haven't seen Northam talk about many fine people among white supremacists, neo-Nazis and KKK, like the asshole in the WH that you moral imbeciles failed to condemn for that remark.
No evidence that either guy is a self-dealing traitor either.
Last time I looked a majority of blacks in VA did not want Northam to resign. What do they know that you don't know?
Got any evidence that Northam was in the KKK?
Now F.O. Freddy.
You two morons getting tired of projecting your stupidity, hypocrisy and double standards yet?
What a tag team of willful ignorance, moral imbecility, obtuseness and breathtaking lack of self-awareness you make.
My dog would play with me if we made eye contact.
Things have changed over the past 12 years, the average temp is rising you science illiterate.
Keep pissing into the wind, but not the wind from a windmill. Wouldn't want you to get cancer.
Moronic article that ignores both the cumulative effects of climate change and the advancements in science that enable better tracking an analysis than was available when some of the earlier predictions were made.
The climate change effects from a far more industrialized and polluting China and India are also not taken into account by the idiot/'think tank' who wrote the article.
Other than all that, thanks Fox Snooze.
The Rodney Dangerfield of presidents.
She never treated me nicely. I get no respect. Are you kidding? When I was a kid my parents had to tie a pork chop around my neck so the dog would play with me. Uuh brother, It was rough.
Best poster held by a student on the Internet today: "Make America Cool Again".
The intended denotation/connotation is unmistakable.