"This Is The Single Greatest Witch Hunt In American History"
Dougster
I certainly the Clinton witch hunt and McCarthy witch hunts were bigger, for instance.
Interesting: no denials of anything from Commey yesterday.
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Dems need to let him govern, and he needs to quit using words.
ALL the major news outlets are now worse than the "Nation Enquirer". They publicize half truths at best, sensationalized BS most of the time and are not worth the time to listen to.
Comey is a political hack lawyer, always has been, always will be. If you look at his past performance before he joined the FBI he was always about currying favors. He was put in charge of the FBI because he looks clean because of his carefully maintained facade.
ABC has finally stopped pretending to be neutral and has even gotten to the point of cancelling their second most popular show because it refuses to tow the political line. It is their option to cancel the show because they own the broadcast rights but they are just the latest to run up the jolly roger. The hatred of the American people for our values(wanting the government to follow the Constitution not some harvard asshole's rewriting of the document) and our work ethic by the elite ivy league educated whale turds on the coasts is becoming more & more open. Tim Allen has it correct except that it applies to virtually the entire country. There is a minority that seeks control of everything! They have control of most of the government and courts, the most of the media and much of the school system. Mr Allen is correct in his assertion that if you dare to disagree with the religion of big intrusive government that wants to own and run everything you are to; be beaten down, have your livelihood taken, silenced, jailed or even killed any way possible. In other words living in the USA today is not much better than 30's Germany.
I know that this post will bring the rabid ire of some but that serve to illustrate my point. Polite disagreement is dead on both sides. If you are conservative you have witnessed your right, property, and earning be stolen at the point of a gun by both side of the aisle hidden behind smoke and mirrors. The diversion of the cold war stole much, then the guise of the war on pollution then the war on drugs, now the war on terror so finally there is open warfare by government and media on anyone who DARES to disagree that "ALL THINGS SPRING FROM THE GOVERNMENT" ............."you did not build that" .............
I am tired of hearing the lie that Hillary won the popular vote by a large margin. Most people do not know is that the absentee ballots were not counted in virtually all the states. If the margin of victory in a state is larger than the number of absentee vote for either candidate the votes are NOT counted. I suspect that if ALL the eligible votes were count in every state the total would look different. There were several recounts requested and begun but were being halted at the request of candidate because the recount was showing a disturbing(to Hillary) trend of Trump gaining votes. If the recount had been allowed to continue I think Hillary would have not won the popular vote( the only thing that has legitimized the paid protests).
Oh my!
I think that he's struggling with the reality (and thus far reality is losing the struggle...) that the behaviors that drive successful television do not translate toward successful governance.
This will not be resolved quickly.
But, you know, there is the matter of the 4 years following the election...
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I don't know that "feeling sorry for himself" really captures how Trump perceives the investigation. It's closer to the way rich people feel that they can do anything the fuck they want with impunity. Rich men can grab 'em by the pussy with impunity because...well...they're rich. They don't have to play by the same rules.
Example: flying home last night the guy behind me was drunk and bragging about being an ophthalmologist. Stewardess asked to take his drink because we were landing. He went apeshit and started screaming at her. "Go ahead and rip the drink from my hands!" "I want a refund!" "I'm gonna wirte a letter to your CEO!" The guy plainly felt he didn't have to abide by the same rules as the rest of us.
Trump's a great example of why we need to have an inheritance tax. He's basically a fat, lazy, senile, ignorant guy who got where he is by virtue of his inheritance.
Totally agree with Trump. For more than a year the hysterical leftist media predicted he could never become president, and now after they've completely discredited themselves, they have just as hysterically announced his pending impeachment since the moment he took office. I have never seen such blatant propaganda in my life, in any country, ever.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/44…
"But many conservatives refused to acknowledge the two points about Trump that should have given them cause for concern, even if they believed the somewhat flawed meritocracy-character link. First, Trump didn’t earn his magnate status; Trump inherited a massive amount of wealth from his father and, by most available estimates, has significantly underperformed the real-estate market."
But, sure, I'll play. What news sources do you regard as "non-raggy"?
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Pretty much agree. In a practical sense, there's no choice but to appoint a special prosecutor after Trump fired Comey (for hurting his feelings). Investigation could well go on for years and amount to nothing--which would make the Democrats look foolish and actually help the GOP in 2018.
1) It's now legal for the US government (i.e. the "deep state" that is fighting Trump) to conduct propaganda in the continental United States. That's because an amendment to the NDAA which was sponsored by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) removed the protections put in place by the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which forbade the use of psychological operations to influence U.S. public opinion.
2) Comey, in addition to covering up evidence that Seth Rich was murdered for providing documents to Wikileaks (and thereby protecting the fake Russian narrative) pushed by Obama and Clinton, also testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 3rd that he was never pressured to abandon his investigation. So either he was lying then or he is lying now, either way, if it was possible to shred his credibility any worse after failing to prosecute Clinton, he just did so by effectively announcing that he perjured himself while giving testimony. Trump should have fired him the moment he took the oath of office.
The Russians must be laughing their asses off at what's going on in the U.S. right now.
https://www.predictit.org/Contract/5470#…
@Anonlvone: Never mind the "hysterical leftist media." The only truly hysterical comments in this thread come from you.
I laugh at so many people repeating g what they get from media just to try and sound smart or add to the gossip. We are lucky to live in a country that allows the freedom of speech, but widen up a bit and ignore 99% of it and focus on what your own eyes and hears experience. The telephone game teaches you all you need to know about the media.
By the way, you can't discredit the President just because he inherited wealth from his family. If anything he should be commended for turning his inheritance into something way bigger than what he started with. He's not all hat and no cattle, Trump actually can fill up a 10 gallon hat with his contacts and experience.
His life before becoming president was a heck of a lot easier without all the hassle and responsibilities.
This would also explain why he ran in the way he did, as SoCar's Nikki Haley said, "The loudest voice in the room."
SJG
Having that 2/3 really would give the Congress unlimited and arbitrary power. That kind of power is necessary when a country is self-destructing.
But, I think it unlikely that there would really be cause to impeach Pence.
SJG
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First, Trump is outrageous. He talks in over the top metaphors and exaggeration. He pushes a lot of emotional buttons, seemingly with intent. He often opens his mouth (or his Twitter connection) before engaging his brain. All of that provides ample fodder for a desperate collection of elected Democrats, an enormous crowd of un-elected federal government workers, the even larger crowd of people who have benefited from the largess of the last 8 years, and the corporate liberal media who gleefully attacks Trump at every turn for ratings and their own self interest.
The second reason is that President Donald Trump is successfully undoing a lot of the socialist "big government" framework put in place by Obama. Whether you think him an idiot or a good guy doesn't matter, he has rescinded most of Obama's 2016 executive orders and is working to eliminate much of the rest. Most of the "anti-Trump" crowd seem to fear Trump as much as they hate Trump. If Trump is able to outlast the screaming rants, absurd demands to impeach, fact free claims, bombshells without merit, and stage whispered innuendo, he may - in 4 or 8 years - actually reduce government, stop the unsustainable deficits and, most damaging to the left, limit the scope and power of the federal government.
He was elected because he promised to undo the Obama changes that a majority of Americans did not agree to, and because the "Hillary" alternative was just too repulsive to many voters. As long as he keeps enough of his promises, he will continue to have enough support among voters to stay put. The rest of it is just noise.
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Actually, that would apply to most of your posts, @Dallas. In Trump's case, it's more a matter of metal illness and cognitive problems.
@Dallas wrote: "stop the unsustainable deficits"
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If you're paying even the least bit of attention, @Dallas, Trump is proposing massive tax cuts for the rich which everyone agrees will explode the deficit. If you can, take a look at Trump's most recent interview in the economist. People are calling the interview a "word salad" and a massive "senior moment." Tax cuts are good idea when unemployment is high (e.g. 2008) but is exactly the wrong thing to do when we are at full employment, as we are right now.
It's always hard to wade through your horseshit, @Dallas. Almost never anything of substance to actually argue about.
One thing many of his defenders here are practicing McCarthyism whether you know it or not. Just because we disagree with your points vehemently does not make anyone less patriotic, this authoritanist is going to get his head handed to him eventually and it won't be the Democratic more likely it will be McCain or Graham or possibly Ben Saeer that will turn the tide just wait and see.
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/harvard-…
Don't feed the trolls.
@Anonlvone complaining about the "hysterical leftist media," then spewing the board with his own hysteria.
LOL! Huh???
Here's my objective summary without @ananlvone's bizarre hysteria:
1) Everyone agrees that the Russians hacked the DNC and tried to influence the election.
2) There's apparently no evidence at this point that Trump colluded with the Russians.
3) Trump fired Comey, apparently because Comey hurt Trump's feelings.
4) Trump is not a King and this is not a banana republic. We have a system of checks and balances.
5) Ron Rosenstein was forced, therefore, to name a special prosecutor.
Again @Ananlvone, you come of as an hysterical dipshit, and I'll continue to call you out as such.
There was an unequivocal conclusion from three intelligence agencies that Putin tried to influence the our election and discredit Hillary Clinton. Do you really think the pseudo-intellectual tech gibberish from an hysterical dipshit like yourself on a stripper board would carry weight over the official proclamation of three government agencies?
Objectively, dipshit, the Russians tried to influence our election. There's no evidence so far that Trump colluded with the Russians. We had to appoint a special prosecutor because Trump fired the FBI director. That's how our country works; this is not a banana republic.
Since it seems you can hardly be bothered to post in your own thread, I'm wondering if RandomMember with ZERO reviews is an alias of yours?
Anyway I can conclude that if you can't even acknowledge the many faults this man has how can we have a rational conversation. He is a vulgar politician who acquired power by pitting people against one another your anger is proof of that.
The actual question is can the man use the office he has acquired to help all of us that remains to be seen. He has already used his office to enrich himself and his family that is incontrovertible and not open to debate like it or not it is fact not fake.
I will leave you with this putting people with whom you disagree on if more is your right but when you you do that it just shows your own lack of being willing to come to the debate and with our form of government compromise is a form of greatness not a sign of weakness.
It just seems like those are the games you need to play in order to get ahead in politics on a grand scale, and Trump was better than Hilary Clinton at that game, at least this past election. I still think we got the lesser of two evils.
I do, however, agree with many of his policy positions, though his implementation has been far from perfect.
I think he can lead this country to get back on track IF he matures and is given a chance, at least I hope so. Whether philosophically in line with me or not I hope all of our Presidents succeed in making our country greater, in this case great again.
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/harvard-…
SJG
Was that a misspelling for Michael or Michelle?
That said, I listen to the right and left. I listen to the right only to hear what bullshit they're spewing to their listeners. :)
My take is that if those vary far on the left took over we would all be poorer than the average now. But if the those on the very far right took over all about a silver of the population would have all the money and power, the rest would effectively be slaves or dead.
None of this really matters all that much though. Another thing you don't seem to realize, is that we didn't vote for a person, we voted for a set of policies. All of you people babbling on about liberals vs conservatives, democrats vs republicans, have no idea what is going on. Did any of you even listen to his inauguration speech? He spoke about taking power away from Washington, and giving it back to the people. That is why we voted for him. We wanted him to kill all those multilateral trade agreements that are destroying this country. We wanted him to stop the fraud of foreign worker visas. We wanted him to stop illegal immigration. We want to stop giving American companies tax breaks to ship American jobs overseas. We want Obamacare killed with fire. We want the individual mandates removed. We want the out of control government bureaucracies to stop telling us how to live our lives. We want the out of control intelligence agencies to stop spying on everything we do. That is why we elected him, not to start lobbying cruise missiles at Syria for the benefit of "greater Israel."
Trump was elected to carry out a populist and nationalist agenda, and that is why he has been under relentless attack from both Republicans and Democrats throughout the election and throughout his young presidency, because the Republicans and Democrats, and all of those intelligence agencies behind them, are trying to protect all those vested interests that have been andn are betraying this country. But if Trump is impeached, or if he is compromised, or if he simply fails, then the movement will go on, because as I said before, we didn't vote for a man, we voted for a program.
fixed it for you. :)
"We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and to restore its promise for all of our people.
Every four years, we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power... Today's ceremony, however, has very special meaning. Because today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another, or from one party to another -- but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the American People.
What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer."
I am going to put it at an 80% chance that we get some documents/recording come up where he has a Zuckerberg moment. "People trust me. Dumb fucks".
"But if Trump is impeached, or if he is compromised, or if he simply fails, then the movement will go on, because as I said before, we didn't vote for a man, we voted for a program."
"@twentyfive - I don't know how politically aware you are, but from the way you speak, it seems to me you are completely unaware of the fact that Trump had a huge revolt among his base when he started lobbing cruise missiles at Syria"
Now unless someone actually has an intelligent point to make, I'm done here.
"Up until that point, I had supported him wholeheartedly no matter what. After that point, I've been so pissed off I don't even follow politics anymore."
(btw I'm of the belief no politicians give a fuck about their base but they at least keep up the illusion.)