Wednesday, February 21, 2018

"Code red".

MORE DISCLAIMERSThe following article is from Thomas L. Friedman writing for the New York Times.

The Field Negro education series continues.  

"Our democracy is in serious danger.

President Trump is either totally compromised by the Russians or is a towering fool, or both, but either way he has shown himself unwilling or unable to defend America against a Russian campaign to divide and undermine our democracy.

That is, either Trump’s real estate empire has taken large amounts of money from shady oligarchs linked to the Kremlin — so much that they literally own him; or rumors are true that he engaged in sexual misbehavior while he was in Moscow running the Miss Universe contest, which Russian intelligence has on tape and he doesn’t want released; or Trump actually believes Russian President Vladimir Putin when he says he is innocent of intervening in our elections — over the explicit findings of Trump’s own C.I.A., N.S.A. and F.B.I. chiefs.

In sum, Trump is either hiding something so threatening to himself, or he’s criminally incompetent to be commander in chief. It is impossible yet to say which explanation for his behavior is true, but it seems highly likely that one of these scenarios explains Trump’s refusal to respond to Russia’s direct attack on our system — a quiescence that is simply unprecedented for any U.S. president in history. Russia is not our friend. It has acted in a hostile manner. And Trump keeps ignoring it all.
Up to now, Trump has been flouting the norms of the presidency. Now Trump’s behavior amounts to a refusal to carry out his oath of office — to protect and defend the Constitution. Here’s an imperfect but close analogy: It’s as if George W. Bush had said after 9/11: “No big deal. I am going golfing over the weekend in Florida and blogging about how it’s all the Democrats’ fault — no need to hold a National Security Council meeting.”
At a time when the special prosecutor Robert Mueller — leveraging several years of intelligence gathering by the F.B.I., C.I.A. and N.S.A. — has brought indictments against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian groups — all linked in some way to the Kremlin — for interfering with the 2016 U.S. elections, America needs a president who will lead our nation’s defense against this attack on the integrity of our electoral democracy.

What would that look like? He would educate the public on the scale of the problem; he would bring together all the stakeholders — state and local election authorities, the federal government, both parties and all the owners of social networks that the Russians used to carry out their interference — to mount an effective defense; and he would bring together our intelligence and military experts to mount an effective offense against Putin — the best defense of all.

What we have instead is a president vulgarly tweeting that the Russians are “laughing their asses off in Moscow” for how we’ve been investigating their interventions — and exploiting the terrible school shooting in Florida — and the failure of the F.B.I. to properly forward to its Miami field office a tip on the killer — to throw the entire F.B.I. under the bus and create a new excuse to shut down the Mueller investigation.

Think for a moment how demented was Trump’s Saturday night tweet: “Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter. This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign — there is no collusion. Get back to the basics and make us all proud!”

To the contrary. Our F.B.I., C.I.A. and N.S.A., working with the special counsel, have done us amazingly proud. They’ve uncovered a Russian program to divide Americans and tilt our last election toward Trump — i.e., to undermine the to undermine the very core of our democracy — and Trump is telling them to get back to important things like tracking would-be school shooters. Yes, the F.B.I. made a mistake in Florida. But it acted heroically on Russia. What is more basic than protecting American democracy?

It is so obvious what Trump is up to: Again, he is either a total sucker for Putin or, more likely, he is hiding something that he knows the Russians have on him, and he knows that the longer Mueller’s investigation goes on, the more likely he will be to find and expose it.

Donald, if you are so innocent, why do you go to such extraordinary lengths to try to shut Mueller down? And if you are really the president — not still head of the Trump Organization, who moonlights as president, which is how you so often behave — why don’t you actually lead — lead not only a proper cyberdefense of our elections, but also an offense against Putin.

Putin used cyberwarfare to poison American politics, to spread fake news, to help elect a chaos candidate, all in order to weaken our democracy. We should be using our cyber-capabilities to spread the truth about Putin — just how much money he has stolen, just how many lies he has spread, just how many rivals he has jailed or made disappear — all to weaken his autocracy. That is what a real president would be doing right now.
My guess is what Trump is hiding has to do with money. It’s something about his financial ties to business elites tied to the Kremlin. They may own a big stake in him. Who can forget that quote from his son Donald Trump Jr. from back in 2008: “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross section of a lot of our assets.” They may own our president.


But whatever it is, Trump is either trying so hard to hide it or is so naïve about Russia that he is ready to not only resist mounting a proper defense of our democracy, he’s actually ready to undermine some of our most important institutions, the F.B.I. and Justice Department, to keep his compromised status hidden.

That must not be tolerated. This is code red. The biggest threat to the integrity of our democracy today is in the Oval Office." [Source]

85 comments:

  1. Truth hurts9:51 PM

    Putin has a tape of the pussy grabber, grabbing Russian pussy. After they pee'ed on him.

    Poor Melania!!

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  2. Anonymous10:50 PM

    Who?!!

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  3. Anonymous11:03 PM

    Total Bullshit!!

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  4. Anonymous11:04 PM

    Chicago February 2018 to Date
    Shot & Killed: 24
    Shot & Wounded: 86
    Total Shot: 110
    Total Homicides: 30

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  5. Field,

    The obvious reason why Trump is not concerned about Russian meddling is that he welcomed it, knew about it and benefited from it. It just about blows my mind how many righties/republicans are happy enough to admit the truth of Russian meddling and connections but still manage to find in their own minds an impulse to trivialize the gravity of current affairs. Like it just doesn't matter at all.

    That said, it is of greater value to present the facts in an unbiased forum of factual information as you have taken great lengths to do.

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  6. Obama engaged in all manner of funny business during the last Israeli election.

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  7. I agree that it's probably financial. They own him and/or he's laundered blood money. Also maybe he's broke. For there to be a pee tape is in character for him, but I don't think he can be shamed.

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  8. The mustache of understanding must be having trouble making conversation at high-powered DC cocktail parties again.
    Thus the jump from both-siderist rich white guy who doesn't see any relevance his net worth might have on his opinion writing (and gets outraged at your rudeness should you have the unmitigated gall to bring it up) to the juiciest spy novel stuff his assistant could dig up for him on the intertubes.
    Fergus won't do or say anything against Putin or Russia because they helped him win.
    He's a motherfucking narcissist who worships Roy Cohn's tactics because he thinks they're "tough" and give him clout.
    Yes, he may have bumblefucked his way into colluding with the Russian government during his campaign, because why the fuck not? Everyone knew he'd never win, so what difference did it make?
    Now he's being manly and tough and fighting off those pansy investigators because now he's the fucking president!
    How's that for clout, Roy?
    Getting rid of Fergus won't solve the problem, though, Tommy boy.
    Fergus didn't get into the position to fuck everything up by himself. And he's not staying there unchecked without the collusion of the goddamn Republicans in congress, who don't give two shits whether he colluded with the Russian government or not because it helped them win too.
    I think the fear he is displaying comes mostly from what he doesn't know, not what he's hiding. He doesn't impress me as someone who can keep a secret for longer than his attention span. Like how he admitted to Lester Holt that he fired Comey over the Russia investigation on national TV.
    I think he's not sure what the fuck went down during his campaign, and is scared of finding out about it in an indictment, and I think that's a perfectly rational fear.
    But to fix the problem, we have to un-gerrymander the districts and get rid of Citizens United and un-ratfuck the VRA again, because the problem is the record number of goddamn Republicans who voted for him in the primaries over sixteen other candidates.
    It's not like they didn't know who and what he is.
    They have to be represented in the government like everyone else, but in actual proportion to their actual numbers.
    When that happens again, they're gone from the levers of power and we can begin the process of cleaning up after their latest fit, again.
    Fergus is just the latest symptom of the underlying problem that has been around for a long time, but assholes like Thomas the fuck Friedman have refused to write or talk about because doing so would destroy their both-siderist business model and get in the way of their access to the bastards who are enabling the problem, but get them onto the TV machine and into those DC cocktail parties.

    -Doug in Oakland

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  9. Anonymous2:40 AM

    I was riding home from the Sizzler on my motorized scooter last night, my belly full of good, wholesome American food, when I was robbed by three young black males. They knocked me to the ground and rode off with my scooter, laughing all the while; I lay bloody in a ditch. Believe it or not, I was smiling the whole time - I had finally come to understand and love black people, see. They just do what they want! They're not uptight like us pasty pale whites. They don't overthink things; they're not neurotic messes like us. I had finally gotten it. I was happy. Their nappy heads glinted in the evening sun as they drove away.

    Then one of the young men came back and stabbed me to death. I died completely at peace. I hope they went to my house afterward and gang-raped my wife to death. Heaven will sure be lonely without her.

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  10. Troll of the year award goes to...

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  11. Anonymous3:01 AM

    dRUMPF EATS PEE-PEE.

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  12. Anonymous3:02 AM

    I am NOT a troll, faggot - I'm a Russian bot. Can't you even get that right?

    God.

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  13. Anonymous3:04 AM

    But seriously: take a step back and think for a moment of just how absurd it is that Donald Fucking Trump is the President of The United Fucking States of Fucking America. Wow.

    Men make plans. God laughs all the while.

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  14. If you are a comedian, you have missed your calling. Try open microphone stand-up night. How much tongue-in-cheek sarcasm do we need to deal with? Can you play an instrument?

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  15. Anonymous3:57 AM

    I play the skin flute.

    Ha! Joke.

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  16. Anonymous4:05 AM

    I had Taco Bell for lunch and Chipotle for dinner. You don't want to get on my bad side, trust me.

    Good night, field hands.

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  17. Anonymous7:21 AM

    FLORIDA JUST VOTED AGAINST ANY BAN ON ASSAULT RIFLES.

    Now if this doesn't prove to EVERYONE that the only thing your elected officials care about is M.O.N.E.Y.
    being paid to them by the NRA then they can continue to be lifetime politicians being paid by naive Americans.
    Your elected officials don't give a damn about their own CHILDREN being in danger at school.
    MONEY given to them from the NRA is more important.

    They know and are banking on the fact that most folks in America will NEVER, NEVER, NEVER wake up and realize that these elected officials are supposed to work for the American citizens and vote these mother f _ _ _ _ _ s our of office!!!!!!

    IT'S A SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS WHEN AMERICAN CHILDREN RISE UP AGAINST THE SYSTEM BECAUSE THE ADULTS AND LAW MAKERS IN THIS COUNTRY ARE EITHER TOO GREEDY FOR MONEY AND TOO COWARDLY TO PROTECT THEM.


    FACE IT FOLKS...AMERICA IS GOING TO HELL IN A HAND BASKET.



    AMERICAN "LIFETIME" POLITICIANS WHO ONLY CARE ABOUT KEEPING THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES RICH ARE SELLING THIS COUNTRY DOWN THE RIVER.

    AND PUTIN AND HIS RUSSIANS ARE LAUGHING THEIR ASSES OFF AT THE "DUMB AMERICANS" AS THEY BEGIN A SLOW TAKE OVER OF THIS COUNTRY.








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  18. The CoatesvilleExPat8:23 AM

    Tell us what the Russobots have done that you don't do on any given Sunday Judge? Day after day, this site is a wellspring of unsubstantiated innuendo produced by a scion of Jamaican privilege.

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  19. Truth Hurts9:01 AM

    Number of school shooting at urban schools in the past 25 years: 0

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  20. Anymoose ejaculated- Then one of the young men came back and stabbed me to death. I died completely at peace. I hope they went to my house afterward and gang-raped my wife to death. Heaven will sure be lonely without her.
    2:40 AM

    If only.......

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  21. Howz this fer perspective- Florida lege shot down an assault weapons ban and declared porn a public danger.

    In parts of Florida, mayors can be fined or removed from office for instating gun controls.

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  22. Blogger Basso e Grasso said...

    Obama engaged in all manner of funny business during the last Israeli election.

    11:59 PM

    Not even close, bud. Politifact lays it on the line, every step of the way.




    http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/mar/25/blog-posting/blog-claims-us-funded-anti-netanyahu-election-effo/

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  23. If he had released his tax returns a whole helluva lot of Americans would feel a lot better about this whole Russia situation. It's like not looking under the hood before buying a car.

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  24. Penis envy3:07 PM

    I hope they went to my house afterward and gang-raped my wife
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    So telling.

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  25. "AMERICAN "LIFETIME" POLITICIANS WHO ONLY CARE ABOUT KEEPING THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES RICH ARE SELLING THIS COUNTRY DOWN THE RIVER."

    Try: AMERICAN REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS WHO ONLY CARE ABOUT KEEPING THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES RICH ARE SELLING THIS COUNTRY DOWN THE RIVER.

    TIFIFY.

    -Doug in Oakland

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  26. From Steve Benen:
    "This is, after all, a president who declared in his inaugural address, "This American carnage stops right here and stops right now." Of the top 10 deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, three have happened since that speech."

    -Doug in Oakland

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  27. Every last one of nearly 25,000 Liberian students fails the university entrance exam:

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-23843578

    What are the odds?  If the top .01% were qualified, you'd expect at least 1 to pass.  But nope, apparently the skills/IQ curve is so low that not even 0.01% got over the bar.

    You can't attribute this to the "terrible legacy of colonialism".  Liberia was never a colony of any Western power.  It was only a colony of ex-slaves.  Of course, the first thing they did when they got there was to establish plantations and enslave Africans to work them.

    Black people are stupid.  You can mask the stupid with affirmative-action admissions and grading, but it all comes out in the wash.

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    1. Hmmmmmm, I know quite a few blah people and not really any are stupid. They'd pass the librarian exam. How bout you Doc? Field? Wanna bet our friendly anon doesn't know any blah people? I'd take the test myself because librarian does sound like an interesting job but for me I'll just keep commanding multi-million dollar commercial aircraft with my stupid blah self😂 And here I thought I was kinda intelligent......

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  29. Anonymous5:46 PM

    So now the parents have become the children and the children have become the parents.

    And nobody sees anything wrong with this.

    And that's what the world is today hey hey...

    The Temptations said it best 40 years ago and it is no different today.

    Check It Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iwLvmPUEo4

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  30. "So now the parents have become the children and the children have become the parents."

    Agreed, we've really dropped the ball sadly.

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  31. Anonymous6:13 PM

    ”You can't attribute this to the ‘terrible legacy of colonialism’. Liberia was never a colony of any Western power.”

    No, but you can attribute it to Liberia having lousy primary and secondary schools, which is a result of the two civil wars that impoverished and pretty much wrecked the country.

    Of course, I can count on you to then respond by lying and blaming those civil wars on Africans having an inherently violent nature, ignoring the fact that European history was basically an endless series of bloody white-on-white wars over land and resources.

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  32. Anonymous6:20 PM


    Isn't in amazing how the POTUS plays the patriotism card when it comes to bashing Black men for kneeling in solidarity for "Black Lives Matter."


    What happened to the POTUS patriotism for America when he looked the other way on a foreign country hacking an American election.

    The POTUS has made it quite clear that he has NO INTENTION OF EVER ENFORCING ANY SANCTIONS AGAINST THE FOREIGN GOVERNMENT THAT HACKED THE ELECTION AND THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.

    ...as Russia smiles and says, "Well done, my slaves."



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  33. Drumpfuck thinks video games and movies need a ratings system.

    He thinks arming teachers will automatically stop school shootings except for the problems with teachers quitting before they pack heat and liability insurance which would be prohibitively too expensive for most schools.

    More non-solutions from a non-potus dumbfucker.

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  34. Robert Mueller Files Money Laundering , Tax Evasion Indictments Against Manafort And Gates

    Now we may be getting somewhere. The noose is tightening, Drumofuck. Throw the cabinet under the bus and hide.

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  35. Man the news just keeps getting better.

    Embattled Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens was indicted Thursday on felony invasion of privacy charges in connection with a nude photo he allegedly took of a woman with whom he was having an affair, St. Louis prosecutors said.

    Greitens, a Republican who was elected in 2016, has faced a barrage of questions since it was revealed in January that he had an extramarital affair.

    In an audio recording released in January by KMOV-TV in St. Louis, a hairstylist told her ex-husband that she'd had an affair in 2015 with Greitens — then philanthropist, now governor — and that he had tied her to home exercise equipment, taken a photo of her naked and threatened to publicly release the image if she ever told anyone about it.

    She said Greitens later apologized and said he had deleted the photo.

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  36. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-shooting-deputy/armed-deputy-at-florida-school-resigns-after-failing-to-engage-shooter-idUSKCN1G62X3

    You can arm them but you can't give them courage to do the job.

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  37. From the Rude Pundit on the 12th of January;

    "But let's get more recent than Ellis Island. By any measure, Liberia has been a terrible place to live for decades. Between horrific wars and horrific disease, it would be kind to just call it a "shithole." That's why hundreds of thousands became refugees and why over 60,000 of those refugees came to the United States in the late 20th and early 21st century. A whole lot of them settled in Staten Island, which, believe it or not, is still a borough of New York City. And many of those go to the college where I teach. I have taught Liberian students for years and they have been, to a person, kind, smart, engaged, and hard-working. And that's because they came from a shithole. Many of them were refugees from that shithole; some of them or their family members were tortured. They embrace the chance they have here (and are often treated like shit here for their efforts)."

    -Doug in Oakland

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  38. Quote without comment7:40 PM

    "Every last one of nearly 25,000 Liberian students"

    "They'd pass the librarian exam. How bout you Doc? Field? Wanna bet our friendly anon doesn't know any blah people? I'd take the test myself because librarian does sound like an interesting job"

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  39. Anonymous7:42 PM

    Black nursing home employees indicted in death of neglected World War II vet:
    Raisa Habersham The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
    4:57 p.m Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018 Crime


    https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/nursing-home-employees-indicted-death-neglected-world-war-vet/kyfsV8ccpOpCouyKQvbPsK/

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  40. Robert Mueller7:50 PM

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/us/politics/paul-manafort-new-charges-mueller.amp.html

    More charges and now money laundering. trump will be in jail soon.

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  41. OMFG! A California Democrat resigned for inappropriate conduct with another person. LA Times has the story behind a paywall. It's true Dems do it, too.

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  42. Hey Doc, check this out.

    http://africaupdates.info/nigerian-student-sandra-musujusu-develops-cure-for-breast-cancer/

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  43. Wingnuts are pretending Drumpf's behavior is the norm, until Dems regain the WH and the rules automatically change. Everything Drumpf does will be a crime when a Dem replicates them.

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  44. BOOM x 32! 32, count 'em, 32 counts of Tax Evasion, Money Launderin' and Bank Fraud. Manafort's gotta flip or die in prison.https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/966786099401166848 …

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  45. Thanks PX, that article was great!👍🏽👊🏽

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  46. Anonymous8:40 PM

    Re:
    Drumpfuck thinks video games and movies need a ratings system.

    He thinks arming teachers will automatically stop school shootings except for the problems with teachers quitting before they pack heat and liability insurance which would be prohibitively too expensive for most schools.

    More non-solutions from a non-potus dumbfucker.

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    You make an EXCELLENT POINT.

    However, when one's brain is the size of a pea, these are the kinds of solutions the POTUS comes up with.
    I stopped wondering what is wrong with him.
    I'm wondering what is wrong with the brains of those that elected him.

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  47. Anonymous11:00 PM

    TRUMP 2020!!

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  48. Anonymous11:05 PM

    Chicago Week in Progress (2/18 – 2/24 - 2018)
    Shot & Killed: 8
    Shot & Wounded: 24
    Total Shot: 32
    Total Homicides: 9

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  49. "I'm wondering what is wrong with the brains of those that elected him."

    Rovine spongiform encephalopathy.

    -Doug in Oakland

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  50. Did anyone else have this horrifying thought? Trump may welcome the "distraction" of the school massacre because it takes attention off the Mueller investigation.

    It would fit his modus operandi.

    Anyway, thanks Field. Once more a melanin-deprived interloper takes advantage of your open door. I heard about Friedman's post but hadn't read it. Can't dispute his conclusion.

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  51. Drumpfuck the dumbfuck paid millions in fines just before the inauguration to settle claims he did not pay contractors for work on the Post Office Hotel. Same story different day.

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  52. Winning!9:51 AM

    Lowering taxes and easing the regulatory load on business has had a huge stimulus effect on the economy.

    Restricting immigration has resulted in the first real wage increases in decades.

    Unemployment just reached the lowest level since the Nixon administration.

    Corporate investment levels in America are at record levels.

    Military spending for American defense is up, while belligerent military adventurism is down.

    That evil plan the Russian's had for us seems to be pretty popular with American voters. Trump's approval rating is 5 points higher than Obama's at this point in his administration.

    Thanks Vlad!

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  53. Anonymous10:25 AM

    ”Did anyone else have this horrifying thought? Trump may welcome the ‘distraction’ of the school massacre because it takes attention off the Mueller investigation.”

    White House sources have already said they saw the Florida school shooting as a “reprieve” because it caused the media cycle to move its focus away from the Trump staffers accused of domestic violence, a story that was giving them a black eye (pun intended).

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/white-house-staffers-florida-school-shooting-reprieve-article-1.3830638

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  54. Fake News Update10:31 AM

    The Fake News Media can only play one tune at a time to keep you dancing.

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  55. Anonymous11:01 AM

    Meanwhile, Black Panther the movie is raking in the money from Negroes with insecurity issues, who desperately want to feel good about themselves.

    WAKANDA!

    Black civilization at its finest.

    Too bad it's a comic book fairy tale.

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  56. Winning?11:57 AM

    And another one. Rick Gates to enter a guilty plea.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/us/politics/rick-gates-guilty-plea-mueller-investigation.html

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  57. Anonymous12:24 PM

    ”And another one. Rick Gates to enter a guilty plea.”

    It’ll probably not be long now until these jokers drop a dime on their boss.

    So the open question is: What happens if the investigation does not implicate Trump himself in collusion with the Russian ratfuckers (still possible), yet at the same time inadvertently turns up a mountain of other felonies by Trump, such as obstruction of justice, bribery of government officials, tax evasion, illegal business dealings, mafia ties (highly likely, since Trump has a lifetime’s worth of terrible, unethical behavior behind him)?

    Cowardly congressional Republicans will not want to impeach him, short of proven acts of treason. It will be up to the public to rise up and force his removal.

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  58. Russian Bot12:42 PM

    "Cowardly congressional Republicans will not want to impeach him, short of proven acts of treason. It will be up to the public to rise up and force his removal."

    Grow the fuck up losers. You lost the election.

    Mueller and his team of Clinton lawyers have spent a year and $150 million and have come up with some possibly illegal, minor activities by a a few people tangentially associated with Trump or his campaign. They have nothing on Trump, because there is nothing.

    Rise up? LMAO!!!

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  59. "Cowardly congressional Republicans will not want to impeach him, short of proven acts of treason."

    Mueller would wait until after January to bring any charges with the hope there is a blue wave and the Dems retake congress. Nancy Pelosi will gladly bring impeachment proceedings.

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  60. "They have nothing on Trump, because there is nothing."

    I wouldn't be so sure about that, there's a reason he won't release his tax returns and refuses to implement the sanctions.

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  61. PilotX said...
    "Cowardly congressional Republicans will not want to impeach him, short of proven acts of treason."

    Mueller would wait until after January to bring any charges with the hope there is a blue wave and the Dems retake congress.

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    So you admit Muller is playing politics and wants to remove Trump....Just like we all thought...

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  62. https://www.theroot.com/the-roots-clapback-mailbag-secondhand-clapbacks-1823260234

    This sounds like a poster who used to post here.

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  63. "So you admit Muller is playing politics and wants to remove Trump....Just like we all thought..."

    That could be seen as political or it could be seen as knowing the Republicans are not acting particularly patriotic right now and wouldn't do anything about the cyber attack on this country. Prosecutors are very conscious of the judge they want to appear before. Common sense.

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    1. "Just like we all thought..."

      And who is this we?

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  64. Report: McCain Associate Invokes The Fifth To Avoid Revealing Dossier Sources

    A former director of the McCain Institute invoked his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination in response to a congressional subpoena.
    The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence wants to know how David J. Kramer handled a dossier of unvetted opposition research on Donald Trump.
    Kramer has not denied sharing the dossier with BuzzFeed News, which published the document in January 2017.
    An associate of Arizona Sen. John McCain is invoking his Fifth Amendment rights in order to avoid revealing information to Congress about the Steele dossier.

    http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/23/john-mccain-associate-fifth-amendment-steele-dossier/

    If the golden showers dossier is legit, what is there to hide?

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  65. "Did anyone else have this horrifying thought? Trump may welcome the "distraction" of the school massacre because it takes attention off the Mueller investigation."

    His staff was calling it a "reprieve" from dealing with the scandals and the investigation, so yeah, they already went there.
    I only hope they don't decide to start a war of distraction for the same reasons.

    -Doug in Oakland

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  66. Kinky Con, do try to keep current with the news. The Dossier is old news, although much of it has been verified and none of it refudiated. Grasping at yesterday's straws gets you nothing, except hope that things might have turned out different if only wingnuts were any good at investigations and prosecutions. Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!

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  67. "The Dossier is old news, although much of it has been verified and none of it refudiated."

    And how many FBI/CIA/NSA have said that under oath.

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  68. And considering everyday we are learning about obama officials lying to Congress about it, the Clinton/DNC Dossier is news..

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  69. Kinky Anne Conway4:34 PM

    And considering everyday we are learning about obama officials lying to Congress about it, the Clinton/DNC Dossier is news..
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    Nope. Only distraction artists like Fox news and Hannity are pushing that bullshit fake news instead of concentrating on the con man in chief presently residing at 1600 Pennsylvania. Don't fall for the fake news.

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  70. Robert Mueller4:52 PM

    The latest news is Rick Gates plead guilty and is the latest person connected to trump to be indicted and guilty plea entered. How many Obama administration officials have been indicted? Oh yeah, that's right ZERO.

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  71. And another one bites the dust4:56 PM

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/us/politics/rick-gates-guilty-plea-mueller-investigation.amp.html

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  72. Anonymous5:16 PM

    Rick Gates was never in the Trump administration.

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  73. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove. This is the president’s highest job approval rating since mid-June of last year. President Obama earned 45% approval on this date in the second year of his presidency.

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    1. Anonymous9:52 PM

      http://news.gallup.com/poll/201617/gallup-daily-trump-job-approval.aspx

      Gallup has him at 40%

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  74. Robert Mueller9:51 PM

    "Rick Gates was never in the Trump administration."

    He was part of the campaign.

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    1. Robert Mueller10:06 PM

      Mike Flynn was in the trump administration and he's going to jail. How many in the Obama administration went to jail?

      https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/us/politics/rick-gates-guilty-plea-mueller-investigation.amp.html

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  75. Anonymous9:57 PM

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/02/21/politics/trump-approval-rate-poll/index.html

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  76. Anonymous1:02 AM

    Charges on Flynn to be dropped.

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  77. Robert Mueller2:13 AM

    Charges on Flynn to be dropped.
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    Sure sport, whatever you say.

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  78. Anonymous9:35 AM

    Fuck the gooks and chinks!

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  79. Anonymous3:53 PM

    Charges on Flynn to be dropped.


    When?

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