It was the part about our currant president useing bad spelling, wasn't it? More than your refusal to except Obama is a man with far abouve adverage intelligence?
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How did change occur in Detroit, From a beloved 8 year president or the people of the city ?
He was smart at kicking the can down the road,but that has a habit of catching up with worse then original results.
I except that in 8 years not much had really changed from hope and change.The run down inner city school does not care about how smart one is,results count everything else is bs as they say.
Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton on Duty to Warn: Trump’s “Relation to Reality” is Dangerous to Us All
At 6:59 he says "... for the most part Trump is not psychotic." [[I'm being kind to Trump by taking that out of context.) :eek:
At 9:47 he talks about how Duty to Warn is discussing Trump's psychology with congress.
At 14:10 he says it's a strange world when the generals are there to restrain the civilian instead of the other way around.
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Time will tell
To the extent that Detroit has a large African-American population: from 2000 to 2016, African-Americans were the only racial group whose incomes went down adjusted for inflation. From 2009-2015, under Obama, incomes of African-Americans fell by over $900. So far under Trump, median family incomes for all races have risen by more than $1,000, according to Sentier Research and based on Census Bureau numbers. African-American unemployment fell by a point in the last year, black labor force participation is up and the number of black Americans with a job has risen by 600,000 from last year. Preliminary data show black wages and incomes are up since the election.
The rate of job growth per month for blacks under Trump has so far been 40 percent higher than the monthly average under Obama. Trump has averaged nearly 30,000 new black jobs per month.
My guess is that by trying to restrict the number of illegal non-citizens taking US jobs, President Trump is causing labor shortages allowing US workers to demand higher wages. [[supply/demand 101)
Maybe better off transferring power over to Jeb Bush.
Auto correct does not like the name Jeb,it kept changing the name to Jen,I am beginning to wonder why my IPhone auto correct takes such a liberal stance when it comes to picking replacement words.
"Any increase in ObamaCare premiums is the fault of the Democrats for giving us a "product" that never had a chance of working."
From the deflector in chief's twitter. Playing the blame game once again. From here on, it's "Trumpcare".
The point is coracle, he signed executive order to "slowly dismantle OC". He may actually foresee it's not going to work therefore, that's on him. Is he ever going to stop acting like a teenage girl and stop blaming others and past administrations for his actions? I don't think so.
So I guess you didn’t get your $2,500 either and your healthcare IS paid for by somebody else.
As for your “...like a teenage girl...” anomaly, NO President’s physique ever fit that description more aptly than your obama [[especially running up and down aircraft ramps!; he would have looked good in a tutu).
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/...AakjXO3HQ.jpeg
you're right.
It's just come to light that Trump and some of his team had Russian Dressing on their salads several times during the Primaries! Mueller, CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, ESPN et al are already on it. It’s the best lead they’ve had on collusion to date.
I also heard from an un-named source that when President Trump was 6 he also walked by a bottle of Russian dressing while in the supermarket,more proof.
Senator Franken to Mr Sessions today,there was proof that the Russian collusion that put President in office was a fact.
2 Weeks ago in the press conference,one of the investigators clearly stated several times to the reporters that kept asking the same question,so he had to repeat it several times.
The Russians did not pick one candidate over another in their campaign,it was an unbiased propaganda attack.
It seems like it is becoming if one says something enough times they begin to believe it to be true and therefore fact.
The one thing that is clear,is if one is a nobody,then to get their 15 minutes of fame then all that is needed is a microphone and an anti Trump speech.
RT was staying pretty much unbiased for awhile,mainstream media started crying and trying to have them banned from the US media stream,kinda like do not do it to us but it is okay for us to do it to others,in a matter of 1 week it seems like RT has now jumped on the anti Trump bandwagon to gain points,180 turn just like that.
He should stencil "This machine kills fascists" on his guitar.
Oh, wait. That would brand him as Antifa, as too would it brand the entire United States as such during World War II.
That would be way too patriotic to achieve the hard right's approval. We must now limit our patriotism to their brand.
We can't feel patriotism for the United States unless it's first approved by the hard right [[seeing as they're so exclusive now) can we? Hmm?
Are these the new rules under which we must now live?
I would not necessarily say hard right,but we did try the medium left for the last eight years.
How did that work out?
Yes. I pay double digit thousands of dollars per year in Premiums and Deductables [[which we never use or exceed) and co-pays if we ever got to them. So I pay, pay, pay, just in case, and then somebody else gets the benefit; and I’m still waiting for your Obama’s $2,500 reduction. It’s called redistribution of health and the reversal of Darwin’s Survival of the Fitest. What about you?
He's not wrong.
If Obama had used his bully pulpit to at least push for a public option [[let alone Single Payer Healthcare) and not cave to health industry donors or the Republicans, we wouldn't even be having this discussion right now [[and Trump likely wouldn't be president).
If you are over ten thousand dollars a year in premiums and deductibles and aren't getting a benefit from it in terms of the value of the health care services you use, then might I ask why you even bother paying for health insurance AT ALL? Why not just go 100% out of pocket then?
No, I don't pay 100% out of pocket for my own health care. I have Tricare Reserve Select, which I pay a modest monthly premium for. I don't have a problem with that, nor do I have a problem with poor people getting subsidized health care. You are the one who seemingly, based on your vile political ideology, thinks that poor people deserve to die from treatable conditions if they can't pay for their own health care.
Obama repeatedly said that his [[un)ACA would reduce the average family's health care premiums $2,500/year when he was trying to sell it. Instead, "Average individual market premiums more than doubled from $2,784 per year in 2013 to $5,712 on Healthcare.gov in 2017 – an increase of $2,928 or 105%." That's a $5428 annual discrepancy between President Obama's repeated sales pitch and reality.
The [[un)ACA would have been in worse financial condition except President Obama used his pen to legislate executive funding orders to keep it alive. Not only was it sold with incorrect numbers but the [[un)ACA wasn't funded adequately either because its estimated cost was lowballed to get the thing past or miscalculated. Trump just ended Obama's unconstitutional executive legislation and correctly threw the mess back to Congress which is what Obama should have done. The ACA requires that subsidies be funded annually. Only Congress has the delegated power to provide funding.
Another option would be for at least one of the 14 states with Democratic governors and legislatures to create its own single payer plan that Democrats claim to want. [[crickets)
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?...Ctwgr%5Eauthor
This guy is nuts. Something is definitely wrong with this kook.:eek:
Since Republicans can only afford to lose 2 votes in the Senate and still pass legislation, I'm sure Trump openly feuding with more and more Republican Senators will do wonders for his ability to get his legislative agenda passed. I doubt Trump cares though, his fragile ego takes precedence over everything, including the GOP agenda.
His "agenda" during the health care fiasco seemed to be nothing more than "pass anything, literally anything, so I can call it a win." If you can call that an agenda. I suspect tax reform will be the same. Trump won't give a fuck what gets passed, as long as he can sign a piece of paper and get to say that he accomplished something. What is on that piece of paper probably won't matter to him. And since he admittedly doesn't like to read and reportedly has only a 5-10 minute attention span, it's quite likely he won't even know *what* he is signing.
It's a moot point. Republicans in Congress now know that Trump is a faithless negotiating partner. He does not live up to his promises and he flip-flops on a whim. So McConnell and Senate Republicans will simply move on with their agenda as though Trump doesn't exist. And Trump, eager for any "win" he can get his hands on, will sign whatever they send him and the Senate GOP knows that. Trump has lost any leverage he has now within his own party's legislative caucus. Whatever agenda Trump had, if he ever had any at all, is dead. The only agenda that has a chance of passing is that of Mitch McConnell.
If Republicans successfully pass tax reform, it will be Mitch McConnell's version, not Donald Trump's. Ditto with literally every other issue.
Yesterday he had a "unity" luncheon with Senate Republicans to show the world just how "unified" the GOP is. According to reports from those who were there, it mostly consisted of Trump bragging about himself to a room full of captive Republican Senators.
I suspect that almost every Republican in that room feels the same way Jeff Flake and Bob Corker do, they just don't have the balls to say it because they want to run for re-election one day and don't want to draw a Bannon-supported primary challenge from the Far Right, which will happen if they ever dare to criticize Trump.
Let's not forget this kumbaya moment....hahahahaha. Bizarre to say the least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8GkzsUaQVU
If anyone is faithless, it is the Republicans like McConnell and Ryan.
They have been working against the electors that put the spokesman Trump in office. They are now witnessing the backlash as two deeply entrenched comrades are "retiring" instead of facing the election odds and a humiliating defeat.
At least they don't have Obama Care!
No, it's Trump. He's repeatedly displayed this by flip-flopping constantly. When Senator Lamar Alexander worked out a bipartisan plan with Democratic Senator Patty Murray for Congress to appropriate funds for the Obamacare insurance subsidies in exchange for loosening the Obamacare requirements for the states, Trump said he supported the deal. About four hours later, he was suddenly opposed to it. Trump did the same thing with the Dreamers. He sat down with Chuck Schumer and said he would support efforts for Congress to legalize their status, in exchange for increased immigration enforcement at the border. Later, Trump flip-flopped and said he was opposed to it [[after the Breitbart crowd flipped the fuck out at the notion of Trump supporting the legalization of the DREAMers).
He did it with the Republicans first attempt at an Obamacare replacement too, he initially supported it but then opposed it and literally called the legislation "mean." He did with the Alabama Senate race, where Trump ostensibly supported Luther Strange, but in a campaign stump speech for Strange in Alabama, he told the crowd that he might have made a mistake in supporting Strange and that he would back Roy Moore if he won. He actually flip-flopped mid-speech.
There's a million examples of Trump doing this. He changes his mind on a whim. You can't trust a person who does that. What Trump says today means nothing because he might say the opposite tomorrow.
Maybe he opposes things after reading all of the pork stuck in after the original draft,it is kinda hard to say exactly why he opposes anything with having a copy of the draft and a copy of finial bill.
I guess some have access to what nobody else has.
What good is Bipartisanship when the deal sucks for America?
Not to be outdone by a good old Spectre status meeting. Especially when one finds himself on the hot seat at about 1:00....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XIwUxmtX5U
I like Ike. I dump Trump.
Trump's stance on taxing 401[[k)s, four days ago:
There will be NO change to your 401[[k). This has always been a great and popular middle class tax break that works, and it stays!
— Donald J. Trump [[@realDonaldTrump) October 23, 2017
Trump stance on taxing 401[[k)s yesterday:
http://nypost.com/2017/10/25/trump-s...n-401k-limits/
From "NO change!" to "willing to negotiate" in just three short days.Quote:
President Trump said he “may be willing to negotiate” with Congressional Republicans on lowering how much Americans can contribute to their 401[[k) retirement accounts — just two days after promising there will be “no change.”
The comments, made on the White House lawn as he was walking to Marine One, came hours after US Rep. Kevin Brady, the majority whip and chair of the House Ways and Means committee, defied Trump’s statement from two days earlier.
Also notice how Trump's stance changed after he forcefully declared "NO change" to 401[[k)s and then the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee openly ignored/defied Trump and said 401[[k)s are on the table?
How did 401k work out for Enron employees,here let me hold your money so I can bank the interest and give you hope for a retirement savings, as long as we do not go bankrupt.
401k is the biggest scam from the start.
Is the World Returning to the Dark Ages? | Salman RushdieQuote:
Well! Salman Rushdie pretty much predicted the future in his new book, The Golden House, wherein the antagonist is “a ruthlessly ambitious, narcissistic, media-savvy villain sporting makeup and coloured hair." Read into that what you will, but Rushdie here posits that he's baffled by the sudden worldwide rejection of knowledge and the elites. He says that it's not just an invention of the American right wing — that it's a worldwide problem that's helped in large part by the likes of Fox News et al — and he wonders both what gave rise to that and how it will stop. Perhaps he'll have to write a sequel.
^ go figure,somebody on the far left wineing about the right,interesting read on his bio.
He combines magical realism with historical fiction;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie
Trump's campaign manager Paul Manafort has officially been indicted on federal felony charges:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/u...-indicted.html
He is expected to surrender himself to authorities today. It begins, the first domino falls. Mike Flynn is next, count on it.
What's stopping Jeff Sessions from appointing a special prosecutor to look into Hillary Clinton? You know he has the authority to do that, right? Is he part of the "Deep State conspiracy" too?
But aside from your red herring about Hillary Clinton, any thoughts on Trump's campaign manager facing TWELVE felony counts, including conspiracy against the United States and being an unregistered agent of a foreign principal?
Also facing felony charges is another Trump campaign official, Rick Gates, who served as Manafort's deputy when he ran the Trump Campaign.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/30/politi...der/index.html
Interesting to see what information these two men might be willing to trade in order to avoid lengthy prison sentences...Quote:
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former Trump campaign official Rick Gates surrendered Monday to Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller.Gates, 45, is a longtime business associate of Manafort, 68, having worked together since the mid-2000s, and served as his deputy on the campaign. The two were indicted under seal on Friday, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said.
The indictment against the two men contains 12 counts: conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading US Foreign Agents Registration Act [[FARA) statements, false statements, and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.
More bad news for you guys: former Trump Campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopolous has plead guilty to charges of lying to the FBI as part of the Russia investigation. Papadopolous lied about the nature and extent of his relationship with agents of the Russian government.
So just as a running tally: that's one Trump campaign advisor convicted as part of the Russia probe, two more now facing felony charges.Quote:
George Papadopolous, former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, pleaded guilty for making false statements to the FBI, according to records unsealed today.
Papadopolous lied to FBI agents “about the timing, extent and nature of his relationships and interactions with certain foreign nationals whom he understood to have close connections with senior Russian government officials,” according to the complaint.
In a March 2016 email, Papadopoulos offered to set up a meeting between top Russian officials and top Trump campaign officials, under the subject line "Meeting with Russian Leadership -- Including Putin," according to the source.
EDIT: Papadopoulos has also been indicted on additional felony charges in addition to his guilty plea to the charge of lying to the FBI.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...c00_story.html
While you're waiting for indictments to roll down, here's some entertaining reading for you. Let me know if you get through this in the next week or so, I have more.
http://www.politifact.com/personalit...yruling/false/
Keep em coming. You can't prosecute these cases without going after the Podesta / Clinton and even Mueller himself. There is a lot of squirming going on on both sides of the isle.
You guys sound like Trump. Trump advisors get indicted, all you can talk about is Hillary Clinton. Lol, keep it up guys, you're going to have your hands full throwing out red herrings about Hillary Clinton as more and more members of Team Trump go down for their crimes. This week's off to a good start!
Oh, so you consider politifact a reliable source now? I seemed to sense some earlier pushback when it was cited as a source for Trump lying 78% of the time.
Anyways, yes, Hillary lies. If only you cared as much about the liar who runs this country as you seem to do about private citizen Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump already lying about the Manafort charges:
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Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
Sorry, but this is years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign. But why aren't Crooked Hillary & the Dems the focus?????
October 30, 2017 10:25am EDT
According to the indictment, the full text of which you can read a the link below, it states that Manafort's illegal activity continued through 2016 [[money laundering) and the conspiracy and being an unregistered foreign agent charges are for the period up to 2017. Which means, according to the indictment, Manafort was actively engaged in all of these illegal activities throughout his ENTIRE duration as Trump's campaign manager and that some of these illegal activities continued even after the campaign was over.
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000...f-7f735cc70000
Didn't take long for Donald to start backpedaling.
June 16,2015 Trump campaign begins
March 29, 2016 Manafort joined campaign
May 19,2016 Manafort promoted to campaign chairman
August 19, 2016 Manafort leaves campaign
November 8, 2016 Trump wins
Trump's campaign lasted 16 months and 22 days.
Manafort was a part of the Trump campaign for 4 months and 20 days and was campaign chairman for 3 of those months.
^ the indictment is base on things he allegedly did two years before even joining the campaign,2014.
The other guy was a volunteer consultant that attended one meeting that lasted 2 hours.
Throwing peanut butter against the wall to see what sticks shure gets em all excited.
Maybe some should take up a new hobby of watching moss grow while chomping on some Valium,the bright side of this is maybe it will push Rosie over the edge.
It will take at least a year to go to trail,should be fun watching.
Robert Mueller III is the hope of the nation. Good to know someone respects the rule of law and has the brains to do it. How this sorry group of individuals became President and his administration I will never understand. Maybe we will have a present worth opening by December and we can get our country back.
We got our country back,that is why he is there,apparently he was not as sorry as those who ran against him otherwise he would not be there.
At least this December we will be able to celebrate and enjoy opening presents and the meaning of the holiday without being persecuted.
Snuggle up and roast some chestnuts on the fire and relax,otherwise it is going to be a long seven and a half years.
Well I do have an old pickup,my boat is up on stands in the yard,I have a three legged pit bull,I am shure if I could get the whole beer belly part down it would be more of a redneckish lives matter thing.
We already know that Robert Swan Mueller III is deceitful. As FBI director, Mueller lied to Iceland in sending eight FBI agents to Iceland promising to help Iceland defend against what was described as an imminent attack on Iceland's government's databases. When Iceland's Prime Minister realized the FBI was there instead to look for dirt on Julian Assange and Wikileaks, the Prime Minister kicked the FBI agents out of Iceland. This is Iceland where bankers go to prison instead of receiving bailouts from the likes of Bush and Hillary. Robert Swan Mueller III didn't make the grade in Iceland. There must be some laws, you mentioned "the rule of law", against fraud.
Uhhh.... You do know the FBI works for the United States Justice Department and not Iceland?
I hate to shatter your illusions, but law enforcement will tell lies, pose as criminals, and flat out attempt to trick people and institutions to allow them access to evidence of capital crimes like espionage, terriorism, murder and yes, money laundering and tax evasion. The FBI has been kicked out of a lot of countries for political reasons that are not necessarily in the United States’ best interest.
Fine by me.
My point was not that the FBI works for Iceland. It was that Robert Swan Mueller III committed what amounts, by definition, to fraud as the FBI Director. Perhaps "lies, pos[[ing) as criminals, and flat out attempt[[s) to trick people and institutions" is your idea of, as carolcb put it, "someone respects the rule of law". Your argument that the ends justifies the means is the same argument that Dick Cheney and other supporters of torture use. You didn't reference torture but even tolerating lies and trickery as national policy is not my idea of ways "to get our country back". It wasn't just Iceland. Mueller was followed by Comey who expanded government efforts to spy on political opponents. How is lying, spying on Americans and trickery supposed to make us regret not voting for Hillary to "get our country back"?
Lol....let the persecution begin....Happy Holidays Richard ! :cool:Quote:
At least this December we will be able to celebrate and enjoy opening presents and the meaning of the holiday without being persecuted.
Another way of looking that would be "Donald Trump chose a criminal felon and an unregistered agent of a foreign government to be the leader of his campaign for three months." And those were three of the most crucial months of his campaign as it included the time period of Trump clinching the Republican nomination in a head-to-head battle with Ted Cruz and the 2016 Republican National Convention.
"Nobody should underestimate how much Paul Manafort did to really help get this campaign to where it is right now."
-Newt Gingrich
Anyways, keep spinning away! I can't wait to see the spin you guys come up with when the next batch of indictments comes out and Mike Flynn's name is in there.
The most interesting turn of events here might actually come from the most insignificant of the three men to go down yesterday: George Papadopoulos. He plead guilty a month ago as part of a "cooperation agreement" with investigators. Namely, Mr. Papadopoulos gets a lighter sentence in exchange for his cooperation. Now prosecutors don't cut deals like this unless the person has something [[or someone) of value to give up. We now know that for at least a month, possibly longer, Papadopoulos has been a cooperating witness and an FBI informant.
Good news for you guys is that it's inconceivable that someone relatively low on the totem poll like Papadopoulos has direct dirt on Trump. Far more likely, in fact extremely likely, is that he DOES have dirt on other members of the Trump Campaign.
This is how Mueller took down the criminals who ran Enron. You catch some small fish first and they flip on some bigger fish. Those fish then flip on even bigger fish. The more Trump Campaign staffers and advisors who get ensnared, the worse it's going to be for Trump.
Also, for those of you who want to believe these charges have nothing to do with Russia, just note that Papadopoulos admitted [[as part of his guilty plea) that he was engaged in a months-long effort in 2016 to arrange secret meetings between the Trump Campaign and the Russian government. And he did this with the blessing and encouragement of at least some of his supervisors. Now that's not proof that Donald Trump himself colluded, but we're rapidly getting closer to the point where you can no longer deny that the Trump Campaign was engaged in an organized and deliberate effort to collude with the Russian government.
Yawn..... nothing new there.
Hillary's campaign meet with foreign officials through a third party "CONSULTING FIRM" that Hired a Foreign national to dig for dirt on Trump. Comey used that "Unsubstantiated Dossier" to get a FISA tap on D.T.s campaign which Susan Rice unmasked names [[such as Manafort, who worked for a Ukrainian interest, [[the same that Podesta worked with and 3yrs later then decides to disclose his finances from same firm post employment when Mueller wants to go after Manafort.) The Dossier was fake and the election wasn't swayed or hacked by same "Evil Russia."
So what do we know after the first round of indictments?
1.) Trump went on to become president despite a sitting government using their powers to disrupt the election process.
He went to office despite the fifth column of the mass media pushing a false flag narrative that they themselves the DNC created.
2.) Meanwhile, Evil Russia gained control over 20% of our Uranium sources with the blessing of former SOS Clinton, whose foundation accepted "DONATIONS" on behalf of foreign benefactors of the deal with the blessings of Now Special prosecutor Mueller then FBI head, whose all seeing and reaching investigative powers seem too blind to find the documented path to.
3.) The deep rooted interests of both parties are trying to undermine the presidency because their financial interests are in jeopardy from a nation that wants its borders back.
4.)AJ's hoping for Christmas despite it being Halloween.:D
You're not spinning? I just laid out some numbers as the discussion had veered into whether or not Manafort was Trump's campaign director for a "short time" as Trump claimed. Trump's campaign lasted for about 502 day during which Manafort was part of the campaign for 140 days and served as campaign director for 90 days. If you want to spin that as "three of the most crucial months of his campaign" because Trump was then battling Ted Cruz, by all means do so. I would instead just characterize 90 out of 504 days as being about 17.9% of the campaign's duration. Weren't the parts of the campaign after Cruz dealing with Hillary also "some of the most crucial parts of the campaign?
Other factoids:
Trump let Manafort go when the Ukraine discussion came up although Mueller didn't resign or even apologize for the apparent fraud he perpetrated on Iceland. Manafort was allegedly tied to the elected Pro-Russian Ukrainian party not the fascist Ukrainian oligarchs SOS Clinton/Obama sided with. I used the word 'alleged' because unlike you I am unaware that Manafort is, as you claimed, "a criminal felon". When was he convicted of a felony? If Manafort is guilty of something, he should be prosecuted. If Hillary or Obama is guilty of something, prosecute them too.
So I was wondering who Papadopuolos had dirt on that the feds would be willing to cut a deal with him, and now it seems we might know who.
Carter Page: "I may have discussed Russia in emails with Papadopoulos"
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/30/page-papadopoulos-russia-probe-244349
This is the same Carter Page who resigned from the Trump Campaign in disgrace once it was publicly revealed that he had ongoing contacts with top Putin advisor Igor Sechin, who is on the U.S. government's sanctions list for his role in the Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine. This is also the same Carter Page who has been the subject of an ongoing FISA warrant from the FBI for allegedly engaging in clandestine intelligence gathering on behalf of the Russians. And yes, this is the same Carter Page who has told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he will invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and will not answer any of their questions.
In summary, it's looking almost certain that Carter Page will find himself under indictment soon enough. Hope he has a good lawyer, he's going to need it.
What is hilarious to me is that just because Trump said he was going to "drain the swamp" that people where stupid enough to believe it. All anyone had to do was take the time to read up on the guy and they could see that in fact it was not going to happen and the reality would be the opposite going down hard and fast.
He couldn't even keep the swamp creatures at arms length during his campaign!
This is far from over it's only just begun.
Trump has little use for honest people, to him they are just rubes. That is going to hurt him badly.
Manafort is 68 years old. A 20-year prison sentence is basically a life sentence to a guy that old. This is a guy who spent almost a million dollars of his illegally-laundered Russian money at an antique rug store, you think he can handle being in prison?
If Manafort flips, you have to imagine that he implicates Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr. for that Russia meeting back in July.
You guys are hilarious sometimes,you dream things up and try to pass it off as real so you can cling a fantasy.
This is what it must have been like back in the witch burning days,roast somebody based on false perceptions in the hopes that it becomes a reality.
Notice how anybody that they try to reel into a get Trump campaign actualy is still alive to testify and defend themselves,good thing they picked the right team to be on.
Former Trump Campaign Manger Paul Manafort has been placed under house arrest, as he has been deemed a flight risk.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/31/politi...rts/index.html
According to court documents, Manafort possesses THREE different passports and regularly travels overseas to countries like Cuba and China using fake names.
Way too early to celebrate ridding our nation of this cancer, but Garrison Keillor's satire provides some motivation to get the job done:
With Paul Manafort's indictment, Donald Trump is done
He couldn't get elected dogcatcher in New York, his hometown
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/...-a8028711.html
Funny ��
They like that because it makes a nice diversion from dealing with the things in life that do not matter,like the schools and infrastructure etc.
Just think if all of the Trump hatred energy was diverted to actually solving the real issues instead of chasing unicorns.
Anyways,I have a question for you.
The currant trend for Haitians around here is to jump border into Canada,these are some that have been in the states 15 plus years,it seems to be a fairly easy endeavor and they get set up quite nicely.
My partner is Haitian and it took him 12 years to become a US citizen going through the legal route,if these guys are booking it to Canada is it going to be any different in the time frame or do they receive citizenship fairly quickly?
Detroit is getting a new immigration facility,you think that it is because of the logistics of the ones that Canada actually rejects.
When they send them back do they send them back to the country of origin I.E. The US even though they were never a US citizen to start with?
Trump's nominee for top USDA post withdraws over Russia probe:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politi...ure/index.html
Sam Clovis, who was formerly Trump's national campaign co-chair and a top foreign policy advisor to the campaign, has withdrawn from consideration for a Under Secretary cabinet position after it was revealed that he was the Trump Campaign supervisor who approved and encouraged George Papadopoulos to arrange a meeting with the Russian government. Clovis was also the person responsible for bringing Papadopoulos on to the Trump Campaign as a foreign policy advisor.
Another one bites the dust. Better lawyer up, Sam. I'm sure Robert Mueller has some questions for you and you better hope your buddy George wasn't wearing a wire the last time you talked to him. Another one drained from the swamp!
In a Saturday interview with HuffPost, Briskman, a 50-year-old mother of two, said she was stunned that someone had taken a picture of her giving Trump the middle finger.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59fe0ab4e4b0c9652fffa484?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000 313
hahaha serves her right for being nasty.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-middle-finger
The Huff post one does not like to share links,she was fired from her government contractor job for it.
Cannot stand the president and wants impeachment but yet has no problem collecting a paycheck directly related to the government she detests.Well not anymore and rightly so.
Typcial
And if you continue reading the article, it states that a male employee was reprimanded and kept his job for calling someone a fuckin' libtard asshole on his facebook page with the company's name as his cover photo. How is that fair?
Oh well, I would have flipped him off too.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0c9652fffa484
That is what she said also,but there may be more to it then how it is explained in the article.
Common sense would be if you have a problem working for a republican government it is probably not a good idea to be flipping them off and expecting hugs and kisses,the same as it would be if under democrats.
The way things should be are not always the way they are.
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Robert Reich looks at what we've learned so far about the Trump presidency, and who is really running the country.
Nothing says "Drain the Swamp" quite like appointing a Big Pharma CEO to be the new Secretary of Health and Human Services.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...512_story.html
Next up for Trump: Appointing the reanimated corpse of Pablo Escobar to head the DEA.
President Trump has selected Alex Azar, a former pharmaceutical executive and a top health official during the George W. Bush administration, to lead the Health and Human Services Department.
From your link,you lied to push your agenda,what a liar,
Former to me means in the past and not currently as you were trying to imply with your lie,
If one applies for a job,most cases they have to provide a resume showing expirence in thier past work history,what did you expect,he would hire Joe the plumber?
Tomorrow when you wake up your near and dear President will still be Mr Trump,embrace that,give up on your quest in constantly trying to find fault in everything he does because you are upset that evil did not triumph.
Or increase the meds dosage.
You know how you can tell when a plane load of brits are above ? Because you can hear the Whining of the engines.
Point well taken. More revolving door politics. My favorite was Elizabeth Fowler who helped the Senate write a Medicare bill guaranteeing high profits to drug companies, then went back to work as a Wellpoint VP overseeing its lobbying activities, then went to work for Senator Max Baucus as the chief architect of Obamacare, and last seen, went to work in a senior position at Johnson & Johnson working with its government affairs and policy group.
Revolving Door is correct. This is what Azar has been up to for the last ten years, after leaving his post in the Bush Administration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_A...i_Lilly_.26_Co.
Leading lobbying efforts for Big Pharma? Check.Quote:
In June 2007, Azar joined Eli Lilly and Company as its Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Communications, where he “lead Lilly public affairs and lobbying efforts.”[10] In 2009, under Azar, the company paid $1.415 billion to settle criminal charges regarding its promotion of Zyprexa for off-label uses.
In April 2009, Azar became Vice President of Lilly’s U.S. Managed Healthcare Services organization and its Puerto Rico affiliate.[11]
Effective January 1, 2012, Azar became President of Lilly USA, LLC, the largest division of Eli Lilly and Company, and was responsible for the company's entire operations in the United States.[11] Prices for drugs rose substantially under Azar's leadership.[12] In connection with the position, Azar served on the board of directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, a pharmaceutical lobby.[13]
Massively raising prescription drug prices for consumers? Check
Settling criminal charges related to unscrupulous drug sales? Check
And of course, when his tenure in the Trump Administration is over, he'll slide right back into a cushy seven [[or eight) figure position as a Big Pharma executive or lobbyist. That will be his reward for using his position in HHS to maximize profit margins for his Big Pharma benefactors by removing oversight and regulation.
aj, We are in some agreement on this. Corporatist swamp history goes back a number of presidents. Reagan was busting unions for instance. Woodrow Wilson promoted the federal income tax thereby transferring much of the tax burden from import corporations onto, eventually, the backs of middle class income tax payers while incentivizing imports to reduce US labor costs. Trump's administration is as riddled with Goldman Sachs' people as the Obama administration was. The one significant place where Trump is still attempting to drain the swamp relative to Republican establishment and Democratic swamp creatures is his attempt to limit cheap foreign labor at home and abroad, eg. TPP, NAFTA, to corporatist interests.
Trump has also been less enthusiastic, by a matter of degrees, about fighting corporate profit proxy wars and resurrecting the cold war with Russia for corporatist interests.
There is one marvelous proposal in the GOP Senate version of the tax reform bill. It's probably too good to survive and may not have Trump's approval. Democrats, of course, disapprove. It would cap home interest deductions at $10,000 while offsetting that with a large expansion in the non-itemized standard deduction. It would transfer tax breaks from the rich to the lower middle class. Let's see who removes that provision. I have already seen one editorial attacking it.
The opposite of that is true.
FACT: Trump wants to grow the military-industrial complex by orders of magnitude. Trump called for a nearly 10% increase in military spending after taking office and has pledged to grow the size of the military.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/u...-military.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/12/trum...t-mnuchin.html
FACT: Our involvement in foreign quagmire wars has increased under Trump. 4000 more troop sent to Afghanistan, a 50% increase over the ~8000 U.S. troops stationed there. More U.S. troops to Syria, deepening our involvement in that war. Additional troop deployments to Iraq. And to top it off, the Trump Administration ended the policy of disclosing troop deployment numbers back in April, so troop surges in foreign war zones can now be kept hidden from the American people
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/w...p-taliban.html
http://time.com/4699178/us-troop-inc...ia-raqqa-isis/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7662016.html
FACT: Trump has called for improving and expanding the U.S. nuclear arsenal [[you can't get more "Cold War" than that) at a proposed cost of $1.2 trillion dollars over 30 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/u...al-budget.html
But you're right, Trump isn't using Russia as his boogeyman to justify his plans for massive military spending like Reagan did, he's using Iran and North Korea. End result is the same though. Remind me again, was it Trump or Obama that bombed a Syrian military air base and shot down a Syrian military jet?
Trump's only interested in limiting immigration that he personally doesn't profit from. The H2-B visa program for unskilled foreign laborers? Trump expanded it.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017...for-abuse.html
And of course, it's just a mere coincidence that Trump employs cheap foreign labor at his properties like Mar-a-lago, taking advantage of the H2-B visa program to do it.
https://www.npr.org/2017/07/20/53838...oreign-workers
When Trump goes to the "Florida White House", he's literally waited on hand and foot by foreigners. I guess he didn't want to pay a decent enough wage to entice Americans to take those jobs...
Gotta love how certain people are expressing so much faux-outrage over Trump appointing a Pharmaceutical CEO to his cabinet, yet these same people were completely silent when the state of California [[against the will of majority of the delegates) appointed a Pharmaceutical lobbyist as their party leader.
aj, You did a good job of responding to something other than my quote. You could get a job at one of the liberal fact finder sights that often answer questions no one asked. The substantial expansion of forces in Afghanistan under Trump is the only thing you mentioned having anything significant to do with "fighting corporate profit proxy wars and resurrecting the cold war with Russia for corporatist interests." Note the word "fighting". Spending money on weapons and readiness, etc. is not fighting. Obama was the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to bomb 11 countries making a mess of Libya doing so. So far, Trump has bombed a Syrian Air Force base and shot down one Syrian plane. I very much disapprove but instead of allowing ISIS to survive as Obama did, Trump and Putin seem intent on ending ISIS. How do those attacks compare with bombing 11 countries, wrecking Libya for no reason, letting ISIS flourish, setting in motion a plan to overthrow Assad, and driving Russia and China back together as cold war allies against the US? That's Obama's handiwork. Snuffing ISIS is an important key to ending a large measure of conflict and the refugee stream caused and/or allowed by the previous administration.
I think what you were getting at rather than actual acts of war was spending and readiness. I too am wary about wasteful spending but China and Russia have been developing weapons that are in some cases better than ours. During Obama's reign and continuing today, China made advances in supercomputers, aircraft, building islands to expand China's territorial footprint, expanding alliances and infrastructure, etc. while the US military was expanding LGBT rights and deleting references to Islamic terrorism.
If you are the CEO of a airline do you hire the paperboy to fill in for a sick pilot or do you find someone with a bit more experienced?
It does not matter Democrat,Republican,Huey Long [[Bernie), they all hire from within the party and return favors,at the very minimum at least this guy has experience in the realm of his appointment,unlike previous administrations on all sides.
Not everybody can afford to stay at a Holiday Inn express,like yourself, and becomes a instant expert,so some have to rely on past experience,and when they screw up is when it becomes the time to bring it to light.
aj, Again you are having a little problem with proportions; something endemic among Democrats. Just as bombing an airport and shooting down one plane does not equate hundreds of thousands of Obama policy deaths, Letting in an additional 15K cheaper foreign workers, though also undesirable, falls far short of Obama's flooding the Country with illegal aliens, refugees from foreign countries, and unconstitutional executive legislation in support of Obama's prioritizing foreign interests over those of US workers. As to Trump hiring legal foreign workers, although distasteful and seemingly hypocritical in Trump's case, it is more along the lines of criticizing Republicans who accept Social Security benefits as hypocrites.Quote:
Trump's only interested in limiting immigration that he personally doesn't profit from. The H2-B visa program for unskilled foreign laborers? Trump expanded it.
And of course, it's just a mere coincidence that Trump employs cheap foreign labor at his properties like Mar-a-lago, taking advantage of the H2-B visa program to do it.
When Trump goes to the "Florida White House", he's literally waited on hand and foot by foreigners. I guess he didn't want to pay a decent enough wage to entice Americans to take those jobs...
For example, "The Obama administration is pressing ahead with plans to boost the number of refugees it will allow into the U.S. as a national debate rages over immigration and security. The increase to 110,000 represents a nearly 30 percent increase over the current fiscal year. It is also a more than 57 percent jump since 2015..Of the 110,000 the U.S. intends to begin admitting at least 40,000 are from the Near East and South Asia, a White House senior administration official said. And most of those are likely to be people escaping the brutal Syrian civil war." -NBC Sept.16, 2016 [[less then 2 months before the election)
That is to say "the brutal civil war" Obama, Kerry, and Hillary stoked. We need more Uzbek diversity lottery winners choosing 23 other immigrants of THEIR choice, why That's a reminder of where Democrats took us. In contrast, Trump has slowed the inflow of 'refugees' from terrorist countries and is trying to cut the number of total refugees in half.
Maybe because none of us here live in California?
So Trump isn't fomenting hostilities with Iran and North Korea, essentially creating a new Cold War for the 21st Century? Hell, the psychopath even threatened to use U.S. military force against Venezuela.
You say Obama "bombed 11 countries." Since you seem to count every country that Obama launched even a single strike or operation in over the course of 8 years, I find it curious that you seem to ignore that, under 10 months of Trump, we have also "bombed" or launched military raids into Yemen, Somalia, Libya [[yes, there's that country again!) and other countries. Or do those only count when there's a Democrat in the White House?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/24/politi...ump/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakla_raid
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKBN1DF1ZK
I also like how you compare a full 8 years of Obama's Presidency to just 10 months of Trump's, as if those are equitable. How many air bases or fighter jets of sovereign nations did Obama bomb in his first 10 months in office? Care to answer that, oladub?
Let's just wait and see how many nations Trump has bombed and how many new conflicts he gets us drawn into at the four year mark. He's doing a heckuva job so far of growing the military-industrial complex and expanding our involvement in foreign conflicts while provoking new ones. Even though he ran on an isolationist platform of opposing nation-building and entanglements in foreign conflicts.