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Judge Smails wrote:we have an actual traitor to the United States Of America in the White House

Elana Schor‏Verified account @eschor

The Trump admin has notified Congress that last year’s bipartisan Russia sanctions bill is serving as a “deterrent” and as such, specific sanctions aren’t needed at this time

Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner

Schiff says the majority on the House Intel Committee informed the minority today that they have opened an investigation into the DOJ/FBI.


this coupled with today's news that Devin Nunes threatened the FBI Director into demoting (or threatening to demote) McCabe, which McCabe responded to by retiring early.

I dare anyone to continue to support this despicable bastard and his cabal and that goes for McConnell, Ryan and rest of the GOP scum.

Out of all the scandals at the moment, this situation with the FBI and the DOJ memo is the one to really be concerned about (well, Trump still refuses to lay sanctions on Russia, and Congress still refuses to force him to do it, but that's another issue).

Republicans voted to release their internal memo on the DOJ while not allowing the Democrats' memo to see the light of day. Meanwhile, the speculation is that the discrediting of the FBI is an attempt to systematically go one by one down the line of fire until Mueller is fired.

TenBenny wrote: (well, Trump still refuses to lay sanctions on Russia, and Congress still refuses to force him to do it, but that's another issue).

The Russia thing just slays me. He's been so blatant about it, even recently. He wouldn't even denounce Putin killing journalists: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... 4df2c46873

HOST JOE SCARBOROUGH: Well, I mean, also is a person who kills journalists, political opponents and ...

WILLIE GEIST: Invades countries.

SCARBOROUGH: ... and invades countries, obviously that would be a concern, would it not?

TRUMP: He's running his country, and at least he's a leader, unlike what we have in this country.

SCARBOROUGH: But, again: He kills journalists that don't agree with him.

TRUMP: Well, I think that our country does plenty of killing, too, Joe.

But this is still my favorite. From the guy who used his tweeter machine to castigate everyone from Obama to Kristen Stewart, he goes all gooey thinking about Putin: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/sta ... 6112112640

Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow - if so, will he become my new best friend?

SebastianLeeDanzig wrote:I miss the days when golf was a respectable sport for upright, morally sound characters who didn't cheat, lie and whore all day long. Tiger Woods would be rolling in his grave.

Especially if his ex-wife had her way.

Stocks went way down yesterday and today. Ugh. Just in time for Trump's State of the Union address tonight. Can't wait to hear what he says about it if anything. He'll blame it on Obama.

Looks like I cashed out just in time.

Cyd wrote:Stocks went way down yesterday and today. Ugh. Just in time for Trump's State of the Union address tonight. Can't wait to hear what he says about it if anything. He'll blame it on Obama.

Or crooked Hillary. Don’t forget that old chestnut.

Wait, what?

Amid publicity tour, porn star denies affair with Trump

https://www.apnews.com/95c0de495cda4636 ... with-Trump

NEW YORK (AP) — Adult film star Stormy Daniels, in the midst of a publicity tour fueled by past allegations of a 2006 sexual relationship with a then-married Donald Trump, said in a statement Tuesday the alleged affair never occurred.

A lawyer for Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, confirmed the statement was authentic but didn’t offer any further details.

The statement comes at a curious time for Clifford, who is scheduled to appear following the president’s State of the Union address on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” In recent weeks she has changed production companies, given a television interview and promoted strip club appearances with a risque play on Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan.

Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal lawyer, has denied there was any affair.

Clifford’s allegation, first made in 2011 and then again a month before the election, went mostly unnoticed until The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that Cohen brokered a $130,000 payment to Clifford to keep her from publicly discussing it.

A week after that report, In Touch magazine printed a 5,000-word interview it conducted with Clifford in 2011 but never published after Cohen threatened the tabloid with a lawsuit, The Associated Press has previously reported.

In that interview, Clifford described a single sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, when he was recently married to his third wife, Melania, as well as a subsequent years-long relationship with the reality TV star. The magazine said it corroborated her account with friends and said she passed a lie detector test.

In her statement Tuesday, Clifford said she wasn’t denying the affair because she was paid “hush money,” but rather “because it never happened.”

Neither Cohen nor Clifford has addressed whether she was paid $130,000, or if so, why.

A publicist didn’t respond to questions about the statement Tuesday.

Death threats.

Oh well, not like it made a shit of difference to anyone anyway.

Dude fucked a chick and talked about being scared of sharks. Big whoop.

vlad wrote: TRUMP: He's running his country, and at least he's a leader, unlike what we have in this country.

Mojo wrote:

vlad wrote: TRUMP: He's running his country, and at least he's a leader, unlike what we have in this country.

I hate to ruin a good laugh but that interview on Morning Joe that was quoted was from when Obama was the President. He can say a lot of dumb shit but not that one.

eddie lee roth wrote:

Mojo wrote:

vlad wrote: TRUMP: He's running his country, and at least he's a leader, unlike what we have in this country.

I hate to ruin a good laugh but that interview on Morning Joe that was quoted was from when Obama was the President. He can say a lot of dumb shit but not that one.

"Recently" has become a fluid term now.

eddie lee roth wrote:

Mojo wrote:

vlad wrote: TRUMP: He's running his country, and at least he's a leader, unlike what we have in this country.

I hate to ruin a good laugh but that interview on Morning Joe that was quoted was from when Obama was the President. He can say a lot of dumb shit but not that one.

I think the funny part is the hypocrisy of it. Which at this point is not even funny anymore because we've all come to understand that hypocrisy and superhuman lack of self-awareness are pretty much all Trump is made out of. If he didn't have those two things he would disappear like a fart in a stiff breeze.

exitflagger wrote:

eddie lee roth wrote:

Mojo wrote:

I hate to ruin a good laugh but that interview on Morning Joe that was quoted was from when Obama was the President. He can say a lot of dumb shit but not that one.

I think the funny part is the hypocrisy of it. Which at this point is not even funny anymore because we've all come to understand that hypocrisy and superhuman lack of self-awareness are pretty much all Trump is made out of. If he didn't have those two things he would disappear like a fart in a stiff breeze.

Fair enough. I didn’t think about it that way when I made that post last night. I cannot think of anybody who lacks self awareness as much as Trump.

Maybe bair hand but he pretty much doesn’t matter to anybody but his family I guess and I bet they shake their head and wish he’d STFU too.

eddie lee roth wrote:

exitflagger wrote:

eddie lee roth wrote: I hate to ruin a good laugh but that interview on Morning Joe that was quoted was from when Obama was the President. He can say a lot of dumb shit but not that one.

I think the funny part is the hypocrisy of it. Which at this point is not even funny anymore because we've all come to understand that hypocrisy and superhuman lack of self-awareness are pretty much all Trump is made out of. If he didn't have those two things he would disappear like a fart in a stiff breeze.

Fair enough. I didn’t think about it that way when I made that post last night. I cannot think of anybody who lacks self awareness as much as Trump.

Maybe bair hand but he pretty much doesn’t matter to anybody but his family I guess and I bet they shake their head and wish he’d STFU too.

Well, Tym, of course. Probably isn't even aware that his one-legged girlfriend most likely isn't even real...

Trey Gowdy not running for re-election.
Bye-bye fuckface.

Serious question: When thinking about these polls we keep seeing, wouldn't it be a good strategy for Trump supporters to just pretend when asked that they were either unhappy with Trump or on the side of Democrats, then just vote for Trump? Since Republican politicians love misdirection, I'm surprised some haven't quietly encouraged people to give untruthful responses about policies and how they would vote, etc. Lull the left-leaning lawmakers and the public at large into a bit more of a sense of false security. It seems like much of how the election strategies are going to be devised through November are going to be based on what people say to pollsters, so why not just scramble the signal?

Pierce Foreskin wrote:Trey Gowdy not running for re-election.
Bye-bye fuckface.

Good riddance to that fucking weasel

JohnnyDouche wrote:

Pierce Foreskin wrote:Trey Gowdy not running for re-election.
Bye-bye fuckface.

Good riddance to that fucking weasel

-Word.

TenBenny wrote:Serious question: When thinking about these polls we keep seeing, wouldn't it be a good strategy for Trump supporters to just pretend when asked that they were either unhappy with Trump or on the side of Democrats, then just vote for Trump? Since Republican politicians love misdirection, I'm surprised some haven't quietly encouraged people to give untruthful responses about policies and how they would vote, etc. Lull the left-leaning lawmakers and the public at large into a bit more of a sense of false security. It seems like much of how the election strategies are going to be devised through November are going to be based on what people say to pollsters, so why not just scramble the signal?

Most Trump supporters aren't smart enough for that. Besides, it's about intentionally going out of their way to piss off the Democrats and liberals for them...

dmbrocker wrote:

TenBenny wrote:Serious question: When thinking about these polls we keep seeing, wouldn't it be a good strategy for Trump supporters to just pretend when asked that they were either unhappy with Trump or on the side of Democrats, then just vote for Trump? Since Republican politicians love misdirection, I'm surprised some haven't quietly encouraged people to give untruthful responses about policies and how they would vote, etc. Lull the left-leaning lawmakers and the public at large into a bit more of a sense of false security. It seems like much of how the election strategies are going to be devised through November are going to be based on what people say to pollsters, so why not just scramble the signal?

Most Trump supporters aren't smart enough for that. Besides, it's about intentionally going out of their way to piss off the Democrats and liberals for them...

Good point. This is really why Trump fanatics can't be reasoned with. Anything he does that's incredibly far away from presidential they love. It's the left or the more reasonable people that keep thinking that at some point that base is going to tire of that stuff or finally reach the one comment or situation that makes them go, "Oh, that's just too much. Bye, Donnie." They won't.

The base don't realize that when Donnie does his shit, government doesn't get anything done and they're not helped in any way. But hey, he insulted people. Fuck yeah!

Luminiferous wrote:Anyone surprised Drumpf claimed his SOTU speech was the highest rated and most watched ever?

As always, it would have been far more surprising if he didn't say that.

We're now settling into this as an observing public; Trump adheres to nonsense, disinformation, lies, conspiracies, delusions and when all that fails, he opts for pure stupidity. It's gone from outrageous to irritating to the new normal. You have to grudgingly give him credit for that. He went into office completely unqualified for the job and has managed to drag everything down to his level.

We expect it now. Failure is success. I guess that's what #MAGA was about all along.

Luminiferous wrote:Anyone surprised Drumpf claimed his SOTU speech was the highest rated and most watched ever?

No, you could set your watch to that one. But it's a somewhat benign issue. Now him looking to use the pending Devin Nunes'-released Republican memo as a sledgehammer against the FBI and DOJ... oy!

Shithole country

http://fortune.com/2017/08/08/immigrati ... ing-crops/

Wow! What an explosive memo...

Looks like the memo is a bit of a... oh, what am I trying to say... nothing sandwich? No, that's not it... a nothing burrito? Wait... it's right on the tip of my tongue... hold on, it'll come to me when I finish this veggie Whopper I'm eating right now...

Turner Coates wrote: