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My favorite thing about that story is they want to make cuts in airport security…wtf? You can’t claim terrorists are “pouring in to our country unchecked” as your reason to ban legal immigration and then at the same time say “who needs airport security?”
so called President.
You mean the President?
Well, when the so-called President calls other people “so-called” he should expect the same.
exactly.
Well, I’m glad to see that you’re inspired to emulate the behavior of Donald Trump.
The Person in Question
so called President.
You mean the President?
Well, when the so-called President calls other people “so-called” he should expect the same.
exactly.
Well, I’m glad to see that you’re inspired to emulate the behavior of Donald Trump.
It is interesting that you criticize me for it, but you don’t seem to criticize him for it.
so called President.
You mean the President?
Well, when the so-called President calls other people “so-called” he should expect the same.
exactly.
Well, I’m glad to see that you’re inspired to emulate the behavior of Donald Trump.
Shouldn’t we want a President whose behavior we would want to emulate?
Besides, if I was really going to emulate the behavior of Donald Trump, I would go out and grab women by the p****.
I’m way ahead of you guys. But I’m also soaking wet and wishing they hadn’t eaten all that asparagus.
huh?
huh?
This is a pretty clean link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump–Russia_dossier
Footnote 19 gives a hint.
ew.
Well, at least now we know why he’s so orange.
The Trump Administration can’t shake this Russia thing…I guess because they keep lying about it and at some point lies do actually matter.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/carter-page-russia-trip-trump-corey-lewandowski-235784
at some point lies do actually matter.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/322883-trump-i-have-tremendous-respect-for-women
Among the usual hailstorm of nonsense, some tweets by Trump still stand out, like this one…
…when it’s pointed out that he just watched this…
…on his TV (probably minutes before) and then when it’s also pointed out that 111 of them were in fact released by Bush. Somebody should tell him that he now has a vast staff of public servants to check facts for him.
By the way, this clip here is very funny. Good work John Oliver('s researchers)…
https://twitter.com/Mike_P_Williams/status/838916082425552896
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It wasn’t just that one tweet that he sent because he was watching Fox, it was the whole barrage. Check this out.
China has rapidly approved nearly 40 new trademarks for President Trump and his family in the past few weeks — just the latest Trump business deals that ethics experts see as a possible Constitutional violation.
China’s Trademark Office published the 38 preliminary approvals on Feb. 27 and on Monday, after already registering one Trump construction trademark earlier in February. The office approved applications for hotels, golf clubs, shops, real estate companies, restaurants and even bodyguard and escort services, according to public records. They will be formally approved after 90 days unless there are official objections.
One intellectual property expert in Hong Kong said he had never seen the office OK so many applications so swiftly.
“For all these marks to sail through so quickly and cleanly, with no similar marks, no identical marks, no issues with specifications — boy, it’s weird,” Dan Plane, director of Simone IP Services, told The Associated Press.
at some point lies do actually matter.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/322883-trump-i-have-tremendous-respect-for-women
21 times since he started running for President!
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-womens-day-usa-idUSKBN16E2M8
As many American women prepare to draw attention to their role in the workplace, a Wall Street firm on Tuesday put up a statue of a girl in front of Lower Manhattan’s well-known bronze charging bull, as if to fearlessly stare it down.
Placing the diminutive, grade school-aged girl in front of the massive bull on the eve of International Women’s Day was a way of calling attention to the lack of gender diversity on corporate boards and the pay gap of women working in financial services, a spokeswoman for State Street Global Advisors said.
“A lot of people talk about gender diversity, but we really felt we had to take it to a broader level,” said Anne McNally, whose firm is an investment management subsidiary of State Street Corp (STT.N).
http://www.theroot.com/black-feminism-should-serve-the-women-who-aren-t-at-the-1792906857
Whole thing is worth a read but this jumped out at me.
Of the categorically poor, 22 percent of women with insurance and 57 percent of women without it have needed to see a doctor but couldn’t afford to go, a cost prohibition to basic health needs and self-care that creates a chain reaction of emotional, behavioral and financial crises in households overwhelmingly managed by single mothers. Low-income women are more vulnerable to unwanted pregnancy, with few feasible alternatives, because the Hyde Amendment doesn’t allow abortions to be covered by federally funded insurance plans like Medicaid in 35 states and Washington, D.C. They’re also more often trapped in abusive situations because of a lack of resources and are less likely to have safe, affordable housing options, particularly in cities where that’s a general challenge for everyone.
A study of a housing project in Fulton County, Ga., found that 42 percent of the black women living there had been forced into unwanted sex because they were either threatened with violence or actually assaulted. Forty-two percent. In one housing project. And, in that same study, women revealed that because they were already just trying to survive in those volatile living situations, they were too scared to ask their partners to use condoms. So they didn’t. In not doing that, they and women in similar situations are more at risk for contracting HIV, potentially deepening their entrapment in a cycle of dependency, fear and oppression.
The Trump Administration can’t shake this Russia thing…I guess because they keep lying about it and at some point lies do actually matter.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/carter-page-russia-trip-trump-corey-lewandowski-235784
The first event seems exceedingly benign, and reads as a form of ‘gotcha’ politics.
The second event, that of Carter Page’s trip to Russia, is less benign, though it may appear so on the surface. Page did indeed give a commencement speech at the New Economic School in Russia, but this article raises some troubling questions. From the article:
'Page said he’s visiting Russia in a private capacity, and has no meetings planned with the Russian government. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Page won’t see any Kremlin officials. He isn’t representing the Trump campaign on his trip to Russia, campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said by e-mail.
Even so, Page may make informal contact with the Russian establishment, according to Sergei Markov, a political consultant to Putin’s staff. The Kremlin is looking for ways to reach out to the Trump camp, he said.
“Trump is promising an end to constant pressure against Russia and we’re interested in finding out if this is just a populist promise or something more serious,” Markov said by phone.’
So to summarize: the Russian government admitted that it would probably contact Page during his trip in order to reach out to Trump, even after Page claimed that he was going as a private citizen. Moving on:
‘Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, the former U.S. secretary of state, is viewed warily in Russia. Konstantin Kosachyov, head of the foreign-affairs committee in Russia’s upper house of parliament, said she probably will provoke worsening tensions with Russia if she becomes president. At the same time, while Trump offers the tantalizing prospect of better relations, he’s also scarily unpredictable, Kosyachov said in an interview.’
This suggests that the Kremlin was looking for some way to control Trump’s ‘unpredictable’ nature at the time. Back to Page’s commencement speech:
‘During his speech, in which he appeared to defend the authoritarian model in former Soviet Central Asian republics, Page cited a 2012 decree by Putin and a speech by a Chinese leader. China and Russia, he said, have policies based on the principles of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit. That has worked to the advantage of all parties in their relationships, he said.’
Hmm. So this was Trump’s foreign relations expert during the campaign, a man who doesn’t care for American values of democracy and anti-corruption rhetoric, and who values policies of ‘mutual benefit’ between (preferably authoritarian) states. Anyone who knows anything about Chinese government knows that it is dependent on personal favors to grease the wheels of power.
This article was written in July of last year, and I hadn’t heard of it until now. This is what is so frustrating about the mainstream media narrative and the Democratic establishment: they focus on gotcha politics and bare speculation while failing to provide an in-depth and nuanced reporting of the philosophies underlying political figures, philosophies which are based on the words and actions of these people and as such cannot be spun into spurious claims. In the case of Carter Page, his philosophy is much more troubling than the Russia Dossier because it is plain to see.
You probably don’t recognize me because of the red arm.
Episode 9 Rewrite, The Starlight Project (Released!) and ANH Technicolor Project (Released!)
The Trump Administration can’t shake this Russia thing…I guess because they keep lying about it and at some point lies do actually matter.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/carter-page-russia-trip-trump-corey-lewandowski-235784
The first event seems exceedingly benign, and reads as a form of ‘gotcha’ politics.
Granted…in isolation. However, there’s this disturbing pattern of Trump and his pals lying or misleading about Russia.
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/tried-trumps-media-diet-now-nothing-surprises-anymore/
THE NATION IS in serious danger. The creeping spread of Islam is pushing out Christianity. The country’s borders are swarming with drug-slinging criminals, and its veterans are dying in droves. Heartless, power-hungry liberals snatch guns away from poor, defenseless citizens while openly mocking Gold Star widows. Meanwhile, Democratic operatives are planning a coup from a bunker not far from the White House and wiretapping Trump administration officials, not to mention Trump Tower itself—a looming scandal of Watergate proportions.
The worst part? The propagandistic left-wing media (that subhuman species) won’t report a word of it.
At least, that’s what I learned spending a few weeks on a self-imposed binge of President Trump’s media diet—a virtual smorgasbord of Breitbart, Fox News, front-page newspaper headlines, presidential Twitter, and a smattering of Infowars for flavor. I already know what the president thinks of the press, but I wanted to know more about how the world looks to the president through his particular media lens. Yes, even presidents live inside their own filter bubbles. And this past weekend demonstrated just how damaging such media myopia can be when that blinkered vision belongs to the world’s most powerful person.
Sounds like a rough job.
Since the article doesn’t link to WikiLeaks;
https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/
Tons of shady shit in there, but I thought this was pretty funny;
The Trump Administration can’t shake this Russia thing…I guess because they keep lying about it and at some point lies do actually matter.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/carter-page-russia-trip-trump-corey-lewandowski-235784
The first event seems exceedingly benign, and reads as a form of ‘gotcha’ politics.
Granted…in isolation. However, there’s this disturbing pattern of Trump and his pals lying or misleading about Russia.
Yeah, and that’s just the problem. For people who have the mental model that Trump is a serial liar (most of the Democratic party), this is just one more data point to buttress the argument. However, for those with the mental model that Trump has been the unfair target of a smear campaign by the mainstream media (which is most of the Republican party), this is further proof that the MSM has it out for him. After all, would you be able to remember everyone you shook hands with at every event if you were running for president? So continually reporting on this may have the opposite of the intended effect for the people they most want to convince.
You probably don’t recognize me because of the red arm.
Episode 9 Rewrite, The Starlight Project (Released!) and ANH Technicolor Project (Released!)
Does it bother you at all that Wikileaks might be weakening the CIA’s ability to protect us?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/asia/north-korea-missile-program-sabotage.html?_r=0
Note: The key word is “might,” but still.