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SousaphoneColossus posted:it doesn't - which is why I assumed it wouldn't work. thank you! If you're using FF, you have to loosen up your trackers settings to get Twitters to embed.
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Mezzanine posted:RE: Puerto Rico supposedly using disaster relief money to pay of debt The problem is that it's a deliberate tactic of his to avoid repercussions. He's done it his entire life. He's a constant Gish Gallop of lies. If you call him out on one lie, he'll tell three more and then insist he never said the first one. It's a never-ending chain that he can keep doing until his pursuers give up. Not playing the game is the only way to win.
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Nov 12, 2018 02:49
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mistaya posted:The calling of races on election night really needs to be moderated somehow, mainly because calls to violence over races called too soon are now a thing thanks to our ghoul of a President and his ghoul of a party. I don't know if our news organizations are capable of figuring that one out though. There's a small problem of the 1st amendment in terms of actual regulation of this. It all has to be internal self-regulation. The problem is that there is more reward for calling races first than calling them right when the reversals come days later.
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Nov 12, 2018 06:09
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Lightning Knight posted:I really don't understand why Trump does what he does re: trying to force people out of his administration, Nielsen seems like she's been really effective at getting done what he's wanted done, and yet he wants her gone? I suspect it's mostly just a mindless display of power. He fires people just to remind everyone else that he can. I guess the assumption is that people afraid for their jobs are more loyal, or more sycophantic, at least.
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Nov 13, 2018 05:17
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Lemming posted:What's the deal with the recount deadline? It seems insane that there could be a forced recount but only allow them a few days to do it all by hand (in the event of a hand recount) Having a deadline makes sense, as it prevents counties from deliberately slow-walking the recount to delay the result as long as possible. It needs to be reasonable so that there's plenty of time to make a good-faith effort to get it done, though.
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Nov 13, 2018 19:45
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"She was not escorted, she was dragged out kicking and screaming. They threw her desk out after her."
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Nov 13, 2018 21:51
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Honestly the Mississippi senate election barely matters because even if the Dems somehow pull out a miracle a win they’ll just most likely lose it in 2020 along with Alabama so it won’t contribute to the fight for 50 seats. Getting minority voters energized to get out and vote despite all the obstacles is a huge issue by itself. An Espy win would be a solid demonstration of how much power they actually have and could be a bellwether for future D success in the state.
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Nov 14, 2018 16:23
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"Speculating." Which means they don't know anything.
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Nov 14, 2018 20:36
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I guess he's actually running as a Republican, then.
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Nov 14, 2018 23:54
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Tnega posted:Pretty much. Here's an NPR article about some of Obama's. The primary job requirement of an ambassador is throwing good dinner parties. That's about it in most cases. A few require some diplomatic tact, but not many.
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Nov 15, 2018 16:00
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Nemo Somen posted:I know SA doesn't really like Pelosi, but she's likely better than the more conservative democrats, right? Yes, she's hands down the best person for the job ATM. The person to gun for is Steny Hoyer. He's old and useless, and House Majority Leader is a good spot to put Pelosi's successor.
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Nov 15, 2018 16:28
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Party Plane Jones posted:I would argue that Barbara Lee is going to be the way of the future in terms of leadership for the Speakership and either give Pelosi House Majority Leader or House Whip. Barbara Lee is also 72. If people want new/young blood in the party leadership, she's not a good choice.
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Nov 15, 2018 16:43
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VH4Ever posted:For me, I was pretty onboard with finding another Speaker once Pelosi held that press conference during primary season that if they retook the House, they would reinstate PayGo. That plus her other pleas for "bipartisanship" and overall I'm not really sure what the problem with PayGo is. To me, it's just responsible government. If you want service from the government, you need a way to pay for it. No empty promises of getting something for nothing.
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to me demonstrates that whatever she's done until then, in the here and now she's trying to be bipartisan with Nazi death cultists and thus is not equipped to lead anymore. IMO we need someone new, someone more in tune with today's politics.
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+1 more D in the House Golden wins Maine’s 2nd District race following historic ranked-choice count quote:Democrat Jared Golden was declared the winner of Maine’s 2nd Congressional District race on Thursday following a historic tabulation of ballots using ranked-choice voting.
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Kale posted:https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/11/15/ken-starr-trump-mueller-attack-tweet-newday-vpx.cnn Hey, show some respect. Ken managed to achieve his life-long ambition of getting someone fired for inappropriate sexual behavior.
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Nov 15, 2018 21:07
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when Ken Starr is telling you to shut the gently caress up about the Mueller Probe. Sadly much as he was a gently caress stick back in the 90's he's right on this one. Nobody besides MAGA's really loving care about Trump's self-inflicted legal problems and it doesn't help the nation to constantly hear his droning repetitive opinions on it every other day. Quit loving whining for a second and just do your job. This is literally how I'm going to remember the Trump years, just the ceaseless loving impotent whinging and whining on twitter like a 12 year old that just lost 10 League matches in a row.
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eke out posted:Coupled with the piece about how he's growing to disdain Hannity, we really are seeing him turn on basically everyone now lol The Democrats are the winners, now. He no longer has any use for Fox and Hannity.
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Nov 16, 2018 18:46
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That author, famous for "Dreams From My Father" will happily take the stage and lead the roast of the President.
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Nov 21, 2018 04:54
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Data Graham posted:My question is whether businesses are being actually socially conscious nowadays, i.e. pulling advertising from Fox News shows, taking stands that cause chuds to boycott them, etc; or whether it's all calculated and performative and aimed at shareholder profits in the end anyway Businesses are amoral. They have bad reasons for doing anything. Getting them to do good things for bad reasons is the best we can hope for. The key is giving financial incentives to do socially responsible things. Then they can blindly maximize value for their shareholders while the rest of us benefit from it.
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Nov 26, 2018 17:07
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Kobayashi posted:Anything more than $0 is collaborating. Nah, the wall is a useful bargaining chip. It would takes years to design and build, long after Trump is gone from office. Funding can be cut and the project canned at any point in the future. If dangling some funding for it in front of him now gets him to support and sign some genuinely useful bills, it's worth it. Trump's weakness is he ego.
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marshmonkey posted:https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1068160464230731776 I suspect this is related to the Manafort stuff. Cohen's likely been the one supplying the documentation that proved Manafort was lying.
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Nov 29, 2018 16:48
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evilweasel posted:I mean, Chicago is notoriously corrupt and the guy is a politician who controls City Hall's purse strings, so unless someone has evidence linking the raid to Trump I think it's a stretch. The default assumption should be that this is a local political corruption investigation. On the other hand, if they dig enough they will inevitably come across Trump stuff even if that's not what were looking for. Finding corrupt things Burke has done may inevitably have a thread leading to Trump, as there's no way he worked for Trump and didn't do anything skeevy for him.
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Nov 29, 2018 18:51
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1stGear posted:Like, that's just straight-up "Trump and Cohen met with executive-level Russian officials about election concerns", right? Its not strictly speaking confirmation of collusion, but its a whole lot of thick black smoke and an orange glow. There's nothing illegal (as far as we know at this point, anyway) about Trump building a hotel in Moscow. Continuing to pursue it during the campaign is a bit sketchy, though. Enough so that everyone involved felt like they needed to lie repeatedly to Congress about it. This confirms that they were lying, and Trump himself likely lied to Mueller about it in his written statements. This is all impeachable stuff on its own without even considering the collusion. Hence Trump is starting to freak out. Once we get to the seriously illegal money laundering and collusion stuff, he'll be stroking out on live TV.
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Michael Cohen sentenced to three years in prison for crimes committed while working for Trumpquote:A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen to three years in prison for financial crimes and lying to Congress, as the disgraced former “fixer” apologized for his conduct but also said he felt it was his duty to cover up the “dirty deeds” of his former boss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE
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Prosecutors Announce Deal With Tabloid Company in Trump Hush-Money Inquiryquote:Federal prosecutors took a major step on Wednesday in their investigation of hush-money payments made to two women who said they had affairs with Donald J. Trump, announcing that The National Enquirer’s parent company was cooperating. Obviously, this was being held until the Cohen sentencing. Another brick in the wall.
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Doesn't this ruling directly contradict what the SC said in the original case, that the individual mandate was a tax and the government has the power to tax? Seems like a stunt more than anything legitimate.
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Your Parents posted:Mattis is a dumb piece of poo poo killer why are liberals lionizing him? Charles Manson could write a prison letter saying orange man bad and get tearful apologia from you people lol Nobody's lionizing him. He was the last adult in the room, so him going will leave Trump almost completely unchecked. Mattis was terrible but known. As bad as things are, things will get worse without him.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Thats some good poo poo right there. Democrats are grown up and responsible and won't promise something for nothing, in contrast to the Republicans.
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enraged_camel posted:Not just impeached, but also removed from office most likely. He resigned because he saw the writing on the wall. More like the writing on the wall was highlighted and had a Klieg light shone on it for him. A delegation of Congressional Republicans visited him the night before he resigned, informing him that the votes were there in both the House and the Senate to impeach him and remove him from office.
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Trump announces deal for government to reopen for three weeks, ending longest shutdown; no money for his border wallquote:President Trump on Friday announced a deal with congressional leaders to temporarily reopen the government while talks continue on his demand for border wall money, a move expected to bring an end to the longest shutdown in U.S. history. So in three weeks we'll be back here again.
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My Linux Rig posted:So basically nothing more will come of this? There are still ongoing investigations in the SDNY and others. Financial crimes were outside Mueller's scope, so lots more might come of this.
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Flesh Forge posted:"lots more will come of this" I'm trying not to be overly optimistic. The investigation into the inauguration could produce several indictments all by itself. ETA: The Atlantic has a good summary of the remaining investigations. Deteriorata fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Mar 23, 2019 |
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Flesh Forge posted:I'm not exactly defending Mueller here but "Mueller did not find the Trump campaign conspired with Russia, attorney general says" yes it is no great surprise that the AG that Trump hand picked for this express purpose is doing the thing he was hand picked for. And the two things he says Trump didn't conspire about weren't things anyone had thought Trump had done in the first place.
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sexpig by night posted:if you think it should be illegal just for a journalist to merely interact with someone doing something illegal then congrats on gutting actual investigative journalism I guess. Whether or not it should be illegal is a completely separate issue. What he did is, in fact, currently illegal. An important part of social activism is willingly accepting the consequences of your acts. The whole point of deliberately breaking unjust laws is to force their enforcement and provoke public backlash. Unfortunately, nobody is going to shed a single tear for Julian Assange's pasty rear end.
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Grouchio posted:What does Pelosi have to gain from trying to prevent impeachment anyway? More clout? She doesn't want impeachment as a political spectacle. She wants impeachment as removing Trump from office, and we're not there yet. She has to dial up the pressure until the Senate Republicans crack. Then it's viable.
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MadDogMike posted:My only objection to Pelosi is she's waving impeachment right off the bat. Sure, investigate before filing the articles, that's a realistic response to have. But when you come out at the start saying "we won't impeach", all you're doing is unilaterally disarming in the face of people who won't do the same thing and makes it obvious you're only worried about realpolitik over blatant violation of the law. If she had said things like "this warrants further investigation before declaring impeachment" or even just left discussing it off the table I'd grant Pelosi was being cautious but reasonable, but when you rule out the idea at the start it's stupid politics, and says you don't care about a pretty fundamental problem with our government. You can be cunning and careful at politics and not commit right away, but if you basically declare you don't give a drat about some things you're just being a coward at best. Say what you will about the left wing part of the party, I don't have any doubts they believe in SOMETHING anyway even if it's not a carefully focus grouped triangulated opinion. Sometimes the best way to get people to agree to your position is actually leading them there rather than sitting there hoping they maybe eventually come to your perspective. quote:Asked about impeachment during a Tuesday interview for the Time 100 Summit in New York, Pelosi said that “if the . . . fact-finding takes us there, we have no choice. But we’re not there yet.”
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FronzelNeekburm posted:Investigating Trump is part of a movement toward impeachment. We don't have to impeach literally this very instant, but Democratic leaders shouldn't be shouting, "We don't want to impeach!" from the rooftops now, before we even have all the facts. That's why people are mad at Pelosi. She could've said something neutral, but she has consistently said we shouldn't impeach (at this moment, without the evidence, before we investigate, etc.). Why take that weapon off the table? Because Brazil took a far-right turn, but America won't? Pelosi has consistently said that we should go where the facts lead us, not get out ahead of them. That's a reasonable position. No one has ever said that impeachment is out under any circumstances. Pay attention to what she actually says, not what some blog post tells you she says. The other problem is that hearings and such take time. The next election may come before an impeachment vote. It's all pointless unless the Senate Republicans will vote to convict, anyway. The Democrats have no power over Republicans and can't "punish" them in any way. Only the voters can. The goal is getting Trump out of office ASAP and it may mean letting the voters take care of him. All the Democrats can do is get all the facts into the Congressional Record and the newspapers. If people reelect Trump anyway, that's a much bigger problem.
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John Bolton fired by President Trump today
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Shbobdb posted:Did I stutter? No way Pelosi pulls through on actual impeachment. There will be an investigation but she won't pull the trigger. The senate is a done deal but it's not a fun toxx unless there is SOME small element of risk. Trump says House has the votes to impeach him Congratulations, you're dumber than Donald Trump.
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Trump’s ex-Russia adviser told impeachment investigators of Giuliani’s efforts in Ukrainequote:Fiona Hill, the White House’s former top Russia adviser, told impeachment investigators on Monday that Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, ran a shadow foreign policy in Ukraine that circumvented U.S. officials and career diplomats in order to personally benefit President Trump, according to a person familiar with her testimony.
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Never-Before-Seen Trump Tax Documents Show Major Inconsistenciesquote:Documents obtained by ProPublica show stark differences in how Donald Trump’s businesses reported some expenses, profits and occupancy figures for two Manhattan buildings, giving a lender different figures than they provided to New York City tax authorities. The discrepancies made the buildings appear more profitable to the lender — and less profitable to the officials who set the buildings’ property tax.
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