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RAZD Member (Idle past 1425 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Stephen Miller is also very argumentative, assertive, and verbally aggressive ... Apparently, after the interview the exchanges continued, Miller was asked to leave the set, refused, and was eventually escorted off by security. ... A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.― Winston S. Churchill Enjoyby our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1425 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Your summary is inaccurate. Perhaps your sources are incomplete. Two people originally said they did not recall the statement, one of whom now says that the statement was not made at all. Beyond that, we have one person refusing to comment, and two Senators (one Republican and one Democrat) who have confirmed that the reports of Trump making the statement are accurate. Plus we now have him bragging about it:
quote: Which indeed it has, plus it achieved the goal of distraction from the Russian probes. Enjoy Edited by RAZD, : .by our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1425 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
If you ask me it is all potato patato nitpicking over specific word use while ignoring the elephant in the room.
Whatever he said, the damage is done and America has fewer friends in the world. He has done more to ruin foreign relations than 8 years of schrubbia. Another win? by our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1425 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
How does he stack up to other golf players?
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1425 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1425 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined:
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quote: Expect the Democrat memo to be leaked now that this information is declassified. That must be a different Steele dossier than the one commissioned by Republicans on primary candidate Trump ... Sigh. Edited by RAZD, : ... Edited by RAZD, : ...by our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1425 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
So aside from the fact the dossier originated with republican backing/funding, aside from the fact that there is a second memo that Mueller is reviewing that covers the same material, AND given that Page is in the process of plea bargaining with Mueller ...
There is nothing there.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1425 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined:
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Here's more on the memo and what it means:
quote: And now we have Nunes and other republicans colluding and lying to obstruct justice. Enjoyby our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1425 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
I think my avatar needs updating... It's running a little slow. The doomsday clock is not set at 2 minutes to midnight.
You guys who couldn't stomach voting for Hilary. Feel better now? No. The fact remains that Hillary lost the campaign by failing in several key states, and I could have voted for Pat Paulson and it would not have changed that. Any person who voted not-Hillary in a state that Hillary won did not contribute to her loss. Because the electoral college is not popular vote reflecting mechanism as long as the states have winner take all rules. Stop blaming innocent people for her loss.
Is this really what Republicans believe is a good strategy? I understand that Trump's base has different priorities and ways of looking at the world than I do. But does anyone really believe this is a great idea? If so then I suspect I will never understand how folks think. Considering that many are woefully under educated and gullible to shysters (political and religious), and likely have no clue about the destructive effect of nuclear bombs, both immediate and long term, and being xenophobic the likely just don't care. Beware the power of united stupidity ... Enjoyby our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1425 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined:
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Yeah, I know. I acknowledged that point sometime in the past. Heck, you could have voted for Trump in your state without making a difference. I could have done that too. The problem is not just that the electoral college is predominantly winner take all (two states have proportional representation), but that our current voting system entrenches a two party system. Instant runoff voting would better reflect peoples real preferences ... ie -- between Clinton, Stein, Johnson and Trump for example Clinton vs Stein → SteinClinton vs Johnson → Clinton Clinton vs Trump → Clinton Stein vs Johnson → Stein Stein vs Trump → Stein Johnson vs Trump → Johnson So Stein +3, Clinton +2, Johnson +1, and Trump 0 Take these votes to the electoral college and present each state total there, then total all the votes to determine the winner. This process should be mandatory for primaries imho. [/soapbox] Enjoyby our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1425 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
It's important to say this now because 2018 is an off-year election, so only House and Senate (23 Democrats, 2 independents who caucus with Democrats, and 8 Republicans) members are up for election. Even if your non-Republican representative or senator won in 2016 with 98% of the vote, or even if the non-Republican candidate lost with only 2% of the vote, get out there and vote. It is that important, and we can't take any chances. What is important to me is to promote progressives in primaries and democrats in the general election, because the country is not run by just the president. We have to live with what is and stop blaming people that you want to vote in November. Hillary lost. Get over it. There are a couple of candidates I would love to see win:
Beto O’Rourke in Texas v Ted Cruz
Andrew Janz in California v Devin Nunes Either Randy Bryce or Cathy Meyers (preferred, but whoever wins primary) v Paul Ryan and many others. So I am voting with my campaign donations: I give directly to candidates, because I don't trust the DNC to spend campaign funds where I want them spent, especially in primaries. If we get the DINOs out in the primaries then we can win with progressive issues like $15/hr min wage, equal rights amendment, medicare for all, family leave, etc etc etc In addition I support Working Families Party and Democratic Socialists of America [abe]Here's another one: DINO Dan vs Progressive Marie Newman And another group to watch:
Brand New Congress - candidates There's a lot of overlap ... Enjoy Edited by RAZD, : . Edited by RAZD, : .. Edited by RAZD, : ...by our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1425 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
The saga of the obstructionist #Mehmo continues
quote: As noted above, the intelligence agencies often used biased material, but they vet it, such as by using testimony from Papadopoulus, to justify the wire tap. Then each renewal for another 90 days needs to show positive results, not just the old evidence. One blatant attempt to obstruct justice.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1425 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Beto O’Rourke is pretty impressive in person. Now, I would vote for Jabba the Hutt over Ted Cruz, but at least I feel pretty positive about Beto. Good guy, I think. Indeed, I have followed him for some time on facebook, and it seems that every day he is out traveling the district and talking to the people. That alone qualifies him imho compared to Cruisin Cruz His numbers are rising as he introduces himself to more people, and his fundraising is outstripping corporatist Cruz Enjoyby our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1425 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
The memo has turned out to be next to nothing. I find the entire episode amusing. ... Indeed, that was my opinion from the start.
... Perhaps the Democrats should have taken a different approach prior to the release of the memo because at this point, the biggest partisan questions surround their objections to the release. Well the DNC had to get their take on it into the record. I think they should simply have said that the memo was doctored to present a false impression that would only serve a partisan sycophantic purpose, and that if release that it would make the rebuttal memo declasified as well.
Meanwhile, the GOP issue with declassifying material for such minimal political gain seems a substantial issue. Indeed, and many republicans are crying foul as well. Meanwhile Mueller is sitting in the center of the spider web taking every tingle and twinge. It keeps adding up to obstruction of justice (remember Dean and Nixon) and cover up, and the list of individuals taking plea bargain deals grows ... now including Carter Paige ... adding to the evidence of corruption and treason. Enjoyby our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1425 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Yeah, worse than Watergate, obviously. But not for the reasons the right wing echo chamber likes to pretend. obstruction of justice got Dean and Nixon Article II: Section 4. The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors And treason is defined in Article III: Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. Does failure to impose sanctions on Russia, after they were overwhelmingly approved by bipartisan supermajority, NOT constitute giving aid and comfort to Russia, a known enemy? Mueller spins his web, Trump tweets obliviously ... Enjoyby our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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