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She needs to reply to the actual messages that she's claiming to be replying to.When she throws in unrelated stuff like that, who the hell is ever supposed to figure out what the fuck she's talking about.She needs to reply to the actual messages that she's claiming to be replying to.

Old vaudeville routine: Man is next to the street lamp searching the ground for something. He responds to a passer-by's question that he lost his watch and is trying to find it. Where did he lose it? Half way down the block. Why is he searching here instead of there? The light is better here.Those events happened during the Obama administration (20 Jan 2009 — 20 Jan 2017), especially in his first term. That was not during this past year, so who could ever expect it to show up on right wing radio as recent news? The article that RAZD cited and quoted from was published in July 2012 and updated in September 2012, seven years ago!Unlike you, I was paying attention back then. I do remember those images of the Obamas being depicted as chimps and of that effigy lynching, though I'm a bit hazy about the targets drawn on Democrats. The anonymity of the offenders emboldening them was the article's point (my emphasis added):

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But that’s not the case with the growing barrage of racist assaults on Obama, and other minorities on social media sites. Baylor University researchers, for instance, recently tracked more than 20 Facebook page groups and users and found them jam-packed with racist venom aimed at Obama, blacks and other minorities. The growing number of groups that churn hate on social media sites are secure in the knowledge that they won’t be caught or called out on it.

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Until recently, our fears of encroaching theocracy came from fundamentalists and Christian Reconstructionists (a movement declared dead, but not before its seeds had already spread), but now it appears that the danger comes from conservative Catholics.William Barr is a conservative Catholic as is Mike Pompeo. We get the same theocratic rhetoric from both of them. Brett Kavanaugh is also Catholic with a Catholic education (Jesuit prep school) and shows signs of supporting conservative Catholic ideas.Just enjoying the irony that Faith is so strongly supportive of conservative Catholic agendas.

As noted by PaulK in his response to this your message, that book was ghostwritten for Trump, though it was based on Trump's liies about his business failures, not unlike Trump (albeit through his father no doubt) having his doctor liie about bone spurs or having his accountant sign tax documents that had been filled by somebody else. And as you point out, marc9000's "point" has nothing to do with your point about Trump being crude and uncivil.On the matter of Trump's negotiation skills, he is truly a Legend in His Own Mind. Most all his business negotiations were with subcontractors who wanted to do business with him, so Trump automatically had the upper hand. As we have seen during his administration, when up against an equal opponent Trump just folds completely and gives everything away from free. He gave Kim Jung Un everything he wanted and got nothing in return. He just gave Northern Syria away to Turkish President Erdogan after one phone call and then sent his top negotiating team (Pence and Pompeo) to Turkey out of which Turkey proudly proclaimed that they got everything they wanted. Trump threatened devastating economic sanctions against Turkey for their ethnic cleansing, and then immediately lifted all those sanctions. They got everything and we (Trump) go nothing. That is the clear sign of the level and extent of Trump's skill in negotiation, in his actual "Art of the Deal".But for me the pice de resistance of Trump's expertise in deal-making was when Shumer and Pelosi had agreed to funding for his Wall and, deal already made, Trump seized defeat from the Jaws of Victory and rejected that funding and started that over-a-month-long government shutdown which he personally owned (from the start at least, but then tried to blame everybody else for). Like they say, "You can't make this stuff up, folks!" To borrow Mel Brooks' recurring line in To Be or Not To Be (1983) about the Bronskis being "world famous, in Poland", Trump was world famous in New York City -- BTW, Mel Brooks' remake of the 1942 Ernst Lubitsch film with Jack Benny was one of his most brilliant and underappreciated works.Everybody who grew up in New York City grew up knowing about Trump and what a crook he was, which is evidenced by how few votes he got from there. The rest of the country only knew Trump from his game show, The Apprentice (which needed to build a fake boardroom since Trump's actual offices were rather threadbare -- on Netflix see the Trump episode of Dirty Money which also starts to get into his ties with Russian oligarchs).The pro-Trump rubes in the rest of the country only ever saw "The Apprentice" and never had the benefit of the knowledge bitterly acquired by those in the New York City area, the ones who knew Trump the best. His long record of not paying his bills is all too well known. He would routinely refuse to pay his subcontractors in which case they would sue in which case Trump would employ his army of lawyers (just like he's doing now to block and delay the release of his financials). How many hundreds of thousands of dollars are you willing to spend in legal fees spread out over decades of litigation for a few tens of thousands of dollars that you need right now to keep your business alive? Of course, most if not all of his subcontractors would settle for pennies on the dollar and Trump could get away with it yet again.What you point out is yet another instance of Trump not paying his bills. Unfortunately, it's not quite that simple and direct. It's a bit more complicated in the details, but shouldn't be in principle (which is what is appealing to you and which is what really should count). Legally, the security of a president's political events are the responsibility of the Secret Service. In those rallies, the extra security measures required from local law enforcement are the responsibility of the Secret Service and must be paid by the Secret Service, whose funding comes from Congress (albeit managed by whichever civil servents). But Congress sets each agency's annual budget ... er ... annually, such that any possible future Therefore technically all those unpaid bills are the responsibility of the Secret Service, but at the same time all these unexpected extra expense could not have been planned for and could not have been accounted for and covered in this year's projected expenses.I am also assuming that financial responsibilities are different for an incumbent versus another candidate. In which case a non-incumbent candidate's campaign would automatically need to pony up for the expense of all additional security measures, something that an incumbent would not need to do.So, technically and legalistically the Trump Campaign should be not be liable for additional expenses incurred by local law enforcement for its purely political events. Yet those expenses must eventually be paid for lest local services suffer soley because of a federal-level event completely outside of their control.The next question would be to look to history. Trump is not the only president to ever seek reelection. Nor would he have ever been the only incumbent president seeking reelection to have ever held any political rally or some such event that would have required local support for security.The question is how those past campaigns had handled the matter. I suspect that the others had acted far more honorably and responsibly than Trump, but conclusions require more research.

I concur. She needs no extra help.

Except that they deal in facts whereas you only deal in ID10Cy.

So what does any of that have to do with anything?Trump was elected, not Hillary. What, you want to impeach Hillary? If that is the case, then you truly have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.What did Russia do to support Trump? What impeachable acts has Trump committed? That is the issue! Far more importantly, what is Russia doing right now to reelect Trump?Your efforts to use accusations against Hillary in order to divert our attention away from the very real crimes that Trump has been committing is very telling. All the accusations against Hillary Clinton, Al Capone, John Wilkes Booth, Benedict Arnold, Guy Fawkes, Judas Iscariot, or anybody else have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the case being made against what Donald Trump has done.Each and every case must be made and judged on its own. And every one of your attempts to divert our attention away from the Trump case with "but what about ... " just exposes the total lack of defense for Trump.

Also remember that Manafort was working as an unregistered foreign agent, so could we call him a secret foreign agent? Or am I confusing him with Mike Flynn?No, Mike Flynn was also secretly acting as a foreign agent (ie, unregistered). Wow, two foreign agents working secretly within the Trump campaign and administration. What a coincidence! (refer to Nance's Law)And now we have learned that Rudy Giuliani, who has Trump's ear and works to implement Trump's "shadow diplomacy", AKA "drug deal" (as per Michael Bolton's comment which also identifies Giuliani as a "hand grenade"), is himself working as an unregistered (ie, "secret") foreign agent, lobbying Trump directly on behalf of Turkey and of Dmytro Firtash. As everyone outside of the Fake News Network and right wingnut radio should know, Firtash is a most highly corrupt Ukrainian businessman with ties to the Russian mob and who had to flee the Ukraine and currently resides in Vienna fighting extradition with an army of lawyers, including a husband-and-wife lawyer team on the Fake News Network. Working for Firtash is Lev Parnas (born Ukrainian, naturalized US citizen) who also works as Giuliani's "assistant" (though he paid Giuliani $500,000 for that position). Lev has been a fixture in the Trump-sphere for a few years frequently showing up in photos with Trump (though Trump denies ever having met him, of course ( ), but in doing so he has angered Lev who's been known to put a gun to the head of those who cross him). Lev Parnas also funneled Russian mob money into a Trump PAC, America First (cue photo of Lev, Rudy, Don Jr, and the head of the PAC having lunch together) -- after that was revealed, the PAC tried to return the money or give it to charity, anything to reject it. Lev and cohort Igor Fruman were also closely involved in the unfolding Trump-Ukraine Scandal, including the smear campaign to remove career diplomat and former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch since she and other career diplomats would have put a stop to the "drug deal" (again, Bolton's name for it) they were putting together. Lev and Igor were arrested trying to flee the country to Vienna (remember Firtash?) shortly after having consulted with Giuliani.Rudy Giuliani, Lev Parnas, and Igor Fruman have all been acting as foreign agents without having registered as such, which brings up the secret foreign agent count in Trump-sphere up to at least five. Wow, what a coincidence! (again, refer to Nance's Law)

Oh, the truth is indeed coming out, day after day after day. Haven't you been reading the transcripts?The public hearings start next week, so the public will hear the truth for themselves.

What the fuck are you talking about?The summary of Trump's phone call (there is no actual transcript, unlike the actual transcripts from the congressional testimonies) has Trump admitting that he requested something of value (ie, dirt on Biden) from a foreign power; that alone details violation of federal law and amounts to a personal confession of guilt). That neither supports nor exonerates Trump.The transcripts of the testimonies of Marie Yovanovitch, Fiona Hill, George Kent, Michael McKinley, William Taylor, Laura Cooper, Philip Reeker, LtCol Alexander S. Vindman, Tim Morrison, and Gordon D. Sondland all expose Trump's additional malfeasance of bribery/extortion in his scheme of trading military aid for actions intended to benefit himself personally and politically. They attest to an extended campaign over a period of months of pressuring the Ukrainian government and all attest to the additional issue of Trump imposing a quid pro quo condition of releasing congressionally mandated military aid to the Ukraine in exchange for actions intended to aid Trump politically.Just how the fuck is that supposed to be supporting Trump?

OK fine.You love Russia and you hate America.You love dictators and you hate the Constitution of the United States of America.You love liies and you hate truth.You love corruption and you hate honesty.You love crime and criminals and you hate justice.You love evil and you hate good.Well, the truth is coming out and your evil side is going to lose.And if your god is in favor of all the evil that you love, then fuck your evil god.Edited by dwise1, : you love crime and criminals
your evil god

You never did comment on the Lev and Igor Show. What is the Fake News Network telling you about them? Or about the Ukraine "drug deal" (as Michael Bolton calls it)?

And you still have not said a single thing about what your Fake News Network has said about the Lev and Igor Show.If you had any evidence on your side, you would be able to present it. Since you have no evidence on your side, all you can do it duck and dodge and obfuscate.It's like Trump's frustration with the GOP. About a week ago he chastised them for only complaining about the process and not trying to defend him on the substance of the evidence. Well, there is no way to defend him on the substance of the evidence. In fact, a basic rule among prosecutors is that when the defense can only rail against the process, then that means that the defense has no actual defense. Trump's position is quite literally indefensible.It is also very difficult for the Republicans to try to defend Trump using Trump's talking points, because those change very rapidly. There is no coherent defense coming out of the White House because that changes according to Trump's whims.Along those lines, I do kind of like a summary of Lindsey Graham's latest line of Trump defense. There is no coherent defense coming out of the White House because it is so terminally disorganized and chaotic as to render that impossible. How could something as totally disorganized ever come up with an international scheme? So basically, Lindsey Graham is saying that Trump is incredibly incompetent, which is true. If Trump is so mentally incompetent as to not know that what he is doing is wrong, then shouldn't the 25th Amendment be invoked? 
And, yes, you do indeed align yourself diametrically opposed to all that is good. That is what you do unapologetically. Get used to it as long as you remain on the Dark Side (which is Satan's side).

A lot of news services carried Wednesday's open testimonies live, all of it (albeit cutting back to the studio during recesses). A guest today on the Dean Obeidallah Show (Sirius XM) talked about switching over to FOX News for their coverage. He reports that they were showing a video of a baby beluga whale while asking whether that baby beluga was a Russian spy. His report was that while FOX News did carry the opening statements, they selectively cut away during the actual testimony.Edited by dwise1, : replaced "covered" with "carried", a much more accurate choice of words

And just whom would you consider to be primary-source witnesses? The closest would be the ones directly involved, like Pompeo, Mulvaney, etc, right?So why don't they show up and testify? They have been requested as witnesses and have received subpoenas, so why don't they show up and testify?The reason is because the White House has ordered them to ignore the subpoenas and to not testify.So if they are supposed to be the ones with information to exonerate Trump, why is Trump ordering them to not testify?The reason is because their testimony would not exonerate Trump, but rather would condemn him. Otherwise, why else would Trump be so desperate to cover everything up?