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Republicans Urge Embattled Incumbents to Speak Out on Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/us/p ... ctionfront

"Only hours after the decisions on Mr. Cohen and Mr. Manafort, Representative Duncan D. Hunter of California was indicted on a charge of using campaign money to fund a lavish lifestyle, including the alleged purchase of golf shorts masked as a charitable veterans contribution.

Those charges came only weeks after Representative Chris Collins of New York was arrested on charges of insider trading, something that has also tarnished a handful of his colleagues, including Representative John Culberson, an endangered Texas Republican. Mr. Collins and Mr. Hunter were Mr. Trump’s two earliest congressional supporters."

In Virginia, Representative Scott Taylor is accused of forging signatures to get an independent on the ballot this fall to help save his seat. And in Florida, Representative Vern Buchanan is accused of accepting a seven-figure yacht loan from a bank lobbying for last year’s tax cut, then purchasing the 73-foot vessel on the same day he voted for the measure he helped write.

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I'm surprised Howie didn't rush to boast that National Enquirer publisher and long time Trumpaholic ally David Pecker appears to be turning against Mr. Trump via the Mueller probe. Perhaps I'm the only one who thought once the President got the news about Pecker, he had a....stroke. :) okay, resume partisan bickering.

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Following the money
Closing in on Trump

"Allen Weisselberg, Top Trump Organization Official, Was Granted Immunity for Testimony
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/us/p ... e=Homepage

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan struck a deal earlier this summer with Allen Weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, granting him immunity for his grand jury testimony about Michael D. Cohen, a person briefed on the arrangement said Friday.

News of Mr. Weisselberg’s testimony came days after Mr. Cohen said Mr. Trump had directed him to commit campaign finance crimes and one day after another Trump loyalist, the tabloid executive David Pecker, was revealed to have agreed to help prosecutors in their case.

The person briefed on the deal said that it was narrow in scope, protecting Mr. Weisselberg from self-incrimination in sharing information with prosecutors about Mr. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer, who pleaded guilty on Tuesday to tax and campaign finance charges. The latter charges stemmed from payments during the campaign to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump. It was not, the person said, a blanket immunity extending beyond the information he shared, and Mr. Weisselberg remains in his job at the Trump Organization.

Mr. Weisselberg figured into the charges filed against Mr. Cohen this week, having facilitated the processing of what prosecutors described as “sham invoices” at the Trump Organization, through which Mr. Cohen was reimbursed for the money he had paid to quiet one of the women alleging an affair with Mr. Trump, the pornographic film actress Stephanie Clifford."

According to court documents, starting in January 2017, Mr. Weisselberg directed the processing of monthly payments to Mr. Cohen, which totaled $420,000 and were at least partly drawn from a Trump trust.

Mr. Weisselberg did not respond to a request for comment. His deal with prosecutors was first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Friday. The New York Times and others reported last month that Mr. Weisselberg had been called to testify, and the immunity deal was tied to the testimony."

Trump has not been sleeping well lately.
Once his tax returns are made public it is going to be interesting reading.

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Yawn, SSDD. Howie you know smoking crack is illegal right? The witch hunt continues (hint, it's not what you think). I'm pretty sure Trump is sleeping just fine, and his tax returns are never going to be made public.

The Dems are showing their true colors (not red, white and blue). Here's a news flash for you: There won't be a 'Blue Wave' this November. I see the Republicans holding onto the House and Senate, and Brett Kavanaugh being confirmed to the Supreme Court.

There isn't a serious legitimate Democratic challenger for the 2020 presidential race, so guess who's getting re-elected? Hint, it ain't HRC!

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Actually Rogue, Trump's tax returns might see the light of day in the Trump Foundation civil suit that's scheduled to start next month if he doesn't settle. Plus, Mueller likely already has his tax returns, as in the IRS's copies. Problem is there are no leaks in the SS Mueller, so everything out there is speculation. On the subject of speculation it's far too early about the next DNC presidential candidate. The Dems are focused on 2018 at the moment. I also wouldn't guarantee Trump'll get re-elected this far in advance. He might resign before his term is up if things get too hot for him. Many of us that lived thru Nixon's behavior prior to his resignation have a "deja vu all over again" feeling with the orange "Lyin' King". As far as a wave, unless you have a flux capacitor equipped Delorean, it's guessing there too. Though between years of gerrymandering and voter suppression tactics, I think it's safe to suggest any wave will probably be smaller than predicted by either side. we'll simply have to wait to find out.

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Knocking off republican scumbags one by one.

Joe Arpaio Could’ve Ridden Into the Sunset. Instead He’s Taking a Pummeling in Arizona.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/us/a ... e=Homepage

"FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz. — Joe Arpaio grimaced as he called himself “stupid” for being pranked by Sacha Baron Cohen. He thundered against the polls showing him in last place among Republicans in Tuesday’s Senate primary in Arizona. The sheriff of yore in this part of the West even reserved some harsh words for Fox News.

“They seem to have forgotten me,” Mr. Arpaio said as he gazed at all the portraits of President Trump hanging on the walls of his suburban strip-mall office outside Phoenix.

There was a time not long ago when many in Arizona thought Mr. Arpaio, an immigration hard-liner who began his law enforcement career in 1954, would remain sheriff of Maricopa County for the rest of his life. Now the 86-year-old is waging one of his final battles, against irrelevance."

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Scumbag republicans are not limited to just the male gender!

Palin not invited to McCain's funeral: report

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... li=BBnbfcL

"NBC News reported Wednesday that Palin had not been invited. A source within the Palin family told NBC News that "out of respect to Senator McCain and his family we have nothing to add at this point."

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AZhitman wrote:
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Since when are you (or any lefty) concerned about family values? Let's not forget which party is pushing pedophilia as "normal."
Can someone walk me through this one...
I would love to hear more about this.
Rogue One wrote:
Sat Aug 25, 2018 7:24 am
The witch hunt continues (hint, it's not what you think)...
We spent more time investigating Benghazi than 9-11.
We spent more money investigating Benghazi than 9-11.
We have 2 GOP members saying that Benghazi was designed to "hurt Hilary". The Benghazi investigation conclusions were that no one is at fault and procedure changes so the same mistakes won't be made in the future.

The Russia probe...
5 people either pleaded guilty or have been found guilty (4 apart of Trump's campaign, and 3 of those were the leads on Trump's campaign)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_C ... of_charges

Bro wtf? I don't understand how anyone can see this as a witch hunt.
If this is a witch hunt then there is no longer any justifications for having any investigations ever.

Maybe I am missing something Rogue, can you explain what you mean?

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RCA wrote:
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Rogue One wrote:
Sat Aug 25, 2018 7:24 am
The witch hunt continues (hint, it's not what you think)...
The Russia probe...
5 people either pleaded guilty or have been found guilty (4 apart of Trump's campaign, and 3 of those were the leads on Trump's campaign)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_C ... of_charges

Bro wtf? I don't understand how anyone can see this as a witch hunt.
If this is a witch hunt then there is no longer any justifications for having any investigations ever.

Maybe I am missing something Rogue, can you explain what you mean?
And what have they been found guilty of? Explain to me what do these charges have to do with Trump and colluding with Russia, or the Russians interference with the 2016 presidential election?

Paul Manafort was found guilty on 8 counts of fraud, all of which were committed during his time working for Hillary Clinton's campaign manager's company The Podesta Group. This has NOTHING to do with Trump and Russia.

George Papadopoulos pled guilty to a single charge of making a false statement to the FBI. He was NOT charged with so-called "collusion" because no such crime exists in American statutory law, except in antitrust matters. It has no application to elections and political campaigns.

At this rate the Muller team will start looking for people connected to Trump with unpaid parking tickets.

This may come as a shock, but there's nothing saying that people can't talk to the Russians. I know there are those that are chomping at the bit to try Trump for treason, but we're not at war or "enemies" with Russia. Treason is not defined by the gravity of the offense; it’s a crime indicating the clear support our enemies during wartime, period.

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Rogue One wrote:
Fri Aug 31, 2018 7:13 am

This may come as a shock, but there's nothing saying that people can't talk to the Russians.
As usual you have no idea what you are talking about.

Go back and watch Fox and keep your head up your butt

http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req= ... on:prelim)

§30121. Contributions and donations by foreign nationals
(a) Prohibition

It shall be unlawful for-

(1) a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make-

(A) a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election;

(B) a contribution or donation to a committee of a political party; or

(C) an expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication (within the meaning of section 30104(f)(3) of this title); or

(2) a person to solicit, accept, or receive a contribution or donation described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) from a foreign national.

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As usual you have no idea what you are talking about.
Pot calling the kettle black. Howie, 99% of the crap you spout shows you don't know what you're talking about. Quit drinking the Kool-Aid and start thinking for yourself. You've strayed away from the rest of the sheep.

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ca18det_boy wrote:
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As usual you have no idea what you are talking about.
Pot calling the kettle black. Howie, 99% of the crap you spout shows you don't know what you're talking about. Quit drinking the Kool-Aid and start thinking for yourself. You've strayed away from the rest of the sheep.
Oh my

Another one with their head up their butt

In guilty plea, American political consultant agreed he steered an illegal foreign donation to Trump’s inauguration

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pu ... nal&wpmk=1


"August 31 at 2:02 PM

A Washington consultant who advised a Ukrainian political party and worked with a co-defendant of Paul Manafort pleaded guilty Friday to failing to register as a foreign lobbyist while working on behalf of a Ukrainian political party.

W. Samuel Patten, 47, was charged with one count of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act for failing to register with the Justice Department when he represented a Ukrainian political party known as the Opposition Bloc from 2014 through this year.

Patten pleaded to the count before Judge Amy Berman Jackson in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia."

“I would like to plead guilty,” Patten told Jackson during a hearing."

Are you still going to support Trump when he finally goes to jail?

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haha great reply Howie. Nice to see the originality coming out of you. So your lame insults are just as regurgitated as your anti-trump/anti-republican sources? Do the world a favor....go to home depot and buy some concrete and some cinder blocks. Once you get home, start building a bridge. Once the bridge is complete, get over it.....

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RCA wrote:
Thu Aug 30, 2018 11:17 pm
Rogue One wrote:
Sat Aug 25, 2018 7:24 am
The witch hunt continues (hint, it's not what you think).
Maybe I am missing something Rogue, can you explain what you mean (by witch hunt)?
Rogue One wrote:
Fri Aug 31, 2018 7:13 am
And what have they been found guilty of? Explain to me what do these charges have to do with Trump and colluding with Russia, or the Russians interference with the 2016 presidential election?

Paul Manafort was found guilty on 8 counts of fraud, all of which were committed during his time working for Hillary Clinton's campaign manager's company The Podesta Group. This has NOTHING to do with Trump and Russia.

George Papadopoulos pled guilty to a single charge of making a false statement to the FBI. He was NOT charged with so-called "collusion" because no such crime exists in American statutory law, except in antitrust matters. It has no application to elections and political campaigns.

At this rate the Muller team will start looking for people connected to Trump with unpaid parking tickets.

This may come as a shock, but there's nothing saying that people can't talk to the Russians. I know there are those that are chomping at the bit to try Trump for treason, but we're not at war or "enemies" with Russia. Treason is not defined by the gravity of the offense; it’s a crime indicating the clear support our enemies during wartime, period.
While it's true that George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to only lying to the FBI.
BUT it's important to know what he lied to the FBI ABOUT...
This will be only a part of the puzzle.

So far Manafort has two sets of charges...

Charges x18 A) he has been found guilty of some things in 2014. Those charges are from his misdeeds with a Ukrainian politician with ties to Russia. Other charges were declared mistrials, "with one juror stating there had been a single holdout on those charges". Mistrial doesn't mean not guilty.
So he was 1 person away from being found guilty of all 18 counts.

Charges x7 B) are much more relevant to the Russia election probe. His court date is set for September. We will find out more. These things take time.

Manafort hired the Podesta Group for his Ukrainian client. Manafort did not work for them. Manafort didn't disclose he was a Foreign agent. If the Podesta Group broke the law by not disclosing enough info etc, lock them up to.

Muller is draining the swamp!

Bonus: Those 2nd set of Manafort charges that are more relevant to Russia election probe, Rick Gates has already pleaded guilty to. Gates is a longtime business associate of Paul Manafort and served as deputy to Manafort when the latter was campaign manager of the Donald Trump presidential campaign in 2016.

These charges are pretty fracking relevant to the Russia election probe.

IDK Rogue your talking points scream of Hanity, Breitbart, Info Wars, and co. These people are not honestly portraying information to their viewers. They are literally friends of Trump. It's like asking your mom who the most handsome man is.

Check out https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/center/
Choose some of those sources. Also search the sources you already follow and check where they are.
I would avoid "Conspiracy-Pseudoscience", "Questionable Sources", "Satire" and stay as close to the middle as possible.
Also many of these neutral sites will have opinion pages/blogs, I would take these with a grain of salt because they represent the author and not the paper as a whole. So a neutral paper may have a confederate flag waving or a SJW author writing about their feelings in the opinion page.
ca18det_boy wrote:
Fri Aug 31, 2018 9:44 am
You've strayed away from the rest of the sheep.
New ABC/WaPo poll is out.
Stats site 538 ranks them as A+ when it comes to polling.
https://www.langerresearch.com/wp-conte ... gation.pdf

At what point do you look around and realize the rest of the planet turned away and you have become the odd man out?

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Our scumbag commander in chief

Not invited to the funeral of an American War Hero


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/us/p ... e=Homepage


"But that was Mr. McCain’s point in choosing Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama — that politics should be a vigorous competition but not a blood sport, that politicians can disagree and debate and criticize without letting the contest obscure their shared commitment to American ideals — and that when the voting is done, reaching across the aisle to work with people of different ideologies is a strength, not a weakness.
Mr. McCain came to respect both Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama, and vice versa, despite their disputes over major issues — unlike the senator’s feelings about the current president, Donald J. Trump, who was pointedly not invited. Many in the cathedral and beyond will watch how Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama use the moment not just to pay tribute to their mutual vanquished opponent but to send a message of their own to the man who now occupies the white building on Pennsylvania Avenue where they once lived."

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RCA wrote:
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New ABC/WaPo poll is out.
Stats site 538 ranks them as A+ when it comes to polling.
https://www.langerresearch.com/wp-conte ... gation.pdf

At what point do you look around and realize the rest of the planet turned away and you have become the odd man out?
You almost sounded credible until you got to this. Remind me again who it was the ABC/WaPo polls said would win the 2016 presidential election? Not having learned their lesson from that, they're serving the same Kool-Aid for the midterms.

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At what point do you look around and realize you're being played? They totally botched 2016. It looks like they'll have egg on their faces in 2018. And guess who they won't pick for winner in 2020?

Take what you get from the MSM (left and right) with a large grain of salt.


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Rogue One wrote:
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You almost sounded credible until you got to this. Remind me again who it was the ABC/WaPo polls said would win the 2016 presidential election? Not having learned their lesson from that, they're serving the same Kool-Aid for the midterms.

https://i.imgur.com/dDV7McB.jpg

At what point do you look around and realize you're being played? They totally botched 2016. It looks like they'll have egg on their faces in 2018. And guess who they won't pick for winner in 2020?

Take what you get from the MSM (left and right) with a large grain of salt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI
"Remind me again who it was the ABC/WaPo polls said would win the 2016 presidential election?"
I hope I can convince you why the ABC/WaPo polls are highly regarded.

They had Hilary by 4 points.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/20 ... nal-polls/

This means if you had a 100 sided dye and rolled it on election day...
Hilary would have the first 47 sides of the dye
Trump would have the next 43 sides
Johnson would have the next 4
And all other candidates would have the last 6 sides of the dye.

Go to https://www.random.org and click generate.
Any # between 48-90 Trump wins.
First time I did it I got #67 which means Trump wins.

Everyone NEEDS to invest a few hours understanding Statistics.

ABC/Wapo's polling article states:
  • Clinton’s edge in the Post-ABC poll does not reach statistical significance given the poll’s 2.5 percentage-point margin in sampling error...
  • Her margin is also the same size as Barack Obama’s winning margin against Mitt Romney in 2012, 51 to 47 percent...
So with a margin of error at 2.5 points, although they had Hilary(H)-47 and Trump(T)-43, their polling error meant that it could have been H-49.5 and T-41.5 OR H-44.5 and T-45.5 or anything in between.
It's closer than the media made it look like.

But why would the media take this slim margin and make it look like a Hilary win?
They explain it in the article, it's because Obama dominated Romney in 2012 and he had the same margin as Hilary before the 2012 election. It's not a "MSM" conspiracy, it is previous data and patterns from history. It's how they did it for decades.

Another question you can ask is what has changed in those 4 years that would cause numbers to mean a domination in 2012 to then mean a close loss in 2016. This question is what the polling people will need to figure out because Trump flipped the field of statistical interpretation on it's head.

Bonus: The 2016 pre-election ABC/WaPo poll nailed tons of other info like the fact that white women without college degrees would strongly vote for Trump even though many people thought women wouldn't vote for Trump because the "Grab'em by the vagina" scandal. Also they nailed the popular vote tallies. The survey was very accurate.

Finally, what ever you think about ABC or Washington Post it's important to realize that different parts of companies function differently. It's like the difference between Fox News and their personalities like Glen Beck's crazy self. The polling group are statistical pros and not political pundits.

So I hope I convinced you that ABC/WaPo polls got it right, but the data was interpreted incorrectly.
If I didn't convince you, here is their polling methodology. Using this guide you can do the same exact poll and your answers should line up to the original give or take the margin of error.

For the record, 2 days before the election a Fox poll was the same as the ABC/WaPo poll:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11 ... trump.html

"Not having learned their lesson from that, 538 is serving the same Kool-Aid for the midterms."
538 is a site run by statisticians. They do poll aggregation and their influence is that they weight them.

So if a polling group has an awful track record, or uses mathematically poor polling practices they don't add them to their averages. If a group has a good record of getting it right they weight their polls higher. The Marist pre-election poll had Hilary by 1 point and 538 weighted their score in such a way that had Trump wining by 1 point. 538 rated Marist's polls highly at "A".

538 predicted who would win every state in the 2012 election AND they were the most accurate in the 2016 election. 538 got push back from other outlets because they were the only ones who didn't have Hilary in the 90%+ likelihood to win. 538 had Hilary at 71% and got hell for it on social media.

Honestly 538 is probably the most accurate out there so far and I hope I convinced you that they are legit.

::Picture of newspaper's endorsements::
"At what point do you look around and realize you're being played? They totally botched 2016. It looks like they'll have egg on their faces in 2018. And guess who they won't pick for winner in 2020?"


Just a heads up, newspaper endorsements does not equal who will win but who they want to win. Maybe that is your point.

But I agree, "they" definitely botched it up in 2016.
By "they" I mean literally everyone including Fox and Trump himself.
This isn't a media conspiracy it's just that how people predicted these numbers in the past and it didn't work this time around. The fact that everyone was wrong doesn't mean that the information was wrong, just that they interpreted it incorrectly.

If you're predicting Dems won't do well in 2018 then go out their a bet the house on red. You already missed your chance to win it all by being the only one who KNEW Trump was going to win right? So go out an bet on red. Take out a payday loan in November and become a king!

My take on November 2018 is that Ds will take seats from Rs but I don't think it will be enough.
Less of a Blue hurricane and more of a Blue tropical depression.
I would be shocked if Rs gain a larger amount of seats or stay with the same amount of seats.

:: Video of Sinclair Broadcasting Group affiliates saying the same thing::

Saw this video a while back and it disturbed me.
It seems like you agree, these were local news stations that were all run by the alt-right Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBG).

They sneak propaganda into local news and it leads to the video you see above.
Many of the journalists know what SBG are doing and pushed back on social media.
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/02/59891636 ... ame-script

For any one still reading, John Oliver did a great segment on the SBG merger. The merger has fell through but they still own tons of local news stations. Find out if your local news is a SBG affiliate and if so speak up about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s ... and_market

The 8 minute mark you can see more of the SBG nonsense.


Final Thoughts:
Rogue I hope I was able to show you that polling isn't a nation wide conspiracy and that 538 is probably the best around.
I can only wish that after my long retort I regained my credibility in your eyes. If I managed to gain back my credibility, I hope you can take a closer look at my previous post and take it more seriously.

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John Oliver ftw.

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telcoman wrote:
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This may come as a shock, but there's nothing saying that people can't talk to the Russians.
As usual you have no idea what you are talking about.

Go back and watch Fox and keep your head up your butt
Does that apply to your calendar girl, Hillary? Why aren't you calling for her to be jailed?

You couldn't debate your way out of wet toilet paper, you doddering old cretin.

Years later, it's still funny that every time someone disagrees with your senseless drivel, you blame it on a news channel... I don't even have cable, lol.

Keep screaming at the sky. My mutual funds are KILLING it after POTUS's latest deal with Mexico. That's gotta make you awfully sad in your Depends. :)

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Wonder why Brobama didn't intervene here? Maybe he was hoping some of that "Afghan culture" would make its way to our shores.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/worl ... -boys.html

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Does that apply to your calendar girl, Hillary? Why aren't you calling for her to be jailed?
No charges of wrongdoing have ever been filed.

Some Trump supporters are already in jail and he himself may end up in jail instead of Hillary

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opin ... story.html

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How can you continually defend a party that pushes for the acceptance of pedophilia and sexual deviance?
Whoa, I nearly missed this.
Can some one elaborate on this?

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Tue Sep 04, 2018 11:56 am
AZhitman wrote:
Wed Aug 08, 2018 9:44 pm
How can you continually defend a party that pushes for the acceptance of pedophilia and sexual deviance?
Whoa, I nearly missed this.
Can some one elaborate on this?
15 Celebs That Support Roman Polanski
"He’s been evading sentencing in the United States for the rape of a 13-year old-girl three decades ago."

Facebook survey asks users if they condone pedophilia
Photos Surface of ‘Guardians’ Director James Gunn at Pedophilia-Themed Party
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Cast Says It ‘Fully Supports’ James Gunn

Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is ‘Mental Disorder;' Sex Change ‘Biologically Impossible’

Democrats poised to pick transgender woman for Vermont governor

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Thank you for the response but the statement was:
AZhitman wrote:
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How can you continually defend a party that pushes for the acceptance of pedophilia and sexual deviance?
The party, not a Facebook survey, a movie's cast, and supporters of Roman Polanski.

Rogue if it's possible can you respond to my other post...

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New California law allows jail time for using wrong gender pronoun, sponsor denies that would happen
Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation on October 4, 2017 that would punish health care workers with fine, and potential jail time, if they decline to use a senior transgender patient's "preferred name or pronouns."

Female, male or non-binary: California legally recognizes a third gender on identification documents
The state of California will now legally recognize non-binary as a third gender on official state identification documents.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed SB179 on Sunday night. The bill, dubbed the Gender Recognition Act, will allow a third gender choice on driver's licenses, state identification cards, and make it easier for people to change their gender and name on state identification papers.

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The biggest scumbag in the White House, our unfit POTUS

Wow!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/o...gtype=Homepage

I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration

"I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here.President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.I would know. I am one of them.To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.

The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.
Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright.In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the “enemy of the people,” President Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic.Don’t get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more.But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims.Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently, exasperated by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only a week earlier.The erratic behavior would be more concerning if it weren’t for unsung heroes in and around the White House. Some of his aides have been cast as villains by the media. But in private, they have gone to great lengths to keep bad decisions contained to the West Wing, though they are clearly not always successful.It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t.The result is a two-track presidency.Take foreign policy: In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations.Astute observers have noted, though, that the rest of the administration is operating on another track, one where countries like Russia are called out for meddling and punished accordingly, and where allies around the world are engaged as peers rather than ridiculed as rivals.On Russia, for instance, the president was reluctant to expel so many of Mr. Putin’s spies as punishment for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. He complained for weeks about senior staff members letting him get boxed into further confrontation with Russia, and he expressed frustration that the United States continued to impose sanctions on the country for its malign behavior. But his national security team knew better — such actions had to be taken, to hold Moscow accountable.This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state.Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility.
Senator John McCain put it best in his farewell letter. All Americans should heed his words and break free of the tribalism trap, with the high aim of uniting through our shared values and love of this great nation.We may no longer have Senator McCain. But we will always have his example — a lodestar for restoring honor to public life and our national dialogue. Mr. Trump may fear such honorable men, but we should revere them.There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first. But the real difference will be made by everyday citizens rising above politics, reaching across the aisle and resolving to shed the labels in favor of a single one: Americans."

The writer is a senior official in the Trump administration.

Even his insiders have now come to the realization that he is unfit for office.

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telcoman nailed it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opin ... tance.html

Insane that this is where we are.

I suggest everyone read that.
Rogue One wrote:
Wed Sep 05, 2018 10:53 am
New California law allows jail time for using wrong gender pronoun, sponsor denies that would happen

Female, male or non-binary: California legally recognizes a third gender on identification documents

Gov. Jerry Brown signed SB179 on Sunday night. The bill, dubbed the Gender Recognition Act, will allow a third gender choice on driver's licenses, state identification cards, and make it easier for people to change their gender and name on state identification papers.
Thank you for the response Rogue, this one is definitely more relevant than the previous one.

Would you consider the the speech bill and the gender bill in the pedo category or sexual deviance category?

I think it's important to make clear, AZ claimed that democrats push for the acceptance of pedophilia and sexual deviance.
  • Paraphilia (redirected from Sexual deviance) - A condition, such as exhibitionism or masochism, in which sexual gratification is derived from activities or fantasies that are generally regarded as atypical or deviant.
  • Pedophilia - In psychiatry, an abnormal attraction to children by an adult for sexual purposes.
I am just looking for evidence that a party is pushing for fantasies that are generally regarded as atypical and the sexual attraction to children. I hope for AZ to jump in because he might be able to defend is position a bit better.

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Some more unnamed scumbags and a$$holes

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/us/p ... e=Homepage

"WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security transferred nearly $10 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a budget document released by a Democratic senator late Wednesday night, diverting funds from the relief agency just as a major hurricane barrels toward the East Coast.

The document, which was released by the office of Senator Jeff Merkley, of Oregon, shows that the money would come from FEMA’s operations and support budget and was transferred into accounts at ICE to pay for detention and removal operations. The document also shows that the Department of Homeland Security transferred money from accounts at Customs and Border Protection that pays for border fencing and technology.

Mr. Merkley, appearing Tuesday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC, said the Trump administration was taking money from FEMA’S “response and recovery” and “working hard to find funds for additional detention camps.” Mr. Merkley has been a vocal critic of the administration’s immigration policies.

The Department of Homeland Security denies that any money transferred came from FEMA’s disasters relief accounts, which pay for work related to hurricanes and other natural disasters."

Trump bragging what a great job he did in Puerto Rico where almost three thousand people died

"In an early Wednesday morning Twitter post, Mr. Trump doubled down on the agency’s performance: “We got A Pluses for our recent hurricane work in Texas and Florida (and did an unappreciated great job in Puerto Rico, even though an inaccessible island with very poor electricity and a totally incompetent Mayor of San Juan). We are ready for the big one that is coming!”

New data shows that nearly 3,000 people died as a result of the hurricane and many people continue to live without power on the island. An after-action report by FEMA released in July shows that they agency vastly underestimated how much food and fresh water it would need, and how hard it would be to get additional supplies to the island.

The report describes the initial response as chaotic and disorganized and plagued with logistical problems as the agency tried to get food and other equipment onto the island."

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NY Times couldn't tell the truth if their lives depended on it.

DHS: FEMA Funds Transferred To ICE Were Set To Expire Anyways

$10 million of Federal Emergency Management Agency funds transferred to the Immigration Customs Enforcement agency were set to expire and never could have been used for disaster relief operations, a DHS official said in a Wednesday statement.

The funding was sent from the FEMA “operational account” and represented savings from expenses for “raining, basic purchase cards, office supplies, HQ overhead support,” the DHS official said.

The official continued, “This was money that was in savings and was going to expire at the end of this fiscal year on September 30th.”

The official stressed that the funding could not be used for disaster relief operations due to appropriations rules. DHS’s pushback follows a story pushed by Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley declaring that $10 million of FEMA money was diverted to ICE for detention operations.

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Rogue One wrote:
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NY Times couldn't tell the truth if their lives depended on it.
The New York Times and The Washington Post have been at the helm of providing the truth of government coverups,lying, false information and wrongdoing for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers

"The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The papers were released by Daniel Ellsberg, who had worked on the study; they were first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of The New York Times in 1971.[1][2] A 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress".[3]"

FWIW I served in the US Army during Vietnam and heard first hand the BS and false information the US Army leadership was telling the troops.

Now we have a commander in chief that has told over 5000 lies since taking office.

In 601 days, President
Trump has made 5,001
false or misleading claims

The Fact Checker’s ongoing database of the false or misleading claims made by President Trump since assuming office.
Updated Sept. 12, 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics ... 9e674e97d8

Although our unfit POTUS loves to bash the New York Times and call it fake news, he and almost every government officials,leaders around the world, reporters, and TV news people all read The New York Times. It has gained many new subscribers since Trump became president.

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