What stupid shit has Trump done today?

[Yuwipi Woman]

The only thing the Democrat leadership is good at is holding on to their positions of power and actively undermining the progressives. Steny Hoyer was recorded telling a candidate in Colorado to drop out of the race. And the former VP candidate Joe Lieberman called Ocasio Cortez a hard leftist.

Joe Lieberman is pretty much a Republican in Democratic clothing. He's a fucking waste of space.

 

[Don Troooomp]

Q. What do you do when you're busted in a lie?
A. Make up a new lie.

Donald Trump says the payments to women came from him, not campaign

Cohen has dropped Trump right in the shit (To save his own skin), so Trump spins a whole new web of lies and makes up legal interpretations that are unlikely to be real.

 

[Don Troooomp]

And, don't get me started on the corporate ties of the Democratic Party ...

They have little choice because the US political system is so corrupt.
The best you can hope for in such an environment is the least corrupt and the best intentions.

 

[little_legs]

How desperate do you have to be to exploit one family's tragedy to justify the summer camps

 

[CRI]

Cohen’s attorney dropped an interesting nugget in an interview that some are picking up on:

Yup, waiting to hear more about this one!

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the GOP did nothing. The corruption in government has gotten so common that they may feel if they do something about Trump and Co., that they'll be next. Setting standards has the uncomfortable side effect of coming back to bite you in the ass. At the moment, I'm happy that this little bit of corruption has gotten weeded out. Trump will go in his own time.

I genuinely believe Trump COULD shoot someone dead in 5th Avenue and his acolytes would still back him 100%. They already swallow his most preposterous lies without a pause and there isn't a "final straw" with them. Thinking they'll eventually turn on him is as ridiculous as thinking that if the Democrats just listen to them and understand their "economic anxiety" that they'll switch parties.

GOP legislators know that they "need" his supporters to stay in power, and keep the light from shining on their own corruption, so my bet is that they'll go quiet, perhaps try and deflect, and figuratively go to the Winchester until it's all blown over, or so they hope.

Don't understand why who doesn't understand that?

Of course, we have to beat them politically. (I say "them" rather than "he" because Trump isn't alone in any of this.) That, as you know, is a long process--a generational process. One of the reasons the GOP has done so well is that they know its a generational process and started planning what we currently see way back in the 70s and 80s. We didn't get here overnight, we aren't going to recover overnight.

(If you're talking about most posters here, I think a lot of us are just happy for one sunny day in a long series of pretty bleak ones.)

People forget that Democrats retaking the House and Senate in 2006, and adding Obama to the White House in 2008 absolutely enraged Republican politicians and rank and file members. They got organised, and rode hard in specific districts across the US in 2010 to retake as many state legislatures as possible, so they'd get the prize of re-districting after the census and did so with surgical precision. I'll grant - the main mistake of Democrats all along in this is assuming that only some Republicans were deplorable.

Can you imagine what will happen if the Dems do not make significant victories in the mid terms?

Well, there's already evidence of hacking in some of the primary elections, the GOP Congress voted down funding to secure the voting system, Republicans are already introducing measures to prevent people in strongly Democratic districts from voting, so I'll be pretty fucking surprised if there aren't quite a few suspicious results. Enough of those and no, we won't have significant victories for the Democrats, no matter what they do.

They have little choice because the US political system is so corrupt.
The best you can hope for in such an environment is the least corrupt and the best intentions.

Get the Trump/GOP regime out of power before they destroy the nation, and probably the planet. Then pass measures to take big money out of politics, but don't tie both hands behind your back and shoot yourself in both feet "on principle," before the battle has barely started.

How desperate do you have to be to exploit one family's tragedy to justify the summer camps

Family of Mollie Tibbetts Condemns Racist Fear-Mongering About Her Alleged Killer

But, I predict Trump supporters will hound this woman's family like they did the families of children murdered at Sandy Hook, Parkland, etc.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Cohen's lawyer probably shouldn't be running his mouth about who might have said what to federal prosecutors.

Possibly purposeful in order to get stuff struck out on review

/cynic

 

[CRI]

Bit of a recurring theme here.

Someone tried to hack the DNC — again

That voter database, held in a service called Votebuilder, includes sensitive information like addresses and phone numbers — likely of thousands of potential voters, donors, and more.

The hackers apparently created a fake website designed to look very similar to the real one that Democratic Party officials and campaigns use to log in to that database. The idea was that officials would try to log in to this fake page using their real usernames and passwords, thereby revealing that information to the hackers and enabling them to use it to log in to the real site and access the voter database.

 

[CRI]

Family of Mollie Tibbetts Condemns Racist Fear-Mongering About Her Alleged Killer

But, I predict Trump supporters will hound this woman's family like they did the families of children murdered at Sandy Hook, Parkland, etc.

Attorney Challenges Whether Iowa Suspect Is in US Illegally

And he worked for "prominent" Iowa Republican.

In a statement late Tuesday, Yarrabee Farms said Rivera had worked at its farms for the last four years and was an employee in good standing. The Brooklyn-based company said it was shocked to hear that Rivera was charged in Tibbetts' death. Yarrabee Farms is owned by the family of Craig Lang, a prominent Republican who previously served as president of the Iowa Farm Bureau.

 

[CRI]

Manafort, Cohen, and Trump: The System Is Rotten - The Atlantic

As with so many things, Trump’s bombast, unrestrained self-interest, and delusional relationship with facts have brought to their natural conclusion the absurdities of an American system that has so often enriched the few at the expense of the very many. Manafort and Cohen most likely believed they would never face justice for their crimes, because the American criminal-justice system so rarely prosecutes men like them for the crimes they commit.

Prior to Manafort’s trial, Trump had all but urged the non-sequestered jury to nullify the charges—that is, refuse to convict, regardless of the evidence—because of Manafort’s membership in the same gilded class as the president, and their proximity to each other.

Convicting Manafort is a violation of the unwritten rules that protect people like him, and like Trump. The president went out of his way to persuade the jury not to convict Manafort, not because of what he did or didn’t do, but because of who he is.

What Trump seeks is nothing less than a federal government that enriches himself and his allies, prosecutes his political opponents and critics, and turns a blind eye to any crimes he or any of his cohorts commit. The institutional guardrails that have restrained him will not hold forever. Either American voters will remove him from office, or the federal government will increasingly become an enterprise run for the benefit of a single wealthy family and whoever earns its favor.

Many commentators have described that kind of authoritarianism as foreign to the United States. But it isn’t. It has its inspiration and precursor in the racial kleptocracy of the Jim Crow South, in which states were essentially criminal enterprises that existed to expropriate black wealth, exploit black labor, disenfranchise black voters, and shield acts of racist terrorism and violence from prosecution.

 

[Don Troooomp]

Attorney Challenges Whether Iowa Suspect Is in US Illegally

And he worked for "prominent" Iowa Republican.

Richards sought a gag order and said comments about the case by President Donald Trump would "poison the entire possible pool of jury members."

He also asked that the proceedings be closed.

"The government has weighed in at the highest levels with a predisposition that my client is guilty," he said.

IF the suspect is guilty, and the apparent admission suggests he is, Trump could have fucked up the trial with his idiotic tweet.

 

[Nylock]

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Family of Mollie Tibbetts Condemns Racist Fear-Mongering About Her Alleged Killer

But, I predict Trump supporters will hound this woman's family like they did the families of children murdered at Sandy Hook, Parkland, etc.

There is already a load of toxic shit posted to that thread buried amongst the messages of support. Twitter really does exemplify the ugliness of people hiding behing the shield of distance and relative anonymity. Glad I never got an account.

 

[CRI]

There is already a load of toxic shit posted to that thread buried amongst the messages of support. Twitter really does exemplify the ugliness of people hiding behing the shield of distance and relative anonymity. Glad I never got an account.

Facebook is pretty shitty for this stuff as well. I only lurk on both.

 

[CRI]

In other news . . .

Steven Tyler Sends Cease & Desist to Trump Over Use of 'Livin' on the Edge' at Campaign Rally

 

[Don Troooomp]

unbefuckinglievable

Click here to support Michael Cohen Truth Fund organized by Lanny Davis

 

[Don Troooomp]

I'm sure this is nothing to do with Cambridge analytica and equally sure this unreported campaign contribution was perfectly legal.
I'm being sarcastic.

Michael Cohen paid a mysterious tech company $50,000 'in connection with' Trump's campaign

Buried in the legal documents released Tuesday as part of Cohen's guilty plea on eight felony counts, there was a new, previously unreported payment Cohen made in 2016 to help Trump: $50,000 for work that prosecutors say Cohen "solicited from a technology company during and in connection with the campaign.".........
....Furthermore, the way that Cohen reported the $50,000 expense to the Trump Organization in January 2017 suggests the money may not have been paid out through traditional financial channels.

 

[Don Troooomp]

I just pissed myself

Seems the justice department never name people who haven't been charged with or convicted of a crime.


That leave about 20 million possible people - NOT

 

[krtek a houby]

I hope Trump gets a 2nd term, he has given me more laughs in the last couple of years then all the white bread politico's across the globe.

Lots of lols

 

[Tankus]

When partisanship exceeds all common sense

NORTHERN VIRGINIA – Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team was one holdout juror away from winning a conviction against Paul Manafort on all 18 counts of bank and tax fraud, juror Paula Duncan told Fox News in an exclusive interview Wednesday.
Manafort juror reveals lone holdout prevented Mueller team from winning conviction on all counts
“It was one person who kept the verdict from being guilty on all 18 counts,”

 

[Humirax]

Trump eyes Erik Prince plan to privatize U.S. war in Afghanistan

Privatising war in Afghanistan with mercenaries commanded by Christian fundamentalists rather than pulling out like he signalled he would.

More 'stabilising' of the region.

 

[little_legs]

But, I predict Trump supporters will hound this woman's family like they did the families of children murdered at Sandy Hook, Parkland, etc.

Alex Jones has been removed from his usual platforms, so hopefully the Tibbetts will be spared.

 

[CRI]

Alex Jones has been removed from his usual platforms, so hopefully the Tibbetts will be spared.

Sadly, I doubt it. Plenty folk attacking her family on social media already. They don't need Jones to show them how to be heartless assholes.

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

In case u ain’t familiar: Steele Trump dossier as audiobook. Well worth a listen.

 

[spring-peeper]

After watching an inaccurate documentary on FoxNews, Trump tweets this:

 

[CRI]

After watching an inaccurate documentary on FoxNews, Trump tweets this:

He doesn't know what "expropriations" means, so who wrote this? Miller?

Real purpose of tweet. "Noose is tightening. Let's distract everyone by trying to start a race war on the other side of the world."

 

[gosub]

Donald Trump: People will be 'very poor' if I'm impeached

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How Does One Fake Tweet Cause a Stock Market Crash? | TIME.com

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

After watching an inaccurate documentary on FoxNews, Trump tweets this:

He's playing to his base, who think white people are the real victims here. Just another thing to ramp up the fear.

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

Why Trump Supporters Don’t Care About Cohen’s Admission - The Atlantic

In a forthcoming book titled How Fascism Works, the Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley makes an intriguing claim. “Corruption, to the fascist politician,” he suggests, “is really about the corruption of purity rather than of the law. Officially, the fascist politician’s denunciations of corruption sound like a denunciation of political corruption. But such talk is intended to evoke corruption in the sense of the usurpation of the traditional order.”

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

He doesn't know what "expropriations" means, so who wrote this? Miller?

Real purpose of tweet. "Noose is tightening. Let's distract everyone by trying to start a race war on the other side of the world."

There was a flurry of stuff on a range of subjects yesterday, more than usual and totally unrelated to DT being at the centre of a crimewave. There's worse to come, so more hate and danger to distract. And yes, Miller is a likely culprit. I find him more repulsive than Bannon.

 

[Ralph Llama]

Where is this going ? Off the historical map of political precedent anything could happen . Nice to see him out of control though.

In Georgia, election officials in a rural, predominantly black county are facing charges of voter suppression, after they announced plans to close seven of their county’s nine polling places ahead of November’s midterm elections. Randolph County officials say they’re closing the polling sites because they don’t comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. But critics charge the move is aimed at suppressing the votes of African Americans. The county’s action would likely have triggered a Justice Department review under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but in 2013 the Supreme Court effectively ended those protections.

 

[Don Troooomp]

David Pecker, American Media Chief, Is Said to Have Immunity in Trump Inquiry

Pecker flips.
More porn star evidence and working out who paid what to whom ... and if it was done to influence the campaign illegally.