Media more to blame for dividing US than Trump, new poll suggests
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Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
Yeah sure if they had Gen. Flynn "bang to rights on a variety of charges" why only a plea on a process crime? These are extremely serious allegations and I highly doubt someone looking at treason and espionage charges would be handed a light deal REGARDLESS of what he could hand over in terms of higher ups. If what General Flynn did is criminal then John Kerry's asshole should be cinched shut with fear because he has been working as a member of the US Government, when he's not affiliated with the US Government anymore a clear and brazen violation of the Logan Act.
Did you bother to read that article or did you just see "Headline says Trump caved, so the Democrats win" and figure it meant good news for your side? I'm betting that's what you did, because all it says is that Trump retains the right to release those declassified documents if he thinks the IG is taking too long in releasing them.....so do you get that? Trump wants transparency, the IG and Democrats are saying "WAIT WAIT WAIT NO NO NO" and Trump says "OK, I'll wait, but make it snappy or I'll release them"......so it begs the question what's in those files that could be declassified that the IG and Democrats DON'T want the public to see....you can pretend it's about other nations all you want but those guys don't vote, they can MAYBE make things harder in a foreign policy manner and that too makes you wonder "Gee, what have these busy bees been up to?" I can guarantee you it ain't Russia they're trying to protect.
Workers’ Pay Rises at Fastest Rate in a Decade
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-emp...ers-1540989339
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bxvCWngFiY
Oh this blue wave is going to be AWESOME, can't fucking wait!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJCG_JckSF8
Ruh Roh ........that ain't good ;D
The Trump curse....
Alec Baldwin Arrested After Fight Over Manhattan Parking Spot
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...499430941.html
.....it's real
NORTH DAKOTA DEMOCRATS BUY ADS DISCOURAGING HUNTERS FROM VOTING
https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/01/n...ok-ad-hunters/
The North Dakota arm of the Democratic Party is running ads on Facebook discouraging hunters from turning out to vote in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
“ATTENTION HUNTERS: If you vote in North Dakota, you may forfeit hunting licenses you have in other states. If you want to keep your out-of-state hunting licenses, you may not want to vote in North Dakota,” read the pair of ads.
The state party is running the ads under a Facebook page titled “Hunter Alerts,” Facebook’s ad archive shows. The “Hunter Alerts” page was created Wednesday, a day before the ads appeared on Facebook.
Say what?
I’m all for trump putting the 14th amendment through the Supreme Court for clarification. Some of the wording of the amendment leaves room for a different interpretation than straight out citizenship at birth for people who aren’t hear legally. I would be very interested to see the decisions from the Supreme Court
https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/...tizenship/amp/
My wording was wrong, it hasn’t been in the courts for 120 years
Winning
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-seven percent (47%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 37% who Strongly Approve of the president is performing and 40% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -3. (See trends)
Openly gay Democrat activist arrested for anti-Semitic graffiti, as well as for setting a synagogue and other Jewish places on fire:
https://nypost.com/2018/11/03/kill-a...ine-alter-ego/
https://thenypost.files.wordpress.co...8&h=410&crop=1
I friggin love this statement. Tell me it’s not a trigger device. This is a gem.
President Donald Trump signaled appreciation for the military efforts to secure the border on Saturday at a campaign rally at Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport in Belgrade, Mont.
“I noticed all that beautiful barbed wire going up today,” Trump said, referring to military soldiers setting up fences on the border. “Barbed wire used properly can be a beautiful sight.”
In Democratic Stronghold of New York City, Trump Finds Support Among Orthodox Jews
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/n...odox-jews.html
By William Neuman
Nov. 10, 2016
In the blue sea of New York City, where Hillary Clinton crushed Donald J. Trump in the election on Tuesday, there were still some districts — working-class areas in the southeast Bronx, Mr. Trump’s childhood neighborhood in Jamaica Estates, Queens, and most of Staten Island — that did not go Mrs. Clinton’s way.
But of all the outlying pockets of Trump supporters in New York, perhaps the most distinct lay six miles south of the Clinton campaign headquarters: the Orthodox Jewish community of Borough Park, a neighborhood in Brooklyn that would seem to have little in common with Middle America, where Mr. Trump drew most of his support.
With its Judaica stores, kosher pizza shops, men in traditional black coats and hats and women with long skirts, Borough Park is home to thousands of Orthodox and Hasidic Jews, belonging to a range of sects, including Bobover, Belz, Satmar, Ger and Viznitz.
The vast majority of voters in the neighborhood are registered Democrats, but they often vote Republican, and this year was no different. In Brooklyn’s 48th Assembly District, which encompasses most of Borough Park, Mr. Trump got 69 percent of the vote, while Mrs. Clinton got 27 percent.
Orange Man such Anti-Semite
Actual Anti-Semite.....naaaaaah he has mental illness and substance abuse issues
Man’s Struggles With Mental Illness and Addiction Preceded Hate Crimes Charges, Friends Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/n...vandalism.html
More Evidence Points to China as Source of Ozone-Depleting Gas
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/c...imes&smtyp=cur
BEIJING — An environmental group says it has new evidence showing that China is behind the resurgence of a banned industrial gas that not only destroys the planet’s protective ozone layer but also contributes to global warming.
The gas, trichlorofluoromethane, or CFC-11, is supposed to be phased out worldwide under the Montreal Protocol, the global agreement to protect the ozone layer. In May, however, scientists published research showing that CFC-11 levels in the atmosphere had begun falling more slowly. Their findings suggested significant new emissions of the gas, most likely from East Asia.
Evidence then uncovered by The New York Times and the Environmental Investigation Agency pointed to rogue factories in China as a likely major source.
Now, the E.I.A. has prepared a report that it says bolsters the finding that Chinese factories are behind the return of CFC-11.
DAMN THAT DRUMPF!!!! If he kept the United States in the Paris Climate Accords we'd be suffering financially, he'd lose re-election, and most importantly China wouldn't get called out on their bullshit!!!!
Fuckin Drumpf
#OrangeManBad
I'm gonna sort of side with you on that one, Lyle.
It'll never make sense to me when you have a group trying to reach an agreement... only to have one of the group members doing whatever the hell they want... and that sounds like the Chinese on environmental affairs.
Let's face it... nobody will/can hold their feet to the fire, and they do whatever they damn well please. My brother worked a few years in China, and came back with horror stories regarding air pollution.
There were those facts about the rivers and plastic and who's doing most of the pollution.
You have a world power who began their massive industrialization relatively late as compared with other world nations.... and they're trying to make up ground in leaps and bounds and to hell with the environment.
If nobody else is crying "foul", I'm not against Trump's attitude on the matter. I wish there were other means, but China is too big and too powerful to be dealt with with sanctions.
Unless of course there was cooperation from other major world powers.
Someone has to bring these people to the environmental table.
The big deal with the Paris Climate Accords were that ....#1 What was "agreed to" varied from nation to nation #2 What was "agreed to" was not enforceable and #3 If you like to believe that the United States would set a standard and actually hold itself accountable for it, then our economy would be a shambles (which of course thrilled one party who doesn't give 1 single solitary fuck about how well people do because after all "the rich need to pay their fair share" :rolleyes: )
Good on Trump for getting us out of that deal.
I just wish he'd follow it up with honest attempts at encouraging/coercing the other world powers to put the pressure on China to behave. The environment is still important.
Just 'cause we can't get stuck with the bill for the whole table, doesn't mean we can just stiff the restaurant.
So a woman at the rally in Missouri fainted during Trump's speech and this is what happened after Trump called for a doctor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNBLYJprYxw
.....no word on if the person who wrote 'Amazing Grace' is angered by Trump fans singing it yet ;)
@Kirkland Laing where is the blue wave
In the House of Representatives.Quote:
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Lol, K thanksQuote:
Originally Posted by MasterIn the House of Representatives.Quote:
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Isn't it interesting that a blood thirsty fascist dictator let everyone vote yesterday?
That's not very fascist of him.
How about the senate masterQuote:
Originally Posted by El KabongLol, K thanksQuote:
Originally Posted by MasterIn the House of Representatives.Quote:
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House of Representative term length - 2 years
Senate term length - 6 years
Worth noting :thumb:
Let's see what the Dems do with that. If it's strictly checks and balances, I got no problem with it. Every President needs it. If it becomes a vindictive witch hunt, it'll only hurt the country.
Let's see how everyone from the POTUS on down works with this new arrangement.
@El Kabong u see this. With sessions resigning pot stocks shot up. Tiltray up 30% last hour of trading
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnb...y-general.html
I didn't see that, but I DID see Rod Rosenstein got his goofy ass called into the White House AND I saw this.....Quote:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BZ8ck_7cqk
...lil Jim Acosta is feelin a lil froggy
acosta is a foolQuote:
Originally Posted by El KabongI didn't see that, but I DID see Rod Rosenstein got his goofy ass called into the White House AND I saw this.....Quote:
Originally Posted by walrus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BZ8ck_7cqk
...lil Jim Acosta is feelin a lil froggy
Acosta is being nasty in order to please his bosses at CNN who despise Trump.
https://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/f...tty-h_2018.jpg
Jeff Zucker to CNN Staffers After Latest Trump Attack: "We Have Your Backs"
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...-backs-1159281
Trump is a "rude and terrible person".
I hate to say this, and everyone here knows I'm not a fan of Trump's personality.
But..... newspeople are given waaaaay too much leeway in how they conduct themselves. Jim Acosta behaved like an ass, and got his just reward. I read somewhere that journalists ask questions as though they were prosecution attorneys. I'm gonna have to agree with that statement. For a long time now I've identified several newscasters on TV who seem to have some sort of complex where they feel they can just run over people with their questions. As long as they're allowed to get away with that shit, it'll continue to happen. I believe in balance.
There was nothing wrong with asking the questions.Quote:
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Originally Posted by MasterThere was nothing wrong with asking the questions.Quote:
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He said it wasn't an invasion... Trump said it was. Then Trump politely said it was a difference of opinion. At that point your 5 minutes are up, and there are others waiting to ask questions. Having to have some women trying to take the mic away from him is embarrassing. Newspeople thrive on sensationalism. Acosta also asked some inflammatory questions. That's not a journalist's job.
Journalist's job is to ask questions, it is part of the democratic process, trying to take the microphone off him was petty. Trump took away his pass afterwards was wrong too.Quote:
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Originally Posted by MasterThere was nothing wrong with asking the questions.Quote:
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He said it wasn't an invasion... Trump said it was. Then Trump politely said it was a difference of opinion. At that point your 5 minutes are up, and there are others waiting to ask questions. Having to have some women trying to take the mic away from him is embarrassing. Newspeople thrive on sensationalism. Acosta also asked some inflammatory questions. That's not a journalist's job.
Yes, I agreeQuote:
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Jim Acosta never treated Obama that way, he never treated any of Obama's Press Secretaries the way he treats Sarah Huckabee-Sanders. It's the White House press POOL.....play nice, which doesn't mean let everything the President does slide it just means follow decorum, or get the hook...Acosta has consistently been an ASS and so he got treated like one in return.Quote:
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That's Trump's prerogative and Jim Acosta poked the bear one too many times and he fucked around and found out.....you don't pull that shit...imagine any Conservative press ever treating a Democrat President that way in the White House press pool, you HAVE to imagine it because it's never fucking happened just like if the Republicans lose an election we don't riot, we sit at home watching the news and saying "Well, now they've fucked everything up again" ..... @Master the left is not above unleashing violent protesters, they do it all the fucking time, they NEVER get called on it, only the Republicans are tone policed and it's about fucking time someone called out the vitriol from the left....Trump has done that and the left is weeping like a fussy 2 year old.Quote:
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I disagree on your last point.
Now I have to say I DO like Trump I think he's done a bangup job he hasn't been perfect but he's done very well and he's proven he's not like regular politicians who make hollow promises they never intend to fulfill. Trump gets what he promised done...moving the embassy to Jerusalem immediately and under budget was not only impressive it was done with so much ease as a voter you wonder "OK why the FUCK did that take so long?" and then again with Korea and Kim Jong Un he gets the Korean War officially ended (10 Presidents later) AND he gets Lil Kim/Little 'Un to stop firing off rockets all willy nilly and again as a citizen you're like "Hold up....I thought this was supposed to be some complicated shit here, how is a 'reality tv star' (which is how the news constantly referred to Trump) getting this done and 'real life politicians' aren't?" it doesn't speak well for "politicians" on either side.Quote:
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Now that said, regardless of who is President, the press has a role to play which is to tell the news, ask difficult questions, and hold those in power accountable....they still at the very least need to respect the office of President. I don't want the press acting like Jim Acosta....he's deliberately playing a side....that's not how media should work at the very least it's not how the White House press pool should work regardless of who is holding the office.
This just in Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has suffered a fall and broke 3 ribs....let's see how the Democrats are taking this....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGcb3FAVY40
Well well well, how about that then? Not everybody in America is a thick bedwetting racist.
Explain the racist part please.Quote:
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