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  Trump Voters, Is This What You Voted For?

  by Village Idiot in

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  all that talk about hillary clinton's unsecured e-mails?

  read the following:.

  "deagazio posted additional photos from the weekend, including one of his dining companions kissing trump on the cheek, a selfie with white house strategist steve bannon and another selfie identifying a man named rick who he says is responsible for carrying the nuclear “football,” which allows the president to authorize a nuclear attack while away from the white house.. "“this is rick,” wrote deagazio.

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  Yah this is a total clusterfuck... notice the picture where people are lighting the papers with their phones(!). Secret service, by the way, provide a mobile isolated unit to discuss these things.

  As an aside: Why are nobody bothered that Trump basically uses the Japanese prime minister as a kind of prop in his own club where he is selling access to himself? (the fee for Mar Lago just doubled from 100K to 200K a year).

  On the issue of national security, the Flynn-thing is still rolling. Flynn contacted the Russian embassy several times after Trump was elected and initially claimed (as did Pence) that he did not discuss sanctions. Many IC sources (they bug the embassy as per standard SIGINT procedure) are now saying that Flynn did discuss sanctions and Flynn is retracting to the usual "I can't remember" response. Reading a bit between the lines of what has been said Flynn likely encrypted some of the communication -- why?

  I would strongly recommend this background article:

  http://observer.com/2017/02/donald-trump-administration-mike-flynn-russian-embassy/

  I wonder where the "Hillarys email server" crowd is on this one...
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  Map: Clinton Archipelago vs Trumpland

  by Simon in

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  great visualization of the voting difference from the election!.

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  https://www.inverse.com/article/25635-map-remakes-us-trumpland-clinton-archipelago.

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  Spoletta: There are ongoing investigations in the Trump administration, it is just not being reported that much for some reason. It is believed the FBI obtained a FISC (financial transactions) search order in October 2016 (the initial request made in the summer was narrowed). In addition to this the recent problems for Flynn (the ongoing relevelations he lied about discussing sanctions with the Russians) was brought to light by intelligence sources who moniter communication with the Russian ambassy. It is important to notice that the article in the WAPO on Flynn had 9 (!) separate sources which is unprecedented.

  The whole "I got a buisness that can be influenced by foreign governments but but that ain't unconstitutional" thing will eventually be tried in court and according to at least one expert constitutional lawyer it is unconstitutional.

  In addition to this someone has dug up a 1929 law that might force Trump to release his tax returns for the past 10 years ;-).
  

  I can give you some generally reliable sources about the ongoing investigations if you are interested.
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  Moral High Ground

  by Spoletta in

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  it seems that the other threads about trump's policies are veering off into endless ideological theories about how much better we are than islam.

  does anyone think there is a chance that islam can be changed in the same manner that christianity has over the centuries?

  with the inflow of ideas from western countries into the middle east, will people gradually want to move away from sharia law to something less patriarchal and cruel?

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  Islam has already been reformed... otherwise, there would be no such thing as "Islamic reformers".

  The problem in these conversations is that people talk about Islam as one thing and think about Islams religious texts, sexist and horrible as they may be, as determining what Muslims must believe similar to how Newtons laws determine how a ball drops to the ground.

  In practice, religion is nearly infinitely malleable and the religious texts of all religions (including Islam) can be interpreted in a million different ways.
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  84 Lumber Commercial

  by azor in

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  just saw this commercial and was very impressed.

  hoping more companies start doing the same.

  most of us are immigrants.

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  I agree that DT should offer more transparency about which companies he own and who they own money to than what would simply show up in a tax return. A tax return is just the basic level of financial transparency which he refuses to offer..
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  84 Lumber Commercial

  by azor in

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  just saw this commercial and was very impressed.

  hoping more companies start doing the same.

  most of us are immigrants.

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  bohm

  Arguments that Trump does not need to show his tax returns are in my opinion quite ridiculous. It is well-known he owns hundreds of millions to hostile governments as well as nearly 100 limited liability companies. What are these companies doing? Who exactly has financial power over Trump? Nobody knows...

  Even entry-level positions in intelligence services require regular polygraph tests as well as disclosure of very personal details about one's private life. Requiring just a fraction of the same disclosure for the person who is ultimately in charge of running the country is in my view a no-brainer.
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  84 Lumber Commercial

  by azor in

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  just saw this commercial and was very impressed.

  hoping more companies start doing the same.

  most of us are immigrants.

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  This is only tangentially related, but regarding free speech and the crazy left, I think Mitch McConnell just silenced Elizabeth Warren because he wanted the senate to be a safe space lol!

  I have a feeling that Warren 2020 might just have been launched ;-).
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  84 Lumber Commercial

  by azor in

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  just saw this commercial and was very impressed.

  hoping more companies start doing the same.

  most of us are immigrants.

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  freemindfade: Does it often happen to you that people who don't agree with you 100% call you a racist?

  Like, has that every happened to you?

  Because it seems to me that examples of people who exhibit that behavior is very rare...
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  84 Lumber Commercial

  by azor in

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  just saw this commercial and was very impressed.

  hoping more companies start doing the same.

  most of us are immigrants.

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  I have a question: does a commitment to free speech which implies that the use of racial slurs is okay also mean that when the left use very expansive definitions of the words "racist" and "fascist" that is okay as well?
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  Trump vows to repeal limits on churches

  by StarTrekAngel in

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  i know the jws would not necessarily take advantage of this (or may be they would) but certainly, they will spin it off somehow.. https://www.yahoo.com/news/religious-looking-trump-protections-081209487--politics.html.

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  Sir82: A joke I saw on twitter was that they should just build a fake oval office and do a Truman show on him. Heck, for that I would don a MAGA hat once a year and meet up in DC to celebrate that he had nuked Narnia.
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  So, the Womens March ... What Is It For?

  by Simon in

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  it seems like mobilizing after the election, which seems pointless.

  i keep hearing demands for equal rights but don't understand what rights they are missing exactly.. normally a march is to show the support (and potential votes) for a cause, but ... votes for what?

  ... and the election happened already.. is anyone else confused?

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  Balaamsass2: Delegitimization at all costs...

  Here is the opinion of a lawyer:

  https://lawfareblog.com/malevolence-tempered-incompetence-trumps-horrifying-executive-order-refugees-and-visas
  

  The malevolence of President Trump’s Executive Order on visas and refugees is mitigated chiefly—and perhaps only—by the astonishing incompetence of its drafting and construction.
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  This order reads to me, frankly, as though it was not reviewed by competent counsel at all.
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  Let’s start with the malevolence of the document, which Amira Mikhail summarized and Adham Sahloul analyzed earlier today. I don’t use the word “malevolence” here lightly. As readers of my work know, I believe in strong counterterrorism powers. I defend non-criminal detention. I’ve got no problem with drone strikes. I’m positively enthusiastic about American surveillance policies. I was much less offended than others were by the CIA’s interrogations in the years after September 11. I have defended military commissions.
  Some of these policies were effective; some were not. Some worked out better than others. And I don’t mean to relitigate any of those questions here. My sole point is that all of these policies were conceptualized and designed and implemented by people who were earnestly trying to protect the country from very real threats. And the policies were, to a one, proximately related to important goals in the effort. While some of these policies proved tragically misguided and caused great harm to innocent people, none of them was designed or intended to be cruel to vulnerable, concededly innocent people. Even the CIA’s interrogation program, after all, was deployed against people the agency believed (mostly correctly) to be senior terrorists of the most dangerous sort and to garner information from them that would prevent attacks.
  I actually cannot say that about Trump’s new executive order—and neither can anyone else.