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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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  After a sequence of highly targeted IC leaks, General Flynn has just resigned citing that he "briefed (...) with incomplete information". Resignation letter:

  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4mQam8VYAAXeMi.jpg:large

  This can be taken as a confirmation he did discuss sanctions with the Russian embassy. Let's hope there will be a proper investigation in who-knew-what now that "executive privilege" can no longer be cited as a reason not to investigate.

  The question that remains for me is this: If Flynn only discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador as per courtesy, and nobody else in the administration knew, why not simply release the tape recordings of those conversations in redacted form and keep Flynn on board?
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  200,000 evacuated last night in Northern California.

  by compound complex in

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  where a few of us here on the forum live is in an emergency situation.

  the main spillway on oroville dam -- the tallest dam in the usa -- is damaged.

  the emergency spillway, never used before in the 48 years the dam has operated, is eroding.. major confusion and panic occurred when the order went out sunday, late afternoon: this is not a drill!.

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  I guess the good news is that the initial reports spoke about imminent failure but fortunately it seems to be holding up for now and the water level is dropping.. hoping for the best.
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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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  What utter utter bullshit. It's all we've heard for the past 3 months !

  Well, I still haven't seen anyone actually do that (call someone a racist for bringing up the email issue). I certainly haven't.
  
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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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  "It’s debatable whether Flynn broke any laws by ..."
  If it's debatable, then make the case or shut up. What has it got to do with Hillary's email server and her lies?

  There is good evidence Flynn has lied about his contact with the Russian embassy and then went on to mislead Pence. That naturally raises the question of what that contact consisted of and whether any laws were broken. This contact should be seen in the light of the ongoing FBI investigation of the Trump investigation and the allegations of Russian hacking.

  We can't know if laws were broken yet because the facts are still not in.. since you believe the claims about election fraud should be investigated fully due to their serious nature I would suppose (?) you would also support an investigation into this question as well.
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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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  I just love how the left can claim what someone's motives are. If you didn't like Clinton's email debacle and think she lied about it, suddenly you are a racist.

  That is a very illogical argument to be sure, but I can't say I have seen it made on this site or anywhere else actually...
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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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  VI: I think fear rather than racism is the key word. Trumps basic message is that everything has gone and is going to hell -- the US is run down, the military is shit, the economy is shit, all jobs are going overseas, Muslim terrorists are posing an existential threat, all politicians are crooked, the media is lying, Obamacare is failing "next year", it is bad, bad, bad and the only thing that can be done is to break with the establishment (Hillary) and solely focus on the interests of the (middle-class) US.

  This kind of pervasive pessimism and fear is really the main thread through most "new right" discussion of american politics.
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  Trump Voters, Is This What You Voted For?

  by Village Idiot in

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  2. current

  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..