The political hodge podge thread

[tGreenWay]

Posts a news story, complains about lack of news coverage for the story, fails to mention the story itself refers to news coverage not just by the news outlet authoring the story, but two others which have covered the story. #Gooselogic
But don't worry, I'll bet Fox "News" covers it more than enough for everyone else... because, you know, all that fair and balanced tripe.

Get back to me when it gets covered 1/100th of the the Russian farce.   These people had complete access to the data and intelligence on the servers of 20+ Democratic members of Congress.   DWS THREATENED the Capital Police Chief over this investigation.....I'd be willing to wager that more people go to prison over this than your whole Russian thing.

It remains fascinating to me that you can't accept the word of the top national security services and a high number of republicans in Congress that Russia inserted itself in the '16 presidential election. The hubris displayed is mind-bottling and on a level not seen here since Antineosporin posted here. Are they beta-testing 22nd century intelligence gathering technology exclusively with Mio residents?

[Turtleneck]

Get back to me when it gets covered 1/100th of the the Russian farce.   These people had complete access to the data and intelligence on the servers of 20+ Democratic members of Congress.   DWS THREATENED the Capital Police Chief over this investigation.....I'd be willing to wager that more people go to prison over this than your whole Russian thing.

It remains fascinating to me that you can't accept the word of the top national security services and a high number of republicans in Congress that Russia inserted itself in the '16 presidential election. The hubris displayed is mind-bottling and on a level not seen here since Antineosporin posted here. Are they beta-testing 22nd century intelligence gathering technology exclusively with Mio residents?

Trump tweeted out this morning that Russia meddled in the election and spread misinformation.

[tGreenWay]

It remains fascinating to me that you can't accept the word of the top national security services and a high number of republicans in Congress that Russia inserted itself in the '16 presidential election. The hubris displayed is mind-bottling and on a level not seen here since Antineosporin posted here. Are they beta-testing 22nd century intelligence gathering technology exclusively with Mio residents?

Trump tweeted out this morning that Russia meddled in the election and spread misinformation.

False flag. - Goose

[DWags]

I need to say this outloud, really do. If I could, I would not suck my own dick.

Thanks for understanding.

[tGreenWay]

I need to say this outloud, really do. If I could, I would not suck my own dick.

Thanks for understanding.

This topic really needs its own thread. And a pole.

[DWags]

I need to say this outloud, really do. If I could, I would not suck my own dick.

Thanks for understanding.

This topic really needs its own thread. And a pole.

We'd see men of all type flock to it.

[Travis of the Cosmos]

I need to say this outloud, really do. If I could, I would not suck my own dick.

Thanks for understanding.

I'm with you man.

[Travis of the Cosmos]

The president of the United States encouraged police officers to rough up suspects of crimes, which is sort of ho hum and expected at this point. The disturbing part was the police officers that were cheering wildly at that comment. Completely insane, but I guess also expected from our high school educated police force.

[GRR Spartan]

Art least one poster is shitting his pants about Trump's latest set back and is looking like a Fox & Friends show runner with all the bullshit deflections he's posting.

[Travis of the Cosmos]

Art least one poster is shitting his pants about Trump's latest set back and is looking like a Fox & Friends show runner with all the bullshit deflections he's posting.

Is it greenway?

[Guest]

Art least one poster is shitting his pants about Trump's latest set back and is looking like a Fox & Friends show runner with all the bullshit deflections he's posting.

Is it greenway?

I think you're on to something. I can't work for F&F with GRR attached to my ass.

[Guest]

President, Vice President & Senator....

[tGreenWay]

President, Vice President & Senator....

Can you imagine if Sen. Ritchie exited the stall right before Sen. Hatch needed to sit down, and all the other toilets were taken in the Senators-only men's room? Would Hatch just use one of those thin paper seat covers, bust out his travel size Wet Wipes, call for a custodian to bring a sponge and a bucket of hot water loaded with bleach, or pucker it til he got home?

[DWags]

I'm gonna put this here. Dustin Mix is the son of one of my best friends all the way back to Jefferson grade school in Manistee. Dustin is and always has been a pretty liberal person, but unlike many of us, he gets his hands dirty in places other than a keyboard.


Only kid from Notre Dame I've ever liked.

[Guest]

I'm gonna put this here. Dustin Mix is the son of one of my best friends all the way back to Jefferson grade school in Manistee. Dustin is and always has been a pretty liberal person, but unlike many of us, he gets his hands dirty in places other than a keyboard.


Only kid from Notre Dame I've ever liked.

In the old Studebaker complex.....if you're ever in the area there's a pretty decent restaurant in the old Studebaker mansion. Interesting place to view while you eat.

[Guest]

Always a good idea to betray your own party....

Taegan Goddard‏Verified account @politicalwire 2h2 hours ago
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Whoa… Sen. Jeff Flake’s approval rate in Arizona is just 18%

[Robert J Sakimano]

Always a good idea to betray your own party....

Sexual Predator Verified account @realSexualPredator 4h4 hours ago

Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous  low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can't even give us HCare!

[Turtleneck]

Always a good idea to betray your own party....

Sexual Predator Verified account @realSexualPredator 4h4 hours ago

Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous  low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can't even give us HCare!

Emperor God is exempt from criticism. Please take note of that going forward.

Edit: they call him God Emperor.

[Travis of the Cosmos]

Always a good idea to betray your own party....

Taegan Goddard‏Verified account @politicalwire 2h2 hours ago
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Whoa… Sen. Jeff Flake’s approval rate in Arizona is just 18%

The crazy part is how insanely popular Jeff Flake was before this week. A shame. A real shame.

[Robert J Sakimano]

Emperor God is exempt from criticism. Please take note of that going forward.

Edit: they call him God Emperor.

the sexual predator not only betrays his party.. he betrays his own country.

[Turtleneck]

Emperor God is exempt from criticism. Please take note of that going forward.

Edit: they call him God Emperor.

the sexual predator not only betrays his party.. he betrays his own country.

But Gorsuch!

[Robert J Sakimano]

the sexual predator not only betrays his party.. he betrays his own country.

But Gorsuch!

"we replaced a backwards conservative with a backwards conservative"!!!

only the knuckle-draggin' right could somehow define that as a "success".

[DWags]

Did I just see Ken Starr on T.V. saying that "it's very dangerous for a special prosecutor to go on a "fishing expedition"???

No, it can't be THAT Ken Starr, correct? It has to be someone who looks like him. Someone who wasn't the President of Baylor during the rapes and cover ups, didn't investigate whitewater and only came up blow jobs. It's not that Ken Starr. Please, someone tell me this man didn't go on t.v. and say that. Please, anyone, just lie to me.

[GRR Spartan]

That Ken Starr still has wealthy friends on GOP circles. He'll say anything that will get him more speaking fees.

The "I fucked up, twice" speech doesn't get many bookings.

[Cameron]

Did I just see Ken Starr on T.V. saying that "it's very dangerous for a special prosecutor to go on a "fishing expedition"???

No, it can't be THAT Ken Starr, correct? It has to be someone who looks like him. Someone who wasn't the President of Baylor during the rapes and cover ups, didn't investigate whitewater and only came up blow jobs. It's not that Ken Starr. Please, someone tell me this man didn't go on t.v. and say that. Please, anyone, just lie to me.

Different guy.

[NigelUno]

Always a good idea to betray your own party....

Taegan Goddard‏Verified account @politicalwire 2h2 hours ago
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Whoa… Sen. Jeff Flake’s approval rate in Arizona is just 18%

What is Trump's?

[GRR Spartan]

President Trump is going on an 17 day "working vacation" at his NJ Golf club.

So far.......

[Turtleneck]

President Trump is going on an 17 day "working vacation" at his NJ Golf club.

So far.......

Lock her up!

[Guest]

President Trump is going on an 17 day "working vacation" at his NJ Golf club.

So far.......

Please point out one piece of "major" legislation passed by any President in the history of our country.

Fake shit.

[kingstonlake]

President Trump is going on an 17 day "working vacation" at his NJ Golf club.

So far.......

Please point out one piece of "major" legislation passed by any President in the history of our country.

Fake shit.

Presidents don't pass legislation. They facilitate it via their platform in the general election. They along with their party get it done.  Usually you tie together all the campaign promises they make and the party coming together by endorsing the candidate in order to get it done. Unless of course you're a pathological liar. Then it's tough.

Hope that helps.

[NigelUno]

President Trump is going on an 17 day "working vacation" at his NJ Golf club.

So far.......

Please point out one piece of "major" legislation passed by any President in the history of our country.

Fake shit.

Trump held a photo opp/party in the Rose Garden to celebrate (the House) passing a health care bill. Maybe you should take it up with him.

His inability to work with a Republican controlled House and Senate to pass any major legislation (health care, tax reform, etc.) is an indication of how poorly he's doing his job.

The President does have to sign bills you know, and the White House is playing a role in trying to pass legislation (particularly with repealing and replacing ObamaCare...it's something Trump campaigned on...remember?). You can argue about whether he's "passing" legislation. It's just semantics and you know it, and frankly it makes you look desperate and silly (to deflect and defend Trump in this manner).

[Guest]

Presidents don't pass legislation.

Hope that helps.

Yes. Yes it does. Points out that the popular meme is fake news. Again.

But I hope Dems keep comforting themselves with fake stuff.....and Russia!!!......etc. Meanwhile the Atlantic may be catching on to something...

Someone Just Noticed That Trump Is Getting Stuff Done

Achievements: After weeks and months of fixating on tweets and Russia, someone in the press decided to have a look at what the Trump administration has been up to since January. Lo and behold, they discovered that it's getting a lot done.

"Trump Has Quietly Accomplished More Than It Appears" reads the headline in the Atlantic.

"With the Trump administration's chaos sucking up all the attention," the article begins, "it's been able to move forward on a range of its priorities.... It is remaking the justice system, rewriting environmental rules, overhauling public-lands administration, and greenlighting major infrastructure projects. It is appointing figures who will guarantee the triumph of its ideological vision for decades to come."

It goes on to detail these achievements, many of which we've highlighted on these pages.

Trump Has Quietly Accomplished More Than It Appears

There is so much attention paid to the chaos in the executive branch that it’s easy to come to believe that Trump is getting nothing whatsoever accomplished. Even for people who don’t support the president’s agenda—especially for them, in fact—it is useful to step back occasionally and take stock of what this presidency is doing to work toward its goals.

Keep posting those memes.....

[NigelUno]

Presidents don't pass legislation.

Hope that helps.

Yes.  Yes it does.   Points out that the popular meme is fake news.  Again.

But I hope Dems keep comforting themselves with fake stuff.....and Russia!!!......etc.   Meanwhile the Atlantic may be catching on to something...

Someone Just Noticed That Trump Is Getting Stuff Done

Achievements: After weeks and months of fixating on tweets and Russia, someone in the press decided to have a look at what the Trump administration has been up to since January. Lo and behold, they discovered that it's getting a lot done.

"Trump Has Quietly Accomplished More Than It Appears" reads the headline in the Atlantic.

"With the Trump administration's chaos sucking up all the attention," the article begins, "it's been able to move forward on a range of its priorities.... It is remaking the justice system, rewriting environmental rules, overhauling public-lands administration, and greenlighting major infrastructure projects. It is appointing figures who will guarantee the triumph of its ideological vision for decades to come."

It goes on to detail these achievements, many of which we've highlighted on these pages.

Trump Has Quietly Accomplished More Than It Appears

There is so much attention paid to the chaos in the executive branch that it’s easy to come to believe that Trump is getting nothing whatsoever accomplished. Even for people who don’t support the president’s agenda—especially for them, in fact—it is useful to step back occasionally and take stock of what this presidency is doing to work toward its goals.

Keep posting those memes.....

Remember that one time Trump celebrated passing a House bill?  

Seems like it was a big accomplishment...a photo opp in the Rose Garden...

[GRR Spartan]

Right on cue.

No other post WW2 President has bragged about accomplishing so much while doing so little.

How about that repeal and replace business.

Did anyone tell him Hillary Clinton lost the election?

[Guest]

That George Washington must have been a terrible President.

U.S. Senate History‏Verified account @SenateHistory
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#OTD in 1789 the #Senate, for the first time, rejected a presidential appointment http://bit.ly/2v528i1
11:00 AM - 5 Aug 2017

[NigelUno]

That George Washington must have been a terrible President.

U.S. Senate History‏Verified account @SenateHistory
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#OTD in 1789 the #Senate, for the first time, rejected a presidential appointment http://bit.ly/2v528i1
11:00 AM - 5 Aug 2017

Why?

[DWags]

I wonder if at that particular time many still feared the president turning king like and rejected some presidential appointees just because of that.

[GRR Spartan]

The golfing President who blasted his predecessor going to his Trump owned golf club where he'll be charging the Secret Service rent and charging his green fees to The White House.

And he'll be watching a lot of TV news just he does at The White House.

Maybe he'll learned not to celebrate legislative victories early.

[Turtleneck]

President Trump is going on an 17 day "working vacation" at his NJ Golf club.

So far.......

Please point out one piece of "major" legislation passed by any President in the history of our country.

Fake shit.

1) I do not think anybody here needs a basic civics lesson, but thanks anyway. It was very nice of you to offer.

2) Trump set himself up for this criticism. During the campaign it was Trump saying "on day one," or "in the first 90 days" at every campaign stop. Everyone minus the approximately 63 million Trump voters knew he could not keep those promises.

3) Where is new healthcare legislation? Where is tax reform? Where is an infrastructure package? Those are the major pieces of legislation he promised to have done within three months. I know Trump's most ardent defenders constantly have to ignore Trump's own words so they can slither around a good point, but he set himself up for this criticism with his big mouth and ignorance of politics.  

4) While a president does not pass laws, they are intimately involved in working with members of Congress to get laws passed. Trump does not know how any of this works, and does not know how to wield informal power related to the lawmaking process. He is clueless. For a guy that considers himself a grand deal maker, he certainly cannot figure out how to bargain with Congress to make sure legislation gets done. He is not very good with the power of persuasion.

[GRR Spartan]

The sage of Mio defends Trump at every turn.

Trump is the egotistical fool who thought he could pass legislation on the strength of his personality.

Then he follows up losing on the health care front by whining about a Russian sanctions bill he signed.

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