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#1271 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 488 weeks ago
Trump joked that Russia should hack more of Hillary's emails. Never before had a Presidential nominee suggested a foreign country should commit espionage. Republicans are OK with it.
All of our intelligence agencies say that Russia hacked our election, and undermined our democracy. Flagg says he needs "proof" of this. There is proof, it's been submitted in both classified and unclassified reports.
Trump promises to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it-all for an illegal immigration problem that simply doesn't exist. The reality is a proposed 700 mile wall with prices ranging anywhere from 5-15 billion dollars. This doesn't include maintenance, and other long term upkeep costs. Trump promises to have Mexico pay for it later, which clearly isn't going to happen without fuzzy math and blatant lying. Conservatives are fine with that too.
No it doesn't surprise me that Republicans want to get rid of ethics oversight or put laws into place so they can target government employees that rub them the wrong way. That's business as usual. But never in my life could I have imagined Republicans as apologists for Putin, working tirelessly to defend a massive, far reaching cyber attack on their own country. How much lower can conservatives go? Everything is brushed off with indifference, or demanding proof. What a sad lot you've all become.
#1272 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 488 weeks ago
Shocker: Turns out tax payers are going to pay for the "wall" but we'll get Mexico to pay us on the backend. My guess is through some type of convoluted "tariff" or whatever BS Trump peddles.
Of course now Trump says the media picking on (aka "reporting") him again over all this.

#1273 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 488 weeks ago
Aside from gutting healthcare for millions of Americans, what else was on the GOP agenda in the first 100 days? Well for starters they wanted to gut the ethics committee. They encountered a shitstorm for that and quickly retreated. Now they seek to revive the "Holman Rule."
So what does this do? It allows lawmakers to go after individual federal employees. Either by firing them, eliminating their job entirely or knocking their pay down to one dollar.
This now makes sense why Trump's transition team requested the names of employees who participated in climate change studies (which that agency refused btw.)
So here we have a new conservative majority who wants to gut any kind of ethics oversight, and then give themselves permission to go after people in the government they deem a nuisance.
#1274 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 488 weeks ago
slcpunk wrote:polluxlm wrote:I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017[/embed]
Well perhaps he would see them if he bothered to go to intelligence briefings more than once a week.
How many meetings did Obama attend each day in Hawaii?
It's a non issue.

Quit bringing up Obama or Hillary. We are talking about Trump!!! It's always Obama Obama Obama with you. It's all you can ever do. That and BLM. It's like you can't help youself.
Obama had 6 briefings per week if you must know. Trump does one because he's "smart."
#1275 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 488 weeks ago
#1276 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 488 weeks ago
I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017
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Well perhaps he would see them if he bothered to go to intelligence briefings more than once a week.
#1277 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 488 weeks ago
Contractors who helped build Trump's latest hotel have filed a mechanic's lien against him for non payment. Some were Trump voters.
What a guy.
#1278 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 488 weeks ago
I think you righties are a lot like Trump. You bog us all down with non sense arguments over SJWs and BLM while your party gets ready to gut medical care for millions of Americans, give their corporate pals massive tax cuts, cut Medicare and SS out from under our seniors, run up even more debt, and eventually crash our economy again.
#1279 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 488 weeks ago
If all veterans approved and supported a stupid ideology and narrative that was demonstrably false then yes. If all violent riots and protests in the past few years exclusively included veterans then yes.
Not all BLM approve and support a particular ideology-in this case using violence or rioting to make their point. So you comparison is no bueno, and you're still avoiding the point. We can't lump everybody in together. Just admit it was wrong to post "BLM" associated with a crime perpetrated by blacks and we can move on.
#1280 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 488 weeks ago
The last time veterans rioted was after WW1. So I don't get the comparison at all.
The point is lumping everybody together in one group...would you be OK if I (or anybody else) lumped you in with the rotten apples in your bunch?


