Herb & Suds
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Now if he can just convince Americans that conspiracy is not a crime LOL
The "D" day pool, best guess as to when Trump is out
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rkymtnman
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wonder if trump is trying to convince manafort that bank fraud isn't a crime too? 540 year sentence is funny as hell to me.
DIY-HP-LED
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"Alternative facts & alternative reality", killing people isn't a crime, but murder is. Rudy is confusing the law with the label.
Fogdog
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Rudy went for the Jump the Shark award by adding into all of that misinformation, the claim that tweeting is free speech and therefore what Trump said on twitter can't be used against him in an obstruction of justice charge.
rkymtnman
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Sour Wreck
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captainmorgan
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Sir Napsalot
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They blacked-out "raja"
DIY-HP-LED
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Looks like Donald might be ready to move on the DOJ, he wants sessions to end the Mueller investigation with over two dozen russians charged along with Americans and the Manafort trial beginning... If he figures the investigation should end, I guess he won't need to pardon anybody either. What about Don jr, Jared Ivanka, Cohen and all the others who are yet to be charged? Are their pardons already signed?
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Trump says Sessions should end Mueller investigation 'right now'
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/01/politics/trump-russia-jeff-sessions-mueller/index.html
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, should end special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference, arguing that the ongoing probe is hurting the United States.
Although the President has repeatedly criticized the investigation and Sessions' decision to recuse himself from overseeing it, Trump's tweet that his attorney general "should stop" the probe is notable and raises fresh questions about whether the President is attempting to obstruct justice.
"This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further. Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!" the President tweeted.
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Trump says Sessions should end Mueller investigation 'right now'
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/01/politics/trump-russia-jeff-sessions-mueller/index.html
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, should end special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference, arguing that the ongoing probe is hurting the United States.
Although the President has repeatedly criticized the investigation and Sessions' decision to recuse himself from overseeing it, Trump's tweet that his attorney general "should stop" the probe is notable and raises fresh questions about whether the President is attempting to obstruct justice.
"This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further. Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!" the President tweeted.
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DIY-HP-LED
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There seems to be a note of panic in that tweet! Donald must know something big and bad is gonna break, like Donald, since Cohen and his accountant have been on the target list, Donald has been a bit stressed... Between Cohen and his accountant squealing, Donald could end up being sentenced to several lifetimes in prison. Once Trump is out of office he'd better be in russia, cause if he's in the USA the cuffs will be on his tiny wrists before President Pence can take his hand off the bible. There will be no pardons for being in bed with the russians, Pence will be lucky not to be impeached himself and the sooner Donald is a bad memory the better for Pence. If Donald runs to russia I wouldn't expect Pence to last as POTUS for very long, clean hands would be required.
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Trump to Attorney General Jeff Sessions: Stop Mueller probe 'right now'
President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end Robert Mueller's Russia probe immediately, escalating his attacks on the inquiry.
"Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now," the president wrote in a post on Twitter. "Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!"
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Trump to Attorney General Jeff Sessions: Stop Mueller probe 'right now'
- Trump calls on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end Robert Mueller's Russia probe immediately, escalating his attacks on the inquiry.
- "Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now," the president tweets. "Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!"
- The president's attacks on the special counsel have escalated in recent weeks. Trump's attorney, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, made headlines on Monday saying that "collusion is not a crime."
President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end Robert Mueller's Russia probe immediately, escalating his attacks on the inquiry.
"Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now," the president wrote in a post on Twitter. "Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!"
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Sour Wreck
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the way he has been behaving on twitter, shit must be about to get bad for him and he knows it
DIY-HP-LED
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Trump had a twitter shit storm last night, the Manafort trial is getting to him. We ain't even into election season yet and the trials are just beginning, this is just a preview of what is to come. Donald is becoming more unstable and dangerous by the day, the evidence against him and his family is HUGE, many of his closest associates are looking at life sentences, of course they are gonna roll over on him.
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A 'Smocking Gun,' Al Capone, And Obstruction Of Justice
Wednesday brought a trifecta of Twitter nonsense from the President, with tweets about Al Capone, a 'smocking gun,' and basically obstruction of justice in plain sight.
DIY-HP-LED
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Liberal Redneck - Campaign Ads/Vote for Tristan
It's campaign ad season and you'll never believe it but conservatives have lost their goddamn minds. It got me to thinkin....
Herb & Suds
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Frenchname for Congress in all 57 states
DIY-HP-LED
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New Rule: The Party of Putin | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
In his editorial New Rule, Bill asks how Russia has managed to flip not just Trump, but the entire GOP.
DIY-HP-LED
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Monologue: Enema of the People | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
Bill recaps the top stories of the week, including Trumps attacks on journialism, Paul Manafort's trial, and the emergence of #QAnon.
DIY-HP-LED
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The near tie election in a very safe OH district is the best indicator yet of what will happen in nov, there are two or three dozen more GOP seats that are more competitive than this election. The republicans spent a fortune on this "safe" district and can't do the same thing in all the at risk GOP districts in nov. Depending on what else happens between now and november the democrats could pick up between 50 to 100 seats in the house and even a few in the senate. This election is a referendum on Trump and the republican congress that failed in their constitutional responsibilities and even basic patriotic duty as citizens.
Trump isn't on the ballot this time around, so there's no need for Mueller to take a break during campaign season. I would expect him to present something to congress before they take a break, just to make the election interesting!.
Courage is the queen of the virtues, for without courage none of the other virtues are possible, the GOP congress failed to have the courage to lead and the republican base failed to have the courage, intelligence and common sense to live as free people. There's over 35% of the voting population who are more than willing to ignore reality and give their and your freedom to Donald Trump and turn America into Putin's plaything. Trump confessing treason on twitter and publicly humiliating himself and America in Helsinki does matter at all, just like "grab them by the pussy" doesn't matter to these morons.
Character is destiny and Donald's destiny involves a prison cell, or life as a fugitive traitor in moscow, he would be in disgrace, except he never had any grace to lose.
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Why Ohio’s 12th District matters
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/08/07/why-ohios-12th-district-matters/?utm_term=.9faa757fad70
By Jennifer Rubin
August 7 at 2:00 PM
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Primary elections in Ohio, Washington, Michigan, Kansas and Missouri on Tuesday will help gauge whether President Trump is the kiss of death for the GOP. In particular, the special election in Ohio’s 12th Congressional District will go a long way toward giving us an answer to the critical political question: Does Trump hurt Republicans more than he helps?
FiveThirtyEight explains:
Just like in Georgia’s 6th District and Pennsylvania’s 18th District, Democrats in Ohio’s 12th District picked as their nominee a fresh-faced 30-something: Franklin County Recorder Danny O’Connor. And just like in Georgia and Pennsylvania, Republicans chose a 50-something veteran of state politics: state Sen. Troy Balderson.
Moreover, Trump has embraced Balderson, stumping for him at a raucous rally. Balderson in turn has embraced much of the Trump agenda, including repeal of Obamacare. “As a member of Congress, I would vote to repeal and replace Obamacare once and for all and bring true market reforms to the health care industry that increase competition and drive down the cost of premiums for consumers,” he told the Columbus Dispatch. That’s an odd position in a state that successfully extended Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to about 700,000 Ohioans. He has also adopted the standard National Rifle Association stance on guns: “I do not believe that banning or regulating guns from law-abiding citizens will do anything to end gun violence.” He likewise backs Trump’s wall. Asked about support for “dreamers,” he deflects the question to stress his strong-on-borders bona fides.
In normal political times none of this would be problematic. “Ohio’s 12th District is traditionally Republican. According to FiveThirtyEight’s partisan lean metric, it is 14 percentage points more Republican-leaning than the nation as a whole,” according to FiveThirtyEight. A classic country-club Republican district in the suburbs of Columbus, this was Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s district for years. Kasich, usually the embodiment of the #NeverTrump movement, nevertheless endorsed Balderson; Trump’s appearance with Balderson, however, underscores that today’s Republicans are captives of the president and his hard-right message. (The Post’s Amber Phillips reports, “Presidents always cast a large shadow in the first congressional election of their tenure. But Trump so completely dominates the political conversation — he even goes out of his way at rallies such as the one he held Saturday in Ohio to make it about himself — that it’s fair to say this race is a referendum on Trump.”)
Often compared to Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.), who won a Trump district in a special election, O’Connor is running as a moderate on bread-and-butter economic issues, especially health care, and a message deploring Washington gridlock and lack of bipartisanship. He opposes Trump’s wall but doesn’t want to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He favors tax cuts for the middle class but says the tax plan was a give-away to corporations. His response to the Columbus Dispatch on guns was reflective of his I’m-not-a-crazy-lefty approach:
The gun issue, O’Connor said, “cries out for common sense.” He noted his roots growing up in rural western Ohio, where there was hunting and shooting cans on Friday nights.
“None of that is done with assault rifles,” said O’Connor, who now lives in Clintonville. ”‘Red flag’ laws, why don’t we have them? If someone who commits domestic violence wants a gun, they should be denied. Why don’t we have a ban on people on the no-fly list from owning firearms?”
Red flag laws, including one proposed in the Ohio legislature, would allow guns to be temporarily taken from a person until a court decides whether he is a danger to himself or others. Balderson, of Zanesville, opposes the proposal.
“I would not take anybody’s guns,” he said, including those who, after obtaining a gun, are found to have a mental health issue. “If they’re licensed and lawfully allowed to have a gun, we can’t go confiscate it.”
Democrats are prepared to announce victory either way. If they win a district this Republican, they’re looking at a landslide in November. If O’Connor comes close, Democrats will quickly remind us that five dozen seats are less Republican than the Ohio 12th. Navin Nayak, the executive director of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, argues in a memo: “There are 60 districts held by Republicans that are more favorable to Democrats than OH-12 (R+6 or lower). But a closer look at those districts reveals that, with three months to go, Democrats have already succeeded in making all but 4 of those 60 seats competitive.” He continues:
These 56 races provide Democrats with ample opportunity to pick up the 23 seats they need to flip control of the House. Of course, there are roughly another two-dozen seats that are rated as competitive or potentially competitive that are equally or more Republican than OH-12 (R+7 or higher). . . . It is also worth remembering that the OH-12 race was rated Likely R back in March and has consistently trended toward Democrats.
In short, most pollsters and analysts (and some honest Republicans) recognize the Democrats have a very good shot at recapturing the House majority. Tuesday’s results will tell us how big that victory might be and whether a blue wave — able also to sweep out Republican U.S. senators, governors and state lawmakers — is cresting.
Trump isn't on the ballot this time around, so there's no need for Mueller to take a break during campaign season. I would expect him to present something to congress before they take a break, just to make the election interesting!.
Courage is the queen of the virtues, for without courage none of the other virtues are possible, the GOP congress failed to have the courage to lead and the republican base failed to have the courage, intelligence and common sense to live as free people. There's over 35% of the voting population who are more than willing to ignore reality and give their and your freedom to Donald Trump and turn America into Putin's plaything. Trump confessing treason on twitter and publicly humiliating himself and America in Helsinki does matter at all, just like "grab them by the pussy" doesn't matter to these morons.
Character is destiny and Donald's destiny involves a prison cell, or life as a fugitive traitor in moscow, he would be in disgrace, except he never had any grace to lose.
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Why Ohio’s 12th District matters
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/08/07/why-ohios-12th-district-matters/?utm_term=.9faa757fad70
By Jennifer Rubin
August 7 at 2:00 PM
Email the author
Primary elections in Ohio, Washington, Michigan, Kansas and Missouri on Tuesday will help gauge whether President Trump is the kiss of death for the GOP. In particular, the special election in Ohio’s 12th Congressional District will go a long way toward giving us an answer to the critical political question: Does Trump hurt Republicans more than he helps?
FiveThirtyEight explains:
Just like in Georgia’s 6th District and Pennsylvania’s 18th District, Democrats in Ohio’s 12th District picked as their nominee a fresh-faced 30-something: Franklin County Recorder Danny O’Connor. And just like in Georgia and Pennsylvania, Republicans chose a 50-something veteran of state politics: state Sen. Troy Balderson.
Moreover, Trump has embraced Balderson, stumping for him at a raucous rally. Balderson in turn has embraced much of the Trump agenda, including repeal of Obamacare. “As a member of Congress, I would vote to repeal and replace Obamacare once and for all and bring true market reforms to the health care industry that increase competition and drive down the cost of premiums for consumers,” he told the Columbus Dispatch. That’s an odd position in a state that successfully extended Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to about 700,000 Ohioans. He has also adopted the standard National Rifle Association stance on guns: “I do not believe that banning or regulating guns from law-abiding citizens will do anything to end gun violence.” He likewise backs Trump’s wall. Asked about support for “dreamers,” he deflects the question to stress his strong-on-borders bona fides.
In normal political times none of this would be problematic. “Ohio’s 12th District is traditionally Republican. According to FiveThirtyEight’s partisan lean metric, it is 14 percentage points more Republican-leaning than the nation as a whole,” according to FiveThirtyEight. A classic country-club Republican district in the suburbs of Columbus, this was Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s district for years. Kasich, usually the embodiment of the #NeverTrump movement, nevertheless endorsed Balderson; Trump’s appearance with Balderson, however, underscores that today’s Republicans are captives of the president and his hard-right message. (The Post’s Amber Phillips reports, “Presidents always cast a large shadow in the first congressional election of their tenure. But Trump so completely dominates the political conversation — he even goes out of his way at rallies such as the one he held Saturday in Ohio to make it about himself — that it’s fair to say this race is a referendum on Trump.”)
Often compared to Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.), who won a Trump district in a special election, O’Connor is running as a moderate on bread-and-butter economic issues, especially health care, and a message deploring Washington gridlock and lack of bipartisanship. He opposes Trump’s wall but doesn’t want to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He favors tax cuts for the middle class but says the tax plan was a give-away to corporations. His response to the Columbus Dispatch on guns was reflective of his I’m-not-a-crazy-lefty approach:
The gun issue, O’Connor said, “cries out for common sense.” He noted his roots growing up in rural western Ohio, where there was hunting and shooting cans on Friday nights.
“None of that is done with assault rifles,” said O’Connor, who now lives in Clintonville. ”‘Red flag’ laws, why don’t we have them? If someone who commits domestic violence wants a gun, they should be denied. Why don’t we have a ban on people on the no-fly list from owning firearms?”
Red flag laws, including one proposed in the Ohio legislature, would allow guns to be temporarily taken from a person until a court decides whether he is a danger to himself or others. Balderson, of Zanesville, opposes the proposal.
“I would not take anybody’s guns,” he said, including those who, after obtaining a gun, are found to have a mental health issue. “If they’re licensed and lawfully allowed to have a gun, we can’t go confiscate it.”
Democrats are prepared to announce victory either way. If they win a district this Republican, they’re looking at a landslide in November. If O’Connor comes close, Democrats will quickly remind us that five dozen seats are less Republican than the Ohio 12th. Navin Nayak, the executive director of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, argues in a memo: “There are 60 districts held by Republicans that are more favorable to Democrats than OH-12 (R+6 or lower). But a closer look at those districts reveals that, with three months to go, Democrats have already succeeded in making all but 4 of those 60 seats competitive.” He continues:
These 56 races provide Democrats with ample opportunity to pick up the 23 seats they need to flip control of the House. Of course, there are roughly another two-dozen seats that are rated as competitive or potentially competitive that are equally or more Republican than OH-12 (R+7 or higher). . . . It is also worth remembering that the OH-12 race was rated Likely R back in March and has consistently trended toward Democrats.
In short, most pollsters and analysts (and some honest Republicans) recognize the Democrats have a very good shot at recapturing the House majority. Tuesday’s results will tell us how big that victory might be and whether a blue wave — able also to sweep out Republican U.S. senators, governors and state lawmakers — is cresting.
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rkymtnman
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awwww sweetie, you better find a safe place and a nipple to suck on.