Watch Trump flip now on Flynn and make him out to be evil and not the great guy he once said he was.
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Watch Trump flip now on Flynn and make him out to be evil and not the great guy he once said he was.
That could well be the slam dunk.
I wonder if Library of Congress will be involved/subpoenaed... since DOJ has ruled that tweets are official POTUS communication and LOC keeps a record of all tweets (so anything deleted is still in their record)
You would hope so right? As much as Sander and the Republican dismiss his tweets they are still official and have to be recorded.
The devil will be in the details eg did they just talk sanctions as part of a broad foreign policy discussion or did they discuss a quid pro deal of sanctions relief for Clinton dirt. And also if the firing of Comey was to directly hinder investigation into those meetings.
But it sure blows a hole in the “there were no contact with the Russians” defense, if any of that even existed after Trump jnrs emails.
Trump has told one truth in all of this. He genuinely could walk out on to 5th and shoot somebody and it wouldn't matter to his supporters
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Flynn is much bigger news than Manafort and Page, who were the sort of low-grade grifters that proliferate in Washington - and who flocked to make an easy buck from Trump precisely because they were certainty he'd lose soon enough for their otherwise routine criminality to avoid scrutiny. But Flynn on the other hand was an actual top advisor, and much of what he is alleged to have done occurred after his appointment. Trump is on the record as having specifically directed Coney to ease off him.
Flynn has been widely seen as a policy nutter for some time now, but in Washington most people think his brain actually broke sometime around 2013-2014, when even fellow neo-Con crusaders began to worry that he'd been getting high on his own conspiracy supply, so to speak (much of what Republicans peddle is intended strictly and exclusively for chud consumption). So he was in due course shuffled off to a prestigious university fellowship (also entirely routine for Washington's procession of rejected dimwits and lunatics), where, unusually, realizing within a week that something was seriously wrong with the man, the program director took to sending department-wide emails warning people not to visit Flynn's office hours or attend his talks. From there, Flynn became the National Security Advisor.
Mueller et al will of course only be taking this approach with Flynn because they have bigger fish to fry still. Even a precursory amount of reading about Jared, for example, suggests there's a lot for him to be concerned with. Ideally, all will be revealed about Trump's inner circle before the midterms, and if these do turn out to be a wave election, impeachment and any relevant legal action can begin thereafter.
It is imperative that a decisive election come first, however, and even still, impeachment will be profoundly dangerous. For America's significant well-armed reality-impaired conspiracist minority, impeachment will be confirmation of all their wildest, darkest, deep-state Comet Pizza reveries, and once out of the tube, there's no putting that toothpaste back.
Flynn has been widely seen as a policy nutter for some time now, but in Washington most people think his brain actually broke sometime around 2013-2014, when even fellow neo-Con crusaders began to worry that he'd been getting high on his own conspiracy supply, so to speak (much of what Republicans peddle is intended strictly and exclusively for chud consumption). So he was in due course shuffled off to a prestigious university fellowship (also entirely routine for Washington's procession of rejected dimwits and lunatics), where, unusually, realizing within a week that something was seriously wrong with the man, the program director took to sending department-wide emails warning people not to visit Flynn's office hours or attend his talks. From there, Flynn became the National Security Advisor.
Mueller et al will of course only be taking this approach with Flynn because they have bigger fish to fry still. Even a precursory amount of reading about Jared, for example, suggests there's a lot for him to be concerned with. Ideally, all will be revealed about Trump's inner circle before the midterms, and if these do turn out to be a wave election, impeachment and any relevant legal action can begin thereafter.
It is imperative that a decisive election come first, however, and even still, impeachment will be profoundly dangerous. For America's significant well-armed reality-impaired conspiracist minority, impeachment will be confirmation of all their wildest, darkest, deep-state Comet Pizza reveries, and once out of the tube, there's no putting that toothpaste back.
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yea, there's some scary bigger picture stuff out there alright,
unfortunately, in the short term, having such a tentative hold on the executive branch may galvanize congress to pass all sorts of crap like this tax bill while they can.
He’s an Obama guy, barely knew him!
Of course haha!!
Would not have expected anything else from them haha!!
Whats hilarious is they operate like its the 1960's and its hard to pull archive footage and or news clippings.
He realises even if his words and tweets are not officially captured they are still out there and can be found real quick in this digital age.
Sure the Access Hollywood tape should have given him his first clue and that was 10 years ago haha!!
They operate on denial and like i said yesterday even if someone pulls video or pictures of his tweets because he has his base believing his fake news agenda it works for him. Which for me is the most frustrating part. That and the Republican party will simply shrug there shoulders and say what can you do or nothing at all.
Huge amendment to the nations tax and health laws passed without even seeing a bill let alone time to read and have discussion of it.
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yup, they are certainly trying. it looked smooth sailing until it emerged last night that the entire mechanism they were relying on to appease their own deficit hawks is not actually permissible. that and a report projecting the cuts to add about a trillion to the deficit.
apparently they have reconvened and are hoping to vote on the bill today, despite the fact that, as usual, very few Republicans led alone anyone else will have read it.
what they have in mind is so politically incompetent that I sometimes wonder if the Dems aren't keeping quiet precisely because they hope to get the chance to campaign against it.
in order to further lower the globally-paltry tax rate on multi-billionaire shareholders, and on corporations already swimming in more money than they literally know what to do with, at a time of chronic under-investment in infrastructure, health, education, research, productivity - basically everything that is required to become a modern country - the Republicans are going to actually raise the taxes of lower income families AND working prosperous professionals (while of course still contributing massively to the national debt).
for the Democrats to have a prayer of implementing any sort of modern, developed nation's economic agenda, a la Sanders/Warren, it is imperative for them to get this latter group of elite professionals who actually work for their income to accept higher taxes.
and the Republicans are unilaterally volunteering to take this political hit for them, so that in 2018 the Dems can campaign to modernise the country while promising token tax cuts for everyone except for the shareholder aristocrats which both parties' bases overwhelmingly loathe.
it would appear to be madness, but for the occasional Republican to helpfully let slip who their actual constituents are:
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If only the US would change the rules on donors then this would not be an issue. I would imagine there are not too many other democratic countries that allows the types of payoff and bribes sorry i mean donations as they do here.
Its ridiculous that a politician should have to raise a crazy sum like $50m to be somewhat successful and it seems to be a race to raise the most money every time.
That goes for both sides. Although i suspect it seems to matter to the right more than the left that they appease their donors.
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well, before Sanders but certainly after the Tea Party, Democrats relied slightly more on elite and corporate donors than Republicans, though they perhaps cater to a marginally less awful class of billionaire. Obama took more money from Wall Street in 2008 than anyone else ever had, and it paid off handsomely in the form of total a priori impunity and a comprehensive tax-payer-funded bailout. and insurance companies couldn't get enough of the obamacare-subsidy bonanza.
but yes, it is demonstrably corrupt, though as with so much else of what makes America so backwards, perfectly legal. even US senate races these days cost more than many European countries' entire national elections.
in the modern world, there is a solution for this - state-allocated funding subject to regulation and oversight, which achieves the same level of public awareness for a tiny fraction of the cost (to say nothing of the obscene American absurdity of political parties drawing their own electoral districts).
but many Americans hold very quaint and naive ideas about how politics should work - which happen to align perfectly with the small oligarchy's cynical and self-serving ideas about how politics should work.
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