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[Diablos]

Is McConnell ever going to give up on ACA repeal? At this point I'm not sure...

 

[hydragonwarrior]

Is McConnell ever going to give up on ACA repeal? At this point I'm not sure...

He's getting older and therefore getting more stubborn. If any of that conversation with his close colleague is true, he won't stop till he gets what is considered (likely to him) a milestone in his career. Or he gets dethroned by someone even further right.

 

[KirbYuuYuu]

Is McConnell ever going to give up on ACA repeal? At this point I'm not sure...

Slow and steady wins the race

 

[Futurevoid]

Firing Mueller won't be a one time thing, he'll have to go through a bunch of people at the DoJ first

Today he would have to have Rosenstein to fire Mueller. He'll resign before he does, the associate AG will as well. It'll be a fucking mess.....like Watergate.

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

Is McConnell ever going to give up on ACA repeal? At this point I'm not sure...

Their tax plan hinges on it... He has to try

 

[daedalius]

Kobach is running for KS governor. He's not giving that up for a post that will put him in legal jeapordy with this corrupt admin and to go through a senate confirmation fight that will be extremely rough and will air all of his dirty shit. He's only now getting the national spotlight with the election commission garbage.

I don't think he wins the Governorship either. He's running on continuing Brownback's horrid tax cuts and policies and I think Kansans (including Kansas R's) are about done with that shit.

Kansas elected new local reps to override Brownback's veto on the tax cuts, so yea, I'm pretty sure we're done with that shit.

What totally threw me was the story about Illinois being the most financially fucked up place in the US, I was for sure thinking it was kansas.

 

[RumbleHumble]

Is McConnell ever going to give up on ACA repeal? At this point I'm not sure...

Obamacare is his white whale.

 

[aspiegamer]

Is McConnell ever going to give up on ACA repeal? At this point I'm not sure...

It's his own dumb ass' fault, too, for not having any sort of actual plan to vote on despite being majority leader for 3 years. The vindictive GOP of 2011 that swooped in everywhere on the state and federal level with template laws from right-wing think tanks would be ashamed.

 

[BlastProcessing]

@yashar
The Senate Judiciary committee is asking Don Jr to turn over any communications he had with Jill Stein....among others....

@yashar
Yashar Ali Retweeted Yashar Ali
Also "The Ritz Carlton Moscow Hotel" - referring to the hotel mentioned in the Steele dossier.

We are about to see a Presidency brought down by a cleaning bill.

 

[AntraxSuicide]

So random question (paging benjipwns): when was the last time a county changed its name? What was the context of that?

Because fucking Christ I'd love it if, in the middle of tearing down Confederate statues, we also took a look at whether we should have a Jefferson Davis county here in MS. It's not even just Davis Co or Jefferson Co! Gotta really make it clear who it's named after.

 

[RustyNails]

Is McConnell ever going to give up on ACA repeal? At this point I'm not sure...

Slow and steady wins the race.

Re: Russiagate, I find it pretty surreal that practically every "out there" story reported by the lefty outlets from 2016 is being investigated. These stories were pushed aside as conspiracy tinfoil nonsense. I'm waiting for this piece to be proven true, reported by Mother Jones. The Don Jr meeting is prelude to it.

Mother Jones has reviewed that report and other memos this former spy wrote. The first memo, based on the former intelligence officer’s conversations with Russian sources, noted, “Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP for at least 5 years. Aim, endorsed by PUTIN, has been to encourage splits and divisions in western alliance.” It maintained that Trump “and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals.” It claimed that Russian intelligence had “compromised” Trump during his visits to Moscow and could “blackmail him.” It also reported that Russian intelligence had compiled a dossier on Hillary Clinton based on “bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls.”

The former intelligence officer says the response from the FBI was “shock and horror.” The FBI, after receiving the first memo, did not immediately request additional material, according to the former intelligence officer and his American associates. Yet in August, they say, the FBI asked him for all information in his possession and for him to explain how the material had been gathered and to identify his sources. The former spy forwarded to the bureau several memos—some of which referred to members of Trump’s inner circle. After that point, he continued to share information with the FBI. “It’s quite clear there was or is a pretty substantial inquiry going on,” he says.

 

[Autodidact]

Jill Stein? What?

I knew she was a Russian stooge, but if her ass gets implicated in all of this, I will cackle.

And this is after she fleeced thousands of despondent liberals into giving her money for a "recount."

 

[Random Human]

@yashar
The Senate Judiciary committee is asking Don Jr to turn over any communications he had with Jill Stein....among others....

Whaaat.

 

[BlastProcessing]

@blakehounshell
So this is weird, huh? Trump seems to suggest here that he'd heard about the Trump Jr. meeting, then says he hadn't.

I mean, he says clear as day that he knew about the meeting.

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

@yashar
The Senate Judiciary committee is asking Don Jr to turn over any communications he had with Jill Stein....among others....

@yashar
Yashar Ali Retweeted Yashar Ali
Also "The Ritz Carlton Moscow Hotel" - referring to the hotel mentioned in the Steele dossier.

We are about to see a Presidency brought down by a cleaning bill.

I BELIEVE

 

[RustyNails]

Jill Stein? What?

 

[Random Human]

@blakehounshell
So this is weird, huh? Trump seems to suggest here that he'd heard about the Trump Jr. meeting, then says he hadn't.

I mean, he says clear as day that he knew about the meeting.

I didn't grind my shoes on his couch. Yeah I grinded my shoes on his couch.

 

[TheLaughingStock]

And apparently adoption and/or the Magnitsky Act has become their euphemism for "treason," and for some reason they think we haven't caught on yet.

Why is treason in quotes? Trump came out in favor of sanctions this year.

Trump’s surprisingly strong statement in support of the law, called the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, drew cautious praise Friday from the law’s main champion, Bill Browder, a British investment banker and fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The law is named for Browder’s lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian prison. At the time of his arrest, Magnitsky had been defending Browder against fraud charges and, in doing so, had collected evidence of a vast embezzlement scheme by Russian tax officials. Supporters of Russia in the U.S. Congress had tried, and failed, to remove Magnitsky’s name from the global law.

Trump’s letter accompanied a report on implementation of the law, under which 44 Russian citizens, including some high-level officials, have been blacklisted by the United States, barred from traveling there or maintaining any financial interests in the country.

http://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-crackdown-on-rights-abusers-in-russia/

 

[Trouble]

Nothing would make me happier than if Jill Stein got sent to prison for treason.

 

[Aaron Strife]

If Jill Stein is implicated in this I have so much shit to talk.

 

[kirblar]

Please please take down Stein.

 

[Autodidact]

If Jill Stein is implicated in this I have so much shit to talk.

I'm not surprised. The dossier specifically mentions Russia's funding left-wing groups to sow discontent and conflict in the Democratic coalition. They stoked the fires of the Bernie Bros, after all, and they probably directed Jill Stein to cause chaos on the left, too.

And the fact that the Judiciary Committee named the hotel... They know a lot more than we know.

 

[BlastProcessing]

Remember the end of A Few Good Men... When Cruise has the pilots come in and sit in courtroom?

It's going to be like that, except sub in Mueller and Russian Housekeepers.

 

[UberTag]

How could Stein NOT be implicated in this? The evidence is telling.

Remember the end of A Few Good Men... When Cruise has the pilots come in and sit in courtroom?

It's going to be like that, except sub in Mueller and Russian Housekeepers.

I'll be amused if Putin's cronies had the foresight to off Trump's hookers but had a complete blind spot about the cleaning crew.

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

Stein..BRUH imagine the Piss Tape being confirmed through the cleaning bill. "Don jr, is this cleaning bill normal? It looks to be a few thousand American dollars..." I'm hyped as fuck and it's not even midnight.

 

[Autodidact]

And if Stein gets caught up in this, who the hell cares enough about her to protect her?

 

[sc0la]

Lol stein.

My dark horse theory is still that the meeting was set up with the pretext of "dirt on Clinton" but really they came to show the pee tapes to don jr.

You don't say "we have dirt on your dad and want a meeting to exert leverage."

Edit:
When don jr says they talked about "adoption" it was in the context of "Jesus Christ I wish I had been given up for adoption."

 

[Aaron Strife]

And if Stein gets caught up in this, who the hell cares enough about her to protect her?

Yeah, it's not like her movement was driven by anything to do with her. She ran against Obama and no one gave a shit. She was just an easy anti-Clinton option.

 

[BlastProcessing]

And if Stein gets caught up in this, who the hell cares enough about her to protect her?

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

And if Stein gets caught up in this, who the hell cares enough about her to protect her?

The wifi waves will protect her.

 

[Box of Kittens]

Kansas elected new local reps to override Brownback's veto on the tax cuts, so yea, I'm pretty sure we're done with that shit.

What totally threw me was the story about Illinois being the most financially fucked up place in the US, I was for sure thinking it was kansas.

Illinois has a bunch of structural problems with its finances that are difficult to fix because of our horrid state constitution. Then on top of that we had the self-inflicted wound that is the two year long budget stalemate that was only broken this month because the legislature cobbled together enough votes to override Rauner's veto.

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

I was thinking yesterday that we'd gone a while without an "Is [Admin Official X] Losing Favor?" story. Dumb palace intrigue, but luckily the details in the interview are outrageous enough, it wasn't just because he didn't like the media presence of Mr. Jefferson Beauregard Stonewall Lee Forrest Bragg Longstreet Booth Simmons Griffith Sessions VIII.

Time magazine cover next week for Little Jeffrey.

Do it do it do it do it do it.

@yashar
The Senate Judiciary committee is asking Don Jr to turn over any communications he had with Jill Stein....among others....

@yashar
Yashar Ali Retweeted Yashar Ali
Also "The Ritz Carlton Moscow Hotel" - referring to the hotel mentioned in the Steele dossier.

We are about to see a Presidency brought down by a cleaning bill.

Oh lordy...I know we're racing against time here, and that procecutions take time to square away but...so many tangled threads are being tugged and alot of dirty laundry once hinted at in the darkest corners of conspiracy are now tumbling into the light.

 

[aspiegamer]

That the Ritz Moscow is mentioned at all by name should be a 100% confirmation that the tape is real.

Please please take down Stein.

If Jill Stein is implicated in this I have so much shit to talk.

INFINITE fuel for shitting on Stein voters. Oh my god. Please happen. Also, I think I'll go punch Nader in the dick for old time's sake. Still never forgiving that man. Stein followed that same playbook to ruin an election.

Final twist: It's actually Putin who bought Sanders his summer lake home, so there's no need for the FBI to investigate him or his wife.

Spoiler

I'm 100% kidding.

 

[RustyNails]

Lol stein.

My dark horse theory is still that the meeting was set up with the pretext of "dirt on Clinton" but really they came to show the pee tapes to don jr.

You don't say "we have dirt on your dad and want a meeting to exert leverage."

Nah, Russians did have dirt on Clinton and probably still do. Remember, just hours after Don Jr's meeting with the Russians, Trump Sr goes to a campaign rally and promises that Hillary is going to be exposed or something.

 

[RumbleHumble]

The one time an evening this week where this thread isn't derailed by argumentative bullshit and I have go sleep early.

 

[Drkirby]

I half expect Sanders to actually be involved in all this. He had the Russian disinformation campaign putting their support behind him, as testified by Comey in his first public House Hearing about the Russian Election interference. While it was likely a one sided affair just to weaken Hillary's position, I am still remain skeptical.

 

[kess]

Huh, this Willy Wimmer guy sounds interesting -- he advocates for a "crossfront" of the far right and left, supports Russia in all foreign policy, and attacks the mainstream media...

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/medien/j...-netzwerk-fuer-putin-und-pegida/12194382.html

 

[Autodidact]

Nah, Russians did have dirt on Clinton and probably still do. Remember, just hours after Don Jr's meeting with the Russians, Trump Sr goes to a campaign rally and promises that Hillary is going to be exposed or something.

The dossier says that Russia has some "incidental communications" collected during Hillary's visits - probably just phone calls. Who knows about the emails.

And if Bernie's name pops up, OT will be a war zone.

 

[Random Human]

Nah, Russians did have dirt on Clinton and probably still do. Remember, just hours after Don Jr's meeting with the Russians, Trump Sr goes to a campaign rally and promises that Hillary is going to be exposed or something.

But what was the dirt? Why did they never release it? Seems really weird. They release Podesta's emails full of nothing but sat on that.

 

[Diablos]

Slow and steady wins the race

Exactly. It might be premature to celebrate. Never, ever trust Republicans to do the right thing. Ever.

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

That the Ritz Moscow is mentioned at all by name should be a 100% confirmation that the tape is real.

INFINITE fuel for shitting on Stein voters. Oh my god. Please happen. Also, I think I'll go punch Nader in the dick for old time's sake. Still never forgiving that man. Stein followed that same playbook to ruin an election.

Final twist: It's actually Putin who bought Sanders his summer lake home, so there's no need for the FBI to investigate him or his wife.

Spoiler

I'm 100% kidding.

Except Stein's votes don't put Hillary over-the-top.

 

[pigeon]

I half expect Sanders to actually be involved in all this. He had the Russian disinformation campaign putting their support behind him, as testified by Comey in his first public House Hearing about the Russian Election interference. While it was likely a one sided affair just to weaken Hillary's position, I am still remain skeptical.

This seems pretty out there to me. I don't see any reason to think Bernie would work with foreign powers.

 

[Autodidact]

Except Stein's votes don't put Hillary over-the-top.

I just checked the margins in PA, WI, and MI. Stein's votes would've put Hillary over the top.

 

[sc0la]

Nah, Russians did have dirt on Clinton and probably still do. Remember, just hours after Don Jr's meeting with the Russians, Trump Sr goes to a campaign rally and promises that Hillary is going to be exposed or something.

I know I was joking.

I think their big dirt" on Hillary was disinformation (the laundering Russian money to dnc). The already has theDNC emails at that point. Trump wanted hillary's "missing" emails, and it wouldn't surprise me if they asked Russia for help on that privately (besides very public ally by trump lol). But trumps and idiot and didn't realize there was no way to get those emails with the server offline for years at that point.

 

[Effect]

I'm going to need to get this NYTimes interview covered for me tomorrow. There is so much WTFness in it. Didn't the last time he did something like this it turn out really bad for him? I can't believe he was willing to do another interview like this.

 

[Bonen no Max'd]

I just checked the margins in PA, WI, and MI. Stein's votes would've put Hillary over the top.

true in the latter two, not true in Pennsylvania

 

[sc0la]

But what was the dirt? Why did they never release it? Seems really weird. They release Podesta's emails full of nothing but sat on that.

A lot of "dirt" was probably disinformation. It doesn't mean it wasn't spread, it just probably wasn't true. See pizzagate, the kid who got killed, bogus money laundering claims etc.

 

[Dan]

@blakehounshell
So this is weird, huh? Trump seems to suggest here that he'd heard about the Trump Jr. meeting, then says he hadn't.

I mean, he says clear as day that he knew about the meeting.

Honestly, Trump's English is so poor it's hard to parse this enough to believe he's admitting anything instead of just speaking wildly in different tenses.

@yashar
The Senate Judiciary committee is asking Don Jr to turn over any communications he had with Jill Stein....among others....

Has there been any suggestion that such communications might exist?

 

[Tarydax]

I half expect Sanders to actually be involved in all this. He had the Russian disinformation campaign putting their support behind him, as testified by Comey in his first public House Hearing about the Russian Election interference. While it was likely a one sided affair just to weaken Hillary's position, I am still remain skeptical.

For all his faults, he's never struck me as anti-American, unlike Stein.

 

[Autodidact]

true in the latter two, not true in Pennsylvania

The official PA election results say otherwise.