The USA Political Thread

[lennco]

Here you can spout your USA political views.

Rules:
1. Keep it clean
2. No fighting
3. Respect the views of others.
4. US Political views, No Religious views
5. Have fun

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[JB Lions]

What's this about, this seems like they're pretty much admitting guilt. First, maybe blocking the report from being released to the public, then finishing up a "voluminous" report on Mueller, then a report to refute findings. Seems like they have a pretty good idea already what they'll be refuting:

Giuliani: Trump legal team may try to block Mueller from releasing final report

President Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani is claiming that the president's legal team may invoke executive privilege to stop special counsel Robert Mueller's final report on the Russia investigation from being released to the public.

Giuliani told The New Yorker that it's likely the Trump administration would object to the memo being made public information..............

He also told the magazine that the Trump team is planning to release a report of its own to refute Mueller's findings.

The comments are a part of a larger profile from the magazine on Giuliani's work for the president.

It also comes days after Giuliani told the Daily Beast that Trump's legal team is almost finished with a “voluminous” report aimed at discrediting Mueller.

http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...l-team-may-block-mueller-from-releasing-final

 

[mr-x]

I predict this campaign will get a lot of attention.

Hmm, will BoycottNike start to trend? This will be interesting to see how it plays out. Good move by Nike? Will Trump tweet about this, knowing he likes to tweet about kneeling, NFL football starting in 2 days?

Nike launching ad campaign featuring Kaepernick: media reports
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true

Will Republicans burn their Nikes? Continue to purchase? Don't care? Big nothing?

 

[mr-x]

You should, because it would have happened under any Republican President, maybe one that wasn't a criminal.

Ha ha ha ha ha.. Clinton couldn't do it and he was an actual criminal.

Thank's Senator McConnell ®

 

[enlytend]

Bob Woodward quotes John Kelly in his new book as saying of POTUS: “He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown. I don’t even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.”

Wonder how much longer Kelly's going to last ... What's the turnover headcount up to? I lost count.

 

[mr-x]

Bob Woodward quotes John Kelly in his new book as saying of POTUS: “He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown. I don’t even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.”

Wonder how much longer Kelly's going to last ... What's the turnover headcount up to? I lost count.

It will be interesting to learn how many of these statements are direct quotes and how many are from a third or fourth party.

I'm not calling Woodward a liar but if he's repeating conversations without confirmation from the source, he's doing more harm than good; IMO.

 

[JB Lions]

Hmm, will BoycottNike start to trend?

Yep, NikeBoycott - https://twitter.com/hashtag/NikeBoycott?src=tren&lang=en

Big & Rich singer urges #NikeBoycott over Colin Kaepernick ad: https://usat.ly/2NOCzY3 "Reebok, here we come."

Here's an idea. If you think America's veterans deserve more respect, why not donate your clothes to a veterans' charity instead of cutting them up with scissors like a dumb, spiteful little brat? #NikeBoycott

I worked in corporate strategy at Nike for years. Nike's most loyal and lucrative core consumer? Black youth. Not the Trump supporter cutting his socks with pruning shears. #NikeBoycott? The company is laughing its way to the bank.

 

[mr-x]

Corry Booker emoting at Kavanaugh confirmation hearing like the Judge is responsible for passing laws, not the Senate.

Fund raising email loading 10%, 20%, ...

 

[mr-x]

Kapernick hasn't sacrificed anything. Nike has been paying him since he was benched for being a shitty QB. New Nike endorsement contract will pay more than he made at SF. He's a communist agitator, not a hero.

Yep, NikeBoycott - https://twitter.com/hashtag/NikeBoycott?src=tren&lang=en

Big & Rich singer urges #NikeBoycott over Colin Kaepernick ad: https://usat.ly/2NOCzY3 "Reebok, here we come."

Here's an idea. If you think America's veterans deserve more respect, why not donate your clothes to a veterans' charity instead of cutting them up with scissors like a dumb, spiteful little brat? #NikeBoycott

I worked in corporate strategy at Nike for years. Nike's most loyal and lucrative core consumer? Black youth. Not the Trump supporter cutting his socks with pruning shears. #NikeBoycott? The company is laughing its way to the bank.

 

[JB Lions]

What did NBC do? I guess they're worse than CNN now. For today.

NBC FAKE NEWS, which is under intense scrutiny over their killing the Harvey Weinstein story, is now fumbling around making excuses for their probably highly unethical conduct. I have long criticized NBC and their journalistic standards-worse than even CNN. Look at their license?
10:58 AM - 4 Sep 2018
Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump

 

[JB Lions]

Oh, this is real, haha. Everybody taping him:

Transcript: Phone call between President Trump and journalist Bob Woodward

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...urnalist-bob-woodward/?utm_term=.0f43f10582a2

https://www.washingtonpost.com/vide...e5355c-b053-11e8-8b53-50116768e499_video.html

Bob Woodward, an associate editor at The Washington Post, sought an interview with President Trump as he was writing “Fear,” a book about Trump’s presidency. Trump called Woodward in early August, after the manuscript had been completed, to say he wanted to participate.

Over the course of 11-plus minutes, Trump repeatedly claimed his White House staff hadn’t informed him of Woodward’s interview request — despite also admitting Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) had told him Woodward wanted to talk. He also started the phone call by saying Woodward had “always been fair” to him, but by the end he said the book would be “inaccurate.”

This is a transcript of that call, with key sections highlighted and annotated. To see an annotation, click on the yellow, highlighted text.

He's a communist agitator, not a hero.

Or just exercising his rights. But communist agitator sounds more dramatic.

 

[enlytend]

I'm not calling Woodward a liar but if he's repeating conversations without confirmation from the source, he's doing more harm than good; IMO.

Woodward has a reputation for doing his homework.

 

[GILSAN]

Corry Booker emoting at Kavanaugh confirmation hearing like the Judge is responsible for passing laws, not the Senate.

Fund raising email loading 10%, 20%, ...

Corry Booker, part of the pre-planned DemocRAT Clown Show at the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing...

Linda "Cockroach" Sarsour, the Sharia law-loving POS and other screaming disruptors were arrested for disorderly conduct.

 

[JB Lions]

Reading some quotes from the book, damn:

John Dowd once told Trump, according to Woodward: "Don't testify. It's either that or an orange jumpsuit." Quite a statement from the president's then-attorney.
“I’m not going to sit there and let him look like an idiot. And you publish that transcript, because everything leaks in Washington, and the guys overseas are going to say, ‘I told you he was an idiot. I told you he was a goddamn dumbbell. What are we dealing with this idiot for?’ ”

President Trump has called AG Jeff Sessions mentally retarded, a dumb Southerner and a lousy attorney.

After Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad launched a chemical attack on civilians in April 2017, Trump called Mattis and said he wanted to assassinate the dictator. ‘Let’s fucking kill him! Let’s go in. Let’s kill the fucking lot of them,’ Trump said, according to Woodward.”

General John Kelly said Trump was “an idiot,” and it was “pointless to try to convince him of anything.” “He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown. I don’t even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.”

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis: Trump had the understanding of "a fifth- or sixth-grader."

In an effort to curb the president’s “most dangerous impulses,” Trump’s former chief economic adviser Gary Cohn swiped multiple official documents from the president’s desk so he wouldn’t sign them, according to Woodward.

“You’re a goddamn staffer!” former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon reportedly screamed at her, insisting she report to the chief of staff like all other aides. “You walk around this place and act like you’re in charge, and you’re not. You’re on staff!”

Her response, according to Woodward: “I’m not a staffer! I’ll never be a staffer. I’m the first daughter.”

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Trump has been quiet so far on Twitter today, nothing after all these excerpts started coming out. Just the usual fake news tweet and something about Gordon storm, posted before all this.

Gotta be weird walking around and knowing everybody looks at him like an idiot. Everybody recording him. Everybody that's left saying the same thing.

 

[Kate]

I'm not calling Woodward a liar but if he's repeating conversations without confirmation from the source, he's doing more harm than good; IMO.

I'm curious, are you always as skeptical every time 45 blabbers some stuff he's just made up ?

 

[mr-x]

I'm curious, are you always as skeptical every time 45 blabbers some stuff he's just made up ?

Are you always incurious with third / fourth party rumors?

 

[mr-x]

Or just exercising his rights. But communist agitator sounds more dramatic.

FIFY: Accurate.

Both he and his girlfriend are communist. Black Lives Matter is a marxist organization. Why are you afraid of the truth?

 

[mr-x]

Woodward has a reputation for doing his homework.

He has a reputation for being accurate. It seems to me, most of the inflammatory quotes liberals are wetting themselves over are from staff, repeating someone else.

We call those rumors.

 

[JB Lions]

He has a reputation for being accurate.

We call those rumors.

Don't piss yourself.

lol, yes, everybody is making things up about him. All the video, audio that's been leaked by various sources, not real, haha.

 

[mr-x]

lol, yes, everybody is making things up about him. All the video, audio that's been leaked by various sources, not real, haha.

Don't piss yourself.

We all know democrats don't lie, they just don't tell the truth.

 

[enlytend]

No, if the staff / source actually saw and heard these things they are called “eyewitness accounts.”

“Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents”