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10000th post in this thread, and I woke up once again this morning thanking God for the election results on Nov. 2016. | |||
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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis talked to reporters at the Pentagon this afternoon. Asked his biggest military concern in 2018, he responded: “I don’t have concerns. I create them” And during an interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday morning (back in May 2017), Secretary of Defense James Mattis was asked, “What keeps you awake at night?” His answer: “Nothing, I keep other people awake at night.” MAGA. Fuck not with the warrior monk. NRA Life Member - "Fear God and Dreadnaught" | |||
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Don't you just love that man... ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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There's a reason why they're Trashing the Tax Bill. The quote below should be repeated over and over until people get it. The tax bill is political genius.
"God knows how many of them will see their taxes go down and base it just on that." http://dailycaller.com/2018/01...and-vote-republican/ ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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Agree with you on that Mr. Kook. | |||
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do you think a business guy might do well as president ?  first year numbers of their presidential period https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...y-very-good-n2430710 | |||
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Can anyone tell me what an FBI Form 1023 referred to in Chairman Nunez’s letter to Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein is? Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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FBI Form FD-1023s that document meetings between FBI officials and FBI confidential human sources. http://www.breitbart.com/2016-...bi-need-investigate/ The “Confidential Human Source Validation Manual” establishes standardized policy and guidance regarding the validation process for confidential human sources. Specifically, this manual codifies the process and standards by which the FBI assesses the reliability, authenticity, integrity, and overall value of a given source. https://archives.fbi.gov/archi...human-source-program | |||
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on previous page there is the Sen Grassley ltr to Rosenstein (DoJ) and Wray (FBI) Byron York has written an article that speculates on what the ltr might mean. He makes some good points http://www.washingtonexaminer....4?platform=hootsuite Grassley and Graham said that, on the basis of the classified information laid out in the memo, "we are respectfully referring Mr. Steele to you for investigation of 18 U.S.C. 1001, for statements the committee has reason to believe Mr. Steele made regarding his distribution of information contained in the dossier." (18 U.S.C. 1001 is the same federal false statements law that special counsel Robert Mueller has used to charge Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos in the Trump-Russia investigation.) Steele has not talked to any of the three congressional committees investigating the Trump-Russia affair – the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, or the House Intelligence Committee. Steele did not make false statements to them because he has not made any statements to them. Steele has, reportedly, talked to Mueller's prosecutors, but it seems highly unlikely Grassley and Graham are suggesting Steele lied to Mueller because it is highly unlikely – actually, beyond highly unlikely – that the Mueller office would have shared any of Steele's answers with the Senate Judiciary Committee So, what were Grassley and Graham referring to in their letter? What are the "statements the committee has reason to believe Mr. Steele made" that Grassley and Graham believe might be false? Steele started reporting his "results" immediately to the FBI in early July 2016. That began a series of communications between Steele and the bureau in which Steele made certain representations to the FBI about his work. It is a crime to make false statements to the FBI – doesn't have to be under oath, doesn't have to be in a formal interview or interrogation setting, it's simply a criminal act to knowingly make a false statement to the FBI. All the while, Steele was also working for the opposition research firm Fusion GPS – his dossier was the result of a Fusion anti-Trump project funded by the Clinton campaign. As part of that, Steele briefed reporters on what he had found. In a London court case, Steele's lawyers said that in September 2016 Fusion GPS directed Steele to brief reporters from the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, the New Yorker, Yahoo News, and, later, Mother Jones. Steele did each briefing individually. When Steele was discussing working for the FBI, did he fully inform the FBI of what his work for the Clinton campaign involved, in particular his briefing the press on the findings he would be reporting to the FBI? To use Grassley's and Graham's words, were the "statements the committee has reason to believe Mr. Steele made regarding his distribution of information contained in the dossier" accurate? One way to find that out is to compare what Steele told the London court with what Steele told the FBI. Some of the London court testimony is public. As for what Steele told the FBI, the Senate Judiciary Committee has examined a lot of dossier-related material from the FBI under an agreement that allows the committee to view materials the bureau has originally produced to the House Intelligence Committee. It appears that Grassley and Graham are pursuing inconsistencies between what Steele told the FBI and what Steele told the London court. If they conflict, which is true? If what Steele told the FBI was untrue, that's a problem. ************************ recently Fusion GPS said Steele did not know the funds for the dossier were coming from the Clinton campaign. Fusion also said the Russians who supplied the raw info were not paid anything then again, why believe anything Fusion GPS says ? | |||
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Wall Street's love of tax cuts drove Dow to 25,000 mark The Dow Jones industrial average surged past 25,000 Thursday, a strong signal of investor enthusiasm for President Donald Trump's $1.5 trillion tax cut. The milestone comes less than a year after the Dow topped 20,000. "We broke a very, very big barrier," Trump said Thursday at the White House. "Every time you see that number go up on Wall Street it means jobs, it means success, it means 401(k)s that are flourishing." The Dow jumped an additional 220 points Friday after the government reported that employers added 148,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate remained a low 4.1 percent. Investors celebrated the modest job gains because they made it less likely that the Federal Reserve will step up its pace of interest rate increases. Higher rates can depress share prices as some investors shift money away from stocks to bonds. It's easy to see why investors like the tax overhaul: Businesses will benefit from a steep cut in the corporate tax rate. They'll also be able to fully deduct the cost of major purchases from their taxable income, reducing the amount they owe. And companies with large stockpiles of cash overseas can bring the money back to the United States at new, lower rates. All told, Wall Street analysts estimate the tax package should boost earnings for companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index by roughly 8 percent this year. That's much more generous than the average tax cut of 1.6 percent that middle-class families will receive, according to the Tax Policy Center. "All else being equal, this should go straight to the bottom line," said David Joy, chief market strategist for Ameriprise Financial, a financial services company based in Minneapolis. Improved corporate profits contributed to the market's gains last year. The public has been less enthusiastic about the tax law. A Monmouth University poll last month found that nearly half of Americans disapproved of it, with only 26 percent in support. Still, some workers have seen a benefit: So far, dozens of companies have announced bonuses and higher minimum wages as a result of the tax cut. AT&T, Comcast, Bank of America, and American Airlines have all pledged to pay $1,000 bonuses to their employees. Investors also appear less concerned than many politicians about how the additional profits will be used. The Trump administration says it expects companies will plow much of the extra profit back into their businesses, purchasing more software, machinery, and other equipment. Those investments will make workers more productive and provide a key boost to the economy's long-run growth. They should also boost wages and salaries for employees. Opponents of the tax law respond that companies are more likely to pass the windfall on to shareholders in the form of higher dividend payments and share buybacks, which raise the price of those shares still in investors' hands. Previous cuts in corporate tax rates, in the U.S. and overseas, haven't always led to higher wages. For Wall Street, it's all good, at least in the short run. Most analysts take the view that either way, companies and the economy will benefit. Whether businesses pass most of the extra money to workers or to shareholders, consumer spending should increase and lift economic growth. Trump has repeatedly made highly optimistic claims about the impact of his tax cuts and other policies on the economy, speculating that they would lead to annual growth of 4 percent or higher. Last month, the Treasury Department estimated that the economy will expand at a 2.9 percent annual rate for the next decade. Private economists, as well as the Federal Reserve, forecast a more modest impact. Most expect growth will be closer to 2.5 percent in 2018 and slower than that in subsequent years. Some companies and sectors will likely benefit more than others, particularly if they derive most of their income from the United States. Analysts at Goldman Sachs estimate that large banks will see their earnings rise by 13 percent as a result of the corporate rate cut. Wells Fargo will likely see the biggest gain, at 18 percent. Analysts at Stifel, an investment bank, project that some restaurant chains could see earnings boosts of 20 percent or more, including Chipotle, Wingstop and Domino's Pizza. Barclays, another bank, says that technology and pharmaceutical firms, which are already paying lower taxes because they have lots of cash overseas, will see much smaller increases of less than 4 percent. The legislation's corporate tax cut is not necessarily as dramatic as it seems, because most corporations don't end up paying the full 35 percent rate. Barclays estimates that the "effective" tax rate — what companies actually pay — will drop from 26 percent to 20.1 percent. Joy and other analysts think that most of the money brought back from other countries will go to shareholders, rather than investment. That's what happened in 2004, when companies were given a one-time low rate on repatriated cash as an inducement. Opinions differ, however, when it comes to the additional profits that result from the tax cut. Many economists expect that most of those dollars will also be passed on to shareholders. Glenn Hubbard, an economist at Columbia Business School and former top economist for President George W. Bush, says the corporate tax cut will eventually benefit workers through higher pay. That will also boost the economy and most businesses by lifting spending. "Any way you slice it, it's good for companies," Hubbard said. For much of last year, the stock market's gains were helped by a synchronized global recovery, with economies from Europe to Asia to Latin America expanding simultaneously for the first time in a decade. Since November, investors' anticipation of a tax cut has pushed markets higher, said Keith Parker, an analyst at UBS. Still, the market's outsize return, benefits only a narrow slice of the population. According to research by Edward Wolff, an economist at New York University, just 10 percent of the population owns 84 percent of the stock market's value. "That benefit won't accrue to everybody, certainly," Joy said. http://www.foxbusiness.com/mar...w-to-25000-mark.html Donald Trump is not a politician, he is a leader, politicians are a dime a dozen, leaders are priceless. | |||
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CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Sunday vehemently defended his boss, President Trump, against allegations made in the new tell-all book “Fire and Fury” about the president’s competency, saying the statements are “absurd, just pure fantasy.” “I'm with him almost every day,” Pompeo told “Fox News Sunday.” “We talk about some of the most serious matters facing America and the rest of the world, complex issues. The president is engaged. He understands the complexity, asks really difficult questions from our team at CIA. I've watched him do that.” Pompeo spoke two days after the official release of the book by author Michael Wolff that portrays the president as intellectually and emotionally incompetent to run the country. Wolff says the book his based on hundreds of interviews, including ones with Trump family members, White House aides and at least "one recent talk with the president.” “Statements likes the one Mr. Wolff made about how we all think about the president are just ridiculous and frankly beneath the conversation this morning,” Pompeo told show host Chris Wallace. “They are the conversation because you're making them the conversation.” On Trump’s comment Saturday that he’s “genius," Pompeo said, “I'm not going to dignify that question with a response. President Trump is completely capable of leading us.” Trump on Saturday at Camp David also called the book a “work of fiction” and said that Wolff’s purported White House interviews with him exist only in the author’s “imagination.” "I went to the best colleges,” he continued. “I … was a great student, made billions of billions of dollars, was one of the top business people, went into television and for 10 years was a tremendous success as you've probably heard. “Ran for president one time and won. And then I hear this guy who doesn't know me at all, didn't interview me for three hours, his imagination. …. I consider [the book] a work of fiction.” Earlier in the day, Trump hit back at the suggestions and accusations about his intellect and emotional state by tweeting, “my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.” “Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence.....” he wrote in one tweet. Trump continued minutes later: “Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star.....” Trump ended with: “....to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius....and a very stable genius at that!” Link Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Bannon now is apologizing to Trump. Creepy bastard. It might help if he took a shower, got a haircut, and put on some fresh clothes. The man looks smelly. https://www.axios.com/scoop-ba...3d-079e5ee2b493.html ______________________________________________________ "You get much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone." | |||
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I just saw that.....it came out AFTER the book sales went through the roof.....the crazy POS!! I think that Bannon has just figured out that he is in deep shit with the Pres.....not a place that I would want to be!!! | |||
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I think this whole thing is a pro wrestling production. Just a show to distract the policy wonks and do gooder PITA, the crowd that took Trump literally but not seriously. It has Vince McMahon all over it. Linda, too. While they are tut-tuting and cluck-clucking, Trump is whittling away making America great again. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Is it just me, or does Bannon ALWAYS look like he's coming off an 'All-Night Bender'! ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 2024....Make America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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Based on Bannon's age, he probably lived through the fad called the grunge look. ____________________________________________________ New and improved super concentrated me: Proud rebel, heretic, and Oneness Apostolic Pentecostal. There is iron in my words of death for all to see. So there is iron in my words of life. | |||
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Its entirely possible he is always coming off an all-night bender. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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On Fox News Sunday: Pompeo: Statements like the one Mr. Wolff made are … ridiculous on their face. They’re frankly beneath the conversation this morning, Chris. Wallace: Well, but it is a conversation, so – Pompeo: But only because you made it so, sir. Hah - Wikileaks just posted a download link to the Fire and Fury book. Get it for free, screw the publisher and author... @wikileaks New Trump book "Fire and Fury" by Michael Wolff. Full PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/...JkkbEgEZaSmPjA3/view NRA Life Member - "Fear God and Dreadnaught" | |||
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Is that even legal? Is WikiLeaks somehow immune to charges of copyright violation? Interestingly, I thought about downloading it for about a tenth of a second before realizing I’m not going to waste the time to read that tripe, even if it is free. | |||
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