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The Trump Presidency : Year II

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July 16, 2018, 06:23 AM
parabellum
The Trump Presidency : Year II

July 16, 2018, 07:47 AM
Cliff
Joey D 7/16/18



Description

INTERVIEW - JOE DIGENOVA - legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia

TOPICS:

STRZOK HEARING

- Thoughts on the Strzok hearing last week





"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

--Sir Winston Churchill

"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose."

--James Earl Jones



July 16, 2018, 09:25 AM
Shaql
Gorka really should have tried to shame that reporter about pretending to quote the indictment. He should have hammered and hammered on the point until the idiot cut the interview.





Hedley Lamarr: Wait, wait, wait. I'm unarmed.
Bart: Alright, we'll settle this like men, with our fists.
Hedley Lamarr: Sorry, I just remembered . . . I am armed.
July 16, 2018, 11:57 AM
PASig
I really wish someone would tell this clown to STFU already! Mad

Via Twitter:

quote:

John O. Brennan

@JohnBrennan
1h1 hour ago

Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of “high crimes & misdemeanors.” It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots: Where are you???



July 16, 2018, 12:47 PM
ensigmatic
Ok, so the Twitterverse is all up-in-arms over something Trump did or did not do, but all I'm seeing is expressions of outrage. Nobody actually saying what it is they're all in a tizzy about. So: Anybody have any clue what new evil it is the Trumpster is claimed to have done this time?

Disregard. Got it. Finally. Ok, so, yeah: Not the best choice of words. Something more along the lines of "I have my doubts, but I'm taking the man at his word" would perhaps have been better. But for Christ's sake: "Treason?" These people truly are off the reservation.

Personally, he should never have painted himself into a corner by promising to ask. What would have been wiser, in my opinion, would have been to tell Putin something like "My people say you did. You claim you did not. I don't know for sure who's right, but, if you did, please don't do it any more or we can't be friends."



"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe
"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
July 16, 2018, 12:54 PM
P220 Smudge
Well, a quick peek at CNN’s site has them absolutely foaming at the mouth because he had an opportunity to “stare Putin down” over their election meddling and instead said both countries are to blame, and then he tossed Meuller under the bus, where he belongs. The tone of the article I perused was absolutely aghast and shocked.

It’s just more of their “Russia, Russia, Russia!” tantrum.


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Carthago delenda est
July 16, 2018, 01:03 PM
Micropterus
John Brennan is so unbalanced, so clearly unstable, that he represents a real threat to nat'l security.


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"I enter a swamp as a sacred place—a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength—the marrow of Nature." - Henry David Thoreau
July 16, 2018, 01:11 PM
parabellum
Well, these people are not the POTUS and they do not call the shots, so, tough fucking shit, k?

It doesn't matter what the man does. No matter what he does, they'll bitch to high Heaven, so fuck every last one of these pissy little bitches.


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"I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023
July 16, 2018, 01:14 PM
lkdr1989





...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV

"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 NASV
July 16, 2018, 01:16 PM
JALLEN
quote:
Originally posted by ensigmatic:
Ok, so the Twitterverse is all up-in-arms over something Trump did or did not do, but all I'm seeing is expressions of outrage. Nobody actually saying what it is they're all in a tizzy about. So: Anybody have any clue what new evil it is the Trumpster is claimed to have done this time?

Disregard. Got it. Finally. Ok, so, yeah: Not the best choice of words. Something more along the lines of "I have my doubts, but I'm taking the man at his word" would perhaps have been better. But for Christ's sake: "Treason?" These people truly are off the reservation.

Personally, he should never have painted himself into a corner by promising to ask. What would have been wiser, in my opinion, would have been to tell Putin something like "My people say you did. You claim you did not. I don't know for sure who's right, but, if you did, please don't do it any more or we can't be friends."


After the elections, he can be more flexible.




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
July 16, 2018, 01:17 PM
P220 Smudge
Damn straight. There’s literally not one thing the man could do that wouldn’t send them into a fucking tizzy. The two articles I browsed on CNN didn’t even read like they were on a news site, it read like some seething nerd’s deadjournal or something.


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Carthago delenda est
July 16, 2018, 01:20 PM
TigerDore
quote:
Originally posted by Micropterus:
John Brennan is so unbalanced, so clearly unstable, that he represents a real threat to nat'l security.

He's a documented communist who should have never been allowed to join an intelligence agency, much less run it. Talk about Soviet interference...



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July 16, 2018, 01:50 PM
Sig2340
quote:
Liberal filmmaker Rob Reiner's 'Shock and Awe' disappoints at box office with dismal opening weekend

Liberal filmmaker Rob Reiner’s Bush administration-bashing “Shock and Awe” was a disappointment during its debut weekend with an embarrassing box office intake.

“Shock and Awe” grossed only $41,000 on its opening weekend after being shown in only 100 theaters, according to Box Office Mojo. “Shock and Awe” finished No. 34 overall, behind numerous movies that have already been in theaters for several weeks, according to the service. Reiner’s film lost to other movies that were played in a limited number of theaters, including “Eighth Grade,” which was shown in only four theaters but managed to gross $252,284, according to the site.

< snip >


BWAHHAAAHHHHAAAAAHHHHH!





Nice is overrated

"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government."
Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
July 16, 2018, 01:57 PM
Carpentermaass84
From what I've just read Putin personally told Trump that Russia did not meddle in the 2016 election. Trump accepted Putin's assurances and dismissed any fake news from our intelligence agencies suggesting Russia would do anything to undermine our electoral process. Even in the 1 in 1,000,000 chance the Russians tried to poison the well I don't give a shit as our guy won.
July 16, 2018, 02:16 PM
newtoSig765
quote:
Originally posted by PASig:
I[QUOTE]
John O. Brennan

@JohnBrennan
1h1 hour ago

Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of “high crimes & misdemeanors.” It was nothing short of treasonous...blahblahblah


I gleaned two things from this tweet:

1. The Deep State really exists, Brennan proved it today.

2. Brennan himself is either a main character in the Deep State, or is in fact the head of it.

By the way, I chuckled at Sebastian Gorka's well-chosen quote from "Casablanca", but I highly doubt the fool he was talking to even caught it. Big Grin


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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
-- H L Mencken

I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is.
-- JALLEN 10/18/18
July 16, 2018, 02:25 PM
BamaJeepster
quote:
Originally posted by newtoSig765:
quote:
Originally posted by PASig:
I[QUOTE]
John O. Brennan

@JohnBrennan
1h1 hour ago

Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of “high crimes & misdemeanors.” It was nothing short of treasonous...blahblahblah


I gleaned two things from this tweet:

1. The Deep State really exists, Brennan proved it today.

2. Brennan himself is either a main character in the Deep State, or is in fact the head of it.

By the way, I chuckled at Sebastian Gorka's well-chosen quote from "Casablanca", but I highly doubt the fool he was talking to even caught it. Big Grin


Brennan voted for the Communist Party candidate Gus Hall for president in 1976.



“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
- John Adams
July 16, 2018, 02:36 PM
ensigmatic
quote:
Originally posted by Micropterus:
John Brennan is so unbalanced, so clearly unstable, that he represents a real threat to nat'l security.

Not any more. But, yeah: I think he's out to lunch.



"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe
"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
July 16, 2018, 03:37 PM
Doc H.
Interestingly, what I believe I heard comrade Putin say this morning, translated and reading very much between the lines, was that the Russian Federation would be glad to cooperate with the Mueller investigation according to existing treaty agreements, and invited committee members to the party (so to speak) in Moscow to participate in the interrogation of Soviet citizens accused of crimes in America and requested for extradition. As long as Russia has the reciprocal right to request extradition and interrogation of American citizens suspected of money-laundering, illegal business practices and other hanky-panky in Russia, contrary to Russian law, associated with transactions involving (possibly) uranium and a certain political party. Perhaps the Soviet proceedings could be leaked now that the door is open. The plot certainly does thicken, since I suspect the proof on one side is more substantial than the no-longer-existing hacked server proof on the other. My, my....



"And gentlemen in England now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day"
July 16, 2018, 03:43 PM
mbinky
Someone needs to tweet to Brennan The Red that at least Trump never voted for a communist.

That man is a traitor in the purest sense of the word. The only justice for him comes at the end of a rope. Too bad ot will never happen.
July 16, 2018, 04:09 PM
erj_pilot
quote:
Originally posted by Sig2340:
During the reception of President Trump by Her Majesty The Queen, at 3:58 and again at 8:58 in the video below, the Grenadier Guards Band played the theme from Band of Brothers.

Yup...all good stuff. Not to pick nits, though, the music at 3:58 is the theme from "The Pacific", the "other Band of Brothers". Smile



"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24