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The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: No smocking guns. The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: No smocking guns.

05-16-2017 , 08:27 AM


https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...52996129853444
05-16-2017 , 08:28 AM
Maybe the TASS "photographer" will leak his "tape".
05-16-2017 , 08:33 AM
Joe Manchin..... pathetic on morning joe
05-16-2017 , 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Donald J. Trump
THE REAL STORY IS THE LEAKERS!

I AM THE LEAKER!

LOOK AT ME!
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05-16-2017 , 08:37 AM
Undermining his administration again. How do you cover up a story when the guy you're covering for just willingly gives himself up?

There has to be a breaking point where the GOP takes a stand. It has to exist. It's just a matter of what it is.
05-16-2017 , 08:37 AM
How far we've come in two and a half years.
05-16-2017 , 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
Undermining his administration again. How do you cover up a story when the guy you're covering for just willingly gives himself up?
Hey, you gave it your best shot, don't beat yourself up.
05-16-2017 , 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by bobman0330
Hey, you gave it your best shot, don't beat yourself up.
Me? I'm not supporting this. Pretty obvious that this is way beyond the pale and every bit of it seems true since the guy who did ****ing admitted it on Twitter.
05-16-2017 , 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
There has to be a breaking point where the GOP takes a stand. It has to exist. It's just a matter of what it is.
Unfortunately, we have politicians and not patriots.
05-16-2017 , 08:43 AM
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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
There has to be a breaking point where the GOP takes a stand. It has to exist. It's just a matter of what it is.
About a year from now when their jobs will seem to be in danger.
05-16-2017 , 08:44 AM
What if Trump performs a late-term abortion on a Trump supporter who's wearing a Make America Great Again hat? He then adds it to the pile of aborted fetuses from Trump supporters.
05-16-2017 , 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by miajag
2,3,1
05-16-2017 , 08:58 AM
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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
What if Trump performs a late-term abortion on a Trump supporter who's wearing a Make America Great Again hat? He then adds it to the pile of aborted fetuses from Trump supporters.
Not a single republican turns on him. There is exactly one thing he could do for them to turn; register as a democrat.
05-16-2017 , 09:10 AM
Every single right wing media source has seemlessly transitioned from "didn't happen" to "it's fine that it happened", Republicans are never turning on Trump.
05-16-2017 , 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Every single right wing media source has seemlessly transitioned from "didn't happen" to "it's fine that it happened", Republicans are never turning on Trump.
Right now on the foxnews.com front page, they have two stories that read "White House emphatically denies Trump shared intel" and "Trump: I had right to share ISIS "facts" with Russians"

It's hardly seamless to anyone with half a brain, but we're talking about foxnews.com visitors, so.....
05-16-2017 , 09:20 AM
Both of those stories are underneath the obvious big story of "ZOMG SETH RICH"
05-16-2017 , 09:21 AM

https://twitter.com/pressfreedom/sta...32796486873089
05-16-2017 , 09:22 AM
Politico is getting good with the humor

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Others accepted the report but contested the suggestion that Trump’s behavior was problematic. “This is only a scandal in the minds of those who haven’t heard that the Cold War is over,” said white nationalist Richard Spencer, who over the weekend rallied a peaceful, torch-bearing mob in support of the Confederacy at a park in Charlottesville, Virginia.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...ce-leak-215140
05-16-2017 , 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Every single right wing media source has seemlessly transitioned from "didn't happen" to "it's fine that it happened", Republicans are never turning on Trump.
Can we at least get some satisfaction from watching the military turn on him? C'mon Fly, throw us a bone.
05-16-2017 , 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
Undermining his administration again. How do you cover up a story when the guy you're covering for just willingly gives himself up?

There has to be a breaking point where the GOP takes a stand. It has to exist. It's just a matter of what it is.
I think this was posted elsewhere but: Even after all the Watergate info was out there and everyone in DC basically knew that Nixon was crooked, it wasn't until congressional GOPers actually heard the Nixon tapes that they turned on him. We're still quite a way from that.
05-16-2017 , 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by einbert

https://twitter.com/pressfreedom/sta...32796486873089
Bye Rachel, Lawrence, Morning Joe, Don Lemon, Anderson, Wolf, Chris Hayes,.. Freedom is reserved for stand up pussy grabbers like BillO.
05-16-2017 , 09:30 AM
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Originally Posted by bobman0330
Where do you think money goes when the rich invest it? Investment is literally part of the accounting formula for aggregate demand, alongside consumer spending and government purchases.
Do you understand how stock markets work?

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05-16-2017 , 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by simplicitus
Her husband is a partner at one of the most elite and expensive law firms in the country, like $3M/yr profits per partner. How much money does she need?
How can you clear 3M a year and still wake up next to the crypt keeper?
05-16-2017 , 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Every single right wing media source has seemlessly transitioned from "didn't happen" to "it's fine that it happened", Republicans are never turning on Trump.
This is why it remains, I think, the only path forward for the left to focus on populist and strident messaging regarding the GOP's domestic policies which raid public monies and welfare programs for tax cuts for zillionaires, and present an alternative case for how the left can improve peoples' lives in practical ways.

In many respects these stories remain very esoteric for most of the electorate, which is why the GOP can quickly make them partisan and shuffle everyone into their pre-assigned reflexive corners.

1) Waiting for the GOP to act is obviously foolish; they have 40% of the electorate wedded to them and will never move, and for most of them, that's enough for de facto lifetime appointments
2) Waiting for the mainstream media to dutifully explain all of Trump's transgressions in the midst of right-winger generated distractions and obfuscations is also doomed to fail.
3) And waiting for law enforcement or other institutions like the FBI or intelligence community to catch up with Trump may take years or never happen

Democrats best shot, or maybe the left's best shot to put a lot of leverage on Democrats to insist on this -- is to make the affirmative case that the Democrats have polices that give a large number of people more money and security than they would with the GOP, and the negative case that the GOP are amoral kleptocrats scamming them.

Russia Russia Russia RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA has some merits I'm sure, it's titillating, no doubt Trump is guilty of so much. But yet again weeks go by and all Democrats are able to muster is that Trump is a very, very bad idiot President which is basically baked into everyone's impressions now.

It's probably true enough that by doing nothing else, Democrats will win a lot in 2018 but probably not change much in the long run.

Still think Democrats have to move beyond these events even when they're self-inflicted by Trump and even when he proves himself the hapless idiot we know him to be.

Last edited by DVaut1; 05-16-2017 at 09:59 AM.
05-16-2017 , 09:47 AM
If you don't want to bother with #twitter today here are some quality cliffs:


      
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