hard to reason with soulless ****heads like this

Melania went on TV for years to defend Trump's bull**** about Obama's birth certificate and you guys want to act like she's a victim?

She's absolutely completely complicit in all of this. Too ****ing bad she now has to actually go places as FLOTUS and deal with her husband's small hands.

lol I didn't say she was a victim, I said she didn't sign up for this. But hey, you make a deal with the devil, you're gonna get burned.

It's not like she has to give a speech or anything. All Trump wants her to do is stand still and look pretty.

i said a long time ago (before the election) that melania is an obvious troll. she 1) rickrolled everyone at the RNC, 2) plagiarized michelle obama, and 3) wore the pussy blouse to whatever function that was during the height of the pussygate scandal.

she speaks something like 5 different languages fluently and was in university before she won some prestigious modelling/fashion award and had the opportunity to get paid for being beautiful. now she doesn't even live in the white house and you see her swatting his hand away what, 3 different times during high profile events starting with inauguration? she hates his guts and she's not an idiot.

In Slovenia, speaking 5 (or more) languages fluently is not a unique trait. Everybody there speaks a minimum of 2 languages fluently and the vast majority a lot more. I've met bartenders in Ljubljana who speak 5 languages.

Not saying that she's dumb, but that while her language skills are impressive to us, it is not uncommon in places like Slovenia where the native language is unpopular worldwide, English is taught as a main course in schools, cultural influence of nearby countries make learning languages like German and Italian easy to learn in passing and being part of Yugoslavia allowed for exposure to other Slavic languages.

clearly its more common to know multiple languages in eastern europe than it is in america, but the point is that she was fairly well educated and capable beyond just being hot AF

I think they still want to keep attacking the US as a priority, but I think they may be unable to efficiently move men and resources out of their territory at this point. Most attacks seem to be carried out by people that are radicalized online that were born in the area they attacked, not people trained/funded directly by ISIS.

In theory, if they got someone from their territory into the Schengen Area with a clean passport, it wouldn't be that hard to get them to the states to then carry out a plan. Since this hasn't happened, I assume that it's a combination of:

a) Having difficulty defending their territory even with the manpower they have, and hence not being able to afford to move people to use in attacks.

b) Probably being under a heavy amount of surveillance in terms of roads in and out of their territory (gotta assume all major Western powers have satellites constantly watching).

c) Having to get through a great deal of not only hostile territory, but hostile territory that's actively a war zone.

and

d) Having easier ways to keep attacking, even if less often.

Right - that's what I've been saying basically. But if ISIS now had the manpower, resources and motivation that Al Queda had back in the day - I don't think it would be that hard to get someone over here. I don't think the FBI and NSA are completely shielding us, although they are certainly making it more difficult.

Ultimately we have human nature working in our favor in that lone wolf serial killers, Muslim or otherwise, are extremely rare. To create serial killers en masse via tribal indoctrination requires time and close proximity.

I agree with all of that. Plus the ratio of manpower/resources to foreign attention was way different for Al Qaeda pre-9/11. Also, we're not only making it harder for them to get people out of their territory - but harder for would-be converts to go there.

47 footnotes and 15 attachments in a nine page letter. At least someone is pushing back.

"In light of OGE’s clear authority and the long history of agencies’ compliance, your letter requesting a stay of OGE’s pending directive for production of information and records copied to hundreds of other executive branch officials is highly unusual. For OGE to fulfill its mission of preventing conflicts of interest and monitoring compliance with the ethics laws by agencies and officials, the Director must be able to act independently and free from political pressure. Congress created OGE as an institutional check to monitor the ethics program and to prevent conflicts of interest in the executive branch. OGE can effectively perform this role only if it can act objectively and without fear of reprisal.

In this context, it bears emphasizing that OGE has the authority to institute corrective action proceedings against agencies that fail to comply, or against individuals who improperly prevent agency ethics officials from complying, with the Ethics in Government Act.41 Likewise the Inspectors General and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel have authority to investigate allegations of retaliation against ethics officials for complying with the legal requirement to provide OGE with the information and records subject to this directive.42"

cc. Designated Agency Ethics Officials
General Counsels
Inspectors General

It must frustrate Trump that his wife won't even hold his hand in public. I hope we don't end up in a nuclear war because Don John isn't getting any.

Something that bears repeating is that the lawyers who I've seen working closely with Trump are uniformly third-rate (other than his litigation counsel in the Trump University case). They are hacks who will do anything a client says and don't have to account for it, because they are mainly responding to small frys or shaking down those who Trump has scammed/not paid, or writing baseless letters threatening suit against media outlets and others. (Remeber his threat to the NY Times, which basically responded: "Bring it on, fat boy.")

Trump's tax lawyer, of "blind trust" and "certified letter" fame, apparently counseled him not to sign his financial disclosure form, to which the OGE, among others, raised strong objections. I hope his false disclosures are somewhere around article 14 of impeachment.

Yeah I think rep has pretty much nailed it here. **** her tho.


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There are so many becauses, aren't there?

It's under 140 characters - quite good irl tweet.

Trump Signs Holocaust Museum’s Book of Remembrance Like It’s a Middle-School Yearbookl


For comparison

Ivankas probably giving him plenty, what with that new west wing office and all that

In case it wasnt posted already:


I know 6 year olds who write better postcards than that.

# of negative POTUS news stories: 15,000

# of stories POTUS has called fake: 15,000

# of stories POTUS, who sues everybody, has threatened to sue: 0

# of times POTUS has tries to get FBI head to illegally jail reporters without cause: 1 or more

Speaking of fake bull****, DJT Jr is pushing this tweet. Look at how big the lies are getting:

https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/statu...63017934004224

Doesn't Daddy magically obtain competent counsel when not bullying contractors or making outrageous claims against like Rosie O'Donnell or whoever?

This is not a great article (no actual data) and this has been debated here before, but

https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/23/...?s_campaign=tw

I'll say one thing. If you want a true indicator of how effective fake news is on conservatives just look to their hero worship of trey gowdy. AFAICT he has never accomplished anything except getting dunked on by people testifying to his committee. However as soon as any spot opens my grandparents wanted in order trey gowdy for speaker trey gowdy for AG trey gowdy for FBI head..... people are literally in a different world if they believe those sites!

lol she wants nothing to do with the White House. She will do everything she can to stay away. The school thing was just an excuse not to live at the stinky old house.

Trey Dip**** was like SUPERepublican today. The others deferred to him 5 times I think.