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what about the story trump tells about how he talked to the leader of a big biker gang and they convinced him to allow a one-day "purge", like the movie the purge, in order to get the crime under control

I kind of remember the story of the general tough guy who faced 50 terrorists. He killed 49, took the bullets out of the gun for the last guy and rubbed them in pig's blood (which was offensive to him because of course they were Muslims), told the guy to run home and tell his superiors, and there was no terrorism for 200 years or something.

08-05-2017 , 12:25 AM

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The Purge is policy is The Philippines, but it's lasting more than one day.

08-05-2017 , 12:33 AM

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Riot has a different connotation than uproar or uprising. If someone asks a pundit "what do you think would happen if a Trump family member was indicted" you can't expect them to respond with "no comment". And Pirro is not the president or a candidate. In America do we expect someone to arrest her for saying this? Would be a first wouldn't it?

She's a cable news personality with a lot of influence over people with weapons. If they take her advice, she's on the hook. Not that it matters though. A person can legally incite a...uprising...by yelling something at 10 people. The line isn't drawn between TV Judge and POTUS.

08-05-2017 , 12:42 AM

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But why? That's the question. Why would Russia be interested in this? McMaster's big "wrongdoing" was firing Ezra, Trump & Bannon's unfireable White House / Intelligence Community data bridge Flynn loyalist guy, and other less significant NSC Flynn guys.

Why is this important to Putin?

EDIT: It's gotta be the intel. I'm willing to bet that Ezra Cohen-Watnick had a hack into the IC systems. We came just short of that implication back when Nunes was there with him getting classified IC docs on Susan Rice's unmasking, and here we are again.

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08-05-2017 , 12:55 AM

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Eric Bolling, a longtime Fox News host, sent an unsolicited photo of male genitalia via text message to at least two colleagues at Fox Business and one colleague at Fox News, a dozen sources told HuffPost.

The women, who are Bolling’s current and former Fox colleagues, concluded the message was from him because they recognized his...

I'm just gonna stop reading that sentence right there and let my imagination run wild.

08-05-2017 , 12:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Chippa58

If someone asks a pundit "what do you think would happen if a Trump family member was indicted" you can't expect them to respond with "no comment".

How about the old system we used to have in the US where the truth prevails? It's ok to indict guilty Trumps.

08-05-2017 , 01:55 AM

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Chiefsplanet will never ever stop being triggered by Loretta Lynch and Susan Rice. If only I could put my finger on some similarity there. http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=309143

08-05-2017 , 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Chippa58

It's okay for her to say it, not okay for Trump to republish it. It's obstruction of justice when a powerful man under investigation publicizes the idea his supporters will retaliate if the investigation doesn't go his way.

08-05-2017 , 02:10 AM

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

I'm not saying it's all Oliver's fault - most of that stuff comes down to execution, and clearly LAUSD had no interest in actually making it work. Somewhere along the line someone made the decision that one-size-fits-all for K-6, which is ludicrous. The staggering level of indifference to all that wasted food is the part that still blows my mind.

What you are describing is a child behavioral problem which is a different (and serious) issue. My point was that of course the people of WV would vote to kill themselves by repealing ACA. The adults fought Oliver tooth and nail just on the suggestion that they might consider not poisoning their own ****ing kids, and only because he's some funny-talking city slicker with a queer haircut. You need a celebrity chef these people can identify with. You need Paula Dean.

08-05-2017 , 02:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Our House

McMaster is a stereotypical war hawk general from the cold war era. Russia wants the US to interfere less in its space. It probably has nothing to do with any domestic US events.

08-05-2017 , 03:39 AM

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I didn't know that the poem on the Statue of Liberty was like sand in the craw of white nationalists.

Seriously Miller was losing it a bit. It might not make the anti immigrant/brown people folk change their minds but it gets them a little steamed.

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As Trump touts the success of the stock market, NYT has a nice compilation of all the times before 2017 he called it a bubble

Trump fixed the bubble!

08-05-2017 , 04:19 AM

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McMaster is a stereotypical war hawk general from the cold war era. Russia wants the US to interfere less in its space. It probably has nothing to do with any domestic US events.

But that's what they've been doing this whole time - interfering with domestic events. Not just in the US either. When the Ruskie propaganda machines kick in, the pattern has been to achieve a certain outcome within a certain country.

McMaster was never attacked until this particular NSC cleanup opposition of Trump, and other war hawks are being left alone, no?

08-05-2017 , 04:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Our House

A unstable US government is good for Russia. So CHaos within the WH is good for them.

08-05-2017 , 05:20 AM

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I don't see this in here yet, but a small piece of good news - the Senate is holding pro forma sessions throughout the August recess, so Trump can't make any recess appointments... This blocks him from firing Sessions and making a recess appointment to replace him.

08-05-2017 , 05:43 AM

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Jeff Sessions NOT getting fired counts as good news now. Bunkhowlowwedonefell.gif

08-05-2017 , 06:03 AM

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Was driving home listening to Real Time podcast and there was a panel discussion regarding Kelly's ability to reign in Trump. Whom I believe to be Kristin Soltis-Anderson was advocating that Kelly may have some moderate success. The other guest whose voice I didn't recognize had a great line. To paraphrase, he said' "Trump seems to exude this special form of dignity kryptonite that renders otherwise respected and accomplished men into withered and diminished shells by simple proximity." Felt that a particularly apt description

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08-05-2017 , 06:25 AM

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A unstable US government is good for Russia. So CHaos within the WH is good for them.

Yeah but that was the 2015-2016 objective which is outdated in 2017. The weaponized intel and other attacks escalated and got more specifically targeted once they realized they could get away with so much. Russia became extra emboldened right around November 9, 2016 and has met zero resistance (even had some assistance) since January 20th.

08-05-2017 , 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Our House

McMaster hates Iran.

https://twitter.com/mdubowitz/status/893678027917463552

Like, in a different era where JEB! hires McMaster all you'd hear is how much he's neo-con to the core and hates brown people.

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08-05-2017 , 08:15 AM

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After six months, Pence has now turned over all state-related AOL emails

Real or Onion?

It should help the arguments against Trumpkins. Slightly. Maybe...

M: Trump?

T: Hillary!

M: PENCE!!

T: Trump.

M: That's it? I think it's over. We got him! Did we get him?

T: Obama.

M: Fuuu...

08-05-2017 , 09:03 AM

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For example, advisers believed for days that Trump was likely to pick John Pistole as FBI director. Inside the administration, three officials said, there was little initial support for Christopher Wray, the former FBI official who was New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s attorney in the bridge-closing controversy. “No one really was pushing for Wray,” one senior administration official said.

After talking extensively with Christie, who sold Trump on the former FBI official’s bona fides as a lawyer, Trump decided to go with Wray without telling others on staff, advisers said. White House officials waking up to the tweet were startled, and hurriedly wrote a news release to correspond to it. Much of the president’s inner circle knew little about Wray. Trump was simply tired of the search, these people said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...twitter-241343

08-05-2017 , 09:20 AM

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I hope he fills all open positions in this way.

08-05-2017 , 09:30 AM

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So much news happened this past Scaramucci it's crazy.

08-05-2017 , 09:42 AM

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Speaking of him is there any possibility he sabotaged himself? He gets into the White House, starts to see how the ship is sinking and says **** it I'll jump on my own sword, not going down with the King of the Oompa Loompas

08-05-2017 , 10:02 AM

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Lol

08-05-2017 , 10:18 AM

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McMaster hates Iran.

https://twitter.com/mdubowitz/status/893678027917463552

Like, in a different era where JEB! hires McMaster all you'd hear is how much he's neo-con to the core and hates brown people.

My above reply to 425kid also applies to this post. Especially the 2nd paragraph.

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