Legum sums this up:

"200K to Mar-a-Lago basically buys you a seat in the Situation Room"

no. the muslim ban was horrible. it was a blatant infringement on civil rights. it caused thousands of ppl to be inconvenienced and some ppl were detained in small rooms for hours, interrogated, not given proper replenishment and then deported.

that is legit awful. no one deserves to be treated that way and esp not perfectly legal and innocent ppl. just disgusting.

the current deportations are awful too. ppl that have been in this country for decades, never committed any sort of violence, and contributed to the community in many ways are being shipped off to a foreign land. these families are being torn apart as the kids stay here without ppl and their parents, and breadwinners are shipped to a different place.

that is legit heartbreaking and should not happen.

the vast majority of these ppl bring tremendous good to their communities. now their children are left without parents and without means to resources to survice. it is unconscionable.

Yes. That's correct.

I wouldn't go as far as to say not controversial, the conservative party used them as fear mongering in our most recent election. It was also one of the biggest reasons they got roundly defeated after being in power for about a decade.

"The president of Turkmenistan wins re-election with 98% of the vote" (Up from his 2012 "lanslide" of 97%)

*foreshadowing*

A bit about Trump strategist Miller.


So he's a radical extremist, radicalized at a young age and kept in touch with the radical fringe.

http://www.univision.com/univision-n...gration-policy

And one of the candidates for leader of the Conservatives is doubling down on the fear mongering (but, thankfully, has little support within the party).

Oh, and another candidate is Kevin ****ing O'Leary from Shark Tank.

to be fair, obama laid the groundwork for this, it just got turned up to a higher power. Majority of americans support the obama version and so republican people counter with "so, obama did it and now you're angry" without any sense at all they are arguing that trump's just doing what obama did while still loving trump and hating obama. It's difficult to manage a rebuttal without the phrase go **** yourself.

Trump had almost no support within the GOP party and they've already changed to his views/bent the knee.

The answer to the question whom to trust here is so obvious, i cant even think of a good joke here.

Canadians tho.

obama turned ppl away at the border and deported violent criminals.

but he did lay the ground work by helping to institute a system where the "illegals" kept in touch with ICE. now during these ICE encounters, of which some ppl have done for 10-20 years, they are getting deported. its totally disgusting.

You should educate yourself on what Obama did and didn't do.

the way i understood it wasn't that the phones were specifically hacked, but that they could no longer trust the president's inner circle with sensitive information.

we've been hearing that the russian connections within trump's inner circle are real, for example isreali journalists uncovered in january U.S. Intelligence Officials Reportedly Warn Israeli Counterparts Against Sharing Info With Trump Administration

so this week we are hearing more and more confirmation that the intelligence community is actually operating on the assumption that the executive office is compromised. one of flynn's long time aides was denied an intelligence clearance.

the case has been building, and i pray to the god of athiests that the next president runs on a platform of NO PARDONS FOR TREASON

Obama's missing army

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https://newrepublic.com/article/1402...sroots-machine

Don't let Trump see this or Ottawa will be nuked tonight.

This is an old post I know, but On The Media did a fantastic (and horrifying) podcast about CBP last week.

http://www.wnyc.org/story/what-we-know-about-border

Of note, this is almost entirely about the CBP's operations and tactics pre-Trump. The group has been operating under the guise of needless secrecy and impunity since GWB, and routinely acts in a manner that is mean-spirited and completed outside of due process even for American citizens.

Having a doctor perform a cavity search and CAT scan on an innocent American woman on the Mexican border then asending her the doctor's bills for said scan, or detaining a 4 year old alone for 20 hours then deporting her--it's some pretty twisted ****. And there aren't any statistics, or operating norms to compare anything against. It's all done in a black box.

I can totally see CBP becoming the Tonton Macoute of the Trump admin.

Only thing that pisses me off more than ***hole statements like this is authoritarianism.

re: the flynn thing

so wapo posts this 9-sourced piece about how flynn definitely discussed russian sanctions on the phone call (National security adviser Flynn discussed sanctions with Russian ambassador, despite denials, officials say) on feb 9


but jan 23 wapo reported (FBI reviewed Flynn’s calls with Russian ambassador but found nothing illicit)

so is the newest report in fact confirmation that the fbi is compromised too? there's clearly a disconnect between these 9 intelligence community sources and the post's fbi sources, among everyone who actually heard the tape. i blame giuliani somehow

Shark Tank? You mean Dragon's Den

No. It's a power move done by aggressive males. The other thing Trump does that's a power move is he points his hands like a "V" in between his legs when the camera is on him.

Look at how Obama is just sitting w/ his hands folded. But Trump is showing dominance.

Yeah, also the NY field office was talked about as strongly anti-Clinton (leaking negative stories about her during the campaign), I took them to just be Republicans at the time but Russian agents explains it too. More on that theory

Obama, much like every executive before him, certainly did a great deal to expand the power of the Oval Office. Most simply don't care about it so long as it is our preferred party in power. Then we nonsensically bitch and complain when it is the other guy doing it. Ultimately, we assumed that the American public was competent enough to elect a non-crazy person to be POTUS, so even if the wrong party was elected it wouldn't be so bad. And now here we are.

I actually think Flynn (and most of the Trump admin) have FISA warrants out on them.