The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: No smocking guns. - Page 4363 - Politics and Economics

Good article about the TN governor race, with 4 indistinguishable deplorables trying to out deplorable each other

https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/...om-we-all-lose

"each candidate is spending millions trying to prove that they’re the person most like — and liked by — the president" is 100% accurate. Randy Boyd even explicitly said "I'm exactly like trump except I tweet less".

07-14-2018 , 02:40 PM

#109053

fuluck414

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Originally Posted by hngry2greedy

Been listening to alot of RATM lately, and I'm trying to remember a time in which musicians weren't fighting back against deplorables as willfully as they aren't now. For ****s sake, were barely a decade removed of Incubus's Megalomaniac. When non-deplorables need some part of pop culture fueling the flames, all we've got so far is ****ing Kanye legitimizing Candace Owens. Like wtf is actually going on here? How is there not a unified voice against all of this fascist bull**** yet?

Eminem has some pretty cutting tracks on revival.

Or Joey badass.

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07-14-2018 , 02:42 PM

#109054

Our House

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This is fine right?

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1017935722928467968?s=19

Quote:

Top Maryland lawmakers announced Friday they were informed by the FBI about links between a Russian oligarch and the software company that services parts of the state's voter registration systems.

Officials said there is no evidence of a breach in the system, but wanted to keep the public informed. State officials said the connections were alarming enough to ask the state's attorney general to review the contract Maryland has with the company.

"We don't have any idea whether they meddled in the elections at all," Maryland House Speaker Michael Busch said during a Friday press conference. "We just know that there's Russian investment into the vendor system that we use to operate our elections."

The revelation came just hours after the Department of Justice announced indictments against a dozen Russian nationals for a range of charges in connection with hacking during the 2016 presidential campaign.

In a joint statement released earlier Friday, Busch and Maryland's Senate President Mike Miller said they became aware of links between Russia and the voter systems a day earlier.

"We were briefed late yesterday [Thursday], along with Gov. Hogan, [that the vendor] was purchased by a Russian investor in 2015, without the knowledge of state officials," the statement said.

The statement also gave more details about the vendor ByteGrid LLC.

"[The] FBI gave this office important information about a vendor the State Board of Election uses to host various election systems. This vendor - ByteGrid LLC - hosts the statewide voter registration, candidacy, and election management system, the online voter registration system, online ballot delivery system, and unofficial election night results website. According to the FBI, ByteGrid LLC is financed by AltPoint Capital Partners, whose fund manager is a Russian and its largest investor is a Russian oligarch named Vladimir Potanin."

Potanin is said to be "very close" to Russian President Vladimir Putin...

07-14-2018 , 02:43 PM

#109055

ScreaminAsian

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07-14-2018 , 03:05 PM

#109056

ScreaminAsian

For President

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07-14-2018 , 03:07 PM

#109057

chezlaw

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Quote:

Originally Posted by eyebooger

All of this. Where the hell is the 2018 version of Rage Against The Machine? I want some politically charged rock that's ****ing angry.

RATM disbanded almost 20 years ago. Since then the best thing we've had in that regard is what? American Idiot?

Quote:

Picture yourself as you lean on the port rail
Tossing away your last cigarette
Picture your finger pushing the doorbell
Picture the skull and crossbones on the doormat
Picture yourself on the streets of Laredo
Picture the Casbah, picture Japan
Picture your kid with his hand on the trigger
Picture prosthetics in Afghanistan
Picture a courthouse with no ****ing laws
Picture a cathouse with no ****ing whores
Picture a ****house with no ****ing drains
Picture a leader with no ****ing brains
No ****ing brains, no ****ing brains
No ****ing brains, no ****ing brains
No ****ing brains, no ****ing brains
No ****ing brains, no ****ing brains

Quote:

And I dreamed I was saying goodbye to my child

07-14-2018 , 03:11 PM

#109058

Rococo

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Originally Posted by epcfast

Protests in London really highlight the difference between American politics and politics in a lot of the rest of the world. If Theresa May and the British Royal family were juggling burning babies for the entertainment of a violent gang of skinheads, and then forcing Harry Kane at gunpoint to corner kick those burning babies off the roof of Buckingham Palace, it wouldn't draw a 250K person protest in the U.S.

07-14-2018 , 03:14 PM

#109059

ScreaminAsian

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07-14-2018 , 03:25 PM

#109060

Bdywax

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Savid Dlansky

Furthermore, if Donald Trump somehow does end up technically guilty on some minor infraction 0.22% of the time, but investigating him destroys the country 95.6% of the time, don't you agree that they should just drop it?

Let’s be crystal clear about something, the DOJ conducting their investigation is not contributing to the destruction of the country. The GOP and conservative “news” outlets are doing all of the destruction. The DOJ has not been spouting off conspiracy theories and making false claims to the public. That has all been the GOP and their single sided news outlets. They do not care about facts or truth. They only want to protect their interests.

No innocent person acts the way trump and his close ties have/are. Trump and the GOP have done more damage to our democracy than anything in the history of our country. Also, let’s not forget how many indictments, charges, and guilty pleas Mueller has delivered. I believe five people closely tied to trump have pleaded guilty so far, and that’s just SO FAR.

It’s funny how republicans conducted the Benghazi and email investigation into Hillary, which produced NOTHING, but they want this investigation, which is putting people in prison, to wrap up.

07-14-2018 , 03:27 PM

#109061

MrFeelNothin

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mather_2020

Makeshift Patriot is an absolutely amazing song by Sage Francis describing the aftermath of 9-11

Agreed, straight fire.

I guess 2ny point is there are probably artists today recording strong anti-Trump stuff but I don't know them because I am old and out of touch.

07-14-2018 , 03:29 PM

#109062

Rococo

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Originally Posted by Bdywax

You do realize that you are responding to a gimmick account of someone who doubtless is on the same side as you?

07-14-2018 , 03:32 PM

#109063

fatkid

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God help us.

07-14-2018 , 03:38 PM

#109064

Hamish McBagpipe

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07-14-2018 , 03:39 PM

#109065

ScreaminAsian

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07-14-2018 , 03:51 PM

#109066

Hamish McBagpipe

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Perhaps taking his fashion cues from Steve Bannon, I think Trump has been wearing those same pair of oddly rumpled at front pair of pants for 3 days straight.

--- wait, that pic is from a year and a half ago, not this visit. So is it the same trousers making a reappearance? Or why do the front of his pants always look like they've been slept in for a couple of days? Or, why can't he buy a decent pair of pants?

--- !! Here's one from today....

Rumpletrumpskin.

Eh, the state of Trump's pants is probably a mystery I should best leave unsolved.

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07-14-2018 , 04:17 PM

#109067

Noze

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You guys sound like idiots whining about the kids these days and saying Americans would never protest.

07-14-2018 , 04:22 PM

#109068

simplicitus

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https://twitter.com/EricLiptonNYT/st...943088640?s=19

https://twitter.com/EricLiptonNYT/st...519691776?s=19

07-14-2018 , 04:32 PM

#109069

simplicitus

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https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/stat...655107072?s=19

07-14-2018 , 04:50 PM

#109070

SirOsis

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Secure a dolly, wear a shirt with a name patch and act like you know what you're doing and that piece of Watergate history is yours

07-14-2018 , 05:04 PM

#109071

wheatrich

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Who's a donor to a republican house PAC with 38000 dollars?

Elon Musk

Let's see, musk runs his businesses like Trump, donates to republicans, abuses the media for cheap pr (if you think that sub would've worked you are a gullible fool), tesla's mostly don't work and he's had to rescind his promises on some models already.

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07-14-2018 , 05:39 PM

#109072

SirOsis

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I've been under the impression he just discovered cocaine at 50 but honestly I have not looked into any of his political contributions, I wonder if he'll comment on that.