Mueller is getting closer

[gsdx]

Problem is they are NOT weak. They CHOOSE to do what their highest paying donors want, which is usually what most of the country is against.

Seems to me that that is the same reason that hundreds of people continue to be murdered in mass shootings and all that comes out of those shootings is thoughts and prayers because of the millions of dollars of campaign donations made to the Republicans by the NRA.

Thoughts and prayers can only be granted after the people are dead, and they don't do a single thing to keep them alive in the first place.

Corporate donations MUST end. Nothing will ever change as long as corporations own the government.

 

[TickTockMan]

Seems to me that that is the same reason that hundreds of people continue to be murdered in mass shootings and all that comes out of those shootings is thoughts and prayers because of the millions of dollars of campaign donations made to the Republicans by the NRA.

Thoughts and prayers can only be granted after the people are dead, and they don't do a single thing to keep them alive in the first place.

Corporate donations MUST end. Nothing will ever change as long as corporations own the government.

I agree fully with that.

 

[gsdx]

I agree fully with that.

Here in Canada, corporate donations are not allowed and private donations are capped at (I believe) $2,500. Not only that, but campaign spending is also capped for each candidate. This gives the smaller parties a fighting chance against the bigger parties. That's why we have 7 parties plus 3 independents in the House of Commons in Ottawa.

 

[gsdx]

This is what Trump's investigations look like when you put them all in the same place:

 

[frankfrank]

A photo searching for a good home. I don't want to start a whole new thread with it. I found this on Facebook...

Maria Butina [the Russian spy currently in the news] with RICK SANTORUM.

Are there any Republicans not involved with the [STRIKE]Commu[/STRIKE] Russians?

UM, WHAT IN THE HELL?

 

[Kulindahr]

And Hillary wasn't for selling a strategic asset like 20% of our uranium to Russia and then taking payoffs from them to the tune of about 40 million? Mueller delivered the sample to Russia, he is compromised. Mueller is trying to save his own ass or was in on the sting against Clinton and Obama who had the power to stop the transfer of uranium that we had to buy back from the Russians at a higher price. This has raised energy prices for Americans. Huber and Mueller are investigating Clinton and Obama as well as the rest of the corrupt government officials.

^ Your claims are just nonsense. They have been debunked again and again. Do some actual research.

I remember two hours of research I put into this question and there was no question -- the whole uranium thing was total misrepresentation.

 

[Kulindahr]

^ Does the 'Fifth' protect the documents as well? (Serious question.)

^^some legal experts are stating NO

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmoveme...ing-guts-roger-stone-invokes-fifth-amendment/

^ Thanks. I was wondering how paper could invoke the Fifth. So they should still be able to get the documents even if Stone doesn't talk. Refusing to talk and refusing to hand over the documents sure sounds like a double dose of guilt to me.

This interests me -- in my one constitutional law class we learned that the only documents which can be covered by the Fifth are private letters to private persons; anything else is fair game.

 

[Kulindahr]

The Trump campaign met with more Russians than they did Americans.



https://themoscowproject.org/explainers/trumps-russia-cover-up-by-the-numbers-70-contacts-with-russia-linked-operatives/

Yeah, it isn't about Russians just being Russians, it's about Americans going over to play with them, then inviting them to play in our yard.

 

[Kulindahr]

Seems to me that that is the same reason that hundreds of people continue to be murdered in mass shootings and all that comes out of those shootings is thoughts and prayers because of the millions of dollars of campaign donations made to the Republicans by the NRA.

Thoughts and prayers can only be granted after the people are dead, and they don't do a single thing to keep them alive in the first place.

Corporate donations MUST end. Nothing will ever change as long as corporations own the government.

The NRA's involvement in politics is no different than that of, say, the Sierra Club: they are citizens acting together in what they see as their interests.

Of course the NRA is being manipulated by an ad agency that was supposed to have a limited missions but has come to make all the important decisions, but that doesn't change the nature of the group.

 

[Kulindahr]

Here in Canada, corporate donations are not allowed and private donations are capped at (I believe) $2,500. Not only that, but campaign spending is also capped for each candidate. This gives the smaller parties a fighting chance against the bigger parties. That's why we have 7 parties plus 3 independents in the House of Commons in Ottawa.

Donations to any particular campaign are also limited in the U.S.

What isn't limited is what people decide to spend on their own, or what corporate boards decide to spend for people they didn't even consult with (the stockholders). Anyone can go out and hire a company to make any ad they want, and no laws limit that.

Of course what ought to limit it is that corporations (and unions, and churches) obviously can't have political rights, since according to the Declaration of Independence it's human beings who are given rights by their Creator -- and God never created a corporation.

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A photo searching for a good home. I don't want to start a whole new thread with it. I found this on Facebook...

Maria Butina [the Russian spy currently in the news] with RICK SANTORUM.

Are there any Republicans not involved with the [STRIKE]Commu[/STRIKE] Russians?

UM, WHAT IN THE HELL?

She looks like a tweaker.....

 

[willhunt]

"This is why I love the internet," said the straight male to his posse on JUB.

oh yeah and ...... "Period." - Sean Spicer

 

[frankfrank]

In Posts #85 and #90, I'm wondering if this picture could be photoshopped by, you know, a Russian (or his son)...thank you willhunt for the suggestion!!

 

[gsdx]

^ I doubt it. You can see individual hairs over his coat.

 

[Kulindahr]

In Posts #85 and #90, I'm wondering if this picture could be photoshopped by, you know, a Russian (or his son)...thank you willhunt for the suggestion!!

^ I doubt it. You can see individual hairs over his coat.

I immediately thought of looking at the hair. Your eyes must be better than mine; I had to really expand it to be able to tell. It's possible to lift hair and place it over something else like that, but the hairs conform to his coat -- and that's a tough one.

 

[gsdx]

I immediately thought of looking at the hair. Your eyes must be better than mine; I had to really expand it to be able to tell.

They aren't. I did what you did. The hairs are right at the top of his shoulder:

 

[opinterph]

In Posts #85 and #90, I'm wondering if this picture could be photoshopped by, you know, a Russian (or his son)

The photo was taken at the 2014 NRA convention in Indianapolis.

 

[frankfrank]

^ w....o....w

 

[Dystopian]

Carl Bernstein (one half of the pair of investigative reporters who helped bring down Nixon) says that Trump is boxed into a corner for the first time in his life. Throughout his business career, he's been in corners, but he was always able to bully or buy his way out. If he was being sued, he's just get continuances until the other party gave up and withdrew the lawsuit.

I agree with Bernstein. Trump bought his way into this one, but he can't buy his way out, and it's doubtful he can bully his way out, either.

Interesting article with a 37-minute video: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/carl-bernstein-apos-donald-trump-223459560.html

This is what made him especially ill-suited to the job description. He has never worked anywhere that didn't have TRUMP on building. He could do and did anything he wanted, No consensus required. The Presidency is very different. Still CEO, but one needs to build consensus and consider the input of top notch advisors to make it work. Trump has done just the opposite. Now he is angry at everyone in the WH, and will "trust his gut" going forward. Many of his supporters voted for him because he is not a politician. They got that right...in spades.

POTUS is painted into a corner due in no small part to his own brush strokes. Had he kept his mouth shut, stopped fucking tweeting and listened to his cabinet (even such as it is) he couldn't have been worse off, and probably in a much stronger postion. To Mueller and the Russia probe. There is a documentaty playing on Amazon: Altered Measures. The name is the term Russia uses for its program of non-military intervention into foreign nations (especially neighboring countries and former Soviet Republics. It describes the impletmentationi of altered measures in the Ukraine. Spreading misinformation about candidates and influencing the election of a pro-Russian President. The film has had no comment or contact from the White House. Everything in the film has been not only checked, but there are back-up sources. I came away stunned that this Trojan Trump become POTUS in broad daylight.

It is most concerning that Trump is backed into a corner. A malignant narcissist seeing only dark reflections on all sides. Frustrated and angry, he might well act out in ways that could do us irreparable damage. What to do if the demands are so irrational that no one will implement them? What if no one refuses? And it could go on for some time before Congress could get it together to act. The worse he gets the more impeachment becomes a viable option. Just so impeacment doesn't turn out to be too little too late.

 

[DantheManFL]

My new favorite holiday song.

https://www.facebook.com/buttonpushertees/videos/518922138474932/

 

[OlderNerd]

I get a lot of shite for this elsewhere, but I'm really wondering whether the more folks count on Mueller's findings as some sort of nuclear bomb shattering of the Republican Party, the less impact the eventual report will have?

The phrase Muller Report is almost taking on the dimensions of Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin, perhaps?

Anyway, now I've said it.