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Well, how can you not love Contra Points? She is amazing
It was her that put me on the path from approaching anti-SJW to full blown social justice warrior
The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.Rudy Giuliani made a tweet that may get him fired.
"Mueller filed an indictment just as the President left for http://G-20.In
July he indicted the Russians who will never come here just before he left for Helsinki.Either could have been done earlier or later. Out of control!Supervision please?"
For why? http://G-20.In
leads to a black page just saying 'Donald J Trump is a traitor to our country.'
I don’t think Rudy quite knows how to Twitter. He hasn’t even deleted this random bit of nonsense, he accidentally tweeted.
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And while they were waiting, Mexico started to deport them. So....Yeah, they were basically caught between a rock and a hard place.
Could have sworn Mexico was deporting them after the charge took place
Edited by Ultimatum on Dec 3rd 2018 at 11:19:06 AM
have a listen and have a link to my discord server
CNN, Wa PO, NYT, maybe a Texas or other border state news platform.
Edited by MarqFJA on Dec 3rd 2018 at 3:44:33 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.@archonspeaks: To be fair, "keeping the government stable" is the job of a lot of agencies. The CIA is the agency which keeps the government stable by protecting it from foreign threats (and even more specifically, by providing intel on said threats).
Leviticus 19:34The CIA also has a long and glorious history of doing very, very nasty things
to prop up or install dictators. See: Iran-Contra, South and Central American politics in general in the 1900s.
Edited by wisewillow on Dec 3rd 2018 at 8:04:02 AM
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/12/03/day-683/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-idUSKBN1O222F
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/30/politics/michael-cohen-pardon-expectation-donald-trump/index.html
Trump's lawyers want Stormy Daniels to pay their $340,000 legal bill they claim they earned after successfully defending Trump against her frivolous defamation claim. (Associated Press)
2/ Trump praised Roger Stone for not cooperating with Mueller, tweeting that it's "nice to know that some people still have 'guts!'" Stone said Sunday that there's "no circumstance in which I would testify against the president." Stone has denied multiple times that he knew Wiki Leaks was going to release hacked emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign. (Politico / Axios)
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/03/trump-roger-stone-has-guts-1038787
3/ Kellyanne Conway's husband accused Trump of witness tampering after Trump praised Stone for vowing to never testify against him. "Witness tampering: File under '18 U.S.C. §§ 1503, 1512,'" George Conway wrote, listing the federal criminal statute about "tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant." (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2018/12/03/trump-accused-of-witness-tampering-over-roger-stone-tweet/
4/ The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said the committee has made "a number of referrals" to Mueller's office for prosecution. Sen. Mark Warner added that while he doesn't know whether Cohen was instructed to lie to Congress, Cohen's plea contradicts Trump's multiple denials during the campaign that he did not have any business links to Russia. Warner called it a "very relevant question that the American people need an answer to." (CBS News)
The leading Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee: Cohen's cooperations confirms that "the president and his business are compromised." According to Rep. Adam Schiff, "there is now testimony, there is now a witness, who confirms that in the same way Michael Flynn was compromised, that the president and his business are compromised." Cohen admitted to misleading investigators about the Trump Organization's efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. "[W]hat the president was saying," Schiff added, "what Michael Cohen was saying and others were saying about when this business deal ended was not true. And what's more, the Russians knew it wasn’t true." He continued: "It means that the president, whether he won or lost, was hoping to make money from Russia, was seeking at the same time to enlist the support of the Kremlin to make that money." (ABC News)
James Comey agreed to testify to Congress about the FBI's investigations during the 2016 campaign as long as lawmakers release the full transcript of his testimony within 24 hours. Comey and his attorney filed a legal challenge last week to the Republican-led effort to compel him to testify. His attorney argued that the legal action was "to prevent the Joint Committee from using the pretext of a closed interview to peddle a distorted, partisan political narrative about the Clinton and Russian investigations through selective leaks." As part of the deal, Comey will be free to make all or part of his testimony available to the public. (NBC News / Reuters / ABC News / New York Times)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-comey-idUSKBN1O10LY
5/ The CIA has "medium-to-high confidence" that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman "personally targeted" Jamal Khashoggi and "probably ordered his death." Prince Mohammed sent at least 11 messages to his closest adviser, Saud al-Qahtani, who supervised the 15-man team that killed Khashoggi, in the hours before and after the journalist's death in October. The leak of the intelligence report has infuriated Gina Haspel, the CIA director. In August 2017, Prince Mohammed told associates that if he couldn't persuade Khashoggi to return to Saudi Arabia, then "we could possibly lure him outside Saudi Arabia and make arrangements," according to the CIA assessment. (Wall Street Journal / New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/us/politics/crown-prince-mohammed-qahtani-intercepts.html
poll/ 46% of voters approve of Trump's job performance – up from his October numbers, when 44% approved of the job Trump was doing as president. 54% don't approve. (The Hill)
Notables.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/02/trump-trade-canada-mexico-1006164
The U.S. and China agreed to hold off on new tariffs. Trump agreed to postpone a plan to raise tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods, while the Chinese agreed to an unspecified increase in their purchases of American industrial, energy and agricultural products. Trump and President Xi Jinping, however, remain far apart on basic trade policy issues and neither show signs of backing down on their demands. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/world/trump-xi-g20-merkel.html
All of the world leaders at the G20 Summit in Argentina — except for Trump — released a joint statement reaffirming their commitment to fighting climate change. The U.S. did join a separate portion of the communique that focused on energy and the role it plays in shaping the future of the planet. (Axios)
The House and Senate plan to vote this week to push the government shutdown deadline back two weeks and delay a fight over Trump's border wall until right before Christmas. Congress has until Friday to approve a funding extension before funding for the federal government runs out. (Politico / CNBC / CNN / Washington Post)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/03/politics/government-shutdown-congress-border-wall/index.html
Trump and Putin had an "informal" meeting at the G20 Summit. "As is typical at multilateral events," said Sarah Huckabee Sanders, "President Trump and the First Lady had a number of informal conversations with world leaders at the dinner last night, including President Putin." Trump previously canceled a formal meeting with Putin over Russia's recent seizure of Ukrainian ships and the detention of their crews. "I answered his questions about the incident in the Black Sea," said Putin. "He has his position. I have my own. We stayed in our own positions." (The Hill / Fox News)
The CIA is a (rightly) controversial-and mysterious-organization. It's done a considerable amount of good and bad. IIRC it's actually done some pretty nice work with things like helping dissidents in North Korea find places where they're safe from their government's view.
So the actual morality of the CIA is probably something like Lawful Neutral. It depends on who's running what at which time.
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I mean, ultimately every agency serves the goal of government stability, from a big one like the CIA right down to a municipal sanitation department. The whole thing wouldn't work without all of them.
The point of that post was to illustrate that the CIA serves a purpose just like every other government agency.
Edited by archonspeaks on Dec 3rd 2018 at 5:11:20 AM
They should have sent a poet.

And also vaguely sexual, so no thanks. :/
We learn from history that we do not learn from history