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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Trump signs EO that creates a 'Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity'.
Headed by Mike Pence, it's goal is to study Voter Fraud and Suppression.
On the one hand, I'm pissed that Trump is still going on about this nonsense about Voter Fraud. If there was Fraud against him, he wouldn't be in the White House!
On the other hand, if the Council actually does it's job (and I doubt it will), it might actually do something about the Republican Tactics on Voter Suppression under the guise of Safety (which it probably won't).
Trump thinks Russia is laughing at the US tearing itself apart over the investigation and that the investigation is a Democrat excuse for losing the election: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/862767872879325185
edited 11th May '17 1:58:44 PM by FireCrawler2002
And the 45th president will be forever remembered as the jackass who didn't do much on the government besides screw up and shitpost on Twitter.
No wonder /pol/ and the alt-right loves Trump and are going nuts over those tweets over the madman did it again, all show and no content, only shit talk matters on the cesspool they are in.
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Sure, Trump. An investigation that had started months before the election is an excuse and deflecting, while you constantly bring up the election and apparently carrying around an electoral map with you is totally normal. The crowning achievement of most presidents is literally the first minute of their presidential career, months before they even officially become president.
edited 11th May '17 2:03:54 PM by Zendervai
Looks like a win for Justice Democrats.
Congressman Ro Khanna has officially joined the Justice Democrats.
NC requests $929 million in federal aid following Hurricane Matthew; gets just over $6 million
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...Apparently helping the states takes second fiddle to funding Trump's golfing holidays.
"Yup. That tasted purple."For Trump Supporters, the Real Outrage Is the Left’s Uproar Over Comey
Yet among those who are sympathetic to the president — a minority, to be sure, but somewhere around 40 percent of the country, according to recent polls — the outrage is that Mr. Trump is again being held to an unfair standard set by the very people and institutions that tried to stop his election in the first place: Democrats, resentful Republicans and, perhaps most of all, the news media.
In this version of events, the “alternate facts” emanate not from the mouths of Mr. Trump or his aides but from the “fake news” mainstream media.
The way the Comey story played out in the conservative news media was a telling illustration of this divide.
The Conservative Review, an online journal, mocked “the same fretting screeds that have accompanied nearly every move and measure conducted by this administration, regardless of severity.” With each one, the website said, the president’s opponents were “whipping themselves up into full Constitutional Crisis mode.”
On Facebook, Republicans shared the 1993 C-Span footage of Bill Clinton’s announcement that he had fired William S. Sessions, the only other F.B.I. director to be dismissed, while the bureau was investigating why employees in the White House Travel Office had been involved in an episode that became known as Travelgate. (The conditions of Mr. Sessions’s firing were much different, however, as he had abused his federally funded travel privileges.)
Democrats should recognize that reaction. For years, they accused Republicans of resisting Mr. Obama’s agenda at every turn, of being spiteful and even hateful as they refused to accept the results of the presidential election. And now, Republicans seem to relish the opportunity to turn the tables.
Rush Limbaugh told his listeners on Wednesday, “This kind of irrational hate — this all-consuming hate and derangement, delusion — it isn’t healthy.”
Fucking cult. Fucking projection. Fucking lack of self awareness
edited 11th May '17 3:37:15 PM by NoName999
Don't see any particular red flags from him at least, from a quick Wikipedia. Of course, the fact that he's throwing in with the Justice Democrats probably means he drinks the kool-aid on free trade and intervention.
edited 11th May '17 3:42:47 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Why would he understand consequences when he never really has to suffer them in any long-term anyway? Any time he fucks up (whether it be bankrupting a business, saying something incredibly stupid, sexually harassing women, etc) someone bails him out or it just doesn't matter.
It's like he has Plot Armor.
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Yep. We really need to fire the idiot who inserted this blatantly Plot Armored Mary Sue into our canon, then find a way to write him out. I suggest Ret-Gone via time travel.
edited 11th May '17 3:44:14 PM by TrashJack
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's DictionaryThat reminds me of the whole thing with the Trump "pussy" tape. A lot of people were outraged by what Trump said, but lots of people on the right assumed the outrage was because of the one specific word. Deliberately ignoring the forest for one specific tree. That's the modus operandi for tons of people.
Ro Khanna... Didn't he take a huge donation from Peter Thiel and got his seat by using that money to primary one of the most progressive Democrats then in congress?
EDIT: He attacked that congressman (Mike Honda) for wanting to strengthen Social Security
and opposes raising the capital gains tax
. Seems the JD's got a corporate shill as their first member in congress.
edited 11th May '17 3:46:51 PM by IFwanderer
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV

I think the CIA, FBI, and NSA have all been working with each other and their foreign counterparts for a while now.