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healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Oct 30, 2017 - 08:15pm PT
They have Flynn dead to rights, only reason they have not indicted is because he is squealing like a stuck pig...

This is undoubtably the case and it’s a great strategy for keeping the rest of the rats nervous and off-balance.
WBraun

climber
Oct 30, 2017 - 08:26pm PT
You people are totally whacked as you have no clue what's going on and neither does the st00pid corporate tools from the lame stream media .....
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
Oct 30, 2017 - 08:36pm PT
I thought Trump said he didn't want unattractive women working at his golf resorts...?
Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
Oct 30, 2017 - 09:09pm PT
RJ! Per your mention:

I thought Trump said he didn't want unattractive women working at his golf resorts...?

I suppose Sarah Huckabee Sanders, daughter of pleasant, but slightly insane for God Arkansas Gov. Huckabee, might be more pleasant if her job didn't require her to lie & bluster on a daily basis, for Trump.

Those poses do not become her.




Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
Oct 31, 2017 - 11:26am PT
From NPR:

When conservative commentator and host Rush Limbaugh opened his radio show Monday, indictments had just been made public in Washington, D.C., against President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. Manafort and one of his top lieutenants had been taken into custody on charges of money laundering and tax evasion. Special counsel Robert Mueller had also secured a guilty plea from former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who admitted to lying to the FBI about contacts with Russia.

But Limbaugh, one of the most influential voices on the right, worked quickly to reframe the day's developments. "None of this is real," he insisted. When a listener suggested Mueller had "gone rogue" and might be trying to topple Trump, Limbaugh amplified the fear. "This is the coup. If Hillary had been elected, none of this would be happening, other than they still put Trump in jail as a message to the outsider: Don't dare try this."

For weeks, conservative media outlets have echoed these themes, working to discredit Mueller and recycling own Trump's tweets describing the probe as a political witch hunt. They've also worked to refocus attention onto former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Trump himself still refers to his opponent in last year's presidential election as "Crooked Hillary."

On Monday, Limbaugh and other conservative media outlets built on those themes. They downplayed the immediate impact of the Manafort indictments, insisting that they have nothing to do with Trump or his campaign. They also suggested the probe reflects an unfair attack on a populist president by Washington insiders and media liberals.

Much of Monday's conservative coverage asserted that Clinton is actually the one who colluded with Russia when she was secretary of state. Fox News star Sean Hannity told his audience that people investigating Trump are all complicit in an Obama administration decision in 2010 that allowed a Russian company to gain a financial interest in part of America's uranium reserves.

"All the people involved in this, from Rosenstein who appointed Mueller, both of them, and Eric Holder and likely President Obama himself. Hillary was up to her eyeballs as was her husband in the Uranium One deal," Hannity said, listing a who's who of Justice Department figures and Democratic Party leaders, who he claimed were ignoring a more significant Russia scandal.

Fact-checkers with The Washington Post and other outlets have looked at these narratives involving Clinton and found they don't check out. Nor do these claims have anything to do with Monday's indictments or the question of whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election. But Clinton remains a lightning rod on the right, and many conservatives believe her actions in office threatened national security.

Despite these counternarratives about Mueller and Clinton, there was still deep alarm Monday in some right-wing media. Speaking on Fox News, Byron York with the conservative Washington Examiner warned that the indictments might mark a turning point. "Could they be used to pressure Manafort to give them information about any possible wrongdoing on the Trump campaign?" York asked. "The only problem is we don't know of what such wrongdoing might be. But certainly Manafort is now under pressure."

The right-wing website Breitbart, run by former White House strategist Steve Bannon, acknowledged to readers that former Trump campaign adviser Papadopoulos pleaded guilty after lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russians and trying to purge his Facebook account. His guilty plea directly contradicts a claim made by conservative media for months that Mueller's entire probe is fake news.
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/31/561070095/none-of-this-is-real-conservative-media-reacts-to-mueller-indictments

Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Nov 1, 2017 - 06:48am PT
Jon Beck

Trad climber
Oceanside
Nov 1, 2017 - 10:15am PT
Sam Clovis is talking. Trump planned on putting him in Agriculture to keep him quiet. Should be a good Senate confirmation hearing

Drip drip drip
Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
Nov 1, 2017 - 11:01am PT
I now feel (slightly) bad for mocking Trump mouth-piece Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

The poor, grouchy-woman is an obvious victim of Bell's Palsy!

Bell's palsy is a type of facial paralysis that results in an inability to control the facial muscles on the affected side.[1] Symptoms can vary from mild to severe.[1] They may include muscle twitching, weakness, or total loss of the ability to move one or rarely both sides of the face.[1] Other symptoms include drooping of the eyelid, a change in taste, pain around the ear, and increased sensitivity to sound
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_palsy

NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 1, 2017 - 04:08pm PT
I appreciate levity as a fine consolation as long as it does not plant the seeds for future problems.

Mocking her appearance dilutes the societal rejection of her role in the ongoing injuries to our nation, in a way validating what she is doing by saying it's less important than how she looks. Imagine if everyone had the courage of their convictions to say no to such a job. Maybe many people do, and that is why so many positions are unfilled in this administration. How many Judas' can there be in this world? Certainly a lot who will not say no to a dollar.

Another point on mocking her appearance: it reinforces an ancient societal weakness of judging women more by their appearance than their actions. It is only a slight variation on the theme Martin Luther King spoke about, dreaming of a world where people "will not be judged by (the color of) their skin, but by the content of their character."

Maybe this last argument is weak in this case, because men and women seem to be equally lambasted on their appearance in politics. I'm over-sensitive on that topic lately because of observations in other realms. Whether it is men or women being targeted, it just dumbs us down.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
Nov 1, 2017 - 05:27pm PT
Nut...I totally agree with you...Locker's pictures of Uncle Fester and Huckabee are totally inappropriate...Guy should get banned again...rj
Norton

climber
The Wastelands
Nov 1, 2017 - 07:59pm PT
Give Locker a break, he is Locker after all. Just like Duck, gets a free pass.
nah000

climber
now/here
Nov 1, 2017 - 08:17pm PT
exhibit a:

[Click to View YouTube Video]



exhibit b:

[Click to View YouTube Video]



if you agree with one of the two above, you probably think the other sounds crazy.



but are they really that different?

one uses tears. and one uses anger.

one is passive aggressive. and the other is just aggressive.



but from my perspective, even if their emotions are genuine, [and they very well maybe] they are both professional level emotional manipulators. [and before i'm called a kettle, i'm aware that i'm just as capable in this fine art - ha!]

they are manipulators because both are peddling in the fine art of dehumanizing the other.

in this case that "other" is at least anyone that disagrees with them.

and so in the face of tragedy you're either "fer em" or you're "against em".



and so in both cases neither is really taking the time to question/investigate what the root issues might be.

both of 'em just want to legislate.

they both want "others" to control "others".

because ultimately they think by controlling the tail, they'll control the dog.




and that is the root mistake with this whole conversation, imo.

there really aren't any specific policy issues [tails] worth discussing at this point in the u.s.' history.



the only issue, as of right now... is the dog.



and so that i'm somewhat transparent:

that dog is the premises that the u.s. was founded on.

those premises were always [in part] lies, just as they were always [in part] truths.

the truths [in part] led it to many legitimate and great successes.



and the lies?

they are catching up.

and the empire is both slowly and quickly slipping away, because of them.




as long as the focus is on the leader, whether obeezy, or drumpf, or the guns, or the health care, or the immigrants, or whatever new "issue" is being pushed, there will be no real long lasting solutions to the u.s.' both slowly and quickly waning intrinsic power and therefore influence in the greater world.
Contractor

Boulder climber
CA
Nov 2, 2017 - 07:01am PT
Thanks for giving us Trump you selfish assh0le!
Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC

http://flip.it/TILx5s
Happiegrrrl2

Trad climber
Nov 2, 2017 - 08:53am PT
Mercer has resigned and is selling Breitbart stock(to his daughter).

Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Police
Police Who?
Police open the door. Mueller would like to have a word or two with you.
Craig Fry

Trad climber
So Cal.
Nov 2, 2017 - 11:24am PT
That Green Party has been doing some great work these days.
They helped install Pruitt in the EPA.
Climate Change is now not even a topic the Gov. cares about,
and Coal is now the fuel of the future

Good Work Greens
You must feel special
monolith

climber
state of being
Nov 2, 2017 - 12:32pm PT
Worth a repost. Thanks Contractor.

Good work Dems! You shot yourself in the foot.

Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC

https://flipboard.com/@flipboard/-inside-hillary-clintons-secret-takeover/f-b95a46bed0%2Fpolitico.com

Debbie was not a good manager. She hadn’t been very interested in controlling the party—she let Clinton’s headquarters in Brooklyn do as it desired so she didn’t have to inform the party officers how bad the situation was.
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Nov 2, 2017 - 12:47pm PT
so I should go ahead and vote for the DNC purse-pocket controller again next time, HRC-ites? phuk that shit! I am done with DNC, the Democratic political machine. I would rather stomach a Randian approach than deal with the garbage-spewing wallstreet nutswabbers of the DNC.


As Rutger Hauer so eloquently put it in the american cinema classic Surviving the Game, "Let it burn."


I am done voting Dem. Period. That sh#t is unreal. Who the hell thought a reproductively nonviable female could win POTUS? Or that sticking with the Dem political machine was in any way reasonable in the first (no matter the consequence of loss). Goldman Nutsachs owned her anyway.


No, Donnie, these people are cowards.

Let it burn, Donnie.



And yeah CFry, letting it burn means a Pruitt EPA, means a pussygrabber in chief. Your blaming of berniebros leaves you, with your mirror, to stare at. So count us out.

"F*#k it dude, let's go bowling" And vote third Pizzle next go 'round.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 2, 2017 - 12:59pm PT
Cowboy, why the sturm und dracht? Or is it just generic bitterness?
The revolution will not be televised but Jerome Powell’s confirmation
hearings will be although that might be too warm and cuddly for you.
Happiegrrrl2

Trad climber
Nov 2, 2017 - 01:13pm PT
Who the hell thought a reproductively nonviable female could win POTUS?

What kind of sh#t spew is that? What kind of person even THINKS that way? What is the matter with you?

edit: If you want to cancel that chalkbag purchase, just send me a note via the Etsy syste, and I will do so.

Craig Fry

Trad climber
So Cal.
Nov 2, 2017 - 01:34pm PT
Far left loons would rather see the whole Country burn down than upset their snowflake principles and vote for the lesser of 2 evils

I can care less what the DNC did in 2015-16.

It's just more smear attacks on Hillary to divert attention.

You want to compare notes of the DNC to the RNC?
The RNC are involved in treason or pay offs at every level.

At least the Dems know how to Govern, that's really all that matters.
The country was doing fine with Obama and the Clintons in charge

It's not a popularity contest
You have a choice of Normal bad, or Satanic bad
The choice should be easy.

you pick outside those 2 and it's a default into satanic
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