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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,471
    Go Beavers said:
    mrussel1 said:
    Go Beavers said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Kat said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    Joss gets it....


    I ran right out and gave that tweet a big like. That's even better than a regular like. j/k . :)

    So the right wants to boycott Walmart over a t-shirt? That t-shirt is free speech too. I think corporations may be becoming less fond of putin's boy. 
    Interested in the walmart story!!!
    I find the Walmart boycott hilarious. I can’t stand the place and for some reason it’s been held up as some retail outlet for conservatives. 

    They already boycotted Target because of bathrooms.  Wonder where they will go next?
    I’ve seen a lot of conservatives take pride in themselves about business boycotts being their form of creating social change instead of public protests. I say boycott walmart all day long. I want to see their dilemma. They might even have to shop local!!

    I remember O'Reily starting a movement to get Pepsi to drop rapper Ludacris in ads so this happens to big companies sometimes.
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,694
    Go Beavers said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Kat said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    Joss gets it....


    I ran right out and gave that tweet a big like. That's even better than a regular like. j/k . :)

    So the right wants to boycott Walmart over a t-shirt? That t-shirt is free speech too. I think corporations may be becoming less fond of putin's boy. 
    Interested in the walmart story!!!
    I find the Walmart boycott hilarious. I can’t stand the place and for some reason it’s been held up as some retail outlet for conservatives. 

    That's because Walmart is a big union buster and is known for huge profits but still has low wages and poor service, so it probably does deserve that reputation, given that conservative America does now seem to represent the tactic of "keep all the profits and screw everything else." They support it in a disguised form - Reaganomics/trickle down theory/corporate tax cuts.
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  • ikiT
    ikiT USA Posts: 11,059
    mrussel1 said:
    Go Beavers said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Kat said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    Joss gets it....


    I ran right out and gave that tweet a big like. That's even better than a regular like. j/k . :)

    So the right wants to boycott Walmart over a t-shirt? That t-shirt is free speech too. I think corporations may be becoming less fond of putin's boy. 
    Interested in the walmart story!!!
    I find the Walmart boycott hilarious. I can’t stand the place and for some reason it’s been held up as some retail outlet for conservatives. 

    They already boycotted Target because of bathrooms.  Wonder where they will go next?

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  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,883
    Well this joke just writes itself.  The admin has drafted the FART Act.  The US Fair and Reciprocal Trade Act...

    https://www.axios.com/trump-trade-war-leaked-bill-world-trade-organization-united-states-d51278d2-0516-4def-a4d3-ed676f4e0f83.html

  • jeffbr
    jeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    ^ Sounds accurate, at least based on the smell of that stinky, protectionist nonsense.
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  • Kat
    Kat Posts: 4,967
    Link shared by Rachel Maddow.

    https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/07/03/putting-a-face-mine-to-the-risks-posed-by-gop-games-on-mueller-investigation/

    PUTTING A FACE (MINE) TO THE RISKS POSED BY GOP GAMES ON MUELLER INVESTIGATION
    July 3, 2018/123 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe /by emptywheel

    I’d like to put a human face — my own — to the risk posed by GOP gamesmanship on the Mueller investigation.

    Sometime last year, I went to the FBI and provided information on a person whom I had come to believe had played a significant role in the Russian election attack on the US. Since that time, a number of public events have made it clear I was correct.

    I never in my life imagined I would share information with the FBI, especially not on someone I had a journalistic relationship with. I did so for many reasons. Some, but not all, of the reasons are:

    I believed he was doing serious harm to innocent people
    I believed (others agreed) that reporting the story at that time would risk doing far more harm than good
    I had concrete evidence he was lying to me and others, including but not limited to other journalists
    I had reason to believe he was testing ways to tamper with my website
    I believed that if the FBI otherwise came to understand what kind of information I had, their likely investigative steps would pose a risk to the privacy of my readers

    To protect the investigation, I will not disclose this person’s true identity or the identity and/or role I believe he played in the attack. Nor will I disclose when I went to the FBI. I did so on my own, without subpoena; I did that in an effort to protect people who have spoken to me in confidence and other journalists. Largely because this effort involved a number of last minute trips to other cities, I spent around $6K of my own money traveling to meet with lawyers and for the meeting with the FBI.

    I always planned to disclose this when this person’s role was publicly revealed. But I’m doing so now for two reasons. First, I think the public deserves to see the text he sent me at 3:15 PM on November 9, 2016.

    The substance of the text — that the Trump team started focusing on Syria right after the election — has been corroborated and tied to their discussions with Russia at least twice since then. Most importantly, in his statement to Congress, Jared Kushner explained his request for a back channel with the Russians by describing an effort to cooperate on Syria.

    The Ambassador [Sergei Kislyak] expressed similar sentiments about relations, and then said he especially wanted to address U.S. policy in Syria, and that he wanted to convey information from what he called his “generals.” He said he wanted to provide information that would help inform the new administration. He said the generals could not easily come to the U.S. to convey this information and he asked if there was a secure line in the transition office to conduct a conversation. General Flynn or I explained that there were no such lines. I believed developing a thoughtful approach on Syria was a very high priority given the ongoing humanitarian crisis, and I asked if they had an existing communications channel at his embassy we could use where they would be comfortable transmitting the information they wanted to relay to General Flynn.

    Less credibly, in the days after Mike Flynn pled guilty, an inflammatory Brian Ross report was corrected to reveal that “shortly after the election” Trump asked Flynn personally to work with Russia on Syria (Ross left ABC yesterday but as far as I understand the corrected story stands).

    Retired Lt. Gen Michael Flynn has promised “full cooperation” in the special counsel’s Russia investigation and, according to a confidant, is prepared to testify that Donald Trump directed him to make contact with the Russians, initially as a way to work together to fight ISIS in Syria.

    [snip]

    The source said Trump phoned Flynn shortly after the election to explicitly ask him to “serve as point person on Russia,” and to reach out personally to Russian officials to develop strategies to jointly combat ISIS.

    The text sent to me matches both those reports — indeed, it makes it clear that “shortly after the election” means just over 14 hours after polls closed. But the text doesn’t come from anyone, like Kushner or Flynn, inside the Trump team. It comes from someone who, I believe, had already done real damage to the United States as part of the Russian attack. That person understood the cooperation with Syria in terms of the US backing Bashar al-Assad, not in terms of fighting ISIS.

    I’m making this public now because a David Ignatius report Thursday maps out an imminent deal with Russia and Israel that sounds like what was described to me within hours of the election. This deal appears to be the culmination of an effort that those involved in the Russian attack worked to implement within hours after the election.

    The other reason I’m disclosing this now is to put a human face to the danger in which the House Republicans are putting other people who, like me, provided information about the Russian attack on the US to the government.

    Several times since I first considered sharing information with the FBI, I’ve asked my attorney to contact the FBI to tell them of what I perceived to be a real threat that arose from sharing that information. One of those times, I let law enforcement officers enter my house without a warrant, without me being present.

    My risk isn’t going to go away — indeed, going public like this will surely exacerbate it. That’s to be expected, given the players involved.

    But I’m a public figure. If something happens to me — if someone releases stolen information about me or knocks me off tomorrow — everyone will now know why and who likely did it. That affords me a small bit of protection. There are undoubtedly numerous other witnesses who have taken similar risks to share information with the government who aren’t public figures. The Republicans’ ceaseless effort to find out more details about people who’ve shared information with the government puts those people in serious jeopardy.

    I’m speaking out because they can’t — and shouldn’t have to.

    It infuriates me to observe (and cover) a months-long charade by the House GOP to demand more and more details about those who have shared information with the government, at least some of whom were only trying to prevent real damage to innocent people, all in an attempt to discredit the Mueller investigation. As someone who has worked to rein in dragnets for over a decade, I’m all the more disgusted to see so many lifelong cheerleaders of surveillance pretend to care now.

    I only came to be convinced slowly about Russia’s role in the attack and I have been skeptical of the Steele dossier from the day it was published. That said, I obviously do not like Donald Trump — though I’m no Hillary fan, either. But my decision to share information with the FBI had nothing to do with my dislike for Donald Trump. It had to do with the serious damage that someone else I believed to be involved in the Russian attack — someone I had been friendly with — was doing to innocent people, almost all of those people totally uninvolved in American politics.

    This investigation is not, primarily, an investigation into Donald Trump. It’s an investigation into people who attacked the United States. It’s time Republicans started acting like that matters.

    On Thursday night, I reached out to the Special Counsel’s Office to inquire whether I could post this without damaging the investigation. After sharing the specific language from the passages I felt might pose the biggest concern, last night at 10:15, I was informed they, “take no position” on my posting it.

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  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,366
    It’s so much fucking bigger than Watergate. Nunes no balls are sweating as are the NRA and Ryan and McConnell and all those fucking repubes. Too bad 61 million Americans can’t take the time to read, never mind comprehend.
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  • vaggar99
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  • Smellyman
    Smellyman Asia Posts: 4,528
    vaggar99 said:
     Trump sure is dumb
  • dignin
    dignin Posts: 9,478
    Smellyman said:
    vaggar99 said:
     Trump sure is dumb


    http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/395471-dictionary-mocks-trump-over-misspelled-tweet


  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,883
    Check out some of the troll comments that the Hill pulled out. These are really funny. 

    http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/395417-social-media-trolls-alex-jones-with-second-civil-war-letters
  • cincybearcat
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    HughFreakingDillon said:
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    Halifax2TheMax said:
    Kev - Coat and Keys said:
    Can our resident Trump interpreters (the ones who get all his 'jokes') explain what The Aura is?
    He mentioned it in his attack on Harley Davidson, who are struggling with his inept economics policies, and the capitalisation confuses me.
    Is it like 'The Secret'?
    Yea, wrap your mind around that one. Team Trump Treason Willy billy imposed tariffs and the EU replies in kind. Harley Davidson reacts by moving some operations oversees to remain competitive. Team Trump Treason threatens them with the biggest taxes they’ve ever seen and belittles them for being weak. It’s like Donny Jr. ate more than half of Eric’s ice cream because Team Trump Treason made them split a scoop when he’s got 60 gallons in the freezer and when Eric complained, Team Trump Treason whooped his ass for defying his logic. What a fucking nightmare. Harley riders should parade to DC and surround the White House and rev their engines 24/7 for a few weeks. Do the same at Team Trump Treasons hotels. This guy really needs a smack in the mouth. Hello, Pompeo? Not that I advocate that but I think it may very well be the only thing that will register with him and get his attention.
    Please stop saying "Team Trump Treason." You sound like Trump himself when refers to Hillary as "Crooked Hillary" or Cruz as "Lyin' Ted."
    an exercise in futility, my good man. 
    Hahahahaha Yeah I made that mistake before 
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  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    mrussel1 said:
    Check out some of the troll comments that the Hill pulled out. These are really funny. 

    http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/395417-social-media-trolls-alex-jones-with-second-civil-war-letters
    Those are amazing 
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    He's seriously a caricature of Peter Griffin:
    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/trump-makes-spelling-error-in-tweet-touting-his-writing-abilities/ar-AAzxV7J?li=AAggFp5&ocid=edgsp
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  • The Juggler
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    WHAT
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,250
    http://thehill.com/homenews/news/395559-conservative-columnist-i-want-democrats-to-take-over-congress

    Max Boot joins the ranks of conservatives with a brain
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  • dignin
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    'Trump Baby' balloon gets green light from London mayor

    Over 10000 people have signed a petition in support of the balloon

    The balloon is 6 meters high according to its creators

    Organizers are still awaiting final approval from the Metropolitan Police and National Air Traffic Service

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/05/europe/donald-trump-baby-trump-uk-intl/index.html
  • Nami
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    ^^^^ queue up Pink Floyd Animals
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
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    dignin said:

    'Trump Baby' balloon gets green light from London mayor

    Over 10000 people have signed a petition in support of the balloon

    The balloon is 6 meters high according to its creators

    Organizers are still awaiting final approval from the Metropolitan Police and National Air Traffic Service

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/05/europe/donald-trump-baby-trump-uk-intl/index.html

    I'd love to be a fly on the wall when McDonald looks up from his bucket of KFC, wipes his greasy chin with the cuff of his blue suit, and sees this.

    Ultimately... these types of things show how disrespected the guy is. He's a clown. A joke of cosmic proportions. Come on America... you're better than this.
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  • OnWis97
    OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,610
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    dignin said:

    'Trump Baby' balloon gets green light from London mayor

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/05/europe/donald-trump-baby-trump-uk-intl/index.html

    I'd love to be a fly on the wall when McDonald looks up from his bucket of KFC, wipes his greasy chin with the cuff of his blue suit, and sees this.

    Ultimately... these types of things show how disrespected the guy is. He's a clown. A joke of cosmic proportions. Come on America... you're better than this.
    Nope.  We ARE this.
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