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US PoliERA 2019 |OT1| You down wit' NDP? (Yeah you know me!) Who's down wit' AOC? (This whole party!)
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Saw this retweeted by Asha Rangappa (Former FBI Special Agent):
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath
Russian oligarch, Putin ally, and Trump friend makes a thinly-veiled threat against SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg:
АРТЕМ КЛЮШИН @ARTEM_KLYUSHIN
Пришла пора выводить Рут Гинзбург из состава судей Верховного суда. Гинзбург, звезда либеральной юриспруденции, находится в Верховном суде уже 25 лет. Пора ей отдохнуть @realDonaldTrump
Google Translated:
Fuck this motherfucker. This better be investigated.
You would not have posted this if she was likely to endorse Beto and not Bernie, so let's not pretend the concern is about whether or not she's in a position to endorse a primary candidate.
I don't really see the point in Tulsi running, Trump is one of the most popular republican presidents ever, whats her strategy to beat him in a primary?
I think he's trying to buy steel from Russia for the wall to pay money to his handler's
How likely is that white house knew the NYT was going to drop the biggest bomb in 2 years, and Shutdown is a strategy to distract from it?
None of these removal scenarios include the likely possibility that he's an active Russian agent.
You gonna stop a burglar/murder/kidnapper in process by indicting him? No. Needs to be apprehended first.
You gonna stop a burglar/murder/kidnapper in process by indicting him? No. Needs to be apprehended first.
They can't tie their shoelaces. They certainly can't orchestrate a distraction.
She leads with love, as long as you are straight.Tulsi's slogan is fucking bad. lmfao.
I sincerely hope it doesn't come to that. No one needs a horrible tragedy even if it means the shitfuck foregoes his stupid wall demand. I am certain the airports will take stock and start closing down terminals. The airline industry/lobbyists will start hounding the white house, if not already.
I would honestly investigate the companies building wall prototypes to check for russian connections at this point.
It feels like there's no way five billion is going to be spent on anything that actually gets built. More like Trump in his cartoon brain thinks it would be a simple process to launder it out of the country and nobody would ever notice.
Don't even mention it.
I have a flight on Tuesday. :(
Been thinking. Mattis resigned and planned to stay on until February. Cohen is testifying publicly before a democratic congress in February. Reporting saying final report from SC in March, with things wrapping off in February.
I see a pattern of events playing out in February. It's gonna be lit.
I see a pattern of events playing out in February. It's gonna be lit.
If we were stunned by this report (and we were), they were completely flabbergasted. All his moves to stop the FBI or DOJ from functioning in this area haven't worked.
I think, or at least hope, that the absence of Trump's massive persona will create both a schism within the party between those that approve of his ideas and those who are ready to move on and also will leave many of his supporters without a similar attractive option to him. Haley and Walker have the combined personality of watching an orange spray tan drying.
But didn't Rudy recently said that the Mueller report is going to be horrific? It seems they sort of know how deep the rabbit hole is.
He keeps doing this "COME BACK AND MAKE A DEAL AT THE TABLE!" routine. What deal? I asked this before but literally all the GOP offers is "give us everything we demand and then the government will be opened". That's extortion, or a hostage situation, not a deal.
This is far to many numbers for him, this has to be him giving Putin the launch codes.
I have a feeling that last line is going to be sources in a future law argument as proof there's a crisis lol
"They won't answer the phone, maybe you can get through to them!"
Meanwhile, did you sign the back pay bill yet? It should be at your desk.
Pressure has been getting to him since the night he won the election when the video of his campaign team celebrating had him sitting on the couch in stunned silence.
Not really, just a strategy to later justify a National Emergency. This can't go on for much longer
It's just PR. He knows he can't make a deal. So when the lawmakers go back to their districts for a break or on weekends, he uses that opportunity to make it look like he's serious and hard-working whereas the Democrats are not serious.
I don't see how Mueller wraps anything up when they haven't even indicted Roger Stone's associate yet, let alone Stone, let alone Don Jr/Kush/Trump.
Unless someone stops him from working, this should go well past March.
I think the idea is if there is a wall it will stop people from attempting to come here illegally and therefore we wont have families and children be stopped at the border dying or being brought by coyotes
He has to finish signing all the blank bills left on his desk from his Christmas stunt.
Even if Democrats did give into his demands, 15 minutes is unrealistic. The turtle has to crawl his way back from Kentucky.
To expand on this, Trump comes from the construction and real estate world. In commercial construction, a general contractor will send out projects to be bid on by subcontractors. Concrete, steel, plumbing, electrical and so on. They then choose each sub and add up all the bid costs, add in their own cost and put the price to the client. There may or may not be multiple general contractors putting together a bid package. Sometimes a general contractor will have a budget (I have no idea why...maybe they estimate the price and that's what they charge the client but either way it's incredibly stupid) and when they receive bids from all the subs, they try to beat the subs up for lower prices. Anyway, this is all done long before the job even starts, especially on a new build. So the general contractor, the subs, and the client all sign contracts outlining what will be provided and for what cost. So, the deal is already made. Now everyone has to do their best to live up to the contract. Some contractors are good. Many are horrible. My experience is in millwork, so finish work that comes at the end of the job. Cabinets, custom woodwork, etc. There are always delays in projects, but the finish date pretty much never moves. So those of us that come in at the end of a project get fucked so much. Contractors call multiple times a day yelling, send someone to our office/shop. Send out threatening emails to do liquidated damages and 72 or 48 hour notices for completion of the job. This sometimes happens within a week of the framing being completed, which we need to measure before building so our stuff fits properly. It's a lot of bullshit.
Essentially what it comes down to is that the deal is already made. And as the client, you have a lot of power to threaten the GC and subs over paying and breach of contract. Trump is the client and it's why he is a complete asshole in his "negotiating." He's never truly negotiated anything complicated.
In real estate all you have to agree on is a price. You have something you want to sell. A buyer comes forward and you negotiate price. At the end of the day, both parties want the same exact outcome. Now Trump is in a situation where each party does not want the same outcome and he has no idea how to handle it.
I guess it keeps the crisis in Mexico? Build the wall, no more humanitarian crisis for us. Also if you build a solid wall you can't see the crisis on the other side. Out of sight out of mind.
He unleashes his random MAGA tweets when he's desperate for affirmation.
Those tweets are the only ones still filled with bots calling him the greatest ever.
You're giving Trump way too much credit in terms of good-faith deal-making, too much history of "deals" in NYC says otherwise.
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