[TheZookie007]

MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show: "Cambridge Analytica Scandal Rocks Already Rattled President Trump World" 

One comment on this video asks a good question:

"I need Trumpflakes to explain some things to me. If there is actually a huge conspiracy to frame Trump, please answer me this: how come he has not denied any of the evidence that has come out about his campaigns ties to Russia? The Don Jr meeting, Carter Page's trips, all the other meetings and correspondences between his campaign and Russians? He hasn't denied Kushner tried to create a back channel to communicate with Russians. He hasn't denied this Cambridge Analytica story. He hasn't denied the money laundering claims. He hasn't denied that he is tampering with witnesses. Simply put, he does not try to dispute any evidence specifically, he only tries to discredit the investigators and their motives. Isn't that kinda weird? Are you people also claiming that this "conspiracy" stretches to fake documents, false witness statements, fake emails, fake financial information, etc.? Because if crimes are "cooked up", they have to be backed up by evidence and witnesses. So every piece of paper has to be fabricated and every single witness has to be lying, right? Have I got this straight? Not only this but the lifelong straight arrow, honorable, dedicated, patriot and REPUBLICAN Robert Mueller has to be in on this "fake" investigation that has no actual merit, and he is totally OK with fabricating evidence to put away a totally innocent man? And he's willing to do this for what? For Hillary Clinton? Is this the theory?"

Meanwhile, Mr. Mark "I just sold three billion dollars worth of my shares" Zuckerberg has finally broken his silence, to say "I'm really sorry" that it happened". Are you now? 

[TheZookie007]

Quelle surprise!

The David Pakman Show: "Problem: Turns Out Ivanka Never Cut Ties with Trump Business"

[andrat2000]

MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show: "Cambridge Analytica Scandal Rocks Already Rattled President Trump World" 

One comment on this video asks a good question:

"I need Trumpflakes to explain some things to me. If there is actually a huge conspiracy to frame Trump, please answer me this: how come he has not denied any of the evidence that has come out about his campaigns ties to Russia? The Don Jr meeting, Carter Page's trips, all the other meetings and correspondences between his campaign and Russians? He hasn't denied Kushner tried to create a back channel to communicate with Russians. He hasn't denied this Cambridge Analytica story. He hasn't denied the money laundering claims. He hasn't denied that he is tampering with witnesses. Simply put, he does not try to dispute any evidence specifically, he only tries to discredit the investigators and their motives. Isn't that kinda weird? Are you people also claiming that this "conspiracy" stretches to fake documents, false witness statements, fake emails, fake financial information, etc.? Because if crimes are "cooked up", they have to be backed up by evidence and witnesses. So every piece of paper has to be fabricated and every single witness has to be lying, right? Have I got this straight? Not only this but the lifelong straight arrow, honorable, dedicated, patriot and REPUBLICAN Robert Mueller has to be in on this "fake" investigation that has no actual merit, and he is totally OK with fabricating evidence to put away a totally innocent man? And he's willing to do this for what? For Hillary Clinton? Is this the theory?"

Exactly this is what Trumpelstilsken goons believe, everything is made up, every single paper, every witness, everything is scripted and orchestrated, it is a perfect oiled conspiracy machine.

That's what they believe! What does this tell you about their intelligence? About their social compentency? I really wonder they don't have a legal guardian by now.

[TheZookie007]

Exactly this is what Trumpelstilsken goons believe, everything is made up, every single paper, every witness, everything is scripted and orchestrated, it is a perfect oiled conspiracy machine.

That's what they believe! What does this tell you about their intelligence? About their social compentency? I really wonder they don't have a legal guardian by now.

The most troubling aspect of this is: everything they accuse them of, is something they are guilty of themselves, usually to an incredible degree. For instance, before he started occupying the Oval, he was always insulting Pres. Obama by saying that he plays more golf than Tiger Woods. Meanwhile, he has been in office for just over 400 days, and has spent one day out of four on the golf course since then at our expense. His guy Michael Flynn was all "if I'd done one-tenth of what Hillary did, I'd be in jail", and we all know how criminal he has been. And so on, and so forth.

The projection is the most evil part of it all.

[rtpoe]

Meanwhile, the Robert Mueller and his Justice League of Extraordinary Investigators have been looking into the Middle East Connection.

According to the NY Times, George Nader, a former lobbyist for the United Arab Emirates and cooperating witness in the Mueller investigation, has been talking about how he "arranged" deals between the RNC's deputy finance chair and assorted Saudi and UAE companies (i.e. members of their royal families).

And isn't it really just pure coincidence that after Qatar said "No" to Jared the Evil Squeaky Toy Kushner when he came to them looking for loans to support his failing real estate business that the Saudis suddenly turned on Qatar, blockading them? And that the Trump Administration was OK with that? And then for no apparent reason accused them of being a state sponsor of terrorism? Even when Qatar is the HQ for our entire Middle East military operations, and home to some 11,000 troops?

Back at the WH, attorney John Dowd, Trump's lead lawyer in the Mueller investigation, decided to quit. Seems he got fed up with his client not listening to him.

Also on the outs - National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster. Word is he's being replaced by John Bolton. Bolton is an unmitigated hawk - on the order of Gen. Curtis LeMay. He's advocated a "hit them first before they can hit us" policy in regards to North Korea.

And China is retaliating against El Presidente's tariffs with a set of their own. Trade War time!

I wish I didn't have to combine all these stories into one post - but that's the insane world we live in these days.

[TheZookie007]

And isn't it really just pure coincidence that after Qatar said "No" to Jared the Evil Squeaky Toy Kushner when he came to them looking for loans to support his failing real estate business that the Saudis suddenly turned on Qatar, blockading them?

That's what you get when you buy a place at the address "666 Fifth Avenue".

The good news is that the new absolute monarch in Saudi Arabia, good ol' MBS, has been bragging to his opposite number in the UAE and others that Squeaky is "in his pocket". Oh joy!

Back at the WH, attorney John Dowd, Trump's lead lawyer in the Mueller investigation, decided to quit. Seems he got fed up with his client not listening to him.

John Dowd? Oh, you mean the same John Dowd who just 11 days ago, the current occupant of the Oval claimed he had full confidence in and that the New York Times reporting about him soon being sacked was "fake news"? That John Dowd?

[andrat2000]

Exactly this is what Trumpelstilsken goons believe, everything is made up, every single paper, every witness, everything is scripted and orchestrated, it is a perfect oiled conspiracy machine.

That's what they believe! What does this tell you about their intelligence? About their social compentency? I really wonder they don't have a legal guardian by now.

The most troubling aspect of this is: everything they accuse them of, is something they are guilty of themselves, usually to an incredible degree. For instance, before he started occupying the Oval, he was always insulting Pres. Obama by saying that he plays more golf than Tiger Woods. Meanwhile, he has been in office for just over 400 days, and has spent one day out of four on the golf course since then at our expense. His guy Michael Flynn was all "if I'd done one-tenth of what Hillary did, I'd be in jail", and we all know how criminal he has been. And so on, and so forth.

The projection is the most evil part of it all.

Yes. This bigot mafia behaviour of Trumpelstilsken and his goons and that they all have actually earned 10 times more in prison than every other member in history of US administration.
But the legal guardian (btw. or should I have said legal custodian) I personally find a good solution for him and his goonies.

[TheZookie007]

They're trying to gain what one commentator called "a new backdoor around the Fourth Amendment" on page 2,201 of the 2,232 page, must-pass omnibus package: the CLOUD Act. This would hand police departments in the U.S. and other countries new powers to directly collect data from tech companies instead of requiring them to first get a warrant. It would even let foreign governments wiretap inside the U.S. without having to comply with U.S. Wiretap Act restrictions.

That's why the ACLU, the EFF, and other civil liberties groups have banded together to fight it.

"The Cloud Act Is a Dangerous Piece of Legislation", by Neema Singh Guliani, ACLU Legislative Counsel

Today, the information of global activists — such as those that fight for LGBTQ rights, defend religious freedom, or advocate for gender equality are protected from being disclosed by U.S. companies to governments who may seek to do them harm. The CLOUD Act eliminates many of these protections and replaces them with vague assurances, weak standards, and largely unenforceable restrictions.

The bill starts by giving the executive branch dramatically more power than it has today. It would allow Attorney General Sessions to enter into agreements with foreign governments that bypass current law, without any approval from Congress. Under these agreements, foreign governments would be able to get emails and other electronic information without any additional scrutiny by a U.S. judge or official. And, while the attorney general would need to consider a country’s human rights record, he is not prohibited from entering into an agreement with a country that has committed human rights abuses.

That level of discretion alone is concerning. Even more, however, the bill would for the first time allow these foreign governments to wiretap in the U.S. — even in cases where they do not meet Wiretap Act standards. Paradoxically, that would give foreign governments the power to engage in surveillance — which could sweep in the information of Americans communicating with foreigners — that the U.S. itself would not be able to engage in. The bill also provides broad discretion to funnel this information back to the U.S., circumventing the Fourth Amendment. This information could potentially be used by the U.S. to engage in a variety of law enforcement actions.

[andrat2000]

Meanwhile, the Robert Mueller and his Justice League of Extraordinary Investigators have been looking into the Middle East Connection.

According to the NY Times, George Nader, a former lobbyist for the United Arab Emirates and cooperating witness in the Mueller investigation, has been talking about how he "arranged" deals between the RNC's deputy finance chair and assorted Saudi and UAE companies (i.e. members of their royal families).

And isn't it really just pure coincidence that after Qatar said "No" to Jared the Evil Squeaky Toy Kushner when he came to them looking for loans to support his failing real estate business that the Saudis suddenly turned on Qatar, blockading them? And that the Trump Administration was OK with that? And then for no apparent reason accused them of being a state sponsor of terrorism? Even when Qatar is the HQ for our entire Middle East military operations, and home to some 11,000 troops?

Back at the WH, attorney John Dowd, Trump's lead lawyer in the Mueller investigation, decided to quit. Seems he got fed up with his client not listening to him.

Also on the outs - National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster. Word is he's being replaced by John Bolton. Bolton is an unmitigated hawk - on the order of Gen. Curtis LeMay. He's advocated a "hit them first before they can hit us" policy in regards to North Korea.

And China is retaliating against El Presidente's tariffs with a set of their own. Trade War time!

I wish I didn't have to combine all these stories into one post - but that's the insane world we live in these days.

The problem is that all this, what this liar of a president and his goons do, is causing an inefficiency world wide and an inefficiency for the US. Everyone has now to spend a lot of money (including the US) to reduce this chaos. But the inefficiency caused by the liar US president can't be nullified, just reduced a bit ...

It's really a drama that world wide a lot of tax payers money is going up the chimney because of this liar of a US president.

[andrat2000]

Btw. how about these three new extremists the Trumpelstilsken wants to give jobs?
They sound like they are some warheads.

I think over the last 1.5 years I heared several times here in this thread how Trumpelstilsken should stay out of any military actions.

But with this warheads getting the jobs (not sure yet they pass the control instances) it becomes very likely he starts a new Vietnam for the US all over the world. How would this fit together from the time of his run for president?

Oh well, I gave the answer already in my previous post.

[rtpoe]

There are over 800 marches around the world in the "March for Our Lives" rallies. Even as far away as Australia, which, by the way, hasn't had a mass shooting in over 20 years. Because when they had one, they said "Enough of that shit", and passed laws banning assault weapons and the like.

Demonstrators blocked roads in Palm Beach and around Mar-a-Lago, so El Presidente had his golf time cut short.

At the main rally in DC, two moments stood out.

On February 14, MSD senior Samantha Fuentes was shot in both legs and had shrapnel in her eye. “Day in and day out, our kids are getting shot up,” she said in an impassioned speech on Saturday. “And the moment we speak up, we’re scolded that we are not old enough. It’s as if we need permission to ask our friends not to die. Lawmakers and politicians will scream guns are not the issue. But they can’t look me in the eye.” She then paused, put her hand over her mouth, and vomited on stage. Amazingly, she pulled herself together and finished the speech (on INTERNATIONAL TV, btw). She ended by singing happy birthday to one of her fallen classmates, Nicholas Dworet, who would have turned 18 on Saturday.

And Emma "Katniss" Gonzalez had this to say:

After reading the names of her classmates who were killed in the mass shooting, Gonzalez stood at the podium in silence for six minutes, fighting back tears. It was an incredible, chilling moment. All of the major cable networks carried it live. “Loudest silence in the history of US social protest,” my colleague David Corn tweeted.

“Never again,” many in the crowd of 500,000 chanted in response. After her timer went off, Gonzalez said, “since the time when I came out here, it has been six minutes and twenty seconds. The shooter has ceased shooting and will soon abandon his rifle, blend in with the students as they escape, and walk free for an hour before arrest,” she said. “Fight for your lives before it’s someone else’s job.” And then she left the stage.

Some cool and fun signs:

[TheZookie007]

Newsweek: "Parkland Student David Hogg Says Black Classmates Weren’t Given a Voice by Media"

Marjory Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg, now a prominent activist in the #NeverAgain movement, said the media’s biggest mistake while covering the shooting at his school was not giving black survivors a prominent voice.

Speaking at an Axios event Friday focused on the gun debate, Hogg was asked about where the news media tripped up in its coverage of the tragic shooting at his Parkland, Florida school that left 17 people dead.

“Not giving black students a voice,” Hogg responded, via Axios. “My school is about 25 percent black, but the way we’re covered doesn’t reflect that.”

Axios journalist and developer Alex Duner added on Twitter that Hogg said the lack of black representation was “disgusting.”

And yet the NRA shamelessly continues on their slanderous way.

"If you’re too immature to carry a firearm, you’re too immature to make policy about firearms,” said NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch in a video posted to Twitter on Thursday evening.

[TheZookie007]

Also: quelle surprise!

The Hill: "FBI: Hate crimes rose the day after Trump was elected"

Hate crimes reported to the FBI jumped from 10 to 27 the day after President Trump was elected in 2016, The Washington Post reported Friday.

More hate crimes with racial or ethnic bias were reported on Nov. 9 than any other day in 2016 and remained elevated for the next 10 days.

One such hate crime was an alleged plot by three white men to bomb a Kansas mosque for Somali Muslim refugees the day after the election. Their trial began on Thursday, the Post reported.

Defense attorney Jim Pratt said his client Patrick Stein was influenced by the charged language during the campaign and referred to Muslims as “cockroaches.”

Stein was recorded by an FBI informant saying “The only good Muslim is a dead Muslim” and “If you’re a Muslim, I’m going to enjoy shooting you in the head.”

Hate crimes have typically spiked during election years since the early 1990s, according to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.

When former President Obama was first elected in 2008, there was a 21 percent spike in reported hate crimes the next day.

It’s unclear why election years bring the sudden increase, the Post reported. It could be from people feeling frustrated or energized by election results or victims feeling emboldened to come forward with the underreported crimes.

The FBI has been collecting data on hate crimes since Congress passed the Hate Crime Statistics Act in 1990 to collect information about crimes based on race, religion, sexual orientation or ethnicity.

[Pendejo]

Keep marching 

[rtpoe]

It was a Stormy night on TV.....

60 Minutes aired Anderson Cooper's interview with Stormy Daniels.

We didn't really learn much. If anything stood out, it's that Daniels comes across as far more credible than El Presidente.

Also worth noting is that in almost all of the mainstream media coverage of this matter, NO ONE is shaming Daniels for her choice of career.

Oh, by the way, that bit where Daniels told about being threatened by a "goon"?

"A guy walked up on me and said to me, ‘Leave Trump alone. Forget the story,’" Daniels told 60 Minutes correspondent Anderson Cooper. "And then he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said, ‘That’s a beautiful little girl. It’d be a shame if something happened to her mom.’ And then he was gone."

You'll note that nowhere did she ever hint at who she thought it was, or who was behind it. Yet almost immediately after the piece aired, Trump attorney Michael Cohen fired off a Cease and Desist letter, in which it was written:

“...false and defamatory statements made....regarding Mr. Cohen, namely that he was responsible for an alleged thug who supposedly visited Ms. Clifford, while she was with her daughter, and made an alleged threat to Mr. Clifford.”

“In truth, Mr. Cohen had absolutely nothing to do with any such person or incident, and does not even believe that any such person exists, or that any such incident ever occurred,” the letter continues. “You and your client’s false statements about Mr. Cohen accuse him of criminal conduct, and constitute, among other claims, libel per se and intentional infliction of emotional distress.”

Um.... No, she NEVER MENTIONED who she thought was responsible. Stop hitting yourself, Cohen.....

And by the way, Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing, the latest attorneys to join Team Trump, just did a 180 and left the team. Seems they've got "conflicts of interest" of some sort. One theory from former Solicitor General Neal Katyal suggests that someone from Team Mueller took them aside and told them "don't do this... you've got a major conflict of interest here..." He notes that on occasion, really scrupulous prosecutors will indeed advise the defendant against doing something immensely stupid.

Trump, meanwhile, brags that he can get all the legal help he wants. But given his track record of not following his lawyer's advice, and not even paying them..... At this rate, he'll be sending interns down to the nearest Legal Aid Society offices.