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-Short Attention Span Theater-
GOP Rep. Jones: 'Resentment and Hatred' in Political Climate 'Started with President Obama Being African-American'
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/15/2017 12:21 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No, you stupid cum gargling fuck. This has been going on in modern times since at least Regan. Remember all the assassination chic with Bush?
Oh, and good job implying all your GOP supporters are racist by the way.

Seriously, if you idiots can't say something helpful just shut up and don't say anything. You not only make the situation worse, but you give the fascists on the left more ammunition and reason in their deluded minds to up the violence.

Someone tell Scotty to teleport this guy's tongue into his butthole please.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/15/2017 12:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Obviously forgetting the Left's treatment of Bush, and that's just recent memory.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/15/2017 12:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Another resignee from the human race
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/15/2017 12:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Good God, its bad enough that we have to re-educate our own party before we can even begin re-educating the left.
Posted by: Crusader || 06/15/2017 13:37 Comments || Top||

#5  He's close, resentment and lies ramped up with the lies that disagreeing with President Obama was racist and not disagreements over policies.

But I seem to remember some dislike for President George W Bush, comparing him to Hitler and a chimp and such.

Clinton was respected but never had the resentment and hatred (outside of some militia guys) the same way it was shown towards W.

I think the combo of losing in a statistical tie and then Sept 11 and W's approval going through the roof really melted a few brains.

Also during W's term the Soviet Union's collapse was a decade away and the Communists were no longer lying low.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/15/2017 15:22 Comments || Top||

#6  The stupid is powerful with this one.
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/15/2017 15:59 Comments || Top||

#7  While eating at a steak house a friend acquaintance 'person that cut ties with me' looked up at CNN playing on the overhead TV and opined: "Everyone in the Tea Party is a racist." on another meeting: "The only reason that I can think of not voting for Obama is racism." When you go Born-Again Leftist, and he announced that he was now a Socialist, the mental rot can strike deep.
Posted by: magpie || 06/15/2017 17:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Sort of missed the Bush-Hitler years in his race cocoon?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/15/2017 21:03 Comments || Top||

#9  Just another midway carnival jock out of DC playing the notes of their favorite songs to the masses. Same tune, different stage.
Posted by: Elmoter Henbane5019 || 06/15/2017 23:23 Comments || Top||


Britain
MAYDAY! MAYDAY! Theresa May's approval rating plummets leaving her as unpopular as Corbyn BEFORE General Election


The latest survey from YouGov shows a remarkable swing in the ratings, with Mr Corbyn surging from a terrible minus 42 in late April to being equally liked and disliked now.

Meanwhile Mrs May has gone from being plus 10 in April, to minus 5 at the end of May, to slumping to a dismal minus 34 in the wake of the disastrous election.

That makes her as about as unpopular as Mr Corbyn was in November last year, when there were calls for him to quit or lead his party to electoral disaster.

Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 06/15/2017 13:44 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hahaha...the 'end of May'!
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/15/2017 19:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Mueller Now Investigating POTUS For Obstruction Of Justice
[Daily Caller] The special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is investigating President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice, the Washington Post reports.
Who could have possibly predicted this ?
The Post, citing two unnamed sources, says special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe expanded to include the president just days after he dismissed former FBI Director James Comey.

Obstruction issues emerged during a Feb. 14 meeting in the Oval Office, when the president told Comey he hoped his disgraced former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn would elude criminal prosecution.

"I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go," the president told Comey, according to testimony the former director gave before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last Thursday. The president cleared the room of senior administration officials, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions and senior advisor Jared Kushner.

The sources, billed as familiar with Mueller’s thinking, say the special counsel currently views the matter as more than a simple "he said-he said" situation.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/15/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wow - expressing hope is Obstruction of Justice now?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/15/2017 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  You are fishing with commie friends for anything but the evidence that is not there and the fact you investigate it tells me you are not here at all to show a flaw in governance but rather a partisan hunt.

Both you and comey have Four Months to get your sorry piece of shit fucking asses out of this shit before I drop anvils from the sky on you.

You are both sorry cover artists and drama queens and it seeps through you. I can see your hearts.

So you are closing because if I find you tried to criminalize a CI Investigation, I have your ass. If you try to criminalize a recusal.. If you interfere with Justice with no evidence... if you interfere with the Executive branch with no evidence... tying up other branches to falsify a reason for investigation... using 16 of those agencies for what? a fake lead?

I have your ASSES.
Posted by: newc || 06/15/2017 1:07 Comments || Top||

#3  BTW On Russian hacking
Posted by: newc || 06/15/2017 1:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Question 1) to Mueller: Do You Intend To Investigate Bill Clinton and Lorretta Lynch for that meeting on a plane on the airport tarmac in Phoenix, Mr. Mueller, as requested 4 days ago by Diane Feinstein (who may be getting cold feet on the Trump coup effort)?

Question 2) to Mueller: Do You Intend To Investigate Barack Obama and Jeh Johnson for attempting to interfere with the election which we have far more evidence on than some so called Russian conspiracy. (By the way, Jeh will now testify supporting a Russian conspiracy in the coming days. Time to put him and Obama under scrutiny instead).

If you, Mueller, do not do one, the other or all, Trump fires your ass immediately.
Posted by: Jeger Smith7676 || 06/15/2017 1:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Awesome you mention that, Jeger Smith - Cutting cable gives you the real house of cards.
Trump stays out of all of this.

There is no reason for them to treat him with such hostility. He is Executive Branch, but if there is a fishing expedition that lead to a special whatever, This is a very bigly thing to me.

It means, from the commo I see, these two FBI butt buddies also want a ten year investigation and a retirement plan.

I have news that will shake you and quake you.... We are in bed... nevermind.

We have spineless Republicans willing to back MY President in order to earn their Primary seat because I want to have the hobbit carry them off to be tied off to the rail.

Posted by: newc || 06/15/2017 2:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Notice anything about President Trumps adversaries, either democrat or republican? Yes, they are nearly all beltway lawyers, members of the Washington political class and the 'deep state.'

"Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem"
~ Ronald Reagan
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/15/2017 2:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Back Trump Now.
Posted by: newc || 06/15/2017 2:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Invent Bullshit.
Ignore lots of evidence of other causes.
Call for sacking when other evidence mentioned.
Go deranged trying to find a shred of bullshit.
Get sacked for being deranged.
Say sacking was an obstruction.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/15/2017 5:31 Comments || Top||

#9  Backfire coming. Cover your ears.
Posted by: Vernal Thromoling1790 || 06/15/2017 5:39 Comments || Top||

#10  what I would do if I were Mueller is do the investigation then after a few months announce

- we did investigation beginning .. and ending ...
- the parameters were thus and so
- there is no obstruction
Posted by: lord garth || 06/15/2017 7:42 Comments || Top||

#11  The rumors say its so.

Mr Mueller (Deep State) won't directly say whether he is or not. Where have I seen this before.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/15/2017 8:14 Comments || Top||

#12  BTW - I believe the term 'prosecutor's discretion' is done daily by attorney generals and district attorneys across the country. Might want to add, Obama and the dropping of the 'pay for play' investigation of former governor Bill Richardson (D-NM) shortly after the election in which the gov supported Obama.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/15/2017 8:18 Comments || Top||

#13  There's nothing wrong with your Gaz Volga's taillights, but you do need a new transmission. Look at this dipstick. We'll have to order it, it could takes months, even years.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/15/2017 8:32 Comments || Top||

#14  The Deep State doesn't like its corruption being revealed. As Steve Bannon said: .

"If you think they're going to give you your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken. Every day, it is going to be a fight."
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/15/2017 8:34 Comments || Top||

#15  Pull the plug. This is a farce. They want to relive Watergate. The dirty tricks brigade in full regalia. Terminate this with extreme prejudice. Either way this goes just more huff and puff.
Posted by: Dale || 06/15/2017 10:18 Comments || Top||

#16  Add money laundering, not by Clinton, either -

A former senior official said Mr. Mueller’s investigation was looking at money laundering by Trump associates. The suspicion is that any cooperation with Russian officials would most likely have been in exchange for some kind of financial payoff, and that there would have been an effort to hide the payments, probably by routing them through offshore banking centers.

HOT AIR, from NYT
Posted by: Bobby || 06/15/2017 10:31 Comments || Top||

#17  Saturday night massacre.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/15/2017 10:52 Comments || Top||

#18  Witch hunt. Bring Trump down at any cost. And the Congressional GOP is in on it.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/15/2017 12:32 Comments || Top||

#19  The sources, billed as familiar with Mueller’s thinking

So is the Post (spit) citing the Psychic Hotline now? Or is Mueller doing the Comey Cutout dance?

It's still unclear to me how Trump can "obstruct justice" when there is no evidence of a crime (except for Comey's leaking) to obstruct..
Posted by: PBMcL || 06/15/2017 12:47 Comments || Top||

#20  Don't fire Mueller. Just appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate the Special Prosecutor.
Posted by: Matt || 06/15/2017 13:02 Comments || Top||

#21  When you are a Special Prosecutor with revenge and political endgame on your mind, you gotta find a crime, and take a very long time to find it. Who didn't see this coming?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/15/2017 18:06 Comments || Top||

#22  so out of curiosity .. not malice .. what sort of restaurants do deep state people like those two stuff their faces in? How steep is the public's American Express bill for their fine food while investigating? Same for 500 or 1000$ a round golf?
Posted by: 3dc || 06/15/2017 19:41 Comments || Top||

#23  More the that, they were given a blank check to use and spend. DC crowd is an orgy of such spending without constraint. And a non-politician like Trump sent to close it down is going to be persecuted by the orgy.
Posted by: Elmoter Henbane5019 || 06/15/2017 23:26 Comments || Top||



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Thu 2017-06-15
  SDF capture former IS member known as Jihadi Jack
Wed 2017-06-14
  Senior Republican politician and several aides shot at baseball practice near Washington
Tue 2017-06-13
  Taliban’s military commission chief killed in Helmand drone strike
Mon 2017-06-12
  London Police Chief: Terror Victims Show How Diverse We Are
Sun 2017-06-11
  Libyan group says it has freed Gaddafi son Seif al-Islam
Sat 2017-06-10
  Islamic State claims it killed two Chinese in Pakistan
Fri 2017-06-09
  Nearly 70 dead in Al-Shabaab attack on Puntland military base
Thu 2017-06-08
  Syrian government, rebel forces fighting in Aleppo
Wed 2017-06-07
  Iran's parliament and Khomeini mausoleum attacked by gunmen
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  Shaboobs go into that good night softly after attempt to raid KDF camp
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  Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE sever ties to Qatar over 'terrorism'
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  BREAKING: Terror attacks reported at, around London Bridge
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