Political Roundtable Part XIX

[dckingsfan]

[this should have been about moving 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th 12th] Removed for clarity of thought

[where the human spirit has been allowed to die due to lack of motivation to better oneself due to lack of opportunity (among others) as poor folks from broken homes are not taught that good old fashioned hard work pays off.] Removed for clarity of thought

[It should have been about fixing broken african american families that were destroyed by the systematic evils of slavery and jim crow.] Removed for clarity of thought

[As opposed to the cop in parkland that did nothing!!!??? The leaders of the BLM movement just HAD to have a "bad guy," huh??? And of all candidates, they chose police officers??? Because of 2-3 bad arrests(shootings) per year out of nearly 1 million arrests combined by the collective entire police forces throughout the nation. And thats where it became divisive. They went after the cops and never identified the real problems in the black communities. Which happen to be almost exactly same problems in long term very poor white communities. Broken homes, broken families, entitlement class lifestyle leading to lack of education, lack of motivation, and increased use of drugs and other criminal activity. Increased violence. increased predators of children. ALL OF WHICH LEAD TO A TERRIBLE PLACE TO RAISE CHILDREN. Which leads to children that are nowhere near as equipped to compete to succeed with even "average" americans. So only truely amazing physical alphas with some kind of talent or genius have any chance to get out from under it. Or extreme luck. Or hitting the genetic lottery. And even then, with any or even all of that...so often the kids just dont know how to deal with the better opportunities and sabotage their own success feeling they "dont deserve" it.] Removed for clarity of thought

[So many things need fixing.] removed for clarity of thought
[heres an idea for BLM.] removed for clarity of thought

[This cant be a good thing!!!??? THE BLM movement should have been about fixing all of that.] Removed for clarity of thought


[I had a patient last week. lovely girl. really nice...but 14 years old and pregnant with her 2nd child. A mouth full of cavities. no money. and public aid will only pay for fillings and extractions and dentures. wont pay for the build up and crowns she needs. so she is getting dentures. at 14!!! She has no idea how to even keep her own teeth clean and free of disease and she will have a 2nd child in a couple of months!!! Come on, man!!] Removed antidotal

[At all. Not even close. At this point, in my city, Chicago. 70% of the police officers in black neighborhoods are and have been black cops for a couple decades. usually guys that grew up in the neighborhood. These police forces have been under democratic rule for over 60 years!!! Democratic police chiefs!!!!! And somehow, the good kids(african americans)...that stayed in school, followed the rules, went to college and applied to the police academy to help fix the crappy neighborhoods they grew up in...somehow those guys became the bad guys, huh!!!???? only in liberal america. My God. liberals are evil to continue to promote this ideologue!!!!! This is a diseased way of thinking and allowed to perpetuate into poor neighborhoods where minds are easily manipulated. Sad.

I grew up in these hoods. And in fact more law and order is needed there. Not less. and with love. and encouragement. the best lesson i ever learned in life was that no one was coming to save me. That if I ever was to do anything with my life that i would have to fight for it. Work for it. Do the damn work!!! And keep knocking on doors day after day that doors get slammed in my face. and that there was many "devils" along the way that would distract me from chasing my dreams (whatever they were back then). it didn't fully settle in until my mid 20's. And I almost ended up dead or in jail multiple times before that. But once it settled in, i got to work.] Removed antidotal

[its their brand. thats what they use to motivate their base to get out the vote. And that's what keeps them in office. they have successfully manipulated the poor into this go nowhere backwards azz social policy of victimhood combined with an entitlement class low standards of living. Dems dont get the drugs off of the streets. Dems dont get the illegal guns off of the streets. Dems dont want to put hardened criminals in jail neither. So the streets are less safe.] Removed for clarity of thought

[and pay them to do just that with entitlements. and they keep wages low and stagnant in the poor class by keeping the boarders open for illegal immigrants to come take jobs away from those (poor folk) that have trouble graduating high school due to all the problems i describe above. Dems have ruined our cities!! and ruined the minds of americans that have been living in these cities under democratic rule for the last 60 years. Same shxt different city!! Same shxtty liberal/democrat failed policies in charge.] removed for clarity of thought

[Dirtiest, filthiest, and lowest standards of living in the entire US. In some of these cities like Michigan there is literally poison in the water systems and water they drink!!!] Removed antidotal

[and its costs tax payers a TON! So many of these cities are flat broke. or in severe debt. bailed out by the federal government often which means tax payers from small town america foots the bill and bails these failed cities out. rinse and repeat. over and over. decade after decade.] Removed for clarity of thought.

[Zonkerbl]

Obviously the solution is to build a wall around these cities to prevent guns from entering them.

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HOLY CRAP! DO YOU MEAN...

CITIES THAT HAVE HUGE PROBLEMS WITH GUN VIOLENCE ADOPT MORE STRICT GUN CONTROL POLICIES?!?!??!

I'M COMPLETELY GOBSMACKED!!!!! NO ONE BUT YOU HAS EVER THOUGHT THIS TOTALLY ORIGINAL THOUGHT BEFORE!!! CONGRATULATIONS FOR BEING THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!

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Authors reveal the debate in the Obama administration on how to deal with Russian cyberattacks

During the 2016 election, President Obama and his administration held meeting in the situation room where they discussed how to deal with the Russian cyberattacks.

"There were some on the White House staff, particularly who were in charge of cybersecurity and also Russia affairs, who believed that the Russian attack was so serious and so unprecedented that unless the U.S. struck back hard and struck back fast, it would send a signal to the Russians that they could get away with this," Isikoff said.

Isikoff said they discovered in their reporting that Mr. Obama "didn't want to go there" with the aggressive proposals.

"There was a concern that this would escalate a conflict with Russia, there would be a cyberwar in which the U.S. could end up the losers because we had much to lose," Isikoff said.

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Have to point out that Trumps response to Obama's retaliation of Russia's attack, was to negate any retaliation, and to give Putin back his spy bases of operation in the U.S. Putin owns Trump.

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[Jamaaliver]

Republicans fear they botched Russia report rollout

GOP lawmakers are on the defensive after challenging the intelligence community’s findings on election meddling.

House Republicans are privately venting that they’ve fumbled the release of their own Russia probe report.

The blaring headline the GOP wanted from this week’s rollout was clear: After a year of searching, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee found no evidence that President Donald Trump or his associates aided Moscow’s scheme to interfere in the 2016 election but that the nation must still prepare for another assault from the Kremlin.

Instead, much of the focus has been on lawmakers’ startling conclusion that the nation's intelligence agencies botched their analysis when they determined Russia wanted Trump to defeat Hillary Clinton.

The finding once again pitted the committee's Republicans against the leaders of the intelligence community and led to a frenzy of news coverage that put members on the defensive.

Politico

[Ruzious]

Authors reveal the debate in the Obama administration on how to deal with Russian cyberattacks

During the 2016 election, President Obama and his administration held meeting in the situation room where they discussed how to deal with the Russian cyberattacks.

"There were some on the White House staff, particularly who were in charge of cybersecurity and also Russia affairs, who believed that the Russian attack was so serious and so unprecedented that unless the U.S. struck back hard and struck back fast, it would send a signal to the Russians that they could get away with this," Isikoff said.

Isikoff said they discovered in their reporting that Mr. Obama "didn't want to go there" with the aggressive proposals.

"There was a concern that this would escalate a conflict with Russia, there would be a cyberwar in which the U.S. could end up the losers because we had much to lose," Isikoff said.

CBS News

Have to point out that Trumps response to Obama's retaliation of Russia's attack, was to negate any retaliation, and to give Putin back his spy bases of operation in the U.S. Putin owns Trump.

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It's amazing how the WH doesn't treat Russia like a gnat, right? This all by itself is reason to have investigations of Trump campaign dealings with Russia.

[montestewart]

Obviously the solution is to build a wall around these cities to prevent guns from entering them.

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HOLY CRAP! DO YOU MEAN...

CITIES THAT HAVE HUGE PROBLEMS WITH GUN VIOLENCE ADOPT MORE STRICT GUN CONTROL POLICIES?!?!??!

I'M COMPLETELY GOBSMACKED!!!!! NO ONE BUT YOU HAS EVER THOUGHT THIS TOTALLY ORIGINAL THOUGHT BEFORE!!! CONGRATULATIONS FOR BEING THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!

A right wing fake news meme offered by a comedy poster looking for reaction.

For anyone curious as to just how wrong STD's "data" is . . .

Honor thy drug dealing criminal mother and father? The Bible, yep: fake news!

[cammac]

Obviously the solution is to build a wall around these cities to prevent guns from entering them.

HOLY CRAP! DO YOU MEAN...

CITIES THAT HAVE HUGE PROBLEMS WITH GUN VIOLENCE ADOPT MORE STRICT GUN CONTROL POLICIES?!?!??!

I'M COMPLETELY GOBSMACKED!!!!! NO ONE BUT YOU HAS EVER THOUGHT THIS TOTALLY ORIGINAL THOUGHT BEFORE!!! CONGRATULATIONS FOR BEING THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!

A right wing fake news meme offered by a comedy poster looking for reaction.

For anyone curious as to just how wrong STD's "data" is . . .

Honor thy drug dealing criminal mother and father? The Bible, yep: fake news!

But the question still remains will SD20 pull the switch with Trumps proposed law of executing drug dealers.

[cammac]

One of SD20s claims is that Conor Lamb isn't a Democrat!
By the way where has SD20s best buddy been?
Maybe he discovered SD20 isn't 100% white and climbed back into Aryan Nation cave.

There’s been a lot of stupid spin by the GOP over Conor Lamb’s narrow win in PA-18 this week, but by far the dumbest talking point is about how he’s supposedly “pro-life” (aka “anti-choice”) simply because he “personally opposes abortion”.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/16/1749489/-REMINDER-You-can-personally-oppose-abortion-but-still-be-pro-choice-That-s-kind-of-the-point

[stilldropin20]

Obviously the solution is to build a wall around these cities to prevent guns from entering them.

HOLY CRAP! DO YOU MEAN...

CITIES THAT HAVE HUGE PROBLEMS WITH GUN VIOLENCE ADOPT MORE STRICT GUN CONTROL POLICIES?!?!??!

I'M COMPLETELY GOBSMACKED!!!!! NO ONE BUT YOU HAS EVER THOUGHT THIS TOTALLY ORIGINAL THOUGHT BEFORE!!! CONGRATULATIONS FOR BEING THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!

A right wing fake news meme offered by a comedy poster looking for reaction.

For anyone curious as to just how wrong STD's "data" is . . .

Honor thy drug dealing criminal mother and father? The Bible, yep: fake news!

yeah i'm going to go ahead and add 23 murders from south florida to the list. lay them all at the feet of the democrats in control of south florida eastern seaboard. They have a crazy whacko kid. 39 calls on him in thelast few years. the latest of which a mom of a "friend of his" calls 911 to local (democratic) police and sheriff and says "he is going to get his gun today...and he is going to shoot people with it." And they do nothing!!!??? a few weeks later he murders 17 school children.

Then yesterday a bridge collapses florida university. "cables were loose." bridge was just installed. and they dont secure the entire area??? as soon as they figure out the cables are loose???!!

WTF is wrong with liberal run cities!!!! Seriously!! Why do i never hear about 150 year old barns collapsing, killing 6 people? why is the train never coming off the tracks and killing tons of people and doing hundreds of millions of damage in rural america??? Only in big cities.

democrats have been attacking the "country" life style for decades. And systematically robbing rural america of jobs for decades. and over supplying those same small towns with bad health care insurance which pays for bad doctors who prescribe bad and addicting drugs to ruin our rural america. The "big cities" and their politicians have been shipping their garbage off to rural america and price controlling food raised and grown in these small towns.

Self sustaining small towns pay their tax dollars to the federal government that over spends on entitlements, health care, infrastructure for the large cities. leaving the small towns neglected.

Small town america is waking up to all of this foolishness.

[closg00]

Republicans fear they botched Russia report rollout

GOP lawmakers are on the defensive after challenging the intelligence community’s findings on election meddling.

House Republicans are privately venting that they’ve fumbled the release of their own Russia probe report.

The blaring headline the GOP wanted from this week’s rollout was clear: After a year of searching, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee found no evidence that President Donald Trump or his associates aided Moscow’s scheme to interfere in the 2016 election but that the nation must still prepare for another assault from the Kremlin.

Instead, much of the focus has been on lawmakers’ startling conclusion that the nation's intelligence agencies botched their analysis when they determined Russia wanted Trump to defeat Hillary Clinton.

The finding once again pitted the committee's Republicans against the leaders of the intelligence community and led to a frenzy of news coverage that put members on the defensive.

Politico

Their problem #1 is distorting and omitting important facts. This BS works easily with their rubes, but it all falls apart completely whenever they have to engage in a public discussion about the facts.

[Jamaaliver]

Trump administration sanctions Russians for 2016 election interference, other cyber attacks

The Trump administration is hitting five Russian entities and 19 Russian citizens with sanctions for cyber activity, including their interference in the 2016 election.

The sanctions represent some of the most significant actions by the Trump administration against Russians for their "malign... cyber activity, including their attempted interference in U.S. elections, destructive cyber-attacks, and intrusions targeting critical infrastructure," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.

It is also the first time the administration has punished Russia for its election interference using sanctions authorities Congress passed overwhelmingly last summer and spent months demanding the White House utilize. The Trump administration has been criticized for not doing enough to push back on Russia's aggression, including in cyberspace.

Additionally, the Trump administration accused Russia of waging a long-term and ongoing campaign to infiltrate the U.S. energy grid.

ABC News

[Zonkerbl]

Trump administration sanctions Russians for 2016 election interference, other cyber attacks

The Trump administration is hitting five Russian entities and 19 Russian citizens with sanctions for cyber activity, including their interference in the 2016 election.

The sanctions represent some of the most significant actions by the Trump administration against Russians for their "malign... cyber activity, including their attempted interference in U.S. elections, destructive cyber-attacks, and intrusions targeting critical infrastructure," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.

It is also the first time the administration has punished Russia for its election interference using sanctions authorities Congress passed overwhelmingly last summer and spent months demanding the White House utilize. The Trump administration has been criticized for not doing enough to push back on Russia's aggression, including in cyberspace.

Additionally, the Trump administration accused Russia of waging a long-term and ongoing campaign to infiltrate the U.S. energy grid.

ABC News

It's PATHETIC that the only thing the Trump administration has done is copy and paste Mueller's indictment into sanctions. It is LITERALLY the least possible thing he could do.

[gtn130]

Trump administration sanctions Russians for 2016 election interference, other cyber attacks

The Trump administration is hitting five Russian entities and 19 Russian citizens with sanctions for cyber activity, including their interference in the 2016 election.

The sanctions represent some of the most significant actions by the Trump administration against Russians for their "malign... cyber activity, including their attempted interference in U.S. elections, destructive cyber-attacks, and intrusions targeting critical infrastructure," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.

It is also the first time the administration has punished Russia for its election interference using sanctions authorities Congress passed overwhelmingly last summer and spent months demanding the White House utilize. The Trump administration has been criticized for not doing enough to push back on Russia's aggression, including in cyberspace.

Additionally, the Trump administration accused Russia of waging a long-term and ongoing campaign to infiltrate the U.S. energy grid.

ABC News

It's PATHETIC that the only thing the Trump administration has done is copy and paste Mueller's indictment into sanctions. It is LITERALLY the least possible thing he could do.

Yeah, the whole thing was intended to create the headlines that it did. Nothing else going on here.

Now, why would Trump want to give off the impression he's sanctioning Russia when he's not? Hmmmmm

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[cammac]

The Democrats in the House Intelligence Committee want perjury charges laid against Rodger Stone, Carter Page & Eric Prince.

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is considering issuing a “criminal referral” of one or more witnesses for potentially committing perjury while testifying behind closed doors,” Mother Jones reported Friday.

“We’re gonna be going through the transcripts and analyzing them for any concerns we have with the greater body of information we have,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) revealed. “We’ll discuss it with the majority and ask whether they’ll join us in a referral, or, if we think one is warranted, then we reserve the right to make a referral even if they don’t.”

A source “close to the committee” told Mother Jones that such criminal referrals could be directed to the Department of Justice and/or special counsel Robert Mueller.

Concerns of perjury are said to involve three witnesses interviewed by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, mercenary mogul Erik Prince and longtime Trump advisor Roger Stone.

In a statement, Feinstein refuted the committee chairman’s characterization of Steele’s dossier.

“Not a single revelation in the Steele dossier has been refuted,” Feinstein said in a statement. “Unfortunately, the claims in the criminal referral rely on classified information, so it’s difficult to
fully repudiate them here. However, as much as possible using unclassified information, the following points lay out the flaws in the criminal referral.”

“The criminal referral of Christopher Steele has nothing to do with accountability,” Feinstein’s statement reads. “Clearly its goals included undermining the FBI and Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation, attacking Christopher Steele and deflecting attention from collusion and obstruction of justice investigations.”

So while the GOP is throwing rocks at the FBI and informants like Steele, Democrats are now countering by going for the jugular against Stone who has admitted contacting Julian Assange in order to gain access to stolen emails by Hillary Clinton, Carter Page who travelled to Russia and has admitted discussing the sale of stock by Russian Oil company Rosneft who happened to be sanctioned and off-limits to anyone from the U.S. and Erik Prince who travelled at the behest of Michael Flynn and Kushner to the Seychelles Islands to meet a Russian financier and members of the UAE in an effort to establish a secret back-channel to Russia for Trump during the transition.

Let’s see who the real criminals turn out to be.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/16/1749583/-House-Dems-consider-criminal-referrals-against-Roger-Stone-Carter-Page-and-Erik-Prince

[cammac]

The great defender of all things Trumpster keeps bringing up Uranium 1 the best rebuttal was by FOX NEWs Shepard Smith

War at Fox between reality Shepard Smith and idiocy Sean Hannity

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I guess he must be fake news because of how he feels about victims of High School shootings.

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The undisguised, ultra-rightist biases of Fox News are all too familiar to anyone who is paying attention. Particularly since the election of Donald Trump, who has built the Fox Team into a partisan media border wall that works ferociously to defend him no matter how dishonest or disgusting his behavior. Trump even treats Fox as his recruiting pool White House personnel.

"We serve different masters. We work for different reporting chains, we have different rules. They don’t really have rules on the opinion side. They can say whatever they want. If it’s their opinion. I don’t really watch a lot of opinion programming. I’m busy." [...]
"I get it," he says, "that some of our opinion programming is there strictly to be entertaining. I get that. I don’t work there. I wouldn’t work there."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/16/1749592/-Popcorn-Time-War-Breaks-Out-at-FOX-News-Between-Shepard-Smith-and-Sean-Hannity

[dckingsfan]

@SD - you do have a good point on Illinois and Chicago...
https://www.cbsnews.com/media/12-major-american-cities-that-are-shrinking/

[stilldropin20]

down goes mccabe. Both the IG and the DOJ recommended mccabe be fired. and he was indeed fired. with cause. loss of pension.

we are hearing charges likely to be filed!!!!!

mccabe was the leaker!!!!!! don lemmon about to cry on CNN right now.

Donald trump IS the mafakin storm biotches!!!!

[stilldropin20]

directly from the chairman of the house intel committee himself. Its all coming out!

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