All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!

[WestPhillyPunisher]

White House Hit With Several Shocking Reports In Less Than A Day

Trump’s relationships with Jeff Sessions, Hope Hicks and Jared Kushner have all come under fire. "Mr. Magoo" is in Trump's crosshairs, Hicks is gone and He Went To Jared is under Mueller's microscope. Just another day in the Abominable Administration.

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NRA’s Warnings Have Come True: A President Wants To Unilaterally Disarm Americans

“Take the guns first. Go through due process second,” said President Donald Trump, a Republican. Who'd a thunk it, right? Talk about knee-slapping hilarious! Meanwhile....

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Will Trump Follow Through On Guns? He Didn’t Do So On Immigration.

“Why would you believe [the president]?” asked Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin. He has a good point. Dolt45 doesn't have much in the way of staying power when it comes to issues.

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Dozens Of White House Staffers Stripped Of Top Level Security Clearance

The staffers with pending background checks were downgraded to a lower-level “secret” interim security clearance, Bloomberg reports. Looks like He Went To Jared wasn't alone in having his clearance downgraded. Interesting.

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Don Young Suggests The Holocaust Happened Because Jewish People Weren’t Armed

“It’s offensive for anyone to manipulate the history of the Holocaust to score political points,” the Anti-Defamation League said. Let's see, handguns and rifles in the hands of Jews against the unimaginable might of the Wehrmacht. Like THAT would work. Oh, WBEEEEEEEE....!

[worstblogever]

Question. Has anyone been keeping an eye on the Italian election recently?

Well, John Oliver this past week.

[worstblogever]

Oh, almost forgot for Hope Hicks.

[worstblogever]

Three years ago today we ran our profile of Allen Weh, a failed candidate in races to be the Governor of New Mexico, and the U.S. Senator from there, as well. Weh was directly involved in the 2005 U.S. Attorney Scandal, being found to have sent requests to Karl Rove to fire David Iglesias, the U.S. Attorney from New Mexico, who was eventually dismissed for partisan reasons. Weh also is a backer of Arizona’s anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, partially because he owns a company that gets paid $700 per immigrant shipped back home via plane. Weh is also an advocate of the flat tax (making economists point and laugh at him), and went on record to say that President Obama’s policies “smacked of socialism”. Weh is now 76, and is not expected to ever win an election, should he even attempt to run again.

It was in both 2016, and in 2017, that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” posted profiles about Susan DeLemus, a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives whose wide-eyed stare does not seem to suit someone of rational mind. That unsettling gaze does not belie her wackiness, by any stretch, as DeLemus is a passionate believer in the Obama Birther Conspiracy to the extent that she caused other legislators to lock themselves in their offices at points to avoid having to deal with her furious insistence that Barack Obama was not a legitimate president. While during her first term in office, DeLemus supported a bill to sue the federal government for he Affordable Care Act, but in her second term apparently decided to just stop showing up to vote on bills altogether. Instead, it seems she was busy alternating her time with her husband in supporting the domestic terrorists related to Cliven Bundy, and rallying under the banner of one Donald J. Trump during the 2016 presidential race, pretending to be a “independent voter” in a CNN Panel until she was outed by some people who recognized her from her previous antics in the New Hampshire legislature. She believes many of Donald Trump’s most paranoid conspiracies even outside of the Birther movement… she also believes Cheeto Mussolini that there were "thousands of Muslims celebrating in Jersey City on 9/11". She also insists in that Barack Obama lies all the time and that Trump would never lie to us, as she herself lied right into the camera on CNN, saying she had "never been involved in politics" in spite of being a twice-elected state representative. Oh, and in February 2016, after Pope Francis spoke and said that "people who build walls aren't Christian", she rose to the defense of The Donald by getting on Facebook to warn everyone that “The Pope is the anti-Christ. [sic] Do your research. I’m not sure who the Pope truly has in his heart.” And mercifully, Susan DeLemus was booted from office by voters in 2016, when she was defeated by Democrat Chuck Grassie by 106 votes so we will set aside her CSGOPOTD profile at this time and go ahead and take a look at a different wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 654-25, since this was established in July 2014.)


Robert Morrow

Welcome to the 654th original “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile, where today, we’ll be discussing Robert Morrow, the former Chairman of the Travis County, Texas Republican Party who, and we’re not going to mince words, if just f***ing nuts. His tenure began in June of 2016, and ended after only two months of insanity because he decided he should run for president as a write-in candidate. His supposed qualifications for office were his experience in sharing conspiracy theories and inappropriate comments about women on Twitter. We can’t even begin to cover all his conspiracy theories, including the insistence that Lyndon Baines Johnson facilitated the murder of John F. Kennedy and belief that Rick Perry and many in the Bush family participate in homosexual adultery or his presumption that he was “Pretty sure George W. Bush can suck a d*** better than Hillary Clinton”. Morrow tried ambushing Chelsea Clinton at a book signing, co-wrote an insane conspiracy theory book about the Clintons with Roger Stone of all f***ing people, and insisted on wearing a three-belled jester's hat in several photos, because sometimes, you just have to own your mental illness. We can’t even begin to get into how utterly bats*** Robert Morrow is, but when you’re too crazy for the Texas GOP, that… that says something. We’re confident his career is over.

[RumpusMagoo]

Here is what is TRULY scary about people like Gorka and the gun debate.

There over 323 Million Americans. 71 Million are stated to have guns legally. Of that 71 Million, 5 million are NRA members less than 5%. America is literally being held Hostage by 2% of the overall US population.

Then there are these guys. These people can't be reached. This woman's face says it all.







Pennsylvania Church Holds 'Blessing' Ceremony Featuring AR-15 Rifles

These people are lost.

I'm an Athiest who wears an Athena/Native Owl totem on my neck, with statues of the Goddess Bast in his house who dates a Wiccan. But I'm more Christian than these people.
These are the people in those dystopian futures where religion is fully weaponized in God-Emperors.

I love how the woman in the third picture has a plastic red tie around her gun. For safety, one presumes.

[Mecegirl]

Even crazier is this quote by Hannity in the same segment

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): But there were -- the whole point, Dr. Gorka, is you need guards on every floor. You need the perimeter secure, you need a full threat assessment, security assessment. If we do that for every school, and we have the manpower, and they're on the floor, they're in the building. That's where they should be.

Are we talking about schools or prisons? smh

Ok like...A part of me is wondering if the state of low income schools, especially in black neighborhoods, will ever come up. Because some schools already have increased security, gun detectors and bag searches.

[mojotastic]

Question. Has anyone been keeping an eye on the Italian election recently?

Why ?if you mind me asking

[worstblogever]

Why ?if you mind me asking

[mojotastic]

21 minutes is too long, here is an article i found the subject for anyone else
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...u-need-to-know

I will check the video later today.

[mojotastic]

And after reading this and other articles, i kinda can see some paralles between the parties in Italy and US, for one wasnt Berlusconi the same guy who had sex parties while being PM that even Messi attended? yeah he seems like the kind of guy Trump likes.

Second is this
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...g-class-europe

There is to be problems between the democratic party and the more left wing party in Italy, something i have seen being discuss here from the Bernie and the Democrats supporters.

But that is what i got, i might be wrong but what i agree is that both the Democrats and Republicans should fragment and create new parties.

[Jackmando7]

Interesting... So gun control was the right-wing position all along?

[JackDaw]

And after reading this and other articles, i kinda can see some paralles between the parties in Italy and US, for one wasnt Berlusconi the same guy who had sex parties while being PM that even Messi attended? yeah he seems like the kind of guy Trump likes.

Second is this
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...g-class-europe

There is to be problems between the democratic party and the more left wing party in Italy, something i have seen being discuss here from the Bernie and the Democrats supporters.

But that is what i got, i might be wrong but what i agree is that both the Democrats and Republicans should fragment and create new parties.

Berlusconi makes the Donald look genteel.

I assume that the only reason he hasn’t done jail time is that Italy’s legal system makes going to jail avoidable in almost all cases if you have enough money to keep making appeals..you don’t go to jail until every appeal has been decided.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Shady dealings by He Went To Jared:

Kushner’s Business Got Loans from Companies After White House Meetings

Early last year, a private equity billionaire started paying regular visits to the White House.

Joshua Harris, a founder of Apollo Global Management, was advising Trump administration officials on infrastructure policy. During that period, he met on multiple occasions with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, said three people familiar with the meetings. Among other things, the two men discussed a possible White House job for Mr. Harris.

The job never materialized, but in November, Apollo lent $184 million to Mr. Kushner’s family real estate firm, Kushner Companies. The loan was to refinance the mortgage on a Chicago skyscraper.

Even by the standards of Apollo, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, the previously unreported transaction with the Kushners was a big deal: It was triple the size of the average property loan made by Apollo’s real estate lending arm, securities filings show.

It was one of the largest loans Kushner Companies received last year. An even larger loan came from Citigroup, which lent the firm and one of its partners $325 million to help finance a group of office buildings in Brooklyn.

That loan was made in the spring of 2017, shortly after Mr. Kushner met in the White House with Citigroup’s chief executive, Michael L. Corbat, according to people briefed on the meeting. The two men talked about financial and trade policy and did not discuss Mr. Kushner’s family business, one person said.

There is little precedent for a top White House official meeting with executives of companies as they contemplate sizable loans to his business, say government ethics experts.

“This is exactly why senior government officials, for as long back as I have any experience, don’t maintain any active outside business interests,” said Don Fox, the former acting director of the Office of Government Ethics during the Obama administration and, before that, a lawyer for the Air Force and Navy during Republican and Democratic administrations. “The appearance of conflicts of interest is simply too great.”

[Kirby101]

Shady dealings by He Went To Jared:

Kushner’s Business Got Loans from Companies After White House Meetings

Remember the shouts of Play for Play because of charity contributions to the Clinton Foundation?

Funny how hypocritical Trump supporters are.

[SquirrelMan]

Gym class in Florida will now consist of Assaulting and taking the point.

Grenade tossing.

Sniper training.

Hand to hand combat.

Snacking on doughnuts.

I once met a nice lady who grew up in Eastern Germany in the 70s and 80s. She was a nurse.

She told me they actually practiced grenade tossing in gym class.