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    Why am I not surprised you had to find a way to take a shot at Joy Reid when nobody's talking about her and she's completely irrelevant to the conversation?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    Why am I not surprised you had to find a way to take a shot at Joy Reid when nobody's talking about her and she's completely irrelevant to the conversation?
    "News" is in the title of the thread.

    That someone who works for a news outfit clearly just made up a story about being hacked to try to run damage control?

    That's pretty squarely in "News" territory.

    Never mind that it's not much of a "Shot" when you are talking about the facts of the matter.

    Edit: Never mind that the actual point of that post was what more about her employer(and what they seem to be willing to allow) that her.
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    Giuliani: Trump Could Have Shot Comey And Still Couldn’t Be Indicted For It

    Congress would have to impeach Trump first before any criminal prosecution could move forward, the president’s lawyer says. Rantin' Rudy REALLY needs to shut the **** up now.

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    Kevin McCarthy Refuses To Answer CNN Question About White House ‘Lies’

    The House majority leader deflected twice, saying he was “more concerned” about the economy and trade discussions. More Republican craven cowardice at work.

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    Georgia Cop Fired After Video Shows Him Hitting A Suspect With His Car

    Police Officer Taylor Saulters claimed the suspect ran into his car and bounced off. Sorry, pal, that excuse didn't wash.

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    Pruitt Enjoyed Coal Baron’s VIP Sports Seats As EPA Cut Back On Regulations

    Pruitt’s attendance at a college basketball game raises one more concern about the EPA chief. More proof that Pruitt is a scheming grifter who needs to be gone.

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    Melania Mystery Continues: First Lady Won’t Accompany President To G7 Or Singapore

    What in the world is going on? And the adventures of the Reluctant First Lady continues....
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    Two years ago, we profiled Jerry Bergevin, a former member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives who advised against teaching evolution in public schools because he believed it led to the rise of Nazi Germany, and was the motivation for the shooters in the Columbine Massacre. Alternately, he has tried making Bible Studies a mandatory course in schools. Bergevin also released one of the country's first "religious freedom" bills back in 2012. Upon the state legislature in New Hampshire voting to legalize medical marijuana, he completely lost his damned mind, and sent out an email decrying that, calling his colleagues "Potheads who legalized the rectum as a sexual organ." Bergevin has been voted out of office for five years now, and we’re fine with that.
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    In both 2016, and in 2017, that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” presented its original profile of the four term U.S. House Representative for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District, Mike Kelly, who was first elected in the Tea Party Wave back in 2010, defeating Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper by double digits with the benefit of GOP turnout that year, and after gerrymandering has turned the Cook Partisan Voter Index for his district from +2 Republican lean, all the way to +8 Republican, he’s now in his fourth term in office. Of course, in 2016, that was likely because nobody even bothered to run against him. Mike Kelly has raised some eyebrows since heading to our nation's capitol, with his first foray into the spotlight coming in August of 2012, when at a press conference, he compared the birth control mandate of the Affordable Care Act to "Pearl Harbor or 9-11." Certainly there was no hyperbole there, comparing the deaths of thousands in a surprise attack to employers having to cover contraceptives women might need to help regulate irregular menstrual cycles. No sir. A year after that blunder, in August of 2013, Rep. Kelly decided to comment on President Obama, explaining that actually, it was that Barack Obama "divides our country on race". Kelly went on to rant about how his "liberty and freedom were under attack" by the Obama administration, offering little explanation of how that was, exactly. But that's far from the worst thing he said about President Obama. He also discussed impeaching him for "dragging America into a Civil War" shortly after winning re-election back in November of 2014, and in a December 2015 interview with Houston conservative talk-show host Sam Malone, Kelly began questioning where Obama was born and who raised him, before ranting about how his remarks "embolden our enemies", and that terrorists could "shoot up a ballet while Obama dithers." His fearmongering about terrorism isn't a one off, as during the massive Ebola Virus outbreak in 2014, Mike Kelly was on Newsmax, calling for a travel ban (that doctors said would only make the outbreak worse) and making the ridiculous assertion that American Jihadis were going to go into Africa to deliberately infect themselves with the lethally terminal disease, and then bring it back to the states and spread it to massive numbers of people. Which is stupid, because people infected with Ebola are pretty easy to spot, and usually unable to move because they're so crippled by their organs liquifying. And to infect other people, they would have to smear blood or feces on people en masse, which is sort of a telltale sign of ill intent. And so in our update in the vein of “Mike Kelly is a deranged Obama-hating conspiracy theorist”, we must note that since President Obama left office, Rep. Kelly has not moved on, and in March of 2017, he told a crowd in his home district that President Obama was staying in the capitol not to just let his daughter Sasha finish high school, but was actually “running a shadow government that is totally gonna upset the new agenda.” Kelly never apologized for this blatant and paranoid lie, and his staffers tried walking it back, to being “frustration that some "Obama holdovers within the federal bureaucracy are attempting to upset the Trump agenda”… which for a walk-back, is still pretty inflammatory. Meanwhile, President Obama took the time outside the White House to go kite-surfing with Richard Branson, because that’s exactly how shadow governments operate.

    It was only a few weeks ago that Mike Kelly got humiliated on the floor of the House by Congresswoman Maxine Waters, after he tried claiming that he knew more about discrimination than she did as an African American woman before dropping “MAGA” into his remarks, and trying to skulk out. Waters was having none of that bulls***, and straight up torched him. A few days later, Kelly doubled down on his behavior, going on Fox News and uncorking the most outlandish take imaginable. This time he claimed it was Un-American to acknowledge and talk about the existence of racism in the United States, and that he was often prejudiced against because… before he was a Congressman, he was a car salesman. Then, he praised Donald Trump for improving racial unity. No, we’re not making that up, here’s the quote:
    Mike Kelly is living on Bizarro World, it seems.

    Anyway, other than all that insanity, there's the matter of Mike Kelly's partisan, conservative voting record, that includes votes for the 2013 Government Shutdown, votes against raising the debt ceiling (!), two votes to shut down Planned Parenthood and one to shut down National Public radio, votes against disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy, voting against the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, votes for banning abortion at 20 weeks, and a vote for the SAFE Act, to keep Syrian refugees from fleeing the civil war in that country.

    And guess what? He’s still a bastard of a legislator:

    • February 16th, 2017: Kelly votes for HJR 69, to make it legal for hunters on wildlife reserves to kill several species of hibernating bears or wolves while they’re sleeping.
    • March 16th, 2017: Mike Kelly votes for HR 1181, which would allow veterans deemed mentally incompetent to continue to own firearms, and not have them taken away without a judge's written order.
    • May 4th, 2017: Kelly votes for the House GOP's healthcare plan, that would kick roughly 24 million people off their health insurance plans, allow up to 28,000 more people to die a year, give $50,000 in tax breaks to millionaires, and would eliminate coverage for pre-existing conditions which would include such medical conditions as pregnancy (current or past), postpartum depression, or prior sexual assault.
    • June 8th, 2017: Mike Kelly votes for HR 10, the GOP’s attempt to repeal Dodd-Frank financial reform.
    • October 3rd, 2017: Kelly votes for HR 36, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, that would try to create an unconstitutional ban abortion at 20 weeks.
    • December 19th, 2017: Mike Kelly votes for HR 1, the GOP’s $1.7 trillion tax cut to benefit the wealthiest Americans and corporations permanently that coincidentally also removes the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate and kicks 13 million people off their health insurance.
    • February 18th, 2018: Kelly and his fellow Republicans decide that poor big businesses are suffering too much at the hands of the Americans with Disabilities Act too much, and vote for HR 620, which would strip most of the civil rights protections guaranteed by it.


    Kelly’s opponent in November is Rober DiNicola, a former Marine, and Harvard educated lawyer who starting in the 1980s, represented Muhammed Ali as his personal lawyer, and years earlier, just as a fan, defended Ali’s stance against the Vietnam War to a sportswriter attacking Ali back in the 1970s in a scathing opinion editorial. DiNicola also served many years as the Chairman of the Erie County Democratic Party, so he’s got the necessary connections to give Kelly a hell of a run in November. Especially when you consider that the huge partisan lean that Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District was given by the GOP after gerrymandering after the 2010 elections was undone by the courts. Suddenly, Mike Kelly finds himself in a swing district, and in a year where a Blue Wave election is predicted. And nothing would be better than seeing that become a reality in November.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
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    Melania Mystery Continues: First Lady Won’t Accompany President To G7 Or Singapore

    What in the world is going on? And the adventures of the Reluctant First Lady continues....
    While I guess that I can see not going to the G7 being odd, why would she go to Singapore?

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    Quote Originally Posted by numberthirty View Post
    While I guess that I can see not going to the G7 being odd, why would she go to Singapore?
    Sightseeing? I visited Singapore back in my Navy days. Nice place.
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    Crowd cheers when valedictorian quotes Trump. Then reveals it was Obama

    "This is the part of my speech where I share some inspirational quotes I found on Google," Bowling said in his speech. "'Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.' - Donald J. Trump."

    The crowd burst into applause.

    "Just kidding," Bowling said. "That was Barack Obama."
    The 18-year-old valedictorian said the crowd quickly went silent.

    "The crowd erupted in applause and before they could even finish clapping I said I was kidding and the applause quickly died," Bowling said.

    Bowling, who graduated on Saturday morning, told Courier Journal that he "didn't mean anything bad by it" and thought the moment was lighthearted and funny.
    “I just thought it was a really good quote,” Bowling said. “Most people wouldn’t like it if I used it, so I thought I’d use Donald Trump’s name. It is southeastern Kentucky after all.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tazirai View Post
    And there is nothing wrong with that.
    The ole it's all good when I agree with it. And some of you clutch your pearl necklaces like a nervous Marge Simpson when people call this forum an echo chamber.

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    From Will Bunch, columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News:

    The week Trump went full dictator and no one tried to stop him

    It sounds bad when you describe it this way: The president of the United States explicitly violating a government rule to divulge secret jobs data, causing a billions-of-dollars move in the world’s financial markets. It’s become something of a tired cliché (which, of course, plays right into the scheme) to point out that if Barack Obama or George W. Bush had done this, it would have sparked angry denunciations, wall-to-wall coverage on cable news, and maybe a congressional hearing or two.

    But when President Donald J. Trump (as our leader likes to casually refer to himself) does it, it’s pretty far down the weekly list of rule-breaking, “norm”-shattering, dignity-obliteration, truth-abolition and assorted misdemeanors and occasional high crimes that have not only defined America’s 45th presidency, but have flooded the system and short-circuited the ability of our institutions such as the media, Congress and the courts to process it all in real time.
    Why did Trump tweet, “Looking forward to seeing the employment numbers at 8:30 this morning” on Friday, tipping off the American people — and investors — that the jobs numbers he’d previewed the night before would be good news? Was Trump aware that his tweet — 69 minutes before the Labor Department released the report — violated not only long-standing presidential practice but a 1985 rule laid down by the Office of Management and Budget? Possibly not. Does Trump, with his clique of billionaire friends, give anyone else this insider information? Who is going to check?

    The main reason that Trump violates long-standing norms and established rules, or tells so many easily disprovable lies from the presidential podium, is because he knows that no one will stop him. And that exercise of unchallenged power isn’t just a weird quirk of the Trump presidency. It is, rather, its driving force.
    But Trump is already doing some of the dangerous things described above. Forbearance is not in his vocabulary. Here’s three unusually alarming things from just last week.

    — Trump is abusing his pardon power to reward his friends and other high-profile celebrities. If the president is deploying any of his institutional prerogatives “to the hilt,” it’s the blanket power to issue pardons and clemency in federal cases, as granted by the Constitution. That power is a remarkable opportunity to overturn a perceived past injustice and reward redemption — but also to benefit a president’s cronies, or even help protect the chief executive himself from prosecution.

    — Trump’s lawyers are now out there openly saying they believe the president of the United States is above the law. This weekend, the New York Times published a 20-page letter that Trump’s personal attorneys sent to special counsel Robert Mueller seeking to avoid an interview with the prosecutor, which includes the stunning claim that it’s impossible for the White House to obstruct justice because, in the end, the president is justice.

    — It’s easy to overlook that the pace of Trump’s assorted untruths and out-and-out lies is actually increasing. The Washington Post last month reported that the president had made 3,251 false or misleading claims since becoming president. Just last week, Trump allegedly made 35 false statements at one rally in Nashville. Among the week’s more outrageous Trump lies is an Orwellian claim that the administration’s new policy of prosecuting immigrant asylum seekers at the border and taking their kids away is somehow the fault of a law passed by Democrats.
    Hour by hour, lie by lie, dictate by dictate, Donald Trump is becoming an American dictator. And recent days have proved what many of us have long feared: That no one knows how to stop this. Not the Republicans or Democrats on Capitol Hill who, for different reasons, are too cowed politically to take substantive action. And not a news media that doesn’t have the mechanisms for informing the public when a president is a compulsive liar. Maybe things will change after the November midterm election — but there’s no guarantee, and that feels like a long time away.
    Ladies and germs, this is some flat out scary ass ****. And things will only get worse until Trump has been removed from office. Problem is, that appears unlikely, Democrats don't have the power to impeach him, and Republicans are perfectly content to be craven cowards and let Mango Mussolini do whatever he wants. And, if by some miracle Trump pulls off the miracle of getting North Korea to abandon their nuclear program, a goal that's eluded presidents going back half a century, then a second term will be a slam dunk mortal lock for Dolt45, and the madness he's unleashed will continue unchecked by ANYONE.
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    Trump's RNC speech, and the final run-up to the election, he kept claiming, like Nixon, he was the "law and order" president.

    He seems to keep pardoning pals who are criminals, and threatening to do the same to those whose guilt or innocence have yet to be determined as well.

    It's just yet another way that he's full of s***. A mango containing a core of fecal matter.
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    From AP: BREAKING: Supreme Court rules narrowly (7-2) for Colorado baker who wouldn’t make same-sex wedding cake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    From Will Bunch, columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News:

    The week Trump went full dictator and no one tried to stop him
    This is so depressing and I lay this at the feet of both parties. I saw Bernie Sanders on Bill Maher and he talked about how we have a pathological liar for a President. Yet this is mostly the only thing that goes on....silence from Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell and mostly hand wringing by the Democrats. Congress is so dysfunctional that they can't even agree on this obvious fact ...AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Our founding fathers were not perfect and could not have foreseen how a man could dominate the media and practically brainwash a large segment of the population with the hefty assist by a large multi-media corporation owned by a family in Australia of all places. IMO there should be some clarification to the 25th amendment that only makes a vague statement about a situation where the the Vice President can assume the powers of the office when "... and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President."

    Now we have his senile nutjob of a lawyer Ghouliani saying that the President could shoot Comey and not be prosecuted. So now the GOP is going to say the President is so far above the law that he can commit murder??
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Ferro View Post
    From AP: BREAKING: Supreme Court rules narrowly (7-2) for Colorado baker who wouldn’t make same-sex wedding cake.
    An twitter user summed the case as: Shorter Masterpiece Cakeshop: States can still punish wedding vendors who do not want to participate in same-sex weddings, but they cannot be overtly hostile to religion while they do it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iron Maiden View Post
    This is so depressing and I lay this at the feet of both parties. I saw Bernie Sanders on Bill Maher and talked about how we have a pathological liar for a President. Yet this is mostly the only thing that goes on....silence from Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell and mostly hand wringing by the Democrats. Congress is so dysfunctional that they can't even agree on this obvious fact ...AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Our founding fathers were not perfect and could not have foreseen how a man could dominate the media and practically brainwash a large segment of the population with the hefty assist by a large multi-media corporation owned by a family in Australia of all places. IMO there should be some clarification to the 25th amendment that only makes a vague statement about a situation where the the Vice President can assume the powers of the office when "... and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President."

    Now we have his senile nutjob of a lawyer Ghouliani saying that the President could shoot Comey and not be prosecuted. So now the GOP is going to say the President is so far above the law that he can commit murder??
    The fact that no one (that I know of) from the GOP has come out to refute or chastise Rantin' Rudy for what he said tells you all you need to know. Republicans are not, under any circumstances, going to cross Trump, or his henchmen, either out of fear, or complicity. And that verifies what John Boehner said the other day, and he was spot on right:

    “There is no Republican party. There’s a Trump party. The Republican Party is kinda taking a nap somewhere.”
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