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

[BeastieRunner]

I was thinking he might get distracted by a shiny object, like the nipples of a porn star.

Hahaha ... gross.

[PaulBullion]

Cohen is under investigation for bank fraud.

It's all coming together.

Bank fraud can also be prosecuted as a state crime, which Trump cannot pardon.

Sing, Cohen, sing! Save us with your golden voice!

[Iron Maiden]

Cohen also helped bail someone out in the RNC with a million dollar payout to an ex-Playboy Model

President Donald Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, brokered a deal to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model who said she was impregnated by Republican National Committee official Elliott Broidy, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Citing people familiar with the matter, the Journal reported that the 2017 deal prohibits the woman from discussing the relationship with Broidy, who works as a deputy finance chairman of the GOP's committee. Cohen also works for the committee as a national deputy finance chairman.

"I acknowledge I had a consensual relationship with a Playboy Playmate," Broidy said in a statement. "At the end of our relationship, this woman shared with me that she was pregnant. She alone decided that she did not want to continue with the pregnancy and I offered to help her financially during this difficult period."

I wonder if the difficult period included looking at this guy's O face

[BeastieRunner]

Cohen also helped bail someone out in the RNC with a million dollar payout to an ex-Playboy Model



I wonder if the difficult period included looking at this guy's O face

Well, Broidy stepped down because of it.

[GindyPosts]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=spartanntp

Okay, then. XD

Indiana primaries are a few weeks away, but voters won't care if Rokita wilfully broke the law because he's shouting "MAGA!" as loud as possible. No; seriously, all three GOP candidates are running ads about how much they love Trump.

There is an open Ed in USA Today that argues that as Paul gets tossed out, more & more voters are preferring their candidates to be loud, angry, and have been in pop culture.

That's how Kid Rock (who, by the way, was booed as he was inducted in WWE Hall of Fame & was just the second living person to not appear at WrestleMania later that weekend after Bret Hart in 22 because the fans would shit on him) will likely become a Senator & we could see celebrities run in 2020.

[Iron Maiden]

Indiana primaries are a few weeks away, but voters won't care if Rokita wilfully broke the law because he's shouting "MAGA!" as loud as possible. No; seriously, all three GOP candidates are running ads about how much they love Trump.

There is an open Ed in USA Today that argues that as Paul gets tossed out, more & more voters are preferring their candidates to be loud, angry, and have been in pop culture.

That's how Kid Rock (who, by the way, was booed as he was inducted in WWE Hall of Fame & was just the second living person to not appear at WrestleMania later that weekend after Bret Hart in 22 because the fans would shit on him) will likely become a Senator & we could see celebrities run in 2020.

And I remember how Rokita called Trump "vulgar" back in 2016. When Trump's downfall comes, and I hope it's soon, the anti-Trumpers will crawl out from under their rocks and say "I knew he was bad", etc.

[Iron Maiden]

Well, Broidy stepped down because of it.

Trump did say he was going to drain the swamp, he just didn't mention it would be his swamp.

[BeastieRunner]

#BREAKING: Articles of impeachment have been drafted for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/29421...-ryan-saavedra

Looks like somebody wants him gone.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Cohen is under investigation for bank fraud.

It's all coming together.

You’d think Trump would’ve thought ahead and anticipated his minions being such scumbags and how their scumbagginess would come back to bite him in the ass if he ever went into politics.

[Michael Watkins]

You’d think Trump would’ve thought ahead and anticipated his minions being such scumbags and how their scumbagginess would come back to bite him in the ass if he ever went into politics.

maybe he outsourced the creation of his list of "The Best people."

[TheInvisibleMan]

don't know if anyone saw this, but an MSU board meeting was thrown asunder when Kaylee Lorincz, a vicitim of Larry Nasser, says MSU interim president tried to settle with her for 250K

[BeastieRunner]

Apparently the Cohen raid was not by Mueller, the new court docs are showing. They're investigating Cohen's bank fraud.

So Trump is about to have two, 2, TWO, separate FBI investigations converge on him.

Firing Mueller or Rod won't make that one go away.

[Tazirai]

You want magical one-stop intant-fix policies, and those do not exist in our reality.

At best you can start to fix the problem.
And it should be noted that the Hillary Clinton campaign had policies towards advancing your entire purity list.

She had to be forced into many of those "Purity" policy lists. Also I've been following Politics closely since 1988, at 14. I understand that policy can come in starts and fits and sometimes overnight.
I have some faith in the system, and YES I'll maintain my Purity Tests for the Democrats. Because Mark Warner TODAY proved how cowardly the Democrats are, and some will not hold them accountable because


A) Trump Bad Sad.
B) Would you rather a D or an R?
C) You can vote Purity while Real People suffer...

D) All the above are false issues, and we can do better.

[Tazirai]

Gun nut stupidity at it's best, or worst, depending on your point of view:

No guns? No anthem, singer tells Reno minor-league baseball team

To which I say....WAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Cry me a freaking river!

As a gun owner. I must say, my firearms are left home about 95% of the year. How did she survive so long without a gun? God, these people are so annoying.

Oh boy, NRA has a new ad...

LMAO! These people are acting like Literal Terrorists with their dumb videos. They just aren't at the level of murdering people themselves yet.

The worst attack on a president in American histroy!!!
...
Except the ones why were shot.

This. All the this.

That is the most common, completely ignorant rebuttal of Global Warming.

You through a pebble into a stream, there is some change in the flow of water, but its' not yet visible. You keep throwing rocks and pebbles in a stream and eventually, in time, the water level appears to get higher and the water appears to move faster. Throw in enough pebbles, eventually the steam is either dammed up or the flow of water is diverted to another path.

Global Warming is far more complex then that.

Yes it is. I wish people would TRY to understand this. They like Science when it doesn't challenge their beliefs.

It's called GLOBAL Climate Change and GLOBAL Warming. Not Local warming.


From NASA

February 2018 was sixth warmest February on record

Maybe you should talk to a Climate scientist to hear about the Earth getting warming.

All the this again.

This. I think Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy would all have something to say on the matter of the "worst attack on a president in American history." You know, if they weren't all dead from assassin's bullets.

Tell them again...

[Tazirai]

Why are the Democrats so DAMN cowardly???

FIGHT! This is why so many of you are getting Primaried. FIGHT Dammit, stop bowing your damn heads.



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