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

[Jack Dracula]

Why Democrats control nothing.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/twit...124515593.html

I don't get it.

[Dalak]

In related news:

´Founder of Nigel Farage's Brexit campaign met with Russian embassy officials multiple times & offered multi-billion Dollar gold deal

Brexit and Trump are the biggest war victories Russia has seen since taking Berlin in WW II.

Damn, I didn't quite see this coming.

What? The President can't look at internet porn? It really is the hardest job int he world.

And Melania won't let him touch her anymore, what's an Orange Shitgibbon to do?

This article has nothing to do with Democrats.

*looks at article* Why am I not surprised.

Jack was actually an ******* by hyping one of the most homophobic companies during Pride month. But you would not be able to see that.

I don't get it.

Y'see, Trey has this thing about 'identity politics' which he thinks is the worst thing around apparently. Could be wrong on that last part, but considering he's against reporting Nazis who break the rules on Twitter I'm assuming the worst.

[PaulBullion]

Y'see, Trey has this thing about 'identity politics' which he thinks is the worst thing around apparently. Could be wrong on that last part, but considering he's against reporting Nazis who break the rules on Twitter I'm assuming the worst.

I love people who complain about "conservative Democrats" while being to the right of John McCain on many issues.

[aja_christopher]

"There’s Actually Lots of Evidence of Trump-Russia Collusion"

The untenability of the “no collusion” talking point.

“In all of this, in any of this, there’s been no evidence that there’s been any collusion between the Trump campaign and President Trump and Russia,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday at his weekly press conference. “Let’s just make that really clear. There’s no evidence of collusion. This is about Russia and what they did and making sure they don’t do it again.”

From Ryan’s perspective, it would be convenient if it were true that Robert Mueller’s investigation had turned up no evidence of collusion, but it simply isn’t.

Republicans from Donald Trump on down have made “no collusion” a mantra. The term itself is ill-defined in this context; you won’t find it in the US code. But roughly speaking, the question is whether the campaign got involved with Russian agents who committed computer crimes to help Trump win the 2016 presidential election.

The verdict on this is unclear. But there is certainly plenty of evidence pointing toward collusion; what you would call “probable cause” in a legal context, or what a journalist might simply consider reason to continue investigating the story. And the investigating thus far, both by special counsel Mueller and by journalists working on the story, has been fruitful. The efforts have continued to turn up contacts between Trumpworld and Putinland, cover-ups, and dishonesty.

Even as recently as Friday afternoon, we got new indictments charging Trump’s former campaign chair and his former GRU operative business partner with witness tampering and obstruction of justice.

It’s important, obviously, not to prejudge a case. It turns out that Saddam Hussein was acting like a man who was covering up a secret nuclear weapons arsenal because he didn’t want the world to know how weak his defenses really were.

By the same token, it’s certainly possible that the various Trump-Russia contacts never amounted to anything and that they’ve been consistently covered up for some reason other than an effort to hide collusion. But both the contacts that have been revealed so far and the deception used to deny their existence are certainly evidence of collusion — evidence that should be (and is being) pursued by the special counsel’s office and that should not be dismissed by the press or by elected officials...."

https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/174383...ssia-collusion

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"Yes, there is.

Flynn Thing
Manafort Thing
Tillerson Thing
Sessions Thing
Kushner Thing
Wray Thing
Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius "Russian Law Firm of the Year" Thing
Carter Page Thing
Roger Stone Thing
Felix Sater Thing
Boris Epshteyn Thing
Rosneft Thing
Gazprom Thing (see above)
Sergey Gorkov banker Thing
Azerbaijan Thing
"I Love Putin" Thing
Lavrov Thing
Sergey Kislyak Thing
Oval Office Thing
Gingrich Kislyak Phone Calls Thing
Russian Business Interest Thing
Emoluments Clause Thing
Alex Schnaider Thing
Hack of the DNC Thing
Guccifer 2.0 Thing
Mike Pence "I don't know anything" Thing
Russians Mysteriously Dying Thing
Trump's public request to Russia to hack Hillary's email Thing
Trump house sale for $100 million at the bottom of the housing bust to the Russian fertilizer king Thing
Russian fertilizer king's plane showing up in Concord, NC during Trump rally campaign Thing
Nunes sudden flight to the White House in the night Thing
Nunes personal investments in the Russian winery Thing
Cyprus bank Thing
Trump not Releasing his Tax Returns Thing
the Republican Party's rejection of an amendment to require Trump to show his taxes thing
Election Hacking Thing
GOP platform change to the Ukraine Thing
Steele Dossier Thing
Sally Yates Can't Testify Thing
Intelligence Community's Investigative Reports Thing
Trump reassurance that the Russian connection is all "fake news" Thing
Chaffetz not willing to start an Investigation Thing
Chaffetz suddenly deciding to go back to private life in the middle of an investigation Thing
Appointment of Pam Bondi who was bribed by Trump in the Trump University scandal appointed to head the investigation Thing The White House going into cover-up mode, refusing to turn over the documents related to the hiring and firing of Flynn Thing
Chaffetz and White House blaming the poor vetting of Flynn on Obama Thing
Poland and British intelligence gave information regarding the hacking back in 2015 to Paul Ryan and he didn't do anything Thing
Agent MI6 following the money thing
Trump team KNEW about Flynn's involvement but hired him anyway Thing
Let's Fire Comey Thing
Election night Russian trademark gifts Things
Russian diplomatic compound electronic equipment destruction Thing
let's give back the diplomatic compounds back to the Russians Thing
Let's Back Away From Cuba Thing
Donny Jr met with Russians Thing
Donny Jr emails details "Russian Government's support for Trump" Thing
Trump's secret second meeting with his boss Putin Thing
[Re-admit Russia back to the G7 despite Crimea and Election Interference Thing]"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Keep_Track/...ence_of_trump/

[Kevinroc]

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1006179330207240192

By a 5-4 margin, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a controversial Ohio voter-purge law.

It’s known as the “use-it-or-lose-it” law, which, as NPR’s @NinaTotenberg wrote after oral arguments, is “the most aggressive voter-purge system in the country.”

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1006179581328547840

Ohio “strikes voters from the registration rolls if they fail to vote in two consecutive elections — and if they fail to return a mailed address confirmation form,” Nina wrote in January.

The GOP hates democracy.

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1006179330207240192



https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1006179581328547840



The GOP hates democracy.

I’m sure all the GOP registered voters who sat out will be unregistered

[ZombieHavoc]

Why Democrats control nothing.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/twit...124515593.html

I don't know--I assume the CEO of Twitter controls at least 33% of the country...

Zuckerburg controls 33%.

And the rest is split between the Trump dynasty, the Deep State, the sugar industry and General Mills.

[Kevinroc]

Net neutrality is officially repealed. Here’s what happens next.
Net neutrality can still be saved, but the window of opportunity just got smaller.

https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/174486...aled-what-next

[InformationGeek]

While Trey goes on about Democrats, let's talk about what the administration is currently doing now, blocking domestic abuse victims from getting asylum. Link takes to you the case and the recent decision.

[Tazirai]

Why Democrats control nothing.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/twit...124515593.html

I understand what your getting at, even if others don't.

But yeah, OUTRAGE Culture is a thing.

[Tazirai]

Net neutrality is officially repealed. Here’s what happens next.
Net neutrality can still be saved, but the window of opportunity just got smaller.

https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/174486...aled-what-next

Up to the states for now, and hopefully, we'll get a change in legislative power going forward to undo the stupid of Ajit Pai.

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

I understand what your getting at, even if others don't.

But yeah, OUTRAGE Culture is a thing.

It’s not as big of a deal as he’s playing it up, but it is a turn off for a lot of people.

[Dalak]

Up to the states for now, and hopefully, we'll get a change in legislative power going forward to undo the stupid of Ajit Pai.

Actually, according to the story - "You might think that individual states could have the right to legislate their own net neutrality protections, but you’d be wrong. The FCC repeal included language that explicitly excluded individual states from enacting consumer protection laws because it’s easier on ISPs not to have to deal with different regulations from state to state. That means that as of today, the rights of states to govern themselves won’t apply to protecting net neutrality. "

[numberthirty]

Web of elite Russians met with NRA execs during 2016 campaign

Several prominent Russians, some in President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle or high in the Russian Orthodox Church, now have been identified as having contact with National Rifle Association officials during the 2016 U.S. election campaign, according to photographs and an NRA source.

The contacts have emerged amid a deepening Justice Department investigation into whether Russian banker and lifetime NRA member Alexander Torshin illegally channeled money through the gun rights group to add financial firepower to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential bid.

The NRA pumped about twice as much money into the Trump campaign as into Romney's.

The amount of treason it took to stop Hillary Clinton is breath taking. And we keep finding out more and more.

While I'm all for there being more oversight into where the money that goes into campaigns comes from, the idea that money that went into Trump being outspent by quite a bit is a part of what "Stopped" his opponent?

That's an "Iffy" proposition. Even if you are being charitable.

[ZombieHavoc]

It’s not as big of a deal as he’s playing it up, but it is a turn off for a lot of people.

It's worth noting that so many of these "twitter/internet outrage" stories that he posts about, his posts are the only way I even hear about them.

Aside from a tiny pocket of ultra hip "both sides are bad" internet cool dudes, the only people who care that Twitter trolled Twitter's CEO about eating CFA during pride month are the Fox News audience who these kind of stories are tailor made for.

Also, if human rights and equality are a turn off for someone, they're voting for Trump anyway...so what's the difference.