***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[whywesteppin]

Brah(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((Soros)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) be breaking me off wit the no deductible health insurance, free dental and vision and famb matches my 401K at 100% up until 10% of my salary.

I run the office fantasy leagues, and I'm one promotion away from being the regional manager of Shilling for the Southwest.

I'm in too deep famb

how many months of that 401k do you have saved in shoes though?

 

[RustyShackleford]

Brah(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((Soros)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) be breaking me off wit the no deductible health insurance, free dental and vision and famb matches my 401K at 100% up until 10% of my salary.

I run the office fantasy leagues, and I'm one promotion away from being the regional manager of Shilling for the Southwest.

I'm in too deep famb

how many months of that 401k do you have saved in shoes though?

Shoes?

Nah, Soros hooked me up wit an adviser, who said to put it all in stock and bonds, he seemed official, he worked for a company named "'Globalist Financial"'

He told me that putting my money in something like used athletic gear would be a bad investment.

 

[whywesteppin]

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I predicted Hillary would get washed and now I'm predicting my shoes gonna make me a rich man. 100 boxes times $150. that's grown up money. I'm gonna retire to Alabama. what is that? $1.5 million B.

 

[aepps20]

Shoes?

Nah, Soros hooked me up wit an adviser, who said to put it all in stock and bonds, he seemed official, he worked for a company named "'Globalist Financial"'

He told me that putting my money in something like used athletic gear would be a bad investment.

:x ROOOOKIE MISTAKE B. I'm heavily leveraged in fake sneakers B. I get all my investment advice from watching 26 hours of news each day.

 

[whywesteppin]

the :x emoji got me

it's like you're fully in character. the Daniel Day Lewis of NT.

 

[aepps20]

the :x emoji got me

it's like you're fully in character. the Daniel Day Lewis of NT.

 

[noskey]

the :x emoji got me

it's like you're fully in character. the Daniel Day Lewis of NT.

Daniel Day Lewis?! Sounds like a ******* immigrant lib'ral name to me! Build the wall! Travel ban is needed the day after YESTERDAY, B! All these elitist, job having, coal hating rookies out here tryina take my coal jobs! We just want our jerbs and our 6 months coal saved! We don't need no rookies, we just need da Ruskies! Dapper Don gonna bless us with our real 'Merican jerbs and da American bred coal if we have to die digging it ourselves, brothers! BUILD THAT WALL! [emoji]128133[/emoji][emoji]128133[/emoji][emoji]128133[/emoji][emoji]128405[/emoji][emoji]128133[/emoji][emoji]128133[/emoji]

 

[aepps20]

Daniel Day Lewis?! Sounds like a ******* immigrant lib'ral name to me! Build the wall! Travel ban is needed the day after YESTERDAY, B! All these elitist, job having, coal hating rookies out here tryina take my coal jobs! We just want our jerbs and our 6 months coal saved! We don't need no rookies, we just need da Ruskies! Dapper Don gonna bless us with our real 'Merican jerbs and da American bred coal if we have to die digging it ourselves, brothers! BUILD THAT WALL! [emoji]128133[/emoji][emoji]128133[/emoji][emoji]128133[/emoji][emoji]128405[/emoji][emoji]128133[/emoji][emoji]128133[/emoji]

WHAT A POST COMRADE. USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA USA, USSSSSSSSR B! REAL AMERICANS HAVE SPOKEN B. Your post epitomizes what's going to make US Great Again. Getting Da Coal Popping was Da first step, Building Da Wall to keep Libbies out is the next step and Barson 2020 is the final step.

 

[RustyShackleford]

My dude taking method acting to a new level.

 

[whywesteppin]

Doctor Surgeon Benjamin Barson MD 2020

 

[aepps20]

Doctor Surgeon Benjamin Barson MD 2020

 

[IATT]

 

[IATT]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/05/donald-trump-attack-courts-travel-ban-london

 

[Belgium]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/us/politics/trump-discontent-attorney-general-jeff-sessions.html

Trump Grows Discontented With Attorney General Jeff Sessions

WASHINGTON — Few Republicans were quicker to embrace President Trump’s campaign last year than Jeff Sessions, and his reward was one of the most prestigious jobs in America. But more than four months into his presidency, Mr. Trump has grown sour on Mr. Sessions, now his attorney general, blaming him for various troubles that have plagued the White House.

The discontent was on display on Monday in a series of stark early-morning postings on Twitter  in which the president faulted his own Justice Department for its defense of his travel ban  on visitors from certain predominantly Muslim countries. Mr. Trump accused Mr. Sessions’s department of devising a “politically correct” version of the ban — as if the president had nothing to do with it.

In private, the president’s exasperation has been even sharper. He has intermittently fumed for months over Mr. Sessions’s decision to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian meddling in last year’s election, according to people close to Mr. Trump who insisted on anonymity to describe internal conversations. In Mr. Trump’s view, they said, it was that recusal that eventually led to the appointment of a special counsel who took over the investigation.

Behind-the-scenes frustration would not be unprecedented in the Oval Office. Other presidents have become estranged from the Justice Department over time, notably President Bill Clinton, who bristled at Attorney General Janet Reno’s decisions to authorize investigations into him and his administration, among other things. But Mr. Trump’s tweets on Monday made his feelings evident for all to see and raised questions about how he is managing his own administration.

“They wholly undercut the idea that there is some rational process behind the president’s decisions,” said Walter E. Dellinger, who served as acting solicitor general under Mr. Clinton. “I believe it is unprecedented for a president to publicly chastise his own Justice Department.”

In his Twitter posts, Mr. Trump complained that his original executive order barring visitors from select Muslim-majority nations and refugees from around the world was revised  in hopes of passing legal muster after it was struck down by multiple federal courts. The second version, however, has also been blocked, and last week the Justice Department appealed to the Supreme Court.

“The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.,” Mr. Trump wrote.

Then he added, “The Justice Dept. should ask for an expedited hearing of the watered down Travel Ban before the Supreme Court — & seek much tougher version!”

But the messages caused considerable head scratching around Washington since it was Mr. Trump who signed the revised executive order and, presumably, agreed to the legal strategy in the first place. His posts made it sound like the Justice Department was not part of his administration.

The White House had little to add to the president’s messages on Monday. Asked why Mr. Trump signed the revised order if he did not support it, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a White House spokeswoman, said he did it only to convince a California-based appeals court. “He was looking to, again, match the demands laid out by the Ninth Circuit and, for the purpose of expediency, to start looking at the best way possible to move that process forward,” she said.

Alan M. Dershowitz, a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School who has frequently defended Mr. Trump on cable news, said the president was clearly voicing frustration with Mr. Sessions. But he said it was not clear to him that it was a personal issue as opposed to an institutional one with the office.

“What he’s saying is, ‘I’m the president, I’m the tough guy, I wanted a very tough travel ban and the damn lawyers are weakening it’ — and clients complain about lawyers all the time,” Mr. Dershowitz said. “I see this more as a client complaining about his lawyer. The lawyer in this case happens to be Jeff Sessions.”

David B. Rivkin Jr., a lawyer who served in the White House and Justice Department under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, said Mr. Trump clearly looked at the case from the lens of a businessman who did not get his money’s worth.

“He’s unhappy when the results don’t come in,” Mr. Rivkin said. “I’m sure he was convinced to try the second version, and the second iteration did not do better than the first iteration, so the lawyers in his book did not do a good job. It’s understandable for a businessman.”

Mr. Sessions and the Justice Department remained silent on Monday. But at least one lawyer close to the administration suggested that there was consternation in the department over the president’s messages. George T. Conway III, who until last week was Mr. Trump’s choice  for assistant attorney general for the civil division and whose wife, Kellyanne Conway, is the president’s counselor, posted a Twitter message suggesting that Mr. Trump’s tweets “certainly won’t help” persuade five justices on the Supreme Court — the majority needed — to uphold the travel ban.

In subsequent posts, Mr. Conway said that “every sensible lawyer” in the White House Counsel’s Office and “every political appointee” at the Justice Department would “agree with me (as some have already told me).” Mr. Conway stressed that he strongly supports Mr. Trump — “and, of course, my wonderful wife” — and was making his points because the president’s supporters “should not be shy about it.”

The frustration over the travel ban might be a momentary episode were it not for the deeper resentment Mr. Trump feels toward Mr. Sessions, according to people close to the president. When Mr. Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation, Mr. Trump learned about it only when he was in the middle of another event, and he publicly questioned the decision.

A senior administration official said Mr. Trump has not stopped burning about the decision, in occasional spurts, toward Mr. Sessions. Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who was selected by Mr. Sessions and filled in when it came to the Russia investigation, ultimately appointed Robert S. Mueller III, a former F.B.I. director, as special counsel to lead the probe.

In fact, much of the past two months of discomfort and self-inflicted pain for Mr. Trump can be tied in some way back to that recusal. Mr. Trump felt blindsided by Mr. Sessions’s decision and unleashed his fury at aides in the Oval Office the next day, according to four people familiar with the event. The next day was his fateful tweet about President Barack Obama conducting a wiretap  of Trump Tower during the campaign, an allegation that was widely debunked.

However, Mr. Trump is said to be aware that firing people now, on the heels of dismissing James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, would be risky. He has invested care and meticulous attention to the next choice of an F.B.I. director in part because he will not have the option of firing another one. The same goes for Mr. Sessions, these people said.

Mr. Dershowitz said he thought any frustration over Mr. Sessions’s recusal, like the travel ban, was probably not personal. “I think that’s also institutional,” he said. “Almost any A.G. would recuse himself. I think he’s railing against lawyers.”

 

[MalcolmNewton]

[h1]United States considers withdrawing from UN Human Rights Council 'over treatment of ally Israel'[/h1]

The United States is considering withdrawing from the United Nations body on human rights.

Highlighting what it deemed a 'biased' stance on Israel, UN ambassador Nikki Haley said the US was 'looking carefully' at its role on the Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

'The United States is looking carefully at this Council and our participation in it,' Haley told the Geneva forum in her first address. 'We see some areas for significant strengthening.'

She said it was 'hard to accept' five resolutions had been passed against Israel, a US ally, while none were considered against Venezuela, which is in the grips of bloody protests over the rule of its president Nicolas Maduro. 

 

[Belgium]

They have a point regarding bias against Israel in the UNHRC. The fact that Saudi Arabia is even in this council is disgusting.

Doesn't mean Israel doesn't deserve the criticism though. 

 

[IATT]

O and:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/four-top-law-firms-turned-requests-represent-trump-122423972.html

 

[IATT]

 

[whywesteppin]

 

[IATT]

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/05/middleeast/qatar-us-largest-base-in-mideast/index.html

 

[gry60]

O and:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/four-top-law-firms-turned-requests-represent-trump-122423972.html

The same guys who bragged about the amount of Russian capital in the Trump Org are now saying that they don't know Russia.

 

[rolaholic]

@thehill: Eric Trump: Sharing financial reports with Trump doesn't create conflict of interest https://t.co/8HX0KHnpp9 https://t.co/0VmQOrKerh

I mean it kinda does ,it defeats the purpose of the whole "divestment" BS they were peddling before the inaguration. Just because his kids say it isn't doesn't mean squat

They have a point regarding bias against Israel in the UNHRC. The fact that Saudi Arabia is even in this council is disgusting.
Doesn't mean Israel doesn't deserve the criticism though. 

I mean it's not like the Saudis are the only ones criticiting them . Literally the rest of the world is against those illegal settlements but Israel will throw a hissy fit and claim anti-semitism on account of about 200 countries because they,or should I say Bibi,feels like they're above everyone else's silly rules/international law.

Saudi Arabia has no real right to criticize any country for human rights violations given their history but they're not wrong on that issue.

Kinda Saudi related,it's funny seeing the manbaby taking credit for the gulf states severing of ties with Qatar

He used the official Saudi line about them funding terror unironically after he just rewarded the real biggest state sponsor and exporter of terror worldwide,the Saudis themselves,with a shiny new $1B arms deal

 

[rolaholic]

@realDonaldTrump:
Sorry folks, but if I would have relied on the Fake News of CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, washpost or nytimes, I would have had ZERO chance winning WH

Yea he just happened to have relied on the FSB,GRU and Guccifer 2.0...

Speaking of "Fake News",it's been announced that the Comey testimony will be broadcasted live on ABC,NBC and CBS News

 

[aepps20]

Da Don is RIGHT. Fake News was WRONG B. If I had listened to Fake News I wouldn't be 24 months away from saving Da 6 months and EARNING DA BLACK LUNG.

 

[EddieDoyers]

Da Don is RIGHT. Fake News was WRONG B. If I had listened to Fake News I wouldn't be 24 months away from saving Da 6 months and EARNING DA BLACK LUNG.

Da NPR can hit the dustbin b. [emoji]128133[/emoji]