***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[Belgium]

What was it they were saying about not needing to protect mueller, again?

 

[whywesteppin]

comrades aepps20 and noskey have just GRACED this LIB echo chamber with TRUTH and FAX.

we know the greatest enemy we have ever faced in our 274 year history is none other than LIBERAL CONJECTURE AND INNUENDO and the greatest deterrent is men like Donald Trump.

but we know Donald cannot be president forever because he must get back to building tall buildings and selling overcooked steak. That is why these Revelations today by my comrades about the FUTURE of the coal gang are SO important.

thank you kanye, thank you Jill!!!

 

[elpablo21]

 

[Belgium]

Oh well, add it onto the pile.
https://apnews.com/de9f5c139446479f...landlord's-husband-sought-EPA-work-for-client
Memo: Pruitt landlord’s husband sought EPA work for client
The lobbyist whose wife rented a condo to Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt at $50 a night sought EPA committee posts for a lobbying client, according to a newly released EPA memo.

J. Steven Hart’s seeking those appointments from his wife’s former tenant, Pruitt, shows “the extent to which the special interests providing him with gifts have sought specific favors from EPA in return,” said Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey, the senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

The memo makes for the latest in a monthslong barrage of news reports and federal investigations questioning spending and other actions at Pruitt’s EPA. Pruitt’s former security chief, whose time with Pruitt saw the EPA administrator provided with round-the-clock security and first-class flights in the name of security, appeared for an hourslong closed-door interview Wednesday with staff on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Pruitt has repeatedly blamed his security staff and other subordinates for questioned spending by his office. Last week, the EPA head told congressional lawmakers that he had no idea staffers had spent $43,000 on a soundproof booth after he asked for a private, secure communications set-up.

His former deputy chief of staff, Kevin Chmielewski, denied that, telling ABC News in a segment aired Wednesday that Pruitt knew the booth would be “on the tune of over $40,000.”

The New York Times first reported the new memo from Hart, the lobbyist.

Hart wrote the email Aug. 10 to Ryan Jackson, Pruitt’s chief of staff.

“I want to highlight three candidates...who were nominated by our client, Dennis Treacy, the president of the Smithfield Foundation,” Hart wrote, suggesting appointments for the three to an EPA science advisory board.

The foundation is an arm of Smithfield Foods Inc. of Virginia, known for its hams. Smithfield Foods paid at least $280,000 in lobbying fees in 2017 to Hart’s firm, and Hart was listed by name as representing Smithfield as its lobbyist when he wrote the email, according to federal lobbying records.

Asked if the request represented a conflict of interest for Pruitt, the EPA provided a statement from Jackson that did not address that question directly. The suggestions were among hundreds the EPA received for the board, and the three people suggested by Hart were not appointed to the advisory board, Jackson said in the statement.

Pruitt told Fox News in April that “Mr. Hart has no clients that had business before this agency,” but a spokesman for Hart subsequently acknowledged that Hart actually met with Pruitt in his office in July 2017, about one month before Hart’s proposed nominations to discuss efforts to preserve the Chesapeake Bay.

Pruitt’s assertion had been in response to questions about the propriety of his leasing the condo, at a bargain rate, from Hart’s wife.

Pallone, the lawmaker, called the August email “further proof that Administrator Pruitt has consistently misled Congress and the public.”

Separately Wednesday, an environmental group released EPA emails it had obtained from a freedom-of-information lawsuit showing a former lobbyist for foreign governments persistently pitching Pruitt aides on a proposed official trip to Australia last summer.

Matthew Freedman, a promoter of U.S.-Australian business ties, framed much of his correspondence touting the trip to EPA staffers like a travelogue: On Sydney’s Bondi Beach, he wrote Pruitt aide Millan Hupp, “you can walk as long as you want on a long and winding paved walking trail along the sea..and watch the surfers. I can send some photos if it is useful to visualize. Definitely a memorable experience.”

Freedman’s emails showed him keeping U.S. diplomats in Australia, typically involved in government trips, at arms’ length at the start of his pitching. The charge d’affaire at the U.S. Embassy in Australia would likely have good ideas for the trip, “but I want to wait a bit before I contact him,” Freedman wrote.

The emails “expose the fact that corporate lobbyists are orchestrating Pruitt’s taxpayer-funded trips,” said Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, which obtained the documents.

Pruitt has drawn fire for costly foreign and domestic travel with staffers, including a multiday journey to Morocco and France in December, for reasons Democratic lawmakers say don’t justify the expense.

EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox said the Australia trip was organized by the agency, not Freedman, and noted that Hurricane Harvey ultimately forced cancellation of the trip. Freedman, last registered as a representative in the U.S. for foreign governments in the 1990s, was not a registered lobbyist, Wilcox said.

 

[gry60]

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/38...aged-car-accidents-for-insurance-money-report

 

[gry60]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ed-buying-u-s-soybean-supplies-bunge-ceo-says

"
The world’s biggest oilseed processor just confirmed one of the soybean market’s biggest fears: China has essentially stopped buying U.S. supplies amid the brewing trade war.



“Whatever they’re buying is non-U.S.,” Bunge Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Soren Schroder said in a telephone interview Wednesday. “They’re buying beans in Canada, in Brazil, mostly Brazil, but very deliberately not buying anything from the U.S.”



In a move that caught many in U.S. agriculture by surprise, China last month announced planned tariffs on American shipments of soybeans. As the market waited for the measure to take effect, there was some hope among traders and shippers alike that relations between the nations could ease in the meantime and the trade flow would continue. But that doesn’t seem to be the case, at least for now, according to Bunge.





It’s “very clear” that the trade tensions have already stopped China from buying U.S. supplies, Schroder said. “How long that will last, who knows? But so long as there is this big cloud of uncertainty, that’s likely to continue.”

Record amounts of borrowing, no longer selling one of your biggest export crops, and reducing taxes on those who are most able to fund government services.

America is ******. Thank you Republicans (who, BTW, have been losing health coverage more than any other political group after the declawing of the ACA).

 

[whywesteppin]

America is ****ed. Thank you Republicans (who, BTW, have been losing health coverage more than any other political group after the declawing of the ACA).

God is good!

 

[elpablo21]

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[$tatus $ymbol]

Welp here comes another sweep. Where’s Wavy to cue up some fewtch

 

[Belgium]

Welp here comes another sweep. Where’s Wavy to cue up some fewtch

I got you covered

Spoiler

 

[IATT]

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[IATT]

 

[rillo561]

LMAO amazing. He basically admitted fraud too with this $35,000 for no work.

 

[23kidd]

Brooooooooo

He cant be that dumb.

 

[IATT]

 

[RustyShackleford]

People on the left actually vote for this clown

Straight sucka status

 

[hipstermike]

Man

This was all a ploy

To make Pence pres

 

[ksteezy]

Hahahahhahahaah Rudy the GOAT drunk uncle

 

[Sharpshoeter13]

When Hannity said, "I didn't know that," it was actually his signal to Rudy to shut up but naaahhh...

Mueller be like

Murica needs to know TeflonDon got guap to pay debts to society but first,

#NEVASPENDYOOWNMONEY
#Thoughts&Prayers
#NoCollusion
#KKKanyeToThe

 

[Quincy McCall]

 

[chao7]

Brooooooooo

He cant be that dumb.

I say we save this quote and see how many times we can use it during this administration.

 

[chao7]

 

[ksteezy]

Rudy out the paint by the end of the week, count on it...lol

 

[sole vintage]

 

[fargin]

Now that we know, Trump had sex with a pornstar, all MAGA-hats now believe, they almost had sex with a pornstar too.