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You are sitting in front of an internet connected computer and you can't even bother to hit google ?

https://www.redstate.com/sarah...

https://twitter.com/DLoesch/st...

It's no wonder the right thinks you lot are little more than automatons.

Just happened to read this: https://www.redstate.com/strei..., which describes a concerted media effort to cast a Democrat election stunt as coming from "racist" Republicans.

This is from the NYT, the same bunch that called the deputy AG a liar and said he was planning a coup by wearing a wire and some convoluted shit about invoking the 25th....yeah until I see confirmation from some site that isn't infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome? Honestly I wouldn't trust the NYT to tell me what the weather was outside their own office unless they could spin it to be Trump's fault.

Shadow banned means nobody sees your tweets. So why would they get removed for going against groupthink?

He said he's shadowbanned on Twitter and had posts removed on Facebook. Different platforms, different actions. I can confirm my account on Twitter was shadowbanned months ago. I noticed the views my Tweets would get dropped overnight from dozens or hundreds down to 1 or 2.

Of course, Twitter denies they are shadowbanning, they are just "behavioral ranking". Ho hum.

Only ONE side is suppressing people's speech. It's the Left. The Right is fighting hard for free speech, which a few years ago wasn't even mildly controversial.

As for Fake News, they just keep providing more and more evidence. NBCâ(TM)s national affairs analyst John Heilemann said that thereâ(TM)s a decent number of Trump supporters that would be ok with the president killing their parents or grandparents.

The mainstream media, everyone. Making shit up. How is this not Fake News?

Here's everyone's favorite publication that just hired a racist, the New York Times:

"[Trump] is not rounding people up and murdering them without any due process."
Ready for Goldberg's reply? Sit back:
"He would certainly like to."
Seriously - that was her reply.
The lady who is representing the New York Times.
She wasn't fired for making things up. Just watch that video and tell me they can write a story about Trump without injecting their personal politics into it. What do you call a mainstream media that invents things out of whole cloth? Fake news.

Don's bestest buddy in the entire world was McCarthy's attack dog, Ray Cohn, who died of AIDs. As soon as Don found out that Cohn was sick, he dropped him like a live rattlesnake and coincidentally developed a massive case of germophobia. Its probably why he thinks avoiding STDs was his own personal Vietnam.

Don definitely knows the difference between HIV and HPV, he was just trying to wind up Gates because he knows Gates takes public health seriously. Its a relatively common sociopath move - figure out what some cares about and then take plausibly deniable digs at it in order to get them twisted. Source: have a couple of clinically diagnosed sociopaths in the extended family.

Don't worry intellectual coward, it's very easy to spot who makes posts like this. Why don't you try sticking to the content at hand instead of waving it around like your usual whataboutism that you go on about.

https://www.redstate.com/strei...

https://www.redstate.com/strei...

You mean besides all the other sources out there? This isn't rocket surgery.

#blacklivesmatter is responsible for a dozen or more police officer deaths.

In the US, the right-wing kills more cops than any other group:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/...

And here's the actual report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that the above article is based on, in case you'd like to see it:

https://www.gao.gov/assets/690...

I mean, just in the past few weeks there have been at least two cases of right-wing jackoffs killing cops

http://www.newsweek.com/colora...

And more cases of alt-reich nazis murdering people:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...

And right-wing pepe terrorism:

https://www.redstate.com/smoos...

Explain this. What you call chain migration others call reuniting families.

To be fair the Dems aren't out to protect us all that much either. If they were they'd do something about the 500,000 workers here on expired visas, most of whom came here on H1-Bs. I don't really care about 'chain' migration because that's mostly Mexicans taking low pay service jobs.

But anyway, Trump could send those 500k illegal aliens (expired visas, so the term fits) back any time he wants. With the stroke of a pen. He could also undo the Obama era rule allowing H1-B worker's spouses to work in the States. Again, stroke of a pen, no input from Congress, he could do it today. The fact that he doesn't shows you something. It shows you who he really works for.

I am never more in fear of my life than when I see a police officer, and that should not be the case.

You do understand that may be completely on you, don't you? Have you sought counseling? Are you engaged in criminal enterprises?

As said, a few bad apples spoils the barrel, and the barrel is not in a healthy state. The whole barrel needs to go.

Yes, that is the claim of some activists. It doesn't always work out the way it is expected to . .. or is the outcome exactly what is expected but unstated?

Baltimore Police Backed Away From a Community That Protested Against Them, and Guess What Happened?

Barriss seems to be the person who called in a fake bomb threat to the FCC:

By the way, the fellow who left the FCC bomb threat was apparently Tyler Barriss, the same guy who evidently SWATted Andrew Finch in Kansas, leading to his death. Shortly before the bomb threat, Barriss tweeted on his @SWauTistic Twitter account: “Gonna evacuate the net neutrality meeting guys don’t be upset.” Moments later, the meeting was evacuated. I guess that wasn’t enough to get the FBI’s rear in gear. Maybe they could have saved Andrew Finch’s life. Instead, he boasted:

“l swatted FCC and MLG Dallas l’m not busted yet” he tweeted. “if you can’t pull off a swat without getting busted you’re not a leet hacking God its that simple”

Before Andrew Finch died, I don't think the police were trying hard to find Barriss. After Finch's death, the police found Barriss pretty quickly.

I wish he'd been jailed for his earlier swatting and bomb threats. If he had, then Finch would still be alive.

The FCC in 2015 said broadband providers are common carriers under Title 2. This made 400 pages of onerous regulations applicable to all broadband providers, some of the regulations are ridiculous and very subjective. See this link: https://www.redstate.com/diary...

Yep, as expected of Slashdot of late - the ill educated right wing moron crowd weighs in with "pity the poor corporations and all those pesky regulations".

Hayley Geftman-Gold, a legal executive at CBS, wrote on Facebook,

If they wouldn't do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that the Repugs will ever do the right thing. I'm actually not even sympathetic bc country music fans often are republican gun toters.

"not even sympathetic bc country music fans often are republican gun toters"? What kind of ethics are taught at law school these days?

I'm happy to say that CBS fired her.

why should some narrow-minded parents restrict what is taught to my child, in school?

Because you and those like you support the government's monopoly on children education. And now the same monopoly is creeping into higher education too:

1. "Title IX" lets Federal government control, what can and can not be said by the students.
2. The recently-introduced monopoly on college-loans allows the government to decide, at any moment, where the would-be students can (and can not) take spend tuition loans.
3. Profit: thought the 1st Amendment is still, ostensibly, the law of the land, the government can already control, what the students — and their professors — are allowed to say. And teach... And read

It happened to public schools years ago, it is happening to colleges right now.

This is very smarmily worded: although DNC spent more, Hillary had to "build" the organization that did the spending. The smarmy part is to say the second part but not the first, making it sound like the DNC was "supposed" to spend more money on her and either didn't spend it or didn't have it, when neither is true. She also ignored data scientists' models in MI/WI/PA, just as she's currently ignoring criticism that she displays awful character by blaming others for her loss.

Is Trump's character even worse? Yes, and the people who can see that voted for Hillary. The rest voted for Trump. Even the voters, if unfrustrated by DNC primary-rigging (ex. registration purges in NYC), are able to pick a candidate better than Hillary. The biggest mistake the DNC made was sacrificing its credibility by using shenanigans to put a bad candidate into the race. They lost both their credibility and the election. I don't care what Hillary thinks. She's over. The problem is her cronies are still in charge of the DNC. The "crazy racist" zombie-messages from the Hillary campaign are still coming out of the DNC and poisoning discourse. Hillary has not lost thoroughly enough.

Ergo, my reference to the gun point, which is how all taxes are collected...

Let me ask a question. When you receive your electric bill or winter gas bill or water/sewerage bill, do you call it a forced bill "at gun point" from the utility company? Or do you just pay it because you're paying your fair share of bills for what you used?

Taxes are just our bill for our fair share of government and government services. It pays for military defense, a court system to allow you to file greviences against neighbors businesses or even the government itself, roads and bridges and other infrastructure, inspectors that ensure our buildings are constructed to code and food is safe to eat, and way more than I can list here. You use plenty of government services every day and don't even realize, so yes, you need to pay your bills for those services.

Now you could argue that our taxes are not always used wisely. I'd personally love to see our taxes go more to domestic programs rather than more middle eastern wars. And you might argue government is wasteful, and sometimes it is. But then I have a news flash for you, have you ever worked at corporate? Corporations are *at least* as wasteful as government services in many circumstances, so it's not particularly unique to government. If you'd like to see changes and waste cut, contact your representative and vote against them next election if they do nothing, that's why we're a democratic republic, we can vote and change things. At least you can do that, with private corporate control you have absolutely no say about what the CEO does.

So, of course, "UBI" and other attempts to forcibly "spread the wealth" to address the non-problem of "income inequality" are foolish and oppressive.

If you've never been poor I suppose you don't understand inequality, so let me give you a brief overview. Income is a huge part of it, but not all. Neighborhoods gentrify and rent increases meaning you must leave your long time neighborhood since you can't find a better job, because you don't have free time between 60+ hours a week job at several stores or money to attend college to get new skills. You might ask why they don't just buy a house. Good question! When your income is that low, you don't have the credit necessary to buy. Except landlords need to make money off of you, so their rent is almost by definition *more* than a typical mortgage (it has to be more than the mortgage to make a profit, right?). So you have to pay a lot and need more jobs. Many jobs are not on bus routes in my area, so you need a car. You get a cheap one at a used car lot, but since your credit is low, you don't get the typical 2 or 3% interest middle class gets, you get 8 or 10% interest, again having to pay *more* than middle class. But it's used car so you can make small payments over time so you try to make it work out. Then you get to work and your boss tells you to go home. They found someone new, or just plain don't like you, and they fire you on the spot. They can do that in many states because "right to work" really means employers have the right to fire you at any moment. Or even if you're not fired, it's a slow day, so he sends you home. Now you're short a day of pay, and your bills are stretched thin, so you can't make the car payment until the next paycheck. Now you're late and have penalty interest, and they possibly come to repo your car if you wait too long and they don't want to work with you. Or, you decide to take a payday loan on your next paycheck so you can have the money now rather than waiting two more weeks, so you pay your bills, but your payday loan was at obnoxious 25%+ and has to be paid back immediately at the next paycheck, which of course you don't have, so you sink into more debt. Which means your credit score dips lower, you have to pay even higher interest rates, now you don't even qualify for car loans and even rental units star

It can only come from people like him who will be putting more into the system than they receive back from UBI.

His entire $51 billion can only give the 150 million of Americans, who pay no income tax today, $340... Once. As you say, most of those working would be taxed extra to further comfort the idle.

bear the brunt of the UBI burden

Ergo, my reference to the gun point, which is how all taxes are collected...

So, of course, "UBI" and other attempts to forcibly "spread the wealth" to address the non-problem of "income inequality" are foolish and oppressive. But for the uber-rich like Zuckerberg to advance them without donating a sizeable chunk of their own wealth to the needy is, in addition to those two things, also hypocritical.

According to him, for example, 8 hours of work by a ditch-digger is equally valuable as 8 hours of an engineer or a pastry-chef. Equally valuable and therefore to be equally rewarded. As I said, wrong .

But equally valuable to the workers.

The reason was Capitalism's ability to produce wealth — more than any other regime — and enough of it to keep the workers and the farmers satisfied, to the dismay of the Marxists. It is this satisfaction they've been trying to erode with varying success ever since — with made-up "outrages" over non-issues like "gender equality"... See also Marxism 2.0.

Actually. it's the capitalists who are eroding away the wealth of the workers and farmers. Haven't you noticed the disappearance of the middle class and increasing income inequality over the last few decades?

it was because we began fixing things

Nope. It is because he was wrong. Fundamentally...

According to him, for example, 8 hours of work by a ditch-digger is equally valuable as 8 hours of an engineer or a pastry-chef. Equally valuable and therefore to be equally rewarded. As I said, wrong .

aka the progressive movement of the early 1900s that sought to correct the excesses of the gilded age.

The progressive movement of 1900 had little to do with what's known as "progressive" today. But if you are willing to defend, what those guys did, let's start with the Prohibition... :)

*boat gets fixed* Mi: See? The boat didn't sink. Therefore, Marx was wrong.

No. The reason was Capitalism's ability to produce wealth — more than any other regime — and enough of it to keep the workers and the farmers satisfied, to the dismay of the Marxists. It is this satisfaction they've been trying to erode with varying success ever since — with made-up "outrages" over non-issues like "gender equality"... See also Marxism 2.0.

That's why, for example, judges and jurors are sought to be impartial.

There you are! Justifying Trump's dismissing a judge as "biased" because he was of Mexican descent...Racist, racist, racist!

Of course, attacking a judge because of his ancestry is indeed, racist, and Trump's admissionsa actually showed his own realization of the bias and animus he had been demonstrating.

That is what Trump chose to do. He picked a deliberate course of racial antagonism to attack a judge in a lawsuit where it was immaterial. In the media. Nothing more. Remember, Trump University? It didn't get filed as a request for recusal in court, it was merely engaging in political aggrandizement. You don't get a judge to act in a case just because you go on CNN and pout like a crybaby.

You do know this, right? Trump was whining about a judge. He chose to do it with an included racist spin, so it only reflects on Trump. Not the judge. In the realm of public opinion. At least, until it becomes relevant to a legal matter. Now personally, I blame Trump's political advisers, who should have at least made Trump temper his remarks, but he still has a problem with running his mouth. Or twitter fingers, as the case may be. But he's not the only one with a problem with that in his administration. That sort of thing can reflect on you.

Which was why when somebody takes your statements, applies them to you, in a legal case, and submits them to court, well, then you have a judge rule on it.

Now if you want to see a judge who got in trouble because of their own actions, let's try one. That's one where a

They actively encouraged unregistered Democratic party fans to go sign up and vote in the Republican primaries for Trump, as they thought he was the easiest to beat.
Complete fucking losers ...

http://observer.com/2016/10/wikileaks-reveals-dnc-elevated-trump-to-help-clinton/
http://www.redstate.com/diary/creinstein/2016/06/25/12-million-democrats-voted-republican-primaries/

It depends if George Soros funds the protests or not.

George Soros (Hillarys primary financer) instructing Hillary on what policies to carry out as Secretary of State:

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/28972

https://i.sli.mg/64gA6D.png

Top contributors for Hillary Clinton page:

https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/contrib.php?cycle=2016&id=N00000019&type=f

Soros admits creating the European migrant crisis:

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/02/soros-admits-involvement-in-migrant-crisis-national-borders-are-the-obstacle/

Soros tells Europe to take in at least a MILLION refugees every year:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/616541/European-Union-Migrants-Refugees-George-Soros-Hungary-Viktor-Orban-Europe

Soros finances Handbooks to spur EU-bound immigration:

http://news.sky.com/story/1551853/sky-finds-handbook-for-eu-bound-migrants

Soros urges giving Ukraine $50 billion of aid to foil Russia:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-soros-idUSKBN0KH0NQ20150108

Hacked emails expose George Soros as Ukraine puppet-master:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-01/hacked-emails-expose-george-soros-ukraine-puppet-master

George Soros funds Ferguson Black Lives Matter protests:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/george-soros-funds-ferguson-protests-hopes-to-spur/?page=all

Soros funds paid "protestors" to spur civil unrest:

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Ferguson-Missouri-paid-protesters/2015/05/25/id/646587/

Soros funds MoveOn and Media Matters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Matters_for_America#Funding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoveOn.org#Financial_contributors

Soros funds Black Lives Matter:

http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2015/11/13/anti-american-left-funds-blacklivesmatter-now/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/george-soros-funds-ferguson-protests-hopes-to-spur/?page=all

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/19/hired-black-lives-matter-protesters-start-cutthech/

Globalists Unite: Hillary Clinton Running Mate Tim Kaine Dines with George Soros Son as Donald Trumps Rise Terrifies World Elite:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/12/globalists-unite-hillary-clinton-running-mate-tim-k

Speaking as someone who has spent thousands of dollars in legal assistance getting the appropriate visa in place allowing me to work in the US (but luckily am not from one of the countries in the executive order)... go fuck yourself. This isn't about American jobs, its about screwing over people you don't like and trying to win political points with morons.

People have spent years getting those visas. People may have even been living the in US for decades. This is not a moratorium on new visas, this is retroactively screwing people who have followed the process to get into the US legally.

I don't get it either.

The order does not affect people from other countries, it doesn't affect people from your country, and it specifically doesn't affect *you*.

It doesn't affect 87% of all Muslims, so it isn't a ban, and it affects the 10% Christian populations of those countries and other religions, so it isn't a religious thing.

And the DHS has further clarified the executive order by saying that it doesn't affect green-card holders.

Furthermore, many countries don't allow immigration at all, and many other countries have onerous requirements to immigrate, so the US is not unusual in that regard. Obama banned immigration from Cuba, and Carter banned immigration from Iran with no fanfare.

The "no fanfare" bit - was that because Obama and Carter were Democrat? Or was there some other difference(*) that no one has noticed?

Muslims in the US have come out in favor of extreme vetting, some Muslim *countries* have come out in favor of the ban, and the president's approval rating has jumped 5 points.

Add in the fact that this is a temporary ban, that the order specifically directs the departments to sort it out, and that this was a campaign promise... it looks less like a fascist order and more like a reasonable and prudent order(*).

I *honestly* don't see why anyone thinks that this is a big deal.

It rather looks suspiciously like an issue of convenience - something people can protest without actually caring about which side they're on.

Is it anything else?

Can someone explain how this is anything to get worked up over?

(*) And for the record, Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952:

"Whenever the president finds that the entry of aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, the president may, by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrant's or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate."

Obama used this same law at least six times between 2010 and 2014 against people in Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Crimea without even a whimper from the ACLU, ADL, John McCain, Gender Netural Graham, Chuck You Schumer, Hillary, Mark Zuckerberg, Hollywood elites, or the establishment globalist media.

They do allow hate speech and threats against other peoples lives. Twitters double standards on hate speech are well documented:

http://dailycaller.com/2011/01...
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/...
http://www.truthrevolt.org/new...
http://www.dailywire.com/news/...
http://www.redstate.com/diary/...

When you get to define hate speech as speech that disagree with than everything quickly becomes hate speech.

Disagreement is treason:
From silencing conservative opinions on Twitter and Reddit to assaults and threats against Trump supporters, this one fits the left like a glove

The GOP base was doing a great job of smacking down Trump critics doing the primaries. And ask Russell Moore who's been trying to shut him up & cut his Baptist funding.
Hint: It's not Hillary, the Dems, socialists or feminists
http://www.redstate.com/sweeti...

The cult of tradition:
The left achieves this by replacing old traditions with their own

So is it Merry Xmas or Io Saturnalia where you live?

Life is permanent warfare:
This sounds like the continuous revolution of the left

This sounds like you don't know what you're talking about. The GOP has been telling us for a long time to be afraid of you-name-it, Russians, Mexicans, gaytheists, black welfare recipients, Muslims, Cubans, the War On Christmas and anything French.

The obsession with a plot, possibly an international one:
Claims of patriarchy & "good old boys club" fit.

Really? More than the many murders supposedly committed by the Clintons, that the Rothschilds sank the Titanic or rule the world (or is that George Soros??), that the ominously named Agenda 21 strip America of its power and make it a vassal state of the UN - or should we be more afraid of Shariah Law replacing the Constitution?

The appeal to a frustrated middle class:
Given that many revolutionaries of the left come from the middle, they definitely fit.

And on the flip side there's rightwing populism and the racist supremacists cockroaches who rebranded themselves as the alt-right. Is that better?

It "never happened" because the memo was about MONEY. Who spent what, who authorized it, who approved the conferences and trips, etc.

Then why did the Trump transition team go all over the news in order to disavow the questionnaire and pretend that it was "unauthorized"?

Funny that of all the things that the Department of Energy spends money on, the one thing they want to know about is who spent money going to climate conferences. This from a guy who's charging the Secret Service millions just because his wife doesn't want to be anywhere near him.

http://www.redstate.com/jaycar...

I like the roof idea.

And yet, it is all vaporware.

The company receives billions of taxpayers' money and donates millions to the "pro-solar" politicians — to keep the subsidies coming in.

With such an arrangement, why bother with any product at all? Solarcity is yet to show profit. What makes it "attractive" to Tesla is that it is run by cousins of Elon Musk. I don't blame him for wanting to get in on the racket.

It may be possible to impeach a government official for violating the Oath of Office, which includes swearing to protect and defend the Constitution. Trump has made no secret of the violations he intends to commit, after taking office. For example, Constitution specifies that one of its purposes is to "promote the general Welfare" --which does not mean promoting only the welfare of the rich, and it is mostly the rich who desperately want all the data about Anthropogenic Global Warming to be ignored, so they can keep getting richer, while ocean levels rise and drown the home of millions of ordinary citizens.
Next, Trump claims to want to make America great again, but then he goes and starts appointing people who promote ignorance, not knowledge. Knowledge Is Power! --not ignorance. It is know-how that was one of the factors that made America great in the first place. To promote ignorance is to not-hardly be consistent with the Oath of Office, to defend the Constitution and consequently promote the general Welfare!
The last thing I'll mention is Trump's claim to oppose abortion --and that means enslaving pregnant women, when they don't want to stay pregnant, in violation of the 13th Amendment. Note that the Constitution requires a Census of ALL persons ("except Indians not taxed") every 10 years, and the Founding Fathers were right there in 1790 to specify the details of how the very first Census would be done. No unborn human has ever been counted in any Census! This means that the Founding Fathers did not consider the unborn to be persons, a Constitutional Precedent far predating the Roe v Wade decision. And modern scientific data about what we might call "generic personhood" indicates that dolphins are vastly more likely to qualify as persons, before any unborn human. Our unborn are mere-animal entities, nothing more than that, and to enslave women as life-support systems for mindless animals would be a heinous crime quite worthy of impeachment.

THE PRESIDENT: If I had the perfect answer to that, then I’d run for President. (Laughter.) Look, this takes us a little bit far afield, but I do think that it’s relevant to the scientific community, it’s relevant to our democracy, citizenship. We’re going to have to rebuild, within this Wild, Wild West of information flow, some sort of curating function that people agree to.

I use the analogy in politics -- it used to be there were three television stations and Walter Cronkite is on there and not everybody agreed, and there were always outliers who thought that it was all propaganda, and we didn’t really land on the Moon, and Elvis is still alive, and so forth. (Laughter.) But, generally, that was in the papers that you bought at the supermarket right as you were checking out. And generally, people trusted a basic body of information.

It wasn’t always as democratic as it should have been. And Zoe is exactly right that -- for example, on something like climate change, we’ve actually been doing some interesting initiatives where we’re essentially deputizing citizens with hand-held technologies to start recording information that then gets pooled -- they’re becoming scientists without getting the PhD. And we can do that in a lot of other fields as well.

But there has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard because they just don’t have any basis in anything that’s actually happening in the world.

And that’s hard to do, but I think it’s going to be necessary, it’s going to be possible. I think the answer is obviously not censorship, but it’s creating places where people can say, this is reliable and I’m still able to argue about -- safely -- about facts and what we should do about it while still -- not just making stuff up.

a) Sorry, let me clarify, THE FBI found that 110 emails contained classified information, including 8 that contained top secret, the highest level of classification, and two emails that were marked classified at the time they were sent. (This does not include several thousand emails which have now been marked classified but were not strictly marked classified at the time. This is the point of secured email systems for the Secretary of State; much of what they create may be classified, though not so marked at the time, and you want to protect that shit from spies.) You might want to pay attention to the news and maybe watch the FBI reporting on this to congress.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?...

check out 33:36 for some very straight facts on the case, extracted by a former federal prosecutor.

http://www.politifact.com/trut...

b) She was sent a subpoena by congress for all her private server emails which she used for work at the state department, after she failed to turn them over 2 years earlier when she left the state department, as required by the federal records act, which is supposed to take all of her correspondence and archive it for FOIA requests. The federal government has a 100% retention requirement for high ranking government officials. She worked for us and we have a right to review her non-classified work at any time. The 60 day retention policy is pure bullshit.

c) Legislators are accountable every 4 or 6 years (house and senate respectively). DO YOU HAVE A CLUE HOW OUR GOVERNMENT WORKS?? The out of power party is always obstructionist to a degree. If you have a president who is a leader who will compromise to get things done, that is how the government works. Everyone gets something they want, but no one gets everything that they want. Obama has not figured this out in 8 years, so he gets out his pen and his phone. It didn't matter for Obama's first 2 years in office as he had majorities in both the house and senate. He rubbed it in everyone's face "elections have consequences" and used his majorities to pass the ACA, a massive overreach of government power (the penalty for not buying a product from a private company wasn't a tax until the supreme court, then it sure as hell was).

d) We have anything but the two best candidates. Hillary is a liar and a law breaker, and literally every other candidate in the republican primary was better than Trump, he mainly got nominated by non-republicans (i.e. Democrats) seeking to fuck up the process:

http://www.redstate.com/diary/...

So no, the two major parties to not have the best candidates this time around, and if you think so you need to stop smoking whatever you have been smoking.

Just a quick list of scandals from which she has recovered (source: http://www.redstate.com/califo...):

• Watergate - Hillary was fired from the staff of the House Judiciary committee investigating the Nixon Watergate scandal in 1974 by her supervisor, Democrat Jerry Zeifman, because she was a liar. Hillary "conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”
• Hillary’s ‘missing’ law firm billing records during the Watergate scandal. When the records mysteriously turned up in the White House in 1996, they showed Hillary met repeatedly with key figures in the scandal.”
• Whitewater.
• Travelgate - Hillary allegedly fired seven employees and gave the positions to her Arkansas friends in a scheme to award a White House airline contract to a Clinton friend.
• Filegate - The Clintons illegally obtained FBI files on political adversaries.
• Selling access to the Lincoln Bedroom -- a fundraising scandal, which NBC's Jim Miklaszewski described as the most expensive bed and breakfast in North America. Some of the 958 visitors who slept at the White House during Clinton's first term. Steve Jobs paid $150,000, and Steven Spielberg paid $200,000.
• Cattle Futures Scandal.
• The Clintons' speaking fees.
• Benghazi
• Emailgate
• Selling Access to the Secretary of State -- the Clinton Foundation's pay for scandal.
• Faintgate

Just a quick list of scandals from which she has recovered (source: http://www.redstate.com/califo...):

• Watergate - Hillary was fired from the staff of the House Judiciary committee investigating the Nixon Watergate scandal in 1974 by her supervisor, Democrat Jerry Zeifman, because she was a liar. Hillary "conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”
• Hillary’s ‘missing’ law firm billing records during the Watergate scandal. When the records mysteriously turned up in the White House in 1996, they showed Hillary met repeatedly with key figures in the scandal.”
• Whitewater.
• Travelgate - Hillary allegedly fired seven employees and gave the positions to her Arkansas friends in a scheme to award a White House airline contract to a Clinton friend.
• Filegate - The Clintons illegally obtained FBI files on political adversaries.
• Selling access to the Lincoln Bedroom -- a fundraising scandal, which NBC's Jim Miklaszewski described as the most expensive bed and breakfast in North America. Some of the 958 visitors who slept at the White House during Clinton's first term. Steve Jobs paid $150,000, and Steven Spielberg paid $200,000.
• Cattle Futures Scandal.
• The Clintons' speaking fees.
• Benghazi
• Emailgate
• Selling Access to the Secretary of State -- the Clinton Foundation's pay for scandal.
• Faintgate

Just a quick list of scandals from which she has recovered (source: http://www.redstate.com/califo...):

• Watergate - Hillary was fired from the staff of the House Judiciary committee investigating the Nixon Watergate scandal in 1974 by her supervisor, Democrat Jerry Zeifman, because she was a liar. Hillary "conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”
• Hillary’s ‘missing’ law firm billing records during the Watergate scandal. When the records mysteriously turned up in the White House in 1996, they showed Hillary met repeatedly with key figures in the scandal.”
• Whitewater.
• Travelgate - Hillary allegedly fired seven employees and gave the positions to her Arkansas friends in a scheme to award a White House airline contract to a Clinton friend.
• Filegate - The Clintons illegally obtained FBI files on political adversaries.
• Selling access to the Lincoln Bedroom -- a fundraising scandal, which NBC's Jim Miklaszewski described as the most expensive bed and breakfast in North America. Some of the 958 visitors who slept at the White House during Clinton's first term. Steve Jobs paid $150,000, and Steven Spielberg paid $200,000.
• Cattle Futures Scandal.
• The Clintons' speaking fees.
• Benghazi
• Emailgate
• Selling Access to the Secretary of State -- the Clinton Foundation's pay for scandal.
• Faintgate

He "forgets" plenty of stuff when convenient.

http://www.redstate.com/absent...

These crimes were exposed by someone we don't like so much.

Best that the Hillary Haters (which is a family tradition in some cultures) could come up with is claiming violation of 18 U.S. Code  599.

Being the kind of people who don't need and don't care for actual facts as long as they think they fit their agenda - they are even quoting the wrong section.
18 U.S. Code  599 refers to CANDIDATES - not candidate's staff or candidate's party's staff.

But as they have such a hardon for Hillary, they are desperate to make something supposedly done by DNC automagically mean that it's an excuse for execution of Hillary.

What they SHOULD be quoting is section 600 - 18 U.S. Code  600.

Whoever, directly or indirectly, promises any employment, position, compensation, contract, appointment, or other benefit, provided for or made possible in whole or in part by any Act of Congress, or any special consideration in obtaining any such benefit, to any person as consideration, favor, or reward for any political activity or for the support of or opposition to any candidate or any political party in connection with any general or special election to any political office, or in connection with any primary election or political convention or caucus held to select candidates for any political office, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Only problem is... at best, that would get them some people in the DNC that no one has ever heard of - not Hillary.

In reality, IT WOULD NOT GET THEM ANYONE cause it is NOT a crime - emails they are quoting prove so.
Key word is PROMISE. I.e. Give assurance of future events.
"IF you do this for me, I WILL do this for you."

Emails are AT BEST describing the exact opposite of that.
It's people ASKING FOR names of people to put on lists of potential nominees. And even that is not a certain nomination. They are LITERALLY asking for names of people who would they like to be CONSIDERED.

Any folks who you'd like to be considered to be on the board of (for example) USPS, NEA, NEH. Basically anyone who has a niche interest and might like to serve on the board of one of these orgs.

Not making promises. Looking for loyalists who have ALREADY pledged their loyalty.
"You DID stuff for me, MAYBE you'll be considered."
That's NOT a promise. At best it is compensation for past service... maybe...
And you can't legislate against that cause then the government would have to fire every government employee and dismantle every government program with every election.
Cause the fact that the candidate would be signing budgets, which pay for paychecks, of cops and judges, who have maintained law and order during candidate's past life - could be construed as compensation for past services.

And in the end, they are not even asking people directly - THEY ARE ASKING FOR RECOMMENDATIONS FROM OTHER PEOPLE!
They are asking for references for possible consideration.
So not only is it not a promise - it is not even a promise of a promise.
Casinos and lotteries make more direct promises than that.

But hey... screw that. Did you know that Hillary has a

There's a difference between "he claimed" and facts. Let's look at actual facts:

http://www.redstate.com/streif...

Gary Johnson is at 12% in national polls, this is across all parties. It is quite a rise for him, in the last elections when he ran as a Libertarian he barely registered 1% (1.2 million votes). 12% is 12 times better, 1200% better since the last time. He is a viable candidate in these elections, he is on the ballots of all 50 States.

Unfortunately, as he is FBI director and NOT an AG, he himself cannot bring charges, it requires the AG office to bring charges.

Unfortunately, Lynch is a corrupt person as well:

http://www.redstate.com/califo...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/30/...

I can't imagine what made her think it was ok to do that, she should know better, and it makes the whole dropping the investigation look incredibly corrupt.

The biggest problem the republicans have with trump is that he is too left for them in some points.

The biggest problem Republicans have with Trump is that he's a blathering idiot. "Article 12" of the Constitution? Really?

http://www.redstate.com/brando...

That's from a conservative Republican website, by the way.

So it's the same problem they had with Dubyah, but that they didn't want to admit at the time eh?

The biggest problem the republicans have with trump is that he is too left for them in some points.

The biggest problem Republicans have with Trump is that he's a blathering idiot. "Article 12" of the Constitution? Really?

http://www.redstate.com/brando...

That's from a conservative Republican website, by the way.

I still think she will eeek out a win but you do know that she is polling 2 points behind Trump nationally right?

No, she's not polling behind Trump nationally.

http://www.redstate.com/upload...

Remember, Rasmussen was the outfit that predicted McCain and Romney landslides. And that was before they got rid of Scott Rasmussen. Now they're just trolls for hire.

I cannot attest for the accuracy as I didn't look into any of the sources:

http://www.redstate.com/aarong...
https://www.commentarymagazine...
http://lwv.org/blog/georgia-ex... (indicates it was people listed in the wrong district/going to the wrong district)
https://www.truthorfiction.com... (some claims true, most false, but the true ones are very interesting)

of course they are:

"the terrorist in chief is already bringing him to the white house. after that he'll introduce him to his terrorist buddies"
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo...

"It's a PR conspiracy between the White House and the CAIR"
also note that while the article admits its a stupid incident on the public officials' parts, but the readers/commenters have already jumped to "CAIR/Obama put the kid up to it, and the town fell for the trap"
http://www.redstate.com/2015/0...

$200 million dollars for 224 low income family homes. I get that there are lots of construction costs other than just the houses, but that still seems like a pretty steep price per home.

Lucas already owns the land so that is purely construction cost, and therefore he must be building luxury housing for the poor. Nothing unusual about that. In fact, government Section 8 housing vouchers are capped at $2,200/month. So a low income apartment could rent for $2,200.00 tax payers contribution + renters contribution.

Lucas will recover some of it back in revenue from rents. At $200 million for 224 homes that is $892,857.00 per home. A low-income person can afford up to $2,200/month in rent. So $892,857.00 per apartment / $2,200 monthly rent / 12months per year = about 34 years. So he would be break-even on construction costs after 34 years. Of course that is a ball-park figure because some costs and some benefits (tax deductions) are excluded in that calculation.

The "blogger" who posted that Mr. Scalise talked to a white nationalist group got the "story" from the son of the Democrat who ran against Scalise in Louisiana. They had this "info" during the campaign but didn't run it because they knew it to be a lie. Their supposed source, whom they won't name, supposedly had a photo of Scalise at the event, but oops - it got accidentally deleted! So, conveniently, there is no evidence of their libelous claim.

The blogger posted this lie in order to paint the new Republican majority as racist because Scalise he was going to be the House Majority Whip. Scalise wasn't there to talk to a white supremacist group, but spoke earlier in the day to a neighborhood association. The person who organized the EURO conference just also happened to be president of the neighborhood association and used the conference availability to set up a meeting of his neighborhood's association.

In short, this is a left-wing hit piece backed by no evidence.

The "blogger" who posted that Mr. Scalise talked to a white nationalist group got the "story" from the son of the Democrat who ran against Scalise in Louisiana. They had this "info" during the campaign but didn't run it because they knew it to be a lie. Their supposed source, whom they won't name, supposedly had a photo of Scalise at the event, but oops - it got accidentally deleted! So, conveniently, there is no evidence of their libelous claim.

The blogger posted this lie in order to paint the new Republican majority as racist because Scalise he was going to be the House Majority Whip. Scalise wasn't there to talk to a white supremacist group, but spoke earlier in the day to a neighborhood association. The person who organized the EURO conference just also happened to be president of the neighborhood association and used the conference availability to set up a meeting of his neighborhood's association.

In short, this is a left-wing hit piece backed by no evidence.

The "blogger" who posted that Mr. Scalise talked to a white nationalist group got the "story" from the son of the Democrat who ran against Scalise in Louisiana. They had this "info" during the campaign but didn't run it because they knew it to be a lie. Their supposed source, whom they won't name, supposedly had a photo of Scalise at the event, but oops - it got accidentally deleted! So, conveniently, there is no evidence of their libelous claim.

The blogger posted this lie in order to paint the new Republican majority as racist because Scalise he was going to be the House Majority Whip. Scalise wasn't there to talk to a white supremacist group, but spoke earlier in the day to a neighborhood association. The person who organized the EURO conference just also happened to be president of the neighborhood association and used the conference availability to set up a meeting of his neighborhood's association.

In short, this is a left-wing hit piece backed by no evidence.

Which you can read about here. And his letter didn't come from a PAC, it came from the Democratic Party.

I've never gotten anything remotely like this letter from the Republican Party or a conservative PAC (and I probably get well over 200 begging direct-mail solicitations a year).

I don't see such intimidation tactics as paying off for them...

Oh, now I understand. You're reciting right-wing talking points.
http://www.redstate.com/2014/1...

No wonder you're incapable of an intelligent discussion.