denstorebog Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 13 minutes ago, Pony Queen Jace said: Don't tease a bitch. What's the action? http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/23/donald-trump-signs-bloated-1-3-trillion-omnibus-bill-military-funding/#disqus_thread Top comment below an 'article' with 20k comments is Quote Oh he is right, his presidency just came to a screeching halt, he can GFH!!! All done with the Trump train, just got run over by it!!. Don't get too excited though, they always leave him and come back whenever he says something provocative, but it's still great to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 14 minutes ago, Zorral said: I heard that too. I also heard at one point, but only one, that he'd ALREADY signed it when he said he wasn't going to sign it. No matter how it went down though, that anyone was surprised that he said he wasn't going to sign it is what surprised me, considering how consistent this is with his standard operating procedure. It hasn't been that unusual for White House officials to end up with a gig in the media. But is this the first time that people from tv end up as White House officials? Can a President unsign a bill? I don't recall that ever coming up in a poli sci class and it's nothing I've ever thought about because why would anyone ever think about something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 25 minutes ago, denstorebog said: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/23/donald-trump-signs-bloated-1-3-trillion-omnibus-bill-military-funding/#disqus_thread Top comment below an 'article' with 20k comments is Don't get too excited though, they always leave him and come back whenever he says something provocative, but it's still great to watch. I was astonished the first time I went there to see how many comments they get on articles. I assume some are bots??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Mongoose Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 I don't get why someone who spent the first year of his term pointing at how great the stock market was doing would tank it by starting a trade war. It was pretty much the only thing that was going well for him. Maybe he shorted the market first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denstorebog Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 23 minutes ago, Fragile Bird said: I was astonished the first time I went there to see how many comments they get on articles. I assume some are bots??? Well, a couple are outright advertising bots and easy to spot, but not many. Breitbart currently has ~8 million unique visitors per month, so the numbers don't seem too far fetched. It probably has a lot to do with Breitbart's shout-and-leave culture, meaning a higher percentage of users will comment, but with something of very little value, compared to other websites. Also, Breitbart uses the popular Disqus commenting system which shares accounts across all websites using it. On the bright side, Breitbart has lost half its visitor count in 1 year, so ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 DIsqus is actually over run with bots lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereward Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Bolton is a loony, certainly, but does anyone really think Trump will be allowed to attack a Russian allied Iran? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shryke Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 1 hour ago, Slick Mongoose said: I don't get why someone who spent the first year of his term pointing at how great the stock market was doing would tank it by starting a trade war. It was pretty much the only thing that was going well for him. Maybe he shorted the market first? He's a moron. He loves protectionism and thinks trade wars are easy and fast to win, cause he's a moron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokisnow Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Can you all imagine how frothing angry the entire country would be, left and right and especially all the furious liberal media punditry, if this were Clinton’s administration and the stock market was down 11 percent? or hell for any other administration the media would just be shouting the number non stop “DOWN THREE THOUSAND POINTS” as they’d concern troll a correction into an epic disaster in the headlines. but having a bidness man in charge and suddenly those things that were always headlines no longer are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawkcabi Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 We all knew Trump was a clown,but just not how much of a scary clown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martell Spy Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Quote In India, Donald Trump has repeatedly chosen to partner with people who have close connections to “extreme and corrupt politicians,” as the Center for American Progress recently put it, and, in one case, with a far-right elected official himself. A months-long investigation of the Trump Organization’s business partners in India, conducted in collaboration with The Investigative Fund and reporters at the Indian daily newspaper The Hindu, uncovered a long history of lawsuits, police inquiries, and government investigations that contain evidence of potential bribery, fraud, intimidation, illegal land acquisition, tax evasion, and money laundering. Moreover, the Trump Organization’s ties to these partners leave it potentially vulnerable to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the 1977 law that prohibits U.S. companies or their business partners from bribing, or unduly influencing, foreign officials to advance a business deal. The Trump Organization and its partners in India declined to respond to repeated requests for comment on our findings. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote We shared our findings with legal experts researching the Trump Organization’s overseas deals, including Jessica Tillipman, who specializes in anti-corruption, compliance, and government procurement law at the George Washington University Law School. “The strongest evidence,” she said, “is that wherever the Trump Organization is doing business, particularly in developing countries with reputations for corruption, they seem to keep either failing to do adequate due diligence or look the other way.” Indeed, recent investigations into Trump-branded projects in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Panama have shown that the Trumps repeatedly partnered with businesses and real estate brokers with evidence of ties to criminal activity. Because no one from the Trump Organization has been willing to comment for this article, it remains unclear how much the Trumps knew about their Indian partners or sought to know about them. “Donald doesn’t do due diligence. He relies on his gut and whether he thinks you have good genes,” Abe Wallach, who worked at the Trump Organization from 1990 to 2002, told Bloomberg View in 2017. “It’s not very hard to get connected to Donald if you make it known that you have a lot of money and you want to do deals and you want to put his name on it.” Most of what can be publicly confirmed about Trump’s deals in India stems from his limited financial disclosures, which include far less detail than a tax return. First released by the Federal Election Commission in July 2015, these disclosures showed that the subsidiaries Trump created to do business in India were all incorporated through a third-party registration agent in Delaware—a state described by the Institute for Economic and Tax Policy as an “onshore tax haven” and a “magnet” for anonymous shell companies. Without these disclosures, required by law when he ran for office, there would be no paper trail linking any of Trump’s companies to ones in India paying him licensing fees. The opacity of Trump’s global business empire is mirrored by the lack of transparency among its licensees in India, all but one of which are unlisted companies, structured as private limited companies or limited liability partnerships with minimal reporting requirements. Each of the partner companies is linked, in turn, to dozens of unlisted subsidiaries, some spread across multiple countries. This complex structure makes it almost impossible to follow the flow of finances between the Trump Organization and its Indian partners, a particularly alarming scenario as the president and his family, having refused to divest from these companies, continue to profit from them. “Whether in India or other countries, it seems to give the impression that if you do favors for the Trump business, you get favors from the United States government,” Richard Painter, ethics lawyer for the White House in the George W. Bush administration, told me. “It’s a very risky situation.” Political Corruption and the Art of the Deal How Trump's business partnerships in India are creating conflicts of interest in the White House and corrupting the presidency https://newrepublic.com/article/147351/political-corruption-art-deal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 1 hour ago, lokisnow said: Can you all imagine how frothing angry the entire country would be, left and right and especially all the furious liberal media punditry, if this were Clinton’s administration and the stock market was down 11 percent? or hell for any other administration the media would just be shouting the number non stop “DOWN THREE THOUSAND POINTS” as they’d concern troll a correction into an epic disaster in the headlines. but having a bidness man in charge and suddenly those things that were always headlines no longer are. This is what drives me nuts. Imagine if this happened under Obama, what the reaction would have been? There is no actual policy goal for the masses of the right beyond 'fuck black people, brown people, women, the poor, and functional government'. It's the most debased political manifestation of greedy jack-off nihilism, where nothing matters except worshipping and glorifying the uber rich and advocating the destruction of anything not directly involved in that pursuit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martell Spy Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Quote Radical nationalists, such as Barry Goldwater and, in more recent years, Jesse Helms and Dick Cheney, share the neoconservative disdain for international institutions but have no real interest in democracy promotion. Rather, they advocate a raw assertion of American power for the sake of maintaining global hegemony. Neoconservatives are often scapegoated for the Iraq war, but in fact it was the result of an alliance between neocons and radical nationalists, who sidelined the prudential realists who were wary of the war. Bolton is a radical nationalist. Scarier Than a Neoconserative John Bolton, the new national security advisor, is a radical nationalist—and has the skills to make Trump's foreign policy fantasies a reality. https://newrepublic.com/article/147640/scarier-neoconserative-john-bolton-radical-nationalist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martell Spy Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Quote On top of a war-glorifying métier, Bolton chairs the Islamophobic myth-perpetuating Gatestone Institute, a nonprofit publisher founded by Sears Roebuck heiress Nina Rosenwald. Gatestone Institute has a reputation for propagating baseless myths about an imaginary Islamic takeover of the West. Some of the Bolton-chaired institute's articles include false claims about "no-go zones" in Europe established by blood-lusting Muslim immigrants and unverified claims about a nonexistent rape epidemic orchestrated by wayward Muslim men. Time and again, the fact-checking website Snopes had repeatedly debunked fake articles and videos by Gatestone Institute. Now the man who chairs the fear-mongering nonprofit will offer his expertise to Donald Trump after the president declared General H.R. McMaster would step down from his role as a national security adviser in Trump's administration. John Bolton Unabashedly Peddles Islamophobic Fake News There’s a reason why Bolton’s name invokes suspicion and concern. https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/john-bolton-unabashedly-peddles-islamophobic-fake-news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 3 hours ago, Hereward said: Bolton is a loony, certainly, but does anyone really think Trump will be allowed to attack a Russian allied Iran? Who's going to stop him? Mattis is the only sane check on Trump remaining. Trump is literally surrounding himself with Fox News staff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 It's so funny watching Republican talking heads saying "nothing to see here, move along", "these things happened a decade ago", "it's a private matter between husband and wife", "you have no proof", "he's denied it", "why are you ignoring all the fantastic stuff he's doing". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin of Ice Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 A pair of interesting stories, one about the present, one about the past that illustrates how far the Breitbart wing of the Republican Party is willing to go and how dirty they're willing to play. The power players and money behind Cambridge Analytica seems to be abandoning it and setting up another identical company with a different name. Quote Rebekah and Jennifer Mercer, daughters of hedge fund tycoon Robert Mercer, have just joined the board of a mysterious new company set up by executives at scandal-hit political research firm Cambridge Analytica. According to public filings at Britain's Companies House, Emerdata was incorporated in August 2017 and the Mercers were appointed to its board on March 16 this year. Cambridge Analytica's now-suspended chief executive, Alexander Nix, is also listed as a director, as is Julian Wheatland, chairman of Cambridge Analytica parent firm SCL Group. The filings show Wheatland set up Emerdata along with Cambridge Analytica's chief data officer, Alexander Tayler. Nix's role in Emerdata is unclear given he has been suspended from Cambridge Analytica. A spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. It isn't clear what Emerdata does, though the company is listed under "data processing, hosting, and related activities." It shares an address in Canary Wharf with Cambridge Analytica's parent, SCL Group. Another notable company director is Johnson Chun Shun Ko, the deputy chairman of Frontier Services Group. Frontier is a private security firm which mostly operates in Africa and is currently chaired by US businessman and prominent Trump supporter Erik Prince. Prince is best known for founding private military group Blackwater US and is the brother of US education secretary Betsy DeVos. Prince also donated to the Make America Number 1 PAC, a Mercer-funded group that supported Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Make America Number 1 paid Cambridge Analytica $1.5 million in 2015 and 2016. During undercover filming by Britain's Channel 4 News, CA executives revealed how Make America Number 1 was used to seed online attack ads against Hillary Clinton. The appointments indicate the strong ties between the Mercer family and Cambridge Analytica. Robert Mercer is the primary funder for Cambridge Analytica, and was also a major backer of Donald Trump's presidential campaign through the Make America Number 1 PAC. He's also the major funder behind controversial right-wing news site Breitbart. Breitbart's former executive chairman and former White House advisor, Steve Bannon, once sat on the board of Cambridge Analytica. As soon as you shine a light on these cockroaches, they scuttle away and try to hide somewhere else. The attorney for one of Roy Moore's accusers was offered $10,000 and other favors to disavow his client and say he didn't believe her, has recorded phone calls, text messages, and more as proof. Quote Days after a woman accused U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual impropriety, two Moore supporters approached her attorney with an unusual request. They asked lawyer Eddie Sexton to drop the woman as a client and say publicly that he did not believe her. The damaging statement would be given to Breitbart News, then run by former White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon. In exchange, Sexton said in recent interviews, the men offered to pay him $10,000 and promised to introduce him to Bannon and others in the nation’s capital. Parts of Sexton’s account are supported by recorded phone conversations, text messages and people in whom he confided at the time. The effort to undermine Leigh Corfman’s allegations — beginning on Nov. 13, a month before the election — shows how far some of Moore’s most fervent supporters were willing to go to salvage an Alabama campaign that many hoped would propel a nationwide populist movement and solidify Bannon’s image as a political kingmaker. In the phone conversations and texts, copies of which were obtained by The Washington Post, one of the men spoke of ties to Moore and Bannon while urging Sexton to help “cloud” the allegations, which included other women’s claims that Moore pursued them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s. “What they’re saying, all they want to do is cloud something,” Gary Lantrip, who attended at least one private fundraising event for Moore, said during a phone call recorded by Sexton. “They said if they cloud, like, two of them, then that’s all they need.” Lantrip also made references to money — at one point speaking haltingly about the “the ten [pause] dollars,” a shorthand for the $10,000 offer, Sexton said. “We got some chance to do something, make some quick little-bitty for you … and then, on down the line, we can go to D.C.,” Lantrip said during the recorded call. Sexton was initially reluctant to talk publicly about the alleged offer, because the men — Lantrip and Bert Davi, business partners in a small construction firm — are his clients in an unrelated court case, a dispute over a real estate venture. Sexton decided to speak publicly after repeated requests over months from Post reporters, who contacted him after obtaining one of the recordings. Sexton vouched for the authenticity and accuracy of the recordings and messages. In a statement, Moore said Thursday that Lantrip and Davi had attended rallies but that the campaign was not involved in any effort to pay Sexton. “I nor anyone else in the campaign offered anyone money to say something untrue, nor did I or anyone else authorize someone else to do such a thing,” he wrote. A spokesman added that, although Lantrip and Davi had met Moore, “they did not have any special access to Judge Moore, nor were they ever commissioned with any special tasks by the campaign team.” A spokeswoman said Bannon, who worked in the White House until August, could not be reached for comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jace, Extat Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 So what is it exactly the Breitbarts want? I mean besides the 4th Reich, what about this spending bill upsets them so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jace, Extat Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 1 hour ago, Triskele said: Why does the dog want to catch the car so badly? What would it do if it caught it? That is a stunningly appropriate explanation. There isn't an ounce of fat on that answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Mongoose Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 6 hours ago, larrytheimp said: Who's going to stop him? Mattis is the only sane check on Trump remaining. Trump is literally surrounding himself with Fox News staff. His Russian handler will tell him off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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