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Well, they got the rat in Congresss on tape. Devin Nunes maybe?

Prosecutors: Person 'connected to' Congress tried to influence Flynn's cooperation with Mueller

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/16/michael-flynn-mueller-report-1329656

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An unidentified person “connected to … Congress” allegedly tried to influence former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s willingness to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, according to a filing unsealed in federal court Thursday.

In a newly unredacted filing from prosecutors related to Flynn’s sentencing — originally submitted to a federal judge in December — Mueller’s team revealed that Flynn assisted Mueller’s investigation of efforts by President Donald Trump and his allies to thwart Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.


“The defendant informed the government of multiple instances, both before and after his guilty plea, where either he or his attorneys received communications from persons connected to the Administration or Congress that could’ve affected both his willingness to cooperate and the completeness of that cooperation,” according to the newly revealed portion of the filing. “The defendant even provided a voicemail recording of one such communication.”

 

 

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Yeah, everyone has to apologize to Todd Akin now. He is totally in the mainstream these days. He is going to known as the guy that made women carry their rapist's child because Jesus wanted it that way. 

 

Why the Anti-Abortion Movement Stopped Making Allowances for Rape and Incest

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/anti-abortion-movement-rape-incest-exceptions.html

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For some anti-abortion activists, Akin’s blunder was a wake-up call. To them, the problem wasn’t that Akin was wrong to suggest that anti-abortion policies didn’t need to include exceptions for women who had become pregnant by rape. It was that his explanation was medically nonsensical and distracting. “We’re going to re-look at how we endorse and train candidates,” the president of the Susan B. Anthony List, Marjorie Dannenfelser, said in a speech the day after the election. “From now on, they will not be sent in the field with our support without knowing how to actually discuss the issue with compassion and love, and to exploit the other candidate’s extremes.”

 

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Oh look, a psychopathic nazi is about to 'lead' ICE

Trump’s pick for ICE director: I can tell which migrant children will become gang members by looking into their eyes

I find it a nice touch this is the same fixation that Mengele had and went looking for in his human experimentation death camp victims. There is even a documented quote i forget that is almost exactly the same.

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Since environmentalists weren't even talking about this in 1980, one wonders if some people in the oil industry started seeding environmental groups with information to get the ball rolling, because the oil industry starting things off would have killed their stock value and they couldn't have that, but something needed to be done.

Unfortunately it might have taken too long to make real progress.

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Trump administration pressure on Iran strains Bolton-Pompeo relationship
The Secretary of State has bridled at the seasoned national security adviser's grip on the policy process, but is more in sync with the president they serve.

Rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran are also magnifying strains among President Donald Trump’s top foreign policy advisers: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/17/bolton-pompeo-trump-iran-1329833

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Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against the mullahs in Tehran has exacerbated fissures between the two men over the tight control Bolton has tried to exert over the national security decision-making process — and introduced new ones over the direction of U.S. policy.


Pompeo and his special representative for Iran, Brian Hook, have indicated that the administration’s goal in squeezing Iran is renewed negotiations with Iranian regime, according to two sources familiar with their thinking — something Trump has expressed a desire to do. But Bolton is a deep skeptic of the value of negotiating with adversaries who, before joining the White House, called publicly for regime change in Tehran.

While Pompeo has worked to carry out the president’s foreign policy directives, Bolton has done more to try to shape them — at times contradicting the president, as when he walked back Trump’s call for a rapid U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria.

 

 

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14 hours ago, lokisnow said:

so long as Pence is the first masturbator charged and jailed...

You sick bastard. How could you be so cruel? The man is reduced to using his tears as lube because of his shame. 

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On 5/15/2019 at 8:42 PM, lokisnow said:

Counter: Trump is Anti Family! Trump is making Immigration ANTI FAMILY!
that did not seem difficult to counter.

Not only anti-family, he's literally saying we need to bring immigrants over to:
 

 

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Additionally, these states that are making miscarriages felonies are the same states that disenfranchise people with a jail record.  I.e. another weapon for taking away the vote from women and African Americans.

 

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new Gulag Archipelago in the making - in the US.  Figure it'll only be a matter of time till the more able bodied sorts are loaned to prison factory's. One wonders if women convicted of having an abortion will be sent to these camps or others.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-prepares-to-release-central-american-migrants-across-the-entire-nation/ar-AABvRIH?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580&fbclid=IwAR2u6hlyd3hd-qMAjYZxUa6rwyA5zM4f0yokF2JXq_3d9FXXAUVdMpHMpSI

 

The Trump administration is preparing to send Central American migrants caught along the southern border to Border Patrol stations "across the entire nation," according to a senior Border Patrol official who confirmed the plans Friday.

With more than 4,500 people being caught each day crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, the agency has run out of room at its Border Patrol facilities in the four border states. The agency has started looking at its facilities around the country, which are mostly along the northern border with Canada and coastal states.

That means states from Oregon to North Dakota to Maine may begin receiving planeloads of migrant families in the weeks to come. On Tuesday, Customs and Border Protection sent its first plane full of migrants from Texas to San Diego. 

The official confirmed reports on Thursday that the Florida counties of Broward and Palm Beach are under consideration given the size and capabilities of Border Patrol stations in the South Florida region. But he did not say if the decision is final or when the flights would start.

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new Gulag Archipelago in the making - in the US

an appropriate term for it.  the US already has the largest carceral system in the world, both in absolute and per capita terms, and it is laden with crypto-political offenses.

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The following seems to go naturally with my personal, purely anecdotal experience of eavesdropping on young women talking with each other in the street.  One example, a perhaps 23-ish year old mixed race woman, talking with an Asian woman who seems the same age -- talking about Alabama's new abortion laws.  A second one, a perhaps 23-ish year old again woman, white, talking on her phone to a friend in another state, starting with, "Do you know what they did in Alabama?"

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"Does Anyone Actually Want Joe Biden For President?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/opinion/joe-biden-president.html?

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... polling is more reflective of name recognition than anything else; the two leading candidates for 2020, Mr. Biden and Bernie Sanders, are recognized by 98 percent of Democratic primary voters. This also makes early polls a poor barometer for electoral success. At this point in the lead-up to 2016, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker were the top contenders for the Republican nomination.

The case that people make for Mr. Biden’s electability is not that any one group of people is particularly excited by him, but that he stands the best chance of getting independents and perhaps even some moderate Republicans to cross over and vote Democratic; unenthusiastic lefties will nevertheless vote for him because this is an emergency and Donald Trump is so much worse. It’s Politics 101: The candidate closest to the median voter will scoop up the biggest share.

But getting elected is not about appealing to the bland median. It’s about appealing to the people who actually feel motivated to turn out and vote.

The Democratic Party of 2019 does not look much like Joe Biden. Women, African-American, Latino and Asian voters are all much more likely to say they support Democratic candidates than Republican ones. White voters, male voters and especially white male voters generally support Republicans.

Statistics on who votes Democratic also suggest that the Democratic Party is more diverse than the experts deciding who is electable.

Those assumptions about electability reflect entrenched biases more than political science, and have a dash of arrogance to boot. An electable candidate, the thinking goes, has to be authentic and broadly appealing. But authenticity itself is coded as white and male when it’s defined by white men.

This perpetual reading of the white working-class tea leaves (or beer hops?) only makes sense if those voters are actually more influential than all the others. In the Democratic Party, they’re not. Just under a third of white men without college degrees said they voted for a Democrat in the 2018 midterms. And Democrats don’t need anywhere near a majority of these men to win. Women vote in larger numbers than men; voters with college and post-graduate degrees turn out in larger shares than those without. These high-turnout groups are the same ones that are trending Democratic. If they're motivated to turn out to vote, a Democrat will wind up in the White House. . . .

 

 

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2 hours ago, sologdin said:

new Gulag Archipelago in the making - in the US

an appropriate term for it.  the US already has the largest carceral system in the world, both in absolute and per capita terms, and it is laden with crypto-political offenses.

Not to mention that US prisoners arenoften used as cheap/free labour that (essentially) can't be refused.

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