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- BusterBoy5
I really want to punch Kellyanne Conway...figuratively speaking only of course. On CNN she's "slammed" Special Counsel 'Mr Mueller and his band of Democratic donors'.
This fucken cow fails to realise that her beloved orange sack of shit along with Scaramucci have over the years donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Clinton, Obama, Schumer, Emmanuel and Harry fucking Reid!!!
- I'd punch her literally, frankly.Continuity
- Given half a chance.Continuity
- dorfsman0
Take some time to have a read of this:
https://newrepublic.com/article/…
It details, amongst many other points of interest, Russian mobster Bogatin's connections with Trump, and the use of Trump real estate to launder money in the 80s.
- It pisses me off that this all this stuff is there but you get people like _me_ in the post below going "wwhaaa???"see_thru
- _me_0
can someone explain to me what Russia/Putin etc. actually did?
meddled in the election, colluded with the Trump team - what did they actually do ? hack votes? what ?
*sorry for being thick
- every gov't meddles in every other gov't elections. without exception. the USA is probably the worst abuser of their power in this realmGnash
- Not hack votes. They spread fake news all over social media about hillary, trying to sway peoples opinions of her.CygnusZero4
- Putin didnt want Trump to win, he wanted Hillary to lose because she has stood up to him over the years which pissed him off.CygnusZero4
- Russia also hacked servers and leaked DNC emails to also damage them, which probably swung people away from her who were undecided.CygnusZero4
- Always follow the money. Laundered money. Trump was bought, with Russian 'loans' to keep him business in return for influence on financial matters.monoboy
- After the crash, certain people and instigated reforms to curb tax evasion and money laundering. Lots of rich, influential people don't want this to happen.monoboy
- So they set about using 'bought' people to pull strings. You got Trump. We got Brexit. Same deal. It's about money laundering and tax evasion. Always is/was.monoboy
- And ALL of this could have been proven if the DNC would have let the Feds inspect their "secure" servers, but the didn't. Oh well, there's always 2028 electionsrobotron3k
- https://en.wikipedia…monoboy
- funny how no one mentions Wikileaks, and gives Russia all the credit.omg
- I'd like to see trump release taxes to prove he didn't receive their moneymonospaced
- Gnash1
and the shit show continues...
Turkish parliament’s education commission member says ‘no use in teaching math to students who don’t know jihad’
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com…“Jihad is an element in our religion; it is in our religion... The duty of the Education Ministry is to teach every concept deservedly, in a correct way. It is also our job to correct things that are wrongly perceived, seen or taught,” Yılmaz had announced at a press meeting in the Turkish capital Ankara.
Çamlı praised the ministry for including “jihad” in the curriculum.
“Our ministry made a very on-point decision. If prayers are the pillars of the religion, jihad is the tent. Without the pillars the tent is useless. There’s no use in teaching mathematics to a child who doesn’t know jihad,” Çamlı also said.
- another step towards turning into a third world countryGnash
- CygnusZero42
Lol look at Trumps twitter.
- deflect deflect deflect! don't look at kushner, don't reference my campaign speeches and promises ... look at Hillary!monospaced
- No officer, I do not have a dead body in the trunk. Dont look there. That's basically all Trump does every morning.CygnusZero4
- How has this guy not stroked out yet? He's in meltdown mode every morning.CygnusZero4
- maybe he has stroked out and WH staff is propping him up like Weekend at BerniesRamanisky2
- monoboy2
Oopsie, the kid is in deep...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-n…This entire family is held in place by laundered Russian money.
Money wired from place to place, no questions asked. Goes back decades. Expect them to plead ignorance once the trail gets exposed.
There'll be whistle blowers in IRS just gagging to get to the bottom of it all and stick one to the bankers.
Only a matter of time.
- You'd have to question, given the clear association with criminality, why anyone in the US would do business with these people.monoboy
- Unless they themselves are A) Corrupt as fuck or B) Stupid as fuck.monoboy
- Or... C) Both A and B.monoboy
- Neither. Russian commerce is desperate to get rid of it's 'criminal' reputation. Global business deals go some way to remedying this.Morning_star
- I think you'd be hard pressed to distinguish clean and dirty capital in the current market. Just look at the banks and Qatar. They are all complicit.monoboy
- If the Russians want to change public opinion, they'd have to put a democratic stop to Putin and his murdering cronies.monoboy
- And that includes the people Kushner is implicated with in this story.monoboy
- It's got nothing to do with Putin, it's more about the perception of legitimate international deals. Russian oligarchs are desperate to get their money out..Morning_star
- ...of the country and there are some very profitable rates up for grabs.Morning_star
- Can you explain why some the countries richest people can be traced back to his time in the St. Petersburg mayor's office?monoboy
- I'm not suggesting that there's no historical corruption. I'm suggesting that Russia is looking to spread its international business wings. High profile deals..Morning_star
- ...are one way to attract other deals.Morning_star
- Ramanisky23
and so Trump ponders about this cunt as new AG
- lolmoldero
- #DrainTheSewerRamanisky2
- "Only a matter of time" - monoboyrobotron3k
- This is almost as groovy as giving Clovis the USDA job. A man with no scientific background whatsoever apart from opening packets of Twinkies.face_melter
- allthethings1
http://www.newyorker.com/news/ne…
A Veteran ICE Agent, Disillusioned with the Trump Era, Speaks Out
In March, two months after President Trump took office, I received a text message from a veteran agent at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ice). I had been trying to find field agents willing to describe what life was like at the agency in the Trump era. This agent agreed to talk. Over the past four months, we have texted often and spoken on the phone several times. Some of our discussions have been about the specifics of new federal policies aimed at dramatically increasing the number of deportations. At other times, we’ve talked more broadly about how the culture at ice has shifted. In April, the agent texted me a screen shot of a page from the minutes of a recent meeting, during which a superior had said that it was “the most exciting time to be part of ice” in the agency’s history. The photo was sent without commentary—the agent just wanted someone on the outside to see it.
The agent, who has worked in federal immigration enforcement since the Clinton Administration, has been unsettled by the new order at ice. During the campaign, many rank-and-file agents publicly cheered Trump’s pledge to deport more immigrants, and, since Inauguration Day, the Administration has explicitly encouraged them to pursue the undocumented as aggressively as possible. “We’re going to get sued,” the agent told me at one point. “You have guys who are doing whatever they want in the field, going after whoever they want.” At first, the agent spoke to me on the condition that I not publish anything about our conversations. But that has changed. Increasingly angry about the direction in which ice is moving, the agent agreed last week to let me publish some of the details of our talks, as long as I didn’t include identifying information.
“We used to look at things through the totality of the circumstances when it came to a removal order—that’s out the window,” the agent told me the other day. “I don’t know that there’s that appreciation of the entire realm of what we’re doing. It’s not just the person we’re removing. It’s their entire family. People say, ‘Well, they put themselves in this position because they came illegally.’ I totally understand that. But you have to remember that our job is not to judge. The problem is that now there are lots of people who feel free to feel contempt.”
Like many ice employees, the agent was a critic of President Barack Obama, whose push to standardize enforcement practice and micromanage agents, particularly during his second term, was a source of frustration at the agency. Yet with Obama gone, and the era of micromanagement over, the agent sees long-standing standards being discarded and basic protocols questioned. “I have officers who are more likely now to push back,” the agent said. “I’d never have someone say, ‘Why do I have to call an interpreter? Why don’t they speak English?’ Now I get it frequently. I get this from people who are younger. That’s one group. And I also get it from people who are ethnocentric: ‘Our way is the right way—I shouldn’t have to speak in your language. This is America.’ ” It all adds up, the agent said, “to contempt that I’ve never seen so rampant towards the aliens.”ADVERTISEMENT
The agent’s decision to allow me to write about our conversations came after learning that ice was making a push, beginning this week, to arrest young undocumented immigrants who were part of a large wave of unaccompanied minors who crossed the border in recent years and who, until now, had been allowed to live in the U.S. Rather than detaining these young people, the government had placed them in the care of families around the country. Most of them are trying to lead new lives as American transplants, going to school and working. ice now plans to pursue those who have turned eighteen since crossing the border, and who, as a result, qualify for detention as legal adults. “I don’t see the point in it,” the agent said. “The plan is to take them back into custody, and then figure it out. I don’t understand it. We’re doing it because we can, and it bothers the hell out of me.”
The agent went on, “The whole idea is targeting kids. I know that technically they meet the legal definition of being adults. Fine. But if they were my kids travelling in a foreign country, I wouldn’t be O.K. with this. We’re not doing what we tell people we do. If you look next month, or at the end of this month, at the people in custody, it’s people who’ve been here for years. They’re supposed to be in high school.”
The agent was especially concerned about a new policy that allows ice to investigate cases of immigrants who may have paid smugglers to bring their children or relatives into the country. ice considers these family members guilty of placing children “directly in harm’s way,” as one spokeswoman recently put it, and the agency will hold them “accountable for their role in these conspiracies.” According to ice, these measures will help combat “a constant humanitarian threat,” but the agent said that rationale was just a pretext to increase arrests and eventually deport more people. “We seem to be targeting the most vulnerable people, not the worst.” The agent also believes that the policy will make it harder for the government to handle unaccompanied children who show up at the border. “You’re going to have kids stuck in detention because parents are too scared of being prosecuted to want to pick them up!” the agent said.
U.S. immigration courts are facing a backlog of half a million cases, with only a limited number of judges available to hear them and issue rulings. “We still have to make decisions based on a responsible use of the government’s resources—you can’t lock everybody up,” the agent said. “We’re putting more people into that overburdened system just because we can. There’s just this school of thought that, well, we can do what we want.”
Before this year, the agent had never spoken to the media. “I have a couple of colleagues that I can kind of talk to, but not many,” the agent said. “This has been a difficult year for many of us.” These people, not just at ice but also at other federal agencies tasked with enforcing the nation’s immigration laws, are “trying to figure out how to minimize the damage.” It isn’t clear what, exactly, they can do under the circumstances. “Immigration is a pendulum—it swings to the left sometimes, or it swings to the right,” the agent told me last week. “But there was a normal range. Now people are bringing their own opinions into work.” In the agent’s view, ice is a changed agency.
“I like predictability,” the agent said. “I like being able to go into work and have faith in my senior managers and the Administration, and to know that, regardless of their political views, at the end of the day they’re going to do something that’s appropriate. I don’t feel that way anymore.”Jonathan Blitzer is a contributing writer to newyorker.com. He has written for the magazine since 2014, and was a finalist for a 2016 Livingston Award.Read more »
- In other news, 10 die in sweltering truck in illegal immigrant-smuggling attempt in Texas.robotron3k
- unless they drove that truck through a wall, I don't see the point of your comment :)monospaced
- Ramanisky21
- that was very convincing.dorf
- I'm sold.Ramanisky2
- "I, Jared Kushner, didn't do anything wrong. Hillary did. Thank you."kona
- case closedGnash
- just a NothingburgerRamanisky2
- Wonder if daddy will bail him out of this particular shitpile.face_melter
- his daddy, a disbarred lawyer, ex-convict will bail him out?renderedred
- hey, at least he is honest, right? Trust him, he is honest. Really.capn_ron
- Trump Won Because He ‘Had a Better Message and Ran a Smarter Campaign’omg
- ask any Trump supporter what they think of Hillary, pedophilia, pizza or cooking, and that whole "smarter campaign" idea goes right out the windowmonospaced
- Pizzagate was the icing on Hillary's burn.omg
- case in point everyone ... omg who thinks pizza gate news is a "smart" campaignmonospaced
- it never was part of Trump's campaignomg
- utopian2
Trump lashes out at his 'beleaguered' attorney general and asks why he isn't investigating Clinton's emails and Russia connections
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/t…
#TrumpShitShow
- lol all trump and his little inbred toothless minions can do is deflect, while his presidency is a miserable failure. look at her, not meeee!!!! lmaoCygnusZero4
- https://pbs.twimg.co…omg
- weapon: 3M 1/2" double-sided tapeomg
- but hillary! seriously, HILLARY!capn_ron
- Kind of a smart move by the DNC to not name any new candidates. Let Trump talk about Hillary for 4 years lolololnb
- Ramanisky21
- That is sickening. How's about we roll out the coffins when his shitshow is implemented.BusterBoy
- omg-23
List your weapon on left
- I'll throw my girlfriend at herset
- The Downvote button is the first weapon to my left.fooler
- lol @fooler .. winnerRamanisky2
- Look at all those lovely downvotes, raining down like a golden shower from a Russian hooker in Trump's face.Continuity
- imagine the kind of time or sad boredom you'd need to keep coming back to a website where no-one likes you.inteliboy
- that's the definition of trolling no?monospaced
- omg puts work in - he's serious about his doombrain fuckery. When most folk are reading books or playing in the sun, he's on pol and reddit gettin' those pics.face_melter
- https://pbs.twimg.co…omg
- Ramanisky26
"For over 17 years Obamacare has wreaked havoc"
- tRumpWhat stupid stupid President
- Ramanisky21
lol
- those ppl in the bg, they look exactly like Faiyum mummy portraitsuan
- Ramanisky24
- Funniest comment on twitter
"Those eyebrows need to be repealed & replaced" .. LOLRamanisky2 - ahaha, apparently they already weremonospaced
- Awesome.BusterBoy
- LOLmoldero
- now it's a pre existing conditiontanksalot
- Funniest comment on twitter
