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- BonSeff1
Small Company With Connections to Trump Administration Wins $300 Million Puerto Rico Recovery Contract
Whitefish Energy, which at the time of the Hurricane Maria’s landfall had only two full-time employees, now has by far the largest contract of any company involved in Puerto Rico’s recovery, and, according to reporting from the Daily Beast, is primarily financed by a firm run by a major Trump donor who has connections to several members of his administration.
- Ramanisky26
- glorious! the thumbs up makes this perfect.capn_ron
- someone toss russian flags + drumf banner? haha!jaylarson
- god i love my citizens. wont take shit from this fake president!CygnusZero4
- leftover flags from Uranium One and DNC Russia dossieromg
- ^ back to your cave trollRamanisky2
- mathinc9
Jeff Flake (US Senator AZ) just bowed out of the 2018 race with a scorcher of a speech. Gettin' spicy!!
- He's a Snowflakeomg
- He and Corker should stay and draft articles of impeachment.allthethings
- ^time to head back to the basement
troll, you're off the clock.Ramanisky2 - Cool, but that would have been great months ago. Hopefully more follow suit... but then again these guys are leaving office and making way to nationalists.sofakingback
- Wild guess who's got a book coming out soon...IRNlun6
- He's been critical, he's one of the Never Trumpers. And he does have a book that came out a couple months ago. https://www.amazon.c…mathinc
- He also wasn't expected to win re-election. But I hope he goes the Corker route and spends the next year lobing grenades at the dumb ape.mathinc
- Ah, his book is out! I'm sure sales are up.IRNlun6
- ^ his arguments are valid but you decide to focus on a trivial matter?dorf
- ^ exactly. "Country is going to shit... but wait, is this dude hyping book sales? Oh hell no!!!! This is America! The greatest country in the world!!!!"sofakingback
- Yeah, I see a politicians motives to be more likely financial than noble. Shocking.IRNlun6
- Q: How often Flake votes in line with Trump's position?
A: 89.8%
https://projects.fiv…robotron3k - *insert sad trombone hererobotron3k
- lol, robo.Gnash
- allthethings1
- 911!
Terrorism!
Y2k!
SARS!jaylarson - SEARSsarahfailin
- Get used to it because if FBI and Justice department have what they claim, this won't be going away anytime soon.IRNlun6
- House Republicans launched the probe.
Meanwhile, their own kind was in bed with Russia. Fucking idiots. No one is claiming they 'have' anythingkona - The claim is that the FBI has 'gathered substantial evidence'. Justice department investigating for years.IRNlun6
- lol. just like mexico is going to pay for the wall.kona
- total bullshit and will never go anywhere.kona
- the drug dealers of Mexico will pay for the wallomg
- ^ time to head back to the basement
troll, you're off the clock.Ramanisky2 - mexico won't pay for it. so omg now says mexico's drug dealers will pay for it. lol.dorf
- Yep. And we already have $14 Billion in cash, which is enough to cover the expenses for the wall. Thanks to Ted Cruzomg
- Or I should say, thanks to El Chapo.omg
- cruz's bill has only been introduced. you better reconsider who's actually going to pay for it.dorf
- lol omg, what the fuck are you talking about? if anyone pays for it (which they won't), it'll be the american working people because Trump is an asshole like yomonospaced
- We should be able to reuse money confiscated by drug cartels in order to fight back against them.omg
- If we can use $14 Billion confiscated from El Chapo, we could easily update the current border to make it harder to traffic crime on south border.omg
- We just need an okay from congress. Either way Mexico will pay for the Wall.omg
- please provide a link to backup any of what you just said, thank youmonospaced
- www.google.comomg
- yup, just a troll, got itmonospaced
- 911!
- IRNlun6-5
Clinton campaign, DNC paid for research that led to Russia dossier
- emails tho
*room on firesofakingback - Hey! look everyone! look over here,
guise!!! .. look!!! ... Hillary .... HILLARY!!!!!!!Ramanisky2 - Hard to avoid when the more they dig the more they find Clintons.IRNlun6
- the more the basement dwelling internet cyber sleuths keep digging the more they find hillary.dorf
- Meanwhile the trump team was meeting with them.monospaced
- Meanwhile Trump was paying hookers to piss on a bedGuyFawkes
- WashingtonPost writing this, and not as an opt-ed, gives this story a bit more weight and credibility. You can still hate Trump...IRNlun6
- Hehehe hahaha hohoho lolllz pfft... oh man my side is hurting from laughing so much.robotron3k
- Now it's real news guise!!!!!! This time only tho!sofakingback
- And why is this a problem? Good on them...BusterBoy
- I don't even get why this is a story. This was known at the beginning of the year. https://www.nytimes.…mathinc
- Jeb Bush's contracts Fusion GPS research (loses primary) > Clinton camp continues research (loses) <-- known in Janmathinc
- emails tho
- Gnash0
- ...almost 1000 UK citizens joined ISIS?!robotron3k
- lol at brits joining isis because "they don't feel welcome" in UK -- nothing to do the supporting "ISIL's so-called hateful ideology". what a maroon.Gnash
- No wonder their crime rate jumped over 20%omg
- oh STFU you morons. Our crime rate has jumped 20% because of a decade of austerity. homeless everywhere now. Jesus - educate yourselves before you speak.fadein11
- and it's not 20%fadein11
- Just take a look at the results before you go making shit up. Idiots. https://www.ons.gov.…Morning_star
- the video has nothing to do with crime rate -- video deals solely with returning isis combatants. nothing about crime rates -- did you watch the video?Gnash
- it's about letting the isil fucktards back inGnash
- utopian1
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Is A Disgrace
It’s increasingly clear that Trump Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has the awful ethics and values of, let’s say, a Donald Trump.
As reported just today, Zinke has been and remains active in funneling money to scam political committees that rip off elderly donors by taking their money and then mostly keeping it for executive and consultant salaries.
As reported just yesterday, Zinke’s friend/neighbor’s two-person company somehow got a $300 million contract to repair Puerto Rico’s electrical infrastructure.
As Secretary, Zinke has used charter and military planes, including a charter plane owned by fossil fuel company executives from Las Vegas to his Montana hometown, and charters between Caribbean islands ― all on routes where commercial flights were available.
- I love it when Republicans do these tough guy photoshoots. They're homophobic as fuck, yet somehow don't realize how gay they look.garbage
- < This screams "Do me, Clancy!"garbage
- I have a cousin who gets all dolled up for country concerts. He wears jeweled shirts with feathers on them, and then has the audacity to gripe about "fags".garbage
- utopian0
RYAN ZINKE’S NEIGHBOR LANDS $300 MILLION CONTRACT TO FIX PUERTO RICO’S POWER GRID
- dorf1
Bartiromo says, “You see the job creation, as well this year,” to which Trump replies, “It’s been fantastic.” In reality, job creation this year — while okay — has been somewhat slower than job creation in 2016 or 2015.
He also gets numbers wrong, like when he says, “If we pick up one point on GDP that’s $2.5 trillion if you think of.” The right number would be $185 billion, so Trump missed the mark by a couple of trillion bucks — which is a lot of money even for a rich guy.
Trump also brags of last quarter’s 3.2 percent GDP growth that “we haven’t been there in a long time; it’s been a long time.” In fact, we had a stronger growth quarters in Q1 of 2015, Q3 of 2014, Q2 of 2014, Q4 of 2013, and Q3 of 2013. There’s nothing particularly unusual about it, in other words.
Trump, however, compounds his vague misstatement with some extra detail, saying, “As you know, the previous administration didn’t hit it for the year for eight years,” which isn’t remotely true, before reiterating, “In eight years it didn’t hit it at all.”
He says the trade deficit with Mexico is “almost $70 billion a year” when the right number is $55 billion, and that “there is hardly a country” with which the United States runs a trade surplus. “I can name two,” Trump concedes. The Census Bureau, however, has a full top 10 list, starting with Hong Kong, the Netherlands, and Belgium but also featuring Australia, Brazil, Egypt, and the United Kingdom.
Trump claims to “have made more progress against ISIS in the last nine months than in the last eight years,” when ISIS is only about four or five years old.
- if it's so great, and economy is great, then why give the corporations a swampy tax break? they clearly don't need itmonospaced
- Ramanisky22
Filling the Swamp ......
The Senate voted Tuesday night to kill a controversial rule that would have allowed Americans to file class-action suits against banks instead of being forced in many cases into private arbitration.
- allthethings0
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a…
Under Trump, Made in America Is Losing Out to Russian Steel
An oligarch-owned steel company is winning pipeline contracts, and foreign steel imports are up 24 percent this year.
- Ramanisky24
This exchange here ... JFC!!!
- first, mr carson ... sit up straight.
second, mr carson ... you are a clueless sack of shit.Bluejam - Carson has no place in government, just like DeVos, Tillerson, Trump, Zeinke, Pruitt, Mnuchin...mg33
- what mg33 saidmonospaced
- is this in Portugal?oey
- Liberals want their free shite all for free...robotron3k
- ^ get back in the basement troll.Ramanisky2
- "Wah liberals" Shut the fuck up you boring, stupid piece of shit. This is indefensible.garbage
- I have no idea why you get off on convincing us of your complete and utter idiocy.garbage
- impressive sentence structure robo-dingleberry.dorf
- what an asshole, and btw robo, it's not just liberals who require housing assistancemonospaced
- Al Green says he's concerned about unemployment for black U.S. citizens, but restricts border security, and increase rewards for illegals.omg
- ^ get back in the cave troll.Ramanisky2
- omg dropping science. If science was 40kg of human shit and the only way a human could defecate was through their mouth.face_melter
- lol face_melterRamanisky2
- I like to picture a world where omg is right, and the scary illegal brown people are actually looming in the shadows, but they only target him.garbage
- lol @ garbageRamanisky2
- first, mr carson ... sit up straight.
- yuekit0
Former President George H.W. Bush accused of sexual assault