Clinton would have encountered no resistance from the corrupt Deep State. An RP Congress would have made a big show of going after her with the usual results.
I think the job was made to order for the smart aggressive Cruz. He is thoroughly alienated from the corrupt bipartisan scofflaw ruling political class. Of course, Kucinich would be far more fun to watch in action. But I suppose we do have to have a GD lawyer in the job. Right??
Crooked systems attract crooks. “In recent years, despite thousands of bills introduced into Congress every year, only a small percentage (approximately 5%) become law. Of course, what matters for laws is quality not quantity. But why would legislators bother to introduce so many hopeless bills? What if they are not even designed to pass? What if they are instead designed to make money? The cold harsh reality in Washington is this: the very conditions that are so maddening for most Americans —gridlock, problems being ignored, hyper partisanship — are the very conditions that are most lucrative for the Permanent Political Class. Washington may not be working for citizens, but it's working quite well for members of the Permanent Political Class who profit handsomely.” EXTORTION, "How Politicians Extract Your money, BuyVotes, And Line Their Own Pockets, Peter Schweizer, HMO, NY, NY, 2013, p. 7,8. The RP healthcare bill is a classic example of a donor milker.
NSA/CIA have a digital record of every communication of every American that is electronic or within range of a microphone or cam. I think it is fair to assume they have some serious dirt on our hapless AG. “Like the Patriot Act, the FISA Amendments Act gives the government very broad surveillance authority. And yet the Prism program appears to outstrip that authority. In particular, the government “may not intentionally acquire any communication as to which the sender and all intended recipients are known at the time of the acquisition to be located in the United States.” The government knows that it regularly obtains Americans’ protected communications. The Washington Post reported that Prism is designed to produce at least 51 percent confidence in a target’s “foreignness” — as John Oliver of “The Daily Show” put it, “a coin flip plus 1 percent.” By turning a blind eye to the fact that 49-plus percent of the communications might be purely among Americans, the N.S.A. has intentionally acquired information it is not allowed to have, even under the terrifyingly broad auspices of the FISA Amendments Act.” THE NEW YORK TIMES, The Criminal N.S.A., By JENNIFER STISA GRANICK and CHRISTOPHER JON SPRIGMAN, JUNE 27, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/opinion/the-criminal-nsa.html
What I want to see is some darn common sense! That would be nice for a change. I am sick and tired of agenda pushing thug politicians. I want someone who will use their sense to make our country a better place, and that goes especially for us who work for a living!
The topic is the emails that were leaked from the DNC. What do you think of those emails? Did you read them?
You sound positively gleeful. I suspect that it's not actually glee, but relief that the termite infestation won't get more coverage....
Parts of them. And yes, that is one of the reasons I keep arguing that we need a viable third party. And no, I don't think roses grow from Republican asses when it comes to questionable ethics in elections. Both these candidates were toxic.
Wouldn't it be cool if the Don nominated Chuck Schumer? He could get Cuomo to appoint a new replacement senator and take Chucky in for a couple months, and then fire him and Schumer's obstruction in the Senate would be at an end....
Isn't it obvious after reading some of these emails that the "powers that be" in the Dem party think they are above you "peasant lefties?"
I can agree about another viable party, but the two parties won't allow that to happen. We have to stop listening to the old rhetoric about wasting your vote on third parties. If more people didn't listen to that nonsense, then we might be able to get rid of the monopoly the two party system has on our government. I wanted to follow the libertarian party, but they always have candidates who are too out there. I'm more somewhere in the middle when it comes to regulations, economics, etc. The way things stand now, you have to be ALL in, and I can't do that.
I read a few of them in articles; I never supported Clinton; I will never vote for a democrat again as long Shultz is part of the DNC inner circle; I am not a democratic lefty though so it really is no great shock to me other than I am shocked at how many people on the left who like to crow about how intelligent they are compared to everybody else are burying their heads in the sand over this. I mean I already knew the star chamber was crooked as hell, but to actually have it unveiled for all the world to see and then ignore it while attacking the people who delivered to them the unwanted truth is quite disheartening. The democrats need to be cleansing themselves of this stuff, but instead are tripling down on it.
The DP is now very dirty. The clandestine police/spy agencies are swimming in dirt. If either party has a lick of sense left they would come together to broom the criminals out of the "intelligence community". “The National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation violated specific civil liberty protections during the Obama years by improperly searching and disseminating raw intelligence on Americans or failing to promptly delete unauthorized intercepts, according to newly declassified memos that provide some of the richest detail to date on the spy agencies’ ability to obey their own rules. The memos reviewed by The Hill were publicly released on July 11 through Freedom of Information Act litigation by the American Civil Liberties Union.” THE HILL, “Newly declassified memos detail extent of improper Obama-era NSA spying, BY JOHN SOLOMON - 07/25/17. http://thehill.com/policy/national-...memos-detail-extent-of-improper-obama-era-nsa
Many Democrats are trying to avoid answering for the disgraceful election rigging carried out by the DNC. All honest Democrats should be demanding that the DOJ investigate their crooked leaders.
I don't disagree but at the same time there is still a lot of behind the scenes back and forth that while unseemly, may not be illegal since Citizens United, that they would just as soon stay buried, like I will make this big donation to your PAC and you pass most of that money onto X, Y and Z and keep a little for yourself.
Correct. A political class will always try to craft laws to legalize bribery and extortion. “Raising campaign money is not just about winning elections and staying in power,… the Permanent Political Class has come up with all sorts of creative ways to transfer those funds into other pockets, which can be accessed to enhance their own wealth and lifestyle. And they have carved out convenient loopholes in the law that allow lawmakers to legally convert votes into cash.” EXTORTION, "How Politicians Extract Your money, BuyVotes, And Line Their Own Pockets, Peter Schweizer, HMO, NY, NY, 2013, p. 4.
So, was the point of this thread to illustrate that righties have abandoned reality completely in favor of conspiracy madness? If so, it has succeeded. So, why should anyone care?
"conspiracy madness" Lefties are the ones pushing the Russian government getting past our NSA, CIA, FBI and managing to hack all our voting systems. Yeah sorry but the I don't think the United States is that weak, but I guess the lefties think our government security budget is run on a shoe string? The E-mails actually exist like it or not so trying to pull the "conspiracy madness" card is truly a laugh at this point. It reminds me of a friend of mine that expected me to know every detail of this Russia hacking conspiracy when he didn't even read one single bloody E-mail. This nation is doomed not because people lack information but because they refuse to even look at it. It's one thing to look at information and decide it's not true it's truly something else to refuse to even look at it all and declare it false.
Anyone sitting in Trump's shoes would be wanting a new AG too, yourself included. Session's recusal undermined the entire DOJ, and the Presidency as well. And no, it was not Trump's fault that Sessions recused himself, but that of Session's own incompetency.