The Politics Thread

[JaneAusten]

Please don’t waste timr because at the end of the day they don’t care. McCain and Graham have made an issue out of the White House not enforcing the Russian Sanctions bills passed overwhelmingly and veto proof by both houses of congress and boom the foreign  sanctions office in the State Department gets eliminated. If these folks want to play dumb and act like folks don’t know what they are about let them. They are all the enablers and unAmericans who don’t seem to care a lick that a foreign entity influencesd our election. Oh that is until they thought Hillary contracted some dossier then the Russian involvement became a huge issue..

 

and Manafort has been dirty for years. I doubt despite the alleged outrage that anyone is DC is surprised. He caught up in corruption. He’s been corrupt for years. He’s also the one responsible for getting the RNC platform changed to be more Russian Ukraine and Russian Crimea friendly. Yet all of these things are just supposed to be a happy coincidence.

 

 

OT:

On a side note yes Shareblue is a highly partisan site, but it’s nice to see Fox News revenue plummet. Apparently due to advertisers dropping starting in mass with the O”Reilly scandal. You know the one caused by GOD according to O”Reilly. Remember the GOP the party of personal responsibility that is unless you are an angry white male, then it’s everyone else’s fault.

 

https://shareblue.com/fox-news-revenues-plummet-as-trumps-pathetic-attempts-to-prop-it-up-fail-miserably/

Edited October 28, 2017 by JaneAusten

[DramatistDreamer]

As @JaneAusten eloquently said.

On that note...good night!

 

Edited October 28, 2017 by DramatistDreamer

[JaneAusten]

^^ And I’m still convinced it was done on behalf of Jeb Bush’s campaign primarily because he had the money. At some point that will come out also.

Edited October 28, 2017 by JaneAusten

[hsfolk]

did you also notice they stopped funding it once Trump got closer to the nomination and Hillary's campaign picked it up? 

[Jerry675]

means nothing idiot. its oppo research, which is common in every campaign d*psh*t

[hsfolk]

then why are y'all making a big deal about Don Jr and that Russian that visited Trump Tower?

[Jerry675]

define yall please

[marceline]

The Free Beacon funded the research and then abandoned it when it no longer served its purposes. (Think about that. The Republicans had information about Trump's ties to Russia and didn't care.) The Clinton campaign picked it up then the FBI picked it up and finally it landed with Mueller who, as we've seen tonight, is hard at work. 

 

The Trump trolls got played.

Edited October 28, 2017 by marceline

[Khan]

 

Yup.  I, for one, have always found it suspicious that the three states that experts said (before election night) Trump needed to win ended up being the three states that HELPED him win.  

 

At the end of the day, money talks, and everything else walks.  So if FNC's revenues are truly plummeting, then I would expect some major changes, both in the content of their "news" stories, and in the folks delivering them to us at home.  (Rupert Murdoch's sons have been itching for the chance to make FNC more CNN-like.  This might give them that chance.)

Edited October 28, 2017 by Khan

[marceline]

These folks have lost their damn minds. They have convinced themselves that she won. The Clinton Administration was in the 90s.

 

 

[DramatistDreamer]

[DramatistDreamer]

Whitefish claims that FEMA approved the contract for work on Puerto Rico's power grid. FEMA disagrees.

More shady dealings from this administration and their cronies.

 

FEMA Cites ‘Significant Concerns’ With Puerto Rico Power Contract 

[Juliajms]

So much corruption. 

 

Then this: Trump administration allowing a terrible pesticide to continue being used.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/28/opinion/sunday/chlorpyrifos-dow-environmental-protection-agency.html?smid=tw-share

[DramatistDreamer]

Apparently Roger Stone, a Trump backer and confidante, went into meltdown over the indictment on Twitter, verbally attacked a bunch of reporters et al and got his Twitter account permanently suspended as a result of his hurling slurs at people.

 

Roger Stone's Twitter account has been suspended after Trump-Russia meltdown

 

 

[Khan]

Roger Stone's Twitter account was suspended?  Good.