It appears that that “basket of deplorables” was a bit larger than Hillary Clinton expected. I was up to 4 am at Fox participating in the coverage of the election from New York. This was my fourth such presidential election as part a media team and it was fascinating to watch unfold at the campaign headquarters at Fox. History will judge the decisions of Democrats leaders in this election. As I have previously written, many in the Democratic National Committee and establishment (including allies in the media) did everything they could to engineer the election of Hillary Clinton. While they had an extremely popular candidate in Bernie Sanders as well as Vice President Joe Biden, they insisted on advancing Clinton despite her being deeply disliked and the ultimate symbol of the establishment that the public was rallying against. As the close race indicated, the selection of a Sanders or Biden might have produced a sweep of both the White House and the Senate for the Democrats. We will never know of course but what is clear is that Clinton was the least likely candidate to prevail in this environment. Democratic leaders lost possible control of both the Senate and the White House by forcing voters to vote for someone with record negatives. Voters were clear that they did not want Clinton, but the Democrats assumed that the “lesser of two evils” approach would again prevail. They were wrong. Many people voted for third party candidates and many people on the fence refused to pick the candidate most associated with the establishment and the status quo. I expect that history will judge the work of figures like Debbie Wasserman-Shultz and Donna Brazile harshly in the roles that they played and more generally in the failure of Democratic leaders to heed the clear demand from voters for a change in leadership. Hillary Clinton was a talented and historic nominee. However, she was also the very symbol of the establishment and heavily laden with the type of associations that the public was clearly reacting against.
The wins in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania shows precisely how reckless and cynical the DNC strategy proved to be. Clinton won only 18 states and the District of Columbia, though it did earn her 242 electoral votes. Now for the first time in decades, the Democrats have handed a Republican president both houses of Congress. They solved gridlock but not in the way that they had hoped.
I was astonished to see Clinton decline to speak to her supporters who had wait so loyally at their campaign headquarters. While she did concede over the telephone to Trump, I thought it was bad form not to come down to the headquarters and address the nation and her supporters. They worked incredibly hard and the loss was a terrible blow for them. They deserved better in my view and I felt truly sorry for both their disappointment and effective abandonment at that moment. Looking at the results coming into the headquarters, it was clear that no further “counting” would change the result as Clinton’s telephone call affirmed a short while later. It is the final obligation of a candidate in a presidential campaign to be with your supporters and show the nation that the transition of power would proceed, as it always has, in an orderly fashion. It was highly ironic given the well-founded criticism of the statement of Trump that he might not accept the results of the election — a view driven home by Chris Wallace (who was the gold standard for moderators in these election debates).
The greatest loser in this election was the mainstream media. As I previously discussed, I believe that Trump did bring much of the negative coverage on himself. However, I saw many journalists discard any semblance of neutrality in their coverage, as vividly shown in Wikileaks emails of coordination with the Clinton campaign. The priority for the media should be a serious reexamination of its coverage in this election.
In the end, the public wanted change and they got it. The fact is that many of the public has long felt that they no longer controlled their government and they were right. That is what makes this so revolutionary and transformative for American politics. Whatever a Trump Administration may hold, it will be shock to the system and that is precisely what tens of millions of Americans wanted.
“Rather than asking presidential candidates what they will do about X, Y, or Z, we should be asking where the president derives the constitutional authority to do X, Y, or Z. The president takes a solemn oath “to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” The Constitution the president is defending is the one ratified by the founding generation in 1787 and 1788. No amendment has increased executive power. Our presidential model should be John Tyler, who vetoed unconstitutional legislation because he took an oath to protect the Constitution, not Franklin Roosevelt, who said that if Congress would not act, he would—unconstitutionally, of course.
We should not seek a president who is “dictator in chief”; we need someone who understands the constitutional limits of executive authority.
This is not a popular opinion today, but if the founding generation considered executive authority to be the greatest bane to liberty, we should, too. After all, “our guy” who abuses power will eventually hand the office over to “their guy” who abuses power. This should strike fear into the heart of any American who loves liberty.”
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In your imagination the front cover page of any act,bill or other wise put forth in the House or Senate would have the following. ;
1. Title (Note The Title must reflect the contents and contents may not deviate from the title unless clearly marked as Omnibus or Pig Trough.
2. Explanatory Paragraph in essence the Mission Statement further refining the definition of what the bill or act is to accomplish.
3. Consitutional Authority which may not contravene rights granted and rights NOT granted. May not grant rights that contravene or do a way with existing rights.
4. Cost
5. Source of Funding
6. Sunset Provision
7. Those taking part in writing the contents and if outside assisetance is needed stating who and what they are expected to accomplish and by when noting any changes to the billw ill require a revote of both Houses.
8 Estimated time necessary to read the entire bill – as written if out of committee and up for final vote.
Accepted or rejected and date
A reminder that any changes such as the addition of additional regulations will automatically nullify the bill until such time as the changes have gone throuogh the same process.
9. Continuation of names of anyone who took part to any extent in writing the bill or act and theiir status.
Whatever else needs adding.
How could I have missed this one for Number. May or may not be put into action by execute decree while awaiting passage or rejection.
How about an anti-Orwellian naming provision, any bill name that is propaganda rather than an accurate description of the bills contents. This would make both the Patriot Act and the Affordable Care Act null and void.
Exactly! You nailed it.
“Your mother wears army boots !”
“Does not!”
“Does so!”
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“You spit in my milk!”
“Did not!”
“Did so!”
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This thread is degenerating into repetitious name-calling. Doesn’t anyone have any actual ideas? Or well-reasoned opinions?
Jay S.
There are some actual ideas here, and actual information exchanged.
When a troll with a lot of time on his hands and no integrity decides to flood this site with endless, lengthy comments and links from very questionable sources, then the legitimate exchanges can get lost in the shuffle.
Agreed. I myself am not known for reticence but I’m picking about one every ten and deleting the rest. I wonder if the operator of the site has a way of …..on the other hand it is true free speech and keeping some of the monkeys around remind us what could have been with out that demonstration of true grass roots self governing representative democracy votes the base of any good Constitutional Republic.
The troll reminds us how ugly they really are – lest we forget before time to do it to them again in two years and annually at a local level
This go round was everything the founders wished for when they provide ways and means of dealing with problems. That’s what I call a true living Constitution. 240 years and the oldest on the planet.
Viva La Contra Revolucion!
The Hillary lovers appear to whisked through the first stage of grief, that being denial, and are into anger. They’ll remain in the anger phase interminably.
Nick……One individual has moved on to “the trolling stage”, and “the serial lying” stage.
Then behaves like a martry when he’s called on it .
I may have exchanged comments with c.200 people over the past couple of years, and there is only one other individual who even approached the level of outright lying, filibustering, repetitiveness, and games playing.
At least that individual had the balls to use his own name.
“Martyr”…misspelled it above, I can proofread before posting on this device.
Has more to do with a rejection of Trumpism than it has to do with Hillary. She is not even in the picture any more and if i were her I would be relieved. Trump needs to at least try to unify this country.
swarthmoremom,
“Has more to do with a rejection of Trumpism than it has to do with Hillary.”
That is a truth that Trump supporters refuse to believe. It isn’t that we are despondent that Hillary lost. We are concerned about what a Trump presidency might do to our country.
As opposed to what we on our side KNOW what Hillary would have done to our country – A Constitutional Republic taken over by a socialist fascist autocracy.
We’ve had quite enough of warmed over leftovers of the failures of the Marxist Leninist philosophy much less some of it’s more odious followers with your endless wars and your willingness to be used as the Simon Legrees of the neo feudal new aristocracy.
We didn’t kill off near 60,000 in Vietnam or the hundreds of thousands in WWWI and WWII or the thirty thousand in Korea or those who died in the last sixteen years.All Wars of the Democrats and the Progressives.
True, we made the mistake of thinking we were serving our country only to find we were just cannon fodder evil fascism. The mistake of believing our teachers and our media except. They weren’t ours. .
Thus the counter revolution with Trump as a useful tool to both kill the destroy the wicked witch of the left and blow up the right wing OF the left and aren’t they running scared now.
I see RAND begging to keep his job and running from his cozy bed in progressive leftist land. But the words of Comrade Reid perfectly describing William Jefferson Clinton then changing the name by inference not fact brought the value of what happened to the top of the broth and isn’t it lovely stew.
Revenge and paybacks are a dish best served cold but hot or cold they are a dish best served and not left as scarecely footnoted menu in an unsused cookbook. Paybacks truly are a mother feather. Enjoy the taste.
Trump tweets that ‘professional protesters’ are being incited by the media
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/10/trump-tweet-professional-protesters-media/93624612/
Trump didn’t seem to think protests against the election winner were “unfair” when Obama was re-elected in 2012. He tried to incite protests in a tweet on that election night four years ago, tweeting, “We can’t let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!”
Darren, Great work. You have the patience of Job. I have ignored this troll, which is difficult, but consistently the best way to deal w/ them. However, the more trolls ones need stronger measures. This blog has been the most civil it’s been the past year or so. You have a lot of credit in that regard, but so do the MANY intellectually honest people commenting here.
Michael,
No, we’re supposed to vote on November 28th, remember–just like Trump told his supporters? ROFLMAO!
Just What Were Donald Trump’s Ties to the Mob?
I’ve spent years investigating, and here’s what’s known.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910
No other candidate for the White House this year has anything close to Trump’s record of repeated social and business dealings with mobsters, swindlers, and other crooks. Professor Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian, said the closest historical example would be President Warren G. Harding and Teapot Dome, a bribery and bid-rigging scandal in which the interior secretary went to prison. But even that has a key difference: Harding’s associates were corrupt but otherwise legitimate businessmen, not mobsters and drug dealers.
This is part of the Donald Trump story that few know. As Barrett wrote in his book, Trump didn’t just do business with mobbed-up concrete companies: he also probably met personally with Salerno at the townhouse of notorious New York fixer Roy Cohn, in a meeting recounted by a Cohn staffer who told Barrett she was present. This came at a time when other developers in New York were pleading with the FBI to free them of mob control of the concrete business.
From the public record and published accounts like that one, it’s possible to assemble a clear picture of what we do know. The picture shows that Trump’s career has benefited from a decades-long and largely successful effort to limit and deflect law enforcement investigations into his dealings with top mobsters, organized crime associates, labor fixers, corrupt union leaders, con artists and even a one-time drug trafficker whom Trump retained as the head of his personal helicopter service…
There were other irregularities in Trump’s first big construction project. In 1979, when Trump hired a demolition contractor to take down the Bonwit Teller department store to make way for Trump Tower, he hired as many as 200 non-union men to work alongside about 15 members of the House Wreckers Union Local 95. The non-union workers were mostly illegal Polish immigrants paid $4 to $6 per hour with no benefits, far below the union contract. At least some of them did not use power tools but sledgehammers, working 12 hours a day or more and often seven days a week. Known as the “Polish brigade,” many didn’t wear hard hats. Many slept on the construction site.
Normally the use of nonunion workers at a union job site would have guaranteed a picket line. Not at this site, however. Work proceeded because the Genovese family principally controlled the union; this was demonstrated by extensive testimony, documents and convictions in federal trials, as well as a later report by the New York State Organized Crime Task Force.
When the Polish workers and a union dissident sued for their pay and benefits, Trump denied any knowledge that illegal workers without hard hats were taking down Bonwit with sledgehammers. The trial, however, demonstrated otherwise: Testimony showed that Trump panicked when the nonunion Polish men threatened a work stoppage because they had not been paid. Trump turned to Daniel Sullivan, a labor fixer and FBI informant, who told him to fire the Polish workers…
Years? All that effort for nothing? And at this point does it really mean anything? LMAO. Don’t forget to vote next Tuesday.
The Making of Donald Trump, As Told by a Journalistic Nemesis
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston says his new book is “basically everything Donald Trump wants to make sure you do not know.”
http://billmoyers.com/story/making-donald-trump-told-journalistic-nemesis/
…At the Press Club event, Johnston raised repeated questions about Trump’s ties to Felix Sater, a Russian-born stock fraudster and admitted fellow traveller with the mob. Sater is now a defendant in a tax fraud case; papers unsealed earlier this month name Trump and two of his children as “material witnesses.”
He invited his audience to contrast the treatment Trump gave a convicted drug dealer who ran a company that operated Trump’s helicopter fleet with what he did to his infant great-nephew, gravely ill with an ailment that caused seizures.
For his troubled helicopter provider, Joey Weichselbaum, the real estate mogul provided a luxury apartment, continued employment and a testimonial to the court after the Weichselbaum’s indictment for drug trafficking, Johnston recounts in his book. But Trump was much less accommodating to the grandson of his late older brother after the baby’s parents challenged the will of his father, Fred Trump (which cut them out), in court. Trump removed the ailing child from the family’s medical insurance policy. “I can’t help that,” Johnston quotes Trump telling a New York Daily News reporter who asked why he cut off the infant’s health care coverage (a court later restored it).
Vindictiveness is a point of pride for Trump, Johnston said. “His personal motto is ‘get revenge,’” said the reporter, who devotes an entire chapter to Trump’s speechifying and writings on the subject. Describing how Trump fired a female employee who, citing ethical qualms, wouldn’t call a banker friend on his behalf, Johnston quotes Trump’s own account from his book, Think Big:
“She ended up losing her home. Her husband, who was only in it for the money, walked out on her and I was glad… I can’t stomach disloyalty…and now I go out of my way to make her life miserable.”…
Having covered Trump since he was the Atlantic City bureau chief for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Trump was trying to break into the casino business in the New Jersey beach town, “I have probably the largest Trump document collection in the world,” Johnston said. An expert on tax law who lectures on the subject at the Syracuse University, Johnston said he believes, “in all likelihood, Donald has paid no federal income taxes for years.” That’s based on some documents that have leaked out from various court cases, Trump’s lack of charitable giving to his own family foundation (which suggested no need for deductions), and a gaping tax loophole available to real estate developers.
A major headline grabber of the election campaign and you just now discovered it? Day late and 70 or so electoral votes short. The tax law he used was put in place by a Democratic Congress and signed into law by Bill Clinton whose own family foundation used it for the same purpose as did the newspaper that front paged the story. At this point what difference does it make. LMAO Time Warp Alert this idiot thinks the election is tomorrow. I thought only Obama campaigned after a win but after a lost. Is you crazeeeee? Joe Mama’s calling.
Review: Megan Kelly Tells Tales Out of Fox News in Her Memoir, ‘Settle for More’
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/books/review-megyn-kelly-tells-tales-out-of-fox-news-in-her-memoir-settle-for-more.html?_r=1
Then, the day before the first presidential debate, Mr. Trump was in a lather again, Ms. Kelly writes. He called Fox executives, saying he’d heard that her first question “was a very pointed question directed at him.” This disconcerted her, because it was true: It was about his history of using disparaging language about women.
She doesn’t speculate where the leak came from. (She reports. You decide.) But that’s another unambiguous takeaway from this book: Parts of Fox — or at the very least, Roger Ailes, the network’s chairman until July, when he was given the boot after several allegations of sexual harassment were made against him — seemed to be nakedly colluding with the Republican presidential nominee.
“Folks were starting to worry about Trump — his level of agitation did not match the circumstances,” Ms. Kelly writes. “Yes, it was his first debate. But this was bizarre behavior, especially for a man who wanted the nuclear codes.”
Her story becomes more byzantine. On the day of the debate, Ms. Kelly writes, she woke up feeling great. Then an overzealous, suspiciously enthusiastic driver picked her up to take her to the convention center. He insisted on getting her coffee, though she’d repeatedly declined his offer. Once it was in her hand, she drank it. And within 15 minutes, she was violently ill, vomiting so uncontrollably that it was unclear if she’d be able to go on and help moderate that evening. It was so bad that she kept a trash pail beneath her desk throughout the debate, just in case.
Ms. Kelly never says outright that someone tried to poison her. (A stomach bug was going around, she notes.) But the episode spooked her enough that she shared it later with Roger Ailes and a lawyer friend of his. Foul play? Again: She reports. You decide.
As we all know, Mr. Trump did unleash his beautiful Twitter account on Ms. Kelly after that debate, and it threatened to upend her life. He called her “overrated,” “angry,” “crazy” and “a bimbo”; he went on CNN with Don Lemon opposite her show’s time slot and said there was blood coming out of Ms. Kelly’s eyes, “blood coming out of her … whatever.” (My favorite response to this: Katie Couric wrote Ms. Kelly a note asking: “Are you okay? Do you need some Tampax?”)
The hectoring went on for weeks. “Every time Trump acted up,” Ms. Kelly writes, “it was like he flipped a switch, instantly causing a flood of intense nastiness.” Kelly’s voice mail box filled with invective and obscenities. People phoned in with death threats. Ms. Kelly’s young daughter asked her what a bimbo was…
I guess the voting showed who was the least believable. Just like one huge jury and Clinton was convicted. No matter how good or bad Trump the Wicked Witch is dead. Ding Dong!
I have a good friend whose disabled daughter asked her why she was crying yesterday morning. My friend wondered how she could explain to her daughter that we have a president who mocks people with disabilities, a man that could not care less for her or her rights.
The same way I had to explain to my daughter we had a potential President who made a career of enabling sex offenders and following up by victimizing women along with not supporting either one as an option. “Tell the truth and let her know her family is always the first to turn to. It doesn’t take a village it takes caring parenting with morals, values and standards. One of mine has cerebral palsy with a cleft palate – unrepairable except for closure but she’ll never speak nor be able to ask the question and certainly not have a parent who shys away from the answer. No matter how difficult.
Defense open to settlement in Trump University lawsuit
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-trump-university-lawsuit-trial-20161110-story.html
Autumn wrote: “edm – if you were not a Hilbot you could have voted for Stein or Johnson. And the Demoncrats barely adopted any of Bernie’s platform and refused to come out against the TPP. This served to unite Progressives with the Trumpeters.”
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I read about both and heard them speak in interviews. Neither impressed me. In addition, a vote for either of them would be like throwing my vote away. I did not want to see Trump become president of my country. My vote for Hillary was an anti-trump vote.
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Bernie Sanders praises the Democratic platform, which includes policies he long sought.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trailguide-updates-bernie-sanders-praises-the-democratic-1468338992-htmlstory.html
During his endorsement of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders celebrated the work of the Democratic platform committee, which agreed over the weekend to several policy planks that he had sought for months as a candidate.
“We produced, by far, the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party,” he said.
Which makes Bernie Sanders by far the n his friend most dangereous of the two. Hillary with her fould stench and open sores on view for all to see and be repelled was nothing and is nothing compared to the hidden disease carrier of infecting generation after generation with the ugliness of the most regressive system of enslavement known to man.
Even though his friend Svalberg who while correcting the hideous distortions and ridiculing the ease with which the sociaist nonsense still sucks in the unwary in the United States ini particular praises Sanders as one who understands why Sweden is NOT a socialist but a capitalist country.
You have finally done something worthwhile and given us our target and a continued reason for the utter destruction of the filth of progressivism.
Well done. But why? Why? Give someone enough rope they will surely hang themselves and with luck point at the real danger.
The counter revolution is far from over. There are still Republicans and Democrats fronting for the establishment neo-feudalist aristocracy in plenty to be excised and sterilized. No Mr. Trump. No reconciliation the enemy is still the enemy. Sound deguello.
Which leaves him by far, according to one of his friends, by far the more dangerous of the two. That’s it I’m getting some sleep.
edm – Bernie is screwed by Hillary and the DNC during the primaries. Then, thanks to Wikileaks, we find out they have something on him, which explains his not going after Hillary’s emails. Even after that, they have enough on Bernie to send him around the country speaking for Hillary. And yet, supposedly, you voted anti-Trump?
“I haven’t been around here all that long. I only began reading posts and leaving comments on this blog in the last couple of weeks.”
That statement is a complete lie.
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What is your proof? Don’t care to present it? Just making accusations is okay with you? What is my stature?
I am a political hack because I’m not a Trump supporter? Because I passionately believe he is the worst presidential candidate that I have seen in my lifetime? Trump never lied? Only Hillary? Do you believe Trump is morally superior to Hillary? Do you think a misogynist who has sexually assaulted a number of women is fit to serve as president? Do you feel comfortable that a racist and bigot will be our head of state?
If anyone is sanctimonious, it is you, Darren. You are castigating me for posting negative articles about Trump. Maybe some folks like you can’t handle the truth…and they can’t abide people who point it out to them.
You couldn’t lie straight in bed “edm”.
You were the one who claimed to be a newbie here to segue into a false pretense of who you are. Such actions are dishonorable for a participant within this forum of your capacity. You hoisted a red flag by lying to the participants of this website. So spare the rest of the commentators and visitors here your unsubstantiated questioning of their integrity. You’ve dishonored yourself and are a discredit to those of us here who have spent years building a readership and a market place for ideas. More is expected of us and for you to resort to baseness such as lying and misrepresentation you can understand certainly why in your case these malfeasances are decidedly more shameful. So if you want to engage in ignobility such as lying in a public arena, you are free to do so of course, just don’t get into a fit of rage when people no longer take you seriously or afford you any more credit than you have earned or deserve.
Ditto that DS. Lie with pigs get filthy. But as for Bimbo? It’s a brand of bread in Mexico recently expanding it’s operation from USM to USA. As for Cutesey Katie? At ten plus million who cares. No journalist just an actress. Saything thats put in front of her which is a fair description of all TV Anchor types
Darren,
More accusations from a contributor to this blog. I suppose you are attempting to silence me. I would say that you, sir, are the dishonorable one. A marketplace of ideas–just not for ideas that folks like you disapprove of. Not for people who voice opinions critical of a racist and bigoted man like Trump. You support a man who is a serial liar! Do you even know much about Trump’s past? Or is it that you just don’t care about his lack of character? Malfeasance? Why don’t you tell us why you support a man like Trump? What is it that you find admirable in the man? His misogyny? His racism? His bigotry? His ridiculing of a disabled reporter? His birtherism? His misuse of other business people and investors?
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“The Making of Donald Trump”: David Cay Johnston on Trump’s Ties to the Mob & Drug Traffickers
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/5/the_making_of_donald_trump_david
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: David, I wanted to ask you about this issue which we discussed previously with Wayne Barrett, as well, on the issue of Donald Trump’s relationship to the mob and his connections over the years to mobsters. And you’ve also looked into that, as well.
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Yes, and it’s not just the traditional Mafia families in New York. First of all, Donald Trump’s father had a business partner who was a mob guy. I’m sure Wayne talked about that. But Donald has done business with people with the Russian mob. He’s done business with con artists. The guy who supplied his helicopters and managed his personal helicopter, called the Ivana, from his first wife back then, was a major cocaine trafficker, who actually handled the drugs. And after he went to prison, Donald wrote a letter pleading for mercy for him, so he got 18 months as the head of the ring. The little fish who delivered the drugs, they got 20 years. Donald continued to do business with him after he was indicted. Donald has done business all his life with mobsters and criminals, because it’s a way to make money.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about Joseph Weichselbaum?
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Yes, that’s the guy. Joseph Weichselbaum is this mob associate. He once—he used to do Cigarette boat racing in Miami, and he once was—came in third, right behind Charles Keating, the infamous financier who ripped off people for a billion dollars. And Weichselbaum provided helicopters to the Trump Organization, even though there were better-capitalized, better-run companies. Donald rented an apartment to Weichselbaum and his brother under very unusual circumstances.
When Weichselbaum was indicted, it was for a drug operation that went from Miami to Ohio. When he agreed to plead guilty, the case was mysteriously moved to New Jersey. And who did it come before? Federal Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, Donald’s older sister. No one knows how this happened. Now, she removed herself from the case, but imagine, Amy, that you, or one of the listeners, you’re the chief judge, and the judge comes to you and says, “Oh, I can’t handle this case, because I fly in this drug trafficker’s helicopters. My husband flies in them every week. My children have flown in this drug trafficker’s helicopters.” You know, it helps explain how this guy got a light sentence.
And the question we have to ask is: Why did Donald Trump need to write that letter, which could have cost him his casino license? Because he needed this guy to be his friend and not his enemy. What was going on that Donald Trump needed a drug trafficker to be his friend and not his enemy? And that’s a question no one in the news media has been asking.
AMY GOODMAN: You got a call from Donald Trump over this?
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: I got a call related to this, yes. I wrote a piece for Politico magazine back in April about all of Donald Trump’s connections. And Donald finally called me. He’s had my home number for years. He’s called me at home in the past. And he said to me, “Well, you know, you’ve written a lot of things I like. But if I don’t like what you’re writing, I’m going to sue you.” I said, “Well, Donald, you’re a public figure.” In America, that means that he would have to prove that I deliberately, knowingly told a lie about him. And he said, “I know I’m a public figure, but I’ll sue you anyway.” And it’s one of the reasons the news coverage of him has been so soft. He has threatened to sue everybody. That Politico piece that I wrote, I’ve been an investigative reporter for almost 50 years; I’ve never been lawyered like I was for that piece. And it didn’t have anything that hadn’t been published before. He has intimidated the news organizations, and they’re not willing to talk about that.
Continuing a long line of American Politics JFK’s father was rum runner or booze smuggler and therefore had to have connections with criminal elements . New York City itself is famous for the connection between government and criminals as is Detroit, Chicago and others. Most major US cities.
Also the union and organized crime connections is nothing new. On the left a prime individual is George Soros. The drug trade and the cartels via at least one recent Attorney General is suspect. So much so that Samuel Clemens famous quote marked Congress as the only true American criminal class.
It would be difficult to imaine, incredulous to think of running a business without having a connection with the criminal element be it thorugh politicians, unions, or civil servants.
In the end the political scene especially since progressives moved in had plenty of criminal tar in the brushes of their existence.
So having brought it up you get your share so let’s not forget the Clintons. Pick a scab and you open up a lot of memories. Unintended consequences of not thinking it through or ‘engaging brain before putting mouth in gear.’
Michael,
i know all about Joe Kennedy. He was corrupt as they come. Are you suggesting that you find it acceptable that Donald Trump has/has had mob connections because Joe Kennedy was associated with mobsters? Why get so upset about the Clinton’s corruption–but not about Trump’s? Seems a bit hypocritical.
When you put words in someone’s mouth without checking you end up look like a bigger idiot.
The whole mission, the exercise was to make sure above all else Clinton didn’t get near the White House and having it go 300 plus electoral is good enough for me. What you thought we were kidding about that as a prime objective?
Trump if you had paid attention instead of spouting frijoles was the a. the only choice other than None of the Above and b. a very very useful tool. Still is. Never expected the response though. I have to admit getting the Oval Office the House the Senate and now the Court was the lights on the candle on the frosting on the cake.
Beyond that you thought it was about two people but the real contest was Constitutional Republic versus Socialist Progressive Autocracy and a lot of pent up anger. Your stage, your play, your script…we just rewrote the finish.
The whole thing was a counter revolution to put it in military terms. Hell we published it openly often enough. I hope they are all like you fighting last years war while we’re planning two battles ahead.
Not to mention we got a two party system back if the Rino’s know what’s good for them. Not done with that bunch either.
I still find it hard to believe it was sooooooo easy to sucker your bunch what the hell. Applied objectivism is a wonderful tool.
But the best part was seeing the results from the active, former and retired military who did not forget their oath of office and still remembered ballots are better than bullets. Treat your military despicably and you get a military that despises you. Janet Napolitano was right we were this administrations greatest enemy and proud of it.
You were the one who made the false representation here “edm”. Go on with the non-sequiturs about the President-elect all you want for it holds no evidentiary value in a defense. But the fact remains that you made a materially false statement for the purpose of deceiving our readership and whatever rebuke you receive from others is inherently a problem of your own creation.
Cut and paste quotes concerning the President-elect and throw about all the typical distractive elements involving chauvinists/sexists/misogynists/racists/bigots all you will. You lied and that’s it. I’m done discussing the matter. If you cannot assume responsibility for yourself it’s not my problem.
Kiind of fun poking sticks at monkeys though DS. God Loves the Infantry!
Darren,
Still can’t explain why you admire our President-elect? Of course, Trump supporters ignore stories/facts about the man that show him up for what he truly is.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/305530-kkk-to-hold-parade-in-north-carolina-celebrating-trump We might not be rallying for Trump but the is, edm.
swarthmoremom,
They don’t like hearing the truth about “The Donald.” Then again, maybe they admire the man for the things he has said and done.
*****
Racist Outbursts in U.S. in Wake of Trump’s Election
Racial slurs and actions have been reported in the aftermath of a shocking electoral outcome.
http://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2016-11-10/after-donald-trumps-election-racist-outbursts-in-us
During the 2016 campaign, Trump characterized many Latino immigrants as “criminals,” “rapists” and sources of “infectious disease.” He called for banning Muslims from the U.S. and said Muslims could be registered in a national database, a proposal he walked back but did not disavow. He also would not rule out issuing Muslims ID cards, disseminated an anti-Semitic meme and was slow to disavow the support of white supremacists when pressed on television (separately, his campaign later denounced the support of a KKK-affiliated newspaper).
Trump additionally falsely claimed black communities are “absolutely in the worst shape” ever and referred to a black supporter he thought was a protester as a “thug,” while also repeatedly praising violence at his rallies against protesters.
Trump’s comments about immigrants were a central part of his appeal, and they mirrored similar arguments by British conservatives in their successful campaign to remove the United Kingdom from the European Union. In the month after the so-called Brexit vote in June, hate-crimes in the U.K. surged by 41 percent from the same month in 2015.
“These are people who are emboldened by the outcome of the election,” Beirich says. “Unfortunately Trump’s racist, anti-Semitic, xenophobic, misogynistic language has sanctioned the sort of things Andrew Anglin” – a neo-Nazi Trump supporter who’s called for striking fear into Muslims – “is calling for, and this is an environment he absolutely needs to denounce.”
edm – it is not healthy to mourn this long. You have to move to stage two.
swarthmoremon,
Wow! A KKK parade for Trump. That ought to be a fun event.
edm – Darren knows when you first logged on to the Turley blog. I wouldn’t play games with him.
That sounds threatening.
swarthmoremom,
Sure does.
Guess we could get banned for not being part of the Trump brigade. 🙂 I don’t care do you?
swarthmoremom,
Not in the least. It would be a badge of honor–like being on Nixon’s Enemies List.
edm – the problem is nobody but you, Darren and JT know you have been kicked off. The rest of us just think you took a few weeks off.
Paul,
I have been kicked off? Who knew?
swm – what you don’t do is play silly games with either Darren or JT. Not if you want to stay on this blog.
Paul,
Swarthmoremom said she didn’t care if she got banned. Neither do I.
edm – don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Paul,
I’m shaking in my boots!
Don’t know what game you are talking about.
swm – it was the game edm was playing earlier.
swarthmoremom,
It’s the game of telling the truth about Trump. Paul didn’t like that.
edm – it is the game of fencing with Darren. You are like swatting a gnat.
Paul,
I am not fencing with anyone. You can think anything you want. I really don’t care. I DO care what might happen to this country under the leadership of Donald Trump.
Won’t be as badd as we could more than expect under another socialist dictator. I am so proud to have supported the Constitutional Republic with a representative democratic base at the grass roots that helped reject the neo feudalistic aristocracy and not so pseudo Marxist Leninist Hitlerites of fascist socialism.
And by the way Norway and Sweden are not socialist countries they are capitalist countries with a social conscience having tried and rejected socialism in the last century. Finland and Denmark the same.
Viva La Contra Revolucion!!!
swm – consider it a shot across the bow.
The other reason is to drive people away thus destroy the worth while forums. Just ignore and turn you back Thats the kind of heat that drives them from the kitichen. One can stay at a site for a century but if one never say anything worth reading what does that mean to us? Nothing.
JP must be a Californian.
With the idiotic talk of Secession going on usually comes talk of ‘where to go.’ In this case it applies because the answer to their problem is to keep the State of California and eject the secessionists.
Scandinavia is often mention and I ran across this interview about Sweden as a Socialist Country. As anyone with half a brain knows already it is not but rather a Capitalist country with some socialist spots and a distinct social conscience the interview conducted in the site given below explains that statement of mine in detail and then takes the US to task for being a poor copy of what Sweden’s progressive socialist program tried to do but has fallen down the list of number one in the world by trying to spend socialism into a workable reality. For example. there is no six hour work week. Four or Five companies use it as it suits there purpose. The rest work eight hours a week. Urban Myths explode throughout the interview.
To be sure I contacted people in Norway, Sweden and to be far ranging Australia and New Zealand.
Well worth watching but it is an hour long. catch the part about JK Rollins of Harry Potter fame now a billionaire under their new pro business pro employment system and the author of Pippi Longstockings whose author was taxed 102% of income under the socialist progressive system.
End result the oft repeated fairy tail about Sweden being socialist is exploded. Funny the Swede they interviewed is a friend of Bernie Sanders.
End comment is nothing in Sweden or Denmark or Norway or Finland is free. Everything is paid for by those who work and welfare is kept to those truly in need. No one gets a free ride.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/yaronbrook/2016/10/25/tuesday-special-edition-is-sweden-a-socialist-utopia-memes-and-myths-guest?utm_source=bluehornet&utm_medium=impactweekly&utm_campaign=11102016
Mr. Turley, I didn’t know you were a Republican. I thought you were neutral. I will unsubscribe. John P.
What a joke! If he was a Republican, you wouldn’t read him? Are you afraid you will get cooties?? My, but you are sure a mental giant! Not! Google “confirmation bias.”
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
OH, I have an idea! Election Haiku! Here is my first entry. FWIW, Forget me nots are Blue!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw7a8jZUAAAf312.jpg
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
I would like to hang that on the wall of my house with your permission.
Thank you! Oh Yes! You have made my day!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Reciprocal if you would like to use my boxers or briefs effort. That would put me still in your debt value for value.
Add some cannibalism and Podesta will buy it from you! 🙂
Oh, you have gotten me to thinking!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
tnash,
What I know well is how Trump apologists hate it when others post any stories that might reflect negatively on their fearless orange leader or his supporters.
edm …There are objections when a 3rd rate propagandist endlessly recycles one-sided, questionable, or false material.
Got any more Simon Rowntree lies you care to post?
edm…..everybody has pet peeves. When a narrow minded, single-focused commentator does not check sources, speads lies, dumpster dives for any material that suits the purpose, it’s likely to draw a negative response.
You flatter yourself by whining that you’re criticized because people “disagree with you”.
As I mentioned before, it’s your intellectual dishonesty and obsessive repetitiveness that invites criticism.
Maple Grove School Investigating Racist, Pro-Trump Graffiti
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/11/09/racist-pro-trump-graffiti-maple-grove/
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Vandals at a Twin Cities high school included the president-elect’s name in racist graffiti in a bathroom.
“Trump” was written along with “whites only” and “white America.” A more vulgar message was also included.
Students say they now worry about going to class…
A representative for Osseo Area Schools provided this statement:
“The tweet you may have seen of a racist message scrawled in a school bathroom is real and we are horrified by it. It goes against everything we stand for, and it is completely contrary to our core values as a district and individual schools.
School leaders immediately launched an investigation into the incident, and they will take swift and appropriate action based on the investigation findings. They will work very hard to identify who did this horrible act and to determine how they can support the students and staff who have been affected by it.
Every day, in all of our schools, we seek to provide a safe and respectful learning and working environment for every student and employee. Racist messages like the one found in today endanger the safety of our students and staff of color, and they create a climate that is not conducive to learning.
We are very concerned about our students, staff and families who have been affected by this incident. We want to assure every student and employee that we are committed to their safety and well-being.
This incident is additional evidence of the pressing need in our schools, our community and our nation to find ways to talk about race constructively and respectfully. Over the past several years, we have been learning and practicing language that helps us engage in these conversations when we need them most, in order to interrupt racism.
We are committed to ensuring safe and respectful schools. We will work hard to heal the negative impact that this incident has had on school culture and climate, and on every member of our school family.”
edm – I would not jump to conclusions.
Paul,
I am just posting a news report. Of course, Trump apologists most likely would only trust news sources such as Breitbart for their information.
You seem to prefer hoax reporter like “Simon Rowntree”, edm.
You gladly posted his report of thousands of pro-Trump demonstrators shouting racist slogans in Manhattan.
That was Twitter–not a news report. Make of that what you will. Someone questioned my source on this story–so I posted a link to a report on the same story by the source that Raw Story used–the CBS local station in Minnesota.
Thaf you spread a Twitter “report”/
rumor shows how anxious you are to advance your own agenda.
Your cherry picking and endless posting of “news”
reports relating to your obsession with Trump is bad enough.
But if a Twitter lie is good enough for you, that’s understandable given your single minded agenda.
tnash,
I take it that you have no agenda? The Trump apologists on this blog have no agenda? That’s a laugh! I have read plenty of lies/misrepresentations/factual errors posted on this blog by the Trumpies–but that’s okay because they are on the “right” side.
Yes, plenty of lies; such as how long someone has been reading posts on this blog. (only a few weeks eh?)
Darren,
What are you implying? Care to explain that last comment?
You posted the following:
“I haven’t been around here all that long. I only began reading posts and leaving comments on this blog in the last couple of weeks.”
That statement is a complete lie.
It’s bad enough others are generating half a dozen or so sock puppets around here try to make it appear as if their opinions have a large following, but the intellectual dishonesty expressed by doing this is becoming bizarre. Sock puppets are now talking to themselves.
That would be bad enough, but now you foist claims that other commenters here are liars. It is typical Clintonesque Hypocrisy. (Everyone else is lying, But if we lie it is ok) Demands are made of others who write a comment to provide proof and rote citations: demands made by people who themselves engage in this dishonesty.
So don’t expect me to take what you or the other sock puppeteers say with any credibility. After witnessing all the lies promoted during this recent election cycle, I’ve had enough of these deceptions by sanctimonious, political hacks who claim to resolutely navigate the moral high road but drive off the path of truth whenever it is convenient. So if it is necessary for me to explain further what should be obvious to a person of your stature I’m not willing to provide it. If by this age in their lives it is not obvious to them how to correct this defect in truth themselves, they are beyond hope and beneath contempt.
Darren,
Would you care to tell me how long I have been reading posts on this blog?
Darren,
Do contributors to this blog often imply that people who disagree with their point of viewer are liars?
it’s part and parcel of radical reasoning a trait of the secular progressives. Shouldn’t worry much about it the reason is pick a fight and divert you into stupid land where they think they have an edge. Not worth the effort. Having presented such a situation is proof postiive you have already won the debate or question or discussion even if you are the only one that understands it. That side has not the intellect to tie a shoe so does it really matter?
and you are on the marginalized, inconsequential and meaningless side. Can’t blame others when you are doing the same. Two wrongs don’t make a right and a Nuremberg Defense is only an admission of guilt with a plea for clemency. Those others have to absolve their own sins. they are not an excuse for yours. That’s another round of Radical Reasoning you lost.
edm…I think you should keep playing the same broken record through the next election in 2020.
It appears to be good therapy for you.
tnash,
I could say the same thing to you. Maybe your hero Trump will be running again. Then again, maybe not.
Let me add: As much as I dislike that man, I hope he does a good job. Otherwise, this country is in for hard times ahead. I have grandchildren and I am worried about their future.
You COULD say the same thing about me.
But if you can count, tally up the total of your anti-Trumpvrants v. the number of pro-Trump posts I’ve made.
If you are capable of paying attention rather than robopsting, you’ll find that I told you that I left the top line blank….the first time this was a ” nons of the above” year.
I’m also pretty careful about my sources before citingvthem….youvare “extremely careless”.
Those are distinctions you may or maybnot understand.
And if your broken record one theme cluttering of this site is your hobby or therapy, you should carry on.
That’s why you’re vuewed as such a dynanic and versatile author on this site.
tnash,
I could say that there are so many Trump toadies on this blog that I’m just doing my best to even things up a bit. As you may recall, I told you before that I was not a Hillary supporter. My vote for her was an anti-Trump vote. In addition, the Democratic platform adopted many of the things that Bernie had been fighting for. None of the Trump supporters posting on this blog seem phased in the least by any of the things that he has said and done. The man is a misogynist and a pig. If my granddaughters were teenagers, I would never want them left in a room alone with him.
Trump is a divider…a racist…a bigot…a birther…an unscrupulous businessman…an adulterer…a serial liar. Yet, many people who post on this blog appear to be enamored of him.
edm….since you feel justified in soreading lies to “even things up”, carry on.
tnash wrote: edm….since you feel justified in soreading lies to “even things up”, carry on.
*****
Not sure what soreading lies means.
I guess every article that I posted links to is filled with lies. Yes, they must be because you say so.
It is evident you lack a sense of humor. Carry on!
edm – if you were not a Hilbot you could have voted for Stein or Johnson. And the Demoncrats barely adopted any of Bernie’s platform and refused to come out against the TPP. This served to unite Progressives with the Trumpsters.
edm – I know that George Soros is still butt hurt over this election. For all the money he spent, he got very little. However, MoveOn.org is behind those supposed spontaneous marches around the country. Now, they have a perfect right to protest but not to damage buildings or use police resources without paying for them.
Children should be seen and not heard and should, like all adolescents. Crybabies especially. I still think it’s an easy day off for the otherwise indolent instructor staff. Anybody that weak in the mind is not going to make it in the adult world should they ever attain that status. How pathetic. Safe Spots and all. Maybe a laundromat would help. I recall the days of rage over this and that and also for one example the anti draft movement. They were supposed to get it rescinded. Instead that group cowered, sniveled and quit when it was shelved from use but never repealed and is still active especially as a requirement for student loans.
Do any of these snivelers realize when the sign up for the draft card to qualify for a loan is executed by a forced/voluntary signature they just volunteered for immediate call up, are no longer draftees but volunteers for military service?
And now the women get equal rights. Of course the war monger party that kept the draft registration on the books and in force and active use just got their ass kicked so maybe they should be marching as a thank you for keeping their safe spot butts in raggedy designer clothes.
The stupidity of people never ceases to amaze. Only the left would fall en masse and on cue for a transparent scam like that.
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Michael Aarethun – in the mid-60s I used to play bridge in the Methodist Center at ASU. Upstairs is where the SDS met. We knew all the members. 🙂 There were about 6 regulars. On a campus of 20,000 students they did not have much impact.
The fight against trumpism will continue. Some will take to the streets and others will use the internet.
Shame they didn’t take to the voting booth. My advice and the easy answer is quite beyond the duuuuhhhh mentality. Lay off the streets you are only encroaching on the territory of the pan handlers which will invite the unwanted attention of the social screech owl warrior mental cases. There are no safe spots on the streets. Hmmm what to do. Try selecting a Presidential Candidate not a hate icon next time? Or select someone that actually represents your level of which would be Bernie? Ouch. Think of the aspirin they will need for such heavy thinking. whoops providing Soros gives permission for thinking. Doubtful.
Dave – don’t you feel silly being manipulated by George Soros?
Their kind is allowed to feel anything. They are only allowed to do as they are told – lockstep – stiff armed salute and lots of We Serve The Party chanting.
But ‘silly’ is a great descriptive term nonetheless.
Hey how is it going ont he 14th some days later. Apparently the monkey cut and ran. I fouond and posted a four year article which descrived last week perfectly no telling if it stayed in this thread. John Cusack featured.
But here’s another oddity. I wanted to compare Mexicos’s annual budget to our National Debt. Most of the Lamestream and all fo the other google-ized references refused to answer. One, I think Mexico itself psoted up to 2014.and since it was all that was available……
My comment in conversation was we spend more on debt interest monthly than Mexicos annual budget. i was wrong. We spend as much annually according to that one not backed up by anything source as Mexicos entire budget. Mexico shoudl be showing a huge surplus this year. Last year Predient Pena that’s an N with a wiggly on top pronounced Enya as in River Dance. sold PeMex the government monopoly on oil and oil products production and distribution. Not telling – no figtures available but mind the pronouncisation Pena as it is written and pronounced in English is a dick.
There budget with a surplus in 2014 is purported to be 235 billion. Here’s our curent figures from CBO
Federal Debt Statistics:
The federal debt increased $1.4 Trillion in Fiscal Year 2016, and is now $19.5 Trillion, according to the Treasury Department.
The total federal debt of $19,573,444,713,936.79 now equals about $165,575 per household in America.
In the eight years of Mr. Obama’s presidency, the federal debt has grown by $9 trillion, nearly matching the total amount of debt accumulated by all of his predecessors.
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the projected federal deficit is expected to be $594 billion in Fiscal Year 2017.
Annual deficits are projected to increase above $1 trillion within this decade due to America’s aging population.” Well they got that right. Not only that it widll be 20 trillion the month after inauguration.
” Between 2010 and 2040, the number of Americans age 65 and older will double – from 41 million to 82 million people.”
That’s us Baby Boomers!!!! The one’s that paid into Social Security only to find it weas tapped out.
Best i cours find out the annual interest on the national debt equaled Mexico’s annual budget. The month for month therefore equals Mexicos month to month budget.
So much for Google and I’ll say again None of the first three pages bothered to answered the question.
Well, well. Lookey here. Paul is warning against conclusionary statements. 🙂
Steve – I always try to wait for more information on things like this. Newspapers are poor reporters of the truth at first blush. Conclusions come with more evidence.
Paul, it’s what edm knows best.
He SPRINTS to conclusions, if it suits his purposes.
He’s very “dedicated” in that respect.
A story sure to warm the hearts of some Trumpies:
‘F*ck n****rs’: Pro-Trump ‘whites only’ warning greets Minnesota students day after election
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/fck-nrs-pro-trump-whites-only-warning-greets-minnesota-students-day-after-election/
Just hours after Donald Trump won 2016 presidential race, students at Maple Grove High School returned to class to find racist messages inspired by the GOP candidate.
On Wednesday, a father of a Maple Grove student posted on Facebook images of graffiti that were taken by his son.
“He does not feel safe at his own school any more,” Fred Ndip said. “I am not sure what to tell him!”
The photos show a locker door with large letters that read: “F*ck N****rs”
Other messages on the door included: “F*ck all porch monkeys,” “Whites only” and “White America.”
The words “Trump Train” were also on the door.
“I went in and looked on the bathroom door and honestly was in shock. That’s the first time I honestly felt like crying at school,” junior Moses Karngbaye told WCCO. “I just walked back to class with my head down, I was like I can’t believe people actually took the time out of their day to write something this offensive.”
edm – again, I would not jump to conclusions. There is still a lot of Soros money out there and I wouldn’t put anything past his people.
If it’s found that White student(s) did this, what’s an appropriate punishment?
If it’s found that Black student(s) did this, what’s an appropriate punishment?
Didn’t check RAW STORY source……maybe it’s more reliable than crap edm posted yesterday about throngs in Manhatten shouting rascist slogans.
Turn out to be a fake reporter and a fake outlet, but I guess it sounded good enough to edm that he just had to post it.