American Politics

[ScatManDoo]

Hell, maybe we should just arrest everyone who ever voted Republican. Isn't that what you douches really want? After all we voted for someone who killed nearly a million people. Aren't we accessories to murder?

Go ahead if you're committed.

[Elvis 2008]

If you thought the DOJ was not an extension of the Democratic party, today was not a good day for you. Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was taken into federal custody on Monday to face contempt charges over his refusal to cooperate with Democrats' January 6 congressional investigation. He will appear before a judge later in the day.

The 67-year-old was indicted on Friday on two counts of criminal contempt. One for refusing to provide documents in response to the House committee's investigation, and the other for refusing to appear for a congressional deposition.

End of quote.

So here we go again. The Dems using the DOJ trying to arrest their way to victory. 1-6 is seen as treason and not what it was: a mild reaction to the shams that were Russiagate and Ukrainegate.

Henry Kissinger.

Janet Reno.

Harriet Miers.

Joshua Bolton.

Eric Holder.

Lois Lerner.

Bryan Pagliano.

Bill Barr.

Chad Wolf.

All held in contempt of Congress and not arrested.

And you saw it here. Every person who voted for Trump is stupid and should have their vote not count.

Hell, maybe we should just arrest everyone who ever voted Republican. Isn't that what you douches really want? After all we voted for someone who killed nearly a million people. Aren't we accessories to murder?

[EihTooms]

It is amazing that the USA is in a serious decline since Biden took office and all the socialists keep bringing up past presidents and Trump. Biden has been in office for almost a year and he he is a wreck and not a word of it from the so called democrats here. I guess they are following the socialists thinking like communism in China and Russia where you can not say anything bad about the communism policies.

Afghanistan catastrophe.

Border crises worst ever.

Highest inflation in 31 years.

Wokeness.

Mishandling covid.

Falling asleep at the most important international conference.

Harris laughing about the border and inflation.

The country has serious problems and incompetent president and VP and you are still talking Russia?

People across the country are suffering because of Biden and all of you are ignoring it. You are obviously good cult followers.

To recap the real results in pictures as well as words...

[Elvis 2008]

I don't flip. Flipping the script is your ilk's doing.

You pal Elvis has already flipped "Russiagate" to Biden (yeah, Russiagate, no less).

Like Russian Internet Research Agency trolls never toasted "we made America great again. ".

Like Russia never orchestrated those wikimedia leaks.

Like Putin never admitted they'd wanted Trump to win.

Like Donnie never asked Russia to dig more dirt on Hillary.

Like Donnie never laughed his ass off with Lavrov and Kisliak after firing Comey (with only Putin's TASS agency granted access to snap pictures).

Like Donnie never shared secret Israeli data with the Russians.

Like Donnie never met with the Russians alone, against all diplomatic protocols, without his aides and even an interpreter present..

So Trump was a Russian spy? He deserved to be impeached? He put Russian interests before America's? And all those who voted for him were duped?

And is everyone who votes for Trump a Russian spy too whose vote should be thrown out?

Isn't that what you would like Xpartan?

[Elvis 2008]

Of course, Russian collusion with Team Trump in the 2016 presidential election was real. It was discovered, uncovered and admitted to countless times by any number of Team Trump members from the Chairman of the Trump Presidential Campaign to spokesmen for the Campaign to go-betweens for the collusion to Trump's own family members.

However, as was repeated countless times from the very beginning in the Mainstream Media, from Mueler's team, Trump's DOJ that busted, charged and convicted several Team Trump members for their crimes and even on this site, "collusion" with Russia was not a crime and was not something the investigators were even looking for.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/russia...imes-a-million

Stories have been coming out for some time now hinting Mueller's final report might leave audiences "disappointed," as if a President not being a foreign spy could somehow be bad news.

Openly using such language has, all along, been an indictment. Imagine how tone-deaf you'd have to be to not realize it makes you look bad, when news does not match audience expectations you raised. To be unaware of this is mind-boggling, the journalistic equivalent of walking outside without pants.

There will be people protesting: the Mueller report doesn't prove anything! What about the 37 indictments? The convictions? The Trump tower revelations? The lies! The meeting with Don, Jr? The financial matters! There's an ongoing grand jury investigation, and possible sealed indictments, and the House will still investigate, and.

Stop. Just stop. Any journalist who goes there is making it worse.

For years, every pundit and Democratic pol in Washington hyped every new Russia headline like the Watergate break-in. Now, even Nancy Pelosi has said impeachment is out, unless something "so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan" against Trump is uncovered it would be worth their political trouble to prosecute.

The biggest thing this affair has uncovered so far is Donald Trump paying off a porn star. That's a hell of a long way from what this business was supposedly about at the beginning, and shame on any reporter who tries to pretend this isn't so.

The story hyped from the start was espionage: a secret relationship between the Trump campaign and Russian spooks who'd helped him win the election.

The betrayal narrative was not reported as metaphor. It was not "Trump likes the Russians so much, he might as well be a spy for them. " It was literal spying, treason, and election-fixing crimes so severe, former NSA employee John Schindler told reporters, Trump "will die in jail."

In the early months of this scandal, the New York Times said Trump's campaign had "repeated contacts" with Russian intelligence; the Wall Street Journal told us our spy agencies were withholding intelligence from the new President out of fear he was compromised; news leaked out our spy chiefs had even told other countries like Israel not to share their intel with us, because the Russians might have "leverages of pressure" on Trump.

CNN told us Trump officials had been in "constant contact" with "Russians known to USA Intelligence," and the former director of the CIA, who'd helped kick-start the investigation that led to Mueller's probe, said the President was guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors," committing acts "nothing short of treasonous."

Hillary Clinton insisted Russians "could not have known how to weaponize" political ads unless they'the been "guided" by Americans. Asked if she meant Trump, she said.

"It's pretty hard not to. " Harry Reid similarly said he had "no doubt" that the Trump campaign was "in on the deal" to help Russians with the leak.

None of this has been walked back. To be clear, if Trump were being blackmailed by Russian agencies like the FSB or the GRU, if he had any kind of relationship with Russian intelligence, that would soar over the "overwhelming and bipartisan" standard, and Nancy Pelosi would be damning torpedoes for impeachment right now.

There was never real gray area here. Either Trump is a compromised foreign agent, or he isn't. If he isn't, news outlets once again swallowed a massive disinformation campaign, only this error is many orders of magnitude more stupid than any in the recent past, WMD included. Honest reporters like ABC's Terry Moran understand: Mueller coming back empty-handed on collusion means a "reckoning for the media."

Of course, there won't be such a reckoning. (There never is). But there should be. We broke every written and unwritten rule in pursuit of this story, starting with the prohibition on reporting things we can't confirm.

End of quote. The irony is Taibbi was wrong. There was a disastrous impeachment.

Eih, seeing as how Trump has killed 750,000 Americans, should he not be allowed to run for office again?

And shouldn't anyone who votes for Trump (or voted for him in the past) be tried as an accessory to murder?

In fact, shouldn't anyone who votes Republican ever again have their votes disallowed because they are agents of Russia like Trump?

[Elvis 2008]

I beg to differ with your last sentence. 74+ million voters certainly were that stupid a year ago. But since they seem hell-bent on killing themselves, that number probably won't increase.

If you invested in the Keystone pipeline, voting for Trump was stupid.

If you do not want to be vaxxed, voting for Trump was stupid.

If your business has been hurt by any of Biden's other executive orders (airlines, health care), voting for Trump was stupid.

If you have relatives in Afghanistan, voting for Trump was stupid.

Here is what you are trying to say: Voting for Trump hurts my paycheck, and anyone who messes with my paycheck is stupid.

You do not even care to understand the other's side POV.

[Cali Guy]

I beg to differ with your last sentence. 74+ million voters certainly were that stupid a year ago. But since they seem hell-bent on killing themselves, that number probably won't increase.

81,283,098 people were more stupid than the 74,000,000 that voted for Trump. They voted for Biden. Now they are paying the price. A lot of them are like me. They were duped to vote for an incompetent president because they didn't like Trump. Now Trump is looking pretty good now for a lot of democrats. There will still be the stupid ones that won't admit they screwed up though. Biden needs several more million illegals to enter the USA to vote in the 2024 election for him to have a chance to run again. He will continue to allow future voters to illegally enter to USA to vote for democrats but he won't look after the best interests of USA citizens. Keep supporting an incompetent president that is screwing the American people.

[ScatManDoo]

I beg to differ with your last sentence. 74+ million voters certainly were that stupid a year ago. But since they seem hell-bent on killing themselves, that number probably won't increase.

March of the lemmings.

Hahahahaja.

[PVMonger]

I don't flip. Flipping the script is your ilk's doing.

You pal Elvis has already flipped "Russiagate" to Biden (yeah, Russiagate, no less).

Like Russian Internet Research Agency trolls never toasted "we made America great again. ".

Like Russia never orchestrated those wikimedia leaks.

Like Putin never admitted they'd wanted Trump to win.

Like Donnie never asked Russia to dig more dirt on Hillary.

Like Donnie never laughed his ass off with Lavrov and Kisliak after firing Comey (with only Putin's TASS agency granted access to snap pictures).

Like Donnie never shared secret Israeli data with the Russians.

Like Donnie never met with the Russians alone, against all diplomatic protocols, without his aides and even an interpreter present.

Like Donnie never admired and excused Putin as a murderer. ​.

Like Donnie never sent his brain-damaged son to meet with Putin's agent in Trump Tower (and then taught the junior how to lie about it).

Like Donnie never told he trusted Putin more than his own 18 national security agencies..

I beg to differ with your last sentence. 74+ million voters certainly were that stupid a year ago. But since they seem hell-bent on killing themselves, that number probably won't increase.

[PVMonger]

I really like that phrase if only there were an example of this.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier...h=63ba515e45e0

If we prematurely discourage investment in fossil fuels and then our dependence doesn't decline as rapidly as the Biden Administration envisions that is a recipe for shortages, higher prices, and greater dependence on foreign nations for our energy.

Like the Obama Administration, the Biden Administration initially adopted a relatively hostile position toward the fossil fuel industry. The revocation of the Keystone XL Pipeline permit and the temporary suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal lands were policies that signaled that the Biden Administration wants to move the country away from oil.

But what happens when Americans aren't ready to move on from oil, and new domestic supplies aren't meeting demand?

That's the position we currently find ourselves in. The Biden Administration could respond in one of two ways.

They could say High oil prices will speed up the transition to renewable energy which is certainly how they feel privately. After all, USA Officials attended the COP26 you. And. Climate Summit in Glasgow this week, where they discussed plans to reduce carbon emissions. They could tell Americans to take their medicine, live with higher gas prices, and then privately hope that hastens the transition to green energy..

Once more you have proven that reading for comprehension isn't your strong suit. Your rant here has absolutely nothing to do with my post about the "actions have consequences" crowd. Especially since my initial response was to a post about the rioter who was killed in the Capitol.

[Cali Guy]

It is amazing that the USA is in a serious decline since Biden took office and all the socialists keep bringing up past presidents and Trump. Biden has been in office for almost a year and he he is a wreck and not a word of it from the so called democrats here. I guess they are following the socialists thinking like communism in China and Russia where you can not say anything bad about the communism policies.

Afghanistan catastrophe.

Border crises worst ever.

Highest inflation in 31 years.

Wokeness.

Mishandling covid.

Falling asleep at the most important international conference.

Harris laughing about the border and inflation.

The country has serious problems and incompetent president and VP and you are still talking Russia?

People across the country are suffering because of Biden and all of you are ignoring it. You are obviously good cult followers.

[Cali Guy]

I don't flip. Flipping the script is your ilk's doing.

You pal Elvis has already flipped "Russiagate" to Biden (yeah, Russiagate, no less).

Like Russian Internet Research Agency trolls never toasted "we made America great again. ".

Like Russia never orchestrated those wikimedia leaks.

Like Putin never admitted they'd wanted Trump to win.

Like Donnie never asked Russia to dig more dirt on Hillary.

Like Donnie never laughed his ass off with Lavrov and Kisliak after firing Comey (with only Putin's TASS agency granted access to snap pictures).

Like Donnie never shared secret Israeli data with the Russians.

Like Donnie never met with the Russians alone, against all diplomatic protocols, without his aides and even an interpreter present.

Like Donnie never admired and excused Putin as a murderer. ​.

Like Donnie never sent his brain-damaged son to meet with Putin's agent in Trump Tower (and then taught the junior how to lie about it)..

Yes they can. This post proves that you are.

[Xpartan]

Flip that to the exact opposite and you would be very close to being correct. The main difference being that almost every story that is so false that it requires an apology comes from the liberal media like CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, etc. (aka fake news).

I don't flip. Flipping the script is your ilk's doing.

You pal Elvis has already flipped "Russiagate" to Biden (yeah, Russiagate, no less).

Like Russian Internet Research Agency trolls never toasted "we made America great again. ".

Like Russia never orchestrated those wikimedia leaks.

Like Putin never admitted they'd wanted Trump to win.

Like Donnie never asked Russia to dig more dirt on Hillary.

Like Donnie never laughed his ass off with Lavrov and Kisliak after firing Comey (with only Putin's TASS agency granted access to snap pictures).

Like Donnie never shared secret Israeli data with the Russians.

Like Donnie never met with the Russians alone, against all diplomatic protocols, without his aides and even an interpreter present.

Like Donnie never admired and excused Putin as a murderer. ​.

Like Donnie never sent his brain-damaged son to meet with Putin's agent in Trump Tower (and then taught the junior how to lie about it).

Like Donnie never told he trusted Putin more than his own 18 national security agencies.

Like hordes of Republicans don't adore Putin and his regime.

Yeah, aha.

And why does, pray-tell, every right winger is having this huge pornographic orgy right now?

I'll tell you why. Because FEDs arrested one guy who lied to Steel while he was compiling his dossier. One fucking guy.

In 2016.

For the dossier that was ordered BY REPUBLICANS.

And that's supposed to absolve him?

As if Donnie's never done anything for Russia after that dossier?

Give me a fucking break. No one can be that stupid.

[EihTooms]

Is that what Russiagate was, American behavior? Like I said, you probably still believe Russiagate was real. Your post earns you douche points. Congratulations!

Of course, Russian collusion with Team Trump in the 2016 presidential election was real. It was discovered, uncovered and admitted to countless times by any number of Team Trump members from the Chairman of the Trump Presidential Campaign to spokesmen for the Campaign to go-betweens for the collusion to Trump's own family members.

However, as was repeated countless times from the very beginning in the Mainstream Media, from Mueler's team, Trump's DOJ that busted, charged and convicted several Team Trump members for their crimes and even on this site, "collusion" with Russia was not a crime and was not something the investigators were even looking for.

True, it should have been a source of embarrassment and shame for Repubs and Trumpsters to know America's adversaries and enemies so dearly wanted their guy to win and work his magic to turn America into a shithole country.

But it wasn't and there was no "crime" that could be charged regarding it.

[Cali Guy]

I really like that phrase if only there were an example of this.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier...h=63ba515e45e0

If we prematurely discourage investment in fossil fuels and then our dependence doesn't decline as rapidly as the Biden Administration envisions that is a recipe for shortages, higher prices, and greater dependence on foreign nations for our energy.

Like the Obama Administration, the Biden Administration initially adopted a relatively hostile position toward the fossil fuel industry. The revocation of the Keystone XL Pipeline permit and the temporary suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal lands were policies that signaled that the Biden Administration wants to move the country away from oil.

But what happens when Americans aren't ready to move on from oil, and new domestic supplies aren't meeting demand?

That's the position we currently find ourselves in.

Great post! North Dakota has been able to ramp up their production because they have little federal land and plenty of private land to drill on. Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana ave been hit hard by Biden cancelling all drilling permits on federal land. Unfortunately most of the oil from North Dakota has to be shipped by truck and rail as there is not enough pipeline capacity to increase production. Biden as created this mess and it is going to get worse. He will not increase drilling in USA and we will e held hostage by OPEC. Expect higher gas prices. OPEC goal is to get crude oil over $100 a barrel and Biden is playing right into their hands. Heating bills will skyrocket also.