Can't speak for the group, but Gaetz has one DUI arrest and 16 speeding tickets on his record, which is just an impressive refusal to drive legally.
Easy to say from our perspective. If I made a living as a politician in the GOP, I can't say for certain that I'd have the same viewpoint. Blinders and all. I think they genuinely believe him. I also think they genuinely believe that tying themselves to trump is good for their careers. The few that have gone against him have been met with scorn. They simply don't think it's the right move to go against him... yet. And they won't, until it affects them individually.
Anyone else starting to feel bad for Cohen? Also, AOC just likely nailed trump on some tax fraud charges. Or at least she gave the govt a roadmap of how to get there. *edit* Members of the House are now calling each other racists. This is hilarious. The republican dude's head is about to explode in anger.
The Republicans pulled the "but he has a black friend" card, and then got super insulted when they got called on it.
How is it a bad move? Even for how watered-down that tribe is, they elected one of their own to be the king of the world and they would rather stay tethered to him than give up the thrown. As long as they all stick together, they will continue to create whatever reality they feel exists in their eyes. They are fucking impossible to reason with. No matter what happens, no matter how much he fucks up, so matter how many lives he ruins—- there is nothing on this earth worse than admitting that you were wrong about something. No matter what Mueller’s report reveals, I have no confidence that any punishment will happen to him. The tens of millions of retarded circus seals who hang off his every word will twist reality any which way they can, just he doesn’t look the fool. It’s pretty much hopeless.
Looks like the fireworks display isn't over yet! Roger Stone commented on Cohen's remarks, likely violating new gag order. That's just awesome. When a judge tells you to shut the fuck up, you shut the fuck up full stop. Even if the reporters baited him into talking (which isn't implied in the article, but could certainly be possible).
Also, if you're going to violate a gag order, I mean, at least don't repeatedly do it to contradict things you've been saying as far back as 2016. He bragged about more dirt being released on Hillary the entire campaign and now he's violating the gag order to potentially break another law. Damn. Eg, this is from about a month before the election - https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/roger-stone-fbi-wikileaks-russia-229821
WIRED has a really good breakdown of what happened today. Cohen gave specific names and places and had actual receipts. Congress will follow up on these, I'm certain. Today has the feel of one of those "where were you when..." kinda moments.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tru...elp-saudi-arabia-build-nuclear-weapons-2019-2 This story is still in the possibly true stage at this point, but if it is true: what in the holy fuck. Non-proliferation is a bedrock tenet of US foreign policy. I would be apoplectic if we handed over nuclear secrets to the Germans, and they're more trustworthy than we are, and Trump is trying to give them to the Saudis of all people? This is why I think it's so wrong to judge a President only on their stances on big ticket platform issues, because there's a million little things that a President is also responsible for. When you elect someone who has stated that we should pull back our nuclear umbrella and allow Japan, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia to develop nuclear weapons of their own, the idea that we would help what is a borderline terrorist regime acquire nuclear weapons stops being an insane plot to a Tom Clancy novel and becomes a genuine national security emergency. The man is too stupid and too dangerous to be President.
I’d want to see what the actual reports are on that one. The Saudis don’t need the US to build them a bomb. They can just buy one from Pakistan at any time. Plus the US interests in the Middle East are dwindling since there’s no real reason (read: oil) to care any more other than preventing a humanitarian crisis from the forthcoming Saudi-Iran-Yemen war.
Another smirking sycophant douchebag your country would be better without. Pleeeeeease let this ruin him. Does this administration even have a rock-bottom?
No. Cohen said yesterday that he doesn’t think Trump would willingly leave if he lost next election(if he’ll be in the next one). That statement was kind of alarming to me because Trump knows the only thing protecting him right now is the office. They have already shown that in the face of devastating lack of support among all but uneducated white people, they will do whatever they can to maintain power. Cheat sitting presidents out of court appointments, commit election fraud, intimidate witnesses, etc. Watch what happens if Thomas retires from the court next year. You think McConnell won’t rush to fill the spot? Against the precedent he set on Garland? When it comes to a naked a power grab, there is no bottom.
I don't know man. The argument this guy spent half his article trying to make where Trump is guilty of telling Cohen to lie to congress without actually ever telling him isn't one that works so well in the real world. I don't think the testimony ended up being very eventful. There doesn't seem to be anything new that came out. I guess it made Trump look bad, which makes it worthwhile for the democrats, but there was nothing there that is going to change much of anything. All the nasty stuff was already publicly known. Despite the probing Cohen has nothing to offer on Russia. Same with the piss tape, the aborted love children, the drug problem - which by the way, that was honestly the first I had heard of that. It was also really obvious Cohen had an axe to grind, and he's already going to prison for lying to congress, among other things. I'm sure most of the testimony was true, but again, it's not anything new. Regarding Russia, do you guys still think this collusion plot is real? I don't want to call it before Mueller is done, but all the signs lately are pointing to a dead end. The senate intelligence committee, including the democrats on it are concluding they have found no "direct" evidence in their investigation. The so called bombshells are either debunked or no one else can verify them. Multiple people from the campaign allegedly involved don't have anything to offer. What really makes me think it's not likely though is the way the house democrats have been acting lately. They've become really nutty with the cover up accusations and insistence that they're going to keep investigating indefinitely. I've mostly been agnostic about the collusion plot, but the house democrats sure are acting like they don't expect Mueller to uncover it's existence in their report. Question about the campaign violation pay off - doesn't Trump reimbursing Cohen from his personal bank account clear him? Why does that make him guilty? How is it a campaign violation if he paid it out of his own pocket? I guess I missed part of this story.
This narrative is getting tiresome. You can't win elections with nothing but uneducated white people. Trump doing better with uneducated voters is true, but the disparity is not anything near what it's made out to be. https://www.cnn.com/election/2016/results/exit-polls For 'high school or less' Trump won 51 to 46. It's an edge, but there's not an ocean between those numbers. For 'some college' he outperformed Hillary 51 to 43. For college grads he got 44% of the vote. That's not "devastating lack of support". Hillary edges him out here, but only barely at 49%. It's not until you get to the demographic who completed grad school that the gulf becomes more than marginal, but again, even with that group support for Trump doesn't disappear. He was barely under 40% of the vote. Not quite nothing. The republican base being nothing but toothless hill billies is a liberal fantasy. I mean sure, the republicans clean house with those people, but it's not their whole base by a long shot. When looking at income the parties split almost right down the middle.
Sorry to triple post, but holy shit, Netanyahu is getting indicted? Welcome to the train wreck club, Israel.
I guess I really just don’t understand why you give Trump so much benefit of the doubt considering all the results we’ve seen. Cohen even testified yesterday to Jr. walking in the office, going directly to Trump and informing him about the Trump tower meeting. People might say Cohen isn’t trustworthy but he can go to jail even longer for lying yesterday. The only thing he has left to lose now is more of his adult life behind bars. It feels like you really want this whole thing to be a bunch of egg on the faces of dems when all the indictments, jail sentences, and plea agreements would suggest otherwise.
I don't pay terribly close attention to Israeli politics, but I feel like this has been coming forever. Maybe my memory is playing tricks on me, but I feel like "Bibi is going down" has been a narrative I've heard for years.