With Gates flipping [for EXACTLY the reasons those old gangsters copped a plea- gonna get very very expensive] and Manafort now faced with A] decades of hard time or B] hoping Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate close to Putin to whom he owes millions will not , ahem. “collect”…. the RICO story arc [above post] I saw a few weeks back has decidedly more credibility….

BTW- Love how all these asswipes who keep telling poor folk that “you just don’t work hard enough” are ALL grifter and swindlers! [guess they meant “you didn’t work your con hard enough] ….Manafort : $300K in unpaid credit card debt so he can have his 4 Range Rovers. Just one more pig at the trough.

He didn’t get what he wanted, and he says he’ll sign the bill.

It doesn’t seem strange to me. I think that in Trump’s mind, he believes that he IS now the country so therefore not cheering him is disrespecting the country.

If he was surprised that he is not an adored figured as POTUS, he must never have read or been told anything about how George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and many others were talked about – even vilified during their tenures as president.

Author of this joke:
“Naively thought it too ridiculous to be believable. Says a lot, really. Was going to delete it but it was everywhere within minutes: feels like I need to leave it up in its place of birth.”

good laugh Anon but it is fake: https://twitter.com/ShaunUsher/status/960628825318219776/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Ffake-trump-tweet-about-stock-market-dow-jones-2018-2%2F

If the Dow Jones ever falls more than 1000 “points” in a Single Day the sitting president should be “loaded” into a very big cannon and Shot into the sun at TREMENDOUS SPEED! No excuses!

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Donald. J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

12:27 AM, 25 Feb 2015

“Somebody said treasonous,” he said. “I mean, yeah, I guess, why not. Can we call that treason? Why not?” I mean they certainly din’t (sic) seem to love our country very much

You have to wonder what the low-lifes who support him make of the “if you don’t support the president you’re committing treason” crap.

https://www.juancole.com/2018/02/spirit-cooking-pizzagate.html

Never under estimate the ability of Republicans to create an obfuscating shitnado that ends up consuming half the globe.

Doug: I downloaded and read both the Senate memo and the Steele dossier. I do not understand your comment about the memo containing “demonstrably false information”. Please specify and elucidate.

The Steele dossier may (or may not) contain reliable information. But it is made up of hearsay and double hearsay, with sources unidentified (except as A, B etc) and unvetted. I am anxious to see how all this plays out. Americans like me want to see the truth as best we can get it.

I did not vote for Trump in the primaries, but did vote for him (actually, voted against Hillary) in the fall. The left was so sure that Hillary was going to win that when she lost it went berserk. And still is a bit loony. Chances of impeaching and convicting Trump (remember that Bill Clinton was impeached by the House but not convicted by the Senate) are next to nil. Realistically.

And, having worked in DC for an agency, it does not surprise me that political bias could and probably does influence decisions made by the workers. But, as President Obama said, elections have consequences. All of us have inherent biases that will affect our decision making, and appointees/hirees of a particular administration will always lean in that direction. It is another thing altogether for an agency blatently to attack the newly elected leader.