***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[gry60]

Absolutely not. That is disgusting and irreconcilable.

I find it funny that this, and not the favoritist policies, is your line in the Sand.

"The judge called me a fine young man as he threw the book at me. I don't think he doesn't mean well."

"I don't think the real estate guy was racist. He informed me very politely that he was unable to show me houses in that neighborhood despite my wish to live there and my ability to afford these homes."

 

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[MalcolmNewton]

MMGA to own the libs

These factories aren’t coming back either, even if Drumpf lifts the tariffs. The damage is permanent. Well at any rate the MAGGOTS will have time on their hands to attend all of their alt-right rallies around the country.

 

[gry60]

http://www.staugustine.com/news/20180807/jobs-boom-favors-democratic-counties-not-trump-strongholds

MONACA, Pennsylvania — The United States is on pace to add about 2.6 million jobs this year under President Donald Trump’s watch. Yet the bulk of the hiring has occurred in bastions of Democratic voters rather than in the Republican counties that put Trump in the White House.

On average for the year-ended this May, 58.5 percent of the job gains were in counties that backed Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, according to an Associated Press analysis of monthly government jobs data by county.

Despite an otherwise robust national economy, the analysis shows that a striking number of Trump counties are losing jobs. The AP found that 35.4 percent of Trump counties have shed jobs in the past year, compared with just 19.2 percent of Clinton counties.

 

[blastercombo]

Can we still accurately call it a witch hunt if every turn actually reveals a witch?

YES!!!


- Trump supporters

 

[polar610]

The organizer of the Charlottesville rally just got humiliated by his own father https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...tesville-unite-the-right-jason-kessler-father

 

[gry60]

Goddamn these people are stupid. From the article in my last post:

Republican Rep. Keith Rothfus recently sat in the Beaver County Chamber of Commerce’s wood-paneled conference room as local business owners recounted their difficulties in finding workers. A local cafe struggled to hire bakers who could start the ovens at 3 a.m. The shopping mall manager found that higher pay did little to attract better job applicants.

A congressman since 2013, Rothfus bears the calm, bespectacled manner of a professor. He faces a tough re-election battle in Pennsylvania’s newly created 17th District against Democrat Conor Lamb, who won a special election House victory earlier this year. Both Rothfus and Lamb’s current districts were redrawn this year by court order.

Sitting outside a cafe before the chamber meeting, Rothfus said there was a clear path for generating job growth: Immigrants.

“You look at areas of the country that are really thriving — there’s a significant immigrant population,” he said. “We need to do a better job of attracting immigrants here. This place was built on immigrants.”

But Rothfus has also been outspoken on the importance of tighter border security. A few weeks after the chamber meeting, he voted for a bill that, had it passed, would have imposed tougher border measures and likely curbed legal immigration.

 

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[Peep Game]

Sarah Sanders and Gina Loudon

 

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[whywesteppin]

According to Sarah Sanders' announcement of Brennan's revoked security clearance, below is the list of former officials whose security clearances are being reviewed "on a case by case basis."
Note the 2 highlighted names. Andrew McCabe no longer has a security clearance, it was revoked when he was fired.
Comey no longer has a security clearance either.

• James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence
  
• James Comey, former FBI director
  
• Michael Hayden, former CIA director
  
• Sally Yates, former Acting Attorney General
  
• Susan Rice, former National Security Adviser
  
• Andrew McCabe, former deputy FBI director
  
• Peter Strzok, former FBI agent
  
• Lisa Page, former FBI lawyer
  
• Bruce Ohr, former Associate Deputy Attorney General

Trump is again committing a federal crime and impeachable offense out in the open. Mueller is no doubt adding the actions of today to his case against Trump.

 

[Wargames]

This is literally a list of political enemies.

This is it right, like they are going to say **** it and end the coup right? Like what's separating us and a banana republic like Turkey right now?

 

[IATT]

This is literally a list of political enemies.

As was pointed out by a reporter today, Michael Flynn still has his clearance

 

[Belgium]

If Sarah Sanders' list of former and current officials whose security clearances are being "reviewed on a case by case basis" was for legitimate reasons, why are there 2 people in the list that don't have any security clearance anymore to review in the first place? Coincidentally, both Comey and McCabe have been critical of president Trump and have been interviewed by Mueller. Both have given Mueller documents.

It's pretty hard even for Trump WH standards to claim legitimate reasons for "reviewing" security clearances that have already been terminated or relinquished.

 

[elpablo21]

Just feeding red meat to the base by naming them in this clean sweep against the "deep state" imo

Would Strzok even have clearance anymore after being fired?

 

[Belgium]

Just feeding red meat to the base by naming them in this clean sweep against the "deep state" imo

Would Strzok even have clearance anymore after being fired?

Not sure. McCabe's clearance was terminated after Sessions fired him but Comey was "read out" and declined a temporary clearance from the DOJ's watchdog office regarding the IG's investigation into the handling of the Clinton email probe.
McCabe may be different from Strzok in that McCabe was fired specifically for lack of candor with the DOJ's Inspector General.

 

[Belgium]

Surprisingly doesn't seem like like the worst idea depending on what replaces it. Lessening the bureaucratic process would presumably speed up and strengthen the US' cyberattack capacities but on the other hand that can also turn into a manner of diminishing interagency oversight over such measures.

In a way it's interesting to read so much about the US intelligence activities and abilities but on the other hand I wish we got remotely close to as much information about Belgium's intelligence agencies. Even amidst reports of dysfunction, a demoralized workforce and infrastructure problems ranging up to crumbling ceilings in the military intelligence agency, much of the information we're able to read is coming from a parliamentary commission investigating the military intel agency's (ADIV) handling of the 2016 Brussels terror attacks. If it wasn't for that, lord knows how little information we'd get.

Our military in general is very secretive compared to many of our neighbors even when it comes to something straightforward like civilian casualties from bombings. Last year our Defense Department flatly claimed our F-16's "do not make civilian casualties."
In response to a controversial March 17 2017 bombing in Mosul led by an international coalition in which we were accused of taking part, our Defense Secretary simply said on tv that he “wasn't sure if our military participated” and faced no further investigation.
In response to why the department publishes slim to zero information about Belgian operations in warzones, the Secretary said "we don't want that our pilots could be linked with civilian casualties in order to prevent revenge attacks."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-...erattacks-reverses-obama-directive-1534378721
Trump, Seeking to Relax Rules on U.S. Cyberattacks, Reverses Obama Directive
It isn’t clear what rules the president is adopting to replace the existing ones
President Trump has reversed an Obama-era memorandum governing how and when the U.S. government can deploy cyberweapons against its adversaries, in an effort to loosen restrictions on such operations, according to people familiar with the action.

Mr. Trump signed an order on Wednesday reversing the classified rules, known as Presidential Policy Directive 20, that had mapped out an elaborate interagency process that must be followed before U.S. use of cyberattacks, particularly those geared at foreign adversaries.

Although the policy was classified, its contents were made public when it was leaked in 2013 by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. It was signed by Mr. Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, in 2012.

It wasn’t clear what rules Trump is adopting to replace the Obama directive. A number of current U.S. officials confirmed the directive had been replaced but declined to comment further, citing the classified nature of the process.

The move was described as an “offensive step forward” by an administration official briefed on the decision, one intended to help support military operations, deter foreign election influence and thwart intellectual property theft by meeting such threats with more forceful responses.

The policy applies to the Defense Department as well as other federal agencies, the official said, while declining to specify which specific agencies would be affected. John Bolton, Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, began an effort to remove the Obama directive when he arrived at the White House in April, the official said.

Some lawmakers have raised questions in recent months about whether U.S. Cyber Command, the chief agency responsible for conducting offensive cyber missions, has been limited in its ability to respond to alleged Russian efforts to interfere in U.S. elections due to layers of bureaucratic hurdles.

As designed, the Obama policy required U.S. agencies to gain approval for offensive operations from an array of stakeholders across the federal government, in part to avoid interfering with existing operations such as digital espionage.

Critics for years have seen Presidential Policy Directive 20 as a particular source of inertia, arguing that it handicaps or prevents important operations by involving too many federal agencies in potential attack plans. But some current and former U.S. officials have expressed concern that removing or replacing the order could sow further uncertainty about what offensive cyber operations are allowed.

The Obama directive, which replaced an earlier framework adopted during the George W. Bush administration, was “designed to ensure that all the appropriate equities got considered when you thought about doing an offensive cyber operation,” said Michael Daniel, who served as the White House cybersecurity coordinator during the Obama administration. “The idea that this is a simple problem is a naive one.”

“If you don’t have good coordination mechanisms, you could end up having an operation wreck a carefully crafted multiyear espionage operation to gain access to a foreign computer system,” added Mr. Daniel, now president and CEO of the Cyber Threat Alliance, a cybersecurity nonprofit.

Several U.S. officials familiar with the Obama-era rules conceded they had flaws, but said that rescinding them could create more problems, especially because it was unclear what Mr. Trump would use to replace the rules.

“I am sympathetic to trying to make our cyber capabilities more nimble in their use,” said Joshua Geltzer, who was senior director of counterterrorism at the National Security Council until March of last year. “On the other hand, there were some very real and hard legal questions associated with cyber about what operations the government would take that still have not been resolved.”

 

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[whywesteppin]

'You was smooching with your daughter. You been smooching with everybody! Stormy, Hope, Sarah with the double chin, Melanie, Ivanka, Karen. I could go on forever, baby."

Chris Columbus Admits There Are Hours Of ‘Home Alone 2’ Outtakes Featuring Trump Saying Racial Slurs

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Recounting the unexpected difficulties the future president’s brief cameo brought to his film shoot, Home Alone 2: Lost In New York director Chris Columbus admitted Wednesday that he has hours of outtakes featuring Donald Trump uttering racial slurs. “We thought it would be a fun little 30-second cameo from a popular New York figure, but we got barely any usable footage because Trump kept yelling [the N-word] at everyone in the lobby of the Plaza,” said the director, who divulged that several takes had to cut early as Trump unleashed a 15-20-minute torrent of various racial slurs, once even wrestling the Talkboy voice-changing tape recorder from Macaulay Culkin’s hands and filling its 30-minute cassette with disparaging slurs for Mexicans. “We had to spend two days shooting that scene. We’d feed him his line, but every time he’d say something like, ‘The lobby’s over there by those [N-words],’ and we’d have to cut yet again. His cameo was meant to be much longer, but we edited it down to the few seconds where he wasn’t bellowing anything horribly offensive.” Columbus went on to describe the full-page ad Trump took out in the New York Post demanding the Pigeon Lady’s arrest and execution for her suspicious activities in Central Park.

(this is from The Onion. this is satire @ByleBuzma )

 

[whywesteppin]

not a black man, just a black..

 

[leavemeglazzies]

As someone who works in Denmark after graduating from a Danish university while getting financial support from the state throughout the education, I couldn't believe what this stupid woman was saying. She was just pulling things out of her ***. Does she really think that getting this financial support from the state while you're unemployed or while you're going through an education pays AS much as having a regular, proper job for there to be no incentive for people to get employed?

 

[blastercombo]

But but but.... He never said it starting ..........now???


-DWalk

 

[MalcolmNewton]

Says person typing in CAPS