ponderingturtle
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It's called being invited. Iran and Iraq are allies after all against ISIS.
Why is having a senior official of an allied government in your country so weird?
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Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 19
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It's called being invited. Iran and Iraq are allies after all against ISIS.
Why is having a senior official of an allied government in your country so weird?
I'm still trying to figure that out.
"Okay so here's the plan. I build a big building."
"Okay, with you so far."
"People walk into the building... and give me money."
"Wait... what kind of business is this? They give you money in exchange for what? What good or service are you providing."
"That's the brilliant part. The good or service I am offering them is... money. You see a lot of people walk into this building and give me money and every once in a great while I will give some of this money back to one of them."
"So wait the business model is mathematically defining your expenses as lower then your profits because the good or service you are providing is defined as a percent of your profit?"
"Yep."
"It would literally be mathematically impossible to lose money doing that unless you were the most corrupt and incompetent person in history."
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dudalb
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Trump think the President should be able to do whatever he wants to do.
Anything short of giving the POTUS absolute power is harassment.
I never thought I would see the day whan a major political party would basically embrace this doctrine, but the day has come. The founding fathers are turning over in their graves.
TragicMonkey
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Aren't casinos mostly for money laundering? You'd lose on running one if the outfit you're running it for doesn't give you a big enough slice. I can't see Trump successfully complaining the mob into playing nicer with him. He got burned because they knew he was a spoiled failson who should never have tried.
Stacyhs
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Well, after all, he is responsible for helping prevent cancer by letting us all know about the dangerous carcinogenic properties of windmills. Since his announcement, people have moved away from windmill farms. And he did try and save all those people in Scotland by stopping a windmill farm from being built. The fact it affected the views from his golf course is just a coincidence and fake news.
Aridas
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Iran and Iraq say that he was carrying messages as part of an effort to de-escalate tensions. In short, he was killed while working towards peace in the Middle East. Hard to pick a worse time to kill the guy. Pompeo may mock such, but... Pompeo's one of the people who fairly certainly got Trump to order him killed.
To poke elsewhere, though...
NYC Bar Association gives Bill Barr a stunning rebuke — and asks Congress to investigate him for bias
It's about time.
Fast Eddie B
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Announced in Sharpie!
Stacyhs
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Agreed; it's about time. Barr's bias has been evident since his declaration that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime and it became excruciatingly evident when he lied about Mueller's report regarding obstruction of justice.
Segnosaur
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That's silly. Everyone knows its Kushner's job to bring peace to the middle east. Quit stepping on his toes!
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Barr didn't make that the policy and Mueller likewise adhered to it.
That's among the least biased things he's done. I hate the policy, but it is the current DOJ policy.
ponderingturtle
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And clearly lying about reports is also DOJ policy I guess. I didn't think so but there we go.
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There's plenty of evidence of bias, so listing things that are not evidence of bias only hurts the argument.
Just sayin'
Stacyhs
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I didn't say Barr made the policy, I said he declared it (as in his memo that he sent, unsolicited, to the WH) and his statement during his confirmation hearing:
alfaniner
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I saw some of the little speech today. I had to turn it off after this (paraphrased -- I can't find the transcript yet):
"Everyone loves the USMCA. Because now it's easy to remember. You remember that song 'YMCA'? Everybody does, so now they can remember USMCA. Not like that old word, NAFTA."
This is one of the many "Are you ******* kidding me???" moments I've encountered with this President.
"Everyone loves the USMCA. Because now it's easy to remember. You remember that song 'YMCA'? Everybody does, so now they can remember USMCA. Not like that old word, NAFTA."
This is one of the many "Are you ******* kidding me???" moments I've encountered with this President.
Stacyhs
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Don't be surprised if he starts singing it and making the letters with his arms.
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He stumbled over words twice and was sniffing.
Edited because tofufighter's memory is better than mine.
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Skeptic Ginger
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Does he think this is new news?
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I'm sorry, Captain, but I think you copy/pasted the title of a spam email instead of a tweet from the President of the United States.
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Way to ignore the facts that don't fit with your narrative.
Barr lied to the public in his speech reporting on the Mueller Report. It wasn't just the indictment of a sitting POTUS part.
A Side-by-Side Comparison of Barr’s vs. Mueller’s Statements about Special Counsel Report
See for yourself.
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