Denouement of U.S. Empire

[cwolff]

Here's trump again making decisions based on what Fox News tells him.

So honestly Buck, I have been asked by so many people that I respect, please — the great Lou Dobbs, the great Sean Hannity, the wonderful great Jeanie Pirro. (laughs)

He also gets in another plug for Maria Baritoromo of Fox. Even partisans have to be uncomfortable with this. There's 300+ million Americans but the President bases his decisions on what one partisan infotainment network says about him while smearing regular News.

Then there's this whopper:

One thing on that again, also, if they thought there was something with Russia, and I’m one of two people that are gonna be the president of the United States, they should have come to me and said, "Sir, you’re dealing with people that may have something to do with Russia. We want to let you know." And I’d say, "I’m sorry whoever it may be, you gotta go, sorry."

He was briefed in 2016 and at the briefing he was likely asked about contacts his campaign has had with Russians or others. This isn't getting much attention but at this point, unless the FBI just forgot to ask him, trump had an obligation to disclose his campaigns contacts.

The briefings were led by counterintelligence specialists from the FBI, the sources said. They were timed to occur around the period when the candidates began receiving classified intelligence, the officials said, which put them at greater risk for being targeted by foreign spies. Trump's first intelligence briefing as Republican nominee was Aug. 17, 2016, sources told NBC News at the time.
Trump was "briefed and warned" at the session about potential espionage threats from Russia, two former law enforcement officials familiar with the sessions told NBC News. A source close to the White House said their position is that Trump was unaware of the contacts between his campaign and Russians.

[Methais]

Here's trump again making decisions based on what Fox News tells him.



He also gets in another plug for Maria Baritoromo of Fox. Even partisans have to be uncomfortable with this. There's 300+ million Americans but the President bases his decisions on what one partisan infotainment network says about him while smearing regular News.

Then there's this whopper:



He was briefed in 2016 and at the briefing he was likely asked about contacts his campaign has had with Russians or others. This isn't getting much attention but at this point, unless the FBI just forgot to ask him, trump had an obligation to disclose his campaigns contacts.

[cwolff]

But the vast majority of conservatives will tell you that they strongly believe in racial equality. Even the donor who wrote “F— THE MUSLIM N—–” about Obama says he is “absolutely not” a racist. They do believe, however, that they are constantly being unfairly accused of being racists by liberals. They eat up laughable pseudo-histories such as the work of Dinesh D’Souza claiming that Democrats are the real racists. And, at the urging of media figures such as Rush Limbaugh, they have become convinced that white people are the last legitimate victims of racism in America today, regularly held back and tied down by a system that distributes spoils to minorities while leaving them to struggle on nothing but their own merit against unfair advantages given to others. In other words, they’re deeply invested in the idea that they are absolutely, positively not racist, and they abhor any effort to divide Americans by race.

This requires no small measure of self-persuasion, as does arguing for policies that have obvious racial motivations. Because it’s hard to look into the minds of others, I have no idea how many Republicans actually believe it when they say, for instance, that their broad range of voter suppression laws, many of which are specifically designed to fall more heavily on minority voters in general and African Americans in particular, are motivated by nothing but concern for the integrity of the ballot. I have no idea whether they believe it when they say there’s nothing racially motivated involved when they make a political issue out of the murder of a young woman when her alleged killer is an immigrant, but ignore a nearly identical case when the alleged murderer is a white man. I have no idea if they believe there is nothing wrong with responding to the shooting of a black teenager by police by saying he was probably a thug who had it coming, but responding to an allegation of attempted rape by a white teenager by saying it was just “horseplay.”

But you know who doesn’t have any doubt? The unapologetic racists. And so Republicans who think themselves to be people of goodwill might ask themselves: Why is it that all these racists are so supportive of my party? Why is it that a bunch of actual Nazis won Republican nominations for elected offices this year, and our nominee for the Senate in Virginia is a neo-Confederate? Why is it that every white nationalist thinks they can find a home in the GOP? And what can I do to change that?

From an article titled, Why do all these racists keep joining the GOP?. This dude hits the nail squarely on the head.

[Neveragain]

From an article titled, Why do all these racists keep joining the GOP?. This dude hits the nail squarely on the head.

"Great news, white people are dying off." ~Cwolff

[Wrathbringer]

From an article titled, Why do all these racists keep joining the GOP?. This dude hits the nail squarely on the head.

You're retarded. TR;DR.

[Fortybox]

From an article titled, Why do all these racists keep joining the GOP?. This dude hits the nail squarely on the head.

"Great news, white people are dying off." ~Cwolff

[cwolff]

The White House is drafting an executive order to look into the business practices of top tech companies like Google and Facebook, Bloomberg reported Saturday.
A copy of the draft order obtained by Bloomberg directs federal antitrust and law enforcement officials to “thoroughly investigate whether any online platform has acted in violation of the antitrust laws.”

Other government agencies are then asked to provide recommendations on how to “protect competition among online platforms and address online platform bias.”
Bloomberg noted that no companies are explicitly named in the order, but that it would apply to tech giants like Google, Twitter and Facebook.
President Trump has recently attacked social media companies, accusing them of discriminating against and silencing conservative voices.

Company executives have acknowledged that some policies have mistakenly acted against voices across the political spectrum, but have denied attempting to silence or being biased against conservatives.

Executives from Twitter and Facebook testified before Congress earlier this month. The Justice Department announced the same day that Attorney General Jeff Sessions would meet with state attorneys general to determine if tech companies are “intentionally stifling” free speech on their platforms.

“The Attorney General has convened a meeting with a number of state attorneys general this month to discuss a growing concern that these companies may be hurting competition and intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas on their platforms,” a Justice Department spokesman said at the time.

If the president was going to lean on the tech companies one would think he'd be doing it because of election interference or national security. Putting country first is too big an ask for the GOP and White House of today though so what we have an abuse of the federal government because trump sees news he doesn't like on the internet.

And while the WH works on this anti-American executive order FBI agents are put in a position to defend themselves from attacks by the President.

A group representing thousands of current and former FBI agents shared a defense of bureau employees on Saturday amid renewed criticism of the FBI from President Trump and others.
“As we have said, Attacks on our character and demeaning comments about the FBI will not deter Agents from continuing to do what we have always done—dedicate our lives to protecting the American people,” the FBI Agents Association tweeted Saturday morning.

The FBI agents group issued the tweet after Trump went after the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI at a campaign rally in Missouri on Friday evening, vowing to get rid of the "stench" at the department.

[Astray]

Transparency is the best bet for these companies. I'm also absolutely positive that this will take years to produce results and will be ultimately fruitless.

There are better things to worry about. Like stopping that creepy Google cult shit going on.

[cwolff]

"But there’s a bureaucratic coup against President Trump being discovered here," Graham added, saying people in the FBI tried to "taint the [2016 presidential] election" and tip it in Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's favor.

"I don't know what Rosenstein did, but I know what [Andrew McCabe] or [Peter Strzok] and [Lisa Page] did," Graham said, alluding to former FBI officials.

Many conservatives have zeroed in on text messages exchanged between Page and Strzok during the 2016 election as evidence of bias against Trump inside the agency.

"They tried to destroy this president," Graham said.

Now they got Graham going with this Deep State conspiracy theory. He's changed a lot this past year or so from anti-trumper to big time cheerleader. It's a dangerous time for the USA. Sometimes I think this will all just be a hiccup, a short term embarrassment but that's the best case scenario. We could be on the verge of losing it all. Just another failed democracy.

[Neveragain]

Now they got Graham going with this Deep State conspiracy theory. He's changed a lot this past year or so from anti-trumper to big time cheerleader. It's a dangerous time for the USA. Sometimes I think this will all just be a hiccup, a short term embarrassment but that's the best case scenario. We could be on the verge of losing it all. Just another failed democracy.

Communists in the defense department leaking info. Cwolff "nothing to see here" Russia, Russia, Russia!