monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

In January 2016 Trump said on FOX:
"You go to Brussels, I was in Brussels a long time ago, twenty years ago, so beautiful, and everything was so beautiful. It's like living in a hell hole right now."

I'm a democrat. You aren't defending my freedom.

You missed my point. I was somewhat gently suggesting that your "study over many years" of political commentary has god you little beyond familiarity with the commentators themselves and the arguments they put forward in advancing their views.

The US constitution was an example of improvement for one human society precisely because it favored limited government; local government over central ones; and contained a collection of checks and balances to preserve individual liberty precisely against government.

That's why free markets work better than planned and managed production and distribution systems

maporsche wrote:

They also have to truly understand that if Hillary had won and something like this came out against her, that they'd be doing the same thing right?

If something this vague and unsubstantiated came out against a hypothetical President Hillary, the Republicans would treat it no more seriously than the Vince Foster conspiracy or the fuss over Obama's birth certificate.

maporsche wrote:

I'm a democrat. You aren't defending my freedom.

I defend your freedom every time I prevent the Democrats from violating the Second Amendment.

Does absolute proof need to be established before an investigation commences?

Don't think so. Otherwise there would be nobody in jail except the people who signed confessions.

I get why Trump supporters are trying to belittle and downplay anything Russia related. Totally get it.

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The Russian meddling became a story that rose to national attention largely because, one can argue, it worked. That narrow margin of victory has been blamed on any number of things, from Comey’s last-minute announcement about Clinton’s email server to her campaign’s failure to adequately campaign in those same Midwestern states. But it was narrow enough that the Russian meddling may also have played a role, perhaps by souring supporters of Bernie Sanders against Clinton by releasing the DNC emails and perhaps by bolstering untrue or unflattering news about her as the campaign wound on.

Warning signs existed before Nov. 8. It’s not even clear that more forceful warnings before the election would have made any difference, because it’s hard to see how knowledge of what Russia was purportedly up to would have diminished or altered the effect. But: Trump wasn’t supposed to win. That he did and that he did so narrowly magnified all of the factors that went into his victory, including Russia’s role. That’s the key reason that the meddling question is more important now than it was then.

It’s a good reminder for the president: With the good often comes the bad.

oralloy wrote:
If I had to describe my mindset I'd say I am livid. When I say we should try to outlaw the Democratic Party in America, I really do mean that as a serious proposal. Let's get rid of these scum once and for all.

So...pretty seriously then. I mean your leader didn't even acknowledge Obama's birth certificate until late last summer (only took him 7 years) and something like 45% of Republicans don't believe he's American and therefore not a legitimate president.

And the Tea Party is still publishing fake-news about it as recent as 3 weeks ago (https://www.teaparty.org/breaking-hawaii-official-drops-bombshell-obamas-birth-certificate-233108/)

The Russian meddling became a story that rose to national attention largely because, one can argue, it worked.

DONALD TRUMP’S CRAVEN REPUBLICAN ENABLERS

...The official version of why Trump acted—that he had decided Comey’s handling of the Clinton investigation was botched—is risible. As a more convincing narrative emerges, we can only hope that enough Republicans find the conscience and guts to stand up to Trump and lay down a marker. If they don’t, the consequences could be catastrophic.

Fox News and Reuters report that U.S. President Donald Trump has retained New York-based trial attorney Marc Kasowitz to defend him in the escalating federal investigations involving Russia, espionage suspicions, and possible criminal activities.

Kasowitz has represented Trump for over 15 years, and is known as a litigator, not a criminal defense lawyer.

He currently also represents OJSC Sberbank of Russia, the nation's largest bank, which is charged in an open U.S. federal court case of conspiring with granite company executives and others to raid the assets of a competitor.

Roughly 23 million more people would be uninsured over a decade if the House-passed Obamacare repeal bill becomes law, according to a highly anticipated CBO analysis that could complicate Senate Republicans' hopes of getting their own bill through the upper chamber.

Trump ditches his feud in gracious visit with the pope