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blatham
 
  2  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 07:23 am
These people are utterly despicable.
Quote:
With just one day to go before he leaves office, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) threw a legal Hail Mary to the U.S. Supreme Court in another apparent effort to undermine his Democratic successor's ability to govern.

McCrory filed an emergency request to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to pause court-ordered special elections for more than two dozen state legislative districts in 2017 — special elections in which Democrats could have an opportunity to pick up seats in North Carolina's GOP-dominated legislature.

A federal court found in the summer that 28 state House and Senate districts were racially gerrymandered, but the three-judge panel made the unusual decision to let the election go forward in those districts because it decided it was too late to redraw the maps. After the election, the court ordered the legislature to redraw the lines by March and hold special elections later in 2017.

Now, McCrory appears to be making one more, last-minute attempt to stop all that from going forward.
LINK
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blatham
 
  3  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 07:26 am
Quote:

Trump refuses to face reality about Russia
ALTHOUGH PRESIDENT Obama’s sanctions against Russia for interfering with the U.S. presidential election came late, his action on Thursday reflected a bipartisan consensus that penalties must be imposed for Moscow’s audacious hacking and meddling. But one prominent voice in the United States reacted differently. President-elect Donald Trump said “it’s time for our country to move on to bigger and better things.” Earlier in the week, he asserted that the “whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what is going on.”

No, Mr. Trump, it is not time to move on. U.S. intelligence agencies are in agreement about “what is going on”: a brazen and unprecedented attempt by a hostile power to covertly sway the outcome of a U.S. presidential election through the theft and release of material damaging to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. The president-elect’s dismissive response only deepens unanswered questions about his ties to Russia in the past and his plans for cooperation with Vladi­mir Putin.
LINK

Well, yeah.
Frugal1
 
  -3  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 07:29 am
@blatham,
0bama still has time to fund & arm more terrorist before leaving office.

Are you rooting for him to succeed ?
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blatham
 
  2  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 08:15 am
This is completely normal. Every prior in-coming President has behaved in this manner. Clearly the man is the epitome of what we refer to by the phrase, "mentally stable".
Quote:
President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday tweeted a New Year's message to his supporters and his "many enemies."

"Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!"


revelette1
 
  2  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 08:20 am
@blatham,
Horrible to have such a president coming in. How are we to respect such a man when he has no respect for the people he is supposed to be serving as President?
revelette1
 
  2  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 08:24 am
@blatham,
Turns out it was not only the election Russia has interfered with. There is no way Trump can ignore the clear and present danger Russia is becoming or else he really will be giving congress reasons to impeach him.

Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid
Frugal1
 
  -4  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 08:27 am
@blatham,
Clearly you have a problem understanding what Trump is referring to.

http://unclesamsmisguidedchildren.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/1a1a.jpg
revelette1
 
  2  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 09:22 am
@Frugal1,
Even if true, which is a slim save btw, clearly, Trump has trouble with the First Amendment of the Constitution and the freedom of the Press. Conservatives love to bring up the founding fathers, clearly, the founding fathers thought the expression of the freedom of the press so important it was included in the first amendment along with religion and the right to assembly and speech.
blatham
 
  2  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 09:32 am
@revelette1,
re hacking of grid
yes.

I should add that I don't fear Russia in this matter, it's other non-state actors like ISIS that concern me here.
blatham
 
  2  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 09:41 am
Quote:
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s mode of public communication is the very opposite of Donald Trump’s: rather than tweet 140-character bursts, he stages elaborate, laboriously choreographed affairs that far outlast anyone’s attention span. He holds one press conference and one televised call-in show a year. Participants are pre-screened, question topics are pre-cleared, and many are pre-scripted. Each event usually lasts more than four hours. Each usually contains a memorable and informative passage that summarizes Putin’s current vision of himself in the world. There have been times when he positioned himself as the savior of a country on the brink of catastrophe, a conqueror, a victor. This year, in his press conference on December 23, he positioned himself as the most powerful man in the world.
LINK
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blatham
 
  3  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 09:45 am
Quote:
Ron Fournier ‏@ron_fournier 15h15 hours ago
I'm old enough to remember when favoring a Russian president over the US President & CIA would be suicidal for a US politician & his party

It all seems so long ago now.
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blatham
 
  2  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 09:51 am
Jeff Sessions Omits Decades Of Records For His AG Confirmation Hearing
He once argued that doing this is a felony.
LINK
That whole bearing false witness thing no longer on god's tablets, it appears.
blatham
 
  2  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 09:57 am
Quote:
Donald J. TrumpVerified account
‏@realDonaldTrump
Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!

As someone on twitter pointed out, this formulation can easily be read this way: the plurality of American citizens are among the "enemy" while Putin and Russia stand as friend.
georgeob1
 
  -1  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 10:01 am
@blatham,
Your link here is to the Huffington Post which itself refers to "reports from various progressive advocacy groups". At best only vague rererenced to the alleged omissions is provided. None of the specifica are well-known or widely reported. Do you consider this to be a sufficient demonstration of the "facts" that are your basis that this is felonious bearing of false witness?

Contemptable
Debra Law
 
  5  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 10:22 am
@blatham,
blatham wrote:

Quote:
Donald J. TrumpVerified account
‏@realDonaldTrump
Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!

As someone on twitter pointed out, this formulation can easily be read this way: the plurality of American citizens are among the "enemy" while Putin and Russia stand as friend.


Shouldn't the fourth grade snot be washing out the **** stains in his shorts instead of taunting his "many enemies"? Doesn't he have anything better to do? He needs to direct his pointy loser finger back at himself.
revelette1
 
  3  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 10:43 am
@blatham,
I don't know, all these little steps, show something is up with Russia and bears watching and preventing.
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georgeob1
 
  -3  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 10:54 am
@Debra Law,
I'll agree that Trump's tweeted statement was a puerile finger in the eye of his many, perpetually outraged, opponents. However, the reactions to it, probably well-illustrated by those of Blatham and Debre above, are more or less the equivalent of Trump's verbal sally. Each will perpetuate the other, and it's very hard to determine just who started it all. From Trump's perspective this is likely a cheap way to cause his opponents to waste their political energy in self-absorbed outrage, instead of objectively analyzing their defeat and developing better alternatives.
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cicerone imposter
 
  1  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 11:39 am
This is what happens when power goes to their head.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/world/586470/Russia-royal-family-Vladimir-Putin-reinstate-Tsar-Nicholas-Second-Romanov/amp?client=safari
They want to become royalty.
Debra Law
 
  3  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 12:04 pm
@cicerone imposter,
cicerone imposter wrote:

No matter how many tried to shred Obama, he still enjoys a 56% approval rating. Pretty good in my books, considering the republican congress.
It's still a mystery that Trump didn't suffer much from his five year birther lies - and many other lies.

I guess we just have to put up with how Americans vote for a racial bigot, scammer, and liar.


The reason Trump didn't suffer from his ongoing attacks on Obama, our first black president, is because racism and bigotry still rages in the blood of white America. Most everyone, except the most openly unapologetic racists, will deny their racial bigotry and trip all over themselves to express how insulted they are that anyone would think they're racist--but they are indeed racist.

And we don't have to put up with our fellow Americans who willfully blind themselves to Trump's glaring faults (too many to list). I personally weeded out all the racists and bigots from my circle of friends and family. Even my sister and other family members who shared numerous hateful memes that showed up on my social media page have been "unfriended" in a manner of speaking. And when she sent me an email asking me what was wrong, why had I "unfriended" her, I was honest. I'm not putting up with that bigotry, and hate, and racist ****. It's unacceptable.

It's hard to "hurt the feelings" of friends and family members, but I could no longer keep my mouth shut in order to keep peace in my circle of friends and family. Racism and bigotry is unacceptable even when people you love are the culprits. That must be made clear.

Each and every one of us must draw a line. We don't have to put up with it and we shouldn't. I should have drawn that line years ago when my older sister, a California resident, was complaining that the California Supreme Court had negated the will of the majority when it declared the ban on gay marriages unconstitutional. I explained to her that it was indeed unconstitutional and if she was against gay marriage (based on her religious beliefs and the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman), then she shouldn't marry a woman. After all, every time she married (4 times), she married a man and that was her choice. She does not have the right, however, to impose her personal preferences in matrimony on everyone else in our diverse society through the operation of our laws. But my words had no impact at all because she was my big sister and I still treated her with an abundance of love and affection. There were no consequences and she merely believed our "difference of opinion" was no big deal. But it is a big deal with devastating consequences.

I guess the last straw for me was when my sister shared a meme addressed to all Democrats and Liberals and announcing a litany of terrible things that caused her and her ilk to rise up against us (her enemies) and elect Donald Trump as our next president. Wow, sister, I never did any of those things. How blind and indoctrinated into the hate culture are you? I don't need you in my life.

Well, I'm just ranting. I'm very disappointed in my fellow citizens (including numerous friends and family members). I have loved so many people in my life who harbor unacceptable bigotry and I'm tired of tiptoeing around their sensitive feelings. I'm not putting up with their hateful ****. Not anymore.




reasoning logic
 
  1  
Sat 31 Dec, 2016 12:09 pm
@cicerone imposter,
Quote:
This is what happens when power goes to their head.


This is how law makers do it in the USA sometimes.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/children-scream-stop-911-call-lawmakers-home-44476070
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