Why I left the Democratic Party

@revelette1,

I'm not holding my breath.

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Speaking of WH east wing leaks. Apparently those in the west wing have to lock up their phones in lockers which were installed just for that purpose. The following is on down the article, I just found it hilarious. I pictured a comedy made out of it.

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Officials now either leave their personal devices in their cars, or, when they arrive for work each morning, deposit them in lockers that have been installed at West Wing entrances. Each locker has a key, which official said take a little jiggling to remove. The staffer puts their phone in the locker, locks it and hangs on to the key until the end of the day when it's time to reclaim their device.

Sources said it's common to find several staffers huddled around the lockers throughout the day, perusing their neglected messages. The lockers buzz and chirp constantly from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The ban isn't based on an honor system. Sweeps are carried out to track down personal devices that have made it past the lobby and into the building. According to sources who are familiar with the sweeps, men dressed in suits and carrying large handheld devices have been seen roaming the halls of the West Wing, moving from room to room, scouring the place for devices that aren't government-issued. If one is detected, one of the men will ask those in the room if someone forgot to put their phone away.

In the early days of the ban, staffers would forget, or didn't realize that the ban included Apple watches. But if no one says they have a phone, the men begin searching the room.

The devices are largely accurate, sources say, and can even determine what type of device is in the room. When the ban was first implemented several months ago, a group of lawmakers was waiting for the President in the West Wing while a sweep was being carried out. The device picked up a Samsung Galaxy, which was in the pocket of one of the visiting lawmakers, according to a source familiar with the situation.

In his memo outlining the policy, Kelly warned that anyone who violated the phone ban could be subject to disciplinary action, including "being indefinitely prohibited from entering the White House complex."

CNN

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@revelette1,

Trust starts at the top. Who could that possibly be? ROFLMAO
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a15940724/trump-state-of-the-union/

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President* Trump's first State of the Union laid bare a government in delusion.

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@maporsche,

You don’t know the difference in claiming something is true and saying you’re not satisfied with an investigation. I’m not surprised.

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@Lash,

Bernie Sanders: Trump Is The 'Most Dangerous President
In The History Of Our Country’
Four months in within his administration, Trump pushes
some of the most destructive pieces of legislation in the
modern history of our country.

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@Lash,

I take it that's a no. You don't agree with any position which doesn't involve bending down to lick Trump's arse.

You were desperate to give credit to Trump's tough talking for bringing North Korea round. How do you feel about it now when it's clear Kim had been yanking Trump's chain all along. I reckon Kim is having a bet with Putin to see which one of them is better at making Trump their bitch.

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@izzythepush,

Asking and then answering questions yourself for other people? Very bad form.

I have to know everything in the former framework and the current plan to give a meaningful answer. I don’t have enough information yet.

Of course, your heavy reliance on emotionally overwrought language makes you sound unhinged again. You seem to have a desperate need to align me with trump because I refuse to march in lock-step with you and your lemming crew. Do you see how silly it is to scream at people just because they don’t agree with everything you say?

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2018/5/16/17359188/kara-eastman-nebraska-2nd-congressional-election-medicare-for-all

A progressive candidate running on Medicare-for-all beat a former US Congress member in the Democratic primary for a crucial 2018 House election in Nebraska.

Wooooohooooooo!!!!!

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@Lash,

When you refused to answer one can only assume. And you would have kept shtum had I not answered for you. I sound unhinged? You're the one who needs a bloody gun, only deranged idiots need guns. I'm sorry, but there's not enough guns in the world to make up for what's missing darling.

You were quick enough to heap undeserved praise on Trump for getting NK to the table, but there's a deafening silence when it comes to blaming him for the talks going up the Swanee.

The reason everyone knows you're aligned with Trump is because you can't stop licking his arse. Your lies have caught you out, not that anyone ever believed them anyway, and now you're looking like an idiot, and a verbose one at that.

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@izzythepush,

I don’t like bribery as policy. That’s been true before Trump was on the scene. It’s logical that anyone in s position to stop bribery policy who does so will get my positive attention.

I don’t know if it will work, but I really hope it does.

PS— I love my gun. I’m going shooting next weekend! I’m a great shot.

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@Lash,

She is a progressive democrat, or at least running in the democrat primary so to me it is good. I would rather a progressive than some of these moderates which seem to be running in conservative districts/states.

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https://www.google.com/amp/www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-sb-broward-elections-supervisor-broke-law-snipes-canova-20180514-story,amp.html

Democrats caught cheating progressives—again. Looks like the worm has finally turned against that pit of vipers. They found a judge that couldn’t be paid.

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The Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office violated state and federal laws by destroying ballots from a 2016 Congressional race too soon — and while the ballots were the subject of a lawsuit against the office, a judge has ruled.

Based on that ruling, Florida’s Department of State will send election experts to the Broward elections office in the upcoming election “to ensure that all laws are followed,” the governor’s office said. It could also cost the elections office more than $200,000 to pay attorney’s fees for Tim Canova, the defeated candidate who sued the office.

The decision stems from Canova’s bid to unseat Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the Democratic primary, a race he lost convincingly, at about 57 percent to 43 percent, or 28,809 votes to 21,907.

Canova, who was checking for voting irregularities in the race, sought to look at the paper ballots in March 2017 and took Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes to court three months later when her office hadn’t fulfilled his request. Snipes approved the destruction of the ballots in September, signing a certification that said no court cases involving the ballots were pending.

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@Lash,

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PS— I love my gun. I’m going shooting next weekend! I’m a great shot.

Of course you are.

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I am an advocate for stronger gun control laws. But I have owned a few myself and I have never pushed to take them all away from everybody.

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@edgarblythe,

I don't own any guns, but my husband has several. It makes no difference in how I feel about certain guns being able to shoot multiple rounds and a host of other gun law advocate positions. It is a lie to say people who are advocates for stronger gun laws want to take away people's guns.

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@revelette1,

That's my position.

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@revelette1,

I posted my first bullseye target on Instagram. I was the toast of the shooting range. Fun day with the family. Really nice people at the range. Very careful about safety rules.

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Edgar, did you see this??!

Bernie’s run has changed American politics. I’m so happy this morning!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2018/5/15/17352704/pennsylvania-primary-results-winners-losers

The realities of a complex array of races with their own local dynamics defy the construction of pat narratives. Left-wing Democrats won some races and lost others, while in other cases former insurgents have not been entirely embraced (or co-opted) by the establishment.

But it’s clear the party is moving in a leftward direction, with even the most mainstream new Democratic candidates on the scene embracing views that would have been extremely daring five or 10 years ago. They are also simply riding positive momentum from the national political environment, and in the specific state of Pennsylvania — though not nationally — from some newly favorable district boundaries.

Here’s who won and who lost.

Winner: Pittsburgh-area socialism
A real sign of the shifting winds of American politics came from the victory of a pair of first-time candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America who knocked off two incumbent state legislators from a well-established Pittsburgh political family.

Both Dom and Paul Costa, the incumbent losers, were on the conservative side of modern Democratic Party politics but also seemingly well-entrenched.

Instead, they lost. To Sara Innamorato, a 32-year-old nonprofit manager and former Apple retail store worker, and Summer Lee, a 2015 graduate of the Howard University School of Law. Their wins are ideological victories for the left, but also reflect basic demographic dynamics. Women — and especially younger women and women with college degrees — are the core of the anti-Trump political mobilization, and candidates who can mirror and channel that specific demographic are well-positioned to win Democratic primaries this cycle.

Winner: Democratic women
By contrast to the Innamorato and Lee wins, Bernie Sanders endorsed Rich Lazer in the PA-5 primary, and Sanders and his Our Revolution organization invested heavily in Gregory Edwards’s campaign in PA-7.

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@Lash,

As more progressive candidates win, the base will be able to compare between those who act for the people and not and will have two years to decide who should run in 2020.

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@Lash,

I'm sure you being a great shot is of huge comfort to the children of parents shot down by legally owned weapons.

You're a one trick pony constantly repeating a load of unfounded mad conspiracy bollocks. The truth is the Clintons are yesterday's news and only the truly deranged keep banging on about them.

For all his faults Bill Clinton was the first post war president who actually cared about making the World a better place, he was instrumental in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and stopped the slaughter in Kosovo.

Compare that to your war criminal Bush whose incompetence allowed 9/11 to happen who embarked on an illegal war in Iraq, killing hundreds of thousands, giving birth to IS and screwing up the ME for at least a generation.

As for corruption you can't get more corrupt than the murky business dealings between the Bushes and the Bin Ladens. The clearest example of this was, following the shutdown after 9/11, the one plane allowed to fly was the private jet taking Osama Bin Laden's family safely away from any prospect of being interviewed by the FBI.

Then again, real bribery, like real treason, doesn't interest you because it's carried out by your right wing idols. You're only interested in unsubstantiated nickel and dime stuff.

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