President Trump- The Implications

[patric]

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced the United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council Tuesday, accusing the body of bias against US ally Israel and a failure to hold human rights abusers accountable.

An Israeli law declaring that only Jews have the right of self-determination legitimizes oppression and shows that Israel is a fascist and racist country where the spirit of Adolf Hitler has re-emerged.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-turkey/erdogan-says-new-israeli-law-fascist-hitlers-spirit-re-emerging-idUSKBN1KE13U

[heironymouspasparagus]

https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/1021485887383851008

Seems to be a case by case thing.  I work with several ex-mil who kept their clearances long after separation, plus 2 other friends who did same.  Can be important if want to work at place like Boeing or Flight Safety or others that do mil work.  It's a little pricey to maintain they tell me, but cheaper/easier/faster than lapsing and going through it again.

I know a couple of the others don't have clearance now, but it doesn't seem to be just "as normal practice".


As for gaslighting...well, yeah, that is what Trump is, along with being Pedophile In Chief, he is Gaslighter In Chief.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Sum total of all the crap he has done so far is leading us to recession.

Prices of farm product - wheat, corn, soybeans, etc - taking a dive.
Prices of hard commodities like steel, copper, etc - skyrocketing.  We had increases of 7 to 12% until the trade war.  Add 20% more since.
Stock market stagnant all year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/24/southern-california-home-sales-crash-a-warning-sign-to-the-nation.html


Keep watching, kiddies -you are gonna have some 'good' fun real soon now!

[patric]

Imagine that a tape emerged in which Clinton and his personal lawyer were heard discussing how best to pay the hush money that would keep Flowers silent, an undeclared payment that would be in violation of campaign finance laws. There can be no doubt: it would have destroyed Clinton as a candidate, and it would have been seized on as (further) grounds for his impeachment as president.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/25/trump-scandal-president

[swake]

Trump knew about the Russian government offer of dirt on Clinton before Kush and Don Jr met with the Russians per Cohen.

I mean we all knew that, but now we have a witness that will testify on it.

So are we at the very least now up to Attempted Conspiracy Against The United States? I think so.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/26/politics/michael-cohen-donald-trump-june-2016-meeting-knowledge/index.html

[heironymouspasparagus]

Trump knew about the Russian government offer of dirt on Clinton before Kush and Don Jr met with the Russians per Cohen.

I mean we all knew that, but now we have a witness that will testify on it.

So are we at the very least now up to Attempted Conspiracy Against The United States? I think so.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/26/politics/michael-cohen-donald-trump-june-2016-meeting-knowledge/index.html

No.  The moral compass of Trump Minions will dismiss and excuse and put the blame on Hillary...after all, he wouldn't have had to do all that if she wasn't running against him for President.

[patric]

So, Stormy Daniels is it perform in Tulsa. See Swake for advance tickets

Yes absolutely no one saw this coming:



(CNN)  A Columbus, Ohio, vice officer researched Stormy Daniels in the days before she took part in arresting Daniels at a strip club earlier this month. The officer was sending herself emails that included Daniels' photos, a video of her and a map with the location of the strip club where she was performing.
The emails, obtained by CNN through open records laws, suggest Daniels was targeted, which contradicts a statement by the Columbus Police Department immediately after the arrest.

Officer Shana Keckley used her personal e-mail account to send e-mail to her official police account two days before Daniels was arrested at the Sirens Strip Club. Keckley took part in the raid and had her head between Daniels' breasts at the club, according to court documents.

Immediately after the arrest, Columbus police suggested that Daniels was caught in a larger sting operation that was part of a "long-term investigation into allegations of human trafficking, prostitution, & other vice related violations," according to a statement.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/26/politics/emails-columbus-police-stormy-daniels/index.html

The only trouble they might be in is weakening the "human trafficking" catch-all with a conflicting political motivation.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Fastest economic growth since 2014....  so what they are really saying is that it is almost as good as Obama's.


This little bubble is due to front end loading to get ahead of tariffs.  Let's see what happens the rest of the year first.   3% would be ok, but the 2.5% we averaged during Obama was not bad at all.   Well, except that companies kept wages down until very recently - and even now, it isn't great.


Some real numbers/graphs;

https://www.statista.com/statistics/188185/percent-chance-from-preceding-period-in-real-gdp-in-the-us/

[heironymouspasparagus]

Funny!   Imagine that - Giuliani calling Cohen a pathological liar!!

Lol...

https://www.businessinsider.com/giuliani-calls-cohen-pathological-liar-may-create-problem-for-trump-2018-7

[swake]

So Trump says that he did not know about Don Jr's meeting with the Russians.

Cohen says that he was there when Don Jr told daddy about the meeting and that Trump approved of the meeting.

Giuliani says that Cohen "isn't credible at all, and there are witnesses who know what he's claiming isn't true."

If there are witnesses that can say that Cohen wasn't there when Don Jr told daddy, that is very difference from saying "it didn't happen", for there to be witnesses, that means that others were present when Trump was told and they know Cohen wasn't there. Right?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-maintains-not-knowing-in-advance-about-meeting-with-russians-disputing-cohen-claim/2018/07/27/5e18f57a-9143-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html?utm_term=.43fe209212ea

So did Giuliani just admit that Trump knew? What other explanation is there?

Stupid Watergate indeed.

[heironymouspasparagus]

And in that, Pinnochio...er, uh, Giuliani says taping a client is a disbarable offense...  ?  King size crock of crap.

He may be disbarred for other things - a possible big pile of other things - but recording ain't it.

[BKDotCom]

"isn't credible at all, and there are witnesses who know what he's claiming isn't true."

Trump is surrounded by witnesses 24/7.  These witnesses can confirm that Don Jr never told Trump about the meeting?
Perhaps the witness Giuliani is referring to is Don Jr?

[guido911]

GDP at 4.1%. No idea what that means, but I am certain we will hear more about Russia today.

[dbacksfan 2.0]

GDP at 4.1%. No idea what that means, but I am certain we will hear more about Russia today.

Probably more about the soccer ball with a chip in it.

[swake]

GDP at 4.1%. No idea what that means, but I am certain we will hear more about Russia today.

Reportedly it's a rush of orders trying to beat the start of tariffs. Like this little story:

Make America Great Again?

Workers make flags for President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election campaign at the Jiahao flag factory in Fuyang, Anhui province, China

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-2020-campaign-banners-are-being-proudly-produced-in-china-2018-07-25