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As Reagan Library nears flames, here's a collection of his "YOLO" (you only live once) moments - strange how a bit of humor takes the edge off what wasn't a fun time overall - pretty certain there won't be any of these for the Trump years.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bennyjohnson/ronald-reagan-yolo
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 4:29am
You can disagree and be civil.
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 8:19am
by Peter (not verified) on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 3:25pm
You mean the millions of good racist demagoguing mass-shooter-supporting Putin-helping Republicans who don't mind holding little immigrant kids in filthy unsafe cells without their parents and applaud leaving Kurds defenseless and think it's okay to hold Congressionally-allocated funds hostage until a foreign government digs up dirt on a political opponent?
Surely you had something better to do in your hiatus than just spin in circles reciting more treasonous bullshit.
Yeah, there are the Rick Wilson and Bill Kristol types who are trying to hold together some standards, while the hyenas in what the GOP's become try to break all process & rules of law they can. Former = non-deplorables, latter = deplorables.
Once upon a time FEMA & handling emergencies was sacrosanct - now the White House picks which sectors of the country & territoriees to help according to political affiliation. Once upon a time we recognized the Soviet Union/Russia as a difficult adversary & frequently existential threat. Now we have Putin's fingerprints all over our government & elections, and yet all the GOP's in such a hurry to take a buck & own the Libs that they can't even hold up a semblance of the morality they had under Reagan. My father would absolutely shit himself to see the US military retreating from the Turks and leaving the warm water port on the Mediterranean & strategic Mideast territory to Russia unchallenged.
And to think for a second I was glad to see you.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 5:03pm
You could have found a more respected source than Avenatti to quote and Clinton was impeached for 3 of 12 felonies he was accused of not the BJ. Trump has done things some people don't like or have negative opinions about but creating crimes from lies and opinions is beyond partisan and reeks of demonic/ideological possession.
Repeating toxic messaging based on images from the Obama regime era and continuing denigration of caring Americans is why I needed a break from Dag. Deplorables are volunteering to clean upt the filth in Baltimore and locally the R-Mayor of Albuquerque has started a work program for homeless panhandlers cleaning up the mess left by the homeless and others. Most Americans are caring and giving no matter what lies the Cultural Marxists and race baiters spew and they will not be subjugated by these demonic forces.
by Peter (not verified) on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 6:22pm
I could have, but if you're not going to try to be serious, why should I go out of my way?
But here you go - I'd hope most Americans are caring enough about how Trump operates & whether we take orders from Putin - but I'm skeptical.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 6:30pm
You are funny. Are you talking about the Republican mayor who presided over this mess?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Berry
You should note that Orange Genius is trying to avoid paying Albuquerque money owed
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/albuquerque-trump-campaign-bill-owed_n_5db257b4e4b0ea02257b5635
Trump has not paid bills in multiple other cities
You make this too easy.
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 6:50pm
Albuquerque has a Dem mayor now who would never make this kind of pathetic demand of another dem. The Secret Service has a limited budget and has never agreed to cover these supposed costs for any President which you should know. They do spend millions around the country on these trips on fees , hotels, food, fuel and other economic pluses for the local economy.
by Peter (not verified) on Sat, 11/02/2019 - 12:46am
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 7:46pm
PP: I see Wittes caught that too.
by artappraiser on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 8:37pm
The UK, Italy and Australia are cooperating with Barr and Durham's criminal investigation because they know some of their people were complicit in the crimes of Spygate. Those people involved and their cronies, as expected, are sandbagging and deflecting through media and opinion lackeys.
by Peter (not verified) on Sat, 11/02/2019 - 12:57am
Peter,
1) is it a crime to hold up $400million in aid allocated by Congress by putting conditions on that aid not expressed by Congress without telling Congress, and indeed hiding it from Congress? (Constitutional power of the purse)
2) if those conditions are to find dirt on a political opponent not in government, does that make the crime worse?
3) is it a crime to lie about 1 & 2 to Congress and provide falsified records of 1 & 2?
4) Is it a crime to block Congress from investigating what happened to its money?
5) by what standards can Giuliani simultaneously act as "Trump's personal lawyer", an assistant to Barr for official government purposes in negotiating with foreign governments, a private lobbyist for various private energy & other interests, an "employer" of other shady lobbyists but somehow *paid* by those employees, all without holding any security clearance not official US position nor declaring these conflicts of interest?
6) Is it a crime to pressure a foreign state with withholding Congressionally mandated aid until foreign state suppresses criminal evidence (Manafort's Ukrainian pay records) that could implicate one's campaign manager in a US criminal trial and in effect and by extension oneself?
Straight answers please.
Bonus
7) if one of Rudy's (and Trump's/Barr's apparently) cronies/"employee"/money source says freely and openly he's tied to the Russian mob, is that worth being shocked at and worth investigating? Does that reflect poorly on the President in any way?
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 11/02/2019 - 1:51am
I think it's obvious that if Clinton had withheld 500 million in aid and used it to try to extort some country into investigating Dole, or Bush, or if Obama had tried to do it to Romney the republicans would have impeached and enough democrats would have joined them to convict. I no longer have any interest in what kind of spin Trump supporters will use to try to make that ok.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 11/02/2019 - 10:39am
Parroting debunked false narratives and ignoring real evidence will not bring you happiness unless you are a fan of Goebbels, NK or East Germany! Ukraine has already convicted one of their politicians for interfering in the 2016 US election by colluding with the DNC against Manafort and Trump, as reported on by Politico.
The wheels of justice move slowly but if you saw Clapper twitching like a lizard on a hot rock when questioned about the Spygate criminal probe a few days ago you'd see that time is running out for this corrupt cabal.Even that lovely so called whistleblower AKA 'Charlie' was directly involved with the players in the DNC's Ukraine operation.
This is a complicated even Byzantine story that began long before Trump ran for the presidency and liberals have difficulty digesting anything more complex than Orange Man Bad. Fortunately for the rest of us the Spygate cabal was a gaggle of arrogant morons who left a huge paper trail. Facing much resistance from the eep state, even now, Judicial Watch, who discovered Thee Red Queen's illegal server, continue to print reams of documentary evidence about Spygate.
by Peter (not verified) on Sat, 11/02/2019 - 3:21pm
Keep it up - I'll start deleting soon.
Note I asked specific questions - you answered none, just threw out usual smear. Finished playing with you.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 11/02/2019 - 4:23pm
Ask yourself, what would Nunes do?
by moat on Sat, 11/02/2019 - 9:27pm
Judicial Watch?!!! PUHLEEZ, what a joke, I thought you had a brain. It's a political propaganda pushing organization, as wikipedia notes: Courts have dismissed the vast majority of its lawsuits
by artappraiser on Sat, 11/02/2019 - 11:04pm
My extended family has people who have been conservatives, socially and politically, for as long as I have known them. There are various times when policy was argued between them and the progressive/liberal members of the family and it became heated at times. But there was always an obligation we all felt and acted upon that we still had to maintain our relationships with each other as family and not take the disagreements to a breaking point.
The appearance of the present POTUS has introduced a new element into the family dynamic. The revulsion the man evinces by way of his ugly and limited language makes it very difficult to disassociate from the character of his supporters. Those of us who are with him, no matter what, do not hear the other side anymore. It is not an opposing view any longer. They are in an asylum they built for themselves.
Please pass the gravy.
by moat on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 7:49pm
I've never met or read a Trump supporter that wasn't ignorant and/or what they thought they knew was factually incorrect. I have little to mostly no interest in discussing politics with ignorant people. Let's face reality. The average SAT score is 1050. That's the average, not what those on the low end get. I'd bet everyone here scored substantially better than average. And we took it when it was more difficult. That's just one simple example that people aren't very smart and they mostly don't use the little intelligence they have to learn or study. Trump supporters are stupid and ignorant, or they're part of the con to use the stupid and ignorant to get their taxes lowered.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 11/02/2019 - 12:52am
Loyalist Executive branch staff show intent to start them spouting agitprop at a young age:
If successful, kids would not end up being that good at following formal debate rules much less social conversation?
by artappraiser on Sat, 11/02/2019 - 3:22pm