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Repubs lose a big hammer

Jul 2, 2019 6:58PM PDT

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He spent twelve DAYS
Jul 9, 2019 2:32PM PDT

in a local jail over a year ago....he's been free ever since without parole or probation.

He was part of the CAMPAIGN....NOT THE ADMINISTRATION

If you're going to make crap up, at least look up SOME of the facts first.

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RE:He was part of the CAMPAIGN....NOT THE ADMINISTRATION
Jul 9, 2019 6:05PM PDT

Yes...a "cohort" in the campaign.....

"cohort}...being the main word, That and "went to JAIL"

Cohort and went to jail....no mention by you of how long in jail........

Sure sounds like I met all the conditions to disprove your claim.

Sticks in your craw does it?

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Does a DRIVER
Jul 10, 2019 3:33AM PDT

also become a 'cohort' in your opinion? Should Feinstein's DRIVER of 25 years also be investigated and/or go to jail because he was on HER payroll and turned out to be a Chinese spy/plant?

YOU call them 'cohorts'.....I call them TARGETS by a corrupt BO administration to spy on a political opponent in order to effect the outcome of a Presidential election and bring about the results they wanted....a HILL win.

Cohen went to jail based on HIS illegal activities that had nothing to do with Trump....and couldn't get that plea deal without a FORCED 'confession' of Campaign Finance Laws. That NEVER resulted in TRUMP being accused of the same crime. It was inserted at the end of his 'cooperation' with the Feds for the SOLE purpose of bad publicity for Trump....even CONGRESS who is working hard to GET Trump has never brought it up even though OTHERS in the past have been charged with breaking those laws.....even AOC has been accused with no results.

You keep trying to make some point, but keep forgetting that NONE of these people have gone to jail over ANYTHING to do with Trump, and SOME haven't gone to jail at ALL. And ALL were sucked/suckered in by FBI/Mueller interrogators with threats, which is why they are being appealed.

Do you think you'll be able to defend any of BO's people or HILL's people when the IG and other reports come out and people start getting actual indictments? The 'crimes' you talk about regarding FOUR people (cohorts) involved even slightly with Trump will be NOTHING compared to what's coming soon for the BO administration.

Harp all you want over four people, even though others who have been harassed as well have not been charged with anything. Those people were literally harassed until they lost all their money and all for no reason other than a corrupt FBI COULD. And now you have a House doing exactly the same thing....bring people back to testify when they already DID....and force them all into hiring MORE attorneys knowing most can't afford it.

Did you know that in our country you can bring charges against someone for 'lying' to law enforcement (especially the FBI and Congress) if ONE OTHER person's testimony is different from YOURS and YOU are the actual target? Did you know that Strzok and another FBI agent who interviewed Flynn BOTH said he didn't lie to them, but that Mueller's henchman, with a proven record of having his court cases reversed because he hid exculpatory evidence, Weisman said Flynn lied so they made a decision to destroy him just to get to Trump?

They even told him he could walk free if he would LIE for them and he refused to do that. OTHER people Mueller had 'interviewed' were threatened with the same thing, and most were never charged with anything but went broke paying attorneys to keep fighting them.

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RE: YOU call them 'cohorts'.....I call them TARGETS
Jul 10, 2019 1:07PM PDT
YOU call them 'cohorts'.....I call them TARGETS

Depending on what the cohorts are in cahoots to do is what makes them TARGETS.

See what I did there?...worked cahoots into the post?

cahoots....colluding or conspiring together secretly.

cohorts.....collude....in cahoots....= TARGETS

You're Welcome.....

Post was last edited on July 10, 2019 1:49 PM PDT

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You just described
Jul 12, 2019 2:56AM PDT

the entire BO administration....you can add another 'c' word into that as well.....CORRUPT

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Yes, Thorsdottir's team was eliminated,
Jul 3, 2019 12:22PM PDT

but I'm guessing the Reds don't care.

Got a million of 'em.

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It appears some Judge is reading his tweets
Jul 3, 2019 8:03PM PDT

and wants an explanation.

Justice Department Says 2020 Census Fight Might Not Be Over, Following President’s Tweet

JUST ONE DAY after the Trump administration admitted defeat in its legal fight to add a question about citizenship status to the 2020 United States census, a federal judge ordered Justice Department lawyers to explain why President Donald Trump tweeted on Wednesday that the government was “absolutely moving forward” with those plans.

After noting that he might not have the power to “enjoin the President of the United States from tweeting things,” Judge Hazel ordered the Justice Department to explain by Friday at 2 p.m. Eastern Time whether or not the government would still try to add the question to the 2020 census forms.


The guy doesn't know when to shut his cakehole.....

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Not "cakehole" for twits.
Jul 3, 2019 8:40PM PDT

Sorry. Tweets.
It's done by the pricking of his thumbs. Act I, Macbeth.

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RE:It's done by the pricking of his thumbs.
Jul 4, 2019 4:31AM PDT

In Handmaids Tale they cut off Serena's pinky

When they eventually return home, Serena needs help to get upstairs. Fred chalks it all up to a “difficult day,” but when June gets Mrs. Waterford alone, she learns that Serena is now missing her pinky finger — the standard punishment, you’ll remember, for women who read.

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Most of the world is FINE with
Jul 4, 2019 1:28PM PDT

him speaking his mind....it's called transparency and I thought liberals were all for that....except when a Dem is in office, I guess....then secrecy is the key.

As for the report, it doesn't quite hit the mark....Trump's legal teams are working on new arguments for adding it and although the printing without it is already going on, if they get the final OK to put it in, it will probably end up as an addendum that will be printed separately.....and that ok will probably have to come from SCOTUS, so it won't matter much what Hazel has to say unless gives it the nod since SCOTUS tossed it back to the lower court for now.

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RE:Trump's legal teams are working on new arguments
Jul 4, 2019 2:03PM PDT

Well then, until HE has HIS ducks in a row...HE should shut HIS cakehole.(put his thumbs in their holster), and stop making MORE work for his underlings.....

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The many alleged fact checkers, in an alternate
Jul 4, 2019 4:15PM PDT

universe from yours, say his statements are bold, but far short of transparent. Or truthful.
So they say.

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RE:it's called transparency
Jul 4, 2019 6:53PM PDT

and I thought liberals were all for that

They are and they are trying to get others to do the same.

transparency.........see through someone/something definition: to understand the truth about someone or something and not allow yourself to be deceived:

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Your last paragraph/definition
Jul 5, 2019 3:39PM PDT

sure as hell missed the mark under BO's administration....starting with Obamacare lies and deception and going forward from there with a whole list of crap hidden from the people.

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Just got back from the Dr.
Jul 8, 2019 11:08AM PDT

Had to put a splint on my scrolling finger from trying to keep up with this thread on my smartphone. Not that y'all care!!!
Anyway, I'm done with this one.

I will drop this in to ease the tension. I don't carry any flags in sports competition of course, but I very much enjoyed the Women's World Cup. Saw parts of some of the games, and these guys are GOOD! Gals. Girls. Women. Whatever. Happy
Just don't test the SE rules. Kees may be touchy right now.
I could understand the flow of play much better than with the men. I suspect it's because they're better team players. I know, from speaking with women's sports coaches, that they take coaching better.

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It would have been better
Jul 9, 2019 3:35AM PDT

if that tacky broad hadn't deliberately dropped our flag on the ground so she could 'dance'...…..

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Broad?
Jul 12, 2019 5:23PM PDT

Wow, If I used words like that to describe a woman my sister would _not_ let me get away with it! And tacky? If she's tacky then I am too. I think she's the best thing since air-conditioning and deserves more recompense, along with _all_ professional female athletes. But that's just my opinion.

Snopes just happens to have a article on the supposed offence you mentioned : https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rapinoe-flag-stomp/

Judge for yourself - technically, the flag should never touch the ground
_or_ be draped over oneself or used as clothing - though the draping verboten is often ignored by athletes world-wide... And Trump zealots seem to have a fondness for flag decorated clothing and hats - though such patriotism is normal and not offensive to me, per se, sometimes one can go "overboard" and to me _that's_ "tacky".

Rick " Broad means 'battle-axe', to me - and sometimes that's a good thing! " Jones

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LOL
Jul 13, 2019 3:18AM PDT

There are only two words that are never allowed to be used in my house/presence and broad isn't one of them. "C" used for women and "N" for blacks. There are a few others that I cringe at and will admonish over them, but I totally lose my s..t over those two specific ones.

I also have a few pet peeves that are probably more over 'politically correct' crap....such as why are people using hyphenated terms for themselves (African-American, Asian-American, etc.)…..we're ALL Americans, period. If you insist on separating yourselves from the rest of 'us' right off the bat, aren't YOU being the divisive ones ON PURPOSE? I distrusted this hyphenation crap years ago as a young adult in my middle 20's (I was referred to as 'Italian-American') and felt it would eventually end up not being a good thing. If we really desire being a united country, hyphens need to go.

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I agree -
Jul 13, 2019 3:34PM PDT

Victoria does too - we as kids were taught our allegiance to our birth country quite early - especially because we lived overseas for most of our early lives - me til I was around ten, Victoria was a couple years
my senior. And also because our Mom was "first gen born" from Polish and Russian parents who came to Detroit around 1909. So I'm a quarter Pole, 1/4 "Russki", Dad's side was originally Welsh/Scottish with a smattering of "Unknown". And no, I've never been tempted (well, not much!) to take one of those DNA things one sends back to a Lab. Ha! :^)

Rick " long-haired hippie-type pinko --- " (remember that 'novelty' song from da 70's? :^) " Jones ( I really did once have long hair - everyone else did so I was being "different", eh? now it's grayish blond, what I have left, anyway! Laugh )