Individual-1, a joke or a threat? (talk Trump)

[Tero]

Stuff that can only happen in Trump world. McConnel and Ryan were happy just to attack entitlements and cut taxes:

Facing pressure from Mueller and an impending onslaught of Democratic investigations, Trump could hew even further to the right, catering exclusively to the base of voters he is concerned about losing, according to a Republican close to the White House who has consulted on the early re-election efforts. That instinct would echo the president's double-down, scorched-earth response to the crises that hit his 2016 campaign, including the "Access Hollywood" tape about forcing himself on women, and could make it harder to woo the independent voters or disaffected Democrats he may well need.

Could Trump face a primary election challenge from within his own party? He doesn't seem concerned.

The president is eager to unleash his re-election machinery and begin to collect pledges of loyalty from across the GOP to quell any hint of an insurrection, according to a campaign official and a Republican familiar with the inner workings of the campaign but not authorized to speak publicly.

The Trump team has discussed the possibility of a challenge from someone such as outgoing Ohio Gov. John Kasich or Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake. A week after the midterm elections, Kasich traveled to New Hampshire for a public speech and private meetings with prominent Republicans.

https://news.yahoo.com/republicans-begi ... _test=2_06

[Tero]

The Republicans are not really postioning to actually run, but keep themselves in the news. Otherwise when Trump crumbles in the summer of 2020 we will get Nikki Haley as candidate. So it is all Plan B at this point.

[Tero]

Trump: I secured the border. Trump an hour later: I need billions for a wall to secure the border.
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy ... ssion=true

[Tero]

Stormy Daniels ordered to pay massive sum to Trump in defamation case, judge rules
US President to get $$$$ from Porn star who really did have a one night stand with Donald "Mushroom Penis" Trump:
Daniels' lawsuit against Trump was tossed out of court in October, with U.S. District Judge S. James Otero citing free-speech grounds.

"The court agrees with Mr. Trump’s argument because the tweet in question constitutes ‘rhetorical hyperbole’ normally associated with politics and public discourse in the U.S.,” Otero said at the time. “The First Amendment protects this type of rhetorical statement.”

“The ruling also states that the President is entitled to an award of his attorneys’ fees against Stormy Daniels,” Harder said in a statement to Fox News following the judge's order.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stormy ... legal-fees

[Jason]

Finally gave in and googled "Mushroom Penis."

[JimC]

I bet he's a real fun guy...

[Seabass]

Surprise! Trumpism was never about immigration—it's about whitening. For what other possible reason is there to go after Vietnamese refugees, FFS?

Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees
The Trump administration is resuming its efforts to deport certain protected Vietnamese immigrants who have lived in the United States for decades—many of them having fled the country during the Vietnam War.

https://www.theatlantic.com/internation ... es/577993/

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic or racial groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group, often with the intent of making it ethnically homogeneous.

[Cunt]

Surprise! Trumpism was never about immigration—it's about whitening. For what other possible reason is there to go after Vietnamese refugees, FFS?

Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees
The Trump administration is resuming its efforts to deport certain protected Vietnamese immigrants who have lived in the United States for decades—many of them having fled the country during the Vietnam War.

https://www.theatlantic.com/internation ... es/577993/

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic or racial groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group, often with the intent of making it ethnically homogeneous.

Surprise!

seabass is still indistinguishable from a paid democratic shill.

[Seabass]

I don't think I'm good enough at shilling to get paid for it, but thank you nonetheless!

[Tero]

Is any of this an original idea? or does he get all (kick out Vietnamese here for decades) from Fox News?

[Animavore]

A fucking scumbag through and through,

Scientists are speaking out against a directive by the Trump administration that has shut down research into a cure for HIV.

A scientist who was supposed to supply mice that have been modified with human fetal tissue for an HIV study emailed researchers that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) “has directed me to discontinue procuring fetal tissue.”

“This effectively stops all of our research to discover a cure for HIV,” he wrote.

A “pause” on research that uses aborted fetal tissue, something Christian conservatives strongly oppose, was announced by the Trump administration this past September. The move will affect numerous biomedical research programs.

Congressional Republicans have tried to ban all fetal tissue research for years to appease the religious right. 85 Republican House members wrote a letter to the head of the FDA asking for a ban on fetal tissue research shortly before the “pause” was announced.

The ban has long been a goal of the anti-abortion industry and has been part of the most recent attacks on Planned Parenthood. The group was falsely accused of selling aborted fetuses earlier this year.

In a statement, the NIH said that there is only a “pause in place” on the research, which is “an action NIH thought was prudent given the examination of these procurements.”

“We were all poised to go and then the bombshell was dropped,” said Warner Greene, director of the Gladstone Center for HIV Cure Research. Greene was about to collaborate with the Montana lab on HIV research when the project came to a halt.

“The decision completely knocked our collaboration off the rails. We were devastated.”

Those, too, who still support this,

[Brian Peacock]

Trump was in the room during hush money discussions with tabloid publisher

Donald Trump was the third person in the room in August 2015 when his lawyer Michael Cohen and National Enquirer publisher David Pecker discussed ways Pecker could help counter negative stories about Trump's relationships with women, NBC News has confirmed.

As part of a nonprosecution agreement disclosed Wednesday by federal prosecutors, American Media Inc., the Enquirer's parent company, admitted that "Pecker offered to help deal with negative stories about that presidential candidate's relationships with women by, among other things, assisting the campaign in identifying such stories so they could be purchased and their publication avoided."

The "statement of admitted facts" says that AMI admitted making a $150,000 payment "in concert with the campaign," and says that Pecker, Cohen and "at least one other member of the campaign" were in the meeting. According to a person familiar with the matter, the "other member" was Trump...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justic ... ms-n947536

Hey, this is just what rich guys do before elections.

[Cunt]

Wasn't Clinton impeached for unauthorized lady-fucking?

So Bill pays over 300,000 bucks to do damage-control on that fiasco...seems reasonable.

Trump apparently also did unauthorized lady-fucking.

Stormy Daniels has to pay over 300,000 bucks to Trump.

I think putting a career businessman in the whitehouse instead of a career politician has changed things a bit.

[Brian Peacock]

Oo look, a massive dollop of whataboutism.

[Tero]

No it was not the blow job for Bill. It was the lying to congress about it.
These lawyers and billionaires cannot grasp ”obstruction of justice.”