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they wrote a story about an undercover operative targeting a member of the campaign and had the gumption to suggest Trump and "his allies" need "ammunition to support their spying claims?". How dumb are the members of their party?

I'm glad it doesn't matter to you. It shouldn't. You'll survive the Trump presidency, in fact you'll likely thrive relative to most other admins. Just send any extra dough to the socialists. People who struggle with an administration or political party in power need only look at the history of the country to see that over time, things change. During the last gloabalist regime, there were tens of millions of ordinary Americans frustrated with the redistributive tendencies of that group, of the approach that can best be described as "America, maybe, if there is anything left", the billions to Iran in 1s, 5s and 20s, the cluster#### that was Libya and the Benghazi lie (spun, ironically, to influence the outcome of an election), the elevation of run-of-the-mill criminals to martyr status (brown, michael) while tearing down the million plus members of the law enforcement community because of the actions of the few. That was before the Obama admin was revealed to be corrupt to the core, or at least before the knowledge was mainstream. Those people patiently waited for an opportunity to cast their vote for change, did so (often while holding their collective noses knowing full well things might go sideways) and, incredibly, they carried the day. That day really epitomized "America, The beautiful." even for the Trump haters I the general public, they just don't know it. You'll have the opportunity to effect such a change and if you're right, you and those who believe as you do can return us to a kindle, gentler time when a groper, grabber and racist old guy can deliver us back to establishment politics. Or maybe you and those who believe as you do for hope Nd change can deliver us to a Harris, or a Booker or a Sanders who celebrates the steady march of power away from the individual to a place where it converges in Washington, DC where they know more how to keep us all in check. Hell, as you march slack-jawed and dull-eyed along with them, perhaps you'll pass the monument they will build to those that so valiantly and bravely co-opted our department of justice to steal the first election ever, emboldened and heartened by the fact that while the massive investigation lead to 0.00 charges against the president and his circles on the fundamental issues of treason against the US. They'll be thrilled to see average folks like you out taking victory laps about the big reveal party thrown by Obama-Mueller Inc yelling at the tops of their lungs "See?? Nothing came of it all and that proves EVERYTHING!". Just like a cult leader needs malleable minds to shape, every corrupt politician needs an ordinary voter to dupe. Or, they did until the Russia investigation Trump narrative allowed them the opportunity to do it behind closed doors. Anyway, one point worthy of mentioning. Post here, post often and I for one will read what you have to say. If you bring something of value, it can change minds. No hard feelings on all this, but to throw the Rachel Maddow-esque "Faux News" is weak. It'll work in a grocery store or at a dinner party with a well-mannered Trump supporter not interested in arguing with a crazy------though a while I back I had a whopper of an interaction with a lefty who got increasingly agitated to the point of becoming unhinged while I simply offered a different opinion--but in this forum, there are thousands of citations and sources from many different places, 98% of which have nothing to do with "Faux News", which by the way doesn't at all do what you've been lead to believe it does. You should go deeper than that to defend the coup-plotters, if that's your game. Respect the process.

She's going down like a sweet muffin. ~White Goodman

The short summary by AG Barr, after senator Hirono went all Rosie O'Donnell for 6:34 seconds of her 7 minutes allotted, really captured the esssence of the entire sad saga. To summarize..."2 years, exhaustive investigation, the president maligned and accused of being a russian asset, his administration hampered...and you're treating him as if he was guilty---how did we come to this?" I think you're underselling it. It hasn't turned partisan, it started partisan and became surreal. If I could forgive the scumbags who are actively working to paralyze our government--and many were heard from today---it had to be several months ago when it was clear to just about everyone with a brain that this investigation was far worse than anything the Russians could have cooked up. Walk it back, recognize that politics and the thirst for power corrupted you. But now? If it were a movie, you'd almost expect the Russian agent to stab the hero in the back...but the Japanese-born-American-success-story-junior senator from Hawaii? Crazy.

What is it that made you laugh?

More accurately it's a group of soulless cretins yammering on for minutes, weaving a fantastical tale of high crime and treason, and finishing the soliloquy with some words strung together loosely designed to appear to be a question. This allows another group of cretins to cut and paste sound bites to present to the American people a predetermined narrative and to opine that AG Barr was "combatative" "under the gun" and "disregarded the concerns of the SC". In other words, business as usual.

Frigging Barr is so deep in Trumps pocket he's got the media all jimmyjacked up and out of sorts. It's an assault on the free press.

I don't think he misses the irony, I think he courts it. That's where the money is, being outside the center (but not too far), finding your shtick and running with it. He appeals to his audience, while drawing the ire of Trump supporters. Just another douche.

Wow, you have to wonder if he sits back, watches his performance and thinks "Man, was I $#@!I/ credible!". "Go ahead, have your witch hunt!" Was my favorite part. He had to cringe at that knowing the man he tried to disembowel politically was coming for him. Trump is in his head.

For some reason I could not respond directly to your prior message but this will do. The message points you laid out, with few exceptions, are basically the same message points dems have run on for decades. I think they can work, assuming the country is stuck in the mud, mired in depression and fear for the future. Good example: Joe Biden does what Joe Biden always does...some variation of "they gonna keep y'all in chainnnnnsssssss man!". Now, setting aside the obvious hypocrisy of a dem voting for a candidate with a history of racist commentary and what the ladies used to call "Russian eyes and Roman hands (his friends call him "Double" because he always gets to second base) instead of a guy like Trump, I think for most non-extremists they will vote to keep the status quo when the economy is strong, unemployment kept at bay, and there is a general feeling of confidence in/around the place where they live. As for the border, trump's ace in the hole is that while every high-profile politician over the last 40 years has called for border security, he's a guy who had the nuts to get things rolling. When you parse that with information about crime, death and the enormous economic cost of a broken system propped up by dems and r's over the decades, he is well positioned as an outsider who is tackling the problem. Hell, he can run against the r's on that. When you add in the fighting-human-trafficking element on both sides of the border, he can win this issue. Phase 2, btw, as he lays out the increased border security, the human trafficking element, the dems (and likely some r's) obstructionism for personal political gain, he can also revisit legal immigration as a means of bolstering the economy and offering the American dream to those who come legally. While I never underestimate the ability to vote against their own best interests when it come to jobs, the economy, or whatever.....Trump has a powerful message for ordinary Americans: The last time the corrupted democrat party ran things, they offered doom, gloom, sadness and excuses. They worked diligently to overthrow the election and snuff the votes of 60m Americans all while taking them time to leave Americans to die in combat, lie about it yet incredibly find a way to send billions in cash to the terrorist regime of Iran. They can try to run on Trump lies, but the reality is all you are saying is Trumps lies are worse than the other guy's lies. And how do you answer for the corrupt Russia inv and all the dems claiming collusion that never occurred? Finally, when the election field finally rounds out, that's when the fur starts to fly. That's when garbage cans are searched, old video surfaces and someone NOT from your own party attacks. This is phase one, which basically amounts to a political PTA meeting.

You've been like a ninja over the past few days...you step out of the shadows, dispatch with efficiency and are gone again. ?

This is interesting. You want them to focus on his record as a winning strategy for them, or for Trump? What part of his record is he failing on? Revealing dems as the open border wild wild west crowd (the argument is going to be they are all for open borders and lax security so long as the thousands of victims of violent crimes committed by people here illegally are not THEIR kids)? Revisiting the Obama/dem legacy of non-existant growth, unemployment, surging numbers of citizens on da welfare? Revisiting the obama/dem ACA and the foundation of sand it was built on, skyrocketing costs, and fuzzy math that went into it? Revisiting the corruption associated with the Russian collusion narrative, the fingerprints of dems, Obama and Biden all over it? Reminding centrist Americans that votes matter, and that this was an attempt to steal the election, with pictures of key Obamans & key DOJ operatives as coup plotters? The r tax plan. More money for more people is a bad thing? Tax revenue increased to most states (45 I believe) is a bad thing? Revisiting the gutter trash attempted assassination of Bret K by "leaders" of the dem party like Biden, Harris, Booker, Pelosi et al....and how quickly they moved on when they failed? NATO. I guess I can understand your hatred, but what record are you referring to? Don't dems want jobs?

I'm not a Trump wannabe lawyer, I'm just a student of human nature. I'm inherently distrustful of the motives of someone trying to selll me something, be it a product or a political theory. You're entitled to your opinion on trump supporters, and if you feel there is concern that some of us are chewing our nails in anticipation of the REAL trump misdeed story, so be it. I don't see anyone in my extended circle of friends who feels even remotely like that. For the past 2 years, the dems and the media have been on the offensive, trump counter punching over and over and over. Now the the roles are reversed. Mueller will be a factor for some, and dem/liberal sycophants will lap up whatever they say, shouting from the tree tops about trump tweets = obstruction, in part because many of them are small-minded enough to believe manipulated by such drivel. What changes though, is Trump releasing information on the conspirators at whatever level they occupy. Barrack Obama is in that crowd. Joe Biden is complicit. In other words, the game is just beginning, the rules are evolving, and momentum has shifted. The economy is moving, unemployment at historic lows, movement on border security and the dems painted clearly as the open borders crowd, and trump will loses 0.0 % of his base. As for investigations into into tax returns and obstruction of justice while fighting against proven, unfounded allegations of treason---man, saddle up in that dog.

So, as often happens with me, when I get worked up and frustrated, I have to step back, smoke a couple camels and have a glass of scotch. Or, I would if i was a camel killer and drank scotch. Anyway, to the broad point, of course lawful and reasonable oversight is lawful, reasonable and necessary. We can agree on that and simply move on.... Except...the fact that you personally have decided this moment in time, with this president is the one that finally leads to a monarchy. It's the classic "But I don't want to talk about what he did.." or "Hillary Clinton isn't the president" or for all the Comey fans out there..."spying ain't spying, we're just hanging out in the cargo van with the state of the art parabolic microphone pointed at the trump guy!". A more reasonable approach for seekers of truth would be to investigate why and how the intelligence community missed so badly when trying trump to criminality and Russia. Gross incompetence at best, but it was far worse than that. Given where we are now, and knowing the approach the enemies at the gate will employ (complete destruction of trump and anyone in their way), I support the admin employing every sensible and legal tactic to carry the day. Now let's go get a g-d snack.

I'm absolutely ok with the perception that the/A president had the balls to say "***** off" repeatedly, and with malice, to his enemies and to enemies of the state who set up a scheme that put him at personal and political risk. I'm ok with future actions that are lawful in thought/word/deed that serve to protect his presidency and hamstring his enemies. I also support the declassification of material harmful to the democrats, Obama, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, McCabe etc for both transparency and the greater good of all Americans. The answer to your question, btw, is that the opposition party will "check" the president moving forward, with a demonstrated willingness to say, do or support anything real or imagined that achieves their goal of annihilation of the man and his agenda.

While you may well be on your way to being a whiskey boozing alchy narcoleptic per paragraph 2, I still would not classify your reply as snarky. Regardless, Greg is patient indeed.

You read that as snark? Not her style, but to be fair he's written the equivalent of "War and Peace" on this subject, but unlike that wuss Tolstoy, DR went on and wrote the prequel , sequel and personally worked up the genealogy of all the players outlined through the new millennium. So, literally, to reply with detail = patient man.

Pretty amazing how the crackerjacks newsies at places like the NYT, WaPo and everywhere else never got wind of any of this, what with all their sources and all.

We had a good run on the first 44, 100% lie free...now this.

Awesome you can do that with your father. Have a great and memorable trip!

I am sorry, but you sir are flat out wrong. When you scrape the sky, you potentially let in space. While this may lessen the impact of greenhouse gases as they escape to the nethersphere, you open a hole for things like asteroids, stars, and aliens dropping in with their space junk. Maybe you think asteroids landing on your house would be "cool"...i don't. And I guess aliens are good for the environment, huh? Do you even have Netflix?

Excellent point. The Yankees first black player (Elston Howard) joined the team in 1955. Jackie Robinson was quoted by Howard's widow as suggesting the Yankees had to be forced into integrating. 1913-1955...that's nearly 45 years of the Yanks not reflecting the values of the Yanks.

what you're looking for is unreasonable Bobaloney. I am confident in stating that if you allowed the opposition unrestricted access to everything that happens in every administration, the average term for a president would by 6 days, 4 hours and 11 minutes. The average tenure of the director of the CIA would be 48 seconds. Trump is the hero here, warts and all.

It's time for us all to recognize that virtually every part of this debacle was political. We go from Obama and Clinton mocking Trump for concerns about the integrity of the election, to Clinton and the dems losing their collective minds about the integrity of the elections once she lost, to learning that Obama and his crew were asleep at the wheel--and worse yet, awake at the wheel---while the russians were doing what governments do, to nearly 900 straight days of the might and power of the US government kicking in doors, going through the dumpsters, conspiring with BWBI (Brits with Bad Intent) to "Hey we didn't find anything that we could do anything about" (V1) to "That somnabitch may have been thinking about something we don't like" as if they are the political descendants of Chairman Mao. If you're comfortable with the thought of a political party acting like the KGB, of jerking around for 50% of the term of a president being wasted on bs that has been adjudicated as "it is what it is", and of round 2 for the dems being to push their agenda and hamstring the president on thought crimes--just be careful what you wish for. We know--with certainty, what Obama, Clinton, DOJ et al did. If the new approach to politicking has to be "Win at all costs", no one wins--exept of course, the extermists on one side or the other.

I see this type of ambush journalism and wonder why these people are stuck in the 1950s. They seem almost unbelievably entitled, from the obligatory microphone, to the repetitive trance-like questions, to hovering around like a vulture all buttoned up with the goofy joke closing where the anchor snorts along with him. I pray that while this is happening one time, the reporter loses his footing and falls head first into the vehicle as the door is being closed. Mind you, I don't pray for serious injury or death, maybe just a little embarrassment when the reporter cries out as the door slams on his shoulder.