From this NY Times article: I could not possibly give less off a fuck that Trump paid of Daniels, even if he misappropriated funds to do it. I actually care about all the damage he's doing to this country legally - gutting the EPA, destroying the Department of Education - but obviously him being a colossal fuck up and piece of shit isn't an impeachable offense. So here I am, hoping for something, anything that can be used as an excuse to get this fucker out of office. And hopefully Pence as well, since he's probably worse anyway. But it bothers me that it's shit like this that needs to be proffered as a way to kick him out instead of the actual horrible job he's doing. Yet I feel this is nothing more than a reflection of society and culture as it is right now. How many of us can think of a time when we worked with a worthless shitbag who was terrible at their job but couldn't be fired because reasons - until they broke some stupid, insignificant company policy that was used as a pretext for getting rid of them. Why can't we just be honest about this shit anymore?
Times have changed . . . all of (Bill) Clinton's suspected kills were just to cover up sex stuff and some shady real estate profit, the Arkansas way. Trump's suspected ones will be New Jersey mobster-style because of hook-ups with Russians.
In truth, there's no way to ensure besides level of schooling and transcripts, and that's no guarantee. What we NEED to do, and hopefully we've learned this lesson by now, is formalize and codify these rules of government so in the worst case scenario of another Trump being elected, the motherfucker can't get by on unethical loopholes for personal gain. Never again should the words "it's not actually illegal" serve as a defense.
It depends on the context. Fun fact, I was once invited to the White House to provide insight into online privacy in education due to my work at my last job... had to turn it down, unfortunately, but still, people that actually work in a particular field know who the brains of that field are. We were recognized as being leaders in that aspect of what we were doing, and were involved in a number of industry technical working groups that worked on industry standards, etc. If you're talking about Net Neutrality, for instance, you don't bring in the execs from the major carriers as the exclusive members of your panel... you include technicians, and other people that have a history in the field. People that can understand the technical and societal impacts of such regulation. The goal should be to educate and inform... to see another side of the issue, and understand how it impacts everyone... not as an exclusive group to pass legislation to further an industry's profits.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1032247043992023040 If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2018
Trump’s response? Cohen plead guilty, but commuted NO CRIME. Hooooooooly shit. How much dumber can he get? I swear he stole the red stone from Thanos, and now he’s crafting his own reality and demanding everyone to accept it.
I was wrong. The website Lanny was pimping for Cohen didn't exist. At least it didn't when he promoted it on national TV. It does now....it redirects you to Trump's campaign website.
Actually, based on the article it sounds like it does exist. He just gave the wrong URL. You have to credit career pieces of shit for evaluating the situation and saying "Hey, I can still make money off of this." If this is for real, he's been doing quite well over the last couple of hours since that article was posted. Make that $120k.
So Weisselberg, Trump’s keeper of finance, has been granted immunity in the Cohen probe. But since Cohen has already plead guilty it should be interesting what he’ll have to say.
Trump’s latest defence is that if he’s impeached the stock market will crash. Yeah, it’s all you big boy.
.......aaaaaaaaand now he’s trashing his own attourney general on twitter. He really is a fucking timebomb.
In fairness to Trump, most reputable firms refused represent Trump so Cohen was probably the best of his available options. Of course, the reasons why reputable firms won't represent him is another thing...
If anyone has seen "Who Is America", you might get some insight into that from the "world's biggest mosque" episode. The Town Hall meeting attendees were pretty pissed off when they thought a mosque was coming to town, but they went absolutely apeshit when they found out that it was going to be paid for by the Clinton Foundation. They seemed more pissed off at Clinton than they were racist against Muslims. And they said, "we barely allow the blacks here". It's a red flag thing... a simple go-to to rally their base and get them fired up.
The tactics are dangerous and dirty as fuck, but GOP have always been better at politics, whether or not you agree with them. They endanger the lives of monority groups and other at-risk types because it gets the insanely ignorant types to back them. Tell them who or what the problem is and then tell them that you have the solution to their problems.