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Trump Proposes Solution Open

by Bumr50 ( 110 Comments › )
Filed under Uncategorized at June 10th, 2018 - 2:14 am

“The United States has been taken advantage of for decades and decades,” Trump said at a press conference on the second day of a two-day summit in Canada.
He said he had suggested to the other G7 leaders that all trade barriers, including tariffs and subsidies, be eliminated.

“You go tariff-free, you go barrier-free, you go subsidy free,” he said. “I did suggest it and people I guess were going to go back to the drawing board.”

https://pjmedia.com/trending/trump-blows-up-g7-summit-then-offers-olive-branch/
Yinz want “Free Trade”?

There it is…

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  1. 1 | June 10, 2018 2:42 am

    ROTFLMAO Every other nation on earth wants “Free Trade” with the United States of America right up until the United States makes that “Free Trade” universally equal.

    Trump says… Take your damn thumb off the scale or we are putting ours on exactly the same. Now we will see what everyone else has to say…


  2. 2 | June 10, 2018 7:36 am

    That’ll be interesting. The US will need to cut a few regulations & taxes but I’m fine with that.


  3. eaglesoars
    3 | June 10, 2018 8:28 am

    @ right_wing2:

    regs & taxes?? Think SUBSIDIES. Our agricultural subsidies are bad enough, you should SEE what they’ve got under the Common Agricultural Policy. Hell, about 15% (I think) of the Prince of Wales’ income is from that.

    And fisheries? oh, my…..

    Before he’s done Trump will have these people talking about a barter system and they won’t even realize it.


  4. 4 | June 10, 2018 8:43 am

    @ eaglesoars:
    And that’s true too. I’m not sure how I feel about some subsidies or some way of helping out family farms (my dad’s side of the family farmed, but not for a long time), but I sure don’t support subsidies to corporate farms & seed companies (Monsanto).


  5. eaglesoars
    5 | June 10, 2018 8:45 am

    yinz have to see this. It looks like – no joke – Trudeau has been wearing fake eyebrows. Watch this

    https://twitter.com/stephen_taylor/status/1005518821942161408


  6. 6 | June 10, 2018 8:47 am

    right_wing2 wrote:

    That’ll be interesting. The US will need to cut a few regulations & taxes but I’m fine with that.

    How dare you suggest tax and regulation cuts. Where do you think all of the worlds utterly useless, intolerably and insufferably arrogant buerocrats salaries come from?


  7. eaglesoars
    8 | June 10, 2018 6:18 pm

    Why am I not surprised

    —————–

    In the middle of directing the difficult task of transferring the historically important records of the Obama administration into the National Archives, the archivist in charge, David Ferriero, ran into a serious problem: A lot of key records are missing.

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/10/crisis_at_the_national_archives_137241.html


  8. eaglesoars
    9 | June 10, 2018 6:20 pm

    @ doriangrey:

    ————-

    Several high-profile aides, including John F. Kelly, the president’s chief of staff, and Joe Hagin, a deputy of Mr. Kelly’s, are said to be thinking about how much longer they can stay. Last week, Mr. Kelly told visiting senators that the White House was “a miserable place to work,” according to a person with direct knowledge of the comment.
    ————

    I’ve been hearing about Kelly’s imminent departure and dissatisfaction for a year


  9. rain of lead
    10 | June 10, 2018 6:42 pm

    sarah sanders “pow”

    http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/09/sanders-cnn-producer-you-are-wrong/


  10. rain of lead
    11 | June 10, 2018 6:43 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    sup,
    the girl is off for her 2nd week of camp


  11. Possum
    12 | June 10, 2018 6:58 pm

    I am seriously ill. I must be.

    Tonight all I crave and desire is a salad.

    Do not worry, salad is in the fridge waiting to be eaten.


  12. 13 | June 10, 2018 7:42 pm

    I’ve found when I delivered pizza that hardcore socialists, both advocates and beneficiaries, never tip. One of them actually laughed in my face when I told where he could write in a tip on a credit card slip. Another actually took his time to count out the exact amount of the transaction, and not one penny more, while I was standing outside the door in cold pouring rain.


  13. yenta-fada
    14 | June 10, 2018 8:00 pm

    I’m too ill informed to comment, but I did find this at smalldeadanimals:

    “Any independent country tries to deal from strength. Repeated Canadian administrations have failed to establish a diversified economy. Quite simply a $1 of Canadian GDP does not equal a $1 of USA GDP. Canada is a price taker in a huge % of the economy. Americans are valued added producers. Harper, to his credit, was doing more to diversify the Canadian economy than had been seen in many decades. Harper was a threat to the status quo, particularly the USA, Russia and OPEC. I am convinced foreign money was put to work to ensure his defeat.

    Investment in a diversified economy takes money and time for which Canadian governments have not seriously attempted. The concept of delayed consumption for future benefit does not fly for ‘progressive’ governments who not only deficit finance but encourage their citizens to do the same. Turdeau’s closing G7 comments were self serving and incredibly naive.”

    We do not have an appropriate allocation to military forces. Paladin Phil can speak to that. Progressives are not serious people wrt to our outsized national/provincial/city debts. Yet we give Syrian migrants $3,000 per month (at least) for the first 2 years along with free education & medical services. THE WHOLE COUNTRY apparently cannot do arithmetic. However, we are about to legalize weed. Turdeau is a nasty greedy barely average IQ child. I blame the voters.


  14. yenta-fada
    15 | June 10, 2018 8:04 pm

    rain of lead wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:

    sup,
    the girl is off for her 2nd week of camp

    You & momcat lonesome yet?


  15. eaglesoars
    17 | June 10, 2018 9:22 pm

    rain of lead wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:

    sup,
    the girl is off for her 2nd week of camp

    very busy. all is well. hugs to you momcat and that magnificent creature God entrusted to your arms


  16. Deplorable Bumr50
    18 | June 10, 2018 9:47 pm

    @ The Other Les:

    This is why I always overtip. Even when service is less than good.

    My wife hates it, but I spent quite a few years on the other side of the transaction.


  17. 19 | June 10, 2018 10:25 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Here’s what Ben Garrison said about Трюдо’s eyebrow!
    Trump’s G7 Rebalancing Act
    I’d say the Soi Boi from Ottawa got his ass handed to him!


  18. Deplorable Bumr50
    20 | June 10, 2018 10:47 pm


  19. Deplorable Bumr50
    21 | June 10, 2018 10:48 pm


  20. Deplorable Bumr50
    22 | June 10, 2018 10:48 pm


  21. Deplorable Bumr50
    23 | June 10, 2018 10:50 pm

    Magnificent bastard.


  22. eaglesoars
    25 | June 11, 2018 1:17 pm

    eight? EIGHT???

    This is a good piece on California’s water issues. (I read elsewhere this morning that they lose 30% just to leakage.)

    —-
    And through this crisis, California has spent enormous resources to protect the delta smelt, a 3-inch fish that appears to be going extinct despite enormously wasteful environmental projects.

    “To protect smelt from water pumps, government regulators have flushed 1.4 trillion gallons of water into the San Francisco Bay since 2008,” according to a 2015 report in The Wall Street Journal. “That would have been enough to sustain 6.4 million Californians for six years. Yet a survey of young adult smelt in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta last fall yielded just eight fish, the lowest level since 1967.”

    https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/jarrett-stepman/californias-crazy-left-wing-politics-responsible-water-rationing?utm_source=sumome&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=sumome_share


  23. yenta-fada
    26 | June 11, 2018 1:32 pm

    Armstrong’s observation of the day:

    I live on the beach and am in awe of the sunsets every day. This is a photo I took on one stunning day. Observing the universe and how everything functions in a choreographed play is amazing. I have often said that my physics teacher said nothing is random. God does not play dice with the universe. My economics professor emphasized that everything was random and therefore the government was needed to manipulate the chaos to smooth everything out so we have a better life. I realized right then and there that one of my professors was lying. I followed the path of order; not the one of chaos and randomness. I am always amazed at how precise things really are.


  24. yenta-fada
    27 | June 11, 2018 1:58 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    “Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21” by Rosa Koire

    Global tyrants seen through the eyes of a woman fighting for property rights in Northern California. She sees the larger agenda that is really behind the ‘sustainability’ movement eroding every human freedom on Earth. People are lead to conflate pollution and climate change. The latter is a tax grab as well as an attempt to depopulate the planet. Water is essential for survival.


  25. eaglesoars
    28 | June 11, 2018 2:18 pm

    well…

    Turkey Threatens Austria With Holy War Over Mosque Crackdown…

    yeah, blah, blah, blah, but…

    have we got all our heavy duty stuff out of Incirlik? For some reason I thought we had/have nukes there

    https://www.weaselzippers.us/387596-turkey-threatens-austria-with-holy-war-over-mosque-crackdown/#disqus_thread


  26. eaglesoars
    29 | June 11, 2018 2:20 pm

    yenta-fada wrote:

    an attempt to depopulate the planet

    they’re managing to depopulate California, apparently

    I give it 2 more election cycles before the place collapses completely or people finally get a clue and start throwing people out of office

    I need a nap


  27. lobo91
    30 | June 11, 2018 2:24 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    have we got all our heavy duty stuff out of Incirlik? For some reason I thought we had/have nukes there

    We do. As far as I know, we still do


  28. eaglesoars
    31 | June 11, 2018 3:56 pm

    Unnamed but my guess…Kellyanne Conway

    The best distillation of the Trump Doctrine I heard, though, came from a senior White House official with direct access to the president and his thinking. I was talking to this person several weeks ago, and I said, by way of introduction, that I thought it might perhaps be too early to discern a definitive Trump Doctrine.

    “No,” the official said. “There’s definitely a Trump Doctrine.”

    “What is it?” I asked. Here is the answer I received:

    “The Trump Doctrine is ‘We’re America, Bitch.’ That’s the Trump Doctrine.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/a-senior-white-house-official-defines-the-trump-doctrine-were-america-bitch/562511/


  29. Deplorable Bumr50
    32 | June 11, 2018 6:14 pm

    The b in IHOb stands for burgers?

    You idiots.

    I can’t count the number of new “upscale” burger joints and chains that have sprung up over the past 10 years, not to mention the chains that ALREADY sell burgers.

    Nobody’s gonna buy your burgers.


  30. Possum
    33 | June 11, 2018 6:37 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    The b in IHOb stands for burgers?

    You idiots.

    I can’t count the number of new “upscale” burger joints and chains that have sprung up over the past 10 years, not to mention the chains that ALREADY sell burgers.

    Nobody’s gonna buy your burgers.

    IHOP already sold burgers. My memory is failing me but I think I shared a IHOP burger with a friend in 2014.

    Link to wayback machine 2014 IHOP burger menu.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20140701130944/http://www.ihop.com/menus/main-menu/the-hamburger-bar

    I think we split a bleu cheese and bacon and a mushroom and swiss.

    That is what we would probably do if we did it tomorrow.

    Anyway the burgers were AWESOME!!!!!!


  31. eaglesoars
    34 | June 11, 2018 6:46 pm

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:

    how is your pup?


  32. Deplorable Bumr50
    35 | June 11, 2018 7:03 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    MUCH better, thanks!

    Only thing is I started making her fresh shredded chicken from the Crock Pot to try and get her to eat, and now that’s ALL she’ll eat.

    I’m literally between jobs right now so it’s not a huge problem but we need to get her back to her food soon. Glad I’m home for recovery.


  33. eaglesoars
    36 | June 11, 2018 7:04 pm

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:

    I often wonder who trains who, ya know? No, actually, I don’t


  34. AZfederalist
    38 | June 11, 2018 10:13 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    A lot of key records are missing.

    Why, how can this be? There was not a hint of scandal in that administration, not a hint.


  35. lobo91
    39 | June 11, 2018 10:34 pm

    AZfederalist wrote:

    eaglesoars wrote:

    A lot of key records are missing.

    Why, how can this be? There was not a hint of scandal in that administration, not a hint.

    Well, yeah, if you destroy all the evidence


  36. yenta-fada
    40 | June 11, 2018 10:50 pm

    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/nature/hawaii-volcano-lava-flowing-into-the-sea-spectacular/

    Speaking of Armstrong, well I was. One of his clients must have sent these short vids of fiery lava bursting into the waters surrounding Hawaii.


  37. eaglesoars
    41 | June 11, 2018 10:56 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    AZfederalist wrote:

    eaglesoars wrote:

    A lot of key records are missing.

    Why, how can this be? There was not a hint of scandal in that administration, not a hint.

    Well, yeah, if you destroy all the evidence

    I saw some bullshit article about how Trump’s aides keep TELLING him that tearing up letters from congresscritters into teeny tiny pieces is a violation of the Federal Records act BUT HE WON’T LISTEN!!! So the poor schlubs are reduced to spending their weekends on the floors of their offices piecing them all back together with tape or something. uh huh.

    That article came out the day after the article about the Library of Congress I linked to.

    There’s more than one reporter schtupping a source.


  38. eaglesoars
    42 | June 11, 2018 11:00 pm

    @ yenta-fada:

    Holy…that 2nd one especially is breathtaking


  39. yenta-fada
    43 | June 11, 2018 11:05 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ yenta-fada:

    Holy…that 2nd one especially is breathtaking

    I watched that 3 times. Meantime, would yinz have imagined Trump & Kim?

    “In a meeting that seemed unthinkable just months ago, the leaders met at a Singapore island resort, shaking hands warmly in front of a row of alternating U.S. and North Korean flags. They then moved into a roughly 45-minute one-on-one meeting, joined only by their interpreters, before including their advisers.

    For all the upbeat talk, it remained to be seen what, if any, concrete results the sit-down would produce.

    “We are going to have a great discussion and I think tremendous success. We will be tremendously successful,” Trump said before their private session.

    Kim said through an interpreter: “It wasn’t easy for us to come here. There was a past that grabbed our ankles and wrong prejudices and practices that at times covered our eyes and ears. We overcame all that and we are here now.”


  40. yenta-fada
    44 | June 11, 2018 11:11 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ yenta-fada:

    Holy…that 2nd one especially is breathtaking

    I just had to watch that again. Those guys filming on the boat got closer than I would have.


  41. eaglesoars
    45 | June 11, 2018 11:19 pm

    yenta-fada wrote:

    There was a past that grabbed our ankles and wrong prejudices and practices that at times covered our eyes and ears

    when you guys kept giving us food, but now you’ve got us by the short and curlies.

    Kim was educated most of his life in Switzerland. It’s not as tho he just landed on another planet. Somebody or something has convinced him it’s a different world and I don’t think it was China.

    yenta-fada wrote:

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ yenta-fada:

    Holy…that 2nd one especially is breathtaking

    I just had to watch that again. Those guys filming on the boat got closer than I would have.

    Which Pliny was it that watched Vesuvius from a ship, Elder or Younger, I don’t recall. I watched that and wondered why they weren’t concerned about the air quality. Maybe they weren’t as close as the lens made it look.


  42. yenta-fada
    46 | June 11, 2018 11:26 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Which Pliny? You will have to ask cold warrior. He probably actually knows.

    The volcanic ash would not hit the air if the lava is boiling in the sea, right? Do we have any Vulcans around here. /


  43. eaglesoars
    47 | June 11, 2018 11:33 pm

    @ yenta-fada:

    it’s not the ash, it’s the poisonous gases, sulphur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, etc. I forget the other ones


  44. yenta-fada
    48 | June 11, 2018 11:39 pm

    If you watch CNN, this could happen to you.

    Jeff B.‏Verified account @EsotericCD · 2h2 hours ago

    Dennis Rodman, standing in Singapore, talking live on CNN, just shouted out to Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam in thanks for his support in Rodman’s North Korean diplomacy efforts.

    I’m tripping balls, aren’t I?


  45. eaglesoars
    49 | June 11, 2018 11:44 pm

    @ yenta-fada:

    I’m telling you…Rodman is the key. He gave Kim Trump’s book The Art of the Deal. This has all been done with a book cipher, next to a one-time pad almost unbreakable. Rodman went on CNN just to punk Chris Cuomo who seriously did not know whether to shit or go blind (you should hunt down the video, it’s hilarious).

    This is so much fun………..


  46. yenta-fada
    50 | June 11, 2018 11:45 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ yenta-fada:

    I’m telling you…Rodman is the key. He gave Kim Trump’s book The Art of the Deal. This has all been done with a book cipher, next to a one-time pad almost unbreakable. Rodman went on CNN just to punk Chris Cuomo who seriously did not know whether to shit or go blind (you should hunt down the video, it’s hilarious).

    This is so much fun………..

    https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Dennis%20Rodman%22&src=tren


  47. eaglesoars
    51 | June 11, 2018 11:52 pm

    @ yenta-fada:

    yep. And I PROMISE you Cuomo thought he was talking about weed……….


  48. eaglesoars
    52 | June 11, 2018 11:55 pm

    Phillipe Reines on Fox re Trump: “I’d like him to take ONE day when he didn’t say ‘I told you so’ ”

    suck it, Phil


  49. yenta-fada
    53 | June 11, 2018 11:58 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ yenta-fada:

    yep. And I PROMISE you Cuomo thought he was talking about weed……….

    Interesting. Trump tweeted out this afternoon that Larry Kudlow had a heart attack & is in Walter Reed Hospital.


  50. Deplorable Bumr50
    54 | June 12, 2018 12:02 am

    @ yenta-fada:

    Wife says it was minor and that he’s doing fine at Walter Reed.


  51. yenta-fada
    55 | June 12, 2018 12:02 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Phillipe Reines on Fox re Trump: “I’d like him to take ONE day when he didn’t say ‘I told you so’ ”

    suck it, Phil

    The Trump haters out there are a mob of jackals. The constant hatred in the face of history making moves by Trump is surreal.


  52. yenta-fada
    56 | June 12, 2018 12:07 am

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    @ yenta-fada:

    Wife says it was minor and that he’s doing fine at Walter Reed.

    Good to know. Trump needs all the help he can get. I’m not a Kudlow fan, but he is very smart & could not be bribed if Trump trusts him.
    Good news about your gourmet food loving dog. 🙂


  53. eaglesoars
    57 | June 12, 2018 12:09 am

    yenta-fada wrote:

    The constant hatred in the face of history making moves by Trump is surreal.

    One of these days, one of them is going to go spittle-spewing, desk-chucking, carpet-munching batshit crazy on the air and we will all laugh and cheer.

    What nobody remembers: Nixon went to China. Nixon told Trump he could be POTUS. dots connected by nobody.


  54. eaglesoars
    59 | June 12, 2018 12:18 am

    @ yenta-fada:

    The Left wanted the country to fail under Obama, too, only they called it success.

    They’re consistent tho – as long as the plebes are poor and shackled, they’re happy.


  55. yenta-fada
    60 | June 12, 2018 12:20 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    Remember how buzzsawmonkey constantly referred to the far left as ‘revanchist’? It’s all about having their own way or setting the world on fire if they don’t get it.

    I miss Buzz. Hope he is doing very well.


  56. yenta-fada
    61 | June 12, 2018 12:21 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ yenta-fada:

    The Left wanted the country to fail under Obama, too, only they called it success.

    They’re consistent tho – as long as the plebes are poor and shackled, they’re happy.

    Well said.


  57. lobo91
    62 | June 12, 2018 12:30 am

    @ yenta-fada:

    I miss Buzz. Hope he is doing very well.

    He’s at Zip’s just about every day


  58. yenta-fada
    63 | June 12, 2018 12:38 am

    lobo91 wrote:

    @ yenta-fada:

    I miss Buzz. Hope he is doing very well.

    He’s at Zip’s just about every day

    Hi! Thanks. I don’t usually get to wz, but Buzz must be pretty darned pleased.


  59. 64 | June 12, 2018 12:42 am

    I can’t stop anyone from supporting a mass murdering psychopath who makes Richard Nixon look honest. I can deal with them as the anti-human garbage they are.


  60. eaglesoars
    65 | June 12, 2018 12:46 am

    yenta-fada wrote:

    Buzz must be pretty darned pleased.

    I see him now and then at zip’s. I don’t know how he feel about Trump but he’s still making some great puns……

    @ The Other Les:

    define’supporting’


  61. eaglesoars
    66 | June 12, 2018 12:48 am

    two heathen beagles are on the bed staring at me.

    I’m out


  62. yenta-fada
    67 | June 12, 2018 12:51 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    two heathen beagles are on the bed staring at me.

    I’m out

    *waves* me too,


  63. 68 | June 12, 2018 1:07 am

    yenta-fada wrote:

    but Buzz must be pretty darned pleased.

    Buzz went stark raving carpet munching dingleberry flinging #NeverTrump #Resist. No, I very seriously doubt that Buzz is pleased.


  64. 69 | June 12, 2018 4:47 am

    @ eaglesoars:
    I define “supporting” as voting for.


  65. 70 | June 12, 2018 8:10 am

    Bike challenge update: I’m over half way to my goal of 75 miles by the end of the month. And thanks to a very generous marsupial, I’m at my fund raising goal.

    Tomorrow (Wednesday) any donations up to a total of $500,00 will be matched.

    In total, nearly $3.9 million has been raised this year, and over 1.3 million miles ridden by over 51,000 cyclists.

    https://greatcyclechallenge.com/Riders/BruceRoepke


  66. 71 | June 12, 2018 9:55 am

    The Other Les wrote:

    I can’t stop anyone from supporting a mass murdering psychopath who makes Richard Nixon look honest. I can deal with them as the anti-human garbage they are.

    What are you ranting about Les.


  67. eaglesoars
    72 | June 12, 2018 12:06 pm

    doriangrey wrote:

    What are you ranting about Les.

    thanks, me too. Les, who/what are you talking about?


  68. Deplorable Bumr50
    74 | June 12, 2018 2:34 pm

    @ doriangrey:

    I don’t think the “North Korea Summit” had as much to do with North Korea as people seem to be thinking.


  69. 75 | June 12, 2018 3:47 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    @ doriangrey:

    I don’t think the “North Korea Summit” had as much to do with North Korea as people seem to be thinking.

    That assumes an awful lot.


  70. 76 | June 12, 2018 4:55 pm

    @ doriangrey:
    @ eaglesoars:
    A former friend who now supports Hilary Clinton.


  71. Deplorable Bumr50
    77 | June 12, 2018 5:11 pm

    @ The Other Les:

    Lots of those around these days, Les.

    We can laugh at TDS, but it’s real and has sadly cost a great many relationships.

    I find that among the Republican NeverTrumps, there’s an underlying fallacy that upon a great majority of them hang their incredible hatred of Trump voters.

    It’s the fallacy that one or more other GOP candidates could have defeated Clinton in the 2016 general.

    For me, Trump has been a pleasant surprise – even as an early supporter. I was an early supporter because it was very clear to me that he was the only candidate that had a prayer.


  72. Deplorable Bumr50
    78 | June 12, 2018 5:22 pm

    Federal Judge Approves AT&T Time Warner Merger

    AT&T scored a major triumph in its scheme to become a telecom-media behemoth Tuesday when a federal judge gave the green light to its $85.4 billion takeover of Time Warner.
    The decision by Judge Richard Leon is a setback for Makan Delrahim, President Trump appointee to the top spot in the Justice Department’s antitrust division, challenging his view of antitrust laws in the digital era. Most analysts believe that the decision is likely to set off a wave of takeovers and consolidation in tech, telecom, and media.

    The merger was approved without any conditions, a stunning rebuke of the government’s case. Judge Leon even went so far as to urge the government not to seek a stay of his decision pending a possible appeal.

    “The case stands as a testament to the wisdom of the combination of these two great companies,” Daniel Petrocelli, the lead trial attorney for AT&T, said after the judge’s ruling. “This decision was a sound and proper rejection of all of the government’s arguments to stop this merger.”

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/12/att-time-warner-merger/


  73. 79 | June 12, 2018 5:28 pm

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:
    I see a lot on Twitter about how evil, stupid, dishonest, perverted and liberal Trump is. Yikes!


  74. Deplorable Bumr50
    80 | June 12, 2018 5:35 pm

    @ right_wing2:

    Do ANY of them explain how or why?


  75. 81 | June 12, 2018 6:06 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    @ right_wing2:

    Do ANY of them explain how or why?

    Most of the explanations I have seen basically amount to… “Because Shut Up you Nazi misogynist racist white supremacist poopyhead”.


  76. 82 | June 12, 2018 6:08 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ doriangrey:

    ————-

    Several high-profile aides, including John F. Kelly, the president’s chief of staff, and Joe Hagin, a deputy of Mr. Kelly’s, are said to be thinking about how much longer they can stay. Last week, Mr. Kelly told visiting senators that the White House was “a miserable place to work,” according to a person with direct knowledge of the comment.
    ————

    I’ve been hearing about Kelly’s imminent departure and dissatisfaction for a year

    Like the often-touted release of the IG’s report. I love these “unnamed” sources.


  77. coldwarrior
    83 | June 12, 2018 6:11 pm

    Report from the beach…

    I got the gig I interviewed for. Have caught two sharks and a blue.

    Check in later!


  78. 84 | June 12, 2018 6:21 pm

    So, its official, Millennial’s are Stooopid… Who would have thunk it?

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/dumb-and-dumber-why-we-re-getting-less-intelligent-80k3bl83v


  79. 85 | June 12, 2018 6:24 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    Report from the beach…

    I got the gig I interviewed for. Have caught two sharks and a blue.

    Check in later!

    I believe congratulations are in order. (doesn’t actually have any Tokillya or a good cigar) Tip’s shot of fine tequila and Hammer and Sickle stogie at coldwarrior, good on ya man…


  80. Deplorable Bumr50
    86 | June 12, 2018 6:26 pm

    @ coldwarrior:

    Great news!

    Carry on…


  81. 87 | June 12, 2018 6:26 pm

    Damn shame, damn shame I tell ya… If all their damned houses didn’t burn to the f’ing ground…

    https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/fire-homes-benedict-canyon-beverly-hills-celebrities-1202843597/


  82. 88 | June 12, 2018 6:44 pm

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:
    @ doriangrey:
    I forgot traitor, Putin’s puppet, sucking up to dictators and crapping on our allies…


  83. Deplorable Bumr50
    89 | June 12, 2018 6:47 pm

    AVENATTI: THE RUSSIANS ARE AFTER ME!

    Michael Avenatti told The Daily Beast Tuesday that he believes the Russian government is trying to plant damaging stories about him in the press, without any evidence to support this claim.

    Avenatti, the media-friendly attorney representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Donald Trump, claims two members of the media and a “high ranking American intelligence official” informed him of the Russian plot.

    “They’re doing it because they see me as a threat, a considerable threat,” he told The Daily Beast. “If we weren’t a threat, none of this would be happening.”

    Avenatti also told The Daily Beast that members of the Russian government are trying to spread a story that he once traveled to Moscow and had sexual relationships with several women during his trip.

    http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/12/avenatti-russia-conspiracy/


  84. 90 | June 12, 2018 6:50 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    Avenatti also told The Daily Beast that members of the Russian government are trying to spread a story that he once traveled to Moscow and had sexual relationships with several women during his trip.

    Damn it, its starting to look like I’m the only man in America who didn’t travel to Moscow to have sex with several women.


  85. 91 | June 12, 2018 6:56 pm

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:
    Grab ‘em by the p-ssy, not releasing tax returns, multiple golf trips, making money off of staying at Trump properties etc, etc.


  86. Deplorable Bumr50
    92 | June 12, 2018 6:58 pm

    @ right_wing2:

    I just ignore them.

    Literally NONE of that stuff bothers me, and I won’t be open to a primary challenge from ANYONE in 2020.


  87. 93 | June 12, 2018 7:07 pm

    @ right_wing2:
    Of course he’s going to be impeached any day, just ask helmet hair.


  88. 94 | June 12, 2018 7:18 pm

    right_wing2 wrote:

    Of course he’s going to be impeached any day

    Don’t forget, “And frogmarched out of the Whitehouse in chains”. Because that is their biggest wet-dream.


  89. Possum
    95 | June 12, 2018 7:42 pm

    doriangrey wrote:

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    Avenatti also told The Daily Beast that members of the Russian government are trying to spread a story that he once traveled to Moscow and had sexual relationships with several women during his trip.

    Damn it, its starting to look like I’m the only man in America who didn’t travel to Moscow to have sex with several women.

    There are two of us. Get yourself to Houston by Saturday! I will pay the airfare. British Airways

    $2,028.16
    Average price per person (taxes & fees included)
    Only 2 seats left!
    SELECT

    British Airways
    Flight 2506
    11:08am Sat Jun 16
    Houston (IAH)
    23.04 mi. away from HOU
    2:45pm Sat Jun 16
    Miami (MIA)
    2h 37m
    Economy
    Operated by American Airlines
    Layover: MIA, Miami, FL, United States, 5h 55m

    British Airways
    Flight 208
    8:40pm Sat Jun 16
    Miami (MIA)
    10:20am Sun Jun 17
    London (LHR)
    8h 40m
    Economy
    Layover: LHR, London, United Kingdom, 12h 15m

    British Airways
    Flight 237
    10:35pm Sun Jun 17
    London (LHR)
    4:20am Mon Jun 18
    Moscow (DME)
    3h 45m
    Economy
    Trip Time (w/ layovers): 33h 12m 2stops Select this departure

    British Airways
    Flight 236
    5:40am Sat Jun 23
    Moscow (DME)
    7:55am Sat Jun 23
    London (LHR)
    4h 15m
    Economy
    Layover: LHR, London, United Kingdom, 2h

    British Airways
    Flight 195
    9:55am Sat Jun 23
    London (LHR)
    2:15pm Sat Jun 23
    Houston (IAH)
    23.04 mi. away from HOU
    10h 20m
    Economy
    Trip Time (w/ layovers): 16h 35m 1stops Select this return

    A week in Moscow, I will ask Calo if she will feed my cats while I am gone.

    Seriously, just over $2000 each for a week in Moscow. (yeah plus hotels and food but I can sleep rough… )


  90. eaglesoars
    96 | June 12, 2018 7:43 pm

    So McCabe is suing the FBI and DOJ because he was ‘unfairly fired and he can prove it”

    Discovery is going to be a hoot.

    And Rosenstein has been threatening to subpoena intel committee members email, etc., and start investigating THEM.

    Fire his ass.


  91. 97 | June 12, 2018 7:44 pm

    Possum wrote:

    There are two of us. Get yourself to Houston by Saturday! I will pay the airfare. British Airways

    ROTFLMAO…


  92. eaglesoars
    98 | June 12, 2018 7:45 pm

    oh, congrats CW!


  93. 99 | June 12, 2018 8:38 pm

    @ doriangrey:
    When do they start fantasizing about the death penalty? Or have they?


  94. lobo91
    100 | June 12, 2018 8:41 pm

    @ doriangrey:

    Most of the explanations I have seen basically amount to… “Because Shut Up you Nazi misogynist racist white supremacist poopyhead”.

    So you’re talking about academic types, then…
    //


  95. 101 | June 12, 2018 8:44 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    @ doriangrey:

    Most of the explanations I have seen basically amount to… “Because Shut Up you Nazi misogynist racist white supremacist poopyhead”.

    So you’re talking about academic types, then…
    //

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShTJ90fC34


  96. Possum
    102 | June 12, 2018 8:51 pm

    One for Barbarian.

    In Texas the appellant brief quotes songs.

    ARGUMENT IN REPLY
    Mr. Malone’s brief in response reinvigorates his trial tactics of conflating the
    parties (except when it suits him to separate them) and seeing only what he wishes
    to see in the putative terms of the 2006 Document:
    Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
    Simon & Garfunkel, The Boxer (1970).

    What I am living through is not real.

    Expecting the apellee to show a three hour video of a Nightwish concert in reply.


  97. AZfederalist
    103 | June 12, 2018 10:07 pm

    doriangrey wrote:

    So, its official, Millennial’s are Stooopid… Who would have thunk it?

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/dumb-and-dumber-why-we-re-getting-less-intelligent-80k3bl83v

    Yeah, and the people who wrote the article must be from that generation:

    Scientists say that the deterioration could be down to changes in the way maths and languages are taught,

    maths? Really people?


  98. lobo91
    104 | June 12, 2018 10:15 pm

    @ AZfederalist:

    maths? Really people?

    British term. Notice that it’s an article from a UK paper


  99. 105 | June 12, 2018 10:35 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    @ AZfederalist:

    maths? Really people?

    British term. Notice that it’s an article from a UK paper

    Bloody shame those damned Brit chaps never did learn how to speak English. Little Johnny didn’t learn his maths, because he went to Hospital instead.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAYUuspQ6BY


  100. eaglesoars
    106 | June 12, 2018 10:47 pm

    Holy crap. Canada just voted to cease restoration of ties w/Iran, Justine Trudeau leading the way

    https://www.weaselzippers.us/387873-stunning-trudeau-follows-trumps-lead-votes-to-denounce-iran-regime/

    And L’il Kim has accepted Trump’s invite to D.C.

    https://www.weaselzippers.us/387869-kim-jong-un-accepts-trumps-invitation-to-washington-report/

    bedtime


  101. AZfederalist
    107 | June 12, 2018 11:10 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    Notice that it’s an article from a UK paper

    Ah, missed that part.


  102. AZfederalist
    108 | June 12, 2018 11:20 pm

    doriangrey wrote:

    Bloody shame those damned Brit chaps never did learn how to speak English.

    Two peoples separated by a common language


  103. 109 | June 13, 2018 12:47 am

    A bit lite on the documentation, but I believe he has it correct.

    https://truepundit.com/feds-drop-bombshell-comey-illegal-scheme-involved-entire-u-s-intel-community/

    Intelligence garnered from the British eavesdropping, which again was merely a front for the NSA, was then used in August 2016 to secure a legitimate FISA warrant on Manafort, Trump Jr. and Kushner. That warrant was issued on or about September, 2016, federal sources confirm.

    It was the third time the cabal of U.S. intelligence agencies sought a FISA warrant for the Trump associates and this time it was approved.

    FBI sources said finally obtaining the FISA warrant was important because it provided the agencies cover for previous illegal wiretapping which they believed would never be discovered.

    Here is what we now know, per intelligence gleaned form federal law enforcement sources with insider knowledge of what amounts to a plot by U.S. intelligence agencies to secure back door and illegal wiretaps of President Trump’s associates:

    Six U.S. agencies created a stealth task force, spearhead by CIA’s Brennan, to run domestic surveillance on Trump associates and possibly Trump himself.
    To feign ignorance and to seemingly operate within U.S. laws, the agencies freelanced the wiretapping of Trump associates to the British spy agency GCHQ.
    The decision to insert GCHQ as a back door to eavesdrop was sparked by the denial of two FISA Court warrant applications filed by the FBI to seek wiretaps of Trump associates.
    GCHQ did not work from London or the UK. In fact the spy agency worked from NSA’s headquarters in Fort Meade, MD with direct NSA supervision and guidance to conduct sweeping surveillance on Trump associates.
    The illegal wiretaps were initiated months before the controversial Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.
    The Justice Department and FBI helped set up the meeting at Trump Tower between Trump Jr., Manafort and Kushner with controversial Russian officials to make Trump’s associates appear compromised.
    Following the Trump Tower sit down, GCHQ began digitally wiretapping Manafort, Trump Jr., and Kushner.
    After the concocted meeting by the Deep State, the British spy agency could officially justify wiretapping Trump associates as an intelligence front for NSA because the Russian lawyer at the meeting Veselnitskaya was considered an international security risk and prior to the June sit down was not even allowed entry into the United States or the UK, federal sources said.
    By using GCHQ, the NSA and its intelligence partners had carved out a loophole to wiretap Trump without a warrant. While it is illegal for U.S. agencies to monitor phones and emails of U.S. citizens inside the United States absent a warrant, it is not illegal for British intelligence to do so. Even if the GCHQ was tapping Trump on U.S. soil at Fort Meade.
    The wiretaps, secured through illicit scheming, have been used by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election, even though the evidence is considered “poisoned fruit.”

    Manafort was wiretapped. Cater Page was wiretapped. Trump Jr. was wiretapped. Kushner was wiretapped. Gen. Michael Flynn was wiretapped. And likely there were others.

    And none of it was very legal.

    In fact, most of it was very illegal, according to federal law enforcement sources who are blowing the whistle on a sweeping scheme to undermine the Executive branch and the electorate’s choice for president of the United States.

    Perhaps this all helps explain the nervous Tweets and public tantrums from the compromised former leaders of the U.S. intelligence agencies.


  104. 110 | June 13, 2018 12:52 am

    right_wing2 wrote:

    @ doriangrey:
    When do they start fantasizing about the death penalty? Or have they?

    They don’t care how many dead bodies there are as long they’re seated firmly on top.


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