This is Why Trump is a SCUMBAG!
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UPDATED: Tuesday, April 7, 2026 22:00
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Yup. Blumpy couldn't get a payday loan in the US.
But the Russian mob? Of course, comrade.
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The GOP has been complicit in the subversion of American democracy.
Unfortunately Trump administration officials are blocking an investigation into 21 state election systems that were attacked by Russia.[1] Moreover, Republicans in the House Intelligence Committee voted to shut down the Russia probe.[2] Republicans shut down the HIC investigation when we know of at least 70 contacts between the Trump team and Russia-linked operatives, the committee obtained either no or incomplete information about 81% of known contacts between Trump officials and Russians.^[3] Six Democrats who are Ranking Members of their committees have been forced to request documents related to the Russian attacks against 21 state election systems in 2016 from Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.[4] It is doubtful that Paul Ryan will assist, he sat by idly while Republican Congressman Nunes made a mockery of the Russia investigation in the House Intelligence Committee for over a year.[5]
While Republicans in the House have been unhelpful, their Senate counterparts have reacted differently. However the Senate leadership has been no better than the House Republicans. The Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Republican Senator and Chairman Richard Burr and Ranking Member Democratic Senator Mark Warner, have said that the Russia investigation will not be ending any time soon.[6] The bipartisan Senate investigation concluded and found that Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 U.S. election to specifically help Donald Trump.[7]
“The committee concurs with intelligence and open-source assessments that this influence campaign was approved by President Putin,” the panel said Tuesday in a report that endorsed as “sound” the intelligence findings issued in January 2017. The committee said there was a body of intelligence “to support the assessment that Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for Trump.”
Furthermore, a bipartisan bill has been drafted to protect Special Counsel Mueller from being fired, but there is significant push back from Republican leaders in the Senate.[8] A bipartisan bill to protect Mueller was voted on and approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Four GOP senators broke rank with the party, enough to approve the bill with Democrat support.[9] While the Senate Judiciary committee has approved the bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said that there has been no indication that Special Counsel Mueller will be fired so there is no need for legislation to protect the investigation.[10] Senate majority leader McConnell is refusing to allow a vote on the Senate floor for a bill to protect Special Counsel Mueller.[11] Senator McConnell's reasoning is absurd if we consider the fact that President Trump has attempted to fire Mueller twice. In June of 2017 President Trump attempted to fire Special Counsel Mueller, he was allegedly stopped by White House Counsel Don McGahn when he threatened to resign over the move.[12] In December President Trump wanted to fire Mueller and shut down the investigation again after investigators issued subpoenas for obtaining information about the President's business dealings with Deutsche Bank.[13]
Washington Examiner - Democrats ask Paul Ryan to help dislodge DHS records on Russian election meddling
Reuters - Republicans shut down House Russia probe over Democratic objections
NBC - House probe overlooked most Trump-Russia contacts, report claims
The Hill - House Dems ask Ryan to intervene on Russia documents
Wall Street Journal - Paul Ryan Rejects Call for Devin Nunes to Step Aside From Probe
Reuters - Senate's Trump-Russia probe not close to ending: top Democrat
Bloomberg - Senate Intelligence Committee Agrees That Putin Meddled to Help Trump
Politico - Bipartisan Senate bill to protect Mueller set to advance
NPR - Bill To Protect Mueller Investigation Approved By Senate Judiciary Committee
The Hill - McConnell: Legislation to protect Mueller not needed
USA Today - McConnell: No Senate vote on bill to protect Special Couns
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Quote:When Sean Spicer stepped out in front of the cameras on his first day as White House press secretary to tell obvious lies it was a shocking scene, and it was received as such. Eighteen months later, we have a future Supreme Court justice doing it. In his very first remarks to the American people, Judge Kavanaugh chose to tell a bald-faced lie that strikes to the core of the American constitutional system.
Originally posted by reaverfan:
The GOP has been complicit in the subversion of American democracy.
A great many Republicans — including many in Congress and many of his own appointees — find this or that aspect of Trump’s conduct to be regrettable on one or more levels. But the party has, as a whole, made a collective and unanimous decision that they are all on the same team and fighting for the same cause. It’s a cause they’ve given up on securing majority voter support for, but believe can be effectively advanced through gerrymandering, filibusters, judicial review, vote suppression, cable news propaganda, etc.
A few Republican senators or House members could, through concerted action, easily put the brakes on Trump’s personal corruption or ongoing efforts to conduct a partisan purge of the FBI. But they don’t, because they unanimously don’t want to and a large minority of them want to actively help Trump. And the reason they don’t want to check Trump is they see Trump’s presence in office as a useful way to advance their policy goals.
A $1.5 trillion dollar tax cut for the wealthy and the invalidation of EPA regulations is certainly ordinary politics in the sense that it could be happening with Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio in the White House, but there’s nothing “just politics” about it. These are questions on which fortunes are made and lives are lost, and not only does normal politics offer Republicans a compelling reason to back Trump’s regime, it legitimizes fundamentally anti-democratic stances that keep them in office.
More at www.vox.com/2018/7/9/17551606/brett-kavanaugh-normcore-politics
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Blumpy pardons reichwing terrorists.
Trump pardons ranchers in case that inspired 2016 occupation of wildlife refuge in Oregon
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-pardo
n-dwight-steven-hammond-20180710-story.html
Remember those idiots? SCUMBAG!
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Quote:Where I live, in Texas, the Republican voters believe those idiots are "heroes". GOP voting Texans are pleased with the Trump pardons. Those same Texans also say they are not racists. At least that is what they say in public, but in private they are stone-cold racists. There are sinister beliefs running free inside of the heads of GOP voters in Texas. Getting 'em drunk and they tell the truth. But when sober, they are too sneaky to actually admit to having those beliefs, but the beliefs are there none the less:
Originally posted by reaverfan:
Remember those idiots? SCUMBAG!
Racial resentment is the biggest predictor of immigration attitudes.
White Americans’ negative attitudes toward immigrants are driven overwhelmingly by racial prejudices, not “economic anxiety.”
Some commentators claim the attitudes driving Trump and his supporters on questions of immigration are primarily economic, rather than racial in nature. To quote Trump, Mexicans are “taking our jobs. They’re taking our manufacturing jobs. They’re taking our money. They’re killing us.” Political scientists have subsequently tested Trump’s theory, at least as it applies to Trump support overall, and found Trump's theory to be false — over and over and over again. It turns out that an ounce of racial resentment is worth a pound of either economic anxiety or anxiety about crime.
More about how Trump voters unintentionally exposed their true motivations at www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/07/10/racial-resentment-is-bigges
t-predictor-immigration-attitudes-study-finds/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5c949fab1f14
or
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/07/immigrant-bashing-is-all-about-
racism/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by JJ:Quote:
Originally posted by reaverfan:Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:
I'm trying to make sense of YOUR posts. If Trump is bad - why is he bad?
Scroll up. Read some links.
Incredible, we have two years of discussions in many different threads explaining not only why trump is a bad president, but why he is a nightmare.
Yet kiki says what? Where I come from we call that a runaround. Informal deceitful or evasive behavior.
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Clearly here just to agitate.
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Quote:For many years I have believed this is just a training exercise for Russian trolls. A Russian student will log in under either the name "1kiki" or "SignyM". The instructor is grading the student. Can they pass as Americans who were once Democrats but are now voting for the GOP? The Russian students are doing excellent. They write well, they are serving Putin, they will get a job influencing American elections, once they graduate. (Too bad there aren't more good jobs in Russia because influencing Americans is a waste of well-talented Russians.) The alternative to 1kiki and SignyM being Russians is that they are actual Americans. That is SAD! I don't want to believe that any American is that screwed up in the head, but neither 1kiki and SignyM are at all like actual Republicans or disappointed ex-Democrats I know in Texas.
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Clearly here just to agitate.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Corruption is not exactly new to American politics. But never before in American history has the president of the United States been a person whose entire career has been devoted to enriching himself. Donald Trump is first and foremost a greedy person, and despite his campaign season promises to set avarice aside and “be greedy for the United States,” he has, in practice, relentlessly monetized the presidency. He has refused to divest from his business, refused to engage in any meaningful financial disclosure, and clearly encourages businesses and others with interest in the policy process to cut him in on a piece of the action by holding events at his clubs and hotels. Members of his exclusive Florida beach club (annual membership fee: $200,000) get choice tours of Air Force One. Pay Trump, get a tour.
Trump faces credible accusations of sexual assault from Summer Zervos and others, as well as a whole range of other creepy behaviors like peeping on teen beauty pageant contestants while they were changing backstage. Trump says racist stuff all the time, including in conversations with US senators, and spent years as a major proponent of anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.
Republicans hold a majority in the Senate at the moment and could easily confirm replacements for any of Trump's appointees who got fired in a house-cleaning. But nobody can articulate a plausible red line — on corruption, on sexual misconduct, on racism, on conspiracy theories, on honesty, or virtually anything else — that wouldn’t implicate the president and his family.
More at www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/11/17546970/trump-pruitt-shine
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:I'm sorry your very limited experience and thinking has led you so far astray from reality.
Originally posted by second:
I don't want to believe that any American is that screwed up in the head, but neither 1kiki and SignyM are at all like actual Republicans or disappointed ex-Democrats I know in Texas.
SECOND is a troll because it constantly misrepresents what people post, fails to address their actual positions, and resorts to personal attacks when its brain isn't working (which is most of the time).
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018 8:04 AM
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=62480&mid=1
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:For many years I have believed this is just a training exercise for Russian trolls. A Russian student will log in under either the name "1kiki" or "SignyM". The instructor is grading the student. Can they pass as Americans who were once Democrats but are now voting for the GOP? The Russian students are doing excellent. They write well, they are serving Putin, they will get a job influencing American elections, once they graduate. (Too bad there aren't more good jobs in Russia because influencing Americans is a waste of well-talented Russians.) The alternative to 1kiki and SignyM being Russians is that they are actual Americans. That is SAD! I don't want to believe that any American is that screwed up in the head, but neither 1kiki and SignyM are at all like actual Republicans or disappointed ex-Democrats I know in Texas.
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Clearly here just to agitate.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
SECOND is a troll because it constantly misrepresents what people post, fails to address their actual positions, and resorts to personal attacks when its brain isn't working (which is most of the time).
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