Donald Trump 2018

[atomheartbevo 89656]

1 hour ago, Mojo Hand said:

Trump just nixed the new Russia sanctions that Nikki Haley promised.

Trump probably told her to her face that he was happy with her promises, and then he went and told somebody else that they were dumb. 

The alternative is he doesn’t even talk to her or the SOS. 

Edited April 16, 2018 by atomheartbevo

[TheFlyingBoat 906]

3 hours ago, F250 said:

Does anyone think the guy that couldn't turn a profit with a casino business should be dictating Fed policy?

 

Wow this is some next level stupid. I guess you have to be this stupid to lose money as a casino 

[High Plains Drifter 11046]

18 hours ago, retread said:

 

For you Tahoe:

 

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There is the rule of law. There is integrity. Those things matter before any fights about policies. And people who tell themselves, "Well, yes, Donald Trump is unethical but I'm getting the right Supreme Court justice or the right regulatory rollback," are kidding themselves because if we lose that tether to the truth, if that stops being the norm at the heart of our public life, what are we?

Where are we as a country? So I worry sometimes people think I'm talking about politics. Not in the way we normally talk about in this country. But I hope in the most important way. Values matter. This president does not reflect the values of this country.

 

[High Plains Drifter 11046]

And

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But in a way, as a citizen, I think we owe it to each other to get off the couch and think about what unites us. I think about the people who supported Trump, and continue to support Trump.

A lotta them come from families with a proud history of military service. And that's a wonderful thing. What did their fathers and grandfathers fight and die for? Not for immigration policy. Not for a tax policy. Not for Supreme Court justice. They fought and died for a set of ideas. The rule of law. Freedom of speech. Freedom of religion. The truth.

That's what they fought and died for. And at some point, we have to focus on that and make sure that whoever's leading us embodies those and we judge that leader by their tether to those values. Then we'll go back to fighting like cats and dogs about all the things we normally fight about.

 

[BrickHorn 18226]

4 hours ago, achooloco said:

Robert Johnson says hmmmmm... but would be an interesting topic for the other boards...

 

4 hours ago, NIUHuskies said:

Not sure if serious...

Good God.  Did y’all lose your sarcasm meters in the move from Shaggy?

[RPM 26319]

4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

As a mostly white person, I’m embarrassed that you act like the Irish should be included in our club.  Or that the bog jumpers should even be included in our species.  

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

President Trump on Monday put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley that the Kremlin had swiftly denounced as “international economic raiding.”

Preparations to punish Russia anew for its support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government over an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria caused consternation at the White House. Haley had said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” that sanctions on Russian companies behind the equipment related to Assad’s alleged chemical weapons attack would be announced Monday by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

But Trump conferred with his national security advisers later Sunday and told them he was upset the sanctions were being officially rolled out because he was not yet comfortable executing them, according to several people familiar with the plan.

Administration officials said the economic sanctions were under serious consideration, along with other measures that could be taken against Russia, but said Trump had not given final authorization to implement them. Administration officials said Monday it was unlikely Trump would approve any additional sanctions without another triggering event by Russia, describing the strategy as being in a holding pattern.

Sometime after Haley’s comments on CBS, the Trump administration notified the Russian Embassy in Washington that the sanctions were not in fact coming, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said Monday.

The Trump team decided to publicly characterize Haley’s announcement as a misstatement. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Monday: “We are considering additional sanctions on Russia and a decision will be made in the near future.”

Privately, another White House official said Haley got ahead of herself and made “an error that needs to be mopped up.”

But other administration officials expressed skepticism that Haley had merely misspoken. They said Haley is one of the most disciplined and cautious members of the Cabinet, especially when it comes to her public appearances. She regularly checks in with Trump personally to go over her planned statements before she sits for television interviews.

Haley issued no clarifying statement on Sunday after news organizations, including The Washington Post, reported prominently that the new sanctions would be announced Monday based on her comments to CBS. 

Asked Monday morning why it had taken 24 hours for the administration to walk back Haley’s comments, one White House official said only that there had been confusion internally about what the plan was.

The sanctions were developed in recent weeks as part of a ready menu of potential military and economic measures for Trump to enact to strike back at Assad’s government and his Russian patrons, according to a senior administration official.

In early March, following a relatively small-scale chemical weapons attack in Syria, Trump was upset there was not a ready set of options, so then-national security adviser H.R. McMaster prepared a series of measures that were not enacted.

But the late-March poisoning of a former Russian double agent on British soil led the Trump administration to trigger the first round of the economic sanctions on that menu and to expel 60 diplomats in coordination with the European allies.

The reported chemical attack by Assad in Douma in early April set off a debate in the White House about whether the United States should trigger another round of economic sanctions to punish Russia. The president seemed to refer to those measures Friday night in a speech announcing strikes against the Assad regime. He promised to respond with “all instruments of our national power: military, economic and diplomatic.”

But it was unclear to officials whether Trump wanted to hit Russia with the next set of options on the sanctions menu or wait for another attack, according to the senior administration official.

Some officials said the misunderstanding could have been the result of Haley’s tendency to speak directly with the president, sometimes outside of the normal policy process. “She’ll usually talk to the president without the rest of the White House and get her remarks cleared directly,” said the senior administration official. “Often we don’t know about them.”

Early in the Trump administration, there were conflicts between Haley’s team and the president on Russia. Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Haley delivered a speech at the United Nations that recommitted the White House to the Obama administration’s policy on sanctions related to Russian aggression in Ukraine. The speech was cleared by David Cattler, then a senior official on the National Security Council, but the remarks frustrated Trump, who demanded to know who had approved them. 

“Lots of people got yelled at — some by the president,” said a U.S. official at the United Nations. Cattler, in turn, was pushed out of his job a couple of weeks later in a reorganization of the NSC by McMaster.

White House officials said Trump has been impressed with Haley lately, particularly her remarks about Syria over the past week, and stressed Monday that the president holds her in high regard.

In the absence of a permanent secretary of state, Haley has been the face of American diplomacy, playing an especially prominent role over the past week as the Trump administration responded to the attack in Syria.

Haley said Sunday on CBS: “You will see that Russian sanctions will be coming down. Secretary Mnuchin will be announcing those on Monday, if he hasn’t already. And they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to Assad and chemical weapons used. And so I think everyone is going to feel it at this point. I think everyone knows that we sent a strong message, and our hope is that they listen to it.”

The Russians were listening. After Haley’s comments, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow that the sanctions were a U.S. ploy to oust Russia from international markets and constituted “undisguised attempts of unfair competition.”

“The sanction campaign against Russia is truly assuming the nature of an obsessive idea,” Peskov said, according to the Interfax news agency. “We still do not see these sanctions as lawful. We see them as going against international law.”

Peskov added: “Certainly, this cannot have any relation to and cannot be motivated by considerations of the situation in Syria or any other country. . . . I would call this international economic raiding rather than something else.”

But there was a subtle shift in Moscow toward a less confrontational tone, even as officials continued to slam U.S. sanctions as veiled attempts at gaining economic advantage.

Russian lawmakers were crowing Friday that they were going to make the United States pay for already imposed sanctions, potentially by blocking American imports or U.S.-Russian aerospace cooperation, or allowing Russians to violate U.S. intellectual property rights. Russia, one top lawmaker promised, was going to “hit the Americans in the gut.” 

But on Monday, senior lawmakers in the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, decided to hold off until May 15 before considering any counter-sanctions against the United States. Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said the Duma needed to meet with experts and the business community first.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also urged calm. 

“Let’s first wait until these sanctions are implemented,” Ryabkov said in reference to possible new U.S. sanctions, Interfax reported. “We have to see what will be announced, at what scale, and who or what will become the targets of these sanctions.”

Edited April 16, 2018 by Hugo Stiglitz

[Brisketexan 105114]

5 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

President Trump on Monday put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley that the Kremlin had swiftly denounced as “international economic raiding.”

Preparations to punish Russia anew for its support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government over an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria caused consternation at the White House. Haley had said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” that sanctions on Russian companies behind the equipment related to Assad’s alleged chemical weapons attack would be announced Monday by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

But Trump conferred with his national security advisers later Sunday and told them he was upset the sanctions were being officially rolled out because he was not yet comfortable executing them, according to several people familiar with the plan.

Administration officials said the economic sanctions were under serious consideration, along with other measures that could be taken against Russia, but said Trump had not given final authorization to implement them. Administration officials said Monday it was unlikely Trump would approve any additional sanctions without another triggering event by Russia, describing the strategy as being in a holding pattern.

Sometime after Haley’s comments on CBS, the Trump administration notified the Russian Embassy in Washington that the sanctions were not in fact coming, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said Monday.

The Trump team decided to publicly characterize Haley’s announcement as a misstatement. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Monday: “We are considering additional sanctions on Russia and a decision will be made in the near future.”

Privately, another White House official said Haley got ahead of herself and made “an error that needs to be mopped up.”

But other administration officials expressed skepticism that Haley had merely misspoken. They said Haley is one of the most disciplined and cautious members of the Cabinet, especially when it comes to her public appearances. She regularly checks in with Trump personally to go over her planned statements before she sits for television interviews.

Haley issued no clarifying statement on Sunday after news organizations, including The Washington Post, reported prominently that the new sanctions would be announced Monday based on her comments to CBS. 

Asked Monday morning why it had taken 24 hours for the administration to walk back Haley’s comments, one White House official said only that there had been confusion internally about what the plan was.

 

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The sanctions were developed in recent weeks as part of a ready menu of potential military and economic measures for Trump to enact to strike back at Assad’s government and his Russian patrons, according to a senior administration official.

In early March, following a relatively small-scale chemical weapons attack in Syria, Trump was upset there was not a ready set of options, so then-national security adviser H.R. McMaster prepared a series of measures that were not enacted.

But the late-March poisoning of a former Russian double agent on British soil led the Trump administration to trigger the first round of the economic sanctions on that menu and to expel 60 diplomats in coordination with the European allies.

The reported chemical attack by Assad in Douma in early April set off a debate in the White House about whether the United States should trigger another round of economic sanctions to punish Russia. The president seemed to refer to those measures Friday night in a speech announcing strikes against the Assad regime. He promised to respond with “all instruments of our national power: military, economic and diplomatic.”

But it was unclear to officials whether Trump wanted to hit Russia with the next set of options on the sanctions menu or wait for another attack, according to the senior administration official.

Some officials said the misunderstanding could have been the result of Haley’s tendency to speak directly with the president, sometimes outside of the normal policy process. “She’ll usually talk to the president without the rest of the White House and get her remarks cleared directly,” said the senior administration official. “Often we don’t know about them.”

Early in the Trump administration, there were conflicts between Haley’s team and the president on Russia. Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Haley delivered a speech at the United Nations that recommitted the White House to the Obama administration’s policy on sanctions related to Russian aggression in Ukraine. The speech was cleared by David Cattler, then a senior official on the National Security Council, but the remarks frustrated Trump, who demanded to know who had approved them. 

“Lots of people got yelled at — some by the president,” said a U.S. official at the United Nations. Cattler, in turn, was pushed out of his job a couple of weeks later in a reorganization of the NSC by McMaster.

White House officials said Trump has been impressed with Haley lately, particularly her remarks about Syria over the past week, and stressed Monday that the president holds her in high regard.

In the absence of a permanent secretary of state, Haley has been the face of American diplomacy, playing an especially prominent role over the past week as the Trump administration responded to the attack in Syria.

Haley said Sunday on CBS: “You will see that Russian sanctions will be coming down. Secretary Mnuchin will be announcing those on Monday, if he hasn’t already. And they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to Assad and chemical weapons used. And so I think everyone is going to feel it at this point. I think everyone knows that we sent a strong message, and our hope is that they listen to it.”

The Russians were listening. After Haley’s comments, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow that the sanctions were a U.S. ploy to oust Russia from international markets and constituted “undisguised attempts of unfair competition.”

“The sanction campaign against Russia is truly assuming the nature of an obsessive idea,” Peskov said, according to the Interfax news agency. “We still do not see these sanctions as lawful. We see them as going against international law.”

Peskov added: “Certainly, this cannot have any relation to and cannot be motivated by considerations of the situation in Syria or any other country. . . . I would call this international economic raiding rather than something else.”

But there was a subtle shift in Moscow toward a less confrontational tone, even as officials continued to slam U.S. sanctions as veiled attempts at gaining economic advantage.

Russian lawmakers were crowing Friday that they were going to make the United States pay for already imposed sanctions, potentially by blocking American imports or U.S.-Russian aerospace cooperation, or allowing Russians to violate U.S. intellectual property rights. Russia, one top lawmaker promised, was going to “hit the Americans in the gut.” 

But on Monday, senior lawmakers in the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, decided to hold off until May 15 before considering any counter-sanctions against the United States. Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said the Duma needed to meet with experts and the business community first.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also urged calm. 

“Let’s first wait until these sanctions are implemented,” Ryabkov said in reference to possible new U.S. sanctions, Interfax reported. “We have to see what will be announced, at what scale, and who or what will become the targets of these sanctions.”

Duh.

[DixonHur 11300]

Can't be true because I heard Trump say no one is tougher than him on Russia

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

I try to imagine if Trump is POTUS in 1938, how would he feel about Hitler and Mussolini? 

[Brisketexan 105114]

2 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

I try to imagine if Trump is POTUS in 1938, how would he feel about Hitler and Mussolini? 

Jealous, because parades and uniforms and shit.

[retread 2951]

 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

[Brisketexan 105114]

The Pulitzer folks mistyped "The FAILING New York Times."  I'm sure they'll correct that in future press releases.

[Pods 7552]

The Times has actually done a pretty shit job of reporting. Don't forget the NY Times is the ones that gave us the article that Trump was all clear before the election. Maggie Habberman has made it her life's mission to soften every bit of bad news and bury the lede as far in as possible. 

Post deserves it, but the Times doesn't in my opinion. 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

20 minutes ago, Pods said:

The Times has actually done a pretty shit job of reporting. Don't forget the NY Times is the ones that gave us the article that Trump was all clear before the election. Maggie Habberman has made it her life's mission to soften every bit of bad news and bury the lede as far in as possible. 

Post deserves it, but the Times doesn't in my opinion. 

Post has fewer mistakes but NYT has been exceptional over the past year.  You’re talking about a misleading NYT article from two years ago.

[Pods 7552]

1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Post has fewer mistakes but NYT has been exceptional over the past year.  You’re talking about a misleading NYT article from two years ago.

Maggie Haberman has been doing that all year though and her bosses haven't called it out. I take issue with them having an obvious sycophant for a White House correspondent. 

Edited April 16, 2018 by Pods

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

5 minutes ago, Pods said:

Maggie Haberman has been doing that all year though and her bosses haven't called it out. I take issue with them having an obvious sycophant for a White House correspondent. 

Maggie is only a small part of the NYT team and it’s obvious she does that to retain her access level.  Even though she gives Trump some favorable spin/framing, she hasn’t reported anything false to my knowledge. Their other reports like Michael Schmit and Matt Apuzzo have been lights out.

Who can forget those great exclusive taped Trump interviews from the Grill lounge at Mar-a-lago.  That was all Schmidt.

[Pods 7552]

True, Schmidt and Apuzzo have been good. 

[bad motherfucker 315]

JFC!   almost everyone posting in this thread needs a fucking net thrown over them and then be placed in a straitjacket.

[SKJ 1311]

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President Trump on Monday put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley that the Kremlin had swiftly denounced as “international economic raiding.”

Preparations to punish Russia anew for its support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government over an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria caused consternation at the White House. Haley had said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” that sanctions on Russian companies behind the equipment related to Assad’s alleged chemical weapons attack would be announced Monday by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

But Trump conferred with his national security advisers later Sunday and told them he was upset the sanctions were being officially rolled out because he was not yet comfortable executing them, according to several people familiar with the plan.

Administration officials said the economic sanctions were under serious consideration, along with other measures that could be taken against Russia, but said Trump had not given final authorization to implement them. Administration officials said Monday it was unlikely Trump would approve any additional sanctions without another triggering event by Russia, describing the strategy as being in a holding pattern.

Sometime after Haley’s comments on CBS, the Trump administration notified the Russian Embassy in Washington that the sanctions were not in fact coming, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said Monday.

The Trump team decided to publicly characterize Haley’s announcement as a misstatement. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Monday: “We are considering additional sanctions on Russia and a decision will be made in the near future.”

Privately, another White House official said Haley got ahead of herself and made “an error that needs to be mopped up.”

But other administration officials expressed skepticism that Haley had merely misspoken. They said Haley is one of the most disciplined and cautious members of the Cabinet, especially when it comes to her public appearances. She regularly checks in with Trump personally to go over her planned statements before she sits for television interviews.

Haley issued no clarifying statement on Sunday after news organizations, including The Washington Post

, reported prominently that the new sanctions would be announced Monday based on her comments to CBS. 

Asked Monday morning why it had taken 24 hours for the administration to walk back Haley’s comments, one White House official said only that there had been confusion internally about what the plan was.

The sanctions were developed in recent weeks as part of a ready menu of potential military and economic measures for Trump to enact to strike back at Assad’s government and his Russian patrons, according to a senior administration official.

In early March, following a relatively small-scale chemical weapons attack in Syria, Trump was upset there was not a ready set of options, so then-national security adviser H.R. McMaster prepared a series of measures that were not enacted.

But the late-March poisoning of a former Russian double agent on British soil led the Trump administration to trigger the first round of the economic sanctions on that menu and to expel 60 diplomats in coordination with the European allies.

The reported chemical attack by Assad in Douma in early April set off a debate in the White House about whether the United States should trigger another round of economic sanctions to punish Russia. The president seemed to refer to those measures Friday night in a speech announcing strikes against the Assad regime. He promised to respond with “all instruments of our national power: military, economic and diplomatic.”

But it was unclear to officials whether Trump wanted to hit Russia with the next set of options on the sanctions menu or wait for another attack, according to the senior administration official.

Some officials said the misunderstanding could have been the result of Haley’s tendency to speak directly with the president, sometimes outside of the normal policy process. “She’ll usually talk to the president without the rest of the White House and get her remarks cleared directly,” said the senior administration official. “Often we don’t know about them.”

Early in the Trump administration, there were conflicts between Haley’s team and the president on Russia. Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Haley delivered a speech at the United Nations that recommitted the White House to the Obama administration’s policy on sanctions related to Russian aggression in Ukraine. The speech was cleared by David Cattler, then a senior official on the National Security Council, but the remarks frustrated Trump, who demanded to know who had approved them. 

“Lots of people got yelled at — some by the president,” said a U.S. official at the United Nations. Cattler, in turn, was pushed out of his job a couple of weeks later in a reorganization of the NSC by McMaster.

White House officials said Trump has been impressed with Haley lately, particularly her remarks about Syria over the past week, and stressed Monday that the president holds her in high regard.

In the absence of a permanent secretary of state, Haley has been the face of American diplomacy, playing an especially prominent role over the past week as the Trump administration responded to the attack in Syria.

Haley said Sunday on CBS: “You will see that Russian sanctions will be coming down. Secretary Mnuchin will be announcing those on Monday, if he hasn’t already. And they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to Assad and chemical weapons used. And so I think everyone is going to feel it at this point. I think everyone knows that we sent a strong message, and our hope is that they listen to it.”

The Russians were listening. After Haley’s comments, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow that the sanctions were a U.S. ploy to oust Russia from international markets and constituted “undisguised attempts of unfair competition.”

“The sanction campaign against Russia is truly assuming the nature of an obsessive idea,” Peskov said, according to the Interfax news agency. “We still do not see these sanctions as lawful. We see them as going against international law.”

Peskov added: “Certainly, this cannot have any relation to and cannot be motivated by considerations of the situation in Syria or any other country. . . . I would call this international economic raiding rather than something else.”

But there was a subtle shift in Moscow toward a less confrontational tone, even as officials continued to slam U.S. sanctions as veiled attempts at gaining economic advantage.

Russian lawmakers were crowing Friday that they were going to make the United States pay for already imposed sanctions, potentially by blocking American imports or U.S.-Russian aerospace cooperation, or allowing Russians to violate U.S. intellectual property rights. Russia, one top lawmaker promised, was going to “hit the Americans in the gut.” 

But on Monday, senior lawmakers in the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, decided to hold off until May 15 before considering any counter-sanctions against the United States. Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said the Duma needed to meet with experts and the business community first.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also urged calm. 

“Let’s first wait until these sanctions are implemented,” Ryabkov said in reference to possible new U.S. sanctions, Interfax reported. “We have to see what will be announced, at what scale, and who or what will become the targets of these sanctions.”

That's a whole lot of words to say Trump gonna Trump about Russia

[SmokeyTheBear 5562]

1 minute ago, bad motherfucker said:

JFC!   almost everyone posting in this thread needs a fucking net thrown over them and then be placed in a straitjacket.

That includes you now, you know that right?

[Pods 7552]

1 minute ago, SmokeyTheBear said:

That includes you now, you know that right?

He's an Army of One. 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

This is pretty awesome.

 

[chainsaw 9867]

I suddenly want life insurance at affordable rates

[Brisketexan 105114]

5 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

I suddenly want life insurance at affordable rates

Old Glory Robot Insurance is the way to go....

Edited April 16, 2018 by Brisketexan

[Grandioso 2592]

This Comey coverage is a beating. No one at this point should need an expert to render an opinion. The Indian dude that sells me Copenhagen at the corner store had this fucker sized up like 4 years ago.

[Grade of D as in David 13253]

57 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

I try to imagine if Trump is POTUS in 1938, how would he feel about Hitler and Mussolini? 

The Pacific Seawall will be the most beautiful wall ever built, and the Japs are going to pay for it!

Presidential debates where he makes fun of FDR in a wheelchair. 

Fireside chats would all happen in the morning while he is on the shitter.

The sheer amount of graft that he could have perpetuated with the New Deal would have made him salivate.

 

 

 

[Vito Andolini 9126]

14 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

This is pretty awesome.

 

The robots are coming

fuck, shoulda updated to see Brisket’s post!

Edited April 16, 2018 by Vito Andolini

[Vito Andolini 9126]

1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

It’s not the grind of day-to-day, but in longform journalism, Vanity Fair has been killing it as well, very impressed with what they’ve done.

[DDD Dad 14338]

27 minutes ago, bad motherfucker said:

JFC!   almost everyone posting in this thread needs a fucking net thrown over them and then be placed in a straitjacket.

This really adds to the discussion.

[DDD Dad 14338]

So I missed the news about Trump walking back the Russia sanctions.  Did he give an explanation?

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

5 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:

It’s not the grind of day-to-day, but in longform journalism, Vanity Fair has been killing it as well, very impressed with what they’ve done.

Agree with Vanity Fair, they’ve done great work.

[retread 2951]

2 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

So I missed the news about Trump walking back the Russia sanctions.  Did he give an explanation?

Quote

But Trump conferred with his national security advisers later Sunday and told them he was upset the sanctions were being officially rolled out because he was not yet comfortable executing them, according to several people familiar with the plan.

Administration officials said the economic sanctions were under serious consideration, along with other measures that could be taken against Russia, but said Trump had not given final authorization to implement them. Administration officials said Monday it was unlikely Trump would approve any additional sanctions without another triggering event by Russia, describing the strategy as being in a holding pattern.

Sometime after Haley’s comments on CBS, the Trump administration notified the Russian Embassy in Washington that the sanctions were not in fact coming, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said Monday.

The Trump team decided to publicly characterize Haley’s announcement as a misstatement. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Monday: “We are considering additional sanctions on Russia and a decision will be made in the near future.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-puts-the-brake-on-new-russian-sanctions-reversing-haleys-announcement/2018/04/16/ac3ad4f8-417f-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html?utm_term=.6257b9e384e6

[Grandioso 2592]

Bad motherfucker, don't you have some tumbleweeds to moderate?

And BTW, the fact that your name is similar to BMF, an AWESOME poster just doesn't sit well with me.

[Pods 7552]

9 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:

It’s not the grind of day-to-day, but in longform journalism, Vanity Fair has been killing it as well, very impressed with what they’ve done.

Yep, they've had some real gems. 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5614141/Playmate-says-six-month-affair-Trump-Marla-Maples-pregnant-Tiffany.html

Edited April 16, 2018 by Hugo Stiglitz

[retread 2951]

and it's only Monday...

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

3 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

So, there is a new story about the President having an illicit affair with a Playboy Bunny, and my reaction is, “Boring! Tell me more about a TRO hearing and Sean Hannity’s radio comments.”

I’ll take, “Things I never would have thought possible before 2016” for $1,000.

It’s also important to note this story is coming from British press which has been going HAM on Trump since the #releasethememo bullshit.

 

[Constant 6731]

1 hour ago, retread said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-puts-the-brake-on-new-russian-sanctions-reversing-haleys-announcement/2018/04/16/ac3ad4f8-417f-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html?utm_term=.6257b9e384e6

Any chance he's had to gain any respect from me he's taken a big shit on. He is an absolute shill for Putin/Russia and he couldn't make it any more obvious. He's a disgrace to that office and the men that have held it before him. 

[sachick 1189]

And here I thought today would be all about Comey’s book and interview last night.

[Francisco 2.0 32389]

Just now, sachick said:

And here I thought today would be all about Comey’s book and interview last night.

No, no.  Infrastructure Week started today.  

[Message Board User 12395]

As I figured, it took less than 3 days for Syria to shoved out the window to make room for new shitshows by this administration and its minions.

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

10 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

As I figured, it took less than 3 days for Syria to shoved out the window to make room for new shitshows by this administration and its minions.

Israel is currently bombing Syria at this moment.

will probably get MSM coverage in the morning.

I also said the wag-the-dog play wouldn’t last

Edited April 17, 2018 by Hugo Stiglitz

[bolverk 29671]

16 minutes ago, sachick said:

And here I thought today would be all about Comey’s book and interview last night.

If you're still interested in that "old news", Comey had an interview with Terry Gross today that will be aired on Fresh Air tomorrow night at 7pm on KUT.

I'll certainly be listening.

[Kilgorehorn 308]

Comey is also on Rachel Maddow tonight.

[bolverk 29671]

5 minutes ago, Kilgorehorn said:

Comey is also on Rachel Maddow tonight.

Thanks, but I dropped cable a while back.

[Kilgorehorn 308]

Just now, bolverk said:

Thanks, but I dropped cable a while back.

You can probably watch it online.

[Mojo Hand 4580]

Just flipped over to her for the first time in a while, and it occurs to me that she doesn't have a head, just a really long neck with a face and hair on the end. 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

11 minutes ago, Kilgorehorn said:

Comey is also on Rachel Maddow tonight.

I think that’s tomorrow night