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    Quote Originally Posted by Runnin View Post
    Quite a lot, actually. The "family values" party would care plenty if they weren't complete hypocrites. No one working in the West Wing could get a security clearance with his background and yet, he's the Pres. Thankfully, he doesn't like to read and needs his son-in-law, who has no more experience in govt than he does, to explain his briefings to him.
    You say ‘a lot’, then offer up a single subjective judgment related to the topic.

    Where’s the beef?

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    Chris Hayes
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    Prediction: the president will approach gun safety legislation

    the same way he has approached DACA. He will lie about what his own position

    is and attempt to blame others for nothing getting done.
    The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunrevenge View Post
    How many countries is China invading or occupying right now? They aren't an evil empire. They advocate for their best interests just as we do. They aren't trying to take over the world.
    http://www.atimes.com/article/chines...crisis-report/

    … a small Chinese navy task force entered the Indian Ocean last week. China’s CCTV7 has also broadcast images of the Chinese ships sailing in the eastern Indian Ocean.

    “A naval force of at least one modern destroyer, a frigate, an amphibious assault ship and a support tanker entered the Indian Ocean last week,” said the News Corp report, which speculated that the flotilla would “linger” in the area.

    Maldivan President Abdulla Yameen declared a 15-day state of emergency on February 5 after his refusal to comply with a Supreme Court decision to free political opposition leaders. The showdown escalated after Supreme Court judges and other political opponents were arrested.

    Yameen has forged close ties with China and courted investments from Beijing. New Delhi and Washington are displeased with Yameen’s pro-China stance, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is reportedly mulling sending troops to Maldives to intervene in the crisis.

    Maldivian opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed recently charged that China was “buying up the Maldives” through its ties to Yameen. Nasheed, who is in exile in Sri Lanka, called attention to the sizable debts that Maldives has run up with Beijing. He alleged that China might be tempted to seize public assets such as ports in return.
    Go get him!

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    Hmm. Well, I'll pat him on the back when he delivers Republican votes to that effect. If he does, good on him. It would be a substantial win and the first instance of the fabled dealmaker coming through.

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    I sure hope he isn't serious

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio3000 View Post
    Hmm. Well, I'll pat him on the back when he delivers Republican votes to that effect. If he does, good on him. It would be a substantial win and the first instance of the fabled dealmaker coming through.
    Nixon to China is a thing in politics.
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    It's the zillionth example of the fabled pivot that hasn't actually happened.

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    The director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services did not explain the rationale for dropping the words "America's promise as a nation of immigrants" from the agency's mission statement.
    nice country you guys are "building"
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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    I sure hope he isn't serious
    I don't think you have to worry about that.

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    I love so called freedom lover acting like that orange ****s words mean a damn thing
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    Trump stiffed the contractors who built the D.C. hotel that he is unconstitutionally profiting from



    By Joan McCarter
    Friday Feb 23, 2018 · 1:47 PM EST




    The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., and its owner are under scrutiny by a federal judge. That's because Trump's ownership of it could be a violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause—state and foreign government payments to the hotel could amount to illegal gifts to Trump.

    Now the hotel, and its owner, are getting attention for the millions in fines they paid out, right around the inauguration, for not paying contractors who renovated the property. In late January, the hotel paid out more than $3 million to settle liens against, and in "one case, a contractor reached an agreement after receiving a phone call from someone his attorney identified as 'Trump.'"

    The largest payment was made to Joseph J. Magnolia, Inc. The family-owned D.C.-based company had filed a lien for $2.98 million on Dec. 21, 2016, for "the unpaid balance for work done" on the hotel, dating from that day back through Sept. 9, 2014, according to court filings. Joseph J. Magnolia, Inc. had done "plumbing, mechanical, and HVAC work, along with the site sewer, water, storm, and water services" per the notice. It also provided the labor and materials required to complete that work.

    The company had been featured in a Washington Post article about various liens against Trump's hotel in D.C. that continues to garner a ton of social media notice. In a previous Post article, John D. Magnolia, the company's president, noted that he had voted for Trump and felt the Trumps had been "decent people" to work with. But, he added, "Mr. Trump and Ivanka [Trump, who oversaw the hotel project] and so forth, they are I guess preoccupied by other matters now."[…]

    While Magnolia’s company received what appears to be an amicable settlement, another subcontractor for the Trump International Hotel in D.C. did not. A&D Construction sought $79,700 in unpaid bills for woodwork (including the hotel’s crown molding). Richard M. Sissman, an attorney for the family-owned subcontractor based in Sterling, Virginia, said he had conversations with representatives of the Trump Organization regarding the lien, but not Donald Trump himself. He ended up negotiating with the hotel’s general contractor and reached an agreement around Feb. 22. But it didn’t end particularly well for his client who, unlike Magnolia, had not publicly stated that he supported Trump.

    “He didn’t walk away very happy, let me put it to you that way,” said Sissman. “But he needed the money.”

    Another company forced to put liens on the hotel was Maryland-based AES Electrical. It was owed $2 million for unpaid work in the hotel, and received a settlement in March 2017. Their attorney declined to provide any details of that transaction. It's relatively small beans compared to potential collusion with a foreign adversary to influence the election, but it is just further evidence of Trump's corruption—the only reason he settled these liens was because there would be bad press in the first months of his presidency. Otherwise they'd be hanging out to dry like all the other contractors Trump has stiffed over the decades.

    It's also a reminder that, even without collusion with Russia, there's the Trump International Hotel, which continues to contract with foreign government and which provides daily evidence for Trump's impeachment
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    Too scared to properly source DailyKOS?

    I've noticed this is a recurrent theme with a couple of y'all.

    something something guilty conscience

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    Is Ivanka really going to walk with the athletes? If so, she's as clueless and classless as her father. There is not one good reason for her to do that, other than to steal some of the goodwill for her father and the family brand.
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    My guilty conscience is far more imaginative than sourcing news outlets
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    Quote Originally Posted by Runnin View Post
    Is Ivanka really going to walk with the athletes? If so, she's as clueless and classless as her father. There is not one good reason for her to do that, other than to steal some of the goodwill for her father and the family brand.
    The Koreans love Ivanka.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    The Koreans love Ivanka.
    They would.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Runnin View Post
    They would.
    The Japanese love Trump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 57Brave View Post
    My guilty conscience is far more imaginative than sourcing news outlets
    you dirty old coot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    The Japanese love Trump.
    I suspect a certain type does, but I've yet to meet one. Most express dismay at what they call his childishness and unpredictability.
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