Release it all. Let's see how corrupt our entire government is.Originally Posted by mqt
Why are we afraid of thise?
Release it all. Let's see how corrupt our entire government is.
Why are we afraid of thise?
resisting arrest is a crime...and abuse of power an impeachable one
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
But I was promised collusion
sez the man who claims Mueller's investigation is a witch hunt
Last edited by nsacpi; 09-17-2018 at 09:50 PM.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
it's there if you would stop averting your gaze...adoptions meeting...Trump publicly promising a good deal on sanctions...changing the Ukraine platform plank...inviting Kilimnic to Chicago to watch...publicly urging the Russians on in their hacking activities...much of it happened broad daylight
you seriously think the Manafartov profer was about Podesta or Vin Weber?
Last edited by nsacpi; 09-17-2018 at 09:55 PM.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
You said 2 years, right?
did i
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Tidbit on Trump sensitivity to Deutsche subpoena (from Woodward's book)
https://www.businessinsider.com/trum...he-bank-2018-9
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/u...m-lawyers.html
Trump's lawyers don't know if he has told them all the details regarding some of the key events he has been involved in.
"Mr. Dowd took Mr. Trump at his word he had done nothing wrong and never conducted a full internal investigation to determine the president's true legal exposure."
Sounds like some sort of malpractice to believe a client who lies constantly.
Last edited by nsacpi; 09-18-2018 at 10:42 AM.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Pretty much the first thing a lawyer tells a client facing criminal charges is that they cant effectively lawyer for them unless they tell them the truth. I think Trump legitimately believes most of the lies he tells.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
Last sentences of Woodward's book:
"But in the man and the presidency, Dowd had seen the tragic flaw. In the political back and forth, the evasions, the denials, the tweeting, the obscuring, the crying 'Fake News', the indignation, Trump had one overriding problem that Dowd knew but could not bring himself to say to the president, 'You're a f*cking liar.' "
FFF - BB, BB, 2B, HR, 2B, HR, 1B, BB, BB, 1B, BB, BB, HR
I've come to the conclusion that the lying is symptomatic of a deeper problem. We all have to deal with divergences between what the facts are and what we wish them to be. In Trump's case, I think the basic processing mechanism that allows us to distinguish between what is good information and what is bad information is broken. Broken or over-riden by his drive to wish things into reality. That's not the way the world works. But it is what determines truth for him. So how do you lawyer for someone for whom reality is a dreamworld not connected to facts in the way it is for the rest of us. I wouldn't be surprised that if he obsessively repeats "no collusion" to his lawyers in the same way he repeats it on twitter.
Last edited by nsacpi; 09-18-2018 at 11:15 AM.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
But this really isn't new information. From 2016 he was know to be a pathological liar. People on this very board said as much while professing their allegiance.
What troubles me is that allegiance. Why are people willing to follow him off of the cliff, knowing he is leading them - off the cliff.
" I think the basic processing mechanism that allows us to distinguish between
what is good information and what is bad information is broken. "
Is as close to a definition I have seen
or is it something else.
I don't want to hear "oh she was a terrible candidate"
That was two years ago. Yet, people are still ... Kavanaugh is a prime example
How do we fix that mechanism ?
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
According to former deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh, Trump’s ability to carry out his plans seemed questionable, hindered largely by a lack of skills—including reading comprehension.
“Here, arguably, was the central issue of the Trump presidency, informing every aspect of Trumpian policy and leadership: He didn’t process information in any conventional sense,” Wolff wrote. “He didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-literate.”
In interviews, Trump stated that he doesn’t feel the need to read much. His reason was that he can make decisions correctly “with very little knowledge other than the knowledge I [already] had, plus the words ‘common sense,’ because I have a lot of common sense and I have a lot of business ability,” The Washington Post reported.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
In the old days they appointed a regent. But Trump picks his own babysitters.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
For most of us, we read for information. Sometimes that information collides with our preconceptions. We all have our own ways of dealing with those collisions. Imagine being someone whose preconceptions are so strong as to virtually rule out accommodating information that is not consistent with those preconceptions. What is the point of reading for someone like that.
And then pile on top of that the impulsiveness, lack of respect for institutions, norms and contraints that have evolved over a long period of time. The end result is a train wreck.
There is a second part to this, which I think will ultimately be of greater interest to historians. Which is what his base makes of all this and the feedback loop between base and man.
Last edited by nsacpi; 09-18-2018 at 11:36 AM.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
When was that mechanism ever not broken? I talk a lot about manufactured consent which is the government using fake news/information to change the outcomes of elections/policies. One government agent wrote Op-Eds to all major newspapers in the US falsely attributing a kid murdering his family with an axe to reefer madness and the whole country bought it hook line and sinker. Many believe we let Pearl Harbor happen to get us into WW2 and if not for that we would have bombed the empire state building and blamed it on Germany. The Gulf of Tonkin incident. Pretty sure Lincoln lied to keep the North from making peace with the South. The whole Iraq War.
Generally speaking the solution is what we have. The Internet. We have 100000 sources to get information from. We saw manufactured consent fail with the Syrian chemical attacks.
With the Trump people they lock themselves up in an echo chamber and refuse anything outside of that. I have relatives that are hardcore Trump supporters and they listen and watch fox news almost every waking moment. Even when I visit its either fox news on TV or playing on the radio. Try and talk to them and anything I bring up they just say "where did you get that, the internet?. If I cant link to a fox news report they wont even give it a thought. Heck, they cant even admit they were wrong about Jeff Sessions who I tried telling them was an evil jackass. Now they think he is an evil jackass but they say no one could possibly have known Sessions would be such a bad AG. No one.......
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
I have been asking since
January 2017 who voted for this guy?
Not always to be snarky but --- who voted for this guy -- what were you thinking
Seems more critical thought is put into who is the O Line coach at an SEC school or pitching coach for the Braves than who carries the nuclear brief case.
Or who is the face of our people on the international stage.
He picked a fight and alienated Canada fer chrise sakes
Like you said nsacpi this has evolved over a long period of time
edit:
and like Cajun said - " it has always been thus "
which is true.
I remember the day of first reports of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. I was with a relative that was gung ho to administer retribution. (Fire and Fury was the phrase Hawk found so enamoring )
He is today, much like Cajun's family member, that if it doesn't come from Fox he wont believe it.
Last edited by 57Brave; 09-18-2018 at 12:06 PM.
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
I think this is going to end up being a very salient point.
an interesting deep state perspective
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.84a9380256df
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
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