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  1. 3 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    Never paid attention before, but are the parrots in the statue fucking?

    Nothing like posing for a picture with your adolescent daughter sitting on your lap with a statue of parrots fucking.  

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  2. 1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

    14.5% annual return.

    But in Trump's defense, he would have fucked it up and the Cowboys would have cratered years ago.

    Oh, no doubt.  The mind reels what he would have done with the franchise.  I suspect they would have moved from Dallas long ago.

     

     

  3. 21 minutes ago, Tuco said:

    I wonder what article the Washington Post asked the White House for confirmation on.  It's going to be a fun infrastructure week.

    Infrastructure week is passe'.  It's jobs week now.  #MAGA.

     

     

  4. https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-sneak-peek-1577c4f5-4c30-4742-86bd-3d5b8d950a1f.html

     

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    A Trump campaign tale that never made it into the papers... 

    Jason Miller was excited. The legendary college basketball coach Bobby Knight was visiting Trump Tower and the campaign's senior communications adviser thought it would be a great opportunity to get Knight in front of the beleaguered Trump team for one of the coach's inspirational halftime speeches.

    Behind the scenes: About 30 Trump communications staff and volunteers were gathered in the war room. Cable news blared on eight TVs that never switched off. Miller came out of his office to give the team a rare "ra ra speech," a "let's go get 'em speech... let's fight hard today and here's what we're pushing," according to two sources who were in the room for the occasion.

    "Jason says, 'We've got Coach Knight here, the legendary Coach Knight. Coach, why don't you say a few words to the team here'," one of the sources recalled.

    "Sure, sure. Happy to, Jason," Knight replied, in the recollection of the source. "You know, I love Donald Trump. He's a great man. He's gonna be a great president. I'm confident that he's gonna win. 

    "But really the one thing, the one thing I just can't understand is... Well, he's just got to stop talking about this f---ing wall."

    Knight kept going, attacking the centerpiece of the Trump campaign, as Miller stood by agog and staff tried to suppress their laughter. 

    "I go everywhere," Knight said, "all over the country. And people tell me 'Donald Trump is awesome but I don't understand the wall.'"

    "I'm telling you," Knight continued, "people don't understand the wall and you've got to stop talking about the wall. Trump's gonna win. But you've got to stop talking about the wall."

    "So go get 'em guys."

    Miller appeared befuddled. "Jason was like, 'Uh, thanks for that coach. Alright everybody, let's get back to work,'" the source recalled. Then everybody returned to their desks for another day in an office that often resembled The Office.

     

  5. 1 minute ago, slorch said:

    Parade is a shit-ton cheaper than a large scale military exercise.  Just sayin.

     

    Also, shouldn't our allies be throwing us a parade for helping turn the tide in WWI?  Just askin...

     

    Ordinarily, I'd agree.  Ships and sailors and soldiers and aircraft operating costs ain't cheap.

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    Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning told reporters earlier this month that the now-cancelled US-South Korea Freedom Guardian Exercise was estimated to cost approximately $14 million.

    Now, maybe Col. Rob Manning was wrong, and it's closer to $14 billion.  Pentagon accounting and all.  But until the Pentagon offers a retraction, you have to assume his numbers are fact. 

  6. Yeah, cancelling those South Korean exercises to appease was sure gonna save a bundle.

    Oh yeah, we just gonna shift those costs over to a....[checks notes]....parade.

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/politics/trump-military-parade-cost/index.html

     

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    President Donald Trump's military parade in DC is likely to cost nearly as much as the now canceled military exercise with South Korea that Trump called "tremendously expensive" and said cost "a fortune," three US defense officials tell CNN.

    The parade, which is now scheduled to take place on November 10, is currently estimated to cost approximately $12 million, the officials said. One official called the number "a planning figure," saying cost estimates could still change as planning develops.
    "We save a fortune by not doing war games, as long as we are negotiating in good faith - which both sides are!" Trump tweeted in June following his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore.
    North Korea had long sought an end to the exercises, which it says are provocative. US military leaders have said the exercises are necessary to maintain the readiness of US troops in South Korea.

     

  7. 10 minutes ago, horncyclist said:
    16 minutes ago, Bruh Man said:
    Gangbangs with six black guys. Where are the compassionate Christian conservatives to defend this? Still fretting over this guy? Shame....
     
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    I see you conveniently chose a photo where he's NOT wearing a tan suit.

    Where's the flag on his lapel? Daughter covering it up?  He hates the flag!   Not patriotic enough!  #MAGA.

  8. 1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Maybe they're releasing this McDougal tape information to give Trump an opportunity to come clean with the American people?

    I wonder if Trump will?  

    Sure thing.   We can expect a Presidential prime time address on all networks any day now.  

  9. 3 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

    So Stone and Manafort are cucks. LOFUCKINGL this is getting to be too much

     

    The manliest men are associated with the Trump administration in one capacity or another.  

  10. 2 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Man, trump's body language is always so fucking submissive around putin and so defensive whenever talking about russia. 

    Trump likes to shake the hands vigorously of foreign leaders, stand tall, shove them aside for a photo op.

    Putin, who is listed at 5' 6" or so, just physically towers over Trump at all times.  

    Trump is such a fucking cuck to Putin.  

     

     

  11. 45 minutes ago, RayDog said:

    Last I checked Public Citizen has over 350,000 people signed up to protest within 5 hours of Trump crossing a line like firing Mueller. With that start they could have millions on the street within a day. Of course the plan is to be peaceful, but...

     

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  12. Let's just file this in the *no shit* column and move on:

     

    http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/397955-dni-coats-theres-a-risk-that-putin-recorded-meeting-with-trump

     

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    Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said Thursday that it's possible Russian President Vladimir Putin recorded his meeting Monday in Helsinki, Finland, with President Trump, adding that he didn't know the specifics of what happened during the two leaders' private meeting.

    Asked by MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell whether Putin could have recorded the meeting without Trump's knowledge, Coats hesitated before responding: "That risk is always there."

    "You're right, I don't know what happened in that meeting," Coats added during the interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival. "I think as time goes by — and the president has already mentioned some things that happened in that meeting — I think we will learn more. But that is the president's prerogative."

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    Later in Mitchell's interview with Coats, she broke the news to him that Trump is working to invite Putin to visit Washington, D.C., in the next few months.

    “We have some breaking news, the White House has announced on Twitter that Vladimir Putin is coming to the White House in the fall,” Mitchell said.

    “Say that again?” Coats replied, before laughing.

    “Did I hear you right?” he jokingly asked. “OK, that’s gonna be special.”

     

  13. 8 minutes ago, Pancho Negro said:

     

    Odds are strong that a former KGB officer will be in the Oval Office with the President and Russian translator, and no one else.

    Yeah, totally normal.  

  14. Hey, it's totally fine now in the House for churches to openly back a political candidate of their choice and not worry about that pesky IRS getting involved:

     

    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/19/house-irs-churches-candidates-politics-698319

     

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    The House voted Thursday to make it harder for the government to punish churches that get involved in politics.

    In a 217-199 vote, lawmakers approved legislation barring the IRS from revoking the tax-exempt status of churches that back political candidates, unless it is specifically approved by the commissioner of the agency.

    The provision, buried in a budget measure setting IRS funding for the upcoming year, amounts to a backdoor way around the so-called Johnson amendment, a half-century-old prohibition on nonprofits getting involved in political campaign activities.

    Nonprofits denounced the move, and noted it came only days after the Treasury Department announced it was dropping requirements that most charitable organizations disclose their big donors to the IRS.

    “It’s now impossible for Congress and the White House to deny their objective: to politicize the trusted charitable nonprofit community by authorizing unlimited, unfettered and untraceable political money to flow through the nonprofit sector to benefit partisan special interests,” said Tim Delaney, head of the National Council of Nonprofits.

     

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    The move came as Senate Democrats forced the postponement of a Finance Committee confirmation vote on President Donald Trump's pick to run the IRS, in protest of the Treasury decision to ease the donor-disclosure requirements. Democrats say that will abet the rise of so-called dark money political campaign donations.

    The Trump administration and House Republicans have tried unsuccessfully to repeal the Johnson amendment, named after then-Sen. Lyndon Johnson who pushed it through Congress in 1954.

     

  15. Not that this is a surprise to anyone, but to see these numbers is just sad:

    https://www.axios.com/republicans-say-trump-did-fine-in-helsinki-5776322f-a483-4e21-b50c-028799b08367.html

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    We told you yesterday why elected Republicans go so silent so quickly when they disagree so strongly with President Trump: They fear it's political suicide to speak up. Now we have an exclusive, new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll that shows why those fears are real.   Be smart: This poll foreshadows the coming national drama. Every piece of data, and virtually every public action of elected Republican officials, shows Trump will have overwhelming and probably unbreakable party support, regardless of what Robert Mueller finds with his Russia probe. 

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  16. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/18/1781619/-Art-of-the-Bum-Deal-Donald-Trump-has-managed-to-increase-the-cost-of-Air-Force-One-by-1-billion

     

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    However, the true cost of two new Air Force One planes, was budgeted at $2.87 billion. Though some estimates put the total at $3.73 billion by the time of completion in 2026, that still didn’t put it to the number Trump was throwing around. But Trump was okay with that. According to him, “Boeing is doing a little bit of a number” and trying to make too much money off the contract. But Trump would show them who was boss.

    Even before he sat down in the Oval Office, Trump claimed that he had been on the phone with Boeing and chopped down that big number. It was a claim he repeated several times in his first few months in office—his go-to example of his negotiating skills.

    Trump: We've got that price down by over $1 billion and I probably haven't spoken for more than an hour on the project,

    However, within a few weeks, the White House website had chopped Trump savings from “over a billion” to “millions.” And now, Donald Trump has completed his negotiations, coming up with a new price of … $3.9 billion. That’s right. After two years of negotiation, Donald Trump’s price is a billion dollars higher than where he started. No wonder everyone loves to negotiate with Trump.

     

     

     

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    Trump is claiming that the new contract saved either “$1.5 billion” or “$1.4 billion” over the original contract. Except it doesn’t. The original contract was actually the $2.87 billion figure. The $3.73 billion was a projected cost running forward to 2026 and anticipating inflation and cost overruns. Trump has now reset the base value to $3.9 billion. Nowhere did anyone project any kind of number that would make Trump’s $3.9 billion a “savings.”

    Trump has actually raised the cost of this project by over $1 billion.

     

     

     

  17. 6 minutes ago, triplehorn said:

    IC has been keeping its powder dry for a looong time.  NATO debacle followed by the Putin/Puppet show created the perfect storm to move.  Definitely feels like a surge is happening.

    If that's the case, God only knows what the next reveal will be.   And honestly, nothing, nothing would surprise me now.  1.5 years of this shit has hardened me enough that nothing is off-limits.  All one can do is just wonder what is the theoretical limit of humiliation that congressional republicans need.

  18. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/world/europe/trump-intelligence-russian-election-meddling-.html

     

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    Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally ordered complex cyberattacks to sway the 2016 American election.

    The evidence included texts and emails from Russian military officers and information gleaned from a top-secret source close to Mr. Putin, who had described to the C.I.A. how the Kremlin decided to execute its campaign of hacking and disinformation.

    Mr. Trump sounded grudgingly convinced, according to several people who attended the intelligence briefing. But ever since, Mr. Trump has tried to cloud the very clear findings that he received on Jan. 6, 2017, which his own intelligence leaders have unanimously endorsed.

    The shifting narrative underscores the degree to which Mr. Trump regularly picks and chooses intelligence to suit his political purposes. That has never been more clear than this week.

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    The Jan. 6, 2017, meeting, held at Trump Tower, was a prime example. He was briefed that day by John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director; James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence; and Adm. Michael S. Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency and the commander of United States Cyber Command.

    The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, was also there; after the formal briefing, he privately told Mr. Trump about the “Steele dossier.” That report, by a former British intelligence officer, included uncorroborated salacious stories of Mr. Trump’s activities during a visit to Moscow, which he denied.

    According to nearly a dozen people who either attended the meeting with the president-elect or were later briefed on it, the four primary intelligence officials described the streams of intelligence that convinced them of Mr. Putin’s role in the election interference.

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    They included stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee that had been seen in Russian military intelligence networks by the British, Dutch and American intelligence services. Officers of the Russian intelligence agency formerly known as the G.R.U. had plotted with groups like WikiLeaks on how to release the email stash.

    And ultimately, several human sources had confirmed Mr. Putin’s own role.

    That included one particularly valuable source, who was considered so sensitive that Mr. Brennan had declined to refer to it in any way in the Presidential Daily Brief during the final months of the Obama administration, as the Russia investigation intensified.

    Instead, to keep the information from being shared widely, Mr. Brennan sent reports from the source to Mr. Obama and a small group of top national security aides in a separate, white envelope to assure its security.

     

     

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