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Sgt Bilko » 05 Oct 2017 4:46 am » wrote: The report about Tillerson thinking about resigning is MSM fabricating news according to statements by Tillerson in a video interview a few days ago. He was incredulous about the complete fabrication that was being published. Get facts straight.

Misty » 04 Oct 2017 10:41 pm » wrote: It was PostmodernProphet who said the job was already done not me dotard.

I'm the one who said this.

nuckin futz » 04 Oct 2017 8:41 pm » wrote:
These Trumpster Divers put party over the country!!!
To me that's treasonous!

Misty » 04 Oct 2017 11:23 pm » wrote:Wow! Another right wing narrative bites the dust.
Looks like the IRS did not only target Conservative groups for extra scrutiny.
That sound you don’t hear is a million corrections on conservative news and opinion sites not being written.

roadkill » 05 Oct 2017 6:58 am » wrote:
So you're suggesting the firing squad for dems...if you're really honest? But of course you're not.

In other news...



http://www.breitbart.com/news/giant-pyt ... ing-eaten/

Misty » 04 Oct 2017 10:41 pm » wrote: It was PostmodernProphet who said the job was already done not me dotard.

I'm the one who said this.

nuckin futz » 04 Oct 2017 8:41 pm » wrote: These Trumpster Divers put party over the country!!!
To me that's treasonous!

nuckin futz » 05 Oct 2017 8:43 am » wrote: Looks like I struck a nerve!BINGO!

You mean you don't want it for a pet?

Laura Ingraham suggests photos of Las Vegas gunman’s room were staged and he was in too “poor health” to have acted alone.

On the October 5 edition of Courtside Entertainment Group’s The Laura Ingraham Show, host Laura Ingraham used her platform to spread conspiracy theories about the massacre in Las Vegas, NV.

Ingraham claimed photos of the shooter’s room “were selectively leaked” to the media and “look[ed] like a scene from a Law & Order” episode because everything is “perfectly laid down.”

Ingraham implied that these selective photos were staged and leaked to support Democrats who were “speaking from the same [gun control] script” since the attack.

Ingraham also baselessly suggested that the shooter was inexperienced with firearms and “clearly in poor health” to cast doubt on the possibility he acted alone.

The National Rifle Association (NRA)’s firing range at its Virginia headquarters does not allow the use of weapons outfitted with “bump stock” modifications — the type of device used by Las Vegas mass murderer Stephen Paddock to kill 59 people and injure nearly 10 times as many, Politico said on Thursday.

Sources familiar with the NRA’s Fairfax, VA headquarters say that bump stocks are banned at the campus firing range, where members socialize and hold target practice sessions.

Politico said that the organization declined to comment.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/nra-do ... range/amp/

Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream

A cache of documents obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals the truth about Steve Bannon’s alt-right “killing machine.”

In August, after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville ended in murder, Steve Bannon insisted that "there's no room in American society" for neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates, and the KKK.

But an explosive cache of documents obtained by BuzzFeed News proves that there was plenty of room for those voices on his website.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, under Bannon’s leadership, Breitbart courted the alt-right — the insurgent, racist right-wing movement that helped sweep Donald Trump to power.

The former White House chief strategist famously remarked that he wanted Breitbart to be “the platform for the alt-right.”

The Breitbart employee closest to the alt-right was Milo Yiannopoulos, the site’s former tech editor known best for his outrageous public provocations, such as last year’s Dangerous *** speaking tour and September’s canceled Free Speech Week in Berkeley.

For more than a year, Yiannopoulos led the site in a coy dance around the movement’s nastier edges, writing stories that minimized the role of neo-Nazis and white nationalists while giving its politer voices “a fair hearing.”

In March, Breitbart editor Alex Marlow insisted “we’re not a hate site.”

Breitbart’s media relations staff repeatedly threatened to sue outlets that described Yiannopoulos as racist.

And after the violent white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, Breitbart published an article explaining that when Bannon said the site welcomed the alt-right, he was merely referring to “computer gamers and blue-collar voters who hated the GOP brand.”

These new emails and documents, however, clearly show that Breitbart does more than tolerate the most hate-filled, racist voices of the alt-right.

It thrives on them, fueling and being fueled by some of the most toxic beliefs on the political spectrum — and clearing the way for them to enter the American mainstream.

It’s a relationship illustrated most starkly by a previously unreleased April 2016 video in which Yiannopoulos sings “America the Beautiful” in a Dallas karaoke bar as admirers, including the white nationalist Richard Spencer, raise their arms in Nazi salutes.

These documents chart the Breitbart alt-right universe.

They reveal how the website — and, in particular, Yiannopoulos — links the Mercer family, the billionaires who fund Breitbart, to underpaid trolls who fill it with provocative content, and to extremists striving to create a white ethnostate.

They capture what Bannon calls his “killing machine” in action, as it dredges up the resentments of people around the world, sifts through these grievances for ideas and content, and propels them from the unsavory parts of the internet up to TrumpWorld, collecting advertisers’ checks all along the way.

And the cache of emails — some of the most newsworthy of which BuzzFeed News is now making public — expose the extent to which this machine depended on Yiannopoulos, who channeled voices both inside and outside the establishment into a clear narrative about the threat liberal discourse posed to America.

The emails tell the story of Steve Bannon’s grand plan for Yiannopoulos, whom the Breitbart executive chairman transformed from a charismatic young editor into a conservative media star capable of magnetizing a new generation of reactionary anger.

Often, the documents reveal, this anger came from a legion of secret sympathizers in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, academia, suburbia, and everywhere in between.

"I have said in the past that I find humor in breaking taboos and laughing at things that people tell me are forbidden to joke about," Yiannopoulos wrote in a statement to BuzzFeed News.

"But everyone who knows me also knows I'm not a racist.

As someone of Jewish ancestry, I of course condemn racism in the strongest possible terms.

I have stopped making jokes on these matters because I do not want any confusion on this subject.

I disavow Richard Spencer and his entire sorry band of idiots.

I have been and am a steadfast supporter of Jews and Israel.

I disavow white nationalism and I disavow racism and I always have.”

He added that during his karaoke performance, his "severe myopia" made it impossible for him to see the Hitler salutes a few feet away.

Steve Bannon, the other Breitbart employees named in the story, and the Mercer family did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Like all the new media success stories, Breitbart’s alt-right platform depends on the participation of its audience.

It combusts the often secret fury of those who reject liberal norms into news, and it doesn’t burn clean.

Now Bannon is back at the controls of the machine, which he has said he is “revving up.”

The Mercers have funded Yiannopoulos's post-Breitbart venture.

And these documents present the clearest look at what these people may have in store for America.

The Incredible Corrupting White House

Amid the chaos and dysfunction that marks Washington in the age of Trump, it can be easy to miss that this White House is corrupt.

Remarkably, unbelievably, corrupt.

Compared with other crises and controversies enveloping this administration, mere graft seems minor.

It’s not a natural disaster, an FBI investigation, or an open display of sympathy for white supremacists.

Still, the corruption shouldn’t be dismissed.

Not just because it’s wrong, but because it puts serious stress on our democratic institutions at exactly the time they need support.

At the center is President Trump himself, who treats the treasury like a slush fund.

Trump takes regular trips to his properties in Florida, New Jersey, and Virginia.

At last look, according to the New York Times, he spent 85 days visiting at least one of his properties out of a total of 249 days on the job as president.

These trips aren’t cheap.

Definitive numbers are hard to come by, but in August, the left-leaning Center for American Progress Action Fund estimated that Trump had spent more than $31 million on trips to his hotels, golf courses, and resorts, which includes expenses for his staff and security.

What makes this graft and not just waste is the fact that it goes directly from taxpayers into the president’s own pockets—Trump refuses to divest from his businesses, meaning he has a financial stake in their use by the government.

These expenditures don’t even account for the fact that, because he occupies the Oval Office, Trump has been able to charge more at his clubs and hotels, cash that flows to his bank accounts.

There are also the president’s key advisers and family members, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, who are ensnared in an impossibly complex web of conflicting interests.

Nomi Prins, a senior fellow for the think tank Demos, notes that Trump and Kushner show every sign of having leveraged political relationships for financial gain.

“Ivanka’s company, for instance, won three new trademarks for its products from China on the very day she dined with President Xi Jinping at her father’s Palm Beach club,” she notes, while Kushner “led the efforts to prepare for the state visit to Mar-a-Lago of the Chinese president (while the Kushner business was engaged in high-level talks with a major Chinese financial conglomerate).”

Then there are the members of the president’s Cabinet, who face growing scrutiny for their abuse of taxpayer funds.

Tom Price resigned his post as secretary of health and human services after a Politico investigation revealed that he had spent nearly $1 million on charter and military flights for both routine and personal travel, spending tens of thousands of dollars on just one trip to Philadelphia and charging the government for a $17,000 trip to Tennessee to give a brief speech and have lunch with his son.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is also under fire for his method of air travel.

Mnuchin didn’t just use a military plane to travel with his wife to Kentucky on what appeared to be a personal trip to view the solar eclipse; he’d also requested use of a government plane for his European honeymoon.

It keeps going.

Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, spent more than $900,000 on private flights, ’round-the-clock security, and a soundproof booth in his office.

Not only that, but as the New York Times notes, he has “held back-to-back meetings, briefing sessions and speaking engagements almost daily with top corporate executives and lobbyists from all the major economic sectors that he regulates.”

That unusual amount of time with industry groups includes “frequent, government-funded trips” back to Oklahoma, where he served as attorney general (and frequent antagonist of the EPA), and expensive meals with industry leaders, among them major donors to President Trump.

Two other members of Trump’s Cabinet, his Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, and his head of Veteran Affairs, David Shulkin, are also under scrutiny for their travel choices.

Zinke chartered a $12,000 flight from Las Vegas to Montana while Shulkin spent thousands on a European trip that included sightseeing with his wife and seats at a Wimbledon tennis match.

These are varying degrees of offense. P

resident Trump’s actions are arguably in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, an impeachable offense.

Price’s high-rolling travel habits were an obvious abuse of the public trust, and Pruitt’s close relationship with the fossil fuel industry—and his support for their priorities, like rescinding the Obama administration’s clean air regulations—is reminiscent of the worst of Gilded Age entanglement between business and government.

Zinke’s and Shulkin’s activities, on the other hand, are merely unseemly.

That these aren’t uniformly egregious, however, doesn’t mean they aren’t significant.

In any other administration, this graft and abuse of public resources would be a defining scandal, an event that—like the Teapot Dome—would find its way into public memory.

And while it’s tempting to say these are ultimately minor concerns—pocketing taxpayer dollars is nothing compared with provoking a confrontation with a nuclear-capable, isolated dictatorship—the truth is that they matter as much as Trump’s worst offenses.

Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins:
While a member of the Louisiana legislature and as his website proudly notes, Steve Scalise authored his state’s successful 2004 ban on same-sex marriage.

He continued his crusade in the US House, authoring and sponsoring numerous anti-marriage bills, including a 2014 attempt to allow states to override any federal rulings on same-sex marriage rights.

http://www.joemygod.com/2017/10/04/man- ... te-groups/

Misty » 05 Oct 2017 7:03 pm » wrote:Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream

Misty » 05 Oct 2017 9:01 pm » wrote:The Incredible Corrupting White House

Misty » 05 Oct 2017 3:30 pm » wrote:And here come the crackpots with their wingnut conspiracy theories.