Posts made by Drwas

@raphjd:

@Devken:

@raphjd:

We can be critical of Trump, but we can't talk about Obama, unless it further the liberal narrative.   We see it in so many threads.

You can talk about Obama, but why talk about Obama in a thread about Ted Nugent and Hillary Clinton? Because Nugent never mentioned Hillary, and Hillary isn't working with Obama. So the only reason to bring up Obama is to derail the thread, or to deflect.

If you want to talk about Obama, then create a thread about Obama.

See, thread nazis.

Popping into a thread for the sole purpose to flame, is a NO NO.

If you routinely post nothing but childish comments that do nothing to further the discussion, that is a NO NO.

If you can't or won't further the discussion, then ignore this section.

@raphjd:

@Oscarbingham:

So much for free speech,  Welcome to Putin's América.

It's funny how you are blaming Trump/Putin, when it's your side that set a building on fire with people in it to prevent "wrong speak".   It's your side that set a girl's hair on fire for wearing a Trump hat.  It's your side that attacks a retired couple who was walking their their dog because they look like someone who would support free speech.

The list is long on liberals getting violent because they don't like free speech.

And you guys slit the throats of men defending muslim women on trains!

No, that's you guys! :cheesy2:

@raphjd:

@sutieday:

Ted Nuget is a right wing extremist, and nobody on the Right condemns him.

BULLSHIT.

I don't know anyone who likes or supports that ass clown.

He hasn't been a thing since 1974 (ish) when he had 2 hit songs.

Traitor tRump invited him to the White House just a few weeks ago!

@mhorndisk:

I didn't even know it was gay pride month… I mean you have the parade and all, but a whole month? I'm gay and I didn't even know that. Man! You guys are so quick to judge. He never did or said anything against gay people. In fact, he has expressed a lot of support, and in Orlando, he did express his condolences. How dare you guys claim this garbage. It's total nonsense.

The Washington Blade noted on Thursday that Trump issued five different proclamations on May 31 recognizing June as National Caribbean-American Heritage Month, African-American Music Appreciation Month, National Homeownership Month, Great Outdoors Month and National Ocean Month — but did not release anything related to Pride.

@mhorndisk:

Nobody on the right condemns him because the law is the law. Hillary is not above the law. The punishment for treason is death by hanging. It is unfortunate, but you have laws, or you don't, and it is the law whether you like it or not. She is guilty in the eyes of the American people. She committed treason in many ways, Benghazi was horrible. Sean asked for help, and she ignored him, and she just went to bed, and didn't care. That's pretty much a fact, and she doesn't deny it. She does asks, "What difference does it make?" It makes a lot of difference to a lot of people. It isn't because they hate Hillary because she's a woman. She literally showed apathy and arrogance and criminality and it's on the record. She's a horrible person.

Nope

@beast775:

Who cares?  How many of you waited around so you could get angry that your special interest group of cock sucking wasn't recognized?  Go do something productive with your lives and quit whining like a bunch of victim-less victims.  We have more rights and freedoms here than most parts of the world.  Nothing like a bunch of bitchy bitter queens.

Says the self-loathing closet case!

Two influential Senate Democrats disclosed Thursday that they had privately asked former FBI Director James Comey to investigate all contacts and communications that Attorney General Jeff Sessions or his aides may have had with officials from the Russian government — and raised the issue of whether Sessions had committed perjury in his Senate testimony.

The revelation by Sens. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Al Franken of Minnesota comes a day after CNN reported that investigators are looking into whether Sessions had a third, previously undisclosed meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential campaign last year.

Sessions was forced to step aside from federal Russia investigations earlier this year when The Washington Post reported that the former Alabama senator had met twice with the Russian ambassador, even though he testified during his confirmation hearing in January that he “did not have communications with the Russians.”

CNN reported Wednesday that congressional investigators were now examining whether Sessions and Kislyak met a third time. In their first request to Comey, sent March 20, Leahy and Franken argued that Sessions’ testimony before the Judiciary Committee could be “construed as perjury.”

“We served with the attorney general in the Senate and on the Judiciary Committee for many years,” Leahy and Franken said in a joint statement Thursday. “We know he would not tolerate dishonesty if he were in our shoes. If it is determined that the attorney general still has not been truthful with Congress and the American people about his contacts with Russian officials during the campaign, he needs to resign.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/01/jeff-sessions-testimony-perjury-democrats-239024

President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that tax legislation is advancing through Congress — even though no such bill yet exists.

“Our tax bill is moving along in Congress, and I believe it’s doing very well,” Trump said Thursday afternoon in a Rose Garden speech announcing that the U.S. will pull out of the Paris global climate pact.

Although no such legislation exists, Trump said, “I think a lot of people will be very pleasantly surprised.”

“The Republicans,” he continued, “are working very, very hard. We’d love to have support from the Democrats, but we may have to go it alone. But it’s going very well.”

The Senate is working on a health care bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. But even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged late last month, “I don't know how we get to 50 votes. Lawmakers are expected to tackle tax reform after health care, although Congress faces a number of looming fall deadlines, including funding the government by October.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/01/donald-trump-tax-bill-congress-239033

A few months ago you were a lobbyist for oil and coal companies? Not a problem—you can still work on environmental policy in the Trump White House despite Donald Trump supposedly having drained the swamp. While Trump signed an executive order saying former lobbyists couldn’t work in his regime on issues they’d lobbied on in recent years, the White House has given in to calls to release its ethics waivers, and we now know that he’s granted 16 ethics waivers to allow, for instance, that former oil and coal lobbyist to work on environmental policy. That’s not a hypothetical:

A second waiver was given to Michael Catanzaro, who until January was registered as a lobbyist for companies including Devon Energy, an oil and gas company, and Talen Energy, a coal-burning electric utility. Mr. Catanzaro moved from lobbying against Obama-era environmental rules to overseeing the White House office in charge of rolling back the same rules, an activity permitted by his waiver.

Also receiving a waiver was Shahira Knight, who had been a lobbyist for Fidelity Investments and now serves as a special assistant to the president for tax and retirement policy — the same topic she had lobbied on while working for Fidelity, one of the largest retirement-investment companies in the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/us/politics/lobbyist-ethics-waivers-trump-administration.html?_r=0

Significant majorities in both parties are in favor of raising the minimum wage and are supportive of a slew of other anti-poverty programs, according to a poll from University of Maryland Program for Public Consultation (PPC) and the non-partisan group Voice of the People.

The survey could come as bad news for President Trump, who suggested slashing many of the programs in question in his 2018 budget proposal.

“Contrary to what we see in Congress, when Americans consider federal options for addressing poverty they find quite a lot of bipartisan common ground for taking action,” said PPC Director Steven Kull, who headed the survey. “There is a clear consensus that the federal government has a role to play in fighting poverty.”

The poll presented strong arguments for and against a slew of policies, and gauged how much support they had among Democrats, Republicans and independents.

Seventy-four percent of respondents (including 58 percent of Republicans) said they backed boosting the minimum wage from its current level of $7.25 an hour to $9 over the course of two years. But an increase to $10.10 over three years lost Republican support; only a third of Republicans liked the idea, despite an overall majority of 57 percent of respondents thinking it was a good idea.

But when it came to how the minimum wage is set, members of both parties and independents (63 percent) agreed that it would be better for Congress to simply tie the minimum wage to inflation, instead of revisiting it through new legislation every few years.

http://thehill.com/homenews/335837-poll-bipartisan-majority-supports-raising-minimum-wage

President Donald Trump has not acknowledged June 1, 2017 as the beginning of LGBTQ Pride month, missing an opportunity to be the first Republican president to publicly recognize the annual month dedicated to the queer community.

Trump, who was heralded by Log Cabin Republicans as “the most gay-friendly Republican nominee for president ever,” had remained mum on the issue as of Thursday afternoon.

Throughout the course of his campaign, Trump boasted that he was a friend of the LGBTQ community, even bizarrely holding a rainbow flag upside down at one campaign event. However, his cabinet, including the vehemently anti-gay Vice President Mike Pence, is heavily stacked with people opposed to the rights of queer people.

The Washington Blade noted on Thursday that Trump issued five different proclamations on May 31 recognizing June as National Caribbean-American Heritage Month, African-American Music Appreciation Month, National Homeownership Month, Great Outdoors Month and National Ocean Month — but did not release anything related to Pride.

Rocker and one-time White House guest Ted Nugent said Thursday he stands by his 2016 comment that Hillary Clinton should be tried and hanged for treason for her response to the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi.

“I’ve never threatened to hang anybody. I’ve never suggested anybody get hung, except the one time after Benghazi, I recommended that Hillary Clinton be charged, arrested, tried and hung,” Nugent said in an interview Wednesday with conservative radio host Ben Ferguson. “What she did as secretary of state was certainly treasonous, and I stand by that.”

Nugent, a gun rights activist, has a history of making hateful comments about Obama, some of which prompted an investigation from the Secret Service. Nugent attended a dinner with Trump at the White House earlier this year as a guest of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Griffin has since apologized for the photo and requested the photographer take it down. She was fired from her CNN role on Wednesday.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ted-nugent-i-stand-by-saying-hillary-clinton-should-be-hung-for-treason/article/2624673

@raphjd:

@skizzage:

Maybe if you stopped thinking liberals are so "lovey" you wouldn't feel the pain so hard the next time one of them knees you in the balls. Silly little snowflake.

:police:  You really are pushing to be muted.   :police:

I didn't say liberals are the lovely ones, it's what you claim.     You guys claim to be "peaceful" while setting a girl's hair on fire for wearing a Trump hat.

And you guys slit the throats of men trying to protect Muslim women from harassment!

@amicusets:

@hornyeboy:

@amicusets:

FTR: The killer was a far-left "progressive"! He was a Bernie-bro turned Jill Stein voter. Quit trying to blame this on the GOP or conservatives.

Anything to distract from the fact that he was a Nazi that feels the same way about race as the right does, huh?

He wanted a Sanders/ Stein ticket, so he's clearly been unhinged for a while if he thought that ever happened.

Above being a "bernie bro" He's a fucking Nazi  (I'd just say white supremacist, but he does the salute and all) / murderous terrorist.

How is the statement of fact, to clarify the misinformation and mis-allusions that had been hurled an attempt to distract? It was an act of clarification.

The truth is this man was crazy, but I thought by stating that he supported Sanders then Stein made that clear. When he caused a disruption at a prior pro-Trump rally the organizers reported him to police who promptly did nothing.

Fake news!

Isn't frederick the one that posted the "Nude" pic of Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

@sutieday:

@aadam101:

I am boycotting Fredericks posts from this point forward.  I will not even read them.  I urge others to join me.

I will vote on them though

Be sure to click the heart in the lower left corner of his posts and say "I disagree"!

President Trump's administration will cease answering questions from reporters about the investigation into the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday.

In an off-camera press briefing Wednesday, Spicer told reporters that any future questions about the investigation would be addressed by Trump's personal lawyer.

“We are focused on the president’s agenda and going forward all questions on these matters will be referred to outside counsel, Marc Kasowitz," Spicer said Wednesday.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/335818-white-house-to-stop-taking-questions-about-trump-russia-investigation

The House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday approved subpoenas for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, as part of the panel’s investigation into Russia’s meddling in the presidential election.

The panel is also issuing subpoenas to businesses owned by the two men.

The subpoenas to Flynn and Cohen were part of seven total subpoenas issued by the House committee on Wednesday, according to a congressional source who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Four of the subpoenas were related to the Russia probe, and three others were related to the issue of “unmasking” — the process used by intelligence officials to learn the identities of people inside the United States who are referenced in intelligence reports.

Unmasking is a routine process, but some congressional Republicans have expressed concerns about whether the it was abused during the Obama administration to uncover the identities of Trump campaign aides whose identities should have been shielded.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/31/house-russia-investigators-subpoena-flynn-cohen-238998

Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) says White House adviser Jared Kushner should have disclosed meetings he had with Russian officials when seeking security clearance.

"I think that should have been disclosed," Duffy told CNN's "New Day" on Wednesday when asked whether he would have disclosed the meeting if he were in Kushner's position.

Duffy said he doesn't know what information or advice Kushner had received.

"But because it wasn't disclosed … does that mean something nefarious happened?" Duffy said.

"You and I both don't know the backstory on what happened. What advice was he given?" he continued.

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/335745-gop-rep-kushner-likely-should-have-disclosed-russia-meeting