I must miss a lot of posts. It seems the board is 90+ liberal

 

The board as a whole is more conservative, but the majority of posts in the 'Buster lean way more liberal.

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/31307...s-personal-data

 

WikiLeaks continues to be trash.

 

WikiLeaks Task Force ✔ @WLTaskForce

We are thinking of making an online database with all "verified" twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/31307...s-personal-data

 

WikiLeaks continues to be trash.

 

WikiLeaks Task Force ✔ @WLTaskForce

We are thinking of making an online database with all "verified" twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships

What the f***? Why?

What the f***? Why?

 

Intimidation, I guess?

 

WikiLeaks is bottom of the barrel when it comes to stuff like this, as has been shown time and time again. My guess is WikiLeaks is wants to hurt one person and doesn't care about collateral, like they did in Turkey.

 

I have close friends that are verified, so this freaks me out a bit.

I'm gonna guess donald trump's financial ties would not be included, just a hunch.

WikiLeaks saw the neo Nazi (((parenthesis))) Google plugin and thought "what a great idea!"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/report-election-...--election.html

 

Now we're just supposed to take Trump's astute foreign policy advice that having a positive relationship with Russia and completely ignoring the corruption of the Yeltsin/Putin oligarchy is somehow going to work out well for the world?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/report-election-...--election.html

 

Now we're just supposed to take Trump's astute foreign policy advice that having a positive relationship with Russia and completely ignoring the corruption of the Yeltsin/Putin oligarchy is somehow going to work out well for the world?

What, a minority of US voters agreed with that, but they were of a certain group that for some reason is more important than everyone else. You have a problem with that?

I know there were others here who like "Keeping it 1600" podcast. But in case you didn't know...

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/keep...er_breakingnews

I know there were others here who like "Keeping it 1600" podcast. But in case you didn't know...

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/keep...er_breakingnews

Excellent.

Chuck Schumer takes Mitch McConnell's 2009 letter to Obama asking for cabinet level nominees to submit all their documents and complete a vetting by the office of government ethics before hearings are held on them, strikes off McConnell's name, puts his name, tweets it.

I have my doubts about Schumer as minority leader, but if he's going to keep up Reid's troll game that's at least something.

It is just so ridiculous they are pushing these nominees prior to the OGE report.

It is just so ridiculous they are pushing these nominees prior to the OGE report.

No it isn't. No one cares about corruption, November 8 showed that.

No it isn't. No one cares about corruption, November 8 showed that.

This. There are no rules anymore.

Someone already got forcibly removed from the Sessions AG hearings.

 

Modern-day Atticus Finch, for sure.

 

Two more arrested. That makes for three.

 

Four.

Edited January 10, 20179 yr by caulfield12

good, f*** having a white supremacist as the Attorney General

 

good time to remind everyone that as AG in Alabama, Sessions prosecuted black people for registering other black people to vote

 

sure is having to spend a lot of time denouncing the KKK in the year 2017.

Edited January 10, 20179 yr by StrangeSox

The federal week in review:

1. Trump fires all Ambassadors and Special Envoys, ordering them out by inauguration day.

2. House brings back the Holman rule allowing them to reduce an individual civil service, SES positions, or political appointee's salary to $1, effectively firing them by amendment to any piece of legislation. We now know why they wanted names and positions of people in Energy and State.

3. Senate schedules 6 simultaneous hearings on cabinet nominees and triple-books those hearings with Trump's first press conference in months and an ACA budget vote, effectively preventing any concentrated coverage or protest.

4. House GOP expressly forbids the Congressional Budget Office from reporting or tracking ANY costs related to the repeal of the ACA.

5. Trump continues to throw the intelligence community under the bus to protect Putin, despite the growing mountain of evidence that the Russians deliberately interfered in our election.

6. Trump breaks a central campaign promise to make Mexico pay for the wall by asking Congress (in other words, us, the taxpayers) to pay for it.

7. Trump threatens Toyota over a new plant that was never coming to the US nor will take jobs out of the US.

8. House passes the REINS act, giving them veto power over any rules enacted by any federal agency or department--for example, FDA or EPA bans a drug or pesticide, Congress can overrule based on lobbyists not science. Don't like that endangered species designation, Congress kills it.

Dominic HoldenVerified account

‏@dominicholden

Jeff Sessions says he will make sure that "the statutes protecting [LGBT people’s] safety and civill rights are enforced."

 

Dominic Holden ✔ @dominicholden

The loophole in Sessions's comment is that there isn’t a blanket federal LGBT nondiscrimination “statute” like civil rights laws.

 

 

 

 

 

If Trump wants to do something illegal, Sessions will boldly stand up for what is right by...resigning. His job is to uphold and enforce the Constitution. That answer should be instantly disqualifying by itself.

Edited January 10, 20179 yr by StrangeSox

The federal week in review:

1. Trump fires all Ambassadors and Special Envoys, ordering them out by inauguration day.

2. House brings back the Holman rule allowing them to reduce an individual civil service, SES positions, or political appointee's salary to $1, effectively firing them by amendment to any piece of legislation. We now know why they wanted names and positions of people in Energy and State.

3. Senate schedules 6 simultaneous hearings on cabinet nominees and triple-books those hearings with Trump's first press conference in months and an ACA budget vote, effectively preventing any concentrated coverage or protest.

4. House GOP expressly forbids the Congressional Budget Office from reporting or tracking ANY costs related to the repeal of the ACA.

5. Trump continues to throw the intelligence community under the bus to protect Putin, despite the growing mountain of evidence that the Russians deliberately interfered in our election.

6. Trump breaks a central campaign promise to make Mexico pay for the wall by asking Congress (in other words, us, the taxpayers) to pay for it.

7. Trump threatens Toyota over a new plant that was never coming to the US nor will take jobs out of the US.

8. House passes the REINS act, giving them veto power over any rules enacted by any federal agency or department--for example, FDA or EPA bans a drug or pesticide, Congress can overrule based on lobbyists not science. Don't like that endangered species designation, Congress kills it.

Good, pile it on. Maybe then people will get off their asses and do something. The people who sat at home sulking instead of voting, you're getting what you deserve.

But actually, you see, both sides are bad and a pox on both houses and don't vote, it only encourages the bastards!

 

Breaking the system and spreading a deep cynicism towards civic values has paid off really well for the GOP.

Spencer Ackerman ✔ @attackerman

Comey says, re FBI investign Trump/Russia contacts, "I wd never comment on investigations whether open or not in a public forum" EYES EMOJI

12:39 PM - 10 Jan 2017

 

uh not so sure about that one

 

 

anyway

 

Tim Mak ✔ @timkmak

FBI Director Comey says there was successful penetration of GOP groups/campaigns, esp on the state level, and on some RNC domains

12:28 PM - 10 Jan 2017

 

Domenico Montanaro ✔ @DomenicoNPR

Comey asked if Russians tried to hack Republican campaigns to same level as Clinton/DNC: "Not to my knowledge," he says.

12:28 PM - 10 Jan 2017

 

David Corn ✔ @DavidCornDC

Wyden's question suggest FBI has looked at contacts between Trump campaign & Russians. But Comey will not confirm or say what it has found.

12:46 PM - 10 Jan 2017

Edited January 10, 20179 yr by StrangeSox

I don't know who is better at lying through their teeth between McConnell or Chaffetz.

Senate GOP blocks Sanders on preventing entitlement cuts

 

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/sena...ntitlement-cuts