impr3ssive_instant
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Even Piers Morgan is coming out against himÂ
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4168928/PIERS-MORGAN-Trump-s-immigration-ban.html
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So just a week into his presidency, Trump has pissed of or insulted the New York Times, CNN, the CIA, Mexicans, the military, the left, the moderates, jews, muslims, Madonna, immigrants, THE KOCHÂ BROTHERS, Democrats, a couple of Republicans...He has even alienated some of his base with his hiring freeze and mortgage rate-cut suspensions.Â
There's only so many bridges he can burn. Does he really think he can just keep making enemies and that nothing will happen? This is different than the election. Removing the highest ranked military officer from his permanent position is going to have real repercussions. I just hope they come before Bannon does something truly destructive.
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6 minutes ago, Rebel Saviour said:
I love this girl!
Where is the selfproclaimed feminist and activist Beyonce?
"Okay ladies now let's get in formation."Â
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Remember when Trump supporters were upset that the Clinton Foundation accepted money from Saudi Arabia? Meanwhile Trump registered 8 businesses there during the election and they didn't have shit to say. Now SA is excluded from this ban and they still have nothing to say.
The refugee ban has nothing to do with stopping terrorism.
I hope the ACLU lawsuit is effective.
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5 minutes ago, sotos8 said:
The Greeks migrants voted for him saying no further migrants are allowed to the country .How fucked up is that?
Sadly this is an attitude that a lot of people have. Basically saying "I got mine so you worry about yours".
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Love Miley.
Downtown LA is completely shut down.
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Trump is angry at the media for reporting "fake news" about his inauguration, he said there were actually 1.5 million people there which is obviously not true. I think he's turning into the boy who cried wolf at this point...he's going to learn that that excuse isn't going to work forever.
You know he is pissed that there are tons more people at the protests than at his inauguration.
I know everyone was joking about it, but I'm having a hard time understanding why Trump didn't draw a larger crowd when he was inaugurated. It can't just be a money issue, because he had support from the middle to upper class too...it's very odd.
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Did Gloria Steinem just quote Drake?Â
I'm curious to see what the final number of people will be.
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Tickets from Russia to DC aren't cheap
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Sad day.
My only hope is that some of the people in power will have the courage to hold him accountable. Not holding my breath though.
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One of the rumored sources that Steele used for the dossier has already been found dead. He was murdered before it was leaked by Buzzfeed, but keep in mind these papers had been floating around the government and media for MONTHS. Putin has killed people for far less.
Also, worth mentioning some news that came out today. Estonian spy agency conducted surveillance of meeting of Duma deputy, Trump adviser
It's interesting if you also pair it with this from the BBC:
Claims about a Russian blackmail tape were made in one of a series of reports written by a former British intelligence agent. As a member of MI6, he had been posted to the UK's embassy in Moscow and now runs a consultancy giving advice on doing business in Russia. He spoke to a number of his old contacts in the FSB, the successor to the KGB, paying some of them for information.
....The former MI6 agent is not the only source for the claim about Russian kompromat on the president-elect. Back in August, a retired spy told me he had been informed of its existence by "the head of an East European intelligence agency".
Later, I used an intermediary to pass some questions to active duty CIA officers dealing with the case file â they would not speak to me directly. I got a message back that there was "more than one tape", "audio and video", on "more than one date", in "more than one place" â in the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow and also in St Petersburg â and that the material was "of a sexual nature". The claims of Russian kompromat on Mr Trump were "credible", the CIA believed.
....Last April, the CIA director was shown intelligence that worried him. It was â allegedly â a tape recording of a conversation about money from the Kremlin going into the US presidential campaign.
It was passed to the US by an intelligence agency of one of the Baltic States. The CIA cannot act domestically against American citizens so a joint counter-intelligence taskforce was created....A lawyer â outside the Department of Justice but familiar with the case â told me that three of Mr Trump's associates were the subject of the inquiry. "But it's clear this is about Trump," he said.
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5 minutes ago, MeakMaker said:
You see? This is exactly what I'm talking about. Why are people accepting that those dossiers are rubbish?
The only people accepting that are his most ardent supporters. The Senate Intelligence Committee has launched an investigation. They said they will issue subpoenas if necessary. Even the BBC is heavily involved in reporting about it. It is not being ignored.
The Justice Department is also investigating Comey's actions during the election, which is huge.
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Here's some more info someone wrote out, very long but worth reading.
Paul Manafort, who is heavily invested in Russia, becomes his campaign manager. 3 Days later Trump's stance on Ukraine changes. Meanwhile Manafort continues to meet with people in Russia. Leaks that Manafort was being paid millions by the Ukrainian puppet president come out, and he is fired. This can be seen in the dossier, as well as heavily reported throughout Trumps campaign.
Manafort also continued to live in Trump tower after being fired.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/us/politics/paul-manafort-resigns-donald-trump.html
Carter Page was a nobody ex Russian banker and energy investor. He comes out of nowhere (like no one had ever heard of this guy) and becomes a Trump adviser. He too continues to meet with Russia while on Trump's team, and is in the dossier. Strangely, when Trump was later asked about Page, he said he didn't know him, even though he announced that Page would be his adviser.
Interesting article on page here:
http://www.politico.eu/article/the-mystery-of-donald-trumps-man-in-moscow-carter-page-phd/
In the interest of due diligence, I also tried to run down the rumors being handed me by the corporate investigators: that Russiaâs Alfa Bank paid for the trip as a favor to the Kremlin; that Page met with Sechin and Ivanov in Moscow; that he is now being investigated by the FBI for those meetings âYou are engaged in onanism,â said Leontiev, the spokesman for Rosneft and Sechin when I asked him if Page had met with Sechin. âItâs bullshit. Just bullshit. You need to understand who Sechin is to even ask this question. Itâs hard to have a meeting with him at all. Itâs absurd.â
Close Associate of Sechin confirms his secret meeting in moscow with Carter page- Page 30
This was the meeting they decided to Trade trump dropping sanctions for 19 percent in Rosfneft
It also says on page 25 Alfa bank gives illicit cash to Putin.
(Updating here)- Slate publsihed an article about Alfa bank pinging back and forth with Trump Tower. It was never really debunked, they just figured it could be explained as spam.
Also from the article they talk about Richard Burt
One source suggested to me that Richard Burt, former U.S. ambassador to Germany, START treaty negotiator, and longtime lobbyist for Alfa Bank, was the nexus. It was Burt who helped draft Trumpâs foreign policy speech in April, and had been advising the Trump campaign, via Senator Jeff Sessions, on foreign policy.
He is on the board of Letterone, with Aven and Friedman, who are in the dossier.
http://www.letterone.com/about-us/leadership-and-governance/board-members/richard-burt
The you have Michael Flynn.. the fired intelligence general who always seems to be meeting with Putin, and sat right next to him at a dinner.
The last one I'll mention is Steve Bannon. He worked closley with Farage on Brexit, and Brexit was also effected by Russian propaganda
http://www.newsweek.com/brexit-russia-presidential-election-donald-trump-hacker-legitimate-527260
Guess who Farage's political hero is? Putin. Guess who the first person Trump met with in Trump tower after he won.. Farage.
Then we know Steve Bannon was Trumps campaign manager at one time and is now his number 2. And Russia heavily influenced out election.
Bannon is now working with Le Pen in France. Guess where she is getting campaign funds from.. Russia.
The next place he wan't to influence is Germany.
This all fits with the Plan the kremlin came out with in 2013: Spread the alt-right in the west.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/vladimir-putin-conservative-icon/282572/
"The Kremlin apparently believes it has found the ultimate wedge issue to unite its supporters and divide its opponents, both in Russia and the West, and garner support in the developing world. They seem to believe they have found the ideology that will return Russia to its rightful place as a great power with a messianic mission and the ability to win hearts and minds globally.
As the West becomes increasingly multicultural, less patriarchal and traditional, and more open to gay rights, Russia will be a lodestone for the multitudes who oppose this trajectory. Just as the Communist International, or Comintern, and what Soviet ideologists called the "correlation of forces" sought to unite progressive elements around the globe behind Moscow, the world's traditionalists will now line up behind Putin."
Updates/additions:
Update #1. Tillerson is another very concerning pick on the Trump team. If you remember when Trump was picking his SOS, it was a crazy dog and pony show of actually qualified people being floated. He considered Romney just as payback. This went on for weeks. Then Tillerson's name gets dropped and he is vetted very quickly. Tillerson has no experience other than international business deals, someone like Corker was an obvious pick, but you needed someone who would go along with the strange policies like lifting sanctions when they are still in Crimea. If you watched his hearing yesterday, he's incredibly uninformed, and very pro Russia. But I mean, he did get their friendship medal.
He was picked because Exxon has has 63.7 million acres they can drill in Russia, which they currently cannot because of sanctions.
Rachel Maddow did a great piece on it.. around 9:30 it gets really interesting.
Update #2 Quoted from a post above, but is important:
[â]klynstra Here is Carter Page in Moscow December 12, 7:00pm Moscow time, telling an audience that Tillerson is Trump's Secretary of State choice, more than 12 hours before Trump announced it in New York. Note that at about 29:30 in the tape, Page says he's been in a "number of meetings with him" (Trump). Spicer said yesterday that Trump's never met Page. Just FYIÂ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEmg4DNVFSEÂ EDIT to add "(Trump)
Update #3
Secretary of Commerce Wilber Ross has investment and was on the board of the Bank of Cyrus:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article121981259.html
Ross led a September 2014 rescue of Bank of Cyprus, the largest and most important bank in that island nation off the coast of Turkey. Rossâ investment group took an 18 percent stake in the bank, and he remained the bankâs vice chairman after his nomination by Trump.
He is expected to leave the bank soon, but his investment is likely to be lucrative. The bankâs shareholders last week approved taking it public, offering shares to investors on the London Stock Exchange at a price that could mean strong returns for existing shareholders. Last spring, European Union leaders announced that Cyprus had exited the rescue program for ailing banks, using only three-quarters of the billions offered.
The second largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus is a Russian conglomerate called Renova Corp., which is headed by Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian billionaire and associate of Putin who served on the management board of Russian oil giant Rosneft, which was under U.S. financial sanctions in 2014 after Russiaâs annexation of Crimea.
So Ross is not only connected to Putin via bank ties, he is also is connected with someone on the management board of the bank who's stock was said to be used to bribe Trump.
Update 4:
Figured I would add some Trump business ties with Russia. This digs into how when Trump was bankrupt he worked with Russian mobsters to launder money. Trump Soho is probably his most concerning.
Why would Trumpâs organization make such a good means of laundering funds? Because real estate has an arbitrary value. Is that apartment worth $1 million? Two million? Why not $3 million for a buyer who really wants it? When the whole transaction is just one LLC with undisclosed ownership paying another LLC with undisclosed ownership, itâs even neater than hiding the money in an offshore account. And while some businesses require due diligence in looking at the source of funds, real estate is a bit more ⌠flexible.
The Republican presidential nominee and Bayrock were both based in Trump Tower and they joined forces to pursue deals around the world â from New York, Florida, Arizona and Colorado in the US to Turkey, Poland, Russia and Ukraine. Their best-known collaboration â Trump SoHo, a 46-storey hotel-condominium completed in 2010 â was featured in Mr Trumpâs NBC television show The Apprentice.
http://time.com/4433880/donald-trump-ties-to-russia/
The Times also reported that federal court records recently released showed yet another link to Russian financial interests in Trump businesses. A Bayrock official âbrokered a $50 million investment in Trump SoHo and three other Bayrock projects by an Icelandic firm preferred by wealthy Russians âin favor withâ President Vladimir V. Putin,ââ the Times reported. âThe Icelandic company, FL Group, was identified in a Bayrock investor presentation as a âstrategic partner,â along with Alexander Mashkevich, a billionaire once charged in a corruption case involving fees paid by a Belgian company seeking business in Kazakhstan; that case was settled with no admission of guilt.â
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Anyway back to Russia. This guy wrote a Twitter thread that does a pretty good job of explaining some of Trump's ties to Russia. I'm displaying it as a link so the whole thread is visible.
https://twitter.com/chris_baugh_/status/818998378285580292
The allegations in the dossier are nothing new. People have been talking about them for years, even before Trump ran for president. I really wonder if impeachment is around the corner but I don't want to get my hopes up.
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26 minutes ago, MeakMaker said:
How can you not see some members here support Trump and his policies? It's so transparent. They keep going on and on about Hillary and Obama to deflect the argument. While the US is about to face one of the darkest times in its history all people are doing here is to find scapegoats and give us history lessons without focusing on the main issue here. Exactly what the GOP wants people to do. A lot of the posts in this thread have got nothing to do with Trump whatsoever. Stay focus.. that's all I'm saying.
If you think the real issues aren't being discussed then you should bring them up yourself. A lot of your posts have nothing to do with Trump but with calling out other members. How is that more productive than posting about politics at large?
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36 minutes ago, MeakMaker said:
Chatting about whatever you think it might be right or wrong  won't change a damn thing though...
Yes it will. People not being informed is what got us into this mess in the first place. No discussion = no change
37 minutes ago, MeakMaker said:people should just unite and fight the pig America has for president. How about that XXL?
People can do both.
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Trump's first meeting as president will be with Putin. He's not even trying to be subtle. Unbelievable.
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2 minutes ago, XXL said:
I think people get lost in the narrative of Trump the racist, the chauvinist etc etc, which everyone can see and missing out that the same people that have infiltrated the Obama administration and were previously running the Bush years will and perhaps have already found a way to slip into Trump's ship. So the enemy is a corporate system. rather than one specific person or party, a system that has hijacked both the right and the left and uses them in alternance to fulfill its goals and needs with zero fucks given for the population
And by way when I say the Left and Right look increasingly more and more similar, I didn't mean just in the US but everywhere, that's why in Europe we've had Brexit, you have Farage, Le Pen, Salvini and a sentiment of anti corporations/anti TTIP, CETA, all those huge transcontinental murky deals, with the bad news being that those type of politicians foment a sense of protectionism and anti immigration and exploit people's fears while the immigrants who they feel threatened by are being displaced from their original countries by the same corporate interests that manouvre both the traditional main left and right parties. So there u go, coming full circle with the original problem which is a highly contrived form of democracy, answering private corporate interests not our own collective interests and rights as human beings, regardless of labels and citizenship
Wow this is extremely well saidÂ
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I think at this point IÂ want to see his tax returns to see where his foreign investments lie and whether they would be a conflict of interest during his presidency.
They would answer a lot of important questions.
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Hey I'm part of the plebeian masses and I care about the important stuff even though I joked about the pee :)
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The piss is the least important part of the whole thing. Colluding with a foreign government in order to undermine a US election is an impeachable offense.
This is not music to Trump's ears. This isn't Mike Pence getting booed at Hamilton. The FBI is involved and people are asking questions.
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Cheney, Koch Brothers, and Goldman Sachs CEO have all denounced the Muslim ban.