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**Unregistered** · 05-27-2017, 10:38 AM

Senate Intel has requested every trump campaign document , phone record etc relating to Russia going back to 2015.

Big proctoscope coming out. Not going to hurt a bit right nutters?

Boris ....let me know if you are changing your mind on trump now. Would suggest you are USA citizen and put that first. Vs vlad's troll. One or other time soon....

**Unregistered** · 05-27-2017, 03:58 PM

Are all our Ivan's and boris's as well as Russian loving cons and nutters having a good weekend so far?

**Unregistered** · 05-27-2017, 05:19 PM

Originally posted by Unregistered View Post

Are all our Ivan's and boris's as well as Russian loving cons and nutters having a good weekend so far?

Great so far. Loved seeing Hillary almost throw up on herself at Wellesley. Very Presidential. Also great to see Trump assert US interests at the G7. All the while the leftist media soils itself about Russia. And the good guys won in Montana after slapping around a snowflake.

Excellent so far!

**Unregistered** · 05-27-2017, 06:31 PM

The conservative mind has become diseased

To many observers on the left, the initial embrace of Seth Rich conspiracy theories by conservative media figures was merely a confirmation of the right�s deformed soul. But for those of us who remember that Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity were once relatively mainstream Reaganites, their extended vacation in the fever swamps is even more disturbing. If once you knew better, the indictment is deeper.

The cruel exploitation of the memory of Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer who was shot dead last summer, was horrifying and clarifying. The Hannity right, without evidence, accused Rich rather than the Russians of leaking damaging DNC emails. In doing so, it has proved its willingness to credit anything � no matter how obviously deceptive or toxic � to defend President Trump and harm his opponents. Even if it means becoming a megaphone for Russian influence.

The basic, human questions are simple. How could conservative media figures not have felt � felt in their hearts and bones � the God-awful ickiness of it? How did the genes of generosity and simple humanity get turned off? Is this insensibility the risk of prolonged exposure to our radioactive political culture? If so, all of us should stand back a moment and tend to the health of our revulsion.

But this failure of decency is also politically symbolic. Who is the politician who legitimized conspiracy thinking at the highest level? Who raised the possibility that Ted Cruz�s father might have been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Who hinted that Hillary Clinton might have been involved in the death of Vince Foster, or that unnamed liberals might have killed Justice Antonin Scalia? Who not only questioned President Barack Obama�s birth certificate, but raised the prospect of the murder of a Hawaiian state official in a coverup? �How amazing,� Trump tweeted in 2013, �the State Health Director who verified copies of Obama�s �birth certificate� died in plane crash today. All others lived.�

We have a president charged with maintaining public health who asserts that the vaccination schedule is a dangerous scam of greedy doctors. We have a president charged with representing all Americans who has falsely accused thousands of Muslims of celebrating in the streets following the 9/11 attacks.

In this mental environment, alleging a Rich-related conspiracy was predictable. This is a concrete example of the mainstreaming of destructive craziness.

Those conservatives who believe that the confirmation of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch is sufficient justification for the Trump presidency are ignoring Trump�s psychic and moral destruction of the conservative movement and the Republican Party. Clinton, with a small number of changed votes, would have defeated Republicans. But Trump is doing a kind of harm beyond anything Clinton could have done. He is changing the party�s most basic moral and political orientations. He is shaping conservatism in his image and ensuring an eventual defeat more complete, and an eventual exile more prolonged, than Democrats could have dreamed.

The conservative mind, in some very visible cases, has become diseased. The movement has been seized by a kind of discrediting madness, in which conspiracy delusions figure prominently. Institutions and individuals that once served an important ideological role, providing a balance to media bias, are discrediting themselves in crucial ways. With the blessings of a president, they have abandoned the normal constraints of reason and compassion. They have allowed political polarization to reach their hearts, and harden them. They have allowed polarization to dominate their minds, and empty them.

Conspiracy theories often involve a kind of dehumanization. Human tragedy is made secondary � something to be exploited rather than mourned. The narrative of conspiracy takes precedence over the meaning of a life and the suffering of a family. A human being is made into an ideological prop and used on someone else�s stage. As the Rich family has attested, the pain inflicted is quite real.

A conspiratorial approach to politics is fully consistent with other forms of dehumanization � of migrants, refugees and �the other� more generally. Men and women are reduced to types and presented as threats. They also become props in an ideological drama. They are presented as representatives of a plot involving invasion and infiltration, rather than being viewed as individuals seeking opportunity or fleeing oppression and violence. This also involves callousness, cruelty and conspiracy thinking.

In Trump�s political world, this project of dehumanization is far along. The future of conservatism now depends on its capacity for revulsion. And it is not at all clear whether this capacity still exists.

**Unregistered** · 05-27-2017, 07:53 PM

Oh look! The very left wing Buzz Feed was floating the "right wing conspiracy" theory last August.

Julian Assange Floats Theory That Murdered DNC Employee Was Informant In Dutch Interview

"Whistleblowers often take very significant efforts to bring us material and often at very significant risks," Assange said in an interview to be aired Tuesday on the Dutch television program*Nieuwsuur. "There�s a 27-year-old who works for the DNC and who was shot in the back, murdered, just a few weeks ago, for unknown reasons as he was walking down the streets in Washington."

"We have to understand how high the stakes are in the US, and that our sources face serious risks. That�s why they come to us, so we can protect their anonymity," he said.

"We are investigating what happened with Seth Rich. We think it is a concerning situation," Assange said. "There is not a conclusion yet; we are not willing to state a conclusion, but we are concerned about it. And more importantly, a variety of WikiLeaks sources are concerned when that kind of thing happens."

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczy...w30#.fbK4lDqzO

**Unregistered** · 05-27-2017, 07:58 PM

Originally posted by Unregistered View Post

Senate Intel has requested every trump campaign document , phone record etc relating to Russia going back to 2015.

Big proctoscope coming out. Not going to hurt a bit right nutters?

Boris ....let me know if you are changing your mind on trump now. Would suggest you are USA citizen and put that first. Vs vlad's troll. One or other time soon....

And a Democrat could win in Montana.

Oooops, just another TeeHeeMan prediction that went up in smoke.

But you've got to give him credit, he keeos trying despite his consistent failures.

**Unregistered** · 05-27-2017, 08:24 PM

How Team Obama tried to hack the*election

New revelations have surfaced that the Obama administration abused intelligence during the election by launching a massive domestic-spy campaign that included snooping on Trump officials.The irony is mind-boggling: Targeting political opposition is long a technique of police states like Russia, which Team Obama has loudly condemned for allegedly using its own intelligence agencies to hack into our election.The revelations, as well as testimony this week from former Obama intel officials, show the extent to which the Obama administration politicized and weaponized intelligence against Americans.

http://nypost.com/2017/05/26/how-tea...-the-election/

**Unregistered** · 05-27-2017, 08:37 PM

So Dems pi $$ ed away another $5 mill backing another loser, I see. Must be great having money to throw away like that.

**Unregistered** · 05-27-2017, 08:50 PM

Originally posted by Unregistered View Post

Bwahahaha!

Laughing about ripping off the US for so many years? Laughing about building a lavish NATO headquarters while screwing the US? That's just ended.

By agreement, NATO members are supposed to spend at least 2% of GDP on defense as a minimum. Of NATO's 28 members, 23 aren't paying their share of the defense costs.

"That is not fair to the people and taxpayers of the United States," Trump said at Thursday's event in Brussels. "Many of these nations owe massive amounts of money from past years and not paying in those past years."

Some, like German Chancellor Angela Merkel, offered up lame excuses, including that Germany had "pledged" to work toward spending 2% on defense by 2024. But Germany is the wealthiest country in Europe, and has financially benefited hugely from the U.S.' security guarantees over the years.

Trump reminded the leaders what it means financially to not live up to what they promised, noting that NATO would have had about $119 billion more in resources if they had paid up. "Two percent is the bare minimum for confronting today's very real and very vicious threats," he said.

The American media, of course, have had a field day focusing on making Trump seem ridiculous, rather than focusing on substantive issues.

"President Trump shoved the Montenegro prime minister at NATO," said a USA Today headline, making it sound almost violent when pictures clearly show Trump merely moving around him while touching his arm.

"Trump creates another unnecessary crisis on his visit to NATO," a*Slate headline*wrongly asserted.

"Trump's behavior at NATO is a national embarrassment,"*whined the Washington Post.

You get the picture. Anyone who stands up for American interests these days is an "embarrassment."

http://www.investors.com/politics/ed...by-shaming-it/

**Unregistered** · 05-27-2017, 09:05 PM

The FBI has illegally shared raw intelligence about Americans with unauthorized third parties and violated other constitutional privacy protections, according to newly*declassified government documents*that undercut the bureau�s public assurances about how carefully it handles warrantless spy data to avoid abuses or leaks.
http://circa.com/politics/declassifi...rivate-parties

**Unregistered** · 05-27-2017, 09:11 PM

Trump's Allies, Convicted of High Crimes Without a Trial

Maybe Flynn committed treason. But so far no one has presented any evidence, just innuendo. That's not justice.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...ithout-a-trial

**Unregistered** · 05-27-2017, 09:17 PM

Originally posted by Unregistered View Post

Jared's time in the bArrel

Dershowitz: Kushner Meeting Russians, Even Politically Coordinating With Russians "Just Not A Crime"

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...t_a_crime.html

**Unregistered** · 05-27-2017, 10:23 PM

The title of the Buzzfeed article is...

Julian Assange Floats Theory That Murdered DNC Employee Was Informant In Dutch Interview

And yet the silly Con says...

"Oh look! The very left wing Buzz Feed was floating the "right wing conspiracy" theory last August."

You obviously have a reading comprehension problem.