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  • SInce y'all seem to be my clearinghouse for all things political, let me tell a story.  A couple of them, actually.  Three, if you want to be specific. When I was 14 I went with a family frien

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    Slocum’s Razor

Mercer paid millions to target anti-Muslim ads at voters: report

 

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/381786-mercer-paid-millions-to-target-anti-muslim-ads-to-voters-report

Billionaire investor Robert Mercer pumped $2 million into a conservative nonprofit group that used Facebook and Google to target anti-Muslim ads toward certain voters in swing states in 2016, according to tax records obtained by the Center for Responsive Politics.

The ads - three in all - mimic travel advertisements intended to stoke fears of Muslim influence in France, Germany and the United States. Most voters were never exposed to the ads because they were targeted toward people most likely to be receptive to them, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The ads do not specifically mention the names of political candidates.

Mercer was among three donors that provided most of the funding for Secure America Now (SAN), the nonprofit group behind the ads that operates out of a law firm in Washington, D.C., the tax records show.

 

Mercer spent millions of dollars in 2016 to support the campaign of President Trump and is a prominent backer of conservative causes.

The other donors include Estee Lauder heir Ronald Lauder, who gave $1.1 million, and the secret-money group 45Committee, which pumped another $2 million into SAN. 

 

An additional $60,000 in reported contributions to the group came from former Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson, Republican donor Foster Friess and Olympus Ventures LLC, a company tied to the foundation created by Best Buy founder Dick Schulze, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Bloomberg News first reported in October 2017 that SAN worked directly with employees at Google and Facebook to target the ads toward a specific audience determined to be more receptive to their message.

10 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman met with Jared Kushner in October

Salman has since bragged about using classified intelligence from Kushner as part of a crackdown on 'corrupt' princes and businessmen in Saudi Arabia

He said the intelligence from Kushner included information on those who were disloyal to Salman and who were his 'enemies', insiders tell DailyMail 

Kushner's attorney's spokesman said it was 'false' that the president's son-in-law passed on secrets and that he was 'well aware of the rules'

The crown prince launched his crackdown on corruption in November, days after he met Kushner for talks in Riyadh

Hundreds were rounded up, including princes from rival parts of the Saudi royal family and some of the country's wealthiest businessmen

But the crackdown saw accusations of torture and at least one reported death 

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A Jewish guy handed U.S. intelligence to a Muslim guy.  I just want to congratulate all of the white nationalists for being so calm and forgiving about these things.  They've really learned to quell their emotional outbursts.  The white power movement is maturing everyday.

Just now, Chooky said:

The white power movement is maturing everyday.

Nazi Spring.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5582741/Ivanka-Latin-America-promote-womens-economic-power-issues.html

the president and the first lady, folks.

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Ivanka Trump will be a part of her father's official delegation next week as he makes his first trip to Latin America since taking office. 

A senior official said Thursday that the first daughter who volunteers her time as an unpaid adviser to President Trump will be making the trip to Lima, Peru, with the administration for the Summit of the Americas.

'She'll be championing women's economic power issues in the region,' the source said.

First lady Melania Trump is not going on the trip, her spokeswoman said, citing the upcoming state dinner at the White House and the president's summit with the Japanese prime minister at Mar-a-Lago.

 

 

26 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

First lady Melania Trump is not going on the trip, her spokeswoman said, citing the upcoming state dinner at the White House and the president's summit with the Japanese prime minister at Mar-a-Lago.

 

Odds she has to be somewhere else when it comes time?

2 hours ago, GSU&UT said:

Regulation bad, REEEEEEEE

 

Is is an interesting strategy - push all kinds of buttons to unite people on the left and in the middle against the GOP. 

2 hours ago, GSU&UT said:

Regulation bad, REEEEEEEE

 

Are we really all that surprised that this administration would support yet another crime against huge manatees?

10 minutes ago, NWBuck said:

Are we really all that surprised that this administration would support yet another crime against huge manatees?

Leave Huckabeef out of this. 

2 hours ago, GSU&UT said:

Regulation bad, REEEEEEEE

 

I prefer animals that aren't on the threatened species list, ok.

Our president is aunt Bethany and everyone around him is just rolling along, entertaining his delusions so as not to rock the boat.


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What?  You think those threatened species are so innocent?  Lots of people are talking about how all whooping cranes do is rape the elderly.

12 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Putin likes this.

Media: Well, there was that one case that one year so maybe it has a little truth. Let's just not ask any follow up questions.

7 minutes ago, Grandioso said:

Our president is aunt Bethany and everyone around him is just rolling along, entertaining his delusions so as not to rock the boat.


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Is your house on fire United States?

 

Actually, yes, yes it fucking is.

It's understandable that Melania is fatigued after having to stand stone faced next to her gelatinous husband for four hours without vomiting.  A trip to Latin America is an unreasonably tall order right now.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/05/trump-west-virginia-tax-roundtable-remarks-504565

 

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President Donald Trump on Thursday ditched his “boring” prepared remarks at a tax roundtable in West Virginia, instead repeating his claim that “millions” of people are voting illegally and boasting that he was right about the threat of Mexican rapists.

“You know, this was going to be my remarks, it would’ve have taken about two minutes, but to hell with it,” the president said, tossing papers up in the air. “That would have been a little boring, a little boring.”

 

The event, where the president and state officials were slated to discuss the GOP’s massive tax overhaul, quickly veered off-track as the president doubled down on some of his most incendiary and unsubstantiated claims.

Trump, who in announcing the launch of his presidential campaign in 2015 denounced the alleged “rapists” coming into the U.S. from Mexico, bragged that the caravan of immigrants that marched through Mexico in recent days bolstered his claim.

"Remember my opening remarks at Trump Tower when I opened? Everybody said, ‘Oh, he was so tough.' I used the word rape,” the president said. “And yesterday it came out where this journey coming up, women are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before.”

A New York Times report published Wednesday found that the caravan, which has since broken up, largely consisted of women and children who were fleeing violence and crime.

Fresh off a White House declaration that the president directed officials to deploy the National Guard to the southern U.S. border to curb illegal immigration, Trump railed against “chain migration” and rebuked Democratic officials for not addressing border security at the legislative level.

The president also revisited his widely-debunked claim that “millions” of people illegally cast ballots in elections.

“In many places like California the same person votes many times. You’ve probably heard of that,” Trump said. “They always like to say, ‘Oh, that’s like a conspiracy theory.’ Not a conspiracy theory folks. Millions and millions of people. And it’s very hard because the state guards their records. They don’t want to see it.”

 

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He's a smooth operator / Smooooth operatoooooorrrr

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That should be the picture that gets hung up in every post office.

At some point? I say wtf every day. 

1 minute ago, 4th&Five said:

At some point? I say wtf every day. 

This should be the 2020 Dem campaign line.

"Dontcha wanna wake up in the morning and not say "WTF?!"

2 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

At some point? I say wtf every day. 

oh, no, i mean i do that as well. every single fucking day.

but i mean, when this is all over, assuming we haven't been melted in a thermonuclear holocaust due to this petulant child's irresponsible rhetoric, maybe 10 years from now, we are going to look back at this and think of nixon as a true patriot.

Good old Infrastructure Week...

16 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/05/trump-west-virginia-tax-roundtable-remarks-504565

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“And yesterday it came out where this journey coming up, women are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before.”

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“In many places like California the same person votes many times. You’ve probably heard of that,” Trump said. “They always like to say, ‘Oh, that’s like a conspiracy theory.’ Not a conspiracy theory folks. Millions and millions of people. And it’s very hard because the state guards their records. They don’t want to see it.”

 

WTF is "raped at levels nobody has ever seen before?"  Like, before, rape never exceeded a level 10, but these rapes go to 11?  Seriously, WHAT THE FUCK IS HE EVEN SAYING?

And the millions of voter shit -- he's in full-on conspiracy idiot mode.  The absence of evidence is actually PROOF that it happened.  That's where we are, folks.  The President.  Of the United States of America.  The PRESIDENT is just making shit up to attack the integrity of our electoral process, and thus our entire government.

How is this okay?  In any fucking way, on any fucking planet, how is that okay?

18 minutes ago, SmokeyBear1861 said:

You know why those leaks are occurring? Because the people in the room know that Trump's withdrawal plan would be a disaster if implemented. Yet if they try to change his mind, or even explain why its a bad idea, he gets pissed. The only way to stop the plan is to leak it, and hope the public shaming and humiliation has some affect on the Orange Dipshit.

18 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

 

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Glitches in matrix

1 minute ago, High Plains Drifter said:

You know why those leaks are occurring? Because the people in the room know that Trump's withdrawal plan would be a disaster if implemented. Yet if they try to change his mind, or even explain why its a bad idea, he gets pissed. The only way to stop the plan is to leak it, and hope the public shaming and humiliation has some affect on the Orange Dipshit.

This is exactly right.  But he's going to pull those troops out of Syria, and Russia/Iran/Turkey are going to carve it right up. 

 

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“We have to have strong borders," the President said. "We are going to have the wall. We've already started building it. We have a billion six. We are building it and fixing miles and miles of wall that’s already up and fence. We're going to have our wall, we're going to get it very strongly, the military is going to be building some of it, but we're going to have very strong borders and we have to change our laws and we’re working on doing that.”

wtf

4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

And the millions of voter shit -- he's in full-on conspiracy idiot mode.  The absence of evidence is actually PROOF that it happened.  That's where we are, folks.  The President.  Of the United States of America.  The PRESIDENT is just making shit up to attack the integrity of our electoral process, and thus our entire government.

How is this okay?  In any fucking way, on any fucking planet, how is that okay?

Shocking that the man behind the Obama birther conspiracy would also be peddling this bullshit. The President of the US lies routinely to bolster whatever bullshit story he desires. It's not even debatable and yet 30-40% of the populace just nods approvingly. That's the reason we're so fucked. Trump is the symptom, not the illness. Not sure how we cure the disease.

5 minutes ago, Blotto said:

Shocking that the man behind the Obama birther conspiracy would also be peddling this bullshit. The President of the US lies routinely to bolster whatever bullshit story he desires. It's not even debatable and yet 30-40% of the populace just nods approvingly. That's the reason we're so fucked. Trump is the symptom, not the illness. Not sure how we cure the disease.

Civil War II.

Highest rape levels ever. Interesting. I’m thinking maybe perhaps that isn’t entirely accurate.

5 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

that pretty much applies in perpetuity

It’s her greatest tweet ever. A timeless classic.

More in wtf news.

 

 

CNN)President Donald Trump floated replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Scott Pruitt as recently as this week, even as the scandal-ridden head of the Environmental Protection Agency has faced a growing list of negative headlines, according to people close to the President.

"He was 100% still trying to protect Pruitt because Pruitt is his fill-in for Sessions," one source familiar with Trump's thinking told CNN. 
Though the President has, at times, floated several people a day for multiple positions in his administration that are already occupied, the proposition reveals just how frustrated Trump remains with Sessions because of his decision to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation more than a year ago, while signaling how confident he has remained in Pruitt despite a dizzying number of ethics issues.

https://apnews.com/5471523603c24b278a0b71fd0196de5d/Inside-a-White-House-in-tumult,-John-Kelly's-clout-dwindles

 

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When President Donald Trump made a congratulatory phone call to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, White House chief of staff John Kelly wasn’t on the line.

When Trump tapped John Bolton to be his next national security adviser, Kelly wasn’t in the room.

And when Trump spent a Mar-a-Lago weekend stewing over immigration and trade, Kelly wasn’t in sight.

Kelly, once empowered to bring order to a turbulent West Wing, has receded from view, his clout diminished, his word less trusted by staff and his guidance less tolerated by an increasingly go-it-alone-president.

Emboldened in his job, Trump has rebelled against Kelly’s restrictions and mused about doing away with the chief of staff post entirely. It’s all leading White House staffers and Trump allies to believe that Kelly is working on borrowed time.

In recent weeks, Trump has governed at breakneck pace, ousting aides and issuing surprise policy announcements on Twitter, recreating the helter-skelter feel of his first months in office. Kelly’s allies maintain that his retreat is strategic. They suggest that the belief that Kelly was Trump’s savior was an overstated idea all along and that the chief of staff is now content to loosen the reins and allow an increasingly comfortable president to govern from his gut.

But those close to the president say Trump has increasingly expressed fatigue at Kelly’s attempts to shackle him and say that while Trump is not ready to fire Kelly, he has begun gradually freezing out his top aide.

Trump recently told one confidant that he was “tired of being told no” by Kelly and has instead chosen to simply not tell Kelly things at all, according to a person who was not authorized to publicly discuss private conversations and spoke on condition of anonymity.

 

I prayed for a president who would keep rape at moderate levels and that's what I got.

8 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

He makes great deals.

And the Saudis are having a hard time in Yemen. 

Love to provide artillery that will be used to blow up Yemeni women and children.

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