Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[ice grillin you]

yeah but that had nothing to do with what trump was doing...he literally just found out lincoln was a republican and was amazed by that little piece of trivia

[Sgt PSN]

No, I get that.  I'm just trying to add a little something extra to the conversation.  If the liberal/conservative labels were applied in political talk back then the same as they are today, John Wilkes Booth would have shouted "Death to libtards" while pulling the trigger. 

[Geowhizzer]

trump talking about abraham lincoln today: "Great president. Most people don't even know he was a Republican"

He wouldn't be today.

Heck, Reagan couldn't even get nominated by the GOP today.  He'd be called a RINO.

[PhillyPhreak54]

It's wild to me that the country has gone so far right.

Anyways I about rubbed myself raw watching Franken trip up Gorsuch

[Sgt PSN]

Franken did a nice job, but he missed a few opportunities to really blow shtein up in there.

[Munson]

We pretty much need to make sure Franken is on all of these hearing panels, he's been great at questioning everyone.

[General_Failure]

Manafort had plan to benefit Putin government

President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, The Associated Press has learned. The work appears to contradict assertions by the Trump administration and Manafort himself that he never worked for Russian interests.

Manafort proposed in a confidential strategy plan as early as June 2005 that he would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and the former Soviet republics to benefit the Putin government, even as U.S.-Russia relations under Republican President George W. Bush grew worse. Manafort pitched the plans to Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, a close Putin ally with whom Manafort eventually signed a $10 million annual contract beginning in 2006, according to interviews with several people familiar with payments to Manafort and business records obtained by the AP. Manafort and Deripaska maintained a business relationship until at least 2009, according to one person familiar with the work.

"We are now of the belief that this model can greatly benefit the Putin Government if employed at the correct levels with the appropriate commitment to success," Manafort wrote in the 2005 memo to Deripaska. The effort, Manafort wrote, "will be offering a great service that can re-focus, both internally and externally, the policies of the Putin government."

[smeags]

move along hippies, nothing to see here.

[ice grillin you]

Manafort had plan to benefit Putin government

President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, The Associated Press has learned. The work appears to contradict assertions by the Trump administration and Manafort himself that he never worked for Russian interests.

Manafort proposed in a confidential strategy plan as early as June 2005 that he would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and the former Soviet republics to benefit the Putin government, even as U.S.-Russia relations under Republican President George W. Bush grew worse. Manafort pitched the plans to Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, a close Putin ally with whom Manafort eventually signed a $10 million annual contract beginning in 2006, according to interviews with several people familiar with payments to Manafort and business records obtained by the AP. Manafort and Deripaska maintained a business relationship until at least 2009, according to one person familiar with the work.

"We are now of the belief that this model can greatly benefit the Putin Government if employed at the correct levels with the appropriate commitment to success," Manafort wrote in the 2005 memo to Deripaska. The effort, Manafort wrote, "will be offering a great service that can re-focus, both internally and externally, the policies of the Putin government."

holy shtein

[PhillyPhreak54]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-on-trump-the-destroyer-w473144

Pretty blistering piece

[smeags]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-on-trump-the-destroyer-w473144

Pretty blistering piece

Since winning the election, Trump has declared interpersonal war on a breathtaking list of targets: the Australian prime minister, an acting attorney general, seven predominantly Muslim countries, a "so-called" federal judge, Sweden, "Fake Tears" Chuck Schumer, Saturday Night Live, the FBI, the "very un-American" leakers within the intelligence community, and the city of Paris (it's "no longer Paris"). He's side-eyed Mark Cuban, John McCain, millions of protesters, Lindsey Graham, Richard Blumenthal, Chris Cuomo, the University of California at Berkeley, ratings "disaster" Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nancy Pelosi, the "TRAITOR Chelsea Manning," Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Barack Obama and the city of Chicago, among many, many others.

[SD]

They left out his twitter attack on Nordstroms

[General_Failure]

They'll dedicate a holiday to the time when our Glorious Leader stormed the beaches of Nordstroms.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Not too shocking it was a Muslim dude who did the London attack

Now sit back and wait for Trump and the right to get down on their Muslim hate

[SD]

Trump tower was under some sort of surveillance according to Nunes