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January 22, 2017

Lock HIM UP for deleting tweets

.Donald Trump just deleted a tweet. Now that he's president, that might not be legal.


President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday morning that he was "honered" to serve as 45th president of the United States. Moments later, the tweet was gone — presumably deleted by the president or his team.

Under the 1978 Presidential Records Act, the president must obtain the "views of the Archivist of the United States" before disposing of any records. And his tweets — whether sent from his personal Twitter account or his official @POTUS account — are considered a matter of public record.

https://mic.com/articles/166245/donald-trump-deleted-tweet-illegal-presidential-records-archives#.TYQnj04rL

January 21, 2017

Only 3 inaugural balls

Obama's attended 10 balls.

The number of balls was as small as the crowd.

January 18, 2017

Apparently, for the next 4 years anything trump doesn't agree with will be deemed "fake"

This does not mean it is fake or without fact, most likely the opposite will be true.

So anything trump or his talking heads call fake should be considered factual and anything trump or the talking g heads say is fact will be considered "fake".


January 16, 2017

Life accordion to trump


January 15, 2017

Why I don't watch professional football

1. The money paid the players, the money taxpayers pay for stadiums so billionaires can pay obscene salaries.

2. And most importantly, I can't stand the commentators and their love affairs with a few players. Get a room!

I turned on the Texans vs the criminals to see the score and the love fest over Brady made me sick.

January 15, 2017

A Twitter rant from Don The Con is a badge of courage

AmericanS should be looking at it this way. Nothing would piss him off more!

January 13, 2017

The Spy Who Wrote the Trump-Russia Memos: It Was "Hair-Raising" Stuff


Last fall, a week before the election, I broke the story that a former Western counterintelligence official had sent memos to the FBI with troubling allegations related to Donald Trump. The memos noted that this spy's sources had provided him with information indicating that Russian intelligence had mounted a yearslong operation to co-opt or cultivate Trump and had gathered secret compromising material on Trump. They also alleged that Trump and his inner circle had accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin. These memos caused a media and political firestorm this week when CNN reported that President Barack Obama and Trump had been told about their existence, as part of briefings on the intelligence community's assessment that Russia hacked political targets during the 2016 campaign to help Trump become president. For my story in October, I spoke with the former spy who wrote these memos, under the condition that I not name him or reveal his nationality or the spy service where he had worked for nearly two decades, mostly on Russian matters.

The former spy told me that he had been retained in early June by a private research firm in the United States to look into Trump's activity in Europe and Russia. "It started off as a fairly general inquiry," he recalled. One question for him, he said, was, "Are there business ties in Russia?" The American firm was conducting a Trump opposition research project that was first financed by a Republican source until the funding switched to a Democratic one. The former spy said he was never told the identity of the client.

The former intelligence official went to work and contacted his network of sources in Russia and elsewhere. He soon received what he called "hair-raising" information. His sources told him, he said, that Trump had been "sexually compromised" by Russian intelligence in 2013 (when Trump was in Moscow for the Miss Universe contest) or earlier and that there was an "established exchange of information between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin of mutual benefit." He noted he was "shocked" by these allegations. By the end of June, he was sending reports of what he was finding to the American firm.

The former spy said he soon decided the information he was receiving was "sufficiently serious" for him to forward it to contacts he had at the FBI. He did this, he said, without permission from the American firm that had hired him. "This was an extraordinary situation," he remarked.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/spy-who-wrote-trump-russia-memos-it-was-hair-raising-stuff
January 13, 2017

This Facebook right wing attack on Meryl Streep needs some DU love

It is receiving some really stupid responses.

One word to describe Meryl Streep, the stooges are making words out of strings of letters.

https://www.facebook.com/usapoliticstoday/photos/a.1162223037139164.1073741828.1161632783864856/1560724300622367/?type=3&theater

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