the 106th scandal

please for the love of god people.. vote for biden. he'll likely be a mediocre president at best but mediocrity is better than the treasonous insanity exhibited by donald trump

Hmmm... So Ratcliffe, the Director of National Intelligence, says Trump was NOT briefed on this, and somehow you still blame Trump for this. Curiouser and curiouser.

Nothing here except.
the administration failed to save soldiers’ lives
and the John Bolton Ukraine things
and the Barr, Justice Department Flynn things
and the Manafort things
and the Cohen things
and the Betsy Devos Michigan Spectrum Health emails to Putin’s daughter thing
and the Trump Inaugural Committee receiving foreign national’s contributions thing
and the Maria Butina / NRA thing
and the NRA campaign contribution thing
and the Tillerson thing
and the Sessions thing
and the Kushner thing
and the Carter Page thing
and the Felix Sater thing
and the Boris Ephsteyn thing
and the Rosneft thing
and the Gazprom thing
and the Sergey Gorkov banker thing
and the Azerbaijan thing
and the “I love Putin” thing
and the Donald Trump, Jr. thing
and the Sergey Kislyak thing
and the Russian Affiliated Interests thing
and the Russian Business Interests thing
and the Emoluments Clause thing
and the Alex Schnaider thing
and the hack of the DNC thing
and the Guccifer 2.0 thing
and the Mike Pence “I don’t know anything” thing
and the Russians mysteriously dying thing
and Trump’s public request to Russia to hack Hillary’s email thing
and the Trump house sale for $100 million at the bottom of the housing bust to
the Russian fertilizer king thing
and the Russian fertilizer king’s plane showing up in Concord, NC during Trump
rally campaign thing
and the Nunes sudden flight to the White House in the night thing
and the Nunes personal investments in the Russian winery thing
and the Wilbur Ross with his Cyprus bank thing
and Trump not releasing his tax returns thing
and the Republican Party’s rejection of an amendment to require Trump to show
his taxes thing
and the election hacking thing
and the GOP platform change to the Ukraine thing
and the Steele Dossier thing
and the Leninist Bannon thing
and the Sally Yates can’t testify thing
and the Sally Yates firing thing*
and the intelligence community’s investigative reports thing
and Trump’s reassurance that the Russian connection is all
“fake news” thing
and Spicer’s Russian Dressing “nothing’s wrong” thing
and Trump warning the Russians
and Syrians before the Bombing thing*
and the Trump refusing to provide Flynn's foreign ties documents to Congress
thing*
and Flynn's illegal Turkish lobbying was paid for the
Russians thing*
and Flynn's illegal lobbying for Russia thing*
and the Trump asking Comey for a "loyalty oath" thing*
and Trump lying to the world about Comey saying he's not
being investigated thing*
and the Trump firing Comey thing*
and the Trump or stooges lying to the world about why he fired Comey with 3
different lies*
and Trump hosting Russian foreign minister
and ambassador one day after to demonstrate his authoritarian
street cred*
and the finding out that Trump actually tried to fire Robert Mueller in June
2017 thing
and the claim by trump that the Russia investigation is over some unrefunded
golf club fees to Robert Mueller thing...
and the lying to the American public during the campaign about have no business in Russia thing…
and the Ivanka super-duper Moscow hotel spa thing…
So there’s probably nothing, all of this must be normal, just a bunch of separate dots with no connection whatsoever.

What does Russia have on this man? Lol

Impeachment 2.0!

Hopefully this presidency will make the parties vet their nominees better in the future.

Hopefully we'll get something beyond a plutocracy with two shitty options. What was nominated last cycle was a disservice to every US citizen. Even the third party front-runners were comical.

Not with the anti-democratic tendencies of capitalism.

We are leaning towards authoritarian capitalism as the next step from liberal democracy. All the people in the streets aren't stopping that either.

Libertarianism as a personal philosophy is pretty dead. Even political libertarians are trying to make laws to control people by restricting options arbitrarily and saying where people can and can't go.

I think plenty liberals, conservatives, libertarians, and the rest of us partisans who are not communards, sincerely believe we are deep in the territory of nihilist materialism as a societal paradigm. Communards are nihilistic materialists by design.

I think Karl Popper is right in that capitalism is a Hegelian system similar to communism and fascism in which it uses objective reality and the view that history in the end will justify totalitarianism and any crime committed on the way there.

Just look at how this Trump government has destroyed small business while courting and grooming a handful of major corporations during the federal response to the pandemic. LA Lakers getting small business loans lol. The illusion of choice is replacing actual rights in society. Humans have less and are able to do less to keep themselves safe.

When the government has to pick a side when health insurance companies don't keep their promises around treatment of covid, waived authorizations, and waived approvals for changes in Level of Care they will side with the health insurance companies over the American family.

It would all be easier if we could just play nice in the sandbox, but the reality is that over half of humans have Genghis Khan's DNA in them because he was the best at what humans are best at doing and as a result his genetics are most successful. Its fucked up.

This post was edited by Skinned on Jun 30 2020 11:48am

Huge coincidence that the guy who everyone said was a corrupt incompetent during the campaign keeps doing corrupt, incompetent things as president!



Political parties have almost no control over who the nominee is. I'd much rather we go back to the smoke filled rooms... we can't trust the masses to make sensible choices.

HRC is a counterexample to your claim that parties can't control who their nominee is.

And the party has the war chest, that means a lot. They just have to risk being punished if they fail. Nixon said politics is the art of rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies. If they don't have the stomach for it they should go work for someone who does.

Trump is right in ruling his party through fear. Men love at their own discretion, they fear at the discretion of the prince...

This post was edited by Skinned on Jun 30 2020 11:52am