We learned two important things on Thursday...

[Bugsy McGurk]

In some ways, Thursday was an ordinary day during the Trump era. "Routine" Trump scandals, like Jared Kushner being the focus of an FBI probe. But two important things happened that were instructive.

First, we learned that GOP leaders will support a House candidate who viciously assaults a reporter for asking questions, and that GOP voters will elect such a savage person to Congress.

Second, we learned that Trump is so derranged that he will shove aside another nation's leader, and then strike a Mussolini pose, and that GOP voters will continue to support him.

Not too long ago, condemnation of such conduct would be universal and vocal. Not anymore. Our nation has changed. Now, the GOP cult, further poisoned by Trump, happily supports such things. It just doesn't matter how GOP politicians conduct themselves. All that matters is that they are GOP. Horribly inappropriate conduct, even if criminal, just doesn't matter.

The country is changing dramatically, and the change is not for the better.

 

[Dino]

In some ways, Thursday was an ordinary day during the Trump era. "Routine" Trump scandals, like Jared Kushner being the focus of an FBI probe. But two important things happened that were instructive.

First, we learned that GOP leaders will support a House candidate who viciously assaults a reporter for asking questions, and that GOP voters will elect such a savage person to Congress.

Second, we learned that Trump is so derranged that he will shove aside another nation's leader, and then strike a Mussolini pose, and that GOP voters will continue to support him.

Not too long ago, condemnation of such conduct would be universal and vocal. Not anymore. Our nation has changed. Now, the GOP cult, further poisoned by Trump, happily supports such things. It just doesn't matter how GOP politicians conduct themselves. All that matters is that they are GOP. Horribly inappropriate conduct, even if criminal, just doesn't matter.

The country is changing dramatically, and the change is not for the better.

I love how quickly and conveniently the left adopted an aphasic amnesia of the past 8 years of 0bama's presidency.
We tried pointing out the undeserved self-aggrandizement and entitlement, we tried to point out the criminal acts, the accountability we should demand of our government figures. Nothing- not the death of border agents, the targeting of patriotic groups, the violence and ignorance directed towards the police, the intrusive criminal acts by intelligence agencies, the total disregard for the handling of classified information...

To no avail.

Now it's this phony sanctimony and nonsense coming from the leftist echo chamber, as if the Republicans walked us down this road.

Please, spare us.

 

[Deleted member 21794]

Fake news. The Democrat activist reporter grabbed the Republican and the Republican responded to the assault.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

I love how quickly and conveniently the left adopted an aphasic amnesia of the past 8 years of 0bama's presidency.
We tried pointing out the undeserved self-aggrandizement and entitlement, we tried to point out the criminal acts, the accountability we should demand of our government figures. Nothing- not the death of border agents, the targeting of patriotic groups, the violence and ignorance directed towards the police, the intrusive criminal acts by intelligence agencies, the total disregard for the handling of classified information...

To no avail.

Now it's this phony sanctimony and nonsense coming from the leftist echo chamber, as if the Republicans walked us down this road.

Please, spare us.

Let me know if you can dig deep and focus on the topic.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Fake news. The Democrat activist reporter grabbed the Republican and the Republican responded to the assault.

And as we see, absurd lying is one of the ways wingers try to justify their support of their GOP miscreants. They probably don't believe their own lies, but it helps them sleep at night.

 

[Dino]

Let me know if you can dig deep and focus on the topic.

You were discussing "change", I corrected you as to when that change occurred.

You're welcome.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

You were discussing "change", I corrected you as to when that change occurred.

You're welcome.

Absurd. The events of Thursday's outrageous "GOP doubleheader" stand on their own. The Dems did not cause them and they have nothing to do with the Dems. The events concern GOP politicians and GOP voters. One of the nation's big problems is that you GOP cultists refuse to own your madness. But you just can't blame it on anybody but yourselves.

 

[Dino]

Absurd. The events of Thursday's outrageous "GOP doubleheader" stand on their own. The Dems did not cause them and they have nothing to do with the Dems. The events concern GOP politicians and GOP voters. One of the nation's big problems is that you GOP cultists refuse to own your madness. But you just can't blame it on anybody but yourselves.

I've heard this "blame" thing a lot the past few weeks, and it's another lefty lie.
Trump's problems "are of his own making". All the blame being cast around has nothing to do with the tons of false and negative reporting? Hogwash.
The left is guilty of under-reporting Democrat scandal, including two recently sentenced former Congresspeople receiving record-length sentences. The Anthony Weiner plea deal went largely ignored.
Meanwhile we hear nothing but faux scandal after faux scandal, with no apologies or retractions when they evaporate into nothingness. Bullcrap, and now the public tolerates an uppity pajamaboy reporter getting put firmly in his place? While the act is barbaric, the people supporting it are understandably justified.
You leftist creeps drew this battlelines. You don't get to whine when the battle is met.

 

[Caroljo]

I don't know much about the Jared thing...we haven't heard enough about it yet. But your other 2 claims are false. But as usual, you'll continue to spread those lies. I saw another video of Trump, a longer one and it's clear it was no 'shove'. But I expect you to keep spreading this lie forever. Liberals are really desperate!

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

I've heard this "blame" thing a lot the past few weeks, and it's another lefty lie.
Trump's problems "are of his own making". All the blame being cast around has nothing to do with the tons of false and negative reporting? Hogwash.
The left is guilty of under-reporting Democrat scandal, including two recently sentenced former Congresspeople receiving record-length sentences. The Anthony Weiner plea deal went largely ignored.
Meanwhile we hear nothing but faux scandal after faux scandal, with no apologies or retractions when they evaporate into nothingness. Bullcrap, and now the public tolerates an uppity pajamaboy reporter getting put firmly in his place? While the act is barbaric, the people supporting it are understandably justified.
You leftist creeps drew this battlelines. You don't get to whine when the battle is met.

More hogwash. First, you make another lame attempt to divert the topic to "the Dems." Then, you falsely state that there have been Trump "faux scandals" that have "evaporated." The opposite is true, of course, as no Trump scandals have been debunked, and more get added every day. And sane, patriotic Americans know they are VERY serious and could lead to impeachment.

But again, you digress. And on the topic, you say the reporter was "put firmly in his place." Not long ago we would never hear any American try to justify the vicious assault of a reporter for asking questions. But now we do. Why? We have a US president who calls the press "the enemy of the people." We have him demonizing reporters at his hate rallies and encouraging violence against protesters. We have right wing hate merchants on hate radio and Fox Noise doing the same.

So here we are - in a nation in which GOP cultists support a vicious assault on a reporter, and a president who shoves aside another nation's leader so he can preen for the cameras.

Own your GOP madness.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

I don't know much about the Jared thing...we haven't heard enough about it yet. But your other 2 claims are false. But as usual, you'll continue to spread those lies. I saw another video of Trump, a longer one and it's clear it was no 'shove'. But I expect you to keep spreading this lie forever. Liberals are really desperate!

As I said above, absurd GOP lying is one of your key gambits in seeking to justify the madness I described. We see something on video, and you just stomp your feet and say we don't see it.

Your absurd denials add to the picture of a USA that is in a very bad state. You support the outrageous conduct in question, and then simply lie about it.

 

[Dino]

More hogwash. First, you make another lame attempt to divert the topic to "the Dems." Then, you falsely state that there have been Trump "faux scandals" that have "evaporated." The opposite is true, of course, as no Trump scandals have been debunked, and more get added every day. And sane, patriotic Americans know they are VERY serious and could lead to impeachment.

But again, you digress. And on the topic, you say the reporter was "put firmly in his place." Not long ago we would never hear any American try to justify the vicious assault of a reporter for asking questions. But now we do. Why? We have a US president who calls the press "the enemy of the people." We have him demonizing reporters at his hate rallies and encouraging violence against protesters. We have right wing hate merchants on hate radio and Fox Noise doing the same.

So here we are - in a nation in which GOP cultists support a vicious assault on a reporter, and a president who shoves aside another nation's leader so he can preen for the cameras.

Own your GOP madness.

The intelligence turned over to Russians in the Oval Office?

Nothing...poof! Evaporated. A phony a scandal as there's ever been. A non-scandal started by ignorant journalists.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/17/donald-trumps-intelligence-sharing-with-russians-o/

Some of America’s top intelligence officials are expressing frustration at the wave of media hysteria that has greeted reports that President Trump may have shared sensitive intelligence with top Russian diplomats last week, with some saying a handful of news organizations are guilty of hyping what amounts to a nonstory.

Critics of the story, which has consumed official Washington, say Mr. Trump was within his rights as commander in chief to share classified intelligence as he sees fit. They also say the criticism overlooks how President Obama and his top aides shared intelligence with Russia in the fight against the Islamic State group and faced several crises of their own with damaging intelligence leaks.

“People are making way too big a deal of this,” one senior U.S. intelligence official told The Washington Times on Wednesday after reports that Mr. Trump jeopardized a critical Islamic State intelligence source — reportedly cultivated by Israel — by revealing highly classified information to Russia’s foreign minister and ambassador during a meeting in the Oval Office

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

The intelligence turned over to Russians in the Oval Office?

Nothing...poof! Evaporated. A phony a scandal as there's ever been. A non-scandal started by ignorant journalists.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/17/donald-trumps-intelligence-sharing-with-russians-o/

Some of America’s top intelligence officials are expressing frustration at the wave of media hysteria that has greeted reports that President Trump may have shared sensitive intelligence with top Russian diplomats last week, with some saying a handful of news organizations are guilty of hyping what amounts to a nonstory.

Critics of the story, which has consumed official Washington, say Mr. Trump was within his rights as commander in chief to share classified intelligence as he sees fit. They also say the criticism overlooks how President Obama and his top aides shared intelligence with Russia in the fight against the Islamic State group and faced several crises of their own with damaging intelligence leaks.

“People are making way too big a deal of this,” one senior U.S. intelligence official told The Washington Times on Wednesday after reports that Mr. Trump jeopardized a critical Islamic State intelligence source — reportedly cultivated by Israel — by revealing highly classified information to Russia’s foreign minister and ambassador during a meeting in the Oval Office

Look, the topic is not Moonie News screeds designed to further brainwash you. Even that screed does not deny the contents of the reports. Indeed, even the WH has not denied the contents of the reports. That Moonie News screed is designed to get you to believe instead that Trump's provision of ultra classified intel to the Kremlin is "not a big deal" - that it's a plot of "the liberal media" to unfairly criticize Trump's idiocy. But it has nothing to do with the actual topic.

The topic is GOP support for outrageous conduct of GOP politicians because you have already been profoundly brainwashed.

 

[Dino]

Look, the topic is not Moonie News screeds designed to further brainwash you. Even that screed does not deny the contents of the reports. Indeed, even the WH has not denied the contents of the reports. That Moonie News screed is designed to get you to believe instead that Trump's provision of ultra classified intel to the Kremlin is "not a big deal" - that it's a plot of "the liberal media" to unfairly criticize Trump's idiocy. But it has nothing to do with the actual topic.

The topic is GOP support for outrageous conduct of GOP politicians because you have already been profoundly brainwashed.

Oh, now you know better than intelligence analysts?
Too funny.
The fact that you're ignorant, wrong, and refuse to even learn how wrong you are proves there's no interest in telling the truth with you. Nothing new there.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Oh, now you know better than intelligence analysts?
Too funny.
The fact that you're ignorant, wrong, and refuse to even learn how wrong you are proves there's no interest in telling the truth with you. Nothing new there.

Of course not.

Try to pay attention this time - not even the WH denies Trump's provision of the ultra classified intel to the Kremlin. They dissemble and try to minimize it - as does your Moonie News screed - but they have not denied the reports.

But your tangent is instructive. You flail in trying to justify GOP support for the conduct described in the top post by pointing to an unrelated Moonie News piece that doesn't really say anything, but has clearly further brainwashed you. It conditions your mind further, enhancing your baseless belief that Trump's idiocy is unfairly (or falsely) maligned in the media.

In turn, your programmed mind takes another baseless leap, somehow concluding that media treatment of Trump justifies GOP support for the outrageous conduct described in the top post.

Your tangent confirms my point - that GOP voters have been programmed into accepting conduct that, not too long ago, would have been universally condemned.

 

[Dino]

Of course not.

Try to pay attention this time - not even the WH denies Trump's provision of the ultra classified intel to the Kremlin. They dissemble and try to minimize it - as does your Moonie News screed - but they have not denied the reports.

But your tangent is instructive. You flail in trying to justify GOP support for the conduct described in the top post by pointing to an unrelated Moonie News piece that doesn't really say anything, but has clearly further brainwashed you. It conditions your mind further, enhancing your baseless belief that Trump's idiocy is unfairly (or falsely) maligned in the media.

In turn, your programmed mind takes another baseless leap, somehow concluding that media treatment of Trump justifies GOP support for the outrageous conduct described in the top post.

Your tangent confirms my point - that GOP voters have been programmed into accepting conduct that, not too long ago, would have been universally condemned.

The story is SO ridiculous that the White House need not even address it.

If you ever stopped being so dismissive and only devoting attention to negative attacks, perhaps the truth could sink in?
Always worth a shot!

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

The story is SO ridiculous that the White House need not even address it.

If you ever stopped being so dismissive and only devoting attention to negative attacks, perhaps the truth could sink in?
Always worth a shot!

False. The WH has addressed it repeatedly. Trump has done so and so have his minions.

And again, they have not denied the contents of the reports. They can't deny them because they're true.

Again and again, you prove out the point of the TP. If you have to lie, you do that. If you have to pretend that media reports are false, you do that. If you have to resort to a Moonie News opinion piece masquerading as a news story, you do that. Whatever it takes to try to justify GOP support for the outrageous conduct in question.

 

[Tor-Pete-O]

More hogwash. First, you make another lame attempt to divert the topic to "the Dems." Then, you falsely state that there have been Trump "faux scandals" that have "evaporated." The opposite is true, of course, as no Trump scandals have been debunked, and more get added every day. And sane, patriotic Americans know they are VERY serious and could lead to impeachment.

But again, you digress. And on the topic, you say the reporter was "put firmly in his place." Not long ago we would never hear any American try to justify the vicious assault of a reporter for asking questions. But now we do. Why? We have a US president who calls the press "the enemy of the people." We have him demonizing reporters at his hate rallies and encouraging violence against protesters. We have right wing hate merchants on hate radio and Fox Noise doing the same.

So here we are - in a nation in which GOP cultists support a vicious assault on a reporter, and a president who shoves aside another nation's leader so he can preen for the cameras.

Own your GOP madness.

Vicious assault????? Are you kidding me????

Broken glasses = Vicious assault. LMAO!

Are all lefty men asexual bitch ass girlie pukes? Or just reporters and lefty's on this forum?

 

[as seen on tv]

I'm surprised the Montana guy got elected too.

but then again, ted kennedy was re-elected how many times after fleeing the crash scene where mary jo kopechne drowned and was left for dead?

voters are funny like that.

 

[Tor-Pete-O]

I'm surprised the Montana guy got elected too.

but then again, ted kennedy was re-elected how many times after fleeing the crash scene where mary jo kopechne drowned and was left for dead?

voters are funny like that.

I think it's more like voters are sick of lefty and the media. One lies and the other swears to it. Shits getting really old.....

Just rewards!