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[rogue06]

Yeah, you're wrong. Source: The Mueller report.

You never did read it did you? Was it because there were no pictures for you to color in?

[Cow Poke]

You never did read it did you? Was it because there were no pictures for you to color in?

That, and the fact the he's not the brightest color in the socket.

[JimL]

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Just because you haven't the courage or character to face facts doesn't make he who points them out to you a troll. Trump is a wannabe tyrant attempting to destroy democracy and its institutions and that you can't see the obvious makes you either ignorant or an enabler. Whichever it is, you make Putin and his man in the Oval Office, Trump, very happy.

[Cow Poke]

Just because you haven't the courage or character to face facts ....

[rogue06]

Just because you haven't the courage or character to face facts doesn't make he who points them out to you a troll. Trump is a wannabe tyrant attempting to destroy democracy and its institutions and that you can't see the obvious makes you either ignorant or an enabler. Whichever it is, you make Putin and his man in the Oval Office, Trump, very happy.

What he says makes him a troll much like what you say makes you an idiot.

[JimL]

What he says makes him a troll much like what you say makes you an idiot.

Like I said, ideological boobs like you and your ilk make Putin and his man in the Oval Office so very happy.

[rogue06]

What he says makes him a troll much like what you say makes you an idiot.

Like I said, ideological boobs like you and your ilk make Putin and his man in the Oval Office so very happy.

Thank you for substantiating what I said

[Cow Poke]

Like I said, ideological boobs like you and your ilk make Putin and his man in the Oval Office so very happy.

Rogue, you hacked his account and typed that just to prove your point, didn't you?

[firstfloor]

And this is your mission?

I am simply giving you a commentary in real-time of the USA’s dangerous flirtation with Banana Republicanism. Empires come and go.

[Cow Poke]

I am simply giving you a commentary in real-time of the USA’s dangerous flirtation with Banana Republicanism. Empires come and go.

So, none of those leftist socialists should ever be allowed to defeat Trump in an election. Got it!

[rogue06]

Rogue, you hacked his account and typed that just to prove your point, didn't you?

After all this time you still don't have faith in little jimmy coming along and saying something that would make a mushroom look wise and learned in comparison?

[firstfloor]

So, none of those leftist socialists should ever be allowed to defeat Trump in an election. Got it!

You are not even close to getting it, not yet, but I think you have potential. I will persevere.

What I think right now is that, through some kind of malign design, Donald Trump has divined, has figured out what are the essential pillars of U.S. global power that have sustained Washington’s hegemony for the past 70 years and he seems to be setting out to demolish each one of those pillars one by one. He’s weakened the NATO alliance; he’s weakened our alliances with Asian allies along the Pacific littoral. He’s proposing to cut back on the scientific research which has given the United States — its military industrial complex — a cutting edge, a leading edge in critical new weapons systems since the early years of the Cold War. And he’s withdrawing the United States, almost willfully, from its international leadership, most spectacularly with the Paris Climate Accord but also very importantly with the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

And he seems to be setting out to systematically demolish U.S. global hegemony. Now, it’s important to realize that the United States is no longer the pre-eminent global power we were, let’s say at the end of Eisenhower’s presidency, back in 1960. Our share of the global economy has declined substantially. We’re about to be eclipsed by 2030, by China, and become the world’s number two economic power. China’s making some breakthroughs in military technology. The world system is spreading its wealth and there are a number of second tier powers, the rise of the European Union, et cetera. It’s a more complex world, so the United States can no longer dictate to the world, or at least much of the world, like we could back in the 1950s.

- historian Alfred McCoy.

[Cow Poke]

You are not even close to getting it, not yet, but I think you have potential. I will persevere.

And I will continue to be entertained.

[Mountain Man]

You are not even close to getting it, not yet, but I think you have potential. I will persevere.

- historian Alfred McCoy.

"So a history degree really is worthless, Mr. McCoy?"

"Sorry, son. I suggest you take up basket weaving instead."

[firstfloor]

Once he started, Trump hammered at the investigation’s legitimacy incessantly. (In total, he’s tweeted 181 times that the probe was a “witch hunt.”)

Conservatives are impressed by repetition.

“On a wide range of issues–whether it’s the economy, whether it’s national security–you’re going to have critics fairly or unfairly criticizing the President,” Shah says. “And he’s going to be able to say on the biggest, most prominent issue, they were dead wrong, I was dead right, you should believe me. And I think that’s going to sell.”

It will sell particularly well to Conservatives – their gullibility is legendary.

Few said the report was likely to alter their opinion of the President. Which appears to be the case for many Americans: In a national Fox News poll conducted the week before the report’s release, 70% said there was no chance or only a small chance the report would change their views. A poll by Morning Consult and Politico conducted in the two days following the release of Barr’s summary found the President’s support was essentially unchanged from a week earlier.

Most people don’t have the ability or interest to process Mueller’s findings.

Hours after Barr revealed Mueller’s findings, Trump and his top aides watched television news coverage in his office on Air Force One. Soon they began to stew. “The mood fluctuated from happiness to righteous anger,” recalls Gidley. “There was a lot of relief, but there were definitely a lot of questions.”

They didn't tell you that bit.

Trump campaign officials believe the end of the investigation creates an opening with independent voters. Yet so far Trump has focused more on exacting vengeance against Democrats and the media than on any attempt at reconciliation.

Because he has nasty authoritarian tendencies.

For Democrats, the silver lining in the Mueller outcome may be that they can now zero in on issues like lowering health care costs. Within a day of Barr releasing his summary of the Mueller report, the Trump Administration handed Democrats an apparent political gift, telling the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans that it supports the complete invalidation of the Affordable Care Act.

Trump lied when he said he was for ordinary Americans.

Until about 1980, wages rose with productivity. The American dream is dead. But it need not be this way. There is a direct link between the ballot box and the bread box. The revolution is overdue and it has to come from the left.