Cuz Merica

[Rjawm]

[a.d._510_n_ok]

Obstruction of Congress

 

Mueller, the Justice Department and the FBI aren’t helping the lawmakers’ probe.

 

The media echo chamber spent the week speculating about whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller can or will nab President Trump on obstruction-of-justice charges. All the while it continues to ignore Washington’s most obvious obstruction—the coordinated effort to thwart congressional probes of the role law enforcement played in the 2016 election.

 

The news that senior FBI agent Peter Strzok exchanged anti-Trump, pro-Hillary text messages with another FBI official matters—though we’ve yet to see the content. The bigger scandal is that the Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Mr. Mueller have known about those texts for months and deliberately kept their existence from Congress. The House Intelligence Committee sent document subpoenas and demanded an interview with Mr. Strzok. The Justice Department dodged, and then leaked.

 

The department also withheld from Congress that another top official, Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, was in contact with ex-spook Christopher Steele and the opposition-research firm Fusion GPS. It has refused to say what role the Steele dossier—Clinton-commissioned oppo research—played in its Trump investigation. It won’t turn over files about its wiretapping.

 

And Mr. Mueller—who is well aware the House is probing all this, and considered the Strzok texts relevant enough to earn the agent a demotion—nonetheless did not inform Congress about the matter. Why? Perhaps Mr. Mueller feels he’s above being bothered with any other investigation. Or perhaps his team is covering for the FBI and the Justice Department.

 

Does anyone think this crowd intends to investigate Justice Department or FBI misdeeds? To put it another way, does anyone think they intend to investigate themselves? Or that they’d investigate their longtime colleagues— Andrew McCabe, or Mr. Ohr or Mr. Strzok? Or could we instead just acknowledge the Mueller team has enormous personal and institutional interests in justifying the actions their agencies took in 2016—and therefore in stonewalling Congress?

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/obstruction-of-congress-1512691791

[tr8er]

So was Trump out of line then for opining about the groupies that allow pussy grabs by this standard since Bernie wrote about the desire of sexes to fantasize of rape scenario?

He didn't opine. He stated that "I don't even wait", "she was married and I moved on her". Considering adultery is a crime, that would make him accessory to adultery. But whatever, it's the character that is exposed here. Kissing married women is just pathetic and disrespectful.

[john510]

The national debt has decreased by $102 billion in the last year.

[datzenmike]

.... but it probably grew faster. It's like plugging 3 of 5 bullet woulds.... you just take longer to bleed out.

[a.d._510_n_ok]

Nearly 40% of ICE Agents Terrorizing Southern California Are Latino

 

Now it turns out almost 40% of agents conducting raids in Southern California are Latinx, according to a report published by the New York Times Friday morning. The staffing demographic statistic was referred to in passing as part of a larger feature story about the team that conducts home raids in Southern California.

 

These officers are likely arresting other Latinx immigrants, since the overwhelming majority of undocumented immigrants in Southern California we born in Mexico or Central America.

 

And “they do not apologize,” David Marin, an enforcement supervisor with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told The Times.

 

https://splinternews.com/nearly-40-of-ice-agents-terrorizing-southern-californi-1797133688

[thisismatt]

The debt either decreases, stays the same, or grows. It can't decrease and grow. derp

[Rjawm]

It's odd how many people are quick to point out Trump is a liar, untrustworthy, and unreliable in regard to his spoken words as president but...

 

then act as if he must be the most truthful, deeply trustworthy, and a king of reliability when it comes to his surreptitiously recorded sexual conquest claims.

 

I mean we all know he isn't inclined to embellish any story about himself, ever, nope, never ever.

 

 

 

Not saying by any means there isn't some scenario that fits Hillary in some way, just an observation of the more current subject matter.

[racerx]

Nearly 40% of ICE Agents Terrorizing Southern California Are Latino

 

Now it turns out almost 40% of agents conducting raids in Southern California are Latinx, according to a report published by the New York Times Friday morning. The staffing demographic statistic was referred to in passing as part of a larger feature story about the team that conducts home raids in Southern California.

 

These officers are likely arresting other Latinx immigrants, since the overwhelming majority of undocumented immigrants in Southern California we born in Mexico or Central America.

 

And “they do not apologize,” David Marin, an enforcement supervisor with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told The Times.

 

https://splinternews.com/nearly-40-of-ice-agents-terrorizing-southern-californi-1797133688

...it helps when they are bilingual

[datzenmike]

The debt either decreases, stays the same, or grows. It can't decrease and grow. derp

 

Anything that is taken away is a decrease. Lets see...

 

Your car in impounded in July and the storage fee is $10 a day, which you can't afford right now, but will pay back some time in the future to get your car back. At some time a friend goes in and puts a dollar down toward that debt. Sixty days later you go in and find you are surprised to only owe $619. Your debt decreased while it was increasing.    

[racerx]

Also called interest.

[thisismatt]

Mike, you have an amazing ability to blow smoke up your own ass. You must be a contortionist. The debt total has decreased by $102 billion according to the funny math that's used to calculate it.

[q-tip]

Mike, you have an amazing ability to blow smoke up your own ass. You must be a contortionist. The debt total has decreased by $102 billion according to the funny math that's used to calculate it.

 

It's not really that impressive with his head already up there.

[datzenmike]

Geez what's with you? Has Rick hacked your account?

 

 

Well the current debt is 20.573 trillion and the interest is $6,848 per second.

 

102 billion is .5% so it may have slowed the increase but it did not reduce it.

[VFR800]

[racerx]

With the new tax bill, it will add more to the debt, while reducing your tax write offs, Medicare, social security benefits, talks of even reducing the amount you can put away in your 401k and who knows what it will do to the economy.

[tr8er]

The debt thing is because we have a federal spending limit. The shitty think is we are actually still spending, but unable to pay the bills because of the cap. The good thing is, the more you do that, the more of a pain in the ass it is and eventually budgets will actually slim. The shitty thing is congress will need to authorize a spending correction as they always do after budget ceilings are pushed. But this is not bad news, as few things matter more.

 

What might have more of my attention is Trump announcing a military base in Jerusalem.

 

We are going to a much bigger war than we expect down there.

[thisismatt]

Geez what's with you? Has Rick hacked your account?

 

 

Well the current debt is 20.573 trillion and the interest is $6,848 per second.

 

102 billion is .5% so it may have slowed the increase but it did not reduce it.

Look, it went down. WTF cares if it's still being added to, it went down.

 

[datzenmike]

Ha ha .Probably that flat spot. 102 billion would pay for the interest for about 170 days.

[john510]

How could it be added to and still go down ?

[thisismatt]

Ha ha .Probably that flat spot. 102 billion would pay for the interest for about 170 days.

See how it was HIGHER before it WENT DOWN?

[datzenmike]

See how it was HIGHER after it WENT DOWN?

Looks like a graph of someone carrying a loaded back pack up a mountain stopping for a break, then having to hurry faster right after to catch up to everyone else.

[thisismatt]

Ok cuckoo

[john510]

Less is not more,just my opinion.

[a.d._510_n_ok]

Democrats Are Suddenly Concerned About Federal Debt

 

Federal debt under Barack Obama rose from $11.1 trillion at the beginning of 2009 to $19.9 trillion by the end of 2016, according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. That’s a little more than $1 trillion a year for each year Obama was in office.

 

So if Democrats hadn’t gone on a near decade-long spending binge, would they be as concerned now? Or does their concern have more to do with politics than economics?

 

The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates the tax reform plan would cost just under $1.5 trillion over 10 years—though other estimates that do a better job of incorporating the effects of new hiring and investment will likely produce a significantly lower figure.

 

In other words, the Republican tax plan could cost the federal government about the same over 10 years as Barack Obama did in one year!

 

And remember, once Republicans took control of the House, they constrained federal spending under Obama, which both he and Democrats whined about constantly.

 

http://www.ipi.org/ipi_issues/detail/democrats-are-suddenly-concerned-about-federal-debt