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I heard this morning on Democracy Now that Mr Sessions only recused himself from a specific element of the investigation, the piece "...relating in any way to the campains for president ..." which might leave a bit of wiggle room. Just like he assumed there was no need to mention speaking to the Russian ambassador because they hadn't discussed the upcoming elections, is this 'recusal' just more semantic sidestepping?
The real question here is why have so many of trumps men been communicating with the Russians? What are they plotting or what information is being exchanged and at what costs? I smell a skunk (and it's not because California legalized pot) but there have been a number of Russians disappearing or arrested and killed lately is there some kind of exchange going on between the administration and the Russians?
As I tried to tell Thom today on the program, this is a trickle that will become a torrent and then a flood that Trump could stem by releasing his tax returns, if only he had nothing to hide. But then, the question is how can we rid ourselves of "All the President's Men?"
Sessions simply must resign. He recused himself - so what? He will still be the Attorney General and will be able to influence if not outright control any investigation that is going on. If he was truly removing himself from any involvement, it would be the same as resigning, so let's go Jeffy....
Deplorables and swamp monsters
What we are seeing is an administration of deplorables and swamp monsters. Trump says it's a witch hunt. Asked about Trump's comment and what's going on; Jeff Sessions said, "double double toil and trouble."
Dan, San Diego
History serves as a warning to future generations. What greater warning is there than how the concentration of wealth and power and the rise of authoritarianism invariably lead to the erosion of democratic societies and to the horrendous atrocities perpetrated by megalomaniacs who never quit seeking more and more, until they either die or are forcibly stripped of power?
People are as unique as snowflakes, and melt away just as fast in their short time on Earth. Although it can be highly misleading merely to compare the superficial personality traits of today's autocrats to the individual personalities of yesterday's tyrants (e.g. Trump to Hitler), the same fundamental behavioral patterns that afflict certain humans beings and that repeatedly produce the same basic outcomes must surely be heeded.
Egocentricity, self-aggrandizement, narrow-minded ideology, ethnic hatred, lack of empathy, selfishness, greed, and the other backward-evolving common denominators of fascist leaders and followers everywhere, are the shared sins of humanity that have caused all the wars and mass suffering down through the ages. How is it any different today?
It's so hard for cockroaches to scurry for the shadows under all those damn klieg lights and cameras! If Trump's henchmen were not colluding with Russians to influence our elections, then why did they lie about their conversations? Such a simple question is sure stirring up a lot of heated malarkey. The Attorney General doth protest too much, methinks.
Tricky to discern the occasional truth DT may utter whether he's rambling or reading off TelePrompters and WHEN, and in what cronological order, he spits this out. Perhaps he's not as crazy as experts have diagnosed. His and his administration's constant throwing out conflicting statements is at best unsettling and at worst keeps those who question him less certain. Discussions about whether or not DT is an anti-semite doesn't matter to me me, because he's camillian-like, changing more of his statements than his philosophy. The fact sooo many of his children have love relationships with Jews does not make him a lover of Jews. (I think DT's heart is already jam packed with love of Donald and there's no room left for anything else.)The occasional (you're in toooo small a club, Thom!) reminders and comparisons to Nazi ways of manipulation and this so far not yet deeply investigated Russia involvement in our election is at the core of my beliefs and need to protect the freedoms I've grown to count on and appreciate in our democracy. My daily thoughts wrap around the protections I'd always thought were the framework for American life.
Deplorables and swamp monsters
What we are seeing is an administration of deplorables and swamp monsters. Trump says it's a witch hunt. Asked about Trump's comment and what's going on; Jeff Sessions said, "double double toil and trouble."
Dan, San Diego
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Point well taken, Diane. (((((Personally, I think the Boston bombing was staged. Why so? The technical quality of the media coverage had the look of a high tech home movie.)))))
Actually, there is a lot of truth in that statement, not necessarily pointing to Jewish people - as in some who might want to instigate anti-Semitic conflict.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch ...:
"Light it up?"
Oh, Hey. Eat, drink and be merry ... no need not to prance now ...
A new day is coming, the old is passing away ....
trump's strategy all along has not been out of a neo-nazi manual, it has been lifted directly from the chapters of mein kampf.
Thom:
This is very reminiscent of the comments you made immediately following the Boston bombings. Remember your knee jerk reaction by saying this was exactly the type of bomb used by "white supremacists"?
How about we catch some of these people before declaring or even hinting who did the deed. Your constantly fanning the flames without any evidence makes you look very small.
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PUTIN’s TAKE on TRUMP’s FAILURE {a double-limerick and an image}
Which’d be the mood of Vlad?
√ Would Mister Putin be glad
to watch us go bad
under Donald the Mad? - - -
- - - OR √ Would Vlad be sad, …
… since he’d lose the use of his tool,
Trump the inveterate fool?
Would he Like it or Not
that America’s lot
was to be strangled in an idiot’s drool?
… Image of a drooling idiot:
http://www.peaksearches.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Donald-Trump-funny-faces.jpg
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WORDS ENDING WITH “-essions” {a limerick} {extra points if all 5 lines rhyme}
There once was a perp named Jeff Sessions
who suppressed his indiscretions
so’s to leave impressions
of no Russia transgressions
and no Blacks-and-Gays repressions.
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Also from the speech:
... can we make that retroactive?
Ok. So, if it looks like a graveyard, and we can see that grave sites of specific individuals have been desecrated, then we know we have "disturbed the peace" for those who have been laid to rest. Not ok.
Right?
I just have to ask ... how is it that we can desecrate sacred burial grounds, as we decimate sacred waters of life ... and somehow, because we do not acknowledge the error of our ways, if we even see it at all ..., that's ok?
Hey. So long as I get my way ...?
https://www.revealnews.org/blog/standing-rock-protesters-seek-solace-at-...
http://www.themarshalltown.com/standing-rock-sioux-still-draws-hundreds-...
http://grist.org/climate-energy/the-standing-rock-sioux-could-still-beat...
Well, I could actually picture Bannon sending his monkeys out to vandalize a confederate cemetery to make progressives look bad. It would be the same anti-semetic monkeys that are currently terrorizing Jewish communities. Trump's false flag alt right comment definitely has the filth of Bannon smeared all over it.
BTW: Will Trump pardon Comey and Giuliani before he gets impeached? What in hell is the CIA waiting for?
The answer is soooo obvious I'm surprised you're even asking it. Makes me wonder. :D
Does no one recall that the "Kansas City shooting" took place in Olathe, Kansas? You know, just down the street from similar events in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Atlanta, Georgia.
Public infrastructure must remain PUBLIC!!!!!!!
NO Public "Private" partnerships!!!!
No selling off our country!!!!
Angry, racist statements escape from Trump's fat head like air out of a balloon, but conciliatory, ant-racist statements must be read slowly and deliberately from carefully prepared statements that sound distinctly un-Trumpish. The pained expression, whenever he goes against his nature and tries to appear magnanimous and all-inclusive, looks like he's squeezing his hemorrhoids. That this bumbling bigot inspires so many says a lot about the sorry state of Amerikkkan culture.
Why is the mainsteam not talking about it??? ...YOU Thom, of all people know why the media is silent. Just like the rich - Money is the media's god too. They don't care one iota about the middle class, commoners, or the poor. And when you got money you could care less about having prejudice, in any way shape or form about anything. The communication industry is saturated with money generating garbage, period.
I suspect the Berkley attack was perpetrated by his ilk, based on comments by Robert Reich made at the time. IDK if he still suspects so, but hey?..
While I am a big fan of Thom Hartmann I think he's off base a bit on this one. I don't think the president was referring to Jews as being the culprits, but Democratic Party sympathizers. That false flag events happen is undeniable but is normally a tactic of the far right and used in a far more direct manner. e.g.. The recent events at UC Berkeley that included starting of fires seems obviously counter productive other than to make the students look like anarchists. I'm still half convinced that was false flag but it's difficult to prove when you don't have the perps in custody.