America III: Going Deutsche

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/jul/24/mueller-testimony-live-stream-trump-news-today-russia-obstruction-report-latest-updates-hearing

Mueller is beginning to testify over his report, Dems are expected to try and get Mueller to state that if Trump wasn't a sitting President then charges would have been filed against him.

Trump is livid this is gong on but still uses it to bang on about Clinton's emails.

Very early on Nadler has aimed to clarify things by asking a very simple question - Does the Muller report exonerate Trump? Mueller's response was a simple yet clear 'No'

[Cassius_Smoke]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...pdates-hearing

Mueller is beginning to testify over his report, Dems are expected to try and get Mueller to state that if Trump wasn't a sitting President then charges would have been filed against him.

Trump is livid this is gong on but still uses it to bang on about Clinton's emails.

Very early on Nadler has aimed to clarify things by asking a very simple question - Does the Muller report exonerate Trump? Mueller's response was a simple yet clear 'No'

Yeah it was a great exchange Mueller gave. It basically means that the report didn't exonerate Trump, just that he can't be indited while in the White House.

'Could you charge the President after he left office?'
'Yes'

[Neon Ignition]

If the US President incites racial hatred, then as a result there are mass shootings based on his words... then he continues to incite racial hatred leading to further attacks on his own national citizens...

does that mean the US President is then a Terrorist?

If so, it's a shame that the President being a terrorist still doesn't make for an impeachable reasoning

[Dogg Thang]

The whole impeachment thing is a bit of a mystery to me. Trump seems untouchable and yet all Clinton had to do was lie about having consensual sex with a woman.

[Asura]

The whole impeachment thing is a bit of a mystery to me. Trump seems untouchable and yet all Clinton had to do was lie about having consensual sex with a woman.

Sign of the times. Remember Howard Dean? He was reasonably likely to become president in 2004; he fell out of the race because of made a speech where he yelled with excitement; the media eviscerated him, saying that manner of speaking was "un-presidential".

You look at things now and it seems hard to believe that things have changed so much in so little time.

[QualityChimp]

It's bonkers just how far politicians can push the truth.

Boris Johnson: "I'm going to recruit 20,000 new police officers!"
In reality there are less police because his government cut police budgets in the first place, there aren't enough trainers, they sold a load of police properties and they've not actually said where all this extra funding will come from or how much it costs.

Donald Trump: "The things we're doing in our country today, there's never been anything like it. We will be ending the AIDS epidemic shortly in America, and curing childhood cancer very shortly."
In reality, he's unveiled a budget request to Congress that calls for deep spending cuts at many federal science agencies, including a 13% cut for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a 12% cut for the National Science Foundation (NSF), while providing hefty increases for the military.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/aug/05/trump-news-today-el-paso-shooting-ohio-media-politics-latest

Nadler likens Trump to the leaders of Nazi Germany as Trump calls for immigration control in the wake of the shootings, thereby linking the victims to being the cause of the crime. Likewise he has laid blame at the feet of the media and in doing so almost repeated the words of one of the shooters

[Cassius_Smoke]

I still can't get over the fact that America voted him in. People actually went to a poling station and voted for this doosh.

[MartyG]

I still can't get over the fact that America voted him in. People actually went to a poling station and voted for this doosh.

The problem with the US at the moment is there aren't enough grassy knolls.

[QualityChimp]

Instead of addressing the fact that it was two white men with automatic weaponry that perpetrated the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, Trump blames anything else:
Immigration
Video games
Media
Social Media
The internet
Mental Health

[fuse]

It is the only country with any of those things, after all. Perfectly logical.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Instead of addressing the fact that it was two white men with automatic weaponry that perpetrated the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, Trump blames anything else:
Immigration
Video games
Media
Social Media
The internet
Mental Health

I just watched BBC news and they seemed to herald this speech as some new age trump. They absolutely lapped it up!

[prinnysquad]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...olitics-latest

Nadler likens Trump to the leaders of Nazi Germany as Trump calls for immigration control in the wake of the shootings, thereby linking the victims to being the cause of the crime. Likewise he has laid blame at the feet of the media and in doing so almost repeated the words of one of the shooters

Some Dickhead Aussie did something similar about the NZ atrocity recently.

You can tell Trump is a pissweasel, because he’s incapable of admitting any kind of fault. A person who can’t find fault in themselves can’t learn, and can’t get better.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Found this dated march 2017:
'President Donald Trump quietly signed a bill into law Tuesday rolling back an Obama-era regulation that made it harder for people with mental illnesses to purchase a gun.'

Trump today blames mental illness.

[briareos_kerensky]

In other news, today the US formally withdrew from the INF treaty. The process started last year when Trump said Russia wasn't complyng with it. What's the INF treaty, you ask? Oh, just the agreement between US and Russia banning land-based intermediate-range nuclear ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and launchers.