Downright Difficult To Narrow Down Which Petty Grievance

[gotsnowgotslush]

Everyday, we are left with this question-

Why did he do it ?

With this presidency, it can be downright difficult to narrow down which petty grievance might be getting in the way of doing some actual good in the world.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...ump-personally-wants-to-kill-nyc-project.html

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Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney got Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao to admit that President Trump personally asked House Speaker Paul Ryan to block funding for New York City’s badly needed Gateway project.

“I read it in the newspapers, just like you did,” a clearly displeased Chao responded.

“Right — my question was if it’s true,” Maloney parried back.

Chao allowed that it probably was, but that Maloney would have to check with the White House, an answer that did not satisfy him.

After some tense back and forth, Maloney asked again: “Is the president of the United States personally intervening with the Speaker to kill this project?”

Chao then backed down. “Yes!” she said. “The president is concerned about the viability of this project and the fact that New York and New Jersey have no skin in the game."

 

[someoneyouknow]

The head of the Transportation department didn't know if the project was being killed? A project which would bring thousands of jobs to New York and New Jersey and satisfy the con artist's desire rebuild our infrastructure?

What does she do all day? Text with Mitch?

 

[Hypoxia]

NY and NJ are enemy states that Tromp must punish, along with all states infested by the majority of USA voters who said NO to Tromp. No, Tromp is not our president, and he knows it.

 

[WrongVerb]

Trump is, in reality, to blue voters everything red voters imagined Obama was to them.

The entire administration rode into office on the idea that government was corrupt to its core. This is a view promulgated by Fox Opinion Network and rage-wing radio to further their own right wing agenda through exaggerations, mischaracterizations, disinformation, and outright lies to an audience lacking (willfully or not) in the critical thinking skills needed to counter them. It's a tough place we've gotten ourselves into here, and if we don't pull together, our country may not survive.

For an example of the exaggerations and mischaracterizations being infused into their willing audience, look no either than this post in the assault rifle thread.

 

[Hypoxia]

Trump is, in reality, to blue voters everything red voters imagined Obama was to them.

I don't recall Obama setting out to punish red states. Maybe I was busy playing mandolin and didn't notice.

 

[KeithD]

I don't recall Obama setting out to punish red states. Maybe I was busy playing mandolin and didn't notice.

The poster did say it was how some of the red state people imagined Obama to be. As has been clearly shown, some of the red state people, like some of the reactionary (and possible Russian trolls) posting to this discussion board are crazier than loons, so they imagine all sorts of things. With Trump, no one has to imagine anything. He lays his moronic moral degradation out there for anyone with half a brain to see and such Trump tools as we have here to work hard to try to deflect and distract from with really idiotic posts.

 

[dan_c00000]

For an example of the exaggerations and mischaracterizations being infused into their willing audience, look no either than this post in the assault rifle thread.

Guns are a pretty good example: pro-gun people want to allow many children to be killed because of "freedom" and anti-gun people would rather see alive children. It's pretty simple.

Anyway, Trump is out to punish not just blue states but the middle class on down. Most people who commute into NYC via NJ Transit are more or less the middle class. They aren't big time stock brokers or CEOs or whatever (those already live in NYC and get driven to their estate in NJ, NY, or CT on Thursdays). Take a look at this map of NJ the poorer towns by NYC all went to Clinton. All the outer suburbs went to Trump. Those red areas will be hurt the most by Trump in ways like their property tax deductions being destroyed.

 

[Captainnumnuts]

Everyday, we are left with this question-

Why did he do it ?



Context-

Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney got Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao to admit that President Trump personally asked House Speaker Paul Ryan to block funding for New York City’s badly needed Gateway project.

“I read it in the newspapers, just like you did,” a clearly displeased Chao responded.

“Right — my question was if it’s true,” Maloney parried back.

Chao allowed that it probably was, but that Maloney would have to check with the White House, an answer that did not satisfy him.

After some tense back and forth, Maloney asked again: “Is the president of the United States personally intervening with the Speaker to kill this project?”

Chao then backed down. “Yes!” she said. “The president is concerned about the viability of this project and the fact that New York and New Jersey have no skin in the game."

Which petty grievance? All of them.

 

[Hypoxia]

Guns are a pretty good example: pro-gun people want to allow many children to be killed because of "freedom" and anti-gun people would rather see alive children. It's pretty simple.

That's what it boils down to.

Anyway, Trump is out to punish not just blue states but the middle class on down. Most people who commute into NYC via NJ Transit are more or less the middle class. They aren't big time stock brokers or CEOs or whatever (those already live in NYC and get driven to their estate in NJ, NY, or CT on Thursdays). Take a look at this map of NJ the poorer towns by NYC all went to Clinton. All the outer suburbs went to Trump. Those red areas will be hurt the most by Trump in ways like their property tax deductions being destroyed.

Few Gups will be elected in CA and NY and other target states in the midterms. I.e. Gups will be slaughtered politically in the most prosperous states, and severely damaged in red states that are being fucked over. Hmmm, let's relabel the "flyover states" as the "fuckover states" because they're being hurt the worst.

Some may note that Tromp once styled himself a Dum. Some suspected his campaign goals included destroying the Gups as a party. He seems to be achieving that. Nice work, Donnie.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Jeff Sessions Fires The Former No. 2 At The FBI Two Days Before His Scheduled Retirement


"ased on the report of the Inspector General, the findings of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility, and the recommendation of the Department’s senior career official, I have terminated the employment of Andrew McCabe effective immediately

https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidn...er-no-2-at-the?utm_term=.wuMEqA019#.gflBD586a


New York Times reported earlier this week that McCabe's retirement was set to go into effect Sunday and his firing could jeopardize his pension as a 21-year veteran of the FBI.

McCabe’s dismissal is another indication of the increasingly bitter politics surrounding the federal investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia. As deputy director, McCabe was integrally involved in both the bureau’s investigation into former secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email server and the Russia probe.

A longtime target of the right thanks to political donations his wife accepted from a Clinton ally, McCabe has drawn the president’s ire in recent months.

Trump goaded Sessions into dismissing McCabe, tweeting in July, “Why didn't A.G. Sessions replace Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a Comey friend who was in charge of Clinton investigation?”

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/378826-sessions-fires-mccabe-from-fbi


Fired, with pension in jeopardy

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/us/politics/andrew-mccabe-fbi-fired.html

 

[phrodeau]

I find it difficult to feel sympathy for a millionaire losing his golden parachute.

 

[someoneyouknow]

As to McCabe, he'll get his benefits since his firing was politically motivated. Thanks to the con artist's inability to not tweet or keep his mouth shut, it's an open and shut case.

Considering Micheal Flynn literally, in the truest sense of the word, lied about a multitude of items and still got to keep his benefits, it's obvious McCable will be able to do so as well.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

The firing is not only a way to strip McCabe of his pension, but would be a perfect way to try to discredit McCabe in any future testimony against the president. Indeed, the president wasted no time in gloating over the firing on Friday and attacking the credibility of both Comey and McCabe


“Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy,” the president tweeted. “Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!” This is certainly what an attack on the rule of law would sound like.


In the absence of the IG report, it’s impossible to evaluate the merits of this harsh treatment of a 21-year FBI professional,” the ranking minority member of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, tweeted on Friday. “That it comes after the President urged the DOJ to deprive McCabe of his pension, and after his testimony, gives the action an odious taint.


If the Senate Intelligence Committee wants to maintain that it is still running a credible investigation in its own inquiry, it too would investigate this potentially odious episode.


https://slate.com/news-and-politics...s-that-he-is-a-key-witness-against-trump.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Former FBI deputy Director Andrew McCabe wrote memos detailing his interactions with President Donald Trump, as well as on some interactions between the president and former FBI Director James Comey, a person with knowledge of the matter told HuffPost.

He has also turned hard copies of the memos over to special counsel Robert Mueller, the source said. The number of memos and their contents are not yet known.


The president, the administration, and his legal team must not take any steps to curtail, interfere with, or end the special counsel’s investigation or there will be severe consequences from both Democrats and Republicans,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) tweeted.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mccabe-memos-robert-mueller_us_5aad5d38e4b0c33361b0e6bc

 

[KeithD]

Former CIA director John O. Brennan love tweet to Sleazebag Trump re. firing of McCabe (from The Hill):

"When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America...America will triumph over you."

"Venality, moral turpitude, political corruption." Right on.

 

[Antryg_Windrose]

"Venality, moral turpitude, political corruption." Right on.

He left out, "and he's a bad liar."