What do Republican politicians do with most of their time ?

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What do Republican politicians do with most of their time ?

Most of them seem to be exceedingly rich, corrupt men,
and some are lawyers.

Something seems to have begun, when the Republicans
started breaking Gentlemen's agreements, that were written
into the rules.

Since then, the Republicans have become scoff-law citizens.

The hangman is not hanging, since the Republican takeover.

We have a scoff-law pResident sitting in the Oval Office chair.

America was cloned. Its twin is toxic, and its name is The Trump Alliance.

Certainly, there are factions that look after their own self interests.

But, when the drill bit meets the wall, they are all holding the drill.

(Baby, there are now a fuck-ton of drilled holes in the wall.)

A breach now exists, where an army of Trump trolls may waltz through.
 
hmmmm

How many Trump alliance supporters and lawyers have lied ?


Trump has made it impossible for government lawyers to act ethically


Lawyers can defend controversial policies. They can’t lie to courts.

July 10, 2019

The DOJ asked the courts to allow all the lawyers on its team to
withdraw from the case, to be replaced by a new set of
government attorneys.


It is often said in D.C. legal circles that the crux of those offices’
work is apolitical: They guard the power of the executive branch
generally, regardless of the agenda of the person in the White House.
But this administration’s priorities mean that these lawyers work to defend —
and to sanitize — Trump and his Cabinet’s xenophobia and lawlessness.
Most of these line attorneys, especially at the junior level, are in no position
to shape the White House’s agenda for the better, although they may justify
their continued employment on that basis. Instead, they construct seemingly
reasonable rationales for reprehensible policies such as the Muslim ban or
the border wall. As a result of their talents, these policies are more likely
to pass judicial muster.


"...the administration’s legal positions have grown so unreasonable that
the professional rules may finally provide a check. As Georgetown law
professor Marty Lederman put it on Twitter, devising “contrived” legal
arguments-

as the DOJ lawyers have effectively been asked to do yet again,
amounts to “a breach … of duty” and “an abuse of . . . office”
— and is therefore sanctionable under professional guidelines."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...-impossible-government-lawyers-act-ethically/
 
One Hot Mess AK
@libbybakalar

medium.com/on-fire-in-ak/…
“The more you hurt, the better it is working.
The goal is to make you give up, move out of state
and let others die in neglect.

Dunleavy is not unaware of the importance and impact
of his cuts. He knows, and it is evil.”

4:56 PM - 8 Jul 2019

I need you to help. - On Fire in AK - Medium

Governor Mike Dunleavy’s vetoes are going to kill people.

Medium Medium @Medium

Nat Herz Verified Account
@Nat_Herz

Hard to overstate how weird it is to watch a Republican state senator,
Natasha von Imhof, laying into a Republican governor, Mike Dunleavy,
on the Senate floor.

#AKleg

12:55 PM - 10 Jul 2019


The Alaska Landmine
@alaskalandmine

Letter from Alaska women lawyers about @GovDunleavy’s
vetoes to the Alaska Court System. #akgov #akleg

(screen grab of letter sent to Gov. Dunleavy)

3:04 PM - 9 Jul 2019
 
They make up propaganda about their opposition in order to scare their base. Those people want to take your guns away. Those people want open borders that those people want the Official Language of San Marcos to be Swedish.


I'm sorry that last part was from "Bananas."
 
@shannynmoore

Good to have record of who killed #Alaska.

(link)

4:11 PM - 10 Jul 2019


Matt Acuña Buxton
@mattbuxton

Here's what the Wasilla holdouts were up to during the veto
override vote in case you were wondering. #akleg

(pic of Trump enablers smiling about the prospect of destroying an Alaska that fights back)

3:25 PM - 10 Jul 2019

Jake Carpenter
@jakecarpenter Replying to @mattbuxton

This is a stark contrast to the tears and heartfelt pleas that
were happening in Juneau at the same time. I don't know
how anybody could be grinning as they flush Alaska's
future down the drain. #akleg

3:52 PM - 10 Jul 2019


Juneau Empire
@JuneauEmpire

A disparate group of callers all told the House Finance Committee
they're in favor of an override during almost two hours of testimony.

#Akleg

(link)

6:33 PM - 9 Jul 2019

Even ‘right-leaning’ groups, bankers and builders are calling for an override | Juneau Empire
They had one message to the governor.

(Do not hurt Alaskans with political posturing.)

(Bankers, home builders, Alaska Natives, health care professionals, nonprofit leaders and more)

note-

Plent of selfies taken of laughing and smiling Trumpies,
having their moment of sadistic joy jollies.

Huge (for Alaska) amounts of people came out to plead
for children, young people, old people, people in need,
and like the Trumpies that they are, they said "we do not
give a fuck about that. We are here to cultivate Trumpie
voters, and punish sluts, LGBT, and Democrats."

Actual Alaskan Republican are fighting with the Trumpies.

Reality is very real, in Alaska.

You cannot talk below zero temperatures to death.
 
Republicans (Trump politicians ? Trump Republicans ? Or, all Republicans ?)
have abandoned any concerns they may have had for the integrity of our
political system.

First, as is well understood, the GOP spent the past generation undermining
the foundations of democracy — free and fair elections — so as to reinforce
white rule.

Second, the GOP is structurally committed to lying.

Third, the GOP has paved the way for the collapse of civilization due
to climate change.

The GOP has stolen the Supreme Court.

Republicans may continue to control the country,
even when they are not in power:

1. Thanks to gerrymandering, dark money and voter suppression,
it will remain very difficult for Democrats to capture the levers of
power. They will require wave elections to do so;

2. Thanks to the GOP’s unprecedented willingness to obstruct,
it will remain almost impossible for Democrats to pass laws,
even when they win elections;

3. Thanks to the theft of the Supreme Court, Justice Roberts and
his colleagues will shred or sharply curtail the few laws that
Democrats manage to pass. When a party has a tough time
winning elections, even when it captures (far) more than 50%
of the vote; when that party is not allowed to govern even when
it wins at the ballot box; and when that party’s laws are shredded
by stolen courts even when it manages to govern, that’s not democracy.

That’s single-party rule.

If Democrats pull off a hat trick in 2020, and if party leaders are
fearless about enacting all three components of the democracy
agenda — killing the filibuster, expanding the Supreme Court
and enacting an aggressive version of HR 1 — then the system
can be un-rigged and the rule of law can be restored before it’s
too late. Otherwise, we’re probably done as a democracy.

https://www.salon.com/2019/07/10/ho...troy-democracy-and-can-they-still-be-stopped/
 
Stefan C. Passatino, member of the Trump Alliance

The real Ethics office head quit in disgust.


Ethics Office Director Walter Shaub Resigns,
Saying Rules Need To Be Tougher

July 6, 2017


Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub Jr. is
turning in his resignation (correction- July 19th)

The move follows months of clashes with the White House over
issues such as President Trump's refusal to divest his businesses
and the administration's delay in disclosing ethics waivers for
appointees.

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/06/5357...shaub-resigns-saying-rules-need-to-be-tougher

"Federal ethics laws prohibit federal employees from profiting
from their government service, and Mr. Kushner's refusal to
fully divest from his financial holdings raises questions in
light of his actions as a senior adviser to President Trump,"
the lawmakers wrote, emphasizing that "it would be a serious
matter if [the loans] resulted in a violation of federal ethics laws.


This week, the four lawmakers have also sent multiple letters (pdf)
to White House deputy counsel and designated agency ethics official
Stefan C. Passantino requesting further information about Jared Kushner's
compliance with conflict of interest laws, current financial holdings, and
details regarding any situations in which Kushner recused himself from
advisory duties based on potential conflicts.

"Ethics expert Kathleen Clark stated that 'the public should have
information about what types of matters Kushner is going to have
to recuse from,' as well as the 'mechanism' the White House will
use 'to ensure that Kushner will not participate in matters that
affect his retained financial interest,'" the lawmakers noted.
"We agree."


https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...-half-billion-suspect-loans-kushner-companies

Stefan Passantino: Donald Trump's ethics lawyer 'to leave White House

https://www.independent.co.uk › News › World › Americas › US politics

Aug 30, 2018 · The deputy White House counsel, Stefan Passantino, is reportedly to step down

Dan Pfeiffer Verified Account
@danpfeiffer

Stefan resigned after his plan to turn the White House into a Hamsterdam
of government ethics came to light

(link)

4:32 PM - 29 Aug 2018

Jennifer Jacobs Verified Account
@JenniferJJacobs

NEWS: The White House ethics lawyer, Stefan Passantino,
leaves the post *tomorrow*, sources tell me.

(link)

3:39 PM - 29 Aug 2018


Jennifer Jacobs
@JenniferJJacobs
Aug 29
Replying to @JenniferJJacobs

Another one of White House counsel McGahn’s deputies is departing
the WH. Stefan Passantino, who has overseen compliance and ethics
issues, has been saying his goodbyes, I’m told.

(link to Bloomberg)


Josh Dawsey Verified Account
@jdawsey1 Replying to @Fahrenthold @OConnellPostbiz @myhlee

A White House lawyer, Stefan Passantino, created a rule that
administration officials could not visit Trump's properties in
their official capacity. But many go in their personal capacity.
Donors, supporters, allies say his hotel in DC is the place to be.

(link to Washington Post)

4:19 PM - 20 Jun 2019

When Trump visits his clubs, government agencies and
Republicans pay to be where he is
Trump’s trips have brought his businesses
at least $1.6 million in revenue, according
to a Washington Post analysis.

The Washington Post The Washington Post @washingtonpost


PORTUGAL TRAIL BLAZERS Verified Account
@portugaltheman

Trump removes Native American presidential appointee
from Cultural Property Advisory Committee -

IndianCountryToday.com

10:43 PM - 12 Jul 2019

Trump removes Native American presidential appointee from
Cultural Property Advisory Committee -...

Trump's replacement appointee Stefan C. Passatino has no
known experience in protecting cultural heritage resources
and has been under investigation by the
House of Representatives Oversight Commitee

Indian Country Today Indian Country Today @IndianCountry

ICTPressPool
@ICTPressPool

Trump removes Native American presidential appointee from
Cultural Property Advisory Committee. Replacement has been
under investigation by the House of Representatives Oversight
Committee for ethical misconduct.

(link)

via @IndianCountry #ICTPressPool
11:15 AM - 12 Jul 2019

Trump removes Native American presidential appointee from
Cultural Property Advisory Committee

Trump's replacement appointee Stefan C. Passatino has no
known experience in protecting cultural heritage resources
and has been under investigation by the
House of Representatives Oversight Commitee
Indian Country Today Indian Country Today @IndianCountry
 
HILARIOUS!

Several of the Democratic Candidates for President want to eliminate ICE and CBP. They honestly won't say what border security measures they'll support. They want to provide free medical care for illegal immigrants.

Eric Swalwell & Kamala Harris both came out and said they want to take peoples guns. Or what did you think a "Mandatory Buy Back" is?

It's not propaganda...if it's something politicians support and propose.

Cheers.

Democrats have went full on stupid. The very things you listed are the things that will cost them in 2020. Don’t forget, they want to pack the Supreme Court and support doing away with the Electoral College. Heaven forbid they get the Green New Deal BS into play.
 
Democrats have went full on stupid. The very things you listed are the things that will cost them in 2020. Don’t forget, they want to pack the Supreme Court and support doing away with the Electoral College. Heaven forbid they get the Green New Deal BS into play.

"Have went full on stupid"? Is that a joke? If so, ha, good one! But if not, I'd say that says it all as far as your own credibility here is concerned.
 
"Have went full on stupid"? Is that a joke? If so, ha, good one! But if not, I'd say that says it all as far as your own credibility here is concerned.

Kant and credibility? Hahahahahahaha.
 
Democrats have went full on stupid. The very things you listed are the things that will cost them in 2020. Don’t forget, they want to pack the Supreme Court and support doing away with the Electoral College. Heaven forbid they get the Green New Deal BS into play.

Huh? Both sides want to stack the courts.

Dems do need to settle down and get a reasonable direction. Going full anti-tea party won’t get the job done.
 
Why did Alaska get the shitty end of the stick,
when they were handing out Tea Party Age*
governors ?

July 5, 2019

- davenoon


"Dunleavy won in large part by promising the impossible:
a full, statutory PFD (which his enraged supporters claimed
had been “stolen” from them) and a budget spared of arterial
bloodletting."

After winning, Dunleavy promptly hired Donna Arduin, a
road agent hailing from a firm she founded with Arthur Laffer
and the renowned crackpot misogynist Stephen Moore.
Backed by Charles and David Koch, Arduin’s firm trafficked
in Ayn Randian fan fiction while Arduin periodically loaned
her expertise to states like Kansas, Illinois, and Michigan,
where conservative governors relieved the agony of the
rich while pressing a rag in a tight seal over the mouth
and nose the public sphere. Arduin — a Duke University
graduate whose Twitter feed is like the Twitter feed of the
Gadsden Flag if the Gadsden Flag was half as clever and
had thumbs — believes the federal government’s sole
responsibility is national defense and is the sort of soulless
goblin who literally scolds the indigent under her breath.

I’ve heard lots of people this week warning that Alaska
is a coal mine canary of some sort, that what’s happening
to my state and my university could happen anywhere;
that might be true, or it might not.
It seems barely coincidental that a university system known
in part for its strong research on climate change would be
targeted for suffering by conservative ideologues within
and beyond our borders. But we’re also governed by people
who are likely confused about how to properly mount a roll
of toilet paper, so perhaps Alaska is merely the frontier
where the Venn diagram of idiocy and conspiracy form
a single overlapping circle.

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/07/alaska-is-burning-but-so-is-everything-else

Why does Americans for Prosperity want to hide everything
from the public at large, and journalists ?

In addition to requiring pre-registration, AFP has outlined a
416-word terms and conditions agreement that attendees
must comply with. These include no political signage,
pins or shirts, no recording of any portion of the event
unless given written approval by AFP, no large bags,
and all attendees must give up their rights to be recorded
or photographed during the event, after which point all
photographs and recordings will be sole property of AFP
for them to use for “any lawful use” in perpetuity.

Failure to comply with the extensive list of requirements
may result in attendees being barred from attendance or
removed from the event, according the the event description.

Americans for Prosperity is backed by the billionaire Koch brothers.

Mike Dunleavy's campaign was backed by AFP.

David Noon
@davenoon1970

Out in support of the Alaska Marine Highway System, which
the governor and temporary budget director Donna Arduin
would prefer to eliminate, because there are no ferries in
Ayn Rand novels.

#akleg

1:10 PM - 20 Mar 2019 from Juneau, AK

David Noon
@davenoon1970

Just an FYI for UA folks, the Board of Regents just agreed
to reconsider the declaration of financial exigency on July 22
rather than July 30. Buckle up, the meteor is about to strike.

#akleg

4:43 PM - 19 Jul 2019 from Juneau, AK

Forrest Dunbar
@ForrestDunbarAK Replying to @ForrestDunbarAK

2) when you contact legislators from Anchorage that are
currently standing with Dunleavy-- Reps Pruitt, Revak,
Rasmussen, Shaw, Merrick & Sen Costello-- please ask
them why they support policy decisions that are so clearly
and powerfully harmful to the community they represent.

2:56 PM - 18 Jul 2019

Chris Dimond
@dimond_chris Replying to @ForrestDunbarAK

Because all their pals (and family) will be able to
swoop in and buy housing, land and commercial
real estate for pennies on the dollar.

3:02 PM - 18 Jul 2019

* The Tea Party was not independent, was not grassroots.
Koch brothers, Rupert Murdoch, and Big Tabacco pitched
money into it, for their own selfish reasons.

Never Trumpers are now imbedded in the Trump Alliance,
even if they bitch and fuss.
 
Plagiarizing Conspiracy Theorist Monica Crowley is the 17th Fox (TV)
pundit hired by the Trump White House because of course.

7/19/19

You may recall that Crowley had been slated to become a deputy
national security adviser to Trump at the start of his administration.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin hired serial plagiarist and Fox
News contributor Monica Crowley to be a Treasury Department
spokeswoman.

Well, now, that less-than-credible government spokeswoman is
getting a promotion.

Media Matters also points out that Crowley is at least the 17th
former Fox employee to join the Trump administration and,
in her new job, replaces Tony Sayegh, also a former Fox contributor.

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/07/plagiarist-monica-crowley-gets-top-job
 
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) served
the Trump Alliance Empire, this week.

Moscow Mitch McConnel does not want a paper trail,
that Democrats can follow.

Senate Democrats sought passage of multiple election security
bills only to be stopped by Republican Leader Mitch McConnell
for a second time this week.

The Kentucky Republican, who is running for a fifth term in 2020,
has shut down nearly every effort to bring election security to the
Senate floor.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) had tried
to get consent Thursday to pass a House bill that requires the
use of paper ballots and includes funding for the Election
Assistance Commission. It passed the House 225-184 with
[one] Republican voting for it.


https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mcc...rity-heels-mueller-warnings/story?id=64569009

Legislation to secure our elections is partisan. And the fact that it’s
partisan shows just how pathological the Republican Party has
become in its determination to hold on to power.

So here are some things that, in our system today, are “partisan”
in the sense that if we were to do them they would advantage
the Democratic Party over the Republican Party:

* Securing our voting systems from foreign hacking
* Allowing every American to vote
* Making it as easy as possible for Americans to vote
* Ensuring that all votes count equally

Now consider what it says about your party, if doing those things
would make it much more likely that you’d lose.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/...ure-open-elections-would-elect-more-democrats
 
American commies are the biggest fools in the world. They talk about lawyers, yet they forget that most of their people in Congress are lawyers, not very good ones that is for sure, but the kind that run after ambulances.

That you can point to any of the members of the Democratic Congress and find that they have lied, stolen, or committed crimes against the people.

Let's take one "lawyer". Waters of CA. Have you seen what the people in her district have for many many years been forced to use for water? They can't drink it, wash in it or cook in it. Of course she does not live in her District, but in a "white" community with big gates and guards to keep "those people" out. She preaches violence telling her criminals to attack people on the street, at dinner out, or even in their own homes. She is an "overseer" of the Black Community like the overseers on the old plantations. Keeping them in line and making sure they do what the Master says.

She and her husband have been investigated and would be in jail for crimes they have committed while she has been in office, but you know you can't convict a leftist who has so many corrupt "lawyers" and "stooges" on the pay roll.

Now if you want to really talk about "lawyers" talk about Hillary. The only real case she ever won was destroying a young raped girl and getting the dirt bag off. But then she has been making war on women her whole life. She has stolen millions of dollars and taken millions in bribes, no argument on that statement, and has committed treason while in office.

Now you asked what have the Republicans been doing. Better to ask what have the Democrats been doing for the last 3 and a half years? Nothing but wetting their pants and crying over losing the election. We realize that Hillary blew it and all those dangerous people she took money from would have fed her to the fishes except she promised to over throw the U. S. Government. Another promise she has failed to keep. Hope she never gets around any useless antique guns.

Not one of the 20 clones the left have put up (don't worry George Soros will decide who will run so the people don't have to choose) all jump all over each other to say what a terrible country this is. So why don't they leave? Now they are upset because Mr. Trump asked them that question. Remember how many leftist said they would leave if Trump was elected. Not one left. Another leftist lie. They know Socialism, communism and fascism does not work. Look at the mess Obama, Sanders and Chavez made of Venezuela. Now it is an Imperial colony of Russia and China. And all of Chavez's bunch (much like what will happen to Hillary's and Sorros' bunch) have been run out of power, jailed or killed and now are puppets of China, Cuba and Russia.

While the Republicans have been doing the job the people have voted them to do the Democrats (there are no real Democrats anymore) have nothing to show for the last 3 and hlf years or for the 16 years that Obama and Clinton were in office. They will be lost to history as the worst presidents this country ever had.
 
They tweedled their thumbs but when they get bored they suck on one thumb while shoving the other thumb up their ass.
 
Let's take one "lawyer". Waters of CA. Have you seen what the people in her district have for many many years been forced to use for water? They can't drink it, wash in it or cook in it. Of course she does not live in her District, but in a "white" community with big gates and guards to keep "those people" out.


Maxine Waters is not a lawyer, and her house was in her district when she bought it. Redistricting placed her house a few blocks out of her district, that is all.

I didn't even bother reading the rest of your post, but I doubt it's any more reliable than that paragraph.
 
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is out, and Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Heath
has been chosen by Donald Duncecap to take his place.

Dan Coats refused to become a sycophant.
John Ratcliffe is salivating at the prospect.

What Republicans serving Donald Duncecap seem to do, is lie.

Rep. John Ratcliffe constantly auditioned for Donald Duncecap,
and performed the required FOX TV appearance.

(There must be some surgical procedeure that renders Trump loyalists
without a conscience.)

Texas Republican John Ratcliffe established this line of argument
early in Wednesday’s hearing. In short, the congressman argued
that Mueller should not have penned a report that details the
various ways Trump may have obstructed justice — and asserts
that his office could not exonerate Trump of that crime —
as doing so violated the principle of presumed innocence:
It is not a prosecutor’s job to opine on a defendant’s innocence,
only to establish whether sufficient evidence exists to bring
criminal charges.

The special counsel’s job didn’t say you were to determine
Trump’s innocence or to exonerate him. It’s not in documents,
it’s not in the Office of Legal Counsel opinion, any justice manual…
Respectfully it was not the special counsel’s job to conclusively
determine Trump’s innocence…because the bedrock principle
of our justice system is a presumption of innocence—
everyone is entitled to it, including a sitting president,
and because of a presumption of innocence, a prosecutor
never, ever needs to determine it. … You wrote 180 pages
about decisions that weren’t reached, about potential crimes
that weren’t charged or decided.

The main problem with Ratcliffe’s complaint is that Mueller’s
decision to detail the evidence for charges he did not ultimately
bring — and to clarify that his office could not say that this
evidence was insufficient to support an indictment —
was compliant with the regulations governing his inquiry,
according to those who drafted those regulations.
Separately, since the Office of Legal Counsel has established
that a sitting president cannot be indicted for a crime under any
circumstances, to forbid Mueller from discussing evidence of
presidential wrongdoing that didn’t result in an indictment
would be to forbid him from discussing presidential wrong-
doing period, which would render all federal investigations
of the president pointless. Finally, as Mueller later confirmed,
it remains possible that his findings could form the basis of
an indictment against Trump after the president exits office.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019...ony-5-gop-lies-steele-gohmert-fact-check.html
 
dan_c00000 writes: "I'm shocked it took bot's/dawn's/dump's alt as long as it did to get to the Antisemitism."

You're funny, Dan - you pretend to bristle at anti-Semitism, while claiming to stand with Israel - but then you REFUSE to support our U.S. embassy being moved to Jerusalem, or President Trump recognizing the Golan Heights as belonging to Israel! Who is REALLY expressing anti-Semitic sentiments here?

http://schechternetwork.org/mitzmacher/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/israel-flag-5.jpg - (The Israeli flag is NOT popular with the far left today!)

http://www.israeli-t.com/47032-large_default/support-israel-shirt.jpg - ("I Support Israel" - today's progressives call this racist!)

http://lgbtminyan.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/display_image-aspx.jpeg - (Americans stand up for Israel's right to exist!)

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ad/d0/6b/add06b3be39174070a98a4ec1954e0b1.jpg - (Christianity is openly practiced in Israel!)

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.co...1f2c7f98c8d17f8--holy-land-amazing-people.jpg - (Women enjoy equal rights in Israel!)
 
You're funny, Dan - you pretend to bristle at anti-Semitism, while claiming to stand with Israel - but then you REFUSE to support our U.S. embassy being moved to Jerusalem

Only 16% of Jewish Americans supported that move, Dump. Opposing it can mean many things, but it certainly doesn't prove anyone is anti-Semitic.
 
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