Choosing To Be In Service of Evil

[bodysong]

"...George Papadopoulos was drunk in a bar and was talking about Russian emails.”

(Was that a sane decision, that GP made ?)

( Next up, Democrats attempt to present a semblance of sanity)


Alksne addressed the common GOP accusation that the FBI lied or misrepresented the evidence to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

“Just so people understand, to get a FISA warrant is a lot of work,” said Alksne. “There is a lot of oversight in the FBI. Then it goes to the DOJ. This warrant then goes to the FISA judges. If you think of federal judges, they’re all really smart. The smartest ones, the most wonky, the most detailed, those are the ones who become the FISA judges. The Carter warrant, FISA warrant, was not only given once, but three times it was renewed.”

“This was not spying, this was not irresponsible by law enforcement of the United States, and for the attorney general to say so is a stain on his reputation,” Alksne added. “I frankly don’t even recognize the guy anymore. I am outraged he would do that to the law enforcement and to the criminal justice system in the United States of America.”

Matthew Chapman

https://www.salon.com/2019/04/11/fo...-dont-even-recognize-the-guy-anymore_partner/

Evil is given a space and an opportunity

Meridith McGraw Verified Account
@meridithmcgraw

President Trump on AG Barr's 'spying' comments yesterday, per pool: "What he said yesterday was absolutely true...there was spying."

9:41 AM - 11 Apr 2019

AG Barr walks back claim that law enforcement spied on Trump campaign

(But, the incident still gave tRump the sound bite that he needed.)

(No evidence, no proof, no research, no corroboration, no one to testify. Just hot air.)


Barr replied, “I think spying did occur. Yes, I think spying did occur.” Shaheen was taken aback and began to follow up, at which point Barr seemed to realize that he'd let the cat out of the bag and added, "The question is whether it was predicated, adequately predicated and I’m not suggesting it wasn’t.”

Of course, he was suggesting exactly that.

Heather Digby Parton

https://www.salon.com/2019/04/11/bi...he-attorney-general-is-a-trump-true-believer/

The Department of Justice has, for decades, been separate and apart from the White House in order to maintain its integrity and duty to the rule of law.

But now, Trump has a useful tool as Attorney General who takes his orders from on high instead of doing his sworn duty.

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/04/ag-barr-admits-trump-was-key-decision-not

There is the question, that as posed this week. Do you serve the Unite States of America, or do you serve tRump ?

 

[LincolnDuncan]

I think that it's safe to say that Barr took Trump's loyalty oath

 

[KeithD]

I think that it's safe to say that Barr took Trump's loyalty oath

To be clear, he tracked down a copy, signed it, and sent it in to the White House voluntarily with a "let's make a deal" sticky note attached.

 

[KeithD]

What I can't fathom is how in the hell, with an eye to everyone else who has tried to work for Trump, Barr is doing this now. I worked with him in the early 70s--even had the same academic background (down to a mutual office-sponsored graduate school at the same time) with him, and he really didn't come across as dumb enough and with a lack of a sense of self-preservation to be doing this job for Trump.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

What I can't fathom is how in the hell, with an eye to everyone else who has tried to work for Trump, Barr is doing this now. I worked with him in the early 70s--even had the same academic background (down to a mutual office-sponsored graduate school at the same time) with him, and he really don't come across as dumb enough and with a lack of a sense of self-preservation to be doing this job for Trump.

It was just pointed out by one of the talking heads that he already has former AG on his resume. He has one hell of a disguise.

Today's stunt left no question that he's just another political ho.

 

[bodysong]

‘Are you serious?’: John Kerry responds in disbelief to questions about his college major, climate change



“Isn’t it true you have a science degree from Yale?” asked Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, who studied engineering at MIT and doubts the science of human-caused climate change.


In a Washington Post opinion piece in February, Kerry called Trump’s climate change panel a “council of doubters and deniers” and a “kangaroo court.”

“It sounds like you’re questioning the credentials of the president’s advisers,” Massie said Tuesday.

So, the 48-year-old congressman instead turned the subject to Kerry’s credentials. The 75-year-old former Democratic presidential candidate corrected Massie’s question about his “science degree,” noting that he actually received a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Yale.

“How do you get a bachelor of arts in a science?” Massie asked.

“Well, it’s liberal arts education,” Kerry replied, before Massie interjected to say, “OK, so it’s not really science.”

“I think it’s somewhat appropriate that someone with a pseudoscience degree is here pushing pseudoscience in front of our committee today,” he said.


Kerry was incredulous.

“Are you serious?” he asked. “I mean, this is really a serious happening here?”

Kerry noted that he wasn’t calling Trump’s cabinet a kangaroo court. He was calling the president’s climate change committee a “kangaroo committee.”

“It’s not science,” Kerry told Massie. “You’re not quoting science.”

“Well, you’re the science expert.” Massie responded, sarcastically. “You’ve got the political science degree.”

https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2019/04/10/john-kerry-thomas-massie-climate-change


“OK,” said Massie — apparently thinking he had the former secretary cornered. “So it’s not really science. So I think it’s somewhat appropriate that someone with a pseudo-science degree is here pushing pseudo-science in front of our committee today.”



Massie, a Kentuckian who holds a robotics degree from MIT, which you wouldn’t guess from watching the exchange, was roundly mocked online all day. (Rolling Stone’s representative headline: “Is This the Dumbest Moment in Congressional History”?)

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/congressman-claims-kerry-gotcha-moment-wasnt-that-dumb.html

When I asked Kerry if he had a science degree, he answered “no” but forgot to turn his microphone on. The left has been using his flub to conceal what this exchange proved which is Kerry admitted he doesn’t have a science degree, even though his degree says “science”

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 11, 2019

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/congressman-claims-kerry-gotcha-moment-wasnt-that-dumb.html

Thank you, Seth Meyers, for tonight's lovely, accurate boot heel push.

Meyers explained the importance of having “aggressive oversight” after Attorney General Bill Barr suggested that Trump’s campaign was spied on during his Congressional hearing.

“This is why we need aggressive oversight on Trump’s administration. Whether it’s on the Mueller report or his tax returns. Yet, Republicans are doing the opposite they are protecting him.”

Meyers then played a clip a Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) calling Richard Neal, Chairman of the House Ways Committee “dumb” for requesting Trump’s tax returns.

“It doesn’t suck to be that dumb, it sucks for your boss to be that dumb. That’s the guy you answer to. Think about where your life is at. You are a United States senator and you take marching orders from a guy who once got on Air Force 1 with toilet paper on his shoes,” Meyers said.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/wa...republicans-dumbest-attempts-to-defend-trump/

 

[bodysong]

After months of waiting, Rod Rosenstein is finally retiring
from the Trump administration.


The deputy attorney general reportedly wished to resign
as soon as the Senate confirmed William Barr as the new
head of the Justice Department. But Barr asked Rosenstein
to stay on while Robert Mueller’s investigation wound up,
and Rosenstein obliged.


http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/rod-rosenstein-resignation-letter-thanks-trump-text.html


Sadie Gurman Verified Account
@sgurman

Read Rod’s complete resignation letter.

pic

2:28 PM - 29 Apr 2019

 

[KeithD]

Resigning or retiring? They aren't the same thing. They can't be used interchangeably.

 

[bodysong]

Shame!
Shame!
Shame!

"...informed legal observers had their suspicions about him from the start. How did he get roped into writing a memo that served as the phony excuse for firing then-FBI Director James B. Comey? Why didn’t he recuse himself once it became apparent he was witness to a key event in a possible obstruction-of-justice case?"

"Rosenstein talks a lot about the rule of law in very eloquent ways,” former prosecutor Mimi Rocah tells me."But his recent actions — signing on to Barr’s letter which misrepresented the Mueller report and gave a legally indefensible and unnecessary conclusion, standing behind Barr at a press conference that was more like a defense closing argument — directly threaten the rule of law, because he no longer looks like someone leading the DOJ in neutral ways.” She adds that “we can’t have faith in decisions he’s made. For him to cite Trump as a defender of the rule [of law] given the damage he has done to the DOJ and FBI as institutions is shameful.”

"Constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe describes Rosenstein’s tenure: “Self-serving. Self-protective. Filled with ethical compromise. Not exactly disgraceful. But not graceful either. Anything but heroic.”

"History is not likely to treat Rosenstein well. He was weak when strength was required, cowardly when courage was called for. He’s no Mueller."

"Rod Rosenstein is leaving as a diminished man and shamed lawyer"

By Jennifer Rubin

Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic

April 30 at 10:30 AM


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...hed-man-shamed-laywer/?utm_term=.57a9c5420124

 

[bodysong]

2.03pm EDT 14:03

Sen. Mazie Hirono tells Attorney General William Barr he has chosen to act as the president’s lawyer.

“You used every advantage of your office to create the impression that the president was cleared of misconduct,” she said.

“You lied to Congress,” she said of Barr’s testimony that he did not know what objections Mueller’s team had to his summary. “You knew. You lied. And now we know.”

Manu Raju (@mkraju)

Mazie Hirono opens her question saying Barr is like Rudy and Kellyanne who “sacrificed their reputations” for the “liar” in the Oval Office
May 1, 2019

She tells him he should resign.

2.09pm EDT 14:09

Asked repeatedly by Sen. Mazie Hirono whether he thinks various actions by Donald Trump are “OK” - as opposed to just non-criminal - William Barr does not give a direct answer.

“I’m willing to talk about what’s criminal,” he said, after she asked whether it was OK for the president to tell the White House counsel to lie.

Hirono’s questioning came after she delivered a lengthy attack on Barr in her opening. Chairman Lindsey Graham cut in and told her, “You slandered this man,” and cut off the line of questioning.

Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche)

Senator Hirono: Do you think it is OK for the president to ask his WH counsel to lie?
AG Barr: I am willing to discuss what is criminal... "Which event are you talking about?"

Hirono: "Give us some credit for knowing what the hell is going on around here."
May 1, 2019

Manu Raju (@mkraju)

“You slandered this mom from top to bottom,” (Lindsey) Graham says to Hirono, turning the questioning to Blackburn
May 1, 2019

Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip)

And he repeatedly asked what event she was talking about, even though she was referring to something clearly described in the Mueller report.

May 1, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-mueller-report-donald-trump-live-latest-news

 

[bodysong]

Senator Mazie Hirono (D- HI) tore into Attorney General Bill Barr when she got to question him this afternoon.

“Now the American people know,” she said, “that you are no different from Rudy Giuliani or Kellyanne Conway or any of the other people who sacrificed their once-decent reputation for the grifter and liar who sits in the Oval Office.”

Hirono accused Barr of acting as the president’s lawyer and siding with him over the American people, bringing up his “unsolicited memo” before getting the job regarding the Mueller investigation.

At one point she brought up his exchange at a prior House hearing––that was brought up earlier today as well––and told him, “You lied to Congress!”

“You did exactly what I thought you’d do,” she said at another point, “that’s why I voted against your confirmation. I expected you would try to protect the president. And indeed, you did.”

Before getting to her questions, Hirono concluded by saying, “Being attorney general of the United States is a sacred trust. You have betrayed that trust. America deserves better. You should resign.”

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/sen-hir...d-your-reputation-for-grifter-and-liar-trump/

 

[Dumpington]

"To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil." - Charles Krauthammer (2002)

Liberals can be nice people, but they believe that most everybody else is nice too (except for conservatives!) Sure, there are multiple felons out there, along with your occasional mass-murderer, but they’re undoubtedly depraved because they’re deprived. If only we could get social conditions right - eliminate poverty, teach anger management, end climate-change, arrest Donald Trump - everyone would be holding hands smiley-faced, rocking back and forth singing “We Are the World.”

Liberals suffer incurably from naivete, the stupidity of "the good heart." Who else but that oracle of American liberalism - The New York Times - could run the puzzling headline: “Crime Keeps On Falling, but Prisons Keep On Filling.” Umm, how's THIS for a wild theory: If you lock up the criminals, crime declines.

Accordingly, conservatives look at liberals with feelings of of compassionate condescension - while Liberals are not quite as reciprocally charitable. They think that conservatives are EVIL. How can conservatives believe in things like self-reliance, self-discipline, competition, military power - without being soulless bullies? I mean, how is abolishing welfare anything but punishing the poor? The argument that increasing self-reliance and thus ultimately reducing poverty is dismissed as cruelty incarnate - or as one big-city Democrat once described it: “a cold-blooded grab for another pound of flesh from the demonized welfare mothers.”

This article of liberal faith - that conservatism is simply EVIL - produces one paradox after another. Joe Biden admits that while Trump has created millions of new jobs, managers don't respect workers as they did during the Obama years! And he adds that people today are having to work a whole lot harder than they did during the golden age of our nation's first black "food stamps president" - which also goes a long ways towards explaining why the modern Democratic Party has forever lost the American heartland, and isn't likely to win it back anytime soon.

 

[KeithD]

Go, Mazie Harono, rub the obstruction and corruption in the bastards' faces in public for all of us to see! Force the Republicans in Congress to either stop this attempted coup by Trump or show on record as traitors with him.

 

[bodysong]

Attorney General William Barr appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee as promised on Wednesday and humorously said that President Donald Trump gave then-White House counsel Don McGahn an “obstruction.”

The slip-up occurred during a response to Committee Ranking Member Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), as you can see in the brief clip above.

“If you look back and you look at the episode where — the president gave McGahn an obstruction, uh, an instruction — McGahn’s version of that is quite clear in each time he gave it,” Barr stumbled. “Which is that the instruction said go to Rosenstein, raise the issue of conflict of interest, and Mueller has to go because of this conflict of interest.”

https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/fre...ips-up-says-trump-gave-mcgahn-an-obstruction/

The House Judiciary Committee has now received word that Trump Attorney General Bill Barr is refusing to appear at tomorrow's planned hearing before the committee. This will now likely kick off committee deliberations over whether to hold Barr in contempt.


At issue is a Barr objection to an extended format that would allow committee lawyers to ask questions, rather than fielding questions only from House members themselves. Designated questioners are sometimes used in House and Senate hearings when the subject matter is complex or to better focus questioning in matters of great importance: It was the approach taken by Senate Republicans in the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Barr's team, however, has insisted that such questioning would be somehow improper.

https://www.dailykos.com/user/Hunter/rss.xml

 

[bodysong]

May 1, 2019

Deadline expires for DOJ to give Congress full Mueller report


A congressional subpoena deadline for the U.S. Justice Department to provide lawmakers with an unredacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation report expired at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) on Wednesday.


It was not immediately clear whether the Justice Department complied with the subpoena, which was issued on April 19 by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler and sought underlying evidence from the Mueller probe as well as the full report.

nytimes

reuters

That is a two fisted "fuck you" to Congress, from the fingers of AG Barr.


He refuses to answer to the inquiry committee.

He has control of the Mueller report, and will not release it, in an unredacted form.

“It's basically a middle finger to Congress and its powers,..."

 

[bodysong]

FOX TV is at it, again.

If FOX TV cannot find true-to life, truthful evidence, proof, and helpful reality-based artifacts, they find items, that have reality crushed out of them. Or, crush the reality out of them in their on propaganda shop. Then they present the mutilated objects, emptied of truth, as their defense. This serves their great friend and employer, tRumpypants, well. When tRumpypants to present a lie to the public, FOX TV is there to back him up, with something that he can point to.

This is a good time to ask here FOX TV got their polluted mess from, this time. (It is never FOX TV's responsibily, and it is never tRumpypant's fault. The blame is placed at the door of naughty Extremist Right wingers, and their internet posts.)


(Joe) Scarborough said the secretary of state lied on Fox News, which deceptively edited hypothetical comments made by Hillary Clinton about China hacking Trump’s tax records.


“Oh my god, first of all, of course, they chopped up Hillary Clinton’s interview and made it seem like that’s what she was proposing when all she was doing was saying this is what Donald Trump did,” Scarborough said. “What would Republicans think if we did this. But then Pompeo lies to the American people clearly, knowing that he’s lying, everybody knowing.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/ms...n-lies-this-is-how-totalitarian-leaders-work/


The slams came as Morning Joe discussed the “willful ignorance” Pompeo displayed when he spoke to Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Thursday night. During that interview, the secretary of state was asked about how Hillary Clinton recently wondered whether the GOP would be okay with foreign interference in American politics if China suddenly decided to hack Trump to find his tax returns.

Clinton modeled her hypothetical off of Trump’s infamous press conference where he called on Russia to take action on her email server scandal. As for Pompeo, he reacted to Clinton’s words by saying “they don’t remotely sound like what ought to be done by America and they’re certainly not what President Trump and this administration is going to do.”

Scarborough wasn’t impressed, saying “you’re just lying. You’re lying because you think, what? Only Trump viewers are going to see that? How stupid do you think they are? Why do you insult their intelligence, Mr. Secretary?”

The conversation continued with Scarborough asking what is the country to do since Trump, Pompeo and so many other top officials lie all the time, “and they know that the American people know that they’re lying?” The panel also slammed Fox News for allowing Ingraham to edit Clinton’s remarks in order to make it seem like she was seriously calling for China to launch cyberattacks on America.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/scarbor...protect-trump-american-people-know-hes-lying/

 

[bodysong]

moral dead zone


Senator Mazie Hirono Verified Account
@maziehirono

Lindsey Graham and Senate Republicans are wrong. It’s not over. Congress and the American people still need to learn the full truth straight from Mueller. There’s a moral dead zone around the White House, Congress must conduct oversight over @realDonaldTrump.

5:25 PM - 3 May 2019

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/pr...lly-joins-board-of-child-shelter-corporation/


Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly facilitates the policy at the border, that will bring profits to himself.


Trump shouts about terrorists and violent criminals at the border.


This resulted in thousands of children living in prison camps for children.


Prisons that were owned by private corporations noted that childen were the most profitable.


John Kelly made it possible to steal children.



Before John Kelly joinded Trump's White House, Kelly had been a member of the board of directors of DC Capital Partners. DC Capital is an private equity firm which now owns Caliburn International.

Caliburn is the parent company of Comprehensive Health Services, the company which operates a huge detention site in Homestead, Florida. Comprehensive Health Services also operates three shelters for (allegedly) unaccompanied migrant children in Texas.

Its largest shelter, located in Homestead, Florida, is the only shelter not subject to routine inspections by state child-welfare experts.

Deniz Verified Account
@DenizCam

John Kelly joins the board of gov't contractor Caliburn International, @CBSNews says. Caliburn owns the nation's only for-profit operator of youth migrant shelters. Read my April story @Forbes, breaking down the business and the man behind it all

1:36 PM - 3 May 2019

The new conglomerate formed last year by DC Capital Partners consolidated four companies. One of them is the facility contractor, called Comprehensive Health Services.

Among its executives, Caliburn also has a high-ranking military officer who advised President Donald Trump his first months in office, and a former Department of Defense inspector general.

"It appears to be a strategy of trying to leverage Washington insiders to help the company win contracts," said Mandy Smithberger, a director at the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan, nonprofit government watchdog group.

The government recently gave the company new contracts to run other facilities in Texas and awarded it $340 million to expand its Florida operation in a no-bid phase.

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-116502430/

During Kelly's tenure, the administration pursued ambitious changes to immigration enforcement, and the average length of stay for an unaccompanied migrant child in U.S. custody skyrocketed.


In the past year, Comprehensive Health Services, the only private company operating shelters, became one of the most dominant players in the industry. Last August, it secured three licenses for facilities in Texas, totaling 500 beds, and in December, the Homestead facility began expanding from a capacity of 1,250 beds to 3,200.



Richard Briffault, a Columbia Law School professor, told CBS the move is likely legal, but it sure stinks to high heaven.


https://www.dailykos.com/user/Jen**0Hayden/rss.xml

$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $

Everyone connected with supporting Trump's White House, shoved their hands into the money trough.

 

[Rightguide]

May 1, 2019

Deadline expires for DOJ to give Congress full Mueller report


A congressional subpoena deadline for the U.S. Justice Department to provide lawmakers with an unredacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation report expired at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) on Wednesday.

Try reading the law governing the Special Counsel. The AG is under no legal obligation to turn the full Mueller report over to Congress or anyone else. The present law was written by Democrats.

 

[bodysong]

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) on NBC’s Meet the Press.

Disgracing himself on FOX TV was not sufficiently degrading.


Deny, Deflect, Divert and Distract, and Disgrace yourself in Public



FFS the Pretend Game is for children, not for men involved in politics.

 

[bodysong]

Sensitivity to cognitive dissonance has been abused and overloaded,
to the point that the sensitivity to cognitive dissonance has been numbed,
and cognitive dissonance has been accepted as a constant background noise.

Our touchstones to reality are embodied by our newspapers and television media.
They came to a bridge and they did not cross it.
The conventional methods to deal with lies were inadequate to the challenge.

The press was faced with giving the public an answer to question of, "is it a lie, or is it not a lie ?"

In practice, they allow liars to speak, and the lies are rarely challenged on the spot.


Every fucking day, there is some new abnormality presented as something to be accepted.

No, this is not normal, acceptable, and is not to be tolerated in America!

 

[bodysong]

President Trump appeared to contradict his national security adviser on foreign soil in an early morning tweet Sunday

The small weapons Trump referred to were short-range ballistic missiles, one of which flew nearly 300 miles before landing in the sea. That is a direct threat to U.S. ally South Korea, while medium-range missiles would also put Japan in range. Japan also described North Korea’s last test as short-range ballistic missiles, in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions, but noted that they did not land with Japanese waters or directly threaten its security.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...233fe5811ef_story.html?utm_term=.64fc7a64c33b


Vipin Narang
@NarangVipin

There is a lot that is really disturbing here,
but the most important bit is “Chairman Kim
will keep his promise to me.”

Kim never promised to unilaterally disarm,
and the problem is Trump continues to believe he did.
THAT is why this is so dangerous.

4:55 PM - 25 May 2019

Andrea Mitchell Verified Account
@mitchellreports

In a single tweet, he undercuts John Bolton,
downplays North Korean missile test,
disagrees with his Japanese hosts’ concerns about the missiles,
misspells Biden’s name and cites Dictator Kim’s pandering
comments to attack the former VP while on foreign soil.

Jet-lag?

Vipin Narang
@NarangVipin

Just going to reup this today.

(link to conversation with @JBWolfsthal @AbeDenmark)
6:51 AM - 26 May 2019

3:55 PM - 25 May 2019

Vipin Narang
@NarangVipin Replying to @JBWolfsthal @AbeDenmark

That presumes Trump's goal is NK disarmament. It isn't.
The goal is the washing machine of summits themselves.
Kim will pretend to disarm, Trump will pretend to believe him.
Rinse and repeat. Even Bolton won't stop him...

1:01 PM - 18 Jan 2019

 

[bodysong]

LOLGOP
@LOLGOP

Kim Jong Un, Trump's hero, reportedly has more
than 50,000 Christians in concentration camps,
which is something to keep in mind the next time
a Republican gets upset by you saying "Happy Holidays."

9:59 AM - 26 May 2019

According to Open Doors, there are an estimated 300,000 Christians
in North Korea’s population of 25.4 million, and 50,000-75,000
Christians in the its labour camps.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/18/pope-francis-open-to-north-korea-visit-kim-jong-un

 

[KeithD]

Trump's not a Christian (he's bamboozled Fundie Evangelists with a shell game), so he doesn't care how many Christians Kim has locked up. It's nothing to him personally, and nothing exists for Trump that isn't serving Trump personally--including all of the brainless Trumpettes on this board that he's flim-flammed.

 

[Dumpington]

bodysong writes: "Kim Jong Un, Trump's hero..."

And WHO is it who told you that Kim Jong-un is President Trump's hero? I'm guessing that you heard that reported on CNN?

"... reportedly has more than 50,000 Christians in concentration camps, which is something to keep in mind the next time a Republican gets upset by you saying "Happy Holidays.""

Okay, if we're going to play THAT game... ever hear of a Soviet dictator named Joseph Stalin? He actually murdered even MORE innocent people than did Adolf Hitler! And do you know who considered Stalin his hero, sending his dictatorial regime millions of dollars' worth of raw materials, food, & weaponry? That would be Democratic Party president Franklin D. Roosevelt, who gave us the New Deal and Social Security!

Kim Jong-un's body-count doesn't even BEGIN to approach Stalin's - but, hey, YOU'RE the one who's claiming that FDR was all chummy with one of our planet's biggest mass-murderers, NOT ME!

KeithD adds: "Trump's not a Christian (he's bamboozled Fundie Evangelists with a shell game), so he doesn't care how many Christians Kim has locked up."

If Trump wasn't a Christian, Keith, he'd probably support New York state's late-term abortion law, allowing legalized infanticide - except that he doesn't support it! No, I'm guessing that Christian evangelicals probably like Trump for naming people to our nation's highest court like Neil Gorsuch & Brett Kavanaugh, and his negotiations with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un don't even enter into the conversation!

"It's nothing to him personally, and nothing exists for Trump that isn't serving Trump personally--including all of the brainless Trumpettes on this board that he's flim-flammed."

Yeah, the "brainless Trumpettes" who voted to elect Donald Trump as our nation's president in 2016 will almost certainly be joined by an additional TEN-million or so new Trump-supporters in 2020 - as the pro-socialist, pro-abortion, pro-atheist, pro-transgendered, pro-illegals, pro-Islamic Democratic Party is melting down remarkably faster than I ever expected possible!

 

[JackLuis]

Thanks for being a Prime Example for our game here Dumpington.