I like AOC. When she gets rid of that valley girl "duh" thing she has, she might get taken seriously. I even like the Green thing she has co started, implementation aside.
"We need to invent technology that's never even been invented yet."
So it seems even more clear that there is a cover-up going on. A year ago Barr wrote the letter that Presidents can't obstruct justice. Trump fired Sessions and installed Barr and put him in charge of the Mueller investigation.
Barr had the investigation wrap up before it could investigate everything. There is still the foreign company with the case at the Supreme Court. Trump is individual 1 and an unindicted co-conspirator in the felonies that put Cohen in prison. There are sealed indictments why not unseal them.
Why haven't Kushner and Don Jr been arrested for lying to Congress? Why was Trump treated with kid gloves and allowed to let his lawyers write answers, why wasn't the habitual liar made to testify? Why end the probe before Roger Stone's trial? It makes no sense unless there's a cover-up going on.
Barr's interpretation is the interpretation of one man that Trump found and installed as the AG who worked backwards from the conclusion that Republican Presidents are above the law. Anyone else any prosecutor who wasn't a Republican flunky would do his job but Trump didnt pick Barr because he would do his job, he picked a guy who would cover for him.
There isn't a single person here who has seen a single word of Mueller's report. There isn't a single person ANYWHERE outside of the DOJ who has. I venture to guess Bill Barr himself hasn't read the whole thing. He got it on Friday afternoon, and nearly immediately said he would have his answer for Congress that weekend. How fast does this guy read?? That memo was a press release, the political equivalent of a doctor's note. Again, less than a week ago, Trump himself said "Let it come out, let people see it." Fine. Now let's count the days it is being hidden from not only the American public, but Congress. The claim is that the Mueller report is total vindication for Trump. Great, let's all see what that vindication looks like. It's day 3 where no one has seen hide nor hair of it. As was pointed out last night, there isn't even a single full SENTENCE of the report that Bill Barr quotes in his memo, just occasional excerpts. I'm counting the days. The longer it stays hidden from public and Congressional view, the more you can expect that it isn't what Bill Barr says it is at all. And quite frankly, I'm more than a little disappointed in how everyone here just rolled over and seemed to abandon the principle of seeing the report published in full the moment Barr released his memo.
Nobody in the media has seen it, nobody in the public has seen it. We are literally relying on nothing but the very craftily designed summation of a AG who was hand-picked because he solicited a memo calling into question the very legitimacy of the investigation itself as (essentially) a job application, and who was a central figure in pardoning the key people in Iran-Contra. You think this guy was picked by accident?? Release the report. Until we see it and digest what is in it, none of this means jack-shit.
I thought I'd be seeing it sooner, or at least part of it sooner. In retrospect, we haven't really been given any information about its contents beyond the fact that it doesn't contain new indictments. I think I'm gonna have to go back to withholding judgment.
I thought I'd be seeing it sooner, or at least part of it sooner. In retrospect, we haven't really been given any information about its contents beyond the fact that it doesn't contain new indictments. I think I'm gonna have to go back to withholding judgment.
I'm perfectly willing to accept the findings of the report. What I want to know is what the scope of the investigation was, what it revealed, what it didn't reveal, and why Barr was forced to include a line that said it didn't exonerate the President on obstruction. Asking for something this polarizing to be revealed to the public is not trafficking in conspiracies or grasping at straws. It is asking for nothing less than basic transparency. If it is that exculpatory, the White House should be BEGGING to have it released in full. It shouldn't require Congress to call Barr or Mueller to the Hill at all. And so it begins:
We only have the word of Barr who was picked because he wrote the letter. So all we have is the interpretation from the guy handpicked who wrote that Presidents were above the law. Probably no other serious prosecutor interprets law that way because it doesn't make any sense to have a lawless President (a king basically).
If people get the report and underlying evidence it's unlikely that people will draw that conclusion. So yeah I'm sure Trump and every Republican wants it to end here with only Barr's whitewash.
The Supreme Court, which Trump has also stacked to make sure he doesn't answer for crimes, on Monday said it would not review a lower-court order requiring an unnamed foreign-owned corporation to comply with a subpoena that is part of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The entity that is the subject of the cloaked legal battle — known in court papers simply as a “Corporation” from “Country A” — is a foreign financial institution that was issued a subpoena by a grand jury hearing evidence in the special counsel investigation.
It is thought to be the first time that an aspect of Mueller’s wide-ranging probe into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign has reached the Supreme Court.
So why was Mueller forced to end the investigation before Stone's trial and before the prosecution of this company with ties to foreign governments and Trump? This really is watergate 2.0. Republican loyalists covering for a criminal in their party, again.
I want to say something about obstruction of justice being a process crime. The line you are hearing is that there was no underlying crime to obstruct. First off, tell that to Martha Stewart. Secondly, the entire POINT of obstructing an investigation is to make sure no one can prove an underlying crime. That is the totality of why it is engaged in. What kind of nonsense Catch-22 argument is this??
The word “soon” and “now” are dredges on our current society.
We do not need the answers now.
Chances are Mueller had a summary of his findings first and that is what Barr presented to Congress with the promise of releasing more.
The full report was always, since 2017 suppose to be confidential. I blame the media for not mentioning that ever during their coverage that has whipped everyone into a fury about it.
As I pointed out, there are other investigations still going on from these finding and releasing them prematurely can hinder those investigations. There may also be secret Grand Jury material present in the report that Mueller will help remove.
There are still investigations going on regarding Trump that has nothing to do with Russia so this also isn’t the end all of be all.
The word “soon” and “now” are dredges on our current society.
We do not need the answers now.
Chances are Mueller had a summary of his findings first and that is what Barr presented to Congress with the promise of releasing more.
The full report was always, since 2017 suppose to be confidential. I blame the media for not mentioning that ever during their coverage that has whipped everyone into a fury about it.
As I pointed out, there are other investigations still going on from these finding and releasing them prematurely can hinder those investigations. There may also be secret Grand Jury material present in the report that Mueller will help remove.
There are still investigations going on regarding Trump that has nothing to do with Russia so this also isn’t the end all of be all.
I appreciate what you are saying here but there are multiple reasons this isn't going to cut it:
1.) William Barr's central role. I'm not coming out of nowhere in my opposition to this guy. I was vehemently opposed to his nomination for the exact same reasons I am now when it happend. This isn't the first time a major international scandal has had William Barr at the center of washing it away. Iran-Contra, unlike Watergate, was eventually all but erased from both the public consciousness and the legal ramifications to those involved. William Barr was involved in doing so. He is a black hat.
2.) The juxtaposition to the Clinton investigation. While I certainly understand the TECHNICAL difference between the Special Counsel and the expired Independent Counsel, the fact remains that not only was the Starr report released immediately, it was able to be purchased at grocery stores in the paperback and magazine section. Moreover, Clinton's testimony was broadcast on national TV. And Trump got to submit a take-home test. And now his lawyer says we can't see what his answers were. This is just another blatant example of "IOKIYAR", and if you don't know the acronym, and quick Google search will suffice. The double-standard is maddening.
3.) Trump himself has claimed, less than a week ago, that the report can be released. And maybe it will. But not anytime soon. Thus the Barr memo will stand as the dominant narrative for long enough to soak into the public psyche. And when the actual report is released, which will, at a bare minimum, have incredibly damning information about the President in regards to obstruction, it will be too late to make any difference. I would argue it's already too late. The Mueller Report and Barr's summation of it are now basically synonymous among both the media and general public. No matter what is revealed, Barr's actions have won the battle for Trump. Which is what he was brought in to do.
Again, I turn to Marcy Wheeler. She has been all over this story the entire time, and has been HIGHLY skeptical about the more sensationalist aspects. But she lays out a convincing case that Barr is just flat-out white-washing the entire thing:
It’s up to both the media and public to hold Barr accountable if he does white wash it. So far though he has done everything he said he was going to do. Release a report in his writing not Mueller’s about what was contained in the report and eventually release as much as possible at a later date once classified information is released.
I suspected someone tipped off Trump being cleared as he trolled on twitter the morning of the memo being released but that can’t be proven so...
Yes, William Barr’s appointment was completely sketch but I’d rather give someone the benefit of the doubt prior to passing judgement on something that they still haven’t done yet.
I am also under the impression that congress can still indict Trump on obstruction of justice and are just biding to see what Mueller evidence presented on that.
What Trump claims is meaningless. He was mystified by Mueller even having to write a report let alone what was contained within it. They do not want to hinder other investigations (such as the pornstar payments) by releasing anything prematurely.
Edit: if anything Barr should be working with the justice committee and explaining to them what should be removed and why and getting their approval to remove it. That will at least make the report bipartisan and allow those on the committee (both Republicans and Democrats) to figure out their best response for the obstruction claims.
The impeachment of Bill Clinton made him look bad but he got away with it.
Iran Contra, everybody involved Abrams, Weinberger, McFarlane, Fiers etc etc looked bad but they all got away with it. Oliver North now runs the NRA and Bill Barr is the AG again despite or maybe because of his involvement in that cover up.
Watergate, everybody involved looked bad but they all got away with it.
Orgreave, the police look extremely guilty but they all got away with it, no inquiry has ever been given.
MKUltra, the CIA look bad but everybody got away with it.
Trump looks guilty and acts guilty but it looks like the guy he appointed in charge of looking into his activities is going to try and let him get away with it and also cover up the evidence.
Name an American massacre or war crime, sometimes they looked bad but all in all they all got away with it.
I think I'm starting to see a pattern here. Nothing ever happens to these people. The entire system has been set up by them to protect them. It's run by people like them from colleges and universities that the rich and powerful went to. The entire thing is an old boy's club.
The impeachment of Bill Clinton made him look bad but he got away with it.
Iran Contra, everybody involved Abrams, Weinberger, McFarlane, Fiers etc etc looked bad but they all got away with it. Oliver North now runs the NRA and Bill Barr is the AG again despite or maybe because of his involvement in that cover up.
Watergate, everybody involved looked bad but they all got away with it.
Orgreave, the police look extremely guilty but they all got away with it, no inquiry has ever been given.
MKUltra, the CIA look bad but everybody got away with it.
Trump looks guilty and acts guilty but it looks like the guy he appointed in charge of looking into his activities is going to try and let him get away with it and also cover up the evidence.
Name an American massacre or war crime, sometimes they looked bad but all in all they all got away with it.
I think I'm starting to see a pattern here. Nothing ever happens to these people. The entire system has been set up by them to protect them. It's run by people like them from colleges and universities that the rich and powerful went to. The entire thing is an old boy's club.
Always has been, always will be. The only difference is which old boys run the club. You could go the Soviet route and slaughter all of the rich old boys. Of course, it only took a few years until new rich old boys took over...
The Barr DOJ has basically declared open war on the healthcare of tens of millions of people. You want to know what Democrats need to bludgeon Trump and the Republicans?? It was just handed to them on a silver platter. They won't stop until people are dying in the streets:
They tried to stop it with astro-turfed Tea Party rallies. They tried to stop it by pumping everything they had into Scott Brown's Senate race. They tried to stop it in the remaining Obama years with court challenges and poison pills meant to kill it by a thousand cuts. When they won everything in 2016, they spent the ENTIRE year trying to destroy it. They failed at all of it. So now, like a f**king vampire you can't drive a stake through, they are back to try again, this time with the Justice Department itself going to court to argue AGAINST a settled law. But the worst part is, is that they have had, do not have, and never will have ANY plan for what to do with the people who would lose insurance coverage over this. None. Their plan remains nothing but "we'll replace it with something great". No one knows what that is, because there is nothing to know. They want to do away with it and leave whoever is left behind to wither and rot.
What a hero, his man says he is clear - just take our word for it from the guy who covered up Iran Contra - and then he turns around and comes after healthcare while all the trumpists are celebrating. hahahahahaha this is so pathetic.
I like AOC. When she gets rid of that valley girl "duh" thing she has, she might get taken seriously. I even like the Green thing she has co started, implementation aside.
"We need to invent technology that's never even been invented yet."
-AOC.
Here's the full quote from AOC.
“We can put so many people to work,” Ocasio-Cortez told an audience at a televised town hall Monday night. “We need to refit so many pipes. We need to re-lay roads. We need to rebuild schools. We need to invent technology that’s never even been invented yet.”
Kind of makes more sense when put into context, doesn't it...?
I like AOC. When she gets rid of that valley girl "duh" thing she has, she might get taken seriously. I even like the Green thing she has co started, implementation aside.
"We need to invent technology that's never even been invented yet."
-AOC.
Here's the full quote from AOC.
“We can put so many people to work,” Ocasio-Cortez told an audience at a televised town hall Monday night. “We need to refit so many pipes. We need to re-lay roads. We need to rebuild schools. We need to invent technology that’s never even been invented yet.”
Kind of makes more sense when put into context, doesn't it...?
Nope. That last sentence still sounds like something Trump would say. I watched the whole town hall, she made Sanders wince with that comment.
Here's another one of her greatest hits...
" The world is gonna end in twelve years if we do not end climate change and your biggest issue is how we're gonna pay for it and like this is the war, this is our WW2." (in valley girl voice) I watched this interview as well.
She sounds like a prophet, maybe she's channelling Al Gore.
I like her, raw and full of spunk but she has to clean it up to be taken seriously. She sounds as dumb as Trump but he got by on star status, she can't.
With the Mueller investigation over, Trump is supporting a crackdown on his political enemies, just as some other folks on the right have suggested.
"There are a lot of people out there that have done some very, very evil things, very bad things, I would say some treasonous things against our country,” Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House. “I’ve been looking at them for a long time,” he added, “and I’m saying why haven’t they been looked at? They lied to Congress, many of them, you know who they are. They’ve done so many evil things."
I don't know if this will go anywhere, but it's ominous that the administration still wants to lock up its critics, and views investigations as weapons.
Again, to my knowledge, this has never happened before in American history. We've never had a president openly threatening his opponents. And apparently Lindsay Graham and other GOP figures have also publicly toyed with the prospect of exacting revenge on Democrats.
"We have to see the report," Pelosi said according to an aide in the room of a Democratic party meeting. "We cannot make a judgment on the basis of an interpretation by a man who was hired for his job because he believes the President is above the law and he wrote a 19-page memo to demonstrate that."
Why'd we have a revolution from England just to make our government have a king of its own who is above the law? Barr is wrong and can't be trusted because of this fact and also since he was a key figure in the Iran Contra cover-up. Shame on the GOP for putting this guy who doesn't believe in Justice as the AG. Shame on the media for just accepting his word.
@TakisMegas: Can you elaborate on this "valley girl" thing? That's a trope from the eighties, and AOC is from New York and doesn't have a San Fernando Valley accent. So I'm not really sure what you mean, beyond her being a youngish woman.
This isn't something to celebrate. There is absolutely no doubt based on the evidence that this was a hoax and most of the cities leadership seems to be furious about the decision. The Fraternal Order of Police want a federal investigation into this ruling and the Chicago mayor came out and condemned the ruling as an obvious case of wealth and status overriding basic justice.
This is really not okay. It's not like this is a crime without a victim. If he hadn't been caught, a couple of innocent people would have been in danger of being falsely convicted for a hate crime.
It's like instead of there being no evidence of collusion, the Mueller investigation found absolutely damning evidence nobody would dispute and in the end they just say "whatever, forget about the whole thing" after filing charges. Not okay.
I think we can all agree if you commit a crime you should be punished for it in the same way as everyone else, not excused from it because of your wealth/status and/or you have the right politics or some combination of such.
This isn't something to celebrate. There is absolutely no doubt based on the evidence that this was a hoax and most of the cities leadership seems to be furious about the decision. The Fraternal Order of Police want a federal investigation into this ruling and the Chicago mayor came out and condemned the ruling as an obvious case of wealth and status overriding basic justice.
This is really not okay. It's not like this is a crime without a victim. If he hadn't been caught, a couple of innocent people would have been in danger of being falsely convicted for a hate crime.
It's like instead of there being no evidence of collusion, the Mueller investigation found absolutely damning evidence nobody would dispute and in the end they just say "whatever, forget about the whole thing" after filing charges. Not okay.
I think we can all agree if you commit a crime you should be punished for it in the same way as everyone else, not excused from it because of your wealth/status and/or you have the right politics or some combination of such.
Tin foil hats time.... Jussie's fake lynching was made to coincide with Kamala Harris and Cory Bookers Anti-Lynching Bill, to give it extra umph. They got him off, favour for a favour.
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"We need to invent technology that's never even been invented yet."
-AOC.
Barr had the investigation wrap up before it could investigate everything. There is still the foreign company with the case at the Supreme Court. Trump is individual 1 and an unindicted co-conspirator in the felonies that put Cohen in prison. There are sealed indictments why not unseal them.
Why haven't Kushner and Don Jr been arrested for lying to Congress? Why was Trump treated with kid gloves and allowed to let his lawyers write answers, why wasn't the habitual liar made to testify? Why end the probe before Roger Stone's trial? It makes no sense unless there's a cover-up going on.
Barr's interpretation is the interpretation of one man that Trump found and installed as the AG who worked backwards from the conclusion that Republican Presidents are above the law. Anyone else any prosecutor who wasn't a Republican flunky would do his job but Trump didnt pick Barr because he would do his job, he picked a guy who would cover for him.
Nobody in the media has seen it, nobody in the public has seen it. We are literally relying on nothing but the very craftily designed summation of a AG who was hand-picked because he solicited a memo calling into question the very legitimacy of the investigation itself as (essentially) a job application, and who was a central figure in pardoning the key people in Iran-Contra. You think this guy was picked by accident?? Release the report. Until we see it and digest what is in it, none of this means jack-shit.
I'm perfectly willing to accept the findings of the report. What I want to know is what the scope of the investigation was, what it revealed, what it didn't reveal, and why Barr was forced to include a line that said it didn't exonerate the President on obstruction. Asking for something this polarizing to be revealed to the public is not trafficking in conspiracies or grasping at straws. It is asking for nothing less than basic transparency. If it is that exculpatory, the White House should be BEGGING to have it released in full. It shouldn't require Congress to call Barr or Mueller to the Hill at all. And so it begins:
If people get the report and underlying evidence it's unlikely that people will draw that conclusion. So yeah I'm sure Trump and every Republican wants it to end here with only Barr's whitewash.
The Supreme Court, which Trump has also stacked to make sure he doesn't answer for crimes, on Monday said it would not review a lower-court order requiring an unnamed foreign-owned corporation to comply with a subpoena that is part of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The entity that is the subject of the cloaked legal battle — known in court papers simply as a “Corporation” from “Country A” — is a foreign financial institution that was issued a subpoena by a grand jury hearing evidence in the special counsel investigation.
It is thought to be the first time that an aspect of Mueller’s wide-ranging probe into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign has reached the Supreme Court.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-wont-hear-appeal-from-company-resisting-mueller-subpoena/2019/03/25/2002c508-4f03-11e9-88a1-ed346f0ec94f_story.html
So why was Mueller forced to end the investigation before Stone's trial and before the prosecution of this company with ties to foreign governments and Trump? This really is watergate 2.0. Republican loyalists covering for a criminal in their party, again.
We do not need the answers now.
Chances are Mueller had a summary of his findings first and that is what Barr presented to Congress with the promise of releasing more.
The full report was always, since 2017 suppose to be confidential. I blame the media for not mentioning that ever during their coverage that has whipped everyone into a fury about it.
As I pointed out, there are other investigations still going on from these finding and releasing them prematurely can hinder those investigations. There may also be secret Grand Jury material present in the report that Mueller will help remove.
There are still investigations going on regarding Trump that has nothing to do with Russia so this also isn’t the end all of be all.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-avenatti-charged-arrested-on-federal-wire-and-bank-fraud-charges-live-updates-today-2019-03-24/
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/25/politics/michael-avenatti/index.html
This guy wants to be soooo like Trump it's scary. He was CNN's Golden Boy for a while too.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/02/21/duke-basketball-superstar-zion-williamson-injured-when-nike-shoe-blows-apart.html
I appreciate what you are saying here but there are multiple reasons this isn't going to cut it:
1.) William Barr's central role. I'm not coming out of nowhere in my opposition to this guy. I was vehemently opposed to his nomination for the exact same reasons I am now when it happend. This isn't the first time a major international scandal has had William Barr at the center of washing it away. Iran-Contra, unlike Watergate, was eventually all but erased from both the public consciousness and the legal ramifications to those involved. William Barr was involved in doing so. He is a black hat.
2.) The juxtaposition to the Clinton investigation. While I certainly understand the TECHNICAL difference between the Special Counsel and the expired Independent Counsel, the fact remains that not only was the Starr report released immediately, it was able to be purchased at grocery stores in the paperback and magazine section. Moreover, Clinton's testimony was broadcast on national TV. And Trump got to submit a take-home test. And now his lawyer says we can't see what his answers were. This is just another blatant example of "IOKIYAR", and if you don't know the acronym, and quick Google search will suffice. The double-standard is maddening.
3.) Trump himself has claimed, less than a week ago, that the report can be released. And maybe it will. But not anytime soon. Thus the Barr memo will stand as the dominant narrative for long enough to soak into the public psyche. And when the actual report is released, which will, at a bare minimum, have incredibly damning information about the President in regards to obstruction, it will be too late to make any difference. I would argue it's already too late. The Mueller Report and Barr's summation of it are now basically synonymous among both the media and general public. No matter what is revealed, Barr's actions have won the battle for Trump. Which is what he was brought in to do.
Again, I turn to Marcy Wheeler. She has been all over this story the entire time, and has been HIGHLY skeptical about the more sensationalist aspects. But she lays out a convincing case that Barr is just flat-out white-washing the entire thing:
https://newrepublic.com/article/153384/yes-trump-obstructed-justice-william-barr-helping-cover-up
I suspected someone tipped off Trump being cleared as he trolled on twitter the morning of the memo being released but that can’t be proven so...
Yes, William Barr’s appointment was completely sketch but I’d rather give someone the benefit of the doubt prior to passing judgement on something that they still haven’t done yet.
I am also under the impression that congress can still indict Trump on obstruction of justice and are just biding to see what Mueller evidence presented on that.
What Trump claims is meaningless. He was mystified by Mueller even having to write a report let alone what was contained within it. They do not want to hinder other investigations (such as the pornstar payments) by releasing anything prematurely.
Edit: if anything Barr should be working with the justice committee and explaining to them what should be removed and why and getting their approval to remove it. That will at least make the report bipartisan and allow those on the committee (both Republicans and Democrats) to figure out their best response for the obstruction claims.
So we're supposed to take Trump's handpicked lackey's word that everything is totally cool and totally legal. Screw that. It's a cover-up.
Don't look behind the curtain...
Iraq made Blair and Bush look bad but they got off with obvious war crimes.
The impeachment of Bill Clinton made him look bad but he got away with it.
Iran Contra, everybody involved Abrams, Weinberger, McFarlane, Fiers etc etc looked bad but they all got away with it. Oliver North now runs the NRA and Bill Barr is the AG again despite or maybe because of his involvement in that cover up.
Watergate, everybody involved looked bad but they all got away with it.
Orgreave, the police look extremely guilty but they all got away with it, no inquiry has ever been given.
MKUltra, the CIA look bad but everybody got away with it.
The Tuskegee syphilis experiment, everybody looked bad but they all got away with it.
Trump looks guilty and acts guilty but it looks like the guy he appointed in charge of looking into his activities is going to try and let him get away with it and also cover up the evidence.
Name an American massacre or war crime, sometimes they looked bad but all in all they all got away with it.
I think I'm starting to see a pattern here. Nothing ever happens to these people. The entire system has been set up by them to protect them. It's run by people like them from colleges and universities that the rich and powerful went to. The entire thing is an old boy's club.
Always has been, always will be. The only difference is which old boys run the club. You could go the Soviet route and slaughter all of the rich old boys. Of course, it only took a few years until new rich old boys took over...
They tried to stop it with astro-turfed Tea Party rallies. They tried to stop it by pumping everything they had into Scott Brown's Senate race. They tried to stop it in the remaining Obama years with court challenges and poison pills meant to kill it by a thousand cuts. When they won everything in 2016, they spent the ENTIRE year trying to destroy it. They failed at all of it. So now, like a f**king vampire you can't drive a stake through, they are back to try again, this time with the Justice Department itself going to court to argue AGAINST a settled law. But the worst part is, is that they have had, do not have, and never will have ANY plan for what to do with the people who would lose insurance coverage over this. None. Their plan remains nothing but "we'll replace it with something great". No one knows what that is, because there is nothing to know. They want to do away with it and leave whoever is left behind to wither and rot.
Your hero.
Here's the full quote from AOC.
“We can put so many people to work,” Ocasio-Cortez told an audience at a televised town hall Monday night. “We need to refit so many pipes. We need to re-lay roads. We need to rebuild schools. We need to invent technology that’s never even been invented yet.”
Kind of makes more sense when put into context, doesn't it...?
Nope. That last sentence still sounds like something Trump would say. I watched the whole town hall, she made Sanders wince with that comment.
Here's another one of her greatest hits...
" The world is gonna end in twelve years if we do not end climate change and your biggest issue is how we're gonna pay for it and like this is the war, this is our WW2." (in valley girl voice) I watched this interview as well.
She sounds like a prophet, maybe she's channelling Al Gore.
I like her, raw and full of spunk but she has to clean it up to be taken seriously. She sounds as dumb as Trump but he got by on star status, she can't.
Again, to my knowledge, this has never happened before in American history. We've never had a president openly threatening his opponents. And apparently Lindsay Graham and other GOP figures have also publicly toyed with the prospect of exacting revenge on Democrats.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/03/26/jussie-smollett-charges-dropped/amp/
Why'd we have a revolution from England just to make our government have a king of its own who is above the law? Barr is wrong and can't be trusted because of this fact and also since he was a key figure in the Iran Contra cover-up. Shame on the GOP for putting this guy who doesn't believe in Justice as the AG. Shame on the media for just accepting his word.
This isn't something to celebrate. There is absolutely no doubt based on the evidence that this was a hoax and most of the cities leadership seems to be furious about the decision. The Fraternal Order of Police want a federal investigation into this ruling and the Chicago mayor came out and condemned the ruling as an obvious case of wealth and status overriding basic justice.
Even CNN is having a "wtf" moment here:
Chicago Tribune also seems to think something fishy is up here
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-kim-foxx-texts-emails-jussie-smollett-20190313-htmlstory.html
This is really not okay. It's not like this is a crime without a victim. If he hadn't been caught, a couple of innocent people would have been in danger of being falsely convicted for a hate crime.
It's like instead of there being no evidence of collusion, the Mueller investigation found absolutely damning evidence nobody would dispute and in the end they just say "whatever, forget about the whole thing" after filing charges. Not okay.
I think we can all agree if you commit a crime you should be punished for it in the same way as everyone else, not excused from it because of your wealth/status and/or you have the right politics or some combination of such.
Tin foil hats time.... Jussie's fake lynching was made to coincide with Kamala Harris and Cory Bookers Anti-Lynching Bill, to give it extra umph. They got him off, favour for a favour.
I do not in any way condone Lynching.