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Offline cybercoma

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« Reply #645 on: August 26, 2017, 06:46:32 am »
Well he actually did it.

Arpaio is a piece of dog ****.

Maricopa County had hundreds of **** kits that never got tested because Sheriff Joe blew too much money chasing Obama birth certificate conspiracy idiocy.  Maricopa County had prisoners who died in custody because Sheriff Joe didn't want to provide medical care to prisoners because "jail is supposed to be tough."

Sheriff Joe is an authoritarian thug, and I guess given Trump's hard-on for other authoritarian thugs like Putin and Dutarte, I guess it was obvious that Trump would pardon a piece of crap like that.


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This fucker literally set up a tent city in the middle of the desert for Latinos and bragged that it was a concentration camp.

There's also at least 32 documented cases of child molestation that he didn't pursue because the kids were Latino.

Trump just set the precedent that cops can violate the constitution with impunity. I hope Arpaio realizes that a pardon results in a guilty verdict that cannot be overturned and in America that opens him up to civil lawsuits.

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« Reply #646 on: August 26, 2017, 12:20:20 pm »
Reading between the lines, it seems likely that Actual Nazi Sebastian Gorka is disappointed that alt-rightists and Trumptards like Steve Bannon, The Mooch, and similar have been kicked out of the administration by John Kelly and the Republican establishment (or "globalist cucks", as the alt-right refers to them.)

So it turns out that Actual Nazi Sebastian Gorka was fired before his so-called "resignation".

Gorka: "You can't fire me! I quit!"

Kelly: "You can't quit, you don't work here."

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« Reply #647 on: August 26, 2017, 01:57:33 pm »
So while all eyes were focused on the storm raging into Texas, Trump uses the opportunity to kick out his blowhard buddy Gorka, pardon his convicted felon/racist buddy Arpaio, and sign off on a ban on transgender military recruits. But I'm sure he enjoyed his golf outing up at Camp David.

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« Reply #648 on: August 26, 2017, 02:38:54 pm »
This fucker literally set up a tent city in the middle of the desert for Latinos and bragged that it was a concentration camp.

There's also at least 32 documented cases of child molestation that he didn't pursue because the kids were Latino.

Trump just set the precedent that cops can violate the constitution with impunity. I hope Arpaio realizes that a pardon results in a guilty verdict that cannot be overturned and in America that opens him up to civil lawsuits.

On Bill Maher last night they were saying that it's not really about Arpaio but he's sending a message to everyone in the Russian collusion that he'll bail them out even if they get convicted of anything.  It kinda makes sense.

 

Offline SirJohn

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« Reply #649 on: August 27, 2017, 11:55:43 am »
On Bill Maher last night they were saying that it's not really about Arpaio but he's sending a message to everyone in the Russian collusion that he'll bail them out even if they get convicted of anything.  It kinda makes sense.

Yeah. The liberal media is rubbing its hands with glee thinking Mueuller will be able to rid them of Trump, but I'm not at all confident. One of the primary ways the feds investigate complicated financial crimes is by getting enough evidence to convict one guy, then getting him to rat on the rest. That's not going to work when the head rat can simply wave his finger and grant them all immunity. Which means, since nobody is likely to talk, that Mueller has to find actual, direct evidence of things which are rarely written down.
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Offline Michael Hardner

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« Reply #650 on: August 27, 2017, 11:58:56 am »
I doubt the Republicans would do anything if he fired "Mueuller".

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« Reply #651 on: August 27, 2017, 12:07:28 pm »
I doubt the Republicans would do anything if he fired "Mueuller".

Except he can't fire mueller, that's the job of the AG, and the current one has recused himself. so Trump would have to fire him, and the next in line has also said he wouldn't fire mueller. So Trump would have to do a lot of firing to get to meuller. 

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« Reply #652 on: August 27, 2017, 01:11:50 pm »
On Bill Maher last night they were saying that it's not really about Arpaio but he's sending a message to everyone in the Russian collusion that he'll bail them out even if they get convicted of anything.  It kinda makes sense.

I disagree. If you're looking at it that way, you're not thinking like Trump.  For Trump, it's definitely about Arpaio.

First off, Arpaio is his buddy. They've been personal friends for years. Second, Arpaio is the personification of Trump's "build the wall" rhetoric. As far as Trump and the Trumptard base are concerned, Arpaio is a hero, a patriot fighting back against the brown horde that's taking over the country. They think that Arpaio was, as Trump put it last week, "convicted for doing his job."  It's disgusting, but that's what they think.

Trump has felt strongly about this all along.  Trump wanted Jeff Sessions to get the case thrown out of court.  This matters to Trump personally, and it matters to the core Trump voter. This pardon is wildly popular with the Trumptard voter base.

Paul Manafort or Michael Flynn, on the other hand?  They don't matter to the Trumptards.  The only people who'd really support a pardon for Manafort or Flynn are Trump himself and the immediate families of Flynn and Manafort.  Pardoning Russian double-agents would be a lot harder to sell to the voting public than pardoning an 85 year old "patriot".  The core Trump voter might accept it, but I don't think anybody else would. And the Trumptards on their own don't have enough votes to win elections.  They need the support of the undecideds and the never-Hillary voters and the non-votes of the apathetic.

The pardon of Arpaio might hand seats in the House of Represenatives and an Arizona Senate seat to the Democrats, as latino voters will come out en-masse against the Republicans in the 2018 mid-terms elections.  Pardoning Russian conspirators would only worsen the situation for Republicans.

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« Reply #653 on: August 28, 2017, 01:39:25 am »
Trump hugging racist, convicted felon, so called lawman Arpaio. Could it get much sleazier?
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« Reply #654 on: August 28, 2017, 01:51:21 pm »
I wonder if Trump will follow through with his threat to shut down the government if he doesn't get the funding for his stupid wall. That will be very "helpful" for the people in Texas who's homes have washed away due to Harvey, and the federal government closes up shop.

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« Reply #655 on: August 28, 2017, 04:12:53 pm »
Trump displays his ineptitude yet again just now. Why could he not display empathy for the people suffering from the storm in Texas without reading from a page with his finger going word by word, and sounding like a grade school public speaking event? Of course he dodged the very first question regarding if he still intnds to shut down the government while a lot of people are needing help.

Offline Michael Hardner

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« Reply #656 on: August 28, 2017, 05:56:27 pm »
I don't appreciate dragging the US presidential shitshow into the Texas disaster, personally.  As with 9/11, and Katrina, the president has little to do with operations.  Ultimately he IS responsible for successes and failures but blaming him for most of it is just opportunism IMO.

Now if he does something stupid like shut down the government over the wall, and stops disaster relief well that would be easily attributable to him.

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« Reply #657 on: August 28, 2017, 06:30:56 pm »
I don't appreciate dragging the US presidential shitshow into the Texas disaster, personally.  As with 9/11, and Katrina, the president has little to do with operations.  Ultimately he IS responsible for successes and failures but blaming him for most of it is just opportunism IMO.

Now if he does something stupid like shut down the government over the wall, and stops disaster relief well that would be easily attributable to him.
How about plans to cut FEMA funding in the upcoming budget? Granted, it is only a budget proposal and the effect wouldn't happen for another few years (so it wouldn't impact the current hurricane relief work.) Still, its setting the table for big problems later on.

http://time.com/money/4918458/trump-budget-targest-disaster-response/
When President Trump released his proposed budget earlier this year, it included cuts across the board — including hundreds of millions from programs that help Americans cope with disasters like Hurricane Harvey.

Or how about his roll-back of regulations regarding infrastructure (which again won't impact things immediately but will have a long term impact)?

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-revoked-obama-flood-protections-hurricane-harvey-texas-656050
As parts of Texas and Louisiana experience historic flooding related to Hurricane Harvey, the White House is defending President Donald Trump’s recent decision to revoke Obama-era flood risk regulations...The 2015 order established a federal flood risk management standard and said that for projects using federal funds, developers must take certain measures to assess the flood risk.

Offline Michael Hardner

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« Reply #658 on: August 28, 2017, 06:52:27 pm »
How about plans to cut FEMA funding in the upcoming budget? Granted, it is only a budget proposal and the effect wouldn't happen for another few years (so it wouldn't impact the current hurricane relief work.) Still, its setting the table for big problems later on.

I read somewhere that FEMA doesn't do the actual relief.  And they make extra budget requests for disasters.  And it has nothing to do with today as you have acknowledged.

There is nothing from this president on the current state of affairs that I can see, and politicizing it won't win any points either.