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Trump has turned the right into a foul, spit-flecked froth of racist reactionism, and he has evoked a radical response on the left that, while completely understandable, alienates me and many others more profoundly with every passing day. Hell, there have been many moments in the past couple of years when I have alienated the better part of myself. There is something about the current toxicity that has seeped into everyone.
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There is a political answer to Trump: Vote against him and his GOP backers wherever and whenever you can. But if this is not merely to replace one fever with another, there must also be an intellectual struggle to recover moderation and toleration, and a spiritual effort to find the peace no politics will ever provide. Yes, one side — the red — has a more urgent need for self-doubt and self-criticism than the other. But the moment we decide that our side has no need of uncertainty or perspective or moderation at all is the moment liberal democracy dies.
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It's from the Crime Prevention Research Center.
A gun free zone is defined as a place where regular citizens aren't allowed to be armed.
Guns weren't allowed in the school and I'm pretty sure guns weren't allowed in the concert at Vegas either. I've never been to a concert that didn't have metal detectors and pat downs.
What a punch in the stomach that must be to all those families.
As sickening as it is apparently what they did was completely legal.
Ever hear of Warren vs. District of Columbia?
It's a supreme court case involving a woman who was repeatedly raped by two men for 14 hours while the police refused to enter the home even though her neighbor, who heard her screaming, kept calling 911.
So she sued the city and the police department for negligence. The supreme court then ruled that law enforcement is under no legal obligation to provide protection to individuals and her case was dismissed.
So at the end of the day the only true defense of your life is yourself.
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It’s going to be the kids who are going to force Congress to act on gun regulation! Way to go...
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Everyone understands Manafort’s fate, except apparently the man himself. Rather than cutting a deal—as his longtime deputy Rick Gates did yesterday—Manafort continues to cut a figure of defiance. He has, in essence, dismissed Gates as a weakling. And even as the bedraggled Gates turned against him, Manafort boasted in a statement that he would not be knocked from his stance: “This does not alter my commitment to defend myself against the untrue piled up charges contained in the indictments against me."
There’s one primary reason that Manafort appears so unwilling to reconcile himself with the unimpeachable reality. For his entire career, he has taken audacious risks and managed to get away with them. His friends describe him as wired to take chances that most rational creatures would avoid. Such is the temperament that leads a person to allegedly launder millions, in a long series of batches, each one a fresh opportunity to get busted by the feds.
And it has led him to spend much of his career working on behalf of murderous autocrats, capricious dictators and vengeful oligarchs, like the Angolan insurgent Jonas Savimbi and the Filipino president Ferdinand Marcos. Manafort not only had the skills to bend these characters to his will; he seemingly took pleasure in the challenge of taming and mastering dangerous men. (Trump was the rare strongman he couldn’t quite master.)
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As Manafort pushed forward with these risks, he always had Rick Gates by his side. Gates had come up through the ranks of Manafort’s firm, starting as an intern. One of Manafort’s former colleagues told me that he could never allow his protégés to grow into their own: “He always saw us as they young people he hired.” Most of his deputies I spoke with would come to resent being treated as such junior partners, always assigned arduous and relatively menial tasks. They would eventually leave Manafort’s fold, many of them quite bitterly. But Gates tended to his boss with unusual devotion and patience.
Mueller’s most recent indictment shows the extreme measures that Gates would take to protect him. According to the indictment, if Manafort asked Gates to concoct a phony letter for a bank to procure a fraudulent loan, Gates wouldn’t blink. According to the indictment, he fabricated one tale about how he had borrowed Manafort’s card and run up a $300,000 bill without paying back the balance, in order to explain away the overdue debt. Gates kept taking personal risks on behalf of his risk-happy mentor.
They were in the mud together for years—and when their alleged misdeeds were finally exposed by Mueller, Manafort could reasonably have convinced himself that Gates would remain loyal to the end. But now Gates has peeled away from his father figure, and that couldn’t be any worse for Manafort.
Whatever blanks remain in Mueller’s narrative, Gates can fill them. If there are any weaknesses in the existing evidence, Gates can bolster them. With their intimate history and Gates’s long immersion in the crevices of Manafort’s finances and political dealings, he’s pure prosecutorial gold. With the next turns of the Mueller’s screw, Manafort will be forced into an ultimate reckoning with all the witnesses, all the evidence, all the sentencing guidelines arrayed against him, a belated, harsh reunion with reality.
Everyone understands Manafort’s fate, except apparently the man himself. Rather than cutting a deal—as his longtime deputy Rick Gates did yesterday—Manafort continues to cut a figure of defiance. He has, in essence, dismissed Gates as a weakling. And even as the bedraggled Gates turned against him, Manafort boasted in a statement that he would not be knocked from his stance: “This does not alter my commitment to defend myself against the untrue piled up charges contained in the indictments against me."
There’s one primary reason that Manafort appears so unwilling to reconcile himself with the unimpeachable reality. For his entire career, he has taken audacious risks and managed to get away with them. His friends describe him as wired to take chances that most rational creatures would avoid. Such is the temperament that leads a person to allegedly launder millions, in a long series of batches, each one a fresh opportunity to get busted by the feds.
And it has led him to spend much of his career working on behalf of murderous autocrats, capricious dictators and vengeful oligarchs, like the Angolan insurgent Jonas Savimbi and the Filipino president Ferdinand Marcos. Manafort not only had the skills to bend these characters to his will; he seemingly took pleasure in the challenge of taming and mastering dangerous men. (Trump was the rare strongman he couldn’t quite master.)
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As Manafort pushed forward with these risks, he always had Rick Gates by his side. Gates had come up through the ranks of Manafort’s firm, starting as an intern. One of Manafort’s former colleagues told me that he could never allow his protégés to grow into their own: “He always saw us as they young people he hired.” Most of his deputies I spoke with would come to resent being treated as such junior partners, always assigned arduous and relatively menial tasks. They would eventually leave Manafort’s fold, many of them quite bitterly. But Gates tended to his boss with unusual devotion and patience.
Mueller’s most recent indictment shows the extreme measures that Gates would take to protect him. According to the indictment, if Manafort asked Gates to concoct a phony letter for a bank to procure a fraudulent loan, Gates wouldn’t blink. According to the indictment, he fabricated one tale about how he had borrowed Manafort’s card and run up a $300,000 bill without paying back the balance, in order to explain away the overdue debt. Gates kept taking personal risks on behalf of his risk-happy mentor.
They were in the mud together for years—and when their alleged misdeeds were finally exposed by Mueller, Manafort could reasonably have convinced himself that Gates would remain loyal to the end. But now Gates has peeled away from his father figure, and that couldn’t be any worse for Manafort.
Whatever blanks remain in Mueller’s narrative, Gates can fill them. If there are any weaknesses in the existing evidence, Gates can bolster them. With their intimate history and Gates’s long immersion in the crevices of Manafort’s finances and political dealings, he’s pure prosecutorial gold. With the next turns of the Mueller’s screw, Manafort will be forced into an ultimate reckoning with all the witnesses, all the evidence, all the sentencing guidelines arrayed against him, a belated, harsh reunion with reality.
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I’ve been a conservative my entire life. I fell hard for William F. Buckley as a teenager and my first job was as editorial assistant at Buckley’s National Review, followed by stints writing speeches for first lady Nancy Reagan and then working for the Gipper himself. Looking toward the 1988 race, Vice President George H.W. Bush wasn’t conservative enough for me. I went to work as a speechwriter for Representative Jack Kemp in 1986.
So you’d think that the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, would be a natural fit. It once was. But on Saturday, after speaking to this year’s gathering, I had to be escorted from the premises by several guards who seemed genuinely concerned for my safety.
What happened to me at CPAC is the perfect illustration of the collective experience of a whole swath of conservatives since Donald Trump became the Republican nominee. We built and organized this party — but now we’re made to feel like interlopers.
I was surprised that I was even asked to speak at CPAC. My views on Trump, Roy Moore and Steve Bannon are no secret. I knew the crowd would be hostile, and so I was tempted to pass.
But too many of us have given up the fight. We’ve let disgust and dismay lead us to withdraw while bad actors take control of the direction of our movement. I know how encouraged I feel whenever someone simply states the truth, and so I decided to accept CPAC’s invitation.
Like the Republican Party, CPAC has become heavily Trumpified. Last year, they invited alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos (and withdrew the invitation only after lewd tapes surfaced). This year, in addition to the president and vice president, CPAC invited Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, granddaughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen and niece of National Front leader Marine Le Pen.
Matt Schlapp, CPAC’s chairman, described her as a “classical liberal” on Twitter. This is utter nonsense. Ms. Maréchal-Le Pen is a member of the National Front party, and far from distancing herself from her Holocaust-denying, anti-Semitic and racist grandfather, she has offered him a more full-throated endorsement than her aunt has. “I am the political heir of Jean-Marie Le Pen,” Maréchal-Le Pen told the https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/22/marion-marechal-le-pen-weve-won-the-battle-of-ideas/?utm_term=.26273c1801a3 (Washington Post) last year. “He was a visionary. He was right about a lot of things.”
So it has come to this: a conservative group whose worst fault in years past may have been excessive flat tax enthusiasm now opens its doors to the blood and soil nationalists of Europe.
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Mister Sandman
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President Donald Trump’s decision to punt the issue of whether Jared Kushner can keep his access to sensitive government secrets without a full security clearance to his chief of staff, John Kelly, has put him in a tricky position, stuck between the rules on one side and the president’s family on the other.
Trump's ad hoc decision not to intervene in the clearance process on behalf of his son-in-law and senior adviser in effect left both Kelly and Kushner in limbo, prolonging an uncomfortable situation that White House aides say is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.
Kelly does not plan to recommend to the president that he grant Kushner a waiver, but he is unlikely to resign if Trump ultimately decides to do so, according to a person familiar with his thinking.
THE BALD SPOT
https://claytoonz.com/2018/02/26/the-bald-spot/
Donald Trump made two very surprising acknowledgements last week. First, he finally admitted that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. It’s true, he didn’t admit they sought to help him win the election, that they had any affect on the results, or that his campaign was involved in anyway. It’s also true he used it to attack Obama and didn’t criticize or say anything negative about Russia or Vladimir Putin.
His second admission may have been even more shocking. Donald Trump acknowledged he has a bald spot. What’s even weirder is that he did it at CPAC. Why would he do that at CPAC, an organization that’s gone from Republicanism to Trumpism? It’s an organization that has allowed Donald Trump to define what they stand for, which is the cult of Trump. Trump could tell the goons at CPAC that he farts Skittles and they’d believe him and want to taste the rainbow. He could have kept the lie hidden by the most ridiculous comb-over in the world before CPAC. These are people who booed a panelist who criticized Republicans for endorsing a child molester.
What will Trump reveal next? His taxes? He does have false teeth? His weight is actually way above 239? He’s shorter than Obama? He paid off porn stars? His fingers really are teeny tiny which means he has a small…
Donald Trump’s hair is the perfect metaphor to describe the man. His most prominent physical feature is a lie. It’s designed to give the impression there is substance where there is actually none.
Speaking of sloppy cover-ups that fail to conceal and a lack of substance, Trump claims the Republican memo written by Devin Nunes totally exonerates him from colluding with Russia and engaging in obstruction of justice. The memo itself is part of the obstruction, written by Trump stooges and sycophants who put party and cult worship over country.
The Democrats finally released their memo over the weekend. The Democratic Memo, written by Adam Schiff, had information redacted after their first attempt to release it. The Republican memo was released without any redactions over the objections of the FBI and Justice Department.
The Republican memo is designed to make us believe the FBI violated all sorts of procedures in obtaining a FISA warrant against Carter Page, an adviser to the Trump campaign who was suspected of being a Russian spy. The Nunes memo tries to discredit the Russia investigation by claiming the FBI and Justice Department hoodwinked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court when it sought to monitor Page. they argue the FBI’s investigation relied heavily on the dossier written by a former MI6 agent, Christopher Steele, and financed by Democrats. The Schiff memo destroys the GOP’s arguments and talking points.
The Republican memo is four pages long. The Democratic memo is ten. It points out that the FBI was investigating Carter Page nearly two months before they were aware there was a dossier. The dossier only corroborated the FBI’s observations and was just a part of the documents in the FBI’s request for the warrants. As for it being a biased warrant, the four judges on the FISA court are Republicans. Perhaps they haven’t received the news yet that the Republican Party no longer cares about national security, treason, and law enforcement.
The Nunes Memo argues the court was not aware the dossier was funded by Democrats. The Schiff memo debunks that lie.
Schiff’s memo points out that Page traveled to Moscow, had “past relationships with Russian spies,” spent time during the 2016 campaign involved in “interaction with Russian officials,” was “knowingly assisting clandestine Russian intelligence activities in the U.S.” and was “someone the FBI assessed to be an agent of the Russian government.” The Republicans are actually crying that a suspected agent for Russia had his rights violated. Other than Paul Manafort, Carter Page is the most likely person in this investigation to land in prison. It’ll be interesting to see if the GOP continues to defend him.
Speaking at CPAC, Devin Nunes said the Democrat’s memo is, “clear evidence that the Democrats are not only trying to cover this up, but they’re also colluding with parts of the government to help cover this up.”
Trump tweeted, “The Democrat memo response on government surveillance abuses is a total political and legal BUST. Just confirms all of the terrible things that were done. SO ILLEGAL!” He told Fox News that the memo was “nothing” and that Schiff is a “bad guy.”
It takes a lot of nerve for Trump and Nunes to accuse others of writing a politically-motivated memo and colluding. Trump probably hasn’t even read either memo.
If you’re bald and wear a wig or sport a comb-over, you’re still bald. Releasing a memo stating you’re not a traitor, doesn’t mean you’re not a traitor.
https://claytoonz.com/2018/02/26/the-bald-spot/
Donald Trump made two very surprising acknowledgements last week. First, he finally admitted that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. It’s true, he didn’t admit they sought to help him win the election, that they had any affect on the results, or that his campaign was involved in anyway. It’s also true he used it to attack Obama and didn’t criticize or say anything negative about Russia or Vladimir Putin.
His second admission may have been even more shocking. Donald Trump acknowledged he has a bald spot. What’s even weirder is that he did it at CPAC. Why would he do that at CPAC, an organization that’s gone from Republicanism to Trumpism? It’s an organization that has allowed Donald Trump to define what they stand for, which is the cult of Trump. Trump could tell the goons at CPAC that he farts Skittles and they’d believe him and want to taste the rainbow. He could have kept the lie hidden by the most ridiculous comb-over in the world before CPAC. These are people who booed a panelist who criticized Republicans for endorsing a child molester.
What will Trump reveal next? His taxes? He does have false teeth? His weight is actually way above 239? He’s shorter than Obama? He paid off porn stars? His fingers really are teeny tiny which means he has a small…
Donald Trump’s hair is the perfect metaphor to describe the man. His most prominent physical feature is a lie. It’s designed to give the impression there is substance where there is actually none.
Speaking of sloppy cover-ups that fail to conceal and a lack of substance, Trump claims the Republican memo written by Devin Nunes totally exonerates him from colluding with Russia and engaging in obstruction of justice. The memo itself is part of the obstruction, written by Trump stooges and sycophants who put party and cult worship over country.
The Democrats finally released their memo over the weekend. The Democratic Memo, written by Adam Schiff, had information redacted after their first attempt to release it. The Republican memo was released without any redactions over the objections of the FBI and Justice Department.
The Republican memo is designed to make us believe the FBI violated all sorts of procedures in obtaining a FISA warrant against Carter Page, an adviser to the Trump campaign who was suspected of being a Russian spy. The Nunes memo tries to discredit the Russia investigation by claiming the FBI and Justice Department hoodwinked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court when it sought to monitor Page. they argue the FBI’s investigation relied heavily on the dossier written by a former MI6 agent, Christopher Steele, and financed by Democrats. The Schiff memo destroys the GOP’s arguments and talking points.
The Republican memo is four pages long. The Democratic memo is ten. It points out that the FBI was investigating Carter Page nearly two months before they were aware there was a dossier. The dossier only corroborated the FBI’s observations and was just a part of the documents in the FBI’s request for the warrants. As for it being a biased warrant, the four judges on the FISA court are Republicans. Perhaps they haven’t received the news yet that the Republican Party no longer cares about national security, treason, and law enforcement.
The Nunes Memo argues the court was not aware the dossier was funded by Democrats. The Schiff memo debunks that lie.
Schiff’s memo points out that Page traveled to Moscow, had “past relationships with Russian spies,” spent time during the 2016 campaign involved in “interaction with Russian officials,” was “knowingly assisting clandestine Russian intelligence activities in the U.S.” and was “someone the FBI assessed to be an agent of the Russian government.” The Republicans are actually crying that a suspected agent for Russia had his rights violated. Other than Paul Manafort, Carter Page is the most likely person in this investigation to land in prison. It’ll be interesting to see if the GOP continues to defend him.
Speaking at CPAC, Devin Nunes said the Democrat’s memo is, “clear evidence that the Democrats are not only trying to cover this up, but they’re also colluding with parts of the government to help cover this up.”
Trump tweeted, “The Democrat memo response on government surveillance abuses is a total political and legal BUST. Just confirms all of the terrible things that were done. SO ILLEGAL!” He told Fox News that the memo was “nothing” and that Schiff is a “bad guy.”
It takes a lot of nerve for Trump and Nunes to accuse others of writing a politically-motivated memo and colluding. Trump probably hasn’t even read either memo.
If you’re bald and wear a wig or sport a comb-over, you’re still bald. Releasing a memo stating you’re not a traitor, doesn’t mean you’re not a traitor.
