A closer look would almost certainly expose Ross as errand boy. Even if one only cares about bringing down Ross (a worthwhile goal), that “Kobach in Spring 2017” mention is still the untapped vein.
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If Cosby can handle the joint, so can this rancid little raisin.
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From Inside Trump’s Voter-Fraud Crusade, in The Atlantic. A look at the commission’s internal memos:
a group of people who’ve worked for decades against voting protections for minorities and in service of an anti-immigration agenda was gifted the power to pursue its aims at a national level. The commission itself may now be defunct, but partly because of the work of its former leaders, its real agenda is still rising.
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Which is why we must all vote for every Democrat we can, every chance we can. They won’t have the power to do anything until we give them the numbers to take control. Hell, as inconsistently as we support them, it may even take a few cycles of Dem control before they stand up as tall as they must for us to keep our Democracy intact.
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Some people just aren’t wired to speak forcefully, but that doesn’t mean that they are “mealy-mouthed” and ineffectual. Sometimes understatement can be the better option, to further contrast the absurdity of the opposition. Also, text doesn’t convey inflection or tone, which can often obscure true intent (in English anyway). It could be a sardonic, sarcastic remark that had you heard it spoken you would have recognized as dripping with irony. There are a lot of possibilities here.
Plus, I have no idea why you would say “pretty clear” might as well be an apology. I would never make that association with the phrase. It doesn’t mean that at all. In my reading, she clearly means that Ross, at best, willfully misinterpreted her question. It’s all on Ross, not on her.
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We need to clean up the government by ridding ourselves of this administration. Clean up the WH, take out the garbage.
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Wilbur got the Commerce job as reward for heading Cyprus Bank, one of the main conduits of dirty Russian money to Dolt45 and his family criminal enterprise. He’s one of the planet’s top grifters.
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“Plausible deniability” will be the end of us all. It is the foundation of everything they do.
Once again, I’ll go there – during the rise and early reign of the Nazi Party in Germany, leading Nazi officials employed the exact same technique of lying, lying and lying some more, and, when caught, continually backtracking from one plausible denial to another until their pursuants gave up the chase out of sheer frustration and exhaustion.
Fascists use the mechanics of democracy and liberal society to protect themselves. That’s what makes them so difficult to fight against by those that otherwise respect justice, ethics and the law.
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This horrible man-
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Wilbur Ross: Former VP of The Bank of Cyprus during the massive money-laundering by Russian Oligarchs. The same bank Mueller subpoenaed for information about Cohen, Flynn, Don Jr., Kushner, et. al. and their activities.
Yeah. Just the Russian Oligarch Stooge you want in charge of The U.S. Department of Commerce…if you are Donald J. Trump.
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They’re all dissembling shills and future felons.
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“Has the president or anyone in the White House discussed with you or anyone on your team about adding this citizenship question?” she asked.
“Oh, you meant that White House. I thought you meant this other white house. Well, in that case, then, …”
If Ross was not a crook, he would be unwilling to be part of the Trump administration as secretary of “commerce” (at the Bank of Cyprus did “commerce” mean “money laundering”?).
If every crook in the current WH was impeached, there wouldn’t be anybody left except the SS and the permanent staff. Maybe Spanky would get lonely and bail out at that point.
Even if Mr Ross had the text of the email in front of him he should have had the smarts to realize what was being asked of him. The spin to say he was responding to the email only is so weak that it dissolves at first glance. He knew what was being asked and he chose to lie.
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A fair portion of the SS would be gone as well considering the rate at which they get in trouble over seas with partying with “ladies of the night”. And I expect the career staff might be making off with the contents of the pantry on a regular basis. I bet the WH china and other fixtures would bring a fair price on Amazon.
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My god, does no one think of ebay anymore?
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I picked Amazon cuz trump hates Jeff Bezos…
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O that’s a very good reason and I was just trying to be funny. I can tell from all the likes that I was hilarious.
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Just sent some
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