Erik Prince at A Trump Tower meeting?!? (Updated)

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Friday March 08, 2019 · 5:08 PM PST

2019/03/08 · 17:08

Seems like yet another piece of the puzzle. Why he admitted this in an Al Jazeera interview I’d can’t guess. I guess it’s probably already old news to the those on the committees that have been read in on some of the testimonies.

From The Hill: Erik Prince, the former head of Blackwater and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has acknowledged for the first time that he was present at the 2016 Trump Tower meeting at the center of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian.

Link: thehill.com/...

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Tuesday March 14, 2017 · 7:59 AM PDT

2017/03/14 · 07:59

So yesterday’s NYT had a piece about how Sen. Schumer and Dems in that chamber are prepared to shutdown the government over various pieces of Der Trumpfster’s legislation.

This is one of those cases where I think this is precisely the wrong direction to go, no matter how objectionable the legislation is. Government shutdowns are a great solution for the ‘party of no’ and a party whose very existence is predicated on breaking the government. We’ve seen the technique backfire on the Republicans (nearly) every time they’ve tried it or threatened it, I can’t imagine it will go any better for Democrats.

Threatening a shutdown will distract from the very awful policies being passed and the actions of 45. We need to keep shining lights and exposing.

I know the desire to obstruct resist is strong, but please, Democrats, let’s take this one action off the table — because you’re playing with fire.

FWIW, the article is here www.nytimes.com/...

Feds Investigating IT workers at House of Representatives

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Thursday February 02, 2017 · 7:50 PM PST

2017/02/02 · 19:50

This is just weird. Is it true? Not seeing it at the Post or NYT.

The timing is really creepy considering everything going down in Russia and at 1600 Pennsylvania.

Staff were told the arrests came as part of a procurement scam, although officials acknowledged the contractors — who lawmakers were told were brothers — had access to virtually all of the computer systems used by the affected lawmakers.

www.buzzfeed.com/...

How to handle Trumped up Thugs on the 21st?

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Monday January 16, 2017 · 10:33 AM PST

2017/01/16 · 10:33

Not to be too sensationalistic about it — because this is hearsay at this point — but I’ve had two unrelated people tell me anecdotes about conservative friends/relatives coming to DC ‘ready to fight’ or ‘looking for a fight’. And they’re not even sure these Trump supporters know about the march on the 21st.

Does anybody think violence is a real possibility? I’m planning to March with my lovely (nasty) wife, our son and several other DC families with prepubescent kids. What’s the best approach to de-escalating violence if we run into it?

TIA for any advice!

Factless News is PROPAGANDA

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Monday November 28, 2016 · 5:54 PM PST

2016/11/28 · 17:54

“Fake News” is far too benign...and if you’re paying any attention to social media you’ll see the hashtag has already been appropriated by the “Alt-right” (read Neo-nazis) to describe the MSM and CNN in particular.

Factless news that serves to prop up baseless Trump tweets and other “alt-right” talking points are PROPAGANDA — pure and simple. They are ideological and meant to dupe or further inculcate followers.

I hope there’s an historic precedent for rolling back this endless stream of harmful rhetoric and fiction (historians, please intervene in the comments!), because otherwise I see us heading in one direction, and it sure ain’t pretty.

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What is fake news?

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What is fake news?

Propaganda (i.e., created and disseminated to indoctrinate and deceive)

11 votes

Harmless storytelling

0 votes

A great way to make money from your parents basement

0 votes

Impossible to tell apart from MSM offerings

0 votes

Not as good as pie

1 vote

Michael Moore got it right...

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Tuesday November 08, 2016 · 9:38 PM PST

2016/11/08 · 21:38

Just a very short — and reluctantly delivered — shout out to Michael Moore. He called this. I’m a rural midwesterner by origin who moved to the big city, and only returned for holidays, weddings, and funerals. My paycheck wouldn’t mark me as a coastal elite, but I clearly bought into the polls and media narrative that HRC was going to pull this off.

My hat off to the man from Flint. He understood the frustration and anger of those in the Heartland. We out here on the coasts totally missed it.

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Friday January 31, 2014 · 12:52 PM PST

2014/01/31 · 12:52

Seems like some of Christie's friends are being peeled off.

This, from the NYT at 3:40 pm:

“Mr. Wildstein contests the accuracy of various statements that the governor made about him and he can prove the inaccuracy of some,” the letter added.
http://www.nytimes.com/...

Time to re-brand this as "Health Insurance Reform"?

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Tuesday March 16, 2010 · 5:47 PM PDT

2010/03/16 · 17:47

I'll keep this short and to the point: Many of us on the left are unhappy that the public option is off the table, yet probably just as many on the right are unhappy because they're believing the "this is a government takeover of 1/6th of our economy" smear coming from Boehner, Cantor, et al.

What can most of us agree on? Health Insurance executives should not be making a pile of loot on a product that no longer qualifies as "Insurance" since it excludes or eliminates expensive potential clients.

This bill fixes that by controlling costs (and company practices and profits) sufficiently to cover over 30 million Americans...and the US Treasury will still come out ahead.

We'll save Health Care Reform for another day. This is just a nice retread of the Health Insurance system.

Winding down is where it's at

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Tuesday March 24, 2009 · 9:39 AM PDT

2009/03/24 · 09:39

Winding down

I guess I'd heard the term before, but it really stuck at out me in Fed Chairman's Ben Bernanke's interview on 60 Minutes.

http://www.cbsnews.com/...

He used the phrase several times, while basically framing this current mess: Some banks and financial organizations are too large for the US government to allow their failure. He wants the Fed and the Treasure to develop tools that would allow them to intervene in these companies, take possession, split them up, and sell them.

That's what winding down is: Putting toxic companies (your AIG's, your CitiGroups) out of business.

And now, we have the news that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is asking for the very authority that Bernanke was hypthesizing about:

http://news.yahoo.com/...

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