More winning, I for one am getting sick of it now

[voice]

that would be fecking brilliant

[Marshall]

FFS
Qualifications not needed, just a nice set of knee pads.

[Marshall]

A Russian gun rights activist pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring with a senior Russian official to infiltrate the conservative movement in the United States as an agent for the Kremlin from 2015 until her arrest in July.

Maria Butina, 30, became the first Russian national convicted of seeking to influence U.S. policy in the run-up and through the 2016 election as a foreign agent, agreeing to cooperate in a plea deal with U.S. investigators in exchange for less prison time.

www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/russian-maria-butina-pleads-guilty-in-effort-to-forge-kremlin-bond-with-us-conservatives/2018/12/13/c27f2d26-fe4f-11e8-ad40-cdfd0e0dd65a_story.html?utm_term=.a5969a9c2610

Nothing to see here, this was all a set up by the Deep State (shudder).

[flatandy]

There was no Russian interference in the election.

Move along, now.

[Marshall]

"Russian dressing? What Trump put on his salad? Because that's the only connection with Russia around here."

[Marshall]

The orange blowtard just cannot keep from making a clusterfuck of everything within his orbit.

President Donald Trump has once again created a potential headache for his economic team in talks with China and thrown a wrench into a days-long effort to keep negotiations on track.

Trump's economic team has taken pains since Canada's arrest of Chinese tech giant Huawei's CFO, Meng Wanzhou, to separate the issue from the ongoing trade negotiations. But Trump contradicted those efforts during an interview with Reuters on Tuesday.

"If I think it’s good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made — which is a very important thing — what’s good for national security — I would certainly intervene if I thought it was necessary," Trump said.

The statement flies in the face of comments from National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, the leader of negotiations with Beijing.

"This is a criminal justice matter. It is totally separate from anything that I work on or anything that the trade policy people in the administration work on," Lighthizer told CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday. "So, for us, it's unrelated, it's criminal justice."

Kudlow offered a similar assessment during an interview on "Fox News Sunday."

"I might be wrong," he said. "I can't predict the future on this thing, but there are different channels and I think they will be viewed that way for quite some time."

Chinese officials have also attempted to keep the two issues separate, instead directing most of their ire at Canada since the arrest.

By quarantining Meng's arrest from the trade negotiations, the Trump team was hoping to achieve some success on trade while continuing a broader effort to address China's growing influence in technology and geopolitics. But with Trump mixing the two issues, advisers may find it harder to set the broader campaign aside in the trade talks.

Additionally, some analysts and observers have argued that Trump using a national security and justice issue as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations would undermine the US's justice system and rule of law.

www.aol.com/article/finance/2018/12/13/trumps-trade-team-building-strategy-deal-with-huawei-cfo-arrest-trump-blew-it-up-in-interview/23617426/

It's just incredible how f**k**g stupid he is.

[voice]

Yes a criminal so it's not a massive surprise he cares nothing for the rule of law, separation of powers and the long held notion of an independent judiciary

[voice]

Bit of swamp draining at last as interior secretary Zinke has gone, one less deeply corrupt Trupister though doubt his replacement will be an better

All the best people and all that.

[Deleted]

Yeah, same to you - all the best mate. Where are you going?

[flatandy]

It's a slow way of draining the swamp - employ corrupt people to put them in the public eye which shows how corrupt they are so they finally get kicked out of Washington. But it's working. Price, Zinke, Pruitt, Sessions, Flynn, Manafort, etc...

[voice]

Donald Trump's troubled charity 'foundation' (sic) to shut down.

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46611178

Trump's troubled charity foundation has agreed to close down amid allegations that he and others illegally misused its funds.

The move was announced by the attorney general of New York State, Barbara Underwood, who will supervise the distribution of its remaining monies.

She has accused Mr Trump and his three eldest children of using it for private and political gain.

The case against them would continue, she said.

Mrs Underwood said in a statement that there had been "a shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation - including unlawful co-ordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and wilful self-dealing, and much more".

She continued: "This amounted to the Trump Foundation functioning as little more than a chequebook to serve Mr Trump's business and political interests."

Under the terms of the deal to shut down the foundation, Ms Underwood said, it could only be dissolved under judicial supervision and could only distribute its assets "to reputable organisations approved by my office".

She added: "This is an important victory for the rule of law, making clear that there is one set of rules for everyone.

"We'll continue to move our suit forward to ensure that the Trump Foundation and its directors are held to account for their clear and repeated violations of state and federal law."

[voice]

and it looks like old piss and wind has done his usual, days of bluster followed by humiliating climb down.

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46609626

US President Donald Trump is backing down on his threat to shut down the government after Democrats refused to grant him the funding to build the wall he wants on the border with Mexico.

[voice]

His caving in has not gone over well with his far right supporters, could be the first real crack in his cult of personality.

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46637773

Breitbart News called it a "cave". The Drudge Report used the headline, "Trump in Retreat".

Radio host Rush Limbaugh said the president is going to "get less than nothing".

Right-wing columnist Ann Coulter - author of In Trump We Trust - recently predicted he will not be re-elected.

"Without a wall, he will only be remembered as a small cartoon figure who briefly inflamed and amused the rabble," she wrote.

[voice]

Bloody the cnuts like a leaf in the wind, after his friends say mean things about he's again threatening to shut down the gov by refusing to sign the bill to continue funding his government.

[voice]

We are gonna need new words to describe this clusterfuck as chaos simply is not enough any more, Mattis resignes and issues a blistering rebuke on the way out, basicly screaming a big FU at Trump

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46640114

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The writer of this article's clearly an opinionated twat with his own personal issues. Trump's an odd bloke, but I see nothing wrong in this picture whatsoever.





link

[flatandy]

Yeah. Inclined to agree. All Christmas photos are a bit weird, but there's nothing particularly excessively creepy in that one other than the fact that Trump looks creepy in every photo and in every photo with Melania he looks like a creepy bloke with a mail order bride. There's literally no way of these two being in a christmas photo that's less creepy, I don't think.

[flatandy]

Meanwhile, of course, the only adult in the administration has resigned because Trump is doing Putin's bidding in Syria and elsewhere; the stock markets are having an utter stinker of a week despite a trillion dollar stock-market stimulus; the government is shutting down because Trump's throwing a hissy fit about not getting his ineffective and silly and pointless and overpriced fence. It's a clusterfuck of a week.

[jimboky]

The market is down mostly due to the Fed raising the intrest rate, and planning to raise it more over the next year,,,

Wall's always work, they have every where they have been used, places where the wall already exists have seen a reduction in border crossings, they also reduce the crossing of slaves, drugs, criminals,,,,, the sun came out this morning, the birds are flying, it is only about 1/4 of government shut down sadly,,

[flatandy]

Yeah. The Mongols never invaded China...