THE ERA OF TRUMP

[DBTrek]

I find that it's almost impossible to stand outside of the Leftist echo chamber and understand their reactions to most things.

For instance - the whole Russian hacking/fake news/social media thing. WTF? What is the actual charge? If Russians spammed fake news into FB feeds - who cares? Do democrats really think a bunch of fake news stories swayed Clinton voters to vote for Trump? Do they think it swayed anyone? And even if it swayed a handful of people, is it illegal to post fiction in social media if that fiction might result in a vote? I mean really, what's the fucking crime that occurred, because our media is still obsessed with it.

Or . . . what's up with the Cambridge Analytica stuff? Leftists just now figuring out that FaceBook makes money by selling user data? How did they think FaceBook paid their employees and made Zuckerberg a billionaire? Did they think FaceBook was "free", and the CEO and employees all got paid by some magic "good idea award" or something? What's the outrage about?

Or . . . Cohen, a high profile lawyer who works with high profile client . . . also worked with Hannity - a high profile entertainer.

Each story set the leftists off on an outrage tour, but I fail to see what any of it actually amounts to. To me, they seem like a bunch of miserable, naive, impressionable little loudmouths that both politicians and the media like to whip up into a frenzy. I guess folks have to pass the time somehow.
/shrug

[DrYouth]

Echo chambers echo outrage... amplifying it to extremes...

Stand outside it for a while and you are struck by that.

For example if you stood outside of this forum you might wonder whether the next civil war was truly on our doorstep...

Just an example for illustrative purposes.

[doc_loliday]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/ ... 518919002/

[Kath]

The IRS website for filing tax returns is experiencing technical issues as Tax Day deadline looms

Parts of the Internal Revenue Service's online filing system are down.
Acting IRS Commissioner David Kautter told lawmakers at a hearing on Tuesday that "a number of systems are unavailable at the moment."
Tuesday is Tax Day, the deadline for taxpayers to file their 2017 federal taxes.

[PartyOf5]

Laws don't mean jack anymore. I have yet to find a single article on a MSM site (other than maybe Fox) that is even questioning the ethics or legality of raiding Cohen's office. What was the premise for this? Because he paid of a porn star for one of his clients? Isn't that a perfectly legal thing to do? During the entire Clinton administration we were told Bill's actions were no big deal. Hell, Hillary remains married to him, and yet Trump's indiscretions are cause for raids and investigations.

Already the libs are fishing for "who did Hannity pay off? and what secret love children does he have?". And they are serious about it. It's six degrees of Trump. Anyone close to him is a target. The Libs have started a war with anyone who doesn't think as they do. All of these things are designed to make anyone even remotely supportive of Trump worry that they will be the next target.

Guess you can get away with whatever you want when you have both the media and judges in your pocket. This place is feeling more like Russia every day.

[Kath]

Laws don't mean jack anymore. I have yet to find a single article on a MSM site (other than maybe Fox) that is even questioning the ethics or legality of raiding Cohen's office. What was the premise for this? Because he paid of a porn star for one of his clients? Isn't that a perfectly legal thing to do? During the entire Clinton administration we were told Bill's actions were no big deal. Hell, Hillary remains married to him, and yet Trump's indiscretions are cause for raids and investigations.

Already the libs are fishing for "who did Hannity pay off? and what secret love children does he have?". And they are serious about it. It's six degrees of Trump. Anyone close to him is a target. The Libs have started a war with anyone who doesn't think as they do. All of these things are designed to make anyone even remotely supportive of Trump worry that they will be the next target.

Guess you can get away with whatever you want when you have both the media and judges in your pocket. This place is feeling more like Russia every day.

Would love it it Fife or DeO would weigh in, here.

I found this:
http://time.com/5234110/michael-cohen-f ... y-daniels/

In 2016, Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 in exchange for signing a nondisclosure agreement which she is now seeking to have invalidated. Cohen and Trump both deny Trump had an affair with her, and Cohen says he paid the money out of pocket. Breaking his silence on the matter last week, Trump said he wasn’t aware of the payment.

The payment was made less than two weeks before the 2016 election, so if Cohen is claiming he made the payment on behalf of Trump, that could be a “coordinated, illegal, in-kind contribution by Cohen for the purpose of influencing the election,” said Trevor Potter, former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, Business Insider reports. That would vastly exceed the legal contribution limit of $2,700.

[C-Mag]

Laws don't mean jack anymore. I have yet to find a single article on a MSM site (other than maybe Fox) that is even questioning the ethics or legality of raiding Cohen's office. What was the premise for this? Because he paid of a porn star for one of his clients? Isn't that a perfectly legal thing to do? During the entire Clinton administration we were told Bill's actions were no big deal. Hell, Hillary remains married to him, and yet Trump's indiscretions are cause for raids and investigations.

I couldn't agree more.

There seems to be no justice in store for the scumbags Comey, McCabe, Mueller, Brennan and Clapper. All these fuckers have violated all kinds of laws and Constitutional protections and heroes to many for it.

If we don't punish these people, your not going to want to be around for what this means to the rule of law in this country.

[DBTrek]

City official handing out fines in Jacksonville to store owners flying military flags. When approached by vet who objects, she wags her finger at him and says his service doesn’t matter:
https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/loca ... /733150423

More public unions, y’all!
Gotta protect these public servants who collectively bargain against the citizens, when they aren’t outright disrespecting us and fining away the cash they didn’t tax out of us.

[C-Mag]

City official handing out fines in Jacksonville to store owners flying military flags. When approached by vet who objects, she wags her finger at him and says his service doesn’t matter:
https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/loca ... /733150423

More public unions, y’all!
Gotta protect these public servants who collectively bargain against the citizens, when they aren’t outright disrespecting us and fining away the cash they didn’t tax out of us.

For me, it's not even that its about the city picking on the military. This is a bunch of bearucratic parasites feeding on the host, and they will continue to feed until the host is dead.

[Kath]

Jacksonville is pretty red, and there's a military base there.

Absolutely stunned that military flags could be banned by zoning laws, there. Huh?