Individual-1, a joke or a threat? (talk Trump)

[Sean Hayden]

I was really hoping for more. Maybe they've got something else?

[Sean Hayden]

In fact, this could just make the guy a sympathetic character. How sick would that be?

"These laws are a joke. These people are owned by the corporations that fund their campaigns. But my client can't protect himself from those who only ever hoped to exploit their relationship with him for financial gain. Does this picture make sense to you?"

[L'Emmerdeur]

Quite a while ago at least one left-wing media personality was musing about the questions around the fat war chest the Trump inaugural committee amassed. Looks like the feds latched onto it as well.

'Trump inauguration spending reportedly under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors'

Manhattan-based federal prosecutors are investigating whether some of the $107 million in donations to then-President elect Donald Trump’s inaugural committee were misspent, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, said the investigation arose in part from the slew of materials seized in April raids on Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, by federal prosecutors. Cohen on Wednesday was sentenced to three years in prison on charges that came in part from those April raids on his office and residence.

The criminal probe is also looking into whether some of the committee’s top spenders traded money for access to the incoming Trump administration, as well as “policy concessions or to influence official administration positions,” sources told the Journal.

[Seabass]

Don't worry, Individual Two will be along shortly to explain how this is all perfectly legal, and if it isn't, it's just a common thing that rich guys do, so who cares? And besides, the alternative is to let Ocathio-Corteth turn the U.Eth. into Benethuela, and no one wants that!

[pErvinalia]

"Individual Two" --

[Tero]

I hire the best people!
“Yes, it's possible a straight-shooter could have accepted an executive position in the Trump Organization, but anyone with an interest in honesty and fair-dealing would not have stuck around for as long as Cohen did. The lies Trump has told as President were foreshadowed by the manipulation he practiced as a private citizen.”
CNN

[JimC]

Unchecked communism produces monsters like Stalin.

Unchecked capitalism produces idiots like Trump...

[Joe]

Damn, idiots and Trump in the same post again!

And people wonder why his picture comes back when you search for idiot?

[laklak]

Unchecked Libertarianism produces people who, well, leave you the fuck alone and get on with their own shit.

Can't have that, wouldn't be prudent.

[Cunt]

Didn't Trump just push 100 billion into low-rent neighbourhoods?

Is that one of his idiotic moves?

[Hermit]

Unchecked Libertarianism produces people who, well, leave you the fuck alone and get on with their own shit.

Can't have that, wouldn't be prudent.

Of course not. The horror of unchecked libertarianism has been too well described in Ayn Rand's novels. And that high priestess of the creed was about as hypocritical as they come - as was our resident chief libertarian.

[JimC]

Libertarianism in stuff like drugs and consensual sex is one thing, but the full version leads to the chaos of every human for themselves...

[Animavore]

More death, destruction, and vandalism.

'Death sentence': butterfly sanctuary to be bulldozed for Trump's border wall



On any given day at the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, visitors can to see more than 60 varieties of butterflies. In the spring and fall, monarchs and other species can blanket the center’s 100 acres of subtropical bushlands that extend from the visitor center to to the banks of the Rio Grande river, where their property, and US sovereignty, ends.

“It’s like something from Fantasia,” said the center’s director, Marianna Wright. “When you walk you have to cover your mouth so you don’t suck in a butterfly.”

Today the most diverse butterfly sanctuary in the country, and other protected areas in the lower Rio Grande Valley along the US-Mexico border, are under threat. Last week, the US supreme court issued a ruling allowing the Trump administration to waive 28 federal laws, including the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Air Act, and begin construction on 33 new miles of border wall in the heart of the valley – and right through the butterfly center.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... sion-texas

[Brian Peacock]

Fucking 6-legged bastards coming over here, stealing our jobs....

[Animavore]

Another logic fail from the illogical president.