Progressive Discussion - Friday 3-3-17

So Tweety is off for some R & R AGAIN this weekend to his Florida Club house..hard work lying & covering up all week, I suppose...our tax dollars being spent so he can go line his pocket every weekend at his Business/Clubhouse...too funny how his peeps cover up the fact he golfs all weekend considering his & all his supporters whing about President Obama golfing ...Make no mistake, he is making $$$ every time he goes down to Florida.

"He is using the office of President and our money to line his pockets."

Yep! How many times have you heard people say, "I think he'll be good. He's a business man. Not a politician."

Hello? A country is not a business! The goal of a business is to make a profit by any means. There was a time when it was good business sense to use children, slaves, immigrants, etc. to make widgets. Perfectly fine. No problem as long as the businessman made a hefty profit.

Now we have a perverted, lying, cheating, treasonous, ego maniac, badly pretending to be running a country. When all he's doing is making a hefty profit for himself. And yet people bought it hook, line, and sinker.

BTW, in case you haven't heard our navy is great. Really great. And you know what? When the liar-in-chief paid the navy a visit on their big boat they gave him a present. Two presents. How great is that? They gave him a jacket, yes they did, and a cap too. Cool, right? The liar-in-chief even wore the jacket and the hat on the big boat to show us how pretty his presents were and how really great it was of the navy to give him gifts. Just in case anybody didn't know what a jacket or a cap looks like he pointed to the jacket and then to the hat so we could see his gifts. I felt like saying, "Oh, how pretty!" Like I would to a 2 year old showing me their brand new big boy underpants.

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Trump desperately tries to move the Russia scandal’s goalposts
03/03/17 02:39 PM—UPDATED 03/03/17 02:48 PM
By Steve Benen
This week, a small army of pundits declared that Donald Trump is suddenly a new president. He’s “pivoted,” we were told. He’s hit the “reset” button. He’s using his “inside voice” and proving that he’s learned how to be “presidential.”

That lasted two whole days.

This morning, after having said very little via Twitter all week, Trump declared, “It is so pathetic that the Dems have still not approved my full Cabinet.” As a factual matter, that didn’t make any sense.

This afternoon, apropos of nothing, the president, sounding an awful lot like his usual self, published a tweet with an old photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin eating a donut with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). Trump wrote:
“We should start an immediate investigation into [Schumer] and his ties to Russia and Putin. A total hypocrite!”
Trump apparently saw the picture on a weird right-wing blog that routinely publishes ridiculous content.

On the surface, the overly defensive tweet is evidence that the short-lived “pivot” is over: Presidential Trump has devolved back into Petulant Trump. What’s more, in the American tradition, when a sitting president has declared, “We should start an immediate investigation into ___” it generally meant the start of an actual federal probe into serious and credible allegations. In the Trump era, it’s seen as a silly leader blowing off steam.

But below the surface, there’s a broader significance to a tweet like this. It tells us that months into the Russia scandal, the president still doesn’t understand the nature of the controversy.

Since the basic details are apparently the source of some confusion, let’s make this plain: having a meeting with the president of Russia, or a member of his government, is not itself problematic. The fact that Attorney General Jeff Sessions, for example, met with a Russian ambassador during the 2016 campaign is not what prompted yesterday’s controversy.

The problem is that Sessions, like others on Team Trump, made public claims about communications with Russian officials that weren’t true. Instead of making a good-faith effort to defend the deceptions, or constructively addressing the unanswered questions surrounding the scandal, Trump is tweeting a 14-year-old photograph he saw on an odd website and calling for an investigation of a senator who’s done nothing wrong.

In other words, confronted with evidence that his attorney general lied to Congress, Trump apparently thought he could push back by showing Putin having a donut in 2003 with a Senate Democrat. As responses go, it’s genuinely pitiful.

At least in this country, presidents aren’t supposed to conduct themselves this way.

Plenty of Democrats and Republicans in Congress have spoken with officials from plenty of countries. This is evidence of … nothing. What matters is the context: were the communications disclosed? Were they legal? Did they have a legitimate official purpose? Did the policymakers tell the truth about the contacts?

Were the communications with a foreign adversary that launched an illegal espionage operation inside the United States to affect the outcome of an American election?

As of this afternoon, Trump seems baffled by the basics of the Russia scandal. To use a word I know the president will appreciate, that’s just sad.

Postscript: Schumer published a tweet of his own this afternoon, saying he’s happy to discuss his contacts with Russian officials, publicly and under oath. The Democratic leader asked, “Would you and your team” do the same? As best as I can tell, the White House hasn’t answered.

Great idea, I will hide under the mattress w/my money......

Hey Donald!

Senator Schumer has more dignity, common sense, compassion, honesty, intelligence, class, good looks (well it's true) than you and your whole "so called" administration. You're not only a fraud, you're an immature, thin skinned, Richie Rich cry baby, and you're making the country look bad. I know you don't care about The People but like it or not, and you might want to sit down for this, you work for us! You're our servant!

You might be rolling in your daddies money but you have no idea how to roll with the punches. Or, how to tell the truth. You're a wimp.


That was a good vent. I feel better now. Thanks, I needed that. Now, where was I?

Actually he is our real President, that is the pity of it.......

The people looking for jobs will get them when he starts a war. IMHO After all he will have new toys and will want to use them. I say the same thing that I said when W. invaded a sovereign country.....send your kids first to fight.