patrick.net

Every once in a while someone quotes that idiot and I remember all over again why I have him on ignore.

Should take back everything that was given for this boondoggle.

Gayin Newscum is a fucking male bimbo.

TDS to the MAX!

The IRS still prosecutes Tax scawflaws don't they?

How much or how little taxes he paid because of the sorry bastard Presidents before him, rigging the rules for him to pay next to nothing. Is no concern of mine, he's the agent of change, not the guy who fucked up the Soup in the first place.


Why Is Trump's taxes your business, and why should I care?
That's the $60,000 Tax bill question.

theoakman says

These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now?"

LOL!

But this is scary. When the next crash comes, capitalism/repubs will be blamed.

gsr says

But this is scary. When the next crash comes, capitalism/repubs will be blamed.

That's true, because if your team was in charge (the Socialists) there would be nothing to crash, the money would already be gone.

Patrick says

Now if she would only point out how the Saudis also use their money the same way.

Or Qatar. I just learned that Bezos owns a large chunk of WaPo, but so do Qatari investors.

Explains the Khashoggi hire and the anti-Saudi propaganda.

His secret Bush’s baked beans recipe. And the dog won’t tell either.

I'd like to see Obama university transcripts to see if he was an affirmative action student or not. I'd also like to see Trump tax returns, but I think I will not see any of that

Elgatouno says

Turns out the only people commiting voter fraud last Blue Wave was the GOP

Now you went and ruined everything by telling...geeze. It would have been so much fun to let the accusations continue for awhile against the Dems

Well there was plenty of voter fraud but it's a racial hate crime to ask or inquire on why Board or Election supervisors locked themselves in backrooms and manufactured the votes needed to win. When on the close of the polls on Super Tuesday everyone of those districts had the GOP ahead.

Not all Democrats are enept stupid retards that requires 3 extra weeks to count their votes are they?

Perhaps we need an IQ test to get a voter registration.

Must be able to get a government picture ID if you're too fucking stupid to do that, then you got no business voting or doing other Adulting things.

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Well there was plenty of voter fraud but it's a racial hate crime to ask or inquire on why Board or Election supervisors locked themselves in backrooms and manufactured the votes needed to win. When on the close of the polls on Super Tuesday everyone of those districts had the GOP ahead.

Not all Democrats are enept stupid retards that requires 3 extra weeks to count their votes are they?

Perhaps we need an IQ test to get a voter registration.

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That would eliminate yourself and many more on this forum,

Speaking of Racist scumbags.

I have been deriding the KKK all year long as nothing more than Democrat Political Costume and a Race baiting Yeti Suit.
I have done it here, I've done it GAB, and in every Disqus thread where it fits.

And so far I want you to know. Not one White Racist Cartoon version of the Republicans, has shown up to prove me wrong. It's always Liberals and Democrats feeding me Wiki and ADL and SPLC links. I got a long list this morning on a Disqus thread. Apparently someone named "Thomas Rob" is the grand wizard. I alleged that the KKK simply does not exist as an organization due to the fact it could not survive without members and donations or member fees. There simply is not a public membership or donation drive. How can they exist without members and funds. Furthermore if they were a real organization all these years and not just a Political Yetis Suit the Liberals store in the Closet until History presents them with a Candidate they can not defeat. They surely would be a legit organization by now. They would have lawyered up decades ago and pushed back on the reverse discrimination. But since it's the Democrats Mupet on a string, the KKK has never done anything to improve their legal standing. America has always had the right to free speech. Even Mafia organized Crime entities eventually Lawyered up and look legit, they don't have to hide underground. Their illicit activities perhaps but they walk out among us in broad daylight. May other unsavory organizations does as well. just look at the Black Panthers, even their reign of terror and bombing of political figures in the 60's and 70's hasn't tarnished their reputation. You can call them up and join or cut them a check.

Are we to believe the KKK is some clandestine secret society that operates in the Shadows?

If so, then even that sounds like an elite society of Rich people that don't need your money or help. Doesn't sound a Trump supporter to me.


I checked out this Thomas Rob, you can to with a simple Google query. He has a Webpage that looks like it was made in 1995, and says he's a Ministry.
But only provides a PO Box, all of the other links on his page are dead links. Who runs a Ministry from a PO box? Who runs a Ministry and doens't ask for donations?


Fuck you Liberals stop wearing the Yeti suit it's painfully obvious it's just Obama under there.

Putin has promised Trump the right to fuck any woman in Russia. Outing this agreement would be embarassing to both leaders

Trump's tax returns, were on Debbie Wasserman Shultz DNC server for safe keeping.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Humor has to be on ice, to be funny. This is too fiery.

North Carolina board votes to hold new House election over absentee ballot fraud



Mark Harris, Republican candidate in North Carolina's Ninth Congressional District race, fights back tears at the conclusion of his son John Harris's testimony during a public hearing on voting irregularities. (Photo: Travis Long/News & Observer via AP, Pool)

The North Carolina Board of Elections voted unanimously to hold a new election in the state’s Ninth District after overwhelming evidence of vote tampering.

Prior to the board’s decision, Republican Mark Harris, the declared winner in the race who had been fighting for his election to be certified, changed his position and called for a new election. Harris was initially declared the winner by 905 votes over Democrat Dan McCready, but the race was never certified, as evidence began to surface of ballot fraud by employees of the Harris campaign. On the fourth day of an evidentiary hearing by the board, Harris said there should be another election.

“Through the testimony I’ve listened to over the last three days, I believe a new election should be called,” Harris said in a statement Thursday afternoon. “It has become clear to me that the public’s confidence in the Ninth District seat general election has been undermined to an extent that a new election is warranted.”

After hearing testimony all week, the board — which consists of three Democrats and two Republicans — ruled that absentee ballots were illegally collected by Harris staffers. A spokesperson for state Republican Party told Yahoo News that candidates would file to run in a new primary prior to the special election.

Republicans initially objected that Democrats were trying to “steal” the election with claims of fraud, but over the last several months evidence accumulated that a Harris consultant had sent workers to collect absentee ballots and destroy them or fill them in for the Republican.

“While it is disappointing that folks may have violated the law, at this point we are dealing with a limited number of ballots that are nowhere close to bringing the election result into question,” Dallas Woodhouse, head of the North Carolina Republican Party, told reporters on Monday.

The campaign staffer, Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr., a local political operative, has been convicted of fraud and perjury unrelated to politics. And this is not the first time that races Dowless has been involved with have had curious results. In 2016, a candidate who hired Dowless won 221 of the 226 absentee ballots cast despite finishing third overall in the primary. In 2014, Dowless worked for a candidate who was narrowly elected sheriff amid allegations of absentee ballot misconduct.

Dowless, who hasn’t been charged with any crime, declined to be interviewed by the board.

The case for Harris took a negative turn on Wednesday when his son John Harris, a 29-year-old assistant U.S. attorney testified that he had warned his father that Dowless was “shady” and “he thought what he was doing was illegal.” Harris also said that he had raised concerns with the campaign’s chief strategist, David Yates.

“Mr. Yates said he was shocked and disturbed by the testimony,” said John Harris. “I was disturbed. Less shocked.”

The younger Harris added that he didn’t think his father, who was brought to tears by his son’s testimony, knew about the tampering.

“I had no reason to believe that my father actually knew, or my mother or any other associate with the campaign had any knowledge,” said John Harris. “I think Dowless told them he wasn’t doing any of this, and they believed him.”

Mark Harris had initially denied reports that he had any warning about Dowless. A former senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Charlotte, Harris has controversial positions on some social issues. In his statement on Thursday, Harris said that he had been hospitalized in January and was still recovering from sepsis.

During this week’s hearing, operatives explained how they were paid by Dowless to collect absentee ballots, sign as a witness when they hadn’t seen ballots filled out and forge signatures.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-carolina-board-votes-to-hold-new-house-election-over-absentee-ballot-fraud-213703280.html

Crying those Jimmy Swaggart style tears - I have sinned Jebus

@HEYYOU - Didn't see your post so I took mine back down just now on the same topic - no need for two of the same.

CA flat out made up votes with vote harvesting, it'll never get recounted though.

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Trump is going to pull out and let Obama's traitorous operatives get dispatched by Russia, it's easier this way.

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Instead of the full withdrawal the president promised, the United States will leave several hundred troops in Syria.

John Bolton, the U.S. national security advisor and longtime Iran hawk, has won a crucial victory with the partial reversal of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria.

In an apparent softening of Trump’s abrupt announcement last December that the United States would pull out completely from Syria—a move that blindsided U.S. allies and prompted the resignation of his defense secretary, James Mattis—the administration now concedes that a small force of roughly 400 troops will remain in the country.

That number includes a “peace keeping group” of about 200 troops in northeastern Syria, where the U.S.- and coalition-backed Syrian Democratic Forces are still fighting the remnants of the Islamic State, and another 200 stationed at the al Tanf garrison, a remote base in southeastern Syria near the border with Jordan, according to a senior administration official.

The decision, which was initially announced in a late Feb. 21 statement from White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, came just hours after a phone call between Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The two leaders agreed to continue coordinating the creation of a potential safe zone on Turkey’s border with Syria, according to the White House. It’s the second time in recent months that a major decision on Syria followed a phone call between Trump and Erdogan.

During a meeting with Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar at the Pentagon on Friday afternoon, Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said the mission in Syria remains unchanged: the defeat of the Islamic State. The U.S. troops that remain in the country will be focused on “stabilization and enhancing the “security capability of local security forces,” he noted.

“We will do that as strategic partners,” Shanahan said.

Maintaining a presence in Syria, particularly at Tanf, which straddles a potential Iranian supply route through Iraq to Syria, has been a goal of Bolton’s for months. During a January trip to the region aimed at reassuring allies that the United States was not backing down from its strategy to counter Iranian aggression, Bolton reportedly discussed with Israeli officials the plan to leave forces at the base as a way to diminish Tehran’s influence in the region.

Tanf was originally a U.S. outpost to train local Syrian fighters. But as the Islamic State has steadily crumbled, Tanf has become a crucial buttress against Iranian influence. Officials in 2017 established an “exclusion zone” about 34 miles around the garrison, which allows U.S. troops to claim self-defense in striking Iranian or other forces moving through that area.

But a continued U.S. presence at Tanf, which is far from the fight against the Islamic State in northeastern Syria, poses major risks. An incident at the garrison in 2017 involving the transport of an Iranian port-a-potty nearly led to a confrontation between U.S. and Iranian forces, illustrating just how quickly even minor events could escalate on the complex battlefield there.

Furthermore, leaving small forces in both Syria and Iraq to “watch Iran” rather than fight the Islamic State raises legal questions. U.S. troops are able to fight nonstate militants, such as the Islamic State or al Qaeda, under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), a response to 9/11. But U.S. military forces are not authorized to target state actors—such as Iranian, Russian, Syrian, or proxy regime forces in Syria—unless they are attacked and are responding in self-defense.

“Congress hasn’t authorized an anti-Iran mission in Syria. The truth is the legal basis for the U.S. military presence in Syria, the 2001 AUMF, is pretty shaky and needs to be revisited,” an aide for Sen. Bernie Sanders told FP in early February. “Any move by the Trump administration to expand that authorization even more to include operations against Iran will definitely draw a response from Congress.”

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/02/22/how-john-bolton-won-the-beltway-battle-over-syria/

One previously unreported incident from 2017 illustrates the risks of Trump’s latest plan. How U.S. Mission Creep in Syria and Iraq Could Trigger War With Iran.

n incident in Syria two years ago involving the transport of an Iranian port-a-potty nearly led to a confrontation between American and Iranian forces, underscoring just how quickly even minor events could escalate there.

The episode, told here for the first time, is particularly instructive as the Trump administration signals it might leave behind a small force in both Syria and Iraq to monitor Iranian activities.

Some analysts and U.S. officials believe that the change of mission for those forces could raise the chances of a war between the United States and Iran—and that it may even be illegal under the U.S. Constitution.

President Donald Trump announced in December 2018 that he’s withdrawing all U.S. troops from Syria, but administration sources told Foreign Policy last month that he’s considering keeping a small force at a remote base in southeastern Syria, far from the last remnants of the Islamic State, to counter Iran. And yesterday, Trump said he wants to maintain some troops in Iraq for the same purpose.

“I want to be able to watch Iran,” he told CBS’s Face the Nation. “We’re going to keep watching and we’re going to keep seeing,” he said.

In both countries, the strategy would constitute a core operational change, raising broad questions about the mission. Then-President Barack Obama completed a drawdown of all U.S. forces in Iraq in 2011, bringing an end to the 2003 Iraq War. But the Islamic State’s sweep of broad territories in Iraq and Syria in 2014 prompted the United States to intervene militarily in both countries, alongside a coalition of other militaries, to fight the militant group.

“What is the strategy? What would be the rules of engagement? How would we avoid being sucked into a regional war not of our making?” said Kelly Magsamen, the vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress. “If I’m a service member in Syria, I would want to know what the heck I was doing there and how my mission fit into a strategy.”

The port-a-potty incident, described here for the first time, took place at a small U.S. outpost called al-Tanf, which sits along a potential Iranian supply route through Iraq to Syria in the southeast part of the country, in May 2017—at a time of heightened tensions across the region. Just weeks earlier, the United States had launched cruise missiles at the Syrian regime’s Shayrat air base in response to a chemical weapons attack on the town of Khan Shaykhun. The night after the missile strike, on the evening of April 8, al-Tanf itself came under attack from Islamic State fighters. The ensuing battle left three U.S.-backed Syrian fighters dead.

The situation remained tense throughout the next few weeks. On the night of May 9, Russia conducted airstrikes just 14 miles from al-Tanf—close enough that the soldiers could hear the aircraft, according to a U.S. defense official who requested anonymity in discussing internal deliberations. Alarmed, U.S. officials quickly negotiated an agreement with Moscow for advance notice whenever Russian planes strike within a 55-kilometer (34-mile) radius around the garrison to ensure they did not endanger coalition forces.

“The agreement was about airstrikes. But it quickly became our narrative that this is our territory,” the official said about the 55-kilometer exclusion zone.

Days later, a group of pro-regime forces believed to be affiliated with Iran or Lebanese Hezbollah told U.S. commanders, through Russian intermediaries, that they intended to pass through al-Tanf to meet up with a group of Iranian-backed forces in Iraq, who were moving toward the border. The headquarters for the Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve—the name of the joint task force established by the U.S.-led international coalition against the Islamic State to coordinate military efforts against the group—declined to answer the message, a silence Russia apparently took as consent, the official said.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/02/04/how-u-s-mission-creep-in-syria-and-iraq-could-trigger-war-with-iran/

Ha, Foreign Policy. The magazine that wanted to invade Iran when Bush and Obama were President, talking about how about a thousand troops hanging around the Syria-Iraq border is too much.

And quoting Bernie Sanders Aide in conclusion, what a laugh riot.

The same magazine that is militantly against withdrawal from Afghanistan 17 years on.

Leaving 200 "peacekeepers" there gives us a ready to excuse to dive back in to protect our "assets".

That is all Bolton needs to convince Trump - sacrifice a % of those "peace keepers" and he gets his war so he can die happy.

HEYYOU says

ISIS has largely been eliminated as a terrain-holding organization

That is a far cry from ISIS/ISIL is defeated....they will be back sooner than anyone thinks, the Ideology is quite alive and they live to fight another day - many more days.

Much better to lose a battle than the war - pull back, regroup and wait.

Might have some street cred if Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi and his top aides were taken out but this is not the case.

For any military confrontation between any two countries or entities, "defeated" in the 21st century means "contained, with possible isolated confrotations"
No one ever gets the German japanese Italian version anymore.
Kakistocracy says

That is a far cry from ISIS/ISIL is defeated...

Who held a standard?
We are not fighting midevil wars

Actually we are and we are not using the correct tactics but that is not sinking in, hasn't since Vietnam

Kakistocracy says

Leaving 200 "peacekeepers" there gives us a ready to excuse to dive back in to protect our "assets".

And monitor Iraq-Syrian traffic.

You may remember that ISIS was born in Iraq when Obama pulled out in a hurry, then spread rapidly to Syria.

MisterLearnToCode says

You may remember that ISIS was born in Iraq when Obama pulled out in a hurry, then spread rapidly to Syria.

And that has what to do with the claim that ISIS/ISIL is defeated which they are not.

Can we roll in Benghazi now ?