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@Paekakboyz said in US Politics:
@Gary yep the lack of spending on vets is pretty shit-house given the US war budget. Didn't Trump campaign on improved support etc for them??
Yup. And he is following through on it.
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@Stockcar86 said in US Politics:
Disappointing that Tillerson was the only other US official for the meeting between Putin and Trump, so no substantive reporting on what actually went on.
5 months into the job, so I am assuming this was Trumps first performance review...
Sorry who else did you want in that meeting to provide leaks?
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback - good to hear. Will have a look around for what sorts of things are in the pipeline for Vets
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@Paekakboyz Trump is in the process of cleaning up VA.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/09/youre-fired-trumps-va-terminates-500-suspends-200-for-misconduct/
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@Frank - good to see them sorting the dept out. Wonder how Vet care ties into other healthcare (ie other systems in flux)... had caught a doco on Vice about Vets not being able to access marijuana even when it was prescribed (at state level) due to country wide policy.
So VA first, then the swamp?
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@Frank said in US Politics:
In regard to the Paris Climate agreement, it seems Turkey might pull out. Their reason is they are not going to get enough money. Not to worry, the other countries that love it so much will pony up the cash - won't they??
No really? The many only signed up to get wedges of cash from the few??? Who woulda thought...
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@Gary You are correct. My mistake.
I have corrected it with this quote from the article
".....the revelation that four of the seven memos included some sort of classified information opens a new door of inquiry into whether classified information was mishandled, improperly stored or improperly shared. "
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@reprobate said in US Politics:
so it seems chump jr and others met with a russian promising dirt on clinton, and 'forgot' to mention this earlier? they don't help themselves much, do they.
So what? This is another example of nothing being made into something by a desperate left.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:
@reprobate said in US Politics:
so it seems chump jr and others met with a russian promising dirt on clinton, and 'forgot' to mention this earlier? they don't help themselves much, do they.
So what? This is another example of nothing being made into something by a desperate left.
I was at a hospital waiting room with my wife yesterday and this "scoop" was breathlessly revealed on the tv in front of us. My wife, who thinks Trump is utterly repulsive, turned to me and said the equivalent of "wtf was that?"
Indeed. How tf is this even news?
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There is an investigation into the possibility of trump campaign and russian collusion to influence an election result, and there appears to be evidence of trump jr going to a meeting with a Russian lawyer specifically to get damaging information re the opposing candidate, with others from the trump campaign. Now seems to be he was told in advance it was russian government sourced. He forgot to mention it previously, despite the investigation.
And you ask why that is news?
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@reprobate said in US Politics:
There is an investigation into the possibility of trump campaign and russian collusion to influence an election result, and there appears to be evidence of trump jr going to a meeting with a Russian lawyer specifically to get damaging information re the opposing candidate, with others from the trump campaign. Now seems to be he was told in advance it was russian government sourced. He forgot to mention it previously, despite the investigation.
And you ask why that is news?
It's still quite possible that the meeting was nothing, but it is most definitely news.Unless they can prove this meeting was actual evidence of Russian collusion then it's just the usual Russia-Trump conspiracy bullshit that the press has been crapping on about for the past few months.
Btw Trump has hardly been acting like a Kremlin stooge recently. Maybe it's all a cunning ruse.
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@reprobate said in US Politics:
There is an investigation into the possibility of trump campaign and russian collusion to influence an election result, and there appears to be evidence of trump jr going to a meeting with a Russian lawyer specifically to get damaging information re the opposing candidate, with others from the trump campaign. Now seems to be he was told in advance it was russian government sourced. He forgot to mention it previously, despite the investigation.
And you ask why that is news?
It's still quite possible that the meeting was nothing, but it is most definitely news.It is news that a member of a campaign goes to see someone who claims that they have damaging information about the opposing campaign... and not only does nothing come of it, but there was nothing to start with and the whole thing was a hoax with a link to the group that made up the Trump prostitute nonsense dossier?
Nah.It is not possible it was nothing.. it was nothing. Has anyone claimed they talked about anything interesting?
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@reprobate said in US Politics:
So someone can go to a meeting with the intention of getting damaging information about a candidate from a foreign government, i.e. colluding, and that is nothing.
That isn't collusion. What if the information the person had was showing criminal wrongdoing by Clinton? Smells more like a set up than anything else,. and that begs the question why? Perhaps so that they go get a FISA warrant to wiretap another campaign? Seems more like a meeting set up by a group paid to do dirty politics on Trump.
The whole thing is just a farce and media/Democrat beat up.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback if the russian government has acquired damaging information about a politician that is not public, then it would be a fair assumption that it had been obtained by illegal means. to then engage with their representative with the intention to receive and use that information in an election campaign would be, pretty much by definition, collusion.
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