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December 12, 2019

Trump Jr. big hunter warning vomit producing stuff

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-donald-trump-jr-went-to-mongolia-got-special-treatment-from-the-government-and-killed-an-endangered-sheep

Donald Trump Jr. Went to Mongolia, Got Special Treatment From the Government and Killed an Endangered Sheep
During a summer 2019 hunting trip, Donald Trump Jr. killed a rare argali sheep. The Mongolian government issued him a hunting permit retroactively and he met with the country’s president.

Trump Jr. shot his argali at night, using a rifle with a laser sight, the guides said. He stopped the local hunting guides from dismembering it at the kill site, instead instructing them to use an aluminum sheet to carry the carcass so as not to damage the fur and horns, said Khuandyg Akhbas, 50, one of the guides. He also killed a red deer, which similarly required a permit.

December 12, 2019

Tell me this is not Bill Barr?




BTW apologies to Droopy Dog, his creators, animators, and fans.
December 12, 2019

I think I have just found my soul mate .... I just got this random email tonight.

It is so good to know that we have such love in this world.

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December 11, 2019

Internet slams 'disgusting' Donald Trump Jr. after he skates for killing endangered Mongolian sheep

According to new reports, Donald Trump Jr. illegally shot and killed an endangered argali sheep on a taxpayer-funded hunting trip in Western Mongolia in August — and the Mongolian government retroactively gave him a permit rather than tread on the toes of the U.S. government.

The report was met with outrage on social media, with commenters blasting Trump Jr.’s bloodthirst for endangered animals and the wealth and privilege that allowed him to kill them with no accountability. Some even compared it to the right-wing outrage about Hunter Biden being given a free position on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/internet-slams-disgusting-donald-trump-jr-after-he-skates-for-killing-endangered-mongolian-sheep/

From wiki:
Argali are considered an endangered or threatened species throughout their entire range, due largely to habitat loss from overgrazing of domestic sheep and hunting. As the world's largest sheep, the lure to gather a trophy specimen is strong among sports-hunters. They are hunted for both their meat and their horns, used in traditional Chinese medicine, and poaching continues to be a major (and difficultilly managed) problem. Argali have been extirpated from northeastern China, southern Siberia, and parts of Mongolia. Populations of predators such as gray wolves and snow leopards have appeared to have been negatively affected by the scarcity of argali.

In Pakistan-administered Kashmir it is listed as an endangered species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argali

The little shit traveled halfway around the world to kill an endangered wild animal and we got to pay for it.
BTW according to another report the Mongolian government had to make Trump Jr's hunting permit retroactive.

December 11, 2019

F.U. Barr: TRUMP'S RUSSIA COVER-UP BY THE NUMBERS - 272 CONTACTS WITH RUSSIA-LINKED OPERATIVES

This is an older post but:

The Trump team tried to cover up every single one of them.


Last Updated June 3, 2019

On April 18, 2019, a redacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s “Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election” (Mueller Report) was released to the public. The Mueller report builds on the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that there were two campaigns to elect Donald Trump— one run by Trump and one run by the Russian government. The Mueller report clearly identified collusionbetween the Trump campaign and Russia, despite repeated denials from Trump and many of his senior advisers and close associates that there were any connections between the two campaigns.

A total of 272 contacts between Trump’s team and Russia-linked operatives have been identified, including at least 38 meetings. And we know that at least 33 high-ranking campaign officials and Trump advisers were aware of contacts with Russia-linked operatives during the campaign and transition, including Trump himself. None of these contacts were ever reported to the proper authorities. Instead, the Trump team tried to cover up every single one of them.

Beyond the many lies the Trump team told to the American people, Mueller himself repeatedly remarked on how far the Trump team was willing to go to hide their Russian contacts, stating, “the investigation established that several individuals affiliated with the Trump Campaign lied to the Office, and to Congress, about their interactions with Russian-affiliated individuals and related matters. Those lies materially impaired the investigation of Russian election interference.”


https://themoscowproject.org/explainers/trumps-russia-cover-up-by-the-numbers-70-contacts-with-russia-linked-operatives/

December 10, 2019

It is here. Post if you want.

December 9, 2019

How many republicans have repeated Russian promoted talking points today?

It was Hillary/Dems working with the Ukraine in 2016 to make Trump/Russia look bad.

This is not the party of Eisenhower or even Reagan. Treasonous bastards.

“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell”


― Carl Sandburg


December 9, 2019

The IG's report was going to be their "fire wall." So much for that.

“Clearly, there was a legitimate, factual basis; in fact the FBI had a moral imperative to begin this investigation,” Blumenthal said. In particular, he said the inspector general had rebutted claims that Trump campaign advisers were illegally surveilled or entrapped, or that political motive was “in any way a factor.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/inspector-general-report-trump-russia-investigation/2019/12/09/d5940d88-184c-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html

Thanx to DUer elleng for posting this. It really is her world and we just live in it.

December 9, 2019

Nutball @ my low rent gym wanted to know what I thought about all this "impeachment stuff."

Asked if I support it and I said yes and the followed up w/well look at all the democrats
and all this stuff they are doing and so on to which I said they are doing the right thing,
following the Constitution, and showing that no man is above the law. Besides are you
comfortable with Russia installing Trump into the White House and they you can't be for
America and Trump @ the same time. They are mutually exclusive. To which he said but
what about all the dealings Obama had w/Russia? And that Hillary skipped campaigning in
the rust belt states because she thought she had won and ....

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