pacino wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:

pacino wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:this exercise is silly bc most of the world didnt think trump would win even after he had enough delegates

once he had the most delegates it was his. the rest was silly.

it was also always goin to be a tight race and tough for the Democrat to get elected.

just saying, two years out saying the nom is bernies if he wants it is a decent leap.

the post before mine listed 5 people who could potentially be the Democratic nominee and none of them were him. I figure we should at least mention the most popular one.

lethal wrote:I named only people younger than Obama and excluded people in their 60s and 70s, as the post indicates.

Donald Morisette wrote:Isn’t it Ironic? Getting ready to go to the G-7 in Canada to fight for our country on Trade (we have the worst trade deals ever made), then off to Singapore to meet with North Korea & the Nuclear Problem...But back home we still have the 13 Angry Democrats pushing the Witch Hunt!

thephan wrote:Alice Johnson was convicted of being in possession of 86 keys of coke with an intent to distribute, and money laundering. She said it was a "conspiracy theory" meaning that she was convicted for everything that everyone else did. Of course it was conspiracy to commit, not a theory, but her lack of accountability was curious.

thephan wrote:

 Members of a group of outside experts required by law to meet twice a year with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau say the group has been dissolved by CFPB head Mick Mulvaney

To be replaced. Place your bets. I got a board of people the CFBA successfully took action against.

Mulvaney, a longtime critic of the CFPB, said there was “no cause for concern” about the meetings being canceled, but then the board was disbanded on Wednesday.

“It’s obviously very concerning to us,” said Ann Baddour, director of the fair financial services project at the public interest justice center Texas Appleseed and chair of the Consumer Advisory Board.

Anthony Welcher, the CFPB’s policy associate director for external affairs, held a conference call with advisory board members on Wednesday announcing the decision. He told members they weren’t invited to reapply to their posts, as the bureau was looking or “new perspectives” for “new dialogues,” according to a recording of the call obtained by Politico.

Baddour said Welcher gave two explanations for why the advisory board was being disbanded — to save money, and because of responses to requests for information sent out by the bureau as part of a broader review process.

Baddour said she doesn’t buy either justification — the advisory board is a very small part of the CFPB’s budget, and Welcher couldn’t point to any request for information responses calling for dissolving the advisory boards. She said he admitted the request period has yet to close.

The Consumer Advisory Board was created to ensure that the bureau would “always hear from diverse experts that were in touch with communities outside of Washington, DC,” and removed from the lobbying industry, Baddour said. And now the ousted members are worried that will be lost.

Donald Trump wrote:Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor: “It all proves that we never needed a Special Councel....All of this could have been done by the Justice Dept. Don’t need a multi-million dollar group of people with a target on someone’s back. Not the way Justice should operate.” So true!

U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell,who is scheduled to meet with German Foreign Ministry officials on Wednesday, needs to rethink his role in Germany or risk becoming a "highly ineffective" ambassador, a prominent lawmaker from Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives told DW.

"[Grenell's] time may be quickly running out to be an effective and workable ambassador to this country," Andreas Nick, a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) lawmaker who also sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee in the German parliament, said on Tuesday.

Grenell has been roundly condemned in Germany after he said it was his goal to "empower" anti-establishment conservative forces in Europe in an interview with right-wing news outlet Breitbart.

Grenell's language, Nick said, was "highly inappropriate" and, when translated into German, reminiscent of language used by extremist politicians in the 1930s.

"If you're a (feminist) and you support the porn industry, you should turn in your credentials," Giuliani told CNN Thursday.

On Wednesday, Giuliani said Daniels -- who is in a legal battle with Trump over an affair that she alleges happened between the two of them a decade ago -- has "no reputation" to be damaged.

"If you're going to sell your body for money, you just don't have a reputation. I may be old fashioned, I dunno," Giuliani said in Israel.