Yanks prez Randy Levine being mentioned for chief of staff.

traderdave wrote:"President Donald Trump has agreed to a request from Defense Secretary James Mattis to propose a defense budget of $750 billion for the coming year, marking a reversal from plans to shrink defense spending, an administration official confirmed to CNN".

SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS

I am all for spending for our national defense (even though a good chunk of that $750 billion will go to the defense of others in the name of our national interest) but holy #$!&@ that's a lot of money. Glad to see we have our priorities straight.

You never know when Canada might invade

Stock market dropping hard again

Currently negative on the year.

Looks like Butina may have reached a plea deal.

It's NRA nut cuttin' time.

/Phillies crossover post

JUburton wrote:Currently negative on the year.

i picked a heckuva year to reach my 401k max by October

Meet the Bottomless Pinocchio, a new rating for a false claim repeated over and over again

President Trump rarely stops repeating false statements in response to fact checks, so 14 of his repeated claims make the initial list.

LOL

Failing WaPo.

1. The Trump tax cut was the biggest in history 123x
2. Overstating the size of U.S. trade deficits 117x
3. The U.S. economy has never been stronger 99x
4. Inflating our NATO spending 87x
5. The U.S. has started building the wall 86x
6. The U.S. has the loosest immigration laws in the world — thanks to Democrats 52x
7. Democrats colluded with Russia during the campaign 42x
8. The border wall will stop drug trafficking 40x
9. U.S. Steel is building many new plants 37x
10. The U.S. has spent $6 trillion (or more) on Middle East wars 36x
11. Thousands of MS-13 members have been removed from the country 33x
12. McCain’s vote was the only thing that blocked repeal of the Affordable Care Act 30x
13. Robert S. Mueller III is biased because of conflicts of interest 30x
14. Inflating gains from a 2017 trip to Saudi Arabia 23x

There are some smocking guns right there.

To put a tip on that pencil, the Washington Post is actually saying that it had to invent a new way to describe lies to account for the president.

CalvinBall wrote:Stock market dropping hard again

*Smock market.

Mark Meadows would be honored to be considered for CoS. I know very little about that area. Been to NC style hippy land Ashville once, but just across the tracks from main street seems about what I would expect, a fortress of conservative ideals, so I see no real change to the house in a special election.

I was talking with a local sheriff over the weekend and he was telling me that when DJT first went to Trump National that they would provide the officers sandwiches and burgers while they managed traffic control and perimeter security, but about 3 or 4 visits in the staff was sent out with menus that they could order from for cash.

CARL BERNSTEIN quoting a Rep source.

"MUELLER knows everything about Russia" The source referred to all Trump connections with Russia.

Lions and tigers and bears. OH MY!!!!!!

Sarah Palin can see Russia from her back yard.

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Given that the US is now the leader in Oil production this is an interesting fact.

This may be a net positive for the country.

At the right time this subsidy should go away. I do not think now is the time.

Oil pricing power keeps oil lower than it would be if Russia and Saudi were setting prices.

We live in a complicated world.

joboggi wrote:CARL BERNSTEIN quoting a Rep source.

"MUELLER knows everything about Russia" The source referred to all Trump connections with Russia.

Lions and tigers and bears. OH MY!!!!!!

As long as its not a topic on Jeopardy then it means nothin.

The Lions and tigers and bears?

Or the fact that Mueller has ALL the dope on the Donald and Russia.

I bet Mueller also has the dope on all the domestic deals from which Donald took his cut.

I wonder what this is all about. Seems like more than a coincidence, but maybe not.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/prime-bet ... ol-edition

I wonder what it’s all about too monkey boy. Link is what goes to a login that says premium content, and then gives options for how to pay to get to it. Can you summarize?