JoyV

How often have I documented my posts and how often have you? I am writing this off my phone to save data from using my jet pack hot spot. So I can't look up and post the CBP and DHS sites. But since I cited them and didn't just make an unsubstantiated claim which you would have to guess where too go to get the documents; certainly going to at least one of those sites is something you can do. DHS often has combined figures while CBP has the raw data. This month the apprehensions have dropped by half. What is different this month is the new policy to not allow asylum seekers inside the country while their case is evaluated, and Mexico is working to stem the tide of asylum seekers crossing their country, AND the SCOTUS case was won for the policy of denying asylum to anyone who crosses another country than their own without requesting asylum. These seem to be making coming here to request asylum less attractive. That last is an educated guess and not spelled out in the charts and documents. So go to CBP and possibly DHS and see if I am right.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

One of my greatest irritations about President Obama.

In those 2 years when he should have pushed through as much as he could, he wasted the opportunity by trying to build cooperation with the republicans who had already vowed to obstruct every thing he attempted to do. even when it was a reintroduction of past republican bills..

So i hope lesson learned.. never try to work with those who want to destroy you and your country..

debeda

Very good thoughts. And if were lucky enough, in this life, some spiritual things move from believing to knowing. As St. Francis

debeda

Echoes my sentiments and experiences exactly, JoyV. I also read the report. Too bad so many are relying on dishonest media for their facts

debeda

WTH are you talking about? Did you read the ENTIRE Mueller report? If you did, you would know that reporting on it was non-contexual, distorted, and in some cases flat out lies. JoyV ALWAYS posts factually.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

I know you are familiar with all these quotes and more, because you read alll 400 plus pages..

this is from Reuters and more are in the article.

I would post the report itself but as someone said, it is far to long for posting on OPP..

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-quotes-factbox/key-quotes-from-u-s-special-counsel-muellers-report-idUSKCN1RU20H

The following are some key quotes from Mueller’s 448-page report:

“When (former Attorney General Jeff) Sessions told the President that a Special Counsel had been appointed, the President slumped back in his chair and said, ‘Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I’m fucked.’”

“While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”

“The evidence supports the inference that the President intended (former campaign Chairman Paul) Manafort to believe that he could receive a pardon, which would make cooperation with the government as a means of obtaining a lesser sentence unnecessary.”

“You gotta do this. You gotta call Rod ...,” Trump told former White House Counsel Donald McGahn during a June 17, 2017, phone call in which he asked McGahn to remove Mueller due to conflicts of interest.

“Call Rod, tell Rod that Mueller has conflicts and can’t be the Special Counsel,” Trump said during a second phone call that same day. “Mueller has to go. ... Call me back when you do it.”

“I don’t have a lawyer,” Trump told aides on March 3, 2017, the day after learning that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had recused himself from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 e******n.

“You’re telling me that Bobby (Kennedy) and Jack (Kennedy didn’t talk about investigations? Or Obama didn’t tell Eric (Attorney General Eric) Holder who to investigate?” Trump asked McGahn in connection with frustration over Sessions’ recusal.

Now that we fired Flynn, the Russia thing is over,” Trump said to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie during a Valentine’s Day lunch in 2017. “No way,” Christie replied with a laugh. “This Russia thing is far from over... ‘(W)e’ll be here on Valentine’s Day 2018 talking about this.”

“...It would also be a bad idea for the President because it looked as if my ambassadorial appointment was in some way a quid pro quo.” - former Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarland, who refused a request to draft an email declaring that Trump had not directed Michael Flynn to discuss sanctions with the Russian ambassador.

She documented the request in a memo, after she was asked to resign and offered a position instead as ambassador to Singapore.

“Can you look into this? Don’t want to get duped but don’t want to blow off Putin!” - former Trump campaign secretary Hope Hicks, in an email to Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, after receiving an email from a Russian Embassy official with the subject line “Message from Putin.”

“If he doesn’t write a letter, then maybe I’ll have to get rid of him,” - Trump, telling Staff Secretary Rob Porter that he would fire White House Counsel McGahn if McGahn refused to craft a memo stating that Trump never directed him to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Trump also called McGahn a “lying bastard,” according to Porter’s account.

“Keep in touch with your friend.” - Trump, in directing Porter to keep in touch with former Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand to see if she might be interested in becoming attorney general and overseeing Mueller’s probe.

JoyV

Thanks for the v**e of confidence. But sometimes I post something without doing a thorough check which turns out to be inaccurate.

JoyV

No need to post 400 pages. Simply post the link to the pdf of the report. Any story from any news outlet, even if they were working hard to be unbiased, will color the story to some degree with their opinions. The farther removed from the source, the more people's opinions will have influenced it.

currahee506

A combat veteran, having gotten shot by a bullet in a battle knows, thinks and believes that the c*******t enemy combatant wants to k**l me because I am a non-c*******t soldier wanting to k**l him/her.

The only difference between this scenario in Viet Nam and what is happening over here is formal, not substantial. In Viet Nam it was a "war of bullets;" Currently, in the US, it's a "war of words."

My strategic advice to we who love freedom and h**e c*******m is to let the "do-gooder-victim-bleeding-heart-for-the-criminal-pro-government-hand-out-h**ers-of-the-private-sector-indoctrinated-Marxist-deniers" destroy themselves with their own rhetoric. Why waste our time thinking that we can change their thinking when we know that an indoctrinated Marxist is devoid of the sk**l to think critically? Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB spy (now a Christian), said in an interview with Griffith that since the time when FDR gave sanction to cultural Marxist professors in our major universities that an entire generation has been de-moralized. Now we have journalist, major "news" television stations and political leaders who can pull the triggers on the youth and lead them like the pied piper.

Boycott them like you do any business that you don't like. In other words, don't feed them with your anger energy. If A****a breaks the law, put them in jail and fine them until they are no longer a threat, etc.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

I see no value in searching 400 pages for statements that are found in legitimate news media.

While i admire your presentation and your support, it does not degrade the reports that are so much more specific to a particular search..

I have no expectation of changing your mind, while you make a solid case and good arguments, the mind fixation is much like Radiance or Eagle.. never will I change anyone mind on OPP.. it is all pointless..

But I will v**e and encourage everyone I know to do so as well..

Facts looking for a home..

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Can we also jail the skin heads, the other boys clubs of the right wing?

we do not want to miss any of the rabble..

currahee506

If they break the law and destroy property, yes. But if they have the necessary permission from the town or the city to march in protest, wearing any costume they want, except for "nudity, which is still in the law books, illegal, then they can march. You don't have to watch.

Nobody has to listen to any "community organizer." Let them "talk" until they drop. If they make too much noise, hopefully, the policeman will come along a give them a citation.

If enough people decide not to watch, cnn, abc, cbs, nbc and the mr. madow show then the propagandist will either change their tune or go out of business.

JoyV

Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post reported in 2015 that the Ferguson police gunned down an unarmed man who had his hands up and saying "Don't shoot." He went on to decry police r****m and brutality. Touble is, Michael Brown was NOT trying to surrender to police but had actually attacked and was trying to take the cops gun. This story is what inspired Black L***s M****r. The whole anti-cop movement is based on f**e news by WaPo.

The Daily News reported Bergdahl had been captured and praised Obama for making the exchange of the Gitmo terrorists to save an Army hero. This was related TO the media in a Rose Garden press breifing by Obama. Turns out the hero was a deserter and the 5 terrorists released were some of the most dangerous ones at Gitmo.

This one can't be set at any single media outlet's door as the originator. Like the Bergdahlstory, it oiginated with the Obama administration, but the media ran with it. The f**e story was that a video was the cause of the B******i attack on our Ambassador.

November 10, 2016, Washingtom Post's Morning Mix reported 8 t*********r teens committed suicide due to Trump being elected. No other details were forthcoming. Suicide hotlines saw no spike in suicide rates for any group. Though t*********r suicides are always far higher than other demographics.

On November 22, 2016, Gabriel Sherman reported in the New York Magazine that “a group of prominent computer scientists and e******n lawyers” were demanding a recount in three separate states because of “persuasive evidence that [the e******n] results in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania may have been manipulated or hacked.” The evidence? Apparently, “in Wisconsin, Clinton received 7 percent fewer v**es in counties that relied on electronic-v****g machines compared with counties that used optical scanners and paper b****ts.” After the story had gone v***l, they made a correction when one of the scientists names demanded a retraction because he was misrepresented.

December 1, 2016, Lorraine Woellert of Politico published a shocking essay claiming that Trump’s pick for secretary of the Treasury, Steve Mnuchin, had overseen a company that “foreclosed on a 90-year-old woman after a 27-cent payment error.” According to Woellert: “After confusion over insurance coverage, a OneWest subsidiary sent [Ossie] Lofton a bill for $423.30. She sent a check for $423. The bank sent another bill, for 30 cents. Lofton, 90, sent a check for three cents. In November 2014, the bank foreclosed.” The story turned out to be a total fabrication.

On the day of Trump’s inauguration, CNN claimed Nancy Sinatra was “not happy” with the fact that the president and first lady’s inaugural dance would be to the tune of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.” The problem? Nancy Sinatra had never said any such thing.

Also on the day of the inauguration, New York Times writer Coral Davenport published an article on the Times’s website whose headline claimed that the Trump administration had “purged” any “c*****e c****e references” from the White House website. Turns out it was part of a routine turnover of digital authority between administrations.

On January 20, 2017, Time reporter Zeke Miller wrote that a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the White House. But the bust had notonly not been renoved, it hadn't even been moved from its spot at all.

On January 26, 2017, the Washington Post’s Josh Rogin published what seemed to be a bombshell report declaring that “the State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned.” This resignation, according to Rogin, was “part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior Foreign Service officers who don’t want to stick around for the Trump era.” These resignations happened “suddenly” and “unexpectedly.” After the story broke, Mark Toner, the acting spokesman for the State Department, put out a press release noting that “As is standard with every t***sition, the outgoing administration, in coordination with the incoming one, requested all politically appointed officers submit letters of resignation.” This doesn't mean all or even most of the resignations are accepted. WaPo never apologized or made a retraction.

On January 27, Observer writer Dana Schwartz tweeted out a screenshot of Trump that, in her eyes, proved President Trump had “photoshopped his hands bigger” for a White House photograph. Her tweet immediately went v***l, being shared upwards of 25,000 times. A similar tweet by Disney animator Joaquin Baldwin was shared nearly 9,000 times as well. The conspiracy theory was eventually debunked, but not before it had been shared thousands upon thousands of times. Meanwhile, Schwartz tweeted that she did “not know for sure whether or not the hands were shopped.” Her correction tweet was shared a grand total of…11 times.

On January 31, 2017, Huffington Post reported that “A local business owner who flew to Iraq to bring his mother back home to the US for medical treatment said she was blocked from returning home under President Trump’s ban on immigration and travel from seven predominately Muslim nations. He said that while she was waiting for approval to fly home, she died from an illness.” Turns out his mother's death happened weeks before the travel restrictions were even discussed.

On February 1, 2017, Yahoo News published an Associated Press report about a phone call President Trump shared with Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto. The report strongly implied that President Trump was considering “send[ing] U.S. troops” to curb Mexico’s “bad hombre” problem, although it acknowledged that the Mexican government disagreed with that interpretation. The White House later re-affirmed that Trump did not have any plan to “invade Mexico."

NBC News national correspondent Peter Alexander tweeted out the following: “BREAKING: US Treasury Dept easing Obama admin sanctions to allow companies to do t***sactions with Russia’s FSB, successor org to KGB.” Turns out A it’s was a technical fix, planned under Obama, to avoid unintended consequences of cybersanctions.” At a later date Trump replaced Obama's ineffective sanctions with stronger sanctions. Again, the story was reported as Trump eliminating Russian sanctions without mentioning he was replacing them with stronger sanctions.

At the start of February, which is Black History Month in the United States, TMZ reported Trump declared it to be National African American History Month. TMZ called him r****t for replacing "black" with "African American." Problem is, it was Obama who made that announcement.

On February 2, the Associated Press touched off a political and media firestorm by tweeting: “BREAKING: House v**es to roll back Obama rule on background checks for gun ownership.” The AP was retweeted a staggering 12,000 times. Trouble is, in the first place it was a House v**e and nothing to do with Trump. In the 2nd it wasn't true. The House was actually v****g to repeal a narrowly tailored rule from the Obama era. This rule mandated that the names of certain individuals who receive Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income and who use a representative to help manage these benefits due to a mental impairment be forwarded to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The Obama rule was opposed by the American Association of People With Disabilities; the ACLU; the Arc of the United States; the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network; the Consortium of Citizens With Disabilities; the National Coalition of Mental Health Recovery; and many, many other disability advocacy organizations and networks.

On Sept. 18, 2005, NBC Nightly News anchor John Seigenthaler said, “scientists studying the earth’s climate say we are experiencing stronger hurricanes in this century, a trend that’s likely to continue.” Which scientists were never mentioned. In 2006 CBS’s Hannah Storm predicted Katrina-like storms would happen “all along our Atlantic and Gulf coastlines,” and CBS anchor Russ Mitchell said there was “no end in sight” for big hurricanes. We have had NO increase in big hurricanes. We still get occasional big hurricanes spaced many years apart, and the average number of average sized hurricanes.

MSM response to Fidel Castro's death was to laud him as a great leader and tout his great healthcare available to all.

Is that enoughfor a start?

JoyV

Do you really want to know what isin the Mueller report? Forget any news outlets. Read the report itself.
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf
http://opensourcemuellerreport.com/mueller-report-vol-2.pdf

debeda

Pretty compelling (and damning) stuff