Get it on!!!

Let there be a full scale Justice Department investigation!!!!! Put up or STFU.

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/11/14/trumps-baseless-v**er-fraud-allegations-could-hurt-u-s-faith-in-e******ns.html

By Joseph Ax
(Reuters) – More than a dozen times in the past seven days, President Donald Trump has alleged, contrary to evidence, that the recount of Florida’s e******ns for governor and the U.S. Senate has been marred by fraud.
“Many b****ts are missing or forged,” he tweeted on Monday. “B****ts massively infected.”

The unsubstantiated allegations could help Trump bolster a narrative that appeals to his core supporters ahead of his expected 2020 bid for a second term – that of an aggrieved president at risk of being c***ted by what he often decries at rallies as an unfair system.
It may also stoke doubts among his loyal base of supporters over the legitimacy of e******ns – a potentially dangerous tactic, especially if he were to adopt a similar stance in response to razor-close results in the 2020 p**********l e******n.
“For a long time, the American democratic process has been based on the idea that if an e******n has an outcome that one side doesn’t like, it’s still considered legitimate,” said Tom Pepinsky, a professor of government at Cornell University and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank. “If there’s ever been a time for elected politicians to draw a line in the sand … this is it.”
Fellow Republicans including Florida’s outgoing governor, Rick Scott, whose Senate campaign is the subject of a recount mandated under state law, incumbent U.S. Senator Marco Rubio and lower-ranking officials have amplified Trump’s charges.
Researchers have long concluded that v***r f***d is extraordinarily rare in U.S. e******ns.
The final result of the match-up between Scott and three-term Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson will not affect the balance of power in the Senate, where Republicans increased their majority in the Nov. 6 e******ns even as Democrats seized control of the House of Representatives.
“What we’re seeing now is a new and potentially dangerous development,” said Jonathan Brater, a v****g rights lawyer at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, referring to a call by Trump on Florida officials to abandon the recount.
“Not only would that tactic risk throwing out legitimate v**es if it is successful, it also sows seeds of doubt about our entire democratic process in the minds of millions of people.”
Narrow margins of victory for Scott and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis over Democrat Andrew Gillum triggered the recount under state law last week. It stirred memories of Florida’s disputed results in the 2000 p**********l e******n that Republican George W. Bush ultimately won after the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the recount.

Trump has said the Florida e******n should be called in favor of Scott and DeSantis because “large numbers of new b****ts showed up out of nowhere, and many b****ts are missing or forged.” He cited no evidence.
A senior White House official said Trump was pressing the issue out of real concern.
“He genuinely thinks there is corruption there,” the official said. Another source close to the White House said the president was following the lead of Scott and Rubio.
“He’s echoing in his Trump way the message on this, which is to be aggressive,” the source said.
‘IT’S R****D’
Florida law enforcement officials have said they have seen no evidence of fraud during v****g or the recount. V**e totals often change even after an e******n, as absentee, provisional and overseas b****ts are recorded.
Trump supporters who protested on Tuesday outside county offices where v**es were being counted rejected that idea.
“It’s r****d, this is absolute system corruption and everybody is playing dumb,” said Sofia Manolesco, a 49-year-old fitness trainer who said she had v**ed for all Republicans on her b****t and wore a red “Trump 2020” hat.
Following his 2016 victory, Trump falsely claimed that millions of i*****l i*******ts had v**ed for Democrat Hillary Clinton.
U.S. politicians, particularly Republicans, have long cited concerns about fraud to justify laws restricting access to polls. But independent researchers have documented only a handful of cases over the years.
Justin Levitt, a professor at the Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, tracked just 31 credible allegations of v**er impersonation in U.S. e******ns from 2000 to 2014. In that time, more than 1 billion b****ts were cast, Levitt found.
There have been some documented instances of problems in this year’s Florida v****g that could benefit both parties.
In Broward County, where Democrats typically do well, nearly two dozen rejected b****ts were counted with a batch of valid ones. The Florida secretary of state’s office said it had received reports that v**ers in Bay County, a Republican-leaning area hit hard by Hurricane Michael, may have been permitted to v**e by email, which is prohibited under state law.
Douglas Heye, a Republican strategist and former top aide to former Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, said he doubted there would be political fallout from Trump’s rhetoric.
“Trump claimed the last e******n was r****d, until he won,” he said. “We will likely be talking about a million things between now and the 2020 e******ns. These tweets may be just a distant memory.”
(Reporting by Joseph Ax in New York; Additional reporting by Steve Holland and Richard Cowan in Washington and Zachary F*genson in Lauderhill, Florida; Editing by Scott Malone and Peter Cooney)

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/11/14/rachel-maddow-drops-clue-that-mueller-has-more-dirt-on-trump-than-we-thought.html

Rachel Maddow laid out a big clue on Wednesday that Robert Mueller may have more dirt on Donald Trump than we previously thought.
In an updated court filing, the special counsel’s office said it would need more time with former Trump campaign deputy Rick Gates because he is cooperating with them on “several ongoing investigations.”
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But as Maddow pointed out on Wednesday, when the special counsel’s office filed a similar update in August, they noted that Gates was only cooperating with a single investigation.

Today’s document suggests there are additional probes the former Trump official is now involved in, which is probably not the news the White House wanted to hear.
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So they told the court in August that they would need another 90 days before they check in again. That 90 days is now up. Today, Mueller’s office filed a new update with the court about Rick Gates. And in the new update just filed, Mueller’s office says they still are not ready to finish with Rick Gates. They’ve asked the court for another 60 days with him. They want to check in with the court again in mid-January. But this time, this is interesting, this time they say the reason they need more time with him is because Rick Gates, quote, continues to cooperate with respect to several ongoing investigations. Oh. So 90 days ago the investigation Rick Gates was helping them with was ongoing, “The investigation.” Now today it’s “Several investigations” that he is helping them with, and they are all still ongoing.
still ongoing.
Trump is becoming increasingly nervous
The fact that, over time, Robert Mueller’s investigation has taken on more angles – not fewer – should worry the White House. After all, if you’re on the path to being cleared of criminal conduct, the number of legal inquiries and questions should decrease over time.
In the case of Trump and his cronies, though, the longer the special counsel’s office looks into his potential crimes, the more evidence they seem to uncover. As a result, one investigation has seemingly morphed into multiple investigations.
It’s no wonder Trump has spent the days since last week’s e******n completely imploding. Not only is Trump about to crash into a wall of Democratic oversight, but Robert Mueller may have more dirt on the president than we previously thought.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-catholic-church-is-embroiled-in-a-hell-of-its-own-making/2018/11/14/07871f66-e837-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html?utm_term=.5bc8e8cd21d2&wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1

In ancient Rome, the gates of hell were always open — a wise rendering of the inferno. “The gates of hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way,” the poet Virgil’s oracle tells his hero Aeneas, “But to return, and view the cheerful skies — in this the task and mighty labor lies.” For most, the effort of escape was too extreme — though an exemplary soul, such as Aeneas, could sometimes make it back to the land of the living if they possessed appropriate courage and willpower.
How little the Eternal City changes. Contemporary Rome now finds itself embroiled in a hell much of its own making, and its gates are wide-open — if anyone has the moral fortitude to simply walk out.
The events at this week’s meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore haven’t given much cause for confidence. The main subject of the convention was set to be the sex abuse crisis, which has roiled the church anew since this summer’s revelations concerning Pennsylvania and disgraced Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. The bishops had planned to v**e on “concrete measures to respond to the abuse crisis,” but Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, the conference president, was informed the night before the meeting that the Vatican had decreed there would be no such v**e.

Instead, the Vatican directed American bishops to await the worldwide meeting of church leaders set for February in Rome. Why? Some have speculated it saw “canonical problems” in the text; others have suggested that the proposals themselves were somehow deficient. If the trouble with the bishops’ resolutions were obvious and objective, they certainly didn’t seem so to several U.S. bishops, who continued agitating for the reforms even after the ruling was handed down.
Maybe they realized that the effect of the sudden intervention was to instantaneously deflate a moment that some lay Catholics had dared look forward to. “Don’t stagnate [the reform process], or slow it down,” Francesco Cesareo, chairman of the National Review Board monitoring bishops’ progress on the sex abuse crisis, warned, adding that, if the process were to be d**gged out and delayed, “I fear for the future of our church.”
Fear is as rational a response as any at this point. While some American bishops seethed over the abrupt defanging of their meeting, others defended the actions of their colleagues over the past decades and bristled at the notion of creating so much as a third-party reporting mechanism for bishops suspected of abuse. Still, at least the Americans were addressing the problem itself, rightly or wrongly. The Vatican has remained airily removed since the eruption of disturbing revelations over the summer, with Rome’s ambassador to the United States, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, taking time after DiNardo’s announcement to warn bishops against “a temptation on the part of some to relinquish responsibility for reform to others from ourselves, as if we were no longer capable of reforming or trusting ourselves.”

With Rome at odds with U.S. bishops over whether and when to address the crisis concretely, strong trust within the institution was already strained. But what has been inflicted on the trust of ordinary Catholics by this bizarre episode is worse.
Since the exposure of the sex abuse crisis in Boston in 2002, the church has promised to enact real, actionable reforms to not only halt but also resolve the sex abuse crisis — and some of those efforts have been indisputably successful. But 2002 still did its damage, and what Catholics got by on day to day was their own faith that the church to which they entrust themselves was working diligently to bring sexual abuse to a stop and to root out and expel those responsible for aiding and abetting sexual exploitation. What this summer showed us was that prelates responsible for the protection of abusive priests — such as Cardinal Donald Wuerl — were still in positions of high renown, and that at least one — McCarrick — had been allowed to enjoy stations of rank despite a long pattern of well-known, credible allegations of sexual abuse. It wasn’t just that such actions were terrible that left Catholics reeling; it was also that the church had promised everything was being done to stop those exact offenses from happening again.
The wind-up and collapse of this convention of bishops feel similar, and they’re dispiriting for the same reasons. Asking people for their trust is asking them to put their hearts on the line — to suspend cynicism and doubt and suspicion and a thousand other justified, well-earned barriers to faith, and to just believe. This is an exhaustible capacity. It has been drawn upon constantly since 2002, and now, again, the lay faithful are being asked to simply trust that, come a few months from now, things will finally be set aright — for real this time.
It’s a lot of hope to demand of a community immersed in the darkness of this crisis, with little to be encouraged by in the political feuds and obscure backbiting of the clergy. “Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light,” John Milton wrote in “Paradise Lost.” If some of the lay faithful don’t make it through as the scandal grinds on, it will have been their shepherds who abandoned them along the way.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/maxine-waters-says-easing-banking-155200364.html

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Maxine Waters says easing banking regulations 'will come to an end' when she takes committee chair
Jeff Cox,CNBC 19 hours ago

Rep. Maxine Waters pledged Wednesday that Trump administration efforts to roll back banking reforms won't stand when the new Congress convenes.
The California Democrat is expected to take over as chair of the House Financial Services Committee.
"Make no mistake, come January, in this committee the days of this committee weakening regulations and putting our economy once again at risk of another financial crisis will come to an end," Waters said during a hearing with Randal Quarles, the Fed's vice chair of banking supervision.
Rep. Maxine Waters, poised to take over the powerful House Financial Services Committee when the new Congress convenes in January, laid down the law Wednesday about the future of banking regulation.
Speaking ahead of remarks by Randal Quarles , the Federal Reserve's vice chair of oversight for the banking industry, the California Democrat said efforts to loosen the reins on Wall Street financial institutions won't be tolerated should she be committee chair, as expected.
"Make no mistake, come January, in this committee the days of this committee weakening regulations and putting our economy once again at risk of another financial crisis will come to an end," Waters said.
Bank shares moved lower following a CNBC report on the remarks, with the SPDR S&P Bank ETF KBE down 0.6 percent in morning trade.
Waters is likely to take over as chair of the committee following the midterm e******ns that gave back House control to the Democrats. Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican, currently presides over the committee.
In addition to Wednesday's remarks, she has indicated she might use subpoena power to investigate President Donald Trump 's connection to Deutsche Bank and whether it loaned Trump money that was guaranteed by the Russian government.
Since Donald Trump began his term in early 2017, the administration has sought to loosen the regulatory reins imposed by the Dodd-Frank reforms that came into being after the financial crisis that exploded in 2008. In particular, the White House and the Fed have worked to tailor capital rules to be less onerous on regional and community banks.
Waters seemed to direct her comments specifically to the bigger institutions, particularly the too-big-to-fail banks that helped trigger the crisis. She made her comments shortly before Quarles said the Fed is looking to further ease up on community banks .
"It is essential that the Fed keeps a watchful eye on the financial institutions it supervises and makes strong use of its existing enforcement tools to crank down on institutions that break the law," she said. "I must say that I am concerned about proposals the Fed has put forth this year to reduce capital and liquidity requirements for the largest financial institutions which would weaken strong safeguards established by Dodd-Frank to protect the U.S. economy from another costly financial crisis."
There was some conciliation, though. Waters said the press and even some of her colleagues have wrongly portrayed her relationship with Republicans, and she hopes they can cooperate.

Yes Obama brought all the sleeping bigots and r****t out of the woodwork.

And of course Lj believes all the silly nonsense as facts because "more Republicans cried foul".

There is only one problem with claims of fraud~~~~~ proof.

What c***ting has been proven BM? Wacko BS doesn't count.

What c***ting? And a whole lot of BS.