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Trump Hotels Charged Secret Service Exorbitant Rates, House Inquiry Finds The Trump Organization charged the Secret Service up to $1,185 per night for hotel rooms used by agents protecting former President Donald Trump and his family, according to documents released Monday by the House Oversight Committee, forcing a federal agency to pay well above government rates. The committee released Secret Service records showing more than $1.4 million in payments by the department to Trump properties since Trump took office in 2017. The committee said that the accounting was incomplete, however, because it did not include payments to Trump’s foreign properties – where agents accompanied his family repeatedly – and because the records stopped in September 2021. The records that the panel managed to obtain provided new details about an arrangement in which Trump and his family effectively turned the Secret Service into a captive customer of their business – by visiting their properties hundreds of times and then charging the government rates far above its usual spending limits for their protectors to follow. … “What gets me is, over and over again, how they just lie about this stuff,” said Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, D-N.Y., chair of the Oversight Committee. “Documents don’t lie.” … https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-trump-hotels-charged-secret-service-exorbitant-rates-house-inquiry/

The article itself says it’s sarcastic article, genius. Do you really think that cows don’t exist like the article says?

Son...The TRUTH of the matter is...Hitler has NOT threatened UNPROVOKED war against anything BRITISH. NOT ONCE! Poland ...IS NOT a British nation.

Bullshit. Just more made-up bullshit. Have you no shame?

Every time you respond to someone this way you’re admitting defeat, you know that, right?

Bullshit, you can’t stop repeating the Kremlin propaganda can you? Ukrainian elections aren’t rigged like Putin’s elections are. Putin literally murders and jails the people who run against him.

Our Institutions Will Not Save Us From Republican Authoritarianism If the GOP wins in 2022 and 2024, here’s how it’ll capture Congress, the courts, and the executive branch to make America into Hungary. Immediately following the 2016 election, Masha Gessen published their seminal article “Autocracy: Rules for Survival.” Their first three rules were: Believe the autocrat, do not be taken in by small signs of normality, and your institutions will not save you. People who exist in the center and center-left have consistently failed at adhering to the first two: Too many of them still regard Donald Trump and the GOP’s talk of single-party rule as hyperbole aimed at the base, and fail to see Joe Biden’s first two years in office as what they really are—the calm eye of the fascist storm—hoping to see them as proof that normalcy has reasserted itself. The worst level of Pollyannaism applies to rule three, however. After states failed to overturn elections in 2020 and the court systems almost universally rejected Trump’s attempts, there has been a feeling that the guardrails of democracy held and that the danger is not imminent. For anyone paying closer attention, those guardrails have continued to weaken and are in the process of failing long before the next aspiring autocrat chooses to test them. …. We can already see the system cracking and breaking everywhere under the pressure of a corrupted judiciary and institutions packed with unqualified partisan hacks. The most obvious example of this is the criminal investigations into former President Trump. Although Trump was effectively caught red-handed attempting to hold onto top-secret documents, Aileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed district judge, issued a series of bizarre rulings that does everything possible to shield him from prosecution. Similarly, judges in Texas have been refusing to uphold subpoenas from Georgia prosecutors over Trump’s interference in the election there. In Ohio, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana, Republican legislators have repeatedly submitted gerrymandered maps that courts have found violate state or federal law. The solution they found was not to draw maps that are legal but instead to keep submitting illegal maps and waiting for the courts to rule that it’s too close to the election to do anything about it. The result: Republicans pick up an extra five to seven seats in the House in a cycle where control of Congress will likely come down to just a few seats. If Republicans take the House, they are promising to use it to create a circus of subpoenas and impeachment hearings against Hunter Biden, Merrick Garland, and President Biden, while shutting down federal investigations of President Trump…. Should Trump and the GOP take power again in 2024, they are promising to capture and corrupt every other institutional guardrail they can by gutting them of institutionalists and replacing them with Trump loyalists and partisan hacks. This includes the military, the Justice Department, Homeland Security, the intelligence community, and the FBI. The potential for abuse is staggering. Imagine an FBI and a DOJ that are used extensively as weapons to investigate, harass, and jail political enemies. Or a Defense Department willing to use troops to put down anti-Trump protests with overwhelming violence. Or an intelligence community that produces an unending stream of pro-Russian pronouncements? The potential for abuse is endless. And unfortunately, we are almost at a point of no return to prevent this. After the 2022 election, this future could be baked in. Once the United States falls down the same gravity well into competitive authoritarianism that Hungary and Russia have gone down, there’s almost certainly no coming back from it in my lifetime. Whatever institutions might save us from this are crumbling fast, being deliberately undermined, and won’t survive another four years under Trump. https://newrepublic.com/article/168151/institutions-save-republican-authoritarianism

Dude you realize that article is sarcastic and makes fun of climate deniers like yourself right? I mean right in the section you quoted the author doubts that Miami or polar ice caps ever existed. Further on in the article he doubts the existence of cows.

I guess Russ was provoked into murdering this Ukrainian composer who refused to perform for them? Sounds like typical Putin and MAGA Republican mentality: “come and celebrate our ‘improvement of peaceful life’ or we’ll come to your home and kill you!” Russian troops kill Ukrainian musician for refusing role in Kherson concert Russian soldiers have shot dead a Ukrainian musician in his home after he refused to take part in a concert in occupied Kherson, according to the culture ministry in Kyiv. Conductor Yuriy Kerpatenko declined to take part in a concert “intended by the occupiers to demonstrate the so-called ‘improvement of peaceful life’ in Kherson”, the ministry said in a statement on its Facebook page. https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/16/russian-troops-kill-ukrainian-musician-yuriy-kerpatenko-for-refusing-role-in-kherson-concert

So many horrible things about you in this post. 1) You seem to think rape victims are always responsible for their rape because they “provoked” the rapist 2) You appear to be suggesting that if your wife provoked a rapist you would not defend her 3) Repeating your usual lies that Ukraine “provoked” Russia You seem like you’re just an absolutely awful human being As was already said Ukraine isn’t targeting civilian populations like Russia is.

Thanks for confirming you’re a conspiracy kook and therefore irrelevant. To your kook theory: Silverstein chaired a consortium that included GMAC insurance and which LEASED the WTC If he wanted to profit from his investment he could have simply sold his stake rather than engage in some conspiracy with the CIA, White House, FBI and thousands of other people who would have been required to pull it off and who have left absolutely no trace of evidence after 20+ years The stuff about him eating there every day and being uncharacteristically absent on 9/11 is just more of the fake “rumour” nonsense that can neither be proven nor disproven, which conspiracists love to manufacture to make something seem suspicious.

Oh well from your description Russia will win any day now won’t they? Russia has damaged some infrastructure but you greatly exaggerate, especially the parts about taking down Ukraine air defences and the part about Ukraine firing a missile into Russia, which is pure BS. The only peace talks should be Russia talking about how quickly it will end the invasion and return home. Anything less is warmongering and will only encourage other warmongers to invade their neighbours and annex territory. Why do you demand Ukraine negotiate with an invader? If you caught a rapist in your home would you negotiate which family members he should be allowed to rape in order to avoid a violent confrontation?

If you aren’t a Q believer you’re “woke”?

Try to stay focused, you’re totally lost in this conversation. The point is that people like you and Putin are terrible losers. You think fact that you “don’t like losing” gives you special permission to behave in ways that are otherwise unacceptable. As you point out, nobody likes losing so what makes people like you and Putin think you’re so special that the standards of basic decency shouldn’t apply to you? But hey, at least you admit you’re losing.

Iranian troops are secretly sent to Ukraine front line to help Putin's men operate kamikaze drones Up to 50 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps specialists sent to the frontline Have been sent to train Moscow's forces in how to operate Shahed-136 drones A Ukrainian source said at least one of the Iranian training teams has been hit https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11317051/Iranian-troops-secretly-sent-Ukraine-line-help-Putins-men-operate-kamikaze-drones.html Iran, North Korea, China….those are the regimes supporting Putin’s invasion. The new friends of America’s extremist MAGAs. Anything to “pwn the libs”

Putin doesn’t like losing either. There’s no excuse.

What problem do you have with answering the question?

Nope, because I never have beaten my girlfriend. Now that I have answered your question, why won’t you answer mine? What don’t you like about the question?

I usually don’t wade in to religious debates…..to each his own and all that…but there are pretty bad arguments here. To answer the question I don’t believe God is real, I don’t believe the mythical Jesus figure is real although his story is clearly a composite of many local religious beliefs and some real life political characters. “Jesus” is the Roman language version of the common Hebrew name we know as “Joshua”. This was a common feature of local heroes real and imaginary long before his alleged time, as are many details of his alleged life. At this point I think it goes without saying he didn’t really rise from the dead. As for “ how do you explain a universe without a creator”. Well how do you explain a creator without another creator creating him??? It’s the same question and answer: it just came into being. In the beginning there was nothing. Probably for an infinite amount of eternity there was nothing. Then at some point there was something. End of story. In fact that first “something” might have been unstable and collapsed back into nothing and that might have repeated for another infinite amount of eternity until eventually that “something” was stable and expanded exponentially into the greater surrounding void. Science will probably never know the answers to existential questions like how/why did the universe form, what is the meaning of infinity and so on. People just need to accept that. But religion is just a weak attempt to answer all of these with “because magic” and an unseen “magic man” who understands everything we don’t understand ourselves I know religion is important to many people and belief in one religion or another has improved and/or saved the lives of many troubled or traumatized people who were able to find peace, comfort or purpose from it. I’m not here to kick crutches out from under anyone. I’m not going to respond to arguments on this thread or debate further. Just putting in my 2 cents on the topic, one time only.

You resort to launching unimaginative personal insults when your ass gets owned in an internet argument and you have no defence. Putin resorts to launching unimaginative bombardment of civilians when his ass gets owned on the battlefield and he has no defence. No wonder he appeals to you. You’re both horrible losers who have no shame and no bottom to which you won’t sink.

Ok I get it, implying that @Nationalistis your friend is insulting, its like implying someone beats their girlfriend. But I took that part out so you need to stop avoiding the question now. I for one don’t believe 9/11 was CIA attack Nationalist disagrees. Which do you believe? Its not a loaded question its one anyone can answer honestly b

That’s quite different from claiming she won. She claimed he misled voters with dirty tricks and fake news campaigns, not that the vote was rigged by some vast worldwide conspiracy that includes everyone who’s bot a card-carrying Republican, you dummy.

Do you or do you not believe 9/11 was an inside job, it’s a simple question, not a loaded one, which you refuse to answer.

Do you also believe that 9/11 was an inside job carried out by the CIA like your friend @Nationalist?

Do you also believe that 9/11 was an inside job carried out by the CIA like your friend @Nationalist?