>>607186

cant wait to T-rumPutin reelection victory
& WATCH AS HE DESTROYS USA
from inside in the next 4 years

Donald calls me 15 to 20 times a day,” Roy Cohn told me on the day we met. “He is always asking, ‘What is the status of this . . . and that?’
It was 1980. I had been assigned to write a story on Donald Trump, the brash young developer who was then trying to make a name for himself in New York City, and I had come to see the man who, at the time, was in many ways Trump’s alter ego: the wily, menacing lawyer who had gained national renown, and enmity, for his ravenous anti-Communist grandstanding.

Trump was 34 and using the connections of his father, Brooklyn and Queens real-estate developer Fred Trump, as he navigated the rough-and-tumble world of political bosses. He had recently opened the Grand Hyatt Hotel, bringing life back to a dreary area near Grand Central Terminal during a period when the city had yet to fully recover from near bankruptcy. His wife, Ivana, led me through the construction site in a white wool Thierry Mugler jumpsuit. “When will it be finished? When?,” she shouted at workers as she clicked through in stiletto heels.

The tabloids couldn’t get enough of the Trumps’ theatrics. And as Donald Trump’s Hyatt rose, so too did the hidden hand of his attorney Roy Cohn, always there to help with the shady tax abatements, the zoning variances, the sweetheart deals, and the threats to those who might stand in the project’s way.

Cohn was best known as a ruthless prosecutor. During the Red Scare of the 1950s, he and Wisconsin senator Joe McCarthy, the fabulist and virulent nationalist crusader, had hauled dozens of alleged “Communist sympathizers” before a Senate panel. Earlier, the House Un-American Activities Committee had skewered artists and entertainers on similar charges, resulting in a trail of fear, prison sentences, and ruined careers for hundreds, many of whom had found common cause in fighting Fascism.

>>608367
tl;dr

>>608372

Moderna unveiled encouraging coronavirus vaccine results. Then top execs dumped nearly $30 million of stock
By Matt Egan and Chris Isidore, CNN Business

Updated 4:31 PM ET, Fri May 22, 2020

>>607276

trump to be reelected vs foot in his mouth Biden & USA goes into beautiful self destructive mode:

-extreme corporate capitalism
-much much more minimum wage jobs
-citizen demand for any minimum wage job
-accelerated environmental destruction on top of acceleration
-final elimination of the black obama care
-100% erection of border wall
-homeless on top homeless
-all white government
-110% retaliation on impeachment foes
-amplified debt on amplified USA debt
-an additional wealthy tax cut

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>>608372

Updated: 05/25/2020 02:41 PM EDT

First he lit into Michigan and Nevada, threatening to withhold federal funding because of his assertion that both states were preparing to commit voter fraud through mail-in ballot applications. Then President Donald Trump followed up Sunday with two more broadly-worded warnings that November would be “the greatest Rigged Election in history.”

“The Democrats are trying to Rig the 2020 Election, plain and simple!” the president claimed.

Trump’s increasingly amped-up rhetoric surrounding the integrity of the November election is beginning to bring to center stage a previously muted conversation. With the president lagging behind Joe Biden in public opinion polls six months before the general election, his opponents are becoming increasingly anxious that Trump may attempt to undermine the results of the election if he loses — or worse, might attempt to cling to power regardless of the outcome.

>>610708
I like how you seamlessly switched from whining about russia to whining about china. Did you see the Trump people doing it and just decide to copy them again?

>>610717
Cannot address the point Chang? Does the playbook say to change the subject?

>>610725
I hope they televise your trial.

>>610729
good luck with that one

>>609948
>I know you hate the idea of civilizatory progress even more than you hate people with different skin colors or gods
So why do you want to infringe upon freedom of religion and abolish the document that stands for individual rights. Do you realize that your "enlightened despotism" is a late medieval ideology? Liberty built the modern world and you want to go back to unchecked authority.

A senior official familiar with Taiwan’s security planning said Tsai’s comment was a “clear message” to Beijing that Taipei would “reinterpret” its ties with Hong Kong if China pushes the security legislation through.

“This is set to be a fundamental change in terms of Taiwan-Hong Kong relations. We are not happy to see it happening,” the official said.

Another senior Taiwan government official familiar with policy towards China said the security legislation would mean the death knell for “one country, two systems,” in which Beijing rules the city as part of China, but with separate institutions and laws.

“We wouldn’t need to provide special status for Hong Kong,” the official told Reuters.

Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

The government is watching how the legislation plan progresses in Beijing before deciding the next move. In the worst-case scenario, people and investment from Hong Kong would be treated as stringently as those from mainland China, the official added.

Taiwan offers special treatment to Hong Kong, including an investment-immigration programme that has attracted tens of thousands of immigrants from the city.

However, the second official warned that Beijing may close Taiwan’s de facto consulate in the city in retaliation, and that any change to the act could choke Taiwan-Hong Kong trade.

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However, the second official said Taipei would keep offering “necessary assistance” to Hong Kong citizens whose safety and liberty are threatened for political reasons.

“This is not aimed at Hong Kong’s people, but aimed at Beijing.”

Taiwan has no law on refugees that could be applied to Hong Kong protesters who seek asylum on the island. Its laws do promise, though, to help Hong Kongers whose safety and liberty are threatened for political reasons.

The number of Hong Kong immigrants to Taiwan jumped 150% to 2,383 in the first four months of 2020 from the same period last year, official data shows.

> China has repeatedly denounced Taiwan’s government for supporting the protesters, and accused activists in both places of colluding to plot independence.

Such an evil crime.
Fuck Communist China!

>>610597

>instability good

we're going nowhere in society

According to information sent to the central government, the Chinese had managed to come well inside the Indian territory and are also conducting aggressive patrols with motor boats in the Pangong lake.

"It was a massive build up but now things have calmed down a bit. But it's not over yet," a senior officer said.

According to him, both sides now have equal amount of presence. "China has erected tents on three different locations along the Galwan," he said. The Galwan river flows in Sub-sector North in Ladakh.

Sources say National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is getting daily briefings on the situation. After one such review, it was decided to strengthen the security set up in that region. Thereafter India also reinforced its troops in the Galwan region - a flashpoint during the 1962 war.

Sources indicate both India and China have sent in additional troops in the last one week and have also built fortifications and pitched tents at a few stretches along the LAC in three areas in eastern Ladakh which include the northern bank of Pangong Tso, Demchok and Galwan Valley areas.

Indian Forces have also reported to PMO that Chinese helicopters were seen operating in the disputed region in eastern Ladakh earlier this month. In an interview to NDTV, the Chief Of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria said, "(Chinese) helicopter activity has seen a spurt" in Ladakh.

The face-off between China and India started after China reportedly expressed its displeasure about the construction of a road and bridge in the Galwan area by India. "The road was constructed to help local population," a senior officer told NDTV.

The Ministry of External Affairs also has clarified that all Indian activities have been undertaken by India on its side of LAC. "China is hindering India's normal patrolling along LAC," the foreign ministry has said.

Meanwhile, Army Chief General MM Naravane on Friday visited Leh, headquarters of the 14 Corps in Ladakh to assess the situation along the Line of Actual Control.

>>610268
> blogspot
Not news. It's also not news if robots sent a radio message to a broken hull on the bottom of the ocean.

Now, if the robots received a reply, THAT would be news.

It's been over 30 years since they found the ship. There are already so many movies, books, documentaries, and TV shows about it. Can we let the Titanic rest now? There are broken ships on the bottom of the ocean that far more interesting.

>>610316
>"Ay yo bruh someone get me outta this fuckin ship. I've been living on corpses, fish, and barely purified sea water for like 100 years."

Baucus's public statements have received considerable attention from Beijing's propaganda outlets. When the former ambassador compared President Donald Trump's criticism of China to rhetoric used by Adolf Hitler and Joe McCarthy during a May 6 interview with CNN, Chinese propaganda outlets quickly amplified Baucus's comments about how Trump was "a little bit like Hitler in the '30s" and that Americans were worried about "getting their heads chopped off" if they voice their disagreement with the U.S. government's China policy. Xinhua News Agency, a state-owned outlet, extensively cited Baucus's attacks in a May 8 article, using it as evidence that the Trump administration is attempting to "deflect criticisms about their blunders by blaming China." The article was syndicated in party-controlled mouthpieces such as Global Times and People's Daily, according to the Investigative Research Center.

Baucus then appeared on CGTN on May 12 to double down on his Hitler and McCarthy comparison, blaming the Trump administration for flaming "sheer demagoguery."

"[The current U.S. rhetoric] is somewhat reminiscent, nowhere close to that yet, somewhat reminiscent of the McCarthy era and somewhat reminiscent of Germany in the 1930s," he told CGTN.

The former ambassador also gave an exclusive interview to Global Times on May 14, where he said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's claim that the virus may have originated in a Wuhan laboratory "makes no sense" and accused both Democrats and Republicans of being tough on China to score political points in an election year.

Baucus again appeared on CGTN on May 15, where he claimed that America is "sliding toward a form of McCarthyism" because the Trump administration is pressuring policymakers to be tough on China. The former ambassador did another CGTN media hit on May 16, this time appearing alongside his wife Melodee Hanes, who blamed the presidential election for making dialogue "difficult."

>>610197
>The Heritage Foundation
into the trash it goes

"There are a lot of pretty smart people in the United States who are not speaking up. People in office, moderates, especially moderates on the Republican side," Baucus said on May 15. "They are afraid to speak up, they are intimidated, intimidated by President Trump. And it's kind of sliding toward a form of McCarthyism—how it is politically incorrect to speak the truth, speak the truth to power."

When the Washington Free Beacon called the phone number listed for Baucus's home address, no one answered. A lawyer representing Baucus Group, the ambassador's consulting firm, also did not respond to a request for comment.

While Baucus rarely enjoyed this much attention from Chinese state media outlets after his retirement, this is not the first time he has spoken to Chinese media outlets in recent years. Baucus also gave an exclusive interview to People's Daily in March 2018, criticizing U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods as the "wrong policy" and "too confrontational." He has also spoken at events backed by the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, a registered foreign agent of the Chinese government according to a 2018 congressional report.

Lohman, the Heritage Foundation expert, said that while Baucus has the right to appear on any domestic and foreign outlets, he should not have addressed a propaganda outlet with the same degree of candidness that he did with CNN.

"I think he must have gotten wrapped up in the media performances because when you shift from CNN to Global Times or CGTN, you've gone to an entirely new level," he said. "And there I think you just have to express yourself differently. It's not an appropriate place to air political differences."

>>610195
Freebeacon and heritage foundation, into the trash x2, also the former Ambassador is 100% correct. Trump is just another wanna be dictator, fortunately he's too dumb and fat to do shit other than rattle his saber and stab long term allies in the back. MIGA.

coughcough Jon Huntsman coughcoughcough

>>604119
Yup!
China is trying to figure out how we did it (the us) just make people comfortable enough that when the slightest thing goes wrong, people will just hand you the power.

>>607328
>chaturbate
Holy shit, so many incompetent actresses.

>>604122

>If you have anything

that any future government decides is a problem.
"What?! You did not spend x hours on Dear Leaders Greatest Speeches?"

Is the problem.

>>604027

Hey FBI, just a heads up...

I jack off a lot and have a general sense of pessimism about the direction our country is headed.

<3

>>604122

Somebody's never been arrested for no reason, huh

>>608792
If his doctor is any good, then he's giving him sugar pills.

>>608829
You are correct, however trump does not attract the best people.

>>608725
What about bleach injections? We all know it cleans bacteria/virus off everything. It's such a joke, right?

I've already started taking my injections while my doctor doesn't prescribe the drug for me. How about you, anon?

>>609001

Only the devil could concoct the current situation of a full blown pandemic and an insane US president

Long weekend opportunity get hi get hydroxychloroquine

>>609954
>permanent lung damage
Is that before or after they're on a ventilator for a week? Polio was pretty permanent for some people too. Keeping the healthy in their homes didn't save them either.

>>609957
>we
What's this we shit?
>chance to prevent
Well I can tell you that people are suffering ROGHT NOW from the economic catastrophe "taking a chance" is making.
This will end. One way or another.

>>609995
I will stand on a pile 1 million, 2 million, perhaps even 6 million corpses for liberty.

>>610052
you'll likely be buried in that little pile if you don't start taking precautions or stop acting like a fucking child.

>>610070
>you'll likely be buried
How? Is the disease gonna get me again?
>in that little pile
Little? Millions? Just how many grad are you hoping for?
>acting like a fucking child
I'm pretty sure "acting like a child" looks a lot more like playing video games and watching TV, having an allowance with no responsibilities, tattling on others, and above all listening to what you're told to do "for your safety."

>>601323

Looks liker Spam when you keep using the same picture and the post, over and over. How is this News? Propaganda is a Party Tool granted.

Why not take your political spam to Pol since it is not News?

Smart Trump.

If he does not interfere with the case, the facts will convicts Obama and Crew in the public opinion.

The Swamp can suppress and lie, blocking indictments. Kill witnesses. Democrats will do anything to regain power.

Vote: Nope.

>>606889
/pol/ppets, your bot is broken.
Get us a new one.

>>601338
Misuse of authority and office to spy on a political rival, and using a foreign government to help with said spying.

Basically the crime that Trump supposedly did when elected to office

>>610107
>Misuse of authority and office to spy on a political rival
The DoJ IG already found that the investigation was properly founded. Nor did Obama have anything to do with launching that investigation.

>and using a foreign government to help with said spying.
Yeah. Foreign governments sharing intelligence about attacks against the US with us is bad and they should never do it.

>>609725
That's not /pol/ you retard that's the truth.

>>606506
>Europeans who support literally any opinion that lets them hate America, choose that opinion.
not a surprise.

>>609786
When was the last time the US did anything that didn't make everyone hate them, even amongst themselves? I don't think it's even hate, it's closer to watching a bad circus that juggles nukes instead of bowling pins. You'd laugh if it didn't hold the whole world hostage with its retardation.

>>610087
yawn, enjoy our 20-50 year old TV reruns

>>610088
I watch anime, normalfag.

>>609441
scientists can be wrong you dumb monkey

>>609863
Scientists are wrong all the time. True. The essence of science is that they look at the data and admit they were wrong. They update their “priors” and continue. The retards in the public do not.
You can see this in hydroelectric or whatever. It was a valid thing to study. Scientists and doctors studied it. It did not work.
Politicians had been riffing about it unwisely. So it is still in the public discourse.

>>609494
So ignore the questions and the false premise you're supposes to just accept.
Listen to the music.
Serious manipulation going on here.
Propaganda Stalin would be proud of.

>>609815
>>609820
So you're going to try and redefine liberty now?

>>609887
>update their “priors”
So why are they still trying to make predictions with models that have been proven inaccurate time and again?