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Right to bear arms really helped this guy.

Keep believing you are free.

> black guy
> reaching for anything during a traffic stop

when will they learn

>>149911
>Reach for papers =get shot
>Don't reach for papers = get shot

>>149361
This guy is also a foster parent. One of the girls he fostered committed suicide. Guy was an abuser, and a fucking sack of shit.

editorials are not news

>Remember when the NYT libelously accused Sarah Palin of responsibility for the Gabriel Giffords assasination?

Not really. I remember when NYT praised her for her response though:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/opinion/16rich.html
"The other inescapable reality was articulated by Sarah Palin, believe it or not, in her “blood libel” video. Speaking of acrimonious partisan debate, she asked, “When was it less heated — back in those calm days when political figures literally settled their differences with dueling pistols?” She’s right. Calls for civility will have no more lasting impact on the “tone” of American discourse now than they did after the J.F.K. assassination or Oklahoma City. Especially not in an era when technology allows all 300 million Americans a cost-free megaphone for unmediated rants."

>Will they do the same to themselves and the other left-wing news outlets, journalists and comedians who have done nothing but scream "FASCISM" "DICTATOR" "KREMLIN PUPPET" from day 1 of the Trump presidency?

Accusing someone of obstruction of justice or of collusion with a foreign government against electoral process in the US or anti-democratic behavior might be for good reason.

If a liberal media outlet told people they needed to assassinate someone you'd be right. But we obviously can't have a society where we can't blame people for crimes out of fear that other folks might attack them.

A lot of what Trump has done make people afraid of that. Perhaps then the shooting is also Trump's responsibility, when he does stuff like ask to have American journalists jailed by your logic.

Some would say he went postal.
What does it mean when the flag is flying at half-mast at the post office? They're hiring.

http://www.jokes4us.com/peoplejokes/postofficejokes.html

>>The suspect in Wednesday's shooting at a UPS facility in San Francisco has been identified as Jimmy Lam

Chink/gook killer

>>149281
what the fuck is a centre? i thought this happened in an American UPS center.

>>150166
It's a really sad state of affairs when an aging pop musician has more followers then government leaders and policy makers.

Second place is Bieber with almost 97 million
Obama in third with about 91 million
Taylor Swift in fourth with 85 million
Rihanna with 74 million

Credit to Obama though, he is the only politician on the list until you reach Trump in 33rd with 32.5 million followers. The rest of the top 100 is just vapid pop stars, multinational organizations and the odd politician.

>>150233
>It's a really sad state of affairs when an aging pop musician has more followers then government leaders and policy makers.

Not really

Rarely do they respond or post something meaningful that couldn't be accomplished via echo chambers and circles
Politics is also a very depressing subject over music or entertainment or anything else for that matter

>>150242
I suppose that is a fair assessment. Chalk it up to wishful thinking that I would like policy makers to be open to the public and provide insight into the direction the country is taking in a way the general public can follow.

OGE published the waivers for all the agencies except the White House after Shaub issued a government-wide call for them on April 28. Earlier that month, he had complained to the New York Times that because of a lack of transparency, he had “no idea how many waivers have been issued.”

letter to democrats requesting info on potential ethics violations

https://oge.gov/web/OGE.nsf/All%20Documents/4CC6A36259C2DF878525813F0051F98D/$FILE/Letter%20from%20OGE%20Director%20W%20Shaub%206-13-17.pdf#page=6

>>149832
>“participate in communications and meetings with news organizations regarding broad policy matters.”

The real joke here is that an editorial propagandist website like breitfart is in any way shape or form considered a legitimate news organization

That is all very nice news
How did Trump influence such a surge?

>>148805
>>148806
Economic wizard

>>148806
He's cutting regulations/red tape like mad. I work in building and construction. The reduction in paperwork has increased our offices profitability like 30% since February.

>>150400
>gazeta.ru

fwiw, gazeta.ru is not state-owned and is Russia's oldest online-only news outlet.

Though being owned by Russian oligarchs doesn't make it necessarily unbiased, and since being incorporated in Russia it is still subject to censorship, it's at least more reliable than any state-owned outlet.

Anyway, at least Trump's hands-off approach to war policy means that the US isn't gonna just kowtow to Russia in Syria like Trump wants to do with sanctions.

Given that Trump, the GOP, and repubs in general have projected literally all their incompetence and malice onto democrats, almost word for word, I can only wonder if that will soon include a war with Russia.

>And there is the unprecedented variable of the applicant, Mr. Trump, an American presidential candidate, seeking approvals from a foreign power that United States intelligence agencies concluded had tried to tip the campaign in his favor. As with other federal agencies in Russia, any sensitive decisions by Rospatent — whose director was handpicked by President Vladimir V. Putin for a previous job as deputy culture minister — are presumed to align with the views of Mr. Putin.

>Beyond the questions about Russian government approvals, the trademark renewals cast doubt on Mr. Trump’s oft-stated insistence that he has no business interests in Russia. Mr. Trump has made the claims in response to investigations of possible collusion between his associates and Russia during and after the election.

>In January, he wrote on Twitter, “I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA — NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!” He told NBC News in May that he has “no investments in Russia, none whatsoever.” And on Thursday, he expressed frustration on Twitter over scrutiny of his “non-dealings” in Russia.

>Although Mr. Trump has not managed to develop hotels in Russia despite attempts over the years, and has disclosed no active business ventures there, his intellectual property holdings are a valuable commercial interest. The extension of trademarks such as “Trump International Hotel and Tower” protects his brand in that country and preserves conditions for potential business deals.

>“Trademarks have inherent value, per se, as they allow you to stop others from using the mark either by stopping competing registrations or stopping infringing uses,” said Annsley Merelle Ward, an expert in intellectual property law at Bristows law firm in London.

>In addition to the six trademarks that were renewed, the Trump Organization has two Russian trademarks that are due to expire next year. That Mr. Trump had obtained trademarks in Russia decades ago for unsuccessful projects has been previously reported; the existence of last year’s extensions was discovered by The New York Times during a recent search of Rospatent’s records.

>A Rospatent spokesman initially agreed to accept questions, but then did not respond to them. Hope Hicks, a White House spokeswoman, referred questions to the Trump Organization.

>Alan Garten, the chief legal counsel for the Trump Organization, said the renewals had been sought “to prevent third parties from infringing on the company’s intellectual property rights.” He added that the Trump trademarks had not faced formal challenges, despite their inactivity, and that there were no plans to use them in the future.

>“The company will not be seeking any new business opportunities in Russia,” Mr. Garten said.

>Used or not, the trademarks are very important, something Mr. Garten has previously addressed in defending the Trump brand elsewhere. In a 2015 deposition related to an infringement dispute in the United States, he testified that Mr. Trump’s trademarks generally were “one of his most valuable assets.”

>“We take the protection and enforcement of my client’s brand extremely seriously,” Mr. Garten said. “We invest a lot of money in its efforts. It is his brand.”

>The subject of Mr. Trump’s foreign trademarks has grown increasingly fraught since he won the presidential election, as his company, now run by his two adult sons, has continued to conduct business around the world. A Times review of intellectual property databases in April found that the Trump Organization had 157 trademark applications pending in 36 countries.

>An announcement by China in February that it approved trademark registrations the Trumps had long sought set off alarm bells among ethics watchdogs and congressional Democrats, though the action appeared to have been the final step in a decision reached before Mr. Trump became president. Peruvian officials approved Trump trademarks in late December, not long before Peru’s president met with Mr. Trump in February.

>On Wednesday, almost 200 Democratic members of Congress filed a federal lawsuit asserting that Mr. Trump’s business activities — including his intellectual property rights abroad — violate the Constitution’s ban on a president’s accepting gifts from foreign powers.

>Rospatent’s records contain no information about agency deliberations or possible objections to the Trump trademarks by outside parties. Russia’s processes for handling such matters can be opaque, and “the most interesting aspects are those which are not publicized,” said Eleonora Rosati, a co-editor of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice.

>“The renewal/extension of an existing trademark is not just a formality,” she said. “There are several grounds on which a trademark can be denied registration or registration not be renewed.”

>In Russia — a “first-to-file” country, where longtime use of a name or logo cannot protect against a competitor’s swooping in and registering it first — it is not uncommon for businesses to file defensive registrations to keep others from grabbing their trademarks. But they need to put them to use, or the trademarks become open to challenges after three years of inactivity.

Better get those checkbooks out

>>150211
lmao

Ok got to the penis line this story seems fake. I should have guessed by the domain

That's why he's smart and not a poor retard like you.

>>147524
every rich person does this. Faceberg, gates, buffet, they all do it.

Literally stealing from children with cancer. He'll probably get away with this too even though he was accusing Hillary of this exact same crime.

I wonder if all his supporters would continue to defend him if he was black.

>>149949
Buncha white liberals showed up tho kek

Do we need more proof of a caveman religion incompatible with the future?

Will you wait for those 10,000 to militarize?

>>149949
Not an explosive turnout they were expecting don't ya think?

>5 days old
read the sticky

>>148347
More important how the fuck do you read the article with all the click bait and the page constantly jumping to the bottom. Fucking garbage.


Also nobody cares.

>>148365
The most violent race of all...thats right the white race...the one that committed countless genocides & holocausts. Nuked hiroshima & nagasaki , killed millions of vietnamese & iraqis.
The US still has hunderds of military bases worldwide & is killing in iraq & afghanistan...while white males are serial killing & mass shooting at record levels

They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists and some I assume are good people.

>>147596
>ywn be raped by thicc zimbabwean qts

>>147637
they crave white seed because they want their kids to be smart, guard your little white boyclitty carefully

>>150204
... The U.S.-led coalition, which has in recent weeks escalated its aerial bombing campaign in northern Syria and Raqqa province. U.S.-backed forces have encircled the city of Raqqa and captured several districts from the militants.

The Syrian army has also taken territory from retreating Islamic State militants in the western Raqqa countryside and seized back some oil fields and villages that had been under the militants' control for almost three years.

(Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi in Amman and Matt Spetalnick in Washington; editing by Andrew Roche)

(end of reuters article)
Other sources: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-led-coalition-says-it-shot-down-syrian-aircraft-1497820157
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/18/middleeast/syrian-warplane-shot-down-coalition/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/18/us-plane-shoots-down-syrian-aircraft

>In the five weeks since Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey, he has let it be known that he has considered firing Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel leading the Russia investigation. His personal lawyer bragged about firing Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, who was let go as part of the mass dismissal of top prosecutors. Newt Gingrich, an ally of the president’s, accused Mr. Mueller of being the tip of the “deep-state spear aimed at destroying” the Trump presidency.

>Inside the White House, those close to the president say he has continued to fume about the actions of Justice Department officials, his anger focused mostly on Mr. Rosenstein for appointing Mr. Mueller and on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a longtime political ally whose decision to recuse himself from the Russia case in March enraged Mr. Trump.

>What the president wanted out of the investigation was simple, several people close to him said: a public statement that he was not under a cloud. What he got instead were reports of Mr. Mueller’s intention to investigate him for possible obstruction of justice.

>An impatient New Yorker by nature, Mr. Trump has been unable in his first months in office to bend Washington to his “you’re fired!” ways. He is frustrated, friends say, and unsure what to do — apart from tweeting, which he views as the most direct and effective way of defending himself and venting his anger.

>That anger burst into public on Twitter late Thursday and continued Friday, as the president repeatedly assailed the legal forces arrayed against him. He accused the news media of pursuing a “phony” obstruction story and accused law enforcement and congressional committees of conducting “the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history.” He said the investigations are led by “some very bad and conflicted” people.

>By Friday morning, his focus was on Mr. Rosenstein, though the president never used his name, and his tweet oversimplified and misstated the truth.

>Mr. Rosenstein is supervising the investigation, not conducting it. And Mr. Trump has said he decided to fire Mr. Comey before he received Mr. Rosenstein’s memo.

>The outburst came after an oddly worded statement late Thursday from Mr. Rosenstein complaining about news reports based on leaks.

>“Americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous ‘officials,’ particularly when they do not identify the country — let alone the branch or agency of government — with which the alleged sources supposedly are affiliated,” Mr. Rosenstein wrote.

>His statement followed two articles by The Washington Post that cited unnamed officials. One said Mr. Mueller’s investigation had widened to include whether Mr. Trump committed obstruction of justice. The other said the investigation was examining financial transactions involving Jared Kushner, the president’s adviser and son-in-law. After Mr. Rosenstein’s statement, The Post updated the article about Mr. Kushner online so that its first sourcing reference was to “U.S. officials.”

>The highly unusual statement raised the question of whether Mr. Trump or some other White House official had asked Mr. Rosenstein to publicly discredit the reports. Mr. Trump has repeatedly pushed top intelligence officials to exonerate him publicly.

>A Justice Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters, said that no one had asked Mr. Rosenstein to make the statement and that he had acted on his own.

>Still, the statement, and Mr. Trump’s tweet, demonstrated the political pressure on the deputy attorney general as the department pursues the Russia probe.

>Reaction was swift. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said she was “growing increasingly concerned” that Mr. Trump might attempt to fire both Mr. Mueller and Mr. Rosenstein.

>“If the president thinks he can fire Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and replace him with someone who will shut down the investigation, he’s in for a rude awakening,” she said in a statement. “Even his staunchest supporters will balk at such a blatant effort to subvert the law.”

>People close to the president say he is in a firing frame of mind but feels blocked from carrying out such a move because of the potential political damage.

>While he has left open the possibility of dismissing Mr. Mueller and began considering it shortly after the special counsel was appointed last month, the president’s anger has been largely trained on Mr. Sessions and Mr. Rosenstein, whom he views less as executors of law than as salaried staff.

>At a congressional hearing this week, Mr. Rosenstein issued a modest declaration of independence, testifying that he was the only person who had the ability to fire Mr. Mueller. And he made plain that his actions would not be dictated by the president.

>“I’m not going to follow any order unless I believe they are lawful and appropriate orders,” Mr. Rosenstein said. “It wouldn’t matter to me what anybody said.”

>Mr. Trump has a different view of the chain of command, aides said, but he also knows that he cannot afford to fire Mr. Rosenstein without prompting a massive backlash on Capitol Hill, even among Republicans. But the deputy attorney general, who would have to sign off on Mr. Mueller’s firing, has become a favorite target for Mr. Trump in conversations with advisers and friends.