Random Politics & Religion #22

#SpermWorldProblems

This meme page is quite nice. Keep up the good work.

Also, Pepsi sucks.

"This is information about their everyday lives," Rep. Peter King of New York, a member of the House Intelligence committee said. "Sort of like in a divorce case where lawyers are hired, investigators are hired just to find out what the other person is doing from morning until night and then you try to piece it together later on.”

How bad does it have to get before libs see the danger of an administration weaponizing the IC against its citizens?

Only when it's used against them.

Same with lawfare. When it's used against them, it's suddenly a bad thing.

Nunes is off the case.

Conflict, lol!

There is no conflict because there is no evidence of anything.

And this is after a year of them following them around like a divorce investigation.

Ask not what memes can do for you, ask what you can do for memes.

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You've done it now this native american is pissed:

New details emerged Wednesday about the role President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, played in convincing the president to remove top political adviser Steve Bannon from the National Security Council.

The move was widely interpreted as a sign of Bannon’s diminishing influence in the Trump White House following a series of botched executive orders and the failure of health care reform.

But Kushner was a driving force behind Bannon’s demotion, according to Politico, which cited anonymous sources.

From the beginning, Bannon’s take-no-prisoners style of populism and his openly stated desire to “deconstruct the administrative state” have clashed with Kushner’s more technocratic approach to government.

Kushner reportedly told colleagues recently that Bannon’s nationalist agenda was hurting Trump. He was also concerned that the former executive chairman of the far-right Breitbart News brought out some of Trump’s worst qualities.

The president has struggled to gain traction in his first 10 weeks in office and has become bogged down by palace intrigue, multiple investigations into his campaign’s contacts with Russia and major policy failures.

“Big fight is between nationalists and the ‘West Wing Democrats,’” a senior administration official told Politico.

In addition to running afoul of Kushner, Bannon has also clashed with White House economic adviser Gary Cohn, a former president of Goldman Sachs who is close to Kushner.

Vice President Mike Pence also operates in a separate orbit from Bannon. When Bannon’s plan to deliver an ultimatum last month to House conservatives over the GOP health care bill backfired, Pence was dispatched to Capitol Hill to try to repair the damage.

For his part, Bannon is still showing no signs that he’s willing to be sidelined within the West Wing. On the contrary, the former media executive threatened to quit earlier this week if he was removed from his seat on the NSC, according to multiple reports.

As the waters churn just below the surface, Bannon’s allies in the White House have been putting on a public show of support and offering excuses to justify his removal from the NSC.

This includes telling reporters that Bannon never intended to stay on the NSC for more than a few months and that he was appointed to the principals committee only to keep an eye on retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, the national security adviser who resigned last month.

“Susan Rice operationalized the N.S.C. during the last administration,” Bannon said in a statement Wednesday, referring to President Barack Obama’s national security adviser. “I was put on the N.S.C. with General Flynn to ensure that it was de-operationalized. General McMaster has returned the N.S.C. to its proper function.”

Bannon did not explain what he meant when he said Rice “operationalized” the NSC, so it’s difficult to tell what Bannon might have done to “de-operationalize” the council.

Following Flynn’s resignation, Trump named Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to replace him as national security adviser. McMaster quickly set about purging the NSC of many of the people Flynn had brought in with him, people who were more closely allied with Bannon than they were with Kushner.

A visit this weekend by Chinese President Xi Jinping will likely offer Bannon and Kushner another opportunity to push their competing agendas. Bannon’s populism is largely responsible for Trump’s protectionist trade rhetoric and for the president’s campaign rally stories about how the U.S. was being manipulated by China’s trade policies.

Kushner, on the other hand, has been serving as the chief liaison between the White House and the Chinese delegation. He is also expected to take part in the major talks this weekend at Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, resort, Mar-a-Lago.

Jared Kushner Helped Push Steve Bannon Out Of The NSC

So?

I'm getting the impression that there's this sense of victory whenever minor players are pushed out of the picture. However, the fact remains that:

1. Most Republicans don't care what happens to Steve Bannon.
2. Most Republicans don't care what happens to Michael Flynn.
3. Most Republicans don't care what happens to Paul Manafort.
4. Etc.

Well just the other day you did say that he wasn't pushed out or anything like that bit that his position was temporary and was set to end anyways... lol...

Conflict, lol!

There is no conflict because there is no evidence of anything.

And this is after a year of them following them around like a divorce investigation.

inb4 snowflakes start posting about Bannon, he was only on security council as a temp spot. Spot is over now so he is not needed on council.

Hmm....

Removed less than 100 days from being on the council....

Yeah, I would call that temporary.

And now we replay a scenario from 2013, only flipped.

Schumer: Hey guys, how about we delay this vote thing for a few weeks?
Senate Republicans: No.
Schumer: Hey guys, how about we delay this vote thing for, uh, I dunno, several hours or something?
Senate Republicans: /Sigh... No.

Reminder there is still no evidence tying Trump to any Russian hacking / influencing.

Why did we need such detailed reports on people the IC intentionally masked who were wrapped up in the incidental surveillance of Russian diplomats?