Congressman Jason Chafetz is chair of the House Oversight Committee. He has the power to hold investigations of government misdeeds. He has not scheduled any hearings on the Trump-Outin connection or Trump’s conflicts of interests.
He held a town hall at home and it was packed with angry citizens. Chafetz later claimed they were all paid protestors from out of state.
One teacher gave him a lesson. Watch.
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This came out two days ago. I wasn’t aware of it. I hope there is an investigation into Trump’s connection with Russia. This is complete nonsense.
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Russia Considers Returning Snowden to U.S. to ‘Curry Favor’ With Trump: Official on NBCNews.com
…The White House had no comment, but the Justice Department told NBC News it would welcome the return of Snowden, who currently faces federal charges that carry a minimum of 30 years in prison. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said talk about returning Snowden is “nonsense.”
If he were returned to American soil, Snowden — a divisive figure in America who is seen by some as a hero and others as treasonous — would face an administration that has condemned him in the strongest terms.
“I think he’s a total traitor and I would deal with him harshly,” Trump said in July. “And if I were president, Putin would give him over.” In October 2013, Trump tweeted: “Snowden is a spy who should be executed.”…
From NBCNews.com…
Russia Considers Returning Snowden to U.S. to ‘Curry Favor’ With Trump: Official
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/russia-eyes-sending-snowden-u-s-gift-trump-official-n718921?cid=eml_onsite
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I wonder who does the blocking. That would tell a lot about what is happening in this country.
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Link is broken.
John Inman,
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Try this link
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2017/02/10/gop-congressman-gets-schooled-during-heated-town-hall/97758856/
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I believe all constituents have a right to participate in a town hall meeting, right?
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Chafetz actually said they were paid out of state protestors
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Which one is the video?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Jason+Chafetz+protestors
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I updated the link
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Google Jason Chafetz Town Hall Teacher
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I love Borowitz. Remember, he is a comedian.
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From newyorker.com: DeVos Says Trump’s Forty-Per-Cent Approval Rating Means More Than Half of Country Supports Him
“To you critics out there who think you’re in the majority, I have some advice for you,” the new Secretary of Education said. “Do the math.”
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/devos-says-trumps-forty-per-cent-approval-rating-means-more-than-half-of-country-supports-him
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But don’t deny the wonders that can be wrought with rheephorm math. For example, charters that get 100% graduation rates. Then there are charters where 100% of their students go on to college. More wonderful yet, miracle teachers like Michelle Rhee taking “her” [forget that pesky co-teacher!] students from the 13th to the 90th percentiles.
Rheeally! But not really…
So Borowitz’s send up of Betsy DeVos is, sadly, much less of an exaggeration than one might think.
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” [Mark Twain]
😎
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Also, there’s an earlier Borowitz about DeVos’ meeting a book for the first time (upon her swearing in).
Thank G-d for Borowitz!
(Also, the season premiere of “Last Week Tonight” w/John Oliver was on last night…SO good.)
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So democrats no longer have a say? Aren’t we all citizens of the US?
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Utah districts are so gerrymandered that it’s expected that Democrats won’t have a say.
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This is supposed to be the whole meeting. More than an hour long video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob5MrYpv_XI
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It’s symbolic that it’s a female teacher who “What is your line in the sand?” and then calls for Trump’s impeachment.
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“Do your job! Do your job!”
I love it.
But I think the malignant narcissist in the White House, his mostly deplorable cabinet and White House staff, and most if not all of the elected Republicans in the federal and state governments are deaf and must be reminded of a quote by Thomas Jefferson.
… “And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
“Let them take arms.
“The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure. …”
http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/The_tree_of_liberty…(Quotation)
There are millions of patriots but only two tyrants in the White House today, and their names are Donald Trump and Steve Bannon.
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“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure. …”
I see what you are preparing us for, General Lofthouse. I understand that there are 3 million more of us than them, and this is comforting, but how about the count of those with guns? Aren’t we outnumbered 10 to 1 there?
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From what I’ve read about how the military voted, about 45 percent voted for Hillary and 55 percent for Trump. But more officers voted for Trump while more enlisted me voted for Clinton. There are more than 20 million veterans and the break down is about the same, I think.
That’s a lot of armed and trained warriors. How many would fight for Trump vs those who would fight to preserve the U.S. Constitution and our republic against the serial lying, fraud, con-man, malignant narcissist tyrant in the White House?
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Thanks. So you think, General, the military would be involved in the conflict? I would have thought, it would be a civil conflict, and big machinery wouldn’t be involved, only guns we could buy at Brass pro shops.
Here is my daughter checking out a gun there.
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I left the Marines an E4, a corporal. No way was I ever officer material then. Now, I don’t know.
I think that scoped rifle your daughter is holding would knock her over from the recoil if she fired it unless it’s a 22 caliber.
I think it will eventually reach the level of a violent and bloody civil conflict when peaceful protests only results in insulting tweets and threats, but when the malignant narcissist in the White House declares martial law and sends in the military to mow down children, mothers, grandparents, fathers, brothers, cousins, and friends, the military is going to split.
Just like the 1st U.S. Civil War, some will join the civilians leading the Civil War and some will support Little fingers. The only way to avoid the 2nd U.S. Civil War is if the GOP in Congress and/or the courts act and stop Littlefingers from becoming the brutal dictator he obviously wants to be.
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Actually, I asked a friend of mine who is more than 20 years younger then me. He served for 14 years and fought in the middle east. Four years in the Marines and then the rest in Special Forces. He’s seen some serious shit in war zones.
I asked him if he would fight for Trump or to save the U.S. Constitution from Trump. He said he’d fight to save the Constitution.
The U.S. military today is the most educated military in U.S. history, and I think many of the military voters who votes for Trump were voting against Hillary.
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Interestingly, I just got an email with the following sentence in it
FreedomWorks president and CEO Adam promised that “there will be more grassroots hand-to-hand combat” than ever during this recess.
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hand to hand combat. LOL
My first image was of elected male republicans jerking each other off.
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So was mine.
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Boys! Behave yourselves! 🙂
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I don’t want to behave myself. I want to be part of an army, a trained army, a heavily armed military, that’s marching on Washington D.C. to take back the United States from the malignant narcissist and the GOP that supports him.
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His job is to represent the publics’ interests whether they are a democrat, a republican, or even a nonvoting constituent.
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What a surprise he will get then these ‘democrats’ vote him out of office… but then h collects 175k for life!
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“Chafetz later claimed they were all paid protestors from out of state.”
When not one iota of truth can be found, find a conjecture or lie to replace it, ala Trump, Spicer, Miller, Conway, etc.
What I call the “trickle-down alternative news theory.” (Heretofore known as t.d.a.n.t.)
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The PAID PROTESTORS line must be exposed, reviled, debunked and ridiculed; it is a line also being used by other Senators who are finding themselves under pressure by constituents — constituents likely to find this irresponsible “Trump” line of dismissal very insulting.
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They’ll be surprised when these so called “out of state” protesters vote them out of office.
Then they will cry that election fraud is rife throughout their states.
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Hey! Where’s the praise for that retired teacher? While I am a little leery of the number of comments that are labeled as “brilliant,” it would be hard to compete with her delivery of her 2-3 week rule.
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As I said, she was much more than brilliant, she was symbolic. As a result, our 3rd grader president made his national security advisor resign, hoping to satisfy her frighteningly eloquent teacher and her angry crowd’s appetite for blood
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/13/michael-flynn-resigns-national-security-adviser/
But we know, human sacrifice of your friends doesn’t fool a teacher.
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