MAGAThread XIII: The Summit of Putin

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Wew lad. Prosecuting a war against terror is worst than domestic corruption.

This but unironically.

Wew lad, I should be surprised but I'm not.

[Great Minarchistan]

Also if this complaint from the Attorneys General of nineteen states plus DC is anything to go on, DeVos and the Department of Education are trying to make it harder for law enforcement to protect students from student loan fraud.

I can't remember an administration that was this openly corrupt.

G. Harding?

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

Also if this complaint from the Attorneys General of nineteen states plus DC is anything to go on, DeVos and the Department of Education are trying to make it harder for law enforcement to protect students from student loan fraud.

Yet another fuck up from Trumps administration.

What else is new?

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

I can't remember an administration that was this openly corrupt.

G. Harding?

'Openly corrupt' was just one of the many names he had for his penis.

[Tobleste]

Bush doesn't really compare anymore, does he?

Let's not go down that road just yet. Bush is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands.

He is but would Trump have done better if he was president in 2001? Bush definitely did more damage but he faced tougher situations than trump.

[Uxupox]

Let's not go down that road just yet. Bush is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands.

He is but would Trump have done better if he was president in 2001? Bush definitely did more damage but he faced tougher situations than trump.

the only person who could have done "better" was Barbara Lee.

[Triassica]

Also if this complaint from the Attorneys General of nineteen states plus DC is anything to go on, DeVos and the Department of Education are trying to make it harder for law enforcement to protect students from student loan fraud.

Yet another fuck up from Trumps administration.

What else is new?

And with Brett "The President can ignore the Law" Kavanaugh, we are only going to get ever closer to a Corporate and Theocratic Banana Republic under this administration and beyond.

[Great Minarchistan]

*tip*
Thoughts?

[Genivaria]

I can't remember an administration that was this openly corrupt.

G. Harding?

I had to google him, and I'm actually kind've relieved that we have to go so far back to find one.

[Genivaria]

Wew lad. Prosecuting a war against terror is worst than domestic corruption.

This but unironically.

I'm not crying over militant theocrats.

[Freezic Vast]

Yet another fuck up from Trumps administration.

What else is new?

And with Brett "The President can ignore the Law" Kavanaugh, we are only going to get ever closer to a Corporate and Theocratic Banana Republic under this administration and beyond.

No we're not.

[Triassica]

And with Brett "The President can ignore the Law" Kavanaugh, we are only going to get ever closer to a Corporate and Theocratic Banana Republic under this administration and beyond.

No we're not.

Prove that the powers of that be don't want to see Roe V Wade and other right granting rulings for women, gays and minorities overturned and come back to me.

[Luminesa]

No we're not.

Prove that the powers of that be don't want to see Roe V Wade and other right granting rulings for women, gays and minorities overturned and come back to me.

Because otherwise Trump would have picked Barrett? He picked someone who sits in the middle and who was a friend of Kennedy-also in the middle. Trump believes he fulfilled his duty to pro-life voters when he reinstated the Mexico City Policy his first week in office. He also has members of his staff working with Planned Parenthood to fight a group of unionists in one of the states. Not to mention he’s flip-flopped on the issue far too many times. He doesn’t care about abortion as an issue.

[Freezic Vast]

No we're not.

Prove that the powers of that be don't want to see Roe V Wade and other right granting rulings for women, gays and minorities overturned and come back to me.

Then stop spewing the same Chicken Little hyperbolic BS all the fucking time.

[Luminesa]

Let's not go down that road just yet. Bush is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands.

He is but would Trump have done better if he was president in 2001? Bush definitely did more damage but he faced tougher situations than trump.

Yep. Got locked in conflict with the ME his first year in office, thanks to 9/11. We’re still in that war technically, but Trump hasn’t had a whole lot of boots put on the ground, as far as I know.

[Luminesa]

Also if this complaint from the Attorneys General of nineteen states plus DC is anything to go on, DeVos and the Department of Education are trying to make it harder for law enforcement to protect students from student loan fraud.

I can't remember an administration that was this openly corrupt.

Harding and Grant were pretty bad.

[Triassica]

Prove that the powers of that be don't want to see Roe V Wade and other right granting rulings for women, gays and minorities overturned and come back to me.

Because otherwise Trump would have picked Barrett? He picked someone who sits in the middle and who was a friend of Kennedy-also in the middle. Trump believes he fulfilled his duty to pro-life voters when he reinstated the Mexico City Policy his first week in office. He also has members of his staff working with Planned Parenthood to fight a group of unionists in one of the states. Not to mention he’s flip-flopped on the issue far too many times. He doesn’t care about abortion as an issue.

Trump pick for SCOTUS would gladly overturn Roe V Wade in a heartbeat.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... de-697634/

[Freezic Vast]

Because otherwise Trump would have picked Barrett? He picked someone who sits in the middle and who was a friend of Kennedy-also in the middle. Trump believes he fulfilled his duty to pro-life voters when he reinstated the Mexico City Policy his first week in office. He also has members of his staff working with Planned Parenthood to fight a group of unionists in one of the states. Not to mention he’s flip-flopped on the issue far too many times. He doesn’t care about abortion as an issue.

Trump pick for SCOTUS would gladly overturn Roe V Wade in a heartbeat.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... de-697634/

Sure, because we're totally gonna believe a random opinionated RS article.

[Conserative Morality]

I can't remember an administration that was this openly corrupt.

Harding and Grant were pretty bad.

Grant put some of the first anti-corruption controls in place. He doesn't deserve to be even mentioned in the same sentence.

[Xracona]

Also if this complaint from the Attorneys General of nineteen states plus DC is anything to go on, DeVos and the Department of Education are trying to make it harder for law enforcement to protect students from student loan fraud.

They're trying to remove protections from student loans, because they make a lot of money from lobbyists, especially the ones that practice loan fraud in the shadows.

I was actually under the impression most student loans are either Federal or State or a combination of both, with a very small percentage being private loans or a mixture of both.

"The New York and Massachusetts Attorneys General obtained restitution for former
students at DeVry University who were misled about job placement rates and salary
prospects after graduation"

https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/make-mo ... sequences/
"These 20 States Can Revoke Your License for Failure to Pay Student Loans"

"Revoking a professional license needed for employment or a driver’s license needed to get to a job puts workers in a tough spot.

It’s a Catch-22: You need to work to pay off loans but, in some cases, you have to be paying off the loans in order to work."

[Jerzylvania]

I can't remember an administration that was this openly corrupt.

Harding and Grant were pretty bad.

Those two guys don't belong in the same sentence. Harding was mega corrupt and so were his appointees. Grant somehow surrounded himself with the corruptables but wasn't really one himself. He ended up broke, until he wrote his memoirs literally while at death's door.

[Great Minarchistan]

Harding and Grant were pretty bad.

Those two guys don't belong in the same sentence. Harding was mega corrupt and so were his appointees. Grant somehow surrounded himself with the corruptables but wasn't really one himself. He ended up broke, until he wrote his memoirs literally while at death's door.

Hmmm, the Teapot Dome Scandal did involve the Harding administration, but did not involve Harding himself, AFAIK.
EDIT: Out of wikipedia:

Although [Albert B.] Fall was to blame for this scandal, Harding's reputation was sullied because of his involvement with the wrong people. Evidence proving Fall's guilt only arose after Harding's death in 1923.[9] This was not the first time that Fall's character had been called into question. He had been suspected of the 1896 murder of rival attorney and politician Albert Jennings Fountain and his eight-year-old son Henry at White Sands near Tularosa, as the Fountains rode home from a meeting at Fall's ranch.

[The Lone Alliance]

Let's not go down that road just yet. Bush is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands.

I was putting that aside for now and speaking more towards the raw corporate cronyism of either administration.

I'm sure we're never going to see the full depths of all the contracts Halburton and the other companies made off of Iraq.

[Uxupox]

I was putting that aside for now and speaking more towards the raw corporate cronyism of either administration.

I'm sure we're never going to see the full depths of all the contracts Halburton and the other companies made off of Iraq.

Is Halburton a Chinese subsidiary?

[The Lone Alliance]

I'm sure we're never going to see the full depths of all the contracts Halburton and the other companies made off of Iraq.

Is Halburton a Chinese subsidiary?

We hired Chinese subsidiaries in 2004?

The very fact that Chinese companies own Iraq now doesn't change the fact that a lot of the contracts in the Iraq war went to companies well connected to people working in the Bush Administration.