They, like the Russians, are pulling all the strings on this puppet.

Of course they’re motivated by their financial interests, not what’s best for the Country.

Republicans have learned a long time ago that you do not have to have proof of anything...to say it out loud, and like you mean it. To make accusations that sound outrageous. And while Democrats are stuttering and whining about the accusations being false all day on TV, the GOP are already planning tomorrows outrageous talking points. There is never enough time to adequately debunk ANYTHING. And we are always on the defensive.

Enough of "suggesting". Why not just shout it out that Trump IS compromised by his money ties to the Saudis! Find some of his main business contacts there and throw out names. Have them come on air stuttering and wide eyed and outraged for a change at such strong statements.

Seriously what is the worst that can happen? Are they going to sue for libel? Do we sue every time for libel? Never happens.

I've had posts deleted for dare suggesting that Dems always seem to be on defense. The political arena right now isn't rewarding to tepid responses especially when the livelihood of millions of Americans are on the line.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/i-love-the-saudis-trump-business-ties-to-kingdom-run-deep/2018/10/12/bcc0eda4-ce78-11e8-ad0a-0e01efba3cc1_story.html

‘I love the Saudis’: Trump business ties to kingdom run deep
By Bernard Condon, Stephen Braun and Tami Abdollah?|?AP
October 12

NEW YORK — He’s booked hotel rooms and meeting spaces to them, sold an entire floor in one of his buildings to them and, in desperate moments in his career, gotten a billionaire from the country to buy his yacht and New York’s Plaza Hotel overlooking Central Park.

President Donald Trump’s ties to Saudi Arabia run long and deep, and he’s often boasted about his business ties with the kingdom.

“I love the Saudis,” Trump said when announcing his presidential run at Trump Tower in 2015. “Many are in this building.”

“The Saudis are funneling money to him,” said former federal ethics chief Walter Shaub, who is advising a watchdog group suing Trump for foreign government ties to his business. That undermines “confidence that he’s going to do the right thing when it comes to Khashoggi.”

Trump paid his first foreign visit as president to Saudi Arabia last year, praised its new young ruler and boasted of striking a deal to sell $110 billion of U.S. weapons to the kingdom.

The president’s links to Saudi billionaires and princes go back years, and appear to have only deepened.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211290698

Trump, August 2015: I make $40 million, $50 million from Saudi Arabia. I like them a lot.

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"I believe it was rogue killers"

and will lead the investigation when we retake the House. It will have to be proven...obvious or not. The dotard and his family will take investigation to prove their selling out...that's well known too, but no one is shouting it from the housetops...or holding them accountable.

Sorry, but that was my initial reaction. DFT seems to owe money to every despot on the world stage. He certainly worships them. The fact that the GOP will not reign him in will be their downfall.

in the Democratic party who the media will have on their shows... and he is doing what needs to be done, keep pointing out why this is not normal and needs to be addressed, should have been already. Sure, it's obvious to us, but these things need to be repeated whenever possible, THAT is our message, to point out the wrongness loudly while citing actual law and (used to be) shared values.

Those of you calling the Rep. out for stating the obvious are complaining about getting what you have been demanding.

members of his family & government when he took power this year.

Because he needed someone to protect his interests in that area.

The son-in -law couldn't pass the security clearance required of "the job" so now any 'secrets' son-in law 'shared' with the Saudis like the "list of who to murder" are being revealed.

Moral of the story: Make it an absolute and strictly enforced prerequisite for running for the presidency that all candidates release their tax returns - or else they're automatically disqualified! If we haven't seen Trump's tax returns, we have absolutely NO way of knowing what kind of financial s#*thole he's in! But financial s#*thole or not, we DO know that Trump LOVES money, and is out to use the presidency to shovel as much money into his own pockets as he can - and everything, and everyone else be damned. Case closed!

no security clearances at all.

Only "background check" President Trump has had is the Steel dossier that was ordered by some Republican 3? years ago.


IMO, President Trump is a National security threat.

once they get the price per barrel up & usa gasoline is back to 7 a gallon- UTAH will start to process that toxic shale.

hello dirty air & toxic sludge oil pipeline breaks in USA.

or the planet will be parboiled in short order, and us along with it.

Once they have an abundance of fresh water- their deserts will bloom.

The rising sea levels benefit that area of the world in a major way.

Rising sea levels also will benefit the black sea and Russia knows this.

no matter how much water they have.

https://gulfnews.com/culture/environment/gulf-will-be-too-hot-for-humans-by-2070-study-1.1608055

(btw, this study is from several years ago and I bet it is way out of date: all the climate models have had to be continually revised when the "worst case scenario" keeps proving to be too optimistic)

and "our world" is full of slaves.

It is hard to get any work out of them then.

Make them work outside nights while the "Leaders" relax inside their compounds.

Plants will love the new North & South pole greenbelt.

The Northwest passage will be the trading hub of the "Last Free People of the World"

Everyone will try to migrate to Northern Canada or Northern Russia & N. Asia

Saudi Arabia will be less hot because they'll flood their lands with fresh water & greenery.

Miles of contained cooled areas with solar energy & heated steam power energy.

1) 43 C = 110 F. We're already there, lots of places and of course in Saudi Arabia. Unpleasant but survivable if precautions are taken.

Predicted temp of 60 C = 140 F different kettle of fish PARTICULARLY if Saudi Arabia floods their lands "with fresh water & greenery" * For one thing, since water vapor is a green house gas, the bloomin' desert won't cool at night, just as coastal regions don't now.

2) Adding moisture doesn't "cool" anything, it just makes it seem like it, due to the evaporation of moisture from the skin. But at 100% humidity we get the wet-bulb effect of high temps and high humidity, and no evaporation: "When the wet-bulb temperature reaches 35 degrees Celsius the human body can not remove heat sufficiently so undergoes thermal runaway of core body temperature leading to rapid death."

*as for the desert blooming, plants also have a maximum temp, particularly food plants. Heat waves can do incredible damage to even the most heat tolerant shrubs and flowers, but it's especially damaging to vegetables and fruit (basically they go through their life cycle too quickly to actually produce crops)....The optimum temperature for photosynthesis is 77°F (25°C). (Plants growing in a CO2 enriched environment thrive in slightly warmer conditions-82°F (28°C.)) Rates of photosynthesis drop off sharply if temperatures rise above these points. At about 110 it is essentially zero.

That desert ain't gonna be blooming and the Saudis are a f@cked as the rest of us, if not more so.

Like todays response to climate change- Some Privileged will $$adapt$$,

'others' will be flooded or wildfired into homelessness & poverty.

let alone a despotic and decadent regime like that one. I just think it is wildly misplaced. The royal family--and the rich around the world--may think they can just pay their way out of our collective fix, but I don't think they have either an idea or a clue as to what they will be facing. Climate will be the least of it.

waterless ,dust blowing, wastelands after the wildfires burn away the tinder.

Does a bird shit in the sky?