You can deny it all you want but I said from the beginning the idea of a president of the US subverting the US to aid Russia was far too insane to possibly be true
Here’s my rundown:
Section 1) While at first glance paying lip service to Basel III capital requirements and stress test (verbatim copied from the European Banking Authority) it enables in point three creation of even bigger TBTF banks.
Section 3) As more and more financial services are crammed into your phone, point five will become more and more relevant as banks will push more and more higher interest products bundled into packages/offers for the financially illiterate consumer
Section 4) “Impose an across the board requirement that all financial regulators conduct a detailed cost benefit analysis of all proposed regulations.” - this is absolutely horrendous. While people may disagree about the level of regulation (or overregulation) necessary in the financial sector, the fact remains that regulation is in place to protect against systemic risk and adverse financial effects onto the banking system as a whole. Therefore the effects of regulatory acts cannot be measured in purely financial terms, but in risk loss terms. Therefore, it should stand “risk loss/ benefit analysis” and not this weaseling out.
If you measure every regulation by the “you’re preventing us from making money” yardstick implied in the sneaky “cost benefit analysis” phrase, it’s akin to removing seatbelts from cars because hey, they cost money.
Section 6) Oh man, this is sleazy stuff. I didn’t know that “small business, innovators and job creators” are constrained by the Volcker Rule that prohibits proprietary trading by major commerical banks. Why the rule itself is a hodge-podge of good intentions and overcomplex regulation, it prevents creating new capital from this air - as was the case with Tier III capital.
This means they’re setting up everything for a new bubble and a new subsequent crash.
Conclusion - while this nominally pays lip service to Main Street and the anti-banking populist sentiment, the provisions I’ve mentioned above are music to the ears of Jamie Dimon and other CEOs with golden parachutes.
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But it’s not too insane to be true. Principals close to Trump have clearly been comfortable subverting US interests.
The worst part is these pseudo intellectuals like smh, loppar were treated like wise deep thinkers when in reality they’re complete idiots
Anyways my rant on Russia is done. Wanted to get that off my chest after reading for months about that idiocy and people taking it seriously
Hold on Raj…this has been my “thing” from the beginning so don’t try to steal it. LOL…seriously it is the lefts wet dream to impeach President Trump. And in so doing mistakes are made. It’s like when you want that one thing so very badly you are not clear headed. Anyway there will be no impeachment of President Trump.
As I said the Russian story is nonsense and if anything I think Comey really hurt himself by the various things that he said.
He leaked sensitive info to the press through a third party? Yikes this is the head of the FBI leaking government information!
The former Attorney General told him to refer to the Hillary investigation as something other than what it was…that is a criminal investigation. I wonder if that is obstruction? Hmm…
He felt uneasy about Trump but never told anyone, just kept it in his little note pad. If a crime was committed why didn’t he simply open an investigation? Uh huh
And finally why didn’t he “leak” or actually report that there was no open investigation on Trump? Why did he wait to be under oath to talk about it? Didn’t he want to wake the left wing wankers from their wet dream?
This guy is a first class wimp and a political tool.
But don’t listen to me even though I have a long history of being correct relative to my political prognostications. Listen to democrat Alan Dershowit He thinks Comey has cleared Trump and harmed himself.
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I don’t think either on of them are idiots. In fact, they are both pretty smart individuals. The problem is that emotion overrules intellect every time! Who gets elected President? The man with the most charisma and charm. I have been saying this for years. And it has proven true every single election since the media age.
The two people you have mentioned are smart but are caught up in this never ending loathing of President Trump. And I can understand this as I am not all that fond of him. And I can understand fully why others would dislike him. I don’t have the time to list all of his faults. But, his persona needs to be separated from the cold hard facts of what is actually going on.
Regardless of how someone may “feel” about Trump they have to dissect the facts from fiction. And their emotion is so strongly against Trump that it blurs their reasoning ability.
But, otherwise both are very smart and good posters.
Twenty Raj’s couldn’t do what one Smh or Loppar can do. We aren’t your 4Chan bros. You might want to raise your level above “laughingstock” before you attack other posters for being “idiots”.
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I don’t get the impression Bob Mueller thinks it’s “nonsense.”
Is “sensitive” some sort of new classification status for govt info? E.g., does it mean ‘classified’ in some way? In fact, in the present context, does ‘sensitive’ have any legal meaning at all?
And how did Comey respond to that admonition on the part of the AG?
He told a large swath of people–his leadership team at the FBI, for example.
What would have been the point of that?
Yes, you and @therajraj are both big fans of Dershowitz at the moment. We know.
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Ha…he will soon enough. I look forward to his report at the end of his investigation.
No, but Comey should know better. People talk about Trump not being Presidential and I agree, but was Comey living up to the high standards of the best law enforcement agency in the world? No, not with what he did regarding Trump or Hillary.
He didn’t charge Hillary. And he could have and we all know that.
The point of telling the world that Trump is not under investigation would be to actually wake the left from their wet dream and stop the distraction. But as any good political operative he didn’t do that.
Dershowitz has a good legal mind. When I disagree with him which is most of the time I still do not take that away from him.
Liberal or conservative, Dershowitz is an expert in the subject matter.
I wouldn’t be able to dismiss his opinion as evidence in the same way I cannot for those lawyers from that lawfare blog who disagree with Dershowitz
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And he’s ignoring Supreme Court precedent that contadicts his claim on this. He’s obviously a credentialed and smart observer, but he undoubtedly has mixed motives, which is compromising his judgment.
He knows that a national conversation followed by a strong conclusion that what Trump did - trying to influence/terminate an investigation - rises to the level of obstruction hurts not only Trump, but Obama, whose surrogates did the same thing.
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I agree with you to some extent but here’s the thing :
smh wrote these posts detailing the level of certainty the IC had in Trumps ties to Russia.
GRU this, Crowdstrike that, CIA this etc.
Even when I mentioned US intelligence’s poor track record (Iraq) all he did was call me an idiot for not picking up on how this time is somehow magically different. As one poster noted he wrote as though he had some inside track with the IC.
Then there was loppar who would talk about how on Russian TV Russian state actors were openly bragging about rigging the election in Trumps favor. Yet somehow the American media never happened to pickup these alleged quotes. Then he’d give these long drawn out conspiratorial insights about how Russian politician A or Russian Banker B were involved with the Trump Russia stuff. And people ate this stuff up completely.
Anyways if it’s not clear these two posters are complete fools by now I’m not sure what can convince someone
I think we are all looking forward to it.
I don’t understand. Know better than what? Comey did what he thought was in the best interest of the country, the FBI and himself. Given that what he did was not illegal, I don’t see how you can fault him for it.
This indicates a serious misunderstanding on your part. The FBI does not have the power to ‘charge’ anyone. That’s a power reserved for the AG.
And you didn’t answer my question. I asked how Comey responded to that admonition on the part of the AG. And the answer is, that admonition was part of the impetus that induced Comey to publicly excoriate HRC:
“Former FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch requested he call the Clinton investigation a “matter,” partially leading to his decision to make his now-famous statement about the results of that investigation.”
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/08/politics/james-comey-loretta-lynch/index.html
The point being, this was another example of Comey acting to protect the integrity of the FBI.
Indeed he is. And other, equally expert individuals have drawn conclusions that are the polar opposite to Dershowitz’s. The point being, this is clearly not black-letter-law territory.
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Comey did what he thought was in the best interest of Comey. He leaked info in order to encourage a special prosecutor. Not what I would call professional law enforcement. In fact, he is a phenomenal flop!
LOL…okay. He’s a swell guy. Oh by the way did you feel he was this great when he came out the second time during the election talking about going after Hillary? The left wanted his head…LOL but he’s a swell guy now.
He’s a wimp and a political tool
How on earth is a special counsel (not prosecutor) “in the best interest of Comey”?
Perhaps sooner rather than later:
"A friend of President Trump said Monday that Trump is considering firing special counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the FBI investigation into potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
“I think he’s considering perhaps terminating the special counsel,” Chris Ruddy told PBS’ Judy Woodruff on “PBS NewsHour.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/337509-trump-considering-firing-special-counsel-mueller
Can I assume that, as an American, you will denounce Trump if he does this?
As I read through these responses, let’s also appreciate an inescapable fact - had Hillary been elected, and a President Clinton had a one-on-one with Comey under the same cirumstances and said she hoped that an investigation would go away and make a Clinton crony’s life a little easier, our resident duo of brainless partisans would be howling for impeachment, if not hanging in the public square.
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Dude, they offer better insights and intellectual rigor than the vast majority of actual journalists that write professionally.
Coming from a guy who takes interesting subjects and gives them the impact of a turd into a dry toilet, your running comments on them are particularly hilarious. 
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I was not aware of this. But if he did he would be firing a good friend of former Director Comey.
Nice and par for the tone that you’ve set here on the PWI threads. MISTER PERFECT