The highly anticipated hearing — it is Yates’s first appearance on Capitol Hill since her firing in January — is expected to fill in key details in the chain of events that led to the ouster of Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, in the early weeks of the administration.
They’d have a lot easier time attacking Sally Yates about Mike Flynn if Trump didn’t end up firing Flynn because Yates was right about him.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) May 8, 2017
Minutes after we asked the WH why the President’s campaign website still called for a Muslim ban, it appears the statement was deleted. pic.twitter.com/1VzefJuoQF
— Cecilia Vega (@CeciliaVega) May 8, 2017
Congressman Jason Chaffetz: Still Mystified That Huma Abedin & Others Have Not Been Prosecuted | Kilmeade & Friends https://t.co/uyylCuPOKE
— Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) May 8, 2017
This guy.
Wow, Graham just said ‘they take this free press thing too far’ on an open mic.
“Back in your cages” quips @LindseyGrahamSC to press as he kicks off Senate Judiciary hearing on #Russia
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 8, 2017
re: #6 makeitstop
So inconvenient for Senators to be watched by the public.
The PBS feed seems to have no audio, so I just switched to a different feed. Reload if you don’t have audio.
re: #6 makeitstop
Wow, Graham just said ‘they take this free press thing too far’ on an open mic.
hot mics are the best mics
Is it me or does Graham seem pretty nonchalant about this?
If you have “unmasking” in your drinking game today, your liver’s going to hate you.
re: #2 Charles Johnson
Curious about the timing of that action, especially since his lawyers are now in court trying to defend the travel ban:
Watch live: Trump administration defends the travel ban in court https://t.co/Esa2QWrp5j
— TIME (@TIME) May 8, 2017
re: #9 Charles Johnson
The PBS feed seems to have no audio, so I just switched to a different feed. Reload if you don’t have audio.
I thought it was just an Android glitch. I guess I just happened to hit refresh just as you changed sources.
Freakin’ conference call started at 11:30…going to miss the first 20-30 minutes.
Honored to welcome Georgia Prime Minister, Giorgi Kvirikashvili to the @WhiteHouse today with @VP Mike Pence. https://t.co/EAPvsrbrUO pic.twitter.com/FnKkuWLFDp
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2017
nobody cares right now, donnie
re: #2 Charles Johnson
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Just delete like it never happened. Anyhow the ban is a direct violation of Hart-Cellar, if you don’t know it, it’s the immigration act that banned discrimination in immigration practices. Bachman as a candidate trashed it too.
re: #17 darthstar
Freakin’ conference call started at 11:30…going to miss the first 20-30 minutes.
Just hang up. Say later that you had a bad connection, we’re going through a tunnel, etc.
Congressman Jason Chaffetz: Still Mystified That Huma Abedin & Others Have Not Been Prosecuted | Kilmeade & Friends https://t.co/uyylCuPOKE
— Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) May 8, 2017
Keep after that white whale, Ahab. I’d tell you to #DoYourJob, but you’ve already said you’re running away from it anyways, so there’s that. https://t.co/hIXcujRWJy
— AntiCitizen K 🌊 (@Citizen_Kryptik) May 8, 2017
Honored to welcome Georgia Prime Minister, Giorgi Kvirikashvili to the @WhiteHouse today with @VP Mike Pence. https://t.co/EAPvsrbrUO pic.twitter.com/FnKkuWLFDp
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2017
@realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse @VP @KvirikashviliGi Will you pretend to read something? #TrumpCantRead https://t.co/2aUFbwKHs2
— Putin’s Cock Holster (@Unabogie) May 8, 2017
re: #4 Jenner7
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This guy.
@jasoninthehouse <-This scoundrel keeps feeding disinformation to the propagandized right. People like this radicalize idiots.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) May 8, 2017
Interesting. Whitehouse is referring to POTUS as only tRump.
re: #27 HappyWarrior
That’s the whole point.
Of course, and it should be a criminal offense for an office-holder to propagate disinformation to the American people.
Touching down. The only way to truly learn about and understand a place is with boots on the ground. pic.twitter.com/hxqXUvlUzU
— Secretary Ryan Zinke (@SecretaryZinke) May 8, 2017
What a great opportunity you have to visit a beautiful place. Hope you keep it protected so the rest of us can visit too. #MonumentsForAll https://t.co/Xc5clPOcCt
— National Parks News (@NPCA) May 8, 2017
re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth
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IIJM, or does every foreign dignitary photographed with Donald Trump in the Oval Office look uncomfortable and strained?
PM Kvirikashvili looks like he’s desperately searching for the exit….
Damn Sheldon Whitehouse just mentioned all.of.it.
Sally Yates’ opening stmnt hints she may not be forthcoming on Flynn, emphasizes “duty to protect classified info…” https://t.co/x2z1Swo4AD pic.twitter.com/WUQbbtRSK0
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) May 8, 2017
re: #21 Sir John Barron
Just hang up. Say later that you had a bad connection, we’re going through a tunnel, etc.
Mute the input on your phone and no one will know. :)
Clapper: I’m not even supposed to be here today.
— Southworth (@southworth) May 8, 2017
re: #30 Jay C
IIJM, or does every foreign dignitary photographed with Donald Trump in the Oval Office look uncomfortable and strained?
PM Kvirikashvili looks like he’s desperately searching for the exit….
He knows he’s in the presence of a man who would sell the Georgians out to Putin.
re: #30 Jay C
IIJM, or does every foreign dignitary photographed with Donald Trump in the Oval Office look uncomfortable and strained?
PM Kvirikashvili looks like he’s desperately searching for the exit….
Donnie is too lazy to stand up and shake the man’s hand like every other foreign leader would do.
If anyone here can read French, feel free to let me know about syntax problems in my new username. I used Google Translate.
re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
So, even though she’s not in office, she’s still better at her job than the Trump Administration.
Clapper: “On several occasions…I requested the identity of U.S. persons to be revealed.” Not aware of any unmasking abuses by anyone.
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) May 8, 2017
re: #6 makeitstop
Wow, Graham just said ‘they take this free press thing too far’ on an open mic.
That’s my senator—is it any wonder I’m so proud?
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re: #30 Jay C
IIJM, or does every foreign dignitary photographed with Donald Trump in the Oval Office look uncomfortable and strained?
PM Kvirikashvili looks like he’s desperately searching for the exit….
It’s such an awkward pose.
You’d think Trump would want to show strength by standing next to another government leader, who appears to hover over him. Or at least get them to sit next to each other so that they are at same eye level.
re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Guy looks really thrilled to be there.
re: #41 lawhawk
It’s such an awkward pose.
You’d think Trump would want to show strength by standing next to another government leader, who appears to hover over him. Or at least get them to sit next to each other so that they are at same eye level.
Nah. It’s a dominance thing-Trump remains seated and visitors must stand in his presence.
My mother used to work for NGA, the agency that Clapper was in charge of before his promotion. She spoke highly of him.
re: #44 calochortus
Nah. It’s a dominance thing-Trump remains seated and visitors must stand in his presence.
It may be really hard for him to stand with all the neurological damage. It took quite a while to get him off of AF1 after it landed, and he’s known for not being able to handle stairs.
Clapper: “The Russian government pursued a multi-faceted influence campaign…including aggressive use of cyber capabilities.” —via @MSNBC pic.twitter.com/T6vBiSONnu
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 8, 2017
re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth
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LOOK OVER HERE, LOOK AT THIS INCREDIBLE THING. THIS THING IS UNLIKE ANYTHING YOU’VE EVER SEE. NO, NO, NO, NO NEED TO LOOK AT THAT OTHER THING, THAT OTHER THING IS SAD, IT’S FOR LOSERS, IT’S JUST TERRIBLE.
Boy, THAT would have been embarrassing….
Who is potential Trump VP pick Michael Flynn? https://t.co/KbkttxjSOy pic.twitter.com/Fhd4DmAO7Z
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 10, 2016
re: #50 Blind Frog Belly White
Sure, but imagine: if VP Flynn had been blown out early in Trump’s term and the Democrats in the Senate had blocked a replacement, Dems could have ousted Trump after taking control of Congress in 2018 and installed Speaker Pelosi as president!
(I want some of whatever I’m smoking…)
re: #30 Jay C
IIJM, or does every foreign dignitary photographed with Donald Trump in the Oval Office look uncomfortable and strained?
PM Kvirikashvili looks like he’s desperately searching for the exit….
It’s an awkward photo with one guy standing and one sitting. Really no way to make that not awkward. Also, yes.
Cool. Got on just in time for her opening statement.
re: #50 Blind Frog Belly White
Boy, THAT would have been embarrassing….
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re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Wikileaks-Intercept muttonboys are probably spewing bile right about now.
Picked up my 1st baby raven of the year. She’s emaciated but the flap test shows she’s fully functional. @PeninsulaHumane will raise her now pic.twitter.com/LN1FhVF9qV
— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) May 8, 2017
re: #55 Sir John Barron
The Wikileaks-Intercept muttonboys are probably spewing bile right about now.
Good.
Clapper Mar 5: “no evidence” of collusion
Comey Mar 20: confirms FBI investigation
Clapper today: I didn’t know about FBI investigation pic.twitter.com/OqyUoUP06y— Tim Mak (@timkmak) May 8, 2017
I appreciate LGF’s interface right now, namely the “moving” video.
I have a feeling we won’t get the answers we want from Yates today…
re: #59 Jenner7
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But he held press conferences on Clinton.
That motherfucking toadie.
Carried over from the last thread (because why not):
re: #537 Blind Frog Belly White
With Ma Bell, the phones in everyone’s home were company property. You didn’t get to keep them when they replaced them with touch tone.
We got General Telephone when they bought out our village telephone co-operative. Same deal though (although they didn’t get touch-tone service until the late Nineties there).
Emergency service on our old co-op phone system was plug in the first bank of cables, ring all the ringer switches with a yardstick eight short times. (My phone number used to be 12: One long ring, two short rings.) No calls after ten PM except for emergencies.
My aunt was on a six-person party line with GTE until they finally forced everyone on party lines to give them up a couple years ago … my grandmother jumped at the chance when GTE came in to get a private line.
Usual hijinks ensued with my aunt’s party line (people listening in and gossiping).
@ColinMcInerror @sirmitchell I animated it with sound, for all those who’d like Trump to croak. #TrumpFrog pic.twitter.com/HJGa94nnSk
— Colby Fulton (@colbster) May 5, 2017
re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #61 Jenner7
I have a feeling we won’t get the answers we want from Yates today…
If she’s doing it because of the principles that she holds (things like protecting classified information, as her statement alluded to), I have to respect that.
re: #66 klys (maker of Silmarils)
If she’s doing it because of the principles that she holds (things like protecting classified information, as her statement alluded to), I have to respect that.
Plus the public hearing does not preclude a secret one where information can be protected.
Sally Yates: “I had two in-person meetings and one phone call with the White House” about Flynn’s lying re:Russia https://t.co/1R6ScLaycH
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 8, 2017
Wow, #Yates asked if she’s seen evidence of collusion, she says she can’t answer without revealing classified info #yat pic.twitter.com/VGe4a7UfP9
— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) May 8, 2017
Why Does This Fake Racist Website Have It In for Malia Obama? (Goes to Wonkette)
Lo this past week, an article has been making the rounds on social media claiming that Malia Obama was arrested “with a gang of thugs” in Chicago. For dogfighting. It came from a site called America’s Last Line Of Defense, which reported:
Malia Obama may have done irreparable harm to her career this morning when she decided to join a gang of thugs in Chicago for a day of drinking, drugs and dogfighting at a public park in Chicago. Malia was arrested along with seven others and charged with wanton endangerment of animals, public intoxication and possession of a controlled substance.
Included was this very realistic looking Malia Obama mugshot along with the 7 “thugs” she was supposedly arrested with. You know, because they always let people look to the side in a mugshot.
Read more at wonkette.com
(more at Wonkette)
re: #61 Jenner7
I have a feeling we won’t get the answers we want from Yates today…
I’ve been filled with contracting thoughts ever since this whole fiasco began. If there really was a Russiagate smoking gun, it would have come out by now…but if there isn’t and the whole thing’s a nothingburger, why does trump act like there really is “there” there? (e.g. the idiotic intimidation-by-tweet aimed at Yates)
Graham asks questions that he knows Yates cannot answer on the FBI investigation, then goes fishing for Rice on unmasking.
— Zandardians Vol. 2 (@ZandarVTS) May 8, 2017
re: #73 Interesting Times
It’s almost always the coverup, not the crime that brings about the downfall of politicians. Here, the crimes are in the improper contacts, etc., by Flynn and others, and the subsequent lies.
We’re heading down a rabbit hole here with how the Admin were busy ignoring all the compromised cronies that Trump surrounded himself with.
“Underlying conduct Gen Flynn had engaged in was problematic by itself” Yates just said. That’s news. Big news.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 8, 2017
Graham moves from “unmasking” to “incidental data collection” (aka was Trump wiretapped).
re: #30 Jay C
IIJM, or does every foreign dignitary photographed with Donald Trump in the Oval Office look uncomfortable and strained?
PM Kvirikashvili looks like he’s desperately searching for the exit….
He looks overly concerned about what Donald is going to report to Putin after he leaves…
Yates: “The Russians also knew what Gen. Flynn and done, and the Russians also knew that Gen. Flynn had misled…”
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) May 8, 2017
Yates: “And that had created a compromise situation” https://t.co/H5UrTb4aPm
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) May 8, 2017
Graham now asking if there was incidental collection on any candidate. Yates says she declines to answer and this doesn’t mean it’s yes.
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) May 8, 2017
re: #76 lawhawk
The further issue is that Yates could identify this information in a closed hearing - secured hearing. At some point this info could become public knowledge through proper declassified sourcing.
Yates can’t/wont testify as to whether Trump or Clinton were incidentally surveilled because that would reveal classified info. She again stated you can’t draw conclusion that the answer to that question is yes.
re: #22 Citizen K
I really had to go and check the date on this POS (yes, it’s today, May 8) since I thought #jasontheouthouse had already run through this nonsense a while ago, but Lo! Yep: he’s exhumed the decomposing carcass of that departed horse, and is vigorously flogging it yet again:
Chairman of Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) spoke with Brian Kilmeade about James Comey’s latest testimony over the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server. Rep. Chaffetz also discussed why House Republican leaders of the Oversight Committee are launching a probe into whether the Obama administration put U.S. national security at risk with his prisoner swap with Tehran.
Protip, Jason: two dead horses aren’t going to pull your garbage cart any faster than one….
re: #79 Targetpractice
Graham moves from “unmasking” to “incidental data collection” (aka was Trump wiretapped).
And this is why the hearing is public and why there won’t be a private hearing.
re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth
I can’t construe that as meaning anything but “yes.”
ETA: no matter what she says.
Yates: “The National Security Adviser, essentially, could be blackmailed by the Russians.”
— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) May 8, 2017
re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth
Same probably applies: “Yates says she declines to answer and this doesn’t mean it’s yes.”.
WH Counsel Don McGahn asked Sally Yates whether Flynn should be fired. She said it wasn’t her call.
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) May 8, 2017
re: #84 Jay C
I really had to go and check the date on this POS (yes, it’s today, May 8) since I thought #jasontheouthouse had already run through this nonsense a while ago, but Lo! Yep: he’s exhumed the decomposing carcass of that departed horse, and is vigorously flogging it yet again:
Protip, Jason: two dead horses aren’t going to pull your garbage cart any faster than one….
WTFITS?
Remember, based on reporting today: Yates is telling McGahn all this about Flynn AFTER Obama told Trump to not hire Flynn. #trumprussia
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) May 8, 2017
re: #92 Timothy Watson
4th Circuit Court of Appeals live broadcast of oral arguments over travel ban
Well, I was wrong, she’s giving more answers than I thought she would.
re: #84 Jay C
I really had to go and check the date on this POS (yes, it’s today, May 8) since I thought #jasontheouthouse had already run through this nonsense a while ago, but Lo! Yep: he’s exhumed the decomposing carcass of that departed horse, and is vigorously flogging it yet again:
Protip, Jason: two dead horses aren’t going to pull your garbage cart any faster than one….
Need of more distraction from what is about to be exposed in coming days/weeks.
What does it matter that one WH official lies to another one? That’s the question that was being raised by WH officials meeting with Yates?
Seriously? That’s pretty fucking damning right there. These are fuckers who have a moral/ethical flexibility and don’t care about national security in the slightest, which is how Flynn got to the position he was in before Trump eventually fired him.
Can we now put to rest the mere thought that Graham, with all his criticisms of Trump, was ever one of those “good republicans”?
WH Counsel asked, “What difference does it make if WH staffers lie to each other?”
Jesus fucking christ…they aren’t even trying.
re: #97 GlutenFreeJesus
Can we now put to rest the mere thought that Graham, with all his criticisms of Trump, was ever one of those “good republicans”?
There aren’t good ones. There are degrees of bad.
Wow. McGahn asked Yates, “Why does it matter to the DOJ if one WH official lies to another WH official?” https://t.co/1R6ScLaycH
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 8, 2017
re: #96 lawhawk
What does it matter that one WH official lies to another one? That’s the question that was being raised by WH officials meeting with Yates?
Seriously? That’s pretty fucking damning right there. These are fuckers who have a moral/ethical flexibility and don’t care about national security in the slightest, which is how Flynn got to the position he was in before Trump eventually fired him.
What was from WH Counsel. That quote is going to launch a whole bunch of great questions for Spicer and Trump and that Huckabee woman, among others.
The GOP is basically going to spend today going on about their favorite topic: How info that makes Trump look bad got to the press.
What does it matter if WH officials lie to each other? If they can’t be honest w/themselves, how can we trust they’re honest with us?
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 8, 2017
re: #100 Charles Johnson
Nothing matters except….EMAILS!!!!!!!!!!
To state the obvious (this term is getting a workout today)
Now we know why the White House tried so hard to block Sally Yates from testifying.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) May 8, 2017
re: #105 FormerDirtDart
To state the obvious (this term is getting a workout today)
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Grassley’s now trying to throw chaff into the air to deflect attention about the whole situation.
Of course he wants to talk about unmasking.
Yates stated categorically no that she asked for an unmasking.
GOP really on point here. Good job, Lindsey and Chuck.
re: #96 lawhawk
What does it matter that one WH official lies to another one? That’s the question that was being raised by WH officials meeting with Yates?
Seriously? That’s pretty fucking damning right there. These are fuckers who have a moral/ethical flexibility and don’t care about national security in the slightest, which is how Flynn got to the position he was in before Trump eventually fired him.
We’re supposed to expect the White House to tell us the unvarnished truth (as Repubs in Congress have repeated, promoting Trump as the sole source of truth) when they ask about the ability to lie to each other in private in the course of official state business.
What reason is there to trust in them when this shit comes out? None.
Grassley seems totally uninterested about Russian interference or the compromising of Flynn. Questions are all on Trump’s pet issues.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 8, 2017
Grassley deflecting onto the question of leaking, rather than the actual compromise of the actual National Security Adviser.
— Karoli (@Karoli) May 8, 2017
re: #106 Timothy Watson
Is anyone running odds on which country Trump will bomb to distract the media?
I’m almost willing to lay a grand on “America”
If you were working under the delusion that the Senate investigation was any less partisan than the House investigation, today should go towards killing that delusion dead.
Jesus F. Christ.
What the F*CK is going on at @nytimes? This is pathetic, condescending, and insulting. Feel sorry for many fine journalists who work there. pic.twitter.com/JgsG5gtbxY
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) May 8, 2017
Bracing to see the questions originate at Breitbart and make their way all the way to Sen. Grassley.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 8, 2017
re: #102 Targetpractice
The GOP is basically going to spend today going on about their favorite topic: How info that makes Trump look bad got to the press.
Yes, because that is a crime much worse than anything else that can be perpetrated.
Old Soviet era joke:
“I hear Comrade Ivanov got ten years in prison.”
“Yes, he called Chairman Brezhnev a senile idiot!”
“Isn’t that a bit extreme?”
“Well, he only got one year for impugning the reputation of our Soviet leaders but nine years for revealing state secrets!”
re: #113 Charles Johnson
Jesus F. Christ.
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FFS, The Gray Lady is turning tricks in public at this point.
The most likely result of today’s hearing will be that rational people understand we need a select committee or independent commission.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 8, 2017
Sadly, “rational people” do not control either the House or Senate.
It’s funny listening to how flummoxed Republicans are by direct and honest answers to their questions. They really can’t handle the truth.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 8, 2017
re: #110 FormerDirtDart
Leaks are really terrible and the worst offense possible except when Wikileaks does it to the Dems.
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Big question the White House has to answer: Why’d it take 18 days to fire Flynn after Sally Yates told them he was compromised by Russia?
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) May 8, 2017
Even he gets it. https://t.co/HCypcEbeff
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) May 8, 2017
re: #107 lawhawk
Grassley’s now trying to throw chaff into the air to deflect attention about the whole situation.
Of course he wants to talk about unmasking.
Yates stated categorically no that she asked for an unmasking.
Grassley and friends know what unmasking means, but they also know that an awful lot of folks don’t know what unmasking means, but it that sure sounds to them like evidence of a a deep-state, Soros-funded, Obama-led conspiracy to infiltrate and undermine the legally and lawfully elected President.
Grassley doesn’t do righteous indignation well. He sounds like his ulcer is acting up.
re: #113 Charles Johnson
Jesus F. Christ.
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If I had a subscription I’d cancel it over that.
re: #119 Sir John Barron
And hen Wikileaks does it to the Dems, it is of course the Dems’ fault.
re: #123 Eclectic Cyborg
If I had a subscription I’d cancel it over that.
Canceling subscriptions at the Times isn’t that easy. I tried for months to kill my MIL’s subscription for her home back in CT. The new home owners still get the paper there.
All these career GOP guys have tied their legacies to Donald Trump and they will do everything they can to keep that from being a disaster.
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) May 8, 2017
In NY Times fashion, I will list the things DT has said or done that I can agree with in his first 100-odd days in office:
He proposed an increase in spending for veterans’ affairs
Things he has said or done that I disagree with:
Everything else.
How can you trip up a witness when you ask an yes or no question and they answer with ‘yes’ or ‘no?’
That’s the question Republicans are struggling with right now.
re: #126 jaunte
All these career GOP guys have tied their legacies to Donald Trump and they will do everything they can to keep that from being a disaster.
And you have summed up why it will take a major disaster, like him blundering into a crisis that he cannot deal with and totally losing control in an egregious, catastrophic and ultimately embarrassing (for the GOP) manner before anyone in his party will make a move to topple him.
re: #118 darthstar
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re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In NY Times fashion, I will list the things DT has said or done that I can agree with in his first 100-odd days in office:
He’s exposed fact that GOP doesn’t care about fiscal responsibility by pushing bills that would destroy health care as we know it to obtain tax cuts.
He’s identified that compassionate conservatism is dead.
What I disagree with:
Everything else
The Conspiracy Continues=> Dem Hack Sally Yates Says She Was Concerned Gen. Flynn ‘Could be Blackmailed’ by Russia https://t.co/XY3vEeyuwB
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) May 8, 2017
Sally Yates: “To state the obvious, you don’t want your national security adviser compromised by the Russians.” pic.twitter.com/mtRfJcNBZg
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 8, 2017
re: #130 Timothy Watson
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But the GOP missed the memo that Nicholson’s character was the bad guy in the film.
Quite a few people miss that, sadly. They don’t see it as the obfuscating filibuster that it is. It’s Cruise’s character that forces through to the heart of the matter and gets the direct answer that damns Nicholson’s character.
re: #132 FormerDirtDart
Don’t even quote that stupid fucker. Let his tweets die in a vacuum.
Cornyn calling attention to the GOP’s continued witch hunt target Susan Rice.
.@selectedwisdom Yates: May I please reiterate YOU DO NOT WANT AN APNSA WHO CAN BE BLACKMAILED BY RUSSIA but you know, the WH was cool with it. Weird, right?
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) May 8, 2017
re: #106 Timothy Watson
Is anyone running odds on which country Trump will bomb to distract the media?
Really hope its not us.
Here we go again. Every GOP senator is going right to the stupid “unmasking” questions. https://t.co/1R6ScLaycH pic.twitter.com/3buBRgcu9k
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 8, 2017
“Jeez, Sally, why does it matter if Nat Sec lied to the Vice President??”
re: #117 sagehen
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Sadly, “rational people” do not control either the House or Senate.
@TheRickWilson If only we had a majority of rational people in the House, Senate, or White House.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) May 8, 2017
re: #132 FormerDirtDart
@gatewaypundit Stating a fact is not a “conspiracy”. If you were Christian, you’d expect to wind up in Hell.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) May 8, 2017
re: #132 FormerDirtDart
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!
(inhales)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!
re: #73 Interesting Times
I’ve been filled with contracting thoughts ever since this whole fiasco began. If there really was a Russiagate smoking gun, it would have come out by now…but if there isn’t and the whole thing’s a nothingburger, why does trump act like there really is “there” there? (e.g. the idiotic intimidation-by-tweet aimed at Yates)
We’ll have to be patient … it took two years to get Nixon.
Texans holding a “stakeout” against John Cornyn due to his lackluster investigation of Russian election interference https://t.co/yNvaSwnc9e
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) May 7, 2017
re: #138 Major Tom
Really hope its not us.
All they have to do is wipe out the coasts and Chicago, and the rubes will inherit America until the Russians or Chinese take over their failed nation.
re: #96 lawhawk
What does it matter that one WH official lies to another one? That’s the question that was being raised by WH officials meeting with Yates?
Seriously? That’s pretty fucking damning right there. These are fuckers who have a moral/ethical flexibility and don’t care about national security in the slightest, which is how Flynn got to the position he was in before Trump eventually fired him.
You cannot use moral and ethical in the same sentence with this WH.
-Feinstein: Is it true that European allies passed along intel re #TrumpRussia contact?
-Clapper: Yes & it’s “quite sensitive”#SallyYates— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) May 8, 2017
re: #144 Anymouse
We’ll have to be patient … it took two years to get Nixon.
That came out in an article in Slate, I believe; namely that things are gonna take a while with Trump because they have to make sure that every charge brought against him is irrefutable, airtight and unassailable, every t crossed and i dotted, since they are only gonna get one clear shot to bring this blundering idiot down
Cornyn now trying to attack Yates by suggesting that the White House was right to fire her for refusing to do her job.
John Cornyn asking about the Muslim Ban and what Sally Yates authority she has to overrule WH counsel in determining constitutionality.
— Robin (@puppymnkey) May 8, 2017
WTF What the hell does tRumps Musslim ban has anything to do with this hearing? Answer, nothing.
re: #147 MsJ
You cannot use moral and ethical in the same sentence with this WH.
Unless you add “corrupt assholes” and “are not”
This hearing has the feel of defense and prosecution each questioning a witness. Not a joint prosecution of Russian meddling in US politics.
— Matt Viser (@mviser) May 8, 2017
Coverup
re: #146 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
All they have to do is wipe out the coasts and Chicago, and the rubes will inherit America until the Russians or Chinese take over their failed nation.
I’m positive you could find some written fever-dream fan-fiction with this exact plot on some Right Wing website.
re: #123 Eclectic Cyborg
If I had a subscription I’d cancel it over that.
I did just that. Over that climate change bullshit. Last week.
Flynn has dirt on the yam.
No doubt about it.
re: #151 jaunte
John Cornyn asking about the Muslim Ban and what Sally Yates authority she has to overrule WH counsel in determining constitutionality.
Why have a DOJ if we’re just going to run things through the Counsel’s Office?
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re: #158 Timothy Watson
Why have a DOJ if we’re just going to run things through the Counsel’s Office?
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To prosecute brown people and stoners, obviously. Duh. That’s why Sessions is in charge in the first place.
Cornyn thinks that the Muslim ban was a policy decision on Yates’ part. The answer is that if Trump asked her to do something unconstitutional or unlawful, and that she wouldn’t defend an unlawful action.
Yates just took Cornyn to school (referring back to her confirmation hearing).
re: #152 Bubblehead II
WTF What the hell does tRumps Musslim ban has anything to do with this hearing? Answer, nothing.
Yates got a lot of good press for refusing to do Trump’s bidding, so the GOP apparently drew straws on who would be the one to attack her for refusing to defend what has since been determined to be an unconstitutional ban and Cornyn drew the short straw.
Sally Yates just handed Cornyn hs ass. She quoted his own question at her confirmation hearing.
ETA spellcheck aaargh
re: #151 jaunte
Yates on why she refused to defend Trump travel ban that DOJ counsel deemed it lawful on its face: “All arguments have to be based on truth”
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) May 8, 2017
re: #159 Citizen K
To prosecute brown people and stoners, obviously. Duh. That’s why Sessions is in charge in the first place.
and to allow people to discriminate against LGBTs based on religion
re: #154 jaunte
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@mviser It turns out that Republicans are totally-corrupt, and will cover for each other. They care about power, not honesty.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) May 8, 2017
Yates:
“At present, I am not convinced that the defense of the Executive Order is consistent with [the Justice Department’s] responsibilities nor am I convinced that the Executive Order is lawful,” she wrote. “For as long as I am the acting attorney general, the Department of Justice will not present arguments in defense of the executive order, unless and until I become convinced that it is appropriate to do so.”
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re: #151 jaunte
So, John, you really want people to bring up Watergate now?
Good on Sally Yates for shutting Cornyn down, pointing out that HE HIMSELF asked if she would refuse to support EOs she considered unlawful.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 8, 2017
The penalty of being around all the time and vice-mayor:
I just got a call to go look at the abandoned house across the street from mine. “Okay, why?” You’ll find out.
So I go outside. There is a goat standing on the steps, chained to the yard.
Call the person back. “We have an ordinance against livestock in the village, but we don’t have any way to enforce it. Would you like to volunteer for the open village marshal position?”
A bunch of not very nice statements about why the village government is not enforcing ordinances followed. For that, we need a marshal and a municipal court (costs money), or we need to contract with the county sheriff to enforce our ordinances (costs money).
Costs money is where the argument usually ends. So now I have a goat across the street.
re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and to allow white people to discriminate against LGBTs based on religion
That too. Can’t forget about that lovely bit of coming ‘justice’.
re: #154 jaunte
The whole thing is that the GOP are busy trying to throw chaff up in the air. They’re more concerned about the leaks and Yates not defending Trump’s Muslim ban than they are with the Russia compromise.
Democrats are showing that the whole mess is on Trump and Russia.
Durbin is pushing this home.
Durbin just kicked dirt all over Cornyn’s line of questioning with one question.
“Senator, I did not say it was lawful; I said it was unlawful.”
re: #144 Anymouse
We’ll have to be patient … it took two years to get Nixon.
The world moves faster now, so we expect this to move faster too. But even Starr’s investigation too nearly four years. This could take a while.
re: #163 FormerDirtDart
Yates on why she refused to defend Trump travel ban that DOJ counsel deemed it lawful on its face: “All arguments have to be based on truth”
This is a concept foreign to Trump Inc.
702
7-OHHHH-2
You know Republicans are pulling shit out of their butts when they fall back to talking about 702s. #SallyYatesTestimony— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 8, 2017
re: #162 451_Montag
Sally Yates just handed Conley his ass. She quoted his own question at her confirmation hearing.
Senators, many having been lawyers in past lives, should know better than to try playing gotcha games with actual, real life, practicing lawyers.
.@JohnCornyn attacks Yates’ credentials as a public servant for failing to defend Trump’s Muslim ban.
Yates CLEANS HIS CLOCK! Take a look: pic.twitter.com/yUjYlUlwxP— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) May 8, 2017
Pepe the Frog, mascot of the alt-right, dead at 12 https://t.co/rQhjMTVe9L
— Salon (@Salon) May 8, 2017
re: #178 darthstar
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Sorry for the density: what’s a 702?
(Federal Expert Witness Rules? Google not informative)
re: #180 darthstar
Cornyn in a pathetic performance of indignation. She made him look like a complete dope.
Cruz is busy trying to think of a way to spin this about Clinton.
Fuck him.
Who the fuck put on footage of Joe McCarthy…oh wait, that’s Ted Cruz.
And now it’s Ted Cruz’s turn to try to divert the discussion to “leaks” like a good little Trump lapdog https://t.co/1R6ScLaycH pic.twitter.com/tEgjjmFRF5
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 8, 2017
ugh it’s cruz
BATHROOM BREAK EVERYONE— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) May 8, 2017
Her EEEEEEEEEE-MAILS!!!!!!! They just can’t let it go.
re: #184 Stanley Sea
Cruz with the Hillary emails.
“So what Russia colluded with our GOP candidate in the election. What about Hillary’s emails?”
/
re: #182 Jay C
Sorry for the density: what’s a 702?
(Federal Expert Witness Rules? Google not informative)
I think it has to do with surveillance. It’s more of a rallying cry for Republicans who want to renew their power to spy on Americans.
re: #169 Anymouse
The penalty of being around all the time and vice-mayor:
I just got a call to go look at the abandoned house across the street from mine. “Okay, why?” You’ll find out.
So I go outside. There is a goat standing on the steps, chained to the yard.
Call the person back. “We have an ordinance against livestock in the village, but we don’t have any way to enforce it. Would you like to volunteer for the open village marshal position?”
A bunch of not very nice statements about why the village government is not enforcing ordinances followed. For that, we need a marshal and a municipal court (costs money), or we need to contract with the county sheriff to enforce our ordinances (costs money).
Costs money is where the argument usually ends. So now I have a goat across the street.
At your next council meeting have the goat declared the town mascot. Then everyone will love him, bring him treats, knit sweaters for him, and he’ll have a happy goat life. Problem solved. :)
re: #146 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
All they have to do is wipe out the coasts and Chicago, and the rubes will inherit America until the Russians or Chinese take over their failed nation.
For a dramatized version of how that might play out, see
re: #196 sagehen
For a dramatized version of how that might play out, see
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Loved that show.
re: #194 Targetpractice
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Someone should take the scene from Tomorrowland where they’re looking at the future where everything is a wasteland and put that sign there.
re: #198 darthstar
That’s exactly what that exchange was about. It was going for the emails sent to Huma, or those from Huma that Weiner got on his computer.
Is there anything more disturbing than Ted Cruz hyper-focused on Weiner?
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 8, 2017
Well this is vintage Cruz. Furcknut extaorinaire
And now here goes Cruz trying to bash Yates for refusing to support Trump’s Muslim ban. https://t.co/1R6ScLaycH pic.twitter.com/TKyI9xGPfE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 8, 2017
Muslim Ban again. JFC, Cruz, get over it already. The ban was unlawful and you know it.
And Yates takes another moron to school on law.
re: #207 Targetpractice
And Yates takes another moron to school on law.
A University of Georgia School of Law grad pwned a Harvard Law School grad?
Cruz is getting schooled by Yates….
Cruz thought he got a trap on Yates with 8 USC 1182, but Yates then noted federal law that addresses the EO and that the constitutionality was not addressed by the OLC.
These fuckers simply don’t get how the law works. By fuckers, I mean Cruz and the GOP.
After being schooled by Sally Yates, Cruz calls people who make her argument “partisan litigants”
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) May 8, 2017
JFC, even Rubin’s shitting on Cruz.
Cruz is playing hopeless partisan trying to grandstand on Clinton. He is a disgrace
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) May 8, 2017
.@tedcruz Republican gentlemen of the Senate Judiciary Committee: Sally Yates is smarter than you; don’t try to outsmart her; it won’t end well.
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) May 8, 2017
Ouch. This woman is awesome. Taking no prisoners, laying it out clearly and slapping down the gobshite
Cruz tries one last gotcha question, gets shut down by Yates, leaving Tailgunner Ted to do little more than give a petty parting shot.
re: #215 darthstar
JFC, even Rubin’s shitting on Cruz.
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When you’ve lost Jennifer Rubin…
Again what is up with these questions? They have nothing to do with the tRump/Russia investigation?
Deflection?
Cruz gets a last shot in about partisanship, Yates audibly sighs.
re: #205 Charles Johnson
“Her emails…” pic.twitter.com/BTL64ncWrI
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 8, 2017
So disgraceful for these GOP scumbags to attack Yates for not supporting the Muslim ban when it’s been declared unlawful by the courts!
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 8, 2017
LOL. Sally Yates just destroyed @SenTedCruz.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) May 8, 2017
re: #220 Bubblehead II
Again what is up with these questions? They have nothing to do with the tRump/Russia investigation?
Deflection?
Trying to imply she is lying to get revenge for being sacked
re: #220 Bubblehead II
Again what is up with these questions? They have nothing to do with the tRump/Russia investigation?
Deflection?
Ayep. It’s a rerun of the Comey Mar 20th hearing: DNC asking questions about the actual subject of the hearing, GOP spending its time trying to find some way to change the subject.
Does Yates get to be the new Senator from Texas? Because she just beat both Cruz and Cornyn to a pulp.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) May 8, 2017
re: #221 makeitstop
Cruz gets a last shot in about partisanship, Yates audibly sighs.
A 21st Century “at long last sir, have you no decency?”
re: #220 Bubblehead II
Again what is up with these questions? They have nothing to do with the tRump/Russia investigation?
Deflection?
“Yates never said anything about Russian interference, therefore it must not be a big deal.”
re: #220 Bubblehead II
Again what is up with these questions? They have nothing to do with the tRump/Russia investigation?
Deflection?
It’s all about using up the allotted time, because the GOP can’t handle any of the facts. They’re trying to pound on the table since the law isn’t on their side either.
Nothing Yates did was wrong re: the Muslim ban.
Nothing Yates did was improper.
The GOP has to spin it as a partisan move. That’s all that they have left. The EO was unconstitutional on its face, and it doesn’t matter what the hacks at the WH thought of the EO that they crafted.
re: #223 Charles Johnson
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“How could you not defend this E.O. that was found unconstitutional at the District and Circuit Court levels and then abandoned by the White House?”
re: #227 FormerDirtDart
I wish. How I would love to have better representation.
Ted Cruz just go this ass handed to him and it was wonderful to watch.
Klobuchar: “I’d like to get back to Russia.” LOL
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) May 8, 2017
Cornyn: Who were you to say ‘No’ to the President?
Yates: When you confirmed me, you wanted me to say ‘No’ to the President.
Cornyn: But not THIS President. The other President. You know, the black guy.
Clapper agrees with Comey that Russia succeeded at sowing discord and dissention by interfering in the US election.
$200 million, excluding funding for Russia Today. That’s what it took to interfere in the US election.
re: #215 darthstar
JFC, even Rubin’s shitting on Cruz.
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Graham begins the hearing by calling for bipartisanship. Then every single GOP member attacks Yates (who is non-partisan). This is depressing.
Josh Marshall tweeted this, but the problem is, it’s really hard to know which GOP Senator he’s talking about.
Ahhh the odious weasel emerges from his hole.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 8, 2017
And this is likely the real reason why Yates was fired:
Yates says “yes,” she discussed criminal prosecution of Flynn with WH counsel #YatesHearing pic.twitter.com/TqxULkPlbI
— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) May 8, 2017
If a rancid oil slick took human form, it would be Ted Cruz.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 8, 2017
re: #240 Blind Frog Belly White
Cruz. That’s always the safe bet.
re: #202 Targetpractice
The second season was so unfortunately rushed cause of that writer’s strike back in the day, But what they did with Johnston Green’s character really turned me off to the show. I realized after the fact that he was one of the characters that really made me like the fictional town/show/plot.
dogs. good because:
9. soft
d. warm yes
4. we zoom
• we bork
4. but only. to protec
a. soft
2. we love
7. we listen
b. we love. some more— Thoughts of Dog (@dog_feelings) May 8, 2017
re: #134 Citizen K
Quite a few people miss that, sadly. They don’t see it as the obfuscating filibuster that it is. It’s Cruise’s character that forces through to the heart of the matter and gets the direct answer that damns Nicholson’s character.
Probably wasn’t clear to many because Cruise is such a terrible actor.
re: #169 Anymouse
So now I have a goat across the street.
That’s what I say from Canada now as I look toward our southern border.
re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth
@dog_feelings v. SQUIRREL!
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) May 8, 2017
A quick summation of #SallyYates hearings:
Dems are asking questions about Fynn & Russia.
GOP is parroting Trump talking points & attacks— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 8, 2017
re: #244 Major Tom
The second season was so unfortunately rushed cause of that writer’s strike back in the day, But what they did with Johnston Green’s character really turned me off to the show. I realized after the fact that he was one of the characters that really made me like the fictional town/show/plot.
I’m glad that we managed to avoid a strike this year. That last strike hurt a lot of shows, to a point where a lot were never able to recover.
In my darkest hours I will think of Sally Yates destroying Ted Cruz on national television, and it will sustain me.
— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) May 8, 2017
re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In NY Times fashion, I will list the things DT has said or done that I can agree with in his first 100-odd days in office
He proposed an increase in spending for veterans’ affairs
Things he has said or done that I disagree with:
Everything else.
I remember him making some uncharacteristically sensible comments on the Harambe the Gorilla killing.
But yeah, that’s about it.
Sasse, like Graham, is sticking to the topic of the hearing, asking Clapper about Russian influence operations around the world.
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) May 8, 2017
Cornyn and Cruz have left. https://t.co/gF10yAwkow
— Katie Bo Williams (@KatieBoWill) May 8, 2017
I’d leave too if I was embarrassed like that. https://t.co/csdleTbNpx
— IWillResistTrump (@JetScoozr77) May 8, 2017
re: #246 BeachDem
Probably wasn’t clear to many because Cruise is such a terrible actor.
I think Cruise is good in most of the roles he’s in. The people who don’t get the court scene are the same people that thing “Greed is good” is a slogan.
re: #254 goddamnedfrank
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re: #254 goddamnedfrank
Cornyn and Cruz probably saw a tweet saying that under Texas law they have to give up their Senate seats to Yates because she beat them in a showdown, so they’ve left to get advice from counsel.
I wonder if Cruz and Cornyn are setting up a press conference?
Cruz: My cherrypicked law quote say this
Yates: The law also says this & these other things & the Constitution says …
Cruz: *smoke bomb*— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) May 8, 2017
RWers in the #sallyyates hashtag fulfill my 4-year old prediction that Greenwald-Snowdenism & Breitbart asshattery wd converge at bullshit
— Matt Osborne (@OsborneInk) May 8, 2017
re: #261 FormerDirtDart
@OsborneInk This has been obviously coming for a long time.https://t.co/T4ac0QkvBj
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) May 8, 2017
(!) James Clapper just confirmed: Russia *did* hack info on GOP groups but never released it. Which means they have it to use as blackmail.
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) May 8, 2017
Just so everyone’s clear on this. https://t.co/SeMBiSjeqX
— (((Joel Wasserman))) (@joelw_762) May 8, 2017
re: #263 jaunte
@RVAwonk We knew this before the Russian puppets were installed in the White House. The American right approves of being compromised.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) May 8, 2017
Destroying Cornyn was the appetizer. Cruz getting destroyed was main course. Who’ll be dessert? @molly_knight
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 8, 2017
And it looks like Kennedy’s gonna be dessert.
These fuckers simply don’t get it, and they are getting schooled by Yates (which is why they’re cutting her off so they can go ahead and pontificate).
At what point does something become unconstitutional.
This is lawyering 101.
re: #263 jaunte
Could we get a Democrat at the meeting to say that out loud.
@DavidCornDC Different uses. DNC: they use the emails to destroy them. GOP: They use the emails to CONTROL them.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 8, 2017
OFFS, these same nitwits who are now suggesting the AG has no authority to say a EO is unconstitutional were among the fuckers who rushed to declare every EO signed by Obama as being unconstitutional.
Right now Nunes is watching Yates dismember Republicans on his TV & saying,”See? I told you it was a bad idea to have her testify publicly!”
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 8, 2017
Kennedy: “Who appointed you to the Supreme Court?” These dudes are being absolutely shameful in the way they’re talking to Yates.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) May 8, 2017
Really wish Yates would just shut these muslim bans questions down as not being germain to this hearing.
Sally Yates just shut down Ted Cruz on Constitutional Law. pic.twitter.com/ONlwEYm64D
— jordan 🌹 (@JordanUhl) May 8, 2017
Usually when you humiliate Ted Cruz this throughly, he ends up endorsing you for president. https://t.co/3ZOk5thigA
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) May 8, 2017
re: #271 Bubblehead II
Really wish Yates would just shut these muslim bans down as not being germain to this hearing.
Would that stop Republicans?
According to DK, ” Clapper calls unmasking and leaks ‘ancillary issues’ to the real problem of Russian interference.” Do you think that will keep Republicans on track?
re: #273 Belafon
Would that stop Republicans?
According to DK, ” Clapper calls unmasking and leaks ‘ancillary issues’ to the real problem of Russian interference.” Do you think that will keep Republicans on track?
Nope. But it would make them look like fools.
@RalstonReports Ted Kennedy would do a better job. In his current state.
— Greg Chernack (@GChernack) May 8, 2017
Interior Department freezes work of more than 200 science advisory boards and committees, according to memo. https://t.co/hXcx52fG9p pic.twitter.com/5U3uu7SEh3
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) May 8, 2017
Sen. Lindsey Graham, the chair, remains the only Republican still present at this hearing
— Tim Mak (@timkmak) May 8, 2017
…a hearing about a foreign power attacking our democracy… https://t.co/4JIgaT8PFH
— Ben Freeman (@BenFreemanDC) May 8, 2017
re: #277 FormerDirtDart
[Interior Department freezes work of more than 200 science advisory boards and committees, according to memo. ]
They’re showing their concern for global warming.
Franken kicking some ass even before he starts asking questions.
NEW: the 2nd-in-command at ICE is leaving, expected to take a job at a private prison company that contracts w ICE https://t.co/g1M1FRrTrg
— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) May 8, 2017
The new growth industry.
Liberty University prepares for Trump visit at 45th commencement
No word yet if he will talk about Two Corinthians.
☝︎☝︎☝︎ Something dumbass dudes never learn.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) May 8, 2017
Sally Yates Just Humiliated Ted Cruz During Trump-Russia Hearing https://t.co/JqW5mVZgy9 via @anteksiler
— philip harris (@pharris830) May 8, 2017
Why do I find myself wishing for a “BOOM! Goes the dynamite.” moment?
lol pic.twitter.com/d3Xi2rSB69
— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) May 8, 2017
re: #279 FormerDirtDart
It’s all theater to them. They know they’re not going to allow an actual investigation and Fox isn’t going to call them out on not sticking around for the pretext of caring, so why waste the time?
Ms Yates as AG tried to tell
Admin top officials as well
About the discussions
Flynn had with the Russians
And they were like, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ lol— Limericking (@Limericking) May 8, 2017
re: #286 Teukka
Why do I find myself wishing for a “BOOM! Goes the dynamite.” moment?
We’d all love for something to come out that would cause even Republicans to go “that’s too much of a threat to the US to continue.” But there are no Republicans in Congress that are worried about that.
re: #290 Belafon
We’d all love for something to come out that would cause even Republicans to go “that’s too much of a threat to the US to continue.” But there are no Republicans in Congress that are worried about that.
I’m not thinking of that kind of something. I’m thinking of the kind of something which have them running for cover in chaotic fashion.
re: #287 FormerDirtDart
So that even Trump could understand.
@elonjames GOP Senators close in on what they think is a defenseless Sally Yates… pic.twitter.com/XCkaJNX7qD
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 8, 2017
Lindsey’s mic is still hot and he’s holding a side-bar conversation.
re: #294 darthstar
Lindsey’s mic is still hot and he’s holding a side-bar conversation.
Please let this be an EPIC hot mic session. Pretty please?
re: #295 Teukka
Please let this be an EPIC hot mic session. Pretty please?
He already said we take the free press thing too far. How’s he gonna top that?
Al Franken is getting it. The list of people who met/communicated with the Russians to discuss removing sanctions is quite long.
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) May 8, 2017
re: #298 darthstar
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It’s shocking to find a Trump insider that isn’t Russian tied.
Flynn is hired despite many warnings because being a foreign agent for Russia and Turkey is not important as long as you’re loyal to Trump.
— Mahir Zeynalov (@MahirZeynalov) May 8, 2017
Never forget Turkey.
I think even Archie Bunker’s eyebrows would raise after hearing this…
Eye-popping allegation in complaint filed against Robert Mercer by employee critical of Mercer and later fired: https://t.co/w8GOwef6kt pic.twitter.com/3KxTelCb7F
— Andy Kroll (@AndyKroll) May 8, 2017
re: #268 Targetpractice
OFFS, these same nitwits who are now suggesting the AG has no authority to say a EO is unconstitutional were among the fuckers who rushed to declare every EO signed by Obama as being unconstitutional.
Missing the entire point of an AG (a prosecutor): To decide what cases should go to trial, and which should be sent back for more investigation.
The point is both to try to trip Ms. Yates and to confuse conservatives about what her job actually was.
Senator Hirono clearly didn’t rehearse these questions lol, sounds like she’s reading them for the first time.
re: #169 Anymouse
The penalty of being around all the time and vice-mayor:
I just got a call to go look at the abandoned house across the street from mine. “Okay, why?” You’ll find out.
So I go outside. There is a goat standing on the steps, chained to the yard.
Call the person back. “We have an ordinance against livestock in the village, but we don’t have any way to enforce it. Would you like to volunteer for the open village marshal position?”
A bunch of not very nice statements about why the village government is not enforcing ordinances followed. For that, we need a marshal and a municipal court (costs money), or we need to contract with the county sheriff to enforce our ordinances (costs money).
Costs money is where the argument usually ends. So now I have a goat across the street.
in my neighborhood, curried goat is a treat.
And there goes Lindsey Graham returning to the “unmasking” stupidity again. https://t.co/1R6ScLaycH pic.twitter.com/QMHqtfRumA
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 8, 2017
Uh, @LindseyGrahamSC is assuming that the leak to the @washingtonpost came from an AMERICAN Intelligence source. #SallyYates
— Malcolm Johnson (@admiralmpj) May 8, 2017
Yates just tossed the unmasking question back in Graham’s face…twice…because he talked over her the first time. He didn’t like that.
re: #307 I Would Prefer Not To
in my neighborhood, curried goat is a treat.
I like roast goat, but I don’t want to kill someone’s pet (the goat has a collar and is on a chain). That, and I would have to clean the goat.
Do something stupid today? Well chin up! You didn’t write an entire article quoting a Sean Spicer parody account thinking it was real. pic.twitter.com/wDpTN7SBcH
— Ben (@BenHowe) May 8, 2017
re: #312 Anymouse
I like roast goat, but I don’t want to kill someone’s pet (the goat has a collar and is on a chain). That, and I would have to clean the goat.
When I was a kid, we had a goat appear one day roaming the neighborhood, until the family down the street got ahold of it.
I didn’t think Chuck Grassley could get more moronic, but he just referred to Russia’s attack on our democracy as ‘shenanigans’. #SallyYates
— Bill Madden (@activist360) May 8, 2017
re: #304 FormerDirtDart
I think even Archie Bunker’s eyebrows would raise after hearing this…
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re: #314 Belafon
When I was a kid, we had a goat appear one day roaming the neighborhood, until the family down the street got ahold of it.
Before I married my first wife, she and I were invited by a fellow at the Bay Area Renaissance Festival (BARF - held in Largo, Fla.) to his goat roast in Safety Harbor.
That was a massive party (the whole city council was there - enough beer to sink a destroyer).
re: #297 makeitstop
He already said we take the free press thing too far. How’s he gonna top that?
Wait and see.
Today marks the 72nd Anniversary of #VEDay ‘Gone But Not Forgotten’ pic.twitter.com/o7t6UOPSpz
— Airmen’s Bar (@AirmensBar) May 8, 2017
re: #313 jaunte
I’ll do something I’ve never thought I’d do - retweet a RedState personality.
Ted Cruz didn’t come back for a second round of questioning.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 8, 2017
He got put in his place by a girl.#YatesHearing https://t.co/aiqwWaLLyG
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) May 8, 2017
Yep
Legendary WashPo journalist Carl Bernstein speaking at the Jerusalem Press Club https://t.co/kpCeJ7c5z5
— Sam Sokol (@SamuelSokol) May 8, 2017
WashPo reporter @carlbernstein compared Trump’s demagoguery to that of Father Coughlin and Huey Long. @brianstelter https://t.co/MBNbqMJkOu
— Sam Sokol (@SamuelSokol) May 8, 2017
re: #305 Anymouse
Missing the entire point of an AG (a prosecutor): To decide what cases should go to trial, and which should be sent back for more investigation.
The point is both to try to trip Ms. Yates and to confuse conservatives about what her job actually was.
The AG’s role depends on whose presidenting. if its’ a DemocRAT the AG is supposed to investigate everydamnedthing he does until he can be impeeched. If it’s a Republican, the AG’s job is to get the fuck in line and/or investigate the last DemocRAT prezident
Democrats are upset Russia meddled in our election.
Republicans are upset that Democrats are upset that Russia meddled in our election.— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) May 8, 2017
re: #125 darthstar
Canceling subscriptions at the Times isn’t that easy. I tried for months to kill my MIL’s subscription for her home back in CT. The new home owners still get the paper there.
If no one is paying…the subscription is dead. It’s about money not paper.
Of course printing more copies and paying for them to be delivered isn’t going to help the Times either.
Lindsey Graham: “Seems to be bipartisan consensus that Russia tried to interfere with our election.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 8, 2017
That made me laugh, given that some of those GOP senators never mentioned Russia. https://t.co/2ebJOFse9R
— Karoli (@Karoli) May 8, 2017
Is there any witness more openly annoyed about testifying before Congress than Director Clapper?
— Niels Lesniewski (@nielslesniewski) May 8, 2017
Yes. Former director Clapper. https://t.co/o2QwJe95V4
— Olivier Knox (@OKnox) May 8, 2017
re: #320 Nyet
I’ll do something I’ve never thought I’d do - retweet a RedState personality.
Up is down, down is up…
Sasse appears to be the only one here besides Clapper and Yates who understands what this is actually about.
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 8, 2017
re: #263 jaunte
I thought Trump said the GOP had the best security and that the Russians didn’t hack them.
This hearing summed up in one gif. pic.twitter.com/NuubQJhdlr
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 8, 2017
HIRONO: Spicer said that clearances are eternal even if you WORK FOR RUSSIA AND TURKEY. True?
Clapper: Can I leave yet? Jesus. OK fine.— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) May 8, 2017
Asked if Trump-Russia business ties raised concern, fmr DNI Clapper gives this intriguing answer: pic.twitter.com/no2wcBRBcf
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 8, 2017
The moment when #SallyYates destroys Cuck @tedcruz: “My concern was not an INA concern here, it was rather a Constitutional concern”.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) May 8, 2017
“Hill Sources: White House contacted multiple GOP Senators TODAY asking them to cancel Yates hearing” - @Funder
WHITE HOUSE RIGHT NOW: pic.twitter.com/VbYcz8PJ4g— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) May 8, 2017
re: #183 jaunte
Cornyn in a pathetic performance of indignation. She made him look like a complete dope.
She didn’t have to make that empty suit look like a dope. He is always a dope, she just illustrated it again for those that needed a refresher.
If this is true!!!!!!
Trump aides told Trudeau’s team to get Trudeau to call Trump and ask him to preserve NAFTA, the Canadians say: https://t.co/1xLDgLKggH
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 8, 2017
GOP senator says “the Indians” should “just take my word for it” on sacred tribal lands https://t.co/GKvJuhFZk9 pic.twitter.com/RfxcXTx5Jo
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) May 8, 2017
Speaking alongside Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke about the Trump administration’s order to review — and potentially shrink or eliminate — nearly 30 national monuments, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) said Native Americans were “manipulated” into their support for the 1.35 million acre Bears Ears National Monument southeastern Utah.
“The Indians, they don’t fully understand that a lot of the things that they currently take for granted on those lands, they won’t be able to do if it’s made clearly into a monument or a wilderness,” Hatch said on Sunday. “Once you put a monument there, you do restrict a lot of things that could be done, and that includes use of the land… Just take my word for it.”
*THUD*
re: #338 Stanley Sea
If this is true!!!!!!
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Hey, our boss is an idiot. Can you make a call so he doesn’t do something else stupid this week?
Heh.
@ClaraJeffery It was something like
Ted: 💩💩💩
Sally: 🥊
Ted: 😭
Sally: 🇺🇸— Susie Ochs (@sfsooz) May 8, 2017
@RealJeremyNolt @ARTSYJUDITH This isn’t about evidence. It’s about giving Republican Senators a chance to show just how incompetent they are.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 8, 2017
re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth
[GOP senator says “the Indians” should “just take my word for it” on sacred tribal lands]
*THUD*
They’ve seen this play before. They know the value of Hatch’s words.
re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Ah! Republicansplaining to four seperate First People tribal groups who had begged for the designation for *years*.
At least he didn’t say “These stupid Injuns, they’re like children.”
But he came damned close.
Chuck Grassley has decided to cap off 60 years of public service by excusing an American president’s use of Russia’s help to take office.
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) May 8, 2017
Weather Report!
So, our car is f’d… This is what twenty minutes of ice tennis balls falling from the sky will do. #cowx #hail #Denver #Edgewater pic.twitter.com/l2x1BPqi6Y
— Laura Keeney (@LauraKeeney) May 8, 2017
re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth
A little racism here, a little racism there… .
Why should Native Americans take Orrin Hatch’s word on anything? I’m guessing they have lawyers who understand what a national monument allows and doesn’t allow.
I know if Acme Mining Corp. owned the land, Natives would get diddly access to it.
re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth
Something that might make me incredibly happy is seeing Orrin Hatch lose in 2018. Now, I’m realistic, I know he’s not going to lose in the general election, at least not to a Democrat in Utah. But I would love to see Huntsman beat him in the primary (January poll Huntsman 62-Hatch 21). Or what I’d really love is to see someone like Evan McMullin win the general as an independent and then caucus with the Democrats because fuck the GOP and their Trump inspired stupidity.
The only truth is music…
— Daily Kerouac (@DailyKerouac) May 8, 2017
re: #346 Stanley Sea
Weather Report!
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Gonna be a shitpot of new roofs in Denver this month. That’s why we got a metal roof.
For some reason Ted Cruz always looks to me like a RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant who’s just wiped the makeup off.
— Catherine Bracy (@cbracy) August 21, 2013
This August will mark four years since @cbracy’s Ted Cruz tweet entered my heart and never left. https://t.co/Wypd7MM62b
— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) May 8, 2017
Humanoid-jellyfish hybrid specimen Ted Cruz reminded us today why he has no business whatsoever representing anyone, anytime, anywhere…
— Arch1 (@Arch_LGF) May 8, 2017
re: #331 Ace Rothstein
I thought Trump said the GOP had the best security and that the Russians didn’t hack them.
Whooopsie!
Just one of the more than 2,456,329 reasons to not believe anything coming out of the Orange mouth…err, the froggie mouth.
heh
“To state the obvious, you don’t want your national security advisor compromised with the Russians.” - Sally Yates
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) May 8, 2017
Sally Yates just shut down Ted Cruz on Constitutional Law. pic.twitter.com/ONlwEYm64D
— jordan 🌹 (@JordanUhl) May 8, 2017
Usually when you humiliate Ted Cruz this throughly, he ends up endorsing you for president. https://t.co/3ZOk5thigA
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) May 8, 2017
This will not stand! The goat across the street broke free of his leash (it isn’t a chain it just looks like one) and was in my flowerbeds. Grrr, argh, grab leash and take goat back across the street, because the only other thing to do is go Galt and claim the goat as my own because it’s in my yard.
re: #358 Anymouse
Any penalty for transporting a goat out of the village limits?
re: #112 Targetpractice
If you were working under the delusion that the Senate investigation was any less partisan than the House investigation, today should go towards killing that delusion dead.
This is why we should be pushing our Senators and Reps to demand an independent investigator. I’ve already asked and received a response from my Senator about this and he’s in full agreement. I hope Senators and Reps in red states are hearing from their constituents.
The best response in the room to #tedcruz and his babbling nonsense #SallyYates pic.twitter.com/0s2U3MQppD
— B. M Sellers (@realBMSellers) May 8, 2017
Golf writer says Eric Trump told him in 2014: “We have all the funding we need out of Russia” https://t.co/JcCrIYn3sC pic.twitter.com/IDhRjed1al
— The Hill (@thehill) May 8, 2017
This story is completely fabricated and just another example of why there is such a deep distrust of the media in our country. #FakeNews https://t.co/YZMUnniw7Z
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) May 8, 2017
Mr. Dodson: if what you said was true, @EricTrump just libeled you. Feel free to reach out if you want to do something about it. @tribelaw https://t.co/lZgDVAHiTV
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) May 8, 2017
ICYMI, further evidence that hummingbirds sound like helicopters when heard up close while feeding. 😜 pic.twitter.com/Z2zSxrX54X
— Tim Steller (@senyorreporter) May 8, 2017
Should she decide to run in the future, I believe this would be the most fitting slogan:
@GeorgeTakei “The hero we need, not the hero we deserve…” #Yates2020
— Arch1 (@Arch_LGF) May 8, 2017
re: #358 Anymouse
Man, I wish I lived in the country and had stray goats coming around my house. Sounds like fun to me. We have deer in the nearby park but they don’t come anywhere near the housing developments. Sigh.
P.S. Unfortunately the possums and raccoons aren’t so shy.
re: #360 Patricia Kayden
This is why we should be pushing our Senators and Reps to demand an independent investigator. I’ve already asked and received a response from my Senator about this and he’s in full agreement. I hope Senators and Reps in red states are hearing from their constituents.
My Senators have my mail and E-mail on “shred before reading.” My Representative says he only represents Republicans.
Even on what should have been a non-controversial issue that I contacted my representative about (alleged Russian diversion of Visa and MasterCard Internet data through its telecom), I got no response at all. Not even a “thank you for your letter, here’s what I’m proposing for Agriculture.”
re: #362 Anymouse
Eric really should coordinate better with his brother.
2008: Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., told investors in Moscow that the Trump Organization had trademarked the Donald Trump name in Russia and planned to build housing and hotels in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sochi, and sell licenses to other developers, the Russian daily Kommersant reported. “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump Jr. said at the time. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”
usatoday.com
re: #365 Patricia Kayden
Man, I wish I lived in the country and had stray goats coming around my house. Sounds like fun to me. We have deer in the nearby park but they don’t come anywhere near the housing developments. Sigh.
P.S. Unfortunately the possums and raccoons aren’t so shy.
The deer here come through town frequently, and are educated about cars: They look both ways before crossing streets.
On the other hand, sometimes life is not so good: A bull got out of a pasture and charged into town, saw its reflection in the Post Office door, then staved it in. It then stampeded by my house, dropped a load in the street next to it, then charged north up Main Street out of town.
re: #347 Anymouse
A little racism here, a little racism there… .
Why should Native Americans take Orrin Hatch’s word on anything? I’m guessing they have lawyers who understand what a national monument allows and doesn’t allow.
I know if Acme Mining Corp. owned the land, Natives would get diddly access to it.
Yes they would. Acme would dump the land they mine into the river and the river would wash it to them. Win/win.///////
re: #365 Patricia Kayden
Man, I wish I lived in the country and had stray goats coming around my house. Sounds like fun to me. We have deer in the nearby park but they don’t come anywhere near the housing developments. Sigh.
P.S. Unfortunately the possums and raccoons aren’t so shy.
They’ll eat everything green, except what you want them to.
re: #369 Romantic Heretic
Yes they would. Acme would dump the land they mine into the river and the river would wash it to them. Win/win.///////
Here’s your fish, with a side of mining tailings.
I was literally waiting all day for this pic.twitter.com/p0LKZj0kgA
— Brian Tashman (@briantashman) May 8, 2017
re: #361 Stanley Sea
That’s my senator, Dick Durbin!
re: #368 Anymouse
The deer here come through town frequently, and are educated about cars: They look both ways before crossing streets.
On the other hand, sometimes life is not so good: A bull got out of a pasture and charged into town, saw its reflection in the Post Office door, then staved it in. It then stampeded by my house, dropped a load in the street next to it, then charged north up Main Street out of town.
Besides deer and the occasional moose, we have wild turkeys. Flocks of them. They have zero fucks to give, and they are large enough to make it count. They’d make a perfect Thanksgiving dinner, but I don’t think roadkill is the way to go about it.
He’s awake again…
Sally Yates made the fake media extremely unhappy today —- she said nothing but old news!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2017
@realDonaldTrump When yoiu’re in jail.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 8, 2017
re: #366 Anymouse
My Senators have my mail and E-mail on “shred before reading.” My Representative says he only represents Republicans.
Partisan politics at its finest. What horseshit.
re: #366 Anymouse
“My Representative says he only represents Republicans.”
Wow. What an obnoxious bastard. He represents everyone, regardless of political affiliation. Shame that he can get away with that kind of talk. I can see your frustration at Democrats for not at least trying to unseat such idiots.
re: #370 Blind Frog Belly White
But they are so cute!! My two dogs dig up our backyard so there’s not much grass in some places anyways. Doubt goats would be any worse.
re: #374 thedopefishlives
Besides deer and the occasional moose, we have wild turkeys. Flocks of them. They have zero fucks to give, and they are large enough to make it count. They’d make a perfect Thanksgiving dinner, but I don’t think roadkill is the way to go about it.
We have wild turkeys as well. One time the bed-and-breakfast was so overrun with them the owner was afraid to come out. As she was previously married to the gun shop owner, she called him to try to get rid of them.
Since firing guns is illegal in town (and shooting turkeys requires a license), he chased after them with a golf club.
re: #379 Patricia Kayden
But they are so cute!! My two dogs dig up our backyard so there’s not much grass in some places anyways. Doubt goats would be any worse.
You have never lived unless you have smelled an unaltered male goat.
re: #377 thedopefishlives
Partisan politics at its finest. What horseshit.
My representative is not the only one; there are a number of Republican representatives who say the same thing around the country.
In fact, the claims that “people are bussed in” or are “professional protesters” at Republican town halls are variants of that theme: They can’t be my constituents because they don’t approve of my votes or positions.
re: #380 Anymouse
We have wild turkeys as well. One time the bed-and-breakfast was so overrun with them the owner was afraid to come out. As she was previously married to the gun shop owner, she called him to try to get rid of them.
Since firing guns is illegal in town (and shooting turkeys requires a license), he chased after them with a golf club.
I surprised someone today. They didn’t know wild turkeys can fly. I have had the privilege of seeing one lifting off… slowly, awkwardly, like a 747 trundling down the runway at MSP.
re: #375 darthstar
He’s awake again…
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Sally Yates made the fake media extremely unhappy today —- she said nothing but old news!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2017
Perhaps old news to you and your White House counsel but not to the American people. https://t.co/kgXswYcRQD
— Yashar (@yashar) May 8, 2017
re: #384 thedopefishlives
I surprised someone today. They didn’t know wild turkeys can fly. I have had the privilege of seeing one lifting off… slowly, awkwardly, like a 747 trundling down the runway at MSP.
We’re flying on a 747 for a trip in July and I’m kind of stupidly excited for it. (I haven’t flown on one yet.)
re: #374 thedopefishlives
Besides deer and the occasional moose, we have wild turkeys. Flocks of them. They have zero fucks to give, and they are large enough to make it count. They’d make a perfect Thanksgiving dinner, but I don’t think roadkill is the way to go about it.
You have to aim your vehicle just right…a mere glancing blow to stun and not shatter bones.
It’s a science AND an art…
@EricTrump Why not call this out as “fake news” in… 2014?
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) May 8, 2017
re: #384 thedopefishlives
Wild turkeys take off how blue footed boobies land.
re: #384 thedopefishlives
I surprised someone today. They didn’t know wild turkeys can fly. I have had the privilege of seeing one lifting off… slowly, awkwardly, like a 747 trundling down the runway at MSP.
pre-dawn is always amusing as they wake up and fall out of the trees:
gobble gobble, THUD, gobble gobble, THUD…
It goes on for quite some time…
Jean-Marie Le Pen calls his daughter “a disgraceful failure.” https://t.co/KoAelBUWXM
— Shuja Haider (@shujaxhaider) May 8, 2017
This is like King Lear but with fascists. Which is to say, a comedy. https://t.co/3GR8R0YJMn
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) May 8, 2017
CNN anchor: Trump’s tweet about Sally Yates was “witness intimidation” https://t.co/c5V8PhLaHd pic.twitter.com/N5d2eKfpbR
— The Hill (@thehill) May 8, 2017
She didn’t appear to be very intimidated by Tropicana Jong Un. https://t.co/kZVaNcQ2YH
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 8, 2017
re: #386 klys (maker of Silmarils)
We’re flying on a 747 for a trip in July and I’m kind of stupidly excited for it. (I haven’t flown on one yet.)
I was hoping for a 747 when we went to Ireland, but we got stuck with a 777 and an Airbus. Still, my first wide-body flights, and they were pretty cool.
re: #393 ObserverArt
But his tweet is very tired.
I liked this one from Darth…
The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2017
never realized before that a tweet could be so sweaty 😹 https://t.co/gwTFt75m17
— darth:™ (@darth) May 8, 2017
re: #394 thedopefishlives
I was hoping for a 747 when we went to Ireland, but we got stuck with a 777 and an Airbus. Still, my first wide-body flights, and they were pretty cool.
We did the really huge Airbus on our last trip to Japan. Definitely prefer the 787. But I’m not going to turn down the chance at a 747, especially since they’re getting so rare.
re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth
pre-dawn is always amusing as they wake up and fall out of the trees:
gobble gobble, THUD, gobble gobble, THUD…It goes on for quite some time…
That there’s funny, I don’t care who y’are.
The Healthcare Bill Exposes Trump’s Chilling Authoritarian Agenda (goes to Marie Claire)
Good thing the mainstream media is leaving the hard-hitting political pieces to Marie Claire and Teen Vogue. Wouldn’t want to upset their magic balance fairy… .
More at Marie Claire, the article starts:
The image is now iconic: a group of old white men stand at a podium, announcing that a healthcare bill that disproportionately hurts women has passed the House. The men include a beaming Mike Pence, who once signed a law forcing women to bury or cremate aborted fetuses, and President Trump, who has been accused of sexual assault by at least 13 women, and, lest we forget, once bragged about his ability to “grab” women “by the pussy” on tape.
All thirteen of the members who designed this bill were men. And while the legislation has the potential to hurt every American, many of its stipulations are explicitly designed to render women unable to acquire basic care. If the new bill is signed into law, rape and sexual assault—far more common among women than men—could be considered pre-existing conditions by the federal government. For women who let their insurance lapse, maternity coverage will no longer be guaranteed, and pregnant women may face surcharges up to $17,000 for care. C-sections could also be considered a pre-existing condition, meaning that a woman could incur costs of roughly $50,000 for simply wanting another child. States could determine that having a heavy period or other menstrual irregularities is a pre-existing condition to be paid for out of pocket.
Erectile dysfunction, at the moment, is still covered.
re: #396 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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re: #399 thedopefishlives
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@TheRickWilson Obama: 2 Russian spies walk into a bar.
Trump: Ok..lol
Obama: One is Flynn..That’s it.
Trump: I don’t get it
Obama: He’s a spy— Mike Yarnall (@duquesnemike) May 8, 2017
re: #394 thedopefishlives
I was hoping for a 747 when we went to Ireland, but we got stuck with a 777 and an Airbus. Still, my first wide-body flights, and they were pretty cool.
My wife and I got to fly on a 777 on Air Canada from Regina to Stuttgart (and back). It’s like flying a building.
LOL, this doesn’t make any sense at all.
But then he’s wandering around the WH in his bathrobe, looking for light switches…
Biggest story today between Clapper & Yates is on surveillance. Why doesn’t the media report on this? #FakeNews!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2017
LOL, Wonkette:
Kushner Family upholds long New Jersey tradition of ethics in real estate.
re: #400 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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re: #405 thedopefishlives
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An endangered, mint morph terrible poison dart frog with several tadpoles, which he carries until he can find a wet place to leave them. pic.twitter.com/ueAKNfalvf
— Joel Sartore (@joelsartore) May 6, 2017
re: #403 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL, this doesn’t make any sense at all.
But then he’s wandering around the WH in his bathrobe, looking for light switches…[Embedded content]
He’s worried, so he’s pressing and off his game. I bet that bathrobe is wet from all the flop sweat.
re: #406 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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re: #403 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Anyone want to play with Jim Hoft to see if he falls for this?! ;)
Today was a good day. I knew it would be. First thing that happened: I won 5 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. I’m set for a couple of days.
re: #382 Backwoods_Sleuth
this evening’s sky as the next storm system approaches:
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half hour later, we now have well-defined mackerel clouds…indicative of windy conditions to come:
I think, following the application of the magic eraser pad (after the steel wool, after the simmering dish detergent in them, after the barkeep’s friend, after the soaking over the weekend, after the… you get the picture), I have finally successfully gotten 99% of the baked on egg muffins out of the muffin tin.
Never.
Again.
re: #415 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I think, following the application of the magic eraser pad (after the steel wool, after the simmering dish detergent in them, after the barkeep’s friend, after the soaking over the weekend, after the… you get the picture), I have finally successfully gotten 99% of the baked on egg muffins out of the muffin tin.
Never.
Again.
Yup. Next time, use cupcake liners.
re: #416 thedopefishlives
Yup. Next time, use cupcake liners.
I know. I didn’t have any. I did oil the pan. It didn’t seem to help.
We’ll see if I even bother with this recipe again.
re: #417 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I know. I didn’t have any. I did oil the pan. It didn’t seem to help.
We’ll see if I even bother with this recipe again.
I’ve found it much more useful for doing miniature chicken pot pies. OM NOM NOM.
re: #418 thedopefishlives
I’ve found it much more useful for doing miniature chicken pot pies. OM NOM NOM.
You should share the recipe for those.
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