Get the song and TAB http://www.vanlarkins.com and http://www.candyrat.com/artists/vanlarkins/
‘Cold Fusion’ is on the new release “Cinder Moon”
Recorded at http://www.pixrecords.com
Mastered by http://www.antoinedufourmusic.com
Now that’s some soothing Sunday night acoustic magic.
OT:
Facebook search algorithms are freakishly accurate sometimes. I went looking for an old neighbor of mine with a relatively common name (first and last) but despite this - BOOM - the very first match was the woman I was looking for.
I was kind of chuckling about the prospect of the Russians competing with the Chinese for the rights to exploit Donald Trump. But if you put yourself in their shoes, what do you have? 1. North Korea. 2. A Pacific rim that can no longer count on America.
The last thing they’re going to do is reign in North Korea. Maybe they’ll try to revive a SEATO-type coalition that doesn’t include the United States.
Stranger things have happened, but it would be odd to tell all these lies *and fire the FBI Director* if you’d done nothing wrong.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 10, 2017
Seriously name one stranger thing that has turned out to be legitimate. https://t.co/CMXyQvpXnt
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) July 10, 2017
Quantum entanglement.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 10, 2017
Sources close to Trump are discussing which “advisers to the White House” might want revenge against Don Jr. 🤔🤔🤔🤔 pic.twitter.com/U84zX22QVW
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) July 10, 2017
If you though Trump’s White House was dysfunctional before … https://t.co/8qdipwO9an
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 10, 2017
thought…
not even drunk.— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 10, 2017
re: #4 goddamnedfrank
Seriously name one stranger thing that has turned out to be legitimate.
The platypus.
Something covered up and ignored to this day?
— Ben King (@Grimeandreason) July 8, 2017
Reposted from downstairs:
re: #264 teleskiguy
The Grand Army of the Republic highway. Yes, indeed!
There is a Route 6 historical society in Ohio that has been putting up the hexagonal G.A.R. highway plates at many town and city borders.
A similar society in California has been working to establish “Historical 6” markers on the legacy route CalTrans decommissioned in 1964.
So in 24 hours, we’ve gone from “It’s a harmless meeting that was all about adoption and totally a set-up by the DNC” to “Yeah, I only took the meeting with a woman I knew nothing about because she promised me damaging info on Hillary, but we still only talked about an adoption program, honest!”
As long as we don’t forget Tr*mpcare, and whatever DT promised his buddy Vlad in Hamburg, and whatever RW stuff he got up to with the ruling administration in Poland.
re: #11 Targetpractice
It may just be me (it rarely is, but sometimes) but the fact that someone had a meeting on the basis of damaging info on political opposition the had isn’t good.
re: #7 sagehen
Nah, given the circumstances. We all know what happens when we get bored.
So I just got detained by the US Border Patrol over my work
— Zack Kopplin (@ZackKopplin) July 10, 2017
Talk about bringing the lunatics out of the shadows. My family and I were at a summer festival near my brother’s home on Sunday. The John Birch Society had an information tent in the vendor area… The John Birch Society! I have never seen them in public before.
re: #14 Apocalypse
It may just be me (it rarely is, but sometimes) but the fact that someone had a meeting on the basis of damaging info on political opposition the had isn’t good.
The fact that daddy’s lawyers decided a day after throwing up flak for Junior to cut him loose says everything.
When Gore campaign was sent Bush debate brief book, they called FBI. If foreign interests offer you info on former SOS, you call the FBI.
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) July 10, 2017
What would we do without young white college freshman wankers.
Bernie Sanders made about 20 times what I did last year, but he’s working class and I’m a corporate neoliberal elitist. 🤔
— Marcus H. Johnson (@marcushjohnson) July 10, 2017
ID politics at its finest. These guys still can’t figure out why they lost the election. https://t.co/vFaUJT5cv1
— Cirocodile Hunter (@TheYologator) July 10, 2017
If you are against identity politics you are against marginalized people fighting for their interests https://t.co/gBhvNlDpob
— Marcus H. Johnson (@marcushjohnson) July 10, 2017
“1) this candidate is working class 2) so am I 3) I must now vote for them” is what I mean. Classes are the marginalized. Join the real left https://t.co/Co90uVCIhQ
— Cirocodile Hunter (@TheYologator) July 10, 2017
The real left isnt courting racist Trump voters https://t.co/5NDXPVXxHj
— Marcus H. Johnson (@marcushjohnson) July 10, 2017
And the Hegelian Dialectic continues in American democracy. Will we have a candidate that represents all no matter what? https://t.co/Gl0kbyf7Go
— Cirocodile Hunter (@TheYologator) July 10, 2017
re: #21 sagehen
Tr*mp people would just say, yeah, and they lost. Of course, I think J*b got up to some hanky panky with the vote in Florida.
re: #22 goddamnedfrank
What would we do without young white college freshman wankers.
I was a white college freshman wanker, but my views were heard only by the people I spoke to directly, I did not have the option of tweeting them to let the whole world what I wanker I was.
re: #22 goddamnedfrank
What would we do without young white college freshman wankers.
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Except Bernie never represented “all.” He pretty much made clear after he got his ass kicked during Super Tuesday that he only represented whiter, more “progressive” voters. The largely black communities in the South who supported Hillary? He blew them off as “too conservative” and basically wrote off the entire South in favor of winning the North.
Bernie represented an outside takeover of the Democratic Party. Hillary was fighting on two fronts, and ratfuckers were running rampant, doing whatever they could to damage HRC’s campaign.
One upding short of 85K!!!
P.S. I don’t make the rules I just observe them.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 10, 2017
Step 1. Read.
Step 2. Send me typical bullshit about Hilary you post any time I post about her.
Step 3. I block you.https://t.co/esCK34FJh7— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) July 9, 2017
re: #29 teleskiguy
It took a number of bowling balls rolling down the lane, with a number in the gutter, to bring all the pins down. Not just one.
re: #30 retired cynic
It took a number of bowling balls rolling down the lane, with a number in the gutter, to bring all the pins down. Not just one.
It also took a climate of political and public discourse that was not only mean, petty and toxic, but celebrated meanness, pettiness and toxicity.
Breaks my heart to this day that Hillary Clinton - a stateswoman of high stature - isn’t president. I cast my vote for her proudly, knowing I was voting for the most qualified person for the job.
Six months into the Trump Horror, and it still hurts.
re: #24 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was a white college freshman wanker, but my views were heard only by the people I spoke to directly, I did not have the option of tweeting them to let the whole world what I wanker I was.
You speak for me as well … except I was probably even worse in my sophomore year.
re: #32 teleskiguy
Breaks my heart to this day that Hillary Clinton - a stateswoman of high stature - isn’t president. I cast my vote for her proudly, knowing I was voting for the most qualified person for the job.
Six months into the Trump Horror, and it still hurts.
Absolutely. Friends and I nearly come to tears weekly.
re: #33 Scout
You speak for me as well … except I was probably even worse in my sophomore year.
Yeah, I was hanging out with a bunch of serious Ayn Randians…
re: #32 teleskiguy
Breaks my heart to this day that Hillary Clinton - a stateswoman of high stature - isn’t president. I cast my vote for her proudly, knowing I was voting for the most qualified person for the job.
Six months into the Trump Horror, and it still hurts.
I am still too numb to it all.
One thing, however, is that I cannot really laugh at any Trump-based humor, I see nothing in it that I find funny.
It’s funny, but how are “working class” or “progressive” not identities around which the Bros have based their politics? Considering the number of times that they tried to draw lines between those who belonged to these groups and those who didn’t, it seems sort of odd that they want people to believe that they’re for “all voters” when clearly they want nothing to do with voters who don’t think like they do.
re: #22 goddamnedfrank
What would we do without young white college freshman wankers.
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And the Hegelian Dialectic continues in American democracy. Will we have a candidate that represents all no matter what? https://t.co/Gl0kbyf7Go
— Cirocodile Hunter (@TheYologator) July 10, 2017
I just finished The Peripheral by William Gibson. In the story, they have software installed in one of the peripherals - a synthetic body that can be controlled via telepresence - that allows the simulation of “bullshit” speech. That quote reminds me of the bullshit the software spewed.
Want to know something funny? Hillary Clinton is taking all this Fuckface Von Clownstick balderdash better than most of us. A quote stood out in her recent profile in New York Magazine, she said the only time in her entire life she’s ever been to therapy was when Bill was being impeached and she - along with everyone in the country - was privy to all his salacious behavior at the time. Marriage counseling. That’s it. On a mental level she deals with everything in her life on her own terms. One tough fuckin’ cookie.
re: #40 teleskiguy
I have been a fan since I first became aware of her, and it was when Bill made the big speech as a young up-and-comer at the Democratic National Convention. They obviously started planning at that point, if not long before, and I got their books at the time.
re: #41 retired cynic
Looking back today, her career is impressive. Pisses me off when I see folks compare her to Henry Kissinger.
Finally saw the first Kingsman movie
Best line of the movie: “I’m a Catholic whore, currently enjoying congress out of wedlock with my black Jewish boyfriend who works at a military abortion clinic. So, hail Satan, and have a lovely afternoon, madam.”
#NowPlaying Thomas Newman/Hollywood Studio Symphony > The Shawshank Redemption > Brooks Was Here https://t.co/L8y2CDXt8q
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) July 9, 2017
re: #24 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was a white college freshman wanker, but my views were heard only by the people I spoke to directly, I did not have the option of tweeting them to let the whole world what I wanker I was.
I will be forever grateful that my misspent youth took place entirely before camera phones, youtube or twitter. There’s no proof of any of it.
Imagine this being your biggest problem pic.twitter.com/PnlyNO3Ouv
— 9 V O L T (@9_volt88) July 9, 2017
I have a special place in my heart for this Victorian ad for contraception pic.twitter.com/smiZLCz8CZ
— Aoife Byrne (@listentoaoife) July 8, 2017
Somebody’s turning out to be more liberal that he seemed like in his early days on the job:
This, from Chief Justice John Roberts at his son’s graduation, is really beautiful. And unexpected. pic.twitter.com/OCF0iVjwu1
— H. Poteat (@NSQE) July 6, 2017
TRUMP: Did you interfere?
PUTIN: No
T: Time to move forward
TRUMP: Were you born in US?
OBAMA: Yes
T: This requires five years of suspicion— Daniel Lin (@danwlin) July 9, 2017
THREAD OMG THREAD
(1) Don Jr. was there. He first lied and said there was no meeting, then he said there was and lied about its content, then he “came clean.”
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) July 10, 2017
The fact that President Putin and I discussed a Cyber Security unit doesn’t mean I think it can happen. It can’t-but a ceasefire can,& did!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2017
Impenetrable Cyber Security Unit, RIP. You died so quickly but will never be forgotten. https://t.co/DDokM54Sab
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 10, 2017
🎶I close my eyes, only for a moment
And the moment’s gone… 🎶 https://t.co/dl9247Uyuq— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 10, 2017
re: #47 Kragar
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That’s the Metro station for Chueca, which is the main “gay village” in Madrid, so what do they expect?
re: #52 Kragar
That tweet by Trump ought to be evidence in a trial that he’s not even competent to write a paragraph that makes sense.
There aren’t words,
Why not put @JulianAssange in charge of it? He’s trusted by the public and has the CIA’s best stuff anyway https://t.co/K7wFTdlC82
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 9, 2017
re: #46 sagehen
I will be forever grateful that my misspent youth took place entirely before camera phones, youtube or twitter. There’s no proof of any of it.
My sentiments exactly. And that very few photos exist.
I still have diaries from the early 90’s, not my youth but my early adulthood, and they are embarrassing enough.
re: #53 Alephnaught
That’s the Metro station for Chueca, which is the main “gay village” in Madrid, so what do they expect?
Rainbows make me puke. All I want is the pot of gold…
re: #32 teleskiguy
Breaks my heart to this day that Hillary Clinton - a stateswoman of high stature - isn’t president. I cast my vote for her proudly, knowing I was voting for the most qualified person for the job.
Six months into the Trump Horror, and it still hurts.
It will forever hurt. I was super confident that Secretary Clinton would win easily and am still in shock that Trump is in the White House. His lack of any qualifications and horrible demeanor are a constant embarrassment to this country. How the hell did we get so low to put someone like that in a position of power over us? The only explanation I can come up with is that he cheated and didn’t really win.
re: #59 Patricia Kayden
It will forever hurt. I was super confident that Secretary Clinton would win easily and am still in shock that Trump is in the White House. His lack of any qualifications and horrible demeanor are a constant embarrassment to this country. How the hell did we get so low to put someone like that in a position of power over us? The only explanation I can come up with is that he cheated and didn’t really win.
He did not cheat: he gamed the system and won. He knew how much Americans were fed up with politicians and politics as usual and marketed himself as the anti-politician. That made him immune to gaffes that would have sunk any other politician’s campaign and even career.
So he’s retweeting Fox and Friends and screaming “Comey!!!”.
James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media. That is so illegal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2017
re: #61 Dave In Austin
James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media. That is so illegal!
the facts that the leaks related to other illegal activity is irrelevant.
Squirrel!!
I cannot imagine that Congress would dare to leave Washington without a beautiful new HealthCare bill fully approved and ready to go!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2017
Fun query about Trump Junior’s acquaintance Goldstone and his “client” - Goldstone is being put forth as a music promoter, and his “client” is the son of a Putin-aligned criminal oligarch.
Who among us hasn’t heard the dulcet tones of Agalarov? Such promotion must have occurred!
Either that, or Goldstone is a spy handler.
He’s getting his “intel briefings” from Fox & Friends
Report accuses material James Comey leaked to a friend contained top secret information pic.twitter.com/Hkg4cAb6o9
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) July 10, 2017
James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media. That is so illegal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2017
Whoa looky here:
If Chelsea Clinton were asked to hold the seat for her mother,as her mother gave our country away, the Fake News would say CHELSEA FOR PRES!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2017
re: #67 The Vicious Babushka
What was it JK Rowling tweeted?
“You tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny little man.”
Golly! Trump’s very 1ST tweet about HRC’s “missing 33,000 emails” appears to be from 6/9/16, after Junior, Kushner, Manafort met the Russian pic.twitter.com/bwvF8FMnEm
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 10, 2017
re: #67 The Vicious Babushka
Whoa looky here:
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Whoa indeed!
So does this mean Ivanka was holding the seat for him while he “gave our country away” ??
Freudian slip?
re: #51 sagehen
THREAD OMG THREAD
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So now we move onto the next stage of every Republican scandal, which is shifting the narrative from “No crime occurred!” to “The man at the center of all this was totally in dark about what his closest advisors/family were involved in!”
re: #59 Patricia Kayden
It will forever hurt. I was super confident that Secretary Clinton would win easily and am still in shock that Trump is in the White House. His lack of any qualifications and horrible demeanor are a constant embarrassment to this country. How the hell did we get so low to put someone like that in a position of power over us? The only explanation I can come up with is that he cheated and didn’t really win.
Simple. The people in places where it mattered couldn’t be bothered to get off their asses and vote. If Democrats voted every election, and not just when they feel a candidate is sexy enough for them, they would easily control all 3 branches of government. For a demonstration of this, watch the next two elections—the wave that’s coming in 2018, and then the sexy, sexy liberal we run in 2020 who will again generate a wave. (Probably Cory Booker, who is admittedly a bit of a showman, but who even this middle-aged heterosexual will admit looks good in a business suit, and probably pretty good in a birthday suit as well.
So last night I watched “Get Out” Jordan Peele’s horror movie, or as I call it, “The Stepford Negroes”
re: #74 HappyWarrior
I see someone is up early and cranky.
I suspect he got basically told by his lawyers that Don Jr might need to be taken on the lake for some “fishing.”
So, nothing much happened this weekend right? POTUS G20 trip was a rip-roaring success, all quiet on the domestic front.
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re: #67 The Vicious Babushka
Whoa looky here:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
If Chelsea Clinton were asked to hold the seat for her mother,as her mother gave our country away, the Fake News would say CHELSEA FOR PRES!
7:47 AM - 10 Jul 2017
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That is the official Trump Tweet right?
Is he admitting he was busy giving the country away???
It’s early I may be confused…Trump can do that to you.
re: #75 Targetpractice
I suspect he got basically told by his lawyers that Don Jr might need to be taken on the lake for some “fishing.”
You think he does a Hail Mary too?”
I just want to see all these clowns go down—Donny Jr. and Kellyanne especially. And Bannon (who isn’t getting much attention these days). And the other Trump son.
Does that make me a bad person?
re: #70 Jay C
Whoa indeed!
So does this mean Ivanka was holding the seat for him while he “gave our country away” ??
Freudian slip?
Good…I’m not the only one that read it that way.
re: #79 Sir John Barron
I just want to see all these clowns go down—Donny Jr. and Kellyanne especially. And Bannon (who isn’t getting much attention these days). And the other Trump son.
Does that make me a bad person?
No.
I think what I especially love is how it seems The Gray Lady was clever enough to space out the reports, giving Junior a chance to hang himself with his own words. I say “seems” because I can’t disprove that it was nothing more than a happy coincidence that they spaced out the reports as such.
re: #79 Sir John Barron
I just want to see all these clowns go down—Donny Jr. and Kellyanne especially. And Bannon (who isn’t getting much attention these days). And the other Trump son.
Does that make me a bad person?
Only thing bad about your comment is you didn’t include enough Trumpians in your “especially” inclusions. I think they all deserve to go down. Hard.
re: #82 Targetpractice
I think what I especially love is how it seems The Gray Lady was clever enough to space out the reports, giving Junior a chance to hang himself with his own words. I say “seems” because I can’t disprove that it was nothing more than a happy coincidence that they spaced out the reports as such.
I would at least like to believe that there were some long-game journalists with an axe to grind, moving cautiosly and incrementally and baiting Trump and his minions to totally tie themselves in knots.
re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I would at least like to believe that there were some long-game journalists with an axe to grind, moving cautiosly and incrementally and baiting Trump and his minions to totally tie themselves in knots.
That’s what I’d like to believe as well, but given the sort of “Both Sider”-ist shit that pervades their editorial pages these days, I have some difficulty believing that they suddenly want to help hasten the fall of the House of Trump.
re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I would at least like to believe that there were some long-game journalists with an axe to grind, moving cautiosly and incrementally and baiting Trump and his minions to totally tie themselves in knots.
Meanwhile, the Trumpbots are windmilling out an ever expanding and changing list of excuses and diversions.
re: #22 goddamnedfrank
What would we do without young white college freshman wankers.
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Bernie could be implicated as a participant in this election tampering scandal with Putin**, and these Bro nitwits would find a way to justify it with William F. Buckley-level drivel.
**At this point, it wouldn’t surprise me.
re: #83 ObserverArt
Only thing bad about your comment is you didn’t include enough Trumpians in your “especially” inclusions. I think they all deserve to go down. Hard.
Except Tiffany and Barron. They are innocent bystanders.
re: #87 Myron Falwell
Bernie could be implicated as a participant in this election tampering scandal with Putin**, and these Bro nitwits would find a way to justify it with William F. Buckley-level drivel.
**At this point, it wouldn’t surprise me.
Add Jill Stein to the list of collaborators.
re: #86 Sir John Barron
Meanwhile, the Trumpbots are windmilling out an ever expanding and changing list of excuses and diversions.
Let me guess, the top of the list is “IT WAS A SETUP!!!!”, ignoring the reality that if you fall for the set-up, then it doesn’t matter anymore if you were set up.
re: #82 Targetpractice
I think what I especially love is how it seems The Gray Lady was clever enough to space out the reports, giving Junior a chance to hang himself with his own words. I say “seems” because I can’t disprove that it was nothing more than a happy coincidence that they spaced out the reports as such.
I really do not get the NY Times. It seems they have different departments that all act in their own manner. And then you get the guest opinions which can be all over the place. I guess that is modern journalism in the Balance Reporting World. It comes off schizophrenic.
The WaPo folks seemed to be a bit more coordinated in comparison.
re: #82 Targetpractice
I think what I especially love is how it seems The Gray Lady was clever enough to space out the reports, giving Junior a chance to hang himself with his own words. I say “seems” because I can’t disprove that it was nothing more than a happy coincidence that they spaced out the reports as such.
Qusay Trump is dumber than a box of hair. That, or he’s as incompetent as his daddy, and probably thought self-incrimination is a good thing.
It wouldn’t be a surprise to see the Times reporters using such a tactic, although of course they’d never admit to it.
re: #85 Targetpractice
That’s what I’d like to believe as well, but given the sort of “Both Sider”-ist shit that pervades their editorial pages these days, I have some difficulty believing that they suddenly want to help hasten the fall of the House of Trump.
I think they want to take Trump down, they just don’t want to lose any readers or piss anyone off doing it. Such is the state of journalism in the U.S.
Personally, I subscribe to the theory he finally admitted to looking for Clinton dirt to hide an even bigger transgression. But that’s probably no more than wishful thinking on my part.
re: #90 Targetpractice
Let me guess, the top of the list is “IT WAS A SETUP!!!!”, ignoring the reality that if you fall for the set-up, then it doesn’t matter anymore if you were set up.
This is a nothing-burger, just politics, no big deal.
This was set up by democratic operative we have the proofs!
What about uranium one and Hillary emails and The Tarmac!!!
just about adoption policies.
Not illegal!!!!!
The real issue is Who Leaked This?
Deep State strikes again!
Fake News!!!1
All campaigns meet with foreign agents to smear their opponents.
re: #88 The Vicious Babushka
Except Tiffany and Barron. They are innocent bystanders.
Agreed. I meant all those Trumpians involved in the the politics directly. Family, staff, outsider scum like Manafort and Stone.
re: #94 Scout
Personally, I subscribe to the theory he finally admitted to looking for Clinton dirt to hide an even bigger transgression. But that’s probably no more than wishful thinking on my part.
Yeah, who admits to agreeing to a meeting with a foreign agent to get dirt on your American opponent?
Someone either really dumb, or who feels untouchable, or who knows someone else is talking.
re: #92 Myron Falwell
Qusay Trump is dumber than a box of hair.
They all are, even Princess Evita, who gets portrayed as the ‘smart’ one.
Look closely at any photo of any of them. Take away the hair grease and the designer suits and look at their faces. The inherent stupidity is right there, and once you see it it cannot be unseen.
re: #59 Patricia Kayden
It will forever hurt. I was super confident that Secretary Clinton would win easily and am still in shock that Trump is in the White House. His lack of any qualifications and horrible demeanor are a constant embarrassment to this country. How the hell did we get so low to put someone like that in a position of power over us? The only explanation I can come up with is that he cheated and didn’t really win.
I did not share your confidence, especially after the Bundy criminals were acquitted a couple weeks before the election and then Comey threw a wrench into the campaign. The Michigan primary polling fiasco should have alerted everyone that polls are not reliable. On election night, before the votes were counted, I was an absolute wreck because I believed it would not go well.
re: #99 Hecuba’s daughter
I did not share your confidence, especially after the Bundy criminals were acquitted a couple weeks before the election and then Comey threw a wrench into the campaign. The Michigan primary polling fiasco should have alerted everyone that polls are not reliable. On election night, before the votes were counted, I was an absolute wreck because I believed it would not go well.
Michael Moore correctly predicted the outcome months in advance, and I ignored it because I find him an annoying gadfly and attention-seeker.
But reading his article again, he had it nailed: all DT needed to do was to hold the states that Romney won in 2012 and pick up PA, OH,MI and WI, which is where he concentrated his efforts and won by a narrow margin thanks to third-party voters and massive Machiavellian ratfucking.
Chelsea throws some shade.
If Chelsea Clinton were asked to hold the seat for her mother,as her mother gave our country away, the Fake News would say CHELSEA FOR PRES!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2017
Good morning Mr. President. It would never have occurred to my mother or my father to ask me. Were you giving our country away? Hoping not. https://t.co/4ODjWZUp0c
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) July 10, 2017
Gonna be a very interesting week, y’all.
Imagine that
Jeepers! Trump’s 1ST tweet about Clinton’s “missing 33,000 emails” looks to be from 6/9/16 - after Junior, Kushner, Manafort met the Russian pic.twitter.com/6FVjMePqa0
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 10, 2017
re: #72 steve_davis
…. For a demonstration of this, watch the next two elections—the wave that’s coming in 2018, and then the sexy, sexy liberal we run in 2020 who will again generate a wave….
I hope you’re right. You’re wrong.
There is no evidence that Alabama Democrats learned a damn thing from this baton-to-the-head. We either collect every freakn’ vote possible from every part of the progressive spectrum, or we give them 8 years to make democracy unsalvageable.
re: #101 makeitstop
Chelsea throws some shade.
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Gonna be a very interesting week, y’all.
And she said it so diplomatically. I couldn’t have. I would have slipped the term “shitstain” somewhere in the tweet.
In less than 24 hours, Donald Trump Jr. gave 2 different explanations about why he met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer. https://t.co/kKr82FY4NY
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 10, 2017
A Tail of Two Headlines:
Miami Beach area swimmer attacked by shark
CNN 6h ago
0:28
Man Grabs Shark By The Tail - And Gets Viciously Bitten
YouTube
re: #106 The Vicious Babushka
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Why, it’s almost like he has a problem with the truth. Lock him up.//
re: #109 HappyWarrior
Why, it’s almost like he has a problem with the truth. Lock him up.//
He can afford as many versions of the truth that suit him…
re: #101 makeitstop
Chelsea throws some shade.
Gonna be a very interesting week, y’all.
Chelsea is all class. Not like some people we know.
re: #106 The Vicious Babushka
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In 48 hours, we went from “That meeting never happened” to “It happened, but it was totally innocuous” to finally “It happened, we went in expecting to get damaging info on Hillary, but nothing illegal happened.”
Again, the most telling part of the last 48 hours is how Trumps lawyers defending Junior up until the moment he confessed to having gone into the meeting to get info on Hillary, at which time they immediately disassociated him from their client.
re: #112 Targetpractice
In 48 hours, we went from “That meeting never happened” to “It happened, but it was totally innocuous” to finally “It happened, we went in expecting to get damaging info on Hillary, but nothing illegal happened.”
Again, the most telling part of the last 48 hours is how Trumps lawyers defending Junior up until the moment he confessed to having gone into the meeting to get info on Hillary, at which time they immediately disassociated him from their client.
Also
Bitch set me up!
re: #107 Jay C
Heh. Not just you and me, either: see
Yeah. We stand with Chelsea.
We are real close to Trump just coming out and saying: “I did it, I conspired with the Russians because I was told they had the goods on Hillary and I already had the contacts in Flynn and Manafort. Stone told me how to do it. And I’d do it again. I want to make America great and the Russians wanted to help. I would do anything to keep Clinton out of the office because I don’t want a woman leading this country.”
re: #112 Targetpractice
In 48 hours, we went from “That meeting never happened” to “It happened, but it was totally innocuous” to finally “It happened, we went in expecting to get damaging info on Hillary, but nothing illegal happened.”
Again, the most telling part of the last 48 hours is how Trumps lawyers defending Junior up until the moment he confessed to having gone into the meeting to get info on Hillary, at which time they immediately disassociated him from their client.
How did the NYT learn about the meeting? I know they talked to WH aides, but how did they know to talk to them about it?
re: #114 ObserverArt
Yeah. We stand with Chelsea.
We are real close to Trump just coming out and saying: “I did it, I conspired with the Russians because I was told they had the goods on Hillary and I already had the contacts in Flynn and Manafort. Stone told me how to do it. And I’d do it again. I want to make America great and the Russians wanted to help. I would do anything to keep Clinton out of the office because I don’t want a woman leading this country.”
You know, I suspect you might be right. The man is so convinced he’s done nothing wrong, done nothing more than any other campaign in the past has, that it would not surprise me that when the other shoe finally drops, he’ll proudly boast of having worked with Russian agents than deny it ever happened. After all, he’s “Making America Great Again,” he won the election, so obviously the American people support such actions.
re: #114 ObserverArt
Yeah. We stand with Chelsea.
We are real close to Trump just coming out and saying: “I did it, I conspired with the Russians because I was told they had the goods on Hillary and I already had the contacts in Flynn and Manafort. Stone told me how to do it. And I’d do it again. I want to make America great and the Russians wanted to help. I would do anything to keep Clinton out of the office because I don’t want a woman leading this country.”
That would be the defense he would offer if he were brought up on charges, yes.
And why not? Russia is an authoritarian, oligarchic theocracy: exactly what the GOP wants to establish in America, the only difference being that their theocracy would be Fundamentalist Protestant rather than Russian Orthodox.
Another fluff piece from another foreign magazine praising our President https://t.co/vgkeABaus8 via @SPIEGELONLINE
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 10, 2017
re: #114 ObserverArt
Yeah. We stand with Chelsea.
We are real close to Trump just coming out and saying: “I did it, I conspired with the Russians because I was told they had the goods on Hillary and I already had the contacts in Flynn and Manafort. Stone told me how to do it. And I’d do it again. I want to make America great and the Russians wanted to help. I would do anything to keep Clinton out of the office because I don’t want a woman leading this country.”
And when President B-Hole says that, Hannity, Franky Graham, Alex Jones, Jeffrey Lord and every other GOP apologist will STILL spin that remark in B-Hole’s favor! Every one of those assholes will say that there’s nothing wrong with what B-Hole did!
re: #114 ObserverArt
Yeah. We stand with Chelsea.
We are real close to Trump just coming out and saying: “I did it, I conspired with the Russians because I was told they had the goods on Hillary and I already had the contacts in Flynn and Manafort. Stone told me how to do it. And I’d do it again. I want to make America great and the Russians wanted to help. I would do anything to keep Clinton out of the office because I don’t want a woman leading this country.”
And within 24 hours, 40% of the country would think this was fantastic and be in full-throated support. Another 20% or so would be mostly unaware and hear about in a week from a media that presented Both Sides and be unsure as to whether it was important, and Both Sides do it, and I wish they’d just stop fighting.
re: #115 Sir John Barron
How did the NYT learn about the meeting? I know they talked to WH aides, but how did they know to talk to them about it?
I personally believe that it’s somebody like Rinsed Prius, somebody in the White House who has decided that his being marched out of office will do less damage to the GOP in the long term than allowing him to serve his full term.
How Trump/Fox are perpetual propaganda machines: Trump hears allegation on Fox; Trump repeats allegation; & Fox reports “Trump Has Alleged” pic.twitter.com/F1jd5LRoJM
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) July 10, 2017
re: #115 Sir John Barron
How did the NYT learn about the meeting? I know they talked to WH aides, but how did they know to talk to them about it?
Shouldn’t have stiffed the doorman.
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. These days, the resistance isn’t just talking about Trump and his cabal of cronies, but the mass transit mess resulting from decades of underfunding critical infrastructure maintenance and improvements. There’s still a resistance to building critical infrastructure - even NY Gov Cuomo, who has designs on being president, is more interested in building bridges and shiny buildings (headhouses) than making sure that the tunnels, tracks, signals, and switches are modernized in any kind of timely fashion. He’s more interested in his vanity airtrain project to LGA than he is in making sure that the Penn Station access is improved at the platform level (where the real issues start), let alone improved connections via the NEC and the Hudson River tunnels.
But I digress (and my commute this morning was relatively smooth despite the worries that things would be disrupted due to the first day of the transit work at Penn Station).
The real resistance is that Trump continues to resist reality, and the GOP continues enabling Trump despite that every single fucking day there’s a new revelation showing just how complicit Trump and his spawn and his cronies were in trying to get Russia to help them win the election.
The arc of these stories usually is:
1) Trump makes grandiose claims that he’s got contacts/friends in Russia.
2) Trump asks Russia to hack Clinton for those emails - publicly (and caught on video)
3) Trump denies saying all of that; denies that he had any meetings with Russians ever
3a) Video shows Trump meeting with Russians and/or bragging about contacts with Russians, including Putin;
4) Trump spawn and cronies meet with Russians, including Kislyak;
5) Trump spawn and cronies deny any meetings with Russians;
6) Trump spawn and cronies claim that they didn’t discuss anything campaign related
7) Trump spawn and cronies change stories multiple times and admit that they sought info from Russians about Clinton to help them win election
8) GOP continues enabling Trump and his complicit admin every step.
9) Trump (spawn and cronies) lawyers up
10) lawyers avoid Trump Sr. knowing his history of screwing over people that work for him on the pay they are owed.
11) Mueller continues collecting evidence and information showing Trump collusion, complicity, and criminality.
Of these, 11 is a job that is continually expanding thanks to the fact that Trump, his spawn, and his cronies are so corrupt and complicit, that it’s impossible for any of them to keep their stories straight and that they also tend to brag about their exploits.
Trump can’t help but brag about his actions, and his spawn are no different. They keep digging themselves a bigger hole, and the problem is that they’re taking the rest of the nation with them.
The best is the Trump twits who think that if charges haven’t been filed so far, that this is some kind of witch hunt. So sayeth the fucknuts who despite years of investigations into Clinton couldn’t find a single criminal act, and yet still thought she was guilty of something.
re: #111 Sir John Barron
Chelsea is all class. Not like some people we know.
Also, she and her mom have similar abilities in twitter-fu (wonder who learned from who?):
Trump’s tweets are like flailing around with a baseball bat: Chelsea and Hillary use theirs like rapiers (or stilettos).
With all the talk about Trump, Trump Jnr etc. when are we going to ask:
GOP, what did you know, and when did you know it?
Did Trump run his campaign entirely in a vacuum?
Gag me with a subpoena! #ValleyGirlPresident
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 10, 2017
re: #126 harlequinade
With all the talk about Trump, Trump Jnr etc. when are we going to ask:
GOP, what did you know, and when did you know it?
Did Trump run his campaign entirely in a vacuum?
Never let that thought go. Trump is a passing fever. The GOP is the infection in the brainstem.
I’m still holding to my prediction that Trump will fire Mueller before summer’s end. The noose is tightening too fast for him to avoid the temptation forever.
re: #122 darthstar
How Trump/Fox are perpetual propaganda machines: Trump hears allegation on Fox; Trump repeats allegation; & Fox reports “Trump Has Alleged”
When “Trending on Twitter” became a regular news item, I knew that the end of Western Civilization as we know it was at hand…
re: #129 Targetpractice
I’m still holding to my prediction that Trump will fire Mueller before summer’s end. The noose is tightening too fast for him to avoid the temptation forever.
Sadly, most of the GOP will allow him to do this. The only punishment would be the 2018 vote. Which the GOP is trying to suppress.
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
When “Trending on Twitter” became a regular news item, I knew that the end of Western Civilization as we know it was at hand…
I thought it was letting Gandhi get nukes.
re: #129 Targetpractice
I’m still holding to my prediction that Trump will fire Mueller before summer’s end. The noose is tightening too fast for him to avoid the temptation forever.
And that will be the last thing he does as President. Doing it now after all this build up and new evidence coming out will guarantee he is obstructing. That most likely would trigger a full special investigator outside any control by congress.
HRC mishandles and destroys classified info-NO PROBLEM! Pay/play on Uranium one NO PROBLEM! Lynch BC tarmac: it’s a “matter” NO PROBLEM
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) July 10, 2017
The media’s inattention to these issues is why she became president. https://t.co/wPvuyod7uk
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) July 10, 2017
re: #134 FormerDirtDart
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Lumpy is having a Twitter meltdown for his fuhrer again I see.
re: #134 FormerDirtDart
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Lumpy seems to be getting closer and closer to a Jonesian-style meltdown on live TV.
re: #136 Targetpractice
Lumpy seems to be getting closer and closer to a Jonesian-style meltdown on live TV.
He really is a pathetic toady.
re: #136 Targetpractice
Lumpy seems to be getting closer and closer to a Jonesian-style meltdown on live TV.
I’m assuming he’s met more than a few Russians in the past few years, recognizes their names in the news, and is starting to suspect he’ll spend a big chunk of the rest of his life in a federal penitentiary. He’s in a wall-eyed screaming panic.
re: #134 FormerDirtDart
HRC mishandles and destroys classified info-NO PROBLEM! Pay/play on Uranium one NO PROBLEM! Lynch BC tarmac: it’s a “matter” NO PROBLEM
— Sean Hannity
This is a Hannity greatest hits album, minus the Seth Rich conspiracy, and Benghazi. His response to the newest Trump trouble is to start spitting out non-sequiturs without bothering to wipe the spittle off his chin as the foam from his mouth splatters his index cards.
re: #134 FormerDirtDart
The Tarmac! Uranium One!!!!!!!!1
I’m watching this administration (such as it is) starting to unravel like a badly knitted afghan. I’m really not getting the defeatism here.
I’m of the mind that if Uday (or is it Qusay?) as much as admitted meeting with this Russian to get damaging info on Clinton, it can only be because they’re trying to get out ahead of something that’s even worse.
And whoever is leaking these loose ends to the media knows exactly how to push Trump’s buttons and goad him into incriminating himself and his family, sinking himself deeper into a legal bind that even Congress and Fox News won’t be able to get him out of.
The wheels are coming off, and this whole cabal has proven so inept that they’re running out of feet to shoot. I’m enjoying the hell out of it.
That’s my pollyanna-ish take on it, anyway.
re: #143 makeitstop
I’m watching this administration (such as it is) starting to unravel like a badly knitted afghan. I’m really not getting the defeatism here.
I’m of the mind that if Uday (or is it Qusay?) as much as admitted meeting with this Russian to get damaging info on Clinton, it can only be because they’re trying to get out ahead of something that’s even worse.
And whoever is leaking these loose ends to the media knows exactly how to push Trump’s buttons and goad him into incriminating himself and his family, sinking himself deeper into a legal bind that even Congress and Fox News won’t be able to get him out of.
The wheels are coming off, and this whole cabal has proven so inept that they’re running out of feet to shoot. I’m enjoying the hell out of it.
That’s my pollyanna-ish take on it, anyway.
That’s not an upside scenario if the people kneecapping Trump are the Pence faction of the mainstream GOP. Dumping Trump for Pence is a credible Plan B for this whole exercise. It will be obvious when the establishment Repubs start scrapping off the MAGA crap.
re: #108 Decatur Deb
A Tail of Two Headlines:
Miami Beach area swimmer attacked by shark
CNN 6h ago0:28
Man Grabs Shark By The Tail - And Gets Viciously Bitten
YouTube
Improperly headlined. It should be #FloridaMan strikes again. Or should that be #FloriduhMan strikes again?
re: #143 makeitstop
I’m watching this administration (such as it is) starting to unravel like a badly knitted afghan. I’m really not getting the defeatism here.
I’m of the mind that if Uday (or is it Qusay?) as much as admitted meeting with this Russian to get damaging info on Clinton, it can only be because they’re trying to get out ahead of something that’s even worse.
And whoever is leaking these loose ends to the media knows exactly how to push Trump’s buttons and goad him into incriminating himself and his family, sinking himself deeper into a legal bind that even Congress and Fox News won’t be able to get him out of.
The wheels are coming off, and this whole cabal has proven so inept that they’re running out of feet to shoot. I’m enjoying the hell out of it.
That’s my pollyanna-ish take on it, anyway.
Yeah, but it seems like there’s been a lot of this already (the pussy tape, the Flynn business, the firing of Comey, the obvious obstruction of justice in asking Comey to back off Flynn, DJT diverging secret info to the Russians in the oval office, the blackmail of Morning Joe, etc). I’ve forgotten half the stuff that’s happened already that I thought would be more damaging but I’m afraid a lot of this is being normalized to a degree I wouldn’t have imagined. And the GOP continues to stand by him.
OTOH, the firing of Comey did precipitate the hiring of Mueller as special counsel, which in turn is uncovering a lot this stuff. And it wasn’t like the Mueller investigation was going to be over and done with, followed by impeachment, in a week or month. These things take time I know. I’m just hopeful that the truth will eventually win out, that justice will be served.
Who would of thought Eric wasn’t the dumb one?
In less than 24 hours, Donald Trump Jr. gave 2 different explanations about why he met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer https://t.co/iCs3wM5EDr
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 10, 2017
No inconsistency in statements, meeting ended up being primarily about adoptions. In response to further Q’s I simply provided more details. https://t.co/FdT1D4hfhz
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 10, 2017
re: #148 Jenner7
Who would of thought Eric wasn’t the dumb one?
NOT INCONSISTENT TOTALLY CONSISTENT FAKE NEWS!!!
re: #148 Jenner7
The fact that he’s not denying that the reason the meeting was called was to get incriminating info about Clinton is the problem.
It’s the intention. That the Russians didn’t provide him with the info he sought is irrelevant.
The intent to collude with the Russians in the first place is the evidence of a criminal act.
The 1st Fight For Trump’s Fleet Will Be Domestic: @realDonaldTrump wIll have SECNAV rename ships for 2018 elections https://t.co/QJLuGDrl5x
— Craig Hooper (@NextNavy) July 10, 2017
First action will be changing CVN-80 from “Enterprise” to “Vladimir V. Putin”
— WB Young (@FormerDirtDart) July 10, 2017
I saw this mentioned at another discussion forum. I guess it got pretty bizarre and went on for some time. So far this is all I could find. The WaPo story goes into detail.
President Trump calls CNN “fake news,” and White House press secretary Sean Spicer seldom takes questions from the network’s journalists, but counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway could not get enough of CNN on Monday.
For 35 minutes, Conway sparred with anchor Chris Cuomo, mostly over press coverage. A standard TV appearance lasts five to 10 minutes, and Cuomo tried several times to wrap up the interview, saying that producers were telling him through an earpiece that the White House wanted to end it.
But Conway kept going, and CNN blew past one commercial break after another to let her spirited exchange with Cuomo play out.
“Your people say you have to go, by the way,” Cuomo told Conway at the 28-minute mark. “So you make sure that the White House press office doesn’t yell at me. … I’ve got people yelling in my ear that you have to go.”
The whole episode made for riveting TV, largely because of the interpersonal dynamic. Cuomo told viewers after the interview finally concluded that he and Conway have known each other for many years, and it showed. Although each grew heated at times, neither became nasty; their mutual respect was apparent.
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re: #148 Jenner7
No inconsistency in statements, meeting ended up being primarily about adoptions. In response to further Q’s I simply provided more details.
In less than 24 hours, Donald Trump Jr. gave 2 different explanations about why he met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer https://t.co/iCs3wM5EDr
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 10, 2017
— Donald Trump Jr.
I was expecting juicy shit about Hillary but it was a bunch of crap about adoptions and sanctions. But not collusion although collusion is OK.
re: #146 Teukka
Improperly headlined. It should be #FloridaMan strikes again. Or should that be #FloriduhMan strikes again?
At closer inspection, the guy grabbing the shark by the tail seems to be #NorthCarolinaMan.
James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media. That is so illegal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2017
Comey now has a slam dunk libel case against Trump. The memo Comey gave to the professor to leak had been rewritten to be unclassified. https://t.co/y8gZr06gUD
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 10, 2017
re: #152 ObserverArt
I saw this mentioned at another discussion forum. I guess it got pretty bizarre and went on for some time. So far this is all I could find. The WaPo story goes into detail.
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Who in their right mind would watch 28 minutes of KAC?
re: #151 FormerDirtDart
Assumes that Trump can even get a hearing scheduled for his nominee for the Secretary of Navy…
re: #143 makeitstop
I’m watching this administration (such as it is) starting to unravel like a badly knitted afghan. I’m really not getting the defeatism here.
I’m of the mind that if Uday (or is it Qusay?) as much as admitted meeting with this Russian to get damaging info on Clinton, it can only be because they’re trying to get out ahead of something that’s even worse.
And whoever is leaking these loose ends to the media knows exactly how to push Trump’s buttons and goad him into incriminating himself and his family, sinking himself deeper into a legal bind that even Congress and Fox News won’t be able to get him out of.
The wheels are coming off, and this whole cabal has proven so inept that they’re running out of feet to shoot. I’m enjoying the hell out of it.
That’s my pollyanna-ish take on it, anyway.
I’m trying hard not to mention the defeatism. I don’t understand it either. I guess some people just need to be negative to make themselves feel better. It must be some way to cope. Think the worst so in case it happens it won’t be as shocking or something.
I think it is unhealthy. But maybe for others it is the way through.
Also, our instant info world must think with all this info Trump should already be gone. This all takes time. Use Watergate as a guide.
FLASHBACK: Mike Pence January 2017.
Q: Did any Trump campaign member have contact with the Russians?
Pence: “Of course not.” pic.twitter.com/uSgQMkpydv— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 9, 2017
Another reminder that Mike Pence is complicit - lying and covering for Trump and his cabal of cronies. Or worse? A willing dupe? https://t.co/Pkia92jCv0
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 10, 2017
These Charts Help Explain NRA Politics https://t.co/FM8tLhNYTB via @pacificstand
— ggt (@geegeetee) July 10, 2017
I dunno why Daddy Don is fussing over Diaper Don. He could just pardon him in the end anyway…………………………..
re: #145 Decatur Deb
That’s not an upside scenario if the people kneecapping Trump are the Pence faction of the mainstream GOP. Dumping Trump for Pence is a credible Plan B for this whole exercise. It will be obvious when the establishment Repubs start scrapping off the MAGA crap.
Should Trump go down it is going to hurt Pence and the entire GOP. All the excuses and dodging is going to cost them. Pence may become President, but deeply wounded he will be. Same will go for Mitch and Pauly.
So baby Trumpman meets with a Russian to get damaging info on HRC, but doesn’t get any?
really?
If Chelsea Clinton were asked to hold the seat for her mother,as her mother gave our country away, the Fake News would say CHELSEA FOR PRES!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2017
He literally doth protest too much. Notice how Trump just blurts out that he was giving our country away while Ivanka was sitting in for him https://t.co/aGfYXy8CSY
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 10, 2017
re: #145 Decatur Deb
That’s not an upside scenario if the people kneecapping Trump are the Pence faction of the mainstream GOP. Dumping Trump for Pence is a credible Plan B for this whole exercise. It will be obvious when the establishment Repubs start scrapping off the MAGA crap.
Pence is the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
re: #148 Jenner7
Who would of thought Eric wasn’t the dumb one?
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Hasn’t anybody told this moron yet that the smartest move he could have made was to keep his mouth shut? Prosecutors live for moments like this, where a defendant doesn’t realize the hole he’s in and chooses to keep digging.
re: #163 GlutenFreeJesus
I dunno why Daddy Don is fussing over Diaper Don. He could just pardon him in the end anyway…………………………..
It might damper the Medal of Freedom ceremony that he has planned for him.
//?
re: #150 lawhawk
The fact that he’s not denying that the reason the meeting was called was to get incriminating info about Clinton is the problem.
It’s the intention. That the Russians didn’t provide him with the info he sought is irrelevant.
The intent to collude with the Russians in the first place is the evidence of a criminal act.
And falling for this hints they were already tapping into Russian connections looking for assistance.
That Russian spy is totally a honeypot. Just like Melania.
re: #150 lawhawk
The fact that he’s not denying that the reason the meeting was called was to get incriminating info about Clinton is the problem.
It’s the intention. That the Russians didn’t provide him with the info he sought is irrelevant.
The intent to collude with the Russians in the first place is the evidence of a criminal act.
“You can’t charge me with attempted murder, none of my bullets hit her!”
When we heard that the White House gender #paygap more than TRIPLED under Trump: https://t.co/S27aamBL5v pic.twitter.com/eorQgySroh
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) July 9, 2017
re: #168 Targetpractice
Hasn’t anybody told this moron yet that the smartest move he could have made was to keep his mouth shut? Prosecutors live for moments like this, where a defendant doesn’t realize the hole he’s in and chooses to keep digging.
Hasn’t everyone learned no one tells Trump anything? Asking him to stop is asking him to increase the activity.
So a story comes out about how you met with a drug dealer, at which time you insist it was just a social call and no drugs were exchanged.
Then a follow-up story reveals that the dealer offered to sell you cocaine at the meeting. Your “defense” is to admit that you did show up due to the offer of cocaine, but she didn’t actually have any to sell so you left empty-handed.
So you’ve just admitted that you were given an opportunity to break the law and had every intention of doing so. But you think that you’re in the clear because you don’t believe any laws were broken.
I can see that this apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
re: #160 ObserverArt
I’m trying hard not to mention the defeatism. I don’t understand it either. I guess some people just need to be negative to make themselves feel better. It must be some way to cope. Think the worst so in case it happens it won’t be as shocking or something.
I’d say it comes from the sheer shellshock of seeing 62 million voters give Pumpkin Pinochet the go-ahead. Also, the unfathomable, bottomless depths of GOPer tribalism and lust for power at all costs. What do you do when ~40% of the population is willfully ignorant and batshit insane?
re: #79 Sir John Barron
I just want to see all these clowns go down—Donny Jr. and Kellyanne especially. And Bannon (who isn’t getting much attention these days). And the other Trump son.
Does that make me a bad person?
We have no idea just how fucked up Barron is being raised. He could become worse than Uday and Qusey, if not with a shred of competence.
It probably would be a good thing if he was placed in foster care freed of any ties to the family.
re: #177 Myron Falwell
We have no idea just how fucked up Barron is being raised. He could become worse than Uday and Qusey, if not with a shred of competence.
It probably would be a good thing if he was placed in foster care freed of any ties to the family.
yeah I meant Eric as the other son. and Steve Bannon. I do feel bad for Barron.
Trump’s private lawyers really should have made no tweeting a contractual contingency of their continued representation. Worst client ever.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 10, 2017
Kelsey, I have an idea. pic.twitter.com/VODlJisowH
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) July 10, 2017
re: #177 Myron Falwell
I have a sliver of hope that whoever is raising him doesn’t actually like any of the Trump family, and is showing him how to act human.
What still sticks out for me about this story is that Junior felt it necessary to bring Jared and Manafort to the meeting. I sort of doubt that they just went without a bit of info, and I likewise doubt that they went along with the whole “adoption” bit, so the only other conclusion is he told them that this woman was offering damaging info on Hillary and they followed along. Their silence on the matter is speaking volumes right now.
re: #179 Birth Control Works
A Muslim activist referenced jihad and the right freaked out because they don’t know what it means
Jihad means polygamy, public beheadings and no more pork ribs!
One half of the Trumpbots on Twitter are still claiming the NYT story is FAKE NEWZ.
The other half that the meeting was no big deal.
And the third half believes that…..
It is quite astonishing what Americans will memorialize these days
so the lawnmower guy lives in my town and he was in the parade today i can’t stop laughigngjfjfjfj pic.twitter.com/7rTZenbqZ5
— mich (@treesfjnale) July 8, 2017
re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Jihad means polygamy, public beheadings and no more pork ribs!
I’m pretty sure the pork ribs are the only things a lot of conservatives would be against.
re: #47 Kragar
Rage after Storm is a right-wing nutjob anti-feminist Christian. She has a very popular YouTube channel, which is frequently torn apart by atheists. Here’s one from 18 June by Godless Cranium (he is a Canadian, and is new there).
Kellyanne shown a clip of herself saying “absolutely not” did anyone from campaign have contact w/ Russians, pivots pic.twitter.com/68u7wR1IrA
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 10, 2017
“Some of the disclosure forms have been amended since that time.” - That doesn’t undo a fucking lie. https://t.co/cOjVJmcBUC
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 10, 2017
NY Times front page, two years ago today. pic.twitter.com/3kSFuDLuSH
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) July 10, 2017
re: #183 Targetpractice
I find it completely possible that Jr. had no clue what was going on, and the “adoptions” (wink wink) was a code word for sanctions.
This one time Dad & I saw an old flat bed pickup truck blithely being driven down the road on fire. It was overloaded & the axle was rubbing
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 10, 2017
Point being that waking up this morning and looking at Trump’s Presidency totally reminded me of that situation.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 10, 2017
re: #189 darthstar
KAC: OK, let’s just move on….
re: #186 FormerDirtDart
It is quite astonishing what Americans will memorialize these days
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Actually, that happened in Canada. Also see the hubcaps on the parade float :)
“Both sides do-it” Smerconish took calls for an hour today to let people vent that the Trump-Russian story is BS. The media is failing America.
[trump] I have met Donald Trump Jr. maybe one or two times, I think we might have talked about Ivanka, and I hardly know the guy at all… [/trump]
Let’s check in with the folks at Fox to see how they’re handling this story:
Fox’s Brit Hume insists Don Jr tricked by Russian lawyer’s ‘bait and switch’ and no evidence of collusion https://t.co/CJZQGJlstd pic.twitter.com/LmwI0d9RNx
— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 10, 2017
Seriously, this is their only defense at this point: “Junior got tricked, that’s not a crime!”
Hey Brit, if an undercover cop offers sex for cash and I agree, I can’t later argue that my not having sex proves no crime occurred.
I didn’t realize Russia was such a coal user.
This is interesting.
re: #197 Targetpractice
Fox’s Brit Hume insists Don Jr tricked by Russian lawyer’s ‘bait and switch’ and no evidence of collusion rawstory.com pic.twitter.com
— Raw Story
Sad to see Brit Hume, a long timer at ABC News and now in semi-retirement from Faux, continue to sink lower and lower into the wingnut slime.
re: #198 Birth Control Works
I didn’t realize Russia was such a coal user.
This is interesting.
Coal miners’ strike was one of the things that precipitated the collapse of the Gorbachev government.
I’m kind of sick and tired of blaming everything on the media. Because of the media, Trump voters knew exactly what they were voting for, but they voted for him anyway. That isn’t the media’s fault. Now, the media is unearthing countless Trump lies and deals. Yet people still complain that the media is failing. The most important journalism is actually being conducted by the “mainest” of the mainstream media: WaPo, WSJ, NYT.
re: #189 darthstar
KAC: Ok, well you call it a lie, but it wasn’t really a lie, just a mistake and how come you don’t talk all about Hillary and Chelsea’s mistakes? OK let’s just move on like the president has advised us…
re: #195 Dr. Matt
“Both sides do-it” Smerconish took calls for an hour today to let people vent that the Trump-Russian story is BS. The media is failing America.
Fuck Smerconish. They guy tried to position himself as Philly’s homegrown Rush Limbaugh, and then tried to repaint himself as a conservative with a conscience by voting Obama in 2008. He’s since settled into this fucking Magic Balance Act that my “Independent but somehow always votes Republican” buddy loves to death.
And he will forever be, to me at least, the asshole who wrote book in favor of racial profiling at airports.
re: #197 Targetpractice
Let’s check in with the folks at Fox to see how they’re handling this story:
Seriously, this is their only defense at this point: “Junior got tricked, that’s not a crime!”
Hey Brit, if an undercover cop offers sex for cash and I agree, I can’t later argue that my not having sex proves no crime occurred.
RWNJ are always victims never the perp.
re: #202 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
I’m kind of sick and tired of blaming everything on the media. Because of the media, Trump voters knew exactly what they were voting for, but they voted for him anyway. That isn’t the media’s fault. Now, the media is unearthing countless Trump lies and deals. Yet people still complain that the media is failing. The most important journalism is actually being conducted by the “mainest” of the mainstream media: WaPo, WSJ, NYT.
And Teen Vogue and Marie Claire.
re: #95 Sir John Barron
This is a nothing-burger, just politics, no big deal.
This was set up by democratic operative we have the proofs!
What about uranium one and Hillary emails and The Tarmac!!!
just about adoption policies.
Not illegal!!!!!
The real issue is Who Leaked This?
Deep State strikes again!
Fake News!!!1
All campaigns meet with foreign agents to smear their opponents.
And let’s not forget the Marion Barry: BITCH SET ME UP!!
re: #204 Mattand
He once ran with some story that Iraqi secret agents helped Timothy McVeigh bomb OKC. As if some motel clerk could pick a face from a photo lineup and ID him years after the crime.
re: #197 Targetpractice
Let’s check in with the folks at Fox to see how they’re handling this story:
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Seriously, this is their only defense at this point: “Junior got tricked, that’s not a crime!”
Hey Brit, if an undercover cop offers sex for cash and I agree, I can’t later argue that my not having sex proves no crime occurred.
I forget who posted it (either Daily Beast or Politico) but allegedly White House staff are now referring to Trump Jr. as Fredo Corleone.
That made my weekend.
re: #202 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
I’m kind of sick and tired of blaming everything on the media. Because of the media, Trump voters knew exactly what they were voting for, but they voted for him anyway. That isn’t the media’s fault. Now, the media is unearthing countless Trump lies and deals. Yet people still complain that the media is failing. The most important journalism is actually being conducted by the “mainest” of the mainstream media: WaPo, WSJ, NYT.
Agree. We know who the slimy ones are, most of them on Fox, but we’re hearing about a lot of stuff. It’s really the viewers fault by now for believing the lies.
I think blaming the media is a way of not having to deal with the anger that people would feel otherwise. It allows for inaction.
re: #146 Teukka
Improperly headlined. It should be #FloridaMan strikes again. Or should that be #FloriduhMan strikes again?
Floridashark just sharkin’ along.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 10, 2017
re: #204 Mattand
Fuck Smerconish. They guy tried to position himself as Philly’s homegrown Rush Limbaugh, and then tried to repaint himself as a conservative with a conscience by voting Obama in 2008. He’s since settled into this fucking Magic Balance Act that my “Independent but somehow always votes Republican” buddy loves to death.
And he will forever be, to me at least, the asshole who wrote book in favor of racial profiling at airports.
Today he tries too hard to be a centrist nice guy, who sees all sides of an issue.
re: #208 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
He once ran with some story that Iraqi secret agents helped Timothy McVeigh bomb OKC. As if some motel clerk could pick a face from a photo lineup and ID him years after the crime.
Jesus Christ, that’s combining both Alex Jones and Fox News into some unholy conservative Reese’s Peanut Butter cup of crazy. When did that little bon mot go down?
Side note: speaking of crazy radio hosts, my first introduction to Laura Ingram was seeing her billboard while driving on I-95 through Northeast Philly. I noticed the logo for WPHT 1210 and thought “Well, I wonder how batshit insane this person is.”
re: #197 Targetpractice
Let’s check in with the folks at Fox to see how they’re handling this story:
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Seriously, this is their only defense at this point: “Junior got tricked, that’s not a crime!”
Hey Brit, if an undercover cop offers sex for cash and I agree, I can’t later argue that my not having sex proves no crime occurred.
But the very next day, you suddenly have an uncontrollable itch…
re: #209 Mattand
I forget who posted it (either Daily Beast or Politico) but allegedly White House staff are now referring to Trump Jr. as Fredo Corleone.
That made my weekend.
Fredo sails into sunset sunrise.
re: #202 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
I’m kind of sick and tired of blaming everything on the media. Because of the media, Trump voters knew exactly what they were voting for, but they voted for him anyway. That isn’t the media’s fault. Now, the media is unearthing countless Trump lies and deals. Yet people still complain that the media is failing. The most important journalism is actually being conducted by the “mainest” of the mainstream media: WaPo, WSJ, NYT.
Those are, however, the same outlets that made Trump president. The same outlets that refused to talk about Clinton’s accomplishments and made her emails and ‘trust issues’ the story every single day. The same outlets that continued to treat a Trump candidacy as a valid point of view in order to keep people watching and reading. The same outlets that have repeated slavishly everything FOX says, amplifying wingnut dogma into a normal opinion for the body politic, and enabling the modern Republican party to become an all-powerful juggernaut instead of the marginalised crackpot fringe it deserves to be.
The Trump presidency is an artefact of the US media. It is the Achilles heel of democracy. If American democracy fails, it will be because the modern media could not control the worst aspects of demagoguery and its own worst impulses.
One of the things I love about the denial, particular KAC’s, is the idea that the meeting “only” lasting 20 minutes means that nothing illegal happened. To me, it’s the exact opposite: How long does it take to realize you’ve been duped? If somebody asked for a meeting with me, then tempted me with a juicy steak as a way to get me to show up, I wouldn’t sit there for 20 minutes wondering when I was getting the steak.
re: #197 Targetpractice
Let’s check in with the folks at Fox to see how they’re handling this story:
Seriously, this is their only defense at this point: “Junior got tricked, that’s not a crime!”
Hey Brit, if an undercover cop offers sex for cash and I agree, I can’t later argue that my not having sex proves no crime occurred.
The US Government regularly charges and convicts “terrorists” for talking to people they were led to believe were planning “terrorist” actions or were offering them “training opportunities” or explosive (very fake) material.
Federal charges tend to be heavily weighed by “intent”
re: #214 Mattand
Jesus Christ, that’s combining both Alex Jones and Fox News into some unholy conservative Reese’s Peanut Butter cup of crazy. When did that little bon mot go down?
Side note: speaking of crazy radio hosts, my first introduction to Laura Ingram was seeing her billboard while driving on I-95 through Northeast Philly. I noticed the logo for WPHT 1210 and thought “Well, I how batshit insane this person is.”
My introduction to batshit crazy talkers was Weiner-Savage during the dubyah years. Weiner-Savage turned very anti-dubyah and very anti-mainstream GOP. But, I could not stomach his lunacy for very long.
re: #183 Targetpractice
What still sticks out for me about this story is that Junior felt it necessary to bring Jared and Manafort to the meeting. I sort of doubt that they just went without a bit of info, and I likewise doubt that they went along with the whole “adoption” bit, so the only other conclusion is he told them that this woman was offering damaging info on Hillary and they followed along. Their silence on the matter is speaking volumes right now.
Remember, Jared and Manafort are already being looked at by investigators. Manafort just had to register he was a foreign agent, which he failed to do, and it is reported he did it now to lessen the problems for him. A month or more back there were reports someone close to the president is being looked at by Mueller. That person was Jared. They are probably listening to their lawyers and laying low.
re: #218 Targetpractice
One of the things I love about the denial, particular KAC’s, is the idea that the meeting “only” lasting 20 minutes means that nothing illegal happened.
Sweet, fancy Moses. Yeah this will hold up in court, KAC. “But, your honor, the meeting only lasted 20 minutes, which as everyone knows is below the meeting time limit required for conviction.”
re: #220 Dr. Matt
My introduction to batshit crazy talkers was Weiner-Savage during the dubyah years. Weiner-Savage turned very anti-dubyah and very anti-mainstream GOP. But, I could not stomach his lunacy for very long.
Wasn’t Alex J also more of a left-wing conspiracy monger before he found his true calling?
re: #197 Targetpractice
Let’s check in with the folks at Fox to see how they’re handling this story:
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Seriously, this is their only defense at this point: “Junior got tricked, that’s not a crime!”
Hey Brit, if an undercover cop offers sex for cash and I agree, I can’t later argue that my not having sex proves no crime occurred.
Stupid enough to be tricked — but not a crime.
hmmmm , … .
re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He’s an opportunist. 9/11 is when he really started to make headway. It wouldn’t have mattered who was President or which party was in control.
re: #225 GlutenFreeJesus
He’s an opportunist. 9/11 is when he really started to make headway. It wouldn’t have mattered who was President or which party was in control.
Remember that Glenn Beck started as a morning shock jock. Basically, he understood what it took to capture and hold people’s attention and just changed his approach to achieving that end.
re: #217 Renaissance_Man
Those are, however, the same outlets that made Trump president. The same outlets that refused to talk about Clinton’s accomplishments and made her emails and ‘trust issues’ the story every single day. The same outlets that continued to treat a Trump candidacy as a valid point of view in order to keep people watching and reading. The same outlets that have repeated slavishly everything FOX says, amplifying wingnut dogma into a normal opinion for the body politic, and enabling the modern Republican party to become an all-powerful juggernaut instead of the marginalised crackpot fringe it deserves to be.
BING-FUCKING-O. The so-called librul media failed us and is still failing us. Trump was given unprecedented free coverage by the failed media and they spent the entire campaign trying to balance out Trump’s lunacy with “But, Clinton is so unpopular” meme. If anyone is giving the failing media a pass, enjoy your fucking ignorance bliss. If the failed media didn’t fail America, Trump should not be in the White House today. He should have been universally mocked, humiliated, and criticized for his abhorrent behavior.
re: #213 Dr. Matt
Today he tries too hard to be a centrist nice guy, who sees all sides of an issue.
I’m trying not to constantly beat this into the ground (probably too late). but that’s why my friend loves him. This guy was a party animal in his late teens who latched on to Limbaugh (first for the insults, then for the actual content) and then promptly listened to him for the next 30 years.
I think he got an inkling of how fucked up the GOP was becoming in 2008 through Smerconish and then went on to embrace that odious “All politicians are equally bad” bullshit.
All the while, though, he would lose his shit anytime I criticized the GOP. That’s where my reflexive disgust towards people who claim they’re “independent” comes from: sample size of one, but everyone I encounter has been or still is GOP. The Bernie Bros have definitely made rethink that stance, though.
Regarding my buddy, though, one thing struck me last year: he now has kids that are in their late teens/early twenties, which is when he started listening to Limbaugh. I just cannot even wrap my head around about being that young and listening to that garbage. I think his middle daughter is starting to lean that way as well; she criticized her older sister for writing a blog that contained “femi-Nazi” junk.
God, to be that young and a woman and talking like a vicious sixty-plus year old male conservative radio jock? Everyone’s allowed to find their own voice, I guess, but damn.
So, the flimsy Comey story was written by Sinclair Broadcasting’s conservative hack John Solomon?
Why posted in The Hill as straight news? pic.twitter.com/iUIv6ZLODQ— Dan Lavoie (@djlavoie) July 10, 2017
OT, but my son, stepson and two buddies are camping in Grand Teton National Park as we speak. Here is a scene near their campsite. Note the white stuff on the ground.
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They’re on a two-week motorcycle tour of three national parks in the US and Canada.
re: #225 GlutenFreeJesus
He’s an opportunist. 9/11 is when he really started to make headway. It wouldn’t have mattered who was President or which party was in control.
A lot of talkers become 9/11 opportunists. Becoming a “patriotic” conservative was easy money following 9/11 and the subsequent rise of Fox and am hate radio.
This Arkansas Bill Would Force Rape Survivors to Notify Their Attacker if They Need an Abortion
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re: #228 Mattand
Regarding my buddy, though, one thing struck me last year: he now has kids that are in their late teens/early twenties, which is when he started listening to Limbaugh. I just cannot even wrap my head around about being that young and listening to that garbage. I think his middle daughter is starting to lean that way as well; she criticized her older sister for writing a blog that contained “femi-Nazi” junk.
I have a cousin that is very “Christian” conservative and raised 4 children on Limbaugh. They would do a lot of family trips for vacation, sports, field trips, etc and he would brag how the entire family would listen to Limbaugh on the trip. The hypocrisy is maddening.
re: #233 Dr. Matt
I have a cousin that is very “Christian” conservative and raised 4 children on Limbaugh. They would do a lot of family trips for vacation, sports, field trips, etc and he would brag how the entire family would listen to Limbaugh on the trip. The hypocrisy is maddening.
My dad raised me on Rambling with Gambling and Jean Shepherd (WOR-710 NY). That predates the AM radio right-wing media circus.
re: #233 Dr. Matt
I have a cousin that is very “Christian” conservative and raised 4 children on Limbaugh. They would do a lot of family trips for vacation, sports, field trips, etc and he would brag how the entire family would listen to Limbaugh on the trip. The hypocrisy is maddening.
Damn. That is some straight-up, uncut indoctrination right there.
A lot of my cousins are union people who vote Republican, aka “Let me support the guy who wants to ruin my quality of life by destroying unions, because I like his racial dog whistling.”
Seems to be a theme around here, LOL.
So I see the word Treason is getting a lot of play today…
re: #230 wheat-dogg
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re: #197 Targetpractice
Let’s check in with the folks at Fox to see how they’re handling this story:
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Seriously, this is their only defense at this point: “Junior got tricked, that’s not a crime!”
Hey Brit, if an undercover cop offers sex for cash and I agree, I can’t later argue that my not having sex proves no crime occurred.
Remember how people were already saying Donny Jr. was presidential material and may keep a Trump dynasty going after Donny Sr. is out of office in 8 years.
Now he is stupid and falls for Russian tricks.
Uh huh, sure. No way Donny Jr. didn’t know what he was doing. Just more excuses for Republicans.
re: #237 (Bert the Turtle)
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NEW: Kushner tried to get $500m loan in Qatar but failed. Now he is leading the charge on harsh policy towards Qatar https://t.co/0UrqVdVRdn
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) July 10, 2017
re: #232 Birth Control Works
This Arkansas Bill Would Force Rape Survivors to Notify Their Attacker if They Need an Abortion
Shameless Pages Promotion
Will it also guarantee the rapists parental rights?
Among Republicans, 58% say college is bad for 🇺🇸. 85% say news is bad
Institutions with good ratings: banks, church https://t.co/KEiCOGsbNj pic.twitter.com/xKEjQNj4s5— G. Elliott Morris📈 (@gelliottmorris) July 10, 2017
re: #238 ObserverArt
Remember how people were already saying Donny Jr. was presidential material and may keep a Trump dynasty going after Donny Sr. is out of office in 8 years.
Now he is stupid and falls for Russian tricks.
Uh huh, sure. No way Donny Jr. didn’t know what he was doing. Just more excuses for Republicans.
I get worried about Ivanka. I honestly think there’s a plan to groom her to be next in line. Shit like having her sit at the G20 is perfect theater for the mouth breathers who voted Trump: “Oh, look how presidential she appears!” Plus, she doesn’t come off like a dumb shit the way her brothers do.
Jesus, I try not to be defeatist, but I sometimes look at this garbage and can’t help but wonder if we’re seeing a ruling family junta being formed in real time.
re: #202 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
I’m kind of sick and tired of blaming everything on the media. Because of the media, Trump voters knew exactly what they were voting for, but they voted for him anyway. That isn’t the media’s fault. Now, the media is unearthing countless Trump lies and deals. Yet people still complain that the media is failing. The most important journalism is actually being conducted by the “mainest” of the mainstream media: WaPo, WSJ, NYT.
You have a key word in your comment you use but I don’t think you understand how you use it.
Now.
A lot of the bitching about the media is due to them not doing enough to educate and warn the America people about the real Donny Trump prior to the elections. All of what he is now is what he has been all along.
Maybe if the media would have been tougher it would have assisted the Republicans to fight him off in the primaries.
Maybe if they did their job you wouldn’t have had to call for Democrats to register as Republicans to stop him. : )
Where were they then?
re: #241 Jenner7
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Albeit I am skeptical of teh Intercept, I would not be that surprised if this is a legit scoop.
re: #217 Renaissance_Man
Those are, however, the same outlets that made Trump president. The same outlets that refused to talk about Clinton’s accomplishments and made her emails and ‘trust issues’ the story every single day. The same outlets that continued to treat a Trump candidacy as a valid point of view in order to keep people watching and reading. The same outlets that have repeated slavishly everything FOX says, amplifying wingnut dogma into a normal opinion for the body politic, and enabling the modern Republican party to become an all-powerful juggernaut instead of the marginalised crackpot fringe it deserves to be.
The Trump presidency is an artefact of the US media. It is the Achilles heel of democracy. If American democracy fails, it will be because the modern media could not control the worst aspects of demagoguery and its own worst impulses.
As I’ve pointed out here in the past, there is just as much money to be made in building up a president as there is in tearing one down for the media. All the media cares about is selling advertising.
re: #247 Anymouse 🌹
As I’ve pointed out here in the past, there is just as much money to be made in building up a president as there is in tearing one down for the media. All the media cares about is selling advertising.
QFT
We are having a fun weather day in East Iowa.
I had to turn a light on because it got so dark outside.
re: #247 Anymouse 🌹
As I’ve pointed out here in the past, there is just as much money to be made in building up a president as there is in tearing one down for the media. All the media cares about is selling advertising.
On that note, have you noticed how many of the 6:30 evening newscasts have advertising segments sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute? No wonder serious coverage of climate change and its effects = zero :(
re: #231 Dr. Matt
A lot of talkers become 9/11 opportunists. Becoming a “patriotic” conservative was easy money following 9/11 and the subsequent rise of Fox and am hate radio.
They are all just disc jocks and spinning the hits. There might even be payola involved.
re: #186 FormerDirtDart
It is quite astonishing what Americans will memorialize these days
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He’s Canadian.
re: #246 Teukka
Ryan Grim has a good reputation, I believe.
re: #247 Anymouse 🌹
As I’ve pointed out here in the past, there is just as much money to be made in building up a president as there is in tearing one down for the media. All the media cares about is selling advertising.
As many have pointed out here in the past!
Don’t bogart that joint my friend…
: )
re: #254 Birth Control Works
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re: #228 Mattand
I’d tell the young lady, “Have fun working for three quarters the pay that men receive for the same job.”
re: #257 Romantic Heretic
I’d tell the young lady, “Have fun working for three quarters the pay that men receive for the same job.”
She probably thinks that is all she is worth.
re: #247 Anymouse 🌹
As I’ve pointed out here in the past, there is just as much money to be made in building up a president as there is in tearing one down for the media. All the media cares about is selling advertising.
I kept thinking that they were going to start to turn on him, but face it, he is still regarded as a media star, and one of their own, even more so than he is or ever was a Republican.
re: #243 FormerDirtDart
Translation: We barbarians masquerading as conservatives like living in our fact free bubble and you can’t make us leave it.
re: #232 Birth Control Works
This Arkansas Bill Would Force Rape Survivors to Notify Their Attacker if They Need an Abortion
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Dayum. I thought someone had to get an empathectomy to become a conservative, but this is just downright cruel.
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
When “Trending on Twitter” became a regular news item, I knew that the end of Western Civilization as we know it was at hand…
And the hand became a fist when “Candy Crush” became a TV show (with reality “star” contestants) and there’s now an Emoji movie.
re: #262 BeachDem
And the hand became a fist when “Candy Crush” became a TV show (with reality “star” contestants) and there’s now an Emoji movie.
re: #255 ObserverArt
As many have pointed out here in the past!
Don’t bogart that joint my friend…
: )
LOL, I would have to go to Colorado first.
(thinks about calling Smart dealer for service appointment… . your car was just serviced sir … well, you know, can’t be too careful)
re: #153 Sir John Barron
I was expecting juicy shit about Hillary but it was a bunch of crap about adoptions and sanctions. But not collusion although collusion is OK.
Sorry if repeat (I’m behind) but HuffPo headline rules again:
SCION’S FICTION
re: #263 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
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BREAKING: Publicist says he set up meeting for Trump son and Russian lawyer on behalf of his Moscow client, Emin Agalarov.
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) July 10, 2017
woops, here’s the connection
BREAKING: Publicist says he set up meeting for Trump son and Russian lawyer on behalf of his Moscow client, Emin Agalarov.
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) July 10, 2017
I’ve been reporting on Emin and Rob Gladstone for 7 months now. Emin’s father is very close to Putin and Putin’s top aides. https://t.co/Cv6JxaPRlV
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) July 10, 2017
re: #262 BeachDem
And the hand became a fist when “Candy Crush” became a TV show (with reality “star” contestants) and there’s now an Emoji movie.
We’re screwed.
Well, I have to get the water sample from the water tower out of my refrigerator I took last night and get it to the lab in Scottsbluff. (I also had to express mail another set of samples this morning to the state lab in Lincoln.)
This is sort of like having a job, except free of the slavery of wages part.
re: #258 Birth Control Works
She probably thinks that is all she is worth.
No, this one is particularly head-strong. That’s not the issue. I get worried that listening to her dad rail at liberals for her whole life has already laid down some foundations that are going to be hard to undo.
re: #272 Mattand
No, this one is particularly head-strong. That’s not the issue. I get worried that listening to her dad rail at liberals for her whole life has already laid down some foundations that are going to be hard to undo.
My Dad knew enough to keep his own counsel around me.
re: #218 Targetpractice
One of the things I love about the denial, particular KAC’s, is the idea that the meeting “only” lasting 20 minutes means that nothing illegal happened. To me, it’s the exact opposite: How long does it take to realize you’ve been duped? If somebody asked for a meeting with me, then tempted me with a juicy steak as a way to get me to show up, I wouldn’t sit there for 20 minutes wondering when I was getting the steak.
Yep—reminds me of getting suckered into Amway cult presentations.
Last night I was chatting with the person who lives next to the water tower while I was taking a sample, and mentioned that moving to Saskatchewan is definitely on the table if I ever won the lotto.
I got back the “I wouldn’t want to live in Canada because they ration their health care” talking point.
Without bashing Republicans or FOX specifically, I noted that “You know, that’s just a political talking point. I go to Canada all the time and never ran into that.”
She thought about that and asked why someone would lie about it. I just pointed out “to get elected” and got on with the job of a water sample.
(Did I plant a seed there? We’ll have to see… .)
re: #268 Stanley Sea
woops, here’s the connection
FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS Hi did you get the email I forwarded about Hillary selling baby parts?
re: #244 Mattand
I get worried about Ivanka. I honestly think there’s a plan to groom her to be next in line. Shit like having her sit at the G20 is perfect theater for the mouth breathers who voted Trump: “Oh, look how presidential she appears!” Plus, she doesn’t come off like a dumb shit the way her brothers do.
Jesus, I try not to be defeatist, but I sometimes look at this garbage and can’t help but wonder if we’re seeing a ruling family junta being formed in real time.
Don’t forget this little bit of theater:
Your daily cute break…
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— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) July 10, 2017
re: #73 The Vicious Babushka
So last night I watched “Get Out” Jordan Peele’s horror movie, or as I call it, “The Stepford Negroes”
Haven’t seen it yet. All my friends have raved about it so looking forward to renting it.
While there are many scapegoats who sure didn’t help, Russians, media, Berniebros, etc, etc. the reason Trump is in power today is the same reason Reagan came to power, but worse: an uneducated, gullible, bigoted, xenophobic electorate that has reached the critical n33.33% mass..
re: #281 Lupin
While there are many scapegoats who sure didn’t help, Russians, media, Berniebros, etc, etc. the reason Trump is in power today is the same reason Reagan came to power, but worse: an uneducated, gullible, bigoted, xenophobic electorate that has reached the critical n33.33% mass..
We have all but stopped teaching basics like the civics, the Scientific Method or the Historical Method, English teaching is more about achieving sixth-grade literacy for High School grads than about critical interpretation, and DT is basically the fruits of this enormous gap in our national level of education.
re: #276 Anymouse 🌹
Good job pushing back on a blatant lie. As someone who grew up in Canada and still has family and friends there. Trust me when I say that none of us have had major problems with Canada’s healthcare system. Of course, there is always room for improvement but it certainly covers our needs without bankrupting us, which cannot be said for too many Americans.
I don’t know where this rationing lie comes from.
re: #280 Patricia Kayden
Haven’t seen it yet. All my friends have raved about it so looking forward to renting it.
I had heard in reviews that it is a horror/comedy, but I only laughed once or twice. I quickly began to feel the chilling vibes—it got scary before the actual “horror” started to take place.
re: #283 Patricia Kayden
I don’t know where this rationing lie comes from.
The same people who gave us Death Panels.
If u wanna ruin Trump’s day RT this—it’s photo evidence Trump met w/man who setup the Don Jr Russian lawyer meeting.https://t.co/nlb6dp9hix
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) July 10, 2017
re: #145 Decatur Deb
That’s not an upside scenario if the people kneecapping Trump are the Pence faction of the mainstream GOP. Dumping Trump for Pence is a credible Plan B for this whole exercise. It will be obvious when the establishment Repubs start scrapping off the MAGA crap.
Could be Pence. But I’m getting the feel that he’s a True Believer and is fully behind his boss. I could be wrong.
I think the intel community has a mole in the White House and whoever it is, it’s someone that no one would suspect them.
re: #287 makeitstop
Could be Pence. But I’m getting the feel that he’s a True Believer and is fully behind his boss. I could be wrong.
I think the intel community has a mole in the White House and whoever it is, it’s someone that no one would suspect them.
It’s Barron! He is an expert in The Cyber.
re: #285 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The same people who gave us Death Panels.
Who now support Trump Care which will result in millions being kicked off Medicaid and thus to deaths of uninsured. How ironic.
re: #284 Barefoot Grin
I had heard in reviews that it is a horror/comedy, but I only laughed once or twice. I quickly began to feel the chilling vibes—it got scary before the actual “horror” started to take place.
I didn’t want to see it in a theater because of the horror part. If it’s too scary, I’ll just turn it off. Yes, I’m a chicken.
1. Trump is the anti-Chauncey Gardner. An empty vessel, but one that reflects back our worst instincts instead of our most pollyannish.
— ralph feldman (@ralphnf1) January 30, 2017
re: #285 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The same people who gave us Death Panels.
Scary healthcare stories go way back. I remember hearing about managed and socilaized healthcare back in the early 80s. It really got rolling with Hillary Care in the early 90s. I think the insurance companies and their politicians tried to portray all of it as standing in line outside run-down and dirty clinics with Doctors that were the worst ever treating you.
Possibly they were watching all the European countries and Canada go with it and they knew it wouldn’t be long before Americans wanted it too so start the scare tactics and build on them before the debates.
Rick Wilson, noted communist. I’m pretty sure that just the other day, he tweeted, “The workers control the means of production!”
— ceartas (@ceartas) July 10, 2017
Trump is the opiate of the asses. https://t.co/cs3lj0ERNg
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 10, 2017
re: #290 Patricia Kayden
I didn’t want to see it in a theater because of the horror part. If it’s too scary, I’ll just turn it off. Yes, I’m a chicken.
It’s all psychological horror. There’s no gruesome slasher stuff.
“Maybe Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, it could have been some other country. I don’t know. Hirohito & I are looking into it.” - FDR pic.twitter.com/gKE5Ax5qEL
— John Christensen (@praefuro) July 9, 2017
re: #290 Patricia Kayden
I didn’t want to see it in a theater because of the horror part. If it’s too scary, I’ll just turn it off. Yes, I’m a chicken.
As a white man I thought it was really effective in giving the sense of a kind of “psychological (and real) imprisonment” of being black in a white world. Not going to claim I could ever truly understand, but, well…see it. I’m curious what you’ll think.
re: #296 gocart mozart
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No, Wilson tweeted “the orcas control the means of production.” He was talking about the killer whales that are ganging up on fishermen near Alaska.
re: #292 ObserverArt
Scary healthcare stories go way back. I remember hearing about managed and socilaized healthcare back in the early 80s. It really got rolling with Hillary Care in the early 90s. I think the insurance companies and their politicians tried to portray all of it as standing in line outside run-down and dirty clinics with Doctors that were the worst ever treating you.
Possibly they were watching all the European countries and Canada go with it and they knew it wouldn’t be long before Americans wanted it too so start the scare tactics and build on them before the debates.
Well before that: I recall (very) avant la lettre satires dating back to the ’70s - usually National Lampoon stuff, IIRC - that would paint “socialized medicine” in the absolute-worst terms: i.e. Bulgaria 1955 - and contrast their straw hellholes with the wonderful state of healthcare in the US: “modern”, advanced, much more efficient (i.e. way fewer patients croaked though sepsis) - and above all: relatively cheap.
Unfortunately, those stereotypes still linger (even if the “cheap” part tends to get glossed over)…
re: #299 Jay C
Well before that: I recall (very) avant la lettre satires dating back to the ’70s - usually National Lampoon stuff, IIRC - that would paint “socialized medicine” in the absolute-worst terms: i.e. Bulgaria 1955 - and contrast their straw hellholes with the wonderful state of healthcare in the US: “modern”, advanced, much more efficient (i.e. way fewer patients croaked though sepsis) - and above all: relatively cheap.
Unfortunately, those stereotypes still linger (even if the “cheap” part tends to get glossed over)…
IN GREAT GRAMPAW’S DAY PEOPLE USED TO PAY THERE TOWN DOCKTER WITH A CHICKEN OR A BUSHEL OF APPLES WHEN HE MADE A HOUSE CALL IN HIS OLD FLIVVER!!!!!!!
re: #209 Mattand
I forget who posted it (either Daily Beast or Politico) but allegedly White House staff are now referring to Trump Jr. as Fredo Corleone.
That made my weekend.
re: #300 Big Beautiful Door
Our new partners in building an impenetrable cybersecurity unit!
In a way that was actually a major plot point
re: #209 Mattand
What’s even funnier is that Fredo’s wife was way hotter than Junior’s.
re: #303 FormerDirtDart
In a way that was actually a major plot point
Significant point for none BSG fans. For fans of The Americans, here are some other new cybersecurity team members.
The Trump Troll word of the day is “nothingburger.” Spotted this repeatedly from both GOP Trumpers and progressive Trump-Russia deniers.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) July 10, 2017
re: #306 jaunte
That was Rinse’s word yesterday. Keep digging guys. Please proceed…..
re: #308 FormerDirtDart
wrong finger being used…
Monday at the WH . No cameras. Audio embargoed until after briefing…this is not access.@POTUS
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) July 10, 2017
Another really good thread from Garland.
Let’s talk information warfare, internet edition.
The active measures by foreign and domestic agents didn’t stop in 2016. pic.twitter.com/CJdKgTPQF7— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) July 10, 2017
re: #244 Mattand
“I honestly think there’s a plan to groom her to be next in line.”
Next in line to what? I’m hoping that the American people aren’t so deranged that they would actually elect Ivanka Trump
(But they elected her equally unqualified, awful father so …).
Important timeline on the events just before and after the Don Jr. meeting. Worth a read: https://t.co/EeQ1qevzCc pic.twitter.com/29SCjRJAgQ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 10, 2017
Trump tweeted about Clinton’s missing emails on the same day as Don Jr.’s meeting with that Russian lawyer. https://t.co/5CfVPnpaHq
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 10, 2017
This is either coincidence number 667 in the #TrumpRussia investigation, or something extremely bad happened to US elections last year. https://t.co/GOtT1UQcRi
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 10, 2017
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