Who is the obstructionist ghoul that is actually responsible for shutting the government down? We summon you to meet Trump’s Ear-Whisperer-in-Chief, Stephen Miller.
From Politico today, a story about how confronting the FBI is a “suicide mission,” comes this anecdote about how in 1973, FBI agents marched into the White House while Nixon was away to start seizing evidence:
Caught in the web of Watergate, President Richard M. Nixon returned from Camp David and found a skinny young FBI man standing at attention down the hall from the Oval Office. Screaming in rage, he grabbed the agent by the lapels. “What the hell is this?” he shouted.
It was the rule of law challenging the power of the commander in chief—and the beginning of the end for Nixon. He knew that he was doomed. Within a year, the president would be named as an unindicted co-conspirator in an iron-clad criminal case. His impeachment inevitable, he resigned the presidency in the summer of 1974.
Wait, what? I’ll admit I was in grade school during that epoch, but I’ve read about it plenty since then, and I don’t remember a DAMN THING about the FBI basically executing a broad search warrant while an impotent Nixon raged at them.
re: #1 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Politico needs to remember that this isn’t 1973. Trump has corrupted so much of the government already that I doubt that such a thing could ever happen again.
(Back on topic)
Yeah, Miller is part of the parade of nitwits, evil trolls, industrial terrorists, nihilist saboteurs and people who should be exiled to prisons in Novosibirsk that has infested the upper reaches of our government.
Thing is: this is still just a symptom.
The actual disease is the right-wing echo chamber that has built up a cult resistant to reality. Unless and until we resolve the Fox News, Hate Radio and 4chan/Breitbart/Free Republic problem, we’re going to see more and more batshit crazy screeching from brainwashed shitheads.
This is sad and pathetic, but Manning’s fans will buy it, of course.
Chelsea Manning on Her Alt-Right Partying: I Was a Spy, Not a Racist https://t.co/6Npd4AMCNF— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 26, 2018
Wynn has direct access to Trump, of course, and has used it to do China’s bidding. https://t.co/JhZUhiISjV pic.twitter.com/kNO4XF4VUq
— Dan Murphy (@bungdan) January 26, 2018
re: #2 Skip Intro
Politico needs to remember that this isn’t 1973. Trump has corrupted so much of the government already that I doubt that such a thing could ever happen again.
I return again to my mental image of how the Trump presidency ends: a private plane taking off a runway, chased by a phalanx of FBI cars, trailing a cloud of dollar bills, swirling in the air, from the broken-open bales of cash that wouldn’t fit into the plane …
… as Don Jr. and Ivanka sob in handcuffs, tears running down their faces, “Daddy! Daddy! Wait! Come back!” …
… and then overhead, a wing of F-16s scrambled from Langley AFB scream on afterburners, chasing Trump as he desperately tries to reach international waters, to claim asylum in Russia …
re: #7 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
I return again to my mental image of how the Trump presidency ends: a private plane taking off a runway, chased by a phalanx of FBI cars, trailing a cloud of dollar bills, swirling in the air, from the broken-open bales of cash that wouldn’t fit into the plane …
… as Don Jr. and Ivanka sob in handcuffs, tears running down their faces, “Daddy! Daddy! Wait! Come back!” …
… and then overhead, a wing of F-16s scrambled from Langley AFB scream on afterburners, chasing Trump as he desperately tries to reach international waters, to claim asylum in Russia …
A true Hollywood ending.
re: #7 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
I return again to my mental image of how the Trump presidency ends: a private plane taking off a runway, chased by a phalanx of FBI cars, trailing a cloud of dollar bills, swirling in the air, from the broken-open bales of cash that wouldn’t fit into the plane …
… as Don Jr. and Ivanka sob in handcuffs, tears running down their faces, “Daddy! Daddy! Wait! Come back!” …
… and then overhead, a wing of F-16s scrambled from Langley AFB scream on afterburners, chasing Trump as he desperately tries to reach international waters, to claim asylum in Russia …
Quite a visual.
This quote from Rep. Engel: “If the allegations are true that the administration is punishing public servants as a form of political retribution, those responsible must face consequences.” https://t.co/seYKk0Gp2e
— John Kirby (@johnfkirby63) January 26, 2018
re: #8 Dr Lizardo
A true Hollywood ending.
Equal to Nixon grabbing an FBI agent by the lapels and screaming in his face. Man, I never knew he did that.
Much more likely: Mueller waits until just before the election to file charges. When they drop, Trump goes bonkers. Unable to deny reality any more, his lawyers break the news to him. He snaps and starts raving into an open microphone to Fox & Friends.
The next day, the cabinet invokes the 25th Amendment, and a fistfight breaks out on the House floor, between GOP reps who don’t want to be voted out of office, and members of the “Freedom Caucus” who are lost to reality (and living in safe, batshit-crazy districts).
re: #2 Skip Intro
Politico needs to remember that this isn’t 1973. Trump has corrupted so much of the government already that I doubt that such a thing could ever happen again.
As often as Trump goes golfing, they could get in there and he wouldn’t even know.
re: #12 Belafon
As often as Trump goes golfing, they could get in there and he wouldn’t even know.
As dumb as everyone in this administration is, they could probably just ask them for incriminating evidence, saying that it was to publicize some new InfoWars campaign, and they would get a 20% cut, and they’d all roll over like trained seals.
re: #7 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Close, but I think Trump would head out with Ivanka while Jr., Eric, and Jared watched in handcuffs. Melon would be screaming with rage after discovering that he cleaned out all their accounts, leaving her billions of dollars in debt.
Apparently was gong to go on his shooting spree today.
Police recover multiple guns and machetes from PA high school student’s bedroom after classmate allegedly overheard the student threatening a mass shooting. https://t.co/fL12qy3jEN pic.twitter.com/JcdTQoeM5z
— ABC News (@ABC) January 26, 2018
re: #10 FormerDirtDart
Reading that sounds like a miniature, State Department, version of the Cultural Revolution.
re: #10 FormerDirtDart
No, Rep. Engel, you need to do something NOW!
re: #10 FormerDirtDart
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It was a long shot for me but that makes me glad o didn’t get into the foreign service. How depressing.
re: #14 Skip Intro
Close, but I think Trump would head out with Ivanka while Jr., Eric, and Jared watched in handcuffs. Melon would be screaming with rage after discovering that he cleaned out all their accounts, leaving her billions of dollars in debt.
Ha! Nice refinement.
However, I think Melania is far more calculating and cold than that. She’d be working with Romanian & Slovenian hackers to intercept the transfers and “smurf” all the money through small transactions into a web of numbered Isle of Man accounts, leaving her and Barron to inherit the remains of the empire.
re: #9 HappyWarrior
Quite a visual.
I can imagine Michael Mann directing it. He’s great at action sequences, like the shootout scene in Heat.
re: #20 Dr Lizardo
I can imagine Michael Mann directing it. He’s great at action sequences, like the shootout scene in Heat.
What kind of music is playing?
(Unrelated musings)
Is anyone else surprised that Melania hasn’t retaliated by flaunting a relationship with some virile toyboy? Allowing herself to be photographed - dark & grainy, via a shaky long lens, so it looks authentic - making out with some dude with sculpted abs and a full head of hair?
Bonus points if it’s Colin Kaepernick.
re: #12 Belafon
As often as Trump goes golfing, they could get in there and he wouldn’t even know.
Hey, remember last summer when the White House was being renovated while Trump spent two weeks at Bedminster?
ots of comings and goings, what with the contractors and all. Just thinking out loud here…
re: #7 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
I return again to my mental image of how the Trump presidency ends: a private plane taking off a runway, chased by a phalanx of FBI cars, trailing a cloud of dollar bills, swirling in the air, from the broken-open bales of cash that wouldn’t fit into the plane …
… as Don Jr. and Ivanka sob in handcuffs, tears running down their faces, “Daddy! Daddy! Wait! Come back!” …
… and then overhead, a wing of F-16s scrambled from Langley AFB scream on afterburners, chasing Trump as he desperately tries to reach international waters, to claim asylum in Russia …
re: #8 Dr Lizardo
A true Hollywood ending.
And when they catch up to Trump’s escape jet and box him in to escort him back, I could see Trump scream to his pilot to try to ram them to get them to back off. If his pilot refuses to, I could see Trump trying to wrest the controls to do it himself, resulting in one of three things:
1) The pilot and/or other passengers subdue Trump and his pilot complies with landing back at the nearest USAF base.
2) Trump causes a mid-air collision that also destroys his plane outright.
3) Trump causes a mid-air collision that doesn’t destroy his plane outright, but still dooms him as the flight leader is told these seven words by their higher-ups (with assent from the Pentagon and Acting President Pence): “You are free to engage the target”. You’d have to wonder what would be going through Trump’s empty skull in those last seconds as the fighters drop back to a safe distance, then light his ass up and scatter him all over the Atlantic.
re: #12 Belafon
As often as Trump goes golfing, they could get in there and he wouldn’t even know.
They just have to put all the papers back on his desk they way they….oh, right.
re: #26 Jebediah, RBG
I’m guessing that all the drawers in Trump’s desk are empty, just like his head.
re: #20 Dr Lizardo
I can imagine Michael Mann directing it. He’s great at action sequences, like the shootout scene in Heat.
I was on the set for that one. Mann is a total genius. Also a maniac. He wanted a helicopter flyover of the shootout. Problem: the main electrical trunk lines for LA were over the street.
“So? Take ‘em down.”
Day of the shoot, the location manager had a cellphone (those old big Star-Tacs) on each ear. We were re-routing the power for all of metro LA, by pushing the San Onofre output to 100%. The location manager said, “Go!”
Lines came down. Mann called action. Actors started running around & shooting. Chopper swooped overhead.
Six months later, in the editing suite, Mann looked at the footage and said, “Nah. Takes us out of the emotion of the scene. Let’s stay close on Val Kilmer and DeNiro fleeing instead.”
Cost of the aerial shot: $3 million. Never made it even into the DVD extras, as far as I know…
re: #2 Skip Intro
Politico needs to remember that this isn’t 1973. Trump has corrupted so much of the government already that I doubt that such a thing could ever happen again.
And Eric Prince will gladly kill an FBI agent.
I’m having a vision of Trump shouting “You can’t do this to me, in the greatest president ever!”
re: #28 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Wow….I had no idea.
I’d say in the end, Mann made the right choice. That shootout scene is intense and probably one of the best I’ve ever seen. The sound design really amps it up, too. No background music whatsoever; it completely immerses you in the moment.
re: #31 HappyWarrior
I’m having a vision of Trump shouting “You can’t do this to me, in the greatest president ever!”
Yeah, that’s my bet, really. The dementia is getting worse, and when his world caves in, he’s going to snap & regress to a 3-year-old, screaming and throwing things in the ultimate tantrum.
At that point, it’ll more resemble the humiliating end of the movie Fargo, with Jerry Lundegaard screaming “NO! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOO!”
re: #33 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Yeah, that’s my bet, really. The dementia is getting worse, and when his world caves in, he’s going to snap & regress to a 3-year-old, screaming and throwing things in the ultimate tantrum.
At that point, it’ll more resemble the humiliating end of the movie Fargo, with Jerry Lundegaard screaming “NO! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOO!”
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Such a great scene. My favorite Coen movie fwiw.
re: #15 FormerDirtDart
Good on the kid who heard the threat, had the presence of mind to record it on their phone, and then reported it. They saved lives.
VARNEY: We had 8 years of 2% growth. Now we’ve started out in the first year under Trump with 3% growth. Capitalism works. pic.twitter.com/JuHDb7r58I
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) January 26, 2018
Trump administration data on annual economic growth, last 4 years:
2014 - 2.6%
2015 - 2.9%
2016 - 1.5%
2017 - 2.3%— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) January 26, 2018
re: #20 Dr Lizardo
I can imagine Michael Mann directing it. He’s great at action sequences, like the shootout scene in Heat.
One of the best, if not the best, shootout scenes in any movie. The only other scene that grabs my attention the same way is the Sicario border crossing scene when they are in the cars. That one gets me every time too!
I don’t need high drama in a Trump arrest. Seeing him perp-walked out of the White House will do just fine.
re: #37 FormerDirtDart
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Lol because we weren’t capitalist before. Go home Varney, you’re drunk.
re: #38 rhuarc
One of the best, if not the best, shootout scenes in any movie. The only other scene that grabs my attention the same way is the Sicario border crossing scene when they are in the cars. That one gets me every time too!
The car chase in “To Live and Die in LA” was the first one (to my knowledge) that featured the car desperately going the wrong way down the freeway into oncoming traffic.
Years ago, as part of the film series at the Egyptian up on Hollywood Blvd., they had the director, William Friedkin (who also did French Connection and the Exorcist), talking about what it took to do this scene. Amazing. Still holds up (although the cutaways from Petersen as he’s driving to slo-mo scenes are a bit French Nouveau for my taste).
re: #3 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
(Back on topic)
Yeah, Miller is part of the parade of nitwits, evil trolls, industrial terrorists, nihilist saboteurs and people who should be exiled to prisons in Novosibirsk that has infested the upper reaches of our government.
Thing is: this is still just a symptom.
The actual disease is the right-wing echo chamber that has built up a cult resistant to reality. Unless and until we resolve the Fox News, Hate Radio and 4chan/Breitbart/Free Republic problem, we’re going to see more and more batshit crazy screeching from brainwashed shitheads.
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I keep on thinking about the comedy Dick with Kirsten Duntz and Michelle Williams and Nixon flying away to You’re So Vain. I’m also imagining Mueller making a call to a smiling Comey- “We got the bastard Jim, we got him.” I mean if this is going to be a silly drama, why not?
re: #42 dangerman
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I guess that’s why I’m fairly cynical going forward. Let’s say we do get rid of Trump-Pence. They’re going to be convinced it was an illegal coup that unseated their hero. Trumpism and its allies have created a large group of people who cannot accept basic reality.
re: #41 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
One of my faves; the car chase scene in Ronin.
re: #15 FormerDirtDart
Apparently was gong to go on his shooting spree today.
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I always wonder about the parents of these kids who assemble an arsenal in their bedrooms and then have the cops show up at their door. The kids have got to be products of their environment, but I would imagine that they are shocked! shocked! when they find out what junior’s been up to.
re: #38 rhuarc
One of the best, if not the best, shootout scenes in any movie. The only other scene that grabs my attention the same way is the Sicario border crossing scene when they are in the cars. That one gets me every time too!
Sicario scene I referenced if you’ve never seen the movie before. Highly recommend it. I don’t watch many movies multiple times anymore, but this one I’ve seen three times and will watch again the future.
re: #48 rhuarc
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Sicario scene I referenced if you’ve never seen the movie before. Highly recommend it. I don’t watch many movies multiple times anymore, but this one I’ve seen three times and will watch again the future.
whole movie is pretty great
jeeeezzzuuusss
what even is this? it’s like Director For Kike Outreach (“Semitic Liaison Matt Fischer”) pic.twitter.com/4t6E10Rvv9
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 26, 2018
re: #44 HappyWarrior
I guess that’s why I’m fairly cynical going forward. Let’s say we do get rid of Trump-Pence. They’re going to be convinced it was an illegal coup that unseated their hero. Trumpism and its allies have created a large group of people who cannot accept basic reality.
this is all speculation of course
it depends on how complete, thorough and comprehensive (redundant much) mueller is in the end
it also depends on how trump goes (assuming). ie forced to resign by the R’s. impeachment, an actual criminal indictment. or say another possibility - something like “if you resign we wont put donny jr, jared, and ivanka away”
of course this is just dreaming
re: #48 rhuarc
Here’s one of the great car chase sequences from a now almost totally-forgotten film, The Seven-Ups, starring Roy Scheider and Richard Lynch.
re: #50 Stanley Sea
Wow, that Twitter handle.
re: #46 stpaulbear
I always wonder about the parents of these kids who assemble an arsenal in their bedrooms and then have the cops show up at their door. The kids have got to be products of their environment, but I would imagine that they are shocked! shocked! when they find out what junior’s been up to.
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it would be creepy not to know what your kid is doing and then they gotta wonder if they were on the list…
re: #53 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Wow, that Twitter handle.
“semitic liaison” is really something else. Anyone that doesn’t think Nazi-style anti-semitism could easily become a major obsession of the entire US right is kidding themselves.
re: #51 dangerman
this is all speculation of course
it depends on how complete, thorough and comprehensive (redundant much) mueller is in the end
it also depends on how trump goes (assuming). ie forced to resign by the R’s. impeachment, an actual criminal indictment. or say another possibility - something like “if you resign we wont put donny jr, jared, and ivanka away”of course this is just dreaming
No. Absolutely not. There has got to be consequences. There has to be something that deters future dictator-wannabes, those who want to loot the Treasury, those who break laws. And it had to be severe; life in prison. For trump, his thieving children and every single person involved. If trump is allowed to slide, history will repeat itself over and over. It has to stop. Here and now.
re: #56 EPR-radar
“semitic liaison” is really something else. Anyone that doesn’t think Nazi-style anti-semitism could easily become a major obsession of the entire US right is kidding themselves.
Yes, but “matt’s our semite” is …definitely special. As a Twitter handle, I mean.
re: #50 Stanley Sea
Nazi Douchebag says what now?
Nehlen is a goddamned Nazi. Full stop. Not neo Nazi. Not white supremacist (though he is). He’s a goddamned Nazi. @joshtpm
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 26, 2018
re: #4 Charles Johnson
I think Chelsea might just be delusional enough to think she has some sort of super power, and that she fancies herself a “spy” or at least mixed up enough to draw on it as a defense mechanism when it is convenient. In reality, it seems like she is in way over her head.
She is fortunate that Obama pardoned her, I think it was the right thing to do as, no doubt, she suffered greatly in prison. She shouldn’t try to parlay that into a Senate run. I think she needs to take some time out for some counseling.
re: #57 dangerman
Years ago, I showed a group of students The French Connection; they were a group of younger students (early to mid 20’s) and they couldn’t believe the car chase scene (which is pretty much legendary) was real and not CGI.
Then the next week, I showed them The Blues Brothers. LOL.
re: #63 blueraven
He didn’t pardon her, just granted her clemency for the rest of her time.
re: #53 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Wow, that Twitter handle.
Is this another case of “my Jewish lawyer” (Moore in Alabama) or Trump’s fake spokesman in the 80’s and 90s? Probably a fake person made up by the Nazi.
re: #64 Dr Lizardo
Movies where all those stunts were practical effects.
The Matrix Reloaded has a great car chase scene, which by itself (non CGI) is pretty damned impressive in its own right, but they added CGI because it added to the danger factor.
re: #58 MsJ
No. Absolutely not. There has got to be consequences. There has to be something that deters future dictator-wannabes, those who want to loot the Treasury, those who break laws. And it had to be severe; life in prison. For trump, his thieving children and every single person involved. If trump is allowed to slide, history will repeat itself over and over. It has to stop. Here and now.
honestly i was only thinking of the getting him out of office part
this is different from watergate in a lot of ways - some “sacred” stuff - foreign governments meddling, the election mechanism itself (not just the dnc headquarters and ratfucking), possibly complicity by lots of americans (read treason), lots and lots of people involved who individually also committed lots of easy errors (read felonies) in docs signed under penalty of perjury, and on and on
so maybe it does break into two or more parts
one is getting him out of office
the second is what happens to him/them after
and mueller cant make a deal with all the states and ag’s….besides
re: #66 rhuarc
Is this another case of “my Jewish lawyer” (Moore in Alabama) or Trump’s fake spokesman in the 80’s and 90s? Probably a fake person made up by the Nazi.
Check his twitter feed.
He appears real.
re: #66 rhuarc
Is this another case of “my Jewish lawyer” (Moore in Alabama) or Trump’s fake spokesman in the 80’s and 90s? Probably a fake person made up by the Nazi.
Sorry, but I could see Ben of the Corn filling that role.
re: #65 Belafon
He didn’t pardon her, just granted her clemency for the rest of her time.
Thanks for the correction.
Time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards.
Mre: #70 Belafon
Sorry, but I could see Ben of the Corn filling that role.
Not sure tbh but I think he’s too into the right establishment to embrace Nehlen.
re: #73 HappyWarrior
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Not sure tbh but I think he’s too into the right establishment to embrace Nehlen.
I didn’t quite say it right, because I made too short of a statement. I think the “liaison” is real because I could see Ben being part of a group where he’s their token Jew, not that Ben would be necessarily part of that particular group.
re: #15 FormerDirtDart
Apparently was gong to go on his shooting spree today.
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From this link pittsburgh.cbslocal.com
Through the course of their investigation, troopers learned the suspect had planned to target four students at the school on Friday.
“The individual also expressed dislike for these four students and his uncle.
It seems so very sad when a 14 year old thinks guns are the solution to disliking other students.
re: #74 Belafon
I didn’t quite say it right, because I made too short of a statement. I think the “liaison” is real because I could see Ben being part of a group where he’s their token Jew, not that Ben would be necessarily part of that particular group.
Ohhh yeah, I’d agree with that.
re: #69 Stanley Sea
Check his twitter feed.
He appears real.
I started scrolling through. Maybe a real person from 4chan or Daily Stormer? Or maybe Paul is that much of a Nazi and knows he needs to attempt some cover so creates this account?
Charles:
in case you’re not aware, your Trump bumper sticker generator still gets a lot of mileage from the commenters over at PoliticalWire.com
every time i see a new one it’s a tribute to a simple, brilliant and understated idea.
well done.
re: #41 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
The car chase in “To Live and Die in LA” was the first one (to my knowledge) that featured the car desperately going the wrong way down the freeway into oncoming traffic.
The mention of that film sent me down a Youtube Wang Chung rabbit hole. They were a pretty good band.
re: #75 fern01
What’s sad is that he was able to do this right under his parents’ nose. I agree kids need privacy, but there is a point where they are still a child and you’re the parent and its your fucking house.
One of the killers at Columbine HS had pipe bombs and other shit in his room too. His parents claimed they had no idea.
My kid is 23 and still lives at home. I do go into his room now and then, not to snoop so much as to make sure things are OK with him and that his room isn’t turning into a compost heap.
This kid was 14, he doesn’t and shouldn’t have that much privacy. Were the intended victims bullies or abusive? That would give a why to this, but still, kids are learning from the adults around them that the answer to any conflict is a gun. It has to stop. I hope the NRA gets shithammered in this Russia mess, they contribute nothing good to this country anymore.
re: #80 A Mom Anon
Also, the kid is 14. Where did the guns come from? At that age the kid isn’t buying them without parents present.
re: #80 A Mom Anon
What’s sad is that he was able to do this right under his parents’ nose. I agree kids need privacy, but there is a point where they are still a child and you’re the parent and its your fucking house.
One of the killers at Columbine HS had pipe bombs and other shit in his room too. His parents claimed they had no idea.
My kid is 23 and still lives at home. I do go into his room now and then, not to snoop so much as to make sure things are OK with him and that his room isn’t turning into a compost heap.
This kid was 14, he doesn’t and shouldn’t have that much privacy. Were the intended victims bullies or abusive? That would give a why to this, but still, kids are learning from the adults around them that the answer to any conflict is a gun. It has to stop. I hope the NRA gets shithammered in this Russia mess, they contribute nothing good to this country anymore.
how does a 14 year old get the money and access to buy “a semiautomatic rifle, a shotgun, two lever-action rifles, machetes and throwing knives”?
without anyone having a clue?
re: #81 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Also, the kid is 14. Where did the guns come from? At that age the kid isn’t buying them without parents present.
great minds, etc.
re: #83 dangerman
great minds, etc.
We share a similar form of crazy, it’s true. (I did another 13 today, and now taper down to race next Saturday. Where taper = road trip.)
re: #19 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Ha! Nice refinement.
However, I think Melania is far more calculating and cold than that. She’d be working with Romanian & Slovenian hackers to intercept the transfers and “smurf” all the money through small transactions into a web of numbered Isle of Man accounts, leaving her and Barron to inherit the remains of the empire.
I’m sure she has a nice cache of jewelry, all of which she knows how to sell at a fair price.
Trump pressed senior aides last June to devise and carry out a campaign to discredit senior FBI officials after learning that those specific officials were likely to be witnesses against him as part of Mueller’s probe, Foreign Policy reports. https://t.co/TTbTS3kIK6
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 26, 2018
At no point in that mealy mouthed non-apology does he take responsibility for his own actions, or indicate any real remorse for retweeting racists.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 26, 2018
re: #86 Charles Johnson
Trump pressed senior aides last June to devise and carry out a campaign to discredit senior FBI officials after learning that those specific officials were likely to be witnesses against him as part of Mueller’s probe, Foreign Policy reports.
Sounds like a pretty cut and dried case of obstruction to me.
re: #84 klys (maker of Silmarils)
We share a similar form of crazy, it’s true. (I did another 13 today, and now taper down to race next Saturday. Where taper = road trip.)
80 pretty good minutes today. a good bunch in the last 2 weeks. i’m almost back -
again. (broken record much?)
also working on an email
I’m gonna call it now, when (not if) Trump or members of his administration are charged with obstruction, the wingnut cry will be “BUT THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA!!!!”
re: #82 dangerman
re: #81 klys (maker of Silmarils)
The thing is, it’s not hard to get any kind of a weapon if you want one bad enough. I’d guess this was a friend or relative or parents helping in some form. Either with money (I am amazed at what some parents just give to their kids now. I have a friend with a teen daughter who was shocked that the 100 dollar A WEEK ALLOWANCE she was giving her kid was being used to buy weed. Really? And she still gives the kid money even after a stint in military school, and she bought her a CAR. After she was arrested for shoplifting GAH. )or maybe even stealing them from somewhere.
I’m outside Atlanta, at least once a week there’s something on the news here about people breaking into cars to steal guns, into homes or into gun shops. I just hope this kid gets some help before he kills someone or himself.
Going to America tomorrow, so I’ve just picked up a copy of the Republican Party Travel Guide. All set! pic.twitter.com/Knwq3SWzQz
— Stansaid Airport (@StansaidAirport) January 24, 2018
re: #90 KerFuFFler
Sounds like a pretty cut and dried case of obstruction to me.
Republicans in Congress aren’t going to give a shit about Trump’s obstruction of justice. What might get some traction is if there are juicy underlying details.
For example, Trump’s money laundering and/or Trump not being nearly as wealthy as he claims he is because he is mostly/completely owned by Russian mobsters.
re: #94 A Mom Anon
Man, I only got $20 a week and that was for mowing our acre+ lawn.
Kids these days…
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dinner:
johnsonville brats - because someone here was talking about them last week
fair enough rolls to do them justice
home made napa cabbage cole slaw
likely some lambrusco
re: #86 Charles Johnson
So his aides basically ignored him, or just sucked at it, but the Republican Congress came along and decided they loved this plan. So basically however bad we think Trump’s staff is, Congressional Republicans are worse.
re: #97 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I didn’t get shit. LOL. My parents were old school. As in, “you live here, I am not paying you to do shit that you are supposed to do in the first place”. My Dad used to ask me where I’d like my parade thrown when I’d ask for money for doing chores. But, they did let me slide on doing stuff at home when I got a part time job after school and when I babysat for the neighbor kids.
I’ve said it before, and I am saying it again: firing the Special Counsel is a red line that the President cannot cross.
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) January 26, 2018
Every last Member of Congress needs to say exactly the same thing right now. https://t.co/lUC46vXDTF
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) January 26, 2018
re: #94 A Mom Anon
The thing is, it’s not hard to get any kind of a weapon if you want one bad enough. I’d guess this was a friend or relative or parents helping in some form. Either with money (I am amazed at what some parents just give to their kids now. I have a friend with a teen daughter who was shocked that the 100 dollar A WEEK ALLOWANCE she was giving her kid was being used to buy weed. Really? And she still gives the kid money even after a stint in military school, and she bought her a CAR. After she was arrested for shoplifting GAH. )or maybe even stealing them from somewhere.
I’m outside Atlanta, at least once a week there’s something on the news here about people breaking into cars to steal guns, into homes or into gun shops. I just hope this kid gets some help before he kills someone or himself.
i hear you loud and clear
there are two dynamics here - your first line, then all the rest
i have no kids, so no experience in that area, there’s a lot im just not clued in on. and my life is not all that plugged in. there’s a lot i dont know thats going on.
its your first line that chills me. this is the way things are now. and i know you’re not saying it - that its part of the argument that always comes up why “gun control” just cant work.
at some point along the line or each line of a semiautomatic rifle, a shotgun, and two lever-action rifles, people lost control of their weapon(s). they sold to someone they shouldnt, or it was stolen and i wonder if reported, or in some other way one kid was able to take control of all four.
now and again i get to fear for humanity and it’s got nothing to do with the moron-in-chief
re: #102 dangerman
Oh I hear you. I don’t think Trump is the disease, he’s the symptoms all rolled into a big orange blob of shit. This country needs an empathy injection of some kind. There are way too many lonely and disaffected people in this country. Sadness and anger and fear create monsters of all kinds and levels.
Oh noes! They’re on to us!
“The left, which dictates popular culture, brainwashes young people into believing they live in a world where 64 gender options are up for selection, everything is free, Beyoncé is a God queen, and eating detergent is funny.”
re: #104 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
It’s sad to see the cynical sneer already developing on someone that young.
The Un-American ICE https://t.co/Ys7y85F9ea
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 26, 2018
“It’s a felony to leave water for thirsty people? This is not America.”
re: #75 fern01
From this link pittsburgh.cbslocal.com
It seems so very sad when a 14 year old thinks guns are the solution to disliking other students.
Bullying. Some day the people in charge of the schools will take that seriously. Expel bullies. Protect children. So many of these shootings are a result of bullying, of desperation (and a desire for retribution).
A real shame. A national tragedy in itself.
re: #105 jaunte
Lets see her in 10 years. That level of ugly ages a person. See; Jones, Alex and Geller, Pam as two examples. For real though, she’s getting paid to be an asshole. Probably more than most of us will see ever.
im off
may be back later
depends on how much lammy-brusco
don’t….just, dont.
Happy Friday, lizards. At least Trump is out of the country.
re: #104 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Oh noes! They’re on to us!
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It ought to be a crime to be as dumb as Talky Tomi from the Twilight Zone!
re: #108 A Mom Anon
Lets see her in 10 years. That level of ugly ages a person. See; Jones, Alex and Geller, Pam as two examples. For real though, she’s getting paid to be an asshole. Probably more than most of us will see ever.
Kellyanne Conway. That woman is younger than me but looks 10 years (easily!) older.
Watch Sarah Huckabee in 5 years. She’ll look 50.
re: #107 MsJ
When my son was being bullied in middle and high school, the school system was more concerned about the bullies’ (yes plural) privacy than what was being done to my kid. I knew who the bullies were, and when I mentioned their names in school meetings I was shushed. It’s not like the little assholes were being secretive. Some of what was done to him would have landed an adult in a workplace in jail. When I related some of the things done to my kid in those meetings there was actually LAUGHTER from the people supposed to be protecting him.
I wish to fuck I could sue a whole list of people over that shit. Because of that experience my son NEVER wants to set foot in a classroom again. Not even for tech or trade school. He left school thinking he was stupid and spent so much time trying to fend off this shit he learned very little (he had no idea that 32 degrees is the freezing temp of water as just one example) that he should know. But he would not allow me to withdraw him from school, he told me he wasn’t going to let the motherfuckers run him out of there and he said letting them get away with it would just make it harder for the next autistic kid. Sigh. Adults really do not get how bad it can get, it is nothing like the teasing and bullying that was typical 30 or 40 years ago.
Funny exchange I just heard (paraphrased):
“Robert Mueller knows everything. If you’re just finding it out now, he’s known about it for weeks or months.”
“So you’re saying Mueller is God?”
“No, God is capable of mercy.”
re: #113 A Mom Anon
When my son was being bullied in middle and high school, the school system was more concerned about the bullies’ (yes plural) privacy than what was being done to my kid. I knew who the bullies were, and when I mentioned their names in school meetings I was shushed. It’s not like the little assholes were being secretive. Some of what was done to him would have landed an adult in a workplace in jail. When I related some of the things done to my kid in those meetings there was actually LAUGHTER from the people supposed to be protecting him.
I wish to fuck I could sue a whole list of people over that shit. Because of that experience my son NEVER wants to set foot in a classroom again. Not even for tech or trade school. He left school thinking he was stupid and spent so much time trying to fend off this shit he learned very little (he had no idea that 32 degrees is the freezing temp of water as just one example) that he should know. But he would not allow me to withdraw him from school, he told me he wasn’t going to let the motherfuckers run him out of there and he said letting them get away with it would just make it harder for the next autistic kid. Sigh. Adults really do not get how bad it can get, it is nothing like the teasing and bullying that was typical 30 or 40 years ago.
That is precisely the shit I had to go through in school. But it was several asshole teachers who encouraged kids to bully me. From the third grade teacher who made fun of my hair calling me N-word head to the algebra teacher who made fun of my clothes to the football coach who was a world class asshole who endlessly ridiculed me until his wife and I won bridge tournaments, school was a torture chamber. The day I graduated from Auschwitz High School, well I felt like Robert Clary walking out of Auschwitz…
MomAnon,
I’m still reeling that a teenager makes 400/month for nothing.
Amazing.
President Donald Trump pressed senior aides last June to devise and carry out a campaign to discredit senior FBI officials after learning that those specific employees were likely to be witnesses against him as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, according to two people directly familiar with the matter.
In testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8, recently fired FBI Director James Comey disclosed that he spoke contemporaneously with other senior bureau officials about potentially improper efforts by the president to curtail the FBI’s investigation of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Mueller is investigating whether Trump’s efforts constituted obstruction of justice.
re: #118 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
President Donald Trump pressed senior aides last June to devise and carry out a campaign to discredit senior FBI officials after learning that those specific employees were likely to be witnesses against him as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, according to two people directly familiar with the matter.
In testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8, recently fired FBI Director James Comey disclosed that he spoke contemporaneously with other senior bureau officials about potentially improper efforts by the president to curtail the FBI’s investigation of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Mueller is investigating whether Trump’s efforts constituted obstruction of justice.
It doesn’t take much learnin’ to know the answer to that: yes, it is.
re: #117 Stanley Sea
MomAnon,
I’m still reeling that a teenager makes 400/month for nothing.
Amazing.
And I remember when Dad would have the bank give him a couple half dollars. We got that every week. And that was when Dad was paid around $800 a month in the 60s…
The more one looks into the sex abuse scandal, the more people need to realize that the athletic programs at places like MSU need to be ended permanently. They systematically and completely ignored sex abuse and harassment claims, and it was pervasive.
Oh, and in the case of MSU, looks like there’s also a Betsy DeVos angle that needs further investigation. For one thing, DeVos is looking to gut Title IX and monitoring/reporting of harassment/abuse requirements are among the things on the chopping block.
MSU football and basketball programs implicated.
The report also details several sexual abuse allegations made against members of the university’s basketball and football teams during the tenure of its most recognizable figures: basketball coach Tom Izzo and football coach Mark Dantonio.
“In one case, a university-hired outside investigator claimed to have not even generated a written report at the conclusion of his work,” ESPN staff writer Paula Lavigne reported. “And attorneys who have represented accusers and the accused agree on this: University officials have not always been transparent, and often put the school’s reputation above the need to give fair treatment to those reporting sexual violence and to the alleged perpetrators.”
At least 16 Spartans football players have been accused of sexual assault or violence against women since Dantonio became head coach in 2007, according to the report. But as recently as June, when Dantonio was talking to reporters about four of his players who were accused of sexual assault, the coach said “this is new ground for us” when asked how Michigan State previously handled such allegations.
End it.
re: #113 A Mom Anon
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Who wore it better? #TheSequel pic.twitter.com/HthYYSlKUA
Catching the end of Ari Melber and he is announcing a special he is doing on Sunday night on the Election Meddling with reps from Facebook and Twitter.
9:00 PM Sunday January 28, MSNBC.
He’s been pretty tough on both in his many exposes he has done since his show has been on. This should be pretty good for anyone interested.
So, Fox News “Special Report” did a segment on sexual harassment. Leading off with the Hillary 2008 campaign story, barely mentioning the guys name who actually was accused of inappropriate sexual conduct, or the nature of the allegations…then they moved on to the Steve Wynn story. Each story received approximately the same amount of time. No details on the horrific nature of of the accusations agaisnt Wynn.
Basically they put Hillary and Wynn in the same light. Yeah, they are equally bad, see?//
*spit*
Where is the outrage like in the case of Harvey Weinstein? Wynn is an official of the RNC, ffs.
When allegations against entertainment executive Harvey Weinstein surfaced last fall, RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel and other GOP leaders quickly called on the Democratic National Committee, its House and Senate campaign arms and individual Democratic candidates and lawmakers to refund his thousands of dollars in donations.
Where are they now?
New York Times Takes Break From Kissing Trump’s Ass, Kisses Melania’s Ass Instead
Read more at wonkette.com
re: #129 blueraven
Where is the outrage like in the case of Harvey Weinstein? Wynn is an official of the RNC, ffs.
Question asked and answered…
re: #131 Jay C
Question asked and answered…
Ayep. And once again, an allegation against a Clinton becomes the focus of attention the moment a Republican or prominent conservative faces allegations of sexual misconduct.
JUST IN: Entire USA Gymnastics board to resign in wake of Larry Nassar’s sentencing. The U.S. Olympic Committee had given the board a January 31 deadline to resign. https://t.co/2glXplsigI
— ABC13 Houston (@abc13houston) January 26, 2018
re: #131 Jay C
Vegas mogul and head of RNC fundraising Steve Wynn, engaged in sex harassment and abuse; settled with one woman for $7.5 million.
That’s how the headline/tweet should read if you care about facts/accuracy.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 26, 2018
re: #133 Stanley Sea
They should be tried as accessories.
Obama: “I’m basically a liberal Jew” https://t.co/qqfv4S3C2H pic.twitter.com/H15UhaByrI
— The Hill (@thehill) January 27, 2018
Oh come on now, we all know he buys at retail… https://t.co/m163CJte9P
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 27, 2018
re: #130 Skip Intro
New York Times Takes Break From Kissing Trump’s Ass, Kisses Melania’s Ass Instead
Read more at wonkette.com
Wonderful take down & I got to watch her slapping his hand away again.
Do Wingnuts Actually Understand Democracy?
So the democratically elected executive must bow down to the non-elected, supposedly apolitical FBI? I think that sounds pretty Unamerican, tovarish.
re: #38 rhuarc
Not to mention the 10-minute scene of DeNiro and Pacino in the diner. Holy shit, that scene is so awesome. I think “Heat” is DeNiro’s most underrated performance
re: #130 Skip Intro
New York Times Takes Break From Kissing Trump’s Ass, Kisses Melania’s Ass Instead
Read more at wonkette.com
best comment to that story:
Riley Whodat Venable • 4 hours ago
We all know the NYT has to knuckle under to any GOP administration. How else can they get in the exclusive parties and country clubs.
The WaPo folks have real undercover sources. Like the printer’s cousin who mows the WH lawn. And IT chick whose father is on the Capitol Police.
re: #104 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Tomi Lahren: The left “brainwashes” teens into eating Tide Pods! https://t.co/upEhUieUTB
— Salon (@Salon) January 26, 2018
Remind me which party has the support of the 4chan meme shenanigans idiots who like to “own libs” via contrarianism such as the tide pod bullshit.
I’ll wait… https://t.co/LTqmRuOWKR— Citizen K (@Citizen_Kryptik) January 27, 2018
re: #142 Citizen K
Tammy lies to Conservatives for a living. It’s good money, but not for anyone with a conscience.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) January 27, 2018
I’m sure it’s the lefts fault that Tomi is as miserable as she is too.
re: #144 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
“Tammy lies to Conservatives for a living. It’s good money, but not for anyone with a conscience.”
Yeah, and still gets her health insurance through her parents because of the ACA.
Thanks, Obama.
Jumping in here without reading the thread, BUT, I loved this response on a Renato Mariotti tweet about Mueller/Trump stuff:
@RTJCooper: I want it ALL - obstruction, money laundering, collusion, jaywalking, murder of the English language, serial lying, crimes of fashion…..AND watch him be sentenced on live TV by the lawyer from the Larry Nassar trial!!
Oops, sorry - I mean judge, of course, not lawyer.
I find the Times to be brutally disappointing. Ten years or so ago, my neighbor delivered the NYT and would always drop me a free one. Loved pretty much everything about it. A shame how far it has fallen.
Have to say though, I always loved the Los Angeles Times the most. But now days, WAPO is my fave.
Sad that journalism is such utter crap. I hope the next generation does a better job.
Mr. plansbandc and my dog are singing to each other. It’s pretty impressive.
re: #150 plansbandc
Hard to say when the mantra today is “Get it first, then get it right.”
re: #150 plansbandc
On the bright side, the annual fee for the Times’ online crossword club (including the archive and a bonus Sunday-sized puzzle every month) has gone up only three or four bucks over the past 20 years or so. Not that I think they’re a total rag, but I can’t imagine any other reason to give them my money.
re: #150 plansbandc
I find the Times to be brutally disappointing. Ten years or so ago, my neighbor delivered the NYT and would always drop me a free one. Loved pretty much everything about it. A shame how far it has fallen.
Have to say though, I always loved the Los Angeles Times the most. But now days, WAPO is my fave.
Sad that journalism is such utter crap. I hope the next generation does a better job.
Yeah, but the NYT had a pretty good story on A1, right side, above the fold, today.
They have their moments…
re: #152 Ace Rothstein
Hard to say when the mantra today is “Get it first, then get it right.”
It’s also impossible to report intelligently on US politics while studiously ignoring the essential fact of US politics — i.e., that the Republican party has become a shithole full of bigoted, racist willfully stupid cranks who are led by the likes of Fox News and hate radio according to directives set by rich psychopaths such as the Mercers and the Koch brothers.
re: #152 Ace Rothstein
Hard to say when the mantra today is “Get it first, then get it right.”
Game developers take the same approach. We live in an era where products, including news, are pushed out the door as quickly as possible.
Good news from NC, which will hopefully pull it back a little bit from the title of ‘failed democracy’ that it currently has earned:
This is big: The NC Supreme Court just ruled that the GOP’s effort to remove Dem majorities from the state board of elections is unconstitutional (h/t @john_rimes) #NCpol https://t.co/SrQOvU2wwD
— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) January 26, 2018
re: #155 EPR-radar
It’s also impossible to report intelligently on US politics while studiously ignoring the essential fact of US politics — i.e., that the Republican party has become a shithole full of bigoted, racist willfully stupid cranks who are led by the likes of Fox News and hate radio according to directives set by rich psychopaths such as the Mercers and the Koch brothers.
We also saw what happened after John McCain got booed out at a town hall meeting for suggesting that Obama was an honorable person. Nobody in the GOP wanted to alienate the Tea Partiers and the rabid base by challenging or even distancing themselves from their racist, xenophobic, misogynistic or homophobic utterances.
That started an attention-grabbing race to the bottom, and we are still on the way down.
re: #157 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Game developers take the same approach. We live in an era where products, including news, are pushed out the door as quickly as possible.
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