.@stevenmnuchin1 pic.twitter.com/w8zPvJ4Zu3
— 🍺HereHoldMyBeer🍺 (@flyaway_k) July 12, 2018
BREAKING: Papa John’s founder John Schnatter resigns as the company’s chairman after saying he used a racial comment on a conference call in May. https://t.co/jn8limUSe7
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) July 12, 2018
Cool video. My first thought was ‘How long was the dancer under water?’
Also, a very different Fiona Apple than one hears on the radio. Nice.
re: #1 The Vicious Babushka
How long can she hold her breath?
If you watch carefully, there are cuts in the video to different camera angles. I would guess she performed the dance in segments, and the video was then edited to splice them together.
Even so, I admire her breath control. That’s a lot of anaerobic exercise there!
re: #3 JordanRules
Papa John’s founder John Schnatter apologizes for using the N-word on conference call.https://t.co/TiReHH6lzo
— ☠Lilith☠ 🍎🐍❄🌊🐿️🐺📷🎬🎨📕✌❤🇺🇸 (@LilithResists) July 12, 2018
re: #7 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
MLB suspends Papa Slam promotion with Papa John’s after founder’s racial slur https://t.co/NuBahmRmbP via @YahooSports
— Dodgers-LowDown (@DodgersLowDown) July 12, 2018
re: #5 wheat-dogg
She’s a freediver. That explains her breath control skills.
French Wikipedia fr.wikipedia.org
Her website juliegautier.com
re: #2 gocart mozart
Why are they making fun of John Oliver?
re: #6 Joe Bacon 🌹
I still wouldn’t buy his crappy cardboard psuedo pizza.
Schnatter is a Class 1 asshole. His neighbors don’t even like him.
re: #3 JordanRules
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I’m shocked that the black athletes should shut up guy was casually using the n-word. Oh wait, it gets better?
Just seven months after exiting the CEO role after making critical comments about the NFL’s national-anthem dispute, Schnatter came under fire following a media report that he used a racial slur and graphic descriptions of violence against minorities on a May conference call with a media agency.
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“News reports attributing the use of inappropriate and hurtful language to me during a media training session regarding race are true,” Schnatter said in the statement. “Regardless of the context, I apologize. Simply stated, racism has no place in our society.”
So what I gather from this is that the asshole was on a fucking corporate conference call with a media agency that was pitching a Starbucks style implicit bias training, and he decided that was a good time to go off on a racist rant.
Years ago in NYC, I helped my best friend paint a friend of his apartment/photo studio a block south of Union Square, while his friend was taking head shots of a very charming young musician with the equally charming name of Fiona Apple. A few years later, she released a song that totally bowled me over, which to this day remains one of my very faves. I’m very glad she’s still around and going strong. I think she just may well be a genius.
re: #12 goddamnedfrank
I’m shocked that the black athletes should shut up guy was casually using the n-word. Oh wait, it gets better?
So what I gather from this is that the asshole was on a fucking corporate conference call with a media agency that was pitching a Starbucks style implicit bias training, and he decided that was a good time to go off on a racist rant.
Apparently literally couldn’t help himself. Helluva drug it is.
re: #13 De Kolta Chair
Years ago in NYC, I helped my best friend paint a friend of his apartment/photo studio, while his friend was taking head shots of a very interesting young lady with the charming name of Fiona Apple. A few years later, she released a song that totally bowled me over, and to this day remains one of my faves…
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I love that song. I’ve never met her, but I did see her show at Northerly Island in Chicago in 2006.
She gets so intense when singing that she visible scratches her chest drawing blood.
re: #4 makeitstop
Cool video. My first thought was ‘How long was the dancer under water?’
Also, a very different Fiona Apple than one hears on the radio. Nice.
It’s written by the same guy that did Witchcraft and The Best is Yet to Come. 1958 vintage.
I’m a huge fan in general, but Fiona Apple singing stuff from old song books is always incredible. She can really hit the same tone and quality that made the old torch singers shine. I mean, her range and skill is present in her own compositions, but it’s incredible to compare her to, say, Billie Holliday or Ella Fitzgerald.
Very cool connection from my brother in the California desert.
The new movie First Man uses an Air Force O-11A crash truck from the Edwards AFB museum.
This was taken during filming:
This is the same truck while it was in service at Edwards in the 60s
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So, I’m unclear on Drumf’s itinerary. Is he still in Brussels tomorrow or is he going to Helsinki for his annual meeting with his handler?
I know he’s going to London to meet The Ghost of Brexit, May, but is that before or after Helsinki?.
When is he going to meet and insult the QOE? Is that before or after he goes to Scotland and gets covered with flung sheep shit?
BREAKING: Papa John’s announces resignation of John H. Schnatter as Chairman of the Board, following admission to racial remark https://t.co/XxZF0ZDrzf
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 12, 2018
Bye. This racist should be Papa Gone, from this business and any board he sits on. There should be no room for this in America — yet, @realDonaldTrump has created a permissive environment. https://t.co/qqErRV4g3s
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) July 12, 2018
I wonder what the odds are of Schnatter joining the White House comms team?
Half /
Checking in from Regina, Saskatchewan.
The weather is trying to kill us. After the tornado in our town followed by 100F temperatures, my wife and I said “screw this, we’re off to Yukon and Alaska.”
Last night we stayed in Terry, Montana. After we settled into our hotel room, the tornado warnings launched across NE Montana and Southern Saskatchewan. This morning, Plentywood, Montana and Minton, Saskatchewan lay damaged by tornadoes (four are thought to have touched down in the Minton area).
There was heavy damage in Plentywood; I took photographs for Nebraska Emergency Management and sent them to the state government tonight (emergency management agencies share photographs with each other).
I didn’t take photographs of people’s damaged homes, as I though some guy driving around Plentywood in a Smart with Nebraska plates taking pictures of private property wouldn’t be received well.
Damage in Minton was limited to agricultural equipment outside of town; I could find only one damaged structure (an overturned grain bin on Provincial Highway 6).
In Plentywood, twenty people were injured, four critically (according to local radio reports).
The National Weather Service was in Plentywood and Environment Canada in Minton assessing damage. The area almost never gets tornadoes, and those injured in Plentywood were caught by surprise in the middle of the night (there were no injuries in Minton).
Minton and Plentywood are about twenty miles apart.
Feral piglet on a rampage. Imagine what a 400 pounder is like. This is why it is no solution to give hunting rights to suburban slob hunters. The hogs will kick their asses.
Foreign investment in the United States plunged 32% in 2017 https://t.co/kbJOj5RwQX pic.twitter.com/sFNFBJRZBV
— CNN International (@cnni) July 12, 2018
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 12, 2018
BREAKING: Papa John’s founder John Schnatter resigns as the company’s chairman after saying he used a racial comment on a conference call in May. https://t.co/jn8limUSe7
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) July 12, 2018
John Schnatter to join White House staff in 3, 2, 1… https://t.co/HGN16lvstK
— andy lassner (@andylassner) July 12, 2018
re: #28 MsJ
And here’s the agency he was on the call with:
247laundryservice.com
re: #28 MsJ
Bah, I figured someone would have called that before me.
re: #26 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
He mad. Correction. She mad.
re: #16 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I caught her at a music fest a couple of years after meeting her, this new kid in town. She had ambition and drive and, most importantly, the talent and chops to back it up, which have obviously never left her. ;-)
re: #29 jaunte
And here’s the agency he was on the call with:
247laundryservice.com
A real prince… And a moron.
Now @CNN is contacting all 100+ of our former staff and interns asking for dirt on me. Getting desperate! How can you ever trust such #fakenews?
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 11, 2018
(narrator): Jim Jordan did what every enabler of abuse does. He attacked the accusers and the media…
…and as Jim would soon find out, that only angers and offends other victims who then come forward specifically because of those arrogant denials. https://t.co/JBTWRI6puR— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 11, 2018
Clockwork. Never fails. Lying doesn’t cover up the crime. It angers more victims and witnesses… and they come forward.
11 former wrestlers now say Jordan knew about sexual abuse at OSU.
https://t.co/hqgysWkkQY https://t.co/t9vj3zr5H6— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 12, 2018
Eleven. How many more will it take?
More #butterfly season- Dainty Sulfur at the top of the list of cute :) #Colorado
pic.twitter.com/91Ih4lPqQv — SESevers (@edge_nature) July 12, 2018
re: #34 jaunte
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Eleven. How many more will it take?
At this point I’m half expecting Jordan to be voted Speaker just to “own the libs”.
re: #20 austin_blue
5 minutes and 11 seconds.
Wow. I presume after hyperventilating before the dive.
Entire state of Ohio molested; Jim Jordan charges Deep State plot.
this high school debate over the confederate flag is the perfect short filmhttps://t.co/Ol2FEk4F9u
— Mitch Eagles 🚍🌹 (@73_Carondelet) July 12, 2018
re: #34 jaunte
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Eleven. How many more will it take?
He’s never going to be run from office. The leadership won’t defend him, but they’re also not going to shove him out. They’ll just quietly wait and hope that the whole thing goes away with the elections.
Every single wrestler who was abused and knew that Jimbo knew about it.
The whole crew. And in this environment, that may not be enough.
Even if there are fifty of them, it may not be enough. Just think about that.
re: #45 austin_blue
Every single wrestler who was abused and knew that Jimbo knew about it.
The whole crew. And in this environment, that may not be enough.
Even if there are fifty of them, it may not be enough. Just think about that.
The again, an Olympic doctor is in jail, and a Penn icon is no longer. People have to keep up the pressure.
re: #46 Anymouse 🌹
Insurance company damaged by tornado in Plentywood, Montana
Yikes! Is irony an act of god? Asking for an Aeolian.
re: #46 Anymouse 🌹
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Dude, have you considered the possibility that you and your wife are tornado magnets?
This is a fascinating interview with Apple. I find myself wishing I could sit and have a conversation with her.
re: #48 De Kolta Chair
Yikes! Is irony an act of god? Asking for Aeolus.
At the convenience store across the street when I went in for soda, the clerk quipped “I hope they have insurance.”
re: #42 JordanRules
I remember these same shitheads from my high school.
So disappointed in Papa John. I’m praying that Jerry Domino and Carl Hut never let us down like this
— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) July 12, 2018
re: #49 austin_blue
Dude, have you considered the possibility that you and your wife are tornado magnets?
When my wife and I took a trip to the Michigan Upper Peninsula from Oklahoma, there was a tornado which touched down very close to our motel. We have considered that (the motel owner told us to take our crappy weather back to Oklahoma).
My wife suggested today we could make money as tornado chasers, since they seem to chase us.
re: #50 makeitstop
This is a fascinating interview with Apple. I find myself wishing I could sit and have a conversation with her.
She has always been enigmatic. Also smart as hell. Of course you would wish for that conversation. Unless you bumped up to her in a totally random fashion, it’s not going to happen.
But I understand the desire. I’d like to have that chat myself.
re: #54 Anymouse 🌹
Hah! One of my best friends is a Moore from the town of Moore, Oklahoma, which gets flattened practically every year. Worse every year lately. She informs me that she doesn’t know anyone there who agrees with these newfangled commie hippie concepts of climate change. Being an intelligent person, she self-deported, to use a Mitt Romney term, ages ago, but she stills goes back to visit her self-destructive bible-spouting family every year. She has a backbone made of concrete, so can handle it.
I love Betty.
A Massive, Black Sarcophagus Has Been Unearthed in Egypt, And Nobody Knows Who’s Inside https://t.co/2pGvEXu1Xu
— ScienceAlert (@ScienceAlert) July 11, 2018
I hope it’s not me. https://t.co/yNIiIyoQ3E
— Betty F*ckin’ White (@BettyFckinWhite) July 11, 2018
In case you missed my Instagram post, here’s the cover of my new book. You can pre-order now: https://t.co/1Ozxsr7CAA pic.twitter.com/Ni2JIrif1n
— Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) July 12, 2018
Deportation bus leaving #OccupyICEPDX https://t.co/rHGIyr6EoA
— Abolish I.C.E PDX (@OccupyICEPDX) July 11, 2018
Non-violent protestors at #OccupyICEPDX form a human chain to block deportation bus, are attacked by DHS and ICE with mace and pepper balls, tackled, arrested. @tedwheeler Grow some courage and PROTECT YOUR CITY. Get ICE out of Portland TODAY. https://t.co/nf204kae03
— Get ICE out of Portland! (@pescivendolo) July 11, 2018
Tomorrow I’ll get a second look at the David Bowie exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum.
I told my long ago former manager about it, and he tried getting tickets through the museum web site, but those tickets are completely gone for the remainder of the run. But my friend is nothing if not resourceful, and he found a boutique hotel in Brooklyn that was offering a pair of tickets free with an overnight stay. And unlike the museum tickets which are only good for a certain time of day, his tickets will be accepted any time we get there.
So once again I’m bagging work and heading into the BK for Bowie, and probably a meal and a couple of beers.
Waiting for the white smoke to rise from the pizza oven, indicating the selection of a new Papa John
— Flesh Mountain (@eliyudin) July 12, 2018
re: #61 JordanRules
There is a whole bunch of derp in that thread… .
This is so unacceptable on so many levels. I don’t even know where to start. https://t.co/sDI2OTWxee pic.twitter.com/dv0TZR1H7f
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) July 10, 2018
If you wrote a Republican character saying “We’ll pay for our immigrant child kidnapping program by taking money from poor AIDS patients” it would be rejected for being too cartoonishly evil https://t.co/JiUNHniXeV
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) July 11, 2018
re: #58 wheat-dogg
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence, but that is unmistakably Bea Arthur.” — Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of The Golden Girls, 1896.
Ta, lizards!
re: #58 wheat-dogg
“A Massive, Black Sarcophagus Has Been Unearthed in Egypt, And Nobody Knows Who’s Inside.”
If horror movies have taught me anything, we’re better off just leaving it alone.
BREAKING: US allies in #NATO offer two percent of GDP to Mueller investigation. #NATOSummit2018 pic.twitter.com/MOTrBzLagu
— the Baxter Bean (@TheBaxterBean) July 11, 2018
re: #67 Eclectic Cyborg
“A Massive, Black Sarcophagus Has Been Unearthed in Egypt, And Nobody Knows Who’s Inside.”
If horror movies have taught me anything, we’re better off just leaving it alone.
They kick it open and thousands of red maga hats swarm and black out the sun.
— Betty F*ckin’ White (@BettyFckinWhite) July 11, 2018
Would a website that accused Mark Zuckerberg of actual blood libel meet Facebook’s standards? How would that be any different from Infowars accusing Democrats of running a child sex ring out of a pizza shop?
— Matt O’Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) July 11, 2018
Just rcvd word that my client @StormyDaniels was arrested in Columbus Ohio whole performing the same act she has performed across the nation at nearly a hundred strip clubs. This was a setup & politically motivated. It reeks of desperation. We will fight all bogus charges. #Basta
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) July 12, 2018
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹
Nah, that’s the contents of the giant white coffin that got unearthed, but nobody paid any attention.
re: #67 Eclectic Cyborg
“A Massive, Black Sarcophagus Has Been Unearthed in Egypt, And Nobody Knows Who’s Inside.”
If horror movies have taught me anything, we’re better off just leaving it alone.
Which means some puffed-up academic/hot-shot prick scientist/desperate-to-get-funding junior professor will crack it open in the hope of making a “one-in-a-lifetime” discovery…dooming us all in the process.
re: #71 goddamnedfrank
Nipples are illegal in Ohio.
Says a lot about this country that a woman’s consent only practically matters when it can be weaponized against her. pic.twitter.com/6Lj3FJ58tD
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 12, 2018
Special Counsel’s Office says Manafort has been surreptitiously sending emails from jail…https://t.co/L4C0JNqmep pic.twitter.com/hqo207Fedi
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) July 11, 2018
Paul Manafort is tamperin’ with witnesses while he’s in jail for tamperin’ with witnesses.
When you’re facin’ 305 years in prison, what’s another 20?https://t.co/HENxBqejo1— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) July 11, 2018
re: #74 Single-handed sailor
Nipples are illegal in Ohio.
As is bathing a horse in a tub in Worcester, Massachusetts, which my grandpa Pat and his cronies swore they did once as a jape in the 1940’s. Frankly, I’ve always doubted that story because he brewed a delicious and strong porter in that tub and it tasted more like cat, but then again that was in the 1970’s and the horse lather might have worn off by then.
Which, come to think of it, doesn’t explain the cat taste…
My wife wants to check her E-mail, so I am going to log out of LGF. G’night y’all. Tomorrow, Saskatoon to do some touring.
#NowPlaying God Street Wine > Bag. > Epilog https://t.co/4hPpgfkxBT
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 12, 2018
Now I’m thinking about Egyptian tombs, and it occurs to me that Imohotep inventing the pyramid by putting a mastaba on a mastaba on a mastaba precedes Xhibit’s “Yo dawg, I heard you like X, so I put an X in your X” meme by 4 millenia.
re: #75 goddamnedfrank
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So a cop just happens to be running a “sting” in this club the night she’s performing and so able to catch a customer just up and touch her in a “non-sexual manner” in order to run her in on a misdemeanor that probably carries a pocket change fine.
re: #81 Targetpractice
Exactly, This reeks.
re: #80 The Ghost of a Flea
Now I’m thinking about Egyptian tombs, and it occurs to me that Imohotep inventing the pyramid by putting a mastaba on a mastaba on a mastaba precedes Xhibit’s “Yo dawg, I heard you like X, so I put an X in your X” meme by 4 millenia.
[Pharaoh Djoser]: “Yo, Imhotep, pimp my mastaba.”
[Imhotep]: “No prob, G.”
In a statement to The Post, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, “[Kelly] was displeased because he was expecting a full breakfast and there were only pastries and cheese.” https://t.co/azDbYtgy20
— Robert Costa (@costareports) July 11, 2018
I suspect General Kelly knows full well the damage that Trump is doing to the institutions that have kept the peace in Europe for 70 years. Many others in the GOP do as well.
We don’t need them to roll their eyes. We need them to take a stand. Silence is complicity. https://t.co/xWS7B2177S— Adam Schiff (@AdamSchiffCA) July 11, 2018
re: #84 JordanRules
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Kelly remains for much the same reason that a lot of those high up in the food chain do: They know this is it, this is the end of their careers. They’re stuck around so long that their reputations are now classifiable as toxic byproducts, there is no alternative to sticking around besides retirement.
Let’s be honest, America: Dogs are parasites, not man’s best friend https://t.co/qKVGVzZAbj pic.twitter.com/yrss33aChm
— Union-Tribune Ideas (@sdutIdeas) July 12, 2018
get the torches and pitchforks and call in sick tomorrow, we have work to do https://t.co/oE1iNT9kVc
— shauna (@goldengateblond) July 12, 2018
re: #84 JordanRules
The continental breakfast excuse is lame. Kelly is not that parochial. I’m sure he’s been the Europe and knows their breakfast eating habits. Anyone who watches the video can see Kelly is reacting to Trump’s remarks, not the French pastry on the table.
These people suck at lying.
re: #86 Single-handed sailor
A parasite by definition steals from its host and offers nothing in return. Dogs don’t qualify. Neither do cats.
Aquarium fish, now …
heh, protocol
A gentleman would stand up when our PM approaches to speak
— Mrs W T Shaw (@wendytshaw) July 11, 2018
re: #88 wheat-dogg
The continental breakfast excuse is lame. Kelly is not that parochial. I’m sure he’s been the Europe and knows their breakfast eating habits. Anyone who watches the video can see Kelly is reacting to Trump’s remarks, not the French pastry on the table.
These people suck at lying.
He’s only mad about the quiet parts being said out loud.
re: #27 JordanRules
Foreign investment in the United States plunged 32% in 2017
But we have a tax cut so that our investors can take up the slack (as soon as they have paid out bonuses and bought up more of their own stock).
re: #53 teleskiguy
So disappointed in Papa John. I’m praying that Jerry Domino and Carl Hut never let us down like this
Don’t forget what Little Caesar did to us…
re: #85 Targetpractice
Kelly remains for much the same reason that a lot of those high up in the food chain do: They know this is it, this is the end of their careers. They’re stuck around so long that their reputations are now classifiable as toxic byproducts, there is no alternative to sticking around besides retirement.
He does not have enough profile to get hired by Fox
I see yesterday’s downturn in the markets fixed everything with the tariff wars and today they rallied like we set record GDP reports around the world. Reality is irrelevant.
re: #97 Single-handed sailor
I see yesterday’s downturn in the markets fixed everything with the tariff wars and today they rallied like we set record GDP reports around the world. Reality is irrelevant.
DT knows what he can get away with. And this NATO kerfuffle is just blowing smoke for other heinous things going down in the background, rights being dismantled and government regulations and protections being abolished.
re: #86 Single-handed sailor
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Let’s be honest, America: Dogs are parasites, not man’s best friend https://t.co/qKVGVzZAbj pic.twitter.com/yrss33aChm
— Union-Tribune Ideas (@sdutIdeas) July 12, 2018
A cat DEFINITELY wrote this article. https://t.co/EjPWgVzGZ9
— Nat Geo WILD (@natgeowild) July 12, 2018
A Regina radio station has additional pictures taken in Plentywood, Montana from a person who lives there. Those include extensive damage to aircraft at the airport, a down pylon for a high tension line, and some photos of homes damaged.
re: #86 Single-handed sailor
Let’s be honest, America: Dogs are parasites, not man’s best friend https://t.co/qKVGVzZAbj pic.twitter.com/yrss33aChm
— Union-Tribune Ideas (@sdutIdeas) July 12, 2018
This Chris Reed seems to think it is shameful and exploitative, of humans, that our relationship with dogs is not entirely a one way street. He is apparently trying to compete with Trump for asshole of the century.
I will offer logical arguments even where none or called for: people keep dogs and cats because they want to, nobody keeps a tick or an intestinal worm voluntarily.
Let’s be honest, America: Dogs are parasites, not man’s best friend https://t.co/qKVGVzZAbj pic.twitter.com/yrss33aChm
— Union-Tribune Ideas (@sdutIdeas) July 12, 2018
Our dog was a very effective burglar deterrent, and our cat made mice extinct in our home. If we’re going for “earning their keep,” both did.
re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I will offer logical arguments even where none or called for: people keep dogs and cats because they want to, nobody keeps a tick or an intestinal worm voluntarily.
See the Tapeworm Diet (goes to Healthline)
re: #103 Anymouse 🌹
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Our dog was a very effective burglar deterrent, and our cat made mice extinct in our home. If we’re going for “earning their keep,” both did.
See the Tapeworm Diet (goes to Healthline)
no normal person keeps an intestinal worm
re: #104 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
no normal person keeps an intestinal worm
Low maintenance, always with you, what’s not to like? /s
I’m off to bed. I’ll catch y’all later, eh?
Kim Yong Nam Meets Under-Secretary General for UN Humanitarian Affairs
Kim Yong Nam, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK, met and had a talk with Mark Andrew Lowcock, under-secretary general for the UN Humanitarian Affairs, and his party who paid a courtesy call on him at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Wednesday.
UN Official Visits Pyongyang Children’s Foodstuff Factory
Mark Andrew Lowcock, under-secretary general for the UN Humanitarian Affairs, and his party visited the Pyongyang Children’s Foodstuff Factory.
The guests went round various parts of the factory producing foodstuffs good for the growth of children.
They also toured the Tower of the Juche Idea, the Korean Rehabilitation Centre for Children with Disability and aid projects in Unryul and Sinchon counties of South Hwanghae Province.
Rodong News Team
One in five North Korean children malnourished, says UN chief during rare visit https://t.co/E7K7hfGOXU
— The Guardian (@guardian) July 12, 2018
North Korean Minister of Foodstuffs: Kim Yong Nom
Labour takes lead in the polls as Theresa May prepares to publish Brexit white paper https://t.co/mOgRv1n8hU
— The Independent (@Independent) July 12, 2018
hmmm
re: #106 Single-handed sailor
Little wonder that so many North Korean kids are malnourished.
Kim Jong-un is eating everything.
What’s that term the Chinese people aren’t supposed to call him?
Oh yeah, ‘Kim Fatty the Third’.
Unemployment is at a 22-year low here in the Czech Republic. Courtesy of Google Translate:
“The labor market broke further records in June,” said Pavel Sobisek, analyst at UniCredit Bank, but the month-on-month decrease in the number of unemployed by 6,000 was the lowest for June in ten years, indicating a limited potential for further downgrading. not the weakening of demand, which, on the contrary, remains enormous. The number of vacancies exceeded 300,000 in June, which is also a record value.
There is 0.74 job vacancies per vacancy, which is also a new historical minimum, Raiffeisenbank analyst Milan Frydrych added. With the advent of summer seasonal factors are in full force. They will survive until the autumn months when the unemployment rate, according to its estimate, will keep below the three-percent threshold. In July, the drop in unemployment should give a pause as new graduates arrive on the labor market and will have a while to find a job. For this year, he estimated the average rate of unemployment to 3.2 percent.
However, there are warning signs on the horizon:
The tense situation on the labor market is the main barrier to further expansion of industrial production in the Czech Republic, Cyrrusu analyst Lukáš Kovanda agreed. The Czech labor market has a record number of jobs. But the vast majority of them do not need maturity. “Over the last year, more than one thousand jobs have been created, which do not require graduation, but only about 7500 graduate students. This also shows that the Czech labor market is significantly overheated, and it is clearly dominated by jobs with relatively low qualifications. This is not desirable in terms of medium and long-term development of the Czech economy, “he said.
Czech original here: irozhlas.cz
From two hours ago, he’s still winging about NATO and trade.
Presidents have been trying unsuccessfully for years to get Germany and other rich NATO Nations to pay more toward their protection from Russia. They pay only a fraction of their cost. The U.S. pays tens of Billions of Dollars too much to subsidize Europe, and loses Big on Trade!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2018
re: #111 Dr Lizardo
Unemployment is at a 22-year low here in the Czech Republic. Courtesy of Google Translate:
However, there are warning signs on the horizon:
Czech original here: irozhlas.cz
Has Trump taken credit yet?
re: #112 wheat-dogg
From two hours ago, he’s still winging about NATO and trade.
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The EU should double the rent on US bases. Fuck Trump, fuck America till they fix this shit.
Woah! Adnan Oktar (our favorite Turkish creationist) has been arrested!
Adnan Oktar, known as “Adnan Hoca” in the public opinion, was organized with a giant operation against sabhat. Among the charges are “organizing a criminal organization”, “international spying” and “harassment of young children”. There are a large number of detentions in the air assisted major operation.
The operation, in which the women known as “kittens” were detained and Adnan Oktar, who is often on the agenda, and about 235 disciples, was held against sabahat.
Investigation into Adnan Oktar and his group was reported to have taken over the company, associations and foundations where 235 suspects were confiscated.
Apparently, weapons were seized and the followers of this would-be Mahdi are saying it’s all a plot of the “British Deep State” - the object of his latest conspiracy theory.
Here’s the Turkish original…..I’ll see if I can find an English source.
RT was more than happy to provide a poll on US bases in Germany.
US troops should withdraw from #Germany:
- 42% – for
- 37% – against
- 21% – can’t decide https://t.co/IOEwAhIdQc— RT (@RT_com) July 12, 2018
re: #114 Single-handed sailor
The EU should double the rent on US bases. Fuck Trump, fuck America till they fix this shit.
“double”??? You mean more like sextuple? At commercial rates for equivalent real estate you’re talking X6 to X10. Even moron Trump should understand this.
Or better yet, kick out US personnel and let’s use the bases to house refugees.
OK, here we go…..from Al-Jazeera English:
A notorious televangelist has been arrested by Turkish police from his home on dozens of charges that include fraud, sexual assault, and military espionage.
Adnan Oktar was arrested in Istanbul by the city’s police financial crimes unit after an operation that had spread over five provinces, Anadolu Agency reported.
According to Turkish daily Hurriyet, security forces seized an arms cache, body armours and armoured vehicles at the televangelist’s residence. Oktar was caught as he was trying to run away, the daily added.
A total of 235 arrest warrants were issued in a major crackdown on his supporters, with 79 arrested so far in raids supported by helicopters.
The detention warrant accuses Oktar and his followers of dozens of charges, including money laundering, forming a criminal organisation, sexual abuse of children, torture, illegal recording of personal data, and political and military espionage.
And a bit more, this time from BBC:
Turkish police have arrested a controversial preacher known for giving televised sermons surrounded by young women he refers to as his “kittens”.
Adnan Oktar was detained on Wednesday morning on suspicion of fraud, alongside more than 100 of his followers in a series of raids.
Critics have accused the Islamic preacher of running a cult.
He operates his own television channel, through which he delivered his religious sermons.
Turkey’s financial crimes police were behind the morning raids on Mr Oktar and his followers. They were arrested on suspicion of a litany of charges, including running a criminal organisation, tax offences, sexual abuse, and counter-terrorism laws.
Turkish media said 166 of his followers were arrested, but a total of 235 are being sought.
State-run news agency Andalou said he was on the financial crimes unit “most wanted” list - and had been caught while getting ready to flee.
More than 50 guns were seized during the series of raids, along with ammunition, Andalou said.
Assets belonging to Mr Oktar and all 235 suspects have been confiscated by the courts, it added.
According to CNN’s Jeremy Diamond, Trump just strolled in to his first NATO meeting of the day — a North Atlantic Council meeting with Georgia & Ukraine — about a half-hour late.
Trump similarly made a mark at G7 when he showed up late for breakfast on women’s empowerment.
He doesn’t even bother to hide his contempt.
Jeremy Hunt, the new UK foreign sec, is a ponce.
Attending the Nato summit, he said:
What we say to the European Union is we’re not the only ones who can’t do the cherry-picking. If they want a deep and special partnership with Britain going forward, then we have to look at our relationship as a whole.
We have. It’s called “EU membership”, (Or failing that, EFTA.)
With monkeys like that in charge, the UK is royally f*cked.
Imagine thinking your “wolves figured out we’d let them sleep on our couches and became dogs” take would just BLOW EVERYONE’S MIND. pic.twitter.com/wdhfxFWk8k
— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) July 12, 2018
Paul Manafort is extremely not smart.
NEW DETAILS: Mueller has recordings of Manafort’s phone calls from jail and is using Manafort’s words against him. Manafort told the judge he can’t prep for trial. But in taped calls, he said he has “gone through all the discovery” and can see “all my files like I would at home.” pic.twitter.com/cbCVzoCOon
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) July 11, 2018
Trump hasn’t tweeted or insulted a foreign dignitary on live TV for 3 hours. What’s happening?
re: #118 Dr Lizardo
Oktar and his Kittens of Creation - one of my better pages. I’ve linked it here many times before. It’s a few years old and some of the links are OBE.
It was obviously a cesspool of problems, for anyone willing to look at it.
The part which your links don’t explore is Oktar’s connection to American creationists. He’s run a total of three conferences now, I think, with plenty of American creationists in tow.
Fundamentalists are not known to be very good at evaluating character.
re: #109 Dr Lizardo
Little wonder that so many North Korean kids are malnourished.
Kim Jong-un is eating everything.
I remember when I read about how he sent experts to Switzerland to learn cheesemaking as he is very fond of Swiss Emmenthaler. So Kim gets the cheese while his people get the holes…
re: #119 Dr Lizardo
As an aside regarding the arrest of Adnan Oktar, the most serious thing I can see is the invocation of “violating anti-terrorism laws”.
That’s exactly what the Turkish authorities have used as of late to go after Gülen and his followers - and much like Adnan Oktar (and his followers), Fetullah Gülen was once a close ally of Erdoğan.
There’s been rumors for years that Oktar basically had Erdoğan on his speed-dial. Looks like Erdoğan’s getting rid of any potential embarrassments now that he’s made himself God-Emperor of Turkey.
re: #116 Single-handed sailor
US troops should withdraw from Germany:
- 42% - for
- 37% - against
- 21% - can’t decide
a lot of the 37% against vote is from people in rural areas who are dependent on US military bases for employment…
re: #125 freetoken
Oktar and his Kittens of Creation - one of my better pages. I’ve linked it here many times before. It’s a few years old and some of the links are OBE.
It was obviously a cesspool of problems, for anyone willing to look at it.
The part which your links don’t explore is Oktar’s connection to American creationists. He’s run a total of three conferences now, I think, with plenty of American creationists in tow.
Fundamentalists are not known to be very good at evaluating character.
There was one of those creationist conferences he held in Istanbul with American (and other) creationists/woowoo peddlers, etc., only about a month or so ago, I recall.
Someone thinks it’s important to send a clear message…
We must send the Senate a clear message: This country cannot afford a justice on the Supreme Court who is likely to support the gun lobby’s extreme, absolutist interpretation of the Second Amendment. Message your Senators now: https://t.co/q0R3MbJcV8 @Everytown @MomsDemand pic.twitter.com/jELrf1fmFB
— Susan Sarandon (@SusanSarandon) July 10, 2018
re: #130 Single-handed sailor
Someone thinks it’s important to send a clear message…
We must maintain the purity of our ideological solutions!
From the Guardian:
Police officers guarding Trump being forced to sleep in worse conditions than prisoners, says Police Federation
Police securing Donald Trump’s visit to the UK are being forced to sleep in unacceptable conditions worse than cells, the organisation representing rank-and-file officers has said. As the Press Association reports, pictures show cramped lines of camp beds filling a vast gymnasium and sleeping mats on the floor of a squash court for officers to rest on between long shifts policing the US President’s trip, starting on Thursday.
The Police Federation has complained of the conditions its members are facing during the operation, which will see officers from across the country enlisted at a cost of up to £10m. Simon Kempton, the organisation’s deputy treasurer in England and Wales, said 300 officers are expected to sleep in the gymnasium with no hot water and restricted access to warm food. He said:
These officers have been asked to leave their families to travel to another part of the country to help protect the public and the president and all they expect in return is to be treated with some dignity and respect.
What’s clear is that anyone overnight who has been arrested by the police would be put in accommodation far superior to what the officers are staying in.
Kempton said officers at that site are only averaging three to four hours’ sleep ahead of 15-hour shifts because of the conditions.
This is from the Lincolnshire Police Federation.
Spreading love wherever he goes.
a lot of the 37% against vote is from people in rural areas who are dependent on US military bases for employment…
Quite possibly, but that’s political reality. It’s a lot of money for a lot of communities, and it’s not only a decision for people who aren’t affected by the outcome.
re: #132 Lupin
The Police Federation has complained of the conditions its members are facing during the operation, which will see officers from across the country enlisted at a cost of up to £10m. Simon Kempton, the organisation’s deputy treasurer in England and Wales, said 300 officers are expected to sleep in the gymnasium with no hot water and restricted access to warm food. He said:
nearly as much as the US will save from cancelling maneuvers with South Korea
There’s been an emergency session at the NATO summit this morning- rumours about Trump threatening to pull out of NATO if the other member don’t pay 2%.
And now? A last minute press briefing from Trump about to happen:
Chaotic scrambling at @NATO as #US readied press briefing pic.twitter.com/oPiB3Zq6ny
— David M. Herszenhorn (@herszenhorn) July 12, 2018
re: #135 Alephnaught
There’s been an emergency session at the NATO summit this morning- rumours about Trump threatening to pull out of NATO if the other member don’t pay 2%.
And now? A last minute press briefing from Trump about to happen:
It is clear that he has been planning this, and it will go down great with his supporters, like dumping a deadbeat dead (which many of them are)
re: #120 Lupin
According to CNN’s Jeremy Diamond, Trump just strolled in to his first NATO meeting of the day — a North Atlantic Council meeting with Georgia & Ukraine — about a half-hour late.
Trump similarly made a mark at G7 when he showed up late for breakfast on women’s empowerment.
He doesn’t even bother to hide his contempt.
NATO members should just conclude all business while Trump is out of the room, then pretend to carry on a normal meeting after he arrives.
re: #137 Dr Lizardo
If Trump announces at some spontaneous presser that he’s pulling the US out of NATO, I gotta wonder…..what are the Pubbies back home gonna do about it?
And what’s the military gonna say about it?
The former will rejoice and the latter will start trying to figure out how to polish a turd.
re: #120 Lupin
According to CNN’s Jeremy Diamond, Trump just strolled in to his first NATO meeting of the day — a North Atlantic Council meeting with Georgia & Ukraine — about a half-hour late.
Trump similarly made a mark at G7 when he showed up late for breakfast on women’s empowerment.
He doesn’t even bother to hide his contempt.
More about this via The Guardian:
The US president renewed his criticism of European Nato members for not spending enough on defence at a closed session on Thursday morning that had been intended to be confined to non-budgetary issues.
His outburst led to the scrapping of a series of planned press conferences and bilateral meetings as European leaders struggled to respond. Theresa May and Angela Merkel cancelled press conferences.
Trump turned up late for the morning sessions involving Nato leaders, intended to discuss the accession of Ukraine and Georgia to the alliance. When he delivered his rebuke over defence spending, the Ukrainian and Georgian leaders were asked to leave because it was a purely Nato matter.
Soon after, the meeting broke up. European leaders retreated to their offices for discussion with their officials.
Talk about chaos.
re: #123 goddamnedfrank
Paul Manafort is extremely not smart.
It’s hard to say if Manafort is supremely stupid or so convinced that he is untouchable that he continues to dig himself a deeper hole legally.
Trump’s speaking now. Looks like he’s basically claiming victory for stuff that was already agreed (ie spending rises for member nations.).
More thoughts about the NATO kerfuffle.
With the 97-2 nigh-unanimous strongly-worded US Senate resolution yesterday, despite the old canard of not undermining the President while he’s abroad, it is clear that the Senate did just that.
In effect the word if the US president is either (a) not worth the paper it’s printed on; or (b) you’re already in full blown constitutional crisis.
You sort it out.
Behind the bluster, the cowardice. Ultimately, Trump did not threaten to pull out of NATO despite it all, at least according to two NATO sources speaking to Reuters. Asked if he had issued the threat to quit the military alliance, both sources said: “No”.
It’s all kabuki, but dangerous kabuki because even though the fat buffoon doesn’t attach any importance to his words, everyone else does..
PS. Behind the pointless bluster, Caligula Minus managed to derail a meeting to discuss Ukraine and Georgia joining NATO.
Philby, Burgess and Maclean together were pikers compared to Trump.
Oh my goodness, he said “very stable genius” again.
re: #144 Lupin
More thoughts about the NATO kerfuffle.
With the 97-2 nigh-unanimous strongly-worded US Senate resolution yesterday, despite the old canard of not undermining the President while he’s abroad, it is clear that the Senate did just that.
In effect the word if the US president is either (a) not wroth the paper it’s printed on; or (b) you’re already in full blown constitutional crisis.
You sort it out.
Behind the bluster, the cowardice. Ultimately, Trump did not threaten to pull out of NATO despite it all, at least according to two NATO sources speaking to Reuters. Asked if he had issued the threat to quit the military alliance, both sources said: “No”.
It’s all kabuki, but dangerous kabuki because even though the fat buffoon doesn’t attach any importance to his words, everyone else does..
Good point; for Trump, meaningless bullshitting is part of “negotiations”. He’s always done things that way, and he probably figures everyone else does, too. So, he figures that everyone else is bullshitting and that such bullshitting shouldn’t be taken seriously - it’s basically his idea of a negotiating tactic.
It’s the negotiating tactic of an ill-mannered, petulant toddler. And adults aren’t used to seeing this from another adult (or at least, someone who physically looks like an adult).
Fascinating backgrounder on the Thai football team. Three of the players and the coach are all stateless minorities, who cross the Thai-Myanmar border regularly.
Three of the trapped soccer players, as well as their coach, Ekkapol Chantawong, are stateless ethnic minorities, accustomed to slipping across the border to Myanmar one day and returning for a soccer game in Thailand the next.
Their presence undercuts a Thai sense of nationhood that is girded by a triumvirate of institutions: the military, the monarchy and the Buddhist monastery.
After years of reputational decline because of an army coup in 2014 — one of a dozen successful putsches since the country abolished an absolute monarchy in 1932 — Thailand’s military has been handed an opportunity to burnish its image.
Thai Navy SEAL divers became the faces of the rescue operation. And a retired Thai SEAL diver, Saman Gunan, 38, died during the effort to bring air tanks into the cave to aid in the rescue. On Monday evening, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha of Thailand, the nation’s junta chief, made his second visit to the cave site.
Anyone want to weigh in on this matter? (From here)
Q: Are you threatening to pull the US out of Nato for any reason? And can you do that without Congress’s approval?
Trump says he thinks he can do that without Congress’s approval, but that will not be an issue, he says.
He says the Nato secretary general thanked him for his intervention.
re: #146 Alephnaught
Oh my goodness, he said “very stable genius” again.
Time for me to revise my Twitter alias again.
they would not be tossing up a smokescreen and tossing flash bombs like this unless there were some really nasty things about to go down elsewhere.
that is the only way I can see it right now
Talk about mealy-mouthed:
Q: Will you recognise Crimea as part of Russia?
Trump says President Obama allowed that to happen. The Russians then built a bridge to Crimea, and a submarine port.
He says he would not have allowed it to happen.
He says he cannot say what will happen next. But he is “not happy” about the annexation of Crimea.
Is it me, or is he kind of recognising Crimea as part of Russia in that statement?
Hmmm, smells like a racket…
Trump says the US will help out some of the countries that need to buy more military equipement. It will help them with access to finance.
The US makes the best military equipment in the world, he says. Everyone wants to buy it because it is so good, he says.
Buy our military equipment- at special rates!
re: #153 Alephnaught
Q: Will you recognise Crimea as part of Russia?
Trump says President Obama allowed that to happen. The Russians then built a bridge to Crimea, and a submarine port.
He says he would not have allowed it to happen.
He says he cannot say what will happen next. But he is “not happy” about the annexation of Crimea.
You mean Obama could have gone to war over annexing the Crimea?
Yunno, we had agreed to guarantee Ukraine’s territorial integrity in exchange for them abolishing their nuclear arsenal, which was the fifth largest in the world after the breakup of the USSR.
So since we reneged on our end of the deal, shouldn’t we at least then give them their nukes back so they can defend themselves?
/
re: #149 Alephnaught
Anyone want to weigh in on this matter? (From here)
IANAL, but this sorta kinda got litigated with Prez Carter and Taiwan back in the day: Goldwater v Carter. SC tossed it out basically because it wasn’t ripe: Carter wanted to pull out of the treaty, but the Senate hadn’t actually passed any formal opposition to the move at that point. Appellate court said that Carter needed Congressional permission to act.
re: #148 wheat-dogg
Fascinating backgrounder on the Thai football team. Three of the players and the coach are all stateless minorities, who cross the Thai-Myanmar border regularly.
Interesting. I had a student once who learned soccer in a refugee camp in Thailand. He’s from Myanmar. His dream was to run soccer camps for poor kids in Oakland, CA. That’s were his family finally settled.
“I don’t know if that’s what they voted for” says @realDonaldTrump about May’s Brexit plan #NATOSummit2018
— Robert Peston (@Peston) July 12, 2018
He’s flying into the UK this afternoon…
re: #158 Alephnaught
“I don’t know if that’s what they voted for” says Donald Trump about May’s Brexit plan
that is the point, they did not vote for any sort of plan other than to leave
re: #158 Alephnaught
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He’s flying into the UK this afternoon…
Just listening to him trying to respond to actual journalists, it’s obvious he has no idea what most of them are talking about.
I wish someone had asked him What do you think of Narnia joining Nato?
re: #161 ericblair
Just listening to him trying to respond to actual journalists, it’s obvious he has no idea what most of them are talking about.
Mishearing “hard brexit” as “heart-breaking”, for instance…
re: #149 Alephnaught
Anyone want to weigh in on this matter? (From here)
Q: Are you threatening to pull the US out of Nato for any reason? And can you do that without Congress’s approval?
Trump says he thinks he can do that without Congress’s approval, but that will not be an issue, he says.
He says the Nato secretary general thanked him for his intervention.
Jesus Fuck! I preface a lot of things with “When they elect me dictator, I’ll….”, but he honestly thinks he was elected dictator. And by -3,000,000 votes at that. SMDH!
He probably, at least partially, won an election because of his views on immigration, he says. He says Brexit happened because of this.
The truth out of the mouths of babes and drunkards.
Interesting point:
The EU countries have agreed in spending an extra 33 billion in defence, not on #NATO, but in defence overall. I reckon this summit will become known has the one that provided one of the biggest pushes towards the creation of an independent EU defence capability.#NATOSummit2018
— 🇪🇺John Clark 🇪🇺 (@CivisEuropeae) July 12, 2018
Trump answers his final question by saying that what he wants is peace all over the world.
Unicorns. Rainbows. Chocolate cake. Paddington Bear. Nappy time.
The most embarrassing press conference ever.
re: #166 Alephnaught
The EU countries have agreed in spending an extra 33 billion in defence, not on #NATO, but in defence overall. I reckon this summit will become known has the one that provided one of the biggest pushes towards the creation of an independent EU defence capability.
I am certain that they have been working on contingency plans ever since DT took office and are now about to start implementing them.
They are putting a good face on this because they are diplomats and state leaders, but they are not going to take this sitting down.
re: #166 Alephnaught
The EU countries have agreed in spending an extra 33 billion in defence, not on #NATO, but in defence overall. I reckon this summit will become known has the one that provided one of the biggest pushes towards the creation of an independent EU defence capability
I have to agree. The EU countries now realize that the USA - at least under Trump and his neo-isolationist notions - is no longer a reliable ally.
Press briefing over now.
Hmmm, am I the only noticing a lot of accounts spamming the Fox News video of the Press briefing on #NatoSummit2018 ? (EDIT: Ah, they’re retweeting Trump retweeting Fox New)
The new class of French nuclear subs are called Barracuda. I wish they’d name them Camembert, Saint-Emilion, or something more French. Are folks aboard enemy ships supposed to be terrified by the name? This is not Batman.
re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am certain that they have been working on contingency plans ever since DT took office and are now about to start implementing them.
They are putting a good face on this because they are diplomats and state leaders, but they are not going to take this sitting down.
Actually, there’s been quite a lot of talk about an independent EU defence policy for some time, but it was always in the background, assumed to be a part of political union within the EU following economic union. Obviously the way Trump’s been going on, progress on this might accelerate.
re: #169 Dr Lizardo
I have to agree. The EU countries now realize that the USA - at least under Trump and his neo-isolationist notions - is no longer a reliable ally.
You might go a little further and say “limited opponent”. I think we passed “ally” a while ago.
re: #172 Alephnaught
Actually, there’s been quite a lot of talk about an independent EU defence policy for some time, but it was always in the background, assumed to be a part of political union within the EU following economic union. Obviously the way Trump’s been going on, progress on this might accelerate.
Now that the Brits are no longer there to cripple it, it stands a chance.
re: #172 Alephnaught
Actually, there’s been quite a lot of talk about an independent EU defence policy for some time, but it was always in the background, assumed to be a part of political union within the EU following economic union. Obviously the way Trump’s been going on, progress on this might accelerate.
Angela already hinted at that as early as last year. And these are not people to just shoot off their mouths and then send their underlings scrambling to come up with something concrete, I am sure she would not have even mentioned it unless they had planning studies at least well underway.
Like I said, Trump appears to be taking credit for something that’s already been agreed:
NATO members committed to pay 2% of GDP under George Bush & were pressured to meet 2% commitment in 2011 under Obama. Trump accomplished nothing but embarrass US on the world stage, rattle our allies & falsely claim to have fixed it all. #NATOSummit2018 #NATO #NATOSummit
— Maggy (@ShePersisted28) July 12, 2018
re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Angela already hinted at that as early as last year. And these are not people to just shoot off their mouths and then send their underlings scrambling to come up with something concrete, I am sure she would not have even mentioned it unless they had planning studies at least well underway.
The alternative is becoming full-fledged, tribute-paying vassal states borrowing money from the US to pay for US arms. Trump’s vision. Cretinous.
Trump answers his final question by saying that what he wants is peace all over the world.
Maybe he really said “piss all over the world”?
re: #177 Lupin
The alternative is becoming full-fledged, tribute-paying vassal states borrowing money from the US to pay for US arms. Trump’s vision. Cretinous.
Is that not pretty much what the Warsaw Pact was about?
re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
a lot of the 37% against vote is from people in rural areas who are dependent on US military bases for employment…
Assuming the poll was legit and made in a way which didn’t skew the results.
(cf. Darrel Huff - How to Lie With Statistics)
Trump arrived 30 minutes late to today’s NATO summit, missed his scheduled meetings with at least two world leaders, prompted the secretary general to call an emergency session, held an impromptu 35-minute news conference, and is now leaving for the airport go fly to London.
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) July 12, 2018
re: #180 Teukka
Assuming the poll was legit and made in a way which didn’t skew the results.
(cf. Darrel Huff - How to Lie With Statistics)
Nonetheless, people in and around rural locations like Ramstein, Spangdahlem, Grafenwöhr and Baumholder are highly dependent on the contribution of the US military to the local economy.
re: #181 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Trump arrived 30 minutes late to today’s NATO summit, missed his scheduled meetings with at least two world leaders, prompted the secretary general to call an emergency session, held an impromptu 35-minute news conference, and is now leaving for the airport go fly to London.
In the 19th century, he would have showed up drunk and proceeded to piss in the fireplace…
re: #172 Alephnaught
Actually, there’s been quite a lot of talk about an independent EU defence policy for some time, but it was always in the background, assumed to be a part of political union within the EU following economic union. Obviously the way Trump’s been going on, progress on this might accelerate.
Yes, there is planning for an integration of EU militaries, which would then coordinate with NATO. This would be a much tighter integration than NATO, and has a lot of intra-EU political issues to deal with. Linky: PESCO
re: #184 ericblair
Yes, there is planning for an integration of EU militaries, which would then coordinate with NATO. This would be a much tighter integration than NATO, and has a lot of intra-EU political issues to deal with.
Europe is starting to see that it is “us versus them, and them other guys, too”
re: #177 Lupin
The alternative is becoming full-fledged, tribute-paying vassal states borrowing money from the US to pay for US arms. Trump’s vision. Cretinous.
That’s actually what he appeared to offer in his press conference! See my comment at #154 !
Trump says the US will help out some of the countries that need to buy more military equipement. It will help them with access to finance.
The US makes the best military equipment in the world, he says. Everyone wants to buy it because it is so good, he says.
Thread about the 2% NATO commitment that Trump is pretending he sorted out.
It appears that not only the US president is unclear about what the NATO 2% GDP guideline actually means. So let me spell this out: (thread)
— Ulrike E Franke (@RikeFranke) July 10, 2018
Macron’s just called out Trump.
BRUSSELS (AP) — French President Macron denies Trump claim that NATO powers agreed to increase defense spending beyond previous targets.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) July 12, 2018
BWAHAHAHAHAHAAA
Asked about planned protests ahead of his UK visit, President Trump says “I think they like me a lot in the UK, I think they agree with me on immigration…I’m going to a pretty hot spot right now, with a lot of resignations” https://t.co/KAnIGoxkgI pic.twitter.com/O14dM5GXgI
— CNN (@CNN) July 12, 2018
NEW: Government has reopened its investigation into slaying of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi shocked the world. https://t.co/H8yxT2hA1s
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 12, 2018
Trump admin is enforcing a new asylum policy today. Here’s what it does:
-Refugees & border-crossers seeking asylum based on fear of domestic or gang violence will be immediately rejected
-Asylum seekers w/ legitimate fears of persecution will be rejected if they cross illegally— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) July 12, 2018
Re. the Trump admin’s new asylum policy: “When you put it all together, this is his grand scheme to just close any possibility for people seeking protection — legally — to claim that protection that they can under the law.” https://t.co/VdZEX9G9vP
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) July 12, 2018
BRUSSELS (AP) — Macron says Trump ‘never at any moment, either in public or in private, threatened to withdraw from NATO.’
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 12, 2018
re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth
Macron says Trump ‘never at any moment, either in public or in private, threatened to withdraw from NATO.’
them’s fightin’ words!
“My father’s from Germany,” Trump says. His father was born in New York City. His grandfather was from what is now Germany.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2018
Asked if he’ll recognize Russian control over Crimea, Trump blames Obama for the Russian invasion, says Russia has made big investments in Crimea, says he’s “not happy about Crimea,” then says he “can’t tell you” what happens next.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2018
Asked what his message on Brexit is, Trump promotes his business: “I have no message. It’s not for me to say. I own a lot of property there. I’m going to Scotland while I wait for the meeting I have - Turnberry in Scotland, which is a magical place, one of my favourite places.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2018
re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth
BWAHAHAHAHAHAAA
Asked about planned protests ahead of his UK visit, President Trump says “I think they like me a lot in the UK, I think they agree with me on immigration…I’m going to a pretty hot spot right now, with a lot of resignations”
Trump has about an 11% approval in the UK right now.
For contrast, Obama generally polled around 75%
re: #197 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Trump has about an 11% approval in the UK right now.
For contrast, Obama generally polled around 75%
in other words, it’s Obama’s fault
“Papa, I thought they killed you,” an immigrant child told his father, crying. “You separated from me. You don’t love me anymore?”
“No, my son,” he told him. “I’m crying for you. I promise, soon you will be with me.”https://t.co/NBHSn4UBKs— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 12, 2018
For the ninth time, Trump falsely claimed this year’s military budget is the largest ever: “Just had the largest military budget ever, $700 billion.” Obama signed a $725 billion version of the same bill in 2011.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2018
re: #59 JordanRules
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Ordered my copy. I love Souza!! He hates the current White House Occupant as much as I do.
Raining here at the Conspiracy Compound right now. Quite nice. It will apparently be hot later on. How hot? Local Emergency Management has advised people to bring their chickens indoors.
Meanwhile, the uncouth skunk who sprayed my car the other night remains at large. The car has recovered thanks to emergency treatment at a local detail shop. I’ll bet T.E. Lawrence never had problems like this with HIS Rolls-Royces. I’m not sure they have skunks in Arabia but even if they did, the critters wouldn’t have dared to challenge the great Lawrence.
re: #181 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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He has no respect for his European counterparts who are not named Putin.
Good morning from Stormy Daniels Sex Crime City!
Yeeesh.
I’m embarrassed for this city. This is the top story in local news.
good grief
At NATO dinner last night, Trump bragged about Kim Jong Un summit and said he called golfer Jack Nicklaus to say, “They have 1,000 cameras at the Oscars and we had 6,000 cameras in Singapore. The buzz was fantastic,” an attendee tells WaPo.
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) July 12, 2018
moron’s negotiating skills are the best, you know…
North Korean officials no-show for meeting about U.S. troop remains https://t.co/qDhc2cTBXN
— Adam Taylor (@mradamtaylor) July 12, 2018
German TV could not say trump called Germany captive to Russia in a straight face.
Epic pic.twitter.com/1IHkuiO1R1— ALT- Immigration 🛂 (@ALT_uscis) July 12, 2018
Since bad people making bad pizza is in the news…
papa john’s tastes like fucking a guy with ED who’s a real asshole about it
— meth lab for cutie (@AliceAvizandum) July 12, 2018
it’s the only time I’ve ever been negged by dough
— meth lab for cutie (@AliceAvizandum) July 12, 2018
Asked if he’s open to suspending military exercises in the Baltic states if Putin asks him to do so, Trump says: “Perhaps we’ll talk about that.”
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) July 12, 2018
re: #210 Sufficient unto the day…
Since bad people making bad pizza is in the news…
I am glad to live in a country where they have Pizza Hut, but the bulk of pizzas sold here are made by local pizzerias, most run by immigrant Italians…
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
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No, fake, she’s not talking about the summit at all; it’s probably old blooper reel footage with a picture shopped into it.
re: #204 Patricia Kayden
He has no respect for his European counterparts who are not named Putin.
Apparently with good reason. Trump played them all for chumps, got everything he wanted, and they’re all left sputtering as he leaves. What were Trump’s objectives?
1. Get all of the European bigshots to bow, curtsey and kiss his Highness’ apricot colored heiney while he acted like a belligerent, disrespectful ass because it plays great for the base back home.
2. Successfully claim the 2% of GDP military spending targets as a fruit of his brilliant negotiating skills.
Mission accomplished. Trump only gives a shit about Trump, not NATO, not Europeans and not even his own supporters outside of their usefulness to him for ego gratification and personal power.
re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am glad to live in a country where they have Pizza Hut, but the bulk of pizzas sold here are made by local pizzerias, most run by immigrant Italians…
There was one Pizza Hut in Prague, but it went out of business sometime around 2003 or thereabout.
Most of the pizzas here are made by Czechs - but some Turks too with a handful of pizza joints owned by Greeks and Italians.
re: #197 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Trump has about an 11% approval in the UK right now.
For contrast, Obama generally polled around 75%
“I think they like me a lot in the U.K.,” Trump says. As of January, polls showed 11% of people in Britain thought he was a good or great president, 67% poor or terrible. https://t.co/O0kbIt8pZW … pic.twitter.com/lqxE3rdy1I
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2018
re: #214 ericblair
No, fake, she’s not talking about the summit at all; it’s probably old blooper reel footage with a picture shopped into it.
I prefer Angela Merkel’s real-life response to his gaslighting claim:
“I have experienced myself how a part of Germany was controlled by the Soviet Union. I am very happy that today we are united in freedom, the Federal Republic of Germany. Because of that we can say that we can make our independent policies and make independent decisions. That is very good, especially for people in eastern Germany.”
Now that is throwing some world-class shade. And dry-ice cold burn as well.
re: #217 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
For additional context, stepping in cow patties is about 14%…
re: #219 Sufficient unto the day…
For additional context, stepping in cow patties is about 14%…
Prawn cocktail flavo(u)red crisps are equally as popular there (11%)
re: #215 Weaselone
Apparently with good reason. Trump played them all for chumps, got everything he wanted, and they’re all left sputtering as he leaves. What were Trump’s objectives?
1. Get all of the European bigshots to bow, curtsey and kiss his Highness’ apricot colored heiney while he acted like a belligerent, disrespectful ass because it plays great for the base back home.
2. Successfully claim the 2% of GDP military spending targets as a fruit of his brilliant negotiating skills.Mission accomplished. Trump only gives a shit about Trump, not NATO, not Europeans and not even his own supporters outside of their usefulness to him for ego gratification and personal power.
In other words…just another day in Trump World®.
When history books are written there will be a headline on a page listing his accomplishments. And then there will be one sentence saying he accomplished nothing of actual merit.
re: #221 ObserverArt
In other words…just another day in Trump World®.
When history books are written there will be a headline on a page listing his accomplishments. And then there will be one sentence saying he accomplished nothing of actual merit.
at the end of his first 100 days, I tried to look back at him objectively.
On the positive side:
He had proposed a 6% increase in VA spending (although experts said that at least 10% was needed to meet minimum standards)
On the negative side:
Everything else he said or did or proposed.
re: #221 ObserverArt
In other words…just another day in Trump World®.
When history books are written there will be a headline on a page listing his accomplishments. And then there will be one sentence saying he accomplished nothing of actual merit.
Many of the worst human beings feature quite prominently in history books.
20 minutes into presser POTUS is talking about how popular he is, how much people love him, and how much property he owns in Ireland.
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) July 12, 2018
sigh
re: #225 Weaselone
Many of the worst human beings feature quite prominently in history books.
Yes, for nothing positive.
I stopped eating Red Baron pizza when I found out the Red Baron was a notorious German killing machine.
re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth
20 minutes into presser POTUS is talking about how popular he is, how much people love him, and how much property he owns in Ireland.
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) July 12, 2018
sigh
Not least that the Republic of Ireland is not in the UK, where he’s actually visiting.
Trump added later, “The United States was paying for anywhere from 70 of 90% of it, depending on the way you calculate.” The “depending on the way you calculate” thing is often what he says when he knows there’s a correct figure he’s not using.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2018
Trump behauptet, Deutschland beziehe bis zu 70 Prozent seiner Energie aus Russland. Laut Bundesregierung sind es 9 Prozent. #NATOGipfel
— Stefan Leifert (@StefanLeifert) July 11, 2018
Trump fact check: he claims Germany gets 70% of its energy from Russia. Actual figure, according to German government, is 9% https://t.co/lFY97PLQOK
— Alberto Nardelli (@AlbertoNardelli) July 11, 2018
Trump said this morning: “Our farmers have been shut out of the European Union.” U.S. farmers have made $23.1 billion in sales to the European Union over the last two years. The E.U. is the fifth-largest agricultural export market for the U.S. pic.twitter.com/YEIWgMJ33B
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2018
re: #224 sagehen
Monet
Manet
Degas
Cezanne
Gaugin
GaugUin.
Monet and Manet might engender some confusion; how about Rousseau?
That is a great idea nevertheless.
That second bottle of solution prep for my *cough* procedure *cough* was even more disgusting to gag down this morning. I don’t even have the words to express how I feel about having to choke down a salty, salty mixture of *gack* *SPIT* *ewww* that’s allegedly “cranberry” flavored. On the flip side, the taste was so disgusting I had no problem getting down way more than 24 ounces of fluid as directed by the instructions.
Ex-Trump aide: Stormy Daniels arrest “reeks of entrapment” https://t.co/vmHcjA56Nz pic.twitter.com/6fOBV6CxL3
— The Hill (@thehill) July 12, 2018
Heads up for art movie fans.
“DAU”
Depending on who you ask, the experiment has been going on for two years, eight years, 12 years. There have been hundreds of people, or maybe thousands involved. There is a film at its center, or perhaps multiple films and also a “slate” of television series. It’s real, or it’s not real, but it does exist. It’s “DAU,” the insane Ukrainian film production that, at the very least, hired scores of people to participate in an artistic endeavor that, by its very nature, consumed their lives. And now it’s got a trailer.
Here’s what’s for sure: at some point in the early aughts, Russian filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovsky decamped to the Ukrainian city of Kharkov, where he set up something — he calls it The Institute — in the outskirts of town. He hired people (lots of people) to partake in his vision, which involved recreating ’50s and ’60s Moscow on a massive scale, a full city crafted from nothing and populated with willing participants. Now, whatever the hell Khrzhanovsky cooked up has spawned thirteen films and a number of television series, at least according to the film’s first actual piece of marketing, a thrilling and strange new trailer that recently appeared on the internet (via Birth.Movies.Death. writer Siddhant Adlakha, who also wrote a deep dive about the film in August of last year).
re: #224 sagehen
Monet
Manet
Degas
Cezanne
Gaugin
I would volunteer to serve on the Duchamp (the one with the bicycle wheel mounted on the conning tower)
re: #231 Belafon
Trump fact check: he claims Germany gets 70% of its energy from Russia. Actual figure, according to German government, is 9%
Gaslighting in the most literal sense.
To end the press conference, Trump tarred the entire continent of Africa as “vicious and violent,” saying, “Africa, right now, has got problems like few people would even understand. They have things going on there that nobody would even believe in this room.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2018
A racist to the core
Aylesbury Vale artist has a message for Donald Trump ahead of his visit to the area on Friday… https://t.co/knUskWVeYl
— Bucks Herald (@bucks_herald) July 11, 2018
It’s extremely likely the next president of either party doesn’t share Trump’s views on NATO or Russia. But he’s changed things forever just by proving someone like him CAN be elected. Allies will always have to wonder if there’s another Trump waiting to tear up agreements.
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) July 11, 2018
It’s not the 46th president that will prove whether we, as a country, can learn from Trump, it’s the 47th.
re: #243 Belafon
It’s extremely likely the next president of either party doesn’t share Trump’s views on NATO or Russia. But he’s changed things forever just by proving someone like him CAN be elected. Allies will always have to wonder if there’s another Trump waiting to tear up agreements.
Between that and the SCOTUS, it will take decades to recover from the Disaster of ‘16…
re: #216 Dr Lizardo
There was one Pizza Hut in Prague, but it went out of business sometime around 2003 or thereabout.
Most of the pizzas here are made by Czechs - but some Turks too with a handful of pizza joints owned by Greeks and Italians.
There is a kosher pizza parlor in Prague, it’s about a block away from the Alt Neu Shul. Run by Israelis of course.
There is another kosher restaurant, very expensive, “King Solomon’s Cellar” or something like that, which serves traditional Czech cuisine. I went there by myself and enjoyed the goulash & got takeout for Zedushka, who was sulking at our luxurious Airbnb because KLM lost his luggage and he didn’t have any clean underwear. (We found it at the airport after a Kafka-esque search)
re: #245 The Vicious Babushka
Zedushka …was sulking at our luxurious Airbnb because KLM lost his luggage and he didn’t have any clean underwear. (We found it at the airport after a Kafka-esque search)
I assume you know this bit from The Onion, but it is always worth re-posting:
A week after a 91-year-old Mexican man says he was beaten with a concrete block in Southern California, a woman has been arrested in connection with the assault, authorities said https://t.co/j0V8EiC64i pic.twitter.com/Txea8xpXxL
— CNN (@CNN) July 11, 2018
re: #47 Belafon
The again, an Olympic doctor is in jail, and a Penn icon is no longer. People have to keep up the pressure.
Difference is that they weren’t republican politicians.
re: #73 Targetpractice
Which means some puffed-up academic/hot-shot prick scientist/desperate-to-get-funding junior professor will crack it open in the hope of making a “one-in-a-lifetime” discovery…dooming us all in the process.
Where’s Geraldo?!
Jeffersonville’s mayor saw to it Wednesday that Schnatter’s name was removed from Nachand Fieldhouse, even though he said that representatives of the pizza entrepreneur told him he could “expect some litigation to come my way” over the decision. https://t.co/Wt6fsWyVBS
— Post Sports (@PostSports) July 12, 2018
Once again, Trump flew into Europe like a pigeon through an open window, flapped around in a panic, broke stuff, shit all over everything, and then found the window again and flew back out.
— Chris Lavoie (@RadioGuyChris) July 12, 2018
FBI agent Peter Stzrok: In the fall of 2016, I had info that could “derail, and quite possibly, defeat Mr. Trump. But the thought of exposing that information never crossed my mind….This investigation is not politically motivated, it is not a witch hunt, it is not a hoax.”
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) July 12, 2018
re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth
Once again, Trump flew into Europe like a pigeon through an open window, flapped around in a panic, broke stuff, shit all over everything, and then found the window again and flew back out.
This is all planned and orchestrated to distract us from some other serious & heinous shit going down somewhere else.
And this playbook has been working like a charm since he has been in power.
re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth
Once again, Trump flew into Europe like a pigeon through an open window, flapped around in a panic, broke stuff, shit all over everything, and then found the window again and flew back out.
— Chris Lavoie (@RadioGuyChris) July 12, 2018
Easy for you to say, Chris. He’s just flown through our window now.
President Trump arrives at London Stansted Airport aboard Air Force One. pic.twitter.com/aXJVMrz9TS
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 12, 2018
re: #249 GlutenFreeJesus
Difference is that they weren’t republican politicians.
FYI—Joe Paterno was a major Republican activist in PA. Endlessly campaigned for Republican candidates.
re: #241 Stanley Sea
A racist to the core
Africa is a terrible country, it’s true.
//
Has Donny ever been to Africa?
re: #232 Backwoods_Sleuth
JUST WHAT I SAID COMPLETELY SHUTOUT
re: #257 Sir John Barron
Africa is a terrible country, it’s true.
//Has Donny ever been to Africa?
Point is, nobody asked him to put up (be specific about his claims) or shut up.
I called Rand Paul in opposition to Brett Kavanaugh yesterday and urge all Ky lizards to do the same. Its a long shot, but worth taking. I told him I opposed Kavanaugh because he’s a supporter of the surveillance state and putting the President above the law, and we don’t need more imperial presidencies like Bush and Obama (remember, trying to sway a Republican). I would suggest not reminding him of things he’ll like, such as reversing Roe or striking down the ACA and other economic regulations, which are the reasons Paul will probably vote yes anyway.
re: #260 Big Beautiful Door
I called Rand Paul in opposition to Brett Kavanaugh yesterday and urge all Ky lizards to do the same. Its a long shot, but worth taking. I told him I opposed Kavanaugh because he’s a supporter of the surveillance state and putting the President above the law, and we don’t need more imperial presidencies like Bush and Obama (remember, trying to sway a Republican). I would suggest not reminding him of things he’ll like, such as reversing Roe or striking down the ACA and other economic regulations, which are the reasons Paul will probably vote yes anyway.
Right. Not worried about Kaine and Warner opposing him.
The Onion is seething with envy this morning. pic.twitter.com/tbMfp5yXsY
— Ron Charles (@RonCharles) July 12, 2018
re: #263 JordanRules
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And without water there would be no life, so why worry about flood control?
re: #249 GlutenFreeJesus
Difference is that they weren’t republican politicians.
I should have remembered to list Dennis Hastert as well, I guess.
re: #255 Alephnaught
Very proud of our Catering Team, who are about to restock Hair Force One. Great honour. pic.twitter.com/NPrt7VylIi
— Stansaid Airport (@StansaidAirport) July 12, 2018
re: #246 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I assume you know this bit from The Onion, but it is always worth re-posting:
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That pretty much sums up our lost luggage experience, except the Prague airport is named for Václav Havel, not Franz Kafka.
Trump arrived 30 minutes late to today’s NATO summit, missed his scheduled meetings with at least two world leaders, prompted the secretary general to call an emergency session, held an impromptu 35-minute news conference, and is now leaving for the airport go fly to London.
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) July 12, 2018
The meeting he showed up late to, according to Politico, was a discussion on Russian aggression https://t.co/Uv0gRAS5DA
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) July 12, 2018
re: #269 JordanRules
The meeting he showed up late to, according to Politico, was a discussion on Russian aggression
Trump arrived 30 minutes late to today’s NATO summit, missed his scheduled meetings with at least two world leaders, prompted the secretary general to call an emergency session, held an impromptu 35-minute news conference, and is now leaving for the airport go fly to London.
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) July 12, 2018
— Robert Maguire
Surprised he showed up at all.
re: #268 The Vicious Babushka
That pretty much sums up our lost luggage experience, except the Prague airport is named for Václav Havel, not Franz Kafka.
On an unrelated note, I always find it interesting who cities name their airports after. We have Dulles, Marshall, & Reagan here.
re: #251 JordanRules
Jeffersonville’s population is about 13% African-American*, so I can see one part of his motivation.
* Per Wikipedia, 2010 census data.
re: #267 MsJ
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You’re going to see a lot of jokes about this, but this is exactly what authoritarian countries do to government opponents. Haul them in on unrelated minor offenses to harrass them into shutting up. https://t.co/TgccPBuv1K
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) July 12, 2018
Has anyone asked the #Mayor of @ColumbusGov for that offices opinion?
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) July 12, 2018
— miles reed (@milesjreed) July 12, 2018
From Peter Strzok’s opening statement in his hearing before the House Judiciary and Oversight committees: “I truly believe that today’s hearing is just another victory notch in Putin’s belt and another milestone in our enemies’ campaign to tear America apart.” pic.twitter.com/NrPJmJsXU2
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 12, 2018
re: #271 HappyWarrior
On an unrelated note, I always find it interesting who cities name their airports after. We have Dulles, Marshall, & Reagan here.
John Glenn International here in Columbus.
Very proud to have it named for a great Ohioan and American.
re: #271 HappyWarrior
On an unrelated note, I always find it interesting who cities name their airports after. We have Dulles, Marshall, & Reagan here.
Orange County CA has John Wayne.
re: #280 ObserverArt
John Glenn International here in Columbus.
Very proud to have it named for a great Ohioan and American.
A great man. My Dad shook his hand in the early 60’s since he lived nearby. I hate that the DC one is named for Reagan after how he treated the air traffic controllers.
Whilst Trump. was in the air, so were copies of May’s new Brexit White Paper [Link to the actual White Paper] in the House of Commons:
The House of Commons was suspended so copies of a Brexit White Paper could be handed out – with boxes full of them brought into the chamber and copies seen being thrown to MPs https://t.co/WvtfgpEc4L pic.twitter.com/RHi3Gdqj7j
— ITV News (@itvnews) July 12, 2018
The Brexit minister was about to start his statement before all MPs had a copy of the white paper. The House of Commons had to be suspended for a short while to allow MPs to get the paper and have a chance to read it. (Journalists got copies a couple of hours before!)
MPs rushing into the Commons with cardboard boxes of the Brexit White Paper. So ridiculous that this has happened. MPs now have five minutes to read it so they can actually ask new Brexit Sec Dominic Raab informed questions. pic.twitter.com/gnNM0LgF1C
— Kate Proctor (@KateProctorES) July 12, 2018
Watch. The biggest political shambles of our age. Theresa May’s MPs firing copies of the Brexit White Paper around the parliament chamber because no one has had the chance to read it. 2 years later & the paper is still warm from the printer. She has to go. pic.twitter.com/R3KYDXaisv
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) July 12, 2018
This is completely unacceptable.They are *literally* throwing copies of the #BrexitWhitePaper around the chamber to MPs who haven’t been given chance to read it.What a fiasco.#brexitshambles @AlunCairns @SDoughtyMP https://t.co/TXYRRdRCcs
— Vale of Glamorgan For Europe #FBPE (@ValeforEurope) July 12, 2018
If the govt can’t deliver paper documents in time, can you imagine what the customs check at #Dover will look like… #brexitshambles in a nutshell. #stopbrexitsavebritain #PeoplesVote #fbpe https://t.co/LHKPRIUJSh
— Maelys #fbpe (@maelysdervenn) July 12, 2018
The words, “Piss-up” and “Brewery” spring immediately to mind …#BrexitShambles https://t.co/4c6FlomrmO
— Paul Downes 🧐🇪🇺 (@CallmeDownsie) July 12, 2018
MPs are not amused:
Not one MP has said anything positive about the #BrexitWhitePaper yet. Raab’s said they’re “taking back control” so many times I’ve lost count but it’s clear why the White Paper wasn’t available beforehand. This is bad enough so imagine if they’d actually read it #BrexitShambles
— Lou (@Lou_IzIs) July 12, 2018
Evan is liveblogging this motherfucker ALLLLL DAYYYYYY https://t.co/2pELSTNH3B
— Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King Of You (@commiegirl1) July 12, 2018
re: #275 JordanRules
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How is it fair that her mugshot is prettier than the posed portrait I hired a hairdresser and cosmetologist to prepare me for?
re: #284 HappyWarrior
New Orleans has Louis Armstrong I know.
We’ve got LaGuardia, Kennedy, and locally, MacArthur.
re: #277 Dave In Austin
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In case you do not know it, the mayor of Columbus is a Democrat. As is most of our city council.
And I wonder just what it might have to do with one Jim Jordan’s issues with the Ohio State wrestling abuse allegations. Ohio State is right in the central part of the city.
Jim Jordan is from Urbana which is about 40 miles northwest of Columbus.
If this has any political connection, it will be from the Columbus Police and maybe the State government which is ridiculously corrupt Republican and most definitely would throw out some smoke to cover for Jordan.
re: #284 HappyWarrior
New Orleans has Louis Armstrong I know.
Birmingham airport named after civil rights activist Fred Shuttlesworth.
re: #288 makeitstop
We’ve got LaGuardia, Kennedy, and locally, MacArthur.
Yep knew about JFK and LaGuardia. TBH surprised JFK wasn’t in Boston.
re: #285 Alephnaught
They are *literally* throwing copies of the Brexit White Paper around the chamber to MPs who haven’t been given chance to read it.
What a fiasco
In America, it is how our Congress passes a tax bill…
re: #282 Sir John Barron
Well he was a great hero in all those war…movies
I never got why Wayne was treated like a hero. It’s got nothing to do with his conservative ideology. Jimmy Stewart was just as right wing but he was actually a hero.
Bob Goodlatte sure had a rather biased opening statement in this Strzok testimony.
And Nadler is going right back at them with his opening.
If the opening statements are this pointed and heated, this is going to be one hell of a shit show today.
re: #293 HappyWarrior
I never got why Wayne was treated like a hero. It’s got nothing to do with his conservative ideology. Jimmy Stewart was just as right wing but he was actually a hero.
John Wayne looked and acted tough. Stewart, at his toughest, still looked like the guy you could push around.
re: #295 Belafon
John Wayne looked and acted tough. Stewart, at his toughest, still looked like the guy you could push around.
and he killed a lot of Mexicans at the Alamo…
/
re: #294 ObserverArt
Bob Goodlatte sure had a rather biased opening statement in this Strzok testimony.
And Nadler is going right back at them with his opening.
If the opening statements are this pointed and heated, this is going to be one hell of a shit show today.
The GOP needs everything to be Strzok’s fault. They’re running out of fall guys. And Strzok knows what the Russians have been doing in the US. He’s not the kind of person they really want telling what’s going on.
re: #286 MsJ
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Opening statements still going. It’s taking so long to start. Let’s go!
10 minutes in and I am already getting sick. Trey Gowdy will do that. I don’t know how long I can take this.
Reminder folks: Trump is still President for at least another two and a half years. More World Conference shitshows to follow.
Yes, it scares the hell out of me too.
re: #294 ObserverArt
Bob Goodlatte sure had a rather biased opening statement in this Strzok testimony.
And Nadler is going right back at them with his opening.
If the opening statements are this pointed and heated, this is going to be one hell of a shit show today.
Trumpparty GOP all in on collusion
re: #297 Belafon
The GOP needs everything to be Strzok’s fault. They’re running out of fall guys. And Strzok knows what the Russians have been doing in the US. He’s not the kind of person they really want telling what’s going on.
They need to find some things that can be presented as flaws or inconsistencies so that they can quietly ignore anything that has to do with any investigation of Russian meddling.
And even if they did, it was not so bad, now, was it?
re: #299 ObserverArt
10 minutes in and I am already getting sick. Trey Gowdy will do that. I don’t know how long I can take this.
What channel? I can only find it on Fox. Don’t want to get it through them.
Today as I was walking home after my run I saw a large lemon rolling down the hill. It kept rolling for about a quarter mile. And now you can see it, too. pic.twitter.com/dQoHi4RrXS
— Mike Sakasegawa (@sakeriver) July 11, 2018
no i am not going to sit here and watch a lemon roll down a
wow where did the time go https://t.co/MAR030qZP6— darth™ (@darth) July 12, 2018
re: #302 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They need to find some things that can be presented as flaws or inconsistencies so that they can quietly ignore anything that has to do with any investigation of Russian meddling.
And even if they did, it was not so bad, now, was it?
“Sure, maybe Russia meddled, but not biggest threat to democracy. Strzok on the other sent a text message.”
re: #303 Barefoot Grin
What channel? I can only find it on Fox. Don’t want to get it through them.
I am streaming it on c-span.org online.
I think MSNBC is showing it too.
Cummings now quoting all the GOP assurances they wouldn’t interfere w/ongoing probe.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) July 12, 2018
CNBC London reports 50,000 protesters will greet Trump: ‘Impossible to overestimate just how despised he is’ https://t.co/OCf4Sb6Dxd
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) July 12, 2018
re: #308 Backwoods_Sleuth
That was before Junior’s TT meeting with the Russians was exposed and Trumpy lied about it. Now the gang has to go to the mattresses.
re: #310 Sir John Barron
That was before Junior’s TT meeting with the Russians was exposed and Trumpy lied about it. Now the gang has to go to the mattresses.
“It’s not a probe anymore. It’s an investigation.” - All the GOP
re: #307 ObserverArt
I am streaming it on c-span.org online.
I think MSNBC is showing it too.
Thanks, I’ll need to stream. MSNBC is showing split scream, but not giving audio. Oh, Hallie just said they’re about to return to the hearing.
https://t.co/Ct3Iu9uLGg While public shootings get more coverage, the most common mass shooting is men deciding to kill their whole family. Now there’s another one.
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) July 11, 2018
Thread. Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them. https://t.co/s6wYTdLxuY
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) July 12, 2018
re: #311 Belafon
“It’s not a probe anymore. It’s an investigation.” - All the GOP
“We only promised to not interfere if the probe lasted less than a week.”
The Trump administration says all eligible small children separated from their families as a result of its zero-tolerance immigration policy have been reunited with their parents. https://t.co/VqpvqyUcTa
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) July 12, 2018
Define “eligible”.
FT has great investigative on ties to Russia and Russian organized crime in Trump Toronto (which no longer exists as a Trump-branded entity).
May be behind paywall:
re: #315 Backwoods_Sleuth
Define “eligible”.
“All the kids who we separated that we reunited have been reunited. 100%”
re: #295 Belafon
John Wayne looked and acted tough. Stewart, at his toughest, still looked like the guy you could push around.
True. Jimmy was a much better actor though heh. More range.
MSNBC reporting that rules set by House GOP will try to limit scope on hearing to HRC-related stuff. Fuckers. Hopefully Cummings and others will continue to find a way to push it in those directions.
Detailed first look at Brexit White Paper. (Thread)
Ok, here we go with the White Paper thread. Overall impression, kid in the first year of senior school applying to join the sixth form. Trying to understand what that means and not really succeeding. 1/ https://t.co/1MMBKns16n
— David Henig (@DavidHenigUK) July 12, 2018
uh oh
.@repjoecrowley stated on live TV that he would absolutely support my candidacy.
Instead, he’s stood me up for all 3 scheduled concession calls.
Now, he’s mounting a 3rd party challenge against me and the Democratic Party- and against the will of @NYWFP.https://t.co/Xvb6Jk8N8q— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 12, 2018
Alexandria, the race is over and Democrats need to come together. I’ve made my support for you clear and the fact that I’m not running. We’ve scheduled phone calls and your team has not followed through. I’d like to connect but I’m not willing to air grievances on Twitter. https://t.co/hxEeWEpI2O
— Joe Crowley (@JoeCrowleyNY) July 12, 2018
re: #319 HappyWarrior
True. Jimmy was a much better actor though heh. More range.
Imagine It’s a Wonderful Life starring John Wayne.
re: #323 Belafon
Imagine It’s a Wonderful Life starring John Wayne.
Mr Potter gets shot in the first scene.
Fade to black…
re: #320 Barefoot Grin
MSNBC reporting that rules set by House GOP will try to limit scope on hearing to HRC-related stuff. Fuckers. Hopefully Cummings and others will continue to find a way to push it in those directions.
“See, we’re not interfering with Russia witch hunt, only probing why FBI did not indict HRC as law clearly required according to us.”
Heh. Cumming’s aides are holding up big images of Flynn, Gates, Papadopoulos, Pinedo and van der Zwaan with a big red GUILTY on them.
*thud*
Chris Wallace Announces Exclusive Interview With Vladimir Putin Monday After Trump Summit https://t.co/X4a3okVf0a pic.twitter.com/7a4BVip1pq
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 12, 2018
re: #326 ObserverArt
Heh. Cumming’s aides are holding up big images of Flynn, Gates, Papadopoulos, Pinedo and van der Zwaan with a big red GUILTY on them.
Cummings quoting Gowdy advising Trump to give Mueller resources to do the job. “If you are innocent, act like it.”
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) July 12, 2018
re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth
*thud*
“So how great do you think president trump is? Is he the greatest American president and toughest American president you’ve ever met?”
re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth
*thud*
“What do you think of the Russia witch hunt in our country? It’s a hoax, isn’t it?”
Strzok makes passionate defense of FBI as non-leakers, but that just puts in relief the stark irony that some agents hated HRC so much that they were willing to leak through Giuliani and others.
re: #326 ObserverArt
Heh. Cumming’s aides are holding up big images of Flynn, Gates, Papadopoulos, Pinedo and van der Zwaan with a big red GUILTY on them.
Looks like Rep. Cummings (D-Md.) has staffers holding up photos of people who’ve admitted guilt in the Mueller inquiry. When oversight chairman Goodlatte (R-Va.) tries to halt this, Del. Norton (D-D.C.) says “Cite the rule.” Goodlatte relents. pic.twitter.com/xyZbU9nUBU
— Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) July 12, 2018
re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Dems are politicizing this hearing we’ve called to politicize the FBI as rogue agents opposed to our great MAGA president.”
Saying this is “all I can do” is all but a confession on Trump’s part. The attacks on US elections were a joint project. They helped Trump become POTUS. He welcomes Putin’s help with midterms and 2020 re-elect. Why else meet Putin in secret, with no read-out to Americans? https://t.co/Esyn1YDBdk
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 12, 2018
re: #323 Belafon
Imagine It’s a Wonderful Life starring John Wayne.
Ha, I was actually thinking Rear Window.
re: #334 Backwoods_Sleuth
But he can rail and rage against Germany and other NATO members.
re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth
*thud*
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Don’t worry it will be a fair and balanced interview filled with Russian truth directly from the mouth of the very trusted Vladimir Putin.
Ryan rules out House action on tariffs.
“You would have to pass a law saying ‘don’t raise those tariffs’ and the president would have to sign that law. That’s not going to happen.”— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) July 12, 2018
It’s unfortunate that the Constitution offers no provision for a large, bipartisan congressional majority to override a presidential veto. https://t.co/UHKNeDL65u
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 12, 2018
New information on the arrest of Stormy Daniels @WCPO https://t.co/ubEvk2lCmM
— Nicolaas Koppert (@NicKoppert) July 12, 2018
re: #336 Sir John Barron
But he can rail and rage against Germany and other NATO members.
That’s what I try telling the Trumpers I know. What the hell does it tell us that Trump goes out of his way to attack and lie about allies while coddling Putin all the goddamn time?
Haha, from the internet pic.twitter.com/aoXz2EDaHG
— David B Larter (@DavidLarter) July 12, 2018
re: #346 JordanRules
Republicans making it a shit show.
This is beyond outrageous from Goodlatte & Gowdy. Strzok is an FBI employee and has been ordered by the FBI not to answer certain q’s because they would compromise Mueller’s probe, & they are threatening him with criminal contempt if he doesn’t. Shameful behavior.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) July 12, 2018
re: #341 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yeah, it just happened to be on the night she was there, and somehow she’s part of it. //
Goodlatte is the most senior member of the Virginia delegation. Thank goodness he’s retiring this year I believe.
Bob Goodlatte is not looking real good here. This hearing may not last much longer…and they are already asking to adjourn.
re: #342 HappyWarrior
That’s what I try telling the Trumpers I know. What the hell does it tell us that Trump goes out of his way to attack and lie about allies while coddling Putin all the goddamn time?
Don’t you want good relations with Russia?
re: #350 ObserverArt
Bob Goodlatte is not looking real good here. This hearing may not last much longer…and they are already asking to adjourn.
“We’d like to throw in the towel on the fight we started.”
re: #348 Belafon
Yeah, it just happened to be on the night she was there, and somehow she’s part of it. //
inorite? all those months of investigation and no arrests until SHE comes to town…
o. m. g.
.@realDonaldTrump’s shadow is reflected on the wall as he makes a statement and answers questions as he departs the NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium. Also reflected is Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton. pic.twitter.com/5kDKWplpH4
— Doug Mills (@dougmillsnyt) July 12, 2018
NEW: Shahira Knight, top Trump economic adviser who played a central role in shepherding the Republicans’ tax bill through Congress, will be named WH legislative affairs director, w/ @JakeSherman https://t.co/UdkPG4S11Q
— Andrew Restuccia (@AndrewRestuccia) July 12, 2018
It reminds me of the law enforcement surveillance videos
Like ABSCAM and Marion Barry’s crack videos— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) July 12, 2018
Today’s reaction from well-placed Brussels official to central element of @theresa_may’s Brexit white paper is as forcefully critical as that of @Jacob_Rees_Mogg and the True Brexiters. pic.twitter.com/NRdSxx1FPG
— Robert Peston (@Peston) July 12, 2018
FCA is the “Facilitated customs arrangement”, the government’s fudge solution to the trade with the EU and the Irish border situation. From here (via The Guardian):
Facilitated customs arrangement (FCA)
This would see the UK and EU become a “combined customs territory”, in which the UK would apply the EU’s tariffs and trade policies for goods intended for the bloc, with domestic tariffs imposed for goods heading to the UK.
The FCA, according to the white paper, would “preserve frictionless trade for the majority of UK goods trade, and reduce frictions for UK exporters and importers”.
The government would “explore options to use future advancements in technology to streamline the process”, including machine learning and artificial intelligence.
re: #271 HappyWarrior
On an unrelated note, I always find it interesting who cities name their airports after. We have Dulles, Marshall, & Reagan here.
Detroit DTW airport is called “Metro” not named for anyone.
But we will soon have an International Bridge named for hockey great Gordie Howe!
re: #347 Barefoot Grin
Faux News (prob): Disgraced FBI agent Strzok refused to answer questions today on what he and his FBI buddies did to help crooked Hillary and overthrow Pres Trumpy.
ALERT: Rep. Goodlatte is right now threatening to hold an FBI agent in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about a pending counterintelligence investigation when the agent has been specifically instructed by the FBI not to answer such questions.
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) July 12, 2018
Goddess grant me the composure of Strzok.
Gowdy needs to go fuck himself and get a new weave.
re: #360 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Is Strzok claiming the FBI has instructed him to not answer the questions?
re: #358 The Vicious Babushka
Detroit DTW airport is called “Metro” not named for anyone.
But we will soon have an International Bridge named for hockey great Gordie Howe!
Awesome. Anyhow if I were to name an airport in Detroit, it would probably be after the UAW Reuther brothers. My dad’s dad actually knew them a little through his time in the NLRB.
Fricking Republicans, man.
Our Lt. Governor tried to stealthily put the state DOT on the hook for a $2 Million new road into HIS gated community.
Word leaked out, backlash followed. Now dude is blaming the whole thing on an “error” by one of his assistants.
re: #357 Alephnaught
FCA is the “Facilitated customs arrangement”, the government’s fudge solution to the trade with the EU and the Irish border situation. From here (via The Guardian):
I’m perplexed that the decision to submit the terms of a complex economic and diplomatic relationship to a one time popular vote has turned into a total shitshow.
re: #363 HappyWarrior
Awesome. Anyhow if I were to name an airport in Detroit, it would probably be after the UAW Reuther brothers. My dad’s dad actually knew them a little through his time in the NLRB.
As long as there’s no Kid Rock Terminal. //
#TrumpUKVisit - he’s landed… pic.twitter.com/N2iSSNmMks
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 12, 2018
— 🏏EvilScootus⚽️🇧🇪🇫🇷 (@evilscootus) July 12, 2018
Trey Gowdy should go down as one of the great enemies of American democracy.
re: #368 Barefoot Grin
Trey Gowdy should go down as one of the great enemies of American democracy.
He can’t retire soon enough.
he is so pathetic
“Trump has been the most consequential president in history when it comes to minority employment. In June, for instance, the unemployment rate for Hispanics and Latinos 16 years and older fell to 4.6%, its lowest level ever, from 4.9% in May.” https://t.co/ex9jizOyAV
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2018
re: #366 Eclectic Cyborg
As long as there’s no Kid Rock Terminal. //
He’s not even the best white rapper from Detroit.
re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth
he is so pathetic
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Something you had nothing to do with.You keep on coasting on Obama’s successes and call them your own.
re: #362 Sir John Barron
Is Strzok claiming the FBI has instructed him to not answer the questions?
Yes
WATCH: This morning’s House Judiciary hearing quickly became contentious as Chair Bob Goodlatte threatened FBI Agent Peter Strzok with contempt for declining to answer questions on Russia probe.
Democratic members of the committee raised objections. https://t.co/tY1h3DuioR pic.twitter.com/Sf7v2aKxCp— ABC News (@ABC) July 12, 2018
re: #362 Sir John Barron
Is Strzok claiming the FBI has instructed him to not answer the questions?
Specific categories of questions (detailed procedural questions about an ongoing investigation, questions that answering them could interfere with the ongoing investigation).
re: #368 Barefoot Grin
Trey Gowdy should go down as one of the great enemies of American democracy.
His questions are ridiculous. He is supposed to be some whiz kid prosecutor. It is so obvious that Strzok’s texts were personal opinion of Trump and full of hyperbole.
Gowdy looks like a fool.
re: #373 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
WATCH: This morning’s House Judiciary hearing quickly became contentious as Chair Bob Goodlatte threatened FBI Agent Peter Strzok with contempt for declining to answer questions on Russia probe.
They need to put themselves in a position to ignore the findings of the Mueller investigation when it comes out.
From Strzok’s opening statement:
In addition, I will testify today as accurately as I can, and to the best of my recollection. Nevertheless, my testimony will necessarily be less accurate, less precise, and less complete than it would be had the Committees not insisted on this unreasonable and unprecedented schedule. Only 36 hours ago I received access to thousands of pages of documents that the Department of Justice turned over to the Committees last week. Unlike the Members questioning me today, I do not have the transcript from my eleven hours of testimony last week. The time available for preparation has been wholly inadequate, as has my access to documents necessary for my preparation.
I understand we are living in a political era in which insults and insinuation often drown out honesty and integrity. But the honest truth is that Russian interference in our elections constitutes a grave attack on our democracy. Most disturbingly, it has been wildly successful - sowing discord in our nation and shaking faith in our institutions. I have the utmost respect for Congress’s oversight role, but I truly believe that today’s hearing is just another victory notch in Putin’s belt and another milestone in our enemies’ campaign to tear America apart.
As someone who loves this country and cherishes its ideals, it is profoundly painful to watch and even worse to play a part in.
re: #361 JordanRules
Goddess grant me the composure of Strzok.
Gowdy needs to go fuck himself and get a new weave.
And now Strzok fires back and shut’s Gowdy the hell up.
And now Swallwell is asking to bring Bannon back to answer Gowdy’s unanswered questions.
The Democrats are fired up.
re: #368 Barefoot Grin
Trey Gowdy should go down as one of the great enemies of American democracy.
He sure is a grandstanding fool.
I think he should go into acting.
re: #382 ObserverArt
He sure is a grandstanding fool.
I think he should go into acting.
He was better on “Forensic Files.”
re: #382 ObserverArt
He sure is a grandstanding fool.
I think he should go into acting.
Seriously! The fake drama he is producing is ridiculous.
re: #289 ObserverArt
Just seeing this. I didn’t know about that admin. LO Depts these days have a scary bend. There’s a lot of Chiefs and Sheriffs in TX that run on that bluster.. I don’t get the Jordan connection.
re: #385 JordanRules
Seriously! The fake drama he is producing is ridiculous.
The point is to produce an emotional reaction and a conviction that the Russia investigation was a political witch hunt to target Trump and run him out of his hard-won presidency. As long as they can successfully generate that impression with enough of the public, they can safely pretend that Mueller has found nothing worth acting upon.
STRZOK characterizes the House Republican charade as “deeply corrosive to what the FBI is in American society, the effectiveness of their mission and deeply destructive.” A smattering of applause breaks out in chamber. pic.twitter.com/UO1tk974r3
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 12, 2018
Trey Gowdy, being schooled by FBI Agent Strzok, who explains the context for his now-infamous text about stopping Trump’s election was his belief the American people wouldn’t elect Trump after he ridiculed an immigrant gold star military family. pic.twitter.com/QUJfPDNQEC
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 12, 2018
re: #388 JordanRules
CUT HIS MIKE!!! CUT HIS MIKE!!!!!
HOLY FUCK
Cameroon’s Minister of Communications is playing a very Russian offensive. pic.twitter.com/svqE61OWmM
— Benjamin Brown (@BenDoBrown) July 12, 2018
Cameroon calls video of Cameroonian soldiers apparently executing women and children “fake news” https://t.co/nuClLJWlRY
— Wesley Morgan (@wesleysmorgan) July 12, 2018
Tweet containing video in question hidden (same tweet as the one only showing youtube link at top)
One group at the Bellingcat workshop is currently working to geolocate this video, apparently Cameroonian soldiers executing women and children. We think it’s close to 10.933333, 13.733333 https://t.co/w8OqZMBnpC
— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) July 12, 2018
I would expect youtube to remove the video shortly
re: #388 JordanRules
STRZOK characterizes the House Republican charade as “deeply corrosive to what the FBI is in American society, the effectiveness of their mission and deeply destructive.” A smattering of applause breaks out in chamber
The GOP is willing to chuck the entire FBI under the bus to preserve their President
re: #376 blueraven
Gowdy looks like a fool.
As if the repeated nonsense of his Benghazi Boogaloo hearings hasn’t proven this already?
re: #393 Jay C
As if the repeated nonsense of his Benghazi Boogaloo hearings hasn’t proven this already?
That only established his GOP credentials as a dogged and persistent investigator of “misdeeds”…
re: #388 JordanRules
That look on Gowdy’s face is the look of a lawyer who’s in a deposition that is going very, very badly.
“Hi, I am Peter Strzok. I protect America from Russian spies. But right now my time is being wasted by some paste-eating fucknugget traitors.” https://t.co/G0U9s0r7Qm pic.twitter.com/6CqTY5JKMY
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) July 12, 2018
re: #396 KGxvi
That look on Gowdy’s face is the look of a lawyer who’s in a deposition that is going very, very badly.
Seems to be his resting face these days, though not by choice.
re: #392 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The GOP is willing to chuck the entire FBI under the bus to preserve their
Presidentasses.
FTFY
Cumming: Import of protecting confidential human sources. quotes Wray saying “The day we can’t protect human sources is the day American people become less safe.”
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) July 12, 2018
re: #388 JordanRules
One of many Trumpian blerts we thought would negatively predispose thinking Americans or enough of them.
re: #400 jaunte
Cummings seems prepared at least.
Wow pic.twitter.com/nyRwPTGojO
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 12, 2018
Gowdy getting his ass handed to him.
re: #398 Belafon
Seems to be his resting face these days, though not by choice.
On a purely professional/personal level, I kinda* feel bad for the guy. He’s got a shit client that he has no choice but to represent. And he has no way of settling the matter, so he’s got to litigate it fully, and despite what you see on TV, that’s never actually fun, and even less so when you have an aforementioned shit client.
*It’s only a little bit because he could have done the noble/patriotic/right thing by treating Trump’s illegalities the way he treated Clinton’s perceived illegalities. But he made his own bed.
re: #380 ObserverArt
And now Strzok fires back and shut’s Gowdy the hell up.
And now Swallwell is asking to bring Bannon back to answer Gowdy’s unanswered questions.
The Democrats are fired up.
Oddly, Bannon is in London at the moment, drumming up support for the orange moron.
re: #386 Dave In Austin
Just seeing this. I didn’t know about that admin. LO Depts these days have a scary bend. There’s a lot of Chiefs and Sheriffs in TX that run on that bluster.. I don’t get the Jordan connection.
With regard to Jim Jordan…it appears to me the Jordan/Ohio State doctor abuse thing is a fight in the media. So far there really is no investigation or charges against Jordan.
I am thinking this arrest of Stormy Daniels is meant to be in time to switch media focus and could pull the heat off Jordan.
This is how politics is done in America. It is all in the media and it is all meant to shape opinion by coloring the story.
The connection is strictly that it is all happening here in Columbus where Jordan is loved by the state government and they will do anything to protect him, while Jordan does everything to protect Trump. What a better place to pull a stunt to protect Jordan while making Daniels (and to a degree Avenatti - a new Resistance figure) look bad.
Columbus is a unique political city where the state government power structure is Republican and located here, while the city itself it pretty much Democratic. Also, Ohio State is a huge university that helps make the city liberal.
re: #271 HappyWarrior
On an unrelated note, I always find it interesting who cities name their airports after. We have Dulles, Marshall, & Reagan here.
Lies, it’s still National. No Reagan.
Cummings is essentially reading from the closed-door transcript that the GOP refused to release. Heh.
Whoa. Strzok just handed Trey Gowdy his ass on a platter.
STRZOK characterizes the House Republican charade as “deeply corrosive to what the FBI is in American society, the effectiveness of their mission and deeply destructive.” A smattering of applause breaks out in chamber. pic.twitter.com/UO1tk974r3
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 12, 2018
re: #406 ObserverArt
.
Columbus is a unique political city where the state government power structure is Republican and located here, while the city itself it pretty much Democratic. Also, Ohio State is a huge university that helps make the city liberal.
Ohio is a a unique case of a state who votes overall pretty much 50-50 Democrat/GOP but somehow overwhelmingly returns GOP representatives to Congress…
re: #408 Barefoot Grin
Cummings is essentially reading from the closed-door transcript that the GOP refused to release. Heh.
There’s really no reason for Dems to play by the “rules” if such they are, given the clown act ruling the chamber these days.
re: #388 JordanRules
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I made a prediction last night that Strzok would use the FBI as his hammer to pound on the difference between his personal views and his professional reputation as a top FBI agent. Until this time of Trump he has never been questioned about his professional methods and behavior because his career has been exemplary.
Wonkette live blogging:
1:40: ELIJAH CUMMINGS: On a scale of one to “treason,” how fucked up is it that the Republicans keep asking you to reveal confidential human FBI sources?
STRZOK: Light treason!
CUMMINGS: Please answer the question on a scale of one to “Devin Nunes” now.
STRZOK: Total fuckin’ Devin.
MARK MEADOWS OF THE HOUSE FREEDOM CAUCUS: Stop talking about my light treason right in front of my face like I’m not here!
11:44: CUMMINGS: Please tell us why you didn’t drop everything to focus on “BUT HER EMAILS!” when you were investigating whether our greatest foreign adversary Russia was conspiring with the Trump campaign to steal an election.
STRZOK: Holy shit, isn’t it obvious?
CUMMINGS: It is, I just wanted you to say it out loud slowly for my dumbest Republican colleagues.
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Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area.
It’s a total shitshow at the GOP witch hunt testimony by Strzok.
They thought they could cower Strzok and indicate that he’s in contempt for failing to answer questions about the ongoing investigations.
The problem is that this is precisely what Strzok cannot testify about - he can’t testify about ongoing investigations. That’s FBI policy. That’s what the FBI did when they didn’t inform the nation about ongoing investigation into Trumpworld criminality.
It’s what Comey failed to do when he did go and inform everyone that there was “developments” in Clinton email case. That was in violation of FBI policy.
Strzok has again shown that Gowdy is an awful lawyer and perhaps an even worse prosecutor since he knew or should have known the answers before he asked them.
He thought that the answers would help the GOP positions that this is a witch hunt?
If anything, the result is that it shows the craven GOP is still craven, and that Gowdy and the rest of the GOP are enabling Trump criminality and misconduct - enabling and complicit.
All the while, Trump is overseas taking potshots at our allies and giving Putin his money’s worth.
re: #412 ObserverArt
I made a prediction last night that Strzok would use the FBI as his hammer to pound on the difference between his personal views and his professional reputation as a top FBI agent. Until this time of Trump he has never been questioned about his professional methods and behavior because his career has been exemplary.
This is also a good message for the Mueller investigation. Even though most of the Mueller team are Republicans, all of these people know how to separate their personal views from their job.
You are a liar and a con artist like Trumpworld and Fox generally.
Why did he refuse to testify? Because the FBI is supposed to refuses to comment on ongoing investigations, and GOPers questioning him know this. They’re trying for a gotcha moment.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 12, 2018
re: #409 The Vicious Babushka
Whoa. Strzok just handed Trey Gowdy his ass on a platter.
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Strzok is pissed.
Good.
Lots questions about WFP line. Was honored to have their support. I’m not running. For record you can only be removed from the ballot if 1) you move out of NY; 2) die; 3) be convicted of a crime; 4) accept a nomination for another office (in a place I don’t live).
— Joe Crowley (@JoeCrowleyNY) July 12, 2018
I don’t plan on moving out of New York, have a clean record, hope God’s will is that I don’t die, and won’t commit what I honestly believe to be election fraud. https://t.co/Cxk3s5zALi
— Joe Crowley (@JoeCrowleyNY) July 12, 2018
Anyone asserting that there’s an easy answer to whether @JoeCrowleyNY can remove himself as the WFP nominee in NY-14 has never studied NYS election law, which is insanely complicated. I’m going to defer to local experts. cc: @DKElections https://t.co/hhkD0wbCBQ
— Adam Bonin (@adambonin) July 12, 2018
Adam is right: Crowley can be removed from WFP line but it’s complex.
And from his team’s vantage, it’s moot because he’s endorsed Ocasio-Cortez.
She clearly sees the chance to get some political mileage out of it. https://t.co/uyFDvu9isI— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) July 12, 2018
Some actual facts about what the hell this Ocasio-Cortez vs. Crowley dust-up is all about —> https://t.co/jbwmwx8bye
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 12, 2018
3) Crowley says he’s “not running”, meaning he isn’t actively campaigning and pledged his “support” to AOC.
4) This is a *very* Democratic district and it’s highly unlikely that Crowley’s name appearing on the ballot will cost AOC the race or throw it to a Republican.— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 12, 2018
Cummings: How is threat made worse if POTUS campaign colluded w/hostile power?
Strzok: If there were people colluding w/RU there is very little that would be more important. Any POTUS candidate would want to know.— emptywheel (@emptywheel) July 12, 2018
All he picked were people who would further his goal of causing chaos and sabotage functioning govt. That too is a GOP goal.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 12, 2018
re: #404 KGxvi
On a purely professional/personal level, I kinda* feel bad for the guy. He’s got a shit client that he has no choice but to represent. And he has no way of settling the matter, so he’s got to litigate it fully, and despite what you see on TV, that’s never actually fun, and even less so when you have an aforementioned shit client.
*It’s only a little bit because he could have done the noble/patriotic/right thing by treating Trump’s illegalities the way he treated Clinton’s perceived illegalities. But he made his own bed.
We are his client. The whole problem is him thinking the President is and abdicating his actual role in the United States Government which is supposed to be in service to the people and institutions. It’s all such a mess but this is still a criticaly serious abdication on its own.
re: #410 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ohio is a a unique case of a state who votes overall pretty much 50-50 Democrat/GOP but somehow overwhelmingly returns GOP representatives to Congress…
Talk to Republican State Rep Gerry Manders about that.
Former FBI agent Peter Strzok:
“I’m also proud of our work on the Russian interference investigation. This is an investigation into a direct attack by a foreign adversary … This investigation is not politically motivated. It is not a witch hunt, it is not a hoax.” pic.twitter.com/VaeQQUhy1v— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 12, 2018
re: #423 jaunte
If the media wanted to help, this line “This is an investigation into a direct attack by a foreign adversary”, would be the title of every article written about this meeting.
If I was Strzok, I would ask Gowdy and Goodlatte if they had any bias against Hillary Clinton prior to them being on this committee and if they had will they step down from this investigation?
Goodlatte showing a remarkable ignorance about the prescribed functions of jurists and investigators in the legal system.
— Ruxypin (@SkeddyRuxypin) July 12, 2018
To review:
A man who spoke OPENLY about his partisan agenda is a great pick the for Supreme Court because it totally won’t effect his judgement.
But a man who exchanged PRIVATE partisan emails with his girlfriend is unfit for the FBI because biased judgement.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 12, 2018
ALERT: Rep. Goodlatte is right now threatening to hold an FBI agent in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about a pending counterintelligence investigation when the agent has been specifically instructed by the FBI not to answer such questions.
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) July 12, 2018
House Republicans are increasingly behaving like legislators from the ruling party in a banana republic. And while I remain committed to trying to save the GOP, it’s become awfully hard to make the case for saving GOP control of the House in 2018. https://t.co/e3UpWL9pWD
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 12, 2018
re: #425 ObserverArt
If I was Strzok, I would ask Gowdy and Goodlatte if they had any bias against Hillary Clinton prior to them being on this committee and if they had will they step down from this investigation?
And now Strzok is going there…everyone has political opinions.
re: #428 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
GOP delenda est.
Not because I want a one party system, but because the GOP wants one. They want an authoritarian regime and will engage in political witch hunts against their enemies.
They thought Strzok would knuckle under, and they got a lesson how the FBI is supposed to operate - not testifying on active investigations because it would interfere with them.
re: #428 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
It seems you don’t like what you helped create.
Go back 10 years and look at your own words.
You did this. You all, every last GOP pundit, every last Republican. You built this. You own this. And you forever will be linked to our Republic’s demise.
Hope you’re proud.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 12, 2018
To an outsider’s eye, the US appears to be run with all the competence and integrity of, say, Cameroon.
I am shocked, aren’t you?
Breaking: North Korean delegation did not show up at planned meeting with U.S. at Demilitarized Zone Thursday to discuss repatriating remains of Americans killed in Korean War. There was no call or explanation, @eliselabottcnn reports.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) July 12, 2018
Strzok is PWNING Gowdy and Goodlatte, makes them look like the “ignorant hillbillies” they are.
Looking broadly at the tweets concerning Strzok, it’s clear that a lot of Americans have no grasp of what is going on.
Also, I thought I made up the phrase “I can SMELL the Trump support.”
re: #433 Lupin
To an outsider’s eye, the US appears to be run with all the competence and integrity of, say, Cameroon.
Yeah, pretty soon we’ll hit the “North Korea”’level on the rating scale.
Nadler: Congratulations on completely correct statement of 1A law. Private political opinions, not expressed publicly.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) July 12, 2018
The notion that the American societal norms in 2040 may be decided by a man born in 1965 strikes me as bonkers, too.
This is Badger. Today he embarks on his first plane ride. Already checked a bag containing a single stick. 13/10 safe travels Badger pic.twitter.com/IVW2W1qgCv
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) July 12, 2018
‘Hey cat wanna play? Cat….?’ pic.twitter.com/Kx5HqgrV8X
— HUMOROUS ANIMALS (@CUTEFUNNYANIMAL) July 12, 2018
Russian State TV thrills over Trump’s ghastly NATO performance https://t.co/pudic2qkez
— Daily Kos (@dailykos) July 12, 2018
re: #437 Eclectic Cyborg
Yeah, pretty soon we’ll hit the “North Korea”’level on the rating scale.
Yeah white folks can’t govern themselves. The stories… You wouldn’t believe… We should have Africans in charge.
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Here it is — Paul Manafort’s mugshot pic.twitter.com/AEe7JTvqXU
— Rachel Weiner (@rachelweinerwp) July 12, 2018
Nadler: How frequently does FBI investigate possibility of collusion between POTUS and hostile foreign power?
Strzok: Never in my experience.
hello fall campaign ads pic.twitter.com/FhZnTKfewL
— zeddy (@Zeddary) July 12, 2018
Nadler laying it down on the GOP—“They’re scared.”
Neo-Nazi website forced to remove Pepe the Frog images after creator wins lawsuit https://t.co/d98sdMAdti pic.twitter.com/6yvpLU4qsj
— The Hill (@thehill) July 11, 2018
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah https://t.co/pmnOhcfoVm
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 11, 2018
Nadler is doing a good job of showing the actual reasons the Republicans are having this investigation and asking for all the FBI and DOJ documents.
All to protect their Don.
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) July 12, 2018
LIVE: President Trump arrives in the UK for meetings with PM May and the Queen. https://t.co/1SsmpJvuwG
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 12, 2018
74% chance Trump tells the Queen he loves her cruise ships. https://t.co/pnkdubqLky
— UnsilentMajority 🌹 (@The_UnSilent_) July 12, 2018
re: #452 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nigh swimmin, de dum de dum dedum…
! @RepCicilline says he plans to release the transcript of Strzok’s first testimony because he is not aware of any House rules that would prevent him from doing so.
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 12, 2018
Such lovely people.
NEW: Darla Shine, wife of Trump’s new communications chief Bill Shine, called women ‘stupid’ for wanting to serve in the military and said they should expect to be sexually harassed if they serve alongside men https://t.co/RPrg4jk53j
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) July 11, 2018
re: #418 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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OK: “Working Families Party” - that answers a lot of questions about those headlines re Joe Crowley and Ocasio-Cortez. New York (at least NYC) seems unusual in that we don’t get a binary Democrat-Republican choice on the ballot in general elections: there are usually six or seven parties listed: often with the same candidates often slated on several of them. To an outsider, Crowley’s appearance on the ballot might seem something like an “independent run” : but local political reporters ought to know better.
.@RepJerryNadler brings 🔥: “Why have Republicans have been so dismissive of Russia’s attacks on the U.S.? Why are they so intent on destroying confidence in the DOJ & special counsel? Why have they abandoned House rules?… Because they are scared & accountability is coming.” pic.twitter.com/2NZOPFvAz7
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 12, 2018
Aging in real time. He should be white-haired or bald by the time this is done.
me at the beginning of 2018 vs. me halfway through pic.twitter.com/a8vPvaNIk5
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) July 12, 2018
re: #458 MsJ
Aging in real time. He should be white-haired or bald by the time this is done.
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One point that comes through strongly in the Strzok hearing is that the GOP members are willing to go through ridiculous gymnastics to avoid release of the full transcript of Strzok’s closed door hearing. What are they afraid of?
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 12, 2018
Not a long-term investigation involving her.
— Columbus Ohio Police (@ColumbusPolice) July 12, 2018
No, just a politically motivated operation conducted by right wing vice detectives. And corrupt ones at that. Don’t you guys have a problem with your vice detectives sleeping with prostitutes?@MichaelAvenatti @Tino10TV @MayorGinther #shame https://t.co/fxUPr97HVK
— Mulligan Stew (@MulliganStew63) July 12, 2018
Well, there apparently are benefits to trump opening his pie hole and puking out word salad.
Correspondent at #NATO summit tells @CNN that Trump’s attacks on Angela Merkel aren’t quite having their intended effect:
“Trump is so unpopular [in Germany] that whatever he says, literally the opposite becomes popular among the German public.”— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) July 12, 2018
re: #462 MsJ
Like a reverse Streisand effect.
re: #458 MsJ
And his hair is parting the opposite way… or it’s that his toupee is starting to droop/slide….
re: #461 MsJ
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Uh oh…someone is exposing the Columbus police vice department’s issues. And do they ever have them.
re: #460 jaunte
What are they afraid of? Everything.
Everything.
It again would show that Nunes, Gowdy, and the rest of the GOP caucus are complicit and compromised by Trump and are defending the indefensible Trumpworld while ignoring their ongoing criminality.
Oy.
Never occurred to you that He bankrupt the casinos in purpose because it was hurting poor people and He couldn’t stomach it? #MAGA🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
— Alimony Mindset (@realrambogotier) July 12, 2018
I know this is a Russian troll. I know he doesn’t really believe this. But should we just take a moment to consider that this argument might actually be convincing to more than zero people? https://t.co/e2mtDRpNMZ
— Donald Trumpski (@Unabogie) July 12, 2018
This Strzok hearing reminds me of the Benghazi hearing — a highly competent witness testifying for hours in front of GOP house members who seem small and petty based on their questions.
Common thread? Gowdy.— mieke eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) July 12, 2018
re: #467 MsJ
Oy.
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Lol? Yeah he bankrupt the casinos on purpose just like Trump vodka flopped because he didn’t want to encourage alcoholism and Trump steaks failed because he was appalled by animal cruelty.
the moron will believe anyone and ANYTHING that implies nice things about him
A very nice note from Chairman Kim of North Korea. Great progress being made! pic.twitter.com/6NI6AqL0xt
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2018
ROTFLMFAO!!
JERROLD NADLER: Hey Peter Strzok, you mind if we release all these transcripts of yourself talking?
STRZOK: Rock out with your cock out, dude!https://t.co/G0U9s0r7Qm— Wonkette (@Wonkette) July 12, 2018
re: #470 Backwoods_Sleuth
Surprising absolutely no one but Trumpworld, North Korea did its own thing.
Trump got a photo op and negotiated against himself and lost (again).— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 12, 2018
A very nice note from Chairman Kim of North Korea. Great progress being made! pic.twitter.com/6NI6AqL0xt
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2018
Trump publishes a letter from Kim Jong Un, emphasizing the spirit of the Singapore declaration. https://t.co/ihYoQTEop4
— Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) July 12, 2018
re: #460 jaunte
One point that comes through strongly in the Strzok hearing is that the GOP members are willing to go through ridiculous gymnastics to avoid release of the full transcript of Strzok’s closed door hearing. What are they afraid of?
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 12, 2018
Isn’t the answer obvious? House GOPer hacks are afraid that the Mueller investigation (utilizing info from the FBI) is going to conclusively prove not only illegal foreign (i.e. Russian) interference in the 2016 Presidential election, but collusion with the same by officials of the Trump campaign: probably up to and including family members - even if the Orange Anus was personally “out of the loop”.* And seeing the way Counsel Mueller has been running his show, “prove” is likely to mean “will hold up in any court in the land”.
* Which I don’t believe
Korean is apparently a very succinct language. It takes a LOT more words to translate it into English…
Aravosis in total Take No Prisoners mode. He has less than zero fucks to give.
https://t.co/k7iTvXPaGY — I’ve created a Web site to serve as a one-stop shop for all the background & news on the GOP Rep Jim Jordan Ohio State sexual abuse scandal. Check it out and share, thanks.#JordanKnew
And check out our Jim Jordan scandal FAQ:https://t.co/VvqzR44FOo— John Aravosis (@aravosis) July 12, 2018
Hey @Jim_Jordan, next time you buy a URL to attack the victims of the Ohio State sexual abuse scandal, buy a few variations of it. You bought the dot-com of StandWithJimJordan — I now own StandWithJordan dot com, and It takes you to: https://t.co/k7iTvXPaGY #JordanKnew https://t.co/eRxMxxtT66
— John Aravosis (@aravosis) July 12, 2018
WATCH: Two launch pads at Cape Canaveral were demolished on Thursday. They were used to launch rockets carrying things such as communications satellites and GPS satellites until 2011, and have since been replaced by new launch pads.
For more, head over to our affiliate @WESH. pic.twitter.com/c5hkgQFDLY— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) July 12, 2018
was the great progress taking six days to translate a four paragraph letter https://t.co/BW7xXjBtOI
— darth™ (@darth) July 12, 2018
He’s at it again
NEW: Blackwater founder Erik Prince pitching proposal to turn over U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan to mercenaries. The pitch occurs as he faces scrutiny in special counsel Mueller’s Russia probe. https://t.co/lfLLUOFRkO pic.twitter.com/i6QjHONAbI
— ABC News (@ABC) July 12, 2018
re: #473 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
“He loves me, he really does, great beaches.”
One thing I don’t understand about the people I know who still support Trump: Is the message that they want to send to future generations of their own families, “Constant, shameless lying is OK, as long as the liar is Republican?” Do I have that right?
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) July 12, 2018
re: #481 jaunte
Trumpbots are too much in denial to admit that.
re: #481 jaunte
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re: #481 jaunte
The Trumpbots will spend the next decades constructing a false narrative of these years. In fact, they’re already doing it. And of course as long as they have faux news and the AM radio waves there will always be more gullible and credulous audiences.
oh https://t.co/JrOsvQdKeV via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 12, 2018
re: #483 HappyWarrior
As long as it’s Trump or a Trump associate. Trumpbots aren’t partisan GOPers, they’re Partisans for Trump.
Yeah, they’re no longer is an actual GOP/Republican party.
Currently they are The Party of Trump until they assume their real name The Asshole Party which will be their name after Trump.
Yes, we did. But we had help w/25 years of anti-Democrat help from Fox News, right wing media & Republicans doing everything they can to make life difficult for Americans while blaming Dems. This creates apathy & no hope to change it.
GOP actions are meant to create apathy.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 12, 2018
Who is this ass from Texas trying to out-Gowdy Gowdy?
re: #451 Backwoods_Sleuth
“I watched your show The Crown, or The Queen, or whatever it was called. You were hot when you were younger.”
re: #487 ObserverArt
Yeah, there no longer is an actual GOP/Republican party.
Currently they are The Party of Trump until they assume their real name The Asshole Party which will be their name after Trump.
Exactly
Stormy Daniels charges have been dismissed, attorney says https://t.co/W66m1EMSp8 pic.twitter.com/4nH6YSsJdl
— Ryan Parker (@TheRyanParker) July 12, 2018
re: #490 Sir John Barron
“I watched your show The Crown, or The Queen, or whatever it was called. You were hot when you were younger.”
He’ll probably come back and say we should have royals here too and his “anti elite” base would love it.
Please stop saying Trump is “doing what he said he would do” at NATO.
Trump claimed shaking up the international order would get us “winning” again.
The real story is that this idea — the core of Trumpism — is being exposed as a big lie.
My post:https://t.co/NBxHMo8H0q— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) July 12, 2018
I agree; every time a legit reporter says he “fulfilled his promise,” that bell rings in his bases’ ears: “Yup, he done what he said.” What’s missing here is that he’s said he’s going to do BAD things, and he’s doing BAD things. Report on that, please. DJT is bringing us down. https://t.co/ykJODZPR6Q
— Mom EllenMurphy (@Phoebesrealmom) July 12, 2018
Oh…Ms. Jackson Lee just mentioned Trump’s Annual Performance Review with Putin.
Hahahahahahahahaa…
re: #492 MsJ
All because three undercover officers wanted to see Stormy, but not tip, and not pay their bar tab. Damn, those are some nice business perks.
To teach at UVA. Unreal.
Another one bites the dust. https://t.co/w1pYyk7adK
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) July 12, 2018
re: #492 MsJ
Stormy Daniels charges have been dismissed, attorney says
Doesn’t matter now. It’s already Trumpster canon.
re: #492 MsJ
Ryan Parker ✔
@TheRyanParker
Stormy Daniels charges have been dismissed, attorney says thr.cm12:58 PM - Jul 12, 2018
It was all a show.
re: #498 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Doesn’t matter now. It’s already Trumpster canon.
What is? Like there’s anything beyond being a porn star in their eyes. An arrest isn’t going to tarnish her any more.
re: #501 Belafon
What is? Like there’s anything beyond being a porn star in their eyes. An arrest isn’t going to tarnish her any more.
“Who’s lying about DJT or if she isn’t lying, it just proves what a manly man our MAGA president is.”
re: #493 HappyWarrior
He’ll probably come back and say we should have royals here too and his “anti elite” base would love it.
Are Roials is better then there Roiels! I bet they’res dont even hav gold toilits!!
re: #502 Sir John Barron
“Who’s lying about DJT or if she isn’t lying, it just proves what a manly man our MAGA president is.”
She’s a porn star. I guarantee you she’s already dismissed because of that.
re: #504 Belafon
She’s a porn star. I guarantee you she’s already dismissed because of that.
Rudy did that iirc.
re: #504 Belafon
She’s a porn star. I guarantee you she’s already dismissed because of that.
She can be both dismissed and used to affirm some “positive” value of Dear Leader.
re: #503 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Are Roials would never join the military.
(swearing)
(spitting)
Extremist Ranchers Fly Home On Pence Donor’s Jet - https://t.co/xHTdzjQHBQ pic.twitter.com/nUT9YfEqdo
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) July 12, 2018
A member of the film crew on the Milo Yiannopoulos / Tomi Lahren anti-abortion movie stole my notes to keep me from reporting on it, then lied about it to a cop. https://t.co/RIwlc2LnNF
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) July 12, 2018
re: #509 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
That “movie” stands to be the fosterclock of all musterfocks.
re: #510 Sir John Barron
That “movie” stands to be the fosterclock of all musterfocks.
It’s going to put Kirk Cameron to shame. BTW why is Tomi involved with this? Isn’t she supposedly pro-choice? She even and I hate giving her credit said that reversing Roe would be a bad idea so why is she involved with this?
re: #511 HappyWarrior
Wing nut welfare. None of these shitty people have any business talking shit about Stormy Daniels. At least she’s up front about her profession. These fuckers don’t care who they hurt as long as there’s money attached.
After Gowdy concludes his rant by dismissively saying he doesn’t “give a damn” what Strzok thinks, Strzok points out that his private anti-Trump texts came in response to Trump insulting “the immigrant family of a fallen war hero” during the campaign. pic.twitter.com/SNzIi9sbAV
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 12, 2018
Amazing New Music Video From Fiona Apple: I Walk a Little Faster (Underwater)
Did you post this for klys?
I did 6 miles in the pool today (I am desperately hoping that next week I can run on land at least once) and now am just tired.
— sylk (@sylk) June 29, 2018
She may be in a better position to appreciate it now:
THEY LET ME RUN TODAY.
My PT and I compromised and I did 5k at the track with walking breaks. As long as there’s no pain in my shins this afternoon, I can do it again on Wednesday.— sylk (@sylk) July 9, 2018
(She was sidelined by injury. Still recovering afaik.)
re: #512 A Mom Anon
Wing nut welfare. None of these shitty people have any business talking shit about Stormy Daniels. At least she’s up front about her profession. These fuckers don’t care who they hurt as long as there’s money attached.
True, true.
re: #513 Belafon
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re: #513 Belafon
After Gowdy concludes his rant by dismissively saying he doesn’t “give a damn” what Strzok thinks
Then why did you invite him/compel him to testify to your stupid committee?
re: #517 Sir John Barron
Then why did you invite him/compel him to testify to your stupid committee?
Because Gowdy wants to cosplay as Roland Freisler.
re: #517 Sir John Barron
Then why did you invite him/compel him to testify to your stupid committee?
They have a task ahead: Mueller is going to release the results of his investigation at some point. The GOP will have to either act on them or ignore them. If they do the latter, they have to explain why they are not acting and why that does not make them complicit in allowing a President to violate the law.
If they can somehow discredit the investigation, then they can try to get away with ignoring its conclusions. If they have to discredit the entire FBI to do so, that does not seem to be beneath the level of perfidy they are willing to engage in to cling to power.
re: #517 Sir John Barron
Then why did you invite him/compel him to testify to your stupid committee?
Because they have not yet realized that they really do not have the skillset to pull of what they are trying to pull off.
They just are not good at it.
For which all Americans can say WHEW (for the moment).
As the Scottish have the best protest signs here are a few thoughts on your visit @realDonaldTrump #trumpvisit #TrumpUKVisit #trumpalumpa #pissoffdon #gohomedon pic.twitter.com/bVVpf5O64L
— Hilly Andrews (@hillyofthehills) July 12, 2018
Why does Gowdy have such a narrow perspective on things?
re: #521 MsJ
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re: #265 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“CO2 is a natural component of the air we breathe and without is there would be no life on earth.”
And without water there would be no life, so why worry about flood control?
Last person that told me something like that, I told them to secure a plastic bag around their head and let me know how all that CO2 is great.
re: #525 Eventual Carrion
Last person that told me something like that, I told them to secure a plastic bag around their head and let me know how all that CO2 is great.
Didn’t Limbaugh or maybe it was even Reagan make some stupid claim about trees?
re: #526 HappyWarrior
Didn’t Limbaugh or maybe it was even Reagan make some stupid claim about trees?
Yes. Old President Pruneface said that smog came from trees!
re: #527 Joe Bacon 🌹
Yes. Old President Pruneface said that smog came from trees!
back then he got soundly laughed out, now statements like that are part of an op-ed in a major newspaper…
re: #522 Barefoot Grin
Why does Gowdy have such a narrow perspective on things?
Because his pointy little head only allows so much thought into it.
re: #486 MsJ
Yeah, probably a couple of hundred. So what? The GOP will never act.
re: #522 Barefoot Grin
Why does Gowdy have such a narrow perspective on things?
he has been given a task: discredit the FBI and by extension, the Mueller investigation. He will not be distracted from that path
“The deep-cover Russian spies may not have achieved their objective, but they were not idle.”https://t.co/ZlGnInI1Kz
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) July 12, 2018
re: #527 Joe Bacon 🌹
Yes. Old President Pruneface said that smog came from trees!
That’s right. Goddamn what an idiot. It’s easy to forget how idiotic Reagan was too. I mean I know we mocked Bush but I think Bush was more intelligent than Reagan. Of the four Republican presidents in my life though, HW Bush was by far the most intelligent, and I’d rate Obama the most intelligent overall in my lifetime. Historically. I’d go with Jefferson or Lincoln or T Roosevelt or Nixon even though he was a bastard.
re: #531 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
he has been given a task: discredit the FBI and by extension, the Mueller investigation. He will not be distracted from that path
I hope that the public will be able to see the kompromat on these republicans. It has to be mighty powerful.
The detestable Trumpotus’s helicopter squadron just flew over my little roof garden so I and my friend Marta were able to send him a clear one-digit nessage of how we felt about him polluting our sky
— Simon Schama (@simon_schama) July 12, 2018
such a fucking moron
Great success today at NATO! Billions of additional dollars paid by members since my election. Great spirit!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2018
re: #486 MsJ
Cohen Lawyer Says Trump May Have Committed ‘Impeachable Offense’
Congress does not need (nor does it want) the Mueller investigation.
It could, if it chose to, immediately impeach Trump on violations of the Emoluments Clause, blatant conflicts of interest and abuse of power in interfering with ongoing investigations.
They know that Mueller is going to put them in the position of ignoring his findings or appearing to be complicit in the President’s crimes. That is why Mueller is being so thorough and meticulous: he cannot allow them the chance to throw it out on any procedural grounds or conflicts.
So he has to make sure that every comma is in place and there are no speling erorrs that they can pounce on or they will have to apoint a speccial councel
Watch my opening statement from today’s hearing with Peter Strzok. This hearing is a setup by @HouseGOP to push conspiracy theories and undermine Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation in an effort to distract from the critical issues facing out country. pic.twitter.com/cvvlV0QmWq
— (((Rep. Nadler))) (@RepJerryNadler) July 12, 2018
re: #537 Backwoods_Sleuth
I Me Mine I Me Mine I Me Mine
re: #488 MsJ
Yes, we did. But we had help w/25 years of anti-Democrat help from Fox News, right wing media & Republicans doing everything they can to make life difficult for Americans while blaming Dems. This creates apathy & no hope to change it.
GOP actions are meant to create apathy.
the GOP learned that apathy and indifference were the best forms of voter suppression. Problem is now that Trump is motivating Democratic voters even more successfully now than he did with the GOP base in 2016
re: #538 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Congress does not need (nor does it want) the Mueller investigation.
It could, if it chose to, immediately impeach Trump on violations of the Emoluments Clause, blatant conflicts of interest and abuse of power in interfering with ongoing investigations.
They know that Mueller is going to put them in the position of ignoring his findings or appearing to be complicit in the President’s crimes. That is why Mueller is being so thorough and meticulous: he cannot allow them the chance to throw it out on any procedural grounds or conflicts.so he has to make sure that every comma is in place and there are no speling erorrs that they can pounce on or they will have to apoint a speccial councel
I see what you do there….
Great success today at NATO! Billions of additional dollars paid by members since my election. Great spirit!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2018
One more time, folks: NATO members did not “pay” this money. The pledge was what each individual country would spend on its own domestic defense budget. America never made up the difference or lost any money, nor is it owed any money. https://t.co/4GX50H4q6f
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) July 12, 2018
re: #511 HappyWarrior
It’s going to put Kirk Cameron to shame. BTW why is Tomi involved with this? Isn’t she supposedly pro-choice? She even and I hate giving her credit said that reversing Roe would be a bad idea so why is she involved with this?
To trigger libs.
OK, time to start coming back, the world’s most hilarious TV show will be back soon! Also, if you think THIS is fun, can you imagine how much fun @EvanHurst will have liveblogging if we all VOTE OUR ASSES OFF and let Democrats run this shit?https://t.co/G0U9s0r7Qm
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) July 12, 2018
re: #543 jaunte
[…America never made up the difference or lost any money, nor is it owed any money.]
NATO: Providing the help that Donald needs none of; making him look stupid. Internationally.
A very nice note from Chairman Kim of North Korea. Great progress being made! pic.twitter.com/6NI6AqL0xt
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2018
No actual details… he just said “Your Excellency” so many times that Trump thinks he means it. What a Sap. https://t.co/kDkcfijCIh
— Hal Sparks (@HalSparks) July 12, 2018
re: #514 wrenchwench
Amazing New Music Video From Fiona Apple: I Walk a Little Faster (Underwater)
Did you post this for klys?
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(She was sidelined by injury. Still recovering afaik.)
That running stuff can be harmful.
(Maybe we can draw her out for a response…)
Millions of dollars from anonymous donors are helping shape the fight over President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee:https://t.co/ReVhCysbRK
— richard lardner (@rplardner) July 12, 2018
re: #547 HappyWarrior
Owning the libs by having no principles!
A lib just told me I have a cute nose, so now I’m cutting it off just to piss them off!!!
Reconvening. Issa is comparing Hillary’s failure to turn over all her FRA emails with Strzok’s reviewing his own. Issa calls him a target of an investigation.
Strzok: I’m not aware of any investigation in which I’m a target.— emptywheel (@emptywheel) July 12, 2018
These guys are supremely bad at running a show trial.
re: #548 Backwoods_Sleuth
A very nice note from Chairman Kim of North Korea. Great progress being made!
He should wave that piece of paper while telling us that it guarantees “Peace in our time”.
Such Hatred.
— Marc Poulin “Christmas 1914” (@Methos2010) July 12, 2018
so deserved - for the corrupt ignorant lying egomaniac who is destroying NATO, making trade war, lining his pockets, sabotaging health insurance for the less well off, separating small children from their parents - the hatred of evil is virtue https://t.co/fytCU4S2rw
— Simon Schama (@simon_schama) July 12, 2018
re: #530 Skip Intro
Yeah, probably a couple of hundred. So what? The GOP will never act.
Never?
That’s a definite word.
If…yes, if…polls and constituents start to turn against Trump never may not be too long.
It is all still politics. And #1 job of a politician is to keep their seat.
True, right now they seem to be snug in their positions, but all things political are subject to change.
re: #549 ObserverArt
That running stuff can be harmful.
(Maybe we can draw her out for a response…)
My stepmother told me (a long time ago) that it was particularly bad for women, because of all the sloshing around of internal organs, or something. I don’t talk too much with her about my twice-a-week runs. (Twice a week is not enough. It’s quite a setback if you miss one, and don’t make up for it in a swimming pool or on a bike.) When I saw my stepmother pedaling on her AirDyne (the machine I recommended for her), I had to NOT laugh. I’ve never seen anyone pedal so slowly. But, as they always say, something is better than nothing, exercise-wise.
Strzok says his text about how “destabilizing” a Trump presidency might be was in response to a Trump speech in which he questioned the US commitment to the NATO alliance.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 12, 2018
Strzok using the common “13 democrats” point of attack to make a statement on their skills and patriotism. Bravo!
FBI agent Peter Stzrok: In the fall of 2016, I had info that could “derail, and quite possibly, defeat Mr. Trump. But the thought of exposing that information never crossed my mind….This investigation is not politically motivated, it is not a witch hunt, it is not a hoax.”
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) July 12, 2018
This is the point that explodes every accusation and conspiracy theory about Strzok. He could’ve ended the Trump campaign and prevented a Trump presidency with one phone call to the press, yet he never did. https://t.co/dqqPsCewua
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) July 12, 2018
.@RepSteveChabot: Don’t you think it’s troubling that members of Mueller’s team have donated to Democrats?
STRZOK: I can assure you FBI agents do not sit around and talk about their political donations with each other.
(ALSO: Mueller is a Republican!) pic.twitter.com/uGAVdgCuRz— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 12, 2018
re: #554 A Mom Anon
I miss her.
There are many I miss.
As far as the Strzok testimony…I like that Dem Rep Cohen is going back over Strzok’s career as a very successful Russian counter intelligence agent.
And he is tying it to how the Russians are seeing all of this.
And now he is saying this is all a show for Fox viewers just like Benghazi.
Hello Trey.
re: #557 ObserverArt
Never?
That a definite word.
If…yes, if…polls and constituents start to turn against Trump never may not be too long.
I’m off polls since the 2016 election, but I think we can see a lot of constituents turning against the GOP. Maybe not a huge percentage, but it might not take much. These Freedumb Cock-us districts have been Gerrymandered within an inch of their lives to guarantee “safe” GOP seats, and they might be pretty fragile.
I know the “swing voter” is considered mythical, because they haven’t been swinging in recent decades. They vote Republican because that’s what people do. Some of them may have been woken up this time. Sad it took tRump to do it, but waddaya gonna do?
Pervert enabler and freak voyeur Jim Jordan now questioning Strzok.
— BevMarie (@evenbev) July 12, 2018
re: #564 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I know the “swing voter” is considered mythical, because they haven’t been swinging in recent decades. They vote Republican because that’s what people do. Some of them may have been woken up this time. Sad it took tRump to do it, but waddaya gonna do?
There is a solid 30% GOP base that cannot be swung no matter what Trump does, or rather because of what he does. And they know that 30% base will get out and vote for DT. So the GOP just needs to get another 20% of the electorate to support them to gain the majority they need to stay in power.
re: #562 jaunte
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Not when the head of the investigation is a Republican who has served in every Republican administration in the last 40 years. But nice try Steve.
re: #567 HappyWarrior
Not when the head of the investigation is a Republican who has served in every Republican administration in the last 40 years. But nice try Steve.
It has to be a partisan issue, that is the only explanation they are willing to admit to.
Jim Jordan is now SCREAMING at Strzok for refusing to disobey the direction of the FBI.
yes, that Jim Jordan.— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) July 12, 2018
Rightwing screaming = treason-fire barely hidden by stupidsmoke.
re: #568 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It has to be a partisan issue, that is the only explanation they are willing to admit to.
Well, to be fair, it is a partisan issue. Their party sees absolutely nothing wrong with anything tRump has done. Those are their principles in action. Any attempt to find fault with anything he’s done is an attack on their party at the most fundamental level.
re: #570 jaunte
Rightwing screaming = treason-fire barely hidden by stupidsmoke.
they can then claim that they were forced to react that way
Mueller is the patriot they all think they are. A fine public servant. He’s the kind of man who served with my grandfather in the NLRB.
Jordan would prefer to yell at law enforcement than a child molester.
— Oliver Griswold (@originalgriz) July 12, 2018
Republicans are trying to claim bias keeps you from doing your job effectively because bias has kept them from doing their jobs effectively.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 12, 2018
Jordan just looks like a dick. Seriously straight outta central casting.
re: #534 MsJ
I hope that the public will be able to see the kompromat on these republicans. It has to be mighty powerful.
Why does everyone assume the Russians “have something” on Repug lawmakers? I see no reason to think they are doing anything against their nature or beliefs.
re: #577 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Why does everyone assume the Russians “have something” on Repug lawmakers? I see no reason to think they are doing anything against their nature or beliefs.
Because they are enabling high treason against us.
https://t.co/XQYrfiv3F1 sells to Bustle co-founder Goldberg in bankruptcy court https://t.co/VYkzyygdLf pic.twitter.com/OV9ku6mBRG
— The Hill (@thehill) July 12, 2018
Bustle founder Bryan Goldberg just sent this note out about his purchase of https://t.co/oOH9NKQKvs. Am told by person familiar he bought it for less than $1.5 million. pic.twitter.com/bvZSONCFCV
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 12, 2018
re: #566 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is a solid 30% GOP base that cannot be swung no matter what Trump does, or rather because of what he does. And they know that 30% base will get out and vote for DT. So the GOP just needs to get another 20% of the electorate to support them to gain the majority they need to stay in power.
Trump didn’t win the popular vote. Senate Republicans didn’t win the popular vote in 2016. House Republicans didn’t win the popular vote in 2016. They don’t have to get 50%+1, just enough in the districts they’ve rigged.
re: #565 jaunte
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What is with GymJordan and the shirtsleeves shtick? Does he think it makes him look like a man of the people or something?
Just came from the hairdresser. This woman was listening to the hearing with her earbuds. She took them out and started spouting about how the Repubs were just “owning” Strzok and HOW DARE HE say he couldn’t answer questions. That they should just throw him in jail.
My hairdresser (a Democrat) started sending me danger messages with her eyes—I just rolled mine and left. I have promised not to get into it with her clients, as she wants to keep her business intact, but sometimes it’s hard to keep my mouth shut.
New Mexico lawyer faced death threat over work for immigrants
This is not one of the two people I refer to as ‘my immigration lawyer friends’. But she knows both of them. She was on a panel for a discussion with one of them, here in my little town.
End of the article:
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Several immigration attorneys and members of the American Immigration Lawyers Association interviewed for this article reported having received threatening messages in the past 18 months. Some said they have modified their home and office security in response.
At the Dreamers Project, the threat “did what it was supposed to do,” Love says. “It distracted us from the work. It made us question, why are we doing this?”
As the lawyer sat in her Santa Fe office pondering her work’s purpose, a Spanish-speaking family — young children in tow — filed in the front door looking for help.
She had her answer.
re: #578 Joe Bacon 🌹
Because they are enabling high treason against us.
travelling to Russia on the 4th of July? I know they can claim that they are just hardworking lawmakers who put job before vacation, but are they going to invite Russian lawmakers to come and visit on November 7th?
re: #580 Belafon
Trump didn’t win the popular vote. Senate Republicans didn’t win the popular vote in 2016. House Republicans didn’t win the popular vote in 2016. They don’t have to get 50%+1, just enough in the districts they’ve rigged.
yes, I should add that they just have to get 20% in the right places
re: #581 BeachDem
What is with GymJordan and the shirtsleeves shtick? Does he think it makes him look like a man of the people or something?
Just came from the hairdresser. This woman was listening to the hearing with her earbuds. She took them out and started spouting about how the Repubs were just “owning” Strzok and HOW DARE HE say he couldn’t answer questions. That they should just throw him in jail.
My hairdresser (a Democrat) started sending me danger messages with her eyes—I just rolled mine and left. I have promised not to get into it with her clients, as she wants to keep her business intact, but sometimes it’s hard to keep my mouth shut.
Republicans and Fox News have carefully cultivated a nationwide hothouse of credulous, angry followers.
re: #578 Joe Bacon 🌹
Because they are enabling high treason against us.
They’ve been traitors since they ended the occupation of the last three Confederate states in exchange for their Electoral votes in 1876. (Remember there was no popular vote from any of these states.) Treason is nothing new for them.
re: #577 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Why does everyone assume the Russians “have something” on Repug lawmakers? I see no reason to think they are doing anything against their nature or beliefs.
Because we’d all hate to think that this is how they’d act if the Russians didn’t. We know the Russians have hacked the RNC server. Imagine if they’re not acting this way because of what the Russians have.
re: #578 Joe Bacon 🌹
Because they are enabling high treason against us.
Your point being that they wouldn’t do that anyway? What makes you think that!
re: #576 HappyWarrior
Jordan just looks like a dick. Seriously straight outta central casting.
He doesn’t need to look like a dick. He IS a dick. No act there.
I like he got outraged by Strzok saying he couldn’t remember how many interviews he did.
Jordan can’t seem to remember his days as a wrestling coach at Ohio State.
Awareness of their own issues and how it appears is not something someone as arrogant as Jim Jordan is capable of grasping.
re: #587 Belafon
Because we’d all hate to think that this is how they’d act if the Russians didn’t. We know the Russians have hacked the RNC server. Imagine if they’re not acting this way because of what the Russians have.
I do so imagine, after the last two years.
re: #496 Shropshire Slasher
All because three undercover officers wanted to see Stormy, but not tip, and not pay their bar tab. Damn, those are some nice business perks.
I hope its possible to sue them fucks for selective enforcement or harassment. I sure the fuck would.
re: #554 A Mom Anon
I miss her.
I miss you guys too. At least the community part.
It’s just with my headspace and the news being what they are these days, I can’t hang out here too long. It’s a struggle as it is to keep moving forward.
(Stress reactions if not fractures in both shins. Whoops. Was a little too much eyes on the goal and not so much paying attention to the training load. Still hoping I’ll be able to run my birthday half marathon though.)
((You can always ping me via e-mail and/or private message here; I get a notification of those.))
re: #577 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Why does everyone assume the Russians “have something” on Repug lawmakers? I see no reason to think they are doing anything against their nature or beliefs.
I’ve posted in the past the Dallas News article about all the Russian Oligarch money funneled to the likes of Mitch McConnell (and others) for his campaign.
Also, the revelations of the same Oligarchs giving money to the NRA to distribute to Republicans like my own senator Rob Portman to use to buy millions in advertising here in Ohio for his 2016 campaign.
At no time in the history of this country have Republicans been this protective of Russia as they are being investigated for direct messing with our election to the extent they did. I also do not think Republicans in the past would have taken Russian money for their campaigns.
Is that a reason? Maybe not clear…but how do you explain the Republicans activities.
The Republicans have always believed Russia was our sworn enemy. Their current activities surely is against their very nature.
Golmert beclowns himself
.@replouiegohmert accuses Strzok — who is under oath — of lying, but says he could probably pass a polygraph test anyway.
Gohmert then shames Strzok for having an extramarital affair. The room erupts in outrage.@davidcicilline calls Gohmert’s comments “a disgrace.” pic.twitter.com/5DASVSu654— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 12, 2018
LOL
Rep @GerryConnolly: “Wow. The American public could be forgiven for mistaking this so-called hearing for a Russian show trial. Its got all the character assassination & cherry-picking facts, and fabrications. It is astounding, and a new low in the U.S. Congress.” pic.twitter.com/TBZRmId4VW
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 12, 2018
.@RepGutierrez on what House Oversight could be doing other than theater of the absurd: “There are 3k children separated from moms & dads and the govt don’t know where… We have 16 women who have come forward to say POTUS attacked them. What does the committee do? No hearings.” pic.twitter.com/eHx3NOIIlz
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 12, 2018