There is a witch hunt going on - this absurdly stupid Republican attack on Peter Strzok. https://t.co/KkTX6gTMTq
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 12, 2018
If this mess shows us anything at all, it’s about our concept of “justice” and just how unevenly it’s applied. I never knew that being an elected official meant you were immune to laws. If I sold info to a foreign government I’d be in prison as soon as the evidence was there. If anything a President or any other elected official should be under MORE scrutiny and tougher rules, not less. It’s driving me nuts.
re: #3 A Mom Anon
If this mess shows us anything at all, it’s about our concept of “justice” and just how unevenly it’s applied. I never knew that being an elected official meant you were immune to laws. If I sold info to a foreign government I’d be in prison as soon as the evidence was there. If anything a President or any other elected official should be under MORE scrutiny and tougher rules, not less. It’s driving me nuts.
The only rule here is that no body other than Congress can bring charges, that is designed to keep the President free of partisan harassment from lower courts and private citizens.
But it also means that Congress should act to uphold the laws that it passes or it has voided its own mandate to make them.
Peter Strzok completely decimated Trey Gowdy and now I want Strzok to run for President.
Against Trump.
Right now.pic.twitter.com/RFH6PjEEsU— Holly Figueroa O’Reilly 🌊 BWCS (@AynRandPaulRyan) July 12, 2018
Now the rightwing conspiracy theory seems to be that I slipped the memos to the FBI to sabotage Trump. Also not true. They can’t get their story straight.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) July 12, 2018
re: #3 A Mom Anon
If this mess shows us anything at all, it’s about our concept of “justice” and just how unevenly it’s applied. I never knew that being an elected official meant you were immune to laws. If I sold info to a foreign government I’d be in prison as soon as the evidence was there. If anything a President or any other elected official should be under MORE scrutiny and tougher rules, not less. It’s driving me nuts.
But see, it takes a specific type of elected official before you’re free to do anything you wish.
In other words, #IOKIYAR
Why shouldn’t they? It’s clear they’re consistently the only ones allowed to define the rules and standards, and more importantly who those apply to. And any attempt to fight back against it gets you swallowed by media behavior that proves that #IOKIYAR is all but law right now
— Uncivil K Cares, Do U? (@Citizen_Kryptik) July 12, 2018
To be a Republican these days is to be totally and utterly inoculated from consequence, because you are treated as righteous and just by default.
This really isn’t going well for the GOP at all. I honestly didn’t know much about Strzok, other than I think he’s probably a bit of an asshole to everyone around, but the dude is clearly very, very bright, and very, very articulate. He’s also not much for the bullshit “questions” that he’s being asked. He fucking destroyed Gowdy.
re: #8 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
point is that evil people did illegal thins to stop Trump
details are irrelevant
Actual illegality is also irrelevant, just the say-so of the True and Just Leaders of Real America.
Gohmert speaks as if his words are bricks he has to carry out two at a time.
re: #13 jaunte
Gohmert speaks as if his words are bricks he has to carry out two at a time.
neighbors had a german shepherd who used to retrieve bricks. her canines were worn down to stumps…
Gohmert calls Strzok a disgrace, obviously projecting.
Gohmert is so overmatched by Strzok he really needs the louder mic.
Louie Gohmert now ranting like a complete lunatic, accusing Peter Strzok of lying. https://t.co/KkTX6gTMTq pic.twitter.com/3dktu1Pcye
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 12, 2018
FWIW, Gohmert DID ask a question, wrt Strzok and his wife.
Strzok turns around and attacks Gohmert’s character.
Goodlatte has totally lost control.— emptywheel (@emptywheel) July 12, 2018
So many of these guys claim to be lawyers. Gowdy was supposedly a prosecutor. It’s clear that none of them have a clue how this works, or what to ask.
As a prosecutor, you’re supposed to know what the answers are going to be before you ask the question - everyone knows what the testimony is likely to be (so no surprises, etc.).
Instead, they didn’t realize that Strzok knows the law and policy better than all these guys? They didn’t think that Strzok would cite chapter and verse on not commenting on active investigations because it might affect the outcome?
Strzok refused to do the very thing that helped get us into this mess in the first place: he refused to comment on ongoing investigations (Comey should have followed this same guideline, but instead he indicated activity on Clinton emails - causing media meltdown in weeks before the election and helped throw things to Trump).
GOP wanted to treat the adherence to the rules as a bad thing. They wanted to slap him with contempt? That shows how badly the GOP wants to get rid of the rule of law and protect their own. They don’t care about the law, rules, or even that Trump is a Putin puppet.
They’ve got their own power to protect, and they know that the wheels of justice are grinding ever so slowly towards every last one of these fuckers in the admin (and some outside the admin too).
All the efforts to deflect and project criminality on to Clinton are just that - projection.
It’s past time people realize that the GOP has no interest except their own enrichment and fleecing of America and destroying its values, even to the point of selling out American foreign policy to Russia.
I wonder what it is like behind the scenes in the House. For better or for worse, I suspect there is largely some level of collegiality between senators—they can generally be civil, grab a beer or whatever. I don’t get that impression at all in the House. These guys really seem like they hate each other—and for good reason, with the absolute nut jobs in the GOP.
re: #20 lawhawk
So many of these guys claim to be lawyers. Gowdy was supposedly a prosecutor. It’s clear that none of them have a clue how this works, or what to ask.
As a prosecutor, you’re supposed to know what the answers are going to be before you ask the question - everyone knows what the testimony is likely to be (so no surprises, etc.).
Instead, they didn’t realize that Strzok knows the law and policy better than all these guys? They didn’t think that Strzok would cite chapter and verse on not commenting on active investigations because it might affect the outcome?
Strzok refused to do the very thing that helped get us into this mess in the first place: he refused to comment on ongoing investigations (Comey should have followed this same guideline, but instead he indicated activity on Clinton emails - causing media meltdown in weeks before the election and helped throw things to Trump).
GOP wanted to treat the adherence to the rules as a bad thing. They wanted to slap him with contempt? That shows how badly the GOP wants to get rid of the rule of law and protect their own. They don’t care about the law, rules, or even that Trump is a Putin puppet.
They’ve got their own power to protect, and they know that the wheels of justice are grinding ever so slowly towards every last one of these fuckers in the admin (and some outside the admin too).
All the efforts to deflect and project criminality on to Clinton are just that - projection.
It’s past time people realize that the GOP has no interest except their own enrichment and fleecing of America and destroying its values, even to the point of selling out American foreign policy to Russia.
The problem here is that, as the last couple of decades have continued to prove, projection works. It works excessively well. It’s helped create an impenetrably conservative-friendly media environment that people have been convinced is ‘liberal biased’, it’s created the ever-present assumption that Dems are evil, dirty, criminal sneaks who must be doing something wrong at all times, when Republicans are openly grifting and flouting all norms, and that Dems are the ones who need all the outside help to upend our precious electoral process while they’ve sold their souls to a foreign adversary to do just that.
It works, it works almost every fucking time, because people are more willing to listen to the shittiest of Republicans than the most honorable and effective of Democrats.
Why do so many Republicans look like angry dick heads personified? https://t.co/KkTX6hbnKY pic.twitter.com/A3IuFyA2Ns
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 12, 2018
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Well it’s a party for angry dickheads. So why not. That dude just looks like a dickbag and Republican.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
Inbreeding of white supremacists.
re: #24 Citizen K
It works, it works almost every fucking time, because people are more willing to listen to the shittiest of Republicans than the most honorable and effective of Democrats.
and again, we have an electoral system that gives the GOP a majority in Congress even when they do not get an overall majority of votes
Germany has a system by which half their delegates are elected directly and the other half are selected from a list based on what percentage of the votes their respective parties get, that helps their parliament be a bit more representative
I can’t even believe what we are witnessing today.
Do you now or have you ever had political feelings against Dear Leader Trump?
Damn it…got caught in the old thread.
I want to get this response out in this thread to a comment made by A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
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.
My response:
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 are against their very nature.
I guess when you live in a country that rewards being an asshole, this is what you get.
The Husband has been off work for almost 5 months now. He loves shit like The Real World and shows where people destroy each other in the name of winning. I cannot be in the room with that shit. Every fucking show is about competing and stomping the shit out of others. I hate it. All of his friends are turning out to be racist right wing assholes too. And he won’t give any of it up.
He’s supposed to go back to work at the end of the month. I hope so because I can’t deal any more. I do not get it. I’ve found out so much shit, I’m seriously not sure we’re gonna make it til our 25th anniversary next month. I am stuck and if I hear one more in a long parade of idiots run their mouths, my mugshot may end up on the fucking news.
There’s an important part of the headline missing:
- agent Strozok also sent anti Hillary Clinton and anti Bernie sanders texts
- he’s the best counter intelligence official in the FBI
- he has a long history of significant success catching Russian spieshttps://t.co/4Fe8Yk6ZcV— John Oberlin (@OMGno2trump) July 12, 2018
re: #33 lawhawk
I think that last one there is precisely why they’re doing this.
Lacking substance, Republicans keep complaining about Strzok’s “attitude.”
Part of what’s happening in this hearing is an attempt to make principled dissent unacceptable. That only correct praise of dear leader is appropriate behavior.
re: #36 jaunte
Lacking substance, Republicans keep complaining about Strzok’s “attitude.”
It takes almost inhuman levels of self control to prevent the richly deserved contempt for Republican Congressional show hearings from showing through.
re: #36 jaunte
Lacking substance, Republicans keep complaining about Strzok’s “attitude.”
My ex used to annoy me, I would ask her to back off nicely, but she would keep at it until I snapped at her and then complain that I was being mean to her
.@JudgeTedPoe: “You say you’re not bias, but we base things on evidence, not based necessarily on words. And your words to me, prove your bias, your attitude proves your bias, your arrogance proves your bias and I think you’re protesting too much, proves your bias.” pic.twitter.com/E2tT8zEuGU
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 12, 2018
re: #40 wrenchwench
I’ll send you a framed and autographed copy. Ha.
re: #36 jaunte
Lacking substance, Republicans keep complaining about Strzok’s “attitude.”
When your committee has Jim Jordan and Trey Gowdy and Steve King on it, you don’t get to complain about attitude.
re: #43 A Mom Anon
I’ll send you a framed and autographed copy. Ha.
Then it needs some wall. No fridge!
Strzok should take his jacket off when responding to Jordan.
re: #42 The Vicious Babushka
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Seems kind of tacky to use Judge as your handle if you’re no longer a judge, no?
Congressman Tom Marino, who gave a reference to help a mobster get a gaming license WHILE he was a US attorney whose office was investigating that mobster, is lecturing Strzok on DOJ ethics rules.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) July 12, 2018
Problem Pre-Teen Showing Signs Of Decompensating, May Need Intervention
Trump ended NATO summit by showing up late and blowing off meetings with 2 world leaders
re: #42 The Vicious Babushka
“I’m biased in favor of America. What about you, Ted?”
re: #42 The Vicious Babushka
proof this was nothing but a show for State TV. (as if we didn’t know that)
re: #47 HappyWarrior
Seems kind of tacky to use Judge as your handle if you’re no longer a judge, no?
I think they get to keep it, like Ambassador. It would be normal to call Obama, ‘Mr. President’. (The latest one, not so much.)
re: #31 ObserverArt
Damn it…got caught in the old thread.
I want to get this response out in this thread to a comment made by A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
My response:
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 are against their very nature.
They believed ths Soviets were our sworn enemies, but the current crop of oligarch/plutocrats? Not so much. (And a lot of the anti-USSR feeling was opportunistic anyway. Too many of them know nothing about anything outside their own districts and bank balances. If they even know that much.)
According to the testimony of the Attorney General in the IG report, nine days before the election she and the FBI Director discussed how a “deep and visceral hatred of Secretary Clinton” by a cadre of senior NY FBI agents “has put us where we are today” w/r/t the Weiner laptop. pic.twitter.com/Owg69kuAlG
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 16, 2018
Congress hasn’t held one hearing about bias in the FBI NY Office, and I’m not even aware of any newspaper or tv news outlet that thought the news of this conversation was worthy of a stand-alone story. https://t.co/EfeQ27Ufb0
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 12, 2018
That would be the NY office that funneled dirt to Rudy and fixated on Clinton despite overwhelming evidence of malfeasance in Trumpworld (and that investigation was underway concurrently).
re: #49 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
Problem Pre-Teen Showing Signs Of Decompensating, May Need Intervention
Trump ended NATO summit by showing up late and blowing off meetings with 2 world leaders
In the last century, he would have showed up roaring drunk and gone over and pissed into the fireplace…
re: #52 wrenchwench
I think they get to keep it, like Ambassador. It would be normal to call Obama, ‘Mr. President’. (The latest one, not so much.)
Ah ok.
The Chair will note exactly which questions the witness is not being allowed by the FBI to answer, because the Russians will be very interested in what areas they’re sensitive about.
re: #45 wrenchwench
I’ll glue some magnets on it for you. 😏
What the hell did I just see. pic.twitter.com/YNqDF8hBcx
— jamie (@gnuman1979) July 12, 2018
Also, latest sign that Facebook won’t do a damn thing to fix anything:
We see Pages on both the left and the right pumping out what they consider opinion or analysis – but others call fake news. We believe banning these Pages would be contrary to the basic principles of free speech.
— Facebook (@facebook) July 12, 2018
They ‘both sides same thing’-ed it all, with a dash of ‘Freeze Peach’.
They’re not fixing jack shit, ever. They don’t even see a fucking problem.
re: #60 Single-handed sailor
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re: #62 wrenchwench
I wanna see him riding the horse with the motorcycle in the sidecar.
Was just about to post that myself, but you beat me to it…
re: #61 Citizen K
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They ‘both sides same thing’-ed it all, with a dash of ‘Freeze Peach’.
They’re not fixing jack shit, ever. They don’t even see a fucking problem.
OFFS. There’s free speech and then there’s spreading misinformation.
Next up in our “Angry Dick Heads” series https://t.co/KkTX6gTMTq pic.twitter.com/l9PTBqOynt
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 12, 2018
re: #64 HappyWarrior
I went to go buy food for Miss Dog earlier and there’s a fucking QAnon billboard on state highway 41 now. Seriously?
I enjoyed hearing Mr. Gutierrez very much. Now I have to put a unicycle together…
re: #66 A Mom Anon
I went to go buy food for Miss Dog earlier and there’s a fucking QAnon billboard on state highway 41 now. Seriously?
Wonder how many of those are being funded by Russia
re: #54 lawhawk
That would be the NY office that funneled dirt to Rudy and fixated on Clinton despite overwhelming evidence of malfeasance in Trumpworld (and that investigation was underway concurrently).
Unimportant, but this one anti-Ddrump text by a guy who also said anti-HRC stuff, proves conclusively there was a widespread FBI conspiracy to defeat Drumpf and the whole agency must be purged and replaced with dotheads who will sign a loyalty oath.
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re: #48 jaunte
Oh the Trumpgop knows all the things about ethics.
re: #53 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
They believed ths Soviets were our sworn enemies, but the current crop of oligarch/plutocrats? Not so much. (And a lot of the anti-USSR feeling was opportunistic anyway. Too many of them know nothing about anything outside their own districts and bank balances. If they even know that much.)
True. But that is an excuse for the Republicans to use now that they need it. The old Soviet Union changed back in the late 80s, but have the new Russians changed enough that the Republicans can use the excuse now?
I think it is pretty clear Putin is doing very Soviet like things under the name of Russia. In fact, until Trump came along, actually even before he was elected, there were many current Republicans that were still fine with thinking Russia was still our enemy.
Now they are too power hungry to get what they want for them to remember.
re: #61 Citizen K
Also, latest sign that Facebook won’t do a damn thing to fix anything:
They ‘both sides same thing’-ed it all, with a dash of ‘Freeze Peach’.
They’re not fixing jack shit, ever. They don’t even see a fucking problem.
Of course not, because not fixing anything while paying lip service to any valid concerns makes them (and Twitter, too) a hell of a lot more money than actually doing anything substantive.
re: #30 blueraven
I can’t even believe what we are witnessing today.
Do you now or have you ever had political feelings against Dear Leader Trump?
We’re so used to the daily outrage from the WH we might be tempted to forget the cesspool residing in the People’s House of Deputies.
re: #72 TedStriker
Of course not, because not fixing anything while paying lip service to any valid concerns makes them (and Twitter, too) a hell of lot more money than actually doing anything substantive
Meanwhile actual fake news flourishes and pushes out everything else thanks to the noise factor, while they gleefully sic themselves on anything the usual suspects call ‘fake news’
Breaking News: Republicans vote to make it legal nationwide to ban gays & lesbians from adopting.https://t.co/6yIxlaysnc
— BEN PATRICK JOHNSON (@benpatrick90069) July 12, 2018
“What have you got to lose” they said. “Most LGBT-friendly candidate ever” they said….
re: #61 Citizen K
Also, latest sign that Facebook won’t do a damn thing to fix anything:
They ‘both sides same thing’-ed it all, with a dash of ‘Freeze Peach’.
They’re not fixing jack shit, ever. They don’t even see a fucking problem.
I’ll bet they will find it convenient to ignore the first amendment concerns when it suits them.
re: #71 ObserverArt
I think it is pretty clear Putin is doing very Soviet like things under the name of Russia. In fact, until Trump came along, actually even before he was elected, there were many current Republicans that were still fine with thinking Russia was still our enemy.
Now they are too power hungry to get what they want for them to remember.
It is no longer the Old Cold War: Putin is not trying to export a worldwide political or economic ideology to compete with the West.
But he does seem to be out to restore the old Russian Empire, and to restore its key pillars of Autocracy and Orthodoxy.
Don’t forget the tens of millions of ethnic Russians “stranded” in the former Soviet republics. Those are his Sudetendeutsch.
I can even see how Russia might have a claim to the Crimean peninsula; it was part of Russia until 1955 when Khruschev gave it to the Ukraine - for administrative purposes as it was physically cut off by land from the rest of Russia.
But simply occupying it and declaring it part of Russia again was not an acceptable approach. Well, at least not for the rest of the world…
re: #75 Citizen K
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no difference between the mainstream candidates, they libertarians and berniebros told us
re: #61 Citizen K
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They ‘both sides same thing’-ed it all, with a dash of ‘Freeze Peach’.
They’re not fixing jack shit, ever. They don’t even see a fucking problem.
I don’t want to piss off Facebook and Twitter users.
But, why should Facebook and Twitter change when there really is no repercussions for what they did?
As long as people use Facebook and Twitter daily nothing is going to change. Simple fact.
Until their business is hurt they will do what they want to do.
Everyone says we need to get in the faces and act in uncivil ways to Trumpers and we need protests, etc.
Is anyone prepared to get in the faces of Facebook and Twitter? There doesn’t appear to be.
re: #62 wrenchwench
I wanna see him riding the horse with the motorcycle in the sidecar.
Yeahbutt, the horse might not agree.
Why are Republicans not outraged that when Trump was running for president—and defending Putin—he was also secretly negotiating a deal for a Trump Tower in Moscow that would not go forward w/o Russian govt support? A profound conflict of interest.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) July 12, 2018
re: #82 jaunte
“Yes but let me talk to you about real ethics young reporter man.”
re: #82 jaunte
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Gowdy still hammering at the fkin texts. He’s such a stupid, ignorant, misguided jerk. #StrzokHearing #StrzokTestimony
— Karen Walz (@khwalz) July 12, 2018
Strzok explaining hyperbole to the Gowdy dummy.
re: #66 A Mom Anon
I went to go buy food for Miss Dog earlier and there’s a fucking QAnon billboard on state highway 41 now. Seriously?
Qanon is the Louise Mensch of Alex Joneses.
I re: #80 ObserverArt
People have become to dependent on it to communicate. No one calls anyone just to talk anymore. I haven’t got a birthday card in years from anyone but my mom and my son, they think a Facebook post is better. So last year I did an experiment. I removed my birthday from my account. No one knew it was my birthday including my in laws. Not a fucking person could be bothered to remember, including someone who got married on my birthday and I was a bridesmaid for her. I’m close to just shutting it down, but my son is active and I feel like I need to still have to keep a distant eyeball on things. He’s struggling right now.
Wow. I thought I already despised Trey Gowdy, but in this hearing he’s taking it to the next level. https://t.co/KkTX6gTMTq pic.twitter.com/1U0Ks45D2d
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 12, 2018
After more than six hours, the hearing has yielded strikingly little new information. Members using their five minutes to make speeches, not ask questions and Strzok told to respond briefly at the end of the five minutes.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 12, 2018
re: #89 A Mom Anon
Think of how much a phone has been a hindrance to people talking face-to-face.
Apparently we’re back to Congress believing that infidelity says something about someone’s character, is that right?
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 12, 2018
Apparently we’re back to saying “Congress” when what we mean is “House Republicans.” #BothSides https://t.co/AG4I8n79Zg
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) July 12, 2018
re: #92 Belafon
I know, but at least people were still using the phone to make plans and actually talk. I honestly think my generation (late boomers), is worse about this than my son’s.
re: #86 Sir John Barron
Is this shitshow of a hearing still going on?
Could go on for hours yet. 75 members of congress allowed 5 minutes.
5 x 75 = 375 minutes. 375 divided by 60 = 6.25 hours. Add in breaks, grandstanding, the chairs being able to do whatever they want…12 hours at least. 10 PM tonight maybe.
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re: #89 A Mom Anon
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People have become to dependent on it to communicate. No one calls anyone just to talk anymore. I haven’t got a birthday card in years from anyone but my mom and my son, they think a Facebook post is better. So last year I did an experiment. I removed my birthday from my account. No one knew it was my birthday including my in laws. Not a fucking person could be bothered to remember, including someone who got married on my birthday and I was a bridesmaid for her. I’m close to just shutting it down, but my son is active and I feel like I need to still have to keep a distant eyeball on things. He’s struggling right now.
I understand. And Facebook and Twitter understand. So, nothing is going to change.
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re: #94 A Mom Anon
I know, but at least people were still using the phone to make plans and actually talk. I honestly think my generation (late boomers), is worse about this than my son’s.
As we get older, it’s really easy to allow technology to do some of the work for us. I used to be a master at navigating, but, at 48, I’m more than willing to let Google Maps take care of it for me. I still remember a lot of my family’s birthdays; you just have to remind me what day it is.
A person I know was with the NSA for years, and was also never able to pass a polygraph.
re: #93 JordanRules
Apparently we’re back to Congress believing that infidelity says something about someone’s character, is that right?
— Jake Tapper
And that what someone says in a text or hot mic is a big deal.
Strzok should say something like “Well, like our president, you shouldn’t take my texts literally.”
re: #93 JordanRules
I can’t wait till we’re back to ALL CANDIDATES MUST SUBMIT 30 YEARS OF FEDERAL TAX RETURNS TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT LIKE ALL OUR GOP CANDIDATES HAVE ALWAYS DONE FOREVER.
What if Trump has been a Russian asset since 1987? Will he be meeting with his counterpart – of his handler? Trump’s determination to conciliate Putin is raising suspicions among the public & probably among hawkish @GOP senators.
via @intelligencer #Maddow https://t.co/3DhZe15cMu pic.twitter.com/oIXX8ARKrJ— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) July 9, 2018
Peter Strzok was the lead agent on the 2010 espionage case that led to the arrest of 10 Russian spies who were embedded in the US, posing as Americans, working to destabilize the country. Is there any wonder that Trump hates him?#Maddow https://t.co/qYWilqK4wk
— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) July 12, 2018
re: #102 jaunte
Yes but he sent that one text…
re: #71 ObserverArt
True. But that is an excuse for the Republicans to use now that they need it. The old Soviet Union changed back in the late 80s, but have the new Russians changed enough that the Republicans can use the excuse now?
I think it is pretty clear Putin is doing very Soviet like things under the name of Russia. In fact, until Trump came along, actually even before he was elected, there were many current Republicans that were still fine with thinking Russia was still our enemy.
Now they are too power hungry to get what they want for them to remember.
And that’s why “Russia is the enemy” no longer holds. Also, a lot of the current crop of Repug Congresscritters are Tea Partiers — know-nothings with ideology where they should keep their brains. What do they care about ancient history?
Anyone feel secure with these clowns in possession of national secrets?
BREAKING: Justice Department appealing AT&T-Time Warner merger.
At approximate 2:00pm EDT I will deliver a senate floor speech titled Friends, Foes & Peace
— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) July 12, 2018
“Upon conclusion of this speech, I plan to continue supporting every policy of Donald Trump.” https://t.co/2DlDXTlPEE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 12, 2018
re: #104 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
And that’s why “Russia is the enemy” no longer holds. Also, a lot of the current crop of Repug Congresscritters are Tea Partiers — know-nothings with ideology where they should keep their brains. What do they care about ancient history?
Can you really say it no longer holds. Are we talking about fact or Republican impressions?
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re: #106 The Major
BREAKING: Justice Department appealing AT&T-Time Warner merger.
I hate these situations where there’s no ‘good guy’ to root for. The merger is sketch as shit. But the reasons the administration have tried to stop it have been less about the damage the merger could do and more about Trump’s personal affront, and I doubt this appeal will be any different.
We are literally having a congressional hearing to grill someone for saying negative things about Trump.
Putin and Kim Jong Un are smiling. Just like “trials” in their countries. The rest of the industrialized world? Horrified.— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) July 12, 2018
re: #110 Citizen K
I hate these situations where there’s no ‘good guy’ to root for. The merger is sketch as shit. But the reasons the administration have tried to stop it have been less about the damage the merger could do and more about Trump’s personal affront, and I doubt this appeal will be any different.
No benefit in it for Trump personally, so he’s gotta shake it down for some $$$.
re: #111 GlutenFreeJesus
“Those cave kids were no angels.”
re: #108 ObserverArt
Can you really say it no longer holds. Are we talking about fact or Republican impressions?
I thought Repug impressions were what we were talking about.
“You’re under investigation.”
“I’m not aware of any…”
“Betcha you are”
Double secret betcha investigations are the most believable.
One more complaint about how long the 10 month Russia collusion investigation has been going on.
Roy Moore threatens to sue if Showtime airs video of Sacha Baron Cohen tricking him https://t.co/Gh7TSphF28 pic.twitter.com/7QLEY79F54
— The Hill (@thehill) July 12, 2018
re: #112 jaunte
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Things he said about him as a candidate. I’m not surprised a lot of career FBI men and women hate Trump. After the campaign he ran, why shouldn’t they? Made it all the weird that the NY office was leaking to Rudy.
re: #120 Dr. Matt
The increased ratings if he does should cover Showtimes costs.
re: #119 jaunte
One more complaint about how long the 10 month Russia collusion investigation has been going on.
yeah totally unreasonable which is why this hearing was supposed to be about the investigation into President Hillary Clinton.
I look forward to SBC’s new show. If it’s anything like Ali G, Borat, or Bruno, brilliant.
re: #115 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
I thought Repug impressions were what we were talking about.
Only in the context that they are looking past the facts for convenience.
Ohhh…Raja Krishnamoorthi is bringing up the Clinton bias in the New York field office.
Thank you!
remember the whole point of the strzok hearing is a gop cover-up of trump working with russian operatives to influence the 2016 election. an investigation which has already secured multiple convictions and indictments.
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 12, 2018
re: #42 The Vicious Babushka
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what the fuck….is Fox hiring recent asylum seekers as transcribers? that’s the most pathetic display of English I’ve seen out of a network in quite some time.
Pathetic & shameful of GOP & Jim Jordan attempting to pull rank, lie about @FBI giving permission & trick Strzok into discuss ongoing investigation when that’s illegal. GOP can’t name statute where it’s permissible & Peter refuses to take the bait. #KremlinGOP #Traitors
— bardgal (@bardgal) July 12, 2018
re: #52 wrenchwench
I think they get to keep it, like Ambassador. It would be normal to call Obama, ‘Mr. President’. (The latest one, not so much.)
Mr. Prisoner 308/9A478
re: #31 ObserverArt
Damn it…got caught in the old thread.
I want to get this response out in this thread to a comment made by A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
My response:
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 are against their very nature.
That’s ok. I got to upding it twice.
One of the other members who attacked Strzok today is Scott DesJarlais, a doctor who had affairs with several of his patients (a clear violation of medical ethics) and pressured one to get an abortion.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) July 12, 2018
Jordan unprepared for Strzok to get permission to answer.
re: #132 jaunte
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If a man who lies and breaks his most high covenant, fidelity to his marriage, he most certainly would lie and break his covenant to his employer, the American people! #Trump #Strozkhearing #FBI #Outnumbered @FoxNews @TGowdySC
— gg (@GunnysGirlyGurl) July 12, 2018
Who wants to tell her.
re: #91 jaunte
That’s because this is a show for Republicans to have sound bites that will play on repeat on republican/state TV (Fox “News”) and on right wing blogs. It is nothing more.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 12, 2018
Yep. Trump must go. He just can’t be trusted to ever do the right thing.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) July 12, 2018
re: #120 Dr. Matt
I wasn’t going to watch the SBC series but now I think I have to.
re: #126 ObserverArt
Only in the context that they are looking past the facts for convenience.
Ohhh…Raja Krishnamoorthi is bringing up the Clinton bias in the New York field office.
Thank you!
For the record, I do not believe that Repugs make any reference to reality as a basis for their actions. If we want to talk about whether I think Russia is a threat (yes), that’s an entirely different conversation.
(Hey, my iPhone type-ahead suggestions now include “Repug.” Guess that thing can learn after all.)
Trump. Married three times.
Cheated on wife #1 with wife #2.
Cheated on wife #2 with wife #3.
Are you daft or just ignorant?
Or both?— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 12, 2018
So far, Trump has lost at least 400,000 followers in Twitter’s BOT purge. pic.twitter.com/o5scChYwSd
— Maggie Jordan: (@MaggieJordanACN) July 12, 2018
re: #141 MsJ
If you’re just tuning in, Louie Gohmert just attacked Peter Strzok for cheating on his wife, in the context of defending Donald Trump.
Somewhere Irony is huffing gasoline fumes out of a brown paper bag.— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) July 12, 2018
While #Mueller is celebrating 50 years of marriage to his high school sweetheart. https://t.co/M5ooEWV0I4
— larry stein (@shedrow) July 12, 2018
Heh, I don’t watch Chuck Todd anymore, but left MSNBC on and Chuck’s panel just came to the conclusion…Putin won the day.
Thanks Republicans Trump White Nationalist Party.
re: #26 jaunte
Ted Poe is the Joe Arpaio of Texas judges.
Speaking of Joe Arpaio, he’s running. I’ve seen a grand total of two signs of his driving around East Mesa since signs went up on June 29. Here’s one:
Kelli Ward and Martha McSally have more signs up than Arpaio. Both Ward and Arpaio have real problems. Arpaio’s problems are obvious. Ward’s problem is that whoever her Dem opponent is has ready made ads of Ward asking McCain to resign so that Doug Ducey, the Arizona guvnuh, could appoint her. I told my brother that if I were to vote in the (R) primary, I’d go with McSally all the way. She’s extremely problematic but she’s not a frothing nutcase like Ward or a pardoned loon like Shurf Joe.
Poor queen Elizabeth
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 12, 2018
WATCH: Hakeem Jeffries @RepJeffries MIC DROP
“My colleagues in the cover-up caucus don’t like that criminal investigation & therefore they need to identify a villain. Mr. Strzok, tag you’re it.” #StrozkHearing 1/2 pic.twitter.com/li3rNAv2sb— La Femme Nikita (@nicolenavega) July 12, 2018
WATCH: @RepJeffries MIC DROP #2
“This investigation is a joke, it’s a fraud. Thisheading is a kangaroo court, a 3-ring circus. It is not even meritorious of an investigation by Ace Ventura, Pet Detective let alone 75 members of United States Congress. 2/2
#StrozkHearing pic.twitter.com/Kx88j4b3J8— La Femme Nikita (@nicolenavega) July 12, 2018
Incredible scenes at the #TrumpUKVisit at @BlenheimPalace . The crowd keeps getting bigger! #FuckTrump pic.twitter.com/DmBDinGjZm
— Aaron F (@AaronusMaximus) July 12, 2018
re: #145 ObserverArt
Heh, I don’t watch Chuck Todd anymore, but left MSNBC on and Chuck’s panel just came to the conclusion…Putin won the day.
Thanks
RepublicansTrump White Nationalist Party.
Also…John Podhoretz called Louie Gohmert a loathsome politician and there is no excuse for his comments.
re: #148 MsJ
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Ace Ventura was actually a good detective. These guys just want to protect Trump.
This is absolutely mad. The Sun has an exclusive interview with Trump who is dumping on Theresa May. pic.twitter.com/MHvNtQfHyS
— Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef) July 12, 2018
Trump tells me: “If they do a deal like that, we would be dealing with the European Union instead of dealing with the UK, so it will probably kill the deal”.
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) July 12, 2018
Does Trump realise how hard he’s making May’s life here? Does he care? Or is he just saying the last thing he was told by someone? https://t.co/nryffcaQHD
— Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef) July 12, 2018
Is Melania on Page 3?
— 🕸️🕷️ Azure Ghost 🕷️🕸️ (@AzureGhost) July 12, 2018
FBI agent Peter Strzok just testified that the Steele dossier was not the reason why the FBI opened its Trump-Russia investigation in July 2016.
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) July 12, 2018
House GOP doing so much damage to Trump today. It’s delicious!
🍿🍿🍿🍿 https://t.co/Loh9bHOwv5— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) July 12, 2018
re: #155 HappyWarrior
This is a Murdoch rag right?
Sure thang!
I think it was one of his first big papers he took control of…back in the 60s.
Chuck Todd just said that the hearing was a big win for Trump today.
He believes that independents might have lost faith in the FBI and that could spell the end of the investigation.— digby (@digby56) July 12, 2018
Was Chuck Todd watching some other hearing? https://t.co/cYMILViOy4
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) July 12, 2018
Oh my. I am in love!!!!
“Cutest little French Bulldog” pic.twitter.com/zi2DaQHuqs
— Fluff Society (@FluffSociety) July 12, 2018
re: #151 jaunte
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From the replies, this is great!
Thank you UK!! Lock them up!! pic.twitter.com/Uz5pUiZMNk
— Maria McKenna 🌊🌊 (@McKenna9999) July 12, 2018
re: #160 jaunte
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I don’t think that is quite right. Todd said IF the independents loose faith in the FBI then the Mueller investigation will come to an end.
“all the fake middle aged maga moms that tweeted 3k times a day stopped following me .What happened?!?”
— BradBrains (@Britcey) July 12, 2018
Trump lost >100k followers!
— Quanah (@bonrudq) July 12, 2018
Republican hypocrisy is ridiculous today. GOP has until 5pm to tell me why I can’t release Peter Strzok’s closed-door transcript. If they don’t, @RepRaskin and I are going to send to DOJ to scrub for sensitive info and then release it when it’s ready.
— David Cicilline (@davidcicilline) July 12, 2018
UPDATE: Republicans couldn’t find an excuse to stop us from releasing the Strzok transcript. Sending to DOJ for redactions and will release as soon as it’s available. https://t.co/iOtXVsokNY
— David Cicilline (@davidcicilline) July 12, 2018
re: #145 ObserverArt
Heh, I don’t watch Chuck Todd anymore, but left MSNBC on and Chuck’s panel just came to the conclusion…Putin won the day.
Thanks
RepublicansTrump White Nationalist Party.
#Trumpublicans (They don’t like it) They also don’t like being told they support domestic terrorism i.e. The Hammond pardon.
I’m really getting tweets that say:
Replying to @DavidCornDC
YOU’RE NEXT #GUILTY #DeepState #MAGA
This is what happens when people like @Jim_Jordan push conspiracy theories to distract from the Trump-Russia scandal.— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) July 12, 2018
re: #154 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The PM should cancel Brexit on the strength of this. (DT approves, so there must be something wrong with leaving.)
Sigh. As if.
re: #154 Backwoods_Sleuth
Now we know what Bannon was up to.
I can’t love this enough!!!
An English marketing agency carved “F-ck Trump,” in Russian, into a crop circle along Trump’s helicopter route to London tomorrow.
RETWEET your love to the agency who did this @TenthManHello pic.twitter.com/3XdIRoFpUW— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) July 12, 2018
If this GOP kangaroo court does end up holding Peter Strzok in contempt, they’d literally be criminalizing criticism of Donald Trump. Without evidence that Strzok allowed his opinions to influence his job, there’s nothing else going on here.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 12, 2018
Arguing on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/r7t5xQLnBG
— Paul Bronks (@BoringEnormous) July 12, 2018
re: #166 Dave In Austin
#Trumpublicans (They don’t like it) They also don’t like being told they support domestic terrorism i.e. The Hammond pardon.
Sounds like a good public moniker, but I’m going to stick with “Repugs” in my postings. I’m sure type-ahead would be irritated if I stopped, after it went to all that trouble learning it. 😅
re: #29 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and again, we have an electoral system that gives the GOP a majority in Congress even when they do not get an overall majority of votes
Germany has a system by which half their delegates are elected directly and the other half are selected from a list based on what percentage of the votes their respective parties get, that helps their parliament be a bit more representative
And we could do that as well, without amending the Constitution.
re: #18 Charles Johnson
I’d like to see Mr. Goodlatte lean over and give GOHMERT! a whack in the noggin with the gavel.
You’re out of order, you brainless twatwaffle!
So is this a Texas thing now?
Mom tried to sell 8-year-old daughter for sex on social media — for $100, Texas cops say
Read more here: sanluisobispo.com
Mom offered sex with 2-year-old daughter for $1,200. She was talking to a Texas cop
Read more here: sanluisobispo.com
re: #177 Romantic Heretic
I’d like to see Mr. Goodlatte lean over and give GOHMERT! a whack in the noggin with the gavel.
You’re out of order, you brainless twatwaffle!
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
“My car was eaten by animals,” Speaker Paul Ryan said. “It’s just dead.” https://t.co/lkWVKQBKmD
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) July 12, 2018
Opening scene in the sequel to M Night Shyamalan’s The Happening that nobody asked for. https://t.co/uXb4fU88cU
— Space Force Commodore (@goddamnedfrank) July 12, 2018
I think we should get to see all of Trey Gowdy’s emails/text messages involving any mention of Hillary Clinton while he was investigating Benghazi.
Fair is fair.
Rep. Watson Coleman just went after Gowdy: “You’re not the testifying person … if you can’t control yourself, how do you expect this Committee to control itself? You’ve been out of control since you’ve been on this Committee. Why don’t you leave it alone? This is not Benghazi.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 12, 2018
re: #114 Sir John Barron
“Those cave kids were no angels.”
“If we rescue them, they’ll just become dependent; they’re better off rescuing themselves.”
Thread.
1. I’m stepping down from a job that I absolutely love to start something brand new.
It was a tough decision but I’m all in.
Let me explain why. https://t.co/fuMMkPXyPe— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 12, 2018
Here we go again. Gowdy on the same old shit…personal text = evidence of bias. Like a mad dog with an already chewed up bone.
There is a low level of trust from the American people in these GOP clowns right here.
Trump’s business partner in Toronto authorized a secret $100 million payment to someone in Moscow representing Kremlin interests. Just one of many Trump financial ties to Russia.https://t.co/xKa1DIiUpH
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) July 12, 2018
REVEALED: Michael Cohen Bought $6.7M Apartment From Developer Trump Cronies Days Before FBI Raid - https://t.co/xJnC5hPIw3 pic.twitter.com/MQhDB8jTOY
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) July 12, 2018
Trump talked about the Trump Baby Blimp! On why he’s not spending much time in London: “I guess when they put out blimps to make me feel unwelcome, no reason for me to go to London…when they make you feel unwelcome, why would I stay there?”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2018
President Manbaby proves the point of the baby blimp yet again! https://t.co/LYLDrqj0nO
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 12, 2018
re: #190 goddamnedfrank
It’s not, check her other tweets. 100% sincere derp.
Then she is one of the dumbest people on earth.
re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth
we should get a bunch of those blimps for here.
I’m starting to think ICE blimps.
Pretty much sums up this whole ridiculous hearing…
look at the guy behind stzok: “jesus christ” pic.twitter.com/5920i8Z2vX
— David Mack (@davidmackau) July 12, 2018
re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth
we should get a bunch of those blimps for here.
I bet somebody across the street from every tRump property in New York would be willing to fly them….
re: #160 jaunte
And thus we see why it might not matter that the shitshow was a disaster for republicans: because all non-political junkies will probably end up hearing is ‘GOOD NEWS FOR REPUBLICANS’ ‘DEMOCRATS CRAZED ATTACK ON COMMITTEE!’ bullshit, or ‘Both sides make mockery of hearing’ at best, and thus the folks we need to reach out to either tune out or come away with “GOD TRUMP IS WINNING” and thus it ends up all fucking worse than before.
This is why Republicans can be as fucking crazed as they are: they will always win the image war because Dems will always be treated as wrong forever and anon.
Brutal. Good job.
Rep. Gutierrez completely destroys GOP LIE About Peter Strzok pic.twitter.com/xKX7S3aurJ
— PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) July 12, 2018
re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth
I like that idea. We could fly one over ABQ and SF. Then he would never… Oh wait, our state didn’t vote for him, so he doesn’t represent us. And he’ll never come here anyway. Never mind.
Fresh idiot still doesn’t know how to pronounce Mueller.
re: #192 Charles Johnson
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50 pounds of vinyl in the hands of a group of artists and Trump is defeated.
Big Man dropped by Big Baby Blimp.
re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth
we should get a bunch of those blimps for here.
I bet within days there will be a licensing agreement with the group in London that designed it and in a few months…just in time for the elections!…they will be in stores in America.
re: #200 Citizen K
And thus we see why it might not matter that the shitshow was a disaster for republicans: because all non-political junkies will probably end up hearing is ‘GOOD NEWS FOR REPUBLICANS’ ‘DEMOCRATS CRAZED ATTACK ON COMMITTEE!’ bullshit, or ‘Both sides make mockery of hearing’ at best, and thus the folks we need to reach out to either tune out or come away with “GOD TRUMP IS WINNING” and thus it ends up all fucking worse than before.
This is why Republicans can be as fucking crazed as they are: they will always win the image war because Dems will always be treated as wrong forever and anon.
In one of the all-time great troll jobs in U.S. political history, American patriot Congressman Elijah Cummings ignored Republican objections and asked his staffers hold up large photos showing Trump aides who pleaded guilty in the Mueller probe.#ProtectMueller #ImpeachTrump pic.twitter.com/mifAwMjkOj
— Jon Cooper 🌊 (@joncoopertweets) July 12, 2018
Remember this, as every dumb GOP question is asked.
Gaetz. The third string jayvee team takes the field.
This one made me, a 6’4 220 lb, Lakota man cry. Back in 1952, “clergy members” were giving innocent little brown children away without question. For a “donation” of $10 dollars. I became immensely distraught because it’s happening again. #savethechildren #AbolishICE 👼🏽 pic.twitter.com/j92pbvl0yg
— Lakota Man (@LakotaMan1) July 8, 2018
House Republicans’ efforts today and otherwise to expose the sources of an ongoing counter-intelligence investigation of immense national importance are utterly reprehensible and dangerous. They’re abusing their authorities to protect the president at the country’s expense.
— Evan McMullin (@Evan_McMullin) July 12, 2018
Following Evan Hurst’s “liveblog” of the bullshit on Wonkette (because I just can’t bring myself to actually watch it, and Evan’s take is quite entertaining) and I do love this:
GOP CONGRESSMAN: Read the ethics handbook, Peter Strzok!
STRZOK: You read it, horse blower.
CONGRESSMAN: I did!
STRZOK: Apparently you can’t read.
CONGRESSMAN: I will go slam my dick in the door a bunch of times now like a common Trey Gowdy.
Keep me away from Matt Gaetz.
He may be taking over for biggest Republican asshole. And so young…like new and full of bullshit.
Gaetz has a complete list of anyone who has ever mentioned Hillary.
re: #210 ObserverArt
I am very leery of polls. Something about 2016. I get the heebeegeebees.
The 2016 polls were pretty accurate. Trump lost the popular vote by 2 points; he just had his votes better distributed, and just enough voters went for Johnson or Stein to let him thread the needle.
re: #210 ObserverArt
I am very leery of polls. Something about 2016. I get the heebeegeebees.
I am with you. We need to remain vigilant and make sure people vote.
Nothing else matters.
That said, trump is a celebrity. He had an Apprentice reputation. He has since been shown to be the buffoon he always was but people didn’t want to believe. Healthcare is going up. Drugs are going up. The shit people care about is not improving.
I think that puts dems in a much better position.
As long as we vote.
re: #210 ObserverArt
I am very leery of polls. Something about 2016. I get the heebeegeebees.
You get the BeeGees?
Oh, man. You have my sympathy. And thoughts and even prayers. (I pray this doesn’t affect my ‘suggestions’ at YouTube.)
The amazing thing is Matt Gaetz thinks he’s a genius who just killed it out there. pic.twitter.com/cZcbUgQr7s
— Five Dollar Feminist (@5DollarFeminist) July 12, 2018
Man seen on video berating woman over Puerto Rico shirt charged with felony hate crimes https://t.co/stnm39s2LH pic.twitter.com/kuq6vcLvh6
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 12, 2018
re: #217 Big Beautiful Door
The 2016 polls were pretty accurate. Trump lost the popular vote by 2 points; he just had his votes better distributed, and just enough voters went for Johnson or Stein to let him thread the needle.
Only at the end. They were pretty wide early.
It is still early.
I’ll maybe look at one the last week of October. But I may need to be numbed.
— Dawn DeSisto (@DawnDesisto) July 12, 2018
re: #224 ObserverArt
Only at the end. They were pretty wide early.
It is still early.
I’ll maybe look at one the last week of October. But I may need to be numbed.
Remember Comey’s October Surprise.
re: #218 MsJ
I am with you. We need to remain vigilant and make sure people vote.
Nothing else matters.
That said, trump is a celebrity. He had an Apprentice reputation. He has since been shown to be the buffoon he always was but people didn’t want to believe. Healthcare is going up. Drugs are going up. The shit people care about is not improving.
I think that puts dems in a much better position.
As long as we vote.
If the people vote, we’ll win; Trump’s approval has been tanking all over the country.
LOL
Sacha’s letter to Sarah Palin. Love the part that asserts she’s been hit by a BS grenade and is bleeding fake news. pic.twitter.com/r0prtgZckC
— DaWaFo (@DaWaFo66) July 12, 2018
“I’m a dentist, so I read body language very very well.”
An actual quote from a U.S. Congressman.
re: #219 wrenchwench
You get the BeeGees?
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Oh, man. You have my sympathy. And thoughts and even prayers. (I pray this doesn’t affect my ‘suggestions’ at YouTube.)
There was a time before BeeGees.
While I am not a huge fan, the early BeeGees do not give me the heebeegeebees.
Disclosure. I got to see them live at the Ohio State Fair in 1968. It was a free grandstand show outdoors. The Cowsills opened the show. The BeeGees had like a 20 piece orchestra backing them too. They were impressive singers as well the Cowsills.
Therefore I count Chicago as the first real rock concert I saw. : )
I think Peter Strzok is kind of a dick himself, but I find myself cheering him on for not taking shit from these Republican parrots.
Roy Moore hints that he too was duped by Sacha Baron Cohen, blaming “shadowy media groups” https://t.co/hJHJxrvozd
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 12, 2018
INBOX: Statement of Judge Roy Moore on Sasha Cohen’s CBS/Showtime series, Who is America? pic.twitter.com/uVBthwN6cQ
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) July 12, 2018
We need to brace ourselves for the very real possibility that Sacha Baron Cohen held a fake pro-Israel conference in DC and tricked dozens of conservative luminaries into singing a fake Israeli national anthem https://t.co/QUDQ2HeHao
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) July 12, 2018
re: #226 MsJ
Remember Comey’s October Surprise.
I shall never forget.
I hope a majority of America feels the same and gets out to vote.
There is going to be some kind of surprise again this year. Today’s Congressional Broadway Production is a start.
re: #230 jaunte
“I’m a dentist, so I read body language very very well.”
An actual quote from a U.S. Congressman.
Gotta be Gosar—and funny that your comment came up right after one about Sarah Palin, as she was a Gosar buddy back in the day.
re: #230 jaunte
“I’m a dentist, so I read body language very very well.”
An actual quote from a U.S. Congressman.
Uh you’re a dentist.
re: #230 jaunte
“I’m a dentist, so I read body language very very well.”
An actual quote from a U.S. Congressman.
‘They always jump if you poke them just right.’
/just had my teeth cleaned. Back to the unicycle.
re: #233 Charles Johnson
I think Peter Strzok is kind of a dick himself, but I find myself cheering him on for not taking shit from these Republican parrots.
It’s like Hillary’s marathon interrogation back in ‘16: The harder they work to prove his “anti-Trump bias,” the more they reveal just how deep in the hole they are for Donny.
re: #212 wrenchwench
Bidh sinn a ‘cumail agus a’ gabhail riut, bràthair. Tha na deòir agad fhèin.
From Scots Gaelic: We hold and embrace you, brother. Your tears are ours— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) July 12, 2018
re: #234 MsJ
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re: #233 Charles Johnson
I think Peter Strzok is kind of a dick himself, but I find myself cheering him on for not taking shit from these Republican parrots.
He’s a dick by the nature of being a cop. The attitude rides along.
From TheFreeDictionary .com
dick (dɪk)
n
chiefly US a slang word for detective
Trump and his allies have contended the Russia investigation is a “witch hunt” inspired by the Steele dossier, but Peter Strzok’s comments on Thursday directly contradict this assertion https://t.co/UVOqW4njr3
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) July 12, 2018
After today’s outrageous hearing in the Judiciary Committee, I just arrived on the House floor to set the record straight on Russia and the Steele dossier. I’m going to read the dossier into the Congressional Record. https://t.co/XKDoJzXULl
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) July 12, 2018
re: #245 MsJ
Bill Pascrell, Jr. ✔
@BillPascrell
After today’s outrageous hearing in the Judiciary Committee, I just arrived on the House floor to set the record straight on Russia and the Steele dossier. I’m going to read the dossier into the Congressional Record.
Ohhh…he’s gonna give them a show. Do the Republican thing back at ‘em.
I gotta do some stuff ‘round the house. I hope I can see video of whatever happens when he tries. They will try to shut him down.
re: #180 goddamnedfrank
You got off light, Paul…if there were such a thing as karma, the woodchucks would have eaten you.
re: #241 Scottish Dragon
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Beautiful. From a German-Irish-Rusyn-Slovene, brotherhood transcends borders.
Man, actually watching this is too funny.
Wow, they saved the stupidest part of the hearing for last. “I’m a dentist, Okay. So I read body language very, very well.” https://t.co/puFFJFVdzn pic.twitter.com/ZmbzSzju8U
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 12, 2018
3/ watch the vague smirk that comes over Strzok’s face right about at 10 seconds into the clip, when he realizes just how big an idiot the guy is.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 12, 2018
re: #246 ObserverArt
Bill Pascrell, Jr. ✔
@BillPascrell
After today’s outrageous hearing in the Judiciary Committee, I just arrived on the House floor to set the record straight on Russia and the Steele dossier. I’m going to read the dossier into the Congressional Record.Ohhh…he’s gonna give them a show. Do the Republican thing back at ‘em.
I gotta do some stuff ‘round the house. I hope I can see video of whatever happens when he tries. They will try to shut him down
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Although, IIRC, I thought any Congressman who wants to have something inserted into the CR can do so without having to actually read the whole thing on the floor - though this would make a dandy show, if allowed. I wonder if this is still the rule?
goddamnit.
Sinclair has a must-run airing on local news outlets to cheer on Trump’s SCOTUS pick: https://t.co/gtqvAJoPbb
— Media Matters (@mmfa) July 12, 2018
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 12, 2018
“I’m a dentist so I can read body language well” pic.twitter.com/7vo9mAkIWj
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) July 12, 2018
We are told that these images are from the alias Facebook account of Columbus Det. Steve Rosser (before he deleted it), who was at the center of the arrest of my client. Anyone with information confirming this, pls contact me. #Basta pic.twitter.com/mqhrnxtO7B
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) July 12, 2018
re: #257 HappyWarrior
If Avenatti gets the confirmation, I think this detective will be in some serious trouble.
Which I am prefectly ok with.
I am curious as to whether Donald Trump accepted cash for his interview with the Sun like so many others do? #TrumpUKVisit pic.twitter.com/qbNAFld4Ts
— Harry Leslie Smith (@Harryslaststand) July 12, 2018
“So I think allowing millions and millions of people to come into Europe is very, very sad.”
“I think you are losing your culture. Look around. You go through certain areas that didn’t exist ten or 15 years ago.”— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 12, 2018
Disgusting.
Here are other things The Sun says Trump said in the interview, including more criticism of London’s mayor. (Note of caution: it’s The Sun, worth waiting for full transcripts.) https://t.co/69hCZfSq9S pic.twitter.com/lkaA6UcU5E
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2018
Just got @DavidNeiwert’s latest! I can’t wait to get started. pic.twitter.com/bfOYUOs2AZ
— André Gagné (@profagagne) July 12, 2018
re: #249 MsJ
Man, actually watching this is too funny.
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Evan’s perfect description of Grothman:
Here is Rep. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin, who appears to be a walking, talking shit-grundle full of authentic Wisconsin cheese.
re: #212 wrenchwench
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Even, or perhaps especially, the dead were not safe. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has generated some controversy, like the repatriation of Kennewick Man, but most people today would scarcely believe the abuses that made the act absolutely necessary. Some of these are detailed in the article but the practice was very common until quite recently.
When I was a child, I saw not one, but two, displays of the remains of Native Americans who had been burned alive in the late 19th Century, living memory at the time. One was in the local museum in Colorado, in a flat topped glass case. It was basically a pile of charred meat but the very obviously human teeth stood out. The other, so help me, was in a tourist trap in New Mexico. I was a little older by then and was able to read the captions fairly well. The victim had some kind of condescending nickname, like “Whisky Jack” or something of that nature, and had been burned at the stake for molesting a white woman. The display was in the same kind of glass topped case as the one in Colorado. My father, who was a firefighter, identified the various parts for us, and pronounced the display authentic. He then raised hell with the management until they threw us out. At one point he offered to dig a grave himself so the remains could be buried immediately.
Later, in about 1966, I went on a field trip to the museum of Texas Tech. They had a display of an “Indian burial site,” with a mummified body surrounded by grave goods in a naturalistic setting. The caption identified the body as an elderly woman, her gray hair very much in evidence. The blankets and beads were described as typical trade goods from the 1850s. I remember thinking, “Goddamn, that could be somebody’s grandmother.”
Attempting to impugn Agent Strzok, a Congressman just said, “By the way I’m a dentist ok so I read body language very very well.”
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) July 12, 2018
@radiofreetom ‘I’m a dentist, and I’m therefore qualified to probe you. Wait - no - probe the issue. My questions are probative. Your body language says you are uncomfortable. What were we talking about?’ #deathofexpertise https://t.co/fFOEGicB2W
— PantsuitPanda🐼💕 (@Xpolitica) July 12, 2018
Reminded me of this…
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
Womp womp.
Judge rejects Manafort’s request to be let out of jail as he appeals the court’s decision to keep him in jail before his trial https://t.co/krtnbdVO19 pic.twitter.com/XbqK3yFsVC
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) July 12, 2018
re: #262 gocart mozart
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Should read this. I really enjoyed Nixonland, a great read about the rise of the “Silent Majority.”
re: #262 gocart mozart
I have always loved Neiwert from long ago at Crooks and Liars.
Trump:
“Allowing the immigration to take place in Europe is a shame
I think it changed the fabric of Europe and unless you act very quickly it is never going to be what it was and I don’t mean that in a positive way,.
I think you are losing your culture. “— Shabtai Gold (@velvetart) July 12, 2018
“I remember when everyone here was white except Josephine Baker and the Italians.” https://t.co/hiLSSIaHwE
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) July 12, 2018
Deep in that Sun interview, Trump brags that his poll numbers with Republicans are even better than Lincoln’s were. Lincoln died a decade before the telephone was invented and about eight decades before presidential approval polling began. https://t.co/9I5BOotua4
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) July 12, 2018
“By the way I’m a dentist…
is it safe?
IS…IT…SAFE???”
re: #267 MsJ
Womp womp.
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Gee, I can’t imagine why a judge would refuse to allow a guy who was jailed for attempting to influence witnesses out of jail after he was caught lying about his status in jail.
Wow, just wow. @Governor_LePage would rather go to jail than expand health care to 70,000 Mainers in need.
LePage mini-me @Moody4Gov is running on the same anti-health care platform that’s hurt Mainers. @JanetMillsForME will expand Medicaid. #mepolitics https://t.co/o1qz2qJzN8— Democratic Governors (@DemGovs) July 12, 2018
re: #264 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Even, or perhaps especially, the dead were not safe. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has generated some controversy, like the repatriation of Kennewick Man, but most people today would scarcely believe the abuses that made the act absolutely necessary. Some of these are detailed in the article but the practice was very common until quite recently.
When I was a child, I saw not one, but two, displays of the remains of Native Americans who had been burned alive in the late 19th Century, living memory at the time. One was in the local museum in Colorado, in a flat topped glass case. It was basically a pile of charred meat but the very obviously human teeth stood out. The other, so help me, was in a tourist trap in New Mexico. I was a little older by then and was able to read the captions fairly well. The victim had some kind of condescending nickname, like “Whisky Jack” or something of that nature, and had been burned at the stake for molesting a white woman. The display was in the same kind of glass topped case as the one in Colorado. My father, who was a firefighter, identified the various parts for us, and pronounced the display authentic. He then raised hell with the management until they threw us out. At one point he offered to dig a grave himself so the remains could be buried immediately.
Later, in about 1966, I went on a field trip to the museum of Texas Tech. They had a display of an “Indian burial site,” with a mummified body surrounded by grave goods in a naturalistic setting. The caption identified the body as an elderly woman, her gray hair very much in evidence. The blankets and beads were described as typical trade goods from the 1850s. I remember thinking, “Goddamn, that could be somebody’s grandmother.”
The other, so help me, was in a tourist trap in New Mexico
The second-to-local high school has the team designation ‘Indians’, with the cartoon from Cleveland on the stadium. On land that was Apache, and a few other people’s before that. No shame. Stadium has the name of a Democrat in state office, running for a higher office, likely to win. No shame. Same as everywhere else in the USA.
re: #270 gocart mozart
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Note to dumbass, there’s always been immigration in Europe. And immigration has enhanced European culture not weakened it. The Brits embrace Indian cuisine as their own. Can’t go anywehre in GErmany without getting a currywurst or doner kebab.
re: #274 JordanRules
I hope a federal judge obliges ol’ LePetomane.
re: #270 gocart mozart
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“Izzat yo cuhtchah ‘n’ her’tage? Thass not MAH cuhtchah ‘n’ her’tage!”
Just watched @DarrellIssa make Peter Strzok read his texts about @realDonaldTrump and his calls to stop Trump being president. Does not look good for Strzok or FBI.
— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) July 12, 2018
We must clean house at the FBI to reestablish the American people’s confidence in the Bureau. https://t.co/rBrxZSQsSQ
— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) July 12, 2018
We must clean house in Congress to reestablish the American people’s confidence, period. https://t.co/Db9EXQ4i7o
— Mike Levin (@MikeLevinCA) July 12, 2018
re: #280 JordanRules
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The whole mess ended as such a trainwreck that the only way wingnuts will think to salvage it is focusing on the few seconds of Strzok looking “biased.”
NEW: Jared Kushner lacks security clearance level to review some of the nation’s most sensitive intelligence in White House role. My latest w @CarolLeonnig + @jdawsey1. https://t.co/3QUh0XX2vK
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) July 12, 2018
This is a really significant scoop and may indicate that there is some kind of serious, unresolved issue with Kushner’s clearance and the White House used the granting of the TS (with SCI) to pretend as if everything had been resolved when it hadn’t. https://t.co/jmq8iLMVzP
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) July 12, 2018
re: #207 Big Beautiful Door
If you add the undecided/decline to answer into the Republican side, it bumps them up to over 52%.
Goodlatte? More like shit latte pic.twitter.com/cA28WKV5wR
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) July 12, 2018
re: #265 Blind Frog Belly White
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Reminded me of this…
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A play in 3 acts from 2010.
Palin endorses Gosar. He wins.
Gosar hires Palin’s lawyer, Tom Van Flein, as legislative director and deputy chief of staff.
Gosar plagued by staffing turmoil—“Gosar has serious congressional staff issues,” said one Arizona Republican familiar with the operation. “It’s a total cluster.” The emails, written by former staffers while they were still on the payroll, implicate chief of staff Rob Robinson and legislative director Tom Van Flein as the heart of the problem.
Gosar’s decision to hire the pair after he was elected raised eyebrows from the beginning — both men had no prior congressional experience and both had close ties to Sarah Palin, who boosted Gosar’s campaign with an endorsement.
Who couldn’t have seen that coming (but he’s a reader of body language)
We’re back for round three of Peter Strzok — and @ericswalwell has signs pic.twitter.com/pZ0wCQfUSP
— Jeremy Herb (@jeremyherb) July 12, 2018
Rep. Raskin just asked Strzok if Bruce Springsteen is part of a deep state conspiracy. Yup that’s where we’re at right now.
— Jeremy Herb (@jeremyherb) July 12, 2018
Wow, they saved the stupidest part of the hearing for last. “I’m a dentist, Okay. So I read body language very, very well.” https://t.co/puFFJFVdzn pic.twitter.com/ZmbzSzju8U
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 12, 2018
This is marvelous. But also, important dentist dude, probably you shouldn’t talk about how good you are at body language while you’re squirming and grimacing as if you’re sitting on something unpleasant. https://t.co/8vWufGFQ64
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) July 12, 2018
Yeah bouncing around like a baby seal or someone with a gerbil in his pants. Wtf. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I guess. https://t.co/BlrEwvokej
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 12, 2018
Goodlatte and Jackson Lee the only two members in the room still besides Comer. The end is near.
— Jeremy Herb (@jeremyherb) July 12, 2018
“For many,” @FabiolaSantiago writes, “the end of #TPS represents making a gut-wrenching life-or-death decision.” Do they uproot their US citizen kids from their own country? Or will these families go into the shadows? https://t.co/41RiDSOUmT #SaveTPS #ProtectTPS
— Gabe #DreamActNow Ortíz (@TUSK81) July 12, 2018
Thread…
🚨 Update on our family separation case:
The Trump administration failed to meet the deadline to reunite all kids under 5. We’ve asked the court for specific remedies to ensure this does not happen again.
We won’t allow the government to waste time. #FamiliesBelongTogether— ACLU (@ACLU) July 12, 2018
re: #280 JordanRules
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Yeah because no FBI agent complained about Clinton ever. Oh and the reason why Strzok went after Trump is because the bastard went after a Gold Star family but please whine some moer Darrell.
no, @RepGoodlatte it WAS STUPID. partisan display by GOP. your “leadership” entirely absent. your snark and dismissal of Dems rude and thoughtless. yes, it was STUPID.
— missLtoe (@missLtoe) July 12, 2018
Hits the ground runnin…..
Glad you’re OK. Sue ‘em if ya got ‘em.
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) July 12, 2018
Everybody gets a slice.
Blueberry Pie pic.twitter.com/TNgrbCVsyS
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) July 12, 2018
I don’t think he’s a bad person at all - that’s not what I meant. I just think nobody gets to a high position in the FBI without having a certain amount of dickishness. It’s part of the job.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 12, 2018
WATCH Hillary at Oct 19, 2016 debate warning Trump will try to break up NATO because it’s on “Putin’s wish list.” She also predicts Putin was hacking 2016 election to help Trump win which was just confirmed by GOP led Senate Intel Committee. Like today Trump denies Russia did it: pic.twitter.com/fjeOlYi9EH
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) July 12, 2018
This is what people mean when they say Hillary ran a “bad campaign” — she said shit that was the absolute fucking truth, but said it while being a woman. https://t.co/hmTVWWh8Jh
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) July 12, 2018
A couple of racist women called the police on their Latin neighbors. The police ended up arresting them instead.pic.twitter.com/BFmpc6pBy0
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) July 12, 2018
re: #276 HappyWarrior
More directly: Europe chose to colonize regions and import people and their culture as consumables, and continued to pull in cheap foreign labor after colonialism began to fall apart.
Now Joe Arpaio says he was duped by Sacha Baron Cohen, who was posing this time as a Finnish comedian https://t.co/b7kvL5IRJv
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) July 12, 2018
re: #302 jaunte
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She was fucking right and I hope she lives to see herself vindicated and Trump rotting in a cell.
I don’t even care what this story says, I want the headline tattooed on my body https://t.co/nXfEHwZvcd
— shauna (@goldengateblond) July 12, 2018
Now Joe Arpaio says he was duped by Sacha Baron Cohen, who was posing this time as a Finnish comedian https://t.co/b7kvL5IRJv
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) July 12, 2018
The American people have watched an extraordinary clinic on the rot, decay, indecency, dishonesty and corruption of the TRUMP/GOP on live TV. The malice of most questions was only outdone by their stupidity, venality and dishonesty. May the stench of this disgrace long linger
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) July 12, 2018
re: #305 gocart mozart
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Dayum! Sacha went after quite a gaggle of idiots and crooks.
re: #285 delilah
If you add the undecided/decline to answer into the Republican side, it bumps them up to over 52%.
If you drop all the Democrats, it makes them 100%.
re: #303 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m glad but it’s awful for the Ruiz family that they have to move because of this. It’s not easy to have to uproot your life like that. I’m glad the cops believed the family though.
heh
Wow that is a tough one…🤔 pic.twitter.com/dQZ2c6A02A
— Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) July 12, 2018
re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
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Even in Poland which is as conservative as it gets, they know better.
re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m stunned the Poles have so much faith in him. They’re as vulnerable as Ukraine.
re: #310 JordanRules
Dayum! Sacha went after quite a gaggle of idiots and crooks.
Quite a recommendation for your candidacy, Joe…
Protesters line the roads outside Blenheim Palace as Donald Trump prepares to dine with Theresa May and other officials #TrumpUKVisit pic.twitter.com/bXWYLNAl04 - #Trump #TrumpAndToriesOut
— Jerry Hicks (@JerryHicksUnite) July 12, 2018
re: #316 jaunte
I’m stunned the Poles have so much faith in him. They’re as vulnerable as Ukraine.
Don’t underestimate racism unfortunately.
re: #311 Belafon
Uh, sure.
Perhaps I didn’t make my point clearly. There may be a lot of folks who aren’t comfortable stating that they’re voting Republican. Until that Blue line edges over 50%, I’m waiting to exhale.
Pre-Trump, Russians created 48 @Twitter accounts for fake papers—like the Chicago Daily News & the Seattle Post. Most interestingly: they “never spread misinformation” but “posted real local news, serving as sleeper accounts building trust and readership.” https://t.co/OlCgJACzKe
— Kurt Andersen (@KBAndersen) July 12, 2018
GO FUCKING GET EM.
Certain of these accounts appear to have been very pro-Trump. In the event it is discovered that my client was targeted & arrested because of our opposition to Mr. Trump, the resulting lawsuit & action will be swift and devastating. That is not a threat. It is a promise. #Basta
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) July 12, 2018
re: #111 GlutenFreeJesus
“Some of them were illegal aliens. Why should we waste taxpayer money on rescuing them?”
ICYMI three of the players and the coach are “stateless minorities” and were probably born in Myanmar. There is a growing sentiment that the coach, and perhaps the three boys, should be granted Thai citizenship.
re: #322 MsJ
Pre-Trump, Russians created 48 @Twitter accounts for fake papers—like the Chicago Daily News & the Seattle Post. Most interestingly: they “never spread misinformation” but “posted real local news, serving as sleeper accounts building trust and readership.”
The Post-Intelligencer, universally called the P-I, used to be our other daily paper. Still exists online, I think.
WATCH Hillary at Oct 19, 2016 debate warning Trump will try to break up NATO because it’s on “Putin’s wish list.” She also predicts Putin was hacking 2016 election to help Trump win which was just confirmed by GOP led Senate Intel Committee. Like today Trump denies Russia did it: pic.twitter.com/fjeOlYi9EH
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) July 12, 2018
This is what people mean when they say Hillary ran a “bad campaign” — she said shit that was the absolute fucking truth, but said it while being a woman. https://t.co/hmTVWWh8Jh
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) July 12, 2018