Seth Meyers: Trump Lies About Puerto Rico Death Toll
Seth takes a closer look at President Trump peddling another insane conspiracy theory about the death toll in Puerto Rico as Republicans brace themselves for the midterms.
Seth takes a closer look at President Trump peddling another insane conspiracy theory about the death toll in Puerto Rico as Republicans brace themselves for the midterms.
BREAKING: Investigator: Dallas police officer said she gave “verbal commands” that neighbor ignored before she fatally shot him. https://t.co/J2toNfg4Kf
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 10, 2018
We’re getting close to “he had marijuana in the house” time https://t.co/cElxtIqfi3
— Kim Jawn PHL (@FanSince09) September 10, 2018
re: #1 Single-handed sailor
I knew they were going to demonize him so not surprised about the alleged marijuana finding which is irrelevant.
Hopefully she is tried, convicted, and serves real time for this murder. But there have been times where authorities with a warrant have broken into the wrong apartment, kill someone, and get off without penalty.
re: #3 Patricia Kayden
I knew they were going to demonize him so not surprised about the alleged marijuana finding which is irrelevant.
I guess next will be the character dragging. Poor guy. Bad enough that he was killed.
Two Congressmen Who Say They Inadvertently Hung Out With Holocaust Denier Get Caught With Him Again #CA48 #FL01 https://t.co/dp8IM2THht
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) September 14, 2018
Chuck Johnson loves the Jews.
He’s one of my close friends and is always telling me I’m his favorite Jew.
Definitely NOT a Holocaust denier.
You are Fake News. https://t.co/kJZnzkMXHB— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) September 14, 2018
LOL. https://t.co/PAX9ckRsjZ https://t.co/U39faP2gsD
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 14, 2018
re: #1 Single-handed sailor
DEVELOPING: Search warrant: Marijuana found in Botham Jean’s apartment after deadly shooting https://t.co/ISSGgxgt34 pic.twitter.com/iE6IsnNUUX
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) September 13, 2018
In case it’s unclear in any way, the penalty for possessing marijuana is not being shot dead in your own home by an off-duty police officer. https://t.co/rP4kTpzXDr
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) September 13, 2018
re: #7 Patricia Kayden
In case it’s unclear in any way, the penalty for possessing marijuana is not being shot dead in your own home by an off-duty police officer.
Unless you’re Jacob Wohl.
He was in possession of illegal drugs. That’s perfectly relevant.
— Jacob Wohl (@JacobAWohl) September 13, 2018
Fuck you and the klan horse you rode in on, you white supremacist, cowardly piece of flaming shit. https://t.co/HOviKEtqQ1
— Charlotte Clymer🏳️🌈 (@cmclymer) September 14, 2018
re: #6 Charles Johnson
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Laura is hopelessly stupid. And telling someone you’re their favorite Jew has shit to do with Holocaust denial but that dumbass knows it.
Chuck Johnson loves the Jews.
He’s one of my close friends and is always telling me I’m his favorite Jew.
Definitely NOT a Holocaust denier.
You are Fake News.
Two Congressmen Who Say They Inadvertently Hung Out With Holocaust Denier Get Caught With Him Again #CA48 #FL01 https://t.co/dp8IM2THht
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) September 14, 2018
— Laura Loomer
No dog whistles there.
Substitute “the Catholics,” “the Blacks,” or “I’m his favourite Black” &c.
re: #8 teleskiguy
Unless you’re Jacob Wohl.
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Cowardly little right wing fuck. That didn’t mean he deserved to goddamn die. This mentality is so evil.
re: #7 Patricia Kayden
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I’m white and I know people who have not only not died for having pot on them but no bruises or scrapes. Fucking Wohl. Cowardly little right wing fascist fuck.
DEVELOPING: Search warrant: Marijuana found in Botham Jean’s apartment after deadly shooting https://t.co/ISSGgxgt34 pic.twitter.com/iE6IsnNUUX
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) September 13, 2018
what the fuck is wrong with you https://t.co/L4ynEX3Vv5
— Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King Of You (@commiegirl1) September 14, 2018
Meanwhile Wohl thinks Paul Manafort is a victim of Mueller. Conservatism and I apologize AM since this is your line is a cult.
re: #12 HappyWarrior
I’m white and I know people who have not only not died for having pot on them but no bruises or scrapes. Fucking Wohl. Cowardly little right wing fascist fuck.
I’ve been pulled over for smoking a pipe while driving, where the cop could see it. He wrote me a ticket; he did not search my car. So yeah, I believe white privilege is a real thing.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
He’s one of my close friends and is always telling me I’m his favorite Jew.
re: #15 sagehen
I’ve been pulled over for smoking a pipe while driving, where the cop could see it. He wrote me a ticket; he did not search my car.
It is so sick the lengths these guys will go won’t it? This is something legal in 9/50 states plus DC. I just don’t know how someone as young as Wohl is so fucking heartless.
They only have five seats for media. Press is being asked to leave.
— Vanita Gupta (@vanitaguptaCR) September 13, 2018
Police blocking hallways & extremely limited media access at public Senate Judiciary meeting on Kavanaugh nomination. This does not look like our country. https://t.co/Cr4WvbTlb6
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) September 13, 2018
Did he die of smoke inhalation or WAS HE SHOT?
— Comedian The DA (@ComedianTheDA) September 14, 2018
re: #16 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I see you are a battleaxe of knowledge. I did not know of Hanussen. Interesting character … didn’t save him from Hitler’s cronies.
re: #20 Anymouse 🌹
I see you are a battleaxe of knowledge. I did not know of Hanussen. Interesting character … didn’t save him from Hitler’s cronies.
The doctor who treated his mother was also Jewish. The good doctor managed to escape to the US. Died during the war I believe or soon after.
re: #18 Patricia Kayden
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Unprecedented but what else is new with this administration. Those cops need to disobey orders.
re: #1 Single-handed sailor
So you break into someones house and then you expect that person to follow YOUR verbal commands without protest or objection?
What the fucking fuck?
re: #23 Eclectic Cyborg
So you break into someones house and then you expect that person to follow YOUR verbal commands without protest or objection?
What the fucking fuck?
White cop privilege.
He was a risk analyst for PricewatershouseCooper. His family was prominent in the Carribean as effective Public Servants. His co-workers describe him as a joy to work with, an effective team player, and completely competent.
The apartment, after the shooting, had to be completely worked over by the forensic team. After all, a cop had fired the fatal shots. No drugs were found. Then they get a Search Warrant and find pot?
Where are are her alcohol and blood results?
I call bullshit. That cop needs to get life and a day for intentional murder.
re: #13 Anymouse 🌹
Wonder if they took the evidence room tag off before they “found” it.
DEVELOPING: Search warrant: Marijuana found in Botham Jean’s apartment after deadly shooting https://t.co/ISSGgxgt34 pic.twitter.com/iE6IsnNUUX
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) September 13, 2018
I have cannabis in my house. But I’m in Colorado so it makes it okay. This reeks of CYA on the part of the Dallas Police Department. Shameful! https://t.co/SiR2SPO2qp
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) September 14, 2018
re: #25 austin_blue
He was a risk analyst for PricewatershouseCooper. His family was prominent in the Carribean as effective Public Servants. His co-workers describe him as a joy to work with, an effective team player, and completely competent.
The apartment, after the shooting, had to be completely worked over by the forensic team. After all, a cop had fired the fatal shots. No drugs were found. Then they get a Search Warrant and find pot?
Where are are her alcohol and blood results?
I call bullshit. That cop needs to get life and a day for intentional murder.
Thanks. We lost an individual that was beloved by many people. That is so often forgotten. And I agree, I want to see her alcohol and blood results.
re: #26 dell*nix
Wonder if they took the evidence room tag off before they “found” it.
Yeah, it’ll be a gram of pot in a zip-lock spice bag without prints. You can get away with that in the evidence room, stealing a pinch from ten bags.
I just find myself sick thinking about this because I’m of two minds, man she’s going to get away with this and also that I’m sure this crap has been happening a long time. We saw how Emmett Till’s murder was justified.
re: #29 austin_blue
Yeah, it’ll be a gram of pot in a zip-lock spice bag without prints. You can get away with that in the evidence room, stealing a pinch from ten bags.
I doubt if they have to bother with that nowadays. They can order an inexhaustible supply to plant on people from out-of-state now.
Kansas woman told birth certificate wasn’t enough to prove citizenship for passport
Barbara had been issued a U.S. passport before, but this time around, Barbara was told her birth certificate wasn’t good enough to prove her citizenship.
“It’s like they’re retroactively declaring that I was never a citizen,” Barbara said.
re: #30 HappyWarrior
I just find myself sick thinking about this because I’m of two minds, man she’s going to get away with this and also that I’m sure this crap has been happening a long time. We saw how Emmett Till’s murder was justified.
I know. It’s just a dodge to avoid a murder rap. Absolutely disgusting. If they don’t press this case forward, the entire management of the Dallas Police Department needs to be replaced. This isn’t the hill they need to die on. She screwed the dog and needs to be tried and convicted.
re: #32 cat-tikvah
Kansas woman told birth certificate wasn’t enough to prove citizenship for passport
Barbara had been issued a U.S. passport before, but this time around, Barbara was told her birth certificate wasn’t good enough to prove her citizenship.“It’s like they’re retroactively declaring that I was never a citizen,” Barbara said.
Citation, please?
That TV report doesn’t feed the bulldog.
Who are the Feds that made that decision?
re: #32 cat-tikvah
Kansas woman told birth certificate wasn’t enough to prove citizenship for passport
Barbara had been issued a U.S. passport before, but this time around, Barbara was told her birth certificate wasn’t good enough to prove her citizenship.“It’s like they’re retroactively declaring that I was never a citizen,” Barbara said.
This sounds like the same outrageous efforts reported recently in Texas to deprive Americans of their citizenship. This administration is pure evil.
re: #35 Hecuba’s daughter
This sounds like the same outrageous efforts reported recently in Texas to deprive Americans of their citizenship. This administration is pure evil.
As in Texas, an American who was not born in a hospital.
re: #36 Hecuba’s daughter
As in Texas, an American who was not born in a hospital.
It’s worth taking note — pre-Civil Rights Act, black southerners weren’t born in hospitals either. Pretty much ANY of them.
Ah, I see, your citizenship is decided on a case by case basis. Unless you have an in with a US Senator.
Then it’s all OK. Good luck voting!
I’m off to bed and can only note that this government is just completely dysfunctional. Who makes up these rules? Are they made up on a random basis? This is chaos as policy.
Fuck it, I’m out.
DEVELOPING: Search warrant: Marijuana found in Botham Jean’s apartment after deadly shooting https://t.co/ISSGgxgt34 pic.twitter.com/iE6IsnNUUX
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) September 13, 2018
How is this germane to what happened? https://t.co/83LrJMHztu
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 13, 2018
When your shit is too racist for @DLoesch, you know you’ve crossed a line. https://t.co/9Kmy7Rt424
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) September 14, 2018
Joint defense agreements “are very common in mob and street-gang cases. … It enables and facilitates all defendants to get together and say, ‘Let’s get our ducks in a row.’” — @eliehonig https://t.co/31jKvgyfdB
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) September 13, 2018
Mob case.
re: #41 freetoken
Oy, look at the size of that eye.
The ratio…my God, the ratio!@JacobAWohl #BothamJean pic.twitter.com/3jzYSc7sge
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) September 14, 2018
re: #40 Single-handed sailor
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Mob case.
Pretty interesting given Trump has acted like he barely knew Manafort.
re: #45 HappyWarrior
Pretty interesting given Trump has acted like he barely knew Manafort.
Trump would deny Jesus three times before the cock crows.
re: #47 Single-handed sailor
Trump would deny Jesus three times before the cock crows.
He’d call him “Hey-SOOSE” and deport him….
Since his appointment 16 months ago as special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III has granted no interviews and held no news conferences. Our @grynbaum writes that silence as a public relations strategy is risky. Here’s why: https://t.co/cMVfzhDC03
— NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) September 14, 2018
good grief it’s not a “risky” “strategy”—he’s following DOJ guidelines! https://t.co/oD4KpsuRQm
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) September 14, 2018
It is “risky” because it is driving our sensation and leak-driven media to distraction!
re: #46 HappyWarrior
Wow stopped decency clock moment for her.
Indicates that she leans towards the “libertarian” spectrum among conservatives, they are less concerned about marijuana than about ensuring unlimited access to weapons
Do we have Ratio?
We have Ratio the likes of which even God has never seen!— jay (@random__name) September 14, 2018
Florence is less than 30 miles from shore on the strong side.
Croatoan
re: #56 Single-handed sailor
Florence is less than 30 miles from shore on the strong side.
Croatoan
I never made that connection before, but that could be what happened to the Lost Colony
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) September 14, 2018
re: #59 InTheWeeds
The point of that post was the prediction of finding pot 3 days before it actually happened.
re: #59 InTheWeeds
Wait. The off-duty officer invaded his home and gave him verbal orders that he didn’t follow? The nerve of him.
but she identified herself as a police officer!
re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
but she identified herself as a police officer!
Whew! Thank goodness. I was starting to think she did something wrong. /snark
re: #62 InTheWeeds
Whew! Thank goodness. I was starting to think she did something wrong. /snark
Yes, he did not obey the commands of a strange white woman who entered his home.
He made the mistake of feeling safe and thinking he was master in his own home, especially as he was living in a neighborhood with white people in it.
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River level data is starting to show flooding north of the hurricane. (KMZ file)
While we are talking surges, I chime in to remind us all that talking of a “Blue Wave” is not the approach we need.
The midterms are a series of individual contests, most of them seriously uphill. The disillusionment and disgust with the GOP and its President are major factors, but each contest is a local affair and is different in its dynamic, constituency and candidates.
Using mass momentum is useful, but do not rely on it, and most of all do not help set up a straw man for the GOP to knock down if enough close races to not play out in the Dems’ favor.
LOL
Can we block people like this from entering Canada, @justinpjtrudeau? Like, just hand ‘em a bucket of poutine, give ‘em a “sorry, eh” and turn them away? #atheist #atheism #atheistrollcall #atheistpics #pray #faith #religion #godless #goodwithoutgod #heathen #freethinker pic.twitter.com/cPbCogmnod
— 🇨🇦 Godless Mom (Courtney Heard) (@godless_mom) September 13, 2018
re: #67 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That sounds like a great band name, or something incredibly kinky. Or both.
re: #1 Single-handed sailor
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hey, officer’s lawyer, she was IN HIS HOUSE ILLEGALLY. He was entitled to ignore your fucking verbal commands.
re: #69 steve_davis
hey, officer’s lawyer, she was IN HIS HOUSE ILLEGALLY. He was entitled to ignore your fucking verbal commands.
She was standing her (perceived) ground.
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re: #29 austin_blue
Yeah, it’ll be a gram of pot in a zip-lock spice bag without prints. You can get away with that in the evidence room, stealing a pinch from ten bags.
it isn’t going to matter. I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve watched a lot of t.v. mostly college football, but let’s pretend it was free university and a course called Evidence. a competent judge will never let the marijuana enter into the trial. Competely irrelevant to events and potentially incendiary to any jury. Inadmissible.
re: #72 steve_davis
it isn’t going to matter. I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve watched a lot of t.v. mostly college football, but let’s pretend it was free university and a course called Evidence. a competent judge will never let the marijuana enter into the trial. Competely irrelevant to events and potentially incendiary to any jury. Inadmissible.
now, the results of her blood tests seem like they would certainly be admissible, any word on that?
and the question is still unclear about how she gained entry in the first place
this does not prevent the media and the RW bloggers from painting her victim as a marijuana-crazed rapist monster who had to be shot down on the spot
WOW… Latest from New Bern, #NorthCarolina this morning. Flooding widespread from #stormsurges follow latest here @StormchaserUKEU report; ABC news; #HurricaneFlorence #Florence pic.twitter.com/eiWiYxyzG5
— WEATHER/ METEO WORLD (@StormchaserUKEU) September 14, 2018
It should be noted that as Americans were trapped by rising water and hundreds of thousands were losing power, Trump’s only tweet last night was to promote the book of one of his supporters. #HurricanceFlorence #ZeroEmpathyPresident pic.twitter.com/MKforqu5MQ
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) September 14, 2018
re: #27 teleskiguy
I don’t even understand how that could be CYA since there is no death penalty for possessing marijuana. Plus, what was in her system for her to make such a huge mistake that she went to the wrong apartment ON THE WRONG FREAKING FLOOR?
re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The man some one who is falsely portraying herself as a psychiatrist too.
re: #77 Patricia Kayden
I don’t even understand how that could be CYA since there is no death penalty for possessing marijuana. Plus, what was in her system for her to make such a huge mistake that she went to the wrong apartment ON THE WRONG FREAKING FLOOR?
The point is to paint the victim as a potential threat, a drug-crazed black gangsta.
And again, a lot of highly relevant issues remain unclear. How did she gain entry in the first place? Did a blood test reveal any alcohol or controlled substances in her blood? What role did her colleagues at the DPD play in helping set up a plausible story to cover her tracks?
Seems that this is pointless as long as the moron-in-chief is still allowed to tweet.
We have created a rumor control page for Hurricane #Florence that will be updated regularly. During disasters, it’s critical to avoid spreading false information. Always check with official sources before sharing. https://t.co/PAjGQZJ1Nt pic.twitter.com/z4L0r1YjAT
— FEMA (@fema) September 12, 2018
re: #72 steve_davis
it isn’t going to matter. I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve watched a lot of t.v. mostly college football, but let’s pretend it was free university and a course called Evidence. a competent judge will never let the marijuana enter into the trial. Competely irrelevant to events and potentially incendiary to any jury. Inadmissible.
Which is why the cops leaked it in an effort to get it out in the jury pool. No different when the cops leaked the video of Mike Brown in the convenience store.
re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth
We have created a rumor control page for Hurricane #Florence that will be updated regularly. During disasters, it’s critical to avoid spreading false information. Always check with official sources before sharing.
As usual, government agencies out to suppress dissenting points of view.
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Truth.
Former Pres. Obama hits back at Republicans while on the campaign trail in Ohio: “When you hear folks bragging about this ‘economic miracle,’ just remember when it started.” https://t.co/YtXlWbnq9f pic.twitter.com/wGTJ6oQUf2
— ABC News (@ABC) September 14, 2018
NEW: #Hurricane #Florence has made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina at 7:15 AM EDT (1115 UTC) with estimated maximum winds of 90 mph (150 km/h), and a minimum central pressure estimate of 958 mb (28.29”). https://t.co/tW4KeGdBFb pic.twitter.com/vzpe6MjTf9
— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) September 14, 2018
Asked how history will remember President Trump on climate change, @JerryBrownGov offers up this guess at morning #GCAS18 press conference: “On the path he’s on now? I don’t know. Liar. Criminal. Fool. Pick your choice.” pic.twitter.com/fHDsTDj58b
— John Myers (@johnmyers) September 13, 2018
re: #83 Patricia Kayden
Truth.
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Yep people need to be reminded of that. Trump and the Republicans were acting like we were in worse shape than the Great Depression FFS.
O_o
#TN07 Rep. Mark Green explains why he opposes Medicaid expansion:
Because it takes people further away from God.
No, I’m not kidding.
Watch him explain further, and then #GOTV and support his opponent, @kanew#ThursdayThoughtspic.twitter.com/SVb7vWKy5t— Holly Figueroa O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) September 13, 2018
re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth
O_o
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That’s that’s not a reason to oppose it legally. And you’re perverting the Gospels, you douchebag.
DHS transferred $169 million from other agencies to ICE for Detention/Removal of Migrants.
Many Transfers from Key National Security Programs:
$2 million—DND
$10 million—FEMA
$29 million—Coast Guard
$34 million—TSA
$33 million—ICE misc
$202 million—TOTALhttps://t.co/lmFYxgnpHP— ░Ꮆ░Ꮛ░ℳ░™💎 (@Lady_Star_Gem) September 13, 2018
re: #72 steve_davis
it isn’t going to matter. I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve watched a lot of t.v. mostly college football, but let’s pretend it was free university and a course called Evidence. a competent judge will never let the marijuana enter into the trial. Competely irrelevant to events and potentially incendiary to any jury. Inadmissible.
Depends on the theory of the case the defense intends to introduce. If they wish to argue that she had a perfectly legal reason to enter the apartment, i.e. she saw the weed in “plain view” and intended to arrest Jean for possession, then the debate about whether or not she could be in his apartment evaporates. At that point, it becomes a “stand your ground” case and jury sides with the white woman who “feared for her life.”
re: #86 HappyWarrior
Yep people need to be reminded of that. Trump and the Republicans were acting like we were in worse shape than the Great Depression FFS.
But it is a matter of RWNJ faith that Obama’s socialism wrecked the economy.
so my POS governor is supporting an independent candidate for a state House seat…this bodes well for the Kentucky GOP…
Butt out of NKY race, top Kentucky Republican tells Matt Bevin https://t.co/szzJ8TyT8m pic.twitter.com/QVh4Eq7fhI
— Enquirer (@Enquirer) September 14, 2018
Former House Speaker Jeff Hoover has had enough of Gov. Matt Bevin, and is urging fellow Republican lawmakers to rebuke the party’s leader for supporting an independent state House candidate.
Bevin is appearing at a fundraiser this month for small-business owner Stacie Earl, who said she is the “true conservative” in a race against Republican C. Ed Massey. The two are among the five candidates running for the House 66th District seat, which covers northern Boone County.
Massey told the Courier Journal this week that Bevin administration officials recruited Earl to enter the race, in part because he’s been endorsed by the political arm of the Kentucky Education Association, the statewide union that has been at odds with Bevin over pension reform.
“I have no desire to attack this governor but I am tired of this governor belittling teachers and others with his comments and the things that he says, and no one taking issue or exception to that,” Hoover told the Courier Journal on Thursday. “And by no one, I mean other public officials.”
re: #91 Targetpractice
Depends on the theory of the case the defense intends to introduce. If they wish to argue that she had a perfectly legal reason to enter the apartment, i.e. she saw the weed in “plain view” and intended to arrest Jean for possession, then the debate about whether or not she could be in his apartment evaporates. At that point, it becomes a “stand your ground” case and jury sides with the white woman who “feared for her life.”
I think it is a little late to try to offer the “weed in plain view” story given the statements she has already made.
re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth
Bevin has succeeded where Trump has so far failed — he’s alienated even his own party by being a colossal asshole toward everyone.
re: #95 wheat-dogg
Bevin has succeeded where Trump has so far failed — he’s alienated even his own party by being a colossal asshole toward everyone.
Trump has alienated nearly everyone in the GOP establishment, but they refuse to own up to it because they need his rabid base of supporters.
re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think it is a little late to try to offer the “weed in plain view” story given the statements she has already made.
It’s pretty much the only defense she has at this time. Whether she forced her way into the apartment or opened an “unlocked” door, she illegally entered another person’s apartment without permission. And she shot Jean with the intent to seriously wound or kill him, which makes her act murder. So between the two, she’s looking at felony murder which in Texas means a date with a needle.
re: #97 Targetpractice
It’s pretty much the only defense she has at this time. Whether she forced her way into the apartment or opened an “unlocked” door, she illegally entered another person’s apartment without permission. And she shot Jean with the intent to seriously wound or kill him, which makes her act murder. So between the two, she’s looking at felony murder which in Texas means a date with a needle.
There are still a lot of open questions that need to be answered in court.
so far this morning, the moron has retweeted about 15 things about the hurricane…all of them old tweets.
what a dweeb
A wall of milk!
I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Trump rallies and then asked it to write a Trump rally of its own. Here is the first page. pic.twitter.com/BxbWgMJozH
— Keaton Patti (@KeatonPatti) September 12, 2018
TIME’s new cover: This is what it’s like to be a teacher in America https://t.co/vc8wKzFP3d pic.twitter.com/YFQrytMype
— TIME (@TIME) September 13, 2018
re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This is so wrong. Being a teacher should be a good living. But when you have politicians like your Governor Bevin and bureaucrats like DeVos.
heh
I’m not saying that an ancient gypsy curse shrunk Ivanka’s head to the size of maraschino cherry but it would answer a lot of questions. pic.twitter.com/Tc9oesNsH5
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 14, 2018
Nikki Haley’s curtains cost $29,900 and the motors/hardware needed to open & close them automatically cost $22,801 [entirely funded by taxpayers].
“All she’s got is a part-time maid [courtesy of taxpayers?] and the ability to open & close the curtains quickly is important.” JFC. https://t.co/oCU8tgCQCy— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) September 14, 2018
re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Oh? But paying the federal employees is just too much at this time but Nikki needs a maid.
re: #103 HappyWarrior
This is so wrong. Being a teacher should be a good living. But when you have politicians like your Governor Bevin and bureaucrats like DeVos.
If they were truly qualified, they would find better jobs in the private sector!
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I hate everything about this crooked administration. Every last one of them is a bigot, corrupt, or unqualified. Often all three!
re: #3 Patricia Kayden
I knew they were going to demonize him so not surprised about the alleged marijuana finding which is irrelevant.
He worked for PricewatershouseCoopers. They don’t hire thugs.
re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth
Some dude named “Pro American” is dissing teachers as lazy bums who only work 183 days a year. He’s getting trampled.
When I was a teacher in the USA, I had the choice of being paid over 9 months or 12, and I took 12, because even some money a month is better than no money a month. And while teachers supposedly work only from 7 to 4 in most places, most of us use our “off-hours” to prepare lessons and mark papers. Additionally, in many cases teachers are not just teaching subjects, but also being surrogate parents, child advocates, friends and counselors without portfolio to their students. IOW those 183 days are very, very long days doing more than one kind of job.
Chinese teachers are not paid especially well, but at least here they get a place to live that is provided or partially funded by their school and often free or very cheap meals at the school cafeteria. Plus, Chinese people respect teachers as invaluable foundations of a civilized society.
More than 300,000 homes and businesses have lost power as #Florence roars ashore. Here are the latest impacts: https://t.co/g6RZpOo1bg pic.twitter.com/ndN01LySCO
— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) September 14, 2018
re: #108 HappyWarrior
They are here to help themselves to as much money as they can cram into their pockets. To them, Public Service means the public serves them. That’s all that matters to them.
re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If they were truly qualified, they would find better jobs in the private sector!
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Agh. This one just gets me on a personal level. Godmother who was my grandmother’s baby sister was a teacher who was the first in that side of the family to attend college, she was even valedictorian in her high school class. The way teachers are treated in this country infuriates me.
re: #109 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
He worked for PricewatershouseCoopers. They don’t hire thugs.
PwC, if it’s anything like KPMG, where my son worked, has very strict hiring requirements, because employees are dealing with other people’s M-O-N-E-Y. Once you’re hired, they might overlook a little recreational or medicinal marijuana, but not much more than that.
re: #110 wheat-dogg
Some dude named “Pro American” is dissing teachers as lazy bums who only work 183 days a year. He’s getting trampled.
When I was a teacher in the USA, I had the choice of being paid over 9 months or 12, and I took 12, because even some money a month is better than no money a month. And while teachers supposedly work only from 7 to 4 in most places, most of us use our “off-hours” to prepare lessons and mark papers. Additionally, in many cases teachers are not just teaching subjects, but also being surrogate parents, child advocates, friends and counselors without portfolio to their students. IOW those 183 days are very, very long days doing more than one kind of job.
Chinese teachers are not paid especially well, but at least here they get a place to live that is provided or partially funded by their school and often free or very cheap meals at the school cafeteria. Plus, Chinese people respect teachers as invaluable foundations of a civilized society.
Fucking right wing idiots. Btw I met an American teaching in China while I was in Krakow. His students are younger than yours and he’s in another part of the country but his stories made me think of your and my buddy who teaches kids the same age in South Korea.
re: #113 HappyWarrior
Agh. This one just gets me on a personal level. Godmother who was my grandmother’s baby sister was a teacher who was the first in that side of the family to attend college, she was even valedictorian in her high school class. The way teachers are treated in this country infuriates me.
Americans typically have the attitude that anyone can be a teacher, because good teachers make it look easy, and bad teachers leave the impression that any idiot can do it. I had no fckin’ idea how hard a job it was until I actually started doing it.
re: #114 wheat-dogg
PwC, if it’s anything like KPMG, where my son worked, has very strict hiring requirements, because employees are dealing with other people’s M-O-N-E-Y. Once you’re hired, they might overlook a little recreational or medicinal marijuana, but not much more than that.
You mean for once the cops might be up against an organization with deep pockets and a strong imperative to protect their reputation, too? I look forward to the battle of the character witnesses at the trial. I know which I would find more believable.
re: #116 wheat-dogg
Americans typically have the attitude that anyone can be a teacher, because good teachers make it look easy, and bad teachers leave the impression that any idiot can do it. I had no fckin’ idea how hard a job it was until I actually started doing it.
Funny story but as you know I’m into genealogy. Anyhow I was posting on a Mayo FB group. Someone mentioned the play, Playboy of the Western World and I recalled the Irish professor who taught us the play because he was very memorable. A couple of the natives- there are always natives in these genealogy groups knew exactly who I was talking about and knew him through academia and doing some acting themselves.
re: #114 wheat-dogg
PwC, if it’s anything like KPMG, where my son worked, has very strict hiring requirements, because employees are dealing with other people’s M-O-N-E-Y. Once you’re hired, they might overlook a little recreational or medicinal marijuana, but not much more than that.
Yes, they do have extremely strict hiring requirements. It’s not a place where they hire just anyone.
re: #1 Single-handed sailor
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‘Morning, Lizards.
As if there hasn’t been enough animal-related activity at our house this week…
My brother in law and sister in law are taking a long weekend in Massachusetts this weekend, so he came over and dropped off his dog last night for some dog-sitting. Their dog Sandy is the same age as Scout, and they’ve been play pals since they were both puppies. Any time they get together there’s a lot of roughhousing going on, and this time’s no exception
So I’ve got two 80-plus pound dogs running through the house, two young cats hiding out downstairs (my BiL has no cats, so Sandy is cat-curious), and later today we’ll be adding a heavily-medicated cat to the mix once we go and pick up Trixie (who will be staying in our upstairs extra bedroom until Sandy goes home). My wife and I knew this was coming, so we cleared our weekend schedules in order to be able to wrangle animals and keep certain ones away from certain other ones.
Gonna be a long weekend here.
re: #116 wheat-dogg
Americans typically have the attitude that anyone can be a teacher, because good teachers make it look easy, and bad teachers leave the impression that any idiot can do it. I had no fckin’ idea how hard a job it was until I actually started doing it.
it also relates to the “we should run government like a business” approach
to a businessperson, things like education, health care, environmental or safety protections, infrastructure, etc., are all seen as expenses to be minimized and not as investments in a well-educated, healthy, safe and prosperous society
We obviously can do both but it would be nice if some of that military admiration got transferred to teachers. TBH I can think of more teachers who have inspired me than vets and bear in mind I’m named after my grandfather, a vet but my teachers were everyone from people who are younger than I am now being an almost big brother/sister type influence to older professors who lived some of the history we discussed or met and were on friendly terms with the authors whose work we read.
re: #8 teleskiguy
Unless you’re Jacob Wohl.
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She was off duty…she was not working. No warrant no cause no work related nothing
No justification
And she didn’t know about the pot (assuming)
re: #122 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
it also relates to the “we should run government like a business” approach
to a businessperson, things like education, health care, environmental or safety protections, infrastructure, etc., are all seen as expenses to be minimized and not as investments in a well educated, healthy, safe and prosperous society
All too true, and it’s been one of education’s greatest battles since the 1900s. Dewey and others saw education as a necessary part of a well-informed, well-rounded population, while the corporatists and politicians saw the public schools as training grounds for future factory workers who only needed the barest of skills. The other great battle is between the Constitutional secularism of the public schools and the Religious Right, who believe that the schools should also teach about GAWD and JAYSUS. Meanwhile, the core job of education — teaching children — gets lost in all the tussles over what to teach and how.
RWNJs hate Common Core, Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate programs, because those pedagogical models teach students higher modes of thinking beyond rote memorization and adherence to authority. Oddly, their attitude toward education is remarkably close to that of Chinas’.
good fucking grief
Moments ago, President @realDonaldTrump tweeted about Hurricane #Florence first responders. https://t.co/BzXAcFmxui pic.twitter.com/L3mYzj2jaj
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 14, 2018
re: #9 HappyWarrior
Laura is hopelessly stupid. And telling someone you’re their favorite Jew has shit to do with Holocaust denial but that dumbass knows it.
And it’s creepy
re: #128 dangerman
And it’s creepy
Incredibly so. I’m not your favorite agnostic who hopes there’s a heaven tho? //
re: #127 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief
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FEMA whose budget you stole from to punish immigrants.
re: #126 wheat-dogg
All too true, and it’s been one of education’s greatest battles since the 1900s. Dewey and others saw education as a necessary part of a well-informed, well-rounded population, while the corporatists and politicians saw the public schools as training grounds for future factory workers who only needed the barest of skills. The other great battle is between the Constitutional secularism of the public schools and the Religious Right, who believe that the schools should also teach about GAWD and JAYSUS. Meanwhile, the core job of education — teaching children — gets lost in all the tussles over what to teach and how.
RWNJs hate Common Core, Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate programs, because those pedagogical models teach students higher modes of thinking beyond rote memorization and adherence to authority. Oddly, their attitude toward education is remarkably close to that of Chinas’.
I’ve always defended public schools because they not private especially religious ones are what really built this country.
re: #123 HappyWarrior
We obviously can do both but it would be nice if some of that military admiration got transferred to teachers. TBH I can think of more teachers who have inspired me than vets and bear in mind I’m named after my grandfather, a vet but my teachers were everyone from people who are younger than I am now being an almost big brother/sister type influence to older professors who lived some of the history we discussed or met and were on friendly terms with the authors whose work we read.
One of my most memorable teachers was my 7th grade history teacher, who had served during the Korean War and still sported a military style buzz cut as a civilian. He notably predicted that Brazil would be a major economic power by the time we were adults, and he encouraged us to doubt our textbook’s facile presentation of American history. Brazil has not exactly lived up to his prediction, but it is still part of the BRICS nations and Mr K was a far smarter man than most of his students had suspected back then.
They deny the Holocaust to fellow bigots and then deny denying the Holocaust when called out on it.
Amazing how well that works in our modern media climate.
re: #9 HappyWarrior
That’s like a mass-murderer telling you how much they like you, so you’re going to be last…
THAT. IS. NOT. REASSURING.
re: #25 austin_blue
He was a risk analyst for PricewatershouseCooper. His family was prominent in the Carribean as effective Public Servants. His co-workers describe him as a joy to work with, an effective team player, and completely competent.
The apartment, after the shooting, had to be completely worked over by the forensic team. After all, a cop had fired the fatal shots. No drugs were found. Then they get a Search Warrant and find pot?
Where are are her alcohol and blood results?
I call bullshit. That cop needs to get life and a day for intentional murder.
She was not working
She did not enter the apt on the pretext of a crime being committed or investigated
She said she thought it was her apartment she was going into
Everything else post hoc is irrelevant
re: #132 HappyWarrior
I’ve always defended public schools because they not private especially religious ones are what really built this country.
Jefferson, for one, understood American democracy depended on a well educated public. And the public schools in the early 20th century — as they do now — enculturated immigrants into being “American.” They’re really the first exposure most kids have to cultures beyond their own — at least in the cities.
You need better friends.
— yntbe (@yntbe) September 14, 2018
re: #137 wheat-dogg
Jefferson, for one, understood American democracy depended on a well educated public. And the public schools in the early 20th century — as they do now — enculturated immigrants into being “American.” They’re really the first exposure most kids have to cultures beyond their own — at least in the cities.
That’s definitely the case with my family.
re: #28 HappyWarrior
Thanks. We lost an individual that was beloved by many people. That is so often forgotten. And I agree, I want to see her alcohol and blood results.
Drunk is an excuse.
Albeit a bad one
Stonee e cold sober means it was an execution
re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There are still a lot of open questions that need to be answered in court.
A totally different explanation for her behavior:
If ( and these are very big Ifs):
(a) she wasn’t intoxicated or on drugs herself
(b) she had just worked 15 hours
(c) she was frequently putting in those type of hours
I want to throw out another possibility:
Studies have shown that people who are sleep-deprived are as dangerous drivers as those who are intoxicated. Twenty years ago, I was putting in 15 hours daily on a special project. When driving home one evening at 1AM, I suddenly realized that I had spaced out and didn’t even realize where I was. What if she was suffering from impaired judgement because she was exhausted? Still should be some form of negligent homicide but not as deliberate an action.
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area.
JUST IN Paul Manafort to plead guilty as part of plea deal with special counsel https://t.co/7KjQFdsKlt
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 14, 2018
Boom goes the weasel. https://t.co/rOH83zfTz6
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 14, 2018
Yeah, it’s going to be one of those days.
re: #141 Hecuba’s daughter
A totally different explanation for her behavior:
If ( and these are very big Ifs):
(a) she wasn’t intoxicated or on drugs herself
(b) she had just worked 15 hours
(c) she was frequently putting in those type of hours
I want to throw out another possibility:Studies have shown that people who are sleep-deprived are as dangerous drivers as those who are intoxicated. Twenty years ago, I was putting in 15 hours daily on a special project. When driving home one evening at 1AM, I suddenly realized that I had spaced out and didn’t even realize where I was. What if she was suffering from impaired judgement because she was exhausted? Still should be some form of negligent homicide but not as deliberate an action.
There’s also the report that there were noise complaints made to his apartment, from someone who lived below him- which she did.
Someone here said she may have gone to his apartment to put the fear of authority into him and she over-reacted. Plausible, given how many times they’ve tried to tweak the narrative here.
What … ?!? 🐦😮🙄 pic.twitter.com/YtiM88FHYQ
— Stefano S. Magi (@StefanodocSM) September 14, 2018
The White House just sent out this very posed “hurricane preparation photo”
Pretty sure they think this makes denying the reality of the Puerto Rico death toll okay, because look, props! Very busy.
Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian pic.twitter.com/e8Ap4hY1hP— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) September 14, 2018
re: #146 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I have a very important meeting with the VP and POTUS, I better bring my easel.
Whatever’s going on with this storm, whatever it’s name is, I mean who really cares, but MAGA POTUS gets an A++++++!!!
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re: #135 Sufficient unto the day…
That’s like a mass-murderer telling you how much they like you, so you’re going to be last…
THAT. IS. NOT. REASSURING.
“I like you Sully. You’re a funny guy. That’s why I’m going to kill you last.”
re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If they were truly qualified, they would find better jobs in the private sector!
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I hear coal is coming back
Special Counsel’s office confirms a Manafort guilty plea is imminent. It looks like they’re having him plead to the whole litany of charges in the indictment, which almost definitely means no cooperation deal was struck. pic.twitter.com/kOfr4cY7yT
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) September 14, 2018
Trump can’t claim that there wasn’t criminality in his corrupt and compromised campaign.
Manafort is going to be pleading guilty to a litany of charges, including violating FARA (which is why he was busy projecting like IMAX and claiming John Kerry violated FARA in a tweet last night).
Everyone in Trumpworld is corrupt and compromised. Everyone. Mueller’s got the receipts - and the convictions to go along with it.
Nike stock closes at $83.47, an all-time high for the company.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) September 13, 2018
That Trump/right wing dumbassery protest/boycott really has worked its magic. https://t.co/L9bUaW3dlB
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 14, 2018
re: #150 Sir John Barron
“I like you Sully. You’re a funny guy. That’s why I’m going to kill you last.”
“Remember Sully, when I promised to kill you last?”
“I LIED”
re: #146 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #150 Sir John Barron
Exactly…even though he was the good guy, he was still a mass murderer.
AND HE WAS LYING ABOUT KILLING HIM LAST.
re: #32 cat-tikvah
Kansas woman told birth certificate wasn’t enough to prove citizenship for passport
Barbara had been issued a U.S. passport before, but this time around, Barbara was told her birth certificate wasn’t good enough to prove her citizenship.“It’s like they’re retroactively declaring that I was never a citizen,” Barbara said.
When my son lived in Moscow he went to the US Embassy to get a Birth of US Citizen Abroad for his daughter. His passport and birth certificate were not enough. Baptismal record? “I’m Jewish!”
I had to fax the Embassy my son’s Bar Mitzvah invitation. I tried to fax his vaccination records but they wouldn’t scan clearly.
What if I hadn’t kept those things?
re: #141 Hecuba’s daughter
A totally different explanation for her behavior:
If ( and these are very big Ifs):
(a) she wasn’t intoxicated or on drugs herself
(b) she had just worked 15 hours
(c) she was frequently putting in those type of hours
I want to throw out another possibility:Studies have shown that people who are sleep-deprived are as dangerous drivers as those who are intoxicated. Twenty years ago, I was putting in 15 hours daily on a special project. When driving home one evening at 1AM, I suddenly realized that I had spaced out and didn’t even realize where I was. What if she was suffering from impaired judgement because she was exhausted? Still should be some form of negligent homicide but not as deliberate an action.
If she was that impaired she should not have been carrying a gun
Why?
Exactly what happened is why
Good news for NY: Six of the eight members of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), also known as Democrats that keep Republicans controlling NY State, lost in their primaries yesterday, including the leader of the conference: nytimes.com.
re: #159 Belafon
Good news for NY: Six of the eight members of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), also known as Democrats that keep Republicans controlling NY State, lost in their primaries yesterday, including the leader of the conference: nytimes.com.
I’d never heard of the IDC until this morning. Good riddance it sounds like.
re: #158 dangerman
If she was that impaired she should not have been carrying a gun
Why?
Exactly what happened is why
You are right. People who are impaired because they are drunk shouldn’t be driving or carrying guns, yet they do. People who are exhausted shouldn’t be engaging in those activities either — but in their case, it’s not illegal.
re: #146 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is the day that Trump became President! /////
—edited to correct typo :-(
re: #152 lawhawk
Trump can’t claim that there wasn’t criminality in his corrupt and compromised campaign.
Manafort is going to be pleading guilty to a litany of charges, including violating FARA (which is why he was busy projecting like IMAX and claiming John Kerry violated FARA in a tweet last night).
Everyone in Trumpworld is corrupt and compromised. Everyone. Mueller’s got the receipts - and the convictions to go along with it.
People will claim that he was threatened or extorted into making this guilty plea.
Witch Hunt, Show Trial, Stalinism, etc…
re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
PeopleTrump and Fox will claim that he was threatened or extorted into making this guilty plea.Witch Hunt, Show Trial, Stalinism, etc…
FTFY.
re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
People will claim that he was threatened or extorted into making this guilty plea.
Well, to a degree he was…
‘Accept the plea deal or we’ll go to trial and you’ll be sentenced to prison for the rest of your life.’
Dude’s 69 years old. If convicted, he’d die in prison. So there’s that.
re: #166 makeitstop
Well, to a degree he was…
‘Accept the plea deal or we’ll go to trial and you’ll be sentenced to prison for the rest of your life.’
Dude’s 69 years old. If convicted, he’d die in prison. So there’s that.
An alternative: They gave Paulie a whiff of what they’d present at trial, and taking the plea is the only way for him to try to save his boss’ skin…
re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
People will claim that he was threatened or extorted into making this guilty plea.
Witch Hunt, Show Trial, Stalinism, etc…
Except Manafort decided why bother paying all that money for a defense when the President will pardon him for all crimes, including perjury. He has a permanent Get Out of Jail card. So why waste time going through the justice system?
re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
People will claim that he was threatened or extorted into making this guilty plea.
Witch Hunt, Show Trial, Stalinism, etc…
The Lock Her Up crowd has suddenly gotten really weasely about criminal misconduct and law and order.
re: #169 Sir John Barron
The Lock Her Up crowd has suddenly gotten really weasely about criminal misconduct and law and order.
Law and Order is only for black people and Hillary.
re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter
Except Manafort decided why bother paying all that money for a defense when the President will pardon him for all crimes, including perjury. He has a permanent Get Out of Jail card. So why waste time going through the justice system?
And the Presidential Pardon will be held up as proof that he was somehow “innocent”.
re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth
O_o
We’ve really got to find this Conservative Bible, the one with the Jesus that doesn’t cure the blind or the lepers.
re: #172 Belafon
We’ve really got to find this Conservative Bible, the one with the Jesus that doesn’t cure the blind or the lepers.
He does, he just charges for it…
re: #172 Belafon
We’ve really got to find this Conservative Bible, the one with the Jesus that doesn’t cure the blind or the lepers.
And the Lord sayeth thou should have known that my words were enough to overcome your sickness. Seriously this is really sick coming from a man whose healthcare is paid for by the government.
re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And the Presidential Pardon will be held up as proof that he was somehow “innocent”.
Until he’s subpoenaed in another case and forced to testify.
Trump seems to think a pardon is a good idea. But he’s clearly not looking far enough ahead to consider that he’s exposing himself to damaging testimony.
re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He does, he just charges for it…
Ah Supply Side Jesus, he still owes me fifty bucks from the money I helped loan him to start a Chik a Fila near his Hobby Lobby shop.
re: #175 makeitstop
Until he’s subpoenaed in another case and forced to testify.
Trump seems to think a pardon is a good idea. But he’s clearly not looking far enough ahead to consider that he’s exposing himself to damaging testimony.
Trump never thinks about long term implications.
re: #175 makeitstop
Until he’s subpoenaed in another case and forced to testify.
Trump seems to think a pardon is a good idea. But he’s clearly not looking far enough ahead to consider that he’s exposing himself to damaging testimony.
Why can’t Manafort commit perjury — repeatedly? After all, Trump will pardon him each time and the GOP is totally fine with this. There are no Republicans in the House who care about the future of this country.
re: #177 HappyWarrior
Trump never thinks about long term implications.
he has yet to face any unpleasant personal consequences from his words or actions
re: #179 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
he has yet to face any unpleasant personal consequences from his words or actions
That’s likely to change in a couple months.
re: #178 Hecuba’s daughter
Why can’t Manafort commit perjury — repeatedly? After all, Trump will pardon him each time and the GOP is totally fine with this. There are no Republicans in the House who care about the future of this country.
I’m thinking that Mueller (and SDNY) have sufficient evidence to refute the perjury and lock him up.
I kinda doubt the effectiveness of the ‘infinite pardons’ strategy. Everybody knows he’s guilty, which is why he agreed to a deal. Even one pardon will look like bald-faced obstruction. Multiple attempts will only make it more obvious.
re: #180 HappyWarrior
That’s likely to change in a couple months.
But in the end, he will walk and although he might lose his estate and empire, he will be guaranteed a cozy income for the rest of his days (ghost-)writing books and giving live appearances
It’s totally normal for prosecutors to file a criminal information when someone is going to plead. But this filing is very unusual. It’s a “speaking” information - 37 pages long with multiple exhibits. That’s not something you see often. pic.twitter.com/ngHcsW2Uv7
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) September 14, 2018
Significantly for Manafort, the new charging document Mueller’s office filed this morning - presumably in advance of a plea - suggests that a lot of his assets, including real estate and bank accounts, will be subject to forfeiture. pic.twitter.com/Iah9QPHmjQ
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) September 14, 2018
… including his house in the Hamptons (and three others, and four bank accounts, and a life insurance policy). pic.twitter.com/VUrD3koRjU
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) September 14, 2018
Manafort is now scheduled for an arraignment and plea agreement hearing this morning before Judge Jackson. Expect him to plead guilty to the two counts in the felony information that was filed today. pic.twitter.com/eMxfP8CTtu
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) September 14, 2018
Until now, the Manafort charges were missing stereotypical mob-associate talk. No longer. pic.twitter.com/N9HV4VbNJJ
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) September 14, 2018
Here’s the superseding information. It repeats a lot of the factual allegations in the earlier indictments, and wraps a lot of them into two conspiracy counts. -> https://t.co/xW8QUokBcH
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) September 14, 2018
re: #182 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But in the end, he will walk and although he might lose his estate and empire, he will be guaranteed a cozy income for the rest of his days (ghost-)writing books and giving live appearances
We both have no idea what’s going to happen. I think there’s a possibility he really could end up behind bars.
White House aides forced to use ‘large colored charts’ to explain Hurricane Florence threat to Trump #POTUSByProxy #InstabilityInChief https://t.co/cXQBAoMnmp
— Propane Jane™ (@docrocktex26) September 14, 2018
re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This memo attached to the new criminal information says, among other things, that Sen. Dick Lugar quietly assured Manafort he would hold up a Senate resolution about Tymoshenko that Yanukovych was eager to defeat—but then Sen. Dick Durbin outmaneuvered him. pic.twitter.com/6dBw5ShNsJ
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) September 14, 2018
re: #178 Hecuba’s daughter
Why can’t Manafort commit perjury — repeatedly? After all, Trump will pardon him each time and the GOP is totally fine with this. There are no Republicans in the House who care about the future of this country.
Because Trump can’t pardon him for state convictions.
re: #185 HappyWarrior
We both have no idea what’s going to happen. I think there’s a possibility he really could end up behind bars.
slight, but if I were to bet, I would say that he gets probation at worst
which he would then violate within minutes
re: #190 Belafon
Because Trump can’t pardon him for state convictions.
and that is where the whole bag of shit is going to bust wide open
re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
slight, but if I were to bet, I would say that he gets probation at worst
which he would then violate within minutes
Which would land him in jail. Plus, he’s got plenty of state crimes to answer to in New York. But who knows, maybe he’ll flee to Russia to be with Vlad.
re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
People will claim that he was threatened or extorted into making this guilty plea.
Witch Hunt, Show Trial, Stalinism, etc…
“innocent people don’t take plea deals”
re: #190 Belafon
Because Trump can’t pardon him for state convictions.
But aren’t all the current charges to date federal crimes? And if the perjury related to federal charges, such as lying to the FBI or in Congressional testimony or Mueller?
LOL
so this effectively pays for the special counsel investigation?
— Zach Whitman (@zjwhitman) September 14, 2018
Good point: Mueller’s investigation just paid for itself in Manafort’s $46M forfeitures. https://t.co/V5rbQwWREu
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) September 14, 2018
re: #196 Hecuba’s daughter
But aren’t all the current charges to date federal crimes? And if the perjury related to federal charges, such as lying to the FBI or in Congressional testimony or Mueller?
New York AG’s office may not be charging him at this time because they know Mueller is on it but if Trump were to pardon Paulie, they’d be on him I think.
re: #197 Dr Lizardo
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re: #195 dangerman
“innocent people don’t take plea deals”
Of course, in real life, innocent people who are not wealthy take plea deals all the time.
Flashing some kinda RW gang sign I don’t recognize.
With great American patriots @JackPosobiec and @mflynnJR in St. Louis at #GatewayEagleCouncil pic.twitter.com/tjanlYZQVh
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) September 14, 2018
re: #200 Hecuba’s daughter
Of course, in real life, innocent people who are not wealthy take plea deals all the time.
of course, sure
im not sure who i was channeling.
whoever it was, what happens in ‘real life’ is not a factor
re: #201 wheat-dogg
Flashing some kinda RW gang sign I don’t recognize.
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some sort of secret handshake that none of them can seem to master
re: #201 wheat-dogg
Flashing some kinda RW gang sign I don’t recognize.
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“Here, we cut off our balls to satisfy our God and Savior Trump.” These stupid hand signs are pretty funny shit considering Treyvon using them was proof he deserved to be murdered in cold blood and was a thug.
re: #196 Hecuba’s daughter
But aren’t all the current charges to date federal crimes? And if the perjury related to federal charges, such as lying to the FBI or in Congressional testimony or Mueller?
The current charges are. But Trump is based in NY, and Trump businesses deal with NY. And the Democratic AG nominee has promised to pursue Trump. Manafort will be called to testify there, and none of his actions can be pardoned by Trump.
re: #205 Belafon
The current charges are. But Trump is based in NY, and Trump businesses deal with NY. And the Democratic AG nominee has promised to pursue Trump. Manafort will be called to testify there, and none of his actions can be pardoned by Trump.
I’m reading up on Tish James. Sounds like the perfect person for the job.
re: #206 HappyWarrior
I’m reading up on Tish James. Sounds like the perfect person for the job.
But won’t the Kavanaugh Supreme Court rule that Trump cannot be distracted while “President” and so any charges pending against him will have to be suspended until he leaves office?
re: #201 wheat-dogg
Flashing some kinda RW gang sign I don’t recognize.
Sounds like the worst gathering of nincompoops in the world.
re: #207 Hecuba’s daughter
But won’t the Kavanaugh Supreme Court rule that Trump cannot be distracted while “President” and so any charges pending against him will have to be suspended until he leaves office?
We’ll have to cross that bridge when it comes to it. Until now, Trump’s associates can and should be prosecuted on the state level.
re: #197 Dr Lizardo
Good point: Mueller’s investigation just paid for itself in Manafort’s $46M forfeitures.
I seem to recall a lot of people complaining about wasting government money, etc…
The @HoustonChron’s editorial board offers a message of solidarity to those in the path of #HurricaneFlorence and a scathing rebuke to Trump:
“Houston is with you.”
and
“Ignore him.”#HoustonStrong #CarolinaStronghttps://t.co/RAFvFZTNaf pic.twitter.com/qfub594zHC— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) September 13, 2018
re: #215 makeitstop
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They’re right but it really is pathetic that this is where we are with our President. He and his lackeys need to be repudiated big time in the Fall.
re: #207 Hecuba’s daughter
But won’t the Kavanaugh Supreme Court rule that Trump cannot be distracted while “President” and so any charges pending against him will have to be suspended until he leaves office?
they’ll go after the trump organization, which he claimed he resigned from
it’s supposed to be run by the progeny
re: #214 wheat-dogg
So losing that they make the “L” upside down.
Just wait. Zina Bash will flash that sign during the next hearing she attends.
re: #218 Hecuba’s daughter
Just wait. Zina Bash will flash that sign during the next hearing she attends.
And then we’ll hear about how we’re all awful people for calling her out on it. And Derp will go on.
re: #215 makeitstop
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- inside the whitehouse
- outside the whitehouse
- outside the country
all saying “ignore the president”
re: #221 dangerman
this is where we are:
- inside the whitehouse
- outside the whitehouse
- outside the countryall saying “ignore the president”
Enough with people treating the tangerine toddler as someone we can ignore.
Time to treat the people enabling the tangerine toddler and continuing this farce/sham/criminal syndicate to face the music and be held accountable for their criminality, corruption, and complicity with ongoing criminal misconduct.
The 25A isn’t going to happen when the GOP continues backing Trump with 80% approval rate. The GOP isn’t going to dump Trump when they continue to hold Congress despite getting a minority of the votes. They’ve gamed the system to remain in power despite losing popular vote thanks to how Congress is compiled.
re: #222 lawhawk
Enough with people treating the tangerine toddler as someone we can ignore.
Time to treat the people enabling the tangerine toddler and continuing this farce/sham/criminal syndicate to face the music and be held accountable for their criminality, corruption, and complicity with ongoing criminal misconduct.
The 25A isn’t going to happen when the GOP continues backing Trump with 80% approval rate. The GOP isn’t going to dump Trump when they continue to hold Congress despite getting a minority of the votes. They’ve gamed the system to remain in power despite losing popular vote thanks to how Congress is compiled.
Just ignoring him makes the problem worse. He may be an idiot and infantile but he’s still a criminal.
re: #223 HappyWarrior
Just ignoring him makes the problem worse. He may be an idiot and infantile but he’s still a criminal.
And do not underestimate his ability to manipulate the media
and remember that as President, he has a lot of aces up his sleeve that he has yet to pull out, only hinted at so far…
re: #222 lawhawk
Enough with people treating the tangerine toddler as someone we can ignore.
Time to treat the people enabling the tangerine toddler and continuing this farce/sham/criminal syndicate to face the music and be held accountable for their criminality, corruption, and complicity with ongoing criminal misconduct.
The 25A isn’t going to happen when the GOP continues backing Trump with 80% approval rate. The GOP isn’t going to dump Trump when they continue to hold Congress despite getting a minority of the votes. They’ve gamed the system to remain in power despite losing popular vote thanks to how Congress is compiled.
And courtesy of the Electoral College, someone could win 65% of the popular vote but lose the election. The Constitution has gerrymandered both the Presidency and the Senate. The GOP has gerrymandered House districts, but they are also engaged in widespread voter disenfranchisement which is effective even when districts are not gerrymandered.
re: #224 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And do not underestimate his ability to manipulate the media
and remember that as President, he has a lot of aces up his sleeve that he has yet to pull out, only hinted at so far…
I agree but I think you overestimate him too. He really lucked in so many ways that he isn’t this time around.
re: #225 Hecuba’s daughter
And courtesy of the Electoral College, someone could win 65% of the popular vote but lose the election. The Constitution has gerrymandered both the Presidency and the Senate. The GOP has gerrymandered House districts, but they are also engaged in widespread voter disenfranchisement which is effective even when districts are not gerrymandered.
they know that their demographic window is closing, so they are using every measure available to keep it propped open
Always wanted one of these but it was way out of my folks’ reach. It sucked to be a poor kid during Leave it to Beaver and Father Knows Best times, as it still does today. They were good shows for the most part, well written and acted, but people who were filthy rich compared to you were portrayed as average, and it wasn’t just TV producers who promoted that mythology. It made you feel invisible.
I tried to find one of the Ideal rocket bases on Ebay. They had one, damaged, for 79.95. Will keep looking.
re: #228 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Always wanted one of these but it was way out of my folks’ reach. It sucked to be a poor kid during Leave it to Beaver and Father Knows Best times. They were good shows for the most part, well written and acted, but people who were filthy rich compared to you were portrayed as average, and it wasn’t just TV producers who promoted that mythology. It made you feel invisible.
I tried to find one of the Ideal rocket bases on Ebay. They had one, damaged, for 79.95. Will keep looking.
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re: #201 wheat-dogg
Flashing some kinda RW gang sign I don’t recognize.
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LET’S MAKE UP A FAKE HAND SIGN TO CONFUSE THE LIBS, WE’LL LOOK LIKE COMPLETE LOSER DUMBASSES BUT WE’LL GET THEM GOOD!!!
Kavanaugh sounds pretty creepy. No wonder Trump likes him.
Farrow gets more details on the Kavanaugh letter https://t.co/cvzNOpW5Cd pic.twitter.com/hSL6ge0WES
— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 14, 2018
Doesn’t sound very carpool. https://t.co/GfSjOWUuHt
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 14, 2018
Biggest way IMO Trump lucked out in 2016. Being the challenger. We may discount this but that was a huge part of his “mystique.” Now that we’re actually seeing that he can’t govern from his ass. And the other big factor I’m sad to say since I proudly supported her but HRC. I think we totally underestimated how many people despised her and were so eager to vote against her that they’d vote against that asshole to do so. That plus seeing that he’s full of shit and presto you got a under 40% President who I think will find his party in the minority in the House and or Senate next spring. And that’s when the real fun will begin. Having the majority will allow us to investigate him and his and the Republicans know it’s coming.
re: #231 makeitstop
Kavanaugh sounds pretty creepy. No wonder Trump likes him.
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I’m really disappointed that the FBI didn’t want to pursue this more. This is really troubling to me.
re: #230 b.d.(tremendously big & tremendously wet)
LET’S MAKE UP A FAKE HAND SIGN TO CONFUSE THE LIBS, WE’LL LOOK LIKE COMPLETE LOSER DUMBASSES BUT WE’LL GET THEM GOOD!!!
We really need to convince them that we hate it when they wipe.
re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
now, the results of her blood tests seem like they would certainly be admissible, any word on that?
and the question is still unclear about how she gained entry in the first place
this does not prevent the media and the RW bloggers from painting her victim as a marijuana-crazed rapist monster who had to be shot down on the spot
To me, that is the most damning element- that the information being put out is all to disparage an innocent victim, and no information on how someone goes into the wrong apartment and can’t figure it out in time to not murder someone. But we know from hundreds of years of experience, cops have unlimited rights, citizens have none. Anything related to the perp cop is secret, everything that can be found and even made up on the victim is broadcast to the world. The right wing mind is so fucked up, crying “freedom” while lionizing the police state.
re: #235 Old Liberal
The right wing mind is so fucked up, crying “freedom” while lionizing the police state.
As long as that Police State is working in their interests.
Seeing on CNN that Manafort will cooperate.
re: #237 Barefoot Grin
Seeing on CNN that Manafort will cooperate.
That’s kinda huge…shoots the ‘pardon’ theory all to hell, if true.
re: #237 Barefoot Grin
Seeing on CNN that Manafort will cooperate.
Somebody we know is right now trying to wrestle his phone away from his lawyers and staffers so he can unwittingly tweet self-incriminating statements.
TPM is also reporting that Manafort will cooperate.
He’ll be joining the witness protection program, no doubt.
re: #240 wheat-dogg
Somebody we know is right now trying to wrestle his phone away from his lawyers and staffers so he can unwittingly tweet self-incriminating statements.
At some point, Trump will have to testify under oath. At that point, he is sunk, as he will not be able to do so without contradicting himself and/or other sworn testimony.
re: #240 wheat-dogg
Somebody we know is right now trying to wrestle his phone away from his lawyers and staffers so he can unwittingly tweet self-incriminating statements.
PAUL MANAFORT IS A NO GOOD SNITCH WHO KNOWS CROOKED HILLARY MORE THAN ME!
re: #240 wheat-dogg
Somebody we know is right now trying to wrestle his phone away from his lawyers and staffers so he can unwittingly tweet self-incriminating statements.
Category 5 on the way.
So, in going back through Trump’s twitter history, came across the following:
“@Michael_Haz Donald, why don’t you go out to Nevada & cut a deal for #CliveBundy? No one is a better deal maker than you. Go do it!” True!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2014
Yeah, Trump’s been pandering to the fringe for a long long time.
re: #243 HappyWarrior
PAUL MANAFORT IS A NO GOOD SNITCH WHO KNOWS CROOKED HILLARY MORE THAN ME!
BRING ME ANOTHER HURRICANE!!!
re: #245 lawhawk
So, in going back through Trump’s twitter history, came across the following:
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Yeah, Trump’s been pandering to the fringe for a long long time.
Dipshit talks a tough game on Law and Order but he hasn’t met a right wing criminal he won’t find sympathy with.
re: #233 HappyWarrior
I’m really disappointed that the FBI didn’t want to pursue this more. This is really troubling to me.
A single allegation from 35 years ago? Where there was no report to the police at that time and where everyone involved is a minor? And where the harm was psychological rather than physical? There is no way such a charge from so long ago could ever be investigated.
Trump on August 23: “One of the reasons I respect Paul Manafort so much is he went through that trial. You know, they make up stories. People make up stories… I know all about flipping… they flip on whoever the next highest one is, or as high as you can go.”
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) September 14, 2018
Yeah, and as we are learning today, Manafort flipped.
There is no question as to who Manafort flipped on. Trump, Junior, Ivanka, Jared.
Those are the only ones higher ranking than Manafort. You don’t flip on those below you. You only flip on those above your pay grade. https://t.co/2L6LVmohj7— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 14, 2018
I’m going to open a brothel with a huge wide open entrance that also sells household good and call it “Open Solicitors General”.
— Fortior Leone Iustus (@AlreadyGreat_) September 14, 2018
re: #249 Hecuba’s daughter
A single allegation from 35 years ago? Where there was no report to the police at that time and where everyone involved is a minor? And where the harm was psychological rather than physical? There is no way such a charge from so long ago could ever be investigated.
He wasn’t a minor from what I understand. He was 18. And yes, in this MeToo era, I definitely think allegations like that against a man who is very likely to be a Supreme Court judge should be taken seriously.
re: #224 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And do not underestimate his ability to manipulate the media
and remember that as President, he has a lot of aces up his sleeve that he has yet to pull out, only hinted at so far…
He has one card, and we know what it is: 27% of the population will do his bidding without question. And since the entire Republican Congress has hitched himself to those crazies, they are essentially under his control.
lol, his own people even.
Hey @benshapiro, President Trump has just completed the most successful 600 days in the history of the US Presidency. How can you remain #NeverTrump unless you are actually a #DNC plant?
I challenge you to a debate. Your show or mine.— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) September 13, 2018
re: #250 lawhawk
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re: #231 makeitstop
Kavanaugh sounds pretty creepy. No wonder Trump likes him.
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yesterday, no one actually had any clue what the letter was all about
recall all the wild guesses and speculations around the internets
all that condemning and / or excusing or dismissing
re: #254 b.d.(tremendously big & tremendously wet)
lol, his own people even.
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I challenge both of these fuckers to go to Tristan da Cunha and stay. But I guess that wouldn’t be fair to the other 293 people there. Some I assume are good people. But yeah Bill, Ben Shapiro is a DNC plant lol. Please, if we were going to have a plant, we wouldn’t have someone so unlikable.
re: #253 Belafon
He has one card, and we know what it is: 27% of the population will do his bidding without question. And since the entire Republican Congress has hitched himself to those crazies, they are essentially under his control.
He can also get us into a war…
re: #256 dangerman
yesterday, no one actually had any clue what the letter was all about
recall all the wild guesses and speculations around the internets
all that condemning and / or excusing or dismissing
I really naively thought it was just Kavanaugh and a girlfriend yet to turn 18 having a fling out of their native Maryland. Where Kavanaugh grew up is very close to the DC and VA border. I’m sorry but this needs to be taken seriously. It speaks to how he treats people especially women and his character, which is something that has been spoken highly of.
re: #252 HappyWarrior
He wasn’t a minor from what I understand. He was 18. And yes, in this MeToo era, I definitely think allegations like that against a man who is very likely to be a Supreme Court judge should be taken seriously.
He was in high school, and it was 35 years ago. As far as we can tell, there was nothing physical involved. As much as we’d like to get him on something, I can tell you there are tens of millions of people, probably in the 100s of millions range, that will look back on their high school years and go “Yeah, I’m not going to hold high school antics against him.”
Edit: OK, it sounds more involved than I had first heard. But the rest of my statement stands.
This depressing chart shows why I will probably end up retiring to Central America or some similar place.
Either that, or teach until they have to wheel me in on a stretcher.
re: #260 Belafon
He was in high school, and it was 35 years ago. As far as we can tell, there was nothing physical involved. As much as we’d like to get him on something, I can tell you there are tens of millions of people, probably in the 100s of millions range, that will look back on their high school years and go “Yeah, I’m not going to hold high school antics against him.”
Like the story with Romney bullying the “queer” student.
re: #260 Belafon
He was in high school, and it was 35 years ago. As far as we can tell, there was nothing physical involved. As much as we’d like to get him on something, I can tell you there are tens of millions of people, probably in the 100s of millions range, that will look back on their high school years and go “Yeah, I’m not going to hold high school antics against him.”
I still think it should be looked into. I’m sorry but they’ve been telling us that this guy is a boy scout. It’s not the underaged drinking that bothers me. It’s treating a woman like crap and making her feel threatened.
re: #254 b.d.(tremendously big & tremendously wet)
I challenge you to a debate. Your show or mine.
Make it a knife fight with handcuffs and I’ll tune in.
re: #262 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Like the story with Romney bullying the “queer” student.
And where is Romney now? He sure as hell isn’t President. If you don’t think the stories about Mitt’s shitty character hurt him in 2012 against Obama, you’re foolish.
re: #260 Belafon
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re: #265 HappyWarrior
And where is Romney now? He sure as hell isn’t President. If you don’t think the stories about Mitt’s shitty character hurt him in 2012 against Obama, you’re foolish.
Mitt was hurt because he did not motivate the rabid base enough. And the Christian Fundamentalists for some reason preferred a serial womanizer over a married family father.
re: #266 Belafon
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Okay, I see your point. I just think it merits a look and I won’t object at all if someone asks him about it under oath.
re: #264 makeitstop
Make it a knife fight with handcuffs and I’ll tune in.
I had forgotten what an blithering imbecile this guy is:
Trump is just waiting for Florence to pass before unleashing hell on #DeepState. #SlowWalker’s countdown clock has reached 00:00. pic.twitter.com/39g5HrIqDh
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) September 14, 2018
re: #254 b.d.(tremendously big & tremendously wet)
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re: #265 HappyWarrior
And where is Romney now? He sure as hell isn’t President. If you don’t think the stories about Mitt’s shitty character hurt him in 2012 against Obama, you’re foolish.
There are three things I think hurt Romney:
1. Running against Obama.
2. His smug look after Benghazi.
3. His 47% remark.
While the last two are based on the same character as his attack, it wasn’t his history that did him in. Otherwise, GWB would never have made it to the presidency.
re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Mitt was hurt because he did not motivate the rabid base enough. And the Christian Fundamentalists for some reason preferred a serial womanizer over a married family father.
You’re talking about the GOP base. What about the rest of the population that isn’t the GOP base or Dem base. You don’t think that Mitt showing repeatedly from childhood to the present that he’d be the guy that would fire you and then chuckle about it. You are correctly about why Mitt did not strike a chord with the GOP base, what I am talking about is why Mitt did not strike a chord with the country. Little disappointed that you missed that part.
re: #236 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
As long as that Police State is working in their interests.
When I look at what is going on in the conservative mind, is there any explanation other than it is “racism all the way down”? I have a hard time finding any other basis than racism animating every position. It is the one thing had connects all, explains all.
re: #269 b.d.(tremendously big & tremendously wet)
I had forgotten what an blithering imbecile this guy is:
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re: #254 b.d.(tremendously big & tremendously wet)
lol, his own people even.
“Most successful…days of the American presidency.”
True, DJT passed Social Security, Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the 8-hour work day, reducing unemployment from 50% to 1.4%, increased econ growth from -15% to 25%, built a wall enclosing the entire U.S. Mexico border, killed OBL.
re: #232 HappyWarrior
Biggest way IMO Trump lucked out in 2016. Being the challenger. We may discount this but that was a huge part of his “mystique.” Now that we’re actually seeing that he can’t govern from his ass. And the other big factor I’m sad to say since I proudly supported her but HRC. I think we totally underestimated how many people despised her and were so eager to vote against her that they’d vote against that asshole to do so. That plus seeing that he’s full of shit and presto you got a under 40% President who I think will find his party in the minority in the House and or Senate next spring. And that’s when the real fun will begin. Having the majority will allow us to investigate him and his and the Republicans know it’s coming.
‘new york’ knew he was a con man and a liar. tried to warn everybody. not enough listened or would believe it was true.
my first stop every morning is electoral-vote.com
here’s a bit from today’s:
Trump, of course, knows that he has a dedicated base that will believe anything he says. If he were to say that the sun will be turned off this weekend for scheduled maintenance, they would believe it. When they saw the sun anyway, he would explain that it was a big LED lamp NASA launched to provide some light while the sun was offline, and his base would believe that, too. We have gotten to the point where 40% of the country rejects the concept of reality itself. It is hard to believe we are having this discussion, but here we are.
(i like playing with the boldies and itals)
re: #269 b.d.(tremendously big & tremendously wet)
I had forgotten what an blithering imbecile this guy is:
Just one of a galaxy of extremely dim stars, all wearing MAGA hats…
re: #241 makeitstop
TPM is also reporting that Manafort will cooperate.
He’ll be joining the witness protection program, no doubt.
I guess we just found out who wants to pay to go to the Moon.
re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Mitt was hurt because he did not motivate the rabid base enough. And the Christian Fundamentalists for some reason preferred a serial womanizer over a married family father.
Christian Fundamentalists are not fond of Mormons. So yes, a serial womanizer who pretends to be Christian is preferable to an upright Mormon.
re: #271 Belafon
There are three things I think hurt Romney:
1. Running against Obama.
2. His smug look after Benghazi.
3. His 47% remark.While the last two are based on the same character as his attack, it wasn’t his history that did him in. Otherwise, GWB would never have made it to the presidency.
True, true. I’m just saying that those stories played at least some role in shaping people’s opinion of Mitt as an uncaring asshole. I doubt they were the deciding point for many if anyone but I think Wendell is just focusing on why Mitt did not appeal to the GOP base and ignoring that he didn’t appeal to the rest of the country that isn’t part of the GOP or Dem base either.
re: #233 HappyWarrior
I’m really disappointed that the FBI didn’t want to pursue this more. This is really troubling to me.
Hey, who, other than me, hasn’t done that to a woman in their youth?
What is youth for other than attempted gang rape, amirite?
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re: #276 dangerman
‘new york’ knew he was a con man and a liar. tried to warn everybody. not enough listened or would believe it was true.
my first stop every morning is electoral-vote.com
here’s a bit from today’s:
(i like playing with the boldies and itals)
New Yorkers knew him best and rejected him the most soundly. People from the red states far away from New York embraced him the most. That to me says a lot.
The canary is already singing
CNN reporting Special Counsel says Manafort has already begun giving information to Justice Department
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) September 14, 2018
re: #281 Old Liberal
Hey, who, other than me, hasn’t done that to a woman in their youth?
What is youth for other than attempted gang rape, amirite?
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Ha, I’m very sensitive about this issue TBH because I remember a night in college when I was very drunk with a young woman. I don’t want to pat myself on the back nor do I expect laurels but I’m proud that I did not bother her and I did not harass her physically.
re: #277 makeitstop
Just one of a galaxy of extremely dim stars, all wearing MAGA hats…
Linus only waited one night for The Great Pumpkin, these guys will be waiting the rest of their lives on Q.
re: #283 wheat-dogg
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I’m not sure I’ve been a good enough person in my life such that I’d get to see Donald Trump, Jr. indicted.
And has Greenwald chimed in to tell us this is all standard shit?
Or are they going to go with “He just pled guilty to something that wasn’t even a crime”?
re: #288 Mike Lamb
And has Greenwald chimed in to tell us this is all standard shit?
Or are they going to go with “He just pled guilty to something that wasn’t even a crime”?
I don’t know. Thankfully we don’t seem to hear much from him anymore.
re: #284 HappyWarrior
Ha, I’m very sensitive about this issue TBH because I remember a night in college when I was very drunk with a young woman. I don’t want to pat myself on the back nor do I expect laurels but I’m proud that I did not bother her and I did not harass her physically.
Good for you. And for anyone who failed in that respect, repent and own it, don’t go with the youthful indiscretion bullshit. I remember when something a conservative did in his late 40’s was called “youthful indiscretion”. It is a bullshit lame rationalizing for not owning up to behavior.
re: #286 Mike Lamb
I’m not sure I’ve been a good enough person in my life such that I’d get to see Donald Trump, Jr. indicted.
Oh man, I’d like that even more than Ivanka and Jared and I hate Javanka for their fakeness but Don Jr, Don Jr would be awesome.
So the top story on Fox News this hour is…what?
Panda sex? Avenatti’s pr0n habits? Hil’s emails?
re: #290 Old Liberal
Good for you. And for anyone who failed in that respect, repent and own it, don’t go with the youthful indiscretion bullshit. I remember when something a conservative did in his late 40’s was called “youthful indiscretion”. It is a bullshit lame rationalizing for not owning up to behavior.
Yes, you’re thinking of Henry Hyde who claimed that youthful indiscretion bs when he was moralizing about Bill Clinton’s affairs around the same age.
re: #292 makeitstop
So the top story on Fox News this hour is…what?
Panda sex? Avenatti’s pr0n habits? Hil’s emails?
Well yesterday it was some naive and frankly stupid British college lefties thinking the Gulags weren’t so bad. So today it will be why don’t the French thank America enough for the Allied liberation.
re: #292 makeitstop
Diane Feinstein’s “desperate attack” on Kavanaugh.
.@ChuckGrassley releases a letter from 65 women who knew Kavanaugh in high school (showing Rs knew about this high-school rape allegation.) These women say Kavanaugh “behaved honorably and treated women with respect.”
— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) September 14, 2018
Sixty-five female character witnesses for Kavanaugh from his high school years. And as @courtneymilan notes, he went to an all-boys high school. https://t.co/VYAJ7f7nCu
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) September 14, 2018
re: #292 makeitstop
So the top story on Fox News this hour is…what?
Panda sex? Avenatti’s pr0n habits? Hil’s emails?
For the hell of it I’ve been watching (supposed to be working from home…). Nothing on Manafort. It’s all Florence. But it’s Shep now, so he might do something on it.
re: #295 jaunte
Diane Feinstein’s “desperate attack” on Kavanaugh.
“Come on, who among us didn’t try to lock a woman in a room with us while we were drunk and make her feel uncomfortable!”
“FRATERNITY GAGS!”
“PC RUN AMOK”
re: #296 jaunte
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He may have most of the time but he was apparently drunk when this happened. I’m sorry but if the R’s are going to try to act like Beto doesn’t belong in the Senate because of a DWI, then Kavanaugh needs to be questioned on this.
.@ChuckGrassley releases a letter from 65 women who knew Kavanaugh in high school (showing Rs knew about this high-school rape allegation.) These women say Kavanaugh “behaved honorably and treated women with respect.”
— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) September 14, 2018
Seriously, how long did it take to find 65 female high school classmates of Kavanaugh’s who would say nice things about him? How long has Grassley’s office known about these charges and been working to counter them? https://t.co/cHKubR28Bs
— Seth Masket (@smotus) September 14, 2018
“But look at all the women he hasn’t attacked yet!”
The president’s legal team put out an initial statement that said: “the President did nothing wrong and Paul Manafort will tell the truth.” Minutes later, they put out a new statement that said simply: “the President did nothing wrong.”
— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) September 14, 2018
LOLOLOLOL. When the real meaning dawns on you but you already hit send. https://t.co/qEBO1mrqIn
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) September 14, 2018
The government just recouped close to $50 million dollars from Paul Manafort’s asset forfeitures.
That alone pays for the entire Mueller investigation… through 2019.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) September 14, 2018
re: #259 HappyWarrior
I really naively thought it was just Kavanaugh and a girlfriend yet to turn 18 having a fling out of their native Maryland. Where Kavanaugh grew up is very close to the DC and VA border. I’m sorry but this needs to be taken seriously. It speaks to how he treats people especially women and his character, which is something that has been spoken highly of.
i didnt just mean here on lgf
its the way things go these days - everybody guessing, amateur lawyering and opining about stuff they dont know
and often they dont know factually, and individually / intellectually. everyone’s an expert about everything.
this is just a good example that fortunately got outed in just one day
usually we dont even have the facts yet and we’re playing out 15 differnet scencarios 10 moves down the road. i do it too, and it’s sort of human nature.
meanwhile we’re doing Botham Jean. we still dont knwo all the facts. though i think we do know enough. and we are legitimately afraid ‘the facts’ will be manipulated.
mueller’s another great example. not a peep out of him. leakproof.
still everyone knows exactly what is going on in his office. with certainty. what his strategy is, how its going to end, etc. they are speculating. making it up. clueless.
i dont know. maybe i’m just saying we should keep this stuff in some sort of perspective as we all play along.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson says Manafort’s cooperation agreement includes:
-interviews and briefings he’ll give to the special counsel’s office
- turning over documents
- testifying in other proceedings— erica orden (@eorden) September 14, 2018
re: #301 jaunte
“But look at all the women he hasn’t attacked yet!”
This is utterly meaningless. Even Jeffrey Dahmer could produce a list of people he DIDN’T murder. Republicans are grasping at straws to defend an indefensible candidate. https://t.co/EIKTUi5SyF
— Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) September 14, 2018
re: #301 jaunte
“But look at all the women he hasn’t attacked yet!”
“No president has ever consulted more widely or talked with more people from more backgrounds to seek input about a supreme court nomination.”
re: #302 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Next—
“Too bad, Manafort was a good guy. Now a snitch and a flip. Very bad. Illegal. Was brave now not brave. Sad. “
re: #307 Barefoot Grin
“No president has ever consulted more widely or talked with more people from more backgrounds to seek input about a supreme court nomination.”
Yeah great job vetting. That for both Trump and Bush’s team who have been telling us about what a boy scout this punk is.
“I have here in my pocket* a list of 3 billion women O.J. didn’t murder.
*it’s a very big pocket— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) September 14, 2018
re: #283 wheat-dogg
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re: #300 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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The Masket tweet was the first thing that jumped out to me. They’ve known about this. The fact that they had this ready to go suggests to me that there is credibility to the allegations against Kavanaugh. This kind of character testimony is a pretty narrow reed on which to rely. I just fully expected the GOP to really lean into “That was so long ago. Why didn’t this come out earlier?” and other such tripe.
re: #312 sagehen
Dear God, please… let him testify that during the Trump Tower collusion meeting, Manafort had an open phone line to the Pumpkin Pinochet. That as soon as the meeting ended, he went upstairs to speak to him directly about it. Amen.
I definitely think he’s going to give us a member of the Trump family.
“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, shouldn’t my client Mr Dahmer get some credit for all the people he didn’t eat?”
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) September 14, 2018
re: #314 Mike Lamb
The Masket tweet was the first thing that jumped out to me. They’ve known about this. The fact that they had this ready to go suggests to me that there is credibility to the allegations against Kavanaugh. This kind of character testimony is a pretty narrow reed on which to rely.
Yeah I think if they weren’t worried about it, they would have let it leak out on its own. I definitely think there’s something here. And again, it’s another character strike against someone who we’re being told “Well you may not like his opinions but can’t we all agree that Brett should marry your daughter or sister.”
re: #272 HappyWarrior
You’re talking about the GOP base. What about the rest of the population that isn’t the GOP base or Dem base. You don’t think that Mitt showing repeatedly from childhood to the present that he’d be the guy that would fire you and then chuckle about it. You are correctly about why Mitt did not strike a chord with the GOP base, what I am talking about is why Mitt did not strike a chord with the country. Little disappointed that you missed that part.
He was not half the asshole that Trump was, and that was his problem, Trump was a man who would hire you to do a job and then pay you pennies on the dollar.
The GOP just learned to fire up its base, gerrymander and suppress enough other voters that they needed to just top up that 27% of rabid Trump voters with another 20% or so of the voting public to gain an electoral majority
And it worked.
re: #318 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He was not half the asshole that Trump was, and that was his problem, Trump was a man who would hire you to do a job and then pay you pennies on the dollar.
The GOP just learned to fire up its base, gerrymander and suppress enough other voters that they needed to just top up that 27% of rabid Trump voters with another 20% or so of the voting public to gain an electoral majority
And it worked.
Again, I am talking about why Romney lost not why Trump won. Yes, the GOP fired up its base but there’s a reason why Romney did in fact lose and you’re wrong if you think it was just that he was unable to fire up his base. And I disagree, Mitt and Trump are very similiar people. Maybe Mitt wouldn’t cheat on Ann but in many ways, he is a lot like Trump. Never forget that he grinned like a hyena the day Benghazi happened because he thought that was his ticket to the WH.
re: #305 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Judge Amy Berman Jackson says Manafort’s cooperation agreement includes:
-interviews and briefings he’ll give to the special counsel’s office
- turning over documents
- testifying in other proceedings
Damn. The Trump family is sca-rewed.
How long before we declare war on Venezuela?
re: #316 gocart mozart
“We were just being cautious because Dems always accuse nominees of attempted rape of high school classmates,” says a staffer for Mike Lee, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) September 14, 2018
re: #321 jaunte
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Gorsuch wasn’t accused. Alito wasn’t accused. Roberts wasn’t accused. But nice try asshole. And maybe you shouldn’t nominate people like Thomas and Kavanaugh who apparently have a history of treating women like shit but I guess that’s too much to ask for your shitty ideology.
Serena cartoon fuels debate about ‘racist’ Australia https://t.co/laza4oGuyj
— Virginia M Moncrieff (@VMMoncrieff) September 14, 2018
Pretty goddamn rich behavior form the party whose nominee brought a woman who was a rape victom of the man that HRC had to by her job as a PD defend crying about this.
Mueller just seized a 43rd floor apartment in Trump Tower. I can’t get over it. Despite all the other things about today that will drive Trump mad, that has to be the cherry on the sundae.
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) September 14, 2018
re: #322 HappyWarrior
Oddly enough, men who want to bend the laws to treat women like shit don’t have a problem treating women like shit.
re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is utterly meaningless. Even Jeffrey Dahmer could produce a list of people he DIDN’T murder. Republicans are grasping at straws to defend an indefensible candidate.
this is not about facts or the truth or character
and worse, it has absolutely nothing to do with jurisprudence - how he’d be as a judge
they never should have put thomas on the court
similar issue, not the same. and different time than now.
still - once his character came into question, it should have been disqualify city
this is the fucking supreme court
instead they held hearings, and created some sort of “truth” they could hang their collective hats on
kavanaugh, imo is in worse shape. because there is lots more in his past that is questinonable. you have to sort out the ‘truth’ of each and every issue
so once we get into this letter, the credit card debt, the questinos about perjury, and on and on, it should be a no go. he’s not suitable
the fucking supreme court
they should be spending weeks and weeks going over opinions, philosophy, perspective - you know, how he’d behave in the job
instead its this nonsense to rehabilitate so much obviously questionable life and ‘character’
the process, and so the court is a fucking joke
re: #323 electrotek
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Australia from what I understand has always had a bit of a racism problem.
The Republicans are the one who made Kavanaugh’s character a big part of why he should be confirmed even though he’s been a Republican party gofer for years.
re: #319 HappyWarrior
Again, I am talking about why Romney lost not why Trump won. Yes, the GOP fired up its base but there’s a reason why Romney did in fact lose and you’re wrong if you think it was just that he was unable to fire up his base. And I disagree, Mitt and Trump are very similiar people. Maybe Mitt wouldn’t cheat on Ann but in many ways, he is a lot like Trump. Never forget that he grinned like a hyena the day Benghazi happened because he thought that was his ticket to the WH.
Romney lost because
1) Russia didn’t like him and didn’t want to help him; and
2) the vote-flipping software in Ohio didn’t work as well as Karl Rove expected
re: #328 HappyWarrior
Australia from what I understand has always had a bit of a racism problem.
This is a country where a decade before the rise of Trump, had their horrifying race riots where 5,000 drunk white Australian men went on a rampage and started beating anybody that looked remotely Middle Eastern. They were also attacking police and ambulances as well! Recall the Cronulla Beach riots?
“It was the most un-Australian event… it damaged us in our own heartland,” Andrew Scipione on the Cronulla riots.https://t.co/hffoa491hg
— 60 Minutes Australia (@60Mins) November 8, 2015
oh, and I’m placing my money on Jr being the one Manafort is giving up.
re: #331 electrotek
This is a country where a decade before the rise of Trump, had their horrifying race riots where 5,000 drunk white Australian men went on a rampage and started beating anybody that looked remotely Middle Eastern. They were also attacking police and ambulances as well! Recall the Cronulla Beach riots?
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I don’t but remember I’m younger than you are.
re: #322 HappyWarrior
Gorsuch wasn’t accused. Alito wasn’t accused. Roberts wasn’t accused. But nice try asshole. And maybe you shouldn’t nominate people like Thomas and Kavanaugh who apparently have a history of treating women like shit but I guess that’s too much to ask for your shitty ideology.
i just ranted below, er above.
you said it shorter and better
re: #321 jaunte
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So how many CYA letters do they have in the files “just in case”?
Here’s a letter from 65 people that say Kavanaugh doesn’t kick puppies.
Here’s a letter from 65 people that say Kavanaugh is a good tipper.
Here’s a letter from 65 people that say Kavanaugh smells fantastic.
Here’s a letter from 65 people that say Kavanaugh has great penmanship.
re: #328 HappyWarrior
Australia from what I understand has always had a bit of a racism problem.
There were no aborigines available for comment…
re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh, and I’m placing my money on Jr being the one Manafort is giving up.
Show me Manafort and you got Don Jr.
Show me Don Jr and you got Jared.
Show me Jared and you got Pence
Show me Pence and you got Ivanka
Show me Ivanka and you got Daddy.
War’s over. Sorry I was thinking of that conversation that Tom Sizemore and Tom Hanks have in Saving Private Ryan.
re: #333 HappyWarrior
I don’t but remember I’m younger than you are.
You would have recalled since it was huge news in December 2005, even Fox News didn’t utilize their usual slant when they covered the riots stateside:
re: #339 electrotek
You would have recalled since it was huge news in December 2005, even Fox News didn’t utilize their usual slant when they covered the riots stateside:
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December 2005, I was still getting used to my first year of community college and not really paying as much to current events as I should have. I honestly had no idea about this.
re: #336 Mike Lamb
There were no aborigines available for comment…
Eastern and Southern Europeans underwent major racism when they first settled in the country from the 1950s onward, being called a wog over and over.
Even Polish-Australians are considered wogs over there, which is very odd.
re: #329 HappyWarrior
The Republicans are the one who made Kavanaugh’s character a big part of why he should be confirmed even though he’s been a Republican party gofer for years.
I’ll put it this way: I’m hoping this is the one thing that causes the wavering Democrats and two Republicans to listen to their aides, who will listen and record messages from their constituents, who suddenly decide that something done in high school 35 years ago should be enough to keep him off the court.
Part of the success of the #metoo movement has been that the people who’ve been ousted have run around in otherwise Democratic areas. Hollywood is liberal. The head of CBS may be conservative, but there are a lot of liberals.
re: #319 HappyWarrior
Again, I am talking about why Romney lost not why Trump won. Yes, the GOP fired up its base but there’s a reason why Romney did in fact lose and you’re wrong if you think it was just that he was unable to fire up his base. And I disagree, Mitt and Trump are very similiar people. Maybe Mitt wouldn’t cheat on Ann but in many ways, he is a lot like Trump. Never forget that he grinned like a hyena the day Benghazi happened because he thought that was his ticket to the WH.
He lost because he was a politician and judged by those standards. Trump was the anti-politician, he could get away with things that no other career politician could.
Giuliani in first statement after Manafort plea deal:
“the President did nothing wrong and Paul Manafort will tell the truth.”
Giuliani in revised statement after Manafort plea deal:
“the President did nothing wrong.”— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 14, 2018
re: #341 electrotek
Eastern and Southern Europeans underwent major racism when they first settled in the country from the 1950s onward, being called a wog over and over.
Even Polish-Australians are considered wogs over there, which is very odd.
Look at how Polish emigrants to the UK are being treated. I say what Eastern European immigrants to the UK is very very analogous to what Hispanics go through here right down to their shared Catholicism and delicious food which makes me all the more disappointed to see descendants of those EE immigrants here including some of my own cousins being Know-Nothings on immigration.
re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh, and I’m placing my money on Jr being the one Manafort is giving up.
I’m with you. What am I bet that his Twitter account will suddenly get extremely quiet?
re: #125 dangerman
One way or another almost everyone in this country is committing some sort of “illegal” act in their own home
She was off duty…she was not working. No warrant no cause no work related nothing
No justification
And she didn’t know about the pot (assuming)
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re: #344 Backwoods_Sleuth
Giuliani in first statement after Manafort plea deal:
“the President did nothing wrong and Paul Manafort will tell the truth.”
Giuliani in revised statement after Manafort plea deal:
“the President did nothing wrong.”
They’re so bad at this.
re: #343 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He lost because he was a politician and judged by those standards. Trump was the anti-politician, he could get away with things that no other career politician could.
Obama was a politician who you know won. Trump benefited from two things that you never seem to consider: pathological hatred of HRC that has gone back decades and isn’t limited to the right and a little help from Russia. People may not have seen through Trump’s bullshit but they did Romney’s. Romney is a bullshit person too.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders statement on Manafort provided to the Pool:
“This had absolutely nothing to do with the President or his victorious 2016 Presidential campaign. It is totally unrelated.”— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) September 14, 2018
Paul Manafort was a low level volunteer, a coffee boy, a friend of a friend, my cousin’s valet, Rudy Giuliani’s second wife, the neighborhood drunk, a hand model, a voice over actor, a stunt double. https://t.co/t1NHUFrklP
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 14, 2018
re: #345 HappyWarrior
Look at how Polish emigrants to the UK are being treated. I say what Eastern European immigrants to the UK is very very analogous to what Hispanics go through here right down to their shared Catholicism and delicious food which makes me all the more disappointed to see descendants of those EE immigrants here including some of my own cousins being Know-Nothings on immigration.
Which is quite baffling because unlike Hispanics, Eastern Europeans are majority white and bear little distinction from their Anglo-Saxon counterparts.
re: #350 jaunte
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LOL, you’re going to be speaking a different tune when he implicates your boss’s sons, daughter, or son in law. Maybe you’ll eventually join them too Sarah or you’ll just be permanently unemployable except at Evangelical Circle Jerks where you guys cry about how persecuted you are.
re: #341 electrotek
Eastern and Southern Europeans underwent major racism when they first settled in the country from the 1950s onward, being called a wog over and over.
Even Polish-Australians are considered wogs over there, which is very odd.
I studied abroad in Sydney in the Fall of ‘96. Fortunately, I didn’t notice much racism, and the area where I was living, Coogee Beach, was pretty diverse (as was my group of friends).
Now pay attention: Manafort coordinated with ISRAELIS to spread anti-semitism for his Ukranian patron.
Semion Mogilevich, head of the Russian Mob, is a Ukrainian Jew with Israeli citizenship. https://t.co/tlONhzytJf— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) September 14, 2018
THAT is how you get a guy from Connecticut help a Ukrainian Jew with Israeli citizenship coordinate with Israelis to use anti-semitism to take over Ukraine for the Russian Mob.
It sounds insane, until you realize it’s just been about the money the whole time.— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) September 14, 2018
This is why Trump wins, but a rather sizable Jewish population in the financial sector in New York at its highest levels somehow doesn’t freak out when Trump’s guys literally talk like Goebbels.
They’re in on the joke. It’s just about that Mob money. And laundering it.— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) September 14, 2018
And get this, because it’s going to turn very ugly.
Manafort’s agreement was to SPREAD STORIES in the United States.
That almost certainly means in the media, not just coming back to DC and gossiping in Alexandria. PR. So. Which firm did it? Which outlets took them? pic.twitter.com/6TeK02Affr— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) September 14, 2018
Because this plea deal indicates that there is a group of people who coordinated with foreign powers to help advanced the Russian state and Russian Mob’s interests using their influence in American media.
And that will almost certainly be seen by prosecutors as FARA. At least.— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) September 14, 2018
re: #351 electrotek
Which is quite baffling because unlike Hispanics, Eastern Europeans are majority white and bear little distinction from their Anglo-Saxon counterparts.
Yeah but remember, Britain historically is much more Protestant than we are so hostility to the Slavs Catholicism may be playing a role too.
re: #354 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This makes me despise Bibi and his government even more.
I should clarify I mean Bibi’s cabinet and him not every last member of the Knesset.
re: #350 jaunte
“This had absolutely nothing to do with the President or his victorious 2016 Presidential campaign. It is totally unrelated.”
For now.
re: #323 electrotek
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A reminder of the last time Australian racism was a worldwide story:
Harry Connick Jr. was visibly dismayed after watching an insensitive skit performance on an Australian show.
The “Jackson Jive” performed the song “Can You Feel It” Wednesday wearing huge black wigs, blackface and one spangled glove each. The Michael Jackson impersonator wore whiteface.
Connick was one of the judges on the program, a special edition of the Australian variety show “Hey Hey It’s Saturday,” which aired Wednesday.
“If they turned up looking like that in the United States,” he said, frowning, “Hey, hey, there’s no more show.”
FYI, when you enter a cooperating agreement you do NOT:
get to choose what/who info you give to Investigators
“fully, truthfully and forthrightly…”
if you lie or impede, Manafort would then be charged with other crimes and the crimes in the Superseding Criminal Indictment
YUGE pic.twitter.com/LjTZWgX2pG— SpicyFiles (@SpicyFiles) September 14, 2018
Paul Manafort was eyewitness to the Trump Tower meeting with Donnie Jr. and the Russian adoption mob.
Manafort took contemporaneous notes of the meeting as well. https://t.co/nnloh5GgDT— Life Coach Killer (@GuadalahonkyToo) September 14, 2018
re: #353 Mike Lamb
I studied abroad in Sydney in the Fall of ‘96. Fortunately, I didn’t notice much racism, and the area where I was living, Coogee Beach, was pretty diverse (as was my group of friends).
I made a lot of great friends there in 2008 and I still keep in touch with many of them (also quite diverse as well).
But there were a couple of instances that stood out for me. I was on a train to Sydney CBD and there were these two white Aussie girls that struck up a conversation with me after they heard my accent. They asked me how are the *n-word in plural* over in America, and I was just caught aghast at how they could ever ask me a question. I was just speechless and I had no idea on how to react because even back then I could NEVER imagine anyone using the n-word in public in America. So to hear it on a fucking train ride directed towards me in a question, it was a shock that was too much to bear.
I wish I would have made a statement and went off on them, but the shock was too much for me at the time.
It’s ok! He’s alright!
WOW!!— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) September 14, 2018
re: #347 MsJ
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re: #362 electrotek
I made a lot of great friends there in 2008 and I still keep in touch with many of them (also quite diverse as well).
But there were a couple of instances that stood out for me. I was on a train to Sydney CBD and there were these two white Aussie girls that struck up a conversation with me after they heard my accent. They asked me how are the *n-word in plural* over in America, and I was just caught aghast at how they could ever ask me a question. I was just speechless and I had no idea on how to react because even back then I could NEVER imagine anyone using the n-word in public in America. So to hear it on a fucking train ride directed towards me in a question, it was a shock that was too much to bear.
I wish I would have made a statement and went off on them, but the shock was too much for me at the time.
I fortunately haven’t encountered that kind of racism with the Aussies I’ve met when I’ve traveled but most people who tend to travel tend to be more open minded people. I am still smiling thinking about the two girls from Canada who I met on a pub crawl and am actually FB friends finding out I didn’t like Trump going “Good, because we didn’t think we could like you if we found out you liked or voted for Trump.” I got a good laugh out of that.
Feinstein following today’s Judiciary Cmte meeting on Kavanaugh referred information she received on the Supreme Court nominee to “federal investigative authorities.” pic.twitter.com/1MHqY0iyD4
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) September 13, 2018
Let me get this straight: this is statement about secret letter regarding a secret matter and an unidentified person. Right. https://t.co/G6qVWdITbo
— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) September 13, 2018
This is a republican senator dismissing rape allegations. The person was identified, it was a first hand account. the letter was not secret to the Senate. He knows that, but he doesn’t give a shit about rape, so he is dismissing it. This is what the @gop is. https://t.co/iZVeMMhKKG
— Quantum Entangler (@QuntumEntanglr) September 14, 2018
They’re conspiracy lunatics, not patriots. What’s up with the radicalized-right pretending to be patriots?
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 14, 2018
Farrow gets more details on the Kavanaugh letter https://t.co/cvzNOpW5Cd pic.twitter.com/hSL6ge0WES
— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 14, 2018
re: #366 HappyWarrior
I fortunately haven’t encountered that kind of racism with the Aussies I’ve met when I’ve traveled but most people who tend to travel tend to be more open minded people. I am still smiling thinking about the two girls from Canada who I met on a pub crawl and am actually FB friends finding out I didn’t like Trump going “Good, because we didn’t think we could like you if we found out you liked or voted for Trump.” I got a good laugh out of that.
I’m pretty open about my hatred of Trump so even more so if I had gone overseas since Trump won (which I haven’t yet).
Speaking of Canadians, I did troll a couple of Canadian girls on a tour bus in Melbourne back then. I saw they were wearing backpacks with Canadian flag patches. I asked them if they could include the American flag patch to show how we are united with one another. Their reaction? A big fat NO in a raised voice and I was like oh shit I’m going to shut up now hahahahaha they already knew I was from Texas anyways so that didn’t help matters hahaha
Robert Mueller is a big part of the glue holding America together right now.
re: #369 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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Why don’t they try pulling that in Compton or Inglewood?
re: #350 jaunte
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this is exactly the same parsing of words as 3000 puerto ricans didnt die in the hurricane
campaign manager taking a plea may have nothing to do with the campaign
beause the accusations on which he caved may be unrelated to the campaign
but follow this, sarah.
that unrelated plea squeezed him enough to talk
about other things
some of which may be about the campaign, and other, other things
are you really that dumb, sarah?
“Senior Israeli Government Official” is Avigdor Lieberman, and Manafort got Ben Shapiro to write the smear about Tymoshenko in Breitbart in 2012 https://t.co/HJQbgFqVD0
— Molotov-Ribbentrop Acknowledger (@fiondavision) September 14, 2018
re: #166 makeitstop
Well, to a degree he was…
‘Accept the plea deal or we’ll go to trial and you’ll be sentenced to prison for the rest of your life.’
Dude’s 69 years old. If convicted, he’d die in prison. So there’s that.
Not to mention that his daughter already petitioned to change her name she is so embarrassed by the “blood money” her father took (her words).
Heckova legacy.
2018 is an alleged serial sexual harasser comparing himself to Lolita in the pages of Harper’s. pic.twitter.com/e8gqGENTjO
— Inkoo Kang (@inkookang) September 13, 2018
Hockenberry, hack of my life, gnat of my loins. Your sin, your lack of soul. Hock-en-berry: the back of the throat coughs up the four syllables like a hairball we were trying to forget: Hock. En. Ber. Ry. https://t.co/7EW7YHFHIc
— Laura Lippman (@LauraMLippman) September 14, 2018
re: #367 HappyWarrior
He did it while black, the bastard.
And he was living in a neighborhood with other white people, which is, of course, just asking for it.
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re: #368 jaunte
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(THREAD) There are four types of cooperation deals that Paul Manafort could have entered into with Special Counsel Mueller—we don’t know which one he has yet, but we can discuss each of them in turn and that’s what I do in this thread. I hope you’ll read on and share with others. pic.twitter.com/QVhnr0nYTJ
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) September 14, 2018
10/ It is revealed in PROOF OF COLLUSION—and will be revealed to the public in due time—that the Trump-Russia conspiracy was in fact a *five-nation grand bargain* involving the United States, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Israel. Manafort’s lateral co-conspirators know this.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) September 14, 2018
re: #371 electrotek
I’m pretty open about my hatred of Trump so even more so if I had gone overseas since Trump won (which I haven’t yet).
Speaking of Canadians, I did troll a couple of Canadian girls on a tour bus in Melbourne back then. I saw they were wearing backpacks with Canadian flag patches. I asked them if they could include the American flag patch to show how we are united with one another. Their reaction? A big fat NO in a raised voice and I was like oh shit I’m going to shut up now hahahahaha they already knew I was from Texas anyways so that didn’t help matters hahaha
Yeah I don’t hide it. I usually go to places where I’m likely to be the only American. I was the only American at the hostel in Bratislava so it was natural that I got a lot of questions when I said I was American. I never hide it. Why should I have to hide my national identity because Trump’s an asshole. This is our country too and was long before he decided to ruin ti.
re: #375 gocart mozart
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re: #381 HappyWarrior
Yeah I don’t hide it. I usually go to places where I’m likely to be the only American. I was the only American at the hostel in Bratislava so it was natural that I got a lot of questions when I said I was American. I never hide it. Why should I have to hide my national identity because Trump’s an asshole. This is our country too and was long before he decided to ruin ti.
As our village’s token American, I simply oint out that I do not find him qualified for the office, either in terms of experience or character.
I leave others to carry on with the rest of the comments.
re: #375 gocart mozart
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Oh of course that asshole Shapiro is involved. I’m really starting to hate the Israeli government big time. They need to purge their right just as much as we do from positions of damaging influence and Bibi’s spokesman is apparently a rapist too.
re: #382 sagehen
This would be the same Ben Shapiro who opposed Chuck Hagel as SecDef and made up the “Friends of Hamas” story to justify said opposition?
Yep the same little twerp. I hate that asshole.
re: #383 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
As our village’s token American, I simply oint out that I do not find him qualified for the office, either in terms of experience or character.
I leave others to carry on with the rest of the comments.
Only thing is that Trump gets the support from the far-right dumbshits in Europe and Australia that would have never supported Bush to begin with.
re: #383 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
As our village’s token American, I simply oint out that I do not find him qualified for the office, either in terms of experience or character.
I leave others to carry on with the rest of the comments.
More power to you but I use my healthy vocabulary of four letter words. They need to know that not everyone is a Pepe Frog stupid hand signaling dickhead and since I’m a white guy, I feel extra obligated.
With the Republican party so far-right, I don’t think attempted-rape is a deal-breaker for them. At worst they’d see it as a property-crime against the girl’s father.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 14, 2018
This is Graham. He doesn’t understand why he’s not allowed to climb in the dishwasher. 13/10 just wanted to help pic.twitter.com/jTxcIK7wCB
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) September 13, 2018
re: #386 electrotek
Only thing is that Trump gets the support from the far-right dumbshits in Europe and Australia that would have never supported Bush to begin with.
there is a site full of “Putinversteher” (moonofalabama.org) who also hate Hillary so much that they seem to have little or no trouble with Trump
re: #386 electrotek
Only thing is that Trump gets the support from the far-right dumbshits in Europe and Australia that would have never supported Bush to begin with.
Yeah in fact, the far right in Europe and around the world actually hated Bush. I know a lot of liberals don’t like knowing that but they hated him. For the wrong reasons mind you but they stil lhated him.
re: #391 HappyWarrior
Yeah in fact, the far right in Europe and around the world actually hated Bush. I know a lot of liberals don’t like knowing that but they hated him. For the wrong reasons mind you but they stil lhated him.
I know they hated Bush because they seriously felt he wasn’t anti-Muslim enough!
Flashback. August 19, 2016. Newt Gingrich: “Nobody should underestimate how much Paul Manafort did to really help get this campaign to where it is right now.” pic.twitter.com/OlTOpC1B1l
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 14, 2018
Manafort I think is going to give us a lot of insight into how the disinformation bs works. And I am beyond furious how the American and Israeli right sold Ukraine out like this. Ukraine had the potential to be a very important ally in the former Eastern bloc. I didn’t like Bush but he did get that building alliances with the former Eastern Bloc nations was a good thing to do. Perhaps some of it was cynical to gain support for the invasion of Iraq but at least he wasn’t undermining their governments by collaborating with Putin directly or indirectly.
re: #392 electrotek
I know they hated Bush because they seriously felt he wasn’t anti-Muslim enough!
And because he had JEWS!//
re: #231 makeitstop
Kavanaugh sounds pretty creepy. No wonder Trump likes him.
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Just what I was saying last night. The original article did not make it sound consensual. This is crossing state lines to commit rape/sexual assault.
re: #397 MsJ
Just what I was saying last night. The original article did not make it sound consensual. This is crossing state lines to commit rape/sexual assault.
I’d like to apologize. I really thought it was something much more innocent.
re: #395 HappyWarrior
And because he had JEWS!//
Republicans love to run away when you point out the fact that their beloved Le Pen were not only opposed to their Iraq war, but actually were BFF’s with Saddam as well.
Look what MerriamWebster just retweeted.
Best, classiest troll on the Twitterz. https://t.co/uewTNOFcf5— Laffy (@GottaLaff) September 14, 2018
re: #319 HappyWarrior
Again, I am talking about why Romney lost not why Trump won. Yes, the GOP fired up its base but there’s a reason why Romney did in fact lose and you’re wrong if you think it was just that he was unable to fire up his base. And I disagree, Mitt and Trump are very similiar people. Maybe Mitt wouldn’t cheat on Ann but in many ways, he is a lot like Trump. Never forget that he grinned like a hyena the day Benghazi happened because he thought that was his ticket to the WH.
You are wrong about Mitt being similar to Trump, except in wanting to enrich the rich. Romney spoke in complete and coherent sentences, did not openly disparage people because of their race or religion, had a record of real accomplishments as governor, had wealth that he earned (maybe by firing people but not by refusing to pay those who worked for him), understood policy and was in fact the one who was responsible for showing that the ACA could succeed because he implemented it first. Trump appealed to the worst in America; Mitt would not do that.
re: #354 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #383 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
As our village’s token American, I simply oint out that I do not find him qualified for the office, either in terms of experience or character.
I leave others to carry on with the rest of the comments.
I’m overseas as well, open about being American, and open about the fact that I want to see Trump die in prison. A lot of people in the world are used to dealing with good people from countries with shit governments, more so than in North America. So whatever crap your government is doing, it doesn’t reflect on you, and moreover since you’re not living in your home country it’s more likely you’re some level of dissident.
re: #397 MsJ
Just what I was saying last night. The original article did not make it sound consensual. This is crossing state lines to commit rape/sexual assault.
It doesn’t sound like there were any state lines involved. It read to me like an attempted rape, foiled because she had the skills to fight her way out of it (and them being drunk made her fighting more effective).
I have a hard time imagining there’s a world where Manafort doesn’t have damaging information on Trump, after all, everyone else does. https://t.co/SJwpltaeGF
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 14, 2018
re: #399 electrotek
Republicans love to run away when you point out the fact that their beloved Le Pen were not only opposed to their Iraq war, but actually were BFF’s with Saddam as well.
Yep there’s a lot lot of intersection with Eurofascists and people like Saddam, Nasser, etc because these guys hated Jews first and now hate Arabs and Muslims too. It makes the small minority of Jews like Shapiro, Bibi, etc who help their goals all the more infuriating.
re: #405 sagehen
It doesn’t sound like there were any state lines involved. It read to me like an attempted rape, foiled because she had the skills to fight her way out of it (and them being drunk made her fighting more effective).
Or to the right, a simple case of boys will be boys.
re: #400 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #401 Hecuba’s daughter
You are wrong about Mitt being similar to Trump, except in wanting to enrich the rich. Romney spoke in complete and coherent sentences, did not openly disparage people because of their race or religion, had a record of real accomplishments as governor, had wealth that he earned (maybe by firing people but not by refusing to pay those who worked for him), understood policy and was in fact the one who was responsible for showing that the ACA could succeed because he implemented it first. Trump appealed to the worst in America; Mitt would not do that.
I really respectfully disagree. I can’t forget that Mitt brought Kobach on board and even now as a Senate hopeful is claiming to be to Trump’s right on the issue. I’m sorry but with respect I think you and Wendell are ignoring some terrible parts of Mitt’s character that he showed six years ago.
re: #402 The Vicious Babushka
I’m Jewish but all I can say about this is Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
Seriously, does anybody have a good read on how this is going to play in Israel, if Manafort openly cops to it? Yawn, disbelief, major political crisis?
65 women of bipartisan backgrounds who knew Judge Kavanaugh in high school: “For the entire time we have known Brett Kavanaugh, he has behaved honorably and treated women with respect” & has “stood out for his friendship, character, and integrity” #SCOTUS https://t.co/9dT54BC2qM pic.twitter.com/5QtcPfwjX5
— Senate Judiciary (@senjudiciary) September 14, 2018
re: #411 ericblair
Seriously, does anybody have a good read on how this is going to play in Israel, if Manafort openly cops to it? Yawn, disbelief, major political crisis?
And we have the stories about Bibi’s spokesman too. Maybe this finally ends Bibis career in Israel but I have no idea who would replace him.
re: #231 makeitstop
Kavanaugh sounds pretty creepy. No wonder Trump likes him.
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First of all, this is no surprise. It’s disgusting but no surprise.
Second, he’s going to get a pass, due to his age at the time. It doesn’t matter that he was p*ssy grabbing. *sigh*
I kind of wish it had been a guy, so that we could see the religious right squirm before saying “it was a youthful mistake” and giving him a pass. (To be very clear, I am not on favor of assaults.) I was also holding out some hope for some sort of youthful pre-internet gambling scandal, but I guess not.
I will be very surprised if anything comes of this. It’s not as if he was her youth pastor who took her down a dark road and told her to give him a blow job. It took a lot of publicity to push Andy Savage out of his church and a lot of people at his church were pissed off at the woman who came forward.
re: #380 gocart mozart
the Trump-Russia conspiracy was in fact a *five-nation grand bargain* involving the United States, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Israel.
I’ve long thought that the plan was to forge a new alliance, with three nuclear powers - US, Russia and Israel - in order to conquer the world.
But now all that celebrating in Saudi Arabia, with the hands on the globe and all the dancing - seems to make more sense now.
Note that the @FBI Spy Robert Hanssen was allowed to keep his $36k per year pension & home for his family in exchange for spilling all the espionage he did for the KGB. #PrecedenceCanBeProvidence https://t.co/LYxVISyTYW
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) September 14, 2018
How long did the Republicans know about the attempted rape, that they had the time to assemble this?
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) September 14, 2018
re: #412 Backwoods_Sleuth
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All it takes is one person. There have been plenty of killers who had people not believe they were capable of such a thing. I’m not saying they’re lying about their experiences with him, I am saying that this just tells us he was good to 65 women and I’m not buying that he’s a person of high character anymore after seeing the shit he did for Starr.
re: #407 HappyWarrior
Yep there’s a lot lot of intersection with Eurofascists and people like Saddam, Nasser, etc because these guys hated Jews first and now hate Arabs and Muslims too. It makes the small minority of Jews like Shapiro, Bibi, etc who help their goals all the more infuriating.
Christ, I’m arguing with an Israeli girl on Instagram via DM’s. I asked her how she can be fine with Trump loving Israel when he restricts abortion rights for women and rolls back LGBT rights stateside.
Her response?
I don’t live there.
re: #413 HappyWarrior
And we have the stories about Bibi’s spokesman too. Maybe this finally ends Bibis career in Israel but I have no idea who would replace him.
Israel does not have a 2-party system. There are literally dozens of political parties, many of which are single issue. The party that wins a plurality of the vote then has to form a coalition.
Bibi has the support of other right-wing and religious parties that are even more extreme than he is.
re: #417 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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re: #418 HappyWarrior
All it takes is one person. There have been plenty of killers who had people not believe they were capable of such a thing. I’m not saying they’re lying about their experiences with him, I am saying that this just tells us he was good to 65 women and I’m not buying that he’s a person of high character anymore after seeing the shit he did for Starr.
There were plenty of women Les Moonves met that he didn’t shove his down their throats…but he’s still a creepy sexual harasser.
re: #419 electrotek
Christ, I’m arguing with an Israeli girl on Instagram via DM’s. I asked her how she can be fine with Trump loving Israel when he restricts abortion rights for women and rolls back LGBT rights stateside.
Her response?
I don’t live there.
Must be nice.
re: #420 The Vicious Babushka
Israel does not have a 2-party system. There are literally dozens of political parties, many of which are single issue. The party that wins a plurality of the vote then has to form a coalition.
Bibi has the support of other right-wing and religious parties that are even more extreme than he is.
That scares the bejesus outta me VB because I think Bibi single handily is responsible for Israel’s perception problem to many. I will never forgive him for the disgusting way he treated Obama by showing Glenn Beck more respect and deference and now Duterte in the Phillappines.
re: #419 electrotek
Christ, I’m arguing with an Israeli girl on Instagram via DM’s. I asked her how she can be fine with Trump loving Israel when he restricts abortion rights for women and rolls back LGBT rights stateside.
Her response?
I don’t live there.
Some people are just rotten, and don’t give a crap about anyone outside their own families.
re: #425 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Some people are just rotten, and don’t give a crap about anyone outside their own families.
Some people don’t even care about that.
re: #420 The Vicious Babushka
Israel does not have a 2-party system. There are literally dozens of political parties, many of which are single issue. The party that wins a plurality of the vote then has to form a coalition.
Bibi has the support of other right-wing and religious parties that are even more extreme than he is.
Is there still an Islamic party in the Knesset over there?
re: #423 HappyWarrior
Must be nice.
To a certain extent, isn’t that the basis of our alliance with the Saudis? They’re terrible human rights absuers, and we really probably shouldn’t count them among our most important allies… yet, they serve a useful/strategic purpose.
re: #428 KGxvi
To a certain extent, isn’t that the basis of our alliance with the Saudis? They’re terrible human rights absuers, and we really probably shouldn’t count them among our most important allies… yet, they serve a useful/strategic purpose.
Yeah and that’s bothered me for years.
re: #418 HappyWarrior
All it takes is one person. There have been plenty of killers who had people not believe they were capable of such a thing. I’m not saying they’re lying about their experiences with him, I am saying that this just tells us he was good to 65 women and I’m not buying that he’s a person of high character anymore after seeing the shit he did for Starr.
The appearance of impropriety used to be enough
BREAKING: Ex-Trump aide Paul Manafort, poised to plead guilty to two felonies today, has agreed to cooperate with the special counsel investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. https://t.co/dGvnqDgnZK
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) September 14, 2018
re: #427 electrotek
Is there still an Islamic party in the Knesset over there?
There’s four, they ran as an alliance last time, called the Joint List, and ended up with the third largest block in the Knesset.
Attn VB:
A donor to the President at a $100,000 a head fundraising event used the opportunity to push the President to reverse approval of a new bridge between Detroit and Canada that would undercut the profits to a private bridge the donor owns. Kind of gross. https://t.co/aE0hVx4Yic
— Noah Bookbinder (@NoahBookbinder) September 13, 2018
Bridge troll sighting in Trumpworld.
Paul Manafort is now telling Judge Amy Berman Jackson “I did” commit the financial, foreign lobbying and obstruction crimes
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) September 14, 2018
re: #432 KGxvi
There’s four, they ran as an alliance last time, called the Joint List, and ended up with the third largest block in the Knesset.
Interesting name; It reminds me of my plans for this evening.
re: #433 lawhawk
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Infrastructure Week again!
re: #432 KGxvi
There’s four, they ran as an alliance last time, called the Joint List, and ended up with the third largest block in the Knesset.
Got it. I haven’t kept up in-depth with Israeli politics for a long time, which is hard to do given the rise of Trumpism in our own turf.
re: #437 electrotek
Got it. I haven’t kept up in-depth with Israeli politics for a long time, which is hard to do given the rise of Trumpism in our own turf.
I had just looked it up yesterday, as I was careening down a rabbit hole. They’ve had a lot of weird alliances and realignments in the last few cycles. And during that time, Bibi has done his best Littlefinger impression - chaos is a ladder.
Checkmate: The Manafort Cooperation Is Pardon Proof https://t.co/I4t5UgKDBW
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) September 14, 2018
re: #438 jaunte
This is a good day for Mike Pence to resign.
Well, it is a day that ends in “y”… so yeah. But I’d rather he wait until after January, when Democrats can have more of a say in who his replacement would be.
Your Daily Simon
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie Bezos pledged $2 billion for a new fund to help homeless families and start preschools, called Day 1 Fund. The money is by far the largest philanthropic donation by Bezos, who is the world’s richest person. https://t.co/bwA4OYawAw
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 13, 2018
He should be giving much more than he is in taxes, of course. But given the current windfalls accorded the wealthiest in our brand new tax code, we will simply invoke Tennesse Williams and declare that our republic has always depended on the kindness of multibillionaires. https://t.co/bSSzSIximi
— David Simon (@AoDespair) September 14, 2018
I pay my taxes happily and without complaint. Have always done so. Will always do so. And I consistently support raising the tax rate on the highest earners.
So please consider assfucking yourself with that oversized dildo of heedless snide. pic.twitter.com/a6S8AP1fbA— David Simon (@AoDespair) September 14, 2018
re: #15 sagehen
I’ve been pulled over for smoking a pipe while driving, where the cop could see it. He wrote me a ticket; he did not search my car. So yeah, I believe white privilege is a real thing.
God damn right it is. I got chased* by the po po once to the point that they set up a roadblock, and here I am alive and unharmed.
*I had a good reason to keep going I swear
re: #424 HappyWarrior
That scares the bejesus outta me VB because I think Bibi single handily is responsible for Israel’s perception problem to many. I will never forgive him for the disgusting way he treated Obama by showing Glenn Beck more respect and deference and now Duterte in the Phillappines.
re: #420 The Vicious Babushka
Israel does not have a 2-party system. There are literally dozens of political parties, many of which are single issue. The party that wins a plurality of the vote then has to form a coalition.
Bibi has the support of other right-wing and religious parties that are even more extreme than he is.
Bibi is the same as Trump, except with 100 more IQ points and knowledge of policy. I’ve hated him since the 1990’s when his invective inspired a religious fanatic to assassinate Rabin, thus destroying perhaps the last true chance at peace in the region.
Like Trump, he is not religious but to retain power he has to compromise with the religious parties, turning much of Israel over to religious fanatics who want a theocracy, just like the fundamentalists here.
There are no term limits in Israel — and he is a man who wants power forever.
Who wants to bet that, according to Trump, Mueller’s investigation will suddenly jump in cost by at least $26M?
Dude, i don’t see the shirt spelling “fuckmooks”. I get the sentiment, but is that a word? Asking for the kids.
— Robin Dexter (@themacaque) September 14, 2018
“You starveling, you eel-skin, you dried neat’s-tongue, you bull’s-pizzle, you stock-fish–O for breath to utter what is like thee!-you tailor’s-yard, you sheath, you bow-case, you vile standing tuck!”
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) September 14, 2018
re: #434 Backwoods_Sleuth
“What you think everyone of my friends and coffee assistants who pleads guilty and says in a courtroom that he/she did all these bad things is guilty? Witch hunt! Lock Her Up!”
I believe this joke was done before, but it’s most certainly worth doing again:
Live shot of the Mueller investigation. pic.twitter.com/Zf0epPOqsW
— Steve Koczela (@skoczela) September 14, 2018
re: #443 gocart mozart
Ok, this annoys me. Bezos’s wealth is mostly tied up in his Amazon stock. It’s not like he’s got a Scrooge McDuck vault full of $156b worth of c-notes. He can’t actually spend much of it either - if he sells a significant amount of Amazon stock, he has to report it to the SEC, and that information becomes public and could result in Amazon stock prices falling. And Amazon doesn’t issue dividends, so he’s not even gaining income that way either. He’s basically trapped by his own success.
No tweets yet? Maybe they slipped some Thorazine into his Big Mac…
re: #452 makeitstop
No tweets yet? Maybe they slipped some Thorazine into his Big Mac…
They’ve tuned all the White House TVs to the weather channel to keep him focused on Florance
re: #453 KGxvi
They’ve tuned all the White House TVs to the weather channel to keep him focused on Florance
Fox has to figure out how to report it and bury it.
65 women who knew Brett Kavanaugh in high school defend his character https://t.co/3NR0KPcuze
— Vox (@voxdotcom) September 14, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh is 53
Imagine the time and resources it took to track down ALL 65 women. Interview to assure he hadn’t harmed any, then convince them to sign said letter
They knew about it weeks ago https://t.co/y9NjZ02h6V— T. Fisher King (@T_FisherKing) September 14, 2018
With great sadness, I have to announce that Wembley has bone cancer that has spread to one lung. With heavy meds he could last weeks, but we won’t do that to him, so we have decided to end his pain. I’m so sorry to have to deliver this bad news. This hurts so much. pic.twitter.com/NrI2u9lRoW
— TBogg - more or less (@tbogg) September 14, 2018
re: #443 gocart mozart
Your Daily Simon
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I can appreciate Simon most of the time, but I feel like this was unnecessary. Yes, Bezos should pay more in taxes, but donating $2B for this project is a really good thing. That should be the focus for the time being.
In which a 15-year-old girl displays more wisdom than all the GOPers and willfully obtuse MSM pundits put together:
I’ve seen a lot of headlines saying Kavanaugh is accused of “sexual misconduct.”
No. He’s accused of attempted rape.
He’s accused of holding a girl down and covering her mouth so she couldn’t scream.
That’s assault. Not misconduct.— emilia (@PoliticalEmilia) September 14, 2018
re: #455 jaunte
Imagine the time and resources it took to track down ALL 65 women. Interview to assure he hadn’t harmed any, then convince them to sign said letter
I wouldn’t be too surprised if there were more than a handful of fake names on that list of signees.
re: #455 jaunte
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Even more so given that he went to an all boys high school. They definitely knew about this and I definitely think there’s something to it. It can’t be ignored and it sure as shit can’t be brushed “Oh these other 65 women said he was fine.” Ted Bundy worked to stop people from killing themselves and tons of people including the crime writer Ann Rule thought he was a great guy and then they found he was a serial killer. This isn’t to compare what Kavanaugh did to murder but to point out that people like that can and do hide in plain sight. I don’t disbelieve these 65 women but I don’t discount the woman who says Kavanaugh did what she says he did either.
re: #458 Interesting Times
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re: #452 makeitstop
No tweets yet? Maybe they slipped some Thorazine into his Big Mac…
Well, when both Manafort and Cohen were convicted on the same day a few Fridays ago, @HoarseWhisperer on Twitter predicted, using his knowledge of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, that Trump, rather than rage-tweeting, would actually be rather subdued for some time, until he could find something else to rant about. This theory was kind of validated by his lackluster at his rally later that day. So maybe this a similar dynamic we’re seeing here.
re: #460 HappyWarrior
Even more so given that he went to an all boys high school. They definitely knew about this and I definitely think there’s something to it. It can’t be ignored and it sure as shit can’t be brushed “Oh these other 65 women said he was fine.” Ted Bundy worked to stop people from killing themselves and tons of people including the crime writer Ann Rule thought he was a great guy and then they found he was a serial killer. This isn’t to compare what Kavanaugh did to murder but to point out that people like that can and do hide in plain sight. I don’t disbelieve these 65 women but I don’t discount the woman who says Kavanaugh did what she says he did either.
“he did this to me”
“well, here’s 65 character witnesses who say he couldnt”
iow - we say you’re a liar
re: #463 Barefoot Grin
Al Franken got one of those letters, too.
not the same!! he voluntarily resigned //
re: #440 gocart mozart
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re: #443 gocart mozart
Your Daily Simon
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“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
re: #450 KGxvi
Ok, this annoys me. Bezos’s wealth is mostly tied up in his Amazon stock. It’s not like he’s got a Scrooge McDuck vault full of $156b worth of c-notes. He can’t actually spend much of it either - if he sells a significant amount of Amazon stock, he has to report it to the SEC, and that information becomes public and could result in Amazon stock prices falling. And Amazon doesn’t issue dividends, so he’s not even gaining income that way either. He’s basically trapped by his own success.
This is what I point out to people who claim inheritance tax is some kind of double taxation — “they paid taxes on the money when they earned it, why should they pay again?!?”
Except they didn’t pay taxes when they earned it; all the wealthiest people, their net worth is almost entirely unrealized capital gains that have never been taxed. That’s why when they die, their kids should pay taxes on it.
re: #459 makeitstop
I wouldn’t be too surprised if there were more than a handful of fake names on that list of signees.
Or they sent out a request through Catholic pro-life groups for women who would vouch for Kavanaugh and didn’t check how “close” they actually were
— Fifth House Sun (@FifthHouseSun) September 14, 2018