Friday, Mar 22, 2019: The Mueller Report Drops

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News is breaking all over the place… because the Mueller report has been delivered to the Attorney General and nobody knows what it says yet except the people who worked on it.

But we do know we can expect some massively weird tweets from President Cuckoo Clock in short order.

UPDATE at 3/22/19 2:31:12 pm by Charles Johnson

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378 comments
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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:11:56pm

Well here we go.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:13:38pm

So are we going to see it or will Trump invoke Executive Privilege?

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Citizen K  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:13:42pm

Welp…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:13:48pm

Current headlines:

CNN: MUELLER REPORT!
ABC: MUELLER REPORT!
NBC: MUELLER REPORT!
CBS: MUELLER REPORT!
Fox News: Trump surprises by revoking North Korea sanctions after Treasury Department imposes them

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:14:43pm

re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg

Current headlines:

CNN: MUELLER REPORT!
ABC: MUELLER REPORT!
NBC: MUELLER REPORT!
CBS: MUELLER REPORT!
Fox News: Trump surprises by revoking North Korea sanctions after Treasury Department imposes them

And

Chuck U on Meet The Presstitute saying Democrats are now boxed in.

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Citizen K  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:16:24pm

I’m not sure if I should be excited or terrified that it’s actually been delivered now, because I’m not sure what it exactly portends now.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:17:25pm

re: #6 Citizen K

I’m not sure if I should be excited or terrified that it’s actually been delivered now, because I’m not sure what it exactly portends now.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

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ObserverArt  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:18:52pm

Just posted this in previous thread and saw this new thread opened.

- - -

The MSNBC panel discussed that Mueller had a narrow area to report on. That goes to Chuck Todd asking if the fact Mueller never really mentioned the Trump kids means they are in the clear.

The thinking is SDNY courts have way more power and cover of the Trump’s and Trump companies. They benefit from Mueller’s discovery and evidence collection and testimony. And much of that is not in the narrow definition of Mueller’s investigation and leaving that to SDNY keeps the “politics” out of it making less a witch hunt and more an investigation that was legally defined.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:19:00pm

NO COLLUSION or KNOW COLLUSION?

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darthstar  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:19:23pm
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Belafon  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:19:33pm

re: #6 Citizen K

I’m not sure if I should be excited or terrified that it’s actually been delivered now, because I’m not sure what it exactly portends now.

We prepare for 2020 elections, and back up current Democrats when they call for the release.

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:20:02pm

re: #5 Joe Bacon 🌹

And

Chuck U on Meet The Presstitute saying Democrats are now boxed in.

this is the end of nothing
it’s all been just a long first step

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darthstar  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:20:36pm

re: #2 Joe Bacon 🌹

So are we going to see it or will Trump invoke Executive Privilege?

This will leak faster than an underage hooker on Trump’s bed.

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ObserverArt  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:20:50pm

MSNBC is reporting from outside Justice Department. Barr is saying he could give a summary or the exact conclusions as early as this weekend.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:20:58pm

re: #13 darthstar

This will leak faster than an underage hooker on Trump’s bed.

Oh… Oh God… BRAIN BLEACH!!!

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:21:02pm

re: #11 Belafon

We prepare for 2020 elections, and back up current Democrats when they call for the release.

…and point to the president’s own statement a day or so ago
(yes, i know, i know)

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:21:22pm

The majority thinks Trump has broken the law. Him hiding it will make that number go up.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:22:04pm

re: #17 Belafon

The majority thinks Trump has broken the law. Him hiding it will make that number go up.

Yep which will put it into the cover up not the crime territory.

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:22:05pm

re: #14 ObserverArt

MSNBC is reporting from outside Justice Department. Barr is saying he could give a summary or the exact conclusions as early as this weekend.

this is a peeve of mine….
it really cant be any earlier than, so in other words, anytime

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:23:43pm

The only way this looks good for Trump is if he releases it and it clears him. The other 14,000,604 outcomes are not in his favor.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:23:59pm

Warner and Booker urging complete release of report.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:24:29pm

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:24:33pm

re: #20 Belafon

The only way this looks good for Trump is if he releases it and it clears him. The other 14,000,604 outcomes are not in his favor.

Yeah and I just can’t see that being the case. He’s going to bungle part of this even if Mueller rules he didn’t collude or even obstruct.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:25:26pm

So, another non-news Friday.

/

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Man, DangerMan  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:25:57pm

…so much for talking about my favorite movies i just posted downstairs

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KGxvi  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:26:21pm

re: #21 HappyWarrior

Warner and Booker urging complete release of report.

There’s no other answer to that question. It should be like the 9/11 commission report and at every bookstore by Tuesday.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:27:03pm

re: #14 ObserverArt

MSNBC is reporting from outside Justice Department. Barr is saying he could give a summary or the exact conclusions as early as this weekend.

“Mueller turned in his report. There was some stuff in it. No Collusion. Although collusion is not a crime. Next.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:27:12pm

I still don’t understand why this couldn’t wait until Monday morning.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:27:54pm

re: #5 Joe Bacon 🌹

And

Chuck U on Meet The Presstitute saying Democrats are now boxed in.

Dems in disarray, totally screwed.

/

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:28:06pm

re: #26 KGxvi

There’s no other answer to that question. It should be like the 9/11 commission report and at every bookstore by Tuesday.

Absolutely. This needs to be transparent as possible.

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ObserverArt  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:28:28pm

re: #19 Man, DangerMan

this is a peeve of mine….
it really cant be any earlier than, so in other words, anytime

True. I think it was reported because there was concern Barr would sit on it for some time claiming he was researching it all stalling its actual meaning to the public.

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A Three Hour Tour  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:28:52pm

re: #29 Sir John Barron

Dems in disarray, totally screwed.

/

This is good news for John McCain.

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Citizen K  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:29:55pm

re: #20 Belafon

The only way this looks good for Trump is if he releases it and it clears him. The other 14,000,604 outcomes are not in his favor.

I mean, the problem isn’t really whether it looks good for Trump.

The problem is whether or not this finally pierces the veil of normalizing that the media seems dead set to operate behind. We know more than likely that the GOP will shrug and act like this not only exonerates Trump but damns the Dems. But it’s going to be important whether this moves the needle far as how the media treats Trump and the GOP now.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:30:54pm
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Sir John Barron  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:31:07pm

No matter what the report says:

1. This report Totally clears me!

2. 17 24 Angry Democrats totally conflicted what about Crooked Hillary?

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Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:32:12pm
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Man, DangerMan  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:32:44pm

re: #25 Man, DangerMan

…so much for talking about my favorite movies i just posted downstairs

and on the tube right now is ‘absence of malice’ so im outta here

dont bust a gut speculating….

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Skip Intro  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:33:04pm

When does Hillary get arrested?

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nines09  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:33:06pm

So now comes the wall of noise.

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darthstar  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:33:07pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:33:10pm

He’s going to act like he’s totally vindicated or totally rage at the conclusions. I take the opinion that this isn’t the end, this is the end of the beginning as Churchill said.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:33:22pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:33:56pm

I think we should all be on high alert for potential bullshit stories about the report.

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ObserverArt  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:34:06pm

re: #36 Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson ✔
@Green_Footballs
All the news critters, big and small, are jabbering in the news woods. A cacophony of repetition.

The echo chamber.

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darthstar  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:34:11pm

re: #32 A Three Hour Tour

This is good news for John McCain.

Guy’s been dead for seven months and has gotten more press this week than he did the last six months he was alive.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:34:11pm

re: #41 HappyWarrior

He’s going to act like he’s totally vindicated or totally rage at the conclusions. I take the opinion that this isn’t the end, this is the end of the beginning as Churchill said.

Why not both?

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:35:01pm

re: #46 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Why not both?

True. Just like his tweets are usually a brag and a whine contained in the same sentence.

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ObserverArt  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:35:12pm

re: #39 nines09

So now comes the wall of noise.

Phil Spector’s ghost?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:35:30pm

$5 says he calls the report Fake News.

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darthstar  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:35:30pm
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Citizen K  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:35:38pm

re: #43 Eclectic Cyborg

I think we should all be on high alert for potential bullshit stories about the report.

I’m going on a general blackout for the day, if not the entire weekend personally. Outside of here, I’m going to try and lay low so the dust can settle enough

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:36:02pm

re: #43 Eclectic Cyborg

I think we should all be on high alert for potential bullshit stories about the report.

Definitely. And I guess that’s why it was probably released today and right now. Get the bs out of the way now and then when that’s all sorted out, people will be ready for the real story.

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:36:26pm

re: #33 Citizen K

I mean, the problem isn’t really whether it looks good for Trump.

The problem is whether or not this finally pierces the veil of normalizing that the media seems dead set to operate behind. We know more than likely that the GOP will shrug and act like this not only exonerates Trump but damns the Dems. But it’s going to be important whether this moves the needle far as how the media treats Trump and the GOP now.

I am kind of ignoring the media on this. I’m more concentrating on how it affects Democrats, especially motivating people to vote.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:36:48pm

re: #49 Eclectic Cyborg

$5 says he calls the report Fake News.

No way, that 5$ is for beer.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:37:33pm

No matter what this report says, Trump will say he’s exonerated. And Republicans will be behind him till the end. They have all weekend to come up with the spin.

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SteelPH  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:37:33pm

re: #47 HappyWarrior

True. Just like his tweets are usually a brag and a whine contained in the same sentence.

I’m doing, NO COLLUSION, great with, WITCH HUNT, Everyone! MAKE AMERICA, CROOKED HILLARY, GREAT AGAIN!

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:37:39pm

re: #43 Eclectic Cyborg

I think we should all be on high alert for potential bullshit stories about the report.

Yep, know your source. If it doesn’t originate at the Washington Post, then treat it as questionable.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:37:40pm

re: #53 Belafon

I am kind of ignoring the media on this. I’m more concentrating on how it affects Democrats, especially motivating people to vote.

Regardless of if it fins active collusion with the Russian government, obstruction, or just poor leadership, we need ot be united to defeat him. And this was definitely worth investigating.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:37:56pm

re: #56 SteelPH

I’m doing, NO COLLUSION, great with, WITCH HUNT, Everyone! MAKE AMERICA, CROOKED HILLARY, GREAT AGAIN!

Yes.

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ObserverArt  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:39:13pm

Seems like the Democrats are all in being the first calling for the release of the report and all the underlying evidence to the country. Teamwork. Get on it and get messaging before the GOPers get out.

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KGxvi  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:39:45pm

re: #53 Belafon

I am kind of ignoring the media on this. I’m more concentrating on how it affects Democrats, especially motivating people to vote.

This is a turning point. We’ve been hearing a lot of Dem leaders saying “wait for the Mueller Report”… well, winter is here.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:40:08pm

re: #55 GlutenFreeJesus

No matter what this report says, Trump will say he’s exonerated. And Republicans will be behind him till the end. They have all weekend to come up with the spin.

Can’t wait to see how the Trump Tower meeting is addressed. Also, too, WikiLeaks.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:40:10pm

re: #54 HappyWarrior

No way, that 5$ is for beer.

By the end of it all, I have a feeling we’re going to wish we’d spent that $5 on something stronger than beer.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:40:28pm

re: #60 ObserverArt

Seems like the Democrats are all in being the first calling for the release of the report and all the underlying evidence to the country. Teamwork. Get on it and get messaging before the GOPers get out.

Yeah I haven’t heard anything reported from the GOP side yet. Messaging is going to be key in this. I have no idea what Mueller’s report will actually find but I’m thinking it will find that he obstructed the investigation and if you know your Watergate history, that is what did Nixon in, there’s little evidence that Nixon actively ordered the Watergate break in.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:41:11pm

re: #63 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

By the end of it all, I have a feeling we’re going to wish we’d spent that $5 on something stronger than beer.

That’s true. I bought some Irish whiskey for the weekend today.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:41:18pm

re: #64 HappyWarrior

Yeah I haven’t heard anything reported from the GOP side yet. Messaging is going to be key in this. I have no idea what Mueller’s report will actually find but I’m thinking it will find that he obstructed the investigation and if you know your Watergate history, that is what did Nixon in, there’s little evidence that Nixon actively ordered the Watergate break in.

They haven’t got their talking points in order yet.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:42:09pm

re: #65 HappyWarrior

That’s true. I bought some Irish whiskey for the weekend today.

I do believe the news is prompting me to make a quick run before Mrs. Fish disappears for the evening.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:42:15pm

re: #66 Eclectic Cyborg

They haven’t got their talking points in order yet.

Repubs in disarray! //

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:42:38pm

re: #67 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I do believe the news is prompting me to make a quick run before Mrs. Fish disappears for the evening.

And I discovered I bought Conor McGregor’s hahaha.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:43:42pm

The Dems seem pretty confident. I don’t know how much of that is bravado or not.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:44:29pm

Idiot Chuck U saying Congress can’t walk and chew gum at the same time…

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nines09  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:46:21pm

re: #48 ObserverArt

Hello OA! Hope all is well.
That was the Wall Of Sound.
This is the start of a tap dance soft shoe extravaganza of screaming wailing accusation denial spit piss shit blood and bleeding.
No silver bullet I suspect, but enough gasoline to feed a long fire.
The fucking never ends.
So this needs a song. And since my flavor of choice is this style this winter…
Man I need some sun…

Devil Doll – Sexy

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gwangung  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:46:24pm

re: #71 Joe Bacon 🌹

Idiot Chuck U saying Congress can’t walk and chew gum at the same time…

Well, that’s certainly true for the Republican members of Congress.

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ObserverArt  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:46:48pm

re: #66 Eclectic Cyborg

They haven’t got their talking points in order yet.

The RNC fax machine done blew up and they can’t get the talking points out yet.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:47:13pm

re: #73 gwangung

Well, that’s certainly true for the Republican members of Congress.

Republican Congressmen can’t chew gum and FART at the same time!

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MsJ  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:47:26pm

All I can say is manage expectations.

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piratedan  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:47:29pm

it’s apparent to me that Mueller had both Kansas State and Marquette in his bracket, why else would he just say to hell with it and turn in his report today?

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:47:40pm

My guess it is going to reveal some wrongdoing by Trump. To the point of active collusion with the Russians? I don’t know but I think at least obstruction will be found.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:48:10pm

re: #76 MsJ

All I can say is manage expectations.

Yes don’t expect this to break Trump’s back.

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ObserverArt  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:48:47pm

re: #71 Joe Bacon 🌹

Idiot Chuck U saying Congress can’t walk and chew gum at the same time…

Chuck being his usual throw out some shit and see what sticks self

Nicole Wallace is keeping him in check calling out some of his bullshit.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:50:39pm

If this does break Trump’s back some, great but don’t be upset if it doesn’t. SDNY and even the NY AG’s office still have a lot to do there too.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:51:49pm

And I have to say even if this “clears” Trump, Trump spent a lot of time trashing the investigation which has gotten indictments and convictions. I think the only way Trump might come out on “top” is if he’s completely cleared of any wrongdoing.And I just don’t see that happening.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:52:13pm

“Of course he obstructed justice. It was a witch hunt!”

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Skip Intro  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:52:29pm

re: #76 MsJ

All I can say is manage expectations.

I am. I have none.

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SteelPH  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:52:39pm

re: #76 MsJ

All I can say is manage expectations.

I have no expectations. Whatever happens, happens.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:52:43pm

re: #73 gwangung

Well, that’s certainly true for the Republican members of Congress.

Fish. Barrel. Some shooting involved.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:53:12pm

re: #83 GlutenFreeJesus

“Of course he obstructed justice. It was a witch hunt!”

Which is still a crime. If I didn’t commit murder but paid off witnesses, I would still have committed bribery.

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ObserverArt  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:54:05pm

re: #72 nines09

Hello OA! Hope all is well.
That was the Wall Of Sound.
This is the start of a tap dance soft shoe extravaganza of screaming wailing accusation denial spit piss shit blood and bleeding.
No silver bullet I suspect, but enough gasoline to feed a long fire.
The fucking never ends.
So this needs a song. And since my flavor of choice is this style this winter…
Man I need some sun…

[Embedded content]

Yeah, I was just making a crack on your Wall of Noise.

That is still in the future, the ghost of Phil is yet to be. But when he comes back haunting in the future it will be with a wicked wall of noise!

It would be perfect accompaniment to the coming extravaganza of screaming wailing accusation denial spit piss shit blood and bleeding.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:54:05pm

re: #87 HappyWarrior

Which is still a crime. If I didn’t commit murder but paid off witnesses, I would still have committed bribery.

The WikiLeaks hacking has to be a crime, right? Whether DRUmpf is directly implicated or not.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:54:12pm

re: #85 SteelPH

I have no expectations. Whatever happens, happens.

I’m going to be motivated to defeat Trump on the day the report’s details are released as the day Trump was nominated which is extremely. The man shouldn’t be President of hte United States. The report’s outcome doesn’t change that.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:54:53pm

re: #89 Sir John Barron

The WikiLeaks hacking has to be a crime, right? Whether DRUmpf is directly implicated or not.

Which is why I think obstruction is likely than not.

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:55:22pm

re: #82 HappyWarrior

And I have to say even if this “clears” Trump, Trump spent a lot of time trashing the investigation which has gotten indictments and convictions. I think the only way Trump might come out on “top” is if he’s completely cleared of any wrongdoing.And I just don’t see that happening.

If it clears him, there’s still plenty of other stuff, like them refusing to turn documents over to Congress.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:55:48pm

re: #92 Belafon

If it clears him, there’s still plenty of other stuff, like them refusing to turn documents over to Congress.

Also, SDNY would like a word.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:56:01pm

re: #92 Belafon

If it clears him, there’s still plenty of other stuff, like them refusing to turn documents over to Congress.

Exactly.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:56:24pm

re: #93 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Also, SDNY would like a word.

Albany is probably interested too.

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nines09  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:56:25pm

re: #88 ObserverArt

It’s going to be epic.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 2:56:36pm

LMAO seeing Qwazy Qs alleging that Mueller has had ASSange arrested.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:00:02pm

re: #97 Joe Bacon 🌹

LMAO seeing Qwazy Qs alleging that Mueller has had ASSange arrested.

I wouldn’t shed a tear if he was.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:01:53pm

re: #87 HappyWarrior

Which is still a crime. If I didn’t commit murder but paid off witnesses, I would still have committed bribery.

Of course. But Trump and his supporters think the investigation is the real crime.

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jaunte  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:02:25pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:02:43pm

re: #99 GlutenFreeJesus

Of course. But Trump and his supporters think the investigation is the real crime.

It’s not but I can’t expect Trump who knows little about law to understand that.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:03:21pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:03:35pm

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:03:47pm

re: #102 The Vicious Babushka

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Glad it’s just a break.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:04:20pm

re: #97 Joe Bacon 🌹

LMAO seeing Qwazy Qs alleging that Mueller has had ASSange arrested.

So apparently there are no additional indictments. This doesn’t seem like particularly good news. After all, it means the Trump children have escaped any charges.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:04:47pm

re: #103 Joe Bacon 🌹

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He showed he was a swamp creature the minute he started kissing Trump’s ass or tbh even before then in his previous DOJ stint.

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jaunte  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:06:25pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:07:34pm

And now Trump’s #1 asskisser gets into the act!

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:08:19pm

re: #100 jaunte

They have to get ahold of it somehow, first, which is the big step if understand everything correctly.

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jaunte  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:09:46pm
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jaunte  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:10:04pm
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jaunte  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:10:34pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:11:24pm

re: #112 jaunte

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This is all really good imo.

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Skip Intro  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:13:35pm

When the legal experts at Fox “News” get done analyzing this Trump will turn out to be the biggest victim of a witch hunt in the history of the world, and boy is he going to gloat, whine, and tweet.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:19:03pm

My bet is Trump will do something like claim the report exonerates him because it doesn’t actually mention the word “Collusion” anywhere.

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jaunte  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:19:43pm

Under the cover of the Mueller news:

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:20:01pm

No. No. No. No. No.

bizstandardnews.com

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:20:19pm

re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg

My bet is Trump will do something like claim the report exonerates him because it doesn’t actually mention the word “Collusion” anywhere.

And if it does, he’ll cry “your favorite President is a victim.” I just can’t see how scenario where he emerges from this stronger.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:21:31pm

re: #117 Joe Bacon 🌹

No. No. No. No. No.

bizstandardnews.com

Yeah well God to me Pat that you’re not gonna like your “reward.”

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:22:00pm

re: #119 HappyWarrior

Yeah well God to me Pat that you’re not gonna like your “reward.”

There will be a Trump Towers where Pat Robertson is going. Heaven ain’t it.

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MsJ  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:22:31pm

re: #98 HappyWarrior

I wouldn’t shed a tear if he was.

No shit. Buh bye, asshole.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:26:04pm

re: #116 jaunte

Under the cover of the Mueller news:

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I would expect nothing less from this fucking joke of an administration.

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:26:39pm

re: #117 Joe Bacon 🌹

No. No. No. No. No.

bizstandardnews.com

That made me laugh. Anyone who buys that should be in a padded room, safely away from society.

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SteelPH  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:27:19pm

re: #122 Eclectic Cyborg

I would expect nothing less from this fucking joke of an administration.

I can’t even call it a joke. Jokes are meant to be funny. There is nothing funny about any of this. At all.

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jaunte  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:29:22pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:29:49pm

re: #125 jaunte

What… the FUCK… is wrong with these people.

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jaunte  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:30:12pm

re: #126 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Everything.

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wrenchwench  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:30:29pm

re: #124 SteelPH

I can’t even call it a joke. Jokes are meant to be funny. There is nothing funny about any of this. At all.

Many parts deserve ridicule. That’s a close neighbor to humor.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:31:02pm

re: #127 jaunte

Everything.

^^^^^

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SteelPH  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:31:16pm

re: #126 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

What… the FUCK… is wrong with these people.

A comprehensive list would take too long.

re: #128 wrenchwench

Many parts deserve ridicule. That’s a close neighbor to humor.

True.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:38:45pm

Seeing the crazy MAGATs outside the Justice Department on MSNBC.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:39:14pm

re: #130 SteelPH

A comprehensive list would take too long.

“Lemme ‘splain. No, that would take too long, let me sum up.”

With Republican mental brokenness, even summing up would have us here all weekend.

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wrenchwench  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:39:21pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:39:44pm

re: #125 jaunte

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Yawn. You’re a member of Congress.

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:40:56pm

re: #76 MsJ

All I can say is manage expectations.

This.

So. This.

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MsJ  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:42:16pm

re: #135 austin_blue

This.

So. This.

Unfortunately.

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fern01  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:43:37pm

re: #71 Joe Bacon 🌹

Idiot Chuck U saying Congress can’t walk and chew gum at the same time…

He confuses republicans with Congress. Like most pundits he won’t accept that they are not synonymous.

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wrenchwench  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:46:03pm
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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:47:08pm

re: #105 Hecuba’s daughter

So apparently there are no additional indictments. This doesn’t seem like particularly good news. After all, it means the Trump children have escaped any charges.

Not necessarily. It could simply mean that he gathered the low-hanging fruit and sent the rest of the evidence to the various District Courts to prepare cases.

Mueller is an absolute stickler to detail.

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piratedan  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:48:17pm

re: #137 fern01

well, they imagine the GOP are “supposed” to be in power, so when its otherwise, it feels like an anomaly. Same for the media, take for example the way that the media PURSUED Congresswoman Omar for their own characterization of her words (which they twisted out of context) and the fact that as a country, we’re separating families and imprisoning children and people aren’t camped out in front of ICE and HHS offices demanding answers…

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MsJ  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:48:31pm

re: #139 austin_blue

Not necessarily. It could simply mean that he gathered the low-hanging fruit and sent the rest of the evidence to the various District Courts to prepare cases.

Mueller is an absolute stickler to detail.

One hopes. This puts those involved outside of pardon possiblity.

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EPR-radar  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:48:42pm

re: #132 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

“Lemme ‘splain. No, that would take too long, let me sum up.”

With Republican mental brokenness, even summing up would have us here all weekend.

Assuming civilization lasts that long, ‘Republican’ will get redefined in English to mean ‘American political low-life. Typically devoid of all positive human traits while being a synthesis of all negative ones. Usually specimens were found to have two right testicles and no brain.’

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ObserverArt  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:50:47pm

re: #142 EPR-radar

Assuming civilization lasts that long, ‘Republican’ will get redefined in English to mean ‘American political low-life. Typically devoid of all positive human traits while being a synthesis of all negative ones. Usually specimens were found to have two right testicles and no brain.’

And they have done this to themselves.

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Interesting Times  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:51:13pm

I really, really hate how she’s always, always right -_-

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:51:27pm

re: #76 MsJ

All I can say is manage expectations.

Like most things in life, I think the report will be not as good as we hoped, nor as bad as we feared. I don’t think it will exonerate Trump et al. (not that that will stop the mob from claiming it does) but it won’t implicate him directly in crimes.

By all reports, Mueller’s been a straight shooter and faithful public servant throughout his career and he’s not likely to buck the standing DOJ thinking that a sitting president is non indictable, just like I think he’s going to follow proper prosecutorial guidelines in not throwing accusations at people who haven’t been charged.

But I do think he’s going to put enough out there that, for anyone reading between the lines (like say, several interested congressional committees), there will be plenty of threads left to pull on and unravel the whole damn Trump empire.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:51:32pm

re: #141 MsJ

One hopes. This puts those involved outside of pardon possiblity.

Only for Albany. SDNY is still federal.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:52:01pm

re: #144 Interesting Times

I really, really hate how she’s always, always right -_-

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He can still be by SDNY or Albany.

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Interesting Times  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:53:28pm

re: #147 HappyWarrior

He can still be by SDNY or Albany.

For financial crimes, perhaps, but when it comes to jeopardizing national security and conspiring with foreign countries, those would’ve been federal charges as far as I can tell…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:56:03pm

Watching Pearl Harbor right now and remembering two of my good friends, Alex and Paul who were there and survived.
And Gene, Art, Theo and others who were there and did not come home.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:56:07pm
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darthstar  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:56:33pm

Gee, I hope congress reads this and decides to go easy on Trump and give him a pass…he’s a really nice guy…he’s said so himself.
/

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:56:59pm

re: #150 The Vicious Babushka

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Agree with Bob.

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:58:45pm

re: #141 MsJ

One hopes. This puts those involved outside of pardon possiblity.

Only if they are prosecuted by State Courts, I think. My understanding is that the Tangerine Shit Gibbon can pardon them from DOJ prosecution (but not preemptively, they would still have to be found guilty or confess).

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:58:59pm

Welp my alma mater disappoints me again. Hired Judge Beer to teach at our law school. Not a surprised as we’re named after Scalia but Scalia at least wasn’t an abuser of women.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:59:09pm

HOT TAKES ARE FILLING THE EMPTY SPACE.

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MsJ  Mar 22, 2019 • 3:59:21pm

re: #151 darthstar

Gee, I hope congress reads this and decides to go easy on Trump and give him a pass…he’s a really nice guy…he’s said so himself.
/

Repeatedly. Ad nauseum.

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TimeTicksOn  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:00:10pm

lol so are crazy anti dRumph nutcases finally going to look at yourselves in the mirror?
That the democrat party is courrupt to the core. That hillary and Podestas stink?
Don’t you lot realise that everything is going to come and bite you in your arrogant asses?
I told you before 2016, and ill tell you again now, you lot are on the wrong side of history.

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darthstar  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:00:28pm
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ObserverArt  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:00:45pm

re: #144 Interesting Times

I really, really hate how she’s always, always right -_-

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I think it is yet to be determined that Jared Kushner is getting off. As some were talking today, Mueller is held to investigating Donald Trump.

So, Mueller can be interview by the House Judiciary Committee and they can look into charges against him.

It keeps Mueller tight to his job description. But can;t he talk about more to congress and it has been said he has turned a lot of evidence over to the other US Prosecutors.

Mueller may have learned a lot in his investigation that may not be in his report due to that narrow window he is staying in.

And I think that is done because it cuts down on people saying Mueller was out of control and on a fishing expedition.

And there is talk that Mueller may have been pushed to wrap it up now.

It’s going to take a week or two before we start hearing the real news.

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Varek Raith  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:02:35pm

Call me jaded but, I’m not exptecting much of anything.
/wheee

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:04:18pm
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nines09  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:04:46pm

Meanwhile, back at goverment ineptitude and fuck you all because we don’t give a fuck and it’s Friday and maybe this gets lost…
Watchdog: FEMA wrongly released personal data of victims
By COLLEEN LONG
an hour ago

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ObserverArt  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:04:50pm

Oh look a new member.

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:05:28pm

Here’s the deal: it doesn’t matter what the report says if we don’t rise up to meet it, but instead accept that nothing will happen.

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Varek Raith  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:05:49pm

re: #163 ObserverArt

Oh look a new member.

lol, rite?

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nines09  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:06:22pm

re: #157 TimeTicksOn

lol so are crazy anti dRumph nutcases finally going to look at yourselves in the mirror?
That the democrat party is courrupt to the core. That hillary and Podestas stink?
Don’t you lot realise that everything is going to come and bite you in your arrogant asses?
I told you before 2016, and ill tell you again now, you lot are on the wrong side of history.

Tell us more.
Please.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:06:54pm

re: #161 The Vicious Babushka

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Idiot.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:07:13pm

re: #164 Belafon

Here’s the deal: it doesn’t matter what the report says if we don’t rise up to meet it, but instead accept that nothing will happen.

My expectation is that the report will say that Russia interfered in the election (it did) and that Trump family members/employees assisted with that interference (they did), but that there isn’t enough concrete evidence to indict. And with that, Trump will go off on a screaming rant about NO COLLUSION WITCH HUNT and we’ll all just be like, did you not read the report?

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:07:14pm

re: #159 ObserverArt

I think it is yet to be determined that Jared Kushner is getting off. As some were talking today, Mueller is held to investigating Donald Trump.

So, Mueller can be interview by the House Judiciary Committee and they can look into charges against him.

It keeps Mueller tight to his job description. But can;t he talk about more to congress and it has been said he has turned a lot of evidence over to the other US Prosecutors.

Mueller may have learned a lot in his investigation that may not be in his report due to that narrow window he is staying in.

And I think that is done because it cuts down on people saying Mueller was out of control and on a fishing expedition.

And there is talk that Mueller may have been pushed to wrap it up now.

It’s going to take a week or two before we start hearing the real news.

I think it’s entirely possible that there are enough honest people left in the Bureaucracy that there may be little conversations beginning tomorrow over beer in numerous DC watering holes.

As one commentator said on CBS said this PM, “There are a lot torpedoes in the water right now.”

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Varek Raith  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:07:31pm

re: #166 nines09

Tell us more.
Please.

Can’t, on timeout.

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:07:36pm

I’m curious how long it will take Charles.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:08:14pm

re: #170 Varek Raith

Can’t, on timeout.

Bah. This is why we can’t have nice things. We hit them on the head and break them and then Charles takes them away.

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Varek Raith  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:08:47pm

I wonder who’s sock that is….

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Interesting Times  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:09:03pm

re: #171 Belafon

I’m curious how long it will take Charles.

It the meantime, remember that comments with more than 10 downdings are hidden (the equivalent of putting a plastic bucket over a steaming turd before the professional clean-up crew arrives)

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Interesting Times  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:09:34pm

re: #173 Varek Raith

I wonder who’s sock that is….

LGF’s very first Russian bot?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:09:49pm

re: #175 Interesting Times

LGF’s very first Russian bot?

I think we’ve had some attempts before.

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:09:52pm

re: #157 TimeTicksOn

lol so are crazy anti dRumph nutcases finally going to look at yourselves in the mirror?
That the democrat party is courrupt to the core. That hillary and Podestas stink?
Don’t you lot realise that everything is going to come and bite you in your arrogant asses?
I told you before 2016, and ill tell you again now, you lot are on the wrong side of history.

Spit-roasted troll for dinner! I’ll go get some Negro Modelos…

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:10:15pm

re: #163 ObserverArt

He’s in timeout, already? Wow.

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MsJ  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:10:57pm

re: #166 nines09

Tell us more.
Please.

Or not. Meds are expensive these days.

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wrenchwench  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:12:08pm
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nines09  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:12:18pm

re: #170 Varek Raith

Can’t, on timeout.

On Twitter I usually don’t.
Here I want to hear it.
But either way it’s usually a waste of time and effort.

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darthstar  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:12:39pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:12:44pm

re: #180 wrenchwench

“FLY, YOU FOOLS!”

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MsJ  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:13:07pm

re: #175 Interesting Times

LGF’s very first Russian bot?

Or general dumbass, you know, no college education, can’t get laid, can’t do anything with their life so they blame the world. Woe is the poor dumbass.

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ObserverArt  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:13:15pm

re: #180 wrenchwench

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Acting!

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MsJ  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:14:21pm

re: #185 ObserverArt

Acting!

Achtung!

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nines09  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:14:28pm

re: #180 wrenchwench

“SUSAN! COME BACK!!!”

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:15:21pm

re: #184 MsJ

Or general dumbass, you know, no college education, can’t get laid, can’t do anything with their life so they blame the world. Woe is the poor dumbass.

Oh God, that reminds me of one disappointing night watching Overwatch League. Of course, everyone who follows video games remembers Gamergate, the MRA hissy fit disguised as “ethics in game journalism” that should have been a damn hate crime. Well, a female voice actor for the game showed up in the Blizzard Arena on International Women’s Day and… well, I guess it need not be said that it was unwise to stay in the reddit thread for long after that. Buncha fuckin’ no-life losers who couldn’t get laid in a whorehouse with a fistful of $100 bills and live in their mom’s basement drinking Mt. Dew and eating cold pizza.

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:16:09pm

re: #166 nines09

Tell us more.
Please.

He learned his English with a British accent, didn’t he?

“realise?”

“you lot?”

Hello, Sergei! Thanks for playing! Has the ice melted melted on the Lena River yet?

Adios, Chelovik!

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MsJ  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:17:13pm

re: #188 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Buncha fuckin’ no-life losers who couldn’t get laid in a whorehouse with a fistful of $100 bills

Precisely.

And everyone else is to blame. Woe is the dumbass.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:17:54pm

Logging off now. See you on the other side of Saturday.

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Varek Raith  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:19:33pm

Odds of the report being leaked before Monday?
;)

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:19:38pm

re: #190 MsJ

Precisely.

And everyone else is to blame. Woe is the dumbass.

For the record, I actually hold nothing against people who move back in with their parents. I’d certainly rather that than people struggle to make it on their own and end up homeless. No shame in trying and failing.

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MsJ  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:24:59pm

re: #193 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

For the record, I actually hold nothing against people who move back in with their parents. I’d certainly rather that than people struggle to make it on their own and end up homeless. No shame in trying and failing.

Absolutely not. But those who blame the world for their own failings I have no sympathy for. Life is what it is. And it sucks sometimes. A lot of times. It’s how you deal with it that makes you the person you are.

And a lot of people can’t deal. Which makes them horribly shitty people. Like Dimetri above. Da? Da.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:26:03pm

re: #194 MsJ

Absolutely not. But those who blame the world for their own failings I have no sympathy for. Life is what it is. And it sucks sometimes. A lot of times. It’s how you deal with it that makes you the person you are.

And a lot of people can’t deal. Which makes them horribly shitty people. Like Dimetri above. Da? Da.

Da. Dmitri is bad crazy.

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Jay C  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:26:39pm

re: #158 darthstar

So #157: registers (new) at 3:57, first comment is st 3:58, already time-outed with a total karma of -18
Gotta be some kind of record, huh?

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nines09  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:27:32pm

Alberto VO5 with some whiskey activated spit for that lived in look.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:28:39pm

re: #196 Jay C

Quite the overachiever.

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MsJ  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:28:52pm

re: #195 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Da. Dmitri is bad crazy.

Well, Russia does suck badly if you’re an average person. You have to be a sociopath, willing to kill and shit, to get ahead. Otherwise you live a mediocre existence at best.

Is feel sorry for them but fuck em.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:29:46pm

re: #199 MsJ

Well, Russia does suck badly if you’re an average person. You have to be a sociopath, willing to kill and shit, to get ahead. Otherwise you live a mediocre existence at best.

Is feel sorry for them but fuck em.

Russia is the most alcoholic country on the planet. I’m sure part of that is Siberia, but a large part of the rest is probably just all the mentally broken people coping with the things they have to do to get by.

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MsJ  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:30:07pm

re: #196 Jay C

So #157: registers (new) at 3:57, first comment is st 3:58, already time-outed with a total karma of -17.
Gotta be some kind of record, huh?

But but but didn’t he tell us before? In 2016? Did he, gasp, lie to us?

You don’t say.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:31:13pm

“you lot”. Oh. A git from across the pond!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:31:19pm

re: #197 nines09

That cannot be helpful for his social life. Ewwwww. Dude, the slick-backed look is so over, anyway.

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:31:41pm

re: #197 nines09

Alberto VO5 with some whiskey activated spit for that lived in look.

[Embedded content]

Oh, dear, Matt, you just FUBARed your career!

Poor stupid thing. Respect the satellite lag, you eedjit!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:33:48pm

Also, I just realized I missed my opportunity to pull an Admiral Farragut. Someone upthread mentioned there were “a lot of torpedoes in the water right now.” To which our intrepid President* would no doubt say, “Damn the torpedoes, FULL SPEED AHEAD!”

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:36:23pm

re: #202 GlutenFreeJesus

“you lot”. Oh. A git from across the pond!

I do remember we had a particularly patronizing British twit when I was a hatching.

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:39:12pm
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nines09  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:40:26pm

My favorite. Mike Seidel always gets put out at a snowbank or intersection or Motel 6 parking lot by the biggest drift and then goes and stands there till he looks like Jim (“LOOK AT THE ICE ON MY EYES!” “IT’S FUCKING THUNDERSNOW!!) Cantore.
Then he waits….. and waits….and…

Reporter Mike Seidel Caught Peeing On Live TV

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:43:24pm

re: #200 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Russia is the most alcoholic country on the planet. I’m sure part of that is Siberia, but a large part of the rest is probably just all the mentally broken people coping with the things they have to do to get by.

The good news is that many young men have sworn off alcohol and turned to straight-edge hooliganism.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:46:00pm

Barr and Meuller go back a long way. Am I correct on this assumption?
Good enough that they have shared a good whiskey a time or 2?

That is strangely comforting in a certain way.
Thoughts?

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EPR-radar  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:46:03pm

re: #206 HappyWarrior

I do remember we had a particularly patronizing British twit when I was a hatching.

Buck? I’m unsure about the name, but what a tedious trolling asshole he was. Never drew a ban IIRC.

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:49:26pm

re: #209 Barefoot Grin

The good news is that many young men have sworn off alcohol and turned to straight-edge hooliganism.

They certainly have replaced the English as the Premier League of football Yobos.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:49:41pm

re: #211 EPR-radar

Buck? I’m unsure about the name, but what a tedious trolling asshole he was. Never drew a ban IIRC.

Buck was Canadian. The guy I’m talking about went by Barflytom. His favorite was “You lefties” but Buck was a jerk too.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:50:31pm

re: #210 Dave In Austin

Barr and Meuller go back a long way. Am I correct on this assumption?
Good enough that they have shared a good whiskey a time or 2?

That is strangely comforting in a certain way.
Thoughts?

They both were in HW Bush’s admin together I believe and maybe even Reagan’s.

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freetoken  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:51:32pm

If there were more felonies (not committed by Trump himself), wouldn’t there have been indictments unsealed?

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freetoken  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:55:53pm

If there were not more indictments, it all seems like a bit of a let down.

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wrenchwench  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:56:25pm

re: #215 freetoken

If there were more felonies (not committed by Trump himself), wouldn’t there have been indictments unsealed?

The lawyerly lizards are probably kinda busy, but AFAIK, Mueller is an investigator, indictments are up to enforcers, ie. AG in this case. (?)

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Dave In Austin  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:57:18pm

re: #214 HappyWarrior

They both were in HW Bush’s admin together I believe and maybe even Reagan’s.

I don’t think for one minute that these 2 don’t know the proper direction to go here.

We may not like all the answers right now but I do believe Mueller will let SDNY wield the sharp blade.

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wrenchwench  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:58:41pm

re: #216 freetoken

If there were not more indictments, it all seems like a bit of a let down.

We’re going to have to find something to do this weekend, and see what happens Monday. Those suit & tie/pantyhose & heels people are serious about their weekends.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 4:58:44pm

re: #217 wrenchwench

The lawyerly lizards are probably kinda busy, but AFAIK, Mueller is an investigator, indictments are up to enforcers, ie. AG in this case. (?)

I’m trying to remember where the other indictments came from, for Manafort and Cohen. Was that all from NY?

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wrenchwench  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:01:29pm

re: #220 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I’m trying to remember where the other indictments came from, for Manafort and Cohen. Was that all from NY?

If it happened 30 years ago, I might be able to help. If it was in the last 4 years, you’re quothing up the wrong tree, raven.

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Varek Raith  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:02:40pm

re: #221 wrenchwench

If it happened 30 years ago, I might be able to help. If it was in the last 4 years, you’re quothing up the wrong tree, raven.

MiB got to ya, huh?

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freetoken  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:05:16pm

re: #217 wrenchwench

The lawyerly lizards are probably kinda busy, but AFAIK, Mueller is an investigator, indictments are up to enforcers, ie. AG in this case. (?)

Yes, but Mueller had grand jury, which has previously indicted.

If said grand jury didn’t make any more indictments, that seems to put an end to alleged criminality, save perhaps for Trump himself, if Mueller believes that a sitting President can’t be indicted.

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ckkatz  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:05:19pm

At first look, it sounds to me like Mueller mostly indicted and prosecuted people who impeded his investigation.

The facts that he was charged to find in his investigation appear to have largely been forwarded to other teams to pursue.

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teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:06:27pm

I have this sinking feeling that the Mueller Report might be a big nothingburger.

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bd (Emergency!)  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:08:08pm

What kind of monster drops off a 2 year long report on the desk of some poor bastard at 4:00 on a beautiful, springtime Friday afternoon?

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freetoken  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:09:08pm

re: #225 teleskiguy

I have this sinking feeling that the Mueller Report might be a big nothingburger.

Even if it is not, the ability of Trump to have programmed his MAGAdolts into believing that if Mueller doesn’t put COLLUSION in 72 point type on the cover then Trump is innocent, will stick with said dolts.

No matter how much other evidence of various wrongdoings have surfaced and will surface about Trump, Trump has succeeded in pushing the public narrative about COLLUSION!!

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KGxvi  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:09:41pm

re: #217 wrenchwench

The lawyerly lizards are probably kinda busy, but AFAIK, Mueller is an investigator, indictments are up to enforcers, ie. AG in this case. (?)

Mueller had the power to indict, that’s why you convene a grand jury - and he convened two. But it was limited to the scope of the memo creating his office. So if he came across things that weren’t within that scope, he’d have to let the AG (or DAG) know about it and/or refer it to the appropriate US Attorney’s office. Mueller had grand juries in Virginia and DC, I believe. When they found stuff in other jurisdictions, they referred it out accordingly, so the SDNY had some fun.

They may have decided against indictments because of venue - for example Trump Jr’s criminality all seemed to have happened in New York and neither Virginia nor DC may have jurisdiction - or because they didn’t believe they had enough evidence to get a conviction (the old saying is that a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich, but in practice good prosecutors don’t like to indict if they don’t have evidence for a conviction). That doesn’t mean that the DOJ can’t still pursue the evidence that Mueller uncovered thus far and eventually seek indictments. And in fairness, I’m not a criminal law attorney so I don’t know enough about the procedural aspects to say much beyond that.

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KGxvi  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:10:18pm

re: #226 bd (Emergency!)

What kind of monster drops off a 2 year long report on the desk of some poor bastard at 4:00 on a beautiful, springtime Friday afternoon?

You haven’t met many lawyers, have you?

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teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:10:23pm
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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:10:46pm

re: #157 TimeTicksOn

Trolls got to troll.

It’s in a time out. Chances are this was just a drive by rant by an idiot who will never return. Actually wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t one of the denizens from the fever swamp trying to “own” the libruls. Yawn.

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bd (Emergency!)  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:11:18pm

re: #225 teleskiguy

I have this sinking feeling that the Mueller Report might be a big nothingburger.

There are Trump guys who are already serving time who might say you are wrong.

The finale might be quiet but it’s already been a huge deal.

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wrenchwench  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:11:32pm

re: #228 KGxvi

There’s one now!

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:11:44pm

re: #230 teleskiguy

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For all Trumps talk about “very conflicted.”.

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teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:12:10pm

re: #157 TimeTicksOn

I told you before 2016, and ill tell you again now, you lot are on the wrong side of history.

How could you have imparted your wisdom on us “before 2016” when this is your very first comment at LGF?

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John Vreeland  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:13:44pm

re: #225 teleskiguy

I’ve felt that way for months. No point in agonizing over it. I think Mueller would be unlikely to ignore serious leads; he’s the kind of guy who turns over stones when he finds them. If everyone just shut the heck up and made like clams then the path might lead nowhere, but I’ve always said that two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead. It’s not entirely clear that Donald Trump can keep a secret dead or live, but having a team of lawyers pulling his strings for his deposition probably helped.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:14:09pm
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KGxvi  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:14:25pm

Key point on the indictment question, from CNN’s article:

A senior Justice Department official told CNN there are no more indictments coming from special counsel Robert Mueller.

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:15:21pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:15:28pm

I would’ve went out and got a nice scotch to drink tonight if Don Jr. was indicted.

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EPR-radar  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:15:46pm

Of course the US right is full of fuckwitted shitheads as we see every day in the news, but the personal touch of a visit from a wingnut troll really brings that home in a more direct way.

Yes, these people really are that stupid and malicious, and all of the media bothsiderism in the country can’t hide that fact forever.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:15:59pm

re: #238 KGxvi

SDNY might have a few things to add.

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teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:18:54pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:20:29pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:21:40pm

re: #244 teleskiguy

How can he fondle them when they’re in Lindsey Graham’s mouth?

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teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:21:58pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:22:10pm

re: #245 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Very carefully.

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:23:03pm

re: #235 teleskiguy

How could you have imparted your wisdom on us “before 2016” when this is your very first comment at LGF?

It’s a Sergei, and he was on a roll. Logic is immaterial.

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MsJ  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:23:47pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:24:45pm

re: #247 teleskiguy

Very carefully.

What’s got me laughing so hard is, usually I’m the one that says that.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:25:42pm

re: #237 Joe Bacon 🌹

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And the comments are what you expect. Sirota is a dirt bag as is Weaver and Bernie.

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MsJ  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:25:50pm

re: #245 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

How can he fondle them when they’re in Lindsey Graham’s mouth?

Tickling Lindsay’s throaty throat throat?

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:27:12pm

re: #252 MsJ

Tickling Lindsay’s throaty throat throat?

I think the anatomical term is “wattles”.

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teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:27:16pm
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KGxvi  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:31:20pm

re: #254 teleskiguy

Damn, I had “These motherfuckers.” in the pool

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:31:33pm

re: #254 teleskiguy

[Embedded content]

Hmmm

Is Louise Mensch using an alias?

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teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:32:20pm

re: #256 Joe Bacon 🌹

The Marshall of the Court strikes this question from the record!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:32:22pm

re: #255 KGxvi

Damn, I had “These motherfuckers.” in the pool

I’m out too. I had, “It absolutely is collusion, you asshole.”

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gocart mozart  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:32:24pm

Alex Jones affidavit Re: Discovery “I ddn’t do anything wrong, my prior attorney did. i promise to be good, yonner”
civilinquiry.jud.ct.gov

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:33:19pm

re: #259 gocart mozart

Alex Jones affidavit Re: Discovery “I ddn’t do anything wrong, my prior attorney did. i promise to be good, yonner”
file:///C:/Users/David%20DeRosa/Pictures/DocumentInquiry%20(2).pdf

Fuck You, Alex Jones.

Burn In Hell for how you endlessly tortured the Sandy Hook parents!

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teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:33:45pm

re: #260 Joe Bacon 🌹

Fuck You, Alex Jones.

Burn In Hell for how you endlessly tortured the Sandy Hook parents!

Copy that.

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freetoken  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:35:55pm

Australia being hit by two tropical cyclones:

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:37:27pm

re: #262 freetoken

Australia being hit by two tropical cyclones:

[Embedded content]

Tomorrow’s headline: “Tropical cyclones dissipate mysteriously; possibly poisoned by proximity to Australia.”

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Skip Intro  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:37:48pm

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Dave In Austin  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:38:33pm

re: #240 teleskiguy

I would’ve went out and got a nice scotch to drink tonight if Don Jr. was indicted.

#SDNY. It’ll happen.

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plansbandc  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:38:36pm

re: #239 Dread Pirate Whitebeard

What a cool creature!

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:39:44pm

re: #264 Skip Intro

Pelosi and/or Cummings ask for Robert Mueller to appear in front of them or their chosen group.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:45:33pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:45:59pm

re: #268 Charles Johnson

Damn you, you’ve given me a craving.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:47:17pm

re: #268 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Brings back memories of going to Arthur Treacher’s as a kid. Loved their Fish & Chips with Cole slaw!

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gocart mozart  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:49:34pm

re: #260 Joe Bacon 🌹

That’s soon to be Mr Bankruptcy Jones

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:52:29pm

re: #268 Charles Johnson

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Washed down with a nice porter.

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:53:25pm

re: #270 Joe Bacon 🌹

Brings back memories of going to Arthur Treacher’s as a kid. Loved their Fish & Chips with Cole slaw!

“Proper” Fish & Chips always come with Mushy Peas. Love the Fish & Chips, but I’m not a fan of Mushy Peas (mashed peas w/ mint- it’s remarkable what the English consider “food”).

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teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:55:16pm

re: #262 freetoken

Australia being hit by two tropical cyclones:

[Embedded content]

Totally normal. This is fine.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:56:39pm

re: #273 austin_blue

“Proper” Fish & Chips always come with Mushy Peas. Love the Fish & Chips, but I’m not a fan of Mushy Peas (mashed peas w/ mint- it’s remarkable what the English consider “food”).

Then there’s the Chip Bunty. I mean I love fries too but come on.

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Skip Intro  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:58:43pm

Meanwhile in white supremacist Iowa,

Iowa Republican Steve King slams Hurricane Katrina disaster victims

cnn.com

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:59:32pm

re: #276 Skip Intro

Meanwhile in white supremacist Iowa,

Iowa Republican Steve King slams Hurricane Katrina disaster victims

cnn.com

OK, look, Steve, when a tornado comes through Iowa and picks up your double-wide and throws it into Kansas, ain’t nobody gonna feel sorry for you, you fucking prick. Now sit down and shut the hell up.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:59:42pm

re: #276 Skip Intro

Meanwhile in white supremacist Iowa,

Iowa Republican Steve King slams Hurricane Katrina disaster victims

cnn.com

He’s just economically anxious.//

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 22, 2019 • 5:59:59pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:00:06pm

re: #277 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

OK, look, Steve, when a tornado comes through Iowa and picks up your double-wide and throws it into Kansas, ain’t nobody gonna feel sorry for you, you fucking prick. Now sit down and shut the hell up.

I hope one destroys his houses. Asshole.

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:00:34pm

re: #275 HappyWarrior

Then there’s the Chip Bunty. I mean I love fries too but come on.

During the depression, the potato Po’Boy was a common lunchtime meal in N’Awlins. French fires, beef gravy with beefy and fatty bits, and fresh French bread.

To tell the truth, that’s a fine lunch.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:01:03pm

re: #273 austin_blue

“Proper” Fish & Chips always come with Mushy Peas. Love the Fish & Chips, but I’m not a fan of Mushy Peas (mashed peas w/ mint- it’s remarkable what the English consider “food”).

This is the Arthur Treacher’s I remember!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:01:21pm

re: #281 austin_blue

During the depression, the potato Po’Boy was a common lunchtime meal in N’Awlins. French fires, beef gravy with beefy and fatty bits, and fresh French bread.

To tell the truth, that’s a fine lunch.

Right?

Also, I’m an Irishman. Meat and potatoes? I’m set for life, literally.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:03:13pm

re: #281 austin_blue

During the depression, the potato Po’Boy was a common lunchtime meal in N’Awlins. French fires, beef gravy with beefy and fatty bits, and fresh French bread.

To tell the truth, that’s a fine lunch.

True. I just need protein to balance out the carbs.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:03:58pm

re: #283 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Right?

Also, I’m an Irishman. Meat and potatoes? I’m set for life, literally.

I think the Chip Bunty is just potatoes. I need the meat too. I love the potatoes but I need a protein.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:04:42pm

@Rachel sez she was knee deep in a trout stream in Tenn. at 2pm. today. She’s broadcasting from Nashville or Memphis tonight

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:05:30pm

Remember Mom would make City Chicken once a week. She always said it was a Depression dish of mock chicken legs made with seasoned pork or veal cubes put on a skewer, dipped in egg and half & half then coated with crushed Kellogg’s corn flakes. Mom would fry it up and got it nice and crunchy.

Now realizing Mom has been gone for 22 years…

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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:06:16pm

Facebook

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:06:23pm

re: #262 freetoken

Australia being hit by two tropical cyclones:

[Embedded content]

A typhoon hit Mozambique really hard several days ago. There’s flooding all over so bad that people had to be airlifted from their villages by helicopter.

bbc.com

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gocart mozart  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:07:01pm
It may be that Mr. Jones’s speech discomfits folks in Southern New England. Our family and friends lost loved ones at Sandy Hook. But free speech is always tested in the crucible of unpopular, even sometimes irresponsible speech. Mr. Jones has millions of listeners who look to him to understand a bewildering world. He operates a newsgathering organization that may be unorthodox, but is no less real. He seeks the ability to protect the identity of those who contribute tips to his enterprise by claiming the journalistic privilege. A sanction involving the loss of the right to assert privilege on grounds that it has been waived is also unduly harsh. The anti-SLAPP statute and the state’s journalistic shield statute express a strong public policy preference for safeguarding core first amendment values. These values ought not to be sacrificed for the sake of the tender sensibilities of the politically correct. [Fuck You Norm]

If sanctions are appropriate, the defendants request that they be as follows: a waiver of the right to seek compensation for the cost of compliance with the plaintiffs’ burdensome requests, and a date certain by which the defendants must submit discovery compliance or suffer potential loss of the right to make claims of journalistic privilege.

CONCLUSION
The focus of this litigation should not be on what Mr. Jones said and why he said it. The focus should be on what conditions in American life make the sorts of conspiracy theories he is alleged to have advanced so popular to millions of listeners. The answer is simple: there is a broad crisis of legitimacy afoot in the United States. Legitimacy won’t be restored by silencing the unorthodox. The marketplace of ideas is where speech is tested. It has long since been that way in the United States. Do we now enact special rules now because fear is in the air? There is no mob quite so ferocious as a mob of self-righteous folk. Let this case be tested on its merits, not on adventitious posturing and pleading wars.

Alex Jones;
Infowars, LLC;
Free Speech Systems, LLC;
Infowars Health, LLC; and,
Prison Planet, LLC
BY:/s/ Norman A. Pattis/s/
Norman A. Pattis, Their Attorney

civilinquiry.jud.ct.gov

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:07:19pm

re: #283 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Right?

Also, I’m an Irishman. Meat and potatoes? I’m set for life, literally.

Me, too (well half, dad married a Westphalian blonde who bore a remarkable resemblance to Catherine Deneuve).

I think it’s a genetic predisposition. Along with a strong affinity for Stouts, Porters, and Scotch heavies.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:07:27pm

Closest picture I can find of what Mom’s City Chicken looked like.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:08:11pm

re: #287 Joe Bacon 🌹

Remember Mom would make City Chicken once a week. She always said it was a Depression dish of mock chicken legs made with seasoned pork or veal cubes put on a skewer, dipped in egg and half & half then coated with crushed Kellogg’s corn flakes. Mom would fry it up and got it nice and crunchy.

Now realizing Mom has been gone for 22 years…

My family’s Depression era recipe is vinegar pie. It’s a dessert made with apple cider vinegar, sugar, and flour with a sprinkle of nutmeg.

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:09:31pm

re: #282 Joe Bacon 🌹

This is the Arthur Treacher’s I remember!

[Embedded content]

For the English version, replace the salad with glob of what looks like mint-flecked baby poo and you have the Proper English Version.

I prefer yours.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:09:57pm

Where is Rudy?

this made me laugh

Facebook

Stay for the artists rendering of Rudy…

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:10:20pm

re: #290 gocart mozart

The First Amendment does not allow someone to yell “fire” in a theater.

Nor does it give a blank check for demagogues such as Alex Jones to lie and encourage his followers to harass the Sandy Hook parents.

I hope they bleed every last penny from that pig!

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Charles Johnson  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:11:34pm

re: #157 TimeTicksOn

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:13:47pm

re: #276 Skip Intro

Meanwhile in white supremacist Iowa,

Iowa Republican Steve King slams Hurricane Katrina disaster victims

cnn.com

Fucking asshole. Many of these people are my friends and neighbors now and I can tell you hardly anyone was sitting around on their ass waiting for help to come except the elderly and disabled.

Everyone else was doing whatever they could to STAY ALIVE.

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:14:06pm

re: #297 Charles Johnson

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Did you find the source? I’m betting St. Petersberg.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:15:17pm

re: #299 austin_blue

You are probably right.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:16:19pm

re: #292 Joe Bacon 🌹

Closest picture I can find of what Mom’s City Chicken looked like.

[Embedded content]

Bet that went good with potatoes. I’ve never actually have had city chicken but Wiener schnitzel and breaded pork chops are my favorite.

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Targetpractice  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:17:21pm

I go take a nap before work and I come back to find out everything went pear-shaped while I was gone. I can’t leave you fuckers alone for five minutes, can I?

//////

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:18:25pm

re: #302 Targetpractice

I go take a nap before work and I come back to find out everything went pear-shaped while I was gone. I can’t leave you fuckers alone for five minutes, can I?

//////

Five minutes? You wound us. You leave us alone for 30 seconds and we’re up to shenanigans.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:18:33pm

I’m definitely a product of the Western Pa and Irish, German, Slavic influences in my family. I love ethnic food but I’m really happy with meat and potatoes too and cabbage.

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teleskiguy  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:18:51pm

re: #299 austin_blue

Did you find the source? I’m betting St. Petersberg.

Maybe a white man true believer in Azerbaijan.

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:18:51pm

re: #302 Targetpractice

I go take a nap before work and I come back to find out everything went pear-shaped while I was gone. I can’t leave you fuckers alone for five minutes, can I?

//////

Wait, what?

We’re talking about food!

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Skip Intro  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:19:41pm

Trump Completely Vindicated, says Fox Business just now.

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makeitstop  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:20:20pm

re: #302 Targetpractice

I go take a nap before work and I come back to find out everything went pear-shaped while I was gone. I can’t leave you fuckers alone for five minutes, can I?

//////

Happy did it.

///////////

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Targetpractice  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:20:26pm

re: #307 Skip Intro

Trump Completely Vindicated, says Fox Business just now.

Get your pipin’ hot takes here!

//

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:20:42pm

re: #307 Skip Intro

Trump Completely Vindicated, says Fox Business just now.

They added the “V” on the chyron from the booth.

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wrenchwench  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:20:47pm

re: #304 HappyWarrior

I’m definitely a product of the Western Pa and Irish, German, Slavic influences in my family. I love ethnic food but I’m really happy with meat and potatoes too and cabbage.

Got any Polish? That’s all you’re missing to take a sibling position…

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:21:05pm

re: #307 Skip Intro

Trump Completely Vindicated, says Fox Business just now.

Predictable.

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EPR-radar  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:21:26pm

re: #263 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Tomorrow’s headline: “Tropical cyclones dissipate mysteriously; possibly poisoned by proximity to Australia.”

“One medium-size Australian spider has been credited with both storm kills.”

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:21:34pm

re: #307 Skip Intro

This is what WaPo says:
washingtonpost.com

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Varek Raith  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:21:52pm

re: #308 makeitstop

Happy did it.

///////////

Confirmed.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:21:53pm

re: #311 wrenchwench

Got any Polish? That’s all you’re missing to take a sibling position…

I might. My mom’s maternal grandparents were Rusyn and Poland is ten miles from their home villages.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:22:54pm

re: #314 PhillyPretzel

This is what WaPo says:
washingtonpost.com

Which isn’t vindication. SDNY might still prosecute.

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wrenchwench  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:23:01pm

re: #316 HappyWarrior

I might. My mom’s maternal grandparents were Rusyn and Poland is ten miles from their home villages.

Good enough. You’re in.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:23:39pm

re: #318 wrenchwench

Good enough. You’re in.

I’m Slovene too like you, Senator Klobuchar, & Melon.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:23:42pm

re: #317 HappyWarrior

Yes. That is what I posted earlier.

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:23:47pm

re: #314 PhillyPretzel

This is what WaPo says:
washingtonpost.com

And that is completely accurate. Let’s keep our powder dry, shall we?

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:24:37pm

re: #321 austin_blue

Yes. Of course. :)

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Targetpractice  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:25:19pm

Nixon was never formally indicted, but that didn’t stop him from looking guilty as sin.

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wrenchwench  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:25:26pm

re: #319 HappyWarrior

I’m Slovene too like you, Senator Klobuchar, & Melon.

I’m Irish and German, too, Western PA by marriage.

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EPR-radar  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:25:27pm

re: #290 gocart mozart

Holy shit, Alex Jones’ lawyers are going with the Leopold and Loeb defense.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:26:58pm

re: #324 wrenchwench

I’m Irish and German, too, Western PA by marriage.

Irish and Scotch, with a smattering of German (my mother’s mother) and English/French. Family was granted lands in PA for their service in the Revolutionary War, moved west to Kentucky and then fled north to fish country during the Civil War.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:27:14pm

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:27:49pm

re: #324 wrenchwench

I’m Irish and German, too, Western PA by marriage.

There we go then!

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EPR-radar  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:28:33pm

re: #323 Targetpractice

Nixon was never formally indicted, but that didn’t stop him from looking guilty as sin.

President Unindicted Co-consiprator remains exactly that, no matter what is in the Mueller report.

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makeitstop  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:31:35pm

So, just what is the chain of custody for this report? As of now, Barr has it and no one else?

What’s to stop him from delivering the report to Congress a few chapters light?

When does Congress get the report? I’m just wondering how much of a head start Trump is going to get on this.

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Skip Intro  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:32:18pm

re: #330 makeitstop

I’m sure Fox has a copy.

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Targetpractice  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:33:58pm

There’s a fair argument to make that people got their expectations raised too high and that the report will be a disappointment because of that. That people expected too much of Mueller without taking into account the narrowness of the authority he was granted and the corresponding need to limit what he could look into himself versus what he would have to hand off to those with proper jurisdiction. And that too many folks have spent a long time now predicting aloud things that either couldn’t happen or would be very difficult due to such circumstances.

The flip side to that is those with the proper jurisdiction are still investigating and still have the power to royally fuck up Trump’s life. House Democrats can and should continue to investigate everything that is within their authority to investigate, if only because it is their job to provide a check on the actions of the executive branch.

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:42:22pm

Dinner time, followed by a couple of episodes of Major Crimes (season four). See y’all later.

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EPR-radar  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:42:45pm

re: #331 Skip Intro

I’m sure Fox has a copy.

Putin also.

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EPR-radar  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:43:46pm

re: #332 Targetpractice

There’s a fair argument to make that people got their expectations raised too high and that the report will be a disappointment because of that. That people expected too much of Mueller without taking into account the narrowness of the authority he was granted and the corresponding need to limit what he could look into himself versus what he would have to hand off to those with proper jurisdiction. And that too many folks have spent a long time now predicting aloud things that either couldn’t happen or would be very difficult due to such circumstances.

The flip side to that is those with the proper jurisdiction are still investigating and still have the power to royally fuck up Trump’s life. House Democrats can and should continue to investigate everything that is within their authority to investigate, if only because it is their job to provide a check on the actions of the executive branch.

IMO follow the money is the royal road to undoing Trump and all his works, and that would logically have been handed off to SDNY.

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austin_blue  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:44:52pm

re: #335 EPR-radar

IMO follow the money is the royal road to undoing Trump and all his works, and that would logically have been handed off to SDNY.

Or the NY AG.

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thecommodore  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:46:49pm

After Rachel is done, I am going to start drinking. I can’t take any more of this uncertainty. At this point, if the Mueller Report was a single sheet of paper that said “No collusion,” I would actually feel better because at least there would be no uncertainty. But this thing is going to drag on and on and on and during all that time, Trump will still be President, and I’m not excited about any of the 2020 Dem candidates.

So I’ve got some Lagunitas Sumpin Easy, and Mrs. Commodore is cooking mushroom stroganoff.

And Thursday is Opening Day.

So I’ve got that.

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Targetpractice  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:48:31pm

re: #337 thecommodore

After Rachel is done, I am going to start drinking. I can’t take any more of this uncertainty. At this point, if the Mueller Report was a single sheet of paper that said “No collusion,” I would actually feel better because at least there would be no uncertainty. But this thing is going to drag on and on and on and during all that time, Trump will still be President, and I’m not excited about any of the 2020 Dem candidates.

So I’ve got some Lagunitas Sumpin Easy, and Mrs. Commodore is cooking mushroom stroganoff.

And Thursday is Opening Day.

So I’ve got that.

I like to think that, at the very least, the stress of not knowing when Mueller would finally end his investigation has passed. The investigation has ended, we only wait now to see what he found…and what the White House is willing to let us see.

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stpaulbear  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:48:43pm

re: #268 Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson
✔
@Green_Footballs
Fish and chips, that’s what I need. The real thing. Chips with vinegar and salt, hot beer-battered cod or other mild white fish, not too crispy, just right. Lemon wedges optional. I need this.

That’s exactly what I’m eating right now, except I’m in MN so the fish is Walleye. I’m eating the fish with a fork so my fingers don’t make my keyboard all greasy. Food is from Mac’s Fish and Chips on Snelling Ave.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:50:13pm

re: #339 stpaulbear

That’s exactly what I’m eating right now, except I’m in MN so the fish is Walleye. I’m eating the fish with a fork so my fingers don’t make my keyboard all greasy. Food is from Mac’s Fish and Chips on Snelling Ave.

Ooh, that sounds like a good place. I haven’t been to St. Paul in probably a couple of years now.

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:56:11pm

re: #297 Charles Johnson

Cool. 2 hours, 11 minutes. I was wondering how long it would take.

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Targetpractice  Mar 22, 2019 • 6:59:14pm

Somehow, I don’t think Donny got that call tonight from Mueller informing him that he’s been totally cleared of any wrongdoing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:00:05pm

re: #273 austin_blue

“Proper” Fish & Chips always come with Mushy Peas. Love the Fish & Chips, but I’m not a fan of Mushy Peas (mashed peas w/ mint- it’s remarkable what the English consider “food”).

every time I go to England, I bring home a tin of mushy peas.

they all remain unopened.

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:06:05pm

My wife is watching Grand Tour on Netflix. Their first episode is in Detroit. It’s actually sad to watch, how just decaying the city is.

Edited: Got the name wrong.

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John Vreeland  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:06:26pm

re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth

You can turn regular peas into mushy ones with a fork. I was pretty old before I realized you could eat them without mashing them first.

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:07:02pm

re: #273 austin_blue

“Proper” Fish & Chips always come with Mushy Peas. Love the Fish & Chips, but I’m not a fan of Mushy Peas (mashed peas w/ mint- it’s remarkable what the English consider “food”).

I heard you go to England for the Indian food.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:08:13pm

re: #346 Belafon

I heard you go to England for the Indian food.

I did eat at an Indian restaurant when we were in Ireland. Was actually pretty good, but that was before I had a wide experience of Indian food.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:09:01pm

re: #293 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

My family’s Depression era recipe is vinegar pie. It’s a dessert made with apple cider vinegar, sugar, and flour with a sprinkle of nutmeg.

Here in TheBackwoods, we call that transparent pie.

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stpaulbear  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:10:21pm

re: #340 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Ooh, that sounds like a good place. I haven’t been to St. Paul in probably a couple of years now.

There’s a Mac’s in S. Mpls. too (near Lyndale and 54th).

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:10:28pm

Charles got me hungry for fish & chips from Connie & Ted’s in West Hollywood!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:11:12pm

re: #349 stpaulbear

There’s a Mac’s in S. Mpls. too (near Lyndale and 54th).

Might be a better option, since I live in the far west suburbs, literally on the edge of suburban space. To the west of me is several miles of empty farms until you reach the next town.

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William Lewis  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:14:12pm

re: #350 Joe Bacon 🌹

Charles got me hungry for fish & chips from Connie & Ted’s in West Hollywood!

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Nice. Y’all got me hungry too so I filled up the frying pan with oil and have a cubed potato and couple of frozen fish patties deep frying. About 5 min to go … ;)

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:15:30pm

I’m on a diet but I did make a drink I christened a Scarlett O’Hara, Irish whiskey and sweet tea.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:16:09pm

re: #345 John Vreeland

You can turn regular peas into mushy ones with a fork. I was pretty old before I realized you could eat them without mashing them first.

but authentic English mushy peas are an unnatural shade of green.
Obviously unnatural.

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John Vreeland  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:17:11pm

DC sucks for fish & chips. Even the specialist seafood places like Crisfield’s refuses to serve it. I don’t think Legal Seafood does it either. And nobody wraps it in newspaper.

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The Ghost of Quesos Past  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:19:42pm

Mushy peas are the modern equivalent of the centuries-old pease porridge, and is traditionally made with dried peas and dyed green.

Honestly…I like a lot of British food. It gets a bad rep because most people only remember the food as it stood after WW2…defined by rationing and inventing artificial ingredients to substitute for real ones.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:19:57pm

re: #355 John Vreeland

DC sucks for fish & chips. Even the specialist seafood places like Crisfield’s refuses to serve it. I don’t think Legal Seafood does it either. And nobody wraps it in newspaper.

Yeah I haven’t found it really well done anywhere. I studied abroad in Galway, Ireland. Good fish and chips there.

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MsJ  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:25:15pm

Has anyone been to/have recommendations for Must See places in Paris, Lyon and Avignon, France?

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steve_davis  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:27:08pm

I will admit to being a little surprised that Trump Jr. didn’t go down for anything, apparently.

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steve_davis  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:29:12pm

re: #166 nines09

Tell us more.
Please.

On a brighter note, I just completed the table of contents for a poetry chapbook. Now, to spend the next ten years of my life trying to find a publisher willing to risk it all on 300 copies and no advance.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:37:19pm

re: #360 steve_davis

If you find one, let me know. I’ve got some poems that need publishin’ too. 😛

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William Lewis  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:38:06pm

re: #358 MsJ

Has anyone been to/have recommendations for Must See places in Paris, Lyon and Avignon, France?

If I had a week in Paris, I might see everything I’d want in the Louvre… Lyon just means food to me - good food, sausage, pate, coq au vin & local Beaujolais red wine… Avignon is more of the same (burp!) though John Stuart Mill, the great philosopher, died at Avignon in 1873 and is buried in there.

And I’d seriously work in at least one of the great gothic cathedrals in each city.

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William Lewis  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:39:21pm

re: #360 steve_davis

On a brighter note, I just completed the table of contents for a poetry chapbook. Now, to spend the next ten years of my life trying to find a publisher willing to risk it all on 300 copies and no advance.

When you find one, I’ve got 2 poetry manuscripts that need publishing… :(

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Dave In Austin  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:42:57pm

One thing about living 3hrs from the gulf coast.
The seafood here is plentiful and fresh.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:46:20pm

re: #364 Dave In Austin

One thing about living 3hrs from the gulf coast.
The seafood here is plentiful and fresh.

Our selection is a little bit more limited, but I’m told the walleye is amazing. I just can’t afford it. /half

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William Lewis  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:47:20pm

And just in case I haven’t blathered enough tonight, I found a theological pondering that I wrote quite some time ago. I may have shared it, but I don’t remember. It’s behind the privacy curtain.

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retired cynic  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:48:28pm

re: #366 William Lewis

good

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:53:02pm

re: #355 John Vreeland

DC sucks for fish & chips. Even the specialist seafood places like Crisfield’s refuses to serve it. I don’t think Legal Seafood does it either. And nobody wraps it in newspaper.

I think there’s a good place in Langley Park… possibly, maybe, that serves some decent fish and chips.

Added — which would be odd considering the demographics, but.

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William Lewis  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:58:45pm

re: #367 retired cynic

good

Thank you.

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TedStriker  Mar 22, 2019 • 7:59:02pm

re: #268 Charles Johnson

One thing I look forward to every time I go down to PCB (and I’ll be down there again in a couple of weeks) is killer British-style fish and chips (I prefer the haddock vs. the cod) from Eat My Pasty.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Mar 22, 2019 • 8:05:21pm

re: #366 William Lewis

Yours is a much more elegant and COMPLETE way of saying something I’ve said before. And you say it from the point of view of someone who is a believer, not an outsider like myself.

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thecommodore  Mar 22, 2019 • 8:08:07pm

re: #358 MsJ

Has anyone been to/have recommendations for Must See places in Paris, Lyon and Avignon, France?

The Louvre has already been mentioned. Museé d’Orsay is another must see. Also Notre Dame, and Pere Lachaise (if the war and holocaust memorials there don’t make you weep, you don’t have a pulse). And if you’re able, a visit to Versailles would be well worth your time.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 8:14:56pm

Never been to Paris but the Catacombs would be on my list.

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MsJ  Mar 22, 2019 • 8:19:45pm

re: #372 thecommodore

The Louvre has already been mentioned. Museé d’Orsay is another must see. Also Notre Dame, and Pere Lachaise (if the war and holocaust memorials there don’t make you weep, you don’t have a pulse). And if you’re able, a visit to Versailles would be well worth your time.

I’ve not heard of the cemetery before. I’ll put that on the list. What Holocaust memorials are there? I went to the one in DC (Twice, once for a college field trip from Chicago), it’s overwhelming to say the least. I got down to the 2nd floor and had to back up against a wall, close my eyes and do deep breathing, before I went into complete hysterics. I was that close to losing it.

I was with three people… Who were waiting for me on the ground floor for more than two hours after they were through with their walkthrough (we wandered on our own). There was so much sadness to take in.

Overwhelming. No other word for it. I’ve heard Yad Veshim in Israel is even more so. I’m not sure I can emotionally cope.

Dachau was hard to deal with but strangely not as bad as a small camp (previously a Belgium fort the Nazis till over) I visited. I was sick after I went there.

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MsJ  Mar 22, 2019 • 8:20:26pm

re: #373 HappyWarrior

Never been to Paris but the Catacombs would be on my list.

I want to do that! Hubby has no interest. I think we may part ways on some days.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 22, 2019 • 8:22:56pm

HA!

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HappyWarrior  Mar 22, 2019 • 8:23:52pm

re: #375 MsJ

I want to do that! Hubby has no interest. I think we may part ways on some days.

The Resistance in the war years would use them for hiding. Really cool. I’d definitely would make my must see that, what’s already been mentioned, & that one famous cemetery. I myself have a New Orleans trip in late May due.

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A hollow voice says, Collusion!  Mar 22, 2019 • 8:52:53pm

re: #358 MsJ

Has anyone been to/have recommendations for Must See places in Paris, Lyon and Avignon, France?

I saw the Popes’ palace in Avignon and liked it. Paris — Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower (there’s a Seine river cruise).


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