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My first thought was ‘Charles wouldn’t possibly misspell Adrian Belew’s name like that.’
He’s good.
HAHAHA!
Still amazed by this.
Last yr, @realDonaldTrump’s brokers put out a sales brochure for office space in Trump Tower — the epicenter of the Trump brand, the symbol of the man himself — and left out the Trump name entirely.
Just pretended it was any old building at 725 5th Ave. https://t.co/9zGuXzjBZi— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) March 23, 2019
Well that is a record for me. I got one spam call this morning on my landline. That first call had over 2000 complaints listed on Find Who Calls You. And I just got another call on my cell phone that had 200 complaints.
Open-Carry Texas here to greet @KamalaHarris for her first event in Texas pic.twitter.com/uUaOUgtEJr
— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) March 22, 2019
The tweeter works for Politico. The replies are great.
re: #6 Belafon
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The tweeter works for Politico. The replies are great.
“Ron Clark brought his 7yo daughter Madison to Harris’ event ‘for obvious reasons’: He wanted her to see ‘someone who looks like her’ poised to fight for the country’s top job. She smiled from atop his shoulders, pink sneakers dangling and several teeth missing from the top row.” https://t.co/ozqp9Qo1sR
— Ian Sams (@IanSams) March 23, 2019
re: #6 Belafon
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The tweeter works for Politico. The replies are great.
Screams out I have a baby dick.
re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth
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She shouldn’t and I very much like Beto and Castro but Kamala is legit too.
My God, this @crampell takedown of Stephen Moore’s stupidity is the most savage thing I’ve ever seen. https://t.co/AD7wH40oiG
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 23, 2019
Some skilled helicopter pilots @CHCHelicopter are rescuing passengers from #vikingsky adrift in rough sea off Norway, ship engines failed, one reportedly working again #avgeek https://t.co/eCbDi97eBW
— Erin_Miller (@millerlawmd) March 23, 2019
We’re waiting for evacuation by helicopter #VikingSky #Mayday pic.twitter.com/rqSYaWGi0k
— Alexus Sheppard 🏳️🌈 (@alexus309) March 23, 2019
re: #6 Belafon
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One reply made me snicker.
Marty McBrundlefly @zippitydoodad 6h6 hours ago
Semper Fries and a large Shake
re: #14 Blind Frog Belly White
Jesus.
“‘Take a cruise’, they said. ‘It’ll be fun!’ they said…”
Was just asking Mrs. Fish just how certain she was that she wants to go on a cruise. Like, umm… This is not smart.
thanks i hate it https://t.co/KaKyGKvyul
— stone cold steve austin (@aimiekins) March 23, 2019
These assholes never learn, do they?
HOUSTON—Former Enron Corp. Chief Executive and felon Jeffrey Skilling is looking to get back into the energy business after serving more than 12 years in prison for his role in one of the biggest corporate scandals in history.
Just weeks after being released from federal custody following his 2006 conviction on fraud, conspiracy and insider-trading charges, Mr. Skilling has been holding meetings with former Enron executives and others, hoping to win backing for a new energy venture, people familiar with the matter said.
The exact nature of the project is something of a mystery, with the people briefed saying it was at an early stage. Some of those who have met with Mr. Skilling have signed nondisclosure agreements, the people said. Several described it as a digital platform connecting investors to oil and gas projects.
Mr. Skilling has met with individuals who specialize in cryptocurrency, blockchain and software development in recent weeks, two of the people said.
re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg
He and Madoff should get together.
re: #8 HappyWarrior
Screams out I have a baby dick.
Compare and contrast with Constable Michelle Evans.
Story: stuff.co.nz
Have you ever been so repulsed by people, so disgusted, so sick of their hypocrisy, that you just stare into space at a loss for words? https://t.co/YPdEMN0mXE
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) March 23, 2019
re: #20 Grunthos the Flatulent
Compare and contrast with Constable Michelle Evans.
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Story: stuff.co.nz
Good Lord bless her.
re: #20 Grunthos the Flatulent
Compare and contrast with Constable Michelle Evans.
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“I can shoot a fly where it will land from 50 yards with my eyes closed, because I am one with the universe.”
re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth
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These people make me sick. Oh and Lindsay be glad that McCain never lived to see you go total Trump toadie because he’d kick your ass.
re: #14 Blind Frog Belly White
Jesus.
“‘Take a cruise’, they said. ‘It’ll be fun!’ they said…”
I love cruising. Being airlifted off the ship would add to the adventure.
re: #25 A hollow voice says, Collusion!
I love cruising. Being airlifted off the ship would add to the adventure.
it’s mostly the catching diseases that would get me. And my wife would have to be sedated to fly off the ship.
re: #26 Belafon
it’s mostly the catching diseases that would get me. And my wife would have to be sedated to fly off the ship.
Keep in mind that the ships have to report every outbreak of noro (defined as 2% of the ship’s complement) and your home town doesn’t. Also, I’ve walked off every cruise ship I’ve set foot on.
re: #26 Belafon
it’s mostly the catching diseases that would get me. And my wife would have to be sedated to fly off the ship.
Aw, hell, I got that beat. I’d have to be sedated to get on it. Or at least heavily dosed with scopalamine.
No, @NikkiHaley we do not “have to acknowledge that”
Trump publicly delegitimized the investigation ON A DAILY BASIS. He sought to fire Mueller, derided Rosenstein, and tampered with witnesses.
You will always bear the shame of how you normalized a criminal presidency. https://t.co/XDvHg99Sw0— Jon Cryer (@MrJonCryer) March 23, 2019
re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Stop lying Nikki. He very much did interfere. You’re a lying hack.
re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Enough already.” Like the example you’re setting with HRC?
re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And what if the results imply he colluded (not a legal term), Nikki? Are you going to accept them?
re: #32 Belafon
And what if the results imply he colluded (not a legal term), Nikki? Are you going to accept them?
Don’t be silly. She said we need to accept them. But if they’re the wrong results, then they’re going to fight until they’re the right results. THEN we need to accept them.
re: #31 A hollow voice says, Collusion!
“Enough already.” Like the example you’re setting with HRC?
She’s different.//
Do we have a pool going for how long until the Mueller report becomes public?
I’ll put $20 down on one week from tomorrow.
re: #35 Eclectic Cyborg
Do we have a pool going for how long until the Mueller report becomes public?
I’ll put $20 down on one week from tomorrow.
If there’s a copy in the WH, it might not take that long.
re: #26 Belafon
it’s mostly the catching diseases that would get me. And my wife would have to be sedated to fly off the ship.
Noroviruses are fun!
Exclusive photo from last night’s Mar-a-lago fundraiser. pic.twitter.com/NgrbCPVK22
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 23, 2019
re: #14 Blind Frog Belly White
Jesus.
“‘Take a cruise’, they said. ‘It’ll be fun!’ they said…”
That’s why I’m taking a river cruise. At no point of this excursion could I not swim to shore.
re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Bain is going to be the new Secretary of Defense. He’s great. You’re gonna love him.
re: #39 MsJ
That’s why I’m taking a river cruise. At no point of this excursion could I not swim to shore.
I was seasick on a Whale Watching cruise, just off the Marin coast. I felt so bad, I actually thought if the boat sank, it would be okay with me. I could try swimming to shore - except it was all rocky cliffs - but if I didn’t make it, at least I wouldn’t be feeling like that anymore.
This is apparently not an uncommon thought among those afflicted.
re: #40 HappyWarrior
Bain is going to be the new Secretary of Defense. He’s great. You’re gonna love him.
Poison Ivy for Agriculture.
Joker for head of the FDA.
Penguin for HHS.
And Two Face for Treasury.
re: #41 Blind Frog Belly White
I was seasick on a Whale Watching cruise, just off the Marin coast. I felt so bad, I actually thought if the boat sank, it would be okay with me. I could try swimming to shore - except it was all rocky cliffs - but if I didn’t make it, at least I wouldn’t be feeling like that anymore.
This is apparently not an uncommon thought among those afflicted.
been a scuba diver and instructor more than 20 years
i get seasick all the time - in dead flat calm water
one time the boat was rocking and rolling and i was sick getting into my gear (happens a lot). get in the water! that’s the goal
descended past 20 feet and it calmed down
the dive was to more than 100 feet so it was a short one
i remember returning to the anchor line to ascend and for a moment said to myself i could just stay here, be very happy and not care…
A visual representation of Robert Mueller and the active investigations he’s spawned. Also, happy #NationalPuppyDay pic.twitter.com/6j8StO39Eq
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) March 23, 2019
re: #39 MsJ
That’s why I’m taking a river cruise. At no point of this excursion could I not swim to shore.
re: #40 HappyWarrior
Bain is going to be the new Secretary of Defense. He’s great. You’re gonna love him.
His name is not spelled like the company Mitt Romney was involved in, but like the thing that makes you suffer, Bane.
Also he’s probably way too Hispanic for this administration.
re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg
These assholes never learn, do they?
Mr. Skilling has met with individuals who specialize in cryptocurrency, blockchain and software development in recent weeks, two of the people said.
Even if Skilling wasn’t involved that sounds more like a money laundering scheme than an actual investment platform.
re: #46 jamesfirecat
His name is not spelled like the company Mitt Romney was involved in, but like the thing that makes you suffer, Bane.
Also he’s probably way too Hispanic for this administration.
Ah but this would be Trump so he’d get the name spelling wrong. Okay you obviously got me lol.
Just say you were absolutely fine with Russian intervention. It’s easier and at least you’ll be honest about your bullshit.
— Anita (@AnitaM86) March 23, 2019
re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg
These assholes never learn, do they?
HOUSTON—Former Enron Corp. Chief Executive and felon Jeffrey Skilling is looking to get back into the energy business after serving more than 12 years in prison for his role in one of the biggest corporate scandals in history.
Just weeks after being released from federal custody following his 2006 conviction on fraud, conspiracy and insider-trading charges, Mr. Skilling has been holding meetings with former Enron executives and others, hoping to win backing for a new energy venture, people familiar with the matter said.
The exact nature of the project is something of a mystery, with the people briefed saying it was at an early stage. Some of those who have met with Mr. Skilling have signed nondisclosure agreements, the people said. Several described it as a digital platform connecting investors to oil and gas projects.
Mr. Skilling has met with individuals who specialize in cryptocurrency, blockchain and software development in recent weeks, two of the people said.
A black man who maybe once possessed a little weed as a teenager would have been:
- imprisoned for longer
- have no prospect for any employment at all once released
- be disenfranchised for life
This man, who defrauded people for more money than that black man’s family will see in generations, will walk back into a high-paying job and suffer no consequences even if he commits further crimes.
But unless someone calls that black man a ‘n*****’, America doesn’t think this is racism.
re: #40 HappyWarrior
I’d prefer Deathstroke myself. But Bane will work.
Joker for Press Secretary. No one leaves without a smile on their face.
Sitting in a campground mid-Florida, with mercifully little news of the Mueller drop and reaction. We’re going to rendevouz wit grandkid at Disney, then press on into the keys.
Florida Man is everywhere, mostly helmetless on bikes. A nice local guided us to a bar and grill last night, complete with “No Colors To Be Worn” sign on the door.
Wife: “At least it doesn’t say ‘No Coloreds’ any more.
re: #49 jaunte
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Taibbi is another left bro who is fine with Russia’s fuckery because it benefited him and his.
re: #53 HappyWarrior
I’m disgusted by anyone who can’t see Putin and his mafia as the murderous criminals they are.
re: #54 jaunte
I’m disgusted by anyone who can’t see Putin and his mafia as the murderous criminals they are.
Ditto that.
re: #54 jaunte
I’m disgusted by anyone who can’t see Putin and his mafia as the murderous criminals they are.
Or worse, admire them for such qualities.
re: #51 Romantic Heretic
I’d prefer Deathstroke myself. But Bane will work.
Joker for Press Secretary. No one leaves without a smile on their face.
Why so serious?
These idiots who talk about ‘red-baiting’ and ‘McCarthyism’ can’t separate the Russian people from the gang that is currently oppressing them.
Don’t know if this has been shared here yet.
Trump to replace Constitution with Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.
So this is why Mr. Asshole ain’t tweeting!
Gruella took his phone.
He’s golfing with Kid Rock.👀 pic.twitter.com/jDXuEblh58— Amy Litz-Dugan (@LitzDugan) March 23, 2019
re: #54 jaunte
I’m disgusted by anyone who can’t see Putin and his mafia as the murderous criminals they are.
Considering Taibbi’s own alleged misogynistic, sexually exploitative behavior and drug abuse in Russia when he was at the Exile, it’s no surprise that he’d take every opportunity to play down Trump’s own Russian misdeeds.
re: #52 Decatur Deb
Sitting in a campground mid-Florida, with mercifully little news of the Mueller drop and reaction. We’re going to rendevouz wit grandkid at Disney, then press on into the keys.
Florida Man is everywhere, mostly helmetless on bikes. A nice local guided us to a bar and grill last night, complete with “No Colors To Be Worn” sign on the door.Wife: “At least it doesn’t say ‘No Coloreds’ any more.
that just means they gotta be brand spankin’ new
re: #60 Joe Bacon 🌹
That sure is some national emergency.
Matt Taibbi is very confident the media played everyone for two plus years.
And the whole time many others were worried the media wasn’t giving it enough coverage.
But Matt knows. We were wrong all along.
What are we wrong about?
Trump remains an awful human thus an awful president.
And as of this time tonight, we don’t know anything more about how he got there.
But Matt knows. And must have been waiting all along to get this one off his chest.
An IED exploded next to the NBC crew in Syria today, killing their local driver.
So yes, they may have filed less reports today than on Friday. https://t.co/3RYBftc1hw— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) March 23, 2019
re: #49 jaunte
his story is mostly how the press mishandled the whole thing
then he writes:
Of course, there won’t be such a reckoning. (There never is). But there should be. We broke every written and unwritten rule in pursuit of this story, starting with the prohibition on reporting things we can’t confirm.
and it’s surrounded by him ‘reporting’ and concluding things he has not confirmed and has no idea about
iow his whole article is an example of what he’s complaining about
A lot of scary stuff has happened since Trump took office, but the entire GOP spreading a propaganda campaign about the end of ISIS in Syria — when they are still there murdering innocents — is among the most horrific.
These lies put Americans in danger too.— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) March 23, 2019
re: #65 jaunte
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Why am I worried that by admitting that on Twitter, he just signed his resignation notice?
I can’t imagine FauxNoise wants its correspondents to defend the actions of “the enemy”, after all…
re: #65 jaunte
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And your uncle smirked when Benghazi happened as he tried to act like Obama sympathized with the attackers.
re: #65 jaunte
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George Romney was a man of integrity who stood up against injustice and always told the truth.
Because he told the truth he was destroyed by those who wanted political power at any cost.
It’s so sad that George’s children and their offspring haven’t a single shred of decency and integrity that he had.
re: #71 Joe Bacon 🌹
George Romney was a man of integrity who stood up against injustice and always told the truth.
Because he told the truth he was destroyed by those who wanted political power at any cost.
It’s so sad that George’s children and their offspring haven’t a single shred of decency and integrity that he had.
Yep. George and my paternal grandfather probably crossed paths since he was an arbitrator and George was an auto executive. My grandfather was a liberal Democrat and George a Republican but both had integrity.
re: #60 Joe Bacon 🌹
Trump looks like a sack of shit, tied in the middle.
re: #12 jaunte
I wasn’t in a place where I could listen to this earlier — the general emergency alarm at the end adds a nice touch.
#PoppysPuppies
Littles👇 bigs👇 pic.twitter.com/8mJma4x81G— Bubbagirl💙🌊 (@bubbagump324) March 23, 2019
Makes me smile!!
These fried bologna sandwich eating, red soda pop drinking, 1/2 price off coochie coupon peddling, skanks are ridiculous! The bastard who now owns their souls doesn’t give a damn about these two buffoons! After all’s said and done he’d make both of them pick his cotton! For free! https://t.co/Fo8QiNYkKC
— britin17k (@britin17k) March 23, 2019
re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #76 Dave In Austin
Makes me smile!!
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Only a matter of time before they wind up on xHamster.
re: #78 Joe Bacon 🌹
Only a matter of time before they wind up on xHamster.
They will always be useful to Fox in some way, but the price they can quote will go down.
I don’t think I want to know what xHamster is, do I?
No, I’m pretty sure I don’t.
re: #81 ObserverArt
I don’t think I want to know what xHamster is, do I?
No, I’m pretty sure I don’t.
It’s probably what you think it is, though it doesn’t actually involve hamsters.
re: #76 Dave In Austin
Makes me smile!!
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Do not make fun of Silk’s glass eye. She had a tragic lawn dart accident as a child. That’s how she met Sarah Sanders. Diamond was murdering a dog with Sarah’s brother at the exact same time. True story. #Qanon
— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) March 22, 2019
BATHED IN GOLDEN LIGHT https://t.co/NvmGV8Ft1k
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 23, 2019
Family news…
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What blows my mind is seeing Jimmy Dore sucked into Pizzagate as well.
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re: #41 Blind Frog Belly White
I was seasick on a Whale Watching cruise, just off the Marin coast. I felt so bad, I actually thought if the boat sank, it would be okay with me. I could try swimming to shore - except it was all rocky cliffs - but if I didn’t make it, at least I wouldn’t be feeling like that anymore.
This is apparently not an uncommon thought among those afflicted.
I was in Hawaii and went on a deep sea fishing trip where I spent six hours puking. First over the side but the captain thought I was going to fall out so he gave me a bucket. Diesel and waves in the open ocean makes for a shitty tour.
There was a guy on the tour who was the same as me (sick for hours) but when we got back in the harbor he jumped up on the bow holding something akin to a mast and was like all Joe Sailor. I kept thinking, dude, you, like me, spent the last several hours ralphing like nobody’s business.
No more ocean Waters for me. Nope. No siree.
re: #78 Joe Bacon 🌹
Only a matter of time before they wind up on xHamster.
There is so much wrong with that, **shudder**. Put me off my feed.
OT: Anyone know a good and decently priced typing service? I have a manuscript that I need to get typed up.
re: #97 William Lewis
No. I do not know of any typing services. I am sorry.
re: #73 Blind Frog Belly White
Trump looks like a sack of shit, tied in the middle.
Trump is an Oompa-Fupa. (original with me AFAIK).
AG Barr must not give President Trump, his lawyers, or his staff any ‘sneak preview’ of Special Counsel Mueller’s findings or evidence.
The White House must not be allowed to interfere in decisions about what parts of those findings or evidence are made public. #ReleaseTheReport— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) March 23, 2019
re: #92 mmmirele
Family news…
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re: #97 William Lewis
OT: Anyone know a good and decently priced typing service? I have a manuscript that I need to get typed up.
Could you just use an OCR scanning package? I think it is a service offered at kinko’s, if you don’t have one available.
re: #102 danarchy
Could you just use an OCR scanning package? I think it is a service offered at kinko’s, if you don’t have one available.
While I love OCR, its accuracy does still leave a bit to be desired. Unless they also throw in corrections, it’d probably be as worth it to find a good typing service.
re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth
I fear the White House will:
A) Release a report so heavily redacted as to be useless.
B) Release a fake report
C) Not release the report at all
re: #104 Eclectic Cyborg
I fear the White House will:
A) Release a report so heavily redacted as to be useless.
B) Release a fake report
C) Not release the report at all
and any of those actions will backfire on them so much
Starting to think they have Donnie under restraints.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 24, 2019
re: #106 Charles Johnson
Think a little more simply, Charles. It’s spring. He’s obviously on the golf course. His phone is “conveniently” missing while he’s out playing the best golf, obviously good enough to play with the pros.
“We need a Thermos idea that kids will love.”
“How about the two biggest fucking stoners in Hollywood?” pic.twitter.com/oownArblYQ— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) March 24, 2019
re: #108 teleskiguy
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The real depressing thing is seeing how much those 60s and 70s lunch boxes in mint condition go for on eBay.
My nephew had a Space: 1999 lunch box and thermos in mint condition. He put it up on eBay and the winner bid $1250 for it.
Why?????????
Land…don’t cast votes. https://t.co/6WFFyqfb1x— Roger Tang (@gwangung) March 24, 2019
If anyone is interested, I’ve been following the Viking Sky rescue, and they now have three engines and are moving (very slowly) toward their next port. Passengers still being evacuated by helicopter.
re: #111 A hollow voice says, Collusion!
If anyone is interested, I’ve been following the Viking Sky rescue, and they now have three engines and are moving (very slowly) toward their next port. Passengers still being evacuated by helicopter.
That’s good news. I’m not a fan of people dying. It will be interesting to see what the investigation shows as far as the root cause of the incident.
Picture I took today: Just a fly about to be eaten by a carnivorous plant.
Seriously, even the goddamned salad is trying to kill you down here in the Florida Panhandle. pic.twitter.com/9CCoofhdgN— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 24, 2019
Man. And I thought I was cynical _before_ Donald Trump started squatting in the Oval Office.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 24, 2019
re: #102 danarchy
Could you just use an OCR scanning package? I think it is a service offered at kinko’s, if you don’t have one available.
1) No Kinkos within a 100 miles
2) Hard covered notebook with hand written manuscript.
It’s going to be a pain no matter what.
re: #112 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That’s good news. I’m not a fan of people dying. It will be interesting to see what the investigation shows as far as the root cause of the incident.
I’m told (NOT my area of expertise) that it’s usually electrical. Also, since this is a newish model, it might be a design flaw (sound familiar?).
And human error is always possible.
re: #97 William Lewis
OT: Anyone know a good and decently priced typing service? I have a manuscript that I need to get typed up.
Cursive or plain?
Never mind. I was going the OCR direction and someone else brought it up.
He just bathed in pee, not in “golden light” https://t.co/5adcggzusL
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) March 24, 2019
re: #97 William Lewis
OT: Anyone know a good and decently priced typing service? I have a manuscript that I need to get typed up.
Google shows a bunch of typing services in Louisiana. Lowest price I see is $1/page…
re: #117 Belafon
Cursive or plain?Never mind. I was going the OCR direction and someone else brought it up.
It is plain printing, my cursive is not something I would intentionally inflict on anyone.
Aside: seen on a camera website I read daily:
“I saw a cartoon that showed a roll of 2 1/4 film, a 35mm cassette, and a compact flash (CF) card. The caption, one under each device, said ‘12 exposures, six are good. 36 exposures, six are good. 600 exposures, six are good.’”
re: #119 Joe Bacon 🌹
Google shows a bunch of typing services in Louisiana. Lowest price I see is $1/page…
I’ll probably google some service in the end. I was hoping that perhaps someone had already used one and would get a known quantity or someone somehow connected to a fellow lizard. If not, no big, it would be nice though.
Two U.S. soldiers were killed in Afghanistan. Army just made one of the names public.
Sgt. 1st Class Will D. Lindsay was from Cortez, CO. Thank you for your service and sacrifice. https://t.co/7IgcXTF1zs
— Mikayla Ortega (@MikaylaOrtega7) March 24, 2019
re: #123 teleskiguy
Two U.S. soldiers were killed in Afghanistan. Army just made one of the names public.
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In just a few months time, men who weren’t even born when that war started will be eligible to enlist and fight in it.
re: #124 Eclectic Cyborg
In just a few months time, men who weren’t even born when that war started will be eligible to enlist and fight in it.
I was just reminiscing with Mrs. Fish, while watching a show that had an extended flashback which included 9/11, that it was the defining event of our generation, and yet fishspawn still don’t know about what happened that fateful September day. They will soon.
It turns out that the college republican group that met with Aston Whitty and Baked Alaska are a bunch of fascists. Shocking. https://t.co/plOzbN5ic6
— Official Alt-Left (@Kherman112) March 22, 2019
re: #108 teleskiguy
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One of the things most people don’t know is how Scooby Doo subverted the tropes a little. Shaggy was the athlete (track). Freddie was a theater technician.
Look at this attention queen reduced to buying adverts on benches.
Can someone explain to me what any of this means? pic.twitter.com/ckkhOQwyPb
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 24, 2019
re: #128 The Vicious Babushka
Look at this attention queen reduced to buying adverts on benches.
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I would be tempted to vandalize the hell out of that.
re: #128 The Vicious Babushka
Maybe Jeanine Pirro’s show has truly gotten the kibosh? I mean, doing an advert like this with Laura freaking Loomer? Reeks of desperation.
re: #124 Eclectic Cyborg
In just a few months time, men who weren’t even born when that war started will be eligible to enlist and fight in it.
Back when Bush the Lesser was pushing us into this stupidity, I told my good friend who was slipping into wingnut error, that we’d still be there 20 years later. I see no reason to change that prediction though I am thankful for my son’s mental health issues - it makes him forever 4F and safe from that, at least.
re: #130 teleskiguy
Maybe Jeanine Pirro’s show has truly gotten the kibosh? I mean, doing an advert like this with Laura freaking Loomer? Reeks of desperation.
Is it even a real bench advert? Could be a Photoshop.
The kooky left is parroting the MAGATS all over facebook (Ted Rall, Jim Earl, Jimmy Dore, other assorted Berniebots and Jill Shills) all parroting that the Democrats framed Trump.
Sickening.
re: #132 The Vicious Babushka
Is it even a real bench advert? Could be a Photoshop.
You are correct. Will keep my internet-eye out.
Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is providing records to the House Judiciary Committee for its probe into obstruction of justice, according to a source. The move indicates that the conclusion of Mueller’s probe does not mean the end of investigations https://t.co/jC0JGWlyzR pic.twitter.com/O5GL49WMxO
— CNN (@CNN) March 24, 2019
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 24, 2019
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 24, 2019
You would think that Von Clownstick would be Tweeting nonstop that he is VINDICATED and the WITCH HUNT HAS STOPPED.
re: #134 teleskiguy
You are correct. Will keep my internet-eye out.
I think Loomer or someone behind her is financing this sort of bullshit:
re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg
When I tapped on that FB post I got this alert:
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No I DON’T want Facebook tracking what I browse on Little Green Footballs.
And why the hell is Loony Laura still on Facebook?
re: #35 Eclectic Cyborg
Do we have a pool going for how long until the Mueller report becomes public?
I’ll put $20 down on one week from tomorrow.
I have April 1st for $20.
re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg
Like Nancy Reagan said, just say no!
re: #142 Cheechako
I have April 1st for $20.
Sooner. What does anyone have to lose by leaking? My bet is by Tuesday. So much BS on the Sunday talk shows is going to force the issue.
re: #95 MsJ
I was in Hawaii and went on a deep sea fishing trip where I spent six hours puking. First over the side but the captain thought I was going to fall out so he gave me a bucket. Diesel and waves in the open ocean makes for a shitty tour.
There was a guy on the tour who was the same as me (sick for hours) but when we got back in the harbor he jumped up on the bow holding something akin to a mast and was like all Joe Sailor. I kept thinking, dude, you, like me, spent the last several hours ralphing like nobody’s business.
No more ocean Waters for me. Nope. No siree.
I was perfectly fine, till we passed the Point Bonita Lighthouse, which defines the end of the Bay and the beginning of The Pacific. Then the collar on my sweater seemed just a little tight. Next my jacket seemed just a bit too warm. 10 minutes later, I’m puking my guts up.
On the way back in, as soon as we passed the Point Bonita Lighthouse, I started feeling better. Within just a few minutes, I was standing on the highest deck where the motion is the greatest, feeling absolutely fine.
Fuckface Von Clownstick will claim Executive Privilege and keep the Mueller Report secret. And then Constitutional Crisis.
It’s as good a bet as any.
re: #144 I Would Prefer Not To
Sooner. What does anyone have to lose by leaking? My bet is by Tuesday. So much BS on the Sunday talk shows is going to force the issue.
This, plus the thicket Of idiots the red queen is surrounded by.
re: #145 Blind Frog Belly White
I was perfectly fine, till we passed the Point Bonita Lighthouse, which defines the end of the Bay and the beginning of The Pacific. Then the collar on my sweater seemed just a little tight. Next my jacket seemed just a bit too warm. 10 minutes later, I’m puking my guts up.
On the way back in, as soon as we passed the Point Bonita Lighthouse, I started feeling better. Within just a few minutes, I was standing on the highest deck where the motion is the greatest, feeling absolutely fine.
That was me, too. But I didn’t play seasoned sailor when I got back. It was that (showing off for his bride who didn’t join us) that cracked me up.
I was like…men, man. And laughed. He was a nice guy, don’t get me wrong. It was just funny.
re: #148 MsJ
That was me, too. But I didn’t play seasoned sailor when I got back. It was that (showing off for his bride who didn’t join us) that cracked me up.
I was like…men, man. And laughed. He was a nice guy, don’t get me wrong. It was just funny.
I could not have faked having a good time. All I wanted to do was stop feeling like that.
But honestly, once we were back in the Bay, I actually enjoyed the boat and the motion and the crisp, cool air.
Two years ago, our “company picnic” was a Bay Cruise, and I had not one moment of trouble. But it wasn’t on the ocean.
re: #60 Joe Bacon 🌹
So this is why Mr. Asshole ain’t tweeting!
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I’m working on my Margarita recipe. Currently 1/2 lime; 2 oz 100% agave Tequila, 1 oz Cointreau, and 1/2 oz Agave syrup. I may ditch the last one, but it just seems to belong.
Any suggestions?
re: #142 Cheechako
I have April 1st for $20.
I expect Trump to refuse to release the report using Executive Privilege. And there is no doubt in my mind that the corrupted Supreme Court will vote 5-4 to back Trump.
re: #149 Blind Frog Belly White
I could not have faked having a good time. All I wanted to do was stop feeling like that.
But honestly, once we were back in the Bay, I actually enjoyed the boat and the motion and the crisp, cool air.
Two years ago, our “company picnic” was a Bay Cruise, and I had not one moment of trouble. But it wasn’t on the ocean.
I’d been on the ocean before. In Florida. But the combination of the waves and the diesel did me in. The smell killed me. The constant trolling and every breath inhaling diesel fumes were bad. Like 🤢🤢🤢🤮 for hours bad.
re: #152 Joe Bacon 🌹
I expect Trump to refuse to release the report using Executive Privilege. And there is no doubt in my mind that the corrupted Supreme Court will vote 5-4 to back Trump.
My money’s on Barr using the ‘No derogatory info about anyone not indicted’ “rule” in the DoJ.
Then my money’s on somebody leaking the thing. Probably Kellyanne Conway, but we’ll never know for sure.
re: #153 MsJ
I’d been on the ocean before. In Florida. But the combination of the waves and the diesel did me in. The smell killed me. The constant trolling and every breath inhaling diesel fumes were bad. Like 🤢🤢🤢🤮 for hours bad.
Yeah. I was merely seasick before somebody thought they saw a spout and they decided to turn circles through our own diesel exhaust for 40 fucking minutes.
Still, the difference between the Bay and the Ocean did it for me.
re: #122 William Lewis
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re: #151 Blind Frog Belly White
I’m working on my Margarita recipe. Currently 1/2 lime; 2 oz 100% agave Tequila, 1 oz Cointreau, and 1/2 oz Agave syrup. I may ditch the last one, but it just seems to belong.
Any suggestions?
By coincidence Letters and Liquor’s history just got up to the frozen margarita yesterday. There’s a recipe at the bottom.
He mentions using agave syrup, but just goes with a 1:1 simple syrup in his recipe.
re: #154 Blind Frog Belly White
My money’s on Barr using the ‘No derogatory info about anyone not indicted’ “rule” in the DoJ.
Then my money’s on somebody leaking the thing. Probably Kellyanne Conway, but we’ll never know for sure.
Oh I expect it to be leaked and then the Republican Bullshit Machine will be cranked up to 12 to neutralize it. And the Republicans will be assisted by the Kooky Left Berniebots and Jill Shills in destroying Mueller’s credibility.
Already you see the Radical Xtian Pulpit Pimps circling and rallying to Trump. Note what Jim Bakker said in the clip that I previously posted. Baker’s bullshit is going to be repeated in thousands of Xtian churches tomorrow morning. Hate radio is also coming to Trump’s defense along with right wing disinformation sites.
re: #156 Romantic Heretic
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It was time, I felt, for a beer.
— Hunter S. Thompson (@GonzoVice) March 24, 2019
He seems nice.
and all blacks are same race ? all yellows same race ?
— Danny Fishman (@Dannyfishman1) March 24, 2019
re: #159 William Lewis
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re: #163 Romantic Heretic
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Here’s an interesting interview with Soo Min Kim, Miss Korea 2018, who won while expecting not to, and who has to put up with “fat shaming” comments from certain parts of the Korean public. She’s considered “fat” because she’s 130 pounds and 5’8”, and Korean beauty standards expect women of any height to be around 105 lbs.
Another Asian woman who is fighting against body-shaming is Mia Kang of Hong Kong, a former skinny-as-a-rail fashion model who finally said fuck it and started eating in a healthy way and training in muay thai. She now models in her normal size, including for Sports Illustrated.
From her Instagram:
I have female students here in China who at 100 lbs tops still say they are trying to lose weight. I just shake my head in amazement.
re: #165 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
That is so sad.
No, actually, that is enraging! Absolutely infuriating. That human worth could come down to that. And I will bet you any money that (most of) the assholes that are belittling those woman are overweight men.
(There may be some pressure from Asian women who are applying a double standard; I don’t know.)
Signing off for the night, after releasing some spleen….
‘Netanyahu: Hitler Didn’t Want to Exterminate the Jews’
‘a claim that was rejected by most accepted Holocaust scholars’https://t.co/MqqNfH3r7U— RynheartTheReluctant (@TheRynheart) March 23, 2019
If Obama, Hillary, or Pelosi had said this, there would be riots in the streets.
CNN had one of the Trump 2020 flaks on this morning and the talking points were already coalescing pretty clearly (paraphrased):
- “The fact that there are no further indictments means [Trump] is in the clear and there’s no evidence of criminal acts.”
- “Democrats need to accept the results of the report, as they said that they supported Mueller and his investigation, and so continuing to investigate [Trump] would mean contradicting Mueller’s conclusions.”
- “‘Everybody’ agreed that the Clinton investigation was ‘mishandled,’ so it’s totally not hypocritical of Republicans to demand Democrats end all their investigations into [Trump] now while continuing to demand further investigations into the Clintons.”
re: #169 DodgerFan1988
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If Obama, Hillary, or Pelosi had said this, there would be riots in the streets.
More likely the MAGAts would crow about their joining them in holocaust denial.
But they wouldn’t say anything of the sort.
re: #169 DodgerFan1988
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If Obama, Hillary, or Pelosi had said this, there would be riots in the streets.
He’s claiming that Hitler only wanted to kick the Jews out, it was Grand Mufti al-Husseini who pressed for extermination because he did not want Europe’s Jews to migrate to Palestine. It’s a twisted version of an assertion that fringe researchers have made over the years that it was his refusal to allow Jews to move to Palestine that left Hitler with “no choice” but to pursue the “Final Solution.”
He’s brought it up before, back in 2012, for pretty much the same reason: Stoking hatred of Palestinians to shore up his political position.
re: #169 DodgerFan1988
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If Obama, Hillary, or Pelosi had said this, there would be riots in the streets.
Are we entirely sure Bibi is really Jewish?
re: #169 DodgerFan1988
Beware when you battle monsters,
lest you become a monster.
And as you gaze into the abyss,
the abyss gazes also,
into you.
Fredrich Nietzsche.
Netanyahu and co. have been staring into the abyss for too long.
re: #170 Targetpractice
CNN had one of the Trump 2020 flaks on this morning and the talking points were already coalescing pretty clearly (paraphrased):
- “The fact that there are no further indictments means [Trump] is in the clear and there’s no evidence of criminal acts.”
- “Democrats need to accept the results of the report, as they said that they supported Mueller and his investigation, and so continuing to investigate [Trump] would mean contradicting Mueller’s conclusions.”
- “‘Everybody’ agreed that the Clinton investigation was ‘mishandled,’ so it’s totally not hypocritical of Republicans to demand Democrats end all their investigations into [Trump] now while continuing to demand further investigations into the Clintons.”
“Which report is that? How much of it have you read?”
re: #129 Eclectic Cyborg
I would be tempted to vandalize the hell out of that.
It means that someone needs to go buy some big googly eyes ASAP.
— hillhaus (@Hillhaus) March 24, 2019
re: #175 Belafon
“Which report is that? How much of it have you read?”
Yeah, that’s what’s interesting, this assumption that no new indictments = everybody in the clear. Particularly when to this day they insist that the fact that Hillary has never been indicted does not mean she was innocent of criminal acts.
I happen to think Warren is better in the Senate, but this infuriates me, a white male:
Warren is bursting with what we might call “charisma” in male candidates: She has the folksy demeanor of Joe Biden, the ferocious conviction of Bernie Sanders, the deep intelligence of fellow law professor Barack Obama. But Warren is not a man, and so those traits are framed as liabilities, rather than strengths. According to the media, Warren is an uptight schoolmarm, a “wonky professor,” a scold, a wimpy Dukakis, a wooden John Kerry, or (worse) a nerdier Al Gore.
The criticism has hit her from the left and right. The far-right Daily Caller accused her of looking weird when she drank beer; on social media, conservatives spread vicious (and viciously ableist) rumors that Warren took antipsychotic drugs that treated “irritability caused by autism.” On the other end of the spectrum, Amber A’Lee Frost, the lone female co-host of the socialist podcast Chapo Trap House, wrote for The Baffler (and, when The Baffler retracted her article, for Jacobin) that Warren was “weak” and “not charismatic.” Frost deplored the “Type-A Tracy Flicks” who dared support “this Lisa Simpson of a dark-horse candidate.”…
There’s an element of gaslighting here: It only takes a reporter a few sources — and an op-ed columnist a single, fleeting judgment — to declare a candidate “unlikable.” After that label has been applied, any effort the candidate makes to win people over can be cast as “inauthentic.” Likability is in this way a self-reinforcing accusation, one which is amplified every time the candidate tries to tackle it. (Recall Hillary Clinton, who was asked about her “likability” at seemingly every debate or town hall for eight straight years — then furiously accused of pandering every time she made an effort to seem more “approachable.”)…
Warren is cast as a bloodless intellectual when she focuses on policy, a scolding lecturer when she leans into her skills as a rabble-rouser; either way, her intelligence is always too much and out of place. Her eloquence is framed, not as inspiring, but as “angry” and “hectoring.” Being an effective orator makes her “strident.” It’s not solely confined to the media, but reporters seem anxious to signal-boost anyone who complains: Anonymous male colleagues call her “irritating,” telling Vanity Fair that “she projects a ‘holier than thou’ attitude” and that “she has a moralizing to her.” That same quality in male candidates is hailed as moral clarity.
Warren is accused, in plain language, of being uppity — a woman who has the bad grace to be smarter than the men around her, without downplaying it to assuage their egos. But running in a presidential race is all about proving that you are smarter than the other guy. By demanding that Warren disguise her exceptional talents, we are asking her to lose. Thankfully, she’s not listening. She is a smart woman, after all.
I’m in GA, where a computer scientist cyber security expert just told me @BrianKempGA is on the verge of signing a bill that could buy the *worst possible* voting machines for protecting election integrity.
That on top of accusations of suppression, purges and long lines here.— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) March 23, 2019
re: #146 teleskiguy
Fuckface Von Clownstick will claim Executive Privilege and keep the Mueller Report secret. And then Constitutional Crisis.
It’s as good a bet as any.
Maybe. The problem for The Shit Gibbon is that Mueller has sent all of the evidence of crimes not directly associated with Russian influence in the 2016 election to other prosecutorial venues.
I imagine Barr, at this point, is either shitting his pants or drinking and muttering, “well, fuck”.
re: #180 austin_blue
Maybe. The problem for The Shit Gibbon is that Mueller has sent all of the evidence of crimes not directly associated with Russian influence in the 2016 election to other prosecutorial venues.
I imagine Barr, at this point, is either shitting his pants or drinking and muttering, “well, fuck”.
I rather suspect he’s either received or expecting to shortly receive orders to put the kibosh on any investigations it is within his power to kill.
The 2016 action film “London Has Fallen” is on TV tonight. The 2019 real life “Attack of the Brexit” has a much superior story line.
Style
My 5hr flight had no subtitles and now my final leg is being delayed twice. I want to cry on @united’s wheelchair that I never asked for
— Nyle DiMarco (@NyleDiMarco) March 22, 2019
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— Nyle DiMarco (@NyleDiMarco) March 23, 2019
re: #166 retired cynic
(There may be some pressure from Asian women who are applying a double standard; I don’t know.)
Believe it. And it is infuriating.
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My brother won’t acknowledge that Putin hated Hillary. He only accepts that Putin was working to sow dissension through bots and that he succeeded; but that Trump was a willing beneficiary — of course not.
Yeah, but if you don’t count California, then California added no jobs. Take that, California. https://t.co/hNvXLua6BZ
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) March 23, 2019
re: #169 DodgerFan1988
‘Netanyahu: Hitler Didn’t Want to Exterminate the Jews’
‘a claim that was rejected by most accepted Holocaust scholars’haaretz.com …
If Obama, Hillary, or Pelosi had said this, there would be riots in the streets.
This was from a 2015 speech so not current. It is outrageous no matter when he asserted this — but it’s not a recent remark.
re: #42 Eclectic Cyborg
Poison Ivy for Agriculture.
Joker for head of the FDA.
Penguin for HHS.
And Two Face for Treasury.
Deathstroke for head of DHS.
re: #184 Grunthos the Flatulent
Believe it. And it is infuriating.
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The wit n’ wisdom of Lubbock’s “Mr. Conservative.”
re: #180 austin_blue
Maybe. The problem for The Shit Gibbon is that Mueller has sent all of the evidence of crimes not directly associated with Russian influence in the 2016 election to other prosecutorial venues.
I imagine Barr, at this point, is either shitting his pants or drinking and muttering, “well, fuck”.
The NRA’s laundering of Russian influence money would be a good example. Mueller might well have found the evidence but it would not be strictly within his mandate to pursue an indictment.
re: #194 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The NRA’s laundering of Russian influence money would be a good example. Mueller might well have found the evidence but it would not be strictly within his mandate to pursue an indictment.
And Franklin Graham and the Pulpit Putin Pimps
re: #172 Targetpractice
He’s claiming that Hitler only wanted to kick the Jews out, it was Grand Mufti al-Husseini who pressed for extermination because he did not want Europe’s Jews to migrate to Palestine. It’s a twisted version of an assertion that fringe researchers have made over the years that it was his refusal to allow Jews to move to Palestine that left Hitler with “no choice” but to pursue the “Final Solution.”
I see, like the “Liberals made us vote for Trump”, except this time it is “Palestinians made us build massive concentration camps to exterminate Jews on an industrial scale.”
re: #174 Romantic Heretic
Beware when you battle monsters,
lest you become a monster.
And as you gaze into the abyss,
the abyss gazes also,
into you.Fredrich Nietzsche.
Netanyahu and co. have been staring into the abyss for too long.
——-
Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
Hal Holbrook/Mannheim Wall Street
re: #169 DodgerFan1988
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If Obama, Hillary, or Pelosi had said this, there would be riots in the streets.
Bibi has jumped the shark.
re: #201 HappyWarrior
And lost his mind. Does he really think that the Mufti was so highly regarded that Hitler would have paid attention to him if he asked him to do something he didn’t want to do? What would have happened if Hitler had simply dropped off those millions on shore? Remember Palestine was a British colony at the time. Who really had the power there?
re: #201 HappyWarrior
Bibi has jumped the shark.
But if you take him to task about such utterances it means you are “Anti-Semitic”…
re: #170 Targetpractice
CNN had one of the Trump 2020 flaks on this morning and the talking points were already coalescing pretty clearly (paraphrased):
- “The fact that there are no further indictments means [Trump] is in the clear and there’s no evidence of criminal acts.”
- “Democrats need to accept the results of the report, as they said that they supported Mueller and his investigation, and so continuing to investigate [Trump] would mean contradicting Mueller’s conclusions.”
- “‘Everybody’ agreed that the Clinton investigation was ‘mishandled,’ so it’s totally not hypocritical of Republicans to demand Democrats end all their investigations into [Trump] now while continuing to demand further investigations into the Clintons.”
And what if Mueller’s report finds that Trump did in fact obstruct and interfere with the investigation? I’m so sick of being told that I need to accept this and that when Trump still hasn’t even acknowledged that the Russians interfered. I can concede that Mueller may not have found evidence of Trump asking the Russians to interfere on his behalf. Trump doesn’t get to trash the investigation non stop and lie about it and get off totally scot-free. This hot take sucks big time.
re: #201 HappyWarrior
Bibi has jumped the shark.
re: #202 CarolJ
And lost his mind. Does he really think that the Mufti was so highly regarded that Hitler would have paid attention to him if he asked him to do something he didn’t want to do? What would have happened if Hitler had simply dropped off those millions on shore? Remember Palestine was a British colony at the time. Who really had the power there?
Also, that Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews is also a narrative among the Holocaust denying contingent of the alt-right world-wide. Which is more than a little concerning as my view on Holocaust denial is that it is not not as much about the “researchers” and that conspiracy theory’s believers not wanting to face reality, but to sow doubt enough to be able to grab power again, at least for the upper echelons.
And we know fucking well what happened the last time.
#NeverAgain #NeverAgainIsNow
re: #202 CarolJ
And lost his mind. Does he really think that the Mufti was so highly regarded that Hitler would have paid attention to him if he asked him to do something he didn’t want to do? What would have happened if Hitler had simply dropped off those millions on shore? Remember Palestine was a British colony at the time. Who really had the power there?
Exactly. Bibi seems really interested in giving a pass to the Anti-Semitic and murdering history of the countries, ethnic groups, and religious groups he likes but not those he dislikes and that’s dangerous as shit.
re: #205 Teukka
Also, that Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews is also a narrative among the Holocaust denying contingent of the alt-right world-wide. Which is more than a little concerning as my view on Holocaust denial is that it is not not as much about the “researchers” and that conspiracy theory’s believers not wanting to face reality, but to sow doubt enough to be able to grab power again, at least for the upper echelons.
And we know fucking well what happened the last time.
#NeverAgain #NeverAgainIsNow
Absolutely. The big question I have is WHY. Why is he doing this? Why is he so eager to absolve the most hated man of the 20th century from guilt? As far as I’m concerned, it should forfeit his authority to talk about anything seriously.
re: #203 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But if you take him to task about such utterances it means you are “Anti-Semitic”…
Yeah by his American Christian Fundamentalist friends who seventy five years ago would have been calling him a Christ killer.
It’s clear to me that Bibi cares more about the support of Christian fundamentalists than anything else. And he’s willing to lie about history to get that goal.
re: #177 Targetpractice
Yeah, that’s what’s interesting, this assumption that no new indictments = everybody in the clear. Particularly when to this day they insist that the fact that Hillary has never been indicted does not mean she was innocent of criminal acts.
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How they gonna handle this (yes I can guess)
Mueller could find that Trump engaged in unlawful activity ― whether conspiring with Russia or obstructing an investigation into the matter ― but decided not to indict him because of the Justice Department’s view that a sitting president cannot be indicted
They could just be waiting till he’s no longer president…
This is merely step one
Indictments aren’t the key
The narrative of what happened, explanations of proof and roadmap of where to go next are
I think that’s what upset people in Poland when the ambassador said that Poles were weaned on antisemitism by their mothers.milk. Poland had plenty of Gentiles that saved Jews. There were also plenty of Antisemitic Poles too. I’m not dismissing the latter but to do that and then to be okay with Hungary where mainstream political Antisemitism is still a thing and I mean actual political antisemitism, not what Representative Omar said but actual hatred of the Jewish people. I really hope the people of Israel do the world a favor and leave Bibi out on his ass to face the music with his criminal indictment.
re: #210 Man, DangerMan
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How they gonna handle this (yes I can guess)They could just be waiting till he’s no longer president…
This is merely step one
Indictments aren’t the key
The narrative of what happened, explanations of proof and roadmap of where to go next are
Which would basically be Mueller’s nice way of saying my hands are tied (but this man should not be President and you should do everything to defeat him) . TBH I think that is a likely conclusion. TBH I don’t like the idea you can’t prosecute a sitting President. I think DOJ set up a dangerous precedent there.
re: #208 HappyWarrior
Yeah by his American Christian Fundamentalist friends who seventy five years ago would have been calling him a Christ killer.
The people who do not care abour Jews or Judaism, just about restoring the Temple so that they can kick-start Armageddon and the Rapture…
re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The people who do not care abour Jews or Judaism, just about restoring the Temple so that they can kick-start Armageddon and the Rapture…
Yes, that’s exactly what I said. People who would never actually associate with American Jews because they’re “too liberal.”
re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The people who do not care abour Jews or Judaism, just about restoring the Temple so that they can kick-start Armageddon and the Rapture…
Assuming that they could orchestrate restoring the Temple, what would they do when JC fails to return?
re: #215 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Assuming that they could orchestrate restoring the Temple, what would they do when JC fails to return?
Blame it on someone else: Jews, liberals, socialists, Muslims, abortion, gays, etc…
re: #215 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Assuming that they could orchestrate restoring the Temple, what would they do when JC fails to return?
Claim he did
re: #212 HappyWarrior
Which would basically be Mueller’s nice way of saying my hands are tied (but this man should not be President and you should do everything to defeat him) . TBH I think that is a likely conclusion. TBH I don’t like the idea you can’t prosecute a sitting President. I think DOJ set up a dangerous precedent there.
A counter-intelligence investigation doesn’t often lead to indictments — someone gets turned, someone’s allowed to continue to operate, someone’s being watched really closely while their contacts are followed, someone who thinks they’re in the clear might be used as a conduit for misinformation…
Judges and juries aren’t the only way these things end.
re: #217 Man, DangerMan
Claim he did
Well, if the Rapture is meant to clear all but the damned off the Earth, they’re going to have a lot of ‘splaining to do if they are still around.
You know what though and this is probably why Dumbo Jr has expressed interest in running as early in 2024, the Trumps and their affiliate organizations are going to be in litigation hell for a looooooooong time so why not try to starve that off by occupying the Oval Office and poisoning public opinion against the litigation for as long as you can. I don’t think it’s going to work because I think people are fed up with the Trump’s bs but I think that’s the end game here.
re: #219 sagehen
A counter-intelligence investigation doesn’t often lead to indictments — someone gets turned, someone’s allowed to continue to operate, someone’s being watched really closely while their contacts are followed, someone who thinks they’re in the clear might be used as a conduit for misinformation…
Judges and juries aren’t the only way these things end.
As I said the other day, this might just be only the end of the beginning and honestly given what we have found about Trump’s to ties to Cindy Yang as POTUS, there’s probably a lot more stuff about Trump. I’m hoping that Trump and his family can eventually be charged under RICO if enough evidence is found.
re: #218 jeffreyw
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Looks like two grackles were told by a third grackle, “Hold my seeds and watch this!”
re: #220 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Well, if the Rapture is meant to clear all but the damned off the Earth, they’re going to have a lot of ‘splaining to do if they are still around.
Yup
They’ll come up with some explanation to endure the grift goes on
(Sonny and Cher the new apostles)
re: #220 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Well, if the Rapture is meant to clear all but the damned off the Earth, they’re going to have a lot of ‘splaining to do if they are still around.
One of my favorite ways to fuck with a fundies mind is to say that the rapture happened in 1033 and that we’re coming up on the end of the 1000 years of tribulation and that everyone on earth is already damned. I don’t believe a word of it but if they do, it’s a guaranteed mind fuck for them based on their end times heresies.
re: #215 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Assuming that they could orchestrate restoring the Temple, what would they do when JC fails to return?
Maybe JC will show up and chase them out with a whip. Hey, it’s happened before.
re: #223 Feline Fearless Leader
Looks like two grackles were told by a third grackle, “Hold my seeds and watch this!”
“Summon the meteors.”
re: #226 William Lewis
One of my favorite ways to fuck with a fundies mind is to say that the rapture happened in 1033 and that we’re coming up on the end of the 1000 years of tribulation and that everyone on earth is already damned. I don’t believe a word of it but if they do, it’s a guaranteed mind fuck for them based on their end times heresies.
Heh that just gets me to the Enders. People have been saying the world’s going to end for much of recorded history. Why is their “prophecy” more special than others who were just as faithful who came before them. They were saying that Obama’s election and presidency meant the end of the world and I guarantee they’ll have some bullshit about why Dem Nominee 2020 is doing Satan’s bidding to end the world through SOCIALISM or some crap like that.
re: #226 William Lewis
One of my favorite ways to fuck with a fundies mind is to say that the rapture happened in 1033 and that we’re coming up on the end of the 1000 years of tribulation and that everyone on earth is already damned. I don’t believe a word of it but if they do, it’s a guaranteed mind fuck for them based on their end times heresies.
Just ask them, “How do you know it hasn’t already happened, and we’re all that’s left?”
re: #231 I Would Prefer Not To
Speaking of trump kids.
Yeah I read about that. Jeezus. That’s our First Family. Man.
re: #230 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Just ask them, “How do you know it hasn’t already happened, and we’re all that’s left?”
Nothing would give me more pleasure than seeing Pulpit Pimp Preachers and Republican crooks Left Behind after the Rapture!
Off to be holy for the 3rd Sunday of Lent. Later folks.
re: #205 Teukka
Also, that Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews is also a narrative among the Holocaust denying contingent of the alt-right world-wide. Which is more than a little concerning as my view on Holocaust denial is that it is not not as much about the “researchers” and that conspiracy theory’s believers not wanting to face reality, but to sow doubt enough to be able to grab power again, at least for the upper echelons.
And we know fucking well what happened the last time.
#NeverAgain #NeverAgainIsNow
I see that Bibi decided to dress up as Haman for Purim.
And now that Purim is over IT’S SPRING CLEANING TIME!!!!
re: #237 Kilroy was here
That sounds good. Is the petition binding?
re: #238 PhillyPretzel
That sounds good. Is the petition binding?
As binding as the referendum..
So not at all.
re: #239 Kilroy was here
Okay. Five million signatures still sounds good.
CBS This Morning just did a thing on Brexit. And it occurs to me that is the exact same thing as conservatives who are willing to burn the US down because there’s one thing they cannot control: eventually, white people will have to compete with everyone else and will not be in charge just due to their skin color.
I woke up on the early side this morning to take my wife to the train station, so she can join some friends running around Brooklyn for the day. As we pulled out of the driveway, she said ‘Where is that water coming from?’ Upon closer inspection, it looks as though the water main is damaged, and water is bubbling up from the curb right at the end of our driveway.
Water Authority has been called, and I fully expect that they’re gonna roll a backhoe up and dig up my driveway either today or tomorrow. Lucky for me that I don’t have to go anywhere for the next couple of days, but I get the feeling they’re going to tell me to park the cars out in the street…
Infrastructure week starts early around here.
re: #237 Kilroy was here
Petition to Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU.
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Are the petitions geo-blocked? Can we be certain all 5 million signatures were from within the UK?
re: #244 sagehen
Are the petitions geo-blocked? Can we be certain all 5 million signatures were from within the UK?
They’re not. There has been some complaint about signers from other countries, but it’s also pointed out that British citizens live in other countries.
re: #238 PhillyPretzel
That sounds good. Is the petition binding?
No, but IIRC, this petition was placed on a official Parliament site, and by some by-law or other, petitions with more than a certain number of valid signatures (100K? 500K?) must be put up for consideration in the HoC.
But then, given the imbecilic shambles the Tory Government has made of the whole Brexit mess, it’s an open question if they will follow their own rules or not. However many millions of citizens demand it.
And via Daily Kos: a vast number of Britons turned out in London today to protest the Brexit shambles and call for a second (binding) referendum. Police there apparently don’t release crowd estimates, but “hundreds of thousands” is the reasonable guess (on the low end).
re: #245 mmmirele
They’re not. There has been some complaint about signers from other countries, but it’s also pointed out that British citizens live in other countries.
The Guardian is saying that 96% of the signatures are from the UK.
Sometimes I try to imagine a stance that would be too shameless and hypocritical for the Republican Party to take, and I never succeed. https://t.co/WM2tE3a67d
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) March 24, 2019
re: #248 jaunte
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But the DOJ should be investigating HRC so we know the whole truth?
And to follow up on # 246: the dKos comments contained this gem of a tweet from a Leaver (whose cute-cat avatar doesn’t make up for the idiocy), dismissing the anti-Brexit march in London.
There are no leavers there because they would be lynched. These people are so convinced of their righteousness they cannot see anyone who disagrees with them as anything other than a monster. The rhetoric against people who voted to Leave characterises them as sub-human.
— Sarah Vine (@WestminsterWAG) March 23, 2019
Probably all too typical…..
re: #241 wrenchwench
Grackle beaks.
Ever notice that when someone is looking up into the sky everyone who sees him looks up, too?
re: #220 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Well, if the Rapture is meant to clear all but the damned off the Earth, they’re going to have a lot of ‘splaining to do if they are still around.
Say he spoke to them, and “the cake isn’t done,” that the chosen have not done enough to clear the world of evil-doers, and he’ll check back in for a third coming to see if they’ve done better.
re: #251 jeffreyw
Ever notice that when someone is looking up into the sky everyone who sees him looks up, too?
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That’s an old standard to test human psychology — or a prank, depending on your motivation. Go outside in a busy pedestrian area, pick a spot in the sky and just stare at it for a bit, to see how many other people end up doing the same thing.
The birds though probably spotted a hawk circling about.
re: #233 Joe Bacon 🌹
Actually, I’m rooting for the Rapture to take them. Think about society once they’ve left: federally funded Reproductive Choice, gay people with rights and are being left alone, religious diversity no problem anymore. A lot of states would turn purple just because the remaining right would just not be enough to hold back progress. Even Christianity would be more moderate just because of no more pressures from the crazy faschist side of the religion. More ritual and better social policies for all, more community.
As for HItler not wanting to kill Jews: he had every opportunity to at least suspend the Holocaust during the war. Any excuse would have done and been believed: we need the extra materials for war, we’ll just work them to death (they tried that to some extent), there’s no rush-lets wait until we could do so at leisure once we win, bigger and better later. The fact that he didn’t even try for a fig leaf here shows his real intentions. Sure, he would have moved them away to somewhere else for a time, but his killing intentions would have just manifested later in some fashion.
I”ve never understood the logic behind Holocaust denial: if you are a Nazi, why not just acknowledge it happened, and somehow come up with some “reformed” version that says we learned our lesson and we won’t go that way again? I know it’s less plausible than BigFoot, but I fear that enough people would have/would buy into it enough to make these guys at least a minor factor.
re: #252 retired cynic
Say he spoke to them, and “the cake isn’t done,” that the chosen have not done enough to clear the world of evil-doers, and he’ll check back in for a third coming to see if they’ve done better.
They’d have to construe (or invent) some passage from Revelation to argue for a Third Coming. Jesus only had two appearances scheduled. He’s not going to do a Frank Sinatra and come back out of retirement a few times.
Is there something going on with Instagram? I’ve tried 4 times to post a comment linking to one and it simply times out as if I never pressed the post button in the first place.
re: #243 makeitstop
New driveway free-of-charge; or, they do a half-asses job and you’re stuck with an unexpected expense?
re: #250 Jay C
And to follow up on # 246: the dKos comments contained this gem of a tweet from a Leaver (whose cute-cat avatar doesn’t make up for the idiocy), dismissing the anti-Brexit march in London.
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Probably all too typical…..
Their brains are broken. “You’re killing humans through denying climate change”. “You’re destroying the common good with tax cuts for the rich”. “You are destroying the economy by accepting a bunch of obvious lies”.
Their response? “You’re intolerant of my malignant stupidity. So I’m doubling down on stupid”.
re: #251 jeffreyw
Ever notice that when someone is looking up into the sky everyone who sees him looks up, too?
For birds, it’s probably deeply coded in their lizard brain that one looking up can indicate a predator, so….
No, I can’t help myself responding geekily to a funny. That is also hard-coded.
re: #236 The Vicious Babushka
And now that Purim is over IT’S SPRING CLEANING TIME!!!!
* Hides until after Passover *
re: #255 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
They’d have to construe (or invent) some passage from Revelation to argue for a Third Coming. Jesus only had two appearances scheduled. He’s not going to do a Frank Sinatra and come back out of retirement a few times.
Yeah, but they have to say something, besides “oops.”
re: #257 Colère Tueur de Lapin
New driveway free-of-charge; or, they do a half-asses job and you’re stuck with an unexpected expense?
The guy from the water authority was just here, and he confirmed that the water main was cracked and leaking. He said the mains in our neighborhood run under the road, so they’d probably dig a 3’ x 3’ hole in order to get to it.
We do have Belgian block edging the end of our driveway, and I suspect that’ll take a hit. But the crews around here usually do pretty good work - one of the perks of paying high taxes. We’ll probably have to lay out to get the Belgian block put back in, though.
Walking home from the gym this morning and lines already forming outside of the gas station, 7-11, liquor stores and a couple bodegas all showing Powerball Jackpot hitting the 750 million mark…
re: #260 Archangelus
* Hides until after Passover *
Last year we went to my oldest daughter’s. This year my youngest daughter is coming to us.
My upstairs rooms are done, but only because I DON’T ALLOW FOOD IN THE BEDROOMS.
Zedushka brings snacks into his bedroom, that why if he doesn’t clean his room in time we will sell his room and lock him inside.
OH MY G-D NO
#BREAKING: Second Parkland shooting survivor commits suicide, police confirm https://t.co/kjLOKi37zT Via @MoniqueOMadan pic.twitter.com/M2am516uU0
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 24, 2019
re: #262 makeitstop
The guy from the water authority was just here, and he confirmed that the water main was cracked and leaking. He said the mains in our neighborhood run under the road, so they’d probably dig a 3’ x 3’ hole in order to get to it.
We do have Belgian block edging the end of our driveway, and I suspect that’ll take a hit. But the crews around here usually do pretty good work - one of the perks of paying high taxes. We’ll probably have to lay out to get the Belgian block put back in, though.
We had recurring water pressure problems here for months, until a couple of weeks ago, when the water pressure went to zero for anyone living higher than the third floor in the whole neighborhood. Finally, there were enough angry people to convince the city and the water company to work together (amazingly hard to make happen even in a nominally communist country) and fix the leaking water main creating the problem.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: Zooming in on Star Cluster Terzan 5
Explanation: Globular clusters once ruled the Milky Way. Back in the old days, back when our Galaxy first formed, perhaps thousands of globular clusters roamed our Galaxy. Today, there are less than 200 left. Over the eons, many globular clusters were destroyed by repeated fateful encounters with each other or the Galactic center. Surviving relics are older than any Earth fossil, older than any other structures in our Galaxy, and limit the universe itself in raw age. There are few, if any, young globular clusters in our Milky Way Galaxy because conditions are not ripe for more to form. The featured video shows what it might look like to go from the Earth to the globular cluster Terzan 5, ending with a picture of the cluster taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. This star cluster has been found to contain not only stars formed in the early days of our Milky Way Galaxy, but also, quite surprisingly, others that formed in a separate burst of star formation about 7 billion years later.
Lots of individual links in that paragraph: apod.nasa.gov
re: #254 CarolJ
I”ve never understood the logic behind Holocaust denial: if you are a Nazi, why not just acknowledge it happened, and somehow come up with some “reformed” version that says we learned our lesson and we won’t go that way again? I know it’s less plausible than BigFoot, but I fear that enough people would have/would buy into it enough to make these guys at least a minor factor.
That the Nazis murdered Jews (and all the “lesser breeds”) is part of the attraction to them. (What else is there? Spiffy uniforms?)
re: #269 retired cynic
The article said that after Columbine, as many students committed suicide as were killed by the shooters. I didn’t realize. They need to get help to these kids right away!
re: #268 A hollow voice says, Collusion!
That the Nazis murdered Jews (and all the “lesser breeds”) is part of the attraction to them. (What else is there? Spiffy uniforms?)
Well if you ask Candace Owens, the Nazis were just making Germany great again until they invaded Poland which ignores that there were camps before September 1939, the Night of Long Knives, Kristallnacht, & persecuting of political enemies.
re: #273 HappyWarrior
Well if you ask KKKandace Owens, the Nazis were just making Germany great again until they invaded Poland which ignores that there were camps before September 1939, the Night of Long Knives, Kristallnacht, & persecuting of political enemies.
More accurate when it comes to that fool.
re: #271 retired cynic
The article said that after Columbine, as many students committed suicide as were killed by the shooters. I didn’t realize. They need to get help to these kids right away!
I just can’t imagine. It’s been particularly awful after Parkland due to the idea that this was a false flag by the Alex Jones of the world.
Ah ain’t nothing like seeing people laugh at Alex Jones and see him lose his shit over it!
re: #277 Joe Bacon 🌹
Ah ain’t nothing like seeing people laugh at Alex Jones and see him lose his shit over it!
Again and they call us triggered….
In other, and happier news, the Viking Sky (which lost engine power off the Norway coast in high seas and nearly ran aground) has now made port in Molde. No deaths, about 450 people removed by helicopter before they stopped the emergency evacuations.
moron is awake and still insane
Good Morning, Have A Great Day!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 24, 2019
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 24, 2019
re: #280 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron is awake and still insane
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Mom, Grandpa’s tweeting at the world again.
.@SenTedCruz - this is an outright lie and you know it. https://t.co/RuTZlSWUNY
— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) March 24, 2019
So how much of the Mueller report has Barr shredded for you?
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) March 24, 2019
re: #277 Joe Bacon 🌹
Ah ain’t nothing like seeing people laugh at Alex Jones and see him lose his shit over it!
I think I would have beaten the dogsnot out of him, real good. Kudos to the restraint showed by those poor people.
re: #253 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
That’s an old standard to test human psychology — or a prank, depending on your motivation. Go outside in a busy pedestrian area, pick a spot in the sky and just stare at it for a bit, to see how many other people end up doing the same thing.
The birds though probably spotted a hawk circling about.
We all still have survival instincts built in. If something has someone’s attention, it’s probably for a reason.
If they’re claiming it was too partisan. Maybe I’m reading too much but there’s gotta be some serious criticism of Trump’s conduct there.
Wealthy German family that owns a controlling stake in Krispy Kreme Doughnuts plans to donate millions after learning of their ancestors were Nazi supporters. https://t.co/4E9ysU2wTC
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 24, 2019
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
Go back to Canada and fuck yourself, Rafael.
Martin Longman had a good bunch of columns lately.
Now, I know that sometimes things slip through the cracks or a busy person forgets something important while distracted by their preparations for a weekend golf outing in Florida. It can happen to the best of us, really, if you think about it. … Probably best not to just countermand your own order in a tweet without consulting anyone first.
Just a thought. I know I think too much, but someone has to do the thinking around here. And Trump certainly isn’t doing any thinking because the sanctions were apparently aimed at two Chinese shipping companies and not specifically at North Korea at all.
Ooo, and Rude Pundit is tapping the keys, tool
The Amount of Time Trump Spends Tweeting Should Be a Scandal
We never see Trump read, we never see him enjoy time with his family, we never see him doing any work other than sitting at his empty desk, we never see him do any exercise besides lumbering from a golf cart up to a ball, taking a swing, and wheezing back to the cart, his man tits resting on his stomach as he rolls, ape-like, to the next hole. He is disengaged with the world beyond his appetites. How he himself is being treated is everything.
The White House has not received or been briefed on the Mueller report as of Sunday morning.
President Trump and the aides who traveled with him to Palm Beach are still in wait-and-see mode. @kaitlancollins— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) March 24, 2019
This could be a day with developments. AG Bill Barr trying to keep within his commitment in letter to Congress about releasing principal conclusions this weekend. Updates to follow.
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) March 24, 2019
AG Bill Barr is at the Department of Justice.
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) March 24, 2019
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein just arrived at the Department of Justice.
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) March 24, 2019
re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth
Christ, it’s like reading entrails right now on Political Twitter.
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. https://t.co/g4lxHNuM03
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 24, 2019
re: #271 retired cynic
The article said that after Columbine, as many students committed suicide as were killed by the shooters. I didn’t realize. They need to get help to these kids right away!
Yes, but primarily we need to get assault weapons away from the shooters right away.
re: #271 retired cynic
The article said that after Columbine, as many students committed suicide as were killed by the shooters. I didn’t realize. They need to get help to these kids right away!
What sickens me is seeing members of the Tiny Penis Club cheering this news.
re: #298 Joe Bacon 🌹
Upding for Tiny Penis Club.
I also note that everyone in this club I know thinks New Zealand did the Stupidest Thing Ever (tm) by banning assault weapons because now how will the good, law abiding people be able to defend themselves?
re: #296 Backwoods_Sleuth
They are using the diversionary tactic of pointing somewhere else so no one will notice what is going on in front of them. It is the “nothing new here keep moving” line.
Trump will probably make some huge announcement this week to try and divert attention from the Mueller report.
Relatives posting the latest Qwazy Q shit that Trump will have Mueller arrest Obama and Hillary for Pizzagate…
re: #280 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nah, nearly certain someone else tweeted that.
Box office: ‘Us’ shatters records on way to $70.2-million weekend https://t.co/iEOwW8rVkw
— LA Times Movie News (@latimesmovies) March 24, 2019
Shot and chaser. (via @edbott) pic.twitter.com/E1nimcfn4d
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 23, 2019
From the Xtians are really, really stupid file…
I don’t quite know how to tell you this, but a group of anti-abortion lunatics are currently urging people to stop immunizing their children on account of the fact that they believe that because some vaccines were made using cell lines from two aborted fetuses back in the 1960s, said vaccines are not only immunizing the world against disease, but against their prayers as well. They claim that were it not for these vaccines unfairly intervening with their plans, they would have overturned Roe v. Wade by now.
On this day in 1944, 76 Allied prisoners tunnel out of the Stalag Luft III POW camp in Sagan, Germany. All but three are recaptured; 50 will be executed by the Nazis. The story is later immortalized in the film ‘The Great Escape.’ pic.twitter.com/9YFSzVOL9q
— Military History Now (@MilHistNow) March 24, 2019
re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth
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One of my favorite movies. Those guys were such bad asses. I want to visit Sagan eventually.
people.com
Dr. Dre Praises Daughter for Getting ‘Into USC All on Her Own’ 6 Years After Making $70M Donation
Yeah. “All on her own”. Sure, Jan.
re: #251 jeffreyw
Ever notice that when someone is looking up into the sky everyone who sees him looks up, too?
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My best friend in Jr. High and I used to do that regularly. Without the beaks, but we always got more than one to look up.
jeebus
Trump to sign Golan sovereignty decree on Monday as Netanyahu visits US https://t.co/rr2ahoyG5j pic.twitter.com/GI9lm6evPW
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) March 24, 2019
This is how an autocracy works. The leader commits crimes and the mandarins and jesters don’t care. https://t.co/8as5BJQrwy
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 24, 2019
re: #312 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So what has he done that has actually made the country better? I’ll waiy.
We kinda knew this but it’s a relief to get confirmation. https://t.co/oPGDcwbtFz
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 24, 2019
re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yeah he’s not cleared at all despite what his propaganda machine wants to say.
These kids went through unimaginable trauma. Those that are trying to do something good out of this spotlight are REGULARLY mocked by the media, labeled con artists, actors, & told they’re undeserving of their college opportunities while ALL of them are still dealing with this.
— Ben Philippe (@gohomeben) March 24, 2019
re: #312 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The Sunday Gasbag Shows are just more cogs in the Republican Bullshit Machine.
re: #316 DodgerFan1988
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Yep. Belittled by the right wing machine because they dared to say no more shootings.
Palate cleanser…
This parrot won’t leave her favorite boy’s side 💚 pic.twitter.com/j2pNYx6txo
— The Dodo (@dodo) March 24, 2019
Devin Nunes has always been a sycophantic jackass, but now he’s come out as a full-on crackpot too. https://t.co/XMTP8MtA64
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 24, 2019
re: #312 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The fact that Jim Jordan remains a Congressman in good standing is such a damning thing.
re: #322 Charles Johnson
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Hey, Genius, YOU control the filter settings on your account. But, then again you’re the guy suing a fake cow on Twitter.
But, you’re an expert on science and technology right? https://t.co/fr8oHYigyE— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 24, 2019
I’ve never once heard any Republican explain how someone too immature to make a responsible decision about her own pregnancy *is* mature enough to be a mother and raise a family by herself. https://t.co/7H7skYHwcJ
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) March 24, 2019
Republicans say Trump “has had an amazing two years.”
People who don’t belong to this gang of corrupt toadies call it “a total fucking far right nightmare.”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 24, 2019
Avocado company recalling California-grown fruit sold in six states over listeria concerns https://t.co/uXL9DRoQlD pic.twitter.com/khXOJE2VtA
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) March 24, 2019
When Republicans praise something as “amazing,” it means people are getting hurt.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 24, 2019
re: #326 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Republicans believe in individual rights. Imagine the reaction if someone proposed using a judge to determine whether someone should own guns.
re: #296 Backwoods_Sleuth
If we’re allowed to have another Special Counsel investigating Trump, with even broader authority and reporting directly to Congress.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) March 24, 2019
Why would Gym Jordan worry about Trump’s payoffs for affairs before he became president?
Gymmy has time limits. Like when he decided what he may have known about abuses when he was on the Ohio State University wrestling team was too long ago to care about now.
And if you wonder why Gym Jordan can be how he is and keep his seat, the answer is he is just like a lot of the people in his district. Haters of anything of color and considered new. It all scares them, yet none of them are touched by any of it.
Wait a second, isn’t that exactly what Nunes forced the DoJ to…oh, never mind. https://t.co/llwvGwH9tF
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) March 24, 2019
Nephew IMs me with his Trump is God’s man shit. So I counter with a “Q” and “A” of my own!
My reply
Q: “Why does Melania always have to be on top?”
A: “Because Trump can only fuck up…for 15 seconds…”
re: #309 sagehen
people.com
Dr. Dre Praises Daughter for Getting ‘Into USC All on Her Own’ 6 Years After Making $70M DonationYeah. “All on her own”. Sure, Jan.
Was there anything in the article that mentioned her grades or accomplishments? The article steered pretty quickly towards the scandal, even though it doesn’t look like Dre was doing that. And six years ago is not “getting Jared into Harvard” time frame.
At a distance of 56 million light-years & measuring 157,000 light-years across, this fuzzy orb of light is a giant elliptical galaxy filled with an incredible 200 billion stars. Discover more about this massive galaxy from our @NASAHubble Space Telescope: https://t.co/FskPfUiy1B pic.twitter.com/8aa2OiPaZr
— NASA (@NASA) March 24, 2019
re: #330 HappyWarrior
Republicans believe in individual rights. Imagine the reaction if someone proposed using a judge to determine whether someone should own guns.
We have. That’s what the ban for the mentally unstable was.
re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth
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One of my favorite movies. Those guys were such bad asses. I want to visit Sagan eventually.
There is also the story of Charles Coward, later made into a movie, “The Password is Courage”.
re: #267 retired cynic
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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: Zooming in on Star Cluster Terzan 5
Lots of individual links in that paragraph: apod.nasa.gov
If you have a 8 inch or so telescope, look in Sagittarius. There are a couple of globular clusters that you can see.
re: #335 Belafon
Was there anything in the article that mentioned her grades or accomplishments? The article steered pretty quickly towards the scandal, even though it doesn’t look like Dre was doing that. And six years ago is not “getting Jared into Harvard” time frame.
But seventy million dollars is seventy million dollars.
And no, the article says nothing about her that would enable anybody to have an opinion about her own actual qualifications.
re: #334 Joe Bacon 🌹
That can be answered in many ways: She’s only human, ever tried using a microscope without the base upside-down, it might be seen as planking (exercise) and he’s not into that.
re: #337 Belafon
We have. That’s what the ban for the mentally unstable was.
Yeah but I mean anyone regardless of mental state.
re: #335 Belafon
Was there anything in the article that mentioned her grades or accomplishments? The article steered pretty quickly towards the scandal, even though it doesn’t look like Dre was doing that. And six years ago is not “getting Jared into Harvard” time frame.
Dre pretty clearly referenced the scandal when he said:
“My daughter got accepted into USC all on her own. No jail time!!!”
And $70 million goes a long way. Jared’s dad only donated $2.5 million if I recall correctly. His daughter may well have deserved to get in, if he had just congratulated her without taking the dig at others I doubt it would have been a story.
re: #340 sagehen
But seventy million dollars is seventy million dollars.
And no, the article says nothing about her that would enable anybody to have an opinion about her own actual qualifications.
I went to go look her up, and it looks like he pulled his Instagram post.
Makes me miss the 70s as an undergrad at Pitt when State Senators could grant full scholarships to connected families…
re: #335 Belafon
Was there anything in the article that mentioned her grades or accomplishments? The article steered pretty quickly towards the scandal, even though it doesn’t look like Dre was doing that. And six years ago is not “getting Jared into Harvard” time frame.
The fact remains that you don’t have to make a significant contribution the year that your offspring applies to the university — a 70 million dollar contribution in the past 20 years would probably be sufficient. The daughter may have been qualified — a good portion of the applicants who are rejected are also highly qualified — the 70 million may just guarantee entrance for someone who meets their standards but would have been declined because there were others who were superior in some way
uh oh…
Two Russian air force planes landed in Venezuela’s main airport on Saturday carrying a Russian defense official and nearly 100 troops, according to a local journalist, amid strengthening ties between Caracas and Moscow.
A flight-tracking website showed that two planes left from a Russian military airport bound for Caracas on Friday, and another flight-tracking site showed that one plane left Caracas on Sunday.
re: #343 danarchy
Dre pretty clearly referenced the scandal when he said:
And $70 million goes a long way. Jared’s dad only donated $2.5 million if I recall correctly. His daughter may well have deserved to get in, if he had just congratulated her without taking the dig at others I doubt it would have been a story.
Naaah. This close, the People article would have been exactly the same had he just said “My daughter got into USC.”
I don’t disagree that a $70M to start a school can have some influence.
I see Charlie Kirk is reviving the already-debunked uranium one lie. Here’s a link for anyone who thinks he’s serious. https://t.co/e2hLUc5lQJ
— Karoli (@Karoli) March 24, 2019
Mr. Barr:
President Trump, his lawyers, & his staff must not be allowed any ‘sneak peek’ of Special Counsel Mueller’s findings or evidence.
The White House must not be allowed to interfere in deciding what parts of those findings or evidence are made public.#ReleaseTheReport— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) March 24, 2019
re: #350 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump doesn’t need a sneak peak. He can identify to Barr issues that must not be discussed and order Barr to refuse to release any portions of the document that relate to these issues. It’s remotely possible that Barr will prove to be a disappointment to Trump, just like the racist Sessions, but I wouldn’t bet on that.
re: #350 Backwoods_Sleuth
Senator Schumer is absolutely correct. DT will try as he usually does but I do not believe he will be successful.
re: #351 Hecuba’s daughter
Trump doesn’t need a sneak peak. He can identify to Barr issues that must not be discussed and order Barr to refuse to release any portions of the document that relate to these issues. It’s remotely possible that Barr will prove to be a disappointment to Trump, just like the racist Sessions, but I wouldn’t bet on that.
re: #352 PhillyPretzel
Senator Schumer is absolutely correct. DT will try as he usually does but I do not believe he will be successful.
Two of the faces of LGF.
re: #353 Belafon
May I ask what you are trying to say?
re: #354 PhillyPretzel
May I ask what you are trying to say?
One right after the other about the same topic. One pessimistic, one more hopeful. On the same site.
re: #355 Belafon
I see. Just a comment. Okay.
I’d offer the optimistic comment, but I have a reputation as a cynical bastard to uphold.
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I’m up early for work tomorrow, so I’mma have to call it a day, but before I go, I saw this story floating around:
Two Russian air force planes landed in Venezuela’s main airport on Saturday carrying a Russian defense official and nearly 100 troops, according to a local journalist, amid strengthening ties between Caracas and Moscow.
A flight-tracking website showed that two planes left from a Russian military airport bound for Caracas on Friday, and another flight-tracking site showed that one plane left Caracas on Sunday.
The report comes three months after the two nations held military exercises on Venezuelan soil that President Nicolas Maduro called a sign of strengthening relations, but which Washington criticized as Russian encroachment in the region.
Reporter Javier Mayorca wrote on Twitter on Saturday that the first plane carried Vasily Tonkoshkurov, chief of staff of the ground forces, adding that the second was a cargo plane carrying 35 tonnes of material.
An Ilyushin IL-62 passenger jet and an Antonov AN-124 military cargo plane left for Caracas on Friday from Russian military airport Chkalovsky, stopping along the way in Syria, according to flight-tracking website Flightradar24.
Curious. Perhaps Putin is taking some measures, albeit small-scale, to shore up Maduro.
re: #357 Targetpractice
In this “Trump” era it is hard to be optimistic but I try to do so. :)
re: #359 PhillyPretzel
In this “Trump” era it is hard to be optimistic but I try to do so. :)
I think about the closest I can manage is “realist.” Every time I try to be optimistic, Fate kicks me in the balls.
Here’s an interesting chart of what Germany requires for vaccinations:
Here’s the US Schedule:
Without staring at every single line, these schedules look really similar.
re: #356 PhillyPretzel
I see. Just a comment. Okay.
Yeah. I’m more the optimist, but I just thought it was worth pointing out the juxtaposition of the comments you two made.
Good source: pic.twitter.com/RvpUL6gE2N
— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) March 24, 2019
I really wish someone would corner Louis CK right now and ask him if his “jokes” about the Parkland survivors are still as funny as he originally thought they were.
re: #363 Charles Johnson
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I notice that the GOP’s initial spike of optimism is beginning to downtrend, as they’re now trying to hedge their bets on just how bad the report is. Some are still trying to argue that no new indictments means total “victory,” but I notice others are beginning to try to attack the integrity of the report and others are suggesting that no matter what it says the DNC have “lost.”
— Josefina (@pinalatana) March 24, 2019
Congress has been alerted it should expect to receive a letter from Attorney General Barr in the next 30 to 45 minutes, a Justice Department official tells @johnson_carrie.https://t.co/FeEbHvSWkr
— NPR (@NPR) March 24, 2019
re: #369 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So we’re all going to sit here now for 30-45 minutes refreshing, right? https://t.co/czuyXdQzMY
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 24, 2019
re: #364 Mattand
I really wish someone would corner Louis CK right now and ask him if his “jokes” about the Parkland survivors are still as funny as he originally thought they were.
Unless he’s being charged with a crime for it, he won’t give a fuck. He’s as big a scumbag as any of them.
[sees byline]😂😂😂
[reads a little] WTF 😳
[🤦🏻♀️] no, really WTF?! #Starr #Mueller #WishTheydSwitcherooedhttps://t.co/nppQ6A4cnt— Monica Lewinsky (@MonicaLewinsky) March 24, 2019
we went to a new park today. and right at the entrance. was a big bucket of tennis balls with a little sign. that the human said was there in memory of a very good dog. who really liked tennis balls. and that i could play with one. to help that very good dog be remembered
— Thoughts of Dog (@dog_feelings) March 22, 2019
re: #363 Charles Johnson
I refuse to hope based on rumors and anonymous leaks. In any case, unless both Trump and Pence are taken out, we are likely no better off, at least for the next 20 months. Certainly I could see Trump resigning if the deal was he would keep all his misbegotten gains — but until the entire report is officially released (with the few redactions necessary for intelligence purposes), it’s idle to speculate on what it contains — although it’s fun and does provide news channels something to occupy their time
There really have been few things funnier than all the stars of “The Great Penis Hunt” arguing that Mueller and the DOJ somehow owe it to Donny to avoid embarrassing him by keeping the investigation and its report confidential, sticking to a very narrow avenue of investigation, and not straying into his personal life/business.
re: #361 Belafon
Here’s an interesting chart of what Germany requires for vaccinations:
Without staring at every single line, these schedules look really similar.
They also have mandatory regular checkups for children up to the age of six, without which they are not eligible for school.
Socialist hellhole.
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re: #375 Hecuba’s daughter
I refuse to hope based on rumors and anonymous leaks.
I expect a lot of leakage, but it will be highly selective and tactically geared to influence opinion to support a particular narrative.
I can’t stand it. I’m going outside to plant some plants….
re: #369 Backwoods_Sleuth
Congress has been alerted it should expect to receive a letter from Attorney General Barr in the next 30 to 45 minutes, a Justice Department official tells @johnson_carrie.npr.org
— NPR (@NPR) March 24, 2019
Considering the lack of further indictments, I rather think the best we might hope for at this point is the Mueller report to say that there’s enough to sustain a criminal indictment, but existing DOJ policy prevents that from happening. Next down the list would be “unindicted co-conspirator,” i.e. Donny wasn’t directly involved but he knows so much that he might as well have been the mastermind. Beyond those two conclusion, everything else is just “It looks bad, but it’s not criminal.”
So a very brief report — so probably of practically no use.
here’s the 4-page letter DoJ sent to the Judiciary Committee leaders with topline findings from the #mueller report pic.twitter.com/ki0lP4sy4j
— Katie Benner (@ktbenner) March 24, 2019
re: #350 Backwoods_Sleuth
Too late Chuck. Lindsey gave it to him on Friday.
It took almost two days for this?!?
DOJ has just sent us a very brief letter about the Mueller report, which we will share shortly.
— (((Rep. Nadler))) (@RepJerryNadler) March 24, 2019
“Trump is not criminally guilty, but he is the most useful and the most idiotic of all useful idiots in all of history.”
A conclusion exonerating Cheetolini of any criminal culpability could still implicate countless others in offenses that fall outside the Special Prosecutor’s mandate and would have to prosecuted by others. It could unravel the Russian influence machine and ultimately destroy the right wing media/ lobby complex.
re: #386 Sionainn, Warrior Mother
It took almost two days for this?!?
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Does appear to be a whitewash and looks like much will not be released.
So yeah, summarizing the letter at face value, it’s of the “It looks bad, but it’s not criminal” variety.
re: #376 Targetpractice
There really have been few things funnier than all the stars of “The Great Penis Hunt” arguing that Mueller and the DOJ somehow owe it to Donny to avoid embarrassing him by keeping the investigation and its report confidential, sticking to a very narrow avenue of investigation, and not straying into his personal life/business.
Not relevant to your point, but just got depressed remembering that one of the biggest “penis hunters” was Brett Kavanaugh.
Seems to me that the summary is adamant in what Trump has denied that there was a concerted effort by Russia to interfere.
Breaking: Barr’s summary says the Mueller investigation “did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 US election.” pic.twitter.com/AFTcHZIOEu
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 24, 2019
Gotta observe, however, this is Barr’s interpretation.
It is not necessarily an accurate summary.
re: #392 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It is not necessarily an accurate summary.
Correct.
Gotta remember Mueller’s investigation was to find whether Russia interfered. They did and Trump has never acknowledged that.
Barr did exactly what he did with iran-Contra.
The Barr Letter says Mueller did not make a determination of whether Trump obstructed justice. It sets out both sides. But Barr concludes— on his determination — that there was no obstruction. How did he do that without trying to interview Trump? Full report now needs to come out
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) March 24, 2019
Full report will probably be much more damning. However, Barr will have done his job of making “no crimes here” the first word out the door, and thus will be the first impression and the constant talking point as the GOP plays defense during everything else that follows. Barr has given Trump and the GOP the necessary fig-leaf to keep going.
I think the biggest sticking point going forward is that Mueller did not make a conclusion on obstruction, but also did not exonerate Donny. That the decision on that was Barr’s and Rosenstein’s and they decided that because Mueller concluded there was no clear evidence of conspiracy, there could be no “corrupt intent” on Donny’s part to sustain an obstruction charge.
re: #402 Targetpractice
I think the biggest sticking point going forward is that Mueller did not make a conclusion on obstruction, but also did not exonerate Donny. That the decision on that was Barr’s and Rosenstein’s and they decided that because Mueller concluded there was no clear evidence of conspiracy, there could be no “corrupt intent” on Donny’s part to sustain an obstruction charge.
Which is in my opinion anyhow why this requires further investigation without Barr or DOJ looking over the investigators’ necks.
Trump isn’t in the clear by any means imo. It didn’t conclude NO COLLUSION. It concluded not enough evidence. Well let’s investigate more.
re: #403 HappyWarrior
Which is in my opinion anyhow why this requires further investigation without Barr or DOJ looking over the investigators’ necks.
Well that’s never going to happen.
I find it odd that Barr and Rosenstein decided to come to a conclusion on obstruction after Mueller and the prosecutorial team declined to. If it is a decision left to Congress, and Mueller wasn’t weighing in, why did they?
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) March 24, 2019
Sung to the tune of Billy Idol: “It’s a great day, for a white wash”
This country is now officially fucked. Put a fork in us, we are done as a nation to look up to. We are done as a nation that cares about rule of law. We are done as a nation that cares about anything except the rich and powerful never being held accountable for crimes they commit.
Where are the goddamn flipping tables and setting the place on fire images when I need them?!
And right on cue the Republican Bullshit Machine is cranked up to 12 with the no collusion shit and the Presstitutes are reciting their talking points…
re: #411 Joe Bacon 🌹
And right on cue the Republican Bullshit Machine is cranked up to 12 with the no collusion shit and the Presstitutes are reciting their talking points…
Fucking Barr.
re: #406 HappyWarrior
The House can further investigate right?
“Benghazi!”
If there are any left, the Russo-publicans will still be investigating Hillary in the 22nd century so, yes, ethical members can still pursue real traitors.
re: #406 HappyWarrior
The House can further investigate right?
To what end? Trump, the media, everybody is going to be screaming TRUMP INNOCENT!!! The Dems going after him now means we’ll lose the House, the Senate and the presidency in 2020. It’s all over man. Yeah, maybe New York will come up with something in a couple of years, or maybe not. Meanwhile is a VICTIM OF THE BIGGEST WITCH HUNT IN HISTORY, and you can be we’ll be hearing that for, like, ever.
re: #413 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
“Benghazi!”
If there are any left, the Russo-publicans will still be investigating Hillary in the 22nd century so, yes, ethical members can still pursue real traitors.
Which is what they should do especially since they declared they want to investigate HRC and the Obama admin.
re: #406 HappyWarrior
The House can further investigate right?
But they will fight any subpoenas to the Supreme Court which will rule 5-4 in the GOP favor. Our only hope is 2020 — and who knows what games the Russians and the GOP voter suppressors will be playing?
re: #413 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
“Benghazi!”
If there are any left, the Russo-publicans will still be investigating Hillary in the 22nd century so, yes, ethical members can still pursue real traitors.
Hillary. They’re going to go back after Hillary. Just watch.
Barr let everyone in Iran Contra off the hook and that partisan whore has done it again.
Coming up next—Miss Lindsay goes after Hillary again…
I think the EU, Canada, Japan and other allies can, and should, step up and sanction Russia for getting Trump elected. This obviously affects their interests, and Trump’s own AG just conceded that such interference happened.
I’d focus primarily on defeating him electorally and his agenda in Congress.
I need an image that combines pitchforks, flipping tables, and setting the place on fire.
Look away for two seconds, look back and people are jumping out of windows. Holy fuck, calm the fuck down and breath, my fellow scaly ones.
re: #412 HappyWarrior
taint over, while the media is going to report this the way that we expected to report this, this full report will be going to Congress where Dems have the power of subpoena and this will continue…
tbh, I expected this, and while I had hopes that the findings would be so conclusive that Mueller would have no choice but to indict every fucking body, he doesn’t have any drawings of Trump and Putin passing intel via a note that he has somehow obtained by legal methods that show what took place conclusively.
This will continue to be a case of making connections and showing likely events based on the already observable outcomes. These guys may feel safe for the moment, but the gears are turning in other jurisdictions and namely my own feeling is that these fuckers are not smart enough to have tied up every loose thread that exists because imho Putin, DJT is most likely a burnable asset as far as Putin is concerned and the same is true of Senator McConnell. He’ll gladly use them as far as he can ride them but when the final worm turns, he’ll burn them to create even more outrage and discord.
Context as you read: am told Special Counsel Robert Mueller was not consulted on this letter. This was the product of the Attorney General Bill Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, per DOJ official.
— Laura Jarrett (@LauraAJarrett) March 24, 2019
A reminder to all: Rod Rosenstein prepared the letter that Trump used as a justification for firing Comey. He will cooperate with whatever the Republicans want.
re: #426 Targetpractice
Look away for two seconds, look back and people are jumping out of windows. Holy fuck, calm the fuck down and breath, my fellow scaly ones.
Sometimes the fucking building IS on fire.
re: #429 Hecuba’s daughter
A reminder to all: Rod Rosenstein prepared the letter that Trump used as a justification for firing Comey. He will cooperate with whatever the Republicans want.
And even with all that, Trump still thinks he wasn’t loyal enough.
As the entire Republican Party begins chanting in unison: “TIME TO MOVE ON IT IS OVER TIME TO MOVE ON”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 24, 2019
re: #433 Charles Johnson
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re: #432 Sionainn, Warrior Mother
All around fuckery.
we did not expect anything less and I, for one, am not clutching my pearls and looking for the fainting couch.
Right now it’s just cheap smoke and mirrors and we can see what’s really going on.
re: #433 Charles Johnson
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Ayep, “It’s time to move on”…to investigating the Clintons for the umpteenth time.
The full report will see the light of day. Mueller will testify before the House under oath. Indictments will be filed in New York State. It is bullshit that Barr wrote this but it won’t be the last word. My opinion.
Because of course you were going to say this in any case. https://t.co/NKMXd14rv1
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 24, 2019
I knew the whole idea of a summary from a Trump appointee was going to get him exactly what he wanted. Nov. 6 2020 can’t come soon enough.
re: #435 Backwoods_Sleuth
we did not expect anything less and I, for one, am not clutching my pearls and looking for the fainting couch.
Right now it’s just cheap smoke and mirrors and we can see what’s really going on.
I’m not, either. It was just the final straw on top of a lot of fuckery that is going on in my personal life. I’m trying not to snap.
re: #363 Charles Johnson
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Goes to what has been said by some other, like I mentioned the one that said the report was horrendous on Lawrence O’Donnell’s show months back.
Watching CBS basketball, and they just did a report basically saying no collusion, but obstruction is murky. Where do they get off making that report.
Hmmm, I’m behind, has anything actually been released…better read on up???
re: #433 Charles Johnson
They’ve been saying “time to move on” for two years and it hasn’t happened yet. Won’t this time either.
FFS, there were editorials days ago saying that Donny would declare anything short of his indictment as a total vindication. Why the fuck would we help him by screaming “IT’S OVER! WE LOST!!!!”?
re: #418 Hecuba’s daughter
But they will fight any subpoenas to the Supreme Court which will rule 5-4 in the GOP favor. Our only hope is 2020 — and who knows what games the Russians and the GOP voter suppressors will be playing?
All of them, Katie.
I think my sole disappointment is that this is not going to knock any sense into the GOP as a whole to consider cutting their losses and attempting to tack back into becoming a party that attempts to represent the entire country. So, if anything, this cements my intention to never vote for a Republican for any elected office ever again since they appear to have collectively decided to go down together in the pit of corruption.
re: #420 Joe Bacon 🌹
Barr let everyone in Iran Contra off the hook and that partisan whore has done it again.
Yep.
Except whores make an honest living.
re: #433 Charles Johnson
Just like they moved on from Benghazi?
The spin masters are doing their job trying to divert the American public. And to a certain extent they will succeed. But where there is smoke there is fire. And while I do not want anything to happen I think someone may try to get at Mueller or someone who was under him. Also keep in mind that the Southern District of NY has some work to do too.
re: #409 rhuarc
Not quite. The House can still investigate, several states are now involved. In addition, other entities will be digging who aren’t American investigators.
Also, the arc of justice is long, but it requires getting up every day and fighting for it.
In light of the very concerning discrepancies and final decision making at the Justice Department following the Special Counsel report, where Mueller did not exonerate the President, we will be calling Attorney General Barr in to testify before @HouseJudiciary in the near future.
— (((Rep. Nadler))) (@RepJerryNadler) March 24, 2019
Is Mueller allowed to comment publicly at this point?
re: #451 Eclectic Cyborg
And Barr will refuse.
And SCOTUS will bail him out of a subpoena.
Can we get to that bridge before we firebomb it?
Context as you read: am told Special Counsel Robert Mueller was not consulted on this letter. This was the product of the Attorney General Bill Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, per DOJ official.
— Laura Jarrett (@LauraAJarrett) March 24, 2019
re: #452 Eclectic Cyborg
I think so. Pelosi could ask him to appear in front of Congress and give his report.
re: #449 CarolJ
Not quite. The House can still investigate, several states are now involved. In addition, other entities will be digging who aren’t American investigators.
Also, the arc of justice is long, but it requires getting up every day and fighting for it.
our media are leak- and sensation-crazed, mueller has taken his time and I suspect he is playing a long game, he just had to make completely sure that this first move was airtight and irreproachable, and too big to be ignored.
This is WaPo’s front page:
washingtonpost.com
re: #440 Sionainn, Warrior Mother
I’m not, either. It was just the final straw on top of a lot of fuckery that is going on in my personal life. I’m trying not to snap.
I’m still crying over my dog and trying to be a grownup in not wishing that demise on certain people.
Honestly, this is what I was afraid of happening, that people would get so invested in the idea that Mueller’s report would be the thing that brought down Trump that anything less would be viewed as a total defeat.
The media is repeating that the full report found no evidence of conspiracy, but without seeing the full report how do we know that is true? They can cover up whatever they want.
re: #460 Targetpractice
Honestly, this is what I was afraid of happening, that people would get so invested in the idea that Mueller’s report would be the thing that brought down Trump that anything less would be viewed as a total defeat.
The problem is Trump and his cronies are out first with the messaging. Regardless of what the report actually says, they are screaming “No Collusion!” from the rooftops right now.
The average American now believes Trump has been completely exonerated and that’s exactly what Republicans want.
They had an advantage (Barr), they used it and now they may have fucked us all.
re: #462 Eclectic Cyborg
The problem is Trump and his cronies are out first with the messaging. Regardless of what the report actually says, they are screaming “No Collusion!” from the rooftops right now.
The average American now believes Trump has been completely exonerated and that’s exactly what Republicans want.
They had an advantage (Barr), they used it and now they may have fucked us all.
OFFS, can we at least wait a day before concluding that all of America now thinks Donny is in the clear? Do I really need to pull out the Germans and Pearl Harbor speech, because I will if I have to.
re: #459 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m still crying over my dog and trying to be a grownup in not wishing that demise on certain people.
I hear you. :-(
re: #412 HappyWarrior
Fucking Barr.
As soon as he was named (and really, no matter who he named), it was clear…
re: #465 retired cynic
Looks to me like Rosenstein was in on it too.
I’m supposed to be the cynical bastard and yet I’m the one going “Calm the fuck down!”
re: #467 Targetpractice
Yes. I am not angry. And this story is not over. Far from being over.
re: #467 Targetpractice
I’m supposed to be the cynical bastard and yet I’m the one going “Calm the fuck down!”
You can be/do both. Like everything, gets better with practice.
re: #467 Targetpractice
I’m supposed to be the cynical bastard and yet I’m the one going “Calm the fuck down!”
Thank you.
I no longer try.
re: #463 Targetpractice
Narratives run fast in the age of Twitter.
However, I suspect that NCAA basketball news will trump (pun intended) interest in anything Barr has to say.
re: #467 Targetpractice
Fundamental to the problem is again, in this day if one can’t hit the ground running and finish the race in 144 characters or less, then you lose. Or at least you don’t “win”.
All told, Trump is bad by any metric that a serious student of history may want to use.
But a very large fraction of the American electorate are full on into atavism these days (see the Handmaids version of bills and new laws in various states.)
So, the guy who was picked to replace the guy who was fired for not being loyal enough to Trump as Attorney General got to write a summary of a report about his boss. That letter amounts to nothing. Either we see the full report or I keep concluding that all of the indictments of Cohen, Manafort and others means Trump was working with Russia to influence the election.
Here’s one way to look at things: It has not even been a full hour since the letter was made public. The press has not even begun to have time to parse it, to look into it, and to start questioning people beyond the initial responses. There is so much that can be done with just this letter alone that to conclude that comments made on a Sunday afternoon in the midst of March Madness will be what carries the day all the way to next November.
So let’s keep things in context, PLEASE!
Allied intelligence agencies should have received ALL of Mueller’s material by now.
We rescued them 75 years ago. Time for them to return the favor.
re: #461 Hecuba’s daughter
The media is repeating that the full report found no evidence of conspiracy, but without seeing the full report how do we know that is true? They can cover up whatever they want.
We know what’s not true, and that is the bullshit that Barr and Rosenstein wrote.
And Trump has to explain all of the active indictments and convictions and why they don’t tarnish him.
re: #467 Targetpractice
I’m supposed to be the cynical bastard and yet I’m the one going “Calm the fuck down!”
Allow me.
It’s over, folks.
re: #476 Belafon
And Trump has to explain all of the active indictments and convictions and why they don’t tarnish him.
No, he doesn’t.
As Trump noticed very early on in his campaign, he could shoot someone on 5th Ave. and his supporters would not wane.
Think about the things that House Dems can do just based upon the events of the past 48 hours.
They can now call Mueller to testify in an open session about his report because he is no longer bound to secrecy about an ongoing investigation.
Barr and Rosenstein can be drug before the House to explain how they came to their conclusions about the report and why they are stalling the full release.
And the biggest thing is the push to make the full report public, something that the GOP is going to have a hard time pressing against now that they’re running around screaming “WE WON! HE’S TOTALLY IN THE CLEAR! MUELLER SAID SO!”
re: #478 freetoken
No, he doesn’t.
As Trump noticed very early on in his campaign, he could shoot someone on 5th Ave. and his supporters would not wane.
His supporters are not enough to carry the election alone.
re: #476 Belafon
And Trump has to explain all of the active indictments and convictions and why they don’t tarnish him.
In a logical world, yes. And over the term of history, yes. But in Trump World over the next two years I am pretty sure he intends to explain absolutely nothing other than claiming “witch hunt”.
Here is a link to the letter we received from Attorney General Barr. Seems like the Department of Justice is putting matters squarely in Congress’ court. https://t.co/etLyqkoOwm https://t.co/jjZ1OLmz8D
— (((Rep. Nadler))) (@RepJerryNadler) March 24, 2019
re: #482 Feline Fearless Leader
In a logical world, yes. And over the term of history, yes. But in Trump World over the next two years I am pretty sure he intends to explain absolutely nothing other than claiming “witch hunt”.
That’s all he’s done the last two years. Well, that and act is such an obviously guilty fashion that the impression he’s a lying fuck has only grown.
re: #481 Targetpractice
His supporters are not enough to carry the election alone.
But Trump is already President.
By Jan 2021 Trump and his Republican allies in the Senate will have transformed the US courts into right wing courts.
By Jan 2021 Trump and his Republican allies in Congress will have ballooned the total debt so much that the only way out is significantly cheapening the dollar.
By Jan 2021 Trump and his Republican allies everywhere will have significantly outlawed abortion.
You get the picture.
re: #482 Feline Fearless Leader
In a logical world, yes. And over the term of history, yes. But in Trump World over the next two years I am pretty sure he intends to explain absolutely nothing other than claiming “witch hunt”.
I know he won’t, but add that second statement to my first one at #472. This summary hasn’t done anything to change my mind because it hasn’t addressed anything we know.
re: #485 freetoken
But Trump is already President.
By Jan 2021 Trump and his Republican allies in the Senate will have transformed the US courts into right wing courts.
By Jan 2021 Trump and his Republican allies in Congress will have ballooned the total debt so much that the only way out is significantly cheapening the dollar.
By Jan 2021 Trump and his Republican allies everywhere will have significantly outlawed abortion.
You get the picture.
You’re just a ray of fucking sunshine today, you are.
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just finished a 26.2 mile training run. thats marathon distance. not even a race.
in the heat of the Florida daytime.
prepping for the 50k Keys run in may.
there is something seriously wrong with me.
re: #485 freetoken
But Trump is already President.
By Jan 2021 Trump and his Republican allies in the Senate will have transformed the US courts into right wing courts.
By Jan 2021 Trump and his Republican allies in Congress will have ballooned the total debt so much that the only way out is significantly cheapening the dollar.
By Jan 2021 Trump and his Republican allies everywhere will have significantly outlawed abortion.
You get the picture.
You may have discounted demographics.
Regardless of what is stated in the report, the right was going to scream something, something, innocent. The barrier to entry for a conclusion of obstruction is high; courts look at facts histoplasmosis laughing) and there is probably mor3 than enough plausible deniability that the orange shit-goblin wasn’t going to be criminally anything.
More important is that the Overton window on acceptable president behavior has shifted, yet again, towards the dichotomy of our political system being the driving factor in what is correct behaviour.
There is more happening out there in the legal realm; cheetohlini will continue for the next two years, other people may get in trouble he may have some state level shit hit him. Depending on what happens in the next election, societal norms will start to have a chance to resume, or we’re fucked as a country, re: standing and social progress. My thoughts, not as profound as thoughts of dog and tennis balls.
re: #488 Man, DangerMan
just finished a 26.2 mile training run. thats marathon distance. not even a race.
in the heat of the Florida daytime.prepping for the 50k Keys run in may.
there is something seriously wrong with me.
Sometimes I wonder why you ‘complain’ (almost) about the heat. Then I remember you have humidity there.
re: #462 Eclectic Cyborg
The problem is Trump and his cronies are out first with the messaging. Regardless of what the report actually says, they are screaming “No Collusion!” from the rooftops right now.
The average American now believes Trump has been completely exonerated and that’s exactly what Republicans want.
They had an advantage (Barr), they used it and now they may have fucked us all.
they have been screaming NO COLLUSION!!! for months now.
The phrase has lost all meaning except to the rapidly dwindling economically anxious base.
re: #489 wrenchwench
You may have discounted demographics.
All the topics I raised are well underway.
The point is, the problem is now, not in the future.
I’m not so much doom and gloom over the Mueller thing - it was never going to be what some in the alt-left wanted it to be.
But I am very certain by looking at how US media are handling today’s letter that our for-profit media really do like Trump for what he does to their bottom line.
“The Special Counsel states that ‘while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.’”
— (((Rep. Nadler))) (@RepJerryNadler) March 24, 2019
re: #443 Targetpractice
FFS, there were editorials days ago saying that Donny would declare anything short of his indictment as a total vindication. Why the fuck would we help him by screaming “IT’S OVER! WE LOST!!!!”?
Because the almighty narrative is already dead and set before we could do anything, and that’s going to be the fully goddamn specter over anything the Dems do onto 2020.
re: #495 Belafon
Too late. The headlines have already let Trump off the hook and that’s all we will hear.
re: #488 Man, DangerMan
Why, yes you, yes there is, but it’s ok. You may be insane, but you’re our insane dangerman.
re: #485 freetoken
But Trump is already President.
By Jan 2021 Trump and his Republican allies in the Senate will have transformed the US courts into right wing courts.
By Jan 2021 Trump and his Republican allies in Congress will have ballooned the total debt so much that the only way out is significantly cheapening the dollar.
By Jan 2021 Trump and his Republican allies everywhere will have significantly outlawed abortion.
You get the picture.
I will tell you we have no mechanism in place for undoing what Trump did other than winning in 2020 and writing new laws.
re: #487 Targetpractice
You’re just a ray of fucking sunshine today, you are.
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Things are what they are
yes, I miss it and, no, I won’t forget
the human is fast asleep. but i jumped on their bed. and cuddled close. to remind them that i love them. because the nighttime is long. and i’m worried they might forget
— Thoughts of Dog (@dog_feelings) March 20, 2019
So, basically what I’m hearing is 2020 is a formality, Trump is president until 2024, and we should get ready for whoever he chooses to replace him. And so we just throw in the towel now and make peace with how fucked we are.
Is that what I’m hearing? That a 4 page letter was enough to knock the fight out of everyone?
re: #488 Man, DangerMan
just finished a 26.2 mile training run. thats marathon distance. not even a race.
in the heat of the Florida daytime.prepping for the 50k Keys run in may.
there is something seriously wrong with me.
yes… yes, there is…
re: #489 wrenchwench
You may have discounted demographics.
Demographics will not save us. THey were supposed to save us 2016 before the ratfuckery and Russofuckery got involved. And both of those will only be even more blown up by 2020, especially with this result basically validating both. We have laws across the entire goddamn country doing their damnedest to narrow the electorate down so only ‘Real America’ gets to vote.
Demographics will not save us, because the GOP is pushing against the wind and winning.
re: #492 wrenchwench
Sometimes I wonder why you ‘complain’ (almost) about the heat. Then I remember you have humidity there.
until this race I almost always ran very early in the am. 5 or 6. done by 8 or so. racing merely running 5+ hours in heat is all new to me
and I like to moan whine and groan
re: #490 Colère Tueur de Lapin
You’re most likely aware that if Barr’s summary was “Donny is going to the farm and you can’t see them again,” Tumpers would be saying Fake/ made up evidence was used.
re: #494 freetoken
All the topics I raised are well underway.
The point is, the problem is now, not in the future.
I’m not so much doom and gloom over the Mueller thing - it was never going to be what some in the alt-left wanted it to be.
But I am very certain by looking at how US media are handling today’s letter that our for-profit media really do like Trump for what he does to their bottom line.
Very much agree there. Since late 2016. Saw it coming, did not see the damage it could and would continue to do.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 24, 2019
re: #504 Targetpractice
So, basically what I’m hearing is 2020 is a formality, Trump is president until 2024, and we should get ready for whoever he chooses to replace him. And so we just throw in the towel now and make peace with how fucked we are.
Is that what I’m hearing? That a 4 page letter was enough to knock the fight out of everyone?
Nah, we kick his ass in 2020.
re: #485 freetoken
But Trump is already President.
By Jan 2021 Trump and his Republican allies in the Senate will have transformed the US courts into right wing courts.
By Jan 2021 Trump and his Republican allies in Congress will have ballooned the total debt so much that the only way out is significantly cheapening the dollar.
By Jan 2021 Trump and his Republican allies everywhere will have significantly outlawed abortion.
You get the picture.
so we should just give up now.
ok
re: #504 Targetpractice
So, basically what I’m hearing is 2020 is a formality, Trump is president until 2024, and we should get ready for whoever he chooses to replace him. And so we just throw in the towel now and make peace with how fucked we are.
Is that what I’m hearing? That a 4 page letter was enough to knock the fight out of everyone?
We’re going to fight, but it’s pretty much a given that the media has all but decided to crown Trump God-King of Beyond 2020 and beyond because of this, and they still basically control the entire discourse and playing field. It’s how we fucking got “Hillary is the source of all goddamned evil” and how it fucking sunk us in 2016, and they’ve full amped it into overdrive now for this election cycle.
re: #504 Targetpractice
So, basically what I’m hearing is 2020 is a formality, Trump is president until 2024, and we should get ready for whoever he chooses to replace him. And so we just throw in the towel now and make peace with how fucked we are.
Is that what I’m hearing? That a 4 page letter was enough to knock the fight out of everyone?
No. We largely suspected this was going happen when Barr was announced.
The fight is for the full report and Mueller under oath at congress.
re: #473 Targetpractice
Here’s one way to look at things: It has not even been a full hour since the letter was made public. The press has not even begun to have time to parse it, to look into it, and to start questioning people beyond the initial responses. There is so much that can be done with just this letter alone that to conclude that comments made on a Sunday afternoon in the midst of March Madness will be what carries the day all the way to next November.
So let’s keep things in context, PLEASE!
Context used to mean the state of the actual facts of a situation.
Context now means the state of mind and the impression of the facts of a situation.
As far as facts, I have one question right off.
Barr says Trump and his campaign did not conspire with the Russian government.
Okay, just for giggles, what if it was other Russians not associated with the government directly. Say all those oligarch (Russian mob) types and ex-friends of one Paul Manafort?
Barr did not say Mueller made other connections not directly Russian government but beneficial to Trump because of those ‘disconnected’ connections were middle men.
What if all of the stuff in that report is a stack of bad that Trump and gang dealt with all kinds of shady characters but it was too hard to make the ties for regular crime charges to them?
What if no collusion with the Russian government is simply that. The Russian Government. Think how easy that is to say, and write.
At that point would the Mueller report say that directly or is that to be determined from the facts and evidence collected that we don’t see? And Barr made that distinction.
Barr could easily pounce on the no collusion with the Russians (Government) yet be hiding the fact it was The Russians (Mob) all along. Or, who knows the actual connections, Mueller may not have found them.
Or how about Ukrainians? They aren’t Russians are they.
I’mma wait for more to come out. I want second critical opinions of the summation of the report, not just Bill Barr’s. Or let’s see the whole thing and go from there.
Of course in the meantime there will be tons of smoke and mirrors. And bitching.
And Bill Barr standing in the way looking like he is doing his job, which is protecting Trump at all costs.
re: #504 Targetpractice
So, basically what I’m hearing is 2020 is a formality, Trump is president until 2024, and we should get ready for whoever he chooses to replace him. And so we just throw in the towel now and make peace with how fucked we are.
Is that what I’m hearing? That a 4 page letter was enough to knock the fight out of everyone?
If Mueller’s report is released, and comes out and says that, no matter how many people around him are corrupt, Trump managed to stay above board, his opponent will get my support for ending his corrupt regime, for ending his willingness to upend presidential norms and violate US laws because Republicans won’t hold him accountable.
Which is exactly my position now.
re: #506 Citizen K
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Demographics will not save us, because the GOP is pushing against the wind and winning.
That only works for a while against demographics.
You know what? I know we were all hoping on Robert Mueller to save us from Trump, but that isn’t why we fight. I’m not going to be a fair-weather patriot. Yeah, it sucks, but guess what? The Trump DOJ was never going to pursue an indictment before Congress, no matter WHAT the Mueller Report had in it. The 2020 election is not a foregone conclusion. It’s not the end, it’s another lost battle, and yes, I know that losing too many battles is called “losing the war”. But that doesn’t mean we stop fighting. If we lose the war, so what? We went down swinging, and history will acquit us well for it. I know that means little to the here and now, and seems like an insignificant reward for a bitterly disappointing fight, but it’s worth it to me.
re: #518 wrenchwench
That only works for a while against demographics.
Assuming free and fair elections. Which we will not be getting if the GOP gets their way 2020 and beyond.
re: #514 Citizen K
We’re going to fight, but it’s pretty much a given that the media has all but decided to crown Trump God-King of Beyond 2020 and beyond because of this, and they still basically control the entire discourse and playing field. It’s how we fucking got “Hillary is the source of all goddamned evil” and how it fucking sunk us in 2016, and they’ve full amped it into overdrive now for this election cycle.
Everyone on the right seemed to be surprised at how badly Republicans did in the 2018 elections, too.
re: #514 Citizen K
We’re going to fight, but it’s pretty much a given that the media has all but decided to crown Trump God-King of Beyond 2020 and beyond because of this, and they still basically control the entire discourse and playing field. It’s how we fucking got “Hillary is the source of all goddamned evil” and how it fucking sunk us in 2016, and they’ve full amped it into overdrive now for this election cycle.
They were that way last year and we ran the board. They started 2018 convinced that the Tax Cuts were “THE BEST THING EVAH!” and the GOP would win big last November because of it. And yet, we saw more people vote than showed up for 2016 and vote for Dems in greater numbers than Donny lost the popular vote by.
But why pay attention to that when we can just conclude that 2020 will be a rerun of 2016 and thus we’re fucked no matter what we do?
re: #520 Citizen K
Assuming free and fair elections. Which we will not be getting if the GOP gets their way 2020 and beyond.
They couldn’t get their way in 2018.
re: #518 wrenchwench
That only works for a while against demographics.
That is why they keep trying to exclude black ppl from the polls.
Now that Mueller says there was no collusion, it is time to scrutinize the Obama Administration. They spied on a US campaign, wiretapped Americans, bit on the dossier and unmasked Flynn. What did Barack Obama know and what and when did he authorize it?
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) March 24, 2019
I remind everyone, yet again, that we have reached this level of despondency several times. The Trump Presidency has been disastrous on our mental health. But every time, we have found inspiration, and hope, and small victories to keep us going while we seek the big win. We don’t have that big win yet, but if we roll over and die, we have a 0% chance of getting it.
re: #523 Belafon
They couldn’t get their way in 2018.
Except in the Senate, of course, where all the judges are appointed.
You know what would be a simple piece of information leaked: the size of the report. Imagine a four page summary of a 500 page report.
Nancy LeTourneau (5 days ago):
To the extent that Trumpism is the extension of where the Republican Party was heading before he came along, the GOP doesn’t have an agenda, they have enemies.
re: #427 piratedan
And roast marshmallows over the fires.
re: #530 retired cynic
Lots of good things in that column: Abraham Lincoln’s Warning: We Must Not Be Enemies
re: #506 Citizen K
Demographics will not save us. THey were supposed to save us 2016 before the ratfuckery and Russofuckery got involved. And both of those will only be even more blown up by 2020, especially with this result basically validating both. We have laws across the entire goddamn country doing their damnedest to narrow the electorate down so only ‘Real America’ gets to vote.
Demographics will not save us, because the GOP is pushing against the wind and winning.
Did we all hallucinate the 2018 midterms?
And @JoeNBC just compared trump to Mr Magoo.
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 24, 2019
So, the report said that it was up to Barr to prosecute. Raise your hand if you thought Barr would. Now, even according to Barr’s summary, the report doesn’t exonerate him. So, in the hands of someone who gave a shit about the rule of law, they would be warning Trump right now to start packing things up. That’s where we start from. No, not the media, us.
Stanley Sea is busy handing out updings! Hi Stanley!
re: #459 Backwoods_Sleuth
Take time off and heal. We have a big movement, and a long battle. Justice doesn’t come in movie-sized bites. We will be around when you are ready to engage again.
And even if Mueller recommended indictment, it would have been at least two years as lawyers did everything they could do to delay until after the 2020 election in the hopes that the string would somehow run out.
And for those who worry about the Democrats, its abundantly clear the only one they care about is Lord God Trump. Nobody is going to bail out Cohen, Manafort and Butina. Even his kids aren’t going to be bailed out-he doesn’t love them or Melania either. And there’s no political price to be paid for investigations. It’s clear the only people who are going to be offended will be people who would never vote for any Democrats regardless.
Hi Stanley. Long time no see. It is good you are back.
re: #543 PhillyPretzel
Thanks all responders!
I’ll wait until Pelosi weighs in. It’s safe to assume she was expecting this.
I’m curious about this:
Breaking: Barr’s summary says the Mueller investigation “did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 US election.” pic.twitter.com/AFTcHZIOEu
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 24, 2019
What’s that guys name who got the ball rolling because he bragged in Australia? Wasn’t he part of the campaign?
re: #546 makeitstop
I’ll wait until Pelosi weighs in. It’s safe to assume she was expecting this.
She’s been around. Anyhow we’re just going to have to beat him at the polls and in Congress. This was always a long shot.
What we have to do, with the left hand, while we pursue the bastards with the right, is protect the right to vote. I just saw this. Nancy LeTourneau again, on the Right to Vote, quoting:
In a recent paper, Schraufnagel and two colleagues ranked the 50 states based on ease of voting: Of the 20 states they identified as making it most difficult to vote, Trump carried 17. Hillary Clinton carried 12 of the 20 states where it is easiest to vote.
That’s where we have to put our shoulder to the wheel.
re: #549 Belafon
I’m curious about this:
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What’s that guys name who got the ball rolling because he bragged in Australia? Wasn’t he part of the campaign?
Yeah, Don Jr. Manafort and the Russians were playing this.
I’m thinking about taking a brief sabbatical myself though. If you want my contact email, just pm me. Just need and want a break from politics to focus on my personal well being.
re: #556 HappyWarrior
Take care. All of us need a recharge.
The Emperor’s New Report
Made of the finest paper and wordsmithing and spun by The Trump Justice Department.
Isn’t it fine?
Y’all are so sweet. Warming to know I was missed. Lots lots lots of stuff has been happening on the home front. I’ll update later. I’ve talked to BeachDem who thank dog is close. All will work out. Going back to rewatch queer eye.
re: #549 Belafon
I’m curious about this:
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What’s that guys name who got the ball rolling because he bragged in Australia? Wasn’t he part of the campaign?
Yeah, Papadopolous. What to look out for is how Barr and Rosenstein say the report didn’t “find” collusion or conspiracy, whereas the quote directly following says “did not establish”; to me that indicates that they couldn’t meet the extremely high bar necessary for criminality. I’m have a feeling this first take in the letter will not go unchallenged by the House Dems.
Key to the coming days is Barr made a point in his letter of saying that the decision not to prosecute for obstruction was his and not Mueller’s, based upon his reading of the evidence collected. That’s all the more reason to demand the release of the full report, to judge the evidence and his decision-making process.
re: #557 Joe Bacon 🌹
Take care. All of us need a recharge.
Thanks man. I just yeah need one. This is all an emotional roller coaster. Sometimes you just need to get off and get on land again.
re: #561 Targetpractice
Key to the coming days is Barr made a point in his letter of saying that the decision not to prosecute for obstruction was his and not Mueller’s, based upon his reading of the evidence collected. That’s all the more reason to demand the release of the full report, to judge the evidence and his decision-making process.
Absolutely. And if Trump is as innocent as he thinks he is, he should have no problem with that.
re: #558 ObserverArt
The Emperor’s New Report
Made of the finest paper and wordsmithing and spun by The Trump Justice Department.
Isn’t it fine?
The point Barr may be discounting is that the full report will be made public sooner or later. Probably sooner. The greater the discrepancy between what it says and what they just said, the worse it looks….
re: #554 Joe Bacon 🌹
Yeah, Don Jr. Manafort and the Russians were playing this.
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I loved that game in college.
re: #560 Barefoot Grin
Yeah, Papadopolous. What to look out for is how Barr and Rosenstein say the report didn’t “find” collusion or conspiracy, whereas the quote directly following says “did not establish”; to me that indicates that they couldn’t meet the extremely high bar necessary for criminality. I’m have a feeling this first take in the letter will not go unchallenged by the House Dems.
Trump and his allies know that the majority of the public doesn’t get that. I think there’s ample circumstantial evidence. Just not enough for a conviction.
re: #439 GlutenFreeJesus
I knew the whole idea of a summary from a Trump appointee was going to get him exactly what he wanted. Nov. 6 2020 can’t come soon enough.
And the media long knives are out:
It’s fair to assume there is a significant degree on panic setting in this afternoon at the DNC, Democratic primary campaigns across the country
— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) March 24, 2019
another senior Dem looking to discredit Bill Barr https://t.co/VOI4kA78uU
— Sarah Ferris (@sarahnferris) March 24, 2019
Meanwhile, in Palm Beach: “He is in a phenomenal mood. It was just like when he won the election.” https://t.co/95BXCS2mov via @NYTimes
— Katie Rogers (@katierogers) March 24, 2019
Ugh—I feel like crying; instead am going to have a cocktail and watch a movie.
This is false FYI.
The thing Democrats most feared was info that would induce their base to push for impeachment (a little light collusion, say) but not actually move public opinion. https://t.co/4rgDEBTa81— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 24, 2019
re: #566 HappyWarrior
Trump and his allies know that the majority of the public doesn’t get that. I think there’s ample circumstantial evidence. Just not enough for a conviction.
There’s enough for this to continue to play in political court, which we call elections.
re: #567 BeachDem
And the media long knives are out:
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Ugh—I feel like crying; instead am going to have a cocktail and watch a movie.
Frankly why shouldn’t Barr be discredited based off his past work? Pallone is absolutely right to state this. Barr only got this job because he said that Trump was in the right in firing Comey and Barr’s own history of clearing the Iran Contra folks definitely played a role in him getting this post.
The dreadful takeaways:
1. A hostile foreign power can hack our election and barely get reprimanded.
2. A POTUS can obstruct justice in plain sight, and it will be hard to prosecute.
3. A POTUS can surround himself with criminals and liars and expect us to believe he’s not.— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) March 24, 2019
BTW, for more than a year people close to Trumpworld have been saying that Cohen/SDNY is FAR more dangerous to Trump than Mueller.
re: #569 Belafon
There’s enough for this to continue to play in political court, which we call elections.
Which is why we need to thwart him when he tries to engage in international policy that benefits Russia.
re: #556 HappyWarrior
I’m thinking about taking a brief sabbatical myself though. If you want my contact email, just pm me. Just need and want a break from politics to focus on my personal well being.
We will greatly miss you! But it’s important to spend time to take care of yourself in this dystopian world we live in.
America is Dead.
The Muller report will Never be fully released.
Trump & his ilk won’t go to jail like they deserve.
The best we can do is be ready to fight off/kill as many Alt-Right Neo-Nazi Nutjobs as possible when they inevitably come for us!— Peyton [ Now With 20% More Spring!] (@ASliceofComics) March 24, 2019
You know what, let them gloat. The full report will eventually come out and it won’t look good for Trump or Barr or Rosenstein.
re: #575 DodgerFan1988
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I can’t go for that. I’m sorry. We’re going to overcome this asshole. You know why? We have no other choice.
re: #570 HappyWarrior
Frankly why shouldn’t Barr be discredited based off his past work? Pallone is absolutely right to state this. Barr only got this job because he said that Trump was in the right in firing Comey and Barr’s own history of clearing the Iran Contra folks definitely played a role in him getting this post.
Because nothing can ever discredit a Republican in this country. And the things that should discredit them only make them even more powerful and beloved. Because GOP bad faith is as infinite as the country’s acceptance of it.
This 14th Benghazi Report should totally end congressional investigations into Hillary Clinton.
— Alternate Universe Jim Jordan. https://t.co/DlEVr0TlmC— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 24, 2019
re: #579 Citizen K
Because nothing can ever discredit a Republican in this country. And the things that should discredit them only make them even more powerful and beloved. Because GOP bad faith is as infinite as the country’s acceptance of it.
I just think we give the GOP way too much credit for getting away with it. Did they not lose the House? Is Trump’s approval not in the toilet? Don’t get me wrong. That Trump won or even got close to winning to me is forever gonna be a stain on the nation but I think 2020 is going to be a rude awakening for him and the Republicans.
re: #580 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
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re: #578 HappyWarrior
I can’t go for that. I’m sorry. We’re going to overcome this asshole. You know why? We have no other choice.
Yep… I personally am fine with the finding and trust Mueller. I don’t however, trust Barr.
This party is just getting started. So “Chin TFU People”! Time to enjoy the day and get back to it tomorrow.
This detours nothing.
re: #565 Belafon
I loved that game in college.
Played it so many times in college. Oh and I DID lose several friends playing it!
re: #583 Dave In Austin
Yep… I personally am fine with the finding and trust Mueller. I don’t however, trust Barr.
This party is just getting started. So “Chin TFU People”! Time to enjoy the day and get back to it tomorrow.
This detours nothing.
I think we’re going to defeat him at the polls and when that happens, he won’t have the protection of the Oval Office over him and he won’t be able to pardon. I really don’t think leadership was expecting this to be the nail in Trump’s coffin and you’re right. He hasn’t been cleared by any means. Let him talk shit. He’s going to continue to show why he’s Putin’s stooge.
re: #575 DodgerFan1988
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So, no different than the last 150 years of US history. And we started with our leaders owning slaves.
I’m sorry. I never hung my hat on this report, especially since the guy it targets is in charge of the people who get to control it. It has landed a number of convictions, there are still more ongoing, and the best Trump’s handler can do is say it doesn’t exonerate Trump. If you did, well, I’m not sure what to say.
The country is exactly the same one it was two hours ago. One where I have three children, two of them gay. One where a whole lot of minorities live in who still deserve to be treated fairly. One where women still deserve to be treated as equal, autonomous individuals. And they will need me and others to continue doing what we have been doing, though not always in a straight line, and that is making this place better.
This country didn’t just suddenly disappear. And I know it’s tiring, but you have to be Bruce Banner in this, always angry, but definitely in control of your rage.
Well, protecting Mueller was the right thing to do.
re: #588 Ace Rothstein
No can do.
This country is just as much mine and yours as the Red Hatted fascists, remember that.
re: #589 HappyWarrior
“I can’t go for that, no, noooo. No can do.” (I was alluding to the old H&O song)
re: #590 Ace Rothstein
“I can’t go for that, no, noooo. No can do.” (I was alluding to the old H&O song)
Ah sorry buddy. We yeah can’t give up. We’ve fought too hard for this. I find my resolve is more determined at this point.
re: #590 Ace Rothstein
“I can’t go for that, no, noooo. No can do.” (I was alluding to the old H&O song)
Looks like a flag lying in the dirt over there.
Is someone going to pick that up?
Maybe stand up and take on the next battle…
The battle that is in Congress, and for public opinion.
Election will be war.
re: #590 Ace Rothstein
“I can’t go for that, no, noooo. No can do.” (I was alluding to the old H&O song)
I heard it. Happy’s just a kid. AM radio means something different to some people.
One of my favorite movie lines just now: The Mummy on AMC:
“Stand aside Alex, I’m professional.”
“Wow, what a hoax,” Trump’s campaign chairman muttered from his prison cell
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) March 24, 2019
Guys. Remember this. The Republicans actually impeached Clinton and then lost seats. Trump has a small victory at the moment based off the conclusions of his own AG. Don’t let this despair us.
re: #594 wrenchwench
I heard it. Happy’s just a kid. AM radio means something different to some people.
Heh I actually know my classic radio rock pretty good but I didn’t grow up on H&0.
He’s going to do something stupid. Just watch. Don’t underestimate Trump’s ability to fuck up at the worst possible moments.
re: #595 Backwoods_Sleuth
One of my favorite movie lines just now: The Mummy on AMC:
“Stand aside Alex, I’m professional.”
“Please don’t try this at home.”
“We’re what you call ‘experts’.”
There’s no hero coming to save America from itself. There never was. That is, and always has been, a burden Americans need to bear themselves.
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) March 24, 2019
re: #549 Belafon
I’m curious about this:
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Is it possible that by some technically-parsed definition Wikileaks and that British professor and various “unofficial” oligarchs and mobsters who aren’t officially part of the Russian govt is what they meant by “did not conspire with Russia”?
re: #561 Targetpractice
Key to the coming days is Barr made a point in his letter of saying that the decision not to prosecute for obstruction was his and not Mueller’s, based upon his reading of the evidence collected. That’s all the more reason to demand the release of the full report, to judge the evidence and his decision-making process.
Barr also made a point of saying specifically this did not exonerate Trump; which is definitely not what Trump is saying in his public remarks.
re: #598 HappyWarrior
Heh I actually know my classic radio rock pretty good but I didn’t grow up on H&0.
I grew up on not only MTV (back when they pretty much just played music videos), but also on Disney’s version, DTV, which were these filler segments between “real” shows on the early Disney Channel where they’d play some of the top-40 hits as the soundtrack for classic Disney cartoons.
re: #605 sagehen
Barr also made a point of saying specifically this did not exonerate Trump; which is definitely not what Trump is saying in his public remarks.
Which all the more reason to ask for the full report and if Trump is innocent as he claims, he should have no problem, right? //
re: #606 TedStriker
I grew up on not only MTV (back when they pretty much just played music videos), but Disney’s version, DTV, which were these filler segments between “real” shows on the early Disney Channel where they’d play some of the top-40 hits as the soundtrack for classic Disney cartoons.
Had a boomer father who loved music. That helped.
re: #604 Backwoods_Sleuth
I cannot find anything on PBS so I will watch a good part of Pride and Prejudice the 1995 version.
I want one reporter to ask Donny if he got that call from Mueller to inform him that he was totally exonerated.
re: #606 TedStriker
I grew up on not only MTV (back when they pretty much just played music videos), but Disney’s version, DTV, which were these filler segments between “real” shows on the early Disney Channel where they’d play some of the top-40 hits as the soundtrack for classic Disney cartoons.
Moana was on the Disney channel last night, and now the channel show videos from some of their show stars. I told my kid that I’m hoping Disney is requiring the actors to pay the network.
re: #473 Targetpractice
Here’s one way to look at things: It has not even been a full hour since the letter was made public. The press has not even begun to have time to parse it, to look into it, and to start questioning people beyond the initial responses. There is so much that can be done with just this letter alone that to conclude that comments made on a Sunday afternoon in the midst of March Madness will be what carries the day all the way to next November.
So let’s keep things in context, PLEASE!
LGF is great. I learn a lot. But the world isn’t hanging on our opinions. The country hardly knows this group exists. Whether we freak out drop out or hide out Nadler Pelosi and Schiff will do what they got to do. React however you need.
re: #608 HappyWarrior
Had a boomer father who loved music. That helped.
I get my love of Jim Croce and John Denver from my father, and Helen Reddy from my mom.
re: #553 retired cynic
What we have to do, with the left hand, while we pursue the bastards with the right, is protect the right to vote. I just saw this. Nancy LeTourneau again, on the Right to Vote, quoting:
That’s where we have to put our shoulder to the wheel.
There are some non-diverse states (i.e. very few minorities) that make it easy to vote. So it may be interesting to compare results also for diverse states.
re: #612 Old Liberal
LGF is great. I learn a lot. But the world isn’t hanging on our opinions. The country hardly knows this group exists. Whether we freak out drop out or hide out Nadler Pelosi and Schiff will do what they got to do. React however you need.
I choose to react in my time-honored fashion:
Schumer and Pelosi just issued a joint statement slamming Barr’s letter on the Mueller report: “Given Mr. Barr’s public record of bias against the Special Counsel’s inquiry, he is not a neutral observer and is not in a position to make objective determinations about the report.”
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) March 24, 2019
re: #567 BeachDem
And the media long knives are out:
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Ugh—I feel like crying; instead am going to have a cocktail and watch a movie.
Meanwhile, in Palm Beach: “He is in a phenomenal mood. It was just like when he won the election.” nytimes.com … via @NYTimes
He jumps in and believes whatever the nearest person tells him.
Everyone around him is lying to him.
Welp, when you want a nuanced, deep look at anything, Hannity’s definitely your go to guy
MSNBC CONSPIRACY NETWORK LIARS FAKE NEWS CNN LIARS NY TIMES WAPO LIARS
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) March 24, 2019
And now I really am going to go have a drink and watch a movie.
re: #616 Scottish Dragon
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That’s something that needs to be hammered again and again: We’re not hearing Mueller, we’re hearing Barr telling us what Mueller said in his opinion.
re: #616 Scottish Dragon
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Well I think we know the Dems narrative and you know what, it’s a good one IMO. And it will also expose more lies about drain the swamp because more about Barr’s history in the IRan Contra clean up will be brought up showing Barr and Trump to be certified swamp monsters.
re: #616 Scottish Dragon
There is a spark. Pelosi and Schumer are going to do something. Let’s wait and see what it is.
re: #618 BeachDem
Welp, when you want a nuanced, deep look at anything, Hannity’s definitely your go to guy
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And now I really am going to go have a drink and watch a movie.
Uh no Sean, even Barr’s summary didn’t totally clear your fuehrer but nice try.
re: #609 PhillyPretzel
I cannot find anything on PBS so I will watch a good part of Pride and Prejudice the 1995 version.
Although I love the Keira Knightley version, the 1995 version was wonderful — the only one which captured the whole story since it was a mini-series rather than a 2 hour film
re: #619 Targetpractice
That’s something that needs to be hammered again and again: We’re not hearing Mueller, we’re hearing Barr telling us what Mueller said in his opinion.
Exactly.
Anyhow fare thee well for now. I think some of you know my personal email address.
re: #625 HappyWarrior
Hope you rest well. It is needed in these times
re: #623 Hecuba’s daughter
Although I love the Keira Knightley version, the 1995 version was wonderful — the only one which captured the whole story since it was a mini-series rather than a 2 hour film
And you can’t go wrong with Colin Firth—ever! Glad I hung around an extra minute—I think that’s what I will watch (for about the 20th time) as well (Thanks for the idea, PhillyPretzel)
As of right now, to the best of our knowledge, only three men have seen the full and unadulterated report: Robert Mueller, William Barr, and Rod Rosenstein.
And of those men, only one has commented in any way upon it: William Barr.
So the idea that anybody but one of those men knows what the report truly says and can offer an educated comment upon it is ridiculous.
This is why I’m so damn confused / pissed at Barr right now.
I have other reporter contacts telling me they’re hearing exactly the same thing.
If true, they won’t be able to sit on this forever. https://t.co/25bdaEhwHP— Angry Staffer (@AngrierWHStaff) March 24, 2019
re: #621 PhillyPretzel
There is a spark. Pelosi and Schumer are going to do something. Let’s wait and see what it is.
I figured they’d already gamed this out.
We may end up seeing congressional subpoenas flying this week. Pelosi had to wait for them to make this move, now it’s her turn.
re: #602 DodgerFan1988
Mueller was HIGHLY unlikely to be the deus ex machina to save us.
Similarly, although Trump SHOULD BE impeached and removed for gross incompetence and complete lack of fitness for the job, it will never happen with the GOP still in thrall to him.
We just have to VOTE the living fuck out of them.
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re: #618 BeachDem
Welp, when you want a nuanced, deep look at anything, Hannity’s definitely your go to guy
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I saw Hannity’s face, saw you mention him, and actually scrolled past so fast I didn’t damage my brain with his response.
re: #632 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #633 Belafon
I saw Hannity’s face, saw you mention him, and actually scrolled past so fast I didn’t damage my brain with his response.
Yeah. Fuck Hannity and the horse he rode in on.
re: #618 BeachDem
Welp, when you want a nuanced, deep look at anything, Hannity’s definitely your go to guy
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And now I really am going to go have a drink and watch a movie.
Slumlord Sean ain’t out of the woods yet.
re: #632 The Vicious Babushka
My middle son began walking at 10 months old. We started getting reports of him walking to the other kids at daycare who were in walkers and taking their pacifiers. Not for him - none of my kids really cared for pacifiers - he just didn’t think they needed them.
re: #631 Blind Frog Belly White
I feel it would bring greater satisfaction to have Tump removed by an election, then hit with the charges. To see his face when it doesn’t go the way he’d “knew” would happen.
re: #620 HappyWarrior
Well I think we know the Dems narrative and you know what, it’s a good one IMO. And it will also expose more lies about drain the swamp because more about Barr’s history in the IRan Contra clean up will be brought up showing Barr and Trump to be certified swamp monsters.
My problem isn’t the Dem narrative. That’s been remarkably consistent, well thought out, and prompt as they can manage. The problem seems to be it simply doesn’t matter, because the GOP narrative always ends up superseding it in the media anyway, despite how nonsensical it is, and forcing Dems on the backfoot anyway because their narrative rarely, if ever, gets to be heard to begin with. Just the GOP’s version of what the Dem narrative is.
We’re constantly forced to hope the GOP steps on its own dick just to be heard. And while that thankfully happens all too often, we still seem to be beholden to the incompetence of our opponents, and the public’s acceptance and/or ejection of said incompetence to make any headway. And we’ve seen how flimsy the idea that the public would reject an incompetent GOP out of hand is.
I keep saying it, but I’m just fucking exhausted by it all, and hate the feeling that the most cynical read on anything today ends up being the most correct one because nothing seems to fucking matter except assuaging the country’s love affair with conservative dominance.
Since the decision — by his own admission — not to prosecute on obstruction was AG Barr’s (and NOT Mueller’s), this makes the case for a full release of the Mueller Report even more compelling (so Congress can assess Barr’s decision).
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) March 24, 2019
65: Number of words from the Mueller report Barr includes in his 4 page letter
ZERO: Number of complete sentences from the Mueller report Barr includes in his 4 page letter— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 24, 2019
The Department of Justice has suggested it cannot provide Congress with evidence as to people not indicted.
Not true. It can, and it has, when the need for transparency is strong.
The DOJ gave us more than 880k pages from the Clinton email probe. It must now do the same here. pic.twitter.com/bvIKOqnLF0— Adam Schiff (@AdamSchiff) March 24, 2019
re: #643 Belafon
The wheels are starting to turn.
re: #629 Scottish Dragon
“The report is much worse than this”
re: #628 Targetpractice
As of right now, to the best of our knowledge, only three men have seen the full and unadulterated report: Robert Mueller, William Barr, and Rod Rosenstein.
And of those men, only one has commented in any way upon it: William Barr.
So the idea that anybody but one of those men knows what the report truly says and can offer an educated comment upon it is ridiculous.
We certainly shouldn’t be giving credence to some anonymous source. But there must have been members of the Mueller team who were privy to the entire report. And probably others in the Justice Department. But as Targetpractice says, there are only three people we know for sure have seen the full report.
re: #646 Hecuba’s daughter
We certainly shouldn’t be giving credence to some anonymous source. But there must have been members of the Mueller team who were privy to the entire report. And probably others in the Justice Department. But as Targetpractice says, there are only three people we know for sure have seen the full report.
Well, it’s possible that the sources don’t have access to the full report, but instead were involved in the investigation and thus are aware of their own piece of the pie, if not those of their colleagues. I suspect that we’re going to slowly hear a drip of such reports now that the final report has dropped. Why? Because the need to maintain secrecy as far as where they’re looking and what they’re looking into has passed.
re: #647 Targetpractice
Well, it’s possible that the sources don’t have access to the full report, but instead were involved in the investigation and thus are aware of their own piece of the pie, if not those of their colleagues. I suspect that we’re going to slowly hear a drip of such reports now that the final report has dropped. Why? Because the need to maintain secrecy as far as where they’re looking and what they’re looking into has passed.
I don’t recall the details — but a couple years ago wasn’t there a story that WH staff who were masquerading as confidential sources were deliberately lying to the press so that the press would lose credibility because their reports were proved incorrect?
If Robert Mueller’s goal was to keep people pissed off about Trump’s crimes all the way to the end of 2020, he definitely succeeded.
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) March 24, 2019
re: #649 Belafon
If we needed this report for that, then I am a little worried. But I’ll take it.
re: #646 Hecuba’s daughter
We certainly shouldn’t be giving credence to some anonymous source. But there must have been members of the Mueller team who were privy to the entire report. And probably others in the Justice Department. But as Targetpractice says, there are only three people we know for sure have seen the full report.
we know various ppl have seen large parts of it.
So many questions. pic.twitter.com/66KaR52Kk8
— James Comey (@Comey) March 24, 2019
re: #607 HappyWarrior
Which all the more reason to ask for the full report and if Trump is innocent as he claims, he should have no problem, right? //
remember he himself said it should be made public….about a week ago
re: #652 Scottish Dragon
Like why do we park on a driveway and drive on a parkway.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) March 24, 2019
Why our noses run and our feet smell…
— jeff foster (@jfoster008) March 24, 2019
So many questions. pic.twitter.com/66KaR52Kk8
— James Comey (@Comey) March 24, 2019
re: #527 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I remind everyone, yet again, that we have reached this level of despondency several times. The Trump Presidency has been disastrous on our mental health. But every time, we have found inspiration, and hope, and small victories to keep us going while we seek the big win. We don’t have that big win yet, but if we roll over and die, we have a 0% chance of getting it.
Yep. I will get up and get in the ring again tomorrow.
Today I’m going to let myself indulge in the necessary release valve of whining and venting and cursing to high heaven because our current reality sucks big wet hairy moose whangs. I am sick (ear infection) and tired (chronic lack of sleep) and discouraged and disgusted and terrified (Trump & Republicans). This should bloody not be happening in a sane and just country, and the fact we’re not living in one is a perpetual outrage to my soul.
Tomorrow we fight. Today I whinge about the necessity of doing so. Sufficient unto the day.
phlllllbbbbbbbttttt…
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NEW:
The special counsel’s office deliberated at length with DOJ officials about issuing a subpoena for President Donald Trump to be interviewed, but ultimately the decision was made not to move forward, according to source @LauraAJarrett @evanperez— Pamela Brown (@PamelaBrownCNN) March 24, 2019
re: #632 The Vicious Babushka
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Totally unrelated to the main topic, I rode 33.6 miles today, the longest ride so far this year! Also the most miles in a week at 65.9! If all goes well, I should be able to ride a Metric Century before I turn a metric century old, come November.
Nice day for it, with the sun playing hide-and-seek among the clouds and only light breezes. Everything’s GREEEEEENNNN!!!!! and the wildflowers are starting to bloom.
For any of us faith based folks just a friendly reminder that there is a power of justice out there far stronger than Mueller and completely incorruptible.
Eventually, some way, Trump WILL get his.
re: #660 Scottish Dragon
The leaks are starting
So, I see “Scottish Dragon” and “Leaks are starting” and all I can think is…
re: #662 Blind Frog Belly White
Those look like leeks the vegetable.
re: #613 TedStriker
I get my love of Jim Croce and John Denver from my father, and Helen Reddy from my mom.
I had to step away. I wanted to downding this so bad.
re: #662 Blind Frog Belly White
So, I see “Scottish Dragon” and “Leaks are starting” and all I can think is…
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Soup! Leek & tater with cream and butter ;)
William Lewis, I just wanted to tell you how much I liked your post #366 of two threads ago. I’d like to share it with my pastors, if I may.
re: #667 wrenchwench
I had to step away. I wanted to downding this so bad.
I’m so with you on bland folk music….
re: #666 Blind Frog Belly White
Yup. The asparagus of the poor.
Never heard leeks called that. And poor or rich, still one of the better of nature’s little green creations (IMO).
OK: minor qualification: I love leeks, myself (and yes, particularly in soups) - but a steady diet of them would probably pall in time (like everything else).
re: #669 LadyBehir
William Lewis, I just wanted to tell you how much I liked your post #366 of two threads ago. I’d like to share it with my pastors, if I may.
Please feel free. It’s part of my Theological Investigations (apologies to Wittgenstein;) manuscript.
re: #657 Scottish Dragon
Pamela Brown ✔
@PamelaBrownCNN
NEW:
The special counsel’s office deliberated at length with DOJ officials about issuing a subpoena for President Donald Trump to be interviewed, but ultimately the decision was made not to move forward, according to source @LauraAJarrett @evanperez6:15 PM - Mar 24, 2019
Ah yes, the typical Republicans searching for the truth by limiting who can testify, especially the biggest fucking liar in all of this.
Protected like Kavanaugh.
The party of (limited) law and order.
Fuck ‘em. Democrats have to make this a law and order thing and take back that stance from the Republicans. This next election has to be about defeating a whole nasty political cancer in this country, The Republican National Party.
HOW DO YOU KNOW ANY OF THIS WHEN YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE REPORT? https://t.co/sIL05NDvDK
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 24, 2019
re: #670 Barefoot Grin
I’m so with you on bland folk music….
Combined with the shame of having liked each more than I should have at the time…
We’ll see what unfolds but I have never thought it is collusion or obstruction in the Russian investigation that is going to end him. It’s his finances and corrupt, illegal business dealings before and during the election. He never expected to win so he got as much money out as he could. Pigs at the trough.
The cases in the SDNY and the investigation into his tax returns are where the fire is. In my opinion.
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re: #662 Blind Frog Belly White
So, I see “Scottish Dragon” and “Leaks are starting” and all I can think is…
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I was thinking soup…
@DevinNunes @DevinCow pic.twitter.com/fr8sp2hrdY
— Rene Nowicki (@NowickiRene) March 24, 2019
re: #666 Blind Frog Belly White
Yup. The asparagus of the poor.
Young cattails are the asparagus of the poor. And quite good!
re: #676 wrenchwench
Combined with the shame of having liked each more than I should have at the time…
No shame…like what you like, screw everyone else.
Barr’s letter of the Mueller Report is like a Redditt user quoting a QAnon comment about Black Panther two months before its release.
— Forsetti X (@ForsettisCreed) March 24, 2019
re: #676 wrenchwench
Combined with the shame of having liked each more than I should have at the time…
(some of us still like all of them, so there boy howdy. 1973 bland folk rock is the fondly-remembered soundtrack of my long-ago youth, not to mention my one finished never-published novel. *sniff*)
re: #682 TedStriker
Denver and Reddy, but especially with Denver, I can see it not being people’s particular cup of tea.
However, when it comes to Croce, fight me bro.
;-P
Helen Reddy was such a babe, though—with a wonderful set of pipes. Second only to Karen Carpenter as wanting to just dive into her tonsils and disappear from view.
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