New From Seth Meyers: GOP Says Trump Was Joking About China as Damning Ukraine Texts Emerge [VIDEO]
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Seth takes a closer look at how more evidence is emerging in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
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Good Krugman column on obtuse centrism
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) October 8, 2019
Funny, I thought if there was one person who would want to protect someone from getting their ass beat by a bigger and stronger neighbor it’d be @RandPaul https://t.co/0RUciGKNRX
— Ike Barinholtz (@ikebarinholtz) October 7, 2019
Asshole.
Asshole with bone spurs.
Asshole with *fake* bone spurs. https://t.co/dWy7JZzRHs— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) October 8, 2019
re: #3 jaunte
This is disgusting, even for a piece of shit like Trump. After his fortune is confiscated as restitution for his innumerable crimes, drop him in a war zone somewhere.
He really needs to have something serious to whine about before he dies.
re: #4 EPR-radar
This statement needs to be ground into the faces of his supporters.
A little-known US attorney provided a great deal of help to the campaign of now-President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in hopes of a job in his administration https://t.co/arQxVeWEO6
NEW: Former Trump officials dined with Volodymyr Zelensky’s campaign aides at the Trump Hotel in Washington D.C. just months before the infamous phone call. https://t.co/4QjwKGc1KE
— Brian Schwartz (@schwartzbCNBC) October 7, 2019
SCOOP: U.S.-based foreign agent hoped to be rewarded with a job in Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky’s admin for quietly bankrolling 6-figure Ukrainian influence & lobbying ops. New FARA disclosure reveals meetings with Sean Spicer & Trump campaign aide https://t.co/idjRSRFfWN pic.twitter.com/wqbCF3zT7L
— Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) October 7, 2019
File under: Not even remotely surprising.
EXCLUSIVE: RealClearPolitics has been secretly running a Facebook page filled with far-right memes and Islamaphobic smears, @kpoulsen and @maxwelltani report https://t.co/0byRadzFWi
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 8, 2019
re: #3 jaunte
That was during the campaign. Why is it resurfacing now?
re: #9 garzooma
Ah, thanks. He’s so comprehensively awful it’s odd that anyone feels the need to exaggerate.
The cool thing about Trumpism is there’s no history only transactional nihilism. pic.twitter.com/rGybjRRWHB
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 7, 2019
Can you guess which word Donald Trump and his supporters are trying to strip of its meaning? pic.twitter.com/H5qvIFRuAQ
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) October 8, 2019
This video from May 2017. Where #DictatorErdogan gave order to his security staff to beat up peaceful Kurdish protesters in Washington DC front of world’s eyes. Just think about what he is going to do to the Kurds in Syria.! pic.twitter.com/dbhX2wIsmV
— Enes Kanter (@EnesKanter) October 8, 2019
re: #8 Colère Tueur de Lapin
That was during the campaign. Why is it resurfacing now?
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One of my friends at work is a vet who served in Syria.
He fought side-by-side with the Kurds and made friends among them.
He looked me straight in the eyes today, clearly very anguished, and said “They’ll be slaughtered. All of them.”#SyriaCrisis— FLIP 🔥 THE 🔥 SENATE (@WatchingWhatYou) October 7, 2019
Here is Eli Valley’s cartoon of Jared and Ivanka. In spoiler tags because it’s really creepy, even for Eli Valley. Happy Halloween & sweet dreams!
When they cite Jared and Ivanka, this is the one to use: pic.twitter.com/RceWjJhyxx
— Eli Valley (@elivalley) October 8, 2019
Charlie Morton, 94mph Fastball and 80mph Curveball Spin, Overlay pic.twitter.com/ooI111DvAf
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) October 7, 2019
re: #13 gocart mozart
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This video from May 2017. Where #DictatorErdogan gave order to his security staff to beat up peaceful Kurdish protesters in Washington DC front of world’s eyes. Just think about what he is going to do to the Kurds in Syria.!
Note that Enes Kanter is a Turkish basketball player in the NBA, currently with the Boston Celtics.
re: #10 jaunte
Ah, thanks. He’s so comprehensively awful it’s odd that anyone feels the need to exaggerate.
This is why it’s so important to shift to the executive summary mode for Trump — he’s a lying evil sack of shit.
Any list of his specific outrages will be of semi-infinite length and prone to minor errors like all excessively lengthy lists. In the eyes of our both-siderist media, one typo on such a list cancels out thousands of real Trump outrages.
Here’s video of Trump attending the grand opening of Trump Tower in Turkey. Ivanka even thanked Erdogan on Twitter for this deal.
Gonna say it loud and clear:
TRUMP IS SELLING OUT KURDISH LIVES FOR A FUCKING HOTEL!#TurkeyIsNotOurFriend #KurdsBetrayedpic.twitter.com/xkN0OcFLCi— Anxious Matt (@Anxious_Matt) October 7, 2019
re: #20 gocart mozart
Of course Trump is doing that. $1 in Trump’s pocket is literally more important to him than every other human life on Earth, combined.
The comments are excellent
If David Brooks and Jacob Wohl had a baby, it would look like this tweet.
— Rob Tannenbaum (@tannenbaumr) October 6, 2019
Hey MAGA “patriots,” how do you feel about #KurdsBetrayed? https://t.co/wNKtQuCmXG
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) October 8, 2019
Trump cult followers didn’t give a flying f*ck about citizens getting massacred in mass shootings on our own soil, they sure as hell won’t give a damn about a genocide of Kurds thousands of miles away.
re: #15 The Pie Overlord!
When he’s right, he’s right.
re: #18 garzooma
Note that Enes Kanter is a Turkish basketball player in the NBA, currently with the Boston Celtics.
Who if he went back home (or was extradited), he would be taken into custody and murdered.
re: #25 Ace Rothstein
Who if he went back home (or was extradited), he would be taken into custody and murdered.
If Turkey was interested in a deal like that, I’m sure they could bribe Trump to make it happen.
U.S., Japan ink limited trade accord on farm and digital exports, restoring some benefits to Americans lost in TPP exit https://t.co/DJHPUiX8Wg
— The Japan Times (@japantimes) October 8, 2019
Art of the deal.
re: #27 Dread Pirate
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Art of the deal.
TPP shall now be known as Trump’s Pointless Plan.
re: #18 garzooma
Note that Enes Kanter is a Turkish basketball player in the NBA, currently with the Boston Celtics.
He was a Knick last year. He couldn’t travel to see his family because he was afraid they’d detain him. His father was arrested by the Erdogan government.
re: #22 gocart mozart
The comments are excellent
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I have no more tolerance for these assholes. I’m going George Constanza on them.
I had sex with your wife!
— Oh. My. Glob. (@efuseakay) October 8, 2019
re: #30 GlutenFreeJesus
“I don’t like him, but what they’re doing to him and his family isn’t right.”
Why would he choose a sentence absolutely never uttered by any Democrat anywhere?
Trump’s bullshit is making his own propagandists sloppy.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
Schmucky is pretty low-rent himself.
Not sure if this should be a reply to this or part 1, but if the President KNOWS the identity of his accuser, the only question is whether it’ll be FBI themselves, or whatever KGB is calling itself these days, who will actually CARRY OUT the hit.
You have to know that.— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) October 8, 2019
Aunt Lindsey’s tweetstorm was all over my TL when I was catching up this evening after crashing out just before dawn, so I had hope.
Then a friend noticed that his TL was poisoned again afterwards, so I felt the need to say this since apparently no one had spelt it out yet.
Rachel talks about how Trump and the GOP have hijacked and co-opted the language so that certain words and phrases can no longer be used to describe exactly what those words mean.
Them taking that phrase, “fake news,” and using it this new way rendered linguistically impossible any analysis of that very real, very specific initial problem for which that phrase was coined. pic.twitter.com/TpWLcv4W8l
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) October 8, 2019
Lre: #36 The Pie Overlord!
Rachel talks about how Trump and the GOP have hijacked and co-opted the language so that certain words and phrases can no longer be used to describe exactly what those words mean.
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The projection he does is amazing. He’s a fucking moron but he’s convinced arguably 1/3 of the electorate he can do no wrong. I’ll say it again. Trump may have a lower support ceiling than most politicians but his floor is much higher. He will never be as unpopular as Bush was in 2008. He’s created a political cult of personality.
re: #37 HappyWarrior
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The projection he does is amazing. He’s a fucking moron but he’s convinced arguably 1/3 of the electorate he can do no wrong. I’ll say it again. Trump may have a lower support ceiling than most politicians but his floor is much higher. He will never be as unpopular as Bush was in 2008. He’s created a political cult of personality.
Just like my whole family would gladly line up to kiss Trump’s ass.
When Aimee Stephens told her boss she is trans, she was fired. We’re going to the Supreme Court to ensure this doesn’t happen to anyone else. LGBTQ people belong — including at work. #yesimLGBTQ pic.twitter.com/A8af7iwfCN
— ACLU (@ACLU) October 7, 2019
It “seems” like that because you’ve never actually worked with a trans person.
They’re just like everyone else, deserving of basic human dignity.
And their percentage of the population is irrelevant, something you’d easily understand if we were discussing ethnicity or religion.— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) October 8, 2019
re: #38 Joe Bacon 🌹
Just like my whole family would gladly line up to kiss Trump’s ass.
Yeah same with some of my distant cousins. I even saw that one of them got his photo taken with Candice Owens. I’m civil to them since I run our extended family’s history page but I am so glad that our branch is staunchly liberal and anti Trump from my dad’s oldest sister to my little niece who makes fun of Trump.
Breaking tomorrow for the Texas border at Beaumont, if there are enough bridges from here to NOLA. Yesterday I10 was so empty for a Sunday morning that I thought we might have missed the Rapture.
re: #39 goddamnedfrank
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If you’re fucking distracted by your coworker being trans, you’re the problem not the transgendered coworker. I wish fucking conservatives for once would try to empathize for once in their lives but then again I’ve believed for a long time that genuine empathy Is what separates us. I’m not transgendered. I’m a cis heterosexual white dude. I’m America’s Default mode for when my views And identity are considered.
Our friend John Paul II is here. It’s like a second coming of Christ, only 1000 memes better. Follow @PaulLidicul now, you won’t regret it! pic.twitter.com/vbiYxoPRvn
— Max Howroute▫️ (@howroute) October 8, 2019
I’m confident we will defeat Trump but I want to defeat Trumpism too and I fear we’ll be fighting that for a long time. I’m equally apprehensive that something worse may rise from the ashes. Just as the Tea Party and Trump rose from the Neo Conservatives and Bush’s declines. The mainstream right is more xenophobic than ever. And you can see it in the people that they nominate for local offices. Some of us probably had local Republicans who sure we didn’t vote for but weren’t outright bigoted bastards.
Weird that he knew the General was a top, not a subject that you’d think would normally come up in that setting https://t.co/EchkUt2LRQ
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) October 8, 2019
re: #39 goddamnedfrank
What percentage of the population are straight, white, Christian men? 15-20%? Since they’re a minority, they can be fired for no reason, right?
re: #45 HappyWarrior
I’m confident we will defeat Trump but I want to defeat Trumpism too and I fear we’ll be fighting that for a long time. I’m equally apprehensive that something worse may rise from the ashes. Just as the Tea Party and Trump rose from the Neo Conservatives and Bush’s declines. The mainstream right is more xenophobic than ever. And you can see it in the people that they nominate for local offices. Some of us probably had local Republicans who sure we didn’t vote for but weren’t outright bigoted bastards.
Defeating Trumpism will require winning two presidential elections and the midterms for all eight years, and outlawing gerrymandering.
re: #46 goddamnedfrank
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Yeah that never happened in the way you described it. Stop fucking lying about where our military was when you took over.
re: #48 Belafon
Defeating Trumpism will require winning two presidential elections and the midterms for all eight years, and outlawing gerrymandering.
Definitely but it’s a culture war too.
re: #47 Belafon
What percentage of the population are straight, white, Christian men? 15-20%? Since they’re a minority, they can be fired for no reason, right?
That’s different because that’s me!//
re: #51 HappyWarrior
Definitely but it’s a culture war too.
It is, and defeating it will in part be at the ballot box. It’s definitely not something that will be solved in one election.
re: #46 goddamnedfrank
The top general of them all would be the one who inserts themselves into all the other generals.
I don’t make the rules.— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) October 8, 2019
re: #53 Belafon
It is, and defeating it will in part be at the ballot box. It’s definitely not something that will be solved in one election.
Yes. We can’t rest on our laurels even or rather especially if we win big in 2020.
re: #50 HappyWarrior
Yeah that never happened in the way you described it. Stop fucking lying about where our military was when you took over.
Happy, this is a great example of that thing I mentioned recently where someone uses the second person in response to the author of a tweet embedded within post, rather than to the author of the post itself.
I’m not a fan of it.
He really loves the narrative of stronger men than him be they military men, miners, steelworkers, all men who do jobs him and his chickenshit sons would find beneath them begging him or being in eternal gratitude to him. It’s fucking telling. He wants to be worshiped.
Family members accept as Gospel truth Trump’s lie about Pershing dipping bullets in pig blood. Why? Because Pulpit Pimp Preachers say that it’s true…
re: #56 goddamnedfrank
Happy, this is a great example of that thing I mentioned recently where someone uses the second person in response to the author of a tweet embedded within post, rather than to the author of the post itself.
I’m not a fan of it.
Sorry Frank. I think missed that but I understand and will try not to do it anymore. It’s man so exhausting how he revises history to justify his bs. I don’t know if he’s that deluded or he’s able to lie with that much ease. Thanks though.
re: #58 Joe Bacon 🌹
Family members accept as Gospel truth Trump’s lie about Pershing dipping bullets in pig blood. Why? Because Pulpit Pimp Preachers say that it’s true…
That’s how propaganda works. I think your family members would likely be more skeptical of right wing bs if these preachers be they be literal clergy or what I’ll call secular clergy like Hannity, Rush, or whoever their favorite right wing talking point parrot is.
A little tidbit in the morning news here in Tokyo. trump opened his little news conference thingy wishing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a happy birthday. It’s not his birthday. As others here pointed out recently, it’s Putin’s birthday.
This! https://t.co/z8olnJfhx4
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) October 8, 2019
Lre: #61 Scout
A little tidbit in the morning news here in Tokyo. trump opened his little news conference thingy wishing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a happy birthday. It’s not his birthday. As others here pointed out recently, it’s Putin’s birthday.
I guess Trump wanted to give Vlad free reign in Syria as a gift.
re: #35 Chrysicat
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Aunt Lindsey’s tweetstorm was all over my TL when I was catching up this evening after crashing out just before dawn, so I had hope.
Then a friend noticed that his TL was poisoned again afterwards, so I felt the need to say this since apparently no one had spelt it out yet.
Leningrad Lindsey is nakedly engaging in witness intimidation. Republicans seem to have hit upon the idea that the way forward is to keep the public focus on the whistleblowers, accusing them of “hearsay” and questioning their motivations for coming forward. The hope being that if they can force one or both to back away from their allegations, if not outright recant such in order to avoid public exposure, then the whole scandal falls apart.
Meanwhile, the reality is that the scandal ceased being about the whistleblowers the moment Donny stepped out on the White House lawn and publicly asked two foreign nations to assist his reelection by “investigating” his opponent.
Waiting for the hot take that says Trump is distracting from impeachment by inviting a genocide against the Kurds. He’s not. This is just what happens when your serial criminal president is also a traitor, serves Russian interests, doesn’t understand foreign policy & is immoral.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) October 7, 2019
The past two years but last few weeks especially I find myself wondering what he will do next. I’ve never been a rah rah patriot but I do want my country to have a place in the world and lead by example on the issues that face the world. I think that’s why Trump angers me. We have a lot of issues we face as a planet. Trump has hurt our ability to be a positive force since he’s betrayed trust, credibility, & priorities. All Trump operates for is his own glory. That truly is what makes him such a malevolent force.
— Possum Every Hour (@PossumEveryHour) October 8, 2019
Ivanka needs to be investigated for money laundering deals in Baku, Panama, China, Russia, dealings w Russian mafia. Kushner needs to be investigated for his Leviev deal (partner in Prevezon), Russia, deals w corrupt Israelis close to Netanyahu. Instead they are making millions https://t.co/WGOg9y6BNZ
— Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) October 8, 2019
My best suggestion to the Dem leadership would be to publicly remind Graham that the right to face one’s accuser is generally understood to mean during a formal trial, that the accused has no right to face their accuser during an investigation. And since an impeachment inquiry is an investigation and not a trial, Trump has no right to know the identities of the whistleblowers any earlier than the day they appear to testify before the Senate. So unless Graham is committing the Senate to a trial and thus to a vote over Trump’s guilt or innocence, then this is an empty threat and will be viewed as such going forward.
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I was a 6th grader in 1971-1972 at Silverwood Elementary School, Concord, CA and our beloved teacher was basically sacked when she started showing. Her replacement was horrible, which is why I remember it so vividly. THIS SHIT HAPPENED.
— Dee “Nice is not my middle name” Holmes (@mmmirele) October 8, 2019
re: #70 Rightwingconspirator
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It’s hilarious to watch be go back-and-forth on Trump in the space of 2 minutes:
“Trump is an idiot with no planning skills, but he’s done wonderful things so I will vote for him, he can’t be held responsible for his crimes because he has the mental capacity of a toddler. #MAGA!”— The great and unmatched wisdom of aceoaces! (@aceoaces) October 8, 2019
🎶 After midnight, we gonna let it all hang out 🎶
“There are no felonies, there are no Impeachable offenses. The Constitution’s very clear that you need bribery, treason, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. You can’t be impeached for the conduct that’s been alleged in this case.” @AlanDersh Dershowitz. @seanhannity A Scam!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 8, 2019
re: #73 Ace-o-aces
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That’s some defense. Can Harvard please retroactively take back his law degree because this is a dude who never says anything intelligent pertaining to law.
CAN ANYONE FIGURE OUT WHY THE PRESIDENT CAN’T HEAR QUESTIONS pic.twitter.com/eCcRVTESKW
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) October 7, 2019
re: #74 teleskiguy
🎶 After midnight, we gonna let it all hang out 🎶
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Dershowitz should try actually looking at evidence rather than rubbing Trump’s balls.
re: #74 teleskiguy
According to @AlanDersh, it’s not impeachable if you kept your underwear on.
— The great and unmatched wisdom of aceoaces! (@aceoaces) October 8, 2019
Woah! Pat Robertson is a RINO? https://t.co/T5ghh3SwyG
— Annise Parker (@AnniseParker) October 8, 2019
re: #70 Rightwingconspirator
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re: #79 jaunte
Their Orange Messiah is beyond reproach, apparently; I guess Lou is telling Pat to get with the program.
Well this is refreshing. I hope it lasts.
This is actually fascinating. Trump’s deadbeat past has finally caught up with him. He keeps not paying the bills for his campaign rallies, so Minneapolis told him “no rally.” https://t.co/ZZSKuann7R
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) October 8, 2019
5/ @CityMinneapolis appears to have been paying attention to the experience of @ElPasoTXGov, which is still waiting for Trump’s campaign to pay up https://t.co/MkxAIMztAn
— Dave Levinthal (@davelevinthal) October 8, 2019
re: #70 Rightwingconspirator
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re: #77 HappyWarrior
Dershowitz should try actually looking at evidence rather than rubbing Trump’s balls.
Looks like Epstein’s oh-so-convenient demise has shortcircuited any investigations into his clients. Why else is Dershowitz feeling free to comment on Trump’s innocence instead of preparing a defense?
re: #55 HappyWarrior
Yes. We can’t rest on our laurels even or rather especially if we win big in 2020.
I still remember how Dana SimmonsSimpson shut down her “I Drew This” feature in 2008 “because we’ve won!”.
I’m still sore with her for not bringing back her brand of political venom, either when the Birfers started making themselves known, or at least once Trump was elected and it was clear we were going to lose all progress going back into the 70s.
That’s what resting on your laurels gets you. We do it again and we’re going to see them wiping out the Thirteenth Amendment in word instead of just in fact.
re: #85 Hecuba’s daughter
Looks like Epstein’s oh-so-convenient demise has shortcircuited any investigations into his clients. Why else is Dershowitz feeling free to comment on Trump’s innocence instead of preparing a defense?
Gosh that’s not what Dick Wadd Dersh said when it came to Bill Clinton’s impeachment!
re: #46 goddamnedfrank
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That was just bullshit. It didn’t happen. It’s a goddam lie. He’s a fucking liar.
re: #82 jaunte
Well this is refreshing. I hope it lasts.
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Certainly appears that Trump is resuming his Nuremberg rallies. He clearly believes that impeachment is a nothingburger — that his administration with the help of the Department of Injustice and possibly the Supreme Court will prevent the House from acquiring any additional evidence.
Trump’s supporters cannot be dissuaded from their total allegiance to him and their belief that it is the Democrats who are guilty. I would not put it past Barr to manufacture evidence and suborn perjury to prosecute anyone who challenges Trump and the GOP.
Zippety Do Da Zippety Day
INSPIRING: This man has kept his imaginary friend throughout his entire life pic.twitter.com/RgkHC6vu8O
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) October 8, 2019
re: #83 jaunte
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Since the city (i.e. the Target Center’s owners) are in the best position to determine how much security for this rally will cost, they can not only set the price but also require payment up front from a known deadbeat (i.e. the Trump campaign). The Secret Service simply coordinates security with the city, they’re not responsible for paying the bills for Donny’s campaign rallies. And freedom of assembly does not convey a right to use a venue without the owner’s consent.
Saturn overtakes Jupiter as planet with most moons https://t.co/kRgRdxuHvb
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) October 7, 2019
Approximately 25 minutes ago A number of people monitoring US GHCS radio began logging continuous emergency action message with overlapping data, including at least one reported high precedence message request. Possibly an exercise but keeping an eye on things. pic.twitter.com/96xesuhLdH
— INTELLIPUS (@intellipus) October 7, 2019
re: #94 Dread Pirate
What’s GHCS? That’s an acronym I’m not familiar with.
re: #95 Dr Lizardo
What’s GHCS? That’s an acronym I’m not familiar with.
No idea, but it sounds important, eh?
Meanwhile, in Hong Kong:
In her weekly press conference on Tuesday, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said that Beijing agrees the island should reach a peaceful solution to ongoing mass protests without Chinese intervention, though she refused to rule out that option.
“At this point in time, I still strongly feel that we should find the solutions ourselves,” Lam said. “It is also the position of the central government [in Beijing] that Hong Kong should tackle the problem on her own.”
“But if the situation becomes so bad, then no options can be ruled out if we want Hong Kong to at least have another chance,” she added.
“I cannot tell you categorically now under what circumstances we will do extra things, including calling on the central government to help,” Lam told reporters.
It’s only a matter of time before the HK authorities appeal to Beijing to “restore order” - then they’ll declare a state of emergency, the PLA will roll in….and that’s that.
Sure, there will be some angry words and harsh memoranda. But that’s about it. Beijing will say they acted with “maximum restraint” and after a year or two, it’ll all be swept under the rug.
re: #89 Hecuba’s daughter
I wouldn’t put it past Trump and his supporters to pay foreigners to attack our country in an effort to push impeachment off the front pages. They have no loyalty to the U.S.
re: #94 Dread Pirate
re: #95 Dr Lizardo
What’s GHCS? That’s an acronym I’m not familiar with.
re: #96 Dread Pirate
No idea, but it sounds important, eh?
It is High Frequency Global Communications System (HFGCS). Previously know as Global High Frequency System (GHFS)
re: #86 Chrysicat
I still remember how Dana
SimmonsSimpson shut down her “I Drew This” feature in 2008 “because we’ve won!”.I’m still sore with her for not bringing back her brand of political venom, either when the Birfers started making themselves known, or at least once Trump was elected and it was clear we were going to lose all progress going back into the 70s.
That’s what resting on your laurels gets you. We do it again and we’re going to see them wiping out the Thirteenth Amendment in word instead of just in fact.
Don’t know her but yeah there was a lot of naïveté on part of the left who just thought electing Obama would get us on our way to the change he ran on and you know what, we did get change but Obama’s record could be even more better if we hadn’t let the GOP take the House in 2010 and Senate in 2014.
Happy Birthday, Prime Minister Abe! お誕生日、おめでとう！
re: #35 Chrysicat
at the trial lindsey, at the trial
If impeachment is designed to ‘Uphold the Constitution’ you are in the process of destroying it by preventing the President and his team from confronting the witnesses against them.
This is an unsustainable position.— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) October 7, 2019
re: #39 goddamnedfrank
hey mike, how do you know you’re not working next to a ‘trans’ or gay or xxxxx right now?
I respectfully disagree. It seems like someone that is transgender could be a distraction to the work place. When you are talking about .01% of the people… why don’t employers have rights?
— Mike Taylor (@M_TaylorFHM) October 8, 2019
re: #64 Targetpractice
Leningrad Lindsey is nakedly engaging in witness intimidation. Republicans seem to have hit upon the idea that the way forward is to keep the public focus on the whistleblowers, accusing them of “hearsay” and questioning their motivations for coming forward. The hope being that if they can force one or both to back away from their allegations, if not outright recant such in order to avoid public exposure, then the whole scandal falls apart.
Meanwhile, the reality is that the scandal ceased being about the whistleblowers the moment Donny stepped out on the White House lawn and publicly asked two foreign nations to assist his reelection by “investigating” his opponent.
the cat’s out of the bag
it doesnt matter how or why
federal rules of evidence dont apply
re: #103 DangerMan
at the trial lindsey, at the trial
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Did you say that about Bill Clinton? Yeah he does in the trial portion of impeachment. You know this but you know your “common sense strict constitutionalist” base is as constitutionally illiterate as your President.
re: #82 jaunte
Well this is refreshing. I hope it lasts.
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cash up front with him - it’s the only way
re: #104 DangerMan
hey mike, how do you know you’re not working next to a ‘trans’ or gay or xxxxx right now?
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And they call us snowflakes. I don’t think nor do I care about my coworkers gender identity. If they’re good workers and people, it’s not an issue. If you’re distracted by a transgendered coworker, the issue is you not them.
re: #108 HappyWarrior
And they call us snowflakes. I don’t think nor do I care about my coworkers gender identity. If they’re good workers and people, it’s not an issue. If you’re distracted by a transgendered coworker, the issue is you not them.
just looking for permission to be an asshole legally discriminate
re: #109 DangerMan
just looking for permission to
be an assholelegally discriminate
Exactly. This literally is what the Civil Rights movement was all about. You know what, maybe lgbt and or minority businesses should try denying white straight people jobs or services and claiming liberty. I’m sure Fox and the religious “liberty” advocates would totally get that. Oh wait. We’d hear about wars on whites and Christians.
So the big scandal with Elizabeth Warren, now that she has demonstrated that she does in fact have Native American blood in her, is that there are some inconsistencies in her account of being fired for being pregnant in the early 70’s?
Only in this sick, topsy-turvy world is a record of public service a liability whereas a total lack of any history of anything but self-service is seen as a plus.
re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So the big scandal with Elizabeth Warren, now that she has demonstrated that she does in fact have Native American blood in her, is that there are some inconsistencies in her account of being fired for being pregnant in the early 70’s?
Only in this sick, topsy-turvy world is a record of public service a liability whereas a total lack of any history of anything but self-service is seen as a plus.
The media plays favorites usually with older white guys.
re: #112 HappyWarrior
The media plays favorites usually with older white guys.
At some point they are going to find out that she fudged her sales records for Girl Scout cookies…
re: #113 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
At some point they are going to find out that she fudged her sales records for Girl Scout cookies…
Or that she once wasn’t nice to a server!
or that she sent private e-mails!!!
re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So the big scandal with Elizabeth Warren, now that she has demonstrated that she does in fact have Native American blood in her, is that there are some inconsistencies in her account of being fired for being pregnant in the early 70’s?
Only in this sick, topsy-turvy world is a record of public service a liability whereas a total lack of any history of anything but self-service is seen as a plus.
She should have just stuck with drinking lots of beer and sexually attacking her fellow teachers in her youth. I understand that is acceptable for a lifetime position appointment, let alone a 4 year term.
Some good news to wake up to:
The tide has shifted on impeachment.
In July, just 37% supported an inquiry.
Today, 58% support the inquiry.
That’s a +40(!) point shift in 3 months. https://t.co/HhutvuZgDm pic.twitter.com/ChTEetEMHh— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) October 8, 2019
How does the WH look at these impeachment numbers from the Post this morning and assume that their strategy is working?
— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 8, 2019
FYI: I seems that today is national Pierogi day. Enjoy!
Added: These people are visiting my work campus today. Too bad I work from home.
re: #117 goddamnedfrank
How does the WH look at these impeachment numbers from the Post this morning and assume that their strategy is working?
because it is all FAKE NEWS!!!
re: #117 goddamnedfrank
Some good news to wake up to:
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How does the WH look at these impeachment numbers from the Post this morning and assume that their strategy is working?
“Strategy”? They have no strategy, at least none that last longer than it takes Cheeto Benito to make it to the toilet. They’re flying by the seat of their pants and it shows in the fact that there is absolutely no coherent message besides “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!”
Looks like the Brexit negotiations between the UK and the EU have pretty much blown up at this point. There was a call between PM Johnson and Chancellor Merkel….and apparently, it didn’t go well.
More obstruction.
Breaking News: The Trump administration blocked a top diplomat, Gordon Sondland, from sitting for a deposition today with impeachment investigators in the Househttps://t.co/anBkbYfz0e
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 8, 2019
Let’s see if this works with Taylor.
re: #103 DangerMan
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Don’t even give him that. The process for impeachment doesn’t require anything a regular trial does. The president isn’t being sent to jail. There’s no right to confront an accuser. Congress doesn’t need an actual law broken to remove the president.
Welp here’s what a retired teacher from Riverdale Elementary, where Warren taught, has to say: “The rule was at five months you had to leave when you were pregnant… they kind of wanted you out if you were pregnant.” https://t.co/bGYt2Vy0rC
— Adam Jentleson 🎈🐢 (@AJentleson) October 8, 2019
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I think Warren should come out and talk about how women could not only get fired for being pregnant, but couldn’t get a credit card or a loan without the approval of a spouse or her father.
re: #127 Belafon
I think Warren should come out and talk about how women could not only get fired for being pregnant, but couldn’t get a credit card or a loan without the approval of a spouse or her father.
That was the law in Germany until 1959; women could not conclude legal contracts without their spouse’s signature. And until the 70’s it was anchored in the German Constitution that it was the job of the wife to maintain the household and raise children.
re: #70 Rightwingconspirator
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re: #132 Dave In Austin
Installation Day!! They moved my surgery up a day
I need y’all’s Tots and Pears…….
Dibs on your stuff!
/Good luck to ya.
Dotard doesn’t remember ordering Turkey removed from the F-35 program?
The president is misinformed. Actually, the administration kicked Turkey out of the F-35 program a few months ago after Ankara defied explicit requests not to buy Russia’s S-400 missile system… https://t.co/v0oucXOCTb
— Lara Seligman (@laraseligman) October 8, 2019
re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So the big scandal with Elizabeth Warren, now that she has demonstrated that she does in fact have Native American blood in her, is that there are some inconsistencies in her account of being fired for being pregnant in the early 70’s?
Only in this sick, topsy-turvy world is a record of public service a liability whereas a total lack of any history of anything but self-service is seen as a plus.
this is going nowhere:
it’s nondisprovable
it was 1972
entirely different times
and no one kept ‘notes’ or wrote any of this down
there was a lot of ‘nuance’
a lot of it was ‘understood’ and everyone knew ‘how things worked’
way less workplace protections
and how exactly was a 22 yo pregnant woman going to fight back?
we’re looking at this with 2019 ideas of job protections and laws we mostly take for granted (except those dangerous ‘trans’ people above)
from cbsnews
“Two retired teachers who worked at Riverdale Elementary for over 30 years, including the year Warren was there, told CBS News that they don’t remember anyone being explicitly fired due to pregnancy during their time at the school. But Trudy Randall and Sharon Ercalano each said that a non-tenured, pregnant employee like Warren would have had little job security at Riverdale in 1971, seven years before the Pregnancy Discrimination Act was passed.
“The rule was at five months you had to leave when you were pregnant. Now, if you didn’t tell anybody you were pregnant, and they didn’t know, you could fudge it and try to stay on a little bit longer,” Randall said. “But they kind of wanted you out if you were pregnant.”
As the school board minutes show, no member of the Riverdale school board at the time was a woman. A full year after Warren’s dismissal, the Associated Press wrote that a recent New Jersey State Division of Civil Rights decision meant that “pregnant teachers can no longer be automatically forced out of New Jersey classrooms.”
and
WELP. This is about Warren’s school district - and it would appear that during her time there, they had a standing policy to force pregnant women out of classrooms. https://t.co/O3zrHbt1c4
— Shannon 🙅🏻♀️ (@TheStagmania) October 8, 2019
meanwhile, now she’s a democrat and is fighting for fairness in the workplace etc
eta: cbsnews cite
re: #134 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Dotard doesn’t remember ordering Turkey removed from the F-35 program?
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He’s realizing he shat the bed (again) and is madly trying to come up with reasons why turning a blind eye to genocide is”beneficial” for America.
New Post poll:
58% of Americans support the impeachment inquiry (!)
49% support impeachment *and removal* (!!)
Among independents, 57% support impeachment and 49% support removal (!!!)https://t.co/OmcP5nLrnR pic.twitter.com/0K1bA5cPY5— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 8, 2019
Among independents, 57% support impeachment
re: #132 Dave In Austin
Installation Day!! They moved my surgery up a day
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Best of luck Dave in Austin!
re: #118 Eventual Carrion
FYI: I seems that today is national Pierogi day. Enjoy!
Added: These people are visiting my work campus today. Too bad I work from home.
boris johnson: i said prorogue!
re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
because it is all FAKE NEWS!!!
they say that publicly but they are quaking
re: #124 Belafon
Don’t even give him that. The process for impeachment doesn’t require anything a regular trial does. The president isn’t being sent to jail. There’s no right to confront an accuser. Congress doesn’t need an actual law broken to remove the president.
actually you are correct and i will adjust my commenting in the future
and though somewhat semantical, at a senate trial the House, on behalf of the United States is more or less the accuser
re: #129 Belafon
A picture from my TV:
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mccarthy’s poll says nuh-uh //
Playbook: “House Republicans held a conference call Monday to discuss new polling commissioned by Team McCarthy and the NRCC, and the headline for the GOP is this: Just 37% of voters believe Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president is impeachable, while 59% say it was appropriate and not worthy of impeachment. 39% of independents say it is impeachable. (Republicans say this is strong polling for them, but Democrats would argue they haven’t publicly started prosecuting the case.)”
presented for amusement. there’s lots wrong with this ‘poll’
re: #132 Dave In Austin
Installation Day!! They moved my surgery up a day
I need y’all’s Tots and Pears…….
as long as it’s not a stent or two you can still run for president //
re: #136 Targetpractice
He’s realizing he shat the bed (again) and is madly trying to come up with reasons why turning a blind eye to genocide is”beneficial” for America.
his only m/o
- do something, anything that he thinks will benefit him personally
- fix the totally predictable yet unanticipated fallout
- rinse, repeat
re: #135 DangerMan
this is going nowhere:
That’s not the point, she has now gone from “Pocohontas” to “Pregnohontas” and they will continue flinging this piece of poop at her until they find something else more adhesive.
Like a voting record…
Morning Joke just said that Trump invited Erdogan to The White House.
WTF?
Trump invited Turkey’s dictator Erdogan to the White House.
Last year, Erdogan threatened to kill US troops standing in his way in Syria with an “Ottoman slap.” This week, Trump flinched and ordered Americans to pull back. https://t.co/2m9hzNWlDN— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) October 8, 2019
re: #147 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Last year, Erdogan threatened to kill US troops standing in his way in Syria with an “Ottoman slap.” This week, Trump flinched and ordered Americans to pull back.
So instead, it was a bitch slap.
re: #147 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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The only thing that makes sense to me is that Trump had to walk back his permission to Erdogan because of the bipartisan outrage and Erdogan gets a White House visit to make up for it.
re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That’s not the point, she has now gone from “Pocohontas” to “Pregnohontas” and they will continue flinging this piece of poop at her until they find something else more adhesive.
Like a voting record…
sure because 2020 will be the year of epic and desperate ratfu**ing - this piece in this morning’s electoral-vote.com
If these suppositions are correct, then it follows that 2020 will witness more dirty tricks than we have seen in a very long time (and maybe ever), with the lion’s share coming courtesy of the red team.
but this one’s easy
re: #127 Belafon
I think Warren should come out and talk about how women could not only get fired for being pregnant, but couldn’t get a credit card or a loan without the approval of a spouse or her father.
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Trump’s perfect call isn’t so perfect after all, and the Ambassador who was going to testify this morning has suddenly gotten the word from Trumpworld not to testify.
A perfect call turns out to have been a perfect encapsulation of Trumpworld criminal misconduct.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 8, 2019
That’s not suspicious at all. Trumpworld realizes that the Ambassador testifying would be bad hours before he’s set to testify? Yeah, it’s a perfect call alright. Perfect encapsulation of Trumpworld criminal misconduct.
Meanwhile, in another corner of the Trumpworld hive of scum and villainy, Betsy DeVos may face consequences of violating federal court order on stopping going after student who have loans related to various scam schools.
Betsy DeVos could face jail after judge rules she violated 2018 order on cessation of trying to recoup student loans from students defrauded by scam schools https://t.co/uCL7cZyJnR
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 8, 2019
Everywhere you look in Trumpworld, there are scandals and criminal misconduct. Everywhere. Every one of these scandals is impeachment worthy. Trump surrounds himself with crooks and criminals who do his bidding, all while enriching themselves and their cronies. That’s how Trump and the GOP operate.
And they project their crimes on Democrats, or excuse the crime by saying it couldn’t be a crime because it was done in public (yeah, it’s still a crime), or that you need to say magic words to indicate a conspiracy or corrupt acts (quid pro quo is not a Hogwarts inspired spell, but it does help indicate corruption and fraud in the inducement).
Oh, and Trump’s trying to slow walk the appeal on his tax returns just days after saying the SDNY should expedite their ruling. Trumpworld is playing their games, but the 2d Circuit should remind them that there are consequences to their malfeasance.
re: #132 Dave In Austin
Installation Day!! They moved my surgery up a day
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Good luck, good doctors, good results! Fingers crossed for you
re: #147 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Another reminder that the Turkish govt has no problem assaulting people here in the US:
With Trump abandoning Kurds and pulling troops from northern Syria to clear the way for Turkish attack - a reminder of how Erdogan’s security staff beat Kurdish protesters in Washington DC in May 2017
pic.twitter.com/HGAjD9CeNB— Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) October 7, 2019
re: #150 DangerMan
sure because 2020 will be the year of epic and desperate ratfu**ing
the GOP have no primaries of their own to distract them from devoting full attention to sticking spokes in the wheels of the DNC
re: #70 Rightwingconspirator
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re: #70 Rightwingconspirator
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I would counter that it is likely an argument that is seen rather frequently at WND
— 𝘞𝘉 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) October 8, 2019
Facebook is awful and you should all log off entirely https://t.co/K8rLM4zHUK
— David B. Larter (@DavidLarter) October 8, 2019
Rep. Schiff: “We will consider this act today (blocking Sondland from testifying)… (and) withholding documents…to be further acts of obstruction of a co-equal branch of government.”
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) October 8, 2019
So Bill Clinton can run again! According to This Dumb Trumporrhoid:
These Democrats don’t realize that if they impeach Trump and the Senate doesn’t confirm it then it nullifies Trump’s first term and he gets to run two more times. Read the Constitution, people
— Unmatched Wisdom of Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 1, 2019
re: #160 The Pie Overlord!
That’s unmatched wisdom alright…. unmatched for sheer dumbassery. That’s not what any of this means.
RE Trump’s announcement on Syria plus the Ukraine scandal, from a European intel source: “The world order is collapsing in front of our eyes”
— Betsy Woodruff Swan (@woodruffbets) October 7, 2019
Wait, Betsy hooked up with Jonathan?
Five years ago right now. https://t.co/ngEzGbJ37G
— Philip Bump (@pbump) October 8, 2019
re: #132 Dave In Austin
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Remember when Obama said, “I would love to send Hillary Clinton to testify about Benghazi, but unfortunately she would be testifying before a kangaroo court run by fanatical Republicans who believe in conspiracy theories cooked up by Alex Jones, so… no.”
Good times. https://t.co/Uejti66Ijy— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 8, 2019
re: #131 Dave In Austin
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Reminded this morning that the cover up is almost never worse than the crime, despite the cliché. The reason people cover things up is because they make a rational decision that the underlying crime, if revealed, would be fatal.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) October 8, 2019
Trump: I am totally going to poop my pants
Everyone: He is going to poop his pants
Republicans: He’s just joking
Trump:
Everyone: Yup, he pooped his pants
Republicans: People who hate pants-pooping are the real problem. pic.twitter.com/LcsFbyEKUz— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 7, 2019
re: #167 lawhawk
True enough. But it’s the cover up that gets them in the end.
Oh my God, I can’t stop laughing. pic.twitter.com/FsdezkDBwO
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 19, 2019
Trump reminds me of a guy who goes into a bar and tells the bartender that he’d bet him $100 to urinate into a cup halfway across the room. Bartender takes him up on the bet.
Trump proceeds to piss all over the bar, the bartender, everywhere but the cup.
Bartender laughs and smiles at the good fortune of making $100.
Trump says hold on a sec… goes over to a table and returns with $100. Bartender is like… why are you smiling? You lost $100. Trump’s like, nope. I bet that entire table over there $500 each that I could piss all over you and the bar and you’d smile.
Trump is Trump.
The GOP is bunch at the table.
The institutions of government, including the courts and Democrats, are the bartender.
Big picture folks - Trump continues to hold and accumulate power and the GOP continues enabling him. The bartender needs to smack down Trumpworld hard, and that means including use of inherent contempt powers to back up the subpoena powers.
Without those powers, the subpoenas are empty and while they add to the obstruction counts, it doesn’t get us closer to the information being made public in hearings that show just how corrupt Trumpworld is. Trump gets to continue his twitter tirades and media manipulation.
re: #149 b.d. (It’s all true)
The only thing that makes sense to me is that Trump had to walk back his permission to Erdogan because of the bipartisan outrage and Erdogan gets a White House visit to make up for it.
…that we even have to think this way…..
re: #132 Dave In Austin
Installation Day!! They moved my surgery up a day
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You got it, I would be pretty worried. Best to you!
re: #174 DangerMan
…that we even have to think this way…..
Trump Towers Istanbul
Khashoggi murder in Istanbul
Trump organizations’s connection to MBS and Saudis…
Erdogan seems to have a lot of leverage.
I think that Crooked Hillary Clinton should enter the race to try and steal it away from Uber Left Elizabeth Warren. Only one condition. The Crooked one must explain all of her high crimes and misdemeanors including how & why she deleted 33,000 Emails AFTER getting “C” Subpoena!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 8, 2019
You should have built the wall out of Hillary Clinton because it’s something you’ll never get over.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 8, 2019
You should have built the wall out of Hillary Clinton because it’s something you’ll never get over.
If your mind were the White House, Hillary would have been living there since 2017!!!
Hillary Clinton testified before Congress for 11 hours. Trump wouldn’t last for 11 minutes. #TheResistance #Resist #FBR #ImpeachTrump pic.twitter.com/wTENfym5YL
— Pumpkin Pie Overlord (@Pie_Overlord) October 8, 2019
What in the everloving fuck is happening? Trump has escalated a genocide of the Kurdish people and no one is trying to stop it? Like I needed more anxiety? Great.
re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump Towers Istanbul
Khashoggi murder in Istanbul
Trump organizations’s connection to MBS and Saudis…
Erdogan seems to have a lot of leverage.
Well, to be objective: I read a fairly detailed account linked here yesterday about the background and timeline of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder (New Yorker?) - and while it is fairly obvious that Khashoggi had been marked for the chop*, that it happened at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul seems to have been just a random chance: his fiancee was Turkish, and lived there; and when he just walked into the consulate one day to ask for a certification of his Saudi divorce, Prince MBS’s thug-squad simply jumped on the opportunity, and offed him on his return visit. It might have happened anywhere, though having their quarry simply show up, on his own, at a diplomatic property certainly made it easier.
That said, it was obvious that Turkish Intelligence was all over this from the get-go (they have audio of the whole murder), and it’s way foolish to think that they wouldn’t leverage their knowledge to the max.
*though maybe not as literally as it turned out.
re: #179 lawhawk
And now… for something completely different. Post Gabriel Genesis:
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‘Trick of the Tail’ was a really good album - the one where Collins proved that yeah, he could really sing. ‘Squonk’ was pretty heavy for them, and I loved how they brought it back on the closing track on the album, ‘Los Endos.’
This clip features Bill Bruford as the second drummer instead of Chester Thompson. I got to see them on both runs - and while Chester’s a great drummer, I have a soft spot for Bruford from his work in Yes.
re: #179 lawhawk
And now… for something completely different. Post Gabriel Genesis:
Post-Gabriel-but-still-not-sold-out-pop Genesis
re: #180 The Pie Overlord!
Hillary Clinton testified before Congress for 11 hours. Trump wouldn’t last for 11 minutes.
Trump could not go 11 seconds without contradicting either his own testimony or other sworn testimony.
re: #183 makeitstop
‘Trick of the Tail’ was a really good album - the one where Collins proved that yeah, he could really sing. ‘Squonk’ was pretty heavy for them, and I loved how they brought it back on the closing track on the album, ‘Los Endos.’
This clip features Bill Bruford as the second drummer instead of Chester Thompson. I got to see them on both runs - and while Chester’s a great drummer, I have a soft spot for Bruford from his work in Yes.
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That was from around the last time I saw them live, in 1977/78
Odd birthday confusion:
Trump yday at trade deal signing: “Start by wishing my very good friend, Prime Minister Abe of Japan, a very happy birthday.”
Except: Abe’s birthday=Sept. 21.
Putin’s was yesterday.
Kremlin today noted Trump hasn’t wished Putin a happy birthday yet. https://t.co/uKa7KSKDXq— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 8, 2019
US official tells @NBCNews no US troops have left Syria. They are not packing. No orders to pack. So, Trump’s apparent green light to Turkey for a military operation against the Kurds has trigged confusion and panic, but not real change, for now.
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) October 8, 2019
So Trump makes the announcement without telling anyone, with no input from anyone, and now no one is following the ‘order.’
Big tough guy. The military is pretty much blowing him off here.
re: #187 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Odd birthday confusion:
Trump yday at trade deal signing: “Start by wishing my very good friend, Prime Minister Abe of Japan, a very happy birthday.”
Except: Abe’s birthday=Sept. 21.
Putin’s was yesterday.
Kremlin today noted Trump hasn’t wished Putin a happy birthday yet.
Which again indicates that he rules off the cuff with nobody proofing or double-checking anything…
re: #188 makeitstop
So Trump makes the announcement without telling anyone, with no input from anyone, and now no one is following the ‘order.’
Big tough guy. The military is pretty much blowing him off here.
So what were the reports of troops leaving posts and Turkey commencing bombing?
re: #188 makeitstop
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So Trump makes the announcement without telling anyone, with no input from anyone, and now no one is following the ‘order.’
Big tough guy. The military is pretty much blowing him off here.
Why should they leave when they know that they will just have to be sent back again later to straighten things out?
re: #187 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Trump yday at trade deal signing: “Start by wishing my very good friend, Prime Minister Abe of Japan, a very happy birthday.”
Except: Abe’s birthday=Sept. 21.
Putin’s was yesterday.
Kremlin today noted Trump hasn’t wished Putin a happy birthday yet.
But he gave him a bigly perfect present!
Worth noting on Trump’s Kurdish decision: It may have just cost him most of his support in Israel.
Kurds are held in high regard in Israeli society & deemed a regional ally, and the shock & fury over what’s being viewed as his total betrayal of them is substantial. 1/3— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) October 8, 2019
In addition, ties between Israel & Turkey (former allies) have soured drastically since the hostile Turkish president Erdogan came to power. The Israeli right trusted that Trump would never cave to Erdogan’s demands. Now it seems to them that he just did, much to their shock. 2/3
— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) October 8, 2019
The Israeli left never supported him; only the right had his back. Through his betrayal of the Kurds, he’s basically sent all of Jerusalem a message: “Today it was them. Tomorrow it might be you.”
Going by the overall sentiment on both sides, it’s been heard, loud and clear. 3/3— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) October 8, 2019
Tunisia
— The great and unmatched wisdom of aceoaces! (@aceoaces) October 8, 2019
It’s really past time to update this talking point.
re: #186 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I finally saw them when they were on the Walk This Way tour. Still good, and they played quite a bit of their old stuff.
A while back I got to see The Musical Box, a tribute band, and they play stuff off Foxtrot and Lamb Lies Down on Broadway in period authentic costumes and mannerisms. It’s uncanny really how good they are.
He’s not wrong.
This is a dumb, fallacious argument.
The Democrats are terrible at politics, terrible at power, and terrible at communications.
They’re in a Constitutional crisis, and they’re playing this like weaklings.
Spectacle demands spectacle, power demands power. They suck at it. https://t.co/wnWaiiFNFj— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 8, 2019
re: #188 makeitstop
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So Trump makes the announcement without telling anyone, with no input from anyone, and now no one is following the ‘order.’
Big tough guy. The military is pretty much blowing him off here.
Maybe quibbling, but didn’t Trump’s order only apply to US troops in one particular (Kurdish) area of Syria?
re: #70 Rightwingconspirator
Sorry I am late responding, but sending ALL the best wishes to your wife, and to you.
re: #157 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
𝘞𝘉 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 🍕🐀
@FormerDirtDart
I would counter that it is likely an argument that is seen rather frequently at WND
Well, DT probably weighs twice as much as Jimmie Carter.
The day before Yom Kippur is Eat All Day.
I started with Blueberry Waffles.
Blueberry waffles pic.twitter.com/aIxtcHvWID
— Pumpkin Pie Overlord (@Pie_Overlord) October 8, 2019
re: #195 lawhawk
I finally saw them when they were on the Walk This Way tour. Still good, and they played quite a bit of their old stuff.
A while back I got to see The Musical Box, a tribute band, and they play stuff off Foxtrot and Lamb Lies Down on Broadway in period authentic costumes and mannerisms. It’s uncanny really how good they are.
Musical Box is Genesis-approved! They were given a lot of the props that Gabriel actually used in live performances. That’s rare in the tribute world.
The only other tribute band I know of who got the thumbs up from the actual artist is a Who tribute (the name escapes me, Who’s Next, I think) who have actually been joined on stage by Pete and Rog.
re: #201 makeitstop
Musical Box is Genesis-approved! They were given a lot of the props that Gabriel actually used in live performances. That’s rare in the tribute world.
The only other tribute band I know of who got the thumbs up from the actual artist is a Who tribute (the name escapes me, Who’s Next, I think) who have actually been joined on stage by Pete and Rog.
Billy Joel did the opposite and got a tribute singer to come join his act.
re: #196 Barefoot Grin
He’s not wrong.
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The party that wants to govern needs to beat the party that wants to rule. And the levers of power currently favor the party that wants to rule.
re: #198 retired cynic
Sorry I am late responding, but sending ALL the best wishes to your wife, and to you.
Thanks. The responses are all welcome. It’s serious back trouble but could be far worse. Everyone here is great.
re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Billy Joel did the opposite and got a tribute singer to come join his act.
Yeah, Mike the ‘stunt singer.’ Local dude, I’ve played shows with him in the past.
A couple of years ago I met a young Brit who sings for Jethro Tull - Ian Anderson’s ‘stunt singer,’ hitting the notes that Ian can’t hit any more.
re: #204 Rightwingconspirator
Thanks. The responses are all welcome. It’s serious back trouble but could be far worse. Everyone here is great.
A late response from me since I missed the initial post - the site looks awesome and hope the misses gets well as best as possible and as soon as possible.
re: #204 Rightwingconspirator
Thanks. The responses are all welcome. It’s serious back trouble but could be far worse. Everyone here is great.
Isn’t she the orchid lady? If so, will she be able to keep those? I hope so!
Trump’s tall tale about the military being out of ammunition shows how his lies evolve https://t.co/gY1QQFSQ9R
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 8, 2019
re: #208 Patricia Kayden
Trump’s tall tale about the military being out of ammunition shows how his lies evolve
I assume that line was drawn in with a Sharpie
re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump got tired of his generals telling him they were out of ammo to do his insane military actions (like dropping MOABs on mountains and empty huts in Afghanistan).
re: #210 lawhawk
Trump got tired of his generals telling him they were out of ammo to do his insane military actions (like dropping MOABs on mountains and empty huts in Afghanistan).
I can imagine they were ordered to stack cartridge cases to build sections of The Wall…
“I have broclaimed this personal anecdote which totally aligns with known practices of the time a lie.”
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 8, 2019
re: #203 Belafon
The party that wants to govern needs to beat the party that wants to rule. And the levers of power currently favor the party that wants to rule.
I am usually like the other guy, but I’m so frustrated with how our system is seemingly crumbling that I want hardcore attack ads, etc. RIGHT NOW.
Reminder: Turkey hosts Incerlik air base and the US flies missions against IS from there. It’s a major support base.
It also stores US nuclear weapons.
Threatening Turkey with war is a bad idea, when your air base could get overrun.
Threatening economic war on a country that hosts US nuclear weapons may not, actually, evince “great and unmatched wisdom.” @girlstothefront @businessinsider reminds us that @ArmsControlWonk pointed out last year Incirlik AB’s relative vulnerability: https://t.co/LV6BOjDivu
— CNS (@JamesMartinCNS) October 8, 2019
re: #201 makeitstop
Musical Box is Genesis-approved! They were given a lot of the props that Gabriel actually used in live performances. That’s rare in the tribute world.
The only other tribute band I know of who got the thumbs up from the actual artist is a Who tribute (the name escapes me, Who’s Next, I think) who have actually been joined on stage by Pete and Rog.
I believe there is/are Pink Floyd tribute bands that have official status, and, IIRC are using some of the original instruments on some of their tours.
Brit Floyd is one I have seen. Very well done.
Trump really does everything bigly and better:
it took Nixon 5 months to get to 58%, we are there after 2 weeks pic.twitter.com/TfxJOatW4n
— Greg Dworkin (@DemFromCT) October 8, 2019
re: #210 lawhawk
Trump got tired of his generals telling him they were out of ammo to do his insane military actions (like dropping MOABs on mountains and empty huts in Afghanistan).
And sadly, his demented Nazi cult base will accept his ammunition lie simply because he’s ‘pwning’ Obama.
re: #215 uncah91
I believe there is/are Pink Floyd tribute bands that have official status, and, IIRC are using some of the original instruments on some of their tours.
Brit Floyd is one I have seen. Very well done.
But Australian Pink Floyd is the Industry Standard
re: #218 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
One of the Floyd tribute bands is called The Machine, and I hope to catch them next time they’re in the area….
Trump has climbed down into the Führerbunker of his mind. We know from history that there comes a time when orders from narcissists are ignored because people outside the bunker know the commander is batshit crazy and trying to save his ass.
— Andy Farquhar (@andy_farquhar) October 8, 2019
re: #219 lawhawk
One of the Floyd tribute bands is called The Machine, and I hope to catch them next time they’re in the area….
Not to be confused with The Machine we’re supposed to Rage Against….
I don’t know why so many Republicans are so bent of of shape by Trump’s statement about doublecrossing the Kurds.
Clearly, he’s not “serious”.
It’s the media’s fault for believing anything he says is the policy of the United States, right?
Right?— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 7, 2019
re: #70 Rightwingconspirator
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re: #222 sagehen
Not to be confused with The Machine we’re supposed to Rage Against….
For that, we’re supposed to rally around the flag… with a pocket full of shells. And listen on Guerrilla radio.
re: #70 Rightwingconspirator
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re: #222 sagehen
Not to be confused with The Machine we’re supposed to Rage Against….
No, that’s the one to which we are Welcome, My Son…
re: #132 Dave In Austin
You have mine. Best of wishes.
re: #132 Dave In Austin
Installation Day!! They moved my surgery up a day
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Good luck! Wishing you an easy recovery.
re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
No, that’s the one to which we are Welcome, My Son…
Have a Cigar!
What. The. Fuck.
Why isn’t Stone in jail?
Roger Stone reached out to militia groups to shore up support for Trump in an impeachment hearing. They’ll go violent if articles are introduced. https://t.co/KpFY74HBlu
— 🐝john sepulvado🐝 (@JohnLGC) October 8, 2019
re: #207 retired cynic
Isn’t she the orchid lady? If so, will she be able to keep those? I hope so!
Oh yes, we hope the surgery will return a lot of movement without pain and all that will be fine. in the meantime I help.
Guess it wasn’t a “perfect call” after all. https://t.co/JTAIbJFsJQ
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) October 8, 2019
I presume the calculation is that congressional Republicans are more likely to stick with Trump over stonewalling Congress than after they hear whatever Sondland would say under oath. https://t.co/y7I6BqB89r
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) October 8, 2019
re: #236 DangerMan
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Republicans have sold their souls to Putin. They will stick with Trump till the end.
Getting ready for services tonight. Shocked by what I heard when I was at Rosh Hashanah services with people turning on Booby Nincompoopo with a searing hot hatred for his Trump asskissing. And they despise Trump and want that motherfather gone. don’t even bring up Steven Miller with them! We’re talking lynch mob if they get their hands on him…
RealClearPolitics’ sister page also has an odd affinity for all things Russia. https://t.co/bwI9YwvM8p pic.twitter.com/AZubsvXKlt
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) October 8, 2019
I’ve seen this Alt-Right meme shared on Facebook and Twitter a lot. Conservatives actually believe Russian-style authoritarianism is better than Western Democracy.
“Lindsey and the lickspittles were repeatedly warned about the stable genius”
“By the way, it’s charming that Republicans are more stoked about defending the Kurds in Syria than they are about the defending the Constitution of their own country. And don’t underestimate the possibility that Trump timed his impulsive act to tilt the news cycle away from the burgeoning impeachment probe.
But I digressed. This column is about Trump’s long-signaled foreign policy ignorance. It’s admittedly useless at this point to wonder whether these fuming Republicans were alive in 2016 to heed the warnings; clearly, they switched off their brains and surrendered to the cult, shaming this nation for the foreseeable future. So the better question is, what are they prepared to do now? We’re stuck with a fake president who, yesterday, extolled his “great and unmatched wisdom,” claimed that “people are extremely thrilled” about his cut-and-run decision, and claimed that he hadn’t acted alone (“I always consult with everybody,” he lied), so what are the odds that outraged Republicans will convert their words into action?”
I’d further posit that any report regarding a Trump “policy” be treated as malware and vaporware unless there’s a hard copy - like an introduced piece of legislation. pic.twitter.com/Gb01Em5af5
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 8, 2019
Question: is a Trump tweet considered an official policy to be implemented immediately or does the president have to go through traditional channels for the government to adopt a policy?
re: #233 Joe Bacon 🌹
What. The. Fuck.
Why isn’t Stone in jail?
Sounds like something the FBI will need to look into.
re: #242 Hecuba’s daughter
Question: is a Trump tweet considered an official policy to be implemented immediately or does the president have to go through traditional channels for the government to adopt a policy?
It is an official government announcement but it is not binding, I recall that issue from his announced ban on trans service members.
Now that I say that, people just need to tell the militia groups that Stone is working for the FBI to root them out.
re: #242 Hecuba’s daughter
Question: is a Trump tweet considered an official policy to be implemented immediately or does the president have to go through traditional channels for the government to adopt a policy?
Yes.
Trump doesn’t know how to enact a policy. He thinks his say-so is enough, and he doesn’t know or care that his public utterances and tweets can be read as policy changes, even if they run counter to everything else the US has ever done.
Prior presidents would run policy changes before their advisers and have a proper rollout, but Trump doesn’t do any of that. He doesn’t listen to advisers, and the DoD was caught unawares of the change re: Kurds and Turkey.
So the Pentagon has to go back to Trump and see if that’s actually what he wants them to do, and until it’s done, everyone’s in chaos mode (because that’s what happens when Trump spews nonsensical ravings on hot spot issues that have deadly consequences) trying to figure out what any of this means.
We have a sociopath in the WH. None of this is good, and it undermines our security and standing in the world. No one will trust the US going forward, which Trump and his know nothing supporters thinks makes us great (again)?
re: #238 Joe Bacon 🌹
Getting ready for services tonight. Shocked by what I heard when I was at Rosh Hashanah services with people turning on Booby Nincompoopo with a searing hot hatred for his Trump asskissing. And they despise Trump and want that motherfather gone. don’t even bring up Steven Miller with them! We’re talking lynch mob if they get their hands on him…
גמר חתימה טובה
(May you be sealed in for a good year)
re: #247 The Pie Overlord!
גמר חתימה טובה
(May you be sealed in for a good year)
And the same to both of you and all our fellow Jewish Lizards!
re: #247 The Pie Overlord!
גמר חתימה טובה
(May you be sealed in for a good year)
Sending with a hug and love for you & yours!
re: #238 Joe Bacon 🌹
Getting ready for services tonight. Shocked by what I heard when I was at Rosh Hashanah services with people turning on Booby Nincompoopo with a searing hot hatred for his Trump asskissing. And they despise Trump and want that motherfather gone. don’t even bring up Steven Miller with them! We’re talking lynch mob if they get their hands on him…
And this is before Trump upset the Israelis by a tweet abandoning the Kurds?? The Trump supporters I know still worship him and believe he’s a genius.
re: #242 Hecuba’s daughter
Question: is a Trump tweet considered an official policy to be implemented immediately or does the president have to go through traditional channels for the government to adopt a policy?
It would appear that the military thinks not.
(By the way, if it turns out that DT has alienated his allies talking about a withdrawal that ends up not happening, we good guys end up with a — very narrow — win. But we still need to impeach him to hang on to our future credibility.)
re: #250 Hecuba’s daughter
And this is before Trump upset the Israelis by a tweet abandoning the Kurds?? The Trump supporters I know still worship him and believe he’s a genius.
My family will still line up before Trump and beg to kiss his ass because he’s been anointed by those fucking crooked Pulpit Pimps.
re: #247 The Pie Overlord!
גמר חתימה טובה
(May you be sealed in for a good year)
לשנה טובה to all Jewish lizards! (And to the rest of us as well — we need a break!)
Betty Cracker makes an good point that relates to Rick Wilson’s statement at #196:
What I do know is that it took an absurd spectacle to bring Trump to power, and it will take another gaudy extravaganza to oust the motherfucker. Impeaching Trump for not giving up documents doesn’t seem like it would lend itself to a media bonanza, but maybe with the right stage management and compelling witnesses…
It’s a bit like having to wait for Trump to threaten Ukraine before Democrats could get people on board with the idea that Trump should be impeached.
She also has a Washington Post interview with Chris Murphy about how Democrats are proceding:
There has been some suggestion that Democrats would give up on the courts, and merely take all of this stonewalling and make it the subject of an article of impeachment for obstructing Congress.
But Schiff told me that Democrats have the option of doing both simultaneously, though he cautioned that no decisions had been made.
“I do not foreclose at all other efforts in parallel to make sure we fully find out all the facts, including court,” Schiff said. He noted that if the administration fought these efforts, “that will not delay us from going forward with articles of impeachment if they are warranted by the president’s obstruction.”
“We need to protect the country,” Schiff said. “We need to expose whatever wrongdoing has gone on. That work is going to have to proceed.”
Schiff noted, crucially, that Democrats could continue to fight for information in court even after the House voted to impeach — which could potentially lay the groundwork for additional articles later.
“If it is necessary to go down the road of other articles of impeachment, then presumably there will be a trial in the Senate,” Schiff said. “I don’t think there’s a court in the land that will preclude the Congress from getting the evidence it needs at trial.”
And:
Article I of Nixon Impeachment:
in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, [he] has … withh[eld] relevant& material evidence or information from lawfully authorized investigative officers … of the UShttps://t.co/cIVYJIB8XM— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) October 8, 2019
re: #212 Ace-o-aces
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Every pundit who said Donald Trump would grow into the office of President rather than decline into a vastly-worse barely-coherent national menace should lose their job and be locked in a basement
— BILL OAKLEY (@thatbilloakley) October 7, 2019
Good. I have questions. https://t.co/Ty8QMQzAp4
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 8, 2019
re: #247 The Pie Overlord!
!צום קל וגמר חתימה טובה לכל
Be signed and sealed in for a good year and have an easy fast!
re: #257 Belafon
Good. I have questions.
I wonder why he feels the need to make a threat like that to Rudy. Is he somehow stepping out of the DT line?
re: #252 Joe Bacon 🌹
My family will still line up before Trump and beg to kiss his ass because he’s been anointed by those fucking crooked Pulpit Pimps.
The Jewish Trump acolytes of my acquaintance (including my brother) have not lost their faith. Maybe if Netanyahu came out against him, they would reconsider. They believe Trump is a brilliant real estate developer and expert negotiator. They also do not see in those fleeing violence and death south of the border as akin to the Jews fleeing Nazi persecution and they really don’t care about deaths of those who are not Americans.
re: #246 lawhawk
Yes.
Trump doesn’t know how to enact a policy. He thinks his say-so is enough, and he doesn’t know or care that his public utterances and tweets can be read as policy changes, even if they run counter to everything else the US has ever done.
Prior presidents would run policy changes before their advisers and have a proper rollout, but Trump doesn’t do any of that. He doesn’t listen to advisers, and the DoD was caught unawares of the change re: Kurds and Turkey.
So the Pentagon has to go back to Trump and see if that’s actually what he wants them to do, and until it’s done, everyone’s in chaos mode (because that’s what happens when Trump spews nonsensical ravings on hot spot issues that have deadly consequences) trying to figure out what any of this means.
We have a sociopath in the WH. None of this is good, and it undermines our security and standing in the world. No one will trust the US going forward, which Trump and his know nothing supporters thinks makes us great (again)?
he thinks his entire presidency is his tweets - a true and exact record of what he wants, thinks and has demanded/commanded.
he has no idea there is a whole mechanism of government out there and doesnt really care
if he tweets it, it happened
How’d that work out for Nixon? He resigned right before the articles of impeachment were to be submitted.
No. Trump doesn’t have a strategy other than what he always does: lie, obfuscate, delay, deny, obstruct, and project like IMAX. Facts, law, and logic are against him.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 8, 2019
Hitler’s Generals were ignoring him towards the end too.
re: #264 GlutenFreeJesus
Hitler’s Generals were ignoring him towards the end too.
Yes they were, after Germany had been turned into rubble.
re: #259 A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!
I wonder why he feels the need to make a threat like that to Rudy. Is he somehow stepping out of the DT line?
i think its not a threat
it’s ”let’s put on a show” to distract from what the house is doing
Hey the press, a suggestion.
Before you report on Matt Gaetz or Jim Jordan or Matt Meadows misciting the script they’re reading for the WH, first get them on record on whether standard applied to Hillary’s emails applies to Sondland’s WhatsApp chats.
Just a suggestion…— emptywheel (@emptywheel) October 8, 2019
re: #262 lawhawk
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A few quick takeaways from the Title VII arguments, more to come in a bit:
- Justices on both sides of ideological spectrum are clearly really focused on the issue of bathroom use and the rights of transgender individuals, even as lawyers kept saying this is not that case— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) October 8, 2019
- Setting aside Kavanaugh, the court’s conservative arm spent time exploring the arg that this is a matter for Congress, and not the courts, to decide. On the other side of that coin, the liberal arm asked Qs about historical role of courts in protecting rights
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) October 8, 2019
re: #266 DangerMan
i think its not a threat
it’s ”let’s put on a show” to distract from what the house is doing[Embedded content]
ps - i think he’s just now realized the dems will ask questions too
re: #259 A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!
I wonder why he feels the need to make a threat like that to Rudy. Is he somehow stepping out of the DT line?
And I have another question: why should Graham’s “invitation” to Giuliani be interpreted as a “threat”?? AFAICT, he’s offering Rudy! a free forum in front of a Senate Committee to spout off his usual God-knows-what unhinged conspiracy-theory ranting: with free media coverage.
And it probably won’t matter what he says: the Republicans on the Committee will likely fall all over themselves kissing his ass and praising him for being such a Courageous Defender of Truth, Justice, and Donald Trump; while any “questions” from Sen. Harris (or any other Democrat) will be answered with sneering dismissal, insults, and/or outright lies.
re: #268 A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!
I think he was being ironic. Or referring to Nixon’s “strategy” of holing up in the White House and muttering bad things about his “enemies,” Twitter not being available.
so “bold move, cotton” eh?
re: #271 Jay C
And I have another question: why should Graham’s “invitation” to Giuliani be interpreted as a “threat”?? AFAICT, he’s offering Rudy! a free forum in front of a Senate Committee to spout off his usual God-knows-what unhinged conspiracy-theory ranting: with free media coverage.
And it probably won’t matter what he says: the Republicans on the Committee will likely fall all over themselves kissing his ass and praising him for being such a Courageous Defender of Truth, Justice, and Donald Trump; while any “questions” from Sen. Harris (or any other Democrat) will be answered with sneering dismissal, insults, and/or outright lies.
further, everything in that hearing will be quoted over and over as ‘evidence’
while everything coming from a House hearing is unfair, lies, loss of civil rights, etc
re: #269 Backwoods_Sleuth
Zoe Tillman
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@ZoeTillman
- Setting aside Kavanaugh, the court’s conservative arm spent time exploring the arg that this is a matter for Congress, and not the courts, to decide. On the other side of that coin, the liberal arm asked Qs about historical role of courts in protecting rights38
11:41 AM - Oct 8, 2019
So we know how Loving vs Virginia might have been decided by this court..
In a courtroom, the DOJ policy forbidding a sitting president from being indicted has no force of law whatsoever. It is foolish for DOJ to even make arguments based on that policy. Indeed, the policy weighs against arguments seeking to limit or prevent discovery. https://t.co/uyyvlQ6Dt9
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) October 8, 2019
That’s why Trump is trying to stop him from testifying, of course. They were all in on the extortion scheme. https://t.co/QJSgfBAjhD
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 8, 2019
re: #242 Hecuba’s daughter
Question: is a Trump tweet considered an official policy to be implemented immediately or does the president have to go through traditional channels for the government to adopt a policy?
All bets are off with this lunatic in charge. Trump has no idea what the traditional channels are, and no interest in following them anyway.
Needless to say, this is no way to run a country.
hahahahaha
Trump campaign threatens to sue Minneapolis Target Center for asking them to pay $530,000 in rally-related expenses up front https://t.co/FjOdH0XD63
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 8, 2019
Why should WE, Minnesota taxpayers, have to pay for HIS free hate speech? He can pay his own security costs or move the rally somewhere else.
‘Can’t Price Out Free Speech’: Trump Campaign Threatens Lawsuit Over Target Center Security Costs https://t.co/Wg1F8BctXy— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) October 8, 2019
Even now, with a full-on impeachment investigation under way and public opinion rapidly turning against him, Trump STILL hasn’t even bothered to find out what impeachment is or how it works. https://t.co/ihCtU8z0Mk
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 8, 2019
#kaparot using money, not a chicken. #YomKippur #YomKippur5780 גמר חתימה טובה pic.twitter.com/kWdYCncGUV
— Pumpkin Pie Overlord (@Pie_Overlord) October 8, 2019
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
hahahahaha
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this is their only go-to - lawsuits
and this one’s a stinker / loser
- private property so not a 1A violation
- history of not paying its bills - see galveston el paso, i think?
depends on what the contract (if any) says, i guess
re: #271 Jay C
And I have another question: why should Graham’s “invitation” to Giuliani be interpreted as a “threat”?? AFAICT, he’s offering Rudy! a free forum in front of a Senate Committee to spout off his usual God-knows-what unhinged conspiracy-theory ranting: with free media coverage.
And it probably won’t matter what he says: the Republicans on the Committee will likely fall all over themselves kissing his ass and praising him for being such a Courageous Defender of Truth, Justice, and Donald Trump; while any “questions” from Sen. Harris (or any other Democrat) will be answered with sneering dismissal, insults, and/or outright lies.
Are we talking about the same person? The idea that Rudy could control himself enough to dismiss Dems’ questions is rather amusing. Even if he manages it, it’s more evidence for his trial.
“Wow, O.K.,” responded U.S. Chief District Judge Beryl A. Howell of Washington, D.C., sounding unpersuaded. “As I said, the department is taking an extraordinary position in this case.”
— Spencer Hsu (@hsu_spencer) October 8, 2019
“Molly is back home and her family promises to keep her away from trains in the future.”
yeah it was the fuckin train that was the problem here https://t.co/h0xGsiB7Bk— darth™ (@darth) October 8, 2019
On blocking testimonies, Pres Carter: “That is a departure from custom & what American people expect-I think that’s going to be another item of evidence used against him if he continues to stonewall & prevent evidence to be put forward to House & Senate to consider.” #AMRstaff
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) October 8, 2019
re: #283 DangerMan
this is their only go-to - lawsuits
and this one’s a stinker / loser
- private property so not a 1A violation
- history of not paying its bills - seegalvestonel paso, i think?depends on what the contract (if any) says, i guess
and ps - no one is required to extend you credit terms
“She said, ‘Do you want to sue Nazis with me? And I said, ‘Absolutely.’”
So inspired by the dream team of @amyspitalnick, @kaplanrobbie, & @karenleahdunn, who are taking on the structures of resurgent white supremacy with @IntegrityForUSA. https://t.co/AiL5L6y0vv— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 8, 2019
this seems….relevant and sorta BIG
A person with knowledge of the situation confirms to NBC News that Ambassador Gordon Sondland spoke by phone with President Trump on September 9 before responding to acting Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor’s text about it being “crazy” to link Ukraine assistance to help with a political campaign.
and this part:
U.S. officials and others with knowledge of their relationship also say that Sondland is part of a small cadre of ambassadors who enjoy direct and frequent access to Trump. They say the two speak frequently by phone and have spoken extensively about Ukraine in the past.
amazing what campaign donations can buy
That effort also included denigrating Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush — considered to be hostile to the Kremlin. https://t.co/T3KD3Y6OPC pic.twitter.com/E26ebX0De2
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 8, 2019
This intriguing bit from a section titled “Ongoing IRA Activities:https://t.co/T3KD3Y6OPC pic.twitter.com/5IS92GVkrn
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 8, 2019
Grifters gonna grift.
For Yom Kippur, Trump spiritual adviser Paula White tells supporters that if they honor and obey God by sending her money, they will receive seven special atonement blessings. https://t.co/UZTRpkQn4s
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 8, 2019
Awareness of guilt. https://t.co/7AFTGKBGPQ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 8, 2019
re: #295 The Pie Overlord!
What the actual fuck?
It’s as bad as at that idiot televangelist (forget his name) that used to sell that bullshit holy water on his infomercials.
re: #297 Eclectic Cyborg
What the actual fuck?
It’s as bad as at that idiot televangelist (forget his name) that used to sell that bullshit holy water on his infomercials.
I can’t say this is “cultural appropriation” because I don’t know any Jews who do this stupid feces (trying not to cuss before Yom Kippur)
re: #293 DangerMan
and this part:
amazing what campaign donations can buy
It has ever been so.
Imagine wanting to buy access to DT.
re: #298 The Pie Overlord!
I can’t say this is “cultural appropriation” because I don’t know any Jews who do this stupid feces (trying not to cuss before Yom Kippur)
Stupid fewmets.
Law School Applications Increase Upon Realization That Any Fucking Idiot Can Be Lawyer https://t.co/AVgd9XY96q pic.twitter.com/mTRFCdfIww
— The Onion (@TheOnion) October 8, 2019
re: #295 The Pie Overlord!
Grifters gonna grift.
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OK: even though Jewish, I’m a little shaky on a large number of observances and beliefs, but one thing I think is pretty clear: “Atonement” on Yom Kippur is meant to be (and can’t be other than) a voluntary, personal offering: it can’t be bought and sold for money like excess airline miles….
And Paula White isn’t even Jewish.
this is the purest video i have ever seen
(Stephanie Vice/SPCA Florida FB) pic.twitter.com/yrklq0wIia— Humor And Animals (@humorandanimals) October 6, 2019
re: #295 The Pie Overlord!
Evangelicals should be deeply troubled by Donald Trump’s attempt to mainstream heresy
Narrator: “But they weren’t troubled, not at all.”
I’m intrigued that US Amb to EU Gordon Sondland, at age 62, even knew what What’s App was, let alone how to use it AND that he should use it to hide his text messages with others in the Trump administration.
Who told Sondland, Volker and Taylor to use What’s App?— John Scare-avosis🇺🇸 (@aravosis) October 8, 2019
re: #305 jaunte
Who’s the youngest non-Trump advisor? /rhetorical
Stopping businesses from firing people because they’re black is fascism. https://t.co/2DWGGDa7ta
— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) October 8, 2019
Jimmy Carter videos are my regular reminder that I’m not doing nearly as much as I should be. https://t.co/Bx0DDS4MuN
— Joe Heim (@JoeHeim) October 8, 2019
re: #301 teleskiguy
Who’s the dude in the middle with the mustache?
re: #309 Eclectic Cyborg
Ty Cobb:
en.wikipedia.org
re: #118 Eventual Carrion
FYI: I seems that today is national Pierogi day. Enjoy!
Added: These people are visiting my work campus today. Too bad I work from home.
Do you think trump might try to pierogi Congress?
re: #296 Charles Johnson
Unsettled aides also immediately began quizzing each other about whether they should alert senior officials.
pro tip 1: if you have to ask, then yes
pro tip 2: if you still don’t, get a lawyer
re: #283 DangerMan
this is their only go-to - lawsuits
and this one’s a stinker / loser
- private property so not a 1A violation
- history of not paying its bills - seegalvestonel paso, i think?depends on what the contract (if any) says, i guess
Minor correction the Target center is owned by the city so it is not private property.
I knew him when he was a 2nd Lieutenant, way back when I was Staff Sergeant DirtDart. And later, as a Major, when I was First Sergeant DirtDart
Lt. Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, a former @82ndABNDiv commander, has returned to @FtBraggNC as the 18th Airborne Corps’s newest commanding officer. https://t.co/iE7cHOgpUZ
— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) October 8, 2019
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