Bad Lip Reading Does “BIDEN 2020” [VIDEO]
Joe Biden hits the campaign trail before the 2020 election
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There is no BLR spoof that can capture the gibberish that pours out of Trump’s mouth hole every day.
re: #1 The Pie Overlord!
There is no BLR spoof that can capture the gibberish that pours out of Trump’s mouth hole every day.
A Trump BLR would make more sense than actual Trump.
From the previous thread:
re: #317 lawhawk
Kasich just changed his mind live on CNN, now supports impeachment.
— John Scare-avosis🇺🇸 (@aravosis) October 18, 2019
Trump: We all know Kasich is just a spy for Hillary. We even saw on SNL how she tried to get the Electoral College, which I won the largest margin ever, to switch to him.
He probably has no idea of the horrors he evokes with those terms. And that makes it even more disturbing. https://t.co/PmCcJUUuj8
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2019
Glad Kasich is backing impeachment. I don’t like him but he’s got some integrity in a party that has zero.
re: #8 Charles Johnson
I’m pretty sure Miller is just telling him that these will sound great.
re: #8 Charles Johnson
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It’s disturbing to see any President talk this way. These are human beings ffs.
re: #10 Belafon
I’m pretty sure Miller is just telling him that these will sound great.
I want bad things to befall Miller. He’s the worst person not named Trump in the WH.
From last string:
Anti-LGBT politician resigns after being ‘caught having sex with man in his office’
Wes Goodman resigns for ‘inappropriate conduct’
This happens so often it has to be the rule rather than the exception. IT IS THE REASON THIS SUB-CULTURE EXISTS. Public moralizing and gay-bashing, not to mention extremist conspiracy theories like Q-Anon and Pizzagate, are pure self-covering projection for a sub-culture that is built around, and FOR, perverts, pedophiles, adulterers, and closet cases.
Yesterday the White House Chief of Staff admitted that they withheld congressionally approved aid to Ukraine to get a corrupt quid pro quo deal, but what you want to talk about is how wrong it was for Hillary Clinton to correctly say Russia is grooming Tulsi Gabbard as an asset?
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) October 18, 2019
re: #13 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
From last string:
Anti-LGBT politician resigns after being ‘caught having sex with man in his office’
This happens so often it has to be the rule rather than the exception. IT IS THE REASON THIS SUB-CULTURE EXISTS. Public moralizing and gay-bashing, not to mention extremist conspiracy theories like Q-Anon and Pizzagate, are pure self-covering projection for a sub-culture that is built around, and FOR, perverts, pedophiles, adulterers, and closet cases.
November 2017. Still the same hypocrisy tho.
re: #14 goddamnedfrank
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Yeah why would a pro gay rights party take issue with a person who used homophobic rhetoric to talk about gay rights and made excuses for Assad. I really wish Meaghan would stop being a professional concern troll and actually find a real job.
I love it when Hillary Clinton says obviously true things that get Glenn Greenwald’s knickers in a twist.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2019
‘Dad stop the burning, I beg you’: Horrifying footage reveals badly-burned Kurdish children in Syria amid claims Turkey is using banned weapons such as napalm and white phosphorus#TrumpBetrayedKurds https://t.co/d5xYYVq4qX
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) October 18, 2019
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Glenn is predictably having a meltdown. Saying Tulsi Gabbard is a favorite of Russia is basically the same thing as saying Hillary murdered Vince Foster. pic.twitter.com/AhQxq8mpIo
— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) October 18, 2019
re: #16 HappyWarrior
I really wish Meaghan would stop being a professional concern troll and actually find a real job.
That is her real job.
re: #14 goddamnedfrank
Yesterday the White House Chief of Staff admitted that they withheld congressionally approved aid to Ukraine to get a corrupt quid pro quo deal, but what you want to talk about is how wrong it was for Hillary Clinton to correctly say Russia is grooming Tulsi Gabbard as an asset?
Running Government like a Legitimate Business
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Socky McSockpuppet is nothing if not predictable.
re: #9 HappyWarrior
It’s great that he’s supporting impeachment — hopefully more Republicans will follow his lead. However, if he really wants to help the country, he’d launch a primary challenge against Trump.
Right now the only primary challengers are people who only have integrity only when compared with Donald Trump.
- a governor who went missing to meet with his mistress
- a one term congressmen who skipped out on child support and won by under 1,000 votes
- a former VP candidate for the Libertarian party who IIRC basically sold out his party and effectively endorsed Hillary.
re: #19 Patricia Kayden
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Didn’t see Glenn object when HRC was accused of enabling a pedophile ring. This guy really fucking needs to get over his derangement with the Democratic establishment. He’s a poisonous prick who thinks he can shoot shit out but can’t take it in return.
re: #24 aatharuv
It’s great that he’s supporting impeachment — hopefully more Republicans will follow his lead. However, if he really wants to help the country, he’d launch a primary challenge against Trump.
Right now the only primary challengers are people who only have integrity only when compared with Donald Trump.
- a governor who went missing to meet with his mistress
- a one term congressmen who skipped out on child support and won by under 1,000 votes
- a former VP candidate for the Libertarian party who IIRC basically sold out his party and effectively endorsed Hillary.
Definitely. Weld btw was a Republican governor in the 90’s.
History lesson: when Bill Clinton fired WH Travel Office employees in 1993, it led to 7 1/2 years of investigations by Congress and Ken Starr. GOP was outraged, alleging that Clinton wanted to steer travel business to friends.
Doral is 10 times worse. But now, no GOP outrage.— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) October 18, 2019
#IOKIYAR - it’s okay if you’re a Republican.
Trump can murder someone on 5th Avenue, but GOPers will defend him claiming that the victim had it coming, and that Hillary’s email server was so much worse.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 18, 2019
re: #24 aatharuv
A primary challenge seems kind of meaningless to me with so many states cancelling their primaries. Maybe he can launch a third-party candidacy.
In this coming election, Tulsi Gabbard will be playing the part of The Right Wing’s Favorite Pseudo-Lefty.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2019
The new Trump talking point is that everyone should just “get over” his crimes https://t.co/lYAtuY6yUE
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 18, 2019
It’s Friday… and there’s a brief pause in the deluge of news.
I’m going to go on a limb and say that this is the deep breath before the plunge.
re: #23 lawhawk
Socky McSockpuppet is nothing if not predictable.
I refuse to read The Intercept because of how full of shit he is. He’s a self righteous asshole who has a giant agenda who thinks he’s a crusading journalist who had far more worse opinions than those he attacks.
re: #18 Scottish Dragon
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Its a horror. And this time we are responsible for it. We forgot.
1) In June of 1945, after the war with Germany had ended, an American Army officer in Frankfurt moved into an abandoned apartment and did what he could to make it livable.
Opening a closet door, he discovered an album of photographs. https://t.co/o8dCtM2ibP pic.twitter.com/NVM1aGtzHD— McKay Smith (@McKayMSmith) October 17, 2019
So, the interesting thing is that HRC didn’t say Gabbard’s name, but everyone filled in the blank immediately.
“She’s the favorite of the Russians”, says Hillary, and EVERYBODY knows who she means.
re: #20 jeffreyw
That is her real job.
It is but it’s still not a real job. And to think twelve years ago I thought she was decent because Ann Coulter hates her.
re: #9 HappyWarrior
Glad Kasich is backing impeachment. I don’t like him but he’s got some integrity in a party that has zero.
I suspect, given the way that the GOP tends to operate, most have been waiting for someone else to breach the door. I think Murkowski cracked it open yesterday, Kasich is pushing it open today. Wouldn’t be surprised if the dam sort of breaks this coming week.
In this coming election, Tulsi Gabbard will be playing the part of The Right Wing’s Favorite Pseudo-Lefty.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2019
Just doing an experiment to see how quickly a pro-Tulsi bot would be on that tweet. Took less than a minute.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2019
re: #33 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Its a horror. And this time we are responsible for it. We forgot.
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They taught us never forget in school and then we elected Trump.
re: #36 KGxvi
I suspect, given the way that the GOP tends to operate, most have been waiting for someone else to breach the door. I think Murkowski cracked it open yesterday, Kasich is pushing it open today. Wouldn’t be surprised if the dam sort of breaks this coming week.
It’s a lot more cracked than it was before Trump fucked the Kurds.
re: #28 Belafon
A primary challenge seems kind of meaningless to me with so many states cancelling their primaries. Maybe he can launch a third-party candidacy.
No! Splitting the anti-Trump vote is how Trump got elected in the first place.
re: #38 HappyWarrior
They taught us never forget in school and then we elected Trump.
“Never forget” is only useful if there’s a moral lesson attached to the never forgetting. You can also “never forget” and think that ethnic cleansing and genocide are actually net positives for the world. Then it’s just a blueprint for doing it better next time.
re: #30 Patricia Kayden
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Psst they have been passing stuff. But Moscow Mitch refuses to bring it up in the Senate. Where were the infrastructure bills, health research bills when Ryan was speaker?
re: #40 NO SMOCKING GUN!
No! Splitting the anti-Trump vote is how Trump got elected in the first place.
I don’t see any Democrats voting for Kasich. What this would do is give “principled” Republicans a way to vote against Trump without voting for the Democrat.
re: #41 KGxvi
“Never forget” is only useful if there’s a moral lesson attached to the never forgetting. You can also “never forget” and think that ethnic cleansing and genocide are actually net positives for the world. Then it’s just a blueprint for doing it better next time.
I guess it’s stayed with me. I’ve been to three of the camps now and know that the Nazis nearly burned one of my ancestral villages.
re: #43 Belafon
I don’t see any Democrats voting for Kasich. What this would do is give “principled” Republicans a way to vote against Trump without voting for the Democrat.
Correct.
re: #35 HappyWarrior
It is but it’s still not a real job. And to think twelve years ago I thought she was decent because Ann Coulter hates her.
Taking the job a good American wouldn’t do.
re: #43 Belafon
I don’t see any Democrats voting for Kasich. What this would do is give “principled” Republicans a way to vote against Trump without voting for the Democrat.
And swing voters who might otherwise vote Democrat. If there is just one mainstream candidates, almost all of the 54% who oppose Trump will vote Democrat and he will lose. Two mainstream candidates running against Trump risks splitting the anti-Trump vote again.
re: #47 NO SMOCKING GUN!
And swing voters who might otherwise vote Democrat. If there is just one mainstream candidates, almost all of the 54% who oppose Trump will vote Democrat and he will lose. Two mainstream candidates running against Trump risks splitting the anti-Trump vote again.
Teddy Roosevelt set a pretty good precident for this.
It’s….not even close. I can cite you chapter and verse of politicians who have gone to jail for steering government contracts to friends/cut-outs. This is even worse!
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 18, 2019
There are no mythical swing voters going “I’d love to vote against Trump, but not if it means banks get held accountable.”
re: #43 Belafon
I don’t see any Democrats voting for Kasich. What this would do is give “principled” Republicans a way to vote against Trump without voting for the Democrat.
Outside of New Mexico where he got almost 10% of the vote as the former governor, Johnson got over 5% in 8 states, 6 of which Trump won by much more than 5% (ND, AK, OK, MT, WY). The two states that he didn’t win - Colorado and Maine - Johnson’s vote going to Trump would have flipped those states to Trump’s column.
There’s a decent argument to make that if Johnson and Stein weren’t on the ballot in most states, the vast majority of their voters would not have cast a ballot for either Trump or Clinton. And that’s typically true most years regarding most third party candidates.
re: #49 Scottish Dragon
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It’s insane how brazenly corrupt he is and how his base is too stupid to care, projects, or sees nothing wrong with it. I’ve come so close to going off on Trump supporters I know.
Pres. Trump says a potential visit by Turkish Pres. Erdogan to the White House is now “very much open.”
“I would say that, yeah, he would come. He did a terrific thing. He’s a leader.” https://t.co/7hSq6wwShC pic.twitter.com/0wGhDTagjd— ABC News (@ABC) October 18, 2019
Fuck you, Cartman.
How does “that makes it even more disturbing” let him off the hook?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2019
A terrific thing?
Bombing and gassing people by the thousands is a “Terrific thing”??
JFC.
re: #53 Dread Pirate
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Fuck you, Cartman.
The protestors will actually need to have self defense weapons. You can almost bet that the bodyguard thing will happen again, and Erdogens guys kicked one protestor so badly he had brain damage (that kind of thing is generally enough to legally allow lethal self defense measures BTW)
re: #47 NO SMOCKING GUN!
It’s a bit more complicated than that, IMO. Assuming a Trump, Dem, Kasich race instead of a Trump, Dem race.
Some people wouldn’t have voted for anyone, but voted for Kasich (Net zero benefit)
Some people would have voted for Trump, but voted for Kasich (Trump -1, Dem 0).
Some never Trumpers who would have voted for the Dem, but vote for Kasich instead. (Trump 0, Dem -1).
Some Dem voters who vote for Kasich instead (Trump 0, Dem -1). Seems really unlikely there are many in this category.
Basically, if there are more die hard republicans who are looking for a way to vote against Trump without voting for a Democrat than never Trumpers who switch from the Democrat to Kasich. Basically, 2020’s equivalent of McMullin or (some) Johnson voters.
re: #48 Belafon
Teddy Roosevelt set a pretty good precident for this.
Very different times. And the GOP was legitimately split over the issue of tariffs and protectionism (funny that, just a century later). But the only states that Wilson carried with a majority were former confederate states. Only three other states were won with a majority.
1912 was much closer to what 1992 could have looked like had Perot not shown himself to be crazy. But the truth is, we’ve had very few elections in the US with viable third party candidates and they’ve been so very far between it’s almost impossible to say what effect they would have on a general election
I think the whole G7/Doral thing is not a miscalculation on Trump’s part, or even necessarily an attempt to get as much out of the USG as he can before he leaves, but rather a giant “Fuck You!” to his opposition, and a further humiliation to show his followers who’s boss. Trump’s all about dominance, and by doing something SO BLATANT and forcing his followers to accept it, he’s showing them that he’s the one on top.
I don’t know how to express how sick it makes me to hear a President wax poetic about ethnic cleansing.
re: #60 KGxvi
Very different times. And the GOP was legitimately split over the issue of tariffs and protectionism (funny that, just a century later). But the only states that Wilson carried with a majority were former confederate states. Only three other states were won with a majority.
1912 was much closer to what 1992 could have looked like had Perot not shown himself to be crazy. But the truth is, we’ve had very few elections in the US with viable third party candidates and they’ve been so very far between it’s almost impossible to say what effect they would have on a general election
Kasich’s effect will be dependent on how many Republicans think Trump is off his gourd.
re: #61 Blind Frog Belly White
I think the whole G7/Doral thing is not a miscalculation on Trump’s part, or even necessarily an attempt to get as much out of the USG as he can before he leaves, but rather a giant “Fuck You!” to his opposition, and a further humiliation to show his followers who’s boss. Trump’s all about dominance, and by doing something SO BLATANT and forcing his followers to accept it, he’s showing them that he’s the one on top.
Which is all the more reason it needs to be an article of impeachment. I think there should be several emoluments clause articles*, but we can narrowly tailor this one to go along with the abuse of office/power article relating to pressuring Ukraine, and the obstruction of Congress articles.
*Personally, I think there should be 2 dozen articles of impeachment to address each and every one of his abuses. But that’s just me.
re: #62 HappyWarrior
I don’t know how to express how sick it makes me to hear a President wax poetic about ethnic cleansing.
Sweat to God those statements sounded like something from the Committee for Public Safety or an utterance from Jacques Herbert during the Vendee Massacres. Made me stare in horror for a moment since I couldn’t really quite believe even Trump could say that.
I hated Bush guys. I was so angry about 2000 that I didn’t call him President Bush until 2005. I protested Iraq as a teenager. I think Katrina was a huge indictment on his presidency. I don’t like the revision on his Presidency and him as a person. But damn it, I can’t imagine him finding the extermination of anyone especially a long time geopolitical ally “great” or praising the perpetrator of such an event.
re: #64 KGxvi
Which is all the more reason it needs to be an article of impeachment. I think there should be several emoluments clause articles*, but we can narrowly tailor this one to go along with the abuse of office/power article relating to pressuring Ukraine, and the obstruction of Congress articles.
*Personally, I think there should be 2 dozen articles of impeachment to address each and every one of his abuses. But that’s just me.
Another day, another Article.
re: #65 Scottish Dragon
Sweat to God those statements sounded like something from the Committee for Public Safety or an utterance from Jacques Herbert during the Vendee Massacres. Made me stare in horror for a moment since I couldn’t really quite believe even Trump could say that.
There is no bottom. It gets worse and I increasingly find myself thinking things I can’t express here.
Another lecturer.
How is it giving him a pass to say “that makes it even more disturbing?”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2019
re: #14 goddamnedfrank
Known only as Senator’s Daughter, she has thoughts.
Of which I could not care less.
The Kim Kardashian of politics speaking… I’d rather listen to Kim herself discussing Kanye. 🤮— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) October 18, 2019
This one is persistent.
Again - how in the world does it “absolve him of blame” to say “that makes it even more disturbing?”
I VERY specifically said it’s even worse if he doesn’t know.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2019
re: #64 KGxvi
Which is all the more reason it needs to be an article of impeachment. I think there should be several emoluments clause articles*, but we can narrowly tailor this one to go along with the abuse of office/power article relating to pressuring Ukraine, and the obstruction of Congress articles.
*Personally, I think there should be 2 dozen articles of impeachment to address each and every one of his abuses. But that’s just me.
I think there should be several but I don’t know if it would be good to try to shoehorn every possible article into the indictment. Danger of people falling asleep while it is being read.
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re: #32 HappyWarrior
I refuse to read The Intercept because of how full of shit he is. He’s a self righteous asshole who has a giant agenda who thinks he’s a crusading journalist who had far more worse opinions than those he attacks.
I view The Intercept on par with RT. And I’m completely not interested in snuggling they say.
I used to think that if we don’t beat him in 2020 it’s the end of the Republic, but I’m really starting to believe that it can’t wait that long. The nature of his pathology is such that every time he gets away with something, he doubles and triples down. Hence, being allowed to keep control of the Trump organization convinced him he could take bribes from foreign governments booking and paying for rooms they never use. Not being impeached over the Mueller Report convinced him he could openly ask a foreign government to help him against his political opponents, and the GOP sticking with him in the face of such blatantly impeachable conduct convinced him he can do anything he wants. Anything.
And we’re not even 3 years in. How bad will he be by January of 2021, whether or not he wins? How bad would he be by January 2025?
re: #74 Blind Frog Belly White
I used to think that if we don’t beat him in 2020 it’s the end of the Republic, but I’m really starting to believe that it can’t wait that long. The nature of his pathology is such that every time he gets away with something, he doubles and triples down. Hence, being allowed to keep control of the Trump organization convinced him he could take bribes from foreign governments booking and paying for rooms they never use. Not being impeached over the Mueller Report convinced him he could openly ask a foreign government to help him against his political opponents, and the GOP sticking with him in the face of such blatantly impeachable conduct convinced him he can do anything he wants. Anything.
And we’re not even 3 years in. How bad will he be by January of 2021, whether or not he wins? How bad would he be by January 2025?
This.
re: #61 Blind Frog Belly White
I think the whole G7/Doral thing is not a miscalculation on Trump’s part, or even necessarily an attempt to get as much out of the USG as he can before he leaves, but rather a giant “Fuck You!” to his opposition, and a further humiliation to show his followers who’s boss. Trump’s all about dominance, and by doing something SO BLATANT and forcing his followers to accept it, he’s showing them that he’s the one on top.
I wonder what would happen if the other countries refused to attend it unless the venue was changed.
When a random person pops up and _wrongly_ lectures me about something, I’ll give them the courtesy of explaining it once, maybe twice. If they continue to lecture, it’s the block button. Life’s too short for this crap.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2019
re: #74 Blind Frog Belly White
I used to think that if we don’t beat him in 2020 it’s the end of the Republic, but I’m really starting to believe that it can’t wait that long. The nature of his pathology is such that every time he gets away with something, he doubles and triples down. Hence, being allowed to keep control of the Trump organization convinced him he could take bribes from foreign governments booking and paying for rooms they never use. Not being impeached over the Mueller Report convinced him he could openly ask a foreign government to help him against his political opponents, and the GOP sticking with him in the face of such blatantly impeachable conduct convinced him he can do anything he wants. Anything.
And we’re not even 3 years in. How bad will he be by January of 2021, whether or not he wins? How bad would he be by January 2025?
Totally agree, except I’ve been saying that almost from the beginning, and it’s been even worse than I imagined.
I knew it would be bad but actually seeing it in real time. There hasn’t been one day when he’s acted presidential.
re: #78 Charles Johnson
Totally agree, except I’ve been saying that almost from the beginning, and it’s been even worse than I imagined.
True. My problem has been failing to grasp the extent of his pathology. It’s hard for me to really grasp just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
re: #80 Blind Frog Belly White
True. My problem has been failing to grasp the extent of his pathology. It’s hard for me to really grasp just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
I mean damn. He’s actually celebrated mass murder. It was bad enough he encouraged violence at his rallies. He’s evil. And 40% of our country wants seconds.
Rep. Rooney (R-Fla.) indicated he’s open to backing impeachment, slamming Rudy’s “amateur diplomacy.”
“I want to get the facts and do the right thing. Because I’ll be looking at my children a lot longer than I’m looking at anybody in this building.”https://t.co/yAotX4dtFD— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) October 18, 2019
re: #8 Charles Johnson
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He probably has no idea of the horrors he evokes with those terms. And that makes it even more disturbing. https://t.co/PmCcJUUuj8
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2019
doesn’t know
doesn’t care
re: #73 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I view The Intercept on par with RT. And I’m completely not interested in snuggling they say.
How did anything autocorrect to snuggling? How is that even possible?
re: #82 makeitstop
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If you don’t like Rudy doing amateur diplomacy, be mad at the guy who made Rudy our shadow Sec of State. Can’t wait to hear how Trump barely knew Rudy and Rudy was a RINO and “very conflicted.”
Kasich video…
After hearing Mulvaney’s comments, I now believe that @realDonaldTrump should be impeached by the US House and face a trial in the US Senate.
This is not a decision I’ve made lightly, but it’s clear now that a line was crossed. This is an abuse of power. Action must be taken. pic.twitter.com/5p3QGmp8YN— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) October 18, 2019
re: #81 HappyWarrior
I mean damn. He’s actually celebrated mass murder. It was bad enough he encouraged violence at his rallies. He’s evil. And 40% of our country wants seconds.
When I read what he’d said about the Turkey/Kurds/Syria situation last night - ‘like kids fighting, you gotta let ‘em fight’, it STILL astonished me, the extent to which he doesn’t even try to act human anymore.
….He is also my friend! At the same time, I am pleased to nominate Deputy Secretary Dan Brouillette to be the new Secretary of Energy. Dan’s experience in the sector is unparalleled. A total professional, I have no doubt that Dan will do a great job!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2019
re: #86 makeitstop
Wasn’t Kaisch an impeachment manager against Clinton?
Presidential spiritual adviser Paula White says Christians “are mandated by God” to send thousands of dollars to help Jim Bakker build a new TV studio and their donations will be counted by “a Department of Treasury in Heaven” that will determine their eternal reward. pic.twitter.com/bU2VoIV7hF
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 17, 2019
Seeing this makes me want to send a Whitman’s Sampler full of dog turds to that Pulpit Pimp!
re: #87 Blind Frog Belly White
When I read what he’d said about the Turkey/Kurds/Syria situation last night - ‘like kids fighting, you gotta let ‘em fight’, it STILL astonished me, the extent to which he doesn’t even try to act human anymore.
That there is the thing. I don’t have a philosophy difference of opinion. I have a difference of fundamental humanity.
re: #90 Joe Bacon 🌹
Wait, that’s not a clip from the Righteous Gemstones?
re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth
Let me guess: prior energy company CEO slash energy lobbyist. Crooked as the day is long.
JFC
…..this thinking years ago. Instead, it was always held together with very weak bandaids, & in an artificial manner. There is good will on both sides & a really good chance for success. The U.S. has secured the Oil, & the ISIS Fighters are double secured by Kurds & Turkey….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2019
….I have just been notified that some European Nations are now willing, for the first time, to take the ISIS Fighters that came from their nations. This is good news, but should have been done after WE captured them. Anyway, big progress being made!!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2019
DEFEAT TERRORISM! https://t.co/8WbnLPgWIK
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2019
Can you believe I am doing this important work for our Country, and have to deal with Corrupt Adam Schiff and the Do Nothing Democrats at the same time? It was not intended to be this way for a President!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2019
I cannot remember a time when the world saw the United States this unsteady, adrift, corrupt, or incompetent.
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) October 17, 2019
re: #90 Joe Bacon 🌹
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Seeing this makes me want to send a Whitman’s Sampler full of dog turds to that Pulpit Pimp!
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Woah. That was weird.
I was doing my online teaching, and I got a call from a would-be student in Yemen.
And I could clearly hear automatic small-arms fire in the background. And then the call dropped.
re: #94 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Let me guess: prior energy company CEO slash energy lobbyist. Crooked as the day is long.
Automotive industry, mostly
re: #57 Eclectic Cyborg
A terrific thing?
Bombing and gassing people by the thousands is a “Terrific thing”??
JFC.
TERRIFIC
TREMENDOUS
INCREDIBLE
BEAUTIFUL
Trump’s 4 favorite words for just about any occasion.
re: #93 HappyWarrior
Believe so.
Wikipedia is telling me he wasn’t, but I feel like that was the first time I came across Kasich was during the Clinton impeachment.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC
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I’m gonna celebrate so hard when he’s dead. Fuck him and his asshole supporters including my own friends and family.
re: #101 KGxvi
Wikipedia is telling me he wasn’t, but I feel like that was the first time I came across Kasich was during the Clinton impeachment.
Ah ok.
re: #96 Scottish Dragon
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No matter what happens from this point forward, the world will never, ever trust us again. Even if we impeach, convict, remove, indict, convict, and jail that motherfucker, the fact that we elected him in the first place, and then didn’t kick him to the curb earlier will inform how they see us.
re: #103 HappyWarrior
I’m gonna celebrate so hard when he’s dead. Fuck him and his asshole supporters including my own friends and family.
Prison before death please.
Take every last asset.
re: #94 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Actually, seems like the guy has actual experience. Was chief of staff to House Energy Committee, was at USAA (not an energy company, but insurer) and Ford, and member of the Louisiana State Mineral and Energy Board.
Not the worst resume out there. But that Trump’s touting him makes him automatically suspect.
re: #102 makeitstop
No. Here’s the list.
Yeah, reading his wikipedia page, looks like he was a major player in balancing the budget in the 90s. That might be why I remember him, probably an early regular guest on Hardball too.
re: #111 KGxvi
Yeah, reading his wikipedia page, looks like he was a major player in balancing the budget in the 90s. That might be why I remember him, probably an early regular guest on Hardball too.
One of the first former Republicans to head to FNC too right? I don’t like him but it’s people like him that need to fix their party if it doesn’t die the death it should.
The brexit negotiations in summary:
“We want all the best parts of being in the EU”
“just stay in the EU then”
“Fuck you”
“but you just said”
“Stop being so difficult”
“but”
“Fuck you”— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) October 18, 2019
re: #48 Belafon
Teddy Roosevelt set a pretty good precident for this.
Yes, his race enabled the hard core racist candidate, Woodrow Wilson, to win.
You know Mulvaney went out yesterday, admitted to a bunch of crimes, then said, “get over it”? Then he was sent back out to say he didn’t actually admit to a bunch of crimes?
Now for sale in the Trump campaign web store, for the discerning fan of crime. pic.twitter.com/m6ATu2e4xx— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2019
re: #115 Charles Johnson
JFC. This is the weirdest dystopia ever.
Pumpkin Pie with whipped cream pic.twitter.com/wZgkNdXptY
— Pumpkin Pie Overlord (@Pie_Overlord) October 18, 2019
re: #106 KGxvi
How about:
Apr 12, 1861 - Apr 9, 1865
No. Probably some of the 1880-1900 period, really. Really preposterous, open graft and the office of POTUS was basically ignored by Congress.
re: #86 makeitstop
Kasich video…
Now, to throw a monkey wrench into this. He supports a trial. That doesn’t mean supports removal. What if the GOP is coordinating their effort to move up the timetable?
It’s seriously bad, folks. This may be the _main reason_ the GOP is still supporting Trump. They’re stacking the court system with far right puppets. https://t.co/SfA3LmCJz2
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2019
re: #120 Charles Johnson
Young right-wing puppets that will be around for decades.
They know exactly what they’re doing.
re: #120 Charles Johnson
Thing is that they could stack the courts with Pence, and avoid the worst of the criminality there too.
They’re fine with Trump at the top because they’re fine with the criminality to go along with packing the courts with right wing extremists who will further the regressive agenda of rolling back civil and voting rights, gutting environmental regulation and oversight/enforcement, and bring us back to the bad old days of the Gilded Age where the rich got incredibly rich, and the burdens fell to everyone else.
re: #121 TedStriker
Young right-wing puppets that will be around for decades.
They know exactly what they’re doing.
Yep. This is what Mitch was blocking seats for. And the thing is most of them are unqualified but being a right wing lawyer is good enough now for the federal bench.
re: #101 KGxvi
Wikipedia is telling me he wasn’t, but I feel like that was the first time I came across Kasich was during the Clinton impeachment.
Unfortunately, I came across Kasich before his first House campaign and then had him as my Rep for 18 fucking years. I left Ohio before he ran for governor, but kept track of him nevertheless. KASICH IS NOT ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS.
re: #119 Belafon
Now, to throw a monkey wrench into this. He supports a trial. That doesn’t mean supports removal. What if the GOP is coordinating their effort to move up the timetable?
The point was raised somewhere yesterday that Mulvaney’s ‘confession’ was staged in order to goad Pelosi into moving straight to an impeachment vote - so it would fit in McConnell’s timetable of wrapping it up by Christmas.
I doubt Peolsi would fall for it. She lived through a summer of Democrats screaming for her head and demanding her replacement for not moving for an impeachment vote back in August.
McConnell might have a timetable, but he’s not driving. Pelosi is. And in the mean time they admitted to what will probably be the first article of impeachment.
They’re getting desperate, and unless Kasich comes out and admits that they’re trying to force the timeline, people are just going to see a prominent Republican calling for impeachment. Whatever the motives, it looks like a win for our side.
re: #125 BeachDem
Unfortunately, I came across Kasich before his first House campaign and then had him as my Rep for 18 fucking years. I left Ohio before he ran for governor, but kept track of him nevertheless. KASICH IS NOT ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS.
He’s actually implemented a lot of right wing dream items. I hope you understand my some integrity was the ultimate damn with faint praise.
re: #125 BeachDem
Unfortunately, I came across Kasich before his first House campaign and then had him as my Rep for 18 fucking years. I left Ohio before he ran for governor, but kept track of him nevertheless. KASICH IS NOT ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS.
I know. He never was.
re: #127 Scottish Dragon
Time for some court stacking then.
Yep. I didn’t want it but if we’re going to get the Federalist Society’s A ball team, they can get some of our best jurists on scotus.
re: #129 Scottish Dragon
I know. He never was.
Absolutely. He sucks. Him wanting Trump impeached tells you how awful Trump is.
re: #126 makeitstop
There’s a political motivation to get the impeachment done before the end of the year, because the GOP has a chance to recover and get someone else in there. But with Trump engaging in more impeachable offenses by the day, Pelosi can say that they have to keep investigating because every day brings another crime.
It’s a viscous circle. If you impeach now, and the Senate doesn’t remove, then Trump can “glide” into 2020 and his base will reelect him handily. Dems will be weakened, and the Republic will be fucked.
If you keep investigating, you piss off the Democratic party base, but the GOP would then be put on the record as the primaries get underway and people will see that they’re covering for Trump, instead of doing the right thing for the nation.
It means Trump continues to damage the nation in the short term (and McConnell keeps packing the courts), but it could stave off an even worse long term.
We’re seriously harmed either way, but Pelosi’s strategy appears to be to try and contain the damage as best as possible when one political party is a crime syndicate - the GOP.
re: #131 HappyWarrior
Absolutely. He sucks. Him wanting Trump impeached tells you how awful Trump is.
It tells me that Johnnie the Opportunist sees some angle for his own benefit. Nothing more/nothing less.
re: #125 BeachDem
Unfortunately, I came across Kasich before his first House campaign and then had him as my Rep for 18 fucking years. I left Ohio before he ran for governor, but kept track of him nevertheless. KASICH IS NOT ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS.
True, but I kinda feel like we’ve moved beyond Good and Bad, and into the realm of Good; Bad; REALLY Bad; REALLY REALLY Bad; and HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!
Of course, this discussion of Good Guys and Bad Guys makes me think….
re: #133 BeachDem
It tells me that Johnnie the Opportunist sees some angle for his own benefit. Nothing more/nothing less.
Fair enough. You know him the best of anyone here.
I just got an angry DM from Matt Schlapp over this tweet.
— LeBron Jeremy (@50megatonFbomb) October 18, 2019
@mschlapp
Matt Schlapp: Official sloppy seconds guy on what Hugh Hewitt left behind on Trump’s ass. https://t.co/yAWK2J9fS0— Deirdre🇺🇸🏴 (@Celticlassy10) October 18, 2019
re: #135 HappyWarrior
Fair enough. You know him the best of anyone here.
I have friends who went to college with him and can verify that he’s been a slimeball all his life.
re: #26 HappyWarrior
Definitely. Weld btw was a Republican governor in the 90’s.
I will never vote Republican, and I don’t trust Massachusetts Republicans any further than the length of the arm I punch them with, but I will defend Weld, though. Bright guy, decent-hearted, reasonable. His party values none of these attributes, even in Massachusetts.
re: #136 Scottish Dragon
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re: #138 Sherlock Hound
I will never vote Republican, and I don’t trust Massachusetts Republicans any further than the length of the arm I punch them with, but I will defend Weld, though. Bright guy, decent-hearted, reasonable. His party values none of these attributes, even in Massachusetts.
Weld seems like a decent guy which is why I was shocked he threw his lot in with Gary Johnson.
re: #137 BeachDem
I have friends who went to college with him and can verify that he’s been a slimeball all his life.
Oh wow, so then definitely.
re: #139 HappyWarrior
Matt’s just jealous since he’s low on the ass taster list.
Ass taster…ass tater…
re: #124 HappyWarrior
Yep. This is what Mitch was blocking seats for. And the thing is most of them are unqualified but being a right wing lawyer who has never argued a case is good enough now for the federal bench.
What if no one shows up for the G7? Trump wants to invite Putin. This is the perfect opportunity for the other countries to protest. Or perhaps they can send their VPs or coffee boys. I can’t imagine that most world leaders are eager to have more trump time.
And this why a Democratic President and Senate must increase the number of Judges in federal courts and perhaps on SCOTUS. Otherwise we’re doomed.
The McConnell project is to use the minoritarian power of the Senate, along with the minoritarian power of the Presidency (via the electoral college) to stuff the courts with sentries who will spend their lives and careers frustrating liberal policy goals.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 18, 2019
re: #125 BeachDem
Unfortunately, I came across Kasich before his first House campaign and then had him as my Rep for 18 fucking years. I left Ohio before he ran for governor, but kept track of him nevertheless. KASICH IS NOT ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS.
If ever Observer Art left anything for us in his legacy, that is one of the most important things.
re: #137 BeachDem
I have friends who went to college with him and can verify that he’s been a slimeball all his life.
Oh. A typical republican then. 😁
re: #81 HappyWarrior
I mean damn. He’s actually celebrated mass murder. It was bad enough he encouraged violence at his rallies. He’s evil. And 40% of our country wants seconds.
It really does take time for this terrible fact to sink in: The US president is a stupid, evil, bigoted, corrupt asshole, and that’s what his supporters love about him.
The only variation to be found among Trump supporters is which of his various pathologies they adore the most.
Set an egg-timer for how long it will take before Donnie starts ranting that Tulsi Gabbard has been treated so badly by the Democrat [sic] Party.
Bloomberg reporting that Russian mafia leader Dmitry Firtash sent associates to dig up dirt on Biden this Summer. This coincides with Firtash’s hiring of Trump lawyers diGenova and Toensing https://t.co/RmxFYcAFtG
— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) October 18, 2019
Rudy’s guy.
re: #125 BeachDem
Unfortunately, I came across Kasich before his first House campaign and then had him as my Rep for 18 fucking years. I left Ohio before he ran for governor, but kept track of him nevertheless. KASICH IS NOT ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS.
And now the media now calls him a “centrist” because he isn’t a complete lunatic like Donnie and a Handmaid’s Tale Commander like Pence. Kasich’s positions were and are absolutely draconian.
re: #66 HappyWarrior
President Bush was responsible for the extermination of thousands of Iraqis and did the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Trump may be worse on the bullying, bigoted level but Bush was an awful President and Cheney was an ogre.
re: #148 EPR-radar
It really does take time for this terrible fact to sink in: The US president is a stupid, evil, bigoted, corrupt asshole, and that’s what his supporters love about him.
The only variation to be found among Trump supporters is which of his various pathologies they adore the most.
Yep.
re: #143 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yeah scary isn’t it?
re: #115 Charles Johnson
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“Get Over It.” As I recall, that’s exactly what the Taliban said when we complained about 9/11 and the almost 3000 deaths.
Pro-Tulsi trolls want you to think that because she’s a veteran her motives should never be questioned. Sorry, it does not work like that.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2019
AKA “Bitch please” https://t.co/gkaQM0yJCx
— Wakandan War Dog (@Kennymack1971) October 18, 2019
re: #140 HappyWarrior
Weld seems like a decent guy which is why I was shocked he threw his lot in with Gary Johnson.
I’m not. Massachusetts has always had its libertarians.
There was a woman in Marblehead who was always presenting herself as a “poor, overtaxed, housewife”. Her name was Barbara Anderson and she played that like a fiddle for YEARS. She is best known for Proposition 2-1/2, the property tax referendum that was based on the law in California.
Most of her life, she was the poor homeowner and housewife, taxed for our sins. The conservatives in my state never shut up about it. She had a column in the local paper for years.
Near the end of her life, Barbara was interviewed by the local weekly on the North Shore. She mentioned, in passing, and without further comment, that she discovered Ayn Rand when she was younger.
That was it. The poor housewife thing? Phony. She was a stone cold Randian.
Bill Weld is no Randian. Not at all. But if you’re a Massachusetts conservative from the 1990’s and later, you’re probably a “street libertarian” in the same way that many leftists followed a colloquial “street communism”.
To this day, Massachusetts Republicans are all a bit libertarian, because it fits their inclinations—and their base.
re: #156 Charles Johnson
They might want to search a little on this Benedict Arnold guy.
re: #140 HappyWarrior
Weld seems like a decent guy which is why I was shocked he threw his lot in with Gary Johnson.
I’ve always sort of like Johnson. He was always much closer to my line of thinking when I was (marginally) a Republican. I thought about voting for him in 2016 (I’m in California, it wouldn’t have mattered), until he couldn’t answer a question about Aleppo.
re: #144 I Would Prefer Not To
What if no one shows up for the G7? Trump wants to invite Putin. This is the perfect opportunity for the other countries to protest. Or perhaps they can send their VPs or coffee boys. I can’t imagine that most world leaders are eager to have more trump time.
Trump will probably assign them blocks of rooms and bill them whether they show up or not.
Tulsi seems upset. pic.twitter.com/1HW0Rmb53Y
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2019
re: #158 Sherlock Hound
I’m not. Massachusetts has always had its libertarians.
There was a woman in Marblehead who was always presenting herself as a “poor, overtaxed, housewife”. Her name was Barbara Anderson and she played that like a fiddle for YEARS. She is best known for Proposition 2-1/2, the property tax referendum that was based on the law in California.
Most of her life, she was the poor homeowner and housewife, taxed for our sins. The conservatives in my state never shut up about it. She had a column in the local paper for years.
Near the end of her life, Barbara was interviewed by the local weekly on the North Shore. She mentioned, in passing, and without further comment, that she discovered Ayn Rand when she was younger.
That was it. The poor housewife thing? Phony. She was a stone cold Randian.
Bill Weld is no Randian. Not at all. But if you’re a Massachusetts conservative from the 1990’s and later, you’re probably a “street libertarian” in the same way that many leftists followed a colloquial “street communism”.
To this day, Massachusetts Republicans are all a bit libertarian, because it fits their inclinations—and their base.
Ah well then I understand now. My mom’s wingnut cousin is a Massachusetts Republican fwiw. Seems more economics than social with him.
re: #160 KGxvi
I’ve always sort of like Johnson. He was always much closer to my line of thinking when I was (marginally) a Republican. I thought about voting for him in 2016 (I’m in California, it wouldn’t have mattered), until he couldn’t answer a question about Aleppo.
I liked him a little too but I always like an inside sports so our own WW’s scouting report was helpful. He’s not the worst person that party has though.
re: #33 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Its a horror. And this time we are responsible for it. We forgot.
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Tulsi thinks that she’s running against Hillary.
You are an Assad apologist touting GOP talking points. You’re also polling within the MOE.
You can’t beat anyone else currently running, but think this will raise your profile?
It only exposes that you are an Assad apologist and helping the GOP.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 18, 2019
re: #151 Dr. Matt
And now the media now calls him a “centrist” because he isn’t a complete lunatic like Donnie and a Handmaid’s Tale Commander like Pence. Kasich’s positions were and are absolutely draconian.
Like that “moderate” Republican Jon Huntsman. Whose perfectly “moderate” positions included the complete repeal of the capital gains tax.
We’re really not going to make any progress if the media’s habit of referring to any Republican whose eyes momentarily stop swiveling as a “moderate” doesn’t end.
you were yammering last year about democrats screwing up the election by embracing their core values. meanwhile you lot couldn’t stop trump from taking over the gop but you insist you have all the answers. why don’t you shut up? https://t.co/nHGK5bojIJ
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) October 18, 2019
Co-sign.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2019
The thing is, as fun as it is to imagine you’re stupid enough to actually believe this, you aren’t.
By this point, you know exactly what you’ve done, who’s going to die because of it, and who will prosper in the aftermath of those deaths.
And you don’t fucking care.— Uriel (@sickendun2death) October 18, 2019
Wait, wut?
McConnell, in an op-ed published moments ago in the Washington Post, says, “Withdrawing U.S. forces from Syria is a grave strategic mistake….America’s wars will be ‘endless’ only if America refuses to win them.” https://t.co/O5czQTiWGl
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) October 18, 2019
re: #168 Charles Johnson
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Tom wants us to become what he saw the GOP as. That’s not going to happen. I’m sick of the same people who demonized everything that Obama did wanting us to listen to them because their party got hijacked by a genocide apologist.
re: #167 EPR-radar
Like that “moderate” Republican Jon Huntsman. Whose perfectly “moderate” positions included the complete repeal of the capital gains tax.
We’re really not going to make any progress if the media’s habit of referring to any Republican whose eyes momentarily stop swiveling as a “moderate” doesn’t end.
Huntsman wanted to repeal the EPA.
re: #170 makeitstop
Maybe the House should include an article related to Syria?
re: #170 makeitstop
Note that Mitch McConnell does not mention Trump’s name in this entire op-ed. He calls out some democrats by name and at one point just criticizes “the administration.” What a coward.
re: #174 Schweppes7
Note that Mitch McConnell does not mention Trump’s name in this entire op-ed. He calls out some democrats by name and at one point just criticizes “the administration.” What a coward.
It’s Mitch in a nutshell. He’s always been a coward.
re: #115 Charles Johnson
Can you edit that O with trump hair into a flaming tire?
re: #76 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder what would happen if the other countries refused to attend it unless the venue was changed.
Everyone should attend, and then refuse to pay.
re: #177 GlutenFreeJesus
Everyone should attend, and then refuse to pay.
Or donate to the city to help cover security costs.
re: #176 stpaulbear
Can you edit that O with trump hair into a flaming tire?
A whole pile of burning tires with his hair on top. A trumpster fire.
re: #166 lawhawk
Tulsi thinks that she’s running against Hillary.
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Tulsi’s so vain, she thought that tweet was about her…
re: #180 Backwoods_Sleuth
There’s a fantasy that Hillary is going to enter the race next month. I mean, why? There’s nothing special about November 2019, and no sign that she’s even thinking about running for anything. Sorry, Tulsi, you will have to take on Biden or Warren, and languishing at about 2%, it ain’t happening.
re: #181 CarolJ
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State Dept issues report indicating that 38 people are being cited for violations out of their investigation into Clinton’s emails.
But note the specific language here.
The investigation covered 33,000 emails that Clinton turned over for review after her use of the private email account became public. The department said it found a total of 588 violations involving information then or now deemed to be classified, but could not assign fault in 497 cases.
For current and former officials, culpability means the violations will be noted in their files and will be considered when they apply for or go to renew security clearances. For current officials, there could also be some kind of disciplinary action. But it wasn’t immediately clear what that would be.
The department began the review in 2016 after declaring 22 emails from Clinton’s private server to be “top secret.” Clinton was then running for president against Donald Trump, and the now-president made the server a major focus of his campaign.
Then-FBI Director James Comey held a news conference that year in which he criticized Clinton as “extremely careless” in her use of the private email server as secretary of state but said the FBI would not recommend charges.
We’re going to Friday night news dump this crap again? Seriously?
The State Dept went back and reclassified a bunch of documents after all this went down, and then tried to retcon that there was wrongdoing here. They then try to claim that there’s criminal wrongdoing, when none was actually found.
The GOP will never let this go. Ever.
That’s even as Trump used a server meant for top secret classified info to shield criminal conversations that indicated a quid pro quo was sought to get political dirt on Bidens while holding up military aid to Ukraine (among others). Trump family members use unsecured emails and texting apps to conduct official govt business, and nary a peep from these fuckers. The ongoing criminal conduct is excused, but the GOP keeps going back to this.
GOP: We want to help, but do you have anyone besides Martha McSally that can run for Senate?
AzGOP: Joe Arpaio
GOP: Too racist and a felon
AzGOP: Kelli Ward
GOP: Too racist and batshit crazy
AzGOP: Kurt Schilling
GOP: Wow, yall are seriously f*cked in Arizona#AzSen— Shawn in Scare👻izona (@ShawnInArizona) October 18, 2019
A question comes to mind as I read all the of backlash against Hillary from Tulsi fans today:
When exactly did “anti-war” become synonymous with “ok with Putin doing whatever he wants in the world”?
Serious question.— Clay C. (@ClayC1969) October 18, 2019
With this unhinged thread alleging the former 2016 Democratic nominee is launching a conspiracy against her, Tulsi Gabbard confirms she is not seriously running for the Democratic nomination.
Tulsi just confirmed all of the criticisms directed at her.
This is some right-wing BS https://t.co/n1glf4RY3a— Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) October 18, 2019
How completely has Intuit captured the IRS?@JustinElliott & @paulkiel found an email where an IRS official worried that the popularity of free tax filing “represented a threat to future revenues and profits” to the companies. So the IRS pulled back. https://t.co/sD4LswVAuV
— Jesse Eisinger (@eisingerj) October 17, 2019
https://t.co/wS8OHq1au0 pic.twitter.com/3l6GEm3Wa2
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) October 18, 2019
Really, if trying to file your income taxes requires paying a private company, something is very wrong when the government says “oh noes…the poor companies!!1!”
re: #183 lawhawk
The department said it found a total of 588 violations involving information then or now deemed to be classified, but could not assign fault in 497 cases.
So then we can probably reasonably conclude that 497 of the 588 violations were previously unclassified; and the remaining 91 were probably classified at the time?
How did I miss this?
If you turn the Chicago bulls logo upside down it’s a robot having sex with a crab pic.twitter.com/KGfsqyr3Ml
— Deniz Camp @ NYCC (@MDesaad) September 14, 2019
re: #185 bratwurst
Yeah, that’s not actually anti-war, as we see in Syria.
re: #192 Belafon
Yeah, that’s not actually anti-war, as we see in Syria.
Unfortunately there’s a part of the left that has this mindset that if we intervene, it must be bad. It’s the opposite of the Neo-conservatives who always support intervention.
re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth
Really, if trying to file your income taxes requires paying a private company, something is very wrong when the government says “oh noes…the poor companies!!1!”
One of the areas where real tax reform and simplification would be good is the way we deal with deductions and withholdings. Like it really doesn’t make sense that many of us over pay on our taxes by a couple thousand dollars each year.
re: #191 I Would Prefer Not To
They changed the logo a bit, because it used to look like a robot giving a campaign speech.
re: #191 I Would Prefer Not To
How did I miss this?
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re: #195 KGxvi
One of the areas where real tax reform and simplification would be good is the way we deal with deductions and withholdings. Like it really doesn’t make sense that many of us over pay on our taxes by a couple thousand dollars each year.
Except when the withholding rules were changed and people got smaller refunds at the end of the year everyone went ballistic as if that meant they were paying more taxes.
2014 Tulsi was a different person
ISIL seized 60 villages in Kurd territory. Kurds withdrew b/c no heavy wpns - disgrace U.S. won’t arm Kurds to defend innocents .@KRG_USA
— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) September 19, 2014
2015 Tulsi
Al-Qaeda attacked us on 9/11 and must be defeated. Obama won’t bomb them in Syria. Putin did. #neverforget911
— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) October 1, 2015
This tweet is illustrative of a dramatic shift in the winds. In 2014, she was strongly opposed to Putin and Russia. By late 2015, she was singing Putin’s praises while criticizing Obama. She also went completely silent on Twitter regarding Russia’s ongoing hostilities towards Ukraine. She has not tweeted about Crimea or Ukraine since 2014. She has also never tweeted about the Donbas region, or the Ukrainian Republics of Luhansk and Donetsk. These are areas where Russian-backed forces have been attempting to seize control for several years.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) October 18, 2019
re: #195 KGxvi
One of the areas where real tax reform and simplification would be good is the way we deal with deductions and withholdings. Like it really doesn’t make sense that many of us over pay on our taxes by a couple thousand dollars each year.
The thing is, even people who have really simple returns have a hard time e-filing for free because intuit and other companies hide the free e-filing options.
Anyone with basic returns and common schedules/forms should be able to e-file for free at the IRS website
re: #200 gocart mozart
2014 Tulsi was a different person
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It’s very weird. I bet there’s some serious dirt on her homophobic past or ties to Hindu right wing extremists. She definitely has ambitions as we can clearly see.
This is totes hilarious & everybody learns unique trivia about Jewish holidays! (Yes even yr Pielord)
An Orthodox Jew went on a popular Australian quiz show that tests contestants on their own chosen areas of expertise. His topic: “Jewish holidays.” Hilarity ensued. Consider this video my holiday gift to you. https://t.co/6hKRq9u20d
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) October 18, 2019
re: #201 Backwoods_Sleuth
The thing is, even people who have really simple returns have a hard time e-filing for free because intuit and other companies hide the free e-filing options.
Anyone with basic returns and common schedules/forms should be able to e-file for free at the IRS website
Oh, I agree. I think a whole lot of how our tax system works is fucked up. It’s better than the old days when you didn’t have withholdings and then had to take a loan out to pay your taxes.
The “free” e-filings I’ve seen only work if you’re under a certain amount or don’t have anything “special” like student loan interest payments… which, in this day and age, shouldn’t be considered “special”
IMAX in Outer Space… Space… SPAAAAACE!!
Sebastian Gorka says Trump’s rally crowds have a “wholesomeness that comes from love of country” whereas Obama’s crowds had “cult-like worship” pic.twitter.com/Zajxy6PZ3D
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) October 18, 2019
Hey all, @kaikahele is running in the primary against Tulsi for her congressional seat. If you’d like to support him, today is a good day to do so. And you can do so 👇🏿 https://t.co/dFtbttVUVX
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) October 18, 2019
re: #207 The Pie Overlord!
Love of country, if your country is the confederacy.
re: #210 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The Trump team is gleefully corrupt.
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re: #210 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The Trump team is gleefully corrupt.
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Yeah, Donald, why don’t you get over the fact that you’re going to be impeached and resign already.
re: #212 Belafon
Yeah, Donald, why don’t you get over the fact that you’re going to be impeached and resign already.
I feel like the DNC should sell a tee of a print with Trump behind bars with that same caption.
I find it unsettling to say the least and insane at the other ledge to think all these tools were readily available for Trump to plug in. And saying that, the deafening silence or willful ignorance of an entire political party to allow the torching of Democracy to hold the ashes as their own? They GOT paid.
I’m so fucking angry at so many people I cannot see straight some times.
This is why I do not post in depth.
To say I am disappointed in my fellow man would be a vast understatement.
All I can say at times is “fuck you’”.
In fact I say it far too much.
Staying afloat, Deep End USA.
re: #205 CarolJ
I have.
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Assad day for your candidacy. https://t.co/JsQHnY6Ygo
— Nick Merrill (@NickMerrill) October 18, 2019
re: #215 Mescalero09
I find it unsettling to say the least and insane at the other ledge to think all these tools were readily available for Trump to plug in. And saying that, the deafening silence or willful ignorance of an entire political party to allow the torching of Democracy to hold the ashes as their own? They GOT paid.
I’m so fucking angry at so many people I cannot see straight some times.
This is why I do not post in depth.
To say I am disappointed in my fellow man would be a vast understatement.
All I can say at times is “fuck you’”.
In fact I say it far too much.
Staying afloat, Deep End USA.
It would be so much tougher for me if I didn’t have y’all. My immediate family gets it but they don’t understand the complexities of a lot of the issues.
re: #218 HappyWarrior
It would be so much tougher for me if I didn’t have y’all. My immediate family gets it but they don’t understand the complexities of a lot of the issues.
My family votes for the right people, but they count on me to know the details.
My belief is that negative partisanship will be enough to keep this low, but it will be a feature, not a bug, of the GOP 2020 playbook https://t.co/BKwnuEMP0C
— Rachel “The Doc” Bitecofer 📈🔭🗿💪 (@RachelBitecofer) October 18, 2019
re: #220 Belafon
My family votes for the right people, but they count on me to know the details.
Ditto.
Scroll to 2:00 minutes and watch what happens.
Because, you know, the President flipping off a female astronaut in space because she fact-checks him is the sign of a totally stable genius.
(JFC MAKE IT STOP) https://t.co/F8dSKVCp0n— Elizabeth C. McLaughlin (@ECMcLaughlin) October 18, 2019
re: #220 Belafon
My family votes for the right people, but they count on me to know the details.
MrBWS did his absentee voting today and he asked me again…straight Dem?
I said yes, but go line by line, don’t click straight ticket.
And for secretary of state, both are qualified, but if you want to vote for Heather even though she’s Republican, that’s OK.
Does the Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast read The Daily Beast? https://t.co/WjhnIAB6nG pic.twitter.com/oMyla6nlHp
— Kara Calavera (@KaraCalavera) October 18, 2019
re: #224 Backwoods_Sleuth
MrBWS did his absentee voting today and he asked me again…straight Dem?
I said yes, but go line by line, don’t click straight ticket.
And for secretary of state, both are qualified, but if you want to vote for Heather even though she’s Republican, that’s OK.
My grandmother’s voting absentee. I had to look up some of the candidates. She wanted to straight ticket Dem. What was neat for me was a couple things- candidates I’ve met and our local Dem candidates are quite diverse. Two Indian Americans on the ballot. Not a surprise. Loudoun County has a sizable Indian-American community who are a significant part of the base.
re: #223 jaunte
Also, Ivanka is right beside him. She’s almost a shadow President now.
re: #194 HappyWarrior
Unfortunately there’s a part of the left that has this mindset that if we intervene, it must be bad. It’s the opposite of the Neo-conservatives who always support intervention.
This same part of the left is what one might call “South Park Left”, after the show: If you express genuine concern for the issues, they mock you relentlessly because you are naive and do not understand that America, your country, and yourself are fascist. H/T to Chomsky for that one.
re: #227 Eclectic Cyborg
“Daddy’s talking to women; I need to be there.”
re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“One was a spider. And it had friends. We killed them.”
— mescalero09 (@nines0909) October 11, 2019
re: #227 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, Ivanka is right beside him. She’s almost a shadow President now.
If he were to stroke out, she would play the role of Edith Bolling Wilson- Woodrow’s second wife. EC, I know you’re a Canadian native so I don’t know if you read about what happened when Wilson had a stroke when touring for the passage of the League of Nations after WWI. But Wilson’s wife pretty much took over with his AG and that’s when the first Red Scare happened.
re: #228 Sherlock Hound
This same part of the left is what one might call “South Park Left”, after the show: If you express genuine concern for the issues, they mock you relentlessly because you are naive and do not understand that America, your country, and yourself are fascist. H/T to Chomsky for that one.
I’ve never heard that one but I like it.
Tulsi’s reaction reminds me of what Gillum said about DeSantis. “A Hit dog will holler”.
Hillary never named her at all, and she was the one who hollered. Thank you Hillary, and when Tulsi has to go back and defend her seat, every Dem will appreciate what you have done.
In one way the big field has helped. Tulsi’s from Hawaii, which makes it hard to get a national rep, and in a smaller field she might have been able to do more damage.
I think the thinking was that Hillary would clear the field in a rematch, and that Tulsi would be less vulnerable due to age and gender than Sanders, especially in a one-to-one race. But Hillary isn’t running and having the time of her life writing books and giving speeches, and relaxing after a long career. Tulsi gets no traction otherwise-she’s having to make her case in a field of 20, some even more out there than she is.
House to vote next week on resolution condemning Trump’s decision to hold the G7 at Doral.
https://t.co/RNlKPYqEtK— Angry Staffer (@AngrierWHStaff) October 18, 2019
Can’t believe the Pundit Dudes are really going to pretend that it’s “a conspiracy theory” that Russia boosted Jill Stein, going on 3 years now since we got the indictment of the Russians who boosted Jill Stein.
— 🆘Rev Magdalen |This Machine Dismantles Patriarchy (@revmagdalen) October 18, 2019
I’m proud of this one. To a friend who posted it was an Assad day for Tulsi;
Oh come on, don’t Bashar her too much, it’s a very Assad day for her. But Hafez, you won’t have Tulsi to kick around anymore.
re: #230 CarolJ
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As I’ve been gathering information to educate myself on all the candidates, the thread pictures above is all the education I need on this particular presidential candidate—Tulsi should NOT be the Democratic nominee for the President of The United States of America.
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) October 18, 2019
Here’s an article by the same author as the Tulsi article
6 Oct 2019 by Chris Scott
Michael Tracey, the “Progressive”
Michael Tracey, the “Progressive” https://t.co/ESIh71g30N via @wordpressdotcom
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) October 18, 2019
JUST IN: Sec. Rick Perry will not comply with a Friday deadline for congressional subpoena for Ukraine documents, Energy Dept. tells Congress. https://t.co/eqLgY7Lxwa
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) October 18, 2019
The outlawry continues.
re: #248 HappyWarrior
Tulsi, Williamson, & Sanders are my bottom three.
Yang & Steyer belong down there with them.
Why don’t we start with the obvious ones? Like congressional subpoenas aren’t optional.
Once everyone’s complied with that, then we can talk about your pathetic attempt to slow totally legitimate proceedings already underway. https://t.co/fj0qb9LIIG— JackiSchechner (@JackiSchechner) October 18, 2019
Today @CREWcrew sued the State Department and Homeland Security for failing to release documents we requested this summer related to the decision to host the 202 G-7 summit at the President’s own property, Trump National Doral.https://t.co/K4M2KxtMKf
— Noah Bookbinder (@NoahBookbinder) October 18, 2019
Eric Trump’s claim that his family got out of international business at the start of his father’s presidency is frankly laughable, given many foreign properties, notable expansions in Ireland and Scotland, and 2 new Trump-branded resorts in Indonesia.https://t.co/dzPFY5cH8H
— Noah Bookbinder (@NoahBookbinder) October 18, 2019
re: #227 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, Ivanka is right beside him. She’s almost a shadow President now.
The 2019 version of Edith Galt Wilson.
re: #250 jaunte
Dear House Republicans:
Go fuck yourselves with rusty farm implements.
Sincerely,
Speaker of the House,
Nancy Pelosi
re: #152 Patricia Kayden
President Bush was responsible for the extermination of thousands of Iraqis
About a million according to multiple independent studies.
(Using methodologies that have been used without criticism before and since, but for some unknown reason are not accepted in this case).
If you had only ONE clue as to who is representing Russia in the dem primaries, you could do worse than to ask who reserves some of their harshest critiques for other Democrats, seeks to divide us. pic.twitter.com/eaO1voELdY
— Brian Hjelle Reality Winner🇺🇸🇵🇷🇲🇽🇨🇦🏳️🌈 (@hjelle_brian) October 18, 2019
re: #249 The Pie Overlord!
Yang & Steyer belong down there with them.
They’re my bottom five. Haha. My top likes are: Kamala, Warren, Castro, Beto, & Booker though I concede the fellows should start consider bowing out if they don’t have a breakout before Christmas.
re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #253 EPR-radar
Dear House Republicans:
Go fuck yourselves with rusty farm implements.
Sincerely,
Speaker of the House,
Nancy Pelosi
Dear Senate Republicans,
You too.
Sincerely,
The rest of America.
re: #223 jaunte
Fixed it ;)#Awkward #SpaceCall pic.twitter.com/HfNVndAP2z
— Paul Lidicul (@PaulLidicul) October 18, 2019
Not a huge fan of the Sec. but thank you Hillary Clinton for ripping the mask off of the fake ass purity left candidates.
It needed to be said and it has been said but people paid attention when Hillary said it, hopefully she killed that Tulsi run in the crib.
re: #262 b.d. (Get Over It!)
Not a huge fan of the Sec. but thank you Hillary Clinton for ripping the mask off of the fake ass purity left candidates.
It needed to be said and it has been said but people paid attention when Hillary said it, hopefully she killed that Tulsi run in the crib.
Tulsi’s presidential primary campaign has always been DOA. The threat is if she does a Stein/Sanders act and peels off a few general election votes in important places.
re: #263 EPR-radar
Tulsi’s presidential primary campaign has always been DOA. The threat is if she does a Stein/Sanders act and peels off a few general election votes in important places.
It would be glorious to see Tulsi and Marianne tear each other apart at the Green Party Convention!
At this point….who ISN’T blackmailing Trump?
Trump’s associates are advising him not to fire Mulvaney, warning him that the acting chief knows too much - https://t.co/QK2wOO9E3q
— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) October 18, 2019
re: #265 b.d. (Get Over It!)
Mulvaney is toast. He’s already received the kiss of death Trump tweet, so it’s just a matter of time.
re: #266 EPR-radar
Mulvaney is toast. He’s already received the kiss of death Trump tweet, so it’s just a matter of time.
The massive effort to polish the turd that Mike put out there is quite impressive….and laughable.
He’s done…..I want to thank Trump for decimating the GOP bench for the next decade or so….
Looks like Hardy has got that #FridayFeeling. 🎉 pic.twitter.com/QkQLIAtZC0
— Vancouver Aquarium (@vanaqua) October 18, 2019
They’re gonna need to conduct a few more re-investigations.
Still haven’t reached that ‘Benghazi’ level yet
State Department probe of Clinton emails finds no deliberate mishandling of classified information
https://t.co/ZMuRwW4YzL— Mike Walker (@New_Narrative) October 18, 2019
Good Lord. Definitely in the wrong primary. https://t.co/kjij4doFyU
— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) October 18, 2019
re: #269 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
They’re gonna need to conduct a few more re-investigations.
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re: #269 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
They’re gonna need to conduct a few more re-investigations.
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LOL & the GOP is selling T-Shirts with “Get Over It” on it?
Someone (Russia) is spreading fake press releases claiming to be from Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs about Vilnius supporting construction of new U.S. military base in Lithuania that can host the U.S. nukes currently at Incirlik. @ltembassyus confirmed this is NOT true
— Ryan Evans (@EvansRyan202) October 18, 2019
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Sam Waterston was arrested today while protesting for climate action pic.twitter.com/h07YC4fVLg
— jordan (@JordanUhl) October 18, 2019
re: #273 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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I’ve been wondering if Trump’s acquiescence to Turkey’s attack on an ally might encourage Putin to move on the Baltic states. This is precisely the sort of stupidity that could lead to WWIII and the extinction of humanity.
Friday night news dump in hopes that nobody notices it.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) October 18, 2019
re: #269 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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I thought I read that the State Department had been re-investigating the “email scandal” - large numbers of folks going over many years worth of correspondence with a fine-tooth comb - for something like two years or so. Two years (on the taxpayers’ payroll) - and still “found” the same basic nothing that was always what they were going to find?
Will this FINALLY put an end to the “But Her Emails!!!!” bullshit we have been listening to for the last three years or so? Probably no - the RWNJs are probably just going to claim that all the “evidence” of Hillary’s “crimes” has been covered up by The Deep State, and hidden away on the stolen server Hunter Biden sold to George Soros for a billion dollars…..
re: #278 Jay C
I thought I read that the State Department had been re-investigating the “email scandal” - large numbers of folks going over many years worth of correspondence with a fine-tooth comb - for something like two years or so. Two years (on the taxpayers’ payroll) - and still “found” the same basic nothing that was always what they were going to find?
Will this FINALLY put an end to the “But Her Emails!!!!” bullshit we have been listening to for the last three years or so? Probably no - the RWNJs are probably just going to claim that all the “evidence” of Hillary’s “crimes” has been covered up by The Deep State, and hidden away on the stolen server Hunter Biden sold to George Soros for a billion dollars…..
No
re: #265 b.d. (Get Over It!)
At this point….who ISN’T blackmailing Trump?
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Can we count on Trump continuing not to listen to people?
re: #280 Belafon
Can we count on Trump continuing not to listen to people?
No because he listens to Master Vladimir!
re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth
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See, that’s kind of a tough one. A brisk walk would distance you from Trump.
re: #279 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
No
Really. Do you think the Mango Spunktrumpet is going to quit barking about it?
Get over it!
Paying the help.
Does it make me a bad person that I think the saddest part of this is where Louie Gohmert has to pay women to sing happy birthday to him? https://t.co/jKYDgB7ORX
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 18, 2019
re: #285 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Paying the help.
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Yah, but he *did* get Zircon and Sackcloth.
re: #278 Jay C
I thought I read that the State Department had been re-investigating the “email scandal” - large numbers of folks going over many years worth of correspondence with a fine-tooth comb - for something like two years or so. Two years (on the taxpayers’ payroll) - and still “found” the same basic nothing that was always what they were going to find?
Will this FINALLY put an end to the “But Her Emails!!!!” bullshit we have been listening to for the last three years or so? Probably no - the RWNJs are probably just going to claim that all the “evidence” of Hillary’s “crimes” has been covered up by The Deep State, and hidden away on the stolen server Hunter Biden sold to George Soros for a billion dollars…..
Yep, lack of evidence of a conspiracy only proves just how diabolical and deep seated the conspiracy is. It is impossible to reason someone out of a belief that was never reasonable to being with.
ROFL
https://t.co/wS8OHq1au0 pic.twitter.com/3l6GEm3Wa2
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) October 18, 2019
re: #280 Belafon
Can we count on Trump continuing not to listen to people?
Safest bet in town….
Even when he knows the heat is on and every eye in the world is on him he still has the gall to pick Bedbug Doral for the G7?
Trump isn’t going to start listening to anyone anytime soon. He reads the crowd really well on some things and others he just blows like he doesn’t understand a damn thing at all.
People will be trying to figure out this bizarre crazy time forever, there will be more books written about Trump than Lincoln.
/snark
The question every reporter should ask every GOP member of Congress:
“The White House told Congress Ukraine aid would be delivered by Feb 28. It was withheld until Sep 11, seven months later. Has anyone explained why to you?”
or..if interviewing some White House person: “Why?”— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) October 18, 2019
Let’s go Astros!
Happy weekend Lizards!
re: #290 b.d. (Get Over It!)
Safest bet in town….
Even when he knows the heat is on and every eye in the world is on him he still has the gall to pick Bedbug Doral for the G7?
Trump isn’t going to start listening to anyone anytime soon. He reads the crowd really well on some things and others he just blows like he doesn’t understand a damn thing at all.
People will be trying to figure out this bizarre crazy time forever, there will be more books written about Trump than Lincoln.
/snark
You know, as a history buff and someone with an overactive imagination, I always try to imagine what it must have been like to experience firsthand one of those weird quirks of history. I don’t know how I’d explain Trump to someone who hasn’t experienced this all first hand.
The tragedy of the email “scandal”, of course, is that even though it was always a giant nothingburger, the media relentlessly flogged it, enabling a man they knew was an ignorant, racist criminal to become President of the US instead of a woman more than qualified and capable of doing the job.
Denied quid pro quo with Ukraine.
Then admitted it.
Then denied it.
And they’re now selling shirts.
https://t.co/ghiInlhz2Q pic.twitter.com/pDKeReXvPM— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 18, 2019
re: #292 b.d. (Get Over It!)
Let’s go Astros!
Happy weekend Lizards!
Beat the Yanks tonight and the Nats next. O’s fans see Houston as where we’d like to be.
re: #293 HappyWarrior
You know, as a history buff and someone with an overactive imagination, I always try to imagine what it must have been like to experience firsthand one of those weird quirks of history. I don’t know how I’d explain Trump to someone who hasn’t experienced this all first hand.
“Well, to tell the truth, we kind of had a national mental meltdown and fucked the dog so hard we killed it.”
$1 million
And to think Barr’s Justice Department decided not to open a criminal investigation in #Ukrianegate because…they claimed the value of the dirt on Biden couldn’t be quantified.
$1 million
Felony campaign law violation requires just $25k in value.
$1 m.i.l.l.i.o.n. https://t.co/69di6EndFT— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) October 18, 2019
This loses something in the translation from the original Russian. https://t.co/wy2Owu8qKb
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 18, 2019
re: #297 austin_blue
“Well, to tell the truth, we kind of had a national mental meltdown and fucked the dog so hard we killed it.”
Our national lost weekend.
Dear lord, Tulsi may be running neck and neck with Trump in the Delusioni-500.
You’re polling within the moe of 0%.
She’d kill you.
But so would Biden, Sanders, Warren, Beto, Booker, Buttiegeg, Harris, Yang, Klobuchar, Styer, Castro and Yang.
Did I leave anyone out?— Uriel (@sickendun2death) October 18, 2019
Oh look, a confession on a shirt. https://t.co/s4EKu9nAoC
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) October 18, 2019
Greenwald retweeting a guy from the Federalist (who funds them, by the way?) is totally on brand. pic.twitter.com/anzZcyNRNV
— TBogg (@tbogg) October 18, 2019
re: #302 HappyWarrior
Jill feels triggered I see.
Hillary dumping over their apple cart may be my favorite thing she’s done recently.
re: #305 b.d. (Get Over It!)
Hillary dumping over their apple cart may be my favorite thing she’s done recently.
For real.
re: #305 b.d. (Get Over It!)
Hillary dumping over their apple cart may be my favorite thing she’s done recently.
It’s amazing how the people who insist there’s no Russian influence on our elections all scream in harmony the moment you say aloud that Russia is influencing our elections…
re: #309 Targetpractice
It’s amazing how the people who insist there’s no Russian influence on our elections all scream in harmony the moment you say aloud that Russia is influencing our elections…
Russia isn’t interfering in our elections but Trump actually won the popular vote considerably.
re: #309 Targetpractice
It’s amazing how the people who insist there’s no Russian influence on our elections all scream in harmony the moment you say aloud that Russia is influencing our elections…
NO COLLUSION, JUST A COINCIDENCE!
re: #309 Targetpractice
It’s amazing how the people who insist there’s no Russian influence on our elections all scream in harmony the moment you say aloud that Russia is influencing our elections…
It’s not just people, but’s tens of thousands of bots.
Hello, Sergei! Here’s the airlock! Dos vidonya for playing!
re: #313 HappyWarrior
Biden should use that.
It might upset some of the Republicans that are secretly planning on working with him after the election.
//
Hillary: TULSI is a RUSSIAN ASSET and Traitor.
Tulsi: Hillary is a supreme warmonger whose network has been smearing my campaign from the start.
Dems: LOW BLOW…. BY TULSI. She seems unhinged and insane. 🇷🇺— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 18, 2019
Wait, does Cory Booker agree or disagree with Hillary’s claim that Tulsi is being “groomed” (i.e., controlled) by Russia? I can’t tell from the cute gif https://t.co/c9UdN6N3rL
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) October 18, 2019
I’d like to know if Bernie has any thoughts on the previous Democratic nominee smearing the person who introduced him at the 2016 convention as an agent of a hostile foreign state
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) October 18, 2019
I need a cigarette after those Tulsi tweets
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) October 18, 2019
re: #290 b.d. (Get Over It!)
Safest bet in town….
Even when he knows the heat is on and every eye in the world is on him he still has the gall to pick Bedbug Doral for the G7?
Trump isn’t going to start listening to anyone anytime soon. He reads the crowd really well on some things and others he just blows like he doesn’t understand a damn thing at all.
People will be trying to figure out this bizarre crazy time forever, there will be more books written about Trump than Lincoln.
/snark
Master Putin don’t like no bedbugs…
re: #316 gocart mozart
Ohhh myyyy, someone(s) is triggered.
re: #316 gocart mozart
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Did we expect either of those assholes to tweet anything else?
re: #314 austin_blue
It’s not just people, but’s tens of thousands of bots.
Hello, Sergei! Here’s the airlock! Dos vidonya for playing!
See this is why some of this tech stuff scares me. The music algorithms that exist on Spotify are awesome but the way these bots blend in with social media and influencing narrative and perception through falsehood and inneudo is terrifying. It’s part of why I see modern warfare as a battle for the mind as much as military might.
The joke, of course, is on Tulsi because Hillary never mentioned her by name and obviously Hillary was talking about Klobuchar because nobody is THAT cornball midwestern
It like Tulsi never saw The Americans so, really, kind of an embarrassing “whoopsie-doodle, my bad” moment— TBogg (@tbogg) October 18, 2019
re: #316 gocart mozart
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looks like glenn has gotten a case of the vapors.
damn, Hillary hit a big ass, throbbing nerve.
re: #316 gocart mozart
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From the start? She didn’t call her out by name A) and B) this is the first time she’s even implied her.
re: #317 Joe Bacon 🌹
Master Putin don’t like no bedbugs…
Putin won’t be invited, it *is* the G7, not the G8.
Unless, nawww, Trump would *never* do that..
Hillary and Nancy are grandmasters when it comes to knowing the exact time and place to stick the shiv!
re: #316 gocart mozart
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re: #320 HappyWarrior
See this is why some of this tech stuff scares me. The music algorithms that exist on Spotify are awesome but the way these bots blend in with social media and influencing narrative and perception through falsehood and inneudo is terrifying. It’s part of why I see modern warfare as a battle for the mind as much as military might.
It very much is, and has been for a decade and more.
re: #321 gocart mozart
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It’s the Slovenian connection. Melania courted her over potica. (For you many non Slovenia descendant lizards, potica is a Slovenian sweet. It’s what Pope Francis said to Melania when he met the Trumps.)
And there it is, the other quid pro quo. Notorious Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash would help Rudy and DiGenova and Toensing cook up dirt on Joe Biden. In return, they’d work with Trump to get US corruption charges against Firtash tossed. Firtash has been fighting extradition to the US on federal corruption charges since 2014.
I’m no expert, but it seems like a Russian propaganda arm cheering for Tulsi sorta helps make Hillary’s case for her.. https://t.co/lO3VgUiFJW
— Justin Kanew (@Kanew) October 18, 2019
Tulsi would totally f-up an Agatha Christie novel:
Main Character: I’ve invited all 15 of you to dinner tonight because I believe one of you is the murderer.
Tulsi pulls out a gun: How dare you! You are the Murderer!! I’m going to ask for you all to get on the ground as I escape!
re: #329 austin_blue
It very much is, and has been for a decade and more.
It’s something else. I don’t remember the end of the Cold War but I’m sure there was a similar optimism much like there was in WWII’s aftermath.
re: #334 HappyWarrior
It’s something else. I don’t remember the end of the Cold War but I’m sure there was a similar optimism much like there was in WWII’s aftermath.
That didn’t go so well, either.
re: #326 austin_blue
Putin won’t be invited, it *is* the G7, not the G8.
Unless, nawww, Trump would *never* do that..
Trump will Putin up at Mar-A-Lago and let him use Marine One to come and go as he pleases. He won’t have to stay at Bedbug Doral.
re: #337 b.d. (We Did It, Get Over It!)
Trump will Putin up at Mar-A-Lago and let him use Marine One to come and go as he pleases. He won’t have to stay at Bedbug Doral.
Putin will stay at a Holiday Inn.
re: #336 austin_blue
That didn’t go so well, either.
Nope. Makes me wonder why Fukuyama wrote so idealistically about “The End of History” because WWI’s immediate ending was no great long term thing either.
Oh…..nothing to see here
Exclusive: Rudy Giuliani asked the Trump administration to grant a visa to the Ukrainian official Joe Biden pushed to have removed while vice president https://t.co/LE4yOmvNZq
— CNN (@CNN) October 18, 2019
Where’s Rudy?
re: #316 gocart mozart
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“Starbursts!”
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re: #340 b.d. (We Did It, Get Over It!)
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Where’s Rudy?
Rudy needs to start reading up on winters in the Rockies when you don’t get pot.
re: #267 b.d. (Get Over It!)
The massive effort to polish the turd that Mike put out there is quite impressive….and laughable.
He’s done…..I want to thank Trump for decimating the GOP bench for the next decade or so….
That turn couldn’t be polished if the punch bowl was filled with turtle wax.
re: #342 HappyWarrior
Rudy needs to start reading up on winters in the Rockies when you don’t get pot.
lol
The incident reveals how Giuliani’s work to dig up dirt on Democrats went much further than previously understood — and included an attempt to directly influence the actions of the federal government. Concerns that Giuliani was inappropriately involved in shaping and driving the administration’s Ukraine policy form a significant part of the intelligence community whistleblower’s complaint, which prompted the ongoing impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump.
Giuliani did not reply Friday to questions from CNN. The White House did not respond to request for comment. Kent’s lawyer declined to comment for this story.
re: #343 The Ghost of a Flea
re: #342 HappyWarrior
Rudy needs to start reading up on winters in the Rockies when you don’t get pot.
Make the best of your one hour off Rudy!
The thought of Rudi dragging DiGenova and Toensing into jail with him…
Some more good news:
Federal judge rules Florida can’t stop ex-felons from voting over money they owe
thehill.com
Though:
The case will later reach the Florida Supreme Court, which will decide whether “all terms of sentence” means not only terms of imprisonment and supervision but also fines and other obligations imposed as part of a sentence.
Can’t see how this isn’t a poll tax.
I am horrified that I made it to 38 years old having never learned these stories of how the US government took thousands of native children and put them in boarding schools.
The reporting that @ranjchak
is doing is so important https://t.co/hBkHoloxd6— Allison Rockey (@AllisonRockey) October 18, 2019
This season of ‘Anne with an E’ deals with the Canadian government taking native children and teaching them English and ‘Christianity’.
re: #352 Dread Pirate
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This season of ‘Anne with an E’ deals with the Canadian government taking native children and teaching them English and ‘Christianity’.
History needs to be taught. Ugly parts of history like this are as much part of history as things like man landing on the moon. You can’t learn from history if you sweep its worst parts under the rug or try to make them irrelevant to the present.
Tulsi exposing herself as a RWNJ is the best news of the day. Sick of seeing her pollute democratic air.
re: #349 Joe Bacon 🌹
The thought of Rudi dragging DiGenova and Toensing into jail with him…
While the thought of America’s Overrated Mayor (and his pals) in orange jumpsuits is certainly a pleasant one, I’m just wondering where Trump fits into all the Ukraine-corruption picture (aside from the obvious factor of being the ultimate beneficiary of Giuliani & Co’s dirt-digging grift and election tampering)?
I get the feeling that - despite Rudy’s under-the-table shenanigans - there is going to be (a la Reagan and Iran-Contra) just enough “plausible deniability” that The Orange Anus won’t be directly implicated in the Ukrainian smear-peddling scandal. Of course, it being Trump, he may just blurt out a confession at his next presser, so who knows….?
re: #355 Jay C
While the thought of America’s Overrated Mayor (and his pals) in orange jumpsuits is certainly a pleasant one, I’m just wondering where Trump fits into all the Ukraine-corruption picture (aside from the obvious factor of being the ultimate beneficiary of Giuliani & Co’s dirt-digging grift and election tampering)?
I get the feeling that - despite Rudy’s under-the-table shenanigans - there is going to be (a la Reagan and Iran-Contra) just enough “plausible deniability” that The Orange Anus won’t be directly implicated in the Ukrainian smear-peddling scandal. Of course, it being Trump, he may just blurt out a confession at his next presser, so who knows….?
Mob bosses do use buffers. But Trump is a loose cannon.
Hillary never even mentioned a name, and we see Republicans defending Tulsi. This is hysterical. It’s like she’s right or something.
re: #355 Jay C
While the thought of America’s Overrated Mayor (and his pals) in orange jumpsuits is certainly a pleasant one, I’m just wondering where Trump fits into all the Ukraine-corruption picture (aside from the obvious factor of being the ultimate beneficiary of Giuliani & Co’s dirt-digging grift and election tampering)?
I get the feeling that - despite Rudy’s under-the-table shenanigans - there is going to be (a la Reagan and Iran-Contra) just enough “plausible deniability” that The Orange Anus won’t be directly implicated in the Ukrainian smear-peddling scandal. Of course, it being Trump, he may just blurt out a confession at his next presser, so who knows….?
Naw, Trump is directly implicated from his phone call with Zelensky.
re: #357 GlutenFreeJesus
Hillary never even mentioned a name, and we see Republicans defending Tulsi. This is hysterical. It’s like she’s right or something.
It is a thing of beauty.
Hello, what’s this?
No real details, but Capitol Hill insider reports that Pelosi is about to make a major move against Trump. Republicans in House increasingly convinced that Trump is mentally ill, unfit to serve; but far right Obama haters remain wedded to Trump. #Presidementia #MalignantEnabling
— John M. Talmadge, MD (@JohnMTalmadgeMD) October 18, 2019
re: #361 makeitstop
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A tape of Trump’s unhinged rant at their meeting the other day? Just speculating.
More from the doc:
Texan Republican friend went to Trump event last night, reports widespread Repub concern re Trump’s mental decline, brain impairment, loss of control, alienation from staff. “The mob loves the circus, but Caesar is demented and broken.” #Presidementia #TrumpMeltdown #Alzheimers
— John M. Talmadge, MD (@JohnMTalmadgeMD) October 18, 2019
re: #361 makeitstop
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Division between true believers in Trump and opportunists like the leadership I reckon. They’re probably petrified to support the 25th because they know true believers like Jordan would cry treason and rally the base for Trump against them.
re: #364 HappyWarrior
Division between true believers in Trump and opportunists like the leadership I reckon. They’re probably petrified to support the 25th because they know true believers like Jordan would cry treason and rally the base for Trump against them.
They have a tiger by the tail; if they let go, it will turn around and eat them.
re: #366 NO SMOCKING GUN!
They have a tiger by the tail; if they let go, it will turn around and eat them.
Yep.
re: #316 gocart mozart
So f’ing stupid, those guys. I have no idea why *anyone* gives either of them any credence.
re: #352 Dread Pirate
One of the recent border protests we went to had several speakers. One speaker was a Native American woman who passionately pointed out the history of our government taking children away from their parents. She was despondent to see it happening again.
One of our major cross streets is “Indian School”. Not an innocuous name.
This is a must-read account of how Trump is undermining discipline and accountability in the military. He has essentially given bad actors a permission slip to do whatever they want. https://t.co/GJZXfzRIxC
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) October 18, 2019
re: #361 makeitstop
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If Trump is impeached by the House and not removed then he’ll view that as the last obstacle in his way being cleared, I can understand their concern.
re: #361 makeitstop
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She should go on TV, call him a poopy head, and wait for him to respond.
#Breaking
Heavy fighting in #RasalAyn according to YPG and(!) SNA sources.
The #TrumpErdogan ceasefire totally collapsed.
YPG/SDF does not withdraw a meter and the only thing Turkish-led forces stopped today was publishing their territorial gains on Social Media.#Syria— Julian Röpcke (@JulianRoepcke) October 18, 2019
re: #372 Belafon
She should go on TV, call him a poopy head, and wait for him to respond.
My thinking was that after the primaries happened then the GOP guys would have a little more freedom to err on the side of sanity but it is being shown every day that we don’t have that kind of time on our hands….
re: #299 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Jill Stein is also so vain she thinks that tweet is about her…
#MoscowMitch is soilin’ his britches right about now.
https://t.co/hOreuMl1Ex— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) October 18, 2019
The real reason Tulsi is so goddamned mad is that now she can’t make a third party run without proving Hillary right
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) October 19, 2019
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) October 19, 2019
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) October 19, 2019
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) October 19, 2019
re: #341 Sherlock Hound
Michael Tracey is playing Rich Lowry to perfection!
“Starbursts!”/////
You know, at this point I’m really starting to wonder how much of her support, even among some normally intelligent people I know, boils down to “she’s pretty.” I know it may sound unnecessarily dismissive- and I’m defiantly impugning her followers and not her with this- but I really don’t see any other reason she’s even considered a democrat *at all,* let alone a viable presidential candidate.
Sure, she’s anti-war, unless the countries involved are Russia or Syria, and…
That’s it. Everything else is watered down RNC talking points. Pretty weak resume.
Seems to be quite a big push going on to brand anyone who can’t fucking help noticing all these Trump connections to Russia at every turn as “conspiracy theorists.” Wonder why that is?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 19, 2019
I don’t rant about Russia all the time. Go back through my tweets and you’ll see that’s true. But damn, come on. The Trump crime family is lousy with Russians. That’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s a fucking fact.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 19, 2019
Do I know what it all means, and what role all these Russians are playing in this mess? No, and neither does anyone else at this point. But they’re not fucking hallucinations.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 19, 2019
re: #382 uriel
You know, at this point I’m really starting to wonder how much of her support, even among some normally intelligent people I know, boils down to “she’s pretty.” I know it may sound unnecessarily dismissive- and I’m defiantly impugning her followers and not her with this- but I really don’t see any other reason she’s even considered a democrat *at all,* let alone a viable presidential candidate.
Sure, she’s anti-war, unless the countries involved are Russia or Syria, and…
That’s it. Everything else is watered down RNC talking points. Pretty weak resume.
Since her support is close to 0%, you aren’t maligning a lot of people. Mostly bots and ratfuckers.
re: #333 b.d. (We Did It, Get Over It!)
Tulsi would totally f-up an Agatha Christie novel:
Main Character: I’ve invited all 15 of you to dinner tonight because I believe one of you is the murderer.
Tulsi pulls out a gun: How dare you! You are the Murderer!! I’m going to ask for you all to get on the ground as I escape!
And Jill Stein is standing behind her with the candlestick…
Aren’t the floppy discs good because they are unhackable?
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) October 19, 2019
On the Trail of a Fourth Soviet Spy at Los Alamos
Three Soviet spies in the Manhattan Project are well known - Klaus Fuchs, David Greenglass, and Ted Hall. Fuchs and Greenglass were known publicly in the 1950s, but Hall’s story came out only in the 1990s.
Now more documents have been declassified, and Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes, who have done much to illuminate Soviet spying during that time, have found a fourth Soviet spy. They have found his path from the United States to East Germany and then Russia in 1952, escaping from possible arrest. Their article in the CIA’s “Studies in Intelligence” lays out what is known about him.
The spy’s name is Oscar Seborer. His story intersects with the FBI’s Project SOLO, in which they turned two members of the Communist Party in the USA. Their communications with Moscow seem to indicate that Seborer furnished information on the atomic bomb project, where he was a technician.
Seborer seems to have operated separately from the other spies, and his reporting seems to have been more to the GRU (Soviet military intelligence) than the civilian KGB. The two intelligence agencies have historically competed.
Klehr and Haynes have uncovered a fair bit of information about Seborer’s family, but not much about what he did at Los Alamos or what information he gave to Moscow. Maybe someone reading this knows something about the Seborer family or, as they called themselves in Russia, the Smiths.
re: #387 gocart mozart
Clay tablets are also unhackable.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) October 19, 2019
re: #384 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Since her support is close to 0%, you aren’t maligning a lot of people. Mostly bots and ratfuckers.
True.
I do have a couple of people on facebook who go on and on about her that consider themselves ‘more progressive then you could ever be,”- and I really can’t explain why they support her so strongly.
I’m beginning to suspect they can’t explain it either.
(Edited to add- Coincidentally, they’re all also big fans of Greewald, Tiabbi, and Tracey. Astonishing as that might seem.)
Bill O’Reilly “Fuck It” Dance Remix
— Don Hammond (@bluestatedon) October 19, 2019
When you go on Tucker Carlson to explain to the world how you are the real liberal and not a Russian/Right Wing stooge then I think that the jig is up.
re: #387 gocart mozart
Actually, no. There are lots of machines in the world that can still read and write 8-inch floppies and it would probably be easy to craft a disk that would launch nuclear armageddon if you had a copy of the real disk. They’re supposed to be replacing it with a solid state digital storage system, and as long as it isn’t connected to the internet and has lots of security layers to prevent over-riding important shit, that’s probably better.
re: #391 Belafon
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— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) October 19, 2019
But brother are they open to interpretation
re: #397 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Tulsi is in Tucker AGAIN?
Apparently, she’s blowing off a pre-arranged press appearance to visit with the nazi-adjacent confusion muppet, as well-
At 7:35 pm, it was reported that Tulsi Gabbard was over an hour late for a press event in Iowa and that her aides weren’t telling people what was going on.She just went live on Tucker Carlson’s show. pic.twitter.com/xghHURSu10
— jordan (@JordanUhl) October 19, 2019
In a letter this spring, not been previously reported, a handful of frmr US ambassadors to Ukraine urged top @StateDept officials to defend Yovanovitch. One of Pompeo’s closest advisors, Counselor Brechbuhl, replied saying the msg would be considered. https://t.co/Fgl7EhJy7n
— Kylie Atwood (@kylieatwood) October 18, 2019
Quite the front page from the Kyiv Post, with John Solomon described as “singlehandedly responsible for reporting a lot of false and misleading stories about Ukraine.” pic.twitter.com/1yaL6hPLPH
— Casey Michel 🇰🇿 (@cjcmichel) October 18, 2019
this is snowballing
I would buy a “Do me a favor though” t-shirt. https://t.co/DIGknxV2u6
— Matt Bennett (@ThirdWayMattB) October 19, 2019
re: #340 b.d. (We Did It, Get Over It!)
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Exclusive: Rudy Giuliani asked the Trump administration to grant a visa to the Ukrainian official Joe Biden pushed to have removed while vice president
The Independent had a story last week about this official:
Viktor Shokin: The inside story on Ukraine’s ‘very good’ prosecutor at centre of Trump scandal
David Sakvarelidze was five months into a new job as Ukraine’s reformist deputy chief prosecutor when a witness came forward with intelligence that would change the course of everything.
The witness, a sand producer in the Kiev region, complained of men extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars. […]
A search of the men’s apartments revealed a scene that looked like a comic heist: bags full of cash, diamonds and other precious stones. But that was not the only incriminating evidence. Documents seized at the time indicated the men appeared to have a connection to the top prosecutor in the land, Viktor Shokin.
Police found copies of Shokin’s passports, property registration certificates and even his licence to carry firearms. One of the two men, it transpired, was Shokin’s former driver who had subsequently climbed the ranks behind his boss.
I like the phrase “a scene that looked like a comic heist”.
Tulsi doing Tulsi (R) things.
So anyway, if I was Pelosi, I would get the caucus together and fire off an article of impeachment - just ONE - tomorrow on the G7/Doral thing. Let the investigations roll on everything else.
It needs no investigation, it needs no explanation. It’s blatant corruption and self dealing, and blatantly a constitutional violation. You can put the case to the Senate in less than four hours.
It puts huge pressure on the WH, which is already cracking hard. It gives the Rs time to bail out and disavow Trump early if that’s where the momentum is heading, and if not it gives every D candidate a talking point for the next year. And it gives up none of the investigative leverage. It would be nice to see a comprehensive trial on all the emoulments, but this one is so insanely blatant that there’s really not going to be a better chance in that lane. Pull the trigger, Nancy, you won’t regret it.
re: #297 austin_blue
“Well, to tell the truth, we kind of had a national mental meltdown and fucked the dog so hard we killed it.”
Post 9/11 was also a deeply fucked up time, with way too many people supporting torture.
Anyway, here’s Ripley again who is probably having dog sex at THIS VERY MOMENT because we will need more bassets to fend off Red Dawn III: The Tulsining pic.twitter.com/W6fOuMtIwv
— TBogg (@tbogg) October 18, 2019
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) October 19, 2019
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) October 19, 2019
re: #403 NetworkKed
Tulsi doing Tulsi (R) things.
So anyway, if I was Pelosi, I would get the caucus together and fire off an article of impeachment - just ONE - tomorrow on the G7/Doral thing. Let the investigations roll on everything else.
It needs no investigation, it needs no explanation. It’s blatant corruption and self dealing, and blatantly a constitutional violation. You can put the case to the Senate in less than four hours.
It puts huge pressure on the WH, which is already cracking hard. It gives the Rs time to bail out and disavow Trump early if that’s where the momentum is heading, and if not it gives every D candidate a talking point for the next year. And it gives up none of the investigative leverage. It would be nice to see a comprehensive trial on all the emoulments, but this one is so insanely blatant that there’s really not going to be a better chance in that lane. Pull the trigger, Nancy, you won’t regret it.
Like said yesterday the better tack to take here is to run a emergency appropriations bill through reconciliation procedures that bans ANY government payments to private resorts for the G7, and suggests Camp David as a perfectly viable alternative. This strategy has three key advantages:
1.) Only needs 51 votes in the Senate
2.) Would drive Trump insane with rage
3.) Bypasses any legal challenge of it as a Bill of Attainder
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re: #409 goddamnedfrank
Like said yesterday the better tack to take here is to run a emergency appropriations bill through reconciliation procedures that bans ANY government payments to private resorts for the G7, and suggests Camp David as a perfectly viable alternative. This strategy has three key advantages:
1.) Only needs 50 votes in the Senate
2.) Would drive Trump insane with rage
3.) Bypasses any legal challenge of it as a Bill of Attainder
This is very clever. Taking President Man-Baby’s toys away from him whenever possible is an excellent strategy.
re: #410 b.d. (Do Me A Favor Though)
I listened to a show about Lovecraft and the said that he would never use a 5 cent word when a dollar one would work.
One problem with that kind of thing is all these unspeakable and ineffable horrors that the author and/or characters did in fact talk about and describe.
re: #403 NetworkKed
Tulsi doing Tulsi (R) things.
So anyway, if I was Pelosi, I would get the caucus together and fire off an article of impeachment - just ONE - tomorrow on the G7/Doral thing. Let the investigations roll on everything else.
It needs no investigation, it needs no explanation. It’s blatant corruption and self dealing, and blatantly a constitutional violation. You can put the case to the Senate in less than four hours.
It puts huge pressure on the WH, which is already cracking hard. It gives the Rs time to bail out and disavow Trump early if that’s where the momentum is heading, and if not it gives every D candidate a talking point for the next year. And it gives up none of the investigative leverage. It would be nice to see a comprehensive trial on all the emoulments, but this one is so insanely blatant that there’s really not going to be a better chance in that lane. Pull the trigger, Nancy, you won’t regret it.
Pass a bill that any host for a G7 Summit must pass a full detailed financial audit of their books to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
That should do it.
re: #413 b.d. (Do Me A Favor Though)
Pass a bill that any host for a G7 Summit must pass a full detailed financial audit of their books to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
That should do it.
That’s too complicated. This has to be made very simple for the both-siderist meatheads of the nation.
Just pass a bill that forbids official self-dealing in international summits.
Rudy saw his shadow so it’s 6 weeks of criming. https://t.co/xBkLVjEzP0
— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) October 19, 2019
re: #414 EPR-radar
That’s too complicated. This has to be made very simple for the both-siderist meatheads of the nation.
Just pass a bill that forbids official self-dealing in international summits.
LOL but that is already in the Constitution and they’ve blown it off.
Maybe they’ll pay attention to a NEW law?
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Reading Tulsi’s thread today reminded me of this. https://t.co/LA47FQ1X5K
— David Neiwert (@DavidNeiwert) October 19, 2019
re: #409 goddamnedfrank
Like said yesterday the better tack to take here is to run a emergency appropriations bill through reconciliation procedures that bans ANY government payments to private resorts for the G7, and suggests Camp David as a perfectly viable alternative. This strategy has three key advantages:
1.) Only needs 50 votes in the Senate
2.) Would drive Trump insane with rage
3.) Bypasses any legal challenge of it as a Bill of Attainder
Easier to pass, yes, make Trump mad, check… but I just don’t see taking away a few million dollars (depending on the contract, even a buncha million $) from Trump as a worthy legislative goal. It’s slapping a child on the wrist - “Don’t take that.”
The real point is to get Trump out of office. Pence is a turd, but he’d be slaughtered in the election. Trump is doing damage to the country every day, and picking a clear first round of impeachment - and making it clear that there WILL be more to come - moves removal forward.
Democrats introduce ‘THUG Act’ to block funding for G-7 at Trump resort
Democratic Reps. Lois Frankel (Fla.), Bennie Thompson (Miss.) and Steve Cohen (Tenn.) introduced the Trump’s Heist Undermines the G-7 (THUG) Act after acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told reporters Thursday that the Trump resort near Miami will host the annual summit of world leaders June 10-12.
thehill.com
That didn’t take long
re: #416 b.d. (Do Me A Favor Though)
LOL but that is already in the Constitution and they’ve blown it off.
Maybe they’ll pay attention to a NEW law?
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“Emoluments” is an archaic enough word that 3/4 of the meatheads in the country don’t care about it simply because they don’t know what it means and can’t be bothered to learn.
Like it or not, we don’t get Trump removed from office without changing Trump’s polling among meatheads.
re: #419 Kilroy was here
Democrats introduce ‘THUG Act’ to block funding for G-7 at Trump resort
Democratic Reps. Lois Frankel (Fla.), Bennie Thompson (Miss.) and Steve Cohen (Tenn.) introduced the Trump’s Heist Undermines the G-7 (THUG) Act after acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told reporters Thursday that the Trump resort near Miami will host the annual summit of world leaders June 10-12.thehill.com
That didn’t take long
That’s a good start, although the cutesy acronym is probably a mistake. IMO it’s not on-target enough to be worth the media backlash.
re: #421 EPR-radar
That’s a good start, although the cutesy acronym is probably a mistake. IMO it’s not on-target enough to be worth the media backlash.
We can call it the T-Hug act, that sounds nicer.
re: #422 b.d. (Do Me A Favor Though)
We can call it the T-Hug act, that sounds nicer.
I’d prefer something like “Official Corruption Act”. Let President Man-Baby yowl about it and identify himself as the corrupt official of the bill.
They are talking about Lou Adler on PBS, who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame a few years ago. In addition to his music, he produced the Cheech and Chong movies and the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
re: #423 EPR-radar
I’d prefer something like “Official Corruption Act”. Let President Man-Baby yowl about it and identify himself as the corrupt official of the bill.
Anti-Corruption Act?
heh: ACA. They don’t like it already.
re: #421 EPR-radar
That’s a good start, although the cutesy acronym is probably a mistake. IMO it’s not on-target enough to be worth the media backlash.
Also, the entire point should be to get enough Senators on board to reach 51 votes, forcing Trump to veto the express will of Congress in order to raid the US treasury and get paid. The point of this legislation should be to make the corruption explicitly clear to everyone, especially the courts.
So yeah, the title is too clever by half.
Another remarkable quote from GOP Rep. Francis Rooney:
“I’ll be looking at my children a lot longer than I’m looking to anybody in this building.”https://t.co/XUyhMtHGoU— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) October 18, 2019
re: #427 Dread Pirate
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Mick Mulvaney: Yeah, we did all the crimes, get over it!
Glenn Greenwald: Man, look at the Dems being so unfair and mean to Tulsi— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) October 19, 2019
The Justice Department hired the son of Ukraine scandal figures Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova. https://t.co/7ZF2VEwrAb
— Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) October 17, 2019
We ran a story Thurs on Brady Toensing, whose mother and stepfather represent Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash, who is fighting a DOJ indictment for bribery. Brady since June has worked in DOJ’s Office of Legal Policy. A DOJ flack send responded today. https://t.co/7ZF2VEwrAb pic.twitter.com/f0rZb9jgR1
— Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) October 19, 2019
re: #312 b.d. (We Did It, Get Over It!)
Where’s Rudy?
He has been quiet. Maybe on a week bender, lying in bed, muttering 911 over and over.
re: #431 Eventual Carrion
He has been quiet. Maybe on a week bender, lying in bed, muttering 911 over and over.
Is he with or without his cousin?
re: #424 Belafon
They are talking about Lou Adler on PBS, who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame a few years ago. In addition to his music, he produced the Cheech and Chong movies and the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
The man who brought us the Mamas & the Papas.
Several GOP lawmakers have reached out to the White House to urge Trump to reconsider holding the G7 at Doral — as a growing number of Rs struggle to defend Trump on his numerous controversies, w/ @rachaelmbade @mikedebonis https://t.co/2ITmlziFkx
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) October 19, 2019
Narrator: He won’t listen.
re: #427 Dread Pirate
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Don’t know him but we’re starting to see cracks in the armor more everyday.
re: #434 makeitstop
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Narrator: He won’t listen.
Yeah not gonna happen. I don’t feel bad for them. They’ve helped him with the fake news bs and with the worst of his policies.
The Washington Post’s Story on George Kent and Hunter Biden Shows Desperation to Play Both Sides by Charlie Pierce, pecking away at WaPo’s Both-Siderism.
re: #437 HappyWarrior
Don’t know him but we’re starting to see cracks in the armor more everyday.
Between him, Kasich coming out in favor of impeachment, and the reports that more Rs are starting to realize that Trump ain’t all there, I’ll give it a couple of weeks before he starts losing a lot of support. Shit’s gonna break.
Another one from Charlie Pierce: Donald Trump Decided Climate Change Won’t Be on the Agenda for the G7 at Trump Doral
It’s as typically idiotic for this administration* to decide unilaterally that the climate crisis will not be on the agenda as it is typically corrupt for this administration* to incarcerate the leaders of the western world at one of the president*’s lesser properties. How do they plan to keep the climate crisis off the agenda? By threatening to throw the offending representatives out of Doral? Delegates might show up in Greta Thunberg masks if that were the threatened penalty.
Trump’s Heist Undermines the G-7 (THUG) Act
or…
DOald Trump, American’s aren’t Deceived (Dotard) Act
do*tard
/ˈdōdərd/
noun
an old person, especially one who has become physically weak or whose mental faculties have declined.
I’m sure Trump’s best buddy Little Rocketman wouldn’t mind us using it.
President said China committed to $40 to $50b a year ag purchases. Note best ever year for China purchases was in 2012 at slightly over $25 b ag purchases. And we are starting at an historic low level in 2018 of less than $10b. Highly questionable promise to American farmers. pic.twitter.com/sKYzfhXnAa
— Bill Hoagland (@billhoagland) October 18, 2019
re: #440 makeitstop
Between him, Kasich coming out in favor of impeachment, and the reports that more Rs are starting to realize that Trump ain’t all there, I’ll give it a couple of weeks before he starts losing a lot of support. Shit’s gonna break.
Yeah we might be closer to a removal than I thought
They must be fearing Trump being a huge albatross in 2020 and beyond.
There will be a civil war in the GOP whatever happens. The base still loves Trump.
When Rudy Giuliani went to the funeral of George H.W. Bush, he brought with him a date. A most unusual date. pic.twitter.com/3mCdNXKygR
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) October 19, 2019
re: #443 Dread Pirate
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Someone needs to ask the Trump supporting farmers if they’re better off now than they were four years ago.
Excessive brain activity linked to a shorter life
One key to a longer life could be a quieter brain without too much neural activity, according to a new study that examined postmortem brain tissue from extremely long-lived people for clues about what made them different from people who died in their 60s and 70s.
“Use it or lose it” has dominated thinking on how to protect the aging brain, and extensive research shows there are many benefits to remaining physically and mentally active as people get older. But the study, published in the journal Nature, suggests more isn’t always better. Excessive activity — at least at the level of brain cells — could be harmful.
….ZZZZZ……ZZZZZ……ZZZZZ
Nestor creeping up on Florida:
re: #449 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Yet… what immediately comes to mind is how long lived thinkers can be, especially musicians like conductors, and all those addled emeriti cluttering up academia.
re: #450 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Nestor creeping up on Florida:
Hope the storm dies at sea obviously. I don’t trust Trump with disaster relief in normal circumstances but with him having a meltdown even less.
re: #453 HappyWarrior
Nestor is moving quickly northeast. By tomorrow it will have crossed into Florida. It will then slow down and wander through the SE US until it emerges in the Atlantic.
Winds are not high… mostly rain from this storm.
re: #455 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I thought that was Pelosi.
/s
Just like Pelosis Chief of Staff admitted it was a witch-hunt and then denied it.//
So Tulsi assumed HRC was talking about her, then runs onto Tucker to whine. Feels purposeful so she can withdraw claiming to be the victim, then becomes the outspoken “liberal” for FOXiverse in the upcoming election. This gives her license to trash the real finalist.
Mahar offered Trump $1 Billion to resign….
He is pledging $1 Million and says he is sure he can find another 1,000 people to contribute the same.
re: #448 HappyWarrior
Someone needs to ask the Trump supporting farmers if they’re better off now than they were four years ago.
And they’ll likely nod in agreement, say that their business has never looked worse, and then go and pull the lever for the straight (R) ticket on Election Day without a second thought …
re: #459 Jay C
And they’ll likely nod in agreement, say that their business has never looked worse, and then go and pull the lever for the straight (R) ticket on Election Day without a second thought …
Oh true but no shame in trying to cut into it. I want Trump to lose epically.
re: #458 b.d. (Do Me A Favor Though)
Mahar offered Trump $1 Billion to resign….
He is pledging $1 Million and says he is sure he can find another 1,000 people to contribute the same.
Great idea.. Have him resign and then not pay him, it is so on Brand…
re: #458 b.d. (Do Me A Favor Though)
Mahar offered Trump $1 Billion to resign….
He is pledging $1 Million and says he is sure he can find another 1,000 people to contribute the same.
And if Trump takes it, Maher can stiff him, and take him to court to settle for 15 cents on the dollar….
In light of the latest slanderous allegations from @HillaryClinton, I challenge her to a debate. It’s past time to give the American people the real debate they deserved in 2016, but were denied by the phony DNC/RNC-controlled Commission on Presidential Debates. https://t.co/OvvEjJ9sMx
— Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) October 18, 2019
re: #463 gocart mozart
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She didn’t say Tulsi Gabbard. I’m glad Glenn and Jill took the bait though. Because they’re Russian handass puppets too.
re: #457 Amory Blaine
So Tulsi assumed HRC was talking about her, then runs onto Tucker to whine. Feels purposeful so she can withdraw claiming to be the victim, then becomes the outspoken “liberal” for FOXiverse in the upcoming election. This gives her license to trash the real finalist.
Yep, and when she runs as a third party candidate, everyone can nod to Clinton and say “Once again, she was right.”
It’s a shame HRC is peddling conspiracy theories to justify her failure instead of reflecting on real reasons Dems lost in 2016. You can slander progressives as “Russian assets”, but you can’t hide the fact that the DNC sabotaged Sanders & elevated Trump to set the stage for HRC. https://t.co/ImGDnL1451
— Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) October 18, 2019
Maybe Russia isn’t paying all these guys but all of them are Vlad’s useful idiots that parrot out propaganda.
Thank you Hillary Clinton for hitting that Hornet’s nest with a rock.
re: #465 Belafon
Yep, and when she runs as a third party candidate, everyone can nod to Clinton and say “Once again, she was right.”
It will also bring more attention to Tulsi’s record as an Assad apologist and homophobe.
EXCLUSIVE: When Rudy Met Donny: A Mob Story. Part 1 of @NarativLive’s investigation of the President’s personal attorney. Support independent journalism https://t.co/CbOeEWrKT6. https://t.co/P90N4JRuHK
— Zev Shalev (@ZevShalev) October 19, 2019
There has since the 1940s, at least, a feeling among citizens that America is too strong and that the welfare of the world resides in counterbalance. And so there were some “well-meaning” spies in the Manhattan Project; Oppenheimer himself thought that sharing the science might nip an escalation in the bud.
I think that GG, Tracey, Mate, etc., Are those kind of citizen: America has become too big for it’s britches and needs to be taken down a peg. They never talk about domestic issues anymore—income inequality, health care—-because it’s more convenient at the moment to attack anyone right of Bernie on their positions about Russia/Trump (even though their own understanding of the Mueller Report is blinkered by some devotion to protecting Russia’s reputation).
Republican state senator.
Republicans: WHAT is the holdup? Trump is now flaunting impeachable offenses in front of CAMERAS. Are you just going to stand there and say nothing? Are you ok with your legacy being “was submissive to Donald Trump?” Good Lord. Grow a spine and regain some self respect.
— Senator McCollister (@SenMcCollister) October 18, 2019
re: #440 makeitstop
Between him, Kasich coming out in favor of impeachment, and the reports that more Rs are starting to realize that Trump ain’t all there, I’ll give it a couple of weeks before he starts losing a lot of support. Shit’s gonna break.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend and what not, but I keep looking at all these GOPers starting to lean towards impeachment and I think: “You motherfuckers voted for him the first place. You guys don’t give two shits about the country, you want a sane version of Trump that isn’t obvious about all of the corruption.”
AKA, John Kasich.
Woah
Then why did you come up and hug me at 2015 WHCD when I’d never met you (which was totally gross) and whisper in my ear that I had been “very unfairly treated” over Benghazi and “was doing a great job for the country”? https://t.co/HG3SU2gfrE
— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) October 19, 2019
re: #476 gocart mozart
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It’s almost like he just says what he thinks people want to hear. And JFC what a creep.
Scandals were exaggerated by his Trumpian opponent. His conservative opponent’s campaign manager was a founder of Rebel media. Heard of them? They are the destroyers of democracy in the USA.
— Geenance (@geenance) October 19, 2019
She’s in a cult. Not hyperbole:https://t.co/B28FORj03Y
— Greg Olear (@gregolear) October 19, 2019
re: #447 gocart mozart
For cryin’ out loud- this is getting to stupid to be interesting, except as an object lesson in what stupidity looks like.