Program Note
[ Posted Thursday, July 25th, 2019 – 18:51 UTC ]
Due to a sudden and unexpected wedding, there will be no column today, sorry. One of my oldest and best friends decided to tie the knot unexpectedly, so my presence was required elsewhere. Congratulations to the happy couple! My apologies for the interruption in service, and fresh columns will resume tomorrow.
-- Chris Weigant
Follow Chris on Twitter: @ChrisWeigant
you never know when a wedding will strike! always be prepared with pie.
JL
Shotgun wedding! Cake!
JL
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Pie!? pie, really?
Okay, fine... pie... but no nuts! ;)
@m (regarding prior column)
i haven't seen the film you mentioned, but here's my counter-offer: watch pulp fiction and tell me what you think the moral of that story is, and then i'll do the same for crimson tide.
oh, and just in case you (or anyone else) were interested, here's the commentary i tend mostly to agree with:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/25/robert-mueller-hearing-was-awesome-227478
Can’t think of a better reason to take a day off than a friend finding love!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MneRtx7x2vs
My best to the happy couple!
another note tangentially relevant to the topic: 4 weddings and a funeral apparently has a reboot on the small screen. i haven't seen it yet, but loved the hugh grant film in the 90's. like the 2016 leicester city premier league champions, that one got every ounce of quality it possibly could from its limited resources, and came out a gigantic winner.
JL
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I saw a promo a few days ago... with Missandei from Game of Thrones, last seen being beheaded by Gregor Clegane (spoiler alert). Here's hoping she gets one of the four weddings this time around instead of the funeral. ;)
i haven't seen the film you mentioned, but here's my counter-offer: watch pulp fiction and tell me what you think the moral of that story is, and then i'll do the same for crimson tide.
You have NOT seen Crimson Tide!!!!???
You heathen!!! :D
OK, sounds like a plan.. I'll TRY to watch PF today...
Tasked with overseeing the most high-profile investigation of our time, Mueller managed to complete the investigation without appearing to have a partisan agenda,
Ohh puulleeezze...
The entire investigative team was ALL Die Hard Hillary sycophants...
You can't get more 'partisan agenda' than that..
The Benghazi Investigation was ALL Republicans and you people screamed "PARTISAN WITCH HUNT!!!" til the cow came home..
Mueller's team was no different...
Mueller’s down-the-middle, leak-free handling of the high-stakes investigation was an object lesson in professionalism.
It was only "leak free" because the Hillary team thought they were going to find something to nail President Trump... Who wants to be leaking something that HELPS President Trump??
Of course, when Mueller's team had a chance to "nail" President Trump, the leak was fast and furious..
"Leak Free" my left ass cheek...
Obviously the author did not watch the same Mueller hearing that everyone else watched..
Hell, even Paula thinks it was abysmal...
Among Democrats, perhaps the most disappointed in Mueller's performance were members of the Intelligence and Judiciary committees, who questioned the former special counsel, according to conversations with several who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak frankly. Many felt blindsided that no one warned them how much Mueller had aged - and regretful that they had forced a decorated Vietnam veteran and longtime civil servant into testifying when he was so reluctant in the first place.
"I was beyond shocked," one lawmaker said of Mueller's occasional confusion and seeming unfamiliarity with details of the report.
Even pro-impeachment Democrats agreed that the testimony may not have helped their case, with Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, saying, "I don't think it was a Eureka moment," and Rep. Daniel Kildee, D-Mich., adding: "I haven't seen anything . . . that indicates this is a turning point."
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Democrats-second-guess-calling-Mueller-divided-14152728.php
Apparently, all these Democrats saw the same Mueller testimony that we all saw..
Democrats really scrooed da pooch with this...
But I still hope Dims try and impeach President Trump... :D
"In order for us to move toward impeachment, we'd have to change the electorate, and I don't think that necessarily happened in a big way yesterday," said Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., another impeachment supporter and a Pelosi ally.
Most notably, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who elicited several of Mueller's criticisms of Trump at the hearings, sharply played down the prospects of removing the president through impeachment.
"We do need to be realistic, and that is, the only way he's leaving office, at least at this point, is by being voted out, and I think our efforts need to be made in every respect to make sure we turn out our people," Schiff said during an interview on CNN.
Hell, even Schiff-head concedes that impeachment won't work!! :D
He finally saw the writing on the wall... :D
As Mueller faced criticism for his halting testimony, some who knew or worked with him defended the performance. They conceded that while Mueller might not have been at the pinnacle of his sharpness, he and his investigation should not be judged on his oratorical prowess.
Even Mueller's own team commented on how frail Mueller was...
I don't know what testimony your article's author saw, JL...
But it sure wasn't the Mueller testimony that everyone else watched.. :D
As an aside, I see Victoria has started using CB's spyware script...
That's another sucker I brought you, Chazz.. You owe me!! :D
Now I have free reign because now even Victoria is afraid to challenge me.. :D
YES!!!! Mission Accomplished :D
The person noted that Mueller's team had charged more than 30 people with federal crimes and secured guilty pleas from seven, and that Mueller "was the team leader and responsible for virtually every facet of the investigation" The person said Mueller "has a full command of those facts, and to suggest otherwise is just plain wrong."
Not a SINGLE person charged was charged with anything to do with President Trump, Russia and/or the election..
98% of the charges were nothing but process crimes.. Traps that the investigators set.. Also used was extortion against family members..
Yea, the America hating Hillary sycophant team didn't do squat to further the cause of justice..
Michael Moore warns Dems 'professional politician' can't beat Trump: 'I love Joe Biden... but we gotta win'
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/michael-moore-trump-biden
With regards to Presidential elections...
Ya'all should listen to Michael Moore.. He was dead on ballz accurate the last time..
Liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore warned Democrats on Thursday night that picking a "professional politician" as their nominee will lead to four more years of President Trump.
Moore began by predicting that the 2020 Democratic candidate will earn 5 million more voters thanTrump but stressed that person can still lose the electoral college.
"We have to have a beloved American running, not a professional politician," Moore told "Late Night" host Seth Meyers. "You've got to have someone who inspires the base. The base, here, of the Democratic Party, are women, people of color, and young adults between 18-35. That's 70 percent of who's going to vote next year."
Please listen to Michael Moore.. Party Purity is the most important aspect in choosing a nominee...
Forget about electability.. Any candidate that is Party Pure is automagically electable.. :D
Ex-MSNBC host Krystal Ball rips former network over Russian hoax: ‘Rachel Maddow, you’ve got some explaining to do’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ex-msnbc-host-krystal-ball-rips-former-network-over-russian-hoax-rachel-maddow-youve-got-some-explaining-to-do
heh
Blue on blue violence.. :D Love it..
Ex-MSNBC host Krystal Ball blasted her former network as “not journalism” and singled out "The Rachel Maddow Show" on Thursday for floating wild “Russian conspiracy theories” that blew up during former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's testimony.
Mueller's testimony before two House committees Wednesday was largely considered a “disaster” for Democrats and opponents of President Trump despite MSNBC pushing the collusion narrative. Ball -- who now hosts The Hill newspaper's “Rising” -- said on her show she did not mean anything personal when she asked, “Just how much damage has MSNBC, in particular, done to the left?”
Answer.. Quite a lot.. That's why I toast that MSNBC remains in good health for a LONG time.. :D
Ball also mocked the far-left network for allowing New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait to explain a bizarre conspiracy theory that Trump has been a Russian asset since the 1980s.
“Seriously, this is not journalism,” Ball said. “CNN and many other outlets are also clearly not blameless in this hype machine.”
Ball said she singled out her former employer because “they were certainly the worst mainstream offenders” and the entire ordeal has damaged the chances of a Democrat winning the 2020 election.
Yep.. That's why I drink to MSNBC's health... With friends like that, Dumbocrats don't need enemies...
:D
“Most of the wild conspiracy theorizing fell apart when the Mueller report was released but one key element of the storyline remained. Mueller the hero. The white knight who would come riding in at the last moment to convince those independent, middle-American women that Trump was the crook and the scoundrel that we said all along. Needless to say, the white knight rides no more.”
-Democrat Krystal Ball
You would be hard pressed to find a Democrat who has more than 2 brain cells to rub together who says unequivocally that Mueller's testimony was a resounding success without a single qualifier...
:D
Kamala Harris’s Debate Bounce Is Fading
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/harriss-debate-bounce-is-fading/
It was bound to happen..
I have to rethink my prediction that Harris will be the Dim nominee...
Jay Sekulow: Mueller's testimony shows he conducted a witch hunt – Time to declare 'case closed'
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jay-sekulow-muellers-testimony-shows-he-conducted-a-witch-hunt-time-to-declare-case-closed
Uh... Yup....
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony Wednesday before two House committees confirmed what we already knew: his two-year investigation of Russia’s meddling in our 2016 presidential election was fatally tainted by deep political bias and was in fact designed to harass and derail President Trump.
Mueller’s testimony exposed troubling deficiencies of his investigation. It is now clearer than ever that his probe was conducted by a small group of partisan prosecutors who – as hard as they tried – were unable to establish either obstruction, conspiracy, or collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
It’s also clear that the special counsel conducted his lengthy and costly investigation unimpeded by President Trump.
"These are the facts of the case. And they are undisputed.."
-Captain Smilin' Jack Ross, A FEW GOOD MEN
Wednesday morning’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee was at times difficult to watch. Mueller had no idea what was in his own report. It’s no wonder that he demanded to have his deputy at his side, just so someone could point out the pages in the report, since he was obviously unfamiliar with its content.
President Trump summed it up best when he told reporters that Mueller “did a horrible job both today and with respect to the investigation,” but “in all fairness to him he had nothing to work with.”
Mueller’s testimony was rife with inaccuracies. When questioned by Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., Mueller said collusion and conspiracy are not synonymous. And yet, Page 180 of his own report says that “collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy.”
When asked if he was contradicting his report, Mueller’s answer was: “Not when I read it.” It’s cringe-worthy.
It is painfully clear that not only did Mueller not write the report, it's clear he didn't even READ the report...
Such a sad end to an auspicious career...
The next question for Mueller should have been: Why was this report even written in the first place, especially if you’d already concluded that no charges could be brought against the president?
Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, asked a pointed question that noted President Trump has not been treated fairly throughout this investigation.
“Can you give me an example, other than Donald Trump, where the Justice Department determined that an investigated person was not exonerated because their innocence was not conclusively determined?” Ratcliffe asked.
Mueller responded: “I cannot, but this is a unique situation.”
No sir, this is not a unique situation. That is not the standard of law. You are not the judge or jury. You either bring charges or you don’t. Mueller’s testimony Wednesday made it clear this whole ordeal has been a political witch hunt.
Here’s the bottom line: there was no collusion, no conspiracy, no obstruction between the Trump campaign and Russia. Case closed.
This is the part that PROVED Mueller was not all there..
This is NOT a unique situation.. It's very common for a prosecutor to investigate a crime and then make a determination to prosecute..
It's simply unheard of for a Prosecutor to investigate a crime and issue a report that says, in essence, "I know the person is guilty but I can't find any facts to support my position."
THAT is completely what Mueller is saying...
And that is total and complete bullshit.. Completely un-American..
That utter travesty strips Mueller of any praise he deserves for his past actions...
Mueller has PROVEN beyond any doubt that he is un-American..
THAT will be Mueller's legacy...
Robert Mueller breaks his silence — and still has nothing
https://nypost.com/2019/07/24/robert-mueller-breaks-his-silence-and-still-has-nothing/
That's what's so funny... Looking at the Mueller hearings in the BEST possible light, what are ya left with??
No new information.. Just the same old narrative that the American people CLEARLY rejected 3-odd months ago when the report was released..
Democrats doubled down on NOTHING and, not surprisingly, came up with.... the DOUBLE of NOTHING...
:eyeroll:
So .?.?. this was Robert Mueller? This? This stumbling, confused, halting fellow — this was the man who would save us from President Trump? I’m not sure the man we watched in two hearings Wednesday could decide which of the early-bird specials to order at a retirement home in West Palm.
Yep.. THAT'S Robert Mueller...
His absence from our public life — no statements, no appearances, no nothing — was the evidence of his overwhelming presence. Mueller was working diligently to rescue America from the result of the 2016 election, and woe betide you if you expressed doubt about that in the liberal public square.
Over the course of his two-year investigation, I would go on TV and say I didn’t think the Russia investigation was necessarily going the way liberals hoped it would. And both on and off the air, I would be told that we just had no idea what Mueller knew, that Mueller was the only person who could see the investigation entire and that he was slowly but surely zeroing in on the Trump-Russia conspiracy.
Well, I would reply, yes, the Paul Manafort indictments are very serious things, but they involve behavior before the 2016 election. No, no, I would be told. Mueller is playing nine-dimensional chess. Manafort will break and tell all.
Oh yes.. Robert Mueller would save us all.. :^/
Protect Mueller. Save Mueller. Trust Mueller.
SEE ALSO
Mueller: Russian interference happening now, will continue in 2020 election
And then came the release of the report, which found no conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. That’s what it says. Period.
The crushing disappointment of that simple fact was then buried under an avalanche of “but, the thing is .?.?.” thinking. And when people are crushingly disappointed but can’t let go, they can get a little .?.?. emphatic, shall we say.
This guy must have a direct pipeline into Weigantia.. :D
Because he is describing the exact goings on here. :D
To wit: The report doesn’t exonerate Trump from the charge of obstruction of justice! The report outlines 10 instances of obstruction of justice! Mueller would surely have indicted Trump on obstruction of justice charges if he hadn’t gone by the ruling of the Office of Legal Counsel that a president can’t be indicted while in office!
Mueller must testify before Congress! He must be freed from executive branch restraint to deliver his findings to Congress and make clear that the last two years weren’t a dud — that his findings provide Congress with what Congress needs to impeach Trump on obstruction grounds!
And so they got their wish. Robert Mueller has testified before Congress. Before two committees. At length.
Just like it occurred here.. :D
Just wait!!!.. Wait til the full report is released!!!
Just wait!! Wait til Mueller testifies!!!
Just wait!! Just wait!!! Just wait!!!
With you people it is ALWAYS "just wait!!!" and we wait.. And ya'all fall flat on yer faces..
Rinse and repeat...
:eyeroll:
Mueller isn’t going to save anybody from Trump. Hell, I’m not so sure he can even drive himself home.
heh Now THAT was funny!! :D
If anything, what happened today is just another piece of evidence that the Democratic Party’s determination to indulge its base obsessions in the face of polls screaming at them to stop is just going to get Trump re-elected.
And we're back to where we started..
Uh.. yup....
‘Doubling down’ is Donald Trump’s greatest triumph
The president is becoming a symbol of good for everyone who does not think he is a symbol of evil
https://spectator.us/doubling-down-donald-trump-greatest-triumph/
Yep.. President Trump instinctively knows what the American people want.. :D
At least those American people who DON'T hate America...
For three years, we have been told what Donald Trump is. We have been told that he is a racist, a xenophobe, a misogynist, a white supremacist, a demagogue, a Russian spy. The charges vary from extreme, unproven and serious to the bizarrely particular and trivial. We have for instance been repeatedly told that it is important that he has tiny hands, or silly hair, or eats McDonald’s.
Which is exactly why it's IMPOSSIBLE to take Trump/America haters seriously...
They treat every little thing President Trump does or doesn't do as a life-ending catastrophe...
Even a simple TYPO sends you people into a explosive orgy of hate and intolerance...
Take last week’s outrage over his tweets against the so-called ‘Squad.’ These were reported as racist with no analysis of why that is the case.
Yep.. Not a single person here could point to exactly why AMERICA, LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT is racist...
Funny how that is ALWAYS the case, eh?? :D
The outrage only emphasizes Trump’s transition from human to symbol. To huge numbers of people, the tweets represent racism, regardless of substance; that makes them racist. Trump himself seems to have a sense of this process and to deliberately guide it when he can. That is a major function of his Twitter account. He knows that the more hate is directed at him, the more supportive his own base, who have every reason to detest a media and a political elite that despises them, becomes.
And there it is...
The more Democrats hate and hysterically attack President Trump, the stronger he becomes... :D
One would think that Democrats would learn.. But they are so blinded by their hysterical hatred, ya'all can't think straight...
The interesting aspect here is the ‘unsophisticated’ Trump voter understands exactly what Trump represents to his enemies, but the apparently sophisticated have no idea of what Trump represents to his supporters. They genuinely seem to think that these supporters want white nationalism or white supremacism, they believe their own fantasies about what the other side thinks. But the truth is that, as hateful as he is to his enemies, Trump represents something entirely different to his fans. He represents freedom.
Exactly...
That is what you people do not understand about President Trump and his supporters...
Which is kind of silly when ya think about it because ya'all acted the EXACT SAME WAY towards Odumbo...
Funny, iddn't it.. :D
Mainstream media talks a lot about Trump ‘doubling down’. It has done so in relation to the latest tweets scandal. Doubling down horrifies pundits. He says something that they find offensive, they scream and whine and distort the meaning of what was said, they use their magic attack words like ‘racist’, ‘white nationalist’ and ‘xenophobia’. They demand an apology, the backtrack.
But Trump doesn’t give them that. He denies the thrill of the fanatic, which is to see the chastised submit. Instead, he repeats himself. He points out that some countries are indeed ‘shitholes’. He points out that anyone who hates the country they reside in has the option of leaving. He ‘doubles down’, which is essentially media code for ‘he horrifies us by not submitting to us’. In this way he becomes a symbol of good for everyone who does not believe that he is a symbol of evil.
Trump’s greatest crime, and his greatest triumph, is to become a living example that you do not have to submit. You do not have to apologize. You do not have to back down, or grovel, or confess. You are free unless you accept your chains. What message is more hopeful or American than that?
And there you have it, people.. Exactly why President Trump is so admired....
Because he plays the Left's game of being nasty and irreverent and he bitch slaps the HELL outta the Left at their own game.. :D
@Neil
CRS [90]
Your liability-with-a-keyboard is acting up again, can you get him under control please?
Whatsamatter???
Can't handle it yerself.. :D
Russ,
Prove it! Show all of us where I said that?
So, it's your claim that NO commenter here said that Bush was going to be prosecuted for torture or "war crimes" once he left office..
Is THAT your claim???
Backpedaling in 5.....4.....3.....2.....1.....
:eyeroll:
Russia targeted 2016 state elections with "unprecedented level of activity," Senate Intel report says
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/election-security-report-on-russian-meddling-released-by-senate-intelligence-committee/
Well, now we know what Obama meant when Obama said he can be "flexible" with Putin....
Obama would give Putin free reign over our elections..
How Democrats Are Shorting White Voters for 2020
A race-based strategy will fail hard because what progressives call "privilege" is mostly about status-wealth, which most of us don't have.
Democratic very-hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand failed to sell this penitent version of white privilege right at the ground zero for economic inequality—Youngstown, Ohio. Youngstown was archetypal postwar America, a Midwest city built around a now-dead steel industry. It was racially mixed, not only statistically (49 percent white, 44 percent black), but in reality. The now-gone union jobs paid living wages to whites and blacks and allowed people to buy homes on each others’ streets. Workers’ privilege. The receding tide grounded all boats.
Gillibrand was asked at a campaign stop there: “This is an area that, across all demographics, has been depressed because of the loss of industry and the opioid crisis. What do you have to say to people in this area about so-called white privilege?”
Her answer, praised by CNN as “powerful,” was a wandering narrative about how, while white privilege didn’t spare the questioner unemployment, the loss of her house, her son to opioids, and her soul itself at the hands of rapacious inequality, the black folk in Youngstown had it worse—’cause the supremacist cops would bust a black kid for weed while a white kid would walk away. It was the perfect answer for a progressive media hit. It was the worst possible answer if a candidate actually wanted to win some of those Ohio votes. Gillibrand stumbled on to say she that she understood families in the community were suffering, “but that’s not what this conversation is about.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-democrats-are-shorting-white-voters-for-2020/
Dumbocrats don't get it..
They are all about continuing their racist past in a country that has moved past racism..
Institutionalized racism, save for one example, is dead...
That one example, of course, being Affirmative Action..
After YEARS of asking, not a SINGLE person here has been able to provide proof positive evidence of institutionalized racism.. All ya'all have is mythical code-words and magical dog whistles...
Not a SINGLE case of institutionalized racism, save that one example..
Once again, FACTS are god around here..
"YOU CAN'T WIN!! I have god on my side!!!"
-Leland Gant, NEEDFUL THINGS
:D
Democratic very-hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand failed to sell this penitent version of white privilege right at the ground zero for economic inequality—Youngstown, Ohio. Youngstown was archetypal postwar America, a Midwest city built around a now-dead steel industry. It was racially mixed, not only statistically (49 percent white, 44 percent black), but in reality. The now-gone union jobs paid living wages to whites and blacks and allowed people to buy homes on each others’ streets. Workers’ privilege. The receding tide grounded all boats.
Gillibrand was asked at a campaign stop there: “This is an area that, across all demographics, has been depressed because of the loss of industry and the opioid crisis. What do you have to say to people in this area about so-called white privilege?”
Her answer, praised by CNN as “powerful,” was a wandering narrative about how, while white privilege didn’t spare the questioner unemployment, the loss of her house, her son to opioids, and her soul itself at the hands of rapacious inequality, the black folk in Youngstown had it worse—’cause the supremacist cops would bust a black kid for weed while a white kid would walk away. It was the perfect answer for a progressive media hit. It was the worst possible answer if a candidate actually wanted to win some of those Ohio votes. Gillibrand stumbled on to say she that she understood families in the community were suffering, “but that’s not what this conversation is about.”
My initial reaction to Robert Mueller’s congressional appearance was one of pity. He was a pathetic character on the stage, seemingly bewildered at times, mentally frail, and vulnerable as a witness.
What a way to end a career and to be remembered by friend and foe alike.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/07/the-investigators-need-to-be-investigated/
Couldn't have said it better myself..
Anyone who says different either did not watch the hearing or else is ignoring the facts and reality to push a Party agenda...
After Mueller had testified for several hours, and it was clear that it was a disaster for Democrats and the media, I was asked by someone who works in the neighborhood, knows about this website, and is a big Trump supporter, how it was going. We talked about the hearings for a little while, since he was unable to watch, then he asked me: “Do you still have hope?”
That simple question somewhat set me aback.
My answer, paraphrased:
Yes, I still have hope, but it’s hard. When the weight of the media, entertainment and educational industries is so hostile to non-liberals, and when it combines with the power of the state, it’s tough. It seems overwhelming at times. It’s emotionally and physically draining. And it’s been going on for several decades. Yet I still have hope despite that overwhelming disadvantage.
It’s almost unimaginable that after this decades-long onslaught, Republicans nonetheless control the Senate and the presidency, and most state legislatures. How can that possibly be, it’s seemingly impossible. The American people are resilient, and that gives me hope.
But vigilance must be eternal, going to sleep politically even for a year or two is not an option. You cannot give an inch, or they’ll take a mile. And people need to be held accountable.
We’re doing construction at the house. The contractors we’re using told me they’ve never seen the economy this strong, that they can’t hire enough people for all the work they could get. Some of the workers blasted Rush Limbaugh on the radio. I smiled.
We can’t let the Mueller fiasco be forgotten. This was really dangerous, almost beyond imagination.
The investigators need to be investigated.
This is Americans, people.. What you Democrats fool yourselves into believing is not America.. It's a dream.. A delusion...
"A fantasy we created about people and places as we'd like them to be"
-NEVER BEEN TO ME, Charlene
That's ya'all's "truth"... The "truth" where President Trump is frog-marched out of the oval office in handcuffs..
But the REALITY is President Trump until 20 Jan 2025....
That's the reality, people.. You really need to accept it.. :D
@Blathy,
None of that mattered. Mueller said plainly that the President was a crook, that Russia played a big role in his election, and that almost everyone pretty much lied about it, at least until they were caught.
NOTHING that was said from the Dumbocrat side was anything new.. It was nothing but the regurgitated report...
As such, and given the FACT that Mueller was mostly befuddled and senile..
Only a MORON would think that Mueller's constant senior-moments actually helped the Dumbocrats' agenda..
Jeeze, how many DEMOCRATS need to tell you it was an unmitigated disaster before you realize yer just deluding yourself???
Again, we're left with the plain fact that the only way to wipe the board clean is to vote these guys out - all the way out. The Democrats can do it, I truly hope so.
SO, you concede that there is nothing to impeach on..
OK.. Good.. Yer not TOTALLY delusional.... :D
Pelosi Concerned Outspoken Progressive Flank Of Party Could Harm Democrats’ Reputation As Ineffectual Cowards
WASHINGTON—Admitting she had worries about the rise of left-leaning activist groups within her party, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed concerns Thursday that outspoken progressives could do permanent damage to Democrats’ reputation as ineffectual cowards. “They mean well, but if they continue to aggressively push their agenda like this, they run the risk of fundamentally altering the public’s perception of Democrats as bumbling, feckless chumps,” said Pelosi, adding that this brash brand of politics could be easily manipulated by Republicans to paint the party as something other than a bunch of sniveling wimps who are too weak-willed and complacent to stand up for anything with even remote political risk. “I understand where these groups are coming from, but while it might feel good to vent their frustrations about the state of the country, they could undermine what I believe should be our core 2020 argument: We are dithering, incompetent doormats who are infinitesimally less objectionable than our opposition.” Pelosi also noted that her concerns shouldn’t be overstated, as she knew it would take more than a few activists for voters to associate the Democratic party with the vaguest inkling of courage.
BBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHA
Liar,
So, it's your claim that NO commenter here said that Bush was going to be prosecuted for torture or "war crimes" once he left office..
Is THAT your claim???
Backpedaling in 5.....4.....3.....2.....1.....
Hmmmmm.... let’s look at what I said:
Prove it! Show all of us where I said that?
No, that was NOT my claim, you ignorant gash!
Learn to read you lying pile of hot, fish market trash!
More lies in 1....
Learn to read you lying pile of hot, fish market trash!
Says the dipshit moron who totally ignored what I wrote..
Funny.. That's EXACTLY what ya'all said about Bush...
What part of "YA'ALL" do you not understand, you Dumbocrat Party slave piece of garbage??
You got caught in more backpedaling and now yer bitchy at me cause you got caught..
Whine away, America Hating Dumbocrats moron...
Once again, I have the FACTS on my side..
And all you have is yer Party slavery and a limp dick in yer hand.....
Having said that, I accept your concession that *YA'ALL* did say that Bush was going to be prosecuted after he left office...
And *YA'ALL* were wrong... AGAIN...
Yunno... you always can be like Victoria, concede defeat and use spyware-laden I CAN'T HANDLE FACTS AND REALITY script...
That's gonna be yer best option because you have a GREAT track-record of getting your ass kicked all the time... :D
Just sayin'....
What Were Robespierre’s Pronouns?
The French Revolution was led by sociopaths who politicized language, much like today’s Jacobins.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-were-robespierres-pronouns-11564095088
Noonan nails it...
There is the latest speech guide from the academy, the Inclusive Communications Task Force at Colorado State University. Don’t call people “American,” it directs: “This erases other cultures.” Don’t say a person is mad or a lunatic, call him “surprising/wild” or “sad.” “Eskimo,” “freshman” and “illegal alien” are out. “You guys” should be replaced by “all/folks.” Don’t say “male” or “female”; say “man,” “woman” or “gender non-binary.”
In one way it’s the nonsense we’ve all grown used to, but it should be said that there’s an aspect of self-infatuation, of arrogance, in telling people they must reorder the common language to suit your ideological preferences. There is something mad in thinking you should control the names of things. Or perhaps I mean surprising/wild.
I see in it a spirit similar to that of the Terror. There is a tone of, “I am your moral teacher. Because you are incapable of sensitivity, I will help you, dumb farmer. I will start with the language you speak.”
An odd thing is they always insist they’re doing this in the name of kindness and large-spiritedness. And yet, have you ever met them? They’re not individually kind or large-spirited. They’re more like messianic schoolmasters.
It's simply an issue of control..
Democrats crave control.. They never stopped being slave owners..
But now the "slaves", patriotic Americans of all colors and creeds and persuasions are fighting back against the would-be slave owners..
Offices and schools are forced to grapple with all the new gender-neutral pronouns. Here a handy guide from a website purporting to help human-resources departments in midsize businesses. It is headlined. “Gender Neutral Pronouns—What They Are & How to Use Them.”
He/She—Zie, Sie, Ey, Ve, Tey, E
Him/Her—Zim, Sie, Em, Ver, Ter, Em
His/Her—Zir, Hir, Eir, Vis, Tem, Eir
Himself/Herself—Zieself, Hirself, Eirself, Verself, Terself, Emself
It’s wrong, when you meet a new co-worker, to ask his pronouns. (We don’t say “preferred” pronouns—that “implies someone’s gender is a preference”!) You don’t want him wondering if you think he’s transgender or nonbinary. Instead, introduce yourself in a way that summons his pronouns: “Hi, I’m Jim and my pronoun is he/him.” Use “they” a lot. It’s gender neutral. Suggested sentence: “I spoke to the marketing director and they said they’d get back to me.”
This is grammatically incorrect but so what? Correct grammar, and the intelligibility it allows, is a small price to pay for inclusion and equality.
We are being asked to memorize all this, to change hundreds of years of grammar and usage, to accommodate the needs or demands of a group that perceives itself as beleaguered.
It's painfully laughable how utterly RIDICULOUS Democrats are.....
And there are the office arguments about bathroom policy, which I gather are reaching some new peak. There can no longer be a men’s room and a women’s room, so we can have one expanded bathroom everyone can use. No, we’ll have three. But there may be a stigma to using the third, so keep two bathrooms but remove all designations. But the women don’t want to put on their makeup with men coming in and out. But the men don’t want women walking in on them—that’s a harassment suit waiting to happen!
It’s all insane. All of it.
But we’re moving forward, renaming the months and the sexes, reordering the language.
You wonder how the people who push all this got so much power. But then, how did Robespierre?
It's no wonder that no one here can answer how any Dem candidate besides Biden can appeal to Independents, NPAs and Trump voters...
Given how the Democrat Party is today... NONE of them will appeal to Independents, NPAs and Trump voters...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg opposes liberal court-packing and praises Trump appointees
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ruth-bader-ginsburg-opposes-liberal-court-packing-and-praises-trump-appointees
Hoo now!! THAT is going to send moron Dumbocrats into a frenzy!!! :D
Court packing through an act of Congress would be constitutional, as the Constitution does not mandate a specific number of Supreme Court justices. However, it would still undermine the stability of our republic while making the Supreme Court as partisan as could be, and it has historically been avoided for that reason. If one party packs the court upon taking power, the opposing party could pack the court even more once it returns to power. Democrats who support the practice are foolishly thinking about their short-term policy interests alone and suffering from tunnel vision.
That's the Democrat Party for ya??
Only looking at the here and now and ignoring the repercussions of the future...
Also known as "Pulling a Harry Reid.."...
Ginsburg further upset leftist radicals this week when she praised Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh as "decent and smart." Earlier in the month, she applauded Kavanaugh specifically because his staff is entirely female, and the Supreme Court now has more female law clerks than male law clerks for the first time in history. "There is a very important first on the Supreme Court this term, and it's thanks to our new justice, Justice Kavanaugh," Ginsburg said. Ginsburg's comments serve as a stark contrast to the absurd character assassination Kavanaugh faced from leftists last year.
Ouch!!!! That's GOTTA hurt!!! :D
DOJ’s Russia probe review focusing on 'smoking gun' tapes of meeting with Trump aide: sources
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dojs-russia-probe-review-focusing-on-tapes-of-talks-with-trump-aide-sources
Heads are going to roll!!! :D
DEMOCRAT heads!!! :D
This *IS* CNN
This is CNN? Photo editor resigns after being caught calling terror victims ‘Jewish pigs'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-photo-editor-resigns-after-calling-terror-victims-jewish-pigs-report
The Mueller Testimony....
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/cartoons/images/2019/07/23/lisa_benson_current_cartoon_2019-07-24_5_.jpg
"The hearing is important because nobody read the Mueller Report."
"Including Mr Mueller."
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/cartoons/images/2019/07/26/chip_bok_chip_bok_for_jul_26_2019_5_.jpg
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/cartoons/images/2019/07/25/steve_kelley_steve_kelley_for_jul_25_2019_5_.jpg
Heh Mueller testimony is REALLY taking a beating..
Amongst those who actually WATCHED the Mueller testimony, no one but a Party slave could EVER think this was good for Democrats...
FINALLY.. America is in agreement..
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/cartoons/images/2019/07/25/mike_smith_mike_smith_for_07252019_5_.gif
And, since we can't forget Iran! :D
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/cartoons/images/2019/07/23/steve_breen_steve_breen_for_jul_23_2019_5_.jpg
Team Biden fires back: 'You can't let people say bullshit and not respond to it'
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/454802-team-biden-fires-back-you-cant-let-people-say-bullshit-and-not-respond-to
Since no one here responds...
I guess that means what I comment on is not bullshit.. :D
"Simple logic"
-Admiral James T. Kirk
:D
So here's a perfect example of what you get when FOX News mixes with online conspiracy sites being fed by Russia:
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/gop-candidate-arrested-over-insane-mass-shooting-threat-one-day-after-actually-shooting-someone/
This idiot (a losing republican gubernatorial candidate in Oklahoma) puts online a plan for shooting up people at a university and exhorts shooters to go after David Hogg. He shoots a process server and is now in jail and needs to stay there.
This idiot (a losing republican gubernatorial candidate in Oklahoma) puts online a plan for shooting up people at a university and exhorts shooters to go after David Hogg. He shoots a process server and is now in jail and needs to stay there.
ANd what does that have to do with Fox News, Republicans or President Trump??
Can you answer that???
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Of course not..
Absolute silence from the Leftist Peanut Gallery....
Moron...
Now if you want to talk about scumbags shooting people, let's talk about the Democrat Bernie Bro scumbag who actively hunted and SHOT Republicans while they were practicing for a charity softball game..
Unlike the example provided, YOUR scumbag was blatant and obviously political and his attempted to murder Republicans was COMPLETELY based on Political ideology..
YOUR POLITICAL IDEOLOGY..
So, shove it...
Bette Midler under fire for asking how much Trump pays black rally attendees
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/454865-bette-midler-under-fire-for-asking-how-much-trump-pays-black
Proof positive..
It's actually Democrats who are the racists... :^/
Tim Young
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@TimRunsHisMouth
Replying to @BetteMidler
Thanks for reminding everyone that disgusting racism is still alive and well in America.... especially in Hollywood.
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Dov Hikind
@HikindDov
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@BetteMidler
This is some next level racism right here. As if all blacks can be at a Trump rally is “blackground”?!
Disgusting! And you’re a “progressive”?! More like a retrogressive racist!
3:46 PM · Jul 24, 2019·Twitter for iPhone
Looks like an impeachment inquiry is underway! The presser with Jerry Nadler and Judiciary Committee members pretty much confirmed. It's down to semantics right now, with one member saying "yes, this IS an impeachment inquiry" and Jerry Nadler saying this is esentially the lead-up to an impeachment inquiry. They've requested Grand Jury records dealing with Mueller's report, specifically stating they need those records to determine whether to impeach. Nancy Pelosi gave her blessing to the language and the move.
Of special note, towards the end of the presser Jerry Nadler said they're looking at crimes beyond what Mueller looked at - which was good news. Mueller's investigation was important, but not the totality of Blotus' bad behavior.
100 House Reps are now on record endorsing impeachment, and a handful of Senators have now come out to endorse.
Yay Dems; Yay Jerry Nadler & Committee!
Just saw Nancy Pelosi saying Mueller was not able to investigate Blotus' financials and that's what the House is now trying to do.
THAT is going to upset Blotus big time. THAT is what, above all, he wants to remain shrouded in mystery. I have had the hope, all along, that Dems would find a wedge where they could offer Blotus a deal: step down OR we'll put this out there. It's a forlorn hope, but it's not dead, and I think the wedge goes through his tax returns, claims of wealth, avenues to his wealth (money laundering, sex-trafficking like Epstein), etc.
That hope just got a surge of energy.
Another shift that I think has happened since Mueller testimony is that Dems have started saying bluntly that Blotus has engaged in criminal and impeachable behaviors - that this is an established fact now. They're dropping the hedging-language.
Laurence Tribe tweets:
Here’s the petition formally announcing in DC federal court the impeachment inquiry in which the House is now engaged. No ifs ands or buts. No ambiguity. The eagle has taken flight.
(link: https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrats.judiciary.house.gov/files/documents/FINAL%20PETITION.pdf) judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrat…
Very interesting!
Looks like an impeachment inquiry is underway! The presser with Jerry Nadler and Judiciary Committee members pretty much confirmed.
Yea??? Any facts to support??
No???
Of course not...
(link: https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrats.judiciary.house.gov/files/documents/FINAL%20PETITION.pdf) judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrat…
Of course, a dead link..
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@Blathy,
Very interesting!
Don't tell me.. Let me guess...
NOW you support impeachment..
Even though there is NO new information and NOTHING has changed...
NOW you support impeachment because yer masters have told you to..
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Sit, Slave!!! Stand, Slave.. Roll over, Slave..
That's a good sheep.. Just do what yer told. No need to think on yer own!!
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Yer such a tool, Blathy...
Don't get me wrong..
I hope ya'all are factually accurate..
I hope Dumbocrats *ARE* starting impeachment..
70% of Americans are AGAINST impeaching the President.. The prefer Dumbocrats concentrate on the PEOPLE'S business instead of a personal vendetta...
Dumbocrats are saying to all the Independents, NPAs and Trump voters, "Frak ya'all!!! We're gonna pursue our hysterical America hating agenda and ya'all can go frak yerselves!!!"
Yea.. THAT is the way to win over voters. :eyeroll:
But, I'll make a prediction here..
Everyone here who was AGAINST impeachment will now roll over, show their bellies and swoon about how awesome impeachment is and how awesome it is that Dumbocrats are now impeaching President Trump..
In short, everyone here who was AGAINST impeachment will NOW be totally for impeachment..
Because the slaves have gotten their orders..
You watch...
Very interesting!
Michale
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As an aside, I see Victoria has started using CB's spyware script...
As an aside, the trailer trash and his obsession with the individual posters on this board versus the actual discussion of political issues is alive and well and living in stench in Shithole, Florida.
Now I have free reign because now even Victoria is afraid to challenge me.. :D
Oh, FFS! You ain't shit, you ain't got shit, and everyone here is living rent free in your tiny little gullible excuse for a "brain." When you're long gone, we'll all still be laughing about who the dead troll was.
Count on it. :)
Russ|Everybody
You know, wiping a tiny bit of feces off your shoe in no way whatsoever means you're afraid of it. For those who need it spelled out for them like our resident troll, he's simply an inconsequential little shit being removed.
Yes, I obviously know I said he wasn't "shit" in my immediately preceding post, but I can obviously admit when I'm wrong. :)
Interesting. "Moscow" Mitch McConnell is running for re-election, and he's got lots to answer for - not the least of which is the last decade!
His latest outrage is holding up a fairly straightforward cyber-security bill, calling it "partisan". Tell me, how is election security partisan, again?
This alone is enough to trigger the impeachment of Benedict Donald. But wait... there's more!
Ask yourself this: What do you suppose are the chances that the pathologically lying con who has surrounded himself with the perps who are now the living embodiment of "lock them up" is simply an innocent little victim in all this? Right! It's like nobody has thought that one through.
Mueller and his team have preserved the evidence, Assange is behind bars, and there are 14 outstanding cases still being pursued.
It's time. :)
Balthasar
His latest outrage is holding up a fairly straightforward cyber-security bill, calling it "partisan". Tell me, how is election security partisan, again?
Protecting our democracy isn't partisan. Has he even read the bipartisan report from his own chamber?
https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6214170-Senate-Intel-Report-On-Election-Interference
"Moscow Mitch"! My crew and I have been referring to him as "Moscow McConnell" for quite awhile now, but "Moscow Mitch" will do nicely too. :)
Well well well: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/why-were-moving-forward-impeachment/594931/
Paula
Very interesting!
Let's face it, as we've already discussed on this board, how was eventual impeachment not inevitable due to the continued obstruction by Trump and company? It seemed to me like it was only a matter of "timing."
Donald Trump is suggesting that Barack Obama's book deal be investigated by the DOJ. How's that for effing stupid?
[74] Balthazar and [86] Kick
Dang, you figured out how to remove that extra paren all by yourselves! Some folks couldn't stretch to that, you know.
Very interesting!
Trump lives in conspiracy bongo world. As long as Democrats don't do anything stupid, we're closer to the end than the beginning, meaning that effing stupid shit like that can be over.
How's that for a pep talk? eh... :)
Donald Trump tries to think up a crime by Obama and comes up with the horrible perpetration of "writing a book."
Idiot President, trying to think of something/anything in the way of evidence that Obama did something as unethical as Trump did, comes up with -- drumroll . . . . . . . . . ……………..…. book! You can almost see the two brain cells bumping up against each other as they try desperately to summon something about his predecessor. Can you say "consciousness of guilt"?
Remind me again who it is that is systematically being locked up!? Oh, right! The Trump Trash.
You simply cannot fix ignorance that penetrates that far into the bone. Who's going to be the one to inform the Idiot President about the First Amendment to the United States Constitution? Anyone out there in the GOP still have a working spinal column?!
What an effing moron!
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Victoria proves she is a liar once again!!!
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PWNED!!!!! :D
Michael proves he is a liar and Trump cock holster every single day.
Hey, Mikey. Speaking of liars, one day soon you should tell everyone how you and your crime family got bitch slapped into your stench hole, fake cop! If you really want to discuss liars and criminals, you should explain how you spawned an entire line of them. :)