Patterico's Pontifications

Of course, if Bezos’ WaPo stopped the constant attacks…

Not that Trump would stoop the threatening the press.

Kevin M (752a26) — 4/3/2018 @ 1:13 am

What has me worried most is that push will come to shove in Korea and our Commander-in-Chief has a leadership problem.

Kevin M (752a26) — 4/3/2018 @ 1:15 am

i been dialing back my amazon spending

first thing was i deleted that crappy music widget so i don’t do impulse music purchases anymore

and I’m using jet again for sundries

it’s just such a nasty company there’s no feel good in giving them my monies

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:38 am

on the flip side the pitiful US Postal Service is just a pension ponzi scheme anymore for a bunch of otherwise-unemployable losers

shut it down

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:48 am

Careful, Pat. Giving DJT credit for specific economic consequences means he gets to boast if/when something good happens!

The equities market is a house of cards at this point. I’d rather shoot craps than play this market.

Ed from SFV (d5c1ee) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:16 am

Heh! So Trump is as influential as Kylie Jenner? Or was it Rihanna? Who allegedly caused a dip in Snapchat stocks by saying she didn’t use it that much? And didn’t Kate Upton supposedly do the same thing to Guess stock by saying one of its founders was mean to her?

nk (dbc370) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:51 am

I read the New York Post article linked. Pitiful journalism, just pitiful. No facts, just quotes from a bunch of talking heads.

Fortune Magazine did a proper job last July http://fortune.com/2017/07/16/amazon-postal-service-subsidy/

Sure looks to me like Trump is right. No doubt when that becomes ever more apparent this blog will congratulate him.

Fred Z (05d938) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:52 am

Yes, Trump is right about the Post Office subsidy. And he should also look at the same, or maybe worse, “deal” the Post Office has with China.

nk (dbc370) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:57 am

Pull their contract with the company, see how they’ll behave.

What kind of leadership except for the Rumsfeld commission have they been observing for 25 years?

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 6:02 am

He’s also right about catsup. It’s not meatloaf if it does not have catsup, inside and outside. In the mixture, in the glaze, and in the sauce. It may be hamburger, it may be chopped steak, it may be a giant meatball, but it’s not meatloaf.

See? I can agree with Trump when he agrees with me.

nk (dbc370) — 4/3/2018 @ 6:02 am

Dow overreacted like a ‘ferret on double expresso’ they six that with the first round of tariffs

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 6:19 am

The equities market is a house of cards at this point. I’d rather shoot craps than play this market.
Ed from SFV (d5c1ee) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:16 am

The market is always a crap shoot and anyone who says otherwise doesn’t know sh!t about stocks. The only time it’s not is when one has insider information which I’ve heard if one is not a democrat politician would be illegal. I average about40-80 round trips (buy & sell) a week as a short time trader and I do pretty well. This market has been sweet. Matter of fact the market has been good for my type of trading for a year and a half. One could short Amazon three times a day and be a winner. Of course at over $1,000 per share one would need be Bezos to by a 1000 share block. I trade shares in the $5-$25 per share range and look for a half point.

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/3/2018 @ 6:27 am

You have a limit on your short so you don’t go overboard, we could see that the tariffs were wide afield but not deep in exposure.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:19 am

I am happy to buy on-line and avoid a 9.25 percent sales tax in LA/CA. This becomes meaningful with big ticket items. Most stores today have uninformed sales people. Otherwise I don’t mind paying more to get expertise. You buy something that gets updated six months later, it is not such a bargain.

Trump is wrong about the Post Office losing money with Amazon delivery. The Post Office now delivers on Sunday’s because it is profitable due to on-line business.

AZ Bob (9a6ada) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:39 am

Back at the ranch:

http://thegoldwater.com/news/22122-Soros-Funded-Groups-Backing-Mexico-Caravan-of-Socialists-Pueblos-Sin-Fronteras

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:52 am

Thoughts on this:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/04/supreme-court-reverses-9th-circuit-rules-for-officer-in-police-excessive-use-of-force-case/

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:54 am

Thoughts on #16:

Do not walk in step with the wicked.

AZ Bob (9a6ada) — 4/3/2018 @ 8:04 am

if the sleazy post office ever made a profit their trashy illiterate union thug employees would suck it down like it was melting ice cream

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 8:05 am

Gosh, Alito got old fast in that place.

BTW, does Trump have fair notice, based on clearly established precedent, that his issuing an order under the Patriot Act to detain the Justices of the Supreme Court as unlawful combatants indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay would violate either a statutory prohibition or a constitutional right of theirs?

nk (dbc370) — 4/3/2018 @ 8:23 am

Crockojawea needs to be handlee

http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/02/consumer-financial-protections-bureau-mick-mulvaney-elizabeth-warren/

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 8:35 am

Perhaps if you guys took a look at the CFPB/Liawatha’s HQ photos in narciso’s #20 comment mental picture of exactly what “The Swamp” is will begin to emerge.

Warren and all the other pigs like her need to go……to the gallows.

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/3/2018 @ 8:57 am

The case of Hughes, Sotomayor and Ginsberg sounds like a bad lawfirm and a case of what the kids call p*ssypassdenied. She was hardly a victim. She probably got a lot of good drugs

Pinandpuller (eff028) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:01 am

Really? Elizabeth Warren needs to be executed? For what?

Leviticus (efada1) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:42 am

Hyperbole is disallowed.

BuDuh (b98552) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:49 am

Pussy pass denied! I presume it means no special treatment for women? Or, for those who are woke, no “soft sexism”?

nk (dbc370) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:50 am

“BTW, does Trump have fair notice, based on clearly established precedent, that his issuing an order under the Patriot Act to detain the Justices of the Supreme Court as unlawful combatants indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay would violate either a statutory prohibition or a constitutional right of theirs?”

– nk

Good question – I think not. Plus, Korematsu has never been explicitly overturned, and the decision to imprison a class of people based on their affiliation with a particular “dangerous” organization (regardless of viewpoint, even!) would be far more constitutionally defensible than the decision to imprison a class of people based on their race.

Leviticus (efada1) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:51 am

I’m not in a position to “disallow” anything, BuDuh. I am, fortunately, in a position to call out hyperbole when I see it.

Leviticus (efada1) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:52 am

Hyperbole is allowed.

BuDuh (b98552) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:55 am

elizabeth warren would for sure do many execute all up in it cause of how christopher columbus done so many genocide on her people

she’s a very very angry injun woman

and her tomahawk is sharp and thirsty

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:59 am

I hope Bezos robotic dog bites his azz and gives him roboticr

mg (9e54f8) — 4/3/2018 @ 10:15 am

This machine I’m on is touchy sorry for the mess.
Robotic rabies!

mg (9e54f8) — 4/3/2018 @ 10:16 am

He was being sarcastic, but it was a swiftean suggestion

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 10:40 am

“Really? Elizabeth Warren needs to be executed? For what?”

For impersonating a woman, if not on general principles. She made a lot of money off the misery of others during the real estate crash.

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/3/2018 @ 11:10 am

The Amazon deal is good for the post office. It allows them to use assets on Sundays and, the other 6 days, their cost for an additional item to deliver is as near zero as can be.

Postmen have to go past EVERY home or business in the nation 6 days a week, and with the collapse of paper billing and bill-payment this has been far more costly per item delivered. Adding Amazon delivery, much of which are padded envelopes, dilutes the costs considerably.

If Amazon stops using the post office, it;s delivery costs will not materially change, but the post office will see the income loss fall pretty directly to the bottom line.

Kevin M (752a26) — 4/3/2018 @ 11:14 am

The market is always a crap shoot and anyone who says otherwise doesn’t know sh!t about stocks.

This isn’t always true. From time to time the market will throw an hysterical fit about some stock or other. If you happen to see the illogic of the herd, you can make some money.

In 2001, Amazon was driven down to $7/share because some analyst said they might go broke. I bought 1000 shares. I am sorry that I did not buy more, and I’m sorry I sold them just before the 2008 crash. But I did make money.

In 2016, a company called Square settled a lawsuit (a developer has filed an as-implemented patent on some of their system design and their contract did not give Square a license) and this caused an unexpected quarterly loss. People who did not understand the one-off nature of this loss dumped the stock. I bout 5000 shares at 8 1/2. Made money there, too.

But, yeah, most of the time it’s a crap-shoot. But not always.

Kevin M (752a26) — 4/3/2018 @ 11:22 am

the future is drones it’s not the post office with its dimwit pension piggy overhead

drones!

droney drone drone drones!

they fly through the air with the greatest of ease

and those daring drone drones don’t become retirees

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 11:33 am

Postmen have to go past EVERY home or business in the nation 6 days a week, and with the collapse of paper billing and bill-payment this has been far more costly per item delivered.

Post office package delivery is separate from mail delivery except for very small packages.

nk (dbc370) — 4/3/2018 @ 11:33 am

23.Really? Elizabeth Warren needs to be executed? For what?
Leviticus (efada1) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:42 am

Really, Leviticus? You’re gonna go all up my a$$ over a smart-a$$ed comment about a lying, thieving, phony douche? I mean are you really that literal or is it just me who can’t toss out BS?

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/3/2018 @ 11:50 am

But, yeah, most of the time it’s a crap-shoot. But not always.
Kevin M (752a26) — 4/3/2018 @ 11:22 am

You do realize you used two examples of you shooting crap in the market to say it’s not always a crap shoot. BTW, making money or being correct does not make a gamble not a gamble. It makes you lucky.

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/3/2018 @ 11:55 am

Trump Goes Postal.

Film at 11.

DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/3/2018 @ 12:39 pm

i’m not staying up for that it’s a school night

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 12:49 pm

@36. Drone on, Mr. Feet; from your cold, dead letter office: Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress “To establish Post Offices and post Roads”.

DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/3/2018 @ 12:53 pm

@41. Not in Oklahoma, Mr. Feet.

DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/3/2018 @ 12:54 pm

@33. =Haiku= Gesundheit! ‘For impersonating a woman…’

Gallows humor yet well hung, eh Colonelle.

DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/3/2018 @ 12:59 pm

Trump’s transformation of the GOP into the Democratic Party continues.

The Dems had Harry Reid attacking the Koch Brothers 24×7, which everybody on the right thought was outrageous.

The GOP now has its own criminal lunatic attacking Amazon/Bezos, and Trump’s cultists are fine with it.

Dave (445e97) — 4/3/2018 @ 1:05 pm

is this a thing?

Active shooter at YouTube HQ. Heard shots and saw people running while at my desk. Now barricaded inside a room with coworkers.

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 1:16 pm

Stay safe, happyfeet. Hope you are locked and loaded.

mg (9e54f8) — 4/3/2018 @ 1:21 pm

oh no not me

i’m all good kinda except we have a stabby stabby stabber on the loose

that’s an alley i use when i go into the office but i hardly ever go down there anymore

still it’s a good reminder how the relative safety we take for granted downtown is largely illusory

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 1:28 pm

First Trump co-conspirator sentenced.

Dave (445e97) — 4/3/2018 @ 1:34 pm

so I’m thinking we can expect no less of a sentence for dirty fbi lickspittle Andy McCabe

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 1:38 pm

meanwhile back at youtube hq

KPIX 5 reporter Andria Borba said at least two Homeland Security units were responding.

what does this even mean i don’t get it

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 1:40 pm

YouTube will post a video, Mr. Feet.

DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/3/2018 @ 1:50 pm

you’d think but i bet they act all weird about it like west coast versions of freaky tiny dick weirdo David Hogg

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 1:53 pm

BTW, making money or being correct does not make a gamble not a gamble. It makes you lucky.

Those were two instances where FACTS were used to ignore the market’s panic.

As for it only being 2 instances, you said “always.”

Kevin M (752a26) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:01 pm

Post office package delivery is separate from mail delivery except for very small packages.

The packages the postman delivers from Amazon ARE very small/light packages. And in rural areas I suspect that there’s only the one truck.

Kevin M (752a26) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:04 pm

First Trump co-conspirator sentenced.

That’s a little overwrought, eh? He got 30 days for lying to an agent. Wake me when some real crime is committed rather than these process-related meta-crimes. Obstruction of justice should require the presence of some justice that was obstructed. So far, there is nada.

Kevin M (752a26) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:07 pm

At least one person shot at YouTube, may have been a personal beef. San Bruno police entered building.

Kevin M (752a26) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:08 pm

Fred Z: the argument in that link is that the post office, by following the rules mandated by Congress, is undercharging *all* parcel delivery services because it’s not apportioning fixed costs correctly — parcel service is charged less than its fair share of fixed costs because it is a larger percentage of total packages and Congress hasn’t updated the rules.

I’ll accept that this is true. But:

(a) the Post Office isn’t favoring Amazon; it’s treating all parcel service vendors equally.
(b) the Post Office is following the rules that *Congress* imposed. It’s on Congress to fix the situation
(c) Amazon, by using the service that is offered to all comers, is not doing anything wrong.

So the attack on Amazon is completely misplaced, as would be an attack on the Post Office; the responsibility for this lies with Congress.

aphrael (3f0569) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:19 pm

Pussy pass denied! I presume it means no special treatment for women? Or, for those who are woke, no “soft sexism”?

nk (dbc370) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:50 am

Yessir. It’s like how women are overwhelmingly the perpetrators of infanticide and yet usually given custody in divorce.

The Mary Kay Letourno reference I made last week was a case of PPD. Lisa “Left Eye” Lopez also.

Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:20 pm

she’s a very very angry injun woman

and her tomahawk is sharp and thirsty

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:59 am

If you lay down with fleas you might get any number of unpleasant bacterial infections, some resulting in death.

Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:24 pm

Trump Goes Postal.

Film at 11.

DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/3/2018 @ 12:39 pm

He should be easy to ID, isn’t his picture in every PO?

I have a pitch: bring back stamps you can lickspittle on the front or the back.

#PPD Jodi Arias

Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:28 pm

ugh i hate bacterias

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:30 pm

@36. Drone on, Mr. Feet; from your cold, dead letter office: Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress “To establish Post Offices and post Roads”.

DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/3/2018 @ 12:53 pm

Not after David Hogg adds it to his appointed rounds.

I saw a postal carrier today with the worst varicose veins in the world. That guy ain’t gonna last much longer.

Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:30 pm

Breaking: A spokesperson at Zuckerberg San Francisco Hospital says they have received “several” people from a reported shooting at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California.

did we know zuckertwat had his own hospital

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:32 pm

Zuckerberg wanted to buy the good parts of San Francisco, but settled for the hospital.

Kevin M (752a26) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:35 pm

Woman shoots boyfriend (critcal), two women (less critical), then herself (horizontally stable).

Kevin M (752a26) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:36 pm

First Trump co-conspirator sentenced.

Dave (445e97) — 4/3/2018 @ 1:34 pm

Hysterical Dave! House of Orange is the new Black!

Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:39 pm

If women are shooting people now it’s proof that Poison Control works!

Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:40 pm

what does this even mean i don’t get it

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 1:40 pm

I need two units of Homeland Security and push lactated ringers stat!

Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:41 pm

winnie mandela is not considered a suspect at this time

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:42 pm

yeah later it seems like people were saying ATF not “Homeland”

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:43 pm

did we know zuckertwat had his own hospital

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:32 pm

How do you know it’s not the guys who did Airplane! ?

Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:48 pm

When seconds count, the ATF is only a plane flight away!

Kevin M (752a26) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:50 pm

70, California lost its tire plants way before NAFTA even.

urbanleftbehind (bac218) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:54 pm

srsly there’s a facebook hospital that’s so effing creepy

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:56 pm

I’m prepping. Not Alaska-live-in-the-woods-prepping

https://preparewith.com/ben

Plus have-a-shotgun-and-a-rifle prepping. The victuals and equipment take up half my canoe.

Oh, yeah, water.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Polar-Pure-Iodine-Water-Filter-Purifier-Sterilizes-2-000-Quarts/146175469?wmlspartner=wmtlabs&adid=22222222222000000000&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=e&wl1=o&wl2=c&wl3=10352200394&wl4=pla-1103028060075&wl12=146175469_10000018251&wl14=pure%20water%20iodine&veh=sem&msclkid={msclkid}

I drank so much iodine purified water I started to like the taste.

Steve57 (0b1dac) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:03 pm

Everyone realize that the attorney sentenced to 30 days jail time today in the Mueller probe will probably spend about 2 days in jail?

He’ll certainly have to surrender himself to the local Federal Detention Center near where he lives. The day you surrender is your first day. The day your are released also counts on your sentence.

But the first full day you serve is credited as your first month, i.e., if you are sentenced to 12 months in jail, your 12th month is served upon having spent one full day in jail in that month — you don’t have to serve out the remaining 29/30 days of that month because you get “credit” for the month on the first day.

So, when a prisoner is sentenced to 30 days, spending 1 full day in custody gets your credit for the full month because it is the last month of your sentence.

shipwreckedcrew (56b591) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:05 pm

so they’re going light on lawyer boy as a favor to dirty dirty Andy

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:11 pm

Sounds like a case of gun grabbing, prying it from her cold dead hands, as the saying goes.

papertiger (c8116c) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:14 pm

Sorry for hijacking the thread.

But really, would any other nation have a ship named “Pirate.”

https://www.koreanwar.org/html/units/navy/uss_pirate.htm

And she belongs to the admirable class.

Steve57 (0b1dac) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:29 pm

They had a shooting at a barbershop in San Francisco on a corner near Zuckerburg Hospital.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-francisco-police-release-video-of-deadly-barber-shop-shooting/

Excellent video of the event. [YouTube]

Better quality shooting than this YouTube thing.

papertiger (c8116c) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:33 pm

I was reading up on the blockade of Wonsan. It appears maybe we’ll have a do-over.

Steve57 (0b1dac) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:33 pm

I drank so much iodine purified water I started to like the taste.

Steve57 (0b1dac) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:03 pm

Did you tell your buddies you were goiter hunting?

Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:34 pm

So Club Fed is basically a Holiday Inn Express except your kids don’t eat free.

Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:36 pm

ooh look two members of sleazy filth-coward John “war hero” (lol) McCain’s soros-funded Republican Main Street Partnership are demanding that Mr. Scott Pruitt resign

Curbelo, a Republican who asked for Trump’s help campaigning for re-election, was not the only Republican in his state to ask the president to dismiss Pruitt. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who is retiring from Congress, echoed Curbelo’s sentiments in a statement to the reporters at The Huffington Post.

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:37 pm

Did you tell your buddies you were goiter hunting?

Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:34 pm

Good one. No, I didn’t drink THAT MUCH INFUSED IODINE WATER. Just more than most.

Steve57 (0b1dac) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:40 pm

mr nk

I was just listening to a story about Deerfield banning AR’s. Does your state actually allow that kind of thing?

I was also wondering about whether post Pete Cetera Chicago Transit Authority allowed licensed gun carry? And I was also thinking I was right to order that kevlar neck protector if I ever come to stabby slashy Chicago. I’m guessing you don’t accept other state’s permits.

Reel Big Fish

Ban the Tube Top

Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:42 pm

So Club Fed is basically a Holiday Inn Express except your kids don’t eat free.
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:36 pm

Club Fed will not make you happy.

Steve57 (0b1dac) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:43 pm

Scott Pruitt is the best of the Trump litter.

McCain’s tumor is doing the talking for him.

papertiger (c8116c) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:43 pm

The guards will make your life miserable.

Steve57 (0b1dac) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:48 pm

BTW, making money or being correct does not make a gamble not a gamble. It makes you lucky.

Those were two instances where FACTS were used to ignore the market’s panic.

As for it only being 2 instances, you said “always.”
Kevin M (752a26) — 4/3/2018 @ 2:01 pm

Again Kevin M, the FACTS are that you bet against the market and got lucky. Unless you can see the future them’s the FACTS! So, once again “The market is always a crap shoot and anyone who says otherwise doesn’t know sh!t about stocks”. Let me explain something to you Kevin M. For every one of those 5,000 shares you bought because you “guessed” they were going up some dude was selling because he guessed they were going down. Your crap shoot won that time, his lost but it was still a crap shoot. It ALWAYS is.

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:48 pm

Congresscritters need to resign if they are tumered into being brainless like songbird.

mg (9e54f8) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:49 pm

he’s a disgustingly cowardly man

very passive aggressive and very very low class

and he doesn’t have the grace to just resign and spend time with his creepy narcissistic trash family

meanwhile Arizona completely lacks any serious representation in the Senate

that’s shameful

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:50 pm

McCain’s tumor is doing the talking for him.

papertiger (c8116c) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:43 pm

Yes.

Steve57 (0b1dac) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:53 pm

if he even has a tumor and this isn’t just his coward-ass way of avoiding responsibility for his part in the coup attempt

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:56 pm

That a wigger barbershop? And nobody yelled “World Star!” at the end?

urbanleftbehind (bac218) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:58 pm

In other news, laufman was identified in the text between strzok and page, recall he was justice counterintel, as opposed to fbi’s opposite number, prietap, even though he worked for sally Yates he was not keen in the Russian investigation
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narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 4:04 pm

@63. I saw a postal carrier today with the worst varicose veins in the world.

So you’re a leg man, eh, PP.

DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/3/2018 @ 4:05 pm

Ran out of tentacle porn:
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/04/03/it-gets-crazier-kurt-eichenwald-warns-lefties-that-kyle-kashuv-is-out-to-get-them-all-blames-ben-shapiro/

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 4:07 pm

I was just listening to a story about Deerfield banning AR’s. Does your state actually allow that kind of thing?

Home rule is kind of complicated in Illinois. As a general rule, municipalities can ban some kinds of guns. There is state preemption for handguns which can be concealed upon the person — they cannot ban those. Additionally, the local penalties which are allowed are relatively piddly, and there is immunity from prosecution if the police found out about your contraband gun because you used it in self-defense.

nk (dbc370) — 4/3/2018 @ 4:08 pm

@64. did we know zuckertwat had his own hospital

Is it near Costa Del Lex, Luthorville, Marina Del Lex or Otisburg, Mr. Feet?

DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/3/2018 @ 4:15 pm

if Kurt don’t strobe me bro Eichenwald wants to attack the parkland kiddies that’s probably the highest and best use of his time and his social media resources

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 4:16 pm

no it’s in nancy pelosi’s hepatitis san francisco

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 4:17 pm

or wherever

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 4:19 pm

Qyelle surprise

https://saraacarter.com/bombshell-secret-texts-show-fbi-doj-may-have-rushed-anti-trump-fisa-warrant/

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 4:20 pm

@103. That’s super, man.

DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/3/2018 @ 4:20 pm

California Rep. Ted Lieu wants President Donald Trump to fire EPA Chief Scott Pruitt after reports surfaced showing the former Oklahoma attorney general rented a room from energy lobbyists.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/01/lieu-fire-scott-pruitt/

Pruitt allegedly paid $6,100 for a room in a condo owned by Vicki Hart who is married to J. Steven Hart, an energy lobbyist who represents clients in industries regulated by the EPA. Payments to Hart came only on dates when the EPA administrator stayed in the room. Pruitt has come under intense scrutiny recently over his flight expenses.

A little over a thousand a month for a room. Does that sound unreasonable?
It sounds to me like Pruitt’s lobbiest “buddy” was kind of milking him – giving him the “special” government mark up.

The flight expenses were due to numerous death threats aimed at Pruitt by deranged democrats. His agency was billed for security guards to escort him to Washington. The whole entourage took a military flight rather than commercial.

In other words every single one of these “fire Pruitt” unpaid campaign ads by the media lately are total cod swallow.

McCains tumor is gobbling it up.

I don’t know. That might be too harsh.
I might be unfairly maligning McCain’s tumor by giving it the credit.

papertiger (c8116c) — 4/3/2018 @ 4:34 pm

Honest we got it this time:

http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/03/exclusive-roger-stone-credit-card-flight-hotel-records

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 4:35 pm

I think I found a loophole so the Executive Branch can stop the invasion of the Central American Light Infantry Brigade:

The EPA can detain them under their mandate of Carbon Sequestration.

Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/3/2018 @ 4:50 pm

Scott Pruitt’s the best most number one freedom fighter in the whole whirl if you don’t count President Trump

there’s just no way around this

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:02 pm

they should make Lego Scott Pruitt so kids have a role model to play with and look up to and this way kids will understand about the evils of doing secret science all up in it plus about the climate change hoax

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:04 pm

Sky dragon worshipers are unruly like the goat cult in that dragnet film.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:07 pm

I like the idea of the military at the border to stop felonies from occurring. Hope they do the Northern Border and every coast line. And then Paraquat every poppy field in the world.

mg (9e54f8) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:27 pm

Long term there may be some posse commitatus issues

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:29 pm

OT, re Mueller’s investigation: Rosenstein memo on Mueller gives OK to probe Manafort, Russia collusion:

Special Counsel Robert Mueller was given the green light to investigate President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and his work with the Ukrainian government as well as claims Manafort colluded with the Kremlin, according to court documents filed late Monday.

A newly disclosed Aug. 2, 2017, memo from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein shows that Mueller was authorized to go after Manafort on multiple fronts in an investigation that has resulted in criminal charges against 19 people and three Russian companies.

The August memo was disclosed in a court filing by Mueller’s team of prosecutors in response to Manafort’s lawyers, who asked a judge to dismiss the charges against him. Manafort is arguing that Mueller, who was assigned to investigate potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign, overstepped his authority by investigating allegations that took place before the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

I confess to an utter lack of astonishment at this news, because I’ve been arguing that there assuredly must be such a memorandum since Manafort’s indictment — most prominently in disagreeing (respectfully) with former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy, who’s been writing for many weeks to the effect that Rosenstein and Mueller have been flouting the special counsel regulations by exceeding the scope of the matter defined by Mueller’s original public appointment order.

As I’ve tried to point out — in comments here, and at NRO (on several of Mr. McCarthy’s posts), and elsewhere — the special counsel regs (at 28 C.R.F. part 600) do not, as Mr. McCarthy’s argument has always presumed, require any public specification of the scope of authority delegated by the AG (or, here, Acting AG) to the special counsel. Based on that false premise, Mr. McCarthy jumped to the conclusion that Mueller has been running rampant without either specific authorization or the limitations. My presumption has instead always been that Rosenstein has doubtless given Mueller, in private, at least one and more likely multiple specific written authorizations that are consistent with the public order but that are far more detailed and, in the case of subsequent authorizations, more expansive than anything in the public order.

You’ll recall that the public order only referenced the investigation — as McCarthy tirelessly points out, not a criminal investigation but a foreign intelligence investigation — relating to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaigns as previously disclosed by Comey’s public testimony to Congress shortly before he was fired. My further assumption is that the notice Rosenstein was required by the regs to give to the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees was likewise deliberately opaque. This is simply consistent with — deliberately, I’m certain — normal DoJ rules in every other sort of investigation that doesn’t involve a special counsel, i.e., the DoJ doesn’t disclose or comment on who or what it’s investigating, neither confirming or denying them, unless and until an indictment is filed and made public.

So Manafort’s lawyers — making essentially McCarthy’s same argument — have challenged Mueller’s authority, which they’re entitled to do. And therefore Mueller has only now — as part of proceedings on a public indictment — provided the memo from last August that specifically delegated to him the authority he needs.

Today’s news should, therefore, prompt Mr. McCarthy — whom I genuinely respect and admire — to reconsider all of his arguments, over many months, based on his mistaken presumptions from the previous absence in the public domain of written documents confirming Mueller’s authority. And so, too, should the rest of the people discussing this investigation under the mistaken premise that Mueller was exceeding his authority.

Which Trumpkin here will be the first to confess error?

Beldar (fa637a) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:30 pm

And in case the further consequences of this aren’t clear to you Trumpkins, let me spell them out:

IF Mueller is investigating Trump for obstruction of justice, then you ought likewise presume that Mueller has in his pocket a comparable memorandum from Rosenstein so authorizing him. It’s not been made public, and if the investigation never results in charges, it ought never be. But if there is an indictment (or a report of a legally indictable offense but-for Trump’s current POTUS status) made on the basis of that memorandum, then and only then will that memorandum become public.

We, the public, just don’t know — and we shouldn’t know! — yet whether Mueller is investigating Trump for obstruction of justice.

Be satisfied with that, ye Trumpkins. Ultimately it works in your guy’s favor, it’s all part of that whole “presumption of innocence” business. Acknowledge the reality of that situation. And be more of a grown-up than Trump is about it, if you’re capable.

Beldar (fa637a) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:36 pm

Right, put neither podesta nor weber who actually did the lobbying on behalf of this clique who was paying retired European politicians don’t get inducted. Podesta in particular lobbied for sberbank, which was deeply involved with the magnitsky heist, represented uranium one which was the Russian acquisition of a critical resource.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:39 pm

That’s why, at least when the desert more than the RGV was in vogue, Fort Bliss, Fort Huachaca and TwentyNine Palms should have been supersized

urbanleftbehind (bac218) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:41 pm

What was the crime again? Something about Putin interfering in the election?

Manaford is a campaign manager. That’s what he does for a living.

Mueller is a catfish. Should have been fired months ago.

papertiger (c8116c) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:42 pm

We have been through this carp 15 years ago, fits choosing not to indict Armitage but going after Libby, because he could eickenrode losing the 302 transcript, the whole front bench of NBC including the late Tim russert dissembling, btw pat Fitzgerald wrangled a plea from kirikaou after which he went to work for the Russian sputnik outlet, fitz is a partner at skadden which is a charter member of the antimagnitsky alliance.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:44 pm

Let him tire himself bringing Manafort from the bait hook to the cooler, perfect fall guy if he doesn’t have a low pain threshold.

urbanleftbehind (bac218) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:44 pm

> Mueller is a catfish. Should have been fired months ago.

What does catfish mean, in this context? The slang term I’m most familiar with is something that I’m pretty sure you aren’t meaning, here.

aphrael (3f0569) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:45 pm

A garbage eating denizen, who detains the wring people like Dr. Hatdill and lets the right people like whitey bulger off the hook.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:49 pm

So the attack on Amazon is completely misplaced, as would be an attack on the Post Office; the responsibility for this lies with Congress.

Just illustrates (for the millionth or so time) Spanky’s total lack of self-awareness.

When he was (rightly) accused of using (maybe) legal loopholes to avoid paying taxes, he responded “that makes me smart”.

But apparently using the favorable rates offered by the postal service makes Amazon some kind of crook, according to him.

Dave (445e97) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:51 pm

In June and July of 2016, they were not as focused in apprehending heck even tracking accomplices to the pulse shooting, their eye wasnt on the ball in October in Columbus or off puget sound, and subsequently they let the ft Lauderdale shooter let go in December.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:53 pm

Can a special counsel investigate a party that is in a contractual relationship with his old firm like Deutsche bank, can he be seen as furthering the interests of a party that is contrary to a target, like officials of the uae?

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 5:58 pm

Van der swaan reminds of the lead character in mcmafia the western banker, who is drawn into the family business, by some greed and mostly necessity.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 6:05 pm

The lesson, gates learned from the Microsoft investigation, is don’t be the last one without a chair when the music stops, that why amazon hired Jay carney

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 6:08 pm

When Amazon first began contracting with the USPS, both parties announced that the deal was win-win-win-win — for Amazon, for its customers (some of whom would get much quicker deliveries, including on Sundays), for the USPS, and for the American taxpayer who subsidizes the USPS. The synergy came, we were told, from both increased delivery volumes (as Amazon moved some of its deliveries from other large-volume private shippers, like UPS and FedEx) and from utilization of USPS facilities that were then currently dormant 1/7th of the time.

Now maybe that’s true, or maybe that’s spin. But if there were anything illegal about it, you’d have seen litigation and/or PR campaigns about it sponsored by the above-referenced high-volume shippers.

If it’s a bad deal for the USPS and the taxpayer, then perhaps Trump can negotiate a better one. Or perhaps he can’t. Here we are, well over a year into Trump’s presidency. Certainly deals are still being cut in Washington — we just saw one, with that monstrous budget legislation — but it’s not Trump who’s cutting them. His public attempts to cut deals — most prominently and recently, on DACA — have been abject failures. I’m hard-pressed to point, in fact, to any consequential negotiation, domestic or international, that Trump’s actually closed on, as opposed to taken credit for (as he’s now doing, vastly prematurely, with respect to China and the Norks).

This is just more reality TV — let’s call it a “fictionalization” of business reality, for dramatico-political purposes. Trump is such a whiny bitch, manufacturing drama out of ignorance and bigotry yet again.

Beldar (fa637a) — 4/3/2018 @ 6:13 pm

who detains the wring people like Dr. Hatdill[sic]

Hatfill was never detained or arrested. Stop making stuff up.

Dave (445e97) — 4/3/2018 @ 6:15 pm

#115… Which #NeverTrumper will be the first to kiss my ass?

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/3/2018 @ 6:15 pm

Bottom feeder. Pocastomus. Scum sucker. Finding Nemo. Jacques! From the ocean! Oui.”

papertiger (c8116c) — 4/3/2018 @ 6:17 pm

So why did the bureau pay 5.5 million dollars and nick kristof have to issue a personnel apology?

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 6:18 pm

The justice department fines executives these daze. They don’t have the balls to jail political hacks or the likes of zuckerturd.

mg (9e54f8) — 4/3/2018 @ 6:18 pm

Beldar’s opinion of Mueller reminds me of a parent waxing over their crumb cruncher picking his first booger.

There’s gold in them thar nose.

papertiger (c8116c) — 4/3/2018 @ 6:21 pm

You mean like Gibson guitar, yet they never went after mf global.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 6:22 pm

Let us say, hear nit looking at the complete picture from Boston in the 80s, to his part in the anthrax matter, his failure to follow up leads in Florida both in 2002 and a decade later, his part in the march 2004 frame up of Alberto Gonzalez, need I go on?

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 6:25 pm

Ot, now ge’s steep dive, can only be matched by Mitsubishi dive bombers, I under their wind energy portfolio was affected, but not to this extent.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 6:35 pm

Logic is nit he strong suit:
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/04/03/really-shannon-watts-comes-in-hot-with-youtube-shooting-take-trips-hard-over-her-own-words/

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 6:46 pm

twitchy makes the world a dumber place

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:01 pm

Trump is surrounded by a permanent, entrenched bureaucracy and a permanent leftwing media. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt before I would ever throw in with the likes of those finding common cause with the moronic left.

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:13 pm

Having said that, he should not be effing with Amazon.

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:14 pm

Yes, Amazon has drones that could be easily repurposed for…

urbanleftbehind (bac218) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:16 pm

I wouldn’t consider in the 150 most important things to do.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:17 pm

of course he should eff with amazon

there’s no question what the dirty trash at the fbi, aligned with a scrunt like hillary or another food stamp *will* do with the resources fellow fascists like bezos and zuckertwat and the dirty googlepimp will eagerly place at their disposal

it’s not a question of if

they’re eager to have everything within the state and not a goddamn thing outside the state

look at what zuckertwat’s done in china

look at slimy amazon turdlord bezos and his obscene enthusiasms

and google’s just goddamn evil

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:19 pm

Thiel can have thosedrones redirected.

He offered a reasonable deal, only the most obdurate resistance fighters like garoufis insist on ignoring the law.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:19 pm

Beldar, you can’t possibly be serious! Do you mean to sit there with a straight face and tell us that a special prosecutor, former FBI Director, former Assistant to the Attorney General, former acting Deputy Attorney general, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, former head of homicide prosecutions for DC, and attorney since 1973, knows more about his duty and the scope of his authority than the commenters here? Really?

nk (dbc370) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:21 pm

Zuckerberg from the beginning was not ibtetested in intellectual property, the plaregime thinks the same way.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:22 pm

If there was illegal money from the Ukraine, then everyone downstream is liable, that doesn’t seem to be the case,

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:32 pm

For example, unlike the previous independent counsel statutory framework, a report is not required,

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:37 pm

So an interesting thing about the shooter, her last name is azeri.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:43 pm

An animal rights azeri?
latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/08/two-dozen-animal-rights-activists-demonstrated-outside-camp-pendleton-today-to-protest-the-use-of-pigs-in-life-issue-training.html

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:52 pm

Half the H-2Bs at YouTube are probably named Azeri. The other half Khan.

nk (dbc370) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:53 pm

Maybe I missed something, but is Youtube bug on animal torture???

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:58 pm

Shooter’s name is Nasir Aghdan… sounds like a Lutheran… https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/981358602219917313/3VhDili2?format=jpg&name=600×314

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Suspect-in-You-Tube-Shooting-Posted-Rants-About-the-Company-Online–478711713.html

Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/3/2018 @ 8:16 pm

For our purposes, the fact she is an animal rights aficionado, insignificant.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 8:29 pm

Getting the message tiger?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezuela-opposition-candidates-aide-hit-suffers-severe-head-injury-idUSKCN1HA066

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 8:40 pm

This really is the sum of all fears:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/04/03/porton-scientists-have-not-verified-precise-source-nerve-agent/

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 8:44 pm

152, did they cook the pigs and eat them after being euthanized? What a waste if not.

urbanleftbehind (bac218) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:06 pm

Naw narciso. You’ were right the first time.

papertiger (c8116c) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:10 pm

I’ve seen YouTube ban accounts over animals before. Depends on how cute they are.

papertiger (c8116c) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:14 pm

This world is even too weird for hunter Thompson, heck for Johnny depp

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:14 pm

And yet they think thus was about relationship:
https://heavy.com/news/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-youtube-shooting-suspect-channel-instagram-photos/

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:21 pm

The Pruitt room and first class travel, the Carson dinner set, etc, are all things that the Deep State wouldn’t care one whit about if they were “in.”

Hillary banked 10s of millions in ~~bribes~~ Foundation donations while serving as Secretary of State — it direct and open defiance of the Emoluments Clause, and her written agreement with the US government.

And anyone who complained about it was a crank.

Kevin M (752a26) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:22 pm

* it in

Kevin M (752a26) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:22 pm

No. I was just nice to my dog. I don’t believe what I do to my animals is torture.

Steve57 (0b1dac) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:24 pm

Every dog is a therapy dog.

Steve57 (0b1dac) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:25 pm

Now horses…

Steve57 (0b1dac) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:27 pm

(as he’s now doing, vastly prematurely, with respect to China and the Norks).

You assume that those negotiations are intended to succeed. I think they are intended to fail, so sorry, and set the stage for the military solution which cannot be postponed past, oh, June, lest “frozen Chosin” return to vogue.

Kevin M (752a26) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:27 pm

@ nk (#147): You’re definitely allowed to call me Shirley. Just looking at Rod Rosenstein, ask yourself: Does this guy, who’s out of Nerd Central Casting but is obviously wicked smart and hyper-careful about every word he says in public, look like he’s unable to properly paper his very-top-secret file with paperwork showing that he’s tracking every one of those regulatory sub-parts down to every jot and tittle?

But try telling that to Sean Hannity or his ilk.

Beldar (fa637a) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:31 pm

Part of the cosmic comic irony of this whole deal is that Trump, lashing out at Mueller, is thoroughly forfeiting the benefits that Janet Reno wrote into these regs for future POTUSes being investigated. By talking about this stuff every damned day — whining, squealing, tantrumming — Trump gives fresh grist to the media and to his political foes. If he’d just shut up and quit acting like he desperately needs to cover something up, the chances are very substantial that Mueller will, in due but very deliberate course, finish up without ever laying a glove on Trump, after such a thorough investigation that Trump’s opponents will have get no traction when they (inevitably, regardless) claim that he’s been whitewashed by those rock-ribbed Republican puppets, Rosenstein and Mueller.

But if Mueller does come out swinging directly at Trump, Trump would still be far better off, in defending himself then, if he’d kept his damned trap shut during this excruciating interval.

Beldar (fa637a) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:39 pm

Yes his so smart, he authorized an investigation for something which isn’t a crime, unlike comeys brief which at least concerned classified info in the abstract, even though he already knew the suspect, but continued for four years. Meanwhile they shut down the uranium one investigation for as many years.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:41 pm

Right drag out every one you ever came in contact, force them to hire a lawyer, for half a million dollars for whatever rolling strawbe

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:45 pm

Like I say, what isthe defense for malicious lawfare as practiced by chisholm, earle Murray and Welch?

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:49 pm

The Jacobi spirit always ends up here:

https://babalublog.com/2018/04/03/the-castro-revolutions-concentration-camps-in-cuba/

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 9:53 pm

Naw this is all above board:

https://lawandcrime.com/legal-analysis/rosensteins-secret-special-counsel-memo-was-written-after-the-feds-already-raided-manaforts-house/#disqus_thread

narciso (d1f714) — 4/3/2018 @ 10:33 pm

narciso, why do you assume there wasn’t a prior memo authorizing the investigation, before the just-released memo authorizing the indictment?

Beldar (fa637a) — 4/3/2018 @ 11:03 pm

Moreover: If you’re Rosenstein writing to Mueller to extend him authorization — first to investigate, then depending on what that turns up, possibly again to indict — and you know that each defendant eventually indicted will have ample motive, opportunity, and means to challenge that authorization, wouldn’t you write separate memos for each defendant, so that when you’re obliged (as Mueller has just been) to turn over your written authorization, you wouldn’t tip your hand about what else has been authorized (but hasn’t yet resulted in an indictment)?

Yes. From all public evidence, this is indeed “above board,” and as more becomes public, if it does, we’ll continue to see whether it too is “above board.” But Mueller has now established that, as to his prosecution of Manafort.

Beldar (fa637a) — 4/3/2018 @ 11:07 pm

On his Wiki it says Ronnie Earle prosecuted himself for an election law violation after missing a campaign finance filing deadline by one day; he was fined $212.

So he got one conviction right, in a career built on harrassment.

papertiger (c8116c) — 4/3/2018 @ 11:21 pm

Animal Rites

mg (9e54f8) — 4/3/2018 @ 11:34 pm

Slight edit

~~But if Mueller does come out swinging directly at Trump,~~ Trump would still be far better off~~, in defending himself then,~~ if he’d kept his damned trap shut ~~during this excruciating interval~~.

Kevin M (752a26) — 4/3/2018 @ 11:36 pm

The memo states:

The May 17, 2017 Order [i.e., the public one appointing Mueller] was worded categorically in order to permit its public release without confirming specific investigations involving specific individuals.

As I’ve been saying since, well, May 17th or 18th, 2017, in these comments. It continues:

This memorandum provides a more specific description of your authority.

Which reading between the lines means, this August 2 memo was being custom-written in anticipation of a Manafort defense demand someday, if Manafort were to be indicted. It doesn’t say, “This is the more specific description of your authority,” but rather, therefore, it implies the existence of a separate, still-private memorandum that conveyed such, in compliance with 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a), which states that “[t]he Special Counsel will be provided [by the AG] with a specific factual statement of the matter to be investigated.”

Continuing, the memo recites:

The following allegations were within the scope of the Investigation at the time of your appointment and are within the scope of the Order.

Yes, you were authorized then, and you’re authorized now, in other words. And then it goes on — after a huge redaction — to list various allegations against Manafort. And indeed, predictably, the memo then makes a specific reference to the regulation that Rosenstein has thus so laboriously and meticulously documented his past, present, and future compliance with, the aforementioned section 600.4(a):

You therefore have authority to continue and complete the investigation of those matters, and additional matters described in 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a).

Then, finally, and doubtless in anticipation of the possibility that some time after August 2017, Mueller might need to come back to ask Rosenstein for specific authority to indict, the memo concludes:

For additional matters that otherwise may have arisen or may arise directly from the investigation, you should consult my office for a determination of whether such matters should be within the scope of your authority.

If you determine that additional jurisdiction is necessary in order to investigate and resolve the matters assigned, or to investigate new matters that come to light in the course of your investigation, you should follow the procedures set forth in 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(b).

And that’s the section of the regulation pursuant to which, presumably, there’s still another memo or set of memos specifically authorizing indictment in October 2017.

This investigation is quite assuredly papered out the wazoo, but Trumpkins and conspiracy theorists (but I repeat myself) insist on believing that since they haven’t seen all the documents yet on Wikileaks, it can’t possibly exist.

Beldar (fa637a) — 4/3/2018 @ 11:39 pm

Having a knee slapping chew spitting Hee-Haw moment reading the comments from Beldar.

mg (9e54f8) — 4/3/2018 @ 11:49 pm

So facebook has suspended 270 Russian “election influencing” accounts.

You can check at this website to see if you were influenced.

https://www.facebook.com/help/817246628445509

Apparently they list any that you clicked on in a box there. I got a big goose egg.
Pure natural 100% unadulterate Trump supporter.

papertiger (c8116c) — 4/4/2018 @ 12:44 am

Good one. No, I didn’t drink THAT MUCH INFUSED IODINE WATER. Just more than most.

Steve57 (0b1dac) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:40 pm

You are both a Catholic and somebody I would associate with warmer climates so you may not know what these are:

gait·er
ˈɡādər/Submit
noun
a garment similar to leggings, worn to cover or protect the ankle and lower leg.
US
a shoe or overshoe extending to the ankle or above.
a lower leg covering, buttoned up the side and worn as part of the traditional costume of an Anglican bishop.

We used them in Nordic Skiing.

Pinandpuller (7409a3) — 4/4/2018 @ 1:19 am

Club Fed will not make you happy.

Steve57 (0b1dac) — 4/3/2018 @ 3:43

I take your point. Which is why I’m glad I’m not a victim of sleazy lawyer on sleazy lawyer crime like Mueller and The Dutch Boy.

Pinandpuller (7409a3) — 4/4/2018 @ 1:29 am

@63. I saw a postal carrier today with the worst varicose veins in the world.

So you’re a leg man, eh, PP.

DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/3/2018 @ 4:05 pm

Legs. Gams. Getaway Sticks.

Pinandpuller (7409a3) — 4/4/2018 @ 1:31 am

Trump is surrounded by a permanent, entrenched bureaucracy and a permanent leftwing media. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt before I would ever throw in with the likes of those finding common cause with the moronic left.

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/3/2018 @ 7:13 pm

That’s as far fetched as Bill Kristol voting for Michelle Obama.

Pinandpuller (7409a3) — 4/4/2018 @ 1:51 am

So facebook has suspended 270 Russian “election influencing” accounts.

papertiger (c8116c) — 4/4/2018 @ 12:44 am

270 is an interesting number.

Pinandpuller (7409a3) — 4/4/2018 @ 1:58 am

trump is not the only enemy amazon has. bernie sanders is after them. that is why bozos bought hillary and the corporate democrats to stop having to pay an internet tax.

no collusion! mueller (4b31f4) — 4/4/2018 @ 2:01 am

Soto Voce

Upon arriving at the scene, Heller assisted the two women in calling an Uber since they both appeared to be intoxicated. Once the Uber arrived, Soto started shouting profanities at both the driver and Deputy Heller.

Soto was then handcuffed and put into the back of a patrol car, where Heller reported, “she began banging [her] head against the window in what appeared to be an attempt to harm herself. Amanda was further restrained for her safety”.

At 10:44 Sunday night, Soto was booked into jail and then later freed on bond. This is a second-degree misdemeanor charge against her.

In a police report, Heller stated, “It should be noted that I attempted to calm Amanda numerous times from her agitated state and that even while attempting to speak with her she continued to utter that her husband is a congressman, therefore, she can do whatever she wants”.

chipandco

Pinandpuller (7409a3) — 4/4/2018 @ 2:08 am

Pin, whoever is opposing Rep. Cheri Bustos out in NW Illinois appreciates the oppo research (Roles reversed, but why not take a shot).

urbanleftbehind (bac218) — 4/4/2018 @ 4:45 am

The people people marry. — Gene Hackman and also Candace Bergen, “Bite The Bullet” (1975)

nk (dbc370) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:18 am

So sally Yates which is as thick as bre’r rabbit in the Hillary coverup, forces sessions to recluse, the same bunkum they pulled on sessions, but fine you want to hang trump so its your right.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:43 am

You know all those mental health treatment history confidentiality laws? They were all lobbied for, and sponsored, by women. When you guys grow up and are looking to find a nice girl to marry and settle down with, it’s very important that you find out what medications she’s on before you sign that marriage license.

nk (dbc370) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:47 am

Yes he has nothing to fear:

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rosenstein-names-former-mccain-campaign-lawyer-right-hand-man-doj/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:52 am

CPD is the 2nd most hard core police department in these parts. My high school friends were scared of these guys and I always wondered why…http://abc7chicago.com/suspected-burglar-shot-by-u-of-c-police/3299777/?sf186180214=1

urbanleftbehind (bac218) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:55 am

Odd how democrats haven’t refused themselves fir years, not fast and furious not IRS, not events in north Africa,

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:59 am

“The August 2, 2017 memo was classic bootstrapping. It purported to confirm Mueller’s authority to go after Manafort’s business dealings, but Mueller already was doing that and had been doing it for weeks, culminating in the July 26 home raid. So to the extent the Rosenstein August 2, 2017 memorandum is supposed to instill confidence that Mueller is receiving proper DOJ oversight, it does just the opposite.”

https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/04/rosenstein-memo-confirming-mueller-could-investigate-manafort-came-a-week-after-raid-on-manaforts-home/

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:05 am

198.Odd how democrats haven’t refused themselves fir years, not fast and furious not IRS, not events in north Africa,
narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:59 am
That’s because to a democrat

everything is their business therefore there can never be a conflict of interest. And they’re experts at everything too. Just ask one.

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:05 am

I believe someone here once said I was using communism as an excuse in South Africa. That was right after the murder of my cousin. I assume that person weeps for Winnie.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lTaVp2SRr9E/WsTGIzXDdKI/AAAAAAABaS0/nNOGS519Tpcz0_kmP0CjJJyENZAHtlm8wCLcBGAs/s1600/mandela-sacp-620.jpg

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:08 am

You guys are repeating Trump’s b!tching and moaning about Sessions recusing himself is what you’re doing. I also think that Sessions was in too much Comity Mode when he let Franken bully him but, to quote Ted Kennedy, that’s a Delta 98 under the bridge now.

nk (dbc370) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:12 am

Winnie Queen of the Necklace

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:12 am

Hope she wears one for all eternity…

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:13 am

Some of Winnie’s finer work:
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9K_mHxj2BVs/UqKlAQI7SII/AAAAAAAAfV8/1-9BvMpNdLY/s400/1+1+1+1+images+(2).jpg

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:16 am

The August 2, 2017 memo was classic bootstrapping.

Attorney General rod rosytwat and the dirty fbi mueller/comey criminal cartel are colluding together for to do a coup on America

meanwhile harvardtrash ted and his harvardtrash uggle-bunny better get busy on the fundraising huh

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:16 am

Anti-Trump Gimpinista forces are mincing at the border…

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:18 am

202.You guys are repeating Trump’s b!tching and moaning about Sessions recusing himself……

Who are “you guys”, nk? I was just pointing out the natural proclivities of leftist democrats to believe themselves experts at everything. BTW, it was an Olds Delta 88.

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:28 am

Perhaps the democrat leftists can find a teenage kid to start a vigil at the border to save Guatemalan lives. After all these are nothing if not more future democrats dependent on the taxpayer. How about “Guatemalan Lives Matter” as an advocacy group and set up a Go-Fund-Me page to funnel more cash into the DNC? Teens could cut school and form a “human wave” to assist the invasion. Holding candles and handing out California driver licenses would add the human touch.

Maybe that town in Cali can tear down the McKinley statue and erect a “Winnie Mandela” in its place. Seems apropos.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3FVbD3NutNw/UqKlBKDn9MI/AAAAAAAAfWg/OnOI6k–1Oo/s1600/1+1+1+download+(2).jpg

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:37 am

Yes they mentioning ‘necklacing’ in the final paragraphs of Alan cowells hagiography of winnie, I had only heard of mandela when amnesty sponsored that contest in 1986, the context of why he had been in prison, was of course left out.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:37 am

And here is one of our new border signs:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_full/public/uploads/2016/12/illegal-immigration-sign-700×395.jpg?itok=q70O1OhQ

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:40 am

Why was he in prison?
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-t9O6zT3NeXA/UqKlASWG60I/AAAAAAAAfWA/dxsez34DPnY/s400/1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1.jpg

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:41 am

Besides, it provides hours of fun-to-watch video.
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dp_RrYUm1NM/UqKlAchldOI/AAAAAAAAfWE/eFkyiF64Wnc/s1600/1+1++1+images+(2).jpg

But communism was just an excuse.

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:43 am

He attempted to overthrow the govt like the attack on moncada barracks, like the tet offensive like Chavez in 91, the final fmln offensive in 89

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:43 am

Colonel Haiku says, “I’ll give him (Trump) the benefit of the doubt before I would ever throw in with the likes of those finding common cause with the moronic left.”

Translation…. Got no room in my head for facts.

noel (b4d580) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:44 am

There are a lot of outrages like “necklacing” out there. Nauseating. Now, let’s see what you guys can dig up…. on Putin.

noel (b4d580) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:01 am

I don’t carry any brief for Putin, he is the enabler of regimes from Iran down to Ecuador, but what created this leviathan was turning over the Russian economy to card sharps like berezovsky (the founder of autovaz) and khodokorsky look up how menatep and yukos were put together.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:13 am

Shorter “noel”: you will know him by the company he keeps.

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:15 am

So you ask to trust rosenstein, his handling of uranium one and the translogistics measure suggests otherwise.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:16 am

Rosenpenis

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:18 am

Translogistics btw is south African in origin, when the anc and Cuban military troops teamed up against the Boer state, because of virtue, naw they wanted the uranium the manganese palladium,

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:19 am

Rod flak came from that world of diplomacy (perhaps something more) that ran interference against those investigating that program.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:21 am

Tell me Google isn’t honoring Winnie Mandela the Mass Murderer. Please say it ain’t her.
https://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2018/dr-maya-angelous-90th-birthday-5544539824586752.9-l.png

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:23 am

Fisk, now fideloflake who has been mostly useless, except to the Castro regime, his as dependable as Jeremy corbyn.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:24 am

Haiku says, “you will know him by the company he keeps”.

Seriously? You gonna go with that?

Lets see….. Manafort, Lewandowski, Porter, Omarosa, Bannon, Popodoupolus, Gates, Flynn and Page. And Stormy.

noel (b4d580) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:27 am

I know drj finds this all too cryptic but my parents homeland was stolen through subterfuge, and the drones that often emerge are like slightly sauteed frogs.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:28 am

216.There are a lot of outrages like “necklacing” out there. Nauseating. Now, let’s see what you guys can dig up…. on Putin.
noel (b4d580) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:01 am

Why the interest in Putin? Have you dug up something you’d like to share? Feel free. Putin was a career communist so I’m sure mass murder was on his “To Do” list like most communists.

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:29 am

“Rosenpenis”? Well Beavis, you really got us thinking with that one.

noel (b4d580) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:32 am

He was a low level operative they sent him to dresden, sochin was in Mozambique but that was because of his language skill.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:33 am

“I’ll give him (Trump) the benefit of the doubt before I would ever throw in with the likes of those finding common cause with the moronic left.”

Do you really want the Colonel to do a 75 page list of idiot leftists? You’re just being silly, aren’t you?

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:33 am

Maybe they should have tried Merrill lynch:
http://streetwiseprofessor.com/cefc-everything-must-go-does-that-include-rosneft

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:36 am

Thank you for that link, Colonel Haiku. I disagree with Prof. Jacobson’s conclusion that this was bootstrapping.

First, the August 2, 2017, letter specifically provides that the May 17, 2017, authorization was written in order “to permit its public release without confirming specific investigations involving specific individuals.” So the original authorization may have named Manafort, even though the publicly released version did not.

Second, the authorization authorizes an investigation of:

i) any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and

ii) any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation; and

(iii) any other matters within the scope of 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a).

Manafort served as Trump’s campaign manager, so he is exactly the kind of person contemplated in part (i) of the Order, even if his name wasn’t there.

In addition, 28 CFR 600.4 specifically provides:

(b)Additional jurisdiction. If in the course of his or her investigation the Special Counsel concludes that additional jurisdiction beyond that specified in his or her original jurisdiction is necessary in order to fully investigate and resolve the matters assigned, or to investigate new matters that come to light in the course of his or her investigation, he or she shall consult with the Attorney General, who will determine whether to include the additional matters within the Special Counsel’s jurisdiction or assign them elsewhere.

Thus, if Mueller discovered something about Manafort during his investigation (e.g., something discovered as a result of the subpoena of Manafort’s home or finances), he would have gone back to Rosenstein with the discovery so Rosenstein could decide whether Mueller or someone else should continue that part of the investigation. The August 2, 2017, letter indicates Rosenstein decided Mueller should continue the Manafort investigation.

DRJ (15874d) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:38 am

narciso, only you could look at being difficult to understand as a feature.

DRJ (15874d) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:39 am

But couldnt Maya Angelou have merely been a Beta/Trotsky to the Stalin body count Mandelas? Ms. Angelou was sort of a Black Panther house poet in her younger days.

urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:39 am

Yes she went to the wonderful maoist. Kwame nkrumah and probably wondered why he was subsequently deposed.

In the real world, the kilmongers of the world , like mengistu, bocassa or main turn their lands into a slaughterhouse or a desert.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:58 am

Crazy Iranian animal activist thought “meat is murder”, but had no qualms about murdering people.

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/4/2018 @ 8:11 am

232…if “ifs” and “mays” were soup and nuts, we could throw noel a partay!

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/4/2018 @ 8:13 am

She’s the lefty analogue to George Zimmerman in that she wasted her exotic “covers a lot of bases” looks.

urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 4/4/2018 @ 8:14 am

Stop it with the Zimmerman comparisons, he should move out of that complex right out of the raid, no good deed goes unpunished, since the Sanford police were generally useless.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 8:19 am

She chose to murder people who don’t accept her belief system, who does that sound like?

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 8:24 am

dogs for heroes

https://www.youcaring.com/dogs-for-heroes-inc-501-c-3-non-profit-organization-410129

Steve57 (0b1dac) — 4/4/2018 @ 8:26 am

has rod rosytwat ever ever ever

in his whole sleazy slimy life

said no to a dirty fbi slutboy

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/4/2018 @ 8:29 am

Like shooting womprats in the t-16 back home:
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/03/tucker-jorge-ramos-trump

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 8:34 am

But yet many of the towns south of you are built on media accommodation and consumer exploitation of Ramos and fellow hypocrite travelers.

urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 4/4/2018 @ 8:51 am

His more talented then most, although Erica carillo, the Latin version of sharply atkibson (she read the entire investigation report on the bridge collaoae)

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 9:08 am

atkinson, (bridge collapse,) so Michael Ian black, if he had the self awareness of a paramecium would feel shame

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 9:12 am

After looking at Erika Carrillo’s facebook, what the hell is the deal with stolen automobile air bags…is that gonna be the new condom or tide pod?

urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 4/4/2018 @ 9:18 am

They use the inflating mechanism to make bombs and other things that go boom. It is actually a very sophisticated detonation device.

nk (dbc370) — 4/4/2018 @ 9:29 am

Not that I would know.

nk (dbc370) — 4/4/2018 @ 9:30 am

It is “ifs” and “mays” for Jacobson, too, but you thought his speculation is relevant so you linked it. I agree it’s relevant but I don’t agree with his conclusions.

DRJ (15874d) — 4/4/2018 @ 9:30 am

It’s just a wild guess.

nk (dbc370) — 4/4/2018 @ 9:30 am

Maybe I read something about it sometime.

nk (dbc370) — 4/4/2018 @ 9:31 am

One looks at the totality of the narrative and it doesn’t add up, so they went all this trouble to tap carter page, and they have what to show for it.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 9:33 am

I also think my conclusions make more sense than Jacobson’s and are consistent with how investigations work, but they don’t make for posts that are good clickbait.

DRJ (15874d) — 4/4/2018 @ 9:34 am

President Trump’s being treated unjustly by slimy perverted doj eunuch rod rosytwat

this is why I as well as many other people who love America abjure rod rosytwat

but how do we move forward?

the criminal fbi needs to stand down and cease its anti-american activities

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/4/2018 @ 9:39 am

After the damage is done, it doesn’t matter that the appeals court reverses after they’ve taken your job, your reputation. Like ray Donovan pointed out, your life savings,

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 9:39 am

Ask Conrad black, Lewis Libby, cyndi archer.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 9:48 am

Do your clients know, nk?

mg (9e54f8) — 4/4/2018 @ 9:51 am

I give example after example of abuse of prosecutorial authority and conversely neglect of proper investigative function, and they respond with a statute that is meant to be ‘break glass in case of energency’

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 9:54 am

If there’s anything I can do to help you visualize the sheer overpowering stank of the corruption dirty fbi slutboy Robert Mueller’s helping to facilitate on behalf of a cabal of grossly unethical fbi/doj trash please let me know.

It’s an iterative process but I think we can get everyone on the same page if we keep the communication going.

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/4/2018 @ 10:53 am

Rolling back fuel efficiency standards is an attack on communities of color
Opinion
— 7m 50s ago

how fun is that

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/4/2018 @ 11:09 am

Call Gloria Allred. Begin the investigation. \
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mpCFGOSxBQQ/WsT2cINgrBI/AAAAAAABppI/QWv38uNWQ_gPqK0yVIkcTY-Y69EO-QUkwCLcBGAs/s1600/DZdoJpuU0AE-lMK.jpg

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/4/2018 @ 12:00 pm

It is reasonable to infer that someone in the Trump legal team leaked to the WaPo — roughly simultaneously with Trump’s own savaging of its owner Jeff Bezos and his primary business, Amazon — this very encouraging (for Trump) set of rumors: Mueller told Trump’s attorneys the president remains under investigation but is not currently a criminal target:

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III informed President Trump’s attorneys last month that he is continuing to investigate the president but does not consider him a criminal target at this point, according to three people familiar with the discussions.

In private negotiations in early March about a possible presidential interview, Mueller described Trump as a subject of his investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Prosecutors view someone as a subject when that person has engaged in conduct that is under investigation but there is not sufficient evidence to bring charges.

The special counsel also told Trump’s lawyers that he is preparing a report about the president’s actions while in office and potential obstruction of justice, according to two people with knowledge of the conversations.

Mueller reiterated the need to interview Trump — both to understand whether he had any corrupt intent to thwart the Russia investigation and to complete this portion of his probe, the people said.

Despite the lack of sourcing, I find this report to be entirely plausible.

In particular, because obstruction of justice is very much a question of of the defendant’s subjective intentions — the intentions which distinguish between a thin-skinned over-reactive fool who bungles the otherwise justified firing of an FBI Director from the international conspirator who, with “corrupt heart” in order to hide his other crimes, fires that same FBI Director — a face-to-face interview with the POTUS on those topics is indeed absolutely essential to the completion of any investigation into alleged obstruction of justice.

Mueller will get his interview. This article only makes sense as something leaked by Team Trump to spin the POTUS’ acquiescence in it, but ultimately, if push comes to constitutional shove, Mueller will serve his subpoena and Trump can come to the grand jury room without a lawyer to undergo questioning, and then to either answer or assert the Fifth.

You can find tons of discussion online between the difference, in DoJ parlance & practice, between “subjects” and “targets,” including in prior comments on this blog. In general, you’d much rather only be a subject. Every good scenario for Trump depends on him not moving into the “target” category, and his best chance at preventing that is to give in to the legally inevitable and to agree to the interview, with whatever limitations he can manage to extract from Mueller’s team as to time, place, length, and subject matters of questioning.

The other interesting thing I’ve read today — something I find profoundly disappointing, actually — is Andy McCarthy’s nearly-unhinged doubling-down in response to the release of Rosenstein’s memo from last August 2, which I quoted from extensively above in #182 above. Now McCarthy not only refuses to admit he has been wrong for months in relying solely upon his analysis of the original public appointment order for Mueller, but he actually tries to take credit, based on his publication of various essays critical of that appointment order, for having prompted Rosenstein to write the August 2 memo. And McCarthy then proceeds to compound his earlier mistakes by continuing to presume that what’s in the public domain is indeed all that exists within the confidential files of the DoJ — that is, he’s presuming that there was no other memo from many weeks earlier, contemporaneous with Mueller’s original appointment, nor any other memo from later in the summer, nor any other memos after the August 2 one. Prof. Jacobson, discussed by DRJ above, makes the same arrogant and unjustifiable assumptions. I respect both men’s legal reasoning and writing ability, but they’re both badly wrong now, because they’re wedded to critical views based on their past speculation about what Rosenstein has and hasn’t done — and having been proved wrong about some of that speculation, they’re now engaging in even more of it.

Beldar (fa637a) — 4/4/2018 @ 12:13 pm

Why not examine their record for duplicity and at best incompetence, that’s the most charitable view of Mueller and comey and fitz.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 12:17 pm

McCarthy has been terminally naive, he’s beginning to catch up, with what we already knew six months ago.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 12:19 pm

The streetwise professor link was about how the desire not to use American and UK banks for the rosneft deal, caused it to go pearshaped.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 12:23 pm

given dirty fbi slutboy Robert Mueller’s track record of relying on phonied-up evidence and trickery in lieu of actually proving real crimes were committed, President Trump should tell him to go eff himself up his dirty dirty booty

nobody should talk to the dirty FBI

nobody should cooperate with the dirty FBI

these people are scum

dirty fascist fbi scum

and they need to be shunned like the trash they are

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/4/2018 @ 12:31 pm

Eight months ago we didn’t know about the ig report now were waiting for godot and Campbell’s testimony.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 12:31 pm

A year ago we didn’t know akmetshin was right at the center of the dossier.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 12:35 pm

the outlines of the clapper brennan comey mueller mccain coup attempt are more than clear enough to jail all five of them pending their trial and execution for treason

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/4/2018 @ 12:36 pm

I never get tired of ridiculing that selfregarding plastic

https://news.grabien.com/story-msnbcs-wallace-mistakes-someone-opening-soda-gun-shots

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 12:38 pm

From Ken (Popehat) White: What It Means That Trump Is “Only A Subject”:

Colloquially, most federal prosecutors and defense attorneys would probably describe it this way: calling someone a target means “we’re planning on indicting you if we can.” Calling someone a subject means “we’re developing evidence about what you did and if we find support for it we may indict you.” The distinction has some legal significance — under the provision linked above, prosecutors aren’t allowed to subpoena a target into the grand jury without warning them that they are a target, for instance. But the practical differences are murky.

Read the whole thing.

Beldar (fa637a) — 4/4/2018 @ 12:47 pm

Fifty years ago this morning AS-502–aka Apollo 6– the second unmanned test of NASA’s Saturn V, was launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.

It did not go well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEUJuiylTHQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kREHEUWCXbo

April 4, 1968 was not a good day in space or on Earth for America.

DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/4/2018 @ 12:57 pm

I was reading a Lifewire column about the different types of blog trolls. Then #6 caught my attention.

#6… The Profanity and All-Caps Troll
“Unlike some of the more intelligent trolls like the debate troll, the grammar troll and the blabbermouth troll, the profanity and all-caps troll is the guy who has nothing really of value to add to the discussion, spewing only F-bombs and other curse words with his caps lock button left on.”

Thanks Happyfeet for not leaving the All-Caps on. That would be so annoying.

noel (b4d580) — 4/4/2018 @ 1:24 pm

Trump is more of a Direct Object to Mueller.

Spielberg must not literally believe Trump is Hitler if he gave $500k to the gun control march mob. Between that and a girl Indy (aka Lara Croft) he seems determine to give away more money than Bil Gates.

Pinandpuller (51b575) — 4/4/2018 @ 1:24 pm

Amazon is not paying taxes that local businesses are paying to support their towns. Also employees of these businesses are losing their jobs like the industrial workers did, that is why they voted for trump and sanders. bezo supports corporate democrats as free trade republicans are no threat to him.

dasc (f84a21) — 4/4/2018 @ 1:25 pm

There’s a lot of room in my closet without a gun safe but no way to bar the door.

Pinandpuller (51b575) — 4/4/2018 @ 1:27 pm

You’re sort of navigating the concern troll minefield yourself, Mr noel.

Pinandpuller (51b575) — 4/4/2018 @ 1:30 pm

noel, I thought that was only Gus here, who seems to be a derivative of BIG CHIEF who used to be a featured player on Politico comment pages.

urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 4/4/2018 @ 1:31 pm

I am not on here enough to be considered a troll of any kind. Unlike you, Pinandpuller. 24/7

And if minimal standards of decency bother you more than the obnoxious trolling then I shouldn’t be your greatest “concern”.

noel (b4d580) — 4/4/2018 @ 1:34 pm

Look what you’re defending, Pinandpuller. Congrats.

noel (b4d580) — 4/4/2018 @ 1:36 pm

Naw Gus is for real, he’s big on guitars and seeing ‘your enemies driven before uou’

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 1:38 pm

Everyone back on their heads:

http://amp.dailycaller.com/2018/04/04/the-media-hawkishness-syria-trump/

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 1:53 pm

Hey. I get it. I cuss and swear too. I can call names and get angry. Actually, I do it pretty often. Mostly in private.

But I do it when I am annoyed. Not…to annoy everyone else.

And not mindlessly repeating the things over and over and over. Nonstop. Day after day.

noel (b4d580) — 4/4/2018 @ 2:20 pm

urbanleftbehind

You would be so proud of me right now. I was headed into Dunkin’s for double espresso with heavy cream and a white dude with a fully deployed hoodie said, “Hey, let me ask you something.” I sped up and hit the door like I was born and raised in your hood. I didn’t even have to sweep my duster off my sidearm like the marshals in Pale Rider.

Pinandpuller (5e54a2) — 4/4/2018 @ 2:30 pm

What? You took off? You just assumed you didn’t know the answer to his question?

noel (b4d580) — 4/4/2018 @ 2:35 pm

If drive by troll isn’t a thing, make it so “Number Two”.

You have Moses and The Blocking Scripts. What I say shouldn’t matter.

Pinandpuller (5e54a2) — 4/4/2018 @ 2:46 pm

Yes I did mr noel. I have figured out that people who ask me questions in public aren’t trying to figure out where to send my tax refund.

Pinandpuller (5e54a2) — 4/4/2018 @ 2:50 pm

Are you going where no man has gone before? Kinda far out there, isn’t it?

noel (b4d580) — 4/4/2018 @ 2:52 pm

Or is it “going” where no one has gone before?

noel (b4d580) — 4/4/2018 @ 2:57 pm

when you get to the corner don’t look at those freaks keep your head down low and stay quick on your feet

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/4/2018 @ 3:28 pm

But it’s the same for pinandpulller. He is like a chimp with a hand full of “number two”. Don’t get too close or give em eye contact.

noel (b4d580) — 4/4/2018 @ 3:45 pm

Or is it “going” where no one has gone before?

In a spacesuit? It’s already been done. Now if they were to set up a port-a-potty on the Moon, or on Mars, or on an asteroid ….

nk (dbc370) — 4/4/2018 @ 4:03 pm

But I love you guys. I really do. It’s just that this feels like that cartoon where they fight all day and then clock out at the end of the shift. Good night Ralph. See you later Sam.

noel (b4d580) — 4/4/2018 @ 4:07 pm

we suppose to clock out?

happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/4/2018 @ 4:11 pm

When the whistle blows.

nk (dbc370) — 4/4/2018 @ 4:17 pm

254… fair enough. I understand Rosenstein issued his memo about Mueller’s expanded powers around 3 months AFTER Mueller’s May appointment and a week or so AFTER the July raid on Manafort’s home. Doesn’t seem… how do they say it… kosher.

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/4/2018 @ 4:37 pm

Maybe the part timer doesn’t get the full run down of who is contributing what.

Did you guys know dandelions are apomectic?

Seeds are not always sexual . . .
Apomixis, or the production of viable seeds without pollination, is the botanical version of what in animals is called parthenocarpy. These seeds are produced from flowers, just as regular seeds are, but no pollen is involved. The plants grown from such seeds are perfect clones of the original plant. Mangosteen, a tropical fruit (see thumbnail at right) produces apomictic seeds within some of the segments of the fruit. The common dandelion (Taraxacum) produces many apomictic seeds as well. What scientists would really like to know, though, is how this ability can be induced or triggered in other plants that do not produce such seeds.

Davesgarden.com

Pinandpuller (01a5a3) — 4/4/2018 @ 4:41 pm

When the whistle blows, noel you gotta move…

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/4/2018 @ 4:46 pm

There are approximately 5,000 mammalian species. Half are rodents and a quarter are bats.

Which one are you?

Pinandpuller (01a5a3) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:04 pm

If Mueller found evidence that suggests Manafort did something illegal, then the next step is for Mueller to ask for authorization to pursue charges against Manafort or see if Rosenstein wants someone else to pursue charges. What wouldn’t be kosher is for Mueller to do those things before investigating.

DRJ (15874d) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:08 pm

Patterico never said anything to me about clocking in or out. Maybe he’s blocking me? I get no respect!

Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:28 pm

Why didn’t Rosenstein document what Mueller’s limits or investigative boundaries were much earlier, why wait until he had to cover his ass after the raid on Manafort’s home, DRJ?

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:33 pm

I’m no lawyer, is that the way things are done?

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:34 pm

Why don’t Manafort’s lawyers bring all these arguments up in court in a motion to quash the indictment? And to suppress the arrest and search warrant? And to order Mueller to provide Manafort with a lifetime supply of tasty fish tacos with sriracha sauce?

nk (dbc370) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:46 pm

Or dismiss the indictment and quash the warrant? Whatever works for them.

nk (dbc370) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:47 pm

Let me say up front that I don’t know what this DOJ-special counsel investigation does or how it works, but no one does unless they are part of the investigation or have seen all the documents.

However, based on the documents that have been publicly released, there are indications there are more/other documents setting forth authorizations, guidelines, instructions, targets, etc. They don’t release the details of who/why/how/what is being investigated, but that doesn’t mean written details don’t exist. Frankly, isn’t that how it should be? Investigations should be private until there is evidence of wrongdoing.

DRJ (15874d) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:50 pm

But we know the investigation has to follow the special counsel laws, which us why I linked them in my earlier comment.

DRJ (15874d) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:52 pm

Don’t know, DRJ, but I am going to check into it.

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:52 pm

Once upon a time, I believed that drj then again i believed in Santa once as well, one should have to explain how lawfare is a real and present danger.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-on-the-trump-russia-investigation-and-the-rule-of-law

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:54 pm

Those laws are a joke, drj they could not be imposed on democrats because they care not a whit about accountabulity, but they are ready and willing to use it to take opponents off the board.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 5:58 pm

Sleazy practices by the nation’s top law enforcement doesn’t facilitate – much less promote – confidence in our nation’s institutions.

Colonel Haiku (779a2a) — 4/4/2018 @ 6:03 pm

That is very true, Haiku. It undermines our belief in our laws and the administration of justice, and ultimately in our civilization and way of life. I support holding everyone accountable and I therefore hope a special counsel is appointed to investigate Obama, Clinton, and all their government minions. This was always Trump’s opportunity to drain a big part of the swamp but Trump never wanted to follow through.

DRJ (15874d) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:11 pm

When I hear of comeys or Mueller’s honor, I check my wallet and its 7-8 mimillmillion lighter.

narciso (d1f714) — 4/4/2018 @ 7:15 pm

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