Open Thread: Too Much News
Deripaska sanctions lifted.
Syrian troops out.
No wall.
AG nominee slammed obstruction probe.
On and on and on and on
Deripaska sanctions lifted.
Syrian troops out.
No wall.
AG nominee slammed obstruction probe.
On and on and on and on
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That’s why barr was picked, to put some breakd on this side show.
Narciso (d1f714) — 12/19/2018 @ 9:14 pmGot one more!
nk (dbc370) — 12/19/2018 @ 9:17 pmSpanky turns out to be a gun grabber, doesn’t he nk?
Tillman (61f3c8) — 12/19/2018 @ 9:20 pmEven as he circles the drain, Con Don still has the audacity to brown nose his Kremlin buddy and pull the troops out of Syria.
And Putin smiled.
Tillman (61f3c8) — 12/19/2018 @ 9:29 pmHow long you want to keep then there 8-12 years.
Narciso (d1f714) — 12/19/2018 @ 9:31 pmAssuming Deripaska really did divest, I really can’t argue with that decision.
Paul Montagu (e4f428) — 12/19/2018 @ 9:33 pmIt’s terrible, Mr. Tillman. I am utterly devastated.
nk (dbc370) — 12/19/2018 @ 9:35 pmBut Trump’s decision withdraw American troops from Syria smells like an impulsive, glandular and not well thought out decision. Our best allies there, the Syrian Kurds, are going to left to the devices of both Assad and Erdogan.
Paul Montagu (e4f428) — 12/19/2018 @ 9:39 pmImpulsive, glandular, not well thought out. You’re talking about Mr. Donald J. Trump the President, aren’t you? Don’t deny it!
nk (dbc370) — 12/19/2018 @ 9:42 pmHere’s a fun story: the German magazine Der Spiegel has fired an award-winning journalist who has faked facts and invented people and quotes in at least fourteen stories of the sixty the magazine has published by him. Here’s an interesting picture of how he operated when visiting rural Minnesota to ostensibly report on small-town America and its support of Trump. German media now has their own Stephen Glass/Jayson Blair scandal.
JVW (30a532) — 12/19/2018 @ 9:43 pmAnd this David French piece had only a slight longer shelf life than Eli Lake’s.
Paul Montagu (e4f428) — 12/19/2018 @ 9:44 pmYa got me, nk.
Paul Montagu (e4f428) — 12/19/2018 @ 9:45 pmRegarding the hack at Der Spiegel, my theory is that Relotius walked around town and got some pictures for his “story”, then went back to his hotel room to watch porn. CNN has to be embarrassed because Relotius was named their 2014 Journalist of the Year. Who knows how much s**t he made up with that “Murderers as Carers” story. I’m guessing a lot. If Der Spiegel really wanted to atone, they would publish the Medium piece in its entirety.
Paul Montagu (e4f428) — 12/19/2018 @ 9:49 pm“We have won against ISIS” —Donald Trump, 2018
Paul Montagu (e4f428) — 12/19/2018 @ 10:09 pm“…I ended the war in Iraq” —Barack Obama, 2012
If Trump isn’t getting military advice from Mattis, then who exactly is whispering in his ear?
We historically aren’t into long drawn out expeditions, Haiti was perhaps the longest at 19 years
Narciso (d1f714) — 12/19/2018 @ 10:15 pmA go fund me page to build the wall has raised $ 2 million dollars in 3 days. How about a telethon?
az jay (0639f7) — 12/19/2018 @ 10:25 pmover at Breitbart they are really touting that gofundme, and I also heard it advertised on Hannity tonight. I guess they are trying to make a statement but it’s sad to see people throwing hard earned money away.
JRH (fe281f) — 12/19/2018 @ 10:43 pm“Freedom’s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and do bad things…” – Donald Rumsfeld
Sleep well, America.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 12/19/2018 @ 11:44 pm@16. Or how about Legos; put those caravan kids to work!
DCSCA (797bc0) — 12/19/2018 @ 11:49 pmThank God Trump is made of sterner stuff than the ideological depressives who assume every major event and temporary setback is forever and one loss means that we should all give up forever, stop fighting, and let the Democrats run things.
The biggest story of the day, of course, is that the infamous RUSSIAN BOT TWITTER INFLUENCERS were actually false flag accounts literally bought and paid for by Democrat party operatives:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jones-russia.html
Or the fact that it was one of John McCain’s buddies that passed the fantastical dossier to Buzzfeed.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/19/buzzfeed-mccain-associate-dossier/
JUST TOOOOO MUCH NEWS TO SUMMARIZE, NO TIME TO GO OVER THE DATA POINTS THAT CONFIRM EVERYTHING THE MAGA CROWD SAID ABOUT MALICIOUS USE OF MANUFACTURED RUSSIAN HYSTERIA AND MENDACIOUS MODERATE REPUBLICANS.
And because this day wouldn’t be complete without some whataboutism, here’s the story of a typical Democrat criminal leaker:
https://twitter.com/lukerosiak/status/1075601765083635712
“Cosko was already a felon at the time Sen. Hasson hired him and gave him full access to all her data as systems admin. Then she fired him for additional misconduct, but Sheila Jackson Lee hired him despite felony+firing.
Even after he was charged, he threatened to release info.”
Timmy (47be2d) — 12/20/2018 @ 12:40 amyou know who gave up on Christmas is Al and Tipper Gore after Al got busted doing climate change with a prostitute
this cost Al a pretty penny
and there won’t be snow in Africa this christmas
the greatest gift they’ll get this year is farms liberated from white colonizer devils
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/20/2018 @ 2:52 amTrump had better veto that drunk spending bill or he will be all alone with no place to go.
mg (8cbc69) — 12/20/2018 @ 3:07 amRoy Moore would have voted for the wall but Mitt Romney loves head lice (dirty head lice lover)
christmas conundrum!
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/20/2018 @ 3:19 amPaul Ryan and his aide love him some urinated dossier.
mg (8cbc69) — 12/20/2018 @ 3:19 amNo wonder the traitor quit on the American people.
Paul Ryan Aide And Rep. Adam Kinzinger Were Early Recipients Of Steele Dossier, Documents Say
paul ryan’s basically an america-defiling traitor like John McCain what busted the budget
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/20/2018 @ 3:25 amIllinois RINO example # 987,456
urbanleftbehind (3d4138) — 12/20/2018 @ 4:33 amPaul Ryan: I Don’t Know Who Stole My Balls.
mg (8cbc69) — 12/20/2018 @ 5:02 amIf the caravans came barefoot, you could just scatter a bunch of earth tone Legos on the ground. and that work pretty good as a deterrent
urbanleftbehind (3d4138) — 12/20/2018 @ 5:27 ameven the pope hates these caravan weirdos and I’m pretty sure he already has head lice from back home
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/20/2018 @ 5:33 amPlus some sanctions were added…
Bruce (fda6c1) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:09 amhttps://nypost.com/2018/12/19/white-house-announces-new-sanctions-against-russia/
Bruce (fda6c1) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:10 amour own sick corrupt fbi-tainted government and our flaky useless ding dong military are both vastly more of a threat to our liberty and prosperity than Russia could ever dream of being that’s for sure
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:14 am#8
Y’know, the reason the Russia scandal never went away is Trump does inexplicable things impulsively that do become explicable and even somewhat thought out if you assume he is compromised by Putin.
Saying this makes Trump fans very angry. But Trump fans can’t explain this Syrian action, and its implementation any reasonable way. Or, at least, they haven’t yet. Maybe Mollie H can do it.
Appalled (d07ae6) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:20 amNo appalled, they know you are a very east mark, you could argue this is more about Turkey who are our new bffs, except when judge Sullivan deems they arent.
Narciso (d1f714) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:23 amWhom are we fighting in Syria and why?
nk (dbc370) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:30 amSupposedly Islamic state and nusra front, but the latter is based in Idlib near turkey
Narciso (d1f714) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:32 amthe sleazy US military and these trashy republican senators are more interested in having our hapless tatters prance witlessly around syria than they are in securing our own borders
this is who they are
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:33 am34
Well, if Gulen is toted back to Turkey in chains, I’ll take that as a possible operating theory.
I had a good response to your snark, but it violates the host’s policy in the same way that you did.
Appalled (d07ae6) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:35 amNow apparently David Vitter who lobbies for Deripaska at mercury was successful.
Narciso (d1f714) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:36 amHes not going anywhere, it would require an operation bigger than Waco,
Narciso (d1f714) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:37 amNow Kurds get screwed but that’s just a day ending in y,
Narciso (d1f714) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:39 amKurds are not nice people. They just happen to have enemies who are as nasty as they are.
nk (dbc370) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:43 amKind of like the Saudis.
nk (dbc370) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:46 amAu contraire pikachu, the peshmerga are the bravest fighters they have to be, ot was Stephen hunters second saladin that acquainted me with dumpy weasel Kissinger’s first betrayal
Narciso (d1f714) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:47 amthe kurds would be more fun if they attacked turkey more
i’d get a kick out of that
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:50 amStephen Hunter is a theater critic. For the Washington Post. His books are set in Cloud Cuckoo Land*. They have little connection to reality.
*An allusion to Aristophanes by another writer, John Dickson Carr, who eschewed realism in fiction, in favor of plausible imaginings, something which is taught in every Creative Writing 101 course.
nk (dbc370) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:55 amDoesn’t mean Kissinger didn’t stab them in the back, probably before the date will kill st. John
Narciso (d1f714) — 12/20/2018 @ 6:57 amIf it weren’t plausible, you may not have enjoyed the book as much. A writer can demand only so much suspension of the reader’s common sense.
nk (dbc370) — 12/20/2018 @ 7:03 amI can explain everything TRUMP does. his name is TRUMP. He does TRUMP things. If you don’t like it, you hate America.
JRH (fe281f) — 12/20/2018 @ 7:04 amOn the other hand, if he is the best writer ever in the English language, he may be able to base the most famous play in the English language around the ghost of a king appearing to tell his son that he was murdered by his brother who poured poison into his ear as he was napping in the garden.
nk (dbc370) — 12/20/2018 @ 7:06 amThat is not what that link says, “Timmy.” It says that in Alabama Democrats tried to imitate what the Russians had done (supporting Trump in 2016). Are you lying or are you bad at reading? Don’t try to mislead my readers.
Patterico (115b1f) — 12/20/2018 @ 7:07 amDon’t worry. It has to reach a goal of $1 billion.
Patterico (115b1f) — 12/20/2018 @ 7:08 amHe is lying. He is Mr. VPN, a/k/a Jeklik/Nicol/Izzet/Pencil-Necked Pundit, plus a dozen other monikers, and originally Christoph.
nk (dbc370) — 12/20/2018 @ 7:11 amIt says that in Alabama Democrats tried to imitate what the Russians had done (supporting Trump in 2016).
here’s what i read this morning:
they were for sure false flag accounts they were making pretendsies were Russian ones
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/20/2018 @ 7:14 amThey also got a list of ladies who ordered sex toys from Jeff Bezos and picked the four who could recount the most plausible sexual fantasy to accuse Roy Moore with.
nk (dbc370) — 12/20/2018 @ 7:32 amThe irony is that Trump is saying “we won” while the Kurds–who are doing most of the heavy lifting–are saying “this ain’t over”. Given Trump’s serial lying ways and inability to process facts that conflict with his inner narrative, I believe the Kurds.
Paul Montagu (44aa53) — 12/20/2018 @ 7:36 amWe’ve been betraying them since the 70s, that’s the game form.
Narciso (d1f714) — 12/20/2018 @ 7:39 amThe “ethics officials at the Justice Department” have just proved themselves to be
bought offunethical, toothless and useless:https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/20/politics/matthew-whitaker-attorney-general-robert-mueller-investigation/index.html?adkey=bn
Tillman (61f3c8) — 12/20/2018 @ 7:40 amIt won’t be over for the Kurds until there’s a Kurdistan which includes the sources of the Tigris and Euphrates and that will happen only under a Biblical event.
nk (dbc370) — 12/20/2018 @ 7:49 amthe Kurds could do a virtual Kurdistan in “cyberspace” and make something really neat with distinctive architecture and culture
happyfeet (28a91b) — 12/20/2018 @ 8:08 amNo, they don’t go for virtual anything:
https://www.nysun.com/editorials/judge-sullivans-john-sirica-moment/90504/?fbclid=IwAR2IztSZZAdpZf1oEpcoUapQ5WljwZSm9WuOWIFe3u5oeeCHS3K-c3vZYYc#.XBu9xjzWzFU.facebook
Narciso (d1f714) — 12/20/2018 @ 8:15 amHope it rains enough to get the frost out of the ground so I can get a sod cutter to work on the lawn.
mg (8cbc69) — 12/20/2018 @ 9:31 ampaul NERO ryan
mg (8cbc69) — 12/20/2018 @ 12:18 pmfiddling while d.c. burns
cheers
Col. – Remember this?
mg (8cbc69) — 12/20/2018 @ 12:27 pmhttps://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-Lkry-SF01&hsimp=yhs-SF01&hspart=Lkry&p=lowell+george+youtube#id=26&vid=bb1bcedfdecf2fb1433f1b0c5dc1f503&action=view
Because this thread has become a sort of Paul Ryan b**chfest, it’s amazing how the tide has turned, all because Ryan didn’t prostrate himself enough to Trump.
Yes, he opposed Trump, and then he gave up and supported him. Ryan took on a thankless job as Speaker, dealing with the Freedom Caucus, Trump’s most loyal supporters, and the rest of the Republicans. He did what he could in a practically unworkable political climate, and it confirms by working theory that people don’t change all that much, but political parties can change a lot.
Paul Montagu (e7d63b) — 12/20/2018 @ 1:05 pmNERO ryan pushed granny over the cliff.
mg (8cbc69) — 12/20/2018 @ 2:44 pmI wish the conservative reporters would go after chelsea Clinton and the boosh kids along with O numb nuts daughters the way they are attempting to jail the Trump kids. Its always fun and games until a democrat gets hammered. I really do hate democrat writers.
mg (8cbc69) — 12/21/2018 @ 12:42 amWhen the senate passes the wall funding with 51 votes, President Trump should name it “The Paul Ryan Memorial Wall”
mg (8cbc69) — 12/21/2018 @ 12:55 amThe “ethics officials at the Justice Department” have just proved themselves to be bought off unethical, toothless and useless:
What idiot said that? Man! Wait, that was me. That was wrong since I was on the bleeding edge of the news where sometimes the story is not accurate, yet. ‘Just thought I’d correct this although I know most of you here already know that since you’re news hounds too.
Tillman (61f3c8) — 12/21/2018 @ 1:02 pmJustice Roberts is a supreme dink.
mg (8cbc69) — 12/21/2018 @ 1:22 pm