Trump Superfans on Trump and Putin
Trump superfans on Trump and Putin: Trump doesn’t seem to go easy on Putin. What has he ever done to help Putin?
Also Trump superfans on Trump and Putin: I think it’s awesome that Trump is threatening to pull us out of NATO.
[Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.]
Cheerleading for politicians is unseemly. But cheerleading will happen.
Simon Jester (c8876d) — 7/12/2018 @ 7:54 amSNL, back in the day when they were funny, did a parody of China’s open practice of fandom. It featured Americans fawning over economists deplaning, and fans seeking autographs from obscure government officials. For me, the highlight of the parody was when an off-screen voice begged to see Greenspan’s calculator, and the resulting rhapsody of the crowd when he produced it.
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:04 amSo when they blew up the company from Warner corps and armed Ukraine with javelins.
Narciso (8195d6) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:04 amhappyfeet mentioned on the other thread that Putin is cheating on Trump with Angela Merkel. That I suspect is the root of the problem.
nk (dbc370) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:05 amStill, Trump’s wild displays are having some effect:
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:09 amTrump to NATO: Who’s your sugar daddy?
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:12 amNATO’s gay useless and turk-infested
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:14 am“And that’s why every NATO member should be contributing its full share — 2 percent of GDP — toward our common security, something that doesn’t always happen. And I’ll be honest, sometimes Europe has been complacent about its own defense.” . . . Barack Obama – 2016
“….and Obama said he wanted a good relationship with Russia in that speech”
https://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2018/07/nato-costsfor-decades-presidents-have.html?m=1
harkin (9d2fbb) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:15 amSomeone linked a Tazmanian devil cartoon to describe the left’s actions of late, but it might better serve as Trump’s avatar. I wouldn’t mind being so described.
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:15 amGermany’s soldiers forced to use BROOMSTICK for a gun as Donald Trump blasts Angela Merkel over NATO spending
quidditch isn’t a war game silly krauts
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:19 amLOL. You are on fire, Happy.
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:21 amWhen the Germans do a security sweep, they do a security sweep!
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:24 amthank you Mr. f
but yes yes Mr. nk hot-to-trot Angie’s inchoate romance with Vladimir has moved well passed coquettish flirtations
Trump lashes Germany over gas pipeline deal, calls it Russia’s ‘captive’
she’s a very foolish woman but such is love
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:27 amAngela
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:29 amLansburyMerkel providing for the German army.Putin is a fickle boy. Did he at least send Trump flowers and a card?
nk (dbc370) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:35 am“Gentle persuasion by past presidents failed to induce Europeans to spend more on defense. By contrast, Trump’s demands for greater burden sharing are starting to have an effect. Yet much more still needs to happen. Moreover, we need to focus not just on inputs—how much money is spent—but also on outputs.
A reformed NATO must hold members accountable in terms of actual military capabilities they can field. Those who care about NATO should criticize free-riding alliance members, not the efforts of Trump to get the alliance to up its game. At the same time, the Trump administration needs to articulate alliance priorities and the steps needed to adequately address them.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2018/07/12/trump039s_criticism_is_valid_nato_needs_a_reset_447273.html
Good read and lightyears beyond the TDS being offered by most.
harkin (9d2fbb) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:39 am14, I’m surprised no one else expounded on the Lansbury/Merkel resemblance sooner…good one and good use of a quintessential bad no-animation era Disney flick, Felipe.
urbanleftbehind (fab96f) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:50 amConversation is all we have.
Dejectedhead (2bc11a) — 7/12/2018 @ 9:08 amIn other news:
https://mobile.twitter.com/tracybeanz
Narciso (459ac7) — 7/12/2018 @ 9:26 amWhen you’re a leader, the opinion of the people following you is important. They care about how you feel about them. The way you talk to and about them is important.
For the entirety of my life the US has been the leader of the western world. We’ve acted like it in a lot of ways. During that time we’ve become the most powerful nation on earth with the richest people.
The way our presidents speaks about our allies makes me think he doesn’t see them as on our team. That he doesn’t value their past and present contributions, and that they’ve wronged us.
I hope that this doesn’t have a negative impact on any of our security concerns. Many of our allies have democratically elected governments. The way their people feel about the US constrains how those countries can support us in situations that aren’t black and white. I’m worried that it will.
Time123 (6e0727) — 7/12/2018 @ 9:30 amBecause they don’t act like russia is really a threat, we pay the check, they won’t even spring for the tip.
Narciso (459ac7) — 7/12/2018 @ 9:31 amThe NATO summit couldn’t have worked out better for Putin, and his involvement in Brexit was another win. However, his meddling in Greece resulted in the expulsion of a couple of Putineers. I guess the shortish Russian dictator can’t win ’em all.
Paul Montagu (91b6ad) — 7/12/2018 @ 9:41 amAs opposed to Jeremy Corbyn who has been a Soviet stb asset since the 80s?
Narciso (459ac7) — 7/12/2018 @ 9:48 amAt one point there was a theory that engagement would reduce authoritarianism.
Time123 (653992) — 7/12/2018 @ 9:51 amAlso, if Germany doesn’t buy LNG from Russia they’ll have to sell it somewhere else. They may get less profit from it if the price is inelastic. Or the price may go up if the new customer pays for the higher shipping cost leading to some inflations somewhere.
If US gas is sold in the EU instead, that means the price for LNG here will go up. I’m sure that the companies that produce it will like that. Higher prices may also justify increased production if companies think the demand will be sustained for sufficient time. Or it could just mean a better quarter for LNG producers.
Seems like a whole lot of leverage though, in that they have no backup.
Narciso (459ac7) — 7/12/2018 @ 9:56 amThis old man he say one
He go meet with Kim Jon Un
This old man he say two
He send Mike Pompeo too
This old man he say three
He put ketchup on kimchi
With a Forbes mag fanny whack rolling back home
nk (dbc370) — 7/12/2018 @ 10:05 amThis old man don’t get no bones.
When one third of their air force flies, and they still with wooden rifles, that’s a sign of nonseriousness.
Narciso (459ac7) — 7/12/2018 @ 10:06 amNeither does Trump, which is kind of the problem.
Trump will reluctantly impose sanctions and then, behind closed doors, will make appeasing noises about the Crimean region of Ukraine, or say that a dictator is a “competitor” when said dictator has been consistently hostile to our interests since Bush was president. It’s a valid concern for Trump and Putin to be in a room together alone, because who knows what he will acquiesce to.
Paul Montagu (91b6ad) — 7/12/2018 @ 10:12 amAt one point there was a theory that engagement would reduce authoritarianism.
Also, if Germany doesn’t buy LNG from Russia they’ll have to sell it somewhere else. They may get less profit from it if the price is inelastic. Or the price may go up if the new customer pays for the higher shipping cost leading to some inflations somewhere.
If US gas is sold in the EU instead, that means the price for LNG here will go up. I’m sure that the companies that produce it will like that. Higher prices may also justify increased production if companies think the demand will be sustained for sufficient time. Or it could just mean a better quarter for LNG producers.
That right there is some seriously convoluted misunderstanding of economics and markets.
Skorcher (5b282a) — 7/12/2018 @ 10:13 amTrump vs. Obama, re Putin’s Russia.
Obama wanted a “reset” of US relations with Russia and famously assured Medvedev, Putin’s placeholder, that he would have more flexibility to meet Russian demands/requests after the 2012 election. He mocked Romney’s concerns about Russia being the No. 1 geopolitical rival of the US. He undercut our ally, Poland, by removing (or refusing to send) a missile defense system that the Poles believed would be an aid against Russia. He refused to send significant military aid to the Ukrainians after the Russian (or Russian-backed, if that makes a difference) invasion. Obama did, though, preside over the US fracking revolution that has increased US energy independence and contributed to lower energy prices, to the detriment of Russia. Obama knew of Russian attempts to interfere in the 2016 election, but ordered a stand-down of efforts to combat them.
Trump has increased military aid to the Ukrainians. He expelled Russian diplomats. He ordered the missile attack on Russian client Syria, and in another instance approved (or at least did not stop) US forces from killing a number of Russian “mercenaries” in Syria. Trump is trying to increase the US defense budget. Trump has continued the policies of increasing US energy production. Trump’s comments about German energy dependence on Russia, while typically hyperbolic, reflect a concern about a key ally becoming overdependent on a foe, although no doubt the US would like to be the one selling natural gas to the Germans, maybe for more than the Russians charge. Although not specifically aimed at Russia, Trump has enhanced US credibility by following through on promises to move the US embassy in Israel and leave the Iran “deal”; contrast that with Obama’s phantom “red line” in Syria which weakened US credibility. Trump has, however, been way too kind to Putin rhetorically, e.g. with the comment last month that Russia should be back in the G7.
I don’t know — on balance, Trump seems harder on Russia than Obama was, but there was no media obsession about Obama being too friendly to Russia as there is now with Trump.
Please, tell me what I’m missing — and please correct any of my factual mistakes or add other facts I omitted. I’m not trying to make any pronouncements here, but would like to be educated by the many of you who have more knowledge.
RL formerly in Glendale (40f5aa) — 7/12/2018 @ 10:15 amSkorcher,
Sorry if I didn’t write clearly. Can you point out what part you didn’t understand?
Time123 (653992) — 7/12/2018 @ 10:15 amThanks, ULB, I appreciate the kind words.
nk (dbc370) — 7/12/2018 @ 10:05 am
Ouch, nk! That was intense -you’ve still got it!
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 10:31 amFelipe: Man, I wish I had written that!
NK: Don’t worry, Felipe, you will!
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 10:33 amThe old salt, for the merest moment, caught himself glancing at the sea lion, but this was enough to draw the sea lion’s attention.
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 10:43 amSpanky’s formula for success:
Tillman (d34303) — 7/12/2018 @ 10:54 amHere you go, felipe:
George Bernard Shaw: Trump is like a dose of the clap.
King George IV: How is that, Mr. Shaw?
George Bernard Shaw: It seemed like fun at the time.
Also see this.
nk (dbc370) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:03 am…is what I think you meant to type.
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:04 amOK, only so much time for this but focusing on just this:
Also, if Germany doesn’t buy LNG from Russia they’ll have to sell it somewhere else. They may get less profit
Of course across political boundaries a price (and consequently a profit) is a far more loaded term, especially when speaking of a fairly fascist state like Russia, however that considered and pretending all things being equalish, Russia most certainly will get less profit selling elsewhere otherwise they would have sold elsewhere to begin with. Admittedly things could change, though. They may find that they were wrong to sell in the direction of Germany and thus find more “profit” (again however it is defined by reality) elsewhere. Unlikely though and we are presuming all things being equal-ish.
Or the price may go up if the new customer pays for the higher shipping cost leading to some inflations somewhere.
Skorcher (5b282a) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:04 amPrice in what sense? Again, putting aside the political aspects, the shipping costs are separate from the LNG. If Russia is doing the shipping, either the cost will be absorbed by Russia and the LNG costs the consumer whatever the “same” would be (i.e. Russia makes less profit on LNG to pay for the shipping cost), or the consumer pays the shipping cost. But the consumer would only be willing to pay that cost if the shippingCost + LNG_cargo WhereEverTheyGetTheirLNG_Now, then Russia must bring their price down even lower such that it is < WhereEverTheyGetTheirLNG_Now number. Or find a similar customer.
nk (dbc370) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:03 am
I knew you would understand.
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:06 amWe have a military in case we need to war with russia, they have a military out of Gulliver travels, we got the bears attention at deir er zour at Khan sheykoun in douma, what other notification do they need.
Narciso (2980ef) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:10 amThe thing about getting a bear’s attention is that it rarely blinks.
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:14 amfelipe, thankfully, most people disagree with that
Tillman (d34303) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:15 amassessmentbias. Going around making enemies of our allies is a horrible thing. There is no way to polish that.There are also memes that trump-supercritics echo.
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:17 amTillman (d34303) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:15 am
Yes, I would say that that is the unvarnished truth.
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:18 amGermany’s soldiers forced to use BROOMSTICK for a gun as Donald Trump blasts Angela Merkel over NATO spending
The irony of this is that is what US soldiers were training with before WW2, when the Wehrmacht had better stuff.
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:19 amHere’s one of those supercritic memes:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/us/politics/fbi-agent-house-republicans.html
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:22 amKevin M (5d3e49) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:22 am
Thank you for providing that example, Kevin M. I am not too proud to admit that I needed it.
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:26 amAlso, if Germany doesn’t buy LNG from Russia they’ll have to sell it somewhere else. They may get less profit
While NG is a fungible commodity, once you put it into a pipeline you built, your flexibility pretty much craters.
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:31 amIf NATO isn’t important enough for Europe to support, why should the US carry the load? We’ll be happy to rebuild Europe from the rubble after the next war if that’s what they want. Doesn’t seem like a good plan, but, heck, it’s not out culture to appropriate.
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:37 am1.Cheerleading for politicians is unseemly…
Pfft, ain’t that the truth:
http://www.ronaldreaganlegacyproject.org
“What’s the harm in a little kiss?” Drake McHugh [Ronald Reagan] ‘King’s Row’ 1942
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:41 amTrump is attempting to do a reverse Nixon. Instead of cozying up to the Chinese in an attempt to check the USSR, Trump wants to rein in the Chinese. He is attempting to make nice with all of China’s neighbors, including Russia, as part of his strategy.
Anon Y. Mous (acdecf) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:44 am“Obama did, though, preside over the US fracking revolution that has increased US energy independence and contributed to lower energy price.”
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“We can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices” – Barack Obama
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/02/obama_said_we_cant_drill_our_way_to_energy_independence_actually_we_did.html
Obama and his EPA and BLM opposed fracking, but I’m pretty sure he knows that the economy during his presidency would have been much worse without it.
harkin (9d2fbb) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:48 amCalling NATO members ‘allies’ right now is a bit of a stretch.
Turkey hates the west and is only in it to steal defense technology and practice taqiyya. France is in it to keep an eye on the Germans, Germany because they want to steal protection against Russia from the US, the UK as an attempt to reclaim former glory and the smaller ones, who knows, and to some extent, who cares.
My country, Canada, is a personal embarrassment. Our government is a ship of posturing anti-American fools and our military in far worse shape than Germany’s.
All of your allies, every single one, is envious of your great success and wealth and deeply resentful, with the possible exception of the UK.
Do not on any account trust your “allies”, they’ll stab you in the back when they get the chance.
Fred Z (05d938) — 7/12/2018 @ 11:56 amPutin’s flotsam; Trump’s a transient.
This too shall pass.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/12/2018 @ 12:05 pm#54 DCSA: This too shall pass.
Kidney stones pass as well.
Appalled (c9622b) — 7/12/2018 @ 12:13 pmFirst, Iran:
Next, Congress:
If what the Iranian mullahs did was fascist, then this Antifa bill is no less so, not to mention a pretty clear breach of the First Amendment. If the GOP wants me back, they’re going to have to refrain from pulling that crap.
Paul Montagu (91b6ad) — 7/12/2018 @ 12:25 pm@55. These days w/t right meds they dissolve and get pissed away through the body politik.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/12/2018 @ 12:26 pmPaul:
The stance in Georgia for over 50 years is that mask wearing is not protected speech:
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/06/us/georgia-supreme-court-reinstates-ban-on-wearing-of-klan-masks.html
That law was used against some AntiFa people earlier this year.
Appalled (c9622b) — 7/12/2018 @ 12:29 pmYes the basij that blew the head of neda sultan operate the same way, so do Russian contraktiti on a zachista.
narciso (d1f714) — 7/12/2018 @ 12:38 pm51, in weird way that might also be the higher minded rationale for the “Desi” cabinet and administrative appointments.
urbanleftbehind (fab96f) — 7/12/2018 @ 12:43 pmFair enough, Appalled, but court decisions have gone both ways.
I don’t think it’s a good thing to have a law on protests that is similar to present-day Iran.
Paul Montagu (91b6ad) — 7/12/2018 @ 12:45 pmSkortcher,
You’re correct that my description was simplified. As you pointed out really describing this very accurately would be complicated.
My point was that Russia would still be able to sell their resources, but would likely make less profit.
My second point was that Germany buying up LNG from the US would likely drive up prices domestically.
Having Germany buy LNG from the US would likely do 4 things.
Time123 (653992) — 7/12/2018 @ 12:54 pm1. Raise LNG costs in Germany.
2. Lower LNG profits in Russia.
3. Raise LNG costs in the US.
4. Increase profits for LNG providers in the US.
Meanwhile back at the hearing with a non-Trump fan:
Mollie
@MZHemingway
What’s mostly educational about this hearing is not the grandstanding of the Q&A but the smug arrogance and mind-blowingly implausible — almost insane — explanations of Strzok. This is not a man who shows even-handedness or good judgment. Or even a strong handle on reality.
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Cindy Simpson
@Simpsonreport
Replying to @MZHemingway
Seriously, he reminds me of Jack Nicholson’s character, Colonel Jessup, in A Few Good Men. Wondering if prodded enough, Strzok would say something like: You’re damn right I activated that insurance policy!
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Cal Carter
@RealCalCarter
Replying to @MZHemingway
Don’t you love how he talks down to the congress?
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vassarbushmills
@bushmillsvassar
Replying to @MZHemingway
Forget the lie detector test, how did he ever pass the psych-eval at the FBI? No really
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JR
@Edinomight
Replying to @MZHemingway
He perfectly reflects the arrogance and contempt the deep state has for our laws. He sits there with that smirk on his face because he knows with Rosenstein and Mueller and at the helm, he is untouchable. All of the deep state conspirators have the same smug look.
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Damian Ranger
@DamianRanger1
Replying to @MZHemingway and @bdomenech
It’s an embarrassment for the FBI, and has ended what was left of my admiration for that agency
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Be True
harkin (9d2fbb) — 7/12/2018 @ 1:03 pm@Btrue7
Replying to @MZHemingway
Thank God it is not just me drawing the same conclusion
Polygraph only measure stress levels, like “constanza said its not a lie if you believe it” now believing that trump is a Russian pawn, whereas Obama served up eastern Europe on a spit
narciso (d1f714) — 7/12/2018 @ 1:09 pmLast election proved neo-cons are 1% of republican party, maybe less as they are running back to democrat part.
wendell (279bf7) — 7/12/2018 @ 1:16 pmPaul:
The AntiFa Act is not one I would advocate. It’s really a hate crimes kind of bill — meaning if you beat the tar out of someone while masked, you get a worse penalty than what you would get if you just beat the tar out of someone.
Appalled (c9622b) — 7/12/2018 @ 1:29 pmHouse On Fire; Republicans Pee Gasoline.
Film at 11.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/12/2018 @ 1:37 pmA harsh statement by Rep. Gohmert, but in bounds
After all, it goes Strzok’s personal character, and the text messages between him and his mistress were a kind of high-tech pillow talk.
Paul Montagu (91b6ad) — 7/12/2018 @ 1:41 pmI think they are very easily distinguished. If I wear a mask in order to attack people who are engaged in speech I dislike, the mask was means of preparing to destroy civil rights.
Wearing a mask to protect your identity is, on its own, not a big deal. Wearing a mask to make sure you can get away with criminal activities is not the same.
It’s more like a law that says if you beat the tar out of someone while concealing a handgun, that is worse than if you beat the tar out of someone while not armed. And indeed it is worse, much as beating people at protests while masked if worse than beating them without the mask. Both are very wrong things to do, but one of them is a planned activity meant to inspire a greater scope of fear.
If I go into a bank and rob them with a water gun, I did not prepare to kill anyone. It’s not as bad as if I go into a bank and rob them with a real gun, even though both are bad.
Paul’s Iran example doesn’t really make sense as the woman being persecuted was simply not doing anything harmful to anyone, not even attempting to avoid accountability for her speech, whereas the antifa people using masks to attack people and get away with it are the complete opposite.
Dustin (ba94b2) — 7/12/2018 @ 1:44 pmtheres not obvious they were actually having an affair?
narciso (d1f714) — 7/12/2018 @ 1:47 pmIt comes across as something you would see on Jerry Springer. They’ve paid for the infidelity and they will answer to their families and to God. Gohmert may want to sit as our moral judge but he is a Republican congressman instead. Gohmert got what he wanted with the headlines about how harsh he was. A successful political strategy these days. Jerry Springer probably used it when he was a politician.
Dustin (ba94b2) — 7/12/2018 @ 1:48 pm@68. ROFLMAOPIP
Yes, that was hilarious watching the chubby, balding, troll-ear Gohmert jealously whine about how a more dapper, man-about-town Strzok was able to get women on the side, just like our Captain.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/12/2018 @ 1:56 pmDemocrats have always been behind the green door with the Kremlin, certainly since middle school days.
narciso (d1f714) — 7/12/2018 @ 1:59 pmPage was not a catch. More like a throw back, there’s no agent keen or scully
narciso (d1f714) — 7/12/2018 @ 2:00 pm@74. Pffft:
“I’d rather have two girls at twenty-one each, than one girl at forty-twooooo…” – Larson E. Whipsnade [W.C. Fields] ‘You Can’t Cheat An Honest Man’ 1939
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/12/2018 @ 2:06 pmDustin (ba94b2) — 7/12/2018 @ 1:44 pm
Very well stated, Dustin.
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 2:07 pmif you’re not treating the hot and horny men and women of the fbi like trash then you’re according them a respect they don’t deserve
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/12/2018 @ 2:09 pmnarciso (d1f714) — 7/12/2018 @ 2:00 pm
But I’m sure there are Reddingtons aplenty at hand.
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 2:13 pmProbably, although his origin story, became more convoluted
narciso (d1f714) — 7/12/2018 @ 2:15 pmWhat the writer said:
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/07/the-lefts-incoherence-on-trump-putin-exposed.php
narciso (d1f714) — 7/12/2018 @ 2:18 pmI honestly don’t understand what the President hopes to accomplish–his foreign policy is all over the board–what’s the goal?
Rochf (877dba) — 7/12/2018 @ 2:26 pmhe’s doing the best foreign policy we’ve seen in decades, and I give him a lot of credit for that
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/12/2018 @ 2:39 pmRochf (877dba) — 7/12/2018 @ 2:26 pm
I see a political cartoon opportunity here:
Picture a park (identified as “foreign policy park”) with with litter strewn about the grounds labeled “Obama was here.”
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 2:44 pmWe see Trump, outfitted with a trash bag over his shoulder, a trash picker’s stick in his hand with a few pieces of the aforementioned litter already skewered. There is a wildly winding “bee-line” behind Trump suggesting the places he had collected the litter in his trash bag. A wide-eyed onlooker gawks at the site. The caption reads “This guy is all over the place!”
There’s much to that, Felipe, now how many have been killed from Berlin and other places, in Afghanistan and Iraq, including from nationals in that country.
narciso (d1f714) — 7/12/2018 @ 2:58 pm‘Louis nearly caused a scene; wishin’ it was a dream…’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exl0oSfTSoY
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/12/2018 @ 3:11 pm81.I honestly don’t understand what the President hopes to accomplish–his foreign policy is all over the board–what’s the goal?
Calling home to Mother.
“Not so fast, it’s difficult for me to follow in Russian.” Tom Farrell (Yuri) [Kevin Costner] ‘No Way Out’ 1987
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/12/2018 @ 3:20 pmYuri wee the good guy in that film, Hackman his gay aide, the CIA director (Thompson) his boss (keel)
narciso (d1f714) — 7/12/2018 @ 3:25 pm@87. And Putin smiled…
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/12/2018 @ 3:26 pmWere not admirable people, now actually the northern tier from Finland to Norway, because of their proximity to the Baltic should be mst concerned with their defense posture.
narciso (d1f714) — 7/12/2018 @ 3:30 pmYes I know he passed some secrets off to the soviet’s, but compared to walker bloch boyce pelton?
narciso (d1f714) — 7/12/2018 @ 3:32 pmLouie Rocks
mg (9e54f8) — 7/12/2018 @ 3:39 pmnarciso (d1f714) — 7/12/2018 @ 2:58 pm
Let’s hope Trump’s policies reduce those numbers. Yes it springs eternal.
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 3:45 pmThere again, our enemies believe on to death, proselytizing (bayat) they take seriously, the Hamburg cell should have been a warning.
Narciso (6a1927) — 7/12/2018 @ 3:49 pm@91. Louie Rocks
LOL yes and when he passes to The Great Beyond, the epitaph on his own stone will surely read, “The Time Of The Gentleman Has Expired.” 😉
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/12/2018 @ 4:28 pmHow can an administration do so well on policy yet have such a flapjaw frontman whose every other word is moronic, false or bewildering?
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/12/2018 @ 4:31 pmBecause the last 25 years of smooth talk and measured words have yielded little. I don’t know the answer to Afghanistan.
narciso (d1f714) — 7/12/2018 @ 4:33 pm95. Maybe it’s not the “flapjaw frontman” who is really behind the policy of his administration. I think that’s true of most presidential administrations, granted. But usually the contrast between figurehead and policy is not so stark.
Gryph (08c844) — 7/12/2018 @ 4:43 pm@95. Reaganomics. 😉
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/12/2018 @ 4:56 pmKevin M (5d3e49) — 7/12/2018 @ 4:31 pm
Gryph (08c844) — 7/12/2018 @ 4:43 pm
In business, there is a front office and a back office (where the real work gets done). So I agree with Gryph, especially about the stark contrast. Although a lightning rod figure can allow adversaries to miss-target their efforts, affording the back office to operate with greater efficiency.
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 4:58 pmugh!
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 5:00 pm@62.
Having Germany buy LNG from the US would likely do 4 things.
1. Raise LNG costs in Germany.
2. Lower LNG profits in Russia.
3. Raise LNG costs in the US.
4. Increase profits for LNG providers in the US.
You’re more or less correct on all 4 points. My late father spent over 35 years in the oil biz at senior exec., levels; the last six years of his career doing int’l LPG/LNG deals w/t subsequent sales and transport. The product essentially becomes ubiquitous once in the marketplace, too. Bear in mind many U.S. firms, directly or indirectly energy-related and otherwise, contact/subcontract w/Russia, as well. Halliburton, Exxon-Mobil.. even Mickey Mouse, get their bite at the cheese:
“In total there are almost 3,000 American companies in Russia [as of 12/12/2016] and the U.S. is also the leader in terms of foreign companies in Special Economic Zones, with 11 projects.
1.3M
2.Abbott Laboratories
3.AbbVie
4.AECOM
5.Air Products
6.Albermarle Chemicals Representative Office
7.Alcoa SMZ (Alcoa Russia)
8.American Express Russia & CIS
9.AmeRussia St.Petersburg, Russia
10.Amrustrans
11.Amsted Rail Company
12.Amway Russia
13.Apple
14.Armstrong World Industries
15.Autodesk
16.Avis Russia
17.Avon Beauty Products Company
18.Black & Decker, Moscow Representative Office
19.Boeing Russia
20.Bristol-Myers Squibb
21.Brown-Forman Russia
22.Burger King
23.Cameron
24.Cargill
25.Caterpillar Eurasia
26.Caterpillar Tosno
27.Celgene Corporation
28.Chevron
29.Cisco Systems
30.Citi Russia
31.Citibank, Saint-Petersburg Branch
32.Coca-Cola System in Russia
33.Colgate-Palmolive
34.Compressor Controls Corporation
35.CononoPhillips Russia
36.Corning SNG
37.Crate & Barrel
38.Cummins Incorporated
39.Dell
40.Delta Air Lines
41.Dolby
42.Dow Europe
43.DuPont Science and Technologies
44.Eaton
45.Ecolab
46.ExxonMobil
47.Fluor Entrprises Group
48.Ford Sollers Holding
49.Forever 21
50.General Electric
51.General Motors Russia & cIS
52.Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories
53.Goldman Sachs
54.Google
55.Halliburton
56.Herbalife International RS
57.Hewlett Packard Enterprise
58.Hilton Russia
59.Honeywell
60.Huntsman CIS
61.IBM East Europe/Asia (NW Region Branch)
62.IBM East Europe/Asia
63.Intel
64.International Paper Russia, Moscow Branch
65.John Deere Rus
66.Johnson & Johnson
67.Johnson Controls International
68.JP Morgan
69.KBR East
70.Kellogg Rus
71.KFC
72.Kimberly-Clark
73.Kinross Gold Corporation, Moscow Representative Office
74.Krispy Kreme
75.Levi Strauss Moscow
76.Lexmark International
77.Liberty Insurance
78.Lilly Pharma
79.Mars Inc.
80.Mary Kay
81.MasterCard International
82.McDonald’s Russia
83.Medtronic
84.Metlife
85.Microsoft RUS
86.Mondelez International
87.Morgan Stanley
88.Motorola Solutions
89.Motorola Solutions, St. Petersburg Software Design Center
90.MSD Pharmaceuticals
91.NBCUniversal
92.Nike
93.NVIDIA
94.OCV Steklovolokno (Owens Corning)
95.Oracle Development SPB
96.OTIS Lift
97.PepsiCo
98.Pfizer
99.Philip Morris Izhora
100.Philip Morris Sales & Marketing
101.Procter & Gamble
102.Qualcomm Europe, Russia Branch Office
103.RAND Corporation
104.SC Johnson
105.Sealed Air
106.Sherwin-Williams
107.Software Technologies
108.Standard & Poor’s Credit Market Services Europe Limited
109.Starbucks
110.Subway Russia
111.Tenneco Automotive Volga
112.The Estee Lauder Companies
113.The Walt Disney Company, CIS
114.Thermo Fisher Scientific
115.Timken-Rus Service Company
116.United Technologies International Operations
117.United Way of Russia
118.Visa
119.Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing
120.Western Union
121.Wrigley, A subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated-St. Petersburg Branch
122.Xerox
123.YRIR (YUM! Restaurants International Russia and CIS)”
– source, http://www.aalep.eu
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/12/2018 @ 5:21 pmDo we rely on any of them for our livelihood, but it does shoe the hypocrisy of this snipehunt.
Narciso (6a1927) — 7/12/2018 @ 5:23 pm@102. Ask a stockholder.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/12/2018 @ 5:24 pmThat is this GOP, Dustin, and Gohmert was only the worst. What I thought wasn’t fair in that hearing was when a Congressman would levy one insult or another on Strzok and yield his time, thus giving Strzok no ability to respond or defend himself.
Paul Montagu (91b6ad) — 7/12/2018 @ 5:31 pmI wondered how Phillip Morris could be 100th, then I saw that the list is alphabetical. The Marlboro man is our goodwill ambassador to the world.
nk (dbc370) — 7/12/2018 @ 5:32 pmI guess Exxon has a similar influence but we don’t rely on their Siberian fields.
Narciso (6a1927) — 7/12/2018 @ 5:34 pmIt would’ve better if there was legislation that would increase or maximize the sentence, under existing law, for any crimes or misdemeanors committed by a mask-wearing antifa. Fifteen years is just plain punitive.
Paul Montagu (91b6ad) — 7/12/2018 @ 5:35 pmI seem to recall that Marlboro cigarettes were initially meant to be a woman’s cigarette, dontcha know.
Philip Morris & Co. (now Altria) had originally introduced the Marlboro brand as a woman’s cigarette in 1924.
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 5:36 pmStrzok leaked to Barrett to hide McCabe stonewalling, he was part of operation cross fire hurricane, he interrogated general Flynn without an attorney present, woe is strzok.
Narciso (6a1927) — 7/12/2018 @ 5:36 pmMany states have “masked or hooded so as to conceal his identity” enhancement laws, or as a factor in aggravation, for violent crimes.
I agree with you about the length of the sentence. It’s obscenely long. Most are these days.
nk (dbc370) — 7/12/2018 @ 5:40 pmThe tobacco companies didn’t start pushing filter cigarettes until the mid-1960s. Even though they had in fact been around as early as the 1920s. But then, ready-made cigarettes altogether were not as dominant. A lot of people still rolled their own. Unfiltered Camels, Lucky Strikes, and Pall Malls, along with Bull Durham and Top rolling tobaccos, were still big sellers through the 1970s.
nk (dbc370) — 7/12/2018 @ 5:47 pmLooks like Trump just shat all over PM May, before even meeting her.
Talk about poisoning the well. This isn’t a foreign policy win for anyone, except Putin.
Paul Montagu (91b6ad) — 7/12/2018 @ 5:54 pmWell this why her premiership is hanging by a thread, ignoring what brought her to power,
Narciso (6a1927) — 7/12/2018 @ 5:57 pmObama couldn’t keep his piehole shut about Brexit either. He said pretty much the same things as Trump about how Brexit would play in a menage at trois with the US, the UK, and the EU. But at least he agreed with the sitting Prime Minister.
nk (dbc370) — 7/12/2018 @ 6:10 pmNo not the nearly the same thing, you notice how scl/Cambridge analytica is being destroyed because it was the only pro brexit outfit, how two years of this circlejerk has turned into the ransom of red chief.
Narciso (6a1927) — 7/12/2018 @ 6:14 pmSo haklyut and orbis, which operate in this shadow world of corporate espionage and private intelligence are not sanctioned for their interference across the pond.
Narciso (6a1927) — 7/12/2018 @ 6:20 pm56 Paul did you miss the whole part about wearing a mask while committing a felony? What felony where the Iranian women committing? So they are nothing alike, once again telling lies and clowning yourself.
“If what the Iranian mullahs did was fascist, then this Antifa bill is no less so, not to mention a pretty clear breach of the First Amendment.”
“Under the act, anyone “wearing a mask” or in disguise who “injures, oppresses, threatens, or intimidates any person”
Nate Ogden (223c65) — 7/12/2018 @ 6:24 pmMuch like the distinction between uniformed military and unlawful combatants one deserves the Geneva conventions the others dont.
Narciso (6a1927) — 7/12/2018 @ 6:28 pm73 I forget which Kennedy coordinated with the Russians to interfere in an election, against Regan maybe, clear proof they did it and not a pep. Russian Collusion is ok when Democrats do it.
Nate Ogden (223c65) — 7/12/2018 @ 6:30 pmEdward Kennedy, but it wasn’t discovered for some 20 years later, with andropov and chernenko. He used jack tunney the son of the boxer as middleman he was a congressman or senator.
Narciso (6a1927) — 7/12/2018 @ 6:33 pmR.I.P. Launch Complex 17, Cape Canaveral.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLjTkXvAseg
A blast to Echo the blasts from the past.
Sad.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/12/2018 @ 6:35 pmThe mitrokhin files might have had it first in 99, actually had they used Redstone rockets they might have gotten ahead of soutnik
Narciso (6a1927) — 7/12/2018 @ 6:37 pmIt was discovered in 91, but covered by a pillow
https://www.forbes.com/2009/08/27/ted-kennedy-soviet-union-ronald-reagan-opinions-columnist
Narciso (6a1927) — 7/12/2018 @ 6:44 pmAnd that was a mistake, too, especially after his stupid “back of the queue” comment.
Paul Montagu (91b6ad) — 7/12/2018 @ 6:45 pmNo, that was deliberate like the demonstrations in front of citigroup (on behalf of acorn) that pressured it into the subprime scam.
Narciso (6a1927) — 7/12/2018 @ 6:49 pmJohn Tumney approached the Russians on behalf of the guy who left a young woman to die in a submerged car for help to defeat Reagan and become President.
https://www.forbes.com/2009/08/27/ted-kennedy-soviet-union-ronald-reagan-opinions-columnists-peter-robinson.html
Treason pure and simple from a disgusting deadly cad but he supported Roe v Wade so hey s**t happens.
harkin (9d2fbb) — 7/12/2018 @ 6:58 pmWe would be in a much better position to pressure Germany on the new Russian pipeline if Obama hadn’t rejected Coos Bay LNG terminal. Just another major blunder by the worst President ever.
Harder to tell Germany to turn down the pipeline when another source isn’t available.
Now that we are finally building LNG export terminals, Europe needs to build receiving terminals and sign some long term contracts.
Addresses security, NATO, and trade deficit.
Nate Ogden (223c65) — 7/12/2018 @ 7:42 pmThat would be too far away in any event, and it’s fracken oregon to boot. Germany has 1/5 our population. I think we could spare some lng.
Narciso (6a1927) — 7/12/2018 @ 7:47 pmIt’s probably a good thing that Ms. Page is meeting House Intelligence Committee members behind closed doors. If it were a public spectacle like with Strzok, we could’ve taken bets as to which GOP House member called her a slut first. Gohmert would’ve been the best bet, but who knows, Goodlatte might’ve given him a run.
Paul Montagu (91b6ad) — 7/12/2018 @ 7:54 pmShe’ll leak it to the right outlet that made her seem brave and resolute, instead of a total goof, who endangered bureau operations
Narciso (6a1927) — 7/12/2018 @ 7:58 pmI think this argument makes some sense. However, I also believe there’s a bona fide public safety benefit to banning masks at protests, and it’s all about that safety to me. If you disagree, I recommend you attend a few protests where antifa will be there and masks are not banned, and then attend a few where masks are banned.
There’s just something about those kids wearing masks that seems to encourage some violence these days. Personally, I could go farther than the law you mention and actively make it an offense to wear a mask at a protest. But I understand where you’re coming from on this.
Dustin (ba94b2) — 7/12/2018 @ 7:59 pmRight now our only east coast terminal is contracted to Japan and India. Gulf of Mexico terminals are also shipping to Asia. If we had Coos Bay it could supply Asia then we could use East Coast terminals for Europe.
Nate Ogden (223c65) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:03 pmhttps://mobile.twitter.com/xchixm/status/1017580483490742272/video/1
harkin (9d2fbb) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:08 pmI get the sentiment, Dustin. Another thing. I’m not sure how a federal law would overlap with local laws regarding assault and other forms of violence. But here’s another thought, which may be a little half-baked because I’m on my 3rd glass of red: Why not have a law that would exempt a guy from prosecution if he beat the crap out of a mask-wearing douchebag at a protest. It would be a perfect incentive for dissuading sh**tbags from wearing masks in the first place, and would apply to KKKers or Antifas or whomever. But that might be a problem if a bunch of hijab-wearers show up. Maybe there’ll be a better answer on glass #4.
Paul Montagu (91b6ad) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:09 pmWho lies more? Trump, about Trump? Or the MSM, about Trump? The only difference is that Trump, a politician, should be expected to lie, while the heirs of
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:15 pmDuranty and MoyersMorrow and Brinkley are supposed to be the guardians of objective truth.Louie Louie Louie Louie Louie Louie Louie Louie
mg (9e54f8) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:23 pmFu## you democrat pos.
Ever since they caught that Diablo Valley CC instructor slamming peaceful protesters in Berkeley over their heads with a bike lock while wearing a mask I’ve had no problem with curbing use of masks at demonstrations.
First it was the KKK, now Antifa, wtf Dems?
harkin (9d2fbb) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:24 pmHaving Germany buy LNG from the US would likely do 4 things.
1. Raise LNG costs in Germany.
3. Raise LNG costs in the US.
4. Increase profits for LNG providers in the US.
1 certainly.
2 would depend on Russia’s agility at changing customers. If they have pipelines they have to write off, then sure, profits go down.
But 3? Doesn’t really matter since we use very little LNG domestically, the use is declining. Exports would probably not affect the domestic price since most of what we use is IMPORTED from elsewhere. If anything, it would lower them since the world market would have more KNG for sale.
As for 4, it would increase the direct market for US exports, but presumably Russia’s former German exports are now dumped on the market, so US exporters would have more competition in freer markets. Best bet? Flat or a little lower due to churn.
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:27 pm2. Lower LNG profits in Russia.
that got lost somehow.
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:27 pmReally sign me up for your newsletter:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/C0280B16-853B-11E8-BADB-40E417954C95
Narciso (6a1927) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:31 pmCompletely juvenile but I can’t stop laughing…..
https://mobile.twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1017603840680628226
harkin (9d2fbb) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:31 pm@95. Reaganomics. 😉
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/12/2018 @ 4:56 pm
I cite this a proof DCSCA is a lurking leftist. Even most moderate Democrats now admit that Reagan was no dunce.
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:32 pm141… whaddya gonna do, harkin, it’s Chait. Not the brightest bulb.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/12/2018 @ 9:12 pmRight up with hentai (don’t ask, I’m warning you) eichenwald or Josh ‘pornhub’ marshall
Narciso (6a1927) — 7/12/2018 @ 9:16 pm@142. Even most moderate Democrats now admit that Reagan was no dunce.
Of course not; he voted for FDR four times.
But was he an ‘amiable dunce?!?!’ The mystery deepens.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/12/2018 @ 9:18 pmI agree: “Find your passion” is terrible advice.
Paul Montagu (91b6ad) — 7/12/2018 @ 9:22 pmA dozen or more years ago, I went to a luncheon where Wally Walker, GM of the Sonics, was the keynote speaker. His main message was “follow your passion”. Well, he followed his passion and basically ruined the Sonics by his bad decisions and ineptitude, thus paving the way to their eventual sale to an Oklahoma City hack who moved the team to OK City at the earliest available opportunity. Find your passion, pffft.
Well hoover London wilkie and dewey
narciso (d1f714) — 7/12/2018 @ 9:23 pm“… whaddya gonna do, harkin, it’s Chait. Not the brightest bulb“
At least soliciting emergency medical advice from Twitter explains his faith in socialized medicine.
harkin (9d2fbb) — 7/12/2018 @ 9:39 pmТоварищ!!
Oh Louis, Louis, Louis….seems in the bad old Soviet days, you spent a summer as an “exchange student” in Ukraine. Hmmmm. Texas may be more red than we know. There needs to be an investigation. And a hearing, Comrade Gohmert!
Did the Ukraine girls really knock you out? Did you leave the West behind? Did Moscow girls make you sing and shout? Was Georgia always on your my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my mind? Were you shown ’round those snow-peaked mountains way down south? Were you taken to some daddy’s farm? Did you hear the balalaikas ringing out? Are you now or were you ever keeping your comrades warm?
Back In the U.S.S.R.?
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/12/2018 @ 9:52 pmMaybe hunt is a renegade too:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Debradelai/status/1017547999650738178?p=v
narciso (d1f714) — 7/12/2018 @ 9:53 pmI’m thinking that they used proto-matter to solve the equations in order to get the desired result.
The tell (italics mine): “Let’s be inclusive and construct a model based on all the data we have available.”
felipe (023cc9) — 7/12/2018 @ 10:20 pmAfter Strozak testified my view of the FBI unbelievably sunk to the depths of whale sh!t.
mg (9e54f8) — 7/12/2018 @ 10:26 pmHe made the FBI look like a junior varsity glee club.
This is a Delilah Long Distance Dedication to Lisa, from The Guy who strapped a gun on for 26 years to protect you Caution Girls Girls Girls
Pinandpuller (041bbb) — 7/13/2018 @ 12:15 amI get the sentiment, Dustin. Another thing. I’m not sure how a federal law would overlap with local laws regarding assault and other forms of violence. But here’s another thought, which may be a little half-baked because I’m on my 3rd glass of red: Why not have a law that would exempt a guy from prosecution if he beat the crap out of a mask-wearing douchebag at a protest. It would be a perfect incentive for dissuading sh**tbags from wearing masks in the first place, and would apply to KKKers or Antifas or whomever. But that might be a problem if a bunch of hijab-wearers show up. Maybe there’ll be a better answer on glass #4.
Paul Montagu (91b6ad) — 7/12/2018 @ 8:09 pm
IANAL but don’t lawyers and law makers call that an affirmative defense?
I’ll listen to your answer off the air.
Pinandpuller (041bbb) — 7/13/2018 @ 12:17 amAt what point did Trey Gowdy start singing for Yes?
Pinandpuller (041bbb) — 7/13/2018 @ 1:54 amMajority Chairman: Ms Page, I have a letter here from a young schoolboy that I think is relevant to testimony we’ve heard here at the Judiciary commitee.
Under! Uh uh uh uh uh uh
Under! Uh uh uh uh uh uh
Under! Uh uh uh uh uh uh
You’ve been…Under Strozk!
Under Strzok! Yeah Yeah Yeah!
Under Stzok! Yeah Yeah You!
Pinandpuller (041bbb) — 7/13/2018 @ 2:02 amRelevant
137 How long till dems claim antifa were future Republicans like they claim KKK magically switched.
Nate Ogden (223c65) — 7/13/2018 @ 3:09 amWell, due to being outed asthe bad guy to a minority pool complex user, #walkaway, tax cuts and gainful employment acquired, i bet you a lot of calendar year 2017 Antifa has already switched.
urbanleftbehind (fbc0ad) — 7/13/2018 @ 5:16 amThis Star Chamber Grand Inquisition theater is unseemly, unproductive, and un-American. But it gives the Congressional jerkoffs something to do besides soliciting money for their reelection and jerking off.
nk (dbc370) — 7/13/2018 @ 5:33 amHahahaha! Strzok may be a sinner but sure ain’t a winner now… https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/301971/
Colonel Haiku (5fd258) — 7/13/2018 @ 5:42 amthis is a good story about the sleazy slutty Sessions DOJ
appointing corrupt ignorant weaksuck Jeffy Sessions to Attorney General is by far the worst decision President Trump has made
not only is justice in America a hugely silly joke anymore
appointing Jeffy guaranteed that the sleazy slimy fbi would ripen into the full-blown clown-show Gestapo it is today
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/13/2018 @ 6:06 amYou misspelled kabuki star chamber is what they did to colonel north. They were no hepped up they forgot to read the immunity regs.
Sessions is in a nest of vipers, Eisenstein being chief snake, Sally Yates which times reporter was she sleeping with, set up this narrative that Stuart smalley regurgitated.
Narciso (cbfddb) — 7/13/2018 @ 6:11 amNow benczowski might provide some relief, but we thought that of Mrs brand, but she wouldn’t step up.
Narciso (cbfddb) — 7/13/2018 @ 6:11 amCongress should not have subpoena power, except for the Senate when trying impeachments. Neither should administrative agencies. And they do not under a fair reading of our Constitution. Subpoenas are a judicial function.
nk (dbc370) — 7/13/2018 @ 6:16 amIt could be, P&P, but IANAL either.
Paul Montagu (91b6ad) — 7/13/2018 @ 6:19 amBy using these “witnesses” as foils to prim, preen and prance in front of the TV cameras, they’re not only violating their Fourth Amendment rights they’re also violating their First Amendment rights.
nk (dbc370) — 7/13/2018 @ 6:20 amHey they run black sites in your town, where zubeydah might ended up in lake Michigan right.
Narciso (cbfddb) — 7/13/2018 @ 6:20 amWhy not have a law that would exempt a guy from prosecution if he beat the crap out of a mask-wearing douchebag at a protest.
Because every police state wants to have the monopoly on the use of violence. Even Reinhard Heydrich objected to Kristallnacht. He wanted his Gestapo and SS to persecute the Jews in an orderly manner; not some mob destroying things indiscriminately and raising insurance premiums.
nk (dbc370) — 7/13/2018 @ 6:24 amPossibly, this pattern goes back to Watergate, but remember Nixon was purr evil Right, had that been the case jack Anderson would have been dead a la condor and Woodward and Bernstein ended up in a collapsed parking structure.
Anyways the Congress nabbed the city manager of San Diego for a statement about a lobbyist for itt assisting in a bid for the San Diego Republican convention, but they failed to have a quorum
Narciso (cbfddb) — 7/13/2018 @ 6:25 amBtw they’ve remade condor, Brendan Fraser is an chemical tycoon who makes a fortune from an anthrax scare, and the title is the fellow who is trying to track the plot down.
Narciso (cbfddb) — 7/13/2018 @ 6:39 amBoth canceled series taken and Quantico, have taken the notion of Eric prince as evil kingpin and run with it
Narciso (cbfddb) — 7/13/2018 @ 6:42 amIt does go back to Nixon but when he chaired the House Un-American Activities Committee. Very appropriately, if ironically, named. And let’s not forget the concurrent McCarthy hearings. With boyfriend Roy Cohn featuring large.
nk (dbc370) — 7/13/2018 @ 6:50 amYes they were actual commies spreading sedition, they were buried in the bureaucracy for 20 years, McCarthy read the house report on the screw up, missed calls and utter treason (Currie, Remington, duggan) st al tha
Narciso (cbfddb) — 7/13/2018 @ 6:52 amI watched a few seconds of Faux Friends. On the internet. One of the talking heads, maybe it was the fluff bunny, asked, I’m not making it up, if “the GOP landed any solid blows on Strzok” at the hearing. Star Chamber. Clown show.
nk (dbc370) — 7/13/2018 @ 6:59 amMarshall as honorable as he was employed many of these jokers like Chubb, Stewart service, Vincent, like the folks in the 80s, who insisted the fmln was well intentioned.
Narciso (cbfddb) — 7/13/2018 @ 7:00 amWell like nathan jessup, strzok did admit some things, as opposed to the rocket surgeons at msnbc and cnn?
Narciso (cbfddb) — 7/13/2018 @ 7:03 amI was thinking more of the “cas me on the outside” girl. 😉
nk (dbc370) — 7/13/2018 @ 7:06 amIt’s all ubs:
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2018/07/12/cbs-worries-trump-ditching-kennedy-paint-job-new-air-force
Narciso (cbfddb) — 7/13/2018 @ 7:14 amPaul,
you and Dave seem to have a lot in common. You both save your vitriol for the right and not the left. Interesting.
NJRob (b00189) — 7/13/2018 @ 7:18 amYou all seem to be verklempt over strzok
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2018/07/12/abc-comes-strzoks-aid-touts-his-searing-defense-against-gop
Narciso (cbfddb) — 7/13/2018 @ 7:29 amSo just full of hot takes, of course the Khan justification was fresh off the griddle
Narciso (cbfddb) — 7/13/2018 @ 7:33 amMy father used to shoot foxes that stole our chickens, but I think a pack of hounds in red coats on horseback chasing one are the ones that should be shot.
nk (dbc370) — 7/13/2018 @ 7:35 amMost shot their own feet, but there were occasional revelations.
Narciso (cbfddb) — 7/13/2018 @ 7:38 amMaybe someone can explain when Putin became our “Enemy” and getting along with Russia became “Teason 11”
Unlike the Never Trumpers, I don’t give a damn about Putin, unless he directly threatens the security of the USA or somehow adversely – in a significant way – effects OUR interests.
All this screeching about Putin, is bizarre. We aren’t at war with Russia. Russian is not a totalitarian dictatorship. Russia is – in fact – more democratic than China. But Ok, we get Never Trumpers, you’re like McCain – Putin is the most, evil, evil guy in the world. We get it. But that’s just your opinion.
rcocean (1a839e) — 7/13/2018 @ 11:44 amAfter he declared opposition to gay marriage, is the short form. They didn’t really care about litvinenko or bank fraud.
narciso (d1f714) — 7/13/2018 @ 11:48 amI have few reasons to trust Russians, if I were Syrian likewise:
https://babalublog.com/2018/07/13/13-de-marzo/
narciso (d1f714) — 7/13/2018 @ 11:54 amThere’s no one on the Left commenting here, and the pushback Dave and I get are from unquestioning Trump fans. But your comment is false. One, I limit my vitriol to those making personal attacks. Two, I criticize the left side of the aisle as well, for example, here, here and here. But then again, the topics of the diaries in the last week have been Trump-centered.
Paul Montagu (91b6ad) — 7/13/2018 @ 7:42 pmunquestioning Trump fans
why would anybody not like President Trump?
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/13/2018 @ 7:48 pmI think Putin likes the current state of affairs, the eu doesn’t pose a significant military challenge in places like Germany, the main parties are openly contemptuous of the people’s interests, hence it’s very hard to have consensus. The everyday citizen is subject to the threat of knifing arson attacks, sexual assaults against woman and yet the establishment denied it, faith and family are also aggressively undermined, which radicalized the newcomers
Narciso (b2eb1c) — 7/13/2018 @ 8:04 pmchina will eat all of russia’s tacos
they don’t covet resource-poor japan you know
and in matter of fact
they hate other asians reflexively
they don’t want to commingle
and the Russians they have oil and they raise plump dogs
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/13/2018 @ 8:22 pmThe Russians will probably have to watch their far eastern flank, as they did with Japan about 120 years ago.
Narciso (b2eb1c) — 7/13/2018 @ 8:25 pmi guess a game-changer would be commercial development of methane hydrate
but we haven’t heard much about that for a year plus now i think
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/13/2018 @ 8:31 pmhrm looks like the dirty chinesers are actively raping our filipino friends
i don’t really have any feelings about this am i supposed to?
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/13/2018 @ 8:34 pmhere’s an indian dude at dow chem what says what he effing thinks
here’s his offical bio
so there you go he works for the people what did bhopal all up in it
i wonder if that’s transgressive at all anymore
probably not
the caravan goes on you see
plus it sounds like he lives in michigan
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/13/2018 @ 8:43 pm