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I may miss it. I have to be out early tomorrow to work (for a change)
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I would love for one of the more vocal democrats voice the following: No SCOTUS nomination for Trump until all the rocks have been turned over and all the dust has settled.
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And reports that Omorosa will relase one of her tapes tonight. The bad news just ain't stopping today for Donnie.
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Trump just said he feels "very Badly" about Manafort conviction.
Not as badly as he is going to feel I think,when the full impact hits.... |
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Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty. Robert Heinlein. |
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I set very low expectations about the Cohen and Manafort trials. I feel relieved for once. It is odd.
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If you're as old as dirt, like me, you may remember that series done by Walter Cronkite in which historical events were recreated. I forget the name but he always ended with "... and you were there."
History in the makin', babe. History in the makin;'. And we are here. |
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Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-Calif.) and wife indicted on charges they used campaign money for personal expenses
Perfect timing for Hunter - nobody will notice or give a ****. Not a good day for the GOP. *snort* Where's logger when you really need him? |
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Lanny Davis (paraphrase): if it’s a crime for Cohen [and Cohen says Trump directed him to do it] then why isn’t it a crime for Trump?
TICK. TOCK. |
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Nevermind.
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Oh man...
The "Fixer" implicating his decades-long BFF with colluding and participating in campaign finance violations. Cohen sung like a canary on a warm and sunny Saturday morning. This is friggin better than sex, amusement parks, fuzzy slippers, and mint chocolate chip ice cream all rolled up into one. Someone pass the popcorn ! |
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The clutch pedal goes to the floor, the hand grips the shifter.
Get ready for second gear. |
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It is. First week of freshman Criminal Law in Law School stuff. THe person giving orders for a crime is just as guilty as the person who actually commits the crime. Applies to any criminal boss, From a Mafia Don, to a Terrorist Leader to a POTUS....
That is why Charles Manson died in prison. He never actually, personally commited a murder, Just gave the orders. |
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I'm not sure this Nunberg guy is helping.
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward - Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so - William of Conches, c1150 |
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Fox News is pushing the "illegal immigrant murdered innocent woman" story hard.
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Science is self-correcting. Woo is self-contradicting. |
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Rally is starting.
Yahoo news has a live stream. |
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So far, Trump's speech has just been about patriotism, strong military, the NFL, greatest economy, steel coming back due to tariffs, coal being clean and indestructible (?).
Some weird comments about the governor's weight (?). |
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The crowd keeps trying to chant "Build the Wall" and "Lock Her Up" and they are just ignoring them. Awkward.
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Watching those rallies is truly scary. Never though I would see the open face of Fascism in the US.
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It's really sad. People at a rally in West Virginia and a major concern of theirs is security on the U.S.'s southern border and illegal immigration?
This is from an Op-Ed in one of the local newspapers in West Virginia published today:
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Even sadder - while I still think the democrats deserve criticism for not doing enough to attempt to build bridges to areas like this, it's painfully stupid to vote for some buffoon based on misplaced racial grievances and dreams of returning to a 1920s-1950s industry - particularly when voting for a buffoon who openly states that, actually, he'll still screw you over anyway.
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W. Kamau Bell did a program on the coal country and it turns out there was a decent reeducation program that was leading to new jobs in the area and people were happy with it.
It was unfortunate that Clinton couldn't have countered her negative sound bite about coal jobs by promoting such programs. |
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Aside from trying to peddle the same lies that the Republicans were spewing there weren't very many bridges they could build. They tried selling actual, feasible approaches to solving the real problems, but the voters there didn't want to hear any of that. They wanted to hear how someone was going to bring all the coal jobs back. A bridge which had been conclusively burned decades before. How can you build bridges to people like that? (And I say this with no small amount of pain, because they are the people I grew up among.) |
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From Rich Lowry (editor of National Review) on Twitter: "Biggest loser from today is clearly Cohen. Manafort is facing much more time, but also has the real prospect of a pardon."
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