Ser Scot A Ellison Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Zorral said: And how many declared, going way back, even here, that things could never get to this point in the USA . . . . You all hear of Portland's naked Athena? https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-07-19/portland-protest-naked-athena Also don't you love that BLM are doing huge yoga classes in front of the WH? As I remind my children on a regular basis when they claim “event X will never happen”... “never” is a very long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 It can't happen here -- but it has been happening here for decades, and now probably can't be reversed . . . . ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Putin's People -- and, why yes, DCchief is one of them. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/books/review-putins-people-kgb-catherine-belton.html Quote [....] “Putin’s People” ends with a chapter on Donald Trump, and what Belton calls the “network of Russian intelligence operatives, tycoons and organized-crime associates” that has encircled him since the early ’90s. The fact that Trump was frequently overwhelmed by debt provided an opportunity to those who had the cash he desperately needed. Belton documents how the network used high-end real estate deals to launder money while evading stricter banking regulations after 9/11. She’s agnostic on whether Trump was a witting accomplice who was aware of how he was being used. As one former executive from the Trump Organization put it, “Donald doesn’t do due diligence.” But Belton does. And while the president may not read much — neglecting even those intelligence briefings about Russian bounty payments to Taliban militants — there are presumably any number of people in the White House and his party who do. Still, to read this book is to wonder whether a cynicism has embedded itself so deeply into the Anglo-American political classes that even the incriminating information it documents won’t make an actionable difference. A person familiar with Russia’s billionaires told Belton that once corrosion sets in, it’s devilishly hard to reverse: “They always have three or four different stories, and then it all just gets lost in the noise.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimTuesday Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Man, fuck Eliot Engel. The idea that the only way a congressman should lose their seat is to the other party is the most out of touch shit ever. He's basically saying that the plebs need to know their place and to raise their hand against their betters. What a fucking prick. Ousted New York Democrat warns his colleagues: 'Very dangerous' to engage in intraparty primary fights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 nvm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martell Spy Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Someday Fox News will root out all the creeps and rapists, then they'll just be a regular news agency. We are not at that day. Quote Areu also accused Hannity and Carlson of professional retaliation for refusing misogynistic behavior. Hannity offered $100 for a member of staff to go on a date with her, which she described as a humiliating incident, and she was hardly ever invited back on his show after she refused to play along, the suit said. Areu said Carlson implicitly invited her back to his hotel room for sex in 2018 and refused to have her on his show after she turned down his advances. Areu also accused Kurtz and Fox News analyst Gianno Caldwell in her suit of conditioning professional developmental opportunities on sexual or romantic favors. Fox News and hosts sued in sexual harassment suit Ed Henry is accused of rape, and Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Howard Kurtz are alleged to have committed sexual harassment. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/20/fox-news-sexual-assault-lawsuit-373674 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalbear Posted July 21, 2020 Author Share Posted July 21, 2020 6 minutes ago, Martell Spy said: Someday Fox News will root out all the creeps and rapists, then they'll just be a regular news agency. We are not at that day. No, they'll be an empty building Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 I was watching a replay of Saturday Night Live that I had recorded the other day, and the opening scene was a debate between ‘Biden’ and ‘Palin’, moderated by the late, great and deeply missed Gwen Ifill. The writers managed to pen some stinging words to put in Palin’s mouth. Just to amuse you late on a Monday night, these are some of the things she says. She starts by repeatedly using the word maverick, and that the difference between her and typical Washington types was they didn’t understand shooting wolves from a helicopter. All I could think of was Don Trump Jr. On climate change: we don’t know much about this whatzit, or if’s just a natural part of the end of days. On marriage for gays: marriage is a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers. On “I’m not catering to the Florida vote”: from a very early age my 2 greatest loves were Jews and Cuban food. Biden was pretty tame in comparison. All he did was bracket comments about how insane and untrustworthy and crazy McCain was and don’t vote vote for him, with the words, ‘and he’s my best friend’. Ah, such an innocent age. eta: and Palin ends by saying, for all you guys playing drinking bingo, Maverick! Maverick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martell Spy Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Trump consults Bush torture lawyer on how to skirt law and rule by decree John Yoo wrote memo used to justify waterboarding Trump keen to use executive orders and circumvent Congress https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/20/trump-john-yoo-lawyer-torture-waterboarding John Yoo told the Guardian he has been talking to White House officials about his view that a recent supreme court ruling on immigration would allow Trump to issue executive orders on whether to apply existing federal laws. “If the court really believes what it just did, then it just handed President Trump a great deal of power, too,” Yoo, a professor at Berkeley Law, said. “The supreme court has said President Obama could [choose not to] enforce immigration laws for about 2 million cases. And why can’t the Trump administration do something similar with immigration – create its own … program, but it could do it in areas beyond that, like healthcare, tax policy, criminal justice, inner city policy. I talked to them a fair amount about cities, because of the disorder.” In a Fox News Sunday interview, Trump declared he would try to use that interpretation to try to force through decrees on healthcare, immigration and “various other plans” over the coming month. The White House consultations with Yoo were first reported by the Axios news website. Constitutional scholars and human rights activists have also pointed to the deployment of paramilitary federal forces against protesters in Portland as a sign that Trump is ready to use this broad interpretation of presidential powers as a means to suppress basic constitutional rights. “This is how it begins,” Laurence Tribe, a Harvard constitutional law professor, wrote on Twitter. “The dictatorial hunger for power is insatiable. If ever there was a time for peaceful civil disobedience, that time is upon us.” Yoo became notorious for a legal memo he drafted in August 2002, when he was deputy assistant attorney general in the justice department’s office of legal counsel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varysblackfyre321 Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 10 hours ago, GrimTuesday said: Seems it was some men's rights lawyer who apparently made some degree of headlines a while back regarding trying to end ladies nights because they were discrimination. https://www.thedailybeast.com/gunman-ambushes-nj-federal-judge-esther-salas-husband-mark-anderl-and-son-at-home Here is his personal website. which is totally a fun read and not a horrifying mass of misogyny. http://www.roydenhollander.com/main/index.htm I learned about MRAs through a female MRA arguing that 16 year old girl who was raped at a party on video ruined the lives of her rapists. The website seems to fall into the usual misogynistic crap they peddle. Curioue if this will help or hurt that awful movement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 12 hours ago, VigoTheCarpathian said: Are they only ok because it is not happening to them? Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 6 hours ago, Kalbear said: No, they'll be an empty building So true, they'll need to go beyond just weeding out rapists and creeps to reach "regular news agency". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IheartIheartTesla Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 A new Trafalgar Group poll out of GA puts Trump up +7. They continue to have Trump up in their polls due to their unique-ish methodology (which as we've discussed before may have worked well for 2016, but maybe not now). It was enough though to put Trump slightly ahead of Biden in GA. If you look at the TG poll for FL, it put Trump even with Biden, even though the poll average has him behind by at least 5 points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maithanet Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 13 minutes ago, IheartIheartTesla said: A new Trafalgar Group poll out of GA puts Trump up +7. They continue to have Trump up in their polls due to their unique-ish methodology (which as we've discussed before may have worked well for 2016, but maybe not now). It was enough though to put Trump slightly ahead of Biden in GA. If you look at the TG poll for FL, it put Trump even with Biden, even though the poll average has him behind by at least 5 points. I wonder if the information bubbles provides more incentive to have partisan pollsters. For example, if Trafalgar always seems to lean Republican by 5 points, I would assume that OANN would want to hire them and tout their polls. When they're mostly right (like 2016), trumpet it to high heaven, and when they're mostly wrong (like Trafalgar was in 2018), just ignore it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anya, Vengeance Demon Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 7 hours ago, DireWolfSpirit said: So true, they'll need to go beyond just weeding out rapists and creeps to reach "regular news agency". Sadly, the rapists and creeps are something they have in common with NBC, CBS, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin of Ice Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 7 hours ago, DireWolfSpirit said: So true, they'll need to go beyond just weeding out rapists and creeps to reach "regular news agency". Problems with Fox start with the Murdoch family. All the crazed hosts, toxic viewpoints and culture, deranged conspiracy theory crap, racism, tolerance for rapists, misogyny, political bias, etc., all extend from them. Focusing on the tv faces, or even on most writers and back room figures, is the equivalent of only focusing on the tentacles of an octopus instead of the body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 AOC called ‘f---ing b--ch’ by Rep. Ted Yoho after spat on Capitol steps You stay classy GOP! Sadly, Yoho represents my parents district. I guess it's good he's not running for reelection....so someone even worse will get elected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywin Manderly Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8531293/Ghislaine-Maxwell-paid-25K-Jacob-Wohl-smear-victims-AG-fired.html It seems that Ghislaine Maxwell paid several lobbyist goons to smear Epstein victims and get prosecutor Geoffrey Berman fired in attempt to the stall sex trafficking investigation against her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimTuesday Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 7 minutes ago, Tywin Manderly said: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8531293/Ghislaine-Maxwell-paid-25K-Jacob-Wohl-smear-victims-AG-fired.html It seems that Ghislaine Maxwell paid several lobbyist goons to smear Epstein victims and get prosecutor Geoffrey Berman fired in attempt to the stall sex trafficking investigation against her. Nah, this 100% didn't happen. I can basically guarantee this is Jacob Wohl making shit up in yet another insane scheme to raise his profile. Remember this is the same guy who paid some marine to say Warren is some kind of dominatrix and fabricated sexual harassment claims against Robert Mueller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywin Manderly Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 11 minutes ago, GrimTuesday said: Nah, this 100% didn't happen. I can basically guarantee this is Jacob Wohl making shit up in yet another insane scheme to raise his profile. Remember this is the same guy who paid some marine to say Warren is some kind of dominatrix and fabricated sexual harassment claims against Robert Mueller. The smarter move for Ghislaine Maxwell it would be to lobby Trump to pardon her after the November election. It might work because there is little love lost between Trump and the SDNY and he would love it to screw them over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A wilding Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 1 hour ago, Tywin Manderly said: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8531293/Ghislaine-Maxwell-paid-25K-Jacob-Wohl-smear-victims-AG-fired.html It seems that Ghislaine Maxwell paid several lobbyist goons to smear Epstein victims and get prosecutor Geoffrey Berman fired in attempt to the stall sex trafficking investigation against her. The Daily Mail is officially not a reliable news source. Citation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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