Wow!!

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4...ynn-attack-fbi

Flynn is FUCKING GUILTY, no matter what discussions some people were having regarding interview tactics. But now Team Trump is going to twist this into something completely different.

ANAL TRUMP for presidents.


Sorry, couldn't help myself.

I don’t have time to do anything with this right now, just wanted to make sure it didn’t disappear : )





That was quite enjoyable!!

I bet I know how this proceeds now: The judge (Obama appointee, surely!) will (rightly) deem that Flynn is still guilty, and that these notes have no effect whatsoever. Cue the outrage in Trumpyworld. Flynn gets pardoned very quickly (fuck you Obama!) and plays a major role in Today's GOP. While the dust still settles, Stone gets pardoned.

Amirite?

$10, anyone?

Yup, I guess we're fucked there. The kind of state where you don't even campaign. From Wikipedia:


Crushed her. And in 2012, Romney won by 18.02%; 2008, McCain by 8.41%.

Of course, if the United States ACTUALLY HAD A REAL DEMOCRATIC ELECTORAL PROCESS (newsflash: you guys DON'T), those votes for the losing candidate would have counted for something in the big picture. Nice system, people.

South Dakota is redeemed by the Black hills but otherwise is a totally backwards shithole where I've had to spend way too much of my precious time that I'll never get back out of my life.

Correct.




Dead wrong.



Now do something very simple: shut the fuck up until you post something about music. Let's see what happens.

I appreciate the low cost of living and no state taxes.


That said I've also been single for 18 years and that doesn't seem to be changing anytime soon.

“What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute [Flynn] or get him fired?”

FBI Notes confirm it was all a pretext.




The operation that targeted Flynn: CROSSFIRE RAZOR

1/4/17: FBI field office found “No derogatory information” on Flynn and decided to close RAZOR.

1/4/17: FBI leadership (STRZOK) went off the rails and targeted Flynn: “Don’t close RAZOR”






On January 4, 2017, Donald Trump was a citizen, Barack Obama was President!

Eh, who wants a relationship. Buncha bullcrap compromises that end up amounting to a huge resentment towards a person you didn't have much in common with anyway. I don't even wanna share the remote.

Let's just remember that Trump never won because he was any good. He won because Hillary was very bad.

I'm afraid the same thing is going to happen all over again.

South Dakota does have a lot of redeeming qualities but they're mostly related to the natural landscape. Which is pretty awesome I'll admit. Culturally not so much..

This is how you respond after a mass shooting:

Canada announces immediate ban on 'military-grade' assault weapons

More:
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAq...S&ceid=US%3Aen

I think you are oversimplifying things. He won for a lot of reasons, of which Clinton (who won the popular vote by nearly 3 million) was one of them.

This.

lmao you guys took the black pill or something? :D

Listen fuckface, you were not supposed to post anything until you posted something about music. WHERE IS YOUR POST ABOUT MUSIC. 'Cause otherwise you're just trolling here, you follow?

I seem to be missing some Skunk fun. (No I'm not.)

This one made me rotflmfao:

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...e-at-inaugural

I'm 100% certain that this vow is a lie.

From The Chicago Tribune:

After rural church files federal lawsuit, 'free exercise of religion' is a permitted essential activity under Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s modified stay-at-home order

In other words, you're allowed to go out and die if what you want is get together with your imaginary friends, which for some reason you can't do at home.

Your country is doomed as fuck. Don't any of you ever think of moving to the Great White North and leave all this horseshit behind?

I'd be more live and let live with the church if they actually paid their fair amount of taxes first.

Oh don't even get me started on Religion and what harm it has done for mankind and why does it always get a free pass and The God Delusion and maybe it should be another thread.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the President Of The United States Of America:

“‘Concast’ should open up a long overdue Florida Cold Case against Psycho Joe Scarborough. I know him and Crazy Mika well, used them beautifully in the last Election, dumped them nicely, and will state on the record that he is ‘nuts’. Besides, bad ratings! #OPENJOECOLDCASE,”

Wow. That's "tweet later deleted"/"I was on Ambien"-level.

Not only is it surreal that POTUS actually takes time/energy to make tweets like that, but he is also touching on a conspiracy theory regarding someone who died in Scarborough's office when he was in politics.

The POTUS!!

No matter how far we go into the Trump era, I still find myself shocked by it all. You cannot dream this shit.

Yeah, but look at the Michiganderthals pointing rifles at the state's Capitol, inside of which people are trying to save the lamebrained's own pathetic lives. They've always been there. It's just that the line from Jim Crow to Newt to Bannon to Fox to Palin culminated in their birther Moron Messiah Drumpf, and the unseemliness of it all became "acceptable". I still keep a post-it on the fridge's door with "This Is Not Normal" written on it, but unfortunately it's hard to remain truly shocked anymore - worse still, the election of a Democrat as president could certainly improve things but won't be nearly enough to reboot the country.

stephen king did

I've often thought that Palin was a big turning point that is often overlooked. Holy fuck...if she was a VP pick, then anything is possible!! I will never understand this glaring lapse of reasoning by McCain, and his book does very little to help me in this regard.

Trump and his minions have done enormous damage to America. 10 Dem POTUSes in a row will not be able to fix this.

America: The Farewell Tour!!

Yow, that Mourning In America video is something!

Did you watch Game Change? Republicans have (of course) dismissed it as a liberal fantasy, but it's actually based on a very thorough journalistic investigation. SPOILER ALERT - from Wikipedia:

I'll take that bet!!!


Flynn bombshells cast doubt on Mueller prosecutor Brandon Van Grack's compliance with court order


What Van Grack didn’t inform the court about – and didn’t provide to Flynn – was the newly unsealed January 4, 2017 "Closing Communication" from the FBI Washington Field Office, which recommended the FBI close its investigation of Flynn, as its exhaustive search through government databases ”did not yield any information on which to predicate further investigative efforts."

Van Grack also failed to provide evidence to Flynn’s attorneys that anti-Trump former FBI agent Peter Strzok then immediately intervened and instructed the FBI case manager handling the Flynn investigation to keep the probe open, followed by indicators that the bureau would seek to investigate Flynn for possible violations of an obscure 18th century law known as the Logan Act -- which has never been utilized in a modern prosecution.

Another Strzok text mentions that the FBI’s "7th floor" – meaning FBI leadership – may have been involved in the decision to keep the Flynn case alive.


Brady Material = failure to disclose exculpatory material is a serious offense and warrants voiding the verdict against the defendant. It also suggest serious charges should be brought against the offending parties for their failure to comply with the Brady Rule.

The Supreme Court in Brady vs. Maryland and in Giglio vs. the United States made it the duty of ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES INCLUDING PROSECUTORS to provide any and all exculpatory material that would have a reasonable probability of altering the results in a trial or affecting the sentencing of the defendant. More importantly the prosecution MUST disclose this information to the defendant in a timely manner (this is my favorite part) and this obligation is enforceable whether the defense request the information or not!!!

In the Flynn case, this obligation has a greater weight because Brandon Van Grack, a Justice Department prosecutor, A former special prosecutor of Robert Mueller’s team was under a COURT ORDER to produce such evidence and COMPLETELY FAILD TO DO SO!!!



WOW - easiest $10 I’ve ever WON - Amirite???

Oh fuck!! My heart jumps into my throat when I see this:

https://thehill.com/regulation/court...with-infection

We all fucking know what Trump/McConnell will do if the worst happens.

I love Obama, but I can never forgive him for caving to McConnell, when the latter had absolutely no legal, historical or constitutional right to block a SCOTUS hearing. And we are all paying for that massive mistake today. And it could get a lot worse if Ruth doesn't make it to the finish line.

Fascinating. Thanks. No I never saw this.

Please provide source information for that claim.

Proof that you're wrong:
No, the Democratic Party didn’t create the Ku Klux Klan
and
Ku Klux Klan not founded by the Democratic Party

I might update this post if I find other/better sources

You actually trying to use an excuse of "well democrats used to be a racist party, so it's not that bad now that the republicans are"?

Like those people who use the line that because Lincoln was a republican that absolves them of any wrong doing since then.

Geez......none of you free minded freethinkers have anything to say?

Perhaps you already know??


Acting DNI Director Informs Schiff ‘Russiagate’ Transcripts Ready for Release, Urges Him to ‘Honor’ Transparency Vow

“I urge you to honor your previous public statements, and your committee’s unanimous vote on this matter, to release all 53 cleared transcripts to Members of Congress and the American public as soon as possible.”

All 53 interviews (6000 pages) have been cleared

......how long will it take?
(this is the best part)

Richard Grenell wrote, while adding that he was “willing” to release the transcripts directly from ODNI “as to ensure we comply with the unanimous and bipartisan vote to release the transcripts.”


......the big names are coming!!!

George Conway: Trump went ballistic at me on Twitter. Here’s why he reacts with such rage.

May 6, 2020 at 4:16 p.m. MDT

Americans died from covid-19 at the rate of about one every 42 seconds during the past month. That ought to keep any president awake at night.

Not Donald Trump.

Just days ago, the president flipped out at a detailed New York Times article that described how he watches television at all hours, obsessed about how he’s covered in the news. As though to prove the story’s thesis, Trump rage-tweeted that it was a “phony story” and that the media would say “Anything to demean!”
And then, as though to prove the point again, at 12:46 a.m. on Tuesday, Trump went ballistic on Twitter — at me.

In a four-tweet screed, he attacked me and my colleagues at the Lincoln Project as “LOSERS,” “loser types,” “crazed” and “a disgrace to Honest Abe.” About me, he said, “I don’t know what Kellyanne did to her deranged loser of a husband, Moonface, but it must have been really bad.” Ten hours later, on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, Trump was still enraged, ranting about us for nearly two minutes in front of the media.

What triggered his ire was a 60-second online ad we released Monday. Entitled “Mourning in America,” it’s an inversion of President Ronald Reagan’s famous 1984 reelection campaign ad, “Morning in America.” Reagan’s ad took credit for the resurgence of the American economy. Our ad puts the blame for the government’s failures in responding to covid-19 right where it belongs — on Trump. He dithered for 10 weeks, from January to mid-March, misleading the public about the severity of the crisis, pretending that the virus would never take hold here. History will record that each day of delay cost American lives.

It may strike you as deranged that a sitting president facing a pandemic has busied himself attacking journalists, political opponents, television news hosts and late-night comedians — even deriding a former president who merely called for empathy and unity in response to the virus. It may strike you as nuts that Trump bragged about his supposed Facebook ranking in the middle of a virus task-force briefing, asserted that millions would have died were it not for him, boasted that “the ‘Ratings’ of my News Conferences etc.” were driving “the Lamestream Media . . . CRAZY,” and floated bogus miracle cures, including suggesting that scientists consider injecting humans with household disinfectants such as Clorox.

If so, you’re not alone. Tens of thousands of mental-health professionals, testing the bounds of professional ethics, have warned for years about Trump’s unfitness for office. Some people listened; many, including myself, did not, until it was too late.

Now, it’s more obvious than ever. Trump’s narcissism deadens any ability he might otherwise have had to carry out the duties of a president in the manner the Constitution requires. He’s so self-obsessed, he can only act for himself, not for the nation. It’s why he was impeached, and why he should have been removed from office.

And it’s why he reacts with such rage. He fears the truth. He fears being revealed for what he truly is. Extreme narcissists exaggerate their achievements and talents, and so Trump has spent his life building up a false image of himself — not just for others, but for himself, to protect his deeply fragile ego. He lies endlessly, not just in the way sociopaths do, which is to con others, but also to delude himself. He claims to be a “genius,” even though he apparently can’t spell, can’t punctuate, can’t do math and lacks geographic literacy, and even though his own appointees have privately called him a “moron,” an “idiot,” a “dope,” and “dumb.” Now, God help us, he fancies himself an expert in virology and infectious diseases.

But the jig is up. When Trump lied and claimed credit for “the greatest economy in the history of our country,” even though it wasn’t, and even though he inherited a strong economy, and goosed it up with trillions of dollars in debt, it didn’t matter to most people. The economy was good — so what? The debt? That won’t come due for decades.

When he tried to obstruct the Mueller investigation, that didn’t move them either. The rule of law and the violation of a presidential oath are abstractions; the Dow Jones industrial average and the unemployment rate aren’t. And when he used his presidential power to try to extort a foreign ally into smearing a political opponent, not enough cared then, either.

Now it all matters, painfully and concretely. Trump’s lying, his self-regard, his self-soothing, his lack of empathy, his narcissistic rage, his contempt for norms, rules, laws, facts and simple truths — have all come home to roost. Now he sees his poll numbers fall accordingly, and lashes out with ever-increasing anger. For deep in his psyche he knows the truth. Because he fears being revealed as a fake or deranged, he’ll call others fake or deranged. Because he fears losing, he’ll call them losers instead.

And while Trump’s mind roils in rage, too many Americans are losing their lives. That’s the losing that matters, to everyone but him.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...e-knows-truth/

I like George Conway. I like him a lot.

But the Bytemes and Skunks of the world will just laugh at all of that.

And Kellyanne will call it "alternative facts".

How can you not watch everything with Julianne Moore in it. 59 and still hotter than a urinary infection.

Was there anything Obama could do about it? "Sue him"? Or was it up to Congress to impeach its most powerful member (fuck Paul Ryan), something completely unthinkable with both houses controlled by the GOP then?

I know McConnell failed to comply with his oath, but still, the Senate majority leader holds an incredible amount of power. I assume that's in the Constitution (correct me if I'm wrong), in which case that alone makes the revered document a joke - and I didn't even have to bring up the Second Amendment.