Julian Lage Trio performs “Love Hurts” from the album Love Hurts, out now on Mack Avenue Records.
Stream/buy Love Hurts here: http://smarturl.it/julianlage.lovehurts
Julian Lage: guitar
Dave King: drums
Jorge Roeder: bassDirector/DP/Editor: Alex Chaloff
Jib Operator: Brock Slagle
AC: Loki Michael
Gaffer: Kyle Copeland
PA: Joshua SainzWritten by Boudleaux Bryant
http://www.julianlage.com/
#LoveHurts #JulianLage
I remain convinced that was plan B—to lock any liberal ideals behind a constitutional-amendment wall, thus inciting ‘average leftists’ to want a violent revolustion that entirely throws out the Constitution—if they couldn’t get ‘full beyond-Nordic socialism’ by electoral means.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) February 27, 2019
Trump: America will never be socialist. Socialism sucks!
Also Trump: The Socialist economy in Vietnam is AWSOME!— aceoaces (@aceoaces) February 27, 2019
To be fair, he might not be aware what party controls Vietnam.
To Charles’ OP, a Nazareth song never sounded so smooth.
re: #2 Ace-o-aces
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To be fair, he might not be aware what party controls Vietnam.
He assumes A) NK would denuclearize and B) would open markets. He’s enamored by Kim because he wishes he had that power and being worshipped like a God.
Getting #Wohlbanned from Twitter because he bragged about socking in a national-media article was more than worth the 1-day signal boost. Can I get an apology out of everyone who was decrying @USATODAY’s actions last night?
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) February 27, 2019
One bad thing about Jacob Wohl getting band, is it’ll probably be the the end of @wohlfan, which was either the greatest parody account ever, or the saddest fan account ever.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) February 27, 2019
re: #4 HappyWarrior
He assumes A) NK would denuclearize and B) would open markets. He’s enamored by Kim because he wishes he had that power and being worshipped like a God.
I don’t think that Trump thinks any farther than wishing he had Kim’s power to rule as a god over his people, lording over their lives and deaths, while living the decadent life he denies his subjects.
Has anyone mentioned that Michael Cohen has officially been disbarred in NY state?
re: #9 makeitstop
Has anyone mentioned that Michael Cohen has officially been disbarred in NY state?
Saw it on FB. Good
Trump’s Interior Dept has given offshore oil drillers nearly 1,700 exemptions to safety rules put in place after BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster, effectively gutting parts of the regulation before the Trump administration officially rolls them back https://t.co/mp4i4v3Lnf
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) February 26, 2019
What could possibly go wrong?
re: #11 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
Robert Maguire
✔
@RobertMaguire_
Trump’s Interior Dept has given offshore oil drillers nearly 1,700 exemptions to safety rules put in place after BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster, effectively gutting parts of the regulation before the Trump administration officially rolls them back politico.com …What could possibly go wrong?
As I’ve said before, Deepwater Horizon was the one disaster that actually kept me up night after night, until the leak was closed. As long as the GOP is in power — no matter who — the environment is at extreme risk.
re: #3 TedStriker
To Charles’ OP, a Nazareth song never sounded so smooth.
I misread it at first and thought that they were doing “Love Stinks” O_o
It looks like Max Gaetz deleted his tweet.
This is revolting. Cohen may be a sleaze but this is getting down on his level, or below it. https://t.co/uhnHAJCxkH
— Brit Hume (@brithume) February 27, 2019
‘Too much for Britt’ was the line?
re: #14 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
It looks like Max Gaetz deleted his tweet.
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‘Too much for Britt’ was the line?
His lawyer probably told him to 86 it.
Cohen opening statement
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Just came across this again and man it should really go in a museum pic.twitter.com/IZ5QzXZZI9
— Evan Hill (@evanchill) February 27, 2019
re: #14 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
Nah, it was Nancy Smash reminding him the fucking grownups are in charge again:
Speaker, I want to get the truth too. While it is important 2 create context around the testimony of liars like Michael Cohen, it was NOT my intent to threaten, as some believe I did. I’m deleting the tweet & I should have chosen words that better showed my intent. I’m sorry. https://t.co/Rdbw3sTQJD
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) February 27, 2019
Also, Cohen’s intro is fucking lit.
I am ashamed of my weakness and misplaced loyalty - of the things I did for Mr. Trump in an effort to protect and promote him.
I am ashamed that I chose to take part in concealing Mr. Trump’s illicit acts rather than listening to my own conscience.
I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is.
He is a racist.
He is a conman.
He is a cheat.
He was a presidential candidate who knew that Roger Stone was talking with Julian Assange about a WikiLeaks drop of Democratic National Committee emails.
I will explain each in a few moments.
I am providing the Committee today with several documents. These
include:
•
A copy of a check Mr. Trump wrote from his personal bank
account - after he became president - to reimburse me for the
hush money payments I made to cover up his affair with an adult
film star and prevent damage to his campaign;
•
Copies of financial statements for 2011 - 2013 that he gave to
such institutions as Deutsche Bank;
•
A copy of an article with Mr. Trump’s handwriting on it that
reported on the auction of a portrait of himself - he arranged for
the bidder ahead of time and then reimbursed the bidder from the
account of his non-profit charitable foundation, with the picture
now hanging in one of his country clubs; and
•
Copies of letters I wrote at Mr. Trump’s direction that threatened
his high school, colleges, and the College Board not to release his
grades or SAT scores.
…
The last time I appeared before Congress, I came to protect Mr. Trump. Today, I’m here to tell the truth about Mr. Trump.
I lied to Congress about when Mr. Trump stopped negotiating the Moscow Tower project in Russia. I stated that we stopped negotiating in January 2016. That was false - our negotiations continued for months later during the campaign.
Mr. Trump did not directly tell me to lie to Congress. That’s not how he
operates.
In conversations we had during the campaign, at the same time I was
actively negotiating in Russia for him, he would look me in the eye and tell me there’s no business in Russia and then go out and lie to the American people by saying the same thing. In his way, he was telling me to lie.
There were at least a half-dozen times between the Iowa Caucus in
January 2016 and the end of June when he would ask me “How’s it going in Russia?” - referring to the Moscow Tower project.
You need to know that Mr. Trump’s personal lawyers reviewed and edited my statement to Congress about the timing of the Moscow Tower negotiations before I gave it.
To be clear: Mr. Trump knew of and directed the Trump Moscow
negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it. He lied about it because he never expected to win the election. He also lied about it
because he stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars on the Moscow real estate project.
And so I lied about it, too - because Mr. Trump had made clear to me,
through his personal statements to me that we both knew were false and through his lies to the country, that he wanted me to lie. And he made itclear to me because his personal attorneys reviewed my statement before I gave it to Congress.
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re: #19 KGxvi
Nah, it was Nancy Smash reminding him the fucking grownups are in charge again:
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Also, Cohen’s intro is fucking lit.
Well, he already got away with 7 DUI’s. I wouldn’t be surprised if that worthless turd was drinking his way to #8 tonight.
And this time, Daddy won’t be able to get him off the hook!
Hot Damn!
I just finished reading Cohen’s Opening Statement!
This WOULD happen on a day that I can’t call in sick!
I’ve been busy all day with teaching and stuff, so I have a lot of catch up on this evening. Cohen really isn’t pulling any punches, is he? Probably a good thing Trump is in the socialist paradise of Vietnam.
Turns out Kim’s train did not pass through my city. They took a different route than was published originally, probably for security reasons.
Donald Trump is a man who ran for office to make his brand great, not to make our country great. He had no desire or intention to lead this nation - only to market himself and to build his wealth and power. Mr. Trump would often say, this campaign was going to be the “greatest infomercial in political history.” He never expected to win the primary. He never expected to win the general election. The campaign - for him - was always a marketing opportunity.
I knew early on in my work for Mr. Trump that he would direct me to lie to further his business interests. I am ashamed to say, that when it was for a real estate mogul in the private sector, I considered it trivial. As the President, I consider it significant and dangerous.
But in the mix, lying for Mr. Trump was normalized, and no one around him questioned it. In fairness, no one around him today questions it, either.
A lot of people have asked me about whether Mr. Trump knew about the release of the hacked Democratic National Committee emails ahead of time. The answer is yes.
As I earlier stated, Mr. Trump knew from Roger Stone in advance about the WikiLeaks drop of emails. In July 2016, days before the Democratic convention, I was in Mr. Trump’s office when his secretary announced that Roger Stone was on the phone. Mr. Trump put Mr. Stone on the speakerphone. Mr. Stone told Mr. Trump that he had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange and that Mr. Assange told Mr. Stone that, within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of emails that would damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Mr. Trump responded by stating to the effect of “wouldn’t that be great.”
Mr. Trump is a racist. The country has seen Mr. Trump court white
supremacists and bigots. You have heard him call poorer countries
“shitholes.” In private, he is even worse. He once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn’t a “shithole.” This was when Barack Obama was President of the United States.
While we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in Chicago, he commented that only black people could live that way.
And, he told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid. And yet I continued to work for him.
(cont.)
re: #20 gocart mozart
Copies of financial statements for 2011 - 2013 that he gave to
such institutions as Deutsche Bank;
Aka, bank fraud. Probably with concurrent New York State jurisdiction and just within the 6 year statute of limitations. Unpardonable sealed indictments could then be filed in time, tolling the statute of limitations so that Trump could be prosecuted the instant he leaves office.
Mr. Trump is a conman.
He asked me to pay off an adult film star with whom he had an affair, and to lie to his wife about it, which I did. Lying to the First Lady is one of my biggest regrets. She is a kind, good person. I respect her greatly - and she did not deserve that.
I am giving the Committee today a copy of the $130,000 wire transfer from me to Ms. Clifford’s attorney during the closing days of the presidential campaign that was demanded by Ms. Clifford to maintain her silence about her affair with Mr. Trump. This is Exhibit 4 to my testimony. Mr. Trump directed me to use my own personal funds from a Home Equity Line of Credit to avoid any money being traced back to him that could negatively impact his campaign. I did that, too - without bothering to consider whether that was improper, much less whether it was the right thing to do or how it would impact me, my family, or the public. I am going to jail in part because of my decision to help Mr. Trump hide that payment from the American people before they voted a few days later.
As Exhibit 5 to my testimony shows, I am providing a copy of a $35,000 check that President Trump personally signed from his personal bank account on August 1, 2017 – when he was President of the United States –pursuant to the cover-up, which was the basis of my guilty plea, to reimburse me – the word used by Mr. Trump’s TV lawyer — for the illegal hush money I paid on his behalf. This $35,000 check was one of 11 check installments that was paid throughout the year – while he was President. The President of the United States thus wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws. You can find the details of that scheme, directed by Mr. Trump, in the pleadings in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
So picture this scene – in February 2017, one month into his presidency, I’m visiting President Trump in the Oval Office for the first time. It’s truly
awe-inspiring, he’s showing me around and pointing to different paintings, and he says to me something to the effect of…Don’t worry, Michael, your January and February reimbursement checks are coming. They were FedExed from New York and it takes a while for that to get through the White House system. As he promised, I received the first check for the reimbursement of $70,000 not long thereafter.
He once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn’t a “shithole.” This was when Barack Obama was President of the United States.
but he loves America so…
When I say conman, I’m talking about a man who declares himself brilliant but directed me to threaten his high school, his colleges, and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores.
As I mentioned, I’m giving the Committee today copies of a letter I sent at Mr. Trump’s direction threatening these schools with civil and criminal actions if Mr. Trump’s grades or SAT scores were ever disclosed without his permission. These are Exhibit 6.
The irony wasn’t lost on me at the time that Mr. Trump in 2011 had strongly criticized President Obama for not releasing his grades. As you can see in Exhibit 7, Mr. Trump declared “Let him show his records” after calling President Obama “a terrible student.”
The sad fact is that I never heard Mr. Trump say anything in private that led me to believe he loved our nation or wanted to make it better. In fact, he did the opposite. When telling me in 2008 that he was cutting employees’ salaries in half - including mine - he showed me what he claimed was a $10 million IRS tax refund, and he said that he could not believe how stupid the government was for giving “someone like him” that much money back.
During the campaign, Mr. Trump said he did not consider Vietnam Veteran, and Prisoner of War, Senator John McCain to be “a hero” because he likes people who weren’t captured. At the same time, Mr. Trump tasked me to handle the negative press surrounding his medical deferment from the Vietnam draft. Mr. Trump claimed it was because of a bone spur, but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery. He told me not to answer the specific questions by reporters but rather offer simply the fact that he received a medical deferment. He finished the conversation with the following comment. “You think I’m stupid, I wasn’t going to Vietnam.”
I find it ironic, President Trump, that you are in Vietnam right now.
And yet, I continued to work for him.
***
Questions have been raised about whether I know of direct evidence that Mr. Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia. I do not. I want to be clear. But, I have my suspicions.
Questions have been raised about whether I know of direct evidence that Mr. Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia. I do not. I want to be clear. But, I have my suspicions.
Sometime in the summer of 2017, I read all over the media that there had been a meeting in Trump Tower in June 2016 involving Don Jr. and others from the campaign with Russians, including a representative of the Russian government, and an email setting up the meeting with the subject line, “Dirt on Hillary Clinton.” Something clicked in my mind. I remember being in the room with Mr. Trump, probably in early June 2016, when something peculiar happened. Don Jr. came into the room and walked behind his father’s desk - which in itself was unusual. People didn’t just walk behind Mr. Trump’s desk to talk to him. I recalled Don Jr. leaning over to his father and speaking in a low voice, which I could clearly hear, and saying: “The meeting is all set.” I remember Mr. Trump saying, “Ok good…let me know.”
What struck me as I looked back and thought about that exchange between Don Jr. and his father was, first, that Mr. Trump had frequently told me and others that his son Don Jr. had the worst judgment of anyone in the world. And also, that Don Jr. would never set up any meeting of any significance alone - and certainly not without checking with his father. I also knew that nothing went on in Trump world, especially the campaign, without Mr. Trump’s knowledge and approval. So, I concluded that Don Jr. was referring to that June 2016 Trump Tower meeting about dirt on Hillary with the Russian representative when he walked behind his dad’s desk that day — and that Mr. Trump knew that was the meeting Don Jr. was talking about when he said, “That’s good…let me know.”
Thank you for your attention. I am happy to answer the Committee’s
questions.
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I recalled Don Jr. leaning over to his father and speaking in a low voice, which I could clearly hear, and saying: “The meeting is all set.” I remember Mr. Trump saying, “Ok good…let me know.”
What struck me as I looked back and thought about that exchange between Don Jr. and his father was, first, that Mr. Trump had frequently told me and others that his son Don Jr. had the worst judgment of anyone in the world.
Jesus, they are really bad at this.
More amusement…
*coughs* pic.twitter.com/sjq6gDBUie
— Marc Channick (@Sorry_What_Now) February 27, 2019
— The Monkey’s Paw (@TheEdMix) February 27, 2019
re: #20 gocart mozart
Jesus. Tomorrow’s going to be one one long, rolling cluster.
There is almost nothing in Mr. Cohen’s opening statement that I didn’t already know or already surmise. Or that most Americans attending to events would not already know or surmise. Yet as a whole it is damning of a failed human. And taken all together, therein lies our problem.
— David Simon (@AoDespair) February 27, 2019
Yeah I had no idea.
Unfortunately nothing in his statement provides any new information concerning collusion, but only confirms what we already know about Trump. It is a damning indictment of the American public that over 60 million allowed themselves to be seduced by this conman; he repeatedly revealed his essence during the campaign — he did not deceive anyone about his character and yet ordinary Americans didn’t care — they voted for this evil man anyway.
re: #32 gwangung
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Chuck Woolery is descended from tree bark and stray locusts.
(Now let him figure that out)
re: #37 Hecuba’s daughter
Unfortunately nothing in his statement provides any new information concerning collusion …
It deliberately avoids any direct mention of Russia, as that comes under the purview of the Intelligence Committee. Also as part of ongoing investigations by Mueller’s team would have to be discussed behind closed doors.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) February 27, 2019
re: #3 TedStriker
To Charles’ OP, a Nazareth song never sounded so smooth.
This is my favorite version;
Um …
In response to PAF strikes this morning as released by MoFA, IAF crossed LOC. PAF shot down two Indian aircrafts inside Pakistani airspace. One of the aircraft fell inside AJ&K while other fell inside IOK. One Indian pilot arrested by troops on ground while two in the area.
— Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) February 27, 2019
re: #36 goddamnedfrank
Also, I legit didn’t know that coriander and cilantro were the same thing until very recently.
Too recently.
Embarrassingly recently.
At least to me, “coriander” is what a call the seeds, which have a completely different taste than the leaves, which I call “cilantro”.
A Stool Sample and a Stool Pigeon
— The Monkey’s Paw (@TheEdMix) February 27, 2019
re: #36 goddamnedfrank
Yeah I had no idea.
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I thought it was cumin and coriander… shows what I know about spices.
re: #311 jaunte
See also Colonia Tovar:
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Colonia Tovar -
Coming late to the party.
I visited it in 1970, almost 50 years ago.
As I remember, it was a small isolated village in the ‘Llanos’, the rural hills of Venezuela. A number of the buildings were of the Tudor/Bavarian-style/Half-timber/Timber and Wattle style houses. There were a few towheaded children running around. Otherwise it was pretty much what would be expected of a small, isolated rural Venezuelan village. At the time, everybody I heard there spoke Venezuelan Spanish.
Sounds like it morphed into a bit of a tourist trap more recently. I guess sort of like the Venezuelan equivalent of Leavenworth, Washington.
German influence in Latin America is quite interesting and often dates back to the German wave of emigration in the middle of the 19th Century. Much of Mexican Norteño music (polkas, waltzes and ‘Oompa’ bands) originated from German immigrants in the 1850s.
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In Brazil, the large number of German immigrants resulted in a German dialect called Riograndenser Hunsrückisch.
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In the US, Germans were often free-soilers. When Texas seceded, Confederate authorities viewed the German settlers as an internal security threat. A number of Germans were arrested and several were hung. Some of the German settlers then fled, or attempted to flee to Mexico. The Confederate Army chased and caught one group in what is remembered as the Nueces massacre.
re: #48 ckkatz
German influence in Latin America is quite interesting and often dates back to the German wave of emigration in the middle of the 19th Century. Much of Mexican Norteño music (polkas, waltzes and ‘Oompa’ bands) originated from German immigrants in the 1850s.
Not to mention Mexican beer.
re: #43 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I had no idea & my mind is BLOWN! pic.twitter.com/Ho0dUoBmDh
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) February 27, 2019
Visuals from the crash site of IAF jet in Jammu & Kashmir’s Budgam
Picture credits: ANI pic.twitter.com/Qj9MrrV1vH— Times of India (@timesofindia) February 27, 2019
re: #42 goddamnedfrank
Reading some of the analysis of a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan are quite unsettling. 10s of millions of deaths on the subcontinent from the nuclear explosions. Then millions of tons of debris going into the atmosphere causing the equivalent of another 1816 ‘Year Without a Summer’ with millions more starving to death in the ensuing world-wide crop failures. And possibly with the effects lasting several years.
re: #49 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Not to mention Mexican beer.
Very True! :)
And Venezuelan beer as well.
re: #52 ckkatz
Reading some of the analysis of a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan are quite unsettling. 10s of millions of deaths on the subcontinent from the nuclear explosions. Then millions of tons of debris going into the atmosphere causing the equivalent of another 1816 ‘Year Without a Summer’ with millions more starving to death in the ensuing world-wide crop failures. And possibly with the effects lasting several years.
This is why Nationalism in its current sense is dead. Wars have consequences that go beyond the boundaries of belligerent states.
re: #52 ckkatz
Reading some of the analysis of a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan are quite unsettling. 10s of millions of deaths on the subcontinent from the nuclear explosions. Then millions of tons of debris going into the atmosphere causing the equivalent of another 1816 ‘Year Without a Summer’ with millions more starving to death in the ensuing world-wide crop failures. And possibly with the effects lasting several years.
Yep, here’s one that was published in PNAS in 2008 that focuses on damage to the ozone layer:
We use a chemistry-climate model and new estimates of smoke produced by fires in contemporary cities to calculate the impact on stratospheric ozone of a regional nuclear war between developing nuclear states involving 100 Hiroshima-size bombs exploded in cities in the northern subtropics. We find column ozone losses in excess of 20% globally, 25-45% at midlatitudes, and 50-70% at northern high latitudes persisting for 5 years, with substantial losses continuing for 5 additional years. Column ozone amounts remain near or <220 Dobson units at all latitudes even after three years, constituting an extratropical “ozone hole.” The resulting increases in UV radiation could impact the biota significantly, including serious consequences for human health. The primary cause for the dramatic and persistent ozone depletion is heating of the stratosphere by smoke, which strongly absorbs solar radiation. The smoke-laden air rises to the upper stratosphere, where removal mechanisms are slow, so that much of the stratosphere is ultimately heated by the localized smoke injections. Higher stratospheric temperatures accelerate catalytic reaction cycles, particularly those of odd-nitrogen, which destroy ozone. In addition, the strong convection created by rising smoke plumes alters the stratospheric circulation, redistributing ozone and the sources of ozone-depleting gases, including N2O and chlorofluorocarbons. The ozone losses predicted here are significantly greater than previous “nuclear winter/UV spring” calculations, which did not adequately represent stratospheric plume rise. Our results point to previously unrecognized mechanisms for stratospheric ozone depletion.
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Even a limited nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India would be disastrous.
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is why Nationalism in its current sense is dead. Wars have consequences that go beyond the boundaries of belligerent states.
That’s a very interesting question. A number of western military thinkers have been mulling that issue.
One point of discussion is that with nuclear weapons, the requirements for a very rigid military have decreased. This gives policy makers more options., militarily and socially. And this may also be why a number of less developed regions have been successful in winning wars against modern armies.
Martin van Creveld, a Dutch born Israeli professor, has written several books on this issue. I am not sure that I agree with all his conclusions. But they are consistent to those of World War 2 vets that I discussed these issues with.
Here’s a summary of one estimate. Which also, as you have pointed out, notes the destruction of the ozone layer
Nothing to worry about here pic.twitter.com/jZJbvxFcdq
— Andrej (@AndrejNkv) February 26, 2019
re: #58 ckkatz
Here’s a summary of one estimate. Which also, as you have pointed out, notes the destruction of the ozone layer
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should help with global warming.
re: #60 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
should help with global warming.
The Canadians may not be as enthusiastic about this cure, though.
re: #58 ckkatz
Here’s a summary of one estimate. Which also, as you have pointed out, notes the destruction of the ozone layer
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Imagine Trump and his gang trying to cope with this.
re: #61 ckkatz
The Canadians may not be as enthusiastic about this cure, though.
not near as bad as 5 million square miles of tundra thawing and rotting, not to mention frozen methane hydrates in arctic waters.
re: #63 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
sorry did a rough estimate off the top of my head. that would be closer to 8.8 million square miles.
I was trying to explain Jordan Peterson and his meat diet to someone earlier today and I called him “Gwyneth Paltrow but for incels” and I feel like I’ve cracked a code
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) February 25, 2019
re: #65 goddamnedfrank
I was trying to explain Jordan Peterson and his meat diet to someone earlier today and I called him “Gwyneth Paltrow but for incels” and I feel like I’ve cracked a code
Yes, I hear my teenage kids conduct entire dinnertime conversations based on Internet memes and am pleased if I get 15% of the references.
re: #52 ckkatz
Reading some of the analysis of a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan are quite unsettling. 10s of millions of deaths on the subcontinent from the nuclear explosions. Then millions of tons of debris going into the atmosphere causing the equivalent of another 1816 ‘Year Without a Summer’ with millions more starving to death in the ensuing world-wide crop failures. And possibly with the effects lasting several years.
Thereby solving global warming??
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Latest sports star to go off the edge:
He’s taken the bait…
Michael Cohen was one of many lawyers who represented me (unfortunately). He had other clients also. He was just disbarred by the State Supreme Court for lying & fraud. He did bad things unrelated to Trump. He is lying in order to reduce his prison time. Using Crooked’s lawyer!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 27, 2019
It’s almost as if you don’t realize that the state lotteries were created explicitly, unapologetically, to raise revenue.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) February 27, 2019
re: #72 Alephnaught
Michael Cohen was one of many lawyers who represented me (unfortunately). He had other clients also. He was just disbarred by the State Supreme Court for lying & fraud. He did bad things unrelated to Trump. He is lying in order to reduce his prison time. Using Crooked’s lawyer!
and Trump was innocent and unaware that he was doing ANYTHING shady, illegal or morally/legally questionable.
re: #73 freetoken
Here’s your tax bill if you hit $245 million Mega Millions or $322 million Powerball jackpots JUST another Government rip off of the American people
I agree. Private lotteries and casinos are much more efficient…
re: #72 Alephnaught
He’s taken the bait…
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“The guy whom I directed to take out a rival is a vicious killer!”
re: #76 Barefoot Grin
“The guy whom I directed to take out a rival is a vicious killer!”
I only hire the best people unless they turn out to be liars and criminals out to save their own skins!!!
re: #22 Joe Bacon 🌹
Hot Damn!
I just finished reading Cohen’s Opening Statement!
This WOULD happen on a day that I can’t call in sick!
WOW. Seems like an apology-apology, not a “sorry you were offended” apology.
Also, this seems like trouble for Trump’s personal lawyers (not sure who specifically):
“You need to know that Mr. Trump’s personal lawyers reviewed and edited
my statement to Congress about the timing of the Moscow Tower
negotiations before I gave it. “
re: #72 Alephnaught
He’s taken the bait…
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Why would somebody surround their self with liars? Hmmmm…
re: #19 KGxvi
Nah, it was Nancy Smash reminding him the fucking grownups are in charge again:
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Also, Cohen’s intro is fucking lit.
Shorter Gaetz: “I intend to spend the bulk of my time calling him a liar because that’s all I got left.”
Why does Microsoft make Excel so clunky and difficult?
The simplest of statistical operations don’t exist, but can be mimicked using funky stuff like pivot tables.
Why isn’t there an “occurrences” function?
The problem with COUNTIF is that you need to know apriori what values may occur, to tell the COUNTIF function what to count.
re: #80 Targetpractice
MAGAdolts simply will not accept anything about reality. They are in an pure escapist mode, and are played easily by a conman like Trump.
I’m gonna have to take a sec and argue that what Gaetz engaged in yesterday was not witness intimidation…if only because if it was, it was so incredibly ham-fisted and stupid that the man should be examined for potential brain damage. If you wanted to scare off Cohen by bringing up the possibility of making public any extramarital affairs his family is unaware of, doing so in a public forum is about the dumbest way you can go about that.
Not that the reality is much better, which is that Gaetz has totally telegraphed his (and Donny’s) entire plan of attack, which is to spend today claiming that being an adulterous asshole means one is totally untrustworthy…you know, assuming you ignore the three women who’ve held the title “Mrs. Trump.”
Personal note:
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re: #83 Targetpractice
There is a lot of theater and smoke and mirrors going on here. There is nothing like a “he said/but (s)he said/they said” shouting match to keep people from talking about the impending charges that are about to come down on Trump’s family and DJT in person…
re: #81 freetoken
Why does Microsoft make Excel so clunky and difficult?
The simplest of statistical operations don’t exist, but can be mimicked using funky stuff like pivot tables.
Why isn’t there an “occurrences” function?
The problem with COUNTIF is that you need to know apriori what values may occur, to tell the COUNTIF function what to count.
One thing that has always bothered me about Excel is the lack of a simple linear regression formula that returns the slope and the intercept without a lot of extra work. When I was teaching physics, I paid for a shareware program, Graphical Analysis, that was by comparison effortless. Enter the data, choose the data fit, observe the results, get the equation. At the time, it cost $30 for a site license.
re: #84 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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re: #86 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Excel is a kludge, of the horrible data entry software of the 1980s and the first spreadsheets.
And different versions of Excel work absurdly differently - e.g. the Mac versions vs. the Windows versions.
Did Jacob Wohl Forge a Trump Foundation SDNY Search Warrant Prior to Twitter Suspension?
Wonder if Jake is shitting his pants about now. Forging a Federal Judges signature is a pretty stupid thing to do.
Not sure about this, but I’ll post it anyway because, hey!
Weird news from Spain, North Korean embassy in Madrid was assaulted last Friday. Embassy workers were taken hostage during 4 hours, computers stolen. Attackers escaped. https://t.co/VgpN4PEgmi
— Jaime (@DragonLadyU2) February 27, 2019
re: #89 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Did Jacob Wohl Forge a Trump Foundation SDNY Search Warrant Prior to Twitter Suspension?
Wonder if Jake is shitting his pants about now. Forging a Federal Judges signature is a pretty stupid thing to do.
Incredibly. I expect him to try to use his age to weasel out of it. As I said, this is the difference between someone like him and Shapiro/Kirk. The latter are assholes for sure but not stupid enough to do shit like that. I hope they come down hard on him. Forgery is serious. Forging a federal judge’s sounds very serious to me.
re: #84 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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re: #91 HappyWarrior
Incredibly. I expect him to try to use his age to weasel out of it. As I said, this is the difference between someone like him and Shapiro/Kirk. The latter are assholes for sure but not stupid enough to do shit like that. I hope they come down hard on him. Forgery is serious. Forging a federal judge’s sounds very serious to me.
It will be interesting to see what happens. His getting banned from Twitter may be just the tip of the iceberg.
re: #93 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
It will be interesting to see what happens. His getting banned from Twitter may be just the tip of the iceberg.
Yeah. They need to drop the hammer. The guy is a serious fraudster.
re: #93 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
It will be interesting to see what happens. His getting banned from Twitter may be just the tip of the iceberg.
His whole faux drama about Minneapolis being a sharia wasteland was bad enough. He’s already shown a penchant for fabricating evidence there. Forging a search warrant is like icing on the cake.
Would it be too much to hope his co-conspirators, Loomer and Ali, also get implicated? It would be like winning the Trifecta at Belmont.
re: #89 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Did Jacob Wohl Forge a Trump Foundation SDNY Search Warrant Prior to Twitter Suspension?
Wonder if Jake is shitting his pants about now. Forging a Federal Judges signature is a pretty stupid thing to do.
If Jake had any brains, yes, he’d be shitting himself with such force that it make the 1883 Krakatau eruption look like a firecracker.
But we’re talking Jacob Wohl here, so……..
Wasn’t he banned from something with stocks in California too? The guy has some serious issues flaunting the law. As I said, he’s into O’Keefe and CCJ territory, a lot of these other people are sleaze too but as far as I can are just assholes rather than crooks.
re: #96 Dr Lizardo
If Jake had any brains, yes, he’d be shitting himself with such force that it make the 1883 Krakatau eruption look like a firecracker.
But we’re talking Jacob Wohl here, so……..
Jacob might be dumber than CCJ or O’Keefe.
What I want to know is who is funding this guy. I know his dad is an attorney but I suspect there’s a right wing sugar daddy there.
re: #89 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Did Jacob Wohl Forge a Trump Foundation SDNY Search Warrant Prior to Twitter Suspension?
Wonder if Jake is shitting his pants about now. Forging a Federal Judges signature is a pretty stupid thing to do.
You know, it’s kinder to believe that Jake is on somebody’s payroll to do this shit, because the unkind conclusion is that he is so fucked in the head that he thinks compounding the potential list of federal crimes he’s looking at is a good idea.
re: #98 HappyWarrior
Jacob might be dumber than CCJ or O’Keefe.
The linear scale of right wing stupidity.
re: #100 Targetpractice
You know, it’s kinder to believe that Jake is on somebody’s payroll to do this shit, because the unkind conclusion is that he is so fucked in the head that he thinks compounding the potential list of federal crimes he’s looking at is a good idea.
Could be both; maybe Wohl’s got some RW sugardaddy and he’s so completely braindead that he really doesn’t grasp the extent of the trouble he could be in.
re: #100 Targetpractice
You know, it’s kinder to believe that Jake is on somebody’s payroll to do this shit, because the unkind conclusion is that he is so fucked in the head that he thinks compounding the potential list of federal crimes he’s looking at is a good idea.
Being on someone’s payroll is absolutely believable. Perhaps not at first, but once you make a name for yourself, someone is paying you.
re: #102 Dr Lizardo
Could be both; maybe Wohl’s got some RW sugardaddy and he’s so completely braindead that he really doesn’t grasp the extent of the trouble he could be in.
Won’t make any difference to anyone, except perhaps the prison chaplain.
It didn’t save him.
Always pay attention when riding your bike. pic.twitter.com/OsO6GL7rWm
— Darwin Award 🔞 (@AwardsDarwin) February 27, 2019
Great catch by @ScottMStedman: Trump told Mueller in writing that Roger Stone did not tell him about WikiLeaks, per CNN. But Cohen now says Stone told Trump about the impending WikiLeaks release in July 2016. If Mueller can prove Cohen’s story… https://t.co/TIsC7foVTI
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) February 27, 2019
re: #105 MsJ
It didn’t save him.
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re: #84 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Personal note:
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re: #97 HappyWarrior
I thought he was banned for life from stock trading.
How insignificant is Jacob Wohl? A check of the usual suspects shows that his supposed “friends” and “supporters” don’t give much of a fuck that he’s been permanenty banned from Twitter. Even Dim Jim hasn’t spared the time to type out a memorium to his buddy’s dead career.
re: #111 Targetpractice
How insignificant is Jacob Wohl? A check of the usual suspects shows that his supposed “friends” and “supporters” don’t give much of a fuck that he’s been permanenty banned from Twitter. Even Dim Jim hasn’t spared the time to type out a memorium to his buddy’s dead career.
That’s because even Jim Hoft knows that Wohl is less intelligent than a Presto-Log, and 100% incompetent to boot. He’s a window-licker who’s far more of a nuisance than anything else; he’s a threat to nothing but everyone’s peace and quiet. After all, this nitwit is the guy who claimed he ran an international security consulting/service and whose contact number belonged to his mother. He had a photo of Christoph Waltz as one of his “agents”, FFS.
re: #112 Dr Lizardo
That’s because even Jim Hoft knows that Wohl is less intelligent than a Presto-Log, and 100% incompetent to boot. He’s a window-licker who’s far more of a nuisance than anything else; he’s a threat to nothing but everyone’s peace and quiet. After all, this nitwit is the guy who claimed he ran an international security consulting/service and whose contact number belonged to his mother. He had a photo of Christoph Waltz as one of his “agents”, FFS.
Yeah he’s not that bright hahaha.
re: #112 Dr Lizardo
That’s because even Jim Hoft knows that Wohl is less intelligent than a Presto-Log, and 100% incompetent to boot. He’s a window-licker who’s far more of a nuisance than anything else; he’s a threat to nothing but everyone’s peace and quiet. After all, this nitwit is the guy who claimed he ran an international security consulting/service and whose contact number belonged to his mother. He had a photo of Christoph Waltz as one of his “agents”, FFS.
I’m wondering if J-cob has some kind of psychological issue.
re: #115 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I’m wondering if J-cob has some kind of psychological issue.
Rectal-cranial inversion.
Good thing: I have today off from work, so I can sit through the entirety of Cohen’s testimony without worry about needing to cut it short.
Bad thing: I already made plans to go out today, so the longer it drags on, the more of my day I’ll either have to put on hold or cancel.
He giveth, he taketh away…
re: #119 Targetpractice
Is Cohen’s testimony going to be any of the major channels or streaming on the internet?
re: #119 Targetpractice
Good thing: I have today off from work, so I can sit through the entirety of Cohen’s testimony without worry about needing to cut it short.
Bad thing: I already made plans to go out today, so the longer it drags on, the more of my day I’ll either have to put on hold or cancel.
He giveth, he taketh away…
Sounds like a fun-filled day of winning, no matter how it plays out.
I asked one of my 40 year old conservative colleagues about Sally Hennings. He didn’t know who she was either.
re: #120 PhillyPretzel
Is Cohen’s testimony going to be any of the major channels or streaming on the internet?
I will assume it will be live on all cable news but Fox. Not sure but this is a ratings extravaganza for the cable folks.
re: #120 PhillyPretzel
Is Cohen’s testimony going to be any of the major channels or streaming on the internet?
My understanding is all the major news networks will be playing it live and the House Committee will be streaming live, as likely will CSPAN.
re: #123 MsJ
I will try to keep up with the internet and WaPo.
re: #125 PhillyPretzel
I will try to keep up with the internet and WaPo.
Me as well. I will watch if I can…but I will likely be watching snippets on twitter later tonight.
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area.
It’s a banner day/overnight so far.
Cohen’s disbarred by NY. Trump’s busy kowtowing to Jong Un and will do anything to get something resembling a deal, even if it means giving up US launch codes to Jong Un to get another handshake.
India and Pakistan are skirmishing along the Line of Control, and there are rising casualties on both sides. Pakistan claims they shot down Indian fighter jets, and at least one Indian fighter jet crashed. Mortar fire killed civilians, and the situation is spiraling out of control.
Oh, and the US doesn’t have ambassadors to both countries, and Pompeo is out of his depth here (and everywhere). Trump’s too focused on Sen. Blumenthal to bother.
That’s right - with everything going on in just the foreign policy arena in Asia, Trump’s going off on Sen. Blumenthal.
And then… there’s Cohen’s testimony in public today. His opening statement is lit, and lays out a laundry list of federal felonies that Trumpworld engaged in - implicating everyone from Trump to Junior to Roger Stone and Wikileaks.
So, pull up some popcorn, and hope it doesn’t get burned by a few nukes tossed around.
I like this take:
Whoa Ivanka comes out in favour of 100% inheritance tax. https://t.co/YOC8ey6Ciq
— Robin Wigglesworth (@RobinWigg) February 26, 2019
re: #127 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area.
It’s a banner day/overnight so far.
Cohen’s disbarred by NY. Trump’s busy kowtowing to Jong Un and will do anything to get something resembling a deal, even if it means giving up US launch codes to Jong Un to get another handshake.
India and Pakistan are skirmishing along the Line of Control, and there are rising casualties on both sides. Pakistan claims they shot down Indian fighter jets, and at least one Indian fighter jet crashed. Mortar fire killed civilians, and the situation is spiraling out of control.
Oh, and the US doesn’t have ambassadors to both countries, and Pompeo is out of his depth here (and everywhere). Trump’s too focused on Sen. Blumenthal to bother.
That’s right - with everything going on in just the foreign policy arena in Asia, Trump’s going off on Sen. Blumenthal.
And then… there’s Cohen’s testimony in public today. His opening statement is lit, and lays out a laundry list of federal felonies that Trumpworld engaged in - implicating everyone from Trump to Junior to Roger Stone and Wikileaks.
So, pull up some popcorn, and hope it doesn’t get burned by a few nukes tossed around.
I think India does have an ambassador but Pakistan doesn’t. That Trump is trashing Blumenthal on Twitter while all this is going on says a lot.
re: #111 Targetpractice
How insignificant is Jacob Wohl? A check of the usual suspects shows that his supposed “friends” and “supporters” don’t give much of a fuck that he’s been permanenty banned from Twitter. Even Dim Jim hasn’t spared the time to type out a memorium to his buddy’s dead career.
That and the potential of being dragged into a Fed investigation for forging a Judges signature may also have had a cooling effect.
White House Bars Some Reporters From Trump-Kim Dinner In Vietnam https://t.co/fcGJFWYegb
— Wally Callahan (@Wally_Callahan) February 27, 2019
Nothing to see here, just the first really-obvious state censorship of American media—they won’t forbid it being released, so it’s not officially censorship, but they’ll sure forbid the info being acquired in the first place!
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) February 27, 2019
Just the thought of Trump introducing the new Big Mac with Bacon to Kim…
Okay, okay. Now, in a perfect world you wouldn’t be talking about your specific intent after committing a specific intent crime, but I recognize I need to be grading on a curve here. https://t.co/VDj08UOa2M
— WitnessTestingHat (@Popehat) February 27, 2019
re: #134 Joe Bacon 🌹
Just the thought of Trump introducing the new Big Mac with Bacon to Kim…
He’s probably had it hehe.
re: #120 PhillyPretzel
My news radio station (1070am, also online) will carry it. Surely CNN they way they are pimping this.
Yeah, but it’s gonna be hard to hear the sighs over the sound of Ken repeatedly slamming his head on his desk.
— Not Jim Ardis (@NotPeoriaMayor) February 27, 2019
re: #135 Targetpractice
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You should be censured at the least. You tried to intimidate a witness. Now the only question I have is did Trump order you to do it or are you that stupid to think to do that on your own.
re: #67 sagehen
Thereby solving global warming??
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Nuclear winter Trumps global warming might be the saddest epitaph for a species ever.
I’ve just skimmed Cohen’s written statement.
My professional assessment of that, is that this shit is fucking lit. And Twitter’s gonna be extra af if the verbal testimony matches the written statement.
re: #127 lawhawk
So, pull up some popcorn, and hope it doesn’t get burned by a few nukes tossed around.
My biggest damn fear.
Dumbass right winger (I repeat myself):
He broke all the professional and ethical obligations by committing the crimes for which he was indicted and ultimately took plea deal for.
Revealing his criminality isn’t breaking any professional/ethical obligations.
You’re missing where the problem is.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 27, 2019
Defending Trump by claiming Cohen’s violating his professional and ethical obligations by revealing all the misconduct to Congress.
Ummm… he was indicted for violating multiple federal laws because he ignored his professional and ethical obligations in his role as fixer for Trump. As a lawyer who is an officer of the court, you are obligated not to further criminal acts by your client.
Cohen routinely did that and more.
Revealing all those crimes now isn’t the problem. It’s that he carried them out in the first place.
I just logged into WaPo and at the top below the masthead is a column that is marked live updates. So I am good for now. Thanks for your help. :)
GOP congressman deployed by National Guard under investigation for insubordinate attacks on governor https://t.co/FUjMhngT0T
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) February 27, 2019
re: #144 lawhawk
Dumbass right winger (I repeat myself):
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Defending Trump by claiming Cohen’s violating his professional and ethical obligations by revealing all the misconduct to Congress.
Ummm… he was indicted for violating multiple federal laws because he ignored his professional and ethical obligations in his role as fixer for Trump. As a lawyer who is an officer of the court, you are obligated not to further criminal acts by your client.
Cohen routinely did that and more.
Revealing all those crimes now isn’t the problem. It’s that he carried them out in the first place.
Might also want to point out to Buck that Cohen was just disbarred yesterday, so it’s not like he’s in any danger of ruining his legal career further.
re: #97 HappyWarrior
Wasn’t he banned from something with stocks in California too? The guy has some serious issues flaunting the law. As I said, he’s into O’Keefe and CCJ territory, a lot of these other people are sleaze too but as far as I can are just assholes rather than crooks.
It’s FLOUTING! FLOUTING! FLOUTING!
/(I feel better…) 🤯
re: #119 Targetpractice
Me too….. I’m thinking on putting on the water at Lake Travis w/ headphones. A little fishing and treason
Popehat on Gaetz:
Dear Representative @mattgaetz …. are you represented by federal criminal defense counsel? Let me tell you why I ask.
/1https://t.co/30Njk25F00— WitnessTestingHat (@Popehat) February 26, 2019
Perfectly Trumpian argument. gets his lawyer to commit felonies, then holds the felonies against the lawyer when consequences come calling. It’s a circular argument with Trumps hair in profile if yoou like visuals.
re: #127 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area.
It’s a banner day/overnight so far.
Cohen’s disbarred by NY. Trump’s busy kowtowing to Jong Un and will do anything to get something resembling a deal, even if it means giving up US launch codes to Jong Un to get another handshake.
India and Pakistan are skirmishing along the Line of Control, and there are rising casualties on both sides. Pakistan claims they shot down Indian fighter jets, and at least one Indian fighter jet crashed. Mortar fire killed civilians, and the situation is spiraling out of control.
Oh, and the US doesn’t have ambassadors to both countries, and Pompeo is out of his depth here (and everywhere). Trump’s too focused on Sen. Blumenthal to bother.
That’s right - with everything going on in just the foreign policy arena in Asia, Trump’s going off on Sen. Blumenthal.
And then… there’s Cohen’s testimony in public today. His opening statement is lit, and lays out a laundry list of federal felonies that Trumpworld engaged in - implicating everyone from Trump to Junior to Roger Stone and Wikileaks.
So, pull up some popcorn, and hope it doesn’t get burned by a few nukes tossed around.
Thankfully it’s Friday.
re: #141 Sufficient unto the day…
I’ve just skimmed Cohen’s written statement.
My professional assessment of that, is that this shit is fucking lit. And Twitter’s gonna be extra af if the verbal testimony matches the written statement.
I wonder if he’ll append the bit at the end about being threatened to include Gaetz’ tweet from yesterday.
And I fully expect Gym Jordan to go all out to completely trash Cohen in order to discredit his testimony. I wouldn’t be surprised if he had some kind of crazy-ass charge to make that hasn’t been revealed yet.
re: #148 A hollow voice says, Collusion!
Wohl was banned for life from the National Futures Association for engaging in fraud.
He’s lucky he didn’t get charged with federal/state felonies then.
But now? Yeah, he’s opened himself up to investigations for multiple criminal acts.
And here I always thought I was joking when I said the @Rockies being good and the @Nuggets being dominant would be #signsoftheApocalypse…
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) February 27, 2019
re: #89 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Did Jacob Wohl Forge a Trump Foundation SDNY Search Warrant Prior to Twitter Suspension?
Wonder if Jake is shitting his pants about now. Forging a Federal Judges signature is a pretty stupid thing to do.
Sometimes, not often, but sometimes, Justice smiles on us all.
re: #151 Unshaken Defiance
Perfectly Trumpian argument. gets his lawyer to commit felonies, then holds the felonies against the lawyer when consequences come calling. It’s a circular argument with Trumps hair in profile if yoou like visuals.
It’s the mafia mentality on display among wingnuts: Cohen’s crimes may have been in service of “the family,” but he as a loyal “soldier” is supposed to take the fall because “the family” will look out for him and his. In their eyes, he has an obligation to protect his Don and he’s shirking that to shave time off his own sentence. It’s why they think Manafort and Stone to be “victims” while they think Gates and Cohen should be behind bars the rest of their lives: The former are working to protect Donny, while the latter are coming clean.
re: #137 Unshaken Defiance
My news radio station (1070am, also online) will carry it. Surely CNN they way they are pimping this.
My local NPR station will carry it. So, can I blow off going to the gym “because I need to hear every word?”
Guess not.
Bummer.
re: #143 Decatur Deb
You’re far more likely to die of a bee-sting.
Than a nuke tossed directly at her, prolly still yes. Than of nuclear winter caused by the Pakistani government nuking Delhi in an attempt to take it down too because they can’t possibly maintain control of their country in a war they’re guaranteed to lose (because the Chinese won’t intervene on their behalf), most likely not. Especially since we may not have honeybees in a decade.
re: #159 A hollow voice says, Collusion!
And my local PBS station will be carrying it too.
I don’t know if any of you heard about this. There’s speculation that Dirk Nowitzki may be retiring at the end of this season. So, on Monday, with 9.4 seconds and the Clippers ahead, the Clippers’ coach called a timeout, went to the scoring table, grabbed the microphone, and paid tribute to Dirk, who had just completed his 1,500th game, which makes him fourth all-time: espn.com.
Edit: The article mentions that it’s happening wherever he’s going.
re: #144 lawhawk
Dumbass right winger (I repeat myself):
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Defending Trump by claiming Cohen’s violating his professional and ethical obligations by revealing all the misconduct to Congress.
Ummm… he was indicted for violating multiple federal laws because he ignored his professional and ethical obligations in his role as fixer for Trump. As a lawyer who is an officer of the court, you are obligated not to further criminal acts by your client.
Cohen routinely did that and more.
Revealing all those crimes now isn’t the problem. It’s that he carried them out in the first place.
OFFS. He broke many rules of ethics for a lawyer. He doesn’t need to be ruined beyond repair but there’s nothing wrong with celebrating that he can’t prectice law again.
re: #162 Belafon
I don’t know if any of you heard about this. There’s speculation that Dirk Nowitzki may be retiring at the end of this season. So, on Monday, with 9.4 seconds and the Clippers ahead, the Clippers’ coach called a timeout, went to the scoring table, grabbed the microphone, and paid tribute to Dirk, who had just completed his 1,500th game, which makes him fourth all-time: espn.com.
Porzingis is trying to convince Dirk to stay on for another season so they and Doncic can play together..
re: #160 Chrysicat
I don’t believe that India and Pakistan have sufficient nuclear weapons to cause a nuclear winter. They would have to settle for a few years without summer and massive ozone layer depletion. Even that would require more than a we nuke Delhi, you nuke Islamabad scenario.
re: #162 Belafon
I don’t know if any of you heard about this. There’s speculation that Dirk Nowitzki may be retiring at the end of this season. So, on Monday, with 9.4 seconds and the Clippers ahead, the Clippers’ coach called a timeout, went to the scoring table, grabbed the microphone, and paid tribute to Dirk, who had just completed his 1,500th game, which makes him fourth all-time: espn.com.
Edit: The article mentions that it’s happening wherever he’s going.
My brother’s favorite player and my other brother’s semi doppelgänger. Great career he’s had. Well earned retirement.
Minutes before the testimony, kitty decides she wants to park in front of the monitor.
The whole GOP effort to slime Cohen seems counterproductive. Democrats and a good portion of the rest of the electorate pegged him as slime long ago. Well before he parted with Trump and the GOP. Dinging him just reinforces that Trump and the GOP hire obviously sleezy liars.
I’d also add that Cohen is a sleezeball with receipts. Republicans are sleeze without receipts.
Morning!
So, do I have it right, some of the national TV networks will be carrying Cohen’s testimony in front of Congress today?
I thought I heard the NBC crew say it was going to be on at 10 AM.
I hope so, because America needs to see and hear this.
I sure hope this is the real start of the end of Trump.
re: #111 Targetpractice
How insignificant is Jacob Wohl? A check of the usual suspects shows that his supposed “friends” and “supporters” don’t give much of a fuck that he’s been permanenty banned from Twitter. Even Dim Jim hasn’t spared the time to type out a memorium to his buddy’s dead career.
Loomer seems to have dumped him too now that she can’t use him for Twitter access.
re: #146 lawhawk
What a piece of shit.
Kinzinger, who represents Illinois’ 16th Congressional District in the north-central region of the state, is an enthusiastic supporter of Trump’s border policy. He has said that Trump is right to want a border wall because the walls in his house keep out “critters.”
re: #167 Targetpractice
Minutes before the testimony, kitty decides she wants to park in front of the monitor.
Obviously, you’re going to have to find another monitor….
I just breezed through Cohen’s opening statement which is on WaPo. Those who did and still do support DT are going to be shell-shocked. Cohen is going to throw DT under the bus and feed what is left to wild dogs. It is an annotated version.
re: #167 Targetpractice
Minutes before the testimony, kitty decides she wants to park in front of the monitor.
It’s a protective instinct. She’s shielding you from it.
re: #169 ObserverArt
Morning!
So, do I have it right, some of the national TV networks will be carrying Cohen’s testimony in front of Congress today?
I thought I heard the NBC crew say it was going to be on at 10 AM.
I hope so, because America needs to see and hear this.
I sure hope this is the real start of the end of Trump.
CBS, NBC and ABC all have it. Fox has it, too. Wow.
re: #169 ObserverArt
Morning!
So, do I have it right, some of the national TV networks will be carrying Cohen’s testimony in front of Congress today?
I thought I heard the NBC crew say it was going to be on at 10 AM.
I hope so, because America needs to see and hear this.
I sure hope this is the real start of the end of Trump.
NBC is running it now. TPM has a live link up.
re: #156 Chrysicat
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No guarantee about the Rockies - ownership doing 1 right thing is great… they done effed up enough prior.
But happy they kept Arenado - my son Nolan will be happy - ya know— when he can understand it all.
re: #160 Chrysicat
Than a nuke tossed directly at her, prolly still yes. Than of nuclear winter caused by the Pakistani government nuking Delhi in an attempt to take it down too because they can’t possibly maintain control of their country in a war they’re guaranteed to lose (because the Chinese won’t intervene on their behalf), most likely not. Especially since we may not have honeybees in a decade.
Things happen fast. Faster than we can visualize. Like being at Pearl Harbor. Or a village in Ukraine. One day you are scything wheat and the next you’re on the edge of a ditch facing machine guns. Seems impossible today, happens tomorrow.
re: #160 Chrysicat
Than a nuke tossed directly at her, prolly still yes. Than of nuclear winter caused by the Pakistani government nuking Delhi in an attempt to take it down too because they can’t possibly maintain control of their country in a war they’re guaranteed to lose (because the Chinese won’t intervene on their behalf), most likely not. Especially since we may not have honeybees in a decade.
If India and Pakistan emptied their igloos, it would not have the effect of the testing programs of the 60’s and 70’s. The numbers just aren’t there, and no one has an interest in joining in. Might be dicey on the sub-continent for a while.
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