Even during a general election presidential debate Trump again griped that he never won an Emmy for “The Apprentice” — but last night’s award show was a triumph he’d probably rather do without.
“I suppose I should say at long last Mr. President, here is your Emmy.”
— Alec Baldwin, Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Trump on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live”
NYT: President Trump, Emmy Punching Bag
bet this punch from the show hurt twitbag the most:
::CUTS TO VIDEO OF HILLARY CLINTON AND MR. TRUMP AT A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE::
CLINTON: There was even a time when he didn’t get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged again.
TRUMP: Should have gotten it.
::END TAPE::
COLBERT: But he didn’t. Because unlike the presidency, Emmys go to the winner of the popular vote.
I look forward to a new season on SNL.
Stinky zinke, I do not understand how the trumpence junta can take away our public lands for pretend border security and a handful of welfare ranchers. WH has been holding this report for a couple of months. Public lands decimated going back to 1996. Does trump have the authority to do this?
another hack. As a society, we need to be enacting laws to protect us from hacks and punish perpetrators. Most adults in this country have had their financial information compromised by so many corporations in one way or another. Some of these same companies are entrusted with protecting your identity or helping you clean-up computer, phone bots and cookies. It is impossible for the masses to react to protect themselves when simply the corporation should do so and if not? Pony-up some resources automatically and pay for your damage.
Showboater spicer…make lying great again.
Didn’t watch the Emmys but did watch an especially whacked-out two hour episode of Columbo starring Rip Torn at his Rip Torn-iest. Nowadays I tend towards retro TV & Turner Classic Movies.
Tuned in for the first 1/2 hour of the Emmys. Colbert was what I expected – slicing and dicing the idiot in chief. And I caught Baldwin and McKinnon’s acceptance speeches. It’s gotta piss SFB off that SNL won what, 5 Emmys for last season? And the SF tastelessly retweeted a stupid amalgam of him driving and HIllary falling, as if the two were related. He’s such an ass. Speaking of which – whaddaya figure, he wearing a 42, 43 inch waist now? God what a lardass.
think about it, they had to have enough info to convince a judge to issue the warrant.
cnn:
Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team are now in possession of Russian-linked ads run on Facebook during the presidential election, after they obtained a search warrant for the information.
Facebook gave Mueller and his team copies of ads and related information it discovered on its site linked to a Russian troll farm, as well as detailed information about the accounts that bought the ads and the way the ads were targeted at American Facebook users, a source with knowledge of the matter told CNN.
(On Sunday, Facebook told CNN in a statement that it was providing information to Mueller, “including ads and related account information.”)
The disclosure, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, may give Mueller’s office a fuller picture of who was behind the ad buys and how the ads may have influenced voter sentiment during the 2016 election.
Facebook did not give copies of the ads to members of the Senate and House intelligence committees when it met with them last week on the grounds that doing so would violate their privacy policy, sources with knowledge of the briefings said. Facebook’s policy states that, in accordance with the federal Stored Communications Act, it can only turn over the stored contents of an account in response to a search warrant.
“We continue to work with the appropriate investigative authorities,” Facebook said in a statement to CNN.
Facebook informed Congress last week that it had identified 3,000 ads that ran between June 2015 and May 2017 that were linked to fake accounts. Those accounts, in turn, were linked to the pro-Kremlin troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency.
In those briefings, Facebook spoke only in generalities about the ad buys, leaving some committee members feeling frustrated with Facebook’s level of cooperation.
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now here is what you call burying the lead (NYT):
musings from a former fed prosecutor on that facebook warrant in newsweek:
….The importance of that development cannot be overstated. It means that Mueller presented evidence to a federal magistrate judge who concluded there was good reason to believe that foreign individuals committed a crime by making a “contribution” in connection with the election and that evidence of such a crime existed on Facebook.
Mueller’s warrant tells us that the special counsel is closing in on specific foreigners who tried to undermine our democracy, that he’s serious about going after Russian interference and he is far enough along to convince a federal judge that he has good evidence of such a crime.
The news could have serious implications for President Trump’s associates because it is a crime if you know a criminal act is taking place and help it succeed. That’s called “aiding and abetting.” If someone in Trump’s orbit knew about the Russian “contributions” that Mueller is investigating—and helped them in a tangible way—they could be charged.
Someone who agreed to be part of the Russian effort could also be charged with criminal conspiracy. They wouldn’t have to know about the whole operation or all the people involved in it. As long as they agreed to be part of some part of the scheme, they could be charged as part of the conspiracy.
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wearing a wire to surreptitiously record conversations ?
how passé
wouldn’t an inadvertent butt call suffice just as well? why wire when everyone has smart phones on them?
Mueller probably has tapped in to that bug that the Russians left and are still making use of in the oval office.
It’s time to search for the (book) deals by those on the peripihery; their perceived need to have legal counsel must be increasing day-by-day. They’ve got to get the cash somewhere.
flatus, you mean the $$ they’ve squirrelled away in the Caymans isn’t enough?
I didn’t watch the Emmys, so no matter what Sean Spicer says I was not part of the biggest audience ever. spent the time binge watching “The Five” on Netflix. Good mystery.
Amy Siskind is keeping track week by week of all the “Not Normal” actions and conditions of this WH. Reading it is terrifying, disgusting, and just plain nauseating, but it is good to follow along.
Medium
Russia and China Join Forces for Navy Drills Off North Korean Coast
so didn’t anyone other than me watch 1st episode of ken burns’ “Vietnam war”?
here’s rollingstone giving some background on the making of same.
I’m recording Burns’ Vietnam, PatD. Sounds like it’s as long as the war its own self.
I recorded as well. I save things like that for nights (most of them) when regular TV is unbearably bad.
craig & jamie, like eating an elephant. I recommend small hour n half bites at a time and soon you’ll be sated with the entire 18hrs/10 episodes. don’t think it lends itself to binge watching from what I saw of it last night.
If you were alive and active during the Vietnam era the Burns piece is not so much. I have really liked his other pieces but I don’t think his style presents a true picture of the politics or the war I mean police action itself.
Kind of like the history books of my elementary and high school history didn’t tell the real history of anything….too much mansplaining that leaves out too much
so far all it does is explain why everyone who came to vietnam was stupid
Oh left out that American service men were in Vietnam way before 1967 and trying to say Kennedy was an earlier opposer of the war,,,,,oh boy
I recorded it. From his interviews, especially the one on MJ, I fear he may be too close to the story. I’ll read reviews before I watch it.
“Oh left out that American service men were in Vietnam way before 1967”
kgc, it was in the segment I saw last night. either that must have been when you took a potty break or solar showers disrupted your reception. he did quite a bit also on the oss working with ho chi minh… would have liked to have seen more of the background on that.
He talks about American advisors and the use of equipment
I watched the whole thing I have a cousin who was an navy enlisted man who was there is 1961 he was not an adviser
Didn’t watch the Emmys or Ken Burns. I mostly watch sports, news (sometimes cable, sometimes not), a few cooking shows. We have watched the first couple episodes of Orville… love it so far. Whatever I’ve seen of SNL is from the videos that patd posts here.
Pogo… as I said last week… I’m not worried about the Patriots offense. The defense was better this week, but still a work in progress.
Pat, OSS involvement would have been while France was under German occupation and we were trying to maintain the source of natural rubber from Vietnam.
This a commentary from Newsweek perhaps it is more articulate version of my objections so far
http://www.newsweek.com/vietnam-ken-burns-vietnam-war-doc-documentary-pbs-666582
Burns says he began thinking about revisiting the Vietnam War decades ago, but decided the national psyche wasn’t ready for it. A previous major PBS series on the conflict in 1983, based on a book by a veteran Vietnam correspondent suggesting that the war was less than honorable, provoked a loud right-wing backlash. So he decided to wait.
Now, Burns says, it’s time to talk—and get over it. “With knowledge comes healing,” he told Vanity Fair. “The seeds of disunion we experience today, the polarization, the lack of civil discourse all had their seeds in Vietnam,” Burns told The New York Times. “I can’t imagine a better way to help pull out some of the fuel rods that create this radioactive atmosphere than to talk about Vietnam in a calm way.”
Good luck with that, as we said in ‘Nam. While the TV critics have been agog with praise and wonder over the series’s cinematic mastery, depth of research (some 80 interviews of participants on all sides) historical sweep and emotional punch, some veterans and longtime students of the war are already taking critical aim at the series’s fuzzy treatment of the war’s central question: Why did we get involved in the first place? Who thought that was a good idea?
Burns strives to give everyone’s strongly held, divergent views equal weight, but before long, he’s waist deep in a historical big muddy, wandering among competing theories that obscure the root cause of a war that killed an estimated minimum of 429,000 U.S. and allied soldiers and 533,000 communist troops and civilians between 1954 and 1975. Many estimates soar far above those. Millions more were wounded.
“Many veterans fear that this new documentary will misrepresent what really happened and why, substituting [the] ‘many truths’ which Burns says he will present,” Chuck Searcy, an Army Intelligence veteran of the war, said in an email to friends this week from Vietnam, where he has spent the past several years helping to rid the countryside of buried U.S. munitions that are still killing people. “It may permit us Americans, once again, to evade the harsh reckoning that is long overdue, and allow us to remain in denial about what we did in Viet Nam, and why.”
there are many sides…yeah right.
KCG, your cousin’s presence was probably tied to our involvement in the Laotian civil war.
Flatus
Unfortunately he is now deceased but I asked my brother who was in Vietnam in the Air Force and who had discussed his service with our cousin and whatever he may have done in Laos he was also doing service related work in Vietnam.
And I completely disagree with Burns about the Vietnam war planted all the seeds for the political climate of today. I’m sure he will change his mind when he does his 18 episode series on slavery.
The Burns version so far is the kind of fatuous nonsense printed in elementary school history books.
No wonder people get duped into believing in the romance of the Civil War – the confederates were traitors because they wanted to preserve a morally bankrupt culture but we all still believe Gone with the Wind is non-fiction
KCG, the tie-in at that particular point in time was the Ho Chi Minh trail that serviced both Lao rebels and the anti-government movement in South Vietnam.
Unfortunately, the Vietnam War defies description–it is of the same ilk as the elephant being described by the group of blind people.
My cousin was a Navy diver. So whatever he was doing involved water deep enough to dive in
Trump and his cabinet are working overtime to keep people as uneducated as possible. We know he loves the ignorant, so he is trying to make more of them
So you see, Climate Change is just Fake News … Nothing to see here folks.
Flatus
You were there and so appalled by the army you switched services
kgc, was it “fatuous nonsense” the commentary re the early days of ho chi minh and our oss or the memories recalled by former north and south Vietnamese? I found it interesting and moving in some places, but then what do I know… I also find videos of playful puppies interesting and moving.
Jaime
If you are a federal employee you may not use the term climate change in any official documents
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/08/trump-administration-climate-change-ban-usda
A lot of history was very interesting to me and then I found out it wasn’t presenting a true record of what happened.
They interviewed 80 people all of whom have their own version of events. Like most memoirs, they aren’t really meant to be true but to be that person’s version of events. But in the end memoirs that aren’t autobiographies are often fatuous nonsense.
80 people?
online def of the adj fatuous is “silly and pointless” which is more a description of my posts here than the commentary of those remembering their past leading up to the war.
I stand by my comment it doesn’t matter how moving it appears to be if it leads to a false conclusion It is emotional manipulation
silly and pointless? the twit at u.n. just now saying “the United Nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement”.
yep, he sure knows from first hand knowledge about not fulfilling one’s potential because of mismanagement. mental mismanagement mostly.
PG is fatuous, factless and feckless
kgc, I bow to your expertise. so should we burn ken burns at the stake for lying to us?
Perhaps for attempting to impose his slanted view so that it would lead to national healing which regardless was claptrap. Since he claimed the roots of our national dissent are in Vietnam which is not true. how could a biased position in support of that do anyone any good.
And colonialism is just another more glamour word for enslavement
Trump wiped that info in vain; others grabbed it and saved it elsewhere.
They interviewed someone at NOAA during Harvey & he would not (could not) answer the question about climate change. He looked super un-comfy.
Missed The Emmys. I only saw one blurb about it being on last week & never one TV ad for it.
My memories of Vietnam:
Bringing stuff to send to soldiers (one thing was a toothbrush that was fluorescent orangey-pink, like mine) at Christmas.
TV being wheeled into class in 4th grade because soldiers were returning.
High school history stopped at WWII.
Glad to know that Burns didn’t do as good a job with Nam, as he did with the history of baseball. There are those of us who fell into the gap between something happening & having it be too recent to be considered history.
excerpt from a fun, maybe fatuous piece in wapo today: “What’s the matter with Trump Lawyers?”
Kelly may have instilled some discipline in the White House staff, but those who we might expect to be the most disciplined — the lawyers — have proven anything but. Last week was the first time that seemed to potentially imperil Trump’s defense.
and more in the companion piece Trump lawyers spill beans, thanks to terrible choice of restaurant — next door to the New York Times
I had friends going over in 65 to nam
They went to war, not advising.
Tummarrah is annuthuh day.
Why did the US pick the French over actual democracy?
After promising that the US position was supporting the end of colonial rule.
I think this is a good site it is dates and events
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1945.html
john edgar hoover made the use of the word ‘mafia’ and the phrase ‘cosa nostra’ firing offenses.
Once the deadbeat pussypincher junta is in the dock, it’ll only take a day to put all the climate change info back in place. It isn’t like ISIS blowing up Bamian.
Btw, ‘climate change’ was a bush crime family/ripup euphemism for the much scarier ‘global warming’.
KGC, we were well prepared to go. The unit was put on alert in ?July 65. I personally recalled every individual that was away on leave in other parts of the country. For the ones I couldn’t reach, I called their local sheriffs requesting that they find them. All the individuals were given this message. “Return to Ft Sill immediately. Your leave is terminated.” Every individual complied with the proper sense of urgency.
We embarked on field exercises including escape and evasion, resistance to interrogation, very realistic (ouch) torture techniques were used against us. At one point I over powered a guard and stole a truck full of prisoners. I got them all the way to the perimeter of the training area where the road finally stopped. I went to the back of the truck and told the get off and run that way, your free! A couple of captains demurred with stupid excuses; we’ll be caught anyhow and our captors will be pissed, etc.. Our opportunity to split was squandered.
Our competent adversaries were specially trained aggressor troops whose mission was to prepare us for what we could expect as ordnance ammo people delivering our stuff to where it could be picked up by units in direct contact with whatever enemy we might encounter.
The lily-livered performance of our officers in this episode was a precursor of what I saw in Vietnam. In my headquarters, only one would go beyond the wire. That was Maj Stacks, a former infantry officer who personified positive leadership and competence. The others were useless turds–that’s why I moved to the Air Force.
At the higher level, the general commanding the 1st Air Cav, the initial unit that we were supporting, told headquarters in Saigon that he was going to perform strikes without first coordinating with his South Vietnamese counterparts. This was because his people were experience significant losses because of ambushes that had been prepared in anticipation of their arrival. He was told that he must provide notification. He didn’t. He proceeded to have several very successful missions. Then he was relieved of his command. That was a strictly political ‘don’t piss our hosts off’ non-solution to a real problem that was killing American soldiers. Totally shameful.
Our soldiers were fine people; I am proud to have served with them.
And, on our POWs, I served with a couple. In my last assignment, I could sense that one was trying to reconcile the apparent lack of active measures to make their conditions better while they were in captivity. I mentioned the name of one of his cruelest captors, a man from a different country. I asked if anyone had ever told him that we had a contract out for him as soon as we learned of his involvement? The ‘oh, wow’ joy covered his entire face.
America wanted a stable government in France, and the loss of the important colonies in SoE Asia would humiliate the French and make a commie takeover more likely. Therefore, the OSS/CIA was committed to assisting the French after the Berlin Crisis, the russhun nuke, and the fall of Czechoslovakia.
The clever French left in 1954. The dopey dulles brothers decided to stay. They’d have done much better by infiltrating the Mid East and murdering nazi fugitives and the followers of the grand mufti.
Our foreign policy has a cowboy air about it and I don’t just mean cow poop
The French are kind of creepy in the role as colonial overseer
Flatus
That is a great story
Sorry, I don’t want to watch the Burns documentary. About twenty years ago I lost my stomach for Viet Nam War Studies.
I’ve never watched the Emmys.
Instead, I read some John Roy Carlson – aka Arthur Derounian on his citizenship papers, and by a score of other nommes de plumes & aliases.
XR
How do you know about Arthur Derounian? He seems to have led a very interesting life
Sturg, ’65 was the first commitment of US ground forces to a direct combat role in the Vietnam conflict, following the Tonkin Gulf incident. That’s consistent with Flatus’ account above. Before that we claimed our troops were only advisers. Luckily all that was before my time, not reaching draft age until ’70. I learned about it in ’71 through my 1st college Poly Sci teacher, who was around for the ’69 occupation of the Student Union at Alabama. I’d kinda forgotten the details about our involvement until the Burns documentary was released, then went to Wiki to brush up.
ah 1965
there were still marriage deferments and student deferments
craig, I tho’t of you agreeing with him when I saw him say this on 60 minutes. here’s a cbs clip.
John le Carré on Brexit, the British, and saying ‘no’ to knighthood
September 17, 2017, 6:30 PM| “That jingoistic England that is trying to march us out of the EU, that is the England I don’t want to know,” says British author John le Carré
I hope that the next book is about his dad. from the way he described him in the interview he sounded quite the bounder and a very colorful if somewhat unsavory character.
I got married and had two children for that deferment while his younger brother went to Canada.
as the saying goes, even the most messed up things can always get worse
politico: McConnell’s mortal enemy might soon be in his caucus
Three words are striking fear in Senate Republicans these days: “Sen. Roy Moore.”
The bomb-throwing former Alabama Supreme Court justice has vaulted to a hefty lead in Alabama’s Senate special election, lambasting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell every step of the way. A Moore victory would no doubt make McConnell’s tenuous 52-seat majority even more precarious, allies of the majority leader warn, potentially imperiling tax reform, raising the risk of default on the nation’s debt or even derailing routine Senate business.
Moore faces interim Sen. Luther Strange — whom a McConnell-aligned outside group has spent millions to elect — in a Sept. 26 Republican runoff.
Strange is a team player, according to interviews with more than a dozen Republican senators, while Moore is viewed as unpredictable — a clash-in-waiting with McConnell’s low-key leadership style.
“I do not,” said Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas), when asked whether he thought Moore would be a productive member of the Republican caucus. “Look at his track record.”
Added a Republican senator who requested anonymity: “It’s highly likely that he could be disruptive. We’re talking about somebody who has been removed from the bench twice.”
Moore promises to make McConnell’s life miserable if he makes it to the Senate…..
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I hope it didnt appear I was attempting to refute anything……that’s just what I saw.
from esquire
John McCain on the Comey Hearing: “It Was a Colossal Screw-Up”
For the first time, McCain and Lindsey Graham describe what really happened on June 8.
[….]
“I’m a little confused, Senator,” Comey said. He wasn’t alone. McCain’s floundering—at one point he referred to “President Comey”—along with the fact that he looked befuddled, triggered a storm of speculation. Was it jet lag from his grueling tour of Asia that had ended the day before? Was it exhaustion, as McCain suggested shortly after the hearing? (“Maybe going forward I shouldn’t stay up late watching the Diamondbacks’ night games,” he joked in a statement at the time.) Or was it, as many came to believe, an early symptom of glioblastoma, which McCain was diagnosed with six weeks later?
In an interview earlier this week, McCain suggested another reason for his confusion during the hearing. Just as he was about to launch into the questions that he and his staff had painstakingly prepared, he said, he was inadvertently knocked off course by Senator Lindsey Graham, whom he counts as his best friend and ally.
According to accounts given by both senators to Esquire and sources close to them, the events at the hearing happened as follows. Just moments before McCain was due to take the microphone, Graham realized he had a question he wanted McCain to ask Comey. Graham, who was watching the hearing from his Senate office, instructed a staffer to deliver a message to McCain in the hearing room.
“I had these questions laid out that I had discussed and, honest to God, two minutes before it was my turn, [the aide] hands me this app from Lindsey,” McCain said.
But while McCain was reading the message from Graham—aides said that it was an email, not an app—the screen on the phone the staffer had handed him went black. Without a passcode, McCain couldn’t reopen it to keep reading. “I was looking at it and, naturally, the message fades,” McCain recalled. “I think, ‘What the fuck am I going to do here?’” McCain then heard the chairman of the committee, Senator Richard Burr, call his name.
Though McCain might have reverted to the questions he’d prepared, he said he pressed on out of a sense of loyalty and respect to Graham. “I can’t tell you how important our relationship is, and I knew that this must be important. So I started out trying to remember what was on the app, and, anyway, to make a long story short, I fucked it up.”
Graham, for his part, clearly doesn’t enjoy contemplating the notion that he somehow derailed his friend while the whole country was watching. Though he can’t precisely recall what he wanted to hear from Comey, he said it had something to do with what the ex-director was willing to divulge during the hearing. In the summer of 2016, Graham noted, Comey had cleared Clinton of criminal wrongdoing for the handling of her emails. He said that he was trying to get McCain to ask Comey, “Well, if you’re willing to clear Clinton, why won’t you comment on something else?” But this week Graham said, “I can’t remember what that ‘something else’ was.”
The statement McCain made after the hearing suggests one possibility. “What I was trying to get at was whether Mr. Comey believes that any of his interactions with the President rise to the level of obstruction of justice,” McCain said at the time. “In the case of Secretary Clinton’s emails, Mr. Comey was willing to step beyond his role as an investigator and state his belief about what ‘no reasonable prosecutor’ would conclude about the evidence. I wanted Mr. Comey to apply the same approach to the key question surrounding his interactions with President Trump.”
Whatever the case, McCain’s chagrin about the episode is evident. “It was a colossal screw-up. That was such an important hearing. That wasn’t just an ordinary Senate hearing.”
Sturg, I didn’t take what you were saying about ’65 as a refutation of anything said by anyone else. It caused me to go do a little reading. I found it kinda fascinating, and your observation is exactly consistent with our entry into the VNW as combat troops.
Now about Roy Moore, he may be the one lawyer/former judge/ former justice of the AL Supreme Court who makes Jeff Sessions look competent. The guy is a judicial train wreck who mirrored from the bench George Wallace’s challenge to federal intervention in AL back in the 60s, effectively telling the federal judge who told hi to remove the 10 commandment monument he commissioned for the AL SC to screw off – hell, he was removed from office for that and again for defying the same sex marriage ruling by telling probate judges to refuse to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples. Got removed again for that one. That is twice he was removed from office – in ALABAMA fuhchrissake. Ahhh, the new Repug party.
well, if the emmys didn’t get enough of a rise out of the twit, this surely will
cnn: Clinton opens door to questioning legitimacy of 2016 election
Hillary Clinton, in an interview that aired Monday on NPR, said she “would not” rule out questioning the legitimacy of the 2016 election if Russian interference is deeper than currently known.
The comment, a remarkable step for the former Democratic nominee, exemplifies Clinton’s belief that President Donald Trump and his campaign could have knowingly received help from Russian operatives in the 2016 election.
Clinton has said previously that she conceded to Trump quickly and attended his inauguration because the nation’s peaceful transfer of power is critical. But her comments to NPR signal that as the depths of Russia’s interference are revealed she could envision a time when she questions Trump’s legitimacy as president.
NPR’s Terry Gross asked Clinton directly during the interview whether she would “completely rule out questioning the legitimacy of this election if we learn that the Russian interference in the election is even deeper than we know now?”
“No. I would not,” Clinton said.
Gross asked: “You’re not going to rule it out?”
“No,” Clinton said. “I wouldn’t rule it out.”
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Clinton, in her interview with Gross, adds that there are likely no avenues, however, for her to challenge the 2016 results if she feels she needs to.
“Basically I don’t believe there are. There are scholars, academics, who have arguments that it would be, but I don’t think they’re on strong ground,” she told Gross. “But people are making those arguments. I just don’t think we have a mechanism.”
Clinton also mentioned that the Kenyan Supreme Court overturned their recent presidential election and ordered a new vote.
“What happened in Kenya, which I’m only beginning to delve into, is that the Supreme Court there said there are so many really unanswered and problematic questions, we’re going to throw the election out and redo it,” Clinton said. “We have no such provision in our country. And usually we don’t need it.”
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In her book, Clinton also wrote that once the election was over, she felt she needed to help the transition to Trump’s presidency go smoothly.
“Still, I felt a responsibility to be there,” she wrote about attending Trump’s inauguration, no matter how painful. “The peaceful transfer of power is one of our country’s most important traditions.”
And she made the same case hours after her crushing loss, as she stood before the nation and her supporters to publicly concede the election.
“Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. Our constitutional democracy enshrines the peaceful transfer of power,” she said. “We don’t just respect that. We cherish it.”
Ms Cracker, I came across John Roy Carlson (Derounian) when I picked up Under Cover, a book in my grandfather’s collection.
The book describes Carlson’s infiltration of kkk, nazi, fascisti, and other hate groups in the years running up to and into WWII. Under Cover and the sequel The Plotters, describing Carlson’s infiltration of hate groups during and after WWII, convince me that while Germany was defeated in 1945, the nazi/kkk/fascist enemy survived until today, and remains a clear and present danger.
What a horrible come to pass, that the deadbeat pussypincher is not pushing book sales and mansplaining his 2016 defeat, while Ms Clinton is not running the US government.
sigh
For our 30th anniversary dessert: Cannolis with candied orange and pistachios.
May you enjoy many more desserts together.
Happy Anniversary, Lovebirds.
Leave the gun … take the cannoli.
And wishing both of you a very Happy Anniversary.
I hope I can find his books at the library. What a great find.
Aww Craig
what a happy picture
and fireworks too
Mrs. Jack ” what a great looking couple and thanks for sharing”
Me, ” ya wanna share those cannoli?”
Congrats on a long relationship and may there be many more celebrations, from both Mrs Jack and myself
Jack
Well, I’m watching episode 2 of the Vietnam War. On of the guys they are interviewing is Robert Rheault, Col., US Army, (Special Forces), Retired. I worked with him at Hurricane Island Outward Bound School. Absolutely one of the most impressive people I’ve ever had the privilege to know.
pogo, saw that 2nd episode too covering the ’61-’63 years. given what went on both here and there, it was fittingly titled “Riding the Tiger”
kudos to the researchers digging up all that old photo footage. also for jfk quotes/notes not widely published before. no wonder it took them 10 years to put this together.
Craig & David
Wonderful picture. Much happiness to you both for many years to come.
boss, wakey wakey…. one too many cannoli, last night ?
many more happy years to come for all the anniversary couples on the trail
will he flip? or flip out?
cnn:
US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.
The government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Donald Trump.
Some of the intelligence collected includes communications that sparked concerns among investigators that Manafort had encouraged the Russians to help with the campaign, according to three sources familiar with the investigation. Two of these sources, however, cautioned that the evidence is not conclusive.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, which is leading the investigation into Russia’s involvement in the election, has been provided details of these communications.
A secret order authorized by the court that handles the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) began after Manafort became the subject of an FBI investigation that began in 2014. It centered on work done by a group of Washington consulting firms for Ukraine’s former ruling party, the sources told CNN.
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and also from cnn
Feinstein threatens Manafort with subpoena
just because he foregoes the taxpayer paid protection of secret service, twit jr not likely to lose the taxpayer paid prosecutor tail that’s watching over him.
ny times:
Donald Trump Jr. Gives Up Secret Service Protection, Seeking Privacy
No posting ideas this morning. Contributions welcome.
Thanks much for all the well wishes. We had a nice time, came home and fell asleep to the Vietnam series. Having left-over cannolis and coffee for breakfast.
boss, I suggest just run Rachel’s recap of the 2 big stories from nyt on manafort and from cnn on money laundering and Russian collusion.
https://youtu.be/IJnrFG25O0A
I am weary of the leak teasing, PatD. Waiting for Mueller to start making some public moves.
leak teasing?
craig, a tease sometimes is the best part of the show, from a lady who really knew how to tease
boss, remember the motto
sat cito si recte
“Soon Enough If Done Rightly”
Poobah, one’s in the oven.
Thanks Pogo.
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