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Even a cursory reading of the Constitution shows the presidency’s power is technically ephemeral. Trump no longer even has a claim on that.
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Constitution aside, he got beat by a girl. Of course it’s not just any girl. I can’t imagine that he can reconcile that any way but denying that he got beat. I’d suggest he get used to it. After all, Nancy has his balls in her hand.
The Post’s view: The shutdown was proof of Trump’s stark incapacity for leadership PRESIDENT TRUMP’S temper tantrumover Congress’s refusal to fund a border wall paralyzed much of the government for five weeks, sapped the morale and wallets of hundreds of thousands of federal workers and low-wage contractors, left millions of Americans disgusted and dismayed, and diminished the United States in the eyes of the world. The impasse was proof of the president’s stark incapacity for leadership, which he reconfirmed Friday by threatening to re-shutter the government in three weeks. In announcing his non-deal with Congress — in fact, it is… Read more »
wapo: Another Pulitzer-winning cartoonist has been shown the door. Steve Benson was laid off Wednesday by his longtime employer, the Arizona Republic, as part of larger cuts by the Gannett company. He had been at the paper nearly four decades, winning the Pulitzer in 1993 and being named a finalist for the prize four times. The layoff represents the latest spasm of shrinking among staff editorial cartoonists — who numbered in the hundreds several decades ago, but now have dwindled to dozens. […] “This is a worrisome trend,” Benson told The Washington Post on Friday. “Cartoonists are canaries… Read more »
flatus, sorry, meant to warn y’all about that.
maher also had coulter on but I was reluctant to post the interview and provoke the ire of the trail by compounding dislike of him with her twattle too.
ny times: During the 2016 presidential campaign and transition, Donald J. Trump and at least 17 campaign officials and advisers had contacts with Russian nationals and WikiLeaks, or their intermediaries, a New York Times analysis has found. At least 10 other associates were told about interactions but did not have any themselves. Knowledge of these interactions is based on New York Times reporting, documents submitted to Congress, and court records and accusations related to the special counsel investigating foreign interference in the election. Among these contacts are more than 100 in-person meetings, phone calls, text messages, emails and private… Read more »
I thought Coulter was kinda tame compared to her usual antics. Rick told me he really didn’t want to watch her… but did because I did. He usually gets upset by her. This time he said she was just a clown. I said… yes, but a toothless clown… he agreed. Last week Maher had on Eric Erickson of The Red State blog. He’s usually aggressively defending the gop… but last week he obviously didn’t like trump and had little to say. Methinks the gop defenders know their party is in trouble and they don’t quite know what to… Read more »
Bianca, the dog. this villainy will surely cause outrage. woe is he who threatens the innocent, the cute and elderly dog. business insider: Roger Stone allegedly threatened to kidnap a witness’s therapy dog […] In April 2018, communication between the two escalated. “You are a rat. A stoolie. You backstab your friends — run your mouth. My lawyers are dying,” Stone wrote to them, according to the indictment. “Rip you to shreds.” According to the indictment, Stone continued, saying he would “take that dog away from you,” which the indictment notes was “referring to Person 2’s dog.” “I… Read more »
daily beast: On April 9, 2018, Roger Stone sent an email that would play a role in his future arrest. Though it wasn’t the only reason he was hauled into a Florida courtroom on Friday morning, Special Counsel Robert Mueller quoted portions of it in his indictment of the Trump ally—an indictment that shook Washington and added an absurdist edge to the Mueller probe. The email, which The Daily Beast obtained before a grand jury indicted Stone on several charges, shows just how irate Stone was about an acquaintance, Randy Credico. The exchange began when Credico emailed a group… Read more »
Well, day one of being on duty to be paid, the previous days I was on duty to be recalled to work without pay, the idea to keep us from drifting off to remote locations with little communications or airports. I looked over the maps and checked my cellphone, and I was there, but at least in the US not somewhere in Kenya. A major change in attitude has occurred with a few of the republican right, they learned that if the government is shutdown they can get most things done during the first week. Less each week, and… Read more »
BB, as I said before I’m prepared to tighten my belt to keep you fed or protected from losing assets that you worked years to procure and make serviceable.
Thank heaven our national nightmare is over, for now.
But, who knows what evil lurks within the heart of trump, miller, and putin.
Their best may be yet to come.
Btw, my tolerance for clichés and wildly mixed metaphors is eroding under a constant bombardment by CNN and MSNBC gusty guests.
XR, brush-up on your selective hearing. I’ve sat in command pose environments with their constant drivel/dribble of insignificant ‘noise’. My attention would instantly gain full focus when something of significance would cross the wire or be brought in by courier. Same thing happens here. I’m doing the laundry, typing, have msnbc on, and listening to La Traviata. I know instantly when the dryer turns-off—simultaneously grieving for Kumcho.
this time a very serious carl Hiaasen: Another mass shooting took place in Florida last week, though the story was a relative blip in the national news stream. Apparently, bigger things were happening. Trump and Pelosi were fussing about his State of the Union speech. Rudy Giuliani was blubbering like your confused uncle who keeps misplacing his meds. And one of the freakishly fertile Kardashians announced that – brace yourself — she’s preggo again. Mass shootings occur so often that it’s hard to keep up. Is it still major news when a whack job with… Read more »
Pat, profound condolences to you at Rob’s loss. People here in Columbia, home of the University of South Carolina, were both outraged and saddened by Annapolis. Sebring’s rapid police response with an armored vehicle attracted a different audience. My focus was on the senselessly cruel murder of the five women.
Flatus – thank you. I expected this type of event and planned for it, actually planned for at three months out. My only concern would be recalled to work in the office without pay. That eats up a lot on fuel costs. The only good thing for those who had to drive in is that the economy is slowing down and the price of petrol was low.
flatus, passing your condolences on to carl hiaasen for the loss of his brother rob.
thanks for your kind words earlier re the posts. glad they are of value or at least entertaining.
speaking of entertaining or at least informative (especially the cuckolding episode), earlier this month from vanity fair: “It Was Camelot on Steroids”: Trump, Marla, the Beach Romp, Anti-Semitism, and the Epic Battle for Mar-a-Lago –Back in the mid-90s, Trump was a nearly bankrupt grifter who fell in love—with a beachfront resort. In order to save Mar-a-Lago, he took on Palm Beach, went to war with the National Enquirer, and race-baited. It was the fight of his life, according to the author of Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump’s Presidential Palace, and it may have informed everything… Read more »
pogo, tho’t you’d find the bishop’s anti-trump take interesting. maybe mrs. pogo would even more so. the hill: Kentucky bishop argues wearing MAGA hats not ‘pro-life’ A Kentucky Catholic bishop argued that the Covington Catholic high school students at the center of a recent viral controversy after their confrontation with a Native American activist sparked outrage cannot be “pro-life” while supporting a president “who denigrates the lives of immigrants.” Lexington Bishop John Stowe wrote in an op-ed this week that as the leader of the Catholic Church in the 50 counties of Central and Eastern Kentucky he joins “the Diocese… Read more »
wapo: Trump’s golf course employed undocumented workers — and then fired them amid showdown over border wall OSSINING, N.Y — They had spent years on the staff of Donald Trump’s golf club, winning employee-of-the-month awards and receiving glowing letters of recommendation. Some were trusted enough to hold the keys to Eric Trump’s weekend home. They were experienced enough to know that when Donald Trump ordered chicken wings they were to serve him two orders on one plate. But on Jan. 18, about a dozen employees at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, N.Y., were summoned, one… Read more »
Bink, the statute of limitations for federal felonies is 5 years from the date of the offense.
Btw, that info about the trump courses- when they filed the W-3 or 1096 – if they did not report the wages paid or taxes withheld the employer committed a felony. Probably too much to hope for.
Patd, good to see at least on member of the Catholic hierarchy call out the fundamental contradiction between SFB and the Catholic Church. The pro life angle- aside from the anti-abortion issue- is just one inconsistent position between Catholic teaching and trump doctrine. The priest who ok’d Mrs. P’s re-entry into the church following her foray through the Presbyterian church and divorce from a non Catholic used to piss off the well heeled church members regularly with his admonitions against the trappings of wealth, failure to follow the teachings of Jesus and the like. He was a good guy.
“the statute of limitations for federal felonies is 5 years from the date of the offense.” -pogo
Thanks for that, good to know. I understand there is probably no awswer, but i’m wondering how long before a typical offender of witness intimidation would be processed and charged.
Dude commited a crime, in plain sight, on a public forum. Impeach, censure, exile.
Bink, the answer to that question would vary from crime to crime and criminal to criminal based on the FBI focus on them. WAPO has a very good article about the trump properties hiring & firing of undocumented workers. Sez Eric: In an emailed statement, Eric Trump said, “We are making a broad effort to identify any employee who has given false and fraudulent documents to unlawfully gain employment. Where identified, any individual will be terminated immediately.” He added that it is one of the reasons “my father is fighting so hard for immigration reform. The system is broken.”… Read more »
See, Bink, the question that comes to my mind is under what circumstances the statute of limitations can be tolled. Although I think it gets more and more unlikely that SFB will ever serve a 2nd term, if it does occur that question will become critical – as will the issue of sealed indictments.
The Post article continues. This Trump golf club does not appear in the government’s list of participants in the E-Verify system, which allows employers to confirm their employees are in the country legally. Eric Trump did not answer a question about whether the club would join the system. The White House did not respond to a request for comment on Friday. The firings highlight a stark tension between Trump’s public stance on immigration and the private conduct of Trump’s business. In public, Trump has argued that undocumented immigrants have harmed American workers by driving down wages. That… Read more »
I was a criminal investigator, not an attorney. I wasn’t much interested in civil or administrative law in my youth. For instance, contracts put me to sleep. While I never worked on presidential crimes, I think that some of the trump crimes have already been indicted and placed under seal. Theoretically the statute of limitations clock would stop during trump’s term of office and ‘immunity from prosecution’, if one believes in executive immunity, as soon as the indictment came down from the Grand Jury. I don’t believe in executive immunity. MY theory demands that the statute of limitations clock continues… Read more »
x-r, yeah, those contracts treatises were better than counting sheep. by selecting the most boring 100 pages of legalese assigned each night to bedtime reading, I never suffered insomnia during those otherwise stressful and perturbing 3 years. a lot of weekend drinking helped too.
https://youtu.be/IQIR2hIjCLs
Constitution aside, he got beat by a girl. Of course it’s not just any girl. I can’t imagine that he can reconcile that any way but denying that he got beat. I’d suggest he get used to it. After all, Nancy has his balls in her hand.
The Post’s view: The shutdown was proof of Trump’s stark incapacity for leadership PRESIDENT TRUMP’S temper tantrumover Congress’s refusal to fund a border wall paralyzed much of the government for five weeks, sapped the morale and wallets of hundreds of thousands of federal workers and low-wage contractors, left millions of Americans disgusted and dismayed, and diminished the United States in the eyes of the world. The impasse was proof of the president’s stark incapacity for leadership, which he reconfirmed Friday by threatening to re-shutter the government in three weeks. In announcing his non-deal with Congress — in fact, it is… Read more »
wapo: Another Pulitzer-winning cartoonist has been shown the door. Steve Benson was laid off Wednesday by his longtime employer, the Arizona Republic, as part of larger cuts by the Gannett company. He had been at the paper nearly four decades, winning the Pulitzer in 1993 and being named a finalist for the prize four times. The layoff represents the latest spasm of shrinking among staff editorial cartoonists — who numbered in the hundreds several decades ago, but now have dwindled to dozens. […] “This is a worrisome trend,” Benson told The Washington Post on Friday. “Cartoonists are canaries… Read more »
could this be one of the reasons?
or this maybe?
another benson masterpiece
Goodness, Maher is so gratuitously gross
flatus, sorry, meant to warn y’all about that.
maher also had coulter on but I was reluctant to post the interview and provoke the ire of the trail by compounding dislike of him with her twattle too.
When it comes to Coulter, one can only tolerate just so much of the anorexic evil babble.
ny times: During the 2016 presidential campaign and transition, Donald J. Trump and at least 17 campaign officials and advisers had contacts with Russian nationals and WikiLeaks, or their intermediaries, a New York Times analysis has found. At least 10 other associates were told about interactions but did not have any themselves. Knowledge of these interactions is based on New York Times reporting, documents submitted to Congress, and court records and accusations related to the special counsel investigating foreign interference in the election. Among these contacts are more than 100 in-person meetings, phone calls, text messages, emails and private… Read more »
Pat, your unremitting campaign in sharing knowledge among us mere mortals brings calls for hosannas, never reproach.
I thought Coulter was kinda tame compared to her usual antics. Rick told me he really didn’t want to watch her… but did because I did. He usually gets upset by her. This time he said she was just a clown. I said… yes, but a toothless clown… he agreed. Last week Maher had on Eric Erickson of The Red State blog. He’s usually aggressively defending the gop… but last week he obviously didn’t like trump and had little to say. Methinks the gop defenders know their party is in trouble and they don’t quite know what to… Read more »
i come for the patd, and stay for the xrep.
i could go for some sturgeone or Blonde Wino, also, but if they’re happy not participating, then i’m happy that they’re happy.
Bianca, the dog. this villainy will surely cause outrage. woe is he who threatens the innocent, the cute and elderly dog. business insider: Roger Stone allegedly threatened to kidnap a witness’s therapy dog […] In April 2018, communication between the two escalated. “You are a rat. A stoolie. You backstab your friends — run your mouth. My lawyers are dying,” Stone wrote to them, according to the indictment. “Rip you to shreds.” According to the indictment, Stone continued, saying he would “take that dog away from you,” which the indictment notes was “referring to Person 2’s dog.” “I… Read more »
daily beast: On April 9, 2018, Roger Stone sent an email that would play a role in his future arrest. Though it wasn’t the only reason he was hauled into a Florida courtroom on Friday morning, Special Counsel Robert Mueller quoted portions of it in his indictment of the Trump ally—an indictment that shook Washington and added an absurdist edge to the Mueller probe. The email, which The Daily Beast obtained before a grand jury indicted Stone on several charges, shows just how irate Stone was about an acquaintance, Randy Credico. The exchange began when Credico emailed a group… Read more »
Looking forward to Cohen’s testimony before Congress
Well, day one of being on duty to be paid, the previous days I was on duty to be recalled to work without pay, the idea to keep us from drifting off to remote locations with little communications or airports. I looked over the maps and checked my cellphone, and I was there, but at least in the US not somewhere in Kenya. A major change in attitude has occurred with a few of the republican right, they learned that if the government is shutdown they can get most things done during the first week. Less each week, and… Read more »
BB, as I said before I’m prepared to tighten my belt to keep you fed or protected from losing assets that you worked years to procure and make serviceable.
Thank heaven our national nightmare is over, for now.
But, who knows what evil lurks within the heart of trump, miller, and putin.
Their best may be yet to come.
Btw, my tolerance for clichés and wildly mixed metaphors is eroding under a constant bombardment by CNN and MSNBC gusty guests.
Mr Bink, I am honored to be one of the attractions here. I like you, too.
My take on stone’s email to randy is that roger needs a therapy dog. Or maybe, a vast herd of therapy maggots.
XR, brush-up on your selective hearing. I’ve sat in command pose environments with their constant drivel/dribble of insignificant ‘noise’. My attention would instantly gain full focus when something of significance would cross the wire or be brought in by courier. Same thing happens here. I’m doing the laundry, typing, have msnbc on, and listening to La Traviata. I know instantly when the dryer turns-off—simultaneously grieving for Kumcho.
this time a very serious carl Hiaasen: Another mass shooting took place in Florida last week, though the story was a relative blip in the national news stream. Apparently, bigger things were happening. Trump and Pelosi were fussing about his State of the Union speech. Rudy Giuliani was blubbering like your confused uncle who keeps misplacing his meds. And one of the freakishly fertile Kardashians announced that – brace yourself — she’s preggo again. Mass shootings occur so often that it’s hard to keep up. Is it still major news when a whack job with… Read more »
Pat, profound condolences to you at Rob’s loss. People here in Columbia, home of the University of South Carolina, were both outraged and saddened by Annapolis. Sebring’s rapid police response with an armored vehicle attracted a different audience. My focus was on the senselessly cruel murder of the five women.
Mr Flatus,
Damn, I wish I could multi-task the way you do. Once again, I am amazed and awed.
Flatus – thank you. I expected this type of event and planned for it, actually planned for at three months out. My only concern would be recalled to work in the office without pay. That eats up a lot on fuel costs. The only good thing for those who had to drive in is that the economy is slowing down and the price of petrol was low.
BB, Somehow, this music seems appropriate:
flatus, passing your condolences on to carl hiaasen for the loss of his brother rob.
thanks for your kind words earlier re the posts. glad they are of value or at least entertaining.
speaking of entertaining or at least informative (especially the cuckolding episode), earlier this month from vanity fair: “It Was Camelot on Steroids”: Trump, Marla, the Beach Romp, Anti-Semitism, and the Epic Battle for Mar-a-Lago –Back in the mid-90s, Trump was a nearly bankrupt grifter who fell in love—with a beachfront resort. In order to save Mar-a-Lago, he took on Palm Beach, went to war with the National Enquirer, and race-baited. It was the fight of his life, according to the author of Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump’s Presidential Palace, and it may have informed everything… Read more »
pogo, tho’t you’d find the bishop’s anti-trump take interesting. maybe mrs. pogo would even more so. the hill: Kentucky bishop argues wearing MAGA hats not ‘pro-life’ A Kentucky Catholic bishop argued that the Covington Catholic high school students at the center of a recent viral controversy after their confrontation with a Native American activist sparked outrage cannot be “pro-life” while supporting a president “who denigrates the lives of immigrants.” Lexington Bishop John Stowe wrote in an op-ed this week that as the leader of the Catholic Church in the 50 counties of Central and Eastern Kentucky he joins “the Diocese… Read more »
wapo: Trump’s golf course employed undocumented workers — and then fired them amid showdown over border wall OSSINING, N.Y — They had spent years on the staff of Donald Trump’s golf club, winning employee-of-the-month awards and receiving glowing letters of recommendation. Some were trusted enough to hold the keys to Eric Trump’s weekend home. They were experienced enough to know that when Donald Trump ordered chicken wings they were to serve him two orders on one plate. But on Jan. 18, about a dozen employees at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, N.Y., were summoned, one… Read more »
Question for the lawyers (xrep, pogo):
What would be the time-frame for charges to be brought against someone who commits witness-intimidation who isn’t the POTUS?
I ask because we all saw Trump threaten and intimiadate Michael Cohen, explicitly, on Twitter, a couple of weeks ago. Will he ever be charged?
You’re an inspiration, Flatus- here’s to you and the Mrs.
Bink, the statute of limitations for federal felonies is 5 years from the date of the offense.
Btw, that info about the trump courses- when they filed the W-3 or 1096 – if they did not report the wages paid or taxes withheld the employer committed a felony. Probably too much to hope for.
Flatus – a love that lasts forever is a great love. I am so happy to know you and your love for Kumcho.
Patd, good to see at least on member of the Catholic hierarchy call out the fundamental contradiction between SFB and the Catholic Church. The pro life angle- aside from the anti-abortion issue- is just one inconsistent position between Catholic teaching and trump doctrine. The priest who ok’d Mrs. P’s re-entry into the church following her foray through the Presbyterian church and divorce from a non Catholic used to piss off the well heeled church members regularly with his admonitions against the trappings of wealth, failure to follow the teachings of Jesus and the like. He was a good guy.
“the statute of limitations for federal felonies is 5 years from the date of the offense.” -pogo
Thanks for that, good to know. I understand there is probably no awswer, but i’m wondering how long before a typical offender of witness intimidation would be processed and charged.
Dude commited a crime, in plain sight, on a public forum. Impeach, censure, exile.
Bink, the answer to that question would vary from crime to crime and criminal to criminal based on the FBI focus on them. WAPO has a very good article about the trump properties hiring & firing of undocumented workers. Sez Eric: In an emailed statement, Eric Trump said, “We are making a broad effort to identify any employee who has given false and fraudulent documents to unlawfully gain employment. Where identified, any individual will be terminated immediately.” He added that it is one of the reasons “my father is fighting so hard for immigration reform. The system is broken.”… Read more »
See, Bink, the question that comes to my mind is under what circumstances the statute of limitations can be tolled. Although I think it gets more and more unlikely that SFB will ever serve a 2nd term, if it does occur that question will become critical – as will the issue of sealed indictments.
The Post article continues. This Trump golf club does not appear in the government’s list of participants in the E-Verify system, which allows employers to confirm their employees are in the country legally. Eric Trump did not answer a question about whether the club would join the system. The White House did not respond to a request for comment on Friday. The firings highlight a stark tension between Trump’s public stance on immigration and the private conduct of Trump’s business. In public, Trump has argued that undocumented immigrants have harmed American workers by driving down wages. That… Read more »
I was a criminal investigator, not an attorney. I wasn’t much interested in civil or administrative law in my youth. For instance, contracts put me to sleep. While I never worked on presidential crimes, I think that some of the trump crimes have already been indicted and placed under seal. Theoretically the statute of limitations clock would stop during trump’s term of office and ‘immunity from prosecution’, if one believes in executive immunity, as soon as the indictment came down from the Grand Jury. I don’t believe in executive immunity. MY theory demands that the statute of limitations clock continues… Read more »
Thank you, gentlemen.
x-r, yeah, those contracts treatises were better than counting sheep. by selecting the most boring 100 pages of legalese assigned each night to bedtime reading, I never suffered insomnia during those otherwise stressful and perturbing 3 years. a lot of weekend drinking helped too.