63 days and counting. Yes, keep working, especially in PA, MI, WI, and FL. Throw in AZ and NC, too. They are all close with joe leading now in all but NC where D’ump leads by .3%.
Oh, and we did see one D’ump flag flown from a boat on Deep Creek Lake yesterday, but then again Garret County is D’ump country. Yard signs for D’ump probably run 10-1.
Had to deal with a follower of SFB Saturday night. His patter was very familiar, “I read the NY Times and . . . ” naming two or more “liberal” media sources. “then I read . . .” three or more alternative media sources which tend to be SFB backed. “I watched the tapes and listened while the attorney explained . . .” Impeccable no doubt. The reality of the reports and videos shows exactly opposite of what he claimed happened.
I asked the question, “why did those white supremacists go to Kenosha? Why did they go to Portland? All they wanted to do was cause trouble, and they did. There was no reason for a seventeen year old to cross state lines to go kill people. And, no the seventeen year old did not get hit with a skateboard before killing people, he was hit by people trying to stop him from leaving. The police let him leave. He turned himself in hours later.” “That is not what I saw.” Yup, you saw your alternate universe caused by SFB.
D’ump country – 180,000 dead – their blood on his hands
Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told special counsel Robert Mueller in May 2017 to only conduct a criminal investigation of possible coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, secretly curtailing an FBI counterintelligence probe into President Trump’s ties to Russia, the New York Times’ Mike Schmidt reports.
Why it matters: Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe had approved the opening of the counterintelligence investigation out of concerns that Trump’s decades of personal and financial dealings in Russia posed a national security threat. Rosenstein, concluding that the probe lacked justification and that McCabe had conflicts of interest, never informed him of the decision.
What they’re saying: “We opened this case in May 2017 because we had information that indicated a national security threat might exist, specifically a counterintelligence threat involving the president and Russia,” McCabe told the Times in a statement.
“I expected that issue and issues related to it would be fully examined by the special counsel team. If a decision was made not to investigate those issues, I am surprised and disappointed. I was not aware of that.”
[…]
The big picture: Because Mueller — who secured more than 30 indictments but did not find sufficient evidence of a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia — did not conduct a counterintelligence investigation, Democrats say the full scope of Trump’s Russia ties remains unknown.
[…]
The concerns come as intelligence officials have assessed that Russia is again attempting to interfere in the 2020 elections to support Trump and denigrate his opponent Joe Biden.
also at same axios link:
One of the crazy nuggets in a deeply reported book by the N.Y. Times’ Michael Schmidt — “Donald Trump v. the United States,” out tomorrow — is that President Trump mulled the idea of “settling” with special counsel Robert Mueller.
What he’s saying:“At one point, as the investigation seemed to be intensifying,” Schmidt writes, Trump told White House counsel Don McGahn “that there was nothing to worry about because if it was zeroing in on him, he would simply settle with Mueller. He would settle the case, as if he were negotiating terms in a lawsuit.”
by “settle” with mueller, IMO, D’ump more likely meant it in a sinister mobster-style rather than civil lawsuit settlement reference.
Year 87 of the thousand year reich.
Year 85 of Social Security.
I’m waiting till it comes to the drive-in.
interesting piece on the super pac, old. It really looks like Trump campaign must be low on cash, even their first super pac underfunded. Nothing like Adelson’s gazillions tothe rescue
adelson? i thought he was mad at D’ump for not acknowledging all the $$ he’s given, taking him for granted and whining about not giving enough.
A former top aide to former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said in an op-ed published on Sunday that she would not back Sen. Susan Collins’s (R-Maine) reelection bid, arguing that the longtime incumbent has proven unwilling to break ranks with her party and President Trump.
“Sadly, I can no longer support Senator Susan Collins,” Jane Calderwood, who served under Snowe in both the House and the Senate for nearly two decades, wrote in an op-ed published by SeacoastOnline.com.
“She has proven unwilling to stand up to the President and too enamored of political power to speak up for the good people of Maine,” Calderwood added. “I am tired of hearing about how ‘concerned’ she is. These times demand strength and action and she has shown neither.”
That new superPAC must be scared, the buy list are the states SFB “won” in 2016. That is a good thing, spending a load of bucks just to win back what was lost because of a dictator wannbe mouthing off.
Nice to see you on video Craig. You need to get some network air time.
Hey Craig…. I like the beard…. good look for you!
Yeah… I take heart. I take heart that we are pissed. I take heart that most of us have had enough. I take heart that we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of trump’s bullshit. But most of all… I take heart that even though we aren’t as excited about Biden… we are super excited to get to the polls and vote out effing trump.
Can’t hear Bye Bye Love without immediately going to Bye Bye Life
I did see a great grey heron on a tree limb at Deep Creek this weekend. I’ve seen a couple of the white variety from time to time in the river near our house, but this is the first great grey heron I’ve seen in these parts.
So the legendary John Thompson, Jr., first black coach to win a Division I NCAA championship has died at 71. – a shame.
I know Washington is pretty much a foregone conclusion,, but it is still nice to know that all three ballots for our household will be mailed on October 16, received October 18 and put in the drop box by October 20. I will then be able to confirm receipt by the Secretary of State within three days thanks to the bar code on each ballot.
The most important/difficult election of my lifetime? Sure as hell not this one–it was Dewey v Truman in ’48. It was all consuming.
The Trib was the laughing stock of the country. On Thursday after election, our Cleveland Plain Dealer gave it to them with both barrels.
Why build a farm in a mall when you could just rip up the parking lot?
Old: and of course the nice thing about newly registered voters is they plan to vote, or they wouldn’t have bothered
Do volunteer work for a campaign, and get couple of friends to go with you.
Contribute to campaigns.
Vote.
Truman’s come-from-behind victory in 1948 was the hardest election.
And this is the most important, because a maniac is out to destroy America, politically, economically, and morally, and he needs to be re-elected to complete the task.
187,410 Americans dead of C19. That means there will be a lot more turkey for the rest of us come Thanksgiving. Move those empty chairs out, and there will be a lot more room to feed, too. This is lebensraum trump-style.
Remember when Republicans warned of “Obamacare Death-Panels”? Now, Republicans are the death panel. Like, the entire party.
Yup, Mr Bink. Death panels R them.
OK, I wonder how D’ump would reconcile his comments about Democrat-run states and cities being so poorly run with this little ditty – 20 of the top 25 states (12 of the top 12) with newly reported* COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people are states that voted for D’ump with 16 of the bottom 25 states (8 of the bottom 10) with newly reported COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people are states that voted for Clinton. 21 of the top 25 states (11 of the top 15) with newly reported COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 people were D’ump states. The bottom 25 states are more evenly divided between states that voted for D’ump and those that voted for Clinton.
* 7 day rolling average.
XR, what’s the source you use for the number of COVID deaths?
Rioting is not protesting,” Biden said. “Looting is not protesting. Setting fires is not protesting. None of this is protesting. It’s lawless. It’s plain and simple. And those who do it should be prosecuted. Violence will not bring change and only bring destruction. It’s wrong in every way. It divides instead of unites, destroys businesses, only hurts the working families that serve the community. It makes things worse across the board, not better.”
Trump has sought to cast Biden as on the side of violent protesters in the wake of unrest in cities including Portland, Ore., and Kenosha, Wis.
“The incumbent president is incapable of telling the truth, incapable of facing the facts and incapable of healing,” Biden said.
[…]
As he drew his speech to a close, Biden compared Trump to a “toxin,” urging Americans to get rid of him.
“We all know, including the press in front of me, knew we’d get to the moment when Donald Trump would be so desperate,” Biden said. “He’d do anything to hold on to power. Donald Trump has been a toxic presence in our nation for four years, poisoning how we talk to one another, poisoning how we treat one another, poisoning the values this nation has always held dear, poisoning our very democracy.”
Biden noted that the election is a little over 60 days away.
“We have a decision to make,” he said. “Will we rid ourselves of this toxin?”
XR, writing from memory rather than recent research. The long-term effects of HST’s two-terms solidified our role in the protection of Western Europe via NATO and Eleanor Roosevelt. His June 1950 no-holds-barred entry into the defense of South Korea eliminated Japan’s involvement in the peninsula and stopped China through our willingness to use the bomb above the Yalu. And, he make Key West a vacation destination. Oh, yeah, he survived an attacked by assassins.
That’s pretty neat that you got to witness the entirety of American hegemony, Mr. F.
Birth, rise, and now, fall.
So D’ump has added a press conference this afternoon to present his own version of what passes for the truth about Biden’s remarks today in Pittsburgh. This should be predictably stupid.
i once subscribed to the justification of said hegemony on the “moral leader of the world” basis, but that can’t be true of a nation that throws innocent children in cages, punitively, can it?
New Military Times survey of active duty troops has absolutely devastating numbers for Trump. The Republican Party has long considered the military as part of its base, but Biden is now leading Trump among service members 43/37.
They must not appreciate trump dismissing the bounties put on their heads by Putin. Good for them.
Pogo, since he’s in our part of the world, we can take comfort in knowing that Cleveland is in first place in the central division as of yesterday. We had season tickets for ’48, ’49 and ’50. That was our last year. But, we saw wonderful people like Satchel Paige and Larry Doby make their entry.
Mr Flatus,
I agree with your assessment of President Truman’s extraordinary achievements, and I see trump successfully dismantling them. Truman had an advantage with the foreigners, because at the end of WWII every foreign country respected or feared us. trump has changed everything so that no country respects us, and as far as I can see only Mexico, Canada, France, the Low Countries, Scandinavia and Germany fear us. If Truman had failed, it’s possible that our military power could have kept the soviets/chicoms from world domination. However, if trump succeeds, I don’t think US morale will be high enough after 2024 to stem the tide of war and enslavement.
Bink
The parking lot is on the ground floor. The buildings already in existence provide several more as well as all the facilities. Other possibilities include school buildings in much better condition that ones currently standing complete with utilities.
Good to hear you, again, Craig! https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/31/politics/twitter-scalise-tweet-manipulated-media/index.html
Scalice is doing the Russian’s dirty work for them. Yes, it’s been tagged and now removed, but if you present something to a jury, they can’t un-hear/un-see it after it gets thrown out. Scumbag Scalise. Of course, a jury of SFB’s peers/his base already buy that garbage. Scalice was aiming for a group that tRUMPsky has already lost. LOSERS!
Let’s hope those new voters vote straight Dem, all the way down the ballot.
Mr Man, are you still in Lubbock, or where have you gone to flower now ?
Oliver is one of the sharpest razors in the kit, alright.
White House press corps fell into Trump’s trap today, asking questions about protests and violence instead of the virus. Exactly what he wanted.
“krystallnacht horror…. The main only answer to this horror is to not only vote him OUT but to TAKE the senate. And keep the house, of course.
Hope Biden doesn’t take tRUMPsky’s bait about going to Kenosha, too. The last thing that town needs is more energy from a visit by either candidate.
Kudos to Joe Biden for sounding presidential about what is and isn’t protesting.
Maybe Joe just needs to hold his own presser (or release a video) every day about how to behave with regard to protests, COVID, etc. Just act like the POTUS now, because Orange Julius is NOT doing the job.
We should take governors seats and state legislature’s too.
Trump’s cascade of lies today in WH briefing reinforces why Biden ought not participate in a debate with this criminal fraud.
If there is a debate, without telling trumpity, they should have someone at the debate with a bell or buzzer fact check him as they go along.
Google Stephen Miller article. There are several recent ones about the Ghoul and how he and trumpity have put America into rubble.
Blue Bronc, I love Murdoch too. I wonder if there’ll be a season 14.
Old Man -Only 43 days until Texans can start voting!
I think it’s great that the Mavs are offering AA Center as a polling place, but I hope folks won’t wait for the cache of voting there on Election Day. Vote early!!! Lord only knows if tRUMPsky will send his goons to harass voters.
Sleepy Mitch no wonder the Kentucky turd doesn’t think the Russians did anything, Apparently he slept through the briefings
tRUMPsky’s jobs program is paying asshats to vandalize neighborhoods during peaceful protests, so the he can send in his goon squad. HE IS THE WORST AMERICAN. A traitor. A mass murderer. A fascist. Head of a crime family.
thanks, coach, we needed that.
an ABC story back in May relevant today. they need to update it adding kenosha and portland
‘No Blame?’ ABC News finds 54 cases invoking ‘Trump’ in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.
63 days and counting. Yes, keep working, especially in PA, MI, WI, and FL. Throw in AZ and NC, too. They are all close with joe leading now in all but NC where D’ump leads by .3%.
Oh, and we did see one D’ump flag flown from a boat on Deep Creek Lake yesterday, but then again Garret County is D’ump country. Yard signs for D’ump probably run 10-1.
Had to deal with a follower of SFB Saturday night. His patter was very familiar, “I read the NY Times and . . . ” naming two or more “liberal” media sources. “then I read . . .” three or more alternative media sources which tend to be SFB backed. “I watched the tapes and listened while the attorney explained . . .” Impeccable no doubt. The reality of the reports and videos shows exactly opposite of what he claimed happened.
I asked the question, “why did those white supremacists go to Kenosha? Why did they go to Portland? All they wanted to do was cause trouble, and they did. There was no reason for a seventeen year old to cross state lines to go kill people. And, no the seventeen year old did not get hit with a skateboard before killing people, he was hit by people trying to stop him from leaving. The police let him leave. He turned himself in hours later.” “That is not what I saw.” Yup, you saw your alternate universe caused by SFB.
D’ump country – 180,000 dead – their blood on his hands
more from axios on what’s in that schmidt book:
also at same axios link:
by “settle” with mueller, IMO, D’ump more likely meant it in a sinister mobster-style rather than civil lawsuit settlement reference.
Year 87 of the thousand year reich.
Year 85 of Social Security.
I’m waiting till it comes to the drive-in.
interesting piece on the super pac, old. It really looks like Trump campaign must be low on cash, even their first super pac underfunded. Nothing like Adelson’s gazillions tothe rescue
adelson? i thought he was mad at D’ump for not acknowledging all the $$ he’s given, taking him for granted and whining about not giving enough.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/08/trump-antagonizes-sheldon-adelson-phone-call-392688
bye bye, susie
the hill:
That new superPAC must be scared, the buy list are the states SFB “won” in 2016. That is a good thing, spending a load of bucks just to win back what was lost because of a dictator wannbe mouthing off.
Nice to see you on video Craig. You need to get some network air time.
Hey Craig…. I like the beard…. good look for you!
Yeah… I take heart. I take heart that we are pissed. I take heart that most of us have had enough. I take heart that we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of trump’s bullshit. But most of all… I take heart that even though we aren’t as excited about Biden… we are super excited to get to the polls and vote out effing trump.
Can’t hear Bye Bye Love without immediately going to Bye Bye Life
I did see a great grey heron on a tree limb at Deep Creek this weekend. I’ve seen a couple of the white variety from time to time in the river near our house, but this is the first great grey heron I’ve seen in these parts.
Malls can convert to urban farms
https://urbanverticalfarmingproject.com/2016/08/22/abandoning-malls-for-vertical-farms/
Old Man beat me to the farm conversion.
So the legendary John Thompson, Jr., first black coach to win a Division I NCAA championship has died at 71. – a shame.
I know Washington is pretty much a foregone conclusion,, but it is still nice to know that all three ballots for our household will be mailed on October 16, received October 18 and put in the drop box by October 20. I will then be able to confirm receipt by the Secretary of State within three days thanks to the bar code on each ballot.
The most important/difficult election of my lifetime? Sure as hell not this one–it was Dewey v Truman in ’48. It was all consuming.
The Trib was the laughing stock of the country. On Thursday after election, our Cleveland Plain Dealer gave it to them with both barrels.
Why build a farm in a mall when you could just rip up the parking lot?
538 forecast: Biden “slightly favored”
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/
That’s what Nate said about HRC in 2016
Old: and of course the nice thing about newly registered voters is they plan to vote, or they wouldn’t have bothered
Do volunteer work for a campaign, and get couple of friends to go with you.
Contribute to campaigns.
Vote.
Truman’s come-from-behind victory in 1948 was the hardest election.
And this is the most important, because a maniac is out to destroy America, politically, economically, and morally, and he needs to be re-elected to complete the task.
187,410 Americans dead of C19. That means there will be a lot more turkey for the rest of us come Thanksgiving. Move those empty chairs out, and there will be a lot more room to feed, too. This is lebensraum trump-style.
Remember when Republicans warned of “Obamacare Death-Panels”? Now, Republicans are the death panel. Like, the entire party.
Yup, Mr Bink. Death panels R them.
OK, I wonder how D’ump would reconcile his comments about Democrat-run states and cities being so poorly run with this little ditty – 20 of the top 25 states (12 of the top 12) with newly reported* COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people are states that voted for D’ump with 16 of the bottom 25 states (8 of the bottom 10) with newly reported COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people are states that voted for Clinton. 21 of the top 25 states (11 of the top 15) with newly reported COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 people were D’ump states. The bottom 25 states are more evenly divided between states that voted for D’ump and those that voted for Clinton.
* 7 day rolling average.
XR, what’s the source you use for the number of COVID deaths?
joe’s speech in pittsburgh wapo:
XR, writing from memory rather than recent research. The long-term effects of HST’s two-terms solidified our role in the protection of Western Europe via NATO and Eleanor Roosevelt. His June 1950 no-holds-barred entry into the defense of South Korea eliminated Japan’s involvement in the peninsula and stopped China through our willingness to use the bomb above the Yalu. And, he make Key West a vacation destination. Oh, yeah, he survived an attacked by assassins.
That’s pretty neat that you got to witness the entirety of American hegemony, Mr. F.
Birth, rise, and now, fall.
So D’ump has added a press conference this afternoon to present his own version of what passes for the truth about Biden’s remarks today in Pittsburgh. This should be predictably stupid.
i once subscribed to the justification of said hegemony on the “moral leader of the world” basis, but that can’t be true of a nation that throws innocent children in cages, punitively, can it?
Mr Pogo, that would be https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
New Military Times survey of active duty troops has absolutely devastating numbers for Trump. The Republican Party has long considered the military as part of its base, but Biden is now leading Trump among service members 43/37.
https://t.co/2c5ifD4KI1
They must not appreciate trump dismissing the bounties put on their heads by Putin. Good for them.
Pogo, since he’s in our part of the world, we can take comfort in knowing that Cleveland is in first place in the central division as of yesterday. We had season tickets for ’48, ’49 and ’50. That was our last year. But, we saw wonderful people like Satchel Paige and Larry Doby make their entry.
Mr Flatus,
I agree with your assessment of President Truman’s extraordinary achievements, and I see trump successfully dismantling them. Truman had an advantage with the foreigners, because at the end of WWII every foreign country respected or feared us. trump has changed everything so that no country respects us, and as far as I can see only Mexico, Canada, France, the Low Countries, Scandinavia and Germany fear us. If Truman had failed, it’s possible that our military power could have kept the soviets/chicoms from world domination. However, if trump succeeds, I don’t think US morale will be high enough after 2024 to stem the tide of war and enslavement.
Bink
The parking lot is on the ground floor. The buildings already in existence provide several more as well as all the facilities. Other possibilities include school buildings in much better condition that ones currently standing complete with utilities.
Good to hear you, again, Craig!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/31/politics/twitter-scalise-tweet-manipulated-media/index.html
Scalice is doing the Russian’s dirty work for them. Yes, it’s been tagged and now removed, but if you present something to a jury, they can’t un-hear/un-see it after it gets thrown out. Scumbag Scalise. Of course, a jury of SFB’s peers/his base already buy that garbage. Scalice was aiming for a group that tRUMPsky has already lost. LOSERS!
Let’s hope those new voters vote straight Dem, all the way down the ballot.
Mr Man, are you still in Lubbock, or where have you gone to flower now ?
Oliver is one of the sharpest razors in the kit, alright.
White House press corps fell into Trump’s trap today, asking questions about protests and violence instead of the virus. Exactly what he wanted.
“krystallnacht horror…. The main only answer to this horror is to not only vote him OUT but to TAKE the senate. And keep the house, of course.
Hope Biden doesn’t take tRUMPsky’s bait about going to Kenosha, too. The last thing that town needs is more energy from a visit by either candidate.
Kudos to Joe Biden for sounding presidential about what is and isn’t protesting.
Maybe Joe just needs to hold his own presser (or release a video) every day about how to behave with regard to protests, COVID, etc. Just act like the POTUS now, because Orange Julius is NOT doing the job.
We should take governors seats and state legislature’s too.
Trump’s cascade of lies today in WH briefing reinforces why Biden ought not participate in a debate with this criminal fraud.
If there is a debate, without telling trumpity, they should have someone at the debate with a bell or buzzer fact check him as they go along.
Google Stephen Miller article. There are several recent ones about the Ghoul and how he and trumpity have put America into rubble.
Blue Bronc, I love Murdoch too. I wonder if there’ll be a season 14.
https://keepamericagreat.com/
Biden trolling tRUMPsky
https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2020/08/28/biden-trump-keep-america-great-website-campaign-promises/amp/
Old Man -Only 43 days until Texans can start voting!
I think it’s great that the Mavs are offering AA Center as a polling place, but I hope folks won’t wait for the cache of voting there on Election Day. Vote early!!! Lord only knows if tRUMPsky will send his goons to harass voters.
Sleepy Mitch no wonder the Kentucky turd doesn’t think the Russians did anything, Apparently he slept through the briefings
tRUMPsky’s jobs program is paying asshats to vandalize neighborhoods during peaceful protests, so the he can send in his goon squad. HE IS THE WORST AMERICAN. A traitor. A mass murderer. A fascist. Head of a crime family.
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