May 12, 2017 7:06 AM
Morning Reads for Friday, May 12, 2017
- South GA for the win! Nothing says ‘Murica better than watching folks jam a bushel of hotdogs in their pie hole.
- Watch out! There’s no human in that car! (Just as long as it’s not a Tesla…)
- 73 year old graduates law school.
- Still, it’s tough to top a Strad. But that day is getting closer.
- Puzzles are fun and rewarding. In more ways than one.
- So the ‘months with a R’ don’t matter anymore?
- Oh, yay! The cow farts are back!
- So many trips to HR, so little time.
- Somebody’s getting really rich, really fast.
- “If Trump had immediately fired everyone who deserved it, we’d barely have any government left to function — not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
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For the West, the nuanced vocal stylings of Don Trump Un: “I’m for open trade, free trade, but I also want smart trade and fair trade. But they’ll say, “He’s not a free-trader,” at 10%. But if I say we’re putting a reciprocal tax on, it may be 62% or it may be 47%, I mean massive numbers, and nobody can complain about it. It’s really sort of an amazing thing.”
Or for China, an excellent educational video in favor of free trade, even if it’ll probably end up used for propaganda purposes: The Belt and Road Is How.
It’s official as of this week. The Russia story is never going to go away. It will keep returning to the headlines, because Trump has a penchant for doing things to bring attention to it and make it worse.
Nixon was taken down by his attempts to cover up Watergate, including efforts to stifle the FBI that amounted to abuse of power and interference with an investigation. Trump is setting himself to go down even if he personally did not collude with the Russians. Ignorance, combined with his impulsiveness and childishness, will insure he continues managing the Russia story by tantrum, guaranteeing that it will never go away and it will get worse with time.
A guy on the radio this morning was saying that this was a coverup in search of a crime.
With all of this Comey Firing Hysteria coming from The Left, did any of yall object this badly when Bubba fired Sessions in ’93? I don’t believe so.
And let’s see…yall use to love anything Russia…now you don’t. They’re now the Boogerman.
Yall used to hate Comey…now you love him. Hmmmm…
Sally Fields in Sybil got nuthin’ on you people!
One more thing: Do you think the new Director will open an investigation of felonious unmasking?
So predictable. Because Clinton!!!
Except Bill Sessions was the subject of a 161-page ethics investigation by the DOJ, with sworn testimony from 100 FBI agents that he abused his post. And that Bill Sessions was called, twice, by Clinton and asked to resign before Clinton fired him.
There is precisely one thing in common between Sessions’ dismissal and Comey’s dismissal, and that is they were dismissed.
http://www.businessinsider.com/last-fbi-director-fired-bill-clinton-william-sessions-2017-5
“I have a certified letter. I’m not just saying that. It says I’m not involved in Russia.” – Trump.
Whoa!!! That’s only a step down from the Bible, of which Trump said “Nobody reads the Bible more than me.”
And here are some quotes, in case you’re among the group of Rubepublicans limited to two week memory spans—You do know you’re in the age of the internets where people can easily look things up?
Trump: “I have to give the FBI credit, that was so bad what happened originally, and it took guts for director Comey to make the move that he made in the light of the kind of opposition he had when they’re trying to protect [Clinton] from criminal prosecution.”
Sessions: “[Trump] had an absolute duty, in my opinion, 11 days [before the election] or not, to come forward with the new information that he has and let the American people know that.”
Sessions thinks executing an “absolute duty” is grounds to fire Comey.
As stated in my earlier comment, Trump has and will continue to guarantee the Russia story is never going away. Enjoy.
So Noway, in furtherance of my amateur psychology studies, I am interested in your response to these:
– As stated before, Sessions had been stealing money. This is not the same as Comey, right?
– Who are you saying used to love Russia? Liberals? Where did you get that idea from? We all tried to love Russia when Boris Yeltsin was around I guess, but since then, not so much. Right? You understand that Vladimir Putin has taken Russia into a distinctly adversarial position over the past few years, right? If people have changed their opinion of Russia, maybe they have a good reason to?
– Yes, we’all hated Comey in the fall. And speaking for The Left, we don’t love him now. But once we all learned (in March) that the FBI was conducting an investigation into the President’s campaign, he should kind of become off-limits to political manipulation, don’t you agree? So for us, it’s not about Comey, it’s about Trump- trying to figure out what he us up to and being incredulous that he apparently did not realize the repercussions of his actions. How could a sane person not realize that this would look like obstruction of justice?
– Unmasking- are you saying that someone like the Attorney General doesn’t have the authority to view names in redacted reports? Actually, from what I understand, technically they don’t, they have to get permission. But someone apparently gave that permission. What is felonious there? Or is it some other event you are referring to?
Ok…
The AG might have the permission to see the names in their official capacity, but not the legal OK to release them publicly. That is a felony and the new FBI director has a duty to investigate that. Trust me when I speculate some Obama officials will be charged criminally here.
What else…lemme re-read your post…
OK…Dems as a group have always loved and coddled Soviet/Russians. Never met one they didn’t adore…
Ok…Months and months of fruitless investigations and even admissions by gov’t officials (Clapper as example…) say there is no evidence of any Trump personal collusion or mischief…
Flynn might not have been truthful regarding speeches, but that’s it.
Again…Trump pulled off the upset of political history. None of the mainstream folks saw it coming. I humorously predicted it here on Election Day, but I ‘ll admit I was hoping out loud and slopped up and was correct. That was Blind Hog luck.
Hillary was dumbstruck as was the liberal side. The narrative now is to do anything to thwart Trump at every turn. Make him illegitimate. The only positive non-Fox positive story I have ever seen on Trump was CNN’s reporting he had a good State of the Union speech.
Anyway, I genuinely believe Hill engaged in crim behavior. Comey actually outlined the various aspects of the offenses before deciding not to indict.
Anyway, you and I will always remain on opposite sides of basically everything and we’ll see what actually happens but (you) try and admit that the mainstream media and the Dems are basically trying throwing everything up against the wall in hope of finding an impeachable offense.
Write back if there is anything else you wanna discuss this afternoon!
Best thing for you a me specifically, is to not engage in a back and forth in this particular set of issues. We’ll never agree or even be really civil about it. Let’s just give it, say, six months, to see how much if any of what I predict, happens. One of us will be more right than the other. I’m thinking it will be me!
In November a lot of us had to come to the realization that this country isn’t what we thought it was. But I will say, I don’t think it is what you think it is either.
I’ll give some some credit for that thought. Is reasonable. I’ll also give your side some acknowledgement that Trump is the gift that keeps in giving: The recording comment today was incredibly stupid. That we can agree on.
Pee on the electric fence? If only someone would tell Trump, or he otherwise get it in his mind, to lick a metal light pole on a 10 Fahrenheit day.
Trump banned the American press from his meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador. Russian state media promptly released pictures of Trump gripping and grinning with the diplomats after the meeting, the White House being too incompetent to realize that the person introduced as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s personal photographer also worked for the state-owned Tass news agency.
A WH official said “They tricked us” and “They lie.” Who knew? Yeah, the extreme vetting by the author of The Art of The Deal has us in good hands.
Well, “duh…”. How are they gonna continue to conspire to screw the Dems if they let “Merican” press in there?!?!?!? You two really have to get with the program!
Ohhhh….How about the Trump threat to release recordings of Comey’s saying he wasn’t under investigation??! Comey better think twice about lying!
Trump knows things, and that’s a threat that ought to have Comey quaking. Just like Obama quaked in response to Trump’s evidence that Obama wire-tapped him at Trump Tower.
Unrelated, but do any of you know of folks who have experience with LSD, especially microdosing? Here’s an article about Cary Grant. Is there anything yall have ever heard that it helps concentration or performance?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/12/cary-grant-how-100-acid-trips-in-tinseltown-changed-my-life-lsd-documentary
The movie “Becoming Cary Grant” will probably be worth seeing.
If this is addressed, it would be interesting. Even a the staunch conservative that I am, I have no prob whatsoever with legalizing all of it and regulating the dosage strengths. Open treatment centers if we must.
LOL! Hell, no! If I were to ever try and get some, places like that would be the last one’s I’d try! Maybe some ayahuasca and piranha fillets in some Amazon village.
LSD? Sri Lanka?
“Ceylon down the line, ’bout a….half a mile or so….”
No worries, John. Thank God for open posting in Morning Reads.
My third cousin runs a hospital in a larger inland cities of Sir Lanka. She’s on loan from her order to a convent there until 2019. Has a huge school too. So be nice to the nuns.
I know I’m surprised!
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article149808084.html
Oh, buh-ruther! Next there will be a big stink made about some white kid breathing out loud – you know it’s gotta be “racist” breathing.