Monday Morning Reads – July 30
Happy Monday! Shoutout to Theresa for taking over the Monday MRs last week while I was out.
The TSA has reported on the in-flight behaviors of a small group of fliers under a program called “Quiet Skies.” This raises questions about surveillance during flights.
General John Kelly, once praised for his ability to tame wild animals, is now little more than a traffic controller, if that. His role these days is not quite traditional.
Congressman John Lewis was hospitalized after falling ill on a plane.
Amazon looms large over the Governors race. Both Kemp and Abrams support tax incentives, but outside groups are applying pressure on them.
Eight panels weighing 500 tons each took a total of 16 minutes to open and close. The Mercedes-Benz stadium roof is complete.
Notorious RBG: I have five more years on the Supeme Court, probably.
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Will Kremer
Will is an active member of the Georgia Republican grassroots. He previously served as Chairman of the Georgia Association of College Republicans, 2nd Vice Chairman of the 7th District Republican Party, and Treasurer of the Forsyth County Republican Party. Promise Land = Forsyth County.
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LOL! Hey Libs, meet at Andrew’s house! ROAD TRIP!!!!!
http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/29/trump-derangement-syndrome-therapy/
Sounds like a great party! Can we bring our pink hats, participation trophies, teddy bears and crying pillows? I hope he has a crying closet and a safe space room. If you got lost just look for the house with the yards signs “This is a “Gun Free Zone”, “Give Peace a Chance”, “Don’t Blame Me I voted for Hillary”, “Me Too”, White Guilt is Real” and “Only Black Lives Matter” . We can toss our man- card in the recyclable compost pit in the front yard…Speaking of compost…
I fully admit I’m not an economist but when you raise tariffs you don’t get to them raise hell with the fed for the resulting inflation.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/30/caterpillar-earnings-q2-2018.html
I know I’m surprised…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/07/nyt-publisher-complains-to-trump-about-potential-violence-against-journalists-ignores-over-500-violent-attacks-on-trump-supporters
But, but, but 9/11.
We should remember that.
Pretty weak but at least you tried. A participation trophy should be on the way!
Bill Would Protect Jobs of Federal Employees Using Marijuana
co-sponsored by Congressman Drew Ferguson
https://www.fedsmith.com/2018/07/29/bill-protect-jobs-federal-employees-using-marijuana/
This coming from a dork who needed two posts and likely 10 minutes to type 3 sentences?
Go load your firearms and give them a thorough cleaning.
“give them a thorough cleaning.”
Speaking of cleaning, how go the high colonics this morning?
Uh Doc, your waiting room is getting full. If I were you I would quit wasting our time and yours!
Jeez, did you guys get an email from [email protected] saying be more aggressive?
B, I’ve read this particular post by you over and over. No “racist” reference. Drew, is nottttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt gonna be happy!
Nevertheless, still waiting for you to make at least one comment, and hopefully two or more, in support of minorities. I’m sure you will get an opportunity, probably sooner rather than later.
This just in from Hollywood:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/399440-russian-soldiers-guard-trumps-destroyed-hollywood-star
“It would appear to me that if I’m Kelly, I would say to the president, ‘Do not talk to Michael Cohen anymore, it’s not in your interest. But I would have someone else talk to Michael Cohen…so he wouldn’t feel like he was out on a limb, and that the limb was being sawed off.” — Jack Kingston
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Apparently Jack didn’t get the memo that Cohen is long time lair. Or maybe he did. After all, Kingston has been defending an intemperate buffoon of a liar for a couple of year now.
“so he wouldn’t feel like he was out on a limb, and that the limb was being sawed off.”
Despite the fact that he IS out on a limb, and the limb is being sawed off.
So, lie to him!
Trump tweets abt Mueller’s conflict of interest because of a “business relationship” gone wrong.
We all know that’s only abt Mueller’s golf club membership.
But to Trump, it’s a business relationship because it’s part of his business.
All that is to point out that Trump is so Trump-absorbed that “relationship” and any objective or legal definition of a “business relationship” become ignored, subsumed by Trump-centrism and ego.
And that’s the metaphor for everything he does.
I just feel bad when ppl buy his BS. He’s just selling, and ppl keep buying.
And that’s not good, because many of his products turn out to be fraudulent or bankrupt.
From the Kelly Politico link:
“Many of Trump’s friends and advisers have concluded the president doesn’t really want a chief of staff — and he has several confidants urging him to operate without one. But for this president, keeping Kelly around offers the best of both worlds: somebody to blame when things go awry but nobody fettering his freedom of action.”
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Kelly has done away with “meeting crashers,” the West Wing aides who showed up for meetings uninvited, according to a White House aide, but he has not been able to curb Trump’s practice of adding and subtracting advisers to meetings throughout the day or of turning scheduled gatherings into freewheeling discussions of subjects that suit his interests — including those suggested to him by his coterie of outside advisers, including Fox News host Sean Hannity.
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“He comes down for the day, and whatever he saw on ‘Fox and Friends,’ he schedules meetings based on that,” said one former White House official. “If it’s Iran, it’s ‘Get John Bolton down here!’ … If he’s seen something on TV or [was] talking to Hannity the night before, he’s got lots of flexibility to do whatever he wants to do.”
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And it’s all MAGA.
“WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday announced $113 million in new technology, energy and infrastructure initiatives in emerging Asia at a time when China is pouring billions of dollars in investments into the region.”
I may be senile but didn’t we already have a trading agreement with Asian nations to counter China’s influence in southeast Asia. What happened to that agreement. Oh, that’s right it was cancelled . That was a mistake, wasn’t it?
And $113 million is not much against “billions of dollars”, you need to do better Prez.
“Amid increased U.S. trade frictions with China, Pompeo’s announcement sought to build on President Donald Trump’s “Indo Pacific” strategy that aims to cast the United States as a trustworthy partner in the region.
Pompeo said the United States was seeking a “free and open” Asia without domination by any one country, in what appeared to be a reference to China’s growing economic clout and heightened tensions in the disputed South China Sea.”
I have a good name for a new trade deal, “Trans Pacific Partnership II”.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade/wary-of-chinas-rise-pompeo-announces-u-s-initiatives-in-emerging-asia-idUSKBN1KK0V5
https://www.facebook.com/marisa.pyle.75/videos/1600217840088498/
Why is Brian Kemp using the official Georgia Secretary of State voter app to promote his campaign? Why do the social media links all lead to his official campaign pages? This is clearly deeply unethical behavior and is possibly illegally using a state platform to give an advantage to one candidate over another.
Did you expected better?
Rudy Giuliani has become a national laughingstock. Now the goalposts have been moved again. I would guess Mueller is moving in on Trump. Rudy needs to learn the word “conspiracy” because while collusion is not a crime conspiracy is.
I guess this is the latest “breaking news”…is any of this helping anyone get a job or just more Jerry Springer? Aint gonna be any charges on Trump because their is no collusion, whatever the hell that is.
Is it collusion to hire Russian spies to gin up a fake dossier, have your law firm pay the dossier creator, even have this informant on the FBI payroll. The FBI and Justice Department clearly exonerated one candidate before any interviews and then 3 days later tried to frame and destroy the other political candidate and later the new president. We have FBI agents confirming that is what they were doing. Now that sounds like CONSPIRACY to me. Does it you? If not, why not? It is well spelled out. Now tell me what Trump is guilty of doing? At worst, listening to someone that might have dirt on his opponent? Isnt that what the fake ass dossier was all about? Why are you not worried about that? Or maybe why in the heck is that NOT CONSPIRACY in your mind? Help me understand your thinking.
OK, why not:
is any of this helping anyone get a job No. What’s your point?
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Aint gonna be any charges on Trump because their is no collusion The “collusion” is not specifically about Trump. It is an investigation to see if there was any collusion, and if so, who was involved. There is a lot of smoke and that is why the press keeps pressing on this. And Trump doesn’t help himself because he is acting just as you would expect a guilty mobster to act. But it may just be others, or no one. We shall see.
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collusion would be collaborating with others in an illegal venture; a conspiracy. Now you know.
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Is it collusion to hire Russian spies to gin up a fake dossier, have your law firm pay the dossier creator, even have this informant on the FBI payroll. No.
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Now that sounds like CONSPIRACY to me. Does it you? Not sure what the hell you are talking about. If you want to be a little more specific, and stick to facts instead of hysteria, perhaps I can answer.
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Now tell me what Trump is guilty of doing? Who said Trump was guilty of anything?
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Why are you not worried about that? The dossier? It was oppo research. People do that all the time. Nothing illegal about private citizens paying people (even foreigners) for scandal info. There are whole industries that do that. BUT, if you are conspiring with a foreign power (or anyone else) to perform illegal acts such as hacking, or stealing emails, then you can get into trouble.
He was told that the Russian government wanted to help him. The RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT. He did not call the FBI. He did not do anything except the exact wrong thing which is say hey, yeah, let’s meet with them. The emails were stolen. If you receive stolen goods or conspire with someone who stole something it would be the same thing. So even if it isn’t proven that he conspired with the Russians or doesn’t meet the legal requirement for conspiracy you gotta say he’s the biggest useful idiot that Putin has ever had.
You Libs ok with bullying this UGA professor for calling Kemp “a nice guy?”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/30/professor-apologizes-for-calling-gop-candidate-nice-guy-on-twitter.html
Something Noway will ever write:
” I’ve read and learned so much from you all and will endeavor to be more thoughtful.”
He shouldn’t have used an official account for his statement. The article shows just one response to his tweet, which seems wrong at first blush, but it also doesn’t make much sense. So there is probably a lot more context to it- i.e. there is probably a whole Twitter thread that was omitted in the article, and the thread may make that response make some sort of sense. Maybe not. But I’m not going to read it all. And Fox News won’t care to report it. And it’s not like you’ll care about the context. Which is why Fox News doesn’t care.
So, you support the bullying. I never thought otherwise, actually. What Cabinet Member’s lunch are you going to bully tomorrow?
You talkin to me?
I don’t support bullying at all.
Including calling women hags, or calling decorated veterans dips**t.
As for the UGA prof, he is free to express his personal relationship- on his personal account.
Ahhhhhh, more insults. Please tell me you’re posting these opinions elsewhere, too.
Ol’ Noway says it here… It comes out, well…there!! Lol!! Y’all remember when Holly Hunter says that it was awful to be the smartest person in the room in “Broadcast News?” I’m here to tell you it’s not. I’m used to it!
https://www.axios.com/trumps-2018-midterm-schedule-campaigning-1a8a3278-b399-4e1c-8b20-d48a91a66956.html
That’s great news for us. The GOP is going to have a Russian agent campaigning for them!
What kind of rooms are you hanging out in?
My guess you’re generally the only one in them.
Except for your alternate personalities of DTM or Sally or whatnot.
This be the only room. Ohhhh, you forgot my alter-egos of Raleigh, Silver, Harry, Konop and any other conservative meenies I might be forgetting!!
So your head is full of your selves?
No. But I occupy a permanent place in yours. Rent free!!! Lol!
Sorry, dude.
No free riders.
But underneath it all, it looks like you do believe in the welfare state.
Hey! Leave me out of this food fight!
Hey Balance, can’t we say the same thing about you? If we want to hear the snowflake take, we can get the same canned responses from you and Andrew, Caroline …just go down the list. As long as its for more taxes, more gubment, a weaker military, more regulations, more free loaders, no fossil fuels, the end is near, no borders, more schools that run out little socialists…we have a pretty good idea where you will come down don’t we? White guilt, only black lives matter, the police are bad guys, tear down the statues, take a knee and all of the other idiocy…There is hope though for so many here. Usually, the older you get that affliction tends to go away —but not in all cases…
Say what about me? That I’m a bully? Online or otherwise?
No, you can’t say that about me.
I call out stupid, but I don’t call people untoward names or anything. And I won’t say you’re a racist unless you say or post something racist.
That’s more like self-defense than bullying.
I do think Noway and I have developed a fair and understood antagonism, tough.
Otherwise, you don’t know me.
The Snowflake-in-Chief couldn’t even handle all the mean questions from the mean newspapers. Or as we call them- questions.
Big difference here. Most republicans recoil in horror when the press comes after them. Trump on the other hand will take on everyone. Including the press and the ridiculous bias that they now have. Including the biased FBI, Justice Department and the swamp. Taking on the rhino republicans. Taking on the UN and Nato when they are in the wrong. Entrenched trade deals that are too one sided. He does not back down to any fight. The press is not used to his. The left is used to conservatives just rolling over a log and taking it and are now horrified that it is not working any more. They are apoplectic that they are not getting their way. Hence they act ridiculous, rude, over the top, immature, anti American and its embarrassing. So he aint no sniveling snowflake. He is a thin skinned a–hole…but the right guy at the right time in history for this country.
” act ridiculous, rude, over the top, immature, anti American and its embarrassing.”
Who are we talking about?
To me, having thin skin is the definition of being a snowflake. Whether the reaction is being sad or mad, it’s about a lack of a stable emotional core. I.e. the snowflake can melt or explode, but it still can’t stand up to adversity.
And this was referencing his banning of the CNN/pool reporter because he couldn’t tolerate the mere asking of the questions.
But he does seem to enjoy impromptu discussions w the press– when he can walk away when he wants.
The press and many liberals. Over the top reactions. Prime example. The Pink Hat Protests demanding impeachment before his inauguration…Over the top. No other way to put it. Sheer idiocy.
I wanted to get a little perspective on this for DTM, and discovered that there were a couple of politically-active non-profits that started a website for impeachment on inauguration day. One could characterize that as the most oppositional position to take when you’re in the opposition. But if you wanna call that over-the-top and idiotic, lookie here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/opinion/donald-trumps-impeachment-threat.html
Turns out Trumpy wanted to impeach Hillary BEFORE the election. And he promised endless investigations as well. Hmmm… Giuliani was in on it as well.
So, idiocy anyone?
Apparenlty millions of women marching all over the world has cooked his brains.