National Laughingstock: Our Legion of Illegal Leakers Now Tell Us That a Senior WH Official Close to the President is a Key Target of the Probe

The law enforcement investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign has identified a current White House official as a significant person of interest, showing that the probe is reaching into the highest levels of government, according to people familiar with the matter.
The senior White House adviser under scrutiny by investigators is someone close to the president, according to these people, who would not further identify the official.

Some lefty claims it's... Jared Kushner.

@NickFalacci @ericgeller @MiekeEoyang It's jared Kushner have confirmed this with four people. I'm not speculating
— Yashar (@yashar) May 19, 2017

Posted by: Ace at 06:30 PM

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1 Its da joo spy!!!

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at May 19, 2017 06:21 PM (hMwEB)

2 First! What were we talking about?

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 19, 2017 06:22 PM (Aw2/v)

3 Well, if the Washington Compost asserts that, we know it's not true.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2017 06:22 PM (SRKgf)

4 and First! unlike da joo spy who is not first

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at May 19, 2017 06:22 PM (hMwEB)

5 G@ddammit.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 19, 2017 06:22 PM (Aw2/v)

6
What were we talking about?

I'm not quite sure.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2017 06:22 PM (IqV8l)

7 *smacks Jack Squat with moldy pudding*

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at May 19, 2017 06:23 PM (hMwEB)

8 There should have been fifty corpses in Pennsylvania Avenue the day Trump took office. He's been far too complacent.

Posted by: JEM at May 19, 2017 06:23 PM (TppKb)

9 Bannon

Posted by: Simplemind at May 19, 2017 06:23 PM (ZuGkg)

10 It's Jared Kushner who is being investigated? Well, maybe he and his silly wife will go back to doing real estate business.

Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 06:23 PM (a0IVu)

11 WaPo story based on an anonymous source. How much credence should I put into anything said in the story?

*makes stroking motion*

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 19, 2017 06:24 PM (R+30W)

12 Kushner is a mole.

Posted by: Simplemind at May 19, 2017 06:24 PM (ZuGkg)

13 What were we talking about?

Boobies.

You don't want links.

Posted by: JEM at May 19, 2017 06:24 PM (TppKb)

14 Surely this time they're telling the truth!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 19, 2017 06:24 PM (4ErVI)

15 Dammit willowed again, and I even thought it was funny.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 19, 2017 06:24 PM (Jcg9Q)

16 I think the republic is just done, over, kaput. We were too stupid to survive. If we have almost half the population hanging on the Post and its every word, we might as well be used by monkeys, they would be less of a risk than the brain dead left.

Posted by: Info at May 19, 2017 06:25 PM (CgJ26)

17 I think it's beer time.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 19, 2017 06:25 PM (Jcg9Q)

18 Looks like you can make up anything you want and cite 'anonymous source' these days. How insane.

Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 06:25 PM (a0IVu)

19 oops, just got willowed.

I was just saying that the Special Counsel investigation has already morphed into a general investigation of the finances of close advisers to Trump, even before Mueller himself is up to speed.

Maybe Jared, but I wouldn't rule out Bannon or Mnuchin. Those guys were at Goldman Sachs and did Hollywood financings and Mnuchin was involved with a mortgage lender.

When you have business people who have been involved in many complicated financial transactions over a long period of time, it really can become a case of Stalin's "show me the man and I'll show you the crime."

Posted by: Scalia's Ghost at May 19, 2017 06:25 PM (m5dkR)

20 Amazing how the Russkis meddled in our election from 5000 miles away by Podesta hitting up on female speed daters.

Posted by: TexasJew at May 19, 2017 06:26 PM (PopRA)

21 It can only be Jared.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 19, 2017 06:26 PM (7dpmG)

22 Deep state needs to make an example of two guys. One is trump. The other is bannon

Posted by: Simplemind at May 19, 2017 06:27 PM (ZuGkg)

23 Still, what an incoherent news article.

Something something Trump bad?

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 19, 2017 06:27 PM (Aw2/v)

24 The Russians are really geniuses for all the meddling they have been accused of...I am surprised they haven't taken over the world yet.

Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 06:27 PM (a0IVu)

25 I think it's beer time.

I google 'boobs and beer' and get this:

https://www.facebook.com/boobs.beer/

I have not gone below the fold yet.

Posted by: JEM at May 19, 2017 06:27 PM (TppKb)

26 Yashar

Who?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 19, 2017 06:27 PM (LTHVh)

27
Tick...tick...tick...

SPOON!!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2017 06:27 PM (IqV8l)

28 Let's hope it's Jared. Get him & the pretty liberal out of the WH.

Posted by: josephistan at May 19, 2017 06:28 PM (ANIFC)

29 And the leak just came out after what 6 months? What took them so long?

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2017 06:28 PM (Ot7+c)

30 Why has there not been a Tick movie yet?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 19, 2017 06:28 PM (RrhD2)

31 I wouldn't mind seeing Jared and Ivanka get out of politics and go back to NYC, but not this way, being removed from the field of play by a Special Counsel investigation.

Posted by: Scalia's Ghost at May 19, 2017 06:28 PM (m5dkR)

32 Definitely not beer time, don't have any. But a scotch could be in order.

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2017 06:29 PM (Ot7+c)

33 Followed by a Flaming Carrot movie! UT!!

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 19, 2017 06:29 PM (RrhD2)

34 It might be true, but I'm going to need more than the unsupported word of known liars.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 19, 2017 06:29 PM (LTHVh)

35 well, jushner was my first guess. how long until wapo finds out he is gay?

Posted by: yankeefifth at May 19, 2017 06:29 PM (cPsPa)

36 Bullshit- I think Bezos has been complicit with the Russians. Amazon is world wide therefore collusion.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2017 06:29 PM (gvftx)

37 Soooo..........it's that Jared the prevert guy from Subway. Never did trust him.

Posted by: CoolHandLuke at May 19, 2017 06:29 PM (ZeVko)

38 WHICH investigators?

Comey's FBI? Congress? Senate? NSA?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 19, 2017 06:29 PM (oVJmc)

39 My money is on Bannon as their target. They have hated him since day one, because Breitbart.

Posted by: GOULD at May 19, 2017 06:30 PM (Hj4t4)

40 I knew those mall stores were bullshit!! It was all a front!!

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 19, 2017 06:30 PM (RrhD2)

41 They're just trying to get us excited about this investigation.

Posted by: TexasDan at May 19, 2017 06:30 PM (yL25O)

42 Let's hope it's Jared. Get him & the pretty liberal out of the WH.

My biggest trouble with Trump wasn't that he was a loudmouth or anything else, but that he was an urbanite, a Noo Yawker.

And that goes double for Kushner and Mrs Kushner.

So a subdued role for the thirtieth-floor dwellers would not be a bad thing.

Posted by: JEM at May 19, 2017 06:30 PM (TppKb)

43 They're all lying.

I'm being serious here. I assume that every single solitary unnamed source is just made up from whole cloth.

This is just wearying. There's no way to fight people who refuse to be named.

I was until recently agnostic on the whole Russia thingy. Show me evidence and I will be persuaded. Now? Now I no longer care if Trump goes on camera tomorrow and says "Hey I paid the script kiddies in Uzbekistan to go in and change all those votes in PA and MI to me so I would beat Hillary, isn't that bigly yuge?"

Do. Not. Care.

So these people honestly think they can just Marvel retcon back to a timeline they prefer without there being some very real consequences indeed?

Posted by: alexthechick -where's my balloon Horde at May 19, 2017 06:30 PM (dEQP3)

44 Why has there not been a Tick movie yet?

A disaster flick about Lyme disease called Ticknado? Or maybe Ticks on a Plane?

Posted by: Basement Cat at May 19, 2017 06:30 PM (3C9q2)

45 37 Bullshit- I think Bezos has been complicit with the Russians. Amazon is world wide therefore collusion.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2017 06:29 PM (gvftx)

FWIW, Russia is one of the few big countries to not have its own domain name. There's Amazon UK, Amazon India, etc. But no Russia.

Posted by: josephistan at May 19, 2017 06:31 PM (ANIFC)

46 I miss Cruz.

Posted by: KansasCJ at May 19, 2017 06:31 PM (LNyLd)

47 Or this is wishful thinking. What so Jared was chummy with Vlad to get Trump elected.

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2017 06:31 PM (Ot7+c)

48 So Muller was appointed on Wednesday and they've already decided it's Kushner in under 48 hours --- *and* it's been leaked?????

Is this being sold to use by an unnamed Nigerian prince who, by the way, also has some exciting investment opportunities for us?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 19, 2017 06:31 PM (NOIQH)

49 It's not me. I'm in the shower eating a footlong!

Posted by: Jared from Subway at May 19, 2017 06:31 PM (89T5c)

50 Is that Bill Wynn's 'Early Night' clock?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 19, 2017 06:31 PM (oVJmc)

51 This will definitely finish Trump. He can't recover from this. It's over.

Posted by: Timothy Hayfield at May 19, 2017 06:31 PM (0ubO1)

52 This is some quasi- nth-dimensional shit here, folks.

Russian. Family. Nepotism. Jew. BOOM!

Posted by: Fritz at May 19, 2017 06:31 PM (TNQMS)

53 Yawn...

Posted by: runningrn at May 19, 2017 06:31 PM (4lzaU)

54 Definitely not beer time, don't have any. But a scotch could be in order.

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2017 06:29 PM (Ot7+c)

I hear ya brother. Just got home and poured one.
*Hands Skip a glass of Balvenie from the Caribbean cask*

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 19, 2017 06:32 PM (n5625)

55 Can Donnie TwoScoops (I say this lovingly) fire Jared from being his Son In Law? Ivanka not likey.

Posted by: CoolHandLuke at May 19, 2017 06:32 PM (ZeVko)

56 Miller Lite time

Posted by: KansasCJ at May 19, 2017 06:33 PM (LNyLd)

57 Yashar

Who?
Posted by: Grump928

Yashar. You know.

The one that got eaten by the black goo in the first season.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 19, 2017 06:33 PM (udajc)

58
FWIW, Russia is one of the few big countries to not have its own domain name. There's Amazon UK, Amazon India, etc. But no Russia.
Posted by: josephistan at May 19, 2017 06:31 PM (ANIFC)

.ru isn't Russia?

Posted by: Sausage McMuffin at May 19, 2017 06:33 PM (e4ZX9)

59 Melania the first First Lady we have nude pictures of(and one of the few we would want to see nude)

Posted by: steevy at May 19, 2017 05:02 PM (rmVvL)

First thought: Tillerson

Posted by: gNewt at May 19, 2017 06:33 PM (9YL+9)

60 I saw Goodman Kushner dancing with the devil!

I saw Goodman Trump talking with the devil!!

Posted by: Salem/ Washington 2017 at May 19, 2017 06:33 PM (qES5k)

61 If its anyone it could bring a big hammer down on Donald. It would be the only thing out of the media for months with accusations on dozens of others.

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2017 06:33 PM (Ot7+c)

62 It's not me. I'm in the shower eating a footlong!

Posted by: Jared from Subway at May 19, 2017 06:31 PM (89T5c)

ISWYDT. Heh!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 19, 2017 06:34 PM (n5625)

63 What will be will be. I do feel like Trump just running and especially by getting elected is exposing the FNM for the partisan commie shills they have always been. Whether this will lead to a movement by folks to buy local papers, perhaps band together to buy local TV and provide some honest reporting I do not know. At least there is radio, although I find it jarring to be listening to Rush and then get ABC partisan shill 'news' briefs on the hour.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 19, 2017 06:34 PM (eASYU)

64 There is a movie called Ticks,with Clint Howard.

Posted by: steevy at May 19, 2017 06:34 PM (rmVvL)

65 >>WHICH investigators?

Comey's FBI? Congress? Senate? NSA?

"Trust us. You don't need bother your silly little heads with such pesky details and logic."
--- Unnamed sources and a MSM set on destroying a president.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 19, 2017 06:34 PM (NOIQH)

66 At this point I believe nothing that comes out of the DNC organs, and that is what MSM are, until it has been confirmed by real journalists - citizen bloggers - or even the White House.

The journalistic profession has sunk so low that they are less trusted than their targets.

Posted by: Decaf at May 19, 2017 06:35 PM (oH94U)

67 "Russia is one of the few big countries to not have its own domain name"

I just looked up Russia dot com. Looks legit to me.

Posted by: Bwana Dik at May 19, 2017 06:35 PM (BO/km)

68 Why doesn't anyone investigate that fucking worm George Soros?

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at May 19, 2017 06:35 PM (CNHr1)

69 I google 'boobs and beer' and get this:

https://www.facebook.com/boobs.beer/

I have not gone below the fold yet.

Posted by: JEM at May 19, 2017 06:27 PM (TppKb)

It's pretty much what it says. Mostly boobs though from what little I saw.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 19, 2017 06:35 PM (Jcg9Q)

70 Known Liars say things!
Confirmed by anonymous sources!
Trust us, this time we mean it!

Sure boy, we'll believe you when we see the wolf, and no sooner.

(This lack of a credible press is gonna cost us dearly some day)

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 19, 2017 06:35 PM (z79tQ)

71 This will end well.

Posted by: The Question at May 19, 2017 06:35 PM (7wyDO)

72 josephistan- My point exactly. It's all bullshit.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2017 06:35 PM (gvftx)

73 Yashar. You know.

The one that got eaten by the black goo in the first season.

Ah, Yashar Tar.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 19, 2017 06:36 PM (LTHVh)

74 If, and I do mean that's a big if, his own son-in-law has been involved in dirty deeds done dirt cheap, then Trump will fire him. His daughter will forgive him, because she's having a ball being in the spotlight.

And I ain't the biggest fan in the world of Jared, who seems to have an awful lot of Prog friends. Who will of course stab him in the back at the very first good opportunity, cuz Progs.

But, NYT -- The news source that most resembles that load in your pants after you decided to risk an iffy fart.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 19, 2017 06:36 PM (wTwJ2)

75 So what they're saying is they suspect a Democrat colluded with the Russians.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 19, 2017 06:36 PM (IDPbH)

76 Titties and beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Posted by: Bwana Dik at May 19, 2017 06:37 PM (BO/km)

77 With hundreds of millions of dollars in budgets and hundred of journalists among the MSM, why is it that NONE OF THEM can find someone to go on the record about this made up crap?

Unnamed sources. The messengers of anarchy.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 19, 2017 06:37 PM (arhmY)

78 That thing we said yesterday?

Ok that was bullshit.

This new shiny thing?

Trump is finished this time!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 19, 2017 06:37 PM (4ErVI)

79 They went to Jared!

Posted by: goodluckduck at May 19, 2017 06:37 PM (yqvys)

80 Every detail of Trump will be pounced on. Every detail of Obama was suppressed, so Jeremiah Wright, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and everything else they didn't want to deal with wasn't.

However, any stray word, any glance, any expression, any syllable of Trump's is going to be a High Crime and Misdemeanor.

They will then decide that this should void the legitimate votes of 60+ million people.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 19, 2017 06:37 PM (oVJmc)

81 >>I saw Goodman Kushner dancing with the devil!

Threadwinner!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 19, 2017 06:37 PM (NOIQH)

82
There is a movie called Ticks,with Clint Howard.
Posted by: steevy

Does he drink Tranya?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2017 06:37 PM (IqV8l)

83 People!!!
THE Tick!!
Arthur!
American Maid!!
Batmanuel!!
Sewer Urchin!!!
Etc!!!

Now get with the program!

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 19, 2017 06:37 PM (RrhD2)

84 I'm so old I still remember when the left claimed that a President Trump wouldn't be willing to talk with foreign countries.

That was...late 2016.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 19, 2017 06:38 PM (aZq03)

85 58
FWIW, Russia is one of the few big countries to not have its own domain name. There's Amazon UK, Amazon India, etc. But no Russia.
Posted by: josephistan at May 19, 2017 06:31 PM (ANIFC)

.ru isn't Russia?
Posted by: Sausage McMuffin at May 19, 2017 06:33 PM (e4ZX9)

There's some website amazon - russia.ru, but it looks odd. Could be legit.

Posted by: josephistan at May 19, 2017 06:38 PM (ANIFC)

86
Ace, and all:

My default position is simple - the media is now publishing utter lies and I do not care. In fact, if Donald Trump were guilty of something, from eating boogers to shooting someone on 5th Avenue, I could not care less because I could no longer believe it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 19, 2017 06:38 PM (mbhDw)

87 Try Bourbon and Boobs. The alcohol content is higher so maybe the boobs are bigger?

Posted by: CoolHandLuke at May 19, 2017 06:38 PM (ZeVko)

88 So this is what happens if you let a Democrat marry into the family.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 19, 2017 06:38 PM (LTHVh)

89 It's Bannon.

Although if Kushner goes to jail don't see any reason why Chelsea Clinton shouldn't.

Posted by: Simplemind at May 19, 2017 06:38 PM (ZuGkg)

90 I miss the good ol' days when the National Enquirer, USA Today and the Weekly World News were laughed at for their fake ass news.

Where have you gone Bay Boy? A nation turns it's lonely eyes to you....woo woo woo.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 19, 2017 06:38 PM (5VlCp)

91 Jared has the same name as that other Jared who diddled kids so you know totes guilty and stuff.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 19, 2017 06:38 PM (4ErVI)

92 Trump could save himself a lot of trouble if he retired Kushner and Ivanka from their current positions. It just looks wrong.

I didn't like it when Roslyn Carter was sent on diplomatic missions and Hillary was way over what was/is appropriate for a First Lady so I don't see why we should relax standards for Trump.

I know that it is hard for him to trust people considering the poisoned atmosphere in Washington but I think he did better when Bannon had a greater role.

Posted by: Decaf at May 19, 2017 06:40 PM (oH94U)

93 We can only HOPE its Jarrod...

So he will go away....

Posted by: Don Q. at May 19, 2017 06:40 PM (NgKpN)

94 The same people who believe this Russia controversy without a shred of evidence also believe that the science is settled on global warming and that a guy can be a girl if he really wants it bad enough.

I'm beginning to think we can't reason with these people.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2017 06:40 PM (/tuJf)

95 They just enjoy probes...and anonymous sources and their ignorance of the law. But mainly probes.

Posted by: ryukyu at May 19, 2017 06:40 PM (Ta1DO)

96 79, if my name was Jared, It can only be Jared would be my ringtone.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 19, 2017 06:40 PM (7dpmG)

97 80 Every detail of Trump will be pounced on. Every detail of Obama was suppressed, so Jeremiah Wright, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and everything else they didn't want to deal with wasn't.

However, any stray word, any glance, any expression, any syllable of Trump's is going to be a High Crime and Misdemeanor.

They will then decide that this should void the legitimate votes of 60+ million people.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 19, 2017 06:37 PM (oVJmc)

Was Obama ever mentioned when Benghazi was discussed anywhere? If you arrived here from another planet during that time you would have thought Hillary Clinton was President.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 19, 2017 06:40 PM (IDPbH)

98 #59, don't know how that happened.

Posted by: gNewt at May 19, 2017 06:40 PM (9YL+9)

99 So the independent investigator was appointed the other day & already he has a serious person on interest? Get this Mueller guy on the Jack the Ripper case!

Posted by: josephistan at May 19, 2017 06:40 PM (ANIFC)

100 Slick Billy Clinton left something slimy on a blue dress. Comey leaves his slimy snot on a blue curtain. OK, NOW i'm starting to connect the dots to all this.........Woodward, Bernstein, where are you when the country needs you?

Posted by: CoolHandLuke at May 19, 2017 06:41 PM (ZeVko)

101 Why just other day, I was told that this special counsel thinggy would help, by, you know, getting the fauxtroversy out of the news.

No, it made no f***ing sense whatsoever, and wouldn't have, even back when there was some semblance of an actual lawful govt. staffed by actual public servants. The Beltway, and with it the country, have become a farce.

So I just marveled at the utter silliness of the idea without comment.

And now I'll limit comment to pointing out that, um, it would appear the existence of a special counsel - shockingly - will have no effect on the ceaseless infowar against Trump. Imagine.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 19, 2017 06:41 PM (QDnY+)

102 48 So Muller was appointed on Wednesday and they've already decided it's Kushner in under 48 hours --- *and* it's been leaked?????
-----------------

Mueller's role here is to be the public face of this Dem/GOPe takedown of Trump. Nothing more than that.

Remember how Comey was pushed out on stage and made the public face of the whitewash of the Clinton classified info breaches? He was not the AG or even a Deputy AG. Why him? Because he was the best person they could put out there in front of the camera in terms of perceived integrity.

This effort against Trump has been and will continue to be driven by the same crew of Obama/Clinton loyalists at the FBI and lawyers to be hired at the Special Counsel's office.

77-year old Mueller's role is to come out periodically to step in front of the cameras and intone terrible things about Trump in a deep, measured, authoritative voice.

Posted by: Scalia's Ghost at May 19, 2017 06:41 PM (m5dkR)

103 People!!!
THE Tick!!
Arthur!
American Maid!!
Batmanuel!!
Sewer Urchin!!!
Etc!!!

Now get with the program!
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 19, 2017 06:37 PM (RrhD2)

----
The live-action show sucked. Give me the animated series. (Chairface Chippendale!)

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 19, 2017 06:41 PM (rJUlF)

104 They dialed bannon down because they got wind this was coming.

Posted by: Simplemind at May 19, 2017 06:41 PM (ZuGkg)

105 Ah crud, I confused the 2 slimes, WaPo and NYT, which both have current red link treatment at Drudge, over basically the same topic.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 19, 2017 06:42 PM (wTwJ2)

106 Get the jew!!!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2017 06:42 PM (39g3+)

107 Spoon!!!

Posted by: eleven at May 19, 2017 06:42 PM (qUNWi)

108 I'm so old I still remember when the left claimed that a President Trump wouldn't be willing to talk with foreign countries.

pff. W was both a evil genius and paste-licking imbecile.

And the Left believed them both, simultaneously.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 19, 2017 06:42 PM (oVJmc)

109 I still contend it is simple...

Hillary was NOT guilty, even though she did many blatantly illegal things, because she didn't INTEND to be bad...

Trump IS guilty, because while he did nothing illegal, he INTENDED to do bad things....

Rule of Woman... not of Law....

Posted by: Don Q. at May 19, 2017 06:42 PM (NgKpN)

110 zzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 19, 2017 06:42 PM (Uxokn)

111 Day one I said his name is Bushmueller.

Posted by: gNewt at May 19, 2017 06:42 PM (9YL+9)

112 Banning traveled a lot as a reporter and met some characters.

Posted by: Simplemind at May 19, 2017 06:43 PM (ZuGkg)

113
The live-action show sucked. Give me the animated series. (Chairface Chippendale!)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread

Amen to that.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2017 06:43 PM (IqV8l)

114 Test

Posted by: Simplemind at May 19, 2017 06:44 PM (ZuGkg)

115 5X5

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 19, 2017 06:44 PM (LTHVh)

116 Were they in on the uranium deal with Hillary and the evil Russians?

Posted by: torabora at May 19, 2017 06:44 PM (1e33z)

117 I can see The Kush being the one.

Plus wtf was Trump thinking telling the Russians about firing Comey to reduce pressure. Come on man.

Posted by: #neverskankles at May 19, 2017 06:45 PM (yf4fY)

118 When is the no more credibility left? The same outlets with the same "leaked" stories. this will not end well for one group or the other.

Posted by: USNtakim at May 19, 2017 06:45 PM (zZWkn)

119 The WaPo sounds like they are possessed.

Posted by: washrivergal at May 19, 2017 06:46 PM (+eKyB)

120 It's the transcript secretary. Float the witch.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2017 06:46 PM (gvftx)

121
Plus wtf was Trump thinking telling the Russians about firing Comey to reduce pressure. Come on man.

Don't believe what the MSM tells you. Do not accept their premise.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 19, 2017 06:46 PM (oVJmc)

122 Maybe he should divorce Ivanka, I hear Huma is available.

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2017 06:47 PM (HgMAr)

123 "18 Looks like you can make up anything you want and cite 'anonymous source' these days. How insane. "

Correction. You can against a GOP prez, but not against hrc or a sanders, etc. bc if anyone on the right did so, at once, temporarily for that case, the MSM would suddenly point out the folly, and ignore it each time for any later GOP president. You know, like they did not care about obamas abuses for 8years, kissed up the entire time, but suddenly care about states rights and exact following of law now for trump, unless it would mean ditching sanctuary cities, of course. I'm done with the left, they need total removal from this nation. 100 percent denial of even citizenship rights. Deportation to Syria is an option, for starters...

Posted by: Info at May 19, 2017 06:47 PM (CgJ26)

124 This is actually another episode of Looney Toons.

Waiting for Porky Pig to stutter out...."That's All, Folks!"

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 19, 2017 06:47 PM (S6Pax)

125 Hopefully, Trump moves to break Bezos and his little toys.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 19, 2017 06:47 PM (4ErVI)

126 Possessed. Trenchant observation.

Posted by: Simplemind at May 19, 2017 06:47 PM (ZuGkg)

127 This is so tedious. They really are unhinged with rage. Do they think all the people who voted for Trump are just going to sit back and accept this. Madness.

Posted by: Thursby at May 19, 2017 06:47 PM (1wofY)

128 According to who, NYT?

Posted by: Les Kinetic at May 19, 2017 06:47 PM (U6f54)

129 Russians and Joos, colluding together...mass hysteria!

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 19, 2017 06:48 PM (0mRoj)

130 Hey Nick - What's the penance when you are wrong?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2017 06:48 PM (gvftx)

131 SPOON!

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 19, 2017 06:49 PM (0mRoj)

132 I believe everything and I believe nothing. I suspect everyone and I suspect no one

Posted by: Jacque Clouseau, on loan to U.S. special investigation at May 19, 2017 06:49 PM (yqvys)

133 Yike, tornado in the area. gotta duck.

Posted by: KansasCJ at May 19, 2017 06:49 PM (LNyLd)

134 According to who, NYT?
I think this one is the WaPo... The "Trump told the Ruskies he's relieved that that nut job Comey is gone." came from the NY slimes... All within a few moment s of each other...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 19, 2017 06:49 PM (O2RFr)

135 Oh vey. All too tiresome. Nothing is going to end up amounting to anything criminal and somewhere along the line, folks are going to tune it all out completely. Especially when college and pro football starts.

Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 06:49 PM (a0IVu)

136 Further evidence that the scientific community is chock full of ~~sci-fi~~ fantasy writers.

Scientists think they found proof of a parallel universe
Scientists believe they may have discovered evidence of a parallel universe that crashed into our own in a galactic impact mirroring a car crash.

http://nypost.com/2017/05/18/scientists-think-
they-found-proof-of-a-parallel-universe/

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 19, 2017 06:49 PM (R+30W)

137 127 This is so tedious. They really are unhinged with rage. Do they think all the people who voted for Trump are just going to sit back and accept this. Madness.

Posted by: Thursby at May 19, 2017 06:47 PM (1wofY)

Yeah I think they might believe that. Can you blame them? There's never been any serious pushback on any of the madness they've pushed. In the last few years it's totally gotten insane and still the only thing that happens is people go vote...and then nothing really changes.

So yeah I think they think we'll take this.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 19, 2017 06:49 PM (4ErVI)

138 It's the transcript secretary. Float the witch.

There seem to be transcripts and recordings popping up everywhere from conversations I'd have thought private. And people leaking at the speed of light.

Assuming that everyone has an axe to grind I don't take this as unprecedentedly rich amounts of information, but a hideous fog of self-interest which makes me believe nothing anyone says.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 19, 2017 06:50 PM (gIRsn)

139 Plus wtf was Trump thinking telling the Russians about firing Comey to reduce pressure. Come on man.

Don't believe what the MSM tells you. Do not accept their premise.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 19, 2017 06:46 PM (oVJmc)

======

Yep. The Media purposely and happily lies to you every day. Things make a lot more sense when viewed with this in mind.

Posted by: GOULD at May 19, 2017 06:50 PM (Hj4t4)

140 136 Further evidence that the scientific community is chock full of sci-fi fantasy writers.

Scientists think they found proof of a parallel universe
Scientists believe they may have discovered evidence of a parallel universe that crashed into our own in a galactic impact mirroring a car crash.

http://nypost.com/2017/05/18/scientists-think-
they-found-proof-of-a-parallel-universe/

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 19, 2017 06:49 PM (R+30W)

Make up bullshit, get government grants. I should've become a scientist.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 19, 2017 06:50 PM (0mRoj)

141 "Hey, don't knock crazy. The Romans were crazy, and they got all the girls."

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 19, 2017 06:50 PM (RrhD2)

142 121
Plus wtf was Trump thinking telling the Russians about firing Comey to reduce pressure. Come on man.

Don't believe what the MSM tells you. Do not accept their premise.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 19, 2017 06:46 PM (oVJmc)

Spicer admitted this did happen. Its an official record of the meeting. Cant blame anyone but Trump for this one

Posted by: #neverskankles at May 19, 2017 06:50 PM (yf4fY)

143 Why has there not been a Tick movie yet?

==

Amazon is doing a Tick tv series.

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at May 19, 2017 06:50 PM (hMwEB)

144 Hamlet? Shakespeare?

READ A BOOK!

Posted by: Handy at May 19, 2017 06:51 PM (yqvys)

145 I'd say that describing Comey as a nut job is spot on.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 19, 2017 06:51 PM (oVJmc)

146 94 The same people who believe this Russia controversy without a shred of evidence also believe that the science is settled on global warming and that a guy can be a girl if he really wants it bad enough.

I'm beginning to think we can't reason with these people.

U just thinking
dat now???

Posted by: Info at May 19, 2017 06:51 PM (CgJ26)

147 In the meantime, the attack dog of David French and Bill Kristol, Egg f'n McMuffin, has all but been outed as the louse who leaked the tape of Kevin McCarthy. "But they're patriots, dontchaknow!" Actually, I don't.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 19, 2017 06:51 PM (toi7g)

148 128 According to who, NYT?
Posted by: Les Kinetic at May 19, 2017 06:47 PM (U6f54)

+++

Yep, I can see this. They go back and forth getting their "scoops" whilst chugging down their juice boxes and chewing on their straws.

Posted by: washrivergal at May 19, 2017 06:51 PM (+eKyB)

149 How do you conduct an investigation with subpoenas etc at a target like Jared or Bannon without having probable cause as to that target.

I'm calling shenanigans

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 19, 2017 06:51 PM (r4ZGR)

150 131
There is no spoon.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at May 19, 2017 06:51 PM (TwwWO)

151 I'd say that describing Comey as a nut job is spot on.

How can you say that?

Posted by: Comey hiding behind the oval office curtains at May 19, 2017 06:51 PM (O2RFr)

152 "Scientists believe they may have discovered evidence of a parallel universe that crashed into our own in a galactic impact mirroring a car crash."

Was it a Nash?

Posted by: Mirror Universe Bwana Dik at May 19, 2017 06:52 PM (BO/km)

153 "Whether this will lead to a movement by folks to buy local papers, perhaps band together to buy local TV and provide some honest reporting I do not know."

-----------

No need for bricks and mortar or reams of paper. Everyone now has a smart phone, except my husband but then he has me. The revolution has already happened, citizens are doing it for themselves.

The MSM are the dinosaurs who are thrashing around in their death throes. The uptick in audiences for Maddow, Colbert et al is because people are flocking to see the train crash. The expectation is that someone will start baying at the moon soon and they all want to be there to see it live.

Posted by: Decaf at May 19, 2017 06:52 PM (oH94U)

154 145 I'd say that describing Comey as a nut job is spot on.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 19, 2017 06:51 PM (oVJmc)

++++

Well I do too. Trump is not wrong. Again.

Posted by: washrivergal at May 19, 2017 06:52 PM (+eKyB)

155 "Hmm. Single syllables! A formidable opponent!"

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 19, 2017 06:53 PM (RrhD2)

156
Buh-bye J-Rod

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 19, 2017 06:53 PM (W6iva)

157 Cnn chryon says "sources" WH lawyers researching impeachment." Wut.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 19, 2017 06:53 PM (7dpmG)

158 : Comey hiding behind the oval office curtains

==

you know who else hid behind curtains?

Jane Eyre

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at May 19, 2017 06:53 PM (hMwEB)

159 Yeah,that hits the spot.

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2017 06:54 PM (Ot7+c)

160 Are we ever going to fight back or just take it up the ass?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 19, 2017 06:54 PM (SjImc)

161 'it would appear the existence of a special counsel - shockingly - will have no effect on the ceaseless infowar against Trump"

And it's been, what, two whole days?

Posted by: GalosGann at May 19, 2017 06:54 PM (md1b/)

162 WH lawyers researching impeachment." Wut.

Sure, the WH is gonna impeach itself...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 19, 2017 06:54 PM (O2RFr)

163 Quote from the parallel-universe paper:
There will be one where you wrote this column and I read it, even a really weird one in which Donald Trump uses Twitter to spread nothing but amusing cat videos

It mocked Trump, so it passed peer review.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 19, 2017 06:54 PM (6FqZa)

164 Are we ever going to fight back or just take it up the ass?

Up the ass

Posted by: The Republican party with the sore butt... at May 19, 2017 06:55 PM (O2RFr)

165 They're all lying.

I'm being serious here. I assume that every single solitary unnamed source is just made up from whole cloth.

This is just wearying. There's no way to fight people who refuse to be named.

I was until recently agnostic on the whole Russia thingy. Show me evidence and I will be persuaded. Now? Now I no longer care if Trump goes on camera tomorrow and says "Hey I paid the script kiddies in Uzbekistan to go in and change all those votes in PA and MI to me so I would beat Hillary, isn't that bigly yuge?"

Do. Not. Care.

So these people honestly think they can just Marvel retcon back to a timeline they prefer without there being some very real consequences indeed?

Posted by: alexthechick -where's my balloon Horde at May 19, 2017 06:30 PM (dEQP3)

They aren't going to quit.

Posted by: gNewt at May 19, 2017 06:55 PM (9YL+9)

166 Wut? The subway guy?

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 06:55 PM (B11vO)

167 Well I just placed my first coffee order outside of Bezos' company. I could have ordered direct from my usual brand of Fresh Roasted LLC but their web page sounded quite liberal so I'm trying an entirely new place coffee bean direct. Not Black Rifle as I don't like dark roasts and I like having my morning super size truckstop mug of coffee and don't want to shrink it in half because the coffee has twice the caffeine. *BRC only lighter roast seems to be their 'caffeinated as cufk' although perhaps I'll end up with this eventually.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 19, 2017 06:55 PM (eASYU)

168 Russians and Joos, colluding together...mass hysteria!

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 19, 2017 06:48 PM (0mRoj)
...........

Plus HITLER and you have a real goathump.

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2017 06:56 PM (HgMAr)

169

Posted by: A. Stoic Lee at May 19, 2017 06:56 PM (0ubO1)

170
you know who else hid behind curtains?

Polonius

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2017 06:56 PM (IqV8l)

171 One would think that the president would have done something about finding who on his staff or in the White House is leaking all this stuff. I'm just a wee bit confused about that issue.

Posted by: Tuna at May 19, 2017 06:56 PM (jm1YL)

172 The Russia thing was bogus from the beginning and it's just morphed and morphed into more NOTHING.

I can't even anymore....such bullshit.

Posted by: Tami at May 19, 2017 06:56 PM (Enq6K)

173 I think "drain the swamp" is really a psyop in order to raise the muck above water level so everyone can witness it. And he's right. The goggles do nothing.

Posted by: Corona at May 19, 2017 06:56 PM (Vequ/)

174 This will lead to whomever has stake in a HUGE data mining firm that shapes opinions. Think boys and trolls as well. Advanced Computer analytics. And whatever else the umbrella this technology and company falls under.

Jared owns large stake in one and the Mergers as well.

I think this is the angle they are going for, which both parties do this. But The Narrative and Russia as our arch enemy has trillions of dollars on it playing out.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 19, 2017 06:56 PM (O6j88)

175 Trump should share his unvarnished views (Comey is a nutjob - very well founded, from the looks of things with Comey) with the public, not just Lavrov.

And he and Sessions had better be working on something to address the collapse of public institutions (the insubordination and law-breaking, revelation of classified info). It's now out of control.

When Dubya, inexplicably and inexcusably, failed to find and prosecute the felons involved in the compromise of US/allied surveillance programs - in time of war, a very hot war - it was a major blow to the country.

It's now verging on Third World chaos and lawlessness. And if Trump doesn't pick a Patton-esque FBI director to restore order, his failure will make Dubya's small in comparison.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 19, 2017 06:56 PM (QDnY+)

176 33 Followed by a Flaming Carrot movie! UT!!
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 19, 2017 06:29 PM (RrhD2)
----
I think you mean "before all else". They had the Mystery Men with no Flaming Carrot?!

It would have to be better than Alien: Covenant which I just saw. *soul-deep sigh*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2017 06:57 PM (NT3RT)

177
you know who else hid behind curtains?

*****

Scarlett O'Hara?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 19, 2017 06:57 PM (wPiJc)

178 W00t! Subotai Bahadur "liked" my comment over at Instapundit. This weekend is off to a good start.

*beams*

Posted by: rickl at May 19, 2017 06:57 PM (sdi6R)

179 Way to sabotage our national security to oust Trump...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 19, 2017 06:58 PM (O2RFr)

180 The sky is falling, the sky is falling.

Rush says that they are waiting to announce the new FBI guy until Russia signs off on it.

Having a nice glass of cardboardeaux and feeling no pain.

Posted by: ALH at May 19, 2017 06:58 PM (Iu5oK)

181 Ok, Donny Two Scoops, how many of these leaks are you going to put up with? I've heard nothing of investigations into find out who the leakers are.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 19, 2017 06:58 PM (kTF2Z)

182 Yes rhomboid, this is why we lose.

To believe appointing a leftist special counsel would tamp down not ratch up the nonsense, just classic.

Now, each rumor or light leak of any detail of the investigation will be daily news, 24 7. Speculation of how it's a pattern and trump is Nixon will be magnified 1000fold. The right is gobsmakingly in denial naive about the left and their resolve. These people are off the flocking charts insane, which is why their judges, if u can call them that, can say with a straight face and rule over those ex cutive orders as they do, making it up as hey go along and even act self righteous over it. The right still does not get it. This is total war, not a high school debate club meeting. It might not b fought physically, but it's a war nevertheless, and its time the right started acting like it.

Posted by: Info at May 19, 2017 06:59 PM (CgJ26)

183 >>>you know who else hid behind curtains?

Oz great and powerful?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 19, 2017 06:59 PM (RrhD2)

184 It would have to be better than Alien: Covenant which I just saw. *soul-deep sigh*
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2017 06:57 PM (NT3RT)

So...no good?

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 06:59 PM (B11vO)

185 So Mr. Nut Job has agreed to testify before Congress after Memorial day.... In an open door session.....

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 19, 2017 06:59 PM (O2RFr)

186 you know who else hid behind curtains?

Polonius

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2017 06:56 PM (IqV8l)

He. Was. Not. Hiding behind the curtains he was blending in, like camouflage.

Posted by: Jane Edgar at May 19, 2017 07:00 PM (9YL+9)

187 Comey is a nut job; hiding behind the drapes and blowing snot on the drapes...he has a weird drape fetish.

Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 07:00 PM (a0IVu)

188 Bots and trolls. Not Boys and trolls.

Posted by: Who Was Phone? at May 19, 2017 07:00 PM (O6j88)

189 Rush says that they are waiting to announce the new FBI guy until Russia signs off on it.

trolololo

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 19, 2017 07:00 PM (6FqZa)

190 It would have to be better than Alien: Covenant which I just saw. *soul-deep sigh*
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2017 06:57 PM (NT3RT)

So the gey couple didn't populate the new colony?

Posted by: josephistan at May 19, 2017 07:00 PM (ANIFC)

191 Mr. Nut Job, was his father Odd Job from the James Bond movie?

Posted by: ALH at May 19, 2017 07:00 PM (Iu5oK)

192 a weird drape fetish.

Uh. Eeww.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 19, 2017 07:01 PM (6FqZa)

193 Oh, goodie! Marie Harf. Wonder what she'll have to say.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 19, 2017 07:01 PM (kTF2Z)

194 The thing that is infuriating is that Eric Holder, Susan Rice, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Podesta, Corzine and a cast of thousands of Dems should be doing serious time in pound me in the ass prison but have been allowed to skate because democrat and some made up bullshit is going to hamstring Trump because Republican.

Arghhh!!

Posted by: Kreplach at May 19, 2017 07:01 PM (RsRfv)

195 Can you imagine if he said to tell Vladimir they'll have more flexibility after the election.

With the media, that would be a--o-k if uttered by a democrat. A republican? Impeach and ride out on a rail.

People are going to have to camp outside the homes of the people who run the media companies to stop this. Bezos will have to be made to be very uncomfortable. The clowns who run the NYT will have to have a hard time getting past the throng of protesters throwing shit to get to work. That's the only way these phuckers stop.

Posted by: charley horse at May 19, 2017 07:01 PM (+kahX)

196 It would have to be better than Alien: Covenant which I just saw. *soul-deep sigh*

So long! farewell!

Posted by: Eris' money at May 19, 2017 07:01 PM (6FqZa)

197 I bought new drapes recently with my JC Penney card.

So much nice that the ones that Walmart carries.

Posted by: ALH at May 19, 2017 07:01 PM (Iu5oK)

198 It is really hard to absorb in my head that the very tippy-top man of the F.B.I. would hide behind the drapes in the White House. I believe it, but I just can't even.

Posted by: washrivergal at May 19, 2017 07:02 PM (+eKyB)

199 I seem to have missed a HQ meme. Comey hiding behind the curtains?

Posted by: Tami at May 19, 2017 07:02 PM (Enq6K)

200 donna- did it say he was bringing his subpoena and diary in hand?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2017 07:02 PM (gvftx)

201
You know who else put people in camps?

No, not that guy -- the other guy.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 19, 2017 07:02 PM (jCN1w)

202 "you know who else hid behind curtains? "

I saw CNN highlighting Comey's peek-a-boo routine while I was exercising. Not exactly alpha male behavior is it?Someone always has that damned station on. Big headlines scrolling across the bottom of the screen: " Researching Impeachment", "He was crazy!" And on and on. It's like CNN has become something worse than the National Enquirer. I took my glasses off and went back to pedaling.

Posted by: Tuna at May 19, 2017 07:02 PM (jm1YL)

203 donna- did it say he was bringing his subpoena and diary in hand?

They would never subpoena him and you can be sure he will have his diary with him...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 19, 2017 07:03 PM (O2RFr)

204 I thought we had reached Peak Stupid last summer.

Posted by: Jaqen H'ghar at May 19, 2017 07:03 PM (5fSr7)

205 is coming out from behind the drapes an update to coming out of a closet?

Posted by: ALH at May 19, 2017 07:03 PM (Iu5oK)

206 Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus puts on its final performance.

The elephant act is packing up their trunks.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 19, 2017 07:03 PM (wPiJc)

207 And he also blew his nose on the drapes? This is fantastic.

Posted by: washrivergal at May 19, 2017 07:03 PM (+eKyB)

208 One would think that the president would have done something about finding who on his staff or in the White House is leaking all this stuff. I'm just a wee bit confused about that issue.
Posted by: Tuna at May 19, 2017 06:56 PM (jm1YL)

It's not his personal staff or appointments, it the leftover Fredo people, the entrenched bureaucracy, and the "deep state" that are doing it. Many on the intel side. And also some is just makeup fake news

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 19, 2017 07:04 PM (SjImc)

209 >>>you know who else hid behind curtains?

Swan?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 19, 2017 07:04 PM (RrhD2)

210 207
And he also blew his nose on the drapes? This is fantastic.

Posted by: washrivergal at May 19, 2017 07:03 PM (+eKyB)
Allegedly secret service has tapes about this - PDT went out to take a call and the FBI director can't find a tissue anywhere in the oval office.

Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 07:04 PM (a0IVu)

211 Nice send off for a trip of National security importance.. Thanks NYT, and WaPo...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 19, 2017 07:05 PM (O2RFr)

212 92 Trump could save himself a lot of trouble if he retired Kushner and Ivanka from their current positions. It just looks wrong.

I didn't like it when Roslyn Carter was sent on diplomatic missions and Hillary was way over what was/is appropriate for a First Lady so I don't see why we should relax standards for Trump.

Posted by: Decaf at May 19, 2017 06:40 PM (oH94U)

I couldn't agree more.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2017 07:05 PM (SRKgf)

213 Ignoramus, you touch on a key legal mechanics issue I've been wondering about.

How exactly does an investigation proceed when it is centered on ..... well, nothing, as far as we know.

What sort of even potential criminal acts are in question? How do you argue for warrants or court orders? "Your honor, the state has reason to believe something might have happened" ??

The counter-intelligence investigation, as silly as that was, of course would work differently. A criminal investigation can't be based on references to vague unsubstantiated speculation of some kind of unspecified "collusion".

Well, at least in the US, as it was once was. We now see a judicial system that is as lawless or unhinged or corrupt as Mexico's or Nigeria's or Uzbekistan's, depending on the day and issue.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 19, 2017 07:05 PM (QDnY+)

214 131 SPOON!
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 19, 2017 06:49 PM (0mRoj)

"Not in the face! Not in the FACE!"

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 19, 2017 07:05 PM (rJUlF)

215 The other day I ordered from Amazon prime, but I hesitated to do it because of Bezos and WAPO. I now don't automatically order something from Amazon anymore, but I shop around and even if it's a little more expensive, I would rather order from someone else. I wonder if more people are doing this because of this constant WaPo-NYT barrage against Trump. Probably not because most of the people don't know he owns WaPo. It's something people should know.

Posted by: Abby at May 19, 2017 07:05 PM (HBU7W)

216 I thought we had reached Peak Stupid last summer.
Posted by: Jaqen H'ghar at May 19, 2017 07:03 PM

I have a feeling we are hardly even started

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2017 07:06 PM (Ot7+c)

217 32 Definitely not beer time, don't have any.

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2017 06:29 PM (Ot7+c)

Prepper FAIL.

Posted by: rickl at May 19, 2017 07:06 PM (sdi6R)

218 FBI director can't find a tissue anywhere in the oval office.

******

I know! Right!?

Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton at May 19, 2017 07:06 PM (wPiJc)

219 210 207
And he also blew his nose on the drapes? This is fantastic.

Posted by: washrivergal at May 19, 2017 07:03 PM (+eKyB)
Allegedly secret service has tapes about this - PDT went out to take a call and the FBI director can't find a tissue anywhere in the oval office.
Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 07:04 PM (a0IVu)

Guests get one tissue/napkin. Donny Two-Ply gets a whole box of aloe Kleenex.

Posted by: josephistan at May 19, 2017 07:06 PM (ANIFC)

220 Allegedly secret service has tapes about this - PDT went out to take a call and the FBI director can't find a tissue anywhere in the oval office.
Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 07:04 PM (a0IVu)

+++

Does anybody else think that this is guy belongs in a mental ward?

Posted by: washrivergal at May 19, 2017 07:06 PM (+eKyB)

221 Just wait till Melania moves into the WH - we'd start to hear stories of her running around naked in front of the Russian ambassador when he visits.

Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 07:06 PM (a0IVu)

222 What sort of even potential criminal acts are in question? How do you argue for warrants or court orders? "Your honor, the state has reason to believe something might have happened" ??

The "criminal" act they are working on it seems is trump trying to impede the investigation with the firing of Nut Job...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 19, 2017 07:06 PM (O2RFr)

223 Trying to figure out why commenters here are speculating on the identity of the WH official. Anonymous sources told WaPo that an anonymous official is under investigation. How does that qualify as journalism? Why is there any reason to give this any more credence than any of the other discredited stuff they've printed?

Posted by: therealobladioblada at May 19, 2017 07:06 PM (WVxCU)

224 Allegedly secret service has tapes about this - PDT went out to take a call and the FBI director can't find a tissue anywhere in the oval office.
Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 07:04 PM (a0IVu)

seriously or a joke?

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at May 19, 2017 07:07 PM (hMwEB)

225 >>>Does anybody else think that this is guy belongs in a mental ward?

For not getting satire? Kinda harsh don't you think?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 19, 2017 07:07 PM (RrhD2)

226 The Russia thing was bogus from the beginning and it's just morphed and morphed into more NOTHING.
...........

Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin'
if you want to be with me

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2017 07:07 PM (HgMAr)

227 And if Trump doesn't pick a Patton-esque FBI director to restore order, his failure will make Dubya's small in comparison.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 19, 2017 06:56 PM (QDnY+)
---------

I don't want to hear any lawyer in the Special Counsel's office say "I'm holding my position!" Let the Trump administration do that! I expect you to advance and not hold onto anything except the Trump's balls! You've got to through the Trump Administration like crap through a goose!

Did I get that right?

Posted by: Joe Lieberman at May 19, 2017 07:07 PM (m5dkR)

228 It's not his personal staff or appointments, it the leftover Fredo people, the entrenched bureaucracy, and the "deep state" that are doing it. Many on the intel side. And also some is just makeup fake news

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 19, 2017 07:04 PM (SjImc)

That he should have fired day one.

A (0) zero is better than (-) a negative.

Posted by: gNewt at May 19, 2017 07:08 PM (9YL+9)

229 How does that qualify as journalism? Why is there any reason to give this any more credence than any of the other discredited stuff they've printed?

Louise mensch said so last week, and she is so believable... She said it was Trump himself though...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 19, 2017 07:08 PM (O2RFr)

230 224, seriously or a joke?

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at May 19, 2017 07:07 PM (hMwEB)
Seriously. We were discussing it here yesterday. The hiding behind the drapes thing came out today. Drape fetish, I tell ya.

Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 07:08 PM (a0IVu)

231 Really, Comey sounds like a ill-behaved preschooler. This is astounding and un-nerving to think he was the head of the F.B.I.

Posted by: washrivergal at May 19, 2017 07:09 PM (+eKyB)

232 And he also blew his nose on the drapes? This is fantastic.

Posted by: washrivergal at May 19, 2017 07:03 PM (+eKyB)

Is this for real? I thought it was a joke.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 19, 2017 07:09 PM (Jcg9Q)

233 I thought we had reached Peak Stupid last summer.
--

You wish.

We're now in Uber Peak Histrionics.

Be prepared for constant high pitched wailing, pearl clutching and lots and lots Constitutional Crisis'. Every.Single.Day.

/how long before ABC revives Nightline and starts running "TRUMP CRISIS DAY X" headlines?

Posted by: shibumi at May 19, 2017 07:09 PM (BPeNq)

234 Get more popcorn !
lefties would much rather watch The Trump White House than reruns of West Wing

Posted by: Him at May 19, 2017 07:09 PM (sY9Xe)

235 Maybe there is something to the Trump-is-awful-in-all-the-ways meme.

Trump's First Foreign Trip: 10,000 Cops, Bomb-Proof Hotel Rooms, Robots, Steak With A Side Of Ketchup
Having covered the Israeli and Palestinian legs of Trump's tour, here is a quick preview of what to expect in Saudi Arabia and the other countries on his itinerary, courtesy of AP, which informs us that when President Donald Trump sits down for dinner in Saudi Arabia, caterers have ensured that his favorite meal - steak with a side of ketchup - will be offered alongside the traditional local cuisine.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-19/
trumps-first-foreign-trip-10000-cops-bomb-proof-
hotel-rooms-robots-steak-side-ketchu

Hot dogs, I can understand. But, what kind of monster puts ketchup on a steak?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 19, 2017 07:09 PM (R+30W)

236 "Allegedly secret service has tapes about this - PDT went out to take a call and the FBI director can't find a tissue anywhere in the oval office. "

That is f'n weird. You can't trust a guy who would do something like that.

Posted by: Mirror Universe Bwana Dik at May 19, 2017 07:09 PM (BO/km)

237 >>>>>you know who else hid behind curtains?<<<<<

Polonius?

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at May 19, 2017 07:10 PM (x3uSY)

238 Oklahoma continues to be a storm magnet, and once again it looks like we're not gonna get a drop in DFW.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 19, 2017 07:10 PM (Jcg9Q)

239 :::facepalms:::

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 19, 2017 07:10 PM (RrhD2)

240 So...no good?
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 06:59 PM (B11vO)
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Well...yes and no. Very well made, visually interesting and a call-back to the chilly nihilism of Alien. I had reservations about the Cabbage Patch-faced leading lady but she and Danny McBride were the only standout characters in a cast of expendables. Fassbender had dual roles as two versions of the same mandroid; the later model had inhibitors installed. Let's face it, Fassbender looks synthetically perfect in real life, and kinda evil.

But....mehhhhh. It's just aliens picking off meatbags in space, and there's no emotional reward for surviving the roller coaster ride like there was with the first two films.

And while we're on the topic of nihilism: the next Planet of the Apes movie. Why am I supposed to cheer on the demise of my species? "Only man kills for sport!" - gibbon please. Humans don't bite faces off either.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2017 07:10 PM (NT3RT)

241 Remember when some pundits said appointing a special counsel would get this nonsense out of the headlines. Ha ha

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 19, 2017 07:11 PM (7dpmG)

242 Didn't Kushner have a bunch of financial info he did not reveal, which should have been revealed? Part of it (iirc) was the $250M backing from Soros for the Cadre business that Jared had with his brother.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 19, 2017 07:11 PM (TmCOq)

243 Drape fetish, I tell ya.
Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 07:08 PM (a0IVu)
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Were the drapes crimson velvet? Not gonna judge...

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2017 07:12 PM (NT3RT)

244 Callista Gringrich to be ambassador to Vatican. Good choice I think given how devout a Catholic she is.

Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 07:12 PM (a0IVu)

245 Watching Zone Troopers from 1985 on Comet, amuzing

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2017 07:12 PM (Ot7+c)

246 Once we impeach Trump, I'm in right?

Posted by: Hillary! at May 19, 2017 07:12 PM (O2RFr)

247 the leaks are real or seem close enough to being real(truthful) that Trump needs a polygraph SWAT team to descend on a locked down WH as a total surprise at a random moment.

that will narrow the list of leak suspects to a precious few......assuming no leaks ahead of time.

It might be time to go back to typewriters and paper until the holes in the dam are plugged....

Posted by: Lower class person whose opinions must be guided at May 19, 2017 07:13 PM (WyLrW)

248 Trump can and should appoint a hard rightist for FBI and defend it without apology. There is no point in winning if u allow Dems to moderate any pick, scotus or otherwise. Dems know full well tons of people and him likely have some ties not bad ones-per se with Russia. That was the whole strategy of the Russia narrative. You eventually will find some meaningless connection but the lemmings will eat false claims of it being dirty after all the preparation of the drumbeating. They know this, and making a charge narrative that is actually very broadly unspecific was by design. Tons of other wealthy people on the left will have similar innocent connections if doing international business and relations, but that will not be how the wash compost reports on any of these. The goal is to muck up the works and defang any agenda by distraction, so he cannot govern effectively, then wait him out of office, removal need not actually occur.

Posted by: Info at May 19, 2017 07:13 PM (CgJ26)

249 154
145 I'd say that describing Comey as a nut job is spot on.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 19, 2017 06:51 PM (oVJmc)

++++

Well I do too. Trump is not wrong. Again.

Posted by: washrivergal at May 19, 2017 06:52 PM

Kill shot. Now he gets the side eye. Especially after his tween girl act.

Posted by: Lester at May 19, 2017 07:14 PM (LfJIn)

250 As soon as AF1 lands in KSA, the reporters for NYT and WP should have their credentials revoked and told they're on their own. Enough of this.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 19, 2017 07:14 PM (kTF2Z)

251 CometTV is the bomb. They had Golden Voyage of Sinbad on the other day. Li'l Eris loved that flick back in the day, especially the homunculus and Kali.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2017 07:14 PM (NT3RT)

252 I don't order things from Amazon anymore because my husband works there. It is a very employee unfriendly place to work. The demands on the employees are unreasonable, IMO, and it's an incredibly long day with not enough money for what they do, IMO. However, if he owns WAPO it's just another reason not to support Amazon.

I had an argument with my friend who hates big CEO swho lack compassion. She said "Jeff Bezos should have to more in with the workers to see what their jobs are like." I thought that was going too far and said "You can't force people to be compassionate (It sounds like Stalinist Russia). You just have to pray that they get hit by God with a clue by four." However, i did make her smile because I said, "Besides, "FenSpouse does not want Jeff Bezos to move in with us unless he's going to pay all the bills."

Posted by: FenelonSpouse at May 19, 2017 07:14 PM (qES5k)

253 248 Trump can and should appoint a hard rightist for FBI and defend it without apology

And what the hell is our Attorney General doing?

Posted by: Hillary! at May 19, 2017 07:14 PM (O2RFr)

254
Seriously. We were discussing it here yesterday. The hiding behind the drapes thing came out today. Drape fetish, I tell ya.

You can't spell "drapes" without "rapes". He's a serial secual molester, I tells ya.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 19, 2017 07:14 PM (jCN1w)

255 A few radio talk show hosts have brought up along with this investigation hope the leakers will be prosecuted

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2017 07:14 PM (Ot7+c)

256 Calista Gringrich is a home wrecker. Didn't Newt dump wife No 2 for her? While she was in the hospital with cancer.

Posted by: ALH at May 19, 2017 07:15 PM (Iu5oK)

257 "If you're going to hide behind the curtains, don't give yourself away by blowing your nose in them." - Confucius

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2017 07:15 PM (HgMAr)

258 255 A few radio talk show hosts have brought up along with this investigation hope the leakers will be prosecuted

When Nut job was testifying he admitted that they were not investigating the leaks...

Posted by: Hillary! at May 19, 2017 07:16 PM (O2RFr)

259 Kill shot. Now he gets the side eye. Especially after his tween girl act.
Posted by: Lester at May 19, 2017 07:14 PM (LfJIn)

Tell me more about this tween girl act.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at May 19, 2017 07:16 PM (ANIFC)

260 I don't give a shit if he puts ketchup on his steak or carrots in his chili, Melania isn't wearing a hijab and that's good enough for me.
Actually that is winning cause Killary couldn't don one fast enough.

I see that as PDT placing a marker.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2017 07:16 PM (gvftx)

261 228 It's not his personal staff or appointments, it the leftover Fredo people, the entrenched bureaucracy, and the "deep state" that are doing it. Many on the intel side. And also some is just makeup fake news

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 19, 2017 07:04 PM (SjImc)

That he should have fired day one.

A (0) zero is better than (-) a negative.

Posted by: gNewt at May 19, 2017 07:08 PM (9YL+9)

++++

Except, that's not the way it works. Now that Comey's out, it doesn't mean that nobody is running the FBI. Andrew McCabe, Comey's number 2 at the FBI (and a died-in-the-wool Democrat), is now making the decisions that Comey was making.

Trump also wanted to get his top level team in place so that there would be a chain of command while he was replacing others further down. Once Sessions and Rose[whatever] were in place, he worked his way to Comey.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 19, 2017 07:16 PM (R+30W)

262 you know who else hid behind curtains?

******

Well, Vivian Leigh did, albeit unsuccessfully...

Posted by: Muldoon at May 19, 2017 07:16 PM (wPiJc)

263 I believe the phrase Gibbon please may constitute a hate crime.

Posted by: charley horse at May 19, 2017 07:16 PM (+kahX)

264 230
224, seriously or a joke?

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at May 19, 2017 07:07 PM (hMwEB)
Seriously. We were discussing it here yesterday. The hiding behind the drapes thing came out today. Drape fetish, I tell ya.

Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 07:08 PM

Was Comey sobbing and having a bad hair day? All eight foot dork of him?

Posted by: Lester at May 19, 2017 07:17 PM (LfJIn)

265 Just wait till Melania moves into the WH - we'd start to hear stories of her running around naked in front of the Russian ambassador when he visits.
Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 07:06 PM (a0IVu)

I fail to see the down side here?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 19, 2017 07:17 PM (SjImc)

266 All of these unsourced tories are designed to acieve one purpose: To divide the Trump Administration.

This is designed to make them suspicious of each other and derail thei ability to function.

CNN has former Army psy-ops experts on their staff. The goal of psy-ops is to destroy morale and confidence in he enemy.

This whole Russian collusion crap is the same thing. They are out to destroy morale and confidence of the Trump cabinet and staff -- and even family.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 19, 2017 07:18 PM (arhmY)

267 Comet is a fun channel. They'll show all sorts of schlock that I haven't seen since I came home baked from a night of partying in 1987 and sat down to watch cable at 2 in the morning.

It takes me back.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 19, 2017 07:18 PM (4ErVI)

268 And he also blew his nose on the drapes? This is fantastic.

Posted by: washrivergal at May 19, 2017 07:03 PM (+eKyB)
............

I bet Big Mooch clocked him good for that, then changed into a new outfit.

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2017 07:18 PM (HgMAr)

269 And while we're on the topic of nihilism: the next Planet of the Apes movie. Why am I supposed to cheer on the demise of my species? "Only man kills for sport!" - gibbon please. Humans don't bite faces off either.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2017 07:10 PM (NT3RT)

++++

Don't be so sure.

Posted by: Bath Salts Smoking Florida Man at May 19, 2017 07:18 PM (R+30W)

270 Except, that's not the way it works. Now that Comey's out, it doesn't mean that nobody is running the FBI. Andrew McCabe, Comey's number 2 at the FBI (and a died-in-the-wool Democrat), is now making the decisions that Comey was making.

Trump also wanted to get his top level team in place so that there would be a chain of command while he was replacing others further down. Once Sessions and Rose[whatever] were in place, he worked his way to Comey.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 19, 2017 07:16 PM (R+30W)

And some of the deep staters are civil service and not so easy to get rid of..will have to transfer them out of the loop. But ya know ya gotta keep the trains running so it takes time

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 19, 2017 07:18 PM (SjImc)

271 >>Just wait till Melania moves into the WH - we'd start to hear stories of her running around naked in front of the Russian ambassador when he visits.

I won't believe it until I see pictures. Lots of pictures.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2017 07:18 PM (/tuJf)

272 Just wait till Melania moves into the WH - we'd start to hear stories of her running around naked in front of the Russian ambassador when he visits.
Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 07:06 PM (a0IVu)

I fail to see the down side here?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 19, 2017 07:17 PM (SjImc)

======

The only down side is that I am not the Russian Ambassador.

Posted by: GOULD at May 19, 2017 07:18 PM (Hj4t4)

273 Actually Donna the special counsel order specifies possible contacts between the russki govt. and the Trump campaign as the only substantive point of the "investigation". Don't think the Comey dismissal can be shoe-horned into it - esp. with the dispositive nukyler strike on Comey's unfitness contained in the Rosenstein memo (which was limited to *only* the spectacular *process* issues of Comey's absurd July 2016, and left out the substantive absurdities of his laughable rewriting of the Espionage Act).

Posted by: rhomboid at May 19, 2017 07:19 PM (QDnY+)

274 They, the Dems and the media, have become a reality TV show like Ghost Hunters. Everyday they go in search of some phantasm they claim is real.

Posted by: geoffb5 at May 19, 2017 07:19 PM (d3wbb)

275 You know who never went to an Islamic country?MOOCH.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2017 07:20 PM (gvftx)

276 201
You know who else put people in camps?

No, not that guy -- the other guy.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 19, 2017 07:02 PM (jCN1w)

The Scout leader?

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 19, 2017 07:20 PM (0mRoj)

277 rhomboid

Hope so...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 19, 2017 07:20 PM (O2RFr)

278 Straightforward from here:

1. Yell Russia! Russia! Russia!
2. Special Counsel appointed
3. Subpoena every Trump scorecard last ten years
4. Video evidence proves that wasn't a birdie!
5. President Hillary

Posted by: Sally Kohn at May 19, 2017 07:20 PM (m5dkR)

279 271 >>Just wait till Melania moves into the WH - we'd start to hear stories of her running around naked in front of the Russian ambassador when he visits.

I won't believe it until I see pictures. Lots of pictures.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2017 07:18 PM (/tuJf)

Hopefully 4chan can hack the security cameras.

Posted by: rickl at May 19, 2017 07:20 PM (sdi6R)

280 It would have to be better than Alien: Covenant which I just saw. *soul-deep sigh*
Posted by: All Hail Eris

I don't care if it's good, but does it answer the questions about the proto-humanoid race that were raised by Prometheus?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 19, 2017 07:20 PM (vRcUp)

281 Trump is letting it build and build.

Then, attack North Korean atomic and missile plants.

Like distracting a cat with a laser, or being in a WWII dogfight. Don't be steady at the same course and altitude for more than 30 seconds.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 19, 2017 07:21 PM (u82oZ)

282 Just wait till Melania moves into the WH - we'd start to hear stories of her running around naked in front of the Russian ambassador when he visits.

Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 07:06 PM (a0IVu)
****************************

If Melania's like Nancy she'd have that shit sorted out tout suite.

Posted by: gNewt at May 19, 2017 07:21 PM (9YL+9)

283 274 They, the Dems and the media, have become a reality TV show like Ghost Hunters. Everyday they go in search of some phantasm they claim is real.
Posted by: geoffb5 at May 19, 2017 07:19 PM (d3wbb)

And they have better evidence.

Posted by: josephistan at May 19, 2017 07:21 PM (ANIFC)

284 262
you know who else hid behind curtains?

******

Well, Vivian Leigh did, albeit unsuccessfully...

Posted by: Muldoon

She hid under them.

Posted by: SFGoth at May 19, 2017 07:22 PM (dZ756)

285 Crap! I meant Janet Leigh, not Vivian.

Can I get a do-over?

Shower curtains, get it?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 19, 2017 07:23 PM (wPiJc)

286 Then, attack North Korean atomic and missile plants.

Sigh, it would be so much easier if South Korea was not there?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 19, 2017 07:23 PM (SjImc)

287 271 >>Just wait till Melania moves into the WH - we'd start to hear stories of her running around naked in front of the Russian ambassador when he visits.
..............

Talk about a reset button!

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2017 07:24 PM (HgMAr)

288 Vivian Leigh wore draperies.

Janet Leigh got stabbed through a curtain.

A certain odd symmetry there, eh?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 19, 2017 07:24 PM (wPiJc)

289 It doesn't answer any of those questions. The studio overruled Scott going on with the Prometheus plot line and said change it and make a reboot of the first Alien film for the kiddies to get caught up on.

Something was written about 2 movies being dedicated to the Engineers in the future I think after one more of these stupid marine vs alien films. They are supposed to do like an Aliens II then go back to the Prometheus plot line.

Dumb shits. Even my wife who hates scifi always talks about Prometheus.

Posted by: charley horse at May 19, 2017 07:24 PM (+kahX)

290 I don't order things from Amazon anymore because my husband works there. It is a very employee unfriendly place to work. The demands on the employees are unreasonable, IMO, and it's an incredibly long day with not enough money for what they do, IMO. However, if he owns WAPO it's just another reason not to support Amazon.
---

I rarely buy things from Amazon, and instead, have gone more with Ebay. I've only had one issue with an order, and that was solved to my satisfaction.

I'm glad Amazon is able to provide a job for your spouse, and I hope he's able to transition into something better.

Posted by: shibumi at May 19, 2017 07:24 PM (BPeNq)

291
278
Posted by: Sally Kohn at May 19, 2017 07:20 PM (m5dkR)

You'd be making better use of your time by getting your wardrobe for wearing in the camps together, dearie.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 19, 2017 07:25 PM (jCN1w)

292 possible coordination is a crime?

Posted by: Joe Inaugurating 45 in DC at May 19, 2017 07:25 PM (g9A94)

293 Melania isn't wearing a hijab and that's good enough for me.

I see that as PDT placing a marker.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2017 07:16 PM (gvftx)

NO ONE PUTS A COVER ON BABY!

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 07:25 PM (B11vO)

294 Talk about a reset button!
Posted by: wth

That's what Huma calls it.
*hic*

Posted by: HIllary! at May 19, 2017 07:25 PM (ThlaB)

295 LOL... the 1 person most Trump supporters want gone from the WH is the #1 suspect?

sounds like good news to me. he's tied into Soros as well, so good riddance to bad rubbish is my take on it.

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 19, 2017 07:25 PM (AD+h6)

296 I don't care if it's good, but does it answer the questions about the proto-humanoid race that were raised by Prometheus?
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 19, 2017 07:20 PM (vRcUp)
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Not really, though a visit was paid to a (the?) Engineer planet, and complications ensue.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2017 07:26 PM (NT3RT)

297 240 So...no good?
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 06:59 PM (B11vO)
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Well...yes and no. Very well made, visually interesting and a call-back to the chilly nihilism of Alien. I had reservations about the Cabbage Patch-faced leading lady but she and Danny McBride were the only standout characters in a cast of expendables. Fassbender had dual roles as two versions of the same mandroid; the later model had inhibitors installed. Let's face it, Fassbender looks synthetically perfect in real life, and kinda evil.

But....mehhhhh. It's just aliens picking off meatbags in space, and there's no emotional reward for surviving the roller coaster ride like there was with the first two films.

And while we're on the topic of nihilism: the next Planet of the Apes movie. Why am I supposed to cheer on the demise of my species? "Only man kills for sport!" - gibbon please. Humans don't bite faces off either.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2017 07:10 PM (NT3RT)

Cool. Thx for the writeup. Will probably still see it. Cause Alien series and all that.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 07:26 PM (B11vO)

298 Cosmic Charlie, I made that same point up yonder.

Other "WTF?" speculation on all the wondrous possible benefits of a special counsel's investigation -

* now Trump can pick any FBI director he wants? Huh? No bearing whatsoever. As baseless and baffling as the "Russian collusion!!" nonsense

* now the leaks can be investigated? Huh? There are already laws on classified info, there's already a federal law enforcement agency (the FBI) with the responsibility to investigate such crimes

If people are going to try to make lemonade from lemons, at least put some work into it. This kind of stuff is just stupid.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 19, 2017 07:27 PM (QDnY+)

299 I thought the whole point of "Covenant" was to be the bridge between Prometheus & Alien?

Posted by: josephistan at May 19, 2017 07:27 PM (ANIFC)

300
Callista Gringrich to be ambassador to Vatican. Good choice I think given how devout a Catholic she is.

Posted by: IC at May 19, 2017 07:12 PM (a0IVu)

*snort*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 19, 2017 07:27 PM (quw2O)

301 Senator Grassy .. Just last week said that neither the President nor any of his officials are under investigation, according to Comey and his second.

This keeping the bs alive...just saw a clip of the Harvard JOO lawyer and said collision with foreign country isn't a crime... If that were true Reagan collision with Iran to release the hostages only after he was President would have been a crime.

That Trump could ask Russia to try help him win the election and it still wouldn't be a crime. The only thing would be if he could prove they were involved in hacking of the emails. Which if read the hacking and phishing attempts it was 100 hundreds of politicians and ranged for over a two years.

This NYT and WP doing hit pieces to try discredit President Trump before his foreign trip, minimize him.

And the special councillor can only charge or investigate someone of a crime .. And collusion isn't a crime, if it were trump would be investigated for his links to Britain, like the guy campaigned for hm, talking to Russians or having investments with numerous people isn't a crime.

Notice that Comey got the boot and NYT's and WP ratcheting up the hit pieces , almost like he was a protector.. ..

Posted by: Sam at May 19, 2017 07:27 PM (1ANfd)

302 Great the Yankee Pitcher Severino has 28 pitches and counting in the first innings

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 19, 2017 07:27 PM (SjImc)

303
Not really, though a visit was paid to a (the?) Engineer planet, and complications ensue.

Like what -- all the pocket protectors were defective?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 19, 2017 07:28 PM (jCN1w)

304 Something was written about 2 movies being dedicated to the Engineers in the future I think after one more of these stupid marine vs alien films. They are supposed to do like an Aliens II then go back to the Prometheus plot line.
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I for one want another aliens vs. Colonial Marines movie, and hope they go with Bloomenkamp's, which is I guess an alternate timeline with Ripley, Hicks, and Newt...?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2017 07:28 PM (NT3RT)

305 284 262
you know who else hid behind curtains?

Carol Burnett?

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 07:28 PM (B11vO)

306 LOL... the 1 person most Trump supporters want gone from the WH is the #1 suspect?

sounds like good news to me. he's tied into Soros as well, so good riddance to bad rubbish is my take on it.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 19, 2017 07:25 PM (AD+h6)

yeah maybe I get that, but still...we do NOT want the left and the MSM dictating who stays and who goes.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 19, 2017 07:29 PM (SjImc)

307

I'm writing this in my diary.

Posted by: Jimmy "Booger Drapes" Comey at May 19, 2017 07:29 PM (Uxokn)

308 Lies
Damn lies
Statistics
The "news"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at May 19, 2017 07:29 PM (KGH7Z)

309 if you cant believe "people familiar with the matter " who can ya believe ?

Posted by: johnny drama at May 19, 2017 07:29 PM (nX29A)

310 Was Obama ever mentioned when Benghazi was discussed anywhere? If you arrived here from another planet during that time you would have thought Hillary Clinton was President.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 19, 2017 06:40 PM
~~~~~

Obama always was and always will be protected. Don't think for a minute that he isn't involved in this "coup" up to his evil eyeballs.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 19, 2017 07:29 PM (HiDrR)

311 you know who else hid behind curtains?

Carol Burnett?
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 07:28 PM (B11vO)

I believe she was IN the curtain as was scarlet

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 19, 2017 07:29 PM (SjImc)

312 Damn, Kirstie Alley was hot in "Cheers"

Posted by: josephistan at May 19, 2017 07:30 PM (ANIFC)

313 Rove was on Fox, who is red chyroing the "New allegation bombshells" across the bottom.

Rove said that any investigation with have "persons of interest". He pointed out its a long way from person of interest to a "target".

He said that WaPo and both major UK papers say it's Jared.

Which he said would be normal, since Jared spoke to multitudes of foreign officials, during the campaign and during the transition as would BE NORMAL in that a new administration would be trying to forge relationships. He also pointed out that Jared had filed his financial forms with the Feds, realized within two weeks that he had left off several past contacts and deals and immediately notified the FBI and other agencies and filed an amended financial report.

By the way, has anyone pointed out that John Podesta, who was the chairman of Hillary's presidential campaign is a principal in the Podesta Group, whose brother Anthony, another member is registered as a lobbyist on behalf of Sberbank of Russia, a major Russian bank. It is accused of being a funnel for international leaders, including Vladimir Putin , to use to stash funds around the world.

This was reported via the Washington Examiner in April of 2016, after the discovery of "the Panama Papers" which revealed the scheme.

But, Trump, Russia.....

Posted by: Jen the original at May 19, 2017 07:30 PM (62eBc)

314 Fuck You Pixy!

Posted by: DaveA at May 19, 2017 07:30 PM (FhXTo)

315 you know who else hid behind curtains?
---
Claudius?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2017 07:30 PM (NT3RT)

316 Didn't Kushner have a bunch of financial info he did not reveal, which should have been revealed? Part of it (iirc) was the $250M backing from Soros for the Cadre business that Jared had with his brother.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 19, 2017 07:11 PM (TmCOq)

Yes. He is a shady character from what people have dug up on him and his family's history, which has nothing to do with him being Jewish. He is not a good person IMHO.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 19, 2017 07:30 PM (2qHjF)

317 JS, 40 yrs ago today at the fabulous Fox...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvFmTPm_Iw

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 19, 2017 07:31 PM (7dpmG)

318 234
Get more popcorn !

lefties would much rather watch The Trump White House than reruns of West Wing

Posted by: Him at May 19, 2017 07:09 PM (sY9Xe)

If lefties had half a brain, they would put down the bucket of popcorn and pick up a bucket of some nice crispy fried chicken!

Posted by: Colonel Sanders at May 19, 2017 07:31 PM (n3hky)

319 You human trash and your human privilege, makes me sick. Just give up your jobs as math professors in Hawaii and give me a crack at it. Nothing motivates good study habits like the threat of getting your face chewed off.

Posted by: Orlando Gibbons at May 19, 2017 07:31 PM (vRcUp)

320 311 you know who else hid behind curtains?

Carol Burnett?
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 07:28 PM (B11vO)

I believe she was IN the curtain as was scarlet
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 19, 2017 07:29 PM (SjImc)

Carol did it better (and far funnier).

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 07:31 PM (B11vO)

321 what is a yashar and how does it get a blue check mark of insanity?

Posted by: Joe Inaugurating 45 in DC at May 19, 2017 07:32 PM (g9A94)

322 Forget draining the swamp. Flood the swamp and the cowards will self-select.

Posted by: Fritz at May 19, 2017 07:32 PM (TNQMS)

323 Perhaps we should be a little more skeptical when the opposition claims that they're omnipotent and that they've outsmarted us. They've been known to lie, I hear.

If you're a Democrat I guess you have to trust them no matter how often they're wrong and believe in your heart that Trump is a flailing stupidhead surrounded by traitors. I mean, that's all they've got left. They lost everything else. But we don't have to play along. Unless we want to.

Posted by: GalosGann at May 19, 2017 07:32 PM (md1b/)

324 310
Obama always was and always will be protected. Don't think for a minute that he isn't involved in this "coup" up to his evil eyeballs.
Posted by: IrishEi at May 19, 2017 07:29 PM (HiDrR)

Community organizers gotta organize.

Posted by: rickl at May 19, 2017 07:32 PM (sdi6R)

325 Not really, though a visit was paid to a (the?) Engineer planet, and complications ensue.

Like what -- all the pocket protectors were defective?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)
............

and all the women had to wash their hair every night and had no time, no time at all, for dating.

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2017 07:33 PM (HgMAr)

326 If lefties had half a brain, they would put down the bucket of popcorn and pick up a bucket of some nice crispy fried chicken!
Posted by: Colonel Sanders at May 19, 2017 07:31 PM (n3hky)

KFC is awful now. I'd go with Bush's Chicken if there was a restaurant nearby. Sigh.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 07:33 PM (B11vO)

327 They always said the J. Edgar Hoover had a file on all the incoming presidents. Fire me and the public will see the files. That is why he lasted so long at the FBI. I'm sure the Kennedy's saw their files and said your a great man Edgar.

Posted by: Colin at May 19, 2017 07:33 PM (qw8SI)

328 310; him and the rat faced iranian are orchestrating everything. stupidly. he's a community organizing traitor. snowflakes, sjw's, blm freaks, organizing for america, can all be laid right in the boy kings lap. he learned all he needs to know from ayers and soros.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 19, 2017 07:33 PM (KP5rU)

329 They always said the J. Edgar Hoover had a file on all the incoming presidents. Fire me and the public will see the files. That is why he lasted so long at the FBI. I'm sure the Kennedy's saw their files and said your a great man Edgar.
Posted by: Colin at May 19, 2017 07:33 PM (qw8SI)

That is exactly what happened

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 19, 2017 07:34 PM (SjImc)

330 "Trump is a bullsh*tter" - Totes Awesome President Barack "Why Do All These Gay Men Keep Making Me Suck Their Dicks" Obama

"Comey is a nutjob" - Horrible President Donald "Russian Spy" Trump

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 19, 2017 07:34 PM (fD1ST)

331
You human trash and your human privilege, makes me sick. Just give up your jobs as math professors in Hawaii and give me a crack at it. Nothing motivates good study habits like the threat of getting your face chewed off.

Posted by: Orlando Gibbons at May 19, 2017 07:31 PM (vRcUp)

Oh, chill out. Chew on some Grape Nuts.

Posted by: Zombie Euell Gibbons at May 19, 2017 07:34 PM (quw2O)

332 Daily Caller in March had a great article on the Podesta's group being paid to lobby on behalf of Russian banks that wanted sanctions lifted by the USA.

What Democrats do, they accuse others of .

http://tinyurl.com/hhcdsj5

Posted by: Jen the original at May 19, 2017 07:34 PM (62eBc)

333 The angle will be somebody close to Trump contracted out psy ops to influence and shape public opinion via the Internet. and one of those contracts went to Russia by a proxy.

This is something that is standard for both parties to do. It's standard for candidates and their Super PACs to do.

They, the Uniparty, are trying to show proof Trump did it to nail him. This is my prediction of where it's going.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 19, 2017 07:34 PM (2qHjF)

334 ... John Podesta, who was the chairman of Hillary's presidential campaign is a principal in the Podesta Group, whose brother Anthony, another member is registered as a lobbyist on behalf of Sberbank of Russia, a major Russian bank. It is accused of being a funnel for international leaders, including Vladimir Putin , to use to stash funds around the world. ...

Posted by: Jen the original at May 19, 2017 07:30 PM (62eBc)

We're investigating Trump only in this investigation.

Posted by: Bob Bushmueller at May 19, 2017 07:35 PM (9YL+9)

335 " Her now, Herman-- he's our new emperor! Kaiser!, eh? "

"Ja?"

"Ja!"

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at May 19, 2017 07:35 PM (x3uSY)

336 Anyone remember like two days before the election when the question was if Trump would accept the results?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 19, 2017 07:35 PM (B+qrE)

337 Obama always was and always will be protected. Don't think for a minute that he isn't involved in this "coup" up to his evil eyeballs.
Posted by: IrishEi at May 19, 2017 07:29 PM (HiDrR)

I don't think so, any more than I think Flo runs Progressive Insurance, and for the same reason: they're spokesmodels. That's it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2017 07:35 PM (SRKgf)

338
332 Daily Caller in March had a great article on the Podesta's group being paid to lobby on behalf of Russian banks that wanted sanctions lifted by the USA.

What Democrats do, they accuse others of .

http://tinyurl.com/hhcdsj5
Posted by: Jen the original at May 19, 2017 07:34 PM (62eBc)

There is no rule of law. It's dead. And our Overlords are wiping their asses with the social contract.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 19, 2017 07:36 PM (2qHjF)

339
He blew his nose in the drapes?

What is his major malfunction?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 19, 2017 07:36 PM (jCN1w)

340 332
Daily Caller in March had a great article on the Podesta's group being
paid to lobby on behalf of Russian banks that wanted sanctions lifted by
the USA.

What Democrats do, they accuse others of .

http://tinyurl.com/hhcdsj5

Posted by: Jen the original at May 19, 2017 07:34 PM (62eBc)

they are the great projectors

Posted by: phoenixgirl... at May 19, 2017 07:36 PM (0O7c5)

341 KFC is awful now. I'd go with Bush's Chicken if there was a restaurant nearby. Sigh.
====

Bojangles or Popeyes are much better from the fast food side.

Beasley's Chicken and Honey in Raleigh, NC will make you slap your mama.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 19, 2017 07:37 PM (Uxokn)

342
Which he said would be normal, since Jared spoke to multitudes of foreign officials, during the campaign and during the transition as would BE NORMAL in that a new administration would be trying to forge relationships. He also pointed out that Jared had filed his financial forms with the Feds, realized within two weeks that he had left off several past contacts and deals and immediately notified the FBI and other agencies and filed an amended financial report.

*******

bizarro world

trump should take off gloves and set up investigations for everything.

then again, he should have fired everyone before his first week was over.

Posted by: Joe Inaugurating 45 in DC at May 19, 2017 07:37 PM (g9A94)

343 Carol did it better (and far funnier).
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 07:31 PM (B11vO)
---
I watched the Joan Crawford flick "Mildred Pierce" and all I could think of was Carol as Mildred Fierce, and Harvey as the oily pencil-mustached cad, which he always did so well.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2017 07:37 PM (NT3RT)

344 337 Obama always was and always will be protected. Don't think for a minute that he isn't involved in this "coup" up to his evil eyeballs.
Posted by: IrishEi at May 19, 2017 07:29 PM (HiDrR)

I don't think so, any more than I think Flo runs Progressive Insurance, and for the same reason: they're spokesmodels. That's it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2017 07:35 PM (SRKgf)

Great point. He isn't smart enough to be the head of that org, just a figurehead.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 07:37 PM (B11vO)

345 Callista sings in the choir at the National Basilica. That's probably good enough qualification for me. Gets Newt overseas too.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 19, 2017 07:37 PM (7h4Fr)

346 Alien: Convent.

Witness an immaculate incubation like you've never seen.

Posted by: Alien Mother Superior at May 19, 2017 07:38 PM (vRcUp)

347 If lefties had half a brain, they would put down the bucket of popcorn and pick up a bucket of some nice crispy fried chicken!

Posted by: Colonel Sanders at May 19, 2017 07:31 PM (n3hky)

Stop bringing up the achievement gap, racist! Don't you know we're somehow no-sh*t graduating from high school at the highest rate ever in the history of our nation while simultaneously performing worse academically than we did in 2009?

(Seriously- https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard
/pdf/studies/2011462.pdf)

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 19, 2017 07:38 PM (fD1ST)

348 He blew his nose in the drapes?

What is his major malfunction?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 19, 2017 07:36 PM (jCN1w)
..............

Beats shitting your pants.

Posted by: Al Roker at May 19, 2017 07:38 PM (HgMAr)

349 327; like pot, crossdressing probably makes you really, really, paranoid.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 19, 2017 07:38 PM (KP5rU)

350 Bojangles or Popeyes are much better from the fast food side.

Beasley's Chicken and Honey in Raleigh, NC will make you slap your mama.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 19, 2017 07:37 PM (Uxokn)
I like Popeyes, just not having to make the trip into an area of the city where they are located, is why I seldom buy there. KFC is everywhere. Churches and Popeyes tend to be in "those" areas I stay away from.

Posted by: Colin at May 19, 2017 07:40 PM (qw8SI)

351
Bojangles or Popeyes are much better from the fast food side.

Beasley's Chicken and Honey in Raleigh, NC will make you slap your mama.
Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 19, 2017 07:37 PM (Uxokn)

Dude. You're killing' me here. All I got is a Popeyes in San Luis Obispo that opened about six months ago.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 07:40 PM (B11vO)

352 i still don't understand what the charge is. is this collusion?:

putin: ve ar goink to hack computer of podesta.

trump: great! i'll give a speech in indianapolis!

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 19, 2017 07:40 PM (WTSFk)

353 I love me some Popeye's. Publix has great fried chicken and wings.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 19, 2017 07:40 PM (7dpmG)

354 Beats shitting your pants.
Posted by: Al Roker

What's wrong with shitting your pants? You need to check your bowel control privilege.

Posted by: Hillary! at May 19, 2017 07:41 PM (ThlaB)

355 The soldier that finds Claudius behind the curtain was Bernard Hill, the guy that played Theoden.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at May 19, 2017 07:42 PM (x3uSY)

356 KFC is awful now.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 07:33 PM (B11vO)

Maybe at the Russian knock off joints. You have to be careful and go to KFC...not KGBs chicken hut. Those Russians are sneaky. Did you hear that they hacked the election? No nice crispy fried chicken for THEM if I have anything to do about it!

Posted by: Colonel Sanders at May 19, 2017 07:42 PM (n3hky)

357 352 i still don't understand what the charge is. is this collusion?:

putin: ve ar goink to hack computer of podesta.

trump: great! i'll give a speech in indianapolis!

***

right, collusion is what illiterate lefties probably were going to say conspiracy. Only that would require both parties to take a step in committing the crime.

oh right, what's the crime? What step did trump take to helkp that crime?

nothing.

Posted by: Joe Inaugurating 45 in DC at May 19, 2017 07:42 PM (g9A94)

358 >>JS, 40 yrs ago today at the fabulous Fox...

Awesome.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2017 07:42 PM (/tuJf)

359 Hey give him a break he's 6'8" for crying out loud.

Probably dizzy all the time.

Posted by: Meremortal at May 19, 2017 07:42 PM (3myMJ)

360 I like Bojangles chichen

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2017 07:42 PM (Ot7+c)

361 to repeat myself:

Trump won. No coup

Posted by: Mallfly Queen of Hoboken at May 19, 2017 07:42 PM (ILitO)

362 Anybody bring up the McClatchy bombshell that made the fourth today? They say there is an investigation into a cover-up, boy the left made sure that they hit all the buzz words while Trump is in the air going overseas.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 19, 2017 07:42 PM (6Ll1u)

363 I'm fine calling it collusion if we can also say sedition.

How 'bouts it, (D)s?

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 19, 2017 07:43 PM (fD1ST)

364 Hey give him a break he's 6'8" for crying out loud.

Probably dizzy all the time.
Posted by: Meremortal

Give. Us. Sugar.
*aaarpp*

Posted by: James 'Edgar' Comey at May 19, 2017 07:44 PM (udajc)

365 russia "we will hack podesta's account to show he's a child p3rv and screwed bernie like one of the 2 year olds in podesta's "art" he collects"

trump "uh ok"

I guess this has to be a coup by the light-right because this is so fucking stupid.

Posted by: Joe Inaugurating 45 in DC at May 19, 2017 07:44 PM (g9A94)

366 Cool Hand Luke is coming up on TMC

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2017 07:44 PM (Ot7+c)

367 Someone wrote it would take 66 votes in the Senate to impeach. I assume all the Democrat's would vote yes. So the Republicans can't come up with enough votes to stop it....

Posted by: Colin at May 19, 2017 07:44 PM (qw8SI)

368 Stop bringing up the achievement gap, racist! Don't
you know we're somehow no-sh*t graduating from high school at the
highest rate ever in the history of our nation while simultaneously
performing worse academically than we did in 2009?

(Seriously- https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard

/pdf/studies/2011462.pdf)

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 19, 2017 07:38 PM (fD1ST)

Thats what you get when the younin's don't get enough nice crispy fried chicken! It's a national tragedy!

Posted by: Colonel Sanders at May 19, 2017 07:45 PM (n3hky)

369 360 I like Bojangles chichen

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2017 07:42 PM (Ot7+c)

When it's fresh they're hard to beat for fast food chicken.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 19, 2017 07:45 PM (fD1ST)

370 "I watched the Joan Crawford flick "Mildred Pierce" and all I could think of was Carol as Mildred Fierce, and Harvey as the oily pencil-mustached cad, which he always did so well."

That was a group of mega talented people with extraordinary chemistry. I doubt we'll ever see their like again.

Posted by: Tuna at May 19, 2017 07:45 PM (jm1YL)

371 i still don't understand what the charge is. is this collusion?:

putin: ve ar goink to hack computer of podesta.

trump: great! i'll give a speech in indianapolis!

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 19, 2017 07:40 PM (WTSFk)
...........

WE NEED TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS

Posted by: Cuck E. Schumer at May 19, 2017 07:45 PM (HgMAr)

372 Not really, though a visit was paid to a (the?) Engineer planet, and complications ensue.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2017 07:26 PM (NT3RT) fnord (NT3RT)

YouTube has become a fanatic about trying to get me to watch this stuff.

YouTube, stop trying to make Me Watching Aliens happen, it's not going to happen.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 19, 2017 07:45 PM (wB8Tg)

373
364 Hey give him a break he's 6'8" for crying out loud.

Probably dizzy all the time.
Posted by: Meremortal

Give. Us. Sugar.
*aaarpp*
Posted by: James 'Edgar' Comey at May 19, 2017 07:44 PM (udajc)

Please. James Comey in an 'Edgar suit'.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 19, 2017 07:45 PM (jCN1w)

374 "Ignoramus, you touch on a key legal mechanics issue I've been wondering about.
How exactly does an investigation proceed when it is centered on ..... well, nothing, as far as we know."

I'm not a criminal law guy, so this is based on basics.

You need something like probable cause to get a judge or grand jury to issue subpoenas, search warrants and to get you to testify. Else you're asking people to co-operate voluntarily.

The only crimes we have are the hacking of the DNC and the Podesta phishing. There's a federal finding that the Russians did it, but how do you find a connection to anyone in the Trump campaign?

You can spin something about Flynn, but it requires use of a unmasked transcript with an interesting provenance. But whatever Flynn said was after the election was over. So what collusion?

With Mannafort and Trump himself any connections to Russia were way before the election. Even if Trump had hookers piss the bed, what collusion?

So I don't see how any investigation progresses.

There's really not a lot to investigate, as I see it.

Where am I wrong?

FYI, Scalia's Ghost and I have a fundamental disagreement about the extent of Mueller's investigative mandate, and his intent. I'm not sure I'm right, but I truly believe I am

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 19, 2017 07:46 PM (pV/54)

375 So now the left hates globalists?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2017 07:46 PM (gvftx)

376 "Ignoramus, you touch on a key legal mechanics issue I've been wondering about.
How exactly does an investigation proceed when it is centered on ..... well, nothing, as far as we know."

like Stalin or Lenin or some soviet hack said, give us the man and we'll give you the crime.

Posted by: Joe Inaugurating 45 in DC at May 19, 2017 07:46 PM (g9A94)

377
Churches and Popeyes tend to be in "those" areas I stay away from.

I know what you mean.

Posted by: Bob Beckel at May 19, 2017 07:47 PM (IqV8l)

378 @ Never.. ..WTF he never admitted it .. He put out a statement and that wasn't anywhere in it. Just average Fu Trump will talk to Russians and the Comey grandstanding about Russians was jeopardizing the relationship

Posted by: Sam at May 19, 2017 07:47 PM (1ANfd)

379 356 KFC is awful now.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 07:33 PM (B11vO)

Maybe at the Russian knock off joints. You have to be careful and go to KFC...not KGBs chicken hut. Those Russians are sneaky. Did you hear that they hacked the election? No nice crispy fried chicken for THEM if I have anything to do about it!

Posted by: Colonel Sanders at May 19, 2017 07:42 PM (n3hky)

Then they are all KGB chicken...I haven't had a good experience there in years.

BTW, Church's Chicken USED to be EXCELLENT (when I was a lad in TX). Now when I visit it is too greasy.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 07:47 PM (B11vO)

380 The Washington Post is the worst publication in history. And I'm not speculating!

Posted by: Very Irredeemably Undude at May 19, 2017 07:48 PM (2X7pN)

381 Colonial Marines

Yes, let's have a movie version of that game, too!

Oh wait, they already did one . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J8SzBhjqaQ

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 19, 2017 07:48 PM (6FqZa)

382 At least there is radio, although I find it jarring to be listening to Rush and then get ABC partisan shill 'news' briefs on the hour.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 19, 2017 06:34 PM (eASYU)

Good Morning this is Doug Limerick of ABC News. This hour we have heard that sources close to the Trump Administration have been working closely with Russian officials to change the Democratic Party logo from a donkey to a clapping seal. Word is they were drinking Moscow Mules, though that disturbing fact is unconfirmed.

Posted by: Top of the hour ABC News Radio Broadcast at May 19, 2017 07:48 PM (r88GV)

383 Do a search of Kushner Data Mining. Dozens of articles appear. Louis Mensch while batshit crazy is giving away the strategy. Take out Trump for a team member contracting out any technology and data mining work that can be traced to being (unknowingly by Trump) to have been influenced by Russia.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/11/22/exclusive -interview-how-jared-kushner-won-trump -the-white-house/

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart- war-on-media -steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 19, 2017 07:48 PM (2qHjF)

384 370 "I watched the Joan Crawford flick "Mildred Pierce" and all I could think of was Carol as Mildred Fierce, and Harvey as the oily pencil-mustached cad, which he always did so well."

That was a group of mega talented people with extraordinary chemistry. I doubt we'll ever see their like again.
Posted by: Tuna at May 19, 2017 07:45 PM (jm1YL)

Agreed.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 07:48 PM (B11vO)

385 Assuming the report isn't made up nonsense, a person of interest isn't a suspect or a target or anything else.

The left has been trying to drive wedges between Trump and his advisors and his family since before he was elected. When the left claimed Bannon was a Nazi most conservatives rejected it as total bullshit. But apparently all they have to do to get Trump supporters to go along with the purge is whisper that they're not conservative enough. It's really, really dumb for the right to go indulge this, even for a second. They're playing us for suckers. Is this not obvious?

Posted by: GalosGann at May 19, 2017 07:48 PM (md1b/)

386 You'd blow your nose in the drapes too, if you hit your fucking head on every goddam door jamb.

Posted by: James "Stretch" Comey at May 19, 2017 07:48 PM (HgMAr)

387 CNN/MSNBC are all cumming in their pants talking about impeachment,,,LMAO

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 19, 2017 07:49 PM (SjImc)

388 >> Hey give him a break he's 6'8" for crying out loud.

He's only 6'5" without the heels.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 19, 2017 07:49 PM (8O3HH)

389 369
360 I like Bojangles chichen

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2017 07:42 PM (Ot7+c)

When it's fresh they're hard to beat for fast food chicken.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 19, 2017 07:45 PM (fD1ST)

I have no problem with Bojangles. We're buds. I taught him about nice crispy fried chicken and he showed me some dance steps. I'd play the banjo and he would kick up the dust! Great guy, Bojangles.

Posted by: Colonel Sanders at May 19, 2017 07:50 PM (n3hky)

390 Hey give him a break he's 6'8" for crying out loud.

He's only 6'5" without the heels.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 19, 2017 07:49 PM (8O3HH)

I know

Posted by: J Edger at May 19, 2017 07:50 PM (SjImc)

391
Cool Hand Luke is coming up on TMC

TCM

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2017 07:50 PM (IqV8l)

392 Forget fried chicken - Nood Egg McMuffin

Posted by: josephistan at May 19, 2017 07:51 PM (ANIFC)

393 Nood

Posted by: GOULD at May 19, 2017 07:51 PM (Hj4t4)

394
How the FBI has fallen: J Edgar Hoover wore dresses made from drapes; James Comey hid behind, and blew his nose into, drapes.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Eff. Bee. Eye."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 19, 2017 07:51 PM (jCN1w)

395 Stop bringing up the achievement gap, racist! Don't
you know we're somehow no-sh*t graduating from high school at the highest rate ever in the history of our nation while simultaneously performing worse academically than we did in 2009?

(Seriously- https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard /pdf/studies/2011462.pdf)

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 19, 2017 07:38 PM (fD1ST)

At this rate my golden retriever will be class valedictorian at some ghetto high school once it achieves a 100% graduation rate.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2017 07:52 PM (SRKgf)

396 Not really, though a visit was paid to a (the?) Engineer planet, and complications ensue.

Ugh, sounds like they're trying to eke out more sequels. Thanks for the info, AHE.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 19, 2017 07:53 PM (vRcUp)

397 Ticks? Pshaw. Frogs is a movie to beat the band!

Posted by: Sam Elliot at May 19, 2017 07:53 PM (S8ozK)

398 National Geographic Bee is on.
Top 10 finalists are all boys.

Alert the SJWs!!!

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at May 19, 2017 07:54 PM (hMwEB)

399 I wish there was a Bojangles near me. Can we all agree that chick fil a chicken biscuit is terrible?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 19, 2017 07:54 PM (7dpmG)

400 if only righties could be as organized as the Left. Demonstrating outside the homes of the Editors of the WashPo and NYT, and all those NGO's and nonprofits. Lawfare for their every move. boycotts, witch hunts, the whole enchilada. statues and monuments of victims of illegal immigrants, change.org petitions, kids put in front of cameras, civil suits, storming public meetings, protests at annual meetings of publicly held companies.

Posted by: vivi at May 19, 2017 07:55 PM (11H2y)

401 Just got in. Maybe covered above.

WaPo's use of hearsay just escalated. They don't even name the WH official who's "of interest."

It used to be "someone told us that Farrah blew Brad under the football stands."

Now it's "someone told us that Farrah blew someone under the football stands."

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 19, 2017 07:55 PM (pV/54)

402 you know who else hid behind curtains?

The people of London, during the air raids.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 19, 2017 07:56 PM (vRcUp)

403 >>>>>"Ignoramus, you touch on a key legal mechanics issue I've been wondering about.

How exactly does an investigation proceed when it is centered on ..... well, nothing, as far as we know."

like Stalin or Lenin or some soviet hack said, give us the man and we'll give you the crime.
.
.
.The left is making $hit up but for some reason now they are walking back from the impeachment shouting. I suspect it didn't poll well.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 19, 2017 07:56 PM (le7jz)

404 ...and use anonymous sources! I'd settle for a day without the MSM.

Posted by: vivi at May 19, 2017 07:57 PM (11H2y)

405 Oh, this is good if you haven't seen it.

Alan Dershowitz says Mueller has no jurisdiction to investigate what is a political matter, not a criminal matter.

He says it's not illegal to collaborate with a foreign government in order to get elected.

Mueller is supposed to be investigating a crime, but there is no crime to investigate. There is no criminal statute that applies.

Posted by: Meremortal at May 19, 2017 07:57 PM (3myMJ)

406 I'd love opposition research on the MSM.

Posted by: vivi at May 19, 2017 07:58 PM (11H2y)

407 >>>
I wish there was a Bojangles near me. Can we all agree that chick fil a chicken biscuit is terrible?
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.
.Concur. The wife and I tried it once and will never go back for breakfast.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 19, 2017 07:58 PM (le7jz)

408
Then they are all KGB chicken...I haven't had a good experience there in years.

BTW, Church's Chicken USED to be EXCELLENT (when I was a lad in TX). Now when I visit it is too greasy.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 19, 2017 07:47 PM (B11vO)

A lot of the KFCs have been hacked by the Russians. I've even heard that the Russians did some kind of sneaky stuff this past election cycle. When ordering some nice crispy fried chicken, as for a side of borscht...if the person taking the order doesn't blink...you're in a Russian hack joint.

Posted by: Colonel Sanders at May 19, 2017 07:58 PM (n3hky)

409 If that were true Reagan collision with Iran to release the hostages only after he was President would have been a crime.

Heh. Surely hijacking a SR71 was a crime.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 19, 2017 08:01 PM (4xVwT)

410 Well, I've successfully avoided the topic at hand and diverted the thread flow, so my work here is done.

See you cats and kittens later.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2017 08:01 PM (NT3RT)

411 "Mueller is supposed to be investigating a crime, but there is no crime to investigate. There is no criminal statute that applies."

Dershowitz makes a big point.

See me @374

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 19, 2017 08:05 PM (pV/54)

412 I just made some really crispy naked wings.

Apparently the secret is dusting them with a bit of baking soda and a pinch of salt, bake on a rack with a pan underneath to catch liquid.
Bake at 250F On bottom rack for 30 m then at 425 on top rack for 20 min on each side.

I did it in my halogen convection oven so it was half the time.

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at May 19, 2017 08:06 PM (hMwEB)

413 412
I just made some really crispy naked wings.

Apparently the secret is dusting them with a bit of baking soda and a
pinch of salt, bake on a rack with a pan underneath to catch liquid.

Bake at 250F On bottom rack for 30 m then at 425 on top rack for 20 min on each side.

I did it in my halogen convection oven so it was half the time.

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at May 19, 2017 08:06 PM (hMwEB)

I've heard of the baking soda being used for different reasons. I picked up on that from "Cooks Illustrated" magazine. It's an interesting mag..they lean on the science of cooking.

Posted by: Mimzey at May 19, 2017 08:12 PM (n3hky)

414 LOL, I'm watching the Rifftrax "Star Wars Holiday Special":

"Man, even in Modesto, is there really enough pot around to make this thing happen?!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 19, 2017 08:20 PM (NT3RT)

415 The mere fact anyone would even seriously investigate these claims is proof positive of how far we have sunk. Given the stated nonexistent by fair assumption sources, it should not get any coverage. anybody can make up stuff like this without any truth at all. This should b obvious even to leftists strung out on crack of wanting to get trump. Yet, it will probably get a billion hours of coverage. The simple reality is, the press would not be this lucky this easily if even he was guilty of stuff, which should occur to anyone with any sense of reason. Amazingly, somehow tons of "new" news zingers seem to surface almost on cue, and nobody asks how likely that is even if he had did something wrong? It's like watching to staged reality shadow of a storage locker treasure hunt that always seems to have a unit that pays off, at the end of the show. You can bet if any new news cycle helps trump, some new nugget will drop by magic, as if it was coincidence. The stories now being ran with are not to be even debated, much less argued over. Jeez..,

Posted by: Info at May 19, 2017 08:21 PM (CgJ26)

416 I'm sure the thread is dead, but while Chic-Fil-A's biscuits are gummy and not very good, the little "minis" or "bites" or something similar are a good option. Small, sweet Hawaiian rolls with a chicken nugget. Very tasty.

Posted by: Chigger Fleas at May 19, 2017 08:21 PM (fD1ST)

417 68
Why doesn't anyone investigate that fucking worm George Soros?
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Oh yeah. He has caused more human suffering and bullshit than anyone else alive today save for Assad, Erdogan, Obama and Fatboy.

Posted by: pissed off oddnot at May 19, 2017 08:25 PM (g1MTt)

418 whew.. that was close.

Posted by: KansasCJ at May 19, 2017 08:25 PM (LNyLd)

419 WTF does person of interest mean? :thinking:

Posted by: Gman at May 19, 2017 08:53 PM (VXoTW)

420 You need something like probable cause to get a judge or grand jury to
issue subpoenas, search warrants and to get you to testify. Else you're
asking people to co-operate voluntarily.

_______________________________________

Grand Juries issue subpoenas, though it is initially an administrative function between the investigating agency and the US Attorney's Office (at least federally). PC is not required for a subpoena, and subpoenas are only good for third party records (your bank and phone records are third party records when subpoenaed from the institution or provider) or testimony.

At some point, the records are "returned" to the GJ. The standard of proof for the initiation of a grand jury investigation is lower than PC, but requires some substantiation.

PC, or Probable Cause is the level necessary for search warrants, arrest warrants, wiretaps, etc. Basically, anything protected by the 4th or 5th amendments. Once you obtain all your evidence, you present your case to grand jury and obtain an indictment, or make a criminal complaint to a judge.

Posted by: elliot at May 19, 2017 09:04 PM (6/+yQ)

421 245 Watching Zone Troopers from 1985 on Comet, amuzing
Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2017 07:12 PM (Ot7+c)

*******

Tim Thomerson is the shit in that movie. Comet and Svengoolie, who needs fucking cable.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 19, 2017 09:14 PM (rzRHr)

422 kushner getting led away in handcuffs would be the best possible outcome

Posted by: Small Rivers at May 19, 2017 10:41 PM (KL5Ns)

423 Did you see this Ace? Civil Liberties - Civil Libertarian Alan Dershowitz ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7WnauFiafYt=15s

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at May 20, 2017 12:31 AM (TUhW5)

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