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Fusion Nat Bertrand Writes in Politico That a Previous Article -- Published in Politico Itself! -- is a "Conspiracy Theory" with "No Evidence"

On January 11, 2017 -- one day before the Clapper/Tapper ring would execute the plan to give the fake dossier a "news hook" -- Ken Vogel and David Stern reported for Politico that Ukranian officials had interfered with the US elections -- on Hillary Clinton's side.

Donald Trump wasn’t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country.

Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.


A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.

The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort's resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.

The Ukranian officials colluded with a DNC official named Alexandria Chalupa.

Because the fake dossier was given a "news hook" and reported on by Jake Tapper -- as had been arranged -- the next day, and also, of course, because the media was trying to prove foreign collusion on Trump's behalf and not Hillary's, this story didn't get much attention.

Right-leaning channels keep pointing it out -- and the leftwing media and NeverTrump corporate-funded GOPe clique just keeps ignoring it.

But it's never been disproved or even "credibly alleged" to be in any way false. Certainly Politico has never retracted it.

But the story is inconvenient for the leftwing media/Democratic effort to execute a coup against the duly-elected President, so it has to be Disappeared.

Enter Natasha Bertrand -- or "Fusion Nat" as I like to call her.

She now pens an article, also for Politico, essentially claiming that the earlier Politico article was Fake News and should presumably be retracted. In an article co-written with Andrew Desiderato, she now claims that Politico published, and I do quote, "a conspiracy theory" with "no evidence" to "support" it:

Two top officials who served on President Donald Trump’s National Security Council staff [Fiona Hill and Vindman] testified that they had seen no evidence that the Ukraine government interfered in the 2016 election, contradicting a claim the president has made in public and private.

...

The testimony undercuts a conspiracy theory that has been pushed by Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, as he sought to upend the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia sought to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.


According to Giuliani, Ukrainian officials conspired with the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to help boost the Democratic nominee's campaign and damage Trump’s candidacy. No evidence has emerged to support that idea.

No evidence except for a well-sourced article published by Politico itself, quoting Ukranian officials.

I mean, other than that -- sure, "no evidence" for this "conspiracy theory."

BuzzFeed decided to join the MinTruth in destroying all record of this wrongthink article and now writes the Politico news article itself out of existence, claiming that this "conspiracy theory" merely comes from a "viral article on FaceBook," rather than a news organization which obviously leans very far to the left.

Media delenda sunt.








Julie Kelly is all over Fusion Nat, who's trying to protect Andrea Chalupa more than ABC was protecting Jeffrey Epstein:







Posted by: Ace of Spades at 07:00 PM




Comments

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1 Some sort of weird, gray double - post going on. . .

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at November 12, 2019 07:01 PM (xptlg)

2

#1

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at November 12, 2019 07:01 PM (6vHcr)

3 Does Fusion Nat refer to what happened to his gonads?

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at November 12, 2019 07:01 PM (COzlW)

4 Boxy!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:03 PM (cfSRQ)

5 Now unboxed.

Not that there was anything wrong with that.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:03 PM (cfSRQ)

6 Checking my gender over here Boss!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2019 07:03 PM (Y4EXg)

7 The press seems to be going into full Pravda mode.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:04 PM (cfSRQ)

8 Alexandria, Andrea, Alexandra .. whatevs.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 07:04 PM (ZLI7S)

9 This is a fine example of fingers-in-your-ears-and-shouting-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-! journalism!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 12, 2019 07:04 PM (oVJmc)

10 For the record, I'm bored with all of this. Either the FISA report is big or it isn't. Flynn will beat the rap or he won't.

And this never-ending spin cycle gets dumber with each iteration.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:05 PM (cfSRQ)

11 Her name is actually Andrea Chalupa?

Posted by: Insomniac at November 12, 2019 07:06 PM (NWiLs)

12 Guess there's not going to be a kitteh / puppeh thread tonight.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 12, 2019 07:06 PM (Ki5SV)

13 The "media" can kiss my moron ass.

Posted by: SteveOReno, I proudly self-identify as a Moron at November 12, 2019 07:06 PM (2sCft)

14 I want televised hangings of the coup plotters
I will get nothing.

Posted by: Jmel at November 12, 2019 07:07 PM (OeWgo)

15 We are actually at the point where the Dems keep claiming a quid pro quo that the transcript proves false and that Ukraine's government denies.

So we're supposed to believe that Trump should be impeached for conspiring with a foreign power to tell the truth.

Or something.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:07 PM (cfSRQ)

16 6 Checking my gender over here Boss!
Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2019 07:03 PM (Y4EXg)

Getchyer hands outta your pants! Good Lord.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 12, 2019 07:07 PM (NWiLs)

17 That Julie Kelly has some sexxy brains.

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2019 07:07 PM (AIGhm)

18 >>Her name is actually Andrea Chalupa?


She's a Hearty Dish.

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2019 07:07 PM (AIGhm)

19 11
Her name is actually Andrea Chalupa?

Posted by: Insomniac at November 12, 2019 07:06 PM (NWiLs)

---
Welcome to parody world.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:07 PM (cfSRQ)

20 Media delenda sunt.


Typo?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 12, 2019 07:07 PM (oVJmc)

21
Politico:


"We have no fucking idea what we are talking about, especially when we make the Democrats and Deep Staters look like traitors. We need to stop that."

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 12, 2019 07:08 PM (sy5kK)

22 Keeping lies straight is hard

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2019 07:08 PM (ZCEU2)

23 Another great Dickensian name.

Paula Broadwell was another good one.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:08 PM (cfSRQ)

24 I didn't kill myself, in case you were interested..

Posted by: Zombie Jeff Epstein at November 12, 2019 07:08 PM (UCiEJ)

25 The press seems to be going into full Pravda mode.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:04 PM (cfSRQ)


That's so unfair to the reporters at Pravda/Tass. Those people had to lie for fear they, and their families, ended up in the gulag or dead. Our media are more than willing liars under no such government pressure/threat.

Posted by: RickZ at November 12, 2019 07:08 PM (Y8PSl)

26 Alexandria Chalupa, descendant of Theresa and Pedro Enchilada.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 12, 2019 07:09 PM (ptqGC)

27 Her name is actually Andrea Chalupa?
Posted by: Insomniac at November 12, 2019 07:06 PM (NWiLs)


She really, really likes Taco Bell.

Posted by: DR.WTF at November 12, 2019 07:09 PM (aS1PU)

28 "Her name is actually Andrea Chalupa"

What about it?

Posted by: Andy Encherito at November 12, 2019 07:09 PM (Tnijr)

29 >>Her name is actually Andrea Chalupa?

There are two Chalupas.

No really, there are two. Alexandra and Andrea. It's unclear if they are related but they are both Ukrainian.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 07:09 PM (ZLI7S)

30 Isn't chalupa a Mexican pastry?

Posted by: N.L. Urker. I will urk until I can't urk anymore. at November 12, 2019 07:09 PM (eAMlh)

31 I guess Glen Beck has some chalkboard thingy laying out this whole Ukraine thing, no idea what it says

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 12, 2019 07:09 PM (WhTSP)

32 Julie Kelly is a bit of a One.

I'd let her be all over me, instead of Fusion Nat.



Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at November 12, 2019 07:09 PM (ufFY8)

33
Chalupa tracks are merely hot diarrhea, right?

Posted by: George Stephanopoulos is an Unbiased Urinalist! Now You Tell One! at November 12, 2019 07:09 PM (W6iva)

34 That's so unfair to the reporters at Pravda/Tass.
Those people had to lie for fear they, and their families, ended up in
the gulag or dead. Our media are more than willing liars under no such
government pressure/threat.

Posted by: RickZ at November 12, 2019 07:08 PM (Y8PSl)

---
Er, they chose to be Soviet journalists, knowing what it entailed.

It's not like they were shocked, shocked to find that Communism was going on here!

Paid liars for the cause.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:10 PM (cfSRQ)

35 These sure are Interesting Times we're in. Also, Stupid Time to Be Alive.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 12, 2019 07:10 PM (ptqGC)

36
Does Fusion Nat refer to what happened to his gonads?
Posted by: JuJuBee

=======

Natasha Bertrand is a very attractive airhead who probably has a long career in journalism ahead of her.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 12, 2019 07:10 PM (M9ntN)

37 want televised hangings of the coup plotters
I will get nothing.

I'm past hangings. I cast my vote for Sulla II. This time with feelings.

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at November 12, 2019 07:10 PM (JQ9Wq)

38 The Ukranian officials colluded with a DNC official named Alexandria Chalupa.



I thought a Chalupa was what the last guy in the drive-thru Taco Bell got, after everyone else took the good food.

Hopefully, they left him some hot sauce packets.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 12, 2019 07:11 PM (sy5kK)

39 Natasha Bertrand is a very attractive airhead who probably has a long career in journalism ahead of her.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 12, 2019 07:10 PM (M9ntN)

---
Especially if the kneepads are properly deployed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:11 PM (cfSRQ)

40 For the record, I'm bored with all of this. Either the FISA report is big or it isn't. Flynn will beat the rap or he won't.

And this never-ending spin cycle gets dumber with each iteration.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:05 PM (cfSRQ)


**fistbump**

I'm with you, though my take is twofold:

1. There will never be a report released.

2. If a report is released, it will find no actionable cause against anyone.

I think I'm ready to bet JackStraw that I'll stop posting on AoS for a month if anybody significant actually goes to jail.

In writing news, I managed to crank out 2 1/2 pages today, which was quite a surprise.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 12, 2019 07:11 PM (Ki5SV)

41 20
Media delenda sunt.





Typo?


media is plural

Posted by: How many Romans? at November 12, 2019 07:11 PM (sGtp+)

42
I guess Glen Beck has some chalkboard thingy laying out this whole Ukraine thing, no idea what it says


Posted by: A dude in MI at November 12, 2019 07:09 PM (WhTSP)


Is that nut on or off the Trump Train?




Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 12, 2019 07:12 PM (ptqGC)

43 So.......anyone not a Trump supporter arrested yet?

Oh well.






Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 12, 2019 07:12 PM (Z+IKu)

44 It's not like they were shocked, shocked to find that Communism was going on here!

Paid liars for the cause.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:10 PM (cfSRQ)


And yet they still took risks to get the Truth out, hence the joke about 'reading between the lines' of their newscasts.

Posted by: RickZ at November 12, 2019 07:12 PM (Y8PSl)

45 Trying to catch up and read the story about the guy who dumped his crap all over that lady in L.A. Jesus Christ. He needed to be locked up forever, not 2 months.

Posted by: Jewells45 at November 12, 2019 07:12 PM (dUJdY)

46 She is Andrea Chalupa and is Ukranian/ American

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2019 07:12 PM (ZCEU2)

47 Politico dropped the chalupa

Posted by: jsg at November 12, 2019 07:12 PM (7ERNr)

48 That's so unfair to the reporters at Pravda/Tass. Those people had to lie for fear they, and their families, ended up in the gulag or dead. Our media are more than willing liars under no such government pressure/threat.

Plenty of the Pravda reporters were willing liars too.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 12, 2019 07:13 PM (9t0Zz)

49
There are two Chalupas.

No really, there are two. Alexandra and Andrea. It's unclear if they are related but they are both Ukrainian.



Gee. Lookit how many Ukranian-'Americans' seem to be more Ukranian than American. It sure seems like they see themselves that way, anyway.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 12, 2019 07:13 PM (oVJmc)

50 I believe this post is a conspiracy to whet my appetite for Mexican food.

Posted by: Fritz at November 12, 2019 07:13 PM (wo3c/)

51 >>I think I'm ready to bet JackStraw that I'll stop posting on AoS for a month if anybody significant actually goes to jail.


Sorry, Cement Head is only betting on indictments. But let's define what significant means.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 07:13 PM (ZLI7S)

52 I think I'm ready to bet JackStraw that I'll stop posting on AoS for a month if anybody significant actually goes to jail.



In writing news, I managed to crank out 2 1/2 pages today, which was quite a surprise.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 12, 2019 07:11 PM (Ki5SV)

---
I don't pretend to know what's coming next, so predictions are also really boring.

I'm to the point where I tune it all out, because if big things happen, they'll pretty much be obvious.

Mostly it's ritalin addicts yelling at each other on twitter. Yawner.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:13 PM (cfSRQ)

53
Since I decided it was safe to go back in the water and started keeping MSNBC on in the background, I've seen quite a bit of Fusion Nat.

Her affect is Little Miss Dead Serious -- think Wednesday Addams.

The anchors gobble up every word she says.

She is NEVER asked about any of the stories on which she's been busted (Byron York busting her on the El Dorado for example) and she actually keeps reporting her busted facts after they've been busted.

She's the current Thing. I wish Matt Taibbi would brain-rape her into submission.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 12, 2019 07:14 PM (M9ntN)

54
Trying to catch up and read the story about the guy who dumped his crap
all over that lady in L.A. Jesus Christ. He needed to be locked up
forever, not 2 months.

Posted by: Jewells45 at November 12, 2019 07:12 PM (dUJdY)


As I said to bluebell earlier, I'm afraid that poor woman is going to have long-term or life-long serious health issues.

I actually (literally) can't even.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 12, 2019 07:14 PM (ptqGC)

55 Buckets of Diarrhea and Politico should be treated like a religion.

- Almost-President Mark Sanford

Posted by: mikeyG at November 12, 2019 07:14 PM (KvxS6)

56 38
I thought a Chalupa was what the last guy in the drive-thru Taco Bell got, after everyone else took the good food.


good food? at taco bell? shirley, you jest!

Posted by: Anachronda at November 12, 2019 07:14 PM (sGtp+)

57 And yet they still took risks to get the Truth out, hence the joke about 'reading between the lines' of their newscasts.

Posted by: RickZ at November 12, 2019 07:12 PM (Y8PSl)

---
If Comrade Stalin only knew...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:15 PM (cfSRQ)

58
There are to Chalupas ...


... and they are phoning from
INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!

Posted by: George Stephanopoulos is an Unbiased Urinalist! Now You Tell One! at November 12, 2019 07:15 PM (W6iva)

59 She's walking that fine line between crazy and stupid!

Posted by: Isophorone at November 12, 2019 07:15 PM (Nrz1h)

60 Bret Baier is covering the impeachment crap tomorrow, so he'll probably be joined by Judge Nap and Chris Wallace.

I'll pass.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 12, 2019 07:15 PM (ptqGC)

61 Someone asked a couple of posts ago what we're doing for the burning times. Here's what I am doing:

I am moving from a deep blue state to a deep red one.

I am building a house without a mortgage and am closing down all my debts.

I have moved half my savings into guaranteed income contracts with a triple A financial company.

I have tightened ties with family -- the one I can depend on when times are tough.

I own two indestructible Jap shitbox vehicles and

I own two 12 ga shot guns-- one with a rifled barrel.

Posted by: Regular joe at November 12, 2019 07:16 PM (6/uwW)

62 It's not Chalupus!!

/Dr. House

Posted by: Muldoon at November 12, 2019 07:16 PM (m45I2)

63 I think Adam Schiff should protect this article via the Whistleblower Statute of the Constitution.

Posted by: t-bird at November 12, 2019 07:16 PM (VP1E6)

64 >>Bret Baier is covering the impeachment crap tomorrow, so he'll probably be joined by Judge Nap and Chris Wallace.

>>I'll pass.

Watch it on CSPAN. No commercials and no hacks.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 07:17 PM (ZLI7S)

65 If I was the person in charge of taking the minutes of meetings in my fantasy Star Chamber group, I would be on my third notebook.

Posted by: Easy Andy at November 12, 2019 07:17 PM (2DOZq)

66

Leave the predictions to me.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at November 12, 2019 07:17 PM (6vHcr)

67 Pikers!

Posted by: Hot Diarrhea Hobo at November 12, 2019 07:18 PM (K4I9O)

68 Someone asked a couple of posts ago what we're doing for the burning times. Here's what I am doing:



I am building a house without a mortgage and am closing down all my debts.





Posted by: Regular joe at November 12, 2019 07:16 PM (6/uwW)

---
No, you should be sucking up debt like crazy. Once the burning starts, they'll have no way to collect.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:18 PM (cfSRQ)

69 once all the evidence is removed, she is correct, there is no evidence.

Pencil Neck Schiff is doing this trick ... Repub's can bring all the witnesses and evidence they want, just no smoking guns or witnesses that might disagree with Schiff's narrative. All non-smoking guns are allowed ... and will be entered into evidence as "proving there is no evidence".

Posted by: illiniwek at November 12, 2019 07:18 PM (Cus5s)

70 Trying to catch up and read the story about the guy who dumped his crap all over that lady in L.A. Jesus Christ. He needed to be locked up forever, not 2 months.

I've seen plenty of vagrants in Seattle walking around with thick, heavy sticks or pipes, literal clubs.

I give they a VEEEEERY wide berth whenever possible. I know if one of those crazy bastards were to brain me, a straight, white, Christian male, my family probably would get to see the vagrant have a press conference with Kshama Sawant in which Sawant congratulates him for having overcome so much hatred and oppression in his life.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 12, 2019 07:18 PM (9t0Zz)

71 >>Leave the predictions to me.


No problem.

You can have Predictions and all of the Fucking Monkeys.

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2019 07:18 PM (AIGhm)

72
You can have Predictions and all of the Fucking Monkeys.

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2019 07:18 PM (AIGhm)

---
I saw the Predictions open for the Fucking Moneys at Pine Knob in '82.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:19 PM (cfSRQ)

73
You can have Predictions and all of the Fucking Monkeys.

Posted by: garrett




That's a heathen lie!

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at November 12, 2019 07:19 PM (6vHcr)

74 So, we've gone from Trump threatened to withhold the aid unless the Ukraine "manufactured dirt on Biden"
(That's what Schiff said the transcript was.)

To Trump never withheld the aid and the Ukraine never opened a new investigation.

But, by all means--let's impeach Trump for something that no part of ever happened.

No quid.
No pro
No quo

Nothing

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at November 12, 2019 07:19 PM (Xi8rf)

75 60 Bret Baier is covering the impeachment crap tomorrow, so he'll probably be joined by Judge Nap and Chris Wallace.

I'll pass.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 12, 2019 07:15 PM (ptqGC)


There are 3 names that have done nearly everything they can to destroy their credibility. And they are getting better at it by the day.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 12, 2019 07:19 PM (sy5kK)

76 No, you should be sucking up debt like crazy. Once the burning starts, they'll have no way to collect.


Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:18 PM (cfSRQ)


*considers purchasing Bentley Bentayga SUV*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 12, 2019 07:21 PM (ptqGC)

77 Me neither Jane. That poor woman. This is another reason I don't venture out of my little burg very often. We even have homeless people here now. It's very disturbing.

Posted by: Jewells45 at November 12, 2019 07:21 PM (dUJdY)

78 I will be relying on the kindness of strangers in the burning times.

Posted by: Moonbeam Smith, progressive activist at November 12, 2019 07:21 PM (7ERNr)

79 UGH I knew it already BUT sleep Study confirmed severe obstructive sleep apnea! Need MaxillaFacial Surgery & other things done
*********
Willowed the last 2 threads, Busy with stuff in the house

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 12, 2019 07:21 PM (BqBId)

80 Gee. Lookit how many Ukranian-'Americans' seem to be more Ukranian than American. It sure seems like they see themselves that way, anyway.


well, they're SOMETHING before American, but not sure it's Uke so much since that was really barely a country

and during Soviet era it was mostly hollowed out of the very obstinate native Slavs and filled with Russian emigres. so what does it even mean? I would bet anything those girls are not really Ukrainian -- not actually Ukrainian-language-speaking, Catholic/Orthodox Slavic type.

Posted by: BlackOrchid..A.E.D.K.H. at November 12, 2019 07:21 PM (Rarvo)

81 "These sure are Interesting Times we're in. Also, Stupid Time to Be Alive."

Agreed.

Posted by: zombie Artie Johnson at November 12, 2019 07:21 PM (Tnijr)

82 Sweet mother! We're gonna need a 3 chalkboard flow chart to keep track of these a**holes crimes!

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at November 12, 2019 07:21 PM (LOq4H)

83 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge at November 12, 2019 07:21 PM (Zz0t1)

84 The Hot Diarrhea Challenge will become the hot, new thing among the wine moms.



Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 12, 2019 07:21 PM (Z+IKu)

85 LOL Get Fucked!

Posted by: Sponge at November 12, 2019 07:21 PM (Zz0t1)

86 29 >>Her name is actually Andrea Chalupa?

There are two Chalupas.

No really, there are two. Alexandra and Andrea. It's unclear if they are related but they are both Ukrainian.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 07:09 PM (ZLI7S)

They're sisters.

And Alexandra Chalupa was previously involved with the Speedway Bomber, Brett Kimberlin.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at November 12, 2019 07:22 PM (ijEPD)

87
1. There will never be a report released.

2. If a report is released, it will find no actionable cause against anyone.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

========

How does Vindman get center stage and hail of bouquets for insubordination to the CiC, violating the UCMJ?

Also, since I couldn't get here earlier, to no one and everyone in particular: If the DOJ is wrangling over redactions in the Horowitz report, it clearly has info in there that people don't like. How has this not been leaked? Really curious about that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 12, 2019 07:22 PM (M9ntN)

88 Trying to catch up and read the story about the guy who dumped his crap
all over that lady in L.A. Jesus Christ. He needed to be locked up
forever, not 2 months.
*******
NO!! Shot until dead, Don't waste Taxpayers money on that revolting shit

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 12, 2019 07:22 PM (BqBId)

89 Serious query for the COBs.

Have any of you collected the hash history of the trolls to determine if you could execute a net mask ban of their ip provider (as long as none of us regulars are in the same net mask, that is)?

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 12, 2019 07:22 PM (VcFUs)

90 CTH Prediction:

Trump is impeached and removed by Senate
Pike Pence chooses Haley as his VP
Profit

Posted by: Galil at November 12, 2019 07:22 PM (Pzzpr)

91 That story was true at that time, because it was useful for it to be true. It is false now, because it is more useful for it to be false.
It's complicated, but, if you believed in the Democrat Party as one does in a religion, it would make complete sense.

Posted by: PG at November 12, 2019 07:23 PM (iqCkn)

92 If it wasn't an impeachable offense against VP Biden, it definitely isn't an impeachable offense against Trump.

Posted by: Easy Andy at November 12, 2019 07:23 PM (2DOZq)

93 Don't say that name! Shh.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 12, 2019 07:23 PM (xPJvm)

94 "Bret Baier is covering the impeachment crap tomorrow, so he'll probably be joined by Judge Nap and Chris Wallace."

Anyone watching these three will be just as confused and bewildered as NY Times readers and WAPO digestors when nothing is proven and impeachment falls apart - and then the IG report comes out and the Durham prosecutions.

It will all be "Wut?" from these viewers - the MSM job is to keep its viewers uninformed and sheep like for as long as it takes - until reality hits and then its "d'oh!"

Posted by: Boswell at November 12, 2019 07:23 PM (32YRo)

95 61 Someone asked a couple of posts ago what we're doing for the burning times. Here's what I am doing:

I am moving from a deep blue state to a deep red one.
YOU'D BETTER DO IT NOW.
I am building a house without a mortgage and am closing down all my debts. GOOD CALL
I have moved half my savings into guaranteed income contracts with a triple A financial company. GOOD, ASSUMING THE ECONOMY STILL WORKS.

I have tightened ties with family -- the one I can depend on when times are tough. DEFINITELY.

I own two indestructible Jap shitbox vehicles NO GOOD IF YOU'RE NOT THERE YET. and

I own two 12 ga shot guns-- one with a rifled barrel. YOU ARE WOEFULLY UNDER-PREPARED.

SMILEY FACE

Posted by: RI Red at November 12, 2019 07:24 PM (rbV6N)

96 Posted by: Galil at November 12, 2019 07:22 PM (Pzzpr)
*******
Here's a concept, Don't go to CTH because Sundance is a Fucking Retard

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 12, 2019 07:24 PM (BqBId)

97 Whosoever believes a word a democrat says, ever, deserves the humiliation and destruction that follows

Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 12, 2019 07:24 PM (FEQY4)

98 NO!! Shot until dead, Don't waste Taxpayers money on that revolting shit

Drowned in his own bucket.

Posted by: t-bird at November 12, 2019 07:24 PM (aKxkI)

99 We were for Russian Collusion before we were against it.

- Media Stooges

Posted by: Sponge at November 12, 2019 07:24 PM (Zz0t1)

100 CTH Prediction:

Trump is impeached and removed by Senate
Pike Pence chooses Haley as his VP
Profit



Posted by: Galil at November 12, 2019 07:22 PM (Pzzpr)

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Sundance never got over being wrong about Huber. He's totally black-pilled now and tedious to read.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:25 PM (cfSRQ)

101 Sorry, Cement Head is only betting on indictments. But let's define what significant means.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 07:13 PM (ZLI7S)


Significant as in big names. Brennan. Mueller. Biden. Page. Strzok. And so on.

Jim or Jane Footslog, assistant secretary to the acting ambassador to East Bungholia does not count.

I admire your confidence that something will happen to put the fear or God into these people. I don't believe it, though.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 12, 2019 07:25 PM (Ki5SV)

102 How has this not been leaked? Really curious about that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia



Because we are not in charge of our own nation.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at November 12, 2019 07:25 PM (LOq4H)

103 Politico...straight shooters!

Posted by: Paul Peckerwood at November 12, 2019 07:25 PM (ZD72y)

104 98 NO!! Shot until dead, Don't waste Taxpayers money on that revolting shit

Drowned in his own bucket.
Posted by: t-bird at November 12, 2019 07:24 PM (aKxkI)

Hoist on his own peturd.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 12, 2019 07:25 PM (NWiLs)

105 >>They're sisters.

>>And Alexandra Chalupa was previously involved with the Speedway Bomber, Brett Kimberlin.

First, ixnay on the second name you mentioned. Not to be mentioned here per management.

Have you got confirmation on the sisters thing? I've seen it both ways but nothing definite. It would seem to make sense but I like to be sure.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 07:25 PM (ZLI7S)

106 Brilliant! Attacks on news-as-conspiracy-theory are only allowed when convenient to US!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 12, 2019 07:25 PM (438dO)

107 They're sisters.

And Alexandra Chalupa was previously involved with the Speedway Bomber, ONE THAT MUST NOT BE NAMED.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at November 12, 2019 07:22 PM (ijEPD)


Shit. You just got Ace put on the watch list again.

Posted by: Sponge at November 12, 2019 07:25 PM (Zz0t1)

108 Has anyone decided on the drinking rules for watching the hearings? We would be remiss if we didn't have any.

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at November 12, 2019 07:26 PM (KbCvz)

109 *shakes pantsuit leg*

Hot diarrhea!

Posted by: Hillary! at November 12, 2019 07:26 PM (3BlqQ)

110 Here's a concept, Don't go to CTH because Sundance is a Fucking Retard

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 12, 2019 07:24 PM (BqBId)

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He's good on economics, but after totally blowing it by assuming Sessions was going to pull off a masterstroke, he's been wrong wrong wrong wrong every since.

He also said Kavanaugh was never going to be confirmed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:26 PM (cfSRQ)

111 How was Trump's campaign "boosted" in any measurable way? By anyone other than he himself? Actual impact on campaign or result.


I'll wait - show your work.


[just a reminder that almost every *sentence* of most media crap is false, or assumes things not proved or documented, etc. - this is the "idiot marinade" in which almost everyone soaks, 24/7 ..... kind of a miracle things are not much, much, much worse than they are, given the ignorance and misinformation resulting]

Posted by: rhomboid at November 12, 2019 07:27 PM (QDnY+)

112 Has anyone decided on the drinking rules for watching the hearings? We would be remiss if we didn't have any.

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at November 12, 2019 07:26 PM (KbCvz)


Well, they start in the morning, right? I'm not sure drinking all day is the way to go.

I could be convinced otherwise.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 12, 2019 07:27 PM (ptqGC)

113
Trying to catch up and read the story about the guy who dumped his crap
all over that lady in L.A. Jesus Christ. He needed to be locked up
forever, not 2 months.

Posted by: Jewells45 at November 12, 2019 07:12 PM (dUJdY)

As I said to bluebell earlier, I'm afraid that poor woman is going to have long-term or life-long serious health issues.

I actually (literally) can't even.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

=======

The reporter who did that story also had footage of a homeless monster shoving a passerby (a tailor) directly under the wheels of a box truck. You can't even believe what you're seeing, his head and upper torso disappear under the wheels of the truck. Miraculously, he survived -- last word is in critical condition -- but with god knows what disabilities. The homeless monster is being charged with attempted murder. How many of those incidents have to happen before California wakes up? Some four-digit number for sure.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 12, 2019 07:27 PM (M9ntN)

114 I'm with M4P. If something actually happens we'll be all the better off because there is nothing better than an unexpected happy surprise.

Posted by: freaked at November 12, 2019 07:27 PM (Tnijr)

115 Well, they start in the morning, right? I'm not sure drinking all day is the way to go.

I could be convinced otherwise.




Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 12, 2019 07:27 PM (ptqGC)

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What a lightweight.

Posted by: Hillary at November 12, 2019 07:28 PM (cfSRQ)

116 >>I'm with M4P. If something actually happens we'll be all the better off because there is nothing better than an unexpected happy surprise.


*Whispers in your ear*

Hi

Posted by: Otter at November 12, 2019 07:28 PM (AIGhm)

117 Didn't Hot Diahrea play with Blowing Chunks at the Whiskey circa 1979?

Posted by: George T at November 12, 2019 07:28 PM (nzKWW)

118
Here's a concept, Don't go to CTH because Sundance is a Fucking Retard


I hate fucking retards.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 12, 2019 07:29 PM (oVJmc)

119 I'm with M4P. If something actually happens we'll be all the better off
because there is nothing better than an unexpected happy surprise.

Posted by: freaked at November 12, 2019 07:27 PM (Tnijr)

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Like surprise anal?

Posted by: Shep! at November 12, 2019 07:29 PM (cfSRQ)

120 The reporter who did that story also had footage of a homeless monster shoving a passerby (a tailor) directly under the wheels of a box truck. You can't even believe what you're seeing, his head and upper torso disappear under the wheels of the truck. Miraculously, he survived -- last word is in critical condition -- but with god knows what disabilities. The homeless monster is being charged with attempted murder. How many of those incidents have to happen before California wakes up? Some four-digit number for sure.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 12, 2019 07:27 PM (M9ntN)


They will NEVER wake up.

California and the people that vote for this garbage are damaged beyond recovery.

You must reboot the brain and we've not discovered a good way to do that yet.

Posted by: Sponge at November 12, 2019 07:29 PM (Zz0t1)

121 CNN...above the fray, a source for truth!

Posted by: Paul Peckerwood at November 12, 2019 07:29 PM (ZD72y)

122 The reporter who did that story also had footage of a
homeless monster shoving a passerby (a tailor) directly under the
wheels of a box truck. You can't even believe what you're seeing, his
head and upper torso disappear under the wheels of the truck.
Miraculously, he survived -- last word is in critical condition -- but
with god knows what disabilities. The homeless monster is being charged
with attempted murder. How many of those incidents have to happen before
California wakes up? Some four-digit number for sure.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 12, 2019 07:27 PM (M9ntN)


California is going the way of Venezuela. I have dear friends there still. One is married to a loony lib lawyer and lives in a gorgeous house in La Jolla overlooking the Pacific.

I worry for her.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 12, 2019 07:30 PM (ptqGC)

123
How does Vindman get center stage and hail of bouquets for insubordination to the CiC, violating the UCMJ?

Also, since I couldn't get here earlier, to no one and everyone in particular: If the DOJ is wrangling over redactions in the Horowitz report, it clearly has info in there that people don't like. How has this not been leaked? Really curious about that.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 12, 2019 07:22 PM (M9ntN)


How the Vindman move wasn't insubordination is beyond me. Like a helment to helment contact on the dead run, and no flag.

Hannity said last night his sources said it is supposed to be released prior to Thanksgiving. His sources told him they were going to retract about 20% of it, but now is only going to be "sentences and phrases", whatever that means.


Yeah, I am getting pretty disgusted about the whole damned thing, too.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 12, 2019 07:30 PM (sy5kK)

124 I hate fucking retards.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 12, 2019 07:29 PM (oVJmc)


You should stop doing them and find better prostitutes.

Posted by: Sponge at November 12, 2019 07:30 PM (Zz0t1)

125 "Hi
Posted by: Otter"

Ha I knew you'd jump on that you little fucker.

Posted by: freaked at November 12, 2019 07:30 PM (Tnijr)

126 Here's a concept, Don't go to CTH because Sundance is a Fucking Retard



I hate fucking retards.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 12, 2019 07:29 PM (oVJmc)

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I saw Sundance open for the Fucking Retards at the Palace in '97.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:31 PM (cfSRQ)

127 Even if some indictments happen, the delay of anything happening regard to the IG reporting has already caused damage by allowing the Dems to skate through several elections without having to answer for their crimes.

Posted by: Easy Andy at November 12, 2019 07:31 PM (2DOZq)

128 >>Significant as in big names. Brennan. Mueller. Biden. Page. Strzok. And so on.

>>Jim or Jane Footslog, assistant secretary to the acting ambassador to East Bungholia does not count.

Ok, deal.

I won't hold you to it though. There are going to be indictments from Category A.

I don't get some of you book nerds. You have the best spy thriller you will ever see playing out right in front of you and you are bored by it. I mean you are going to be reading about this for the rest of your life, how can this be boring? This is real.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 07:31 PM (ZLI7S)

129 If, wait, IF I watch any of the Shiffty Shit Show it will be just to see how they treat Republicans and block them from asking questions.

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2019 07:31 PM (ZCEU2)

130 >>You must reboot the brain and we've not discovered a good way to do that yet.


SOYLENT GREEN ENERGY

'Where some see problems, we see Clean Green Solutions'

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2019 07:31 PM (AIGhm)

131 So when Alexandria Ortega-Chimichanga conspires to favor us with delicious Tex-Mex cuisine, I want in on that action!

Posted by: Fritz at November 12, 2019 07:31 PM (wo3c/)

132 I have several relatives (by marriage) in Calif..most are looking to get the hell out.

Posted by: Jewells45 at November 12, 2019 07:31 PM (dUJdY)

133 DSiiDS -

Hoping for the best for ya on the sleep thing.
Hang in there man.
We need ya on the field.

Posted by: teej at November 12, 2019 07:32 PM (wOZdC)

134 Funfact : Runny Buckets of Shit was the name of Anus Young's first band.

Posted by: jsg at November 12, 2019 07:33 PM (7ERNr)

135 So when Alexandria Ortega-Chimichanga conspires to favor us with delicious Tex-Mex cuisine, I want in on that action!
Posted by: Fritz at November 12, 2019 07:31 PM (wo3c/)


I'm a big fan of the Chimichanga. PLEASE don't ruin it for me.

Please......I beg of you.

Posted by: Sponge at November 12, 2019 07:33 PM (Zz0t1)

136 I don't get some of you book nerds. You have the
best spy thriller you will ever see playing out right in front of you
and you are bored by it. I mean you are going to be reading about this
for the rest of your life, how can this be boring? This is real.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 07:31 PM (ZLI7S)

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It's not playing out. If it would playing out, that would be interesting.

Instead I get to watch trailer after trailer while the opening date has been pushed back month by month.

What was supposed to be a blockbuster in May will be lucky to debut in time for Christmas.

Alright already!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:33 PM (cfSRQ)

137
we are not in charge of our own nation.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp

=======

Well, step up your game!

Posted by: Larger, tentacled creature in the swamp at November 12, 2019 07:33 PM (M9ntN)

138 Funfact : Runny Buckets of Shit was the name of Anus Young's first band.
Posted by: jsg at November 12, 2019 07:33 PM (7ERNr)


And we're OFF!!

Posted by: Sponge at November 12, 2019 07:33 PM (Zz0t1)

139 Poopa Chalupa!!!

Posted by: That irredeemable Russian asset who always says... at November 12, 2019 07:33 PM (EgshT)

140 Natasha Bertrand, a/k/ar "Fusion Nat," is 26 years old. She graduated in 2014 with a BA in political science from Vassar College. She's also, apparently, best buddies with Fusion GPS founder Glen Simpson.

Keep this in mind when her name comes into play in connection with anything Trump. Fusion Nat had penned untold # of articles about Russia! Russia! Russia! and is propped up by the Progressive Left as one of, if not THE go-to reporter with "insider" sources on anything related to Russia (and now Ukraine) and Trump.

So, just to keep it all straight, the Left has adopted Fusion Nat as their Oracle on the Mount about the misogynistic and racist GOP elected officials and the people that vote for them. Her "anonymous sources" (and let's be honest, probably a vast majority of the text she barfs into the public) are provided to her by private sector handlers that are also the paid "dirty tricksters" of the DNC generally, and Hillary Clinton, specifically.

In fact, if you wanted to map out the media landscape's partisan bias, a good place to start would be to draw a circle around Fusion Nat, and then branch-line to all people and organizations that overtly prop her up and pump her into the Leftist media sensation that she is. She is literally the poster child of the the official DNC strategic collective, and that is precisely why she is heralded as the Best Journalist Ever by all of the usual suspects.

Funny though. Now is the era of journalism where we celebrate those who pass through propaganda to the people. Good work Natasha. You have a very promising career ahead of you with the DNC insiders and all of the manufactured fame and glory that comes with it.

Posted by: RichardWindsor at November 12, 2019 07:34 PM (DRgs8)

141 What was supposed to be a blockbuster in May will be lucky to debut in time for Christmas.

Alright already!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:33 PM (cfSRQ)


ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!!!!????

Posted by: Sponge at November 12, 2019 07:34 PM (Zz0t1)

142 I guess "no evidence to support it" is the counterweight to the other libelous "credibly accused" the press uses to just fucking lie.

Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 12, 2019 07:34 PM (FEQY4)

143 Are we far enough down the rabbit hole, that the media can GASLIGHT a President out of Office?

Posted by: Don Q at November 12, 2019 07:34 PM (NgKpN)

144 Media delenda sunt.
Typo?
media is plural
Posted by: How many Romans?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=life+of+brian+latin+lesson+subtitles

Posted by: Blutarski at November 12, 2019 07:35 PM (VNfwt)

145 If the hearings are in the morning, then Irish covfefe is in order.

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at November 12, 2019 07:35 PM (KbCvz)

146 Sorry, Cement Head is only betting on indictments. But let's define what significant means.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 07:13 PM (

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That's legit. Nobody significant goes to jail - not with DC jurors, and judges.

I just want to see who is indicted.

I don't consider Strzok, Page or McCabe significant. Those are patsies AFAIC.

Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Yates, Lynch - significant. The coup leaders.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 12, 2019 07:35 PM (3DuXY)

147 Gee. I wonder why none of the media has jumped on the wealth of facts that Glenn Beck threw out there on every major media platform available.

Posted by: Sponge at November 12, 2019 07:36 PM (Zz0t1)

148
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!!!!????

Posted by: Sponge at November 12, 2019 07:34 PM (Zz0t1)

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No, not really.

I think I'll go get some writing done.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:36 PM (cfSRQ)

149 Natasha Bertrand is a very attractive airhead who probably has a long career in journalism ahead of her.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 12, 2019 07:10 PM (M9ntN)

________


"... and deep too." -- Just The Punchline

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump/Conan the Hero Dog 2020: Two Barbarians for the Price of One!!! at November 12, 2019 07:37 PM (WqPYg)

150 129 If, wait, IF I watch any of the Shiffty Shit Show it will be just to see how they treat Republicans and block them from asking questions.
Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2019 07:31 PM (ZCEU2)

If that is the only reason, no need.

The video highlights will be on Tucker, Hannity, and Ingraham each evening.

And pre-sorted for your convenience.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 12, 2019 07:37 PM (sy5kK)

151 I'm still going with a single indictment of McCabe and he is found not guilty by a DC jury.

Posted by: Easy Andy at November 12, 2019 07:37 PM (2DOZq)

152 Natasha Bertrand, a/k/ar "Fusion Nat," is 26 years old. She graduated
in 2014 with a BA in political science from Vassar College. She's also,
apparently, best buddies with Fusion GPS founder Glen Simpson.



How is she with covert meetings in Metro stations?



Posted by: Francis Underwood at November 12, 2019 07:37 PM (q1Pj5)

153 No, not really.

I think I'll go get some writing done.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 12, 2019 07:36 PM (cfSRQ)


Well, you ARE an author.

Posted by: Sponge at November 12, 2019 07:37 PM (Zz0t1)

154 Well, step up your game!

Posted by: Larger, tentacled creature in the swamp



I'm getting old. Only good for center mass shots anymore...sigh.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at November 12, 2019 07:38 PM (LOq4H)

155 So I think the delay is being engineered to effect the election the most. That's what I would do if I were Trump.

Posted by: dagny at November 12, 2019 07:38 PM (nRWPy)

156
One is married to a loony lib lawyer and lives in a gorgeous house in La Jolla overlooking the Pacific.

I worry for her.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

========

She'd best keep herself barricaded in that La Jolla home. My grandma lives in San Diego and I worry incessantly.

Posted by: Larger, tentacled creature in the swamp at November 12, 2019 07:38 PM (M9ntN)

157
woops, sock off

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 12, 2019 07:38 PM (M9ntN)

158 I have step family in California. I have no relationship with them at all since my wife, his,mother, died but I wonder if I should be worried about them.

Posted by: N.L. Urker. I will urk until I can't urk anymore. at November 12, 2019 07:39 PM (eAMlh)

159 Natasha Bertrand, a/k/ar "Fusion Nat," is 26 years old. She graduated
in 2014 with a BA in political science from Vassar College.



IOW, one of those Participation Trophy milennials.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 12, 2019 07:39 PM (oVJmc)

160 I'm still going with a single indictment of McCabe and he is found not guilty by a DC jury.
Posted by: Easy Andy at November 12, 2019 07:37 PM (2DOZq)

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That's reasonable, I think, and pretty close to my outlook.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 12, 2019 07:39 PM (3DuXY)

161 117
Didn't Hot Diahrea play with Blowing Chunks at the Whiskey circa 1979?

don't know about that, but i did once see Creamed Corn open for Hot Diahrrea at Chipotle Fest back in the noughties.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 12, 2019 07:40 PM (sGtp+)

162 >>It's not playing out. If it would playing out, that would be interesting.

>>Instead I get to watch trailer after trailer while the opening date has been pushed back month by month.

>>What was supposed to be a blockbuster in May will be lucky to debut in time for Christmas.

>>Alright already!

I suppose it depends on your perspective. I've been following this really closely and I see new things everyday. But I think I'm also looking at a bigger stage.

The whole Russia/Ukraine story that is lurking just below the surface and is the reason all of this is happening is pretty interesting to me too. This is a lot bigger than Hunter Biden getting paid for a do nothing job. A lot bigger.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 07:40 PM (ZLI7S)

163 Here I come to save the day!

Posted by: Fusion Gnat at November 12, 2019 07:41 PM (EgshT)

164 A friend just phoned and asked an interesting question. Maybe you can help:

If you were to use a lamp post to hang someone, is there a way you could like light their body on fire and then drop them with the rope around their neck? Is that doable?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 12, 2019 07:41 PM (j3npP)

165 Just for fun, the world's most expensive bullet-proof SUV:

https://tinyurl.com/yyh4tf52

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 12, 2019 07:41 PM (ptqGC)

166

"Familiar with Chalupa" sounds like urban slang.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 12, 2019 07:41 PM (aKsyK)

167
Natasha Bertrand, a/k/ar "Fusion Nat," is 26 years old.

Posted by: RichardWindsor

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In accordance with the Ben Rhodes template. "Average age 27. They know literally nothing."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 12, 2019 07:41 PM (M9ntN)

168 62
It's not Chalupus!!



/Dr. House

Posted by: Muldoon at November 12, 2019 07:16 PM (m45I2)

______


Funny.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump/Conan the Hero Dog 2020: Two Barbarians for the Price of One!!! at November 12, 2019 07:41 PM (WqPYg)

169 I wonder if the Pencil Neck Stalin wonders if he will suffer the same fate as Beria.

Posted by: N.L. Urker. I will urk until I can't urk anymore. at November 12, 2019 07:41 PM (eAMlh)

170 Great tweet saw earlier today:

"I thought the whole reason for being a whistleblower was to testify."

You know, as in TO BLOW, like, with a whistle. Loudly. In court. About what you know. With immunity. Eh, that's so archaic.

Posted by: Moist One at November 12, 2019 07:41 PM (AIcDk)

171 don't know about that, but i did once see Creamed Corn open for Hot Diahrrea at Chipotle Fest back in the noughties.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 12, 2019 07:40 PM (sGtp+)

Didn't that take place in Taco Bell Arena?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 12, 2019 07:42 PM (j3npP)

172 Are we far enough down the rabbit hole, that the media can GASLIGHT a President out of Office?
Posted by: Don Q at November 12, 2019 07:34 PM (NgKpN)

Ummmmmmmmmm...Yes.

Posted by: Don Cherry at November 12, 2019 07:42 PM (Z+IKu)

173 we are SO not voting our way out of this...

Posted by: redc1c4 at November 12, 2019 07:42 PM (woiyT)

174 152 Natasha Bertrand, a/k/ar "Fusion Nat," is 26 years old. She graduated
in 2014 with a BA in political science from Vassar College. She's also,
apparently, best buddies with Fusion GPS founder Glen Simpson.


How is she with covert meetings in Metro stations?



Posted by: Francis Underwood at November 12, 2019 07:37 PM (q1Pj5)

She was just there to meet Boris.

Boris Badanov.

Posted by: Rocket J Squirrel at November 12, 2019 07:43 PM (NgKpN)

175 Where's chunky Jerry Nadler in all this?

Posted by: N.L. Urker. I will urk until I can't urk anymore. at November 12, 2019 07:44 PM (eAMlh)

176
Chalupa, Jamaica, oh I want to take ya


Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama


Key Largo, Montego, baby why don't we go

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 12, 2019 07:44 PM (DD5v0)

177 If you were to use a lamp post to hang someone, is there a way you could like light their body on fire and then drop them with the rope around their neck? Is that doable?
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 12, 2019 07:41 PM (j3npP)


Drop? So they're standing on something or sitting on a horse? Yeah, you'd just have to put a flammable liquid on their clothes and do the drop and ignite them at th he same time. Easy.

Posted by: dagny at November 12, 2019 07:44 PM (nRWPy)

178 I dream of a throuple with Fusion Gnat and Pencil Neck Schitt.

Posted by: Poopa Chalupa at November 12, 2019 07:44 PM (EgshT)

179 I am more of an I read the book, I know what happened, I don't need it made into a bad movie. The sequel book is long boring and unlikely to reach publication.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 12, 2019 07:44 PM (r+sAi)

180 I don't get some of you book nerds. You have the best spy thriller you will ever see playing out right in front of you and you are bored by it. I mean you are going to be reading about this for the rest of your life, how can this be boring? This is real.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 07:31 PM (ZLI7S)


Because in a spy thriller, even if "Mr Big" or "The Organization" skate free in the end, the hero has at least caused enough pain, suffering and death to the other side to make the reader feel that some rough justice has been meted out.

There is no guarantee - in fact, I would argue that the delays, media gaslighting and calls for redaction argue against a guarantee - that anyone involved in this coup will so much as have their hair mussed, let alone face the business end of Bubba in PMITA prison.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 12, 2019 07:45 PM (Ki5SV)

181 I wonder if the Pencil Neck Stalin wonders if he will suffer the same fate as Beria.
Posted by: N.L. Urker. I will urk until I can't urk anymore. at November 12, 2019 07:41 PM (eAMlh)

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We're still some years out from that kind of thing. And at first, it will only be righties who get the bullet. Schiff will likely be retired by the time intraparty Terror and popular revolts start claiming leftist scalps.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 12, 2019 07:45 PM (3DuXY)

182 169 I wonder if the Pencil Neck Stalin wonders if he will suffer the same fate as Beria.
Posted by: N.L. Urker. I will urk until I can't urk anymore. at November 12, 2019 07:41 PM (eAMlh)

His latest is that even though what the President supposedly did does not meet the MODERN definition of bribery, he somehow knows what the Founder's definition was, and that is good enough to impeach Trump.

Funny how they want to use the Founder's 'definition' for bribery, but when it comes to ARMS, that definition means nothing.

Posted by: Rocket J Squirrel at November 12, 2019 07:45 PM (NgKpN)

183 That Chalupa broad is a dead ringer for the Oberbootsmann running the brig on the infamous U 969.

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at November 12, 2019 07:45 PM (MgmBg)

184 The whole Russia/Ukraine story that is lurking just below the surface and is the reason all of this is happening is pretty interesting to me too. This is a lot bigger than Hunter Biden getting paid for a do nothing job. A lot bigger.

Ukraine is a money laundering scheme. You think $6B just got lost while Skankles was SoS?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 12, 2019 07:46 PM (hkouz)

185 Watch CSPAN for the hearing. Fox always goes to commercial break when a Repub is doing the questioning.

Posted by: Old Blue at November 12, 2019 07:46 PM (VNmG1)

186 So the guy with the bucket of poop was just delivering the news.

Posted by: DaveA at November 12, 2019 07:47 PM (FhXTo)

187
Good work Natasha. You have a very promising career ahead of you with the DNC insiders and all of the manufactured fame and glory that comes with it.
Posted by: RichardWindsor

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Considering how shamelessly that waif carries on after her stories have been smashed to atoms by actual journalists who have done ten minutes of googling, she in particular is one I want to see stuttering and stumbling as she tries to explain why things haven't gone as she predicted.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 12, 2019 07:47 PM (M9ntN)

188 184 The whole Russia/Ukraine story that is lurking just below the surface and is the reason all of this is happening is pretty interesting to me too. This is a lot bigger than Hunter Biden getting paid for a do nothing job. A lot bigger.

Ukraine is a money laundering scheme. You think $6B just got lost while Skankles was SoS?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 12, 2019 07:46 PM (hkouz)



Sshhhh!!!

- Deep staters and Democrat thugs

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 12, 2019 07:47 PM (sy5kK)

189 Senate planning a 6-8 week trial. Buy ammo.

Posted by: make a plan at November 12, 2019 07:48 PM (WX+x0)

190 143 Are we far enough down the rabbit hole, that the media can GASLIGHT a President out of Office?

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nah, George W Bush isn't president anymore.

Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 12, 2019 07:48 PM (FEQY4)

191 WTH
Jeff Zeleny w/CNN
Tweeted this out. The Senate is talking 6-8 weeks for the Impeachment Trial?????
https://tinyurl.com/sv2mg2h

Posted by: redridinghood at November 12, 2019 07:48 PM (wiXsO)

192 Has Schiff given Republicans a list of questions they're allowed to ask?

Posted by: N.L. Urker. I will urk until I can't urk anymore. at November 12, 2019 07:48 PM (eAMlh)

193 As the late Alonzo Harris once said, "it's not what you know, it's what you can prove."

Fusion Nat, 26-year old, 4-years out of college, miraculously has formed relationships with sources that consist of the highest level of Obama Administration officials, including Clapper and Brennan. Miraculously, she also regularly contributes to Politico and other top-shelf "news" organizations, is miraculously pushed breathlessly as a top-shelf journalist, is the subject of countless puff pieces in all of the regular corners, and her superior intellect and analytical powers have resulted in her conclusion that Trump, the GOP and their supporters and voters are white racists nationalists who hate gays and women.

Oh, and this is all tied together by a single connection to Hillary Clinton's and DNC's paid hit men at Fusion GPS. Can we PROVE that Fusion Nat's entire career is a manufactured concoction built upon the insider connections carefully maintained by Hillary Clinton?

No. But we all know it. And, they all know we know it.

Posted by: RichardWindsor at November 12, 2019 07:48 PM (DRgs8)

194 "Ukraine is a money laundering scheme. You think $6B just got lost while Skankles was SoS?"

Trillions of dollars of deficit, what's a few billion for the people who make things happen?

Posted by: The Political Military Industrial Complex at November 12, 2019 07:49 PM (Tnijr)

195 Watch CSPAN for the hearing. Fox always goes to commercial break when a Repub is doing the questioning.


Posted by: Old Blue at November 12, 2019 07:46 PM (VNmG1)


CSPAN for me for visuals, AoSHQ for commentary. A winning combo!

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 12, 2019 07:49 PM (q1Pj5)

196 191 WTH
Jeff Zeleny w/CNN
Tweeted this out. The Senate is talking 6-8 weeks for the Impeachment Trial?????
https://tinyurl.com/sv2mg2h



Word was they would try to drag it out until shortly before Iowa.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 12, 2019 07:49 PM (oVJmc)

197 170 Great tweet saw earlier today:

"I thought the whole reason for being a whistleblower was to testify."

You know, as in TO BLOW, like, with a whistle. Loudly. In court. About what you know. With immunity. Eh, that's so archaic.

===

well, except his testimony is all inadmissible, except for the circumstances of his colluding with Schiff to interfere with our elections for purely personal political gain. That he can testify to.

Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 12, 2019 07:49 PM (FEQY4)

198 Iowa Caucus, I mean.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 12, 2019 07:49 PM (oVJmc)

199 I'm thinking there are gonna be a lot of, irl, shocked faces around here.

And not just the number of indictment's but also those named, how detention and trials are handled and one person who is constantly hammered here who took a public "fall", has actually been a very busy man and playing his part in the greatest military intelligence operation in the history (thank you grammie) of things happening.

Posted by: teej at November 12, 2019 07:50 PM (wOZdC)

200 Once again, what crimes did Trump commit, so that he must be impeached?


I'm waiting..................

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 12, 2019 07:50 PM (sy5kK)

201 Jeff Zeleny w/CNN
Tweeted this out. The Senate is talking 6-8 weeks for the Impeachment Trial?????
https://tinyurl.com/sv2mg2h

====


1. These fakenews outlets also routinely say dumb shit.

2. Hey, whatever, maybe they plan on taking on Schiff.

Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 12, 2019 07:50 PM (FEQY4)

202


Julie Kelly is a frequent guest on AM 560's morning show out of Chicago. She's always good to listen to

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 12, 2019 07:50 PM (DD5v0)

203 America is a tourist in San Fran.

Schitthead's "impeachment inquiry" is a bucket of steamy hot diarrhea saved up for 3 years just for us.

Posted by: Moist One at November 12, 2019 07:51 PM (AIcDk)

204 No really, there are two. Alexandra and Andrea. It's unclear if they are related but they are both Ukrainian.

And you're surprised people think your high?

Posted by: DaveA at November 12, 2019 07:51 PM (FhXTo)

205 Kakko!


GOAL!

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 07:52 PM (ZLI7S)

206 A Ukranian Chalupa sandwich could be tempting on such a bitter cold night.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 12, 2019 07:52 PM (q1Pj5)

207 >>>Didn't that take place in Taco Bell Arena?<<<

I've been to that arena. Idaho. It'll put a zap on your head, man!

Posted by: Fritz at November 12, 2019 07:52 PM (wo3c/)

208 If the senate GOP doesn't call Ciaramella, the Bidens, Hillary, Vindman, Schiff, Chalupa, a bunch of others then they are part of the coup.

I am up in the air as to whether they should just reject it outright or cause crazy pain on the Dem side. Probably the latter. But half of them are rhinos so who knows.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 12, 2019 07:53 PM (r+sAi)

209 Jeebus, folks, I wouldn't be "worrying" about people in CA, in general [and those in La Jolla houses with ocean views, in particular]. As is the case 99% of the time, in situations, the "headlines" stuff affects very few people directly.


The dumbing down, the paying of exorbitant prices for energy due to idiotic policies, the evolution of colleges halfway into toxic lunatic asylums, infringement on freedoms [depending on one's life and interests] - these affect a lot of people.


The spectacular crap you hear about affects very few. And unless someone is living a very bad area [of the sort that abound throughout the country, esp. the more populous east], there is nothing urgent or impending or catastrophic to worry about.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 12, 2019 07:54 PM (QDnY+)

210 Senate planning a 6-8 week trial. Buy ammo.
Posted by: make a plan at November 12, 2019 07:48 PM (WX+x0)

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Yup, Mitch/GOPe want a long slog. Any (R) Senators who bring up embarrassing evidence about Dems will be ignored by the media assiduously, while they bash away at the President's support.

They want this to go on for a LONG time. Even if it costs the majority, McConnell is safe, and it's worth it if it costs Trump the election.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 12, 2019 07:54 PM (3DuXY)

211 Forget that previous story we reported. We were lying then.

Posted by: zeera BMGG - Books Make Great Gifts! at November 12, 2019 07:54 PM (PYdI2)

212 A Ukranian Chalupa sandwich could be tempting on such a bitter cold night.


Two chicks at the same time.

Posted by: mikeyG at November 12, 2019 07:54 PM (Dn0hk)

213 @182

He can think whatever he wants, he can hold as many star chamber hearings as he wants, if impeachment gets voted out of the house without so much as a single GOP vote then it's simply a partisan effort to remove a President of the opposition party under trumped up pretenses.


And should be treated with zero credulity and sent directly to the trash can and heap of legislative history.

Posted by: Huxley's Eyeglass Emporium at November 12, 2019 07:54 PM (JLrCS)

214 >>Ukraine is a money laundering scheme. You think $6B just got lost while Skankles was SoS?

But wait, there's more!

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 07:55 PM (ZLI7S)

215 29 >>Her name is actually Andrea Chalupa?

>There are two Chalupas.

There's three and they're all sisters. Irena is the third and she works at...wait for it...The Atlantic Council.

Posted by: RokShox at November 12, 2019 07:56 PM (fW/Hg)

216 I propose a challenge. I will send ace $100 for the first lefty I see getting actual jail time for any of this shit. If it's a biggy like Comey I'll double it.

If nothing happens though someone will need to send ace $100.

Posted by: The Political Military Industrial Complex at November 12, 2019 07:56 PM (Tnijr)

217 These ppl are like cockroaches. Remember the DNI leaker, Henry Kyle Frese, that just dropped off the radar immediately? On Twitter, where he "corresponded"w his legions of reporter friends, he was also following/followed by Andrea Chalupa, Alexandra's equally disgusting sister.

Posted by: Ever at November 12, 2019 07:56 PM (ZZDMQ)

218 The senatorial ill wind of an eight week trial comes from Warner/Burr tumor intel committee. And Mitchell is no where to be found. Only need to stampede 20 repub lemmings.

Posted by: make a plan at November 12, 2019 07:56 PM (WX+x0)

219 They want this to go on for a LONG time. Even if it
costs the majority, McConnell is safe, and it's worth it if it costs
Trump the election.


Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 12, 2019 07:54 PM

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Where do you buy your crack? Cause I want some of that $hit. It's primo stuff.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 12, 2019 07:56 PM (JUOKG)

220 I don't get some of you book nerds. You have the best spy thriller you will ever see playing out right in front of you and you are bored by it. I mean you are going to be reading about this for the rest of your life, how can this be boring? This is real.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 07:31 PM (ZLI7S)


Robert Conquest's The Great Terror is a brilliant book, but Stalin show trials are pretty terrifying when it's your side in the dock.

Posted by: cool breeze at November 12, 2019 07:56 PM (UGKMd)

221
Shit. You just got Ace put on the watch list again.

Posted by: Sponge at November 12, 2019 07:25 PM (Zz0t1)

Oh Crap. I had forgotten he was after more than Aaron Walker and Stacy McCain.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at November 12, 2019 07:56 PM (ijEPD)

222 111
How was Trump's campaign "boosted" in any measurable way? By anyone other than he himself? Actual impact on campaign or result.


I'll wait - show your work.


_______



Some have speculated that Pence helped him, maybe by as much as 20 points, with the evangelical vote. But, yeah, other than that -- can't think of anyone on our side.

Only other factor was the good fortune to run against the worst Presidential candidate in history.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump/Conan the Hero Dog 2020: Two Barbarians for the Price of One!!! at November 12, 2019 07:56 PM (WqPYg)

223 Oh damn off mythological Eisenhower sock

Posted by: freaked at November 12, 2019 07:57 PM (Tnijr)

224 Once again, what crimes did Trump commit, so that he must be impeached?


I'm waiting..................
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg
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Won the election.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 12, 2019 07:57 PM (Pu/Kw)

225 Trump's 2020 re-election is both a prerequisite for many of these things being dealt with it's also more important than these things.

Posted by: DaveA at November 12, 2019 07:57 PM (FhXTo)

226 2019 LA = Dinkins era NYC

Posted by: Regular joe at November 12, 2019 07:58 PM (6/uwW)

227 216
I propose a challenge. I will send ace $100 for the first lefty I see
getting actual jail time for any of this shit. If it's a biggy like
Comey I'll double it.


I'd be careful with that bet. I fully expect some low level workers in Cincinnati to pay the price, but of course, the big fish will swim away unscathed.

Posted by: pep at November 12, 2019 07:58 PM (T6t7i)

228 Looks like both the Chalupas are hard Leftists, related or not.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 12, 2019 07:59 PM (oVJmc)

229 A Ukranian Chalupa sandwich could be tempting on such a bitter cold night.


Two chicks at the same time.
Posted by: mikeyG at November 12, 2019 07:54 PM (Dn0hk)


What? You got a million bucks?

Posted by: DR.WTF at November 12, 2019 07:59 PM (aS1PU)

230 >>There's three and they're all sisters. Irena is the third and she works at...wait for it...The Atlantic Council.

Well there's a shocking development, The Atlantic Council.

Thanks.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 07:59 PM (ZLI7S)

231 So, to repeat, I will send ace $100 for the first lefty I see getting actual jail time for any of this shit. If it's a biggy like Comey I'll double it.

Anybody confident enough to bet me $100 something will happen?

Posted by: freaked at November 12, 2019 07:59 PM (Tnijr)

232 [just a reminder that almost every *sentence* of
most media crap is false, or assumes things not proved or documented,
etc. - this is the "idiot marinade" in which almost everyone soaks, 24/7
..... kind of a miracle things are not much, much, much worse than they
are, given the ignorance and misinformation resulting]


Posted by: rhomboid
______


Agreed. Can you imagine if we just had a mildly fair media with R's in Congress defending and supporting him vigorously? He'd be at an amazing approval rating. And if he had a pro-Trump bias to the degree they're all pro-Commie -- there'd likely be calls to eliminate the 25th Amendment for Trump only so he could serve for life ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump/Conan the Hero Dog 2020: Two Barbarians for the Price of One!!! at November 12, 2019 07:59 PM (WqPYg)

233 Where do you buy your crack? Cause I want some of that $hit. It's primo stuff.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 12, 2019 07:56 PM (JUOKG)

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Feel free to disagree. I've watched Mitch McConnell closely, for a very long time. I know his motives and tactics well by now. And he does not like this President, and is willing to damage him wherever he can get away with it.

Yeah, yeah, I know... Judicial nominations, right?

But Mitch views that separately from the rest of the Trump agenda which he hates and obstructs.

If you trust him, you haven't paid attention to him in decades.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 12, 2019 08:00 PM (3DuXY)

234
Jeebus, folks, I wouldn't be "worrying" about people in CA, in general [and those in La Jolla houses with ocean views, in particular].

Posted by: rhomboid

=======

The thing is, it always starts somewhere, just like that tailor minding his own business walking down the street and getting shoved under a truck.

Some of those San Diego beach communities are casual and loose, a lot of outdoor living and outdoor furniture, and the homeless are getting INCREDIBLY aggressive in my grandma's area and they've penetrated small neighborhoods. I'm dreading the day she calls and says her rocker has been stolen off the porch and she's afraid to sit out front anymore.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 12, 2019 08:00 PM (M9ntN)

235 188 184 The whole Russia/Ukraine story that is lurking just below the surface and is the reason all of this is happening is pretty interesting to me too. This is a lot bigger than Hunter Biden getting paid for a do nothing job. A lot bigger.
=========

Yea, I've got some questions. Wouldn't it be an interesting exercise to do an anal-exam audit of Barista's (and it's insiders') financial statements? With the forcefulness of the pushback here, once wonders which other elected officials (and their family members) profited on this Ukraine deal with Burisma.

Hunter Biden strikes me as a light-weight imbecile, you know, kind of like the type of guy that, say, might get kicked out the military for doing coke. And the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Biden is.... shall we say... "intellectually challenged."

Would it surprise literally anyone to learn that the "Biden Family" Burisma graft was just the low-hanging fruit here, uncovered because of the spectacular stupidity and incompetence of anyone with the last name of Biden? That the Democrat machine would let a multi-billion deal in Insider-Obama Land go by without everyone wetting their beak?

I wonder if Shift-for-brains himself shows up on a ledger. And Bama Lightbringer.

Posted by: RichardWindsor at November 12, 2019 08:00 PM (DRgs8)

236 Ukraine is a money laundering scheme. You think $6B just got lost while Skankles was SoS?

But wait, there's more!

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 07:55 PM (ZLI7S)

She doesn't seem to be worried.

Posted by: Easy Andy at November 12, 2019 08:00 PM (2DOZq)

237 There's three and they're all sisters. Irena is the third and she works at...wait for it...The Atlantic Council.


The same group that paid for Schiff's trip to Ukraine. Shocker.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 12, 2019 08:01 PM (oVJmc)

238 That they have gone along with the [obviously] absurd ground rules set by the Dems is an unsurprising confirmation of the GOP's savvy, and grit [and in many cases, desires]. Can't believe they didn't reject this framework from the outset.


Having areas of questioning off-limits? Not being able to call your own witnesses with an obviously tendentious veto from the other side? WTF??


Like no hearing on any topic in any committee in their entire careers.


But for the gravest step Congress can take - they agree to participate in the farce.


Top men.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 12, 2019 08:01 PM (QDnY+)

239
1. This endless coup shit-show is actually getting to me. These vile little pieces of shit are our actual government. Trump is holding back the worst of it -- for now.

2. I live in California. Where I live I am not confronted with disintegration of society on a daily basis, but I expect it will come to my door at some point. My house will be worth -- what -- then? Maybe nothing. Maybe no house, car, or person will be safe.

It is a constant drag in the background. Always an asterisk to any action -- the footnote says "what's the point?"

I hate the people who are doing this more each day. I can't be the only one.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 12, 2019 08:01 PM (t5m5e)

240 "I'd be careful with that bet."

Oh wth. The worst that could happen is I have to send ace $100.

Posted by: freaked at November 12, 2019 08:02 PM (Tnijr)

241 Gaslighting, all the way down.

It really is all they have left.

Posted by: DocJ at November 12, 2019 08:02 PM (DU2N9)

242 "210 Senate planning a 6-8 week trial. Buy ammo.
Posted by: make a plan at November 12, 2019 07:48 PM (WX+x0)

-----Yup, Mitch/GOPe want a long slog. Any (R) Senators who bring up embarrassing evidence about Dems will be ignored by the media assiduously, while they bash away at the President's support.

They want this to go on for a LONG time. Even if it costs the majority, McConnell is safe, and it's worth it if it costs Trump the election."

If that happens, Trump's defense team needs to call lots of witnesses with knowledge about cash quid pro quos flowing to certain senators and their wives, including McConnell and Madame Chao.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at November 12, 2019 08:02 PM (iw59Q)

243
With all this Russian/Ukrainian bidnis, Uncle Palp MUST TESTIFY!!!!

Posted by: Miklos, sunlight, washing soda and borax being the best disinfectants at November 12, 2019 08:03 PM (QzkSJ)

244 240
"I'd be careful with that bet."



Oh wth. The worst that could happen is I have to send ace $100.

Posted by: freaked


There is that.

Posted by: pep at November 12, 2019 08:04 PM (T6t7i)

245 I guess we're supposed to forget all about the "Black Cash Ledger" supplied by a Ukrainian pol and used by the FBI to Manafort search warrants too?

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at November 12, 2019 08:04 PM (dYe5S)

246 If that happens, Trump's defense team needs to call lots of witnesses with knowledge about cash quid pro quos flowing to certain senators and their wives, including McConnell and Madame Chao.

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let's be real, there's no fucking chance on God's earth impeachment hits 50 votes in the senate, so who the fuck cares and why would Mitch play along?

This is just CNN saying things.

Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 12, 2019 08:05 PM (FEQY4)

247 Where do you buy your crack? Cause I want some of that $hit. It's primo stuff.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 12, 2019 07:56 PM (JUOKG)



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Feel free to disagree. I've watched Mitch McConnell closely, for a
very long time. I know his motives and tactics well by now. And he does
not like this President, and is willing to damage him wherever he can
get away with it.



Yeah, yeah, I know... Judicial nominations, right?



But Mitch views that separately from the rest of the Trump agenda which he hates and obstructs.



If you trust him, you haven't paid attention to him in decades.



Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 12, 2019 08:00 PM

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Answer the fookin question.....where do you buy your crack cause it's good stuff.

Trust the mcconnell that held out against the democrats, the media and the gop(e) for months on SCOTUS nominations and nuked the SCOTUS filibuster and gave Trump two SCOTUS Judges?


Trust the mcconnell who has not brought up a single democrat House bill for a vote in almost two years? That mcconnell?

When has mcconnell screwed Trump? Show your work.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 12, 2019 08:05 PM (JUOKG)

248 >>She doesn't seem to be worried.

Who, Hillary?

Don't kid yourself. She is terrified. They are all terrified. Why do you think they are trying to crush Trump so bad that they have run too crazy ass schemes that had absolutely no basis in fact?

The 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine wasn't a revolution. It was a coup. And we ran it.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 12, 2019 08:07 PM (ZLI7S)

249 And I can see Schiff hasn't really thought out the Senate trial. "please vote to convict on evidence we haven't presented by witnesses who haven't testified"

John Roberts may be a cuck traitor but he's unlikely to let a prosecutor set those kind of rules. In fact, it's not clear to me who would (even under Robert's guidance) be in charge of the Senate trial since idiotic democrats are doing this with a split senate/house.

Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 12, 2019 08:07 PM (FEQY4)

250 Nood Di Blasio

Posted by: Linn Ridge at November 12, 2019 08:07 PM (uJUfc)

251 When has mcconnell screwed Trump? Show your work.

===

he has let several DNC panic resolutions pass the senate.

like there's no border crisis

and

"we stand with the (communist) kurds and trump bad"

Posted by: mushroom maniac at November 12, 2019 08:08 PM (FEQY4)

252 yep Mitch went the extra mile when it came to repealing Obamacare. Really put the screws to ol McCain.

Posted by: guy who lives in an alternate universe at November 12, 2019 08:08 PM (Tnijr)

253 This endless coup shit-show is actually getting to me. These vile little pieces of shit are our actual government. Trump is holding back the worst of it -- for now.

2. I live in California. Where I live I am not confronted with disintegration of society on a daily basis, but I expect it will come to my door at some point. My house will be worth -- what -- then? Maybe nothing. Maybe no house, car, or person will be safe.

It is a constant drag in the background. Always an asterisk to any action -- the footnote says "what's the point?"

I hate the people who are doing this more each day. I can't be the only one.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 12, 2019 08:01 PM (t5m5e)
*****************
It's getting to me too. I HATE what's happening to our country. I despise what the Left/MSM are doing with their propaganda and censorship. Everything seems out of control and it's frightening.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 12, 2019 08:09 PM (wiXsO)

254 How do you suppose PoopBucket kept his stash nice and hot if he had truly been "saving" it?

Such are the intriguing conversations enquiring minds engage in in 2019.

Posted by: 7 Mary Three at November 12, 2019 08:10 PM (AIcDk)

255 "246 If that happens, Trump's defense team needs to call lots of witnesses with knowledge about cash quid pro quos flowing to certain senators and their wives, including McConnell and Madame Chao.

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let's be real, there's no fucking chance on God's earth impeachment hits 50 votes in the senate, so who the fuck cares and why would Mitch play along?

This is just CNN saying things."

Embrace the "if." But let's get real on one point: the GOPe-controlled Congress cannot be totally trusted not to vote to remove. The odds are quite low but not non-existent. YD also is correct about McConnell's dislike for the president's policy goals.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at November 12, 2019 08:11 PM (iw59Q)

256 Trust the mcconnell who has not brought up a single democrat House bill for a vote in almost two years? That mcconnell?

When has mcconnell screwed Trump? Show your work.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 12, 2019 08:05 PM (JUOKG)

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Killed 75% of (R) bills for two years also.

Only major agenda item he permitted for a vote was weak tea tax reform.

Slow walks nominations.

Keeps Senate in session to deny Trump recess appointments.

He gainsays and makes veiled threats against the President in the media. Sometimes overtly, as with Sessions.

All of his behavior (aside from the judiciary, which he'll have to live with after Trump is gone) indicates a plan to run out the clock on him.

And remember, Trump's entire core agenda runs counter to his own (globalism, China trade, and illegal immigration).

And if you think he's unwilling to get in the gutter to knife a fellow Republican, just ask McDaniel or Moore how that works.

A man who trusts that snake is a fool.

Luckily I don't think Trump is as credulous as many others.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 12, 2019 08:13 PM (3DuXY)

257
Who, Hillary?

Don't kid yourself. She is terrified.

Posted by: JackStraw

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I'm preserving a schizophrenic view of the whole thing as insurance -- no matter what happens, one of my personalities will be vindicated.

Cautiously Optimistic Blonde Morticia agrees with you on the Hillary thing. The more she hints about running and blathers on about policy and the changes she'd make and What We Need and so on, the more convinced I am that she's setting up her defense as "a potential political rival to Trump who is being attacked because of the threat she poses to his presidency."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 12, 2019 08:14 PM (M9ntN)

258 McCconnell is competent as a Senate leader. But he's no visionary. He's locked in his circa-1995 political machination mindset ("Comprehensive [________] Legislation"), and he ain't gonna change. Yes, he's doing good work at inserting conservative judges into the judiciary, and he actually showed backbone on stiff arming Bama on Merrick Garland in 2015.

But he's MIA on budget and on every other major issue of the day. He's guilty of being asleep at the wheel for decades while the Dems, lobbyists and interest groups prepped the battlefield for what we're seeing today (wholesale Dem takeover of society, public and private). He's also been particularly bad on the recruitment and electoral strategery front. Basically, Mitch will put the awesome GOP insider power and money behind the campaign of anyone (a) approved by top K-Street players, and (b) that swears allegiance to Mcconnell.

And, as a result, the McConnell GOP incumbent insiders have, for the most part, enjoyed re-election after re-election, so they're all good.

We the pleebs? Get F--Ked.

Posted by: RichardWindsor at November 12, 2019 08:15 PM (DRgs8)

259 What is the argument for not shooting all journalists?
Because I do not see one.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable amd Completely Unserious at November 12, 2019 08:16 PM (pw+jk)

260 *****************
It's getting to me too. I HATE what's happening to our country. I despise what the Left/MSM are doing with their propaganda and censorship. Everything seems out of control and it's frightening.
Posted by: redridinghood
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It isn't going to stop. It never does. The MSM/Political Left are nurtured through academe. The examples are rampant. They are driven by non-stop propaganda which has damaged their ability to objectively examine history and facts.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 12, 2019 08:20 PM (Pu/Kw)

261 "259 What is the argument for not shooting all journalists?
Because I do not see one."

It's hard to see a "journalist" because all we have left are state propagandists. And, yes, when they started to dox and oppress helpless people those propagandists gave up any reasonable expectation of safety.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at November 12, 2019 08:21 PM (iw59Q)

262 In predicting news, there are two ways to play it, one is to argue the extremes which happen at a low rate of success but when the long shot prediction comes in, everyone forgets the missed predictions.

The other way is to play the safe boring prediction which has a high success rate but it is so obvious that most people promptly forget that they thought anything different.

I tend to go with the boring safe predictions--there will be some sort of impeachment vote in the House, the FISA report comes out and names a few big names, Durham's investigation widens a bit and people start getting their subpoenas for New Years, and Trump rages on Twitter. The senators face the awful polling that impeachment is getting and pick the easy way out of being chicken and failing to vote to convict.

Media and Dems in electorate have the sadz because Orangemanbad and how could it fail. The Republicans start their usual circular firing squad, the Never Trumpers continue to plumb the depths of insanity by repeating it over and over again that Orangeman is in effect really bad. Fox continues to suck up ratings as the best of the worst, the economy stays in the safe zone, trade deals put on hold, some sort of Brexit occurs.

And then we get to the election--too early to tell but my gut believes that during the whole impeachment thingie, that if Trump's approval ratings will begin to rise which is what happened with Clinton in 97-98. If that happens, he wins impeachment and the 2020 election.

I believe this because this impeachment is boring, process of the NSC is boring, most of their foreign policy arguments are boring, so people are tuning out. People were truly shocked in Nixon's Watergate hearings, People were titillated with Bill Clinton's sex life, People are bored about the crap with Trump.

The whole political theatre gag with officers in uniforms etc. reads like something out of an old JAG episode except with fat out of shape political commisars disguised in uniform. The mysterious, widely reported, whistleblower is outed as a smart ass millenial kid, the widely disliked John Bolton, etc. It is trite, it is boring, and since it involves a country that most Americans could not find on a map and does not involve U.S. service members being shot, no one cares except for partisans. Boring tv=bad politics. Even the Republican stunts in the House just seem tired and ridiculous as if everyone is going through the motions. For that reason, and the fact that the Senate is a chamber of cowards and corrupts, impeachment goes there to die.


Posted by: whig at November 12, 2019 08:24 PM (MItID)

263

An army of Confederate monuments dots Virginia's landscape but some of those statues could soon start coming down after Election Day gave Democrats control of the General Assembly for the first time in decades.

Members of the new legislative majority say they plan to revive proposals to make it easier to remove the public displays honoring Civil War soldiers and generals in a state that was home to two Confederate capitals. Previous attempts to do so were quickly dispatched in the Republican-controlled General Assembly, in votes largely along party lines.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 12, 2019 08:28 PM (aKsyK)

264 Fusion Nat...never saw the real name until now, always thought it was a guy.

Well. Nat is a One.


Yeah, yeah...I know...but good for A Grudge, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Oedipus, Late to the thread, as always at November 12, 2019 08:30 PM (N4r5a)

265 I'm going to guess that a fair number of my fellow morons don't have a high opinion of Glenn Beck. However, he had all of this laid out in one of his famous chalk boards about 2 weeks ago. It would probably do many very well to watch his upcoming show this Wednesday night at 8pm. I won't post a link to it lest I be accused of shilling for Beck. You all know how to use a search engine. Find it and watch it. You don't even need to pay for a subscription to his channel. He's making it free on YouTube and Facebook.

Posted by: TimInVirginia at November 12, 2019 08:34 PM (621ey)

266 >>>Killed 75% of (R) bills for two years also.

Only major agenda item he permitted for a vote was weak tea tax reform.

Slow walks nominations.

Keeps Senate in session to deny Trump recess appointments.

He gainsays and makes veiled threats against the President in the media. Sometimes overtly, as with Sessions.

All of his behavior (aside from the judiciary, which he'll have to live with after Trump is gone) indicates a plan to run out the clock on him.

And remember, Trump's entire core agenda runs counter to his own (globalism, China trade, and illegal immigration).

And if you think he's unwilling to get in the gutter to knife a fellow Republican, just ask McDaniel or Moore how that works.

A man who trusts that snake is a fool.

Luckily I don't think Trump is as credulous as many others.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 12, 2019 08:13 PM (3DuXY)


Seconded

Posted by: Braenyard at November 12, 2019 08:37 PM (xcd1u)

267 117 Didn't Hot Diahrea play with Blowing Chunks at the Whiskey circa 1979?
Posted by: George T at November 12, 2019 07:28 PM (nzKWW)


Right after Thanksgiving. Coming up on the 40th anniversary.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at November 12, 2019 08:37 PM (di1hb)

268 >>>
It isn't going to stop. It never does. The MSM/Political Left are nurtured through academe. The examples are rampant. They are driven by non-stop propaganda which has damaged their ability to objectively examine history and facts.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 12, 2019 08:20 PM (Pu/Kw)


They are crack monkeys pulling the lever.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 12, 2019 08:59 PM (xcd1u)

269 alii alios dicunt.

Posted by: Byzantine General at November 13, 2019 03:22 AM (rjOWC)

270 Has Matt Taibbi been red-pilled? What the hell?

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at November 13, 2019 11:34 AM (3ufaJ)

271 Hmmm...

Posted by: Paul Peckerwood at November 14, 2019 04:37 PM (cB1Q7)

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