The Morning Rant

"If there's one thing that makes the NeverTrumpers (of both parties) pound their tiny little fists in despair, it's their complaint that "Trump's supporters never criticize him." This is usually followed up with snark about "the Trump Cult", and how CNN could show live footage of him banging hotties in the Oval Office while giving our nuclear codes to Putin via the hot line and we wouldn't complain. Of course, that's not news, that's CNN, so we would automatically think they're probably using unsourced footage from a guy who got it from a guy who got it from the DNC.

"But I have a similar complaint about the NeverTrumpers. Namely, Trump could flip ever single federal court in the country, pass deregulation that would boost our economic output by a factor of five, and squash Islamic terrorism around the globe once and for all, and the NeverTrumpers would still be crying about his mean tweets and writing articles about the conservative case for voting for Democrats.

"So they can eff right off. But I know that Trump is not above criticism. But after 3 days of this impeachment farce, it is now clear that the president's biggest failure has been the horrifically bad job he's done with personnel. He doesn't seem to know how to pick people. I get the impression that the way to do well in a job interview with him is to kiss his ass a lot, and you've got the job. Maybe that works in the NY real estate market, but it hasn't served him well as president.

"It's been so bad that I think we've been lucky that there haven't been more of these traitorous deep state moles undermining him and screwing things up for him.

"I think he needs to do some serious housecleaning. Any Obama admin holdover should be immediately given the left foot of fellowship. And perhaps he should deputize an HR chief, someone who he can trust absolutely, who would be responsible for all of the hiring and vetting of personnel.

"Maybe he's been “naïve”. Maybe he underestimated how bad the opposition was. Fair enough. But ultimately, the personnel failures are his responsibility."

(h/t Mollie Hemingway)

Adam Schiff Prepares the Articles of Impeachment:

Serious Journalism, You Guys:

With the Saturn-Pluto conjunction and impeachment hearings, astrologists say Trump’s presidency may end dramatically—with “an exact hit from a solar eclipse on his birth asteroid.” https://t.co/aEAKsuURAi
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 20, 2019

Whoopsie!

"Republicans Pounce", Part CCXIV:

It looks like a funeral is happening right now on @CNN. They’re so hurt that @realDonaldTrump was right. Their whole narrative is starting to implode. Even now they’re more concerned about the fact this is a colossal win for Trump than they are with what could amount to treason. pic.twitter.com/6kila6FUxu
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) November 22, 2019

1024th:

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Wednesday's Celebs: British actress Wanda Ventham, who did a lot of TV work, including sci-fi cult favorites Doctor Who, UFO and The Prisoner. Also her son, Benedict ~~Cummerbund~~ Cumberbatch

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Today's Edition Of The Morning Rant Is Brought To You By Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies:

Posted by: OregonMuse at 11:15 AM

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1 good looking munchies

Posted by: henry at November 22, 2019 11:15 AM (JMDly)

2 I know the guy is Richard Conte. Guess that the girl might be Linda Darnell? Pure guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 22, 2019 11:16 AM (Ejm1K)

3 whoa

Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs, still needs a new Nic! at November 22, 2019 11:16 AM (XwYh/)

4 Who dis?

Gollum

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 11:16 AM (q80AH)

5 Henry's a bot!

(That's how this works, right?)

Posted by: Linn Ridge at November 22, 2019 11:16 AM (ECrgQ)

6 sweeeeet

Posted by: clutch cargo at November 22, 2019 11:16 AM (Z1ykJ)

7 Buttgeig wants to hit Trump in his birth asteroid.

Posted by: henry at November 22, 2019 11:16 AM (JMDly)

8 beep blorp, got me.

Posted by: henry at November 22, 2019 11:17 AM (JMDly)

9 Donna Reed?

Posted by: Hunter Biden not the Father ..ooops at November 22, 2019 11:17 AM (6XlcD)

10 Everyone should know that the Salvation Army will snail mail a card if
you donate "In Memoriam" for a deceased person ("in lieu of flowers",
etc). It just so happens that in this case, the Deceased has a corporate
PO Box laughably addressed as:
Chick-fil-A CARES P.O. Box 725489. Atlanta, GA 31139-9923
You can even personalize with a short note. AWESOME.

Posted by: TSgt Ciz at November 22, 2019 11:18 AM (af5xa)

11 2 I know the guy is Richard Conte. Guess that the girl might be Linda Darnell? Pure guess.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 22, 2019 11:16 AM (Ejm1K)

Half credit for Conte.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 11:18 AM (2cwOe)

12 Howdy y'all!

Posted by: Cheribebe at November 22, 2019 11:18 AM (FnNwq)

13 there is such a thing as a 'birth asteroid'?

Posted by: IC at November 22, 2019 11:18 AM (a0IVu)

14 Who dis?

GollumPosted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 11:16 AM (q80AH)

Trick question, Schiff would be wearing a tie...

Posted by: clutch cargo at November 22, 2019 11:18 AM (Z1ykJ)

15 LOL @ the Gollum meme. Someone should do one with Gollum clutching the ring as he plunges to his doom into the lava flow with the same caption.

Posted by: Guzalot at November 22, 2019 11:18 AM (prSvo)

16 Second guess about the girl: Helen Walker? She worked with Conte in the James Stewart flick Call Northside 777.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 22, 2019 11:18 AM (Ejm1K)

17 I thought the guy was Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

Posted by: pep at November 22, 2019 11:18 AM (T6t7i)

18 Yessss, my preciousss

and fishessess

Gollum is one of the few things Peter Jackson got right in those films!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 22, 2019 11:19 AM (so+oy)

19 Those 1/1024th pics - Nasty people.

They hate us. They really, really hate us.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2019 11:19 AM (Y4EXg)

20 I need to make more cookies.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 22, 2019 11:19 AM (axyOa)

21 Well Richard Conti from the Godfather- Barrzini

The women? Barbara Stanwick?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2019 11:19 AM (cEsBM)

22 Willowed, because related...

There are literally no more than, say, 3-5 "Republicans" in the HOR who it would be in-character for them to vote to impeach OrangeManBad.

Hurd: already said he's a NO (thanks TJM)
Stefanik: not a chance
Fitzpatrick: still a definite possibility - he's essentially a leftist Democrat
Amash: already kicked-out of the party and an almost certain YES vote

Really can't think of anyone else.

Posted by: docj at November 22, 2019 11:19 AM (77WPm)

23 17 I thought the guy was Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
Posted by: pep at November 22, 2019

*
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No, but Conte did guest on that show.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 22, 2019 11:19 AM (Ejm1K)

24 That girl looks familiar. I think I met her once on a plane.

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 22, 2019 11:20 AM (QE8X6)

25 21
The women? Barbara Stanwick?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2019 11:19 AM (cEsBM)

========

I don't know who she is, but I'm pretty sure she's not Stanwick. She's prettier than Stanwick.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 11:20 AM (q80AH)

26 Step one, fire every single HR employee that -department is usually the demorat recruiting center. Second open an office in the WH and staff it with former Campaign workers, put them in charge of all new hires and firings.

Posted by: Rose at November 22, 2019 11:20 AM (f/Wek)

27 Didn't I just read within the last week that Obama fired all the ambassadors from GW administration when he was inaugurated, then after he hired all the left wing Marxists to carry out his foreign policy, the rules were changed to prevent a future president from doing the same thing?

And if that is true, how in the hell was Trump supposed to fire everyone? Imagine the avalanche of lawsuits.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 22, 2019 11:20 AM (v2Axo)

28 That girl looks familiar. I think I met her once on a plane.
Posted by: Joe Biden

What's she smell like?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 11:21 AM (G0qhR)

29 Ah, now I see it. Don Barzini.

Posted by: pep at November 22, 2019 11:21 AM (T6t7i)

30 9 Donna Reed?
Posted by: Hunter Biden not the Father ..ooops at November 22, 2019 11:17 AM (6XlcD)

My guess as well.

Posted by: docj at November 22, 2019 11:21 AM (77WPm)

31 The demofascists had a bad week, very bad. The only way out of this is MORE IMPEACHMENT.. Just like cowbell, always more impeachment.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserios at November 22, 2019 11:21 AM (pw+jk)

32 If you want to know the mood at CNN right now, find the video of Preet bharara being interviewed on CNN last night about the FBI altering FISA docs.

I thought he was going to cry.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 11:21 AM (ZLI7S)

33 Deanna Durbin?

Posted by: grammie winger at November 22, 2019 11:22 AM (lwiT4)

34 The one at the bottom saying"my precious..... Impeachment " is Adam Schiff

Posted by: It's me donna at November 22, 2019 11:22 AM (6XlcD)

35 32 If you want to know the mood at CNN right now, find the video of Preet bharara being interviewed on CNN last night about the FBI altering FISA docs.

I thought he was going to cry.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 11:21 AM (ZLI7S)

========

I read that he's being talked about as the next Democratic AG.

That makes me cry.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 11:22 AM (q80AH)

36 Epstein's birth asteroid did not take a suicide plunge into the sun.

Posted by: henry at November 22, 2019 11:22 AM (JMDly)

37 Who Dis Schiff in his Fem Den

Bill Maher with a gun???

Posted by: saf at November 22, 2019 11:22 AM (5IHGB)

38 Why people insist on infecting chocolate and/or peanut butter cookies with oatmeal is beyond me.

Oatmeal is what you put in cookies when you are old and don't want your grandchildren to eat them.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2019 11:22 AM (hku12)

39 31
The demofascists had a bad week, very bad. The only way out of this is
MORE IMPEACHMENT.. Just like cowbell, always more impeachment.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserios

They go with what they know. The rich need to pay their fair share. What's their fair share, you ask?

MORE!

Posted by: pep at November 22, 2019 11:23 AM (T6t7i)

40 9 Donna Reed?
Posted by: Hunter Biden not the Father ..ooops at November 22, 2019 11:17 AM (6XlcD)

Good guess, but no.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 11:23 AM (2cwOe)

41 If my eyes deceive me, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies.

Posted by: socalcon at November 22, 2019 11:23 AM (Roy2Z)

42 And worse? They are WRONG. We criticize Trump all the dang time, but since they don't socialize with any real Trump supporters, they don't HEAR it.

Because very few Trump supporters except maybe Hannity and such, have any real media presence.

So yes, there are a few syncophants out there, but most Trump supporters voices are NEVER HEARD because all the bandwidth is taken up by the MSM and Never Trumpers.

Posted by: Don Q at November 22, 2019 11:23 AM (NgKpN)

43 Step one, fire every single HR employee that -department is usually the demorat recruiting center. Second open an office in the WH and staff it with former Campaign workers, put them in charge of all new hires and firings.
Posted by: Rose at November 22, 2019 11:20 AM (f/Wek)

Step Zero - repeal (or cancel through EO, if possible) any and all authorizations for the Civil Service and ESPECIALLY the SES.

Posted by: docj at November 22, 2019 11:23 AM (77WPm)

44 Didn't I just read within the last week that Obama fired all the ambassadors from GW administration when he was inaugurated, then after he hired all the left wing Marxists to carry out his foreign policy, the rules were changed to prevent a future president from doing the same thing?

And if that is true, how in the hell was Trump supposed to fire everyone? Imagine the avalanche of lawsuits.
Posted by: Jen

I don't think they can change the rules to bootstrap a future president. Maybe change a law, but not an administrative rule.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 11:23 AM (G0qhR)

45 41...on the other hand, I NEVER get the 'Who Dis' correct.

Posted by: socalcon at November 22, 2019 11:23 AM (Roy2Z)

46 She looks a bit like Coleen Gray, who appeared with Conte in The Sleeping City.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 22, 2019 11:24 AM (Ejm1K)

47 In keeping with the current news cycle, I'm gonna guess Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Hedley Lamar. I'm sorry, Hedy.

Posted by: mc at November 22, 2019 11:24 AM (l1TIo)

48 Were they both in that film "House of Strangers"?

Posted by: dantesed at November 22, 2019 11:24 AM (88xKn)

49 ATTENTION PA PATRIOTS
MAGA Trump Rally In Hershey Dec. 10th.

IG drops Dec. 9
Rally Dec.10
Horowitz testifies Dec.11

That could be too much winning in 3 days

PA is very important for 2020.

Based Amish and Mennonites will save us again

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 22, 2019 11:24 AM (BqBId)

50 32 If you want to know the mood at CNN right now, find the video of Preet bharara being interviewed on CNN last night about the FBI altering FISA docs.

I thought he was going to cry.
Posted by: JackStraw

---

That was glorious, wasn't it? LOLGF Preet.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2019 11:24 AM (Y4EXg)

51 Donna Reed?
Posted by: Hunter Biden not the Father ..ooops at November 22, 2019 11:17 AM (6XlcD)

My guess as well.
Posted by: docj at November 22, 2019 11:21 AM (77WPm)

No. Donna Reed is a distinctly beautiful woman, who has a look of someone with personality and character.

As lovely as the above actress is, she's just generic actress of a certain era. Forgotten by all.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2019 11:24 AM (hku12)

52 While I agree that Trump has made some poor hires, I think he has a different model than you think. He will take a chance on lots of folks, but he's also VERY quick to can them if they don't perform to his standards, and that's most people.

Posted by: pep at November 22, 2019 11:24 AM (T6t7i)

53 Great. So now I have Insomniac dancing to "Take A Chance On Me" in my head, and there's ancient Hillary and angry Mooch glaring at me.

So much for lunch.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 22, 2019 11:25 AM (ptqGC)

54 I don't disagree that Trump has done a poor job with personnel, but it's also true a lot of these folks are career bureaucrats who serve regardless of who is President. Plus I think as a Swamp outsider, there's less to pick from in the first place. I think Carter was another President who wasn't really part of the DC swamp, and it showed sometimes in terms of how the press treated him and in the origins and performance of some of his appointees.

I also find some sad irony in the English TV shows "Yes, Minister" and "Yes,Prime Minister"; one of the central conceits of both shows was the conflict between the unelected career civil service bureaucrats and the elected MPs and governing ministers.

Posted by: rgvlpa at November 22, 2019 11:25 AM (WGOqS)

55 She looks a bit like Coleen Gray, who appeared with Conte in The Sleeping City.
******
There is no Gray But Erin Gray

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 22, 2019 11:25 AM (BqBId)

56 I think it's the pool of applicants that the problem getting good help in D.C. They are all of that "culture". Got to go to Fly-Over country.

Posted by: Paladin at November 22, 2019 11:25 AM (quX0S)

57 Thanks, rickb, there is so much opinion stuff online stated as fact that it's hard to know what to believe.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 22, 2019 11:25 AM (v2Axo)

58 27 Didn't I just read within the last week that Obama fired all the ambassadors from GW administration when he was inaugurated, then after he hired all the left wing Marxists to carry out his foreign policy, the rules were changed to prevent a future president from doing the same thing?

Yes, that's pretty much it.

And if that is true, how in the hell was Trump supposed to fire everyone? Imagine the avalanche of lawsuits.
Posted by: Jen the original at November 22, 2019 11:20 AM (v2Axo)

These asymmetries are everywhere. Like when Obama implements DACA by executive order, nobody objects, and then when Trump rescinds it by executive order, the progs get a judge to say no, so now it has to go to SCOTUS.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 11:25 AM (2cwOe)

59 I have more than a few things that I have disagreed with Trump but this is war and even constructive criticism after the fact does more harm than good at this point in history. Any criticism is a victory for these commies thus they won't hear it from me.

Posted by: Easy Andy at November 22, 2019 11:26 AM (2DOZq)

60 46 She looks a bit like Coleen Gray, who appeared with Conte in The Sleeping City.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 22, 2019 11:24 AM (Ejm1K)

And there is a good reason for this.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 11:26 AM (2cwOe)

61 Once again the 'ettes get the shitty end of the stick with that weather beaten old man.

Posted by: CN at November 22, 2019 11:26 AM (U7k5w)

62 Wow. Where did you get that nasty picture of Shitt-for-Brains, OM? Yeah, he thinks fake impeachment is precious, don't he?

PDT was right about him on F ampersand F this morning: SfB is a psycho and there's something seriously wrong with him in the head.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 11:27 AM (HaL55)

63 That Adam Schiff/Gollum meme would be suitable for use in one of those remember Pencil Neck? You wouldn't believe what he looks like now things.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 22, 2019 11:27 AM (Uu+Jp)

64 But I have a similar complaint about the NeverTrumpers. Namely, Trump could flip ever single federal court in the country, pass deregulation that would boost our economic output by a factor of five, and squash Islamic terrorism around the globe once and for all, and the NeverTrumpers would still be crying about his mean tweets and writing articles about the conservative case for voting for Democrats.

-
Those Tom Steyer TV commercials make Trump look like a bum on the streets.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 22, 2019 11:27 AM (+y/Ru)

65 I'm hoping that Trump has "more flexibility" after the election.

Then, we are going to see some heads roll.

Posted by: Harlan at November 22, 2019 11:27 AM (suaaH)

66 55 Erin Gray at the beginning of Buck Rogers episodes. Very tight space girl uniform. Walking with caution.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at November 22, 2019 11:27 AM (C1Lsn)

67 Great. So now I have Insomniac dancing to "Take A Chance On Me" in my head, and there's ancient Hillary and angry Mooch glaring at me.

So much for lunch.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 22, 2019 11:25 AM (ptqGC)

GAINZZZZ!
-ace

Posted by: Linn Ridge at November 22, 2019 11:27 AM (ECrgQ)

68 hiya

Posted by: JT at November 22, 2019 11:27 AM (arJlL)

69 The Clinton Pic is after embalming? Yes? ...

Posted by: saf at November 22, 2019 11:27 AM (5IHGB)

70 50 32 If you want to know the mood at CNN right now, find the video of Preet bharara being interviewed on CNN last night about the FBI altering FISA docs.

They've since leaked that it's some low level lawyer. My dreams of a Comey or Strock frog march have been dashed if true

Posted by: It's me donna at November 22, 2019 11:27 AM (6XlcD)

71 ... the president's biggest failure has been the horrifically bad job he's done with personnel.
_______

I don't know. He has also failed in his campaign promise to shoot someone on Fifth Ave. I'm disappointed.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 22, 2019 11:27 AM (ZbwAu)

72 "I think he needs to do some serious housecleaning. Any Obama admin holdover should be immediately given the left foot of fellowship. And perhaps he should deputize an HR chief, someone who he can trust absolutely, who would be responsible for all of the hiring and vetting of personnel."

This.

The only way to accomplish the goal of having a loyal staff for his second term is to have people start searching the Trump-friendly websites now. Review both articles and comments, invite people who have a demonstrated loyalty to apply and then bring them in to start fresh.

Bring America into Washington and the White House.

Let's see how the country runs with people who speak English instead of acronyms. It's time to clean house.

Posted by: jwest at November 22, 2019 11:28 AM (U6f/q)

73
The Clinton Pic is after embalming? Yes? ...

before the morning ironing in any event.

Posted by: henry at November 22, 2019 11:28 AM (JMDly)

74 Anyway, I feel bad for the baby, nobody deserves to be a Biden.

And Horowitz is still a Donk friend of Comey's.

Posted by: CN at November 22, 2019 11:28 AM (U7k5w)

75 These asymmetries are everywhere. Like when Obama implements DACA by
executive order, nobody objects, and then when Trump rescinds it by
executive order, the progs get a judge to say no, so now it has to go to
SCOTUS.
If you haven't read it already, I recommend this article on the impending civil war / instability in Mexico, and what that's likely to lead to here. The short answer is nothing good.

https://tinyurl.com/vn9w8hu

Posted by: pep at November 22, 2019 11:29 AM (T6t7i)

76 Found it.

Scroll down to the Wolf Blitzer video that starts off with him interviewing Fusion Evan Perez and then goes to Preet.

https://tinyurl.com/sssv9us

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 11:29 AM (ZLI7S)

77 If you want to know the mood at CNN right now, find the video of Preet
bharara being interviewed on CNN last night about the FBI altering FISA
docs.

I thought he was going to cry.

Even better, look at the guy's expression in the first 02: before he hands it to Wolfie Blitzkreig. That pretty much says it all.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 11:30 AM (HaL55)

78 27 Didn't I just read within the last week that Obama fired all the ambassadors from GW administration when he was inaugurated, then after he hired all the left wing Marxists to carry out his foreign policy, the rules were changed to prevent a future president from doing the same thing?

And if that is true, how in the hell was Trump supposed to fire everyone? Imagine the avalanche of lawsuits.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 22, 2019 11:20 AM (v2Axo)

They got pink slips BEFORE his inauguration.

From the WaPo:

The incoming Obama administration has notified all politically-appointed ambassadors that they must vacate their posts as of Jan. 20, the day President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office, a State Department official said.

The clean slate will open up prime opportunities for the president-elect to reward political supporters with posts in London, Paris, Tokyo and the like. The notice to diplomatic posts was issued this week.

Dated Dec. 3, 2008.

Posted by: Tami at November 22, 2019 11:30 AM (cF8AT)

79 A lot of the problem is getting a razor thin R senate to approve his cabinet heads. They do the hire/fire for most of their departments. So you get swampers hiring swampers.

I lay most of the problem at senate repubes. Ans sleepy Sessions for letting the Mueller cloud hang over the first two years of Trump.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserios at November 22, 2019 11:30 AM (pw+jk)

80 They've since leaked that it's some low level lawyer. My dreams of a Comey or Strock frog march have been dashed if true
Posted by: It's me donna at November 22, 2019 11:27 AM (6XlcD)

Horowitz always finds a way to let the big fish off the hooks. At least when they're donks

Posted by: CN at November 22, 2019 11:30 AM (U7k5w)

81 They've since leaked that it's some low level lawyer. My dreams of a Comey or Strock frog march have been dashed if true
Posted by: It's me donna at November 22, 2019 11:27 AM (6XlcD)

If true, it then becomes a question of whether said "low level lawyer" is willing to risk going to the can for quite a while when he was, almost certainly, "only doing what my bosses told me to do".

Posted by: docj at November 22, 2019 11:30 AM (77WPm)

82 61
Once again the 'ettes get the shitty end of the stick with that weather beaten old man.

Posted by: CN

OM, please run a few pictures of Adam Schiff for the ettes. They need to know how much worse it can get.

Posted by: pep at November 22, 2019 11:30 AM (T6t7i)

83 33 Deanna Durbin?
Posted by: grammie winger at November 22, 2019 11:22 AM (lwiT4)

Sorry, no.

( *scribbles notes for future reference* )

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 11:30 AM (2cwOe)

84 Trump snarking on George Conway this morning on Fox ampersand Friends was hilarious.

There will never be another Trump in our lifetimes. Long live the Magnificent Golden Scalp Weasel!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 22, 2019 11:30 AM (ptqGC)

85 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge at November 22, 2019 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

86 Florida and James Evans.

What do I win?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 22, 2019 11:31 AM (flINI)

87 61 Once again the 'ettes get the shitty end of the stick with that weather beaten old man.
Posted by: CN at November 22, 2019

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Pic 3 of Conte is very glamorous, and the one of him with Coleen Gray is very gritty and man-card-worthy. (So I'd guess, being a guy. But as a writer I look at both sexes and decide how to describe them, sometimes from the viewpoint of the opposite sex and sometimes from the same sex. My remarks above about Conte are as I'd guess a straight woman would see him.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 22, 2019 11:31 AM (Ejm1K)

88 Of course, that's not news, that's CNN

This cannot be emphasized enough. They are not the news.

We've all been deeply disappointed by and critical of Trump. We wanted the firing squads yesterday.

Posted by: t-bird at November 22, 2019 11:31 AM (jhfGG)

89 ^^^ "once again the ettes get the shitty end of the stick with a ratty old man"

He is 27,who do you think aged him Huh?

as you rape so shall yee sow.

Posted by: saf at November 22, 2019 11:31 AM (5IHGB)

90 >>They've since leaked that it's some low level lawyer. My dreams of a Comey or Strock frog march have been dashed if true

Steady. Back on your ledge.

Remember who is getting the leaks. Also remember the targets have all seen the report and know what's coming and will spin like a top to make it sound meh.

Be optimistic for a change. It actually feels good.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 11:31 AM (ZLI7S)

91 Seems fitting:

https://youtu.be/BovQyphS8kA

Posted by: Sponge at November 22, 2019 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)

92 OM, please run a few pictures of Adam Schiff for the ettes. They need to know how much worse it can get.
Posted by: pep at November 22, 2019 11:30 AM (T6t

Only if you run Helen Thomas for the 'rons

Posted by: CN at November 22, 2019 11:31 AM (U7k5w)

93 OM, please run a few pictures of Adam Schiff for the ettes.

Posted by: pep at November 22, 2019 11:30 AM (T6t7i)

You mean the first pic?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 11:31 AM (2cwOe)

94 Posted by: rgvlpa at November 22, 2019 11:25 AM (WGOqS)

Trump's ability to find outside the beltway QUALITY staff, was destroyed by all the investigations.

Some of his chosen staff was SENT TO JAIL, over stuff that DC insiders have always done.

The Deep State was ripping apart lives to destroy any support for the President, so other Deep Staters (Kelly and such) would be placed in positions of power.

That is why Trump has had staff problems.

Hell, they even went after his Kids and Grandkids, who would want to go through THAT?

Posted by: Don Q at November 22, 2019 11:32 AM (NgKpN)

95 Donna Reed?

Its Linn Ridge !

Posted by: JT at November 22, 2019 11:32 AM (arJlL)

96 Anyone who says "Trump's supporters would never criticize him" has never been around a place like this when we're talking about his cabinet choices, among other things.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at November 22, 2019 11:32 AM (KUaJL)

97 when did the beast start morphing into gary bussey? or is that nick nolte?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 11:32 AM (KP5rU)

98 If nothing else, the popularity of the Dutch Trump video (America first, Netherlands second!) video is pretty much proof that Trump supporters are willing to see things that are not friendly to Trump. Every Trump supporter that I know who's seen it thinks it's hilarious, even though it implies that Trump is a racist, and Don Jr. is a tax cheat.

In contrast, can you imagine the howls of outrage if a similar video had been made about Obama?

Posted by: junior at November 22, 2019 11:32 AM (wLS70)

99 NeverTrumpers might actually get further if they tried to be borderline sane in their criticisms of Trump and Trump supporters.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 22, 2019 11:33 AM (Uu+Jp)

100 The clean slate will open up prime opportunities for
the president-elect to reward political supporters with posts in
London, Paris, Tokyo and the like. The notice to diplomatic posts was issued this week.

Dated Dec. 3, 2008.

Posted by: Tami at November 22, 2019 11:30 AM (cF8AT)

Ah, yes. Caroline Kennedy was assigned to Japan, and some female soap opera producer was assigned to Hungary or somewhere.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 22, 2019 11:33 AM (ptqGC)

101 Josh Hawley's (Republican Congressperson from MO) critique of American life, Depressing and true. People are not connected, don't have enough friends or supportive family or a church. Gee, I wonder what weakened the church and the family?!! So now people are suicidal and on drugs:

https://tinyurl.com/tqzptl2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2019 11:33 AM (WI7YS)

102 Be optimistic for a change. It actually feels good.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 11:31 AM (ZLI7S)

I'll try

Posted by: It's me donna at November 22, 2019 11:33 AM (6XlcD)

103 Wow. Coleen Gray was pretty hot. And she was in a Kubrick movie of which I was unaware...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 22, 2019 11:33 AM (wtvvX)

104 Shoe Pron:
Bejeezus, that's not even a mirror image to the left! Ferchristsakes, some of the shelves have pairs 2 deep!!
It also appears a handful of 'singles' are on the floor!!!

For the ettes: When is enough enough?

Posted by: socalcon at November 22, 2019 11:33 AM (Roy2Z)

105 These asymmetries are everywhere. Like when Obama implements DACA by executive order, nobody objects, and then when Trump rescinds it by executive order, the progs get a judge to say no, so now it has to go to SCOTUS.
Posted by: OregonMuse

Because Trump won't just do it and tell the judge to fuck off.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 11:33 AM (G0qhR)

106 I have maintained that Trump actually takes a competitive businessman's approach to personnel decisions, rather than an academic approach. And although it's got good points, it looks like in Government jobs the Academic approach to hiring is probably better, because it is very hard to get rid of people once they're in, and they have way too much authority and ability to screw things up even after you find out they've gone bad.

The Academic approach is to put a huge deal of effort into picking the Right Person, vetting them, interviewing them, taking weeks or months to make the decision, and then defending and supporting them no matter what.

The Business approach is to not take much time, just pick the first person who makes a good showing, and then fire them instantly if they make a mistake. You may go through 6 hires in 6 months before you get a good one that sticks, but it's a viable option in a fast moving market. You end up with someone good.

Like i said, that hiring model is not working out for the bureaucracy. Jobs are too sticky.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2019 11:34 AM (Kpl3J)

107 They've since leaked that it's some low level lawyer. My dreams of a Comey or Strock frog march have been dashed if true
Posted by: It's me donna at November 22, 2019 11:27 AM (6XlcD)

Yup, they have found their scapegoat.

Just like with Lois Lerner, who was DIRECTED by Congress critters to do what she did (and one of them WAS John McCain).

Posted by: Don Q at November 22, 2019 11:35 AM (NgKpN)

108 OT:

Posted by: Jasper Moore at November 22, 2019 11:35 AM (B+t5k)

109 >>These asymmetries are everywhere. Like when Obama implements DACA by executive order, nobody objects, and then when Trump rescinds it by executive order, the progs get a judge to say no, so now it has to go to SCOTUS.

I wish what Obama did to the Inspectors General during his administration got more coverage. It helps explain a lot.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 11:35 AM (ZLI7S)

110 Do you all think the President has seen, or knows what's in this report?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 22, 2019 11:35 AM (6XlcD)

111 99 NeverTrumpers might actually get further if they tried to be borderline sane in their criticisms of Trump and Trump supporters.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at November 22, 2019 11:33 AM (Uu+Jp)

=====

"There's nothing more sane than saying that because Trump says mean things and Republicans don't impeach him immediately they're equally as guilty as antifa that beats people with bikelocks."
-Jonah Goldberg

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 11:35 AM (q80AH)

112 The only way to accomplish the goal of having a loyal staff for his second term is to have people start searching the Trump-friendly websites now. Review both articles and comments, invite people who have a demonstrated loyalty to apply and then bring them in to start fresh.

Bring America into Washington and the White House.

Posted by: jwest at November 22, 2019 11:28 AM (U6f/q)

It's a lovely thought. But I, for one, know that if asked I would politely decline. No interest in vermin digging into my high school yearbook or fucking with my kids as they're just getting started with their lives.

Posted by: docj at November 22, 2019 11:35 AM (77WPm)

113 92 You do know that Schiff and the boys have a meeting every month at the Camp Springs Interstate Inn. Rosa Delauro is their "guest of honor". That's as bad as it can get.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at November 22, 2019 11:36 AM (C1Lsn)

114 Hillary's photo is actually how she would look right now. BUT there is a portrait in her attic that looks exactly like that photo.

The Portrait of Hillary Clinton Gray.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserios at November 22, 2019 11:36 AM (pw+jk)

115 With the Saturn-Pluto conjunction and impeachment hearings, astrologists say Trump’s presidency may end dramatically—with “an exact hit from a solar eclipse on his birth asteroid.”

............

Yeah! Look what happened when we hit the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012! Hoo boy!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 22, 2019 11:36 AM (so+oy)

116 112: i have no problems with that. i'm as pure as the driven snow.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 11:36 AM (KP5rU)

117 103 Wow. Coleen Gray was pretty hot. And she was in a Kubrick movie of which I was unaware...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 22, 2019

*
*

Apparently she was very active in TV -- did 77 Sunset Strip, Maverick, Perry Mason, and others.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 22, 2019 11:37 AM (Ejm1K)

118 Who farted?

...Oh. That was Adam Schiff...

Man, what a fart that "Impeachment Hearing" turned out to be.

Posted by: Axeman at November 22, 2019 11:37 AM (DuZls)

119 This complaint by Hemingway is nothing new unfortunately. I wish I could remember if it was American Spectator or National Review back when Bush 2 was elected someone was urging back then that, what amounts to what we call the "deep state" now, needed to be cleaned out after Bill Clinton's two terms. I think it's naïveté on Trumps part but I'm sure he's educated now.

Posted by: JROD at November 22, 2019 11:37 AM (Lnp4L)

120 I'm 512/1024th Kenyan.

Posted by: Barry at November 22, 2019 11:37 AM (ZGi9O)

121 was innocently listening to some astrologers on the radio one day (don't remember way; don't think it was the art bell show) and they were predicting the country's future based on the alignment of various asteroids with names like Washington and the like. one of the astrologers piped up with "it's amazing that astronomers somehow know the right name to give these asteroids so that the charts work out!"

laughed myself silly.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 22, 2019 11:37 AM (sGtp+)

122 Some loons are still obsessing over Mueller

https://tinyurl.com/t9st2d8

Posted by: Captain Hate at November 22, 2019 11:37 AM (y7DUB)

123 For the ettes: When is enough enough?
Posted by: socalcon at November 22, 2019 11:33 AM (Roy2Z)

---

Don't ask me.

I may have a total of ten pairs of footwear.

Posted by: SMH at November 22, 2019 11:37 AM (RU4sa)

124 Do you all think the President has seen, or knows what's in this report?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 22, 2019 11:35 AM (6XlcD)

I thought he kind of alluded to it on Fox and Friends this morning. He said something like "it goes all the way up" (meaning Obama, I hope).

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 22, 2019 11:37 AM (ptqGC)

125 104 Shoe Pron:
Bejeezus, that's not even a mirror image to the left! Ferchristsakes, some of the shelves have pairs 2 deep!!
It also appears a handful of 'singles' are on the floor!!!

For the ettes: When is enough enough?
Posted by: socalcon at November 22, 2019 11:33 AM (Roy2Z)

Its one of the eternal conundrums.

Can a Woman have too many shoes?

Its like, can you have too much money?
A Car too fast?
A dog too ugly?

Posted by: Don Q at November 22, 2019 11:37 AM (NgKpN)

126 This is usually followed up with snark about "the Trump Cult",
=======

They can start their "cult" shit after we get a rodeo clown fired and his life destroyed. Not a minute before.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at November 22, 2019 11:38 AM (vg8iE)

127 Mollie's not wrong.

I don't think Trump is strongly ideological. He's a pragmatist. In the private sector, when people leave one job and go to work for their old competitor, nobody thinks they're going to sabotage the new boss because they're still loyal to the old one.When a pitcher gets traded to another team, he doesn't try to screw over the new team. He doesn't purposely throw easy pitches when he plays his old team because he really wants to make it easy for them. In most jobs, the person you're answering to right now is the person you're loyal to. So Trump expected that whatever their previous loyalties had been, Obama era bureaucrats would be loyal to him.

Politics isn't like that. Bureaucrats aren't like that.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V. at November 22, 2019 11:38 AM (d6Ksn)

128 I'm wondering if any of the polling organizations will do a censure vs impeachment survey over the next two weeks. That would be telling.

Posted by: WisRich at November 22, 2019 11:38 AM (G0vdT)

129 That's Don Barzini!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 22, 2019 11:39 AM (so+oy)

130 It's a lovely thought. But I, for one, know that if asked I would politely decline. No interest in vermin digging into my high school yearbook or fucking with my kids as they're just getting started with their lives.
Posted by: docj at November 22, 2019 11:35 AM (77WPm)

If it were a war, I would hate to have people shooting at me, but with the very existence of the country in the balance, I would suck it up and serve.

The very existence of the country depends on Trump having a successful second term.

Posted by: jwest at November 22, 2019 11:39 AM (U6f/q)

131 Trump's outside of DC pick for SOS was a disaster. I blame that on his pick for Chief of Staff. I don't know who to blame for that choice.

Posted by: Easy Andy at November 22, 2019 11:39 AM (2DOZq)

132 These asymmetries are everywhere. Like when Obama implements DACA by executive order, nobody objects, and then when Trump rescinds it by executive order, the progs get a judge to say no, so now it has to go to SCOTUS.

I wish what Obama did to the Inspectors General during his administration got more coverage. It helps explain a lot.
Posted by: JackStraw

I wish Trump would do to most government employees what Clinton did to the WH travel office. Those weren't political appointees.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 11:40 AM (G0qhR)

133 Its like, can you have too much money?
A Car too fast?
A dog too ugly?
Posted by: Don
~~~
I've heard 'Too much ammo' , as well.

Posted by: socalcon at November 22, 2019 11:40 AM (Roy2Z)

134 >>Politics isn't like that. Bureaucrats aren't like that.

Trump ran a campaign based on draining the swamp and that is exactly what he's doing.

I don't think he was fooled for a second.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 11:40 AM (ZLI7S)

135 Whatever Obama may have done to the IGs, he appointed a partisan in Horowitz who seems to drag out everything. He didn't find much in the Clinton/Lynch tarmac meeting and seems to always accept donk assurances.

If there's hope of upper level prosecutions, it will be from Durham's work. Horowitz is a verbose empty vessel

Posted by: CN at November 22, 2019 11:40 AM (U7k5w)

136 The very existence of the country depends on Trump having a successful second term.

Posted by: jwest at November 22, 2019 11:39 AM (U6f/q)

This. And I pray he wins in a landslide.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 22, 2019 11:40 AM (ptqGC)

137 I thought he kind of alluded to it on Fox and Friends this morning. He said something like "it goes all the way up" (meaning Obama, I hope).

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 22, 2019 11:37 AM (ptqGC)

No it doesn't. Barry wanted everything done by the book. Didn't you read my email?

Susan Rice

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 22, 2019 11:40 AM (zVXtJ)

138 Some loons are still obsessing over Mueller

https://tinyurl.com/t9st2d8
Posted by: Captain Hate at November 22, 2019 11:37 AM (y7DUB)
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*Points to the Wheel of Impeachment*
It's back up.

Posted by: Axeman at November 22, 2019 11:40 AM (DuZls)

139 For the ettes: When is enough enough?

She can have as many shoes as she wants. I'll just have my contractor, a Mr. Ace-of-Spades, add more shelves.

Posted by: t-bird at November 22, 2019 11:40 AM (Zo1XC)

140 Peanut Butter Oatmeal?

WTF?

That's like cats and dogs living together! Are we rtying to tempt fate and bring down the wrath of God in the form of plages of biblical proportions????

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 22, 2019 11:40 AM (so+oy)

141 I'm not sure who the woman in the picture is, but I do remember seeing her when she toured 'Nam.

Posted by: Sen. Richard Blumenthal at November 22, 2019 11:40 AM (QE8X6)

142 Barsini!!!

Posted by: Max Prophet at November 22, 2019 11:41 AM (RZeKZ)

143 Do you all think the President has seen, or knows what's in this report?
Posted by: It's me donna at November 22, 2019 11:35 AM (6XlcD)

Yes.

Posted by: docj at November 22, 2019 11:41 AM (77WPm)

144 Because Trump won't just do it and tell the judge to fuck off.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 11:33 AM (G0qhR)

Right. At some point, he needs to "start a conversation" about the separation of powers.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 11:41 AM (2cwOe)

145 Think DJT had the Oval Office thoroughly tested to see who (or what) left DNA on stuff here and there?

Signed, just wonderin'

Posted by: klaftern at November 22, 2019 11:41 AM (RuIsu)

146 It's a lovely thought. But I, for one, know that if asked I would
politely decline. No interest in vermin digging into my high school
yearbook or fucking with my kids as they're just getting started with
their lives.

While I, OTOH, have already ruined my own reputation. My closet is made out of skeletons.

Please make me head of the Republican Party. There would be so much ass-kicking...

Or just give me an entire agency to gut. Like the Dept of Energy or Edumacation or Labor or some other useless agency that's duplicated at the state level.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 11:41 AM (HaL55)

147 For the ettes: When is enough enough?

She can have as many shoes as she wants. I'll just have my contractor, a Mr. Ace-of-Spades, add more shelves.
Posted by: t-bird
.......

He has IKEA on speed dial!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 22, 2019 11:41 AM (so+oy)

148 Schooner Tuna. The Tuna with a heart.

Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2019 11:41 AM (gmo/4)

149 This. And I pray he wins in a landslide.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 22, 2019 11:40 AM (ptqGC)
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I just want a pro-Trump House.

Posted by: Axeman at November 22, 2019 11:41 AM (DuZls)

150 Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer
Or did you gaslight me?

Posted by: Abi at November 22, 2019 11:41 AM (kPbO4)

151
They've since leaked that it's some low level lawyer. My dreams of a Comey or Strock frog march have been dashed if true
Posted by: It's me donna

Yeah, it's always some "low level staffer/lawyer/flunkie" in some remote office somewhere, that just doesn't know what they are doing.

Sure it is. (eyeroll)

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at November 22, 2019 11:41 AM (vcOmj)

152 11m
NEW:
The FCC declares Huawei, ZTE gear is ineligible for U.S. subsidies

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 22, 2019 11:42 AM (BqBId)

153 Don't ask me.

I may have a total of ten pairs of footwear.
Posted by: SMH at November 22, 2019 11:37 AM (RU4sa)

You're Imelda Marcos compared to me.

I have a pair of black shoes, a pair of sneakers and boots that look like II should use them mucking out horse stalls or shoveling snow-the latter of which I actually do use them for.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2019 11:42 AM (WI7YS)

154 It was Barsini all along.

Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2019 11:42 AM (gmo/4)

155 360 browndog! glad to see you sniffing around here again. how's tricks?
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at November 22, 2019 10:45 AM (+P5gm)

I don't know where to start BTH...

I''ll be brutally honest, I'm in crisis. That said, I've hit bottom, and with the help of a wide, and deep group of friends I am attempting to put my life back together.

A month ago I completed a life goal athletically, only to come home to a demand that I pack up and leave. The bride of 47 years wants a divorce.

As I was blindsided by this news, along with the fact that all my assets are "tied up", I attempted to take my life. I was saved from a police siege, by a good friend who got me out of the house safely, and into a Psych facility for 10 days of observation.

In the meantime, I'm under court order to avoid contact with my bride and i cannot access anything in my house.

Friends have stepped up to provide housing and assistance while I start my prostate cancer treatments...WHICH ARE KICKING MY ASS at the moment.

They are also helping empty and prepare for sale my mom's house. The assets of which are needed to pay for her residence at a skilled nursing home.

I'm moment to moment these days. My friends are amazing, and my only charge is to look after myself, go to my counseling sessions, and stay healthy enough to withstand the radiation regimen that will start in two months time.

I apologize to the Horde for my actions back on or around 10/22/19...I truly am.

Posted by: browndog at November 22, 2019 11:42 AM (FdRXM)

156 The very existence of the country depends on Trump having a successful second term.
Posted by: jwest at November 22, 2019 11:39 AM (U6f/q)

I guess that's where we part ways - I don't see any way we're voting our way out of this. Trump is a speedbump.

Posted by: docj at November 22, 2019 11:43 AM (77WPm)

157 the chick is j. edgar hoover. the dude is efram zimbalist jr.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 11:43 AM (KP5rU)

158 144 Because Trump won't just do it and tell the judge to fuck off.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 11:33 AM (G0qhR)

Right. At some point, he needs to "start a conversation" about the separation of powers.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 11:41 AM (2cwOe)

He needs to call Roberts to the White House and start a discussion.

Either you reign them in, or I am going to have to.

Because they all essentially work for the Chief Justice.

Posted by: Don Q at November 22, 2019 11:43 AM (NgKpN)

159 As God as my witness, I thought I could slip an SBD air biscuit on live TV.

Posted by: Eric Swallowswell at November 22, 2019 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

160 Yeah, it's always some "low level staffer/lawyer/flunkie" in some remote office somewhere, that just doesn't know what they are doing.

Sure it is. (eyeroll)
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at November 22, 2019 11:41 AM (vcOmj)

And Saint Horowitz will root them out and recommend training, maybe a 3 day suspension, if he's feeling particularly shirty that day

Posted by: CN at November 22, 2019 11:43 AM (U7k5w)

161 Bush tried to fire a group of federal attorneys and had to fight the deep state and press as a result. He also had to make a number of recess appointments because the Left always oppose the Right's nominees while the Right basically rubber stamps the Left's.

Posted by: Easy Andy at November 22, 2019 11:44 AM (2DOZq)

162 yes, trump is a speedbump. i'm old, whatever.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 11:44 AM (KP5rU)

163 They've since leaked that it's some low level lawyer. My dreams of a Comey or Strock frog march have been dashed if true
Posted by: It's me donna at November 22, 2019 11:27 AM (6XlcD)

Who would never have done without a direct order from Comey.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2019 11:45 AM (/sgva)

164 One thing I would do for those who suffered because they served in the first administration...

If we retake the House along with Trump's reelection, I would make sure they passed the "Reputation Restoration Bill", which would reimburse everyone who had to hire a lawyer, lost pay, had to sell their house, or any other financial hardship based on democrat craziness.

Posted by: jwest at November 22, 2019 11:45 AM (U6f/q)

165 Also looks a bit like Jack Palance, "don't you think?"

Posted by: Rex B at November 22, 2019 11:45 AM (eNlPi)

166 Its like, can you have too much money?

A Car too fast?

A dog too ugly?

I do not understand these words in that order. You can never have too much money.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 11:45 AM (HaL55)

167 Donna Reed?

Its Linn Ridge !
Posted by: JT at November 22, 2019 11:32 AM (arJlL)

Thank you. That's a compliment. She was smart and beautiful.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at November 22, 2019 11:45 AM (ECrgQ)

168 She should know its impossible to clean out civil service employees. Need to end gov unions first. And freeze salaries until they get back to half of private sector pay .
People need to be embarrassed again to admit they have a gov job.

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at November 22, 2019 11:45 AM (xqwDY)

169 Who would never have done without a direct order from Comey.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2019 11:45 AM (/sgva)

Horowitz' ex-boss. The situation is laughable.

Posted by: CN at November 22, 2019 11:45 AM (U7k5w)

170 well, one major problem for trump is that he's not of the political establishment. where does he find anti-swamp bureaucrats.

Posted by: mjc at November 22, 2019 11:46 AM (Pg+x7)

171 And LTC Bearclaw was filmed yesterday going to his NSC office. Why???? His fat ass should be at Ft Irwin National Training Center counting turtles.

Posted by: dingbat at November 22, 2019 11:46 AM (Qkbqn)

172 You can never have too much money.
=======

My best friend growing up's mother used to day, "You can never be too thin, too rich, too beautiful or have too many diamonds."

Posted by: bicentennialguy at November 22, 2019 11:46 AM (vg8iE)

173 I'm gratified that it looks like there will not be a single GOP vote for impeachment but I am getting sick and G-d damned tired of limp dicked virtue signalling ass clowns like Will Hurd saying that Trumps comments on the call with the Ukrainian President were inappropriate.

There was not a single word on that call that was inappropriate, and this is why the GOP loses, they accept the Left's premise and then argue from that position.

So they are always beginning the fight already on one knee.

It's ridiculous.

Posted by: Huxley's Eyeglass Emporium at November 22, 2019 11:46 AM (gnCeF)

174 browndog, God bless you. I will keep you in my prayers.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 22, 2019 11:46 AM (ptqGC)

175 ... who have the skills to run a government?

Posted by: mjc at November 22, 2019 11:46 AM (Pg+x7)

176 Its Linn Ridge !
Posted by: JT

----

Nah - I've met her. Linn's better looking!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2019 11:46 AM (Y4EXg)

177 While I, OTOH, have already ruined my own reputation. My closet is made out of skeletons.

Please make me head of the Republican Party. There would be so much ass-kicking...

Or just give me an entire agency to gut. Like the Dept of Energy or Edumacation or Labor or some other useless agency that's duplicated at the state level.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 11:41 AM (HaL55)

Trump needs about 10 PRO AMERICAN Psychopaths (and yes, they are out there, those who understand they were really lucky to be born here, because of the advantages).

Then cut them loose in the Government.

He needs people who are willing to say "I don't care, Fuck you, war".

Posted by: Don Q at November 22, 2019 11:47 AM (NgKpN)

178 I vote for referring to Schiffty as Schmiegel from now on. Appropriate.

Excellent headline for CNN posted by a moron above:

'It's not news. IT'S CNN'.

Posted by: Floridachick at November 22, 2019 11:48 AM (JGYMS)

179 I'm gratified that it looks like there will not be a single GOP vote for impeachment but I am getting sick and G-d damned tired of limp dicked virtue signalling ass clowns like Will Hurd saying that Trumps comments on the call with the Ukrainian President were inappropriate.

He supported Baba O'Riley over Cruz for the TX Senate Race in 2018.

He's a Democrat.

Posted by: docj at November 22, 2019 11:48 AM (77WPm)

180 Maybe next time, OM will just post Bonzo for the 'ettes, without handsome Ronnie.

Posted by: CN at November 22, 2019 11:48 AM (U7k5w)

181 It's a lovely thought. But I, for one, know that if asked I would politely decline. No interest in vermin digging into my high school yearbook or fucking with my kids as they're just getting started with their lives.

While I, OTOH, have already ruined my own reputation. My closet is made out of skeletons.

Please make me head of the Republican Party. There would be so much ass-kicking...

Or just give me an entire agency to gut. Like the Dept of Energy or Edumacation or Labor or some other useless agency that's duplicated at the state level.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy

Yeah. No kids. Mom & dad both passed. Dig into my background. I'll play that game.

I'll dig into yours. Your siblings. Their significant other's families. Their kids, friends, relatives.

And when you say stop, I'll laugh like a retarded hyena.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 11:48 AM (G0qhR)

182 Prayers up for you, browndog.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 11:48 AM (HaL55)

183 179 He supported Baba O'Riley over Cruz for the TX Senate Race in 2018.

He's a Democrat.
Posted by: docj at November 22, 2019 11:48 AM (77WPm)

========

And retiring!

So TX will get a real Democrat instead of a fake Republican. Just to clarify things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 11:48 AM (q80AH)

184 >>He needs people who are willing to say "I don't care, Fuck you, war".

His economic team - the one negotiating trade agreements seems to fit the bill!!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 22, 2019 11:49 AM (bDqIh)

185 Having watched Trump all those years on The Apprentice, the personnel decisions are just the way that Trump thinks. He's not going to fire you if you can do the job.

He came in rather neutral and expected to impress people with a business-like attitude.

He even recently said that he would have governed more to the center if the Dems had taken the fig leaf--but the Dems couldn't--because Trump wore the Republican mantle and helping a Republican president do greater than he has even done would just help spread the idea that pragmatic Republicans can get things done.

It's clear from the stable of candidates, that they want to move onto the more ideological and visionary stuff. Fuck all those "pragmatism" half measures. I mean what use is an economy unless it can be redistributed ala Marx?!

Posted by: Axeman at November 22, 2019 11:49 AM (DuZls)

186 Posted by: browndog at November 22, 2019 11:42 AM (FdRXM)

Press On Regardless!

Posted by: Roland THTG at November 22, 2019 11:49 AM (88+cf)

187 That is why Trump has had staff problems.

Hell, they even went after his Kids and Grandkids, who would want to go through THAT?
Posted by: Don Q at November 22, 2019 11:32 AM (NgKpN)

I also believe that the Dems are planning on the side effect of this latest accusations of bribery, quid pro quo, etc. is to shut down his ability to work with or deal with foreign leaders. What foreign head of state wants to pick up the phone and have an honest discussion with Trump, knowing that one of the jerks listening in on the call is ready to run to the Democrats/Press with some kind of claim of nefarious discussion? That Trump will either be forced to publically disclose the call , which could potentially have the leaders own enemies clucking over it, or end up entangled in defending Trump?

They are pissed that he upset the cart with Ukraine, their own personal piggy bank, they are upset over the Paris accord, another potential money ATM when they get out of government. They don't like his ability to get meetings with NK, or interfering in Syria by moving out ISIS and not having six different wars going on at the same time.

They are hoping that even if they can't remove him, they can seriously gum up his ability to carry out his constitutional duties.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 22, 2019 11:49 AM (v2Axo)

188 And retiring!

So TX will get a real Democrat instead of a fake Republican (Hurd). Just to clarify things.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 11:48 AM (q80AH)

Yep.

Posted by: docj at November 22, 2019 11:49 AM (77WPm)

189 185 It's clear from the stable of candidates, that they want to move onto the more ideological and visionary stuff. Fuck all those "pragmatism" half measures. I mean what use is an economy unless it can be redistributed ala Marx?!
Posted by: Axeman at November 22, 2019 11:49 AM (DuZls)

========

They think Trump won by being an ideologue of the right by saying things that Democrats were saying 20 years ago.

These people are not terribly smart.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 11:50 AM (q80AH)

190 well, one major problem for trump is that he's not of the political establishment. where does he find anti-swamp bureaucrats.
Posted by: mjc

Waves.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 11:50 AM (G0qhR)

191 I'm moment to moment these days. My friends are amazing, and my only charge is to look after myself, go to my counseling sessions, and stay healthy enough to withstand the radiation regimen that will start in two months time.

I apologize to the Horde for my actions back on or around 10/22/19...I truly am.

Posted by: browndog at November 22, 2019 11:42 AM (FdRXM)

We're just glad you were stopped!

It sounds like you have a great group of friends. Leaning on them is what friends are for. It's good you're allowing their assistance. Nothing wrong with that at all.

Take turtle steps....while we pray for you.

Posted by: Tami at November 22, 2019 11:50 AM (cF8AT)

192 190 well, one major problem for trump is that he's not of the political establishment. where does he find anti-swamp bureaucrats.
Posted by: mjc

Waves.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 11:50 AM (G0qhR)

=========

Insom needs a job.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 11:50 AM (q80AH)

193 The female lead in Top Secret looked like a young Donna Reed

Posted by: JT at November 22, 2019 11:51 AM (arJlL)

194 If PDT wants a loyal staff next term all he has to do is send a recruiter here.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2019 11:51 AM (cEsBM)

195 Trump could have a hiting call here at AoSHQ and find someone competent for every position open. No homo.
I'd make a great Secretary of Agriculture. I know more jokes than Earl Butz.
Plus I actually farmed for 26 years.

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at November 22, 2019 11:51 AM (xqwDY)

196 184 >>He needs people who are willing to say "I don't care, Fuck you, war".

His economic team - the one negotiating trade agreements seems to fit the bill!!
Posted by: Lizzy at November 22, 2019 11:49 AM (bDqIh)

I think he found one in Pompeo.

Not sure about Barr yet. We see a lot of smoke, but nothing has really gone boom yet.

DHS is a mess. Pentagon is a mess. Education has not done shit after talking a good game.

Posted by: Don Q at November 22, 2019 11:51 AM (NgKpN)

197 Posted by: browndog at November 22, 2019 11:42 AM (FdRXM)

I'm glad that you checked in. People were worried about you, but it's problematic if nobody has contact information and someone is feeling suicidal. I am sorry about your wife giving you that news, but as glad that you went for some help and that friends are helping you.

Will keep you in prayer that rough places are made smooth and for healing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2019 11:51 AM (WI7YS)

198 So TX will get a real Democrat instead of a fake Republican (Hurd). Just to clarify things.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 11:48 AM (q80AH)

Yep.
Posted by: docj

Sweet. Now I know from jump street he's an enemy. Inlike RINO's like Bonnen and Patrick.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 11:52 AM (G0qhR)

199 184 lizzy: yes. except his economic team that he was able to import from outside the govt. otherwise, all those depts and agencies need staff who are familiar with the workings. and unfortunately have a vested interest in their continuance.

Posted by: mjc at November 22, 2019 11:52 AM (Pg+x7)

200 I'll dig into yours. Your siblings. Their significant other's families. Their kids, friends, relatives.

And when you say stop, I'll laugh like a retarded hyena.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 11:48 AM (G0qhR)

Well, if you have the resources to do that, I wish you all the success in the world.

I'd be bankrupt in about 2-days.

Posted by: docj at November 22, 2019 11:52 AM (77WPm)

201 I'd make a great Secretary of Agriculture. I know more jokes than Earl Butz.
Plus I actually farmed for 26 years.
Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn

---

I'm exceedingly incompetent in all areas of government.

I'm perfect for any assignment!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2019 11:52 AM (Y4EXg)

202 Insom needs a job.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 11:50 AM (q80AH)

This seems fitting:

https://youtu.be/XjyAPdiickk

Posted by: Eric Swallowswell at November 22, 2019 11:52 AM (Zz0t1)

203 Damn fartknocker sock.

Posted by: Sponge at November 22, 2019 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)

204 That we had a GOP rep out of the valley is an anomaly.

Posted by: Easy Andy at November 22, 2019 11:53 AM (2DOZq)

205 We pretty much all said from day 1 that trump should have blow torched any obama holdover, and he's fucking stupid for not doing so today. He needs to have a purge.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2019 11:53 AM (9Om/r)

206 I apologize to the Horde for my actions back on or around 10/22/19...I truly am.

Posted by: browndog at November 22, 2019 11:42 AM (FdRXM)

Prayers up for you.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 11:53 AM (2cwOe)

207 A lot of those AH's from the DOJ wee hold-overs from Clinton and Obama so it's all not bad picks for Trump.

Posted by: Vic at November 22, 2019 11:53 AM (mpXpK)

208 Fitton thinks Horowitz will cover for the DOJ and his friends in high places. Some good info will come out followed by inaction.

Posted by: CN at November 22, 2019 11:53 AM (U7k5w)

209 http://bit.ly/2OHn7yW
*******
Responding to Lt. Col. Vindman about my Ukraine columns ... with the facts John Solomon Reports

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 22, 2019 11:54 AM (BqBId)

210 I apologize to the Horde for my actions back on or around 10/22/19...I truly am.

Posted by: browndog at November 22, 2019 11:42 AM (FdRXM)

What did you do, Ray.....

Posted by: Peter Venkman at November 22, 2019 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

211 Browndog, sorry to hear of what you have been going through, but glad to know you are still here and thinking there is a future, (which there always is, even if you can't see it). One day at a time...

Posted by: Jen the original at November 22, 2019 11:54 AM (v2Axo)

212 As for cleaning out the bureaucrats, just give me the DOJ for a few years...

Instead of trying to fire them through conventional channels, I would just start prosecuting them - for anything and everything - because I would have unlimited resources and no liability.

If they took a pencil home, the SWAT team would bust their door down at 3:00am. Pocketing a stapler would get you 20 years. They would have the choice of quitting or hiring a full time lawyer.

Posted by: jwest at November 22, 2019 11:54 AM (U6f/q)

213
Cookies. Want.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2019 11:55 AM (xsDSR)

214 Well. My granddaughter just came into the kitchen singing the theme from Carmen.
She's 8.

Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at November 22, 2019 11:55 AM (LCzNi)

215 Efrem Zimbalist was a pimp. He could never have outfought Santino. But I did not know until this day, that it was Conte all along.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 22, 2019 11:55 AM (fyr/6)

216 Posted by: browndog at November 22, 2019 11:42 AM (FdRXM)

We have been worried! You are having a time of it, I am so sorry to hear about this. I am glad you have some amazing friends.

Posted by: IC at November 22, 2019 11:55 AM (a0IVu)

217 Well, if you have the resources to do that, I wish you all the success in the world.

I'd be bankrupt in about 2-days.
Posted by: docj

As the head of a government agency, I'm sure I'll have a "budget".

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 11:55 AM (G0qhR)

218 Read the content

and first!

Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2019 11:55 AM (gmo/4)

219 183 179 He supported Baba O'Riley over Cruz for the TX Senate Race in 2018.

He's a Democrat.
Posted by: docj at November 22, 2019 11:48 AM (77WPm)

He didn't just support Baba O'Riley - he and Beto have said publicly that they're the best of friends, and they've campaigned together - including a famous "driving tour" with both of them in the car.

Oh yeah, Hurd is a "conservative republican".

bonus points, for deep state connections - Hurd is ex-CIA.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2019 11:56 AM (Kpl3J)

220 Don't think any of the "damaging" "witnesses" [they were neither] were hired by Trump. You don't hire career people on rotation, and you don't fire them typically either. Of course you don't expect career people to break laws and rules and act like B-movie villains with laughable plots and idiocy like we've seen.

Hiring mistakes have been much higher, but almost certainly due to Trump being a true outsider, dependent at first on swamp-ish veterans. Preibus, Kelly [in both jobs], et al.

What he, and most of us, seem to have underestimated was the degree of degradation in ethics, professionalism, and patriotism - and practical intelligence - among the federal workforce, and the Beltway generally. And that was with a very harshly negative assessment.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2019 11:56 AM (QDnY+)

221 Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2019 11:46 AM (Y4EXg)

*Blushes*

Keep this up and I won't be able to fit my head through a doorway!

Posted by: Linn Ridge at November 22, 2019 11:56 AM (ECrgQ)

222 Maybe he is a Stable Genius who's letting the Left Not Epstein themselves while the real work gets done.

Posted by: DaveA at November 22, 2019 11:56 AM (FhXTo)

223 Trump could have a hiting call here at AoSHQ and find someone competent for every position open. No homo.

I'd make a great Secretary of Agriculture. I know more jokes than Earl Butz.

Plus I actually farmed for 26 years.

I have over 30 years of manufacturing experience from concept to design to making the part to QA to management.

PDT could (and it looks like he has already) do worse than the Horde.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 11:56 AM (HaL55)

224 OK. Really, that is too many shoes for any woman.

Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2019 11:56 AM (gmo/4)

225
There are literally no more than, say, 3-5 "Republicans" in the HOR who it would be in-character for them to vote to impeach

"That's bipartisan enough for us!" - MSM

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2019 11:57 AM (xsDSR)

226 Posted by: browndog at November 22, 2019 11:42 AM (FdRXM)

That's a lot to handle and that you are working your way through it is amazing. Prayers for continued strength to get you through these tribulations. Just curious what was the athletic goal you reached ?

Posted by: Easy Andy at November 22, 2019 11:57 AM (2DOZq)

227 222 Maybe he is a Stable Genius who's letting the Left Not Epstein themselves while the real work gets done.
Posted by: DaveA at November 22, 2019 11:56 AM (FhXTo)

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He and Cocaine Mitch have flipped three circuit courts from Democrat to Republican.

They're one or two confirmations away from flipping the 9th.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 11:57 AM (q80AH)

228 Prayers up for you, browndog.

From me too.. Sounds like you have a wonderful group of friends... Us too... Even though we 're computer friends

Posted by: It's me donna at November 22, 2019 11:57 AM (6XlcD)

229 It's amazing how lucky Trump has been.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 11:57 AM (ZLI7S)

230 snopes.com rates this post as 1/1024th false.

Posted by: ShainS at November 22, 2019 11:57 AM (WqPYg)

231 I have over 30 years of manufacturing experience from concept to design to making the part to QA to management.

PDT could (and it looks like he has already) do worse than the Horde.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 11:56 AM (HaL55)

I could re-work EPA. over 20 years of environmental consulting experience.

Posted by: IC at November 22, 2019 11:57 AM (a0IVu)

232 I apologize to the Horde for my actions back on or around 10/22/19...I truly am.

Posted by: browndog

Did you tinkle in the barrel again?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 11:58 AM (G0qhR)

233 snopes.com rates this post as 1/1024th false.

We aims to please

Posted by: It's me donna at November 22, 2019 11:58 AM (6XlcD)

234 231 I have over 30 years of manufacturing experience from concept to design to making the part to QA to management.

PDT could (and it looks like he has already) do worse than the Horde.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 11:56 AM (HaL55)

I could re-work EPA. over 20 years of environmental consulting experience.
Posted by: IC at November 22, 2019 11:57 AM (a0IVu)

=========

I could shut down the EPA.

Many years experience getting shut down by the ladies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 11:58 AM (q80AH)

235 browndog, you're going through hell. A lot can be forgiven, including those events. Stay strong and find something good on the other side.

As for appointees...frankly you'd have to be insane to put me in a high position in the Administration. I have no skills or in-depth knowledge to speak of. I have no network of well placed friends, no influence, no money.

I also have nobody left to suffer because of me, and no life to ruin.

Like I said...you'd have to be insane. Because I'd be one of the most dangerous things on Earth:

An angry man, with absolutely nothing to lose.

Posted by: Brother Cavil
Your ad here! 1-800-MORON-AD
at November 22, 2019 11:59 AM (Rvlwi)

236 There should be a Constitutional Amendment that the entire Federal Govt is fired every 10 years.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 22, 2019 11:59 AM (xfb67)

237 Instead of trying to fire them through conventional channels, I would just start prosecuting them - for anything and everything - because I would have unlimited resources and no liability.

If they took a pencil home, the SWAT team would bust their door down at 3:00am. Pocketing a stapler would get you 20 years. They would have the choice of quitting or hiring a full time lawyer.

Posted by: jwest

---

I'd just talk unofficially to them with a pyramid of skulls sitting on my desk. The lawyers representing the skulls I spoke with earlier would be in different pile. Truth would be the only possible way out - and even then, not a sure thing.

This is why I must go to confession so often.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2019 11:59 AM (Y4EXg)

238 Good call, Wolfus Aurelius for getting the female Who Dis?
I was stumped, and I"m pretty good with the old-timey movie actors/resses.

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 11:59 AM (DJFLF)

239 Read the content

and first!
Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2019 11:55 AM (gmo/4)

Archer's a bot!!!

Posted by: Linn Ridge at November 22, 2019 11:59 AM (ECrgQ)

240 214 Well. My granddaughter just came into the kitchen singing the theme from Carmen. She's 8. Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes at November 22, 2019 11:55 AM (LCzNi)

That's fun. Made my day.

Posted by: Caliban at November 22, 2019 11:59 AM (QE8X6)

241 This is why I must go to confession so often.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2019 11:59 AM (Y4EXg)

Your priest probably thinks you're a hoot.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at November 22, 2019 12:00 PM (ECrgQ)

242 Posted by: browndog at November 22, 2019 11:42 AM (FdRXM)

Well fuck me running. We were all worried about you, dude. You really are weathering a shitstorm. Can't tell you how sorry I am that you're going through all that. It's good to hear that you've got such good support right there with you. I'm not going to give any motivation poster pep talks or anything, but know that we give a shit around here and you can reach out to us when you need to. My email is in my nic. Take care of yourself.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 22, 2019 12:00 PM (NWiLs)

243 Read the content

and first!
Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2019 11:55 AM (gmo/4)

Archer's a bot!!!
Posted by: Linn Ridge

That's just what a Russian bot would be expected to say.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 12:00 PM (G0qhR)

244 214
Well. My granddaughter just came into the kitchen singing the theme from Carmen.

She's 8.

Sigh...

This one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ_HHRJf0xg

Posted by: pep at November 22, 2019 12:00 PM (T6t7i)

245
Posted by: browndog at November 22, 2019 11:42 AM (FdRXM)

I'm sorry. That's brutal. We're here to help.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2019 12:00 PM (xsDSR)

246
Columbia University's fencing team won its third co-ed fencing title in five years. The team was invited to the White House. They plan on going and lecturing the president about "gender equality" and "minority gender identities" and the harm he and his administration is doing to them. I will volunteer to fly them to the White House.....on Air Pinochet

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 22, 2019 12:00 PM (mpeBU)

247 How can you not seeee that Trump should be impeached ! Repent I say !

Posted by: Brett Baer's Talking Vagina at November 22, 2019 12:00 PM (H8fSa)

248 Remember how the Lt. Col. Pillsbury Doughboy read his spectacular job evaluation?

Yeah every Obama shit bird got that

Posted by: Regular joe at November 22, 2019 12:00 PM (6/uwW)

249 Fun fact: Dreamt is the only word in English that ends in 'mt'.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Your overworked & under appreciated AoSHQ Copy Editors at November 22, 2019 12:01 PM (VT5Sd)

250 I'm moment to moment these days. My friends are amazing, and my only charge is to look after myself, go to my counseling sessions, and stay healthy enough to withstand the radiation regimen that will start in two months time.

I apologize to the Horde for my actions back on or around 10/22/19...I truly am.

Posted by: browndog

........

Shit, Dude!

Special dispensation awarded for any and all past sins! (although I was not aware of any of this)

Your wife divorced you in the middle of cancer treatment???

I have a co-worker who was blindsided like this, though he was not in the middle of medical problems. He was a wreck for weeks.

I am sorry to hear this.. prayers for you in your treatments and situation. Embrace your friends and accept their help.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 22, 2019 12:01 PM (so+oy)

251 229 It's amazing how lucky Trump has been.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 11:57 AM (ZLI7S)

Can you elaborate just a little bit? Would like to hear some good news.

Posted by: Caliban at November 22, 2019 12:01 PM (QE8X6)

252 Is Snopes still a thing?

Posted by: overit at November 22, 2019 12:01 PM (sI15f)

253 236 There should be a Constitutional Amendment that the entire Federal Govt is fired every 10 years.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 22, 2019 11:59 AM (xfb67)

==========

All laws must have sunset provisions of no greater than 10 years.

No bill may affect more than one department at a time.

No bill may be more than 100 pages long.

The federal government is not allowed to bail out states or localities. Any state or locality that declares bankruptcy is immediately stripped of its status as part of the United States and declared a territory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:01 PM (q80AH)

254 Like I said...you'd have to be insane. Because I'd be one of the most dangerous things on Earth:

An angry man, with absolutely nothing to lose.
Posted by: Brother Cavil

*fistbump

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 12:01 PM (G0qhR)

255 He and Cocaine Mitch have flipped three circuit courts from Democrat to Republican.

They're one or two confirmations away from flipping the 9th.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 11:57 AM (q80AH)

I just read that he just flipped, what was it, the 11th?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 12:02 PM (2cwOe)

256 PDT could (and it looks like he has already) do worse than the Horde.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 11:56 AM (HaL55)

Whoever conducts the personnel search for Trump could start here and at other pro-trump websites. Go back a few years to make sure the people being considered are true Trump loyalists. Then, invite those that seem good to apply on a secure website.

Use the information provided to sort everyone out, schedule interviews and make hiring offers.

One thing I hope Trump learned over the past 4 years is he sure a fuck isn't going to find anyone in Washington he can trust.

Posted by: jwest at November 22, 2019 12:02 PM (U6f/q)

257 They think Trump won by being an ideologue of the right by saying things that Democrats were saying 20 years ago.

These people are not terribly smart.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 11:50 AM (q80AH)
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I can believe that. As a programmer, I find the left creating for themselves all sorts of "truth tables" to make immediate and full decisions with. Lack of compliance is punished by harassment from the Twitter and SJW crowd, the Demedia and the "experts".

I think this "programming" (akin to what Orwell labeled "doublethink") is why you observe the rapid shift in priorities and considerations and topics in the Upheavalists. It's bad for Trump to misuse his office for personal considerations (despite that's not completely 100% true), however, James Comey can lie to his superior precisely because Trump *was* the target of an investigation. And all these "Resisters" are right using their personal political opinions to flout the absolute authority of the President over the Executive branch.

They want to conserve "democracy" despite we have a "republic", and yet Nancy Pelosi says letting an election decide who continues as President is "dangerous" and the Chattering Class (on the Chatter Shows) promotes the self-appointed resisters in government as champions of "democracy" despite that the only person elected to the Executive branch is the person they are *resisting*.

They have a lot of squirrelly ideas. That don't hold water, but they commit to the path and won't be swayed by "Trump-cultists" (when they truly had more of a cult thing going for Obama)

It's the automation of ideas that doesn't allow them to see how analytical conclusions are reached that they can't take in anything that is actual.

That's what is overtaking the edge culture and the young. The rest that we humans find in "being certain" of things. They are fleeing ambiguity for the fixed.

Posted by: Axeman at November 22, 2019 12:02 PM (DuZls)

258 browndog we were worried about you and glad you are here to tell us your story.

Prayers up, man.

F Cancer.

Posted by: blaster at November 22, 2019 12:02 PM (9VeU0)

259 That's just what a Russian bot would be expected to say.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 12:00 PM (G0qhR)

Only a bot would think that. You must be a bot, too!

Heck, maybe we're *all* bots!!

Posted by: Linn Ridge at November 22, 2019 12:02 PM (ECrgQ)

260 Freedom is another word for nothing left to loose...

Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2019 12:02 PM (gmo/4)

261 Life Imitates Art.

Wasn't it just a week ago that Babylon Bee ran the article "In Genius Move, Trump Publicly Supports Impeachment, Forcing Democrats to Oppose."

...and now, actual Trump: "I want an impeachment trial."

Posted by: reason at November 22, 2019 12:02 PM (CGjum)

262 This one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ_HHRJf0xg
Posted by: pep at November 22, 2019 12:00 P

****

Ha. That was the song but she's not going to look like that for at least 10 more years.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 22, 2019 12:03 PM (LCzNi)

263 I know Trump loves an Ivy League education types but he needs to get around those.

Stay away from the DC to Boston corridor. Us any pedigree from those as (and any from California) as disqualifiers from the get go.

Hire from the midwest and Rocky Mountain states.

Not that it would be foolproof but a change in the usual talent pool to draw from would be helpful.

Posted by: Blanco at November 22, 2019 12:03 PM (BZQgK)

264 255 He and Cocaine Mitch have flipped three circuit courts from Democrat to Republican.

They're one or two confirmations away from flipping the 9th.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 11:57 AM (q80AH)

I just read that he just flipped, what was it, the 11th?
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 12:02 PM (2cwOe)

=======

Yeah, the 11th. Reported yesterday.

But Mitch should definitely expending Senate energies on impeachment stuff right now instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:03 PM (q80AH)

265 142 Barsini!!!
Posted by: Max Prophet at November 22, 2019 11:41 AM (RZeKZ)

"After all, we are not Communists"

Ah, the good old days.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at November 22, 2019 12:03 PM (e1mEI)

266 All laws must have sunset provisions of no greater than 10 years.

No bill may affect more than one department at a time.

No bill may be more than 100 pages long.

The federal government is not allowed to bail out states or
localities. Any state or locality that declares bankruptcy is
immediately stripped of its status as part of the United States and
declared a territory.

Congress may no longer exempt itself from the laws it makes. And government employees can be sued for damages, libel and slander.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 12:03 PM (HaL55)

267 231 I have over 30 years of manufacturing experience from concept to design to making the part to QA to management.

PDT could (and it looks like he has already) do worse than the Horde.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 11:56 AM (HaL55)

I could handle OPM. I'm very empathetic when firing people.

Posted by: x at November 22, 2019 12:04 PM (nFwvY)

268 I love how the left says we have a democracy, when only 537 positions out of 2 million are elected.

1/1024th democracy.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 22, 2019 12:04 PM (xfb67)

269 I am right and all you rubes are wrong.

Posted by: Brett Baier's Talking Vagina at November 22, 2019 12:04 PM (H8fSa)

270 I can hear it now: Trump announces, "I've hired a bunch of morons from Ace of Spades to fill spots in my administration."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 22, 2019 12:04 PM (ptqGC)

271 What happened to Zod? Did I scare him away?

Posted by: Hunter Biden at November 22, 2019 12:04 PM (QE8X6)

272 Posted by: browndog at November 22, 2019 11:42 AM (FdRXM)
I hope at least you took your soon-to-be ex off your life insurance policy.

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:04 PM (DJFLF)

273 That's just what a Russian bot would be expected to say.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 12:00 PM (G0qhR)

Only a bot would think that. You must be a bot, too!

Heck, maybe we're *all* bots!!
Posted by: Linn Ridge at November 22, 2019 12:02 PM (ECrgQ)

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HA HA HA THAT IS ONE CRAZY THOUGHT, FELLOW HUMAN, AS THERE ARE NO BOTS HERE ON var.sitename?=AceComments

Posted by: reason at November 22, 2019 12:04 PM (CGjum)

274 I think the indictment of Trump re personnel is a bit harsh. He had no experience in DC, or in politics, and probably did not realize how profound the hatred for him was. The people he did know he knew in other capacities, not in government. It'd be like choosing people for rugby based on how well they golfed.

Imagine being parachuted into, say, the NYC real estate market, and had to fill hundreds of positions in a few months. You'd have to be the soul of perspicacity not to make a number of grievous errors.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 22, 2019 12:05 PM (BA9Nh)

275

Myrna Loy?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 22, 2019 12:05 PM (PUbDc)

276 Trump didn't come in "neutral". Look at his inaugural address.

His economic team has been stable, and mostly excellent. As noted above, obviously outsiders, like him, for the most part.

But it's not the Beltway alone that's handcuffed him. It's an electorate - esp. GOP voters - who tolerate/reward the Beltway GOP that has vetoed key elements of his agenda, and whose "independent"/Dem segments idiotically vote for Dems who laughably claim to want to "work with" Trump [see many of the '18 winners]

Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2019 12:05 PM (QDnY+)

277 brett baier has morphed into a demonic elf boy

Posted by: overit at November 22, 2019 12:05 PM (sI15f)

278 266 Congress may no longer exempt itself from the laws it makes. And government employees can be sued for damages, libel and slander.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 12:03 PM (HaL55)

==========

Any federal official, elected or appointed, that proposes immunity for federal officials, elected or appointed, from lawsuits will be lined up and shot within 12 hours of the declaration.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:05 PM (q80AH)

279 >>Can you elaborate just a little bit? Would like to hear some good news.

Trump has known since at least November of 2016 that the Obama administration was spying on him and using the intel agencies and State Dept to slime him with fake evidence. Nothing like this has ever happened before.

Reports are coming out then when his team went to their offices they found notes saying things like "You will fail" and "You aren't going to make it". He had to know he was surrounded by spies and enemies after his first two phone calls to world leaders were leaked almost before he put the phone down.

He met with nothing but intransigence and subversion from Day 1 with ginned up protests and fake news.

And somehow he managed to catch them while having one of the most successful 1st terms of any president in history.

Pure luck.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 12:05 PM (ZLI7S)

280 . Just curious what was the athletic goal you reached ?
Posted by: Easy Andy at November 22, 2019 11:57 AM (2DOZq)

EA...

I'm a mediocre Powerlifter in the USAPL Raw Masters 3, 93kg catagory. I managed, with the help of great coaching, a supportive doctor, and training partner to put together a two year plan that allowed me to Deadlift 500lbs at this years Raw Natls in Chicago.

I'm a skinny, Charles Atlas "before picture"...and pulling 500lbs has been a dream of mine for a lonnnnng time. And I get a NYS State record to boot!

It was the most complete effort of my life, in any field,at any time. I was, and am, very proud of the achievement.

And to have gone from that "high" to an unimaginable low within a 48 hour period...well, let's just say I didn't process things well.

Posted by: browndog at November 22, 2019 12:05 PM (FdRXM)

281 i could be head of the joints chief. i saw stripes a couple times.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 12:06 PM (KP5rU)

282 HA HA HA THAT IS ONE CRAZY THOUGHT, FELLOW HUMAN, AS THERE ARE NO BOTS HERE ON var.sitename?=AceComments
Posted by: reason at November 22, 2019 12:04 PM (CGjum)

LOL!!

Posted by: Linn Ridge at November 22, 2019 12:06 PM (ECrgQ)

283 Hordeian Cabinet selection:

First, ace is to have NOTHING to do with sshelving
atc of course for AG
All of the apes for the communications office
dagny at State
bluebell Bureau of Prisons

Except for the apes its all ettes so far

Posted by: blaster at November 22, 2019 12:06 PM (9VeU0)

284 Hire people that had average grades, played team sports and had military service.

Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2019 12:06 PM (gmo/4)

285 I've had peanut butter cookies and oatmeal cookies, but never peanut butter oatmeal cookies.
Need to find a good recipe.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 22, 2019 12:06 PM (wiXsO)

286 That's just what a Russian bot would be expected to say.

Posted by: rickb223

Only a bot would think that. You must be a bot, too!

Heck, maybe we're *all* bots!!

Posted by: Linn Ridge

/shifty eyes

They're on to me...I wonder what gave it away...

Posted by: Brother Cavil
Your ad here! 1-800-MORON-AD
at November 22, 2019 12:07 PM (Rvlwi)

287 Hey, so someone please inform me how Trump - who hadn't ever worked in government - was SUPPOSED to pick personnel ?

IS there some magic database of DC swamp creatures and secret NeverTrump assholes?

I'm pretty sure that's a big fat no.

Thanks for being part of the problem.

Posted by: deadrody at November 22, 2019 12:07 PM (V9901)

288 238 Good call, Wolfus Aurelius for getting the female Who Dis?
I was stumped, and I"m pretty good with the old-timey movie actors/resses.
Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019

*
*

Like some of the over-29s here, I grew up with the *real* TV Guide, that indispensable roadmap to TV, which once upon a magical time listed not only the stars of a TV series ("Solo: Robert Vaughn. Illya: David McCallum") but the guests. It would also list the cast members of old movies on The Late Show:

MOVIE -- Mystery
"The Sleeping City" (1950). Richard Conte, Coleen Gray. (90 min.)

It all just filtered into my brain.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 22, 2019 12:07 PM (Ejm1K)

289 I could handle OPM. I'm very empathetic when firing people.
Posted by: x

I could shut down DoT and DoEd like Thanos snapping his fingers.

"There's 50 other departments in every state in the union. If you want to work for Education or Transportation, pick one".

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 12:07 PM (G0qhR)

290 It's amazing how lucky Trump has been.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 11:57 AM (ZLI7S)

Because his enemies are stupid and corrupt?

Posted by: LASue at November 22, 2019 12:07 PM (A54vd)

291 Well it is coming up on Friday afternoon and I got no NASCAR.

no practice
no qualifying
no race weekend

roughly 86 days and 2 hours to Daytona!

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 22, 2019 12:07 PM (JFO2v)

292 Oatmeal choclate cookies. Doesn't sound like it would work, but it does.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 22, 2019 12:07 PM (xfb67)

293 PDT could (and it looks like he has already) do worse than the Horde.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 11:56 AM (HaL55)

Do we have to wear pants? Because I'm not sure about that.

Posted by: Roland THTG at November 22, 2019 12:07 PM (88+cf)

294 Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 12:05 PM (ZLI7S)

Great, thanks. And what's your take on the impeachment thing? The MFM is driving me crazy and I can't tell what's real anymore.

Posted by: Caliban at November 22, 2019 12:07 PM (QE8X6)

295 snopes.com rates this post as 1/1024th false.
Posted by: ShainS at November 22, 2019 11:57 AM (WqPYg)
---
Chris Plante recently had a good illustration about "Fact checking"

Nancy Pelosi said that the reasoning that the House Republicans had of letting the 2020 election decide whether the President continues as President is dangerous.

Trump tweets out that Nancy Pelosi said letting voters decide is dangerous.

Washington Post gives that an unequivocal "False".

You can't rephrase Democrats. You just can't.

Posted by: Axeman at November 22, 2019 12:07 PM (DuZls)

296 Oh, the wailing of the left that's actually paying attention:

Trump Just Flipped a Court That Will Decide Crucial Voter Suppression Cases in the South

from Slate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:07 PM (q80AH)

297 172 You can never have too much money.
=======

My best friend growing up's mother used to day, "You can never be too thin, too rich, too beautiful or have too many diamonds."
Posted by: bicentennialguy at November 22, 2019 11:46 AM (vg8iE)

Another simpler one: I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

Posted by: Sooner at November 22, 2019 12:08 PM (Fs5vw)

298 >>Because his enemies are stupid and corrupt?

No, because he's really frigging smart and patient.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 12:08 PM (ZLI7S)

299 And somehow he managed to catch them while having one of the most successful 1st terms of any president in history.

Pure luck.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 12:05 PM (ZLI7S)
I detect the sarcasm in the post, but seriously, the man is blessed with a preternatural ease of moving through life and seeing his enemies fail.
I call him An Avatar.

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:08 PM (DJFLF)

300 I hope at least you took your soon-to-be ex off your life insurance policy.

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:04 PM (DJFLF)

Heh!

Posted by: browndog at November 22, 2019 12:08 PM (FdRXM)

301 270 I can hear it now: Trump announces, "I've hired a bunch of morons from Ace of Spades to fill spots in my administration."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 22, 2019 12:04 PM (ptqGC)

Democrats and the press would shit themselves.

Posted by: jwest at November 22, 2019 12:08 PM (U6f/q)

302 Well it is coming up on Friday afternoon and I got no NASCAR.

no practice

no qualifying

no race weekend

roughly 86 days and 2 hours to Daytona!

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 22, 2019 12:07 PM (JFO2v)

You know. I've been a life long NASCAR fan and I didn't enjoy this year's season.

Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2019 12:08 PM (gmo/4)

303 281 i could be head of the joints chief. i saw stripes a couple times.
Posted by: chavez the hugo '

you head the joint chiefs.

let Jack Straw be the joints chief.

Posted by: x at November 22, 2019 12:09 PM (nFwvY)

304 13 there is such a thing as a 'birth asteroid'?

Posted by: IC at November 22, 2019 11:18 AM (a0IVu)

Trump's is SMOD.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet says Flatulus Toxicus is The Silent Killer! at November 22, 2019 12:09 PM (hLRSq)

305

The first question Trump needs to ask potential hires is, What's your number one priority? If it's anything other than to rid the world of commies. No deal

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 22, 2019 12:09 PM (kw5n8)

306 Posted by: browndog at November 22, 2019 11:42 AM (FdRXM)

browndog, prayers for Health & Healing...

May you Find Strength to beat back cancer. May you Find Wisdom to set a new course.

Posted by: Adriane the Art Critic ... at November 22, 2019 12:10 PM (LPnfS)

307 Tesla Cybertruck poll:

On a scale of ugly to fugly, how fugly is it?

Posted by: Merlin at November 22, 2019 12:10 PM (9t0Zz)

308 Hey, so someone please inform me how Trump - who hadn't ever worked in government - was SUPPOSED to pick personnel ?

IS there some magic database of DC swamp creatures and secret NeverTrump assholes?
.
Posted by: deadrody

By picking the people he's worked with in business over the last 40 years.

Most of the people Trump COULD hire are appointees to begin with. They don't have to be swamp creatures.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 12:10 PM (G0qhR)

309 Plus I attended military school in my yoot.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 12:10 PM (HaL55)

310 Ha! Trump should put Insom in charge of insurance reform. I can see it now, "FLORIDA MAN NAMED INSURANCE CZAR"...

Posted by: Brother Cavil
Your ad here! 1-800-MORON-AD
at November 22, 2019 12:10 PM (Rvlwi)

311 The first question Trump needs to ask potential hires is, What's your
number one priority? If it's anything other than to rid the world of
commies. No deal

Ridding the world of rap would also be acceptable.

Posted by: pep at November 22, 2019 12:10 PM (T6t7i)

312 Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:04 PM (DJFLF)

Heh!

Posted by: browndog at November 22, 2019 12:08 PM (FdRXM)

We're pulling for you!

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:10 PM (DJFLF)

313 In about a year from now, the word will go out for the customary resignations.
Trump should task his CoS to take names over the next year as to which he should accept.
I got the feeling that Chris Christie was supposed to do that 3 years ago but got "fired" in part for poor transition execution.

Posted by: SMOD at November 22, 2019 12:11 PM (3aI0K)

314 And somehow he managed to catch them while having one of the most successful 1st terms of any president in history.

Pure luck.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 12:05 PM (ZLI7S)

Way back when Trump said on the campaign trail that he knew more than the Generals about beating ISIS.

A lot of former military people thought that was a hoot. Wow, the arrogance.

I thought, at a macro level, he's right. The 4 stars in the military right now can't even SAY victory much less achieve it. They are stuck in "degrading enemy capability" mode.

Trump may not know the shipping weight of a combat brigade, but he knows more than a little about winning.

Posted by: blaster at November 22, 2019 12:11 PM (9VeU0)

315 On a scale of ugly to fugly, how fugly is it?
Posted by: Merlin at November 22, 2019 12:10 PM (9t0Zz)

Think Pontiac Aztec crossed with a doorstop.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at November 22, 2019 12:11 PM (ECrgQ)

316 I detect the sarcasm in the post, but seriously, the man is blessed with a preternatural ease of moving through life and seeing his enemies fail.
I call him An Avatar.
Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:08 PM (DJFLF)
===

So you're saying Trump is the master of all four elements?

Posted by: Augustine at November 22, 2019 12:11 PM (BDZWU)

317 They need to relocate all these departments all over the country. That way all these deep state losers aren't getting drunk together and banging.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 22, 2019 12:11 PM (xfb67)

318 >>Great, thanks. And what's your take on the impeachment thing? The MFM is driving me crazy and I can't tell what's real anymore.

Once again, Trump is very lucky.

Somehow he has Nancy in a position where she either has to drive the clown car off the cliff and go forward with a doomed impeachment trial in the Senate where the Republicans will bring in all of their witnesses including Hunter Biden or she lights a fuse under her lunatic base and doesn't impeach.

Either way he wins.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 12:11 PM (ZLI7S)

319 I think the indictment of Trump re personnel is a
bit harsh. He had no experience in DC, or in politics, and probably did
not realize how profound the hatred for him was.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 22, 2019 12:05 PM (BA9Nh)

Yet - numerous people totally on the outside looking in called it. It didn't take genius to figure out that not only the DC Establishment, but the Republican Establishment would look to take him out.

Trump's kinda' like Sessions. He assumed people would do what they were told, even if poorly. Bad mistake. That's not how people work at all.

So, he fucked up. He's still getting my vote in 2020. Hopefully he's learning.

Posted by: Lurking Libertarian at November 22, 2019 12:11 PM (fBFz0)

320 Can you imagine 32 candidates filing to run for Elijah Cummings vacant seat?

https://cbsloc.al/2D8fdcn

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 22, 2019 12:11 PM (cqNba)

321 302; most boring season in history, archer. never watched one of the last four races. it sucked. and gibbs has been named as the new exclusive chassis builder for every car. it continues it's spiral down the tubes. nascar is done.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 12:11 PM (KP5rU)

322
13 there is such a thing as a 'birth asteroid'?

Posted by: IC at November 22, 2019 11:18 AM (a0IVu)

There's some branches of astrology that assign a random booger that made its way up through the stratosphere into space critical significance re: a person's destiny.

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:12 PM (DJFLF)

323 tillersen was piss poor pick

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2019 12:12 PM (cEsBM)

324 The first question Trump needs to ask potential hires is, What's your
number one priority? If it's anything other than to rid the world of
commies. No deal

I'd rid DC of Progs. Every last one of them would go. They're not hard to spot, look first for the ones who comb their hair with a balloon and/or loose dentures.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 12:12 PM (HaL55)

325 305

The first question Trump needs to ask potential hires is, What's your number one priority? If it's anything other than to rid the world of commies. No deal
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 22, 2019

*
*

Any mention of the words "social" or "justice," especially back-to-back, and the applicant gets shown the door.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 22, 2019 12:12 PM (Ejm1K)

326 The MFM is driving me crazy and I can't tell what's real anymore.

Watching the MFM for news is like telling time by watching my flashing microwave clock.

Posted by: t-bird at November 22, 2019 12:12 PM (TQyCa)

327 >>Either way he wins.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 12:11 PM (ZLI7S)

My God, I hope it's the latter. This is such a huge frigging waste of time, and the media chatter is depressing.

Posted by: Caliban at November 22, 2019 12:13 PM (QE8X6)

328 325 305

The first question Trump needs to ask potential hires is, What's your number one priority? If it's anything other than to rid the world of commies. No deal
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 22, 2019

*
*

Any mention of the words "social" or "justice," especially back-to-back, and the applicant gets shown the door.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 22, 2019 12:12 PM (Ejm1K)

===========

"I wish destroy that which they call social justice."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:13 PM (q80AH)

329 So you're saying Trump is the master of all four elements?

Posted by: Augustine

Four?

Posted by: LeeLoo at November 22, 2019 12:13 PM (T6t7i)

330 On a scale of ugly to fugly, how fugly is it?

Perfect for roaming a vampire infested post apocalyptic wasteland, until the battery gives out.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 22, 2019 12:13 PM (fyr/6)

331 Archer

I thot it was a great season. Some hard racing all thru the year. I think the cars need more horsepower and less grip. Not a Busch fan be he drove his ass off.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 22, 2019 12:13 PM (JFO2v)

332 327 >>Either way he wins.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 12:11 PM (ZLI7S)

My God, I hope it's the latter. This is such a huge frigging waste of time, and the media chatter is depressing.
Posted by: Caliban at November 22, 2019 12:13 PM (QE8X6)

========

Nancy Pelosi isn't suddenly going to give Mitch McConnell control of this shitshow. It'll never get to him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:13 PM (q80AH)

333 Steady. Back on your ledge.

Remember who is getting the leaks. Also remember the targets have all seen the report and know what's coming and will spin like a top to make it sound meh.

Be optimistic for a change. It actually feels good.
Posted by: JackStraw at

I continue to be Optimus and am always surprised that even trusty horde members are occasionally sucked in by the ridiculous CNN fake news. it imust be some psychological thing to want to believe the press is honest even when they have proven time and again they are not.

Posted by: LASue at November 22, 2019 12:14 PM (A54vd)

334 Obviously a new term is needed to replace "court". They're not courts - if that term is to have any meaning - if they are "flipped", i.e. they are simply the equivalents of commissions like the FCC etc. with balanced "partisan" membership.

Quasi-judicial tribunal?

Appointed super-legislature?

Need something catchy, but accurate. "Court" is at this point just a sarcastic convention.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2019 12:14 PM (QDnY+)

335 321 302; most boring season in history, archer. never watched one of the last four races. it sucked. and gibbs has been named as the new exclusive chassis builder for every car. it continues it's spiral down the tubes. nascar is done.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 12:11 PM (KP5rU)

Seriously?

Jeebus Creebus, I'm so f***ing sick of Gibbs.

Posted by: Allie at November 22, 2019 12:14 PM (sm6Pk)

336

Mark These Words of Mine:

Expect to hear the phrase "LOW-LEVEL EMPLOYEE AT FBI/DOJ" from Fake News in the next 2 weeks.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 22, 2019 12:14 PM (PUbDc)

337 Nascar needs more road courses. And no pinch hit drivers.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 22, 2019 12:14 PM (xfb67)

338 And somehow he managed to catch them while having one of the most successful 1st terms of any president in history.

Pure luck.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 12:05 PM (ZLI7S)
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I rate that as true.

Draining the Swamp is so far not measurable because of the lack of any convictions on the swamp side. However, I see Trump as making a lot of headway into exposing the swamp to the American people. And I believe that the demonstration shows itself in his numbers going up.

It's kind of like the swamp is still there, but Trump is making a lot of headway in cutting down all the swamp trees to bring sunlight in. More and more corruption comes to the surface *every single day*.

Posted by: Axeman at November 22, 2019 12:14 PM (DuZls)

339 Either way he wins.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 12:11 PM (ZLI7S)
She is sounding TERRIBLE lately. I heard a sound clip of her this a.m. It was clear she is on some serious medication. She *may* be one of the Congresscritters who is on the Congressional pharmacy list as needing Alzheimer's meds.

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:14 PM (DJFLF)

340 Anyone who says Social Justice gets the trap door

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 22, 2019 12:14 PM (25aGU)

341 So I take it that while I was doing a water change on the aquarium...

Trump demanded an impeachment trial?

Am I close?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 22, 2019 12:15 PM (cqNba)

342 Nancy Pelosi isn't suddenly going to give Mitch McConnell control of this shitshow. It'll never get to him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies

It will be interesting. She's boned either way.

Posted by: pep at November 22, 2019 12:15 PM (T6t7i)

343 So if an FBI lawyer who is close to Strozk is under investigation for falsifying a FISA application, then that can be none other than Lisa Page.

So it looks like Strzok "lover" is going to be thrown under the bus.

But if you get page then that necessarily means you get Strozk too as well as others.

We shall see.

Posted by: Huxley's Eyeglass Emporium at November 22, 2019 12:15 PM (gnCeF)

344 329 So you're saying Trump is the master of all four elements?

Posted by: Augustine

Four?
Posted by: LeeLoo at November 22, 2019 12:13 PM (T6t7i)
===

The classical ones. Water, earth, fire, and air. It's a satirical reference to Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Posted by: Augustine at November 22, 2019 12:15 PM (BDZWU)

345 Damn, Browndog.

Went back and read.

All I can add is your life is worth more than hers. She should not be the deciding factor on whether you live or die. Don't give her such powers.

It will get better.....concentrate on getting healthy and after that, you'll find happiness when you least expect it.

Posted by: Sponge at November 22, 2019 12:15 PM (Zz0t1)

346 How should Trump make picks ?

For one - more than ten years of Federal Service is a deal-breaker. Yeah - you'll miss a few good ones. You'll miss a bunch more of bad ones.

You don't drain the swamp by hiring people who live in the swamp. They're not going to fuck up their own nests.

Posted by: Lurking Libertarian at November 22, 2019 12:16 PM (fBFz0)

347 If I shaved my ass and walked on my hands, you wouldn't know the difference.

Posted by: Brett Baier's Talking Vagina at November 22, 2019 12:16 PM (H8fSa)

348 you head the joint chiefs.
let Jack Straw be the joints chief.
Posted by: x at November 22, 2019 12:09 PM (nFwvY)

I wanna be appointed The (Federal) Pompatus of Love.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 12:16 PM (2cwOe)

349

Remember who said "Low-Level Employee" first. Me.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 22, 2019 12:16 PM (PUbDc)

350 On JJs thread I posted that I do not believe that Trump had Vindman and Hill in the NSC with the plan that they would listen in on a phone call and leak it to a CIA guy who would run over to Schiff and get referred to the ICIG and then impeachment would start.

There is no way in the world that he could have predicted that it would go that way.

But I do think he is good at setting the table for the conditions of victory and as Scott Adams says setting it up so he wins regardless of outcome.

So, I DO think he forced Nancy to have the House vote for impeachment proceedings (that she didn't want to do) and then havethem do hearings in the open AND he is pushing for a real live trial in the Senate.

Posted by: blaster at November 22, 2019 12:16 PM (9VeU0)

351 344 329 So you're saying Trump is the master of all four elements?

Posted by: Augustine

Four?
Posted by: LeeLoo at November 22, 2019 12:13 PM (T6t7i)
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The classical ones. Water, earth, fire, and air. It's a satirical reference to Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Posted by: Augustine at November 22, 2019 12:15 PM (BDZWU)

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Something just flew over Augustine's head! Watch out!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:16 PM (q80AH)

352 McMaster was a huge screw up also.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2019 12:16 PM (cEsBM)

353 321
302; most boring season in history, archer. never watched one of the
last four races. it sucked. and gibbs has been named as the new
exclusive chassis builder for every car. it continues it's spiral down
the tubes. nascar is done.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 12:11 PM (KP5rU)

There are only ~~three~~ one sports:
LMGTP

Posted by: Roland THTG at November 22, 2019 12:16 PM (88+cf)

354 I'll give you a criticism of Trump. I believe he said when he took office - he assumed that those who politically disagreed with him would eventually do what they've always done with previous administrations and continue on with their job.

He failed to understand the left wing of today. He's learned that lesson now. The problem is getting rid of these people and then bringing people new loyal people in who know enough.

I'd argue we don't need a Vindman to be "knowledgeable" on the Ukraine. Trump's instincts are far more valuable, and often ... its not that complicated... especially with America First.

If Trump did "clean house" and replace people.. the Never Trumpers would be screaming of how these replacements have no experience.... so screw them.

Posted by: Reality Man at November 22, 2019 12:16 PM (xOBRH)

355 335 321 302; most boring season in history, archer. never watched one of the last four races. it sucked. and gibbs has been named as the new exclusive chassis builder for every car. it continues it's spiral down the tubes. nascar is done.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 12:11 PM (KP5rU)

Seriously?

Jeebus Creebus, I'm so f***ing sick of Gibbs.
Posted by: Allie at November 22, 2019 12:14 PM (sm6Pk)

I think it is just in RFP phase to build a standard chassis. 3 vendors have asked to bid.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 22, 2019 12:16 PM (JFO2v)

356 335; nascar is going to a common chassis, body, and engine. gibbs is rumored to be the one chosen to build the chassis. the body and engine builders haven't been chosen. there are rumors of hundreds of layoffs coming to all the nascar shops.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 12:17 PM (KP5rU)

357 Nancy Pelosi isn't suddenly going to give Mitch McConnell control of this shitshow. It'll never get to him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And when she doesn't, The Squad takes her out.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 12:17 PM (G0qhR)

358 Nancy Pelosi isn't suddenly going to give Mitch McConnell control of this shitshow. It'll never get to him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:13 PM (q80AH)

Ordinarily I'd agree with you, but she is a dangerous combo of mentally unraveling vindictiveness, combined with whatever neurological ailment she is suffering.
She may be at this very moment fashioning her own Democratic Congress majority suicide vest to take the whole shebang down with her own bad self.

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:17 PM (DJFLF)

359 She is sounding TERRIBLE lately. I heard a sound clip of her this a.m. It was clear she is on some serious medication. She *may* be one of the Congresscritters who is on the Congressional pharmacy list as needing Alzheimer's meds.

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019

*
*

Pelosi, you mean? It's a shame how these characters hang on to power long after they have the capacity to use it.

I commented in the last thread that this Fiona Hill creature (the pic atop J.J.'s Morning Report) looks like the prince in Shrek. Same basic hairstyle and jaw. You wouldn't want to see that looking at you across a restaurant table.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 22, 2019 12:17 PM (Ejm1K)

360 I detect the sarcasm in the post, but seriously, the
man is blessed with a preternatural ease of moving through life and
seeing his enemies fail.

I call him An Avatar.

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:08 PM (DJFLF)

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So you're saying Trump is the master of all four elements?

Posted by: Augustine

The Last Hairbender...

Posted by: Brother Cavil
Your ad here! 1-800-MORON-AD
at November 22, 2019 12:17 PM (Rvlwi)

361 Obviously a new term is needed to replace "court". They're not courts - if that term is to have any meaning - if they are "flipped", i.e. they are simply the equivalents of commissions like the FCC etc. with balanced "partisan" membership.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2019 12:14 PM (QDnY+)
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Very on-target. The four Dem-appointed judges on the SCOTUS vote as a bloc so much it's not funny. We can predict their vote on any culture warfront case almost right from the start.

Exactly, you can't "flip" a body of people who are just out to understand whether the law was properly applied.

Posted by: Axeman at November 22, 2019 12:17 PM (DuZls)

362 Pelosi got me so drunk last night that my neck finally failed and my head fell off.

Posted by: Adam Schitt at November 22, 2019 12:17 PM (vtcmf)

363 Pelosi and boned in one sentence.

There goes lunch

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 22, 2019 12:18 PM (25aGU)

364 357 Nancy Pelosi isn't suddenly going to give Mitch McConnell control of this shitshow. It'll never get to him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And when she doesn't, The Squad takes her out.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 12:17 PM (G0qhR)

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I don't think so.

AOC has said too many times that she's bored by impeachment.

Plus, the failure of impeachment is obviously Schiff's fault. He had total control and screwed up royally.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:18 PM (q80AH)

365 Brett Baier is originally from NJ and grew up in the DC area around Georgetown.

Boy I bet you're surprised!

Posted by: Brett Baier's Talking Vagina at November 22, 2019 12:18 PM (H8fSa)

366 Mark These Words of Mine:
Expect to hear the phrase "LOW-LEVEL EMPLOYEE AT FBI/DOJ" from Fake News in the next 2 weeks.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 22, 2019 12:14 PM (PUbDc)

"I have spoken."

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 12:18 PM (2cwOe)

367 And to have gone from that "high" to an unimaginable low within a 48 hour period...well, let's just say I didn't process things well.
Posted by: browndog

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Congrats on your achievement! As to the second part, if you don't need us to rebury any hastily disposed of bodies, you are ahead of it.

Hang in there!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2019 12:18 PM (Y4EXg)

368 Easy next time a lefty SCOTUS votes in a way that is clearly against the law, impeach them.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 22, 2019 12:19 PM (xfb67)

369 356 335; nascar is going to a common chassis, body, and engine. gibbs is rumored to be the one chosen to build the chassis. the body and engine builders haven't been chosen. there are rumors of hundreds of layoffs coming to all the nascar shops.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 12:17 PM (KP5rU)

Yeah, if the future is GIBBSCAR, then I'm out.

Posted by: Allie at November 22, 2019 12:19 PM (sm6Pk)

370 Brett Baier is originally from NJ and grew up in the DC area around Georgetown.

Boy I bet you're surprised!

Posted by: Brett Baier's Talking Vagina at November 22, 2019 12:18 PM (H8fSa)

And his college roommate and BFF is a lib talking head who's on Fox occasionally.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 22, 2019 12:19 PM (ptqGC)

371 So you're saying Trump is the master of all four elements?

Posted by: Augustine

Yes, if the four elements are PeeLousy, Skankles, Schitty and Jim Accoster.

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:19 PM (DJFLF)

372 Mattis turned out to be a real bust.

We all knew Priebus would be a shit-show going in, but Trump might have had to eat that one just to keep everything together.

Every Federal Prosecutor he didn't fire on Day One was an own goal.

Posted by: Lurking Libertarian at November 22, 2019 12:19 PM (fBFz0)

373 358 Nancy Pelosi isn't suddenly going to give Mitch McConnell control of this shitshow. It'll never get to him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:13 PM (q80AH)

Do you really think she's going to tell Adam Schiff to call the whole thing off? She would be keelhauled.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 12:20 PM (2cwOe)

374 364 I don't think so.

AOC has said too many times that she's bored by impeachment.

Plus, the failure of impeachment is obviously Schiff's fault. He had total control and screwed up royally.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:18 PM (q80AH)

Yeah, but Daddy Cenk is coming to get his Squad girls in line.

Posted by: Allie at November 22, 2019 12:20 PM (sm6Pk)

375 Low-Level Blame Dumpster. Won't even know what hit 'em. Just like you know who.

Posted by: klaftern at November 22, 2019 12:20 PM (RuIsu)

376 317 They need to relocate all these departments all over the country. That way all these deep state losers aren't getting drunk together and banging.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 22, 2019 12:11 PM (xfb67)

This is actually a good idea. Take "central" out of central government.

They're way too clannish in DC.

Posted by: Sooner at November 22, 2019 12:21 PM (Fs5vw)

377 I don't think so.

AOC has said too many times that she's bored by impeachment.

Plus, the failure of impeachment is obviously Schiff's fault. He had total control and screwed up royally.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

This is more than impeachment. This is for power.
She may be bored. But Brotherfucker and Rancid Labia want power.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 12:21 PM (MjyI6)

378 Oh c'mon I bet Pelosi is wild in the sack and would go for anything and everything. Imagine those big hanging grandma titties slapping around as she surfed you like Don Ho.

Posted by: Brett Baier's Talking Vagina at November 22, 2019 12:21 PM (H8fSa)

379 >>Brett Baier is originally from NJ and grew up in the DC area around Georgetown.

Boy I bet you're surprised!

Posted by: Brett Baier's Talking Vagina

Heh, no.
Next, you're going to tell me his wife works for some Lefty organization. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at November 22, 2019 12:21 PM (bDqIh)

380 Oy.

Chores to do. More chores to do.

Afternoon and evening chores to do after those.

Prevning chores to do as well ...

Posted by: Adriane the Art Critic ... at November 22, 2019 12:21 PM (LPnfS)

381 My favorite story about Obama spying on Trump is how Trump found out, moved his real campaign strategy team to San Antonio--and they continued to spy on him and never found that out!!

Meanwhile, Trump is working on flipping MN, WI, and MI without them knowing and the Dem spies are telling Hillary Trump is really worried he could lose AZ and GA!!!

And how did the intelligence community follow up when it was revealed they got their asses kicked?

They've spent the last three years selling their Acme rockets, anvils and dynomite to gullible Dems.

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at November 22, 2019 12:21 PM (k81AA)

382 I wanna be appointed The (Federal) Pompatus of Love.

I thought you were already The Gangster of Love.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 22, 2019 12:21 PM (fyr/6)

383 At this point I don't even know if PeeLousy has the votes to send the shittshow articles of impeachment over to Nadless.

She truly is between a rock and a hard place though, and Trump has been mindfarking her on an almost daily basis with his tweeting and public pronouncements.

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:21 PM (DJFLF)

384 340 Anyone who says Social Justice gets the trap door
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 22, 2019 12:14 PM (25aGU)

Please please moar social justice. Force women to say men need tampons. Let 17 year old girls get zero track scholarships that got to 17 year old boys with a page boy haircut. Let every time a welfare dollar handout needs to be handed out a govt employee be forced to select the most worthy race of the day. Let the teachers of last year be frog marched down the quad by the latest batch of student and be forced to beg forgiveness for their new sins.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 22, 2019 12:21 PM (JFO2v)

385 Nice picture of Ambassador Sondland

https://tinyurl.com/tpt6ca7

Posted by: wth at November 22, 2019 12:21 PM (v0R5T)

386 Nascar needs more road courses. And no pinch hit drivers.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 22, 2019 12:14 PM (xfb67)

Nascar needs to get back to its roots. No megabuck formula cars, just race actual stock cars off the dealership floors. Fit 'em with a fuel cell and a roll cage, and that's it. Street tires, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2019 12:21 PM (/sgva)

387 Yeah, if the future is GIBBSCAR, then I'm out.

Posted by: Allie at November 22, 2019 12:19 PM (sm6Pk)

Same here.
Might as well watch formula one - and I hate formula one racing.

Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2019 12:22 PM (gmo/4)

388 Yo!

Friday

Posted by: Yo! at November 22, 2019 12:22 PM (1XAal)

389 Mattis turned out to be a real bust.

As I have said many times before, you have to be very careful with former Military. They come from a different culture and reason for being. THAT does not necessarily translate to the civilian sector. Nor coming out of the Military do you really know where they stand.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2019 12:22 PM (cEsBM)

390 Either way he wins.

I was less sanguine about this than you because it would add "he's been impeached" to the narrative, and the new list would be Johnson, Nixon, Cinton, Trump.

But if this is a carefully baited trap and he knows how to spring it it could be worth the reputation damage, because he's not getting a fair shot at a reputation in the first place.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, camp fire pics welcome at link in nic at November 22, 2019 12:22 PM (wzVKm)

391 You just haven't lived until you've done jello shots off of Nan's ass.

Posted by: Adam Schitt at November 22, 2019 12:22 PM (vtcmf)

392 These shitbags are too far in to call any of this off.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 22, 2019 12:22 PM (38Q1R)

393 369: as am i allie. i spend my money on nhra now. i enjoy it more. i have followed nascar since i was eight years old. i refuse to watch that shitshow. i used to go to five races every year. no more. nhra gets my money now.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 12:22 PM (KP5rU)

394 'their complaint that "Trump's supporters never criticize him."'

Well, some people around here do get a bit aroused by criticism of DJT. I guess my biggest two complaints would be that the borders aren't secure yet, and that the wild spending, debt-accumulation, QE and ZIRP are still going full blast.

I know that these things are not entirely under his control, and that there are severe limits to what any president can do.

I'm especially grateful for his evident love of America, his fearlessness in speaking his mind (which we all can learn from,) his general conservatism, and our strong labor market. He really has justified my 2016 vote for him, and I will vote for him in 2020, even if he's impeached (which is very very unlikely IMHO.)

Posted by: gp, Decaffeinated By Popular Demand at November 22, 2019 12:22 PM (mk9aG)

395 Well it is coming up on Friday afternoon and I got no NASCAR.

no practice
no qualifying
no race weekend

roughly 86 days and 2 hours to Daytona!
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 22, 2019 12:07 PM (JFO2v)
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I loved NASCAR from about '95 to whenever The Chase started. My son was a toddler and had trouble falling asleep, was flipping channels one November night, stopped on a race and he stopped in his tracks and started naming off all the cars - McDonalds car! Chicken car! etc etc then he'd watch for awhile and fall asleep, meanwhile 3 hours later...

Became a nightly ritual since ESPN was rerunning the whole season and I got hooked. First race we saw was Ward Burton's first win at Rockingham. Guy needed subtitles, he was great.

Posted by: jhawk90 at November 22, 2019 12:22 PM (Xvo1a)

396 373 Nancy Pelosi isn't suddenly going to give Mitch McConnell control of this shitshow. It'll never get to him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:13 PM (q80AH)

Do you really think she's going to tell Adam Schiff to call the whole thing off? She would be keelhauled.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 12:20 PM (2cwOe)

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Without Republican buy in in the form of a single vote, she's got cover. With knowledge that the Senate won't convict, she's got cover. With the primary schedule actually starting to record votes, she's got cover.

In today's speed cycle of news, impeachment will largely be forgotten in a few weeks, replaced by the newest awful thing Trump tweeted about while he was taking a dump.

Any retributions against Nancy in the party will be first deflected towards Schiff and then depend on how the primary and general election go.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:22 PM (q80AH)

397 She truly is between a rock and a hard place though,
and Trump has been mindfarking her on an almost daily basis with his
tweeting and public pronouncements.

Posted by: kallisto

He's poking her with a stick to make her make a mistake: impeachment in this case.

Posted by: pep at November 22, 2019 12:23 PM (T6t7i)

398 nascar is going to a common chassis, body, and engine. gibbs is rumored
to be the one chosen to build the chassis. the body and engine builders
haven't been chosen. there are rumors of hundreds of layoffs coming to
all the nascar shops.

Sheesh, they're going back to the One Body/Chassis To Rule Them All again, eh?

NASCAR lost two nearly-rabid fans a couple of years ago when Carl Edwards and Junior left the sport. We haven't watched a race since. And with their wussing out and caving to SJW imbecile demands, we don't plan on watching any ever again. They can go pound sand for all I care.

I'm going back to watching drag racing. And I ain't talking that RuPaul fairy bullshit either.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 12:23 PM (HaL55)

399 "it is now clear that the president's biggest failure has been the horrifically bad job he's done with personnel."

So, when Trump was in business, did he have to clear every hire with an HR department who were also sabotaging him?

Because that's precisely the situation with the coup running FBI doing background checks and clearances. There were even stories about it early on, about how many "shady Trump appointees" couldn't pass the checks.

Anyone who doesn't recognize that FACT is helping the NeverTrumpers. Take a bow, OregonMuse.

Posted by: SDN at November 22, 2019 12:23 PM (ktRAH)

400 I'm waiting for the day the constant winning by Trump becomes so unbearable one of these CNN losers Budd Dwyer's themself during a broadcast.

Posted by: Nevyan at November 22, 2019 12:23 PM (a7HML)

401 You don't drain the swamp by hiring people who live in the swamp.

Don't even drain the swamp. Just move offices elsewhere. For instance, you could make me the Director of Not Paying Ethanol Subsidies. I can do that from home, and I don't even need a staff or a salary.

Posted by: t-bird at November 22, 2019 12:23 PM (g7ulT)

402 My Trump criticism (short list) -

- He should have directed Sessions to go balls deep on 'civil rights violations under color of law' start low with skeevy small town deputies.

- Hire the entire TOE of the 75th Ranger Bn as US Marshalls.

- Roger Stone every fucking progtard deep stater.
/this time with moar flashbang!

Posted by: Burnt Toast at November 22, 2019 12:23 PM (1g7ch)

403
Next week's talking points: the evidence is damning against Trump but the investigation was handled badly by Schiff. Turn it over to Judiciary.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2019 12:23 PM (xsDSR)

404 Just struck me why the left and media is being so mean and vindictive....

to discourage any other patriotic American, non-political creature, from running for high office. Who would want to go through what President Trump and his family has gone through? Who could? Good patriotic men have got to step up and follow in his footsteps. This truly is war and it is being fought in the 3 branches of government.

Sorry, ladies (I'm one of you) but it has to be men. IMHO

Posted by: overit at November 22, 2019 12:23 PM (sI15f)

405 Yeah, if the future is GIBBSCAR, then I'm out.

Is IROC still a thing?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 22, 2019 12:23 PM (fyr/6)

406 I want to be Admiral of the oceans.

Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2019 12:23 PM (gmo/4)

407 Imagine those big hanging grandma titties slapping around as she surfed you like Don Ho.

https://tinyurl.com/cloxzbb

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:24 PM (DJFLF)

408 Do you really think she's going to tell Adam Schiff to call the whole thing off? She would be keelhauled.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 12:20 PM (2cwOe)

She'll keep delaying the vote because they've found new bombshell information that they've been given.

Posted by: Sooner at November 22, 2019 12:24 PM (Fs5vw)

409 383 At this point I don't even know if PeeLousy has the votes to send the shittshow articles of impeachment over to Nadless.

She truly is between a rock and a hard place though, and Trump has been mindfarking her on an almost daily basis with his tweeting and public pronouncements.
Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:21 PM (DJFLF)

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If Nancy wants it, she'll make it happen. She's got too much say over campaign dollars to not get her way.

But that's a smaller hurdle than a floor vote on articles, which she may not be able to pull off if she even wants it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:24 PM (q80AH)

410 Will fuck for a pardon

Posted by: Lisa P. at November 22, 2019 12:24 PM (1XAal)

411 The four Dem-appointed judges on the SCOTUS vote as a bloc so much it's not funny. We can predict their vote on any culture warfront case almost right from the start.

Exactly, you can't "flip" a body of people who are just out to understand whether the law was properly applied.
Posted by: Axeman at November 22, 2019 12:17 PM (DuZls)

We're just living by the rules that the progs insisted on having.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 12:24 PM (2cwOe)

412 Trump could have a hiting call here at AoSHQ and find someone competent for every position open. No homo.

I'd make a great Secretary of Agriculture. I know more jokes than Earl Butz.

Plus I actually farmed for 26 years.

I want to be press secretary.

I read newspapers and I hate the press.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 22, 2019 12:24 PM (Ki5SV)

413 390 Either way he wins.

I was less sanguine about this than you because it would add "he's been impeached" to the narrative, and the new list would be Johnson, Nixon, Cinton, Trump.

But if this is a carefully baited trap and he knows how to spring it it could be worth the reputation damage, because he's not getting a fair shot at a reputation in the first place.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, camp fire pics welcome at link in nic at November 22, 2019 12:22 PM (wzVKm)

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Ahem...Nixon wasn't impeached.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:25 PM (q80AH)

414 Nixon wasn't impeached; he resigned before it happened.

Posted by: Captain Hate at November 22, 2019 12:25 PM (y7DUB)

415 407 Imagine those big hanging grandma titties slapping around as she surfed you like Don Ho.

https://tinyurl.com/cloxzbb
Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:24 PM (DJFLF)

Riiiight.

With that quote someone is going to click.

No way Jose.

Posted by: blaster at November 22, 2019 12:25 PM (9VeU0)

416 A nice rule of thumb for Trump's 2nd term purge would be "are you in the call logs or email records for Brennen or Clapper or Comey? If yes, then you're fired. Also, if you are in the call logs of any of the people fired for proximity to Brennan/Clapper/Comey, you're fired too.

Posted by: Downcast at November 22, 2019 12:25 PM (m/Zsb)

417 "I have spoken."
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 12:18 PM (2cwOe)

****

Rides off on funny looking reptile-like thing.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 22, 2019 12:25 PM (LCzNi)

418 I hate to say it, but it sounds as though someone has gotten to the IG and convinced him that the country just couldn't handle finding out their CIA, FBI and DOJ chiefs conspired to oust the sitting president in a soft coup.

So now, the "low level employee" gets burnt while the real criminals go free.

If this is the case, we need to march on the capital.

Posted by: jwest at November 22, 2019 12:26 PM (U6f/q)

419 >>> while dating his brother's widow???

Dating?

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Posted by: Vic's Dad at November 22, 2019 12:26 PM (1g7ch)

420 Now the Whores in the MFM are asking PDT why don't you fire the Whistleblower

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 22, 2019 12:26 PM (BqBId)

421 My biggest criticism with Trump was also my biggest concern before he won. Spending. It will end one of two ways: we stop voluntarily or we simply run out of money, fire up the printing presses, and the US dollar's value evaporates.

Posted by: windbag at November 22, 2019 12:26 PM (UdxnN)

422 Thanksgiving next week

Posted by: Yo! at November 22, 2019 12:26 PM (1XAal)

423 Posted by: Vic's Dad at November 22, 2019 12:26 PM (1g7ch)
******
Schtupping

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at November 22, 2019 12:27 PM (BqBId)

424 Search 'playboy magazine granny cartoon'

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 22, 2019 12:27 PM (cqNba)

425 So, when Trump was in business, did he have to clear every hire with an HR department who were also sabotaging him?

He better have approved every single hire of every single person one level under him in the chain-of-command. His direct reports, if you will.

Trump picked direct reports in this administration that worked against him from Day One. Look - he wasn't perfect. He fucked up multiple times on this. Hopefully he's learning.

Posted by: Lurking Libertarian at November 22, 2019 12:27 PM (fBFz0)

426 >>But if this is a carefully baited trap and he knows how to spring it it could be worth the reputation damage, because he's not getting a fair shot at a reputation in the first place.

As it stands right now there is zero Republican support for impeachment. If Nancy pulls the trigger and forces her people to vote for impeachment not only will it fail spectacularly in the Senate with a lot of Democrat dirty laundry being aired it will be seen for what it is, a purely political hit job.

His reputation will come out stronger.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 12:27 PM (ZLI7S)

427
She'll keep delaying the vote because they've found new bombshell information that they've been given.
Posted by: Sooner at November 22, 2019 12:24 PM (Fs5vw)

ISWYDT

Posted by: Huber at November 22, 2019 12:27 PM (9VeU0)

428 Now the Whores in the MFM are asking PDT why don't you fire the Whistleblower

He should answer back 'Eric Cinnamin is currently protected by statute'.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 22, 2019 12:28 PM (09tFn)

429 No way Jose.

Posted by: blaster at November 22, 2019 12:25 PM (9VeU0)
Yes, I appreciate your reluctance to access a tinyurl posted by a moron or even an 'ette, these days. However be assured I have an *exemplary* record of posting germane and relevant posts on this here smart military blog, none of which included Yoko Ono.>>
Ok I fibbed a little bit. I did post an erotic drawing of Yoko that Lennon did of her. But today's link isn't it!!

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:28 PM (DJFLF)

430 FWD stock cars would be a game changer. On tires designed to last 80k miles, maybe?. Little tiny Toyotas and such. The kids would love it. Not kidding.

Posted by: klaftern at November 22, 2019 12:28 PM (RuIsu)

431 As it stands right now there is zero Republican support for impeachment. If Nancy pulls the trigger and forces her people to vote for impeachment not only will it fail spectacularly in the Senate with a lot of Democrat dirty laundry being aired it will be seen for what it is, a purely political hit job.

His reputation will come out stronger.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 12:27 PM (ZLI7S)

yes I agree 100%

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 22, 2019 12:28 PM (cEsBM)

432 Martha Hyer?

Posted by: abbynormal at November 22, 2019 12:28 PM (I849g)

433 Good afternoon, Horde.

Posted by: Ladyl at November 22, 2019 12:28 PM (TdMsT)

434 nascar is going to a common chassis, body, and engine. gibbs is rumored to be the one chosen to build the chassis. the body and engine builders haven't been chosen. there are rumors of hundreds of layoffs coming to all the nascar shops.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 12:17 PM (KP5rU)

Nascar is dead "sport" walking.

If that's what they're doing, they're going to turn the entire series into IROC, which died for a reason.

I don't know how you fix it, but as a previous season ticket holder at TMS for 18 years, I don't think they'll get me back with any of what they're doing.

Posted by: Sponge at November 22, 2019 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

435 Heya Ladyl.

Posted by: SMH at November 22, 2019 12:29 PM (RU4sa)

436 @418

But the "low-level" employee appears to be Lisa Page, there is no way she is going to take the fall for the lot of them.

If one gets bagged, they all get bagged and they fall like traitorous Dominoes.

Posted by: Huxley's Eyeglass Emporium at November 22, 2019 12:29 PM (gnCeF)

437 not only will it fail spectacularly in the Senate with a lot of
Democrat dirty laundry being aired it will be seen for what it is, a
purely political hit job.

I could see Sinema and Manchin voting against removal.

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:29 PM (DJFLF)

438 382 I wanna be appointed The (Federal) Pompatus of Love.

I thought you were already The Gangster of Love.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 22, 2019

*
*

I'm known far and wide as Maurice.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 22, 2019 12:29 PM (Ejm1K)

439 I want NASCAR to go back to teams race a stock car. Yeah. I'm old. Fight me.

Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2019 12:29 PM (gmo/4)

440 Nascar needs to get back to its roots. No megabuck formula cars, just race actual stock cars off the dealership floors. Fit 'em with a fuel cell and a roll cage, and that's it. Street tires, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2019 12:21 PM (/sgva

That's what I would watch. Go back to the glory days of Richard Petty.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2019 12:29 PM (Kpl3J)

441 Ok I fibbed a little bit. I did post an erotic drawing of Yoko that Lennon did of her. But today's link isn't it!!
Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:28 PM (DJFLF)

So to clarify, Lucy, you will absolutely NOT pull away the football this time?

Posted by: blaster at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (9VeU0)

442 "What he, and most of us, seem to have underestimated was the degree of degradation in ethics, professionalism, and patriotism - and practical intelligence - among the federal workforce, and the Beltway generally. And that was with a very harshly negative assessment."

Naively, I also underestimated that likely the vast majority of the federal workforce (and probably most of the state and municipal workforces) is partisan Democrats, or at best neverTrump type moderates and Republicans.

Posted by: RM at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (U3LtS)

443 Oh shit. I just figured out the dealio with the "whistleblower" -- the reason the dems are trying to keeping him as a shadowy figure.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (LWu6U)

444 358 Nancy Pelosi isn't suddenly going to give Mitch McConnell control of this shitshow. It'll never get to him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:13 PM (q80AH)

never underestimate Nancy's ability to overestimate the country's support for her policies

Posted by: REDACTED at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (rpxSz)

445 433 Good afternoon, Horde.
Posted by: Ladyl at November 22, 2019 12:28 PM (TdMsT)

How YOU doin'?

*ducks incoming serve*

HEY!

Posted by: Insomniac at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (NWiLs)

446 I don't see how Nancy could hold an impeachment vote without the votes.

That's the way they vote in Washington. I don't think that's what the framers intended, but that's the way they seem to vote. They don't hold a vote until the side in control has the votes to win--or lose on something they only want to appear to be for, like Pubbies.

I think Nancy thinks she's backed into a corner, and right now she might be thinking the only way for her to be continued as speaker is *if* the Dems win back the house and *if* she keeps her party happy by letting the kids play Impeachment. She probably has some idea that the House may be lost, so it doesn't matter one way or the other. Might as well throw the Hail Mary.

Posted by: Axeman at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (DuZls)

447 Bullshit! Pelosi will get her vote on the floor and this shitshow moves to the Senate. Duh!

Posted by: Max Prophet at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (RZeKZ)

448 Pelosi still controls the caucus. If she wants the vote to fail it will. That way the circus came to town and left in the dead of night.

They got their propaganda session.

Posted by: Brett Baier's Talking Vagina at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (H8fSa)

449 I just figured out the dealio with the "whistleblower" -- the reason the dems are trying to keeping him as a shadowy figure.

Go on...

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (09tFn)

450 >>I could see Sinema and Manchin voting against removal.

#MeToo

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (ZLI7S)

451 Where's garrett?

Posted by: overit at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (sI15f)

452 398: backwards boy, made the switch to drag racing ten years ago. have met and talked to all the pro drivers. every one of them traets you like an old friend. every one of them thanks you for coming to the show.plus it's about 1/4 the cost of attending a nascar shitshow.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (KP5rU)

453 437 not only will it fail spectacularly in the Senate with a lot of
Democrat dirty laundry being aired it will be seen for what it is, a
purely political hit job.

I could see Sinema and Manchin voting against removal.
Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:29 PM (DJFLF)

==========

And that's right now after only Democrats have presented witnesses in very favorable circumstances, heavily limiting what Republicans can bring up.

Imagine what it'll be like when Mitch controls who gets called as witnesses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (q80AH)

454 Anyway I stopped listening to NASCAR radio on Sirius about four/five years ago. For whatever reason, the activity has lost its draw power.

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (DJFLF)

455 Ahem...Nixon wasn't impeached.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:25 PM (q80AH)

414 Nixon wasn't impeached; he resigned before it happened.

Good god I knew you nit-picky nit-pickers would do that.

Everyone who knows anything knows that Nixon wasn't formally impeached but he's still on The List.

It's as if this place were full of rabid little factoid maniacs.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 22, 2019 12:31 PM (wzVKm)

456 424 Search 'playboy magazine granny cartoon'

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 22, 2019 12:27 PM (cqNba)

I remember those. Hard pass.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 12:31 PM (2cwOe)

457 451 Where's garrett?
Posted by: overit at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (sI15f)

Getting a mission from Major Monogram.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 22, 2019 12:31 PM (NWiLs)

458 It's as if this place were full of rabid little factoid maniacs.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 22, 2019 12:31 PM (wzVKm)

Factoid is not actually a word.

Posted by: blaster at November 22, 2019 12:32 PM (9VeU0)

459 So to clarify, Lucy, you will absolutely NOT pull away the football this time?

Posted by: blaster at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (9VeU0)
Only one way to find out!

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:32 PM (DJFLF)

460 RE : NASCAR, I do find it humorous that Carlos Slim's handpicked driver got fired from his second ride in consecutive years.

Posted by: Allie at November 22, 2019 12:32 PM (sm6Pk)

461 Getting a mission from Major Monogram.

Saigon. He's still in Saigon ...

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 22, 2019 12:32 PM (09tFn)

462 >>Where's garrett?

Probably tending his sheep. He's a shepherd.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 12:32 PM (ZLI7S)

463 Nixon wasn't impeached; he resigned before it happened.
Posted by: Captain Hate

Minor nit.

He resigned precisely because it WAS going to happen.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 12:33 PM (GjTLE)

464 445 433 Good afternoon, Horde.
Posted by: Ladyl at November 22, 2019 12:28 PM (TdMsT)

How YOU doin'?

*ducks incoming serve*

HEY!
Posted by: Insomniac at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (NWiLs)

Yeah--I had an ace yesterday. It's been a while...

Posted by: Ladyl at November 22, 2019 12:33 PM (TdMsT)

465 Getting a mission from Major Monogram.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 22, 2019 12:31 PM (NWiLs)
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LOL.

Posted by: Axeman at November 22, 2019 12:33 PM (DuZls)

466 I could see Sinema and Manchin voting against removal.
Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:29 PM (DJFLF)

On the other hand, from what I read on Twitter, that ambulatory turd Justin Amash has already signaled he'll vote YES on impeachment no matter what the charges actually are.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 12:33 PM (2cwOe)

467 And that's right now after only Democrats have presented witnesses in very favorable circumstances, heavily limiting what Republicans can bring up.

Imagine what it'll be like when Mitch controls who gets called as witnesses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (q80AH)

I think Trump and his team intend to basically blow the entire DeepState/DNC/GOPe/MSM scam racket sky-high.

That's why they're almost begging for a Senate trial.

"Please, Bre'r Shifty, don't throw me into the Impeachment Patch!"

Posted by: filbert at November 22, 2019 12:33 PM (NiXyF)

468 OK, so right from the start it appeared that the dems were trying to follow the watergate playbook. In that case, Nixon was impeached for essentially doing exactly what past dems had done. THe problem is that it was illegal. That meant there was a cover up. Throw in some bad luck, a bad war, and a bad economy and the impeachment worked.

In fact, it worked so well that the Repubs - who were sitting pretty when N got elected - were in the outs for ... well until the idiot nut farmer reminded the world what dems are all about.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at November 22, 2019 12:33 PM (LWu6U)

469 Hell its only for 10:00 here. I'm just getting started

Posted by: Brett Baier's Talking Vagina at November 22, 2019 12:33 PM (H8fSa)

470 It's as if this place were full of rabid little factoid maniacs.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 22, 2019 12:31 PM (wzVKm)

Some of us own mirrors.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet says Flatulus Toxicus is The Silent Killer! at November 22, 2019 12:33 PM (hLRSq)

471 If they vote and the dems are obviously throwing it, do the repubs vote for it?

Posted by: Roland THTG at November 22, 2019 12:33 PM (88+cf)

472 Nascar is dead "sport" walking.

If that's what they're doing, they're going to turn the entire series into IROC, which died for a reason.

I don't know how you fix it, but as a previous season ticket holder
at TMS for 18 years, I don't think they'll get me back with any of what
they're doing.
Posted by: Sponge at November 22, 2019 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

NASCAR started dying when they went to the adjustable track bar and radial tires.

Bias-ply tires weren't consistent from set to set, which introduced variability, which increased passing. The adjustable track bar makes cars capable of more consistency over varying track temps - which reduces variability and reduces passing. And increasing aero has screwed the series with the dreaded aero-push.

Common bodies, chassis, and engines will only make it worse. They need to run a narrower tire. Not harder - narrower. Don't believe me - believe David Pearson.

Posted by: Lurking Libertarian at November 22, 2019 12:34 PM (fBFz0)

473 446 I don't see how Nancy could hold an impeachment vote without the votes.

Posted by: Axeman at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (DuZls)

If she wants to throw Schiff-Head under the bus, she can.

Posted by: Allie at November 22, 2019 12:34 PM (sm6Pk)

474 Darling Insom.

How are YOU?

Posted by: Ladyl at November 22, 2019 12:34 PM (TdMsT)

475 466 I could see Sinema and Manchin voting against removal.
Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:29 PM (DJFLF)

On the other hand, from what I read on Twitter, that ambulatory turd Justin Amash has already signaled he'll vote YES on impeachment no matter what the charges actually are.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 12:33 PM (2cwOe)

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Well, he's effectively a Democrat anyway. I mean, he's certainly not a Republican.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:34 PM (q80AH)

476 460: allie, that's because he can't compete at that level.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 12:34 PM (KP5rU)

477 nascar is going to a common chassis, body, and engine. gibbs is rumored to be the one chosen to build the chassis.

With everybody paying a 'luxury tax' if they want more horsepower? This fascination with parity in sports does not come from the fans.

Posted by: t-bird at November 22, 2019 12:34 PM (CMq2e)

478 Posted by: OregonMuse

OM, who was the Who Dis lady?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 12:34 PM (GjTLE)

479 The kids call it tending sheep now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 22, 2019 12:34 PM (38Q1R)

480 For you NHRA fans what are the current ETs for double A fuelers? Likewise the street legal supercharged hemi Dodge Challengers? I assume they're at the top of the heap for "stock" cars but it's been a long time since I've paid attention.

Posted by: Captain Hate at November 22, 2019 12:34 PM (y7DUB)

481 Where's garrett?

Probably tending his sheep. He's a shepherd.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 12:32 PM (ZLI7S)

where's saf?

Posted by: BignJames at November 22, 2019 12:34 PM (X/Pw5)

482 The shitbirds are making a shitshow, Randy.

Posted by: Mr. Lahey at November 22, 2019 12:35 PM (RZeKZ)

483 I think Trump and his team intend to basically blow the entire DeepState/DNC/GOPe/MSM scam racket sky-high.

That's why they're almost begging for a Senate trial.
They're absolutely wargaming this out. I heard a radio report that White House Counsel met with key Senators on Justice Cmte, and the result was that they decided they want a long complete trial.

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:35 PM (DJFLF)

484 I think Trump and his team intend to basically blow the entire DeepState/DNC/GOPe/MSM scam racket sky-high.

That's why they're almost begging for a Senate trial.

"Please, Bre'r Shifty, don't throw me into the Impeachment Patch!"
Posted by: filbert at November 22, 2019 12:33 PM (NiXyF)

That's been my thinking from the start. He's not willing to settle for a few scalps from disposable mid-level flunkies.

He wants the big fish, and all of them.

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at November 22, 2019 12:35 PM (J+mig)

485
Saigon. He's still in Saigon ...
Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 22, 2019

*
*

When I got home
I stayed alone
And checked behind each door.

Posted by: Charlie Daniels at November 22, 2019 12:35 PM (Ejm1K)

486 483 They're absolutely wargaming this out. I heard a radio report that White House Counsel met with key Senators on Justice Cmte, and the result was that they decided they want a long complete trial.
Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:35 PM (DJFLF)

=========

Good thing Democrats don't have access to news sources and have no idea what could happen if it ever reached the Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:36 PM (q80AH)

487 Yeah--I had an ace yesterday. It's been a while...
Posted by: Ladyl at November 22, 2019 12:33 PM (TdMsT)

What a coincidence! I had a Schiff this morning!

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2019 12:36 PM (Kpl3J)

488 I've deleted Drudge from my constant reads. What the fuck happened, did PDT kick his dog or something? There's an entire page of negative stuff about the impeachment for PDT and not one mention of the FBI agent altering the FISA request, nothing about it at all. Wtf? Has he gone totally nevertrump?

Posted by: docweasel at November 22, 2019 12:36 PM (n1wu/)

489 Oh I saw an amazing interview with Nancy this morning.

NP: This is a totally bipartisan impeachment process.

Reporter: But it has no Republican support.

NP: Well it would have Republican support if the Republicans were honest and looked at the facts honestly. It's totally bipartisan.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 22, 2019 12:36 PM (wzVKm)

490 Nood

Posted by: Linn Ridge at November 22, 2019 12:36 PM (ECrgQ)

491 450 >>I could see Sinema and Manchin voting against removal.

#MeToo
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 12:30 PM (ZLI7S)
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Imagine what damage would be done if they came out preemptively and said they were very very skeptical of impeachment and that it really should be left to the voters.

The prospect of it going down in the Senate on a bi-partisan basis would make Nancy stop the process in it's tracks.

Posted by: WisRich at November 22, 2019 12:37 PM (G0vdT)

492 487 Yeah--I had an ace yesterday. It's been a while...
Posted by: Ladyl at November 22, 2019 12:33 PM (TdMsT)

What a coincidence! I had a Schiff this morning!
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2019 12:36 PM (Kpl3J)

I can't stop laughing.

Posted by: Ladyl at November 22, 2019 12:37 PM (TdMsT)

493 480: aa fuelers run 3.6-3.7 seconds in 1000 ft. the challengers run in the nines in the 1/4.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 12:37 PM (KP5rU)

494 484
He wants the big fish, and all of them.
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at November 22, 2019 12:35 PM (J+mig)

===========

Star Trek fan fiction:

Kirk: "You've read some of our history?"
Klingon Captain: "I have captain. I must admit, that your race is puny and small, but I did find one example of a great man."
Kirk: "And who would that be?"
Klingon Captain: "One of your Earth leaders. A man named Trump. His vengeance upon those who wronged him would fit well within our own history."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:37 PM (q80AH)

495 I say Nancy tanks the vote to keep it out of the Senate.

Posted by: Roland THTG at November 22, 2019 12:37 PM (88+cf)

496 Famed lardass Michael Moore is now saying he's the mainstream of the Democrat Party.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at November 22, 2019 12:37 PM (QsyhO)

497 474 Darling Insom.

How are YOU?
Posted by: Ladyl at November 22, 2019 12:34 PM (TdMsT)

Cliff's Notes version, discouraged by the cycle of hopes raised/hopes dashed on the work front and seriously thinking about spending the afternoon daydrinking.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 22, 2019 12:37 PM (NWiLs)

498 489 Oh I saw an amazing interview with Nancy this morning.

NP: This is a totally bipartisan impeachment process.

Reporter: But it has no Republican support.

NP: Well it would have Republican support if the Republicans were honest and looked at the facts honestly. It's totally bipartisan.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 22, 2019 12:36 PM (wzVKm)
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Oh man, no wonder Trump is winning on this.

Posted by: WisRich at November 22, 2019 12:37 PM (G0vdT)

499 488 I've deleted Drudge from my constant reads. What the fuck happened, did PDT kick his dog or something? There's an entire page of negative stuff about the impeachment for PDT and not one mention of the FBI agent altering the FISA request, nothing about it at all. Wtf? Has he gone totally nevertrump?
Posted by: docweasel at November 22, 2019 12:36 PM (n1wu/)

Someone said the other day that he sold the site to some company based out of China.

Posted by: Allie at November 22, 2019 12:38 PM (sm6Pk)

500 Good thing Democrats don't have access to news sources and have no idea what could happen if it ever reached the Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:36 PM (q80AH)
TJM, their plan was to move enough Republicans in both Houses with their Super Duper ShiftShow of smoke and flashbang sound effects. It hasn't worked.
We even have a PA State Senator who has switched party to Republican from Democrat as a result of this nonsense. The man obviously has his ear to the ground. This is not an omen of a party in ascendancy.

Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:38 PM (DJFLF)

501 480: aa fuelers run 3.6-3.7 seconds in 1000 ft. the challengers run in the nines in the 1/4.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 12:37 PM (KP5rU)

I know nothing about drag racing - other than it's really cool to watch with a cold beer in hand.

Posted by: Lurking Libertarian at November 22, 2019 12:38 PM (fBFz0)

502 Good thing Democrats don't have access to news sources and have no idea what could happen if it ever reached the Senate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at November 22, 2019 12:36 PM (q80AH)

Wile E. Coyote never realizes he's run off of a cliff until he's about 10 feet past the edge standing on thin air.

It isn't the fall that gets you, it's the sudden stop.

Posted by: filbert at November 22, 2019 12:38 PM (NiXyF)

503 Watergate succeeded for the dems on a few pivotal points. First the bad state of the union, but also that Nixon was a very suspicious character. Also the damn 18 minutes of missing tape - that was a very big deal at the time and although meaningless as proof it convinced a lot of people that guilt was possible.

But the main reason Watergate succeeded for the dems is that the public never knew that "deep throat" was really a disgruntled asshole deep state operative who was pissed for being passed over in Nixons attempt to clean up - or at least neutralize - that one department.

Had the world known who deep throat was, I am convinced the impeachment would have failed. I think most of DC understands this as well (for those who even know any of the history and who are not partisan hacks - so no one.)

The reason they wanted the "whistleblower" as a secret is that they wanted him to be the deep throat in their farcical revival of watergate.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at November 22, 2019 12:39 PM (LWu6U)

504 I could see Sinema and Manchin voting against removal.
Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2019 12:29 PM (DJFLF)

More than that

Tester
Jones
the dickwad from PA
The ugly woman from Michigan

Posted by: REDACTED at November 22, 2019 12:39 PM (rpxSz)

505 Posted by: Insomniac at November 22, 2019 12:37 PM (NWiLs)

He left out that he was dancing to ABBA. Had us all worried.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at November 22, 2019 12:39 PM (ECrgQ)

506 backwards boy, made the switch to drag racing ten years ago. have met
and talked to all the pro drivers. every one of them traets you like an
old friend. every one of them thanks you for coming to the show.plus
it's about 1/4 the cost of attending a nascar shitshow.

*fistbump* Hugo. They had John Force on the telly last weekend. That guy's a hoot and a holler. I knew he was getting up there in years, but he said he was 70.

NASCAR has turned into a cheap Chinese knock-off of a sport that nowadays looks like it was drawn up by a bunch of kollidge perfessers who couldn't even change a flat tire. The drivers are allowed to have no personality to speak of and always say the same Foxworthy-esque script that thanks the sponsors and team owners and nothing else.
I've said before, they pushed hard to make the sport "accessible" to non-racing fans and wound up driving the real fans away. They should've just left it alone to grow organically at its own pace, but nooooo...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy does whatever his television tells him at November 22, 2019 12:39 PM (HaL55)

507 >>I've deleted Drudge from my constant reads. What the fuck happened, did
PDT kick his dog or something? There's an entire page of negative stuff
about the impeachment for PDT and not one mention of the FBI agent
altering the FISA request, nothing about it at all. Wtf? Has he gone
totally nevertrump?

Went into business with Google ad company.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 22, 2019 12:39 PM (bDqIh)

508 I think Trump and his team intend to basically blow the entire DeepState/DNC/GOPe/MSM scam racket sky-high.

That's why they're almost begging for a Senate trial.

"Please, Bre'r Shifty, don't throw me into the Impeachment Patch!"
Posted by: filbert at November 22, 2019 12:33 PM (NiXyF)
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I'm of two minds on a Senate trial.

I'd love to see the Senate turn down a removal process. Saying that the House can decide to Impeach as it pleases and the Senate can remove as it pleases. The location of the Impeachment power in the House was a limitation of the Senate's power to remove --why would that then create an onus to try not to continue with the elected president? Tell me that was a worry of the founders? That the Senate would just "abuse their powers" by letting the President continue as President.

But I'd also like to see a thorough flaying of this whole mess to the bone in an extended Senate trial, and ridicules the Democrats for their premise of Impeachment.

Posted by: Axeman at November 22, 2019 12:40 PM (DuZls)

509 That's what I would watch. Go back to the glory days of Richard Petty.

Or go back to the Glory Days of figure-eight racing. Ovals are boring.

Posted by: t-bird at November 22, 2019 12:40 PM (Zo1XC)

510 506; bb, i have met john force many times. that's who he is. he never changes.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 12:41 PM (KP5rU)

511 ...and hilarity ensued! E. Warren tried to spread promises of great wampum to come at a speech in Atlanta, but the crowd was having none of it. Zero.

They objected en masses to her stand on school choice, where Donald Trump has her beat, and also protest her close relations with the teachers union. Ayanna Pressley had to come in and translate her mumbling to the audience, and calm everyone down long enough for Chief Bullshit to stammer out her pandering.

https://tinyurl.com/rl2eupv

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 22, 2019 12:41 PM (NVYyb)

512 Nixon wasn't impeached; he resigned before it happened.
Posted by: Captain Hate

Minor nit.

He resigned precisely because it WAS going to happen.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 12:33 PM (GjTLE)

I don't care. The unfree press hates to even acknowledge that Slick was impeached, so if they included Tricky Dick in that list I'd shove it straight up their pansy asses. Because fuck them.

Posted by: Captain Hate at November 22, 2019 12:41 PM (y7DUB)

513 Nixon regretted resigning for the rest of his life.

IMHO It was a big mistake. I would have let the whole thing play out an defended myself along the way.

Posted by: Brett Baier's Talking Vagina at November 22, 2019 12:42 PM (H8fSa)

514 kallisto, I heard a theory that PDT is producing a reality show (h/t Michael Berry). My opinion is that Season One was the election, with the finale being Election Night. Season Two was the first 2 years, with the finale being Kavanaugh's confirmation. We're in Season Three right now, which ends in the Senate trial, where PDT blows the lid off the massive corruption scheme that is the Democratic Party. Season Four starts with the reelection and ends with the China deal. Who knows what's in store for Season Five.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 22, 2019 12:42 PM (kS9p6)

515 66 55 Erin Gray at the beginning of Buck Rogers episodes. Very tight space girl uniform. Walking with caution.
Posted by: bill in arkansas at November 22, 2019 11:27 AM (C1Lsn)

Princess Ardala. Daughter of evil overlord non-existent costume. Doing everything very carefully.

Was that costume done by Bob Mackie, who undressed Cher for her show?

Posted by: Some moke in Queens. at November 22, 2019 12:43 PM (iWpLo)

516 498 489 Oh I saw an amazing interview with Nancy this morning.

NP: This is a totally bipartisan impeachment process.

Reporter: But it has no Republican support.

NP: Well it would have Republican support if the Republicans were honest and looked at the facts honestly. It's totally bipartisan.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 22, 2019 12:36 PM (wzVKm)
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Napoleon: We totally conquered Russia.

French reporter: But Emperor, you were driven back to France & lost 500,000 soldiers

Napoleon: Well, the Russians didn't engage us in open battle & they burned Moscow. But we totally conquered Russia.

Posted by: josephistan at November 22, 2019 12:43 PM (7HtZB)

517 the challengers run in the nines in the 1/4.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 12:37 PM (KP5rU)

Holy shit that is quick.

Posted by: Captain Hate at November 22, 2019 12:43 PM (y7DUB)

518 517: yes it is, captain. they also have mustangs and camaros in that class. real cars.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 22, 2019 12:44 PM (KP5rU)

519 I've deleted Drudge from my constant reads. What the fuck happened, did PDT kick his dog or something?

Posted by: docweasel at November 22, 2019 12:36 PM (n1wu/)

Someone said the other day that he sold the site to some company based out of China.
Posted by: Allie at November 22, 2019 12:38 PM (sm6Pk)
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AoSHQ needs a FAQ.

Drudge sold his dad's company--which his site depended on--to an affiliate of Google. People cite that he gave an interview saying that fans of Drudge were not going to like what they saw on Drudge in the future, but his hands were tied and tied to the extent that he couldn't say much more than an apology. It's like he didn't know how much the buyers would demand in the future.

A lot of people no longer bother with that site.

Posted by: Axeman at November 22, 2019 12:44 PM (DuZls)

520 OM, who was the Who Dis lady?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2019 12:34 PM (GjTLE)

Coleen Gray.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at November 22, 2019 12:45 PM (2cwOe)

521
the dickwad from PA
The ugly woman from Michigan

Posted by: REDACTED at November 22, 2019 12:39 PM

you're going to have to be a little more specific....you're covering a lot of ground there

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 22, 2019 12:45 PM (cuot+)

522 Napoleon: We totally conquered Russia.

French reporter: But Emperor, you were driven back to France & lost 500,000 soldiers

Napoleon: Well, the Russians didn't engage us in open battle & they burned Moscow. But we totally conquered Russia.
Posted by: josephistan at November 22, 2019

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So Bonaparte was one of the first Democrats?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 22, 2019 12:46 PM (Ejm1K)

523 Nixon regretted resigning for the rest of his life.

IMHO It was a big mistake. I would have let the whole thing play out an defended myself along the way.
Posted by: Brett Baier's Talking Vagina at November 22, 2019 12:42 PM (H8fSa)

Nixon is a weirdly sympathetic figure because he made his bones going after that commie turd, Alger Hiss, but he wasn't a conservative at all and mostly an economic retard.

Posted by: Captain Hate at November 22, 2019 12:46 PM (y7DUB)

524 They need to relocate all these departments all over the country. That way all these deep state losers aren't getting drunk together and banging.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 22, 2019 12:11 PM (xfb67)

I read somewhere that this is being proposed. Drain the swamp and put the creatures away from each other.

Posted by: Cheri at November 22, 2019 12:48 PM (oiNtH)

525 Who knows what's in store for Season Five.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 22, 2019 12:42 PM (kS9p6)

Special Guest Star Elon Musk in "Oh, by the way, Mars is now sovereign American territory, suck it China!"

Posted by: filbert at November 22, 2019 12:48 PM (NiXyF)

526 I'm sure within three minutes of any job interview with PDT for a post, the topic of bewbs will be raised.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at November 22, 2019 12:49 PM (ufFY8)

527 Nood Michelle Malkin

Posted by: josephistan at November 22, 2019 12:50 PM (7HtZB)

528 'their complaint that "Trump's supporters never criticize him."'

That's because I know if I reasonably say, "Of course I don't agree 100% of the time with Trump on every little thing..." (just as I don't agree 100% with any other human being on everything) I will immediately get from any lefty in the vicinity AHA! SO YOU ADMIT HE'S A DESPICABLE RACIST BIGOTED DISGUSTING ORANGE THING WHO MUST BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE RIGHT NOW! Until the other side is reasonable, ha ha ha, I will not argue with them about his merits or concede any failing he may have.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at November 22, 2019 12:58 PM (COzlW)

529 One thing I hope Trump learned over the past 4 years is he sure a fuck isn't going to find anyone in Washington he can trust.

Posted by: jwest at November 22, 2019 12:02 PM (U6f/q)

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In large part, successful people in the private sector want to live their lives without a lot of stress and scrutiny once they arrive at home sweet home. Anyone signing on with the Trump Administration receives the Eye of Sauron treatment: Lies, constant harassment from the MSM, Dark State machinations, hearings, protestors in one's driveway, every service provider looking for their SJW halo giving one the finger. Who wants that? We debt of gratitude to all of those who work faithfully for the President.

Posted by: mrp at November 22, 2019 01:03 PM (Pqytn)

530 Posted by: browndog at November 22, 2019 12:05 PM (FdRXM)

Congratulations on that lift . Something to be proud of. Do you happen to know a Mike Duhon. He also lifts at the masters nationals.

Posted by: Easy Andy at November 22, 2019 01:05 PM (2DOZq)

531 It was Barzini all along. Also enjoy the picture of Dorian Gray's sister.

Posted by: Garth Hudson at November 22, 2019 01:07 PM (ffwQz)

532 Interesting. I do polls for You.Gov. Just got a quickie poll asking about what I'll do on Thanksgiving. Oddly, the last question... seemingly thrown in as an afterthought, was "Do you believe Joe Biden stutters?"

Posted by: creeper at November 22, 2019 01:10 PM (fE1wp)

533 I think he kept many of these people in order to out them.

Posted by: baldilocks at November 22, 2019 01:19 PM (pNm1M)

534 Some expressions regarding the snakes sound Trump:

Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.

When your enemy is digging himself a hole, give him a shovel.

Give them enough rope to hang themselves.

I believe Trump has been playing a long game sting and it's about to cause pain for the whole pit of deep state vipers.

I could be wrong, but I don't think so...

Posted by: LBascom at November 22, 2019 01:29 PM (5gkls)

535 Around Trump, not sound...

Posted by: LBascom at November 22, 2019 01:30 PM (5gkls)

536 And when she doesn't, The Squad takes her out.

Posted by: rickb223

Only because the Squad just got there and no one has taken them into the secret chamber and explained to them that a trial in the Senate will expose the DNC using Ukraine to interfere in the 2016 elections along with how they grifted the tax payers out of a lot of sweet laundered cash using Soros cutouts...

Posted by: Boswell at November 22, 2019 01:35 PM (32YRo)

537 The giveaway for the guy would be if you had a picture of him playing the Efram Zymbals....

Posted by: Gridlock at November 22, 2019 02:49 PM (Cqpdm)

538 Maybe Trump's personnel problem is his experience in real estate and the real world in general. When you buy a building or a golf course you don't clean house. Maybe you have someone lined up for the top job, but you don't fire the guys mowing the greens or the servers in the restaurant. Those folks know (well, most of them) that if the course isn't kept up or the food's not good they will be out of a job. In government, when new management comes in, and it's from your competition (keeping in mind there's only two companies) it's in your best interest to totally screw things up so your competition loses and your company gets to take over again.

Trump didn't realize this - that the people running the business he acquired would actively work against him as opposed to just doing the job.

This is all theory and speculation, of course. But it could explain why he left these people in place.

Posted by: George V at November 22, 2019 02:56 PM (U2Tva)

539 I warned about this from day one, and it was based on personal experience I had with local politics:

A very nice lady won the seat for state education secretary in AZ. I met her in person, and she was "one of us:" she got it and her heart was in the right place.

But she knew nothing about the bureaucracy or how it functions. She knew nothing about the powers of her office or its limitations. The Deep Staters ended up running circles around her, until she finally got kicked out of office without accomplishing much.

What I realized then was that a reformer must have both the determination AND the skills to be effective. This is the problem with most outsiders.
It's amazing Trump has done as well as he has so far, given all the people stabbing him in the back.

Posted by: Matt_SE at November 22, 2019 08:43 PM (+WSKI)

540 Within the past week I read that O. holdovers trashed the resumes sent in by would-be Trump hires. Then my browser crashed. Did anyone else see this?

Posted by: pumpkin at November 22, 2019 10:51 PM (wZCku)

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