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"Consistent," "Constitutionalist" Conservative Bill Kristol: I'd Rather Have the Non-Democratic Deep State Rule the Country Than the President Democratically Elected By the People
It's time for this loathsome toad to go away.
Obviously strongly prefer normal democratic and constitutional politics. But if it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) February 14, 2017
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Scott-High Plains Deplorable at February 14, 2017 03:11 PM (565SA)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2017 03:11 PM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: shibumi's cat at February 14, 2017 03:11 PM (25+/B)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - Takin' My Time on my Ride at February 14, 2017 03:11 PM (ul9CR)
Posted by: Ed Morrissey at February 14, 2017 03:11 PM (/f1mm)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 14, 2017 03:11 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2017 03:11 PM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2017 03:11 PM (Frvrc)
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2017 03:12 PM (oXKWd)
Posted by: Colonel Kurtz at February 14, 2017 03:12 PM (4fS3N)
Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 14, 2017 03:12 PM (/f1mm)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2017 03:12 PM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2017 03:13 PM (oXKWd)
Posted by: Scott-High Plains Deplorable at February 14, 2017 03:13 PM (565SA)
Posted by: mallfly roddingham clinton at February 14, 2017 03:13 PM (b7fwp)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 14, 2017 03:13 PM (sEDyY)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 03:13 PM (sRFAL)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2017 03:13 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2017 03:13 PM]
*hangs head in shame*
There goes whatever Moron cred I had.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2017 03:14 PM (p+Wdc)
I've never defended Kristol.
This guy's a douche on his best days.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 03:14 PM (vur0q)
Posted by: artL at February 14, 2017 03:14 PM (Yg0D5)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 14, 2017 03:14 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 03:14 PM (sRFAL)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2017 03:14 PM (Frvrc)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2017 03:14 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: George at February 14, 2017 03:14 PM (Lat75)
Posted by: stonyman at February 14, 2017 03:14 PM (lx1HG)
Posted by: CaptainMidnight at February 14, 2017 03:14 PM (7xXal)
Posted by: Whatserface, skipping in to pontificate, as is her wont at February 14, 2017 03:14 PM (jVlNS)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 14, 2017 03:15 PM (KP5rU)
Bill Kristol 50 minutes ago
No one will defend "uninformed chatter." Except that it's another way of saying "the free speech of the American people," for whom you work.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - Takin' My Time on my Ride at February 14, 2017 03:15 PM (ul9CR)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 14, 2017 03:15 PM (QHIPb)
My favorite Bill Kristol moment of the last year is still last November when he earnestly tweeted:
Bill Kristol @BillKristol
I'm back on Acela--getting in touch w/ Middle Americans outside Beltway...lawyers talking reliance, consultants talking disintermediation...
12:53 PM - 1 Nov 2016
https://twitter.com/billkristol/status/793496247508340736
Because nothing screams "Middle America" like chatting with consultants along the Acela corridor about disintermediation.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at February 14, 2017 03:15 PM (4df7R)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 14, 2017 03:15 PM (GX63o)
Posted by: moki at February 14, 2017 03:15 PM (gfRCk)
Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at February 14, 2017 03:15 PM (PFy0L)
Posted by: Bill Kristol at February 14, 2017 03:15 PM (qJhUV)
Posted by: Roland THTG at February 14, 2017 03:15 PM (QM5S2)
As long as the uniparty is winning all the elections, he prefers normal democratic/constitutional politics.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at February 14, 2017 03:16 PM (PXbkt)
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2017 03:16 PM (oXKWd)
Does he have any redeeming qualities, like writing about baseball?
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 14, 2017 03:15 PM (QHIPb)
He was OK in When Harry Met Sally.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 14, 2017 03:16 PM (GX63o)
Posted by: Billy Krystal at February 14, 2017 03:17 PM (mBYZv)
http://tinyurl.com/gwegfrv
Posted by: George at February 14, 2017 03:17 PM (Lat75)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 03:14 PM (sRFAL)
You win.
how are you by the way?
Posted by: moki at February 14, 2017 03:17 PM (gfRCk)
Posted by: Roland THTG at February 14, 2017 03:15 PM (QM5S2)
Hey, now....watch it, buddy.
Posted by: weasels at February 14, 2017 03:17 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: stonyman at February 14, 2017 03:14 PM (lx1HG)
28 When you hear a politician talk, everything before "but" is BS.
Posted by: CaptainMidnight at February 14, 2017 03:14 PM (7xXal)
Times like these, I wish there was seconds/miliseconds precision on the timestamp...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 14, 2017 03:17 PM (AURKQ)
https://twitter.com/Dennis_Kucinich/status/831533274786889729
Posted by: @votermom's phone at February 14, 2017 03:17 PM (uKWAY)
------
Generalissimo Con Extra Formaggio Egg McMuffin reporting for Rulership duties!
Posted by: Egg McMuffin at February 14, 2017 03:17 PM (hA1V+)
Posted by: R. DUKE at February 14, 2017 03:18 PM (ONH2e)
Looks like Bill's returning to the side his father left.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 03:18 PM (ZM2xo)
Posted by: Bill Kristol, translated at February 14, 2017 03:18 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: John Nada at February 14, 2017 03:18 PM (kNJjq)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 14, 2017 03:18 PM (KP5rU)
Now add the Deep State and the federal judiciary.
Kristol is declaring which side he's on, which we already new.
"The Almighty says this must be a fashionable fight. It's drawn the finest people." -- Stephen from Braveheart
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2017 03:18 PM (SIY7D)
I'm trying to avoid that. It is hard.
Posted by: Max Power at February 14, 2017 03:18 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 14, 2017 03:18 PM (HSmrB)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 14, 2017 03:18 PM (sEDyY)
Posted by: David Brock at February 14, 2017 03:19 PM (pMGkg)
Posted by: moki at February 14, 2017 03:17 PM (gfRCk)
Long day. Tired. And it's not over
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 03:19 PM (sRFAL)
"Our side"?
What the hell does that even mean anymore?
Posted by: Furious George at February 14, 2017 03:19 PM (77i7V)
Posted by: rickl at February 14, 2017 03:19 PM (zoehZ)
Posted by: IanDeal at February 14, 2017 03:19 PM (teGBX)
Posted by: Eddie Baby at February 14, 2017 03:19 PM (CTCca)
Posted by: tu3031 at February 14, 2017 03:19 PM (qJhUV)
"It gets, Joe, to two other issues. The first is we have never taken seriously from the very beginning Russia hacked our election. That was a 9/11 scale event. They attacked the core of our very democracy. That was a Pearl Harbor scale event."
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2017 03:19 PM (SIY7D)
Posted by: Hand me the pliers at February 14, 2017 03:19 PM (qJon0)
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (4LMZd)
Posted by: Antifa Krystolnacht at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (XG8it)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 14, 2017 03:18 PM (sEDyY)
That's so sweet! Give him a hug from me.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat
Not at all. Nor does he extol the virtues of trousers vs dungarees.
Posted by: George Will at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (OZmbA)
Posted by: Stringer D: A Stove for Fenelon at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (H5rtT)
Posted by: @votermom's phone at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (uKWAY)
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (fKWf6)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (ZM2xo)
Challenging him is simply rude.
Posted by: George at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (Lat75)
Posted by: @votermom's phone at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (uKWAY)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (QHIPb)
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (fKWf6)
Posted by: Colonel Kurtz at February 14, 2017 03:12 PM (4fS3N)
So dead on a Tuesday, then.
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (RD7QR)
https://youtu.be/P5iqYuFmzqg
Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (mf5HN)
You'll be hearing from our attorneys shortly, with reference to this plainly defamatory metaphor. We will not be publicly likened to Mr. Kristol, sir.
Posted by: Toads at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 03:21 PM (ZM2xo)
Posted by: George at February 14, 2017 03:21 PM (Lat75)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2017 03:21 PM (X7E8f)
Posted by: blaster at February 14, 2017 03:21 PM (tewYv)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 14, 2017 03:21 PM (KP5rU)
******************
Why is your son beating up chocolate covered strawberries? What did they ever do to him?
Posted by: John Nada at February 14, 2017 03:21 PM (kNJjq)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ro7CjBPuU8
There are clever ways to mine this Deep State idea, too bad the left will never find them. That Trump believing in the "Alternative Constitution" bit over at Funny or Die was a feeble attempt at something similar.
Posted by: LizLem at February 14, 2017 03:21 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Barrel at February 14, 2017 03:21 PM (oXKWd)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 14, 2017 03:21 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at February 14, 2017 03:21 PM (7N6ox)
*kicking and screamingin Barrel*
Posted by: @votermom's phone at February 14, 2017 03:21 PM (uKWAY)
Posted by: Deep state constitutional barrel at February 14, 2017 03:21 PM (/f1mm)
If only the GOP had run another wishy washy candidate who had no chance of winning instead of Trump
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 14, 2017 03:21 PM (493sH)
Posted by: Crusader at February 14, 2017 03:22 PM (ewSN2)
Posted by: tu3031 at February 14, 2017 03:22 PM (qJhUV)
Just try not to touch them.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2017 03:22 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: Under Fire at February 14, 2017 03:22 PM (6LwXe)
I'm about to cry. Son got home from work beating a single red rose and some super-fancy chocolate covered strawberries.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 14, 2017 03:18 PM (sEDyY)
Awwww. Love, love, love.
Posted by: IC at February 14, 2017 03:22 PM (a0IVu)
Seriously, with every utterance, this douchebag reveals his utter contempt for his fellow citizens and for the democratic process itself.
Posted by: JoeF. at February 14, 2017 03:22 PM (7uYFy)
What an absolutely despicable, loathesome POS.
Posted by: deadrody at February 14, 2017 03:22 PM (kj7T1)
Posted by: George at February 14, 2017 03:22 PM (Lat75)
Posted by: Off the reservation at February 14, 2017 03:22 PM (uqnYW)
I always kinda suspected that "neoconservatives" were simply progtards who didn't have a death wish and recognized the need for a strong military.
And here's BK (Burger King) more or less confirming it.
Mask successfully removed.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2017 03:22 PM (vZ9Fw)
IOW, these are declarations of war against a legitimately elected government before that government has had even the opportunity to prove or disprove their rationale for this war.
I am getting ready for this separation. I'd prefer it to be relatively amicable, but I am getting close to the point where I just don't care.
Posted by: krakatoa at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (RCS9o)
Posted by: Coming to a public school near you at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (X7E8f)
BK recently spoke of how white people are lazy anyway, and "we" would be better off replacing them with third world workers. (paraphrased). Obviously we are not serving the elite to their liking.
Now he takes the obvious next step to say voting is OK, as long as we select on of the establishment tools (and obey them). BK's priority is to keep feeding the beast, which in time will require totalitarianism.
There's a Kristolnachtjoke in there somewhere.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (RWmbm)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (toH8T)
I'm trying to avoid that. It is hard.
Posted by: Max Power at February 14, 2017 03:18 PM (q177U)
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I still get the Weekly Standard in my RSS feed, and even there this attitude doesn't seem all that prevalent.
I get the feeling that Kristol is getting more and more isolated.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (vur0q)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (39g3+)
"It gets, Joe, to two other issues. The first is we have never taken seriously from the very beginning Russia hacked our election. That was a 9/11 scale event. They attacked the core of our very democracy. That was a Pearl Harbor scale event."
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2017 03:19 PM (SIY7D)
Sure sounds like he's saying we should declare war on Russia.
Posted by: rickl at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (zoehZ)
Posted by: Jukin,The Deplorable & Profoundly Unserious at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (cOHS7)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (Frvrc)
Posted by: @votermom's phone at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (uKWAY)
I was going to make a joke about Ace taking this out of context, but it's not really funny. There's just no context in which "I'd rather big government abuse its powers to overthrow the elected representatives" is funny.
Posted by: mr_jack at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (M59SC)
Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (nQ10o)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (LiqBV)
*kicking and screamingin Barrel*
Posted by: @votermom's phone at February 14, 2017 03:21 PM (uKWAY)
If you look around in there, I do believe you might see the top of Bill Kristol's head.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (ZM2xo)
RUSSIANS DID IT!!!
*kicking and screamingin Barrel*
Posted by: @votermom's phone at February 14, 2017 03:21 PM (uKWAY)
Well that sounds totally reasonable. Throw in some joo hate and we'll have you out of that barrel and appointed a superdelegate in no time.
Posted by: The DNC at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (GX63o)
Posted by: trev006 at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (04sPv)
The times are strange. I've found common ground with Piers Morgan and Dennis Kucinich in the past week or so.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (QHIPb)
To be fair, I've long agreed with Dennis Kucinich that his wife is way hot.
Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: TexasDan at February 14, 2017 03:24 PM (tutkd)
Posted by: Carlos Santana at February 14, 2017 03:24 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2017 03:24 PM (Frvrc)
Posted by: SFGoth at February 14, 2017 03:24 PM (dZ756)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2017 03:24 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at February 14, 2017 03:24 PM (R5EqA)
Posted by: LizLem at February 14, 2017 03:24 PM (hvf9s)
That was great. Too bad you can't place your comments where you want them.
Posted by: Off the reservation at February 14, 2017 03:24 PM (uqnYW)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (vur0q)
He's becoming the female Kathleen Parker.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 03:24 PM (ZM2xo)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 14, 2017 03:24 PM (toH8T)
We have reached that point, in America...
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 03:24 PM (qf6WZ)
How you got Trump.
P.S.: Being Dan Quayle's chief of staff doesn't entitle you to squat.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 14, 2017 03:24 PM (B+qrE)
Posted by: Smallish Bees at February 14, 2017 03:24 PM (YPgXi)
"It gets, Joe, to two other issues. The first is we have never taken seriously from the very beginning Russia hacked our election. That was a 9/11 scale event. They attacked the core of our very democracy. That was a Pearl Harbor scale event."
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2017 03:19 PM (SIY7D)
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Sounds like he's that 50+% of the Democratic Party that believes that Russia actually changed vote totals on voting machines.
He smart.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 03:24 PM (vur0q)
Posted by: willow at February 14, 2017 03:24 PM (R7cwD)
Don't often agree with him, but Kucinich is an honorable man.
Has a surprisingly hot wife
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2017 03:25 PM (SIY7D)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 14, 2017 03:25 PM (TrOGC)
***
I'm so old I can remember the left arguing that a vote for Trump was a vote for WWIII. Which was in October of last year.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2017 03:25 PM (X7E8f)
Twitter seems to remove the ability for self reflection.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 14, 2017 03:25 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 14, 2017 03:25 PM (ODxAs)
ace, I humbly suggest adding this as the only possible response to Kristol's mouthnoises on anything:
https://youtu.be/P5iqYuFmzqg
Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (mf5HN)
I second.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at February 14, 2017 03:25 PM (4df7R)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 14, 2017 03:21 PM (KP5rU)
The scumbag is still hawking the "Saudi" plan
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 03:25 PM (sRFAL)
Ya know, it turns out The Barrel really is full of VD freebies
Posted by: @votermom's phone at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (uKWAY)
Try the herpes!
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at February 14, 2017 03:25 PM (7N6ox)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2017 03:25 PM (Frvrc)
See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWJSKhEwjy8
Posted by: WJ at February 14, 2017 03:25 PM (7sEOf)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 03:24 PM (ZM2xo)
Good take, TRUE
Posted by: George at February 14, 2017 03:25 PM (Lat75)
***
A plurality believed that Bush 43 was the person actually behind 9/11.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2017 03:25 PM (X7E8f)
Posted by: RioBravo at February 14, 2017 03:26 PM (SsblQ)
Posted by: willow at February 14, 2017 03:26 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 14, 2017 03:26 PM (dnWSK)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 03:26 PM (sRFAL)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 14, 2017 03:26 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: JoeF. at February 14, 2017 03:26 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (QHIPb)
And Gerardo Rivera!
If Shep says something I agree with next, it will be End Times for sure.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 03:26 PM (ZM2xo)
Become one of the active members. Push for what is right, not for, but against RINO Chamber of Commerce Global Policies and candidates.
Find the candidates to primary the Republican Establishment Go Along and Get Along assholes.
Find allies, and work together.
Posted by: rd at February 14, 2017 03:26 PM (iT57s)
Posted by: Stringer D: A Stove for Fenelon at February 14, 2017 03:26 PM (H5rtT)
The times are strange. I've found common ground with Piers Morgan and Dennis Kucinich in the past week or so.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 14, 2017 03:20 PM (QHIPb)
Tell me about it.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at February 14, 2017 03:27 PM (4df7R)
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at February 14, 2017 03:27 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: trev006 at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (04sPv)
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Yeah...I think he's letting his inner freak out specifically because he doesn't need to answer to anyone anymore.
He can just go around, saying what he actually believes, because he doesn't need to worry about magazine sales while his speaking engagements (which I'm betting pull in a few thousand each) will continue as those who want to hear what they want to hear will continue to pay.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 03:27 PM (vur0q)
Posted by: DanMan at February 14, 2017 03:27 PM (RusNE)
Posted by: E Pluribus Juan at February 14, 2017 03:27 PM (ZFUt7)
***
In their current bubble getting rid of the working class and having a mostly bloodless coup is the moderate view.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2017 03:27 PM (X7E8f)
Posted by: RioBravo
Using Joe Biden to supply it kind of killed the term.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 14, 2017 03:27 PM (QHIPb)
Posted by: blaster at February 14, 2017 03:27 PM (tewYv)
So he's basically a totalitarian.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 14, 2017 03:26 PM (4ErVI)
Nah, just a Jewish Elitist.
Posted by: George at February 14, 2017 03:27 PM (Lat75)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 14, 2017 03:26 PM (dnWSK)
Well it is the hand most of us wipe with. Just saying
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 03:27 PM (sRFAL)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 14, 2017 03:27 PM (dnWSK)
"It gets, Joe, to two other issues. The first is we have never taken seriously from the very beginning Russia hacked our election. That was a 9/11 scale event. They attacked the core of our very democracy. That was a Pearl Harbor scale event."
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2017 03:19 PM (SIY7D)
Sure sounds like he's saying we should declare war on Russia.
Posted by: rickl at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (zoehZ)
Yes, because giving the American people access to the democrat's TRUE emails...
is the same as 1000s of dead Americans...
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 03:27 PM (qf6WZ)
The Marx Brothers could make it funny.
Rufus T Firefly "wants his shirt. He won't be happy, without his shirt."
Posted by: wooga at February 14, 2017 03:27 PM (3I7wr)
He wants to see Miss Lindsey replace Mike Flynn.
Just what we need. Lindsey flouncing around, all jazz hands, sucking up to the remnants of TFG's administration.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2017 03:28 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2017 03:28 PM (SIY7D)
David Brooks has been pushing this BS for years.
Posted by: Benji Carver at February 14, 2017 03:28 PM (OD2ni)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7-hcS5hpMCM
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Laugh at a joke, get another joke free! at February 14, 2017 03:28 PM (Nwg0u)
_______
I think the first sign was the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series.
Posted by: rd at February 14, 2017 03:28 PM (iT57s)
65 Another Useful Idiot, NYT's Tom Friedman this morning on Morning Joe:
"It gets, Joe, to two other issues. The first is we have never taken
seriously from the very beginning Russia hacked our election. That was a
9/11 scale event. They attacked the core of our very democracy. That
was a Pearl Harbor scale event."
It was an IMAGINARY FICTIONAL event. Trump won because voters rejected Hillary's lousy campaign and Obama's lousy record.
--
Reality check: We reliving the 2008-2016 era in reverse ...
"Russia hacked the election" = "Obama was born in Kenya" for the new era.
Posted by: Mustang lover at February 14, 2017 03:28 PM (qzEgY)
Posted by: tu3031 at February 14, 2017 03:29 PM (qJhUV)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 14, 2017 03:29 PM (LiqBV)
Ya know, it turns out The Barrel really is full of VD freebies
Posted by: @votermom's phone at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (uKWAY)
Some penicillin will clear those right up.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at February 14, 2017 03:29 PM (4df7R)
Posted by: WJ at February 14, 2017 03:29 PM (7sEOf)
He wants to see Miss Lindsey replace Mike Flynn.
Just what we need. Lindsey flouncing around, all jazz hands, sucking up to the remnants of TFG's administration.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2017 03:28 PM (PY9jH)
Yeah I heard that also...choked up a little bile at that point
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 03:29 PM (sRFAL)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 14, 2017 03:29 PM (dnWSK)
, Kristol is the Shit Midas of pundits. He has been so predictably wrong for such a long time that we should be breathing a sigh of relief that he's not one of us. Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 03:29 PM (ZM2xo)
Posted by: 13times at February 14, 2017 03:30 PM (WHVu+)
Toad in the hole...
Crap now I really want to make that sammich recipe from a previous thread.
Posted by: LizLem at February 14, 2017 03:30 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Glenn Beck at February 14, 2017 03:30 PM (97XyN)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at February 14, 2017 03:30 PM (vO36R)
Posted by: Independent George's Phone at February 14, 2017 03:30 PM (uRy7h)
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at February 14, 2017 03:30 PM (PXbkt)
Posted by: Pennecilin at February 14, 2017 03:31 PM (oXKWd)
Whenever somebody trots out the "Russians hacked our elections!"
nonsense my response is going to be "Through what mechanism did they do
this? Please be specific." That should shut the conversation down right
quickly.
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at February 14, 2017 03:27 PM (RD7QR)
You didn't see those sneaky little bastards clutching their vodka and a floppy disk scurrying from machine to machine????
Posted by: IC at February 14, 2017 03:31 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: josephistan at February 14, 2017 03:31 PM (7HtZB)
There's something cray-cray in the air.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2017 03:31 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: southdakotaboy at February 14, 2017 03:32 PM (JaJ3u)
The low casualty toll of the WoT, which was falsely claimed to be high by the Fake News Media, has led to people incorrectly calculate what a normal war is like.
Korea and Vietnam were in the tens of thousands, and WWII was 400K.
A non-nuclear war with Russia would likely be somewhere in between those numbers. A nuclear war could get up to 100 million.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2017 03:32 PM (X7E8f)
Think about that.
Posted by: JoeF. at February 14, 2017 03:32 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 14, 2017 03:32 PM (dnWSK)
Posted by: no good deed at February 14, 2017 03:33 PM (8Wf9O)
Posted by: Independent George's Phone at February 14, 2017 03:33 PM (uRy7h)
"It gets, Joe, to two other issues. The first is we have never taken seriously from the very beginning Russia hacked our election. That was a 9/11 scale event. They attacked the core of our very democracy. That was a Pearl Harbor scale event."
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2017 03:19 PM (SIY7D)
Sure sounds like he's saying we should declare war on Russia.
Posted by: rickl at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (zoehZ)
Yes, because giving the American people access to the democrat's TRUE emails...
is the same as 1000s of dead Americans...
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 03:27 PM (qf6WZ)
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Look at the bright side, after we exchange a few hundred MEGATONS of Nuclear Weapons, the Democrat Party will be a few thousand people in the (surviving) hinterlands.
Of course, most of us will be dead too.
Posted by: rd at February 14, 2017 03:33 PM (iT57s)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 14, 2017 03:33 PM (2lndx)
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2017 03:19 PM (SIY7D)
If leaking emails truthfully showing that Hillary cheated at the debates and that Bernie got screwed by the DNC is an attack on the core of our very democracy, then wasn't leaking the Access Hollywood tape about Trump also attacking the core of our very democracy?
And isn't it even worse when an attack on the core of our very democracy comes from the enemy within, rather than the enemy without?
Posted by: Scalia's Ghost at February 14, 2017 03:33 PM (hA1V+)
Seems we allow these leakers and other scum to just skate.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2017 03:33 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 14, 2017 03:33 PM (VdICR)
A grand total of one (1) private sector firm has weighed in with a professional opinion that it was the Russians wot done it.
That firm happens to have a lucrative long-term IT consulting contract to the Democratic National Committee.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 14, 2017 03:34 PM (noWW6)
@BillKristol Of course you do--you are a sellout. You and the WSJ and the NR have stopped representing real conservatives and patriots.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at February 14, 2017 03:34 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: Joe Biden at February 14, 2017 03:34 PM (cOHS7)
The war with Russia they want won't be just 1000s of dead Americans.
The
low casualty toll of the WoT, which was falsely claimed to be high by
the Fake News Media, has led to people incorrectly calculate what a
normal war is like.
Korea and Vietnam were in the tens of thousands, and WWII was 400K.
A non-nuclear war with Russia would likely be somewhere in between those numbers. A nuclear war could get up to 100 million.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2017 03:32 PM (X7E8f)
We are not ready, no matter how many combat experienced young leaders we have.
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at February 14, 2017 03:34 PM (7N6ox)
Posted by: 18-1
In the first hour, day, or year?
Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at February 14, 2017 03:34 PM (9krrF)
Posted by: JoeF. at February 14, 2017 03:34 PM (7uYFy)
***
If I was the President I would have offered Graham HUD or the DoE, waited for him to be confirmed, then scrap the budget.
SC can't really do worse than Graham...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2017 03:34 PM (X7E8f)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2017 03:32 PM (X7E8f)
These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood. Been ten years since the last one. You know, you gotta stop them at the beginning. Like they should have stopped Hitler at Munich, they should never let him get away with that, they was just asking for trouble.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 03:34 PM (sRFAL)
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2017 03:34 PM (oXKWd)
Posted by: George at February 14, 2017 03:34 PM (Lat75)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 14, 2017 03:27 PM (dnWSK)
If I were on the Left, I'd close the clubhouse door and tell Kristol he can't come in.
Brock, at least, was an effective hitman for the Right before he switched sides and did the same for the Left. Kristol is useless.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 03:34 PM (ZM2xo)
That was the real October Surprise, planned for months, and intended to take out Trump when MSM went all-in
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2017 03:35 PM (SIY7D)
He wants to see Miss Lindsey replace Mike Flynn.
Just what we need. Lindsey flouncing around, all jazz hands, sucking up to the remnants of TFG's administration.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2017 03:28 PM (PY9jH)
Wow, he has really gone off the rails
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 14, 2017 03:35 PM (493sH)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2017 03:35 PM (Frvrc)
The truth is that the far right would have applauded such efforts had they been made under the Obama administration. Trump comparing our country to the Russian autocracy has certainly irked people in these quarters no less than President Obamas apology tours.
Posted by: Begonia at February 14, 2017 03:35 PM (Xj8rQ)
Posted by: Independent George's Phone at February 14, 2017 03:35 PM (uRy7h)
Actually... it is an attack on Democracy was Washington DC knows it....
Because if the people know the actual Truth? the Two Party system they have in place will fall apart.
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 03:35 PM (qf6WZ)
There should be a medical term for when your cognitive dissonance
overwhelms self awareness and you begin to make public displays of your
reduced mental state.
Posted by: TexasDan at February 14, 2017 03:24 PM
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In Hollywood, it's called "Going Quaid".
Posted by: irright at February 14, 2017 03:35 PM (pMGkg)
Posted by: Independent George's Phone at February 14, 2017 03:35 PM (uRy7h)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 03:35 PM (sRFAL)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 14, 2017 03:35 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: 18-1
Followed by another 400 million on both sides within the year.
Posted by: E Pluribus Juan at February 14, 2017 03:35 PM (ZFUt7)
Those Bath Towels are frustratingly small.
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2017 03:36 PM (oXKWd)
http://bit.ly/2kHoa1i
I've met them several times and, though they be the cray cray politically, they are both really nice people.
Yes, I'm bitter that the Elven Princess is nice too because I'm petty.
Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 14, 2017 03:36 PM (mf5HN)
You don't think some other strongman is going to then rule Russia and do the same thing?
It's like the Shah of Iran, sure he did some thuggish things, but he was FAR better for the West than the Ayatollahs hat replaced him.
What exactly is the NeoCon end game here?
To me it's just plain old political jealousy by a bunch of Republicans that think they should be in charge.
Posted by: Maritime at February 14, 2017 03:36 PM (87Aed)
Posted by: josephistan at February 14, 2017 03:36 PM (7HtZB)
Some to Misery are Born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight.
Every babe born of progressive holes
Some are born to rule the proles.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Laugh at a joke, get another joke free! at February 14, 2017 03:36 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Smallish Bees at February 14, 2017 03:36 PM (YPgXi)
Posted by: gapoz at February 14, 2017 03:36 PM (thyJJ)
Nothing particularly "conservative" about them. At all. Nothing more than globalist leftists who never saw value in the working/middle classes as much more than cannon-fodder who were no longer welcome in the Democrat Party for various reasons and who found a home by polluting the GOPe.
Feel free to head back to your natural home with the racist, fetish-globalist, fvck-the-working-class Democrats, Billy Boy.
Posted by: DocJ at February 14, 2017 03:37 PM (NYS7S)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 14, 2017 03:37 PM (dnWSK)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 14, 2017 03:37 PM (KP5rU)
"It gets, Joe, to two other issues. The first is we have never taken seriously from the very beginning Russia hacked our election. That was a 9/11 scale event. They attacked the core of our very democracy. That was a Pearl Harbor scale event."
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2017 03:19 PM (SIY7D)
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Someone break it to me gently. For nobody present engaged in any kind of true "journalism" and asked him to define what he means by "hacked the election". Because, of course, he would have to admit that all he has is "we THINK Russia was involved in publishing all of the DNC / Hillary / Podesta true emails".
Someone explain how it's actually not WORSE for our Deep State betters to be leaking documents from their own government to undermine the duly elected President than for Russia to leak the truth about Hillary and the DNC.
I'll wait........................................
Posted by: deadrody at February 14, 2017 03:37 PM (kj7T1)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2017 03:35 PM (Frvrc)
Bastards told the truth about the Democrats...
That's just pure Evil!
/sarc tag in case your sarcometer is out of calibration.
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 03:37 PM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: no good deed at February 14, 2017 03:33 PM (8Wf9O)
Depends what phone book you're talking about. I'm sure you wouldn't want names picked out of the Berkeley or Brattleboro, VT phone book...
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 03:37 PM (ZM2xo)
While the Nation Flounders.
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Time for some deep-state heads on pikes.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at February 14, 2017 03:37 PM (OVUYQ)
None of the Kristol, Beck, Krauthammer, Graham, McCain,Goldberg, Wilson Nevertrump gang have ANY place in a Trump administration.
Their Establishment GOP cred scrip will buy them nothing at the Trump company store.
Even Little Marco "Nevertrumper-curious" Rubio sees his career indicator light blinking red.
Just headless chickens running around the yard.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 14, 2017 03:37 PM (toH8T)
osted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 14, 2017 03:36 PM (mf5HN)Is she just tall or is he abnormally short?
Posted by: IC at February 14, 2017 03:37 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2017 03:37 PM (4YGWz)
Looks like a lady ventriloquist and her dummy.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 14, 2017 03:37 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: R. DUKE at February 14, 2017 03:38 PM (ONH2e)
I'd be interested to see HOW Kristol moved from conservative to whatever this is.
Posted by: Smallish Bees at February 14, 2017 03:36 PM (YPgXi)
The Prog cocktail parties are more than likely a lot more decadent than the ones our side throws.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2017 03:38 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 14, 2017 03:37 PM (oVJmc)
Heh. You so mean, Mr. Peebles..
Posted by: IC at February 14, 2017 03:39 PM (a0IVu)
I'd be interested to see HOW Kristol moved from conservative to whatever this is.
Posted by: Smallish Bees at February 14, 2017 03:36 PM (YPgXi)
He KNOWS what is best for us. We have scorned him, he is upset we are so ignorant that we don't appreciate his genius.
Posted by: George at February 14, 2017 03:39 PM (Lat75)
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2017 03:39 PM (oXKWd)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 14, 2017 03:39 PM (Ya7zs)
Posted by: IC at February 14, 2017 03:37 PM (a0IVu)
Yes.
Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 14, 2017 03:39 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Iblis at February 14, 2017 03:39 PM (9221z)
Yep. It's like he's admitting it's real -- a cabal of bureaucrats with a Leftist agenda burrowed into the Administrative State.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2017 03:39 PM (SIY7D)
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2017 03:39 PM (oXKWd)
Posted by: goodluckduck at February 14, 2017 03:39 PM (yqvys)
FOADIAF, Kristol, you elitist scum.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot at February 14, 2017 03:40 PM (v1g1+)
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Yeah but what kind of experience? They have been fuck all good at just about everything for the last 30 years. So out da door MFers.
Posted by: Jukin,The Deplorable & Profoundly Unserious at February 14, 2017 03:40 PM (cOHS7)
Posted by: tu3031 at February 14, 2017 03:40 PM (qJhUV)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 14, 2017 03:40 PM (LiqBV)
Posted by: HRC at February 14, 2017 03:40 PM (bc2Lc)
Posted by: Smallish Bees at February 14, 2017 03:36 PM (YPgXi)
Let me take a stab at this. Kristol and his ilk were never "conservative", they were actually "NEO-Conservative" ( as i used to describe myself a long time ago), but to the extent that they were actually 'conservative', it was only while they set the terms of the discussion.
Give them credit for being smart enough to realize early on that Trump was an existential threat to them.
Posted by: JoeF. at February 14, 2017 03:40 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 14, 2017 03:40 PM (TrOGC)
Posted by: Lt Col. Frank Slade at February 14, 2017 03:40 PM (Ya7zs)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 14, 2017 03:40 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: DFCtomm at February 14, 2017 03:41 PM (wt4bH)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2017 03:41 PM (Frvrc)
Looks like Bill's returning to the side his father left.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 03:18 PM (ZM2xo)
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Irving Kristol was also a harsh critic of the development of rule by an entrenched, overly centralized bureaucracy --- by what we are calling the Deep State.
So Billyboy has come full circle from his father, the man whose reputation and contacts gave Bill his position to begin with.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 14, 2017 03:41 PM (Nox3c)
It is obvious (or ought to be) that when Audi or Starbucks or any other business takes a political position, that they risk alienating half of their customers. Smart businesses learn to keep their politics quiet. But Kristol, as the publisher of The Weekly Standard, doesn't really have to worry about alienating liberals. He only has to worry about alienating a portion of the readers of his magazine. So other than those in the Deep State who also happen to subscribe to the Weekly Standard, who among his readers would join him in supporting the Deep State over that which we get through "normal and constitutional" politics?
Posted by: Action Jackson is my name. Bold adventure is my game. at February 14, 2017 03:41 PM (0SPyv)
Posted by: IC at February 14, 2017 03:41 PM (a0IVu)
Nothing particularly "conservative" about them. At all. Nothing more than globalist leftists who never saw value in the working/middle classes as much more than cannon-fodder who were no longer welcome in the Democrat Party for various reasons and who found a home by polluting the GOPe.
Feel free to head back to your natural home with the racist, fetish-globalist, fvck-the-working-class Democrats, Billy Boy.
Posted by: DocJ at February 14, 2017 03:37 PM (NYS7S)
Pat was right, but unfortunately he also plays a Useful Idiot role for the Left Media: the Obvious Ogre, drooling caveman, possibly a Nazi, who the Left Media TV drags out to demonize the Right.
There are only two kinds of Right that the Left Media will tolerate:
1. The Beautiful Loser, token opposition, go along to get along. Bill Kristol has made his choice
2. The Obvious Ogre. See Pat Buchanan above.
Time to go beyond either of these traps.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at February 14, 2017 03:41 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: George at February 14, 2017 03:39 PM
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So he's a delicate genius?
https://youtu.be/1TsdXa_7kzs
Posted by: Independent George's Phone at February 14, 2017 03:41 PM (uRy7h)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 14, 2017 03:41 PM (MZcWR)
Posted by: SMFH at February 14, 2017 03:41 PM (CRotO)
Just remember, Kristol's claim to fame is having worked for Dan Qualye
Posted by: Iblis at February 14, 2017 03:39 PM (9221z)
AND Sen Daniel Moynahan, D NY
Posted by: George at February 14, 2017 03:41 PM (Lat75)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 03:23 PM (vur0q)
Hey, that put a little spring in my step, LOL.
Posted by: Max Power at February 14, 2017 03:41 PM (q177U)
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at February 14, 2017 03:42 PM (J70i0)
Posted by: eleven at February 14, 2017 03:42 PM (qUNWi)
***
Again, presuming nukes aren't used, I presume the US Navy takes control of the sea space off Russia's coasts with relative ease - we'd probably lose a bunch of smaller surface ships and maybe a carrier or two. Maybe 10,000 dead sailors and airmen in the first week?
The landings would be tough.
Moving inland would be a nightmare.
Much like in 1941 it would either be take Moscow before the winter or see your brilliant offensive turn into a stalemate with massive attrition.
And were I China, that's when I would start making my moves - either seizing the Russia Far East (if conservative) or expanding into South East Asia (if playing a riskier game).
Iran might also decide to pay a visit to the Gulf States and the Norks to up their blackmail game.
Needless to say America would gain almost nothing out of such a move.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2017 03:42 PM (X7E8f)
They are not getting jobs with the President Trump administration.
They will lose all their inside access over the next 4 years... as Trump replaces staffers.
Meaning, in 4 years, their professions, which are only their because of their inside access... are gone...
They must bring down Trump, or they're out of a Job... permanently.
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 03:42 PM (qf6WZ)
Hacking the Democrats (whoever did it) is not stealing a election.
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2017 03:41 PM (Frvrc)
Some leaks are more equal to the left.
Posted by: local news at February 14, 2017 03:42 PM (1isJI)
Posted by: RKae at February 14, 2017 03:42 PM (AteWA)
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There's no chance at all the leak of Flynn talking to Russian official about sanctions *because we recorded the phone call* doesn't run afoul of revealing sources and methods.
Arrest and perp-walk whoever was responsible and make them the public face of the bureaucracy until they're convicted.
Then repeat.
Posted by: Methos at February 14, 2017 03:42 PM (3Liv/)
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That must be a tough 69.
Posted by: Jukin,The Deplorable & Profoundly Unserious at February 14, 2017 03:43 PM (cOHS7)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 03:43 PM (sRFAL)
Posted by: eleven at February 14, 2017 03:43 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Begonia at February 14, 2017 03:35 PM (Xj8rQ)
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Well, possibly true, but the real truth is that most of the "opposition" to Obama for the first year was peaceful Tea Party protests. The anger and resentment did not ratchet up until the first true ACT of opposition, committed by the liberal state of Massachusetts, sending Republican Scott Brown to put a stop to the Obamacare BS.
After that, the people actually elected Republicans to democratically put a stop to the Obama agenda. First the House, then the Senate, and along the way, 2/3 of the state governors and their legislatures as well.
And there's a KEY difference. Only a fool can make a rational case as to how the electorate did not send a clear message to Washington when they not only elected Trump in the face of near insurmountable, institutional advantages for Hillary, but also the House and Senate in Republican hands.
Sorry, there is no case to be made except sore loser bitterness for the Deep State undermining Trump. I know they don't like it. TOO.FUCKING.BAD. Win a fucking election.
Posted by: deadrody at February 14, 2017 03:43 PM (kj7T1)
To me it's just plain old political jealousy by a bunch of Republicans that think they should be in charge.
Posted by: Maritime at February 14, 2017 03:36 PM (87Aed)
Unfortunately, the Neo-Cons think that they *can* nation build primitive cultures, and that American power is unlimited.
They are right to hate the Anti-American Left, but they go too far the other way--assuming America is all powerful and all good.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at February 14, 2017 03:43 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 14, 2017 03:44 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Crusader at February 14, 2017 03:44 PM (ewSN2)
Posted by: Tired Mom at February 14, 2017 03:44 PM (WHV2E)
Posted by: Fritz at February 14, 2017 03:44 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: no good deed at February 14, 2017 03:44 PM (8Wf9O)
I've never liked the guy. Saw through him early on.
Charles Krauthammer is the same. Was a Mondale guy against Reagan. I mean buy a clue.
Posted by: Fuq the Media at February 14, 2017 03:44 PM (QLlGI)
You forgot to include a fish pun.
I read all of that for nothing.
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2017 03:45 PM (oXKWd)
Posted by: Curmudgeon at February 14, 2017 03:41 PM (ujg0T)
Absolutely agree. Much as I admire and support him, Pat is rather well past his sell-by date.
Posted by: DocJ at February 14, 2017 03:45 PM (NYS7S)
Trump and to limit the damage that he does to our country. That is as
true of Boll Kristol as it is of the men and women who manage our
nations security.
Posted by: Begonia at February 14, 2017 03:35 PM (Xj8rQ)
Bless your heart.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2017 03:45 PM (PY9jH)
The truth is that the far right would have applauded such efforts had they been made under the Obama administration. Trump comparing our country to the Russian autocracy has certainly irked people in these quarters no less than President Obamas apology tours.
Posted by: Begonia at February 14, 2017 03:35 PM (Xj8rQ)
Really, now? Because Bosnia and Libya went oh so well?
Posted by: Curmudgeon at February 14, 2017 03:45 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: davidt at February 14, 2017 03:45 PM (XoldI)
what's on second
I don't know - third base
I never really paid much attention to Krystal
so I don't know - third base
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at February 14, 2017 03:46 PM (/H27A)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 14, 2017 03:46 PM (TrOGC)
"It gets, Joe, to two other issues. The first is we have never taken
seriously from the very beginning Russia hacked our election. That was a
9/11 scale event. They attacked the core of our very democracy. That
was a Pearl Harbor scale event."
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2017 03:19 PM (SIY7D)
Sure sounds like he's saying we should declare war on Russia.
.
.
.
.I agree. If anyone has any proof whatsoever that Russia did in fact attempt to hack anything that might have influenced the election, that would be an Act of War and Trump would need to retaliate.
The problem with that is, there is no proof, not one single person or Agency has presented anything remotely constituting proof. And that Joint Report on the alleged Russian hacking was one lame A$$ power point on how not to secure your server.
All the Dems have is stupid people who fell for the oldest email phising scams out there, and hired the absolute worst IT Company they could find.
Oh, and they refused to turn the supposedly hacked server over to the FBI to do an investigation on.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 14, 2017 03:46 PM (le7jz)
***
The CIA was pretty weak from its inception. The OSS did some interesting things, but I can only really remember one CIA success during the whole cold war - when they blew up the Soviets fast eastern oil pipelines under Reagan.
They were involved with some other successes, like Chile in 73, but that was really just supporting the plans of local anti-communists.
The KGB's record stands as a pretty serious indictment considering their level of success during the same time period.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2017 03:46 PM (X7E8f)
Posted by: JoeF. at February 14, 2017 03:46 PM (7uYFy)
Choices are
#1, fucking up the adversary badly, but likely with a MAD outcome.
Or #2, serious regional skirmishes that can escalate into #1
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2017 03:47 PM (SIY7D)
Trump and to limit the damage that he does to our country. That is as
true of Boll Kristol as it is of the men and women who manage our
nations security.
Posted by: Begonia at February 14, 2017 03:35 PM (Xj8rQ)
Bless your heart.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2017 03:45 PM (PY9jH)
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Great.
It's back.
Posted by: SMFH at February 14, 2017 03:47 PM (CRotO)
Posted by: davidt at February 14, 2017 03:45 PM (XoldI)
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Leftist anti-Trump bureaucrats (supposedly) adopted that term in January.
Posted by: RioBravo at February 14, 2017 03:47 PM (SsblQ)
The Saudis funded Pakistan's nuclear weapons program and in return they get some.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 14, 2017 03:48 PM (dKiJG)
d.c. is beyond fixing. that i know. everything about it is a clusterfuck.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 14, 2017 03:18 PM (KP5rU)
I think that's the wrong question. The correct question is whether D.C. is fixable without the use of violence. That's the question that must be pondered.
Posted by: DFCtomm at February 14, 2017 03:48 PM (wt4bH)
Posted by: josephistan at February 14, 2017 03:48 PM (7HtZB)
Joseph Lieberman is their ideal leader. A very liberal voting record 99% of the time, but always for a bigger military budget that runs into every conflict.
I don't know why conservative in general catapulted this group into stardom in the first place, they were relatively obscure writers.
I guess it was to say "see, we're not antisemites, look at all these jewish neocons we have!!"
Posted by: Maritime at February 14, 2017 03:48 PM (87Aed)
Posted by: redenzo at February 14, 2017 03:48 PM (5wSNN)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 14, 2017 03:48 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: goodluckduck at February 14, 2017 03:39
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He was close to crying. His voice was all shaky and emotional. At his core, he's a spoiled brat who cries when he doesn't get his way. Much like the social justice warriors.
Posted by: Independent George's Phone at February 14, 2017 03:48 PM (uRy7h)
I think he's not funny anymore because he realizes time has passed him by and the new edgy, funny guy on the right is Milo. O'Rourke sounds more like "Get off my lawn!" these days.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 03:48 PM (ZM2xo)
You forgot to include a fish pun.
I read all of that for nothing.
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The deep state is full of trouters?
Posted by: Methos at February 14, 2017 03:48 PM (3Liv/)
I've met them several times and, though they be the cray cray politically, they are both really nice people. Yes, I'm bitter that the Elven Princess is nice too because I'm petty. Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 14, 2017 03:36 PM (mf5HN)
That is the look of someone that knows he married up, lol!
Posted by: LizLem at February 14, 2017 03:49 PM (hvf9s)
Maybe Bill Kristol does, too
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 14, 2017 03:49 PM (dnWSK)
Posted by: Chupacabra at February 14, 2017 03:50 PM (QHUHl)
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With enough Koke money, everyone gets to drink the cool aid.
Posted by: RioBravo at February 14, 2017 03:50 PM (SsblQ)
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I would presume that powers that be in Iran would trade a nuclear detonation on Tehran for Saudi's oil and control of the Hedjaz.
For a Shiite holy warrior controlling Mecca would be the culmination of a 1400 year old fight.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2017 03:50 PM (X7E8f)
Posted by: willow at February 14, 2017 03:50 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Under Fire at February 14, 2017 03:50 PM (6LwXe)
But if it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state.
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"I am pro democracy when it turns out my way"
Posted by: Lemmiwinks and his flaming boner of winning at February 14, 2017 03:51 PM (18h+i)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 03:51 PM (ZM2xo)
Posted by: Mega at February 14, 2017 03:51 PM (hHFOx)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 14, 2017 03:51 PM (KP5rU)
Seedlings die. Shiny blackened areas develop on the stems and petioles of established on the stems and petioles of established plants at and just above the soil line as plants collapse and die.
Posted by: Agricultural extension at February 14, 2017 03:51 PM (fDdVG)
I'm 5 inches taller than my boyfriend. I have been told on many occasions that HE is the one appropriately heighted, I am the long legged mutant freak.
Depends on the perspective!Posted by: LizLem at February 14, 2017 03:52 PM (hvf9s)
I can't believe this stupid tw*t is back.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 03:51 PM (ZM2xo)
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I'm thinking sock.
Posted by: Flyboy at February 14, 2017 03:52 PM (bUjWk)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 14, 2017 03:52 PM (AhVwx)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kristol
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotskyism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Intellectuals
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_for_Cultural_Freedom
From Marxism and Socialism to the CIA and a Soros-connected group to the neocon establishment.
Posted by: Infidelswine at February 14, 2017 03:52 PM (4QN1g)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 14, 2017 03:53 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2017 03:53 PM (oXKWd)
You are in an echo chamber. No one cares what you think. So, pop your eyeballs out like an enrated Pekingese and, even then, no one will care, you simpering twit.
I forget who you were so excited about in your neverTrump wetlands of fug. McMillian, the alien watermelon head? I forget. The guy who quit after a few days? I forget.
We are so sorry (NOT) to have not listened to your parsed words, said with an elite sneer, in simple words that those of us knuckle-draggers could translate, that President Trump was not your guy.
Makes one wonder, hmmm, how deeply entrenched is ole Bill and his ilk in the swampland of DC. So sorry your man did not get in to continue your parties and, lest we forget, your IMPORTANCE. Your self-IMPORTANCE. I can see you on a street corner, carrying a cardboard sign, "I was once IMPORTANT!!!"
Bill, go on a cruise. Chill. Retire. No one cares what you think. That ship has sailed, you GOPe.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky,Deplorable Infidel Queen at February 14, 2017 03:53 PM (fq4ih)
Posted by: RKae at February 14, 2017 03:53 PM (AteWA)
woah, so we are going after neocons now because of kristol?
Posted by: willow at February 14, 2017 03:50 PM (R7cwD)
No, It's because their neocons, and has nothing to do with Kristol, other than he's the dumbest of the lot.
Posted by: DFCtomm at February 14, 2017 03:53 PM (wt4bH)
He called JFK -- as JFK was preparing orders for the evacuation of Washington DC and New York City -- and accused him of being a madmen.
Posted by: E Pluribus Juan at February 14, 2017 03:53 PM (ZFUt7)
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Most women don't seem to want to have a relationship with a shorter man....though this is a problem for very tall women and very short men.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2017 03:54 PM (X7E8f)
Posted by: eleven at February 14, 2017 03:54 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: willow at February 14, 2017 03:50 PM (R7cwD)
Depends upon the neo-con.
A thoughtful guy like Victor Davis Hanson? Not at all. He gets Trump.
A weenie like Kristol? Yes, purge him and the whole Weakly Standard cabal.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at February 14, 2017 03:54 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: no good deed at February 14, 2017 03:54 PM (8Wf9O)
Posted by: willow at February 14, 2017 03:55 PM (R7cwD)
Hmmmmm.................
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 14, 2017 03:55 PM (le7jz)
I can't remember where I read it on how the CIA convinced a company making light switches supplied an Eastern Europe country to install something that would allow them to switch off all the lights across the country.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 14, 2017 03:55 PM (dKiJG)
McConnell said "we are going to crush them everywhere. I don't think they will have a single nominee anywhere in the country". Tea Party was the best grass roots movement in decades. Establishment tried to kill it.
Trump is really tea party, in my mind. For rule of law, get things built under budget, drain the swamp, end the PC religion fascism. (with current debt and internal power structure, small government may be on hold)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 14, 2017 03:55 PM (RWmbm)
Hasn't Kucinich been married like four times?
Posted by: tu3031 at February 14, 2017 03:55 PM (qJhUV)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 14, 2017 03:56 PM (dnWSK)
Says that any use outside of a real investigation, is a felony.
This needs a criminal referral... AND if not, a Lawsuit from Gen. Flynn.
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 03:56 PM (qf6WZ)
No, It's because their neocons, and has nothing to do with Kristol, other than he's the dumbest of the lot.
Posted by: DFCtomm at February 14, 2017 03:53 PM (wt4bH)
You paint with so broad a brush.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 03:56 PM (sRFAL)
Posted by: Serious Cat at February 14, 2017 03:56 PM (Uy6ri)
Lots of venom and eye-popping and rabid spit spew from you for some time now.
Drain the effing swamp.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky,Deplorable Infidel Queen at February 14, 2017 03:56 PM (fq4ih)
Posted by: willow at February 14, 2017 03:56 PM (R7cwD)
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Well fuck you too, Kennedy!
Posted by: Philadelphia at February 14, 2017 03:56 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 03:57 PM (sRFAL)
Posted by: eleven at February 14, 2017 03:57 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Khan at February 14, 2017 03:58 PM (/tR3J)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 14, 2017 03:58 PM (TrOGC)
Gives me the warm fuzzies. *hugs everyone*
Posted by: Prudie, one-named and unashamed at February 14, 2017 03:58 PM (al6UK)
A weenie like Kristol? Yes, purge him and the whole Weakly Standard cabal.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at February 14, 2017 03:54 PM (ujg0T)
VDH is one of my two favorite Democrats, unless he has recently changed that affiliation. Considering that fact I wouldn't call him a neo-con and I have no problem with him.
Posted by: DFCtomm at February 14, 2017 03:58 PM (wt4bH)
510 Posted by: dagny at February 14, 2017 02:10 PM (nnAfn)
Stuff that hasn't been leaked? Like what? Or is this more rumor.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 14, 2017 02:13 PM (TrOGC)
Why the hostility? Regardless, no, it's not rumor and it's not going to be leaked because what he was advocating was stopped in time by others getting the proper information to the WH.
Posted by: dagny at February 14, 2017 03:58 PM (nnAfn)
Except for the fact that we routinely tap the phones of foreign government officials calling into the States. Flynn had to know this given his background and from what I've heard today he did know.
He made a mistake, not sure how big of one right now, but he lost Trump's trust.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2017 03:58 PM (/tuJf)
Our current foes aren't really do concerned about the state of the world they dominate as long as they dominate it.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2017 03:58 PM (X7E8f)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 14, 2017 03:58 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 14, 2017 03:44 PM (KP5rU)
It would explain the dead-eyed mouthing of bland talking points.
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at February 14, 2017 03:59 PM (RD7QR)
https://steemit.com/politics/@stevescoins/ i-was-once-a-neocon-why-neoconservatism-failed-and-why-it-will-always-fail
Posted by: Grad School Fool at February 14, 2017 03:59 PM (swEzU)
I cannot fault people who are moved by their patriotism to oppose Trump and to limit the damage that he does to our country. That is as true of Boll Kristol as it is of the men and women who manage our nations security. Posted by: Begonia at February 14, 2017 03:35 PM (Xj8rQ)
What about the 49 million patriots who voted for Trump?
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February 14, 2017 03:59 PM (lKyWE)
David French. Kristol wanted David French, the NR columnist to run for president...
It's one thing to have had serious doubts about Trump. I did, before he got the nomination. Kristol utterly beclowned himself over Trump.
And - with the shit show the left is putting on right now, the way it has revealed its' complete hatred of anybody who stands in the way of Leftist rule, anybody who calls themselves a conservative and is still unhappy Trump won is a fraud.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 03:59 PM (ZM2xo)
Most annoying is the "conservatives" who fooled us for years. It would be wrong of me to wish they'd die in a fire.
Posted by: dagny at February 14, 2017 03:59 PM (nnAfn)
Posted by: trev006 at February 14, 2017 03:59 PM (04sPv)
I can't remember where I read it on how the CIA convinced a company making light switches supplied an Eastern Europe country to install something that would allow them to switch off all the lights across the country.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 14, 2017 03:55 PM (dKiJG)
How did they do that when he became Shah in 1941?
Posted by: buzzion at February 14, 2017 04:00 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: Old Nam Vet at February 14, 2017 04:00 PM (bKxiT)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at February 14, 2017 04:01 PM (P/kVC)
Posted by: steevy at February 14, 2017 04:01 PM (r/0kC)
Posted by: Mega at February 14, 2017 04:01 PM (hHFOx)
Posted by: willow at February 14, 2017 04:01 PM (R7cwD)
What matters is that he pissed off Pence, and Trump seems to value Pence's input a lot.
Posted by: JEM at February 14, 2017 04:01 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: Jeb! (pronounced "Heb!") at February 14, 2017 04:01 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 14, 2017 03:44 PM (KP5rU)
By jove! I reckon you're right.
Posted by: IC at February 14, 2017 04:01 PM (a0IVu)
The left then tagged the Iraq warhawks and nation builders as 'Neocons' during the Bush years.
Posted by: Soledad O'Brien's Earpiece at February 14, 2017 04:01 PM (XoldI)
Good, yes. Anyone, too, who was willing to accept Hillary Clinton as president knowing what we do about the left (and more now) because they had undefined "principles" (what those were I was never told) were always frauds. "Fraud" is the nicest word I can think of, I can think of whole strings of worse ones.
Posted by: dagny at February 14, 2017 04:01 PM (nnAfn)
I haven't regarded Bill Kristol as being right about much of anything since around 2003.
Posted by: JEM at February 14, 2017 04:02 PM (TppKb)
Swell when sent by Piers Morgan
But what's best for my head?
Kristol's tulips on my organ
Posted by: The golden scalp weasel at February 14, 2017 04:02 PM (WrMht)
The highly useful U-2 and A-12/SR-71 reconnaisance programs were originally hatched by the Agency.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 14, 2017 04:02 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: DFCtomm at February 14, 2017 03:58 PM (wt4bH)
He may have been nominally one once, but the Boll Weevils and Blue Dogs are basically extinct now.
I don't think he has voted comfortably Democrat since Truman was still a living memory?
Posted by: Curmudgeon at February 14, 2017 04:02 PM (ujg0T)
I can't remember where I read it on how the CIA convinced a company making light switches supplied an Eastern Europe country to install something that would allow them to switch off all the lights across the country.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 14, 2017 03:55 PM (dKiJG)
How did they do that when he became Shah in 1941?
Posted by: buzzion at February 14, 2017 04:00 PM (z/Ubi)
The CIA helped to overthrow the elected leftist government in Iran in 1954(?) & the Shah reclaimed full power over Iran.
Posted by: Philadelphia at February 14, 2017 04:03 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Patrick Henry at February 14, 2017 04:03 PM (a7IXj)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 14, 2017 04:03 PM (Om16U)
All PDT has to do is keep up the nonstop onslaught offense and make these guys flail around at the pinata of the day.
Posted by: Leonard Pinth-Garnell at February 14, 2017 04:04 PM (7A6l6)
Posted by: Philadelphia at February 14, 2017 04:03 PM (7HtZB)
That's reclaiming power. Not bringing him to power
Posted by: buzzion at February 14, 2017 04:04 PM (z/Ubi)
Some lunatic has taken over your Twitter account. Please change your password from "p@ssword" to a less-transparent one.
Yours sincerely, etc.
Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at February 14, 2017 04:04 PM (fouOY)
Posted by: Golfman at February 14, 2017 04:04 PM (lozA3)
They did a pretty good job helping he Mujahideen take down the Soviets in Afghanistan, not so much the follow up but that was probably the politicians fault.
The thing about the CIA, we know when they fuck up but we don't know every time they succeed.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2017 04:04 PM (/tuJf)
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The original pajama man who inspired pajama boy.
Posted by: RioBravo at February 14, 2017 04:04 PM (SsblQ)
Posted by: torquewrench at February 14, 2017 04:02 PM (noWW6)
Well I'd give The Skunk Works and Kelly Johnson more credit than the CIA but yes they were involved
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 04:04 PM (sRFAL)
Correct. And the right sorta accepted them as "not leftists." However, they now reveal themselves to be just "deep staters" ie progressives, statists, leftists, who sought power through the besmirched military industrial complex.
They're really have less integrity than the run of the mill hippie tree hugger vegan pussy hat. At least those people have some sort of mental illness or childhood trauma that makes them nuts.
Posted by: dagny at February 14, 2017 04:04 PM (nnAfn)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 14, 2017 03:54 PM (X7E8f)
True. He's the first guy I've dated in ages that is shorter than I am. His legs are short but he has a long torso, so when we are seated we are close in height. So it is not too big a hindrance.
I think a lot of the dating shorter stigma for women is that they think men need the ego boost of being taller. And some men do. We love each other so we've let our egos go about height. More important things to worry about!
Posted by: LizLem at February 14, 2017 04:04 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 14, 2017 04:05 PM (toH8T)
Ivy Bells. Enormously risky effort and astronomically costly to accomplish. Required several technical innovations that didn't exist before the program. Blown to Moscow Centre by the Walker spy ring for a few thousand bucks.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 14, 2017 04:05 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Philadelphia at February 14, 2017 04:03 PM (7HtZB)
There's "elected", and then there is Salvador Allende or Hugo Chavez style "elected". Mob goons and all that.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at February 14, 2017 04:05 PM (ujg0T)
Reza Pahlavi ascended to the Peacock Throne at the hands of the British in WWII because his father was pro-Nazi and the Brits needed the oil.
The British. Before there was even a CIA.
Now, there is this thing with Kermit Roosevelt and all that. The Left wants you to believe the CIA overthrew a "democratically elected leader" and installed the Shah. Which is total bullshit. The Shah had been in power already, the CIA's troublemaking (in conjunction with the British) was because there was a prime minister elected who was about to nationalize the oil companies (none of which were American, they were British!) and invite the Soviets in. So the CIA stirred up something, and the result was the Shah got dethroned and actually had to leave the country!
It took a while for it all to come back together.
But the CIA didn't make Reza Pahlavi the Shah.
Posted by: blaster at February 14, 2017 04:05 PM (tewYv)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, Genetic Defect at February 14, 2017 04:05 PM (jQ4fD)
That is why it is critical Trump rip up their root system as much as possible.
Posted by: William Eaton at February 14, 2017 04:05 PM (MuTTO)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 14, 2017 04:06 PM (Om16U)
*in the Barrel no one can hear you scream*
Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 14, 2017 04:03 PM (Om16U)
*shoves container of hand sanitizer thru USB port*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2017 04:06 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: talgus da Deplorable at February 14, 2017 04:06 PM (fJQAI)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 04:04 PM (sRFAL)
The CIA asked for a plane that could fly really high and really fast. That makes them as much a part of the development as I was part of the Deadpool development team when I asked for a well done and funny super hero movie.
Posted by: DFCtomm at February 14, 2017 04:07 PM (wt4bH)
Our current foes aren't really do concerned about the state of the world they dominate as long as they dominate it.
Posted by: 18-1
Since Vic isn't around to tell me I'm full of shit - I mean he's Vic, and great, but he has a perception of half-life that doesn't square with reality. Isotopes have multiple half-lives that can last thousands of years.
If Vic doesn't get it, I'm sure the mullahs don't get it either.
Posted by: E Pluribus Juan at February 14, 2017 04:07 PM (ZFUt7)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 03:57 PM (sRFAL)
That's an Augean stables task. And these are entrenched bureaucrats-they are settled in with mortgages, and they will fight to keep their jobs. Plus, they have the media and the Dems on their side.
I think we need to be praying often for the Almighty's protection of PDT, and his staff, as well as the (admittedly ) few conservatives in the ranks of DC agencies. They are all going to be under fire with the current political climate.
Posted by: moki at February 14, 2017 04:07 PM (gfRCk)
Posted by: torquewrench at February 14, 2017 04:05 PM (noWW6)
I still can't believe we did not execute that fuck on the National Mall...but hey, that's just me
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 04:07 PM (sRFAL)
Posted by: torquewrench at February 14, 2017 04:02 PM (noWW6)
Well I'd give The Skunk Works and Kelly Johnson more credit than the CIA but yes they were involved
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 04:04 PM (sRFAL)
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They had the money. And then there were the recon satellites.
Posted by: RioBravo at February 14, 2017 04:07 PM (SsblQ)
Bill Kristol, Paul Ryan, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Pat Buchanan, George Will, Hugh Hewitt...
The list could go on. You know who they are. It wasn't that long ago these guys were safe behind their facade of 'conservatism'.
They're assholes. And I ain't one of them.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at February 14, 2017 04:07 PM (Gh3fw)
Bill Kristol, Paul Ryan, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Pat Buchanan, George Will, Hugh Hewitt...
The list could go on. You know who they are. It wasn't that long ago these guys were safe behind their facade of 'conservatism'.
They're assholes. And I ain't one of them.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at February 14, 2017 04:07 PM (Gh3fw)
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When was Lindsay Graham widely considered conservative?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 04:08 PM (vur0q)
Posted by: Martell at February 14, 2017 04:08 PM (cGZMo)
I think we need to be praying often for the Almighty's protection of PDT, and his staff, as well as the (admittedly ) few conservatives in the ranks of DC agencies. They are all going to be under fire with the current political climate.
Posted by: moki at February 14, 2017 04:07 PM (gfRCk)
You don't have to take them all out...get a few a put the Fear of G-D and Trump into them.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 04:09 PM (sRFAL)
Posted by: Martell at February 14, 2017 04:08 PM (cGZMo)
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no
Posted by: RioBravo at February 14, 2017 04:09 PM (SsblQ)
GOPe, piling on, helping the Dems...
'Ethics Panel' now going after Conway for her Ivanka clothes line comments...
Deep State.... fighting back...
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 04:09 PM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 14, 2017 04:09 PM (0mRoj)
Bill Kristol, Paul Ryan, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Pat Buchanan, George Will, Hugh Hewitt...
The list could go on. You know who they are. It wasn't that long ago these guys were safe behind their facade of 'conservatism'.
They're assholes. And I ain't one of them.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at February 14, 2017 04:07 PM (Gh3fw)
Which of these things is not like the others? I count 6 Beautiful Losers and only 1 Obvious Ogre.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at February 14, 2017 04:09 PM (ujg0T)
GOPe, piling on, helping the Dems...
'Ethics Panel' now going after Conway for her Ivanka clothes line comments...
Deep State.... fighting back...
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 04:09 PM (qf6WZ)
He is not Of the Body.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 14, 2017 04:09 PM (0mRoj)
Swell when sent by Piers Morgan
But what's best for my head?
Kristol's tulips on my organ
Posted by: The golden scalp weasel at February 14, 2017 04:02 PM (WrMht)
Clever but disturbing. To be fair that describes most things here, so good job!
Posted by: LizLem at February 14, 2017 04:09 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Martell at February 14, 2017 04:08 PM (cGZMo)
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I haven't read the stories, but I highly doubt it.
Unless Congress worked through a repeal bill underneath everyone's noses.
I'm betting it's an EO designed to lessen the law's impact in every way that the law gives the president to do.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 04:10 PM (vur0q)
Hillary Clinton as president knowing what we do about the left (and more
now) because they had undefined "principles" (what those were I was
never told) were always frauds. "Fraud" is the nicest word I can think
of, I can think of whole strings of worse ones.
Posted by: dagny
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Very true.
This is why the Nevertrumpers who de-facto actively campaigned for Hillary infuriate me when they try to act like it was not a big deal. "Just. Drop. It."
Yeah.
No.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 14, 2017 04:10 PM (toH8T)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2017 04:06 PM (PY9jH)
thanks, Jane.
*bathes in sanitizer*
Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 14, 2017 04:10 PM (Om16U)
Posted by: Bob Costas at February 14, 2017 04:10 PM (bc2Lc)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 04:08 PM (vur0q)
You're seriously gonna pick that nit? You missed the point.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at February 14, 2017 04:10 PM (Gh3fw)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 14, 2017 04:10 PM (oVJmc)
Worst Neocons In America
1) Bill Kristol
2) John McCain
3) Lindsey Graham
4) Robert Kagan
5) Elliot Abrams
Eliot Cohen Hardest Hit
Posted by: Nathan R. Jessup at February 14, 2017 04:11 PM (cm7e2)
Posted by: josephistan at February 14, 2017 04:11 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: DaveA at February 14, 2017 04:12 PM (8J/Te)
Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at February 14, 2017 04:12 PM (fouOY)
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2017 04:12 PM (oXKWd)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 04:08 PM (vur0q)
You're seriously gonna pick that nit? You missed the point.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at February 14, 2017 04:10 PM (Gh3fw)
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Yeah, cause he hits close to home.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 04:12 PM (vur0q)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 04:12 PM (sRFAL)
Posted by: Bilwick at February 14, 2017 04:12 PM (xDoHK)
I hope this works out better for everyone.
Posted by: Duncan Macleod, The Highlander at February 14, 2017 04:12 PM (NAv1Q)
Posted by: RoyalOil at February 14, 2017 04:12 PM (AmMfi)
What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Recep Tayyip Erdogan at February 14, 2017 04:12 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: Average Guy at February 14, 2017 04:12 PM (KqRop)
I read/heard somewhere about someone saying that Trump should never have gone to war with the IC, they would kneecap him etc. So the IC because of criticism is willing AND able to take out a President? That should scare the shit out of everyone. It means Howard Zinn is right, and half the stupid movies from Hollywood, too.
Are we really ruled by a behind the scenes cabal? That's what Kristol is saying.
And that is even worse than him prefering it.
Posted by: blaster at February 14, 2017 04:12 PM (tewYv)
Posted by: LizLem at February 14, 2017 04:04 PM (hvf9s)
I dated a man once who was my height (5'7") and wore flats when we went out because I thought he wouldn't like me towering over him. One night I wore heels because the dress I wanted to wear just didn't go with flats. He said, "You look nice in heels." It turned out that I was more sensitive about it than he was.
BTW, that's one thing I noticed in DC - there are zillions of short men there. I realized it one day on the Metro when I looked around my crowded car and realized I was as tall or taller than every man standing.
I asked a friend (a 5'0" one) if she had noticed it and she said, yes, this is a city of short men.
Unfortunately many of them seem to have Napoleon complexes.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 04:12 PM (ZM2xo)
He's conservative for a gay guy.
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2017 04:12 PM (oXKWd)
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"Hold my beer."
-Milo
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 04:12 PM (vur0q)
Reminds me of "alt-right" - made up lingo that everyone immediately repeats and acts as if it's a credible thing.
Posted by: LaSue at February 14, 2017 04:13 PM (CLKfs)
Sigh, Chaffetz. Wonder if the lefty town hall spooked him a little, enough to make him obnoxious. Did this question get asked of Obama, Bush, etc? Hopefully there is a simple answer and the grownups can move on to the bigger questions.
And ANYTHING done will be better than servers in bathrooms wiped with cloths.
Posted by: LizLem at February 14, 2017 04:13 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Dr. Mr. Badman at February 14, 2017 04:13 PM (cfjq1)
I don't know why conservative in general catapulted this group into stardom in the first place, they were relatively obscure writers.
Posted by: Maritime at February 14, 2017 03:48 PM
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-No. They first turned against the Left because of its anti-anti-Communism (pro-Communism, really) but they soon became very strong critics of domestic leftism.
-They were NOT obscure writers at all. People like Norman Podhoretz and Irving Kristol were BIG TIME writers well established in left-wing NY circles. (This is why the Left loathed them back in the day.)
This is the thing. Irving K. and Norman P. were sailing along just fine in their lefty world until they saw that things had gone astray. They opened their eyes. They woke up. And as hard as it was, they had to follow the truth as best they could.
Their children, alas, are stuck in the past and their comfortable world. They WILL NOT open their eyes.
IMO this is because the second generation just doesn't have the brains, the talent, or the fighting spark of their fathers. They have coasted on nepotism and mediocrity for too long to change.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 14, 2017 04:13 PM (Nox3c)
But if he went away, what would Ace do with all his free time that had been taken up with using Kristol as a punching bag?
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 14, 2017 04:13 PM (OzJeO)
You don't have to take them all out...get a few a put the Fear of G-D and Trump into them.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 04:09 PM (sRFAL)
I would hope that would be true, but based on my experience with these types, just a few soil the batch. They aren't honorable foes. They are sneaky, backstabbing, vindictive shites who say yes, and pretend to grovel, all whilst plotting their revenge. The best thing for this country would be for them all to be relieved of duty, and decent, hard-working, America loving men and women to be put in their places.
But, that may be too much to hope for.
Posted by: moki at February 14, 2017 04:14 PM (gfRCk)
When he was directly responsible to a conservative electorate.
As Senator he's heavily dependent on Dem votes to stay in office.
Posted by: JEM at February 14, 2017 04:14 PM (TppKb)
I originally wrote : 'Before Milo Lindsey was considered...'.
But, then I thought - ' That's no fun for the Horde.'.
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2017 04:14 PM (oXKWd)
-Milo
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 04:12 PM (vur0q)
It took till 442 but we have a winner.
Posted by: Golfman at February 14, 2017 04:15 PM (48QDY)
This explains a lot.
Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at February 14, 2017 04:15 PM (fouOY)
Posted by: Under Fire at February 14, 2017 04:15 PM (6LwXe)
Posted by: LaSue at February 14, 2017 04:15 PM (CLKfs)
There really is no conservative functional governing political philosophy.
It's all just a con.
Posted by: Kreplach at February 14, 2017 04:15 PM (+lv+r)
Posted by: Mathers at February 14, 2017 04:15 PM (3myMJ)
Except for the fact that we routinely tap the phones of foreign government officials calling into the States. Flynn had to know this given his background and from what I've heard today he did know.
He made a mistake, not sure how big of one right now, but he lost Trump's trust.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2017 03:58 PM (/tuJf)
The tap itself is not the problem... that it was used against a US citizen, that it was leaked... that is specifically talked about within that law.
Use it against the Ambassador, and its a Foreign Policy question... use it against an American Citizen, and it falls under the wiretapping laws.
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 04:15 PM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 14, 2017 04:15 PM (KP5rU)
His deep state, her deep state, everywhere a deep state.
Posted by: RioBravo at February 14, 2017 04:15 PM (SsblQ)
" Interesting that he's acknowledging the existence of the (entirely
unAmerican in concept) deep state. That he prefers technocratic rule to
and actual republic or democracy should I guess not come as a surprise
at this point."
Rule by technocrat is the essence of Progressive politics. It is what they have been working to lock in for over 100 years. I'm sure Kristol knows what he is endorsing.
Posted by: geoffb5 at February 14, 2017 04:16 PM (d3wbb)
Posted by: Ken at February 14, 2017 04:16 PM (9D/6a)
Sigh, Chaffetz. Wonder if the lefty town hall spooked him a little, enough to make him obnoxious. Did this question get asked of Obama, Bush, etc? Hopefully there is a simple answer and the grownups can move on to the bigger questions.
And ANYTHING done will be better than servers in bathrooms wiped with cloths.
Posted by: LizLem at February 14, 2017 04:13 PM (hvf9s)
But how was it handled?
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 14, 2017 04:17 PM (OzJeO)
I hope this works out better for everyone.
Posted by: Duncan Macleod, The Highlander at February 14, 2017 04:12 PM (NAv1Q)
"Gloryholeanus? Wha. . ."
- - Lindsay Grahamaphrodite
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 14, 2017 04:17 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Agent Cooper at February 14, 2017 04:17 PM (1zARK)
Reminds me of "alt-right" - made up lingo that everyone immediately repeats and acts as if it's a credible thing.
Posted by: LaSue at February 14, 2017 04:13 PM (CLKfs)
It is the entrenched Federal Life time Bureaucrats that are usually left wing. Just like we on the Right ignored the School Systems while we worked, brought up our families and joined thre Military, we also ignored the them. And it is coming back to bite us in the ass.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 04:17 PM (sRFAL)
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2017 04:17 PM (oXKWd)
Also you know who has been awful quiet lately, the Attorney General.
I wonder what he is working on
Posted by: MarkC at February 14, 2017 04:17 PM (iWFQR)
>>Use it against the Ambassador, and its a Foreign Policy question... use it against an American Citizen, and it falls under the wiretapping laws.
Eh, it's a little murky. As I said, it was reported today that Flynn knew the call was being tapped so I think that might hurt any claim of being secretly listened to.
The part that bothers me is the leaking. As I said this morning, this smells of rogue people in the intelligence agencies going off the reservation. And not that they have smelled blood they will try for more.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2017 04:18 PM (/tuJf)
I posted this in a previous thread, but people refused to sit by Tiffany Trump at a show during NY Fashion Week because of her family name. Same reason as your friend. What is wrong with people?! She seemed to brush it off, good for her. Haters gonna hate!
Posted by: LizLem at February 14, 2017 04:18 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Golfman at February 14, 2017 04:04 PM (lozA3)
Those white people sure are lazy. Let's replace them with new Americans. Rimshot!
Thank you! I'll be here all week.... Well forever. Try the walnut sause on hotdogs and pizza. Don't forget to take your pizza related maps on your handkerchiefs when you leave.
And remember gang, What happens in DC is a stay out of prison card.
Posted by: Bill's Krystals at February 14, 2017 04:18 PM (LiqBV)
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 04:15 PM (qf6WZ)
Obama droned American citizens. You think they have qualms about this?
Posted by: Golfman at February 14, 2017 04:18 PM (48QDY)
If not, he can go piss up a rope.
More proof that there is really only one establishment political party in Washington - the Government Party.
Posted by: Elections Have Consequences at February 14, 2017 04:18 PM (Mrl1e)
He is hiding something to be so perpetually OUTRAGED about the future swamp draining.
His entire mind is thinking in enraged CAPS!!!!
i think he forgets to bath he is so ENRANGED! He probably smells like mothballs, and farhts at this point, with moss growing on teeth, sharpened from the grinding at night as he soaks his mattress in flop sweat and urine. Then he wakes up, remembers November 9th, and his hysteria begins again. Looks in mirror, sees blood-shot pop-eyes and weeps for humanity while emitting little sobs to not alert the children of his impending institutionalization. Perhaps a rest and electroshock will help along with a shower.
The bloom is off the rose. The creased pants are wrinkled (oh, wait, that was Brooks! I get the twits confused).
Posted by: ChristyBlinky,Deplorable Infidel Queen at February 14, 2017 04:18 PM (fq4ih)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 04:17 PM (sRFAL)
Either we have a small ass or they've got a big mouth. Betting on the latter.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 14, 2017 04:18 PM (mbhDw)
-They were NOT obscure writers at all. People like Norman Podhoretz and Irving Kristol were BIG TIME writers well established in left-wing NY circles. (This is why the Left loathed them back in the day.)
This is the thing. Irving K. and Norman P. were sailing along just fine in their lefty world until they saw that things had gone astray. They opened their eyes. They woke up. And as hard as it was, they had to follow the truth as best they could.
Their children, alas, are stuck in the past and their comfortable world. They WILL NOT open their eyes.
IMO this is because the second generation just doesn't have the brains, the talent, or the fighting spark of their fathers. They have coasted on nepotism and mediocrity for too long to change.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 14, 2017 04:13 PM (Nox3c)
THIS.
IIRC, these people were predominantly Jewish ex-leftists as well.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at February 14, 2017 04:18 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 04:17 PM (sRFAL)
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Didn't the term originate in Turkey?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 04:18 PM (vur0q)
I posted this in a previous thread, but people refused to sit by Tiffany Trump at a show during NY Fashion Week because of her family name. Same reason as your friend. What is wrong with people?! She seemed to brush it off, good for her. Haters gonna hate!
Posted by: LizLem at February 14, 2017 04:18 PM (hvf9s)
Yes I saw that. The left are classless scumbags. Each and everyone of them
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 04:19 PM (sRFAL)
Posted by: Martell at February 14, 2017 04:08 PM (cGZMo)
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No, not repealed. Pretty sure that would require congress. A provision was repealed that requires certain disclosures by energy companies.
Posted by: Mathers at February 14, 2017 04:19 PM (3myMJ)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February 14, 2017 04:19 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 04:12 PM (vur0q)
Every one of those guys, have either tied themselves to the label, or have had the label tied to them, and they have either been identified, or have identified themselves, as leaders of the right, including conservatives.
The point, in my weak mind, is who are we associating ourselves with, and why? The process has started, but it might be a worthwhile endeavor to figure out what it is exactly that we believe in and are there politicians out there who (actually) share our beliefs.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at February 14, 2017 04:19 PM (Gh3fw)
Well, we docontrol the media.
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2017 04:19 PM (oXKWd)
Posted by: Thinks he's Archer at February 14, 2017 04:19 PM (gbWkA)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 04:18 PM (vur0q)
I thought it originated in Mordor?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 04:20 PM (sRFAL)
I posted this in a previous thread, but people refused to sit by Tiffany Trump at a show during NY Fashion Week because of her family name. Same reason as your friend. What is wrong with people?! She seemed to brush it off, good for her. Haters gonna hate!
Posted by: LizLem at February 14, 2017 04:18 PM (hvf9s)
I saw that on Daily Mail (I know, but it's mind candy) and the commenters were almost all supportive of Miss. Trump.
Lots of comments on how this was fourth grade behavior, and how the lefts are really not the love/tolerance crowd they scream about being. I was kinda shocked that Brits felt this way.
Posted by: moki at February 14, 2017 04:20 PM (gfRCk)
440 You know what's scary? is that Kristol (among others) is acknowledging that the Deep State is not right-wing wacko conspiracy talk - it's real.
You're right.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 04:20 PM (ZM2xo)
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at February 14, 2017 04:21 PM (Gh3fw)
Reminds me of "alt-right" - made up lingo that everyone immediately repeats and acts as if it's a credible thing.
Posted by: LaSue at February 14, 2017 04:13 PM (CLKfs)
The deep State is the entrenched Bureaucrats who actually run things in DC...
Those who are not political appointees, yet have enormous power due to regulations...
Think... Lois Lerner at IRS, who got away with politicizing the IRS, and got off with no penalty.
Its our version of the Madarins who ran the Chinese Empire for generations...
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 04:21 PM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: Thinks he's Archer at February 14, 2017 04:21 PM (gbWkA)
Not a single thing has happened to Hillary Clinton and her 'pay-for-play' scheme. Nothing.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 14, 2017 04:21 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: JEM at February 14, 2017 04:14 PM (TppKb)
Not really.
Dems aren't out there voting for Graham. There just aren't that many in SC. He wins among Republicans who, in South Carolina, like him. He's a veteran, he's pro-military, and he has a fantastic constituent service organization that he inherited from Strom Thurmond and he has kept it going.
Posted by: blaster at February 14, 2017 04:21 PM (tewYv)
Weakly Standard loses money every year. Great business model there !
Posted by: EVLINC! at February 14, 2017 04:21 PM (y3aQB)
Which is why the left tended to use "neocon" to mean "joo."
Posted by: dagny at February 14, 2017 04:22 PM (nnAfn)
Going to have to take my cat to the vet tonight. He got his vax shots
last week, but has been sneezing, lethargic not eating as much
since. Prayers for us if you would.
Posted by: josephistan at February 14, 2017 04:11 PM (7HtZB)
You got 'em.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2017 04:22 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 04:18 PM (vur0q)
Yes.
The term as originally used referenced more than a generic "entrenched bureaucrats". It referred to a hidden power structure such as in the armed forces, secret police, and security services controlling policy from the shadows.
Posted by: RioBravo at February 14, 2017 04:22 PM (SsblQ)
Going to have to take my cat to the vet tonight. He got his vax shots
last week, but has been sneezing, lethargic not eating as much
since. Prayers for us if you would.
Posted by: josephistan at February 14, 2017 04:11 PM (7HtZB)
You got 'em.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2017 04:22 PM (PY9jH)
Me too
Posted by: moki at February 14, 2017 04:22 PM (gfRCk)
Posted by: E Pluribus Juan at February 14, 2017 04:22 PM (ZFUt7)
He's the belle of the ball...or cotillion as it were.
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2017 04:22 PM (oXKWd)
Posted by: torquewrench at February 14, 2017 04:23 PM (noWW6)
David Horowitz is a Jewish ex-leftist (hell, a red diaper baby and a 60's radical - you couldn't have gotten more leftist that that dude was) and he is an enthusiastic Trump supporter.
Can't overgeneralize here.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 04:23 PM (ZM2xo)
The fact that the government agencies, including the intelligence agencies, are the people who think they deserve to run the country, and will crush anyone who threatens their power, democracy be damned.
Posted by: Elections Have Consequences at February 14, 2017 04:23 PM (Mrl1e)
>>Reminds me of "alt-right" - made up lingo that everyone immediately repeats and acts as if it's a credible thing.
We are routinely making up new words these days to describe things that already have names. Makes them sound edgy and smart don't you know.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2017 04:23 PM (/tuJf)
LOL...The "Ethics Panel" has less power than the NY Jet's Offense.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 04:23 PM (sRFAL)
How did you get hostility out of that? Anyway, If it's not rumor and you know about it then it how is it not leaked. Are you plugged in with that clearance?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 14, 2017 04:23 PM (TrOGC)
Especially Politicians, BUT everyone in general. & when someone tries that with me. I just say everything before BUT is Bullshit
Posted by: EVLINC! at February 14, 2017 04:23 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 04:15 PM (qf6WZ)
Obama droned American citizens. You think they have qualms about this?
Posted by: Golfman at February 14, 2017 04:18 PM (48QDY)
Sessions in now Attorney General... so it 'might' get interesting...
Although I am not holding my breath....
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 04:24 PM (qf6WZ)
It has been said that "self interest is the most powerful force in the universe." Government union employees can't be fired, even if they cause the deaths of... people.
That pretty much sums up self interest run amok, I'd say.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at February 14, 2017 04:24 PM (Gh3fw)
Also, influences of crony capitalism and organized crime elements.
Not that we have any of that stuff to worry about here in the States.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 14, 2017 04:24 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 14, 2017 04:24 PM (KP5rU)
"I read/heard somewhere about someone saying that Trump should never have gone to war with the IC, they would kneecap him etc."
That would have been John Schindler in his Observer piece yesterday, http://tinyurl.com/jn3x86s
And an earlier one. http://tinyurl.com/hjd5sj2
Posted by: geoffb5 at February 14, 2017 04:24 PM (d3wbb)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2017 04:18 PM (/tuJf)
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Indeed.
As regards the tap, I would think that all foreign embassy personnel would assume that they are being listened to. I sure would. And Flynn would undoubtedly know this too.
Posted by: bluebell at February 14, 2017 04:25 PM (sBOL1)
Posted by: Donovan at February 14, 2017 04:26 PM (IqV8l)
I think the core of the Neocons have an assimilation problem. Remember, this movement started from a small community of European Jewish intellectuals that relocated from Eastern Europe to New York City in the 20th century. They established their own magazines and talking shops where they waxed forth on political theory, art, literature and so on, mostly just among themselves. For a while they were Marxist, but eventually flipped to support market economics.
But what they carried back from the Old World was the lens through which they viewed society, reflecting their own particular history and circumstances, and having little to do with the USA. Hitler and the Czar and Stalin are simply not the most important figures in American history, but nevertheless will always loom the highest in the sociopolitical imagination of the Neocons and in whose garb they will often dress their opponents.
When they looked out from their NYC salons at the rest of America, it was an intellectual version of the old New Yorker cartoon of the view of America from Manhattan. Beyond the Hudson River they saw the film studios of Los Angeles and not much else. When they looked in the other direction, they saw afar off what they considered to be the intellectual riches of Paris, of 19th Century Germany, etc.
The fact that we Americans somehow managed to found a new nation by defeating the most powerful empire in the world, to settle a moving frontier and establish advanced civilization across an entire continent, to fight a civil war and end American slavery, to lead the worldwide industrial revolution, to build countless cities and railroads and highways, to invent most of the technological wonders of the modern world, to create an agricultural cornucopia on our continent that can feed much of the world, and on and on, all without the help of their superior intellect, seems to escape their notice. Gosh, how did we ever do it?
When someone can nonchalantly and unselfconsciously toss out a comment in a public forum that it might be best if the American white working class were simply replaced by people brought in from other countries, and who believes that non-democratic rule by a cadre of elite globalists would be preferable to having a president whose main agenda is to revive industrial jobs for Americans and keep Americans safe from illegal immigration and terrorism, then I suggest we have someone who is only weakly assimilated to our country.
Posted by: Scalia's Ghost at February 14, 2017 04:26 PM (hA1V+)
Wall Street: Stocks hit new record closes; Dow climbs to 20504
Posted by: Nathan R. Jessup at February 14, 2017 04:26 PM (cm7e2)
>>> MSN headline... Chafetz now asking for how classified material was handled while Trump was at Mar Lago ...
Sigh, Chaffetz. Wonder if the lefty town hall spooked him a little,
enough to make him obnoxious. Did this question get asked of Obama,
Bush, etc? Hopefully there is a simple answer and the grownups can move
on to the bigger questions.
And ANYTHING done will be better than servers in bathrooms wiped with cloths.
Posted by: LizLem at February 14, 2017 04:13 PM (hvf9s)
I am sure that Trump has a SCIF set up. State Department does not have the authority to certify a SCIF.
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at February 14, 2017 04:27 PM (7N6ox)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 14, 2017 04:03 PM
That looks intriguing. I'll have what she's having.
Posted by: Cora Segal at February 14, 2017 04:28 PM (DMUuz)
Agreed. The guy is an intelligence expert, it's why he got the job, I sincerely doubt he didn't know the phone was tapped. And I also doubt he said anything compromising to the Russians.
Seems more likely to me it was such a minor thing he probably did forget talking about it or assumed it was unimportant.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2017 04:28 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 14, 2017 04:13 PM (Nox3c)
Good take on the historical background of the 2nd generation neocons.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 04:28 PM (ZM2xo)
The point, in my weak mind, is who are we associating ourselves with, and why? The process has started, but it might be a worthwhile endeavor to figure out what it is exactly that we believe in and are there politicians out there who (actually) share our beliefs.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at February 14, 2017 04:19 PM (Gh3fw)
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Here's the thing about political coalitions: They end up containing a wide variety of people who believe different things all claiming the same label.
If we're going to get a party that's as Conservative as we want, then it'll take literally decades of work to topple the big government Republicans from every tier of the party. The Tea Party's efforts to do that have already born significant fruit, but as we all know, we still have a long way to go.
You want to knock those people outside of the Conservative Label? Then you have to make sure that they are actually so far off from the center of that label that no one would take the label seriously.
We may sit back and say, "Neo-cons are really conservative", but there are very large swaths of the Republican Party that say they are. We need to alter those numbers so that the Party leaves them, and they don't leave the Party.
The front lines of that fight is really at the state and local level. As long as there are governors and state legislatures that would agree with Bill Kristol and continue to support Lindsey Graham, then the next generation of Republicans is sure to come out just like them.
We're most likely not going to change Lindsey Graham's mind. We're also most likely not going to knock him out of the Senate (as much as I would like). A more productive use of our time and treasure would be to make sure that the person who takes that seat from Graham when he retires is chosen from a source of Conservative Republicans more like Ted Cruz than Graham.
You want to fight a real fight? Fight state Republican Party's that are Republican in Name Only. It will take literally years to bear the fruit at the federal level, but it will bear fruit, and it'll pay more dividends than another abortive primary campaign against John McCain.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 04:28 PM (vur0q)
"I read/heard somewhere about someone saying that Trump should never have gone to war with the IC, they would kneecap him etc."
So the IC is the supreme power of the land?
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February 14, 2017 04:28 PM (lKyWE)
But it gets better. Trump called for an end to the DC gravy train. And then we put the breaks on the Trump Train.
I'll be here for the near and far future. Don't forget to tip the children in the hot tubs. Because it's funny to see the look on their faces when you take the money away from them when you leave.
Posted by: Bill's Krystals at February 14, 2017 04:28 PM (LiqBV)
So, let this reveal the GOPe, fully, with all their tutus and crankshafts in he sunlight. Let us see how they want our country safe, with their in-fighting for power as they fear their exposure and deep connections to the Democrat demons who they join forces with.
Let them be exposed. Let them be defeated. Let the good win.
The Clinton's will not go unpunished. Bill looks as if he is demented as his herpetic mouth catches flies in any given public outing. Hilz the Hag from Hell is a big, fat loser pantsuit. It is now branded in the back of her eyeballs: LOSER.
They did not get away, completely, with their Pay to Play scheme: Foundation has folded. Of course, billions hidden somewhere, but their national pride of whatever the hell it was for (Haiti? What a freaking joke: gold mines while houses not finished. Children missing. Haiti hates them. What a fine, fine upstanding group for the Bush's to associate with. harf). Truth will out, like nasty pus in the boil of a butt. They are the pus fighting the pressure to erupt. Give it time.
Meanwhile, see through the neverTrumpers as they come to the surface of the swamp. Mark them, remember them in the next election. Never forget.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky,Deplorable Infidel Queen at February 14, 2017 04:28 PM (fq4ih)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 14, 2017 04:29 PM (OzJeO)
Posted by: Yo! at February 14, 2017 04:29 PM (GwIKd)
TheLeft/DNC/MSM: Not just Washington, the entire country is in chaos and disarray!!!1OMG #utterMADNESS
Wall Street: Stocks hit new record closes; Dow climbs to 20504
Posted by: Nathan R. Jessup at February 14, 2017 04:26 PM (cm7e2)
Heh. This. Investors generally have a better handle on things that matter; not the DC nattering class.
Posted by: IC at February 14, 2017 04:29 PM (a0IVu)
Hillary had the State Department install an SCIF-like room in her house.
Hillary then instructed her maid (who had no security clearance, of course) to go into the room, print out e-mails, and deliver them to her, because Hillary was too important/lazy to actually go into the room herself.
Posted by: Elections Have Consequences at February 14, 2017 04:29 PM (Mrl1e)
Dems aren't out there voting for Graham. There just aren't that many in SC. He wins among Republicans who, in South Carolina, like him. He's a veteran, he's pro-military, and he has a fantastic constituent service organization that he inherited from Strom Thurmond and he has kept it going.
Posted by: blaster at February 14, 2017 04:21 PM (tewYv)
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Unless Nikki Haley comes back from the UN to face off with Graham in a primary, there isn't a Republican in the state that could conceivably knock him off without some kind of debilitating scandal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 04:30 PM (vur0q)
I agree with this. The number of Hard Core Leftists driving things in the Blue State is probably not that large. But they're connected. e.g. someone moved Lois Lerner from FEC to what became a key political position at the IRS.
The rest are Fellow Travellers who take orders.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2017 04:30 PM (SIY7D)
I'm picking up an undercurrent of 'concern' from the moderate left about North Korea. When Bush warned about 'axis of evil' they scoffed.
They have stopped scoffing about the Norks, imo.
Posted by: E Pluribus Juan at February 14, 2017 04:30 PM (ZFUt7)
Well, technically, before the butt, it's faeces. After the butt, assuming it's being emitted by an intact male bovine, you're correct.
Posted by: Dr. H. Solo at February 14, 2017 04:30 PM (DMUuz)
Fuck the intelligence community.
They are fucking enemies.
This collection of useless cunts has been wrong about literally everything for the last 50 years.
Like I said in another thread, Trump is the unitary executive and can declassify everything from the last four administrations..
National Address, name names, name clandestine programs and operators fucking burn these fucks and this shit to the ground.
Posted by: Kreplach at February 14, 2017 04:31 PM (+lv+r)
Reminds me of "alt-right" - made up lingo that everyone immediately repeats and acts as if it's a credible thing.
Posted by: LaSue at February 14, 2017 04:13 PM (CLKfs)
Didn't Ollie North reference this during Iran Contra or the fall out of that ?
Posted by: dDan at February 14, 2017 04:31 PM (hwYmz)
Posted by: bluebell at February 14, 2017 04:25 PM (sBOL1)
But as he was once DIA... he would also know the Law, that makes it illegal for anyone to leak this information. Under the Wiretapping laws they can ONLY use it for official purposes, as in an investigation.
It is a felony to release this information.
Something about human nature I realized a number of years ago...
If you are a Liar, you expect everyone to Lie. If you are a cheater, you expect everyone to cheat...
If you are an honest and honorable person, your first instinct is to think others will be the same...
Knowing the Law... he may have expected others to actually FOLLOW the law...
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 04:31 PM (qf6WZ)
I don't know - how was classified material handled when Obama rented a vacation house on Hawaii or Martha's Vineyard?
Posted by: Elections Have Consequences at February 14, 2017 04:31 PM (Mrl1e)
The part that bothers me is the leaking. As I said this morning, this
smells of rogue people in the intelligence agencies going off the
reservation. And not that they have smelled blood they will try for
more.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2017 04:18 PM (/tuJf)
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Remember from the debates where Hillary boasted that 17 intelligence agencies supported her? I just couldn't wrap my tiny brain around 17 of those suckers running around playing spy vs spy with our money and making political recommendations.
Deep state indeed.
Posted by: mustbequantum at February 14, 2017 04:31 PM (MIKMs)
Posted by: The Deep State at February 14, 2017 04:31 PM (/4bOy)
The term "deep state"? Yes.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 14, 2017 04:23 PM (noWW6)
Naw. I coined the phrase.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at February 14, 2017 04:32 PM (48QDY)
The thing is that can also be said of gentile "country club conservatives." They too live in a bubble.
Hell, we all do to a certain extent. The problem is the ruling class doesn't even try to comprehend the world through other's eyes - and when you have power over the lives of those others, that's a big problem.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 14, 2017 04:32 PM (ZM2xo)
Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at February 14, 2017 04:32 PM (dQJCS)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke
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And here I thought we were done with the fish puns.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at February 14, 2017 04:33 PM (OVUYQ)
Trump won not despite, but because of, his aggressive nature. This is also why Kristol hates him: he sees an alpha male who can kick his ass.
(To be fair about it, most beta males can kick his ass. And most omega males.. and women...and children... and at least 50% of toy poodles).
Posted by: Ken at February 14, 2017 04:33 PM (9D/6a)
They have stopped scoffing about the Norks, imo."
If the Norks nuke California, that will really screw up the Democrat's election strategy.
Posted by: Elections Have Consequences at February 14, 2017 04:33 PM (Mrl1e)
it's that they never waded far from Ellis Island. if they were even from Chicago, let alone Texas, they'd know this country better.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at February 14, 2017 04:33 PM (vO36R)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2017 04:33 PM (sRFAL)
Posted by: Weasel at February 14, 2017 04:33 PM (Sfs6o)
Hillary then instructed her maid (who had no security clearance, of course) to go into the room, print out e-mails, and deliver them to her, because Hillary was too important/lazy to actually go into the room herself.
Posted by: Elections Have Consequences at February 14, 2017 04:29 PM (Mrl1e)
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It's worse than that, According to Huma Abedin's testimony Hillary did not know how to operate the fax machine.
That might have also been backed by Cheryl Mills testimony.
Posted by: Margot Trudeau at February 14, 2017 04:34 PM (fi5nC)
Posted by: Reggie1971 at February 14, 2017 04:34 PM (DDM7c)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 04:28 PM (vur0q)
This is absolutely correct. It would be a Right version of the Left's "Long March", but that worked out quite well for them, now didn't it?
Posted by: Curmudgeon at February 14, 2017 04:34 PM (ujg0T)
Seems more likely to me it was such a minor thing he probably did forget talking about it or assumed it was unimportant.
Posted by: JackStraw
This. Exactly why I want to see a transcript of relevant parts.
Posted by: E Pluribus Juan at February 14, 2017 04:34 PM (ZFUt7)
Hillary then instructed her maid (who had no security clearance, of
course) to go into the room, print out e-mails, and deliver them to her,
because Hillary was too important/lazy to actually go into the room
herself.
Posted by: Elections Have Consequences at February 14, 2017 04:29 PM (Mrl1e)
True. She had a DIA approved SCIF. State does not have the authority to certify a SCIF but as the Sec State she was allowed to maintain a SCIF. But that stuff with the maid needs to be investigated also.
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at February 14, 2017 04:34 PM (7N6ox)
Posted by: Sarah Silverman at February 14, 2017 04:35 PM (qJhUV)
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 04:31 PM (qf6WZ)
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Absolutely. As JackStraw noted above, the biggest concern here is the leaking. That stuff has to stop.
Posted by: bluebell at February 14, 2017 04:35 PM (sBOL1)
These guy--just 'cause they are in the intelligence divisions--are still made up of the same characters like at the EPA that have to be told in a memo not to shit in the hallways.
Let's not make a myth that these guys are super competent and such.
They're stupid as hell, got their job 80% because they went to the right school and knew the right people--0% on qualifications.
All they are is dangerously stupid.
And they--just like their Stupid Queen Hillary--will leave a trial a mile long and half a mile wide.
Posted by: RoyalOil at February 14, 2017 04:35 PM (AmMfi)
Posted by: Elections Have Consequences at February 14, 2017 04:31 PM (Mrl1e)
They borrowed Hilary's Maid?
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 04:35 PM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: Weasel at February 14, 2017 04:33 PM (Sfs6o)
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Whee! Does that mean it's gun time for Weasel?
Posted by: bluebell at February 14, 2017 04:36 PM (sBOL1)
Kristol let the cat out of the bag with his damning of the "white working class."
I don't want to ruffle feathers and i'm not ascribing evil intent to anyone. I think it's all reflex.
Posted by: JoeF. at February 14, 2017 04:36 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: eleven at February 14, 2017 04:37 PM (qUNWi)
MSN headline... Chafetz now asking for how classified material was handled while Trump was at Mar Lago ...
Don't know but I bet it was more secure than it would be in DC
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February 14, 2017 04:37 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: IC at February 14, 2017 04:37 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: eleven at February 14, 2017 04:37 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: LizLem at February 14, 2017 04:38 PM (hvf9s)
This is absolutely correct. It would be a Right version of the Left's "Long March", but that worked out quite well for them, now didn't it?
Posted by: Curmudgeon at February 14, 2017 04:34 PM (ujg0T)
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I dream of a Super PAC, started by the Horde, that's designed to knock off centrist Republicans in state districts that are generally much more conservative than their representatives. The sort of district where Republicans automatically win no matter what and the representative has gotten really soft. But, it's at the state level so almost know one knows who their representatives are, much less than the normal rate for a U.S. seat.
We pick a state per cycle, throw in a few million dollars, and take out about 10% of the Republican office holders, replacing them with much more conservative options. We then move to another state, trying to make our presence as unknown as possible as late into the game as possible so it's always a surprise.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 04:38 PM (vur0q)
Posted by: tu3031 at February 14, 2017 04:38 PM (qJhUV)
Posted by: Sporkatus at February 14, 2017 04:38 PM (eXSOZ)
Posted by: LizLem at February 14, 2017 04:38 PM (hvf9s)
Who knows. I work with alternative scenarios which I weight for likelihood.
Most likely is that Flynn was echoing what Trump was already signalling in public, but speaking of it as hard fact, because everyone knew what Trump intended by his signalling: he would undo Obama's last minute hissy fit actions over hacking the election. Only in the later glare did Flynn realize that he shouldn't have said what he said because it violated the One President at a Time Rule
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2017 04:38 PM (SIY7D)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at February 14, 2017 04:38 PM (nQHw/)
Seems more likely to me it was such a minor thing he probably did forget talking about it or assumed it was unimportant.
Posted by: JackStraw
This. Exactly why I want to see a transcript of relevant parts.
Posted by: E Pluribus Juan at February 14, 2017 04:34 PM (ZFUt7)
Just spitballin.... but... could have been something like this...
Russian: Dah, that sounds good, now can you give us any help on the new Sanctions..
Flynn: Not now, but maybe later... now.. back to ISIS... can we...
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 04:38 PM (qf6WZ)
Cause it looks like from where I'm sitting is that we are watching a Sic Semper Tyranus moment being whipped up before our very eyes.
It is fucking scary.
Posted by: Kreplach at February 14, 2017 04:38 PM (+lv+r)
Posted by: Don Q. at February 14, 2017 04:35 PM (qf6WZ)
Merry Maids - Answering faxes and wiping servers with cloths. Established 1992
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at February 14, 2017 04:38 PM (7N6ox)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 14, 2017 04:30 PM (vur0q)
That is likely true. I could see Haley coming back to run for 2020 as she is not part of the SC Republican machine.
Joe Wilson probably has the juice to do it, but he wouldn't.
Posted by: blaster at February 14, 2017 04:38 PM (tewYv)
Posted by: Arnold Schwarzenegger at February 14, 2017 04:39 PM (ZFUt7)
And we now see in retrospect how hollow and useless a lot of that stuff actually turned out to be. As Europe's cultural legacy has proven incapable of sustaining even itself over time.
(19th century German philosophy in particular went haring off down a bunch of crazy blind alleys.)
Posted by: torquewrench at February 14, 2017 04:39 PM (noWW6)
Don't forget Hillary's maid was an immigrant, who could have loyalties to her home country, or at minimum, could have been easily exploited to get copies of Hillary's classified docs.
Maybe she was just a helpful employee who did as she was told, but putting a foreign maid in charge of printing docs is *inviting* espionage.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2017 04:39 PM (NOIQH)
They join forces with other GOPes, grasping for similar power, as it slips through their fingers and they plunge into the swamp, kicking and screaming from the swamp creatures, the snakes, the gators, the swamp gas enveloping them. It is similar to hell but without the eternal lake of fire. It will be a hell on earth as they lose power, the power to control Congress and the POTUS due to the puppet strings of lobbies and special interest groups...and, yes, even foreign governments.
Keeping in mind that, as Sec of State, one speech Bill gave to Algeria, with money pocketed to the late great Foundation, took Algeria off the terrorist list of countries. One speech, my flying monkeys.
I expect some swamp gas explosions this week from the ouster of General Flynn, who had his own sort of issues, but I do not believe he was of the swamp gas fraternity.
Kristol is, otherwise he would go quieter into the night. He is involved, deeply, with something or someone he does not want revealed. Bank on it...my gut feeling, anyway. You do not react this way due to a politician. He is scared, peeps. Of what we do not know (yet). It is more than neverTrump dementia.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky,Deplorable Infidel Queen at February 14, 2017 04:40 PM (fq4ih)
Posted by: Scalia's Ghost at February 14, 2017 04:26 PM
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The yuuuuge problem with your argument is that it is the SECOND, not the first, generation of neo-conservatives that comprise an establishment alienated from the experience of normal Americans.
Irving Kristol had a fully sympathetic view of the middle-class, of the workers and farmers that the Left was spitting on as "hardhats" and "rednecks." Bill Kristol? Not so much.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 14, 2017 04:41 PM (Nox3c)
Posted by: Bill's Krystals at February 14, 2017 04:41 PM (LiqBV)
Posted by: ejo at February 14, 2017 04:43 PM (il4FI)
Posted by: Max Power at February 14, 2017 04:43 PM (q177U)
it's that they never waded far from Ellis Island. if they were even from Chicago, let alone Texas, they'd know this country better.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at February 14, 2017 04:33 PM (vO36R)
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Bill Kristol is closer to Ellis Island than his father?
Give me a break.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 14, 2017 04:46 PM (Nox3c)
Posted by: Javems at February 14, 2017 04:46 PM (yOqwj)
"One thing I will give the communists, they wanted to rule the world, not a nuclear wasteland full of mutants and Lena Dunhams."
Don't give them too much credit. Did you ever see their war plan from the late 50s? The post-communist Czechs declassified them. Basically it was to nuke the everloving shit out of everything of significance in western Europe at the outset, then roll between the craters in sealed tanks. Nine days to the English Channel, was the plan. Guess they didn't want us fighting our desperate holding action and bringing in reserves and materiel.
Posted by: JPS at February 14, 2017 04:46 PM (cam2f)
it's that they never waded far from Ellis Island. if they were even from Chicago, let alone Texas, they'd know this country better.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at February 14, 2017 04:33 PM (vO36R)
Heck, that's even true *within* some states. I swear that if the Beverly Hills or Bel Air neo-con crowd just drove over "the Grapevine" and spent a week moteling in say, Bakersfield, it would open their eyes a bit.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at February 14, 2017 04:47 PM (ujg0T)
I left early and went to the Moon Pie General Store. Since it was right there, I also went through the open air market. They have so many pretty things. Too bad I don't have unlimited funds!
I was able to get back to the room much earlier than usual, so I'll have a laid back evening.
Posted by: Vic's wife at February 14, 2017 04:47 PM (CljBp)
Whee! Does that mean it's gun time for Weasel?
Posted by: bluebell at February 14, 2017 04:36 PM (sBOL1)
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You know it!
Posted by: Weasel at February 14, 2017 04:48 PM (Sfs6o)
Irving Kristol had a fully sympathetic view of the middle-class, of the workers and farmers that the Left was spitting on as "hardhats" and "rednecks." Bill Kristol? Not so much.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 14, 2017 04:41 PM (Nox3c)
But the point you are raising is not uncommon in contemporary immigrant communities. Often the first generation has more of an affection for the new country. We see this with Hispanic immigrant communities where the crime rate is higher with the second generation and they are more open to La Raza radicalization. We see it with Muslims, take Major Hassan as just one example.
But I think there is a different dynamic going on here with Kristol et al, I don't think it's a first generation - second generation thing at work here.
Posted by: Scalia's Ghost at February 14, 2017 04:50 PM (hA1V+)
We now have urban politics writ large. Most Jews aren't good at it. e.g. they want to be liked by blacks, who mostly hate them. e.g. Bernie Sanders
Ed Koch was a notable exception.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2017 04:52 PM (SIY7D)
Posted by: Vic's wife at February 14, 2017 04:53 PM (CljBp)
Posted by: Brian at February 14, 2017 04:56 PM (K84+K)
It has been said that "self interest is the most powerful force in the universe." Government union employees can't be fired, even if they cause the deaths of... people.
That pretty much sums up self interest run amok, I'd say.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at February 14, 2017 04:24 PM (Gh3fw)
Yeah, but the actual bureaucracy isn't in govt unions. GS-14, 15 SES or even professional GS11 and up aren't in govt unions unless they're blue collar.
Posted by: dagny at February 14, 2017 04:59 PM (nnAfn)
Posted by: Ken at February 14, 2017 05:00 PM (9D/6a)
Posted by: The Hot Gates at February 14, 2017 05:05 PM (k3uSs)
Posted by: Ken at February 14, 2017 05:07 PM (9D/6a)
Posted by: Orson at February 14, 2017 05:13 PM (ziyUi)
Posted by: COCOPS at February 14, 2017 05:14 PM (wx6iv)
I prefer democracy when the votes are within the ambit of my preferences. Otherwise, I prefer rule by unelected faceless clerks and money handlers.
Which is to say. I prefer what I desire even if it means no democracy. Did he have stroke or something? He wasn't this outraged over Obama who was a fire breathing socialist.
Posted by: simplemind at February 14, 2017 05:19 PM (xVRrG)
Fixed it for him.
"loathsome toad" ?
Why ya goin' so easy on him Ace ?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 14, 2017 05:35 PM (lfM7I)
Posted by: BD5 at February 14, 2017 05:48 PM (F8kRf)
Posted by: Editor at February 14, 2017 05:59 PM (FdjhG)
This is absolutely correct. It would be a Right version of the
Left's "Long March", but that worked out quite well for them, now didn't
it?
Posted by: Curmudgeon at February 14, 2017 04:34 PM (ujg0T)
It worked for them because conservative saps like you worked to hold everything together while they tried to rip it down. If you haven't noticed they're more than willing to bring down the temple if they down get their way. They will not do you the service you did them. There will be no conservative "long march".
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