Media Groundhog Day (MJ)

Great movie. Really funny in a charming way.

We're stuck in our own version of Groundhog Day with the media. They've obsessively wobbled from conspiracy to conspiracy in order to feel better about Dr. President Donald Trump Jr, peace be upon him, savior of the free world, as President.

First, they decided that he wasn't really president and gave Jill Stein millions upon millions of dollars so that she could...do...something.

Swiftly following Jill Stein's brief turn as a disposable celebutard, the media decided that the Logan Act and Emoluments Clause were certainly violated. Trump must go cuz vague, 200 year old reasons!

And then Trump didn't really want to be President. He was going to quit and through some miracle Hillary would be appointed the leader of the free world. Heavy drinking and wish casting ensued.

While the media shouted at clouds, got drunk, and groped every piece of ass within five finger distance, they decided that Trump was too boorish to be President. The cabinet, various advisors, possibly Jared Kushner (cuz he's a Joo!) or maybe even Steve Bannon were actually running country.

Next the media decided that Putin was really the President based on a tabloid rumor that Donny Two Scoops peed on a bed with a few hookers 10 years ago. The former KGB agent then blackmailed Trump into running for the presidency, hacked the election, swayed public opinion with millions of fake news stories, and made Hillary collapse on 9/11 due to heat exhaustion in the sweltering 68 degree heat. This really happened; some in the media are still flogging that chicken today.

As the RUSSIA! conspiracy unfolded, the media hedged their bets by claiming that Trump was so unhinged and mentally ill that he should be removed via the 25th Amendment. Lots of internet head doctors that had never been within combover distance of the President were sure that he, not they, were totally nuts.

And then Trump did something unforgivable. He proved their theories wrong.

So now we're back to the simple safe space and comfort animal that started it all: Trump isn't really the President.

After reading this trash from Matt Yglesias, I realized that its not just that the media are dumb, its that they're dumb and lazy, and infantile. And so is their liberal base.

They're stuck in the loop, thumb in mouth, rocking too and fro, hoping that the bad man isn't really in charge while he goes about the business of Making America What It Always Was, Except For the Last Eight Years Under That Loser Obama.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 08:45 PM

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Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 28, 2018 08:47 PM (89T5c)

2 2?

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 28, 2018 08:47 PM (PzBTm)

3 It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be gray, and its going to last for the rest of your life.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 28, 2018 08:47 PM (9SkN+)

4 I heard one news item today where people want to impeach Trump for "lying to the American people". Where was this sentiment in 2016 when Hillary was lying thru her teeth ever chance she got????

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 28, 2018 08:48 PM (5tSKk)

5
When did spiderman's girlfriend become a cob?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 28, 2018 08:49 PM (9q7Dl)

6 Here's to blowback.

*clink*

Blowback of the kind the Dems, Obama, Hillary, the DOJ and the FBI are getting when this idiotic Russia investigation blows the lid off of their coordinated effort to subvert the legitimate outcome of the 2016 election.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 28, 2018 08:50 PM (9SkN+)

7 It'll be interesting to see if the temper tantrum can last another seven years.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 28, 2018 08:50 PM (gC2IV)

8 5
When did spiderman's girlfriend become a cob?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 28, 2018 08:49 PM (9q7Dl)

We hit the jackpot.

Posted by: josephistan at January 28, 2018 08:50 PM (ANIFC)

9 I think it is a combination of being too much money in the meme to change, a weaponized mob ready to rend any dissenter limb from limb, and attempted cover-up for high crimes and felonies.
It has been so far a self-perpetuating cycle so far.

I think once the money starts running out we may see either people running overseas (please, to start a colony in Morocco or Cote d'Ivorie!) or some sort of putsch. The Putsch is what I am worried most about.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 28, 2018 08:50 PM (2K6fY)

10 >>It'll be interesting to see if the temper tantrum can last another seven years.

I'm still trying to figure out what they are so angry about.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2018 08:51 PM (/tuJf)

11 Too early for flapjacks?
(Asking for an intoxicated friend)

Posted by: Guam tipper at January 28, 2018 08:52 PM (/DvFd)

12 He's no Julio. Hell, he's not even Enrique.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 28, 2018 08:52 PM (NWiLs)

13
It'll be interesting to see if the temper tantrum can last another seven years.

Posted by: Duke Lowell
.............
I don't, for one minute, expect Trump to get re-elected in 2020. It was a fluke.. a good fluke, yes.. but he's gotta accomplish everything he needs to do in the first term.

I hope I am wrong, though.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 28, 2018 08:52 PM (5tSKk)

14 I'm still trying to figure out what they are so angry about.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2018 08:51 PM (/tuJf)

Fascism, misogyny, having to pay for their own tampons, whatevz.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 28, 2018 08:52 PM (9SkN+)

15 It sounds like some people really, really wish that Obama had declared himself President For Life.

Posted by: rickl at January 28, 2018 08:52 PM (sdi6R)

16 Their commie handlers are mad and angry so the sheep are mad and angry.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 28, 2018 08:53 PM (89T5c)

17 MattY has been a hack for decades now. I first stumbled upon him trying to concern troll people on Blackfive.

Anything he writes, about anything...instant garbage can.

He isn't worth wasting neurons on.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 28, 2018 08:53 PM (xJa6I)

18 I'm still trying to figure out what they are so angry about.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2018 08:51 PM (/tuJf)

I think a lot of them are humiliated to be beaten by someone they think is a boorish clown. That and they tell themselves that his evil henchmen will destroy any progressive and modern innovations brought up since Reagan and send the country back to the dark ages where men who wore ties owned stores and told them to stop running in the aisles.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 28, 2018 08:54 PM (2K6fY)

19 Hey everybody.

At this stage, honestly? It's time to take the liberals' bullshit and start throwing it in their faces, in the real world.

Example: you own, and are running, your sandwich shop. Matty Iggy comes in and orders a sandwich. What would you do?

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 28, 2018 08:54 PM (eMKNe)

20 Ammo now, I can see wasting ammo on MattY. And the world would be a better place.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 28, 2018 08:54 PM (xJa6I)

21 I've seen lies and cover ups but never like this before.
Blood has already been shed.
Pray for the survival of our nation.

Posted by: navybrat at January 28, 2018 08:55 PM (w7KSn)

22 There really is no thing like a constitutionally envisioned press anymore.

Posted by: CM9000 at January 28, 2018 08:55 PM (124sD)

23 20 Ammo now, I can see wasting ammo on MattY. And the world would be a better place.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 28, 2018 08:54 PM (xJa6I)

Put a little love in your heart

Posted by: Insomniac at January 28, 2018 08:55 PM (NWiLs)

24 @qdpsteve

I'd tell him we don't serve racists in my store and order him out. Call the cops if he won't leave.

LAUGH when he starts to go, while pointing and yelling 'Look at the racist fuck'.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 28, 2018 08:56 PM (xJa6I)

25
Remember: Trump is the excuse, not the reason. They're nuts, insane with frustrated power lust. ANY Republican who stands between them and wielding control over you must be destroyed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2018 08:56 PM (/rcpa)

26 The perfect metaphor for the media attacks on Trump:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-W8Ox3YsAE

Posted by: MW at January 28, 2018 08:56 PM (wNx6K)

27 I need to take my own advice but, I don't like Matt Yglesias.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 28, 2018 08:56 PM (xJa6I)

28
Example: you own, and are running, your sandwich shop. Matty Iggy comes in and orders a sandwich. What would you do?
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 28, 2018 08:54 PM (eMKNe)

Tell him his money is no good since he has such a big name, and give him a free peanut butter on wonderbread sandwich, and a glass of tepid tap water.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 28, 2018 08:56 PM (2K6fY)

29 23 20 Ammo now, I can see wasting ammo on MattY. And the world would be a better place.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 28, 2018 08:54 PM (xJa6I)

Put a little love in your heart
Posted by: Insomniac at January 28, 2018 08:55 PM (NWiLs)

"What heart?"

/Miller's Crossing

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at January 28, 2018 08:57 PM (xJa6I)

30 Yglesias thought Hillary's criminality was a feature, not a bug. You have to be a badass criminal to be President, you see.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 28, 2018 08:57 PM (pV/54)

31 I'm still trying to figure out why after a year, they're still running around with their hair on fire and foaming at the mouth. You would think that after a while, they'd get exhausted. They must live on shots of Jaeger and Red Bull.

Posted by: Old Blue at January 28, 2018 08:58 PM (gEvQ8)

32
Matt Yglesias went to Harvard. You didn't.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2018 08:58 PM (/rcpa)

33 "I'm still trying to figure out why after a year, they're still running around with their hair on fire and foaming at the mouth."

Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?
Does that ring a bell.
They are all certifiable.

Posted by: navybrat at January 28, 2018 08:59 PM (w7KSn)

34 Watching the press these days is like watching Salieri in his wheelchair amidst his subjects.

Posted by: Guam tipper at January 28, 2018 09:00 PM (/DvFd)

35 Mark and Kindltot, I like, I like...

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 28, 2018 09:00 PM (eMKNe)

36 Chi-Town Jerry, see my important advice left to you at the end of the Gum Thread.

Posted by: Steck /i at January 28, 2018 09:00 PM (LlRQB)

37 My sister leans right, but hates Trump on personal grounds. Spoke with her today and she was nearly in tears of rage over MSM's treatment of Trump. Hit a point of saturation.

She's not alone.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 28, 2018 09:00 PM (pV/54)

38 Interesting story at Hot Air.

Wonder what Soros' endgame is here. Probably that smaller companies are easier to control.

https://hotair.com/archives/2018/01/28/one-richest-liberals-predicting-downfall-facebook-google/

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 28, 2018 09:01 PM (eMKNe)

39 Harvard should be a disqualifying factor for public office.
Fruit of the poison tree, all of it.

Posted by: navybrat at January 28, 2018 09:01 PM (w7KSn)

40 They seemed nice.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 28, 2018 09:01 PM (Ndje9)

41 Matt Yglesias went to Harvard. You didn't.

Which doesn't say much about Ivy League education any more. I'd rather take advise from a graduate of Youngstown State or Slippery Rock.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 28, 2018 09:03 PM (N2SB3)

42 Cant we have even a little pinochet action? Pinche.left.

Posted by: Adobe Juan Kenobe at January 28, 2018 09:03 PM (3GJf0)

43 Why doesn't the media do the unexpected and try being rational?

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at January 28, 2018 09:03 PM (nBr1j)

44 Trump's Sordid Affairs with Russian SexBots Revealed
CNN

Posted by: LaughingStock Media at January 28, 2018 09:03 PM (NU2/k)

45
"We love him for the enemies he has made."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2018 09:04 PM (g6FAS)

46 Jack Straw, if your still around and care to answer, what do you think Mueller's end game is?

Posted by: CM9000 at January 28, 2018 09:04 PM (124sD)

47 >>Wonder what Soros' endgame is here. Probably that smaller companies are easier to control.

Soros didn't make his money by building things. He made it by betting on companies and currencies to fail and then helping make it happen.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2018 09:05 PM (/tuJf)

48 Tom Cotton went to Harvard College and Harvard Law.
Scalia to Harvard Law.
I could go on.

But I get your point. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, the HLS faculty is a bigger threat to America than any foreign power.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 28, 2018 09:05 PM (pV/54)

49 The people who populate and run the MSM are just not very bright.

Most bozos you see walking around Wally World could do a better job if they were so inclined.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 28, 2018 09:07 PM (EoRCO)

50 48. Not for nothing is it called Moscow on the Charles.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at January 28, 2018 09:07 PM (fA1SL)

51

Soros didn't make his money by building things. He made it by betting on companies and currencies to fail and then helping make it happen.

Posted by: JackStraw

Koch Brothers: Built a business providing the sort of middle-class jobs we're told are important.

Soros: Currency rapist.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2018 09:08 PM (g6FAS)

52 For many years Soros's competitive advantage has been using inside information culled from foreign ministries to hondle currency markets.

Nice work if you can get it.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 28, 2018 09:08 PM (pV/54)

53 I saw a great political cartoon a couple of weeks ago. I wish I saved it.

It showed a man labeled "The Media" in a straitjacket in a padded cell, writing TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP on the walls of his cell with a crayon held in his toes, while shouting, "He's crazy!". Pretty much sums it up.

My search-fu is not strong, and I haven't been able to find it again. I did find this, which is almost as good:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8wvca2o

Posted by: rickl at January 28, 2018 09:08 PM (sdi6R)

54 When given the choice of two evil, crazy, incompetent, power-hungry narcissists , I'll take the one I've never tried before.

Posted by: Ripley at January 28, 2018 09:09 PM (NbRJx)

55 Oh it's vox.

Posted by: freaked at January 28, 2018 09:09 PM (UdKB7)

56 Daniel McCarthy: "Donald Trump is only the beginning of a populist retrenchment, one that faces great adversity from a well-entrenched globalist political class. And that, rather than anything to do with Trump's presidency, is what has gone horribly wrong in America. The broader ruling class in the country, the wealthy and politically connected, the best educated and most widely heard, have abandoned their countrymen. The very concept of citizenship, to say nothing of placing one's fellow citizens above those whose loyalties are to other states and cultures, has fallen out of vogue among America's most privileged. The nation and the citizen have been the core of Donald Trump's appeal--the common denominator in his emphasis on immigration, jobs, industry, and America First in foreign policy--yet even within his own party, the globalist ideology of the 1990s staggers on. This, and not Donald Trump's temperament or tweets, is the real menace to the country: an elite that has lost the trust of the people because the people knows what the elite will not admit--namely, that it despises them.".......

They assumed that they had already crossed the tipping point, and would never lose another election again. And assuming makes an ass of you and me.

But mostly you.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 28, 2018 09:10 PM (Ndje9)

57 Wanna see them commit suicide en masse? Watch Trump take the 25 Billion for the border wall and enforcement, spend 15 or 20 of it on 25,000 ICE agents and a thousand courts to adjudicate things tout suite. When is your appeal hearing? Tomorrow. You are remanded to custody until then.

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at January 28, 2018 09:10 PM (tMFgx)

58 >>Jack Straw, if your still around and care to answer, what do you think Mueller's end game is?

I think it's increasingly trying to find a graceful way out of the whole investigation. He has to know by now that the whole thing was a farce from Day 1 and the public won't stand for trying to trip Trump up on some process charge.

Wouldn't surprise me if Flynn's prosecution ends and maybe others as well.

I'm really looking forward to getting the memo released and watching the cockroaches start running for cover.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2018 09:11 PM (/tuJf)

59 39 Harvard should be a disqualifying factor for public office.
Fruit of the poison tree, all of it.
Posted by: navybrat at January 28, 2018 09:01 PM (w7KSn)

And Yale.

Posted by: josephistan at January 28, 2018 09:11 PM (ANIFC)

60 55. 'I Nailed my scrotum to my desk chair, and here's why you should, too.' - Every vox headline, ever.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at January 28, 2018 09:11 PM (fA1SL)

61 While the media shouted at clouds, got drunk, and groped every piece of ass within five finger distance,
-------------

The diaper pins were the first (but sign certain) tip-off that we were in for astounding displays of childishness.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 28, 2018 09:11 PM (c/EDo)

62 So,who is president?

Posted by: steevy at January 28, 2018 09:12 PM (LiyEm)

63 It's not limited to Trump, of course, and it's not new - it's just reached an extreme level of absurdity.

And I don't see any way back to a rational public square, so long as GOP and others - for the most part - simply refuse to do the hard work. The hard work of challenging every lie, slander, and distortion embedded in almost every question, and framing statement, that now emanates from the "press".

Trump mocks them, which is cute, but it's still rare that they're challenged in a way that puts and keeps them on the defensive, and creates the *chance* that apolitical and reachable semi-LIVs will notice.

Though it's sort of a footnote, I continue to be astonished and baffled at the behavior of the Brett Stephens and Bill Kristols et al. Such people have never been of much import to some of us, but they had readerships that could use their help or insight, or at least framing of issues. So now, in addition to "news" reports that read like something out of the old TASS or the Iranian news agency, you have "analysis" that is just as ludicrous.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2018 09:13 PM (QDnY+)

64 Trump pisses off all the right people. The GOPe, the media, the European and the democrats. That's all I needed to support him from day one. I have a feeling this is going to be one helluva week with the SOtU speech and the release of the memo.

Posted by: Alf767 at January 28, 2018 09:14 PM (l9B5i)

65 is this why Mary C has been rare on the blog recently?

http://www.wcax.com/content/news/NY-stabbing-
suspect-to-be-arraigned-in-Brattleboro-461858483.html

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 28, 2018 09:14 PM (Msmus)

66 Since the link is to Vox, what's Juicebox Matty's "argument"? Popular vote or what?

Posted by: J. Random Dude on His Brand New Computer! at January 28, 2018 09:14 PM (oJ1IC)

67 54 When given the choice of two evil, crazy, incompetent, power-hungry narcissists , I'll take the one I've never tried before.
Posted by: Ripley at January 28, 2018 09:09 PM (NbRJx)

Do you really think Trump is evil, crazy and incompetent?

Posted by: josephistan at January 28, 2018 09:14 PM (ANIFC)

68 The MSM meme of the moment had been Trump is guilty of obstruction for firing Comey. But Comey is about to be revealed as a snake, so it shifted to Trump is guilty of obstruction fro thinking about firing Mueller.

They're running out of memes.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 28, 2018 09:15 PM (pV/54)

69 I have my anti-vox control turned all the way up.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 28, 2018 09:15 PM (IqV8l)

70
"So,who is president?"

Hillary, of course. She'll be taking the oath of office after she sobers up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2018 09:16 PM (g6FAS)

71 http://bit.ly/2DIvpzR

Oh Lordy, "Destruction of Evidence"--Important Interview Between Bob Goodlatte and Maria Bartiromo

Posted by: MISHBOT at January 28, 2018 09:16 PM (y3aQB)

72 So,who is president?

Oh, give it a rest. *hic* *shart*

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at January 28, 2018 09:18 PM (Tyii7)

73 rhomboid

I'm going to reconnect with my TEA party peeps.

I am seeing an amazing amount of corruption in the local area and state.

The owner of the paper must be swayed or turned. I want to tell him that his only hope is to keep America conservative.

The list of pre-revolution Pravda editors that survived is short, compared to the ones who were killed, tortured, then killed, or simply tortured while their families were killed. And that is the good news if Mexican cartels take over.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 28, 2018 09:19 PM (hyuyC)

74 What I find frightening is not president Trump's actions, but the blatant festering illegality that seems prevalent in what should be respected, and ethical, communities within our government, for example, DoJ, FBI, and the IC.

Posted by: Hrothgarevitch BOT at January 28, 2018 09:19 PM (gwPgz)

75 One thing for sure: We have to get vote fraud under control before 2020. The Left is showing us every day how deranged and power-mad they are. If they ever get back into power again, God help us all.

Posted by: rickl at January 28, 2018 09:20 PM (sdi6R)

76 JS, your analysis is sound but I worry about Mueller going all in on obstruction.

Posted by: CM9000 at January 28, 2018 09:21 PM (124sD)

77 74 President Trump

Sorry!

Posted by: Hrothgarevitch BOT at January 28, 2018 09:21 PM (gwPgz)

78 53 I saw a great political cartoon a couple of weeks ago. I wish I saved it.

Here you go: https://tinyurl.com/y7yqdfbe

Posted by: Pirate Captain at January 28, 2018 09:21 PM (IY+td)

79 68 The MSM meme of the moment had been Trump is guilty of obstruction for firing Comey. But Comey is about to be revealed as a snake, so it shifted to Trump is guilty of obstruction fro thinking about firing Mueller.

They're running out of memes.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 28, 2018 09:15 PM (pV/54)

I think it would be quite delightful to punch Chuck Schumer in the face. I guess I'm guilty of something.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at January 28, 2018 09:21 PM (nBr1j)

80 I was told that you wouldn't be checking my math!

Whatever you do, don't let that Jooooo chase me over the bridge between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Posted by: Matt Iglesias, Voxsplainer at January 28, 2018 09:21 PM (2Omzf)

81 Bilwis, there's already some movement to enhance the enforcement (deportation) capabilities that exist. But not enough. Saw a story somewhere on businesses bracing for ICE raids. If they're talking randomly, or scatter-shot, and small to medium fish, it would be a horrible way to manage it.

Target the top known users of illegal labor (the best-paying ones are light industry, food processing, a few others), companies with known brand names, big operations, some even publicly held. Lay it out for them - come into compliance in a time certain (with DHS assistance - or be raided/shut down.

Don't keep it a secret. The demonstration effect of shutting off the big best-paying illegal labor magnets will be dramatic.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2018 09:22 PM (QDnY+)

82 Groundhog Day. When Andie McDowell was still purty.

Posted by: Eromero at January 28, 2018 09:22 PM (zLDYs)

83 Hrothgarevitch BOT

First, good to see the Hrothger nic again.

Second, congratulations on your rebuild to something only EMP can harm.

Third, are any of the 16 intel organizations or our federal police actually defending Americans, or the Constitution? We know the judiciary does not.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 28, 2018 09:23 PM (hyuyC)

84 62 So,who is president?
Posted by: steevy at January 28, 2018 09:12 PM (LiyEm)

MasterBlaster

Posted by: Insomniac at January 28, 2018 09:23 PM (NWiLs)

85 78 53 I saw a great political cartoon a couple of weeks ago. I wish I saved it.

Here you go: https://tinyurl.com/y7yqdfbe
Posted by: Pirate Captain at January 28, 2018 09:21 PM (IY+td)

Excellent! Thanks. That makes a great illustration for this post.

Posted by: rickl at January 28, 2018 09:23 PM (sdi6R)

86 I read this whole article for comic effect. He states DACA was without controversy. What planet is he on?

Posted by: lurking grandma at January 28, 2018 09:23 PM (sujqA)

87
Progressive Flo should be sent to the glue factory.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2018 09:23 PM (V9YaO)

88 Brett Stephens baffles me. I got everything I want as a conservative, but I still wish Hillary was president. I don't see how you get there without being insane.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 28, 2018 09:24 PM (gC2IV)

89 Good ol' Donny Two-Scoops, takin' care of women down on their luck. Even reciprocatin' their cultural rituals.

Man. What a guy.

Too bad he's fictional.

Posted by: SciVo at January 28, 2018 09:24 PM (p+V+Z)

90 65 is this why Mary C has been rare on the blog recently?

Actually I think she is the one the other day who followed the directions on her GPS down a boat ramp, onto the somewhat frozen lake, and broke through the ice. She did survive though, so will probably be back once she thaws out.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at January 28, 2018 09:25 PM (1Zu3n)

91
So,who is president?

Nacho Comacho Mello Yello

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 28, 2018 09:25 PM (IqV8l)

92 88 Brett Stephens baffles me. I got everything I want as a conservative, but I still wish Hillary was president. I don't see how you get there without being insane.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 28, 2018 09:24 PM (gC2IV)

Ditto. How could any conservative vote for the disgusting Hillary?

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at January 28, 2018 09:25 PM (nBr1j)

93 86 I read this whole article for comic effect. He states DACA was without controversy. What planet is he on?
Posted by: lurking grandma at January 28, 2018 09:23 PM (sujqA)

The Pauline Kael effect. Nobody he knows opposes mass amnesty and unfettered immigration.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 28, 2018 09:26 PM (NWiLs)

94 Mueller is supposed to make recommendations, not bring charges, with narrow exceptions. Manafort is arguing this in his defense of charges that could have been brought against him years ago.

When the Memo drops Flynn will be seen as the victim of a plot involving high officials of the DOJ and FBI (and maybe the Obama WH).

Mueller has no collusion charges. He can only fabricate a process charge or two over how Trump fired Comey, soon to be revealed by the Memo to be a corrupt criminal. Or go after Trump's children.

Which is why Trump will be happy to meet with Mueller after the Memo comes out. Epic tweets to follow.

Trump doesn't want Mueller to go away quietly. He wants to burn Mueller for all time.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 28, 2018 09:26 PM (pV/54)

95
I don't see how you get there without being insane.

Posted by: Duke Lowell

Or a snob with an extraordinarily tight sphincter.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2018 09:26 PM (V9YaO)

96 Momma made Shake n Bake, and yes it does apply.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 28, 2018 09:27 PM (6Ll1u)

97 >>JS, your analysis is sound but I worry about Mueller going all in on obstruction.

I think the magnitude of what is about to be exposed is going to overwhelm the whole Russia garbage. We are getting a 2nd special counsel to investigate the investigators.

The attention for the last year has been focused on the corruption of the wrong president. It's not just the Obama DOJ or the Obama FBI that was corrupt, it was Obama. There is simply no possibility that this scandal let alone the IRS, Fast and Furious, Benghazi or any other scandal during his administration happened without his knowledge and approval.

It may take a little while for that reality to sink in but it will eventually.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2018 09:27 PM (/tuJf)

98 Thing is, it seems plausible that even with a quite possible nukyler detonation of Mueller and the corrupt elements of the FBI/DOJ, even with the blast radius reaching the pathetic dreck from the last administration (Rice, Rhodes, et al), none of the insanity will change.

People stupid or cynical enough to believe/pretend to believe in the whole facially ludicrous "RUSSIA!" crap will not be affected by new facts, any more than old ones.

Just with limited sampling - dipping into wire service framing of stories, and seeing the eye-popping stuff being responded to by various sane intelligent twitterers - the hysteria and dementia are deepening and broadening in "news" and political circles.

Nobody looks like they're going to stop the hammering, and the insanity in my earpiece is now off the charts.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2018 09:28 PM (QDnY+)

99 Trump winning was the crossing of the rubicon for us. We can't go back only forward. For now Trump has most of the government as did Caesar when Pompey fled South and is pursuing. The analogy might not be the best but is an illustration of what is happening.

I'm not being melodramatic in saying at some point I think it becomes a shooting war because they will never leave us alone. Never.

Posted by: Beartooth at January 28, 2018 09:29 PM (KxxpQ)

100 It may take a little while for that reality to sink in but it will eventually.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2018 09:27 PM (/tuJf)

Some people are reality-proof. Plus there's no way the MFM will allow their mocha messiah to be impugned.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 28, 2018 09:29 PM (NWiLs)

101 94: the FNM have me screaming at the radio or TV like their insane selves lately by saying the Mueller team is looking at the firings of "Flynn and Comey" After they forced the Flynn firing.

Posted by: PaleRider, simply irredeemable at January 28, 2018 09:30 PM (84F5k)

102 Hard to see how the media, DoJ, FBI and other institutions of delusions remain after the great Trump debacle. They can only survive if they destroy Trump. If you shoot at the king, you had better not miss. In this case, it is not Trump that will destroy them, but all of the people who believed them and then found out they had been lied to and made to look foolish.

Posted by: IanDeal at January 28, 2018 09:30 PM (qcIL3)

103 The Mueller interview:

Robert Mueller: Mr. Trump, first I'd like to ask...

President Trump: Hold on Bob, I'll be asking the questions here. First, I want you to tell me everything you know about Uranium 1, and I mean everything. Next I want to know what you know about the Russian dossier. Then we're going to talk about Hillary's email server. Get comfortable, we're going to be awhile...

Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at January 28, 2018 09:31 PM (FAO5C)

104 Not only is the Media in complete daily freefall, they were colluding with the FIZA Dizinformzion Black Op against our electoral system.

Flynn may not want to fight it, but it looks like his plea judge was also his secret wiretap judge, who was thrown off the case by the Chief Justice for that outrageous legal fraud.

It almost seems as if Mueller's play is "If you don't prosecute us for our real crimes, we won't prosecute you for make-believe crimes." But he would have to remain in office for years. That's not going to happen.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 28, 2018 09:31 PM (Ndje9)

105 Momma made Shake n Bake

Must be jelly cuz jam don't shake like that. *hic*

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at January 28, 2018 09:31 PM (Tyii7)

106 Sure am glad I heavily invested in Popcorn futures.

Posted by: Traveling Man at January 28, 2018 09:32 PM (R5lpX)

107 98 rhomboid

Alas, it's the same even in Kansas.
I dislike the full court press of the Left. We've tried reason and the ballot.

Work those Plan Bs. We may need them. And remember -- OPSEC, OPSEC, OPSEC.

Head on a swivel and have a SECDEF Mattis plan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 28, 2018 09:33 PM (hyuyC)

108 David Frum on FNC

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 28, 2018 09:33 PM (IqV8l)

109 Chi-Town Jerry, see my important advice left to you at the end of the Gum Thread.
----
Threatened to break his jaw?

Posted by: andycanuck at January 28, 2018 09:33 PM (ewxPW)

110 All You Need Is Live Die Repeat On The Edge Of Tomorrow

>Groundhog Day

> Before I Fall

>> Happy Death Day

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 28, 2018 09:33 PM (6FqZa)

111 >>Some people are reality-proof. Plus there's no way the MFM will allow their mocha messiah to be impugned.

They don't seem to have the power they used to have. They will have less when their complicity in all of this is exposed.

Hell, they have been building this memo up to a fever pitch and now they can't ignore it. They may try to minimize it but at least half the country isn't that stupid or we never would have gotten Trump in the first place.

The Republicans have actually played this quite well. They let the Russia collusion thing play out and anyone with half a brain now knows it was nothing and when the evidence of what they were up to is exposed people are going to be angry no matter what polls say.

Besides, Trump reaches more people in a day with his tweets than CNN and MSNBC combined.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2018 09:34 PM (/tuJf)

112 Personally I like this timeline.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 28, 2018 09:35 PM (6FqZa)

113 Ian, no doubt many have become more aware of how unreliable the press is in the last few years, and many more may experience some consciousness-raising soon in that area, and about the FBI/DOJ, etc.

But there will remain a yuuuuge portion of the electorate that actually lives in the increasingly delusional world of the NYT and CNN - AND the press itself will quintuple down. They won't back off a bit.

I'm not pessimistic by nature, but very decidedly so on all of this, and on the US (as a place that it was and should be, anyway).

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2018 09:35 PM (QDnY+)

114 I'm starting to think that the whole point of Trump letting Mueller going on so long was to normalize the idea of prosecuting a sitting president. So then why not prosecute the last one, if he there is evidence that he broke a law.

Posted by: SciVo at January 28, 2018 09:35 PM (p+V+Z)

115 Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 28, 2018 09:23 PM (hyuyC)

Good to be back, even though intermittently. I even missed the Pet Thread yesterday.

It appears our betters have met the enemy and he is "us"! I used to be very positive that the rank and file within the FBI and the IC maintained integrity and professionalism, whereas I knew the DoJ had been corrupted since Clinton the First and Last.

What I find disconcerting is that I am positive that Mueller, Comey, Rosenstein, et al, would not have a clue where to find a disk drive or server far less understand how to "wipe" one, even with a cloth. That means they have infiltrated lawless subordinate embeds at the lower levels. Of course outsourcing your IT work to Paki nationals doesn't help security. But the fact that no whistle blowers arose to try and stop this is a major concern, in spite of the Seth Rich object lesson. Some "honest" rank and file had to know, or at least suspect, that really bad stuff was being orchestrated by their senior management. But perhaps wanting to go home at night and find your family still alive is pretty powerful motivation to not observe things at work too closely.

Posted by: Hrothgarevitch BOT at January 28, 2018 09:37 PM (gwPgz)

116 rhomboid

I will discuss what will solve the problem only under the Cone of Silence.

Let's face it. Elites have bungled the fate of nations since before Troy.

America was a revolutionary exception, until now. We need meta-data and a force on the side of America.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 28, 2018 09:37 PM (hyuyC)

117 There's a big swath of people, many smart and many well-educated, that don't yet understand. They've been oblivious to our obsession.

I expect this will soon change. I cited my sister above as an example of how many normal people are getting woke. I'd say its at least 10% of voters. The rest are irredeemable.

Then you have minorities, mostly men, who are getting woke. Keep up the good Chuck. You're worth 20 divisions to our cause.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 28, 2018 09:38 PM (pV/54)

118 As I have seen with my own family, they will never believe anything but that Trump colluded with the Russians and has to go. Anything else interferes with what they have been told is true. No amount of evidence will convince them. And they want us dead. Not just gone from the political landscape, they want us all dead and gone.

Posted by: abby at January 28, 2018 09:38 PM (tppae)

119

Posted by: andycanuck at January 28, 2018 09:40 PM (ewxPW)

120 Well said, Andy.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 28, 2018 09:40 PM (gC2IV)

121 Hrothgarevitch BOT

Looks like one of my special areas of study, WWII POW camps and escapes may prove handy.

Actually, if they are this stupid we shold prevail. We are using their "strengths" against them.

Whom the Gods want to destroy they first made mad.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 28, 2018 09:42 PM (hyuyC)

122 middle

Posted by: me at January 28, 2018 09:42 PM (oZM/7)

123
119

Posted by: andycanuck at January 28, 2018 09:40 PM (ewxPW)

Spoken with the true simplicity of the Great North.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2018 09:42 PM (36ZwC)

124 These Ivy leaguers aren't well-educated so much as indoctrinated, glib, smug and facile. When you press them, by and large they are grossly uninformed and lack the ability to think critically.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 28, 2018 09:42 PM (NWiLs)

125 Well said, Andy.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 28, 2018 09:40 PM (gC2IV)

Yes, hard to argue with that!

Posted by: Hrothgarevitch BOT at January 28, 2018 09:42 PM (gwPgz)

126 Well said, Andy.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 28, 2018 09:40 PM (gC2IV)

You have to read the part between the fnords.

Posted by: hogmartin at January 28, 2018 09:42 PM (y87Qq)

127 I know some here were pissed at Trump this week over his immigration offer. He exposed the dems, who rejected it because it didn't go far enough, to the country who thought it went too far.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 28, 2018 09:43 PM (gC2IV)

128 What worries me is Mueller bringing charges against Trump. Mueller is corrupt, and the worst thing is that he is oblivious to his own corruption.

Posted by: CM9000 at January 28, 2018 09:43 PM (124sD)

129 http://bit.ly/2DH6Gvr

Fox News Host Says Strzok--Page Texts Reveal Scramble To Hunt Down Hard Drive, Intent To "DESTROY EVIDENCE"

Posted by: MISHBOT at January 28, 2018 09:44 PM (y3aQB)

130 118
And they want us dead. Not just gone from the political landscape, they want us all dead and gone.
Posted by: abby at January 28, 2018 09:38 PM (tppae)

Yes. I left that unstated in my #75, but that's what I meant.

Posted by: rickl at January 28, 2018 09:44 PM (sdi6R)

131 It still amazes and disappoints me that Manafort's team chose such a cheese-ass, limited challenge to Mueller's legitimacy. Scope of his investigation, not the very illegitimacy of his entire appointment under the relevant CFR section.

And FFS, if another special counsel - even one compliant with the reg - is appointed, will at least one GOPer on the Hill scream about the obvious point that even disengaged Americans will start to ask themselves: why do we have a DOJ, fully-funded, if it cannot do the work a DOJ is supposed to do?

Too much corruption within the machine to use the machine, you say? Well FIX THE F***ING MACHINE, instead of just continuing the (surely unconstitutional) special counsel circus series.

Uranium-1. Espionage Act. Federal Records Act. Bribery, influence peddling, pay for play (extends way beyond U-1).

Are we going to have 4 special counsels going by this time next year? It's ridiculous. If the DOJ is tainted, fix it, now.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2018 09:44 PM (QDnY+)

132 NaClyDog

A stainless steel spork could be an invaluable tool in the camps!

Posted by: Hrothgarevitch BOT at January 28, 2018 09:44 PM (gwPgz)

133 126 Well said, Andy.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 28, 2018 09:40 PM (gC2IV)

You have to read the part between the fnords.
Posted by: hogmartin at January 28, 2018 09:42 PM (y87Qq)

23

Posted by: Insomniac at January 28, 2018 09:44 PM (NWiLs)

134 Well said, Andy.
----
Also the smartest thing I've said today.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 28, 2018 09:44 PM (ewxPW)

135 Hrothgarevitch BOT

We need to find where bluebell is sent. She has a backpack full, and a record.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 28, 2018 09:45 PM (hyuyC)

136 I've been hoping for the destruction of the Progressive movement (insert digestive sounds here), but I didn't realize the Left was as crazy as they've shown themselves to be in the past few years.

The overall reaction I see from the radical leftist media (which I call Progda because they serve the same function as Russia's Pravda
"news outlet" except they're promoting Progressivism) is dancing along the razor's edge of sanity.

Common sense, logic, and knowledge of the simple facts of life just aren't there in their reportage and they're noticeable by their absence. They're so smugly self-confidant in their errors that they think we can't see that.

Thank goodness the tide is starting to turn against them after all these years. It may be happening a bit too slowly for a lot of us, but at least it's starting to happen.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 28, 2018 09:46 PM (tRaq7)

137 NaCly Dog--Camps?
I ain't gone be going to no camp. Killed maybe, but no camp. I ain't been to camp since 4H, unless I count bible camp or what is called 'summer camp' with heavy weapons company.

Posted by: Eromero at January 28, 2018 09:46 PM (zLDYs)

138
Also the smartest thing I've said today.

Posted by: andycanuck

Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2018 09:46 PM (XOt/J)

139 Don't be pessimistic. I've drawn parallels between Trump and Giuliani.

Rudy barely beat Dinkins in 1993 -- Staten Island made the difference. In 1997, Rudy carried Manhattan.

I'm sure Trump thinks on this. Our current national politics is like NYC mayoral politics of years past, but with Staten Island having the population of Brooklyn.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 28, 2018 09:46 PM (pV/54)

140 A toast to Enoch Powell , C.S> Lewis and Robert A. Heinlein.

They were prescient.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 28, 2018 09:47 PM (hyuyC)

141 Wonder what Soros' endgame is here. Probably that smaller companies are easier to control.

https://hotair.com/archives/2018/01/28/one-richest-liberals-predicting-downfall-facebook-google/

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 28, 2018 09:01 PM (eMKNe)

He just wants to depress the price of their stock enough that he can buy a controlling interest without spending too much of his precious money. That sort of thing has been his M.O. forever.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2018 09:47 PM (YA0uK)

142 I'm sorry, abby.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 28, 2018 09:47 PM (6FqZa)

143 Mueller is corrupt, and the worst thing is that he is oblivious to his own corruption.

Posted by: CM9000 at January 28, 2018 09:43 PM (124sD)

Remember gentlemen, we are a Nation of Laws, and must respect every aspect of the entire impartial investigative process before we convict President Trump!

/s

Posted by: RINO Establishment BOT at January 28, 2018 09:48 PM (gwPgz)

144 103
President Trump: Hold on Bob, I'll be asking the questions here.

Nice.

Posted by: Rex Racer at January 28, 2018 09:48 PM (D01Rc)

145 I'm not sure who would have been better cast in the part, but Andie McDowell spoils any movie, for me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 28, 2018 09:48 PM (c/EDo)

146 Sorry, I have to correct myself. The quote is: Momma made shake n bake, and I helped. Of course you have to read say it in a southern accent in your head, not that there is anything wrong with that.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 28, 2018 09:50 PM (6Ll1u)

147 Don't confuse my pessimism with what could well be an epic, and hilarious, next 10 months.

To paraphrase another Moron, in reverse, if the Dems aren't hitting the panic button now (and I know that some are, and at the very top of the apparatus), they're not in touch with reality. An economy like this, with the background of Beltway Dem melt-down (Mueller thing ends with a whimper, Dem corruption stories and investigations explode into prominence), and Dems continue their suicidal "strategy" of flogging the DACA/illegal aliens issue - watch out below.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2018 09:50 PM (QDnY+)

148 145 I'm not sure who would have been better cast in the part, but Andie McDowell spoils any movie, for me.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 28, 2018 09:48 PM (c/EDo)

She's terrible. Your average high school drama student has better acting chops.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 28, 2018 09:50 PM (NWiLs)

149 Hrothgarevitch BOT

We need to find where bluebell is sent. She has a backpack full, and a record.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 28, 2018 09:45 PM (hyuyC)

Plus, I understand that Volume II of "The Cookbook" will contain camp recipes!

Posted by: Hrothgarevitch BOT at January 28, 2018 09:51 PM (gwPgz)

150 I think Mueller knows he's guilty. He was hired to keep them all out of jail. And the Rubicon was crossed by Obama when he started down this crooked path. He had to keep escalating to cover the previous crimes. Maybe Mueller has no other choice but to go nuclear and rip the country apart.

But my money's on Stable Genius.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 28, 2018 09:51 PM (Ndje9)

151 Eromero

I wrote a short story opening with an old man walking to US troops carrying a US flag in one hand and a Constitution in the other. He is met with a cry of "A bitter-ender" and is shot dead by a Commie US Army Captain in the 10th Mountain Division.

I would want sideboys on my journey to Fiddler's Green. But I lack encrypted communications, overwatch drones, and crew-serviced weapons in an armored turret.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 28, 2018 09:51 PM (hyuyC)

152 Well friends and neighbors, if I don't hit the JJ Sefton news dump first thing in the morning, my next comment will come from somewhere in the vicinity of Walnut Creek, CA.

I have to hope that I can get an Uber ride to the airport tomorrow morning to catch my flight from GSP ( Greenville SC) to Oakland. And I hate flying...my arms get tired.

Posted by: Traveling Man at January 28, 2018 09:52 PM (R5lpX)

153 Godspeed, Traveling Man.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 28, 2018 09:53 PM (hyuyC)

154 Posted by: Traveling Man at January 28, 2018 09:52 PM (R5lpX)

I'm surprised you're not taking high speed rail!

Posted by: Hrothgarevitch BOT at January 28, 2018 09:53 PM (gwPgz)

155 Progressive Flo should be sent to the glue factory.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2018 09:23 PM (V9YaO)

With her lips glued shut, she'd have her uses.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 28, 2018 09:53 PM (YA0uK)

156 >>Are we going to have 4 special counsels going by this time next year? It's ridiculous. If the DOJ is tainted, fix it, now.

Those things aren't mutually exclusive and can happen simultaneously.

In this particular case, a special counsel to go after the corruption involved in the same small group that created the Hillary email sham investigation and the Trump investigation would benefit from an outside counsel. Asking the DOJ to inspect itself at this point won't satisfy anyone.

And as I have been saying for some time now the biggest untold scandal of the Obama years was how he and Holder neutered the various Inspector Generals during his time in office. Congress relies on the IGs to be their chief inspectors and Obama made sure they were effectively powerless to find the real dirt.

It was actually Chuck Grassley who led the charge to get it restored in 2016 and it's no surprise that the IG is now the one finding all this evidence and working hand in glove with Congress. That was already a large "fix" to not just the DOJ but to oversight of all agencies in the government.

Incidentally, anyone who still hasn't read the letters Grassley sent out Friday night and all the people mentioned in bullet 12 really should read it. It is very interesting to see who his committee is looking at. Some names everyone expects and some brand new ones like John Brennan, Obama's chief of the CIA and Loretta Lynch.

We are now one step from Obama.

https://tinyurl.com/y844zuwn

The letters are all the same so pick one.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2018 09:55 PM (/tuJf)

157 When given the choice of two evil, crazy, incompetent, power-hungry narcissists , I'll take the one I've never tried before.

Posted by: Ripley at January 28, 2018 09:09 PM (NbRJx)

Do you really think Trump is evil, crazy and incompetent?

Posted by: josephistan

No, that is what we were expected to believe and the choice I was faced with if I was a LIV. Everybody knew that was true about Hillary, even her supporters.

Posted by: Ripley at January 28, 2018 09:55 PM (NbRJx)

158 David Frum on FNC
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 28, 2018 09:33 PM (IqV8l)
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Frum called the Trump fans the dangerous, indicating the guy that shot a shotgun through the roof in Comet Pizza (which had *what* to do with Trump, exactly, David?), but totally ignoring that guy that shot AT Scalise and a number of Republican senators.

Posted by: Axeman at January 28, 2018 09:55 PM (JhE5a)

159 "Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt."
-Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2018 09:46 PM (XOt/J)

Sheeeet. I kick the stool out from underneath that, take my deserved lumps and try to learn from it.

Us idiots are trying to obtain Moron status.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 28, 2018 09:56 PM (Ckg4U)

160 Sadly, we won't get to see Notorious RBG at the SOTU, nodding off and drooling. Word is that she's truly fading.

What actuarial odds would you give that we have an empty SCOTUS seat soon. If it's RBG or Breyer or diabetic Sotomayor, the Left will get even crazier.

Let us pray!

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 28, 2018 09:56 PM (pV/54)

161 And I don't see why special prosecutors would be needed for most of the major prosecutions in the Mega-Scandal Swarm. Just find DOJ who had nothing to do with any of the prior "investigations".

I know Rosenstein was the US attorney in question for Uranium-1, but dunno if he's dirty in that affair - the improprieties may have all been above his level.

Regardless, his catastrophically bad judgement in appointing Mueller (in clear contravention of the relevant regulation) makes him a "must-go". Hoping he gets tainted by one of the scandals of the Obama years, so that he's sent packing.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2018 09:57 PM (QDnY+)

162 Then in summer 2017, a group of Republican attorneys general in favor of immigration restrictions threatened to sue over DACA if the Trump administration didn't get rid of the program by September 5, and just as that deadline was about to hit, Trump announced that the program would end in March.

No actual litigation took place.

Jan 27, 2015 -- Huffington Post
Over Half The States Are Suing Obama For Immigration Actions

WASHINGTON -- More than half of U.S. states are now involved in a lawsuit to stop President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration, with the addition of Nevada and Tennessee announced Monday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

The 26 states challenging Obama's actions are led by Texas, which filed its lawsuit in December. The lawsuit contends Obama overstepped his constitutional authority in executive actions on immigration that may provide deportation relief and work authorization for up to 5 million people.

Posted by: undocumented illegal Jim Acosta at January 28, 2018 09:57 PM (e8kgV)

163 *ONT is NOOD!*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 28, 2018 09:58 PM (Ckg4U)

164 So, no decorating thread. Damn.
Well, my secretary is coming along just fine anyway.

The media, the RINOs, the Dems, they're so pwnd.
PDT is so far ahead he tells them what he's going to do and they still get all wet.

Posted by: Stubby Karl at January 28, 2018 10:00 PM (FPgcp)

165 Ignoramus, I heartily endorse your dark hopes. I'm hoping for 3 vacancies. Wouldn't even lose any sleep if Roberts found some reason to quit. The judiciary is a f***ing wasteland, and some appointments won't change that, but will provide temporarily relief.

JackStraw, I can see special counsel for the Russia Collusion Caper, but beyond that, it really is important to begin restoring some integrity to DOJ. I see them as having, literally, to prove their integrity again by prosecuting the other scandals.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2018 10:01 PM (QDnY+)

166 @realDonaldTrump

Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!

Embrace the weirdness.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 28, 2018 10:02 PM (rnAwa)

167 Don't dismiss Mueller, he is the tip of the spear of the Deep State effort to take out Trump.

Posted by: CM9000 at January 28, 2018 10:03 PM (124sD)

168 Grassley's mo is make an appearance of starting something then backing off. I'm pleased to see him on the follow through with this one.

Posted by: Stubby Karl at January 28, 2018 10:03 PM (FPgcp)

169 There are so many things wrong with Yglesias' voxplanation of the DACA litigation. Short version is that it got shot down by the Fifth Circuit. Scalia was poised to write an epic 5-4 opinion.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 28, 2018 10:05 PM (pV/54)

170 >>JackStraw, I can see special counsel for the Russia Collusion Caper, but beyond that, it really is important to begin restoring some integrity to DOJ. I see them as having, literally, to prove their integrity again by prosecuting the other scandals.

I agree. Which is why Sessions has been laying low and staying out of this fray.

His job will be to rebuild the DOJ with clean hands and he just the other day said he welcomes Congressional oversight and will absolutely go after any bias or impropriety at the DOJ and restore the place to its rightful mission of unbiased enforcement of the law.

It's almost like the Republicans have had a plan all along.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2018 10:06 PM (/tuJf)

171 138

Hadrian the Seventh:

Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt.

*What's that supposed to mean? I better say something or they'll think I'm dumb.*

"Takes one to know one!"

*Swish!*

Posted by: Captain Comic at January 28, 2018 10:14 PM (c+hiY)

172 Don't dismiss Mueller, he is the tip of the spear of the Deep State effort to take out Trump.

Posted by: CM9000 at January 28, 2018 10:03 PM (124sD)

I prefer "head of the penis".

Posted by: Rob Mueller at January 28, 2018 10:16 PM (sXefu)

173 "that loser Obama"

Heh.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at January 28, 2018 11:16 PM (U6f54)

174 Tell it.

Posted by: True the Note at January 29, 2018 12:48 AM (HLTe8)

175 Mueller is part of the conspiracy to stage a coup against the legitimate winner of the election.

Hillary is evil, as is her husband so many love, her pie-faced simp of a daughter, and her Party.

Posted by: True the Note at January 29, 2018 12:50 AM (HLTe8)

176 Yeah, so here's an interesting question. Let's say the Congressional Committee believes indictments are necessary against any of our favorite characters in this whole thing. Contempt for an example. In order to do that, it has to be referred to a US Attorney to be filed in Federal Court. So, my friends, what happens when the DOJ under our pal Sessions, refuses to file any of the recommended indictments? What happens next?

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