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Bolton Announces New Book and Advertising Campaign to Take Place During Impeachment Trial;
Susan Collins Says She'll Vote for Witnesses

The New York Times claims that Bolton's book will say that Trump said he wanted to hold up aid to Ukraine until Ukraine opened an investigation into the Biden's.

This leak comes just as Bolton's publisher announces the book.

Gee, I wonder who's behind this leak.

This has the intended effect of getting the Eternal Turncoats to turn coat.



Many people are asking if John Bolton has been playing games just to give his freshly-announced book a big advertising boost:










Posted by: Ace at 12:04 PM




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1 Eff susan collins

first!

Posted by: Eli Cash at January 27, 2020 12:06 PM (F8rys)

2 Am I alone in not caring anything about Bolton and his book?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 27, 2020 12:06 PM (l4C/z)

3 So we are losing her seat this year, I presume?

Posted by: Eli Cash at January 27, 2020 12:07 PM (F8rys)

4 F that guy in particular.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 27, 2020 12:07 PM (XN+hF)

5 first?

Posted by: SturmToddler at January 27, 2020 12:07 PM (8D42x)

6 Well I tried to give Bolton the benefit of the doubt... that was stupid of me.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice... EJEXIT: If Not Now, When? at January 27, 2020 12:07 PM (EQRLd)

7 No offense to Ace, he's putting topics folks are talking about.

Just...meh.

Nothing here gonna make any difference to anything. It's inside baseball at best. At worst...the usual spin and slime from self-justifying narcissists.

It's not even going to be good history, now or 100 years from now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 27, 2020 12:08 PM (l4C/z)

8 Susan Collins, Mitt Romney *shakes head* I hope war turtle has a quiet little chat with them.

Posted by: IC at January 27, 2020 12:08 PM (a0IVu)

9 Fuck these fucking fucks.

Posted by: Paolo del Toro at January 27, 2020 12:09 PM (pPQeR)

10 The 'Stache is a warmongering traitor.

Another pos exposed for what he always was.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 27, 2020 12:09 PM (XN+hF)

11 Oh and fuck Suzanne Collins, the hack fraud.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 27, 2020 12:09 PM (l4C/z)

12
Collins is as transparent a fraud as Bolton.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 27, 2020 12:09 PM (zBaqJ)

13 damn, i assumed i was no where close to first, read the content, then had a passing hope.

rookie mistake.

and f susan Collins with the rusty flaming pineapple wrapped in barbedwire.

twice.

Posted by: SturmToddler at January 27, 2020 12:09 PM (8D42x)

14 Maybe someone in his family is gay or whateverthefuuk...and Bolton got blackmailed.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 27, 2020 12:09 PM (14Kss)

15 >>that was stupid of me. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice... EJEXIT: If Not Now, When? at January 27, 2020 12:07 PM (EQRLd)

Everyone did, back when he seemed like the only guy in DC with a pair.

Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 12:09 PM (qXNVo)

16 Toss a grenade in and frag it all.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 12:09 PM (Y0RHt)

17 Wow, I am seriously fed up with this horseshit. Hang em all, and let President Trump sort em out.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 27, 2020 12:09 PM (2ygtH)

18
Watch Collins and the others fight tooth and nail to protect Biden and Schiff-for-Brains from testifying.

Cvnt.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 27, 2020 12:09 PM (zBaqJ)

19 Mittens Rombley to concur in 3...2...

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 27, 2020 12:10 PM (XN+hF)

20 "Fairness"....I hate that word.

Posted by: BignJames at January 27, 2020 12:10 PM (X/Pw5)

21 Regardless of what happens with regard to Senate testimony, Bolton has in one fell swoop destroyed a reputation built over a lifetime. I hope it's worth it, Ephialtes.

Posted by: pep at January 27, 2020 12:10 PM (T6t7i)

22 Didn't The Rick Wilson also go to Qatar recently?

Posted by: Augustine at January 27, 2020 12:10 PM (BDZWU)

23 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 27, 2020 12:10 PM (arJlL)

24 Breaking: Bolton reveals that Trump a key player in Piltdown Man hoax.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2020 12:10 PM (fUKvD)

25 Pandering to the libs. It's the Bushie way.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 27, 2020 12:11 PM (XN+hF)

26 After JB's ghostwriter finished his book, fmr NSA took clandestine trip
to Qatar. We only know this bc internet vid surfaced of him in Doha.
Spox called it "personal business."


And what personal business does the NSA have in talking with Iran's closest friend and a primary terror supporter?

Posted by: Attorney General William Barr at January 27, 2020 12:11 PM (NVYyb)

27 So you are telling me that Bolton is all 'stache and no hat?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 12:11 PM (Y0RHt)

28 And, who is one of those who approve things for Publication?

Vindman's brother.

/facepalm

Posted by: Don Q at January 27, 2020 12:11 PM (NgKpN)

29 It's the Kavanaugh maneuver. And Collins has the spine of a sponge.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 27, 2020 12:11 PM (RD7QR)

30 i wonder if Collins is angling for a cut of the book sales...

Posted by: SturmToddler at January 27, 2020 12:11 PM (8D42x)

31 And there it is: the excuse RINOs needed to cover their siding with the Democrats.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2020 12:12 PM (bDqIh)

32 Breaking: Bolton reveals that Trump a key player in Piltdown Man hoax.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
----------

I want this Piltdown fellow called as a witness.

Posted by: Jerry Nadler at January 27, 2020 12:12 PM (fUKvD)

33 "Fairness to both parties", Susie? Both the liars and their victims?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 27, 2020 12:12 PM (+y/Ru)

34 I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire. Bolton's dead to me.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 27, 2020 12:12 PM (XN+hF)

35 Who is eating this clown shit?

Oh I know The USSR dreamers.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 27, 2020 12:12 PM (14Kss)

36
Breaking: Bolton reveals that Trump a key player in Piltdown Man hoax.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc



Also lookout on the HMS Titanic...

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 27, 2020 12:12 PM (2ygtH)

37 Susan Collins, jelly spine

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2020 12:12 PM (q1Pj5)

38 Does Bolton have beach friends?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2020 12:12 PM (fUKvD)

39 Bolton is going to shiv Trump. Can Donald handle it and respond?

Posted by: Rock Girthpounder at January 27, 2020 12:13 PM (CLteG)

40 In other irrelevant news:

Madonna cancels London concert over health issues but vows to keep performing until she can't.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 12:13 PM (Y0RHt)

41 31
And there it is: the excuse RINOs needed to cover their siding with the Democrats.


Collins thinks it will save her Senate seat. It won't.

Posted by: pep at January 27, 2020 12:13 PM (T6t7i)

42 That point about time taken is well stated. It takes a long time to get a book out. Writing can be pretty fast, depending on the writer and circumstances (I can belt out one in a month if I'm healthy and rolling). But publishing takes longer. There are negotiations, contracts, editing, formatting, layouts, cover art, interviews, etc. 6 months from sitting at a keyboard the first time to being on the shelf is astonishingly fast.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 27, 2020 12:13 PM (KZzsI)

43 Please everyone, just let him speak! He is so interesting and his mustache alone is worth the time we give him.

PS: Would Mike Pence appoint me VP? Before he is impeached, I mean? I can unify the Uniparty!

Posted by: Boneless Pork Rectum (R-Utah) at January 27, 2020 12:13 PM (NVYyb)

44 Anybody can be bought I guess.

Posted by: steevy at January 27, 2020 12:13 PM (KNsKs)

45 This guy is turning out to be quite the sucker of cock.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2020 12:13 PM (8mGVa)

46 With regards Bolton, never trust a draft dodger, never trust a draft dodger who then morph's into a war monger, doubly so.


John Bolton is lower than whale shit.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 27, 2020 12:14 PM (wm35G)

47 The 16-ton Karma Sh!t Hammer will eventually squash bugs like Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, and now Bolton. As it did to Hillary.

Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2020 12:14 PM (AMIL/)

48 Madonna cancels London concert over health issues but vows to keep performing until she can't.


Posted by: Anna Puma


Don't threaten me.

Posted by: pep at January 27, 2020 12:14 PM (T6t7i)

49 TRUMP DOOMED RAAWWK!

Posted by: Propaganda Parrot at January 27, 2020 12:14 PM (anFtI)

50 If bolton could have damaged Trump he would have done it by now. Right after he got fired he could have made up all sorts of B$ and the liberal media would have wet themselves in getting him booked on every single show.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 27, 2020 12:14 PM (JUOKG)

51 Bolton is a strap-on. I crack myself up.

Posted by: Cannibal Blob 'cause I'm fat' at January 27, 2020 12:14 PM (hmgiv)

52 I'm still going to wait and see what happens before I join the lynch mob. If the worst case scenario happens, I will be both very disappointed and angry enough to advocate bad things.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 27, 2020 12:14 PM (5t7Yo)

53 Madonna cancels London concert over health issues but vows to keep performing until she can't.

The original lip-synching autotuner claims she performed in the past?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 27, 2020 12:14 PM (KZzsI)

54 >>Madonna cancels London concert over health issues but vows to keep performing until she can't.
==========

Which was about a decade ago.

Posted by: Guy Ritchie at January 27, 2020 12:14 PM (NVYyb)

55 Gosh, it's almost as if Bolton is working with Qatar to oust a sitting president.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2020 12:15 PM (bDqIh)

56 So the deep state is just lookin' for a reason.

John Bolton is looking for a lifetime supply of moustache wax.

Nancy Pelosi is looking worse and worse.

It'll turn out the way its supposed to turn out.

But I have no idea what that is going to be.

Posted by: simplemind at January 27, 2020 12:15 PM (QzJmu)

57 Mitt isn't worried about electoral blowback. He only has one mission now; get Trump.

Posted by: pep at January 27, 2020 12:15 PM (T6t7i)

58 Bolton's spox just released statement that says he has not released manuscript to anyone other than the NSC for review.

Which would indicate the leak, fake or real, would have to come from them. This is following the same format as was used to falsely get the FISA to spy on Trump, obviously.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2020 12:15 PM (r+sAi)

59 So we're going to hear from the Bidens?

Ok great.

Posted by: MJ at January 27, 2020 12:15 PM (gAMkn)

60 43 Please everyone, just let him speak! He is so interesting and his mustache alone is worth the time we give him.
===

Mustache power, activate!

Posted by: John Bolton at January 27, 2020 12:15 PM (BDZWU)

61 Oh, and fuck Susan Collins in the ass.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2020 12:16 PM (8mGVa)

62 Karma is a lie people tell themselves so they can pretend there's justice in this world.

Again: quid pro quo isn't illegal or unconstitutional. Its not a misdemeanor or crime either high or low.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 27, 2020 12:16 PM (KZzsI)

63 Qatar huh? sounds like an Jihadi asset.

NSA's shouldn't have business dealings in the Middle East.

Posted by: x at January 27, 2020 12:16 PM (nFwvY)

64 INDIA-US TRADE DEAL FINAL, ROBERT LIGHTHIZER TO SEAL IT ON FEBRUARY TRIP TO DELHI

Stocks Drop Around Globe on Rising Fears of Wuhan Coronavirus
********
So many wall streeters are fags

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 27, 2020 12:16 PM (BqBId)

65 Geez.. it's almost as if this was planned, huh?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 27, 2020 12:16 PM (so+oy)

66 There are negotiations, contracts, editing, formatting, layouts, cover art, interviews, etc. 6 months from sitting at a keyboard the first time to being on the shelf is astonishingly fast.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 27, 2020 12:13 PM (KZzsI)

You are talking about writing[/] a book. When a book is being manufactured, the timeline is considerably compressed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2020 12:16 PM (LxWV7)

67 "1 And there it is: the excuse RINOs needed to cover their siding with the Democrats."

Yup. Watch them fall now like dominoes.

Kavanaugh redux. Prepare for a long siege.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at January 27, 2020 12:16 PM (H8QX8)

68 With regards Bolton, never trust a draft dodger, never trust a draft dodger who then morph's into a war monger, doubly so.


John Bolton is lower than whale shit.
Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 27, 2020 12:14 PM (wm35G)

Sometimes people don't realize there words can be thrown back at them. That's been the same dig they use against President Trump.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 27, 2020 12:17 PM (5t7Yo)

69 Which would indicate the leak, fake or real, would have to come from them.

Our fine, upstanding, heroic intelligence services leaking to harm the president? UNPOSSIBLE! Next thing you'll tell me that they "leak" information to foreign governments!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 27, 2020 12:17 PM (KZzsI)

70 Notice Big mouth Comey doesn't have anything to say about the FISA news

Posted by: REDACTED at January 27, 2020 12:17 PM (rpxSz)

71 Collins doesn't really bother me. She has always been this way.

Romney, however, is nothing more than a petty spiteful little man who wants nothing more than to prove he's relevant and a statesman.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 27, 2020 12:17 PM (Mc5lZ)

72 59 So we're going to hear from the Bidens?

Ok great.
Posted by: MJ at January 27, 2020 12:15 PM (gAMkn)

that's just it, we won't.

We will only hear from those who are against the President, because of people like Romney and CokeBear.

Posted by: Don Q at January 27, 2020 12:17 PM (NgKpN)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2020 12:17 PM (LxWV7)

74 Didn't The Rick Wilson also go to Qatar recently?

-
Rick Wilson's new book: Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump--and Democrats from Themselves

https://amzn.to/2Ry0Hmd

He's a True Conservative!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 27, 2020 12:17 PM (+y/Ru)

75
Donald Trump ordered me to deploy a KC-135 Stratotanker loaded with delicious borscht to Zelensky's Presidential palace in exchange for dirt on the Bidens.

It was awful. The memory is seared on my hippocampus.

I didn't come forward before, because I didn't want to relive the trauma.

It was only after speaking with my friends on Katara Beach that I knew I had to speak up.

Posted by: John Bolton at January 27, 2020 12:17 PM (Zm/Ey)

76 Where is Vindaloomon?

Or has he been conveniently stuffed in an unmarked grave in Little Odessa now?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 12:18 PM (Y0RHt)

77 DemoCRAZY'S better be careful what they wish for, because they are opening the door to Satan for them

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 27, 2020 12:18 PM (BqBId)

78 I used to like The 'Stache.

How the hell did so many of these people who I thought were on our side fool me over the years? I'm ashamed of myself.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Soyville at January 27, 2020 12:18 PM (+dsLj)

79 Wouldn't Bolton's convos with the President fall under EP ?

Posted by: REDACTED at January 27, 2020 12:18 PM (rpxSz)

80 If you're going to pimp your memoirs, a Costco warehouse may not give you the exposure you seek. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Fritz at January 27, 2020 12:18 PM (2Mnv1)

81 Madonna cancels London concert over health issues but vows to keep performing until she can't.
--------

I can't press 150 lbs., but I'm going to keep on not pressing 150 lbs. until I can't.

Posted by: Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger at January 27, 2020 12:18 PM (fUKvD)

82 LTC Bearclaw's brother is the guy at the NSC who is vetting Bolton's book.

H/T Rush Limbaugh

Posted by: Sharkman at January 27, 2020 12:19 PM (I6tpa)

83 @59

As someone said on a previous thread, the first witnesses to be called by Trumps people should be the whistle blower and the IC IG, and if gets to it, I would call Obama, he put Biden in charge of the Ukraine, it was Biden saying he was carrying out Obama's policies in the Ukraine, lets put Obama under the hot lights to explain "HIS" Ukraine policy.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 27, 2020 12:19 PM (wm35G)

84 I read somewhere that Vindman's brother is one of the people that reviews publications for national security classifications.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 27, 2020 12:19 PM (so+oy)

85 The usual suspects line up with the Rear Admiral. Gee. Nothing new under the sun.

Posted by: henry at January 27, 2020 12:19 PM (JMDly)

86 To those saying Bolton isn't going to side with the assholes that made his confirmation difficult look at his buddy Mitt. Mit was trashed night and day by the same media he's sucking up to now. See McCain, see any flavor of Bush...

Posted by: banana Dream at January 27, 2020 12:19 PM (bg4sf)

87 In more important news, is Ruth Vader-Meinhoff Ginsburg still alive?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 12:20 PM (Y0RHt)

88 6
Well I tried to give Bolton the benefit of the doubt... that was stupid of me.


I will continue until this episode is over. Every time I've seen his name in print he's been accused of evil but it's never come to anything. This time looks as if it might be different.

It still looks like a nothing burger except for the vote on witnesses. But it looks like a deliberate ploy for attention at a critical time, which is unforgivable.


Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 27, 2020 12:20 PM (XzVUd)

89 INDIA-US TRADE DEAL FINAL, ROBERT LIGHTHIZER TO SEAL IT ON FEBRUARY TRIP TO DELHI

Stocks Drop Around Globe on Rising Fears of Wuhan Coronavirus
=========
Well, I had to do something. Trump was going to own me.

Posted by: President XI "Mr. Shiffhole" at January 27, 2020 12:20 PM (b5iML)

90 Im not worried about calling witnesses, because if theyre going to do that shit Trump will call every witness on earth to buttfuck the democrats.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Soyville at January 27, 2020 12:20 PM (+dsLj)

91 Personal business...to Qatar? I'd call that a bit...unusual.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 27, 2020 12:20 PM (JoUsr)

92 I would be careful slamming Bolton. There's no evidence that this leak is even accurate, or says what they claim it says. I mean, its not like Acosta isn't above lying to get results.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 27, 2020 12:20 PM (KZzsI)

93 I always thought Bolton was a warmonger and was happy when PDT fired him.

I just hope Bolton hates the left more than he hates Trump.

fuck, I'm worried. somebody tell me this is all bullshit.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2020 12:20 PM (d7Ww2)

94 I was in Doha meeting with a group of very deserving immigants-to-be. They paid me $1 million for my speech, and their club is called the IRGC. Nice people.

Posted by: John Bolton, immigration specialist at January 27, 2020 12:20 PM (NVYyb)

95 To Christopher R Taylor:Next you'll tell me there is no God, right?

Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2020 12:21 PM (AMIL/)

96 17 Wow, I am seriously fed up with this horseshit. Hang em all, and let President Trump sort em out.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 27, 2020 12:09 PM (2ygtH)

That's about how I feel about it at this point. Sheer, unadulterated horseshit. It would be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous to the republic.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:21 PM (NWiLs)

97 87 In more important news, is Ruth Vader-Meinhoff Ginsburg still alive?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 12:20 PM (Y0RHt)

Define "alive."

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 27, 2020 12:21 PM (RD7QR)

98 Oh, and fuck Susan Collins in the ass.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2020 12:16 PM (8mGVa)


Not with bernie's dick and biden pushing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2020 12:21 PM (9Om/r)

99 Bolton was a mistake,

Posted by: squirrelly dan at January 27, 2020 12:21 PM (rMbRx)

100 Bolton has a black belt in organizational infighting. Unfortunately, he's fighting harder to sell his book than he did when Bush wanted him as UN Ambassador and he couldn't get in.

Shame.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 27, 2020 12:22 PM (iuFgi)

101 I always thought Bolton was a warmonger and was happy when PDT fired him.

Yeah, I don't think he was bitter about leaving that job. And yes he struck me as the kind who wasn't exactly opposed to sending troops all around the world.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 27, 2020 12:22 PM (KZzsI)

102 Mitt. Mit was trashed night and day by the same media he's sucking up to now. See McCain, see any flavor of Bush...
========
There is only one party.

The world of politics, a stage, the pols, only players.

Posted by: the script is delivered via NYT at January 27, 2020 12:22 PM (CH1ia)

103 The left/mfm hated Bolton...before this.

Posted by: BignJames at January 27, 2020 12:22 PM (X/Pw5)

104 Was everybody in the Shrub administration a shit-stain? Maybe we would have been better off if Algore had won after all.

Posted by: I Have Questions at January 27, 2020 12:22 PM (BvNzB)

105 You know it's one thing to think Bolton was kind of a chickenhawk schnook.

It's another thing entirely to watch him breathtakingly and self servingly try to hurt the President and the country just to enrich himself.

Jeebus.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Soyville at January 27, 2020 12:22 PM (+dsLj)

106 >>Wouldn't Bolton's convos with the President fall under EP ?


Yes.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2020 12:22 PM (8mGVa)

107 Also... I saw Brandy Bolt-on star in "Any Flavor of Bush" at the Pussycat Theater in '85

Posted by: banana Dream at January 27, 2020 12:23 PM (bg4sf)

108 Wow, I am seriously fed up with this horseshit. Hang em all, and let President Trump sort em out.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 27, 2020 12:09 PM (2ygtH)



That's about how I feel about it at this point. Sheer, unadulterated
horseshit. It would be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous to the
republic.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:21 PM (NWiLs)

My willowed comment sums up my feelings.



After trump survives this, I would like to see him go on a fucking
rampage using every last tool, and some that haven't been invented yet,
to see that every last one of these fucks swing on the end of a rope,
then dragged through the streets by that rope until all thats left at
the end of the rope is a nub that can be flicked into a squirrel divot
for burial. You listening santa?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2020 12:24 PM (9Om/r)

109 I would be careful slamming Bolton. There's no
evidence that this leak is even accurate, or says what they claim it
says. I mean, its not like Acosta isn't above lying to get results.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 27, 2020 12:20 PM (KZzsI)

=============
That Bolton chose today to start his leaking, just when the President was due to begin his defense presentation, is enough to earn scorn. Self-serving publicity is one thing but this timing undermines the country.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2020 12:24 PM (NVYyb)

110 Sometimes this place degerates into 3 minutes hate, and it gets boring.

Doesn't anyone even understand the 24 hour rule any longer?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 27, 2020 12:24 PM (KZzsI)

111 37 minutes til trial comes on. Hoping and praying Trump has this all war-gamed out.

Posted by: Eli Cash at January 27, 2020 12:24 PM (F8rys)

112 @68

Trump did not dodge the draft, Trump is not a warmonger, in fact he's about as opposite a warmonger as you can get.

Here is a quick little excerpt from Bolton's memoir, "Failure is Not An Option"..


Bolton: I had no desire to die in an east Asian rice paddy for a lost cause.


Oh yeah Mr. Fucking Tough guy John Bolton, tell that to the men you sent to die in Falujah and Anbar province with ROE's that pretty much guaranteed that many of them would be coming home in body bags.


If Trump were responsible for Gulf War II the ME would be glass.


Fuck you Bolton.


I hope you get ass cancer.

Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 27, 2020 12:24 PM (wm35G)

113 Do these RINOs ever get tired of being the Democrats' bitches?

Posted by: abbynormal at January 27, 2020 12:24 PM (I849g)

114 Hello nurse!!!!

https://youtu.be/d1yOOEMIyEQ

Kawaii desu!

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 12:24 PM (Y0RHt)

115 I always thought Bolton was a warmonger and was happy when PDT fired him.

*****************

Bolton had enough of a good rapport with me plus the guy he replaced was 100 times worse. Now, fuck him.

It's really starting to look like Trump needs to eliminate job titles and run the government himself.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Soyville at January 27, 2020 12:24 PM (+dsLj)

116 Globalist worst fears...other countries emulate America.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 27, 2020 12:24 PM (14Kss)

117 The WHO came out and admitted they made a mistake labeling the global threat "moderate", and today changed it to high.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at January 27, 2020 12:24 PM (rMbRx)

118 110 Sometimes this place degerates into 3 minutes hate, and it gets boring.


Bullshit. We hate for WAY longer than that.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:25 PM (NWiLs)

119 I always thought Bolton was a warmonger and was happy when PDT fired him.

I just hope Bolton hates the left more than he hates Trump.

fuck, I'm worried. somebody tell me this is all bullshit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2020 12:20 PM (d7Ww2)


It's all bullshit. Now stop with those stupid fucking meep meep comments.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 27, 2020 12:25 PM (y7DUB)

120 Oh, and fuck Susan Collins in the ass.



Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2020 12:16 PM (8mGVa)


Not with bernie's dick and biden pushing.


Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2020 12:21 PM (9Om/r)

Not with six condoms on.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2020 12:25 PM (q1Pj5)

121 Tom Ridge was in the Bush administration. Tom Ridge was a punk. Zod has firsthand evidence of this.

Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 12:25 PM (yvnmY)

122 Do these RINOs ever get tired of being the Democrats' bitches?
Posted by: abbynormal at January 27, 2020 12:24 PM (I849g

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No.

It's their job, and it pays well, and they enjoy it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2020 12:25 PM (Zm/Ey)

123 Witnesses? Bidens, Ciaramella, and an LTC that should now be retired as a CPT.

I'm waiting for some GOP Senator to ask:

"If I say 'Ciaramella' three times, does he pop out of Schiff's ass?"

Posted by: JEM at January 27, 2020 12:25 PM (8erNz)

124 93 I always thought Bolton was a warmonger and was happy when PDT fired him.

I just hope Bolton hates the left more than he hates Trump.

fuck, I'm worried. somebody tell me this is all bullshit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2020 12:20 PM (d7Ww2)

This is all bullshit.
I did not hit her.
I did nawwwwwwt.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 27, 2020 12:25 PM (l4C/z)

125 Sounds like both Bidens will have to testify under oath after all.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 27, 2020 12:26 PM (YslsA)

126 Its possible that Bolton is behind this.

But it's also possible that Bolton is being set up too. If he wanted to leak something, would he have chosen the New York Times?

The NYTimes is filled with allies of the DNC and the Deep State.

Posted by: gastorgrab at January 27, 2020 12:26 PM (u6OFe)

127 89 Stocks Pants Drop Around Globe on Rising Fears of Wuhan Delhi Coronavirus


Posted by: Adam Ant at January 27, 2020 12:26 PM (XzVUd)

128 The call transcript was released. Bolton's assertion (if the MFM isn't lying about him) of quid pro quo is greater than the actual bloody transcript where we all see what was actually said? What I missing here?

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 27, 2020 12:26 PM (JoUsr)

129 That Bolton chose today to start his leaking, just when the President was due to begin his defense presentation, is enough to earn scorn. Self-serving publicity is one thing but this timing undermines the country.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2020 12:24 PM (NVYyb)

In faint defense of Bolton, he didn't choose to start it today, the NYT chose to start it today. But Bolton is going along with them because he's being well paid to do so.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 27, 2020 12:26 PM (Kpl3J)

130 More and more I am praying the outcome so eloquently set forth by Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Posted by: Eli Cash at January 27, 2020 12:26 PM (F8rys)

131 You all love to say "fuck Susan Collins," but you know what--I just might really do it. Because I'm testosteronious. Yeah.

Posted by: Pierre Delecto at January 27, 2020 12:26 PM (sWM8x)

132 Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2020 12:20 PM (d7Ww2)


Hello nurse! It is all bullshit, but the problem is, that's never stopped the Demotards and RINO squishes before. The Articles of Impeachment are 100% bullshit, and yet here we are.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:26 PM (NWiLs)

133 I am still trying to understand why some people think that Biden is above the law. I am still trying to understand why the GOP is not saying Biden is not above the law.

Biden sold the second highest office in the land and should be investigate.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (r+sAi)

134 yeah, I had better hopes from Bolton ... he now seems more like part of the Swamp than ever. Perhaps he wormed his way in with TRump via the "I am not a NeoCon Animal" routine (he flatly denied being a neo-con, on Red Eye on night iirc).


To pull this last minute cunning stunt, is despicable. -- or at least it was exposed last minute, perhaps long in the planning to inject in the middle of the Trump Defense Time, especially since his ghost writer was in Qatar recently. Was Bolton upset with Soleimani's death, or is he more cozy with Kerry and company or other subversives? idk

Posted by: illiniwek at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (Cus5s)

135 Well hell. I am curious. Now that Bidens are about to be front and center due to our vaunted leaders would no doubt lose repeatedly at the games of tic tac toe.
Is Lindsay Graham still all for not calling up the Bidens or do we just let the crooks run rampant and hammer the POTUS for doing his job?

Don't answer that. I know, stupid question.

Posted by: Drider at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (R/UH9)

136 121
Tom Ridge was in the Bush administration. Tom Ridge was a punk. Zod has firsthand evidence of this.


Posted by: Zod


True, but on the other hand, he was also quite stupid.

Posted by: pep at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (T6t7i)

137 Sometimes this place degerates into 3 minutes hate,

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3 minuts?! Whaa? Are we rationing it?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (+y/Ru)

138 127 89 Stocks Pants Drop Around Globe on Rising Fears of Wuhan Delhi Coronavirus


Posted by: Adam Ant at January 27, 2020 12:26 PM (XzVUd)

It started in a deli? Was there bat in the pastrami?

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (RD7QR)

139 Is Zod Zordox?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (14Kss)

140 Meep Meep motherfucker!

and Anna Puma, how did you get my video?

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (d7Ww2)

141 124 93 I always thought Bolton was a warmonger and was happy when PDT fired him.

I just hope Bolton hates the left more than he hates Trump.

fuck, I'm worried. somebody tell me this is all bullshit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2020 12:20 PM (d7Ww2)

This is all bullshit.
I did not hit her.
I did nawwwwwwt.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 27, 2020 12:25 PM (l4C/z)


Oh, hi Mark!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (NWiLs)

142 Batstrami?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (Y0RHt)

143 Why do people still trust the NYT?

Posted by: zmdavid at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (xqRaG)

144 >>>The 16-ton Karma Sh!t Hammer will eventually squash bugs like Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, and now Bolton. As it did to Hillary.
=======

A great name for a submarine, the USS Karma Shit-Hammer

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (NVYyb)

145 "The mustache is a flaming turd."

Posted by: Sharkman at January 27, 2020 12:28 PM (I6tpa)

146 In faint defense of Bolton, he didn't choose to start it today, the NYT chose to start it today. But Bolton is going along with them because he's being well paid to do so.

*********

And who leaked it to the Times?

I would bet his last name rhymes with Zolton.

If Bolton furiously disavows and apologizes this week, then maybe I'll cut him some slack.

But he won't, so fuck him.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Soyville at January 27, 2020 12:28 PM (+dsLj)

147 fuck, I'm worried. somebody tell me this is all bullshit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2020 12:20 PM (d7Ww2)

This is all bullshit.
I did not hit her.
I did nawwwwwwt.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 27, 2020 12:25 PM (l4C/z)


Oh, hi Mark!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (NWiLs)

LOL

My man...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 27, 2020 12:28 PM (l4C/z)

148 123 Witnesses? Bidens, Ciaramella, and an LTC that should now be retired as a CPT.

I'm waiting for some GOP Senator to ask:

"If I say 'Ciaramella' three times, does he pop out of Schiff's ass?"

Posted by: JEM at January 27, 2020 12:25 PM (8erNz)

So, Vindmans and Ciarmella all still have jobs.

I find this very troubling.

Posted by: Don Q at January 27, 2020 12:28 PM (NgKpN)

149 >> Bolton's assertion (if the MFM isn't lying about him) of quid pro quo is greater than the actual bloody transcript where we all see what was actually said? What I missing here?


Bolton is just confirming the Media take that Trump lied about his motivations and knowledge of the specfic players involved.

Trump may have wanted to do a lot of illegal things, but the problem is that you actually have to do them to be huilty of a crime.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2020 12:28 PM (8mGVa)

150 It's all bullshit. Now stop with those stupid fucking meep meep comments.

I think it was written up over at Federalist or somewhere that the Bolton leak does not say what the press is claiming it does, that they're into obfuscation and paraphrasing and selective quoting again as they've done all along.

The fact that it was leaked to Haberman, of all the disreputable members of the legacy press it might have gone to, gives a fair picture of what's going on.

Posted by: JEM at January 27, 2020 12:28 PM (8erNz)

151 If there are witnesses Bidens won't testify. They'll take the fifth.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2020 12:28 PM (WI7YS)

152 62
Karma is a lie people tell themselves so they can pretend there's justice in this world.



Again: quid pro quo isn't illegal or unconstitutional. Its not a misdemeanor or crime either high or low.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 27, 2020 12:16 PM (KZzsI)
It's like I tell people, when you cry for Justice make sure you're crying to someone for it - there is no 'arc of history that bends itself towards Justice' - if history bends, its being bent by someone. In the absence of kings people seem more apt to believe that things just magically right themselves, like the return of spring. Once evil people realize that they aren't just magically going to be punished by nature (or something) for doing evil, they really go at it.

The Last Judgment, however....

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 27, 2020 12:28 PM (Eg9+v)

153 THE WALLS ARE COMING OFF!!!!!!!

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Posted by: REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! at January 27, 2020 12:28 PM (CLteG)

154 Yeah, I was starting to like ol' Lindsay again until he said he didn't think Biden was corrupt and didn't want Hunter to testify. I'd like to know what he's hiding.

Posted by: abbynormal at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (I849g)

155 Before I get back to work I just want to say that I have no confidence that the Republicans wont fuck this up.

Posted by: freaked at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (anFtI)

156 >>Oh, hi Mark! Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (NWiLs)

The ninety-odd minutes wasted watching that film was ninety minutes well wasted.

Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (qXNVo)

157 The Ruling Class is in an existential fight for its life versus The People, both here and abroad. They would rather burn it all down rather than lose their dominance, and The People feel pretty much the same way.

Things are going to keep getting uglier and uglier, with no clear end in sight.

Posted by: davidt at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (l3+k2)

158 I think our new embassy/hospice in Wuhan needs a bunch of experienced State Department staff and a team of ambassadors ASAP.

Posted by: Downcast at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (GODOq)

159 Amazing how the democrats have taken what is par for the course standard operating procedure for a President and turned it into a crime because Trump.

I can haz national divorz now?

Posted by: Two Weeks From Soyville at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (+dsLj)

160
And who leaked it to the Times?

I would bet his last name rhymes with Zolton.

If Bolton furiously disavows and apologizes this week, then maybe I'll cut him some slack.

But he won't, so fuck him.
Posted by: Two Weeks From Soyville at January 27, 2020 12:28 PM (+dsLj)

My bet? Lt. Col Vindman's brother, who is in the group who approves the release of information by ex NSA types.

Posted by: Don Q at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (NgKpN)

161 Ace, correct the typo "Biden's" at the top.

Posted by: dagny at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (nRWPy)

162 The Articles of Impeachment are 100% bullshit, and yet here we are.
Posted by: Insomniac
---------

You're welcome.

Posted by: The Quisling Media at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (fUKvD)

163 THE THE THE FUCKING VIRUSES AND GTHE THE THE BOLTONS AND EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (CLteG)

164 142 Batstrami?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (Y0RHt)

With the viral thousand island!

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 27, 2020 12:30 PM (RD7QR)

165 Posted by: JEM at January 27, 2020 12:28 PM (8erNz)

We should not underestimate the degree to which the press is trying to control compliant but scared Republicans into going along with the Party's agenda. It's a cock-and-bull mind control system, but on the right people it's very effective.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 27, 2020 12:30 PM (Eg9+v)

166 Dont stop there... strok, page, rosenstein .... everyone of those corrupt F#ckers... call them all.

Posted by: Pliney at January 27, 2020 12:30 PM (nzKWW)

167 Bidens won't testify. They'll take the fifth.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

--

That will make for some awesome campaign ads.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 27, 2020 12:30 PM (YslsA)

168 I got my eye on a certain Eskimo senator, too.

Posted by: Pierre Delecto at January 27, 2020 12:30 PM (sWM8x)

169 Bolton/Comey have the same agent?

Posted by: BignJames at January 27, 2020 12:30 PM (X/Pw5)

170 What gets me about Collins and Mitt is not that they'd pull the shit they are now pulling--we always knew they would.
But why couldn't they have waited a day or two? Why couldn't they have waited to see what Trump's lawyers have planned for today?

But no, they just couldn't wait.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 27, 2020 12:30 PM (CqE5x)

171 He's just pissed Trump hasn't bombed half the middle East like those of his ilk dream about

Posted by: brak at January 27, 2020 12:30 PM (DXMX0)

172 This is and always had been a media pressure campaign

Every part has been to pressure Republicans to run off the cliff before the truth comes out.

As others pointed out, this rumor of what he might say has been known for months.
There's one huge thing missing--he can say whatever he wants. What he doesn't have--and never will have--is proof.

Think about that: Everyone knew he wasn't going to ever testify. Do you think it a bit odd there's no memo, no note, no email--absolutely nothing that confirms one single part of this tale?

Nothing but words.

Words that were so shocking no one no where wrote a single word about it until AFTER contacting Adam Schiff?

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at January 27, 2020 12:31 PM (vPKfA)

173 >>158
I think our new embassy/hospice in Wuhan needs a Posted by: Downcast at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (GODOq)

I think our new embassy in Wuhan needs to keep it all in check. Wuhan.

Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 12:31 PM (yvnmY)

174 156 >>Oh, hi Mark! Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (NWiLs)

The ninety-odd minutes wasted watching that film was ninety minutes well wasted.
Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (qXNVo)

It really is something.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 27, 2020 12:31 PM (l4C/z)

175 Everybody is hammering on Bolton, maybe for good reasons, but note that we don't even know if this latest leak is even in the manuscript. It is just as likely it is made up from the deep state as it is in the manu.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2020 12:31 PM (r+sAi)

176 157 The Ruling Class is in an existential fight for its life versus The People, both here and abroad. They would rather burn it all down rather than lose their dominance, and The People feel pretty much the same way.

Things are going to keep getting uglier and uglier, with no clear end in sight.
Posted by: davidt at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (l3+k2)

Yup, the media has chosen sides. If you look at the literally incestuous relationship between the media, and those in power, its scary.

They are all related, or married, to each other.

Its the Mandarin system all over again.

Posted by: Don Q at January 27, 2020 12:31 PM (NgKpN)

177 The mustache is a flaming turd.

You can't trust any career DC player, regardless of party. That's the lesson. If they've been doing business in DC more than ten years, you just can't trust them. No matter how much you'd like to.

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 12:31 PM (0XvLg)

178 Meep Meep motherfucker!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (d7Ww2)


LOL. You are the best.

Posted by: DR.WTF at January 27, 2020 12:31 PM (aS1PU)

179 Yeah, I was starting to like ol' Lindsay again until he said he didn't think Biden was corrupt and didn't want Hunter to testify. I'd like to know what he's hiding.
Posted by: abbynormal at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (I849g)


His own involvement. He's trying to thread the needle, IMO.

Posted by: LASue at January 27, 2020 12:32 PM (Ed8Zd)

180 I liked Tucker Carlson going to bat for Hunter Biden and his sad story of having to be the recipient of Milions in cash just because his father is a DC denizen.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2020 12:32 PM (LAvwF)

181 Is that you Nurse Ratchet?

Wei! Wei! Wei!

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 12:32 PM (Y0RHt)

182 LMAO people think Bolton did all this on his own?

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 12:32 PM (22laR)

183 Before I get back to work I just want to say that I have no confidence that the Republicans wont fuck this up.
Posted by: freaked at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (anFtI)


You, Sir, have the preponderance of history on your side.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 27, 2020 12:32 PM (y7DUB)

184 Collins will always take the position that gets her the most attention and airtime.

Posted by: reason at January 27, 2020 12:32 PM (q/kmn)

185 This is all bullshit.
I did not hit her.
I did nawwwwwwt.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 27, 2020 12:25 PM (l4C/z)

Oh, hi Mark!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:27 PM (NWiLs)

LOL

My man...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 27, 2020 12:28 PM (l4C/z)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:32 PM (NWiLs)

186 >>>>142 Batstrami?


Beats castrami. Probably also sold in Wuhan market.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 27, 2020 12:32 PM (bg4sf)

187 The people of Utah should should vote to recall Pierre Delecto and replace him with a true conservative like say.....the Salt Lake County Animal Control Officer.

Posted by: DOGGFISH at January 27, 2020 12:32 PM (lMn1U)

188 Posted by: davidt at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (l3+k2)

In contests between The People and The Ruling Class, the Ruling Class wins, it's simple power dynamics. Perhaps however, it's not this simple. Perhaps there are some in the Ruling Class - figures as high as kings - that see the injustice and know that it is their responsibility to do something about it.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 27, 2020 12:32 PM (Eg9+v)

189 This is all bullshit.
I did not hit her.
I did nawwwwwwt.

Oh Hi Mark.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 27, 2020 12:32 PM (XN+hF)

190 Stocks Pants Drop Around Globe on Rising Fears of Wuhan Delhi Coronavirus


Posted by: Adam Ant at January 27, 2020 12:26 PM (XzVUd)

Maybe they're worried Trump will be removed?

Posted by: JoeF. at January 27, 2020 12:33 PM (CqE5x)

191 And this explains Moocowski's moosings on Friday. She's not a very good actress.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 12:33 PM (22laR)

192 138 It started in a deli? Was there bat in the pastrami?


Pixy failure. Strikeouts dropped. Intended:

====
Pants Drop Around Globe on Rising Fears of Delhi Coronavirus

====

In response to Indian headline. 'Cause they sh*t in the streets ... in China only children do so but in India it's not age-limited.



Posted by: Adam Ant at January 27, 2020 12:33 PM (XzVUd)

193 142
Batstrami?

you should also check out some of our other selections at the same bat time you're at the bat deli!

Posted by: Batdeli at January 27, 2020 12:33 PM (sGtp+)

194 Frankly, I am not jumping on the book promotion angle although it is a reasonable inference.
1. Is the leak what Bolton wrote? Given the sourcing, is the media reporting what Bolton wrote? And did he actually write it? We know the sworn to uphold the Constitution to a secret FISA court FBI lawyer changed the description 180 degrees on Carter Page. These assholes in the publishing industry and deep state Vindman types will make up anything and the media assholes will breathlessly report it.
2. If Bolton wrote it, the Stache, once a person worthy of high respect, is now dead to me. He is in the Colin Powell/Mitt Romney category of pissy, bitchy traitorous fools.

Posted by: Mr. Barky at January 27, 2020 12:33 PM (hKi6n)

195 My bet? Lt. Col Vindman's brother, who is in the group who approves the release of information by ex NSA types.
Posted by: Don Q at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (NgKpN)


I'll back that bet.

Posted by: LASue at January 27, 2020 12:33 PM (Ed8Zd)

196 >>I'd like to know what he's hiding.
Posted by: abbynormal at January 27, 2020 12:29 PM (I849g)

(Zombie John McCain smirks)

Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 12:33 PM (yvnmY)

197 n contests between The People and The Ruling Class, the Ruling Class wins, it's simple power dynamics. Perhaps however, it's not this simple. Perhaps there are some in the Ruling Class - figures as high as kings - that see the injustice and know that it is their responsibility to do something about it.
Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 27, 2020 12:32 PM (Eg9+v)

Well, Trump is.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 27, 2020 12:33 PM (CqE5x)

198 The Walls Are Closing In On The Wheels And The Book Is Turning A Page!

Posted by: Your Retarded Media at January 27, 2020 12:33 PM (RKQ/v)

199 it's rather striking that the coronavirus, has been kicking around for a month, if not longer, you would think they would have instituted some judge dredd if not wildfire containment protocols,

Posted by: gaius martius at January 27, 2020 12:34 PM (hMlTh)

200 You'd think Collins wouldn't want to be on TV.

Posted by: dagny at January 27, 2020 12:34 PM (nRWPy)

201 "But it's also possible that Bolton is being set up too. If he wanted to
leak something, would he have chosen the New York Times?"

But Bolton, if a patriot, could come clean now and say he has no evidence that Trump was demanding a quid pro quo for Biden's head. (quid pro quo to stop Ukraine corruption, and to push for burden sharing, sure, those are fine, if they even happened).


But instead from Bolton we get "neither confirm nor deny" ... wtf? But in a sense I think, bring in the clowns (witnesses), and also bring in the real witnesses ... Biden, the "whistle blower", those in the Schiff office that coordinated with the fake whistle blower ... bring them all in, run it all out through November ... sheesh.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 27, 2020 12:34 PM (Cus5s)

202 Bidens won't testify. They'll take the fifth.

-
And make it a double!

Posted by: Coke Hunter at January 27, 2020 12:34 PM (+y/Ru)

203 They are all related, or married, to each other. Its the Mandarin system all over again.

***************

You know what's funny, it's almost a real life iteration of THEY LIVE. Evil aliens conspiring with woke corporations who sold out with carte blanche control over the media.

And John Carpenter thought it was Reagan who was the bad guy.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Soyville at January 27, 2020 12:34 PM (+dsLj)

204 Mutt will never vote to stop this madness. He never wants to vote for acquittal which he would do if it came to that

Collins is a fool. A stupid old fool. She actually believes at some point the dims wont call it a cover-up. They will call that today, tomorrow, 6 months from now.

Wonder what the O/U is that Mutt switches parties ala Jim Jeffords ? whatever that weasel fucks name was or is

I don't think Mutt will run for re-election, just there to fuck with Trump

He lied to you UT

Posted by: REDACTED at January 27, 2020 12:34 PM (rpxSz)

205 Legitimate question: how in the hell is a Vindman still employed in the US Govt? I cannot understand these Obama hangers-on staying in their jobs?

Am I naive to think that probably the first thing you'd do as a new president would be to earmark every single die-hard from the previous admin and get rid of them? It is just unbelievable the amount of BS all these holdovers are creating for Trump.

Posted by: Eli Cash at January 27, 2020 12:35 PM (F8rys)

206 From the lying media so I will consider this a lie until actually proved to be a lie.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserios at January 27, 2020 12:35 PM (pw+jk)

207 Take your 30 pieces of silver and GF

Posted by: jsg at January 27, 2020 12:35 PM (S9ODh)

208 Bolton book leak = Julie Sweatnick fable.

Dems, scraping the tottom of the barrel for anything allowing them a short reprieve from the inevitable.

Posted by: LASue at January 27, 2020 12:35 PM (Ed8Zd)

209 Beats castrami. Probably also sold in Wuhan market.
Posted by: banana Dream
--------

Ratstrami
Koalastrami

Posted by: The Quisling Media at January 27, 2020 12:35 PM (fUKvD)

210 Batstrami?

you should also check out some of our other selections at the same bat time you're at the bat deli!
Posted by: Batdeli at January 27, 2020 12:33 PM (sGtp+)


Be kind to your winged rodent friends
For a bat may be somebody's mother.

Posted by: The Hindus at January 27, 2020 12:35 PM (aS1PU)

211 And John Carpenter thought it was Reagan who was the bad guy.

This is an endless source of frustration to me. The left can put out endless, accurate portrayals of tyranny in book and film/TV but they always claim its coming from the right while ignoring how it keeps coming from the left.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 27, 2020 12:35 PM (KZzsI)

212 I too have a new book coming out, including some of my favorite revolutionary stuff. Like recipes for Moscow Mules and Manhattans. Favorite dance moves. Along with some pages you can color.

Posted by: Alexandra Odonkeyface Cortez at January 27, 2020 12:35 PM (NVYyb)

213 There's no way to construe this except as a devastating development for Trump. Like all other devastating developments, it will backfire on Trump's opponents and leave them in a state of fukked.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at January 27, 2020 12:36 PM (kfcYC)

214 Maybe in another #twoweeks, Trump will finally have the backing to do more than angry tweet about the swamp.

Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at January 27, 2020 12:36 PM (ftFVW)

215 Oh this is rich coming from Mark Levin who has defended this neocon hack vigorously over the years and put up a defense for Bolton after Trump fired him.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at January 27, 2020 12:36 PM (BsCoj)

216 And this explains Moocowski's moosings on Friday. She's not a very good actress.


Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 12:33 PM (22laR)


So, dim prospects for a career in pron then.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2020 12:36 PM (q1Pj5)

217 210 Beats castrami. Probably also sold in Wuhan market.
Posted by: banana Dream
--------

Ratstrami
Koalastrami
Posted by: The Quisling Media at January 27, 2020 12:35 PM (fUKvD)

Rat dogs! Getcher red-hot rat dogs heah!

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 27, 2020 12:37 PM (RD7QR)

218 Main stem stop ualue. - WuHan, bilge coolie

Posted by: Archer at January 27, 2020 12:37 PM (gmo/4)

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at January 27, 2020 12:37 PM (BsCoj)

220 This is an endless source of frustration to me. The left can put out endless, accurate portrayals of tyranny in book and film/TV but they always claim its coming from the right while ignoring how it keeps coming from the left.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 27, 2020 12:35 PM (KZzsI)

Isn't that exactly what evil tyrannical people do? Maybe it's not ignorance...

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 12:37 PM (22laR)

221 Bolton could easily come out and "clarify", but since he hasn't, it says all you need to know about him and his motives. I hope he dies alone and desolate.

Posted by: InsaneSanity at January 27, 2020 12:37 PM (kVn/A)

222 "The chair is kindling."

Posted by: Sharkman at January 27, 2020 12:37 PM (I6tpa)

223 217 And this explains Moocowski's moosings on Friday. She's not a very good actress.


Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 12:33 PM (22laR)


So, dim prospects for a career in pron then.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2020 12:36 PM (q1Pj5)

Zombie John Holmes with all the coke in LA in his system couldn't get a stiffy for her.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 27, 2020 12:37 PM (RD7QR)

224 That will make for some awesome campaign ads.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 27, 2020 12:30 PM (YslsA)

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NO MALARKEY, YOU FAT!

Posted by: Joe Biden's Leg-Hair at January 27, 2020 12:37 PM (q/kmn)

225 >>219
Main stem stop ualue. - WuHan, bilge coolie Posted by: Archer at January 27, 2020 12:37 PM (gmo/4)

Another classic movie.

Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 12:38 PM (yvnmY)

226
151 If there are witnesses Bidens won't testify. They'll take the fifth.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2020 12:28 PM (WI7YS)


That would make a great campaign commercial. They have to appear (or their lawyers). All they need is one piece of paper or clip that says Hunter / Joe will invoke their 5th. Perfectly legal and devastatingly all at the same time.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 27, 2020 12:38 PM (zVXtJ)

227 In the PRC, a million dead is a rounding error. In the US, The Last Centurion.

https://annapuna.blogspot.com/2008/05/hard-call.html

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 12:38 PM (Y0RHt)

228 And this will all boil down to the following...

Sen. Dickless, MA: Mr. Bolton, did President Trump demand delaying the Ukrainian aid package until they re-initiated the investigation into Biden's corruption vis-a-vis the Bruinsma(?) petroleum company?

Mr. Bolton: Well, not in so many words, but I just KNEW WHAT HE MEANT!!!! ORANGE MAN BAD!!!!!

Posted by: PacosMojo at January 27, 2020 12:38 PM (WzYlo)

229 Bolton isn't saying Trump tied Ukraine weapons $ to opening a Burisma/2016 probe. Bolton says Trump wanted Ukraine to "[turn] over all materials they had about the Russia investigation that related Mr. Biden & and supporters of Mrs. Clinton in Ukraine."

What we're being told he said, isn't what they're quoting. And what they are quoting isn't necessarily even really from Bolton's book.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 27, 2020 12:34 PM (KZzsI)

Well, if I read you right, Bolton says Trump "wanted dirt" on Biden and Clinton, right?

Posted by: JoeF. at January 27, 2020 12:38 PM (CqE5x)

230 Like all other devastating developments, it will backfire on Trump's opponents and leave them in a state of fukked.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at January 27, 2020 12:36 PM (kfcYC)


Never underestimate the value of Trump's advantage here - he knows he didn't do what he's been accused of.

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 12:38 PM (0XvLg)

231 In contests between The People and The Ruling Class, the Ruling Class wins, it's simple power dynamics. Perhaps however, it's not this simple. Perhaps there are some in the Ruling Class - figures as high as kings - that see the injustice and know that it is their responsibility to do something about it.
Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 27, 2020 12:32 PM (Eg9+v)

Historically incorrect. The Ruling class will win as long as it is competent.

An incompetent ruling class will eventually be overthrown by the people, once they have weakened the society enough.

Once read an interesting paper on the French Revolution. It postulated the dueling was one of the reasons it succeeded. It seems the almost 30% of the French Aristocrats had killed each other in duels over the prior 150 years.

And it killed the bravest, best, and most honorable, leaving the dregs to those existing positions of power.

Now, look at our Congress, and the stupidity of some of those elected.

Posted by: Don Q at January 27, 2020 12:38 PM (NgKpN)

232 The left can put out endless, accurate portrayals of tyranny in book and film/TV but they always claim its coming from the right while ignoring how it keeps coming from the left.

*********************

The cognitive dissonance is scary. Who has almost a total monopoly on the media, mega woke corporations, educational institutions, Hollywood, etc.

REAGAN?

Posted by: Two Weeks From Soyville at January 27, 2020 12:38 PM (+dsLj)

233 I am still trying to understand why some people think that Biden is above the law. I am still trying to understand why the GOP is not saying Biden is not above the law.

Biden sold the second highest office in the land and should be investigate.
============
The selling of the various offices.

If we knew the full scope and frequency of it, it would end the republic as we know it.

Posted by: Foreign Aid is a kickback machine, financed by debt to be paid by your children and children's child at January 27, 2020 12:38 PM (b5iML)

234 The Bidens "taking the fifth" won't really help them all that much.

Republican questions, read aloud by Roberts, could be devastating in their sharpness, scope of accusation, condemnation by inquiry, all on their own.

When met by the Bidens' response of "I will assert my right to remain silent under the fifth amendment" after such questions, it'll be tantamount to confession.

So, I want their corruptocrat asses up there at the witnesses' table, pleading the fifth, for some tens of hours at a stretch.

And let the questions fly.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2020 12:38 PM (QzJWU)

235 It might be uncharacteristic optimism on my part, but this kind of thing boosts both Bolton and Trump immeasurably. Bolton obviously gets better sales, and Trump gets to push neoconnery further away from political relevance on both sides of the aisle.

Either way, it really is on the Republican Party to drag in witnesses. They don't have to make a deal with the Democrats: just drag in Hunter Biden and let the dominoes start falling. Given how the President has handled every challenge up to now, I doubt rumors from a book are going to hurt him worse than three years of extensive investigation.

Posted by: trev006 at January 27, 2020 12:38 PM (Eqkqm)

236 bats are the chicken of the cave

Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at January 27, 2020 12:39 PM (RKQ/v)

237 Check out this thread:

https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1221582360023576577

Bolton isn't saying Trump tied Ukraine weapons $ to opening a Burisma/2016 probe. Bolton says Trump wanted Ukraine to "[turn] over all materials they had about the Russia investigation that related Mr. Biden & and supporters of Mrs. Clinton in Ukraine."

What we're being told he said, isn't what they're quoting. And what they are quoting isn't necessarily even really from Bolton's book.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 27, 2020 12:34 PM (K

This makes sense, and is another big "So What?"

He asked directly about crowd strike in the call transcript. That is not what these dems care about or the basis for the impeachment show.

Posted by: LASue at January 27, 2020 12:39 PM (Ed8Zd)

238 yes, he wanted the revolutionaries to win, according to an interview he had with Robert rodriguez,

no blazing skulls it's like I don't recognize this place anymore,

Posted by: gaius martius at January 27, 2020 12:39 PM (hMlTh)

239 Haven't we recently seen the swamp use media stories to justify its crap?

What are the chances, "A leak from the NSC to the NY Times," is simply a laundering of Bolton directly conspiring with the Dems?

Posted by: davidt at January 27, 2020 12:39 PM (l3+k2)

240 Everybody is hammering on Bolton, maybe for good reasons, but note that we don't even know if this latest leak is even in the manuscript. It is just as likely it is made up from the deep state as it is in the manu.

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You'd think he'd kinda be out front and center now to negate the portrayal.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 27, 2020 12:39 PM (JoUsr)

241 Hasn't Trump said all along that he wants there to be witnesses? It' McConnell who's against.

So regardless of Bolton's motive, there might be an occasion for more popcorn. Trump's lawyers seem very competent so far.

Posted by: Adam Ant at January 27, 2020 12:39 PM (XzVUd)

242 So much for reserving my opinion on Bolton.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 27, 2020 12:39 PM (e284m)

243 218 210 Beats castrami. Probably also sold in Wuhan market.
Posted by: banana Dream
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Ratstrami
Koalastrami
Posted by: The Quisling Media at January 27, 2020 12:35 PM (fUKvD)

Rat dogs! Getcher red-hot rat dogs heah!
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 27, 2020 12:37 PM (RD7QR)

Those rat-soup-eatin' no-business-havin' muthafuckas!

Posted by: Dolemite at January 27, 2020 12:39 PM (NWiLs)

244 221
This is an endless source of frustration to me. The left can put out
endless, accurate portrayals of tyranny in book and film/TV but they
always claim its coming from the right while ignoring how it keeps
coming from the left.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 27, 2020 12:35 PM (KZzsI)

Isn't that exactly what evil tyrannical people do? Maybe it's not ignorance...


Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 12:37 PM (22laR)
It's also possible that their portrayals are ... not ... as accurate as expected. After all, any depiction of a tyrant where the tyrant is not deathly afraid is probably not accurate to history.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 27, 2020 12:39 PM (Eg9+v)

245 Y'all are forgetting that a smart move would be to show Vindman a "doctored" copy of the book. His being the only copy that contains "bad information".
Gee. Wouldn't that be a nice trap?
I sincerely believe that is what happened with the whistleblower and the other Vindman. They were given bad info.

Posted by: MarkY at January 27, 2020 12:40 PM (i022r)

246 Oh this is rich coming from Mark Levin who has defended this neocon hack vigorously over the years and put up a defense for Bolton after Trump fired him.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at January 27, 2020 12:36 PM (BsCoj)

I got that too.

He's not questioning Bolton's loyalties or ethics.
He's saying Bolton's doing this to sell books.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 27, 2020 12:40 PM (CqE5x)

247 Also, keep in mind, this leak was laundered through at least two cutouts.
By people stupid enough to leak
And stupid enough to think they wouldn't get caught

By the same people who provided Schiff with a transcript that they stated was accurate.
The transcript that had Trump threaten Ukraine 8 times that that better "manufacturer dirt on Joe Biden"

That's how accurate this leak is; just like every single other leak

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at January 27, 2020 12:40 PM (vPKfA)

248 When met by the Bidens' response of "I will assert my right to remain silent under the fifth amendment" after such questions, it'll be tantamount to confession. 

Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2020 12:38 PM (QzJWU)

It'll be a fantastic justification for an actual indictment from the DoJ as well. Trump could land it anyways, but forcing the Senate to back him politically could not hurt.

Posted by: trev006 at January 27, 2020 12:40 PM (Eqkqm)

249 Oh?

@nytimes

Breaking News: U.S. prosecutors and the FBI want to interview Prince Andrew about Jeffrey Epstein. He has not yet responded to their requests.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2020 12:40 PM (ZLI7S)

250 sock kindly off

Posted by: DR.WTF at January 27, 2020 12:40 PM (aS1PU)

251 175
Everybody is hammering on Bolton, maybe for good reasons, but note that
we don't even know if this latest leak is even in the manuscript. It is
just as likely it is made up from the deep state as it is in the manu.


and if it's not in the final manuscript, we won't even know if it *was* in the manuscript before governmental review.

Posted by: Anachronda, noted conspiracy theorist at January 27, 2020 12:40 PM (sGtp+)

252 Am I naive to think that probably the first thing you'd do as a new president would be to earmark every single die-hard from the previous admin and get rid of them? It is just unbelievable the amount of BS all these holdovers are creating for Trump.
Posted by: Eli Cash
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Oddly, most normal people assume that others are inherently honest, and of good character. I mean, I actually used to feel that way about my Dem acquaintances.

I think that all of us here have been shocked to discover just how nasty, deep, and corrupt the government players are.

Were it possible, I would fire every registered Democrat in any government position.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2020 12:40 PM (fUKvD)

253 remember folks, this is the NYT.

There remains the slightest possibility they got the story wrong.

microscopic possibility...

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 27, 2020 12:41 PM (NhgkA)

254 I am still trying to understand why the GOP is not saying Biden is not above the law.

************

TRUMP SAID P*SSY!!!!!1111111

Posted by: Two Weeks From Soyville at January 27, 2020 12:41 PM (+dsLj)

255 Just like I said. Mukrowski to follow suit in 5...4...3...2....

Posted by: Agemt Cooper at January 27, 2020 12:41 PM (iAwUQ)

256 Try our new Batwurst!

Posted by: Bat Deli - SALE at January 27, 2020 12:41 PM (F8rys)

257 who thinks this fiasco for China is just the Trump Curse manifesting itself against an entire government.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2020 12:41 PM (d7Ww2)

258 book not national Security reviewed yet. leak is treasonous as unknown what is classified and what is not. Round them all up and put in jail. Bolton included.
another in the long list of progressive ploys: the leak is what WE say it is but you can not see the book as it is not reviewed yet. Standard Democrat October surprise. Kavanaugh assassination. Tired of their crap. only way to stop the crap is stop them (toss out of country and keep their citizenship papers)

Posted by: politics uber alles at January 27, 2020 12:41 PM (0hOKG)

259 Screeeeeech, Scr, Scr, Scr, Screeeeech

My hair is on fair, my hair is on fire..

I know I'm in the minority here but I say bring the witness forth and drag this fucking shit show into the summer.. it will completely ruin the Gimmedats.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - Not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at January 27, 2020 12:41 PM (HU45H)

260 Nancy had to hold up the proceedings until Bolton's book was ready.

Posted by: Roland THTG at January 27, 2020 12:42 PM (88+cf)

261 Bolton was always second rate.

Posted by: Richard Perle at January 27, 2020 12:42 PM (skmtz)

262 I wish President Trump had one day, just one day, to not have to divide his day between defending vs moving this country forward.
He does an excellent job behind the scenes, but, expecting a 70yo man to be able to keep this up/be healthy for another 4 years is certainly asking a lot from one man.

Posted by: Alice McD at January 27, 2020 12:42 PM (E+yET)

263 Johns Hopkins CoronaVirus tracker

https://tinyurl.com/qo7sou3

nice GIS based dashboard

5 cases in US to date

Posted by: McCool at January 27, 2020 12:42 PM (KvRqW)

264 >>remember folks, this is the NYT.

>>There remains the slightest possibility they got the story wrong.

>>microscopic possibility...


I seem to remember them getting some stuff about a Russia hoax wrong. Like everything.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2020 12:42 PM (ZLI7S)

265 Some call bat 'the chicken of the cave'....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 27, 2020 12:42 PM (l4C/z)

266 I question the timing.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 27, 2020 12:42 PM (HaL55)

267 So.. the way I see it, this does not look good for Trump.

The only way Bolton's sales improve is if he has some negatives on Trump.

If pre-sales rumors do not pan out during his testimony, his sales plummet.

Or.. maybe Bolton is hoping they vote for no witnesses.. in that case his book sales skyrocket, and he can keep the tease going til it goes on sale.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 27, 2020 12:43 PM (so+oy)

268 238 Check out this thread:

https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1221582360023576577

Bolton isn't saying Trump tied Ukraine weapons $ to opening a Burisma/2016 probe. Bolton says Trump wanted Ukraine to "[turn] over all materials they had about the Russia investigation that related Mr. Biden & and supporters of Mrs. Clinton in Ukraine."

What we're being told he said, isn't what they're quoting. And what they are quoting isn't necessarily even really from Bolton's book.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 27, 2020 12:34 PM (K

This makes sense, and is another big "So What?"

He asked directly about crowd strike in the call transcript. That is not what these dems care about or the basis for the impeachment show.
Posted by: LASue at January 27, 2020 12:39 PM (Ed8Zd)

CrowdStrike was the focus of the Trump-Zelnsky(sp) call. Biden was thrown in as an afterthought.

Posted by: josephistan at January 27, 2020 12:43 PM (7HtZB)

269 "John has a festering boil."

Posted by: Sharkman at January 27, 2020 12:43 PM (I6tpa)

270 What a waste of time. And boring. Who cares what Bolton has in his book? I wasn't planning to read it anyways. And the Dark State will always be the Dark State until the punishment for defying a duly-elected president and the Constitution exceeds the threshold for gaming the system. The Dems are attempting to hold up the country's business until this "impeachment" matter is settled. Over a phone call, complete with a released transcript, that is not a criminal matter.

Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2020 12:43 PM (Pqytn)

271 Where is the Turtle's kill switch that he said was written in the impeachment rules just for something like this?

Posted by: Sooner at January 27, 2020 12:43 PM (Fs5vw)

272 I will make a prediction, 4 gop squishies will vote to bring in dem witnesses, but vote against repub witnesses. We shouldn't disabuse ourselves of the fact that the dems really have the majority in the senate.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2020 12:43 PM (r+sAi)

273 237 bats are the chicken of the cave
Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at January 27, 2020 12:39 PM (RKQ/v)

You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautee it. Dey's uh, bat-kabobs, bat creole, bat gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple bat, lemon bat, coconut bat, pepper bat, bat soup, bat stew, bat salad, bat and potatoes, bat burger, bat sandwich. That - that's about

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:43 PM (NWiLs)

274 57 Mitt isn't worried about electoral blowback. He only has one mission now; get Trump.
Posted by: pep at January 27, 2020 12:15 PM

This is the equivalent of a suicide attack via the Wright Flyer.

Posted by: Grimaldi at January 27, 2020 12:43 PM (H+ejS)

275 Be kind to your winged rodent friends

For a bat may be somebody's mother
=====

Celebrating the Year of the Rat -- hmmmmm.

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 27, 2020 12:43 PM (MIKMs)

276 Well, if I read you right, Bolton says Trump "wanted dirt" on Biden and Clinton, right?
Posted by: JoeF. at January 27, 2020 12:38 PM (CqE5x)


Never heard the word "dirt" associated with the Mueller investigation

only dirt when it the republicans seek such materials

Posted by: REDACTED at January 27, 2020 12:43 PM (rpxSz)

277 Bolton do this is just another reason to never let a neocon anywhere near your foreign policy. Especially one like him who had been drifting along for several years as a thinktank sponger and Fox News guest.

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at January 27, 2020 12:43 PM (hdzef)

278 All right, meetings time.

See folks later.

Don't freak out until it's time.

Until then, buy ammo, load magazine and then relax

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at January 27, 2020 12:43 PM (l4C/z)

279 One thing I noticed recently. Local news person (young, eager, clueless) reporting on a local rally in support of Trump reported that the president had been charged with "obstruction of justice".

I tend to think that the Democrats choosing the made-up charge of 'obstruction of Congress' was not accidental.

From Murder She Wrote to Law & Order and every police show in between, the popular culture frequently uses the phrase "obstruction of justice" to the point that it has permeated the vernacular. Obstruction of justice is always thrown in as an added charge.

Ask anyone you meet to complete the phrase "Obstruction of _______". What do you think will be the most common answer?

So then, as designed, obstruction of Congress (not an actual crime) now becomes conflated in many people's minds with obstruction of justice (an actual crime)

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2020 12:44 PM (m45I2)

280 He's not questioning Bolton's loyalties or ethics.

He's saying Bolton's doing this to sell books.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 27, 2020 12:40 PM (CqE5x)

He's almost implying he'd do it to sell books.

Posted by: Adam Ant at January 27, 2020 12:44 PM (XzVUd)

281 My nana made some good bat sausage. It was good in chili.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at January 27, 2020 12:44 PM (C+We0)

282 You will go to a yard sale. You will see a table of books. Among the books will be Bolton's tome. You will look up at the yard-sale host, and you will say "You own this book. I presume you paid money for it, and read it. You are an incompetent fool. I will not purchase this book from you, and I'm leaving your dumb yard sale. I hope a meteor hits you in the head."

Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 12:44 PM (yvnmY)

283 You'd think he'd kinda be out front and center now to negate the portrayal.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 27, 2020 12:39 PM (JoUsr)

He can't.

If he speaks publicly on this, then Executive privilege before Congress goes out the window.

Which may be the ploy.

They are trying to get the President to wave Executive privilege to stop the firestorm of coverage and allow Bolton to speak.

Which would mean Schiff could call him before the HOUSE again, now with a legal argument to get him to testify.

Posted by: Don Q at January 27, 2020 12:44 PM (NgKpN)

284 This is all about perception. It has nothing to do with whatever Trump did or didn't do.

The idea is to create the perception that Trump isn't on the up and up, and you don't need facts or evidence to plant a doubt in the public mind.

Mind, I don't think his supporters will turn away from him. And it's possible that the Dem's shenanigans will turn off any hesitant voters who might have supported them (the dems).

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 27, 2020 12:44 PM (19g6/)

285 Chris Wallace drooling with glee.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2020 12:45 PM (vEIlU)

286 So has Max Boot informed us of how this is just like the Holocaust?

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 27, 2020 12:45 PM (RD7QR)

287 Oddly, most normal people assume that others are inherently honest, and
of good character. I mean, I actually used to feel that way about my Dem
acquaintances.



I think that all of us here have been shocked to discover just how nasty, deep, and corrupt the government players are.



Were it possible, I would fire every registered Democrat in any government position.


I find myself intrigued by your proposal and would like to subscribe to your newsletter, should one be available.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 27, 2020 12:45 PM (HaL55)

288 Bat sarad dericious!

Posted by: Roland THTG at January 27, 2020 12:45 PM (88+cf)

289 I will make a prediction, 4 gop squishies will vote to bring in dem witnesses, but vote against repub witnesses. We shouldn't disabuse ourselves of the fact that the dems really have the majority in the senate.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2020 12:43 PM (r+sAi)

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I don't know if the vote will be that detailed. I think it will just be YES WITNESS or NO WITNESS, but maybe I'm wrong.

Posted by: reason at January 27, 2020 12:45 PM (q/kmn)

290
You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautee it. Dey's uh, bat-kabobs, bat creole, bat gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple bat, lemon bat, coconut bat, pepper bat, bat soup, bat stew, bat salad, bat and potatoes, bat burger, bat sandwich. That - that's about
Posted by: Insomniac
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Fricassee.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2020 12:45 PM (fUKvD)

291 Bolton book? Is this about fake boobs?

Posted by: wth at January 27, 2020 12:45 PM (v0R5T)

292 batatouille.


mmmmmm.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at January 27, 2020 12:46 PM (C+We0)

293 @nytimes

Breaking News: U.S. prosecutors and the FBI want to interview Prince Andrew about Jeffrey Epstein. He has not yet responded to their requests.

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He'll either say, "sod off, swampy" or QEII will grab him by the upper ear and pull him into the FBI office to make amends for his shame upon the family.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 27, 2020 12:46 PM (JoUsr)

294 Kobe beef died?

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 27, 2020 12:46 PM (skmtz)

295 293 batatouille.


mmmmmm.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at January 27, 2020 12:46 PM (C+We0)

Hah! Good one.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:46 PM (NWiLs)

296 "Obstruction of _______".
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Bowels!

What do I win?

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 27, 2020 12:46 PM (sWM8x)

297 What are the chances, "A leak from the NSC to the NY Times," is simply a laundering of Bolton directly conspiring with the Dems?
Posted by: davidt at January 27, 2020 12:39 PM (l3+k2)

Hello???!!!

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 12:46 PM (22laR)

298 >>He's not questioning Bolton's loyalties or ethics.

>>He's saying Bolton's doing this to sell books.

What is Bolton doing? This was a leak from government where Bolton doesn't work. Bolton didn't leak this, people trying to get Trump leaked this.

Again, the DOJ has already said the quotes in the leak about the DOJ are false. Why would anyone believe everything else is totally accurate?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2020 12:46 PM (ZLI7S)

299 My nana made some good bat sausage. It was good in chili.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at January 27, 2020 12:44 PM (C+We0)
+++++++++++++
Carrot-fed bat makes the best chili.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 27, 2020 12:46 PM (I2dne)

300 The only thing Boulton gives a shit about is Boulton.
Eff him.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2020 12:46 PM (gPdk+)

301 Our Batty Melt is out of this world!

Posted by: Bat Deli - SALE at January 27, 2020 12:46 PM (F8rys)

302 Have we made mock of their snizz yet? Because I do make mock of it, sir.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 27, 2020 12:46 PM (RD7QR)

303 So the 'Stache turns out to be not only a neo-con and a deep-stater, but also a self-interested grifter.

I'd wear my shocked face if I could find it, but I think I threw it out. Got overused, you see.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 27, 2020 12:46 PM (z79tQ)

304 I think that all of us here have been shocked to discover just how nasty, deep, and corrupt the government players are.



Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2020 12:40 PM (fUKvD)


Speak for yourself.

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 12:47 PM (0XvLg)

305 280
One thing I noticed recently. Local news person (young, eager,
clueless) reporting on a local rally in support of Trump reported that
the president had been charged with "obstruction of justice".



....
Ask anyone you meet to complete the phrase "Obstruction of _______". What do you think will be the most common answer?


i, for one, am going to start referring to the turnstile i have to negotiate on my in to work as "obstruction of ingress".

Posted by: Anachronda at January 27, 2020 12:47 PM (sGtp+)

306 Try our new Batwurst!
Posted by: Bat Deli - SALE at January 27, 2020 12:41 PM (F8rys)

Maybe you could build a Batmobile, and peddle that sausage from it at sports events and other public gatherings. Oh, wait...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2020 12:47 PM (LxWV7)

307 I don't know if the vote will be that detailed. I think it will just be YES WITNESS or NO WITNESS, but maybe I'm wrong.
Posted by: reason at January 27, 2020 12:45 PM (q/kmn)
++++++++++++
1) They vote "YES WITNESSES/"
2) Dem "witnesses" are approved
3) Republican "witnesses" are blocked by John Roberts

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 27, 2020 12:47 PM (I2dne)

308 FoxNews full-on NeverTrump with Chris Wallace as the leadoff hitter, Juan Williams second, and Brett Baier as manager.

"Stunning news."

The wheels are coming off.

Collins wants wits. Romney, of course, does too.

This is gonna go big now, months of witness testimony. PDT will demand Biden, Biden Jr., Obama, Ciaramella, Schiff, Nadler, Schumer, and many more.

And in the end, we'll still see PDT standing.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at January 27, 2020 12:47 PM (+fPHo)

309 Romney and gang can't possibly Schiff and Nadler are anything other than human trash, can they?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 27, 2020 12:47 PM (LckBF)

310 Bat a la King, bat Kiev, teriyaki bat, bats and cream, salted caramel bat, Cajun bat, bat surprise, bat carbonara, spaghetti and batballs...

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (NWiLs)

311 Sales of Batwurst are really down this week.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (YslsA)

312 Again, the DOJ has already said the quotes in the
leak about the DOJ are false. Why would anyone believe everything else
is totally accurate?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2020 12:46 PM (ZLI7S)


Because Bolton could end this now with a simple, concise statement.

Bolton has not yet released such a statement.

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (0XvLg)

313 268....

You said the same thing about the Transcripts before they were released.
You said the same thing about all the "witness" testimony.
You said the same thing about that Ukrainian creep and his hand written restaurant note.
You're a troll.

Posted by: PacosMojo at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (esqHz)

314 Johns Hopkins CoronaVirus tracker

https://tinyurl.com/qo7sou3

nice GIS based dashboard

5 cases in US to date
======
Give it about 10 days.

14 day incubation period.

Posted by: its a spreader - not sure how deadly at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (qnoiw)

315

Remember when the media hated Bolton?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (vEIlU)

316 "The balloon has been shot down."

Posted by: Sharkman at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (I6tpa)

317 OK, alternate theory.

Bolton DOES have a book coming out, but there is nothing really in it.

Of course he is going on a publicity tour and trying to get media buzz.

Vindman's brother, who works in the office that goes over the books for classified info before release, LEAKS an untrue accusation to the Times about what is in the book.

Thus throwing Executive Privilege and Impeachment back into Chaos.

Media continues to misrepresent what is actually said, because they need the story.

Chaos reigns, and the Devil, laughing, spreads his wings.

Posted by: Don Q at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (NgKpN)

318 Ask anyone you meet to complete the phrase "Obstruction of _______". What do you think will be the most common answer?

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The Large Intestine.

Posted by: Pete Bootygieg at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (q/kmn)

319 Bat Fil A
Try our Snakeshake!

Posted by: Roland THTG at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (88+cf)

320 Testimony of John Bolton -

I will tell you everything you want to know.
But you have to buy the book and get it from there.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (1g7ch)

321 In soap opera news:

The red-headed lesbian is asking the blonde to go out dancing.
And her dark haired girlfriend is out of town.

The plot thickens.

And Summer is showing her nice rack.




Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (ufFY8)

322
You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautee it. Dey's uh, bat-kabobs, bat creole, bat gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple bat, lemon bat, coconut bat, pepper bat, bat soup, bat stew, bat salad, bat and potatoes, bat burger, bat sandwich. That - that's about
Posted by: Insomniac
------
Franchises are now available!

Posted by: Bat-Fil-A at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (fUKvD)

323 And the Chinese did feast upon the bats, and sloths, and carp, and orangutans, and mice, and snakes, and large face-spiders. - Brother Maynard.

Posted by: Archer at January 27, 2020 12:49 PM (gmo/4)

324 Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 27, 2020 12:46 PM (z79tQ)

Done wore it out, it was all faded. Looked downright horrorshow it did. All I've got left is this smirk.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 27, 2020 12:49 PM (Eg9+v)

325 You'd think he'd kinda be out front and center now to negate the portrayal.
Yeah, I'm not gonna vouch for his integrity in trying to pump up book sales vs. what is good for the country.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2020 12:49 PM (r+sAi)

326 273 I will make a prediction, 4 gop squishies will vote to bring in dem witnesses, but vote against repub witnesses. We shouldn't disabuse ourselves of the fact that the dems really have the majority in the senate.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2020 12:43 PM (r+sAi)

Right. And how many R's do they *really* have? Seems it's always "just enough", which means there are more pretending to be on our side.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 12:49 PM (22laR)

327 I've got Hot for Teacher at about 99%. Just a couple of twiddly bits to nail down and I'll have it. So yay me.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:49 PM (NWiLs)

328 Remember when the media hated Bolton?
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (vEIlU)

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Comey told me it would pass, and doggone it, he was RIGHT!

Posted by: John Bolton's Facial Follicles at January 27, 2020 12:49 PM (q/kmn)

329 The mustache is against the wall. Repeat: the mustache is against the wall.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 27, 2020 12:49 PM (RD7QR)

330 Because Bolton could end this now with a simple, concise statement.

Bolton has not yet released such a statement.

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (0XvLg)
++++++++++++
So why not? Many possibilities, but two immediate ones I can think of:
1) He has been told not to. If so, then was it Trump or was it one of Trump's enemies?
2) He doesn't want to, because book sales
3) He doesn't want to, because chaos

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 27, 2020 12:50 PM (I2dne)

331 You'd think he'd kinda be out front and center now to negate the portrayal.
=====

He must prove his innocence!

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 27, 2020 12:50 PM (MIKMs)

332 >>Because Bolton could end this now with a simple, concise statement.

>>Bolton has not yet released such a statement.

No, no he couldn't. Nothing is stopping this now.

Maybe he doesn't want this to end. Maybe Trump doesn't either.

How many times does Trump have to say he wants witnesses before people believe Trump wants witnesses? Trump has done nothing wrong. Many, many Democrats did.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2020 12:50 PM (ZLI7S)

333 Dammit, Roland faster on the keyboard.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2020 12:50 PM (fUKvD)

334 Chris Wallace drooling with glee.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2020 12:45 PM (vEIlU)

A far cry from how he looked about 48 hours ago.....

Posted by: JoeF. at January 27, 2020 12:50 PM (CqE5x)

335 "Obstruction of _______".
---
Bowels!

What do I win?
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 27, 2020 12:46 PM (sWM8x)
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A years supply of the laxative of your choice.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 27, 2020 12:50 PM (Mc5lZ)

336
Jordan Schachtel
@JordanSchachtel
Speaking of John Bolton, has anyone ever figured out what he was doing in Doha recently?

==========

He wanted to party with Lindsay Lohan.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 27, 2020 12:50 PM (M9ntN)

337 Well, damn. My next class to Chinese business students has been cancelled.
I wonder why???????????????????

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2020 12:50 PM (gPdk+)

338 Because Bolton could end this now with a simple, concise statement.

Bolton has not yet released such a statement.

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (0XvLg)

Bolton can't or he waves Executive Privilege.

If he speaks publicly about what he has said, then it is public domain information, and open to inquiries from Congress.

Its a trap

Posted by: Don Q at January 27, 2020 12:50 PM (NgKpN)

339 Why would anyone believe everything else is totally accurate?
=====
Well, if i'm being honest, I wanted the Gorilla Channel thing to be true.

I really did.

Posted by: simplemind at January 27, 2020 12:50 PM (Hf7fR)

340 Bat lava cake, bat ribs, bat shoulder, pulled bat, smoked bat, rotisserie bat, BBQ bat, bat fondant, bat au gratin, bat bolognese...

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:51 PM (NWiLs)

341 Remember when the media hated Bolton?
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (vEIlU)
+++++++++++++
Sure do. If he plays his cards right, though, he'll get a three-week, traveling, sobbing funeral with unctuous media coverage like another once-hated man - John McCain...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 27, 2020 12:51 PM (I2dne)

342 Try our new Milksnake!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 27, 2020 12:51 PM (McuK3)

343 If Bolton can turn himself into the "John Dean" figure of 2020, well his speaking fees will skyrocket for one thing.

Maybe he'll even be able to hook on as a professor someplace rather than continued slumming at the American Enterprise Institute.

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at January 27, 2020 12:51 PM (hdzef)

344 Have we hit peak Culinary Batastrophe yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 12:51 PM (Y0RHt)

345 I wonder if anyone has explained the Trump Curse to Boulton?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2020 12:51 PM (gPdk+)

346 Bats on the half-shell

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:52 PM (NWiLs)

347 Bat satay

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:52 PM (NWiLs)

348 Some of you asking why Trump hasn't fired person x.
never forget in the Watergate mythology the Saturday night Saturday night massacre was illegal
They have never given up on the obstruction of justice charge

Expect them to start calling Trump firing of Bolton the same

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at January 27, 2020 12:52 PM (k4bhB)

349 Because Bolton could end this now with a simple, concise statement.

Bolton has not yet released such a statement.

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (0XvLg)

Let's say Bolton *really* doesn't WANT to testify.
If he issues a statement about what's in the book pertaining to Trump/Ukraine, does he not in effect waive his right not to testify?

Posted by: JoeF. at January 27, 2020 12:52 PM (CqE5x)

350 OK, alternate theory.

Bolton DOES have a book coming out, but there is nothing really in it. Of course he is going on a publicity tour and trying to get media buzz.

Vindman's brother, who works in the office that goes over the books for classified info before release, LEAKS an untrue accusation to the Times about what is in the book.

Thus throwing Executive Privilege and Impeachment back into Chaos.

Posted by: Don Q



***********

I rate this as plausible.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2020 12:52 PM (m45I2)

351 Bat a la King, bat Kiev, teriyaki bat, bats and cream, salted caramel bat, Cajun bat, bat surprise, bat carbonara, spaghetti and batballs...
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:48 PM (NWiLs)
---------------

Well, I'm out, as there is not a perfect julienne fry option.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 27, 2020 12:52 PM (Mc5lZ)

352 I wonder if anyone has explained the Trump Curse to Boulton?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2020 12:51 PM (gPdk+)
+++++++++++
Or he's working for Trump. I doubt that - I think there are *way* simpler explanations - but in world-stakes Calvinball, anything is possible.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 27, 2020 12:52 PM (I2dne)

353 Bolton's attorney Chuck Cooper is thick in this. Cooper is a long-time bff of Sessions and was tasked by Sessions to staff DOJ. Cooper's dream job was Solicitor General. And, it was, until the Cooper's history w some anti-gay slur was outed and "someone" in the WH said no. Cooper gave us Rosenstein and the McCain shit at OSC that went after Tea Party ppl. Thanks, Jeff.

Posted by: EveR at January 27, 2020 12:52 PM (R0z7P)

354 Hell yes, I want witnesses...

The case against Trump is convoluted, complicated and nonsense. Witnesses won't help the democrat's case. However, the Joe and Hunter Biden situation is open and blatant corruption, understood by everyone over the age of 12.

Fuck yes. Bring those witnesses on.

Posted by: jwest at January 27, 2020 12:53 PM (U6f/q)

355 284 You'd think he'd kinda be out front and center now to negate the portrayal.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 27, 2020 12:39 PM (JoUsr)

He can't.

If he speaks publicly on this, then Executive privilege before Congress goes out the window.

Which may be the ploy.

They are trying to get the President to wave Executive privilege to stop the firestorm of coverage and allow Bolton to speak.

Which would mean Schiff could call him before the HOUSE again, now with a legal argument to get him to testify.

Posted by: Don Q at January 27, 2020 12:44 PM (NgKpN)


Yeah, the Dems don't take a sh!t without a plan. They want "relevant" documents and witnesses for reasons beyond proving/disproving the claims made in the current two Articles of Impeachment. IMHO.

Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2020 12:53 PM (AMIL/)

356 We really need a jobs program for government hacks. Restoring the Potomac Watershed, perhaps? Would keep them from leaking to the press and publishing stupid books.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 27, 2020 12:53 PM (Eg9+v)

357 Bat. It's what's for dinner.

Listen to them; creatures of the night. - HuWan Dracula

Posted by: Archer at January 27, 2020 12:53 PM (gmo/4)

358 Hot Bats on a Stick!
Hot Bats on a Stick!

Gitcher Hot Bats right here

Posted by: Roland THTG at January 27, 2020 12:53 PM (88+cf)

359 Bat a la Cacciatore.. delish! especially with wild mushrooms!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 27, 2020 12:53 PM (so+oy)

360 Bat Scratch Fever.

Posted by: Ted Nugent at January 27, 2020 12:53 PM (l3+k2)

361 bat Slap-chow?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 12:53 PM (Y0RHt)

362 So tell me again why we are supposed to believe Bolton a disgruntled ex-employee?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2020 12:53 PM (6XlcD)

363 Of course he is going on a publicity tour and trying to get media buzz.
======
All he really wants out of life at this point, is to sit on the couch next to Joy Behar, and to put his hand on her knee.

Posted by: simplemind at January 27, 2020 12:53 PM (Vkjts)

364
We really need a jobs program for government hacks. Restoring the Potomac Watershed, perhaps? Would keep them from leaking to the press and publishing stupid books.
Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 27, 2020 12:53 PM (Eg9+v)

--------

We've got this.

Posted by: Office of the Excavator Plenipotentiary, Grand North American Dignity Canal Construction Corps at January 27, 2020 12:53 PM (Zm/Ey)

365 Its a trap
Posted by: Don Q at January 27, 2020 12:50 PM (NgKpN)


If its truly a sting coordinated by Team Trump - it's a masterpiece. But every other time a former Trump advisor has made shitty moves - we've always been told it's a masterful trap set by Trump.

It always turns out no - DC Dickheads are just DC Dickheads loyal to DC regardless of party. It's possible this time is the exception - but not probable.

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 12:53 PM (0XvLg)

366 all stash, no wax.
but hey! the sun is coming out!

Posted by: Larro at January 27, 2020 12:53 PM (4YIjy)

367 Ace, I don't know if it's your phone you're dictating to, or you, but please use apostrophes correctly.

Thanks.

Posted by: Lost in Space at January 27, 2020 12:54 PM (Kpbco)

368 He wanted to party with Lindsay Lohan.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 27, 2020 12:50 PM (M9ntN)
-----------

Yeah, no, only if Bolton had a death wish. That girls tolerance level is probably through the roofie.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 27, 2020 12:54 PM (Mc5lZ)

369 If Bolton can turn himself into the "John Dean" figure of 2020, well his speaking fees will skyrocket for one thing.

Maybe he'll even be able to hook on as a professor someplace rather than continued slumming at the American Enterprise Institute.
Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at January 27, 2020 12:51 PM (hdzef)

I'm no so sure. I think Bolton--along with W. and Cheney--will forever be considered irredeemable by the Left

Posted by: JoeF. at January 27, 2020 12:54 PM (CqE5x)

370 Everyone has missed the obvious, fried bat wings.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2020 12:54 PM (fUKvD)

371 Just like I said. Mukrowski to follow suit in 5...4...3...2....
Posted by: Agemt Cooper at January 27, 2020 12:41 PM (iAwUQ)

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No way. Schiff insulted her tender sensibilities last week. And you only get ONE CHANCE with Murky.

Oh, who am I kidding...

Posted by: reason at January 27, 2020 12:54 PM (q/kmn)

372 Bat lava cake, bat ribs, bat shoulder, pulled bat, smoked bat, rotisserie bat, BBQ bat, bat fondant, bat au gratin, bat bolognese...
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:51 PM (NWiLs)

Bat and pygmy pie. It doesn't have a lot of bat in it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2020 12:54 PM (LxWV7)

373 359
Hot Bats on a Stick!
Hot Bats on a Stick!

Gitcher Hot Bats right here


Posted by: Roland THTG at January 27, 2020 12:53 PM (88+cf)
Do you get wafers with it?

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 27, 2020 12:54 PM (e284m)

374 the amount of books bolton will sell, if you pile them up, won't bring bloomberg above the fucking podium. nobody but a bunch of polinerds knows or cares who this fuckin guy is.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 27, 2020 12:54 PM (KP5rU)

375 Well, I'm out, as there is not a perfect julienne fry option.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 27, 2020 12:52 PM (Mc5lZ)

Oh YES THERE IS, my friend! Introducing the all new RonCo Batmaster 3000! It slices, dices, juliennes and chiffonades with perfect precision EACH AND EVERY TIME!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:55 PM (NWiLs)

376 Broiled boneless bat breasts

Posted by: Alliteration at January 27, 2020 12:55 PM (fUKvD)

377 If he speaks publicly on this, then Executive privilege before Congress goes out the window.

Which may be the ploy.

They are trying to get the President to wave Executive privilege to stop the firestorm of coverage and allow Bolton to speak.

Which would mean Schiff could call him before the HOUSE again, now with a legal argument to get him to testify.

Posted by: Don Q at January 27, 2020 12:44 PM (NgKpN)
+++++++++++++++
Would it? I don't know enough about executive privilege, but is Bolton even allowed to waive it? Isn't that determined by the president?

Is it possible that, in the event that he publishes (leaks) privileged information, he had no right to do so and that privilege remains despite the breach?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 27, 2020 12:55 PM (I2dne)

378 Fruit bat smoothies.

Posted by: reason at January 27, 2020 12:55 PM (q/kmn)

379 Trump is reminding people to WATCH his IMPEACHMENT trial.

Let that sink in.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 27, 2020 12:55 PM (CqE5x)

380 If its truly a sting coordinated by Team Trump - it's a masterpiece. But every other time a former Trump advisor has made shitty moves - we've always been told it's a masterful trap set by Trump.
It always turns out no - DC Dickheads are just DC Dickheads loyal to DC regardless of party. It's possible this time is the exception - but not probable.
Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 12:53 PM (0XvLg)

This is true. Trump will still win.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 12:55 PM (22laR)

381 I'd be surprised if Trump got any of the witnesses he wanted, unless he secretly wants Bolton to testify.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2020 12:55 PM (r+sAi)

382 The brain trust in Canada we're letting in the Hordes of Chinese by only screening if they had a fever. Nice work, Canada. And they are still using the same protocol.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at January 27, 2020 12:55 PM (rMbRx)

383 Still thinking about the roast beef sandwich on the morning thread.
Safeway, here I come.

Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 12:55 PM (yvnmY)

384 Bats in Hollandaise sauce?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 12:55 PM (Y0RHt)

385 This is why you never let Michael Bolton near national security

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 27, 2020 12:55 PM (NhgkA)

386 The boss always likes his punctuation corrected by seldom commenters.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 27, 2020 12:56 PM (McuK3)

387 You can't hunt fricasseeing bats without a fricasseeing bat license. So just stop.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 27, 2020 12:56 PM (e284m)

388 Fool me once; shame on you. Fool me 4,326 times and shame on Trump.

Posted by: iandeal at January 27, 2020 12:56 PM (vgGyZ)

389 If he speaks publicly about what he has said, then it is public domain information, and open to inquiries from Congress.

Its a trap
Posted by: Don Q at January 27, 2020 12:50 PM (NgKpN)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 27, 2020 12:56 PM (Kpl3J)

390 Bats Benedict

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:56 PM (NWiLs)

391 I'm no so sure. I think Bolton--along with W. and Cheney--will forever be considered irredeemable by the Left
Posted by: JoeF. at January 27, 2020 12:54 PM (CqE5x)

Nah, the guy that brings down Trump will get no end of love from the left and MSM ... even if he was OJ Simpson or the reanimated corpse of Jeffery Epstein.

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at January 27, 2020 12:56 PM (hdzef)

392 the amount of books bolton will sell, if you pile them up, won't bring bloomberg above the fucking podium. nobody but a bunch of polinerds knows or cares who this fuckin guy is.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 27, 2020 12:54 PM (KP5rU)
+++++++++++++
It will be a best seller. Tens of thousands or more copies will be warehoused until they're stuffed into libraries and landfills.

Book deals are the new payoff scheme.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 27, 2020 12:56 PM (I2dne)

393 Forget the Bass-o-matic. Try the Bat-o-matic!

Posted by: Archer at January 27, 2020 12:56 PM (gmo/4)

394
Oh YES THERE IS, my friend! Introducing the all new RonCo Batmaster 3000! It slices, dices, juliennes and chiffonades with perfect precision EACH AND EVERY TIME!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:55 PM (NWiLs)
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LOL!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 27, 2020 12:56 PM (Mc5lZ)

395 369 He wanted to party with Lindsay Lohan.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 27, 2020 12:50 PM (M9ntN)
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Yeah, no, only if Bolton had a death wish. That girls tolerance level is probably through the roofie.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 27, 2020 12:54 PM (Mc5lZ)

Her STDs have STDs.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 27, 2020 12:56 PM (RD7QR)

396 Trump has almost lost me...

If he can't figure out that he's the President of the Fucking United States and as such, has the power to fire everyone who was a Clinton, Bush or Obama appointee, than to hell with him.

I spent 8 years defending that asshole Bush, I'm not going to waste time on Trump if he won't do the most basic things to defend himself.

Posted by: jwest at January 27, 2020 12:57 PM (U6f/q)

397 Bat rack (of ribs)

Posted by: Muldoon at January 27, 2020 12:57 PM (m45I2)

398 Oh YES THERE IS, my friend! Introducing the all new RonCo Batmaster 3000! It slices, dices, juliennes and chiffonades with perfect precision EACH AND EVERY TIME!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:55 PM (NWiLs)

--------------

Tired of having to skin your bats the old fashioned way?

*cue black-and-white footage of an inexplicably clumsy woman attempt to skin a bat, fail, and drop both the bat and her knife on the floor before shrugging and giving up*

Posted by: reason at January 27, 2020 12:57 PM (q/kmn)

399 Book deals are not a new payoff scheme.

Remember Tom Foley.

Then there was Dan Rostenkowski and his check-kiting scheme.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 12:57 PM (Y0RHt)

400 This is why Pelosi stalled sending the impeachment over to the Senate. She was timing this for the publication date to fall during the Senate trial. Just like Anita Hill and Christine Blasey.

This was Pelosi's plan.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 27, 2020 12:57 PM (XKpmy)

401 Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2020 12:50 PM (ZLI7S)

Good luck trying to stop the hair on fire. I'm out.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 27, 2020 12:57 PM (y7DUB)

402 394
Forget the Bass-o-matic. Try the Bat-o-matic!


Posted by: Archer at January 27, 2020 12:56 PM (gmo/4)
Hmmmm! Great bat honey!

Posted by: Dan Hemmroid at January 27, 2020 12:57 PM (e284m)

403 >>This is true. Trump will still win.

It's not true. Rosenstein fooled a whole bunch of people, some are still fooled.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2020 12:57 PM (ZLI7S)

404 366 Its a trap
Posted by: Don Q at January 27, 2020 12:50 PM (NgKpN)

If its truly a sting coordinated by Team Trump - it's a masterpiece. But every other time a former Trump advisor has made shitty moves - we've always been told it's a masterful trap set by Trump.

It always turns out no - DC Dickheads are just DC Dickheads loyal to DC regardless of party. It's possible this time is the exception - but not probable.

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 12:53 PM (0XvLg)

I don't think this is a trap set by Dems.

This is a Trap set by Deep Staters and the Press to prolong the Chaos, hoping to pin something on Trump.

Posted by: Don Q at January 27, 2020 12:57 PM (NgKpN)

405
Vindman's brother, who works in the office that goes over the books for classified info before release, LEAKS an untrue accusation to the Times about what is in the book.

Thus throwing Executive Privilege and Impeachment back into Chaos.

Posted by: Don Q


****

The damned DA IG had better start digging into those two. This is bullshit!!!
The stench of the Vindeman's reaches all the way across the Army and it is really trashing the integrity of the officer corps.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2020 12:57 PM (gPdk+)

406 The boss always likes his punctuation corrected by seldom commenters.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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Imprudent.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2020 12:58 PM (fUKvD)

407 Bat ala Mode

Posted by: davidt at January 27, 2020 12:58 PM (l3+k2)

408 Bat hash on toast.

Posted by: Roland THTG at January 27, 2020 12:58 PM (88+cf)

409 Baby bat ribs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 27, 2020 12:58 PM (McuK3)

410 I spent 8 years defending that asshole Bush, I'm not going to waste time on Trump if he won't do the most basic things to defend himself.
Posted by: jwest at January 27, 2020 12:57 PM (U6f/q)

This is understandable. He will bring you back on side. Trust the process.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 12:58 PM (22laR)

411 386 This is why you never let Michael Bolton near national security
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 27, 2020 12:55 PM (NhgkA)

Is he the one that plays the flugelhorn or vuvuzela or whatever the hell it is?

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 27, 2020 12:58 PM (RD7QR)

412 Eat the bats, or spend 60 minutes in a room with Romney, where you are not allowed to hit him?

Posted by: Allie at January 27, 2020 12:58 PM (UnA8+)

413 Vindman's brother, who works in the office that goes over the books for classified info before release, LEAKS an untrue accusation to the Times about what is in the book.

Thus throwing Executive Privilege and Impeachment back into Chaos.

Posted by: Don Q

Atwan Brothers> Vindman Brothers

Posted by: JoeF. at January 27, 2020 12:58 PM (CqE5x)

414 Posted by: JoeF. at January 27, 2020 12:54 PM (CqE5x)



Nah, the guy that brings down Trump will get no end of love from the
left and MSM ... even if he was OJ Simpson or the reanimated corpse of
Jeffery Epstein.

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at January 27, 2020 12:56 PM (hdzef)
Not really. They didn't love McCain, they just acted like it on the news. He was the captured slave that everyone pretends to like in public but sneers at in private and isn't actually in any of their social circles. Imagine selling your soul just to be a joke.

I get the feeling that the average Republican doesn't really understand this, they really think it will all just end if they forsake their friends.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 27, 2020 12:59 PM (Eg9+v)

415 It's not true. Rosenstein fooled a whole bunch of people, some are still fooled.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2020 12:57 PM (ZLI7S)

What about Scaramucci

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 12:59 PM (22laR)

416 410 Baby bat ribs.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 27, 2020 12:58 PM (McuK3)

I want my baby bat baby bat baby bat baby bat

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:59 PM (NWiLs)

417 402 Posted by: JackStraw

Good luck trying to stop the hair on fire. I'm out.
Posted by: Captain Hate
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Good call Capt. I'm out as well.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - Not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at January 27, 2020 12:59 PM (HU45H)

418 409 Bat hash on toast.
Posted by: Roland THTG at January 27, 2020 12:58 PM (88+cf)

Guano on a shingle.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 12:59 PM (NWiLs)

419 391 Bats Benedict

---

Washed down with some La Bats Beer

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (NhgkA)

420 This is why you never let Michael Bolton near national security

When a man loves a wooooman, he can do no wrooooong.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (r+sAi)

421 Joy Villa's Trump dress @ The Grammy Awards-
https://tinyurl.com/yx5pwldd

Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (wiXsO)

422 394 Forget the Bass-o-matic. Try the Bat-o-matic!
Posted by: Archer at January 27, 2020 12:56 PM (gmo/4)

/gets out of the Batmobile

/calls his Lawyer on his Batphone

Looks like we have some copyright infringement going on...

Posted by: Baman at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (NgKpN)

423 Tired of having to skin your bats the old fashioned way?



*cue black-and-white footage of an inexplicably clumsy woman attempt
to skin a bat, fail, and drop both the bat and her knife on the floor
before shrugging and giving up*


*cue fast announcer voice for legal disclaimer at end of commercial*

"Does not work on the old bat next door."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (HaL55)

424 413
Eat the bats, or spend 60 minutes in a room with Romney, where you are not allowed to hit him?

Posted by: Allie at January 27, 2020 12:58 PM (UnA8+)
Not to worry, there are other ways to hurt a man.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (Eg9+v)

425 401 Adirondack Patriot

I agree. Looks like Pelosi had this staged, ready to go.

Posted by: EveR at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (R0z7P)

426 Witness my journey to Valhallah! Shiney and chrome!

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (7GW8u)

427 battered Bat on whole wheat

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (NhgkA)

428 Good luck trying to stop the hair on fire. I'm out.

My hairs not on fire but I'm pissed

Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (6XlcD)

429 notice this was leaked while the WH team starts to make their case

Posted by: REDACTED at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (rpxSz)

430 BABY'S GOT BAT

Posted by: Sir joncelli a lot at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (RD7QR)

431 >>What about Scaramucci Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 12:59 PM (22laR)

He will do the fandango.

Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (yvnmY)

432 Went to see 1917 last night. Not bad.

One of the trailers prior was for Morbius, another in a long line of stupid "super" "hero" movies. Plot is brilliant but mortally crippled scientist decides to let his blood be contaminated by . . .

(Wait for it)

. . .

BATS!!!!!!!!

I predict the movie will be pulled eventually. Once we start stacking corpses in earnest.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (I6tpa)

433 Hair on fire? Must be incendiary bats.

Posted by: Archer at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (gmo/4)

434 Trump has almost lost me...

If he can't figure out that he's the President of the Fucking United States and as such, has the power to fire everyone who was a Clinton, Bush or Obama appointee, than to hell with him.

I spent 8 years defending that asshole Bush, I'm not going to waste time on Trump if he won't do the most basic things to defend himself.
Posted by: jwest at January 27, 2020 12:57 PM (U6f/q)
+++++++++++
I'll defend him a little longer. There are two problems with firing all of them, and neither of those problems are related to whether they deserve it (they do).
1) He has been under investigation since day 0. Mueller. Crossfire Hurricane. Impeachment. Firing someone is suddenly obstruction. It's bullshit, of course, but mass firings of everyone who deserves it would tie him even more than he is now. Mueller came as a result of him firing one such deserving son of a bitch.
2) He can't get his own people in. The Senate never recesses and so he can't do recess appointments and most of his picks won't get confirmed. McConnell is great at ramming through judges but is happy to slow-walk political appointments. Now, it might be that it would be better to have vacancies but then it is just more swamp rats at a lower level who do the wrong things.

I am inclined to cut him a bit more slack on this particular topic. He hasn't been great on personnel in general to be sure, but he is also constrained like no prior president I know of.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (I2dne)

435 John Bolton. What a fucking piece of shit.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (dNzKv)

436
The damned DA IG had better start digging into those two. This is bullshit!!!
The stench of the Vindeman's reaches all the way across the Army and it is really trashing the integrity of the officer corps.
Posted by: Diogenes
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The field-grade equivalent of Chelsea (nee Bradley) Manning...or Bergdahl.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2020 01:01 PM (fUKvD)

437 >>What about Scaramucci

So what you're saying is that Trump's picks haven't always worked out perfectly? Name me one president who has had a perfect record with appointment.

He's in the middle of a war surrounded by treacherous bastards designed to bring him down using any tactic possible. I'd say he's done a pretty good job so far.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2020 01:01 PM (ZLI7S)

438 And another thing...

I'll give him a little more time to get some prosecutions going, but not that much more.

There have been too many blatant, on the record, out there for everyone to see crimes that no one is paying the price for. Homey don't play that and neither do I.

It's time for people to go to jail for a long time instead of being promoted.

Fuck.

Posted by: jwest at January 27, 2020 01:01 PM (U6f/q)

439 412
386 This is why you never let Michael Bolton near national security

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 27, 2020 12:55 PM (NhgkA)



Is he the one that plays the flugelhorn or vuvuzela or whatever the hell it is?

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 27, 2020 12:58 PM (RD7QR)

There was nothing wrong with my name until I was about 12 years old and that no talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.

Posted by: The Other Michael Bolton at January 27, 2020 01:01 PM (ufFY8)

440 I'm not going to waste time on Trump if he won't do the most basic things to defend himself.
Posted by: jwest at January 27, 2020 12:57 PM (U6f/q)

Trump defends himself everyday by posts on Twitter and by his comments to the press. Trump is hardly rolling over and letting people run over him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2020 01:01 PM (WI7YS)

441 I will make a prediction, 4 gop squishies will vote to bring in dem witnesses, but vote against repub witnesses. We shouldn't disabuse ourselves of the fact that the dems really have the majority in the senate. 
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2020 12:43 PM (r+sAi) 

Yes, they keep Senate investigations of the deep state from going anywhere, but here's the thing. At that point, Donald Trump will openly excoriate the "secret Democrats" in the Senate and wonder why the hell they exist at all. That many defectors will make actual Republicans go along with it. And Susan Collins has, despite all the press releases, been relatively reliable as a Senate vote. McConnell won't tolerate her going too far over the line.

Posted by: trev006 at January 27, 2020 01:01 PM (OIinY)

442 First, Bolton is kind of scumbag for taking advantage of this situation to pump up his book, though how do you live in Washington for that long without that level of scumbaggery not rubbing off on you, so seems kinda to be expected.

My bigger guess, Bolton is trolling the Dems to see if they'll take the bait by putting this in his book. Since when would it be a criminal offense if one of your advisers thought you privately felt a certain way about something? He could make these kind of statements about his opinion of the position of the President without actually giving them anything that is evidence that crime was committed, unless know we've reach the peak stupidity of thinking we can impeach a President for "wrong thought crimes".

Posted by: Justasheep at January 27, 2020 01:01 PM (L9Eia)

443 This is true. Trump will still win.
Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 12:55 PM (22laR)


Yep.

I'm not buying all this "Executive Priv" shit. Bolton wrote a book, for crying out loud. He's not motivated by keeping secrets.

Nonetheless - either Bolton gets up there and lies, which will get him caught, and we get to watch in real time a former Bush loyalist, neocon, and party establishment ally commit political suicide from the comfort of our own living rooms. That's what I call winning. Lets do this.

Or - Bolton tells the truth, and Trumps lawyers get to shove this shit show down Nadler and Schiffs throats, again, as well as throw in a little scold for the Weak Sisters Collins and Murk for voting for it in the first place. Also - winning. Trump was wrong. I don't get tired of winning. I could win all day, every day, and that shit would still never get old.

Lets do this.

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 01:01 PM (0XvLg)

444 I like big bats and I cannot lie
You other brothers can't deny
When a thing flies in with a fox-like face
And leathery wings in your face
You get SPRUNG

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 01:02 PM (NWiLs)

445 Eat the bats, or spend 60 minutes in a room with Romney, where you are not allowed to hit him?

Posted by: Allie at January 27, 2020 12:58 PM (UnA8+)
Not to worry, there are other ways to hurt a man.
=======
Just like him right in the eye and say two words:
Candy Crowley

Posted by: simplemind at January 27, 2020 01:02 PM (e96NH)

446 Eat the bats, or spend 60 minutes in a room with Romney, where you are not allowed to hit him?
Posted by: Allie at January 27, 2020 12:58 PM (UnA8+)

--------

Am I allowed to play for him the Lutheran Satire videos on YouTube where Donnell and Connell make fun of Mormons?

Posted by: reason at January 27, 2020 01:02 PM (q/kmn)

447 Not really. They didn't love McCain, they just acted like it on the
news. He was the captured slave that everyone pretends to like in public
but sneers at in private and isn't actually in any of their social
circles. Imagine selling your soul just to be a joke.
=====
Yeah, Benedict Arnold really wowwed 'em when he moved back to England.

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 27, 2020 01:02 PM (MIKMs)

448 430
notice this was leaked while the WH team starts to make their case

Posted by: REDACTED at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (rpxSz)
This 10,000th leak, like all the others, is purely a coincidence.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 27, 2020 01:02 PM (e284m)

449 Incendiary bats?

Oh great who opened the secret WWII vaults that house all US plans?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 01:02 PM (Y0RHt)

450 According to the CDC, about 7250 people die every day in the United States. It is very rare that any single one ever gets a mention by the press.

Rest in Peace for all of you who have no family or friends and die in loneliness.

Posted by: I have no heroes. at January 27, 2020 01:03 PM (/LQkF)

451 >>Once we start stacking corpses in earnest. Posted by: Sharkman at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (I6tpa)

People always talking about "stacking corpses." I bet when the Great Cull begins, there'll be some enthusiastic stacking going on, but after awhile, people will get bored and corpses will just be left lying around any-old-where.

Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 01:03 PM (yvnmY)

452
Bat wings

Posted by: jsg at January 27, 2020 01:03 PM (S9ODh)

453 Ken Starr in the chamber!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2020 01:03 PM (q1Pj5)

454 notice this was leaked while the WH team starts to make their case

It sure doesn't help them

Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2020 01:03 PM (6XlcD)

455 I get the feeling that the average Republican doesn't really understand this, they really think it will all just end if they forsake their friends.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 27, 2020 12:59 PM (Eg9+v)

They ain't our friends. And the feeling is mutual. If Trump sacks Congress tomorrow, I'll have to hide my grin the whole day.

Posted by: trev006 at January 27, 2020 01:03 PM (OIinY)

456 Good Lord, bitch Nora whatshername was breathless about the Bolton bullcrap as she is introducing CBS coverage of the trial.

I had to switch to CSPAN before I puked.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 27, 2020 01:03 PM (ufFY8)

457 I am CONCERNED!

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 27, 2020 01:03 PM (1CjJc)

458 Bolton is more of a scumbag if he coordinated with Pelosi, and that is why the delivery of the articles was delayed for a month.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 27, 2020 01:03 PM (dNzKv)

459 450 Incendiary bats?

Oh great who opened the secret WWII vaults that house all US plans?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 01:02 PM (Y0RHt)

Bats on fire, strong desire, rages deep within
Bats on fire, fever's risin', high
The moment of truth draws near

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 01:04 PM (NWiLs)

460 The field-grade equivalent of Chelsea (nee Bradley) Manning...or Bergdahl.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2020 01:01 PM



Worse Mike.
This smacks of collusion/conspiracy.
I'd give my left testicle to be the investigating officer.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2020 01:04 PM (gPdk+)

461 I got your bat right here.

Posted by: Louisville Slugger at January 27, 2020 01:04 PM (skmtz)

462 Fuck.
Posted by: jwest at January 27, 2020 01:01 PM (U6f/q)


You didn't find that leak yet, did you ?

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 01:04 PM (0XvLg)

463
People always talking about "stacking corpses." I
bet when the Great Cull begins, there'll be some enthusiastic stacking
going on, but after awhile, people will get bored and corpses will just
be left lying around any-old-where.


Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 01:03 PM (yvnmY)
We'll just need to stay out of those zones for a few months and nature will deal with most of it

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 27, 2020 01:04 PM (e284m)

464 Jya ne minna, kiokitsene nyah!

https://youtu.be/cXCqGf6V-N0

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 01:04 PM (Y0RHt)

465 Lets not have illusions, at some point in this trial the democrats will convince themselves that Trump had illegal thoughts, and that this is really what it is about. They won't win, but the effect will be long-lasting.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 27, 2020 01:04 PM (Eg9+v)

466 Bats with laser beams. Is that too much to ask?

Posted by: Dr. Evil at January 27, 2020 01:04 PM (q1Pj5)

467 Even if Trump had told bolton that he really, really, really wanted to tie US $ to Ukraine to them finding some fake dirt on Biden (maybe a dossier could be put together?), the unassailable fact is that Trump didn't do that.

Everyone in the world can speculate as to what Trump really wanted, but it is irrelevant here.

Posted by: LASue at January 27, 2020 01:04 PM (Ed8Zd)

468 Bolton really wants to be a witness so that Trump's defense team, composed of some of the best lawyers in the country, can cross-examine him? An all-day rock'em sock'em no holds barred cross? Interesting, and if that's a whole pile of nothing-burgers, and I'm pretty sure it is, then his book's sales will be nothing-burgers, too.

Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2020 01:04 PM (Pqytn)

469 General Tsao's Bat

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at January 27, 2020 01:05 PM (k/TB6)

470 Good Lord, bitch Nora whatshername was breathless about the Bolton bullcrap as she is introducing CBS coverage of the trial.
======
Its all the psychic trauma from that one wonderful night in 2016, when everyone in the media cried. They've never dealt with the PTSD.

Posted by: simplemind at January 27, 2020 01:05 PM (qnoiw)

471 459 Bolton is more of a scumbag if he coordinated with Pelosi, and that is why the delivery of the articles was delayed for a month.

His ego... He was fired.... Who cares if this could lead to trump being defeated in 2020... Dems like war more anyway

Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2020 01:05 PM (6XlcD)

472 Not going too well for you guys, huh? Awww...

Posted by: No at January 27, 2020 01:05 PM (7xV7k)

473 So what you're saying is that Trump's picks haven't always worked out perfectly? Name me one president who has had a perfect record with appointment.
He's in the middle of a war surrounded by treacherous bastards designed to bring him down using any tactic possible. I'd say he's done a pretty good job so far.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2020 01:01 PM (ZLI7S)

Yo Jack my man... all I agreed with was someone saying that often Trump backstabbers are surmised to be part of some "long game" by Trump but by and large they turn out to just be backstabbers.

That was literally the point I was agreeing with. It's not very controversial. Let me get you a bowl.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 01:05 PM (22laR)

474 The flying mammals
Are not meant to be eaten
Coronavirus

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 01:05 PM (NWiLs)

475 And now Mulvaney is out with a statement saying everything attributed to him in the Bolton leak is false.

But aside from the DOJ and Mulvaney everything else is totally accurate.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2020 01:05 PM (ZLI7S)

476 People always talking about "stacking corpses." I

bet when the Great Cull begins, there'll be some enthusiastic stacking

going on, but after awhile, people will get bored and corpses will just

be left lying around any-old-where.




Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 01:03 PM (yvnmY)


Feral cats gotta eat your face off, same as buzzards.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 27, 2020 01:05 PM (1CjJc)

477 I. CAN'T. BREATHE.

Posted by: REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! at January 27, 2020 01:05 PM (CLteG)

478 You didn't find that leak yet, did you ?

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 01:04 PM (0XvLg)


I found mine. Now it's time for Trump to find his (and take care of it).

Posted by: jwest at January 27, 2020 01:06 PM (U6f/q)

479 notice this was leaked while the WH team starts to make their case

It sure doesn't help them
Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2020 01:03 PM (6XlcD)

yep- trying to throw them off balance. They are pros; it won't work.,

They'll figure out how to work this into their opening.

Posted by: LASue at January 27, 2020 01:06 PM (Ed8Zd)

480 450 Incendiary bats?

Oh great who opened the secret WWII vaults that house all US plans?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 01:02 PM (Y0RHt)

The "Bat Bomb" was never used on Japan, but they did accidentally burn down the base where they were developing it.

Posted by: zmdavid at January 27, 2020 01:06 PM (xqRaG)

481 The idea that Bolton would try to shank Trump is absurd. Bolton is Iran's number One hater. For years the Left has claimed Bolton wanted to send troop to Tehran. Trump just pulled the trigger on Iran's number one baddie after multiple presidents passed it up, an action not without risk.

Let's wait and see.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at January 27, 2020 01:06 PM (BRpqW)

482 The reaction to the Bolton leak proves how absolutely critical it is for Americans to have the President besmirched before the Senate. Let Bolton besmirch! A word of warning though, please make sure nobody has calendars from high school that prove your lies Mr. Ambassador. Those can really suck.

Posted by: Christine Blasey Ford at January 27, 2020 01:06 PM (NVYyb)

483 I cry into my jerk off sock. Saves on laundry money.

Posted by: No at January 27, 2020 01:06 PM (22laR)

484 Not going too well for you guys, huh? Awww...

Posted by: No at January 27, 2020 01:05 PM (7xV7k)
Actually, when you've seen half a dozen dud bombs, you begin to recognize them.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 27, 2020 01:06 PM (e284m)

485 Lets not have illusions, at some point in this trial the democrats will convince themselves that Trump had illegal thoughts, and that this is really what it is about. They won't win, but the effect will be long-lasting.
Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 27, 2020 01:04 PM (Eg9+v)
+++++++++++
Some Republicans will, too. They won't get to 67, but there could well be some defections. Any number of them - especially those not up for election this year - are itching for an excuse.

The real goal, as it has always been, is probably an attempt at popular de-legitimization as opposed to actual removal. Make him ineffective. Make him hated. Ramp up his stress level. Hope he strokes out and dies in office.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 27, 2020 01:06 PM (I2dne)

486 Really? The Senate chaplain mentioned Kobe?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 27, 2020 01:06 PM (ufFY8)

487 480 450 Incendiary bats?

Oh great who opened the secret WWII vaults that house all US plans?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 01:02 PM (Y0RHt)

The "Bat Bomb" was never used on Japan, but they did accidentally burn down the base where they were developing it.
Posted by: zmdavid at January 27, 2020 01:06 PM (xqRaG)

A total batastrophe.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 27, 2020 01:06 PM (NWiLs)

488 472
Not going too well for you guys, huh? Awww...

Posted by: No at January 27, 2020 01:05 PM (7xV7k)

On the contrary, Bolton leak is an act of desparation. That bodes well for us.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 27, 2020 01:06 PM (1CjJc)

489 People always talking about "stacking corpses." I
bet when the Great Cull begins, there'll be some enthusiastic stacking
going on, but after awhile, people will get bored and corpses will just
be left lying around any-old-where.


Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 01:03 PM (yvnmY)
=======
Well, we like to use them for building materials.

Posted by: President Xi at January 27, 2020 01:06 PM (zqmPE)

490 I bet when the Great Cull begins, there'll be some enthusiastic stacking going on, but after awhile, people will get bored and corpses will just be left lying around any-old-where.
Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 01:03 PM (yvnmY)


During the Great Leap Forward Famine, the PLA moved so many corpses, the CIA thought the trucks were being used to move entire divisions to attack India/Pakistan ...

Posted by: Adriane the Logistics Critic ... at January 27, 2020 01:07 PM (LPnfS)

491 AND NOW NO IS TROLLING US!!!

OMG OMG OMG

RRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Posted by: REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! at January 27, 2020 01:07 PM (CLteG)

492 Leave the bat.
Take the cannoli.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2020 01:07 PM (gPdk+)

493 I will make a prediction, 4 gop squishies will vote to bring in dem witnesses, but vote against repub witnesses. We shouldn't disabuse ourselves of the fact that the dems really have the majority in the senate.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2020 12:43 PM (r+sAi)


Nah, who will be called as witnesses will be hashed out BEFORE there is a vote

Posted by: JoeF. at January 27, 2020 01:07 PM (CqE5x)

494 I am still waiting for the real conservatives in the senate, few though they may be, to say Biden should be investigated.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2020 01:07 PM (r+sAi)

495 Did you plug the leak daddy?

No honey, my puppeteers orchestrated it.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 01:07 PM (22laR)

496 Let the circus begin

Posted by: JoeF. at January 27, 2020 01:08 PM (CqE5x)

497 People always talking about "stacking corpses." I


bet when the Great Cull begins, there'll be some enthusiastic stacking


going on, but after awhile, people will get bored and corpses will just


be left lying around any-old-where.

I'd be out after about 2 cords worth

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at January 27, 2020 01:08 PM (k/TB6)

498 434
Hair on fire? Must be incendiary bats.

pretty sure hare on fire is what started australia burning.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 27, 2020 01:08 PM (sGtp+)

499 430 notice this was leaked while the WH team starts to make their case
Posted by: REDACTED at January 27, 2020 01:00 PM (rpxSz)
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Perfect timing by the Dems. Notice they were quiet after a seemingly good day for Trump's team on Sat. They knew the bomb would be dropping Sunday evening.

They are always one step ahead of Trump and the GOP.

Posted by: ggreg at January 27, 2020 01:08 PM (045k4)

500 Hey, No - there's some standard verbiage that applies here -

The walls are closing in!
The wheels are about to come of!
This looks like the beginning of the end!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 27, 2020 01:08 PM (e284m)

501 Given how false all the supposed quotes are now appearing, and how the leak itself is a violation of law, it is clear extending the trial and hearing from witnesses while citing the Bolton Bombshell as your reason encourages only illegality and disrespect for law. Fuck 'em. Let's finish this sucker.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2020 01:08 PM (NVYyb)

502 Chris Wallace is a f****** b***

Posted by: Frasier Crane at January 27, 2020 01:08 PM (dmYb7)

503

The McCain family just issued a statement saying that it is their sincere wish the nation can heal after these trying times we face and that John's final words were he had the utmost respect for John Bolton and there should be witnesses during the Senate trial.

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 27, 2020 01:08 PM (5Pw++)

504 Not going too well for you guys, huh? Awww...

Posted by: No at January 27, 2020 01:05 PM (7xV7k)

I normally don't do this but Rasmussen today.... 50% approval rating

Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2020 01:08 PM (6XlcD)

505 Because, quid pro quo, in foreign policy, is not illegal.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 27, 2020 01:08 PM (e284m)

506 I stick vegetables in my ass before I walk to school.

Posted by: No at January 27, 2020 01:08 PM (CLteG)

507 Come on guys, getting impeached was all just part of Trump's plan. Later today, the guy we all think is Chief Justice John Roberts is going to rip off his mask ... and guess who it's going to be?

That's right! Rod Rosenstein, yelling, "Yo, Schiff, what color is my hat?"

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at January 27, 2020 01:09 PM (hdzef)

508 I found mine. Now it's time for Trump to find his (and take care of it).
Posted by: jwest at January 27, 2020 01:06 PM (U6f/q)


I'm serious. Was it a toilet like I thought ?

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 01:09 PM (0XvLg)

509 I got board and bats on my barn

should I be worried ?

Posted by: REDACTED at January 27, 2020 01:09 PM (rpxSz)

510 494
I am still waiting for the real conservatives in the senate, few though they may be, to say Biden should be investigated.


Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2020 01:07 PM (r+sAi)

So far, that real conservative is Grahamnesty. Comforting.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 27, 2020 01:09 PM (1CjJc)

511 I don't want him coming out of the bathroom with just a bat in his hand.

Posted by: Sonny Corleone at January 27, 2020 01:09 PM (l3+k2)

512 >>Perfect timing by the Dems. Notice they were quiet after a seemingly good day for Trump's team on Sat. They knew the bomb would be dropping Sunday evening.

>>They are always one step ahead of Trump and the GOP.

So you're saying you team is made up of lying and leaking scumbags? We knew that.

Watch and learn, retard. You're going to lose again.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2020 01:09 PM (ZLI7S)

513 487
480 450 Incendiary bats?



Oh great who opened the secret WWII vaults that house all US plans?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2020 01:02 PM (Y0RHt)



The "Bat Bomb" was never used on Japan, but they did accidentally burn down the base where they were developing it.

Posted by: zmdavid at January 27, 2020 01:06 PM (xqRaG)



A total batastrophe.


i heard they were planning to launch them with batapults.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 27, 2020 01:09 PM (sGtp+)

514 This is why you never let Michael Bolton near national security

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 27, 2020 12:55 PM (NhgkA)



Is he the one that plays the flugelhorn or vuvuzela or whatever the hell it is?

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 27, 2020 12:58 PM (RD7QR)

There was nothing wrong with my name until I was about 12 years old and that no talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.

Posted by: The Other Michael Bolton at January 27, 2020 01:01 PM (ufFY

Well, he did steal Nicoleete Sheridan from Harry Hamilin, freeing him up to get together with Lisa Rinna, thus giving her an original story line that got her on RHOBH. So he's done some good!

Posted by: LASue at January 27, 2020 01:10 PM (Ed8Zd)

515 It's going fine for me, Doctor No. I am not having to go on leftist sites and troll them as you troll this conservative site.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2020 01:10 PM (WI7YS)

516 505
Because, quid pro quo, in foreign policy, is not illegal.



Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 27, 2020 01:08 PM (e284m)

Neither is investigating corruption in the former administration executive office.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 27, 2020 01:10 PM (1CjJc)

517 Let's go Sekulow. Start throwing some 'bows!

Posted by: Eli Cash at January 27, 2020 01:11 PM (F8rys)

518 476 People always talking about "stacking corpses." I
bet when the Great Cull begins, there'll be some enthusiastic stacking going on, but after awhile, people will get bored and corpses will just be left lying around any-old-where.

Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 01:03 PM (yvnmY)


Feral cats gotta eat your face off, same as buzzards.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 27, 2020 01:05 PM (1CjJc)

That's when you can go get the skulls, because stacking them is way cooler than rotting corpses.

Posted by: Roy at January 27, 2020 01:11 PM (SUJyY)

519 Biden should be investigated regardless. His Senate friends all think he is a crook, they are just wary of opening the Pandora's Box of investigating Senate crooks. I mean, someone might decide to release the names of Senate and House Members who had sex claims paid off using taxpayer funds, or something.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2020 01:11 PM (NVYyb)

520 Jay Sekulow up.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 27, 2020 01:11 PM (ufFY8)

521 Baby bat ribs.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 27, 2020 12:58 PM (McuK3)



Ding Ding Ding!

It took a while, but there it is, your Winner!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 27, 2020 01:11 PM (z79tQ)

522 Lisa Rinna? What's wrong with her face?

Posted by: Mr. Plinkett at January 27, 2020 01:12 PM (q1Pj5)

523
I'm serious. Was it a toilet like I thought ?




Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 01:09 PM (0XvLg)

Yep. Flapper valve, likely partially eaten by aliens, as I suspected.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 27, 2020 01:12 PM (1CjJc)

524 Notice they were quiet after a seemingly good day for Trump's team on Sat.

Why would we notice something that didn't happen ???

Oy!

Posted by: Adriane Wot Sez 'Oy!' Alot These Days ... at January 27, 2020 01:12 PM (LPnfS)

525 474
The flying mammals

Are not meant to be eaten

Coronavirus


great. now i'm going to be thinking "coronavirus" whenever i see "burma shave". thanks a lot, buddy.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 27, 2020 01:12 PM (sGtp+)

526 The sign in Zod's front yard:
"Neighbor: Just Because You See A Bunch Of Unstacked Corpses Doesn't Mean Stop Cleaning Up After Your Dog."

Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 01:12 PM (qXNVo)

527 Well, he did steal Nicoleete Sheridan from Harry Hamilin, freeing him up to get together with Lisa Rinna, thus giving her an original story line that got her on RHOBH. So he's done some good!
Posted by: LASue at January 27, 2020 01:10 PM (Ed8Zd)

Where does Kevin Bacon fit in all that?

Posted by: tbodie. at January 27, 2020 01:12 PM (i+qnA)

528 Some Republicans will, too. They won't get to 67,
but there could well be some defections. Any number of them - especially
those not up for election this year - are itching for an excuse.



Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 27, 2020 01:06 PM (I2dne)


Feature, not a bug.

Collins, Murk, Romney, Portman, Gardner - they remind me of a wife always threatening to move back into her mother's. At some point, you just gotta' tell her to pack.

That bunch gets way too much leverage out of that threat of crossing the aisle. Screw 'em. Let 'em go.

Let's make a scene, people. A big, nasty, public fight.

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 01:13 PM (0XvLg)

529 That's when you can go get the skulls, because stacking them is way cooler than rotting corpses.

Posted by: Roy at January 27, 2020 01:11 PM (SUJyY)

In the game of thrones of skulls, feral cats are your friend.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 27, 2020 01:13 PM (1CjJc)

530 503

The McCain family just issued a statement saying that it is their sincere wish the nation can heal after these trying times we face and that John's final words were he had the utmost respect for John Bolton and there should be witnesses during the Senate trial.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 27, 2020 01:08 PM (5Pw++)

Co-signed by John Boehner and Eric Cantor.

Posted by: Allie at January 27, 2020 01:13 PM (UnA8+)

531 The "bolton leak" details are already falling apart. But it was the opening the lib sisters and romney (BIRM) wanted to pretend they are just being fair.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2020 01:13 PM (r+sAi)

532

Sekulow comes out swinging pleading.

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 27, 2020 01:13 PM (5Pw++)

533 Look, I wish you round eyes would stop harping on the bat soup.

The truth is, the mammals we are eating are the problem, but it isn't the bats.

Its the soylent green.

Posted by: President Xi at January 27, 2020 01:13 PM (b5iML)

534 Bolton is a worm, and Hewitt has been propping him up all day. Same with Romney, because, you know, he's "principled."

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 27, 2020 01:13 PM (bkUtD)

535 >>Perfect timing by the Dems. Notice they were
quiet after a seemingly good day for Trump's team on Sat. They knew the
bomb would be dropping Sunday evening.



>>They are always one step ahead of Trump and the GOP.



So you're saying you team is made up of lying and leaking scumbags? We knew that.



Watch and learn, retard. You're going to lose again.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2020 01:09 PM (ZLI7S)

==================================
LOL. Well typed, Jack.

Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2020 01:14 PM (Pqytn)

536 Someone better get on investigating Roosevelt for trading antiquated destroyers for naval base agreements.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at January 27, 2020 01:14 PM (e284m)

537 DamnedYankee at January 27, 2020 01:08 PM (e284m)

Followed closely by "He BROKE me !!!"

Posted by: Adriane Wot Sez 'Oy!' Alot These Days ... at January 27, 2020 01:14 PM (LPnfS)

538 Silver cuck Hewitt can go horsefuck. What a fucktard.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 27, 2020 01:14 PM (McuK3)

539 527
Well, he did steal Nicoleete Sheridan from Harry Hamilin, freeing him up
to get together with Lisa Rinna, thus giving her an original story line
that got her on RHOBH. So he's done some good!

Posted by: LASue at January 27, 2020 01:10 PM (Ed8Zd)



Where does Kevin Bacon fit in all that?


i heard the canadians call him bat bacon.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 27, 2020 01:14 PM (sGtp+)

540 The American people can not be trusted with our democracy!

https://tinyurl.com/ve2pqjp

Posted by: Congressman Adam Kilgore Shitt, Trout-Like Manfish at January 27, 2020 01:14 PM (NVYyb)

541 Given how false all the supposed quotes are now appearing, and how the leak itself is a violation of law, it is clear extending the trial and hearing from witnesses while citing the Bolton Bombshell as your reason encourages only illegality and disrespect for law. Fuck 'em. Let's finish this sucker.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2020 01:08 PM (NVYyb)

Yes, Im a bit surprised Collins "decided" so soon, without waiting to hear the defense team finish their opening. maybe she'll flip again

Posted by: LASue at January 27, 2020 01:15 PM (Ed8Zd)

542 Yep. Flapper valve, likely partially eaten by aliens, as I suspected.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 27, 2020 01:12 PM (1CjJc)


Can't tell you how many times I've thought - why don't I just replace these once a year ? They're cheap, easy, no problem. Two beer job, tops.


But no. I won't.

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 01:15 PM (0XvLg)

543 And seriously Utah, can you do no better?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 27, 2020 01:15 PM (bkUtD)

544 Sarah Palin on a campaign of anti-corruption removed a law that said you couldn't sue public officials in Alaska. When she returned there after 2008 lefty groups sued her into oblivion with all kinds of farcical charges until she finally had to resign to keep from being millions of dollars in debt.

Democrats don't change. Never underestimate their treachery.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 01:15 PM (22laR)

545 In the game of thrones of skulls, feral cats are your friend.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 27, 2020 01:13 PM (1CjJc)

You need those industrial maggots, too, to clean out all the shit inside that the cats can't reach.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2020 01:15 PM (LxWV7)

546 Nothing like a good BLT, when the bat is sliced extra thin.

Posted by: 6to4to3 at January 27, 2020 01:15 PM (ilTjN)

547 523
I'm serious. Was it a toilet like I thought ?
Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 01:09 PM (0XvLg)

Yep. Flapper valve, likely partially eaten by aliens, as I suspected.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 27, 2020 01:12 PM (1CjJc)


Here's the difference between me and the government...

If I had an entire agency dedicated to monitoring flapper valves on my toilets and this same situation developed where I had to find the failing valve by myself, I would be firing masses of people due to incompetence.

The government will be promoting them with bonuses.

Posted by: jwest at January 27, 2020 01:15 PM (U6f/q)

548 Silver cuck Hewitt can go horsefuck. What a fucktard.

There are gonna be a lot of disappointed Never Trumpers

Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2020 01:16 PM (6XlcD)

549 Is that a bat in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

Posted by: Mae West at January 27, 2020 01:16 PM (q1Pj5)

550 522 Lisa Rinna? What's wrong with her face?
Posted by: Mr. Plinkett at January 27, 2020 01:12 PM (q1Pj5)

Botched lip inflation. Seriously ladies, inflation in body parts is as dodgy as inflation in economic policy.

Posted by: Sir joncelli a lot at January 27, 2020 01:16 PM (RD7QR)

551 Appetite For Obstruction

Posted by: Gums n Noses at January 27, 2020 01:16 PM (aKsyK)

552 Ken Starr up.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 27, 2020 01:16 PM (ufFY8)

553 >>>Silver cuck Hewitt can go horsefuck. What a fucktard.


There's no one in cuck media I despise more. At least the NRO people are fairly honest about what they've become. Hewit still claims he's a conservative.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 27, 2020 01:16 PM (bkUtD)

554
Can't tell you how many times I've thought - why
don't I just replace these once a year ? They're cheap, easy, no
problem. Two beer job, tops.


But no. I won't.




Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 01:15 PM (0XvLg)

Check out the Kohler set up. Easier and better design than flapper valves.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 27, 2020 01:16 PM (1CjJc)

555 Beer Bat-tered Cod.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2020 01:16 PM (ilCTE)

556 By the end of the day all of the hyperventilating will for naught.

Cocaine Mitch will keep em in line.

Posted by: MJ at January 27, 2020 01:16 PM (gAMkn)

557 He took my house away! My HOUSE! That should be against the law!

Posted by: Marie Yanobitch at January 27, 2020 01:16 PM (e284m)

558 Oh No, not the BAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTSSSSS!!!!!

Posted by: Nicholas Cage at January 27, 2020 01:17 PM (l3+k2)

559 Yes, Im a bit surprised Collins "decided" so soon, without waiting to hear the defense team finish their opening. maybe she'll flip again
Posted by: LASue at January 27, 2020 01:15 PM (Ed8Zd)

Squishes squishing is always part of the op. Remember all the dominoes falling with hours of them releasing the Access Hollywood tape? It's supposed to be convincing to the masses.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 01:17 PM (22laR)

560 544 Sarah Palin on a campaign of anti-corruption removed a law that said you couldn't sue public officials in Alaska. When she returned there after 2008 lefty groups sued her into oblivion with all kinds of farcical charges until she finally had to resign to keep from being millions of dollars in debt.


That law was terribly written and Palin enthusiastically endorsed it. When her governorship got hoisted on that particular petard was the moment I realized she kinda wasn't really all that bright.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 27, 2020 01:17 PM (XN+hF)

561 Lisa Rinna? What's wrong with her face?
Posted by: Mr. Plinkett at January 27, 2020 01:12 PM (q1Pj5)
.......

Botched.

Posted by: wth at January 27, 2020 01:17 PM (v0R5T)

562 522 Lisa Rinna? What's wrong with her face?
Posted by: Mr. Plinkett at January 27, 2020 01:12 PM (q1Pj5)

Botched lip inflation. Seriously ladies, inflation in body parts is as dodgy as inflation in economic policy.
Posted by: Sir joncelli a lot at January 27, 2020 01:16 PM (RD7QR)

looks like she could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch

Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 27, 2020 01:17 PM (M+Lyo)

563 >>And seriously Utah, can you do no better?


Forget it. It's Mormon town.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2020 01:17 PM (ilCTE)

564 If the president is reelected, I really wish he would not endorse Mittens. Just as a big FU before leaving office.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 27, 2020 01:17 PM (bkUtD)

565 Check out the Kohler set up. Easier and better design than flapper valves.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 27, 2020 01:16 PM (1CjJc)


I have. Those are nice.

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 01:17 PM (0XvLg)

566 "Even if Trump had told bolton that he really,
really, really wanted to tie US $ to Ukraine to them finding some fake
dirt on Biden (maybe a dossier could be put together?), the unassailable
fact is that Trump didn't do that" Posted by: LASue

That's the Helluvit ... The DNC (Hilda's hit man Sid Vicious Blumenthal?) went to great lengths to FABRICATE the Trump/Russia Narrative, with help from the FBI/CIA as they used their own assets to flip our election to Hillary. Then DeepState ran the coup via Mueller's Mafia ... Obstructionn of POTUS for three years.


Trump's "Crime". (at worst) ... Bolton maybe claims Trump preferred Ukraine give over al the evidence of the collection of fake dirt by the US Grifters and others. Trump is being persecuted for merely preferring to get to the bottom of the coup, and the GriftersR US Dem crime syndicate. OMG, Trump preferred to get Real Evidence of the left's subversive activity.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 27, 2020 01:17 PM (Cus5s)

567 >>Watch and learn, retard. You're going to lose again.


Yup: https://preview.tinyurl.com/qohbhxf
"I caught them all."
-- TRUMP

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2020 01:17 PM (bDqIh)

568 518
476 People always talking about "stacking corpses." I

bet when the Great Cull begins, there'll be some enthusiastic
stacking going on, but after awhile, people will get bored and corpses
will just be left lying around any-old-where.



Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 01:03 PM (yvnmY)





Feral cats gotta eat your face off, same as buzzards.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 27, 2020 01:05 PM (1CjJc)



That's when you can go get the skulls, because stacking them is way cooler than rotting corpses.

Posted by: Roy at January 27, 2020 01:11 PM (SUJyY)

Let us return to the days when we drank from the skulls of our enemies.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 27, 2020 01:18 PM (N39Ws)

569 Nood.

Posted by: Flyguy at January 27, 2020 01:18 PM (3sOO0)

570 Hair on fire? Must be incendiary bats.

pretty sure hare on fire is what started australia burning.


Posted by: Anachronda at January 27, 2020 01:08 PM



***

I'm setting up a Go Fund Me page for my buddies in Australia. I've great picture of one with his singed hat and hair. He saved his house...barely.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2020 01:18 PM (gPdk+)

571 It's an interesting question, does the peoples' vote really count? The theory is supposed to be that democracy is about the voice of the people. To expose the fraud is simple: ask them this. If David Duke ran for President and won, would it be legal? It's not unthinkable -- after all, we had President Johnson.

Posted by: Radio Control Submarine Unit at January 27, 2020 01:18 PM (Eg9+v)

572 >>>Forget it. It's Mormon town.


Someone needs to give Mitt a wedgie on his magic underpants.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 27, 2020 01:18 PM (bkUtD)

573 I would be firing masses of people due to incompetence.



The government will be promoting them with bonuses.

Posted by: jwest at January 27, 2020 01:15 PM (U6f/q)

You would be firing them once you realized there was a cheaper way than having an agency. Add a few drops of food coloring to the tank and watch for color changes, or close valve at the wall and check water levels later.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 27, 2020 01:19 PM (1CjJc)

574 Bats. Why did it have to be bats?

Posted by: Dr. Indy Jones at January 27, 2020 01:19 PM (q1Pj5)

575 Lisa Rinna was hawt back in the day before the lip-inflation.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 27, 2020 01:19 PM (ufFY8)

576 >>Palin...I realized she kinda wasn't really all that bright. Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 27, 2020 01:17 PM (XN+hF)

Concur.

Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 01:20 PM (yvnmY)

577 Bolton is going to end up a man without friends in either party. I'm sure he knew that, & considered it beforehand, though.

The DEMs hated him about the most of any perceived rightwing figure BEFORE impeachment, & they will revert to that as soon as this is over.

From his personal standpoint, I'm not sure he thought this through completely.

Posted by: mnw at January 27, 2020 01:20 PM (Cssks)

578 Trump should publish the entire Bolton manuscript to deny him book sales

Posted by: Jose at January 27, 2020 01:20 PM (V6W16)

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Bolton left the White House on terrible terms and was not always seen as a reliable narrator by colleagues. The he said/he said of him versus Trump on tying the aid to investigations is testing that in a pronounced way.

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 27, 2020 01:20 PM (BqBId)

580 565
Check out the Kohler set up. Easier and better design than flapper valves.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 27, 2020 01:16 PM (1CjJc)

I have. Those are nice.




Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 01:17 PM (0XvLg)
THose Kohler toilets can flush just about anything - an overindulgence of Taco Bell or Chipotle, a long night of bad dietary decisions, or just about anything else ingested regardless of fiber content.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 27, 2020 01:21 PM (N39Ws)

581 They are always one step ahead of Trump and the GOP.

Then they've got nothing to worry about, do they?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 27, 2020 01:21 PM (YqDXo)

582 Add a few drops of food coloring to the tank and
watch for color changes, or close valve at the wall and check water
levels later.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 27, 2020 01:19 PM (1CjJc)


Heh ... I've done that before !!! I just added the toilet cleaner stuff to the tank before I went to bed, and checked the next morning. Yep - blue. No bueno. Flapper valve.

We've got crazy hard water here. Eats everything.

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 01:21 PM (0XvLg)

583 "That law was terribly written and Palin enthusiastically endorsed it. When her governorship got hoisted on that particular petard was the moment I realized she kinda wasn't really all that bright."
Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 27, 2020 01:17 PM (XN+hF)


Palin made the rookie mistake of believing the courts would be logical and fair. Lawsuits that should have been dismissed with the offending lawyers sanctioned and disbarred were allowed to continue.

Posted by: jwest at January 27, 2020 01:21 PM (U6f/q)

584 Bolton is going to end up a man without friends in either party. I'm sure he knew that, & considered it beforehand, though.

The DEMs hated him about the most of any perceived rightwing figure BEFORE impeachment, & they will revert to that as soon as this is over.

From his personal standpoint, I'm not sure he thought this through completely.
======
Who was that clown from Pennsylvania?

Switched party

Posted by: President Xi at January 27, 2020 01:21 PM (Vkjts)

585 Professor Starr is putting me to sleep.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2020 01:22 PM (q1Pj5)

586 Who was that clown from Pennsylvania?



Switched party


Arlen Specter ?

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 01:22 PM (0XvLg)

587 534 Bolton is a worm, and Hewitt has been propping him up all day.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 27, 2020 01:13 PM (bkUtD)

Hugh Hewitt is such a little whiny see you next Tuesday. What an absolute jerk-off.

Posted by: charlotte the sailor at January 27, 2020 01:22 PM (/rsCS)

588 (Laurence Olivier takes up dental drill, turns it on)
"Is it bat?"
(Dustin Hoffman) "Yes, it's bat, it's very bat, it's so bat you wouldn't believe it!"
(Drill, screams)
"Is it bat?"

Posted by: Zod at January 27, 2020 01:23 PM (yvnmY)

589 569 Nood.
Posted by: Flyguy at January 27, 2020 01:18 PM (3sOO0)


I'm not done bitching yet.

Posted by: jwest at January 27, 2020 01:23 PM (U6f/q)

590 Palin made the rookie mistake of believing the
courts would be logical and fair.
Posted by: jwest at January 27, 2020 01:21 PM (U6f/q)


That is a fairly stupid mistake - but also incredibly common.

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 01:23 PM (0XvLg)

591 Nood.
Posted by: Flyguy at January 27, 2020 01:18 PM (3sOO0)


I'm not done bitching yet.
======
Obviously.

Posted by: Everyone at January 27, 2020 01:23 PM (kmBh+)

592 That law was terribly written and Palin enthusiastically endorsed it. When her governorship got hoisted on that particular petard was the moment I realized she kinda wasn't really all that bright.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 27, 2020 01:17 PM (XN+hF)

Possibly but I think it was more a case of misjudging the enemy. Not many in this country knew what they were capable of at least until they started going after her family, which to that point in politics was always a no go zone. Was the law written *before* she was nominated?

If so who the hell could have seen anything like that coming? She had 90% approval in Alaska.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2020 01:24 PM (22laR)

593 I'm not done bitching yet.
Posted by: jwest at January 27, 2020 01:23 PM (U6f/q)


Bitch away. I'll listen.

Posted by: Shit Happens at January 27, 2020 01:24 PM (0XvLg)

594 Amazing. Bolton really is that bad of a neocon piece of crap.

Posted by: ejochs at January 27, 2020 01:26 PM (lSFMQ)

595 72 "We will only hear from those who are against the President, because of people like Romney and CokeBear."

If Mitch allows anything like that, it's time for the million-patriot March. Anything like the Kavanaugh Travesty, with witnesses only for the prosecution, and we need to kick some major ass.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 27, 2020 02:04 PM (0hvkS)

596 You vote for witnesses =You vote to convict.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at January 27, 2020 02:56 PM (6CZLT)

597 If you are in a trial and a book is leaked that strongly pertains to the trial, you almost have to get the author to be a witness in the trial.

Posted by: Dnaxy at January 28, 2020 12:40 PM (fG3tw)

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