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There’s no controlling legal authority.
Goldy✔
@GoldyHA
If the President stands in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoots somebody, it’s not illegal.https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/even-if-he-did-do-it-it-wouldnt-be-a-crime-rudy-giuliani-donald-trump-robert-mueller-moscow-buzzfeed …
“Even if He Did Do It, It Wouldn’t Be a Crime”: Rudy Giuliani on President Trump
“I’m a criminal lawyer. I am not an ethicist. And I defend people against unfair criminal charges.”
newyorker.com
10h
Oh thisnshould he fun.
Former White House stalrategist releases book:
Oscar nominations are out and I’m mostly OK with them though the “We blew it so give him one for ‘Gangs of New York’ seems to be in play.
BlacKkKlansman was good but not really at the level of ‘Do The Right Thing’ or ‘X’. I’ve watched ‘Sorry to Bother You’ a couple times but don’t feel like I’ll watch BlacKkKlansman again. I got it all the first time.
I’d still like to see a directors cut of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ where the rest of the band and management didn’t have the final cut. There’s a really good biopic in there somewhere but that is a crappy nomination.
Didn’t see Green Book. I’d like to be surprised that it isn’t exactly how I imagine it from the trailer but I’m not willing to fork out the cash to find out. It will come to Netflix soon enough.
Anyone seen Killer Mike’s ‘Trigger Warning’ yet as long as I’m talking pop culture?
The Lawfirm if Giuliani,
When all the competent lawyers turn you down I’m open 9-11.
Donald for two years. ‘I have no dealings with Russia. I don’t know anyone in Russian business. I’ve met Vladimir and he’s a fine handsome fellow but no business.”
Rudi Jan.2019
“The Trump Tower Moscow discussions were ‘going on from the day I announced to the day I won,’ Mr. Giuliani quoted Mr. Trump as saying during an interview with The New York Times.@
The text of the new Senate Republican “compromise” BRIDGE TO WALL 2 was released last night. You should read it:
https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/shelby-releases-proposal-to-reopen-government-and-secure-border-urges-passage-of-comprehensive-package
Big highlights:
-Limits temporary DACA protections to 3 years, excludes all currently eligible applicants.
-Rescinds all existing legal provisions for assylum to be replaced with a new system outside the United States that does not yet exist, and which the new law neither requires nor provides for.
Yertle could get the votes for this. But the only way he can sell it is by emphasizing to the MAGA base what a screw job it is.
@1 Tell you what. I’ll follow your legal advice when you take my medical advice. Deal?
@5 Now why would they put poison pills in something they hope to pass? Curious and curiouser.
Just out — a state judge has refused GOP demands to certify their candidate the winner in NC-9’s fraud-tainted election.
Republicans initially made noises about possibly holding a new election when it first came out that a consultant working closely with the GOP candidate had tampered with ballots in two counties.
But lately they’ve doubled down on insisting an election they themselves admit was fraudulent be certified. Because integrity, fairness, and rule of law count for nothing now, and winning at all costs and by any means is who they are now.
It was a pointless lawsuit anyway, because there was no way the House Democrats were going to seat this guy under these circumstances. They’ve already said so.
Really crushing it with independents and undecideds…
Donald favorite Rasmussen
Friday approve 44% disapprove 55%
Offers shut down deal and the terrible idea isn’t even known yet, see @5…
Approve 44% disapprove 56%
Those last few ‘benefit of the doubters’ said, “You gotta be fuckin kidding me.”
Laugh at AOC’s soak-the-rich tax proposal all you want … then read this:
“A new poll from The Hill and Harris X found that 59 percent of registered voters supported imposing a 70 percent tax rate on every dollar over the 10 millionth a person earns in a year. (Tax rates that apply only to income over a certain threshold are called marginal tax rates.) The idea even received bipartisan support: 71 percent of Democrats, 60 percent of independents and 45 percent of Republicans said they were in favor. In contrast, the Republican overhaul of the tax law that President Trump signed in 2017 — which decreased the marginal tax rate from 39.6 percent to 37 percent on married couples earning over $600,000 — has far less public support. A September Gallup poll found that only 39 percent of Americans approved of it.”
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wants-to-raise-taxes-on-the-rich-and-americans-agree/
I mean, even almost half of Republicans are in favor! But Doctor Dumbfuck needn’t worry, he’ll never be within a thousand leagues of being “rich” as that term is defined today, and AOC isn’t interested in two-bit hustlers like him. Not enough revenue potential there to be worth the bother.
And now to D leaning poll
Biden 53%, Trump 41%
Sanders 51%, Trump 41%
Harris 48%, Trump 41%
O’Rourke 47%, Trump 41%
Warren 48%, Trump 42%
Booker 47%, Trump 42%
Gillibrand 47%, Trump 42%
Not where you want to be as an incumbent. We’re all junkies here so none of the names are unfamiliar but you have to figure there’s a lot of ‘Not Familiar with’ for Harris, Gillibrand, O’Rourke and not much less for Booker among voters who don’t follow races outside their state.
So a poll this bad for Donald shows a lot of, “Anybody But.” Among the less informed voters.
Now here’s an idea: Teaching children safe intervention against bullying. The Covington kids should take this class.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/with-hate-crimes-on-the-rise-seattle-area-teens-practice-safe-intervention-against-bullying/
@11 The consistency of those numbers show that an electorate which knows nothing about Trump’s 2020 opponent wouldn’t give him more than 40%-42% of their votes. In other words, anybody is better than him! You could run your dog against him and the dog would win.
#somuchwinning
Stop. Yer killin’ me. That’s hilarious. You go boys!
@14 Someone should tell them the House Oversight Committee is under new management now.
Trump failed to deliver progress in China trade talks and the stock market dropped 300 points.
#winning
12,
I feel so sorely chastened by Teh Dumbfuck’s MAGA TEEN scolding yesterday I’m not sure what to do, now that we are learning that those nice sweet boys spend most of their morning roaming around the mall harassing and yelling at random passersby. Including videos!
Nobody say that coming.
Nope.
Never.
Covington Catholic MAGA boys struggle mightily to relate to girls. Failed, of course. Now they’re destined to live life as Republican incels. SAD!
https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/news/woman-posts-brief-video-covington-catholic-boys-harrassed-my-friends-and-i-mkdq5uqY0Ei4eAOfbGjyAQ/
Too bad those girls didn’t stomp their sorry asses right then and there. They could’ve saved that elderly Native American war veteran some measure of grief.
All this complaining about tax rates when the answer is always the same: a single, flat-rate tax for everyone. One single deduction for every individual covered on the Form 1040, based on the annual federal minimum wage. I suggest everyone gets twice the annual minimum wage ($7.25 federal minimum wage X 2,080 work hours per year = $15,080 of income tax-free per individual listed on the Form 1040). Then, 15% tax on everything about this level.
Politicians: stop using the tax code to redistribute wealth, reward friends and punish enemies.
Maybe Dana Loesch and Ivanka can share a cell.
“NRA now officially part of Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election influence””
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/nra-now-officially-part-robert-muellers-investigation-russian-election-influence/
20,
Yup.
Looks exactly like he’s gonna wrap it all up and issue a “secret report” any day now.
20,
Best quote:
“Its a pretty pathetic look for the NRA and the Republicans that they are, on the one hand, this easily manipulated, but also complicit.”
No shit? What was her first clue? PizzaCannibalism? Or BigDickToilets? Maybe it could have been this motherfucker?
It never ceases to amaze me how both the media and academia continue to treat American klownsurvaturds with intellectual respect despite such a monumental history of utter Dumbfuckery. Maybe it shouldn’t. After all, it’s these two institutions of American society, the media and academia, that klownsurvaturds spend most of their resources convincing everyone they are somehow biased.
People need to just get over it. Republicans are essentially 63 million Oxy crushing pre-diabetic capillary farms being herded about by a few thousand international “forex brokers” named “Avi” calling from non-extradition countries.
Edgar Martinez finally made it to Cooperstown. His final shot at it. Not sure why he was controversial. I don’t follow baseball much.
AOC seems to be leading in Democratic presidential preference polls, and she’s not even old enough to run.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/01/22/poll-most-democratic-leaning-voters-would-consider-aoc-for-president/23649987/
I hear the capitalist robber barons gathering at Davos are shaking in their boots.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/22/davos-billionaires-are-scared-of-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-tax-proposal.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: I’m no socialist, and certainly not a communist (I fought against communism in Vietnam), but it amuses me to watch Randians squirm.
It’s a historical fact that whenever the one percent have gotten too grabby, the 99 percent have responded with what you might politely call systemic reconfiguration. High marginal tax rates are actually a form of life and property insurance for the people subject to them. As Marie Antoinette learned, it’s better to keep 30% of your property and your head than to lose it all by trying to hang onto it all.
Well this is interesting! Yertle will allow votes on both the GOP and House bills on Thursday.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/22/politics/senate-vote-trump-border-wall-shutdown/index.html
Neither will pass, but it looks like Yertle is beginning to buckle a little, and is now willing to give individual members of his caucus more freedom of action to vote for reopening the government.
Remember, the “Democratic” bill is the same bill that Senate Republicans passed only a month ago.
Are we witnessing the start of a GOP cave-in?
25,
Yertle may have the votes. Schumer has lost count before.
And it may be that the price of betrayal for some of the seven Dems needed is a floor vote on the House bill for cover.
If so, whoever they are some of those seven will pay a steep price later.
A brief and extremely limited restoration of protection for Dreamers in exchange for a permanent end to asylum and refugee resettlement is a disgraceful record to run on. And an easy one to run against.
@18 give it time. As soon as they get to join that Frat House they’ll be raping them Womenz.
@23
Mainly because he was a Designated hitter and had no defensive accolades and had an 18 year career because the wear and tear of chasing balls and diving catches wasn’t there.
300HR and + .300 batting average are pretty much the bare minimum for HOF unless you also have defensive talents. Edgar @ 309HR (134th all time) .312. If you miss those numbers but have several gold gloves or played on World Series winners you can slip in. Edgar didn’t have either.
He would have missed the HR cutoff if he had only played 17 years (see wear and tear) and there’s a reasonable assumption that he would have missed both if he had the nagging turned ankle/Jamed finger/wrist pain that will make a typical position player take 5-10 games off each season and play hurt and not be able to turn on a fastball quite as well. Most players go on the DL in the outfield not running bases.
Edgar’s not the least deserving guy in the Hall but he is one of those where a lot of us think, “It’s the Hall if Fame not the Hall of above average.”
There’s a handful of players that are in for defense. Ozzie Smith at 29 career HR and .268 with 13 Gold Gloves in 19 seasons. Deserving
More Rudes the Magnificent…
Giuliani told New Yorker about Trump Tower Russia,
Whoops. Not only were there things in the file but there are now published Artist Renderings, an architectural firm hired, first draft blueprints from said firm and an E-Mail from Russian real estate developer Andrey Rozov ,
Oh there’s some financial proposals for how to finance too.
Here is where Piddles (RIP) would have said “Uranium One KaaaaaaaaBllllaaaaaaaammmooooo!”
Anyone wanna guess how many times Nathan Phillips went AWOL when he served in the Marine Reserves?
Enough to be discharged as a private after about 3 1/2 years.
Note: This article has been adjusted from it’s original version to show that Nathan Phillips was a Vietnam-era veteran and that he was spit on while in uniform as opposed to when he was returning from combat.
Or maybe spit on while AWOL and not in uniform. Or maybe not spit on at all. Who’s to know?
@32
Read your source again.
NYT states they printed Vietnam Veteran when that’s not what he said. (It’s on several post incident tapes coming from Phillips mouth, “Vietnam Times Veteran…”)
But good you’re picking up on what D’Nesh is peddling. Why do you hate Veterans? Find a distraction from lying about Russia dealing or dead toddlers in ICE sententious yet?
For those playing catch-up, here’s the quote from the really old ‘corrected’ (wrong, though it will become a Pizzagate article of faith for Dumbfuck, not a correction.) article D’Nesh is seizing on.
1st find within the quoted part where Phillips implies he was in VietNam. In this new version of combing through the record the way it was printed originally, “Vietnam Era” is clear but now that the minions of a pardoned felon’s cult are harassing a small newspaper they feel the need to clarify. No real need. It was clear. “Vietnam Era”
In this version, the cult of campaign fraud argues that people who would spit on Veterans or active duty in uniform were going up to Servicmen and asking if they were actually in Vietnam Nam and if they said no going all, “Cool Bro. Peace. See ya later. Woodstock!”
Dumbfuck is swallowing it because of course. Marching Orders. White Teens are young and white and honest and well behaved and never never never wrong. They’re white. Pure and white.
@33 He’s a better man than the sniveling Doctor Dumbfuck.
33, 34, 35,
Why bother?
Do you really think a guy who routinely traffics in PIZZA DUNGEON CANNIBALISM and SANDY HOOK TROOOTH is vulnerable to your facts and evidence?
This really is who these people are now. They are not going to get better. This episode was just another way to distract them from the unsettling advancement of cold and numbness in their lower extremities balanced only by the rapid retreat of their hairlines.
@27 Why should we worry about the Trump/Yertle bill? Even if it passes the Senate, it will go nowhere in the House.
@35 & 36
January is traditionally slow for me but I need to be at the office so speak. I have time on my hands.
I can spare a day fucking with stupid people on the interwebs and plotting new hikes to take if it’s not raining.
@19 “I suggest everyone gets … $15,080 of income tax-free per individual listed on the Form 1040. Then, 15% tax on everything about this level.”
In other words, you want to run massive deficits forever. Sounds like you want to keep the minimum wage at $7.25 forever, too.
@37
Rumor is there will be a clean CR involved. But Mitch won’t have the 15 GOP votes for cloture. Too much fear of Donald.
45 D votes to reopen the government and pay the workers no wall funding 41-48 GOP Senators say NYET!
#maga
@31 That’s still 3 1/2 years of military service that Cadet Bonespurs didn’t serve.
I also notice that in some articles he’s being criticized for being **only** an electrician, and for not serving in combat.
Let me explain something to do about veterans, dumbfuck, as I’ve been active in veterans organizations and can speak with some authority on how my fellow veterans feel about these things.
We don’t make these differentiations about our fellow veterans’ service. If you wore the uniform, you’re a veteran, period.
But for the record, every Marine is trained to be a rifleman, and is subject to being pressed into combat. In the Marine Corps, you’re always a rifleman first, and cook, mechanic, driver, electrician, or whatever, second. Every Marine is trained to be, expected to be, and may be called on to be, a combat grunt. Anywhere, any time.
Either show me a dishonorable discharge or go fuck yourself. And I’m sure every one of my local veterans organization fellow members would tell you exactly the same thing.
@32 “Who’s to know?”
Certainly not you. But what would you know about being spit on? You being around my age, and given your general attitude, I wouldn’t be surprised if you were one of the spitters.
37,
If they can pass it that takes the heat off Senate Child Molesters.
The White House has absolutely no desire to reopen the government orbuild WALL. They really don’t care at all. This is pure theater for them. They will just keep right on inventing reasons, raising the pot, or inserting these poison pills. Currently that leaves it to Senate Republicans to break ranks and kill WALL to restart the engines before CRASH.
But if Yertle can pull seven Dems over on BRIDGE TO WALL II he gets to climb back under his desk to read soft core porn novels. Yertle would surely like to restart the engines sooner rather than later and avoid CRASH. But his first and highest priority is protecting his thin majority from his rabid hooting mob of beer drunk base voters.
Lest we forget, Dan Quayle peddled himself as a “Vietnam Veteran” after serving in the Indiana National Guard expressly to avoid service in Vietnam.
Lest we forget, Republicans savaged Max Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam.
And then there are people like this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJtD8hPUTcU
By the way, here’s what Sen. Duckworth said about the Trump’s defense of the Republican government shutdown in January 2018:
“I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger.”
Vietnam Vet or no Vietnam Vet – still disgraceful in my opinion. What difference is it that the narrative is he’s a Vietnam Vet?
That little punk ass MAGA hat boy, future frat boy rapists, is a bigot and fascist fucking pig.
All those Covington kids on the basketball sideline giving the OK sign?
Y’all had me for a bit, thinking that maybe there was something to what otherwise is pretty much unadulterated bullshit coming from your side.
Turns out that’s the referee’s signal to the scoring table that a basket was made from beyond the three point arc.
Y’all had me for a bit.
Y’all had Kathy Griffin, too. She deleted her tweet, once corrected.
“OK.”
31, 32, 46,
Teh Dumbfuck will never figure it out. It’s too late.
On the wrong side of Teh Orange Event Horizon there are no surviving pieties, no pulpits from which to heap scorn on the durty hippies, no consecrated high ground on which Republicans can stand safe from the ever rising tide of Trump branded anal lube, non-disclosure agreements, crude jokes aimed at grieving Gold Star mothers, used condoms, spent Tiki Torches, bankruptcy filings, and Arby’s wrappers all floating in an ocean of Russian hooker pee.
@46
There’s still the photo that used to be on the school’s home page.
The theee point sign is one hand raised, three fingers pointed up. If you watch basketball, some refs will indicate with an ‘OK’ type sign and others will touch thumb and pinkie. No one thinks Clay Thompson is a magabro after draining a three. In the NCAA and most HS the signal is one hand raised on the attempt to indicate behind the 3 line, second arm raised as in ‘touchdown’ to indicate to the scorer to count it.
But having your arms around your buddies not at a game with the fingers pointed downward (home page photo) ain’t a three pointer.
Y’all are trying so very hard. Keep trying.