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“Purdue’s Sackler family wants global opioids settlement: Sackler lawyer”
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/23/purdues-sackler-family-wants-global-opioids-settlement-sackler-lawyer-mary-jo-white.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Of course they do. These bloodsuckers made billions by getting millions of people addicted, and now they want to pay a couple hundred million and walk away. They shouldn’t be allowed to do that. They deserve to be in court the rest of their lives.
This one is for Teh Dumbfuck:
It’s an extra C-note if you’d like to view the Nixon back tattoo in one of the VIP booths.
“Touching it” is technically off the menu owing to state laws. But it may be “subject to negotiation”.
1 – Yes, the people would just piss away any settlement money, just like some of the states did with the tobacco settlement money.
Joe Biden can’t decide whether to run and when to announce.
I hate these fucking political newcomers.
Biggest loser: gman. Which is interesting, because nearly always HA’s biggest loser is Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
S&P 500 breaks above closing record for first time in about seven months as stock market climbs
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sp-500-stands-less-than-10-points-from-a-closing-record-midday-as-stock-market-extends-climb-2019-04-23?mod=mw_latestnews
Annnnnnd now NASDAQ has broken above its previous closing high.
It’s enough to scare gman straight.
Benghazi: 4 years, 8 investigations, 0 indictments.
Clinton emails: 2 year investigation, 0 indictments.
Mueller investigation: 14 MONTHS, 23 indictments… and counting.
BENGHAAAZIII!!! and ButteryMales set the political bar so low that there’s no cost for the House to keeping alive real, productive investigations into obstruction, campaign finance, inauguration finance, emoluments, classified leaks, and perjury.
#youbuiltthat
@ 7
Clinton emails: 2 year investigation, 0 indictments.
IG reports pertaining to FBI conduct not yet released: 1
Clinton cronies who asserted Fifth Amendment rights (so far): 5
FBI directors fired for inappropriate conduct during the Clinton email probe: 1
Disgraced former politicians convicted and imprisoned for criminal behavior peripherally related to the Clinton probe (so far): 1
I put a rat trap in my purse this morning and the results were so funny! If my worthless son hopes to post any comments about his imaginary stock portfolio this week, he’ll have to do it with one hand.
Damn, I almost @ 9 forgot.
@ 7
Benghazi: 4 years, 8 investigations, 0 indictments.
Clinton emails: 2 year investigation, 0 indictments.
Clintons who finally paid a price for their misdeeds: 1
@ 10
If my worthless son hopes to post any comments about his imaginary stock portfolio this week, he’ll have to do it with one hand.
Every post gman makes here is done with one hand.
Storybook, man.
Jim Sciutto
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New: Joe Biden will announce his presidential campaign on Thursday with an online video – @ArletteSaenz reporting
9:39 AM – 23 Apr 2019
Are Kamala Harris and Cory Booker as clean as Barack Obama?
Tell us, Joe.
@11 And there it is. That alt right induced unending festering resentment that the Clintons were guiltily of something, ANYTHING, and no matter how many investigations, the worst they could find was a consensual BJ and that didn’t put them in jail
so, it justifies every law and norm republicans break now, out of revenge. Because Clintons.
@9 Hope springs eternal.
Roger Rabbit’s doctor has ordered me back to the hospital. Dumbfuck will have to diddle himself until I return and can fuck with him again.
9,11,
You make my point for me, Teh Dumbfuck.
If eleven different Trumpublican probes now going into a fifth year having cost taxpayers close to $100 million with nothing to show so far can do that, imagine what Democrats can do with your Cheeto Benito.
Everything up to just the last two months has been 100% self-harm. We just started issuing subpoenas a few weeks ago. Just consider that at this point everything Trump’s presidency has gained for Democrats, including the stunning 2018 wave, permanent control of the west coast, the Southwest, the Northeast, and the Mid-Atlantic, has all been purchased out of your wallet.
I don’t know much about what you folks think of Speaker Pelosi, since y’all have been so pre-occupied with a 29 year old waitress. But I suppose, like your president rage-tweet, you must be rather fond of her. You sure did set her up well.
@16. Get well soon.
@11. But don’t worry. Democrats are better than republicans. We will be fair and believe in the rule of law.
16,
Lately Teh Dumbfuck seems to be doing a pretty good job on his own of staggering about drunkenly smashing into his own disgraces and gobbling his feet.
But nobody seems to trigger him like you, Roger. Hurry back.
If any Democratic, heck, any other president had said “But this one will have to be a far bigger & better apology. On this one they will have to get down on their knees & beg for forgiveness—they are truly the Enemy of the People!”, the republicans would be frothing outraged, but this guy gets appeasement. This sound like some a TV banana republic villain would say. repubublicans, what is wrong with you?
19,
Considering what Speaker Pelosi has to work with, we can afford to be more than fair.
Among mountains of entirely new compromising and at least criminal adjacent material for the House to work with we still have the counterintelligence report from the FBI in progress, we have a new parade of witnesses for the committees including off the top of my head Cohen, the elder failson, the failson-in-law, Sesh, Priebus, Bannon, Spicey, My Hopey, Parscale, Russian-Ukrainian cutouts galore, Barr, Stone and Mueller. And that still leaves Maxine Waters investigation of the Inaugural Committee (which Pence chaired) finances and missing cash. And Cummings investigations into tax fraud and emolluments. We have Stormy and Karen and 666 and Trump Hotels (especially DC) and Mar-a-Lago and the Chinese spies with phone hacking gear. VA crony mismanagement from the private clubhouse rooms. Misappropriation of funds to pay for Toddler Torture and rape cages. Carson’s $15,000 dining room furniture. Pruitt’s Net-Jet excursions. Mnuchin ordering military flights for his wife….
…it just goes on and on and on.
“what is wrong with you?”
Rabid batshit insanity would be my guess.
“One would think that a conspiracy theory that’s based on the idea that special counsel Robert Mueller and President Donald Trump are working together to expose thousands of cannibalistic pedophiles hidden in plain sight (including Hillary Clinton and actor Tom Hanks) and then send them to Guantanamo Bay would be doomed. Mueller’s investigation has ended and Attorney General Bill Barr’s summary of Mueller’s report has been published — all without any mention of pedophiles, cannibals, or child murderers.
One would be wrong.”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/29/18286890/qanon-mueller-report-barr-trump-conspiracy-theories
23,
Never forget that this theory that now animates the Trumpublican base also depends upon the existence of reverse time travel.
Not that this is any more or less ridiculous than any other element of what passes for ideology among modern conservatives.
This Republican has had enough:
“The Iowa Legislature’s longest-serving Republican announced Tuesday that because of President Donald Trump, he will be joining the Democratic Party, calling Trump ‘a poor example for the nation and particularly for our children.’ State Rep. Andy McKean, who has served in both Iowa’s Senate and House chambers, identified with the Republican Party for 35 years before Tuesday’s announcement and is the longest-serving Republican in the state’s Legislature today, according to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee.”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/23/politics/andy-mckean-iowa-gop-lawmaker-change-party/index.html
Roger Rabbit: There is room in our politics and two-party system for honest philosophical and practical differences of opinion. But there should be no disagreement — in either party — that there is no place for someone as venal and disgraceful as Trump, and especially not in the nation’s top leadership position. He is unfit to serve, and if he lacks the decency to resign, he should be removed. This is something every Democrat and Republican should be able to agree on.