Matt Shea is a real piece of shit. We all knew that, of course. We have read the reporting in The Guardian and listened to Bundyville. As well as other local reporting. Still and all, it’s good that the state’s independent investigation confirmed it.
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Nancy Pelosi is delaying the transmittal of the impeachment documents to the Senate until the DJIA crosses 29,000. At this rate, probably still before the end of the year.
Goldy’s Twitter friends are laughing at Mayor Pete, gman.
Matt Shea’s next gig will be ghost-writing memoirs of future presidents.
Well, surely. They’re both multimillionaires.
Goldy Retweeted
Zach Carter✔
@zachdcarter
Lefties who think Warren and Sanders aren’t on the same team need to confront the fact that Sanders keeps siding with Warren in these intraparty #DemDebate disputes.
14h
gman would like me to amend @ 4 to include the observations that Sanders and Warren are both heterosexuals, and neither one of them knows how to properly bathe a gerbil.
On his first day in office, President Pete has promised to introduce a gerbil exception to the just-signed Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act.
Steve does not understand why he is unhappier now than he was prior to the House impeachment vote.
Mayor Pete referenced Forbes magazine last night. See @ 4.
How Elizabeth Warren Built A $12 Million Fortune
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2019/08/20/how-elizabeth-warren-built-a-12-million-fortune/#3590be14ab57
How Bernie Sanders, The Socialist Senator, Amassed A $2.5 Million Fortune
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2019/04/12/how-bernie-sanders-the-socialist-senator-amassed-a-25-million-fortune/#6b4f517536bf
YLB will lead cheers for each of them as these two leftist presidential candidates continue to amass wealth, even as YLB’s kids begin to address the shitholes that represent their respective futures.
It’s Splunk, gman. With an “L”.
Microsoft, Salesforce, and Splunk Are the Software Stocks to Buy for 2020
https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/microsoft-salesforce-and-splunk-are-the-software-stock-bets-for-2020-51576861944?mod=mw_latestnews
WaPo, March 10
If Trump blows up NAFTA, he’ll blow up his reelection
USA Today, yesterday
House passes Mexico, Canada trade deal, giving Donald Trump a post-impeachment victory
Maybe this is a meme with the kids but The Stranger dubbed Shea ‘Vanilla Isis.’
Well done folks.
“Steve does not understand why he is unhappier now than he was prior to the House impeachment vote.”
Here’s a clue. If you hope to ever irritate me, Doctor, it would help your cause immensely if you’d stop being such a dumbfuck.
The Stranger got rid of a couple of shitty contributors a few years back and has really stepped it up as a result.
Bill Barr may not go to prison, as John Mitchell did (then again, he might), but like Mitchell he’s now assured of a place in history as an attorney general who participated in an abuse of power and facilitated a coverup that got his president impeached.
Waytago, Bill, you piece of shit.
@6 Horses and goats won’t be excepted, so from then on you’ll have to get your gratification from knotholes in fence boards.
Yep, I understand why you’re against Mayor Pete becoming president.
Kentucky’s ex-governor pardoned a child rapist because the 9-year-old victim’s hymen was intact
9 years old.
Pardoned.
Party of family values.
Does anyone in the GOP have any sort of moral compass anymore?
Next headline
Kentucky governor on pardoning child rapist: ‘Which one?’
This was a fun article
Elizabeth Warren Took On Corruption in Both Parties
From impeachment to “wine caves,” the senator refused to let President Trump, or her fellow Democrats, off the hook during the debate.
https://www.thenation.com/article/elizabeth-warren-wine-caves/
I think she’d make a great president.
“State Rep. Matt Shea planned and participated in domestic terrorism against the United States before and during the armed takeover at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, an investigation commissioned by the Washington state House found.
“The 108-page report found that … ‘Shea, as a leader in the Patriot Movement, planned, engaged in and promoted a total of three armed conflicts of political violence against the United States Government in three states outside the state of Washington over a three-year period,’ according to the report …. ‘In one conflict Representative Shea led covert strategic pre-planning in advance of the conflict.'”
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/washington-state-rep-matt-shea-engaged-in-domestic-terrorism-against-the-u-s-says-state-house-inquiry/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: He’s been essentially kicked out of the GOP legislative caucus, and likely now faces explusion; and I expect the bar association will take action on his license to practice law, too.
Unfortunately, only limited remedies for voting malpractice are available against the citizens who elected him — the most that can be done is gerrymander them all into Democratic districts so they’ll never be able to elect a Republican terrorist to any public office ever again.
Alternative headline @ 17
Corrupt woman who knowingly falsely claimed Native American heritage in order to advance her career hypocritically calls out perceived corruption in others
Here’s WaPo’s take:
Washington Post
Elizabeth Warren to hold private meeting with tribal leaders Sunday in effort to atone for past claims
1 day ago
a·tone
/əˈtōn/
Learn to pronounce
verb
make amends or reparation.
Also: try to save your presidential aspirations after lying about your background and then compounding it to claim that 1/1024 blood makes you “Native American”.
Elizabeth Warren is a piece of shit. She is second to Joe Biden as the most dishonest of the candidates onstage last night.
You’re a fool, Red. And apparently a sucker for high cheekbones.
Someone should probably start working on their disbarment and contempt defense.
DOJ and Administration alert judge in Census Citizenship case that…oopsie…we may have up to 2000 pages of material that we were required to disclose during discovery. We forgot. Our email has been screwy lately. You should see our server. It was in our socks. We’re just having a Monday. Totally scatterbrained. Our bad.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6589377-Dec-19-2019-DOJ-Letter-to-U-S-District-Judge.html
Hunter Biden will take down Grandpa Joe.
CHINESE FUND BACKED BY HUNTER BIDEN INVESTED IN TECHNOLOGY USED TO SURVEIL MUSLIMS
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/03/biden-son-china-business/
For his part, Joe Biden has long served as a friendly voice for U.S.-China relations, even before his son’s investment ventures. The elder Biden helped lead Democratic support to passing permanent national trade relations with China.
In 2000 remarks in support of the vote, Biden argued that he did not “see the collapse of the American manufacturing economy” as a danger from opening up further trade with China, claiming that an economy “about the size of the Netherlands” could not become “our major economic competitor.” Opening China to further trade, Biden predicted, would create “a path toward ever greater political and economic freedom” for the country’s citizens.
Joe Biden is a bigger piece of shit than Elizabeth Warren, if only because he is older than she is and as suchhe has had more time for the corruption to set in.
@20
That reminds me: State Department found more of Hillary’s emails.
The Justice Department disclosed last week that a batch of messages the State Department just received from the FBI contains about 30 that were not among the roughly 30,000 she handed over to her former agency in December 2014 — a collection that was released to the public in redacted form as Clinton’s campaign unfolded.
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The group is seeking to depose two current or former State technology officials, as well as a private contractor who worked on Clinton’s server, Paul Combetta.
Combetta belatedly deleted a backup file of the messages after the email controversy went public. He later received immunity from prosecutors for his story.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/19/hillary-clinton-emails-judicial-watch-088478
She’s the gift that keeps giving. This has been going on for so long that Anthony Weiner’s prison term is complete. He’s back on the prowl for nubile nookie.
There is no piece of shit bigger than Hillary Clinton. Be careful that you do not nominate her again, libbies.
Hillary’s running? Got impeached? Showing Kavanugh a pattern of disrespect for Judiciary?
I guess her 2020 campaign is stuck in the mud then.
Document production….Maybe someone could make that an issue for Cheeto?
@ 23
“Obviously, I can beat him again.”
As obvious as the ‘absolute lock’ on 252 electoral votes. Isn’t that right. Cz-252.
Not shutting down the Democrat party’s biggest piece of shit is the same as offering her an opening. She’s a Clinton. Rules do not apply to them.
A comment under the Seattle Times piece asserts Shea’s current wife is a Russian from the Ukraine. I can’t find anything about her online, but this may be true, as an online search of Spokane County marriage records indicates he married one “Viktoriya V. Vinnokova” in 2008.
https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Record/View/D20B9EBDC3A063ED3ED2313E376BAD5B
Of course, such a Russia/Ukraine connection could mean nothing. Then again, it might be significant. Who knows? Matt Shea may be a Putin stooge, too. In that case, he and Doctor Dumbfuck have something in common. Maybe the bare-chested Cossack horseman fixed Shea up with her. Maybe he fixed up Doctor Dumbfuck with a horse, too. In that case, the doctor and Shea have two things in common — they both got their wives courtesy of Moscow.
14,
Bill Barr may not go to prison…
Ruling due in June. We may learn soon enough exactly what was done and by whom to conceal the solicitation for bribery scheme.
Odds are Barr is just good enough to keep his hands clean of the actual criminal obstruction.
Mulvaney and Cipollone are another matter.
@8 Bernie has $2.5 million? That’s not much more than my $1.5 million. And last I heard you think $1.5 million is no “fortune,” it’s a “failed lawyer” living in poverty.
Mrs. Rabbit is asking me if Mrs. Dumbfuck rides in the F-250 or in the horse trailer behind the F-250. I told her I don’t know and will have to get back to her. Doctor Dumbfuck? Care to respond?
If you demanded that bot-farm troll produce all of his correspondence in every form over ten years and he missed some because he lost that Palm Pilot when it fell out of his Members Only jacket at a Janet Jackson concert, then of course that would be PROOF that he lets horses fuck him.
Because I say so.
And this is how stuff works. Yup.
@10 Still think the 2020 election will turn on the economy? Yeah, it might if President Pence is the GOP candidate. I personally think Trump’s removal would be the worst thing that could happen to the Democrats’ election prospects, up and down the ballot. I suspect GOP poohbahs might be quietly weighing this calculation, too. Especially if it starts to look like the evangelicals might desert Trump en masse.
–THE ADULT CHILD ON A CANDIDATE MAKES SLEAZY FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS.
-The GOP president admitted to committing violent sexual assaults.
One of those is much, much worse than the other. Objectively so. Can you tell which one?
Yes, that’s right. It’s the one in all-caps bold.
Why? Oh. Because all-caps bold makes it so. Get it? Yup.
@13 I’m sure they’re glad you’re a fan now. Do you read The Stranger in the library? Do you even have a library out in your sticks? You don’t strike me as a bookish type. You know, as an intellectual type. Your intellectual interests seem limited to taking horse measurements.
@17 “I think she’d make a great president.”
I like her to a considerable extent, certainly better than any Republican, but I think her wealth tax proposal is impractical* and I’m asking myself, what would she do if China fired missiles at U.S. Navy ships operating in the South China Sea?
* Why not just repeal the Bush and Reagan Tax Cuts For The Very Rich (TM) and reinstate IRS audits of rich tax cheaters? Also maybe bar from residency** citizens who park their money offshore so they can enjoy the benefits of America without paying its taxes.
** I’m not sure how to do that, but we can ask our Republican friends; they have subject matter expertise in this field.
@21
So a company invested in another company?
Now do BDS
@21 Hunter is working for Trump? Yeah, that could raise eyebrows among his pop’s supporters.
Keep beating that Biden horse, doc. It’s how you’ll get Warren.
@32
Not directed at me but honestly I’m not a regular reader of The Stranger anymore. There’s not really any new ground Savage Love can cover some 30 years in.
Lindy West I’m still reading at NYT and others.
Muedede is a great crafter of sentences but he’s been beating the same horse, one which I would also likely ride most of the time, for a while.
There was a moment of promise when Ijeoma Oluo started doing pieces but she moved on to bigger things.
But The Stranger is in my Twitter feed and every couple weeks there’s a headline I’ll click through.
Life in digital media world.
20,
“(E)rror in the configuration of the agreed upon search parameter” might have a better chance of succeeding if Furman were a much older judge more easily misled about they mysteries of The Google. But even that’s a pipe dream these days. They all have whip smart clerks who know all about electronic document production.
Unfortunately for Team Contempt Furman’s going to find it fairly easy to translate that nonsense into “we left them out of the search”, – the search Furman ordered them to perform back in September. But everyone is entitled to due process. So Furman now gets to ask them to explain why it was that in entering the documents for discovery they failed very specifically to code more than 2000 of the documents with one of the agreed upon search terms included in the judge’s order. They’ll try to blame an IT/clerical stooge. The judge will ask them to produce the stooge.
In private practice they’d prepare the stooge very well. And by “prepare” I mean pay. But these poor slobs are gubmit lawyers. Which means they rely on gubmit stooges. So they can’t pay the stooge off and they can’t even threaten the stooge. All this is probably just part of why these guys begged to quit this case six months ago. Because none of them wants to be the one to finally say that they were just following orders.
@33. If Warren is not president, I’m perfectly happy with her staying in the Senate. Keeping them honest.
I rooting for Tulsi. She’s so centrist, she’s practically a republican but she’s running under a Democrat banner. She appeals to everyone! I’m told she’s popular overseas too! What could go wrong?
Murder charges against a Texas cop who shot a black woman in her mom’s home.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fort-worth-police-officer-who-fatally-shot-atatiana-jefferson-indicted-n1105916
Roger Rabbit Commentary: The case is complicated by the fact the victim had armed herself when she heard noises outside, and the cop thought he was defending himself. But the officers responding to a neighbor’s call about an open door failed to identify themselves as police, the police chief said the cop violated several departmental policies, and acknowledged the victim had a right to defend herself. This case underlines the importance of police following use-of-force policies to the letter, because innocent lives can be lost if they don’t. Workers in other occupations face consequences when they screw up; why shouldn’t cops, too?
@40 Not trying to “out” anyone, but isn’t your real name “Vladimir?” Just curious, that’s all.
@39 Me, too. I wouldn’t mind seeing her on the Supreme Court, either (there, practical considerations concerning her age might come into play, but there’s no maximum age limit for SCOTUS nominees).
@38
Funny that. In a VERY recent meeting a 30ish guy from the other side said in front of his bosses that he had emailed me and tried to leave voice mails and my inbox was full. His company uses Slack as do I.
I pulled out my phone showed him my <100mb of voicemail stored, searched all inboxes for his email address, and opened the slack App and said, “I don't appreciate being lied to because I look like I might be old enough not to know how these work. Can you show me your outgoing calls to me? How about an Email in your outbox. (Dramatic pause) Okay Boomer?” *
I don’t know for sure if he’s no longer employed but he’s not on my account anymore.
*Millennials in general get a bad rap and entered the workforce under the worst of situations. Many of them do great work and are smarter than I am about technology. But the lazy ones who think they can sneeringly get past us ‘olds’ are fucked.
40,
Please do that! Absolutely do that. Send her some money. Get a fucking tattoo!
If she’s running at all it’s as an independent.
Historically, and particularly in the places where it matters, that label deprives Republicans of votes they cannot afford to lose.
The highest performing third party candidate in modern US history obtained precisely zero electoral college votes. All the taste with none of the calories.
i love internet sarcasm.
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According to the website govtrack.us, Gabbard missed 88.7% of the 141 House votes taken in the past three months.
That’s bad, but she was busy.
Gabbard announced earlier this year she would not run for re-election to the House so she could focus on her presidential campaign.
Busy doing something that has been dead in the water for a long time.
> President of what, if I may ask?
>> Of the United States
>>> Of America?! In what multiverse?
44,
I’m not sure the ages or work habits of those DOJ attorneys stuck defending this turd-bomb. But it looks to my eyes like garden variety stalling. And just as you don’t appreciate the implication, neither would an appointed-for-life federal judge. These guys from SDNY at least should have been in front of Furman enough that he knows them on sight. He may have worked with some of them when he served in that office. And they’d know him. And his court. And the local rules. Everybody knows these things. So as before with the earlier motions for change of counsel, this is going to piss him off. It’s contemptuous, even if it isn’t contempt.
Truth is, these douche nozzles would not be the only DOJ attys updating their resumes. The senior ranks have been filing for federal retirement in droves. The next President and his AG will get to go on a massive hiring spree. Not a Republican in the bunch. Where have you gone, Sweaty Pink Meatball? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you!
Just more of the Trump magic.
46,
She’s moving on to the next phase of her career.
Representing… who knows?
But with so many GOP “investigators” heading to prison or witness protection there will almost certainly be opportunities available in Syria, or Turkey, or South Ossetia, or Eastern Ukraine, or…
Red @ 46
Running for president is time-consuming. John Kerry missed a ton of Senate votes when he did it. It’s unfortunate he didn’t get to vote on who twelve dozen post offices would be named after, but it’s not an existential threat to anyone.
John Kerry, who was the Democratic nominee for president in 2004, missed 89.8 percent of the votes that year, while he was still a U.S. senator for Massachusetts. Kerry also missed 64.1 percent of votes in 2003, but he didn’t formally announce he was seeking the Democratic nomination until September of that year.
https://www.factcheck.org/2015/11/senators-missing-votes/
You have being an asshole nailed down, Red. How about contributing to discourse in ways that are above high-school level?
Judging from his bitter high school level comments these last few days, it looks to me like Doctor Dumbfuck has gone off the rails over impeachment more than his orange moron did.
50,
They are all so trivial and random lately.
I guess some of that is owing to the bot-farm effort to introduce targeting chaff into the news cycle whenever the news becomes so negative for president RapeFantasy. IOW “SQUIRREL!”
But chaff like that tends to be effective only if it attracts more attention than the current RapeFantasy catastrophe. And those are now so appalling and continuous that I suppose it’s only natural if the supply of really good stuff runs short more and more.
Tan suit outrage in 3… 2… 1…
Are you also hoping for a school shooting, Doctor?
“Radio host says we could use a distraction from the impeachment process — like maybe ‘a nice school shooting’”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/radio-host-is-sick-of-the-impeachment-process-says-we-need-a-nice-school-shooting-as-a-distraction-2019-12-19?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_4726349
And are you also hoping for a civil war?
“Right-wing militias organizing ‘armed gathering’ in Virginia — with ‘threat of civil war’: extremism researcher”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/right-wing-militias-organizing-armed-gathering-in-virginia-with-threat-of-civil-war-extremism-researcher/
@ 52
Steve, I’ll settle for one more SCOTUS nomination.
Who thinks RBG can hold out until she’s 90? ’cause that’s what impeachment is about. If y’all can’t remove Trump, he’ll be there until 2025.
So long as somebody dies, bot-farm troll is happy.
Probably not unlike his foreshortened career as a medical practitioner.
We’ll start to know more once we see the turnout numbers in the early primaries. If turnout continues to rise, if turnout continues to rise among newly registered voters, if turnout continues to rise among voters under 30, if turnout continues to rise among college educated white voters, if turnout continues to rise among white suburban female voters, if turnout continues to rise among non-white voters… well, you get the idea.
Conventional wisdom says president RapeFantasy has every conceivable advantage whether demographically, financially, from incumbency, from media access, and from controlling the daily political narrative. But over the past 24 months Democrats and the American people have demonstrated a remarkable skill at dampening or overcoming many of those advantages. And president RapeFantasy, it should be recalled, is hardly the product of conventional wisdom. He’s more the product of some very conventional resentment. His chances for re-election may ultimately depend on whether his bucket has already reached the bottom of that well.
Because Doctor Dumbfuck, his orange moron and their leader Putin believe in democracy and fair elections.
“Trump Adviser Caught On Tape: Voter Suppression Key To GOP Battleground Efforts”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-adviser-gop-voter-suppression-poll-watching-2020_n_5dfd46c5e4b0843d35fc2322
So that’s your 2020 game plan, the same as 2016, huh? Deny Americans their right to vote while Russia fucks with our elections on your behalf so you fascist fucks can continue destroying American democracy.
Fuck you, you goddamned fucking traitor.
56,
Don’t forget…
Also supports rape.
Or violent rape fantasies.
Or some vague shit, “Locker Room Talk©”, also whadabout Blue Dress, and ButteryMales and… SQUIRREL!!
Demorat Pornstar Party Of Hate America News – Thank You Demorats For Being Arrogant & Stupid Buffoons Report – Thanks Demorats, you fracked up your sham impeachment so bad that even CNN is shitting its Commie pants. My favorite, you clowns were so childishly impatient that you couldn’t wait for the hearings to play out on the Trump-blocked witnesses. Bolton in particular has reason to be hostile to Trump and could have been just the home run witness that you needed.
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CNN’s Funereal Atmosphere While Reporting Trump’s Rising Poll Numbers
An excitable pollster was delivering the news to two of CNN’s most partisan democrat hacks, and their mood was one of sullenness, even when the poofter pollster was delivering good news about America’s brightest economic news in 2 decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYA-oR_m52k&feature=youtu.be
https://iotwreport.com/cnns-funereal-atmosphere-while-reporting-trumps-rising-poll-numbers/
I’m pretty sure we know without being told when it comes to the Pork Slop:
Back in October of 2016, when he heard the tape, he chose to support The Violent Rape Fantasies.
Matt Shea was featured on a short segment of Chris Hayes on MSNBC.
“Also supports rape.”
I also forgot to mention separating toddlers from their families and caging them in child rape detention facilities.
@53 “If y’all can’t remove Trump, he’ll be there until 2025.”
That might be the case. If that does happen, Trump will become the first POTUS to be impeached more than once.
He hates Clinton so much he will forever resent only having one asterisk next to his name and will of course have to be the biggest and have the most so he can continue to be a braggart.
“YLB will lead cheers for each of them”
lmao… a girl beats the dummfuk in the wealthstakes and if she wins the election even excuses both dumbfuk and herself from the wealth tax. Sheldon Adelson cries, dumfuk skates.. Yawn.
IIRC dumfuk voted for Bernie.. Said Bernie was “honest”. Yeah. Bernie admits quite forthrightly that unlike Liz Warren Bernie is NOT a “capitalist to the core”.
So how can a republican dumfuk possibly vote for someone NOT a “capitalist to the core”? Maybe we know why. 2.5 million net worth? Misery loves company.
Good on Liz.. She’s financially comfortable and chooses not to fritter that away on idle pursuits like horsies.
A shithole definitely lies in dumfuk’s future. As it is lowered into the ground, all the remaining cash the freak fetishizes will be thrown into the pit with the coffin and lit on fire. Nope, no lefty is going to rob its grave much less MaryKay pay any estate tax (dumfuk’s too poor).
The stench will carry but some will remain in the pit to “cure” the mouldering dumfuk.