So much, is happening, y’all.
Washington state has a capital construction budget.
The second year of the Women’s March.
It’s looking pretty likely that there will be a government shutdown.
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For me, the last two weeks have been a time of deeply felt loss and reflection. It’s left me with little stomach for what we do here.
Aw, Steve, be a big boy.
Seven years, one day, and you’ll potentially usher in a Democrat president.
Or President Pence.
Yeah, I see what you mean, now. Major thumb-sucking called for.
I see that the annual gift tax exclusion has risen to $15,000. Last time it was changed was 2013.
Sorry, ‘froggy. Barron asked first.
Ya think?
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I know it’s been a tough couple decades for newspapers, because the Internet. But also, they’ve been mismanaged. Horribly, horribly mismanaged.
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The basic problem is still that Dems in #waleg are reacting to a right-wing freakout designed to undermine transit. Dems need to put transit first, instead of prioritizing caving to the right.
Jan 15, 2018
Actually, the basic problem is
California bullet train cost surges by $2.8 billion: ‘Worst-case scenario has happened’
The estimated cost of building 119 miles of bullet train track in the Central Valley has jumped to $10.6 billion, an increase of $2.8 billion from the current budget and up from about $6 billion originally.
The new calculation takes into account a number of intractable problems encountered by the state rail agency. It raises profoundly difficult questions about how the state will complete what is considered the nation’s largest infrastructure project with the existing funding sources.
http://www.latimes.com/local/c.....story.html
The cost overrun was predicted quite awhile ago and dismissed by those in charge of the program.
We’re seeing similar increases in the cost of the Sound Transit extension to Lynnwood – cost up $500M and delay of six months.
It’s not a “right-wing freakout”. It’s reality, and Robert Cruickshank doesn’t want you caving to reality, libbies.
5,
Weak dollar. Shortages of skilled labor.
Good thing we grow hay locally. But with hay exports surging, you might want to think about building a bigger pole barn. Ah but that will require skilled labor and a bunch of imported building materials. I guess there’s just no escape. Don’t forget to take your Motrin. Three string bales aren’t getting any lighter.
I think part of Steve’s deeply felt sense of loss @ 1 is the irony that Bill and Hillary Clintons’ wealth grew more this past year under Trump
More than half of S&P 500 stocks are up 20% or more since Trump took office
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/more-than-half-of-sp-500-stocks-are-up-20-or-more-since-trump-took-office-2018-01-19
than it would have grown had Hillary won.
What, ya didn’t think The Clinton Foundation actually used all those donations to do good, didja?
Looks like white supremacists just lost their most promising stalking horse.
#EEENDEEEPENDUNCE!
In addition to the potential government shutdown, there is another event that has the potential to significantly affect market prices today. Long-dated stock options (LEAPs) expire today. Well, tomorrow actually, but for practical purposes at 4pm EST today.
As always, for those unsure of what to do in the face of volatility, read carefully each and every comment or recommendation by Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. Then do the exact opposite of what he says.
The Notadumbfuck Method of stock investing.
http://horsesass.org/friday-ni.....nt-1313391
It’s been good to me. Hillary’s loss didn’t hurt, either.
Sort of ironic how Roypublicans and other concern trolls have focused so much energy on allegations that the DNC had their thumb on the scale for Hillary. But still not so much as a peep out of them when they learn that the NRA was funneling Russian money into the Fuckface primary battle to defeat Roypublicans like Cruz, Liddle Marco, and JEB!
#youbuiltthattoo
@ 6
Nope. Refusal to embrace reality.
The 2013 Parsons Brinckerhoff cost estimate showed increases in almost every phase of the project. The company reported higher costs for land acquisition, viaducts, tunnels, electrical systems and professional services, largely driven by difficult segments of track that would run through mountains from Palmdale to Bakersfield.
The document was never made public, and the state rail agency declined a Times request to provide it under the state’s public records act. The Times later obtained it from an engineer close to the project.
Lisa Marie Alley, a spokeswoman for the rail authority, declined to discuss details of the Parsons Brinckerhoff cost estimate, but she said it was “superseded” by the 2014 business plan several months later, which cited the $68-billion estimate.
The cost estimate was one of two times a key contractor has reported bad budget news that the state rejected.
http://www.latimes.com/local/c.....story.html
What’s your next explanation going to be? “Bad luck.”?
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/697618-throughout-history-poverty-is-the-normal-condition-of-man-advances
More Roypublican “Shitholing”.
They can’t help themselves. It is who they are now.
@2 What I expressed @1 has nothing to do with politics. Leave me out of your comments.
The Roypublican Pissident compared the Porny-Stripper Prostitute to his daughter? The Fuck?
Honestly, I’ve been trying really hard to ignore all this shit. The stuff about camels, and Fuckface’s goiter, and his Ambien addiction is just distracting as fuck. There is after all, somewhere behind all the “Shitholing” and Death Caucusing, and obvious baiting about race and immigration, a government to run… sort of. The dog seems to have eaten the Fuckface administration’s homework again. And they’ve fallen a bit behind, what with all the napping and golf. But I do try to focus on what ought to be important. And how many hookers, Russian or otherwise, that Fuckface spanked or jizzed on is not really important in the scheme of things that includes kids with CF getting kicked off health care.
But this “father” compared his own daughter to a prostitute porn actress. That. Is. Pathological.
A trip down memory lane, circa the 20Oct2017 Open Thread:
Newt @ 9 in that thread:
So RR, what do you think of GE’s stock performance and earnings report today?
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s reply @ 17 in that thread included:
I think the changes will be good for the stock long-term. Other investors apparently agree, because the stock rose $1.73 today from its opening price of $22.10 to close at $23.83. GE actually posted a gain today after releasing its shitty earnings report. That’s a sign of investor confidence in the company’s long-term prospects.
GE is one of my larger positions, and I’m comfortable with the idea of holding onto it. If you presently own it, you shouldn’t panic and sell it, and I think the current share price is a buying opportunity if you have the patience to wait 2 or 3 years for returns to materialize. It’s a solid company today and I think it will emerge from this transition as a stronger company down the road.
GE stock price today: $16.43
If Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit was comfortable holding it at $23.83, just think how comfortable he is today knowing that one of his larger positions has fallen by nearly one-third over the past three months.
My Notadumbfuck Method of stock investing.
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Never more important.
Steve @ 13
Noted. I must have missed something you shared earlier.
I apologize for writing something that clearly hurt. I hope things get better for you and those around you, Steve.
It would take an unspeakably cruel and uncaring human being to foist this measure of pain upon union workers. Oh, wait…
Donald Trump and his team should take the opposite approach: make everything seem normal while shutting down the regulatory agencies Democrats love. Keep the national parks open, but shut down the EPA. Maintain military readiness, but close down the Departments of Education and Labor. Rather than look at the short-term public relations hit, the White House should keep their eyes on the long game by using a shutdown to remind Americans just how much of the government they could truly live without. And when all of those union-represented employees have gone without a couple of paychecks on top of that, wait for Democrats to come back to the table.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/01/19/blame-game-senate-shutdown-showdown-edition/
Poor Illinois.
People flocking to low-tax states could swing future elections
The state with the largest downside risk appears to be Illinois, which will lose one congressional seat in 2020 and is in danger of being the only state in the U.S. to lose two seats.
…
Some current projections show high-tax California is on the bubble to actually lose a congressional seat in 2020 — a shocking development for a state that gained seven seats between 1980 and 1990 alone.
…
Meanwhile, another state with extremely high tax burdens, New York, is set to lose yet another seat in 2020, the eighth census in a row that the Empire State has forfeited seats. Going back to the 1940 Census, New York is currently down 18 congressional seats on net. The new count in 2020 would add to that alarming trend.
http://thehill.com/opinion/fin.....tax-states
Rhode Island in trouble, too. Meanwhile, Florida, NC, and Colorado may gain seats. Arizona, too. So some cities in the Western US may see more presidential campaign stops in the final week of the 2020 election season than they did in 2016.
Except Arizona, that is. Hillary showed AZ some serious love that last week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-IDBlRK-iA
On Tuesday I invited readers here to take a moment and reflect on Steve Bannon’s choice of lawyer.
The next day it was learned that, in preparation for his testimony before the House Intel Committee, Bannon’s lawyer, Bill Bruck, had checked off with Spec. Prosecutor Mueller, making sure that as far as Mueller was concerned there was no potential conflict of interest in the three, McGahn, Priebus, and Bannon, all sharing the same attorney. Mueller is fine with it. So long as Bruck keeps his clients on the sidelines of Congressional hearings and protects Mueller’s investigation from Nunes and his late night White House beer runs.
That’s a pretty big concession. Especially considering that, however much Bannon may have been thrown under the Fuckface bus, Priebus is still a good Nazi, and McGahn still works in the White House. Lawyers make concessions in exchange for something. That’s part of their duty to their clients. What might Mueller be offering Bruck and his clients in exchange for their cooperation? Something else to reflect on.
Some heat about to be felt by Democrats. Schumer, in particular, is going to eat his words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2FG2RJKgOI
CNN’s Erin Burnett asking Markey some good questions. Then she shows Schumer’s 2013 comments.
Good on her.
Hey, this would be a good addition to the Friday Multimedia thread. Someone should tell someone.
@2 At least he doesn’t pull his thumb out of his ass and then suck on it like you do.
Do you wiggle it for a cheap thrill while it’s in there?
Don’t answer, I don’t want to know, that was a rhetorical question.
Hypocrisy is the normal state of American politics.
@ 19
Go on.
Make a prediction. After all, it’s not like it would ever be thrown back in your face @ 15 if it happens to end up being spectacularly wrong. It’s just us, and we’re all friends here.
Seriously, ideology aside, what do you think?
@ 21
Do you wiggle it for a cheap thrill while it’s in there?
Well, I don’t do it because I misplaced my urethral catheter, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
@9 ” … read carefully each and every comment or recommendation by Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. Then do the exact opposite of what he says.”
The doctor is right. Do what he says.
@25 He wasn’t smart enough to see that one coming. Thanks for the freebie, dumbshit.
@9 (continued) While we’re on this subject, there’s no denying that Doc is a kindred spirit. Like me, he makes money the capitalist way, i.e., by owning stuff instead of working for it. Like me, he revels in the undeserved windfalls that Republican greed showers on us, and can never help himself to too much, no matter how poor the productive class may be. In fact, we could almost be twins, if we weren’t different species. The one point on which we differ is he thinks this is the greatest possible system, whereas I find it disgusting and merely go along for the ride because I can’t change it and it is what it is.
Here’s what to do with the DACA kids:
1. Tell them to come forward if they want to become American citizens. Tell them they must take and pass the citizenship test all new citizens must take.
2. Have them sworn as as no-kiddin’ American citizens, pledging to support and defend the Constitution.
3. Find out what happened to the people who brought them here and go after those criminals as the human traffickers that they are. Charge the traffickers with times, put ’em on trial, convict them, make ’em serve their sentences, then send the traffickers back to where they came from. The DACA kids are now citizens and get to stay in the US without question, but the criminals that brought them here are dealt with.
4. Tell the DACA kids this is a deal only for them – no bringing-in their seventeenth cousins, twice removed, from Guatemala or Costa Rica or any other shit hole.
5. Caveat to #1 – DACA kids with criminal histories (major felonies) don’t get apply.
6. Get out of the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Use the military to prevent illegals from coming across the Southern border. Don’t have to build any wall ’cause we’ll have a human wall of armed military guys and gals who know how to use their tactical and strategic weapons.
7. Tell Mexico and the rest of Central and South America to get their act together. It’s time for a revolution to throw off the old Spanish families own and control everything. Also, tell ’em to throw out Catholicism. The church has done more to oppress the people in those areas than just about any tyrant around.
The stock market is kinda slow today, cuz of the shutdown thingy, but even on bad days I make more sitting on my ass than minimum-wage workers earn by slaving all day in a kitchen or changing motel bed linen or wiping asses in a nursing home or picking lettuce for our salads while looking over their shoulders for ICE agents.
I wouldn’t so much as make a prediction as I’d narrow the possibilities.
One possibility is that the three know absolutely nothing and have absolutely no relevant testimony to give that would implicate any criminal conduct. Cling to that if you like. About as effective as that comb-over and the Local Motion sticker on the back window. Meh.
The problem with that theory is that it doesn’t explain Bruck’s explicit instructions to his client to refuse to answer a bunch of questions in front of Nunes’ committee. If these clients have nothing to offer, and no testimony that might implicate anyone, then whatever they might say, and however it might make its way back to the Fuckface defense team, it wouldn’t interfere with Mueller’s investigation and potential prosecutions.
Which leaves the other possibility. The one that explains why Bruck has had to instruct his client to dummy up in front of Trey Gowdy.
@ 29
The stock market is kinda slow today…
You absolutely stupid motherfucker.
So far today 2.1 BILLION shares have changed hands on the NYSE. There are still two hours left in the trading day.
Here’s the same trading day (options expirations, etc) last year:
1/20/2017 1,198,276,687
So today’s volume is DOUBLE that of the same day last year.
You absolutely stupid motherfucker. Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, you never disappoint.
My Notadumbfuck Method, validated yet again by its namesake.
Here’s what I don’t understand about shit like the screed at 28:
Why here?
Why is it that pig-ignorant hillbilly trash have absolutely nothing to complain about when they are confronted with their howling, racist, obstructionist Roypublican lawmakers? Quite the opposite in fact, if the Roypublican polling is to be believed. These klansmen and Tiki Torch Wielding, Freeedumb Luving Trump voters weep real tears of admiration for shit stains like Mitt Romney, even as he goes right along in perfect lockstep with the march toward the ovens.
But they come here with their crocodile tear pleas for reason and nuance? These people voted for a bloated, treasonous, ignoramus who sold the Executive Branch to a shirtless communist dictator in exchange for hookers, oil leases, and licensing deals. And suddenly we are expected to believe them when they suggest they want negotiations? Ask Lindsey Graham about that.
Pro Tip to Hillbilly Traitors: You don’t get to start negotiations over what color to paint the dining room while you are busy smashing up the heirloom china.
@ 32
Why is it that pig-ignorant hillbilly trash have absolutely nothing to complain about when they are confronted with their howling, racist, obstructionist Roypublican lawmakers?
Because you’ve already done it for us.
That China Room needed updating, anyway. I’m gonna fill it with Happy Meal toys.
33,
Roypublican lawmakers don’t listen to anyone other than gun-humping Hillbilly Traitors. The rest of us get cease and desist letters. So long as that’s the case, there’s nothing for us to negotiate here, or anywhere else.
@ 34
“I won.”
“Yes, we wrote this bill. Yes, we won this election.”
My, libbie memories are short.
See also: Schumer @ 20
It’s real, and it’s spectacular.
IT: Were you attracted to him?
Stormy: Would you be? I was more like fascinated. I was definitely stimulated. We had a really good banter. Good conversation for a couple hours. I could tell he was nice, intelligent in conversation.
http://www.intouchweekly.com/p.....iew-151788
IT: Did you use protection?
Stormy: No.
…
IT: Was the sex romantic?
Stormy: It was textbook generic. It wasn’t like, “Oh my God, I love you.” He wasn’t like Fabio or anything. He wasn’t trying to have, like, porn sex.
IT: Did he say anything to you during?
Stormy: Nothing freaky. Like, “Oh yeah, that feels good. That’s amazing.” You know. It was one position, what you would expect someone his age to do. It wasn’t bad. Don’t get me wrong.
What, no GS? That simply cannot be. That Steele dossier was corroborated. I read that somewhere. Rock solid shit, it was.
@28 Typical libertarian idiocy that doesn’t hold up to even off-the-cuff scrutiny, to wit:
“1. Tell them to come forward if they want to become American citizens. Tell them they must take and pass the citizenship test all new citizens must take.”
In other words, you would allow Dreamers to apply for citizenship and become citizens the same way other immigrants do. No argument from me on that, but Trump and the entire GOP stand in your way.
“2. Have them sworn as as no-kiddin’ American citizens, pledging to support and defend the Constitution.”
Here’s the current oath all immigrants must take to become naturalized U.S. citizens:
“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.”
As far as I can see, this fulfills your demand for “no-kiddin’ American citizens, pledging to support and defend the Constitution,” so what’s the issue?
“3. Find out what happened to the people who brought them here and go after those criminals as the human traffickers that they are. Charge the traffickers with times, put ’em on trial, convict them, make ’em serve their sentences, then send the traffickers back to where they came from. The DACA kids are now citizens and get to stay in the US without question, but the criminals that brought them here are dealt with.”
In most cases, these human traffickers and criminals are their parents, who brought them here because, well, parents like to be with their kids. Are you suggesting making that a separate crime? We already have laws and law enforcers to deport individuals and families who are here illegally.
“4. Tell the DACA kids this is a deal only for them – no bringing-in their seventeenth cousins, twice removed, from Guatemala or Costa Rica or any other shit hole.”
The issue is whether “DACA kids” get to stay in the U.S. by complying with certain conditions, or will be subject to deportation no matter what. As far as I know, there’s no proposal to allow Dreamers to bring in their relatives, except through the channels already existing in our laws for that purpose. So this is really a rant without any substance.
In any case, while I can’t speak for the Democratic Party or its office holders, as for me personally I’ll readily agree to this as a condition of any DACA compromise.
“5. Caveat to #1 – DACA kids with criminal histories (major felonies) don’t get apply.”
I don’t think anyone is proposing this, so once again, this is ranting without substance.
“6. Get out of the Middle East, Europe and Asia.”
Are you really so stupid that you believe we can shield ourselves from the world’s troubles by pulling up the drawbridge and hiding on our continent? How well did this work for isolationists like you back in the 1930s? They got their answer on Sept. 1, 1939 and Dec. 7, 1941.
“Use the military to prevent illegals from coming across the Southern border.”
This isn’t the military’s job. Why not use the Border Patrol for that? Isn’t that what it’s for? Also, using the military for domestic law enforcement functions is illegal, in case you didn’t know.
“Don’t have to build any wall ’cause we’ll have a human wall of armed military guys and gals who know how to use their tactical and strategic weapons.”
This suggestion reflects the military thinking that was prevalent around 10,000 B.C. or so, when humans lived in tiny villages and the perimeter that had to be defended was roughly 100 yards in circumference; but this method of territorial defense has been rendered obsolete by more recent military innovations and experience. Please update your knowledge.
“7. Tell Mexico and the rest of Central and South America to get their act together. It’s time for a revolution to throw off the old Spanish families own and control everything. Also, tell ’em to throw out Catholicism. The church has done more to oppress the people in those areas than just about any tyrant around.”
You seem to be swinging from one extreme (isolationism) to another (interventionism). Make up your mind, then get back to us.
Meanwhile, I suspect you’re underestimating the practical barriers that would stand in the way of achieving your objectives.
On this point, the Soviet experience in Afghanistan is instructive. What you’re suggesting we do in Mexico is a nearly exact description of what the Kremlin attempted when they invaded Afghanistan in 1979. They tried to replace that country’s government, culture, and religion with a Marxist system. How well did that work out for them? If you don’t know, look it up.
This last bullet point, more than anything else, demonstrates how ignorant you are and how divorced from reality your thinking is. Bottom line, you are not competent to pontificate on the matters you purport to lecture us about.
What you should do is stick to shit-flinging like everyone else here. You don’t need to know anything to do that. It doesn’t expose your ignorance or lack of critical thinking skills. With practice, you can craft artful poo and throw it with the best of us. These are skills even someone with your knowledge base and mental faculties can master. So, my advice is, give up trying to be a policy expert or intellectual — those are not your strengths — and focus on doing what you have a chance to become good at.
This is taking place while he is married to the First Lady who is pregnant with his autistic kid who now has to have this read to him? Caring, family values. But at least you get to tell “dumb cunt” jokes again, right?
@31 Only a stupid motherfucker would think I was talking about trading volume.
@32 I didn’t find “reason” in #28, only ignorant ranting, especially when he went off on military subjects, about which he manifestly knows little or nothing. Also note the glaring inconsistency between his simultaneous isolationist and interventionist rantings.
Apparently his position is that we should conquer and subjugate the Mexican people, even down to forcibly converting them away from their religion, while giving our bases everywhere else to our enemies.
I wouldn’t let someone like that date my sister, manage my investments, or run my business. I wouldn’t even want him for a neighbor. And I certainly wouldn’t vote for him.
@ 39
In 1992 we elected a philanderer. In 2016, same thing.
Something tells me that you have never before, nor will you again, refer to Melania Trump as First Lady.
“Yes, we shut down the government.”
#youbuiltthattoo
Demorat crooks, the axe is falling;
Headline-
‘Worse Than Watergate’: ‘Shocking’ House Intel Memo Allegedly Reveals FISA Abuse by Senior DOJ and FBI Officials;
Snip-
Members of the House on Thursday said they viewed a “shocking” classified memo allegedly detailing abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by senior Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigations officials in relation to the investigation of the Trump campaign and called for it to be declassified and available to the public immediately.
“It’s troubling. It is shocking,” Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) told Fox News. “Part of me wishes that I didn’t read it because I don’t want to believe that those kinds of things could be happening in this country that I call home and love so much.”
“The facts contained in this memo are jaw-dropping and demand full transparency. There is no higher priority than the release of this information to preserve our democracy,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a member of the Judiciary Committee, which oversees the DOJ and the FBI.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-g.....officials/
42,
Well, at times I think it might make more sense to refer to her as “First Hostage”. I guess that makes you, what?
The Sixty-two-million-ninehundred-ninetynine-thousandth?
#stockholmsyndrome
44,
Still leaning on the Breitbart crutch? They lied to you and duped you into shitting your pants in front of everyone yesterday. Will you never learn? Don’t answer that. Unnecessary.
@33 “Because you’ve already done it for us.”
I’m pretty sure that’s not why.
You trolls like financial speculation. Any of you want to speculate financially on the odds of the @44 “super-duper-top-secret memo” ever being declassified? Assuming it even exists. Which, of course, it does not. So what have you got to lose, right?
@5 that could be a good reason to justify your opinion but you should stick to your past business of over charging for medical services. I’m not sure if you could provide any examples of anything that ever remains or comes under budget.
You hillbillies control every branch of the government and every agency. You run the House, the Senate, every congressional investigative committee, the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Coast Guard, the ATF, the DEA, the Secret Service, ICE, Border Patrol, the Branch Davidians, the Oath Keepers, and the Park Service. You’ve got more guns than the rest of the human race combined.
Suddenly you need an axe?
#tiredofhillbillyexcuses
@17. Sounds like a real winner to me….I hope your dreams come true and they go for it!
While Zombie-Eyed_Granny-Starver is busy kicking sick infants off ventilators and dialysis machines, the Roypublican Party elite are going dancing in South Florida!
Word has it the First Lady* will be resplendent in a gown featuring thousands of tiny inlaid sequins made from human teeth, and the Pissident will hit the dance floor in shoes made from human skin. Tickets are going fast at $100,000 per couple (no gays) and $250,000 for a photo with the Pissident on a massive throne made of immigrant skulls and leg bones (no Norwegians).
*That’s for Врач немой ебать
@51 I’m not against hardball bargaining tactics per se. I simply believe our side should use them too.
@36, 37 You have weird obsessions. I don’t want my offspring near you. Don’t take it personally. I’m only protecting them as any concerned parent would do.
@42 Does she have a green card? Can she speak English? Does she actually WANT to be married to that fat slob, or is she just in it for the money? See #45 for more questions.
Shocking! The super-duper-top-secret memo has been declassified and released:
https://mobile.twitter.com/BrianJAltemeier/status/954368410632228864/photo/1
I’ll leave it to a medical expert like Doctor Dumbfuck, but I think that guy misspelled “penus”.
@44 ““It’s troubling. It is shocking,” Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) told Fox News. “Part of me wishes that I didn’t read it because I….”
Truly amazing that Repukes have found something that is troubling. Nothing ever before ever troubled them.
55,
Yeah, sure. She’s illegal. But you gotta admit, she’s sort of “Norwegian”. Right? Whatever.
Shouldn’t it be the WomYn’s march? or is that offensive to people that identify as the letter E? Oh and don’t forget, no wearing “Pussy” hats…as they are offensive to Women with dicks.
Simpson’s testimony about his independent research into Trump’s finances and business affairs confirms much of what we already know or suspect:
He has a long history of contacts with mobsters;
Russians are his bankers and backers;
He launders money for them;
He’s not as rich as he says.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-intelligence-committee-releases-glenn-simpson-trump-dossier-testimony-n838751
44,
Still there?
Something else you can be proud of:
https://mobile.twitter.com/NGrossman81/status/954383432511082497
You are part of a network of Russian state controlled bot accounts. You have surrendered your U.S. citizenship to a shirtless communist dictator for the freeedumb to yell “nigger” at your television without guilt.
Well done.
#youbuiltthattoo
@53 sometimes letting them do stupid shit is playing hardball, but I agree go harder on these fucks.
Turning this Country into Somalia will do wonders to the Repukilan Party. Those gay republicans will love it!
Just when you thought it was safe to resume fucking Dominican prostitutes.
Prosecutors to retry Sen. Bob Menendez on corruption charges
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics.....itter_abcn
They’re probably less fun to nail if you have to pay for them yourself, anyway.
Ooh, and if you’re looking for insight into the mind of a Democrat:
…while the 63-year-old Melgen’s attorneys are seeking a much shorter sentence and have argued prosecutors only proved he stole $64,000.
That’s not an inconsequential amount of money. It’s more than Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit earned in his most highly paid year as an attorney.
Sunset in Everett, WA will be at 4:49 pm today..
Damn that sunset is getting later and later.. You all know what that means.
The babbling butthole troll will have more opportunity to spew hate and PUT HA HEROES FIRST before going into its cage at sunset on the orders of its skydaddy.
Makes for great laughs!
@ 60
Simpson’s testimony about his independent research into Trump’s finances and business affairs…
For awhile Simpson was paid by Republicans. Then he resumed doing the same work while being paid by Democrats.
To Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit that equates to independence.
Which is why Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit never made more than $64k @ 63 in a year.
This has nothing to do with money. It’s all about principles and freezdumb with the Repukes.
I want to see that gay republican laughing at me while the nurse tells him that he’s been a bad boy and to go home.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/01/trump-will-give-healthcare-workers-right-refuse-treat-lgbt-people/
Ohhhh that poor Drumpf ~ so many people are out to get the saint. Saint Don Juan.
@16 No problem, Doc.
If it help y’all HA libbies in your efforts, today I had a food truck burrito.
Still, 56% overall say approving a budget agreement to avoid a shutdown is more important than continuing the DACA program, while just 34% choose DACA over a shutdown. Democrats break narrowly in favor of DACA — 49% say it’s more important vs. 42% who say avoiding a shutdown is the priority — while majorities of both Republicans (75%) and independents (57%) say avoiding a shutdown is more important.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/19/.....index.html
They messed up my order. I wanted a regular burrito, not the weird one. Whoever came up with the concept of French fries in a burrito should be shot.
Line of the day:
“The difference between Steve King and Lindsey Graham is that Steve King can actually win an election in Iowa.” – Tom Cotton
Yeah, but I bet Lindsey Graham knows more things one can do with an ear of corn.
@70anyone if those tricks ones that your horse taught you to do?
When Lindsey Graham has become “too moderate”.
Steve@1
My thoughts are with you in this difficult time. Take care man..
@63 Your prostitutes are better than our prostitutes. But then, you pay them more. Anybody who can’t get a good lay for $130,000 probably should stay away from whorehouses.
@65 I’m doing a lot better than that now. The stock market pays better than working does. Our system isn’t set up to reward honest labor. Hey, don’t look at me, that wasn’t my idea.
@66 Check the fine print to see if it also authorizes conducting medical experiments on LGBTQ people; you want to know if Trump is channeling Dr. Mengele.
@1 My heartfelt condolences.
@69 “Whoever came up with the concept of French fries in a burrito should be shot.”
Typical Republican. They want a Final Solution for every problem.
Watch the Demorats try to save their sinking ship by throwing DACA overboard, live updates;
http://www.breitbart.com/big-g.....pproaches/
@70 ” … Steve King can actually win an election in Iowa.”
That’s an accomplishment? In a state that elected Joni Ernst? And voted for Donald Trump?
All that does is make you wonder what the hell is wrong with the people in Iowa.
Demorats, here is more good news for you while you watch your Senate meltdown;
Headline-
WOW! Sara Carter Reveals FISA Memo Bombshell Could Lead to CRIMINAL PROSECUTION of Senior FBI & DOJ Officials
Snip-
Lawmakers from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) have called for the classified memo’s immediate release. According to Fox News contributor Sara Carter, the contents of the memo are so “explosive,” that it could end special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. Additionally, the memo’s release could lead to the prosecution of top FBI and Justice Department officials.
Carter reports:
More than 130 congressional members have viewed the classified four-page memo detailing what senior government officials describe as “disturbing and explosive” surveillance abuse by employees of the FBI and Department of Justice under the Obama administration against President Trump and members of his campaign. […]
The classified memo was described by senior government officials as a detailed account of the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the FBI and apparent FISA abuse associated with the controversial dossier that alleged President Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential election. As recently reported, some congressional members who reviewed the memo said the revelations may end in the removal or criminal prosecution of senior officials in the FBI and Department of Justice.
On Thursday evening, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he believes the memo’s release will lead to government officials going to prison.
“I believe this will not end just with firings. I believe there are people who will go to jail. I was very persuaded by the evidence,” Gaetz told Hannity.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.co.....officials/
“Republicans are clamoring for the public release of a memo detailing alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) related to the special counsel’s investigation of potential Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election. …
“The rallying cry to ‘release the memo’ has exploded both online and in Congress. The hashtag #releasethememo went viral on Twitter and other social media sites on Thursday, and Republican members of Congress issued statements of alarm about its contents. …
“While still classified to the public, the four-page memo has become an instant fixation online — thanks in part to Russian propaganda accounts, according to a website claiming to track Russian influence in real time. …
“Democrat Adam Schiff of California, a ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, called the memo a ‘profoundly misleading set of talking points drafted by Republican staff attacking the FBI and its handling of the investigation.'”
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/19/republicans-call-house-intel-committee-to-releasethememo-on-fisa-fbi.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: So there you have it: The “FISA memo” consists of Republican talking points written by Republican staffers and is being promoted online by Russian propagandists. Gullible rightwing Koolaid drinkers are swallowing it in a single gulp.
Seems like a rather far cry from actual evidence that would put people in general. But there’s nothing new about Republicans acting out their hatred of government by threatening to jail public servants. For a refresher on this, see the case of Georgia Thompson.
http://host.madison.com/news/g.....4feb6.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Thompson
And, of course, every time Republicans railroad another public servant to jail, it ends up costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars; but Republicans don’t mind spending your hard-earned taxes that way.
Maybe Republicans figure if they appoint judges like Roland Freisler they can dispense with real evidence of actual crimes and talking-points memos will be sufficient for getting rid of people they don’t like.
81,
Your porpoise is showing.
“The president is the leader, and he’s got to get everybody in a room and he’s got to lead,” he said.
“In 25 years, in 50 years, 100 years from now, when … they talk about the government shutdown, they’re going to be talking about the president of the United States,” he added. “They’re not going to be talking who the head of the House was, the head of the Senate. … I really think the pressure is on the president.”
http://time.com/5109760/govern.....mp-tweets/
There it is. It’s all Drumpf’s fault..
btw, this is 2nd shutdown on yertle’s watch.
@ 85
There are two reasons to talk about the 2013 shutdown:
1. Because we’re going to have another.
2. Because that shutdown masked the disastrous Obamacare rollout.
YLB, you silly little
twattwit, if you’re going to assign blame for a shutdown to the president and count shutdowns under someone’s watch, don’t forget to mention the two that occurred in fiscal 1996. When Bill Clinton was president.YLB, if you didn’t have panties to twist you’d have nothing at all going for you.
YLB – Queen of the Inconsequential.
Democrats who voted for cloture:
Jones
Heitkamp
Manchin
Donnelly
McCaskill
Dems in red states.
New York Times, in its first version of the story, blamed Dems for the shutdown.
It was quickly rewritten from Dems blocked the bill, to the bill was blocked.
@86 Still running against Bill Clinton, I see. Keep it up. I hope that’s your platform in 2020, too.
@87, @88 Republicans who voted against cloture:
Graham
Flake
Paul
Lee
McConnell
Gonna be hard to paint this as Democratic obstructionism.
If you really want to know who’s at fault, Trump and Schumer met for lunch and went over the issues, then later this afternoon Trump called Schumer and said he wouldn’t agree to what he had agreed to at lunch.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/20/.....index.html
This is what you get when stupid people elect an amateur to a job that requires a seasoned and experienced professional politician.
Just 2 days ago, an analysis on Nate Silver’s blog projected that 9 Democrats
Donnelly
Heitkamp
Manchin
McCaskill
Nelson
Stabenow
Tester
Jones
Smith
would break from the Democrats, and 11 others
Carper
Coons
Hassan
Shaheen
Kaine
Warner
Leahy
Udall
Heinrich
King
Peters
might join them.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/democrats-probably-wont-force-a-shutdown-over-immigration/
But only 5 of the first group and none of the second group voted with the GOP. To alienate that many Democratic senators who didn’t want to vote for a shutdown, somebody on the GOP side had to work pretty hard to sink a deal. Wonder who that might be?
@ 89
So do I, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
And Drumpf even said the US needs a “good shutdown”…
http://thehill.com/homenews/ad.....d-shutdown
LMAO!! Boob is balding and limply going forth in retirement…
All its life has built up to this…
@ 94
If a woman is looking at the top of your head, YLB, she doesn’t care whether or not it has hair on it.
@95 Baldly and limply going forth…
All its miserable life has led to this moment.
Remember who’s your daddy, boob.