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by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 4/18/18, 7:58 am

I don’t know enough about peremptory challenges. But it seems like this is a good rule. Or at least an improvement. Here’s hoping it makes juries more diverse.

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  1. 1

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 8:52 am

    I hope this former First Lady never, ever dies.

    Liz Mair
    Verified account

    @LizMair
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    Here’s why people are still talking about Hillary Clinton, despite her losing in 2016. She’s incredibly unpopular, and that makes her worth keeping in conversation for Rs.

    6:34 AM – 17 Apr 2018

  2. 2

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 8:56 am

    Libbies, it’s not like you didn’t have warning.

    Hillary Clinton’s popularity drops sharply in NBC/WSJ poll

    The bad news for Hillary Clinton in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll: More Americans view her unfavorably than they did a month ago, revealing potential vulnerabilities for a general-election presidential contest more than a year away.
    …
    Just 37% of all Americans have a positive view of Clinton, versus 48% who have a negative view (-11).

    That’s a sharp drop since June, when the NBC/WSJ poll showed her with a 44% positive, 40 negative rating (+4) – so an overall 15-point swing.

    http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hil.....bcwsj-poll

    She was known to be under investigation by the FBI.

    You stupid, indiscriminate fucks.

  3. 3

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 9:22 am

    …Hillary Clinton has made history. Indeed. She has become the first presidential candidate of either gender to clinch a major party’s nomination while under active FBI investigation.

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/06/08/hillary-clinton-the-nominee-democrats-deserve-n2175063

    Actually, she was under criminal investigation during the entire fucking primary season.

    But former FBI director James Comey’s new book indicates that the ridiculous semantics game was even more moot than it appeared. The Times actually understated the reality: Clinton was already under criminal investigation at the time by the FBI, and yes, she was definitely the target.

    “Though The Times may have thought those clarifications were necessary, their original story was much closer to the mark,” Comey writes. “It was true that the transmission to the F.B.I. from the inspector general did not use the word ‘criminal,’ but by the time of the news story, we had a full criminal investigation open, focused on the secretary’s conduct.”

    http://freebeacon.com/blog/tur.....lly-wasnt/

  4. 4

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 9:26 am

    That’s funny. I would have paid to watch an FBI interview of candidate Hillary Clinton conducted the same way.

    Goldy
    ✔
    @GoldyHA
    You know what I’d pay good money to watch? A Fox News broadcast conducted under oath and subject to penalty for perjury.

    14h

  5. 5

    Steve spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 9:31 am

    Doctor Dumbfuck needs to chill out. Just because he made his horse sign an NDA doesn’t mean Avenetti’s coming for him.

  6. 6

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 9:36 am

    @ 5

    WSJ/NBC poll out.

    27% of respondents have a positive opinion of twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

    52% of them have a negative opinion.

    See @ 1.

  7. 7

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 9:38 am

    Look what just reproduced.

    McKay Coppins
    Verified account

    @mckaycoppins
    4h4 hours ago
    More
    There’s a new Coppins baby in the world. She and mom are both doing great, brother and sister are in love, dad is sleepy and elated.

  8. 8

    2K spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 10:11 am

    Build the wall with Hillary Clinton, because some people just can’t get over her.

  9. 9

    Worser spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 10:59 am

    Bob is always pissed that Hillary Clinton is not the president so his persecution obsession of her would matter.

  10. 10

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 11:20 am

    @ 9

    Ya got me. I confess.

    If there’s anything I’ve stood for in the past 17+ months, it’s profound disappointment that #CrookedHillary will never, ever be president.

    Life has barely been worth living since November of 2016. I have been in despair watching millions of American women darn pink pussy hats to wear.

    Watching Goldy Go Godwin has been a sobering experience.

    And seeing my stocks rocket to stratospheric levels has made me sense guilt and shame that I have been the beneficiary of the presidencies of Obama and Trump despite not having ever voted for either.

    Yep. I am just purely pissed that Hillary Clinton is twice-failed. Now, if you will excuse me I must go have a cry.

  11. 11

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 11:22 am

    It should be illegal for jackasses to possess guns.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/toddler-shoots-mom-indiana_us_5ad7696ae4b029ebe0204cda

  12. 12

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 11:25 am

    Why are Republicans destroying capitalism? Are they closet commies? Or just stupid fucks killing the golden goose out of sheer greed?

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/capitalism-betrayal-working-class_us_5ad6476ae4b016a07ea15354

  13. 13

    Donald J. Trump Hillary Clinton spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 11:28 am

    I run my party like a crime syndicate. Establishment party regulars must come to me and debase themselves and pledge their unwavering loyalty. My supporters have seized control of primaries nationwide and those who dare oppose me are crushed. Today to be a member of my political party is to be bound to me and the defense of my endless failure and limitless corruption.

  14. 14

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 11:34 am

    @1-@4 Your Hillary rants won’t stop until YOU die. Maybe one of these days a swift kick by a horse will give us some peace and quiet around here.* Not wishing for that; merely an impartial observation.

    * See #5 for details.

  15. 15

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 11:38 am

    Make you a deal, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. I’ll stop when YOU die. For the rest of HA it will be a twofer.

  16. 16

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 11:45 am

    @15 Twofer? What makes you think they wouldn’t miss me? What makes you think they’d miss you?

    Another one of your silly false equivalencies that reveals what a dumbfuck you are.

  17. 17

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 12:19 pm

    Walmart is funneling some of its tax savings into lower prices for consumers.

    “Walmart pricing for national branded consumables is now 4.4% lower compared to Dollar General (DG) (the largest gap since April 2017’s -7.0%) and 6.5% below Family Dollar (compared to a -3.6% gap in February) — on selling prices (promotions included) of 25 items. We are finding the prices for the Walmart basket declined 3.8% from February 2018 through April 2018, led by reductions for traffic generating products such as Cheerios (-42%), Heinz Ketchup (-14%), and Old Spice Body Wash (-24%).”

    https://www.barrons.com/articles/walmart-taking-on-retailers-with-price-cuts-1523884863?mod=djemb_dr_h&tesla=y

    Confidential to Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit: Yes, Old Spice isn’t a great scent, but it’s far better than that Depends-change-way-overdue bouquet that precedes your entrance into a room. And it’s on sale at Walmart.

  18. 18

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 12:30 pm

    Ruh roh…

    You know what’s not privileged information? Billing records. Those are subject to IRS and FEC inspection. Even if they are presumed lost from a little known law firm in Arkansas if they surface they can be looked at.

    The law firm representing Cohen, his law firm of record and not in a Hannity not actually ever official but we still have privilege way, has been paid by the Trump 2020 campaign.

    They better hope they can show a paper trail of billing and payments to and from Cohen directly or a shit ton of people are going to prison.

    “You wanna know how you bring down the mob? You get their lawyers.” John Grisham

  19. 19

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 12:38 pm

    Actually, Lois Lerner and her overlords at the IRS and at the White House caused it. By weaponizing the IRS against the Tea Party and its supporters. All the GOP did was cut the head off the snake when it found out.


    Goldy Retweeted

    Joan McCarter
    @joanmccarter
    The IRS is in dire need of enough funding to upgrade its decades-old technology. You, @SpeakerRyan, and your party of nihilists caused this by defunding it.
    5h

  20. 20

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 12:45 pm

    @17 This is the GOP’s midterm election strategy? Take away their health care and give ’em cheaper ketchup? Okay, if you guys want to run on this platform, that’s fine with me.

    Meanwhile, I’m sure the Wall Street donor crowd appreciates the fact that General Mills and Kraft Heinz are down 25% since January and trading at the bottom of their 52-week range.

  21. 21

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 12:47 pm

    @19

    That old chestnut. I mean there’s no way the IRS would look at 501 C3 applications that are required to be non-political that actually put the name of a political party or movement on their application.

    Art Bell’s dead. But the conspiracy theories live on.

  22. 22

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 12:49 pm

    @19 ” By weaponizing the IRS against the Tea Party and its supporters.”

    Of course, Nixon never did anything like that …

    But what’s really sad is the Obama administration DIDN’T weaponize the IRS against Tea Party scumbags. I’ve been saying for years you’ve gotta fight fire with fire, and Democrats must turn Republican tactics against Republicans if they hope to survive, but alas, this was merely another missed opportunity followed by Republican mythologizing.

  23. 23

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 1:01 pm

    “Three right-wing militiamen from rural Kansas were found guilty on Wednesday in a 2016 plot to slaughter Muslim refugees living in an apartment complex in Garden City.”

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-muslim-militia-terror-plot-kansas_us_5ad78882e4b029ebe0207801

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Trump may not have created these terrorists, but he sure as hell encouraged them.

  24. 24

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 1:03 pm

    What kind of scumbag politicians would punish a city for removing symbols of racism, slavery, and lynching?

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/18/us/memphis-statues-retaliation-trnd/index.html

    Republicans, that’s who. If you vote Republican, this is what you’re voting for.

  25. 25

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 3:24 pm

    @24 Gotta get the KKK out for the midterms.

    Really keeping an eye toward the future republicans.

  26. 26

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 3:58 pm

    A new poll shows Ted Cruz’s Senate seat is in play.

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/18/politics/ted-cruz-beto-orourke-poll/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Cruz still leads his Democratic challenger, 47%-44%, but that’s within the margin of error, and if things continue downhill for the GOP, as they almost certainly will with Trump at the helm, this could become a very sweet pickup for the Democrats.

  27. 27

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 4:07 pm

    Trump’s dike springs another leak.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-playboy-model-now-free-to-speak-about-alleged-affair-with-trump/

  28. 28

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 5:03 pm

    “In the month before he shot to death six Muslim men at a Quebec City mosque last year, Alexandre Bissonnette searched online for Donald Trump 819 times. He obsessively checked Twitter accounts of alt-right figures and Fox News pundits.

    “The day after the attack, 27-year-old Bissonette told a police interrogator he committed one of Canada’s worst mass shootings in decades to stop refugees from resettling in the country. He believed they’d carry out terror attacks and kill his family.”

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bissonnette-quebec-mosque-far-right-terrorism_us_5ad4bdb9e4b077c89ceb2acd

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: There’s little room for doubt that Trump, Fox, and alt-right media helped create this monster. If you understand how this happened, then you’re well on the way to understanding how Hitler turned ordinary Germans into Auschwitz guards, and why that could happen here, too, if we’re not careful.

  29. 29

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 5:12 pm

    “A Kansas federal judge on Wednesday ruled Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) was in contempt of court for failing to follow her order to register voters who had signed up to vote at the DMV, but failed to present proof of citizenship.

    “U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson said Kobach had failed to comply with a 2016 preliminary injunction order blocking a Kansas law requiring people to provide proof of citizenship when they register to vote. …

    “Robinson’s Wednesday order was scathing …. She said that Kobach, who is running for governor of Kansas, had made disingenuous arguments to the court …. She also said Kobach had a history of ‘noncompliance’ and ‘disrespect’ for the court in the case. Kobach, who ran President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission until it was disbanded in January, was fined $1,000 for making misleading statements to the court in the case last year.”

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kris-kobach-contempt-of-court_us_5ad7b383e4b029ebe020a301

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: It’s time to stop pussyfooting around with this tinfoil tyrant. Disbar him and throw his ass in jail!

  30. 30

    WTF!? spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 5:26 pm

    Anyone know Bob’s mailing address? I’d like to send him a Hillary Clinton blow-up doll…..might give the horse a break.

  31. 31

    WTF!? spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 5:30 pm

    What’s the matter Bob? You don’t like a good war. A good war where woman and children are killed and maimed? A war would be a better distraction than your Hillary and Lois Lerner attempts of distraction.

    You have no balls – you are not a real Repuke.

  32. 32

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 5:38 pm

    29,
    The really weird/not-so-weird thing is, Kobach is a very credible attorney. Not “Mr. Safety School, Esq.” at all. Not by a long shot.

    The only explanation for his record is that he piles up these defeats as a way to build his donor base of reactionary trailerbillies, and keep them raging and reaching for their check books. I think he wants to be Jay Sekulow when he grows up.

  33. 33

    Puddybud is just visiting the mayonnaise monster lookin ASS crackers here! spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 6:22 pm

    Seems James Comey leaked seven memos to his professor friend and four were classified. Will Comey get the #CrookedHillary exoneration memo already written before he’s charged?

    Hmmm…?

    Till Next Time!

  34. 34

    Puddybud is just visiting the mayonnaise monster lookin ASS crackers here! spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 6:49 pm

    Remember that Michael Cohen trip to Prague… MIC Drop from some useless left wrong tool last week?

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/16/robert-mueller-many-news-stories-trump-russia-prob/

    Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office is warning that “many” news articles on the Trump-Russia probe have been wrong.

    The statement from a spokesperson did not single out particular stories. But the warning did come after media inquiries about a McClatchy News story on Friday that said Mr. Mueller has evidence that President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, did in fact travel to Prague in 2016 as alleged by the Christopher Steele dossier.

    PuddyCommentary: Sooooooooooo, was that the salamander or the flat beer froth? Does anyone one care?

    Who cares? No one does! They are both useless as tits on a bull’s butt! Oops horsesASS!

    Till Next Time!

  35. 35

    Newt Hoenikker spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 7:16 pm

    So nice to see Bob strolling down memory lane, living in the past, waxing poetic about Hillary, after all, it is what Republicans and conservatives do.

    When Obama was running, I’m sure Bob chimed in that Bush wasn’t running and why were the Democrats trying run against his record? New flash Bob, Hillary isn’t running.

  36. 36

    Newt Hoenikker spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 7:21 pm

    @34

    I could care less about Cohen, it wasn’t me.

    I think Bob would be in horse heaven if his horse actually had tits on its ass.

    Hey Bob, there is a new pastime for you! You can stop obsessing about Hillary and work to grow some tits on your horse’s ass with some genetic engineering. Should be simple for an accomplished doctor. I mean if they can grow an ear on the back of a mouse, shouldn’t be that big of a leap to grow some tits on your horse’s ass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacanti_mouse

  37. 37

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 7:36 pm

    @35 “So nice to see Bob strolling down memory lane, living in the past, waxing poetic about Hillary, after all, it is what Republicans and conservatives do.”

    If they went to desert island somewhere, I wouldn’t have a problem their urge to live in the past. My beef with conservatives is they want to make us live in the 18th century, too.

  38. 38

    Steve spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 8:14 pm

    Nice of the loon to drop by spewing hate to let us know that his white supremacist buddies haven’t lynched him yet.

  39. 39

    Puddybud is just visiting the mayonnaise monster lookin ASS crackers here! spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 8:17 pm

    Oh shitstain @38,

    Got anything new in the repertoire, or are you like the monomaniacal moronic moonbattic memoryless malodorous ABSOLUTELY clueless crazed cretin yellowishleakingbuttspigot absolutely creepy neurotic low IQ arschloch with the moist leaking pink lace panty gusset?

    Repeat

    repeat

    repeat!

    Till Next Time!

  40. 40

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 8:18 pm

    Trump and Abe shared a golf game today. Man, Trump has a fat ass.

    Although it’s no bigger than Hillary’s.

  41. 41

    2K spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 8:48 pm

    More lies by Hannity, Limbaugh, Trump and company
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/opinion/robert-mueller-smearing-complicit.html?WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&action=click&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&pgtype=Homepage&region=opinion-c-col-left-region

  42. 42

    Puddybud is just visiting the mayonnaise monster lookin ASS crackers here! spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 8:49 pm

    This sums up DUMMOCRETINS the world over… https://memegenerator.net/instance/66981975/disaster-girl-sometimes-you-just-want-to-watch-the-world-burn

    Till Next Time!

  43. 43

    Puddybud is just visiting the mayonnaise monster lookin ASS crackers here! spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 8:55 pm

    Now ain’t that speshul…

    http://www.rasmussenreports.co.....witch_hunt

    http://www.rasmussenreports.co.....ssia_probe

    http://www.rasmussenreports.co.....e_on_trump

  44. 44

    Steve spews:

    Wednesday, 4/18/18 at 9:34 pm

    “the monomaniacal moronic moonbattic memoryless malodorous ABSOLUTELY clueless crazed cretin yellowishleakingbuttspigot absolutely creepy neurotic low IQ arschloch with the moist leaking pink lace panty gusset”

    I sure hope the loon knows how to use text expansion so he doesn’t have to type that same lame shit over and over again. Of course, the way the loon struggles with Chrome, text expansion is probably way beyond his grasp.

  45. 45

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 12:17 am

    Funny a loon focuses on a Moonie Times reports that because one thing we suppose it can only mean that…

    Not focusing at all on what is now being revealed about Cohen

    Bosses of Russian mob worked from office in social club owned by Cohens uncle.

    Cohen’s Teenage friend was son of capo in Mogilevich crime syndicate.

    Uncle’s social club, El Caribe, was notorious mob hangout for Italian but mainly Russian mob.

    Cohen finds himself in real estate law. NYC real estate being tied to organized crime of all stripes for half a century.

    Cohen ends up confidant of DJT who’s mob associations have always been suspected going back to the early 80s.

    Cohen now finds himself embroiled in a money laundering, bribery and organized crime investigation that ties the Russian mob into oddly coincidental investments in the Trump org.

    About the only question left is does Cohen do the full 15-20 or does he take a Trump kid and maybe 45 with him for a shorter sentence?

    “But, but, but. Maybe he WASN’T in Prague. The Moonie Times speculates maybe he wasn’t. It’s all good. Trump is safe.”

  46. 46

    Puddybud is just visiting the mayonnaise monster lookin ASS crackers here! spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 4:25 am

    flat beer froth@45,

    And this has what to do with 2016 Russian election interference or as it is with Manafort, Cohen’s previous activities before 2016?

    DAYUM you be real stoooooooooooooopid!

    Breakfast calls!

    Till Next Time!

  47. 47

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 6:51 am

    “And this has what to do with 2016 Russian election interference…”

    Perhaps the fact that there are now multiple investigations (all approved and supervised by Roypublican Trump appointees) may be taken as some evidence that there are multiple unrelated criminal conspiracies.

    You don’t have to scratch Cohen’s surface very hard to find lots of sleaze oozing out. You were better off defending Carter Page.

    There’s still very little chance that Donald Trump will face any legal peril in all this. But it will probably doom his party’s political prospects for years, if not decades. His candidacy for President was premised on his decades long reputation as a sexual and business buccaneer being largely a fictional creation to sell books and television. If it turns out to be essentially true, it costs him nothing (other than four more years in a job he hates). But it might cost the Republican party everything.

    They were warned. Still they persisted.

  48. 48

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 7:03 am

    45,
    This morning Cohen dropped his defamation lawsuits arising from the Prague trip.
    Because reasons.

  49. 49

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 7:08 am

    Apparently there isn’t one single Republican in Congress who has the moral fiber to say Trump isn’t fit to be president, shouldn’t run for reelection, and shouldn’t be renominated if he does. The most you can get out of these guys is evasion and doubletalk. Voters should toss them all out this fall so they aren’t around to equivocate in 2020.

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/19/politics/congress-republicans-trump-second-term/index.html

  50. 50

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 7:12 am

    @47 “But it will probably doom his party’s political prospects for years, if not decades.”

    Oh, I don’t know about that. The Roypublican base have repeatedly demonstrated they will vote for child molesters, cultists, grifters, adulterers, white supremacists, and traitors if given the chance.

  51. 51

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 7:16 am

    @45 I don’t see a whit of concern among Republicans that their party’s leader may be a mobster. I do see a lot of concern among them that he may be prosecuted as such.

  52. 52

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 7:26 am

    @46

    Two separate investigations. Do try to keep up.

    Cohen is fucked. Deal. Russia was under sanctions. The two investigations may bleed into each other.

    But realizing a 120% ROI on a mansion byflipping it to a Russian oligarch that in the decade since the sale has appreciated just 10%, a transaction likely facilitated by Cohen, might be a felony. Might not. (Money Laudering?)

    There’s now at least two open investigations involving 45 and Russian connnections. One of them is a state level and the OTHER is Meuller.

  53. 53

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 7:28 am

    I don’t think Cohen will give up the big boss. But it is an interesting question in relation to a guy like PornFucker whose orientation to history seems to have fossilized at Studio 54 in the 70s.

    Federal racketeering convictions aren’t like they were back in those days. One of the big reasons that old, and nationally connected Italian/Jewish/Irish mobs were weakened and broken up was the changes in mandatory sentencing for related financial crimes. Once guys started facing decades in prison omerta broke down and the proliferation of cooperating witnesses meant that organizations had to be kept much smaller.

    The really stupid part of Cohen’s brain (which as we know by now is most of it) is struggling with this. His crim def team are laying out for him exactly what he faces. It’s still early days and the USAO-SDNY are still figuring out what they’ve got. So they probably aren’t talking deals yet. But Cohen’s lawyers have a duty to make sure he understands clearly what to expect.

    At 52 he’d be hitting his stride as a successful (albeit criminal) hustler. His connection to PornFucker promised to elevate him into a larger and more lucrative world of super-yacht wealth, instead of scrambling for small percentages of money laundering contracts. Now he’s looking at early release dates in the 2030s when he’ll be in his seventies. He might flip.

  54. 54

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 7:29 am

    What a libertarian paradise with lax zoning laws looks (and smells) like.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poop-train-parrish-alabama-emptied-new-york-city/

  55. 55

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 7:31 am

    49,
    But after 5000 pro-Putin hashtags, Jade Helm Dumbfuckery, and Buttery Males shrieking, Dumbfuck insists he never voted for him.

    So it’s cool, right?

  56. 56

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 7:32 am

    “The Roypublican base have repeatedly demonstrated they will vote for child molesters, cultists, grifters, adulterers, white supremacists, and traitors if given the chance.”

    I’m counting on it.

  57. 57

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 7:34 am

    Oh, yeah.

    “A longtime legal adviser to President Trump [has] warned the president that his attorney Michael Cohen would turn against him and end up cooperating with federal prosecutors should he face criminal charges stemming from a raid of documents found in his home, office and hotel room ….

    “He … cautioned Mr. Trump against trusting Cohen. [He] … told Mr. Trump that on a scale of 1 to 100, where 100 is entirely protecting the president, Cohen ‘isn’t even a one.’

    “‘Michael will never stand up [for you]’ if charged by the government,’ … he cautioned the president. [He] advised the president that the sheer volume of correspondence seized and the possible pressure applied by the federal government was enough to crack Cohen, potentially putting the president at further legal risk.”

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-legal-adviser-warns-michael-cohen-would-flip-on-him/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Sounds like it doesn’t actually take a whole lot of pressure to crack this eggshell.

  58. 58

    WTF!? spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 8:12 am

    Hey Bob, tell this old fart that its just a statue of a vagina and tits. and nothing to worry about. It’s not like there is a statue of Drumpf on every corner, yet.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/newt-callista-gingrich-nude-statue-national-mall_us_5ad79488e4b0e4d0715cc854

  59. 59

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 8:53 am

    “Well, I’m sure the president did nothing wrong, so he has nothing to worry about. And so he should just allow these investigations to run their course.”

    Said by no Republican anywhere, ever. Not even the ones who “never voted for him ; )”

  60. 60

    WTF!? spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 9:05 am

    Montville, CT is part of Windham County, a County that Drumpfy won by 7 points.

    Not surprising. Lock these fuckers up and throw away the key.

    http://www.courant.com/breakin.....story.html

  61. 61

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 9:15 am

    David Hogg has a book deal.

    Expect well reasoned Tweets from the GOP because the only thing a Republican hates more than public school kids is books.

  62. 62

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 9:23 am

    Because they’re immature and frankly, dicks.

    IA Senate has failed to move on a resolution honoring Pulitzer Prize winner Art Cullen of small town Storm Lake Times.

    Sen. Mark Segebart, R-Vail, who represents the Storm Lake area, declined to specifically comment on why the resolution hasn’t advanced. But he chuckled when asked if a lack of Republican enthusiasm for Cullen had anything to do with the editor of the family-owned newspaper being critical of groups such as the Iowa Farm Bureau.

    “Pretty much. He is critical of anything that Republicans do, starting with Donald Trump and (U.S. Rep.) Steve King. So, yes, he is not one of our favorite newspapermen,”

  63. 63

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 10:24 am

    @62 There’s a big fat Pulitzer awaiting the reporter who exposes the GOP as the organized crime syndicate it has become.

  64. 64

    Steve spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 10:45 am

    @55 “So it’s cool, right?”

    It’s only 4,000 hashtags, but Doctor Dumbfuck reneged on our deal and started posting them again yesterday, so if he keeps it up, 5,000 is definitely within sight.

  65. 65

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 10:49 am

    @64 Where’s Dumbfuck this morning? Out in the barn?

  66. 66

    Steve spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 11:10 am

    @65 Doctor Dumbfuck will be back. The tighter the noose gets, the uglier things are getting, including right here at HA. It’ll get one hell of a lot worse before it gets any better.

    I can see Trump resigning soon if he can make a deal with Pence for a pardon. It’s probably the only way he can save himself.

    “There are four very clear paths to the end of the Trump presidency”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/four-clear-paths-end-trump-presidency/

  67. 67

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 12:56 pm

    Get ready for Space Force!

  68. 68

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 12:59 pm

    Pruitt soaked taxpayers for NetJets, coke weekends in Paris, and trips to Disneyland and the Rose Bowl.

    But the PornHub Party wants to press criminal charges against a fired FBI agent because why not?

  69. 69

    Steve spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 1:24 pm

    Republicans. Sigh! When they’re not committing treason against America, they’re fucking America’s children, goats, mules and horses.

    “Aide to Missouri Republican lawmaker arrested at his office on charges of soliciting a 14-year-old”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/aide-missouri-republican-congressman-arrested-office-charges-soliciting-14-year-old/

  70. 70

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 1:44 pm

    69,
    Another +1 for McCaskill. The trailerbillies sure picked a great time to get their freak on in MO.
    #owngoal

  71. 71

    @godwinha spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 1:55 pm

    @ 69

    You would think Steve could refrain, in the knowledge that pretty much the same thing has happened in our own state to our own US Senator. Nope.

    McHaney was fired from his job as Cantwell’s scheduler hours after the arrest. In a charging document, the FBI said McHaney, known as “Mike,” allegedly tried to set up a meeting with an undercover witness posing as someone who could give him access to sex with a 13-year-old boy.

    http://thehill.com/homenews/ne.....it-a-minor

  72. 72

    @godwinha spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 1:57 pm

    As Hillary Clinton would describe it, it’s merely a ‘security review’.

    Rosenstein Told Trump He’s Not a Target in Mueller Probe, Sources Say

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-19/rosenstein-said-to-tell-trump-he-s-not-target-in-mueller-probe

  73. 73

    Steve spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 2:14 pm

    @71 Refrain? No, Doctor. You may wish it were so, but there is no equivalency here whatsoever. Not when there are literally hundreds of Republican pedophiles having been busted in recent years and you can come up with only one or two Democrats.

    Pedophiles are to the GOP as stink is to shit.

  74. 74

    @godwinha spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 2:18 pm

    @ 66

    “There are four very clear paths to the end of the Trump presidency”

    You left out four.

    1. Trump elects not to run for re-election and serves out his term.
    2. Trump is defeated in the 2020 primary.
    3. Trump is defeated in the 2020 general.
    4. Trump serves two terms.

    The road to the future is not always so clear-cut, Steve.

    …long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth…

    That undergrowth can be really dense, Steve. Like you, increasingly.

  75. 75

    Steve spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 2:26 pm

    @74 You’re too dense for words these days, Doctor.

  76. 76

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 2:27 pm

    @67 “‘I look forward to working with the outstanding team at NASA to achieve the president’s vision for American leadership in space,’ Bridenstine said in a NASA release after the vote.”

    What would that vision be? Sticking out his thumb (and some leg, too) and hitching a ride on a Russian rocket?

  77. 77

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 2:30 pm

    @75 Dumbfuck and Trump have something in common: Both think a 35% approval rating is a landslide. In a way, they’re right.

  78. 78

    @godwinha spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 2:33 pm

    @ 76

    Hey, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, remember Obama’s vision for American leadership in space?

    Charles Bolden, a retired United States Marines Corps major-general and former astronaut, said in an interview with al-Jazeera that Nasa was not only a space exploration agency but also an “Earth improvement agency”.

    Mr Bolden said: “When I became the Nasa administrator, he [Mr Obama] charged me with three things.

    “One, he wanted me to help reinspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/7875584/Barack-Obama-Nasa-must-try-to-make-Muslims-feel-good.html

    I guess it would have been a good thing – to Barack, anyway – if we had blown up some teacher named Abdul rather than Krista McAuliffe.

  79. 79

    @godwinha spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 2:39 pm

    @ 77

    …have something in common: Both think a 35% approval rating is a landslidenearly 10 points higher than Hillary Clinton’s approval rating.

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/04/17/nbcwsj-poll-guess-whos-unusually-unpopular-and-faring-significantly-worse-than-trump-n2471802

    ftfy

  80. 80

    @godwinha spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 2:44 pm

    Would the term be irony? The FBI dude who sat on the existence of Hillary’s emails on pedophile Weiner’s laptop so she’d be elected ends up subject to indictment by his colleagues ’cause she wasn’t?

    DOJ watchdog sends criminal referral for McCabe to federal prosecutor

    http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....cutor.html

    Maybe not irony, exactly. But definitely a good day.

    Elections really do have consequences. Just ask Andrew McCabe.

  81. 81

    @godwinha spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 2:50 pm

    No, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. You don’t transplant it into your urinary bladder. That’s why they gave you two different catheter sizes.

    A Simple Poop Transplant Could Fix a Debilitating Brain Disease, Study Shows

    https://www.sciencealert.com/poop-transplant-could-fix-brain-diseases

  82. 82

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 3:17 pm

    Dumbfuck is in high spirits feeling his “conservatard” oats today.

    It’s the anniversary of the greatest “ultra-conservative” patriotic freedumb fighter’s heroic attack on jack-booted gubmit thugs.
    #youbuiltthat

  83. 83

    YLB spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 3:48 pm

    Hey, how’s that fucking wall going? I heard a billion or so was being spent to replace some fence with a higher “see-through” fence.

    Is Ann Coulter for Drumpf being primaried?

    Wait for it!!!! Neil Gorsuch!

  84. 84

    Steve spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 3:50 pm

    Huh! It turns out that Sen. Grassley (R) is a part of the libtard fake news media.

    “David Bossie Attacks Sen. Grassley As Part Of ‘Left Wing Media’ For Protecting Mueller”

    https://crooksandliars.com/2018/04/david-bossie-attacks-sen-grassley-part

    Looks like Republicans are well on their way towards redefining treason to mean opposing the GOP.

  85. 85

    YLB spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 4:01 pm

    The HA troll “taint team”..

    On one end is a babbling butthole that long ago joined shortbus and JCH as scroll-past material and

    on the other end

    a mouldering, bald, limp misogynist who is doomed to come back as a heheheheh in its next miserable life.

    The HA troll “taint team”. Hmmm. Possible.

  86. 86

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 4:12 pm

    Cohen, Davidson, and Pecker (could the name be any more ironic?) have released the other PornFucker lady from her NDA. Folding tent by cheap-assed tent.

    McDougal’s lawyer had ’em pretty well foxed, moving for pre-trial discovery when he did. Once Pecker and Cohen realized that a shit-ton of emails between the co-conspirators EEEN-DEEE-PEN-DUNT attorneys would see the light of day they couldn’t sign the settlement fast enough.

  87. 87

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 4:16 pm

    83,
    higher fence = taller ladders.
    It’s a win-win.

  88. 88

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 4:18 pm

    84,
    They already did that about 24 hrs after the 9/11 attacks.

  89. 89

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 4:31 pm

    @78 Wherein Doctor Dumbfuck is against inspiring children and in favor of blowing up Muslims.

    We need a Republican Party to put people like him in, otherwise they would be Democrats.

  90. 90

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 4:34 pm

    More examples of why soundly managed municipalities are not willing to risk their liability coverage for the sake of chest beating racism and stupidity:
    https://twitter.com/SenGillibrand/status/986722900173520896
    Private property invaded without warrant or valid exception, a legal resident attacked, kidnapped, and imprisoned without charge or warrant. His employer, when he attempted to photograph the officers as they performed the kidnapping on his private property without his permission attacked him, took away his phone, and placed him in handcuffs.

    If state or local law enforcement authorities had assisted in this debacle, their taxpayers would be first in line to pay the claims.

    Between 2008 and 2012 (the most recent years for which comprehensive records can be obtained) ICE arrested, imprisoned, and attempted to deport 834 US citizens and thousands of legal residents. Many spent months imprisoned without representation, without hearing, and without access to family, friends, employers, and any form of outside assistance. It’s renditioning. Here at home in our communities.
    Wanna guess what color their skin was?

  91. 91

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 4:37 pm

    @79 How many rightwing ponds did you have to fish in to catch that one-quarter? Even Fox gives her 36%. Go ahead, run against Hillary in 2018, see if we care. We’ll be busy taking House and Senate seats off your hands.

  92. 92

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 4:43 pm

    @81 I didn’t know shit-for-brains transplants were possible. I assumed you were born that way. So it wasn’t your mother’s fault?

  93. 93

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 4:47 pm

    Giuliani has joined Trump’s legal team. He’s perfect for the job. He doesn’t have to worry about tarnishing his reputation, because he has no reputation to tarnish.

  94. 94

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 5:01 pm

    As if we needed more evidence of how sick and twisted rightwing trolls are …

    “A fake Starbucks coupon offering free coffee to ‘people of color only’ to say ‘we’re sorry’ is the latest salvo in an ongoing meme warfare campaign that exploits trending news topics to spread messages of hate and divisiveness ….”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trolls-spread-hateful-fake-starbucks-coupon-n867501

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: I would think Starbucks’ lawyers could go after them for trademark violations. Maybe federal prosecutors could, too:

    https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-1715-trademark-counterfeiting-requirements-counterfeit-mark

  95. 95

    WTF!? spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 7:17 pm

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udo-0Bfqo2o

    Yosemite Sam seems to have lost his horse.

  96. 96

    WTF!? spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 7:26 pm

    in one of the scenes Yosemite Sam is decked out in the rainbow colors…..boy that hollywood.

  97. 97

    @godwinha spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 7:30 pm

    So, the Comey memos are out.

    https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4442900-Ex-FBI-Director-James-Comey-s-memos.html

    Remember Comey saying how uncomfortable he was when Trump cleared the room and it was just the two of them together?

    Turns out meeting either alone or in a ‘very small group’ was Clapper’s idea, not Trump’s. Trump chose the former of the two options Comey gave him, but Trump didn’t initiate the idea.

  98. 98

    WTF!? spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 7:33 pm

    http://www.courant.com/busines.....story.html

    More business moving into CT….oh my, them damn taxes are too high.

  99. 99

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 8:15 pm

    97,
    Gadzooks!
    That’s it boys. He’s done it. Cleared the ManBaby of all possible wrong doing.
    President PornHub is untouchable now.
    Yup.

  100. 100

    @godwinha spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 8:26 pm

    @ 99

    It was on page 1.

    Several months ago it was big news that Comey was left alone with Trump.

    Comey asked Sessions Not to Leave Him Alone with Trump

    https://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/comey-asked-sessions-not-to-leave-him-alone-with-trump-961797699686

    Now we find out the idea for a one-on-one discussion was one of two options that originated with Clapper.

    Still, you got nothin’.

  101. 101

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 8:51 pm

    Nunes’ staff must have melted the mimeograph machine.
    #discovery #FREECARTERPAGE!

  102. 102

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 8:57 pm

    Nuthin’… BURGER!
    Yup.

  103. 103

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 9:20 pm

    Kushner Family Company received subpoenas today related to filing false paperwork.

    This family is the gift that keeps on giving. TMZ will be staking out to get exclusive photos of Ivanka’s conjugal visit attire.

  104. 104

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 10:10 pm

    103,
    “Nuthin'” to worry about.
    Dumbfuck is on it. He’ll have it all cleared up in time to save his majority. Just look at all the progress he’s made.
    Three grand juries, a dozen guilty pleas, three different offices of the DOJ, hundreds of FBI agents, and a decade’s worth of money laundering through inflated real estate scams and he’s already cleared up a year old rumor about a meeting.
    #winning

  105. 105

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/19/18 at 10:49 pm

    @95 Check Doctor Dumbfuck’s barn.

  106. 106

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 4/20/18 at 6:58 am

    Tax dollars working hard to provide vainglory to a GOP politician.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chris-christie-official-portrait-cost_us_5ad9a14ce4b03c426dad1a6a

  107. 107

    @godwinha spews:

    Friday, 4/20/18 at 7:45 am

    Hey, someone’s got a new book out. You’ll never guess what it’s about.

    DRUDGE REPORT
    @DRUDGE_REPORT
    HILLARY: ‘They Were Never Going to Let Me Be President’… https://thebea.st/2K27KxN

    4:49 AM – Apr 20, 2018

    Well, if she meant the voters of PA, MI, and WI, she’s pretty much spot-on.

  108. 108

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 4/20/18 at 8:05 am

    “Hey, someone’s got a new book out.”

    Unless they don’t. In which case Matty will just take the page down like it never happened. Still, it will have done it’s work.

  109. 109

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 4/20/18 at 8:25 am

    I stated it plainly several times that once the IG report was published if it revealed wrongdoing by McCabe he had to be punished.

    He lied about authorizing the release of information about the FBI reopening of the investigation into Clinton’s emails. It’s pretty clear he didn’t have the kind of authorization to release that to the media that the manual calls for. And probably more important he lied about it under oath after the fact.

    He lost his job, some of his benefits, and he might face criminal indictment for it.

    Meanwhile, ChildMolesters in Congress needed less than 24 hrs to leak the DOJ memos. And Nunes will give his staff a PeeHooker weekend in Paris as a reward.

  110. 110

    @godwinha spews:

    Friday, 4/20/18 at 9:00 am

    @ 109

    Washington Monthly (linked to by Mother Jones) is reporting that the release of the memos to Congress and to the AP occurred simultaneously.

    https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/04/20/the-big-takeaway-from-the-release-of-the-comey-memos/

    Which would indicate that the DOJ handed them off to AP.

  111. 111

    @godwinha spews:

    Friday, 4/20/18 at 10:16 am

    McCabe to sue Trump admin for defamation, wrongful termination

    http://thehill.com/homenews/ad.....ermination

    Representing the defense will be

    http://horsesass.org/open-thre.....nt-1362095

    Elijah Klamath McHillbilly.

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