Warszawa wrote:I am still hearing republicans that are sticking to the story that the Comey firing was initiated by rosenstein

of course they are, the reports that he directed Rosenstein are from "sources"- FAKE NEWS!!

drsmooth wrote:

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:since Sessions recused himself Rothenstein can appoint special counsel
so if he really were that bipartisan he would be doing that

Ask Richmond, Rosenstein's no doubt a straight shooter, not political at all, he'd never think about stuff like that, at his level, and so forth, uh huh

Unless major Senate Rs call for it, it's not happening. But as stuff slides south, Lindsey Graham may decide it's his time to be an American hero

versus this...

“It was all him,” Spicer said of Rosenstein, as a reporter repeated his answer back to him. “That's correct — I mean, I can't, I guess I shouldn't say that, thank you for the help on that one. No one from the White House. That was a DOJ decision.”

Again, I think Rosenstein got played.

The big orange dummy, his sycophants, and his inside the WH handlers did not think that letting a Russian camera into the WH, taking a few friendly snaps of things like big old happy handshakes would not be published. Amateur hour should be well past over by now. What incompetent morons.

thephan wrote:Again, I think Rosenstein got played.

if he did, after close to at least 2 years of full-on exposure to drumpf's modus operandi (though there's decades of other evidence for him), he's about 1/1,000th as smart as everyone gives him credit for

Erdogan is coming to the White House next Tuesday

this is what he said about us arming the YPG:

Erdogan, speaking at a joint press conference with the president of Sierra Leone, said that "fight against terrorism should not be lead with another terror organization."

"We want to know that our allies will side with us, and not with terror organizations," Erdogan added.

they're not terrorists, they're Kurds (and not all of them are) but he doesn't make much of a distinction between the two groups, anyway.

https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/862668738147102720

voter suppression is about to begin at the resolute desk. lovely.

i mean, i guess theres a chance that the commission actually does its job and shows that voter fraud is not a problem and voter suppression is. but lol at that.

pacino wrote:Erdogan is coming to the White House next Tuesday

this is what he said about us arming the YPG:

Erdogan, speaking at a joint press conference with the president of Sierra Leone, said that "fight against terrorism should not be lead with another terror organization."

"We want to know that our allies will side with us, and not with terror organizations," Erdogan added.

they're not terrorists, they're Kurds (and not all of them are) but he doesn't make much of a distinction between the two groups, anyway.

Well, if its your country, you get to name the terrorists.

CalvinBall wrote:Amazing.

But beyond that it’s OK if the tax plan increases the deficit?
It is OK, because it won’t increase it for long. You may have two years where you’ll…you understand the expression “prime the pump”?

Yes.
We have to prime the pump.

It’s very Keynesian.
We’re the highest-taxed nation in the world. Have you heard that expression before, for this particular type of an event?

Priming the pump?
Yeah, have you heard it?

Yes.
Have you heard that expression used before? Because I haven’t heard it. I mean, I just…I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good. It’s what you have to do.

It’s…
Yeah, what you have to do is you have to put something in before you can get something out.

My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.

I saw a long but interesting twitter storm thread yesterday making the point that Trump has no inner mind. He's almost entirely stimulus and response-- a child-like narcissist that says whatever he has to in any given moment that will gain him one of two things: power/domination or adulation

totally terrifying

It took until the first question to McCabe to have Exec-privileged turn up. It is the right answer, but unfortunate.

disappointing body camera billgoing through PA:

HARRISBURG — Legislation approved by the Pennsylvania state Senate on Wednesday seeks to clear legal hurdles for police departments to expand their officers' use of body cameras, and it gives departments the discretion to refuse public requests for copies of audio or video recordings by officers.

The bill, which passed 47-1 after brief comments on the Senate floor, would add Pennsylvania to a growing list of states that are setting statewide policy over the collection of audio and video by officers, including body cameras and dashboard cameras.
Perhaps the most controversial aspect is the bill's treatment of public access.

It exempts recordings from requests under Pennsylvania's open-records law, although a court could still order the release of a police recording. The bill also sets limits on requests. In particular, it provides a window of just 20 days after the incident in which to submit a request for a copy of an officer's audio or video recording.

It is supported by the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association and the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association. But it is opposed by the American Civil Liberties Union, which said the bill would make it nearly impossible for the public to obtain video.
The use of body cameras is limited in Pennsylvania, with law enforcement organizations unable to name more than a few departments that use them. The state police do not use body cameras, while departments in Pennsylvania's two largest cities, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, use body cameras on a limited basis.

It clarifies that officers can gather body camera footage inside a private residence while on duty, an effort to address concerns about violating the state's surveillance law, and it makes clear that uniformed officers can legally record any conversation while using a state police-approved device in public.
The bill does not address when a police camera must be turned on and how long data must be stored before it is erased, although it tasks the Pennsylvania State Police with writing guidelines for the storage of the recordings.

Wolf's office and the PA State Police actually pushed to shrink the window from 60 days to 20. This is a body camera bill designed to shield the police, not to keep them and the public all accountable. very disappointing turn of events.

Woody wrote:I saw a long but interesting twitter storm thread yesterday making the point that Trump has no inner mind. He's almost entirely stimulus and response-- a child-like narcissist that says whatever he has to in any given moment that will gain him one of two things: power/domination or adulation

totally terrifying

I think he is certainly a narcissist and probably has no real values from which to base policy, but another observation is that he's never stopped campaigning since he's hit office. I mean holding these redneck rallies and doing campaign ads within 100 days of inaug seems nuts. You also see the same unhinged tweets, all the references to Obama, electoral votes, etc. My speculation is he doesn't necessarily believe all the shit he says but that he has no fucking clue what to do (or where to even start in terms of governing) so hes sticking with the same campaign behavior by default, a behavior for which he was greatly rewarded since the start of the repub debates bc he's a con man with one huge score who now literally has nothing else in the playbook

Ok, so McGabe will be fired tonight. Said that Comey is well respected, highly held, and personally liked by a majority of the agents in the bureau. Outright disagreed that agents lost confidence in Comey.

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:

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joe table wrote:

Woody wrote:I saw a long but interesting twitter storm thread yesterday making the point that Trump has no inner mind. He's almost entirely stimulus and response-- a child-like narcissist that says whatever he has to in any given moment that will gain him one of two things: power/domination or adulation

totally terrifying

I think he is certainly a narcissist and probably has no real values from which to base policy, but another observation is that he's never stopped campaigning since he's hit office. I mean holding these redneck rallies and doing campaign ads within 100 days of inaug seems nuts. You also see the same unhinged tweets, all the references to Obama, electoral votes, etc. My speculation is he doesn't necessarily believe all the #$!&@ he says but that he has no #$!&@ clue what to do (or where to even start in terms of governing) so hes sticking with the same campaign behavior by default, a behavior for which he was greatly rewarded since the start of the repub debates bc he's a con man with one huge score who now literally has nothing else in the playbook

At the bottom of this barrel there are really 2 types of tweets:

1) Look @ me

2) Marketing

Our Narcissist in Chief is the exemplar of #1

Omaha mayor Jean Stohert defeated challenger Heath Mello 53-46

interesting breakdown; annexations of former suburbs won the day

» It appears that overall turnout will be about 35 percent by the time provisional ballots and the final mail-in ballots received on Election Day are counted. That would be slightly ahead of the turnout from the 2013 mayoral election, which was just under 33 percent.

people don't understand how important local elections are. the council remains 4 democrats and 3 republicans

i bet warren lives on the right side

McCabe just making 'em squirm a bit more

pacino wrote:Omaha mayor Jean Stohert defeated challenger Heath Mello 53-46

interesting breakdown; annexations of former suburbs won the day

» It appears that overall turnout will be about 35 percent by the time provisional ballots and the final mail-in ballots received on Election Day are counted. That would be slightly ahead of the turnout from the 2013 mayoral election, which was just under 33 percent.

people don't understand how important local elections are. the council remains 4 democrats and 3 republicans

So the Right is the Left, and the Left is the Right? I feel a late night philosophy discussion coming on.