As Much As I Hate Seeing A Nazi Win Something...

The Republicans in Illinois-3 managed to draw some ghastly headlines which will be fodder for late night comedians and Paul Krugman. The NY Times manages a bit of fairness and balance:

Denounced by His Party as a Nazi, Arthur Jones Wins Illinois G.O.P. Congressional Primary

Say what?

Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denier described as a Nazi by the Illinois Republican Party, won the Republican primary on Tuesday in the state’s Third Congressional District, a heavily Democratic district that includes part of Chicago and its suburbs, according to The Associated Press.

Mr. Jones, 70, unsuccessfully sought the nomination five times before, and his victory on Tuesday was a foregone conclusion after the Republican Party failed to draft another candidate to enter the race against him.

The Times coverage is decent but overlooks a lot. The short version is this: the incumbent, Dan Lipinski, is a pro-life anti-ObamaCare Blue Dog Democrat who was locked in a near-death struggle with a progressive challenger. The Nazi, Jones, had been kept off the ballot in cycles past by the invocation of technicalities. So the plan was to DQ Jones and let Republican crossover voters in the primary keep Lipinski alive. Since Lipinski won, barely, that part of the plan succeeded.

In 2016, for example, the Republican Party also failed to run a conventional candidate. Jones was the only one to submit signatures but the party managed to disqualify him to keep him off the primary ballot. They had the same plan for 2018 but Jones outmaneuvered them with a last-minute filing:

How did this happen? Jones, a perennial candidate, snookered the GOP.

Nobody else ran as a Republican in the primary because politics is a results-oriented business and the chance of a Republican winning are slim. The boundaries were drawn by Democrats to elect a Democrat. Rep. Dan Lipinski, the incumbent, will face Marie Newman in the Democratic primary, and one of those two will win on Nov. 6. There are other Democratic strongholds in the Chicago area featuring a lone Republican. It can be a Maytag repairman-like assignment.

...

Jones, who campaigned for the same seat in the 2016 primary, was removed from the ballot that year after the Illinois Republican Party found paperwork errors and filed a successful objection to his candidacy with the state Board of Elections. The GOP tried to do the same this election cycle, but Jones had cleaned up his paperwork. He also appears to have kept a low profile, collecting signatures to meet eligibility requirements by going door-to-door and then waiting until the Dec. 4, 2017, deadline to file. If only others had noticed.

And beyond that, Republicans were backing Blue Dog Democrat Dan Lipinski against a progressive opponent.

If [challenger] Newman decides to run in 2020, she’d be the favorite in the race. This cycle, an actual neo-Nazi ran unopposed in the GOP primary in the 3rd District. Because the state has an open-primary system, Republican voters in the district could have chosen to vote in the Democratic primary and back Lipinski. (The irony of a Bernie Sanders-backed candidate losing thanks to crossover votes in an open primary was not lost on Twitter.)

Sophia Olazaba, a field manager for the Newman campaign, said she doesn’t doubt that some Republican voters crossed over. “Even when we were canvassing, a lot of homes have had both Jeanne Ives and Dan Lipinski signs, so those people could have crossed over,” she said, referring to the GOP gubernatorial candidate whose entire campaign was premised on her opposition to legal abortion.

Another volunteer, Sabrina Ithal, also from the 3rd district, mentioned that the open primary format could have actually worked in their favor: “I converted quite a few Republicans who voted Democrat for the first time in 30-40 years today.”

The Susan B. Anthony List, a group that opposes legal abortion, made re-electing Lipinski a major priority, dumping big money into the race and working the ground to get out the anti-abortion vote on his behalf.

So the Republicans had a strategy - leave their primary line open, disqualify Jones if he showed up (a timeless Illinois ploy familiar to Obama fans and foes) and hope their voters kept Lipinski afloat. And it could have worked, just as Virginia could have advanced in the NCAA tournament.

But Jones stayed under the radar while gathering signatures, didn't flaunt his views, and filed on the last day. Ooops! From The Atlantic:

And just as the Illinois Republicans failed to find a challenger for Jones, another safeguard of the political system seems to have broken down, as well: The state’s ballot-access guidelines, which Mooney told me are intended to “limit the fringe element from cluttering up the ballot,” required Jones to get the signatures of 603 registered voters. I spoke with multiple people who signed Jones’s petition, and they were shocked to learn they had supported the candidacy of a former Nazi. “I probably just signed it because he asked me to,” said 63-year-old Linda Florczak-Wieser of LaGrange when I called her on Wednesday. Another voter from nearby Worth said she didn’t even recall signing the petition in the first place. And when I asked 93-year-old Alice Brunell how she felt about Jones’s views, the Bridgeview resident replied incredulously, “I didn’t know that!”

The peril and promise of these ballot access rules is that ordinary registered voters are empowered - the party bosses cannot unilaterally dismiss reform minded, "rage against the machine" candidates like in the good old days. On the other hand, sometimes shit happens.

It's easy to be an ex-post genius, but suppose the Republicans had run their own candidate but, because their energy and money was with Lipinski, the Nazi won anyway? Really bad.

Or suppose the Republicans opposed the Nazi, put some effort into it, and managed to see both Lipinski and the Nazi lose. Will that be helpful this November? 

The local Republicans had a plan that could have worked perfectly but didn't. That doesn't mean the alternative plans didn't also have paths to poor results.

Apparently Republicans will muster a write-in sacrificial lamb for the November vote. And Krugman, Oliver and the other progressive entertainers will have their fun.

MORE: Dan McLaughlin of NRO has lots more.

Comments

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Well, a few Reps nominate a Nazi who can't possibly win, while the Dems elect a Marxist president twice who appoints an actual communist to run the CIA.

[henry]

That is funny. As if Illinois has "parties." The have the machine, red and blue camoflage as needed. Either a left wing whacko or a NAZI would be a change. The rest is a shrug.

[Extraneus]

Gohmert: Sanctuary Cities Are Essentially ‘Succeeding From The Union’

[henry]

OK, the headline writer is illiterate, not Gohmert.

[Extraneus]

They changed it already.

[Sue]

Succeeding? Thankfully, ole Louie said seceding. ::whew:: East Texas doesn't need any help in the looking bad to the rest of the world department.

[Extraneus]

It also said "succeeding" in the piece when I posted it. Changed that, too.

[daddy on iPad]

Good morning! Miss Marple has privided some lousy winter weather for me today but i need to remember the speech Bill Murray made in Groundhog Day on the day he finally done good..." basking in the hearths and hearts of Punksitawny as Checkov said something or other..."I couldnt think of a finer day to head to Shapiro's for pickles and pleasant political chat.

Just pounded a double espresso and a small esprresso frapucino sans whipped cream, and I'm off past the Slippery Noodle, Indiana's oldest still operating bar where Miss M's granddad undoubtedly used to hang out, and Shapiro's looms only 15 minutes away. Did I say Good Morning!

[jimmyk]

On iggy’s link on the last thread to the piece on Pinker: I’ll give Pinker credit for at least being pro-capitalist, anti-climate change hysteria, unlike many “public intellectuals.” At times he even sounds like the great Julian Simon. I’m guessing Simon, being an Orthodox Jew, had a better grasp on the bigger picture than Pinker, though.

[Threadkiller]

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[Sue]

They must be having a hard time linking the bomber to Trump. I can hardly find anything new on him searching the nets.

[Miss Marple]

And I am seated at a table at Shapiro's watching for daddy! I dropped my son off at work and then stopped at Kroger for a few nevessities like DOG TREATS! Roads are wet but only slick in turn lanes.

[Janet 🚬 - I wish my family had a poncho]

Dan Lipinski is the one Dem that shows up at the March for Life.

[Extraneus]

Biden says he would have ‘beat the hell’ out of Trump back in high school

Former Vice President Joe Biden ​didn’t pull any punches when he told an anti-sexual assault rally that he would have “beat the hell out” of Donald Trump for the way he disrespects women, according to a report.

“A guy who ended up becoming our national leader said, ‘I can grab a woman anywhere and she likes it,'” Biden told students at the University of Miami on Tuesday, ABC News reported. “They asked me if I’d like to debate this gentleman, and I said ‘no.’ I said, ‘If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.'”

“I’ve been in a lot of locker rooms my whole life,” Biden continued. “I’m a pretty damn good athlete. Any guy that talked that way was usually the fattest, ugliest S.O.B. in the room.”

[Sue]

usually the fattest, ugliest S.O.B. in the room

Or the richest.

[Extraneus]

So many tough guys on the left.

[rse]

Says the groper former vp.

Finally got a new post up after last week's unexpected medical crisis. Brother came home yesterday.

http://invisibleserfscollar.com/lucrative-deceit-managing-consciousness-by-conjoining-social-media-charter-schools/

The social media reference is to zuckerburg and his wife funding the charter I am quoting the materials from.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

As I said previously, Tough Guy Joe probably would have let Trump grab his pussy.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

jimmy,
Pinker is indeed much more right than the rest of the left. Problem is he doesn't seem to know why.

[Captain Hate]

What is a creep like Biden doing at an anti sexual assault rally?

[Tom R]

Surprise surprise all the leftwing JournoList organizations are reporting that Trump and Kelly are "furious" that someone inside Trump's inner circle decided to tell the WAPO the details of Trump's congratulations call with Putin.

No doubt every brainwashed and indoctrinated leftwinger will believe that to be 100% true because the WAPO says so.

Funny how no one inside Trump's inner circle ever leaks to Fox News or the WSJ.

[jimmyk]

According to this, Conditt was a registered Democrat and Scientologist. Not that it should matter, but lest the MSM try to make him out to be one of the "alt-right."

https://twitter.com/tatobin2/status/976482139498827776

[henry]

What is a creep like Biden doing at an anti sexual assault rally?

target rich environment?

[Captain Hate]

"I'm a pretty damn good athlete"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KOHac5izlxk

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

Jimmy that twit doesn't work.

Or if it does, twatter has already removed it.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Let's talk about Joe's crony capitalist morally reprehensible offspring for a moment.

[jimmyk]

Hmm, try this one:

https://twitter.com/tatobin2/status/976485937877278720

Someone is trying to play Stalinist games with history.

[middyfeek]

"usually the fattest, ugliest SOB in the room". Okay Joey, but was he bald and stupid like you?

[Extraneus]

"So I drank some Schnapps and went to a hockey game."

Heh. Never heard of him, Captain.

[Buckeye]

Praying some gal that went to high school with Biden "comes out" with her #metoo story.

Not that the media would cover it.

[Captain Hate]

You mean Ashley Biden's insatiable appetite for blow, both kinds, matt?

[Stephanie, Nene, Not your Normal Grandma]

Thanks, Jimmy!

[Dave (in MA)]

https://www.mylife.com/mark-conditt/e71263682164812

still says Democrat and Scientologist.

[Janet 🚬 - I wish my family had a poncho]

Some old quotes I ran across...

"...you have to be right wing to have the curiosity of a Woodward/Bernstein these days..." ~ Appalled

"--If only we had a man like Bibi--
or a man like a man, even." ~ Dave

"We're on the "peace through weakness" train, trying to see where the tracks end." ~ Cecil Turner

From a commenter over at Insty:
BurkeanMama ~ "Those who demand an honest conversation about race insist that no conservation about race be honest."

[Sue]

Dave,

It says republican and Christian on the link you provided.

[rse]

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269649/whos-really-behind-march-our-lives-daniel-greenfield is full of interesting, not surprising information.

[Ralph L]

It occurs to me that one reason the gun grabbers overreacted to Parkland and not LV is that the shooter survived, so the media attention will last longer. The Md shooter story will be dead and buried before the body is, not just for political reasons.

[Ralph L]

Pflugersville resident. That could send anyone over the edge.

[Extraneus]

Judge Tosses Carter Page’s Defamation Lawsuit Against Yahoo’s Parent Company

Page, who was representing himself in the lawsuit, indicated that he plans to file another lawsuit.

“Similar to the slick maneuvers by [James] Comey & [Andrew] McCabe in the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] over recent years, clever lawyers for powerful entities often manage to briefly pull the wool over the eyes of busy District Court Judges,” Page said in a statement. “My future updated Complaint will shine an honest light and help restore justice.”

[narcisocenfl]

Green party (and Christian) so he keeps it weird, I don't know where mylife gets half their info.

[sbwaters]

.@TeamCavuto, @Mr.KRudd advises @potus to use world institutions to deal w/ #China’s unfair trade, mistakenly assuming historically crony collective international eco governance would be better than cooperative solutions negotiated 1-on-1. #Globalist central control? I think not.

[jimmyk]

I'm guessing the whole thing may be fake. Someone is obviously editing it in real time.

[Janet 🚬 - I wish my family had a poncho]

from Extraneus's 12:23 - "The March for Our Lives Fund is incorporated as a 501(c)(4). "

No IRS trouble for them. They weren't held in limbo for YEARS.

[Janet 🚬 - I wish my family had a poncho]

No that was from rse's link at 12:21 - https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269649/whos-really-behind-march-our-lives-daniel-greenfield is full of interesting, not surprising information.

[henry]

Kayla Tausche @kaylatausche
27m

NEW: White House expected to unveil IP tariffs tomorrow; @realDonaldTrump will be briefed again in two weeks to consider second phase of penalties including visa, investment restrictions. Sources say POTUS worried about severe impact on US universities.

[Marlene]

A graduate of Weiner High School?

[clarice]

The My Space thing IS and jimmy observed being edited--when I saw it it said he was Mormon.

[narcisocenfl]

I thought it was some kind of data mining operation I never set up a my life page.

[jimmyk]

Sources say POTUS worried about severe impact on US universities.

A bug or a feature? (My own personal stake notwithstanding...)

[Buckeye]

The My Space thing IS and jimmy observed being edited--when I saw it it said he was Mormon.

Hey daddy, if there are any of those bomb packages still floating around inside FedEx, could you have them rerouted to My Space headquarters?

[clarice]

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/03/21/bombings-in-austin-suspect-mark-anthony-conditt/
More details.

[narcisocenfl]

Ironic considering how much effort the clintons and Obama put into trying to put bp out of business

http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2018/03/18/hakluyt-company-and-the-clinton-trump-scandals

[Porchlight]

Yes, the mylife entry is editable by anyone. It's changed back and forth about ten times already this morning.

[narcisocenfl]

By golly (quelled surprise is too obvious)

https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/mississippi-governor-intends-appoint-former-democrat-cochrans-senate-seat/

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Home after a lovely lunch with daddy, who didn't land until 2:30 AM and then took his co-pilot for a few beers! What stamina!

I filled him in on the bombing stuff and the Zuckerberg scandal as of this morning. Great conversation about our families and dogs!

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Severe impact on U.S. universities? You mean like Americans and residents being able to get into their own dam universities?

[Dave (in MA)]

Dave,

It says republican and Christian on the link you provided.

Not at the time I posted.

Right now it says Green Party and Jewish.

[Jane]

I think it would be funny if Illinois elected a nazi. He can't be worse than Obama.

[Dave (in MA)]

Brian Ross would be shitting his pants hitting F5 on that mylife (not MySpace) page every few minutes.

[Buckeye]

Just "attended" a funeral via streaming video from cornfields of western Nebraske.

Was for the 90 year old mother of my attorney friend who co-edited the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy with Neil Gursuch.

Charlie is one of the most decent guys I know. Honest, considerate and conscientious.

The best thing about the funeral was seeing 5 great grandchildren under 5 with more on the way. If they are anything like their great uncle Charlie, the country will be better for it.

[Jim Eagle]

When I went there about 5 minutes ago he was AA and Jewish.

Another reason to stay off social media.

[jimmyk]

Brian Ross would be shitting his pants hitting F5 on that mylife (not MySpace) page every few minutes.

Only because his attempts to put "Tea Party member" in there keep getting overwritten.

[bradpaul35]

We all know that if the same thing happened in reverse (i.e. the Democratic candidate in a very safe Republican district ended up being an actual Communist who praised Stalin to the nines) the conservative bloggers would have just as much fun as Krugman & co. will have with the Nazi.

[Ralph L]

True, but they have a bigger pulpit.

[henry]

That collusion thing:

TheBeat w/Ari Melber @TheBeatWithAri
18h

Mark Zuckerberg "went personally to meet with Russia's number 2 person at the Kremlin" for Facebook business interests.

Will he "stand up and face the U.S. Congress like he faced those Kremlin officials?" - @AriMelber

[matt - deplore me if you must]

He already has a deal in place with Chairman Xi. Why not Vlad?

[Extraneus]

Lawsuits Pile Up As #DeleteFacebook Movement Spreads

After shaving more than $20 off its share price earlier this week, Facebook stock moved back into the green Wednesday as CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he would publicly address the company's relationship with Cambridge Analytica some time during the next 24 hours.

At the same time, another lawsuit has been brought against the company, the second since the New York Times and the Observer reported over the weekend that the company had failed to stop CA from using data improperly gathered from tens of millions of users, a Maryland woman sued Facebook Tuesday in a San Jose, Calif. court. Her suit was filed on behalf of other Facebook users whose data were accessed by CA without their explicit permission, Bloomberg reported.

Circling back to Zuckerberg, the company's founder and longtime CEO attributed the delay in making a statement to his desire to say something "meaningful" rather than delivering a quick, boilerplate comment, Axios reported.

[Extraneus]

You Can Rent Trump’s Beach House For $11K A Night Through Airbnb

[Extraneus]

You can now use Airbnb to rent President Donald Trump’s St. Martin beach house for a whopping $11,000 a night, Forbes reported Wednesday.

Le Château des Palmiers, Trump’s beachside villa, is now available on Airbnb, starting at $11,418 a night, according to Forbes. The château has nine bedrooms and eight baths. Five of the bedrooms face the ocean — one of which is a “Jungle Room.” The other four bedrooms face the garden and feature a “Palm Room,” according to the listing. The house can accommodate up to 16 people.

“The Trump villa is probably the most exclusive property [on the island] — maybe there’s one or two that could rival it,” said Arun Jagtiani, Island Real Estate Team owner Arun Jactianti said. “It’s a very elite property,” he added.

[henry]

Fed ups the rate a quarter point.

[Another Bob]

NBC took three paragraphs to say they found a blog post or some such where the bomber (or someone sharing his name as they said they couldn’t confirm it) self-identified as “conservative”.

[Extraneus]

I'm not familiar with this site (Big League Politics), but the ending is eye-popping.

Documents: FBI Carefully Planned Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Trip, Tried To Cover It Up

It starts out with the stuff we know, where the FBI guys were trying to locate the whistleblower and "we have to get that guy." Then this:

“The FBI originally informed Judicial Watch they could not locate any records related to the tarmac meeting,” the nonprofit group added.

A knowledgeable FBI insider tells Big League Politics that it was bizarre and completely revealing that different security units, including apparent city police departments, were contacted about security detail for the trip before it happened:

“The email (dated Sunday July 03, 2016 2:06pm), list recipients who are redacted but they didn’t redact the general locations of the email. The locations are (SECD) which is Security Detail but the others are more interesting (LV) Las Vegas, (NY) New York, (HO) Houston, (CG) Chicago, and (WF) Washington Field. That leads to only, two possibilities. One, additional SWAT teams were supplementing the Phoenix trip. That would be a lot of man power for such a routine trip. Why so much? Two, there were different legs of that trip or previous trips that were of concern!”

The insider is also concerned about the level of access ABC News had to the Justice Department, with the news agency acting as a kind of warning system for DOJ officials that a scandal was breaking out:

“First, the email (dated June 28th, 2016 1:14pm), which is from Mike Levine to several DOJ emails. How does Mike Levine of ABC News have such direct lines of communication with so many DOJ big wigs. I can understand him having a source’s phone number at the DOJ but it’s like he’s a DOJ employee sending out an all agency heads up.”

Big League Politics reported that an audiotape exists of the President’s conversation with Loretta Lynch on the plane, but the National Security Agency (NSA) refuses to release it.

[henry]

seems to good to be true Ext.

[rich]

afternoon all. snowing here, but thankfully it got a tad above freezing. snow day! some pork chops for lunch in a little bit.

-i'd be skeptical of any sort of social media profile that comes out about the Austin bomber ... would be more interested in his education and travels.

-and good grief an Illinois Nazi? really.

[anonamom]

buckeye , small world--my son was an editor of JLPP when he was at there.
My condolences to your friend.

[Extraneus]

I know. They couldn't be dumb enough to have that recorded. Just thought I'd pass it along since it was originally linked by Lucianne.

[daddy]

Well it was another fun lunch today with Miss Marple and everybody should rest easy knowing she has a beautiful used black Mitsubishi SUV (something like this but not quite as spiffy) that looks like it fits her like a glove and has plenty of room for Maggies dog food in back. Well done Family JOM!

Today we did not do much political stuff at all since she knew I was 24 hours delayed in thread catch-up so we mainly chatted about family stuff in general. I was a bit slow since we hit Kilroy's running last night, arriving about 2:41 AM, but my partner bailed out for an important phone call after only 2 pints and my Fav bartender had already pre-poured us each 4 pints before shutting the pumps, so I had to kill 6 pints in about 30 minutes, ergo it was a tad tougher than usual getting up this morning but thankfully Miss Marple didn't light a match anywhere near me.

What I thought of big interest today was learning from Miss M that Indianapolis was supposedly designed by Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the same frog that designed Washington DC.
I suppose that makes sense once you see the plans of the 2 burgs set up side by side with those odd signature streets shooting off at 45 degree angles from a central circle.


The drafted plan (above) for Indy is from 1821 and here's downtown Indy in 1820.

And I learned that the main north-south drag thru the center of Town, "Meridian Street," is on some Meridian of consequence which I'll have to look up.

I took half my Reuben home in a doggy bag since the beers last night left me less room than normal, whereas Miss M did beautiful on the Low Carb Coconut Cream Pie diet and didn't take anything home to Maggie. Cheers, Miss M. Who knew one could eat a corned beef reuben with a fork?

[rich]

this is Clinton and Lynch we are talking about Extraneus ... we can dream while sipping beers at Beast's Lakeside Dock.

[henry]

from our Chitown unit:

Ext’s piece is a follow on to the speculation that the tarmac meeting was in fact an intro to a Skype chat, inc Curb Dive.

[GUS]

So Joe Biden spent a lot of time in LOCKER ROOMS.

Honk honk.

[narciso]

What no blues brothers rejoinder, the sequel wasn't as good.

[Extraneus]

Rand Paul: Mueller Probe Becoming ‘Very Very Partisan,’ ‘Witch Hunt’

Paul said, “I think special prosecutors have too much power and that we really shouldn’t have them. I would not have appointed Mueller.”

He continued, “There really is no reason why Mueller is investigating things other than Russian collusion. If there is no Russian collusion, he should wind up, close his investigation, let’s move on.”

He added, “I haven’t seen any evidence of that, and I don’t believe there was any evidence. Did Russians try to influence our election? In all likelihood yes. What should we do? We should start working together to try protect ourselves both cybersecurity and otherwise and our electoral process. Absolutely let’s do that. But instead, it’s this sort of witch hunt now that’s become very very partisan. And now we’re seeing all these people from the intelligence community Brennan, Clapper, all of them, piling on and exposing themselves to be left-wing Democrats who hate the president. So yes I think we have to be very careful how much power we give to those in the intelligence community.”

[GUS]

bradpaul, seems like such a nice guy. But he's kind of dumb. I like the part about "conservative" bloggers.

[rich]

narciso-

just waiting for all of the media to make their way to IL-3 and the inevitable scene where dem operatives make any Republican have to explain and denounce what the dude says or has said in the past (... about 25 years ago this crazy douchebag said something and wow you were in elementary school at that time and drew something on this piece of paper that looks suspiciously like a swastika ... when did you first become a nazi generic republican?)

[Beasts of England]

Come on down, rich!! I need some help with this season's boat drink menu... 😎

[rich]

China tries to influence our election.

Mexico tries to influence our elections (both state and federal by the way).

South Korea tries to influence our elections.

Japan tries to influence our elections.

Saudi Arabia tries to influence our elections.

[henry]

LOL, the script never changes. Sit in at UWSp (the place cutting majors and axing tenured staff).

https://twitter.com/Emma_WSAW/status/976523804703952897

[rich]

>>>Come on down, rich!! I need some help with this season's boat drink menu... 😎

Posted by: Beasts of England | March 21, 2018 at 02:40 PM<<<

thanks.

[rich]

arrest them and expel them.

problem solved.

[rich]

could never really catch up but have been meaning to respond to KK's comment from a few days back.

[JimNorCal]

Some interesting thoughts, h/t BJG blog.
https://straightlinelogic.com/2018/03/20/trumps-new-world-order-by-robert-gore/
a snip:
Close study of The Godfather yields far better insight into the mind and methods of Donald Trump than the invariably wrong blather of the media and most of the commentariat. A cottage industry of pundits hyperventilates daily about his tweets and public pronouncements, 90 percent of which is fluff and misdirection. It’s a much smaller group who focus on what Trump actually does.

Three realities confronted Trump when he assumed office. The US empire is unsustainable, so too is the trajectory of its spending and debt, and the government is fundamentally corrupt. It would be foolish to bet Trump doesn’t understand these issues and the linkages between them.

Trump faced an insurrection from official Washington. The insurrection, borne of desperation and the miscalculation that Clinton would win, was laughable and its execution grossly incompetent. Trump saw through it and turned it to his advantage.

Someday Robert Mueller will bring his pathetic investigation to a close. It’s been a gift that keeps on giving for Trump. It’s shone a light on government criminality and the shadowy Deep State, which 74 percent of Americans now believe runs the country. Establishment hostility towards Trump is rooted in fear of exposure of that criminality, not policy differences. Once elected, Trump had access to troves of secrets, and controlled the investigatory and prosecutorial resources of the US government. That’s what kept the powers that be and their minions awake at night and launched the insurrection.

[jimmyk]

Via James Woods:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fire-fury-author-michael-wolff-cancels-book-tour-dates

Guess not too many people outside NYC and the beltway fell for it.

[clarice]

Montreal: We're in the old city which looks like Paris..for a few blocks any way. The shops are largely full of junk and remind me of small Midwestern stores in the 1950's. The food--is very good, especially the bread which is great everywhere. Outside of the old part of the city, the place looks like Milwaukee.
Visited the former Jewish quarter and sampled the food--Have to reset Duddy Kravitz again because these were the sites of scenes in the movie and saw Leonard Cohen's home which he rarely lived in. It's kinda boring actually.

[exdemocrat]

Donald J. Trump
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I called President Putin of Russia to congratulate him on his election victory (in past, Obama called him also). The Fake News Media is crazed because they wanted me to excoriate him. They are wrong! Getting along with Russia (and others) is a good thing, not a bad thing.......

[exdemocrat]

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.....They can help solve problems with North Korea, Syria, Ukraine, ISIS, Iran and even the coming Arms Race. Bush tried to get along, but didn’t have the “smarts.” Obama and Clinton tried, but didn’t have the energy or chemistry (remember RESET). PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!

[henry]

Clarice, nice sidewalk cafes in the summertime, as passing scenery goes.

[Extraneus]

Firing back at Bush.

[lyle]

The old part of Montreal is very cool and charming. You’d think you were in Europe.

[Captain Hate]

Wasn't paste eater Joe once busted about lying of being on Delaware's varsity football team?

[Captain Hate]

Yep, here we go:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/10/the-longest-yarn-joe-biden-tells-gullible-supporters-he-played-college-football-he-didnt/