Ross Douthat On Immigration

Ross Douthat is excellent on the immigration box into which Trump has placed himself:

Across the decade that preceded Donald Trump’s election, American politicians of both parties consistently tried to pass big, sweeping immigration bills that would legalize most of the country’s illegal population and increase immigration overall. These bills failed because of populist opposition, at first bipartisan (the resistance of a certain socialist senator from Vermont helped doom the 2007 effort) but increasingly simply conservative, and over time the conservative opposition developed a well-founded suspicion of Republican elites, whose plans on immigration always seemed to require ignoring their own base.

This sense of betrayal was fertile ground for Trump, who used bigotry and bluster to sell himself to immigration hawks as a Republican who wouldn’t, indeed couldn’t, sell them out. 

Do note the reference to Bernie Sanders, who even recently has insisted on the obvious: a generous welfare state can not co-exist with open borders. "Medicare For All" can't mean "All who can show up, legally or otherwise". Not even Mitt Romney's grandkids AND Jeff Bezos can afford that, which is common sense to everyone except ardent progressives. (Even Paul Krugman admitted this in 2006 and again in 2010, but if has risked the wrath of his base since then I've missed it. Those books don't sell themselves!.)

However, Trump's impasse: Public opinion had swung in favor of stricter border control but "The Wall" was not the right tool to keep out asylum seekers. For that Trump would need to negotiate Congressional support to amend current laws, and stricter border control by the Mexican government. However...

For a different president these tasks would be challenging; for Trump, they seem impossible.

 

Which leaves Trump flailing and Democrats free to point accusing fingers:

The flailing also absolves the Democratic Party, currently torn between radicalism and evasion on immigration, from actually having to propose a coherent alternative to the White House’s approach. If this sort of crisis were happening on President Hillary Clinton’s watch, it would create all kinds of political problems for the Democrats; as it stands, they can point at the man who once boasted of Washington that “I alone can fix it” and say, well, why don’t you?

Oh, my.

All that said, I am still curious to see how Bernie Borders plays out in the primaries.

 

Comments

[MissMarple2]

sbwaters,

That is an excellent thread!

When I got to the bottom, someone had had the threadereader app unroll it.

Here is the link, for those who have trouble reading threads on Twitter:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1116062242418692098.html

[Narciso79]

That's an interesting notion, perhaps hyde was the most ruthless survivor, Jekyll couldn't really operate in the Victorian underworld

[MissMarple2]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/boom-corey-lewandowski-trump-knows-barack-obama-authorized-spying-he-knew-about-this-he-authorized-it-video/

I happened to see this on YouTube when I was looking for something else. Gateway Pundit is portraying it accurately. He also includes the video clip.

[Captain Hate]

Things.Are.Moving.Quickly.

Former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig expects to be indicted in the coming days on charges stemming from work he performed for Ukraine in 2012, Mr. Craig's legal team said.

An indictment of Mr. Craig is likely to send shock waves through the U.S. legal community and is the latest fallout from an investigation into former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his years of work for the pro-Russia regime in power in Kiev.

Hang him high! Suck it, U.S. legal community.

My book group read Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde recently. Not a big fan.

[Catsmeat]

narciso, as a first entry I award you high marks as that's about the last way I would have thought of things, but as the story frames most of the gentlemen who are Jekyll's circle as flaneurs (that is, sophisticated gentlemen strollers of the night, dipping into opium dens or wherever wherever curiosity takes them), this is a very interesting angle.

[Narciso79]

It appears to be more an exposition of the freudian Id than the darwinism evolution I dont know how far such motions had gotten by the time of publications

[Captain Hate]

Don't know about Page--she came clean .

And was allowed to retire instead of being ignominiously fired.

[Narciso79]

Thanks that was just my first conjecture, the trope of repression.is overused in a world that could do with some discretion.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Jekyll and Hyde; that's the two cartoon crows, right?
I could get into this.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/trump-texas-dangerous-people-are-coming-here-and-good-people-are

This was an unscheduled meeting with the press in Texas. There is a short video clip included.

[MissMarple2]

Igatz,

LOL!

I think you are referring to Heckel and Jeckyl.

[Captain Hate]

HOF zombie

Here's the crime report today from Berkeley. It's pretty much a typical day. Verbatim:

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/04/10/ berkeley-police-armed-robbery-coffee-shop -laptop-thefts-cellphone-thefts-more

"ARMED ROBBERY A man with a gun robbed a 19-year-old Berkeley woman in the 2400 block of Parker Street of her backpack, police report. Last week Tuesday, April 2, the woman was walking just after 11 p.m. on Parker near Dana Street when the man pointed the gun at her and demanded her bag. Her laptop was inside... .Witnesses said he was black, in his 30s, about 6 feet tall with a heavy build.

On April 1 at 6 p.m., a 49-year-old Berkeley man was sitting inside Berkeley Espresso working on his computer when a young man snatched the laptop and ran off with a partner, police said. BPD said the first man was described as black, 18-22 years old, 5'6"-5'8" tall with a slim build, in a black hooded top and black pants.

Two days later, April 3, a 22-year-old Oakland woman was sitting inside Alchemy at 12:55 p.m., with her computer on a table in front of her, when two people - including a man in a mask - ran in and took it. The strangers ran off. Police said the masked man was described as black, in his 20s and about 6 feet tall, wearing a black beanie cap that had eyeholes cut out of it.

Saturday, two young Berkeley women, ages 18 and 22, were waiting for the bus at about 4:50 p.m. at College Avenue and Derby Street when two strangers grabbed their phones from their hands, police said. The thieves got into a vehicle and another man drove them away. One of the men was described as black, 5 feet 8 inches tall with a medium build, with short black hair, wearing a black T-shirt. Another was described as a black man who appeared 28-30 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall.

Police arrested a Richmond man who has now been charged in connection with a laptop theft at Passione Caffe in downtown Berkeley in January. In that incident, a 33-year-old Berkeley man was sitting with his laptop in front of the café, at 91 Shattuck Square (at Addison Street), when a man ran up and took the computer. Detectives investigating the case ultimately identified 20-year-old Lonnie Deshun Jacobs as the culprit. (photo: https://www.berkeleyside.com/ wp-content/uploads/2019/04/JacobsBMG463.jpg).

Police arrested a man on probation Saturday who was searching through one vehicle after trying to steal another one, according to police. Saturday at 8 a.m., a resident in the 1800 block of Alcatraz Avenue (near Adeline Street) heard someone trying to start his vehicle. The resident went outside and found a man inside the vehicle who then rode off a bike. About 10 minutes later, a police officer found the man "rummaging through a vehicle parked several blocks away," according to police. Officers searched the man and found burglary tools and drug paraphernalia, police said. Officers arrested Ernest Bennett, 42, whose address is unknown (photo: https://www.berkeleyside.com/ wp-content/uploads/2019/04/BennettAXA532.jpg)."

0% of the suspects were white or Asian. All the rest in the report were "race unknown" (i.e. victims too afraid or PC to describe the suspect).

Berkeley is only 10% black (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California#Demographics).

How do the liberals maintain their cognitive dissonance without going completely insane?

Answer: They don't. Facts like the crime stats in Berkeley are exactly why they are insane.
Posted by: zombie at April 10, 2019 08:58 PM (5tb4C)

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

TomR 2:16
"A few months after inauguration it was announced the WH was undergoing major renovations. There was speculation that the reason for the major renovations was because the WH was bugged and someone (Deep State?) was spying on Trump while he was in the Oval office."

So there would be hardware found, right?
And other clues perhaps of the installers and time of installation.

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/GregRubini/status/1116149348771991553

Short but interesting thread.

Does anyone remember reading about an FBI informant who said he had SEEN the indictments of Brennan and Comey? This was back in January.

[Narciso79]

Some notions

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/books/real-life-jekyll-hyde-who-inspired-stevenson-s-classic-1-4279012

[Captain Hate]

Take a look at the 2014 revolution in Ukraine. Every single person involved in this scam, including McCain, Manafort and Nuland, was involved in that revolution.

By now everyone pretty much knows what happened in 2016. The why it happened is next.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 10, 2019 09:12 PM (/tuJf)

[D]

Iggy:
Jim Jordan just stated on Hannity that McCabe and Strzok were in trouble.
Greg Craig we already know about.
I agree with Clarice.
That group has lied throughout this whole illegal treasonous enterprise.

[D]

Baker testimony released today stated that there was a real move to invoke Article 25 and that Rosenstein had s part in it.So now we have McCabe and Baker stating Rosenstein played a part.
Are both lying 🤥?

[Captain Hate]

This is revolting:

https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/10/democrats-equality-act-transgender-girls-sports/

[Rocco]

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/420131-feds-received-whistleblower-evidence-in-2017-alleging-clinton-foundation

And a GOP-led congressional subcommittee, led by Rep. Mark Meadows (N.C.), is planning to hold a hearing next week to review the work of John Huber, the special U.S attorney named a year ago to investigate all things Clinton.

That hearing is designed to determine how much money and resources Huber has dedicated to the investigation and whether any action might be expected on issues that long have concerned conservatives, including Hillary Clinton’s transmission of classified information over an insecure private email server and the foundation’s activities.

A prosecutor working for Huber called MDA Analytics last week, seeking copies of their evidence, according to sources. The firm told the prosecutor that the FBI has possessed the evidence in its Little Rock office since early 2018, the sources said.

Basically, Huber requested whistle blower evidence that had already been sent to him twice. It wasn't until Meadows asked him to testify that he requested the same evidence that he already had. I don't have much faith in Huber.

[Narciso79]

At least Horowitz has a track record of trying to get to the end of fast and furious what are hubers bonafides

[Catsmeat]

Ig, you're hopeless.

narciso, the world of the 1890s had already done the best they could to understand and assimilate Darwin, but Freud wasn't widely translated and had no particular influence in England (as he himself points out in the second preface to The Interpretation of Dreams) until about 1915. Then he and his influence shot off like a rocket (see Woolf, Joyce, Faulkner, etc.).

[MissMarple2]

New York Post
‏Verified account @nypost
3m3 minutes ago

President Trump calls Robert Mueller’s probe an ‘attempted coup’ https://trib.al/hFKv6gW

[D]

Rocco:
That information is very disturbing.We have been waiting for months for some movement or progress from him and obviously this is a low priority for him and the Justice Department.What is the information doing in Arkansas?
What is the statute of limitations on the charges for the Clinton Foundation and her emails and server?

[D]

President Trump calls the Mueller investigation an attempted coup?
Is this finally the moment that we acknowledge that Trump Mueller and Rosenstein were not working together on a soft coup?

[Tom R]

I think this comment from Barr confirms he is not starting a new investigation and instead is doing what I suggested earlier. The team he is creating is taking the evidence from the Horowitz IG investigation and Nunes referrals to make a decision on who to indict.

AG William Barr: Yeah, I, uh, as I said in my confirmation hearing, I am going to be reviewing both the genesis and the conduct of intelligence activities directed at the Trump campaign during 2016. And, uh, alot of this has already been investigated, and a substantial portion of this has been investigated, and is being investigated, by the office of the inspector general at the department. But one of the things I want to do is pull together all the information from the investigations that have gone on, including on the Hill and the department, and see if there are any remaining questions to be addressed.

[Catsmeat]

Nytol. Will catch up tomorrow in the afternoon. The "bomb cyclone" (overhyped) means that I do hear thunder here in Lincoln and we'll have rain overnight. But that's good for all the growing things, plus I love the sound of thunder, so bring it on. Really no snow likely. Nor any particular death or destruction, despite the Weather Channel. Sorry about the real snow GUS, henry,et al. are truly getting to the north and east. It'll melt soon!

[Narciso79]

True, but it was a premonition of the zeitgeist to come, the film 'time after time's set in San Francisco in the 70s illustrates Nietzsche's dictum

[lurkersusie]

Kerry vs MIT graduate with bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering+ 24 patents, @RepThomasMassie

John Kerry
@JohnKerry

It's almost as if someone said "Congress has hit rock bottom" and Massie replies with "hold my beer." (link: https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1116071125606383617) twitter.com/RollingStone/s…

Thomas Massie replies
@RepThomasMassie

It’s almost as if someone said “No one has less knowledge of science, a higher opinion of himself, and a bigger carbon footprint than Al Gore” and Kerry replies “hold my champagne, I’m going to testify as a climate change expert.”

[Another Bob]

Wasn’t Hillary once reported to have said to aides “Fix this shit or we’ll all hang from nooses.”?

[Dave (in MA)]

 
Eric Swalwell@ericswalwell
I am running for President of the United States of America.
I see you. I hear you. I'm for you. I AM you.

Norm Macdonald@normmacdonald
This is fine news, indeed. It explains my self-loathing.

[Catsmeat]

narciso, I think the story is among other things a rebuttal of Nietzsche's embrace of godless power: Stevenson was an agnostic and rejected the piety he got from his Scottish nurse, but he never gave up all told on God, I don't think. The role of retribution/natural law in his plots tells you something. Now I'm really out of here! Tomorrow! (today was a good, good day).

[MissMarple2]

Another Bob,

That is correct. I believe it was said to Donna Brazile after one of the debates or an interview.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
21m21 minutes ago

CONGRATULATIONS to @EricTrump and @LaraLeaTrump on the great news. So proud!
====================

In case you missed it, Eric and Lara are expecting their second child, due in August.

[Threadkiller]

This seemed like a pretty good question from Ext:

Has Barr uttered Huber's name in public?

I haven't seen the answer.

[Narciso79]

Your welcome catsmear good night.

One of the gems that Pluto provides are some classic films sometimes in an ironic sense one is that schlocky space vampire tale life force witn a over the top operatic score.

[Narciso79]

Stupid autocucumber.

Another more notable one is Francis Ford Coppola's the conversation which Tony Scott would revise a quarter century later again with gene hackman in enemy of the state

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President:

Homeland Security
‏Verified account @DHSgov
5h5 hours ago

Today, @CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan was sworn-in to lead DHS as the Acting Secretary. The ceremony took place at the new DHS Headquarters at St. Elizabeth’s.
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There is a picture but I didn't bother to include it.

[MissMarple2]

Carol Leonnig
‏Verified account @CarolLeonnig

Stunning.
Obama's acting IG at DHS resigned amid a congressional investigation that found he tweaked investigations to please Obama aides. Now prosecutors describe him conspiring to steal a DHS database with 150,000 internal investigations to make profit.

[Narciso79]

And the brexif clown show seems to be wearing Scott lamgs footwear.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
4m4 minutes ago

I think what the Democrats are doing with the Border is TREASONOUS. Their Open Border mindset is putting our Country at risk. Will not let this happen!

[Narciso79]

Truth is not a defense unfortunately:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/national-enquirer-is-put-up-for-sale-in-wake-of-bezos-scandal?fbclid=IwAR1ClnvEM3yzf6BuPruUMQiAg9FheuVUS3DpYveshpuvjs3tMJj7fP4m1DQ

[Neo]

Knorr and fellow Mantria co-founder Troy Wragg both graduated in 2005 from Temple University and within four years had raised $54 million from hundreds of investors. Most of the investors were wooed through seminars run by Wayde McKelvey, of Colorado.
Their pitch about producing biochar, however, turned out to be completely baked, according to prosecutors, and eventually proved to be a giant Ponzi scheme.

"Many people lost their entire life savings," assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Livermore said following Knorr's sentencing.

Former President Bill Clinton personally honored their now disgraced work in a ceremony for the Clinton Global Initiative in 2009. Wragg met with the president of the Ivory Coast to discuss how biochar could transform energy production in the small African nation.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/Temple-Grad-Given-30-Months-in-Prison-for-54-Million-Green-Scam-by-Mantria-Corp-508184021.html

[MissMarple2]

Stephen Moore spoke at Cornell tonight.

This is a thread written by a professor of organic chemistry there who is staunchly libertarian. He had a 20-minute conversation with Moore after his talk. I found this interesting.

https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum/status/1116149489243447296

[MissMarple2]

This has a really moving video.

.@DwyaneWade’s legacy is bigger than basketball. Watch how we surprised him in honor of his #OneLastDance. #ThisBudsFor3 pic.twitter.com/naFsONpRjN

— Budweiser (@budweiserusa) April 9, 2019

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
2m2 minutes ago

Too bad that the European Union is being so tough on the United Kingdom and Brexit. The E.U. is likewise a brutal trading partner with the United States, which will change. Sometimes in life you have to let people breathe before it all comes back to bite you!

[Gentlejim]

I know Iggy will appreciate this Jekyll and Hyde interpretation:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x40nuyz

[MissMarple2]

Think I will head to bed.

Good night, everybody!

[Pinandpuller]

Miss Catsmeat

Speaking of accuracy, why do people skip over Darwin’s full title?

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

I didn’t realize his middle name was Robert.

[Tom R]

Jim @9:34

I found the Time article that started the speculation about the WH being bugged. These reporters from TIme were invited to the WH the day before Comey got fired.

http://time.com/donald-trump-after-hours/

What did Trump mean when he said “we found gold behind the walls”?

DawsonSField Twitter threads on the topic.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1033084596756393991.html

and

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1035309681693089792.html

[Narciso79]

Yes and he came from a wealthy family the wedgewoods I dont know if thata the Same family as far left labour leader Tony wedgewood Benn, a fellow so out there the Soviets didnt want to deal with him.

[Beasts of England]

Sore, drunk and sunburned is no way to go through life not bad for a Wednesday... ;)

Nytol

[Captain Hate]

I wonder all the time how much I have changed and how much others have. I used to hang out with Ace and Charles C. Johnson (not the LGF one) and even had Charles C. Johnson as a guest poster on this blog. Now they make my skin crawl. Did they change or did I? Was my judgment that bad??

Patterico (115b1f) — 4/10/2019 @ 6:25 pm

[Threadkiller]

What did Trump mean when he said “we found gold behind the walls”?

When the dining area was renovated Trump changed the walls to gold. He then joked with the reporter that the gold was always there just waiting to be discovered.

[Pinandpuller]

Joe Scarborough steps away from his cable show, law practice and wife to address Lori Klausutis constantly popping up on his Wikipedia page:

https://archive.is/RXw5y

[Dave (in MA)]

Forgive me if this was already mentioned but: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/10/matt-gaetz-adam-schiff-pencil-resolution/3430443002/

Gaetz goes after Pencil Neck with the PENCIL Act:
Preventing
Extreme
Negligence with
Classified
Information
Licenses

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Your welcome catsmear...--

LOL. Big typo, narc.
You meant "you're". :)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Patterico at his most self reflective; can it possibly be me?...
...nah, everybody else is crazy. Carry on.

[Narciso79]

This is a mad house, its redrum territory at this point, I guess the axe is next.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

That PENCIL Act is hilarious. How could anyone not like the Trump effect?
Although PENCIL should have been followed with Never Ever let Congress Know.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I know we're only two years into Trump's first term, but I'm already dreading the day he's gone.
Who's gonna follow this act?

[Narciso79]

Watching part of a documentary on milius, the wild and crazy guy of Hollywood, first one of these film school to make it big,

[Narciso79]

What comes across besides his persona, is he shallow these Hollywood people, pegging his work on right wing politics alone well apocalypse wasnt really right wing dirty harry wasnt either iys about being a rebel its about surviving insane institutions which say the us army misunderstanding the enemy or the San Francisco city hall which is six layers of crazy now, them it was two.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Breaking my Zerohedge pledge to link this report on world IQ.
It's interesting because I have always noted that, while most violent countries seemed to largely track with higher black populations, there have always been outliers in Central America with quite low black populations.
By a quick look at the map, it seems that private violence [as opposed to government violence, which can occur anywhere] is much more closely correlated with IQ than race.

[Narciso79]

Yes it's a grand guignol experience, like muad'IB, his name isn't a killing word but it might as well be.

Who do they offer as substitute this drooling idiot at the top of the leaderboard this superannuated hippy rabblerouser and it gets more absurd from there down.

[Narciso79]

Charles Johnson the other one, is uncommonly blunt, and this is what media dont want to listen if you aren't singing their notes

So when he wrote that series on Derrick bell, which picked up on what I noted about the twn or about what Obama is about well that broke the narrative. Same with that fool Kirkpatrick or that glorified hack shop crowdstrike

[jim nj]

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/10/eu-leaders-offer-to-delay-brexit-until-the-end-of-october.html

Halloween? Is that an omen of some kind?

[jim nj]

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/10/710278943/ancient-bones-and-teeth-found-in-a-philippines-cave-may-rewrite-human-history

I'm pretty sure someone already posted this, but I found this in the article:

"But Tocheri says there may be another explanation: a different migration out of Africa, not by Homo erectus but by some other more apelike species that settled in remote parts of Asia.

"That's where it gets exciting," Tocheri says. "Because, if it's true that the other species of early Homo also made it out [of Africa], it means that what we're finding in Asia is even more complex and more interesting than we ever dreamed of."

I think this is highly likely. There is no reason that I can think of that would prevent much earlier migrations.

There could have been large populations outside of Africa. Most probably were lost do to disasters of one sort or another.

[jim nj]

https://www.hughhewitt.com/national-security-adviser-john-bolton-on-the-situation-in-venezuela-and-the-threats-from-iran/

Fun interview, especially about the tactile nuclear weapons that Kirsten Gillibrand is worried about.

[Pinandpuller]

Do you guys want to know how White Supremacists choose their lottery numbers?

https://www.adl.org/hatesymbolsdatabase

[Pinandpuller]

Boots and Laces
Racist skinheads prefer wearing steel-toed workboots, typically with red or white shoelaces laced a certain way.

You aren't going to tell us how they are laced, ADL? Until we send you a donation?

[Pinandpuller]

If Bud Lite is racist, I don't want to be right:

COORS Family Skins (the word COORS is an acronym for "Comrades of our Racial Struggle") is a racist skinhead group whose members are primarily based in southern California. They use a logo consisting of an Othala rune combined with a runic symbol, but they also occasionally appropriate the logo for Coors Beer.

[henry]

CNBC

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange arrested in London, UK police say

[henry]

Link to Assange Arrest story:

https://twitter.com/cnbc/status/1116275730575446017?s=21

[MissMarple2]

Yashar Ali
🐘
‏Verified account @yashar

NEW: Former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig expects to be indicted in the coming days on charges stemming from work he performed for Ukraine in 2012. He has refused to accept a plea deal.
=============================
So, Craig refused to accept a plea deal.
I wonder what the deal was, don't you?
This is a reporter for Huffpost. Is the message "Don't worry, I didn't talk"?

[MissMarple2]

Twitter admitted to me today that they have protocols they use to determine when speech is offensive. So release the protocols! Make them public. If you aren’t biased, what do you have to hide? pic.twitter.com/rEG94cq2Ly

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 10, 2019

Video clip at the link. Hawley is one of the senators from Missouri.

[henry]

ZH has vid of the Assange arrest. Assange doesn’t look good.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-11/julian-assange-arrested-london

[Melinda]

The President of Ecuador has some domestic image issues after taking a rather large bribe. He needs to change the home news cycle, badly.

[Bela1]

Good morning!
Great Pieces Clarice missed you!
Happy belated Stephanie your jokes crack me up!
Good to hear Gus is on the mend
Prayers to all dealing with Illnesses & hugs to Jane on that horrible ordeal
With yr dr

I heard Joe D on Howie on way home yesterday from work I couldn’t hear all of it bc of some accident & sirens
I cant remember all of what he said but you might want to check it out more it was interesting
Brennan Clapper McCabe Pete the puke and the girls are going to jail - the spying is on an international scale & according to more whistle blowers its so horrific and far worse to come out about Peter.Puke spying after DJT was sworn in.
I was hoping to hear Obama & Hillary will hang but check it out if you can
Have a good day everyone!

[Melinda]

More: https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1111636983342919682?s=21

[MissMarple2]

On one of the threads I was reading about Assange on Twitter a poster wondered if Assange was taken by the UK as a bargaining chip over prevention of the declassification revealing the UK's involvement.

[Captain Hate]

Levin unloaded both barrels on other conservative talk radio people not coming to his defense two years ago when he broke the story, using MFM articles, of the spying on the Trump campaign. Not sure who specifically he was referring to, I think Hannity was specifically excluded, but Medved and Hewitt are two obvious targets.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
3m3 minutes ago

Great news! #MAGA

[Rocco]

Good Morning, isn't it interesting that Barr says he's going to investigate Hillary and Julian gets busted? Who's trying to silence him?

[MissMarple2]

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/438240-trump-moving-to-dismantle-opm-report?__twitter_impression=true

Office of Personnel Management, which oversees hiring and firing of Civil Service employees, established in 1978.

[MissMarple2]

Coup (or 2 coups) in Sudan:

Reem Abbas
‏ @ReemWrites

The are reports that two coups actually happened. The first was a soft landing approach as Bashir handed power to Ibn Ouf and the second when military leaders stood against this decision and embarked on their own coup. Things are uncertain right now.

[Captain Hate]

Uncertainty in Sudan: a day ending in Y.

[MissMarple2]

Mark Knoller
‏Verified account @markknoller
20m20 minutes ago

Today at the WH: Pres Trump holds talks today with South Korea Pres Moon Jae-in. It's their 7th meeting - but their 1st since the failure of @POTUS' Hanoi summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-Un. Moon looking for accelerated progress with Kim on North/South relations.
=====================
It occurs to me that so many foreign leaders show up at the White House that we really don't hear that much about them. Earlier this week al Sisi of Egypt was here.

[henry]

special interests win again:

Jeff Nolan
@jeffnolan

under pressure from the tax prep industry, Congress passed this bill today. It forbids the IRS from offering a free tax filing service.

https://twitter.com/jeffnolan/status/1116158285994835968

[Beasts of England]

Fore please! Now driving...

Happy Masters Day!! ⛳️

[henry]

indeed:

Jay Weber @JayWeber3
1h

It looks like Assange did the d-bag thing where he wouldn't walk out on his own and had to be carried. Pathetic.

It looks like they are arresting Hannibal Lector.

[MissMarple2]

Trey Yingst
‏Verified account @TreyYingst
12m12 minutes ago

BREAKING (via @AP): Sudanese defense minister, in uniform, announces on state TV that the military has arrested President Omar al-Bashir.

[henry]

State of NY is all over Masters Day:

CNBC Retweeted
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Squawk Box @SquawkCNBC
44m

New York lawmakers are now taking aim at golf courses ⛳️ when it comes to taxing the wealthy. Here's @robtfrank's report:

https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/1116302623206989825

[Tom R]

Has Assange/Wikileaks ever released any leaks damaging to Putin? I’m not aware of any.

IMO the publishing of the DNC email hack and the Podesta emails helped Trump get elected. However the Trump DOJ issued an arrest order for Assange in December 2017 related to the Bradley Manning leak. Too many unconnected dots to figure out what is going on right now.

[MissMarple2]

My whole thing about Assange is that I don't trust an Australian national to make decisions about what information should be released from our government.

I am all for transparency, and I no longer have much respect for the FBI nor the CIA, but careless handling of some information could get innocent people killed.

[Captain Hate]

Fuck Assange. At best he's an "ally" who will stab you in the back when convenient for him.

[Captain Hate]

Teddy is four today.

[rse]

Any GoT fans in the atlanta area the throne replica that was in rockefeller center last week for the premiere will be in atl this weekend.

Battery area surrounding the baseball park.

[Another Bob]

2nd that CH.

Like a typical leftist he spent his adult life being a narcissistic self-important nihilist, screwing the very people and places that made him possible, and thinking he ought to be able to do so with impunity.

[Another Bob]

Assange, not Teddy...