The impeachment polling is shaping up as more trench warfare in 50/50 nation.
I promise you, there are people out there thinking that (to snatch a few recent examples from the headlines) the idea of hosting the G-& at Trump's Doral resort was an optically dubious decision and the Ukraine arm-twisting is not how a President should exert his power. But they're also thinking that the Warren/Sanders intended fracking ban would be a disaster.
We're on track for another sequel: Lesser of Two Evils II.
Oh really:
https://mobile.twitter.com/thechrisbuskirk/status/1187138053451780096
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 08:15 PM
Jim, sadly I’m no better at driving a canoe that Ted Kennedy was at driving a Buick, in a city crowd? Maybe a knife as well. A company of Marines would be better in either environment. ;)
Posted by: henry | October 23, 2019 at 08:16 PM
Green Beret representative speaks today outside Schif's hang-out:
Video at link.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 23, 2019 at 08:16 PM
This is the candidate shared by BOE a couple of days ago. Of course, the liberals accused her of "faking" her basketballs shot. So she posted this:
https://twitter.com/JessicaTaylorAL/status/1187139699648978946
Posted by: Momto2 | October 23, 2019 at 08:17 PM
They dont grant tenure though:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/10/she-would-have-stood-a-better-chance-against-polar-bears.php
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 08:23 PM
Mayor howdy removes all doubt:
https://mobile.twitter.com/N9ZF/status/1187155085798846464
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 08:31 PM
MM@4:28, years ago, I was involved in a public parking garage collapse that took place in Queens, New York. More than half the rebar that was supposed to be in place was missing. By some fluke, no one was killed; there was only property damage and a garage attendant who had whiplash type injuries. The City of New York allows private inspectors to inspect concrete pours. It was suspected that the private inspector was a no show letting others sign his name. No criminal prosecution, just a lot of money paid out by insurance companies.
Posted by: peter | October 23, 2019 at 08:31 PM
peter,
Understood. People around here are shocked, because we tend to think everything is done according to specs.
This was right in the center of downtown, too. Lots of people are wondering if that could have been them.
I do think that it sounds very suspicious, like a mob hit.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 23, 2019 at 08:36 PM
Well, the mob would have known where the rebar was missing.
Posted by: peter | October 23, 2019 at 08:44 PM
The Vichy Conservatives' Broadsheet
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=383925
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 23, 2019 at 08:47 PM
Now ABC is concerned about taxpayer funding:
ABC News Politics
@ABCPolitics
·
7m
Pres. Trump uses taxpayer-funded speech to attack 'nasty' Democrats, impeachment probe.
"They don't have the Mitt Romneys of the world. They stick together better than the Republicans do." https://abcn.ws/2MJcVWw
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 23, 2019 at 08:49 PM
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | October 23, 2019 at 08:49 PM
The circumstances seem suspicious.
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 08:51 PM
HOF zombie
Trump is the first president to induce mass SPT -- Sodium Pentathol Tourette's, in which you uncontrollably bark out your true political affiliation which you've been hiding all these years.
Posted by: zombie at October 23, 2019 07:41 PM (PsL+s)
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 23, 2019 at 08:54 PM
IIRC back when I worked at a cons firm doing the accounting, all rebar was checked before the concrete was poured. The check was signed off on both the sign off sheet on site and a signed form (with inspector's certification embossed stamp) was sent to our office for permanent files in case the signage on site was damaged.
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | October 23, 2019 at 08:54 PM
Gee, The Mousy Quinn and cohorts are getting the vapors over some GOP congressmen invading Schiff's secret SCIF with, gulp, cellphones.
Hope they have some smelling salts handy when citizens with rifles do the same.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | October 23, 2019 at 08:55 PM
The mousey quinn, are they all on omidyars payroll.
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 08:57 PM
Pres. Trump uses taxpayer-funded speech to attack 'nasty' Democrats, impeachment probe.
Did Gaylord make a non taxpayer-funded speech between 2009 and 2016? Am I missing something by considering this an incredibly ignorant thing to say? And isn't DJT working gratis?
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 23, 2019 at 08:58 PM
Ig, I hope their Depends don’t leak.
Posted by: henry | October 23, 2019 at 08:58 PM
Rebar, as Jack can tell you better than me, has an intricate, detailed and well regulated design for every application. It's not just some spare chunks of iron tossed into wet cement.
A lot of money has to change hands, or there has to be a lot of threats of bodily harm, for a structure to be built without the rebar structure being intricately assembled, inspected and signed off on.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | October 23, 2019 at 08:59 PM
A city parking garage in Milwaukee missed some rebar in its facade attachment. The facade landed on a pedestrian several years ago.
https://madison.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/jury-awards-m-in-fatal-panel-collapse-at-milwaukee-parking/article_6c51f6f0-ca74-5962-ad12-fb41a3387766.html
Posted by: henry | October 23, 2019 at 09:04 PM
Calling Steve Scalise Antifa should be a firing with cause action.
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 23, 2019 at 09:15 PM
The whole fucking executive branch is "tax payer funded" and every fucking god damn 4 years the winning tax payers pick which tax payer is going to get that fund for their fucking executive shit, including speechs that actually represent the thoughts of the tax payers that won.
Elections, dipshits..
Posted by: Threadkiller | October 23, 2019 at 09:18 PM
This is the mouse gone rabid,
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 09:19 PM
1. You believe Trump is the one running an op now, and I tend to agree. Are you saying Ciaramella is a white hat?
No. I think he got played.
Have you ever heard of Kash Patel? He used to be the head of Nunes' investigative staff into everything Russia hoax. And I do mean everything. He secretly went to the UK to interview Steele, he ran most of the hearings for Nunes and in July he moved to Trump's National Security Staff. The place where Ciaramella worked.
I'm saying Trump saw this coming and got out in front of it. Matthew Whitaker said when he left the DOJ there were more than 2 dozen leak investigation going on inside the Executive branch. Ciaramella isn't a whistleblower, he wasn't part of the call, he got his information from someone else, a leaker, and it was wrong in significant ways.
2. This thing is so very complicated, how will it ever be explained to the vast majority of Americans who either have not ever paid attention, have been lied to by the MSM for so long that they are clueless, or are so stricken with TDS that they can't or won't ever believe the truth?
Well they can ask me.
Kidding. I've said this before but I think this is one of the big reasons this is going slowly and methodically. People who aren't junkies have to see this in pieces to take in that what they have been told not just for the last couple of years but for decades was really true. That's a hard sell.
That's a big part of what I expect the Horowitz report to be, a guide. They have to understand the whole Russia collusion crap was just a cover for what was really going on. This is a real life spy thriller that is much more complex than any movie and it's going to make people question everything.
It's kind of a big deal.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 23, 2019 08:07 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 23, 2019 at 09:19 PM
Oh natasha bertrand is all agita over patel being on the nsc, the nerve.
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 09:21 PM
Sure haven't heard much about Shemp's surprise rapid departure.
Nobody wants to touch it with a 10 foot pole as best I can tell.
Posted by: Buckeye | October 23, 2019 at 09:25 PM
Meirengoff at PL has the vapors over the Taylor testimony and is being taken to the shithouse in the comments.
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | October 23, 2019 at 09:26 PM
Buckeye,
Do tell. He's completely disappeared.
Meanwhile, no one says a word. I am trusting that Adam Housley was right, and the truth will eventually be revealed. Apparently he got so disgusted that he quit and opened a winery.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 23, 2019 at 09:31 PM
For someone who hadnt been in ukraine for nearly 10 years, he thinks he was highly informed,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/10/taylors-troubling-testimony.php
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 09:32 PM
Stephanie,
I do not understand why rational people do not understand the term "hearsay".
I learned that watching Perry Mason and Della Street when I was 10 years old.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 23, 2019 at 09:33 PM
Its was written in 10 gauge paper, and it went on for 15 pages!!
'Anbassador taylor, do you have any contemporaneous notes emails that corroborate any of this'
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 09:36 PM
The NTs are such wastes of time I don't even lurk at the loon prosecutor's halfway house anymore. After a while their stupidity is just boring.
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 23, 2019 at 09:38 PM
Mirengoff was coming around, then he fell off the wagon again, same with der galien,
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 09:39 PM
Meirengoff at PL has the vapors over the Taylor testimony
Mirengoff is a moron, and says nothing of value to anyone. God help anyone unlucky enough to be his client.
Posted by: James D. | October 23, 2019 at 09:41 PM
The NTs are such wastes of time I don't even lurk at the loon prosecutor's halfway house anymore. After a while their stupidity is just boring.
Same here. Unless I happen by there and Munroe's name is in the Recent Comment sidebar. He has the only worthwhile comments because they for certain piss off all the right people.
Posted by: Threadkiller | October 23, 2019 at 09:42 PM
CH @ 9:19
I think you will appreciate this very astute question related to Jack Straw’s #1.
https://twitter.com/sethjlevy/status/1187117713417748481?s=21
Posted by: Tom R | October 23, 2019 at 09:44 PM
So this laura cooper, another nt transferred from somewhere else, she comes closest because defense would handle weapon sales, there is no understanding of organizational charts and responsibilities.
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 09:45 PM
JiB & TK,
Schiff’s SCIF’s a scam:
RobotoDelecto (@NPCBotTHX) Tweeted:
@N9ZF @pspoole @PeteButtigieg SCIF dont look like the conference room at the local Marriot. Schiff's SCIF is full of shit
Posted by: Melinda | October 23, 2019 at 09:45 PM
Multi-paneled double doors might’ve given it away.
Posted by: Melinda | October 23, 2019 at 09:48 PM
Maybe it was the tardis,
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 09:49 PM
Schiff's SCIF is full of shit
As I assumed.
Posted by: Threadkiller | October 23, 2019 at 09:50 PM
Oopsie
https://mobile.twitter.com/KerryPicket/status/1187180505244098560
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 09:51 PM
OK.
If we’re going down that path, it was The Master’s TARDIS.
Posted by: Melinda | October 23, 2019 at 09:51 PM
Is that the same NK at the loon prosecutor's halfway house as used to comment here?
Jeebus.
Posted by: Another Bob | October 23, 2019 at 09:52 PM
Different hes a lawyer for chicago.
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 09:53 PM
Nation's preeminent fag hag is pro:trying to kill Republican Senators.
https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1187160888958017536
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | October 23, 2019 at 09:55 PM
Greg Abbott Tweet
FYI the matter of 7 year old James Younger is being looked into by the Texas Attorney General’s Office and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. #JamesYounger
17.6K
6:58 PM - Oct 23, 2019
Posted by: mike in houston | October 23, 2019 at 09:55 PM
SCIF: Star Chamber's Impeachment Fort.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | October 23, 2019 at 09:56 PM
Thanks, Tom.
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 23, 2019 at 09:56 PM
Speaking of collapses, here is a recent short video from NTSB that explains the bridge collapse in Florida:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hBjntrebxj8
And here is a 3hour video of the bridge engineering firm getting a post-tension asshole sizing:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fdUf-_el9vA
Unlike Mr. Lugnut, from Michigan, these guys tried lying.
Posted by: Threadkiller | October 23, 2019 at 09:57 PM
As I was the one who passed along “SCIF” earlier, that was the term used in the tweets I read.
Posted by: Another Bob | October 23, 2019 at 09:58 PM
I fully believe the term was used by Schiffstain, AB.
Posted by: Threadkiller | October 23, 2019 at 10:00 PM
Its bizarre, this is the first administration thaf has even tried comfronting the russians in the ukraine
on the syrian plai and with heavy duty sanctions, i dont know if thats necessarily wise in the long run, but thet did it.
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 10:01 PM
It’s the term Schiff’s Shift is using as well, so we’re deep in Double Secret Probation Zones again.
Posted by: Melinda | October 23, 2019 at 10:03 PM
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/former-australian-intelligence-official-charged-with-breaching-secrecy-laws-20191023-p533nc.html
Chinese-Australian wife.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 23, 2019 at 10:03 PM
Bette Midler Proves The Old Adage That Nothing In A Sentence Before The Word 'But' Means Anything
ASOTwatter
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | October 23, 2019 at 10:03 PM
They used to keep them on hollywood squares and special episodes of the love boat, well not exactly.
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 10:09 PM
Sidney Powell
🇺🇸
⭐
⭐
⭐
@SidneyPowell1
As expected, #Brennan #Clapper and others running a #FusionCell against American citizens. Who else part of it? #NSD at #DOJ?
#Carlin?
#McCord?
#Strzok?
#Rice?
#Comey
#McCabe
@LouDobbs
@LouDobbs
@BarbaraRedgate
@JosephJFlynn1
@flynn_neill
@replouiegohmert
@RepDevinNunes
====================
I am assuming that this is true, as she had a filing for documents she was waiting on.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 23, 2019 at 10:10 PM
A little brag - best ever time for a Thursday NYT crossword. 6 minutes, 2 seconds.
Posted by: James D. | October 23, 2019 at 10:10 PM
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2019/10/23/pittsburgh-police-clash-with-protestors-ahead-of-trump-visit-n2555265
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 23, 2019 at 10:14 PM
Video (1 minute) at the link.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 23, 2019 at 10:18 PM
Democrats are still angry that GOP Congressmen stormed a secret meeting. Democrats should be delighted. Republicans were engaging in "community organizing."
eric @ Tygrrrr Express
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | October 23, 2019 at 10:33 PM
I would say ita going delta house.
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 10:33 PM
TK-
I’ll go one further. Every Congresscritter is sworn to secrecy on ANY discussion of what is or is not in the basement. And if SCIF is mentioned, it defers to the Gang of 8’s rules, whatever chit they may be.
That’s why no one can bring up, “It’s just a stupid conference room.”, because of what it’s next to, the real SCIF room.
Posted by: Melinda | October 23, 2019 at 10:33 PM
And yet they willingly leak, whether or not its true,
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 10:35 PM
Literally anything they dont like is russia, just like 40 years ago, anything they liked was eastern bloc.
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 10:38 PM
“Who you going to believe? Me? Or yer lyin' eyes?’
Posted by: Melinda | October 23, 2019 at 10:39 PM
I've hit the wall.
Good night, everyone!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 23, 2019 at 10:39 PM
So taylor in his best ventriloauist dummy meme, repeats what schiff told ciaramella.
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 10:39 PM
Or vice versa thats a whole lotta blank pages.
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 10:41 PM
Oh the perky miss hill is going for the abuse excuse, thats original.
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 10:43 PM
Allahpundit being his usual prick self:
https://mobile.twitter.com/allahpundit/status/1187087852481462272
No, Schiff doesn't get to conduct grand jury hearings. Even if you wanted to argue that impeachment = indictment, that would mean that the entire House would be the grand jury, not a select committee.
And there is no reason for secrecy. And the House hasn't voted to authorize any of this at all.
Posted by: Porchlight | October 23, 2019 at 10:54 PM
Day ending in y,
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 10:59 PM
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-campaign-scoops-bidens-latino-voter-web-address/story?id=66483595
Remember when we despaired of GOP candidates ever being able to run smart, funny, savvy, nimble campaigns? See what happens when you don't recycle the same handful of loser consultants year after year?
You'd think a guy like Allahpundit could appreciate such wonders. But no.
Posted by: Porchlight | October 23, 2019 at 11:01 PM
Lin mirandas pop is the senior latin advisoe to slo jo, also hillarys
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 11:08 PM
AllahPander's always been a twatty little puke and that site went to hell quickly. Sodium Pentathol Tourettes.
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 23, 2019 at 11:08 PM
"Ig, I hope their Depends don’t leak."
Ig, also hope their Always pads don't leak.
Posted by: President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA | October 23, 2019 at 11:10 PM
Truthfully ace turned it around when he started realizing what deadenders the NTs were and started mocking them.
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 23, 2019 at 11:12 PM
For awhile the comments were funnish. Then they went to Facebook commenting and it totally tanked.
Posted by: Porchlight | October 23, 2019 at 11:13 PM
NTs represent all the worst bits of Republicanism/conservatism. Sanctimonious, preening, no fun, wannabe sophisticated, showy intellectual, snobbish buzzkills.
Posted by: Porchlight | October 23, 2019 at 11:15 PM
He drifted to the other side for stylistic reasons but is back.
https://mobile.twitter.com/proteinwisdom?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 11:25 PM
So the friday fracas two weeks ago, was about preventing hannity from interviewing shokin.
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 11:34 PM
For awhile the comments were funnish.
In 2009 or so, I got in one of their vaunted open enrollment windows and the place just turned to shit. Maybe it was always that way and I didn't notice it from the outside but they treated the trolls better than the regulars. By that time I was commenting here and with the Horde, so I just stopped going there, just like I did with LGF.
The Nats are just going bonkers!
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 23, 2019 at 11:40 PM
Via Stephanie,
https://scontent.fbos1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/73076839_527111748088274_1029786484447641600_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_eui2=AeEsO461CwWZEy9sYTlVjSE86kFFf3wJzrtv4nFOl-ru3VPvy98Y_Q4A09nnWx4i1bLBhOJhWCbxFdifyIZbhHgplG_Fpg5DrKuGUeZLAVeCoA&_nc_oc=AQn6mP6R-LwqfONZyv2-F8AxcylGrFP2XDytvOnMIjxxBhzcTnTB1l0uMeV-iY1bgcE&_nc_ht=scontent.fbos1-2.fna&oh=070eb5c27fa68afb5b603881958bc947&oe=5E25619E
"I promise, only two more weeks and the dems are TOAST!"
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | October 23, 2019 at 11:46 PM
OMG. Trolling, Expert Level.
https://twitter.com/teamtrump/status/1187161739437187073?s=21
Posted by: Melinda | October 23, 2019 at 11:50 PM
Yez there was a point at which johnson went down into the underversw. I guess it was surprising he stayes as long as he did.
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 11:50 PM
As sane as long as he did.
Posted by: Narciso | October 23, 2019 at 11:50 PM
Guidance on iphone repair?
The port where the Lightning cable plugs in is flaky. I have to wiggle it for the power cable when I recharge. It sometimes doesn't work when plugged to my car. I only use my Bluetooth ear buds for listening, the wired ear buds are untrustworthy.
Easy to repair? Make an appointment at Apple Genius Bar? Give up and upgrade my phone?
Hmmm, time to check YouTube to see if there are repair videos ...
Posted by: President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA | October 23, 2019 at 11:52 PM
Sidney Powell tossing hot lead::
https://twitter.com/sidneypowell1/status/1187210826085752833?s=21
Posted by: Melinda | October 23, 2019 at 11:53 PM
Repair Bar reservation, will take about an hour. Easy fix, just be patient, and make the reservation.
Posted by: Melinda | October 23, 2019 at 11:55 PM
Thanks, Mel
Posted by: President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA | October 23, 2019 at 11:59 PM
He does come off as incredibly life like.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JimHansonDC/status/1187200080173883392
Posted by: Narciso | October 24, 2019 at 12:01 AM
So does zuckerberg, (rimshot)
Posted by: Narciso | October 24, 2019 at 12:06 AM
OMG. Trolling, Expert Level.
The cackling is a good reminder that Halloween is just a week away.
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 24, 2019 at 12:07 AM
allahpundit's best work was his satire of Glenn Greenwald's cod puppetry.
Posted by: clarice | October 24, 2019 at 12:14 AM
JimSun,
And bring ~$150 for the socket replacement. Spend the hour thinking about how you bounced the housing so hard so as to not do it again so promptly.
Kindles don’t get that kind of support. Trust me.
Posted by: Melinda | October 24, 2019 at 12:24 AM
G’night. Spouse at ER w/MiL again.
Long day tomorrow...
Posted by: Melinda | October 24, 2019 at 12:26 AM
OMG.
YouTube has a video LOL but ...
https://youtu.be/Ml2ICC25uio
One commenter notes So basically you're telling me that the lightning connector is installed first and EVERYTHING has to be removed to get to it.
The lady announcer is chipper and bubbly, after a couple dozen steps she says "And just like that ..." This comes in for substantial derision in the comments too.
Posted by: President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA | October 24, 2019 at 12:27 AM
Where is rich? The Nats are up 2-0 and coming back to DC!
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 24, 2019 at 12:27 AM