Battle Lines

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. 

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[Narciso]

Oh really:

https://mobile.twitter.com/thechrisbuskirk/status/1187138053451780096

[henry]

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. ;)

[MissMarple2]

Green Beret representative speaks today outside Schif's hang-out:

Green Beret Vet @RepMichaelWaltz called to defend our nation again... this time from a @DNC coup pic.twitter.com/NRuz5Cw1X0

— 🍂🍫Cocoa_Bean (@Cocoa_Bean10) October 23, 2019

Video at link.

[Momto2]

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

[Narciso]

They dont grant tenure though:

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/10/she-would-have-stood-a-better-chance-against-polar-bears.php

[Narciso]

Mayor howdy removes all doubt:

https://mobile.twitter.com/N9ZF/status/1187155085798846464

[peter]

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.

[MissMarple2]

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.

[peter]

Well, the mob would have known where the rebar was missing.

[Captain Hate]

The Vichy Conservatives' Broadsheet

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=383925

[MissMarple2]

Now ABC is concerned about taxpayer funding:

ABC News Politics
@ABCPolitics
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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

[Dave (in MA)]

It was suspected that the private inspector was a no show letting others sign his name.

He was probably shopping for a new pinky ring at the time.

[Narciso]

The circumstances seem suspicious.

[Captain Hate]

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)

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

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.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

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.

[Narciso]

The mousey quinn, are they all on omidyars payroll.

[Captain Hate]

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?

[henry]

Ig, I hope their Depends don’t leak.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

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.

[henry]

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

[Captain Hate]

Calling Steve Scalise Antifa should be a firing with cause action.

[Threadkiller]

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..

[Narciso]

This is the mouse gone rabid,

[Captain Hate]

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)

[Narciso]

Oh natasha bertrand is all agita over patel being on the nsc, the nerve.

[Buckeye]

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.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Meirengoff at PL has the vapors over the Taylor testimony and is being taken to the shithouse in the comments.

[MissMarple2]

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.

[Narciso]

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

[MissMarple2]

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.

[Narciso]

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'

[Captain Hate]

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.

[Narciso]

Mirengoff was coming around, then he fell off the wagon again, same with der galien,

[James D.]

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.

[Threadkiller]

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.

[Tom R]

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

[Narciso]

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.

[Melinda]

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

[Melinda]

Multi-paneled double doors might’ve given it away.

[Narciso]

Maybe it was the tardis,

[Threadkiller]

Schiff's SCIF is full of shit

As I assumed.

[Narciso]

Oopsie

https://mobile.twitter.com/KerryPicket/status/1187180505244098560

[Melinda]

OK.

If we’re going down that path, it was The Master’s TARDIS.

[Another Bob]

Is that the same NK at the loon prosecutor's halfway house as used to comment here?

Jeebus.

[Narciso]

Different hes a lawyer for chicago.

[Dave (in MA)]

Nation's preeminent fag hag is pro:trying to kill Republican Senators.
https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1187160888958017536

[mike in houston]

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

[Dave (in MA)]

SCIF: Star Chamber's Impeachment Fort.

[Captain Hate]

Thanks, Tom.

[Threadkiller]

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.

[Another Bob]

As I was the one who passed along “SCIF” earlier, that was the term used in the tweets I read.

[Threadkiller]

I fully believe the term was used by Schiffstain, AB.

[Narciso]

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.

[Melinda]

It’s the term Schiff’s Shift is using as well, so we’re deep in Double Secret Probation Zones again.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/former-australian-intelligence-official-charged-with-breaching-secrecy-laws-20191023-p533nc.html

Chinese-Australian wife.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Bette Midler Proves The Old Adage That Nothing In A Sentence Before The Word 'But' Means Anything

ASOTwatter

[Narciso]

They used to keep them on hollywood squares and special episodes of the love boat, well not exactly.

[MissMarple2]

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
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I am assuming that this is true, as she had a filing for documents she was waiting on.

[James D.]

A little brag - best ever time for a Thursday NYT crossword. 6 minutes, 2 seconds.

[MissMarple2]

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2019/10/23/pittsburgh-police-clash-with-protestors-ahead-of-trump-visit-n2555265

[MissMarple2]

https://t.co/ESnxdzR0wM pic.twitter.com/pcXjrYuQ9e

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2019

Video (1 minute) at the link.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Democrats are still angry that GOP Congressmen stormed a secret meeting. Democrats should be delighted. Republicans were engaging in "community organizing."

eric @ Tygrrrr Express

[Narciso]

I would say ita going delta house.

[Melinda]

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.

[Narciso]

And yet they willingly leak, whether or not its true,

[Narciso]

Literally anything they dont like is russia, just like 40 years ago, anything they liked was eastern bloc.

[Melinda]

“Who you going to believe? Me? Or yer lyin' eyes?’

[MissMarple2]

I've hit the wall.

Good night, everyone!

[Narciso]

So taylor in his best ventriloauist dummy meme, repeats what schiff told ciaramella.

[Narciso]

Or vice versa thats a whole lotta blank pages.

[Narciso]

Oh the perky miss hill is going for the abuse excuse, thats original.

[Porchlight]

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.

[Narciso]

Day ending in y,

[Porchlight]

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.

[Narciso]

Lin mirandas pop is the senior latin advisoe to slo jo, also hillarys

[Captain Hate]

AllahPander's always been a twatty little puke and that site went to hell quickly. Sodium Pentathol Tourettes.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

"Ig, I hope their Depends don’t leak."

Ig, also hope their Always pads don't leak.

[Captain Hate]

Truthfully ace turned it around when he started realizing what deadenders the NTs were and started mocking them.

[Porchlight]

For awhile the comments were funnish. Then they went to Facebook commenting and it totally tanked.

[Porchlight]

NTs represent all the worst bits of Republicanism/conservatism. Sanctimonious, preening, no fun, wannabe sophisticated, showy intellectual, snobbish buzzkills.

[Narciso]

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

[Narciso]

So the friday fracas two weeks ago, was about preventing hannity from interviewing shokin.

[Captain Hate]

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!

[Dave (in MA)]

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!"

[Melinda]

OMG. Trolling, Expert Level.

https://twitter.com/teamtrump/status/1187161739437187073?s=21

[Narciso]

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.

[Narciso]

As sane as long as he did.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

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 ...

[Melinda]

Sidney Powell tossing hot lead::

https://twitter.com/sidneypowell1/status/1187210826085752833?s=21

[Melinda]

Repair Bar reservation, will take about an hour. Easy fix, just be patient, and make the reservation.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

Thanks, Mel

[Narciso]

He does come off as incredibly life like.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JimHansonDC/status/1187200080173883392

[Narciso]

So does zuckerberg, (rimshot)

[Captain Hate]

OMG. Trolling, Expert Level.

The cackling is a good reminder that Halloween is just a week away.

[clarice]

allahpundit's best work was his satire of Glenn Greenwald's cod puppetry.

[Melinda]

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.

[Melinda]

G’night. Spouse at ER w/MiL again.

Long day tomorrow...

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

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.

[Captain Hate]

Where is rich? The Nats are up 2-0 and coming back to DC!