Tell Us What You Really Think, John Bolton

This is based on leaks of a second hand account but by this reporting former Nat Sec advisor John Bolton was pretty colorful and outspoken about Trump's Ukraine misadventures:

Bolton Objected to Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Calling Giuliani ‘a Hand Grenade’

OK, that "hand grenade" might top the list. But don't sleep on this one (my emphasis):

The aide, Fiona Hill, testified that Mr. Bolton told her to notify the chief lawyer for the National Security Council about a rogue effort by Mr. Sondland, Mr. Giuliani and Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, according to the people familiar with the testimony.

“I am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Mr. Bolton, a Yale-trained lawyer, told Ms. Hill to tell White House lawyers, according to two people at the deposition. (Another person in the room initially said Mr. Bolton referred to Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Mulvaney, but two others said he cited Mr. Sondland.)

Yike. Bring in Bolton!

 

Comments

[Narciso]

It was a bluff like le chiffre:

https://mobile.twitter.com/jabeale/status/1184250347516284928

[D]

Warren repeating herself.
Costs won’t go up for middle class.
Buttigieg :Americans want a choice.

[MissMarple2]

https://truepundit.com/clinton-foundation-linked-fraudsters-arrested-shady-duo-poised-to-rat-out-bill-hillary/

This is a couple of guys from India. I am thinking that the dems weren't paying attention, so the feds got the evidence while no one was looking.

[D]

Sanders sounds good on Medicare.
Warren sounds weak.
Klobuchar goes after Warren.
Public option.
Gets applause.
Warren sounds unsure and shaky.

[Captain Hate]

Since there is now no sports of much consequence on tonight

DC might clinch going to the World Series.

Stop linking True Pundit!

[D]

Plan or pipe dream says Klobuchar.
Long term care /Medicaid forgotten.
Calls on Biden.
30 trillion over 10 years.
5000 increase in tax for middle class.
Supports Obamacare.

[henry]

Why doesn’t she buy & fund OANN? It would be the fastest way to that goal.

@realsaavedra

BREAKING: Shari Redstone Explores Plan to Launch Fox News Competitor

She may rebrand an existing channel to create a conservative TV outlet after merging CBS-Viacom

On Trump: "He's always been very good to me and a tremendous supporter of me personally"

[Jane]

James,

The one thing I recall about the 1st World Series the Red Sox won (in a semi-modern era) was the mourning everyone had for their fathers and grandfathers not getting to see it: my guess is that was the ‘80’s.

[D]

Sanders back in true form.
HarrisReproductive healthcare / women will die...
Acting like a maniac.
Taking over for Gillebrand.
Jobs now
So far nothing from Gabbard, Steyer Yang or Castro in the last 30 minutes.

[henry]

Jane, I remember the Cardinals getting robbed. But I might be biased.

[JimNorCal]

Jane: "Jim, All of TV is telling me I’m wrong"

You mean about Bolton?
I wouldn't worry about TV. Only worry about Bolton. He should speak up and tell us where he stands.

[James D.]

Jane, it was the cursed season of 2004.

[D]

Yang now with positive message.
Booker- finally in.
Trashing Trump.
2Planned Patenhoods closed.

[D]

Bad Trade policy giant corporations to blame.

[D]

Automation by Castro Says Ohio is losing jobs.
He is wrong.

[MissMarple2]

Rosie memos
@almostjingo
·
3m
Worth noting Scott Dworkin (@Funder
) head of #impeachmenttaskforce worked on @JoeBiden
@ewarren
campaigns & both of @BarackObama
's campaigns. He's a well known grifter via SuperPac's and once marked a Doctor as a terrorist (based on Middle East name) and had to pay out in court.

[Narciso]

Fiona hill, was on leave from brookings, not a conservative really, 10 years ago she was an intel officer back when medvedev was pretending to be seperate from putin.

[D]

Yang is on the ball with a lot of energy.
Warren looks tired.
200 extra a month for social security recipients on her plan.

[Buckeye]

DC might clinch going to the World Series.

True that.

Can't imagine many outside the beltway getting too excited.

Didn't you grow up an Orioles fan??

[Jane]

James,

That recently? Wow. Actually that was 15 years ago. I’m getting very old.

[D]

40minutes in Gabbard finally gets to speak.
Booker 15 dollar an hour.
Doesn’t answer question about GM.

[peter]

Thank you, MT for that 8:12, I did not know that about Daniel Hannan, in fact I knew nearly nothing about him.

Would also like to add I am in awe when you talk about some of the work you did on cars in the past.

[D]

O’Rourke talks GM free pre-k snd college.

[D]

Sanders talking about the homeless, student debt moral and economic outrage.
Top 1/10 of the 1 percent.
Steyer agrees
with Sanders.Undo wealth tax and tax cuts.

[D]

Should be put in wealth tax.

[MissMarple2]

ANDERSON COOPER: "Mr. Biden, you said if you're president no one in your family will work for foreign companies. If it'll be inappropriate when you're president, why was it appropriate when you were Vice President?”

BIDEN: pic.twitter.com/MmOJ8Aj2mu

— ALX 🇺🇸 🎃 (@alx) October 16, 2019

Video of Biden's incoherent response at the link.

[D]

Biden. 39 percent capital gains tax.
Double it
Raise taxes.

[D]

Klobuchar:
Says Warren’s plan isn’t the only oneTakes Warren on directly.

[peter]

Frustrating season for the Yankees as they exceeded expectations in the regular season but are playing below their abilities in the post-season. Most Yankee fans are thankful we are going to have a deluge tomorrow so the team gets a day off and gets to regroup.

[D]

Harris is really bad.
No concrete ideas.
Put a fork in her.
She is done.

[MissMarple2]

Lindsey Graham
@LindseyGrahamSC
·
44s
NEWSFLASH:

@BernieSanders
and @ewarren
wealth tax plan has been tried before.

It was called the Soviet Union.

Didn’t work then. Won’t work now.

[D]

Yang schools Warren on wealth tax.
Value added tax says Yang.

[Narciso]

The bizarre lens that the left sees it through:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/oct/15/democratic-debate-live-warren-biden-sanders-trump-steyer-latest-2020-news-tonight

[jimmyk]

Put a fork in her.
She is done.

While you're at it, stick a fork in the Cards.

To be honest, I was hoping for an all flyover WS, Cards vs 'Stros. Ain't gonna happen.

James D, I'd still give the Yanks a 50% chance or better of winning this series. They'll likely win games 4 and 5, and then the Astros will have Verlander and Cole for 6 and 7 but will have to win both.

[Narciso]

Time for the arquillian:

https://mobile.twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1184272153769889792

[James D.]

All you folks watching the debate have stronger stomachs than I do!

[jimmyk]

And glad some of you are watching the debate so I don't have to.

[MissMarple2]

My Twitter pal Shem did Part 1 of the debate. I couldn't have stomached it, either.

https://twitter.com/Shem_Infinite/status/1184257570736877568

[jimmyk]

From what I've read, none of the Dems seem to know or care that a wealth tax would be unconstitutional. Not that Dems ever care about what the Constitution actually says.

[Captain Hate]

Didn't you grow up an Orioles fan??

Kind of. Laurel is halfway between Balmer and DC so I had a choice. Mother Hate, a truly terrible sports fan, cheered for the Orioles probably because they had a better chance of beating the hated Yankees. Father Hate cheered for the Senators so I didn't know what to do. Finally a bunch of drunk Baltimorons burned an effigy of Johnny Unitas in a bar parking lot after a loss, so I decided to switch my allegiances from Baltimore to DC (honestly some of the Colts fans around town seemed mentally ill with their weird paranoia plus they always got their facts wrong; they made the guys in Diner with giving a fiancé a Colts exam seem normal). Mother Hate felt so betrayed she accused us both of being closet Yankee fans.

Then the hated Calvin *spit* Griffith tore the hearts out of Senators fans by moving them, when they finally got good, to Minnesota where my hatred has and will not subside one iota against those thieving bastards with God as my witness. MLB realized they'd screwed the pooch with that carpetbagger and quickly gave DC an expansion team which was, of course, terrible. Meanwhile the Os got Frank Robinson from the Reds and just instantly became a power cthat was so awesome that Father Hate and I started following them. They were like a machine how they'd pounce on a team immediately and rely on their lights out pitching to just steamroll everyone. When they played the Dodgers in the Series all the experts predicted the Dodgers in a rout and I can remember as a kid thinking those clowns don't know shit. And I was right in a sweep.

So that was fun and everyone was happy but then decided to wallow in misery with the Senators even though Ted Williams was bringing the team along. Then Bob Short made the Denny McClain trade and the guts were tore out again. When Short moved the team to Texas it didn't hurt having the knife stuck in over scar tissue.

The Os were still good but not as magical as that one season, particularly when they lost to the Mets. But they got Earl Weaver and I don't think I've enjoyed cheering for a manager more, although Terry Francona comes close. When I moved to Cleveland, all of my fellow Tribe fanatics cheered for the Os because of Earl and their awesome pitching staff. Once Earl retired the Magic was pretty much over.

Did that answer your question?

[Narciso]

Yes they are deeply incoherent, i think norma desmond admitting the bluff, unhinged them a little more.

[DrJ]

i had a new employee start today. Wonderful man. We'll see how it goes, but anyone who is restoring a Cosworth Vega is OK with me.

[jimmyk]

And Jr tweets that Dems are claiming that the unemployment rate is only low because so many people are working 2 or 3 jobs. Aside from being false (5% work multiple jobs), it's a non sequitur. They evidently don't understand what the unemployment rate is.

[D]

Beto says yes he would freeze Putin’s accounts and reveal his corruption.
Putin as a firmer KGB guy will squash him like a bug if he doesn’t poison him first.

[Captain Hate]

I still say property taxes paid on a valuation of my house over what I paid for it is a wealth tax.

[jimmyk]

I still say property taxes paid on a valuation of my house over what I paid for it is a wealth tax.

Maybe, but that's a local government tax, so probably not unconstitutional.

[MissMarple2]

WATCH: Elizabeth Warren has dodged the question "will your Medicare for All plan raise taxes on the middle class?" AT LEAST 1⃣7⃣ times!

The answer is YES, but she doesn’t want to be honest with the American people. pic.twitter.com/8lJwymLXWe

— Trump War Room (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TrumpWarRoom) October 15, 2019

Video at the link.

[D]

I totally agree CH.
Our taxes are high and they over estimate the value of everyone’s home.

[clarice]

Arrived short time ago on Oahu which is beautiful. I'm beat--long trip and airports and airlines are awful. Glad to see you all behaved.

[MissMarple2]

The graphic for the numbers didn't copy over so that it could be read.

Warren has dodged that question on her Medicare for All plan causing a raise in taxes at least 17 times.

[D]

Have a wonderful time Clarice.
Enjoy your son, daughter in law and your lovely granddaughter.

[Manuel Transmission]

Thx, Peter. I think I learned a lot more inguneering rebuilding old junk in my early teens and then building race cars in my late teens, than the bulk of the classroom sessions (with key exceptions). Somewhat in parallel, one of my best buds in kollege who chased the EE side was very gifted on the hands on side and figured if you couldn’t tear down a car radio and rebuild it, you weren’t really a EE. (He went on to do great stuff at Motorola.)

[DrJ]

Clarice,

Oahu is great. The other islands have their charms, but Oahu is special.

Enjoy.

[MissMarple2]

clarice,

I echo Maryrose's well wishes!

[Narciso]

Wonderful clarice

[Buckeye]

Well, that was a hell of a story CH.

Since I grew up in the wasteland of NW Ahia, I had no "local" heroes.

My dad, being from the Motor City area was a Tigers/Lions fan, so if he could get the antenna pointed correctly, they were on the tube.

I didn't really develop an interest in any pro sports until college.

As you can imagine, half the guys in my freshman dorm were Browns fans and the other half were Bengals fans.

Things got rowdy when they played each other. Witnessed a few of those from the Dawg Pound. A buddy from Parma had a good connection for tickets.

BTW, Vet called late afternoon. Poogan came through just fine. Likely pick him up tomorrow.

[MissMarple2]

Buckeye,

Great news on Poogan!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--but anyone who is restoring a Cosworth Vega is OK with me--

Hah! Love those cars. Everybody hates Vegas but they were really attractive and the Cosworth was a pretty cool little engine. Of course the typical Vega is more oxide than iron but if you get over that hump and the many others you can end up with a neat little car.

[James D.]

Looks like the Cardinals are trying to show some life. But hopefully the Nats don’t let them back in the game.

[Captain Hate]

Our taxes are high and they over estimate the value of everyone’s home.

And the make the appeal process as difficult as possible. Paying for schools through property taxes is an 18th century concept when only male property owners voted and has been declared unconstitutional in many states (including Ohio) yet the Uniparty cowards are too gutless to vote for an alternative method of financing.

Best wishes for Poogan!

[Narciso]

Great news on poogan.

[DrJ]

Iggy,

It seems the Vega has been cared for well, though the engine currently is in Los Angeles. We'll get it worked out.

I'd love to have a ride in one that works well.

Meanwhile, the Chopin Waltzes are playing. Rubinstein. Soul, but no technique.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Forgot until the last minute that today is the deadline if you got a tax extension.
Wanna turn this nation into a libertarian stronghold in which the Feds take precisely that amount of GDP that it takes to fund the DoD and no more?
Outlaw tax preparers and Turbo tax.
No person can actually read that bullshit and jump through their bullshit hoops and not come out loathing the government. Noam Chomsky would be wearing a frickin MAGA hat if he had to do his own taxes.
Outlaw the withholding tax and we'll be a nation of anarchists too.
Also noticed the Barrycarepenaltytax seems to be back. If you didn't have health insurance all year they ding you for some shared payment or something or other.

[Dave (in MA)]

A bitter pill for Snopes to swallow,
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/crowd-at-trump-july-4-event/

"Purportedly" true, but also true.

[D]

Warren just turned off a lot of voters with her snarky comment that she could beat Trump ,Pence or whoever the republicans are stuck with.

[jimmyk]

“And the make the appeal process as difficult as possible.“

In NYC it’s a joke, just guaranteed full employment for lawyers. The city makes a high assessment, then it’s appealed, and the lawyers get it reduced, but get a percentage of the reduction. No way that could be abused, right?

[Narciso]

Gq is admittingly its past metrosexual.

[MissMarple2]

This is from the opening of the debate. Video at the link.

DNC debate is off to a horrifying start with the Chairman of the DNC encouraging the intelligence community to leak on their Commander In Chief.

This further solidifies the notion that the intelligence community is being weaponize against a sitting president.

It’s a coup: pic.twitter.com/y4955N6UCW

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) October 16, 2019

[MissMarple2]

Steve Herman
@W7VOA
·
4m
Tomorrow afternoon, @POTUS
will meet with Congressional leadership in the Cabinet Room, confirms @WhiteHouse

The topic, according to sources, will be #Turkey/#Syria.

[Narciso]

Thats why the krewe arresr went down a rabbit hole.

[Manuel Transmission]

BTW, after seeing that same pic of the two Bidens with their shit eating grins a few thousand times, I had a pretty firm image in my head about Jr’s real teeth and plugs’ dentures, so with the new clips of Sniffy being interviewed, it was immediately obvious that he now has new perfect choppers. Wonder if he used pop’s ortho?

[MissMarple2]

Brad Parscale
@parscale

To be honest, it’s not appropriate for all the Democrats to gang up on Elizabeth Warren the day after Indigenous Peoples Day.

[D]

Harris by using pre-clearance would try to overturn state laws passed to prevent abortion after 6 weeks.
She would use federal govt power to overturn state law.

[MissMarple2]

From the news manager on The Daily Kos, indicating a certain lack of enthusiasm from the Democrats:

Jennifer Hayden
@Scout_Finch

In my mind, we were at the end. I'm legit sad we have another hour. I'm tired.

These people should go in a room and send out the nominee.

[GUS]

I have an autographed Jim Palmer jersey on my office wall.
And a Robin Yount autographed jersey.

[Narciso]

Well i suggested hunger games when they hit 24 candidates.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
10s
Shifty Adam Schiff wants to rest his entire case on a Whistleblower who he now says can’t testify, & the reason he can’t testify is that he is afraid to do so because his account of the Presidential telephone call is a fraud & totally different from the actual transcribed call...

.... It also brings Shifty’s fraudulent MADE UP CALL, which he read to the United States Congress pretending it to be the words of President Trump, which they were not! Nancy Pelosi is involved in this fraud in that she confirmed his fraudulent words on @GMA
, and much more!

[GUS]

I loved the vidoe over the weekend of SQUAW marching with the QUEERS, as THEY like to call themselves.
Headline???
Lez Warren marches with Queers.

[jimmyk]

“Warren just turned off a lot of voters with her snarky comment”

She’s clueless—and contemptuous—about anyone who doesn’t think like a prog, which is most people between MA and CA. As an example, she’s evidently proud of that “if he can find one” snark since it’s on her Twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1182482749661368320

If she’s the nominee, just run that video.

[MissMarple2]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1184172220781912064.html

This is a thread by John Hayward, a writer for Breitbart, about the advantages of nationalism over tribalism, and why the progs are always pushing tribalism.

I think it's quite good.

Here is the original thread on Twitter, in case you want to read replies.

https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1184180399834091524

[Narciso]

Yes that was a good thread,

[Dave (in MA)]

Tom Maguire@Tom_Maguire
·
Harris resumes mortifying herself by ruminating whether there's any law telling men what to do with their bodies.
I remember the draft.
Selective Service is still on the books. Law still applies only to men.
https://sss.gov/Home/Registration

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/_crystalmaga/status/1184272939887316993

This thread and the replies are concerned about Biden's apparent threatening statement towards the President at the debate, targeted for the 17th (which is also when President Trump will be in Dallas).

[MissMarple2]

How you know President Trump's campaign strategy is effective and the Democrats can't figure out how to counter it:

Johnny Irish
⭐
⭐
⭐
@RedWingGrips
·
10h
Kamala Harris urged the suspension of Trumps Twitter account.

Cory Booker demanded Trump Rallies be cancelled.

Julian Castro released a hit list of Trump supporters.

Robert O'Rourke called on Tech giants to censor Trump content.

The 2020 Democratic Party is an unhinged mob.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--what to do with their bodies--

Every time I hear that argument I think of the Sex Pistols' song Bodies.
If you're moral immoral than the LaRouchies and Sid Vicious you just might be a Red.

[MissMarple2]

Brad Parscale
@parscale
·
2h
Biden just said he never discussed the sweetheart gig with Hunter Biden. Said no one has ever said he did.

Except that Hunter said they did talk about it.

This morning on Good Morning America.

[MissMarple2]

GOP
@GOP
·
1h
You just saw 2020 Dems try to take a shot at the record-low unemployment rate under President Trump by claiming that rate is low only because people are working 2 or 3 jobs.

The truth?

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 5% of Americans have multiple jobs.
=====================================
I am very pleased that the GOP is answering in real time all of these falsehoods. The dems have counted on us being a sleepy opponent that doesn't pay attention to these debates.

No more! Great work!

[GUS]

When I saw the Sex Pistols, they OPENED with BODIES.
I predicted among my friends that they would.
The LYRICS are graphic, and SAY IT ALL.

[GUS]

Ig..."she was an animal, she was a fucking disgrace"..............

Kamaltoe fits that description.

[MissMarple2]

Dan Scavino just posted an oldie but goodie. Video at the link.

pic.twitter.com/t2pzP0wgMu

— Dan Scavino (@DanScavino) October 16, 2019

[Narciso]

I guess i have become more familoar then the clash.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

GUS,
I think Harris is the most vile of a remarkably vile bunch.
There is not a genuine bone in her body, except maybe for Willie's. She is corrupt, stupid, arrogant, calculating, ambitious and astonishingly unpleasant.
She strikes me as a genuine sociopath on a quest for mindless power for the sake of mindless power.

[Another Bob]

Where Rich at?

[MissMarple2]

Four years ago, I was convinced that the polls were pretty accurate, within a couple of points. I went into Election Day determined to vote, liking Trump, but with a huge burden of fear.

Now I know they are as corrupt as the press, except for possibly Rasmussen. Brian Cates has written a thread about it, here:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1184273741141958656.html

[Another Bob]

Nats just swept the Cardinals.

‘Stros Nats would be a most excellent Series.

[Dave (in MA)]

Congrats on the pennant, Walgreen's Expos.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President. Link goes to Hatper Collins.

Great new book just released by ⁦@RandPaul⁩. The Case Against Socialism - Rand Paul - Hardcover. Pick up your copy today. https://t.co/eRmtS29n9r

— Corey R. Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) October 15, 2019

[MissMarple2]

As Hispanic Heritage Month wraps up, please see my interview with ⁦@LaraLeaTrump⁩ about the #TrumpBoom and the benefits for Latino citizens... https://t.co/HH1mimkGCQ

— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) October 15, 2019

Link goes to video on his Facebook page.

[Dave (in MA)]

MM, I watch that like a Gilligan's Island rerun when I was 9. I don't care if I saw it 20 times already, I have to watch it again!

[Melinda]

MM-

Your 10:11 makes me think of a Turkish Bank playing the spoiler card.