The Walls Are Closing In On Trump

The Times finally runs the "John Dean moment" story they probably outlined months ago. Still waiting for a smoking gun, but I know they are ready with that headline as well.

Definitely a tipping point.

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[MissMarple2]

I was a sophomore in high school in 1963. Gee, I still remember it like it was yesterday!

[Melinda]

Catturd
@catturd2
So, that’s why Joe Biden kisses so many babies while campaigning.

He knows most of them are probably Hunter’s.

https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1197939710066331648

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/kanye-west-jesus-king-texas-prison-constitution-violation-atheist-group

Complaining atheists, per usual.

[Neo]

If Jennife* *ubin was really serious about "R"

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/sgonnawin2020/status/1197663270381015041

Thread on a Ukranian arms dealer and his connections to a variety of Washington people. Down in the replies I also learned that Robert Soros is married to Adam Schiff's sister.

Also, Lindsay Graham was over in Ukraine a lot with McCain/

[Sammy Small]

Why can't Tweety Bharara be removed by Trump for gross negligence. Is he part of 4D?

[Melinda]

Preet can not be fired twice.

[Melinda]

Mickey Kaus
@kausmickey
Barone: Impeachment "pseudo-event is crowding out two genuine events of potentially world-shaking importance and uncertain outcome" [the unrest in Hong Kong and Iran] realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/

https://twitter.com/kausmickey/status/1197956620933726208

[henry]

JMH, “Q” is the seventeenth letter of the alphabet... so I almost expected a linking flaming Trump was the fifth force of nature. I guess I spent too much time in The_Donald last year. :)

[henry]

Punking link claiming Trump...

[Buckeye]

writer finds it "odd" that everyone loves @dollyparton even though she "has remained reluctant to make the slightest hint of a political statement," which wins the prize as the most New York Times-y sentiment of the week

Dolly Parton has a net worth of ~$500 million.

Yep, she is just a dumb "hillbilly".

[JM Hanes]

Since things seem a little slow now that the circus has left town, how about a little news from the art world?

Remains of Montaigne Found — in a Bordeaux Museum, where the were "extracted" from a basement tomb! They are pretty sure the coffin was that of the philosopher because it didn't confirm to geometrical norms. Sounds like he's been communicating with Mazie Hirono, considering his view that "science does not exist, but only a general belief in science."

Hitler Birthplace to Become Police Station

[A]fter years of legal wrangling… the government looks to prevent the building from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.

Artist Seeing Red Over Plan to Remove 'Charging Bull' from Financial Hub, to protect the children New Yorkers. Moving it to the Stock Exchange. I've tried to picture how the artist originally managed to set it up surreptitiously, when the thing weighs 7,000 lbs.

German art worth €300m disappears in China I'm sure someone with a working memory can provide an appropriate a quote from the Princess Bride to cover this:

SHE SAID:

The works are part of the MAP collection belonging to Maria Chen-Tu, a German woman of Taiwanese heritage, who said she loaned them to a Chinese businessman to show them in Chinese museums, Deutschlandfunk reported. After several such exhibitions, “I asked that all the works located in China should be returned to my depot in Hong Kong,” she said

HE SAID:

The businessman is identified as Ma Yue, who told Deutschlandfunk that he had been assigned to sell the works and show them in exhibitions for a period of ten years.

Does anybody think that art is going back to Hong Kong?

[MissMarple2]

Buckeye,

Wear your rain gear. Map and longer explanation at links:

Rain is forecast for much of the mid-Atlantic coast and the Ohio Valley this weekend. Meanwhile, other parts of the region have the potential to be on the receiving end of some wintry precipitation during part of the storm: https://t.co/Ewwo0uxnGi pic.twitter.com/ZcpqvZiN8g

— AccuWeather (@breakingweather) November 22, 2019

[JM Hanes]

henry:

Well, at least my reading comprehension appears to be intact, if not my IQ. Checking out that tweet thread on the highway bridge sign, I thought that Q has a certain Scarlet Pimpernel Redux quality. although I suspect I'm not the first to make that observation.

[Captain Hate]

Good luck, Buckeye. The only game I attended at the Shoe was when the Troy Smith led Bucks beat State Penn, featuring JoePa sprinting to the locker room with an intestinal urgent matter.

[Captain Hate]

>Question for Jack - I seem to remember Rod Rosenstein stating that when he signed/signs FISA warrants, basically saying "hey, the lower level folks do X, Y & Z. I'm practically a formality." Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought he said something to that effect. If so, then how does his statement about this issue (if I read your previous comments correctly) about knowing about this change.

What he said in Jone of 2018 is that he was not the affiant. Because he wasn't.

The affiant is the person who reviews everything associated with the FISA application including the Woods Procedures that affirm every single thing in the application has been verified and confirmed.

That's the person who is fucked.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2019 02:11 PM (ZLI7S)

[Buckeye]

MM

Will do!

[The Infamous Ignatz]

So any suggestions on where should I go first to read the Dem and media denunciations of billionaires buying our elections re Bloomberg?
I'm guessing there's a large selection.

[MissMarple2]

JM Hanes,

“They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That demned elusive Pimpernel”

I haven't read anyone comparing Q to the Pimpernel, but it's a darned good analogy!

I ran across a really interesting Q thread earlier today. I will see if I can find it and link it.

What fascinates me about the Q stuff is that there are people who follow that from all over the world, including places like India!

[The Infamous Ignatz]

A Princess Bride quote?
I'm thinking Otter to Flounder in Animal House would fit better.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

Steph 12:49
Steph is my hero!

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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48m
Thank you to @senatemajldr
Mitch McConnell and @GOPLeader
Kevin McCarthy for their Great Leadership! There has never been so much unity and spirit in the Republican Party, as there is right now!

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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38m
.@SecAzar
and I will soon release a plan to let Florida and other States import prescription drugs that are MUCH CHEAPER than what we have now! Hard-working Americans don’t deserve to pay such high prices for the drugs they need. We are fighting DAILY to make sure this HAPPENS...

...While we had the first prescription drug price decrease in 50 years, Americans still pay far too much for drugs – other countries pay far less – that is WRONG! We will soon be putting more options on the table...

...Pelosi and her Do Nothing Democrats drug pricing bill doesn’t do the trick. FEWER cures! FEWER treatments! Time for the Democrats to get serious about bipartisan solutions to lowering prescription drug prices for families...

...House Republicans are showing real LEADERSHIP and prepared to enact bipartisan solutions for drug prices. Do Nothing Democrats are playing partisan politics with YOUR drug prices! We are READY to work together if they actually want to get something done!

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/11/22/mueller-probes-andrew-weissmann-spreads-trump-russia-conspiracy-theory-on-msnbc/

[Barbara]

So, in the post war era they have instead, pretty much worldwide, been tunneling away into the same institutions to convert them to being very imical indeed to their plans, and a lefty is nothing without plans.
Then, you had a conflagration as tyrants assaulted the people's institutions violently because they couldn't or wouldn't defeat them peacefully. Now the tyrants own the people's former institutions and the people's only recourse, if they wish to take them back, is seemingly another conflagration.

Posted by: The Infamous Ignatz | November 22, 2019 at 10:29 AM

You've summed it up nicely. "They" always have a plan. They didn't bank on Donald Trump, but they already had a plan in the works for him and probably one for anyone else who might disturb their timetable. No matter. The plan will morph.

[Melinda]

@ddayen

Here are a couple good pieces up this afternoon at @theprospect. @rkuttnerwrites reports on the new NAFTA agreement: "Two members of the working group have confirmed to me that nothing will be approved unless Trumka signs off on it"

https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1197962944560058368?s=21

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

Three pretty famous people died on this day in '63, it's been discussed in previous threads.
JFK.
Aldous Huxley.

I forget the third.

[Melinda]

I’m sure Trumpka has nothing to worry about, UAW wise.

[jimmyk]

I hate to sound all ledgey, but this doesn't bode will if true (it's the WaPo so who knows), regarding that FBI falsified record (via Althouse):

That conduct did not alter Horowitz’s finding that the surveillance application of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page had a proper legal and factual basis, the officials said.

How would they know that? The report hasn't been released. But if so, we may be in for another Horowitz whitewash.

We'd already heard the conclusion that it didn't affect the validity of the application, but that could have been because with or without the application was a complete fraud. Apparently maybe not the case.

[GUS]

They sit around a conference table and plan the NEXT LIE to cover up the LAST LIE. Then they pass on todays or this weeks LIE FEST to the MFM...........etcetera etcetera etcetera.
Russia, Stormy, Ukraine rinse repeat.

[jimmyk]

Jim, the 3rd was C.S. Lewis.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/27/tucker_carlson_adam_schiff_is_clearly_and_demonstrably_mentally_ill.html

Good video and transcript by Tucker Carlson. I would read the transcript so you don't have to listen to creepy Adam Schiff.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

JiB would know the third. If he's lurking

[jimmyk]

Ahem.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

finds it "odd" that everyone loves @dollyparton even though she "has remained reluctant to make the slightest hint of a political statement,"

Is it the Fox Butterworth Effect? Butterfield?

[jimmyk]

Yes, Jim, Fox Butterfield. A NYT specialty.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

Sorry! Didn't refresh :)
Thanks jimmyk. You're a paragon.

[Melinda]

jimmyk-

I linked earlier to a Byron York piece about the leaking of the altered docs to launch FISA being linked most likely by a report’s named respondent, which would be his expectation from prior respondents acts.

[Melinda]

And the alterations were apparently confirmed by the same idiot, I mean, “line attorney” trying to alter an email to support the “edit”.

[JM Hanes]

jimmyk:

I hate to say it, but I've never expected much from Horowitz.
Considering the results of his last "investigation," I'd be surprised if we got much more than "mistakes were made." I don't remember what his CV looks like, but I suspect his sympathies fundamentally lie with his fellow bureaucrats, whose jobs he'd prefer to save. My best case scenario is humiliating revelations, and assessments that don't preclude further pursuit.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

MSM political forecasting tool

[jimmyk]

JMH, he was appointed by Obama. 'Nuff said.

At best I suspect he has the Andrew McCarthy disease of giving everyone the benefit of the doubt.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

I'm betting this will turn out to be huge based on recent reading of scientist Nick Lane and others.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/349068/
Protein protects the mitochondria and surprisingly rescues neurons from stroke-like damage

[jimmyk]

Daniel Greenfield gets to the bottom of the CFA cave-in:

The donations were coming out of the Chick-fil-A Foundation. The Executive Director of the CFA Foundation is Rodney D. Bullard, a former White House fellow and Assistant US Attorney. Some may have mistaken him for a conservative because he was a fellow in the Bush Administration, but he was an Obama donor, and, more recently, had donated to Hillary Clinton’s campaign while at Chick-fil-A.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/11/chick-fil-put-obama-and-hillary-supporter-charge-daniel-greenfield/

[Marlene]

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has gifted millions of books to children around the world. Yeah,a hillbilly. *eyeroll*

[The Infamous Ignatz]

We likely won't get much from Durham either.

Allow me to broken record this;

When the crooks make the laws and the crooks enforce the laws and the crooks judge the laws the law dies and the crooks skate.
We have legal, political and judicial symptoms.
We have a moral, cultural and spiritual disease.

[Jack is Back!]

C.S. Lewis

[Melinda]

Alex Thompson
@AlxThomp
Bloomberg ad buy is at $19.4 MILLION for next week alone and data is still coming in.
Updating story below. State by state breakdown so far. Also, follow @ZachMontellaro twitter.com/alxthomp/statu…

https://twitter.com/AlxThomp/status/1197969082676662272

Please note the "Controversial" ad buy in Wyoming at the bottom of the table at the link.

[MissMarple2]

Burisma, Hunter Biden, Barack Obama, DNC...it's on pic.twitter.com/vgH3aq5BqH

— Paul Bedard (@SecretsBedard) November 22, 2019

Screen cap at link.

[James D.]

At best I suspect he has the Andrew McCarthy disease of giving everyone the benefit of the doubt.

Not everyone. Just fellow federal bureaucrats.

[Dave (in MA)]

Excellent Jim, I guess both of the Avenatti Channels use that in pre-show meetings.

[Melinda]

https://twitter.com/JohnBasham/status/1197886722790563843
John Basham
BREAKING: ICIG Michael Atkinson, who modified whistle-blower forms & allowed hearsay CIA leaker, was chief legal counsel for DOJ-NSD over #KevinClines...

https://twitter.com/JohnBasham/status/1197886722790563843

Harold Finch

[Thomas Collins]

Re alterations: This doesn't even get to the Strzok level. Perhaps the underling will sing on Strzok, perhaps not. I just hope this is not the biggest supposed bombshell from the Horowitz report. Otherwise, even my low expectations won't be met.

[Narciso]

As we suspected the social responsibilty for chick a fil was responsible.

[Melinda]

LIVE Breaking News
@NewsBreaking
BREAKING: Arizona man's multi-million dollar home raided in Homeland Security money laundering case bit.ly/2KLb7eq

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1197976165639544832

[Narciso]

Willowed as they say.

[Melinda]

The alteration justified the Carter Page FISA application means nothing.

Got it.

[Melinda]

Again? Aw, mann.

(I saw what you did there...)

[Barbara]

On the same page as Melinda's link above:

https://newsbreakinglive.com/2019/11/19/breaking-two-of-jeffrey-epsteins-prison-guards-arrested/

Well, if you can't go in the front door, either break it down or go in the back door. Sooner or later they'll get to the source that set the hit up - if they're serious about this. There are so many suspects with the money and the motivation to see Epstein gone.

Oh, and Epstein didn't kill himself.

[Dave (in MA)]

https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-electric-pickup-plaid-power/

Pickup truck? Something tells me that this is going to be something driven by trendy dipshits, if anybody, and not guys who actually need a pickup. I can't picture one with a ladder on top.

[JM Hanes]

BTW, Ignatz:

I think your comment at 10:17 on the previous page was very well put and very apropos where we find ourselves:.

Everyone knows the system is corrupt but the means by which it can be rooted out is itself corrupted. And so, absent a political fix, tensions build…

If anyone missed it, Ignatz' post is worth reading in it's entirely. Let me know if the link I've posted doesn't take you there.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

Thanks, JM. I've said the same thing about a hundred times so I oughta have it down by now. :)

[JM Hanes]

Dave:

Yeah, like the couple hitting the shopping centers in their Hummer and slowing down to 5 mph going over the speed bumps....

[JM Hanes]

Ignatz:

But I don't think you've said exactly the same way before....

[Dave (in MA)]

I didn't know typepad started supporting direct links to comments again. It was broken around the same time they broke the Last Page feature.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

The funny thing about Tesla's grotesque [IMO] and impractical [those sloping siderails proved useless on Honda's first illfated pickup] cyberpunk truck is at the official unveiling he invited some dude to throw a big ball bearing at the windows to prove how sturdy they were. They weren't.
Seems like something you might test first.

[Dave (in MA)]

It's a Bizzaro World El Camino.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

No wonder progs want to ban it;
Study Says Fracking is Saving Families $2,500 Annually, Significantly Lowering Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/attorney-general-bill-federal-executions-supreme-court

Barr says he will take federal execution reinstatement to the Supreme Court.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

I just realized one of the little things we take for granted as I was tying my tennis shoes.
They are a pair of scruffy reeboks I use for light work, walking and generally mucking about in and are old and grubby, and have been everywhere. But I still can't remember the last time I broke a shoelace.
When I was a kid shoe laces were forever breaking, even when practically new.

[John S]

"I just hope this is not the biggest supposed bombshell from the Horowitz report." --Tom Collins.

I thought the idea is that deep staters are releasing items like this to desensitize the public so that when bigger transgressions are revealed, the impact will be lessened.

[Melinda]

That’s Byron York’s theory., John S.

[henry]

The boiled frog approach almost got Hilligula elected to cap off a global socialist dystopia. The left is simply sticking with what has worked for them the past century.

[MissMarple2]

Even the libs at Vanity Fair know Pelosi and Schiff have screwed up!

Americans won’t stand for impeaching the President for strictly political reasons.https://t.co/7c3GWlXUo7

— Brad Parscale (@parscale) November 22, 2019

Link goes to article in Vanity Fair.

[henry]

@CNBC

Tesla falls more than 6% after Cybertruck flub—Cramer and other pros talk prospects $TSLA (via @TradingNation)

[Jack is Back!]

I was a squad leader in my AFROTC detachment at Cincy my Junior year. We actually got put on alert since some of the G2 elements in DoD thought it may have been a Soviet inspired hit so they could launch an attack out of Cuba. Last two days also revealed to me at that age how nervous the G2 community and military can make each other.

Of course we lost close to 58K in Vietnam to prove that point.

[John S]

Any chance that anyone in DOJ is working on the emails from Weiner's laptop? I would buy that book.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

YouTube posted on BJG blog.
College kid talks about population replacement in 1st World countries. If you've never heard of the "Putnam Study", worth a listen.

Not offensive at all, but totes unPC.
Seven and a half minutes.
https://youtu.be/C4fmpVg0w8s

[Melinda]

"Just "Conspiracy Theories", move along.

But in case it gets worse, those are "Conspiracy Theories", too, whatever they might be."::

Nicholas Thompson
@nxthompson
"In 2016, Russia weaponized America’s own partisanship. Rather, than uniting as a country against foreign incursions, the GOP saw Vladimir Putin’s playbook and said, enthusiastically, “Yes, please, I’ll have more of that.” wired.com/story/gop-cons…

https://twitter.com/nxthompson/status/1197979361812631553

[John S]

An altered 302 in the Carter Page FISA application actually doesn't sound like such a big deal. As McCabe admitted, that FISA application was all about the Steele dossier.

[hoyden]

Ramirez gets it right.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/11/chick-fil-a-caves-to-the-left-the-cartoon.php

[MissMarple2]

From Twitter:

I think it's easy. Who has disappeared and not written a book or gotten a job on CNN? Anyone who's in deep shit and has gone dark has flipped.

[Marlene]

The videos of Fredo Cuomo's phone call to his mother and the Tesla shattered window stunt will put a smile on your face if you haven't watched.

[henry]

Spin, or accurate prediction of another Horowitz dud? Thread fwiw

@kyledcheney

The IG report coming out next month is expected to make no finding that COMEY, MCCABE or STRZOK acted on anti-Trump political bias in Russia probe, per NYT

https://t.co/zKtqLgvQuF

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1197983936330252289?s=21

[Buckeye]

henry,

Happy hour is extended an extra 2 hours today on The Ledge.

[henry]

Buckeye, I may have started early.

[MissMarple2]

WHY are you people believing the New York Times?

[Dave (in MA)]

Bro Cuomo* completely validated Trump wrt the phone but then pretended that he totally pwned Bad Orange Man.

(*can you tell whose radio show I listen to?)

[Dave (in MA)]

you people? I thought we couldn't say that.

[Melinda]

John S.

A stool needs at least 3 legs, that one has two busted ones, plus “fruit of a poisoned tree” rule makes none of it work.

[MissMarple2]

Sorry, Dave. Maybe should have said you guys.

The New York Times disseminates misinformation on a regular basis. I do not pay attention to anything they post.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

JiB! 3:28, I *knew* you would know :) :)

[John S]

Melinda, couldn't there be evidence of other crimes in Weiner's laptop besides abuse of classified information?

[Dave (in MA)]

Can't say that either. :^)

[MissMarple2]

Rudy Giuliani
@RudyGiuliani
Biden: Lindsey Graham will “regret his whole life”!

This reminds me of Biden’s decree to the media to silence me on September 29th.

Now a threat to a US Senator. This is getting to be more and more like my old mafia cases. They sure do sound like crooks.

[D]

Agree with Neo that Durban has always been s jackass.
Good analysis by Iggy.
Giuliani is being fiercely attacked because he has the proof that The Bidens are crooked.
Joe keeps threatening people and his punching remarks at the debate were comical.
Last night on Tucker, Mark Steyn did a riff on it that had my husband and I cracking up!
Subbed today so I am tired out.
Enjoyed all the posts.

[Melinda]

Kyle Cheney?

@kyledcheney
The Post now elaborates on this in a matching story: washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1197997147939131393?s=21

Which is just a coincidence, both stories stating that Mifsud is NOT an FBI Asset, nor was the investigation into DJT begun off of the Steele Dossier, but only because Mifsud offering emails of Hillary! Months before they “were publicly known to have been hacked by Russia”.

Kyle Cheney’s writing life before Politico was scrubbed from any association with Ezra Klein or Josh Marshall, but started writing about “health care” in 2009, before joining Politico In 2012.

[Melinda]

JohnS-

Unpossible!

[Melinda]

Divorced A Weiner had no need for life insurance.

Honest!

[clarice]

Helfer and Mifsud were CIA. Helfer paid thru ONA (DOD). Mifsud, I don't know how they paid him