Huge reorganization plan of federal government, which is why many bureaucrats are trying to undermine President Trump, if you ask me.
Includes:
Privatizing the Postal Service.
Merging the Education and Labor departments.
Reorganizing safety-net programs into a Department of Health and Public Welfare.
Creating a governmentwide public-private partnership office to improve services to citizens, and stewardship of public resources.
Relocating more staff and offices outside the National Capital Region.
Dramatically shrinking the Office of Personnel Management.
Revamping the Army Corps of Engineers.
It's in Trump's electoral benefit if the Democrats don't understand it and go ahead with impeachment.
That's one reason I think this all revolves around the Horowitz/Durham investigations. Pelosi, Schumer etc know the shit is about to hit the fan. They know impeaching Trump increases his chances of winning 2020 in a landslide. The only reason for the Democrats to go forward on impeachment is if there is something more dangerous to them than another 4 years of Trump. Going to jail fits that category.
I'm willing to bet anyone here a six pack of beer that everything related to impeachment is to help Democrats who get indicted to hopefully get a mistrial via a hung jury.
Pin, worry #1 is Mitch. His career got kicked off as the Kentucky branch of the IL machine. His wife’s family is crony capitalist from Taiwan. He took his time on cracking down about Trump’s appointees and ridiculous delays. He let McCain fuck us all on ACA.
I think we find out who he really is soon. He came from the swamp. Has he transcended it?
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
·
3h
BREAKING: A second Comey FBI agent in addition to FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith will be cited for misconduct in the Russia "collusion" probe, making it more implausible that their supervisor Strzok was unaware of their conduct and that they were rogue agents operating on their own
(Chart from post above) "The chart below shows Google interest in “Disney” (red line) and “impeachment” (blue line). This captures anyone who went looking for news or commentary on impeachment proceedings, the impeachment schedule, impeachment testimony, and so on, over the past 12 months. Watergate this is not. "
Have no idea how MoveOn got my cell phone #. They texted me today:
"Hi (my name) I'm Paula, a MoveOn volunteer. President Trump's corruption & abuse of power are impeachable offenses and we need to do everything we can to impeach Trump now and ensure that complicit Republicans are defeated in 2020. Will you pledge to vote Democratic in 2020? Text YES to XXX and we will tell you how to make a difference.
My Answer:
"Hi Paula, Actually President Trump has done NOTHING but good things for our country. Best economic times in decades, lowest unemployment, border security...or, in other words - facts!
The wicked Dems will rue the day they started this charade.
Obviously you need to remove my number from your database.
And finally, Thanks for guaranteeing a huge MAGA victory next year!!! Merry Christmas!
Answer: "I am removing you from the MoveOn texts immediately. Have a great day."
There are many reasons behind this, circulation is but one of them, but when your ad revenue is banking on overpriced election ads and being a clearing house for matching bylines with paid placements. You might be drawing to an inside straight this time around.
[money laundering is the source of political ad buys? The deuce you say!]
Sorry for the typos. I never took touch typing, so I count on being able to see my keyboard. When the sun goes down and the light fades, I make errors.
This is a mashup of the Emperor's New Clothes and the Kamikazes. They've got nothing and are about to commence their fine approach to the USS Maga.
This time though, Trump has the most effective armaments in the world, A fighting spirit and the facts. They are, I think, going to run into a buzzsaw.
If Pelosi is looking for an off-ramp, Horowitz will provide one for her next week, with assistance from Barr and Graham. Message to Dem base: "She did her best, she really did."
I keep having this black and white film running in my mind on the House Democratic Leadership. I’m hoping you can help calm me down from the implications. It’s called, I believe...
Today someone called my office for advice about what to tell a Soldier with a "confederate" flag on his car. My advice was that, as an Army officer, he needs to infom the SM of Lee's order to surrender, and should accept the SM's surrender.
1/
I think this is the original version Mel.
I remember the E Type they used to back over the little old lady.
I think yours is the one at the end of the movie And Now For Something Completely Different and uses a couple of MG-Bs.
Jubal E. Harshaw
@alimhaider
Journalists are the Party's catamites.
Katy Tur @KatyTurNBC
Wall-to-wall impeachment coverage is not changing any minds. Here’s how journalists can reach the undecided. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…
This is nice. It's no doubt a publicity/tourism piece,and a bit cheesy, but the sentiment in the letter is nice, and tells us that Trump is inspiring more than just American working class people. People went to the trouble to make this sword and compose the letter. Links go to photo and screen cap of letter. (Photo and letter from 2016 and just popped up on my feed.)
Mocking the woman who called his office to complain about a soldier’s use of a Flag of the N Army of Virginia STICKER on his bumper is perfect use of historical terms of surrender to highlight her ignorant snowflakiness.
The following people are two -faced and not to be trusted:
Mueller-still waiting for TomR to admit he was totally wrong about him
Rosenstein-I still stand with Rocco-Hope Hicks comment nonApplicable
Comey: Whack job, leaker, soon to be a hubris victim,narcissistic idiot, who lives in an alternate reality.
TomR
You can put lipstick on them , but they are all still pigs
McCabe:Still think he will be indicted.
Goalposts have been moved and no we don’t want to bet you a six pack of beer unless it Corona.
I want all Confederate memorabilia preserved, including all statues.
It is a part of our history you prog fools.
True confession :
I am under the influence of a glass of wine and bottle of Corona.
@KimStrassel and @WSJ
Also from my column: Constitutional lawyer David Rivkin makes the case that Schiff has opened himself up lawsuits from targets of these subpoenas.
Schiff opens himself up to lawsuits. But as a Congressman, not as an individual. So taxpayers lose either way and Schiff gets his pension unharmed (when he leaves office 50 years from now, not like CA won’t return him every two years):
Mueller-still waiting for TomR to admit he was totally wrong about him
Trump himself has declared countless number of times that Mueller exonerated him. GOP members of Congress have declared countless number of times that the Mueller Report proved Trump didn’t collude with the Russians. I’m perfectly fine being in agreement with them on that. What do you think I should admit to being totally wrong about?
I’ve been stewing about Tucker’s segment on Pete Singer since I first watched it. I’ve been thru Sidney, NE lots of times. Pete Singer took a perfectly good company paying good wages and plundered it. I’m not going to get personal with anyone on this center right blog but who wants to step up and try to defend this “Muh Capitalism” bullshit?
Dinesh D'Souza
@DineshDSouza
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8m
Notice how Republicans are getting tougher, are actually enjoying fighting back? Pow! Pow! Pow! That’s the Trump Effect. Like Lincoln did a century and a half ago, @realDonaldTrump
shows us how to deal with Democrats Gone Wild!
Legislating against it would create more problems than it would solve. It's an unfortunate flaw in the system. The co villain was Sassy Pants for not speaking up for his constituents. He should be brutalized.
BREAKING: Surrounding area evacuated as emergency crews continue to investigate report of a small nuclear reactor inside a garage in northwest Columbus, Ohio
You can blame the actors, and certainly many are jerks. But the world does not stand still. “Muh capitalism bullshit” is the state of nature, bloody red in tooth and claw. The alternative is Venezuela.
The past few decades the playing field has tilted against US producers. Politicians made the incentive. Singer & ilk acted on them.
Trump is restoring a more level playing field. Yes he is adding tariffs, typically to trade where tariffs were lopsided against us. This will change incentives.
The result will remain unfair (we haven’t solved the problem of politicians existing), but more prosperous than alternatives.
What henry said, plus, why is Paul Singer the villain?
Hometown boy Jim Cabela could have stopped the sale if he wanted to.
Red Emmerson bought the local lumber company and closed the local mill down in an even smaller town here.
Liberty; political, personal and economic, means things change when people do what they want. Stopping them from changing means exchanging liberty for safety and the next time it will be you being stopped from doing what you want. And the next time, me. No thanks.
So why aren't the Cabela brothers the villains for taking it public to make more money to begin with?
It's always a risk losing control when you go public.
Even so I think Jim Cabela may have controlled enough shares to get his way.
Regardless, the power to stop such deals can only come from the government and making more power to the government the cure for virtually any problem is pretty much always worse than the disease.
It's a risk publicly traded companies run in terms of autonomy.
Might as well blame Mike Milkan and his Drexel Burnham Lambert crew for creating the leveraged buyout. Singer was following a well trod path. Plus the ever popular Fed for setting interest rates too high (or low), or even Goldman Sachs for brokering the bond sale portion of the deal (for sweet sweet fees).
The alternative to LBOs is zaibatsu, and propped up dead wood at the expense prosperity for Japan. Or possibly state owned like in France, that dynamo that exists on EU transfers from Britain and Germany.
Our system may be messy. But it does heal faster then grow when the politicians get the hell out of the way.
Was moving some stuff and ran across a Hemmings Motor News from 1985 I saved.
Let's see; nice series 1 E Type Jags under $20,000. Maserati Boras $15-33,000. Worst of all, and why I saved the mag, a 1965 Ferrari 275GTB Short Nose for $29,900. I knew, even at the time it was a steal, but I just didn't have the dough. Now? $1.5-2 million. Grrrr...
As for why Singer's the bad guy, if that's how you make a living, bankrolling a bunch of pols isn't a good look. Particularly if it feeds the GOP stereotype.
Well he does some good say with the manhattan institute, i dont like to rely on gregory palast who is somewhat certifiable but he sometimes inadvertently commits random acts of journalism.
That Vanity Fair article seems mostly concerned with convincing all of us that we shouldn't try to connect dots, because it's "conspiracy theory stuff" and not worth pursuing.
Tom R, perhaps an uncomfortable question. FBI does not have a recording of what Hicks said, so no transcription either. What they have is a 302. So the question is: did Hicks really say that? Or did an overeager agent edit his 302 to make it look like she said that? This entire argument has a foundation of banana peels.
clarice, what you and ChaCo say makes logical sense but I'm not sure if anyone in that party understands that.
Posted by: Captain Hate | December 05, 2019 at 05:15 PM
Logic got cancelled by feels 30 years ago.
Posted by: henry | December 05, 2019 at 05:18 PM
https://www.govexec.com/management/2018/06/trump-reorganization-plan-would-merge-education-and-labor-recast-hhs/149183/
Huge reorganization plan of federal government, which is why many bureaucrats are trying to undermine President Trump, if you ask me.
Includes:
Privatizing the Postal Service.
Merging the Education and Labor departments.
Reorganizing safety-net programs into a Department of Health and Public Welfare.
Creating a governmentwide public-private partnership office to improve services to citizens, and stewardship of public resources.
Relocating more staff and offices outside the National Capital Region.
Dramatically shrinking the Office of Personnel Management.
Revamping the Army Corps of Engineers.
More details in article.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 05:21 PM
You really have to ask yourself how many republicans like Rubio and Romney are financially or morally compromised in some way.
How’s Marco Rubio’s FICO score doing these days?
Posted by: Pinandpuller | December 05, 2019 at 05:25 PM
CH @ 5:15
It's in Trump's electoral benefit if the Democrats don't understand it and go ahead with impeachment.
That's one reason I think this all revolves around the Horowitz/Durham investigations. Pelosi, Schumer etc know the shit is about to hit the fan. They know impeaching Trump increases his chances of winning 2020 in a landslide. The only reason for the Democrats to go forward on impeachment is if there is something more dangerous to them than another 4 years of Trump. Going to jail fits that category.
I'm willing to bet anyone here a six pack of beer that everything related to impeachment is to help Democrats who get indicted to hopefully get a mistrial via a hung jury.
Posted by: Tom R | December 05, 2019 at 05:29 PM
Pin, worry #1 is Mitch. His career got kicked off as the Kentucky branch of the IL machine. His wife’s family is crony capitalist from Taiwan. He took his time on cracking down about Trump’s appointees and ridiculous delays. He let McCain fuck us all on ACA.
I think we find out who he really is soon. He came from the swamp. Has he transcended it?
Posted by: henry | December 05, 2019 at 05:32 PM
You really have to ask yourself how many republicans like Rubio and Romney are financially or morally compromised in some way.
Most of them?
Posted by: James D. | December 05, 2019 at 05:33 PM
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
·
3h
BREAKING: A second Comey FBI agent in addition to FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith will be cited for misconduct in the Russia "collusion" probe, making it more implausible that their supervisor Strzok was unaware of their conduct and that they were rogue agents operating on their own
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 05:39 PM
https://daysofsunshine.blog/2019/12/05/google-trends-shows-how-little-interest-there-is-in-the-impeachment-clown-show/
(Chart from post above) "The chart below shows Google interest in “Disney” (red line) and “impeachment” (blue line). This captures anyone who went looking for news or commentary on impeachment proceedings, the impeachment schedule, impeachment testimony, and so on, over the past 12 months. Watergate this is not. "
Posted by: Momto2 | December 05, 2019 at 05:41 PM
Have no idea how MoveOn got my cell phone #. They texted me today:
"Hi (my name) I'm Paula, a MoveOn volunteer. President Trump's corruption & abuse of power are impeachable offenses and we need to do everything we can to impeach Trump now and ensure that complicit Republicans are defeated in 2020. Will you pledge to vote Democratic in 2020? Text YES to XXX and we will tell you how to make a difference.
My Answer:
"Hi Paula, Actually President Trump has done NOTHING but good things for our country. Best economic times in decades, lowest unemployment, border security...or, in other words - facts!
The wicked Dems will rue the day they started this charade.
Obviously you need to remove my number from your database.
And finally, Thanks for guaranteeing a huge MAGA victory next year!!! Merry Christmas!
Answer: "I am removing you from the MoveOn texts immediately. Have a great day."
Posted by: Momto2 | December 05, 2019 at 05:47 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxhIwNjtfak
President and First Lady light the Matopma; Christmas Tree.
Special guests: Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows, and John Ratcliffe. Hahaha!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 05:48 PM
In related news, Gannett has started the holiday layoffs parade:
https://twitter.com/apantazi/status/1202622432542105602?s=21
There are many reasons behind this, circulation is but one of them, but when your ad revenue is banking on overpriced election ads and being a clearing house for matching bylines with paid placements. You might be drawing to an inside straight this time around.
[money laundering is the source of political ad buys? The deuce you say!]
Posted by: Melinda | December 05, 2019 at 05:49 PM
NATIOMAL Christmas Tree.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 05:49 PM
MATIONAL.
Also present are representatives of the Salvation Army.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 05:50 PM
--Looks like Biden had a melt-down, too! Video at link.
“You’re selling access to the President just like he was”
“You’re a damn liar man, that’s not true...”--
"...I was selling access to the VICE President!"
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | December 05, 2019 at 05:51 PM
LOL, MM. (sorry)
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | December 05, 2019 at 05:55 PM
Sorry for the typos. I never took touch typing, so I count on being able to see my keyboard. When the sun goes down and the light fades, I make errors.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 05:55 PM
This is a mashup of the Emperor's New Clothes and the Kamikazes. They've got nothing and are about to commence their fine approach to the USS Maga.
This time though, Trump has the most effective armaments in the world, A fighting spirit and the facts. They are, I think, going to run into a buzzsaw.
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | December 05, 2019 at 06:00 PM
final
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | December 05, 2019 at 06:00 PM
Lightworker Barry may get a smidge jealous;
TIME Contributor Says 'Nancy Pelosi Reminds Me of Jesus'
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | December 05, 2019 at 06:09 PM
Ig, how so? “missing from her tomb” kind of makes sense in a way.
Posted by: henry | December 05, 2019 at 06:11 PM
If Pelosi is looking for an off-ramp, Horowitz will provide one for her next week, with assistance from Barr and Graham. Message to Dem base: "She did her best, she really did."
Posted by: macthenaif | December 05, 2019 at 06:20 PM
Matt-
I keep having this black and white film running in my mind on the House Democratic Leadership. I’m hoping you can help calm me down from the implications. It’s called, I believe...
The Twit Olympics.
Posted by: Melinda | December 05, 2019 at 06:27 PM
President Trump is going to Battle Creek, Michigan for a rally on December 18.
Register here:
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/events/battle-creek-mi-dec-christmas-rally
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 06:30 PM
@ajthelawyer
Today someone called my office for advice about what to tell a Soldier with a "confederate" flag on his car. My advice was that, as an Army officer, he needs to infom the SM of Lee's order to surrender, and should accept the SM's surrender.
1/
https://twitter.com/ajthelawyer/status/1202389720417931264?s=21
I can not endorse this thread any higher than by saying this:
“Dave in MA, put your beverage down for this one.”
Posted by: Melinda | December 05, 2019 at 06:31 PM
Satire has gone zombie,
Posted by: Narciso | December 05, 2019 at 06:31 PM
In other news:
https://social.quodverum.com/@HeshmatAlavi
Posted by: Narciso | December 05, 2019 at 06:33 PM
But they told us last year
https://www.oann.com/saudi-aramco-prices-shares-at-top-of-range-in-worlds-biggest-ipo-sources/
Posted by: Narciso | December 05, 2019 at 06:35 PM
Better than martha mccallum
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kdVKGLl0wyk
Posted by: Narciso | December 05, 2019 at 06:37 PM
“worry #1 is Mitch”
Yep. Been saying that forever.
Other than judges (where he benefits too), Cocaine Mitch has done bupkis for Trump.
Perhaps CM is more comfortable with President Pence. But can he win an election? If not, who on Team R can?
Posted by: Another Bob | December 05, 2019 at 06:37 PM
Jan. 4, 1970, and I was wrong.
It was in color:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=twit+olympics+monty+python&view=detail&mid=CAC18A60C848F1889CBCCAC18A60C848F1889CBC&FORM=VIRE
Posted by: Melinda | December 05, 2019 at 06:41 PM
Christmas is just around the corner.
Some mood music.
https://youtu.be/a7j_cwW-lGg
Posted by: Buckeye | December 05, 2019 at 06:48 PM
I think this is the original version Mel.
I remember the E Type they used to back over the little old lady.
I think yours is the one at the end of the movie And Now For Something Completely Different and uses a couple of MG-Bs.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | December 05, 2019 at 07:04 PM
Mel, you were talking about new the Twitter TOU?
The shadowban is now an official part of the platform.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitter-censorship-confirmed-shadow-banning-now-written-platforms-new-terms
Posted by: Another Bob | December 05, 2019 at 07:09 PM
So it was just a template for them to repeat:
Jubal E. Harshaw
@alimhaider
Journalists are the Party's catamites.
Katy Tur @KatyTurNBC
Wall-to-wall impeachment coverage is not changing any minds. Here’s how journalists can reach the undecided. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…
https://twitter.com/alimhaider/status/1202738909484113920
[I wonder who wrote it before Maggie Sullivan cut and pasted it this morning?]
Posted by: Melinda | December 05, 2019 at 07:16 PM
Mel @ 6:31
Am I missing something? That didn’t read like satire to me. the guy is just a complete a-hole, as far as I can tell from his other tweets.
Posted by: James D. | December 05, 2019 at 07:17 PM
Gannett has started the holiday layoffs parade
This winning is like Christmas every day!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IJPc7esgvsA
Posted by: Captain Hate | December 05, 2019 at 07:18 PM
This is nice. It's no doubt a publicity/tourism piece,and a bit cheesy, but the sentiment in the letter is nice, and tells us that Trump is inspiring more than just American working class people. People went to the trouble to make this sword and compose the letter. Links go to photo and screen cap of letter. (Photo and letter from 2016 and just popped up on my feed.)
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 07:19 PM
Mocking the woman who called his office to complain about a soldier’s use of a Flag of the N Army of Virginia STICKER on his bumper is perfect use of historical terms of surrender to highlight her ignorant snowflakiness.
Posted by: Melinda | December 05, 2019 at 07:42 PM
The following people are two -faced and not to be trusted:
Mueller-still waiting for TomR to admit he was totally wrong about him
Rosenstein-I still stand with Rocco-Hope Hicks comment nonApplicable
Comey: Whack job, leaker, soon to be a hubris victim,narcissistic idiot, who lives in an alternate reality.
TomR
You can put lipstick on them , but they are all still pigs
McCabe:Still think he will be indicted.
Goalposts have been moved and no we don’t want to bet you a six pack of beer unless it Corona.
Posted by: D | December 05, 2019 at 07:42 PM
I want all Confederate memorabilia preserved, including all statues.
It is a part of our history you prog fools.
True confession :
I am under the influence of a glass of wine and bottle of Corona.
Posted by: D | December 05, 2019 at 07:45 PM
Retweeted by the President. Photo at the link.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 07:45 PM
we don’t want to bet you a six pack of beer unless it Corona.
Which we is this?
Posted by: Captain Hate | December 05, 2019 at 07:48 PM
Lots of Horde Sarah Palin love in this thread
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=384621
Posted by: Captain Hate | December 05, 2019 at 07:50 PM
So how did Schiff get the phone records?
Kimberley Strassel
@KimStrassel
·
12m
From my new column: “There does not appear to be any basis to believe that a congressional committee is authorized to subpoena telephone records directly from a provider..." says former Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
https://wsj.com/articles/adam-schiff-is-watching-11575591692?shareToken=stf82006f69db046469de36ee64a8fa8d5… via
@WSJ
Posted by: lurkersusie | December 05, 2019 at 07:58 PM
Good
@KimStrassel and @WSJ
Also from my column: Constitutional lawyer David Rivkin makes the case that Schiff has opened himself up lawsuits from targets of these subpoenas.
Posted by: lurkersusie | December 05, 2019 at 08:00 PM
"the Matopma Christmas Tree"
Is that the one that comes from India?
Posted by: JimNorCal | December 05, 2019 at 08:01 PM
Christmas tree (artificial) went up today but won't be decorated until after the grandkids get here on the 21st.
Posted by: Captain Hate | December 05, 2019 at 08:01 PM
Schiff opens himself up to lawsuits. But as a Congressman, not as an individual. So taxpayers lose either way and Schiff gets his pension unharmed (when he leaves office 50 years from now, not like CA won’t return him every two years):
Posted by: henry | December 05, 2019 at 08:05 PM
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/12/02/youtube_ceo_wojcicki_weve_cut_amount_of_time_americans_watch_controversial_content_by_70.html
You Tube CEO announces they have cut the time Americans can watch "controversial content" by 70%.
How thoughtful of them.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 08:05 PM
30-second video at the link of the Christmas Tree lighting.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 08:09 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/05/politics/pompeo-secret-donor-meeting/index.html#
CNN is speculating Pompeo is going to run for the Senate from Kansas.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 08:14 PM
For New York Post aficionados :
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a29875683/cindy-adams-new-york-post-queen-of-gossip/
Posted by: Tonto | December 05, 2019 at 08:15 PM
Mueller-still waiting for TomR to admit he was totally wrong about him
Trump himself has declared countless number of times that Mueller exonerated him. GOP members of Congress have declared countless number of times that the Mueller Report proved Trump didn’t collude with the Russians. I’m perfectly fine being in agreement with them on that. What do you think I should admit to being totally wrong about?
Posted by: Tom R | December 05, 2019 at 08:15 PM
Controversial content like climate being controlled by a gas measured in parts per million?
Posted by: Captain Hate | December 05, 2019 at 08:16 PM
I didn’t know the YouTube CEO could establish in loco parentis on adults. I suppose the assumption that the US has no adults is hard to argue.
Posted by: henry | December 05, 2019 at 08:17 PM
I’ve been stewing about Tucker’s segment on Pete Singer since I first watched it. I’ve been thru Sidney, NE lots of times. Pete Singer took a perfectly good company paying good wages and plundered it. I’m not going to get personal with anyone on this center right blog but who wants to step up and try to defend this “Muh Capitalism” bullshit?
Posted by: Pinandpuller | December 05, 2019 at 08:19 PM
Dinesh D'Souza
@DineshDSouza
·
8m
Notice how Republicans are getting tougher, are actually enjoying fighting back? Pow! Pow! Pow! That’s the Trump Effect. Like Lincoln did a century and a half ago, @realDonaldTrump
shows us how to deal with Democrats Gone Wild!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 08:20 PM
Pin-
Now do Eddie Lampert.
Posted by: Melinda | December 05, 2019 at 08:23 PM
Pin,
Legislating against it would create more problems than it would solve. It's an unfortunate flaw in the system. The co villain was Sassy Pants for not speaking up for his constituents. He should be brutalized.
Posted by: Captain Hate | December 05, 2019 at 08:23 PM
@NewsBreaking
BREAKING: Surrounding area evacuated as emergency crews continue to investigate report of a small nuclear reactor inside a garage in northwest Columbus, Ohio
https://twitter.com/newsbreaking/status/1202749003206578176?s=21
Posted by: Melinda | December 05, 2019 at 08:27 PM
Schumpeter. Creative destruction.
Smith. Comparative Advantage
You can blame the actors, and certainly many are jerks. But the world does not stand still. “Muh capitalism bullshit” is the state of nature, bloody red in tooth and claw. The alternative is Venezuela.
The past few decades the playing field has tilted against US producers. Politicians made the incentive. Singer & ilk acted on them.
Trump is restoring a more level playing field. Yes he is adding tariffs, typically to trade where tariffs were lopsided against us. This will change incentives.
The result will remain unfair (we haven’t solved the problem of politicians existing), but more prosperous than alternatives.
Posted by: henry | December 05, 2019 at 08:28 PM
Tonto,
Thanks for the Cindy Adams article. It was great!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 08:36 PM
Heh:
https://mobile.twitter.com/nataliejohnsonn/status/1202748370688860160
Posted by: Narciso | December 05, 2019 at 08:38 PM
I’ll bet cash money the only nuclear reactor anywhere near Columbus is on the OSU campus.
Posted by: Another Bob | December 05, 2019 at 08:41 PM
What henry said, plus, why is Paul Singer the villain?
Hometown boy Jim Cabela could have stopped the sale if he wanted to.
Red Emmerson bought the local lumber company and closed the local mill down in an even smaller town here.
Liberty; political, personal and economic, means things change when people do what they want. Stopping them from changing means exchanging liberty for safety and the next time it will be you being stopped from doing what you want. And the next time, me. No thanks.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | December 05, 2019 at 08:42 PM
Melinda,
Look at the reply to that Breaking 911 post which got shoved down into the "May have objectionable content" group, at the very end:
Joyously Deplorable
⭐️
⭐️
⭐️
@Deplorable1836
·
3m
Replying to
@NewsBreaking
Are the Deep State and Democrat Socialist Party not happy with the current news cycle's narrative?
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 08:42 PM
A few tweets down “nuclear reactor” was downgraded to “quantum physics experiment”
You only need a light bulb and a piece of paper with slots cut in it to do one of those.
Posted by: henry | December 05, 2019 at 08:43 PM
Michelson-Morley isn’t quite Q Mechanical, as I recall.
Posted by: Melinda | December 05, 2019 at 08:49 PM
What henry said, plus, why is Paul Singer the villain?
Hometown boy Jim Cabela could have stopped the sale if he wanted to.
Not really that easily without lawsuits and other nuisances. It's a risk publicly traded companies run in terms of autonomy.
Posted by: Captain Hate | December 05, 2019 at 08:49 PM
Screen caps of data at the link.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 08:50 PM
MM: Both Cindy Adams AND Judge Judy voted for The Donald!
Posted by: Tonto | December 05, 2019 at 08:53 PM
Seeing how the good prosecutor seems to be catering to tormentors of this fellow
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1202631815816765440
Posted by: Narciso | December 05, 2019 at 08:54 PM
The glenane quote, at the intro to every burn notice, at least after the first season was 'shall we shoot them'
Posted by: Narciso | December 05, 2019 at 08:56 PM
MM - Went to your link from Brad Parscale - Appears Parscale made an error if the comments are to be believed,
Posted by: Texas Liberty Gal | December 05, 2019 at 08:58 PM
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/5/mike-pence-surprises-opioid-crisis-families-white-/
Promises to lean into the crisis, and cannot fathom their loss.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 08:59 PM
So why aren't the Cabela brothers the villains for taking it public to make more money to begin with?
It's always a risk losing control when you go public.
Even so I think Jim Cabela may have controlled enough shares to get his way.
Regardless, the power to stop such deals can only come from the government and making more power to the government the cure for virtually any problem is pretty much always worse than the disease.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | December 05, 2019 at 09:00 PM
TLG,
I didn't check the numbers as I cannot spot what is correct and what is not.
I will go check.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 09:01 PM
Seeing how the good prosecutor seems to be catering to tormentors of this fellow
He needs to watch the episode where Costanza does the opposite of every inclination. It would probably confuse him but I'm in the holiday mood.
Posted by: Captain Hate | December 05, 2019 at 09:01 PM
It's a risk publicly traded companies run in terms of autonomy.
Might as well blame Mike Milkan and his Drexel Burnham Lambert crew for creating the leveraged buyout. Singer was following a well trod path. Plus the ever popular Fed for setting interest rates too high (or low), or even Goldman Sachs for brokering the bond sale portion of the deal (for sweet sweet fees).
The alternative to LBOs is zaibatsu, and propped up dead wood at the expense prosperity for Japan. Or possibly state owned like in France, that dynamo that exists on EU transfers from Britain and Germany.
Our system may be messy. But it does heal faster then grow when the politicians get the hell out of the way.
Posted by: henry | December 05, 2019 at 09:01 PM
Every tool is useful but not in every occassion, i suppose someone has to buy the debt but should a company indebt itself unnecessarily.
Posted by: Narciso | December 05, 2019 at 09:05 PM
Was moving some stuff and ran across a Hemmings Motor News from 1985 I saved.
Let's see; nice series 1 E Type Jags under $20,000. Maserati Boras $15-33,000. Worst of all, and why I saved the mag, a 1965 Ferrari 275GTB Short Nose for $29,900. I knew, even at the time it was a steal, but I just didn't have the dough. Now? $1.5-2 million. Grrrr...
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | December 05, 2019 at 09:06 PM
When you mash everything into puree it loses its flavor
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/12/jeffrey-epstein-and-why-paranoia-makes-sense/amp
Posted by: Narciso | December 05, 2019 at 09:09 PM
MM - Just read thru the comments -may just be Dem trolls comments.
Posted by: Texas Liberty Gal | December 05, 2019 at 09:11 PM
I noticed this because favorite mark carol rosenberg is crying over her favorite mogwai abu zubeydah.
Posted by: Narciso | December 05, 2019 at 09:11 PM
Texas Liberty Gal,
I see what you mean. Don't know what to think.
Guess I will wait to see if there is more data.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 09:11 PM
Four days before Hope Hicks tells the feds that Trump was annoyed by Flynn, Trump tells CNN, "he lied, they ruined his life."
One week after Hicks tells the feds, "Trump had bad judgement, Trump discusses the possibility of a pardon.
Trump's praise of Michael Flynn over the years
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/12/01/donald-trump-praises-michael-flynn-vstan-orig-cs.cnn
Posted by: Rocco | December 05, 2019 at 09:13 PM
Why does this have to be a trade secret:
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=237536
Posted by: Narciso | December 05, 2019 at 09:13 PM
Did they release all the notes or just snippets.
Posted by: Narciso | December 05, 2019 at 09:15 PM
Re “home nuke”. Thread:
@haleywsyx
**NOW**
Crews say the project found is what could be used as homemade capacitor, explained by the caller as a quantum physics generator.
@wsyx6 @fox28columbus
https://twitter.com/haleywsyx6/status/1202767929256927233
Posted by: henry | December 05, 2019 at 09:17 PM
That doesnt really gel does it, now both could have been true, but weve seem how info is spindled mutilated or outright deleted.
Posted by: Narciso | December 05, 2019 at 09:17 PM
'Lets make one thing perfectly clear'
https://mobile.twitter.com/SymoneDSanders/status/1202666372779646977
Posted by: Narciso | December 05, 2019 at 09:21 PM
As for why Singer's the bad guy, if that's how you make a living, bankrolling a bunch of pols isn't a good look. Particularly if it feeds the GOP stereotype.
Posted by: Captain Hate | December 05, 2019 at 09:21 PM
Well he does some good say with the manhattan institute, i dont like to rely on gregory palast who is somewhat certifiable but he sometimes inadvertently commits random acts of journalism.
Posted by: Narciso | December 05, 2019 at 09:23 PM
Narciso,
That Vanity Fair article seems mostly concerned with convincing all of us that we shouldn't try to connect dots, because it's "conspiracy theory stuff" and not worth pursuing.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | December 05, 2019 at 09:23 PM
He only wants preferred dots connected, in his last piece re papadop he pointedly missed some major points
Posted by: Narciso | December 05, 2019 at 09:25 PM
Rocco @ 9:13
Do you think Hicks lied under oath when she testified that Trump said he was annoyed with Flynn and that Trump thought Flynn had bad judgment?
Posted by: Tom R | December 05, 2019 at 09:27 PM
We always played with capacitors as kids. Nice sparks.
Posted by: sbwaters | December 05, 2019 at 09:28 PM
“homemade capacitor”
LOL. Potentially deadly, but LOL.
My guess was going to be a magnetron out of a microwave oven. The reference to RF burns led me there.
Posted by: Another Bob | December 05, 2019 at 09:30 PM
Tom R, perhaps an uncomfortable question. FBI does not have a recording of what Hicks said, so no transcription either. What they have is a 302. So the question is: did Hicks really say that? Or did an overeager agent edit his 302 to make it look like she said that? This entire argument has a foundation of banana peels.
Posted by: henry | December 05, 2019 at 09:31 PM