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[henry]

Football.. hype about ads on TV and the halftime spectacle. What does football have to do with any of it?

[Old Lurker]

Posted on the other thread in support of Clarice's point:

OK, it is Fox:

"Voters give the economy its best ratings in nearly two decades in the latest Fox News Poll -- and credit President Trump.

And yet as his impeachment trial begins, Trump’s job approval holds steady, while half say the Senate should remove him from office."

[Narciso]

Largely so what is the who actually focused on. Instead of say a potential pandemic.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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A very good question!
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Mark R. Levin
@marklevinshow
· 1h
Why does NPR still exist? We have thousands of radio stations in the U.S. Plus Satellite radio. Podcasts. Why are we paying for this big-government, Democrat Party propaganda operation.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pompeo-says-npr-reporter-lied-to-him-insinuates-she-misidentified-bangladesh-as-ukraine-on-map

[MissMarple2]

Even CNN’s legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin found the president’s lawyers persuasive! https://t.co/ME9WFhcjHT

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) January 26, 2020

Link goes to Mediate article.

[jimmyk]

Carried over from the last thread: A business executive running for President produces irrational alarm and Lake thinks that's ok?

I don't know if he thinks it's ok, but my objection is that he seems to accept the premise that they were alarmed on behalf of the country, as opposed to on behalf of their own careers and self-interest. Even saying it was "irrational" is giving them too much credit.

[JimNorCal]

Scott Johnson plays it straight but the humor squeezes through every gap.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/long-division-dmr-style.php
In a beautiful case of just in time manufacturing, the Des Moines Register has arrived with its endorsement of the candidate to lead Democrats to victory over Trump....the Register editorial board found that each of the Democratic candidates would “treat truth as something that matters.”

It keeps getting better and better

[Narciso]

Tbey wouldnt mind a bloomberg. Becausr he dhares their obsessioms, with skydragons diversity and disarmament.

[henry]

Thread here. I’m not sure what to believe.

@woppa1woppa

Viral video going on YT shows a Wuhan citizen telling the real grave situation and true feels for his gov, and he asks us to spread the word!

This #coronavirus is a lot worse (must watch in full)

https://twitter.com/woppa1woppa/status/1221365611508293632?s=21

[MissMarple2]

Even CNN’s legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin found the president’s lawyers persuasive! https://t.co/ME9WFhcjHT

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) January 26, 2020

Link goes to Mediate article.

[Narciso]

The late charles mccarry predicted toxic derangement 40 years ago.

[Narciso]

A pro american businessman named franklyn mallory who reaches the top rung.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/23/michael-atkinson-testimony-concealed-adam-schiff/
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Mark R. Levin
@marklevinshow

Schiff coverup, conceals testimony of 18th witness; Democrat Party-press yawns.
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Why didn’t Schiff release this?

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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3m
Great Editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal, “And Congress Shall Be King.” Bottom line: “The President becomes a vassal of King Congress. This is another reason for the Senate to repudiate this House Impeachment as its own abuse of power.” A partisan Hoax!

[Another Bob]

Willowed.

I know Clarice, the 767 charter out of Wuhan to SFO is Tuesday (tomorrow US time).

I’m confused by the response. Highly contagious virus. The Chinese seem somewhat concerned that people in the provinces not be allowed to spread the country. Ground transport is supposedly being highly restricted. But seemingly much less concern about air travel allowing it to jump domestically, cross-border and cross-ocean.

[Narciso]

But they are probably two weeks behind the ball, if the chicago case was 13 days ago.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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3m
Great Editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal, “And Congress Shall Be King.” Bottom line: “The President becomes a vassal of King Congress. This is another reason for the Senate to repudiate this House Impeachment as its own abuse of power.” A partisan Hoax!

[KevlarKid]

willowed...

Notre Dame and the Reparations Virus

Once upon a time, school administrators would shut down this nonsense and send the kids to bed.  Again, the kids are running the schools, and that's not good for learning." Sylvio Canto, Jr. Canto

School administrators are part of the nonsense. Tenured faculty and trustees even moreso.

It's Swamp Draining 101. It's hard work. And, there is, obviously, much more work to be done.
Our enemies "on campus" are following the same formula as the Open Borders crowd.

So long as educational institutions subsidize student activities, which have been organized around contemporary political issues, and award academic "credits" for student involvement in such issues (what i learned while advocating for reparations, etc.) these poser militancy charades will add to the national movements' traction.

So this where amins, faculty, and trustees ALLOW segue for students to mimic the Greta Cartoonbergs, the AOMonkeyCs, and BernieBros with instant press recognition. Not going to make the same splash if the "speak out" were held off-campus in some South Bend stinkhole coffeehouse.

Student fees being used for political organizing and for lobbying trustees doesnt pass the smell test.

Shutting it or shouting it down doesn't work. Reagan calling out the tanks during the Berkeley riots dispersed the crowds but didnt stop the movement. Troops firing on students at Kent State had viral effects on radicalization.

When i was a staff professional on campuses where political wars were being waged (culture wars is a misnomer) through 2 decades, admin buildings were burned or taken over with little consequence for the perps. What dispersed the power of the radical student organizers was depriving them of access to cash being used to rent facilities, pay celebrity speakers, pay for printing costs and publicity, food and other inputs needed to host a campus wide event. Even now, with many overhead expenses evaporating b/c of social media, facilities rental, security, food, speaking fees, travel and other line items still require cash.

Lefties are good at shutting down conservative events but have carte blanche to promote and host their own. Who gets legitimate access to resources? Who has primacy in setting the tone for political legitimacy in the sheep's clothing of "academic freedom?"

Controlling cash flow will set in motion a disruptive force against radical political spectacles. Exposing incoming pipelines from SOROS,Inc. and other sources of financing is also necessary.

There is another crucial "currency" disruption:the executive corps at these institutions governing compensation and advancement can legitimize witholding any recognition or in kind support of administrator, faculty, and staff claims of "university service" when engaged in political organizing, "advocacy", and lobbying for a cause.

Posted by: KevlarKid | January 26, 2020 at 09:47 AM

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[MissMarple2]

https://apnews.com/1c3d063eeb238279c97ed46c093d2607

Campaign crunch time forces progressives to eye private jets

[KevlarKid]

Most airlines - infrequently to never- clean the filtration systems for air circulating in passenger compartments.

don't fret the CDC is all over that. :/

[KevlarKid]

MM: good think Mayor Pedro has his propeller cap. :0

[KevlarKid]

"And Congress Shall Be King.” Bottom line: “The President becomes a vassal of King Congress. This is another reason for the Senate to repudiate this House Impeachment as its own abuse of power.” A partisan Hoax!"

Posted by: MissMarple2 | January 26, 2020 at 10:00 AM

and to think Mitt needs more witnesses. what are you saying, Maynard?

[Narciso]

They want a parliamentary system out of power, a plebiscite in power.

[MissMarple2]

Kev,

I wonder how many states have already had their deadlines pass for enrolling in their presidential primaries? I think a lot of democrats are hoping someone more glamorous and exciting will appear. I think it's becoming increasingly unlikely.

So, on one side we have the Blue Collar Billionaire with the glamorous fashion model First Lady and an attractive set of children and grandchildren, one who has kept his promises, given us a gangbusters economy through his policies, and is brave enough to stand IN PERSON on the platform at the March for Life.

On the other side we have unattractive people, those who want to wreck the economy for their own counter-productive policies, and who don't even realize how expensive those policies are. I doubt Sanders can last an entire campaign given his health. Try to imagine Elizabeth Warren dealing with Putin or Xi. Mayor Pete will not get minority votes nor those of evangelicals. If the radicals show up in Milwaukee and riot, it will have the same effect as the Chicago riots did.

I think things are looking more positive for the President every day.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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“Again: Read the Transcript!” Michael Goodwin, New York Post, Sunday.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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2m
After having been exposed as a fraud and corrupt, can anyone, including Sleepyeyes Chuck Todd of Fake @NBCNews, continue to listen to his con?
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I assume he is talking about Adam Schiff. He may be leaving his name out because Schiff has said that he considers that tweet about Schiff "not having paid the price yet" a threat.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.theindychannel.com/news/national/california-patient-is-3rd-us-case-of-new-virus-from-china

[rich]

>>>I am interested in how the Democrats, who spent over 50 years telling us that caution around the Russians is nothing but irrational paranoia (and didn't Bernie Sanders honeymoon in Moscow?), suddenly became so fearful of Russia.

Posted by: MissMarple2 | January 26, 2020 at 09:23 AM<<<

boris (and other) have the idea that the gop hasn't evolved since the cold war, but i suspect this is one of the missing pieces of the puzzle.

as soon as the trump administration started sniffing around ukarine congress moved to impeach on the thinnest of pretexts?

who wrote up the taking points and briefing book of the ukraine phone calls? who scheduled them (a president's daily schedule is probably sliced down to 15 minute blocks?)

[rich]

no sooner than when he hung up the phone a fake transcript appeared and eric went to schiff's office ...

[MissMarple2]

https://www.fastcompany.com/90455201/amazon-asks-court-to-pause-microsofts-work-on-10-billion-jedi-pentagon-cloud-project

I don't know if this is important or not.

[MissMarple2]

Here's the article in the New York Post that President Trump referred to earlier.

https://nypost.com/2020/01/25/again-regarding-trumps-impeachment-trial-read-the-transcript-goodwin/

[MissMarple2]

In 1987, Bernie Sanders said universal healthcare would “bankrupt the nation!”

Now in 2020, he’s trying to sell us universal healthcare as an affordable option for the nation.

Why doesn’t MSM call him out for lying like this?

Retweet if you agree

Please follow @itsBlonde007 pic.twitter.com/mJdL00dj96

— 𝔹𝕃𝕆ℕ𝔻𝕀𝔼⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@itsBlonde007) January 22, 2020

Video of Sanders in 1987 at the link.

[MissMarple2]

Political Polls
@PpollingNumbers
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5m
Iowa CBS News/YouGov Poll
(Change since 3 weeks ago)

Sanders 26% (+3)
Biden 25% (+2)
Buttigieg 22% (-1)
Warren 15% (-1)
Klobuchar 7% (-)

[MissMarple2]

Jack Posobiec
🇺🇸
@JackPosobiec
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Great work, bat-eaters
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Global Times
@globaltimesnews
· 2h
#Breaking: 33 out of 585 samples collected from a Wuhan seafood market tested positive for the novel coronavirus, suggesting the virus originated in wildlife sold there, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention told CCTV. #WuhanCoronavirus

[henry]

How does Iowa popular vote translate to caucuses?

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/01/26/canada-confirms-first-case-of-wuhan-coronavirus/

[JimNorCal]

Comment copied from BJG blog:

Purported Wuhan resident speaks out:
https://youtu.be/7OEqybiGdaA
With public transport and gas stations shut down sick people (even non-virus like deep cuts, broken bones, heart attack, …) have no way to get to medical facilities.
Even if you get to a hospital, you’ll be in line for hours; plus, if you weren’t infected when you got there you’ll probably be exposed by the time you get treated.

In other news:
Restaurants empty.
Gov’t workers told to cancel holiday and come back to work.
New movies released to hit the holiday season showing in near-empty theaters.
Small companies in danger of bankruptcy due to the dislocation.
Mass cancellations of train, bus, plane reservations. Transport companies directed to give full refunds.
Streets empty, even family gatherings canceled, people inventorying pantries to gauge if they can get by cooking at home without going out grocery shopping.

[jimmyk]

They want a parliamentary system out of power, a plebiscite in power.

I wonder if they realize that by doing that they will make it less likely that voters will put in a majority of the opposing power in either house of Congress. Till now, the midterm elections often resulted in divided government, which was seen as benign. But most people don't want the President treated like Trump has been, even if it ends up backfiring on the Dems.

It's a bit like the people who want to scrap the Electoral College, as if the results would have been the same under a popular vote system. The only reason Hillary won the popular vote was because it didn't matter.

[jimmyk]

In 1987, Bernie Sanders said universal healthcare would “bankrupt the nation!”

Wait, Sanders actually said something sane in 1987? There's got to be a story behind that.

[MissMarple2]

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/01/25/schiffs-pathetic-response-to-trumps-defense-team-n2560102

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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3m
Sleepyeyes Chuck Todd of Meet the Corrupt Press, just had a “totally” softball interview with conman Adam Schiff, never even calling Shifty out on his fraudulent statement to Congress, where he made up ALL of the words of my conversation with the Ukrainian President! FAKE NEWS

[Tom Bowler]

Great Pieces, Clarice.

I haven't been keeping up on Impeachment TV, but it seems as if everybody has been talking about possible wavering Republicans with barely a mention of wavering Dems.

One thing I would dearly love to see: White House lawyers put up a defense that describes in detail the corruption that was going on in the Ukraine, from Bidens influence peddling, to the ambassador's do not prosecute list, to the $5.3 billion misused aid, with witnesses to follow. Force the Dems to vote against witnesses when the time comes. Wouldn't that be sweet.

Could happen.

[MissMarple2]

Funtime
@Charles5646
· 27m
Replying to @Brash_1 @RepAdamSchiff and @JaySekulow

That methodical flaying of their unconstitutional attempted coup was law porn.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Pompeo Blasts 'Shameful' NPR Reporter.
I would like to believe Pompeo but weighing against that is the tremendous goodwill and bonhomie that the scrupulously fair and honest, not to mention, unbiased reporting that NPR, and all media really, have developed with all of the country over the years.
That's why they rank right near the top in institutions held in high esteem.

[Buckeye]

How does Iowa popular vote translate to caucuses?

Loosely to very loosely:)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The backstory was he was ok with it bankrupting the nation.

[MissMarple2]

I never knew who Nellie Bly was, or if I did, I had forgotten.

https://fee.org/articles/the-spirit-of-nellie-bly/

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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95% Approval Rating in the Republican Party. Thank you! 191 Federal Judges (a record), and two Supreme Court Justices, approved. Best Economy & Employment Numbers EVER. Thank you to our great New, Smart and Nimble REPUBLICAN PARTY. Join now, it’s where people want to be!

[jimmyk]

How does Iowa popular vote translate to caucuses?

I had thought it was pretty misleading about future success, but on the D side it's been pretty accurate. Hillary narrowly edged out Sanders in 2016. Obama won in 2008, Kerry in 2004, and Gore in 2000. On the R side it's not so informative: The last three winners have been Cruz, Santorum (by a hair over Romney), and Huckaby.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

This may be foolish but the thing that most irritates me about this whole disgraceful episode is this idiotic talk about Ambassador Yankabitch or whatever her name is.
Imagine firing somebody who is your subordinate and is undermining your agenda and whom you have a perfect right to fire for any reason at any time.
I suspect that is what set Pompeo off when NPR Nikita started accusing him of not supporting "his" ambassador against Trump, like his duty is to progressive causes and their moles not to the president and country he serves nor his own sentiments which were quite probably even more desirous of firing that self-righteous, insubordinate, sanctimonious brillo haired creep.

[clarice]

That's the good Iggy.

[MissMarple2]

FLASH: Pre-Print of Paper by Harvard Scholars Suggests the transmissivity of the Novel #coronavirus #nCoV2019 is in a range from. R 2.0 to 3.0!!!
This is greater than the Spanish Flu of 1918 that killed 5% of the worlds population! https://t.co/KSWnsandr3

— John Basham ⭐️⭐️⭐ (@JohnBasham) January 26, 2020

Link goes to a chart and a series of explanatory tweets.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

What should irritate me the most is those two soft-handed, pasty, weaselly little schmucks Ciaremella and Vindman using their positions like a sleeper cell to turn the country upside down with this whole bullshit melodrama over nothing.
It would be nice if we could turn this country into a dictatorship for about two weeks to round up every prog punk who has whined about it being one and standing them next to a trench to find out one is really like.
And then we resume our regular programming.

[MissMarple2]

clarice,

Especially when Obama fired ALL the political appointees in ambasadorships and the press said not a word!

[henry]

Obama ended by placing all political appointees in civil service slots, so they could not be fired.

[Captain Hate]

Rep. Eric Swalwell@RepSwalwell
If you have an audio recording or other evidence of @realDonaldTrump's corruption, today would be a good day to share it. There's no need to protect him any longer. This is the last year he will be president.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 26, 2020 11:32 AM (+y/Ru)

Having spent a good chunk of yesterday listening to people talking about their anger over this impeachment bullshit, I think Swalwell &Co should rethink their strategy. These are not normally aggressive people, but they are considering changing this. They see the donks as Bolsheviks and Trump as the last hope of stopping a national collapse. I was surprised to listen to their conversations
Posted by: CN at January 26, 2020 11:37 AM (ONvIw)

[KevlarKid]

NPR "reporter" Mary Louise Kelly led the team coverage of the opening days of sham peach mint.

her partisan conduct during the analysis segments ocurring at the breaks was disgusting.

"he yelled at me" more than likely meant she cannot cope with a male voice above Pajama Boy decibel levels. Pompeo's lack of the NPR beta male lilt is also required of any toxic male seeking to avoid such abuse allegations.

just bite me. (JBM)

[Jane]

I want to know who told Yanovitch in 2018 that Trump would be impeached.

[MissMarple2]

henry,

Obama fired all of the BUSH political appointees. Then he moved all of the Obama political appointees as his second term was ending.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

And since I'm venting my spleen; while I don't hate Rob Gronkowski by any stretch of the imagination, Willard "Mittens" Romney sorely tests my desire to love my fellow man.
The very picture of a modern button-down Pharisee with Bob Newhart's button-down mind; The perfectly pressed pin striped shirt with the finely starched contrasting white collar.
The even tan. The acid washed teeth. The brilliantined hair with the rakish salt and pepper burns and that hint of latter-day rebelliousness with the one hand-made loose strand of hair hanging over his forehead like a Mormon Elvis in a three piece suit.
And inside this white washed tabernacle lay the dead men's bones of resentment, envy and the smallness of a tiny, petty little man who ran for the senate not to represent the people of Utah but to settle the score with the guy who did what he couldn't.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/01/25/twitter-slaps-warning-on-president-donald-trumps-precious-life-is-a-miracle-message-879289?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Because Don Jr. and a couple of other prominent people made a fuss, they eventually removed the warning, but doesn't that just go to show you how biased they are, and how everything our side does has to work much harder to get the message out.

[MissMarple2]

Iggy,

VERY good rant and I heartily second it!!

[Robin, eff 'em all]

I would like to believe Pompeo but weighing against that is the tremendous goodwill and bonhomie that the scrupulously fair and honest, not to mention, unbiased reporting that NPR, and all media really, have developed with all of the country over the years.

I'm having a good time pushing back on this story on FB by pointing out that Pompeo would never have agreed to take questions on the Ukraine while his boss is being tried in the Senate on that very topic. You can always tell when you've landed a blow because it becomes deadly silent.

[MissMarple2]

Roscoe B Davis
🎖⭐️⭐️⭐️
@RoscoeBDavis1
.@TGowdySC made an excellent point this morning on @MariaBartiromo's show.

What would it take to investigate the Bidens?

All it took was a conversation in a bar in London to open a full blown counterintelligence investigation on a presidential candidate & eventual POTUS!

11:18 AM · Jan 26, 2020

[matt - deplore me if you must]

A Mormon Elvis in a 3 piece suit!!! Classic!I think that Romney has lost his base, especially if he follows through with his threat.

Me? I don't care either way except that the law is the law. If they break the law then I have a major problem with Congress.

Roberts is far too much a which way is the wind blowing jurist for my liking.

But, should witnesses be called, oh boy! I think the Dems are completely misreading Guiliani and Bolton.And if Hunter Biden is put front and center and his dad's video is allowed into evidence, the Dems are completely screwed in the election.

A fat cat politician bragging about how he grifted the people is classic Frank Capra.

I think it was Surber who ripped Noonan a new one yesterday. The end result will be the Pharisee class getting a long overdue ass whumping.

[MissMarple2]

Roscoe B Davis
🎖⭐️⭐️⭐️
@RoscoeBDavis1

Their bank records in public, admission by Hunter Biden that he worked for Burisma, Joe Biden on video bragging about getting Shokin fired, who was investigating his son & the company he was on the board of Directors of.

Maybe if they could get a conversation in a bar about it

11:18 AM · Jan 26, 2020·
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I took the liberty of correcting a misspelling in this tweet ("Their" replaced the erroneous "there" at the beginning.) I did this in case anyone wanted to copy the statement for Facebook or some other site.

Roscoe's right. The more we see and know, the more fraudulent this whole thing is!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Agree matt.
Neither the left nor much of the right ever learns.
When the progs get what they wish for with Trump it invariably detonates in their filthy little bat claws.
If witnesses are called it will be a disaster for the Dems.

[Buckeye]

Iggy

Sermon today was on Mark 3:1-6.

Couldn't help but think the Uniparty elites are today's Pharisees.

Get outta line and we'll nail your ass to a cross.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Excellent point, Robin.

[MissMarple2]

matt,

I think you are right. So is Iggy!

[KevlarKid]

Change of pace:

Downsizing the Swamp

[Old Lurker]

Matt owes me a new keyboard for this:

"Me? I don't care either way except that the law is the law. If they break the law..."

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Did China Steal Coronavirus From Canada And Weaponize It?
Has a lot of detail. How much is accurate I don't know, but moral compunctions are obviously not in play for a country of slave labor, suppressed minorities, involuntarily harvested organs, forced abortions and concentration camps.

[Old Lurker]

Kev, Figure 2 is all any thinking, rational person should need to see. Bring on The Terror v 2.0.

[anonamom]

who wrote up the taking points and briefing book of the ukraine phone calls?

Vindmann did. He testified to that, and I heard him.

[anonamom]

The only reason Hillary won the popular vote was because it didn't matter.

I read somewhere that the reason the networks did NOT call the election when they could have--before midnight--was to NOT discourage CA/WA/OR voters from turning out for HRC, so she WOULD win the popular vote.

Plenty of Rs in Blue States don't bother to vote. Who knows what would happen if we went to popular vote? (I am not advocating abolishing EC.)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Cruelty to Animals Gets More Media Coverage than Beheaded Christians

[Tom R]

Best Adam Schiff meme ever.

https://twitter.com/barbrcat/status/1221473147293057024?s=21

[KevlarKid]

Dead center, OL!

[JM Hanes]

henry:

"Everyone under 40 has been programmed by the schools to reject the non diverse as evil white supremacists. These nonsensical appeals have more power than we know."

It's funny but until Toobin made his remark about the lack of "diversity" on the President's defense team, I hadn't even noticed. I was just listening to their arguments. That confirms that I am a white supremacist (i.e. racist), right? It's the totalitarian tautology, damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[Captain Hate]

The Beast still didn't get 50% of the popular vote, just like her "wildly popular" predator husband.

[KevlarKid]

Democrats’ Impeachment Quickly Morphing Into Trump REMOVAL

This Trench Warfare MUST Lead to POTUS Removal Because Hillary Choked and the Raw Sewage Will All Come Spilling Out If They Fail Again

[MissMarple2]

Well, I wrote a long reply on the difficulty and strategy of trying to downsize the number of federal employees, and then the stupid system signed me out and I lost the entire thing. Rats!

[JM Hanes]

Miss Marple:

"I took the liberty of correcting a misspelling...."

The bracketing convention is a real time saver. In this case:

[Their] would indicate that you've changed the original in some way
There [sic] would indicate that''s how the author spelled it.

No explanations needed! Just a thought, since you handle so many quotes (for which many thanks!).

[MissMarple2]

Kev,

I am pretty sure that there are a group of democrats who think they could simply remove the President. They cannot, and should they try, they will run into far more people who would send them on their way than they realize.

Do not take counsel of your fears.

[MissMarple2]

JM Hanes,

I knew that bracketing procedure, once upon a time. Simply forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder!

[MissMarple2]

Oh, look. Cindy McCain has dropped a clue:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/25/cindy-mccain-on-jeffrey-epstein-we-all-knew-what-he-was-doing/

Really?

And within the article, she is quoted as saying this:

'All of a sudden, someone said “BS, we’re not afraid of you anymore and what you’re doing is not only wrong, but illegal.”'
===============
I wonder who that someone could possibly be?

"Got to do something about these missing children grabbed by the perverts. Too many incidents--fast trial, death penalty."

Donald Trump on Twitter, October 8, 2012.

[Theo]

Ignatz—

I like Willard more than you do — a low bar to clear — but your description of him was a great piece of writing. There are a lot of people making a good living who do write so well. Once again, we love you here (even when we disagree with you) but you need a bigger platform.

A Mormon Elvis in a three piece suit — priceless.

[KevlarKid]

Toobin indulges in the absurd. His mud won't stick.

What's next? Allegations that all white means coverup? No "homeless" means coverup? Only fudgepackers and hermaphrodies are honest-- by definition?

Demmings on the D side of these proceedings is a placeholder whose " diverse background" adds not one shred of brains,credibility or unique skill to their team.

Diverse according to what or whom? THAT qualifier is racist on its face because it is predicated on "white" as the standard of comparison when it comes to race--- with all the rest of the false dichotomies following suit. Meaningless. Horseshit.

[jimmyk]

Plenty of Rs in Blue States don't bother to vote.

Especially in California, where the Senate race was between two Dems, and the presidential tally was a foregone conclusion.

[KevlarKid]

MM-- how did you mean this:

Do not take counsel of your fears.

[KevlarKid]

Ig- recent encouragement of you to branch out to a wider audience reminds me of a legendary writing teacher i knew 47 years ago.

he said: "You'll aspire to call yourself a writer until you discover writing is a lot like sex. The pleasure is fleeting and the position is, ultimately, ridiculous."

stay thirsty, Amigo.

[KevlarKid]

https://gulfnews.com/world/mena/5-rockets-hit-near-us-embassy-in-iraqs-capital-baghdad-report-1.1580058786614#

[MissMarple2]

Kev,

I mean not to get overwhelmed by talk of removal, violence, etc. That column you linked to was not written by someone who is warning people but is doing it by stirring up fear.

To me, a better way to ensure voter turnout is to instill confidence and a feeling of participation in a great movement, which seems to be the way that President Trump is moving.

[Captain Hate]

Miss Marple's 1:32 is a good example of why Breitbart has become a cesspool and a stain on the memory of the founder. They give you a short clip out of a nearly hour video with no context into what preceded it. The other woman on there was lumping sex trafficking in with MeToo which imo is a huge stretch and precludes any intelligent discussion of either. So I don't know what to make of Cindy's, of whom I'm not a fan but deserves a fair hearing, statements and neither do the commenters.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXmR1BTvs_Q

Sunday Morning Futures (Maria Bartiromo)

In order:

Sen. Lindsey Graham
Rep. Doug Collins
Rep. John Ratcliffe
President Donald Trump

[henry]

Anyone able to message TM.? Gus is unable to comment,. Anyone have away to see if it’s on TM’s end, or random Typhuspad?

[JohnH]

Gus muzzled? The humanity!😉

[Robin, eff 'em all]

NPR has jumped to Kelly's defense, claiming that she has emails with a SoS aide named Katie Martin that prove that she was going to ask about Ukraine. I'm looking forward to what else they say. I said to my friend, oh I'm sure they'll release them and then we'll know what happened. She said, and three other people (FB) chimed in, "Pompeo has to prove his claim that she lied."

Nope, journalism has more of a credibility problem than Pompeo. They can prove he's wrong. #showustheemails. hahahaha

[MissMarple2]

Captain Hate,

I think it is important to ask WHY, all of a sudden, we are seeing arrests of pedophiles and child pornographers all over the country.

Why wasn't this a priority before now?

Now, maybe a lot of these investigations were underway for the last year or two. We certainly didn't get much of it during the Obama years. Why is that?

Now, it could be that Epstein and a few others entrapped a lot of people into underage sex and blackmailed them.

Or, it could be that there is a lot of money to be made in trafficking and child porn, which went into illicit campaign donations or supplementing income.

Or, it could be that there are far more people involved in this than I realized.

Or, maybe all 3 of these paths are involved. I don't know.

What happened to all of those kids that went missing from Haiti that were never located? How many kids who cross the southern border weren't brought along as props for immigration purposes but were sold into sexual slavery? What about the numbers of kids who are abused from foster homes, or camps, or other organizations?

Cindi McCain has worked on this cause for several years. To me, for her to casually throw out that "We all knew what Epstein was up to" is simply unacceptable. If she didn't know what he was like before, then she at LEAST should have been aware after his first arrest, or at least his second one, and should have chosen her words more carefully.