When You Come To The Fork In The Road, Take It

At the moment of decision the NY Times editors boldly endorse not one but TWO Democrats for President.

OK, who cares? In 2008 the Times editors backed their hometown honey Hillary over the young Barack Obama,which alienated a big part of their newsroom. In 2016 they may have experienced a similar dynamic by backing Hillary over the darling of young socialists everywhere, Bernie. So in this moment of tension and fraught decision making the Times sends out the punting team on third and long.

Comments

[Old Lurker]

JMH, and of those 4,095, after excluding those he filed, you have <2000 remaining. Figure out how many were related to all the casino related BK activities he went through in that dark time and subtract those as well (BK generates so many suits in all directions they are too numerous to count). Then "involved in" can mean he was the sole defendant in some action really going after him for something he was said to have done, but it also means he was simply one of a couple of dozen owners named in some dispute - so common in RE Development and management. Then divide what's left by the number of projects over 30 years and by the real dollar amounts involved and this can become a nothing-burger real fast.

[MissMarple2]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1219240855460098048.html

A guy from Townhall was at the rally and took pictures today. Above is the thread.

[JM Hanes]

Buckeye

Interesting factoid from the listing: "About 1,600 cases involve suits against gamblers who had credit at Trump-connected casinos and failed to pay their debts. "

[Old Lurker]

JMH also every delinquent Tenant in a store, office or apartment will get sued for back rent and eviction, and almost all of those result in a countersuit to muddy the waters.

Nothing Burger.

[JM Hanes]

Old Lurker:

Thanks! That's really helpful. It looks like there's a lot of stuff like that in the total. I knew that construction litigation was its own legal specialty, but I hadn't thought about real estate management as well, and didn't know about the bankruptcy ripple effect or the multiple owners/defendants suits.

I really want to push back on the lawsuits because it's part of the standard liberal case against Trump. That and the kids in cages at the border and the supposed racist comments in Charlottesville.

[JM Hanes]

Should be *about* Charlottesville.

[MissMarple2]

If you’ve heard about the snow in Newfoundland but can’t quite picture it, this is a real time-lapse taken. pic.twitter.com/qjyGUzVfq8

— Kevin W. (@Brink_Thinker) January 20, 2020

Video at link. 14 seconds.

[henry]

Are the glaciers here yet?

[MissMarple2]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/20/president-trump-and-vice-president-pence-make-unscheduled-visit-to-mlk-memorial/

Video at link, along with a list of people he is having side-meetings with at Davos.

[Theo]

Jane —

How the Senate Democrats vote on impeachment will have nothing to do with the strength of the evidence or the good of the country. It will be all about what is in that Senators political interest.

Given that, I don’t see ten Dems voting against impeachment. The ones from blue states will have no incentive to vote against. Even those in more purple states will figure that voting no will alienate the activist base and the national donors (and possibly lead to them being primaried) without picking up any appreciable number of votes from Trump supporters who will vote for a Republican for Senate anyway.

Joe Manchin can vote however he wants. Doug Jones is dead meat either way but I think will vote to remove to try to get a job in DC after he is defeated in the fall. Jon Tester MIGHT vote to acquit but he does not have to run again until 2024 so probably won’t make waves with the party.

We shall see. But I think 10 Democrats is too optimistic. I think 0-2 is more likely.

[Extraneus]

Joe Biden’s Brother Frank Bagged $54,000,000 in Taxpayer Loans for His Projects from the Obama Administration—Despite No Experience

[jimmyk]

Theo, at the risk of sounding pedantic, it's conviction, not impeachment. I agree ten is unlikely given what happened in the House. But Kirsten Sinema might vote against conviction as well as Manchin and a couple others that have been mentioned.

[Captain Hate]

Kirsten Sinema > McCain + Flake

[Theo]

jimmyk—

You are right about impeachment/conviction. Thanks for the correction.

I think we are in basic agreement. Maybe Manchin and maybe, just maybe, a couple of others. I don’t see it getting close to ten. There really is no incentive for any Dems to stick their necks out. I don’t see the political advantage to them in voting to acquit.

We shall see.

[henry]

How deep is the swamp? Peach mint will tell us.

[MissMarple2]

San Francisco homeless crisis is a sad and terrible thing to see: Maria Bartiromo https://t.co/O4CcNcYYwD @MorningsMaria @FoxBusiness

— Maria Bartiromo (@MariaBartiromo) January 17, 2020

Video at link, about 4 minutes.

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The President responds:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
12m
Nancy can’t fix it. The Do Nothing Dems have done great harm to our Country!

[MissMarple2]

https://thedcpatriot.com/breaking-michael-avenatti-arrested-by-federal-agents/

A source with the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles says that Avenatti was arrested for allegedly violating the terms of his pre-trial release on a case in which he is accused of extortion, theft of millions of dollars from clients, cheating on taxes and lying to investigators.

Matt Couch

[Melinda]

Good clip of Laura Logan and Howie Kurtz on "Fake News":

https://youtu.be/YqNLgH3niuE

[henry]

Miss M, that is from last week. Avenatti is now a guest in the Epstein suite in NY Fed lockup.

[Theo]

MM —.

Your 6:27 is breaking news from last Tuesday.

[MissMarple2]

Terrence K. Williams
@w_terrence
·
3m
President Trump is the best. This man is down to earth, normal, fun & real. I’m a guy that grew up in foster care. Lived in a children shelters, been in so many homes and now look at me with The Greatest President of the United States of America.

The American Dream is real.

[KevlarKid]

Eleanor Clift and Albert Hunt are like rewatching old horror movies.

Posted by: Captain Hate | January 20, 2020 at 04:26 PM

Al's son Mike's in the candle binness.

[MissMarple2]

Theo,

Sorry. Date was today when I checked it.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/20/poll-majority-oppose-conviction-removal-in-trump-impeachment/

[Melinda]

Ex-Rep. Katie Hill's brother, 20 yrs old, found dead in CA home. Weird.

[henry]

Schiff nearby?

[anonamom]

Here's more Bannon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDqAnOyAgt4

[Melinda]

It sure wasn't Ed Buck.

[Rocco]

Dave,

Sorry, I think I corrected that in a following post. It's RMV right?

[Melinda]

Anyone post "The Biden Memo" trying to get ahead of Peter Schweizer's book on corruption, yet?

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6661670-01-20-20-Team-Biden-Memo-on-Impeachment.html

[Another Bob]

Jack is Back! | January 20, 2020 at 02:00 PM

Netherlands.

[Melinda]

Sundance has moar on the two new scapegoats found in Puerto Rico:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/19/update-puerto-rico-governor-fires-two-more-officials-over-hidden-emergency-relief-supplies/

I don't think, in the long run, it's going to save his butt.

[MissMarple2]

Melinda,

I don't think so.

My goodness, it's a real piece of work, isn't it?

[MissMarple2]

🏹What "PRESIDENTIAL"
doesn't look like🤣 pic.twitter.com/J31l9wi9JX

— 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Miguelifornia 🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@michaelbeatty3) January 20, 2020

Video at link. Same outfit, but jacket today is turquoise.

[Another Bob]

“that (Tesla) even exists and is still growing is a pretty remarkable achievement”

Well, there are questions about that growth. And what makes it “remarkable”?

[Marlene]

Good evening.This is all over the New England media,it will go national for sure.
A man in NH strangled a coyote to death today when the animal attacked his two year old son. Ian O'Reilly told WCVB Boston that his family was walking on the Philips Exeter trail when the coyote bit at the child's jacket. O'Reilly put his full weight on the coyote,put it in a scissor lock and pushed the snout into the snow. It took ten minutes for the coyote to expire. O'Reilly was bitten and is being treated for rabies. Earlier in the day,a woman walking her dogs was attacked by the same coyote. Both she and her dogs are being treated.

[jimmyk]

Marlene, that reminds me of this story from a couple of years ago, which you probably remember since it was in Maine:

https://bangordailynews.com/2017/06/14/news/midcoast/maine-woman-attacked-by-raccoon-drowns-rabid-animal-in-puddle/

You New Englanders can be tough when you need to

[clarice]

https://spectator.us/senate-impeachment-trial-all-about-november/
Charles Lipson on the lay of the land

[Captain Hate]

LOL KK.

Returning to the scene of my misadventures this morning I felt slightly less stoopid because the numbnuts snowplow operator shoved that rock right in the middle of what is supposed to be a parking space. Lesson still learned though...

Love these Muck boots though; when Mrs H bought them my initial reaction was needing those like a third nut but I'm very glad to have some winter footwear that I don't have to worry about snow getting inside *or* becoming inconveniently untied in brutal weather. Getting the left one off by myself is not easy though...

[Melinda]

DJT in Austin, Live, now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcL7n6XAgzU

[MissMarple2]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/puerto-rico-supplies-warehouse-governor-wanda-vazquez-fires-2-more-officials-over-viral-video-showing-aid-2020-01-19/

Wanda is not long for the road.

[henry]

That was yesterday Melinda

[Captain Hate]

Incredible the number of Twitter climate experts, particularly the sub genius spouting "Current rapid climate change is an anomaly amongst historical data". You sure about that, Junior?

[jimmyk]

I had missed this possible Arkancide story:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/google-whistleblower-hillary-clinton-car-crash-killed-wife

“Last year, after I briefed a group of state AGs about #Google's power to rig elections, one of them said, "I think you're going to die in an accident in a few months," he tweeted. “A few months later, my beautiful wife #Misti died a violent death. Makes you wonder.”

Probably nothing to it. Worth reading about in a tawdry way to imagine how this 66-year-old managed to snag this beautiful 29-year-old, though I know that's wrong of me given her tragic demise.

[Melinda]

Seamus Bruner
@seamusbruner
Biden memo attacking Schweizer was co-authored by campaign staffer Tony Blinken. Hunter Biden has numerous contacts with Blinken who was at State Dept. while Hunter was on Burisma board. Did Blinken help Hunter with Burisma issues? If so, seems like a pretty substantial conflict.

https://twitter.com/seamusbruner/status/1219343892870586371

[Marlene]

Yes jimmyk,the Bangor paper has the coyote story and also put up the raccoon story as a reminder. :)
The area of the coyote attacks is a suburban area,so the coyote was very brazen. I was reminded of the explosive growth of southern NH when I was there last week. It has changed so much. The coyote is being tested for rabies at Fish and Game in Concord.

[Melinda]

Patriotic 🇺🇸Suzanne⭐️⭐️⭐️ Text TRUMP to 88022
@suzost
Schweizer: Bernie Sanders Funneled Taxpayers, School Money to His Family | Breitbart . It’s time for Bernie to feel the bern. Another crooked Democrat. breitbart.com/clips/2020/01/…

https://twitter.com/suzost/status/1219415911922192384

Link ends up with Peter Schweizer.

[Dave (in MA)]

I was just teasing, Rocco.

https://t.co/b7tlNp2wZH?amp=1 This is what I was alluding to on the 3rd page of the football thread when the night crew didn't show up until jim nj rolled in a few hours later.

[MissMarple2]

CSM
@usacsmret
·
10m
“Donald Trump did not create distrust of the media...Distrust of the media created Donald Trump”-Mollie Hemingway

[Melinda]

Thank you, Henry, I was busy yesterday. And Saturday, as you know.

[Another Bob]

Blackface is now taking credit for having de-escalated the Richmond rally.

Scumbag.

[Captain Hate]

Farcebook has a lot of Coyote experts who are 100% sure they know how a wild animal acts.

[Jane]

Schweitzer’s book comes out tomorrow. My copy seems to have been delayed for 3 days. How rude!

It’s cold in Florida. I have sheets over some of my plants. Expect it down to the 30’s tonite. Being a wus is tough.

[clarice]

Funny isn't it, Jane, the weather there is great when I'm there and bad when I leave. Just saying..

[MissMarple2]

Jane,

My daughter is not going to be happy. She is staying in Clearwater.

[MissMarple2]

Emmanuel Macron
@EmmanuelMacron
· 6h
Great discussion with @realDonaldTrump on digital tax. We will work together on a good agreement to avoid tariff escalation.
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
5m
Excellent!

[Extraneus]

McConnell Introduces Resolution With Timeline For Senate Impeachment Trial

The resolution, which will be voted on Tuesday, would give both sides 24 hours to argue their case over two trial days. Senators would then be given 16 hours for questioning. The schedule would mean 12-hour days of argument in the Senate, according to Business Insider. The impeachment trial could be over before Trump’s scheduled State of the Union address, on Feb. 4.

[Captain Hate]

Coonman did his best to produce a riot but nobody took the bait and somehow Antifa was diverted elsewhere. He deserves to be called out for it instead of taking a victory lap. Unfortunately the Virginia GOP can't find its ass with both hands; conservatives in the state deserve much better.

[MissMarple2]

.@PARISDENNARD discusses how Pres. Trump aims to help the poor:

"This president...has shown [the people] that there's a champion. That's why it's important to look at not just what he's done for the Black community, but it's for those forgotten men & women, both Black & White" pic.twitter.com/TqnOET8i4Z

— Washington Journal (@cspanwj) January 20, 2020

Video at the link. A little over a minute.

[henry]

Melinda, the feed was messed up yesterday. On the White House link, when the feed came back on the audience was 1, me. Strangest thing ever.

[MissMarple2]

🥊OUCH🥊🤣
Lizzie is confronted by a father who worked double shifts to pay for his daughters education and wants to know if he gets his money back..
Lizzie smirks..@realDonaldTrump #IOWA pic.twitter.com/Jn2eeOWHwW

— 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Miguelifornia 🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@michaelbeatty3) January 21, 2020

Here's Warren showing how clueless she is about the voters. Same turquoise sweater.
Video at the link.

[henry]

And the Chamber of Cronies thinks tariffs don’t work...

@WSJ

France agreed to postpone until the end of this year a tax that it levied on big tech companies last year. In return, the U.S. will postpone retaliatory tariffs until then.

[MissMarple2]

A black pastor demonstrating how to fight back:

Dr.Darrell Scott
@PastorDScott
·
9m
Robert De Niro said “ As a citizen, I have as much right as anybody else to voice my opinion. There’s right, there’s wrong, & there’s common sense, & there’s abuse of power”. If De Niro wants to talk about “abuse of power”, he needs to start with his friend, Harvey Weinstein.
==========================================
KA-BOOM!!

[Extraneus]

Great Bing pic today.

[henry]

OKeefe has a next step video coming tomorrow. Teaser vid at link.

https://twitter.com/jamesokeefeiii/status/1219415939017519104?s=21

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
12m
Heading to Davos, Switzerland, to meet with World and Business Leaders and bring Good Policy and additional Hundreds of Billions of Dollars back to the United States of America! We are now NUMBER ONE in the Universe, by FAR!!

[anonamom]

Boy, ext--back in the day, protesting meant wearing a suit and tie, not a mask or pussy hat.
Some fine looking people there.

[Captain Hate]

And the Chamber of Cronies thinks tariffs don’t work...

In a perfect world they don't and the Gas Chamber is second to none on producing imperfection.

[Narciso]

Evening all, no earth shattering kaboom

https://mobile.twitter.com/OptimisticCon/status/1219417326249857024

[MissMarple2]

Captain Hate,

Well, since we are now NUMBER ONE in the Universe, by FAR. maybe the CoC will take the hint.

As I said earlier today, I did not realize how close that family is until I started reading Wead's book. He is NOT going to let the Chamber, or the dems, or anyone else push him around or hurt his kids.

[Narciso]

Good prosecutor is back to slobbering over cnn, the home of james okeefe.

[Narciso]

Mccabe, crossed the wires there.

[KevlarKid]

Some oral candling PLEASE!https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/not-a-left-party-aoc-calls-the-democratic-party-a-center-conservative-party

[Melinda]

Henry, I’m sure alphabet-a males at the video rental store known as YouTube were there to “help” during “show time”. Giggling over anime...

[MissMarple2]

KK,

AOC just spouts word salad. I think the DNC hornswoggled her into hooking up with Bernie so both their clocks would be cleaned.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
10m
Texas Rep Roger Williams (@RepRWilliams) has done an incredible job representing the Great State of Texas. Roger is tough on Crime, Strong on the Border & Illegal Immigration. He loves our Military & our Vets and protects our #2A. Roger has my Total & Complete Endorsement!

[Jane]

When does she arrive MM?

[MissMarple2]

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Representative Randy Weber (@TxRandy14
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
9m
Representative John Carter (@JudgeJohnCarter) from the Great State of Texas has been a tremendous supporter of our #MAGA Agenda. He is strong on Crime and Borders, great for our Military and our Vets, and Strong on our #2A. John has my Complete and Total Endorsement!

[KevlarKid]

AOC: Word salad tossing sychophant.

[MissMarple2]

Well, heck! Sorry, guys! I will check more carefully on the next one.

[Melinda]

The Hill @thehill
24m
Romney says he’d oppose efforts to vote on impeachment witnesses before opening arguments hill.cm/5PTlVCm

Impeachments* Are FOREVER
@OK_Dumbass
Replying to @thehill

Mitt Romney is the Susan Collins of Lisa Murkowskis.

https://twitter.com/OK_Dumbass/status/1219426950755815427

[That is perfect.]

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
1m
Everyone said it couldn’t be done. But for the first time in a generation, there will be direct flights between Serbia and Kosovo. Another win. Thanks to @WHNSC Ambassador Robert O’Brien and Ambassador @RichardGrenell!

[KevlarKid]

Demonstrating consequences of a YES conviction vote to the lily livered MAYBE 10 in the senate.

[Melinda]

Schumie clip:

The Hill
@thehill
Sen. Chuck Schumer: "In my judgment, [President Trump] probably thinks he's guilty."

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1219434436011286528

[Your "judgement" gets its own proctologist.]

[MissMarple2]

Jane,

She's flying out of here Thursday morning. I will have to get the exact time for you tomorrow.

[MissMarple2]

Kev,

I will bet that crowd in Richmond got the attention of a lot of Senate Democrats and made them pretty nervous!

[Jane]

It will be fine here on Thursday. Don’t worry. I don’t need the time.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Well, there are questions about that growth. And what makes it “remarkable”?--

There are questions about whether the growth is sustainable but there is no question they went from approximately zero cars produced in 2011-12 to close to 400,000 built and sold in 2019. That alone seems pretty remarkable to me. Who else has done that from scratch lately. Some titanic Korean industrial kaijus have launched conventional lines of cars from a gigantic industrial base. Tesla itself was formed when giant GM couldn't sell its first EV to save its life and pulled them off the market. Tesla has rolled out a successful EV when the big boys couldn't and they did it from a base of zero.
At the same time they rolled out a relatively expansive supercharger system.
Musk is a flake and conman and green subsidies are awful, unconstitutional messes and it may yet fail. But those problems shouldn't obscure that Tesla is probably the most remarkable automotive manufacturing story since the rise of Japan 50+ years ago.

[MissMarple2]

Shannon Bream
@ShannonBream
BREAKING: Per @johnrobertsFox
- Congressional Members of Pres @realDonaldTrump's impeachment team are Reps Doug Collins, Mike Johnson, Jim Jordan, Debbie Lesko, Mark Meadows, John Ratcliffe, Elise Stefanik, and Lee Zeldin

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Not on the team: Matt Gaetz.

[Melinda]

All by using CA tax dodges to keep the doors open. Biggest house of cards since Bernie Ebbers.

IMOO.

[henry]

Iranian satire vid at link.

@heshmatalavi

For a good laugh!

Famous Iranian comedian ridicules the mullahs’ regime in #Iran following the killing of former IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani.

More proof of MSM lying about this mass murderer & that #IraniansDetestSoleimani.

https://twitter.com/heshmatalavi/status/1219300154815209472?s=21

[Melinda]

This should play well....

🇺🇸🇺🇸 Miguelifornia 🇺🇸🇺🇸
@michaelbeatty3
🥊OUCH🥊🤣
Lizzie is confronted by a father who worked double shifts to pay for his daughters education and wants to know if he gets his money back..
Lizzie smirks..
@realDonaldTrump #IOWA

https://twitter.com/michaelbeatty3/status/1219420950732529669

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
5m
“It’s about the Economy, stupid”, except when it comes to Trump. The fact is, the Fake News Media hates talking about the Economy, and how incredible it is!

[MissMarple2]

John Ratcliffe
@RepRatcliffe
·
2m
I took an oath to defend the Constitution. This impeachment is an assault on due process. It’s an assault on the separation of powers. It’s unconstitutional. I’m grateful for the opportunity to make that clear to every American during the Senate trial.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--"In my judgment, [President Trump] probably thinks he's guilty."--

I guess Chuck figured AOC's word salad needed a couple of moldy croutons on top so he hocked that idiocy up with his cud.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/20/hunter-bidens-firms-scored-reportedly-hundreds-of-millions-from-russians-chinese-and-kazakhs/

[MissMarple2]

Photo at the link.

The press has had the right to walk, unfettered, through those doors and others to witness public sessions of the Senate since the 18th century. Tomorrow, there will be a police officer and a magnetometer in our way for the 1st time ever.

This is a bad idea pic.twitter.com/dfqpb1pMCy

— Andrew Taylor (@APAndrewTaylor) January 21, 2020

[Rocco]

Does this mean Sally Yates is Rosenstein's boss again?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-yates-4328b0177

[KevlarKid]

that's quite a disagreeable image, Iggy. you win! @<@

[MissMarple2]

THE BEST IS YET TO COME! pic.twitter.com/YBMOBurdHQ

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 21, 2020

Video at the link.