To Be Fair, In His Professional Life Trump Has Presumably Had Good Lawyers

Trump is not happy with his legal team's performance, based on plausible leaks from folks familiar with his thinking. Well, nor is Rush.

I'm sure that in his earlier life as real estate mogul Trump dealt with top legal talent on a regular basis (and Mickey Cohen!). This isn't that.

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[henry]

They planned on losing...gets to the Supreme Court faster that way.

[caro]

Alison! You are supposed to post first. Before you link.😏

[boris]

Actually Rush was describing what one of his friends was complaining about. He was not agreeing with it.

[Narciso]

Unlike marc elias who was a party to the danchenko dossier you mean.

[Narciso]

Willowed

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c7y2W-NwMg0

You thought you'd get your liberties back.

[Narciso]

Likw the veterans day cinfab thar 21 officiaks refuted

But at least we have mcawfuls partnee in crime mayorka at dhs

[Account Deleted]

Sorry, caro. Didn't have anything to say! :-)

[Dave (in MA)]

To be fair, that's NBC "news", so go piss up a rope.

[MissMarple2]

I can’t wait to see what First Lady Melania Trump has planned for this year. It’s always stunning. Thank you @FLOTUS 🎄✨#MerryChristmas
pic.twitter.com/bRC5jnXUNR

— TONYA {K}🌸 (@TBeansprout) November 23, 2020

Beautiful 23-second White House video at the link. She really does look stunning!

[JimNorCal]

"Alison! You are supposed to post first. Before you link"

I noticed that too :) :)
Alison is selfless and kind.

[John S]

Are they like the pols here in Mass, who simply ignore passed referendums? --ccgirl

California pols steal all the money that voters are promised will go to roads or water projects. But as far as referendums, most have been hard to overturn. Except for marriage. Judges determined that we could not define marriage in the state constitution.

[John S]

LA County's $465,000-per-year health director has dictated that starting tomorrow we cannot have even outdoor dining at restaurants and bars. Also, we seem to have hit the arbitrary threshold for a complete lockdown, so tomorrow the LA County Supervisors will decide whether we can leave our homes for anything other than life-maintaining food supplies.
I am going to try to get myself arrested.

[JimNorCal]

Recv'd in email:

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/11/23/adam-housley-does-some-digging-into-that-essential-birthday-party-that-gov-gavin-newsom-attended/

Before we get into this post, let’s all remember that Gov. Gavin Newsom has apologized, acknowledged that we’re all human, and said he should have gotten back in his car and left when he saw the size of the crowd gathered for a birthday party at The French Laundry. He didn’t, though. And according to journalist Adam Housley, those spy photos that outed the governor and his guests not wearing masks might not have captured the full attendance of the dinner party.

1/2 Because Yountville is my hometown..and where the French Laundry is located…I thought I’d do some digging. Facts about the Newsom dinner. The bar bill was around 15-thousand. 22 people in attendance, not 12. No masks. All indoors. They got so loud, other patrons complained

— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) November 23, 2020

2/2 There was “zero effort” to go outside and there was no social distancing of any type. I’m also told some of those there are now privately laughing at the controversy. Remember this is my little hometown. The walls speak.

— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) November 23, 2020

[GUS]

I'm still waiting for 4D, can I get a general guess when it's going to occur. I mean give or take 3 years.

[JimNorCal]

Fox Ratings Collapse Friday – 3 Week Losses: Ingraham -44%, Cavuto -43%, McCallum -43%, Hannity -39%, Perino -33%, Carlson -32%, Baier -32%, Fox and Friends -32%

http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-friday-cable-originals-network-finals-11-20-2020.html

[GUS]

Tonight the FOOTBALL LEAGUE has decided to field a referee squad, purposely made up of only bLACK members on the same field that has the words END RACISM in the end zone.
This is how STOOOPIT, this nation has become.

[John S]

The LA Health director's dictats probably do not carry the force of law, but if a business owner keeps the business open, and someone claims to have caught the virus there, the personal injury lawyers in California will skin you alive over a turning spit.
Just love this place

[CCGirl]

Ig and John S, It’s not that it was overturned. It was ignored. The people have voted for great referendums in the past, such as prop 2-1/2, regarding limits on increases on property tax.

Years ago the legislature increased the sales tax rate from 5% to 6.25% (I may be wrong but I think under Deval Patrick’s lead). A referendum passed to return the rate to 5%.

Crickets. We are still at 6.25%. For years now.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

If you lived in Philadelphia and didn't sign the outside of your ballot - it was accepted. If you lived in Harrisburg and didn't sign the outside of your ballot - it was thrown out.
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{Dick Morris]

[MissMarple2]

https://www.federaltimes.com/management/2020/11/23/gsa-head-makes-transition-resources-available-to-biden-after-intense-criticism/

As expected, while the President's tweet made it sound like she was getting threats and was being nice, the article from the Federal Times makes her sound all noble and the House criticizing with lots of stupid comments.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

More like "if you lived in Philadelphia and didn't sign the outside of a thousand ballots - they were accepted."

[Dave (in MA)]

ccgirl, the "temporary" increase in the MA *INCOME* tax was enacted in 1989, for 18 months. 31 years later we're still not back to 5% despite referendums. Right now it's 5.05%, but they made up for the incremental decreases over the years by jacking up sales taxes, fees and meals taxes, though for the latter they decreed that the meals taxes get raised by local officials, so they can pass the blame around.
The cynic realist in me predicts a new raise in income and sales taxes to make up the decreased inflow of money from the restaurants that they've put out of business.

[Momto2]

boris - I think you were right the first time when you wrote "TESTING" the GOP was TEXTing me everyday ...

Actually, they are now "TESTING" me every day here in Ga.

[John S]

You guys in Taxachusetts have it really rough. Here in LA County the sales tax is 10.5%.

[peter]

Had my biopsies today. Now the sides of my head feel like some vicious cats scratched me. I get the results Wednesday.

[MissMarple2]

Ron
@CodeMonkeyZ

Who can access the ballot images? What format are they saved in?
Can they be deleted? Can they be seen and tampered with before any official adjudication process starts?

[MissMarple2]

peter,

Your package arrived today, and thank you so much!

[lurkersusie]

Planning ahead

Nick Short Flag of United States
@PoliticalShort
· 38m
"In January, when Biden & his national security team begin to reevaluate US foreign policy, we hope they will quickly revise the national security strategy to eliminate ‘America first’ from its contents," writes Jim Mattis & friends. Truly pathetic. https://foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-11-23/defense-depth

[John S]

best wishes Peter

[Dave (in MA)]

Cripes, John S.

[Dave (in MA)]

Peter, fingers crossed.

[MissMarple2]

peter,

I also want to let you know I am praying for positive (good) results to your biopsies!

[CCGirl]

Dave, that’s income tax. I am talking about sales tax. But, yes that’s another issue here. And yes, JohnS we are way lower than CA It’s not the rate (well it is) but it is the point.

The point is these jackass pols feel they are above the law, and above us. F’m all!

[MissMarple2]

https://www.nickadamsusa.com/news/scott-baio-threatens-to-unseat-mitt-romney

I cannot tell you how happy this would make me. (This is the second time the subject has shown up on y Twitter feed.)

[MissMarple2]

lurkersusie,

I agree with you.

TRULY PATHETIC!

[CCGirl]

BYW, Thanks Iggy for thinking my post was funny last night!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Mirengoff;
ELECTING RADICAL JUDGES, THE NEW FRONTIER IN WRECKING OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM

[Dave (in MA)]

ccgirl, I know. Just pointing out how their skullduggery is not limited to a specific type of tax. And the idiots keep voting them in.

[Dave (in MA)]

I was a big fan of Barbara Anderson, and now that she's gone, Prop. 2 1/2 can't be long for this world.

[peter]

Thanks MM. I am watching movie comedies to take my mind off of it.

[John S]

ccgirl: I lived in Massachusetts. I knew people in mansions that had tax valuations from 1898 or something. I had a relatively new house, so my property tax was over 5% of what I paid for the house. I left before prop 2 1/2 passed.

[Pinandpuller]

Joe Biden is not my President Elect.

[CCGirl]

Dave and John, I think Ma And Ca are duking it out for liberalism and such, but Ca seems to be ahead in the race. We get the red ribbon, for second place ( weird, I had to look that up. Blue is first place, and gold is third. Oh well, that will be eliminated soon enough- so don’t worry about it).

[MissMarple2]

https://welovetrump.com/2020/11/23/gsa-starts-the-transition-process-to-biden-after-threats-to-family-kids-and-pets/

This has the complete letter from Emily Murphy, which wasn't quoted by the President and was apparently re-written by the Federal Times. She wasn't threatened or pressured by the President, but she was threatened by apparently pro-Biden types.

[John S]

The corruption in Mass was so entertaining. I don't feel that way about California. Been grinding my teeth a lot

[Pinandpuller]

GUS

Mama always said, “Foosball is from the Devil.”

[MissMarple2]

Adam Housley
@adamhousley

Just spoke with a longtime and successful restaurant in LA. The new shutdown may close them for good. UGH. They are going to likely fire all staff. ALSO...many restaurants in LA being stuck with Thanksgiving orders. "We are full of food we had to order several weeks ago."

3:06 PM · Nov 23, 2020

[Narciso]

But mean tweets:

https://mobile.twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1331049914894258180

[CCGirl]

I may have posted this way back. Regular customer comes in. Has lived here forever as far as I can tell. Buys an item for $8.29. I say, “That’ll be $8.81 please! He has a bird. I say sales tax. He says it should not be so much. I say he’s right. “We passed a referendum, and it should be 5%, but our legislators ignore it.” He then says, “Well you don’t need to get all political about it.”

That’s the incredibly ignorant, yet well-educated individuals we are dealing with.

[Narciso]

I think i would drink more, ymmv

https://mobile.twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1331050144884793344

[Narciso]

What is the point of him

https://mobile.twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1331016610899902464

[jim nj]

New blood sport in NYC:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/third-person-shoved-new-york-city-subway-tracks-within-week-n1248708

[Narciso]

Happy hogan not schlichter.

[CCGirl]

Gus, I agree - I am barely at 3 D chess.

Miss M, perhaps the restaurant owners could cook off all the surplus ordered food in protest on the gov’s or mayor’s lawn. Similar to what I suggested those bar owners do in PA.

Start rebelling! (Easy for me to say - my business is booming. But I think if we were financially impacted, and our family business was getting crushed, I would be doing what I typed).

[Narciso]

Well credentialed, educated we have yet to know.

[Narciso]

Yes thr federal times misses the boar

https://mobile.twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1331017710604574722

[CCGirl]

Narc, Right.

[jim nj]

NJ says hold my beer CA and MA we just passed the most extensive plastic bag and other plastic items ban to take effect in 18 months. It's so comprehensive that it bans paper bags too.

NJ voted to allow legal marijuana and the legislature is involved in critical race theory bargaining about who ought to get the sales licenses.

I gotta get out of here.

[MissMarple2]

pic.twitter.com/Za1BByChjN

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 24, 2020

Video at the link. Tucker Carlson with some interesting information. Pinned at the top of the President's page, so he apparently thinks it's important; 9:30 minutes.

[Narciso]

In season 2, of the blacklist atty general tom connelly appears helpful but he is actually working for the cabal. And keen figures it out.

[Dave (in MA)]

RIP, Hugo's buddy Joe²'s drunk driving victim.

[Narciso]

I think the leg got first dibs at the pot.
What other explanation can there

[Dave (in MA)]

Jim NJ, we have the same crap here. One time I started into a rant about having forgotten to bring my "stupid save the planet bags" but then I realized it wasn't the clerk's fault. :)

[Narciso]

So youre supposed to carry food with hands even if its hot?

[CCGirl]

So, JimNJ, JohnS, and DaveMa, can we meet and buy our own island with all of our friends? LOL, because I have so few here. I guess I will be a minority partner!

[Narciso]

Yet some of the best samizdat comes from there.

https://babalublog.com/2020/11/23/surprise-spains-cuba-loving-lefftist-parties-refuse-to-condemn-communist-atrocities-and-crimes-against-humanity/#comments

[Dave (in MA)]

Narciso, we're supposed to either bring the stupid reusable bags (forbidden during the first several months of Chyna-Flu) or pay for the bags they give us. Most of the stores I frequent are still handing them out at no charge, though.

[Pinandpuller]

Did anyone see all of the White people Biden is nominating lmao?

[Dave (in MA)]

The Big Y stores around here make you either bring your own bags or pay 10¢ for a paper sack. [ Opt for the latter if you're buying celery, ladies. 😉 ]

[Narciso]

Thats acrewed up, yes susan rice you thought you would have the top jobs lol.
Mayorkas a pale latino no.

[JimNorCal]

Dave, you rascal!

[Dave (in MA)]

Biden is picking A. Blinken for a high post as we head into CW2.

[Pinandpuller]

For my Fantasy Cabinet League I picked Merritt Garland for AG.

[Threadkiller]

This tweet a thon, on unfriendly airwaves, is full of so many retweets I have no clue what I am supposed to glean:

https://mobile.twitter.com/SidneyPowell1

Meanwhile the friendly airwaves are still silent:

https://parler.com/profile/SidneyPowell

[Jane]

Dave,

Apparently I’ve exceeded my Herald limit. Who killed her and where?

Sheesh Peter, that sounds like a lot. Hang tough!

[Narciso]

Joe kennedy the third i guess.

[Narciso]

Why do they make these biopsies so invasive.

[Dave (in MA)]

1973 Joe II put her in a wheelchair for the rest of her life.

[Narciso]

The horde was justifiably verklempt over this

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/11/23/joe-bidens-tax-agenda-could-cost-gun-owners-34-billion/

[caro]

For Jane

Pam Kelley, a Kennedy casualty, passes away

Howie CarrNovember 22, 2020 at 8:55 a.m.

Pam Kelley was 18 years old in the summer of 1973 when she accepted a fateful ride in a Jeep from a male member of the Kennedy family on Nantucket.

Joseph P. Kennedy II flipped the Jeep on a sandy cutoff and Pam Kelley was thrown out and paralyzed from the waist down.

She would never walk again. She spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair.

Pam Kelley Burkley died Friday at the age of 65. She lived 25 years longer than the doctors had predicted back in 1973.

She is survived by, among others, a 31-year-old daughter and two grandsons.

The accident had no adverse impact on Joe Kennedy’s life and career, of course. For crippling Pam Kelley, he had to appear before a local judge who had graduated from Harvard with his uncle and namesake Joseph Kennedy Jr., a judge who like Joe’s father Bobby
had once worked in Washington for Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin.

In between sporadic attendance at a string of second- and third-tier colleges, Joe was accompanied to court by his mother Ethel and his uncle Ted.

The senator was making his own first appearance in a state courtroom since pleading guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after killing Mary Jo Kopechne in his own motor-vehicle accident four years earlier on Martha’s Vineyard.

For putting Pam Kelley in a wheelchair for the rest of her life, the family-retainer judge fined Joe Kennedy $100.

That’s the Kennedy M.O. They all live their lives like Tom and Daisy Buchanan in “The Great Gatsby.”

There is more.....

[Captain Hate]

I remember when that happened. Typical Kennedy story and the enemedia acted like they were the victims of a "curse".

[Narciso]

Well theres a lot of pot up there no, shouldnt it make them mellow?

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2020/11/22/171251/60/Colo_News/Sunday-Night-Open-Thread

[Narciso]

If it was a curse he would be the dead one.

[MissMarple2]

Heading to bed.

Good night, all!

[Narciso]

Now jo jo lost to biz markey, thats a crossing the streams moment

[Narciso]

After watching the poirot series im going to link into a few of those agatha christies.

[CCGirl]

That’s the Kennedy M.O. They all live their lives like Tom and Daisy Buchanan in “The Great Gatsby.”

There is more.....

Perfect description!

They are now so yesterday in this new DNC. Now it’s “We embrace communism! “

[Jane]

Sheesh Caro, I would expect no less! How sad. Are you all settled?

[DrJ]

Why do they make these biopsies so invasive.

Traditional biopsies have to be invasive. Usually a tissue is sampled, and they are not close to the surface and a needle biopsy is performed.

Many others and I are working on "liquid biopsies" so that disease finger-prints can be found in the blood instead of using invasive biopsies.

This is a difficult problem, but it will succeed. Forget the lawyers and guns -- send money!

[Dave (in MA)]

Forget the lawyers and guns -- send money!

The SHHTF.

[sbwaters]

DrJ, and one share will cost ...

[jim nj]

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/why-california-republicans-stopped-complaining-about-ballot-harvesting-and-embraced-the-process/?itm_campaign=headline-testing-why-california-republicans-stopped-complaining-about-ballot-harvesting-and-embraced-the

Two can play that game.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Gov. Hogan (R-MD) on resistance to mask requirement: “It’s sort of like saying, ‘I have a constitutional right to drive drunk’ … There is no constitutional right to walk around without a mask.”--

Sounds just like every other old nag on the inside rail for a MacArthur "Genius" grant.

[DrJ]

sbw,

I intend to raise capital in 2021. Interested?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--california-republicans-stopped-complaining-about-ballot-harvesting-and-embraced-the-process--

Aha! They WERE hitting the nursing homes and loony bins. CA Reps do something right for a change.

[CCGirl]

Happy to donate to the right causes. Post the links here please.

JimNJ, I refuse to connect to a Nat RV article.

Hubs always watches fox, Tucker and Laura. He had to shut her off. Many are surrendering, but we are not giving in yet. Flag and sign are still out. Even my SIL, who used to be a lefty nut, is not giving in.

Night from windy, rainy, cape cod!

[Narciso]

Tobias is a notre dame grad, goes to show what has gone on there.

[Narciso]

I guess so dr. J, its just dissapointing tech hasnt caught up yet.

[Captain Hate]

Driving is a state licensed activity by the agreement of all parties. Walking in public unimpeded except by normal clothes, or most abnormal ones, is freedom. Hogan is really dumb.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Lileks often adopts a snooty, superior attitude to 50s and 60s kitsch, which attitude is not nearly as superior as he seems to think.