All Very Awkward

The WSJ editors are right: unless Trump's Mar-a-Laga documents contained some truly consequential secrets its hard to see a criminal indictment coming out of this:

It’s hard to believe that a dispute over documents would yield a criminal indictment. Attorney General Merrick Garland would have to explain to the public why Mr. Trump’s behavior was so much more nefarious than other cases of mishandled classified documents. That includes former national security adviser Sandy Berger, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. And Hillary Clinton, who got off with a sanctimonious lecture from then FBI director James Comey.

We aren’t defending Mr. Trump’s behavior in any of this. He brings much of his trouble on himself. But his political enemies make it worse when they break political norms themselves. They also help Mr. Trump by making him into a political martyr. If you’re going to indict a former President, you’d better have him dead to rights on something bigger than mishandling documents.

But how will the government prove any such secrets were in fact consequential? Team Trump will insist the documents were over-classified trivia; the government is hardly in a position to release the secrets to prove they are a BFD. Or maybe Trump's supporters will take the word of leaks to the NY Times and a pronouncement from Biden's Director fo National Intelligence? Yeah, definitely maybe not.

DC is not a high-trust outfit these days.

Comments

[Narciso]

i can't imagine why that would be,

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/08/28/damning-info-in-trump-affidavit-that-raises-even-more-questions-about-fbi-doj-action-n619067

[Narciso]

more details here:

https://t.me/MizDonna/8642

[Melinda]

Declassified documents by the Declassifier-in-chief is a rough hill to climb, except in the sycophantic press.

[Dave (in MA)]

2017 - We got him now
2016 - We got him now
2017 - We got him now
2018 - We got him now
2019 - We got him now
2020 - We got him now
2021 - We got him now
2022 - We got him now

[Dave (in MA)]

s/7/5 on line 1

[clarice]

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2022/08/27/that-mushroom-cloud-you-see-is-another-trump-media-narrative-exploding-before-your-eyes-n1624712

[clarice]

FBI punked the WaPo.

[jim nj]

Boom!

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-india-62706495

On Sunday afternoon, two skyscrapers near India's capital Delhi were demolished in a carefully planned explosion. It was the biggest such operation in India so far, and generated so much interest that it was telecast live on TV channels.

Brand new. Supreme Court ruled them illegally built. Boom!

[Davod]

Ace landscape

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/8%2028%200nt.jpg

[Davod]

"'My sister named her baby after a bacteria - she's mad at me for laughing'
A woman has admitted she burst out laughing when she heard what her sister was planning to call her daughter - and was told she'd ruined her baby shower in the process..."

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/my-sister-named-baby-after-27851831

[Davod]

. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

An Uber driver in New York City is being hailed as a hero after helping two people escape a burning building in Brooklyn.

https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/4770/An-Uber-Driver-Pulled-Over-Mid-Ride-To-Rescue-People-From-A-Burning-Building

[Davod]

Food fight

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/8%2028%20br0ught.jpg

[Davod]

Wireless doorbells

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/wireless%20doorbell%20dogs.jpg

[Davod]

Securicat

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/security%20cat.jpg

[Davod]

Dog fight

https://twitter.com/i/status/1563269793729302530

[Davod]

Second Ace landscape

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/ElephantSeals1.jpg

[henry]

FBI punked the WaPo

WaPo lives to be punked.

[Neo]

My wife asked me which, Fetterman or Oz, is better.
I said .. "it's a choice between a doctor and a guy who probably can't tie his own shoes"

By the way ... Oz had his first commercial on last night that I really liked.
The others were purely negative, while this one gave actual reasons to vote for him.

[clarice]

Contrary to common belief, I think Oz may pull it off.

[Narciso]

he should but there is the steal factor, that cushions mongo, I don't have any sympathy for the man, who enabled the death of tens of thousands of elderly in nursing homes, he's from the same deck as shapiro and levine, if tim curry had gone to seed,

[Narciso]

meanwhile the green zone is under lockdown, any of those jackrabbits saw this coming,

[Narciso]

to think that 14 years ago, there was someone who came on the scene, who thought there was value in this country's people and institutions, they did everything possible to chase her out of public life,

[Narciso]

part and parcel of the same illusion,

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-psychology-of-totalitarianism

[Narciso]

his carson signoff

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/29/al-sadr-withdraws-from-iraqi-politics-after-months-of-tensions

[Narciso]

ya don't say

https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/08/mar-a-lago-raid-feds-seized-privileged-trump-documents-new-court-filing-confirms/

[Neo]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue said Monday that white liberals qualify as the worst of white supremacists because “they don’t believe blacks have the ability to raise themselves up by themselves.”

In this way, white liberals express a deep belief in “the inherent inferiority of blacks,” Dr. Donohue wrote.

While right-wing white supremacists are too few to really matter, the nation teems with “well-educated white liberals” who have become “the real white supremacists,” he declared.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/29/catholic-league-white-liberals-are-real-white-supremacists/

[Neo]

Liberals, he continued, have given up on equal opportunity and have given up on blacks, which “explains why they are constantly dreaming up ways to mandate equality.”

As a case in point, Donohue asserted that the Interim Report by the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans is “the most comprehensive summary of liberal white supremacy available.”

[clarice]

A nice summary of Margo Cleveland's fine analysis of the M-a_L search and affidavit:https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/more-light-on-the-mal-raids-legal

[clarice]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wall-street-rails-against-costs-of-chairman-gary-genslers-regulatory-agenda-at-sec-11661592600

[Neo]

Joe Biden does an “Afghanistan” to Iraq

https://mobile.twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1564265453689634817
https://mobile.twitter.com/JasonMBrodsky/status/1564243663374491648

[Narciso]

twitter tried to ban him, three years ago

https://twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi

[Narciso]

the ostensible reason, they said he was a sockpuppet for the peoples mohajeddin, unlike all the ones who kiss the sepah's posterior,

[clarice]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/justice-department-tells-judge-already-reviewed-trump-documents

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--My wife asked me which, Fetterman or Oz, is better.
I said .. "it's a choice between a doctor and a guy who probably can't tie his own shoes"--

He probably can't, but he can mobilize the state and, he hopes, Federal bureaucracy to help destroy America.
He's more than just a hideous face.
As some funny, funny guy said elsewhere he's a Klingon homunculus.

[clarice]

https://notthebee.com/article/happening-now-us-embassy-in-baghdad-is-evacuated-as-rioters-storm-the-presidential-palace

[Narciso]

he does look like he belongs biting off chicken heads in a carnival,

he wants to end fracking, end the filibusters, and end whatever's left of the bill of rights,

this is what precious norms mean,

[clarice]

Looks like Garland and Wray found their sacrificial lamb:https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/fbi-special-agent-who-opened-trump-investigation-reportedly-escorted

[Narciso]

otoh,

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/joe-biden-hunter-biden-laptop-denier-intelligence-board

i forget who they had play him in zd 30

interestingly the one who jessica chastain's character was based on, is married to michael scheuer

[Narciso]

interestingly this was who valerie plame, tweeted her burned status,

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-confounds-the-west-by-recapturing-its-oil-riches-11661781928

[Narciso]

the context

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/08/wsj-takes-on-fbi.html

[Narciso]

good grief

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/29/antifa-armed-with-ar-15s-guard-kid-friendly-drag-show-in-texas/

[Narciso]

other experts,

https://brownstone.org/articles/social-distancing-was-supposed-to-be-forever/

[Davod]

mood

https://twitter.com/i/status/1563249981246832643

[Davod]

Someone had to do it

https://twitter.com/i/status/1562788467394117635

[Davod]

This cute baby seal was found on the shore of Lake Baikal.
Local scientists and their pet dog took care of the seal.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1390945359363457025

[Davod]

Rare black fallow deer seen in the Baryczy valley in Poland.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1391285359875604481

[Davod]

I’ve never seen a cat with floppy ears..

https://twitter.com/i/status/1562878303702114304

[Davod]

Over the clouds is Mount
Fuji in Japan🇯🇵 ☁️☁️🏔
https://twitter.com/i/status/1390590202318577665

[Davod]

The acrobat dolphin

https://twitter.com/i/status/1390212218042687489

[clarice]

What was the logic in persuading Europe to sanction Russia while we cut our own petro supplies so we couldn't help them?

[Davod]

Clever Cat Knocks on Door #SoundOn

https://twitter.com/i/status/1391288604094312449

[Davod]

Man save a Sloth .... and he seems to thank

https://twitter.com/i/status/1391296878340452354

[Davod]

Ace seascape

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/wave.jpg

[Davod]

Mommy koala hugging her baby.. 😊

https://twitter.com/i/status/1563629951852724224

[Davod]

Friends

https://twitter.com/i/status/1563965714997735424

[Davod]

either baby Koala or Koala with giant.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1563632310154448896

[Davod]

This is how they weigh Koalas

https://twitter.com/i/status/1563633002030194688

[Davod]

You look thirsty weird dog. Have a drink.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1563638004794916864

[clarice]

https://nypost.com/2022/08/29/fbi-agent-resigns-amid-hunter-biden-probe-scrutiny/

[Davod]

Clarice. Just in time to sign up for a large book advance and a prime job.

[Davod]

Ace's evening landscape

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/8%2029%200nt.jpg

[jim nj]

I guess they're trying to nail down a few loose ends on the student loan thing.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/29/how-more-ffel-borrowers-may-qualify-for-student-loan-forgiveness.html
Education Dept. is exploring strategies to help 5 million ‘overlooked borrowers’ excluded from student loan forgiveness

[clarice]

OMG:THIBAULT TALKING ABOUT WHAT THE FBI IS DOING RE ELECTION FRAUD:https://twitter.com/FBIPortland/status/1314268069506629633

[Comanche Voter]

Thibault was dirty then--he's dirty now. But he's not alone in the upper reaches of the FBI. I don't have a complaint about the lowly field agents. But the upper ranks of the FBI are mostly scum.

[clarice]

WRAY AND GARLAND ARE PETRIFIED OF A RED WAVE. CYA TIME IN SPADES.

[jim nj]

https://www.sunnyskyz.com/happy-videos/11791/Rick-Astley-Recreates-039-Never-Gonna-Give-You-Up-039-Video-35-Years-Later
Rick Astley Recreates 'Never Gonna Give You Up' Video 35 Years Later

[jim nj]

https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/28/the-strangest-thing-about-semi-fascist-trump/
The Strangest Thing About ‘Semi-Fascist’ Trump
Of the last three presidents, Trump was either the most indifferent or the most obstructed when it came to using government agencies for his own partisan political advantages or to neuter his enemies

[jim nj]

https://spectator.org/the-democratic-momentum-mirage/
The Democratic Momentum Mirage
Despite all their balderdash and bluster, they’re headed for a midterm drubbing.

It will be interesting to see if any network interrupts their programming to cover Biden's prime-time speech.

What's the purpose of the speech that's so compelling?

[jim nj]

https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/29/the-short-life-and-amazingly-fast-death-of-the-fbis-mar-a-lago-play/
The Short Life (And Amazingly Fast Death) Of The FBI’s Mar-A-Lago Play

[jim nj]

https://abc7.com/california-fast-food-workers-bill-ab-257/12178957/
California Senate passes bill aimed at giving fast food workers more protections

The bill would create a new 10-member Fast Food Council with equal numbers of workers' delegates and employers' representatives, along with two state officials, empowered to set minimum standards for wages, hours and working conditions in California.

A late amendment would cap any minimum wage increase for fast food workers at chains with more than 100 restaurants at $22 an hour next year, compared to the statewide minimum of $15.50 an hour, with cost of living increases thereafter.

You know that just might work because the restaurants can drop their college tuition reimbursement benefit in favor of providing their workers with government loan applications.

[clarice]

Better yet, they can go with a larger robot component,jim,

My latest for pipeline:https://tinyurl.com/yck9ertr

[clarice]

jim, the federalist article is terrific.

[clarice]

More good news today:https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/08/gibsons-bakery-wins-ohio-supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-oberlin-college-appeal/

[henry]

Jim, that will work as well as the solar panels at night.

[Narciso]

omg i'm dying here,

[Narciso]

who can play $20,00/hour for berger flippers,

[Narciso]

the point is for china to win

https://www.revolver.news/2022/08/the-fake-history-of-the-20th-century/

[Narciso]

who saw this card,

https://rmx.news/czech-republic/czechia-cannot-be-self-sufficient-in-terms-of-food-says-czech-pm/

[Narciso]

we'll make it up in volume

https://bit.ly/3AXZsDq

[Neo]

GUR Intercept Call - "All the bridges are f*cked...You can't get in or out" Kherson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCzXnRl1zSI

[DCSCA]

Lest We Forget-- August 30, 2021:

BIDEN RIPPED FOR APPARFENTLY GLANCING AT WATCH DURING CEREMONY FOR FALLEN TROOPS

President Biden has come under fire for apparently glancing at his watch during a solemn ceremony at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for the 13 US troops killed in the terror attack near the Kabul airport… During the event, he placed his right hand to his chest as the flag-draped coffins were carried off the Air Force C-17 Globemaster plane… “Looks like he was being inconvenienced by having to show some respect for these American Heros [sic],” Samuel Williams, a disabled US Army veteran, said on Twitter… “It’s true. Joe Biden checked his watch during the dignified transfer of the servicemembers killing in Afghanistan at the airport,” columnist Nicholas Fondacaro wrote… You can see him jerk his left hand to pull the watch out from under his sleeve, then look down at it,” he added.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee wrote: “Many of us remember Pres Bush 41 checking his watch during a debate and how awful it looked (even though we all felt same way about that debate.) But this is shocking and will be remembered.”… Foreign policy analyst Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation, said that “there is nothing more important than paying your respects to America’s fallen war heroes, Mr. President.”…

Former White House doctor Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) said in a tweet: “Apparently our Commander-in-Chief has better things to do than honor the 13 service members who died on his watch? “I’m DISGUSTED! God bless these heroes and their loved ones. They deserved better,” he added.

The 13 troops who were killed in Kabul had been assisting with the evacuation of Americans and Afghans after the swift fall of the country’s government. Among the casualties were 11 Marines, one Navy corpsman and one Army soldier. The victims ranged in age from 20 to 31, including 23-year-old Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee, who was captured last week in a photo cooing over an Afghan infant.’

https://nypost.com/2021/08/30/biden-ripped-for-apparently-looking-at-watch-at-troops-ceremony/

And this shower-with-your-daughter-creep is going to foul Independence Hall with a pigeon dropping lecture on the ‘soul of America’???

When this demented, steaming POS finally lightens the load on the planet, and every house cat on the planet fights for a spot in line to follow their instincts with his carcass- the rest of America will have their heads bowed– staring at their watches.

[Neo]

11 Aug 2022: The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said Thursday that Kim Jong Un declared victory over COVID-19 and ordered an easing of preventive measures just three months after the country first acknowledged an outbreak.

Today: Kim Jong Un contracts COVID-19: North Korean state media

[DCSCA]

R.I.P. Mikhail Gorbachev

‘We will bury you.’ – Nikita Khrushchev

____

Lest we forget: Margaret Thatcher’s assessment of Gorbachev became international news, a first opinion of this future key figure. When Margaret Thatcher stated that she “could do business together” with Gorbachev, she was attempting to influence both the United States and the Soviet Union. For the United States, it was a subtle rebuke of President Reagan’s vocal attacks on the Soviet Union that had been making news in an election year. Her further comments on the possible role for Great Britain concerning the ongoing disarmament talks was another attempt to guide U.S. foreign policy. For the Soviet Union, Thatcher’s praise of Gorbachev was an attempt to influence the choice of a successor for the current President, Konstantin Chernenko. This one interview demonstrates Britain’s attempt to influence the potential end of Cold War hostilities. – source, https://worldhistorycommons.org/margaret-thatchers-views-mikhail-gorbachev

Time magazine named Mikhail Gorbachev its “Man of the Decade” Saturday, calling the Soviet leader “the force behind the most momentous events of the ’80s” and the man responsible for ending the Cold War. – https://www.deseret.com/1989/12/24/18837899/time-calls-gorbachev-man-of-the-decade

How Gorbachev and Reagan’s Friendship Helped Thaw the Cold War

The two leaders recognized in each other the desire to move past tense politics and end a nuclear standoff.

One was an avid capitalist, an actor-turned-U.S. president determined to quash America’s nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union’s “evil empire.” The other, a young committed communist who rose through the political ranks to lead the USSR, pushing publicly for reform. But Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, unusual bedfellows as they may have been, managed to forge not only a mutual respect, but a friendship, which helped end the Cold War.

“I think, frankly, (that) President Gorbachev and I discovered a sort of a bond, a friendship between us, that we thought could become such a bond between all the people,” Reagan told journalists in Moscow during a visit in 1990.

In his book, Dear Mr. President … Reagan/Gorbachev and the Correspondences that Ended the Cold War, historian Jason Saltoun-Ebin writes that confidential letters between the two world leaders forced the men to “talk, debate, argue, disagree, but also offer proposals even when they thought no agreement would be possible.”

“Both Reagan and Gorbachev recognized that change was coming, and both wanted to be on the right side of history,” he writes. “But they needed to find a way to overcome forty years of Cold War ideology. They needed to find a way to trust each other.”

More than 40 letters, many hand-written, and four summits in just over three years were key to building that trust. In his autobiography, An American Life, Reagan writes: “As I look back on them now, I realize those first letters marked the cautious beginning on both sides of what was to become the foundation of not only a better relationship between our countries but a friendship between two men.”…

“If Brezhnev had lived another six years, Reagan would have made no progress on arms control,” he says. “Reagan needed someone to meet him halfway. He found this person in Gorbachev.”

https://www.history.com/news/gorbachev-reagan-cold-war

[Davod]

Found at Instapundit. Re. Gorbachev

"FLASHBACK: Credit The Liberator, Not The Dictator. “Here’s another column from a freed Soviet, who recalls, ‘On the morning of April 20, 1989, the day my family leaving Moscow, a knock came on my parents’ door. It was our next-door neighbor. Ours being one of the Soviet Union’s cramped, communal apartments, I mean that quite literally. Waving a bottle of vodka, he insisted my father drink a toast. He wanted to celebrate our new freedom, which also meant his: By leaving him our half of the apartment, we were bypassing Soviet restrictions on the sale of state property. Agreeing, my father suggested they toast to Gorbachev. After all, our neighbor was a common day laborer, unlikely to be up on the complex realities of international politics; and more than likely to have imbibed his fair share of politburo propaganda, which Gorbachev, in his hick Caucasus accent, spouted daily. Our neighbor only laughed. ‘Gorbachev? You think Gorbachev gave me this apartment? We’ll drink to Reagan. Reagan gave me this apartment.’’ He gave you a lot more than that, comrade. And I’m sure you know it today.”

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2004/06 ... or-n221804

[Davod]

correction./

https://pjmedia.com/culture/marktapscott/2022/08/30/10-facts-electric-vehicle-advocates-dont-want-you-to-know-n1625157

[DCSCA]

Davod: Reagan was dead in the water w/o Gorby. It was Maggie who whispered in Ronnie's ear to work with Mikhail. Just as Begin was up the creek w/o a Jimmy Carter U.S. financed paddle without Sadat in '77.

And playing the role of Thatcher in that bit of theater: CBS News correspondent Walter Cronkite.

[Davod]

DCSCA. Stop it!

[DCSCA]

Davod: Recognize a partner in peace when you see one.

________

(CNN) The uncrewed Artemis I mission will get another attempt at launching on a journey around the moon on Saturday.

The two-hour launch window opens at 2:17 p.m. ET on September 3.

The current forecast for Saturday includes a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning and early afternoon hours, so the launch team will keep a close eye on the forecast, said Marc Berger, launch weather office with the US Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron. There is a 60% chance of a weather violation during the launch window, Berger said. There is still a backup opportunity for the Artemis I mission to launch on September 5 as well.

[Davod]

Bad catitude

Yuri Bezmenov Writes How To with Yuri Bezmenov

"Feline-15: too close for missiles, switching to claws"

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d82ed94-36a6-4b94-a4a6-fa546c4c739d_604x453.png

[clarice]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/breaking-attorney-general-merrick-garland-orders-no-one-doj-contact-congress-breaks-law/

[Davod]

DCSCA. I merely passed on what someone else wrote about their experience.

[Davod]

Alberobello, a borgo (village) in Bari, Italy

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/AlberobelloBariItaly.jpg

[Davod]

Happy goat.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1389506605759205377

[Davod]

Cool way to feed 20 baby goats at the same time

https://twitter.com/i/status/1389216192506761216

[Davod]

First Koala Born After Australian Brushfire Season

https://twitter.com/i/status/1389481619384377347

[Davod]

Young pandas enjoy on a slide

https://twitter.com/i/status/1389129914645893123

[Davod]

Sharing is the prerogative of higher beings

https://twitter.com/i/status/1388145512482844675

[Davod]

Elephant likes the slide

https://twitter.com/i/status/1389514077056245761

[Davod]

Waiting for a new sun

https://twitter.com/i/status/1389496984860569600

[Davod]

Morning chat

https://twitter.com/i/status/1389494632891961345