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  1. 15 minutes ago, Dertyberd said:

    Not arguing that it is always 100%, but it being "a game of telephone" in the post I quoted is way too simplistic.  I can agree with you on the 90%+ threshold, that's great.  There may be a small amount of details that are wrong, but this guy, at this time, wasn't going to fuck around.  Dude spent his career in Russia or collecting contacts in Russia.  I'm going to say he probably left out a lot of stuff that was more of the "investigate further" variety than he put in.  

    It should also give skeptics pause that the Republicans who originally hired Steele did so because he is a Russia expert.  Obviously it wasn't too big of a secret among NY/political circles that Trump was already bought by Russia. 

    Agreed. See the recording of McCarthy and Ryan regarding Rohrabacher and Trump being on the Russian payroll. If the Trump campaign wasn't colluding with the Russian gov't to some extent then Steele wouldn't have had any intelligence on the subject to gather in the first place.

  2. 4 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

    Is anyone else rooting for him to crater the economy? It feels rather strange hoping he causes extreme financial pain for most Americans, myself included, but I feel like it’s the surest way to end this madness and sink the GOP for decades.

    Rooting? No. Expecting? Yes.

    What I'm rooting for is that the middle class dipshits who keep voting for Republicans against their own financial interests finally wake the fuck up when it happens AGAIN and realize they've been played for suckers. Maybe the third time will be the charm. 

  3. 1 hour ago, kevwun said:

    Does he know how many American citizens are currently in Mexico visiting family over the holidays?

    Lol. Good one. I assume that was a rhetorical question. But if they have family in Mexico then he'd probably rather they just stayed there anyway. 

  4. 7 minutes ago, Dertyberd said:

    The guy is the best in the business and was originally hired by Republicans worried about Trump.  He was the damn station chief for MI6 in Moscow.  People don't pay you the type of coin if he just makes up shit.  He's not some political hack in Florida looking for weirdos who fake their Liberty University degree to be a State Senator.  This guy is the real deal and I seriously doubt he's going to screw his reputation and future earnings potential to make shit up.  He's a professional spy with serious contacts.  If its not true, he's not going to put it in the report people pay a lot of money for.  

    The chance that the dossier, or any other intelligence product for that matter, being 100% accurate is virtually impossible. That's not how intelligence works. You get the information you can and assess probabilities. If you're 98% accurate then you hit a goddamn home run. If the percentage of accuracy in the Steele dossier is over 90% then he's earned his reputation as being one of the best in the business. 

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  5. 21 minutes ago, GoPokes83 said:

    Christmas commercials that are still shown after Christmas Day.

    Or played on the radio. There's one from a local auto dealer that is so obnoxious and preachy that I either change the channel or turn off the radio. I just heard it again today. I would never buy a car from that asshole. 

  6. 1 hour ago, SquishMitten said:

    At this point, how many of the bigger points of the dossier have been verified vs. unverified? Hard to prove a negative, but have any even been shown to be unlikely due to verifiable contradictions?

    Nothing in the dossier has been proven to be false. 

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  7. Portland, OR Doubletree hotel calls cops, kicks out guest for telephoning while black.

    https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2018/12/portland-hotel-calls-cops-on-black-guest-in-lobby.html

    Jermaine Massey had just seen Travis Scott perform at the Moda Center on Sunday night and returned to his hotel when he saw that his mother had called.

    She lives on the East Coast, so he assumed if she called so late, something must be wrong. So he sat down in the lobby of the DoubleTree Hotel in the Lloyd District to take the call before going up to his room.

    Massey recounted what came next in a series of Instagram videos that have gone viral. Massey, from Kent, Washington, says in them that he was targeted by a security guard because he is black and that this led to Massey being kicked out of the hotel and having to find a new one near midnight.

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    One of Massey’s videos shows where he was sitting, tucked away in a group of comfortable chairs away from the main part of the lobby. Massey, 34, said he was sitting there when a white security guard approached him and interrupted Massey’s phone call to ask if Massey was a staying at the hotel.

    Massey said he was. The guard then asked what room number.

    According to Massey, that is when he became irritated and told the guard that he was on a phone call and that he doesn’t remember his room number off the top of his head.

    The guard then had a manager call police. In the recording of the incident Massey posted, the guard says that he was calling the cops because Massey was loitering, despite Massey holding his room key card.

    Massey said in a video after the incident that the guard told him he thought Massey was a threat to other people’s safety.

    Massey, who was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with bright lettering, jeans and sneakers, contended that the white guests who were walking in and out of the hotel and milling about the lobby were not stopped. Several times, he suggests that he was singled out because he was black, to which neither the manager or guard responds.

    After the manager called the police, he asked Massey and the guard what happened and told Massey to “calm down” and that the guard had the right to alert police and wouldn’t have done so without cause

    I'd say he was being pretty calm in the video, given the circumstances, when the manager told him to "calm down."  I guess the manager thought he was getting a little uppity. 

  8. 8 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Lethal Weapon is cheesy on every level but it works, because 80s.

    It's extremely cheesy. I watched it again this morning. If you thought Gary Busey was hilarious then you must have found Mel Gibson hamming it up trying to look tough and mysterious to be positively hysterical. 

    How did Mr. Joshua know where Riggs was going to be questioning a hooker on the street when he shot him up after the hit on Hunsaker? How did he even know who Riggs was or that he was on the case? Did he figure that out just from the helicopter when he killed Kelly's dad? There were a lot of people out on the lawn. 

    Why was Murtaugh watching from across the street when Riggs was talking to the hooker? Were they expecting a hit? Apparently not because Murtaugh didn't know Riggs was wearing his bullet proof vest. We saw that the brakes work on the buses in L.A. when Murtaugh ran across the street after Riggs got shot. 

    How did Mr. Joshua know about Murtaugh? He couldn't have seen him in Hunsaker's office. How did he know about him and where to go to kill his daughter's boyfriend and kidnap her? How did the general manage to get the drop on Riggs out in the desert, on foot, from the meeting place? Why did they take two captured cops back to the site of the heroin delivery in order to interrogate them?

    Let's grant that it was plausible for Murtaugh to know that Mr. Joshua was driving to the freeway and could give Riggs a shortcut to beat him there on foot so he could engage him in a shootout with automatic weapons on a road crowded with citizens. And apparently none of them were shot accidentally. After Joshua got away, and they figured out he'd be going to the Murtaugh home, how did they get there before him, evacuate the family, and write him a note from "the good guys?"

    After Riggs took off on foot for Joshua, Murtaugh went back for the general. He confronted him in a car speeding through the alleyway, took aim, and shot...the general's driver. Fortunately, happenstance came to the rescue again as this time the brakes on the bus weren't used and the general's car got smashed. Otherwise he might have lobbed some of those grenades in Murtaugh's direction and gotten away. 

    When they went to question Amanda Hunsaker's "meal ticket" without a warrant, someone just happens to open the gate on their way out and invite them into the party. There's a lot of random chance used to move the story along. 

    Die Hard is a much, much better movie. Earning 20 percent? Please. 

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  9. They just showed Bill Walton and Mickey Hart in the stands taking in the Lakers-Warriors game. 

    Edit: I had it on a second screen with the volume down when I first saw them. With the volume up a few minutes later the announcers had just been told who Bill's friend was. 

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