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  1. 1 minute ago, Chooky said:

    If so, that's on them.  Take twenty minutes and get it right without jeopardizing your own rectitude.  Heh, rectitude.

    and yes, 100% of this. nbc was duped, because they didn't have the patience to chase the story to ground

  2. 3 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    I still don’t understand why the story was news in the first place.

    WE KNEW COHEN WAS UNDER SURVEILLANCE WHEN HE WAS RAIDED.

    It’s almost like this nothing-really-new story was deliberately pushed so Giuliani could go off on the Deep State and fake news media for fucking up the story.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5688187/Trump-lawyer-Michael-Cohen-WIRETAPPED-FBI-raid.html

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    Rudy Giuliani came out swinging Thursday following a report – later retracted – that federal investigators had tapped phones belonging to President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

    NBC News reported that the wiretaps were in place during the weeks before agents raided Cohen's home, offices and hotel room on April 9.

    But the network later walked its story back, broadcasting an update on MSNBC that read: 'Correction: Feds are monitoring, not listening to Cohen's calls.' 

    Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who is the president's newest legal spokesman, was furious that the news was leaked at all, and had said Attorney General Jeff Sessions should intervene and put the people behind the Cohen probe 'under investigation.'

    'I am waiting for the attorney general to step in, in his role as defender of justice, and put these people under investigation,' Giuliani told The Hill, a Washington, D.C. newspaper.

    He predicted the president would be outraged by the prospect of the FBI listening to private conversations with the man who was recently his attorney, and conceded that he would have to tell Trump that 'the Department of Justice seems to want to trample all over the Constitution of the United States.'

    Ultimately, Giuliani said in a separate interview, he doesn't believe there was a wiretap – even though prosecutors in New York have already said in court filings that they had also obtained warrants to sift through Cohen's email accounts. 

    Giuliani was technically right. 

     

     

    and there you have it. i have no doubt trump's camp pushed this out there. 

  3. these losers have always been around. except, you know, they'd eventually grow out of it by differentiating themselves somehow.

    however, they also came of age in a time of ubiquitous porn, much of it pretty degrading to women, if we're honest with ourselves.

    so, firstly, they are creepy fuckers who can't get laid because they have porn star expectations of women, and that probably shines through in any sort of approach they make to women. so they get frustrated, isolated, except they find each other on the intertrons, form a self-loathing community and then turn that loathing into an outward facing "us vs them" dynamic. 

    here's the thing: this doesn't differentiate them all that much from, say, a white supremacist loser like dillon roof, or a muslim lone wolf terrorist. they all tend to be cut from the same cloth: angry desperate loser looking to get revenge on "all those bastards over there that deserve it."

    also, here's a fantastic breakdown:

     

     

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  4. 22 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Don Lemon called him out for being a liar the other night.  He wasn't on CNN for a few days after that.

     

    5 minutes ago, Pods said:

    Good. He should never be on CNN and they should revoke his enormous and enormously stupid contract. He's repeatedly lied on the air, there should be plenty to fire him for cause. 

    let's not overlook that only 40% of his face is his actual face.

    also, he's the fucking dude who said kellyanne conways tits were "shriveled up funbags"

  5. roger stone is the fucking best, man:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/04/07/trump-confidant-roger-stone-cant-stop-claiming-he-was-poisoned-by-polonium/?utm_term=.9c4df134da12

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    For more than a year, Roger Stone has asserted that he spent Christmas 2016 trying to survive an assassination attempt — most likely radioactive polonium poisoning — by someone trying to frame Russia.

    Tests were conducted; doctors were baffled, the longtime political operative and adviser to Donald Trump told journalists. Even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was contacted.

    But from the moment he made the claims, Stone has deflected questions when asked to back them up.

    It happened again on Friday, during a wide-ranging conversation with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Trump. At one point, Cooper said he had questions about Stone’s polonium assertions.

    “I was extraordinarily ill,” Stone told Cooper, before referring to pictures of his face during the period. “You can see in the file footage that you used at the beginning of the segment that I still have lesions on my face from that illness. My doctor believed I was poisoned. They believed initially that there was some radioactive element to that. I’ve never been this sick in my life.”

    But Stone wouldn’t go into detail when Cooper asked for proof, even when the host insisted that “polonium poisoning, that would be a huge issue in the United States if someone was poisoned with polonium.”

    Still, Stone resisted: “I don’t think my health is of great interest to the American people other than the half of them that just wish I would drop dead.”

    He directed viewers to “my Infowars report on it.” The website, hosted by Alex Jones, airs conspiracy theories.

    Stone could not be immediately reached for comment by The Washington Post on Saturday.

    As Stone spoke on CNN, an ocean away, a former Russian spy and his daughter were recovering from a poisoning attempt in a British town that the British government says points to Russia.

    The poisoning last month of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, has triggered a diplomatic crisis between Russia and the West. Britain and dozens of other countries, including the United States, have expelled more than 150 Russian diplomats in a show of solidarity. Russia, in turn, has ordered the expulsion of Western diplomats from embassies in Moscow and closures of consulates, including the U.S. facility in St. Petersburg.

    The Skripals were found unconscious on a public bench in Salisbury. He is a 66-year-old former colonel in Russia’s military intelligence service who was convicted of helping British agents, then freed in a spy swap. She is a 33-year-old who had just dined with her father at a restaurant named Zizzi.

    Police said the father and daughter were “targeted specifically” with a nerve agent. Officials have not publicly identified the nerve agent, but they have found traces of it at the restaurant, according to the Associated Press.

    Russia has countered, bizarrely, alleging a conspiracy involving two dead guinea pigs and a dead cat. And like Stone, the Russians assert that the Skripals’ poisoning was an effort to frame Moscow.

    Stone’s poisoning claims first gained steam in a February 2017 interview with Time magazine’s Alex Altman.

    “I got progressively worse. For almost 17 days in a row, I had a fever of over 100. I went to the hospital. They conducted blood tests. They were baffled. Blood tests went to the CDC. They found an exogenous substance in my blood that had the characteristics of polonium,” he said.

    Like Cooper, Altman asked for proof.

    Stone told him “there would be too many suspects” to figure out who’d want to murder him.

    He did, however, push a theory about a possible motive: “The Senate Intelligence Committee was going to have hearings. I could see why some people might not want me to do so. You know, you bump off Stone, make it look like the Russians did it: ‘Wow, the Russians killed their agent because he was going to spill his guts in Congress.’ Just a theory. The deep state moves in strange ways.”

    As the New York Times wrote, the Skripals’ case bears similarities to the fate of Alexander Litvinenko, who was fatally poisoned by radioactive polonium-210 that was slipped into his tea in 2006. Litvinenko was a colonel in the FSB, which succeeded the infamous KGB. He often assailed Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    On Friday, neither Cooper nor Stone mentioned the Skripals’ case or Litvinenko, even though, if Stone’s claims are true, there are similarities: a high-profile civilian attacked covertly with a deadly substance.

     

     

  6. 1 minute ago, TahoeHorn said:

    My write-in vote had the same practical  effect as not voting.  Most of the GOP voters with my views just stayed home.  There were no other races or issues on the ballot.

    what i'm presupposng is that there are far fewer gop voters with your view that stayed home. you turned out 650k republicans in a special election with nothing else on the ballot. that's a great turnout for a special election, considering there is nothing else on the ballot. the big difference was in the pro-jones movement.

  7. 7 hours ago, mr. sunshine said:

    Right there with you bud.  After a decade or so, I finally called and cancelled service six months ago and they were supposed to send me a UPS label and box to return their six receivers.  Instead, I got a bill last month for all six receivers.  I called and reminded them I'll return their receivers if they'll just send me the label and box they promised.  Still waiting.  I imagine I'll get another bill for all six receivers again soon.

    I switched to DirecTV Now for live TV.  That'll teach AT&T.  Doh

    lulz, now kids, THIS is how you humblebrag

  8. 10 minutes ago, TahoeHorn said:

    Roy Moore lost in Alabama.  Fact.  In ALABAMA.  The slot machine had to have seven cherries and it got seven cherries.   One of the cherries was people like Senator McConnell, Senator Shelby and me saying "I'm out of here".  There were six other cherries on the slot dial.  But Jones needed all seven to win.  And a number of you were quite clear that the GOP would stand rock solid behind Moore.  They didn't.  And a lot of people who voted for Moore, and I mean a lot, were totally disgusted.

    In summary, your reading of the GOP was WRONG.

    no. the reading of the gop was correct. it far more on the correct side than the incorrect one. 

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    Alabama Senate

    Doug Jones

    671,151 - 49.9%

    Roy Moore

    650,436 - 48.4%

    Write-ins

    22,810 - 1.7%

    so it could be argued that your write-in contingent pushed jones over, as if that entire write-in contingent went for moore, that would have been 51.1%. but i don't believe 23k write-in voters were all disgusted republicans. couple that with the rnc coming back on board and the gop machine pushing hard for moore, i'd say the reading of the gop was spot fucking on. you are in a massive minority in your own party, as you point out. you're the seventh cherry, sure. 

    but nevertheless, the gop as a WHOLE, went far, far into support for moore. pretending that 1.7% of alabama voters represent the gop as a whole is laughable, dude. come on.

  9. 8 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    Did you really already forget that the RNC realigned with Moore the week before the election?  Or are you just blatantly lying with hope that we forgot?

    haha, for real. 

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/with-trumps-support-moore-could-gain-influence-in-washington/2017/12/04/02da209c-d917-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.73c2710911f8

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    President Trump led an aggressive charge Monday on behalf of embattled Senate nominee Roy Moore, with the Republican National Committee rejoining Moore's side in Alabama weeks after cutting ties with him following allegations of sexual misconduct.

    Before dawn, Trump took to Twitter to declare his strongest support yet for Moore. By day's end, the RNC was back in his corner and America First Action, a pro-Trump group, said it would spend $1.1 million to try to push Moore across the finish line.

     

  10. 52 minutes ago, SDG said:

    do Tesla shareholders revolt after Musk’s comments yesterday?

    not sure what he was thinking. i've listened to countless investor calls, and 99% of the time they are boring as fuck and very scripted. going off like that doesn't indicate a sober, stable chief executive. i know the guy has an edge, but wow.

  11. 23 minutes ago, PW119 said:

    The video of Strong's penalty is absurd.  The ref basically chased him around the sidelines and then flagged him.  I'm no Al Sharpton but......

    haha, at the end of that video, when ricky is saying he always sees coaches getting in ref's faces, he is asked "what do you think is different." you can definitely tell ricky wanted to go racial on it, but stopped himself. VY was less reserved, saying that the crew "sucked." 

    the fact that old walt di nothing but defend that crew is to his personal shame. fuck him for that.

  12. 1 minute ago, deech said:

    We are on a dangerous path where Trump fires Mueller before Mueller issues a report.

    I think it will happen.  It's going to be a constitutional crisis the likes of which we have never seen before IMHO.  Rather than get out in front of it and passing a simple bill that says Mueller gets to issue his report, our congressional leaders won't let the bill be voted on. 

    Why? 

    They would rather take a few steps closer to a constitutional cluster-fuck so they can continue to protect the power they have today.  Fuck them all.

     

    it's this bizarre lack of vision that is the saddest thing. the writing is on the fucking wall, dudes. man up and do the right fucking thing.

  13. 3 minutes ago, TahoeHorn said:

    Everybody reading this thread is smart enough to understand which politicians - among the few dozen leaders, the Congress, the Executive leaders, the judiciary and party officials - are tangling with Trump and how they are doing it, which are supportive and which seem to be biding their time.   We're all smart enough to have an opinion on whether - say, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Tom Perez - are supportive, cowards or waiting for a good opportunity or good issue to resist. 

    But we don't all seem smart enough to have the correct opinion on whether someone is supportive, a coward or waiting for a good opportunity or good issue to resist when the only thing we really know is that they are refraining from getting in a big fight at this time.  You should ask why smart people like Pelosi, Schumer and  Perez are not throwing a temper tantrum like you are.

    i think it's because they are letting trump self-defenestrate instead of throwing him out themselves. never interrupt your enemy making a mistake.

  14. 2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    SHS will give it her best “I told you the information that I was told” but then refuse to answer any questions whether she has asked the president follow up questions since then or today. 

    you would expect that, at some point, some semblance of self-respect would seep into her consciousness and she would just not be able to take it any more. but none of these people seem to have any self-respect. they are worse than the kardashian clan.

  15. 1 minute ago, Jive Turkey said:

    What comedian?

    Kinda joking. 

    Seiously though, that outrage lasted not even a full news cycle. Any sympathy for SHS is long gone.  Hope she enjoyed it. 

    And Rudy’s new claims sound so half baked. He’s like a new lawyer on the case who just comes up with a new theory that contradicts everything said in the past, and the whole team has bought in. This is the new message they’re going with. Hell, Hannity wasn’t even in on it, that’s how half cocked it is. 

    Gonna be fun watching the story slowly fall apart into illegality. 

    can you imagine being in avenatti's role in this drama? his opponent keeps undermining himself over and over and over again. it's got to be surreal as an attorney to encounter such ineptitude in your opponent. 

    i think the one truth we can take away here is that all trump knows are tactics. he has no notion AT ALL on strategy. NONE. he's a boxer with a haymaker and that's it. that's all he knows.

  16. so, wait. they are doubling down on this. 

    i wish i wasn't in the office today. SHS daily press briefing is going to be harsh AF.  we already know her answers are going to be "no comment" in nature. but her complicity is now laid bare, and everything that comedian said about her is proven true. she's a stone cold LIAR.

  17. 18 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

    I’ve read other reviews saying this when I got finished with the rewatch and immediately Googled, “WTF?  Ferris Bueller is a sociopath” in my distraught midlife crisis state.  I can see the argument that it’s about Cameron and his sister to an extent, since they actually have feelings and an arc, but I still don’t get all the way there.  Cameron’s big “triumph” is not deciding to kill himself after the Ferrari wrecks and then muttering something about how his dad will have to talk to him now.   That wasn’t really a resolution at all, but fuck it, it was the 80s.  If anything, I think the other characters get shorted on their supposed breakthrough moments and act more like plot devices for the next Ferris adventure scene.

    that last sentence is a fair point. i dunno, for me, the whole thing is about cameron's lack of self-worth and self-esteem. he's home sick because he's depressed, and ferris skips to try and cheer up his depressed friend and pull him out of his shell. ferris is a device, and yes, the shit is over the top and there's no way they could have done all that stuff in a day, but, as you rightly point out, fuck it, it was the 80s. 

    the scene with the car going out the window i always felt was over the top. i always thought it would be more realistic for him to have to fess up to the mileage, not to the death of the car. that, the father could deal with, i think. but the car being destroyed? meh. 

    however, the whole point of the movie was for cameron to grow up and to come out from under the covers in his bedroom.

  18. also: fuck ken paxton, he's a piece of trash.

    https://www.texastribune.org/2018/05/01/texas-and-six-other-states-sue-end-daca/

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    Following through on a months-old promise, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxtonannounced Tuesday that Texas has filed a lawsuit to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, leading a seven-state coalition to fight an Obama-era immigration measure that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants nationwide from deportation, including more than 100,000 in Texas.

    Paxton first threatened in June 2017 to sue over the program if President Donald Trump’s administration had not ended it by September. After a federal court’s ruling blocked the Trump administration's efforts to end the program, Paxton wrote in January that he would consider filing suit if the program still stood in June.

    “Our lawsuit is about the rule of law, not the wisdom of any particular immigration policy,” Paxton said in a press release. “Texas has argued for years that the federal executive branch lacks the power to unilaterally grant unlawfully present aliens lawful presence and work authorization. Left intact, DACA sets a dangerous precedent by giving the executive branch sweeping authority to ignore the laws enacted by Congress and change our nation’s immigration laws to suit a president’s own policy preferences.”

    This is a developing story that will be updated soon. 

    honestly, i thought this was a both sides sort of consensus. does he really want to deport 100k dreamers from texas? what does he think that's going to look like?

    also, i'm interested in the ramifications of his calling out executive overreach for trump and his supporters. 

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