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  1. 8 minutes ago, Nolacycling said:

    Why doesn't the B10 want them? AAU?

    At the time, the Big 10 was expanding by 1 team to get to a dozen.  They took Nebraska, and left Mizzou hanging. So, they took the SEC offer.....and then, the Big 10 expanded by two more (Rutgers lol).  

    Honestly, had Mizzou kept their powder dry, they probably would have ended up in the Big 10.

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  2. What a glorious (or sad) time we live in.  The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has to remind GOP senators during an impeachment trial of the President that they cannot include the whistleblower's name in questions.  

     

    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/29/john-roberts-whistleblower-name-mentions-109292

     

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    Chief Justice John Roberts has communicated to senators that he will not read aloud the alleged Ukraine whistleblower’s name or otherwise publicly relay questions that might out the official, a move that’s effectively blocked Sen. Rand Paul from asking a question.

    In a behind-the-scenes fight, Paul, a Kentucky Republican, has composed questions that violate Roberts’s edict, according to several Republicans familiar with the dynamics. It’s a vintage Rand Paul effort that’s annoying fellow Republicans and could come to a head on Thursday.

     

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    Paul – who has strongly opposed the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump – has been floating the alleged whistleblower’s name in media interviews for months.

    But Roberts signaled to GOP senators on Tuesday that he wouldn’t allow the whistleblower’s name to be mentioned during the question-and-answer session that started the following day, said the sources. Roberts was allowed to screen senators’ questions before they were submitted for reading on the Senate floor, the sources noted.

     

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    And Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other top Republicans are also discouraging the whistleblower’s identity from being disclosed as well. Paul has submitted at least one question with the name of a person believed to be the whistleblower, although it was rejected. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) composed and asked a question regarding the whistleblower earlier Wednesday that tiptoed around identifying the source who essentially sparked the House’s impeachment drive.

     

    Spoiler

    “We’ve got members who, as you have already determined I think, have an interest in questions related to the whistleblower,” Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) said. “But I suspect that won’t happen, I don’t think that happens. And I guess I would hope it doesn’t.”

    Paul has complained that he is being preventing from asking a question about the origin of the Ukraine investigation, although he didn’t get into specifics with reporters on Wednesday evening.

    “It’s still an ongoing process, it may happen tomorrow,” Paul told reporters.

    House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) first revealed the existence of the whistleblower complaint publicly in mid-September, when he subpoenaed the document from the director of national intelligence and accused acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire — under the influence of the White House — from preventing it from reaching Congress.

    But Republicans allege that Schiff and his staff improperly interacted with the alleged whistleblower, who worked at the National Security Council when Joe Biden was vice president.

    House Republicans threatened to out the whistleblower during impeachment hearings in that chamber, and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) identified a person believed to be the whistleblower in the Judiciary Committee, although Gohmert didn’t identify him as the whistleblower during the exchange.

     

  3. What would be funny as hell is if this wasn't actual cash, but scrip you could use at a Trump property, with an expiration date of November 2020.

    The MAGA-rally folks would fight to the death for the chance to spend a free night in a bedbug ridden property.

     

  4. 8 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

    It's more newsworthy when one of Trump's associates isn't in prison or under indictment, Ted. 

    Ted's audience doesn't even know or care who Parnas is.  They just see Schumer + criminal + ejection from "trial"= no good.

     

     

     

  5. 47 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    WW 3 = War on Drugs

    WW 4 = War on Terrorism

    WW 5 = War on Christmas

     

    After starting strong and winning the first two , we dropped the last three, and are now 2-3 in World Wars. We might not make a World War Bowl Game.

     

    I think I'm missing the Infrastructure Week War of 2017.

    The Tax Cut Wars of 2017.

    Or the Trade Wars of 2019.

    Or that exciting pseudo-war with Iran (currently ongoing).

     

    America is going to be so fucking great once all these wars are over with.  I'll shed tears.  

     

  6. 7 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

    i suspect that the nra going broke has had quite a chilling effect on the laundered russian nra money, tho

    Maybe it's always been relatively close, discounting what the NRA would contribute.  With that curtailed greatly, combined with the GOP's 19th century stance on social issues as a party, things have changed.

  7. Please, drink bleach to counteract the Coronavirus:

     

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-conspiracy-theorists-magic-cure-for-coronavirus-is-drinking-lethal-bleach

     

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    As the global death toll from an alarming new coronavirus surged this week, promoters of the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory were urging their fans to ward off the illness by purchasing and drinking dangerous bleach.

    The substance—dubbed “Miracle Mineral Solution” or “MMS”—has long been promoted by fringe groups as a combination miracle cure and vaccine for everything from autism to cancer and HIV/AIDS.

     

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    The Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly warned consumers not to drink MMS, last year calling it effectively a “dangerous bleach” that could cause “severe vomiting” and “acute liver failure.” But those warnings haven’t stopped QAnon devotees—who believe in a world where Donald Trump is at war with shadowy deep-state “cabal”—from promoting a lethal substance as a salve for a health crisis that speaks to the darkest recesses of fringe thought.

    “I’m going to have to get home, and MMS the whole state,” prominent QAnon promoter Jordan Sather told his audience in a recent video. “MMS the whole shit out of everything.” 

     

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    “Chief Police 2,” a prominent anonymous QAnon account on Twitter, also pushed MMS as the coronavirus spread. On Friday, the account’s operator urged its nearly 18,000 followers to buy “20-20-20 spray,” an MMS concoction.

    “New followers protect yourself with the 20-20-20 spray,” the tweet read. 

     

     

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    QAnon, a conspiracy theory reminiscent of Pizzagate that started with a series of online posts in October 2017 from an anonymous figure called “Q,” imagines a world where Donald Trump is engaged in a secret war with a cabal of pedophile-cannibals in the Democratic Party, the finance industry, Hollywood, and the “deep state.” 

    Despite or perhaps in part because of such outlandish ideas, the theory has taken root with a segment of Trump’s base, with QAnon believers regularly appearing at the president’s campaign rallies. Trump has also routinely retweeted QAnon content, even though apparent devotees have been charged with murder and linked to other violent incidents. 

    Coronavirus’ spread was a perfect fit for QAnon conspiracy theorists and others on the fringe right, who have already adopted the idea that the disease has been manufactured by shadowy forces. Sather, for example, has cited a 2015 patent for a potential avian coronavirus vaccine to suggest that the human form of the disease was deliberately created. Conspiracy-theory hub Infowars, meanwhile, has promoted the false idea that Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates’ philanthropic efforts are just a cover for a “depopulation agenda” centered on the virus. 

    “In the conspiracy-theory community, Bill Gates is seen as this sort of budding eugenicist,” Mike Rothschild, a journalist who tracks the QAnon movement, told The Daily Beast.

    While conspiracy theorists may disagree about what cabal is behind coronavirus, many of them agree on the “cure”: MMS. The substance, which becomes bleaching agent chlorine dioxide when combined with a citric acid like lime juice, has perhaps most prominently been promoted by a website linked to Jim Humble, a self-proclaimed archbishop who says he found MMS while on a gold-mining expedition in South America.

    Through a Mexico-based church, the “Genesis II Church of Health and Healing,” MMS is offered for sale for $45. The church’s website claims it will eliminate coronavirus, among other ailments.

    “ALL KITS HAVE THE 20-20-20 ESSENTIALS THAT CAN KILL THE CORONAVIRUS, OR ANY OTHER VIRUS JUST SPRAY YOUR MOUTH TWICE A DAY,” the church’s website reads.

    Humble didn’t respond to a request for comment. 

    Despite the obvious dangers of consuming bleach, MMS has also been embraced by a wider non-QAnon fringe eager for various miracle cures. On Facebook, for example, mothers desperate for a cure for autism promote the baseless idea that MMS will cure the disorder.   

    Rothschild said QAnon personalities promote MMS in the same way that other right-wing figures sell vitamin supplements. 

    “It’s lucrative,” he said. “You can sell this stuff to people and make a mint off of it.”

    In August, the FDA said it was “not aware of any scientific evidence” that MMS has medical properties. In 2009, a woman who took MMS to avoid contracting malaria died almost immediately after swallowing it for the first time. 

    “Ingesting these products is the same as drinking bleach,” FDA Acting Commissioner Ned Sharpless said in an August 2019 statement. 

    Meanwhile, more than 2,700 cases of coronavirus had been confirmed as of Monday, while the United States told travelers to “reconsider” Chinese travel. Despite the dangers associated with MMS, and despite the IRL consequences of the coronavirus outbreak coming into sharper focus, new Twitter accounts continued to pop up pushing MMS as the disease spread. One tweet advocated a bizarre anti-coronavirus regimen of MMS bleach and colloidal silver, a substance known to give people who take it a bluish tint to their skin. 

    Coronavirus is just the latest disease to be used to sell MMS, according to Rothschild. There was no reason to believe it would be the last.

    “I don’t understand how people who promote this stuff can sleep at night,” he said.

     

  8. 1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Hilary set up Bolton's home server ?

    No, no.

     

    Bolton set up Hillary's server.  And on the side, served as the accountant for the Clinton Foundation, while simultaneously receiving $115,000 per month personal services fee from George Soros.

     

     

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  9. 12 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:

    It's Trump's America, so anything goes now.  Moose out front should have told you.

  10. 7 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    am i the only one who's totally fine if they want to call hunter biden?  what are they gonna ask him, about how he got the spot on the board and call him unqualified?

    tell me the difference between stupid and illegal and i'll have my wife's brother arrested /thebigshort

    It's fine if they want to call a witness that has absolutely nothing to do with the issue here, which is the President's conduct.

    They might as well call Hillary too.

  11. 2 minutes ago, triplehorn said:

    Either way they’re screwed because it won’t stop the truth from coming out.  Right now it’s about Senate GOP trying to skirt Bolton and other witnesses without being exposed for perping a broad coverup - now OR later that every Joe can see.  That’s the calculus.  

    What a dilemma.  I don't envy or pity them, because they have chose this.  

    Defend/protect the President at all costs, including their own personal reputations.

    Do the right thing, and risk having the President and his legion of followers in the media and elsewhere threaten to kill them electorally (or other ways).

     

     

     

     

  12. These stupid chucklefucks don't deserve to be a Senator.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/26/braun-trump-impeachment-learn-105262

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    Republican Sen. Mike Braun on Sunday said he hopes the impeachment process will “be instructive” for President Donald Trump’s conduct if he’s acquitted by the Senate.

    In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Braun was grilled by host Chuck Todd on how Trump will react to beating articles of impeachment, which is seen as a near certainty in a Republican-controlled Senate.

     

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    "This president, as you know, he's going to take acquittal and think, 'I can keep doing this,'" Todd said.

    "No, I don't think that," Braun replied. "Hopefully it'll be instructive."

    "I think he'll put two and two together," the Indiana Republican added. "In this case, he was taken to the carpet."

     

     

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