Posts posted by RomaVicta
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45 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
I don't know that a competent attorney could have mounted a legitimate defense to these accusations, but it's abundantly clear that an incompetent attorney cannot do so.

Go to 3:05 for Short as Thurm. Baboon faced Castor reminded of this.
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28 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:
Why the fuck isn't every Dem not involved in the impeachment hearing screaming to every news outlet today about the President basically selling the Saudis hunting licenses that allow them to kill any Americans they want?

Saudi Royalty is very saddened and aggrieved at this terrible tragedy. They'll send money to the families. I know this because they send lot's of money to my family. They're great people, the Saudi Royalty.
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19 minutes ago, F250 said:
This has been a really interesting journey. Amazon is clearly the best choice for the JEDI contract but they also had an unfair advantage in that they assisted the DoD in writing the requirements up until the end when the DoD flipped the script on them. $10 Billion is a massive amount of government cheese so I am not going to mourn Amazon's loss of said cheese.
Amazon will be fine, it's true.
Losing a government contract over a childish political vendetta where the President or his minions punish those they perceive as disloyal is worrisome indeed.
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Absolutely shameless presentation by Castor. Fortunately, his presentation won't hold anyone's attention for very long. It's not nearly as effective for the intended audience as the milk carton with Schiff or READ THE TRANSCRIPT!
Ebil Dems. Ebil Hunter.
I can't listen to this shit anymore. I'll tune back in later. I still can be outraged by a man willfully discarding his honesty and integrity and, I believe, his duties as an officer of the court to spew what he knows are lies, deflection, and distortion. This is no honest, alternative interpretation of facts.
Put him in the cage with the rest.
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4 hours ago, HenryJames said:3 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:
Always lovely to have a conspiracy theorist and climate change denier as a representative of foreign policy. I guess she tows the Trump line, but yowza, the rate we are plummeting toward the (apparently) limitless bottom, we are going to get the bends.
Google:
QuoteCarla Sands is a businesswoman and investor, former actress, chiropractor, and American diplomat who serves as the United States Ambassador to Denmark. Wikipedia
A shame she has no experience as a latex salesman.
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9 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:
Who cares? It's a way to carry his stuff. It's irrelevant.
Maybe Whole Foods is a Russian front. They used this bag to deliver cash to the GOP criminal operation. Devin Nunez tosses the bag aside when he empties out his share.
Castor comes strolling by and sees the bag.
"Nice bag. I could use a nice bag. I could carry lunch meat in it or, hey!, I could use it for work! Hmmmm. Lunch meat. Of course! The baloney defense! It just might work!"
The defense does work, and history is changed by the mindless discard of a perfectly good bag.
Bet you didn't think about that, huh, Mr. Irrelevant?
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I'd be fine with playing them in a bowl game, it'd be fun. But rivalry aside, why would anybody choose to play an unranked Aggie team in a minor bowl where a win doesn't really advance you over playing a teamed ranked high enough that beating could possibly get you back in the rankings yourselves?
A&M would be better off meeting Utah in the Alamo than us in the Texas Bowl aside from the fun of the rivalry.
I guess I took two paragraphs to point out that Texags faithfully maintains the Aggies' reputation as deluded idiots.
They're making the two percenters proud to call themselves two percenters.
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Teams still like to beat Texas for their resume. Playing Texas or Notre Dame would be a huge day for Utah.
I think we show up no matter what. I liked the spirit of the team after getting behind to Tech. The Longhorns raised their intensity and level of play. I think that carries over to the bowl. I'm looking forward to the game which has not been the case for about four weeks until we closed out Tech.
(I know Tech isn't any good, but we dominated them like a good team should after we shamed ourselves in the first quarter.)
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3 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
Grifting. Who in this administration doesn't do it?
"When paying for such goods, the department pays a discounted rate based on age for the items that were lost," the spokesperson said. "It’s perfectly appropriate that the administrator filed a personal property loss claim for goods stolen while on work travel and this is not an unusual practice for federal employees."
But the department is expressly prohibited from reimbursing staff for lost items like jewelry, the spokesperson said.
The news of the large request for stolen luxury items comes at a time of unusual scrutiny for Verma, who formerly served as a consultant to then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence in Indiana and has led CMS since March 2017. The $1 trillion health agency administers Medicare, the nation’s health insurance program for seniors; Medicaid, the program for low-income Americans; and Obamacare, among other programs.
Verma has been engaged in an acrimonious feud with HHS Secretary Alex Azar that has spilled over into policy matters and prompted separate closed-door meetings for each official with Vice President Pence. Her spending of taxpayer money has also been under scrutiny by the HHS inspector general, after POLITICO reported in March about her extensive use of outside public relations consultants, some of whom worked to burnish Verma’s personal brand.
The $2.25 million public relations contract was put on hold pending the probe, and Verma has been under investigation from congressional Democrats.
Verma’s luggage was stolen out of her rented Chevrolet Tahoe SUV on July 25, 2018, while she was giving a speech at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club, according to statements she gave to the local police and HHS. Verma initially estimated the cost of her lost property as $20,000, according to the police report, before later revising the cost upward when filing her claim to the health department.
POLITICO last month filed a Freedom of Information Act request about Verma’s claims for personal damages and separately obtained the documents and confirmed their authenticity with multiple sources.
A CMS spokesperson said that Verma was one of three staffers whose luggage was stolen, and HHS lawyers instructed them to file detailed claims for all missing items, including Verma’s jewelry. "At her own expense the administrator travels to Washington, DC, from Indiana each week to work at CMS, which was why she was traveling with her personal collection of jewelry," the spokesperson said. Verma‘s family lives in Indiana.
Staff were unaware of a federal health employee previously filing a claim as large as $47,000.
Verma was in San Francisco as part of a scheduled three-day trip to Northern California that included a speaking engagement in Napa Valley and a visit to Palo Alto-based Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. The trip was approved by ethics counsel, a CMS spokesperson said.
Verma’s San Francisco speech marked a notable point in her tenure: It was the first time the nation’s Medicare chief had publicly attacked “Medicare for All” proposals, arguing that Democrats’ ideas for single-payer health care would destroy the federal health program for older Americans and lead to “Medicare for None.”
Verma won plaudits for the speech inside the White House, POLITICO reported, and she touted it online as part of a months-long campaign against Democrats’ proposals. A watchdog group later filed a complaint that Verma’s continued attacks on Medicare for All allegedly violated the prohibition on federal officials engaging in political activity.
According to Verma’s lost property claim, the stolen items included 11 pairs of earrings, five necklaces and three pendants. Verma appeared to have worn the Ivanka Trump pendant on multiple public occasions, according to a POLITICO review of her appearances, including meetings with the president and at a November 2017 speech when she announced her plan to let states impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients and crack down on other program spending. The government spends approximately $5,700 per Medicaid patient.
“Medicaid is too vital a program to let fraud and inappropriate spending threaten it,” Verma said that day.
12 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:That SNL skit was hilarious.
The Trump Administration has been a second golden age for that show.
And a $6,000 Ivanka Trump necklace?
Horseshit! Her stuff is sold in TJ Maxx and Marshall’s and shit. Grifters everywhere man.Hmmmmmm. I wonder how many flushes it would take to get rid of all that jewelry. Five? Ten? Fifteen?
It all comes together.

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I'm one of the five at this point who has predicted removal. At this moment, I can see why there are so few votes that way. However, I think the snowball is rolling with allegations and evidence which will only grow bigger.
I don't know how that would play out exactly, but I could imagine behind the scenes bargaining where some semi-dirty GOPs vote to remove in exchange for not being taken down with the dirtier GOPs who knew about the criminal enterprise top to bottom. I feel like some GOPs likely received bad money without knowing it or not bothering to swim against the current.
The GOP senators proved with Kavanaugh and blocking Obama's nominee that you cannot count on any of them to make a stand on principle. They've reinforced this daily. They fear jail and ruin. I can't see any reason Olev and Igor and the NRA and the Manafort pipeline would be the only conduits of corruption. I think more is exposed and enough of the GOPs in office will sell Trump to better there own prospects while others will go down with ship.
My political predictions are traditionally way off, so I don't often indulge in soothe saying. I'm sure this one will embarrass me as well.
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33 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:I just read Odom is “the clear favorite” to replace Norvell at Memphis.
From SI:
QuoteA source close to the Memphis football program told Sports Illustrated Odom is the clear top candidate to replace Mike Norvell (as reported earlier by multiple outlets, Norvell is leaving to take over at Florida State). The source also stated that Odom has the support of several influential Memphis boosters, so I’d be stunned if an announcement wasn’t coming in the very near future.
And, please, no more tired Mangino is fat material. If you think, "Ya know, I laughed at the buffet references the last ten times they appeared. I think I'll post one of my own!" For the love of God, think again. Something fresh involving the eclipse of the setting sun or other pithy astronomical references to gravity would, as always, be welcomed and lauded by all. I write this not as a thread fascista. I write as a humble contributor.
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I think he's trying to argue that water conservation actually leads to people using more water thus we should remove all regulations as to water use. I'm not kidding. I think he muddled the reasoning, but that's what I hear behind the wall of Trump's verbal.
You see, less water means you have to run the faucet longer to wash your hands. You end up using more than you would if it came out like a fire hose. And conservation toilets? They have a lot of confusing buttons (two) so people end up pushing the wrong button which takes more flushes to carry away the bm. Again, using more water!
Therefore, we will conserve more water by not taking steps to conserve water! You don't want to have to deal with fancy socialist toilets or have stinking liberal hands, do you? Of course not! Everybody uses as much water as they want.
[whisper]Huge corporate users will surely get some kind of a break here, but they'll spend the savings on helping the little guy.[/whisper]
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32 minutes ago, hornhorn said:
The didn't have the exact same experience but African Americans also weren't separated from all of their belongings overnight and asked to vacate their shops, homes and the country as a matter of newly found law targeting just them. And by overnight I mean literally overnight. And while that occurred the South Africans and Kenyans were allowed to rob, rape and pillage them unmitigated by the police or the state.
Negged for continuing a "your nigras..." line of argument.
I will dismiss your notion that there is something deleteriously different about American blacks on its surface. Persistence in believing there are meaningful differences between the races leads to concentrations camps, the hate needed to back dictatorship, and the division of a people with common interest.
I believe that if I had been racially separated and experienced the same history as the American black that the statistics you lean on would be no different. Skin color and geographical background mean nothing in this formula.
You're a hate merchant. You're aligned with the people who best represent your views. I wish nothing but a bad end for you all. I do not have the loving heart of Nancy Pelosi. If I prayed, it would be for your disappearance. I'd be fine if it were painless. That's all I grant enemies to the aspects of my country that should be grounds for pride.
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1 hour ago, Tuco said:
I figure the 2015 Republicans can now be categorized in these different groups.
1. Those who hate Trump and have completely lost any respect for the party that defends him. At this point, they plan on never voting for another Republican again.
2. Those who hate Trump, will not vote for him, but will continue to support the Republicans who run cover for him.
3. Those who dislike Trump. Given a choice between voting for Trump and voting for a non-Trump Republican that has secured the Democratic nomination, they would definitely talk about voting for the non-Trump Republican on the Democratic ticket. Because while they may dislike things like incarcerating immigrant children with no intention of reuniting them with their families, they are more concerned about the "socialism" of people having health care.
4. Trumpsters.
It's funny that the folks in the third group think they are any better than those in the fourth.
Crisp, I already know who you are going to vote for. Any Democrat who considers your opinion in their calculation is a moron. But understand this: as long as the Trump GOP is a politically viable party, it will always be the Trump GOP, long after he is gone. Success doesn't not facilitate change. You voting for him just means you will never have a candidate you actually like. I guess every dark, shit-storm, fascist cloud has a silver lining.
Bravo, sir. Astute and eloquent.

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Rollercoaster should be a single word. Fuckin' Trump.2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:Let's not forget infinite regulations and penalties for poor people who get a traffic citation, etc.
My life has been a roller coaster of fat and lean times. In lean times I learned that the penalty for being poor is fines.
My upward roller coaster always caught me up on that, but I never forget what a burden this must be for people who don't have my (white, educated, likable) advantages.
Once I was in line to pay a light bill to keep the lights on. I owed about $50 which I borrowed from a friend while I awaited a paycheck. The black woman in front of me was trying to negotiate a $230 bill for electricity. She was not a woman of means. She likely lived in cheap housing with no insulation and was probably making food versus bills decisions. It was an eye-opener for this suburban boy.
When she left I couldn't meet her eyes even if she bothered to look my way. I felt ashamed after that brief glimpse of another life.
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16 hours ago, HenryJames said:
Aside from the obvious motive of hiding illicit communication from government scrutiny, I wonder if Trump counts on those foreign governments listening as a way of indirectly communicating with them.
Rudy, I want you dig up some dirt on Joe Biden and have a foreign country release it. I'm really sad to see occupancy at Trump Hotel is down. I'm losing a lot of money there. I wonder if we should support the Kurds in Syria...
Trump is vulnerable to security breeches, but it's probably not easy to prove he was counting on his foreign contacts to be listening in. His specialty is dodging legal accountability, and I think we can assume this includes extensive experience in sly communication. Recall the Cohen testimony about how Trump conveys things without actually saying them.
Trump is an idiot about government and anything outside of his immediate self-interest, but he was trained from a young age to swindle, welch and elude.
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22 hours ago, 4th&Five said:
Why not done?
You want a scam, Mr. President? There's your scam.
The government approved prices for medical drugs and equipment which are applied by profit takers throughout the medical industry form maybe the most immoral scam ever placed upon an entire population. Time Magazine devoted an issue to it a few years ago. The villains count on the populace being too bored by reading to put a stop to this broad-daylight robbery.
Let's not forget our friends in the insurance industry skimming their percentage off the top.
It's time to watch Hud, again. One of the three great Paul Newman H movies: Hustler, Hud, Hombre.
You're an unprincipled man, Hud.
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I got just what you need.
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This baby comes in just the right colors.
And look, we can make it even more stable!

We put some wheels on these sweet babies and Gorilla Tape them right on!
You've seen the Gorilla Tape on the TV, haven't ya? Lasts forever!

We can do this for $300,000.
Cheaper than getting a player off the hook for nearly killing a woman.
I don't have to tell you how much that costs.
Deal?
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6 minutes ago, GRHorn said:
I think a lot of the over the top behavior of Republicans comes from two things.
1- First trying to cause a stir, get trending on Twitter etc.
2- Emulating behavior that they think Trump appreciates. Everyone in Washington is trying to move on up the ladder.
Neither of those things is really new or noteworthy, so I don’t comment on them. Plus, people here do it constantly. Nance flipping out is noticeably different.
I’ll retire now from my brief psychoanalyst career. Carry on.
It's not just another ordinary day in DC, my friend. To what end are the GOPs doing as you say? They protect a criminal in the White House and, as far as I'm concerned, they try to keep their own sorry asses out of the hoosegow.
They'd all be in the iron cage on the North Atlantic bound freighter if I could be autocrat for a day. They care not a whit for the US and anyone prevaricating for them is equally worthless as far as I'm concerned just not as criminal.

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A few tidbits from the other thread. Anybody is welcome to peruse that thread and transfer actual data. As of 10:24am, the last three "hot" pages include these morsels, the wearing out of a joke about Ash being David Ash, and now song lyrics. I thank them for keeping their waiting jabber over there. Truly.
And thanks to Hiphopoppotamus for this:
A closer look at Odom.