I'm trying to read this Washington Post article but I'm having a problem with the headline: "Fact-checking Trump’s rowdy powwow with Pelosi and Schumer."
Did Trump speak with forked tongue?
December 13, 2018
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Odd headline, as Fauxahontas was not at the meeting.
Another proof you shouldn't dictate headlines over the phone.
I used to dance at powwows. Probably can't do that anymore.
Indians contributed a lot of material to comedy.
You can't own land, you can't own a horse or a dog or a waterfall, you can only own a casino. (Kinky Friedman, in wise Indian voice)
Should have used the term "magical ceremony."
"I used to dance at powwows. Probably can't do that anymore"
.… It's a buck dancer's choice my friend; better take my advice.
You know all the rules by now and the fire from the ice.
I won't read WaPo's "Fact Check" nonsense. Their track record is pretty horrible and biased. And trying to quantify something that's purely subjective like how bad a given lie is by rating it with "pinocchios" seems highly questionable to say the least.
WaPo should award honest injuns, leaving open the original sarcasm as a possibility.
"Can you say that?" When you're a (Washington) Redskin, they let you do it.
Democracy Dies in Darkness!
Since they started doing endorsements, The Washington Post never endorsed a Republican for President. Think back through time and imagine how much bias is needed to accomplish that.
The Post has never endorsed a Republican for governor in Virginia going back as far as 1977, and no Maryland Republican has been endorsed for the Senate since the 1980s.
The have zero credibility fact checking politics.
The WaPo gave us that headline. Now they'll take it back.
Does Trump have enough German DNA to make kaffeklatsch acceptable?
Here's a bit of news for Ann: President Trump is a liar. Not only that, but he's a serial pervert, adulterer and sex abuser, a con man and a serial bankrupt, a money-launderer, an accomplice to a murder cover-up, an unindicted conspirator in campaign finance felonies, not to mention something ranging from the dupe, to the stooge, to the active and witting agent of Russian state, intelligence and organized crime interests. His personal lawyer is going to jail for three years and is cooperating with the government. At least 16 Trump campaign officials or associates have been shown to have colluded with Russians before and after the election. Ann and some of her readers don't appear to care about any of this, except to the degree that she finds the whole situation pretty hilarious. Hey, how many times have you heard of a lawyer going to jail for crimes he was directed to commit by his client, and the client goes free? None. This is going to be the funniest: when Trump's orange skin is fitted with an orange jump suit. He's going to be in a federal or state penitentiary within about two years, unless he gets busy with a plea deal. Ann will laugh at that!!
Feel better to get that off your chest, Pickering?
And you're right. I don't care about any of your fevered dreams. Not one, fucking bit.
Here's a bit of news for Ann
Lighten up Francis
Who's John Pickering? And why should I care what he says?
Bill asked, "Who's John Pickering? And why should I care what he says?"
Who cares, and you shouldn't. Killfile him. I never have to read his drivel again--just like I don't have to wade through Chuck's, or of the other ranting leftists. It makes the comments here much more readable (and threads tend to be a lot shorter).
Well, Trump did take a couple of scalps.
Pickering: "Not only that, but he's a serial pervert..."
I think you meant "prevert."
Pickering is clearly doing his best but he simply cannot live up to LLR Chuck "TruCon" standard.
However Pickering can take heart as he is at least equivalent to our "Junior Varsity Poor Man's LLR Chuck" gadfly.
So he has that going for him.
Which is nice.
Let them smoke the Peace Pipe and bury the hatchet. Kowabunga!
Liz Warren is famous for her Pow Wow Chow cookbook.
Pow Wow Chow. . .NOW! And HOW!
Liarwarth's cookbook is titled PowWow Chow.
And most of the recipes were taken from other sources; they are NOT hers as originals. Can Democrats ever tell the truth?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2146628/Elizabeth-Warrens-Pow-Wow-Chow-Cherokee-recipes-word-word-COPIES-famous-FRENCH-chefs-techniques.html
".… It's a buck dancer's choice my friend; better take my advice.
You know all the rules by now and the fire from the ice."
I wish my stereo still worked.
Careful, Wapo -- saying "powwow" make redskin heap angry, put on warpath!
So the word "powwow" got you to blog and link the WaPo story, Althouse.
And because you blogged it, I clicked on the link and read the story. And in reading the story, I came away impressed at the level of mendacity employed by Trump in that meeting. (I was disappointed that the WaPo Fact Checker staff didn't dig into the truth or falsity of Trump's claim that he could get the House to vote for Wall funding in "one session," whatever that might mean. But whatever.)
So thanks to the word "powwow," the anti-Trump message was effectively communicated to me. All while I enjoyed some delicious coffee! And with my coffee, I had a little covfefe too!
I think this is what Scott Adams calls "Master Persuasion."
Trump looking for big wampum, Chuck and Nancy offering $24 in beads and trinkets.
Well if they would have given Trump the $5 billion in the Farm Bill, they could have smoked the peace pipe.
"(I was disappointed that the WaPo Fact Checker staff didn't dig into the truth or falsity of Trump's claim that he could get the House to vote for Wall funding in "one session," whatever that might mean. But whatever.)"
Chuck is surprised a politician said he can get the votes.
White man say pow wow. Dan heap big offended for many moons.
LLR and #StrongDemDefender Chuck is in Full Democrat Damage Control Mode.
Again.
As always.
You'd think by now, just based on probability, that LLR Chuck would, at least inadvertantly, have deviated from his round the clock pro-dem cuckery to support an actual conservative policy.
But you would be wrong.
Very very wrong.
Like, Ocasio-Cortez wrong.
Unexpectedly.
Leland said...
Well if they would have given Trump the $5 billion in the Farm Bill, they could have smoked the peace pipe.
I am so glad that you mentioned the Farm Bill. The Swampiest, most Pork-filled pile of shit in Washington DC is the Farm Bill.
But Trump is going to play Washington politics on the Farm Bill. And if you were going to suggest that $5 billion could have been a rounding error in the Farm Bill (I don't know if you'd agree with that, it might be a bit of hyperbole), I'd agree.
But Trump seems completely happy with the Farm Bill. As with the other Swamp Dwellers, Trump is happiest when he is spending taxpayer money and taking credit for it.
That was such an interesting part of the Oval Office Powwow. Trump fighting over $5 billion for his Wall, while they all patted themselves on the back for the Farm Bill.
It just goes to show how The Wall is all about Trump. This minor down payment on any wall extension is all about Trump's ego, and his base, and his previous campaign, and a future campaign, and Trump's wanting to claim victory.
Original Mike said...
"(I was disappointed that the WaPo Fact Checker staff didn't dig into the truth or falsity of Trump's claim that he could get the House to vote for Wall funding in "one session," whatever that might mean. But whatever.)"
Chuck is surprised a politician said he can get the votes.
So do it! Put it up to a vote in the House! Do it next week! Trump says he could snap his fingers and get it done. So do it!
He can't. It's bullshit. Bullshit like Mexico paying for the wall.
They should not have powwowed. They should have caucused.
Chuck is surprised when a politician bullshits.
With Schumer in the role of Chief Sitting Bulls**t.
"It just goes to show how The Wall is all about Trump. This minor down payment on any wall extension is all about Trump's ego, and his base, and his previous campaign, and a future campaign, and Trump's wanting to claim victory."
I guess he could do the honorable thing and say to hell with what I promised to get elected, and what most Americans want, and winning for them, but that would make him just another politician. I hope he's not, and keeps following his ego. Thanks God for his ego that keeps him wanting to win, and keep promises, and be successful as a President rather than just getting rich and famous from the office. His ego already took care of that before he got there.
And Trump was Chief Thunderthud.
Pickering must have posted something.
Wouldn't know, dont care.
I was in an intelligent conversation...with my dog.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in June that “on average, my department now blocks 10 known or suspected terrorists a day from traveling to or attempting to enter the United States.” But that includes all ports of entry. And almost all suspected terrorists are apprehended at airports — not along the southern border.
Does that really rebut, much less factually refute, what Trump said?
You can't own land, you can't own a horse or a dog or a waterfall, you can only own a casino.
Native Americans were hardly monolithic in their cultural values. For instance, among the Yurok (and their neighbors the Hupa and Karuk, with whom they shared an identical culture, though the tribes otherwise spoke radically different languages) — riverine folk who inhabited the lower basin of the Klamath River in California (California's third largest river, after the Colorado and Sacramento) — all the best land within about a mile of the aforementioned stream was privately owned.
It's no doubt no coincidence that the modern Yurok reservation (the Yurok being the largest Indian tribe in California) closely follows that one-mile radius from the River.
More good news!
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating whether President Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee misspent some of the record $107 million it raised from donations, people familiar with the matter said.
The criminal probe by the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, which is in its early stages, also is examining whether some of the committee’s top donors gave money in exchange for access to the incoming Trump administration, policy concessions or to influence official administration positions, some of the people said.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-inauguration-spending-under-criminal-investigation-by-federal-prosecutors-11544736455
"...is examining whether some of the committee’s top donors gave money in exchange for access to the incoming Trump administration, policy concessions or to influence official administration positions..."
Good Lord, that would be a first in DC!!!
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating whether President Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee misspent some of the record $107 million it raised from donations, people familiar with the matter said.
The criminal probe by the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, which is in its early stages, also is examining whether some of the committee’s top donors gave money in exchange for access to the incoming Trump administration, policy concessions or to influence official administration positions, some of the people said.
In other words, another "give me the man, I'll find the crime" fishing expedition?
Well, I am sure the Washington Redskins will weigh in somewhere in here.
bagoh20 said...
"It just goes to show how The Wall is all about Trump. This minor down payment on any wall extension is all about Trump's ego, and his base, and his previous campaign, and a future campaign, and Trump's wanting to claim victory."
I guess he could do the honorable thing and say to hell with what I promised to get elected, and what most Americans want, and winning for them, but that would make him just another politician. I hope he's not, and keeps following his ego. Thanks God for his ego that keeps him wanting to win, and keep promises, and be successful as a President rather than just getting rich and famous from the office. His ego already took care of that before he got there
What Trump promised, to get elected, was that "Mexico will pay for the wall." Let Trump get Mexico to pay. Congress should withhold the taxpayers' money.
Yes, it's increasingly obvious after dozens of indictments, several convictions, a couple prison terms, and widening inquiries now into not only campaign finance violations, inauguration corruption and ties to the Saudis, not to mention the Russian spy who's singing like a birdie, that poor little Donald Trump is entirely innocent of any wrong-doing whatsoever! Not only, but he's, like, really smart, and of course really funny and personable. But even, if he did actually commit numerous crimes, Ann and some of her readers are persuaded that in fact, since it was Trump who committed them, that they must not be crimes at all! That's because the President is exactly the human paragon Ann and some of her readers find most admirable. She thinks he's a smart man, an honest man, a subtle thinker and a great president. And really funny, too. That's the sort of penetrating analysis some of her readers flock to read. Hahahahahahaha!!
yes, that's about the size of it, and khuzaimi who was miss strzok's colleague at the sec, an executive from deutsche bank, (only fair as Mueller's firm was counsel of record) was remarkably reticent to go after major subprime targets,
Investigating the inauguration? The brightest of Democrat political minds have come up with this.
After watching the latest in the Mueller witch hunt, it is obvious what any sane person would do. Shut up, refuse to answer any questions, claim the 5th if subpoenaed. No facts, no substance, no accusations(even this WSJ story fails to cite a crime). This is the next one, not the last. The entirety of these investigations will be carried out by media leaks.
maybe we need an open forum, or dialog, or tete-a-tete to discuss the use of 'powwow'
"What Trump promised, to get elected, was that "Mexico will pay for the wall." Let Trump get Mexico to pay. Congress should withhold the taxpayers' money.""
What he said was we will build the wall as an adendum he said we'll get mexico to pay for it. He had a couple of suggestions. One of which was a surtax on money being wired to south of the boarder. Let's build it and then get Mexico to pay for it.
Accuracy isn't your strong suit.
we don't need no stinking badges,
https://saraacarter.com/financial-bounty-hunters-testify-clinton-foundation-operated-as-foreign-agent/
iowan must have only read the blurb, and seems to confuse the US attorneys' office with the media. Here are the sentences from the WSJ story that follow the lead:
Giving money in exchange for political favors could run afoul of federal corruption laws. Diverting funds from the organization, which was registered as a nonprofit, could also violate federal law.
The investigation represents another potential legal threat to people who are or were in Mr. Trump’s orbit. Their business dealings and activities during and since the campaign have led to a number of indictments and guilty pleas. Many of the president’s biggest campaign backers were involved in the inaugural fund.
The investigation partly arises out of materials seized in the federal probe of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s business dealings, according to people familiar with the matter.
Of course, the theory holds: even if these are crimes if other people did them, they can't be if Trump, because. The other thing that's going to good coming out of this is that Mike Pence will get nailed. So funny!
Hey Pickering...
What will really be hilarious will be watching these Trump Cultists when Mueller’s investigation is over.
the grishenko snipe has become decidedly shwarma, focused on Israel and the gulf states, who else has interests in scrutinizing that terrain, how about Qatar, turkey and iran,
Giving money in exchange for political favors could run afoul of federal corruption laws.
It's quite obvious Trump needs to set up a foundation.
Actually, dr. Stephen hatfill, the late bruce ivin's family, the board of Arthur Anderson, the two aipac exec, that were tried for espionage and then dismissed, the two dead men in the boston jails, scapegoated for whitey bulger's hitman, they would find it all too familiar,
“It's quite obvious Trump needs to set up a foundation.”
Well another “duh”.
https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/trump-foundations-shifted-funds-to-trump-business-organization
The Donald J. Trump Foundation and Eric Trump Foundation have shifted hundreds of thousands of dollars intended for charity to the Trump Organization, the president’s family business conglomerate, Forbes reports.
more of the same:
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/12/michael-flynn-judge-fbi-documents/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/nyregion/trump-foundation-lawsuit-new-york.html
“A state judge ruled on Friday that a lawsuit by the New York State attorney general could proceed against President Trump and the Trump Foundation over allegations of misused charitable assets, self-dealing and campaign finance violations during the 2016 presidential campaign.“
LOL
"That's because the President is exactly the human paragon "
Yeah so? Well maybe not *exactly* paragon but yeah he kind of is cream of the cream, isn't he?
"The other thing that's going to [sic] good coming out of this is that Mike Pence will get nailed. So funny!"
NAiled? Pence? Really? But what's the point? He can already barely move.
as david Plouffe, Obama campaign manager said 'it is not merely necessary to defeat him, but to destroy him' so the lesson be tought, only those approved by Omidyar, steyer and soros,
Cultural appropriation! Call the SJW police.
Inga's back from India. How was the wedding?
So, finally, after all is said and done, the fat lady has sung, and at the end of the day, can I garner support for not caring?
need apply, oh pence they need to destroy even more, a sincere evangelical Christian, burn him with fire,
“NAiled? Pence? Really? But what's the point? He can already barely move.”
Ohhhh hahahahaha, good one Meade.
“Inga's back from India. How was the wedding?”
Wonderful! I danced and danced and waved my hands in the air!
"What Trump promised, to get elected, was that "Mexico will pay for the wall." Let Trump get Mexico to pay. Congress should withhold the taxpayers' money."
Very racist of you, Chuck. You should apologize.
"He can't. It's bullshit. Bullshit like Mexico paying for the wall."
Very very racist, Chuck.
I recommend apologizing. Sooner the better.
"I wish my stereo still worked."
I wish your decked out Vespa scooter still worked.
Well another “duh”.
The 'duh' is you trying to compare the practices of Trump's foundation with regards to business and the Clinton's slush fund set up to purchase world-wide political influence.
You're comparing apples to zebras.
Rusty said...
"What Trump promised, to get elected, was that "Mexico will pay for the wall." Let Trump get Mexico to pay. Congress should withhold the taxpayers' money.""
What he said was we will build the wall as an adendum he said we'll get mexico to pay for it. He had a couple of suggestions. One of which was a surtax on money being wired to south of the boarder. Let's build it and then get Mexico to pay for it.
Accuracy isn't your strong suit.
Oh, fuck off. Now you made me go to YouTube, and look up an appropriate video montage of Trump crowing at his many asinine stump speeches, about how Mexico will pay for the wall.
I'm not going to trust Trump, who might say that if Congress will fund the wall, Trump will figure out some way to make Mexico pay or otherwise get even financially with the Mexican people.
No, Rusty; I'm not into that. I'm like every reputable bank in the United States that would have declined to loan the Trump Organization $5 billion dollars in 2016. (Of course there was Eric Trump, answering a golf writer's question about funding for Trump's Scotland properties, saying that they could get all the funding they need from Russia.)
"Oh, fuck off."
Chuck.
Now you need to apologize to Rusty.
And it's still very racist of you to suggest Mexico is too inferior to pay for the wall. Sad.
The silver lining in the never ending investigations is that it will set precedent for examining all of Obama's and Clinton's donors, friends and family members.
Every dollar donated to Obama or Clinton in any way, shape, or form can now be investigated.
Obvious to even the most partisan is that Hillary and Bill speeches are not worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Obamas book advances not worth millions of dollars unless something is expected in exchange, whether favors already done or future influence imagined.
Trump and associates being investigated for things done years and years ago. Open the books on all of Clinton's and Obama's people. Should be interesting.
I thought Inga had departed this blog. But lo and behold, there she is. I suspect to continue mocking those with autism.
I think Trump's powwow was a capital idea, even if Inga thinks Trump is headed to the paddy wagon. I suspect she'll end up feeling gypped.
Blogger narciso said...
need apply, oh pence they need to destroy even more, . . ."
12/13/18, 4:58 PM
"She will do a dance for tu'pence down.
for six pence more her pants go down.
A rovin a rovin since rovins been my ru-i-in.
I'll go no more a rovin with you fair maid."
Did Trump speak with forked tongue?
Does a bear shit in the woods?
Lying and throwing people under the bus are this orange emperor's two basic life skills.
Every dollar donated to Obama or Clinton in any way, shape, or form can now be investigated.
HAHAHA. Republicans can't even investigate how the earth stays warmer than outer space!
Yeah, sure. Let them investigate. They can start with investigating how the domestic auto industry lays off tens of thousands of workers while being told that oil is the future.
You're one hilarious nincompoop, Moon. Fortunately, you're just simple-minded, naive and outspoken enough to illustrate to everyone why Republican policy is a predictably consistent failure.
Bezos Bulletin makum heap noise for powwow. Big Chief go on warpath, count many coup. Takum much Donkey scalp.
It is to be expected: If you murder someone you lie about the evidence to convict, or have your attorney lie for you. Schlump launched a useless airstrike against Syria for allegedly using chemical weapons against his own hapless people. This resulted in even more suffering of innocents. Should Schlump hang for those serious crimes?
I'll state it again: the latest lawfare coming out of NYC against Trump is just more preeting by a butthurt Bharara and his minions.
So transparent.
Well his standin khuzaimi, but the point still obtains neither bhara or Schneiderman ever looked into the Clinton foundation, why bother.
Trumpit, you sound much more rational today, are you back on your meds? Big Chief Many Cigar Butts bomb aspirin factory for nothing- Trumpit like. Big Chief Gold Toilets tellum Syria no give poison blankets to tribe. Trumpit think Big Chief bad not Syria.
Hey there, chicken.
Have you managed to find an island of gossipy anarchy to move to, yet?
Our law-abiding society, replete with its robust laws, financially serious jurisdictions and everything else that makes us so great, is clearly bothering your preference for a People magazine-view of how things work.
Well his standin khuzaimi, but the point still obtains neither bhara or Schneiderman ever looked into the Clinton foundation, why bother.
Hillary's misdeeds might have bothered butthurt Bhara, but he trembled in fear of a potential pantsuited POTUS -- much like Comey lived and worked in fear of her. Those guys were pathetic and still are. Excusing them now because they were cowards is like excusing George Soros for being a Nazi informant -- I mean what else were they supposed to do -- hide?
Soros was around 14 when he figured out how to save his own life from certain genocide. I know you're a big fan of Nazis and all, but let's not go pretending that actual Holocaust survivors - (not that you know or care for any) - would have deemed him virtuous to have figured out a way to add himself to the 1.5 million children that your Nazi friends murdered.
Comey is honest and neither he nor Bhara are criminals.
Your president is an unindicted co-conspirator. His business is a criminal organization.
And his friends are all going to jail under a healthy, robust, federalist, LEGAL regime.
Deal with that, you Nazi.
Of course he is he was the monitor for a corrupt bank, he shut down a critical survurveillance program on the eve of a terrorist attack.
"Your money's no good here, Mexico!"
"Que peso, man?"
Comey is honest and neither he nor Bhara are criminals.
Co-conspirators and cowards. Both were afraid of Hillary and probably still are.
Sharc 65 said...
They should not have powwowed. They should have caucused.
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Ocasio-Cortez would associate caucus with Caucasian and start yammering on about "White Privilege".
Lack of Hillary-fear is and remains one of Trump's hallmarks. The rest of the Dem field? All are still in fear of the Hillary. Even Bernie Sanders -- who earned my voted in the CA primary -- caved to her machine. And guess what geniuses? Hillary's machine is still alive.
Lack of Hillary-fear is and remains one of Trump's hallmarks.
Maybe for a coward like you. I'm not afraid of her.
Co-conspirators
In which legal document are Comey or Bhara described that way?
You really do want a republic run by lynch mob, don't you? This is not an anarchy yet, nor the police state that such a thing would devolve into.
How horrible for you is that?
Looks like the racist anti-immigrant white supremacist bigots of Mexico have closed their border with Guatemala and are seeking to reinforce the physical barriers there.
Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi has not yet emerged from behind her walled estate to lecture the Mexican government on the immorality of national boundary integrity.
One wonders why....
What do you have to do to get called a racist around here. You guys are slipping. Who do I have to Fuck to be called a Racist.
Comey is honest and neither he nor Bhara are criminals.
I count five overt lies in ten words. Is that a record?
Criminals are people who commit and are sentenced for crimes, Big Confused Mike (Cohen? Flynn?) Not those who successfully prosecute them.
You are one confused little gourd. Maybe you might want to consider committing crimes on behalf of the Trump Family Crime Syndicate - you know. TO prove your "loyalty" to their cause. Give yourself a sense of purpose and clarity.
I heard that's working out well for their former consigliere-lawyer and campaign manager.
Or you can just keep indulging the fantasy-revenge crap in your head.
Go on! Show the Trumps your devotion to them!
Commit some crimes!
That old U.S. war recruitment poster with Uncle Sam saying, "I want YOU for U.S. Army," should be changed.
Make it Trump saying, "I want YOU to go to JAIL for ME!"
Trump recruitment poster for working with his campaign or administration.
Republicans are upset at how google images of "idiot" return pictures of Trump.
They don't know how the internet works!
LOL!
How Donald Drained the Swamp
They came for Trump but they left with Weinstein, Rose, Lauer, and Franken.
Then they came for Trump but they left with Comey, Struck, Page, McCabe, Yates, Ohr, Simpson.
Then they came for Trump but they left with Podesta and the 80 ambassadors who fundraised for Obama and were rewarded with plum postings.
Then they came for Trump and left with Pelosi, Mad Maxine, Occasional, Pocahontas and Beto.
They kept coming for Trump till there was no else left and then, finally, at last, they left
with Hillary.
“And guess what geniuses? Hillary's machine is still alive.”
No one gives two shits about Hillary, except for you people.
Inga says WRT Hillary, find em, feel em, f them, forget them. where is the old love for all things Clinton?
I suspect Pelosi and Schumer did.
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