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May 23, 2019

At the Get-There-Before-the-Blogs-Do Café...

... it's not too late.

70 comments:

PuertoRicoSpaceport.com said...: Topic of tonite:

President Trump orders declassification of all info related to election.

By CIA, FBI etc.

Yippee!

It has finally begun.

Nancy, you should not have pissed PDJT off yesterday.

John Henry; 5/23/19, 8:28 PM
PuertoRicoSpaceport.com said...: apparently some advisors advised her to be more circumspect with her verbiage before yesterday's meeting.

Nancy's response? "What's he gonna do about it, piss in my soup? Take away my birthday?"

John Henry; 5/23/19, 8:30 PM
Big Mike said...: Too late for Madison. It’s been blogged.; 5/23/19, 8:36 PM
Original Mike said...: "President Trump orders declassification of all info related to election."

We get to know what Mueller knows.; 5/23/19, 8:56 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: "Joseph Di Gabriele" = Mifsud?; 5/23/19, 8:57 PM
Original Mike said...: “Today, at the request and recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States, President Donald J. Trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election.

The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long-established standards for handling classified information."

This is how you do it, Jeff.; 5/23/19, 9:01 PM
Achilles said...: Original Mike said...
"President Trump orders declassification of all info related to election."

We get to know what Mueller knows.

And what Obama knows.; 5/23/19, 9:03 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: hmmm, really?

Judge unseals FBI's FD-302 of the interview with Peter Strzok and Michael Flynn

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6024612-Flynn-Attachment-3.html; 5/23/19, 9:04 PM
narciso said...: Mifsud is a name that popped up in frederick Forsyths fourth protocol, about thr Soviets effectively propelling a benn or a foot into the prime ministership; 5/23/19, 9:05 PM
Rick.T. said...: Almost too late to buy another Audi TT. They’ve announced it’s going to be sacrificed on the altar of electrification.; 5/23/19, 9:16 PM
traditionalguy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/23/19, 9:34 PM
LordSomber said...: The Emperor's New Wheels

https://pungeon.blogspot.com/2006/03/hop-on-in-emperors-new-wheels.html; 5/23/19, 9:34 PM
traditionalguy said...: Does this mean the Queen and the Pope owe the Donald a public apology? Seems they do.; 5/23/19, 9:35 PM
Narr said...: traditionalguy: yeah, start with Trump and then the rest of us.

Narr
Ludicrous relics, both; 5/23/19, 9:53 PM
Lucien said...: The first GoT spin-off is a family comedy “That Doggone Dragon Drogon”, sponsored by Dracarys lighter fluid — “It’s not a barbecue until someone says Dracarys”.; 5/23/19, 9:54 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: predictable.
The more Trump makes public the DemsDirtyDealings, the more
they will scream "COVER-UP!!"; 5/23/19, 9:57 PM
n.n said...: The more Trump makes public the DemsDirtyDealings, the more they will scream "COVER-UP!!"

Not will, do (as in progress). Both the Democrats and affiliated press are committed to the warlock trial.; 5/23/19, 10:10 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Sycophants are as sycophants do.

A blog of such is not at all boring.

Very interesting!; 5/23/19, 10:12 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Is the traffic up w/ this trite shit?; 5/23/19, 10:13 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: So.. apparently we aren't allowed to know the UK MEP results until everybody in Europe finishes voting and counting..; 5/23/19, 10:19 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: mayflies in May?; 5/23/19, 10:24 PM
narciso said...: In other news it seems Weinstein will avoid the fate of Cosby, with a 35 million pound settlement; 5/23/19, 10:25 PM
Sprezzatura said...: BTW, can we use the portal to get Pusha T shirts cause Drake sux re Bucks re WI re change the subject re Rodgers is a dork?

Just sayin'; 5/23/19, 10:26 PM
Fen said...: “That Doggone Dragon Drogon”, sponsored by Dracarys lighter fluid — “It’s not a barbecue until someone says Dracarys”.

Haha. Nicely done.; 5/23/19, 10:34 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: @narciso
like 'ms taco bell'-- how 'bout 'bewitched' when truth is spoken to power; 5/23/19, 10:35 PM
Sprezzatura said...: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Evs0wwnuak; 5/23/19, 10:41 PM
Lawrence Person said...: Creepy porn lawyer even creepier.; 5/23/19, 10:45 PM
Achilles said...: anti-de Sitter space said...
Sycophants are as sycophants do.

A blog of such is not at all boring.

Very interesting!

Your tears are delicious.

It is panic time in DC. All of your heroes are stuttering and stammering their way through press conferences. Pelosi was a drolling wreck and couldn't even count to 3.

Samantha Power is going to pleading the 5th very soon. She illegally unmasked hundreds of citizens who "inadvertently" had their communications surveilled by the NSA.

I wonder if she will go to jail quietly or rat on Obama?

What do you think she will do?

It is fun watching you Russia hoaxers squeal and sputter.; 5/23/19, 10:56 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: https://issuesinsights.com/2019/05/22/clarence-thomas-saving-the-constitution-for-posterity/

Black man owning libs again. This ain't never gonna stop.; 5/23/19, 11:08 PM
narciso said...: Lokhova the one defamed by halper, who ironically does have fsb ties is suing a number of publications; 5/23/19, 11:09 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: "Backfire Hurricane"-- yeah, baby!
does nunes know the identity of the russian lovebird olga vinogradova?

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/09/putin-niece-olga-vinogradova-george-papadopoulos-russia-probe-244758; 5/23/19, 11:23 PM
narciso said...: Like with the chick in the Austrian imbroglio its more important who shes not, she ismr Putin's niece; 5/23/19, 11:33 PM
narciso said...: Isnt, this has all been about misdirection.; 5/23/19, 11:38 PM
Michael K said...: It is fun watching you Russia hoaxers squeal and sputter.

I'm buying popcorn futures.

We saw "The Cold Blue" tonight. Great film. The snowflakes like Freder and sitter will never know what it is like to fly into murderous flak at age 19. 28,000 guys in the 8th air force died in WWII. One third of the plane losses were to flak. Totally random.; 5/23/19, 11:42 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: yes but it will all backfire was the point; 5/23/19, 11:42 PM
Bruce Hayden said...: “hmmm, really?

Judge unseals FBI's FD-302 of the interview with Peter Strzok and Michael Flynn

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6024612-Flynn-Attachment-3.html”

Not really that interesting, since this was an interview of Strzok after his interview of Flynn. It does indicate that this was McCabe’s idea, and that DAD Yates, and maybe DD Comey weren’t happy with it having been done, that McCabe had instructed the two agents not to tell Flynn that he could be prosecuted for lying (he had earlier advised Flynn that he didn’t need a lawyer present), and that Flynn seemed to not be lying to them. It was, by this document, very much a set up, of the National Security Advisor, at the White House, which is likely why DAG (and acting AG) Yates was troubled by it.; 5/23/19, 11:48 PM
J. Farmer said...: It is panic time in DC.

I am not so sure. This has most of the trappings of a pretty standard DC scandal. One of the ways the Establishment operates is by defining the boundaries of acceptable discourse and then allowing a great deal of debate and argument within those boundaries. The people who truly have power in this country are not worried about this scandal, because either way their power will be unaffected. It does not matter to these people which party controls which branches of governments, because the political parties are largely subservient to their interests.

Russiagate and this are wonderful Establishment-approved scandals. They pose no real challenge to the power structure, and they eat up a tremendous amount of media and intellectual real estate, thus allowing the Establishment to carry on pursuing its agenda discreetly behind the scenes. Obsessing over characters like Nancy Pelosi is a distraction. The Establishment gets its way no matter who is in that position.

There will always be a segment of the population who believe that Trump was put in the White House by Russia and is a Putin agent. It's an absurd belief, but it is impervious to logic and reasoning. Similarly, there are people who will always believe that Bush cooked up 9/11 for Halliburton and Oil and that Obama was a Muslim Brotherhood agent and the "most left-wing" president ever. These are all absurdities. Bush, Obama, and Pelosi are all Establishment-approved figures.

I voted for Trump because I thought he could potentially be a monkey wrench in the system. I was well aware of his personal faults but thought he had decent instincts and did seem to be running out of some (admittedly perverse form) of noblesse oblige. Why I have been largely disappointed in Trump is because I see him as being largely subsumed by the Establishment. Jared Kushner exerts a great deal of influence on Trump's agenda, and it does not get much more Establishment than Jared. Pompeo and Bolton are busily repeating all the foolish mistakes of the Bush administration's first term. I'm still holding out a modicum of hope on immigration, but I am prepared to be disappointed.; 5/23/19, 11:57 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Eating liberal tears is what cool/smart people jabber about.

Everybody knows that.

And, it's such fascinating banter. A sign of greatness.

Duh.

Since I was banned here, this place has really become cool/smart.

Carry on.; 5/23/19, 11:57 PM
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narciso said...: Is it really, I think Stephen Miller had carried the bulk of the policy arguments, as Bannon might have had he not been so impatient.; 5/24/19, 12:01 AM
Michael K said...: I am still very impressed with Bannon, although I can see why he did not stay. He is a bomb thrower, like Gingrich was supposed to be.

I have watched a couple of videos of him and am very impressed.

The Euronews interview.

Oxford Union complete with protestors.; 5/24/19, 12:10 AM
J. Farmer said...: @narciso:

Is it really, I think Stephen Miller had carried the bulk of the policy arguments, as Bannon might have had he not been so impatient.

Bannon and Miller were certainly among the brain trusts of Trumpism. I honestly believe that Trump does have not much of a coherent political or worldview and relies largely on instincts and gut feelings. But since he was so unbeholden to GOP Inc orthodoxy, he was able to navigate the path people like Bannon and Miller laid out for him. Instead of indulging in warmed over GOP Inc talking points about free market economics and peace through strength militarism, Trump championed economic nationalism, immigration restriction, and less foreign interventionism. It was these policies, not Trump's sleazy personal life or crass manner, that truly worried the Establishment. And they have worked tirelessly to undermine them, with some decent measure of success, since November 9th, 2016.; 5/24/19, 12:11 AM
narciso said...: Hes an economic nationalist, but that does encroach on cultural questions; 5/24/19, 12:12 AM
narciso said...: And who could implement it, this is why I call it a minefield rather than a swamp, any measure to cut the wire has powerful blowback .; 5/24/19, 12:13 AM
J. Farmer said...: @Michael K:

I am still very impressed with Bannon, although I can see why he did not stay. He is a bomb thrower, like Gingrich was supposed to be.

Unlike Gingrich, Bannon is actually quite smart. Gingrich's reputation as a member of the conservative intelligentsia has always baffled me.

Bannon was likely too large a personality to be able to peacefully coexist in the Trump White House. Beware people who make the move from Wall Street to Hollywood. That said, while I like a lot of Bannon's point of view, his China/clash of civilizations/Thucydides trap schtick is not helpful. Like folks like Robert Kagan and Victor Davis Hanson, Bannon is blinded by a romantic obsession over great power dynamics.; 5/24/19, 12:15 AM
J. Farmer said...: @narciso:

And who could implement it, this is why I call it a minefield rather than a swamp, any measure to cut the wire has powerful blowback .

That, of course, is the million dollar question. Trump was a good option since he was about as outside the traditional political establishment as you could hope for in a potential candidate. But Trump simply lacks the skills and knowledge depth to see it through implementation stage. Trump's reputation as a masterful strategist and negotiator seems to me little more than the result of a successful branding campaign, rather than an honest assessment of reality.; 5/24/19, 12:17 AM
narciso said...: Who do you think is so perfect for the job, the thucydides narrative is Graham Allison's gig. One cannot deny that Chinese corporate policy falls within the states mandates; 5/24/19, 12:17 AM
Sprezzatura said...: I wonder if murderers and rapists enjoy it when the folks they're attacking weep.

If you enjoy seeing others' tears, maybe that's best kept on the DL.

I don't get the appeal re seeing others weep.

Diff strokes fer diff folks; 5/24/19, 12:18 AM
Yancey Ward said...: When the others are complete assholes, then the tears taste sweet.; 5/24/19, 12:21 AM
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rightguy said...: Good stuff from Bannon, Dr. K. Thanks for posting.

He sounds good, but he looks as though he has aged 15 years in the last 3.; 5/24/19, 12:38 AM
Narayanan said...: traditionalguy said...
Does this mean the Queen and the Pope owe the Donald a public apology

Lizzie and Don should do a fist bump.; 5/24/19, 5:33 AM
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I know this guy quite well. Our routes have overlapped.; 5/24/19, 5:37 AM
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Kevin said...: Shitter is improbably prominent here if banned.

Chuck is banned.

Improbably prominent is therefore a very high bar.; 5/24/19, 7:02 AM
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tim maguire said...: Get there before the slobs in their ATVs do.; 5/24/19, 7:11 AM
tim maguire said...: anti-de Sitter space said...
I wonder if murderers and rapists enjoy it when the folks they're attacking weep.

If you enjoy seeing others' tears, maybe that's best kept on the DL.

So Democrats are rape victims? The Republicans are the rapists?

If you're trying to shame us, I recommend using a different metaphor.; 5/24/19, 7:13 AM
Humperdink said...: Reading Chuck Smith's commentary (1982 or so) on Isaiah 32: " ..... let me say that women are usually the true barometer of the moral state of a nation. Women are the ones who usually set the moral standards. And when the women become corrupted in their moral standards, there's nothing left."; 5/24/19, 7:18 AM
stlcdr said...: So, Nevada passed a 'popular vote' law: even if Nevada voted for 100% a Republican candidate, if the popular vote goes to a Democrat candidate, all the states votes will go against what the state actually voted for?

(while it's not in effect, yet, don't these people realize their hatred is completely overruling common sense?); 5/24/19, 7:50 AM
Rick.T. said...: Dr. K -

Thank you for the movie recommendation. Looked it up and they are showing it here tonight (Friday) in middle TN. Only four tickets sold so far, including our two.; 5/24/19, 9:41 AM
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Nichevo said...: I don't get the appeal re seeing others weep.

Diff strokes fer diff folks

5/24/19, 12:18 AM

You are, of course and as we've come to expect from you, a liar.

First, on what happy day were you ever banned?

Second, your exact shtick is to come here and senselessly inflict pain.

Go to hell--oh wait, you're already there.; 5/28/19, 4:54 AM
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