tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post5926229067784268965..comments2024-03-28T12:53:25.085-05:00Comments on Althouse: Why is there so little talk about the leaked transcripts of Trump's phone conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Australia?Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger198125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-603032397876316352017-08-06T07:17:39.439-05:002017-08-06T07:17:39.439-05:00Sorry, Classmates, I'd like to return to the l...Sorry, Classmates, I'd like to return to the lecture material presented brilliantly by Professor Althouse.<br /><br />"Peña Nieto resists getting that casual. He never even calls Trump "Donald," despite all those "Enriques." "<br /><br />It would be entirely out of place for the vassal to address the Patron in the first person familial. There are courtly rules and El Presidente knows his place. The Patron is telling his subordinate that it is up to the subordinate to find a creative solution to the subordinate's problem, which is not the Wall but the Cartel.<br /><br />Moreover, the "leaked transcript" carries the message even more forcefully: there will be no more "deals" behind closed doors. No more fast and furious, no more under the table deals that go wrong. It's pretty much daylight now and the White House Walls have ears (maybe why the entire West Wing is being rebuilt).<br /><br />I have to concur with many of those who comment here (on both sides of the aisle). I can no longer read the legacy press. Having lived overseas for many years and an eye-witness to many key events, I am at a loss at how this group constructs their meme. Perhaps the bar at the Hilton has better drinks than I thought. <br /><br />There are a few people I read to get a sense of "what is going on" and Althouse is at the top of the list.<br /><br />And, to top that off, there is the three ring circus second order commentary. Perhaps it is time for an Althouse Commentator Medieval Pageant where all can come, don armor, and bash the shit out of each other with Morning Star versus Pike. With leaked You Tube footage!Daniel Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12811235498203906479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78385356356416457112017-08-05T12:59:47.665-05:002017-08-05T12:59:47.665-05:00Jose_K said...
We have a massive drug problem wher...Jose_K said...<br />We have a massive drug problem where kids are becoming addicted to drugs because drugs are being sold for less money than candy because there is so much of it..<br />Gary Becker, Accounting for tastes, made a similar argument against legalizing drugs<br />8/5/17, 8:51 AM<br /><br /><br />Oh?<br /><br /><br />Snickers - Walmart.com<br />Walmart › browse › snickers<br />Products 1 - 40 of 73 - Snickers Variety Mix Fun<b> Size 35 oz. Price. $9.14 </b>... Slice n' Share Giant Chocolate Candy Bar, 1 lb ... SNICKERS Fun Size Chocolate Bars Candy Bag, 6.98 ...<br /><br /><br />If someone will tell me where I could get a kilo of marijuana for under $10, I would be very much obliged to them.Bad Lieutenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18091901464339059169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-10096745486197481232017-08-05T11:48:31.295-05:002017-08-05T11:48:31.295-05:00His last name is, technically, Pena Nieto. Nieto i...His last name is, technically, Pena Nieto. Nieto is his mother's last name. When people from Spanish speaking countries choose to use only one last name, generally they use their father's, which in this case would be Pena (with the enyay).HThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11164697644251374452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-58424782917752035772017-08-05T09:20:47.299-05:002017-08-05T09:20:47.299-05:00No, not really. They've made up so many "...<i>No, not really. They've made up so many "crimes" that the default position is that they are ALWAYS lying.</i><br /><br />The butthurt in you is <i>strong!</i> Was it your basement under which Bill Clinton buried the bodies.<br /><br />Go move to Russia, sell-out.Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-45736159978982394862017-08-05T08:51:49.759-05:002017-08-05T08:51:49.759-05:00We have a massive drug problem where kids are beco...We have a massive drug problem where kids are becoming addicted to drugs because drugs are being sold for less money than candy because there is so much of it..<br /> Gary Becker, Accounting for tastes, made a similar argument against legalizing drugsJose_Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09719969512996039279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-24412837397775177302017-08-05T08:18:25.009-05:002017-08-05T08:18:25.009-05:00"This is... somewhat better than no accountab..."This is... somewhat better than no accountability... I guess?"<br /><br />No, not really. They've made up so many "crimes" that the default position is that they are ALWAYS lying. Like Toothless.SDNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03294241092298713048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-30694716065388639232017-08-05T06:36:23.885-05:002017-08-05T06:36:23.885-05:00Why aren't we seeing more?
They were told by ...Why aren't we seeing more?<br /><br />They were told by Obama former staffers the leaks went too far.Lem the artificially intelligent https://www.blogger.com/profile/03569712564034666751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-2016831245359254192017-08-05T00:58:05.406-05:002017-08-05T00:58:05.406-05:00Poor Anakin Achilles Trump, the Animalistic Humani...Poor Anakin Achilles Trump, the Animalistic Humanity-Hater. He's like the adolescent who thought he just wanted to rebel and express his independence, only to join a cult and unquestioningly follow the ill-fated loser-leader's every instruction, vandalizing and destroying his community and accusing them of not being obedient and slavish enough to his pure and wonderfully infallible leader. He pursues his goal with the tenacity of Jame Gumb!<br /><br />Any day now, Anakin Achilles. Soon all Oregonians and Americans will prove your desperate wish for armed conflict to be something more than the last disastrous Waco/Bundy/Harney Country standoff! You go, girl! Get your violence on!Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-65142944199476674682017-08-05T00:37:56.599-05:002017-08-05T00:37:56.599-05:00You are getting stupid and boring.
As opposed to ...<i>You are getting stupid and boring.</i><br /><br />As opposed to you, who apparently always was. The stupid thing now is obviously engaging a Trump-like psychopath like you. You are lost.<br /><br /><i>You just described Antifa, BLM, Campus leftists, Chicago thugs who shut down a Trump rally, and the dozens of video taped violent assaults by leftist mobs on Trump supporters.</i><br /><br />None of whom are led by anyone as powerful and destructive as the hateful followers of Hitler and Stalin were, which is what makes you an especially useful study in right-wing statist takeover. "Shutting down a rally!" Oh no! Was it a rally held at night with torches in the Bavarian countryside? <br /><br /><i>You are a hypocrite. Flat out.</i><br /><br />Fuck you, O Oregonian too retarded to notice that he didn't "elect" Trump.<br /><br /><i>You can't handle the truth.</i><br /><br />Says the steroided-out stoner whose president takes instruction from Alex Jones. <br /><br /><i>For you people to all of a sudden decide you are going to resist corruption is a joke.</i><br /><br />Thank you for admitting how serious you are about imposing your corruption on others. <br /><br /><i>You are Stalinists.</i><br /><br />And your mother is a baboon. <br /><br /><i>The fact that you ignore the clear felonies committed by Obama and Clintons plural is just icing on the cake.</i><br /><br />Listen to law-school wanna-be drop-out get all judge and jury here. All par for the course in his brownshirted world. <br /><br />From now on I'm calling you Nazi Achilles, Leader of the Trailer Park TV Revolution. I'm done with assuming you have any interest in the law or what should matter to being a decent or useful citizen - you clearly don't. Go take your steroids and your peyote and keep the Kool-Aid coming. Your leader can't even address the Boy Scouts of America without lying about it. A scout is trustworthy; and you are contemptibly delusional and dig in further when called out on it. You are an animal and unfit for human society. <br /><br />Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-2487537257814986382017-08-05T00:22:40.488-05:002017-08-05T00:22:40.488-05:00I believe you can do better.
Trust me. He can'...<i>I believe you can do better.</i><br /><br />Trust me. He can't. <br /><br />And he proved it. <br /><br />Typically insecure right-wing piece of shit. He sees kindness as weakness and verbally assaulted you for it to prove the point. Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-15731841165812146892017-08-04T23:46:34.846-05:002017-08-04T23:46:34.846-05:00Brookzene said...
Everybody, I don't care what...Brookzene said...<br /><b>Everybody, I don't care what their political opinions are, if you can't stand toe-to-toe with your opponents and say why you believe what you are saying and why you believe your opponent is wrong, using your best reasoning skills, and being willing to learn when shown what's correct and incorrect, then you really are an Althouse hillbilly. Like I say it doesn't matter if you are right or left on that.</b><br /><br />Said every stalinist ever. <br /><br />Go fight your straw men with Ritmo. He is having a rough night and clearly not interested in engaging. <br /><br />It is kinda sad watching you Bernie supporters bend over and take whatever the DNC gives you. You are just being really stupid tools it seems. Have fun with 40 senators and watching those 40 senators completely ignore the Bernie wing because, well, you guys are too stupid to take your party back.<br /><br />Your jealousy is noted. I have faith you will at some point grow intellectually and become a useful political force. For now you are pretty much pointless.Achilleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04109507896997459818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-24232483652147300702017-08-04T23:40:17.658-05:002017-08-04T23:40:17.658-05:00The Toothless Revolutionary said...
Yet you did ru...The Toothless Revolutionary said...<br /><b>Yet you did run off on another tangent, namely whether or not the appointment of Robert Mueller met the prerequisites of (I am presuming, for you) 28 CFR 600.1.<br /><br />Are you actually citing laws, Chuck?</b><br /><br />Notice Chuck isn't actually saying the appointment of the special counsel was done correctly. It wasn't. There has been no criminal investigation to this point.<br /><br /><b>Achilles doesn't believe in laws. He probably thinks they shouldn't exist. He's replaced those things with pure politics, you see. It's all about the emotionality and the partisan retribution. He's got some enemies in the government, and he'll be damned if your stinking laws are going to get in the way of how he wants to sort things out.</b><br /><br />Again you create a straw man and purposely ignore what I am saying because you cannot argue with my points. You are getting stupid and boring. <br /><br /><b>Emotion, violence, politics, threats, demagoguery, squelching free speech. It's like a literal dictator's handbook. It becomes clearer and clearer to me that any 20th c. tyrant looking to figure out who the right people would be to manipulate and how they respond would have found an ideal study in Achilles.</b><br /><br />You just described Antifa, BLM, Campus leftists, Chicago thugs who shut down a Trump rally, and the dozens of video taped violent assaults by leftist mobs on Trump supporters. <br /><br />You are a hypocrite. Flat out. <br /><br /><b>I'm sorry to say it, Achilles. You're a good guy, and open minded. But way too into revealing what the right buttons were for Trump to push in you when he got you to drink that Kool-Aid. It's a shame, man. A damn shame.</b><br /><br />You are arguing against your own projection of me. You can't handle the truth. The truth is that everything you have accused Trump of doing democrats have been caught doing for 30 years. For you people to all of a sudden decide you are going to resist corruption is a joke. <br /><br />You are Stalinists. This special counsel is out in search of a crime. This is specifically antithetical to the special counsel statute and purpose which is to take over an already occurring criminal investigation. The fact that you ignore the clear felonies committed by Obama and Clintons plural is just icing on the cake.Achilleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04109507896997459818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-50925971397768213402017-08-04T23:09:24.504-05:002017-08-04T23:09:24.504-05:00"...then you really are an Althouse hillbilly...<i>"...then you really are an Althouse hillbilly."</i><br /><br />Where have I heard that particular slur before?<br /><br />Fabihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17991749875348408368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-3293473153918601732017-08-04T22:26:40.183-05:002017-08-04T22:26:40.183-05:00Everybody, I don't care what their political o...Everybody, I don't care what their political opinions are, if you can't stand toe-to-toe with your opponents and say why you believe what you are saying and why you believe your opponent is wrong, using your best reasoning skills, and being willing to learn when shown what's correct and incorrect, then you really are an Althouse hillbilly. Like I say it doesn't matter if you are right or left on that. Brookzenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07890096380912383067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-23083907656669792892017-08-04T22:20:22.896-05:002017-08-04T22:20:22.896-05:00Grow a pair, will ya?Grow a pair, will ya?Brookzenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07890096380912383067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-62379620405412153482017-08-04T22:12:27.797-05:002017-08-04T22:12:27.797-05:00"But I always have to read through these type..."But I always have to read through these types of snowflake comments in order to get at anything good.<br /><br />I don't mind. There are a dozen commenters here that are a pleasure to read. You are not one of them.<br /><br />You repeat tired lefty DNC talking points as if they were wisdom.<br /><br />Even Inga has made some good comments about healthcare.<br /><br />This is only one blog I read but you are not the reason I read it.<br /><br />Have a nice night,Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-21098762757009227182017-08-04T22:06:37.266-05:002017-08-04T22:06:37.266-05:00Since Trump did what he did to Sessions, it gave S...Since Trump did what he did to Sessions, it gave Sessions a lot more credibility/ backing from congress. And there is a new head of the FBI. And a chief of staff that makes the trains run on time...<br /><br />Conclusion is you will see a lot more actions by the justice department in the near future...Ray - SoCalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11293232996007277071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67413514463775228932017-08-04T21:58:40.626-05:002017-08-04T21:58:40.626-05:00Man these lefty troll threads are quick to scroll ...<i>Man these lefty troll threads are quick to scroll through.</i><br /><br />I'm more or less a lefty, and I wouldn't mind reading your comments and opinions b/c I know while some of it isn't worth my while, sometimes you say interesting things. I try not to be personally nasty in our exchanges.<br /><br />But I always have to read through these types of snowflake comments in order to get at anything good. I know, it's just my opinion, maybe no one cares, and that's fine. But I'm going to start skipping over your comments, not to punish you but I just can't stand the goddamn whining about having to read through opinions that are different than yours. So the fuck what?<br /><br />I believe you can do better.Brookzenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07890096380912383067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38860073031335632682017-08-04T21:43:15.052-05:002017-08-04T21:43:15.052-05:00So the WAPO leaked transcripts of the presidents p...So the WAPO leaked transcripts of the presidents phone calls with foreign leaders?<br /><br />What e know about Trump is that he plays fast and loose with the truth, so we have to wonder, based on the transcripts that just surfaced, whether Trump was telling the truth or lying when he said:<br /><br /><i>“With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea whether there are ‘tapes’ or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings,”</i>gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06219461694806089345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-85123447252393550652017-08-04T21:27:23.479-05:002017-08-04T21:27:23.479-05:00Chuck,
About the least important thing. Did you re...Chuck,<br />About the least important thing. Did you read on, or cry gotcha and post? Because he clarified. He meant least important in terms of dollars and cents. He says so explicitly.<br />You want to be taken seriously? Be serious. That means being honest. You can be snarky but not dishonest. Ken Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08207803092348071005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-18901708432401507962017-08-04T20:22:17.749-05:002017-08-04T20:22:17.749-05:00Not as quick as you are.
What sorts of deep insi...Not as quick as you are. <br /><br />What sorts of deep insights are you learning on that car radio? Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-4330987549529053292017-08-04T20:16:53.297-05:002017-08-04T20:16:53.297-05:00Man these lefty troll threads are quick to scroll ...Man these lefty troll threads are quick to scroll through.<br /><br />The Mueller grand jury will be an interesting exercise. Grand juries are usually nominated by others, not picked at random. Still DC is a swamp of lefties. More than that, it is the stronghold of the Deep State.<br /><br />Fitzgerald got Libby on a perjury trap that was probably dishonest since I remember Tim Russert contradicting his own testimony on one of his TV shows. Bush's unwillingness to pardon him was the last straw with Bush for me.<br /><br />The FBI records coming out about the Clinton/ Lynch airport caper shows <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/08/comeys-fbi-lied-about-lynch-clinton-meeting.php" rel="nofollow"> they were lying about having no records. </a><br /><br />Sessions, in addition to going after the leakers, should go after the FBI top echelon who seem to be Mark Felt II.<br />Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-35855632694424819502017-08-04T20:07:56.005-05:002017-08-04T20:07:56.005-05:00Why anyone would take this person, "Achilles&...<i>Why anyone would take this person, "Achilles" seriously is beyond me. He sounds like something that crawled out of some conspiracy theory YouTube video narrated by some spittle flecked nut case.</i><br /><br />He used to be a somewhat decent, open-minded guy. But really devolved around the Trump so-called "triumph." So far down that bunny-hole he's fallen that he even claims that as an Oregonian, he helped "elect" Trump. <br /><br />I really don't get what's up with him. A real Jekyll and Hyde. Maybe even 10% to 15% of Trump stuff I might admit is either needed or getting closer to the mark than what elitists nowhere near as elite as him but much more conventionally political had hit upon. And then the guy goes and exempts his own immigrant staff and his own foreign products from his so-called pro-American positions. How anyone at this point can not see what a phony he is is beyond me to understand. The Trump followers - I think many of them have gotten lost. We can only hope that fewer of them have doubled-down on believing that Trump's lies and delusions are true as a way to cope, though. Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Togetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059991118123693141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11994032929694338112017-08-04T20:07:24.101-05:002017-08-04T20:07:24.101-05:00"Paul Ryan says Intel leaks are the problem o..."Paul Ryan says Intel leaks are the problem of the leaker, not the journalist. If Sessions is going to try to lower the hammer on journalists it's not going to go down well."<br /><br />I<br />So if someone gave a journalist your medical record, would it be OK for them to publish it?exhelodrvr1https://www.blogger.com/profile/15874052265934108903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-60487163908216795682017-08-04T20:05:25.619-05:002017-08-04T20:05:25.619-05:00Hey UnknownInga19.
How are you this evening?Hey UnknownInga19.<br />How are you this evening?Birkelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205292523499913507noreply@blogger.com