*points to television screen at 11am on a saturday*
you are very relaxed. your tension and stress is gathering into one sphere, shrinking, and flying out of the top of your head. you can hear it receding now. it is in the hallway. your stress has put a coat on and stepped outside. you can hear the stressball rolling down the sidewalk, and now it is completely gone. listen to the lack of stress. you believe everything i say. the president is actually very concerned about corruption in many countries. he has done nothing wrong. it is normal to withhold aid in a secretive process that your own team is confused about, using rudy giuliani and some guys from a company called Fraud Guarantee as the point people for a shadow diplomacy campaign over the course of several months. tide is the best laundry detergent. it gets your clothes cleaner, faster than the alternatives. your mother used tide. your children will use tide. now i want you to concentrate on the tips of your eyelashes. feel your energy in the thinnest of hairs, now spreading to the bottom and top lids and down the ridges of your nose, dripping down into your mouth and flowing through your body's network. understanding is washing over you and altering your dna. when you wake up, turn on the television and find a middle aged white man who yells. this man is your new teacher. live in love, love to live.
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 25 January 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
Trump, who recently tweeted that bribery should be legal, is very concerned with corruption. Makes you think.
― whistling (brownie), Saturday, 25 January 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
iirc they can't bank hours today by pushing things into Wed. of next week. I *think* the rules stipulate x hours over three days, which means they have to finish by Tues.
more likely they are lazy and want to go home and have no case in the first place
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 25 January 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
Someone noted that this opening presentation by the defense only seems to further underscore the need for more witnesses.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 25 January 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
along those lines:
Sen. Joe Manchin told me Trump’s team did a “good job” and are “making me think about things.” He added: “One thing that stuck in my mind is they said there isn’t a witness they have had so far that had direct contact with the president. I’d love to hear from Mulvaney and Bolton”— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 25, 2020
(wow manchin is a despicable shit!)
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 25 January 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
Seems like he's walking the line between paying lip service to both sides while leaning on the need for witnesses
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 25 January 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link
Nah he's just really dumb and spineless
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 January 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
rumblings this morning that he will split his votes on the two counts
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 25 January 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
BIPARTISAN TOTAL EXONERATION
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 25 January 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
lonely senator thinking baout things
― symsymsym, Saturday, 25 January 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
This is one thing where it's fine for Manchin to be chickenshit for "electability" since there's zero chance of conviction anyway.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 25 January 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
we have to let manchin take this unethical vote so that we can get him re-elected so that he'll be there as a democrat for important votes, such as, i don't know, an impeachment hearing
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 25 January 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
manchin is like a permanent IOU - he's definitely going to pay out at the end!
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 25 January 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
Doug Jones, theoretically even more vulnerable, just made a definitive request for witnesses based on the WH defense.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 25 January 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
man, fuck manchin. he's not up for re-election 'til 2024. grow some cojones.
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Saturday, 25 January 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
Lede on NPR news: "Senate Republicans impressed with opening argument of Trump defense team." Your public radio donations at work!
(I realize M L Kelly did well, but otoh they give the likes of Jonah Goldberg regular slots)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 25 January 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
for sure, NPR is a continual let down of "evenhanded" coverage these days, it's almost a performance piece
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 25 January 2020 22:12 (four years ago) link
the trump/fruman/parmas "get rid of her" tape is now public
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 25 January 2020 23:24 (four years ago) link
whereas the "grab her pussy" tape has been public for over three years now.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 25 January 2020 23:26 (four years ago) link
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmaloop/trump-tape-yovanovitch-take-her-out-parnas-fruman-giuliani
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 25 January 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
trying to stay positive about things, where i can, so i'll note that this is very good timing. this is directly relevant to the impeachment proceedings, it is now public, and to not admit it as evidence in the "trial" is indefensible. yes, i know most of the GOP will vote to keep it out of the trial anyway. but it makes that decision more painful for them, at worst, and there's a chance that it could split off a few GOP votes for admitting evidence/witnesses
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 25 January 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
it's also kind of fascinating to have an hour long recording of trump candidly sharing his views with crooks, in a Nixon tapes kind of way
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 25 January 2020 23:31 (four years ago) link
lots of golf talk, how surprising
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 25 January 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
these nimrods guffawing at every shit-for-brains utterance
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 25 January 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
It’s also mildly instructive that Parnas apparently is not bright enough to voice-record, so just used his camera app to make a video, with the phone face down on the table
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Saturday, 25 January 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
Not that it makes a difference at all but I think it’s Fruman
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 25 January 2020 23:52 (four years ago) link
well i'll tell you what, the next media session with the press secretary is going to be pretty intense, i don't...oh wait
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 25 January 2020 23:52 (four years ago) link
^Jan 2021xp more astounding yet that whoever is in charge of such things is perfectly cool w ppl having phones in the room at all much less on the table
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 25 January 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
when Rudy Giuliani is your cybersecurity czar
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Sunday, 26 January 2020 00:00 (four years ago) link
Republican Sen. Mike Braun said he hopes the impeachment process will “be instructive” for President Donald Trump’s conduct if he’s acquittedhttps://t.co/KJds56rkoe— POLITICO (@politico) January 26, 2020
*bloodcurdling scream*
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Sunday, 26 January 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
it will instruct him for damn sure, that the worst a Republic Senator will ever do is frown at him briefly, no matter who he shoots on Fifth Avenue.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 26 January 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
Trump Tied Ukraine Aid to Inquiries He Sought, Bolton Book Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/us/politics/trump-bolton-book-ukraine.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
― Dan S, Sunday, 26 January 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link
trump never even met bolton. i mean, maybe at a fundraiser or something, but
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Sunday, 26 January 2020 23:24 (four years ago) link
bolton is a democrat!
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Sunday, 26 January 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
trump is not a racist!
At another point, Mr. Trump, while indulging a familiar lament — that other countries are not trading fairly with the United States — unleashed a tirade against the European Union.“The European Union is a group of countries that got together to screw the United States,” Mr. Trump told his guests. “It’s as simple as that.”Mr. Trump continued: “And frankly, they’re probably worse than China in a sense, just smaller. They’re worse than China in the sense of barriers.”“But the European Union is really bad,” he said. “You know it doesn’t sound like it. You know, the European Union, we’re all sort of from there, right? But the European Union is brutal. But we’re changing that rapidly, too. They can’t even believe it.”
“The European Union is a group of countries that got together to screw the United States,” Mr. Trump told his guests. “It’s as simple as that.”
Mr. Trump continued: “And frankly, they’re probably worse than China in a sense, just smaller. They’re worse than China in the sense of barriers.”
“But the European Union is really bad,” he said. “You know it doesn’t sound like it. You know, the European Union, we’re all sort of from there, right? But the European Union is brutal. But we’re changing that rapidly, too. They can’t even believe it.”
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 27 January 2020 00:35 (four years ago) link
“The European Union is a group of countries that got together to screw the United States"
Uh, the United States more or less imposed the European Steel and Coal Community, the original precursor to the EU, on Europe in 1951 during the post WWII era. The European Common Market, created by the Treaty of Paris in 1959, was vigorously applauded by the USA as in complete accord with US interests during the Cold War. When the EU was formed, the USA was ecstatic to see its long-held foreign policy goal of a united Europe coming so much closer to fruition.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 27 January 2020 03:59 (four years ago) link
Tangentially as a crossword addict I was intrigued when the ECU (an actual historical French monetary unit) was floated as an EU standard.
But I was frkn _ecstatic_ at the idea of the EMU (European Monetary Unit), purely because I loved the mental image of the European version of Fort Knox: millions of emus strutting cluckingly about, waiting to be employed to do their part in a trade-rich transnational economy.
― Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 27 January 2020 04:31 (four years ago) link
... are we the baddies?
― StanM, Monday, 27 January 2020 07:14 (four years ago) link
Is there a bombshell counter anywhere online? https://t.co/OuJzRDWUmF— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2020
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 January 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link
lol Ken Starr is so horrible at this!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 27 January 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
Haha, I guess his non-yelliness is welcome, but I feel like I'm being sermonized by an elderly pastor.
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Monday, 27 January 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
the Jonathan Edwards of a new generation
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Monday, 27 January 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
something tells me that trump and every single GOP senator are finding starr incredibly inspiring and insightful, leading them to even more new perspectives on how trump has done nothing wrong
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 27 January 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
Tuning in to the Democrats last week, I must confess it felt like listening to an evangelical radio station. I can only assume the Republicans sound the same and then some.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 January 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link
From what I gather so far the defense is1 impeachment is mean2 everybody agreed on Nixon, not so here
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 27 January 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
It's kind of crazy how many people on Trump's team have been involved in covering up for sexual predators. Starr, Dersh, Jim Jordan ...
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 January 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
makes sense - how many different things do we experience that involve one person speaking for an hour at a time without commercials, without interruption or interaction by others? it's pretty much impossible in 2020,because anything that can attract mass attention is monetized. sermons and these impeachment proceedings are one of the few exceptions
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 27 January 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
xp to "I must confess it felt like listening to an evangelical radio station."
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 27 January 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
both pastors and ken starr would look better if they put a giant Pennzoil logo running down their armsleeves
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 27 January 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
also if they were struck by lightning mid-sermon.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 January 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link