good morning!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 November 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
Stevolende at 5:12 21 Nov 19Is anybody else from the diplomatic service voicing concern/disgust about the continued employment of Sondland as a foreign ambassador. Is there any backlash? Or is the environment right for such a thing?I mean if they axe him the job will just go to Jon Voight or Larry the Cable Guy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
don't front on my boy Chuck Woolery
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
Amen to this! This bullshit idea that Ukraine had any interest, time or resources to fuck with our elections is really stupid and obvious Russian propaganda.
One other obvious thing someone else observed is that if Ukraine and its leadership was so corrupt and interfered in the 2016 elections ... why would you task or trust them to conduct an investigation into corruption in the first place?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
still pissed that Andrew WK was denied an ambassadorship
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
especially given the fact that this chucklehead got in
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
Amen to this! This bullshit idea that Ukraine had any interest,time or resources to fuck with our elections is really stupid and obvious Russian propaganda.
This isn't really true. The Poroshenko government had a strong reason for wanting to prevent a key advisor to Yanukovich from becoming the right-hand-man of the US president. They had the interest, time and resources and the black ledger that took Manafort down is still shrouded in a certain amount of mystery. That's different from saying that the Democrats actively worked to solicit interference.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
you must be a russian agent
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
Alternatively, it's just about possible that more than one country in the former Soviet Union has a dodgy security service and politicians.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
I have been watching people making phone calls my entire life. My hearing is, and has been, great. Never have I been watching a person making a call, which was not on speakerphone, and been able to hear or understand a conversation. I’ve even tried, but to no avail. Try it live!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 21, 2019
I am, and have been, a total dumbass my entire life
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
“I have been watching people making phone calls my entire life. My hearing is, and has been, great.“
Gotta listen and not watch if you’re trying to hear something Donnie!
― omar little, Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
he obviously never talked to my mother on the phone .
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
I am a charter member of the Phone Call-Watching Society of America and have logged 3,000 hours of call observance in strict accordance with Society guidelines. Never, and I mean never, have I
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
Is he capable of behaving/speaking like a faint simulacrum of an actual human being for one entire 24-hour span of time?
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
15 tweets in two hours. Quite a busy morning for the big boy president.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
"Never have I been...able to hear or understand a conversation. I’ve even tried, but to no avail."
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
Holmes:My recollection is that Ambassador Sondland stated, “Dammit Rudy. Every time Rudy gets involved he goes and f---s everything up.”— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 21, 2019
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
That's certainly my impression of Rudy.
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
Or to put it more broadly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz6_9ReEGuY
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
Rudy was on Glenn Beck's show (he has a show? is he blind yet?) still claiming he's working with Ukrainians to get the goods on Biden et al.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
I can't post the clip right now, but someone observed that Trump was leaving the plane yesterday he used the shorter back stairs, was dragging his left leg a little, and wasn't moving his left arm at all ...
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
otm to whoever suggested keeping an eye out for when he golfs next. he definitely seems like the kind of guy who, when told to rest, would take it easy for a couple of days then stubbornly return to regular activity. maybe he'll reinjure himself.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
(semi related, indictments against Netenyahu reportedly imminent ... )
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
🐦[Holmes:My recollection is that Ambassador Sondland stated, “Dammit Rudy. Every time Rudy gets involved he goes and f---s everything up.”— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 21, 2019🕸]🐦
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
https://i0.wp.com/equality365.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Stephen_Tobolowsky_Mercer_island.jpg
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
he's just a big goofball rich guy who realizes the absurdity of his life.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
Sondland mildly likeable within this particular context (mostly because it's swell to see a big-money Trump donor joyfully and publicly hand Trump a gift-wrapped set of his very own balls) and undoubtedly a nightmare and a must to avoid in pretty much every other imaginable context.
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
I do think there's something noteworthy about the one rep yesterday (don't recall which) who evoked Sondland's Holocaust survivor parents and how that experience may have injected a teeeeeeny sliver of decency and higher sense of the public good in dudes like him and Cohen who otherwise enjoy lives of flagrant steaming turd-dom.
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
(I guess Sondland's mother fled Germany prior to WWII but the point stands.)
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
apropos of nothing i'd like to point out it is Budd Dwyer's birthday today
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
I wish I would've met youNow it's a little lateBut today is still your birthdaySo let's all have some cake
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
Dammit Rudy
A message to you: stop that messin around
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
time you straighten right out, better think of your future, else you'll wind up in jail
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
sondland seems like a massive prick to me
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
Me too. Just some nihilistic rich dude.
― treeship., Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
Rudy can fail
― icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
Sondland should end up in jail, fuck him.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
'nihilistic rich dude'
Do u really need that extra modifier?
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
potential december thread titles, suggested in this thread:
The President Speaks Loudlyokay from what?everyone's hair was on fireI WANT NOTHING, I WANT NOTHING, I WANT NO QUID PRO QUODammit Rudy...
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
Can't believe no one itt wants to have a beer with Gordon Songland.
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
What do u guys think of fiona hill?
― treeship., Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
She seems kind of hawkish but maybe this no nonsense approach will play better.
― treeship., Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
The line about being from the same part of England as George Washington’s ancestors seemed sort of bizarre.
― treeship., Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
I like her, she seems smarter than fuck and tolerates no fools. Actually I'm very impressed by everyone I've seen who works in the foreign service and the State Department. I feel bad for all of them since they obviously have build important careers doing important shitty work in other countries and now they're all getting thrown under the bus by idiots.
― akm, Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
I wasn't expecting today's hearings to be very interesting but now I want to see how HIll responds to Nunes' gibberish bullshit. She already pointed in her opening testimony that she has no time for this Ukraine conspiracy crap.
― akm, Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
Apparently she was already pretty prickly in response to their BS in the closed hearings.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
hill seems fine, but her testimony will probably useless. she's there to be a fact witness on ukraine, to rebut one of the many republican lines of attack, that there is this big conspiracy by ukraine to interfere with elections. democrats already know that's bullshit. republicans might too, but does anyone think that "facts" or "experts" are going to suddenly change their mind?
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
especially once it comes out that hill once smiled to a democratic operative in an elevator, which would mean that she's in on the hoax as well, etc
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
Forget the work it's going to take to restore the reputation of the US with the rest of the world, consider the uphill battle it's gonna be to recruit any serious-minded people to devote their lives to that work in the future.
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
i don't know about that. that's a risk, for sure. but i can see a wave of talented civilians re-entering federal employment, under a new administration.
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link