(By the way, this is always the next thought I have when I am speechless.)
Speaking of next thoughts, I like the way the talking points are listed in order of proximity, national to local. If you share a zip-code with M. Sim, you might consider reading from the bottom!
At this point it’s clear that Biden and the Democrats are desperate for ANYTHING to disqualify Trump from running in 2024. And they’re unable to see that this is going to backfire — even if they’re successful.
Or they are so confident in their election rigging that they don’t care if everyone sees the obvious corruption. It might just be a power play. Yeah we did it. Yeah we got away with it. What are you going to do about it?
I'd go with overconfident. With them actually not realising that whatever they declare legal and a judicially correct procedure, any and all who comes after them may use against them.
If they want to rewrite history, first they need to control history. Hopefully, Trump made copies of everything, securely archived.
I can't wait for the next pub prez to raid Joe's stash. Joe and crew are apparently too dumb to realize the precedents they're setting. They act like they think they'll rule forever. A new thousand year reich? The last one lasted 12 years.
There's no reason for Trump not to have made copies, because the files the FBI is after were declassified by Trump before he left. The fact that the swamp drug its feet and ignored court orders changes nothing about the classification status of the documents.
Depends on how sophisticated his staff is. It's pretty common practice these days to make digital copies of important documents, even classified, and use secure off site storage. But living in a highly protected bubble can give the impression of safety and might discourage them from the effort. Since he's been besieged since he came down the escalator, and betrayed by many on his staff, he might have had resource problems getting it done. I doubt he would have done it himself. Hopefully he was well enough organized to have found reliable agents to handle it.
I’m on “ I still care” fumes, but this really is quite outrageous. IMO ( which many people in a WSJ forum today told me was worthless because I was beyond stupid ) this all lays at the feet of THE MEDIA. Think about it… the truth is that in this instance , is actually in HARD COPY, and because the liberal media chooses to not report it, the actual TRUTH that Biden okay-ed the raid, will never be told. Am I wrong?
I'm already on record with what Germans call a "Querdenker" opinion. None of this is malice; it's all incompetence. It's just that Mar-a-Lago is a particularly embarrassing face-plant.
Be careful. The internet says the term is associated with far, far, far, far, far, far right extremely extremist ideology that emphasizes [*Strong Content Warning*] individual rights.
That’s because words no longer have meaning, but rather are familiar collections of letters, positioned syntactically for grammatical significance, that symbolize a fluid spectrum of implied semantics, any one or several of which are chosen and assigned by the activist-du-jour at any given instant in time, usually resulting in head nodding and hurrahs from the target audience.
The problem is the 4th estate is captured; so they can get away with the incompetence...and malice. Don't you think creating 2nd class citizens and masking kids for two years is malice?
I'd push back on the Querdenker opinion. These are the same people that went all in on Nazism and are trying to repeat history with their covid response.
Are you suggesting what they have done over the last 6 years is not malice/hostility to the vote I cast in 16' and 20'?
Executive Privilege Means Nothing if the Next President Can Waive It | Opinion
ALAN DERSHOWITZ , EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF LAW, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
ON 6/14/22 AT 6:00 AM EDT
"Executive privilege, rooted in Article Two of the Constitution, empowers the president to confer confidentially with members of his staff without fear that these secret communications will be made public. It is akin to similar privileges such as those with one's lawyer, priest, doctor and spouse. Their purpose is to encourage candid communications that are intended to remain secret."
"But now, the Biden administration is claiming that communications made by President Donald Trump when he was in office can be waived by subsequent presidents. If this were the case, it would mean the end of executive privilege, since no one would be able to count on the future confidentiality of communications made with a sitting president."
"That means President Joe Biden would not be able to assure his chief of staff or his secretary of state that their advice would not become the subject of a subpoena when the next president is sworn in. If a subsequent president is of a different party, he could play politics with the privilege and waive it in hopes of benefiting his party or reelection prospects. No one would be willing to give a sitting president controversial advice if he knew the next president had the power to disclose it."
Watched it last night. Reminded me of the first couple episodes when you're still trying to figure out who everybody is. This show needs VH1-style pop-ups so you can remember who is who.
The Ungovernable……Ok, over my head here. Never heard of him so I clicked on your post. I scanned it and I’m still stupid. I don’t get what your implying…..now, be kind…….are you saying that Trump could be elected even if he were in prison. Oh, God……please Reader’s Digest explanation for me. Thanks.
I can recall a couple cases of people winning from jail. The bar to disqualify somebody from running is far far far higher than just being in jail. That's what makes this so horrific. They're trying to DQ him for -- at most -- a paperwork snafu.
The process is the punishment -- and this process is designed to prevent Trump from running in 2024, because Democrats are afraid he would win. Just think about that, maybe say it outloud. Democrats are willing to prevent a once and possible future democratically elected president from running -- and they claim to be doing that to protect our 'democracy'.
I don't know what's worse -- if they're in their bubble and think this is a good thing, of if they KNOW they are screwed and are doing anything they can to cling to power.
I'm neither a drinking nor a smoking woman but the urge to grab a pack of Marlboros and a bottle of slivovitz and hope we survive the duration is growing stronger every day.
Make your own slivovitz? According every "jugoslavian" I've ever met, it's not real unless it's home-made, including the alcohol. But getting vodka, over-ripe plums, and sugar (maybe something more for spicing it up) ain't no chore.
Of course, I do have the privilege of having two small damson trees outside. (I could make a racially charged joke here about 'yellow tart' since that's their look and taste but I'll refrain from doing so, no need to drag others down to my level.)
The wife despairs a my experiments with flavouring alcohol. Last year it was rowan berries - sharp, sour, tart to the point of your gums rolling up and claiming asylum in your mucuous mebrane. Or a finger of ginger. Ahh! Oh... dear. Water! Wtr! Or green onions.
I'll get back to you about green onions soaked in vodka for a fortnight. The things we do for science.
In the hopes of us conjuring up the alternative reality that would have me arriving cheerfully on your doorstep, and you and the family unreservedly delighted to see me there, I'd ask that you start putting up fruit syrups so that you can serve them to me with seltzer or, since I ain't the demanding type, some nice cold fresh water, and I promise I'll be as convivial as if the strong stuff was heating up my veins.
I don't doubt it! Age (and lots of other stuff) has managed to get it through my skull that drinking and being drunk aren't co-joined twins. And som stuff is so good, making it last becomes a sport - if you've seen elderly greek men nurture their black coffee for hours you now what I mean. I imagine you do the same with tea? Friend of mine prides himself of never drinking the same blend twice - his kitchen looks like a filing cabinet for teas, and he looks like "Cousin Hooty" from 'Married with children'.
Cold fresh water we've got - but the best water is up in the fjells. Just got home from hiking. Yesterday, we ate lunch at 1 200 meters osl, looking at petroglyphs made 7 000 BC. Fresh bilberries and crowberries for desert. And the water springs forth from the very mountainside itself, so cold it feels as if you've cut yourself when you cup your hands to drink.
Speaking of fruit syrups, a while back I found a 2L jar of lingonberries I'd forgotten we had left from last year. The berries and the juice had separated, and the syrup has an almost treacle-like viscosity. The taste is simultaneously sugary sweet and sharpishly sour so the tongue wants to stick out due to sugar overload while the lips try to do an old school marm hearing a raunchy joke impression.
Going to save it for Yule. Ice cream topped with that syrup, smoking hot. And the son has been house-sitting and his making supper - and he is a professional chef so today I can eat until I can do my Jabba the Hut-impression!
Tea I like scalding. That was especially true in the days I drank mixed chai because I have an uneasy relationship with the taste of milk (can only drink it transmuted from its nature into something else by cooking, etc.) and if it cooled slightly I didn't enjoy it. Black tea I can finish even if writing comments distracted me so much the mug got a little chilly.
But you just really enjoy torturing those of us who ain't got our rowing skills up to that cross-Atlantic challenge yet, huh? If I ever get there I'm gonna have an appetite for the ages.
Hehehe, that's how I am with cheese - in a sauce or on pizza or better yet grated on top of a thick onions and potato-soup with croutons, I'm a-okay with cheese.
As it is on its own, all yellow and damp and limp and sort of reminding you of a piece of linoleum floor... eugh.
Tea I like stewed (don't know if it's the correct term in real english?), low heat, the leaves straight into the water, and the lid on the pot, and just let it simmer for an hour (i.e. until I remember I put the kettle on...). Black tea, with freshly grated ginger and a knife's tip of cinnamon. Tablespoon of honey if I'm under the weather.
Black tea with fresh ginger is the cure for everything. How I fixed my knees.
"Stewed tea" is perfect British English (and usually expressed as a scolding...).
I occasionally wonder at myself, that I enjoy with such absolute relish something as disgusting, really. as cheese. Can't live without it. Only kind I ever thought was absolutely awful and never to be approached again was gjetost. Feed me gjetost with beets for a quick kill.
Slivovitz??thats a funny! I went to HS in Germany at an International school… we took an annual ski trip,that’s what the naughty kids drank while skiing . I have not heard the word in 50+ years!! PROSIT!
Thank you, M. Sim!
(By the way, this is always the next thought I have when I am speechless.)
Speaking of next thoughts, I like the way the talking points are listed in order of proximity, national to local. If you share a zip-code with M. Sim, you might consider reading from the bottom!
Wikipedia's Ron Wyden biography notes: "His son Adam owns a hedge fund, ADW Capital Partners LP."
The Biden White House lied?
This is my surprised face.
At this point it’s clear that Biden and the Democrats are desperate for ANYTHING to disqualify Trump from running in 2024. And they’re unable to see that this is going to backfire — even if they’re successful.
Or they are so confident in their election rigging that they don’t care if everyone sees the obvious corruption. It might just be a power play. Yeah we did it. Yeah we got away with it. What are you going to do about it?
I'd go with overconfident. With them actually not realising that whatever they declare legal and a judicially correct procedure, any and all who comes after them may use against them.
None of them seem too concerned about having to win elections anymore. They used to at least pretend to care about their constituents.
Exactly. I wonder how many "normies" see that though.
My family all say ‘insurrection’ and I just ask, how many people have been charged with insurrection?
Silence. I then throw the tumbleweeds across their vision myself trololol.
If they want to rewrite history, first they need to control history. Hopefully, Trump made copies of everything, securely archived.
I can't wait for the next pub prez to raid Joe's stash. Joe and crew are apparently too dumb to realize the precedents they're setting. They act like they think they'll rule forever. A new thousand year reich? The last one lasted 12 years.
They don't think that far ahead. They don't think there will ever be another Republican president (or they know something we don't).
There's no reason for Trump not to have made copies, because the files the FBI is after were declassified by Trump before he left. The fact that the swamp drug its feet and ignored court orders changes nothing about the classification status of the documents.
Depends on how sophisticated his staff is. It's pretty common practice these days to make digital copies of important documents, even classified, and use secure off site storage. But living in a highly protected bubble can give the impression of safety and might discourage them from the effort. Since he's been besieged since he came down the escalator, and betrayed by many on his staff, he might have had resource problems getting it done. I doubt he would have done it himself. Hopefully he was well enough organized to have found reliable agents to handle it.
Wow the letter, re Batavia event, is stunning and the strawman is a breathtaking Paul Bunyan-sized whopper.
I’m on “ I still care” fumes, but this really is quite outrageous. IMO ( which many people in a WSJ forum today told me was worthless because I was beyond stupid ) this all lays at the feet of THE MEDIA. Think about it… the truth is that in this instance , is actually in HARD COPY, and because the liberal media chooses to not report it, the actual TRUTH that Biden okay-ed the raid, will never be told. Am I wrong?
Error 1016; Error 1003; Error 1001.
Looks like they were attacked with a DNS denial of service.
Yep. We're over the target.
I'm already on record with what Germans call a "Querdenker" opinion. None of this is malice; it's all incompetence. It's just that Mar-a-Lago is a particularly embarrassing face-plant.
Be careful. The internet says the term is associated with far, far, far, far, far, far right extremely extremist ideology that emphasizes [*Strong Content Warning*] individual rights.
https://m.dw.com/en/meet-germanys-querdenker-covid-protest-movement/a-57049985
It's often mis-translated as contrarian. It refers to what we in the U.S. often call "thinking outside the box.
That’s because words no longer have meaning, but rather are familiar collections of letters, positioned syntactically for grammatical significance, that symbolize a fluid spectrum of implied semantics, any one or several of which are chosen and assigned by the activist-du-jour at any given instant in time, usually resulting in head nodding and hurrahs from the target audience.
You mean, of course, "I like Tim.....thank you, Tim!"?
The problem is the 4th estate is captured; so they can get away with the incompetence...and malice. Don't you think creating 2nd class citizens and masking kids for two years is malice?
I'd push back on the Querdenker opinion. These are the same people that went all in on Nazism and are trying to repeat history with their covid response.
Are you suggesting what they have done over the last 6 years is not malice/hostility to the vote I cast in 16' and 20'?
"...creating 2nd class citizens..."
EXACTLY the correct way to look at what we have allowed to happen.
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What Ryan Gardner just said……..I just changed my mind…….
"Dear Ms. Attorney General,
We have taken your concerns under advisement and agreed on the following response:
F*** off.
Sincerely,
Michael Flynn
Clay Clark"
outstanding!
The proper response.
Executive Privilege Means Nothing if the Next President Can Waive It | Opinion
ALAN DERSHOWITZ , EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF LAW, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
ON 6/14/22 AT 6:00 AM EDT
"Executive privilege, rooted in Article Two of the Constitution, empowers the president to confer confidentially with members of his staff without fear that these secret communications will be made public. It is akin to similar privileges such as those with one's lawyer, priest, doctor and spouse. Their purpose is to encourage candid communications that are intended to remain secret."
"But now, the Biden administration is claiming that communications made by President Donald Trump when he was in office can be waived by subsequent presidents. If this were the case, it would mean the end of executive privilege, since no one would be able to count on the future confidentiality of communications made with a sitting president."
"That means President Joe Biden would not be able to assure his chief of staff or his secretary of state that their advice would not become the subject of a subpoena when the next president is sworn in. If a subsequent president is of a different party, he could play politics with the privilege and waive it in hopes of benefiting his party or reelection prospects. No one would be willing to give a sitting president controversial advice if he knew the next president had the power to disclose it."
https://www.newsweek.com/executive-privilege-means-nothing-if-next-president-can-waive-it-opinion-1715230
Wait. Under the new standard dual system of justice, privilege can be asserted by those with a D party but only temporarily by those of the R party.
You only have to worry about that if the other team wins.
Well, that sucks.
Get lots of ammunition!...:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHUFiG1YBwc
cracking up. where do you get this stuff?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYh7smM6YpM
did you watch the prequel debut sunday night?
Watched it last night. Reminded me of the first couple episodes when you're still trying to figure out who everybody is. This show needs VH1-style pop-ups so you can remember who is who.
Pass the Dutchie 'pon the left hand side....
What caliber would you like……….heading for the hills right now.
To a destination far....far........far away....echo.......echo.............echoooooo
Funny
Got it!
Regarding the attempt to keep Trump from running for office, someone should remind them of one Eugene V. Debs.
https://historycollection.com/man-ran-president-prison-people-still-voted/
The Ungovernable……Ok, over my head here. Never heard of him so I clicked on your post. I scanned it and I’m still stupid. I don’t get what your implying…..now, be kind…….are you saying that Trump could be elected even if he were in prison. Oh, God……please Reader’s Digest explanation for me. Thanks.
They think if they indict him, they can keep him from running. History shows that's not the case at all.
Thanks for the post man. You just learned me up.
Well, then, good. I can breath now. thanks
I can recall a couple cases of people winning from jail. The bar to disqualify somebody from running is far far far higher than just being in jail. That's what makes this so horrific. They're trying to DQ him for -- at most -- a paperwork snafu.
The process is the punishment -- and this process is designed to prevent Trump from running in 2024, because Democrats are afraid he would win. Just think about that, maybe say it outloud. Democrats are willing to prevent a once and possible future democratically elected president from running -- and they claim to be doing that to protect our 'democracy'.
Wasn't the 1992 LP Presidential candidate in jail? I might be misremembering, it was a long time ago.
"What are you doing OUT of jail?" - Thoreau
They are so deeply corrupt!
Thanks, SimCom. NOW, I GET IT………we are a country turning itself inside out, which I knew, I just didn’t realize how close we are to losing it all.
I think we all thought it, but, now it’s confirmed and it’s scary. Thanks for the heads-up.
I don't know what's worse -- if they're in their bubble and think this is a good thing, of if they KNOW they are screwed and are doing anything they can to cling to power.
I think the power. It’s always about power and control.
I'm neither a drinking nor a smoking woman but the urge to grab a pack of Marlboros and a bottle of slivovitz and hope we survive the duration is growing stronger every day.
Make your own slivovitz? According every "jugoslavian" I've ever met, it's not real unless it's home-made, including the alcohol. But getting vodka, over-ripe plums, and sugar (maybe something more for spicing it up) ain't no chore.
Of course, I do have the privilege of having two small damson trees outside. (I could make a racially charged joke here about 'yellow tart' since that's their look and taste but I'll refrain from doing so, no need to drag others down to my level.)
The wife despairs a my experiments with flavouring alcohol. Last year it was rowan berries - sharp, sour, tart to the point of your gums rolling up and claiming asylum in your mucuous mebrane. Or a finger of ginger. Ahh! Oh... dear. Water! Wtr! Or green onions.
I'll get back to you about green onions soaked in vodka for a fortnight. The things we do for science.
In the hopes of us conjuring up the alternative reality that would have me arriving cheerfully on your doorstep, and you and the family unreservedly delighted to see me there, I'd ask that you start putting up fruit syrups so that you can serve them to me with seltzer or, since I ain't the demanding type, some nice cold fresh water, and I promise I'll be as convivial as if the strong stuff was heating up my veins.
I don't doubt it! Age (and lots of other stuff) has managed to get it through my skull that drinking and being drunk aren't co-joined twins. And som stuff is so good, making it last becomes a sport - if you've seen elderly greek men nurture their black coffee for hours you now what I mean. I imagine you do the same with tea? Friend of mine prides himself of never drinking the same blend twice - his kitchen looks like a filing cabinet for teas, and he looks like "Cousin Hooty" from 'Married with children'.
Cold fresh water we've got - but the best water is up in the fjells. Just got home from hiking. Yesterday, we ate lunch at 1 200 meters osl, looking at petroglyphs made 7 000 BC. Fresh bilberries and crowberries for desert. And the water springs forth from the very mountainside itself, so cold it feels as if you've cut yourself when you cup your hands to drink.
Speaking of fruit syrups, a while back I found a 2L jar of lingonberries I'd forgotten we had left from last year. The berries and the juice had separated, and the syrup has an almost treacle-like viscosity. The taste is simultaneously sugary sweet and sharpishly sour so the tongue wants to stick out due to sugar overload while the lips try to do an old school marm hearing a raunchy joke impression.
Going to save it for Yule. Ice cream topped with that syrup, smoking hot. And the son has been house-sitting and his making supper - and he is a professional chef so today I can eat until I can do my Jabba the Hut-impression!
Tea I like scalding. That was especially true in the days I drank mixed chai because I have an uneasy relationship with the taste of milk (can only drink it transmuted from its nature into something else by cooking, etc.) and if it cooled slightly I didn't enjoy it. Black tea I can finish even if writing comments distracted me so much the mug got a little chilly.
But you just really enjoy torturing those of us who ain't got our rowing skills up to that cross-Atlantic challenge yet, huh? If I ever get there I'm gonna have an appetite for the ages.
Hehehe, that's how I am with cheese - in a sauce or on pizza or better yet grated on top of a thick onions and potato-soup with croutons, I'm a-okay with cheese.
As it is on its own, all yellow and damp and limp and sort of reminding you of a piece of linoleum floor... eugh.
Tea I like stewed (don't know if it's the correct term in real english?), low heat, the leaves straight into the water, and the lid on the pot, and just let it simmer for an hour (i.e. until I remember I put the kettle on...). Black tea, with freshly grated ginger and a knife's tip of cinnamon. Tablespoon of honey if I'm under the weather.
Black tea with fresh ginger is the cure for everything. How I fixed my knees.
"Stewed tea" is perfect British English (and usually expressed as a scolding...).
I occasionally wonder at myself, that I enjoy with such absolute relish something as disgusting, really. as cheese. Can't live without it. Only kind I ever thought was absolutely awful and never to be approached again was gjetost. Feed me gjetost with beets for a quick kill.
SCA AND RIKARD, you both need to go on the road…….the Catskills, theatre in the round, something………
Slivovitz??thats a funny! I went to HS in Germany at an International school… we took an annual ski trip,that’s what the naughty kids drank while skiing . I have not heard the word in 50+ years!! PROSIT!
L'Chaim!
Oh God, I laugh at almost all your post!
Warmly, I hope.
Right behind you.