Rudy Giuliani says Trump is ‘honest’ because facts are ‘in the eye of the beholder’
“Sign the pardons, Donald,” the hat whispered, sitting sideways so he could bend his bill toward the elderly man’s ear.
“But what if they testify anyway?” the hair said into his other, a speaking tendril dangling down.
The Oval Office was filled with tense faces: Kellyanne, her lips pursed like an angry asshole. Ivanka, trying to knit her paralyzed brow. Bill, wondering who everyone was while everyone wondered who he was. John Bolton’s mustache, dreaming of an ocean of furriner blood while he let his host coast on auto-pilot on Setting 5 (Concerned Interest, Semi-Sincere.) DJ, on alert, knowing someone in this very room knew he was sleeping with his brother’s wife. Eric, staring intensely at the Lego blocks he was trying to fit together. Jared, worried he would never get his Legos back from Eric. Pie, wondering about lunch, even though she had just had third-breakfast.
“Sign them, Donald,” the hat said. “Look at how nicely they are all printed out.”
“Why is there an M&M in here?” the hair asked, flicking the earwax-coated candy away.
“I HAVE BEEN BETRAYED!” Donald roared. Almost everyone in the room flinched. Two seconds later, John Bolton’s body did as well.
“When I PAY one of you sons-a-bitches off, you are supposed to STAY PAID OFF!” he raged. “Where’s my lawyer, goddammit? Where is he?”
Through a doggy-door crudely glued into one of the Oval Office entrances, Rudy scuttled in, the sharp tips of his feet digging into the carpet. The crowd of cronies, courtiers, and pupae drew back in revulsion.
“Mr. President?” he asked in stroke victim slur.
“You said this wouldn’t happen!” Donald yelled.
“Now, now, Mr. President,” the bloated head said.
“You said this COULDN’T happen,” Donald spat.
“Now, now, Mr. President,” Rudy said, a little blood running out of the corner of his mouth.
“You ASSURED me! I was ASSURED! I had ASSURANCES!” Donald threw an empty Diet Coke can at the lawyer-thing and it scurried away.
“Out! All of you out! OUT!” Donald screamed, waving his arms. They stampeded for the door, pushing and shoving each other in their terror. Kellyanne was pushed down, lightly trampled and was crying out orgasmically before DJ helped drag her away.
“Sign them, Donald, sign the pardons,” the hat said again, giving the old man’s head a slow massage. “Trust in me, Donald, just in me.”
The hair made a snide choking sound.
“I’m part of you Donald,” the hat said.
“The best part of you,” the hat said, who wasn’t really part of Donald at all.
Sail on a silver mist
Every time I read The Hat & the Hair, I wish I had a Diet Coke.
A real one, not one of those fake ones they tried selling to millennials a few months back.
Eh? What now?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coca-cola-rebrands-diet-coke-for-millennials-but-whats-in-the-can-may-be-the-problem-2018-01-10
Get with the times Brochacho.
Millennials ruin everything.
“We almost forgot the lessons of ‘New Coke’, but remembered to keep the old branded bottles around to fool people.”
citation needed
“Citation – they click ‘like’ on our twits”
A real one, in a 32oz cup from McDonald’s, which is simply objectively superior to the bottle or can for some reason.
I don’t understand why that’s true either. Their Dr. Pepper is objectively better too.
Yes. I’m drinking one from BurgerFi right now. Just don’t go for the Strawberry Dr. Pepper in the magical soda mixing machine.
I think McD’s ups the carbonation level above everyone else. That is the only thing I can figure out. A coke from McDonalds is somehow superior in ways that make no sense.
It’s gotta be the carbonation levels and I think the syrup to water ratio. I know people who will make special trips to McDonald’s specifically to buy a large Coke.
Taco Bell has the best Mountain Dew.
I love Mountain Dew, but the diet is so far removed from the taste of the real stuff it’s undrinkable.
The diet label is nearly identical to the regular one, and I’ve accidentally bought a diet on a few occasions. It’s undrinkably disgusting.
Odd. I switched from regular Mountain Dew to Diet to avoid the road to diabetesville, and when I did the difference was not that noticable. Now, the regular stuff tastes like syrup and I can’t drink it.
I agree that the bottles need to be more different than the diet version having slightly more silver in the same pattern. It’s hard to tell when the store is out of stock of the diet (which sells out much faster than the regular and needs to be restocked more frequently)
I can’t enjoy regular sodas. The sugar guilt gets to me.
I don’t drink carbonated beverages, so I don’t have these problems.
I loveMountain Dew, but the dietisso far removed from the taste of the real stuff it’sundrinkable./UnCiv OFF
Actually, I’ve just never liked any version of Mountain Dew. I find every sugared soft drink way too sweet; I prefer sugarless Dr. Pepper, but will take sugarless Coke. I’d rather drink water *spit* than any kind of Mountain Dew.
Dr. Pepper has the interesting distinction of being one of the few beverages I’ve tasted where I was literally unable to determine which was the diet and which was the full-sugar version.
I love Mountain Dew and I find the diet version difficult to get down. But yeah, I want to cut down on the sugar too.
Why these companies don’t just offer versions with say 50% of the sugar is a mystery to me.
I hate Dr. Pepper with a passion and a half. My mom is a Dr. Pepper addict.
I’ll say the best low sugar pops I’ve had (though they ain’t cheap) is the Dry Soda, on the plus side, they have cocktail recipes for each flavor as well.
I don’t generally like pop at all, because I don’t like carbonation, but Mt Dew is the one I will drink when I need to stay awake and the Jet Alert isn’t cutting it. That the diet is so bad is frustrating.
So. When I am being “good” but I have a sweet craving, I drink diet strawberry and diet grape Shasta, and diet root beer and diet cream soda. That doesn’t happen often.
Gatorade is my beverage downfall.
Mountain Dew Throwback – “real sugar, real good”. No high fructose death syrup.
Saccharine.
Isn’t that the stuff where a literal truckload will kill a mouse?
Yes – best artificial sweetener ever.
“Ew! Sugar!”
/guzzles “energy drink”
Hey now, I switched to coffee.
The rundown of Trump’s inner circle is just . . . perfect.
He really nailed Bolton. He always looks seconds away from tweaking out uncontrollably.
Even Pie refers to herself as Pie at this point. Total spiritual degradation.
Meh. Gone from the headlines by Friday.
When do the Kavanaugh hearings start? It needs to be damn soon to get it done by the time everybody leaves DC to campaign.
Please tell me the giant pussy pretending to be the Majority “Leader” isn’t going to fold on doing this before the election.
September 4th. Dems can’t stop it.
Who cares about this? Not when illegal immigrants are killing pretty white girls in rural Iowa. Get your priorities straight.
Pssh. Its not like she was blonde.
No mention of an illegal immigrant killing a white girl on the local network news at noon. Nor the nutjob in the desert who probably killed a kid.
But almost five minutes on Trump, Cohen and Manafort, including some talking head telling Mankiewicz that a crime was committed by Trump to
influence the election. Sounds fair — let’s indite and convict every candidates who, upon being elected, fails to carry through with his
promises. Isn’t that “influencing the election” too?
some talking head telling Mankiewicz that a crime was committed by Trump to influence the election.
I don’t suppose he said what crime, did he?
What’s interesting is what Cohen actually plead guilty to: bank fraud and tax fraud, and what he didn’t plead guilty to: campaign finance violations. He said he broke campaign finance laws at the direction of the Trump, but he didn’t actually plead guilty to it. I don’t think the bank and tax fraud had anything to do with Trump. And, of course, with the plea deal, there’s no basis for further investigation of anything that was initially charged and has now been settled with the plea deal.
And, of course, nothing whatsoever in the Manafort trial had anything at all to do with Trump.
He’s obviously fishing for a deal with Mueller to save his own skin, utter douchebag that he is.
I think plea deals usually involve the dismissal with prejudice of any charges that aren’t pled to. If there were any campaign finance violations charged (and I think there were, but I’m not sure, because the reporting on this is shit), then those are gone and there’s need to do a deal with Mueller to get them reduced or dismissed.
IANAL, and apparently Cohen isn’t much of one, given his penchant for recording clients. Could he be looking for a reduction in the penalty phase now that he’s pled out?
Andy McCarthy described the plea deal process for establishing conspiracy: the defendant admits to the crimes which are essential to implicating others. The deal involves mitigating the sentence, but the conviction is essential. It lays the groundwork for establishing the conspiracy. So if Mueller is cutting out after Trump for campaign finance violations, he’d need Cohen to admit to the crime.
Yet, oddly, I don’t think Cohen pled to any campaign finance violations.
@RCD Here’s what I’m finding
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/21/michael-cohen-striking-deal-with-federal-prosecutors.html
“Michael Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal attorney, admitted Tuesday to violating federal campaign finance laws by arranging hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal “at the direction” of then-candidate Trump.”
From the WSJ:
Mr. Cohen, 51 years old, pleaded guilty to a total of eight criminal counts: two counts of illegal campaign contributions related to payments to women; five counts of evading personal income taxes from 2012 to 2016; and one count of making false statements to a financial institution
McCarthy’s piece pertained to (I believe) Papadopolous, and he was explicit about the weirdness of cutting Jorge loose if they intended to charge Trump with conspiracy. You can’t establish a conspiracy if you excuse the suspect you’re planning to flip: you’ve just neutered your case be making it seem like not a crime, or not a crime worth pursuing in the case of your principle witness.
So to the extent the prosecutor got Cohen to admit to a crime he’s not actually charged with, that seems strategic like charging a bunch of Russians with crimes you never intend on having to prosecute. They’re producing material for Trump’s impeachment, not his prosecution.
You’re right – I had to check the actual court document.
There are two counts of campaign finance violations in there. I see references to “at the request of the campaign”, but no reference to “at the request of Trumpenfeuhrer”.
Still, maybe they are trying to set up a conspiracy charge. Of course, allegations in a plea deal are not facts, so the statements that the chicks were paid off in order to affect the election remain to be proven.
Or even that it was a violation that will stand up in court. I suspect getting Cohen to admit to what may have been an entirely inapplicable charge was the crux of the plea deal. The FBI is doing the work of House Democrats in preparation for impeachment hearings. They are desperate to see their shady doings buried by a Democrat-controlled House.
He worked for a Republican, why are you leaving out the important part of the story?
“Eric, staring intensely at the Lego blocks he was trying to fit together.”
Legitimate LOL.
“lawyer-thing”
LOL
That made me laugh too. My brother is a lawyer-thing.
Hehe, nice.
Random sciencey question. If you have a planet with a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere but thicker in terms of gas density, what does that do to the required concentrations of carbon dioxide needed to be dangerous to humans? (Assumption – the higher atmospheric pressure is not itself a hazard)
I would expect the proportion to be the important thing, but I am emphatically not a scientist.
That’s a question for someone who scuba dives
thicker = denser or more viscous ?
Since we have to stay in a temperature range that allows humans to breathe the gas, and the composition is already defined, it has to be more dense.
If you’re saying the Earth-mix will be used, just at a higher pressure, wouldn’t the CO2 concentration need to be reduced per Boyle/Charles so that the total moles of CO2 available in the lungs does not exceed the same threshold amount as when at STP?
That’s kind of what I’m asking, because I don’t know enough to figure out whether the ratio or the exact number of molecules mattered more.
IIRC, the purging of the body of CO2 is an equalibrium-driven process. Therefore, if you’re assuming that human biology remains earth-normal, you’d have to decrease the partial pressure of CO2 in that atmosphere by the same factor that the total atmospheric pressure increases.
Not sure how anyone proves intent to influence election against Trump.
Perhaps a series of tweets to a girlfriend expressing undying hatred of Trump?
Unless the hush money and/or Cohen’s fee was being paid out of campaign money, I don’t see how this is anyone’s business except for Melana.
Melania goes from bobblehead Eurotrash slut to poor, long-suffering victim of Trump’s infidelity in 3… 2…
Maybe all this is a plot to squeeze Melania. *Hits bong*
That’s probably not going to stop the DS from spending tens of millions of our tax dollars for a circus.
There’s plenty of dispute that this is even a crime.
Doesn’t matter, this is about swinging the midterms, nothing else.
If I knew Trump was banging Playboy models, I would have voted for… Hillary?
So that would make the otherwise legal NDAs illegal according to some law that doesn’t exist.
Hillary’s appeal was so tenuous, ridiculous memes on Facebook and hush-money Trump paid to a hooker are enough to sway opinions about her. Somehow, taking her at her word when she promised to continue Obama’s anti-growth policies is impossibly misogynistic… but treating her as merely the sum of her lady parts is empowering and pro-woman.
Right.
Don’t forget her barnstorming tour of middle America during the primaries where she promised massive gun control.
The entire campaign is about “influencing” the election. You even “collude” with any number of people to do so. And I don’t get where paying whores to shut up about your consensual relationship is legally wrong. This whole thing is stupid.
UNC student government openly supports vandalism:
https://executivebranch.unc.edu
Our future leaders getting a taste for anonymous violence.
So when is the “tar heels” nickname going to be dropped? Legend has it that it was originally given to the boatbuilders who made
the ships to carry slave-produced indigo, rice, etc. Then the N.C. Confederate soldiers adopted it proudly to show they refused to retreat .
For new nicknames, how about “The Woke?” Or, to stay somewhat true to the stick-to-itness meaning of the old nickname” “The
Leeches?”
The Cucks would work.
I’m sure someone will probably provide me with a link but….
How long until we start getting earnest calls for the entirety of the south to be redistributed to POC’s as reparations for slavery? After all “they” built everything there, amirite?
And yes I’m shocked that the name Tar Heels is even still a thing given it’s association with confederate shitlords.
Look to South Africa and see the future…
The worst part is that there were people in the 1980s predicting exactly that kind of outcome if Apartheid were ended way back then. Wokeocrats; making prophets out of racists.
As an alum, and a lifelong fan of the basketball team this both saddens and pisses me off. Silent Sam was about honoring alum who fought and died during the civil war. They may have fought for the wrong cause from our perspective today, but not all of them were fighting to keep others in chains. This is disgusting behavior, it’s an honor code violation, and it shouldn’t be the way things are handled at the oldest public university in the country. Worse, this sort of totalitarian political violence being supported by the authorities is going to encourage violence and encourage further identity politics.
If the government agents won’t quell the violence of these leftist groups, their political opposition will. And guess who has the guns. If the gov’t doesn’t do its job, things could get ugly.
Except I’m far past thinking the government is a neutral actor. Reflexive or even defensive right-wing violence is the auspices they’ve been yearning for since the 90’s for gun confiscation and suspension of Posse Comitatus. See every militia fever dream mentioned in DHS reports
If the shit were right and truly hitting the fan and Posse Comitatus were suspended/eliminated, how much of the armed forces would actually participate in fighting on domestic soil?
More than people would like to think. Too much sweet lucre at stake (pensions, Tri-care, etc.), plus wanting to spare your family the inevitable backlash they’d receive if they refused to participate. You’d have some principled people refuse to follow those orders but they’d be few enough in number that they could be marginalized and dealt with punitively. I’m way past thinking a uniform makes anyone any different from the rest of the populace.
This is a pretty sobering read (and worthwhile). Made me rethink ‘the military would never do that’ trope.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060995068/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=jocko20-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0060995068&linkId=130abdd08f224bf0b8e4f822d77d87ca
“Silent Sam was about honoring alum who fought and died during the civil war”
Not all those alums fought for the Confederacy either. So much for the “right side of history” bullshit they spout.
Rest easy.
I don’t want anything to do with the place. You can keep it.
Lol, I certainly didn’t mean to imply I wanted any part of it!
*points yankee nose skyward
Poetry, pure poetry!
News you can use:
If you keep a balance in your flexible spending transit account, and your employer shitcans you, they get to steal the money from you and you can’t do anything about it.
*slowly counts down from ten…*
What on earth is that? Sounds like it has to do with travel. We’re not allowed to travel, we have to talk people physically close to the issue through the steps, even when they can’t follow basic instructions or leave out stuff that happens.
I believe it’s when you keep your 401k in its account until you can transfer it to the next company who hires you. In between time, your previous employer can plunder it. I always took mine and paid the taxes on early withdrawal.
Oops. Meant flexible spending.
You set aside some of your paycheck into an account which allows you to pay for your bus or subway commute tax-free. There’s one for parking too.
That seems to me an issue with the City, it’s transit systems and tax structure.
What is it about that place that appeals to you? I’m serious here, I never understood what made all the downsides bearable.
Great Chinese food, obviously
It’s a federal program.
I’m not going to waste my time justifying where I live. It would be pointless, because everybody has different preferences.
While NYC isn’t for me, when I went there, I finally understood why people loved the place. There’s so much to do there and you’re guaranteed to have access to some great restaurants.
Never been to NYC, but I had the same feeling about Chicago. I could never give up my country living, but damn, I sure wouldn’t mind spending a month there once a year.
My retirement plan involves building a cabin in Montana and rarely seeing other people, but after visiting New York I can at least understand why people would want to live in a five-by-five foot cubicle and brush shoulders with ~seventeen billion people on the way to Duane Reade.
Well, why is that?
I also love NYC. There is a heartbeat under your feet. It changes pace as you change neighborhoods.
As much as I fucking hate Illinois and know I should leave, I can’t see myself living anywhere else. My family and closest friends are in the Chicago area and while folks think it’s some violent hellhole, the city has a lot to offer…as long as you don’t live there.
I want to pay off my debts and build up enough of a savings to be able to leave New York state and be able to weather the transition. Right now it’s a toss-up between Tennessee and Texas as a destination. I’m already hours away from my closest family, so it won’t be any harder to call them from another state than it is to call them now.
I love specific areas of NYC and Chicago.
I’ve never been and have no interest, just because I’m not a fan of large cities–New Orleans is the biggest place I’ve been and felt reasonably comfortable–but I have friends who take the train up to NYC pretty often, and they dig it. Lots of stuff going on all the time, always something to do, that sort of thing. Too many people for me and the laws suck, but I can appreciate that there are reasons people are willing to deal with the downsides.
Oh that’s neat. I have never heard of one of those. I had employers who provided parking or bus passes though.
Sorry, buddy. I’ve always been suspicious of those flexible spending accounts and haven’t participated. Letting someone else hold your money is never a good idea.
Yeah and I let it get way out of control too. Like, hundreds of dollars. I am livid.
Never, ever going to participate in that shit again.
Sorry to hear that. New York right? They do the same thing through my employer in NJ although I do not participate.
I would look for somebody in the Transit Authority to file a compliant with. And there must be New York Labor Bureaucracies who would be willing to at least make life miserable for your former employer.
That’s the way flexible spending accounts work in general, I believe. They are mostly for healthcare expenses; I hadn’t heard about one for transit.
This is why you are much better off with an HSA than a flexible spending account. Your HSA is yours, regardless.
Yeah, I have an HSA account – “mine to keep”.
I don’t do FSA for health, only transit. The shitcan cheat-sheet says that the health one can be continued along with the rest of your health coverage by paying the full premium. I… guess… that means you would have access to the balance if there was one? Not sure.
How is that even legal? Did they do a match and they are taking that back? Otherwise, I don’t get it.
I think the legal fiction is, Rhywun agreed to a pay cut in exchange for the employer paying the transit costs (up to whatever accrued credit was in the FSA), so when the employment ended, there was no money that was ‘Officially’ Rhywun’s involved. The company treats the cost as a business expense for tax purposes and it goes untaxed on his pay stub because it was never paid to him in the first place.
I could be wrong, but that’s my read on it. It’s also why legal action probably won’t amount to anything.
See my reply below. The employer doesn’t contribute anything. That’s my money, all of it.
If that were the case, you would be able to walk off with it.
Yeah, I thought of putting scare-quotes in there.
I do agree that if it were an equitable plan, the balance should be turned over to you, I was just going through the logical contortions I thought would be in play to make it pre-tax and have the outcome as described.
Also, sorry about the unemployment. Got any prospects?
I’m still regrouping. I.e. being a lazy ass. I don’t really know the first thing about “finding a job” any more since it’s been 20 years since I had to.
My wife’s trying to upgrade her salary recently and has been using a combo of headhunters that hit her up through LinkedIn and submissions through Indeed.com. The headhunters can be extremely persistent, which is good, because that is a metric of effectiveness.
I do get a lot of the headhunter junk mail. I’ll check out “indeed”, thanks.
No, there is no match from the employer. It’s simply a pre-tax deduction. I bet the “you lose” clause is in the fine-print somewhere. Like I said, it’s a Federal program, so there ain’t no fighting it.
Ah yes. The FYTW clause.
Come to think of it, isn’t it similar with the medical flex spending accounts? Whatever you don’t use by the end of the year get’s forfeited, IIRC.
Yeah, the medical FSAs are the same, the “use it or lose it” rush that comes at the end of the fiscal year when people used to go and buy a pallet of Band-Aids and cases of ibuprofen, back before the “Affordable Care Act” removed stuff like that from the eligible spending list.
You got fired? That sucks.
That last line was sadder than the ending to The Grapes of Wrath.
Sug, I’ve fallen behind in reading the H&H stories, but this was so tempting that I jumped ahead…
Well done, Sir. Bravo.
I’ve been getting an anthology of posts for the first year in office together, so it will all be in a convenient format at some point.
It occurs to me that you could cash in and make a pretty penny if you collected all the works together, and published under a pen name, into a compendium to sell to partisans. Have you considered doing this? This is a good environment in which to act on it if you ask me.
Include busty topless pics and you’re golden. You’d be hitting every demographic.
I’ve been toying with the idea. The only problem is that the increased exposure might bring down a flood of trolls on this place. As one of its architects, I’m very protective toward it. That’s why, for instance, I’ve never considered a Hat and Hair Twitter account to drive traffic. Just one or two retweets would explode the traffic here. But without monetization, it’s just napalm on wildflowers.
There’s got to be some way to monetize trolls.
Rent them to the Russians?
^^^Bot confirmed.
“Bot”? Do you even H&R vernacular?
Tulpa confirmed.
Exactly what Tulpa would say.
That’s not the proper response in the Glib Vulgate, both of you are socks!
Radley Balko never listened to my advice for a book title.
And look at what happened to him.
You need to publish.
If you could pull a hundred thou or so from a publishing house for a dead tree deal, you could find a way to manage. At least that’s the way I would look at it. Self-publishing and organic marketing sounds like a pain in the ass.
You know what kind of pre-existing brand recognition you need for a six figure advance?
Nope, evidently quite a lot.
I’d be very tempted to shop around an excellent collection like H&H to see what a publisher would offer. The TDS demand is all there.
You know who else has pre-existing brand recognition?
Cattle Ranchers?
The anthology/collection is a great idea.
Ditto. Even just published on the Glibs store (no idea whether that’s possible).
I do not know the ecommerce setup of the Glibs store but I use a WordPress plugin to sell my stuff digitally, which is connected to my Paypal account. (Easy Digital Downloads). It’s not difficult to do at all.
OT: 2-chili, the only good part of TOS left.
http://reason.com/archives/2018/08/21/dear-democrats-and-republicans
My hope was that after the election and shenanigans that are currently going on, folks would have less faith in the government. But what I think is unfortunately the lesson is that you need to grab the reins of power to screw your opponents over.
And as much as I wanted to think graciousness and forbearance toward the left would bring them around, the political divide in this country seems unbridgeable.
Just start shooting and get it over with.
/not really, that would suck
Exactly. Americans who desperately want violence are without a doubt the dumbest motherfuckers on this planet.
“Resistance”
What the fuck are you exactly resisting? A democratically elected President?
They’re resisting the corrupt system and evil Deploranazis that ever allowed a Republican to be elected! They will resist until a Democrat wins and then it’s the only legitimate system ever conceived and the populace is giving them a 100% mandate.
Fine, #Resist away. Nothing wrong with resisting bad policy. But you lose the thread when you take to the streets to start fires and punch people for supporting bad policies.
It’s not like we’re Europe.
Yeah, we’re only supposed to be rioting and starting fires when we win sporting events.
And climbing greased-up poles for some reason.
NTTAWWT.
Interesting times in which we live. I wasn’t around for ’68 drama, but my parents tell me that they think the current environment is worse.
“climbing greased-up poles”
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nBFZ84_1blY/Url2ShN108I/AAAAAAAAv9c/lNiHmL07iRg/s1600/flbp_doesnt_take_a_holiday_break_60_photos4-754501.jpg
I wasn’t around for ’68 drama, but my parents tell me that they think the current environment is worse.
I don’t think we hit the 60s level of street violence and we don’t have a campaign of bombing yet.
I never trusted that hat…
This is fucking amazing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaANi96Z-Wg
*looks for barf bag*
Cool, but old news. 2016.
I remember when that happened. The guy has a wife and a kid which I find horrific. You wanna play chicken with your own life fine, but don’t drag dependents along for the ride.
They’re doing it again! DNC calls FBI after detecting attempt to hack its voter database
*Dons Tinfoil Hat*
This is called a phishing attempt. Since it is now known by pretty much everybody that team blue is incompetent when it comes to this sort of thing (thanks Hillary), you’re probably going to get a few of these.
*Dofs Tinfoil Hat*
All of the “hacked muh election” bullshit was phishing, from what I can tell. And phishing is not what is most commonly-understood by “hacking”, despite the MSM’s desperate attempts to make it seem otherwise.
I get phishing emails almost weekly at work. Why won’t they FBI investigate my case?
*LJW arrested, charged with campaign finance violations*
Fox News is blowing its load today.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/22/feds-man-charged-in-minnesota-stabbing-was-in-us-illegally.html
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/22/illegal-immigrant-who-committed-multiple-rapes-after-2012-ice-detainer-not-enforced-gets-80-years-in-prison.html
Granted, this is more newsworthy than Cohen and Manafort getting railroaded.
When a woman is raped killed by someone without the proper visa, the rape hurts more and she is killed deader than if she were killed by someone with the proper visa.
We all know this.
Just like if a man is killed because of his race vs. literally any other reason, it’s much more evil.
Exactly. This is just Fox’s version of CNN’s “White cop did something to black person” trope.
When a person without the proper visa isn’t here at all, the odds of them raping and killing someone in Iowa are pretty low.
Given the perp’s age, it sounds like he could very well qualify as a “Dreamer”.
Waving bloody flags nauseate. Whether it’s Sandy Hook parents agitating for “common-sense” gun control or “Angel” families (*barf*) agitating for common-sense brown people control.
I’d be ok controlling this brown person:
http://c11.incisozluk.com.tr/res/incisozluk/11000/9/31099_o6d28.jpg
We need a Thicc visa. Unfortunately, the T-visa has already been allotted for victims of human trafficking. It would have to be a TH-Visa.
If they weren’t all starving, there would probably be a lot of potential recipients from Venezuela.
Is she looking for a sponsor? Because I’ll totally sponsor her.
I don’t disagree – I strongly dislike legislating based on high-profile isolated events.
What I was really trying to illustrate was that “Well, she’d be just as dead if she was killed by a real ‘Mercan” contributes about as much to the discussion as “Welp, she wouldn’t be dead at all if that Messican had been deported years ago like he should have been.” Both responses are pretty trite, frankly.
When it comes to discussing immigration policy, what we need isn’t one-off dead white girls, we need real data which we do not have on the risks, burdens, and benefits of illegals.
Exactly what the sensationalist headlines deserve.
If you view it from a strictly utilitarian standpoint, sure. If you take a deontological view, as I do, that’s still a non sequitur.
Policy is generally set on an analysis of risks and benefits. Setting policy based on morality often leads to some very difficult places, as morality is not a comfortable bedfellow with compromise, and outside of a pretty narrow zone, is not generally not universally accepted.
My preference is to set policy to try to optimize outcomes (however that is defined), with morality serving mostly to police the edges. Nobody likes an immoral law, but nobody likes a law that causes damage in spite of its claimed morality, either. Like it or not, people generally conflate “what is moral” with “what produces good outcomes”.
I get what you’re saying, but I was speaking more of ethics than morality. And that having been said, outside of the planet Vulcan, when we engage in cost-benefit analysis, we define optimized outcomes within our own preexisting moral/ethical frameworks. So, while we should strive for purely empirical and rational decision making, in these complex and often “wicked” social problems, we very rarely, if ever, have the luxury of a purely detached, quantitative stance.
Likewise, we all approach policy making and promulgation with certain assumptions. From my ethical framework, I’m challenging the assumption whether or not it’s ethical for a government to have “border control”, taxation, personal arms, etc. policies at all. If you believe that the enforcement of these policies require the threat of deadly force against peaceable people, and that such threat is unethical or immoral, then the question isn’t a utilitarian calculus of whom benefits the most, but should this action even be taken?
I do agree with you that the majority of people are utilitarian at heart, which is why I am not a fan of majoritarian, mob-rule democracy – instead, preferring the representative civic republicanism envisioned by most of the Founders.
I’m challenging the assumption whether or not it’s ethical for a government to have “border control”, taxation, personal arms, etc. policies at all.
I start from the other end – what kind of society would I like to live in, and what changes/policies, etc. would get us there.
I suspect that our moral/ethical principles are not far out of alignment, but I take some level of government as a given, even though it is not easy to come up with an a priori moral/ethical justification for giving one group of people the sole right to initiate violence, etc. Taking government of some kind as a given constrains my outcomes, and requires me to temper my moral/ethical requirements, but I think its the only realistic way to approach these things.
Yeah, I’m not sure what the causal link between dude having an expired visa and his having murdered someone might be.
As RC pointed out, a lot of people fall into the ‘hypothesis contrary to fact’ fallacy of “if we had stronger immigration enforcement, she wouldn’t have been murdered. Therefore, stronger immigration enforcement reduces the murder rate”. From a Bayesian standpoint, I doubt anyone has figured out the effect immigration enforcement had on the prior probability distribution of murders of attractive young female night joggers, much less if such an effect is significant. (I’m on vacation, so I don’t have to think about stats, but I’m guessing it’s Cohen’s [insert letter of the alphabet here].)
OT: amen. The case settled where I may have been called as a witness. A -fucking -men.
So, no need to take the stand?
Good news.
Where’s she gonna take it, home or sumpin? Tss…
HOME RUN CHIPPAH
OT: Laws are for little people.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/21/imran-awan-no-jail-time-hospital/
What a load of bullshit.
A smaller scale version of Manafort, but no charges. Must be nice to have dirt on Dems.
Wait…the FUCK?
For a larger scale version of Manafort, there’s the money that the Clinton campaign laundered through its law firm to pay GPS for the Steele dossier without disclosing that’s what the money was going to be used for.
Naturally, there have been no raids on the law firm and no indictments of the lawyers or the operatives at Fusion GPS.
Good point. I’m assuming that would at least be an equivalent crime to what they’re going to come at Trump with concerning Stormy.
The difference is, I think, that they are saying that the money used to pay off the Trump hos didn’t come was an illegally large campaign contribution, but the money used to pay for the dossier was campaign money, but the reporting was (illegally) incomplete.
The other difference is that the Steele dossier was explicitly and solely to influence the campaign, while the ho payoff was (probably) partly to influence the campaign, and partly justifiable on other grounds. Of course, to be a campaign expenditure, under current law it has to be “solely” for campaign purposes. If Trump made the payoff to help his campaign and to prevent his wife from finding out, its not a campaign expenditure, and thus not a campaign finance violation at all.
There’s no question the Clinton campaign violated the campaign finance laws; they didn’t report the end use of the money they sent to their law firm. There’s a strong case that neither Trump nor Cohen violated the campaign finance laws, because the payoffs were multipurpose.
Wow. Un-fucking-real.
Absolute insanity.
OT: WE NEED THE GOVERNMENT TO FIX IT
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/08/22/trump-right-social-media-alternatives-facebook-twitter-column/1042015002/
Social media companies can’t have it both ways. They can’t take public dollars then turn around and say “We’re a private company, First Amendment rules don’t apply to us.”
Why not? Both Bush and Obama allowed faith-based non-profits to do that very same thing.
Well, I guess it’s a great idea to allow bad precedent to continue indefinitely.
Change is hard, dude.
You know who else made a hard change?
Buck Angel?
Peter North?
Q wins.
http://i.pinimg.com/736x/77/78/f1/7778f17b21146d0754ca937616e20453.jpg
The refrigerator says “SMEG”.
http://www.smeg.com/refrigerators/
When I open my sperm bank, I know which line of freezers I shall use.
I notice that they do not have a Ma product line. They really should roll that out.
I’d be fine with no crony capitalism if that’s alright with everyone…
How are they taking public dollars? Honest question. Are we talking tax breaks or the like? Grants?
OT: I have no idea if Trump and his team were thinking this far ahead but the more this farce drags on, the more I think Pence is most valuable as impeachment insurance.
You want President Pence? This is how we get President Pence.
Funny how the ESA’s complete disrespect for private property actually hastens population decline of said species. It’s almost as if our Top. Men. are incredibly incompetent and unable to understand incentives and unintended consequences.
https://cei.org/content/whatever-cost-endangered-species-act-its-huge
Shoot, shovel and shut up.
I need a drink.
Vendor just raised the price tag on our support contract 33%. Procurement asked “how do we justify this?” I had to cite policy that we can’t run software without technical support.
We’ve never needed to call them.
Where’s the Vodka?
Is this something the taxpayer is funding?
Yes.
Right now I think I’m stuck in an exchange where Procurement is trying to get me to come up with some verbiage to justify the expense while I’m trying to get them to kill the PO before it can be issued, but they have to take the stance of “we need a good reason for this” and I have to cite policy that we’re supposed to be under support.
It’s farsical
Don’t sweat it, then.
I have principles. I don’t want to continue to waste taxpayer dollars on something we have never used.
“I have principles.”
Sorry, then you don’t qualify to work in a government job.
Son of a bitch.
Another person on the chain jumped in with justification and documentation.
Another ten grand down the hole.
I really need a drink.
Like this:
Justification: The vendor’s marketing guy always takes me to dinner, then pays for a round of golf and drinks?
I’m not executive enough to get a piece of the graft.
Its insurance. Not needing to use it doesn’t mean it has no value.
I already know what they’d say to any issue we might raise “Pay us another five or six figures to do an upgrade to the latest version.”
Is the software nearing end of life, end of maintenance, or end of support?
Third party support an option?
We do that with some of our stuff as it ages out of maintenance and the original vendor’s support starts costing real bucks.
Among the documentation is a slew of ‘non-bids’ from third party vendors. that is an active declination to bid on the contract and counts as a bid for procurement minimums. (as opposed to a no-response where they don’t say anything.)
Europe still struggling with common sense knife control
It’s almost like if people want to kill other people, they’ll find a way. Although, that can’t be true. I am getting worried that Europe is not a safe space, like I was assured.
Yeah well, the stabbing death rates are still lower than the gun death rates that you American cowboys have to put up with.
Until you lump ran over by truck deaths in.
YEEHAW!
Somebody left a knife unsecured and it went on a stabbing spree.
Hasn’t London’s woke mayor banned knives, trucks, and acid yet? Why don’t the Euros care about this senseless violence?
Give them time.
Isn’t the real issue that Trump would have sex with Stormy at all? I mean, this is a guy who prides himself on top class, finest, highest quality everything. Stormy’s botched boob job and washed up porn career make her middle shelf at best. A guy of his stature should have been banging top porn talent, not MILFy end-of-career types.
If he can’t fuck the #1 porn star of a given year, how is he going to MAGA?
Agreed.
That is why John McAfee is my President. He’s survived already, what, like 3 different assassination attempts this year?
I dunno, does botched crack deal count as an assassination attempt?
He did admit that he sometimes shoots women he is having sex with and this causes them to orgasm.
What a god damn bad ass
Le morte gros.
He shoots while having sex, not shoots them.
You laugh, but I would have gladly voted for McAfee over Gary, Trump, Clinton, or Stein.
He would frighten people into voting for liberty.
And that’s what the LP needs to do. Make people so disturbed and unsettled that they feel as if the only rational choice is to vote for the guy who is wanted for murder in a country that most of them can’t even identify on a map.
I voted for McAfee. While he is a colorful character, and I love him for it, he also has some serious chops that would be of benefit in the role of commander-in-chief. Could you imagine someone with his skill set in charge of dealing with this whole Chinese/Russian cyberattacks thing? Or dealing with an economy in which crypto is increasingly an impactful factor? Much less his other platform planks, which are light-years beyond what anyone else proposed.
McAfee had the right policies and he wouldn’t play the political game. Gary was too focused on playing the political game and so he pissed all over most of his policy.
“I mean, this is a guy who prides himself on top class, finest, highest quality everything.”
Is that really true or just his carny blather?
I came across a Trump branded shirt at a consignment store I shop at for office attire. It was good, but not great. Know what I mean?
I didn’t buy it, it was neither my size or my color (purple).
You could have taken it to the range to use as a target
but since it doesn’t fit you still miss out on the sweet fun of wearing it around complete with bullet holes later
The tee shirt in this commercial is a professionally trained tee shirt, and these stunts were performed on a closed range under carefully managed circumstances. Do not attempt to repeat this stunt, and you sure as hell better not suck on the lead stains.
If I’m paying $30 for a target, its going to at least be made out of Tannerite.
Of course not. He orders well-done steak.
Trump would fuck mud if it wriggled a bit and we all know it.
I’m still mystified that Schwarzenegger knocked up this.
We need better role models.
This guy seems to check the right boxes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3086227/It-s-degrading-disgusting-Grandparents-wife-Australian-Hugh-Hefner-dubbed-Candyman-slam-picture-granddaughter-led-leash-fear-CHILDREN-growing-party-mansion.html
i want to party with that dude.
You act as if mud would consent
Color me skeptical that mud would want to be a home wrecker with a man who has bragged about avoiding syphilis during the 70’s as his own “personal Vietnam”.
One of the few times I’m chortled when Trump opens his stupid, stupid word hole.
We must admit that he has offered many moments of amusement. I never understood the abject hatred for the man. To me, he comes off more as a funny buffoon more than some sinister villain. It’s hilarious that a man like Trump exists.
It’s also hilarious how it has, by singular example, exposed as a lie the notion that the elected president needs to be akin to a philosopher king (or at least should be.) Unfortunately I do not think the overwhelming majority of the frothing anti-Trump masses, nor the MAGA Trumpalo hordes have pushed that point through their thick skulls.
We’ll go back to worshiping presidents when the Democrats win office again or the Republicans elect another neocon
I hear there’s an Access Hollywood tape in which he discusses grabbing mud by the colloidal suspension with Billy Bush.
Cut him some slack. It was a fine spring day, he had just enjoyed a dozen oysters with an icy-cold Diet Coke…
At least Saudi Arabia isn’t the hell hole for women we know the USA is!
http://www.theweek.co.uk/95992/saudi-arabia-plans-to-behead-female-political-activist
We only wish we could deal with troublesome political activists that way. Ask any antifa LARPer.
How did I miss that Cohen’s attorney is Lanny Davis, a member in good standing of the Clinton machine?
Explains a lot. Absolutely, Cohen has switched sides and is now colluding (if I may use that term) with Trump’s political enemies. You can be sure that there is a nice payoff for him in there somewhere.
Breathing?
Ahem. That’s “not committing suicide”.
I’m just amazed how we’ve gone from “Oh my God- we elected Putin’s puppet and Mueller is going to prove it all!” to “Oh my God- we elected someone who pays off women he sleeps with and Mueller is going to prove something that we all pretty much already knew”.
It’s a pretty big let down.
At what point do we acknowledge that Russia fever dreams were an intelligence leaked narrative to justify the appointment of a special prosecutor? Or are we still pretending like that’s not absolutely correct?
You just need to put on your MSNBC tin foil hat and realize that Putin had placed a listening device in Stormy’s vagina and is now using that to blackmail Trump into carrying out his secret agenda on behalf of Lenin’s ghost.
Feel sorry for whoever had to handle that listening device afterwards.
Full HAZMAT gear and a course of prophylactic antibiotics.
In all honesty, it was the same with Bill Clinton. Ken Starr went from White Water to perjury about a BJ.
Sweet book deal coming his way.
I read that Davis/Cohen have set-up a GoFundMe account for legal fees – would be interesting to see the anonymous donor list…
Whatever you do, don’t click on this,
Why do I have no self control?
Because you’re just like Trump?
https://www.thecrimson.com/column/after-the-fact/article/2018/7/24/levin-leftward-ho-libertarians/
This kid at Harvard pitches an idea to libertarians: “hey man, join up with socialists, even Max Boot is on board” (no joke, he uses Max Boot as an argument in his favor).
From the article:
“During his presidential campaign, avowed democratic socialist Bernie Sanders espoused some libertarian-friendly views even beyond social issues, like opposing bank bailouts and corporate influence on policy-making, and dismissed the idea that “government should own the means of production.” But his national $15 minimum wage would probably significantly hurt employment, and, as Hillary Clinton noted, his notorious free-college plan would be deeply regressive. But Bernie is a neoliberal sellout by the standards of other DSA rhetoric: At a New York DSA rally, a banner called for abolishing both ICE (great) and profit (bad). Earlier this year, Los Angeles DSA banded with wealthy landowners to defeat Senate Bill 827, which would have liberalized the state’s zoning and tamed its skyrocketing rents.
But libertarians should eagerly accept these tradeoffs.”
“But libertarians should eagerly accept these tradeoffs”
Why, exactly?
And BTW: not to pull a “no true Scotsmen”, but that kid is not a libertarian. He’s a prog/socialist that just doesn’t want to call himself that because his parents would disapprove. He’ll be hitting people with bike locks in a couple years.
Libertarians:
First, they ignore you,
Then, they laugh at you,
Then, they want you to join their team,
Then, they write “Confessions of an Ex-Libertarian” pieces in Salon,
Then they go back to ignoring you,
FYTW.
“Just because I agree with you that there’s a problem, doesn’t mean I endorse your solution.”
Harvard Editor: Hey Trevor, I need you to write some article about how those racist fascist libertarians should vote for socialists
Trevor: Hmmm….according to Wikipedia, libertarians seem to like money or something. Well, I guess I have some insight into that. I vacationed at Martha’s Vineyard every year with my parents. I hate those rich assholes.
Voting Democrat during the Bush administration made sense, but why are Democrats a better alternative to Republicans right now?
Both will sell you down the river. The Republicans will tell you they won’t do that just before they do it. The Democrats will tell you it’s for your own good.
Let’s see they are Racial collectivists who support the surveillance state, the warfare state and censorship. What’s not to love? All the socially liberal civil liberty things that libertarians were supposed to like about Democrats are being dumped by the Democrats and they aren’t even in power!
The Democrats are now the party of the Deep State. They have been since Clinton’s time and now it is blatantly obvious.
In what universe would tradeoffs be acceptable? Much less eagerly acceptable?
On what planet does Nader have anything to do with libertarianism?
On a planet in which someone writes a serious op-ed recommending libertarians ally with a group whose principal goal is the destruction of capitalism.
That’s rich. We all know their solution will be more of the same shit that got us here in the first place.
Nader isn’t a libertarian, but I respect him. He doesn’t focus on demonizing people who disagree with him and he’s far more of a liberal than a progressive
“This kid at Harvard pitches an idea to libertarians: “hey man, join up with socialists, even Max Boot is on board”
Someone dropped the poor kid on his head repeatedly as a baby? No one is naturally that stupid.
“During his presidential campaign, avowed democratic socialist Bernie Sanders espoused some libertarian-friendly views”
Like what? No one needs 23 choices in deodorant?
Let me put it bluntly, Bernie Sanders has never in his life, since anyone even knew show Bernie Sanders is, uttered one sentence that was remotely libertarian.
The left is actively, vocally anti-liberty. Fuck this twit.
If you sleep in the pig sty you are bound to get covered in shit. That said, I believe this is a carefully orchestrated attack by Mueller and team.
Manafort’s verdict and Cohens plea at the same exact time followed by the State of New York going after Cohen in the investigation of the Trump Foundation.
Someone said it before…this is to show us little people that you dont fuck with the permanent ruling class.
Interesting – Mark Levin earlier : If they accuse Trump of a crime by paying off Stormy with his own personal money, what about all of the congress critters that have used congressional slush fund (taxpayer money) to pay NDAs over sexual harassment? Will they all be charged as well?
The swamp is about to shoot itself in the dick.