Well well well............ ANOTHER nothingburger.......keep 'em coming, Dems............BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAAAAAA
Matt Gaetz Frame-Up Collapses: DOJ Prosecutors ‘Recommend No Charges’ Due to ‘Credibility Questions’ of Main Witnesses
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Well well well............ ANOTHER nothingburger.......keep 'em coming, Dems............BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAAAAAA
Matt Gaetz Frame-Up Collapses: DOJ Prosecutors ‘Recommend No Charges’ Due to ‘Credibility Questions’ of Main Witnesses
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Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell
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Hmmm when the fan club redirects the outrage and doesn't defend something that the trumpet himself said then I think the orange messiahymay have said something stupid...... He might be in trouble this time... So you know... Something something hunter Biden..
Nahhh
Me... I just like that this thread has stayed alive and well... even after the disastrous previous presidency. :D
Nothing surprising, really. Everyone knew Donny wasn't going to go away quietly (or go away at all)... and that if there's something Donny loves more than lobbing paper towel rolls at people... it's being in the limelight.
Gonna give my own prediction: :D
The "Today in Trump" thread (7,563 posts) will eventually surpass the "General Soccer/Football" thread (10,887 posts) as Hottest Thread.
This will happen on August 2023. Coinciding on the date that Donny will FINALLY be reinstated. :lolhaha:
He's officially entered the "drunk uncle you politely wall off in the den during a party and let him yell about his potato salad" phase.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
I disagree
BTW folks... (in case anyone misunderstood)... I was being totally sarcastic about Donny's reinstatement. :D :D :D :D
That is good to know, for a minute there I thought the recent strongly worded posts by NoSavingByTheBell had persuaded you to be a Trump fan.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
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Originally Posted by MasterThat is good to know, for a minute there I thought the recent strongly worded posts by NoSavingByTheBell had persuaded you to be a Trump fan.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
I was kinda hoping you knew me better than that by now. ;) ;) ;)
Trump 2024 and BTW TANTI AUGURI PER GIORGIA MELONI --- UNA BRAVA RAGGAZZA !!!!
Giorgia Meloni is a lot better looking than Donny... AND... she likely wouldn't waver in telling Donny he's an asshole and to go to hell. :cool:
https://i.imgflip.com/6ux7tv.jpg
Did la raggazza bella say she would?
She would if he tried that bullshit handshake he favors so much. :D
Don't cha know, he prefers to saluteQuote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
https://i.imgur.com/iWPwOa4.jpg
You must be one of those guys who puts raisins in his potato salad then.Quote:
Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell
Another neo nazi loving facist for you to grovel under. What is weird is you congratulating a woman whose party retains Mussolini's 'God, Family and Homeland' slogan. Three things you never stop dismissing and ranting about.Quote:
Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell
"The Yank." :D
Donny's way of catching unsuspecting dignitaries by surprise and exerting his macho alpha male dominance over them.
I always wished someone would've yanked ol' Donny of HIS feet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T84se4fc4KU
She is The Best. Woman Power!!!!! Fuck the EUQuote:
Originally Posted by BeanzAnother neo nazi loving facist for you to grovel under. What is weird is you congratulating a woman whose party retains Mussolini's 'God, Family and Homeland' slogan. Three things you never stop dismissing and ranting about.Quote:
Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell
BTW the Neo Nazis are you people supporting and arming and funding UkraineQuote:
Originally Posted by BeanzAnother neo nazi loving facist for you to grovel under. What is weird is you congratulating a woman whose party retains Mussolini's 'God, Family and Homeland' slogan. Three things you never stop dismissing and ranting about.Quote:
Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell
There isn't any autocrat or fascist anywhere that you wouldn't love to live under, is there?Quote:
Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBellBTW the Neo Nazis are you people supporting and arming and funding UkraineQuote:
Originally Posted by BeanzAnother neo nazi loving facist for you to grovel under. What is weird is you congratulating a woman whose party retains Mussolini's 'God, Family and Homeland' slogan. Three things you never stop dismissing and ranting about.Quote:
Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell
You just can't wait to see the end of democracy and a bunch of fascists ruling the world. It wouldn't go well for you you know. The reason democracy is so venerated in America and promoted by America throughout the world is because it's unquestionably the best system there is. Other systems, particularly fascism, don't have the best track record. Democratic institutions and the rule of law allow for unrivalled peace and prosperity. They allow for working class people to obtain a fair share of the economic pie. They give all ethnic/religious/gender/minority/whatever groups equality and human rights. They allow for free markets, fair competition, rapid economic growth and broadly shared prosperity. No other system of any kind allows working people the rights and opportunities afforded to them in democratic societies and you're desperate to throw all these things away.
Once you step outside of the democratic system you're allowing the people at the top of the system to do anything they want with no laws or courts or institutions to check their power or sanction them in any way. In no time at all you'll have a ravenous elite who will have nothing stopping them from gouging and gaming and rigging the system to take all of the pie and turning you into a serf. You're a turkey voting for Christmas, you're cheering on people like me while we take the eyes out of your empty fucking head.
The foundation stones of the American economy in the last century were firms like Standard Oil, General Motors and US Steel. In the future they're tech companies, biotechnology, nanotechnology firms and so on. What is the general political persuasion of the people who work in these industries? Do these people have a different idea of freedom to the MAGA brigade? If you fucking idiots do manage to vote for Christmas at some point in the future then untold trillions of dollars in future wealth generation will get on planes and fly to other countries. An autocratic regime will ruin the American economy.
Things will go bad gradually then suddenly. Half of the money invested in the US capital markets and economy is foreign. A lot of it is going to head out of the country if it goes autocratic and this will cause a downturn which causes more disinvestment and the whole thing becomes an ongoing vicious spiral. Interest rates shoot up as foreigners no longer have the same appetite to finance US debt which puts a big permanent brake on the economy. Elites are too busy looting the system to give a shit, The regime can't repair the damage because they've ended the system that underpins the entire economy so they resort to throwing cultural bones to their supporters to keep them onside. Crackdowns against disfavoured minority groups. Opposition political parties disbanded and the leaders thrown in prison. The economy going to shit can't be the regime's fault so those Jewish moneymen are going to get the blame. All of a sudden you're living in a horrific impoverished racist tyranny that has literally seen its future wealth and prosperity get on planes and leave the country.
And if it ever dawns on you that you made the wrong decision and you'd like the old system back then that would be easy. One thing we know about autocracies is at the first sign of any demonstrations against the regime they head for the hills, stopping only to install a caretaker government who hold the fort until elections can be held.
What is it about this that's so attractive to you? It looks like being part of a movement that promises to attack groups of people you hate for whatever reasons and give you some level of social or cultural status is the motivating factor here. You must have a fucking miserable existence.
ma questo non fa senso! Dove trovi queste opinioni, nel cestino?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland LaingThere isn't any autocrat or fascist anywhere that you wouldn't love to live under, is there?Quote:
Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBellBTW the Neo Nazis are you people supporting and arming and funding UkraineQuote:
Originally Posted by BeanzAnother neo nazi loving facist for you to grovel under. What is weird is you congratulating a woman whose party retains Mussolini's 'God, Family and Homeland' slogan. Three things you never stop dismissing and ranting about.Quote:
Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell
You just can't wait to see the end of democracy and a bunch of fascists ruling the world. It wouldn't go well for you you know. The reason democracy is so venerated in America and promoted by America throughout the world is because it's unquestionably the best system there is. Other systems, particularly fascism, don't have the best track record. Democratic institutions and the rule of law allow for unrivalled peace and prosperity. They allow for working class people to obtain a fair share of the economic pie. They give all ethnic/religious/gender/minority/whatever groups equality and human rights. They allow for free markets, fair competition, rapid economic growth and broadly shared prosperity. No other system of any kind allows working people the rights and opportunities afforded to them in democratic societies and you're desperate to throw all these things away.
Once you step outside of the democratic system you're allowing the people at the top of the system to do anything they want with no laws or courts or institutions to check their power or sanction them in any way. In no time at all you'll have a ravenous elite who will have nothing stopping them from gouging and gaming and rigging the system to take all of the pie and turning you into a serf. You're a turkey voting for Christmas, you're cheering on people like me while we take the eyes out of your empty fucking head.
The foundation stones of the American economy in the last century were firms like Standard Oil, General Motors and US Steel. In the future they're tech companies, biotechnology, nanotechnology firms and so on. What is the general political persuasion of the people who work in these industries? Do these people have a different idea of freedom to the MAGA brigade? If you fucking idiots do manage to vote for Christmas at some point in the future then untold trillions of dollars in future wealth generation will get on planes and fly to other countries. An autocratic regime will ruin the American economy.
Things will go bad gradually then suddenly. Half of the money invested in the US capital markets and economy is foreign. A lot of it is going to head out of the country if it goes autocratic and this will cause a downturn which causes more disinvestment and the whole thing becomes an ongoing vicious spiral. Interest rates shoot up as foreigners no longer have the same appetite to finance US debt which puts a big permanent brake on the economy. Elites are too busy looting the system to give a shit, The regime can't repair the damage because they've ended the system that underpins the entire economy so they resort to throwing cultural bones to their supporters to keep them onside. Crackdowns against disfavoured minority groups. Opposition political parties disbanded and the leaders thrown in prison. The economy going to shit can't be the regime's fault so those Jewish moneymen are going to get the blame. All of a sudden you're living in a horrific impoverished racist tyranny that has literally seen its future wealth and prosperity get on planes and leave the country.
And if it ever dawns on you that you made the wrong decision and you'd like the old system back then that would be easy. One thing we know about autocracies is at the first sign of any demonstrations against the regime they head for the hills, stopping only to install a caretaker government who hold the fort until elections can be held.
What is it about this that's so attractive to you? It looks like being part of a movement that promises to attack groups of people you hate for whatever reasons and give you some level of social or cultural status is the motivating factor here. You must have a fucking miserable existence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...uptcy-vendors/
"Trump’s paid-speeches organizer is struggling financially" :D
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https://i.giphy.com/media/BFYLNwlsSNtcc/giphy.webp
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Too short to be president. The first time he's on a stage with Trump in the primary debates and Trump calls him Miss Florida and it's all over.
A top Justice Department official told former President Donald J. Trump’s lawyers in recent weeks that the department believed he had not returned all the documents he took when he left the White House, according to two people briefed on the matter.
The outreach from the official, Jay I. Bratt, who leads the department’s counterintelligence operations, is the most concrete indication yet that investigators remain skeptical that Mr. Trump has been fully cooperative in their efforts to recover documents the former president was supposed to have turned over to the National Archives at the end of his term.
It is not clear what steps the Justice Department might take to retrieve any material it thinks Mr. Trump still holds.
And it is not known whether the Justice Department has gathered new evidence that Mr. Trump has held onto government material even after the court-authorized search in August of his private club and residence in Florida, Mar-a-Lago, and 18 months of previous efforts by the federal government to convince the former president to return what he had taken on leaving office.
The Justice Department declined to comment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/u...e=articleShare
i can't wait to see the end of democracy but i don't think anyone should be ruling over anyone elseQuote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
Late last year, as the National Archives ratcheted up the pressure on former President Donald J. Trump to return boxes of records he had taken from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago club, he came up with an idea to resolve the looming showdown: cut a deal.
Mr. Trump, still determined to show he had been wronged by the F.B.I. investigation into his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia, was angry with the National Archives and Records Administration for its unwillingness to hand over a batch of sensitive documents that he thought proved his claims.
In exchange for those documents, Mr. Trump told advisers, he would return to the National Archives the boxes of material he had taken to Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla.
[...]
Finally, after telling advisers repeatedly that the boxes were “mine,” Mr. Trump consented to go through them, which his associates said he did in December. Mr. Stern was alerted that the boxes were ready for retrieval.
But neither Mr. Trump nor any of his representatives informed Mr. Stern that they contained classified information.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/u...s-lawyers.html
So treating classified documents as bargaining chips to try and investigate a conspiracy theory and later actually going through boxes of classified documents himself and not returning some of the boxes. His fingerprints literally all over the various felonies here.
And it turns out he was lying about other people packing up the boxes when he left the White House. According to testimony he supervised the whole thing and had a couple of pallets of boxes prepared for the government to move them to his Florida restaurant:
https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/sta...24905193250816
Scroll down with that one.
Also, too, unrelated and unsurprising. The USS John McCain:
https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/sta...82687098511360
https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/sta...81027525713920
Also unrelated. DeSantis again:
https://twitter.com/kisstheblade_/st...98393582002178
I love the t shirt.
What Will Happen to America if Trump Wins Again? Experts Helped Us Game It Out.
The scenarios are ... grim.
https://wapo.st/3VjLJ28
That is extreme and bad news for the world if it happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
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Originally Posted by MasterThat is extreme and bad news for the world if it happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
The first time around it could conceivably be dismissed as a gigantic mistake.
A second time would be colossal idiocy and a damning blight on mankind.
Unfortunately I wouldn't want to take that bet.
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Originally Posted by MasterThat is extreme and bad news for the world if it happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
It gets worse:
https://twitter.com/BrendanNyhan/sta...93227582181376
Right now you have the west as a solid bulwark of freedom and democracy countering Russia and China globally with India somewhat as a counterweight to those two in Asia. However India is now full on nationalist and slipping further away from the west. If America goes then South American countries will start backsliding, other European countries will follow Hungary and Italy into nationalism/fascism/authoritarianism and we'll be left with little islands of democracy under seige from various nationalist/fascist forces both at home and abroad. You won't really get an idea of how that will affect countries like Britain until a few years after it happens. It will not be pretty. We already have a loony conservative government who just might manage to tip the country into an economic meltdown to surpass 2008 by the end of this week and could cause enough damage to wreck the union and the democratic system to some extent. You'd think that would keep them or anything further right out of power for a generation after that (if it happens) but you need to reckon with the fact that the average voter is a fucking moron who will draw the wrong conclusions and blame the wrong people and then elect somebody even worse.
Aaaaaand the Yankees win. Playoff baseball at Yankee Stadium and I'm not there. I'm not expecting them to do anything in the playoffs. If they get hot and start playing like they did at the start of the season I might go. The old Stadium was the most electric place in sports for a big night game in the playoffs. Unbelievable during the dynasty era. Even better than Roker Park.
My least favorite scenario would be a Yankees-Padres WS.
The perennial title-buying conglomerate vs probably the most obnoxious lineup in baseball.
I was rooting for Judge to win the Triple Crown... but that's about as much as I root for a Yankee.
(BTW, I have birthrights to them, since I was born in the Bronx. ;D )
The Yankees don't even have the highest payroll anymore. I think several teams spend more these days. Judge now is the real home run king. You can't count the steroid era and it's far harder than the Maris or Ruth eras these days just with all the relief pitchers, more teams played and so on.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
The new stadium is a different animal to the old Stadium. They should never have left that place.
I don't think the Yankees will get past the Astros or whoever they end up facing in the ALCS.
A Trump employee has told federal agents about moving boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago at the specific direction of the former president, according to people familiar with the investigation, who say the witness account — combined with security-camera footage — offers key evidence of Donald Trump’s behavior as investigators sought the return of classified material.
The witness description and footage described to The Washington Post offer the most direct account to date of Trump’s actions and instructions leading up to the FBI’s Aug. 8 search of the Florida residence and private club, in which agents were looking for evidence ofpotential crimes including obstruction, destruction of government records or mishandling classified information.
The people familiar with the investigation said agents have gathered witness accounts indicatingthat, after Trump advisers received a subpoena in May for any classified documents that remained at Mar-a-Lago, Trump told people to move boxes to his residence at the property. That description of events was corroborated by the security-camera footage, which showed people moving the boxes,said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
Spokespeople for the Justice Department and FBI declined to comment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...p-boxes-moved/
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Originally Posted by Kirkland LaingThe Yankees don't even have the highest payroll anymore. I think several teams spend more these days. Judge now is the real home run king. You can't count the steroid era and it's far harder than the Maris or Ruth eras these days just with all the relief pitchers, more teams played and so on.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
The new stadium is a different animal to the old Stadium. They should never have left that place.
I don't think the Yankees will get past the Astros or whoever they end up facing in the ALCS.
They (Yankees) did their damage in the Steinbrenner days and before that. Now yes... they've got competition in the spending department. Totally agree on Judge. Bonds who? Sosa who? McGwire who? Those guys were so juiced up even their heads got 3 sizes bigger. Bonds was an arrogant SOB to boot. I hope he never gets into the HOF.
Judge came oh so close to the Triple Crown. I think they sat the other guy with a hamstring, although it was probably to preserve his average, lest he go 0 for 4. Kinda cowardly, if you ask me.
The Astros pulled a Hollywood ending last night. Bottom of the ninth... two outs... two-run deficit... dude hits a walk-off 3-run homer. Couldn't draw it up any better than that. Matter of fact, I had gone to bed top ninth, thinking Seattle had it in the bag. Woke up to the news on SportsCenter. Go figure.
I fucking loved George Steinbrenner even though he kept blowing up the front office plans. But to be fair his washout son has let the front office do what they want to a large extent and they've won nothing doing it Cashman's way. The Astros look like a hot team and that's what counts in the postseason. The Yankees started off at basically an all time record pace but ended up playing .500 baseball and don't look like getting hot. I hope I'm wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFanQuote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland LaingThe Yankees don't even have the highest payroll anymore. I think several teams spend more these days. Judge now is the real home run king. You can't count the steroid era and it's far harder than the Maris or Ruth eras these days just with all the relief pitchers, more teams played and so on.Quote:
Originally Posted by TitoFan
The new stadium is a different animal to the old Stadium. They should never have left that place.
I don't think the Yankees will get past the Astros or whoever they end up facing in the ALCS.
They (Yankees) did their damage in the Steinbrenner days and before that. Now yes... they've got competition in the spending department. Totally agree on Judge. Bonds who? Sosa who? McGwire who? Those guys were so juiced up even their heads got 3 sizes bigger. Bonds was an arrogant SOB to boot. I hope he never gets into the HOF.
Judge came oh so close to the Triple Crown. I think they sat the other guy with a hamstring, although it was probably to preserve his average, lest he go 0 for 4. Kinda cowardly, if you ask me.
The Astros pulled a Hollywood ending last night. Bottom of the ninth... two outs... two-run deficit... dude hits a walk-off 3-run homer. Couldn't draw it up any better than that. Matter of fact, I had gone to bed top ninth, thinking Seattle had it in the bag. Woke up to the news on SportsCenter. Go figure.
Look what I just found:
https://twitter.com/sophiekleeman/st...15787691786240
What's the one pitch Randy Johnson threw that everybody remembers? Look at the logo on his website:
https://rj51photos.com/
Some good concert photographs on there but he's no Ross Halfin.