Everythingâs moving too fast for my old bones to keep up. I need to head on down to my favorite Mexican food joint and start out with a margarita. Then Iâll check back in later for more good news.
God, I purely hate these motherfuckers.
Sessions doesnât want to wake with the legal equivalent of a dead horse headâŚ
So basically ânah, but hereâs a stupid fig leaf to get you to shut upâ.
Good job Elf.
You may have cookies and a glass of milk.It may be your last supper.
OK maybe Iâm slow here but what is to probe about surveillance of Carter Page? I mean the FBI has wiretaps of two Russians talking about exploiting his stupid ass that led them to start the surveillance. One of those Russians was CONVICTED and served time in Federal Prison for being a spy with unofficial cover.
Russian. Spies. How the holy hell is this something to even probe? Makes me sick these Republicans. Itâs almost like they are traitors. The lot of them.
OT but very importantâŚ
This is BIG as per collusion⌠you know that thing that never happened according to trump.
Obama ordered it so it had to be bad!
Which is not the way it works at all.
Itâs that nothingburger theyâve been talking about. In a few days the GOP will have forgotten about it.
Not a bad strategy!
Ijust posted this in another thread while TPM was busy beating me to the punch by throwing up an article, so here:
"OT, but FYIâŚ
Huber may be the example of why you fire everyone the minute you take office. Obama first nominated him. Session axed everyone. Magically, Trump oh so graciously renominated Huber, and he was back in office within 2 months, so wonât he be ever so thankful? ThenâŚ
"Last year, former DOJ officials raised concerns over Huberâs appearance at a White House press briefing to tout aspects of Trumpâs immigration agenda â something that critics argued blurred the lines of the DOJâs independence from the White House, NPR reported at the time.
During a June 28, 2017, press briefing alongside the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Huber spoke on the behalf of the DOJ in support of two bills that sought to enforce harsher penalties for illegal immigrants â âKateâs Lawâ and the âNo Sanctuaries Act,â both of which were passed in the House."
PlusâŚUtahâŚfucking UTAH. Just look up the Univ. of Utah professors who wrote papers attacking Miranda right and were pushing nonsense through Faux News today about law enforcement agreements to document incidents/encounters (i.e., instead of willy-nilly stop and frisks that go unreported) are the cause of increased gun violence in Chicago, etcâŚyeah, those two professors. We know what THAT schoolâs agenda looks like.
YepâŚthe fix is in."
Huber was âunpurgedâ because he promised to be loyal.
Also, Bezos lost like $6B today because of reports Trump wants to change Amazonâs tax treatment. If thatâs not abuse of power to punish WaPo then I donât what is.
Aside from wanting to influence WaPoâs reporting and likely desire to influence where Amazon puts its new HQ (i.e., steering it towards a âswingâ state so he can tell them they have him to thank for their new jobs), Trump was likely also influenced by this nonsense:
This is all of a piece with the bullying of CNN through the Time Warner deal and what he did to Boeing. we are absolutely watching the POTUS act like a tin pot dictator strong man while the media simply reports it like its normal.
Edit: It just keeps getting betterâŚ
Yes, THAT Ralph Nader (who the article says is âformerâ shareholder in Amazon). Heâs of course pissing and moaning like usual, but some infom in the article gets to the heart of it: NJ is offering $7B in tax incentives and Chicago offered $2B in tax incentives to get Amazon to put the new HQs there. Red states canât compete with this kind of offer. They already have horrible tax revenue anyway and can barely run themselves, so theyâre pissed. All they can really do is offer to fuck the workers in the ass with right-to-work nonsense in hopes that the decrease in wage and benefit related expenses will lure the owners to their states, but hey, of course Trump and the GOP have no problem with thatâŚwhyu would they? Well, if they were honest, hereâs whyâŚ
http://www.ips-dc.org/the-walmart-tax/ (Iâd like to see an analysis of how this adds up and offsets the taxes Walmart pays)
Moreover, while Walmart has certainly paid more in federal taxes than Amazon, Walmart continues to destroy entire cities of small businesses wherever it moves in and the GOPers/Trump and fucktards like Nader donât seem to give a shit. Wonder why? HmmmmâŚ
âI am confident that Mr. Huberâs review will include a full, complete, and objective evaluation of these matters in a manner that is consistent with the law and the facts,â Sessions said.
As I am confident that this investigation will reveal zero wrongdoing or malfeasance. This is nothing but a fishing expedition and a feeble attempt to cover Trumpâs ass. Lotsa luck, unless they just make some shit up. (And I will put nothing past these criminals.)
But it will advance the talking points until at least the mid-terms. Again, all these guys have are holding actions.
I dinât think that stuff will be made up, but minor faults (lacked candor, form not filled properly, emails with ill advised, yet trivial comments about superiors and targets) will be taken out of context, amplified and blown out of proportion (see climategate) to enrage the trumpanzees and set the stage for a Chewbacca defense of Trump and assoc. Thatâs my bet.
Yup, delay, distract and project. I wish it was November already.
YepâŚthe fix is in
This a hard call. From the TPM article above:
Huber has also previously led the National Security Section of the U.S. Attorneyâs Office.
So, from the rightâs perspective, this is the deep state being asked to investigate itself.
I know nothing about the guy or how heâll work. I all but instinctively recoil from him for being Sessionsâ pick. But. it looks like heâs going to make a lot of people unhappy, regardless of what he finds.
And, itâs possible âthe Confederate House Elfâ is giving a little thought to limiting his own exposure. We may have passed the point where you wonât need a weatherman to know which way the windâs blowing.
It should become clear before long â of late, the Drumpf people havenât been doing a good job about holding onto things that might change the conversation.
So Iâm figuring that there are some restraints and oversight mechanisms for a special counsel that magically wonât apply to this guy. If it were a special counsel, there would be at least some public vetting, but Huber might fly under the radar.