Newly discovered surveillance video of Russians arriving for the meeting at Trump Tower last year.
Jul 15, 2017
Scary Shit
It's Not An Absolute
...but education counts for quite a bit.
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| Stanford - BA Public Policy Rhodes Scholar Oxford University - PhD Political Science |
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| Dropped out of 2 colleges and a Vo-Tech school |
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| 1 college course (theology) |
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| Dropped out after 2 semesters and a summer session |
Like Dr Adler said: Your education often starts after your schooling is completed.
But when it's time to learn about something that's complex and weird and has 37 different angles and can't be shoehorned into a simple binary model - when you need to get the story from someone who's been thru some kinda program that isn't just OJT in the entertainment business - which of these people makes up the better, more logical choice?
A Deficit Of Honor
Jennifer Rubin at WaPo:
Out of its collective sense of victimhood came the GOP’s disdain for not just intellectuals but also intellectualism, science, Economics 101, history and constitutional fidelity. If the Trump children became slaves to money and to their father’s unbridled ego, then the GOP became slaves to its own demons and false narratives. A party that has to deny climate change and insist illegal immigrants are creating a crime wave — because that is what “conservatives” must believe, since liberals do not — is a party that will deny Trump’s complicity in gross misconduct. It’s a party as unfit to govern as Trump is unfit to occupy the White House. It’s not by accident that Trump chose to inhabit the party that has defined itself in opposition to reality and to any “external moral truth or ethical code.”
Seriously, kids - we can't make this little experiment in self-government work without a Republican Party that's reasonable, and capable of engaging in thoughtful fact-based conversation.
Paraphrasing Blue Gal's Facebook pal: Hyper-Criticism of the Democratic Party is like slagging a single parent who's struggling to raise 4 kids - it's a ginormous mess because the other parent is a fucking deadbeat.
This is politics, dummy. You're not gonna get everything you want every time.
Out of its collective sense of victimhood came the GOP’s disdain for not just intellectuals but also intellectualism, science, Economics 101, history and constitutional fidelity. If the Trump children became slaves to money and to their father’s unbridled ego, then the GOP became slaves to its own demons and false narratives. A party that has to deny climate change and insist illegal immigrants are creating a crime wave — because that is what “conservatives” must believe, since liberals do not — is a party that will deny Trump’s complicity in gross misconduct. It’s a party as unfit to govern as Trump is unfit to occupy the White House. It’s not by accident that Trump chose to inhabit the party that has defined itself in opposition to reality and to any “external moral truth or ethical code.”
Seriously, kids - we can't make this little experiment in self-government work without a Republican Party that's reasonable, and capable of engaging in thoughtful fact-based conversation.
Paraphrasing Blue Gal's Facebook pal: Hyper-Criticism of the Democratic Party is like slagging a single parent who's struggling to raise 4 kids - it's a ginormous mess because the other parent is a fucking deadbeat.
This is politics, dummy. You're not gonna get everything you want every time.
Today's Tweet
Uncle Walt says...
"There is no such thing as an ex-Soviet intelligence officer"— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) July 14, 2017
V Putin, Dec 2015 pic.twitter.com/iGZOGCkKqs
The Podcast
Episode 397: Ted Cruz and the Billy Bass Healthcare Plan
(go there and shop their Amazon link)
Jul 14, 2017
Worth Repeating
From way back in March - Alcee Hastings gettin' after 'em.
The take-away quote comes up at about 6:50.
"I don't have to be nice to nobody when you're bein' nasty to poor people"
The take-away quote comes up at about 6:50.
"I don't have to be nice to nobody when you're bein' nasty to poor people"
Debate-Watcher's Tip: When Red Team Guy starts bitchin' about the Blue Team Guy's "tone", it means Red Team Guy knows he's losing so he has to tamp down on the visceral enthusiasm that the audience will pick up from Blue Team Guy's passion or outrage or whatever.
It's also about stalling - you need a little time to regroup so you can get back on offense.
The GOP has since come out with We-Don't-Fuckin'-Care 4.0, and let's be clear - there's not much that's changed because this is not about healthcare or coverage or looking out for people. They want their fucking Tax Cuts.
If you further weaken Da Gubmint by decreasing its revenues, people will feel the pain (of shitty roads and shitty water quality and poisoned food, and poverty creep, etc) and eventually, they'll agree to practically any level of Fuckery just on the remote prospect of relieving some of that pain.
And it makes no difference who gets fucked over, as long as enough people get fucked over enough - they have to make us tap out so we'll give the Plutocrats everything they want, including ownership - or at least control.
The National Privatization Festival has picked up some speed, and they need financing for their coming acquisition spree - have you priced a National Park lately?
These assholes are selling themselves as Reformers, but their motivation is no different from that of any other radicals who always ride in promising Bread-n-Freedom, and delivering neither.
But there's an extraordinarily shitty little twist.
"Government should be run more like a business" is cover; it's a dodge; it's nothing but chaff.
With the interjection of the Russians, we've put people in power who honestly believe Mobsters are justified in the way they operate because after all, the Mob is private enterprise patterned after the government.
So why not take that next step?
"Government is like the Mafia - so let's be honest and run it that way".
And hey, relax - it ain't personal. It's just business.
Krauthammer
My view was: Collusion? I just don’t see it. But I’m open to empirical evidence. Show me.
The evidence is now shown. This is not hearsay, not fake news, not unsourced leaks. This is an email chain released by Donald Trump Jr. himself. A British go-between writes that there’s a Russian government effort to help Trump Sr. win the election, and as part of that effort he proposes a meeting with a “Russian government attorney” possessing damaging information on Hillary Clinton. Moreover, the Kremlin is willing to share troves of incriminating documents from the Crown Prosecutor. (Error: Britain has a Crown Prosecutor. Russia has a Prosecutor General.)
Donald Jr. emails back. “I love it.” Fatal words.
Once you’ve said “I’m in,” it makes no difference that the meeting was a bust, that the intermediary brought no such goods. What matters is what Donald Jr. thought going into the meeting, as well as Jared Kushner and then-campaign manager Paul Manafort, who were forwarded the correspondence, invited to the meeting, and attended.
“It was literally just a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame,” Donald Jr. told Sean Hannity. A shame? On the contrary, a stroke of luck. Had the lawyer real stuff to deliver, Donald Jr. and the others would be in far deeper legal trouble. It turned out to be incompetent collusion, amateur collusion, comically failed collusion. That does not erase the fact that three top Trump campaign officials were ready to play.
It may turn out that they did later collaborate more fruitfully. We don’t know. But even if nothing else is found, the evidence is damning.
Conspiring to rob the liquor store is a crime and you go to jail.
Today's Quote
The first amendment is like a vagina. It's beautiful, and complicated, and angry guys on the internet have no idea how it works.
--Jim Jeffries
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