I forgot to add 'make of that what you will'. Haha.
Flynn is in deep trouble I reckon.
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I forgot to add 'make of that what you will'. Haha.
Flynn is in deep trouble I reckon.
Wonder if he regrets being so vocal with his "lock her up" chants? And if the chrages are proven wonder if Trump will take the potical risk of pardoning him?
Interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if Flynn is convicted of something that Trump doesn't actually try to 'lock her up' as retaliation.
Trump will pardon him. He's a good guy
It would certainly fit his usual style
He might want to consider doing it soon as Trump himself is piling up potential "obstruction of justice" questions...
Thought this was a good rebuttal of part of that interview where he claims that it is all just a media narrative how Trump deals with things (although personally thought a lot of the personality traits were very clear during the campaign)
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/arti...servative-sees-from-inside-trump-s-washington
Consider the endless debates over last week’s series of leaks. Washington conservatives read the news stories too. But for connected conservatives in DC, the media isn’t the only source of information about this administration. I’d venture to say that most of them have by now heard at least one or two amazing stories attesting to the emerging conventional wisdom: that the president either can’t, or refuses to, follow any kind of policy discussion for more than a few minutes; that the president will not be told no, or corrected about anything, forcing his staff to take their concerns to the media if they want to get his attention; that the infighting within the West Wing is unprecedentedly vicious, and that those sort of failures always stem from the top; and that his own hand-picked staffers “have no respect for him, indeed they seem to palpitate with contempt for him.” They hear these things from conservatives, including people who were Trump supporters or at least, Trump-neutral. They know these folks. They know, to their sorrow, that these people are telling the truth.
They can also compare what they’re hearing to what they heard, both on and off the record, during the last Republican administration. Even in Bush’s final days, when the financial crisis was in full swing and his approval ratings hovered around 25 percent, there was nothing like this level of dysfunction inside the White House, this frenzy of backbiting leakage.
So even though they agree with conservative outsiders that the media skews very liberal, and take all its pronouncements about Republicans with a heavy sprinkling of salt, they know that the reports of this administration’s dysfunction aren’t all media hype. They have seen the media report on their own work, and that of their friends; they know what sort of things that bias distorts, and what it doesn’t. Washington conservatives know that reporters are not making up these incredible quotes, or relying only on Democratic holdovers, or getting bits of gossip from the janitor. They know that the Trump administration is in fact leaking like a rusty sieve -- from the top on down -- and that this is a sign of a president who has, in just four short months, completely lost control over his own hand-picked staff. Which is why the entire city, left to right, is watching the unfolding drama with mouth agape and heads shaking.
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I'm glad you posted that Bloomberg link. I was thinking of posting it too. This "fake news" chorus is becoming an embarrassment, even for sentient conservatives.
There's an article from Kevin Williamson (aka "Coldstone Steve Austin"), known for his especially energetic contempt for the poor, which makes a similar point:
"Here’s a little secret for you: The news ain’t fake. (Mostly.) For conservatives, hating the media is a reflex, and sometimes a funny one: Speaking on his “Morning Minute,” Sean Hannity once read breathlessly from an Associated Press report on a federal surveillance program, ending with the instinctual harrumph: “The mainstream media won’t tell you about that!” There is no media more mainstream than the Associated Press, which is a nonprofit cooperative owned by its member newspapers, television networks, and radio stations. Its reports appear in practically every daily newspaper in the United States, and big scoops like the one that caught Hannity’s eye routinely lead front pages from sea to shining sea. The Associated Press has bias problems and some notable competency problems, and, like any organization that does any substantive reporting, it makes errors. But it does not, for the most part, traffic in fiction."
http://www.nationalreview.com/artic...ia-voters-shared-reality-must-be-acknowledged
I regret that my last post didn't show a little more decorum, and I wouldn't want to make any personal attacks - @mezzrow is basically sound, and worthy of respect.
But this idea of media conspiracies and "crafting false narratives" about Trump's character is patently absurd, and embarrassing.
Republicans control the White House, both houses, and a couple of state houses from being able to re-write the constitution, unopposed. If their dim-witted tantrum-prone attention-deficit boy king isn't capable of imposing their cruel, spiteful attacks against the poor, that's on them now, and nobody else. They are the elites now.
To be leaning on the ol' "mainstream media" crutch at this point is truly pathetic.
And for all the performative moaning and hand-wringing about the constitution (which, obviously, includes both impeachment and the 25th Amendment) there's not a single person who reads this forum who actually believes that its right-wing fainting-couchers wouldn't be rage-choking on their dentures if a Democratic president had attempted even 1% of what Trump has managed in the first four months. Grow up.
Among historians, VDH is an utterly corrupt sleazeball, especially among his fellow Classicists (an overwhelmingly conservative field, which you won't read about during your daily Fox/Breitbart 10-minute-Berkeley-hate).
Having long since abandoned basic professional standards - contributing research and discussion, or mentoring his students - for wetting his beak at the dark money trough, he now repackages crude simplifications of his colleagues' sincere and dedicated scholarship, to peddle as historically vapid hack partisan talking points. Obviously, his colleagues find this incredibly annoying, if not insulting.
And it's been the same slop from him for going on 20 years.
From August 2003, on Iraq: "In general, the media has now gone from the hysteria of the Armageddon of Afghanistan to the quagmire of Iraq to the looting in Baghdad; the only constant is slanted coverage, mistaken analysis, and the absence of any contriteness about being in error"
Indeed. It's all so much brainless, cynical cud for the conservative herd to chew on.
Anyhow, I don't mean to pile on, and I've bit my tongue here recently, but the multiple obviously false and ridiculous statements in that video were just too much to be indulged in unchecked. Still, a cut above the vile attempts exploit the Rich family's tragedy as cheap transient pablum to sate the conspiracy classes ("hey, I'm just asking questions!!"), from a "journalist" whose previous fair and balanced contribution was on gangs of lesbians roaming DC to stalk children for forcible recruitment.
Mick Mulvaney on Trumps (and his) new budget
" For years, we’ve focused on how we can help Americans receive taxpayer-funded assistance. Under President Trump’s leadership, we’re now looking at how we can respect both those who require assistance and the taxpayers who fund that support. For the first time in a long time, we’re putting taxpayers first.
Taking money from someone without an intention to pay it back is not debt. It is theft. This budget makes it clear that we will reverse this larceny."
And still the poorest will wear their MAGA caps! gross
" For years, we’ve focused on how we can help Americans receive taxpayer-funded assistance. Under President Trump’s leadership, we’re now looking at how we can respect both those who require assistance and the taxpayers who fund that support. For the first time in a long time, we’re putting taxpayers first.
Taking money from someone without an intention to pay it back is not debt. It is theft. This budget makes it clear that we will reverse this larceny."
And still the poorest will wear their MAGA caps! gross
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yup, it wasn't bad. Especially in an age where all the world leader responses sound like carbon copies of each other.
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