I have to confess that I didn't even bother googling it until this. I figured that milestone was too recent for a good/thoughtful film about it. But Julainne Moore? I looked it up. Fuck, I must see this. Thanks. It may help me better understand Trumpism. But first, I must tend to Modern General Relativity.

Obama's choices were indeed ugly, and Garland probably wouldn't play along, but what McConnell did was downright fucking illegal. I think Obama had the law on his side if he simply installed Garland, seeing as McConnell outright refused a hearing. He should have done that, consequences be damned.

We are all paying for McConnell's "victory" today. That McConnell keeps bragging about this as his greatest achievement speaks volumes about the man. It is my opinion that he is one of the worst human beings ever. He is immensely smarter than Trump, yet he honours Trump. Truly pathetic. America has lost.

I didn't know that was indeed an option (a "nuclear" one, as tabloids like to call them). Towards the end of his second term, as it was clear Congress wasn't gonna give him jack shit, no matter how legitimate, rational, urgent, fair, ET CETERA, Obama did take executive action on a number of issues. Remember this?


If you can't figure out what rhymes with bucket, I can't help you. :D

FUCKET?

Anyway, if Ruth dies, we all know what McConnell and Trump will do, and the hypocrisy is astounding.

RBG is back at home. And she's like Kenny: even if she dies, she'll be back for the next episode.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Encased In Carbonite Until Next Court Session

Skuj should changing his avatar to this!

I hope RBG is recovering, she has served our country for a long time!

Justice Dept dropping Flynn’s criminal case

Well, it looks like Today's DOJ has spoken!!

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...-against-flynn

I had this belief that a judge would decide.

Flynn is still fucking guilty, no matter how DOJ and Trumpies twist this.

So, onto the next step: Flynn joins team Trump again? (I hope he does!!)

I’m guessing you have sand in your eyes because anyone can clearly see and understand that the DOJ doesn’t drop charges against guilty people!

But don’t you worry, the guilty will soon be going to jail because you can’t perpetuate fraud upon the court and get away with it.

You can’t waste TWO YEARS and 32+ MILLION DOLLARS of the Tax Payers money on an investigation and not have to answer for it!!

......the big names are coming!!!

The more I read about the "technicality" that Flynn will be freed on, the more I shake my head.

Did Flynn talk to the Russians illicitly? YES.

Did he lie about these talks? YES.

What's worse: Flynn getting off for this reasoning, or Barr's summary of Mueller's findings? We live in very strange times, and Barr should scare everyone.

(The judge, a Clinton appointee, must still decide the Flynn case though, right?)

"On February 14th 2017, Trump talked to FBI Director Comey about Michael Flynn, asking him to “let this go” because he’s a “good guy.” Comey wouldn’t do it, so Trump fires him. Today, Barr did what Comey was unwilling to do."

An interesting take.

(Keeps posting to self....)

So, Barr is at odds with Mueller here (I just re-read the Flynn section in the report), as well as the IG. What are the chances that he is also at odds with the judge who ultimately decides this case?

My $10 bet is still on. :)

Oh but he was tricked into it by The Deep State, and as Barr said in an interview, sometimes we plead guilty when we don't understand that we were not guilty blah blah blah Make America Great Again.

I enjoyed that piece. One can see a pattern here in Barr's behaviour. If it was one or maybe two major things he had done to please Team Trump, an arguement could be made that he is an impartial AG. But look at the list!! And it's going to get worse. The Trumpists know this. "Some big names are going to pay" keeps coming up, and I believe it now. But Barr has zero credibility. I have a copy of the Mueller Report on my shelf, and I must be reading a completely different book than the one Barr read.

Pleaded guilty TWICE, but yet he's innocent. Gotta love those mental gymnastics.

[Michael R. Bromwich]former DOJ IG; Asst US Attorney, SDNY; Assoc. Independent Counsel, Iran-Contra; independent monitor; law enforcement consultant

How many of Trump's cronies have been sacked, sent down, or disgraced since he became president? And yet you believe that Flynn is as innocent as a newborn baby and has been treated horribly by the FBI? Trump drained the swamp about as well as a plumber using a toothpick on a clogged shitter.

Lol. That's good.

You quoted Skunk "you have your article and I have mine" above, and I admit that I clicked on that link and looked about his beautiful rt.com for 10 seconds. That is 10 seconds that I will never get back. These are the kinds of "news" and "sources" that Byteme and Skunk revel in, and I feel sorry for them. I really do.

"RT is the first Russian 24/7 English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global news."

You cannot make this shit up. Skunk really is a Russian bot, and he may not even know it. Thank FUCK I can't see him unless he is quoted.

The channel is registered as a "foreign agent" with the United States Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). A 2017 report by the United States Intelligence Community characterized RT as "The Kremlin's principal international propaganda outlet" and said that RT America had been set up as an autonomous nonprofit organization to avoid FARA's registration requirement.[4][5] RT America's estimates of its audience reach in the USA have been considered to be exaggerated.[6]

From wiki.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_America

I hope they make him Pence's chief of staff. :D

Obama told some people how he really feels about the Trumpy response to Covid-19, and the recent Flynn developments. The recording was very recently "leaked".

The tweets shall begin in 10...9....8....

this isn’t really about covid but about the imbeciles in charge and the deranged ones who support them

In the early days of the pandemic, the U.S. government turned down an offer to manufacture millions of N95 masks in America

By
Aaron C. Davis
May 9, 2020 at 10:06 a.m. MDT

It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

“I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.
Bowen persisted.

“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”

In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant

Bowen’s overture was described briefly in an 89-page whistleblower complaint filed this week by Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright alleges he was retaliated against by Kadlec and other officials — including being reassigned to a lesser post — because he tried to “prioritize science and safety over political expediency.” HHS has disputed his allegations.


Emails show Bright pressed Kadlec and other agency leaders on the issue of mask shortages — and Bowen’s proposal specifically — to no avail. On Jan. 26, Bright wrote to a deputy that Bowen’s warnings “seem to be falling on deaf ears.”
That day, Bowen sent Bright a more direct warning.
“U.S. mask supply is at imminent risk,” he wrote. “Rick, I think we’re in deep s---,” he wrote a day later.

The story of Bowen’s offer illustrates a missed opportunity in the early days of the pandemic, one laid out in Bright’s whistleblower complaint, interviews with Bowen and emails provided by both men.

Within weeks, a shortage of masks was endangering health-care workers in hard-hit areas across the country, and the Trump administration was scrambling to buy more masks — sometimes placing bulk orders with third-party distributors for many times the standard price. President Trump came under pressure to use extraordinary government powers to force private industry to ramp up production.

etc etc (because the clusterfuck is wider and deeper and there’s more) : https://www.washingtonpost.com/inves...691_story.html

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/09/us/wh...els/index.html

I know I should never generalize, but these two suspects sure don't look like racist ignorant asshole fucks, he said, sarcastically, in the Trump thread, because Trumpism is basically white supremacism.

Wait...you're trying to make out the police did their job thoroughly and to trust the law to do its job? They didn't charge the two fucks until two months later and only after public pressure. Think it would have been the same if the races were reversed?

Fucking moron. You try and say you're all about the law when the reality is you can't call two racist, murdering cunts for what they are-two racist, murdering cunts.

Georgia D.A would not allow police to make arrests because of friendship with the father

Trust the law to do the right thing. But only when video footage comes out, right?

lmmfao

And why not give that process a chance? Because the process of enacting the law has failed so many times before. Especially when an innocent black male is killed.

i don’t know what fantasies drunkle bob is mumbling about, i was just laughing at his claim that he’s “a lawyer.”

uh-huh...

a lawsuit for laughing at you?

you’re going to have to sue the world

i mean read what you just wrote

hahahahahahahahaaa!

all i know about “you” are your words on a screen, and i find them to be tone-deaf ridiculous and contradictory words in a misplaced context, and i can laugh about them until i am blue in the face, and will continue to do so.

i called my lawyer, this is what he said



i asked if we should countersue.

i told him to contact you directly

he said



and he disappointed me

i promise you he will contact you as soon as i have your contact information

Threatening to sue him because he laughed and said you're not a lawyer? Haha!

Snowflake!

i didn’t say he wasn’t a lawyer

i just laughed at him

i still am and you’re welcome to do so as well

here’s a dollah

buy yourself a coke

by virtue of claiming i said things i didn’t say you have in fact libeled me

zzzzzzz....

objection, goes to speculation

you got enough attention for today, you may return to your loneliness

h8kurdt, eventually you'll have to summarize what's going on here for me. ;):D