The saga continues
The Trump Court Part 2
by coldwarrior ( 103 Comments › )Filed under Donald Trump, Elections 2010, Open thread, SCOTUS at September 25th, 2020 - 7:00 am
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Play nice!
The left grows more unhinged by the day. Did yinz hear the shrieking at SCotus when he and first lady were paying respect?
Heh
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/24/thank-you-harry-donald-trump-thanks-harry-reid-for-another-supreme-court-pick/
Perfect
coldwarrior wrote:
And it occurs to me that if Judge Sullivan, et. al., had ruled honorably, we never would have known about those FBI email/texts showing everyone knew the investigations were frauds.
Oft evil will shall evil mar
@ eaglesoars:
I’m thinking Trump picks the FL judge.
It makes perfect sense in many ways.
@ coldwarrior:
I don’t know much about her jurisprudence, altho it doesn’t appear she’s nearly as inexperienced as I worried about so that’s good.
Coney Barrett is just a no-go for me. Altho – small world stuff. Last night Fox was showing stuff from her childhood, etc. She’s from Metairie, LA, where my brother lived and grew up in the church where we had his funeral.
@ eaglesoars:
And the dems keep giving Trump ammo.
They can’t learn, can they?
coldwarrior wrote:
Of course they can. And they do. They just learn all the wrong things. Of course, a lot of that is due to the wrong lessons our side is teaching. “No consequences” is counter-productive.
That kid who sat down at the couples’ table in St. Pete’s the other day should have been shot with a handgun the woman pulled from her thigh holster.
It’s a lot like training dogs. The reward, such as it is, has to be immediate. Otherwise they can’t connect the dot between the behavior and the consequences.
For CW:
@ lobo91:
Love it! … and I just wasted 15 minutes watching a stream of his other commercials.
Just passing through. I just thought I would declare to the world that I am proud of my gender, the sex I was assigned at birth and my testosterone fueled masculinity.
However, there are problems associated wit that. Real men do not ask for directions and real men NEVER read the instructions.
After almost two weeks of fighting with my girly toy iPhone 7 I finally got it to make a noise when I get a phone call or text message.
I tried messing with all the settings, do not disturb was off, notifications on, and all the other really obscure settings.
Finally I Googled my problem…..
If anyone has an iPhone that tiny bump above the two volume controls on the left hand side is a switch.
Yeah… that tiny switch stops the silly little phone from making any noises.
Now, all I need is to find friends that will text or call me. I don’t think making friends is as easy as flipping a switch though.
@ coldwarrior:
I think the Dems are heavily investing in vote fraud.
@ Possum:
You know I had the exact same problem with me iPhone except I think it took me 6 months to be intuitively correct. I used to wonder why my phone never rang. I complained to Apple and they didn’t know. lol
I came to the conclusion that the design market for the phone was for pushy kids and not hapless older people
guest on Buck Sexton makes a good point today. Biden campaigns that a vote for him will stop the BLM violence. What would actually happen is that a Harris/Biden presidency would up the BLM ante x 10 and move the social change effort into Climate change.
Your 401K will be labeled white privilege and acquire a taxing burden.
@scottadamssays is the leading thinker about BLM I think. He makes some errors. He has an ego. But he asks and analyzes the tough question fairly.
Today he says the crux of BLM thought is revenge. Of the Hatfields and McCoy type. You kill one of ours we kill ten of yours. Sorta fatherly advice from OBama let loose in the wild. Adams thinks the energy has to play itself out with death until people are tired of death. Like a war. I am not sure if he is just trying to persuade there. When faced with something like this on a national scale you arrest them. Halt their movement in the revenge direction.
yinz look great on my newly fixed laptop…i love the 17″ HPs…my hardrive went tits up.
the guys across the river put in a 1TB and did a massive memory upgrade to it for far less tan i expected. great stuff.
@ coldwarrior:
momcats laptop is about to crash as well
@ darkwords:
I just wanted it to be just a phone when I got it. Later I could download all the fancy shit. But no…..
Took me two weeks to get the bloody thing to ring when I got a call.
Oh well. Glad I didn’t spend $1200 on a latest model one.
@ rain of lead:
it went over the past few weeks.
@ Possum:
HA!
i turned over my ‘real man card’ when not reading the directions cost me a few hundred dollars in the early 90’s on a very nice care stereo that i let all of the magic smoke out of…last time i did that.
i read and re-read. then read some more
darkwords wrote:
ummmm….yeah.
bring it.
@ darkwords:
i’ve been samsung since i turned over my corporate blackberry (which was a great phone)
ive had the galaxy note versions since they came out. cant complain.
perdomo lot 23 sun grown.
and one of my hoppy home brews as the sun goes down. yep.
@ coldwarrior:
RTFM, Read The FINE Manual…. works every time, until you run across something not covered in it.
I can’t really think of anything bad Trump has done. He’s made me cringe a few times when he goes to get a ‘rise’ out of opponents. But in retrospect and given the times he is POTUS in I think he is one of the better leaders the country has had.
I can only think that all the whiners in the news are people who are feeling a pinch in their bribery wallets. Tne Senators who complain the most are the millionaires who feel they aren’t making as much money as they used to. Trump forced a paycut on them.
Michael Walsh in Epochtimes.com
Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution enumerates congressional powers, Among them: “to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.
Further, 18 U.S. Code 2383 reads: “Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Ted Wheeeler
Justin Timberlake https://www.dailywire.com/news/justin-timberlake-ill-help-pay-bail-for-arrested-protesters-ted-cruz-suggests-better-use-of-his-money
Lady Gaga
Rashida Tlaib
ACB
BTW… Many people in the Evangelical community compare her to Deborah, the judge and prophet for the Book of Judges.
@ lobo91:
Interesting with the retro video and her voice. Gives a different feel to the song.
If you had a million dollars and gave away one quarter, and another quarter, and then another quarter, how much would you have left?
A million dollars minus 75 cents.
@ darkwords:
rimshot
@ darkwords:
They just announced a whole album of acoustic covers that’s coming out in November: Kindred Spirits
@ lobo91:
That’s a pretty good cover of the song… Check out Elkie Brooks version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yTb84PYeNg
@ lobo91:
Very nice. The accompanying video really enhances it.
https://amgreatness.com/2020/09/10/the-resistance-war-games-a-post-election-civil-war/
The next step. Climate lockdown.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8775633/Bay-Area-officials-approve-plan-requires-employees-work-home-three-days-week.html
Bay Area says employees will be required to work from home three days a week AFTER the pandemic to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
@ eaglesoars:
I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t fly in the US.
In California, though? Who knows?
lobo91 wrote:
Apparently they are unaware of what has happened to all the small businesses in NYC that are never coming back because they no longer have customers
Yeah, it looks like it’s definitely Amy Coney Barrett. Daily Mail has video of the whole family leaving the house, all dressed up, headed for the airport
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8776221/Amy-Coney-Barrett-leaves-home-Indiana-family-ahead-Trumps-announcement.html
@ lobo91:
I love acoustic covers. I’ll have to listen to it.
@ eaglesoars:
If Biden were to win the culture would be forced on everyone to live as is Bernie Sanders and AOC shared the master bedroom together in your own house.
Today seemed particularly unaspiring and unmotivating but then I went to Taco Bell (with a mask!) and everything seems better now.
I’m close enough to drive to some of these proud boys marches. I was tempted just to give them a plus one to their numbers. And also I wanted to see how they talk in person. Get a feel for who is there.
But I don’t think I have my s**t together well enough. If I was in a confrontation in that scenario it would be a fatal one for me or the other person.
I am impressed by these men in these neighborhoods that get invaded by ANTIFA and put a beat down on the the antifa men. Some of them have the presence of mind to watch for weapons and communicate what is not appropriate in a brawl. It means they have some experience and wisdom in these things but are just trying to leave a normal middle class life absent BLM scum.
You see some of that in the antifa rioters also. But the big difference is the antifa want to destroy the community where the other side wants to protect the community.
darkwords wrote:
well, they’d TRY to force us, but it wouldn’t work. Lots of dead people.
rocky top
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsTbVignFUU
Tenn vs South Carolina
7-7 in the first
lord have mercy, these guys are rusty
7-7 at the start of the 2nd qtr
7-7 at the start of the 2nd
Tn interception for TD
14-7 vols
Tn’s D is playing decent
@ lobo91:
Been watching “Veterans React to …” If I drank coffee, I’d be a solid customer.
heh
Tn’s defense has a player named slaughter
21-7 vols
80 yds in 2 and 1/2 min
SC touchdown
21-14
now a tie game
ut up 24-21
24-24 tie
touchdown UT
31-24
dammmmn
ut punted and the ball hit a sc player and the vols recover to end the game
with a win
rain of lead wrote:
ROCKY TOP!!!
rain of lead wrote:
Wow, that sounds like a real nail-biter.
Anyone know if the Senate can simply vote to confirm a Supreme Court Justice directly, without any committee hearings ? The way I read the Constitution, I think so — but I may be incorrect.
Canoe Convoy wrote:
I believe that is very much possible. Constitution says “advice and consent”. Vote with debate should meet that criteria.
@ Canoe Convoy:
Constitutionally, yes. Not sure what the Senate rules say, though
Looks like I’ll hit my 200 mile goal, and raise about $412.
They’ve got over $13.5 million total, and over 4 million miles.
I wish I could say good morning, but this……….
Maria Bartiromo
Breaking news: NO John durham interim report. No indictments before election – Bartiromo sources.
https://twitter.com/MariaBartiromo/status/1310221953110888449
Oh, and apparently Armenia and Azerbaijan have declared war.
No, I have no idea………I suspect Turkey is behind it
@ eaglesoars:
It’s Trump’s fault.
Of course.
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Ok, it looks like Azerbaijan (backed by Turkey) is invading Armenia. I’m not sure why. It also looks like Armenia is kicking ass so far.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Armenia claimed land Azerbaijan feels belongs to them, so they want it back. Nagorny-Karabach, I think? Was held by the Azers but majority populated by Armenians.
Russia is backing Armenia, it looks like?
whatever……..
Based on what I’m seeing now, the ‘narrative’ against Barrett is going to imply her Haitian adoptees may have been victims of child trafficking efforts by religious zealots
@ eaglesoars:
Anyone saying that is inhuman. Kids need to be left out of the politics.
The question that comes to my mind is how come Black parents never adopt white kids or asian kids?
@ right_wing2:
Impressive work.
darkwords wrote:
unless they’re to be aborted
If you heard Larkin Poe’s new cover of Nights in White Satin the other day, you may find this interesting. Megan and Rebecca recently had the opportunity to speak to Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues about the song:
Florida doctors found a coronavirus cure that’s nearly 100% effective
ICAM isn’t a new drug, it’s an acronym for a combination of existing medications used simultaneously on patients. It uses Immunosupport drugs (Vitamin C and Zinc), Corticosteroids against inflammation, Anticoagulants against blood clots, and Macrolides to help fight infection.
https://bgr.com/2020/09/26/coronavirus-cure-icam-protocol-florida/
We already have a cure, but it’s too cheap
eaglesoars wrote:
Maybe that’s what DeSantis was referring to when saying they have a plan if a second wave breaks out.
@ AZfederalist:
He had a treatment before this. HCQ, zinc and that other thingy.
Ok, puzzle me this.
Pompeo just told Iraq (last night) that he’s ready to pull everything out of Iraq, including evac’ing the embassy. Apparently, there have been attacks (probably Iranian) that the Iraqi gov’t can’t/won’t stop and they just uncovered an Iranian plot to storm the embassy and take hostages. Pompeo is no-more-Mr-Nice_Guy, he’s pissed.
So we leave (flatten the embassy on our way out I hope) and guess what? Iraq has a lot of Iranian jihadis embedded in-country and they still hate each other. Now Iran has a secondary outpost from which to cause trouble with – the Saudis? And oil prices??
And I don’t know how the Armenian-Azerbaijan thing is going to play against this. I need to look at a map
I wonder how many felonies were committed in the process?
Larkin Poe | Preachin’ Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEWiJR9qeoc&list=RDDnxcGW_xWJw&index=7
music interlude cause I think we need it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEWiJR9qeoc&list=RDDnxcGW_xWJw&index=7
@ lobo91:
note all sources are anon and they don’t have the actual returns, just the ‘tax data’.
Depreciation/losses, etc., are all legal methods of tax avoidance, which is perfectly legal. Note also, that these reports seem to conflate personal with business, which is odd and confusing. He has lots of business entities but this is written as though all his businesses are somehow personal income streams and nothing more.
@ eaglesoars:
Which is precisely why they didn’t want them released
lobo91 wrote:
no Russia connections either. That’s gotta suck
jagoffs
Georgia State announces the positive tests that caused the postponing of Saturday’s game vs. Charlotte “turned out to be the result of errors in reading the test results.”
https://twitter.com/ChrisVannini/status/1310300119867232258
lobo91 wrote:
It’s also proof that they don’t have the actual tax docs. What they have would absolutely indicate the provenance, which probably points to attorney/accountant, etc. Or some low-level intern at the firm who thinks they can make their bones
Appellate court halts Wisconsin ballot-counting extension
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-wisconsin-elections-us-supreme-court-courts-9f58fae97f3296c1a318f9f1082cf198
eaglesoars wrote:
Interesting tactic. So, if you don’t want to play a game, you just have the results “misread”
/Not saying that is what happened here, but it is a potential strategy
Hot off the presses from Project Veritas:
If somebody can get past the paywall, this is NYT in Oct 2016.
Donald Trump Acknowledges Not Paying Federal Income Taxes For Years
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html
AZfederalist wrote:
hadn’t thought of that
@ lobo91:
Anyone with a real estate loan knows about mortgage deductions and amortizing losses in a complex tax code. That’s Trump x 1000.
eaglesoars wrote:
i worked in embassies. the evac/destruction plan is for real (post tehran). even the one in london and ottawa has one. the marines, rso staff, cia have latitude and destructive power to leave the area unusable.
we could have jacked our buildings and all files therein in very short order. booby traps are also options as are air strikes on the embassy themselves.
all embassies are sovereign US soil. its our property.
eaglesoars wrote:
yinzer!
😆
darkwords wrote:
how many tax lawyers and bad ass accountants does Trump inc. have?
enough. these guys arent amateurs and the books are clean as a whistle.
coldwarrior wrote:
Ah, that reminds me! You know where I heard that word and nearly fell off my chair? The movie “Casino” with DeNiro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci. It was in one of the ‘assassination’ scenes, where they’re wiping out anybody who could possibly rat them out to the feds. One of hit men said it, I think
Yinzer wrote the script! Or somebody improvised.
I’m off to bed, nite.
coldwarrior wrote:
not only that. people are going back thru the archives and digging up previous NYT stories that are basically identical over the years, I posted one.
It’s remarkable that people don’t even understand ‘carry forward’ concepts, etc. This is a seriously sophisticated society and we’ve got fucking primatives writing the political literature. It’s absurd.
eaglesoars wrote:
they dont teach econ in school anymore for a reason.
eaglesoars wrote:
i need to see that!
@ coldwarrior:
One of my all-time favorite movies
lobo91 wrote:
i missed it. i was out of the country.
eaglesoars wrote:
pipelines.
and there was never peace there…except when the soviets ran the joint.
coldwarrior wrote:
Seeing “jagoffs” typed out made me smile – a yinzer roommate in college used the term. Learned about Vitamin I and East Overshoe.