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The Trump Curse

by coldwarrior ( 122 Comments › )
Filed under Donald Trump, Open thread at July 30th, 2018 - 10:26 am

Let’s pick up where we left off, from eaglesoars:

https://www.blogmocracy.com/2018/07/27/secretary-of-state-pompeo-burns-the-burners/#comment-15039

94 | July 29, 2018 11:36 pm

I’m not the suspicious type (but UFOs are real) but I swear there really is a Trump Curse. That recording Michael Cohen made of Trump that the media’s been playing over and over? Did you catch that Cohen also recorded calls with journalists? I gather that the Feds had to share what they collected with Rudy Guiliani as Trump’s lawyer and he’s out there yelling ‘short hairs’ and nobody is picking up on it.

Giuliani: President Trump Has Recordings of Dozens of Journalists Discussing Him With Michael Cohen… https://t.co/Q6I3h7AhuI pic.twitter.com/oIC0HFyxoJ

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) July 29, 2018

At 3:25-3:35 in video, Giuliani discusses Cohen’s surreptitious taping of CNN’s Chris Cuomo, a two-hour recording, to which Giuliani now has access. THEN Giuliani says: “He did that at least four other times.”

Or was this all a set-up to nail these journalists?

Either way, I like a man who fights back hard and doesn’t roll over. Look, Trump became the most successful rel estate developer in the toughest market in the world. He is no dummy. He’s used to dealing with the mob, unions, city hall, and other hard-assed New Yorkers.

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Secretary of State Pompeo Burns The Burners.

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 94 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Economy, Politics, Republican Party at July 27th, 2018 - 12:39 am

I heard about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s grilling by the Senate Foreign Relations committee on 25 July 2018. Mark Levin and others said it was awesome, so I decided to watch. 20 minutes in and I was hooked, watched the whole 3 hours. I wish I’d marked the time of the start of each “question” for easy reference, but I didn’t.

Mike Pompeo does indeed sound and look like George Wendt (Norm from “Cheers”) with a dose of John Goodman, but he never lost his cool during the three hour grind. His attackers (both Democrat and Republican) rephrased and repeated questions hoping to trip him up, yet Pompeo’s answers didn’t change. He balked on some answers for security reasons and for some that were beyond his jurisdiction / authority to comment on. There was a lot of pontificating by his interrogators, but Pompeo listened to and refuted the nebulous allegations.

Watch this video on YouTube.

If you can’t watch the entire 3 hours, watch the first 30 minutes, then skip ahead to another question. Do it again a few times. The last 30 minutes reprises the first.

Note that during this grilling, the EU caved on tariffs. #Winning

Tags: Mike Pompeo, Politics, Secretary of State, Senate Foreign Relations Commitee
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Today in Music….

by coldwarrior ( 107 Comments › )
Filed under Music, Open thread at July 25th, 2018 - 7:36 am

New York (AFP) – Yoko Ono on Tuesday announced that she is releasing a new album at age 85, saying that her lifelong message of peace was sorely needed in 2018.

“Warzone,” which will come out on October 19, will revisit songs penned by Ono since 1970, concluding with “Imagine,” her seminal pacifist anthem with her late husband John Lennon.

“The world is so messed up. Things are very difficult for everybody,” she said in a statement.

A statement from her representatives added: “It is not too late to change the world. We need Yoko now more than ever.“

I’ll just leave that right there for yinz.

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