MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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No additional indictment recommendations, they say. So much for the racketeering charge speculation.
by Michael Wolraich on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 7:16pm
Riddles:
William Goldman was the screenwriter of All the President's Men, among some other famous films. Here is the full context of his famous quote:
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 11:31pm
John Dean:
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/23/2019 - 12:14am
As Palmer noted, they're required to say anywhere that Barr denied Mueller something.
Nada, zilch, nichts... Barr & Mueller are old friends - and as we saw with Sessions,
people aren't inclined to attach themselves to anchor weights.
25th Amendment is pretty useless if you're not allowed to talk about it w/o getting fired. Just sayin'.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/23/2019 - 4:53am
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/23/2019 - 12:20am
Trump's son-in-law Kushner cooperating with U.S. House probe: source
By David Morgan & Mark Hosenball @ Reuters.com, MARCH 22, 2019 / 10:12 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/23/2019 - 12:33am
FWIW, op-ed from not-my-favorite-Independent-Cousel-nor-person Ken Starr, @ The Atlantic, no less
Mueller Cannot Seek an Indictment. And He Must Remain Silent. MAR 22, 2019
The unusual situation facing Robert Mueller does not justify repeal of well-established traditions of confidentiality.
Spoiler: As an intro, in the first two paragraphs, he bashes James Comey for the Clinton emails reveal, says it violated one of the fundamental principles of public prosecution: Thou shalt not drag a subject or target of the investigation through the mud via public criticism. Prosecutors either seek an indictment, or remain quiet.....
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/23/2019 - 1:57am
Thanks. Never thought I´d be grateful to Starr for anything.
by Flavius on Sat, 03/23/2019 - 8:15am
A shame that Starr didn't comment on Kavanaugh leaking Starr proceedings to the press, a continual malfeasance that helped land Clinton in the Monica-testimony imbroglio in the first place.
Nor does Starr reference how he turned a peccadillo into an impeachment - I guess now basking in the change of law that would ban his release of a long inconclusive self-serving "Report".
Had Starr followed DoJ procedures, actually, we probably would have been spared a rather pointless - aside from conservatives' need to publicly humiliate their opposition - endeavour.
Starr for one here doesn't reference locking up Susan McDougal on contempt for 18 months, including 8 months solitary confinement, and later charging her with criminal contempt, for which she was acquitted, nor does he mention putting both Clinton & his wife on the stand, whereas to date Trump has refused to appear in person, and refused all requests except 1 (a carefully crafted response to questions) for paperwork.
[nor does he mention his treatment of Julie Hiatt Steele because she'd contradicted star witness Kathleen Willey, who he'd covered up lying to him as well - laughably, Linda Tripp is called on to sort out "the truth"?]
Nor does Starr reference the criticism of Mueller for "taking too long" when his investigation has lasted 1 3/4 years, whereas Starr's lasted 4 1/2 years (though actually dragging on years further with prosecuting Cisneros for paying off his lover, et al.), producing the Starr Report conveniently after the congressional elections, which included the dodgy excuse Starr used to pivot from Whitewater to investigating Monicagate, et al., at a total cost of roughly $80 million.
Wikipedia:
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/23/2019 - 9:05am
Adding to the pile up, it was Starr's drunken sailor spree that prompted the tight controls over the Special Counsel that we see today.
Love child, never meant to be....
by moat on Sat, 03/23/2019 - 8:41pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/23/2019 - 6:10pm
Wow:
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/24/2019 - 4:05am
I still want to know how the Republicans drove the economy into a wall in 2008, yet within months rebranded as "The Tea Party" and went into instant recovery without improving their people policies one iota, but used that to win the 2010 elections.
Bullshit on that "Democratic and Republican presidencies over the last 30 years have let Americans down" - fuck him to hell. Clinton created a healthy economic and social environment, and George W Bush with Rove & Cheney stole the election in Florida, then spent their first year ripping out everything they could, and then used 9/11 to go off the rails. By the end of their 8 years, they'd left the economy a total *global* mess, and Obama got stuck limiting his aspirations, and instead carefully carrying out a recovery from that disaster over his 8 years, all the while the Republicans acting as shittily partisan as they could over fixing the messes *they'd* created, culminating in stealing his goddamn Supreme Court pick.
So yeah, I want to know how those cocksuckers beat us in marketing and disinformation and propaganda (Fox New, take a bow), but I sure as fuck am not going to go for some asshole wannabe candidate blaming both sides equally for our predicament, for "letting America down". Yes, Americans were highly deluded going into polling stations, and no, it should never have been that close, but then again, we see that Trump was running a criminal enterprise for decades and the press couldn't even report properly how big Trump Co. was, much less how they'd screwed everything in sight.
Grow up, Pete - Obama tried that kumbaya thing and it largely buried his Administration in 8 years of drudgery. Americans want the White House to suck their dick in general, play all sorts of "feel-my-pain-quench-my-exaggerated-fears", not fix practical problems. They want a Jerry Springer carny man to entertain them, and by God they got one. What use is even having a media if the people who look at it won't fire a braincell to figure out what's real and what's obviously not?
ETA: and Trump has the same popularity as a year ago despite passing a poison trillion dollar tax break that fucked people's tax rebates, as well as a year of indictments and scandalous disclosures about his business practices and collusion/conspiracy with Russia and a mad bonesawing Saudi leader. So no, I can't blame it all on the media either (except Fox), as 42% of voting people are simply not responding to bad news in any rational manner. And *that's* the problem we have to fix - there is no assuaging their needs, because their needs are not economic or racially driven - they're tribal and psychotic. 2 candidates can offer the same exact thing, but they will choose based on other factors - primarily affiliation - not what's offered.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/24/2019 - 5:26am
Krugman recently posted on this subject.
by ocean-kat on Sun, 03/24/2019 - 3:06pm
Those comparisons Krugman used of southern Italy and East Germany are very apt and help make his argument exceptionally strong (throw in France's yellow jackets, etc.) As much as we get distracted by Trump, and even if giving benefit to the argument that his presence as U.S. president stokes "the troubles", the whole world context on this is real important to keep in mind. But this supports part of Mayor Pete's argument in a way, doesn't it? They may be dinosaurs that can't adjust, that doesn't mean it won't cause trouble now to ignore them.
FWIW, sometimes I also like to think that we can't predict that well done the road on this. Everybody's talking now like the future is urban centers and empty heartlands for many reasons, like for example efficiency of energy use. I always get a little suspicious when everybody's predicting the same thing, almost as if it's going to end up the opposite--the next generation (with minimum income payments, maybe) sees rural as the next best thing.
But again, that's the future. And the question really is what do we do with the troubles these people cause now? In our lifetimes.
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/24/2019 - 5:12pm
Reminded me of the above Mayor Pete statement:
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/25/2019 - 10:57pm
Yeah, I've applied the "zero politics" rule for myself plus the kids - occasionally getting the "well, I just want to tell you one thing, and then we'll drop it" mini-lecture. But respectful silence is the only way she doesn't just hang up, despite fishing for any response to do exactly that.
(10-15 years ago she somehow put me on a mailing list of "friends", so I woke up to "if you see one of these leftists protesting for 'peace', punch them in the face as hard as you can. Then before they can get up, punch them again..." I made the "mistake" of hitting reply-all.
PS - I wonder if the guy's Mom reversed herself now that Trump proclaimed Mueller alright'? Wonder if there's a self-help group for people who realize their Mom's a brownshirt.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 1:16am
I note that 147,216 (! a mistake?) have shared this story published @ 5:30 pm @ TheHill.com
McConnell blocks resolution calling for Mueller report to be released publicly
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/25/2019 - 11:09pm