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Bullshit Flynn didn't lie

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 26 May 2019 21:11:00 +0000

In reply to Art, if you were interested

Bullshit Flynn didn't lie intentionally - they likely only gave him 0 time because 1) he was the first to flip, and 2) overall he cooperated much more sincerely than the conniving Manafort and loony Papadopoulos. But not only did he not declare himself a foreign agent through FARA, he covered it up when caught. [PS - not just for Turkey either]
BTW - plotting to kidnap a US resident alien on US soil is kind of prosecutable. Or did you forget that one?
PPS - his son's a raving piece of dogshit who almost screwed things up badly for his father multiple times.

Art, if you were interested

Peter — Sun, 26 May 2019 19:18:05 +0000

In reply to Amash answers your reality

Art, if you were interested in the truth you could at least print what Comey actually said about Trump's plea for Flynn's treatment by the FBI. You might also include the fact that even though the Flynn interview was a setup to entrap him that Comey testified to congress that they didn't think he had lied intentionally. Mueller ignored that information and framed Flynn to further his attempt to frame Trump. This sleazy maneuver didn't work even though they threatened to go after Flynn's son, he wouldn't lie and create more false narrative for the collusion delusion.

This is key to his rabid fans

artappraiser — Sun, 26 May 2019 14:25:00 +0000

In reply to George Conway retweeted by

This is key to his rabid fans, too. That he's considered "dumb" to educated elites like Dowd, but that he can still manipulate them is a feature not a bug One or two or many of his myths usually appeal as well. Look to Kanye West's recent statement for a great example. The fandom is all about getting one over on those who they feel humiliate them. So a con is good, a con says I'm really smarter than you snobs.

George Conway retweeted by

artappraiser — Sun, 26 May 2019 14:12:08 +0000

In reply to Trump seems to be transparently mad

George Conway retweeted by Neal Katyal, both liking what Mareen Dowd is saying:

“Pelosi ‘hit on something that is core to his con. His whole life is about the cover-up. He has covered up his academic record, his health reports, his dalliances with women, his finances, his family history.’” https://t.co/7KXQpfXMP1
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 26, 2019

Excerpts I like:

once I’m completely awake, a gravitational pull takes hold and I am once more bedeviled by our preposterous president.

I flip on the TV and gird for the endless stream of vitriol coming from the White House, bracing for another day of overflowing, overlapping, overwrought news stories about Trump. I’m sapped before I rise.

As Mayor Pete said on his Fox town hall about the national Trump preoccupation, “It is the nature of grotesque things that you can’t look away.”

My head hurts, puzzling over whether Trump is just a big blowhard who’s flailing around, or a sinister genius laying traps to get himself impeached to animate the base ahead of the election [....]

Just as Trump once wore out contractors, bankers, lawyers and businesspeople in New York with his combative, insulting and wayward ways, now he’s wearing out the political crowd, as he tries to beat everybody here into submission with his daily, even hourly, onslaught of outrage piled upon outrage.

Pete Buttigieg and Nancy Pelosi have both mastered the art of puncturing Trump — far better than his Republican primary debate rivals did.

“I don’t have a problem standing up to somebody who was working on Season 7 of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ when I was packing my bags for Afghanistan,” Buttigieg told The Post’s Robert Costa, saying he took a dim view of Trump’s bone-spurs excuse to get out of serving in Vietnam.

Pelosi winds Trump up when she drips condescension worthy of a Jane Austen grande dame, saying she will pray for the president or pleading for someone to stage an intervention with the poor soul.

“He does outrageous, nasty, destructive things, knowing full well he’s crossing a line, and then he pretends he didn’t,” said Trump biographer Tim O’Brien. “He has spent five decades going to gossip columnists, radio shows, TV interviews and newspapers to stick a knife into almost anybody who crosses his path that he doesn’t like and he revels in it. There is something amazing in the Energizer Bunny aspect of his nastiness and his ignorance. He doesn’t care what people think about how mean or dumb he is. He just keeps going.” [....]

“One of the biggest motivating factors in Trump’s life — other than food, greed, sex and revenge — is mythmaking. Deep down, he knows he’s a pathological liar and he’s not the person he says he is. But any time anyone pierces that veil, it sends him into a rage.”

Hillary:

artappraiser — Sun, 26 May 2019 00:21:28 +0000

In reply to Trump seems to be transparently mad

Hillary:

My take on Trump and his cronies spreading that doctored video of Nancy Pelosi: It's sexist trash.

It's also a sign that Trump is running scared. pic.twitter.com/AgcH5RQNyj
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 25, 2019

John Lewis:

.@SpeakerPelosi

Madam Speaker,

Keep the faith and keep your eyes on the prize.

Best wishes,

John Lewis
— John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) May 25, 2019

It's clear to me you are just

artappraiser — Sat, 25 May 2019 18:14:24 +0000

In reply to PP, you are another example

It's clear to me you are just following Trump campaign talking points and instructions:

President Trump’s scorched-earth offensive against congressional Democrats this week is a clear sign he sees his path to reelection as being paved through battles with his opponents more than collaboration.

The president’s decisions to walk out of a White House meeting on infrastructure and to belittle and poke Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) with personal attacks are likely to excite Trump supporters who like nothing more than his confrontations with the establishment.

“Donald Trump is a fighter, there’s no ambiguity about that, and he’s going to fight for what he believes in,” said Bryan Lanza, a former Trump campaign and transition aide. “He’s going to show he will do what’s right for the taxpayers and the voters, but all the Democrats want to do is talk about impeachment.”

Yet there are also serious risks to the approach [....]

(Or worse, you are just falling for them from others and being manipulated.)

I despise talking points and spin no matter which side they are coming from. But I do admire the skill in doing it well. And you most definitely do not. On the other hand, when you quit with that crap, it is interesting to hear what you have to say.

Nancy Pelosi urges Trump's

artappraiser — Sat, 25 May 2019 17:53:50 +0000

In reply to Trump seems to be transparently mad

Nancy Pelosi urges Trump's family to have an intervention with him "for the good of the country"

"Maybe he wants to take a leave of absence," the speaker of the House adds during her weekly news conference

@ Salon.com, May 23

Amash answers your reality

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 25 May 2019 17:04:13 +0000

In reply to PP, you are another example

Amash answers your reality distortion/up against the wall fantasy:

1. Trump asked the FBI director to stop investigating Michael Flynn, who had been his campaign adviser and national security adviser, and who had already committed a crime by lying to the FBI.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 23, 2019

you parading your dumbfuck

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 25 May 2019 16:30:00 +0000

In reply to PP, you are another example

you parading your dumbfuck criminal bootlickers who keep getting their dicks whacked by the courts have the arrogance to call someone "coward"? You play hit and run all the time just spouting your Fox/Trumpian talking points and repeating "snowflake" and "red queen" ad nauseum. Go fuck yourself, Mr. Courage - at least that requires some difficulty and effort. And glad you found your SS Brownshirt hero in William Barr, but sad for you he seems not to be able to organize the street rabble like Ernst Röhm nor carry out propaganda like Goebbels, but then all Trump's AG picks - Sessions, Whitaker, Barr - have been pathetic shits whose main value was parroting Trump lines and just trying to hold onto office - with Barr even a more disgusting and incompetent suckup than the others.

PP, you are another example

Peter — Sat, 25 May 2019 13:52:05 +0000

In reply to It's no wonder that Nancy is

PP, you are another example why piss-ant coward liberals can't be trusted with even petty power. I can wait to have the last laugh when AG Barr lines up those rat bastards you adore and kicks their asses and you start whining about your lips getting bruised.