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    Anthony Weiner-Insupportable opprobrium, the operational definition

    By jollyroger on Sat, 10/29/2016 - 4:16pm |

     

    Glenn Thrush provides the most nuanced evaluation of the state of play as it currently exists, in the post surprise world of November

     

    .http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/five-takeaways-from-comeys-october...

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    Along the way, he produces the finest  piece of writing I've seen an awhile--color me green-when he says

     

    :"Anthony Weiner, package-proud proof that not every horny narcissist with bad judgment is named Donald Trump."

     

    Which brings me to the rueful observation that you have to hand it to Weiner just for facing the next day...And if Trump should be elected president, the entire world, perhaps, will think it down to him.

     

    You would have to put him on suicide watch, if it were your job to worry about his durability.

     

     

     

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    Did ever laptop, phone or tablet cry out for the hammer like Weiner's?  "How could any device on which he plied his trade survive past his first knowledge that he was "hot" (not in the good sense...)


    by jollyroger on Sat, 10/29/2016 - 4:22pm

    We now have a more granular time line--Aug. 29 he is exposed to Child Protective Services inquiries due to inclusion of his son in a "sexted" picture

     

    September 28 story runs in Daily Mail about 15 year old 

     

    October 3 laptop seized.

     

    How in the name of your deity of choice could any of these devices have survived the first moment of inquiry?

     

    (Not fer'nuttin', HRC is said to have hammered more than one blackberry upon retiring it--you don't hear anything about files being found on those blackberries, do ya'?)


    by jollyroger on Wed, 11/02/2016 - 3:39pm

    It took the FBI two weeks to remotely load all those extra e-mails.  The other two weeks was taken up in disagreements over what to name the file.  Once they came up with "Life Insurance," the die was cast.  Then they only had to wait until 11 days prior to the election to send the non-letter out.


    by CVille Dem on Wed, 11/02/2016 - 3:42pm

    Yeah, I hadn't even gotten beyond the Oct. 3 date and the strange time interval you flag--like, what, they take the laptop to the office and then don't pick it back up for weeks? Don't even LOOK at the emails?


    by jollyroger on Wed, 11/02/2016 - 3:58pm

    In my cardiologist's waiting room I listened to a woman  who'd worked for Weiner. Without going intoa two guns blazing defence of the guy she argued pretty strongly that Obamacare wouldn't have had a chance of passing without him.

     

     

     

     

     

     


    by Flavius on Wed, 11/02/2016 - 4:39pm

    small world!  (I'd kill for his abs....)


    by jollyroger on Wed, 11/02/2016 - 8:17pm