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Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

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  1. 1.

    MisterForkbeard

    This has got to be a weird time for Republicans. After 8 years of claiming the most ridiculous things about Obama and having them all disproved, even the most wild Trump theories from Democrats appear to be true.

    But then, cognitive dissonance says that they still believe they were always correct and they’re just victims now.

  2. 2.

    Mike in NC

    Trump will bring back noted scumbags like Lewandowski and Bossie because they’re HIS scumbags.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    Looking forward to the investigation focusing on Trump’s shady doctor and his racist butler.

  5. 5.

    Fester Addams

    @Baud:

    Looking forward to the investigation focusing on Trump’s shady doctor and his racist butler.

    Probably something hinky about the guy who glues his hair on too.

  6. 6.

    Adam L Silverman

    Don’t forget Boris!

  7. 7.

    Steve in the ATL

    “In a quarter of a mile, turn lef, suckah!”

    I pity the fool who is using the Waze app without the Mr. T voice

  8. 8.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Fester Addams: And the Doctor who claimed that Trump would be the healthiest person to ever hold the office of President. He seriously needs to be investigated.

  11. 11.

    PPCLI

    Cohen showed us a photo of the front of his passport! What more do you vultures want??

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I also heard (just in passing; nobody seems to be paying much attention yet) that Boris Epshteyn’s name has emerged as another person of interest. By the Senate, I think.

    Of all the Trump campaign spox and surrogates, he was the one who both creeped me out and set my teeth on edge the most. Was wondering where he had disappeared to.

    ETA: Doffs pink pussycat “Resistance” hat to Adam @6.

  14. 14.

    TenguPhule

    @MisterForkbeard:

    This has got to be a weird time for Republicans. After 8 years of claiming the most ridiculous things about Obama and having them all disproved, even the most wild Trump theories from Democrats appear to be true.

    White male oppression has never been so terrible.

  15. 15.

    TenguPhule

    @Patricia Kayden:

    And the Doctor who claimed that Trump would be the healthiest person to ever hold the office of President. He seriously needs to be investigated.

    I don’t think he’s a real doctor. Perhaps he plays one on TV.

  16. 16.

    Adam L Silverman

    @PPCLI: I’d be very curious to know if he has a Ukrainian passport he got because his wife is Ukrainian. Or an Israeli one he got for convenience. Or one from the Czech government because they have a cottage industry in issuing passports to Putin’s assets.

  18. 18.

    GregB

    Epshtyn went on to be the minister of disinformation for Sinclair Broadcasting.

  21. 21.

    hovercraft

    So I have CNN on and Wolf Blitzer in back to back hours had on Democrats for two segments to talk about the clusterfuck in the WH without bringing on a Rethug to rebut them. Are there pigs flying, first Gregory Meeks and then Brian Schatz.
    Yes I am officially totally back in the cable vortex. In my defense, there really is not a lot on TV these days.

  23. 23.

    efgoldman

    @MisterForkbeard:

    cognitive dissonance says that they still believe they were always correct and they’re just victims now.

    Plenty of people believed (and still believe) that Tricksie Dicksie Nixie didn’t do anything wrong, was framed, etc…

  28. 28.

    Jeffro

    “The polls, most of them, all of them?”

    I sure hope Ms. Keilar’s producer presented her with a Golden STFU award the next day or something g.

  30. 30.

    PPCLI

    @Adam L Silverman: As soon as the Steele dossier came out and put him in Prague, his first reaction was to make a big show of flashing the passport around. That convinced me that he must have a second passport and wanted to make passport stamps the issue. These guys are so transparent.

  32. 32.

    hovercraft

    @Adam L Silverman:
    You know I’d actually watch that. I’ll have to set the DVR and consult the 10 year old to see when he has an opening in his schedule.

  34. 34.

    Adam L Silverman

    @PPCLI: Wouldn’t even need a second passport. All he has to do is enter and leave the Schengen zone somewhere other than the Czech Republic and he’d have nothing in there to indicate he was anywhere near Prague.

  35. 35.

    Mike in DC

    We are up to 7 Trump associates under investigation. I can think of a few more who could wind up under the microscope.

  38. 38.

    hovercraft

    @MisterForkbeard:
    “After 8 years of claiming the most ridiculous things about Obama and having them all disproved”

    What the hell are you talking about, none of that stuff was disproved! The MSM which was in love with the Hollywood Elitist Barrack Obama simply ignored all of the scandals, they gave him a pass, but it was all true. Why do you think Lois Lerner pled the fifth, and those Hillary people, and everyone knows The Fast and The Furious racket was a scheme by Eric Holder and Barrack Obama to steal America’s guns, and………… on and on and on!

  40. 40.

    Morzer

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/investigators-are-right-to-be-looking-at-michael-cohen

    This is a very bad sign for Donald Trump and Michael Cohen. In simple terms, whatever happened during the 2016 campaign, if I wanted to understand Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, the countries of the former Soviet Union and money from those countries and emigres from those countries, there’s no single person I’d want to look at more closely than Michael Cohen.

    This may all sound very odd since for those who got to know Cohen during the campaign he comes off as nothing more than Trump’s bully lawyer who makes legal threats and mouths off on TV. He is a much, much more significant player.

    Cohen is referred to as Trump’s personal lawyer. Not likely. President Trump has other lawyers who sue people on his behalf, defend him in lawsuits and criminal matters. From everything I’ve been able to tell, Cohen fills a business role for Trump as well as being his public threatener. Cohen has multiple personal and business relationships with people from Russia, Ukraine and emigres from those countries. He is a major real estate player in his own right, as well as working on numerous deals within the Trump Organization. Just back in 2015 Cohen bought a $58 million apartment building on New York’s Upper East Side. $58 million. That’s a lot of money. He appears to have made his original money in the New York City taxi business and remains heavily involved in it. That is a rough and unlovely business. He also has or had businesses in Ukraine. There was also the casino boat business he launched with other Russian/Ukrainian emigres.

    In his quiet way, Josh Marshall has been one step ahead of the game ever since Lord Failish Very-Littlefinger slithered into the White House.

  43. 43.

    Morzer

    @TenguPhule:

    /Pendant

    /Pedant

    We have now entered the age of meta-pedantry, or possibly meta-pendantry for those among us who like jewelry.

  45. 45.

    Morzer

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/investigators-are-right-to-be-looking-at-michael-cohen

    This is a very bad sign for Donald Trump and Michael Cohen. In simple terms, whatever happened during the 2016 campaign, if I wanted to understand Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, the countries of the former Soviet Union and money from those countries and emigres from those countries, there’s no single person I’d want to look at more closely than Michael Cohen.

    This may all sound very odd since for those who got to know Cohen during the campaign he comes off as nothing more than Trump’s bully lawyer who makes legal threats and mouths off on TV. He is a much, much more significant player.

    Cohen is referred to as Trump’s personal lawyer. Not likely. President Trump has other lawyers who sue people on his behalf, defend him in lawsuits and criminal matters. From everything I’ve been able to tell, Cohen fills a business role for Trump as well as being his public threatener. Cohen has multiple personal and business relationships with people from Russia, Ukraine and emigres from those countries…

    How did Cohen first come to Donald Trump’s attention and join the Trump Organization just over a decade ago? That’s another interesting story. It was apparently his ability to serve as a conduit for money emigres from the former Soviet Union were using to buy apartment units at Trump branded luxury developments. That was I believe what brought Cohen into the Organization.

    In his quiet way, Josh Marshall has been one step ahead of the game ever since Lord Failish Very-Littlefinger slithered into the White House.

  46. 46.

    Shana

    @Adam L Silverman: Interesting. They do say you should look into getting a different passport if you’ve been to Israel and then want to do to other Middle Eastern countries.

  47. 47.

    p.a.

    How long before House and Senate committees seek to unconstitutionally bar Dem members to protect the Party of Individual Responsibility and Treason?

    And who will be the first non-Fox media to ‘see their point’? Outlandish? Who would have predicted the current situation 2 years ago?

  48. 48.

    scav

    @Shana: I heard that pull-out temporary pages were a work-around for that (or were so the year my sister lived in Jordan).

  52. 52.

    sm*t cl*de

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I’d be very curious to know if he has a Ukrainian passport he got because his wife is Ukrainian. Or an Israeli one he got for convenience. Or one from the Czech government because they have a cottage industry in issuing passports to Putin’s assets.

    There is NOTHING WRONG with collecting multiple passports! [Checks collection]

  54. 54.

    Lyrebird

    @Adam L Silverman: I’d be curious to know how that Ukrainian or Russian-American blogger* is doing, also her sister, who have dared to investigate some of these ties.

    *She has a lovely name which I have frustratingly forgotten! Adam if you’re still reading this thread, though, you probably know who I’m talking about, bc I think you provided the link suggesting that Ukrainian gangsters may have been threatening the sister.

  55. 55.

    Steve in the ATL

    @mainmata: it is indeed. Check under Settings–it’s probably already downloaded. And thank you–I was pitying the fools who were not excited about this.

  56. 56.

    mainmata

    @Adam L Silverman: This is the real danger. Apparently, Sinclair has a huge presence in rural markets across the country and is extremely conservative. Combined with Fox and evangelical radio, we could end up with a large number of Americans being completely brainwashed by actual “fake news”. Too bad liberals have no media to counteract this other than college stations in red America that are NPR affiliates.

  57. 57.

    mainmata

    @Shana: The standard practice is to actually have a piece of paper with the requisite visa stamp that you put into your passport and then remove when you return to the home country. This was standard practice, e.g. in Indonesia in the ’70s and ’80s if foreigners or Indonesians traveled to the PRC and also between Southern (Greek) Cyprus and Northern (Turkish) Cyprus. Personal experience in both cases.

  58. 58.

    randy khan

    I believe conversations between a lawyer and a client are not subject to the attorney-client privilege if they are in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy. Just saying.

  59. 59.

    Steve in the ATL

    @mainmata:

    Apparently, Sinclair has a huge presence in rural markets across the country and is extremely conservative. Combined with Fox and evangelical radio, we could end up with a large number of Americans being completely brainwashed by actual “fake news”.

    In my experience traveling around the USA, these are the primary drivers of stupid right wing behavior. Unless we can do something about these, we will always start off behind the eight ball.

  60. 60.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Lyrebird: Are you perhaps referring to Andrea and Alexandra Chalupa? They are both fine. They are Ukrainian-American, incidentally.

  63. 63.

    Lyrebird

    @Gin & Tonic: Thank you thank you! Mind was stuck on “Carmen Miranda, no… Cordova, no…” Yes that’s exactly who I meant!

    ETA: I am aware that Ukrainian does not equal Mexican, etc., but if someone’s name overlaps with a yummy food item in another language, I’m gonna notice.

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