EXCLUSIVE: Trump Launched Campaign to Discredit Potential FBI Witnesses https://t.co/eWCvTH461o
— Robbie Gramer (@RobbieGramer) January 26, 2018
President Donald Trump pressed senior aides last June to devise and carry out a campaign to discredit senior FBI officials after learning that those specific employees were likely to be witnesses against him as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, according to two people directly familiar with the matter.
In testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8, recently fired FBI Director James Comey disclosed that he spoke contemporaneously with other senior bureau officials about potentially improper efforts by the president to curtail the FBI’s investigation of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election…
Not long after Comey’s Senate testimony, Trump hired John Dowd, a veteran criminal defense attorney, to represent him in matters related to Mueller’s investigation. Dowd warned Trump that the potential corroborative testimony of the senior FBI officials in Comey’s account would likely play a central role in the special counsel’s final conclusion, according to people familiar with the matter.
In discussions with at least two senior White House officials, Trump repeated what Dowd had told him to emphasize why he and his supporters had to “fight back harder,” in the words of one of these officials…
While Dowd’s private advice to the president would ordinarily be protected by attorney-client privilege, Mueller might be able to probe comments that Trump made to others about that legal advice by asking him directly about it as well as anyone else he shared that advice with.
A person with direct knowledge of the matter said although Dowd explained the risks of senior FBI officials joining Comey in testifying against Trump, that information was part of a broader presentation to the president about Mueller’s investigation. It is not improper, but in fact is a duty, for an attorney to explain to a client how they are at risk, the source said. What may have been improper, however, were actions Trump took upon learning that information.
Since Dowd gave him that information, Trump — as well as his aides, surrogates, and some Republican members of Congress — has engaged in an unprecedented campaign to discredit specific senior bureau officials and the FBI as an institution.
The FBI officials Trump has targeted are Andrew McCabe, the current deputy FBI director and who was briefly acting FBI director after Comey’s firing; Jim Rybicki, Comey’s chief of staff and senior counselor; and James Baker, formerly the FBI’s general counsel. Those same three officials were first identified as possible corroborating witnesses for Comey in a June 7 article in Vox. Comey confirmed in congressional testimony the following day that he confided in the three men.
In the past, presidents have attacked special counsels and prosecutors who have investigated them, calling them partisan and unfair. But no previous president has attacked a long-standing American institution such as the FBI — or specific FBI agents and law enforcement officials…
That Trump may have been motivated to attack specific FBI officials because they were potential witnesses against him could demonstrate potential intent that would bolster an obstruction of justice case.
You’d think, given the Mafia contacts NYC building developer Trump has allegedly developed, he’d have been told by now that ‘okay, we’ll just get rid of those troublemaking witnesses’ is *not* as easy and foolproof a tactic as ‘declaring bankruptcy and walking away from my latest failure’. But then again, maybe he’s What His Party Wants…
Republicans are now more satisfied with the "moral and ethical climate" of the country than they have been for 8+ years pic.twitter.com/cWFS1VfI7g
— Will Jordan (@williamjordann) January 26, 2018
After eight years of having to suffer under the most personally upstanding president in decades, Republicans finally have their moral and ethical role model in charge: Donald Trump. https://t.co/JOkrPV5yj6
— Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) January 26, 2018
"Sen. Thom Tillis was one of the first Republicans to try to save the special counsel. Now he says his bill isn’t urgent, even after news Trump tried to fire Mueller."https://t.co/3XPg4vxw6i
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) January 26, 2018
efgoldman
Very much OT, but my thanks to all who responded to my dog questions a few threads ago.
mrs efg has joined in the web search
Jeffro
What rhymes with “obstruction”? Eminem and also Robert Mueller want to know…
Anne Laurie
@efgoldman: (perks up ears) … dog question? Repeat, please?
Viva BrisVegas
@Jeffro: Destruction.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
What the fuck is up with that Tillis story?
Major Major Major Major
Jebus, that ethical climate poll.
NotMax
Repeating from below because it is germane. Three things legal we’re bound to become more familiar with as Mueller progresses:
1) the charge of misprision of a felony (much, much, much longer odds on misprision of treason)
2) 18 U.S. Code § 1519
3) 18 U.S. Code § 1513
SiubhanDuinne
How long until only Fox News [sic.] and the National Enquirer, and maybe Page 6 of the NYPost are the only remaining non--“fake news” outlets?
efgoldman
@Anne Laurie:
Now 230+ comments
Jeffro
@Major Major Major Major: I know…but it’s the same thing we’ve seen in a million other polls. Things under Obama, the black Democrat = bad. Things under Trumpov, the white Republican = good. Sheer mindless tribalism. Ask just one of those R respondents why they responded that way, make them actually explain it, and they’ll choke on their own fucking tongues.
NotMax
@Jeffro
Magic 8-ball (Stormy Daniels limited edition model) sez: knob suction.
;)
hitless
FWIW, the nytimes front page is full of how restrained and pragmatic Trump was at Davos with the elite.
Think I’m done. Stuff is too wacked to be fixed.
Major Major Major Major
My friend’s rabbit might have brain parasites, as long as we’re on pets. So sad. Poor Bunzo. They thought it was an ear infection but it’s gotten dire.
@Jeffro: yeah I know, still!
SiubhanDuinne
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: I
Oh dear, I am unaware of all internet traditions, and the Tillis story passed me by entirely. Links or an executive summary, if you please!
jl
@hitless: What? I read some of Trump’s loopy comments at Davos. Yeesh. Why are they so eager to suck shit out of that asshole’s ass? Hey, NYT, it’s too late. Wolff scooped you, get over it. Unless you want access for the sake of access and feel all important about shit.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@SiubhanDuinne:
It’s the last tweet in Anne’s post. Possible kompromat on him to suddenly not want to move his bill protecting Mueller forward?
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
Oh. Sob and gulp. Anything awful about bunrabs makes me very sad.
SiubhanDuinne
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Oh, duh, thanx.
ETA: THOM THILLIS is a Republican THOOL!
jl
On Tillis-Coons and Booker-Graham bills,from the article, I gather that veering between bashing Trump and golfing with him is Graham’s position on protecting lawful government.
Japa21
Speaking of polls,a recent poll asked if people thought Trump is a good role model for their children. 72 percent of Republicans said that he is. Overall, 29 percent said he is. Margin of error probably brings that down to 27 percent.
Cheryl Rofer
@SiubhanDuinne: Fox News had its own source last night corroborating that Trump wanted to fire Mueller and McGahn threatened to quit.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Laboring to mend Tillis’ Punctured Bromance.
;)
(With all appropriate apologies to the late, great Marie Dressler.)
debbie
Commentary isn’t far behind, as evidenced in this NPR interview.
dopey-o
There’s that 27% number again. What is it with 27% ?
sharl
Not Russiagate, but involving the same scumbags who brought us that shit show – a bit of good news from Maryland. First tweet from 5-6 hours ago:
Their piece dropped a couple hours later:
Let the mill keep grinding…
ETA: actually Kushner’s partners COULD be Russian oligarchs and their operatives, so contrary to my opening sentence, a Russiagate component cannot be summarily ruled out.
jl
@Japa21: Peak Wingnut is a lie, Peak Wingnut is Trump, so…
At any rate, this may be why the GOPer pols are acting so insane. Those who are still loyal GOPers who will turn out for primaries and reliably vote GOP in the general have been reduced to die-hard Trumpsters. GOP politicians will surely lose if they abandon their president in the primaries and surely lose in the general if they don’t abandon him.
Some of that is anecdata. The GOPers in my circle have all peeled off into Dems, independents, or passive non-participating by-standers to the wreckage of their own party. Except for a few bigoted reactionaries in the Central Valley, whom Trumpism has probably driven insane, at least judging by the way they rave.
AliceBlue
@hitless:
They were fluffing Trump’s Davos performance on CNN this morning too.
SiubhanDuinne
I heard only brief snippets of Trump’s Davos speech today, but what little I did hear sounded — dare I say it? — extremely low energy. No “oomph” at all to what was widely billed as a cheerleading sales pitch for the US of A. Very off-putting.
John Revolta
@Japa21: “Hell yeah! I want MY kid to inherit 40 million dollars too!”
Jeffro
@SiubhanDuinne: Even he doesn’t believe it…and/or doesn’t believe he needs to sell it. “This kind of close-minded thinking is who. i. am., see, and that’s just the way it’s going to be.”
Fred Trump must be incredibly proud.
SiubhanDuinne
@Cheryl Rofer:
Really, last night, eh? And here I thought they were all about the Arizona car chase last night!
chris
@SiubhanDuinne: Jet lag and dried frog pills?
Frankensteinbeck
@Major Major Major Major:
Yikes. Tapeworm larvae?
@Japa21:
No surprise to me. I’ve long said a major reason they picked him was that he’s supposed to prove that ignorant, dumb-as-shit, racist assholes are God’s perfect creature.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
President Spanky Frederovitch McSyphilis
Major Major Major Major
@Frankensteinbeck: dunno, I’m not exactly gonna interrogate him about it.
Anne Laurie
@efgoldman: Sent you an email, let me know here if it doesn’t reach you.
Will be Away From Keyboard for a couple hours now, but I’ll check back afterwards!
SiubhanDuinne
@Jeffro: You know, there’s really very little out there in the Trump biographies about Fred Trump, but from everything I can
suss out he must have been a right monster.
There’s even less written about Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, but I will believe until my dying day that Donald’s mommy issues are even more profound than his daddy issues. And that’s saying a lot. And I find it fascinating that no one, no one, seems to think it’s worth spending much time or thought on Don’s relationship with his parents in their various bios and hagiographies and analyses of him.
NotMax
So old remember when B-J Friday night threads were more traditionally music oriented.
So, a little something Russian, Indian style.
Anne Laurie
@Major Major Major Major:
Bad batch of clover, possibly. Thing about eating grass, there are parasites evolved to spread via herbivores just as there are via carnivores.
Frankensteinbeck
@Major Major Major Major:
Fair enough. And if you don’t know, you don’t want details. Parasitology is just about the ugliest academic discipline there is.
efgoldman
@Anne Laurie:
Ain’t got it yet, but Verizon has been on the slow side lately
Jeffro
@SiubhanDuinne: They could probably spare, oh, 10% of the time they spent dwelling on Obama’s relationship with his mom, her relationships with men, HIS relationships with them, those mens’ worldviews, etc etc.
At the very least, we could hear more about Trumpov’s family’s chain migration, and their perennial racism.
Major Major Major Major
@Anne Laurie: @Frankensteinbeck: the bunny is very very sick. ?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@hitless: FTFNYT, they need to be put out of their misery.
B.B.A.
In other countries’ embarrassments, the leading candidate in Ontario’s upcoming election for Premier resigned over sexual misconduct charges. The Progressive-Conservative Party is scrambling for a new candidate, and it’s very possible that the new head of government in Canada’s largest province may be one Doug Ford – brother of the late Toronto mayor Rob Ford, with a very similar governing philosophy (i.e., fat, drunk and stupid).
CarolDuhart2
@SiubhanDuinne: I noticed that during the campaign. And in general. People usually reference their parents, if even only to say how terrible they were and how much that person tried to transcend their influence. Or mention interests in common. Not even little anecdotes about his childhood, mom and dad’s interests, or what it was like working with dad. Nothing. His parents seem to have dropped off the earth, not only in death.
And Dad was an up and coming real estate magnate who marries a poor Scottish girl, which is unusual considering his ambition. Most of the time guys like him marry minor socialites, would-be models and former actresses. Was Dad also frozen out of society too? If that was the case, it could be a root cause of Trump’s resentment as well towards Manhattanites. He could be trying in his own way to get back for not only his own, but his father’s freeze-out as well.
Cacti
It has now been 11 hours since the Wall Street Journal dropped the story about RNC finance chair Steve Wynn being a sexual predator.
RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel has yet to issue any kind of statement.
Cheryl Rofer
@SiubhanDuinne: There’s a funny mashup of Sean Hannity first saying “Oh haha nothing to it” and then a little while later “Fox News says that the President wanted to fire Mueller.” I’ll see if I can find it.
eclare
@SiubhanDuinne: You’ve noted that before, and I agree. No one has written anything about mom, it’s weird.
efgoldman
@Cacti:
She couldn’t find all the right weasel lawyers, late on a Friday nite
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SiubhanDuinne: Did you see the picture of her Betty posted this morning ? I assume he learned from his father that real men don’t change diapers and don’t pay attention to the kids until their adults. And that, as the three Large Adult Children prove, don’t make for healthy adults
eclare
@Major Major Major Major: Hate to hear that….
NotMax
@efgoldman
Just needs to head to the nearest Hooter’s.
burnspbesq
@Frankensteinbeck:
Worse than Political Science?
Kay
I’m so glad political media are still holding Hillary Clinton accountable. It’s a wonder they can see past the President’s 50,000 scandals to keep their eagle eye trained on private citizen Clinton, but they manage.
Hillary Clinton is now directly responsible for all sexual harassment in the United States.
I love the “doesn’t directly address”. We all know it doesn’t matter if she “directly addresses” anything. Whatever she says will have absolutely no bearing on their coverage. I don’t know why she tries. She should save her breath.
At some point Nate Silver will do an analysis and there will be more coverage of Hillary Clinton’s associations with harassing men than of the harassing men themselves.
eemom
@NotMax:
Come on, admit it — don’t those sound cool? Then there’s subornation of perjury….witness tampering….violation of emoluments clause.
Lawyerdom is not without its simple pleasures.
Calouste
@CarolDuhart2: I’m pretty certain that at one point someone told a young shitgibbon that he would never be accepted by New York society because his mother was a servant girl. He has never forgotten that, which is why he never mentions his mother, and instead babbles on about his “great genes”.
Jeffro
@eemom: they ALL sound cool, in the context of charges being brought against the Clown Administration, from the head clown on down.
Jeffro
@Calouste: Someone should tell him, “No…it’s actually just because you’re an asshole, Donnie”.
B.B.A.
@Jeffro: That, ah, does not preclude one’s acceptance in NY society. See, e.g., Leona Helmsley.
Belafon
“moral and ethical climate”
How many euphemisms for white are there?
Kay
Because they all, simultaneously and abruptly, stopped talking about the deficit the moment Obama left office.
All those “experts” disappeared, all the hand-wringing stopped, it was like turning off a light switch. You wonder where all those people GO when there’s a GOP President. Do they hold them in some storage facility for 4 or 8 years and then bring them all out again? You wouldn’t even have to watch election results- you’ll know the Democrat won when the “deficit hawks” appear, like crows on a power line.
Adrift
@Jeffro:
Abduction, destruction, liposuction.
patrick II
“Fight back harder” seems to go past risk analysis. Plus, even the framing of some risk analysis would seem to cross the line. For instance: “If this witness lives to testify, you will probably go to jail.”
I am not a lawyer (do we non-lawyers always have to say that? It’s usually obvious anyway.), but anyhow, lawyers who influence someone to illegal action lose the ability to use lawyer-client privilege in their own defense. I am not sure where that line is drawn.
PJ
@Jeffro: @Adrift: And the number one answer from our studio audience is – drum roll please – “Corruption!” Tell them what they’ve won, Donnie!
patrick II
I just saw Kevin Drum’s picture of Trump at DAVOS acompanying his Trump Smear Campaign post. That has to be the worst make-up job I have ever seen. For a man of his vanity I have to wonder if his reality bending narcissism is at work when he looks in the mirror. And if his make-up person is a democrat.
Gretchen
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’ve noticed that none of the Trump men wear wedding rings either. I guess it’s unmanly to admit that you’re bound to a mere woman. Pretty much all the other Washington power men wear wedding rings – Comey, Obama, etc. – but it’s too wussy for the manly Trump men to do so.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Kay:
Yes, what do you think they’re doing with all those closed Sam’s Club locations.
(Adjusts tin foil hat.)
Tenar Arha
Any urban birders up late here? Fascinating article in The Atlantic Urban Bird Feeders Are Changing the Course of Evolution
Gretchen
@Kay: Really – Hillary Clinton has never been accused of sexually harassing anyone, but for both Harvey Weinstein and Steve Wynn she’s right in the middle of the coverage, and Why Won’t She Address it?
JWR
@Cheryl Rofer: Here’s a kind of Hannity/Fox News mashup from Newshounds. Maybe this is what you were looking for?
Newshounds link
Edit to note that their video is at the bottom of the page.
Tenar Arha
Also, here’s a fun Twitter mega-thread of adding alternate scores (songs) to a *spoilerific* scene in The Last Jedi, (even with an added Spotify playlist) that’s just *finger kisses* Start here with ELO’s Mr. Blue Sky
eclare
Way OT: my parents are moving from their house to a seventh floor apartment with a balcony, and I was thinking of getting them a bird feeder. Birds will find their way to the seventh story, right? I am not a birder, so am genuinely asking.
patrick II
@Tenar Arha:
Thanks, that was a fascinating article.
efgoldman
@eclare:
The birds that live near the tops of the very tall trees in our yard appear to know how to fly.
eclare
@efgoldman: Hahaha, stupid question I guess. But there aren’t any trees around the building, so I was curious if anyone had had experience.
Major Major Major Major
@patrick II:
Well, we know it’s not a self respecting woman or gay man.
Tenar Arha
@eclare: according to that Atlantic article, even to the 25th floor. (but they will get guano too probably).
Gretchen
@Tenar Arha: That was a really good article. And it has a connection to NYU Library, where my daughter works, so that was special. Thanks.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: Yes, but you’re in New England and all the birds probably went to Harvard.
eclare
@Tenar Arha: I have bookmarked to read tomorrow, somehow I missed that, thank you!
NotMax
@eclare
Would certainly suggest checking with the building management first as to whether or not that is permissible. Also too, people with balconies on the floor beneath and the floor above might not be thrilled about having birds coming and going (and going, if you get my drift).
TS
I don’t understand how all this ends – but can the GOPers in congress who are assisting trump in his endeavor to discredit FBI officers be charged with anything? or is this just my wistful thinking?
eclare
@NotMax: Gotcha, good point.
Major Major Major Major
All this talk of balconies makes me nostalgic for the nice south-facing balcony we had when we lived in the giant Eichler in cathedral hill.
We didn’t have a bird feeder though.
eclare
@Major Major Major Major: Unfortunately this one is north facing….but it is nice.
Anne Laurie
@SiubhanDuinne:
Certainly part of the problem was that, until mid-2015, there wasn’t really much interest outside NYC in Trump’s biography. And *within* NYC, those reporters who might’ve dug deeper may have figured it wasn’t worth the torrent of I WILL SUE YOU LIKE A DOG!!!!! letters bound to ensue.
Plus, there’s the rumor that Trump’s “success” as a real estate mogul, such as it was, relied heavily on the goodwill of People Who Don’t Need Your Publicity Thank You (cough *mafia* cough). With so many more promising subjects, why venture into that muck?
What little I’ve seen, Trump’s older brother came to a tragic end — in a way that tends to be at least somewhat genetic (alcoholism). His other three sibs are… normal enough to avoid attention, right?
My guess would be that Fred Trump and his wife may not have been model parents. But then again, if Donald is actually a sociopath, it could also have been that his parents did the best they could (he didn’t actually end up in jail while he was under their care, just a military academy) but that wouldn’t have been good enough regardless.
The infamous interaction of nature & nuture. To sidle sideways, dog breeders figure that temperament is about 75% inherited. In a “purebred” dog line, humans can make a pretty good guess which puppies will grow up to be resilient, and which will always be… iffy. And there are plenty of cases where two otherwise sound, beautiful dogs turn out to be a bad combination — when a litter ‘throws’ multiple puppies who demonstrate regressive flaws that neither parent ever showed. Sensible breeders don’t repeat such matches, and informed observers warn each other against acquiring puppies from breeders who are too greedy or fond to be sensible. But 99.9% of humans are so very much not purebred to that extent, and most of us don’t let ‘sensible observers’ judge who our partners should be if we were!
Anne Laurie
@Calouste:
Nah, his old man Fred seems to have passed on the “great genes” obsession, as part of his patrimony. Evidence not yet available, but right now, it sounds to me like Mom just concentrated on keeping the kids clean, fed, and not in jail until they were old enough for Pater to take an interest. Maybe she was a monster, or maybe she was just too beaten down to put up more of a struggle.
(Although, given that at least one of her kids died of alcohol abuse, and the era when she was raising kids, it wouldn’t come as a total shock if she was one of those “desperate housewives” who relied on a steady private intake of alcohol or doctor-prescribed ‘nerve pills’ as anesthesia, either. Subclinical depression and/or functional alcoholism can be hard to diagnose in this context.)
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Kay: If this keeps up, Hillary may not get reelected in 2020.
TS
@Cacti:
The media is only interest in sexual predators if they can be linked to members of the democratic party
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Kay:
Now that we seem to have a “fire immediately upon first accusation of sexual misconduct in the workplace without regard to degree or potential corrective action that retains valuable employees” climate, does this mean we get to immediately fire young women the first time they’re caught texting or using a smartphone for personal use on the job?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Anne Laurie:
Trump’s “success” in business and as a negotiator is solely related to leveraging the potential negatives from his failures into protection of his perusal assets and lifestyle. In his world, all is zero sum, and his counterparties are there to suffer for his benefit.
sharl
LOL, right-wing media is abuzz due to the unannounced and unexplained deactivation of Hannity’s Twitter account, which happened sometime after midnight (ET).
The most active discussion of this appears to be over at Reddit, in the r/conspiracy subreddit (of course). Ain’t no way I’m wading into that swamp teeming with freaks, but I’m guessing that the mystery of Hannity’s “Form Submission 1649” tweet has them really cranked up doing “analysis”. I’m hoping it’s a manifestation of increasing desperation of Hannity and his crew, i.e., setting up for some dark bullshit story they can spin out later. But really I haven’t a clue.
In the meantime – again – LOL.
SectionH
href=”#comment-6731616″>eclare: I live on the 7th floor of our building, and birds not only found their way to our North-facing 7tg floor balcony, they made major messes on it. No, srsly. To the point we’re taking a break from feeding them. Because, mess doesn’t even begin to cover it. We bought some already husked birdfeed, but damn.
There was a point when we had so many little birds, we got a Hawk’s attention – the bird was coming in hard to our balcony. At least twice when I was a real time witness. Ok, the predator bird was probably a Peregrin Falcon, which are srsly documented in our neighborhood, but I saw the bird and thought Hawk.
So yeah, it may take a while for the birds to find you on the 7th floor, but they will.
Anyway, it may take a while but city balconies can have plenty of critters
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
I want an obit like this!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: While I agree with you to some exent about the first part of your question, how does a young woman texting our using her personal smartphone on company time create a hostile work environment?
SectionH
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: That was funny. No, srsly, funny.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: I saw the question you posed about the photo I linked to this morning. How did I do it:
It was shot handheld in landscape using exposure bracketing(5 shots x 3 exposures per shot).
In Lightroom I applied my standard correction(reduce highlights 100%, and sharpen), increased shadows, corrected whites and blacks and added clarity, then…
Used PT/Gui to combine the exposures and stitch them together..
and back to Lightroom where I applied the secret sauce(range masking a sun glow preset to just the shadows) and then added vibrance and saturation to taste.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Because she’s not sharing in the necessary labor, and it is a distraction and disruption that seriously annoys and disrespects other work partners and detracts from the working environment.
If we’re doing “zero tolerance” for anything now without correction, let’s fire them for that, as well as for being a half minute late for their break to Starbucks for their triple skinny vente moccachino latte. #metoozerotolerance
rikyrah
@Japa21:
Down to the crazyfication factor ?
rikyrah
@Kay:
They couldn’t find the time to write one less email story during 2016, to publish this NOW?
Hillary is a private citizen-
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I think using that standard of “zero tolerance” you’d soon find yourself sans a workforce.
SectionH
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Is LIghtroom Adobe? Also more important Q, how do you keep track of your photos? I came from the keep track of my own images by name past. I’ve been lost for ages about a lot of photos I’ve taken. Mind you, I know where togo through images, etc. most of them I should probably have deleted long ago.
I’ve tried to use Bridge, but it’s so not helpful, or at least it used to not be. I’d have spent more time trying to learn Bridge to be useful than any time I had back then. So, never mind OT comment, how do you keep track?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SectionH: Lightroom is from Adobe and is included in the Photography subscription along with Photoshop(you can no longer buy it as a standalone package). In addition of basic processing of photos is has keywording for photos and geotaging to organize photos.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Y’think? ?
Steve in the ATL
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I can answer this question, but it’s the middle of the night, I’m half drunk, and this isn’t billable work. So screw you guys!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah:
Yeah, that’s what she says…
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steve in the ATL: We love you too Steve.
Steve in the ATL
@?BillinGlendaleCA: ❤️?❤️?
SectionH
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I own CS6, all of it, ok? because I knew I wasn’t gonna make $ off of work forever, and I had no idea what level of poverty I’d have to live at. But LIghtroom was so off my radar…
CS6 was “that’s all she wrote” for Adobe’s actually Own the damn applications, like fucking InDesign -kludgier Pagemaker, IMO – and Illustrator as well as Photoshop.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SectionH: If you have CS6 you can install and fire up Lightroom, the only thing you won’t have is range masking in Lightroom which was new in Lightroom Classic CC 7.
Magda in Black
@SiubhanDuinne:
I wonder about this every time I see him “hugging” himself. What the hell happened to that little boy that turned him in to this monster?
SectionH
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I should do that because I can. Srsly. I’m a shit photographer, but Lightroom might get some interesting something out of something I can’t do in Photoshop , or otherwise show me something. And that’s not snark, ok?
eta: that last comment was a bit lacking in nouns at the end. Sorry. It’s late in San Diego too.
trnc
@patrick II: Exactly. I’d like to hear from an actual lawyer what a legitimate scenario would be for a lawyer to advise his client to fight back harder. The lawyer is the one with all the legal tools, so he is the only one who can actually do the fighting, right?
If the client was hiding his head in the sand while getting pummeled in the press, it might make sense for a lawyer to tell the client he needs to fight in the court of public opinion. But we’re talking about DT. Can anyone honestly say that he wasn’t already saying whatever he thought he should to fight adverse public opinion?
BC in Illinois
Coming late to this, but two items:
1) On Trump’s triumph at Davos, let me point out the last line in an article in Le Monde, “At Davos, The French Savor the End of French bashing” . . .
“The joke of the moment in Davos: ‘For once, a French president speaks better English than the American president.’ ”
2) On rhymes for obstruction, may I remind you that not every word in a lyric needs to rhyme:
But you tell me, over and over and over again, my friend,
Ah, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of obstruction
Matt McIrvin
@Frankensteinbeck: My mom had to take a class on parasitology when she was getting a psychology master’s. I think it scarred her for life.
MoxieM
@efgoldman: Posted on last thread, but reposted here, just because I do Newfie Rescue and facts is facts.
I’ve had Newfies for 25 years… multiples of Newfies! (they’re like potato chips, or Great Danes, you can’t have just one).
MYTH: they eat a lot: They do not. They eat less than an average Labrador.
Because:
MYTH: They are athletic (ha hah! I’ve had living room furniture that was more athletic…). They are very strong, they need a small amount of exercise, swimming if you can get it is best and safest. (Safest because they are, indeed prone to ortho injuries, arthritis and the like.)
THEY ARE VERY STRONG and they will pull you over in a flash if you are leashed to one and you don’t have him/her under control. Not malice, just muscle strength and 4-wheel drive.
THEY ARE NOT DOGS FOR BEGINNERS. Most of my dogs are rescues, and most of them come from households who adopted an amazingly cute fuzzy puffball at 15 lbs–who mushroomed to a 130+ lb teenager in eight months. If you are not accustomed to training such a beast, it’s not good for anyone. Also they need careful diets during this rapid growth phase.
You must adore brushing. And brushing And brushing And brushing some more. And snipping hair around the feetsies and earsies. They require a ton of grooming, and if you don’t do it, it generally runs $80 a pop at a decent groomer.
They are the loving-est, sweetest, most loyal, best around children dogs on the planet. Added bonus: they will rescue your (grand) children from the water.But there’s a saying: 3 years a young dog; 3 years a good dog; 3 years and old dog. A 12 year old Newf is really, really old.
And the expense with these fellers and gals is Veterinary–flea/tick preventive, routine shots–you name it, we get twice as much and pay twice as much because our dogs weigh twice as much. Avg female: 110 (tiny!)-125 lbs. Avg male 120 – 140 lbs. (I had a dog whose sire was 175 lbs.)
Although– because they are so low-energy (area rugs with legs), they are actually OK in an apartment if you take them out regularly.
Oh, and about that: be prepared to clean up after a small pony. yeah. Daily.
But, best dogs evah! far as I am concerned. But it doesn’t sound like a great match for your circumstances.
Matt McIrvin
@Gretchen: I really think the only way Democrats can avoid major trouble over sexual harassment in the 2020 cycle is to nominate a man. Any woman is going to be held to absurdly high standards of responsibility for anyone associated with her, because it’ll be considered an ironic story about hypocrisy, man-bites-dog.
Gvg
@Kay: um, Kay, we have all reordered are priorities due to what problems exist at the time. Currently my priorities are getting the madman with no morals or sense of law out of office, getting all the traitor republican’s out of power, mitigating as much damage as possible on the way to the prior goals, reordering state laws to prevent gerrymandering and repealing Citizens United to get corruption of legislators down to manageable levels. Deficit will have to wait because we can’t until the other things happen.
Obama too office in a financial crisis. He didn’t cause other stupid crisises so he doggedly worked at that one and trying to calm down and clean up the mess in the Middle East. Most people supported that goal. If some real new crisis had arisen in his administration, the deficit might have dropped more in people’s priority list. Sure much of the deficit hawking from the media was insincere, but I think the polls on people’s opinions isn’t out of line with reality. The real question is what do all people think is the most important NOW. If they don’t think it’s the deficit, what is it?
Hellbastard
That moral climate graph is pretty fascinating. You don’t see too much divergence until 2009 or so, when the red and the blue start to race away from each other. I wonder what happened at about that time to cause such an effect.
JDM
@SiubhanDuinne:
There’s even less written about Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, but I will believe until my dying day that Donald’s mommy issues are even more profound than his daddy issues.
One thing that doesn’t get mentioned much is Donald Trump’s Liberace connection. Trump’s mother was a really big Liberace fan. And when you watch Donald Trump speaking, his gestures are pure Liberace. I think you’re right about the mommy issues (which is amazing because his daddy issues are big big big), and adopting the gestures of one of her show biz idols is a manifestation.
J R in WV
@TS:
These interesting questions are why NotMax in Comment #7 provides a definition of misprison of a felony in some detail by quoting the federal code related to that crime:
Redleg
Trump’s attacks on the FBI and the Mueller investigation appear to be irrational and self-defeating to many of us. I think that Trump knows the investigation will uncover criminal wrongdoing (in addition to obstruction of justice) so his “strategy” is simply to save his ass from impeachment and conviction by convincing enough Republican congress critters that the FBI and investigation are illegitimate and biased. It is already clear to me that this strategy is working. I guess we’ll see what happens when Mueller sends his report to Congress.
Kenneth Kohl
@eclare: They may have to take the elevator in that case…
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Jeffro:
More like Cult group think. A tribe would still have to deal with basic reality, not insist on something they know is false being true because the leader said it, that’s a cult. I personally think we will end up seeing a mass suicide by conservatives at some point.