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Nunberg’s Post-Testimony Interview

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Following his testimony before Mueller’s grand jury, Nunberg gives a non-pub crawl interview to GMA:

He says he didn’t have a “melt down” on TV during his media blitz earlier this week. (Was it really this week when Nunberg ping-ponged from studio to studio babbling incoherently? Jesus, it’s so hard to keep track when we’re living in Trump-years!) Instead, he said he “melted TV down” because he “wanted to show what this independent counsel, this independent investigation, does to people like me.”

Mission accomplished, Mr. Nunberg, and may Mueller and team continue to prompt people like yourself to panic, rage, defy and then meekly comply in an attempt to save their own precious hides.

That’s what this investigation will come down to, I think, a question of whether people are willing to take a fall for Trump. Given how often Trump turns loyal supporters into speed bumps, the answer will be “hell no.”

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  1. 1.

    germy

    Instead, he said he “melted TV down” because he “wanted to show what this independent counsel, this independent investigation, does to people like me.”

    So it was performance art?

    If so… bravo.

  2. 2.

    Dave

    So terrible that they are stressed out because they may actually be held to account for all the crimes.

  4. 4.

    germy

    Bringing in a purely crazy character, like Sam Nunberg, is a stunt the writers only pull when the show is getting away from them, and they're just desperately trying anything to make noise, no matter how much damage it does. This show's about to get canceled, is what I'm saying.— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) March 5, 2018

  5. 5.

    germy

    People like Sam Nunberg are going around every news show on TV and acting like absolute lunatics…but sure, it’s us teenagers who are the “immature” ones who need to “get out of politics.”— Emilia (@PoliticalEmilia) March 6, 2018

  6. 6.

    rikyrah

    Trump wants new authority over polling places. Top election officials say no
    By Annie Linskey GLOBE STAFF
    MARCH 09, 2018

    WASHINGTON — President Trump would be able to dispatch Secret Service agents to polling places nationwide during a federal election, a vast expansion of executive authority, if a provision in a Homeland Security reauthorization bill remains intact.

    The rider has prompted outrage from more than a dozen top elections officials around the country, including Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin, a Democrat, who says he’s worried that it could be used to intimidate voters and said there is “no basis” for providing Trump with this new authority.

    “This is worthy of a Third World country,” said Galvin in an interview. “I’m not going to tolerate people showing up to our polling places. I would not want to have federal agents showing up in largely Hispanic areas.”

    “The potential for mischief here is enormous,” Galvin added.

    The White House didn’t respond to a question about the measure.

    “There is no discernible need for federal secret service agents to intrude, at the direction of the president, who may also be a candidate in that election, into thousands of citadels where democracy is enshrined,” according to a letter opposing the provision that was signed by 19 bipartisan secretaries of state and elections commissioners.

  7. 7.

    Corner Stone

    Oh goody. Looks like MSNBC’s next segment is going to explore how much money Stormy Daniels is now making after increased…um…visibility..after her lawsuit against Trump.

  8. 8.

    germy

    When the make the Trump movie, I hope they don’t cut right from Sam Nunberg saying “I’m not going to jail,” to Sam Nunberg in jail, because c’mon, it’s been done.
    — Jennifer Wright (@JenAshleyWright) March 6, 2018

  10. 10.

    rikyrah

    You get what you vote for.
    I could care less if you get decimated by this.
    No better for you.

    ………………………

    Trade War Prospect Shakes Part of Trump Base: Midwest Farmers

    That’s a tangible threat throughout the Midwest, which accounts for roughly half the nation’s agricultural output, a prime target in any tit-for-tat response to the tariffs announced by President Trump. Unlike the rest of the economy, farms deliver a trade surplus for the United States, and a trade war could put barriers around lucrative markets.

    Mr. Gould, 76, is a longtime Republican, and like large numbers of farmers, he voted for Mr. Trump. But several of the president’s policy positions, like curtailing crop insurance, have run counter to agricultural interests — and perhaps none more than trade.

  11. 11.

    rikyrah

    HMMPH

    ABC Pulls Politically And Socially-Themed ‘Black-Ish’ Episode Due To “Creative Differences” With Creator Kenya Barris

    According to Variety, who broke this news, the episode “features Anthony Anderson’s patriarch Dre caring for his infant son on the night of an intense thunderstorm that keeps the whole household awake. Dre attempts to read the baby a bedtime story, but abandons that plan when the baby continues to cry. He instead improvises a bedtime story that, over the course of the episode, conveys many of Dre’s concerns about the current state of the country. The episode covers multiple political and social issues. In one scene, Dre and oldest son Junior (Marcus Scribner) argue over the rights of athletes to kneel during the performance of the national anthem at football games.”

  13. 13.

    rikyrah

    Putin says Jews with Russian citizenship could be behind U.S. election meddling

    Source: USA Today

    MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin says he doesn’t care about alleged Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election because the actions weren’t connected to his government.

    In an interview with NBC, the Russian president was asked if he condoned the interference by 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies detailed in a US indictment.

    “I do not care at all, because they do not represent the government,” he said, according to the interview transcript posted Saturday by the Kremlin.

    “Maybe they are not even Russians but Ukrainians, Tatars or Jews but with Russian citizenship, which should also be checked; maybe they have dual citizenship of a green card; maybe the US paid them for this. How can you know that? I do not know either,” he said.

  17. 17.

    Brachiator

    @rikyrah:

    Mr. Gould, 76, is a longtime Republican, and like large numbers of farmers, he voted for Mr. Trump. But several of the president’s policy positions, like curtailing crop insurance, have run counter to agricultural interests — and perhaps none more than trade.

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

    I will bet you that this shit heel would say that he would still vote for Trump again.

  19. 19.

    Calouste

    @Corner Stone: According to Wikipedia the Secret Service has 7,000 employees. That might cover 1-2% of all the polling places in the US, if they pull all the ones that are actually providing protection from their jobs.

  21. 21.

    Corner Stone

    @Calouste: My thought is we will see a perversion of who Trump wants to authorize for this “task farce”. Best guess: ICE at every majority Hispanic voting area in 9 or 10 key districts/states.

  22. 22.

    clay

    @rikyrah: Hmm… considering the thoughtful and potentially controversial episodes that Black-ish has already aired, I can’t imagine what this one could possibly contain that would make ABC jittery. I mean, didn’t they have a whole episode about how much Trump sucks?

    Unless… I hate to spin conspiracy theories without warrent… but maybe they took some shots at ESPN over the kneeling thing? (ABC and ESPN both being owned by Disney.)

  23. 23.

    Chyron HR

    Instead, he said he “melted TV down” because he “wanted to show what this independent counsel, this independent investigation, does to people like me.”

    He’s right, any ordinary American who was a member of a massive criminal conspiracy to have an enemy country commit acts of cyber-espionage and/or -terrorism against the federal government, many state governments, and the Democratic party in exchange for political favors could have their life get flippped, turned upside down by this out-of-control independent counsel and his independent investigation. :c

  24. 24.

    TriassicSands

    New York Times headline:
    Florida Governor Signs Gun Limits Into Law, Breaking With the N.R.A.

    We can only hope that this is the beginning of the end to the murderous “friendship” between the odious Marion Hammer and her Republican automatons. The Ebola of human beings suffers a major defeat in Florida — and the world is a better place for it.

    I’ll limit my comment to that. With someone as despicable as Hammer it would be relatively easy to lose control and write things that should never be committed to print.

  26. 26.

    Mnemosyne

    @clay:

    I saw an anti-NFL protester standing outside the ABC building in Burbank during the 2016 election, so your surmise may be correct. They may not want to stir that back up again in the run-up to the midterms.

  28. 28.

    trollhattan

    @Brachiator:
    Nunes and McCarthy have One Job: bring money and water and cheap labor to ag. Interested to see how their benefactors handle them this fall.

  32. 32.

    trollhattan

    @TriassicSands:
    The Florida law is so much weaksauce but it’s instructive to watch the NRA’s obligatory outrage theater. Everybody is playing their part as expected.

  38. 38.

    lamh36

    #BlackPanther  reached $1 billion at the global box office in just 26 days bit.ly/2GaZA4t

  39. 39.

    TriassicSands

    @trollhattan:

    On one level, the important thing is not how strong the law is but just the fact that legislators who have been the obedient servants of Hammer and the NRA have voted against the demands of the evil Hammer/NRA partnership.

    I wish I believed this meant that those legislators would now show increased independence in the future. I think it is more likely we’ll see increased groveling in order for those legislators to get back in the good graces of Hammer and by extension the NRA.

  40. 40.

    Brachiator

    @trollhattan:

    Nunes and McCarthy have One Job: bring money and water and cheap labor to ag. Interested to see how their benefactors handle them this fall.

    California farm interests are already complaining that anti-immigrant sweeps are hurting their ability to hire workers. But they had to know that this would happen with Trump whipping up anti-immigrant hysteria.

    But big farmers, like other groups, will have those sweet, sweet tax cuts to soothe over any hard feelings if they can’t get all they want from Trump.

  41. 41.

    Tom Levenson

    @Calouste: If it’s that high I’ll eat my ballot. The town of Taunton MA, for example, has a population around 55,000 and 16 polling places. An estimate I saw on line said there were over 113,000 polling places nation wide in the 2004 election. With population gain since then, the number is unlikely to have gone down (IMHO). That puts the 7,000 Secret Service employees able to cover about .67 % of them all — assuming we strip the details covering the President, all prior Presidents, the Veep, all covered families etc.

    Nah gonna happen.

    Which means, of course, that they would try to hire private goons for the job — which may be the actual goal.

  42. 42.

    trollhattan

    @Tom Levenson:

    Which means, of course, that they would try to hire private goons for the job — which may be the actual goal.

    Enter: Eric Prince to the rescue!

  43. 43.

    Brachiator

    @lamh36:

    #BlackPanther reached $1 billion at the global box office in just 26 days.

    I think they have stopped counting money and are now just shoveling it in.

    ETA. And with A Wrinkle in Time opening, Disney will have the top two films in the weekend box office.

  46. 46.

    trollhattan

    @Brachiator:
    Unsurprising as it was unintentionally humorous was the pairing of “manmade drought!” and “Trump” signs down-valley in 2016. Only he could fight the real enemy, Nancy Pelosi.

  48. 48.

    Mnemosyne

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Yes, and? As I said, the corporation may not want to take such a directly anti-Trump position right before the midterms. I thought it was pretty obvious what “the corporation” referred to.

  52. 52.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    Help me people, Ashley Feinberg retweeted a GOP post saying “contrary to mainstream belief President Trump has appointed more women to senior level government and campaign positions than previous administrations – take a look at these leading ladies” and their examples are: Melania Trump, Invanka Trump and Karen Pence. Most people on twitter think this is a joke, and the original tweet has since been deleted evidently. I have no idea how to embed a tweet so please help me out here, this is too hilarious not to share.

  53. 53.

    Mnemosyne

    @rikyrah:

    Are you still taking Peanut to see A Wrinkle in Time? I know there’s a bit of a backlash, but I saw a preview last weekend. It’s a movie for and about kids, not adults, which is fairly rare IMO.

  55. 55.

    Calouste

    @germy: He is either in the witness protection program, or in the witness prevention program. Probably the latter.

  57. 57.

    WaterGirl

    @Tom Levenson:

    Which means, of course, that they would try to hire private goons for the job — which may be the actual goal.

    I knew if I read through the thread first I would find that someone had already said what I was thinking.

  59. 59.

    Brachiator

    @rikyrah:

    @lamh36:

    @Mnemosyne:

    WAKANDA FOREVER!!

    Black Panther director Ryan Coogler penned a really sweet letter to “A Wrinkle in Time” director Ava DuVernay.

    “Ava DuVernay is someone who makes the impossible look easy,” he wrote for espnW. “It’s why I feel privileged to call her my big sister. I met her in 2013, but she’s one of those people who you feel like you’ve always known.”

    http://ew.com/movies/2018/03/09/ryan-coogler-ava-duvernay-tribute/

  60. 60.

    opiejeanne

    @trollhattan: My favorite were the signs along I-5 in the 90s: Food Grows Where Water Flows, beside vast fields of cotton.

    I was not amused by seeing that same sign in Disney California Adventure next to the water playground in the midst of the farm exhibit.

  66. 66.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Mnemosyne: I was teasing. I understand why they don’t want to get involved. Though they may also be worried about the local affiliates not wanting to air it. Especially if those local affiliates are owned by Sinclair.

  75. 75.

    Origuy

    Aren’t most of the employees of the Secret Service assigned to anti-counterfeiting? That was the original job of the Secret Service. Only a few of the agents are for protection activities.

  76. 76.

    zhena gogolia

    @germy:

    It’s probably some mixup of Ivana and Ivanka and not really realizing what his current wife’s name is. But it’s funny nonetheless!

  77. 77.

    hellslittlestangel

    Instead, he said he “melted TV down” because he “wanted to show what this independent counsel, this independent investigation, does to people like me.”

    Will no one think of the criminals?

  79. 79.

    Peale

    @Origuy: yep. And they aren’t the presidents own little police force/praetorian guard who get to spread out all over the country to spy on people for voting.

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