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Let’s talk about something besides the debt ceiling.  Who put up that post anyway????

Fifty pages of notes from Corcoran will hopefully nail Trump to the proverbial wall.

 

Let’s do the other crooked Supreme Court justices next.

Dear ProPublica,

Thanks for all your great work.

Please do the Rapey Beer Justice next.

Love, WaterGirl

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    2. 2.

      GibberJack

      Is there a reason you can’t publish the word “dildo” in a hed on this blog? This is Balloon Juice, correct? The place where the phrase “skull-fuck a kitten” was once used…

      Reply
    3. 3.

      JPL

      The Clinton Foundation and the trump gimme money fund, were in the news during 2016.   Only one stands now.   I’m glad that they are looking how money influences government.   We’ve seen how this movie ends.

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    5. 5.

      Scout211

      Link

      Special counsel Jack Smith has obtained dozens of pages of notes that Trump’s attorney Evan Corcoran took last spring, memorializing conversations with his client after the former president received the subpoena last May and before a key meeting with the Justice Department a few weeks later when Trump’s legal team said they had turned over all classified records they could find, the sources told CNN.

      The notes provide more insight into Trump’s thinking and actions during a critical time frame as the special counsel pursues its criminal investigation into Trump’s handling of classified material and the possibility he obstructed the investigation.

      Some sources close to the former president say he was merely asking Corcoran for legal advice when he inquired about whether they could beat back the subpoena. But Trump has offered shifting explanations for why he did not return all the classified documents in a timely fashion. Trump has said he had “the absolute right” to take the documents as recently as this month at a CNN town hall.

      Smith obtained the notes after an extraordinary court fight that ended with a federal judge ruling there was sufficient evidence to suggest Trump used his attorney in furtherance of a crime. That allowed prosecutors to pierce attorney-client privilege and obtain Corcoran’s notes and additional grand jury testimony from him.

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    8. 8.

      Omnes Omnibus

      Garland and Smith are crypto-Republicans and are looking for any chance to let Trump skate!

      Reply
    11. 11.

      SpaceUnit

      I think maybe we ought to have plural names for vegetables the same way we do for animals –  a pod of dolphins, a murder of crows, etc.

      A consequence of cucumbers.

      Reply
    21. 21.

      suzanne

      Is there a reason you can’t publish the word “dildo” in a hed on this blog?

      This is the “TWO wetsuits and a dildo” blog.

      Dude, the first time I used that turn of phrase in real conversation…. I had to explain myself.

      Reply
    22. 22.

      suzanne

      @SpaceUnit:

      Hopefully the cucumber of consequences is only a precursor to the pineapple of justice. 

      Or the hot sauce of lavashit oh what the fuck

      Reply
    23. 23.

      mrmoshpotato

      The cucumber of consequences rarely arrives lubed

      Let’s talk about something besides the debt ceiling. Who put up that post anyway????

      So this is a sex toy post?  It’s not after dark in the US. 🤣

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      Josie

      Goodness, it’s not even after dark yet. Whatever shall I do to avoid reading such suggestive comments?

      Reply
    30. 30.

      Ken

      @gene108: I doubt Garland or Smith have clue how crypto works or blockchain.

      Garland definitely has people who can explain it, although after the first few examples he probably realized that every explanation boiled down to “crime”.

      (Subcategories include “fraud”, “money laundering”, “payment for criminal activities”, and “sanctions evasion”.)

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    31. 31.

      mrmoshpotato

      Dear ProPublica,

       

      Thanks for all your great work.

      Please do the Rapey Beer Justice next.

      Love, WaterGirl

      YES PLEASE!

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    37. 37.

      Jackie

      I remembered to stock up on popcorn while at Costco this past weekend 😊

      And, to whoever posted “I’m Your Puppet” on the prior thread… thanks for the 👂🪱🤪

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    41. 41.

      Roger Moore

      @Ken:

      Cryptocurrency is not, in and of itself, a crime.  What it is, more than anything, is a dodge.  The idea is to reinvent our financial system but to call everything by new names.  Then, because everything is under a new name, it isn’t covered by existing regulations.  Boom!  Now we have a new, completely unregulated financial system.  What could possibly go wrong, except for everything that went wrong with the old financial system that make people decide to regulate it?

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    42. 42.

      Roger Moore

      @WaterGirl:

      Why are you assuming Jack Smith is a Republican?

      Because Donald Trump hasn’t been executed for treason yet.  Everyone in the Justice Department secretly being Trump sympathizers is the only possible explanation.

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      Mousebumples

      @Omnes Omnibus: The internet needs a sarcasm font.

      Though some statements are so clearly sarcastic that it may not be as needed.

      Re: Balloon Juice After Dark, my baby is asleep (and the 3 yo is at swim lessons with Mr. Mouse), so it’s close enough to dusk in my book. 🍻

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    57. 57.

      Mousebumples

      @WaterGirl: Haha, and my daughter loves Minnie Mouse, and even has a Minnie hat. (yes, it’s warm here today; yes, she still wore her warm Minnie hat – good luck rationalizing much with a 3 year old)

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      eversor

      I wrote another five+ paragraph essay for this but ditched it for this.   After all I’ve gone through in my career, I’m still aghast that any of these Trump fucks were cleared and not heavily looked into.  Cause god fucking lord I’m still explaining each new reup for clear how I took ectasy and smoked a joint cause I was really into this girl and she was really hot and how my foreign national contacts are family.  Of that dangerous country, Netherlands.

      Just fucking SSBI people.  This “you can’t SSBI elected people” shit is getting old.  The rest of us have to do it, Single Scope the morons.

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    62. 62.

      karen marie

      @Jackie:  Have you ever made kettle corn?  My understanding is you throw sugar in with the oil and pop the corn in the combo.  I’m skeptical but intrigued.

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    65. 65.

      azlib

      Crypto currency could never be a realistic financial system. The transaction rate in the system is just so slow by many orders of magnitude.  Also, the transaction verifiction cost is really staggeringly high. Bitcoin as an example cryptocurrency is also by design deflationary. There are only so many bitcoins you can “mine”. The libertarians who dreamed this up must have been high on some pretty good weed, if they thought this whole project was going to be anything except a small niche financial investment with a very high risk factor.

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    89. 89.

      Roger Moore

      @azlib:

      Crypto currency could never be a realistic financial system. The transaction rate in the system is just so slow by many orders of magnitude. Also, the transaction verifiction cost is really staggeringly high.

      The biggest problem, IMO, is that trying to keep the entire world’s finances, or even those of a single country, on a single public ledger is just nonsense.  You’re talking about millions (small country) to billions (whole world) of financial transactions per day.  Transmitting and synchronizing all those transactions to anyone who wants to keep track is just ludicrous.  I think the people who want the system to work just can’t grasp the scale of the world’s finances.

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    93. 93.

      Mr. Bemused Senior

      @different-church-lady:

      Nothing else is like information. Information is very peculiar stuff. It can both be created and destroyed. You can steal it without removing it. You can often get some just by guessing. Yet it can have great value. It can be bought and sold.

      One type of information is called Money.

      There are people who refuse to concede that money can be created and destroyed. They spend their entire lives altering records and making adjustments to ensure that every time a bit of money leaves some place, an equal bit seems to appear somewhere else. These people are called accountants.

      The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech

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    95. 95.

      VOR

      @different-church-lady: Hard to believe nobody’s quoted Stringer Bell yet.

      I recall reading an anecdote in one of the books about TFG’s maladministration. Can’t remember which book, maybe one of the Woodward books. TFG met with a lawyer, IIRC White House Counsel Don McGahn, who took notes during their conversation. TFG said none of his previous lawyers took notes. McGahn replied that real lawyers actually take notes so they serve clients more effectively.

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      grumbles

      I guess it shouldn’t be surprising, but the thing about cryptocurrency that kills me is that the killer app for crimeing turns out to be… complicated, fossil fuel-powered accounting.

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    103. 103.

      There go two miscreants

      @azlib: ​transaction verifiction

      I am so late to the thread (catching up) that no one will see this, but considering the subject (crypto), that is a truly inspired typo!

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