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No. No. No.

I want Baron, Starman, Doc, and Azrael (hi guys!) to read my posts and cry.

 

Kurt's obviously lying.

No evidence of a seizure. Didn't call the cops that night. He better be careful, less he get arrested for filing a false police report.

The Dallas Police Department informed The Daily Caller Monday that there is no police report or investigation into the alleged Twitter assault of Newsweek writer and Dallas resident Kurt Eichenwald.
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Kurt said Friday that police are investigating whether this is a federal crime as he said it is a “cross-state assault.” The Dallas Police Department told TheDC that there is no police report from those dates from either Eichenwald and that they cannot have an investigation without one.

The Daily Caller reached out to Eichenwald to ask him if he had filed a police report with the Dallas Police Department on Thursday and Friday, and he repeatedly refused to answer. He eventually said, “I am not interested in explaining to daily caller how the law works.”

Dallas Cops Have No Record Of Eichenwald Police Report

This is mental illness, and it's sad:

 

Um, isn't the point that there is no police report? That's why Jackie Coakley couldn't really get in trouble, either - and why she refused to cooperate with police after the "Rolling Stone" piece hit.

You seem broken up about it.

 

He says he filed a police report yesterday.

 

This thread is really weird to read when YF is on ignore. It's like Dick is just talking to himself.

 

Was it a joke, or a signal to a source? He can't seem to settle on one story.

In an interview with The Daily Beast on Monday, Eichenwald acknowledged that while he continues to pursue the mental hospital tip, he can’t, as yet, back up his claims about Trump. He said his incendiary tweet—which he deleted soon after posting it on Sept. 13—was intended both as a reporting tool, to “signal” a potential source and obtain that source’s cooperation, and as a subtle “joke,” although the humor was lost on many.

“My Twitter feed was probably 30 percent snarky jokes,” Eichenwald said, adding that this year, his community of followers has exploded from around 30,000 to around 231,000. “It grew so fast that I was getting all these new people who had no idea what I did with my Twitter feed… I actually came to this realization not too long ago. I now treat Twitter as being the equivalent of Newsweek—that I can’t put just anything in there. You gotta remember, up until that point, everyone ignored my Twitter feed.”

Eichenwald said his tweet about Trump and the mental hospital was an attempt to parody unsubstantiated right-wing allegations about Hillary Clinton’s health, especially by Fox News’s Sean Hannity (who speculated that she’d suffered a stroke, multiple sclerosis, or Parkinson’s Disease), and even Tucker Carlson, who once told The Daily Beast about Clinton’s persistent cough, “In the 19th century, it was a sign of consumption… She coughs like a romantic poet.”

“I was trying to be too clever,” Eichenwald said about his deleted tweet claiming Trump had been in a mental hospital. “I did not think anyone would look at that and see it as anything other than me doing a parody of Fox News.”

Inside Newsweek Writer Kurt Eichenwald’s Twitter War

 

Damn it, Gee says this stuff, too. I hadn't been on this thread for days and days and days.

 

Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

 

I had to un-ignore for that reason. It's like listening to a Beastie Boys song on a car stereo where half the speakers don't work.

 

Like Trump.

 

Those pesky, random state boundaries:

For lack of a better word: Mr. Trump had some very good luck.

There’s nothing about the distribution of Mrs. Clinton’s votes in the battlegrounds or nationally that meant she was destined to get as few electoral votes as she did.

Just take Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan — three contiguous states spanning the Upper Great Lakes. Mrs. Clinton actually won the region by a narrow margin, but she won just 10 of the 36 votes at stake.

Ultimately, state lines are pretty arbitrary. Yes, when those lines were determined, there were reasoned considerations like population and access to rivers and resources. But statehood and state lines, often poorly surveyed in the first place, were hotly disputed in the 19th century. Many states were created in response to political considerations, especially the balance between free and slave states. In other times, it could have gone very differently.

 

I'm not crying in the least, except from laughter.

I've already said a couple of times on here that either Trump ends up being a good president, in which case the country will benefit, or he'll be so shitty that, couple him with Bush, nobody will ever elect another Republican for president again in my lifetime.