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My goodness. The Strzok hearing was such a stupid waste of time and money. Nothing was gained, and nothing was meant to be gained. Total Republican masturbation only meant to muddy the waters of a legitimate investigation. It's criminal in compliance.

No other description other than a complete farce.

Louie Gohmert is a total disgrace and unworthy of having a political office. Would the "honorable" Mr. Gohmert ask the same question of the buffoon he's trying to protect? Of course not.

Honestly, between this crap and the disgraceful performance by Trump at the NATO meeting, how did the Republican party become a willing tool of Russia?

It's a big-picture question. Putin/Russia — just a competitor. NATO is bad.

Republicans a few years ago would a have rightly lost their minds. Now? They stand for everything they used to hate.

Deplorable? Cult? Spineless?

Hard to argue with any or all of those descriptions.

 

My goodness, if it's fun to be an ass, you should be ecstatic.

 

Sometimes the circle of history is just, well... silly?

Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian-American lobbyist, has just filed a libel suit against Bill Browder. The latter is a businessman who's alleged that Akmetshin is a Russian spy who met Trump campaign official on behalf of Putin.

Bill Browder is the grandson of Earl Browder. Grandpa was the longtime head of the American Communist Party and was also alleged to be a Russian spy....

Russian attendee at Trump Tower meeting sues Putin critic Browder

 

“Republican” has become an ironic term, seeing as how Congressional Republicans are an active threat to the legitimacy of the republic for which they supposedly stand.

 

The only - but very good - reason that Theresa May still has her job is because no one else in her party wants it.

Reminding rebel MPs that they'd have to deal with Trump - as well as Brexit - has kept her "safe" for at least a few more months.

 

A day devoted to seeing who has the biggest hands, instead of turning on the power in Puerto Rico, fixing the water in Flint, making the schools safer or coming up with a better health care plan.'

And this is why we can't have nice things.

 

The Scotsman

Leader comment: A denunciation of Donald Trump

 

Well in all honesty they’re not really interested in any of those things so doing of them would be a waste of time, too.

 

Nope. Like many (most? all?) things you say, this is wrong. Of course it’s harder to win an appeal on a factual issue, because the trial court gets deference—unlike an issue of law, which is reviewed de novo. But the claim “that any appeal has to be a matter of law” is just false.

 

That... that's my job.

 

I’m sorry you took the mortgage math crack as an insult. It wasn’t meant as such. Rather, it was meant as a lighthearted, “You maybe wanna think about that again?”

As far as the rest of yours goes ... Like all of us, I go through spells in which I’m more interested in doing X than in doing Y or Z. Maybe I’m going through my own “blue period” (a la Picasso). I don’t have any particular expertise on the things being bandied about ‘round here of late (unfortunately, those who do have such are too intimidating to the, ahem, powers that be), so the opportunities to play pedagogue are scarce.

I should emphasize, however, that I certainly doing take my knocking those whose stock-in-trade is the odd “fedruhl” or “Jefferson Beauregard Secessions III” as any sort of intellectual triumph; 1-seeds don’t celebrate their inevitable victories over 16s like that.