Buffalo_Gal

This could also go in foreign politics, but I think works better here: (thread, but the first three tweets are the meat of it) And then as he finishes up... ?

The Trump administration is walking an economic tightrope as well as any seen before. US consumer prices rose in April, but underlying inflation remains tame * U.S. consumer prices rose in April but underlying inflation remained muted. * The data suggested the Federal Reserve could keep interest rates unchanged for a while. * The Labor Department said its Consumer Price Index increased 0.3% last month, lifted by rising gasoline, rents, and health-care costs. </snip>

I was wondering why he didn't go with Creepy Joe and instead went Sleepy Joe. Now he's combined them, so it can be an and/or!

I think they'll favor Facebook over Twitter and Google. More bang for their advertising dollar, right? Everyone knows Facebook ads sway votes!! ?

That twitter thread is a very interesting read!!

Awww man, wouldn't that be something? Better than a no-knock at 4am!

Not only did the FBI not follow up the lead, but the notes were also "lost". And it appears the Chinese were cced on every email she sent from her private server. Good thing Peter Strozk was in charge of the Clinton email investigation! FBI Lost Notes From Clinton Probe Meeting Significant to Concerns Over Foreign Exfiltration Lead </snip> The ICIG was examining the Clinton emails after it was asked by the State Department to check for classified information before the emails could be released pursuant to FOIA requests. “When [the ICIG] did a very deep dive, they found in the actual metadata—the data which is at the header and footer of all the emails—that a copy, a ‘courtesy copy,’ was being sent to a third party and that third party was a known Chinese public company that was involved in collecting intelligence for China,” the former intelligence officer said. </snip>

Link to article Special Counsel Robert Mueller spent more than $732,000 on outside contractors, including private investigators and researchers, records show, but his office refuses to say who they were. While it’s not unusual for special government offices to outsource for services such as computer support, Mueller also hired contractors to compile “investigative reports” and other “information." The arrangement has led congressional investigators, government watchdog groups and others to speculate that the private investigators and researchers who worked for the special counsel’s office might have included Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS, the private research firm that hired Steele to produce the Russia collusion dossier for the Clinton campaign. They suspect the dossier creators may have been involved in Mueller's operation - and even had a hand in his final report - because the special counsel sent his team to London to meet with Steele within a few months of taking over the Russia collusion investigation in 2017. Also, Mueller's lead prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann, had shared information he received from Fusion with the media. </snip>

So why do you attempt to participate down here if you dislike it so much?

John Solomon at The Hill today... FBI's Steele story falls apart: False intel and media contacts were flagged before FISA The FBI’s sworn story to a federal court about its asset, Christopher Steele, is fraying faster than a $5 souvenir T-shirt bought at a tourist trap. Newly unearthed memos show a high-ranking government official who met with Steele in October 2016 determined some of the Donald Trump dirt that Steele was simultaneously digging up for the FBI and for Hillary Clinton’s campaign was inaccurate, and likely leaked to the media. The concerns were flagged in a typed memo and in handwritten notes taken by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016. Her observations were recorded exactly 10 days before the FBI used Steele and his infamous dossier to justify securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the campaign’s contacts with Russia in search of a now debunked collusion theory. It is important to note that the FBI swore on Oct. 21, 2016, to the FISA judges that Steele’s “reporting has been corroborated and used in criminal proceedings” and the FBI has determined him to be “reliable” and was “unaware of any derogatory information pertaining” to their informant, who simultaneously worked for Fusion GPS, the firm paid by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Clinton campaign to find Russian dirt on Trump. </snip>

? ? ? And for those that don't recall the original tweet:

If this was posted, apologies. Israel newspaper publishes terms of ‘Deal of Century’ The main points of US President Donald Trump’s much-derided plan for the Middle East, the so-called “deal of the century,” were leaked by a Hebrew-language news outlet in Israel yesterday. Israel Hayom published the main points of the deal from a leaked document circulated by the Israeli Foreign Ministry . The US has said it will reveal its deal after the Muslim month of fasting comes to an end in early June. The main points of the agreement put together by Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner — who has extensive interests in Israel and its settlements — and proposed by the US administration are as follows: A tripartite agreement will be signed between Israel, the PLO and Hamas, and a Palestinian state will be established that will be called “New Palestine” and will be established in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, with the exception of the settlements. Israel would release Palestinian prisoners gradually over the course of three years under the deal. The settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank, which are illegal under international law, would form part of Israel. </snip> There is more after the snip.

Q: with executive privilege now in force, what are they voting to hold him in contempt for?

That was commented upon pages ago. The evidence has been turned over to the OIG.

Appeals court allows Trump to keep asylum seekers in Mexico, for now </snip> A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit cited different reasons for permitting the “remain in Mexico” initiative to move forward after a lower court blocked it last month. The appeals court allowed the policy to continue only on a temporary basis, while the court considers broader issues in the case. </snip>

Electric trucks?

I wonder how long he's gonna keep adding quotes to that thread? It is so long now, it is funny! He can't shame them. These people have no shame. They say whatever is politically expedient at the moment, and do not care about little things like video and printed records.

"Belong" or "Go"? Two totally different questions.

No doubt. He has made comments recently about not being able to tax the rich continually. I "think" he sees what is happening, but can he contain Albany's spendthrift way? Does he really want to?

To be fair, it is possible the 2017 prepay (hubby and I did it) was a tax revenue shuffle for NYS as claimed later in the article. The article said business tax revenues were up 10%, personal down 6.6% so theoretically, the Budget Office may be correct - a lot of people took advantage of the prepay before SALT limits took place. They lose credibility when they remark on a "expectations of a slowing economy". And they need to stop spending so much - up 4.4%. Shesh

Why she was still there is beyond me. This is several months early. UNIAN: US Ambassador to Ukraine Yovanovitch to be recalled – media </snip> It is alleged that on Saturday, May 11, the ambassador is to return to Ukraine only to step down officially on May 20, of which the embassy staff were informed today, May 6. </snip> As UNIAN reported earlier, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko, in an interview with Hill.TV, said that, after Yovanovitch was appointed to the post, she allegedly gave him a so-called do-not-prosecute list. </snip>

senility, day drinking, toe-may-toe, toe-mah-toe

Feature or a bug?

She is one brave woman.

The comment I added gave more clarity.