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It’s perpetrator shaming, and it’s wrong.

Sure, false information. 🙄. The CIA, the organization that Chuck Schumer ominously declared has six ways to Sunday to get ya, they fed poor Colin Powell false information, but were the good standard of intel on Trump etc. 🙄 John Brennan, CIA director emeritus declared Trump guilt of treason, and gosh darn it, it didn’t quite turn out that way but the media rode with it. 🙄 That doesn’t bother you, Alf? Oh, and It doesn’t bother you in the least that in W Bush’s last year or two in office, Obama, Biden and dem leadership painted him as a man who sent young men and women to die in a war of his own making, a war for oil, a war for profit🙄….and Powell gets a free pass for being duped so easily or culpable in the war, and now W Bush and Obama are like peas’n’carrots? 🙄 That W Bush is now portrayed as kindly old Beepaw Bush, the painter in chief, grandpoppa du jour on NBC news? 🙄 Trump owed Colin Powell nothing. But geesh…look who was there. Obama. Bush. Biden. All had special access. All sins forgiven, even the part about Bush steam rolling foreign lands in pursuit of profits and Powell taking heat for it. It’s almost like…a fairy tale of Establishment insiders.

The funds going to Baltimore will wet many, many beaks before a dime of it ever goes to upgrading or modernizing anything. In the meantime, we should look at the city of Baltimore and see if there are any other issues plaguing the folks there…..

Bannon isn’t prosecuting a case, silly. He’s the target of a political operation, we’ve already agreed on that. I think we’ve agreed that he may ultimately be held accountable for his contempt of Congress, perhaps including going to jail. Finally, I think we agree that outside dog n pony Washington politics, if Bannon engaged in criminal activity leading up to the criminal events on 1/6, he should be held accountable. Beyond that, I have no idea what you’re talking about with respect to injuries, OAN and Newsmax. What, in your view, does it look like when Bannon complies? Now, you’ve mentioned the committee actions and request for testimony, documents and truth. What documents do Steve Bannon and Mark Meadows have in their possession that have apparently eluded federal, state or local law enforcement agencies to this point? Please, be specific. As for the Kavanaugh case, I wanted to get some sense of your standards as it related to other partisan political operations. Thanks for the reply.

I’m neutral on the charges. I’m a realist, the party in power pushes forward on issues they know appeals to their base, the party out of power resists. The party in power would object to the other party proceeding on the same grounds and so on. I think if you look at the charges filed, and the reaction to them as some sort of grand purity test, you’re naive. I believe Bannon should fight, argue, condemn, litigate, trash talk and do anything in his power to resist. Why? That’s what those people do. Plus, it appeals to his base, whatever that might be, just like the political charade appeals to you. Were you ok with the public disembowelment of Brett Kavanaugh? It was a slam dunk obvious that it was a case of innuendo, manipulation, and character assassination.

I’m with you on this one CJ. He used the word that came most natural to him, and as @Irv pointed out, his pre-cognitive impairment days were filled with racially insensitive comments. Now, I certainly can understand if his explanation is that the word he used was not meant to be derogatory, or if that’s the word he and his friends and fellow Dems grew up on they meant no disrespect, but Biden is who he has always been. Personally, I think that is part of his appeal to a large segment of dem voters (some likely here), those who want progress, aesthetically speaking, but not too much progress.

Cheney…Cheney…where have I heard that name before?

The imagination comment had nothing to do with the political spectacle unfolding, and perhaps Bannon goes to jail for contempt of Congress (the list is long for those who have contempt for the institution), rolls over, and fesses up to leaving the side window at the Capitol unlocked and takes responsibility for the incomprehensible lack of security and police presence that (or any) day. In my opinion, the wrong questions are being asked, but it serves the appetite for grist from the mill. If so, or if a criminal case can reasonably prosecuted in a non partisan fashion, I’ll gladly stand beside you and cheer Bannon’s incarceration. In the meantime, you seem to be of the opinion that no one else can see what amounts to a political spectacle of the scorched earth variety. Not all that long ago, your crew attempted the public evisceration of a man with 30 years of dedicated public service with the same sort of innuendo, distortions and media manipulation. His crime was he held different political views and was nominate by the wrong President. For his crime(s), complete and utter destruction of his reputation in front of his wife and two daughters, and when he defended himself as any of us should, he was labeled as unstable. Theres no denying it can work, for her attempts to destroy Kavanaugh, a wildly unpopular presidential candidate was given the 2 nd most powerful seat in the land. Oops—I broke the 10 month rule. So, my simple assertion is that while you use those long arms of yours to pat yourself on the back, you’ve hardly cracked the DaVinci Code.

You went from bad to worse, Daz. I can read, I understood the posts (although you apparently struggled a bit), and you’ve spun quite a narrative in this latest post. I’ll say this—Mr. and Mrs. Daz Senior’s lad has quite an imagination! I’ve come to believe that it’s best to let law enforcement figure out these details, at least to the extent senior law enforcement can be trusted. These dog and pony tribunals are a farce.

Between you and BackIn arguing the same side of the coin on page 1 and 2, watching the light bulb go off that you’re on the same side on page 2, your soliloquy on political operatives politicking for…truth 😉, and your 10 month senate statute of limitation on what can be discussed, you’re a mess. Stick to the script.

…that target selected groups or classes of people while ignoring tens of millions of others….

There's something about that lady I just like.

You're advocating for a(nother) crime against democracy. You already got your balls slapped around for believing in RUSSIA©, THE MUSICAL sponsored by The Real D, why do you keep letting them humiliate you like this?

You know who catches that ball? Dalton catches that ball.

While this is no time in our history for run on sentences, nothing feels more like integrity than a partisan political tribunal setting the table for a partisan criminal investigation.

I don’t mean this to sound callous or apathetic, but it flat out amazes me that so many of these Rock icons lived as long as they did. They traveled extensively, likely ate pretty crappy food, hit everything that moved, and rumor has it some were into alcohol and drugs on a massive scale.

I have POWER RANKINGS as follows: 1. Christopher Steele 2. Ukrainamania 3. Biden...Fart Machine? 4. Egg Salad but NOT Deviled Eggs 5. Big Bird

Hap, I’m a lot of things, but if I use someone else’s work I acknowledge it. It seemed a very natural comment upon reading what you wrote and I was surprised you didn’t hit it when you teed it up. I actually checked the 7 or 8 posts that preceded mine to be sure no one had said it. Ironically, my initial post was corrected from Darnold to Darnell… I had to edit a 5 word post. 🤣 🤙

Mods, please move to PPP.

Darnold can’t even complete a fracture?

See, on the downlow, Putin coopted Mueller, right? Mueller’s brother had business dealings in Leningrad, got himself in dutch with the oligarchs, and Putin stepped in before they could whack him. Then, uh, Putin called Mueller, “I saved your brother Comrade etc etc etc”. While this is all going down like a sweet muffin, right, remember Jeff Sessions? Think about it—-Jeff Sessions, the Seger Sessions, Pete Seger, folk music, communism. Sessions is in Putin’s pocket too, right? Sessions precedes Barr, a Barr is a place to drink, Ipso facto Putin gets to Barr because he’s got a drinking problem. What was really genius about all this was the tens of millions spent on the investigation, something like $40,000,000, and Trump was charged with nothing. Not one thing. But—-and this part may sound a bit crazy, but if you’re reading this far, I hope you’ll go just a bit farther with me—-in Putin’s world of deceit and intrigue—-nothing isn’t just something, nothing is everything. Trump didn’t get away with nothing, Putin got away with everything. Did you ever notice Trump and Putin both have 5 letters in their names?

I am always a bit hesitant when we see bits and pieces of testimony, but you’re spot on with these people playing stupid games. At the same time, when a city allows anarchy to exist, anarchy is what you typically find. Why on earth any sane person would want to place himself in that powder keg with a weapon is beyond me. When I saw the video of the events that night, it certainly looked like anyone could end up dead in plus/minus 5 minutes. The citizens of that community should recall every damn official who let that situation fester.

At the risk of repeating myself, you don’t fundamentally transform American society by getting people goods and service on the regular. This is going as planned, and the pushback is minimal.

The subjective nature of the call, and the inconsistency from play to play and game to game is maddening. When Taven Black sacked JA early, he’s 5 or 6 feet from him and apparently performs a ritualized choreographed sack squat. Eyeballing the opposing sideline is apparently flag worthy enough to swing a game in the final minutes. When viewed in the greater context of the head-smacking-trash-talking-adrenaline-fueled 60 minutes of the average NFL context, some of these calls are just dumb.