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If your cousin lives in the northeast, it sounds like he got into a particularly nasty mix called Procol Harum. It's comes out of Thailand, through Mexico and is distributed out of North Philly by the Corn Pop Kids.

Aww come on! You are acknowledging your love for the name of every Russian spy in every movie ever, and you still maintain you're not in the CIA??? In Hansel and Gretel, this would be a bread crumb! WE'RE NOT STUPID!

I wasn't crazy about the Cohen prosecution. I personally believe that if you allowed limitless powers of surveillance and investigation into all the creatures in Washington, 75-90% end up in cells. Manafort should be released as well. All I know is you're my contact if I end up in the slammer and need the hooch. You owe me that much.

Trump aside, based on the outbreak, failure to act, failure to contain and lack of preparedness over his tenure as governor---Cuomo has failed cataclysmically. You're limited in your vision, that's one of the reasons why you run toward a sexual predator like Biden while claiming to run away from Trump.

If you think he's in jail, you need to get out more.

Bobby--how are you doing in Michigan? Hope you're doing well and riding out the storm.

This is a waste of time but I'll share it anyways. I learned not to drink bleach well before 5th grade, and I learned the number of states stands at 50 by the time I was 4. How did Barrack Obama get through high school, and complete is education at Harvard thinking there were 57 states? I learned to look before I leap when I was 6, how on earth did Barrack Obama think it wise to rashly jump into the fray and accuse the Boston PD of overt racism, and suggest his buddy was targeted solely because of the color of his skin, and think some bs pr rolled up-sleeve beer summit would rebuild trust between the American people and the police? It made him look emotionally vapid. I learned around the age of 21 that virtually every large financial transaction was rightly subject to scrutiny and oversight and typically was accomplished electronically. The problem, I understood, was that cash was untraceable, subject to skim, and frowned upon by both the banking industry and the US Government. Yet...when Obama acted unilaterally to return money to Iran, he went out of his way to avoid traditional banking rules, US regulations and common sense and loaded a cargo plane full of nickles, dimes and quarters and shipped it off to individuals who are commonly heard muttering "DEATH TO AMERICA". I'm uncertain how he missed the whole requirement for financial transparency. Maybe he's fiscally challenged? The fact is that Donald Trump graduated from a prestigious business school, made a fortune working in a world of payola, crooked schemes, organized crime, onerous regulation and a corrupt NYC and NYS government. Thereafter, he shocked the world with a grass roots run at the presidency that was well run, technologically sound, and successful beyond his widest dreams. Thereafter, he beat entrenched career politicians, a corrupt former administration, the democrat leadership, the FBI, the DOJ, elements of the Central Intelligence Agency, a team of a dozen former prosecutors with an unlimited budget and a hostile at a game no one could ever imagine he could win. By contrast, Mitt Romney buckled because he used to drive his car with a dog on the roof, he kept resumes of potential recruits for key leadership rolls in his business, and because he correctly stated that 50% of the American electorate would never vote for him. Hillary Clinton was undone because she thought there were only 3 states that mattered, she deleted emails, and she thinks she's the only woman in America not bullied by her husband into voting for racists. I never underestimated Barrack Obama because he thought there were two extra Dakotas, that Washington DC was a state and California had broken off into three separate parts. I think it's silly to underestimate Donald Trump (again). Have at it all you want with this issue, but just remember when push came to shove, the experts predicted a massive number of dead and dying in the street, and in a time when unprecedented leadership by a strong hand was required, the Trump administration delivered and many, many thousands of lives were saved as a result. You can thank him later, at the ballot box. In contrast, we found that in a state like NY, with dem leadership across the board, we quickly discovered chaos, anarchy, a lack of preparedness, and no true plan to address the needs of the people of the state. Thank God for Trump, huh?

I'm not arguing with you Shosh, and @Tiberius performed an important public service here. CIS (Chlorox Ingestion Syndrome) is a problem in all 57 states. According to Dr. Haywood Jabloemey, head of the Bleach Survivors Recovery Clinic at the Mayo Clinic "The very fabric of our society is at risk here. Sodium Hydrochlorite, also known as bleach and on the street as 'pale, clean, white stank and bizleech' is not just a problem for whites. Some studies have indicated that the impact on people of color is even more devastating. It changes who you are, the way you look, and often users describe the sensation of feeling washed out after prolonged usage." I have a friend on the inside at One Bill's Drive, actually a friend of a friend. Turns out the Bill's did consider selecting Pat Mahommes in that infamous draft, but there was concern amongst many GMs that PM was a "bleacher". We all know Coach McD is a stickler on high character players and is said to have remarked "There ain't no way, no how I'm bringing a hopped up bleach freak into this organization!". Maybe it's not true, or just maybe Pat Mahommes is one of the lucky ones.

This one hits close to home. The number of backroom bleach ingestors is skyrocketing nationally. Housewives. Steel workers. Gamers. Oddly, pet sitters are becoming addicted at a rate 4x the general population. It’s the opioid crisis of the residential garment sanitization industry. I fear one day every family in America will be touched by this, and I’m happy they got to you before you chased the yellow dragon. In fact, I think it’s irresponsible that doctors weren’t warning about the danger of drinking bleach prior to the Wuhan Virus. It borders on medical malpractice. I also think it’s pretty impressive that it only took two journalists to break this story.

I’ve never understood this. Let’s take the war waged on freedom waved by the DOJ/FBI, and propped up by prominent members of the establishment media against President Trump. What’s the appropriate presidential demeanor when you’re accused of treason, and you feel the National press is in on the assault? We can break it down by year if you prefer. What does one say in year one, obviously thinking no one will actually believe this absurd story. Soon though, you find it engulfing 25% of your administration. By year two, would you expect the presidential demeanor to shift a bit, become more relaxed as 50% of your administration wasted away? Year three, as the scandal of a potentially treasonous American president moved ever forward, taking valuable time away from the things you were hoping to accomplish, 75% of the most important job in the world wasting away, allegations, fbi raids, governmental tyranny at its worst, how would one normally act at that stage? Who is an exemplary Presidential president in your mind, and what scandal would you suggest they weathered that compared to “Trump is guilty of treason?”.

The word on the street is that you have been diagnosed with Small Cox. (Apoogies, that is a staple amongst my peers and colleagues for 4 decades a s still draws a laugh now and again. And yes, my peers and colleagues = my dopey but lovable friends.)

Oh no, YOU don't get to ask that question...not up in here...NOT UP IN HERE!

Thanks for clarifying his role. Then he was even worse at his job than I initially thought. He was Edsel-bad.

Damn it BG! I was not going to click on the Weijia Jiang link, but then you indicated she was ogle-worthy. I decided to move on. Then I thought "Why would BG think men would want to ogle this lady? What's going on with that?'. Still, I held out. I'm focusing on my conference call. Seconds turn into minutes. Minutes turned into more minutes. I was onto the next page, when another poster quoted you. There it was..."ogle". I cracked. I clicked the link. I feel dirty and ashamed. And intrigued. Her twitter photo makes her look like she could be the evil genius behind a reprogramming camp outside Beijing. She looks mean, yet, behind her eyes is a hint of ruthlessness. That has traditionally not been a deal-breaker for me. I'm trying to be a better man, and you're not helping.

You could be right, but it's irrelevant to me one way or the other. Perhaps there is no agenda whatsoever from the typical pollster. Perhaps it's was an honest miss. I try to consider the agenda of the person/people providing me the intel, see how it fits my views, and go from there. At the end of the day...pollsters are in the sales business. As a result, I'm skeptical. Regardless, the simple fact is he was wrong, and wildly so. If Transplant thinks I'm a (*^*&%^$^#for pointing that out, I'll find my way to make peace with it and move on.

I think you are so tied up with emotional baggage you lose track of some of the fundamentals of simple human interaction. You're so busy tossing around insults, making assumptions and as a result appear closed-minded and overwrought. Let's try again. You didn't suggest The Gospel According To Nate was an alternative to other polling data, the opinions of others, you stated as a matter of fact including your declarative statement "Except this is wrong" when bills59 shared his thoughts. Given your stance, I thought it sensible to check out your source, and found the link to Silver's commentary on the election of 2016. Why does it trouble you that I brought that up? Did I misrepresent what he said? Your commentary can best be summed up as "My guy is always right!" and you're exasperated when someone points out the obvious, that he's not? All I'm suggesting is that some of this stuff isn't all that complicated, and as a pollster, I'd think you would want to make your bones on the difficult to project, not the slam dunks. Nate Silver missed the biggest political upset in the history of the country, and missed by a wide margin. He wasn't close, his data was clearly skewed, and your explanation and reasoning is "He was only wrong because everyone else was too!'. Call me crazy, but isn't it the job of the pollster to stand out from the crowd? When you first started dating your wife, did you go with "I have the same limitations as everyone else!!!". You know who else was right on the outcome of many of the elections cited? Me. I had John McCain getting trounced 4 minutes into the first debate. I had Romney getting rolled because he's an empty suit who had virtually no idea how to press an advantage with a vulnerable candidate, and who misunderstood that taking the high road did not mean allowing yourself to be cuckolded by your rival. 2018 was a no brainer, especially in light of the full on Russian assault by the dems, the DOJ, FBI and msm with a fairy tale that incredibly, people believed. I missed on 2016 and Trump, just like Natestradaumus, but it's been perpetually satisfying ever since to remind people that polls are as good as the data that goes into them, and even then, sometimes not so much. Let's agree to disagree. I know you have fingered Joe Biden to be the next President, and you might be right. I also think you may have an Al Roker fetish, but to each his own.

Is it the slick imagery that gives credence to his post? I love the Hill-o-Graphic but old Nate had Hillary winning by 19 laps, and she was gassed by early October. Maybe though, this time he's right? https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/ Who will win the presidency? Chance of winning Hillary Clinton 71.4% Donald Trump 28.6% Chance of winning Hillary Clinton 71.4% Donald Trump 28.6% Chance of winning

To a certain extent, the Debbie Downer approach is understandable. These people seem to struggle with any creative thought and simply follow the lead when the lead is there to follow. Imagine truly believing the "Trump is a Russian mole" story. In retrospect, how silly was the story, and how gullible did you have to be to buy it? You have leaders like Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, Jerry Nadler all telling them that Trump is a candidate of Russian origin. Imagine hearing Slim James Comey--a guy who went our of his way to leak confidential information to avoid answering to, well, someone like James Comey--saying it. Imagine hearing a former CIA director like John Brennan literally call the President of the US treasonous, and to have reporter after report cite anonymous deep cover sources that say the same thing. Imagine a massive investigation costing millions of dollars run by anti-Trump prosecutors kicking in doors, staging early morning raids on 70 year old men and leaking time and place for maximum optics. Imagine the full weight and power of the US Government willing to crush anybody that dares to oppose the investigation, and willing to offer sweetheart deals to "witnesses" who were willing to make up stories--any type of story that would serve the intended purpose of the "witch hunt" namely, to get Trump. Honestly, I don't know if they bought the story right from the start, it it took a while or if they caved to the peer pressure of like-minded friends and associates. However they got there, they jumped right in and bought the whole shebang hook, line and sinker. Imagine the anticipation these people had as the Mueller testimony was scheduled. It was time for the government to pony up, to pay them back for their faithful subservience. Imagine the joy they must have felt when finally the day was upon them when Trump would be outed as a Russian spy, created in a lab in Leningrad 70 years earlier and sent to the US to hide in plain site, an amazing caricature of a business tycoon ready to do Russia's bidding. They really had to be almost giddy to prove the millions of Trump supporters wrong--these arrogant, supposedly well-educated Obama/Clinton submissives ready to be validated. Then, imagine Robert Mueller, the hero of the revolution, he comes out after three years, $40m and having dumpster-dived a whole lot of garbage cans and basically says "I'm old, I'm tired, I'm not 100% sure where I am, or what this is all about, but we got nothing. Free Donald Trump.". Amazing. In a second, they realized they got massively tea-bagged by the all people they placed all their trust in. The funniest part about it is that all the dems did was count on their ignorance, count on their lack of creative thought, and recognition that these dullards would not recognize a slightly reimagined "Manchurian Candidate". That's gotta leave a mark.

Sorry Goat, I used "ergo" and the first person to use it automatically wins bigly.

As does yours, ipso facto, ergo, full circle, everyone wins.

I think I'm failing to understand you though that muffled goat head. Bongino wants people to feel guilty? I think given his status as a former police officer and secret service agent, Bongino is less on the "you should feel guilty" bandwagon and more on the "go f yourself" side of things. Potato, poh-tah-toe I suppose.

I think I understand conceptually, but there are industries and people knocking the snot of the financial side of this deal. I was reading about the Harvard Board of trustee' reply to President Trump's request to return $9m in aid given the true financial status of the institution. The reply is...uh, no, we need this money. For some it's a windfall, for others, the pain runs deep. Obviously for Dan Bongino, it runs deep.

Apparently, he feels the same about people like you as evidenced by his commentary. Everyone wins.

The guy lost a friend he’s apparently had for several decades, obviously feels strongly about the circumstances. An emotional response is pretty typical in that scenario. But, what you’ve said is true...the emotion is about how he feels after his friend took his own life. I think it makes him a human being.