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But 44 DEMANDED everyone working for him to do everything always "by the book." SURELY, had he known about the salacious Steele dosier prior to Crossfire Hurricane beginning, he would've demanded his IC to corroborate the info from a 2nd independent source prior to opening a FISA based investigation into a major candidate for president, right? So, was 44 not quite the choir boy he made himself out to be & his crew a little less ethical or has the left's favorite IC department head now become persona nongrata? Decisions, decisions.

What unfriendly press? Chanel Rion, Catherine Herridge (who comes across as a Tim Russert Democrat, btw), & Kimberly Strassel are the only ones in the mainstream that immediately spring 2 mind & only 1 of those is in the WHPC.

Surely you have a link to this "lovely" speech, right? Presumably, you are trying to convince people to vote for Biden and a speech that was as effective as you effusively claim surely would move some to your conclusion, right?

Please tell us that question is rhetorical.

Ummm, RCP is showing 4 GE polls on August 26 including Rasmussen w/ Biden +1. It also shows a GE poll yesterday w/ the typical Biden lead & an Emerson GE poll w/ Biden +2. Not sure why your info is showing nothing since 8/25.

Why, the audacity of that Literal Super-Mecha Hitler! How DARE he make his AG instruct the FBI that they if they try to get a FISA warrant on a government official, staffer, candidate for office, or staffer they have to provide the FISA Court ALL the evidence including that which is exculpatory. Talk about UNAMERICAN! You'd never see an AG for 44 pulling a stunt like that! Stuff like that's almost enough to make one mad enough to want to randomly destroy a government building. For reelz.

Definitely, we shall. Would assume that the embassy routinely classifies all documents & would definitely be unwilling to freely release something as embarrassing as checking up on what people like Don Jr. & Ingraham were saying- especially when trying to claim Hunter Biden's Ukranian business dealings were completely on the up & up but 45 asking (upon being prompted) Ukraine's top dog to look into corruption was purely political.

If that is what they were monitoring, yes, that would/should be illegal. But the article only says she & the embassy (& their contractor - wtf do we the taxpayer always have to pay extra fur this bullschiff?) were monitoring social media accounts rather than mining them. "Monitoring" a social media account sounds about as nefarious as collecting newspaper articles about the subjects. (Not saying there isn't more to it, clearly there must be. But on the surface, not sure how it's illegal.)

Monitoring e-mails or phone records, which are by essentially by definition private, absolutely illegal. Is it actually illegal to follow someone's Twitter or Facebook posts (if they aren't made anonymously and the person is doxxed)? Totally get that it unseemly for a "non-partisan" ambassador to be tracking the social media accounts of Americans on the other side of the world. And also that it highlights her partisanship. But, again, how is that actually illegal?

RIP Mr. Boseman.

That poor Bidenese to English interpreter...

It probably won't, but it would be REALLY nice if stuff like this would cause journalists to get back to TRYING to report things neutrally. It also would be really nice if journalism schools would require all students wanting to get into political reporting to have to watch about 200 hours of Tim Russert's MTP to see how that can actually be done.

Not using the medical ship nor Javitts for all intents & purposes & keeping the nursing home directive in place into May are the 2 things Cuomo absolutely deserves criticism for. Cut him slack for March & early April, but those 2 choices were majorly poor decisions and cost 1,000's of lives. Thought they should've sanitized the subway sooner, but not as certain now that that was as important for limiting transmission as would've initially thought as NYC was most likely up to about 20% exposure by the time that happened.

Beat me to it. No way Nevada's in play. They'll manufacture as many votes as they need to keep it in Biden's column.

At the very end of one of his statements during the RNC Biden said something to the effect of 'rioting is bad.' So, TECHNICALLY his supporters can say he's "taken a stand against rioting," but it was equivalent to a NYT page 37 retraction. Yeah, he walked it back, but nobody's going to see it & it doesn't make up for nearly 3 months of implicit support of rioting.

Thing is, could see with all the chaos going on currently and the implicit support many D's have for it and the explicit support that a handful of D's have (looking at you Mssrs. Wheeler & DeBlasio) had for it, can see where non-highly partisan NYers could simply want for the destruction to end & consider not voting for Biden. BUT, as soon as 45 does something they feel is "outrageous" and he'll have at least 5 tweets between now and the election & probably closer to 20 that are outrageous and they'll have their cover to go back and vote for the previously moderate senile plagiarizer. Similar to how that idiot Lazio was actually appearing to make the race with Clinton competitive until he had the audacity to "attack" her on the debate stage by walking over to her podium & handing her a document. So, while NYS appearing to be in play today may be mildly surprising, really don't see the D's needing to spend any money to turn that trend. Expect that 45 will take care of that himself for them. Which stinks, because if 45 could truly be competitive we could possibly maybe see the state senate flip back to R control (or at minimum R plus disaffected D control) and slow our continual slide towards Californication.

Ftfy.

Hoping there is more to the story, but on the surface that seems like either a painfully dumb decision by the judge or a reason to suspect the judge is possibly corrupt. Wonder what the over/under is for how long it takes her to get back to China? Going with 10 days and taking the under.

While that's definitely a concern with term limits, a bigger concern IMHO is that if you are forcing the politician out of office after 6, 8, 12, or however many years but not limiting how long a staffer or lobbyist is there, then you are necessarily giving people with no direct oversight from the voters a leg up over those that actually do have oversight. There are additional issues with term limits, but again IMHO that's the big one.

Well, he was pretty much the only person that truly expected 45 would/could become the 45th president before that election. Not counting a couple of people like Ingraham who also claimed that but who also would've been claiming Dole had a legit chance back in '96. The D's would be wise to heed his concerns, but doubt they will.

Except it wouldn't be the end of the DNC. Any gains 45 is making in minority communities is about him & not the GOP. He's like Reagan was in that regard. A lot of D's voted for Reagan because they believed his message & they saw how awful the D candidates were as leaders. But they went back to their own party when the Gipper's term was up. Would expect some of the people switching sides of the aisle to stay with the new party, but expect most to go back as soon as a more traditional R gets nominated in '24. The R's would IMHO need to run another outsider in '24 to solidify any gains and can't see any way for the GOP to allow that to happen for 3 full presidential cycles. Really hoping 45 gets re-elected at this point, for several reasons, not the least of which is wanting to see Spygate to get fully exposed realizing that even in that case come January '25 anything that hasn't been forced into the public sphere won't get exposed. And, when things go back to normal, expecting the GOP to totally mess up the opportunity they've been given to solidify the gains.

So, basically, somebody found the dirt that McCain had on him for all those years and has started using it.

16. Right before getting a learner's permit. My kids were taught that at about the same age. Something that IMHO should be taught by all parents. Perhaps that's the reason. Perhaps it was because he'd been scrubbing spray paint off walls earlier that day. Perhaps it was for some other reason. And, maybe the kid did plan on using the gun. Doubt he did, but that's speculation. What isn't speculation is that he initially was running away from the people he ended up shooting in both incidents. Maybe the falling each time was a ruse; suspect it was more of a trigger for switching from the initial "flight" response to the "holy #### these people want to kill me" sensation to "fight," with tragic consequences.

Probably people selling siding. If they can find someone dumb enough to answer a pollster, they've gotta have at least a 50-50 shot of having a live one.

Being his Bidenese to English translator can't be a walk in the park either.