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I remember when Will Thomas competed at Penn U. in swimming and was very good. That all changed before he finished his freshmen year, transitioning and competing as Lia Thomas. But she couldn't contend against the girls until she completed testosterone suppression treatment for a year. After that, she dominated immediately, towering over the competition, setting new records - winning some races by 30 seconds or more.
Now, would be a good time for Joe Manchin to step up for Speaker of the House.
Thoughtful discussion, thanks. After this latest war is over, Israel needs to cut Netanyahu loose and come to terms with what they have done to the Palestinians. Some sort of atonement should also land at the feet of the Brits, French and US.
Remember when Jared Kushner brought peace to the Middle East?.. me neither
When all is said and done, Donald Trump will be borrowing money from his son-in-law. Possibly to cover his monthly allotment to buy items from the commissary and to use the telephone, visitation services, etc.
Chief Justice John Roberts decided to pen the majority opinion after he ripped up Sam Alito's rough draft:
WE STRUCK DOWN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BECAUSE WE BELIEVE PEOPLE ONLY DESERVE EXTRA CONSIDERATION IF THEY LET YOU HANG OUT ON THEIR BOAT
A lot of comparisons have been made between Trump and Silvio Berlusconi. But he never threatened the basic democratic system in Italy. He never claimed that an election was fraudulent. He left office when he lost. He never incited his supporters to engage in violence. However, like Trump, he was an economic incompetent. The result is that a million young Italians have left the country for a better life elsewhere. Would that be true for the millions of Trumpists in our country.
I like Maureen Dowd
No Playing Ostrich With Trump May 13, 2023 MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON — My brothers Michael and Martin attended baseball’s opening day at the old Griffith Stadium in April 1951, with the Senators (as our team was then called) playing the Yankees. President Harry Truman had been invited to throw out the first pitch, and the stadium erupted in boos; Truman had just fired the extremely popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur as commander of the Far East, and the crowd was irate.
When the boys got home, Martin confessed to our father that he had stood up to boo the president before Michael pulled him down.
“Dad told me that President Truman was a great man,” Martin later recalled. “He said that if Truman fired MacArthur, he must have his reasons and that I should never boo another president. I never did.”
It seems so quaint now, the idea of respecting the president. Gallant has vanished; gladiatorial is in. Patriotism is no longer a premier American virtue. And to a large degree, we have Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch to thank for that.
Trump always ridiculed people, but when he brought that into the presidential arena, it was like injecting a virus of cruelty into the political bloodstream.
When I flip on Fox News at night, I cringe at the way they make fun of President Biden, the sick delight they take in sniping at any perceived infirmity.
Mitt Romney brought some rare Republican rectitude to the Capitol when he was asked about Trump being held liable for sexual abuse and defamation in the E. Jean Carroll trial.
“He just is not suited to be president of the United States and to be the person who we hold up to our children and the world as the leader of the free world,” Romney told CNN’s Manu Raju. (The Utah senator also earlier chided Representative George Santos, saying, “You don’t belong here.”)
Todd Young, the mild-mannered conservative senator from Indiana, made it clear Thursday, after Trump’s brazen performance at the CNN town hall, that he’d had enough.
He told reporters on the Hill that he would not be supporting the former president as the Republican nominee. Asked why, he replied, “Where do I begin?” — a bracing echo of Joseph Welch’s “Have you no sense of decency?” line to that earlier bully boy Joe McCarthy.
As a video circulates of Trump celebrating his CNN performance by dancing to “Macho Man” by the pool at Mar-a-Lago, we see Trump unplugged. The existential threat is aiming to get back in the Oval, this time without anyone trying to keep him from going completely off the rails, and with the scary new world of superevolved A.I. chatbots to help him lie and smear. (Trump posted a doctored video on Friday of Anderson Cooper saying “That was President Donald J. Trump ripping us” a new one “here on CNN.”)
Trump is spiraling into even more of a self-deluded narcissist, if that’s possible. And he’s even more obsessed with numbers — if that’s possible. When he was asked by the terrific Kaitlan Collins if he regretted his actions on Jan. 6, he began rhapsodizing about, and exaggerating, the size of the crowd that day.
“I have never spoken to a crowd as large as this,” he said, adding: “They were there with love in their heart. That was an unbelievable — and it was a beautiful day.”
He called one of the most heinous days in American history “a beautiful day.” He called the Black Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt, who was trying to break into the House chamber, a “thug.”
New Hampshire voters in the audience were cheering on Trump, and many even laughed when he crudely re-defamed E. Jean Carroll.
The town hall was enlightening — and frightening. But we needed that reminder to be on full alert, because Trump is not just an unhinged and dangerous extremist; he is also a cunning and dominating insurgent.
The argument that the media should ignore Trump and keep him under a bushel basket is ridiculous. You can’t extinguish Trump by not talking to him. He’s always going to find a platform.
Sun Tzu stressed that victory depends on knowing the enemy — “Force him to reveal himself.” Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s lawyer, did a skillful job of letting Trump convict himself in the deposition.
President Biden needs to see what he’s up against. There are only so many times Biden can say “C’mon, man!” in a debate. The more he sees Trump in action, the less likely he is to be steamrolled. Biden’s team has been blithely underestimating the opponent. The cascading indictments allow Trump to play the gilt-dipped martyr on an even larger scale.
The task is to challenge Trump and expose him, not to put our fingers in our ears and sing “la, la, la.”
“It strikes me as fundamentally wrong to deny voters a chance to see candidates, and particularly front-running candidates, answering challenging questions from journalists and citizens in open forums,” David Axelrod told me Friday. “You can’t save democracy from people who would shred its norms by shredding democratic norms yourselves.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/13/opinion/trump-town-hall-cnn.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Last year, Obama claimed to be 60. Now he says he's 61. Typical Obama
Hmm... Too true.
Ukrainian children could use some as well
The MQ-9A Reaper. It’s not hard to operate. And this drone can carry 16 hellfires. The thing about hellfire missiles, once you shoot it you can go to the next tank and you can shoot another hellfire. You don’t have to guide it in 'cause it’s all on its own, baby.
Malcolm Nance says the Russian army's heart isn't in it.
https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/an-assessment-of-the-military-situation-from-an-analyst-who-surveyed-the-terrain?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fuser-830442635%252Fan-assessment-of-the-military-situation-from-an-analyst-who-surveyed-the-terrain
Not to mention the idiots Trump put in charge of
Dept of Energy, Dept of Education, and HUD
1. My thoughts on Megyn Kelly's interview with Vladimir Putin which aired on her new program "Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly
by Yashar Ali ? 9:19 PM - 4 Jun 2017
Yashar Ali?Verified account @yashar
2. Megyn Kelly is not a foreign affairs anchor, that's not an insult, it's just a fact. And that lack of experience showed.
3. As a reporter friend of mine just said "Putin is KGB, not KFC" unfortunately he rolled Megyn from the beginning to the end.
4. Megyn asked him questions that he could make fun of or deny. For example, asking him about his relationship with Mike Flynn.
5. First of all, even if Putin had this incredibly close relationship with Flynn, he's not going to tell Megyn Kelly about it but Putin said
6. Putin said he barely spoke to him, which is probably the truth. Putin is not going to cozy up to Flynn directly, he's got people for that
7. She asked him repeatedly about Russian interference, he's not gonna tell the truth about that so there's no point in asking. Wasted Q
8. She asked him about Trump's finances, how did she expect him to weigh in? "Yes i've seen his taxes and I'm using them for blackmail"
9. Here's what she didn't ask him about: Chechnya and the murder and torture of gay men there. She didn't ask him about journalists murdered
10. She didn't ask him about Putin critics who end up getting killed, she didn't ask him about his economy or his personal finances
11. She didn't ask him about Bashar Al-Assad. She didn't ask him about Russia's relationship with Iran or North Korea.
12. She didn't ask him about Russian interference on a global scale: France etc. She didn't ask him about NATO.
13. She didn't pound him on the same question over and over. The interview was choppy.
14. Yes, Putin was a C-List KGB officer but he still has the skills + training of an intelligence professional + he used it against her
15. One of the things that's gotten attention is he's referred to her children and their age in interview, some people see that as a threat
16. It's not a threat - it's trying to disarm/throw her off. Since the interview was edited I have no idea if it worked.
17. You can't ask someone like Putin "the evidence shows that Russia interfered" He'll say "Did you see the raw intelligence?"
18. Megyn should have asked him about his relationship/thoughts about Hillary Clinton in order to get a glimpse into how he felt.
19. Depending on his answer, she could have found an opening there, even if it was a tiny opening, to dig deeper on his motivations.
20. That's all I have to say for now, if you watched..let me know what you thought of her interview. END
https://twitter.com/search?q=megyn%20putin&src=typd
Trump just curtsied to the King of Saudi Arabia...
It’s up to you to decide which, but, whatever it was, it was definitely not a projection of strength like Trump’s customary grab and pull handshake. Salman wasn’t even looking at Trump when it happened. Cuck.
Way to disgrace America or whatever it was conservatives were screaming about for years every time Obama met with another world leader and didn’t body slam them through a table to show his dominance.
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/330942/curtsy-trump-king-salman/
Lol, stop it! I picked my way in to the cellar...
...what a minute... you wouldn't let me have Spieth when I needed him most... yeah, it was you, Charlie... you should-ah looked out for me...
Thanks for the pep-talk, but I wouldn't want to mess up my rightful spot in the standings.
Lotta bums out there. Picking these guys is harder than picking horses... unless you get lucky enough to see them drop a load in the paddock.
I'm done.
Looks like Justin will miss the cut. When I pick em they turn into bums... just like me:
Justin Thomas... thanks
Jason Day
All future POTUS actions should be shut down until we can figure out what - the - hell - is - going - on!
Looks like I addled the segments...
My bad. See you next week.
Spieth
Brendan Steele
Only stupid dems and Hillary sycophants believe that Bernie is relitigating the primary contest.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/317770-sanders-reopens-dem-primary-wounds#.WJZb-KnkbGt.twitter
The DNC campaign changed this week after Biden endorsed Perez for chairman. Sanders let loose, saying that it’s time to move beyond the “failed status-quo approach” of Biden and Perez.
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“It is very concerning that Bernie Sanders is so intent on taking over a party that he’s not even a member of that he’d insult the beloved vice president — and really the president — about a failed status quo approach,” said Texas Democratic chairman Gilberto Hinojosa, a Perez supporter and one of 447 DNC members who will vote in late February to elect the next chairman.
“This is coming from a man who is not even a member of our party,” Hinojosa continued. “We lost an election and all of a sudden we’re all a part of a failed status quo? When he puts Joe Biden and Tom Perez in this category and paints with a broad brush he insults all of us. This is an election between loyal, qualified Democrats who love our party and the country. There’s no need for him to lower himself to that level.”
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The dem strategy for winning national elections is indisputably appalling if you look back at the complacent smugness of the HRC campaign.
Chris Kirk
Thanks to President Trump for pledging to withhold funding for sanctuary cities and to FoxNews for reporting about the anarchy that is bringing murderers into the country to kill us and our children in our beds.
Trump's episode of Russia with Love is going to make a massively tremendous movie.
Mystery death of ex-KGB chief linked to MI6 spy's dossier on Donald Trump
Robert Mendick, Chief Reporter Robert Verkaik
27 January 2017 • 9:30pm
An ex-KGB chief suspected of helping the former MI6 spy Christopher Steele to compile his dossier on Donald Trump may have been murdered by the Kremlin and his death covered up. it has been claimed.
Oleg Erovinkin, a former general in the KGB and its successor the FSB, was found dead in the back of his car in Moscow on Boxing Day in mysterious circumstances.
Erovinkin was a key aide to Igor Sechin, a former deputy prime minister and now head of Rosneft, the state-owned oil company, who is repeatedly named in the dossier.
Erovinkin has been described as a key liaison between Sechin and Russian president Vladimir Putin. Mr Steele writes in an intelligence report dated July 19, 2016, he has a source close to Sechin, who had disclosed alleged links between Mr Trump’s supporters and Moscow.
The death of Erovinkin has prompted speculation it is linked to Mr Steele’s explosive dossier, which was made public earlier this month. Mr Trump has dismissed the dossier as “fake news” and no evidence has emerged to support its lurid claims.
The Russian state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Erovinkin’s body was “found in a black Lexus... [and] a large-scale investigation has been commenced in the area. Erovinkin’s body was sent to the FSB morgue”.
No cause of death has been confirmed and the FSB continues to investigate. Media reports suggested his death was a result of foul play.
It was later claimed he died of a heart attack. Christo Grozev, an expert on Russia-related security threats, believes Erovinkin is the key source to whom Mr Steele refers in his dossier.
Mr Grozev said on a blog: “Insiders have described Erovinkin to me alternately as ‘Sechin’s treasurer’ and ‘the go-between between Putin and Sechin’. One thing that everyone seems to agree – both in public and private sources – is that Erovinkin was Sechin’s closest associate.”
Mr Grozev, of Risk Management Lab, a think tank in Bulgaria, said: “I have no doubt that at the time Erovinkin died, Mr Putin had Mr Steele’s Trump dossier on his desk. He would – arguably – have known whether the alleged... story is based on fact or fiction.
"Whichever is true, he would have had a motive to seek – and find the mole... He would have had to conclude that Erovinkin was at least a person of interest.”
Experts expressed scepticism about the theory.
“As a rule, people like Gen Yerovinkin don’t tend to die in airport thriller murders,” said Mark Galeotti, an expert on the Russian security services.
Mr Steele, 52, a Cambridge graduate, remains in hiding following his unmasking as the author of the Trump dossier.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/27/mystery-death-ex-kgb-chief-linked-mi6-spys-dossier-donald-trump/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw
The narrator would a good pick for Mike Pence to consider for VP.
God help us.
Trump Strategist Steve Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUMJAN. 26, 2017
WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s chief White House strategist, laced into the American press during an interview on Wednesday evening, arguing that news organizations had been “humiliated” by an election outcome few anticipated, and repeatedly describing the media as “the opposition party” of the current administration.
“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while,” Mr. Bannon said during a telephone call.
“I want you to quote this,” Mr. Bannon added. “The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”
The scathing assessment — delivered by one of Mr. Trump’s most trusted and influential advisers, in the first days of his presidency — comes at a moment of high tension between the news media and the administration, with skirmishes over the size of Mr. Trump’s inaugural crowd and the president’s false claims that millions of illegal votes by undocumented immigrants swayed the popular vote against him.
Mr. Bannon, who rarely grants interviews to journalists outside of Breitbart News, the provocative right-wing website he ran until last August, was echoing comments by Mr. Trump this weekend, when the president said he was in “a running war” with the media and called journalists “among the most dishonest people on earth.”
During a call to discuss Sean M. Spicer, the president’s press secretary, Mr. Bannon ratcheted up the criticism, offering a broad indictment of the news media as biased against Mr. Trump and out of touch with the American public. That’s an argument familiar to readers of Breitbart and followers of Trump-friendly personalities like Sean Hannity.
“The elite media got it dead wrong, 100 percent dead wrong,” Mr. Bannon said of the election, calling it “a humiliating defeat that they will never wash away, that will always be there.”
“The mainstream media has not fired or terminated anyone associated with following our campaign,” Mr. Bannon said. “Look at the Twitter feeds of those people: they were outright activists of the Clinton campaign.” (He did not name specific reporters or editors.)
“That’s why you have no power,” Mr. Bannon added. “You were humiliated.”
Of all of Mr. Trump’s advisers in the White House, Mr. Bannon is the one tasked with implementing the nationalist vision that Mr. Trump channeled during the later months of the campaign, one that stemmed from Mr. Bannon himself. And in many ways Mr. Trump’s first week has put into action that vision — from the description of “American carnage’’ Mr. Trump laid out in his inauguration speech, to a series of executive actions outlining policy on trade agreements, immigration, the building of a border wall and the demands that Mexico pay for it.
He is one of the strongest forces in a White House with competing power centers. A savvy manipulator of the press, and a proud provocateur, Mr. Bannon was among the few advisers in Mr. Trump’s circle who was said to have urged on Mr. Spicer’s confrontational, emotional statement to a shocked White House briefing room on Saturday, when the White House disputed press reports on the inauguration crowd size. He mostly shares Mr. Trump’s view that the news media has misunderstood the movement that the president rode into office.
On the telephone, Mr. Bannon spoke in blunt but calm tones, peppered with a dose of profanities, and humorously referred to himself at one point as “Darth Vader.” He said, with ironic relish, that Mr. Trump was elected by a surge of support from “the working class hobbits and deplorables.”
The conversation was initiated by Mr. Bannon to offer praise for Mr. Spicer, who has been criticized this week for making false claims at the White House podium about the attendance of Mr. Trump’s inaugural crowd, for calling reporters dishonest and lecturing them about what stories to write and for failing to disavow Mr. Trump’s lie about widespread voter fraud in the election.
Asked if he was concerned that Mr. Spicer had lost credibility with the news media, Mr. Bannon chortled. “Are you kidding me?” he said. “We think that’s a badge of honor. ‘Questioning his integrity’ — are you kidding me? The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work.”
“You’re the opposition party,” Mr. Bannon said. “Not the Democratic Party. You’re the opposition party. The media’s the opposition party.”
Mr. Bannon mostly referred to the “elite” or “mainstream” media, but he cited The New York Times and The Washington Post by name.
“The paper of record for our beloved republic, The New York Times, should be absolutely ashamed and humiliated,” Mr. Bannon said. “They got it 100 percent wrong.”
He added that he has been a reader of The Times for most of his adult life.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/media/stephen-bannon-trump-news-media.html
Day-OOO - What is that?... you being sing-song or you scoring what will be my third ZERO in a row?
Jason Day
I suppose we should add this to the Democratic Party autopsy report:
Trump Wins The Unions: Teamsters Praise TPP Withdrawal, Labor Chiefs Describe "Incredible" Meeting With Trump
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-23/labor-unions-pivot-praise-trumps-tpp-withdrawal-describe-meeting-president-incredibl
I'm not going to argue this you don't understand it and never will at this point in your life.
You're getting a bit frisky, snowflake...
Maybe you missed the memo -- Trump barely managed his way into the White House with a very narrow win in which he got 46 percent of the vote, winning the states he needed by less than a point, and lost the popular vote by 3 million votes. On top of that, only 1/2 of the electorate turned out. So he actually won with less than 25 percent of the country. Hardly a mandate, mon ami.
Trump's meeting with Unions is just plain queer. He hates unions. They might as well meet with their executioner.
WTF, rollingrock? You brought it up now didn't you?
You sound like you're trying to understand, but you keep coming back with, "It's not important," "nobody cares" and "tax returns aren't an issue because he's the POTUS now." Could it be that other msg board is clogging your skull with unfertilized bullshit?
Spicer said one of Trump’s legislative priorities would be regulatory reform. I hope they can tell the difference between regulation and protection.
And who cares?
74 percent of the American public want to see Trump's tax returns!
Apparently it wasn't an issue, he is the POTUS.
That seems to be the typical Trump minion retort these days.
You are like a whining 5 yr old... "Well he did it, why can't I?"