[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Skuj

FUCKET?

Anyway, if Ruth dies, we all know what McConnell and Trump will do, and the hypocrisy is astounding.

RBG is back at home. And she's like Kenny: even if she dies, she'll be back for the next episode.

 

[Bytor Peltor]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

RBG is back at home. And she's like Kenny: even if she dies, she'll be back for the next episode.

 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Encased In Carbonite Until Next Court Session

Skuj should changing his avatar to this!

 

I hope RBG is recovering, she has served our country for a long time!

[Bytor Peltor]

Originally Posted by Skuj

Flynn is FUCKING GUILTY

Justice Dept dropping Flynn’s criminal case

 

 

 

[Skuj]

Originally Posted by Skuj

I bet I know how this proceeds now: The judge (Obama appointee, surely!) will (rightly) deem that Flynn is still guilty, and that these notes have no effect whatsoever. Cue the outrage in Trumpyworld. Flynn gets pardoned very quickly (fuck you Obama!) and plays a major role in Today's GOP. While the dust still settles, Stone gets pardoned.

Amirite?

$10, anyone?

Well, it looks like Today's DOJ has spoken!!

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...-against-flynn

I had this belief that a judge would decide.

Flynn is still fucking guilty, no matter how DOJ and Trumpies twist this.

So, onto the next step: Flynn joins team Trump again? (I hope he does!!)

[Bytor Peltor]

Originally Posted by Skuj

Well, it looks like Today's DOJ has spoken!!

Flynn is still fucking guilty, no matter how DOJ and Trumpies twist this.

I’m guessing you have sand in your eyes because anyone can clearly see and understand that the DOJ doesn’t drop charges against guilty people!

But don’t you worry, the guilty will soon be going to jail because you can’t perpetuate fraud upon the court and get away with it.

You can’t waste TWO YEARS and 32+ MILLION DOLLARS of the Tax Payers money on an investigation and not have to answer for it!!

......the big names are coming!!!

[Skuj]

The more I read about the "technicality" that Flynn will be freed on, the more I shake my head.

Did Flynn talk to the Russians illicitly? YES.

Did he lie about these talks? YES.

What's worse: Flynn getting off for this reasoning, or Barr's summary of Mueller's findings? We live in very strange times, and Barr should scare everyone.

(The judge, a Clinton appointee, must still decide the Flynn case though, right?)

[Skuj]

"On February 14th 2017, Trump talked to FBI Director Comey about Michael Flynn, asking him to “let this go” because he’s a “good guy.” Comey wouldn’t do it, so Trump fires him. Today, Barr did what Comey was unwilling to do."

An interesting take.

[Skuj]

(Keeps posting to self....)

So, Barr is at odds with Mueller here (I just re-read the Flynn section in the report), as well as the IG. What are the chances that he is also at odds with the judge who ultimately decides this case?

My $10 bet is still on.

[h8kurdt]

Don’t Forget, Michael Flynn Pleaded Guilty. Twice.

[Skuj]

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

Don’t Forget, Michael Flynn Pleaded Guilty. Twice.

Oh but he was tricked into it by The Deep State, and as Barr said in an interview, sometimes we plead guilty when we don't understand that we were not guilty blah blah blah Make America Great Again.

[Skuj]

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

Don’t Forget, Michael Flynn Pleaded Guilty. Twice.

I enjoyed that piece. One can see a pattern here in Barr's behaviour. If it was one or maybe two major things he had done to please Team Trump, an arguement could be made that he is an impartial AG. But look at the list!! And it's going to get worse. The Trumpists know this. "Some big names are going to pay" keeps coming up, and I believe it now. But Barr has zero credibility. I have a copy of the Mueller Report on my shelf, and I must be reading a completely different book than the one Barr read.

[h8kurdt]

Originally Posted by Robert Schunk

You have your article, and I have mine:

‘Never saw any direct evidence’: Clapper admission torpedoes Democrat push to revive Trump-Russia conspiracy with transcript dump

Pleaded guilty TWICE, but yet he's innocent. Gotta love those mental gymnastics.

[h8kurdt]

I have been in and around DOJ since 1983. I have never seen a case dropped after someone has pled guilty and the underlying facts demonstrate beyond any shadow of a doubt he is guilty. This is simply a pardon by another name. A black day in DOJ history.

[Michael R. Bromwich]former DOJ IG; Asst US Attorney, SDNY; Assoc. Independent Counsel, Iran-Contra; independent monitor; law enforcement consultant

How many of Trump's cronies have been sacked, sent down, or disgraced since he became president? And yet you believe that Flynn is as innocent as a newborn baby and has been treated horribly by the FBI? Trump drained the swamp about as well as a plumber using a toothpick on a clogged shitter.

[Skuj]

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

[Michael R. Bromwich]former DOJ IG; Asst US Attorney, SDNY; Assoc. Independent Counsel, Iran-Contra; independent monitor; law enforcement consultant

How many of Trump's cronies have been sacked, sent down, or disgraced since he became president? And yet you believe that Flynn is as innocent as a newborn baby and has been treated horribly by the FBI? Trump drained the swamp about as well as a plumber using a toothpick on a clogged shitter.

Lol. That's good.

You quoted Skunk "you have your article and I have mine" above, and I admit that I clicked on that link and looked about his beautiful rt.com for 10 seconds. That is 10 seconds that I will never get back. These are the kinds of "news" and "sources" that Byteme and Skunk revel in, and I feel sorry for them. I really do.

[Skuj]

"RT is the first Russian 24/7 English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global news."

You cannot make this shit up. Skunk really is a Russian bot, and he may not even know it. Thank FUCK I can't see him unless he is quoted.

[Skuj]

The channel is registered as a "foreign agent" with the United States Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). A 2017 report by the United States Intelligence Community characterized RT as "The Kremlin's principal international propaganda outlet" and said that RT America had been set up as an autonomous nonprofit organization to avoid FARA's registration requirement.[4][5] RT America's estimates of its audience reach in the USA have been considered to be exaggerated.[6]

From wiki.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_America

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Skuj

So, onto the next step: Flynn joins team Trump again? (I hope he does!!)

I hope they make him Pence's chief of staff.

[Skuj]

Obama told some people how he really feels about the Trumpy response to Covid-19, and the recent Flynn developments. The recording was very recently "leaked".

The tweets shall begin in 10...9....8....

[!@#$%!]

this isn’t really about covid but about the imbeciles in charge and the deranged ones who support them

In the early days of the pandemic, the U.S. government turned down an offer to manufacture millions of N95 masks in America

By
Aaron C. Davis
May 9, 2020 at 10:06 a.m. MDT

It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”

But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.

“I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day.
Bowen persisted.

“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”

In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant

Bowen’s overture was described briefly in an 89-page whistleblower complaint filed this week by Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright alleges he was retaliated against by Kadlec and other officials — including being reassigned to a lesser post — because he tried to “prioritize science and safety over political expediency.” HHS has disputed his allegations.


Emails show Bright pressed Kadlec and other agency leaders on the issue of mask shortages — and Bowen’s proposal specifically — to no avail. On Jan. 26, Bright wrote to a deputy that Bowen’s warnings “seem to be falling on deaf ears.”
That day, Bowen sent Bright a more direct warning.
“U.S. mask supply is at imminent risk,” he wrote. “Rick, I think we’re in deep s---,” he wrote a day later.

The story of Bowen’s offer illustrates a missed opportunity in the early days of the pandemic, one laid out in Bright’s whistleblower complaint, interviews with Bowen and emails provided by both men.

Within weeks, a shortage of masks was endangering health-care workers in hard-hit areas across the country, and the Trump administration was scrambling to buy more masks — sometimes placing bulk orders with third-party distributors for many times the standard price. President Trump came under pressure to use extraordinary government powers to force private industry to ramp up production.

etc etc (because the clusterfuck is wider and deeper and there’s more) : https://www.washingtonpost.com/inves...691_story.html

[Skuj]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/09/us/wh...els/index.html

I know I should never generalize, but these two suspects sure don't look like racist ignorant asshole fucks, he said, sarcastically, in the Trump thread, because Trumpism is basically white supremacism.