April 5, 2017

Dots

I don’t know — it’s hard for me to see any U.S. ties to Russia...except for the Flynn thing and the Manafort thing and the Tillerson thing and the Sessions thing
...and the Kushner thing
and the Carter Page thing
and the Felix Sater thing
and the Boris Ephsteyn thing
and the Rosneft thing
and the Gazprom thing
and the Sergey Gorkov banker thing
and the Azerbajain thing
and the “I love Putin” thing
and the Donald Trump, Jr. thing
and the Sergey Kislyak thing
and the Russian Affiliated Interests thing
and the Russian Business Interests thing
and the Emoluments Clause thing
and the Alex Schnaider thing
and the hack of the DNC thing
and the Guccifer 2.0 thing
and the Mike Pence “I don’t know anything” thing
and the Russians mysteriously dying thing
and Trump’s public request to Russia to hack Hillary’s email thing
and the Trump house sale for $100 million at the bottom of the housing
bust to the Russian fertilizer king thing
and the Russian fertilizer king’s plane showing up in Concord NC during
Trump rally campaign thing
and the Nunes sudden flight to the White House in the night thing
and the Nunes personal investments in the Russian winery thing
and the Cyprus bank thing
and Trump not releasing his tax returns thing
and the Republican Party’s rejection of an amendment to require
Trump to show his taxes thing
and the election hacking thing
and the GOP platform change to the Ukraine thing
and the Steele Dossier thing
and the Leninist Bannon thing
and the Sally Yates can’t testify thing
and the intelligence community’s investigative reports thing
and Trump’s reassurance that the Russian connection is all “fake news” thing
and Spicer’s Russian Dressing “nothing’s wrong” thing
so there’s probably nothing there
since the swamp has been drained, these people would never lie
probably why Nunes cancels the investigation meetings
all of this must be normal
just a bunch of dots with no connection


~Carrie White, a friend of a friend


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April 3, 2017

Judicial decision

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April 2, 2017

Note to my senators (re Gorsuch)

I've sent this to both of my senators.

Regardless of the present investigation into the Trump/Russia mess, the current president is the named defendant in cases that were filed before his candidacy and election. It is not inconceivable that one or more of those cases could ultimately be argued before the Supreme Court. That is sufficient reason, I should think, to deny anyone he nominates to that court, at least until such time that his legal issues are fully resolved. At stake, here, is nothing less than the full faith and confidence in our American system of justice; isn’t preserving that sufficient reason to postpone any confirmations?



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April 2, 2017

And THERE is the question.

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April 2, 2017

A question for those senators still undecided on the Gorsuch nomination:

Considering that the current president is glaringly incompetent for any task other than filling his own pockets, that his actions thus far have suggested indifference toward the citizens of this country and malevolence toward those who populate the rest of the planet, and that his ignorance of our history and our founding principles are of profound unconcern to him — why would you or anyone else believe that he would nominate to the highest court anyone likely to provide any check against his singular priority of profiting at everyone else’s expense?


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April 1, 2017

Twisted

After another night of mostly not sleeping, I took a sip of coffee and turned on the news. Oh goody, it’s Hew Hughitt. And he’s saying that the Obama team wasn’t preserving evidence, they were actually laying land mines to damage the new administration. Gak.

Yup, time to switch over to HGTV.


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April 1, 2017

George Takei announces he's running for Congress against Devin Nunes!

"With what is going on now in the country, I couldn’t stand by any longer merely as a citizen. I knew I had to take a bigger stand. So that’s why I’m running for Congress. My hope is to challenge Davin Nunes for his seat in 2018."

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https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/04/01/1649285/-George-Takei-announces-he-s-running-for-Congress-against-Devin-Nunes



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