Thurs Trump

[anodyne]

1 hour till Stone is called before the judge he threatened!!!  LOCK HIM UP!

[pixy0stix]

::punches monitor:: I hate all these maga idiots.

[anodyne]

Trump 'Outlawed' His Own Wall

stoehr.substack.com/p/trump-outlawed-his-own-wall

Case in point is last week’s the funding bill. What everybody knows is the bill keeps the government open and running, and that the president is simultaneously doing an end-run around the Congress to build his wall by declaring an emergency. (We also know border states, as well as private property owners in border states, are suing to stop the administration.) What everybody does not know is that the same funding bill is almost certainly going to prevent any kind of barrier from ever being built.

The Bulwark’s Andrew Egger had the goods late Friday.

The bill sneaks in provisions requiring the Department of Homeland Security to get permission from local elected officials before building barriers in counties along the border—while also opting only to authorize new walls in the Rio Grande Valley, where local governments are overwhelmingly Democratic (my italics).

Andrew Egger went on:

The bill blocks border security agents from detaining “anyone who has effectively any relationship with an ‘unaccompanied’ minor—either because they’re sponsors, in the same household as sponsors, or even just ‘potential sponsors’ (or in the household of potential sponsors!) of such a child (once again, my italics).

Put another way, the president is violating the Constitution to build a border wall that federal law now makes pretty much impossible. Moreover, the administration is now barred from touching any immigrant who has any kind of relationship with any minor, in effect turning children into a shield of legal immunity for families seeking asylum. (They were already legally entitled to seek asylum, but the CPB is violating that right.)

[anodyne]

Live tweeting

Roger Stone is now taking the stand.

STONE: "I believe I abused the order, for which I am heart fully sorry. I am kicking myself over my own stupidity... I offer no excuse for it, no justification..." Calls it a lapse in judgement called by stress.

STONE: "This is just a stupid lapse in judgment." Says his business has dried up and he's exhausted his savings. "My apology is sincere and it it heartfelt."

[anodyne]

STONE: "I can only say I'm sorry yet again it was an egregious mistake." Tells judge he's sorry he abused her trust. Says he's not being paid to speak about the case. "Perhaps I talk to much, but I am under enormous pressure."

Stone claims he's having trouble putting food on the table and paying his rent.

[carmenere]

Feb 21, 2019 14:51:06 GMT -5 anodyne said:

STONE: "I can only say I'm sorry yet again it was an egregious mistake." Tells judge he's sorry he abused her trust. Says he's not being paid to speak about the case. "Perhaps I talk to much, but I am under enormous pressure."

Stone claims he's having trouble putting food on the table and paying his rent.

Cry me a motherfucking river.

IDGAF what Stone has to say for himself, I just want to hear that he’s going to jail.

[Pom]

What, no “Tricky Dick I am not a crook” salute today? It’s all fun and games until the prospect of jail looms large. Oh, of course he’s a “victim of the Deep State”. Lol. He’s a complete shit stain on the butt of humanity.

Lock Him Up! Lock Him Up!

[debatethis]

Roger Stone's going for the Shaggy defense. LOL for DAYS.

[WOT?*]

Stone, dude, you posted a picture of the judge, WITH DETAILS, ***AND A MOTHERFUCKING TARGET BY HER HEAD***

That's not a lapse in judgment. And it has nothing to do with paying your bills (where the eff is your emergency fund anyways? Sell the house and cut the cable.) It has to do with you believing your invincibility and superiority uber alles.

[mcsangel2]

I mean, paying his rent and buying food isn't going to be an issue for him pretty soon.

[isabel]

Feb 21, 2019 15:19:07 GMT -5 mcsangel2 said:

I mean, paying his rent and buying food isn't going to be an issue for him pretty soon.

Mmmmhmmm. And she can make sure that stress is relieved pretty much immediately. Sounds like a win win for everyone.

[anodyne]

Now, it's weeks. And has anyone else noticed they have been referring to A report not THE report?

www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/us/politics/mueller-report-ending.html#click=https://t.co/2NH5zRgxO5

[ESF]

Hahaha

Stone now under gag order

[mbcdefg]

During the 2016 presidential campaign, California’s massive public pension fund, CalPERS, was one of the biggest investors in the debt-laden owner of the National Enquirer, according to public records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

Through an investment managed by a New Jersey hedge fund, California’s public pension fund appears to have owned as much as one-third of American Media Inc., the National Enquirer’s parent company, in 2016. It is not clear whether CalPERS continues to hold a major stake in the tabloid publisher.

...

California’s pension fund, the largest in the nation, runs on contributions from taxpayer-funded state agencies and their employees. It has long drawn scrutiny over whether its mandate of seeking strong returns meshes with liberal Californians’ expectations of ethical investment. Some of its investments drawing recent scrutiny have included oil pipelines, retailers that sell semiautomatic rifles, Russian sovereign debt and coal-producing companies.


...

Starting in 2009, CalPERS invested $607.7 million with Chatham Asset Management hedge fund’s “Chatham Eureka Fund,” which is a “fund of one” — a type of investment created and managed for a single institutional investor rather than for a pooled group of investors.

...

The Chatham hedge fund has said it is not involved in the day-to-day management of American Media, Inc., though it reportedly holds two seats on the company’s board. And when the company’s chief executive, David Pecker, attended a dinner with Trump at the White House in 2017, he was accompanied by the head of Chatham Asset Management, Anthony Melchiorre.

www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-national-enquirer-20190221-story.html

[Pom]

Who is watching TRMS?

😳

[elleblue]

Feb 21, 2019 21:29:22 GMT -5 Pom said:

Who is watching TRMS?

😳

I won't be able to watch until later. Do I want to know?

[Pom]

Feb 21, 2019 21:35:31 GMT -5 elleblue said:

Feb 21, 2019 21:29:22 GMT -5 Pom said:

Who is watching TRMS?

😳

I won't be able to watch until later. Do I want to know?

Don’t miss it.

[curbsideprophet]

Very interesting Maddow tonight. Curious to see what others news sources have to say about it.


Did the Mueller grand jury meet today?

[MrsAxilla]

Feb 21, 2019 21:29:22 GMT -5 Pom said:

Who is watching TRMS?

😳

Phish show.  Recap?

[aurora]

Feb 21, 2019 23:54:54 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

Feb 21, 2019 21:29:22 GMT -5 Pom said:

Who is watching TRMS?

😳

Phish show.  Recap?

I haven't listened yet, but from Twitter it sounds like it may have involved both "a sitting President can be indicted" and also Agnew got money from Saudi Arabia to be even more anti-Semitic.

I can't figure out if the two are connected or not...

[mrsukyankee]

Klobuchar 2020 is in danger of becoming Sanders 2016 (opinion piece that I just found interesting)

After the pitch-perfect speech by Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) announcing her candidacy last month, Klobuchar’s snowstorm announcement of her own presidential run (along with that of Julián Castro) ranks as the second best of the crop. She was clear-eyed about our challenges and aspirational about our future. But she missed an opportunity that portends trouble ahead, especially if winning the African American vote is so vital to any candidate’s chances of winning the Democratic nomination.

...Castile had a legal permit to carry a gun that was issued by the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office — the same county where Klobuchar was twice elected chief prosecutor. And, yet, Klobuchar didn’t mention Castile during her presidential announcement on Feb. 10. How very odd for a candidate for the presidential nomination of a party whose bedrock is the African American vote to not take the opportunity to talk about an issue of concern to them that happened in her own state.