The Swamp

What's the point of a hearing where people get to ask questions if the askee doesn't have to answer the questions?

A_B wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:35 am What's the point of a hearing where people get to ask questions if the askee doesn't have to answer the questions?

Seriously?

So the congress critters can scurry back to their constituency to say “I ask the hard questions you need answered!1”

Maybe I just want it to be so, but do Booker and Durbin cease "respecting the process" if they weren't seeing whats happening in various Dem primaries?

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:37 am

A_B wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:35 am What's the point of a hearing where people get to ask questions if the askee doesn't have to answer the questions?

Seriously?

So the congress critters can scurry back to their constituency to say “I ask the hard questions you need answered!1”

And they all seem to start their questioning with a 3 minute speech.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:56 am

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:37 am

A_B wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:35 am What's the point of a hearing where people get to ask questions if the askee doesn't have to answer the questions?

Seriously?

So the congress critters can scurry back to their constituency to say “I ask the hard questions you need answered!1”

And they all seem to start their questioning with a 3 minute speech.

The problem I have with all of this is that at the apex of it all, they’re all buddies. What difference does it make if you’re only talking from the right side of history when the government you work for is consistently on the wrong side of it?

Is it happy hour yet?

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:16 am Cory Booker threatening to do something besides providing a good quote, huh?



(Or the threat was just a good quote.)

Add Senator Hirono to the I Am Spartacus moment:



This is how you play politics. You need 67 senators to expel someone, but all you need is Democrats to hold, pressure Murkowski and Collins to vote no, and this could be a big moment for everyone resisting.

Edit.

Ya know if they want total chaos, dump every file, have the public read the files collectively and send data back. That would be outstanding.

I don't think you dump it all to the public, but you have some reporters you know will read through it and find the most important things.

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:13 pm I don't think you dump it all to the public, but you have some reporters you know will read through it and find the most important things.

Nah. Dump it. Otherwise #FAKENEWS!

Hey, Barry O! How you been? Its nice to see you going after Trump.

I guess there was some Illuminati Rothschild meeting after McCain's funeral.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 6:33 am Time for your daily dose of "something you would never have believed possible 24 months ago."

The bromance continues...

Thing I wish I could say if I were on TV:

"Oh, you hate when NFL players drop to a knee to protest Injustice, but note the rest of America hates when you drop to both knees to give a brojob to the dictator in North Korea."

Now, he could just be yawning and stretching... but who cares?

Pruitt wrote: ↑Tue Sep 11, 2018 9:07 am

Now, he could just be yawning and stretching... but who cares?

It’s just another example of him not having a clue about compassion.

His original tweet is as if he's just filling in blanks on a template. As heartfelt as "6 months since the Grammy Awards!"

Also, technically it's only been one year since September 11th. It comes every year.

Arte the commemorative celebration parties going on in Jersey City yet?

Is it really that bad?

I too get pumped up and excited when I think about 9/11.

It is a pretty minor blip in the bigger picture of him being a fucking moron. But the fact that he can't keep his shit together and act the part on 9/11 is pretty much what we'd expect. He's just such a toolbag.

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Sep 11, 2018 10:40 am It is a pretty minor blip in the bigger picture of him being a fucking moron. But the fact that he can't keep his shit together and act the part on 9/11 is pretty much what we'd expect. He's just such a toolbag.

One person cheers and he forgets why he's there. Not a really big deal, but so typical of the douchebag.

brian wrote: ↑Tue Sep 11, 2018 10:40 am I too get pumped up and excited when I think about 9/11.

He’s just happy some Muslims died in the attacks. To make an omelette...and all that.

Yes. It's that bad.

Time to play "what if Obama did this"?

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Sep 11, 2018 12:02 pm Time to play "what if Obama did this"?

Please, making a 9/11 speech all about applause for him is nothing compared to Obama asking for dijon mustard on a hot dog or unbuttoning his top button while working on a Sunday in the Oval Office,and those stories got weeks of coverage on Fox proving Obama unfit for office.

Don't forget almost getting impeached for wearing a tan suit.

brian wrote: ↑Tue Sep 11, 2018 1:34 pm Don't forget almost getting impeached for wearing a tan suit.

I erased that, figured 2 examples was enough.

Former Canadian PM Brian Mulroney throwing down

As a point of reference - Mulroney was a Conservative Party Prime Minister (conservative by canadian standards, a socialist dog by current US standards).

Notorious for all but blowing Reagan when he visited Quebec.

In the many years since he retired from politics, he stays out of the fray. The old guy's clearly had enough...

I'm thinking about renaming a fantasy football team Tremendously Big and Tremendously Wet. [this was Trump's comments on Florence]

"Swamp Monsters" does suck.

A Series Of Suspicious Money Transfers Followed The Trump Tower Meeting

Follow the money, man.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Sep 12, 2018 12:02 pm I'm thinking about renaming a fantasy football team Tremendously Big and Tremendously Wet. [this was Trump's comments on Florence]

I thought he was describing his farts.

I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Trump rallies and then asked it to write a Trump rally of its own. Here is the first page. https://twitter.com/KeatonPatti/status/ ... 64/photo/1

I’m having trouble embedding the tweet. But I think the results of the
elxperiment conducted by the author is some of the most compelling evidence of the viability of AI

(You were embedding the image of the tweet and not the tweet itself.)

It's like that time Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day.

But this is far more hilarious.

Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Sep 12, 2018 12:48 pm A Series Of Suspicious Money Transfers Followed The Trump Tower Meeting

Follow the money, man.

I hope that's just the scraps the media can dig up, because no way a jury can convict on just that.