trump is serious!!!!!

[Econoline]

ETA: WOOHOO! 200 pages!

[Econoline]

A while ago wes lamented the recent dearth of YouTube videos in this thread. So here ya go! Enjoy!

[Scooter]

This is going to be some fun summer reading:

Comey: Trump asked me to investigate ‘pee tape’ to reassure Melania

President Trump wanted James Comey to investigate the infamous “pee tape” allegations — to reassure Melania that he hadn’t actually paid Russian hookers to urinate on a hotel bed, the former FBI chief claims in his upcoming book.

“He brought up what he called the ‘golden showers thing’ … adding that it bothered him if there was ‘even a one percent chance’ his wife, Melania, thought it was true,” Comey writes in “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership,” a copy of which was obtained by The Post.

“He just rolled on, unprompted, explaining why it couldn’t possibly be true, ending by saying he was thinking of asking me to investigate the allegation to prove it was a lie. I said it was up to him.”

The conversation took place during the same private dinner on Jan. 27, 2017, where Comey has claimed the president demanded “loyalty” — and just days after the publication of an intelligence dossier alleging that the Kremlin had a tape of Trump paying prostitutes to perform the dirty deed on a bed once occupied by President Obama.

Comey says he warned Trump an investigation might “create a narrative that we were investigating him personally,” the former top G-man writes.

The president replied that he “might be right” — but kept asking him to consider the idea, and said he would as well, according to Comey.

Comey said he privately wondered why Melania might think there was even a 1 percent chance the allegations were true, claiming there is “zero chance” his own wife would believe such a claim.

“In what kind of marriage, to what kind of man, does a spouse conclude there is only a 99 percent chance her husband didn’t do that?” he writes in the book, which hits shelves April 17.

Actually I have serious problems believing some of this, in particular the part about Trump caring how Melania feels.

[BoSoxGal]

No way in hell Melanie thinks there’s a 99% chance Trump didn’t do it - I’m pretty sure she knows most any such allegations lodged against him have a 50/50 likelihood of being true.

When you marry for money, you earn every penny.

[Joe Guy]

Melania would be pissed off if she discovered that Trump was pissed on.

[Scooter]

[RayThom]

And the United Nations lady, Nikki Haley, was in New York.

[Burning Petard]

The NY Times Book Review section today has a review of an essay collection by Hannah Arendt called 'Thinking Without a Banister' Most of the content was written back in the 1970's. The review includes this quote from Arendt:

“What really makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other kind of dictatorship to rule is that the people are not informed,” she remarked in a 1973 interview. “If everyone always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but that no one believes anything at all anymore — and rightly so, because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, to be ‘re-lied,’ so to speak.” A lying government pursuing shifting goals has to ceaselessly rewrite its own history, leaving people not only dispossessed of their ability to act, “but also of their capacity to think and to judge,” she declared. “And with such a people you can then do what you please.”

I attended some of her lectures in 1969. She could be tough to comprehend. Written down on paper you can re-read until you get it

snailgate

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[Scooter]

[Scooter]

[rubato]

The NY Times Book Review section today has a review of an essay collection by Hannah Arendt called 'Thinking Without a Banister' Most of the content was written back in the 1970's. The review includes this quote from Arendt:

“What really makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other kind of dictatorship to rule is that the people are not informed,” she remarked in a 1973 interview. “If everyone always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but that no one believes anything at all anymore — and rightly so, because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, to be ‘re-lied,’ so to speak.” A lying government pursuing shifting goals has to ceaselessly rewrite its own history, leaving people not only dispossessed of their ability to act, “but also of their capacity to think and to judge,” she declared. “And with such a people you can then do what you please.”

I attended some of her lectures in 1969. She could be tough to comprehend. Written down on paper you can re-read until you get it

snailgate

Putin, and now the Republican Party, have exploited this fact with ruthless efficiency.

yrs,
rubato

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[Big RR]

Yeah, that bowling Green massacre was horrendous (just ask Conway) and the mainstream media just didn't cover it. Those poor people.

[kristina]

[BoSoxGal]

Did you post this just to drive me and Meade mad?

[Econoline]

No, I actually didn't notice it until AFTER I had posted it...but I left it there anyway to drive you and Meade mad.

[RayThom]

No, I actually didn't notice it until AFTER I had posted it...but I left it there anyway to drive you and Meade mad.

You know me -- I'm slow on the uptake. Your'e trying to pull a fast one on me, right?

[BoSoxGal]

Gah!!!!!!!