[Anyone willing to offer a guess as to the date on which the Senate will deliver its verdict? I'll even take your MAB numbers to see who has the most accurate view of when this kabuki performance will end. gjr]
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619 responses to “Sandbox – 16jan20”
,,,Scenes,,,”’Yellow Cake”’ is code for BS evidence used to ”’prove”’ Iraq had WMD…
I am waiting for your proof as verified by DEEP STATE intelligence services showing us the sat photos, email, or other evidence of the advanced state of Iran’s nuclear weapons development
…I should probably stop waiting…right???…since you are just enjoying another one of your conspiracy illusions
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Posted by: Odlaw | 16 January 2020 at 10:14 AM
Oh Comma Man……you’ve saved the day yet again…..you’re so funny when you go on one of your conspiracy theory rants….swoon!
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“[Anyone willing to offer a guess as to the date on which the Senate will deliver its verdict?”
Not me. Oh, I could hazard a guess, but not before checking the Dem primary calendar for key dates.
From my scholarly Constitutional law friends (who have pretty much batting 100%) there are some rules governing the Senate Impeachment Trail of the Century. Could be just a rumor and something Chucky the Clown will fight with all his might to find a sleazy workaround.
-After Chief Justice Roberts swears in the jurists, all 100 members of the Senate must be present for the duration. No exceptions.
-All 100 members must sit there quietly.
– The trail will be six days a week, no exceptions.
-All questions of witnesses must be handwritten and delivered in advance to the witnesses.
-All questions from the Senate members must be hand written In advance and delivered to the defense and ‘managers’.
-Silence from the jurors is a must. No Impromptu press conferences during breaks like we witnessed on the House steps.
With that said, my cloudy crystal ball sees 5-7 weeks max.
The Unhinged are counting on the hyperventilating Lame stream Media to carry the spin. Notable mentions will be the leader of the pack, the NYT, Wa Compost, Huff-n-Puff Farting Post (a favorite of our adorable lefty sock puppets here), VOX, and the Perfect 10 without boobies… Ms. Rachel Madcow. Don’t know if they can count of the Daily Beast not to toe the party line. The Deep State prefers to leak propaganda to the Wa Post and New York Times, and CNN first.
Whatever the spin is, I am certain that “Trump is a racist lying Nazi, Orange Man Bad Bad Bad, he makes my skin crawl, barf barf” will be forthcoming.
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,,,Oosik,,,you are welcome…it warms the cockles of my heart to know you swoon over my intellectual prowess…
‘My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body.’
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Posted by: Odlaw | 16 January 2020 at 10:47 AM
Oh Comma Man……you’ve saved the day yet again…..you’re so funny when you boast about your imagined “intellectual prowess”…..swoon!
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BillT 1033am – OK, Mr Tozer has a flat distribution between 5 and 7 weeks.
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Yo Odlaq
It’s ‘warm the cockles of me heart’….not ‘ my heart’. Keep trying until you get it right, genius. I think you need some anger management class, or at least three deep breaths in your Yoga pants. Talk about angry an old white man, Self awareness is not your forte. No worries, it runs deep in your crowd. Come with the territory, I reckon.
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Dem Debate, aka, the Debate no one wants to talk about. I can’t imagine why.
WHO’S ZOOMIN’ WHO?
Yesterday CNN released audio of the exchange between Senators Warren and Sanders following the Democratic presidential candidates’ pre-impeachment debate on Tuesday night (video below). CNN reports the exchange as follows:
“I think you called me a liar on national TV,” Warren can be heard saying.
“What?” Sanders responded.
“I think you called me a liar on national TV,” she repeated.
“You know, let’s not do it right now. If you want to have that discussion, we’ll have that discussion,” Sanders said, to which Warren replied, “Anytime.”
“You called me a liar,” Sanders continued. “You told me — all right, let’s not do it now.”
Who’s zoomin’ who? If Sanders really said to Warren that a woman can’t be elected president, wouldn’t Warren have said “You know you said it” rather than “You called me a liar”? Why didn’t Sanders just reiterate his denial in response to Warren rather than defer the issue?
Let’s do it now! 18 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGg40I2VRes&feature=emb_logo
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,,,Bill did you just get back from Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean??? warms the cockles of ”’me”’ heart???
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,,,yes Bill,,,Lizzy and Bernie remind me of Trump’s antics during his debates…
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Been watching the impeachment process today
What a shame our so called “Commander” in Chief is putting our country through this.
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Dr. Rebane @ 11:06.
Make that a straight up 5 weeks. Somebody has to go first.
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Waldo’s World
Actually it’s ‘warms the cockles of me weary heart,’ but I have to take baby steps when dealing with one with so much superior intelligence as you.
The offer to give for an oar so you have two in the water still stands. It just the kind of men we are over here on the sunny side of the street.
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The gusher begins:
White House violated the law by freezing Ukraine aid, GAO says
“The White House budget office violated the law when it froze U.S. military aid to Ukraine, the Government Accountability Office concluded in a new report.
President Donald Trump ordered the hold on the critical security assistance in July, a slew of senior White House officials testified to House impeachment investigators late last year. It was a move that coincided with an effort by the president and his allies to pressure Ukraine to investigate Trump’s Democratic rivals.
“Faithful execution of the law does not permit the president to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law,” the GAO wrote in an eight-page report released on Thursday.
Story Continued Below
Trump’s decision to withhold nearly $400 million in military aid, which he reversed in September after House investigators began probing the move, is at the heart of the articles of impeachment the House passed last month, and it will be a central focus in the Senate’s impeachment trial that begins later Thursday.
The report undercuts an oft-stated defense of Trump’s decision to hold the aid back: that it was a lawful exercise of the president’s authority.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/16/white-house-violated-the-law-by-freezing-ukraine-aid-gao-says-099682
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 16 January 2020 at 11:28 AM
“The gusher begins:”
Is this going to be another one of your “I’m gonna get popcorn and watch Trump go down in flames” again Punch?
Because if that’s the case I’m just going to stock up on Trump 2020 and Trump 2024 merchandise now!
You are a “reliable contrary indicator”.
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Too later, Punchy.
Waldo’s Oddball, Robert Cross and Walt have all beaten you to it. You need to cut back on that night life and get back to business hours. Must be nice to sleep in….especially after a night being woke up numerous time with a bad case of diarrhea. Puts the crimp on a good night’s sleep, eh?
In fact, right now over on Ruminations RC Bagdad Bob Croww and Dr. Rebane’s are discussing the crime. Hmmm, Punch and Roberta sound so much alike and arrive one after the other. Odd. There are no coincidences, only God choosing to remain anonymous.
Now run along. Baghdad Bob needs some backup over on Ruminations. A little muscle over there, pun intended.
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PaulE 1128am – “undercuts” or offers another interpretation of what the funding delay counted as? The GAO is not a court, but simply a bunch of entrenched (hence high probability leftwing) bureaucrats whose financial acumen over the years has been anything but exemplary.
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,,,Biker Bill,,,cunning linguist,,,link please…
From The Dictionary of Idiomatic Phrases – 1891
Page 67
https://books.google.com/books?id=T_9LAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA67&dq=warms+the+cockles+of+my+heart&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiXqsjP8YjnAhU3JDQIHeFLAnYQ6AEwAnoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=warms%20the%20cockles%20of%20my%20heart&f=false
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You go girl! –
McSally walked past him and said, “Manu, you’re a liberal hack; I’m not talking to you.”
When he asked, “You’re not going to comment, senator?” she repeated, “You’re a liberal hack.”
Raju first posted about the exchange on Twitter, saying she had lashed out at him. McSally responded by tweeting, “A) you are. B) here’s the video”:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/16/sen-martha-mcsally-cnn-reporter-youre-liberal-hack/
😉
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 16 January 2020 at 11:44 AM
Punch and Roberta sound so much alike and arrive one after the other. Odd.
That an elderly man might begin getting in touch with his feminine side late in life is hardly unprecedented William!
….cough……cough….Caitlyn Jenner…..cough.
I just hope he can away from the abyss before the taxpayers are on the hook for the transition surgery,
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Best rassie poll for trump since Jan `17
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@ 11:53 am
Sure you seen this by now and maybe even posted it yesterday, but, You go, Girl!!!
https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/16/blackburn-democrat-senators-running-against-trump-fail-impartial-impeachment-requirement-should-recuse/
Yes, I could have posted the story above from numberous sites, but I chose the Federalist cause I hate control freaks and love to see them race over to PolticoSnopes and load up their pea shooters to shoot the messenger. It’s a pleasure in life that warms the cockles of me weary heart.
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….and if you only wait a couple of hours……
Certainly none of the “Good Government/Rule of Law types” who frequent here!
https://pjmedia.com/trending/the-gao-ruled-obama-broke-the-law-but-no-one-called-for-his-impeachment/
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Opps. It’s actually warm me hearth, but some never held old manuscripts in their hands. Western Civ ain’t what it used to be. Do they even teach it anymore??
Glad to keep you busy, Comma Man. Anything better than mentioning what possible Dem nominee who can stand toe to toe with Trump, eh digger?
Did you here the latest? The Dems offered him a deal and a promise to maybe have charges dropped. They are bringing in Michael Cohen from jail and get him to testify that Orange Man is a really bad bad bad Bad man.
Lanny Davis is writing the script as we speak. All Michael has to say is Trump made him do the dirty deeds. Then back on ice and he can wait for the promised early release again, lol
Hey, what ever happened to the rock solid campaign finance rule (crime!) Trump committed that was all you needed to march him off to the gallows? Prime time stuff, fa sure. Epstein is dead and Lanny Davis is alive! Osama is dead and GM is alive!
Popcorn time. Keep trying until you get it right. Hope springs eternal, even for a pompous half wit.
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BillT 1252pm – I believe it’s ‘cockles’ Mr Tozer. ‘It warms the cockles of me weary heart’ 😉
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@ 12:59
Only if you know all the languages translated corrected from Ole Irish. They didn’t have dictionaries. 🙂
Still, warms the cockles of me weary hearth
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lol. sweet. hashtag o’ the day.
https://twitter.com/RefundWarren
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A fun few minutes on the Bernie twitter universes. America’s Joe Slovo even has the chicks behind him.
https://twitter.com/ORContraCosta/status/1217893348125675522/photo/1
Truth is, everybody hates Elizabeth Warren regardless of party. They’re just looking for an excuse.
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Posted by: scenes | 16 January 2020 at 01:10 PM
Surprised sh’e even still in the race……I was sure the whole 1/1024th Indian thing would be an immediate DQ with Blue Mob™!
I mean you got sweet little white girls getting in trouble for wearing hoop earrings…..fake Indian claims for personal advancement?! Kiss of Death man!
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Three weeks and a 51-49 vote to dismiss.
GAO report is all swamp news. The Prez can wait until the end of the budget year anyway. And they are just creatures not cops.
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,,,Sorry you were so out of touch with American grammar and idiomatic expression wee biker Bill…
”’They are bringing in Michael Cohen from jail and get him to testify that Orange Man is a really bad bad bad Bad man.”’ I guess this will have to do,,, as George says,,, as a critical analysis of Trump’s nefarious dealings 😉
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,,, Hope springs eternal, even for a pompous half wit,,,
yes…that sounds like an apt description of the Trump presidency…
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Posted by: Odlaw | 16 January 2020 at 01:25 PM
,,, Hope springs eternal, even for a pompous half wit,,,
Oh Comma Man….you’re so noble, this was a difficult admission……swoon!
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@ 1:15 pm
Yep, the young people and the good looking chicks are flocking to Bernie. Biden not so much, Warren not so much. Bernie owns that demographic, no doubt. Guess Biden is counting on not needing them and the only member of The Squad is that lady from Boston that nobody call remember her name. They should call the Squad “three members and that black chick from Boston.”, IMHO
So, were are the boys? Where, where, where? Where are all the girls?
“Feminist trailblazer and Clinton surrogate Gloria Steinem joined Albright in denigrating women who support Bernie Sanders for the presidency. Steinem appeared on Bill Maher’s HBO program on Friday. She argued that women become more politically active and less conservative as they grow older, and suggested that younger women were backing Mr. Sanders just so they could meet young men.
“When you’re young, you’re thinking: ‘Where are the boys? The boys are with Bernie,’ “ Steinem said.
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Why cram a Clinton presidency down women’s throats? Clinton is losing younger women to Sanders by a six-to-one margin. In Iowa, where she barely squeaked out a win, Sanders won 70 percent of voters aged 17 to 29.
https://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/threats-by-madeline-albright-and-gloria-steinman-backfire-on-clinton-57211/
I remember in 2016 (primary season) when some network reporter went out to a (small) Hillary event and she could not find one young woman who was there that wasn’t being paid to be there to help with refreshments and greeting line or “my mother made us come.” She asked the only ones she could fine and not one was excited about Hillary. lol. Ok, boomer.
The younger folks like Bernie. He is a chick magnet for sure.
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 16 January 2020 at 01:38 PM
Yep, the young people and the good looking chicks are flocking to Bernie. Biden not so much.
MALARKEY!
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Typical George response-go after the source not the content. George, do you really believe that Trump did not delay payments to the Ukraine by attempting to get them to investigate the Bidens as a condition for funding?
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 16 January 2020 at 01:43 PM
George, do you really believe that Trump did not delay payments to the Ukraine by attempting to get them to investigate the Bidens as a condition for funding?
How come you weren’t losing what’s left of your mind about Obama’s illegal prisoner exchange of Bowe Bergdahl?
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Opps. Explanatory Correction moi, 1:38
Darn. The three Squad members are swooning and campaigning hard for Bernie, and the fourth one went in for Warren. Makes sense since they both claim Boston, MA is their home turf. Just differing shades of dark dark blue. But, nobody likes Warren but white feminists, just like the hated Gillibrand, slayer of Stuart Smiley.
Remember when Gillibrand on the stage was asked what she would do about all the crime and shithole living conditions in the black community in Baltimore? Her answered stands as one that goes down in the record books. “I will go out into the suburbs and teach white women about White Privilege.” She knows how to talk to white women and they will listen to her, By Golly.
That’s is a sure fire solution! I am beginning to have the same fondness I have for Warren as it harbor for Gillibrand, that great Senator from the Empire State.
Wonder if and when the 4th member of the Squad (the one nobody remembers her name) gets the boot from the Trio?
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Clumsy diversion fish. Oldest trick in the book. Change the subject if you can’t handle the question. Let me ask you the question directly:
Fish Do you really believe that Trump did not delay payments to the Ukraine by attempting to get them to investigate the Bidens as a condition for funding?
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1:48 pm
Excuse the interruption, but me thinks you plumb forgot he didn’t vote for Obama the second time. Not voting for Obama the second time explains everything, including “how come you weren’t losing what’s left of your mind about Obama’s illegal prisoner exchange of Bowe Bergdahl?” You are slipping, fish. :).
I avoid that pitfall by merely pointing out what happened in Obama’s first term.
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/01/07/obama-campaign-fined-big-for-hiding-donors-keeping-illegal-donations
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“Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign paid the largest single fine to the FEC for campaign finance violations in history. Why didn’t anyone go to jail?” reads the Dec. 9 tweet.”
https://checkyourfact.com/2018/12/24/fact-check-obama-2008-largest-campaign-fec-fine/
Carry on.
Jail to the Chief!
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,,,Sorry Paul,,,fish will plead the 5th every time!!!
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Now that’s a great indication of how worried the markets are about impeachment –
29,297.64+267.42 (+0.92%)
At close: 5:06PM EST
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI?ltr=1
😉
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“Clumsy diversion fish. Oldest trick in the book”
At least Fish hasn’t shamelessly prostituted himself out to the corrupt Democrat Party establishment, like some have. The oldest trick in the book is also the oldest profession.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 16 January 2020 at 02:08 PM
Clumsy diversion Punch. Oldest trick in the book. Repeat the question endlessly until people forget that you never bother to answer theirs! Let me ask you the question directly: Did you get upset about Obama’s illegal prisoner exchange of Bowe Bergdahl? (Rumor has it the GAO said it was illegal!)?
No, no…..let me field this one for you……you didn’t!
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Posted by: Odlaw | 16 January 2020 at 02:24 PM
Oh Comma Man….you’re so smart, you sure nailed me on this one……swoon!
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Well I would think that some of you COJ’s would actually have the courage to stand up and support Trumps innocence in this matter. It seems even Rebane himself won’t even do that choosing to go after the messenger rather than the message.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 16 January 2020 at 02:34 PM
It seems even Rebane himself won’t even do that choosing to go after the messenger rather than the message.
Jury is still out Punch! I can say that…..Trump might have flapped his gums too much and gotten himself in trouble! We’ll see!
Attacking the messenger…….you’re not the messenger Punch…..you’re Georges Court Jester!
What….you mean you didn’t know?
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Well I would think that some of you COJ’s would actually have the courage to stand up and support Trumps innocence in this matter
We have been shamed. Acknowledged. You have thought too highly of us. I am wounded, not!
See what happens when you place such trust in mortal man? Alas. Witnessing the loss of innocence is not a pretty sight.
I feel shame.
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fish
The messenger was the GAO not me.
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Sorry you feel so bad Bill. I didn’t know you were so sensitive.
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,,,Bill is easily triggered…
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 16 January 2020 at 02:53 PM
The messenger was the GAO not me.
You’re such a weasel Punch!…….you couldn’t sprint in here fast enough with this mornings news…….George……pant, pant, pant……we got him now…..pant, pant, pant!
“The gusher begins:
White House violated the law by freezing Ukraine aid, GAO says….”
#pathetic
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