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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Hillary Clinton catches grief for Twister mat-inspired outfit: What in the heck is she wearing?
[BPR] Adorned in what appeared to be the skin of a deceased blue whale, failed 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton spoke out in praise last week of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's glaringly partisan impeachment proceedings.

But it seemed that Twitter was less concerned with what was coming out of Clinton's mouth as they were with what was on her back. Criticism of her outfit swept the social media platform, and nobody held back...
Posted by: Frank G || 12/23/2019 05:53 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Speaking of gutsy women I noticed the Harriet Tubman movie died a relatively quick death.
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 12/23/2019 6:22 Comments || Top||

#2  The high fashion sh.t-shower's friends,
A-twitter: "Is this where it ends?
This diaper-o-rama
By Yayoi Kusama,
Infinity Mirror Depends?"
Posted by: Chuger Trotsky1832 || 12/23/2019 7:30 Comments || Top||

#3  We'll read of the outfit's designer's suicide in a few days?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/23/2019 7:41 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 Zenobia F ? You are insane! A brain's got to be wired differently to do what you do.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/23/2019 8:46 Comments || Top||

#5 
I'm guessing its a slanket - blanket with sleeves. A lot of these retirees wear them 24/7.
Posted by: flash91 || 12/23/2019 10:37 Comments || Top||

#6  It's a bubble-wrap diaper with sleeves.
Posted by: gorb || 12/23/2019 10:46 Comments || Top||

#7  179 day colostomy bag ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2019 10:50 Comments || Top||

#8  This individual is not healthy. Not bodily or mentally sane.
Posted by: Lex || 12/23/2019 10:58 Comments || Top||

#9  "Coffee Spill Alert!"
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/23/2019 11:43 Comments || Top||

#10  Macy's 'Parade ready' Inflatable Extraction Vehicle (IEV)? Ankle tethered mooring lines ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2019 12:05 Comments || Top||

#11  I just want to go on record as saying that Mrs. Clinton looks young and beautiful in this photograph. Also, I'm feeling quite chipper and have no suicidal tendencies. You can quote me on that.
Posted by: Matt || 12/23/2019 12:56 Comments || Top||

#12 
Posted by: 3dc || 12/23/2019 13:39 Comments || Top||

#13  Razzle-Dazzle, to keep the leftists from torpedoing her.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/23/2019 14:20 Comments || Top||

#14  #10 like Stay-Puff in Ghostbusters?
Posted by: Lex || 12/23/2019 14:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Order to vote for impeachment prompted House Democrat to quit party
[Washington Examiner] Rep. Jeff Van Drew said he decided to leave the Democratic Party when a party county chairman ordered him to vote to impeach President Trump.

The New Jersey lawmaker appeared on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures to discuss his decision to join the Republican Party. Van Drew pledged to join the GOP after voting against impeaching Trump, one of just two Democrats to vote against both articles of impeachment.

"The party is moving further and further to the Left where there’s discussions of it being a socialist party, and I am a proud capitalist. I believe in hard work," Van Drew said, criticizing the radical direction of the Democratic Party.

He finally decided to abandon the party, though, after a county chairman from one of the eight counties he represents told him that "you've got to vote for impeachment. If you don’t, you’re not going to be able to run in my county," calling the remark the "final sign" he needed to change parties.

"First of all, I still could have run," Van Drew said.

He continued, "But it made me think, for all the years that I have worked so hard and tried to give so much ... and it all boils down to one vote, that I may have my own individual opinion on one vote, and that's not going to be allowed? I'm going to be punished for that? And that's when I knew."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2019 07:11 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's the way they roll. Defy the directive and you might as well switch political parties. You are finished as a Democrat.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2019 7:14 Comments || Top||

#2  The rest of the moderates bowed to the party and voted for impeachment. They should be done in 2020 since they came from districts Trump won in 2016.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/23/2019 10:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Congrats! Most pols would not have the courage to burn their bridges like that.

This highlights a flaw in "I vote for the man* and not the party", namely that when push comes to shove, most will vote the party line, no matter what.

*Feel free to substitute any of the 57 genders for the word "man"
Posted by: SteveS || 12/23/2019 12:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Profile in Sanity (and Courage).

As Snagglepuss would say, Exit the Shitshow - stage right ...
Posted by: Lex || 12/23/2019 13:01 Comments || Top||

#5  I have worked so hard and tried to give so much

Never was a true Democrat then.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/23/2019 18:08 Comments || Top||


Ted Cruz breaks down Kevin Clinesmith Clinesmith's Doctoring of Documents re Page, CIA Asset
Posted by: Lex || 12/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So... why isn't this guy in jail? As Ted mentioned if you or I did this with any court document we would be serving time. Why isn't he?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/23/2019 0:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Unbelievable.

Separately, on this topic, Cruz is really superb.
Crystal clear, sharp, powerful.

Yes, Cruz is poking a very sharp stick into the eye of the intelligence community. This little incident should be something to follow closely.
Posted by: Lex || 12/23/2019 0:53 Comments || Top||

#3  The interagency process is a bit more formal. Let's just say the discussions and communiques on Mr. Page would not have ended simply as... "yes, he is a source."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2019 1:52 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm not sure Cruz is right in that it was great investigating. Someone at the CIA wrote a memo saying he is a source. Someone at the CIA was probably aware that the the memo was changed to say the exact opposite. Someone at the CIA probably contacted the investigators.

I do hope the document changer goes to prison for a long time.
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/23/2019 10:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Ref #4: I do hope the document changer goes to prison for a long time.

I doubt he or she will see any punitive action or prison time. The actions are likely to be viewed as more of a technical omission or modification employed to protect 'sources and methods.'

It is also very likely that the owning agency 'directed' the FBI to respond to the FISA court in this manner.

Just my guess.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2019 11:10 Comments || Top||

#6  "Protecting" the source from a secret court?

Sounds like perjury to me.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/23/2019 11:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Mr. Page was the 'mole' employed to permit surveillance and incidental collection of a political campaign. A witting mole, or an unwitting mole, you decide. IMA still going with eagerly witting and complicit... hoping someone will conduct an examination of his personal banking records.

I doubt the originators of this little project ever imagined that a FISA court authorization 'deep dive' would ever take place. Even further beyond their collective imagination would be an examination of the interagency process. But guess what, here we are.

It just keeps getting interestinger and interestinger.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2019 11:49 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm not sure Cruz is right in that it was great investigating

That was the disarming compliment, the feint before he slashes his unsuspecting opponent's face. Cruz is a master swordsman.
Posted by: Lex || 12/23/2019 12:06 Comments || Top||

#9  Clinesmith’s name surfaced previously. In 2018, GOP Congressman Mark Meadows publicly accused Clinesmith of possibly being the FBI lawyer described in the inspector general’s report as writing anti-Trump messages, including one that declared “viva le resistance.” The Times is now reporting that Clinesmith is that lawyer, known as FBI lawyer 2 in the IG’s earlier report into the Clinton email investigation.
Posted by: b || 12/23/2019 16:48 Comments || Top||



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