I heard or read recently that the Trump family was no longer paying Cohen's legal bills. I feel like him turning on them must clearly be the result of that. There's no way a normal person, even a fairly well off one, could afford the kind of fees that must be piling up.

If true then they may well be the architects of their own demise.

Microbet, 2006 called and it wants it's trivial concerns back.

Even if I credited your concern, which would be stupid, the head of the executive branch would not, um, typically thorw the intelligence community under the bus on whim.



https://twitter.com/RyanLizza/status...633558529?s=19

We've got other things to worry about than mindbogglingly huge government efforts to observe and record everything we do......we're heading toward authoritarian police state ffs!!!!

stable genius numbers*

https://twitter.com/EamonJavers/stat...285915136?s=19

Dude, at best it all goes into the warehouse at the end of Indiana Jones. For the stuff that doesn't, if some govt. lawyer is willing to draft a 40 page FISA application to tap my calls, they earned it.

As it is, by all appearances Putin's running US foreign policy, and if the NSA didn't pick up on that and stop it, it's either dumb, toothless, or both.

The most powerful man in the world is Donald Trump, and I doubt he can program a DVR (actually, it may be the one thing he can do.) There are no super villians, it's just idiots all the way down.

If I ever write a novel it will be a big conspiracy that is actually explained by idiots, which can be understood as another conspiracy, which it turns out is actually idiots acting rationally on poor information.

The cruelty is just neglect and laziness. BTW, need to see the new Death of Stalin "comedy".

What percentage of Americans who are members of a mosque do you think have all of this information collected on them flagged for a deeper look? Trump is the most powerful person in the world and he is the boss of this organization. Now they can flag anyone who talks about having come from Latin America in any of their communications, and ICE can go after them. The government will not turn these tools into weapons against the class of people who have power.

Some people characterize worries about privacy as something that only privileged people are in a position to worry about, but it's just the opposite. Privileged people have nothing to worry about. It's the people who always have their rights violated who have to worry about protecting them.

This is not exactly that, but Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco.

To the surprise of nobody, world class scumbag, tea party hero and all around POS Jim Jordan stood by and let a colleague rape kids.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ate/754455002/

I have my issues with Eco, but was thinking Faucaults Pendulum meets Kafka meets Brazil.

Here's the story behind Trump's insane tweet.
https://www.axios.com/nsa-deletion-s...m_content=1100

And Death of Stalin was very good.

I would bet good money this is a deplorable.

Another case of violent threats made toward journalists will play itself out in the court system, less than a week after a gunman entered the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Md. and killed five people.

Jason Eric Bewley, of Bryan, Texas, was arrested last week in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, near Charlotte. He's been charged with transmitting threats through interstate communications, a federal crime, according to jail records.

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/n...214251504.html

Classic three name white psychopath

Dude should just go by JEB!

I'm not praising shareholder buybacks as a good, I'm saying that companies using profits to buy back stock isn't an unnatural or artificial thing.

Don't let einbert hear you talking like that. But seriously yeah one of my favourite films in a long long time. So darkly funny. Zhukov is the best character by far.

"'Urry up, organisin' a coup over 'ere."

The majority of the time money is supposed to be dedicated to wages, investment, etc. That companies are having the high profits and large amounts of stock buybacks while having low investment, low amounts of new startups, wages aren't going up, etc. points to something fundamentally amiss in the economy.

That the tax bill exacerbated the parts that aren't supposed to be happening as much as they are means the tax bill is not doing what it's supposed to.

Buybacks are largely being fueled by all time high corporate profits. If profits crash the market will also but its not clear at all that profits won’t be higher next year or 5 years from now.

Am I seeing conspiracies everywhere? 88 reference.

It's good for Einbert to experience his college Marxist phase, and for much cheaper than at Swarthmore.

I posted above about idiots running things. Stock buybacks are an easy thing for idiots to do, and generally personally enriching as well, so basically a no brainier.

Good too see House GOP leadership has moved on from raping kids to merely standing by while others do so. (Well, I guess they're also imprisioning them now. Or standing by while others do so.)

Feds Debunk IT Staffer Conspiracy Theory Pushed by The Daily Caller and Trump

prosecutors wrote in a plea agreement that it had “uncovered no evidence” that Awan “violated federal law with respect to the House computer systems.” That includes “stealing equipment or illegally accessing or transferring information,”

Mostly correct. But there is one turtle.