The Mueller report will break and/or this weekend; at the very least a precis is expected to be published.

I think it may have some lesser legal consequences for associates, but little red meat regarding the orange goofball. Drudge says no more indictments.

Drudge also says 675 days of investigation.

Do we, y'know, get our money back? Did this charade cost a billion dollars? Why?

May 2017 was far too late to be looking for legal dirt on this idiot. I'll never understand why a national elite full of attorneys couldn't find anything to exploit during the campaign of 2016: Trump is not a young man, and was never a notably honest one.

And so, for the rest of our lives, no one will ever imagine the United States government to be capable of investigating its employees. (Say what you want about the public affairs of my youth, but back in the day they could investigate each other like Hell, and make accusations stick in a bipartisan consensus. You may have read about this.)

The SJW/AOC generation of voters imagines itself to be deprived; it's ashamed of things like American patriotism, justice, esteem, humility and presumptions of mutual public responsibility. It's a generation which imagines itself to be Citizens of the World™, as if this would make them more compassionate and attuned to corruption and oppression. And so they're inviting the principles predominant around the globe into our lives in the most intimate ways possible... Socialism, charismatic strongman authority, and deeply constrained rights to privacy and expression.

They're throwing away the finest treasures in the universe to feign alliance with a planet of submissive, terrified cowards who care for them not at all.

In electing Donald Trump and ignoring his vast and featureless disregard for duty and integrity, his voters have done their absolute best to nourish and affirm this loathsome collapse of American character.

Nice work, guys.

Neat idea for you parent.

Young parents, that was supposed to say. You if you're young.

Fascinating statistic about families.

Neat photo from March Madness.

Do we, y'know, get our money back? ~ Crid at March 23, 2019 12:30 AM

We won't get squat back. We didn't get anything back from Lawrence Walsh, Kenneth Starr, Leon Jaworski, or Patrick Fitzgerald.

The Special Prosecutor has become nothing more than a political weapon to be used by Congress against a president; a way to waste billions in endless finger-pointing.

Now, Congress will waste time and money arguing over who gets to see the report, how to interpret it, and why it says Trump is guilty even if it actually says he's not.

Ever see the documentary "The Unconquered"? (About Helen Keller.)

It's 55 minutes long, was released in 1954, won an Oscar, and may include the only recording of Polly Thompson interpreting for Helen. Helen was about 74.

Here's that scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69mx05GwsAo

It starts just before the 1:50 mark and runs for about 80 seconds.

You can see more of "The Unconquered" by searching on "Helen Keller - 1950's Documentary, Part 1. (Clip)."

And here's where you can see footage of Anne Sullivan(!) talking. Not sure if this appears in the same documentary or in a certain 1963 TV documentary. (Both were filmed long after Sullivan died.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75bMtjVv3yc

That scene takes up the last two minutes. Keller talks briefly too.

At any rate, Sullivan died in 1936, so that scene was likely filmed in the 1930s, since it includes sound. Keller would have been at least 50.

Like the famous Dodging Bullets shot in Matrix, except with actual heroism and no distracting circuitous perspective.

> The Special Prosecutor has
> become nothing more than a
> political weapon

And yet, there was a time when it was so much more. We've talked about it.

Trump doesn't care about any accusation. Neither do his voters. It would take a Dodging Bullets revolving-perspective 4k video of him bare-handedly ripping the beating heart from the ribs an unbaptized Downs toddler (with Ivanka browning butter in a cast-iron pan at the background) before his enthusiasts would begin to suspect that he might have a few personal deficiencies.

Then they'd shrug and mumble something about Mena and Whitewater.

Their appreciation of this guy isn't even a full sentence of words, and certainly not an interrogatory or a command. It's a single word, something like "ugg." His Twitter pissings are, to their reading, as detailed and gripping as a le Carre.

These political & procedural devices were working nicely when I got here. Decades later, some DC figure described a subtle & muted vibration in the capitol as Watergate passed its darkest, most worrisome hours, and the papers & media were screaming and flashing their noise: "You could hear the wheels of our system grinding." It came to mind that hundreds of miles away, addled by drugs and music and tube-top girlfriends in my early teens, that same rumble had nonetheless been felt underfoot.

It ain't there now, is it? But government alone, even now crippled with corrupting cysts and tumors and reprehensible bulk, would never have been able to drain that inertia.

*Voters* did that… And some very specific species comes to mind, whatever their spots. They imagine themselves to be properly suspicious and wizened while disinterested in details, and that by their very illiteracy and inattention, they can wipe away the wretchedness of a nation that brought revolutionary joy, peace and comfort to an ever-expanding swath of the planet. And they can do it through elementally uncomplicated devotion to vapid, unprincipled personalities…

AOC. Bernie.

And most preeminently, Trump. Trump, and his devotees, cut their path forward.

That was fun.

Probably should have proofread

How is Mx. pronounced?

We already had to do this with "Ms.", a hideous, unmusical drag of the tongue which interrupts that most portentous of moments in acquaintance, the introduction.

But there was no great defense of the bifurcated courtesy in place theretofore, so I was okay with it. If women want to be greeted with a ludicrous, insect-like noise, I'd play along. It's been fifty years.

(But we should have insisted on the lilting pronunciation "Miss" for all the sisters, whatever the abbreviation.)

Anyway, I don't fly United often, but from now on I'll insist they greet me as Perfluglipugint Cridmo.

Why can't they understand this??? Perfluglipugint is how I identify, and no one has the right to disrespect me at this quintessential core of my being!!!

Now fetch me some peanuts & Cab in a plastic cup, you poly/rayon-swaddled peasant.

Yeah yeah, this happened to me at O'Hare a few years ago.

Speaking of gender indeterminacy—

Locals will recognized the irony… This Santa Monica sculpture is often described by visitors to the community as "he".

Interesting article. I'd like to read Amy's comments about it.

Can Cutting Carbs Actually Throw Your Heart Out of Whack?

There is no better example of how unhinged you've become than to insist that voters are responsible for the misuse of the office of Special Prosecutor.

Here's where you do that:
"In electing Donald Trump and ignoring his vast and featureless disregard for duty and integrity, his voters have done their absolute best to nourish and affirm this loathsome collapse of American character."

Ya dumb bastard, I, nor you, nor any of us had a choice about who was offered for the office of President as Trump's opponent, and we have never had any say whatsoever on the appointment or behavior of a Special Prosecutor.

Get your head out of your ass long enough to recognize that you're misrepresenting the problem. You've taken a set like you did back when you insisted no taxpayer had a vested interest in public pensions, apparently because you had a burr up your ass about my being the one who suggested they did.

Flail, froth, fume, squeak, whine. Eloquently. But this is about you, and your mistake, apparently because you let offense ruin reasoning ability.

There is no better example of how unhinged you've become than to insist that voters are responsible for the misuse of the office of Special Prosecutor.

Here's where you do that:
"In electing Donald Trump and ignoring his vast and featureless disregard for duty and integrity, his voters have done their absolute best to nourish and affirm this loathsome collapse of American character."

Ya dumb bastard, I, nor you, nor any of us had a choice about who was offered for the office of President as Trump's opponent, and we have never had any say whatsoever on the appointment or behavior of a Special Prosecutor.

Get your head out of your ass long enough to recognize that you're misrepresenting the problem. You've taken a set like you did back when you insisted no taxpayer had a vested interest in public pensions, apparently because you had a burr up your ass about my being the one who suggested they did.

Flail, froth, fume, squeak, whine. Eloquently. But this is about you, and your mistake, apparently because you let offense ruin reasoning ability.

I don't think you're smart or attentive.

We already had to do this with "Ms.", a hideous, unmusical drag of the tongue which interrupts that most portentous of moments in acquaintance, the introduction.

But there was no great defense of the bifurcated courtesy in place theretofore, so I was okay with it. If women want to be greeted with a ludicrous, insect-like noise, I'd play along. It's been fifty years.
___________________________

Not exactly fifty.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/oct/04/use-his-name-if-shes-mrs/

Quote:

"...You see, the title of Mistress was used for both the married and unmarried, just as its equivalent, Mister, was and still is. (Miss Manners has often observed with some bitterness that the masculine titles, Mister and Sir, have remained unblemished over the centuries, while the female ones, Mistress and Madam, took on dirty meanings.) Seventeenth- and 18th-century tombstones can also be found in which Mistress is also abbreviated as – get this – Ms.

"That’s right – using Ms. for both the married and the unmarried is not a modern feminist invention. No disrespect is intended in the old or the modern usage..."

What a dreamboat! He's just gotta be good with money!...

❤️ ❤️ Because he's a BILLIONAIRE!! ❤️ ❤️

He maybe has a really nice cellphone! Even if we'll never know for sure!!!

> Not exactly fifty.

Feels like forever.

Stunningly novel thought from Noonan in the WSJ!!

Congress’s Mean Girls Are Trump’s Offspring

Omar and Ocasio-Cortez equate roughness with authenticity. So does the man they despise.

By Peggy Noonan
March 21, 2019 7:11 p.m. ET

Wow! Conception-melting! Presumption-vaporizing!

I hope she's not "misrepresenting the problem"!....






PS— They don't despise him, they secretly adore him. He showed them the way!— Coalitions can be built out of credulous idiocy.

Keep choosing mental retardation Crid. Don't ever change.

Ben, if you'd done your homework, you'd know how special Donald Trump's cell phone really is.

I know it is special to you Crid. Lord knows why. But that goes with a lot of other things as well. I will say you certainly enjoy your delusions.

Stunningly novel thought from Noonan in the WSJ!! Congress’s Mean Girls Are Trump’s Offspring ~ Crid at March 24, 2019 5:07 AM

I'd say not his offspring, but his siblings; his stablemates. Trump was not the cause of the current political disfunction we're experiencing, but a result.

The Democrats' "mean girls" are also results, not of Trump's victory, but of the forces that set the stage for Trump's victory; not because Trump or the Democrats' mean girls "equate roughness with authenticity," but because the voters do.

> Trump was not the cause

You can say that, but Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile; Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon; Sandra Day O'connor was the first woman on the SCOTUS. Their names & stories will always have power in describing how it was done.

Trump's campaigning, his listless disinterest in the responsibilities and opportunities afforded by the position, and his torpid self-regard will affect national politics ever after, and very little for the better.

Specifically, I think every (failed, inconsequential) businessman, every sitcom wacky neighbor, and every mundane bass player from a 1-hit-wonder band will now assume they've got a shot at the office, and need not be constrained by a featureless ignorance of history, law, international or even national affairs.

His election was not merely an expression of protest (forgivable or otherwise), and no one of any politic persuasion has ever affirmed that it was.

Bernie and AOC may be the least of the wretched consequences of the Orange Age.

> it is special to you

And again, you haven't done the reading and don't recognize the context.

I've done it Crid and I got the context. You are just wrong. It's as plain and simple as that. Trump's phone matters to you and just about you alone. You keep wanting to bang Rad over the head with it. Honestly you probably only care about it as a weapon to use against him. But it just makes you look stupid.

Same with your 'everything I don't like is Trump's fault' argument. No, Trump didn't cause AOC. No the voters who elected AOC and Trump are not the same people. The only connection is Crid doesn't like them. Your christmas lights get all tangled up and 'The JEWS . . . I mean TRUMP did this'. You are deranged.

"Specifically, I think every (failed, inconsequential) businessman, every sitcom wacky neighbor, and every mundane bass player from a 1-hit-wonder band will now assume they've got a shot at the office"

What else is new? Seriously? Franken? Jessey the body Ventura? Regan? And those are only the ones who got elected in recent memory. Plenty more have already run and got nowhere. Meh. They've thought that for about as long as the US has existed.

As for the Mueller report, it says exactly what rational people were expecting. Mueller is a hack and a NeverTrumper and he couldn't get anything on Trump. Is Trump a righteous and sacred figure that can't break the law ever? God no. The truth is far simpler (and saner).
Trump is a very public man. The guy would post his bowel movements on twitter. Keeping things secret is just not in his DNA. All the crimes he committed he got caught and quickly too. He plain doesn't have any old unfound crimes for someone like Mueller to discover. There is nothing there and there never was. Unlike most people Trump doesn't have skeletons in his closet. He regularly checks for them and if he finds one he takes it out and dances with it in public.

But I understand none of this will sink in for you Crid. You will keep predicting things and reality will keep failing to make your predictions come true. But it must be reality that is wrong. It can't be Crid.

Keep up the delusions Crid. They seem to be all you've got.

> Trump's phone matters to you
> and just about you alone.

Again, Muffin, it was Radwaste who's been weird about it... For three years. But you weren't paying attention. Next time you go out on one of your OrangeNite dates, he'll take you by the hand and walk you through it.

No Crid. It clearly matters to you far more than it does to Rad. You are the one who keeps talking about it. And now you are talking to other random people about it. Please stop obsessing over Trump's phone. It's creepy.

Well, the parameters of Rad's foolishness mean more to me… They're game-changing.

Meanwhile, Little Pilgrim, if my words don't delight you —if they don't inform, ennoble, enrich and entertain— then don't read them. Crawl (quietly) away. No one will GAF

In other words, once again Crid doesn't have a counter argument. Only teenage angst.

You and Noonan belong together. Both lost and delusional. Angry and lashing out at a world you can't comprehend. Get help Crid. The world is a better place when you are rational.

What "argument" needs countering?

Pick any of them Crid. Heck, I'll give you a new one.

"Bernie and AOC may be the least of the wretched consequences of the Orange Age." ~Crid

Wow. Trump and his amazing time machine. Somehow Trump went back in time and got Sanders elected in 1990. Or were you refering to his senate victory in 2006? 2012?

On AOC you at least aren't completely and obviously temporally inverted. And as we all know she is a Republican who's received a lot of Trump endorsement . . . oh wait. But congrats on not needing a time machine to make your point.

Now proceed with your typical troll behavior. 'Don't read what I wrote (at least not if you are going to criticize it)', 'You must not be educated', 'Virgin?', and the ever popular 'I don't like you'.

> Wow.

> . . . oh wait.

8th grade sarcasm isn't argument. Butthurt is not a school of thought.

Oh, alright...

> Somehow Trump went back in
> time and got Sanders elected
> in 1990

Nobody said Trump brought Sanders into politics. I said Trump normalized the acceptance of unaccomplished, patently dishonest and shallow goofballs in pursuit of Executive branch authority.

> On AOC you at least aren't completely
> and obviously temporally inverted.
> And as we all know she is a
> Republican who's received a lot
> of Trump endorsement . . . oh wait.
> But congrats on not needing a time
> machine to make your point.

Raddy does this too... Gets so deep in sarcasm and shallow (intended) ironies that no one can tell what he's trying to say. If you don't know what you mean, who else should care?

Wow. So Trump normalized the executive branch. The house and the senate that have accepted and lionized unaccomplished and patently dishonest and shallow goofballs for decades upon decades shouldn't be mentioned. Also don't talk about Obama. Can't have the guy who directly preceded Trump contradicting your point. That would be too embarrassing.

I know, Orange Man BAD!!!! But some day you have to let the butthurt and jealousy go. You are only hurting yourself.

> Wow.

Christ, do you even read what you write?