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HueyRamone wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:37 pm

VinnieVincentsVag wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:48 pm What do you guys make of this?

Ok, I get it, it’s a photoshop.

Thank you for the clarification.

I was not trying to be a dick

Vag, when did you get so gullible? Was it before or after Vince Foster’s suicide?

Tommy2Tone84 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:52 pm Vag, when did you get so gullible? Was it before or after Vince Foster’s suicide?

Who’s Vince Foster and why did he kill himself?

But seriously, I use the internet to come here and play games/fb and for recording music.

I don’t know anything about photoshop.

VinnieVincentsVag wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:53 pm

Tommy2Tone84 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:52 pm Vag, when did you get so gullible? Was it before or after Vince Foster’s suicide?

Who’s Vince Foster and why did he kill himself?

But seriously, I use the internet to come here and play games/fb and for recording music.

I don’t know anything about photoshop.

You and your friend are gullible. I used to think the left-wing JFK conspiracy contingent were stupid. Then came Newt, Fox News, the Tea Party and QAnon.

Those titties ain’t gullible!

VinnieVincentsVag wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:33 pm

Metal Sludge wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:31 pm

VinnieVincentsVag wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:14 pm

Not a single thought on the picture above?

Who are those people?
I guess Ghislaine Maxwell, maybe? No idea who the dude is.

The judge that signed off on the raid.
I swear…is there anyone in a high office that isn’t corrupt?
I would love to know what’s in her black book.

Holy shit you are one stupid fuck.

Yep. The law and order party aren't desperate to keep their god out of legal trouble.
Let's photoshop the judge's head onto Epstein and claim he's a pedo and inquire if he has children they can harass.

Insane Clown Potsie wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 9:08 pm

VinnieVincentsVag wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:33 pm

Metal Sludge wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:31 pm Who are those people?
I guess Ghislaine Maxwell, maybe? No idea who the dude is.

The judge that signed off on the raid.
I swear…is there anyone in a high office that isn’t corrupt?
I would love to know what’s in her black book.

Holy shit you are one stupid fuck.

Apart from the photo being an obvious 'shop, do the Trumpanzees not find the timing in any way suspicious? Like, why would the Biased Media and the Liberal Feminazi Woke Deep State have concealed this picture BITD when they could have used it to stop Trump appointing the guy in the first place? Or do they think the BM and LFWDS were playing the long game and keeping it under wraps for their own warped reasons?

Of course the only valid question there is "do they think?" and the answer, as always, is "no".

VinnieVincentsVag wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:46 pm

HueyRamone wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:37 pm

VinnieVincentsVag wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:48 pm What do you guys make of this?

Ok, I get it, it’s a photoshop.

Thank you for the clarification.

I was not trying to be a dick

Were you trying to be stupid?

Trump was friends w/ Epstein, therefore the judge being in Trump's orbit, so why the photoshop? More conspiracy shit that just adds confusion?

And the "The Nickelback of Presidents" joke was pretty damn funny.

Chip Z'Hoy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:14 pm The Nickelback of Presidents. 50 million albums sold and nobody bought one.

I'm using that. And I'm totally gonna say that I made it up.

It is beyond sad that so many people have been duped by this guy and absolutely are not willing to let go of their fealty to him. No matter what he does they minimize, use whataboutism, or deny reality. Just this week, it's a constant game of moving goalposts. These people are lost. And I hate to say that it is many people in my family. Several of them military folk, too.

EddieVanHeineken wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 11:39 am It is beyond sad that so many people have been duped by this guy and absolutely are not willing to let go of their fealty to him. No matter what he does they minimize, use whataboutism, or deny reality. Just this week, it's a constant game of moving goalposts. These people are lost. And I hate to say that it is many people in my family. Several of them military folk, too.

Yeah, and that includes his administration staff members and lawyers as well as other politicians who continually (or will) ruin their reputations/lives for him. It's baffling.

I'm seeing rumblings that we are now in the paranoia stage. Trump is apparently desperate to find out who the mole that gave him up to the feds is. Melania was mentioned so I guess in Trump's mind, anyone is a possibility.

When you're panicked, you can make very stupid moves that self-own, so hopefully this is true. It will only help expedite his legal accountability.

Nate S Axel wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 1:52 pm My money is on his nitwit son-in-law.

Michael Cohen and Mary Trump are both putting money on Kushner, too. Kushner has seen his father go to prison and he definitely strikes me as someone that will do anything not to go there himself. Although with the potential for something like this to bring any of the shady stuff he may have done back into everyone's consciousness, if it's him giving up Trump, I have to believe he would try to push for some kind of immunity.

Rageman wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 3:33 pm

Well, he is full of shit, so the toilet just seemed like the most logical choice for him.

Lock him up!

https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/ ... ch-1734805

Biggest hypocrite in world history.

The NY Times review of Jared Kushner's book is hilariously brutal. And this fucker needed a ghostwriter, too!

Best line: "Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo."


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/book ... shner.html

Jared Kushner’s ‘Breaking History’ Is a Soulless and Very Selective Memoir

In this lengthy book, Kushner recounts the time he spent in the White House during his father-in-law’s term.

By Dwight Garner
Published Aug. 17, 2022
Updated Aug. 18, 2022

BREAKING HISTORY
A White House Memoir
By Jared Kushner
492 pages. Broadside Books. $35.

The United States Secret Service isn’t known for its sense of humor, but when it gave Jared Kushner the code name “mechanic,” was someone betting that he’d call his memoir “Breaking History”?

It’s a title that, in its thoroughgoing lack of self-awareness, matches this book’s contents. Kushner writes as if he believes foreign dignitaries (and less-than dignitaries) prized him in the White House because he was the fresh ideas guy, the starting point guard, the dimpled go-getter.

He betrays little cognizance that he was in demand because, as a landslide of other reporting has demonstrated, he was in over his head, unable to curb his avarice, a cocky young real estate heir who happened to unwrap a lot of Big Macs beside his father-in-law, the erratic and misinformed and similarly mercenary leader of the free world. Jared was a soft touch.

“Breaking History” is an earnest and soulless — Kushner looks like a mannequin, and he writes like one — and peculiarly selective appraisal of Donald J. Trump’s term in office. Kushner almost entirely ignores the chaos, the alienation of allies, the breaking of laws and norms, the flirtations with dictators, the comprehensive loss of America’s moral leadership, and so on, ad infinitum, to speak about his boyish tinkering (the “mechanic”) with issues he was interested in.

This book is like a tour of a once majestic 18th-century wooden house, now burned to its foundations, that focuses solely on, and rejoices in, what’s left amid the ashes: the two singed bathtubs, the gravel driveway and the mailbox. Kushner’s fealty to Trump remains absolute. Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo.

The tone is college admissions essay. Typical sentence: “In an environment of maximum pressure, I learned to ignore the noise and distractions and instead to push for results that would improve lives.”

Every political cliché gets a fresh shampooing. “Even in a starkly divided country, there are always opportunities to build bridges,” Kushner writes. And, quoting the former White House deputy chief of staff Chris Liddell: “Every day here is sand through an hourglass, and we have to make it count.” So true, for these are the days of our lives.

Kushner, poignantly, repeatedly beats his own drum. He recalls every drop of praise he’s ever received; he brings these home and he leaves them on the doorstep. You turn the pages and find, almost at random, colleagues, some of them famous, trying to be kind, uttering things like:

It’s really not fair how the press is beating you up. You made a very positive contribution.

I don’t know how you do this every day on so many topics. That was really hard! You deserve an award for all you’ve done.

I’ve said before, and I’ll say again. This agreement would not have happened if it wasn’t for Jared.

Jared did an amazing job working with Bob Lighthizer on the incredible USMCA trade deal we signed yesterday.

Jared’s a genius. People complain about nepotism — I’m the one who got the steal here.

I’ve been in Washington a long time, and I must say, Jared is one of the best lobbyists I’ve ever seen.

A therapist might call these cries for help.

“Breaking History” opens with the story of Kushner’s father, the real estate tycoon Charles Kushner, who was imprisoned after hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, having the encounter filmed and sending the tape to his sister. He was a good man who did a bad thing, Jared says, and Chris Christie, while serving as the United States attorney for New Jersey, was cruel to prosecute him so mercilessly.

There is a flashback to Kushner’s grandparents, Holocaust survivors who settled in New Jersey and did well. There’s a page or two about Kushner’s time at Harvard. He omits the fact that he was admitted after his father pledged $2.5 million to the college.

If Kushner can recall a professor or a book that influenced him while in Cambridge, he doesn’t say. Instead, he recalls doing his first real estate deals while there. He moved to New York, and bought and ruined a great newspaper (The New York Observer) by dumbing it down and feting his friends in its pages.

His wooing of Ivanka Trump included a good deal of jet-setting. Kushner briefly broke up with her, he writes, because she wasn’t Jewish. (She would later convert.) Wendi Murdoch, Rupert’s wife, reunited them on Rupert’s yacht. Kushner describes the power scene:

On that Sunday, we were having lunch at Bono’s house in the town of Eze on the French Riviera, when Rupert stepped out to take a call. He came back and whispered in my ear, “They blinked, they agreed to our terms, we have The Wall Street Journal.” After lunch, Billy Joel, who had also been with us on the boat, played the piano while Bono sang with the Irish singer-songwriter Bob Geldof.

With or without you, Bono.

Once in the White House, Kushner became Little Jack Horner, placing a thumb in everyone else’s pie, and he wonders why he was disliked. He read Sun Tzu and imagined he was becoming a warrior. It was because he had Trump’s ear, however, that he won nearly every time he locked antlers with a rival. Corey Lewandowski — out. Steve Bannon — out.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who begged Kushner to stop meddling internationally — out. (Kushner cites Tillerson’s “reclusive approach” to foreign policy.) By the end, Tillerson was like a dead animal someone needed to pull a tarpaulin over.

Kushner was pleased that the other adults in the room, including the White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, the White House counsel Don McGahn and the later chief of staff John Kelly, left or were ejected because they tried, patriotically, to exclude him from meetings he shouldn’t have been in. The fact that he was initially denied security clearance, he writes, was much ado about nothing.

The bulk of “Breaking History” — at nearly 500 pages, it’s a slog — goes deeply into the weeds (Kushner, in his acknowledgments, credits a ghostwriter, the speechwriter Brittany Baldwin) on the issues he cared most about, including prison reform, the Covid response and the Middle East, where he had a win with the Abraham Accords.

This book ends with Kushner suggesting he was unaware of the events of Jan. 6 until late in the day. He mostly sidesteps talking about spurious claims of election fraud. He seems to have no beliefs beyond carefully managed appearances and the art of the deal. He wants to stay on top of things, this manager, but doesn’t want to get to the bottom of anything.

You finish “Breaking History” wondering: Who is this book for? There’s not enough red meat for the MAGA crowd, and Kushner has never appealed to them anyway. Political wonks will be interested — maybe, to a limited degree — but this material is more thoroughly and reliably covered elsewhere. He’s a pair of dimples without a demographic.

What a queasy-making book to have in your hands. Once someone has happily worked alongside one of the most flagrant and systematic and powerful liars in this country’s history, how can anyone be expected to believe a word they say?

It makes a kind of sense that Kushner is likely to remain exiled in Florida. “The whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret,” as Cynthia Ozick put it in “The Shawl.” “Everyone had left behind a real life.”

What is it with these crazy bug-eyed ladies running for office? Kari Lake? Harriet Hageman? It's like there's some kind of template they all follow for how to ratchet up their appearance and vocal style to 11 on the rabid dial. That hypocrite Lake used to be a fervent Obama supporter, too.

https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/sta ... aEdYjhSyJQ

TenBenny wrote: ↑Sun Aug 21, 2022 12:46 pm What is it with these crazy bug-eyed ladies running for office? Kari Lake? Harriet Hageman? It's like there's some kind of template they all follow for how to ratchet up their appearance and vocal style to 11 on the rabid dial. That hypocrite Lake used to be a fervent Obama supporter, too.

https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/sta ... aEdYjhSyJQ

Oh My God!!!!
I thought TX Governor, Greg Abbott was the absolute worst! But I have to say, the AZ GOP are giving him a run for his money. Holy Crap! These people are nuts!

Metal Sludge wrote: ↑Sun Aug 21, 2022 4:57 pm

TenBenny wrote: ↑Sun Aug 21, 2022 12:46 pm What is it with these crazy bug-eyed ladies running for office? Kari Lake? Harriet Hageman? It's like there's some kind of template they all follow for how to ratchet up their appearance and vocal style to 11 on the rabid dial. That hypocrite Lake used to be a fervent Obama supporter, too.

https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/sta ... aEdYjhSyJQ

Oh My God!!!!
I thought TX Governor, Greg Abbott was the absolute worst! But I have to say, the AZ GOP are giving him a run for his money. Holy Crap! These people are nuts!

Right?! Look at this gift she just gave her Dem opponent Katie Hobbs. Hobbs should totally take her up on this.

https://twitter.com/KariLake/status/156 ... Q7bQW_sbcg

According to breaking news by the Washington Post, Trump was already bringing boxes of those high-level security documents around the world with him *while* he was president, including to countries that were foreign adversaries. It's just mind-boggling that there was no one credible in those national security positions to keep that from happening. I saw other posts on Twitter indicating that one document he took to Mar-a-Lago had "Threat Level Midnight" on it. So you can assume he's been grabbing the most sensitive documents all along.

I have a feeling this is all just the tip of the iceberg. It seems like we're headed towards the obvious conclusion. Trump more than likely gave or sold national secrets to powers around the world for personal benefit.

Hanlon's razor, TenLenny.

Danzig in the Dark wrote: ↑Sun Aug 28, 2022 11:50 am Hanlon's razor, TenLenny.

Does this imply that TenDummy doesn't mean to be a human eye-roll?

exitflagger wrote: ↑Sun Aug 28, 2022 3:20 pm

Danzig in the Dark wrote: ↑Sun Aug 28, 2022 11:50 am Hanlon's razor, TenLenny.

Does this imply that TenDummy doesn't mean to be a human eye-roll?

He honestly doesn't understand.

Trump Bragged He Had ‘Intelligence’ on Macron’s Sex Life
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... 234582465/







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