Why is Corksucker everywhere this morning?
Seems Comey is off the circuit already.
Not a lot to get excited about on the shows today,so we will make our own news here.Let’s start with what’s going on in Saudia Arabia right now.Hard to tell whether the big wigs are under attack of its just a kids drone that went over the wrong area.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3649337/posts
UNCONFIRMED: COUP ATTEMPT AT THE ROYAL PALACE IN RIYADH SAUDI ARABIA IS UNDERWAY
KING SALMAN EVACUATED TO AN AIR FORCE BASE
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https://mobile.twitter.com/ANQNQMQUS/status/987879308281626624
Black hats attack Saudi King palace for “treasure trove” of secret documents.
Me thinks the Hillary and Obama info is coming from more than 1 source.
SA does have the “other side” of the emails and all (((their))) pedo info as well.
Be a shame if they gave it to us
#QAnon
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez;
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If I ask pretty pleas, can someone smarter than me create a side by side meme of Perez and the alien from the movie with Sigourney Weaver, Alien/Aliens? When his mouth is open wide and he’s agitated, Commie Perez looks just like the alien.
Should I set my TV to French language for FNS today?
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• Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.
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Tuesday Date-4/17/18
In fact I did finally go see happaquiddick last week.
The main characters included:
Ted Kennedy-Jason Clarke
Mary Jo Kopechne-Kate Mara
Joseph Kennedy-Bruce Dern
As described on IMDB:
The scandal and mysterious events surrounding the tragic drowning of a young woman, as Ted Kennedy drove his car off the infamous bridge, are revealed in the new movie starring Jason Clarke as Ted Kennedy and Kate Mara as Mary Jo Kopechne. Not only did this event take the life of an aspiring political strategist and Kennedy insider, but it ultimately changed the course of presidential history forever. Through true accounts, documented in the inquest from the investigation in 1969, director John Curran and writers Andrew Logan and Taylor Allen, intimately expose the broad reach of political power, the influence of America’s most celebrated family; and the vulnerability of Ted Kennedy, the youngest son, in the shadow of his family legacy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5270948/?ref_=nv_sr_1
I did quite enjoy this movie but hasten to add it’s not for everyone. First, the viewer should be around 50 years old or more. The incident occurred in 1969. I was 19 years old.
It was also the year man walked on the moon with one small step for mankind.
The movie showed the accident and provided to me a few things I did not know.
First, I had no idea the water was so darn shallow! All these years I thought the water in which the car plunged was many feet deep, which is part of the reason Mary Jo Kopechne could not get out.
The movie shows the car floating upside down and it’s right there on the surface!
After all these years, I find Ted Kennedy even more despicable than before.
Of course the deaths of Teddy’s three older brothers was part of the movie action. John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy were both killed by an assassin’s bullet, this I knew. I also knew, vaguely and somewhere in the back of my mind, that there was the eldest Kennedy son who died during World War II.
No matter the gossip and scuttlebutt through the years, three Kennedy sons die in service of this country and deserved our admiration.
But America got a little carried away and Ted Kennedy was nowhere near the hero his older brothers were.
Ted Kennedy was a big zero and beyond Chappaquiddick there was the incident of the “waitress sandwich”, the out-of-control beer parties, the secret trip to Moscow to try and rid the world of Jimmy Carter,yes, from his own political party.
The relationship between Ted and his father was portrayed, rather nastily and to my great doubt, for which there is no proof.
Yes, Teddy’s father declared he will always be a loser, which he sort of was.
For Ted Kennedy went on to become the so-called “Lion of the Senate”.
He was no such thing.
I also learned some new details about the Chappaquiddick incident. The main one is the fact that Ted Kennedy told the world, and the world believes it to this day, that he had a concussion the night of the crash, was disoriented, and because of this, he did not recover enough to report the accident until the next morning.
It is believed, and portrayed as such in the movie, that Kopechne did not die of drowning. Instead she managed to find an air pocket and might well have lived long enough had Ted Kennedy gotten help to her.
The tone of the movie does not make one dislike Ted Kennedy. My dislike of the man comes from how I’ve known him through the years. I did, however, like many Americans, adore JFK and his brother Robert Kennedy.
It was Ted Kennedy’s three older brothers, all perceived as being heroes of the country (rumors about JFK swirled after his death. Seems he had quite an eye for the ladies) who might have caused his weakness and belief that as a vaunted Kennedy it is okay to leave a vibrant young woman to die all alone in his car.
I enjoyed the movie, would recommend anyone with an interest in the subject matter, go to see it.
It is a great movie for old political junkees like myself.
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Wednesday Date-4/17/18
Honest and lovable James Comey
Folks, after two days of hearing James Comey’s pathetic and childish rantings, I’ve lost all respect for the FBI.
Not that this is anything new but this man is sad, really sad. I am going to pray for him.
Next week Comey will be forgotten.
It was announced that North and South Korea are going to announce an end to the Korean was.
It’s about time.
The world has tolerated that nutjob Kim-Jong-Un quite long enough. The people of North Korea are eating leaves and trash. That guy, with the worst haircut on the planet, has not one ounce of leadership or goodness in him.
It is to be cautioned that announcing a treaty doesn’t mean there still won’t be skirmishes between the two halves of Koreas.
We shall see.
This is the first airplane mishap since 2009. Most recently, airlines have more problems wlth passengers seated in wrong place and pets onboard.
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Thursday Date-4/19/18
I chanced to watch Alan Dershowitz on the Sean Hannity show recently. Dershowitz gave Hannity hell because he didn’t mention a short conversation he had with Trump private attorney, Cohen.
Dershowitz was really a jerk about it.
Yeah, for a while I was kind of liking Dershowitz but when push comes to shove, he’s got a book out now so he goes on Fox and pretends he’s now on the side of Conservatives.
Dershowitz should have kept his mouth shut but instead he acted like a jerk.
He’s no longer on my list. Click goes TV when he comes on.
Hannity had a one paragraph conversation with Cohen and Dershowitz says Hannity should “reveal” it?
Let’s start with George Steponallofus, who NEVER reveals his $75K he contributed to the Clinton foundation and then work our way through the mob of them.
“Rep. Ron DeSantis (FL-06) today sent a letter, along with several colleagues, to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and US Attorney John Huber, asking them to investigate several Obama-era officials for potential violation(s) of federal statutes. These officials include former FBI Director James Comey, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former Acting Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe, FBI Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Counsel Lisa Page, among others. “
Man, it’s about time. These people have broken every law and folks, Jeff Sessions is letting them get away with it.
We will see where this goes.
PDF of criminal referral document below
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Friday Date-4/20/18
There is no need for Rand Paul to vote AGAINST Pompeo for Secretary of State. After all, he voted FOR Pompeo for CIA Director.
All of a sudden garbly mouthed Paul gets on TV with some silly-assed reason why he’s voting AGAINST Pompeo for Sec-State?
Rand Paul, your day is over. Get away from the damn camera!!
So the Southwest pilot who managed to land a plane with passengers struggling to get a woman out of the window to soon be launched into space. With said plane crippled by a missing motor that somehow fell off.
I am no plane expert, but motors are not supposed to fall off an airplane.
The PILOT WAS A WOMAN!!!
Don’t tell Rush Limbaugh that such a fact makes me happy. For Rush launched into a diatribe about how comes the great pilot Sully, who landed a plane in the Hudson river, is not referred to as a male pilot.
Well, Rush Limbaugh is a man. He doesn’t know what it’s like to have a female suddenly become a heroine for doing something that, until the last decade or so, women did NOT do.
I love Rush. But he really does not seem to like women very much.
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Saturday Date-4/21/18
Former first lady Barbara Bush will be buried today.
May she rest in peace. She was a woman of great humor and love.
Heh.
That’s the funniest thing I heard all week.
I’m listening to Macron, he’s an arrogant POS liberal,little else.
Newt is at Hillsdale? Did I hear that correctly?
I don’t know which clown lawyer I like less. Lanny Davis or Alan Duschowitz. Anyway Davis is on with Sharyll right now blasting Comey.
Nunes on Fox with Maria... he is saying there was nothing to start an investigation on Trump.. no intelligence, nothing there.. and it’s serious business using the intelligence agencies to spy on the other party in an election campaign.
Looking at this lineup: what a hate-Trump fest!
The Sunday political talk shows 4/22/18
Below the FreeRepublic Sunday talk show thread link.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3649440/posts?page=1
The major talking points of the day
The DNC’s decision to sue Russia and anyone who ever shook hands with Donald Trump rose to the top of the subjects on the Sunday political talk shows of the day.
DNC Chair Perez was a guest on two shows.
Also, Barbara Bush’s life and funeral and one amazing spat between guest and host.
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): French President Emmanuel Macron.
Highlight of Fox News Sunday:
I quite enjoyed Emmanuel Macron, President of France. Sure he looks like he’s 12 years old, but he speaks amazingly good English. Chris Wallace grilled him good.
Link to Fox News Sunday Below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUtJ__ibgjM
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez; Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine; White House legislative affairs director Marc Short.
Highlight of Meet the Press:
Here we have DNC Chair Tom Perez telling us why the DNC lawsuit will bring Russia to its knees and anybody who ever knew Donald Trump shall have houses raided in mid of night and endure losing their heads.
Link to Meet the Press show below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc0leGX-Zgo
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif; former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Highlight of Face the Nation
My goodness, there’s an old friend, former NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Maybe he’s planning to replace Cuomo, who is a self-declared illegal immigrant.
Below the link to Face the Nation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwvOtJKP5GI
THIS WEEK (ABC): Perez; Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.
Highlight of This Week with George Stephanopolous
Oh my, Bob Corker doesn’t much like Marsha Blackburn, now running for senate in Tennessee. Corker has others he’d rather see win.
Link to This Week below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1YW8FWl9eo
Highlight of State of the Union
Kellyanne is evidently married to some bigshot lawyer who is doing some anti-administration tweeting of his own.
When queried by host Dana Bash, Conway launches into an angry rant.
Goodness, however, should her husband be out and tweeting anti-Trump sentiments?
Seems pretty low class to me.
Link to This Week below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aff4RnM55c