Cheers Steely_D!  loved this book  : )     have to dig it out of my pile of old paperbacks down by the washer/dryer

Trump Cracks the Seal on Talk of Treason

 hayduke2 wrote: 
NO. 

It's CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES.
And they may not realize they're praising Trump using that line by Jonathan Swift: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

—

John Kennedy OToole managed to write an extraordinary book which no one liked, so he killed himself.
His mama got it to Walker Percy, and now it's a staple for those of us who grew up near New Orleans. 

How old is he?' the policeman asked Mrs. Reilly.
    'I am thirty,' Ignatius said condescendingly.
    'You got a job?'
    'Ignatius hasta help me at home,' Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist the lute string with the cord on the cake boxes. 'I got terrible arthuritis.'
    'I dust a bit,' Ignatius told the policeman. 'In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.'
âۥ John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

I stole one of its lines as my FB "About me" - 

“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.” 
âۥ John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

Trump Turns GOP Into a Conspiracy of Dunces

 Steely_D wrote: 

i'm not sure what's going on here

it looks like a beauty pageant

Whatever you do this morning don’t retweet this video I found of Trump saying he has “the best Russian partners” before he signs a $20 million deal with them. Same Russians who set up Don Jr Russian lawyer meeting: Aras & Emin Agalarov. #YoMemoJokes #AMJoy pic.twitter.com/OpYlxZorCE

— Scott Dworkin (@funder) February 3, 2018

 geoff_morphini wrote: 
likewise!

 VV wrote: 
it could be worse

we could be under north korean mind control instead

and if i had a choice between the haircuts...
 

that russian chubchik            or the        jersey shore up doo

 VV wrote: 
Good to see your mug on here again! 

 geoff_morphini wrote: 
Even if Trump doesn't turn out to be their "cup-of-tea", Putin can sit back and grin at all the havok and indirect collateral damage he has inflicted on American institutions. He probably had no idea just how disruptful/impactful Russia's influence would be when he hatched his plans.

 VV wrote: 
Exactly, the Kremlin must be toasting vodka today.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) delivered a harsh rebuke against fellow Republicans who agreed to release a memo by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes against the wishes of the U.S. intelligence community.

Nunes on Friday released the memo after President Donald Trump declassified it. The memo alleges that officials at the FBI and Department of Justice displayed active bias against the Trump campaign in the early stages of the Russia investigation, which was later taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller. 

In a statement shortly before the memo’s release, McCain didn’t pull any punches. 

“In 2016, the Russian government engaged in an elaborate plot to interfere in an American election and undermine our democracy,” McCain said. “Russia employed the same tactics it has used to influence elections around the world, from France and Germany to Ukraine, Montenegro and beyond.”

McCain said Russia’s interference has, at best, sown political discord and succeeded in “dividing us from each other.” Attacking the intelligence community is not how to fix the discord, he said.

Ahead of its impending releases, the FBI took the extraordinary step of issuing a public statement to express its “grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”

“The latest attacks against the FBI and Department of Justice serve no American interests ― no party’s, no President’s, only Putin’s,” McCain added. “The American people deserve to know all the facts surrounding Russia’s ongoing efforts to subvert our democracy, which is why Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation must proceed unimpeded. Our nation’s elected officials, including the president, must stop looking at this investigation through the lens of politics and manufacturing political sideshows. If we continue to undermine our own rule of law, we are doing Putin’s job for him.”

 

 RIGHT ON SCOTT!!!
ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

you nailed it kcar!  Ryan has his nose up Rump's ass and won't allow his older taxes to be exposed, he's taken millions from russians... sad

see:

"At Tax Time, Trump Claims His Florida Golf Course Is a Dump

Trump claims huge valuations of his properties when he wants people to think he’s wealthy. At tax time, he changes his tune."

 nymag.com

 maryte wrote: 


Someday we'll all sit back and laugh at Paul Ryan. Because he's a spineless bumbling weasel, like Colonel Klink. 


The Real Aim of the Nunes Memo Is the Mueller Investigation
 

Democrats have pushed back. Representative Adam B. Schiff, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, who has seen the underlying classified materials on which the memo is based, has said the memo contains both inaccurate assertions and material omissions to misleadingly impugn law enforcement officials. Other people familiar with it say, for example, that Mr. Steele’s information was only one thread in a tapestry of evidence from various sources that the memo ignored, exaggerating its relative importance.

Democrats on the committee produced their own classified memo that they said pointed out and explained inaccuracies in the Republican memo and filled in the missing context. But on Monday, the committee voted along party lines to make the Republican memo public and rejected a request to simultaneously make public the Democrats’ rebuttal.

Asked on Tuesday about why it would not be more appropriate to make both memos public at the same time, Mr. Ryan was evasive. He said the Democratic memo first had to go through a process in which House members outside the Intelligence Committee could read it. Pressed on why the Republican memo should not be held back until that process was done, he said a reporter had asked enough questions.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

Waiting for the inevitable "Yeah, but..."

Watchdog requests investigation of Paul Ryan for allowing Trump to use State of the Union feed for fundraising

 Steely_D wrote: 
...this is not my beautiful wife!

 islander wrote: 
Psychic playlist. Into the blue again....