Nope, but the leader Biden referred to by name died in 1996… yet somehow Biden had a very recent conversation with him. Cheers to Lincoln! Give me a break!!
I was rewatching Ken Burns Vietnam episode about the first half of 1968 (Things Fall Apart) the bloodiest year with the highest number of American casualties (are you telling me anyone but Americans died over there??? NFW!).
Anyways, a completely deluded General Westmoreland was telling the American press that despite appearances, everything was going just fantastic in Vietnam (right around the time of the Tet Offensive). His evidence of the Great Victory at Hand? The American public had a positive FEELING about it and you could FEEL it in the air. In America...
How long can a country run on delusions? We're almost 250 years in and still deluded on almost every front. (We lost in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq (more than once), Korea, and I would argue the first Civil War and WWII as well, depending on who one talks to...
Please, let the handwringing begin. It's 2016 all over again, and, no matter what lessons we've learned, the rest of the world has learned nothing, and we have no choice but to sit here and watch it all unfold exactly as before, sweeping us along in torrents of inevitability that, no matter how incompetent they are, always favors Republicans.
Apparently we should also be understanding of their frailty and not prosecute all those youngish, middle aged, and elderly republicans and MAGA asses who cannot recall anything at all when under cross examination at trials, or committee meetings in response to congressional subpoenas. So many folks showing signs of early dementia.
I don't know if there was ever a previous time when an AG was blamed for everything. It's quite innovative, but once you start, it's too much fun to stop. But if people need someone to scream at., better Merrick Garland than Biden or Harris.
I figure he's the lightening rod. Someone has to be to blame for everything, and he's easy because he avoids public statements.
Thanks obama! No wait, where are you going, please stick with me. This is all kind of sort of Obama's fault for putting that wet noodle Merrick Garland forth as a supreme court nominee only to allow Mitch McConnell to steal the seat from him so that Trump could put Gorsuch on the bench. Then there's Biden to blame for putting Garland in as the head of the doj. Can we all be in agreement that that was a huge mistake? This should be the last and final warning to never try to appease traitorous GOP scumbags. The root of all of this is the Democratic party's penchant for playing Neville Chamberlain with the GOP
The Silver Lining here is that this douchebag, Hur, will be absolutely ripped to shreds by trumpists for not recommending prosecution. So professionally he's screwed because he just destroyed his own career, and socially he's fucked because both the right and the left will now hate him. Although I think the right will hate him slightly more because he looks kind of like one of those people who they don't think belong in this country. Either way, fuck him
You always tell your senior when a case has operational issues.
And then Garland should have told him to remove them because, unlike confidential work product, this was for public release.
Not doing so is inexcusable.
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"Beutler also has some recs for how Biden should play this going forward, to expose what a vapid partisan hack, and most importantly incorrect partisan hack Robert Hur is."
Because that worked so well for Hilary Clinton?
It's a shiny object - don't give it life into next week.
Instead, as soon as the Superb Owl is over and America can focus a bit, start campaigning, well, vigorously.
One of the weird details in the report, I guess to show that Biden is a packrat, was that docs were in the garage with other stuff, including "an empty bucket." oO Where should empty buckets be stored? Should they be tossed out once emptied? That one sentence shouted out Hur's grabbing-at-straws character-assassination agenda louder than all the 388 pages did.
Hur is an amateur. If you want to damage a political candidate, you release the pissy report within two weeks of the election like a common James Comey. This is will be forgotten in a week.
Nope, but the leader Biden referred to by name died in 1996… yet somehow Biden had a very recent conversation with him. Cheers to Lincoln! Give me a break!!
He actually stated the day before the independent counsel’s review that he had a great conversation with the head of France… who died in 1996.
If you asked this guy, at 2:00 PM, what he had for lunch, he wouldn’t be able to tell you.
The double standards are incredibly shaky, but, hey, let's go for it, media. Whaddaya say? Sheesh!
"Now let’s talk about Robert Hur’s FEELINGS."
I was rewatching Ken Burns Vietnam episode about the first half of 1968 (Things Fall Apart) the bloodiest year with the highest number of American casualties (are you telling me anyone but Americans died over there??? NFW!).
Anyways, a completely deluded General Westmoreland was telling the American press that despite appearances, everything was going just fantastic in Vietnam (right around the time of the Tet Offensive). His evidence of the Great Victory at Hand? The American public had a positive FEELING about it and you could FEEL it in the air. In America...
How long can a country run on delusions? We're almost 250 years in and still deluded on almost every front. (We lost in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq (more than once), Korea, and I would argue the first Civil War and WWII as well, depending on who one talks to...
"And now Peter Doocy is dead, because Joe Biden killed him."
Don't worry, they'll find another idiot to be Peter Doocy
Please, let the handwringing begin. It's 2016 all over again, and, no matter what lessons we've learned, the rest of the world has learned nothing, and we have no choice but to sit here and watch it all unfold exactly as before, sweeping us along in torrents of inevitability that, no matter how incompetent they are, always favors Republicans.
Apparently we should also be understanding of their frailty and not prosecute all those youngish, middle aged, and elderly republicans and MAGA asses who cannot recall anything at all when under cross examination at trials, or committee meetings in response to congressional subpoenas. So many folks showing signs of early dementia.
I don't know if there was ever a previous time when an AG was blamed for everything. It's quite innovative, but once you start, it's too much fun to stop. But if people need someone to scream at., better Merrick Garland than Biden or Harris.
I figure he's the lightening rod. Someone has to be to blame for everything, and he's easy because he avoids public statements.
Thanks obama! No wait, where are you going, please stick with me. This is all kind of sort of Obama's fault for putting that wet noodle Merrick Garland forth as a supreme court nominee only to allow Mitch McConnell to steal the seat from him so that Trump could put Gorsuch on the bench. Then there's Biden to blame for putting Garland in as the head of the doj. Can we all be in agreement that that was a huge mistake? This should be the last and final warning to never try to appease traitorous GOP scumbags. The root of all of this is the Democratic party's penchant for playing Neville Chamberlain with the GOP
The Silver Lining here is that this douchebag, Hur, will be absolutely ripped to shreds by trumpists for not recommending prosecution. So professionally he's screwed because he just destroyed his own career, and socially he's fucked because both the right and the left will now hate him. Although I think the right will hate him slightly more because he looks kind of like one of those people who they don't think belong in this country. Either way, fuck him
I will contribute to the first Garland 'N' Hur Rocket Into the Sun Fund
"Any jury’s gonna see this sweet old forgetful man and ask him for butterscotches" Werther's Originals, or GTFO!
Amen. Afuckingmen.
"Did Robert Hur need to write these things?"
In his draft to Garland, yes.
You always tell your senior when a case has operational issues.
And then Garland should have told him to remove them because, unlike confidential work product, this was for public release.
Not doing so is inexcusable.
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"Beutler also has some recs for how Biden should play this going forward, to expose what a vapid partisan hack, and most importantly incorrect partisan hack Robert Hur is."
Because that worked so well for Hilary Clinton?
It's a shiny object - don't give it life into next week.
Instead, as soon as the Superb Owl is over and America can focus a bit, start campaigning, well, vigorously.
One of the weird details in the report, I guess to show that Biden is a packrat, was that docs were in the garage with other stuff, including "an empty bucket." oO Where should empty buckets be stored? Should they be tossed out once emptied? That one sentence shouted out Hur's grabbing-at-straws character-assassination agenda louder than all the 388 pages did.
Hur is an amateur. If you want to damage a political candidate, you release the pissy report within two weeks of the election like a common James Comey. This is will be forgotten in a week.