Politics Manafort could face ‘rest of life in prison,’ judge says

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  1. yankeesince59

    yankeesince59 "Oh Captain, my Captain".

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    ...loling at people "liking" posts they don't fully understand.
     
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    Indeed a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
     
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    yankeesince59 "Oh Captain, my Captain".

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    What are you going on about now?...it was a purely fictional tale from Shakespeare written some 400 years ago.

    Geeez...lighten up.
     
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    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    Why? Because the difference between you and these guys is that you actually believe what you say.

    It's why I like arguing with them so much. They virtue signal constantly yet somehow can't stand even watching a short clip from Rachel Maddow.

    I can't stand her because I rarely agree with her. I can watch Ellen and laugh my ass off or cry when Kate from SNL introduces her at the Golden Globes.

    And when I make a sexist comment I do it on purpose instead of pretend it wasn't.

    You may not have any respect for me and I'm not asking for it but you have mine even though we are about as opposite as people can get.
     
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    crandc Well-Known Member

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    Rachel Maddow is my secret crush.

    She is "wonderful wonderful most wonderful and once again beyond all whooping."
     
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    MARIS61 Real American

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    Talk about setting the bar low. You can do better. She's a liar-for-profit, making millions off people like you who are inflicted with TDS. When she's alone with her wifey in her mansion [​IMG] she giggles at how she got rich off your gullibility.

    Will Rachel Maddow face a reckoning over her Trump-Russia coverage?

    Ross Barkan
    With Trump has come two years of conspiracy-mongering about Russia – and at the top of the heap is none other than MSNBC’s Maddow

    Thu 28 Mar 2019 08.12 EDT Last modified on Thu 28 Mar 2019 14.16 EDT

    The worst-kept secret in the liberal media ecosystem is that Donald Trump is great for business. Rebranded for the resistance, liberal newspapers gobbled up thousands of new subscribers while local outlets die across America, unable to feast on the Trump manna. On television, left-leaning stations, at long last, competed with Fox in the ratings game, fueled by a never-ending Trump obsession.

    • With Trump has come Russia: two years of conspiracy-mongering about whether the president, a failed real estate mogul and reality TV star consumed with dubious deal-making, conspired with the Russian government to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. Robert Mueller’s determination that no evidence exists to prove Trump and Russian colluded to fix the election has exposed, once again, the venality of A-list political punditry. At the top of the heap is none other than MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

      Maddow, of course, was not alone. The New Yorker once ran a cover in Russian, a stunt that will age as terribly as all cold war-era red-baiting has to our 21st-century eyes. Last year, New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait baselessly posited (in another cover story) that Trump may have been a Russian “asset” since 1987. CNN was a daily carousel of Russiagate pundits.

      “We wrote a lot about Russia, and I have no regrets,” said the New York Times’ executive editor, Dean Baquet, in an interview after the Mueller report came in. “It’s not our job to determine whether or not there was illegality,” he added. Other news executives have also defended their coverage. CNN’s president, Jeff Zucker, said: “We are not investigators. We are journalists, and our role is to report the facts as we know them, which is exactly what we did.”

      Still, it’s abundantly clear now that many liberal outlets overdid it in their fervor. And Maddow, MSNBC’s ratings juggernaut of the Trump era, is the embodiment of this overzealousness. The Mueller investigation was covered more on MSBNC than any other television network, and was mentioned virtually every day in 2018. No twist was too minuscule or outlandish for Maddow; every night, seemingly, brought another nail in the coffin of the soon-to-be-dead Trump presidency.

      There was the time Maddow theorized that Trump was “curiously well-versed” in “specific Russian talking points”, strongly implying press briefings were dictated from the Kremlin. An American missile attack on Syria, Maddow concurred, could have been orchestrated by Putin himself. During a cold snap, the Russian government could shut down our power supply. Putin could blackmail Trump into pulling troops from Russia’s border.

      Maddow was not only certain that Russians had rigged the election. On air, she would talk about the “continuing operation” – the idea that the Kremlin was controlling the Trump presidency itself. In more sober times, this brand of analysis would barely cut it on a far-right podcast. In the Trump era, it was ratings gold.


      Maddow is much smarter than this.
      But the siren song of ratings is too difficult for a TV personality ignore, especially when a television network is transformed from an also-ran into a top contender.

      The case of Russian collusion served as soma for the Democratic masses addicted to cable TV and prestige news outlets, where the story could never die. Focus enough on Trump’s “illegitimate” presidency – Russian agents installed him! – and forget the catastrophic failure of the Democratic party to elect Hillary Clinton and stop Trump’s shambolic candidacy.

      Forget too America’s structural inequities, its warped version of representative democracy, its original sins of slavery and Native American genocide, and its history, first and foremost, of elevating presidents who routinely flouted the constitution, whether it was Franklin Roosevelt imprisoning Japanese Americans, Abraham Lincoln suspending habeas corpus, or even George W Bush launching the Iraq war, a cataclysmic blunder that will reverberate across the Middle East for decades to come.

      All of this is easy to wave away with the Trump-Russia wand. In this mythos, America was an unsullied country until Kremlin power brokers dropped Trump in the White House to control from afar. It is the cold war paradigm reborn, Russia the dark nemesis that must be slayed. Just as conservatives once ranted about communist infiltrations into all facets of American life, it’s liberal Democrats who now see Russia in every Trump foible.

      Maddow surely understands this. There will be no deus ex Russia to save the American republic. Once Mueller’s name fades into history, she will have to find someone else to fill her primetime hours.
      • Ross Barkan is a freelance writer in New York City
     
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    She is Bizarro Hannity. I figure you know the Superman reference. Hell, I might be a bit off in my analogy but I don't think she would ever agree with Hannity on anything.

    Anyone who watches either of them is getting fed propaganda in my opinion.
     
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    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    Doesn't look like much of a mansion unless that is the servant area.
     
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    Sounds like some of you want to get me to a nunnery.
     
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    Not me, I think everyone needs someone to love them.

    But if you're looking for a wife and not a husband, it seems that Susan Mikula would be the more likely object of your desire. :dunno:
     
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    Is that when he orders you to flip the hamburgers and deep fry the fries?
     
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    Whoa, I just had a kinky flashback.
     
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    No Sir, no burger patties for me...I'm strictly "The Fry Guy"...I am the king of the fryer basket.

    ...and "I love the smell of vegetable oil in the morning!"
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Here are my favorite smells:
    1. When I was a kid we used to go camping every summer at Breitenbush, a beautiful campground on the Breitenbush river stocked with rainbow trout and had a hot springs nearby where we would go at night to sink our feet into the mud at the bottom of a hot pool fed by the hot springs. There we would look up at the stars and talk about whatever popped into our heads. My uncle would get up early and go fishing. About the same time my mom and my aunt would fire up the camp fire as well as the white gas stove. Then coffee would percolate on the stove and bacon would begin frying. Lord how I loved the smell of coffee and bacon while hearing the sound of the river roaring maybe a hundred yards away. As a side benefit, I loved the sound of fish and bacon crackling as they would fry;

    2. I use to work summers with my father, a bricklayer. Now, I enjoy the smells of fresh cut lumber on the job as well as brick and mortar dust. All these decades later and I can still hear, in my memories, the sound of my father's trowel as it buttered a brick scraping the trowel along the brick.
     
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    Man, I wish we had trout down here...trout are my fav freshwater fish to eat...dolphin are great too...but oddly enough, even though I'm from the South, I'm not a big catfish fan
     
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    I really really don't need relationship advice from Maris!
     
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    When I was 17 I remember going to an all you can eat catfish and fries restaurant for $1 each. Long long gone.
    I remember whenever the juke box played Dixie, people would go wild singing along and that included your truly. I never connected it with the evil it represented.
     
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    Yeah, sadly, we still have some people down here who still can't accept the fact that they lost the war.
     

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