Week of July 24: The Feinstein Files

[Uncaripswife]

Good morning, friends!

[pesto]

We were up late having a CSPAN party dc2london, give us a break!

[Cnon]

Good morning, friends!

[Deleted]

Man, between Mooch, the failed health care vote and it being Friday....I would take some odds on Reince leaving today.

[silverspoon]

Actual footage of me today:

[Deleted]

Jul 28, 2017 6:15:05 GMT -6 silverspoon said:

Actual footage of me today:

Lol. Same. Interspersed with mainlining coffee.

[cp3]

What Fox is reporting on this morning...

[dc2london]

Omgggggg NPR reporting that right wingers have stopped watching Fox News bc it has become "too liberal."

[enchanted]

Too bad 45 won. He could have launched his TrumpTV and then all his lemmings could have flocked to it and given him the bigliest, greatest ratings of all time.

[rinny]

Jul 28, 2017 6:54:15 GMT -6 @dietpepsi said:

Jul 28, 2017 6:52:30 GMT -6 @heartbot said:

Alex Jones?

Duh. I just meant is there like a TV news station more right than fox? Or are they just looking online

I don't know if I was listening to the same segment or not (the one I heard this on was about the Bundy's) but definitely the internet.

[Deleted]

Bahahaha Fox News too liberal.

[ktg]

Jul 28, 2017 7:06:18 GMT -6 enchanted said:

Too bad 45 won. He could have launched his TrumpTV and then all his lemmings could have flocked to it and given him the bigliest, greatest ratings of all time.

Maybe he'll resign in order to do this! "They wouldn't let me govern! Sad! Must fight fake news!"

Obviously I'm still high from last night.

[oreobitsy]

Jul 28, 2017 5:44:51 GMT -6 pesto said:

We were up late having a CSPAN party dc2london, give us a break!

Good morning all!

About CSPAN: does anyone know how to stream it using a Roku? I had to watch CNN from Sling TV. I couldn't find a channel app and thought maybe youtube has a feed, but couldn't get there last night.

It's hard to get good news when you cut the cord. I usually read online anyway but wanted to watch last night.

Anyway, carry on.

[dc2london]

Jul 28, 2017 6:54:15 GMT -6 @dietpepsi said:

Jul 28, 2017 6:52:30 GMT -6 @heartbot said:

Alex Jones?

Duh. I just meant is there like a TV news station more right than fox? Or are they just looking online

According to the story they stick to Rush, Alex Jones, etc.

[enchanted]

Jul 28, 2017 7:28:38 GMT -6 oreobitsy said:

Jul 28, 2017 5:44:51 GMT -6 pesto said:

We were up late having a CSPAN party dc2london, give us a break!

Good morning all!

About CSPAN: does anyone know how to stream it using a Roku? I had to watch CNN from Sling TV. I couldn't find a channel app and thought maybe youtube has a feed, but couldn't get there last night.

It's hard to get good news when you cut the cord. I usually read online anyway but wanted to watch last night.

Anyway, carry on.

I was able to watch the live feed on my phone last night. I tried to watch on my computer, but couldn't without signing in through a provider.

We cut the cord, too, so I'm usually reading the liveblogs done here and Twitter.

[dc2london]

yowza

ETA oops wrong tweet


ETAETA WTF WHY WON'T IT POST THE RIGHT TWEET?!

[dc2london]

The really laughable thing about the report was that these people dismiss the Russia investigation bc it's all "alleged." They need FACTS. Facts are very important to the Alex Jones crowd, apparently.

[morecoffeeplease]

What happened to Reince going to Greece? If I were him I'd refuse to resign without that ambassador role lined up.

[dc2london]

YESSS GET 'EM MUELLER!

"It could also pierce the increasing secrecy around who is buying real estate from Trump. A USA TODAY investigation last month revealed that 70% of Trump real estate sales since he won the GOP nomination were to secretive shell companies, compared to 4% in the two years before that. The clear shift to those kinds of purchases, which help obscure the identities of the buyers, raise questions about the source of profits that ultimately flow to the President because he has not fully divested from his companies."

www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/07/27/russia-investigation-delves-into-trumps-most-guarded-business-secrets/515961001/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top-stories

[bubblehape]

Jul 28, 2017 7:28:38 GMT -6 oreobitsy said:

Jul 28, 2017 5:44:51 GMT -6 pesto said:

We were up late having a CSPAN party dc2london, give us a break!

Good morning all!

About CSPAN: does anyone know how to stream it using a Roku? I had to watch CNN from Sling TV. I couldn't find a channel app and thought maybe youtube has a feed, but couldn't get there last night.

It's hard to get good news when you cut the cord. I usually read online anyway but wanted to watch last night.

Anyway, carry on.

I've been able to watch most of these things live on youtube!

[enchanted]

I think Twitter streams things as well at times, as does NPR. I don't know about last night, though.

[dc2london]

Also this, from that same USA Today article:

John Tobon, a deputy special agent for the Department of Homeland Security in Miami, said luxury real estate sellers who don’t screen their buyers closely enough can be charged in conspiracy cases.

“The law of conspiracy reaches pretty far and every person in the conspiracy doesn’t necessarily have to be clued in to all the details,” said Tobon, speaking about money-laundering in general and not specific transactions involving any specific companies. “So legally you’re exposed in these transactions if you don’t take that extra step of asking who is the person behind 123 LLC.”

[ktg]

dc2london NPR had a segment about shell corporations and real estate as money laundering several months ago - definitely before the election. From what I recall it was about how very hard it is to find the actual people behind the corporations, but it's really important because there's all this dirty money hiding in these properties.

I had not connected it to Trump being in real estate. Now I'm readjusting my tinfoil.

[byjove]

Anyone see that story floating around about male fertility? In North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand sperm count has declined something like 50-60% since the 70's. If rates are extrapolated, men will have little or no reproductive ability by 2060. Pollutants, which male fetuses are most susceptible to, are expected to be a driving factor. Maybe this is something that can start changing the environmental protections conversation among the men in the charge? Too optimistic?

theconversation.com/huge-drop-in-mens-sperm-levels-confirmed-by-new-study-here-are-the-facts-81582
(I'm not very familiar with this publication, but it seems legit, the new study seems legit, and this is written by a doctor)

[dc2london]

Jul 28, 2017 8:22:14 GMT -6 byjove said:

Anyone see that story floating around about male fertility? In North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand sperm count has declined something like 50-60% since the 70's. If rates are extrapolated, men will have little or no reproductive ability by 2060. Pollutants, which male fetuses are most susceptible to, are expected to be a driving factor. Maybe this is something that can start changing the environmental protections conversation among the men in the charge? Too optimistic?

theconversation.com/huge-drop-in-mens-sperm-levels-confirmed-by-new-study-here-are-the-facts-81582
(I'm not very familiar with this publication, but it seems legit, the new study seems legit, and this is written by a doctor)

I saw this yesterday, from a more main-stream source. Let me see if I can find it again.

[lea]

Jul 27, 2017 10:33:25 GMT -6 cakewench said:

Jul 27, 2017 10:17:04 GMT -6 enchanted said:

JFC.

I have friends and family who are on the conservative side (but not 45 supporters) who don't understand why I won't engage with those who are supporters/alt right. This right here is why.

Taken from Wikipedia (Article on Antichrist):

"As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we beg you, brothers and sisters, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as though from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is already here. Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first and the lawless one is revealed, the one destined for destruction. He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God.



— 2 Thessalonians 2:1–4 NRSV (1989)"

The bolded sounds WAY more like Trump to me. Just saying

Way late but just catching up and was totally gonna reply that Obama doesn't fully fit the Scriptural description of the Antichrist and that whoever posted that FB post should put down their fiction novel and open their Bible.

[pesto]

Newt or Kellyanne?!?!

[kitchen]

Jul 28, 2017 8:40:55 GMT -6 pesto said:

Newt or Kellyanne?!?!

At some point they will have no one.  They are so unhinged and trust no one.  That seems problematic in the short run but at least signals that they don't seem to have a long game?

[Deleted]

I'm not entirely clear what KellyAnne does in her current position.

[athn64]

Jul 28, 2017 8:45:16 GMT -6 @dietpepsi said:

Who would still hitch their wagon to this shit show?

We've been saying this for a while, but Mooch just did.