DrIrvingFinegarten wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:20 pm
Either he's telling the truth or he isn't. How does a photo with Nancy Pelosi change that or a tweet saying "Racism is so American that when you protest it they think you're protesting America"?
Why don't you comprehend that bad-faith actors will continue to make bad-faith arguments that a large segment of the population will readily accept, endorse, repeat, and amplify?
DrIrvingFinegarten wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:20 pm
Either he's telling the truth or he isn't. How does a photo with Nancy Pelosi change that or a tweet saying "Racism is so American that when you protest it they think you're protesting America"?
Why don't you comprehend that bad-faith actors will continue to make bad-faith arguments that a large segment of the population will readily accept, endorse, repeat, and amplify?
Hey, on the timing and the delay... part of it is that everybody's away in August. In September, many more people will be watching and paying attention. Also, it gives them time to line everything up with the subpoenas. (That's from a few House friends, just reporting.)
Here's the full Adam Kinzinger* Wolf Blitzer interview, 19 minutes.
Cross-posting from Gym's topic:
Don's pause after hearing Gym's ridiculous lying is epic. 700K views in a day, wow.
Don Lemon on Jim Jordan: Does this guy seem nervous to you?
699,728 views Jul 30, 2021
* This is in spoiler because it's about Adam FanFic (but it's true)
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There was a long-running disagreement over who was cuter, Aaron Schock or Adam Kinzinger. I was Team Adam. Especially happy about it now.
The GOP Congressman In The Steamy Aaron Schock FanFic Seems To Follow It Pretty Closely
By John Gallagher January 7, 2014 at 11:01am · 12 comments
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Among the more unusual political phenomenon to emerge in the past few months has been the popularity of fanfiction featuring Rep. Aaron Schock (R.-Gay Wardrobe) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R.-Ayn Rand). While the encounters between the two make up the bulk of the writing enterprise, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, like Schock an Illinois Republican, also plays a large (ahem) part in the narrative. Kinzinger was a one-time lover of Schock, who fondly recalls (in the fiction, of course) “Never a dull moment with Adam in the bedroom.”
Guess who likes to read all about it? Apparently, the real life Rep. Kinzinger.
In what is plainly his personal Twitter account, Kinzinger follows @PaulRyanXXX, the account for the fanfiction. (Displaying proper social media etiquette, @PaulRyanXXX thanked Kinzinger for the follow.) This is the same Twitter account that Kinzinger uses to follow other members of Congress, reporters, family members and a priest.
Schock has described Kinzinger as “a closer personal friend of mine who’s an active duty member of Congress [in the district] next door to me.” Now, it could be that Kinzinger, whom Schock endorsed over a more senior incumbent when two districts were merged into one in 2012, just has a good sense of humor. He might find the whole fanfiction thing amusing, particularly his role in it. The reasons for following the account could be cause for endless speculation.
But you have to be pretty oblivious to the world of social media to make yourself one of @PaulRyanXXX’s handful of followers. That’s especially true if you are an elected official whose fictional double has a major role in what the fanfic’s authors like to describe as “smut” and whose fictional lover is widely rumored to like men. Why would you need to make that particular account one of the 69 you follow? Presumably you guess no one will notice. Except they just did.
The account wrapped up in 2018 but the tweets are still there: https://twitter.com/PaulRyanXXX/with_replies?lang=en
Adult warning. The FanFic is at https:// (broke the link or it would post the whole entry) paulryanxxx.tumblr.com/post/71771748428/part-3
Lt Root Beer of the Mighty 699th. Fogbow s titular Mama June in Fogbow's Favourite Show™ Mama June: From Not To Hot! Fogbow's Theme Song™ Edith Massey's "I Got The Evidence!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5jDHZd0JAg
Susan Collins says on CNN that she thinks it was wrong for Pelosi to pick which Republicans serve on the Jan 6 committee, suggests she wasn't troubled by the idea of material witness Jim Jordan serving on it because "there were many communications with President Trump" on Jan 6
"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
The Western Great Schism began on September 20, 1378 with the election of Clement VII in Avignon, France. He was the second pope elected by the same college of cardinals in six months, and for the first time in history there were two "legitimate" claimants to be head of the church in Rome
Resolving the Western Great Schism:
An Armed Attempt
Clement chose to make peace using a method commonly employed by popes in medievel times. He gathered an army to kill or unseat his rival.
He failed.
This is what we are seeing with T****'s claim
castigat ridendo mores.
VELOCIUS QUAM ASPARAGI COQUANTUR
The Western Great Schism began on September 20, 1378 with the election of Clement VII in Avignon, France. He was the second pope elected by the same college of cardinals in six months, and for the first time in history there were two "legitimate" claimants to be head of the church in Rome
Resolving the Western Great Schism:
An Armed Attempt
Clement chose to make peace using a method commonly employed by popes in medievel times. He gathered an army to kill or unseat his rival.
A key House committee has postponed multiple scheduled witness interviews about Donald Trump’s final days in office, handing them off to the select panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
“As the Oversight Committee continues its crucial oversight work, we look forward to the Select Committee fully exposing the former president’s unconstitutional attacks on our democracy and attempts to stay in power after the American people voted him out of office," House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) said in a statement Thursday.
The movement of those interviews with former Justice Department aides marks an abrupt change in House Democrats’ investigations of the end of Trump’s presidency. The shift underscores the growing importance of the select committee's work as it readies its next steps with a political spotlight on Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and the panel's two anti-Trump Republicans, Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois.
Former Virginia Rep. Denver Riggleman will join the staff serving the House select committee in its investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, CNN reported Friday.
Why it matters: The former Air Force intelligence officer is the third Republican Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has brought on to the select panel, which Republican lawmakers have attacked as partisan.
Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) are the only Republican lawmakers on the committee, but Riggleman brings a high profile as a former member of Congress.
His experience in national security also brings added legitimacy to the investigation.
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
This is a must read/file: time-line of one thread of the ongoing coup in Nov/Dec 2020. Featuring Mark Meadows, Rosen, Barr, et al. Appearances by Giuliani, Milley (telling Meadows the military is "not stupid" so he'd better not mess with intel agency heads), Squidney, and Cipolloni.
Do we have a thread for what should be, hopefully will be, the case against the former guy and his minions?
Mark Meadows Timeline: The Chief of Staff and Schemes to Overturn 2020 Election
Former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, was directly involved at major intersections of President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. What follows is a detailed timeline of all the publicly available information.
The timeline shows why Meadows may face significant criminal exposure for directly participating in a scheme to pressure the Justice Department to investigate baseless election fraud claims. The timeline also describes a “parallel track” reportedly created by Meadows and Rudy Giuliani, and Meadows’ repeated involvement in Donald Trump and the Trump campaign’s political efforts.
p0rtia wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 12:39 pm
This is a must read/file: time-line of one thread of the ongoing coup in Nov/Dec 2020. Featuring Mark Meadows, Rosen, Barr, et al. Appearances by Giuliani, Milley (telling Meadows the military is "not stupid" so he'd better not mess with intel agency heads), Squidney, and Cipolloni.
p0rtia wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 12:39 pm
This is a must read/file: time-line of one thread of the ongoing coup in Nov/Dec 2020. Featuring Mark Meadows, Rosen, Barr, et al. Appearances by Giuliani, Milley (telling Meadows the military is "not stupid" so he'd better not mess with intel agency heads), Squidney, and Cipolloni.
I read that with my jaw in my lap, and I thought I was pretty well-up on all their cahootin'.
Me too. So now we find out if DOJ / Democrats will rise to the occasion or just let the country continue to die due to their own calumny and addiction to power.