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We'll know the relationship has really deteriorated when Trudeau refers to him as Donny No Deals.

2014! Just to be clear, if this is accurate than Donald Trump himself has confirmed in public that his son committed perjury. With Trump's current line on Trump Moscow, that strongly suggests Trump himself gave up the pretense and answered Mueller truthfully on the timing of that deal(otherwise, why deny it under oath, and then admit it in public?) Which means that we're not just talking about Trump shooting off in front of a mic. It means Trump and Jr. respective answers, under oath, likely contradict one another.

I keep putting off watching the Marvel series on Netflix. I'll have to finally do it before they leave. It's not a problem if they go to Hulu, but like @CastlevaniaNut18 I have zero interest in signing up for another streaming service.

I enjoyed that news story on so many levels

We know what Ivanka's excuse will be....

There aren't even 20 anti-genocide GOP votes in the Senate, so Trump is probably safe.

@PaladinSolo and @TwinIon My guess would be that, as with many other issues, the Republican Party has turned(even more) toxic and anti-reality on Climate science not because of overall support, but because of ever more extremist views of their true believer base. It's the "trigger the lib" mindset. The more that 30% or so of Republicans thrive off of pure negativity, the more it is not enough to pay lip service or stay silent on the issue. If you want to speak to the GOP base, you have to verbally roll coal all over the opposition.

To me, it has long looked like people like Wade and Kal showed skepticism about what Mueller would uncover not so much because it's what they truly believe will happen, but because they want to keep their own expectations in check. The old saying about expecting the worst so all your surprises will be pleasant ones. However, I think this sentiment is wrong for at least two reasons. The first is simply that the evidence we have seen again and again is that the report will be damning, with evidence of significant wrong doing by the Trump campaign and Trump himself. But the second this is wrong is because it wastes all the cynicism one might have on the wrong step of the process. Trump isn't going to avoid repercussions because Mueller finds no evidence. Trump is going to skate because Republicans don't give a fuck. This is why I predicted very early on(before I saw anyone even in the news and punditry saying it) that Whitaker might not be there to stop Mueller so much as investigate Trump's enemies. Mueller was too far along to stop, so he's going to turn this whole big ball of scandals into a huge butheremails clusterfuck. What I see happening is that Mueller will release his report with damning results. Whitaker will start investigating Hillary, Comey, and everyone he can(Trump has signaled he may even directly investigate Mueller himself). The House will impeach Trump, the Senate will not convict Trump and the Republicans will go into 2020 hoping that they have thrown enough shit around so that the Golgathan Shit Demon they call president doesn't look any shittier than everyone else.

@SaysWho? Says who? Says who? Oh....ok

If memory serves, Deutsche Bank is the one bank that suspiciously kept giving Trump loans after everyone else learned to stay far away from him because he never paid his debt. Alfa bank is the one with ties to Russia and, I think, the one that had the suspicious server activity between itself and Trump Tower. On a side note, I beleive House Dems politely asked Deutsche for bank records relating to Donald to which the bank politely said "lol, no" because Dems weren't backed by any actual legal authority. That is one of those things that might change next year when they gain subpoena power.

Who else but?

Why on earth is all this info leaking now? Has anyone heard speculation on why it might be happening? Sometimes it is due to the opposition releasing details in an attempt to "get ahead" of the story, but this info seems to be from several different directions, so it's not like Stone, Corsi, Trump, and the Trump Foundation all decided to leak this together. The good explanation I can think of is that perhaps some court filing or indictment is coming that contains this info and once it starts its journey through the courts there is a higher likelihood of leaks as more eyeballs see it. The bad possibility is that Whitaker is going all out on hamstringing the investigation and Mueller has decided targeted leaks are justified. Why this worries me is that Mueller seems so by the book that if he is leaking, then it's the equivalent of someone else screaming "fire" through a bullhorn.

I think it is still up in the air whether Trump knew about Stone and Wikileaks, but it strains credulity that he didn't know about the Trump Tower meeting. And, as thick headed as he is, it says something about his understanding of the legal jeopardy he is in that he decided to lie about it. It also speaks to how aware he is that Jr. is in serious shit, and could be viewed as Trump throwing him under the bus.

I wonder if she'll manage to muddle her way through her victory speech without using the phrase, "We whupped him good."

Bold prediction.

Most of the midrange Androids that offer really good performance vs. cost ratios are straight from China....so I'd imagine they would be hit pretty hard by this.

I suspect nothing will happen even if the Dems have a great 2020 and take back the Senate and presidency. And this is not to knock Dems too much for the likely inaction. The Obama and Trump admins have shown us that with near complete partisan gridlock a new president, even a very successful one, now gets one big bill. Obama got Obamacare, and Trump got his tax cuts. If you wanted to invent a problem to fuck humanity up, you would be hard pressed to design one better than climate change. It is the proverbial lobster in a pot. Because the effects are almost always going to be a slow rolling process, there is likely to always be a problem that is more urgent to take care of. For instance, if the new Congress takes control in 2021 and they have the choice of one big problem to tackle should they go after climate change, or maybe find a solution to Medicare drying up starting in 2026? Or maybe healthcare for all. Or any of the other problems that used to sound like a problem for future Homer, but look a lot more urgent now that we're long past the heady days of 2015 and hover boards. Even if you think climate change is more important than those subjects(personally, I would say it's more important but even harder to do something about) imagine trying to sell that the average American voter. That all said, maybe Dems could nibble at the edges with various spending bills and other such procedural minutiae, but until we see widespread, catastrophic effects I don't think either party will see it as the issue to stake their agenda on. And, as I originally said, the real bitch of climate change is that by the time that happens what we now describe as the worst case scenario will probably be the favorable outcome to hope for in terms of temp and sea rise.

"That boy never shuda been there in the first place."

People need to take a step back and consider that..... 1. No one is in a better position to know what wrong doing Mueller might uncover than Donald Trump. Because he knows what he did. 2. Donald Trump clearly thinks Mueller's report will be damning. Now why would he think that

I thought they were pretty good. Not as good as Killin Them Softly, but definitely better than For What It's Worth imho. Like @SoberChef said, Ron White's new special is very good. Bill Burr has three specials on there from what I can tell. You People Are All The Same and I'm Sorry You Feel That Way are both good. Walk Your Way Out is a relatively new one that I Didn't notice until I started looking around for this thread. Definitely gonna watch it. Jim Jefferies also has three on there, all good. Bare, Freedumb, and This Is Me Now. Gabriel Iglesias has one on there, I'm Sorry For What I Said When I Was Hungry. Patton Oswalt has two on there. Talking For Clapping, which is good. And Annihilation, which is notable because it's his first special since his wife died. I notice one thing about all these specials is that they are all from stand up comedians I was already a fan of. It makes me realize I need to try out more of the specials from men and women I am not so familiar with since there are quite a lot of Netflix originals in the category.

I remember him from his X-Files episode and this video.....

Bill Krystol is the snake that looks at an elephant and thinks, "Yeah, I can swallow that".

Whip that base a little harder, Donny. Maybe some of them will get so worked up they'll have a heart attack