AS USUAL. Lots of chatter today...sigh, deep breaths, think about it, don't think about, stay frosty, holy freakout.

Well, cheers to us all, Rat - may good and most excellent news/bombshells be headed our way!!

Just wish the bombshell was expansion of the investigation to Comey.

Wittes retweeted what has become a badge of honor, awarded this time to Clint Watts. .

:medium

Meanwhile he's been tweeting furiously again today. Something must really be getting under his skin.

I wish that Benjamin Witte's tick tick tick fuse would hurry up and detonate!

paying attention?

Because every one of them is supposed to be the final nail in the coffin

Cheney and a bunch of others were supposed to go down, but it was only Scooter Libby.

Truth is, if there was anything substantial, I'd expect someone to "negotiate" it away in some behind the scenes deal.

hope today is the big day when it all comes tumbling down. Here's to hope and another day! I'll take a little hope over despair any day of the week.

It's a race to stop them from destroying this nation.

Me too. I wonder wtf he has done or tweeted during the night. I used to lull myself to sleep on Pinterest or what not...now I'm on DU until my eyes close and I'm back on DU before I've had a sip of coffee. I'm thankful to have landed here.

House of Cards seems so .....quaint in comparison.

Can we please have another no drama President.....

This is a nailbiter. I hope and pray "they" don't round up liberals...after decades of loathe liberal training from Spox Mews. We are hated, too.

I also wake up every morning hoping that he's gone from the White house.

Every day, I think "This might be THE day" Yet there are his homely "kids" being interviewed, talking about how great HE is. Eeeeric with his Nazi haircut, Ivanka with her Valley Girl breathless whisper. Just like daddy dearest, they have extremely punchable faces. Very strange, puffy mouths.

pretty damn bigly

and then - ignite it.

Sorry, but that dog don't hunt.

Be serious here. They don't care that he is illegitimate as long as they feel he is theirs.

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, he can do to lose their loyalty. Not because he is right or good - but because they HATE the "other" more than they hate being lied to by one of their own.

They don't think like we do
Wired very differently.

This sums up the Repub problem well. They will normalize anything as long as it is one of their own.

intractible, rock headed, steel hearted, hateful, terrified people who believe a Stalin-Like leader will "clean up the world" for them. Frightened children in need of a protective Father. I wish they would all move to North Korea.

separation away from illegal arms sale and money laundering. The money laundering has been around for a long time. The arms sale of apparently Russian stinger missiles is new. Have no idea, only hope, that it is somehow involved. It has not been reported elsewhere as far as l know.

for ummmm doing illegal things with stocks and was in deep do and he started working for - the FBI or CIA? And he went into Russia and got them some stingers, which took them off the market or out of play or whatever...his status vis-a-vis any intel relationship is still hazy as hell for me...

Also, Sater's dad, Michael, was (is??) a top consigliere for Semyon Megilovich (sp!?), the most wanted mobster on the planet.

Anyway, who knows what ANY of these foul creatures has been up to...illegal arms dealing? Sure, why the hell not!!?

A logical, educated man. "Just the facts, Mam" guy.

Please God, won't someone stop Trump sooner rather that later?

Seriously

and the kochsters so we don't pull a muscle tearing out our hair and are too resigned to a long war to go banging our heads on the wall.

80 Years of Planning: The Kochs + The Family + Birchers = No Democracy


https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/2/14/944611/-

This is THE PERFECT STORM

Thank God for the likes of Susan Collins, brave woman. She is a NO for the TrumpCare Death Bill

have been passed, strong conservative groups formed and united to oppose them, and of course there is a strong overlap with conservative religion.

For the U.S. I've read Jane Mayer's Dark Money. Names a lot of the big funders and drivers of a conspiracy to make the U.S. far more conservative over the past 50 years.

What I really like, though, is that this reaction actually started in our nation with its formation. That kind of conservative really hated and opposed what we created, and they've been fighting to change it ever since. They've had some wins lately and may have more, but the very fact that they've been losing for the past 240 years, even while new liberal democracies have formed around the planet, shows which ideology is the more powerful.

Very notably, theirs cannot support 300 million people in reasonable prosperity in this nation alone, and specifically has no intention of doing that. So we'll win.

Audio and written transcript here

https://www.buzzfeed.com/newsfeedpodcast/benjamin-wittes-interview-with-buzzfeed?utm_term=.tuo3ENKkY#.gwjGKdx7L

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Here... Sanctuary! Yes, that's Maureen O'Hara.

as someone points out on Twitter:

Link to tweet

but clocks do. I don't understand why you are misinterpreting the message. It seems quite plain to me.

i actually find this person very credible, but he did mix metaphors:

But ssssssssss doesn't have the same impact on twitter.

It's not going to happen. No matter what Trump did, will do, or is doing, the GOP and his supporters will just go along and not a damn thing will happen. Trump was correct when he said he could shoot someone in the middle of the street with 1000 witnesses and not a damn thing would happen to him and he would'n lose any support.

The GOP is having WAY too much fun bringing all their dreams to fruition to want anything to happen to 45. Yeah, they bring out an uninsurance bill and whip everyone into a frenzy, and when no one is looking sell off our country to the highest bidders. Want to mine coal or drill for oil in the Grand Canyon? You betcha. Want to build a geothermal plant on top of Old Faithful? Why not. Want to roll back Civil Right, suppress Dem voters, gerrymander the whole damn country, bring back child labor, kill unions, repeal minimum wage laws? Go for it.

They absolutely LOVE 45, because he takes the spotlight off of what they are doing. So don't expect our country to EVER come back. The GOP now has all three branches of Govt in their pocket and they will not ever allow another free and fair election. We will be like Russia. We will have elections, but there will only be one party on the ballot. Or perhaps only one party that can possibly win.

Maybe the retirement of a SCOTUS member?

All they have to do is whip up the most outrageous stuff as a distraction and pa$$ all the boring $stuff on the quiet.

They are milking this for all it's worth.

I've had suspicions about the stepped up attacks on our leadership. It's just a matter of when the bombshell drops.

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whether DT will fire Mueller sooner or later. His lawyers and such are keeping him from it now. He is taking his anger out on Sessions and McGhan. However, we may wake up w a tweet any day. I know it is questionable whether he has the authority. He may have to correct his course and fire others first
Then again, he gets away with hundreds of things no other president even tried .

If he asked someone to do it, Rosenstein would be the go-to guy. He (Rosenstein) has publicly said he will not do anything that is not right. Mueller can only be dismissed "for cause." The fact Trump despises him is not "cause."

Sam

L. Coyote posted the tweets upthread.

Here's Wittes twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes

Trump isn't going to be indicted tomorrow. We aren't going see the pee tapes. But we may get some new information, or confirmation of old information. I'd call that a bombshell, but it takes a lot of.bombshells to win a battle.

Trump's twitter meltdown this morning hinted that something might be happening. Witte's inside info is usually FBI or Comey related.
We'll see.

The FBI doesn't talk to you for 10 hours unless you are either a witness or a target.

and live in Hope.

My microwave gets great reception. And it can pop 🍿 simultaneously.

a Columbia U professor?

So this guy is not him and this quote from this article is not correct either? [quote]"Benjamin Wittes, the man James Comey provided details about his Trump memos to, who then leaked them to the press, has just made two somewhat cryptic tweets alluding to a ticking time bomb."[/quote]

Hope something massive drops soon, but I'll pass for now.

recognize the name but this paragraph is in the story.



.....Immediately following the publication of that article this morning, another tidbit of information popped up, suggesting that yes a bombshell is on its way. Benjamin Wittes, the man James Comey provided details about his Trump memos to, who then leaked them to the press, has just made two somewhat cryptic tweets alluding to a ticking time bomb.

Didn't lose a second of sleep over it, either.

So did my neighbor. And pastor. I think the realtor who sold me this house is trying to sell some dirt to a russian oligarch at 3x the market rate, laundering some cash, but she's not compromised, is she?

about the change in narrative over at TPM.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/was-that-wrong

A bombshell is coming, trump is going down, Faux news is running scared.

This gets old quick.

Is the love child of Louise Mensh and Claude Taylor.

Glad for the hints, but if I were a private citizen with info, I'd be VERY careful. Some of the people involved in this are batsh_t crazy and ruthless.

with the Russians.

If "hope" is all you have I feel very sorry for you.

MEANS it is all over for Donald Rump ???

What could that possibly consist of? Trying to wrap my mind around it.

Nothing!
He could stand naked in Time Square shooting tourists and nothing would be done to him.
He's the Republican president with the Republican Congress.
They will discard every law and every moral they've ever known to ensure he remains in power.
Don't get your hopes up.

Yes, I noticed narrative flip, now idiot is implicating Obama, of course..According to the liar, Obama colluded wiith the Russians so Clinton would lose...huh? Aye! My head hurts! When will this locura stop? Now this farse, stall tactic --- repubs holding out on healthcare bill, last number, 5 senators may or may not sure but keep on watching stupicks (that us) maybe a vote on floor by Friday , or maybe not. Not sure they say, not enough votes. News Flash! They're lying! They're are going to all vote, they''ve been threatening repeal for 8 years -- so repeal it already! And, Dems please stop begging and pleading it's embarrasing; have some dignity, Boycot Senate vote!

These heartless so called Christian's just dont care if people are going to die, lose their homes, file bankruptcy, lose all their life's savings, they just dont care! In the meantime what's going on with Russia? No, no, look over here they say, healthcare remember, just more games to distract from Russian/trumpf collusion.

we've all been down this road before.

Where exactly do you think you're going right now?

Mid-terms are 17 months away. In the meantime what can be better than drip drip drip?

It's insane that this hasn't gotten FAR more attention. What percentage of people, espeically on the right, even know this. Two leading intelligence chiefs refused to answer whether Trump asked them to influence Comey to back off of collusion investigation. If the answer was a flat "no, Trump never asked us to do that", they would have said that.

This is a HUGE red flag. That's the two leading intelligence directors and Comey ALL saying that Trump asked them to quash the investigation. An innocent person simply doesn't do that.

If Bill Clinton had pressured multiple people to quash Ken Star, if Hillary had pressured multiple people to quash the Benghazi/email investigation, there would have been holy hell about it. They would have been brought up on obstruction charges.

Even the supposed left leaning MSM has not zeroed in on Coats/Rogers enough. Refusing to answer that question was an answer. The President is guilty of obstruction of justice. If he was not guilty of collusion, he would not have pressured at least 3 different people to halt the investigation. It's a glaring red flag and I don't think anyone other than Trump would be able to minimize it the way he has. Somehow, by continuously spewing crazy bullshit, the sheer volume of it seems to give him immunity from any specific item.

The lack of response, WAS the response.

And to think the Clinton was impeached over lying about a sexual affair with another consenting adult...

with questioners as hostile and loaded for bear as the Star commission was, it would be a perjury fiesta.

I'm still not really sure what Clinton's specific lie was. He said he didn't have sex with Monica, but technically it was just oral sex, so that's not a lie. The whole purpose of bringing him in for that testimony wasn't to discover any information about actual wrongdoing. It was simply because they had the stained dress from consensual activity and they wanted to bait him into misrepresenting a personal relationhship so they could damage him. The false equivalencies and double standards are off the charts.

I had expected it last Friday evening or Sunday morning.

Recommended.

by commenting on a day old post it just kicks it back up again. Probably not the best way to avoid such posts.

thanks for kicking my post again!