[Hot Air] Can we assume from this commentary that Judge Nap is not in fact biased against TrumpWorld due to some unknown personal grudge and instead was calling ’em as he sees ’em during the Ukraine impeachment saga? I’ve always assumed that. I’m just curious what his detractors think.
Especially one very special detractor, who quoted Napolitano approvingly for the first time in ages in a series of tweets this morning:
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Meh. Once Stone is sentenced, Trump should immediately pardon him. Same thing with General Flynn.
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The judge did not insure the trial integrity because the trial foreman was not vetted. She should never have been on the jury. There is a good chance there was a runaway jury. The judge appears biased in the extreme as well. Stone should appeal. Stone has a right to a fair trial. Trump can pardon him later if necessary.
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saw Napster got a new dye job on the pimp hair today
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I believe I have seen where Stone has already filed a bond for the appeal. He, his lawyers and the so-called Judge know the case will be overturned.
At the primary level, the method a given political party uses to choose their candidate for president can be anything they please. It certainly looks like whatever the Democrats are currently using is not working well for them. But when it comes to the main event, that pesky U.S. Constitution defines the rules..
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It's part of the lefty journalism style sheet - when they lose elections, bang out a variety of 'It's Time To ...' columns, none of which will happen even in the wettest of their wet dreams, so they can better win the next one. Since they know they're in for a forty+ state ass-whupping this time around, they may as well start getting these columns out in advance.
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I'm old enough to remember the days of smoke filled rooms. JFK only ran in a couple of primaries, party leaders made the choices.
The nominees then were certainly better than today's doofus collection. The hard part of returning to those days would be finding someplace where you could smoke a cigar.
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perhaps the Democrats should examine the way nominations were handled in the old days.
The traditional way was that each state sent delegates to the party convention, some pledged to candidates, some not, as determined by each state's rules. In many states 'a favorite son' was nominated usually with little or no chance of being chosen as candidate, which meant that the delegates could vote, ultimately, however they pleased after the first ballot. Often no candidate had a majority of votes, which required a new vote, and there often were dozens of votes before agreement on a nominee occurred. When two candidates had between them most of the votes, but neither had a majority, the rivalry could be so bitter, that ultimately after many ballots, a third, compromise candidate was chosen.
Though conventions proceded at a snails pace, they were exciting because often nobody could predict the outcome until it happened.
Lately the conventions have been useless shows in which primaries determine everything long before them.
If Bernie gets lots of votes but no majority, swhich is quite possible, this will lead to something like the old system, and if it took many ballots to determine the winner it might be good for the Democrats and not horrible, because the convention would be important and interesting instead of mere nonsense.
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At the primary level, the method a given political party uses to choose their candidate for president can be anything they please.
Certainly.
I just thought it was interesting that the "Let the people decide" party with its attacks on the Electoral College have no qualms about going in the opposite direction when it gives them their preferred outcome.
Which, of course, is what this is all about.
After all, Hillary was an EC enthusiast when she thought she would lose the popular vote, while winning most high population states.
Florida and successful vote fraud gave her the exact opposite of the outcome she was expecting and so she turned on a dime, like all principled lefties.
This associate prof from Marquette is simply Hildebeest writ small.
Original commentary by our own Fairbanks, which is why there’s no link.
o Sanders and Warren get the most applause
o Bloomberg gets beaten up repeatedly with significant applause, especially re stop and frisk, and according to Elizabeth possibly many sleazy non-disclosure sexual harassment agreements from his 60-odd years in business
o The moderators are anti-Bloomberg
o Going after Donald Trump began the program, and was seen in some beginnings of longer speeches and at the ends, but pales in relation to dog fight, or cat fight, or some sort of a dog-cat "trans" fight that expired
Not that I would ever vote for a Democrat, let alone the Booty Boy, but I thought that was one of the best lines of the night.
Maybe the party will split. That would be the best possible outcome.
If I had to hold my nose and choose one of them it would probably be Klobuchar. But when I look at her and listen to her I can't help remembering Hubert Humphrey so I can't believe she'll win.
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buttigieg had some great lines that he obviously rehearsed
however his smarmy demeanor and his attack on Klobuchar probably ruined any benefit from them
Apparently the moderators asked no questions about immigration nor about 'catch and release' of criminals nor about the AB5 disaster in California nor about why leftist cities have growing homeless populations. The next debate is scheduled for 25 Feb in SCarolina. The one after that is scheduled for 15 March in Phoenix, AZ.
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Abu, as a Minnesotan, I can tell you that if you vote for the Klob, you'll get Hillary, except without the adorable girlishness.
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Klobuchar was like the leper with the most fingers.
No need to ask any of these candidates about immigration. They all want open borders and they don't give a damn about the Mexican gang bangers or the cartels. They are OK with legalizing all of the drugs just like in LA and San Francisco. They just want more votes, dammit. They want massive apartment blocks all across the country to accommodate the newcomers and they don't give a damn what it does to existing neighborhoods. They want health care for the newcomers and they don't give a damn what it does to our taxes.
It was fun to watch them bicker among each other but chilling to think about any of them anywhere near the White House.
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"Klobuchar was like the leper with the most fingers." ~ Abu Uluque
[Federalist] Bill Kristol, once a conservative icon, is now shilling for a leftist agenda. I regret ever having defended him. Penance shall set you free
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I still think that’s true, but in the last three years much has changed, and these changes are something Kristol and his faux-conservative ilk have roundly refused to recognize. It took me about a year to realize the sky wasn’t falling.
Nothing "changed" except for the writer's perceptions , it's just that this columnist was wrong about Trump's intentions all along.
[Federalist] Media bias is an old constant. It has never and will never go away. A reporter or host can use all the proper, sanitized words he wants, but behind the scenes lie the decisions that went into which stories to pursue and which to drop; where to pull back and where to push forward; who to interview, who to skip; what is most important versus what can be buried or even cut.
And then, of course, there’s the cool kids’ club. True, it more strongly resembles grown and embittered theater kids who never quite made it, but it’s Washington, so things are not very real.
This club is a place anti-Trump conspiracies are treated with the upmost seriousness and obviously implausible pronouncements are called conventional wisdom; where Jim Acosta gets high-fives for reporting conspiracy theories and heckling Easter egg rolls; where people can be incorrect again and again to the point of irrelevance yet still maintain columns, airtime, and glowing profiles about their bravery in the face of wrong.
Every bit of this ‐ the grinding and gurgling economy of the legacy media and its temporary darlings ‐ relies on this support structure of peer approval. Doubtful? You can most clearly see it play out live on Twitter, like a Discovery Channel exploration of an ecosystem made up entirely of mosquitoes. And the cool kids’ waterboys are the anti-Trump Republicans....
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Ah, so I'm not the only one who sees these guys as the gimp from Pulp Fiction.
[TakiMag] Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has just given us notice he will be terminating the Visiting Forces Agreement that governs U.S. military personnel in the islands.
His notification starts the clock running on a six-month deadline. If no new agreement is negotiated, the VFA is dissolved.
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OK, as someone that knows a little about the PI lets end the VFA. But first lets tie the VFA to USAID the pours over $100 million annually into the corrupt political elites. Lets end our economic aid programs that are outside of USAID, another $100 million a year. Lets hold the PI accountable for their failing NAIA airport. There runway is not certifiable by the FAA and has operated on waivers, pressed by the political class for decades. This will shut down all FAA carriers into Manila and will stop all PI carriers from flights into the US. They cant have their cake and eat it too. Go ahead!
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Ref #1: Don't suppose any of those USAID dollars are purchasing weapons and ammunition.....asking for a friend.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Hot Air] Can we assume from this commentary that Judge Nap is not in fact biased against TrumpWorld due to some unknown personal grudge and instead was calling ’em as he sees ’em during the Ukraine impeachment saga? I’ve always assumed that. I’m just curious what his detractors think.
[Federalist] Bill Kristol, once a conservative icon, is now shilling for a leftist agenda. I regret ever having defended him.
[Federalist] Media bias is an old constant. It has never and will never go away. A reporter or host can use all the proper, sanitized words he wants, but behind the scenes lie the decisions that went into which stories to pursue and which to drop; where to pull back and where to push forward; who to interview, who to skip; what is most important versus what can be buried or even cut.
