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You are here: Home / Economics / C.R.E.A.M. / Impeachment Inquiry Open Thread: Girl Power, Ivanka!

Impeachment Inquiry Open Thread: Girl Power, Ivanka!

by Anne Laurie|  December 9, 20197:31 pm| 154 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Impeachment Inquiry, Open Threads, Trump Crime Cartel

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BREAKING: ABC News can confirm that the Trump “family member” referenced in the Inspector General report who had a friendship with dossier author Chris Steele, was Ivanka. She met him in 2007 at a dinner in London when he was still working for MI6. https://t.co/W64i5GPqVK

— Julia Macfarlane (@juliamacfarlane) December 9, 2019

… The prior relationship came to light as investigators with the Department of Justice Inspector General’s office was looking into allegations of political bias at the origins of the Russia investigation since May 2018.

Steele gained notoriety as the investigator who ignited a firestorm by authoring the highly controversial 2016 dossier alleging links between the Trump Campaign and Russia, and embarrassing incidents involving Trump before he took office. Critics of Steele have argued that the former intelligence officer was biased against Trump and was inclined to produce a negative report on the presidential candidate – excoriating Steele on social media and elsewhere.

In 2007, Ivanka Trump met Steele at a dinner and they began corresponding about the possibility of future work together, the source said. The following year, the two exchanged emails about meeting up near Trump Tower, according to several emails seen by ABC News. And the two did meet at Trump Tower according to the source. The inspector general’s report mentions a meeting with a “Trump family member” there. They suggest Ivanka Trump and Steele stayed in touch via emails over the next several years. In one 2008 exchange they discussed dining together in New York at a restaurant just blocks from Trump Tower…

Members of President Trump’s family have never publicly discussed the interactions – and their past meetings with Steele went unmentioned as the Trumps leveled charges against the British intelligence expert in the wake of the controversial and hotly disputed memos he wrote about President Trump…

The inspector general’s report, which was released publicly today, briefly references these past dealings. In his discussion with investigators from the inspector general’s office, Steele cited his past cordial relationship with Ivanka Trump as reason to believe that he was not biased against her…

Ivanka’s never gonna challenge the sort of people who join Mensa, but she’s by far the brightest of the Donald/Ivana litter. And the firstborn, too. Yet she’s been told, since she could bang two blocks together, that she’d never inherit the Trump empire, because she was ‘just a girl’. On the one hand, she was taught that money and its acquisition was the only real measure of human worth; on the other hand, she’s complained that both her parents kept her chronically under-funded, requiring her from childhood to resort to ‘clever’ business measures like selling faked ‘Indian arrowheads’ to her childhood peers. The Trump ideology is that powerful people swing their weight around, take whatever they like, and brag about their taking… but Ivanka, as a girl, was required to be ladylike, not to fight, but to get what she needed by pleasing & manipulating people (especially Daddy, the source of all good things). As a Trump, she was told, she had the best heritage from the best family in a world of sheep and slackers — and yet: Her job was to be eye candy, and (secondarily) to trade her gifts for an allegiance with another family (almost) as powerful and rich as her own…

Spymakers, the story goes, have an acronym: M.I.C.E. You lure potential ‘assets’ through the judicious use of Money (to those who feel themselves undercompensated), Ideology (‘you & I both agree about what is truly important’), Compromise (blackmail, when targets or those important to targets — hellooo, Jared — have left evidence of lawbreaking), and Ego.

It’s not that Ivanka has necessarily been recruited by foreign power, but…

Reaching out to someone like Steele and trying to develop/maintain a relationship w him is the kind of thing one might do if you were a Russian asset. https://t.co/IrKOQ60KwM

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) December 9, 2019

… Being able to plausibly suggest that Ivanka might’ve been recruited is not nothing, for a sufficiently busy & mischievous foreign power.

WaPo matches @juliamacfarlane’s scoop https://t.co/87ioenmfsj

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) December 9, 2019

… In her role as a senior vice president of her father’s company, Ivanka Trump was particularly involved in its overseas real estate projects. In 2006, she traveled to Moscow to explore the possibility of a Trump Tower in Russia.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    December 9, 2019 at 7:36 pm

    You lure potential ‘assets’ through the judicious use of Money (to those who feel themselves undercompensated), Ideology (‘you & I both agree about what is truly important’), Compromise (blackmail, when targets or those important to targets — hellooo, Jared — have left evidence of lawbreaking), and Ego.

    No sex?

  2. 2.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 9, 2019 at 7:38 pm

    @Baud: @Baud:  With mice? What the hell is wrong with you?

  3. 3.

    JPL

    December 9, 2019 at 7:39 pm

    Definitely before Jared.   hmmm

  4. 4.

    MattF

    December 9, 2019 at 7:39 pm

    Hadn’t thought about this, but I’ll bet Ivanka knows all the Trump secrets. The boys are much too dumb to notice what’s going on around them.

  5. 5.

    waysel

    December 9, 2019 at 7:39 pm

    @Baud: MICES?

  6. 6.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 9, 2019 at 7:40 pm

    … In her role as a senior vice president of her father’s company, Ivanka Trump was particularly involved in its overseas real estate projects. In 2006, she traveled to Moscow to explore the possibility of a Trump Tower in Russia.

    she got to sit in Uncle Putin’s chair, as I recall

  7. 7.

    rikyrah

    December 9, 2019 at 7:40 pm

    This will not end well??

    Second largest nation in world moves to enshrine anti-muslim bigotry in its immigration code- and to strip millions of existing muslims of their citizenshipWorld is going dark with racist nationalism all overhttps://t.co/NRCeKvCxRk— Nathan Newman ? (@nathansnewman) December 9, 2019

  8. 8.

    Baud

    December 9, 2019 at 7:41 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m lonely.

  9. 9.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 9, 2019 at 7:43 pm

    @Baud: Well, at least get a hamster.  Have some self-respect.

  10. 10.

    Sab

    December 9, 2019 at 7:45 pm

    @rikyrah: I am having a very difficult time worrying about Ivanka’s future, except for worrying that she might not have a future unpleasant enough to be worrying.

  11. 11.

    JAFD

    December 9, 2019 at 7:51 pm

    Speaking of dining together in New York….

    Are any of the jackaltariat in and around The Big Apple interested in getting together sometime in January or Feb for a meal and some conviviality ?  MLK weekend, maybe ?  (Jan 11th not good for me, otherwise calendar’s clear till March, want to change that.)

  12. 12.

    Elizabelle

    December 9, 2019 at 7:55 pm

    OT. This is interesting. Had any of you heard of a 2-day Facebook blackout, beginning today, to protest Zuckerberg and co. agreeing to run all the horrible, lying political ads? From Ms. magazine:

    #FacebookBlackout: How Activists are Defending Democracy by Logging Off

    “We believe in free speech, as well as the value of truth in safeguarding our democracy,” the #FacebookBlackout creators explain to founder Mark Zuckerberg in the open letter on their campaign website. “We understand your reluctance to police political speech, and agree with you that our government is ultimately responsible for setting the standards for political advertising for the common good. However, we believe your position allowing amoral politicians—and the shadowy forces who support them—to lie without consequence is untenable, and frankly, un-American.”

    “Our ask is simple,” they assert later. “Transparency.” And until they get it, those activists aren’t logging on. [Dream on. Anyway, it’s a 2-day protest.]

    The #FacebookBlackout campaign is calling for a 48-hour Facebook blackout beginning on December 9, 2019—International Anti-Corruption Day. (Ms. will be participating, eschewing Facebook and all its subsidiaries in protest of the company’s actions.)

    The campaign was spurred on by Facebook’s decision in October to amend its political advertising policy—exempting politicians from Facebook’s community standards and fact-checking in the name of free speech and instead agreeing to run any political ad, even ones containing blatant lies, that were paid for by politicians.

    I logged off. Will miss the (disapproving!) corgi and dachshund pics, but in the hope that somebody notices this protest… although, had anyone here ever heard of it before? I find it odd that this was not the talk of jackals, who are a pretty plugged in group …

  13. 13.

    HalfAssedHomesteader

    December 9, 2019 at 7:56 pm

    @Baud: Cross-cutting concern I’m sure.

  14. 14.

    David ??Booooooo?? Koch

    December 9, 2019 at 7:57 pm

    to trade her gifts

    A nose job and boob job, and a very expensive dye job aren’t gifts.

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 9, 2019 at 7:57 pm

    Ivanka’s never gonna challenge the sort of people who join Mensa, but she’s by far the brightest of the Donald/Ivanka litter. And the firstborn, too.

    Nope. Don Junior is the firstborn, three+ years older than Vanks. I do agree she’s much smarter than her brothers.

  16. 16.

    Sab

    December 9, 2019 at 7:59 pm

    @Elizabelle: Many of us have unplugged or never plugged into Facebook for reasons.

    I did notice that the few facebook sites I usually check in on were dead as doornails today.

    I will stay away tomorrow. Thanks for the alert.

  17. 17.

    HalfAssedHomesteader

    December 9, 2019 at 8:00 pm

    @rikyrah: JFC, didn’t they already fight a war over this?  We learn nothing.

  18. 18.

    OzarkHillbilly

    December 9, 2019 at 8:00 pm

    This all strikes me as a plausible stretch. Yes plausible, but lacking actual evidence, still a stretch. And I despise her.

  19. 19.

    David ??Booooooo?? Koch

    December 9, 2019 at 8:00 pm

    “she’d never inherit Trump’s empire massive debts”

     

    /fixed

  20. 20.

    Another Scott

    December 9, 2019 at 8:01 pm

    … the Donald/Ivanka litter

    reads to me as if you’re saying she’s her own mother.

    Sorry!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  21. 21.

    Mandalay

    December 9, 2019 at 8:02 pm

    @MattF:

    I’ll bet Ivanka knows all the Trump secrets. The boys are much too dumb to notice what’s going on around them.

    It’s nothing to do with who is smarter or dumber. The boys don’t have her advantage of post-coital pillow talk.

  22. 22.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 9, 2019 at 8:06 pm

    @Elizabelle: Fire up the Duckduckgo machine for all your corgi and weiner dog needs.

  23. 23.

    Roger Moore

    December 9, 2019 at 8:06 pm

    @Baud: 

    No sex?

    I think sex counts as a form of compromise.

  24. 24.

    Sab

    December 9, 2019 at 8:07 pm

    @rikyrah: Fareed Zakariah is such a bright man. Why is he such a total chump about Republicans. This is who they all are now.

  25. 25.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    December 9, 2019 at 8:08 pm

    Maybe Ivanka really is Anonymous! That would be awesome.

  26. 26.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 9, 2019 at 8:09 pm

    @Another Scott: Nope.  Just the daughter-wife.

  27. 27.

    Sab

    December 9, 2019 at 8:10 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Guinea pigs are larger and live longer, but still only about two years. Cats live forever, but make people sneeze, and also knock stuff off counters because they are bored and you are asleep. Goats are cool, but they eat a LOT.

  28. 28.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 9, 2019 at 8:11 pm

    @Elizabelle: I’ll continue my boycott going on since….when was that garbage, user-selling, advertiser-paradise site founded?

  29. 29.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 9, 2019 at 8:14 pm

    @David ??Booooooo?? Koch: What about the p0rn whisper?

  30. 30.

    Roger Moore

    December 9, 2019 at 8:14 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: 

    Just the daughter-wife.

    Maybe Ivanka has been reading too much Genesis 19:30-38.

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    December 9, 2019 at 8:15 pm

    @Baud: Any pups in your future?

  32. 32.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 9, 2019 at 8:17 pm

    @Sab: I think you contradicted yourself. :)

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    December 9, 2019 at 8:17 pm

    @Roger Moore: Please don’t make me have to look that up.

  34. 34.

    Roger Moore

    December 9, 2019 at 8:18 pm

    @Sab:

    I have been told by rodentaphiles that rats are the best pets.  They’re supposed to be more intelligent and display more personality than any of the other rodents people commonly keep as pets.  That said, it’s possible that muskrats, beavers, or capybaras might be more interesting still.

  35. 35.

    Elizabelle

    December 9, 2019 at 8:19 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:   They’re in Christmas attire at this time of year!  My virtual pets.

  36. 36.

    Roger Moore

    December 9, 2019 at 8:19 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Genesis 19:30-38 is the story of Lot’s daughters getting him drunk so they can sleep with him and have children.

  37. 37.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 9, 2019 at 8:21 pm

    @rikyrah:

    Recently, I’ve been thinking that humanity and reality has to be a cosmic joke. I mean, think about it: apparently alone in the universe, the resources that fueled our industrial civilization and advanced technology are destroying the planet, the virtual impossibility of FTL. Combined with human nature, it’s a cruel cosmic joke.

     

    If humanity is to survive, society must change. Evil men like Modi, Trump, Putin, and Jinping must be removed from power or we will destroy ourselves. Nation states and national sovereignty are outdated concepts

  38. 38.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 9, 2019 at 8:22 pm

    @Sab: Platypuses disappear for entire days on secret missions.

  39. 39.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 8:24 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Muskrats stink, ( musk glands),

    Beavers need mud and also chew on the furnature,

     

    capyberas are apparently rather cool, but need a pool, and are rather large.

  40. 40.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 9, 2019 at 8:24 pm

    re-posting one of my favorite Ivanka tidbits from a NYC friend who says she likes to use big words she doesn’t understand. She once told him her kids get her up “the crepuscule of dawn”.

    Crépuscule is French for twilight, I’ve never heard or seen it used in English

  41. 41.

    WaterGirl

    December 9, 2019 at 8:25 pm

    @Roger Moore: For real?  Not quite sure whether to say ugh! ick! or eeeew!

  42. 42.

    Amir Khalid

    December 9, 2019 at 8:25 pm

    @Sab:

    There are none so blind as those whose job is to not see.

  43. 43.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 9, 2019 at 8:25 pm

    @Jay: We all need a pool.  Even if we’re not dicks.

  44. 44.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 9, 2019 at 8:26 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    That’s hilarious because that shows she had to have looked the word up and still  didn’t understand it!

  45. 45.

    Amir Khalid

    December 9, 2019 at 8:27 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    There is an English adjective, crepuscular: of the twilight.

  46. 46.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 8:28 pm

    A sneezing Elephant Shrew (Photo: Chester Zoo) pic.twitter.com/A0lAp0ILpY— 41 Strange (@41Strange) December 9, 2019

  47. 47.

    Noncarborundum

    December 9, 2019 at 8:29 pm

    @Sab: Cats are proof that the world is not flat. If it were, they would long since have pushed everything over the edge.

  48. 48.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 9, 2019 at 8:29 pm

    @Jay: Gesundheit!

  49. 49.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 9, 2019 at 8:30 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

     

    @Sab:

     

    Wasn’t Fareed Zakaria well-regarded as a journalist? Like Richard Engels?

  50. 50.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 9, 2019 at 8:30 pm

    @Roger Moore: Nice thing about capybaras is that when their life ends, you can make a really nice pair of shoes.

  51. 51.

    Roger Moore

    December 9, 2019 at 8:30 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    For real.  I honestly think everyone should read the Bible through from cover to cover at least once in their life, if only so they can see just how insane it is.  It’s amazing to me that we not only allow but encourage children to read the Bible as a guide to morality.

  52. 52.

    Kent

    December 9, 2019 at 8:30 pm

    @Elizabelle: You might not log on.  But most people who are refusing to log into facebook for 2 days are probably still going to have facebook tracking all their browsing activity and shopping activity through the app and cookies, even if they aren’t actually ever checking their facebook feed.  I’m not sure facebook is even going to notice or care.  It takes a LOT more effort than simply not logging on to purge facebook.

  53. 53.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 8:31 pm

    Congress passed the aid package nearly two years ago, but HUD blew past a September 4 deadline for paperwork necessary to release $10 billion in funding. Last week, the agency missed another deadline, this time for another $8 billion, prompting Democrats to demand HUD stop dragging its feet. At issue is a fairly routine bureaucratic process that’s holding up money to rebuild homes and reinforce the island’s infrastructure — especially its electrical grid — before next hurricane season. All Puerto Rico has to do is apply! Unfortunately, HUD refuses to issue the necessary guidelines so the territory can submit its applications, which would normally be a routine step.

    https://www.wonkette.com/hud-withholds-hurricane-aid-to-puerto-rico-until-it-investigates-joe-biden

  54. 54.

    Noncarborundum

    December 9, 2019 at 8:31 pm

    Duplicate. Please ignore. My original post didn’t show up even after I refreshed. (Samsung Galaxy S10))

  55. 55.

    Elizabelle

    December 9, 2019 at 8:32 pm

    Oh goody.  Dr. Ronny Jackson, Trump’s White House physician (aka “The Candyman” for dispensing pills, right and left) has filed to run for Congress.  In Texas. Mac Thornberry’s old seat.

     

    WaPost link.

  56. 56.

    Amir Khalid

    December 9, 2019 at 8:33 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    R or D?

  57. 57.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 9, 2019 at 8:37 pm

    @Elizabelle: ,?If you’re ever down on Texas, look for Ron.  If you’re ever down in Texas, get some drugs.?

  58. 58.

    NotMax

    December 9, 2019 at 8:37 pm

    @Roger Moore
    What, no ferrets?

    ;)

  59. 59.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 9, 2019 at 8:38 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    You’ll also be surprised (not) that he’s filled to run for the Republican primary for the seat. What the fuck did Obama ever see in that asshole to promote him to be director of the White House Medical Unit in 2011 and later physician to the President in 2013?

  60. 60.

    Mike J

    December 9, 2019 at 8:40 pm

    @Kent: Even if you’ve never had a Facebook account, they’re tracking you unless you’ve taken measures to prevent it.

    I wonder what percentage of ad sales on web sites are for placing cookies or tracking pixels with no visible ad. Half maybe?

  61. 61.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 9, 2019 at 8:41 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    R or D?

    Republican. It’s a Republican district apparently. Rear Admiral Jackson showing his true colors

  62. 62.

    Sab

    December 9, 2019 at 8:41 pm

    @Kent: Facebook tracks me even though I never joined because my husband once did. He knew about the kitchen island I bought a month before it arrived because he saw ads for it, from our server.

    I am not at all comfortable with him seeing every shopping site I have ever looked at.

    So I just don’t buy big ticket surprises online anymore. Zuck all those advertisers who need the publicity. Talk to Zuckerburg. I don’t trust the platforms anymore.

  63. 63.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 9, 2019 at 8:44 pm

    Boom

    Manu Raju‏Verified account @mkraju 42m42 minutes ago
    NEW: Leaving Pelosi’s office, Eliot Engel told us that there will be an announcement TOMORROW – likely 9a – to lay out the articles of impeachment. He wouldn’t say how many articles there are, what’s in there and whether Mueller evidence will be in there.

  64. 64.

    Elizabelle

    December 9, 2019 at 8:44 pm

    @Amir Khalid:   Right — how did I leave that out.

    R for Republican.

    Interesting to me, though, that Thornberry bailed.  Am guessing he perceived it would be a tough fight. Or they’re sick of being in the minority.  Whatevs.

  65. 65.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 8:45 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    once upon a time, mediocre white men going though male menopause, used to divorce their wives, start dating someone the same age as their daughters, get hair implants and buy a red convertible sportscar,…..

     

    now the trendy things to do are affairs with lobbiests or staffers, campaign fraud and full bugnuts Trumpism and running for office,….

  66. 66.

    Sab

    December 9, 2019 at 8:46 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Silly Obama was probably looking at his medical references and not his politics. That used to be how it was done.

    I am very comfortable with Trump getting all of his future medical care from diehard true believing modern Republicans. Bad medical outcomes seem almost inevitable. They aren’t all that gung ho on actual science.

  67. 67.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 9, 2019 at 8:48 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Or they’re sick of being in the minority.  Whatevs.

    I can’t recall any Dems resigning in mass while they were in the minority for *checks notes* almost 10 years. What a bunch snowflakes

  68. 68.

    David ??Booooooo?? Koch

    December 9, 2019 at 8:49 pm

    Here’s some real Grrl Power!

    Sports Illustrated announces it’s ground breaking Sportsperson of the Year….. (photo)

  69. 69.

    NotMax

    December 9, 2019 at 8:50 pm

    @Jay

    used to divorce their wives, start dating someone the same age as their daughters

    Methinks you may have reversed the order of events there.

  70. 70.

    Mike in NC

    December 9, 2019 at 8:53 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Crepuscular is mostly used in reference to animals (especially certain primates) who dwell and feed primarily in the twilight.

  71. 71.

    David ??Booooooo?? Koch

    December 9, 2019 at 8:54 pm

    Time Magazine will announce it’s Person of Year on Wednesday.  It should come down to Nancy Smash and the Whistle blower.

  72. 72.

    Roger Moore

    December 9, 2019 at 8:59 pm

    @NotMax:

    What, no ferrets?

    Ferrets are mustelids, not rodents.

  73. 73.

    Sab

    December 9, 2019 at 9:00 pm

    @Roger Moore: I had my stepson’s abandoned rat dumped on me. I was really fond of her after about three days.

    The landlord had an exterminator fumigate the place while she was stuck inside her cage in the apartment. She had been abandoned by my stepson’s roommate, who was expecting her to die from whatever (hunger, thirst, toxic pesticides.) Instead our kid brought her home. We convinced him to re-evaluate his associations.

    The rat was a doll. Sweet, smart, fun, intelligent, friendly. She died a few years later, because most domesticated rats are bred to be lab rats, and grow various cancerous tumors. What a great little girl.

  74. 74.

    Roger Moore

    December 9, 2019 at 9:03 pm

    @Sab:

    Facebook tracks me even though I never joined because my husband once did.

    Facebook tracks everyone they can, regardless of whether you or anyone you know has ever had a relationship with them.  Every web page that has a “Like” button on it is tracking everyone who looks at it.  Every page that serves ads by Facebook is tracking everyone who looks at it.  In theory, you might be better with a Facebook account you never use, since then you can at least use their privacy controls to say what you don’t want them doing with your data.  Of course that assume they actually listen, which seems doubtful.

  75. 75.

    Sab

    December 9, 2019 at 9:03 pm

    @NotMax: Don’t ferrets rummage around your house stealing all your stuff and smelly peeing on everything?

  76. 76.

    chris

    December 9, 2019 at 9:05 pm

    Interesting addition to the Texas file, Dems are running in every CD.

    For only the second time in modern history, it appears @texasdemocrats are fielding a candidate in every one of the Great State's congressional districts #TxLege— Scott Braddock (@scottbraddock) December 10, 2019

  77. 77.

    Sab

    December 9, 2019 at 9:06 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: That is very interesting. I had no idea.

  78. 78.

    NotMax

    December 9, 2019 at 9:07 pm

    @Sab

    I believe what you’re describing are fraternity brothers.

    :)

  79. 79.

    Peking Man

    December 9, 2019 at 9:08 pm

    @Roger Moore:  One of the best books I have read in the past ten years is ‘How to Read the Bible’ (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/967775.How_to_Read_the_Bible)

  80. 80.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 9, 2019 at 9:08 pm

    @Sab: There’re also 104 days of summer vacation.

  81. 81.

    Keith P

    December 9, 2019 at 9:13 pm

    @Roger Moore: A priest at my high school made sure to tell every class as freshmen that if they get asked which story they remember from the OT, it will be “Lot and his two daughters.”  He really planted it in our heads (since I definitely wouldn’t remember that shit 25 years later), and he’s probably right as a result (although I’d guess 1 out of 10 former students would say “quiver and the arrows!”…all boys’ school)

  82. 82.

    Sab

    December 9, 2019 at 9:17 pm

    @Jay: I love capybaras. Our zoo has some.

    Our local National Park, the Cuyhoga Valley Park ( pronounce that!) had an area they thought would be good for a parking lot. Right on the river. They dug tons and tons of dumped car wrecks from it, and cleaned the place up.

    Beavers approved, and built a dam, flooding the chosen spot. So the Park people blew up the beaver dam. So the beavers built another dam, flooding the spot. So the park people blew up the second dam. So the beavers built another dam.

    The park people gave up. They built a wooden causeway along one side of the beaver marsh.

    Forty years later it is a popular tourist site. You can see beavers there, and also all kinds of water fowl. You can ride your bike or hike on the causeway, which is now part of the canal towpath trail.

  83. 83.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 9:19 pm

    @NotMax:

    once upon a time, the standard was separation first, then dating, which lead to some “interesting” results when middle aged mediocre white males mistook women being polite, for interest, which did not materialize post divorce.

  84. 84.

    zhena gogolia

    December 9, 2019 at 9:19 pm

    Steve Castor outdid himself in doofusness today.

    "Shoot, I told them not to put my fragile arguments at the bottom." pic.twitter.com/O7i3crD3EU— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) December 10, 2019

  85. 85.

    Sab

    December 9, 2019 at 9:20 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: All of summer vacation? I didn ‘t realize that they go to school.

  86. 86.

    chris

    December 9, 2019 at 9:23 pm

    OT– fun map–Dogs of the World. I’m off to look for a New Guinea Singing Dog.

  87. 87.

    Sab

    December 9, 2019 at 9:23 pm

    @Noncarborundum: My cats are definitely working on that.

    ETA: also some of the worst ones are testing out the cats have nine lives theory. Like the guy who pushed the full coffee cup off the counter onto the kitchen floor this morning. He was so bored.

  88. 88.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 9:23 pm

    @Sab:

    once upon a time, the Hudsons Bay Company had so heavily trapped out the beaver populations that the waterways they relied on for trade, became impassible.

     

    they had to hire engineers to build dams and flood controls, spent millions, and had to start a beaver reintroduction program and regulate trapping.

  89. 89.

    2liberal

    December 9, 2019 at 9:24 pm

    OT : is anyone else having issues accessing about half the websites?  I can get to twitter home page on my pc but no tweets will load.  My speed test is about 33mbps download and 5 upload with 22 ms latency.  Twitter runs fine on my iphone both wifi and cellular.  I just did a windows 10 update, wondering if that did it.

  90. 90.

    Amir Khalid

    December 9, 2019 at 9:27 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    Like Robert Pattinson’s character in that vampire movie?

  91. 91.

    Cacti

    December 9, 2019 at 9:30 pm

    Sorry to throw cold water on the “Ivanka is the smart one” hypothesis, but there is no smart one.

    Here’s the combined “brain power” of Donald, Ivanka, and Junior unable to answer “What is 17 x 6?” on the Howard Stern Show.  

    They’re all a pack of trust fund dumb asses.

  92. 92.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 9, 2019 at 9:31 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    It seems the only solution is to not use the internet

     

    @Jay:

    LOL. You seem to know a lot about that

    ; p

     

    @Sab:

    I am very comfortable with Trump getting all of his future medical care from diehard true believing modern Republicans. Bad medical outcomes seem almost inevitable. They aren’t all that gung ho on actual science.

    Even if they were, Trump believes in crazy medical mumbo jumbo and I doubt he takes a doctor’s advice

  93. 93.

    Mike in NC

    December 9, 2019 at 9:35 pm

    @chris: My dad spent much of 1944 living in the jungles of New Guinea, but he never mentioned any singing dogs.

  94. 94.

    Roger Moore

    December 9, 2019 at 9:36 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    It seems the only solution is to not use the internet

    Blocking anything related to Facebook is another option.  I use Privacy Badger from EFF, and it does a reasonable job of blocking the worst offenders.  They may not get everything, but I think it at least slows down their attempts to profile me.

  95. 95.

    chris

    December 9, 2019 at 9:42 pm

    @Mike in NC: He should have looked on youtube. Nice looking dog, very weird sound.

  96. 96.

    raven

    December 9, 2019 at 9:42 pm

    @Mike in NC: The rats ate em.

  97. 97.

    Sab

    December 9, 2019 at 9:44 pm

    @chris: Those look cute. Sort of like a really loud basenji. 20 year lifespan is too long for me anymore since I am 65. That dog is louder than my rottmix. It’s as loud as my german shepherd girl. Aside from the shedding she was the best and smartest and most loyal dog ever.

  98. 98.

    jonas

    December 9, 2019 at 9:44 pm

    The reporting here is bizarrely opaque. If we suppose Ivanka was angling for some sort of business opportunity, what was Steele into at the time that she saw as important or interesting? Conversely, what was Steele up to that signaled to him that he should cultivate a relationship with Ivanka Trump of all people? Maybe it was…well, when did she meet Jared, again?

    Some follow-up questions need asking, is all I’m saying….

  99. 99.

    Chris T.

    December 9, 2019 at 9:45 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Yes, and crepuscule is a valid English word too.

    It’s not very common, except in that adjective form (still rare-ish there). The word gloaming is often superior, poetically (well, in my opinion…).

  100. 100.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 9:45 pm

    @Mike in NC

    The dog is noted for its unique vocalization. Little is known about New Guinea singing dogs in the wild, and until 2016 there were only two photographs of wild sightings: one taken in 1989 and published by Australian mammalogist Tim Flannery,[6] and the other taken in August 2012 by wilderness adventure guide Tom Hewett in the Star Mountains region of West Papua.[7]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea_singing_dog

  101. 101.

    Amir Khalid

    December 9, 2019 at 9:49 pm

    @Chris T.:

    I agree with you about gloaming.

  102. 102.

    raven

    December 9, 2019 at 9:50 pm

    @Sab: They sound like bohdi. This video is years old but he only howled when I played audio of raven howling. I have no idea why but that’s what the boy did. Now he can’t hear well enough to do it.

  103. 103.

    chris

    December 9, 2019 at 9:52 pm

    @Sab: Comrade! I turned 65 a few weeks ago and my Bert will be 9 tomorrow. Hoping we still have some good years ahead. When the time comes I will adopt an old dog because I can’t imagine life without one. Dawg willin’ and the river don’t rise, of course.

  104. 104.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 9, 2019 at 9:53 pm

    Ivanka is simply a ceckless funt.   No two ways about it.

  105. 105.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 9, 2019 at 9:53 pm

    @raven: Our Wendy(cocker from the previous pack) would howl when the wife played a ring tone on the cordless phone.

  106. 106.

    J R in WV

    December 9, 2019 at 9:56 pm

    @Roger Moore:

     

    I run three ad blockers, Privacy Badger, Ghostery and UBlock. I especially block Facebook, although I’m just one retired techy and they’re a huge Tech Conglomerate. So maybe they can track us.

    But maybe not.

    Google thinks I’m in a different state every day, based upon the weather update they offer. Mississippi, LA, Upstate NY, Missouri, KS… varies a lot, obviously. You can also fire up Google Maps and see where they start that up. So maybe what we’re doing works.

  107. 107.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 9, 2019 at 9:56 pm

    @chris: I can’t figure out which dogs are doggiepaddling like mad in the middle of each of the Great Lakes, but some definitely are.  At this time of year, that’s just animal cruelty.

  108. 108.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 9:57 pm

    @jonas:

     

    Steele is/was “the” MI6 expert on the pyramid of the Russian Mob, the Ogliarches and Russian Governance.

     

    So, if you were in “the know”, ( deep Russian or Intel connections), he would be a guy worth talking to, or knowing, if you wanted a heads up on “everything Russian” when it came to business involving Russians.

     

    A lot of Western Investors lost their shirts, faced espionage and criminal charges, when their Russian partners and fixers turned on them, or fell out of favour with the higher ups.

    the Trump Org’s “connections” probably recommended Steele as somebody worth knowing, not just for his knowledge of “inside Russia”, but also for knowing what the Western IC knew.

    Ivanka was probably a better “contact” than Don Jr. or Jarvanka for trying to sidle up to Steele sideways.

  109. 109.

    Another Scott

    December 9, 2019 at 10:00 pm

    Reuters:

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives will unveil two articles of impeachment against Republican President Donald Trump on Tuesday, a senior Democratic aide said, setting the stage for a possible vote this week on impeachment.

    The House aide spoke on condition of anonymity on Monday night and declined to give any details.

    Democrats were expected to draft articles of impeachment on abuse of power and on obstruction of Congress, the aide told Reuters. The Washington Post first reported the expected articles, citing three unidentified officials.

    […]

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  110. 110.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 9, 2019 at 10:00 pm

    @Elizabelle: The oppo dump on him is going to be very large.

  111. 111.

    pluky

    December 9, 2019 at 10:01 pm

    @Baud: part of compromise and ego.

  112. 112.

    JeanneT

    December 9, 2019 at 10:01 pm

    @Sab:  I’m happy to testify that guinea pigs can easily live 5 or more years, given a large living space.  A pair of cavies will probably be the companions to my sunset years, once my dogs have passed on…

  113. 113.

    Sab

    December 9, 2019 at 10:02 pm

    @raven: So that’s Bohdi. He certainly has the howling down.

    My shepherd used to stop in her tracks on dog walks whenever she heard a police siren. She would would stop dead, throw her head up and howl her heart out for about five minutes. Then she would resume her walk as if nothing had happened. It was very weird.

  114. 114.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 10:02 pm

    4 dumps and 7 flushes ago, Trump wrote the constipation proclamation. #toiletgate #ToiletTrump— Teresa Long (@tjlong63) December 7, 2019

  115. 115.

    The Dangerman

    December 9, 2019 at 10:03 pm

    @jonas:

    Conversely, what was Steele up to that signaled to him that he should cultivate a relationship with Ivanka Trump of all people?

    When did Donald start going to Russia for Ms. Universe?

  116. 116.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 9, 2019 at 10:03 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: I picked up Kathy Griffin’s A Hell of a Story from the library a few days ago.  I’ve watched it twice already.  She talks about the fauxutrage at Sam Bee.  I highly recommend it.

  117. 117.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 10:04 pm

    @Sab:

    she was just helping let everybody know,……

  118. 118.

    pluky

    December 9, 2019 at 10:04 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: crepuscular is the technical term in ethology for animals active at dawn and dusk

  119. 119.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 9, 2019 at 10:05 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Was the ringtone Werewolves of London? ?

  120. 120.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 10:06 pm

    @The Dangerman:

    pretty sure that tracking Russian money and influence outside of Russia was also part of Steele’s day job.

  121. 121.

    Elizabelle

    December 9, 2019 at 10:09 pm

    @chris:   I love that doggos map.  Thank you.

  122. 122.

    Zinsky

    December 9, 2019 at 10:10 pm

    It might have been Ivanka that witnessed Daddy’s little pee party in Moscow!

  123. 123.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 9, 2019 at 10:10 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Nope, just a phone ring sound.

  124. 124.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 9, 2019 at 10:11 pm

    @jonas:

    what was Steele into at the time that she saw as important or interesting?

    Corporate intelligence and security, as well as political intelligence and security.

  125. 125.

    JoeyJoeJoe

    December 9, 2019 at 10:12 pm

    @Elizabelle: unlikely that Thornberry was worried about a tough re-election; the district voted over 80% for 45, and was either his best or second best district in the entire country

  126. 126.

    Sab

    December 9, 2019 at 10:13 pm

    Yay! I finally saw the catcake in the pie filter. It certainly is cute.

  127. 127.

    mad citizen

    December 9, 2019 at 10:16 pm

    @Another Scott: If true, I love it.  Bring forward two of the ancillary charges, but continue to investigate the actual crime/crimes.

  128. 128.

    Another Scott

    December 9, 2019 at 10:17 pm

    @Sab: For some reason, I see the CatCake image on the L/R flyout buttons for WaterGirl’s thread (even though I don’t see it in the thread itself).

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  129. 129.

    Lock Trump Up

    December 9, 2019 at 10:17 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Had any of you heard of a 2-day Facebook blackout, beginning today

    Instead of a 2 day blackout, why not simply leave Facebook permanently?  This company is a motherfucking malignant cancer.  For the role they played in helping Trump win in 2016 they deserve to be driven out out of business.

  130. 130.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 10:19 pm

    SCOOP: Facebook ads are spreading misinformation about HIV prevention medication, or PrEP, say LGBT groups. The ads have been seen millions of times, they've scared patients, and LGBT groups say it's a public-health threat — but Facebook won't remove them https://t.co/L2KRkcnr8L— Tony Romm (@TonyRomm) December 9, 2019

  131. 131.

    Elizabelle

    December 9, 2019 at 10:21 pm

    @Sab:   I love CatCake.

  132. 132.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 10:22 pm

    The comments are not in the version of podcast 291 now on Mr. Molyneux’s YouTube channel, but are in a longer version Ms. Raven provided after a request from The Globe and Mail.

    In the version provided by Ms. Raven, Mr. Molyneux states that it is June 21, 2006. He then speaks about listening in as his wife meets with “messed up and sobbing” clients at her home office.

    “I’m in the vent system, listening, and I’m – she calls it heckling, but I don’t really call it heckling, I just call it providing suggestions about how things should go and that the people should donate to Freedomain Radio,” he says in the podcast.

    “I mean, it takes them a while to figure what on Earth that is, but I do, sort of, try to put my two cents in and Christina says that sometimes can be distracting and so on. But even with the combined weight of her, directly in front of them, and me, my ghostly voice floating in through the vents, they still have trouble making the kind of personal changes that really have a positive effect on their lives.”

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/news/national/controversial-podcaster-listened-in-on-therapist-wife-and-clients-lawsuit-alleges/article22158708/?__twitter_impression=true

    Lobster boy is in hot water again,…..

  133. 133.

    Dan B

    December 9, 2019 at 10:25 pm

    @Jay: It would be great for ACT-UP to do some actions at Facebook.  Misinformation about PREP and AIDS meds is essentially murder.

  134. 134.

    chopper

    December 9, 2019 at 10:28 pm

    @Roger Moore:

     

    the best part is his wife got the real punishment for… turning her head. just goes to show how the bible was written by dudes.

  135. 135.

    jeffreyw

    December 9, 2019 at 10:28 pm

    @Jay: preferably an outdoor pool

  136. 136.

    Cathie from Canada

    December 9, 2019 at 10:30 pm

    Hmmm — I’ve been saying for years that SOMEBODY in Trump’s inner circle is a Russian asset, feeding him all the pro-Putin and pro-Russian stuff he has been parroting.  He isn’t smart enough to have been the asset himself, his lies are often too self-delusional to be conscious falsehoods.  But wouldn’t it make sense if it was Ivanka all along.

  137. 137.

    Ruckus

    December 9, 2019 at 10:34 pm

    If you want to completely delete your facebook account you have to go through a couple of steps that they don’t tell you about. Last updated in Feb of this year.

    One website that has been around for a while and was up dated a number of times is How to Permanently Delete Your Facebook Account.

  138. 138.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 10:35 pm

    So Volcker is dead,……

    “The standard of living of the average American has to decline,”

  139. 139.

    West of the Rockies

    December 9, 2019 at 10:37 pm

    So what’s the bottom line takeaway here?  Is Ivanka in trouble with Daddy now or the non-corrupt portion of the DOJ?  Is this a glossy but ultimately meh story, or am I missing something meaningful here?

  140. 140.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 10:50 pm

    @Dan B

    the only thing that will effect change at Facebook is regulation and breaking the Company up, and Suck’s figured that getting the ReThugs and other’s in his pocket by hook or by crook, will prevent that.

    keep in mind that when you see this,

    Fraction of all US wealth owned by Boomers & Gen-Xers when the average member of each was age 35:

    Boomers, 1989 21%
    GenX, 2008 8%

    The average Millennial turns 35 in 2023. Right now they own 3%.

    There will surely be political implications.https://t.co/j1pNrt8mll

    — Kurt Andersen (@KBAndersen) November 24, 2019

    About 1.5% of that is Suck’s,….

  141. 141.

    Bill Arnold

    December 9, 2019 at 10:54 pm

    @Roger Moore: 
    Also try https://panopticlick.eff.org on eff.org, which will give a trackability report. (You do need to enable scripts for the tracker simulator they use if you’re using a script blocker.)
    (And Ublock Origin works well with Privacy Badger.)

  142. 142.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 10:58 pm

    @West of the Rockies:

    this AM it came out that Steele was favorably disposed to the Trump Campaign and the Trump Family when he started his investigation because he had a friendship with a Trump,

     

    this PM it came out that his friendship was with Ivanka,

     

    tune in tomorrow for the latest plot twists in the soap opera, ( will Daddy be upset! Will Gowdy get a brain?) on As the Wheel Turns Slowly,…….

  143. 143.

    Another Scott

    December 9, 2019 at 11:01 pm

    I mean, if Ivanka Trump and Christopher Steele were boning, I get it. He is a British spy and she is very attractive since she grew up and fixed her nose and chin and breasts and cheeks and hair.— Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King Of You (@commiegirl1) December 9, 2019

    rofl.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  144. 144.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 11:06 pm

    NEW: The New York State AG has issued a new subpoena to the NRA covering at least four areas, including campaign finance, payments made to board members and tax compliance, as well as info related to hiring decisions & financial compensation for directors. https://t.co/6BMzZy6pjQ— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) December 10, 2019

  145. 145.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 9, 2019 at 11:08 pm

    OT – Panda sexytime is back on Faux News?

    In light of the IG report, Fox News tonight will be preempted by a Panda sex marathon. https://t.co/DFUXymtoNU

    — Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) December 9, 2019

  146. 146.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 11:11 pm

    @Another Scott:

    Arn’t the new IOKIYR/Brooks Civility rules that we are supposed to leave the children out of it?

  147. 147.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    December 9, 2019 at 11:15 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: We know what Cornerstone will be watching tonight.

  148. 148.

    MoxieM

    December 9, 2019 at 11:15 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: OK, my kid had a college radio show called “Crepuscular, with Dusk and Dawn”. They specialized in plumbing the considerable depths of US and International Girl Groups music (Of the pre-1970s variety). So, yeah. college level joke word.

  149. 149.

    Jay

    December 9, 2019 at 11:26 pm

    truly, what is the point in celebrating the birth of christ if you can’t also celebrate treason in defense of human bondage https://t.co/WZ3nZR5Yqn— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) December 7, 2019

  150. 150.

    Gvg

    December 9, 2019 at 11:42 pm

    Funny how personal experience changes our reactions to words. Crepescule is the name of a rose I have grown at 2 houses and I will probably add it to my new house’s garden soon.

    https://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.1366&tab=36

    i have not understood the directions for linking in this new site so I just cut n pasted.

  151. 151.

    David ??Booooooo?? Koch

    December 10, 2019 at 1:26 am

    @mrmoshpotato: The wingnuts have a panda fetish:

    “FreedomWorks Made Video of Fake Giant Panda Having Sex With Fake Hillary Clinton” (link)

  152. 152.

    David ??Booooooo?? Koch

    December 10, 2019 at 1:33 am

    @Another Scott:  She also had a really big overbite.  The before and after photos are shocking (photo #1) (photo #2)

  153. 153.

    WaterGirl

    December 10, 2019 at 6:04 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: My cocker Mellon would howl only if one of two things happened. 1. an ambulance would go by when she was either outside or a window or door was open. 2. if my mother sang.

  154. 154.

    WaterGirl

    December 10, 2019 at 6:41 am

    @Another Scott: That’s because I made Catcake the featured image.  It doesn’t show in the post itself, but it does display on social media, in RSS feeds, in the flyouts on the side…

    I ?catcake

    edit: after I found catcake for the pie filter, i looked for the pup equivalent, but could not find one.

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