When Life Is Funnier Than Comedy: Impeachment Edition

[stevenkesslar]

I just laughed my ass off when I read this article.

 

What Is CrowdStrike and Why Is Donald Trump Blabbering About It to Ukraine

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For what it's worth, people at CrowdStrike are as confused as we all are.

“I got nothing,” Adam Meyers, the vice president of intelligence at CrowdStrike, told me in an online chat, when asked why Trump may have referred to the company in the call.

A company spokesperson said that they were working on an official response.

How Trump managed to remember the name "CrowdStrike," which is mentioned only four times in the Mueller report, each in footnotes, is anyone's guess. And honestly, who knows what the fuck Trump is actually trying to say here. It’s unclear why he believes Ukraine has “the server,” and what server he is even talking about. Presumably, Trump is referring to the DNC server that’s at the center of a conspiracy theory completely made up by Trump’s imagination, though perhaps he's thinking of Hillary Clinton's private email server.

 

“Where is the DNC server, and why didn’t the FBI take possession of it? Deep State?” Trump tweeted last year.

According to this conspiracy, the FBI and CrowdStrike failed to seize a DNC server that supposedly holds important information related to the hack. In reality, there’s no missing server, and both CrowdStrike and the US government concluded that Russian government hackers broke into the DNC.

In a 2017 interview with the Associated Press, Trump said CrowdStrike is “Ukraine-based” (fact check: it’s based in Sunnyvale, California, and has a big office in Arlington, Virginia).

 

“That’s what I heard. I heard it’s owned by a very rich Ukrainian, that’s what I heard,” Trump said.

So, to recap, it seems that Trump is saying that CrowdStrike, an American company, is actually Ukrainian. That’s why he’s asking the new President of Ukraine, a former comedian by the way, to help him find a missing server that actually does not exist.

 

Edited September 26, 2019 by stevenkesslar

[AdamSmith]

And we thought Nixon was funny!

...

[RA1]

I thought Nixon was a national tragedy. 

Best regards,

RA1

[AdamSmith]

1 hour ago, RA1 said:

I thought Nixon was a national tragedy. 

Best regards,

RA1

‘Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.’

— La Rochefoucauld (or another one of that crowd, can’t quite recall)

[stevenkesslar]

[RA1]

On 9/27/2019 at 9:55 AM, AdamSmith said:

‘Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.’

— La Rochefoucauld (or another one of that crowd, can’t quite recall)

Actually life is just a game and it helps to know the rules.

Best regards,

RA1

[AdamSmith]

Just now, RA1 said:

Actually life is just a game and it helps to know the rules.

Best regards,

RA1

ARE there rules?

Where does one look them up?

I myself make ‘em up as I go along.

Maybe that is the ‘rule.’ 

People tell me ‘Be safe.’ My answer is ‘No, I be dangerous.’ 

[RA1]

1 minute ago, AdamSmith said:

ARE there rules?

Where does one look them up?

I myself make ‘em up as I go along.

Maybe that is the ‘rule.’ 

People tell me ‘Be safe.’ My answer is ‘No, I be dangerous.’ 

One rule is the golden rule.  Those that have the gold make the rules.

One thing I learned from the internet (a likely place to "look up" rules) is that just because it is written does not make it so.

Any time someone says to me, "be safe" I think they really mean "be careful" or that is what I am thinking at any rate.

Best regards,

RA1

[AdamSmith]

21 minutes ago, RA1 said:

One rule is the golden rule.  Those that have the gold make the rules.

One thing I learned from the internet (a likely place to "look up" rules) is that just because it is written does not make it so.

Any time someone says to me, "be safe" I think they really mean "be careful" or that is what I am thinking at any rate.

Best regards,

RA1

Two things:

Horace Greeley (I think) said: ‘The only way to guarantee a free press is to own one.’ Thus our high school journalism teacher made us go out & sell ad space to local merchants so we could self-publish our school newspaper without any reliance on school funds, so we were independent journalists with full First Amendment rights that the school administration could not tamper with.

Second: As said above, ‘Careful’ has never been in my vocabulary. Yet ye note I still be here. 

[RA1]

15 minutes ago, AdamSmith said:

Two things:

Horace Greeley (I think) said: ‘The only way to guarantee a free press is to own one.’ Thus our high school journalism teacher made us go out & sell ad space to local merchants so we could self-publish our school newspaper without any reliance on school funds, so we were independent journalists with full First Amendment rights that the school administration could not tamper with.

Second: As said above, ‘Careful’ has never been in my vocabulary. Yet ye note I still be here. 

Praise be that you are still 'here".  I am absolutely in favor..

Best regards,

RA1

[stevenkesslar]

I'm putting this here because I guess you could call it comedy.  Or maybe tragedy, if you prefer.

There's a Politico article today in which five journalists are asked what they think of impeachment, and whether they are surprised.

So one of them says this:

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Darren Samuelsohn, White House reporter: Not really. I wrote a story in April 2016 – before Trump was even the nominee – that surveyed this very scenario with the use of my very own flux capacitor. Then, once the Democrats won control of the House in 2018 this seemed to be the logical outcome of the aggressive oversight that Nancy Pelosi & Co. had promised would happen. While we didn’t know when Robert Mueller’s probe would be finished, or what it would say, many of the details were out there that Trump was in trouble for obstruction of justice. I will admit though that I didn’t anticipate the Ukraine curveball.

So if you hit the hyperlink, here it is, from way back in April 2016.

Could Trump Be Impeached Shortly After He Takes Office?

My point I guess is that you can make a very good argument that with Trump, it was always going to be a matter of when and how, not whether.  Lots of people figured he was eventually going to "self-impeach". Morning Joe commented yesterday that the unique thing with the Clintons is that unlike most politicians, they always took it right up to the line.  Whereas Trump, he said, always takes it right up to the line - and then just barrels right through without thinking. 

All that said, Samuelsohn is not quite a genius.  He got the political dynamics about the House and Senate ass backward.  It's an interesting comment in and of itself on how much Trump has changed the Republican Party.  In 2016, the writer speculated that when this happened, Nancy would be the Minority Leader.  So the real pressure would come from Republican Senators who despised Trump.  

Like, which Republican Senators?   Oh, you know.  Guys like Lindsey Graham.  

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In Congress, lawmakers amazingly are riding approval ratings higher than President Trump. And so begin the calls for his impeachment, starting with the Democrats. Nancy Pelosi had refused to pull the trigger on impeachment at the end of Bush’s second term (even as Trump the businessman had said it “would have been a wonderful thing” to see the Republican president taken out prematurely). But the California lawmaker, still the House minority leader, is more than willing to take Trump out now and further weaken the GOP party as the jockeying begins for 2020.

Next come the Republicans. Many were never big fans of Trump’s to begin with, like 2016 primary rival Lindsey Graham and John McCain, who Trump had insulted for being captured during the Vietnam War. The Republican senators are first on their side of the aisle in calling for his impeachment, and that opens the anti-Trump floodgates as fellow GOP colleagues who had stayed silent on the new president no longer fret about the damage it could do to their own careers.

Nice try.  Close, maybe.  But not quite.

Edited September 29, 2019 by stevenkesslar

[AdamSmith]

1 hour ago, stevenkesslar said:

I'm putting this here because I guess you could call it comedy.  Or maybe tragedy, if you prefer.

There's a Politico article today in which five journalists are asked what they think of impeachment, and whether they are surprised.

So one of them says this:

So if you hit the hyperlink, here it is, from way back in April 2016.

Could Trump Be Impeached Shortly After He Takes Office?

My point I guess is that you can make a very good argument that with Trump, it was always going to be a matter of when and how, not whether.  Lots of people figured he was eventually going to "self-impeach". Morning Joe commented yesterday that the unique thing with the Clintons is that unlike most politicians, they always took it right up to the line.  Whereas Trump, he said, always takes it right up to the line - and then just barrels right through without thinking. 

All that said, Samuelsohn is not quite a genius.  He got the political dynamics about the House and Senate ass backward.  It's an interesting comment in and of itself on how much Trump has changed the Republican Party.  In 2016, the writer speculated that when this happened, Nancy would be the Minority Leader.  So the real pressure would come from Republican Senators who despised Trump.  

Like, which Republican Senators?   Oh, you know.  Guys like Lindsey Graham.  

Nice try.  Close, maybe.  But not quite.

The Economist in the middle of WJC’s self-immolation published an hilarious cover cartoon of Clinton in a Houdini-style metal body cage, suspended head-down over a pile of burning coals — and grinning like the Cheshire Cat! Just knowing he had already figured out how to escape his latest self-inflicted trap.

The 180-degree contrast with the Orangangutang could not be greater.

[stevenkesslar]

3 hours ago, AdamSmith said:

The 180-degree contrast with the Orangangutang could not be greater.

True.  But then you have to factor in that DJT is a much kindler and gentler soul than WJC ever was.

In the end, Trump will just appeal to our soft spot for celebrities, and we will all no doubt kiss and make up.

Edited September 29, 2019 by stevenkesslar

[AdamSmith]

On 9/29/2019 at 1:56 AM, stevenkesslar said:

factor in that DJT is a