I’ll take high crimes and misdemeanors starting with “T” for $1000 please, Alex.
My, oh, my.
Is Vlad still playing on the Trump Team? Or has Trump become… a liability?
Trump still thinks he occupies the seat right beneath Putin’s balls. This just happened this weekend.
This whole caravan bullshit is fucking up the border crossings with Mexico. Where there used to be three lanes open, it’s now one. Pain in the ass since I’m visiting one of our Mexico factories.
Yeah, saw that. I wondered if maybe the reason Trump didn’t make any public appearances for the last couple of days is because he’s freaking out that Vlad didn’t give him the [del]reach-around[/del] pull-aside he was hoping for in Paris. If both the Russians and Fox “News” are abandoning him this week, well, he’s completely fucked.
Wild speculation on my part, for sure. But it’s fun to think about. 
That smile makes me gag.
And God knows we have to grab our fun where we can! Thump probably sat home on Veterans Day because he’s pouting over Vlad not calling. I know the feeling “when he doesn’t call”… back in the day you just sat by the phone all day waiting… sigh. And if anyone asked you what was wrong, you snapped, “Nothing!”
If the man had a tail, it would be wagging furiously, as he strains his leash welcoming his master as he returns from a 5-month deployment.
On a related note, is anyone aware of any way for Mueller or the FBI to actually set up a “perjury trap”? To me, it just sounds like someone admitting, “I lied to the Feds and I’m going to end up screwing myself the next time they call me in, to ask me about it.”
“Boss, you don’t understand! The lousy coppers… they had everything! The plans, who was in on it, all of it! I was dead to rights - I had to squeal, I can’t face 30 years in the can!”
To set up a “perjury trap” for Trump all you have to do is put that moron under oath.
I’m thinking a perjury trap could be any question… “So, what did you have for breakfast?”
But the go-to grandstanding platform these days is Twitter, so what are they gonna do?
Reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg joke: I’m against picketing, but I don’t know how to show it.
Are you seriously asking how a gigantic media company that broadcasts and writes to millions of people on TV and online is going to announce something to the world without Twitter?
Possibility number 3: Its an experiment to measure the extent to which their twitter presence affects their other aspects of their business model. Take a week of Twitter, and then get back on, and see what, if any, sharp spikes there are in viewership etc.
This is purely my idea, and I have no evidence that this is what they are doing, but it does fit the facts. They wouldn’t want to publicize it or else your viewership or whatever would be affected by this announcement and so ruin the experiment. I think its slightly more plausible than the other two possibilities.
This might also explain why some hosts remain on twitter and others don’t. Case versus control.
More to the point, if you or I were subpoenaed, how far do you think we’d get whining about “perjury traps”?
“I didn’t lie (as such). I was caught in a perjury trap!”
I know, right? And that’s just how he’s acting!
Sage Rat, a “perjury trap” is when a prosecutor attempts to deliberately lure a witness into telling a lie in order to charge them with a crime, when there is no legitimate basis to call that witness to testify in a case. It is a form of entrapment. So yeah, I’d say your interpretation is correct in this instance.
Like the term, “unmasking,” the term, “perjury trap” is usually thrown around in an effort to inflame angry feelings and a sense of unfairness. It is rarely a successful defense.
I don’t think Mueller plays like that. Put it this way: If I were a bettin’ girl, I wouldn’t put ready money on Corsi having been entirely truthful in his testimony, or that Mueller doesn’t have the goods to prove it.
For what it’s worth the National Enquirer was also twitter dark for the same time period.
“What is your favourite colour?” “Blue. No, red!” (Gets flung into the abyss.)
And Wikileaks.