JohnT:
In some ways, it’s like watching an 18th-century “natural philosopher” spend untold amounts of effort defending phlogiston theory. Everyone has, over time, realized the theory is full of shit, but this one guy who has a lifetime dedicated to it… well, he has a lifetime dedicated to phlogiston! Whaddya expect him to do? Say he dedicated his life to a lie, one looking increasingly silly as the evidence pours in? Admit he was wrong and the overwhelming evidence correct?
Of course not - Phlogiston-Phipps here has gotta double-down on that shit.
What part of ‘no more personal cracks’ was I unclear on?
Warning issued. Don’t do it again.
Bone
May 20, 2018, 3:54am
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JC probably missed this one:
Jack_Batty:
We’ve already established that the “smoke” to which you’re alluding is actually vapor and so any and all analysis of any of said “smoke” is there for null and void. The obvious fact that you just can’t comprehend this, despite the facts being clearly laid in front of you tells me that that we can no longer take your opinion seriously. Good day, sir. I said, Good day.
Not bad, huh? I call it FothPhippese.
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Ain’t teamwork grand, Bone?
Don’t make us close this thread, people.
"Good news, Mr. President! There was a typo in the original warrant, so those videos of you sacrificing illegal immigrant children to your Dark Lord are not admissible!
'Course, it ls all over the interwebs…so that’s kind of a kick in the pants…"
Is this the right thread to suggest observing a moment of silence for the demise of Cambridge Analytica ?
(I will not be held responsible for what happens after that moment)
Gyrate
May 25, 2018, 9:07am
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Meh. They’ll just reform as a new entity with a new name but the same people doing the same things, and business will go on. See also: Blackwater.
But at least they’ve been minorly inconvenienced for a while.
jasg
May 25, 2018, 2:59pm
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Gyrate:
Meh. They’ll just reform as a new entity with a new name but the same people doing the same things, and business will go on. See also: Blackwater.
But at least they’ve been minorly inconvenienced for a while.
It happened a while back this link is to the U.K. Government corporate registration site.
The Guardian also covers the details .
On 23 January 2018, four new directors were appointed to Emerdata, including Johnson Chun Shun Ko, who happens to be deputy chairman of Frontier Services Group. On the same day that Ko joined the board of Emerdata, shares were issued valued at £1,912,502. On 7 March 2018, Firecrest Technologies Limited was incorporated, with Alexander Nix listed briefly as director and then replaced by Alexander Tayler, and Emerdata listed as the owner. And on 16 March, a few days before the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower story broke, two more directors joined Emerdata, Jennifer and Rebekah Mercer.
Frontier Services Group is an Eric Prince company that supplies security services to overseas Chinese firms.
…Prince credits his time as a White House intern with some of his political views… Speaking of his internship, Prince said, “I saw a lot of things I didn’t agree with–homosexual groups being invited in, the budget agreement, the Clean Air Act.” Disenchanted, Prince became a backer of presidential candidate Pat Buchanan…
From his wiki. H.W. Bush was too liberal.
I tried, but it came out like a normal fart.
Rhodes
May 25, 2018, 5:13pm
4554
I opened this thread today, and for a moment I thought I’d clicked on the “Have you ever sharted?” thread.
jasg
May 26, 2018, 5:08am
4555
Yahoo News has an interesting story from Michael Isikoff. The Spanish police have wiretaps of Alexander Torshin that an official says should concern DJT Jr. They wiretapped Torshin in a Russian mob/money laundering investigation.
The FBI has obtained secret wiretaps collected by Spanish police of conversations involving Alexander Torshin, a deputy governor of Russia’s Central Bank who has forged close ties with U.S. lawmakers and the National Rifle Association, that led to a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. during the gun lobby’s annual convention in Louisville, Ky., in May 2016, a top Spanish prosecutor said Friday.
José Grinda, who has spearheaded investigations into Spanish organized crime, said that bureau officials in recent months requested and were provided transcripts of wiretapped conversations between Torshin and Alexander Romanov, a convicted Russian money launderer. On the wiretaps, Romanov refers to Torshin as “El Padrino,” the godfather.
“Just a few months ago, the wiretaps of these telephone conversations were given to the FBI,” Grinda said in response to a question from Yahoo News during a talk he gave at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington. Asked if he was concerned about Torshin’s meetings with Donald Trump Jr. and other American political figures, Grinda replied: “Mr. Trump’s son should be concerned.”
A kleptocracy is like a dogfight. The participants are not allowed to show any weakness or they will go down for the count. The unrepentant brashness of the first family is a symptom of that: they have to bull their way through this fraught maze of pilfery in order to succeed. No ground may be given, wrong admitted or their whole enterprise will collapse upon them.
Interesting bit of history (unrelated to Trump):
Ah, yes. When LBJ was the “Peace” candidate.
More Trump people were attending the Seychelles meeting:
Haha. No.
That was a completely separate secret meeting in the Seychelles.
Also Gerson was just there on vacation.
I’m starting to think that this meeting was better attended than the inauguration. Maybe that’s what he keeps thinking of.
That Schiff was leaking like a sieve would seem to be proved by the significant slowdown on this thread since the House Intelligence Committee stopped their investigation.
Rat want indictments.
MikeF
June 5, 2018, 12:50pm
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Giuliani on shifting Trump Tower story: ‘It was a mistake. I swear to God.’
One of the first thing I learned in Interview and Interrogation training was that, when someone says “I swear to God.”, the following or proceeding statement has a very high likelihood of being a lie. Ooops, I mean an alternate fact.
