I love and support the idea of a train system, but I just can't see it catching hold in this country without significant investment in local rails to support. Using a personal example, If I were to take the propose high speed train from the DFW area to visit my brother (Spring) or sister (Atascocita) in the Houston area, I'd have to drive 20-30 minutes to Dallas, then after arriving in Houston be driven 20-30 minutes or more to their houses. When I've visited with friends in the UK, France, Spain, or Germany I've used trains to get from city to city and then local trains/subways to within walking distance of their houses.
Yeah it’s pretty weird that maybe the two most automobile reliant cities in the country might be the first two connect in this way. But private dollars are behind it so no telling how viable it’ll be.
2020, just wow! In the film, released on Friday, the former New York mayor and current personal attorney to Donald Trump is seen reaching into his trousers and apparently touching his genitals while reclining on a bed in the presence of the actor playing Borat’s daughter, who is posing as a TV journalist. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm review – cinema's top troll goes baiting in Trump's US Following an obsequious interview for a fake conservative news programme, the pair retreat at her suggestion for a drink to the bedroom of a hotel suite, which is rigged with concealed cameras. After she removes his microphone, Giuliani, 76, can be seen lying back on the bed, fiddling with his untucked shirt and reaching into his trousers. They are then interrupted by Borat who runs in and says: “She’s 15. She’s too old for you.”
Is it just my shitty work firewall/internet, or does anybody else get errors when trying to click on tweets?
Look, it’s been an exhausting 4 years/7,000 pages in here. If we find this small sliver of laughter/escapism, I think it’s ok.
I've noticed this with some frequency as of late. If you remove everything after the tweet's ID in the url (that prominent long string of numbers) it almost always loads IMO
It's weird, the tweets load fine in the thread, but if I click to expand it and open it in twitter, it breaks.
Yeah that's the case for most American Catholics, but the longer Francis can hold this line, the better. It would also help to have Benedict die, some American Catholics don't view Francis as the real Pope because Benedict is still alive.
The year is 2007, and Rudy Giuliani is widely considered the moderate front runner for the republican nomination.
He's an atheist that wants all handguns banned and he votes for the GOP. There's a lot going on there. I better stop before people yell at me for talking about it. I really didn't mean to start a huge thing yesterday. I seriously thought more people on here were already aware of his awful Twitter habit.
We nearly avoided our 2nd indecent exposure story involving 70+ year old men this week. It's Wednesday
Greenwald wants you to take him very seriously and is dismayed that anyone would dismiss this paragon of integrity
Such a joke that the Sackler family walks away with billions and no jail time. Meanwhile we have thousands of guys locked up for some weed.
I'm still not understanding how in 2020 you're falling for Borat unless you've lived in a cave your whole life.
Greenwald and TalkingHead claiming the whole Russia thing was a farce. I went back to the Schiff questions and it seems like they might be wrong Spoiler SCHIFF: Thank you, Director Mueller. I recognize myself for five minutes. Director Mueller, your report describes a sweeping and systematic effort by Russia to influence our presidential election. Is that correct? MUELLER: That is correct. SCHIFF: And during the course of this Russian interference in the election, the Russians made outreach to the Trump campaign, did they not? MUELLER: That occurred over the course of - yes, that occurred. SCHIFF: It’s also clear from your report that during that Russian outreach to the Trump campaign, no one associated with the Trump campaign ever called the FBI to report it. Am I right? MUELLER: I don’t know that for sure. SCHIFF: In fact, the campaign welcomed the Russian help, did they not? MUELLER: I think we have - we report in our - in the report indications that that occurred, yes. SCHIFF: The president’s son said when he was approached about dirt on Hillary Clinton that the Trump campaign would love it? MUELLER: That is generally what was said, yes. SCHIFF: The president himself called on the Russians to hack Hillary’s emails? MUELLER: There was a statement by the president in those general lines. SCHIFF: Numerous times during the campaign the president praised the releases of the Russian-hacked emails through WikiLeaks? MUELLER: That did occur. SCHIFF: Your report found that the Trump campaign planned, quote, “ a press strategy, communications campaign, and messaging,” unquote, based on that Russian assistance? MUELLER: I am not familiar with that. SCHIFF: That language comes from Volume 1, page 54. Apart from the Russians wanting to help Trump win, several individuals associated with the Trump campaign were also trying to make money during the campaign and transition. Is that correct? MUELLER: That is true. SCHIFF: Paul Manafort was trying to make money or achieve debt forgiveness from a Russian oligarch? MUELLER: Generally that is accurate. SCHIFF: Michael Flynn was trying to make money from Turkey? MUELLER: True. SCHIFF: Donald Trump was trying to make millions from a real estate deal in Moscow? MUELLER: To the extent you’re talking about the hotel in Moscow? SCHIFF: Yes. MUELLER: Yes. SCHIFF: When you investigation looked into these matters, numerous Trump associates lied to your team, the grand jury, and to Congress? MUELLER: A number of persons that we interviewed in our investigation turns out did lie. SCHIFF: Mike Flynn lied? MUELLER: He was convicted of lying, yes. SCHIFF: George Papadopoulos was convicted of lying? MUELLER: True. SCHIFF: Paul Manafort was convicted of lying? MUELLER: True. SCHIFF: Paul Manafort was - in fact, went so far as to encourage other people to lie? MUELLER: That is accurate. SCHIFF: Manafort’s deputy, Rick Gates, lied? MUELLER: That is accurate. SCHIFF: Michael Cohen, the president’s lawyer, was indicted for lying? MUELLER: True. SCHIFF: He lied to stay on message with the president? MUELLER: Allegedly by him. SCHIFF: And when Donald Trump called your investigation a witch hunt, that was also false, was it not? MUELLER: I’d like to think so, yes. SCHIFF: Well, your investigation is not a witch hunt. Is... MUELLER: It is not a witch hunt. SCHIFF: When the president said the Russian interference was a hoax, that was false, wasn’t it? MUELLER: True. SCHIFF: We decided publically it was false? MUELLER: He did say publically that it was false, yes. SCHIFF: And when he told it to Putin, that was false, too, wasn’t it? MUELLER: That I’m not familiar with. SCHIFF: When the president said he had no business dealings with Russia, that was false, wasn’t it? MUELLER: I’m not going to go into the details of the report that are along those lines. SCHIFF: When the president said he had no business dealings with Russia, in fact he was seeking to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, was he not? MUELLER: I think there - there are some questions about when this was accomplished. SCHIFF: You would consider a billion dollar deal to build a tower in Moscow to be business dealings, wouldn’t you, Director Mueller? MUELLER: Absolutely. SCHIFF: In short, your investigation found evidence that Russia wanted to help Trump win the election, right? MUELLER: I think generally that would be accurate. SCHIFF: Russia informed campaign officials of that? MUELLER: I’m not certain to what conversation you’re referring to. SCHIFF: Well, through an intermediary then informed Papadopoulos that they could help with the anonymous release of stolen emails? MUELLER: Accurate. SCHIFF: Russia committed federal crimes in order to help Donald Trump? MUELLER: When you’re talking about computer crimes in the charge... SCHIFF: Yes. MUELLER: ... in our case, absolutely. SCHIFF: The Trump campaign officials built their strategy - their messaging strategy around those stolen documents? MUELLER: Generally that’s true. SCHIFF: And then they lied to cover it up. MUELLER: Generally, that’s true.
I think we can all find common ground and if talking head tweets anything defending Rudy you should post it tia
From the trailer it seems like there's a plot point where Borat disguises himself because Americans are recognizing him too much
so these are apparently the details of the Borat/Rudy scene... Spoiler Posing as a conservative journalist in the mold of Tomi Lahren—albeit with a strong eastern European accent—Tutar sits down with Giuliani in a Manhattan hotel suite for an “interview” in which she mostly flatters him into creepily flirting with her. “I’ll relax you, you want me to ask you a question?” Giuliani says as she giggles in response. After blaming China for the coronavirus, he agrees to “eat a bat” with his interviewer, who repeatedly touches his knee to egg him on. Baron Cohen first interrupts the interview dressed as a sound engineer with a large boom mic, but leaves before it’s over. At that point, Tutar offers to “have a drink in the bedroom” with Giuliani, who happily obliges. On what appear to be hidden cameras, we see Giuliani remove her microphone and ask for her phone number and address as he sits down on the bed. He starts patting her backside as she removes the microphone from his pants. Giuliani then lies down on the bed and starts sticking his hands down his pants in a suggestive manner. But before anything more can happen, Borat bursts into the room and shouts, “Put down your chram!”—his preferred word for penis. “She’s 15! She’s too old for you!” The startled Giuliani, who had no reason to believe his interviewer was underage, sits up abruptly and gets out of there as fast as he can. “Rudy, Trump will be disappoint! You are leaving hotel without golden shower!” Borat yells after him.