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Bold Move, Stauffer! Quoting German (Near) Neo-Nazis… To Oppose Rule Of Law, In The USA?! Cool.

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Well — this is simply… self refuting.

I’ll let my graphic do most of the work, but Betsy seems to think she will convince US hard-right frothers, by quoting with approval… some German (MP Petr Bystron) — only a hair’s width removed from those clowns that “false-flagged” / burned the Reichstag, in 1934, there.

Gutsy, to be sure — but… idiotic. This would also make clear that she cannot find serious support for her rancid views, even inside her own US party. Hilarious. [Enjoy living on “the island of misfit toys”, there hun.]

Hey Betsy!

Here’s an idea: why don’t you move to Germany, and join them? While you’re at it, take your three codgers, too. Make it a whole Powerline (illegal aliens’ surge!) into old… Germany.

I know — you won’t. Because you would lose significant freedoms — ones you irresponsibly employ here, stateside. Ones my grandad and his buddies… died to hand to you, you Karen.

See, there are still laws on the books in Germany that criminalize your sort of lying speech (in your case, about 01.06.21 — but glorifying Nazis, too).

Cheers, chucklehead.

You Can Tell By The Tone Of His Tonight, Hinderaker Knows The GOP Lost The WI Sup. Ct.

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The 10 pm Hinderaker rant is ostensibly about San Francisco.

But the real anger in his wails is clearly because the more progressive candidate remaining in the run-off… in Chicago won the Mayor’s race… and because we just flipped the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

That will have immediate effects — abortion will remain safe and legal there.

So — yeh, John… I love the city by the bay too. Spent a lot of time there doing tech deals in the late 1990s…

And it is very much the city same as it was in the ’90s, as when I saw it, not three weeks ago. Well, yes — a lil’ tarnished by COVID vacancies… but it will be fine.

It will rise again — not the dark Thunderdome/Bartertown you portray it as.

Go take your sundowners. You’re overdue. And under-medicated.

[U] Hinderaker… Slept Through (Or Never Took) Crim. Law…

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True to form, John doesn’t understand the purpose of Mr. Bragg’s Statement of Facts.

It sets up the coming superseding indictment.

And John (as ever) is a clueless fool for whistling past this graveyard, tonight.

Or worse — he does know… and he’s just lying to assuage Tangerine’s preposterously outsized and delusional self-important fantasies. [Especially so, in John’s “update” — late night tonight — praising Tangerine’s whiny cry baby speech at Mar-a-Lago. This is purely unctious pandering, to a bloated, embittered sad old orange man. One who could still wipe John’s 501(c)(3) off the map — and his blog with it… if he put out the word, that Powerline is/was disloyal. Hilarious.]

Either way — John will (again) look every bit the fool — about a year from now.

Cheers, buddie!

About As I Guessed: Hinderaker’s REAL Crowd Size Was ~50 People, Today…

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So… as we’ve said at least three times, Hinderaker has become incapable of accepting that the world has left his ideas… in the last century, with him.

He and his 1950s sensibilities / patrician ideas are increasingly being relegated to the nation’s nursing homes… and even… cemeteries.

This is exhibit A — at right. If you look closely, and don’t count press, or members of his own think tank (required to be there, for their jobs)… the audience skews to an age demographic well over 60, overwhelmingly whyte… and likely 2 to 1 male to female.

Oh. And then the crowd that stayed for more than one speaker looks to have been under 30 people… based on watching the whole video, on FB.

Hilarious.

John’s dead enders’ crew of dead enders… are soon to be… dead, actually.

Damn. Good luck with all that Johnnie.

I’ll close with my enduring memory / image of this day being… an arrested, booked and arraigned NY 34 count felony indictee — Hinderaker’s formerly “serious” preznit. First. Ever!

Crypto-Exchange Paxful… Goes… Kaput! [Like Tangerine.]

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Another one… gone.

This was what claimed to be a “decentralized”, or peer to peer, exchange — and thus claimed not to be subject to US regulation.

So much for that idea, now.

Its staff has departed — and it is officially saying it is “suspending” operations.

But it is… extinct.

Frozen in the Ice Age, forever, now. A monument. A glacier. Just like the Tangerine one — now being arrested and arraigned in Manhattan. Grin.

Scott Johnson KNOWS How Big Firm “Conflicts Reviews” Work… YAWN.

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Johnson tries (impotently) this morning to throw some “stanky-leg” onto the venerable law firm Cadwalader. It is the quintessential NYC monied law firm. The oldest continuous NY law partnership, and likely most prestigious, at least in terms of centuries long reputations in New York.

Scott well-knows that this firm would not want to be associated with someone, whom — by well vetted public documents… has now been shown to have committed multiple public corruption felonies.

So, in addition to the fact that Cadwalader handles much NY city tax work, and so has a positional conflict where the DA is seeking monetary tax penalties as well against Tangerine… the firm has great “reputational” risk in repping him.

So its partner has taken a leave. If he was in good standing, after Tangerine is convicted, the firm will likely ask if he wants to return. But he may too move on, from here — becoming a darling of the Steve Bannon / Roger Stone set. He also repped Paul Manafort. So, he was already starting to get… tarred, by his unsavory clients. Then Tangerine pardoned Manafort — all but confirming the corruption was driven from the top down, in that case.

So — no surprise as to why Cadwalader would say he should hang out his own shingle, for this go ’round.

Shut it, Scott.

I’ll Check The Local / Noon Newscasts In Minneapolis, Today. But If He Gets 50 People, I’ll Be… Shocked.

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Well, I’ll say this: you cannot fault him for trying. He’s diving head-first, into a news ocean that is so deep and frothy blue-black — probably only VE Day eclipsed it. [Not that Tangerine, himself, is in any manner important — it is solely that this is the first time a preznit will be a 34-count indicted criminal, in the eyes of the NY law enforcement system. That is… historic. In a bad way.]

So John holds his “old whyte guys shouting ‘get off my lawn, you damn kids!‘ rally” at noon, today, in the State Capitol rotunda area.

And… I predict… almost no one will show.

Even if Tangerine was not being arrested today.

He’s just bodily unable… to accept that the people of Minnesota have already spoken — twice. Two recent elections, and the verdict is… his ideas are decidedly dead-ender ideas.

Last century relics of a patrician culture now (mostly) faded into nursing homes — and cemeteries — dotting the nation.

Sit down, Johnnie. You are an… embarrassment.

Hilarious.

Betsy Stauffer: “Maybe” He Can Win?! Now That’s A… Faint Endorsement!

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And, it comes from what is arguably his most ardent support at Powerline.

H I L A R I O U S.

Betsy apparently thinks Tangerine can win in the general, if he can survive the GOP nominating process.

And so… we think she (like John!) needs to up her dosings of… ketamine, each evening. [Or whenever she sits down to write her gibberish.]

In a few hours we will know whether the 34 felonies he’s been indicted on include not just hush money related offenses, but also bank fraud, tax fraud including charity stealings, and perhaps even insurrection and theft of classified documents.

Poor Bitsy. Her derangement syndrome — or Stockholm syndrome if one prefers — won’t let her see that on top of all that, almost no whyte suburban women with college degrees will vote for his ticket. As we saw in 2020, and as we saw by derivation — in 2022 midterms.

And that is all before most suburban whyte women wrote him off for chanting “grab her by the p$ssy.” Charming.

Betsy — “maybe”… you should sit this one out.

“Altruistic?!” What A Feckless Liar Hinderaker Is.

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Tonight Hinderaker offers a laugh-out-loud concluding prevarication, on spending, policies and politics:

“…Conservative donors, in contrast, are basically altruists, seeking better policies for the benefit of all…”

That’s precious. 223 dead Texans would like a word, John.

The people who saw Ivanka and Jared make $400 million off grifts while in the West Wing… would like a word.

And, of course, the Secret Service details required to stay at Trump’s properties, so he could personally bill the government over $200 million in four years (all benefitting only his private clubs’ businesses)… would like a word.

There are dozens of other examples — but you get the drift.

And on a personal note, John: in what manner was your taking a PPP loan (and not paying it back) through your “think tank”… altruistic?! Do tell.

What an unctuous lil’ stink bug, indeed!

Out — tomorrow is… Xmas Day!!!

Betsy Stauffer Highlights “99 Luft Balloons/Via China” Fear-Mongering… While Ignoring That Trump Was Sharing Top Secrets, To “Get” Gen. Milley.

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Well… as I have said repeatedly, Betsy’s blog postings are where… irony goes — to die.

She whines about a balloon that took photos. Photos that can be (and HAVE BEEN) taken from space — on any clear day, by the Chinese spy satellites. Yes we have proof of this.

Y A W N.

Nah… she does so solely to cover for the fact that as the Wa Po reported over the weekend, but EmptyWheel very helpfully sorted, straightened and clarified… Trump was very likely building a “dossier” on his own appointee, Gen. Milley, after the same fell out of Trump’s good graces.

It is highly likely that we will learn in coming months that Trump showed his classified documents / “dossier” down at Mar-a-Lago — on his nemesis Milley — to at least five people without clearance of any sort, and after Trump was no longer preznit. [These people very likely included preachers and donors. Damn.]

And it was all about undercutting Milley’s efforts to defuse tensions with China. China was worried that Trump would cut loose a nuke with no prior warning. Milley reassured the Chinese counterpart that no such thing would happen [all of this in late November, early December 2020].

So… Elizabeth Stauffer dutifully resurrects the silly “red balloon” scare, as some cover, for the coming tsunami, of Trumpain crimes. Most… 20-years-in-prison crimes.

Sit down, Bitsy.