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Tuco

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  1. I don't think that has much to do with it. Just about anything that isn't the alcohol molecule gets distilled out. And it's not like "trace levels of corn" is some kind of outlier in our diets. More likely, expensive shit has better distillation and quality control. And you are less likely to use mixers high in sugar or choke it down as a shot.
  2. Maybe he is back in town to retrieve stolen classified shit he stashed. I could see his lawyers recommending that.
  3. Corn is grain. I did some work at an ethanol plant in Kansas. It produced both fuel grade ethanol and food grade. The difference was the food grade went through a third distillation tower to remove methanol and the fuel grade had gasoline added for tax purposes. The food grade was shipped to another facility where water was added to make it Skyy Vodka. Corn based ethanol is about as cheap of alcohol you can get, so it's the default unless someone is marketing otherwise. Even in other types of hard liquor, they will use corn based ethanol to augment the traditional ingredients. Tequila can have 51% agave, and the rest corn based alcohol. Premium tequila is 100% agave. Gin just has juniper berries to flavor alcohol made from corn. I think rum is usually sugarcane (relatively cheap in those regions). So, it was wrong to say "almost all" hard liquor is corn based, but I would be willing to bet better than 50% is corn.
  4. I believe the DOJ's motion was that classified documents should bypass the Special Master. The crime is not based on the classification, but the classified documents are the main evidence for the crime.
  5. "Yet the Government apparently contends that President Trump, who had full authority to declassify documents, "willfully" retained classified information in violation of the law" Well, yeah. It does sound idiotic, but that's only because we're dealing with an idiot.
  6. Do they have a choice? If the documents marked Top Secret are actually Top Secret, it seems like a pretty easy prosecution, regardless of any executive privilege issues. I could see an EP argument that no one should be allowed to look at the documents, but that doesn't mean Trump is allowed to do what he wants with them. At the end of the day, the defense will need to show that Trump did not have Top Secret documents in Maralargo. That means either convincing people they weren't at Maralargo or that they weren't TS. The first options means convincing a jury that 20-30 FBI agents set him up and that witnesses from the Trump camp are perjuring themselves, because certainly the DOJ has informants. That is less likely to work than just claiming that they weren't actually Top Secret.
  7. Almost all vodka, and hard liquor in general, is made out of corn. I've never seen anything to suggest that Buffet gives a shit about Husker football. He's gave $100k to the school paper. He's given money for buildings. I don't recall any donations to the athletic department. Well, yeah, except for the money, most jobs suck. I agree it's not a great job in college football - high expectations with little recruiting draw - but still.
  8. I am posting a picture of a cheeseburger. It's not the best looking cheeseburger on the internet, but it is about ten thousand times more appetizing than that deconstructed bullshit image that will not fucking leave my tapa screen. Hopefully this cheeseburger will displace that nonsense. I have as much interest in deconstructing a hamburger as I do in pulling the engine out of a Ferrari and pretending it makes it better. ( Bozo, I don't care if you like it. It's a pointlessly fussy version of something God intended to be simple and messy. It is heresy. You should be burned at the fucking stake. Not really, but you get my drift.
  9. Self deleting. User incompetence.
  10. I would argue that some of the documents had hand-written notes on them, which were part of decision making process, and therefore protected. And it would take a Special Master to review the all the documents to find those notes. It would be idiotic for the defense to argue that classified documents were not in Trump's possession - particularly if there were handwritten notes on them. I think they will concede that. I assume that they will argue that he had the rights to the documents for extremely murky, but previously untested, rationalizations.
  11. White supremacists believe their genetics and history gives them the god-given right to hold an elevated position in society. Monarchists take that same basic construct and exaggerates it to absurd proportions. So yeah, its whole premise is ridiculous. Without the charisma and the life-long continuity to hold it together, I think it will rattle apart. Maybe they keep the titles like the rest of the aristocracy, but I think their official duties and protections will diminish, and I could see them recede into background. I think most of them would rather just be rich than royal anyway.
  12. Or we can stop pretending that racist cosplaying disphits are the last defense for democracy. Because it's just fucking stupid.
  13. Considering the timing, is this judge subtly telling Cannon she's being played. Well, Cannon and all the other Trump appointees mentioned.
  14. I’m thinking it’s Mueller. Sure, recycling characters from earlier seasons may demonstrate a lack of creativity, but I think he needs a redemption arc.
  15. One old, rich racist down…
  16. How many of them partially recover? Keep in mind, the President of the United States is about to turn 80. And Senator Feinstein thinks of him when she complains about younger generations. I don't know what parts of Fetterman's brain were damaged. If it was mostly motor control (including the act of speech), it really doesn't phase me in the least. Is there any indication he's getting confused? Memory loss, particularly new memories? Emotional instability? Those would concern me. I also don't think he would be in front of a camera, at all, if that were the case.
  17. I haven’t looked at his medical charts, nor could I understand them, but, sure, why not.
  18. The Churchill line about "...in the morning I will be sober, and you will still be ugly" applies. Fetterman can recover from his brain damage. Oz will always be Oz.
  19. I think for Top Secret documents, there is a definitely a tracking system. But, any system is reliant on people following it. If Trump just said "Oh, I already gave that back" there isn't much some executive branch official can do while he is office. I am sure the DOJ has a pretty good list of what has not been returned. It does put a new perspective on the story that Trump would flush documents. At the time, that story looked like people leaking what a dipshit he was. Now it looks like spin. It's a common theme: something that looks horrible for any other politician is actually "best case scenario" for Trump.
  20. It's certainly plausible. My guess would be North Korea. He truly believes that he saved the world from nuclear war with North Korea, and that he was the only person who could have done so. I could absolutely see him taking top secret nuke assessments as a trophy - to show interested parties how close we were to nuclear war. I mean, finally a fucking motive for this stupidity that makes sense, in the way anything Trump does makes sense. That being said, "people familiar with the matter" equates to the Trump camp. Nobody else who knows anything can talk to reporters. And this is a plausible explanation that is certainly foolish and vain, but isn't nefarious. This isn't something that loses Trump's base. So, grain of salt. Also, could be a red herring.
  21. And? John Podesta has been a political heavy hitter for a while. There is nothing vaguely surprising about him taking a role in the Biden administration. And hopefully he understands how to avoid spearphishing attacks now. As a follow-up on this thread, the DOJ dropped the investigation into Tony Podesta and Vin Weber about three years ago. article
  22. That guy should be in a training videos for campaigns. 22 years old. Just moved. Knows he doesn't like Trump or Trump allies, but doesn't know which names are on his side. He doesn't need convincing, just direction. Get him registered. Repeat "Will Rollins" a thousand times in a thousand ways until the name sticks. Make sure he knows how, when, and where he can vote. Repeat that information a few dozen times. Get him a mail in ballot. Remind him to send it in. A few dozen times if needed. Getting his vote has nothing to do with political positions and everything to do with putting the work (and money) in. And there are thousands of other Brady Bates out there. People who follow politics (like everyone on this thread) frequently lose the context that we are the weird ones.
  23. Also, a couple other differences: 1. She didn’t have anything that was marked top secret or secret. There were some documents that were later deemed TS because of the information they referenced , but they weren’t marked when she received them. (Going mostly off memory here, so correct me if I’m wrong.) 2. She did it to do a job. There is a balance between efficiency and security, and a balance between privacy and security. Clinton certainly deserves criticism for ignoring the established framework for where that balance should be. But I never saw a motive out there for personal gain. Trump doesn’t work for the government anymore. There is no job-related justification. Hillary’s actions are more in line with the numerous private email accounts we know people in the Trump administration set up. Kush operated as the de facto Secretary of State without being a govt employee. It’s tempting to compare top scandal vs top scandal, but in reality Clinton’s top scandal lines up to shit we didn’t even have time to focus on.
  24. Better luck next trip. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  25. I have not doubt that foreign agencies are still spying on Trump (and Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc.) I would guess they would be more likely paying folks already on MAL payroll, rather than trying to create a cover that certainly the SS is thoroughly vetting. That's a pretty valuable asset to risk on an ex-President. So, probably no trained spies working as bellhops. I would also imagine there have been trained spies who have been invited by guests and/or Trump himself. There may be US intel there as well, but the political implications of the CIA spying on Trump would be huge. If they are there, it's probably more counter espionage to any of the folks from other governments. I doubt that they are going into any of his private rooms or eaves dropping. I hate Trump, but I would be pissed if the CIA was freelancing like that. And if they were, they wouldn't be sharing broadly across the agencies. All just guesses.
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