Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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Note: I made a mistake in this. It wasn’t Mike Flynn himself who met with Kyrill Dmitriev in the Seychelles. It was Erik Prince, who was very excited about the tie to the Emirates in the meeting.

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    • grizebard says:

      Well, whatever it is, it is happening to me too. Tried two different browsers, on this site and on YouTube, and nothin’ doin’. Starts up then just stalls…

      • c-i-v-i-l says:

        It initially hung for me and then went black for a bit with no sound, but I dragged the timeline button a bit further along, and it started up again and is so far playing fine (but I haven’t listened to the whole thing yet).

        • Savage Librarian says:

          That’s not working for me either. The timeline button just pops back every time after I drag it. I’m on a phone. Are you on a computer?

        • c-i-v-i-l says:

          Reply to Savage Librarian, August 2, 2024 at 8:34 pm

          Yes, I’m on a Mac laptop using Firefox.

  5. Nicole Sandler says:

    It’s working now! I’m so sorry. I never ended the live stream…
    And there’s a very short glitch near the start where we lost audio, but it comes right back in.
    Gotta fire my producer.

    • Rayne says:

      Thanks, Nicole, much appreciate the fix.

      I experienced the glitch on my desktop but I could pick up the video from about 01:14 mark, caught all of it from that point on. So much material to cram into a week let alone an hour!

    • Nicole Sandler says:

      In case it wasn’t clear… I am my own producer. I do everything on this show myself, so when there’s a technical fuck up (as there usually is at least one per show), it’s my own fault. “I gotta fire my producer” is my way of kicking myself in the ass… just didn’t want you to think I was that big of a bitch (I can be, but not in this instance)…

  6. harpie says:

    Compare and contrast:

    TRUMP: I have agreed with Fox News to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th.

    Many Journalists: TRUMP Agrees to a Fox News Debate with Harris on September 4.

    • harpie says:

      NYT: Aug 03, 2024, 02:12 [ET] Trump Says He will Debate Harris

      [6 hours, 39 minutes] [<you don't know how often I changed this lol]

      https://botsin.space/@nyt_diff/112898177202085162
      NYT: Aug 03, 2024, 08:51 [ET]

      Change in Headline / Change in Abstract [*=new]

      Trump Agrees to *Proposes* a Fox News Debate With Harris on Sept.4

      According to Mr. Trump’s post on social media, the debate will *would* take place in Pennsylvania, a crucial battleground state.

    • harpie says:

      Aaron Rupar caught it much faster:
      https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.bsky.social/post/3kyry3vbvms2r
      Aug 3, 2024 at 12:02 AM [ET]

      Yikes, sorry. I misread a Trump Truth Social post about a debate he agreed to with Fox News but not with Harris. My bad.

      Marcy posted about it FROM IRELAND, at:

      https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social/post/3kyshskgozh2h
      Aug 3, 2024 at 4:43 AM [ET]

      Lots of international media (including my local Limerick radio station) are falling for this ploy. Trump didn’t AGREE to debate, he PROPOSED a very different debate — one on a propaganda channel trying to save his candidacy. [screenshot]

      • harpie says:

        ^^^ Rupar’s correction posts BEFORE NYT published the story.

        ^^^ Marcy’s post is FOUR HOURS BEFORE NYT changed it headline.

    • harpie says:

      10:18 AM [ET] HARRIS campaign responds:

      https://bsky.app/profile/nycsouthpaw.bsky.social/post/3kyt2nuaemk2j
      Aug 3, 2024 at 10:21 AM

      a response from the Harris campaign. [screenshot]

      David Plouffe 10:18 AM 8/3/24
      Donald Trump is cowardly backing out of the debate he agreed to. One just like the debate he did in June. Now, he seems only comfortable in a cocoon, asking his happy place Fox to host a Trump rally and call it a debate. Maybe he can only handle debating someone his own age.

    • harpie says:

      https://botsin.space/@nyt_diff/112898743597283341
      Aug 03, 2024, 11:15 Change in Abstract

      According to Mr. Trump’s post on social media the *previously scheduled* debate would take place in Pennsylvania, a crucial battleground state. *to be hosted by ABC News was “terminated” once President Biden dropped out of the race.*

      Aug 03, 2024, 11:18 Change in Headline

      Trump Proposes a Fox News Debate with Harris *and Backs Out* on Sept. 4 Another

      Aug 03, 2024, 11:21 Change in Headline

      Trump Proposes a Fox News Debate with Harris and Backs Out *of ABC Debate and Proposes One with Harris* on Another Fox

      They changed the Headline again a few minutes later, from “with” to “With”.

    • xyxyxyxy says:

      And the really big news today is that Kamala’s husband cheated on his wife, his 1st wife that is. Trump cheated on every wife and nobody blinks.

      • earlofhuntingdon says:

        Donny cheats at everything. The press shrugs it off. His closest friends seem to do the same. Don’t they Rudy?

  8. synergies says:

    There was this very famous DJ here in Los Angeles on the alternative radio station KROQ, Dusty Street. She would always sign off with, “Fly low & avoid the radar.” She was the very best EVER. So I hope this comment… under Kamala’s success… It’s OK if not. I wrote to the official White House, send an email…
    Dear Joe & Kamala,
    I’m 73 & Gay. I knew some of the Gay Liberation founders, Harry Hay & archivist Jim Kepner. Right now the Gay community is going through the throws of self hatred, simplified compounded by “selfies.” I.e. anything to get attention. Mainly by attention drains we’ve had for a long time who think it’s only their time. Again, simplified, addicted to their own selfies. Addicted.
    I’m sorry to write this but I’m terrified that Kamala will choose Pete Buttigieg. I’ve never seen our community in such fracture. It’s obsessed & ugly. Never in all my years.
    WE the Democratic party would lose this election. It’s terrifying. I’m ashamed of my community.
    NO PETE, please to the good god.

    • Clare Kelly says:

      I’m not following. “Terrified” of what?

      No “community” is monolithic.

      To wit: Log Cabin Republicans, Richard Grenell, or Peter Thiel.

      I have full confidence in Kamala Harris’ ability to choose a VP that works for her.

    • Krisy Gosney says:

      This lesbian and her wife would be fine with Pete. We live in LA also. We are not a monolith indeed.

    • synergies says:

      I learned from one of the most astute political activist founders of the GAY Liberation movement, Harry Hay. The amount of times Harry would explain something, like the time of, the Clintons abolishing the Glass Steagall Act. Waltons anyone? Harry knew it would be devastating for poor people. Unfortunately even though we knew what was going on, we were all too busy taking care of numerous friends dying of AIDS. Surviving. We remember. Don’t ask. Nightmare. The type of activist I AM, when Pete runs for president again and comes to Los Angeles, I’m going to be holding a sign outside of the event asking, “If Biden could drop out for the good of the party why didn’t you Petey, drop out of the running, knowing there’s no way in hell you being on the ticket would be a winner?”
      The reality is he’s not Presidential material. PERIOD! I look forward, to the God-Damned fight!

      • Rayne says:

        The Clintons? You’re blaming then-POTUS and his unelected wife for an act of Congress?

        This is the kind of crap which undermined HRC’s chances in 2016. And you’re still lugging it around.

  9. Magnet48 says:

    In those clips of trump with the black journalists I recognized that his particular tone was different, obviously desperate, & when Marcy said he hadn’t commanded attention because of JD & Kamala I realized why. Plus Putin essentially dissed him. And now Putin’s favorite assassin has been returned to Russia?
    On ‘X’ I’ve noticed that trolls are attempting to imitate Marcy’s expertise “style” without the depth & it just cracks me up.

    • dopefish says:

      Now Donald Trump is congratulating Putin, the murderous thug dictator who took U.S. journalists and others hostage in order to trade them for his favorite FSB assassin.
      https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-congratulates-vladimir-putin-on-great-hostage-swap/

      Of course it would never occur to him to praise, even faintly, his political opponents President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris who did the delicate diplomacy necessary to make this prisoner exchange happen. Of course it would never occur to him to criticise an authoritarian regime which arrests U.S. citizens as hostages and tries them with only a mockery of due process.

      I can’t believe millions of Americans are going to vote for this fucking traitor in November. Trump is giving aid and comfort to enemies of the United States.

      Donald Trump hates democracy, because it doesn’t let him be King and make more money. Nevermind that its the #1 reason for America’s many decades of success and leadership of the world’s Western bloc, the most free and prosperous countries in the history of human civilization.

      Please protect your democracy in November, the rest of us need it as an ally and example to look up to!

  10. Savage Librarian says:

    Showdown

    Will Donnie show up for the showdown
    Or fold to Kamala who has the lowdown
    He’s scared to bring his own pronoun
    He can’t face how things might go down

    Mr. Anytime, anywhere, anyplace
    Fred Sr. looks up at his disgrace
    Not to mention Donnie’s base
    Maybe he’s not part of the master race

    Windbag lost his white job
    Pardoned turkeys, Corn & Cob
    Then sent in his weirdo mob
    Now we’re looking at a hot mess slob

    He whined to Fox for a bail out
    Then put on his best holy grail pout
    What we see here is stale clout
    Looks to be his full-scale doubt

    Donnie’s lost the con in confidence
    Lost with Vance & lost to Pence
    Man-child can’t manage common sense
    And can’t get unstuck from his past tense

  11. CoffaeBreak says:

    Kamala should “Jesse Owens” The Führer wannabe Trump. She will beat him anywhere. If they try to BS the debate, everyone will see.

  12. Clare Kelly says:

    NABJ conference related:
    “Trump ally calls GOP attack on Harris’s racial identity a ‘phony controversy’
    Florida representative Byron Donalds spars with ABC host over Republicans’ questioning of vice-president’s heritage”

    [snip]

    “Stephanopoulos followed up, saying: “Sir, one second. You just did it again. Why do you insist on questioning her racial identity?” to which Donalds said: “You want me to talk?”
    “I want you to answer my question,” Stephanopoulos replied.””

    Maya Yang
    The Guardian
    August 4, 2024
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/04/trump-ally-byron-donalds-republicans-kamala-harris-racial-identity

  13. klynn says:

    EW,
    Saw your Shapiro xeet. GOP are pushing for him because he will cause a loss of youth voters.

    All my young adult voters have said if Harris picks Shapiro, Dems will lose their vote. They see him as Dem lite and not supportive of Biden’s vision.

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