Just woke up but seeing this made me immediately think of Q's angry posts
"We see you" "We can hear you breathing"
Can't recall the other ones until coffee I haven't even made yet
So July 2018 was when they met?
Help anons
Just woke up but seeing this made me immediately think of Q's angry posts
"We see you" "We can hear you breathing"
Can't recall the other ones until coffee I haven't even made yet
So July 2018 was when they met?
Help anons
Barr has had his own security detail for years and years.
Don't worry about his security; others are doing that already.
I'm still mulling over what I think after learning, from Barr's Wikipedia, that he worked for the CIA for several years in the 1970's.
He also plays the bagpipes, but no one should hold that against him ;)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/william-barrs-secret-passion-the-bagpipes
here’s an old saying: “A true gentleman is a man who can play the bagpipes, but doesn’t.” In March, when Donald Trump called in to “Hannity” to tout Jeff Sessions’s replacement, he crowed, “Our new Attorney General, Bill Barr, is a great gentleman.” But new information has come to light. This magazine has located five individuals who attest that Barr, who has come under fire for his SparkNotes summary of the Mueller report, plays the bagpipes. And, no, it wasn’t just a onetime thing, in college, where he mistook a set of bagpipes for a bong. Throughout the eighties, Barr performed in the City of Washington Pipe Band—one of the top bagpipe ensembles in the world—giving new meaning to the cool-dad line “I used to be in a band.”
“Bill was a serious piper,” Mike Green, a fellow band member, said recently. “He started playing as a young kid, in New York. I’ve seen pictures of him, ten years old, wearing a Balmoral bonnet, a kilt, a doublet, big bagpipes on his shoulder.” Barr moved to D.C., in 1973, to work for the C.I.A. and attend law school simultaneously. After graduating, he joined a private law practice, then a pipe band. “He came ready to play at the top level,” Green said. In competition, the band performed such classics as “The Sheepwife,” “Highland Wedding,” and “The Cockerel in the Creel.” It also did contemporary jigs, hornpipes, and polkas. Green recalled, “Bill definitely preferred the military marches.”
Playing the bagpipes is notoriously difficult. “People who start out on bagpipes are like baby turtles going out into the ocean,” Green said. “Most of them don’t make it.” Playing competitively, as Barr did, is both time-consuming and expensive. (To keep his pipes from drying up, Barr would have had to play every day for at least half an hour.) Charlie Glendinning, who also piped with Barr, said that a kilt alone cost upward of five hundred dollars. When the group travelled to Scotland, for the world championships, the airfare was thirty grand. “We could only afford travelling every four years,” Glendinning said. “Competitions at the World Pipe Band Championships were our Olympics.”
The City of Washington Pipe Band may be the best evidence we have of a “deep state.” Barr was in the Justice Department. Green was a senior official in George W. Bush’s Administration. (“Condi Rice, my boss, would go to piano camp every summer, so she said it was O.K. for me to do bagpipes,” Green explained.) There were members of the intelligence community and the labor unions, a Secret Service agent, and a congressional general counsel. Glendinning recalled a piper who was “an F.B.I. agent with a specialty in human-flesh decomposition.” Jon Quigg, one of the band’s drummers, remembered prepping for a performance in Barr’s office—“the same space that R.F.K. had occupied thirty years earlier.” He added, “Heady experience.”
Barr quit competing in the late eighties, when things began to heat up at the Justice Department. “He’d come to watch us practice and compete, with his entourage of security, but he couldn’t keep playing,” Green said. In 1991, when Barr was appointed Attorney General for the first time, by George H. W. Bush, he invited the band to play at his swearing-in. “We marched in and played a medley of tunes,” Green said. Bush made some wisecracks in his speech, and said, of his bagpiping A.G., “I’m wondering if he understands that the Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.”
The band is currently on hiatus, but old members still meet up to jam. Sometimes Barr talks about getting the band back together, Glendinning said. A few years ago, Barr bought a set of matching chanters—the bagpipe mouthpiece—and a fleet of drums, for all the out-to-pasture pipers. “Let’s make real music again,” he told them, in a note.“Not this modern, gimmicky stuff that all the bands are playing these days.”
Barr still likes to host ceilidhs—big Scottish-music parties—complete with pipes, fiddles, and whiskey. The most recent one took place last October. “He invited Celtic musicians from Scotland, on his own dime, to join us,” Green said. Two months later, Barr got the call from the President. “I was over at his house when he told me that Trump had asked him to be the new Attorney General,” Glendinning recalled. “I said, ‘Take it! Your country needs you!’ But on my way home, in the car, the toll of such a job—not just on Bill but on his family—as well as having to leave the comforts of semi-retirement, began to gnaw at me.” Glendinning had trouble sleeping that night, and sent Barr an e-mail listing all his concerns. But it was too late. Barr’s response: “Thanks, my friend. I have crossed the Rubicon.”
Green said, “He didn’t have us play at the ceremony this time around.” ♦
How odd and affected.
I don't think Biden could pull off "ya'll", though.
You either absorb "ya'll" through your southern family, or your geographically southern upbringing.
There IS no fake ya'll, ya'll. Hollywood tries, but always fails, and their poor attempts hurt our ears.
Dems look and sound like they're just flailing.
Flailing with Washington-polished, expensively-cultivated word salad, but it's still just flailing.