US Politics May 2021: Joe Manchin's Choose-Your-Adventure Book

Billy Mitchell
https://i.imgur.com/5gccKWb.jpg

fucking arrogant prick, met him at the Mall of America once

also fuck John Wayne

Trump's order said that the proposed garden would be managed by the Task Force for Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes

lol so much of what they did was indistinguishable from an Onion article

some of those people are not really American but hey, Whitney Houston!

Florida!

We can place Matt Gaetz in a hotel room snorting cocaine with an escort, according to two sources.

A source also says Joel Greenberg will testify that she’s one of 15+ women that Gaetz paid for sex.https://t.co/Gaffy2jibz

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) May 14, 2021

The tweet itself hides a deeper issue for Gaetz, really:

But what distinguishes this woman, Megan Zalonka, is that she turned her relationship with Greenberg into a taxpayer-funded no-show job that earned her an estimated $7,000 to $17,500, according to three sources and corresponding government records obtained by The Daily Beast.

Levelled-Up Fundraiser: Cocaine W/Yr Congressman!

fuckin Christopher Moltisanti shit, dumbasses

I heard some good advice once, which was if you have to do an illegal thing, don’t do two illegal things.

looks like Gaetz and Greenberg subscribe to the adage "May as well be hanged for a sheep as for a goat."

Was the sheep underage?

We are all the sheep

proving once more that wisdom based in the folkways of agrarian society doesn't translate well to modern life

Good one Matt

Gaetz: “I'm being falsely accused of exchanging money for naughty favors. Yet, Congress has reinstituted a process that legalizes the corrupt act of exchanging money for favors, through earmarks.”

— Henry J. Gomez (@HenryJGomez) May 15, 2021

“I may have fucked kids but Biden has to be fucking kidding with this infrastructure bill amirite?”

I did nothing wrong but if I did it was legal now

Naughty by Favors • G.O.P.

i have downloaded my twitter archive and confirmed that @noname did not retweet me. i do not remember which thread this was on. i am sorry.

#onethread
#paymentforposts
#sex4vets

The Saudis are in a war that has killed over 350,000 people. They have no startup or innovation culture and total disregard for human rights and democracy. They never faced a Holocaust. I am for a human rights centered policy to Palestinians but reject completely the analogy.

— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) May 16, 2021

getting dumber by the day

so why is the intelligence community/military suddenly 'okay' with talking about unidentified aerial phenomena? given that i don't trust anything that comes out of their mouths and there is no way they would admit to something unless it served their interest somehow, i assume they are trying to cover for advanced aerospace projects like they did in the 50s/60s, trying to bamboozle china/russia, or trying to quietly signify to china/russia that we have some very special new toys and not to fuck with us? not sure why they'd do the latter but i dunno.

something very fishy is going on and i am having trouble figuring out what

They're mad because conspiracies moved away from UFOs and black helicopters to adrenachrome and international nonces, they want to get the attention back.

Probably because they got a taste of that sweet new Space Force money and are trying to shake down for even more.

They're trying to create a soft landing for us when they reveal they've been in contact with aliens since the 50s.

Maybe they're trying to rob conspiracy nuts of one of their pet subjects, so as to lower the general noise level of governmental distrust?

This doesn't strike me as the best move, necessarily.

DEVELOPING:

"Asking a Judge to Unseal Files, Rudy Giuliani's Lawyers Demand Explanation for 'Extremely Damaging' Claim That He Might Destroy Evidence" https://t.co/vqbPWb3kTF via @lawcrimenews

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 17, 2021

We mere mortals can't understand the brilliance of the legal strategy from genius Rudy.

i may destroy evidence, streaming now on hbo max

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In their letter, Giuliani's counsel appear to confirm earlier reporting that feds tapped into his iCloud via a "covert warrant" in 2019, and Bill Barr's DOJ wouldn't approve earlier attempts to execute the search warrants.

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 17, 2021

so why is the intelligence community/military suddenly 'okay' with talking about unidentified aerial phenomena?

This New Yorker story does a good job of laying out the trajectory of all of that over the past few decades: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously

It's not all because of one particular writer, but she's a big part of it, she's really kind of pushed the doors open. And there are indeed X number of unexplained phenomena and have been for years. Doesn't mean any one thing in particular, but it's interesting.

Meantime, speaking of interesting, this news has surfaced:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2021-05-15/manchester-contributions-probe

Key part:

Documents obtained by The San Diego Union-Tribune show at least one witness with the last name Manchester was ordered to provide records and information to a U.S. District Court grand jury last month, “in connection with an ongoing criminal investigation.”

That same person, whose first name was redacted in the U.S. District Court documents, also was commanded to appear at the courthouse on the morning of May 4 — and to bring a slew of materials.

The subpoena orders the recipient to “produce any and all records, documents and correspondence” in their possession, custody or control from May 1, 2017, to the present related to political donations made by Douglas Manchester, the unnamed Manchester and “Douglas or (redacted) Manchester’s family and/ or the nomination of Douglas Manchester to be the U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas.”

The demand from federal prosecutors included an option for the witness to provide the requested documents directly to an FBI special agent in lieu of personally appearing at the Washington, D.C. courthouse.

The documents request copies of any communications between the Manchesters, the RNC and RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and Co-Chair Tommy Hicks. They also demand communications between the witness and any employee or agent and any member of Congress or their staff.

choice little bit from that ufo piece:

After Elizondo resigned, he and other key AATIP participants—including Mellon, Puthoff, and Semivan—almost immediately joined To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science, an operation dedicated to U.F.O.-related education, entertainment, and research, and organized by Tom DeLonge, a former front man of the pop-punk outfit Blink-182.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-has-blown-off-rudy-giulianis-pleas-for-help-as-feds-circle?source=articles&via=rss

lol @ the thought of any of these morons genuinely expecting him to have their backs when shit hit the fan

it's like when you're playing Mario and you think Bowser's gonna let you just waltz past him

Rudy's big mistake was looking like a fool he so transparently is when he was publicly fronting Trump's effort to overturn the election via lawsuits. The runny hair dye incident and Four Seasons Landscaping fiascoes doomed him.

i think we should keep the door open to the idea that rudy has made multiple Big Mistakes

like the time when he wanted the "really good scrutiny" applied to his case

guys i'm very sorry this person is on your shores, but still i'd like you to perhaps book a few free tickets, and definitely DO show up oh yes
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nigel-farage-americas-comeback-tour-2021-pittsburgh-pa-tickets-152757061483

weird

Hm.

Ex-AG Bill Barr's DOJ reportedly used the weight and force of the prosecuting arm of the U.S. federal government to try to unmask a parody Twitter account that trolled a Trump-loyalist Congressman. 🔽 https://t.co/SrYj8qpfhI

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 17, 2021

on an entirely unrelated note, here's a temporary email address generator

https://temp-mail.org/en/

Judge Howell gave DOJ until Wednesday to file a public version of its response, and the only specific instruction is that it must redact the name and contact information of the DOJ attorney(s). That information is almost always public. pic.twitter.com/iBqKRN7W75

— Brad Heath (@bradheath) May 17, 2021

I suppose the judge was just trying to tamp down on the volume of death threats and hate mail to the DOJ attorney(s).

You never know.

Anyway if you'd like a satisfying read, here's the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors as well as the sheriff and recorder ripping the hell out of the Arizona GOP Senate leader who ginned up that psuedo-audit. A reminder that said board is very much GOP as well.

https://www.maricopa.gov/DocumentCenter/View/68972/20210517-Response-Letter-to-Senate-President-Fann---FINAL

This thread on said board's own meeting today essentially talking about all this plus further points is worth your time

Chairman Jack Sellers says what Cyber Ninjas is doing on behalf of the Arizona Senate is a “grift disguised as an audit.”

— Dillon Rosenblatt (@DillonReedRose) May 17, 2021

Maricopa county says Cyber Ninjas is just straight miscounting ballots https://t.co/riK3xBi6l3 pic.twitter.com/vM5Wa9XjnX

— Sam Levine (@srl) May 17, 2021