US Politics, November 2018: "There is no blame. There is no anything."

Vote TAX RETURNS Tuesday, November 6th.

there are no presidential tax returns release to the public as yet, either

*released

good thread title

mourning

No Blame November

Oppo Dump

good luck usa

who won?

impeach the president!

Jacob Wohl really likes Inglorious Basterds.

First, one of the fictitious employees of Surefire Intelligence actually a Photoshopped Christoph Waltz.

Now, as @melaniasbelts points out, Wohl appears to have stolen a scene and a line from the movie for his fake Mueller dossier. pic.twitter.com/8lYElR3RPy

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 31, 2018

so who's looking forward to the Jacob Wohl press conference

I was briefly relishing the inevitable downfall of everyone involved in this conspiracy of idiocy but then I remembered the world we live in so now I'm just bracing myself for their inevitable reality shows and/or cabinet appointments.

These days, the only qualities with any practical utility are moxie and hate.

not to mention the 6-figure GoFundMe campaign

Wohl also tweeted a week prior to the tourney that the US Soccer team would dominate the World Cup this year

he and sayoc should start a wingnut soccer fan club in jail

“Well, I try. I do try and I always want to tell the truth. When I can, I tell the truth. And sometimes it turns out to be where something happens that’s different or there’s a change, but I always like to be truthful.”

Please note the corresponding book of the Bible when u r quoting Jesus.

Axis of Evil!

Today in Miami, John Bolton will announce a new policy toward Latin America to confront the governments of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, calling them the “Troika of Tyranny.”

— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) November 1, 2018

This is what happens when you don't give your propaganda a Frum pass

surprised he didn't go with "devil's triangle" tbh

Well, that would just be confusing, given the well-known drinking game by that name.

interesting that troika appears to be a russian word

That's the kind of bold flavor they enjoy in...Albuquerque!

Troika? Sigh. Does it feel like they just included Nicaragua because they wanted to get to three?

The ALBA Autocrats.

surprised they didn't go with the three enemigos, though I guess that wouldn't play in Miami

The White House probably announced this farrago thinking he might help Curbelo, Scott, etc. Who the fuck knows.

Three Enemigos is great.

Red Lobster Create Your Own Scapegoat Trio

oh what the hell

watch now: John Bolton smacks down on three countries with three words and they're left reeling

Troika? Sigh. Does it feel like they just included Nicaragua because they wanted to get to three?

― Frederik B, Thursday, November 1, 2018 3:02 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I assume it has to do with Bolton's love of the film Red Dawn

Troika has anti-EU connections too - though obviously Bolton and anyone in Trump's cabinet is too stupid to realize that.

... connotations not connections.

I’m worried that we’ve done immense harm to the marginalized in the name of God. You realize it is not good news at all if you are just baptizing certain inequalities or biases.

I don’t feel so much like I am leaving conservative evangelicalism. I worship like one, I talk like one. It’s not like I can pull myself out of this relationship. I feel incredibly guilty for attending a church I can’t invite people to. But I love the community that raised me. A lot of evangelical parents are judged by the successful transmission of values to their children. I haven’t wanted to shame them.

I am very excited to vote for Andrew Gillum. It is not that you have conservative evangelicals suddenly becoming liberal. It is more a realizing that you could be practicing something that isn’t even Christian at all.

run away, Alexandria! it's not too late! you can pull yourself out of this relationship!

someone 'scoping the Jacob Wohl press conference lmao

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1MYGNyrreaQKw

hahahahahaha, just as predicted

http://i63.tinypic.com/zl95ag.jpg

oh my god he's taking questions guys

did Wohl actually just admit Surefire Intelligence is real now

"sometimes people go to jury duty, but they're also somewhere else"

"Sometimes people go to jury duty, and they're also somewhere else! ... Stop laughing, this isn't a laughing matter."

idk if this wound up in the other thread but

https://i.imgur.com/uijRows.png

for masochists, Rush Lumbago will be interviewing DeSantis on his show in a half hour

"my opinion is that jacob is a child prodigy who has surpassed mozart"

What was that about Jacob having an honourary Harvard law degree?

xxxxpost this is the schadenfreude I needed. my god. about 40,000 Twitter users predicted the "no show due to fear" (including me) publicly on Wohl's feed yesterday and that's the route he chose to go anyway.

some have said they think the person blotted out in the pic is Gateway Pundit writer Cassandra Fairbanks, which would be hilarious.

jacob wohl, in the midst of getting laughed at, said "this is not funny. it's not a laughing matter"

later, his lawyer/co-presenter took the mic and said that he is 52 years old, and that in his 52 years he has never met a brighter young man, and then...

"jacob is a child prodigy that has eclipsed mozart"
*reporter yells out "He can't even open an eTrade account*

Look, I wasn't the brightest 20 year old by any stretch of the imagination. But this dude plays poker with his cards facing the wrong way.

eclipsed mozart, eh? name five of his arias

"bananas" = standard operating procedure for NC

You know what's crazy? If for whatever reason Trump *and* Pence were removed from office (I know), then the president would likely be ... Pelosi. Right? Wild that the line of succession could switch the party in the White House.

it happened on the West Wing. of course.

only if they were removed exactly simultaneously, of course

it's gonna be awesome when none of these people get sentences nearly as long as the texas woman who illegally registered to vote

lol yea I'm still convinced that when it's all said and done Reality Winner is gonna be serving the harshest sentence (besides Manafort, though committing roughly 200 additional crimes will do that)

"bananas" = standard operating procedure for NC

it's a bananas republic

Assuming she's still incarcerated by then, Reality Winner will almost certainly be pardoned by our next Democratic president, Conservative Fantasy.

lol

Here's a thread

The Justice Department says in a new court filing that when it comes to FISA declassifciation, President Trump doesn't know what he's tweeting about. pic.twitter.com/4PVr5I6xHn

— Brad Heath (@bradheath) November 30, 2018

Russiagate skeptics are barely a thing anymore but I still want to note that in order to believe Russiagate is all hype, you also have to believe that Trump and his inner circle wouldn’t do the stupidest, most venal possible thing in any situation.

— David Klion (@DavidKlion) November 29, 2018

well it was fun while it lasted :(

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/looks-like-matthew-whitaker-has-finally-taken-control-at-the-department-of-justice/

Eh, we'll see.

The idea of Whitaker funneling privileged information from a criminal investigation directly to a subject of that investigation seems... unethical.

the man who marketed time travel cryptocurrency, Bigfoot hunting, and man-sized toilets... unethical? surely some mistake

https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/80014094/dear-republicans-stop-violating-me.jpg

Government Wouldn't Unseal Michael Cohen's Warrants because "Many Uncharged Persons Are Named in the Materials"https://t.co/QcPumAoSzD

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) December 1, 2018

Daddy Bush died

This is going to turn into an argument here tomorrow, isn’t it

Here’s hoping that he took the time to specifically uninvite you know who to his funeral

It's amazing how successive Republican presidents keep making the preceding one look good by comparison. Although, it was a false impression in the case of Bush and Reagan. Bush was not worse than Reagan, but that was not for lack of trying.

This is going to turn into an argument here tomorrow, isn’t it

― Karl Malone, Saturday, December 1, 2018 5:00 AM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It had better fuckin not

A 94yo person passing is generally not a tragedy, it's a demonstration of mortality

Also it's a bush, and he visited real hardship on this world

Karl Malone
Posted: November 30, 2018 at 9:07:36 PM
Here’s hoping that he took the time to specifically uninvite you know who to his funeral

Shakey i for 1 hope u are invited

Linda Wertheimer on NPR:

"he had a dazzling resume... he was a very nice person"

the so-useful liberal media

NPR is not liberal media.

Woah I cursed him : /

Who next?

Kissinger. Fingers crossed.

"he had a dazzling resume... he was a very nice person"

lol this is objectively true

The glitter on the resume is ashes

is that a mars volta song?

* solos *

(solo continues)
(skip to next song)
(solo continues)

second least awful GOP President of the Past 50 Years.

Who was least awful -- Ford? Ford was our most conservative president since Coolidge, and he pardoned Nixon. Big ups for nominating John Paul Stevens, I guess.

Incredible thread about how Bush's WH compelled the DEA to entrap a black high schooler from SE DC into selling crack in Lafayette Square in front of the White House, after which he sat in jail for almost a decade.

https://www.twitter.com/JoshClarkDavis/status/1068889697999568897

NY Times homepage blurb:

He made his share of mistakes, but he worked for a safer, more democratic world, the editorial board writes.

"he had a dazzling resume... he was a very nice person"

lol this is objectively true

Alfred, I didn't know he was a genial pal of yours. I guess he served you dessert first?

"a safer, more democratic world." Jesus Christ

His crimes as President aside, George H.W. Bush was also CIA Director, overseeing Indonesia's genocide in East Timor, and Operation Condor, which bolstered South American fascists. An awful, awful man.

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) December 1, 2018

Good morning!

This week just got better as it went along

Alfred, I didn't know he was a genial pal of yours. I guess he served you dessert first?

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius)

In my job I see a lot of resumes; his looks good by any standard, not that he did anything with them except warm the seat preparing for more pats on the head from men more powerful than he. And he was a nice man by all accounts. That's like saying "It's objectively true" that Reagan liked jellybeans and napped during Cabinet meetings.

Ford was, on the whole, "mostly harmless". maybe we should call him Ford Prefect.

yeah he pardoned Nixon but in retrospect I don't know that that made any real difference.

he was so nice he loved to touch the girls' rumps! in a nice way!

He was once, like every one of us, an innocent and unsullied child. And I think it's only proper that we memorialize him in just that way.

(Don't mistake Bush's niceness for kindness.)

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/81074642.jpg?quality=90&strip=all

is Bill goosing him?

ventriloquist

US Politics December 2018: ~very legal and very cool~