Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

Flynn needs to be careful about standing too close to any open windows

xxpost that's the thing really is the whole "Paterno" scenario. obv he became more directly implicated as that story developed further but in the earlygoing, he was seen more was the guy that "didn't do enough" when made aware of something and held accountable for what happened under him.

President appointing a guy who is about to be indicted to National SEcurity is as bad a headline as you could ask for.

Flynn needs to be careful about standing too close to any open windows

― Moodles, Thursday, March 30, 2017 7:02 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

could Trump's admin even get that right at this point?

wouldn't be half surprised to see a processional of Trump goons tricked one by one into falling out a window to their demise while Flynn sits idly by and laughs

With Putin's help, anything is possible, and this is one of his specialties

Flynn probably has no takers as he's quibbling w/ the FBI over the hotel they will put him up in

why would he need immunity? i didn't expect him to get charged with anything.

― Treeship, Thursday, March 30, 2017 10:55 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

failing to register as a foreign agent of turkey - illegal, regardless of their ham fisted ex post facto registration
taking payments from a foreign power while being retired military - also illegal

I cant see how his testimony would relate to that but hey, give him points for trying

Trump's primary threat tactic is p funny - w his approval ratings in the tank, who does he think is gonna run in a year out of sheer loyalty to Trump, rather than loyalty to a particular ideology or actual constituents. Like are there *really* that many available candidates out there who are just "idgaf what he does, I will support him on anything no matter what"?

xp

Trump doesn't get that his legislative support is predicated on his being a vehicle for *their* priorities, not vice versa

Like are there *really* that many available candidates out there who are just "idgaf what he does, I will support him on anything no matter what"?

Just you wait, next year we'll be reading news stories about Congressional candidate X, "better known as Cuntkiller88 from /r/the_Donald"

2017 is going to be known as the "gas leak year" isn't it

Fuck, these people are hopeless.

Two days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order rolling back Barack Obama’s Climate Action Plan, easing fracking restrictions and reversing the previous administration’s efforts to shrink America’s carbon footprint, the Environmental Protection Agency sent out a press release intended to congratulate the president for his bold leadership. The agency included quotes from groups like the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, the Chamber of Commerce, and the American Petroleum Institute, all of whom heaped praise on Trump. But the e-mail also contained an unexpected message—one attributed to West Virginia Republican senator Shelley Moore Capito, a longtime supporter of the coal industry in her home state.

“President Trump has chosen to recklessly bury his head in the sand,” the quote attributed to Capito read. “Walking away from the Clean Power Plan and other climate initiatives, including critical resiliency projects is not just irresponsible— it's irrational.” It continued: “With the world watching, President Trump and Administrator Pruitt have chosen to shirk our responsibility, disregard clear science and undo the significant progress our country has made to ensure we leave a better, more sustainable planet for generations to come.”

There were three apparent problems with the quote, which was featured prominently atop the E.P.A.’s press release. First, it wasn’t exactly a ringing endorsement of Trump’s executive order. Second, the release misspelled the senator’s first name. And third, Capito never actually said any of that. The E.P.A. accidentally attributed the quote to Capito, when it had actually come from Democratic senator Tom Carper of Delaware, the Democrat leading the Environment and Public Works Committee. Oops.

FWIW, Flynn's lawyer has issued a statement saying 'Yeah the committees'....but no word on the FBI. (Yet?)

https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/847590500056137728

xpost Wooooooooooooooooow.

2017 is going to be known as the "gas leak year" isn't it

― Neanderthal, Thursday, March 30, 2017 11:22 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

where u been man

"Porter Ranch leak declared largest methane leak in U.S. history" in Feb 2016

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-porter-ranch-methane-20160225-story.html

That EPA thing has to be an "inside job", so to speak

Oh...MEANTIME...

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/civil-wars/articles/2017-03-27/rex-tillerson-may-be-in-hot-water-over-exxonmobil-emails

The company was required to produce all relevant internal communications on climate risk to comply with a state subpoena, but failed to produce the bulk of the emails from the Wayne Tracker address.

The company responded with a long letter full of ideological posturing, but admitted that it failed to turn over the bulk of the emails because its "technological processes [for finding materials responsive to the subpoena] did not automatically extend to the secondary email account."

The judge was evidently not impressed with Exxon's arguments. He has ordered the company to turn over the "Wayne Tracker" emails by March 31, along with sworn affidavits explaining how the company identified and turned over documents in response to the subpoena, and explanations of what documents may have been lost and why.

Zing.

https://twitter.com/Evan_Rosenfeld/status/847593637839912960

REMINDER: #Flynn to NBC in September: "When you are given immunity, that means you have probably committed a crime."

Relevant interview is linked there.

Plus Eli Lake saying Nunes 'misled' him, ie, outright lied.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-30/devin-nunes-and-the-tragedy-of-the-russia-inquiry

The Wayne Tracker thing is flagrant and sanctionable. Its the kind of discovery abuse that will get your shit kicked straight out of court reagrdless of the merits of your case/defense.

ugh from the tracker article

The company responded with a long letter full of ideological posturing, but admitted that it failed to turn over the bulk of the emails because its "technological processes [for finding materials responsive to the subpoena] did not automatically extend to the secondary email account."

and this is 1000000000000000000000% why they set it up in the first place.

god's not done with him yet

some poor bastard is going to have to submit a sworn statement to explain this bullshit. I would not want to be that person.

Chris Hayes doing superb job tying it all together.

Oh Nunespaws

https://mobile.twitter.com/TimOBrien/status/847588412093849601

Nunes acknowledges lying to @EliLake about his contacts with Trump's White House

lol. this guy is a bad tv-actor version of a bumbling villain in a Coen brothers story

why would he need immunity? i didn't expect him to get charged with anything.

Can you please just not be whatever this is, sometimes

just use the killfile or something jesus christ

Jon Ossoff has a very good chance of stealing Tom Price's old House seat in three weeks.

Last three tweets by this guy (resume/bio here) seem of note:

https://twitter.com/marceelias

Rob Kelner is a very good lawyer who knows when a client needs immunity. And if Rob says Flynn has a "story to tell", WH should watch out....Flynn's choice of Rob Kelner is itself significant. He was no fan of Trump and is not part of the Trump wing of GOP. A very principled guy....Flynn wisely chose a lawyer who owes nothing to the Trump WH. Rob will provide independent counsel to a guy with "a story to tell."

Schiff a few hours back:

https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/847546367035813890

Received WH invite to review docs. I've accepted, here’s my reply. If same docs provided to Chair last wk, WH has a lot of explaining to do.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8MVeBPXoAEUQIN.jpg

i never really felt like we'd see a president pence at least not until after 2018 for sure but w/ this shit escalating, GOP tensions, horrible outlook for major GOP legislation, and trump's abysmal approval ratings is there a small tiny ~1%-5% chance??? all hail president mike pence??

Third WH official named in the Nunes thing:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/three-white-house-officials-tied-to-files-shared-with-house-intelligence-chairman/2017/03/30/de4b8c30-1589-11e7-9e4f-09aa75d3ec57_story.html

Also, apparently you're not supposed to look Tillerson in the eye:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/secretary-of-state-rex-tillerson-spends-his-first-weeks-isolated-from-an-anxious-bureaucracy/2017/03/30/bdf8ec86-155f-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?

With Putin's help, anything is possible, and this is one of his specialties

yer stranded somewhere btwn reality, Yakov Smirnoff and Vince Foster

Putin's perfectly happy w current situation - a weakened and bumbling prez serves his interest. He's not gonna do anything to "help" Trump, the schmuck has already served his purpose.

weird watching "left twitter" really really double down on how Hillary is anti-christ when Trump/ GOP malfeasance starts boiling over

we get it guys. i didn't much care for her either. but you know, fuck off for 5 minutes.

just use the killfile or something jesus Christ

there's no killfile on zing

tho tbf i guess a lot of those folks are prob hate-following a bunch of HRC lunatics that i avoid like a burning building

yer stranded somewhere btwn reality, Yakov Smirnoff and Vince Foster

in Soviet Russia, post flags you

how Hillary is anti-Christ irrelevant atm

there. fixed.

https://www.justsecurity.org/39426/explainer-flynns-request-immunity/

^ brief and worthwhile

articles like that are why I'm ever afraid to react with joy to stories like this one because I know so damn little about the legal system and how these things work I can't tell what's serious shit and what's "a story stretched by an eager media"

it does make sense though - I never actually expected Flynn to publicly state he wanted to make a deal when those whispers started last week

https://twitter.com/kcdubz/status/847644937294303232

lol wtf

was that a tweet or a Menshn

Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov (Russian: 1939 – 1993) was a journalist for RIA Novosti and a former PGU KGB informant from the Soviet Union who defected to Canada.

the new york times made me laugh out loud today with this gem of a sentence:

"The reasons Mr. Trump’s threats may well have about as much bite as a catfish — scary appearance, weak teeth — are many."

Trump’s Threats Against Freedom Caucus Cause Few Shivers of Fear

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/donald-trump-freedom-caucus.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov (Russian: 1939 – 1993) was a journalist for RIA Novosti and a former PGU KGB informant from the Soviet Union who defected to Canada.

Between the pinned Slayer tweet and the fact he has been dead for 25 years you'd have thought she would have realised - though Mensch also thought Charlie Hebdo was a real person and loudly proclaimed she wouldn't debate Theodor Hertzl.

I like the guy in the mentions pointing out it was a fake account and linking to what he thought was the real one.

/there's no killfile on zing/

Tap a post by a user you want to block, then the yellow triangle with a ! on the top right of screen, then choose "Block poster"

Enjoy 😎

the name 'joe manchin' has been bothering me for a while now and i've finally, finally managed to put my finger on what it reminded me of - blustery asshole joe chin from parappa the rapper

http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/278764-parappa-the-rapper-playstation-screenshot-your-antagonist.png