US Politics November 2017

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Roy Moore's communications director has resigned, @elainaplott reports https://t.co/RJQKjIcYn9

— Andrew Beaujon (@abeaujon) November 22, 2017

Don't worry, Roy, the president isn't super busy at the moment, I'm sure he can help you out.

Roy's response "I don't know what to say..."

Texas Congressman Joe Barton Apologizes for Sending Nude Pic to Woman, Not His Wife

ARGH NSFW, life, my eyes, anything.

NOOOOOO that pic. Do not look.

looooool

Artist's rendition:

https://www.entertainmentearth.com/images/AUTOIMAGES/DC21024lg.jpg

― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, November 22, 2017 12:38 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thank u for insta-sterilizing the world with that digital saltpeter, TMZ.

trump called moore "tough on crime" compared to doug jones, so i guess being blasé about the age of consent is more important to the nation's well-being than putting away members of the kkk

also why are dick pics always captioned in the fucking cheesiest ways. porn has ruined dirty talk

Of course Trump wouldn't want to be put away?

sounds like barton might be added to this list soon https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12RhR9oZZpyKKceyLO3C5am84abKzu2XqLWjP2LnQDgI/edit#gid=0

https://www.buzzfeed.com/evefairbanks/mark-halperin-poisoned-our-politics?utm_term=.rpLknd9V9#.ufW2b0X8X

that was a good read

All of these "why are these allegations happening NOW" questions are dumb. Like, no shit someone may feel more urgency to come forward when the person who abused them looks poised to ride easily into the Senate AND the current cultural climate is the least hostile towards victims alleging sexual assault and rape than it has been in most of their lifetimes?

Barton should apologize ahead of time for nude selfies

A friend of mine who was assaulted quite a while back felt told me she felt like a weight had been lifted when the Weinstein story broke; she experienced a palpable wave of validation. xp

it is the expected response from the conspiracy theorist mindset coupled with a total lack of understanding of what it's like for a female victim of sexual "transgressions"

xps to mr perry

That Halperin piece falls victim to some of the same sins he lays at Halperin's feet. As the author himself says a few paragraphs in, power is so diffuse that there is no small insider's club that runs everything.

Surely, Halperin had influence, but that piece magnifies his influence to the point of distortion. Retailing gossip as news is as old as the yellow press and likening D.C. to the court at Versailles is a trope that dates back almost as far. Halperin didn't invent that world or its rules. He was just another in a long line that runs back through the Alsops and Walter Winchell to others too far back to recall.

she

re the writer

Yes. You are correct. I made a factual error because I was too lazy to go back and check the byline. My criticism of the author's premise stands.

what are you thankful for pic.twitter.com/YUFKlF8zGM

— Mens-hevik Rights🌹 (@timerube) November 22, 2017

I can do without pictures, but I love how specific the apologies have to be in Moore-world:

Republican Rep. Joe Barton apologizes for a nude selfie, admitting in a statement that he "had sexual relationships with other mature adult women"

he’s a mature woman?

Ha.

(I assume he meant "other than my wife")

I see your point, Aimless, but the author's argument still stands that obfuscating the workings of our elected government as if it's the star chamber while also diminishing the life-and-limb significance of what goes on is a bad thing and Halperin has always been a wet buttsock for perpetuating that; if his ultimate replacement(s) keep that behavior up while managing to not jerk off in front of their colleagues at work, we're still not going to be doing great as a country.

obfuscating the workings of our elected government as if it's the star chamber while also diminishing the life-and-limb significance of what goes on is a bad thing and Halperin has always been a wet buttsock for perpetuating that

Oh, I agree completely with that part.

(I assume he meant "other than my wife")

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, November 22, 2017 1:50 PM (forty-eight minutes ago)

I read it more as "...unlike the other pedophiles and pederasts in the news".

It's as part of the quote that this happened while he was separated but not divorced from his wife.

not gonna look for this Barton pic

good thinking

Joe Barton's dick can mean something beautiful
Joe Barton's dick can mean dreams that are coming true

A powerful argument that DJT writes his own tweets:

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 23, 2017

specifically that it was in response to

New post:

Trump's rage-tweets about LaVar Ball are part of a pattern.

Trump regularly attacks high-profile African Americans to feed his supporters' belief that the system is rigged for minorities:https://t.co/vlWbUj10T2

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) November 22, 2017

So... he's agreeing?

trump flipped out on one of his own supporters because he’s too stupid to read, then deleted and covered his tracks with a retweet pic.twitter.com/rsqY8oOzOY

— 👹 (@HonoredSpirit) November 22, 2017

Thank her, corrupt ass.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/us/politics/flynn-mueller-russia-trump.amp.html

flynn’s legal team has notified trump’s that they can no longer share information, likely indicating they’re at least now discussing cooperation with mueller

Conspicuously timed thanksgiving announcement

Seth Abrams has thoughts:

(THREAD) Here's a brief itemization of the factual errors in the New York Times' breaking news story, below, about Michael Flynn possibly having signed a cooperation deal with Bob Mueller. The errors are inexplicable, and it's important they be called out. https://t.co/KYQvl4gFpP

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) November 24, 2017

Bah, sorry for autocorrect.

Useful thread, crank or not. Especially the implication that if Flynn takes a deal then clearly he is not the primary target, which means Trump and high level associates likely formally in the cross hairs.

I am not sure you can assume that when he is alleged to have been bribed by a key strategic ally, tbh. There might be plenty of people worried about the implications for Turkey / US relations, which are already strained, if this went to a full trial. Will be interesting to see either way.

New Yorker fact checker chimes in

no buddy i just think you're a hack https://t.co/MqbKLEz0ui

— Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) November 24, 2017

i don't know much about abramson, but why does he keep calling her a "fact-checker" and implying that she actually isn't one? granted, i'm not an "investigator" like he is but she has the little blue checkmark by her name and says she's a fact checker for the new yorker and so i guess i just blindly believe that it's true. sometimes i'm sheeple, i guess

his responses sound similar to the guy who was selling bootleg Miami Dolphins jerseys insisting his jerseys were real and that anybody who knew jerseys would never call them fake

circular reasoning, unimpressive appeals to authority, etc