US Politics November 2017

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

he doubled down and then tripled and quadrupled down on his idea that she's not a fact-checker, and then started a countdown clock to blocking her. what a complete dipshit. occasionally his name pops up here and elsewhere as some sort of authority on trump and russia but based off of this single thread i wouldn't trust him with my laundry

he also had the one kneejerk cult follower who then joined the fray to attack the NYT factchecker.

BINGO!

it's such a silly micro-scandal, but just for closure on this, know that seth abramson just blocked the fact checker and then deleted all of his tweets in the exchange

he's a nut, right? like mensch?

yes, please stop posting him here.

My apologies - posts to ILX don’t constitute approval etc.

he's a nut, right? like mensch?

tbf this is a tough bar to clear

Leandra English

A statement by the President: pic.twitter.com/kv001qqPcT

— Real Press Sec. (@RealPressSecBot) November 24, 2017

uh, go ahead and name him man of the year and then use the article to take a shit all over him imo.

Colin Kaepernick, then?

(as POTY - that was not in any way a response to KM's post above)

Meanwhile, the crisis at State Department worsens.

I didn't know this!

Mrs. Clinton and John Kerry, her successor, were both seen as focused on their own priorities and were not particularly popular within the department. The model secretaries in recent history have been Colin Powell, James A. Baker III and George P. Shultz, Republicans who cared about management.

One interesting detail in our look at Sessions tenure so far pic.twitter.com/64Wol3AGCq

— Matt Zapotosky (@mattzap) November 24, 2017

I guess it wouldn't help to point out that the area from which Sessions's family traces its lineage is pretty fucking famous for taking up arms against the United States of America. It's pretty much their jam.

Where’s that piece of shit Tillerson from? Oh right, fucking Texas.

Whether they thought Hillary was a careerist schmuck or not, they still lined the hallways and cheered when she took the job in 2009. Because it meant being allowed to do their job again. Ref: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/22/hillary.clinton.labott/index.html

I, uh, strongly doubt that Colin Powell is remembered that fondly.

from which country does their family trace its lineage?”

the woke racist, by j sessions

I mean that line Alfred quoted is such a piece of tossed-off typical NYT bothsides daddy-knows-best bullshit - yeah, guys who lie at the UN and abet torture are really popular for their management style. Fuck you.

NYT:

Something deeper has been consuming Mr. Trump. He sees the calls for Mr. Moore to step aside as a version of the response to the now-famous “Access Hollywood” tape, in which he boasted about grabbing women’s genitalia, and the flood of groping accusations against him that followed soon after. He suggested to a senator earlier this year that it was not authentic, and repeated that claim to an adviser more recently. (In the hours after it was revealed in October 2016, Mr. Trump acknowledged that the voice was his, and he apologized.)

So Mr. Trump has been particularly open to the idea, pushed by Mr. Moore’s defenders, that the candidate is being wrongly accused, even as Mr. McConnell and a parade of other Republicans have said they believe the accusers. When a group of senators gathered with the president in the White House last week to discuss the tax overhaul, it took little to get Mr. Trump onto the topic of Mr. Moore — and he immediately offered up the same it-was-40-years-ago defense, according to officials at the meeting.

trump just tweeted about how bad cnn (international) is, again. in the midst of the time-warner / at&t controversy. he just can't help it, he truly can't

Someone should murder him take away his phone

I'm rooting for the cerebral aneurysm. It would spare our country so much.

No, it wouldn't.

Pence would pack the courts, but at least 30% of the country doesn't have messianic beliefs about him.

I'm still rooting for dying on the shitter while tweeting - not because it would do anything good but just out of some small hope for the existence of cosmic justice.

There is no substantive difference between Pence and Trump, other than Pence has devised a so-stupid-it’s-clever means of avoiding being accused of sexual harassment and assault, and the same clenched-anus attitude is what keeps him out of the Russia shit. Pence seems to be just as likely to trade all our grandmothers and children away for a new war machine, get baited into a crusade against North Korea, and more likely to let Mitch & Paul pass decimating legislation without meddling and tweeting everything to death. So I’d keep Trump, actually.

lmao I've been making that argument for months and almost always get pilloried for it

(not On Here just in general)