US Politics November 2017

the plan is to vote it out of committee tomorrow, and Corker and Flake are both on the committee. If they want to kill it early here's their chance (I don't think they will)

If this does actually make it to the floor and is opened for amendments it will be interesting to see what Schumer does, I expect some theatrics

god james o’keefe is such a fucking moron

xpost Wow, that Post story. Can someone be prosecuted for that?

nah

not a crime to lie/entrap journalists

I do like how O'Keefe can't even ratfuck properly on behalf of a pedophile though

lankford is making waves too about saying "no", holding out for revenue backdrops (ie, automatic cuts to medicare / social security when the deficit inevitably balloons)

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/27/politics/james-lankford-republican-tax-plan/index.html

the post story is a real treat

indeed it is. some real geniuses we're looking at here

on a similar note

https://i.redd.it/7kmqhrud8l001.png

When asked who at the Daily Caller interviewed her, Phillips said, “Kathy,” pausing before adding the last name, “Johnson.”

https://simpsonswiki.com/w/images/0/0b/Joey_Jo-Jo_Junior_Shabadoo.png

ahahhahah my mind went to the same place

they should have just planted the fake news directly into social media, where hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting people would have taken the bait, and then blamed unnamed "leftists" for spreading their deliberate lies. they could even have rumored the WaPo was "deep in talks with woman X in preparation for running her story."

do it

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/retired-marine-colonel-to-launch-alabama-senate-write-in-campaign/2017/11/27/08816f4c-d394-11e7-9461-ba77d604373d_story.html

didn't they already sorta do that? I've heard that "Someone in Alabama offered me $1000 to make up a fake Roy Moore story!" thing several times. xp

that is referenced in the WaPo article

people keep claiming WaPo and others are bribing people, presumably at the behest of a vast left-wing conspiracy

c'mon, as if we could stop squabbling long enough to come up with anything that dumb

the fact that they were able to watch this PV employee just walk right into the office is pretty lol

just have someone sit across from the entrance and if you suspect an interviewee, see if they show up to work for O'Keefe, I guess

xp we should try some more vast conspiracies

imo it'd be really funny to replay the situation where the reporter blocked the purse with her own purse, only instead of just seeing if the first purse got moved, just keep moving them around to block each other and see how long it goes

Curb Your Enthusiasm scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nISggw9WM54

AL GOP Sen Shelby didnt vote for GOP candidate Roy Moore, instead voted for unnamed "distinguished Republican write-in” - according to @KilloughCNN

— Deirdre Walsh (@deirdrewalshcnn) November 27, 2017

I thought he already said he wrote in Sessions

"the distinguished racist Keebler Elf from Alabama" just didn't have the same ring to it

lol

shelby's in the club

http://img1.etsystatic.com/000/0/5900221/il_340x270.309466889.jpg

A handy rundown of James OKeefe’s bullshit and when he got back on it:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/935272597520076803

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPrBngaVwAALNHS.jpg
this guy is likely headed for jail afore he turns fifty

Well, yeah.

would also accept an early grave

He’s arrested and convicted multiple times, hasn’t he, but never actually gone to jail?

that always seemed curious to me too, but i'd guess he probably has a long list of republican assholes willing to anonymously provide him bail and good representation in court

the conservatives in question likely stack their towers of relative value quite differently than most progressives. it's also condescending and plays into a well-established conservative narrative, one which holds that the american left is a coalition built cynically on graft, on stealing from the common pot in order to buy the votes of the destitute & lazy. viewed through that lens, the refusal to be so bought, even when one is genuinely needy, becomes a point of pride.
― The sandwiches looked quite dank. (contenderizer), Saturday, March 18, 2017 11:00 PM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is good. i agree with this.

The woman at the center of the failed James O’Keefe sting, who got laid off from her real estate job and decided her next move was to become an undercover conservative journalist who lives off crowdfunding, is living a DeLillo novel.

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 28, 2017

You’d think that given all their anti-Communist positions Project Veritas would try harder to not be publicly owned

— Andres Pertierra (@ASPertierra) November 27, 2017

XD

the refusal to be so bought, even when one is genuinely needy, becomes a point of pride

seems at odds w the propensity of red states to suck hard on the federal teat

whites also benefit disproportionately from social safety nets etc

it's totally hypocritical for sure but the stories people tell about themselves are still, i think, important to account for

It's not that important

publicly owned lol

it's totally hypocritical for sure but the stories people tell about themselves are still, i think, important to account for

Seriously. I've been wondering lately about all these assholes concerned about Mexicans or immigrants or black people taking away their opportunities ... what do they think when they lose jobs and other opportunities to other white people? Same with the assholes that sue when they don't get into college. Why assume it was affirmative action that cost you your spot, and not that it was taken by some other white person? Basically, fuck all you blame-game losers. Blame everyone if you want, white people included, but then vote for politicians and policies that will help everyone. Unless of course you think you need a special leg up, in which case, again, fuck you for your sense of entitlement.

whoa, James O'Keefe went from wormy youth to "looks like he's 45" really fast

mendacity is a helluva drug

tbh I probably look the same, I just dress like a slovenly teen to disguise my bloated gaze

xxxpost Perpetual absolution is a perk of tribal affiliation. All blame is to be directed at the Other we've gone to great pains to construct as our scapegoat. We're always right, they're always wrong. It's as simple as that.

New poll shows Moore ahead by 5 pts >:(