US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

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i thought all distractions must be answered in full

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 11:44 (five years ago) link

Duly noted. But that's on you, mate.

Frederik B, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 11:57 (five years ago) link

Yea refuting facts in these idiots' stories only plays into their hands

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), 31. oktober 2018 12:28 (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It does not. This shows how tough it actually is to fabricate these stories, and how easily spotted falsehoods are. It makes it smarter, rather than stupider, to say that when it's word against word, the proper thing to do is to #believewomen.

Frederik B, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 11:59 (five years ago) link

Burden of proof is on them and they've been hilariously clowned nd humiliated and discredited at this point.

Continuing to refute individual facts like "lol the 18th floor is a gym" lends the illusion that people are taking the allegations seriously. Which nobody is, because right now there ARE no actual specific allegations and cos the whole thing was so badly bungled.

This isn't a Devin Nunes scenario where you have to attack him on all fronts because he is a weasel with power who can exert influence. This shit never got off the ground

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 12:26 (five years ago) link

Like there is no woman to believe or disbelieve at the moment

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 12:26 (five years ago) link

good mourning!

You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 12:27 (five years ago) link

RIP Muellergate (2:30-2:32 CST, 10/30/18)

a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 12:30 (five years ago) link

Happy Halloween. I am going as an Executive Order

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link

*signs*

You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link

good grief

Hunt3r, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 13:18 (five years ago) link

Executive Ordure

Glasnostradamus (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link

The president: I went to the site of a mass murder and everyone was very nice to me. pic.twitter.com/NITHYfWEta

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 31, 2018

frogbs, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link

That's nice for him :)))))

Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link

aw

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link

Meanwhile: North Dakota!

State officials say it is easy for anyone without a residential address to get one. In a letter to tribal leaders last month — just after the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit let the requirement take effect, in a decision later affirmed by the Supreme Court — Secretary of State Al Jaeger’s office wrote that voters could contact their county’s 911 coordinator, describe the location of their home and have an address assigned “in an hour or less.”

In practice, it isn’t always so simple.

Voters’ experiences have varied greatly based on which county they live in. In Rolette County, where the Turtle Mountain Reservation is, they have been able to get addresses from the county and IDs from the tribe without much red tape. But at Standing Rock, in Sioux County, the 911 coordinator is the sheriff, Frank Landeis. That’s a deterrent to people who are afraid to interact with law enforcement, much less tell the sheriff where they live, and Sheriff Landeis is not easy to reach.

When Ms. Finn called him on Oct. 12, three days after the Supreme Court ruling, he was out. On Oct. 15, he said he was transporting prisoners and could not assign addresses that day. He was also unavailable when The New York Times called on Friday.

And in an episode recounted independently by Ms. Finn, Mr. Semans and Ms. Young, a tribal elder, Terry Yellow Fat, got through to Sheriff Landeis only to be assigned the address of a bar near his house. Mr. Semans worried that, in addition to playing into stereotypes about Native Americans and alcohol, this could expose Mr. Yellow Fat to fraud charges if he voted under an address he knew was incorrect.

So, with help from Four Directions and others, some tribes are creating addresses themselves — and preparing to do so until the polls close.

You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link

Jesus christ that trump tweet xp

Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link

No one else on earth would be capable of making a tragedyd like this about themselves

Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link

yeah they would, they just all happen to be part of the same party he is

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link

Idk bro. This is deranged

Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link

Yeah even more deranged are the people that see no problem with it

(•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link

if we get WWIII, it will definitely be about him

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link

here's some mueller catnip for the fans

I don’t really think about the mueller thing but this article is phenomenal reporting and docket analysis. The speed of whatever this is can’t be accounted for unless they’re right. https://t.co/X9flQzlzUz

— warrior cop (@wyatt_privilege) October 31, 2018

wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link

I heard that one major reason that the Pittsburgh people didn't want the president to come was taht security was already fully stretched. & in the wake of one attack it might very well be necessary to further protect survivors.
So having a V.i.P. arrive needing further protection would mean focus would be where it didn't need to be.
So it was a matter of getting one thing done before somebody arrives demanding to be the focus.
So yeah very much making everything about him as per usual.

Thankfully nothing further was attempted, but could see him being there being seen as a sanction.

& if that's 2 events already this week, wonder what the next one will be.

Stevolende, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link

I do think it's interesting that Giuliani basically disappeared in the last couple months

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link

never wanna see "interesting" and "Guiliani" in a sentence tbh

You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link

it'll be interesting when his rotting corpse is dragged through the streets of NY by an angry mob

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link

Re: Giuliani, he's on a world tour to Armenia and the Ukraine.

Rudy Giuliani, the prez’s unpaid lawyer on the Russia probe, has been making mysterious appearances abroad. He was just in Armenia, hosted by a Putin ally.

“I don't recall seeing anything like this before,” one expert told us.

Our latest w/@WNYC: https://t.co/dfKHKT8CQe

— ProPublica (@ProPublica) October 31, 2018

the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link

If you're being tried as let's say an arsonist, I'm pretty sure it's just SOP for your lawyer to be regularly seen hobnobbing with arson enthusiasts in public.

a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link

the optics? fuck the optics.

ian, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link

and please no one chime in to remind me that either way Ryan got all he ever wanted, which was a fat tax cut and a future lobbying sinecure.

evol j, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link

being told by the Grifter you know nothing has got to stir many mixed emotions in the Granny Killer

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link

Trumpian disdain is like a reverse Geiger counter. As it gets louder, you can be assured you're heading away from abject toxicity.

a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link

fucksake America, enough is enough. You can keep babies in cages, bomb the living daylight out of the I-ranians and cosy up to murderous dictators all you want but for God's sake leave our slightly run down seaside towns out of it...

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/E6BF/production/_104117095_jaywick2.jpg

Although, to be fair it is a Tory council so, you know, fuck 'em.

Ned Trifle X, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link

Nope. They couldn't. My mother and sisters doin't work for 1-800-HIREAVICTIM https://t.co/fzTTB2S0R5

— Jacob Wohl (@JacobAWohl) September 26, 2018

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link

NARRATOR VOICE...

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link

fuck it xp

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/E6BF/production/_104117095_jaywick2.jpg

Ned Trifle X, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link

doint doint

Yerac, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link

well

Defund Phil Collins (stevie), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link

need to have a future Speaker the yokels can't pronounce

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link

Joe Biden: "Folks, there is a conservative columnist named David Brooks. He's bright as hell."

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) October 31, 2018

mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link

xpost I'd like to nominate Sen. Despitethefact.

a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link

can't believe dude's name is JAWohl

crüt, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link

Jacob Wohl and Kanye are two of the three people I've muted on twitter. big week.

officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link

I wondered why Harry Reid was trending on Twitter; now I know what the cable shows will discuss tonight.

You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link

who did he say looks alike?

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link

Harry Reid, when he was sane, agreed with us on Birthright Citizenship! pic.twitter.com/ypiE1QWKag

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2018

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link

god shut up you motherfucking motherfucker

princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link


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