US Politics December 2018: ~very legal and very cool~

wonder who approved that budget

Rumors flying that Congress set to pass Israel Anti-Boycott Act - designed to punish/prevent differentiation b/w Israel & settlements by quashing free speech.

Likely will also move on Orwellian-named Anti-Semitism Awareness act.

This thread reviews the issues with both.

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— Lara Friedman🔥 (@LaraFriedmanDC) December 3, 2018

haven't Republicans done enough to raise awareness of anti-semitism this year?

Mueller filed an indictment just as the President left for https://t.co/8ZNrQ6X29a July he indicted the Russians who will never come here just before he left for Helsinki.Either could have been done earlier or later. Out of control!Supervision please?

— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) November 30, 2018

follow the (inadvertent) link

lol, nice work internet

lol

bhahahaha

Links is tweets hold the same weight in court as a sworn affidavit, right?

online rules

Pay attention to Wisconsin, where the gerrymandered legislative majority is doing its level best to claw away the power of the Democratic governor Wisconsinites just elected

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/12/03/5-senators-spotlight-opponents-try-stop-lame-duck-bill/2189439002/

Guiuliani's not a well man.

Kimim ° has f

— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) November 30, 2018

TBF he's better at typing than me. I don't know how to that little degree symbol.

I was about to write something about "butt tweeting" but then I realized that it's Rudy Giuliani's butt we'd have been talking about. So I didn't?

i guess he doesn't delete tweets?

press and hold the zero to get the degrees symbol.

First rule of domination is to never apologize

No worries, the white supremacist organization that tweet was directed at knows exactly what it means.

We have covfefe.

this is one of the better US Politics thread titles, just wanna say

Double-LOL in here:

The exact moment when Canada's Prime Minister referred to President Trump as "Donald" in public - something he reportedly hates.

Then, his reaction. pic.twitter.com/ajg32OUyfu

— Muhammad Lila (@MuhammadLila) November 30, 2018

The following post is really funny, too

has somebody veep'd that yet?

i think the most veep-able moment of his presidency so far came when he stranded the argentine president on the podium. i guess people have stopped veep-ing as his presidency has gotten less and less funny.

tfw your mind is too occupied with the work you and jfk jr are doing behind the scenes to expose a paedophile ring among the international elite to focus on signing your name properly

The follow up to that last tweet is even better:

There's more. There were three copies of the new NAFTA deal to sign. During the signing ceremony, President Trump appears to sign in the wrong place on one of them.

This is the exact moment everyone realized, individually with their reactions, including Prime Minister Trudeau. pic.twitter.com/Wd3CEtV73D

— Muhammad Lila (@MuhammadLila) December 3, 2018

Strong story here about why this week looks like it'll be a truly big one.

The Manafort memo on Friday "will be public," Mueller's office tells me, indicating prosecutors will detail for all to read what prosecutors believe the ex-Trump campaign chair lied about. Should be interesting reading. https://t.co/dDQhgDJlh3

— Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff) December 3, 2018

Useful Marcy Wheeler thread on tomorrow's Flynn sentencing

As a strong proponent of the "Bob Mueller makes the most out of his court filings" school, I want to warn that we MIGHT NOT get a lot of juice in Mike Flynn's memo.

I say that for two reasons.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) December 3, 2018

Now thats some serious ratfucking you done there NC GOP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/north-carolina-election-fraud-investigation-centers-on-operative-with-criminal-history-who-worked-for-gop-congressional-candidate/2018/12/03/7b270a90-f6aa-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html?utm_term=.89d14b90e684

i think michael cohen is a fascinating figure

it's rare to see someone do this kind of 180. also, it seems like he was being really careful to document the semi-legal stuff he's been doing for trump for years, as if he expected he would need information to protect himself from getting thrown under the bus by trump. seems smart... and yet he spent his career as trump's thuggish "fixer"

the only 'fascinating' thing about him is that he got caught

don't get all starry-eyed treeshy

it's rare to see someone do this kind of 180. also, it seems like he was being really careful to document the semi-legal stuff he's been doing for trump for years, as if he expected he would need information to protect himself from getting thrown under the bus by trump. seems smart... and yet he spent his career as trump's thuggish "fixer"

― Trϵϵship,

what an awful thing to say about Trudeau

It's intersting that one of the Trump toadies I always found the most deeply unlikable flipped so radically but I don't know that I'd call him fascinating. Particularly since it seems like the result of his dad doing some late-stage parenting he really should've undertaken decades earlier.

So...there's a rumor going around that that video of Trump walking away from the president of Argentina, grimacing and muttering "Get me out of here," is in fact footage of Trump literally shitting himself in public.

As people used to say, I WANT TO BELIEVE.

so theres a piss tape and a shit tape

you can never be too careful

"Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko responded by introducing martial law for 30 days in much of Ukraine. For the duration of martial law, Ukrainian authorities barred entry to all Russian males aged 16 to 60 in a move the Ukrainian leader said was needed to prevent Russia from further destabilizing the country."

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ukraine-calls-reservists-amid-tensions-russia-59570234

It's intersting that one of the Trump toadies I always found the most deeply unlikable flipped so radically

― all lite up and very romatic (Old Lunch), Monday, December 3, 2018 10:11 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah for sure. remember his threats to the daily beast? he was a true ghoul

he's only fascinating as like a character in a story. not saying i am going to become pen pals with michael cohen.

You totally should, though. He's gonna need some where he's going.

summer camp?

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1400/1*o6dNQkHFQKj-4y04LfAHww.jpeg

Some of these people look so unwell I wonder how they stay alive.

new board description

they say I walk around
Like I got an S on my chest

If you ever wondered what Henry Winkler looked like pulling a Jeffrey Tambor face...

So President DumDum will be at the Bush funeral, right? I assume he'll be seated with former presidents, like Obama and W and Bill (who will be there with Hillary)? Will this be the first time they've been in the same orbit since his election? Will they shun him? Tell him to fuck himself? Shake his hand? Move seats?

“You can’t sit with us.”

'Hello, DONALD. How are you, DONALD? Very good to see you, DONALD.'

they'll be perfectly civil to him, because civility is more important than anything else in politics iirc

@nbcwashington
Out of respect for the 41st president of the United States, @USPS will suspend regular mail deliveries on Wednesday, Dec. 5

weird

Gonna screw over Amazon and lying Washington Post any way they can ;-)

Uh...wut?

Is this a thing they've done in the past?