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

General detail

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/michael-flynn-robert-mueller-fbi-sentencing-prison

Redacted addendum:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5425878-Gov-Uscourts-Dcd-191592-46-1-2.html

Lmao

pomo american flag vibes pic.twitter.com/Ibp2VNlHBJ

— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) December 5, 2018

Trump's gonna be like "no jail time, see, Flynnocent!"

Looks like Flynn aided three investigations: REDACTED criminal investigation, the Mueller probe and REDACTED. Even the subject header of the third is redacted in the full document. pic.twitter.com/nvCJKZAFGr

— Philip Bump (@pbump) December 5, 2018

Oh. Oh my. https://t.co/nn6BBW8jiZ pic.twitter.com/tjcsNdTfgP

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) December 5, 2018

what's the cliff's notes

"don't lock him up"

Three separate investigations Flynn helped with, he talked a hell of a lot via 19 meetings, Mueller recommending only probation time = Flynn named a lot of names.

My favorite part of all of this has been ashley feinberg constantly monitoring donald trump jr on twitter but she doesn’t seem to do that as much anymore idk. Something so soothing about hate-watching the hapless sons for a sec, like I’d love to see some flynn jr highlights of late but not enough to actually seek him out on social media.

what are the odds--i need numbers--that mueller has found, in looking into all of this stuff, not just to do with "contact with the russians," some crime that trump committed that would people would find legitimately shocking?

ashley feinberg is an american treasure

ashley feinberg is an american treasure

At this point i feel like proof of trump’s erectile dysfunction would make more of a dent among his supporters than an actual homicide coming to light.

If it came out that he was ever with a man (extremely unlikely but you never know) that would take him down for sure.

A horse doesn't seem entirely out of the question.

what are the odds--i need numbers--that mueller has found, in looking into all of this stuff, not just to do with "contact with the russians," some crime that trump committed that would people would find legitimately shocking?

― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 6:36 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Meanwhile in Wisconsin, nobody knows what the hell is going on; both Assembly and Senate formally in session, I believe, but they are not in the chamber, nobody knows what's being negotiated, apparently a lot of health care industry lobbyists are floating around and there's some speculation that they're telling the GOP there will be hell to pay if they actually pass their bill saying that every single health care policy change has to be approved by the legislature (this is meant to keep evers from rescinding walker's stepped-up bureaucratic obstacles to Medicaid enrollment but like everything else in this hash of a bill it was not prepared with a lot of attention to detail.)

Original plan was to pass this at about 2am (you can see why!) but we are way behind the posted schedule

we should do a 'most fucked up state politically' poll

I get it now. They're bringing back the coal jobs so they don't run of things that produce black marks for sentencing memo redactions.

did we get the tax returns?!

Yes

Surprisingly they were just several hundred pages of someone's xeroxed butt.

knew it

Rudy Giuliani via text to ⁦@politico⁩ on tonight’s Flynn filing: “Wow big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER maybe a group of Angry Bitter Hillary Supporters who are justifying themselves by the goal justifies the means....Over the top In ethical behavior.” pic.twitter.com/5fZhFCNTVV

— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) December 5, 2018

makes drinking motion

That’s beyond sad.

he's running

from the law

*mimes trump handing phone back to giuliani*

lol

oh look "security expert" Rudy Giuliani shows you how to do a special "dark web scan", courtesy of Experian. pic.twitter.com/8DIlUY56Lu

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 6, 2018

Mueller = just so fresh, so clean pic.twitter.com/W2jDBpStgx

— Harrison Mooney (@HarrisonMooney) December 5, 2018

I think I'd be willing to sacrifice a limb for the opportunity of watching Giuliani defend Trump on federal charges. Like just a regular ol' televised trial. I'm certain that it would be a breathtaking spectacle.

i imagine one could overhear a reasonable facsimile of rudy's defence at any time just by visiting any american geriatric living facility

I knew I'd heard a variation of that Rudy text somewhere before.

free paul manafort!

Did people wind up suing U2 after they imposed their free lp on everybody using i-tunes or whatever.
Just wondering what recourse you might have if you bought something & got a free Paul Manafort. Do you just shed it with the other surplus packaging as you leave the shop?

edge-y!

good morning!

and i hope a good day. last time soetero spoke with mr. trump in the audience was the 2011 white house correspondence dinner iirc and look what happened

our big wet boy is excited about his field trip

Looking forward to being with the Bush family. This is not a funeral, this is a day of celebration for a great man who has led a long and distinguished life. He will be missed!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 5, 2018

pretty sure it is in fact a funeral

another falsehood from president lies!!!

FPed you for using "wet" in connection with Drumpf

you'd prefer 'moist'?

humid 'n' tumid

as a scientist, i can say that when i observe these two fragments in such proximity -

Looking forward to being with the Bush family. This is not a funeral, this is a day of celebration

- it basically means "looking forward to going to Bush's funeral", which he then fixed by making sure to reframe it as a day of celebration

which it is

*cleans glasses*

Can we get a photoshop of Trump inappropriately pumping his fist at Bush's funeral? Or should we just wait for the actual pics?

"That's it, now you've gone too far with your insults! I'll show you ... "
https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1070287200590290945/OH56Ow_A?format=jpg&name=600x314

Truly the best thing about twitter is it allows the powerful to speak directly to us and thereby demonstrate that 92% of them are addled cretins https://t.co/DKf5NfCr3C

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) December 5, 2018