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

It made me pukey too

If the ruling class includes the legislative and executive branches, then I'm not holding my breath for unity. In fact, I can't imagine unity would be a good thing while half the people in power are basically cartoon villains.

With any luck we won't have to wait long for Trump's own giant waste of federal money.

Couldn't we bury him now and save time and stress about fitting it in later?

it unites the ruling class

the only people who count

(or get counted)

Dump Pence!

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/mike-pence-2020-mueller-trump

I thought Pence was a Milquetoast with a poor reputation that would only have been picked by Trump in the first place so would be unlikely to be much of an anything if standing on his own in a Presidential race

well, good morning!

“Look at how he’s been. It’s presidential,” a former West Wing aide said.

the standards, they are low

Technically speaking, it's accurate. Incoherently rage tweeting on the shitter is now presidential.

wtf i'm presidential now

If he's permanently stained the diginity of the Presidentship do you need a revolution? Rebranding of positions etc?

jfc I hate to say it but the Dems could stand to learn something here

Wisconsin Republicans approved 82 Scott Walker appointees yesterday. 82 PEOPLE IN 1 DAY. https://t.co/unx6L4gxku

— Amanda Terkel (@aterkel) December 5, 2018

republicans understand how to use power, that's for sure

Basically GOP seems to understand better to risk (or even accept) defeat in a few years for the sake of victory now. Laws and judges last longer than election cycles.

beardo ted cruz is continuing to happen and somehow covering up that gelatinous face a bit is somehow worse than keeping it exposed and glistening

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dtrtgb3WsAUGrru.jpg:large

goddamn it

Thank goodness I had progressed past the adolescent chin pube phase before that shit started going gray. What an indignity.

I hope to god that this isn't in an attempt to court the youthful slacker vote. I don't know if I can handle seeing Cruz go full Poochie.

On his way to Orson’s Fat Period

https://dwigif.com/view/y4TXpWi

Orson Whelps

This is very illuminating and makes me think these idiots are truly doomed.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/trump-white-house-has-no-plan-counter-mueller-report/577417/

Attempting to plan “would mean you would have to have an honest conversation about what might be coming,”

i figured this would be the main problem. no one on team trump is going to be able to plan any kind of effective legal strategy because no one is going to want to be honest about what actually, or likely happened.

My favorite bit:

Giuliani initially pushed back on the prediction that Trump would take center stage after the report drops. “I don’t think following his lead is the right thing. He’s the client,” he told me. “The more controlled a person is, the more intelligent they are, the more they can make the decision. But he’s just like every other client. He’s not more … you know, controlled than any other client. In fact, he’s a little less.”

Plus just in a general sense it means accepting reality without deflecting facts with unhinged conspiracy theories and outright lies. I'm not sure they're capable.

which works for the base – but what the base thinks isn't going to keep that POS out of prison.

The president has also devoted much of his energy to following Paul Manafort’s case rather than prepping for the full report. “The thing that upsets POTUS the most is the treatment of Manafort,” Giuliani said. When Trump learned that the former campaign chairman was in solitary confinement, Giuliani said, “he said to me, ‘Don’t they realize we’re America?’”

trump: we're probably gonna massacre refugees at the border fyi
also trump: they're making paul manafort sit on his own in prison, this is unconscionable

“He’s got a great memory,” Giuliani said. “However, basically we were answering questions about 2016, the busiest year of his life. It’s a real job to remember.”

yes who could possibly remember the events of 2016

tbf we're all trying to forget

As if every nanosecond of Trump's life hasn't been meticulously documented over the past two years.

feel like "tweets don't fail me now" might be a good January thread title

by the foreign powers who have tapped his unsecured personal phone xp

Asked whether the White House had a plan in place for when Mueller closes in, the spokesman Hogan Gidley declined to comment.

Hogan Gidley! Add that one to the list of awesome names in this epic satirical novel.

what happened in Wisconsin, even the slightly watered down version that passed, was some buuuuullshit, and people like tammy baldwin need to speak out more forcefully about it than this:

“I do believe that the legislature is overreaching and really just disrespecting the voters of my state,” the senator said.

She added later, referring to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), who is retiring from that chamber soon: “I hope that Speaker Ryan is still as invested as he ever was in the success of Wisconsin, so I think he absolutely should speak up about this.”

yeah! that'll show them!

?!?!?!!??!!

btw they're doing this in michigan now, too

WI and MI voted for Trump. This is their reward.

GOP is basically a stalker now

yum!

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g5xZgnRvBqQ/XAXHcUdZjVI/AAAAAAABA1o/NFQuXZMIzLQeBb90HvEoQPA0iT5F8QO6gCLcBGAs/s1600/2012-02-15-Banana_Republican_0203-thumb.jpg

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former AG Barr as new Trump AG...?

as in Roseanne?

Secretary of Agriculture Dan Connor.

I honestly don't remember Barr at all from his first time around.

I remember him vaguely; I have trouble distinguishing the Poppy appointees from the late Reagan-era ones like Dick Thornburgh.

how delightful:

Barr's two-day confirmation hearing was "unusually placid" and he received a good reception from both Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.[8] Asked whether he thought a constitutional right to privacy included the right to an abortion, Barr responded that he believed the constitution was not originally intended to create a right to abortion; that Roe v. Wade was thus wrongly decided; and that abortion should be a "legitimate issue for state legislators".[8] Committee Chairman, Senator Joe Biden, though disagreeing with Barr, responded that it was the "first candid answer" he had heard from a nominee on a question that witnesses would normally evade.[9] Barr was approved unanimously by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Chairman Biden hailed Barr as "a throwback to the days when we actually had attorneys general that would talk to you."[9]

The media described Barr as staunchly conservative.[10] The New York Times described the "central theme" of his tenure to be: "his contention that violent crime can be reduced only by expanding Federal and state prisons to jail habitual violent offenders."[10] At the same time, reporters consistently described Barr as affable with a dry, self-deprecating wit.[1

seems like he wouldn't fire mueller? i think a draconian, law-and-order reaganite is probably on the higher end of what we could hope for in a trump AG

yup

not quite a dyed-in-the-wool racist keelber elf or totally unqualified lickspittle

(still bad, obviously)

Also: I assume Barr and Mueller are colleagues and contemporaries.