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― Karl Malone, Friday, 8 March 2019 01:01 (five years ago) link
Holy shit Manafort has lived the worst possible life and he gets less than a black dude selling weedhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/us/texas-woman-voter-fraud.htmlFucking infuriating
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 8 March 2019 01:02 (five years ago) link
He's going to jail, faces sentencing in front of a DC judge next week -- that's enough for me.
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 March 2019 01:02 (five years ago) link
please note how much time the Watergate conspirators served.
notable that the judge (TS Ellis), ronald reagan appointee, was also the one who recently made waves for being a complete dick to the team prosecuting manafort.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 8 March 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link
Manafort, "has lived an otherwise blameless life.”
What a crock of shit. Does this judge really have the brass to say he unaware of any crimes Manafort committed, apart from the eight counts for which he was indicted and found guilty by a jury, so therefore he's practically innocent? Gee, if you eliminate all his premeditated crimes from consideration, he's a heck of a nice guy!
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 8 March 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link
"Forty-seven months is nothing to sneeze at," said the judge. "That's a very heavy sentence. You have to remember we're talking about a white guy here. He's not some fucking-" [bailiff dives across, knocking microphone away]— Splitcoil (@Splitcoil) March 8, 2019
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 8 March 2019 01:24 (five years ago) link
ALL the best blameless people
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 March 2019 01:26 (five years ago) link
My God, Martha Stewart got a year for trading on a golf course stock tip ...— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) March 8, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 March 2019 01:40 (five years ago) link
Without knowing anything else about Judge Ellis, I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t be a shame if he found out tomorrow that he has long-undiagnosed testicular cancer.
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 8 March 2019 01:51 (five years ago) link
Also, so far Reality Winner is doing more time for trying to warn us about Russian meddling than anybody is for participating in it.— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 8, 2019
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 8 March 2019 02:27 (five years ago) link
No one with the last name of Trump is going to spend even five minutes in jail.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 8 March 2019 04:02 (five years ago) link
While light sentences aren't going to be surprising in the slightest, I had thought that there would be one fall guy that would receive a heavy sentence for the sake of appearances. But then I'd also thought Manafort might be that guy!
― anvil, Friday, 8 March 2019 04:54 (five years ago) link
Xpost you mean he's not even gonna visit those guys who sacrificed their...
Aha!
― Mark G, Friday, 8 March 2019 07:41 (five years ago) link
lol ken starr
Just incredible hearing @JoeLockhart describe the differences between Robert Mueller, who has run the most tight-lipped operation in recent memory, and Ken Starr, who used to address the media from the end of his driveway. As Lockhart spoke, Starr sat right across from him... pic.twitter.com/BpwuLfMLmR— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) March 8, 2019
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 8 March 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
Lockhart might as well have blown Ken Starr, if just to repeat the Clinton years.
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 March 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link
NEW SCOOP: Trump cheered Kraft’s team to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where he was bustedhttps://t.co/CqsNwdNRqB— julie k. brown (@jkbjournalist) March 8, 2019
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 8 March 2019 14:15 (five years ago) link
While light sentences aren't going to be surprising in the slightest, I had thought that there would be one fall guy that would receive a heavy sentence for the sake of appearances. But then I'd also thought Manafort might be that guy
It's insane. I wasn't really expecting serious consequences for most of these guys but Manafort is a lifelong criminal and a traitor to this country, who committed crimes while IN JAIL. He forced his wife to have sex with his buddies and his daughters changed their last name because they wanted nothing to do with him. He is the exact opposite of someone who is "otherwise an upstanding person". At this point it's like, why are we even doing any of this if the person who gets the harshest sentence is gonna be Reality Winner?
― frogbs, Friday, 8 March 2019 14:15 (five years ago) link
Oh man
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 8 March 2019 14:16 (five years ago) link
when I used to work at investment banks people came to me a lot for exceptions to, like regulatory requirements. It was either always they wanted the "good guy exception" or the "he brings a lot of money to the firm" exception.
― Yerac, Friday, 8 March 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
Reality Winner better get a ticker tape parade when she gets out.
wow who would have thought that trump would consort with sexual abusersoh right everyone(not dismissing the scoop, just saying he’s a fucking scumbag)
― maura, Friday, 8 March 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
I found the discussion of Manafort's sentence on Twitter last night kind of annoying, not that I disagree with the position at all but there were A LOT of people jumping all over each other to point out that ACTUALLY Manafort's sentence is Fine, the bigger problem is that the entire justice system is insanely unnecessarily punitive. which is totally true, but c'mon guys, can't we all just shit on Manafort for an evening? (have to say I'm very glad to see that's what's happening on this board).
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 8 March 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
it's true, light sentences for people like Manafort will inevitably lead to reduced sentences for non-white people caught with $5 worth of marijuana
― frogbs, Friday, 8 March 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
The Miami Herald reports:
Seated at a round table littered with party favors and the paper-cutout footballs that have become tradition at his annual Super Bowl Watch Party, President Donald Trump cheered the New England Patriots and his longtime friend, team owner Robert Kraft, to victory over the Los Angeles Rams on Feb. 3.
Sometime during the party at Trump’s West Palm Beach country club, the president turned in his chair to look over his right shoulder, smiling for a photo with two women at a table behind him.
The woman who snapped the blurry Super Bowl selfie with the president was Li Yang, 45, a self-made entrepreneur from China who started a chain of Asian day spas in South Florida. Over the years, these establishments — many of which operate under the name Tokyo Day Spas — have gained a reputation for offering sexual services.
Most Christian president ever.
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 March 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
Oh THIS is good:
https://www.axios.com/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-security-clearance-leak-0a312b92-4a2d-4a70-a7fa-7fb7980d5305.html
The White House this week rejected the committee's request for documents on the process for granting security clearances to staffers.But the House Oversight Committee in early February had already obtained the leaked documents that detail the entire process, from the spring of 2017 to the spring of 2018, on how both Kushner and Trump were ultimately granted their security clearances.
But the House Oversight Committee in early February had already obtained the leaked documents that detail the entire process, from the spring of 2017 to the spring of 2018, on how both Kushner and Trump were ultimately granted their security clearances.
Kinda brilliant to get Cipollone stonewalling on record only for it to be the case they already had the documents.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 March 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
lmao at omar’s comments on obama
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Friday, 8 March 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
I personally wouldn't characterize the situation exactly that way, I think "pretty face and a smile" is a little too glib, but absolutely 100% agree that pushback against Obama's cruelest and most draconian policies is warranted and frankly I'm very grateful to see someone willing to risk being a bit too strident the other way when the vast majority of mainstream liberal discourse bends over backwards to give him a pass.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 8 March 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
couldn't find a chelsea manning thread, so
Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been jailed for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating Wikileaks.U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton ordered Manning to jail Friday after a brief hearing in which Manning confirmed she has no intention of testifying. She told the judge she "will accept whatever you bring upon me."Manning has said she objects to the secrecy of the grand jury process, and that she already revealed everything she knows at her court martial.
U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton ordered Manning to jail Friday after a brief hearing in which Manning confirmed she has no intention of testifying. She told the judge she "will accept whatever you bring upon me."
Manning has said she objects to the secrecy of the grand jury process, and that she already revealed everything she knows at her court martial.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/chelsea-manning-jailed-for-refusing-to-testify-on-wikileaks-1.4327902
― Simon H., Friday, 8 March 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
why you gotta bring us down when Paul Manafort's out here living his otherwise blameless life?
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 8 March 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
mao at omar’s comments on obama
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Friday, March 8, 2019 10:45 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkfor reference
Omar says the “hope and change” offered by Barack Obama was a mirage. Recalling the “caging of kids” at the U.S.-Mexico border and the “droning of countries around the world” on Obama’s watch, she argues that the Democratic president operated within the same fundamentally broken framework as his Republican successor.“We can’t be only upset with Trump. … His policies are bad, but many of the people who came before him also had really bad policies. They just were more polished than he was,” Omar says. “And that’s not what we should be looking for anymore. We don’t want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished. We want to recognize the actual policies that are behind the pretty face and the smile.”
“We can’t be only upset with Trump. … His policies are bad, but many of the people who came before him also had really bad policies. They just were more polished than he was,” Omar says. “And that’s not what we should be looking for anymore. We don’t want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished. We want to recognize the actual policies that are behind the pretty face and the smile.”
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 8 March 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
My representative!
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 8 March 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link
ilhan omar i luv u
― invited to an unexpected ninja presentation (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 8 March 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
Ilhan Omar is Dr. Morbius and I claim my 5
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 8 March 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
I really admire Omar's burn it all downess.
― Yerac, Friday, 8 March 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
time is a flat horseshoe
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 8 March 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
wow AOC no longer the realest Congressperson
― frogbs, Friday, 8 March 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
The amount of oxygen this controversy is sucking up is kind of frustrating
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 8 March 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
friendship ended with alexandrianow ILHAN is my best friend
― invited to an unexpected ninja presentation (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 8 March 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
I see that a typical response to Omar's criticism of Obama's "mirage" is that he was
wait for it...
NOT PERFECT
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 March 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
not like all those other presidents the movement admires
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 8 March 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
fuck presidents
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 March 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
People are really weird about Obama. There was a funny moment in the Patriot Act ep about student debt where Minhaj says "Barack Obama" and the audience all cheer. Then Minhaj goes on to explain how Obama helped create the current student debt crisis by making the DoE the lender and subsidizing the debt servicing industry
― rob, Friday, 8 March 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link
it's not weird to identify how a pol serves his corporate masters
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 March 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
lol I meant his stans are weird, like they've never looked into a single thing he did in office
― rob, Friday, 8 March 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link
but he was a ROCK STAR
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 March 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
that's not really so surprising though given what he represented as the first black president, plus his whole hope + change rhetoric, plus consideration of how most Democrats feel about his predecessor and successor.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 8 March 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
Obama is still probably the most naturally talented politicians I've ever seen, often he'll give a speech and I'll have to remind myself why I don't really like him
― frogbs, Friday, 8 March 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link
it's weird and sorta hilarious how Dubya has been pretty much completely written out of right-wing orthodoxy in the past couple of years. meanwhile Reagan is still lionized. and it seems like the distinction is mostly just a matter of who Trump decided to bash.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 8 March 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
Reagan was already a sort of fictional character while he was president
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link