US Politics, October 2019 — I guess statement you could say with thread. I made a thread. The thread was PERFECT.

was going to say there are repubs on those committees,right ? Gaetz is a fucking clown

US Special Envoy for Syria Jim Jeffries says Turkey has committed several war crimes and engaged in widespread ethnic cleansing, and he was not consulted on the withdrawl.

misread, 'hasn't seen widespread ethnic cleansing'. I suppose you could add 'yet'

it's not just gaetz, it's scalise leading it, along with jordan and others - people who are on other subcommittees or even are the ranking members of them. they understand exactly how they're lying to everyone right now. their entire political careers depend on the ignorance of their constituents

I wonder if McConnell will time Senate hearings so that Bernie, Warren, Harris and Klobuchar are unable to campaign in the Iowa caucuses. I wouldn't put it past him.

the whole Turkey/Syria/Kurds/Russia thing makes no sense to anyone. the only thing that makes sense is Putin demanding that he do it as his last act before he loses all power to do anything in the white house.

― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, October 23, 2019 7:25 PM (eight seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Trump is an unreliable lunatic. He withdrew his troops, betrayed the Kurds and gave Erdogan carte blanche, then sort of joined in condemning Turkey's actions he ok'd, then threatened to *destroy* Turkey's economy, only to lift the sanctions now. This is President Ascii Shrug in full swing.
Putin otoh knows exactly what he's doing, so he's enjoying reaping what comes so easily to him now. He's playing the real long game. He's managed to put a wedge in between EU and Turkey, without 'hurting' the latter, and it resulted in him granting his pal Assad a recoup of a large swathe of land Assad previously lost. Assad and Russian military meanwhile controlling the 'Kurd free zone'.

the whole Turkey/Syria/Kurds/Russia thing makes no sense to anyone. the only thing that makes sense is Putin demanding that he do it as his last act before he loses all power to do anything in the white house.

never in Putin's wildest dreams did he dare imagine it would work out *this* well

this is so fucking dumb, designed to fool anyone who doesn't want to bother looking up how shit works

― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, October 23, 2019 1:22 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Agreed, the dems locked the doors on the veterans, mountain men and presidents that were trying to participate and are acting very shady and they won't reply to any of my facebook messages or minions image macros demanding answers.

(going back a little)

Followup question: are there ANY avenues on which the President could shoot someone and face prosecution? Lexington? Third?

How about streets? Boulevards? Lanes? Courts?

This guy is Putin's fantasy puppet..it's like as a kid playing D&D when you'd rig the ability scores or whatever they're called, just push all the numbers into the red

Strength 6
Dexterity 0
Constitution 6
Intelligence 0
Wisdom 0
Charisma 6

when people say Putin must be laughing it's like, that's not a turn of phrase—I'm sure that yes he is literally giggling all day long

a literal 4-year high, unimaginable

Charisma 6

Bonus: CHA +20 whenever in the presence of Fox/GOP voters

The house GOP stunt has one obvious purpose: create some news that is not “here’s more evidence of the president’s crimes!”

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 23, 2019

Except that it can also be spun as "why are you guys so interested in obstructing and disrupting the inquiry? could it be that you have (DUM DUM DUM) SOMETHING TO HIDE?"

Every republican complaint about unfairness should be met with at least one solid slap across the face.

it just blows my mind this party has any supporters left.

An unearned sense of unfair victimization is a powerful drug, my dude

"This guy is Putin's fantasy puppet."

still doin this huh

you're the puppet

me 'n Jill Stein!

the russians used kompromat to get trump to try and bribe the president of the ukraine

i wonder what the standard of kompromat is for DJT, as he thinks everything makes him look wonderful.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2PIAe87KGsg/maxresdefault.jpg

Roffle.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/23/gordon-sondland-william-taylor-ukraine-testimony-055825

Does diplomatic immunity extend to perjury? Asking for a friend.

Sondland is just kind of a minimalist testifier

US Special Envoy for Syria Jim Jeffries

comedy audiences grew hostile towards him, so he got an easier job

true story: Jim Jefferies changed his stage name from Jim Jeffries to Jim Jefferies to avoid confusion

Once again?

SCOOP: An internal memo obtained by @Axios warns that "the White House is posturing itself to be electronically compromised once again.” At least 12 top- or high-level officials have resigned recently from a key WH cybersecurity team. https://t.co/aEPp8FmIv1

— Alexi McCammond (@alexi) October 23, 2019

the russians used kompromat to get trump to try and bribe the president of the ukraine

― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, October 23, 2019 2:25 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

that Trump's criminal proclivities happen to dovetail nicely w Putin's anti-Europe manuevering doesn't mean he's not compromised

kind of baffled that there are ppl in here who still don't understand (or what? don't want to believe?) that for decades our now-president has been laundering what is essentially mob money w/ Russian oligarchs and they have him over a barrel

yes, puppetry

they're very sensitive about nu-mccarthyism

or are just sick of basically baseless assertions?

xposts Why do I feel like we should brace ourselves for explanations of why using an unsecure email server is way way worse than using Dropbox or Google Drive or whatever mindblowing dumbfuckery is going on rn.

NEW: Susan Collins will oppose Trump's controversial judicial nominee Steven Menashi https://t.co/R2L3GiOMlk

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) October 23, 2019

for some reason i don't believe her...

Ah, of course.

The latest developments on Republicans storming the Intelligence Committee room, including the detail that Matt Gaetz's office gave uncredentialed reporters and crew from HBO's "The Swamp" expired congressional passes to cover this circus.https://t.co/R1N8fPYsdz

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) October 23, 2019

xxxp baseless assumptions lol

jim are you honestly not aware how Trump has been kept afloat all these years?

https://themoscowproject.org/collusion-chapter/chapter-1/

I mean, start here ffs chapter 1

xxxpost

Dr. Morbzvago

the idea, still, that this some kind of nutjob conspiracy theory smdh

no pee pee tape, no credibility

Morbs don't worry you won't be docked any anti-HC points for admitting that, yeah, she knew exactly what she was talking about

lol

the ilxdnc

you are an insane person

I'm just glad she didn't say "the sky is blue," this painful to watch

this is

I guess they're totally baseless if you're totally ignorant about their bases

Update from the SCIF: sources tell me Rep. Louie Gohmert has begun using an astronaut toilet, the one with the suction cups, in front of everyone because "this is how you pee in the SCIF." Unclear where he got the toilet but it's not in fact part of the SCIF.

— lvl 45 CHAOS GHOSTUS (@thetomzone) October 23, 2019

Asking because I genuinely don’t know the answer but if Warren gets elected next year what would we anticipate her solution to the tension between Kurdish statehood and Turkish nationalism to be? The line a lot of Democrats are taking is that they support withdrawing US troops, but not like this. Is there any clarity on what needs to happen before the US can pull back ‘properly’?