The police in Ukraine have opened a criminal investigation into whether allies of President Trump had the United States ambassador to the country under surveillance while she was stationed in Kyiv, the Ukrainian government said on Thursday.
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
See, it’s not THAT hard to get Ukraine to announce a criminal investigation!
To be the first of millions of people to make that joke today
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link
xp Josh you have effectively put over Lindsey Graham's talking points next week.
And you are levaing out the big difference between his story and the accounts he effectively corroborates and fleshes out: he has evidentiary documents, audio recordings, and texts
It's far from getting the president removed from office but it's hardly "back to the beginning."
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
Between this and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame thread on ILM, Josh is in a very "eh, I don't see the big deal" mood this week.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
I watched excerpts of Parnas talking to Anderson Cooper this morning and I was way more stunning than I expected it to be, particularly since he also provided evidence to back up his claims
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
I haven’t read the rock HOF thread but it sounds like he might be otm there
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
Parnas has also—I think persuasively—dismissed claims that Yovanovich was physically surveilled or in any physical danger
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
KM have you seen the interview?
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I dunno, I feel like we have been here before. For example, the author of that New Yorker piece exposing thoroughly reported Trump inc. corruption and money laundering in Central Asia has been reminding people of his piece, saying, basically, hey, it's all here, tons of crime! But Congress, law enforcement, the press, all seem unwilling or unable to do anything with this information. as of yet. who knows, things might change.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link
That's different than saying, "It's no big deal," though.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:57 (four years ago) link
again I'm not saying this is going to lead to a conviction, but it absolutely significantly complicates things for senate R's. The documentary evidence they are trying to suppress is not longer any mystery. It's different in kind and available to the public: a first-hand account implicating the president directly, bolstered by texts and voicemails and contemporaneous handwritten notes.
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:01 (four years ago) link
Plus Pat Benatar has had operatic training.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
what do Don 'n' Ghost of Glenn think?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
get over it
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
trying criminal conspiracies generally involve the testimony of criminals
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
This was basically Fox News' headline last night, the one cherry they could pick from Parnas' interview.
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
DON: The arrogance of this administration is something to behold. As key chroniclers of ol' Tricky Dick in songs like "On The Border" and "The Last Resort"--and then again of Reagan on my own releases "If Dirt Were Dollars" and "All She Wants To Do Is Dance"--I have think, "Are ever really done with this shit?"
GLENN: I'm still wondering why we could never get Giraldo out of the room so we could tell Pat, "Love Is A Battle Field...and we surrender!"
DON: Well, yeah.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
xpost Don't need to tell me! It seems like it should be a big deal. But we just had hours and hours of testimony from career government officials, in theory the opposite of criminals, saying esentially the same thing as this guy. And Asshole was impeached as a result. He can't be more impeached, and as far as removal goes I'm not sure this moves the needle much. It's just further fodder for a future book.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
The problem is we are running with the shadows of the night.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
Les Parnas may be a real tough cookie with a long history, but I don't feel this disqualifies his testimony
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
Politics is a battlefield
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
He's been a tarred and feathered criminal but his testimony seems credible. No promises, no demands, just facts
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
guys don't harden your heart towards lev
― brownie, Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
wait that's Quarterflash
Does he distort the facts?
I dunno. Seems like there's no looking forward or turning back. He belongs to the light.
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
lol brownie - classic blunder! At least you didn't hit us with Sheena Easton or Laura Branigan.
Politics is a battlefield― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, January 16, 2020 9:46 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, January 16, 2020 9:46 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Lev is a Battlefield
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 16 January 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
otm
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
the weirdest thing is parnas is the most perceptive, most interview adept, and maybe the most informed and most skilled person in all of trumpland i've heard so far. by a bit. that makes him neither honest nor credible, but i admit i did not see it coming.
― in a mellow, balmy way (Hunt3r), Thursday, 16 January 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
One presumes that these flailing, dysfunctional public figures are dependent upon at least a handful of people who are content to stay in the shadows while demonstrating some semblance of competence (however debased those competently-handled acts may be). Like if it's abject morons all the way down they would've blown themselves up on a runway by now.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 January 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/trump-fire-and-fury-smart-genius-obama-774169%3famp=1
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 January 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
Why u gotta burn fourth-graders so harshly, Newsweek
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 January 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
Newsweek is 100% garbage now, avoid
https://splinternews.com/what-the-hell-is-going-on-at-newsweek-1822742941
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Thursday, 16 January 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link
It's Lev whose head i've seen showing that even his haircut is more there by intention than fact isn't it?Looks like a few black strands combed over nothing in several of the shots I've seen.
BUt did sound like what he was saying on Rachel Maddow was pretty damning. & i think there's more to come tonight isn't there? Think I heard word of a part 2 at the end of the podcast version I was listening to.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 16 January 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
good luck usa
Hard to overstate how unpredictable talking to voters can be: Melissa from Algona, Iowa, caucused for Bernie in 2016, then voted for a Trump; she supports Medicare for All but supports Buttigieg, but will likely vote for Trump again if Buttigieg doesn’t win the Dem nomination. pic.twitter.com/ZgvQQ7NoW2— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) January 16, 2020
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 January 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
i can...uhm...just....ugh...err....oh my....huh...what?
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 January 2020 18:50 (four years ago) link
didn't mean to go full Mystikal there but that is just baffling internal consistency there.
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 January 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
We’re so fucked.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 16 January 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
Lo... I have been to Iowa, it is indeed a mystical place.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 16 January 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
yes we're gonna be fucked by this one voter
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 January 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
Yep, and not just the Americans.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 16 January 2020 18:59 (four years ago) link
It's just attention grift
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 16 January 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
My takeaway is "don't ask people political questions when they're high"
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Thursday, 16 January 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
obviously not this one voter . I have not seen anything these last three years culminated by this shit show of a democratic race that would lead me to believe that a large portion of the most vulnerable people in our society will not continue to be fucked.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 16 January 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
Immediately afterward, Melissa was asked to point to Iran on a map and pointed to a spot in the lower Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of miles from the nearest land
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 January 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
In a groundbreaking NYT interview, a disheveled man loitering outside a 7-11 and wearing a Dire Straits t-shirt as a bandana claims next president will be can of half-eaten peas.
We r doomed.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 January 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
Who let this man hold our fates in his hand. Who.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 January 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
uh I would vote for a can of half-eaten peas over Donald J. Trump.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 January 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
peas 2020
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 January 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link