US Politics, December 2017: I guess there’s always 2018

!!!

maybe santa is real guys

WE'RE GONNA SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS AGAIN

OPPO DUMP

that’s what broke the oval office shitter iirc

THIS IS BIG YES?

https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Pence%20letter.pdf

Dumbest movement in political history would be in the West Wing toilet right now if they could only get the damn seat fixed.

that DependsTM

terrible timing, dropping all this in the middle of infrastructure week

Erik Prince just now on lesson to be taken from Flynn charge/plea: "Don't talk to the FBI"

tremendous patriot

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

all I want for Christmas is impeachment.

really trying hard not to get too excited about this but

i hope for all our sakes mr. trump buys and flips mr. flynn's house. #MRGA

i got chills hearing that you guys . is this real

I'm sure Trump is currently scrambling to offer Flynn a pardon in exchange for not testifying against him

oh my god

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSuregWhlWk

really trying hard not to get too excited about this but

― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Friday, December 1, 2017

What's that coming out of the gun?

this is really fucking with my productivity at work this morning tho

holy shit December rules

The feds want Martin Shkreli to fork over the https://twitter.com/stewartbishop/status/936622249431445509 million Wu-Tang Clan Album. pic.twitter.com/5QLWcJgDP7

— Stewart Bishop (@stewartbishop) December 1, 2017

I'm sure there's a role for Donald in Britain First if this all goes badly for him.

really trying hard not to get too excited about this but
― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Friday, December 1, 2017
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, December 1, 2017

can flynn go 'mute marine'?

what’s the over/under on flynn suffering a mysterious but fatal injury sometime in the next few days

thank god TIME held off on person of the year

Okay seeing a rumor that Flynn will testify that Trump directly ordered him to make contact with the Russians. That's...that's something. (Let's see if it's real.)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, December 1, 2017 11:15 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

most of what i see still says it is "senior officials" rather than trump himself

And that's suggestive plenty, on its own.

oh man I hadn't even thought about Mueller being person of the year

This fucker.

Full statement from Mike Flynn, who has just entered guilty plea to felony charge in federal court. pic.twitter.com/Y59UmjxW60

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) December 1, 2017

Strip him of everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWAJk32r0ZQ

reminds me of

"It hurts so much when you falsely accuse me of treason. PS I made false statements about not committing treason."

GOD FAMILY MILITARY and yeah maybe a spot of light treason nbd

Ty Cobb, ladies and gentlemen!

WH lawyer Ty Cobb describes Trump’s designated national security adviser Michael Flynn as “a former Obama administration official”

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) December 1, 2017

DOW at -300 already, imagine if no taxes today

loooooool xp

lol I am not sure "how dare you accuse me of treason; at worst I just committed perjury" is the best PR move here

typical weaselly doublespeak from a former obama administration official

The tweet tips the strategy: Trump's team will paint Flynn as a Democrat who Trump appointed in a misguided attempt at bipartisanship. "But you see, you can't give a liberal an inch, you let them in the door and they'll make up FAKE NEWS LEAKS about you.." There's be plenty of people who buy it.

lots of folks on twitter saying it matters a lot whether this happened during campaign or during transition..... but aren't really saying why. can anyone elaborate?

a former obama administration official

See? Trump IS draining the swamp of those Obama-administration holdovers who were trying to sabotage his agenda of #MAGA.

but Obama personally warned Trump not to hire him

lalala can't hear you

but Obama personally warned Trump not to hire him

I don't know why Br'er Rabbit and the brier patch suddenly popped into my head

^^ my same thought

marcos, I guess because campaign and transition personnel may pretty much just be civilians talking out of their ass about nice synergies that may happen. After inauguration, these chuckleheads were in fact and in law part of the actual government of the nation. There are, as they say, rules.

Poetic justice.

After issuing his guilty plea, Michael Flynn exits courthouse to chants of “Lock him up.”pic.twitter.com/jFeXOhjQG1

— Rob Bennett (@rob_bennett) December 1, 2017

Susan Collins says she has an agreement on the state and local tax deduction.

She sounded positive. That might be it.

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) December 1, 2017

Mitch McConnell: "We have the votes."

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) December 1, 2017

oh well that brief burst of positivity was nice while it lasted

New York "Failing" Times going hard at Trump, just spotted this in my inbox

NYTimes.com »

TOP STORIES
President Trump has brought a reality-show accessibility to a once-aloof office, invigorating voters who felt alienated by the establishment
Sunday, December 31, 2017 2:11 PM EST

I was reminding my brother in law that Nixon still had well over a 20% approval rating

yeah if 100% of the people that voted for him never back down that's a bottom floor of ~25% of the population. only about half the country voted at all and we are at a 20 year low in turnout because the two party system just keeps offering worse and worse candidates.

a general approval poll will include a whole bunch of people that didn't vote at all and thus only add statistical noise to the proverbial crystal ball. the two-party system deludes us into thinking half the country supports something when in reality even at his peak it was probably like 1 in 4 people. so not only are polls that ask about general approvals more or less meaningless they are misleading as well.

only about half the country voted at all and we are at a 20 year low in turnout because the two party system just keeps offering worse and worse candidates.

citation needed

"In 1984, Ronald Reagan debated Walter Mondale in Louisville and plainly had no idea where he was"

i lived in louisville for ten years, i can't blame reagan for this at all

Actually, Turrican is right insofar as the Davis-Murray years go from 1976 to 1971. And only one album was recorded in Berlin.

Nice wrong thread response.

From 1976 to 1971?

Carlos Alomar for prez 2020

Turrican / Gabbneb 2028

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