US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"

Press briefing in background, a few folks seems to be openly mocking her, about it being Infrastructure Week, about the Bad Media Awards or whatever.

Poor Goebbelina.

the blaze is obviously nuts, but this has a ring of truth

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/01/03/commentary-steve-bannon-understands-the-truth-about-the-mueller-probe-and-the-media-still-dont

In other words, the family and business enterprises of the president of the United States owe over half a billion dollars to a financial institution that is currently under investigation by the United States Department of Justice for, among other things, allegedly laundering money for the Russian mob. Not to belabor the obvious, but the entirety of the Department of Justice reports directly to the president.

When the DOJ finishes this investigation, the result of that investigation — especially if it lets Deutsche Bank off with a slap on the wrist — will be placed under intense scrutiny.

If Democrats retake the House in 2018, the scrutiny will likely take the form of official committee investigations into Trump’s ties with Deutsche Bank that might well make impeachment politically palatable in a way that “Russian collusion” has not. And if it can be proven that Trump or his family or companies were involved, however indirectly, with the money laundering that Deutsche Bank is accused of, it’s Katy bar the door.

There’s growing evidence that Bannon is exactly right about what Mueller is doing with his probe. The bits about Russian collusion are excellent fodder for the media that is obsessed with the idea that the election was somehow taken away from Hillary Clinton unfairly.

Substantively, though, the real concern for Trump is and always has been his entanglement with the troubled bank, which is why the one actual public threat he has made to fire Mueller centered around any potential investigation into his personal or family finances.

good ol' The Blaze. i wonder if glenn beck regrets his decision to try to pivot to the left just before the 2016 election?

bears repeating: jim jordan (R-OH) is the worst

from fire and fury to fire at hillary's :(

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/fire-breaks-bill-hillary-clinton-westchester-home-article-1.3735597

how long til someone comes up w/a "they were burning pizzagate evidence" theory

'theory'

yeah the bleach wasn't working so they burned the emails

And I said "What about fire at Hillary's?"
You said "I think they were burning the files"

What color was the smoke?

BREAKING : Are they destroying evidence?#QAnon #BREAKING#LockThemAllUp #DrainTheSwamp#MAGA #WednesdayWisdom #BreadCrumbs #FollowTheWhiteRabbit #Pizzagate https://t.co/1X8M3BYjWU

— 🇺🇸MAGAChick🐥🇺🇸 (@michellechick79) January 3, 2018

good luck usa

“Katy bar the door”?

"She Caught The Katy, And Left Me With A Mueller To Indict"

I looked up Katy Bar the Door, and it is metal as fuck:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Douglas

katy hodor

My comedy improv teacher (30+ years ago) used "Katy, bar the door!" when he wanted to evoke archaic, rural times.

When I'm away for a few hours and see there are 200 new answers, I think NOW WHAT? And usually, not much.

board description

"Morbs, bar the door!"

morbs, dennistheperrin

he actually attended some of those improv classes

remember how less than 24 hours ago the President of the United States threatened to start a catastrophic nuclear war on Twitter

If the war itself was on Twitter and the tweets were nuclear-strength then he was almost right.

Meanwhile...

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/367314-rosenstein-meeting-with-paul-ryan-about-russia-investigation#.Wk1ThjR0Qi0.twitter

Key bits: Rosenstein requested the meeting, Wray was invited but not seen there. Hm.

Elsewhere, Chuck Grassley IS Ian McKellen, sorta:

Sen. Chuck Grassley is wearing a hat in the Senate subway on his way to votes — a new look pic.twitter.com/sWvWBYjmYT

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) January 3, 2018

looks like an old queen

what stage of capitalism is it where brands imitate threats of nuclear war to sell fried chicken pic.twitter.com/Fsu8xvi8ng

— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) January 3, 2018

an improv sketch: trump and bannon acting out the german country bench scene from my best fiend where werner laughingly recalls making up anti-werner shit talk with kinksi to help kinski's memoir all i need is love sell

Also seeing reports that Wray is definitely in the Rosenstein/Ryan meeting, if it's still going on.

thanks to C. Grisso/McCain for the Taj Mahal reference btw

The Ryan meeting is Bad, right?

For Trump? I can imagine it going lots of ways. But one way is them meeting with Ryan and saying for all the protestations, there's a lot of bad stuff coming down the pipe, so you better prepare yourself.

Of course, I don't see why they would give him a heads-up about that, or even what they might expect Ryan to do about any of this stuff. Another possibility is it involved a member of the House. I can think of a couple of conspicuous figures tied up in this who might have a bullseye on their back.

Hm hm hm

A single source familiar with the meeting tells us:

Surprise meeting tonight between Deputy Atty General Rod Rosenstein and House Speaker Paul Ryan was requested by Rosenstein to discuss matters related to Congressman Devin Nunes and the Russia investigation.

— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) January 3, 2018

not quite a whomp whomp whomp?

Deputy AG, FBI director make unannounced visit to Paul Ryan's office -source familiar w/ meeting said it had to do w. Nunes doc request https://t.co/NgmFszz9OS @politico by @kyledcheney

— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) January 3, 2018

Said doc request, it should be noted, was made over the summer, so whatever it is isn't something new.

it is truly bonkers that really not a single day has gone by in the last year-and-a-half without some batshit thing going down.

Whoa -- Kobach's little sham group has been dissolved?

White House statement: "Rather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense, today I signed an executive order to dissolve the Commission [on Election Integrity]"

— Josh Eidelson (@josheidelson) January 3, 2018

more good news if true

It's legit, being reported elsewhere.

Full statement is a roffle

Trump is disbanding his voter fraud commission pic.twitter.com/Gymb2wUU4Q

— Stefan Becket (@becket) January 3, 2018

nice

Dude looks like Ivor Cutler up there

Xposts fifth time

sweet!

In Wolff book, Bannon quoted after Trump denounced Sessions to NYT in July: "If he fires Mueller it just brings impeachment quicker. Why not, let's do it. Let's get it on. And I am going to go in and save him? He's Donald Trump"

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) January 3, 2018

And Bannon, quoted about Mueller hiring Andrew Weissmann: "You've got the LeBron James of money laundering investigations on you, Jarvanka. My a---hole just got so tight!"

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) January 3, 2018

@kalebhorton: Michael Wolff's book on Trump has the distinct and specific odor of wish-fulfillment pornography manufactured by someone who wants to make a million dollars very quickly and doesn't care how many lies it takes to get there.

this...feels right

I'm not sure he claim that he has any control over any asshole, including his own.