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

Campos has a good reaction imo

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/01/trumped-up-a-novel

america elected a 1980s frank zappa song president

McDaniel accuses Cory Booker of "mansplaining" to Nielsen the other day.

god the right does love a good bit of concern trolling

CNN: HOUSE VOTES TO AVERT SHUTDOWN, FATE IN SENATE UNCLEAR

MSNBC: HOUSE VOTES 230-197 TO FUND GOV FOR LESS THAN A MONTH, SENATE VOTE IN QUESTION

FOX: ONLINE SURVEY: “POLICE OFFICER” RISING IN POPULARITY IN WHAT KIDS WANT TO BE WHEN THEY GROW UP pic.twitter.com/g4yqwhBPFs

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) January 19, 2018

Presumably POTUS' next tweet will be about law enforcement then

so what the fuck is this stupid O'Keefian memo that Nunes supposedly cobbled together

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https://qz.com/1182382/donald-trump-hope-hicks-and-sarah-huckabee-sanders-finally-a-photo-as-the-rumors-describe-it/

god I can't wait for those piss yellow curtains to come down

fake news - trump is merely complimenting hicks on her hair as sanders looks on, awestruck

can't believe how huge Sanders hands are compared to Trump's.

tbf the image was taken with a wide-angle lens, which tend to be unkind to people at the edge of the frame

naw she's on some Hellboy shit tho

here's a more extreme example of what i'm talking about:

https://i.imgur.com/h6eKRfq.jpg

more concerning to me is that she appears to have a prosthetic hand attached by a metal ring at her wrist, which presumably can be swapped out for flamethrowers, grappling hooks etc as required

GANDALF

so is the government shutting down today yea or nay

Yea

not really willing to dive into the twitter hole this morning but what is this trending robot #releasethememo thing

it's the wiretap thing all over again

not gonna dive into this but I'm sure Trump could release it if he wanted to

What it is intended to be, I suspect, is enough of a smokescreen for Trump to fire Mueller.

Have any Dems just turned the tables and called the GOP bluff re: shutdown? "You guys always want to cut, to reduce, to dismantle, to shrink government. Isn't this what you want? Isn't a shutdown your dream come true?"

And re: whatever the memo BS is, it's never the piles and piles of suspicious or incriminating stuff out in the open, it's always the super-secret suppressed document, right? That's why they do things again and again - Benghazi, emails, Loretta Lynch, whatever - because eventually, that super-secret suppressed document will eventually be found, right?

I have read the memo. The sickening reality has set in. I no longer hold out hope there is an innocent explanation for the information the public has seen. I have long said it is worse than Watergate. It was #neverTrump & #alwaysHillary. #releasethememo

— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) January 19, 2018

convincing!

If you can't trust Steve King (and an army of Russia-affiliated bots on Twitter) pushing this theme, then really, who can you trust?

Getting a real strong vibe of 'oh yes PLEASE don't subpoena me Mr. Mueller' here. Probably vaporware but even so.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/omarosa-taped-confidential-white-house-discussions-article-1.3765147?cid=bitly

“Everyone knows Omarosa loves to record people and meetings using the voice notes app on her iPhone,” a source disclosed. “Don’t be surprised if she has secret audio files on everyone in that White House, past and present staffers included.”

taking bets on who this source is btw

lol if Omarosa goes down as a pivotal figure in American history, this is exactly how the reality show presidency is supposed to end

The sickening reality of Steve King has set in. He is such an insufferable tool.

lol if Omarosa goes down as a pivotal figure in American history, this is exactly how the reality show presidency is supposed to end

"One small step for Manigault..."

lmao at this part of the Stormy Daniels interview

“You could see the television from the little dining room table and he was watching Shark Week and he was watching a special about the U.S.S. something and it sank and it was like the worst shark attack in history,” Daniels said.

“He is obsessed with sharks. Terrified of sharks. He was like, “I donate to all these charities and I would never donate to any charity that helps sharks. I hope all the sharks die,’” she said.

“He was like riveted. He was like obsessed. It’s so strange, I know.”

Sorry folks, I'm just not a fan of sharks - and don't worry, they will be around long after we are gone.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 4, 2013

Sharks are last on my list - other than perhaps the losers and haters of the World!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 4, 2013

So basically we just need to arrange an outing to an aquarium where Trump is forced to a) descend a staircase in order to get to b) an underground shark tank and he will basically die from the fear.

USS something

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)

the story of shark phobia and the tweets to reinforce it is just hilarious.

ok sharks on enemies list is the greatest thing ever

didn't Colbert have bears at the top his Greatest Threats list??

Sorry folks, I'm just not a fan of sharks

Well, they were a pretty second-tier 70s rock band tbf

https://img.discogs.com/6WgGCtN6HYxPuj7Bs8ah7dojeAI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6669589-1424273258-8037.jpeg.jpg

kind of makes you wonder why he didn't get the role in Sharknado 3. perhaps afraid to confront his fears??

“Everyone knows Omarosa loves to record people and meetings using the voice notes app on her iPhone,” a source disclosed. “Don’t be surprised if she has secret audio files on everyone in that White House, past and present staffers included.”

first things first watch what you say out your mouth/when you talkin on the phone to hu-stl-ers

LOL, every mobile sound system owner in the UK just made a mental note re: JAWS soundtrack if dude ever dares visit after all.

OMG, let us all pool our money to buy ad time during Fox and Friends and air what appears to be a breaking news alert about a sharknado approaching DC.

Source with knowledge tells me the Nunes memo is "a level of irresponsible stupidity that I cannot fathom. Purposefully misconstrues facts and leaves out important details." https://t.co/YmzmrHvpYG

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 19, 2018

ok makes sense now

i didnt know it was a Nunes thing

Alana Evans, the porn actress invited to join a three-way with Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump, has given an interview to Fleshbot. Rather than link, I'll just quote.

“Stormy and I are good friends and when a girl calls another girl for a situation like that, it means you are calling someone you are comfortable with and that felt really good for our friendship. If it wasn’t Donald Trump, I probably would have said yes. He was the factor, he was the reason why I said no.”

...

"I would hook with Ron Jeremy before I would hook up with Donald Trump....It’s completely who he (Trump) is. He is a powerful and powerful men are dangerous when it comes to a woman like myself. If anything bad happens to a woman like myself in a situation like that, my words mean nothing."

After weighing it for a moment, I think I might prefer President Ron Jeremy to President Donald Trump.

Ron Jeremy's a smart dude. He was a teacher for several years before getting into porn.

I'm confused about dudes like Nunes. Like, he's seen the intel, right? So whether he's suppressing that or putting out disinformation, he's actively covering up or interfering, right? Why? It's one thing to vote on or support policy or agendas, but why actively interfere with investigations?

Yeah totally https://t.co/Y3j8KC1WMl

— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) January 19, 2018

GOP leadership is in a prolonged huddle on the floor — they seem to be discussing what to tell members to do as they wait for the senate to act.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) January 19, 2018

some follow up on the big APPLE IS COMING BACK TO THE US story via beat the press

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/technology/apple-tax-bill-repatriate-cash.html

This is what bringing money back to the United States means. Under the old tax law, companies often attributed legal control of profits to foreign subsidiaries, so that they could defer paying taxes on this money. However, the money was often actually held in the United States since Apple could tell the subsidiary to keep the money wherever it wanted.

For this reason, the economic significance of bringing the money back to the United States is almost zero. The legal change of ownership is leading to the collection of taxes, but this is in lieu of the considerably larger tax liability that Apple faced under the old law. It would have been helpful if these points were made more clearly in this NYT piece. It does usefully point out that we don't know the extent to which the expansion plans announced by Apple would have occurred even without the tax cut.

wait are taxes good or bad now, i’m confused

Taxes are good when the burden for paying them is largely on those who have the least money to pay them.