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

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.

its all just a reward to apple for their successful tax laundering schemes. innovation!

there's plenty of room at the hotel shithole lago

Just interviews @LindseyGrahamSC - says up to POTUS to decide what he wants in an immigration deal & stick with it. He won’t vote for 30 day CR. Dinged @TomCottonAR as “Steve King of the Senate.” Stay tuned to @MSNBC

— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) January 19, 2018

I'm assuming ol pal Lindsey thought he could control trump through his golf diplomacy, it blew up in his stupid face and now he mad

you can't blame graham for being mad, he has a great point about how the military needs more money

https://i.imgur.com/QADaFNE.png

no joke: this piece of information, more than any other, suggests to me that some sort of budget bill will be passed by tomorrow, possibly even today:

President Donald Trump was initially scheduled to fly to Mar-a-Lago Friday afternoon, but given the tough odds the Senate faces in keeping the government open, it appears Trump will not leave for his Palm Beach estate until the Senate passes a funding bill.

A White House spokesperson told reporters at the White House that the President would delay his trip until a shutdown is averted, according to CNN.

he must be fucking fuming

"I will sign anything!" (that lets me go on vacation again)

Yeah I mean he gives basically zero shits about any issues of governance but he'll be goddamned if anyone's getting in the way of his sittin' around time.

apparently he's meeting with schumer.

i think he sincerely believes a shutdown would be good for him, but he understands that a a weekend of golf with gala celebrating his one year anniversary scheduled tomorrow night would not be a good luck.

Trump hates missing recess.

Heard an interview with Chris Coons saying that Schumer had a laundry list of long delayed stuff he wanted added in, from disaster relief to DACA to stuff that had been sitting around for 6 years.

I sincerely believe that Trump also gives basically zero shits about what is or is not a good look.

https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/Users/clementsf/By%2021-point%20margin,%20independents%20say%20Trump%20and%20Republicans%20are%20more%20responsible%20for%20possible%20government%20shutdown.jpg?uuid=pCx8pv05Eeeka6NhRTC9hw

Am told that the meeting with the president is supposed to be just @realDonaldTrump and @SenSchumer — a one-on-one between the two of them.

— Michael D. Shear (@shearm) January 19, 2018

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

I think your source isn't telling the truth. If they've worked with Nunes for long, they can fathom any level of irresponsible stupidity.

— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) January 19, 2018

lmaooooooooooo

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if you expand the details on those WashPo poll results, independents said:

46%: Trump & Republicans to blame
25%: Democrats to blame
23%: both sides equally to blame (barf)
1%: neither (aka illuminati)
5%: no opinion

so 46% of independents blame Trump & Republicans, but 48% blame either the democrats or think "both sides" are equally to blame

lol Schumer's gonna get everything he's asking for isn't he

also notable: the party affiliation in the poll was:

31% dem
23% rep
40% independent

I'm assuming ol pal Lindsey thought he could control trump through his golf diplomacy, it blew up in his stupid face and now he mad

― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries),

yep