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

can't imagine why anybody would wanna think the left was behind the train crash, GOP politicians don't like to admit they were outsmarted by liberals......

it's the train part that has them suspicious

all those associations with the Finland Station, you see

standing athwart history yelling CAR

Hahaha

Retiring Rep. Gowdy "has found himself butting heads in recent months with Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes and other pro-Trump Republicans who have hinted at corruption at the FBI" https://t.co/irndalAsKM

— Tim Mak (@timkmak) January 31, 2018

transcript of Nunes hearing for anybody who wants to read it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aYJN_lURy1knKe3I20OhoU9XOnDBBnu1/view

I'll probably get another 5 pages in before I have to put it down in rage

It can't be a lefty conspiracy because: What the fuck were a bunch of small-government rugged individualist Red Staters doing on subsidized public transportation anyway? Surely they ought to have been traveling in a fleet of coal-rolling F150s, or at least Suburbans.

Well, we survived January at least.

Shhh, someone will notice that there are still a few hours left in the month and take that as a challenge.

finished reading the transcript of the Nunes hearing.

want to hurt many many people. Nunes isn't actually doing much more than being a chairman in the meeting, but most of the talking (from Democrats) falls on deaf ears. it's obvious what this is - we'll watch it play out like the Iraq War narrative did.

memo dropping tomorrow per reuters

fuck this place

better still, fuck those cretins and leave this place a better place

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/trump-job-promises

Hey, what has the Kush been up to lately?

xp - yeah, except the great majority of trump supporters are like Americans in general, to whom "millions of new jobs" has approximately the same meaning as "more than a few new jobs". innumeracy is ascendant.

the unwillingness of editors - because let’s be honest, that’s who is ultimately assigning these angles - to see the phenomenon klion outlines is especially odd given that long and staten island are both not far from manhattan!!!!

better still, fuck those cretins and leave this place a better place
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, January 31, 2018 8:44 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

true enough, feeling defeated and hopeless today though, and mad at myself about that, too

the state of the uniom is not strnen

MR. QUIGLEY: [...]When you, as the majority, conceived of doing this memo for release to the body and to the public, the preparation, the thought of doing it, the consultation of it, was any of this done after/during conversations or consultations with anyone in the White House? Did they have any idea you were doing this? Did they talk about doing this with you? Did they suggest it? Did you suggest it to them? Did you consult in deciding how to go forward with this before, during, and after this point right now? I yield.

THE CHAIRMAN: I would just answer, as far as I know, no. [...]

MR. QUIGLEY: Mr. Chairman, does that mean that none of the staff members that worked for the majority had any consultation, communication at all with the White House?

THE CHAIRMAN: The chair is not going to entertain --

MR. QUIGLEY: I yield.

THE CHAIRMAN: -- a question by another member. Do any other members wish to be heard? Your time has expired.

MR. QUIGLEY: Does that mean just questions you don't like or questions in general, sir?

the balls on these people

BREAKING: Discovered late tonight that Chairman Nunes made material changes to the memo he sent to White House – changes not approved by the Committee. White House therefore reviewing a document the Committee has not approved for release. pic.twitter.com/llhQK9L7l6

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) February 1, 2018

Seems pretty illegal

I don't know how big a revelation this is, but I kind of feel like his tweet could have been "BREAKING: I wrote a letter."

god, things keep unraveling. wtf

nu thred plz

it's still January for 90 more minutes here

The Hill are the first I've seen run anything about the Schiff tweet, so peruse for updates: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/371756-schiff-accuses-nunes-of-sending-trump-edited-memo

parting shot:

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http://is2.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Video/v4/ef/c3/25/efc32551-778b-79bb-0500-d5dee6138873/source/1200x630bb.jpg

haha whoa

FWIW rumor mill on Twitter is hitting some interesting overdrives. Guess we'll see.

Go on...

Eh. No way to predict anything so better to just wait on word.

i mean just link it

Devin Nunes' pee tape edit now features HRC.

he made it on jibjab

Meantime, useful Mariotti thread

1/ Today the @nytimes published this piece discussing Mueller’s interest in the highly misleading statement crafted by Trump and his aides about the Trump Tower meeting. https://t.co/47MXCVjBmp

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) February 1, 2018

Go on...

Keep in mind, no one knows anything and nothing matters anymore anyway, but I've come across everything from rumors of Wray resigning in protest to accusations that Nunes forged Schiff's signature (?) to unnamed sources in the intelligence community ominously if enigmatically predicting that "shit is about to get real."

Not to mention that in the afore linked Times story you've got that former Trump cat Corallo explicitly stating he thought Hope Hicks was obstructing justice.

tbf, shit hasn't been real for over a year now...

Seriously, I could go for a little reality.

actually it's been extremely real

It's been ... something.

Why do I get the impression that the Mueller investigation has the WH staff as jumpy and upset as a sackful of cats?

Trump likes to grab cats.

they'll be fine i think

to be continued...

US Politics, February 2018: Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots