US Politics November 2017

used to be i cherished the sight of every butthole

now i can barely stand to look at a butthole for more than an hour or two at a time

thanks obama

LBI, please be sensitive, a butthole is the only mouth he has.

the Oval Orifice

donald t. rump

OL that's true. Morbius eww

Our president's brave refusal to contort his facial sphincter into a quote 'normal' mouth shape increases awareness of those unfortunate souls who have to go through life unable to produce anything but utter shit from their word holes.

That Vox piece is hella depressing for sure.

yeah I think "lol nothing matters" has kind of been the lesson for a while now, especially in light of stuff like this

Meanwhile, Trump's Gallup approval percentage -- which hit a new low of 33 on Sunday -- has climbed 5 points since the indictments.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just wondering, from a legal perspective, if you have a person claiming repeatedly that they have an excellent memory, one of the best ever, stretching back decades, except when they are questioned or deposed, when they suddenly get foggy or forgetful, does that carry any weight? Like, contempt or something? Unless they outright plead the fifth?

Of course his polling went up, Mueller's investigation declared him 100% not guilty. He said it himself, there is no Trump in the charges.

http://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-introduce-bill-to-remove-bob-mueller-from-special-counsel-2017-11

but her uraniums

xxp he can just claim that he was exaggerating? I feel you sometimes take things literally that no-one else takes literally.

xp here we go

How is this anything other than a bureaucratic if no less naked method of arranging to have the judge at your trial whacked?

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, along with Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona and Louie Gohmert of Texas,

looooool, fucking LOUIE GOHMERT IS LEADING THE CHARGE EVERYBODY

if you look around, facebook has good posts on this

As much as I like Jeff Sessions it is time for him to resign. He has recused himself from all things Russia and Clinton thus making him useless and his assistant Rod Rosenstein must go too because of his involvement in the Uranium One Scandal. Bring in someone like...yes I am going to say it...Giuliani who has no agenda and is a pit bull. Jeff Sessions is a lame duck Attorney General and must do the honorable thing and step down. Hell make him DHS Secretary he would be good there but he has to go.

Sorry, did you say 'good'?

ah yes, the famously agenda-free rudy giuliani

Giuliani is too dirty to be confirmed even in this shitshow

pleading the fifth

pleading the filth

I made a couple G. Gordon Liddy will be the new special prosecutor jokes on twitter yesterday and now I'm leaving one here.

please clap.

he can just claim that he was exaggerating? I feel you sometimes take things literally that no-one else takes literally.

Impugning credibility is a common legal strategy. I mean, his dumbass tweets have been used against him in court. So, sure, he could say "I was just exaggerating," but "I was just exaggerating" is a shit defense that no doubt brings people down all the time.

Also who else is excited about having to re-live the 2016 election for the rest of our mother fucking lives

hey for awhile it was 2000

at least the heat is off Nader

...yes I am going to say it...

no Nader, no GWB
no GWB, no Iraq war
no Iraq war, no ISIS

unfortunately i think Trump still wins in this timeline

Tracer, u wanna rassle

So this uranium shit, is this going to be the new Benghazi/ACA, with just a new motion or law or appeal or some other BS being introduced again, and again, and again, no matter the result?

Anyway, nothing seems impossible anymore, but as a friend reminded me, Mueller is not just this one unstoppable terminator. There are whole teams of FBI/DOJ people working on this stuff, many privy to what Mueller is privy to. If he is somehow removed, that ends his authority but not necessarily any investigation.

It may get raised over and over, but the record is very clear about what happened, and there is absolutely nothing suspicious about it.

its 1000% a smokescreen and is effective because its so convoluted.

lol I know it's a dumb train of thought Morbs

But like in baseball, we often think that when one unexpected variable takes the flow of events far off course, any speculation on what would have happened absent that variable is spurious. BUT.. accepting that logic means accepting that equally there's no reason to believe things wouldn't have actually worked out exactly the way they looked like they were going to in the first place

but hey let's relitigate just one election at a time here, soz everyone

"As much as I like Jeff Sessions..."

BUT.. accepting that logic means accepting that equally there's no reason to believe things wouldn't have actually worked out exactly the way they looked like they were going to in the first place

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/94/89/cc/9489cc4aaa333ebd57a6d9fc13be6499.jpg

Here's some joy!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/technology/trump-twitter-deleted.html

The person who shut down Mr. Trump’s account was a contractor, the people said.

The discovery highlights a difficult issue for Twitter, as well as other technology companies that rely on large amounts of contract workers to handle sensitive work. Facebook, Twitter and other companies outsource content review to third-party services like ProUnlimited and Cognizant, which are essentially internet call centers staffed with hundreds of workers who deal with customer service issues.

Facebook and Twitter had spent much of the early part of this week testifying in congressional hearings about how they planned to hire more people to help prohibit the misuse of their platforms. Facebook said it was hiring an additional 10,000 workers to review flagged content, bringing the total to 20,000 by the end of 2018.

But in a conference call with investors earlier this week, the social network said many of these will likely not be full-time employees; the company will largely rely on third-party contractors.

Twitter employees have expressed concern about the widely available nature of internal tools for handling customer accounts. Hundreds of employees are able to access the accounts of so-called Very Important Tweeters, or VITs, and can take actions like disabling the accounts, according to current and former Twitter employees. Twitter customer support cannot, however, access customers’ private direct messages, nor can they tweet on behalf of other users, these people said.

Random mystery hire: welcome to the #resistance

Very Important Tweeters, or VITs

ffs

The self-mutilation that the center-to-left endlessly inflicts on itself certainly has nothing to do with people like Dubya and Trump becoming President and turning our country into a laughingstock.

That is to say it’s not at all a dumb train of thought, Tracer, and imo spoilers from the Greens are pragmatically no different than Richard Spencer

deplorables have a point that liberals are stuck-up

well they shift debate nominally to the left rather than to the right which has its own pragmatic benefits and someone like corbyn, who lost the most recent election, is i think a very positive development for the labour party (and for the UK more widely)

not sure generalizable rules can be extracted from the nader farrago

lol dlh ty

I actually think Tracer's speculation has some merit, in that the impulses that led Trump are primarily around domestic politics, rather than foreign policy.

But generally you can't change one variable and assume every other one stays the same. Would we have gone from Gore to Obama in that timeline?

labour gained power and vastly outperformed expectation so not really comparable to a US situation, also don't know if you noticed but corbyn is the prime minister

deplorables have a point that liberals are stuck-up

Have said it before that we are living a snobs vs. slobs comedy, except 1) the good guys are the stuck up ones, and 2) it's not funny.

well they shift debate nominally to the left rather than to the right

Twitter customer support cannot, however, access customers’ private direct messages, nor can they tweet on behalf of other users, these people said.

this at least is good, I always wondered if some rogue employee could just tweet "I hereby order a missile strike on NoKo" and plunge the world into Wargames-style annihilation

the unbroken string of nicer mass murderers/unionbusters who've run the show gave us Dubya and Trump

also don't get your "center" on my "left"

that said it's kind of amazing that no one's guessed his Twitter password yet

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