US Politics November 2017

seth abramson is a mensch level grifter

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pictured: Huckabee Sanders stepping away from the podium

I hope Page doesn't get indicted, he's probably my favorite character in the whole series

Page is a bot come to life, right

seth abramson is a mensch level grifter

Maybe! But he read the fucking thing and highlighted the best bits, so good for you, grifter.

Jim, are you saying the thread is BS? It seemed reasonable to me, perhaps a little overheated?

49/ BOMBSHELL #1: Page *lied to FBI investigators and Congress*. He in fact *told the campaign he had a private meeting with the Deputy PM*.

37/ Rooney and Gowdy let him testify, at one point, "by narrative"—which is when you let a liar or troubled person just talk themselves out.

38/ It's the equivalent—in trial advocacy—of throwing up your hands and saying, "I don't give a sh*t anymore—just say what you want to say."

i believe the bailiff of twitter has indicted abramson for treason and i take no pleasure in that

The implications of this are STAGGERING. Page didn't go to Russia as a "private citizen"—he lied. The campaign and Trump lied. Remember: PAGE briefed HICKS *before* going to Moscow, then emailed the top brass his after-action report—surely, again, to HICKS. So Trump knew. Page admits withholding that smoking-gun document from Congress under what—I'll tell you—is a totally invalid Fifth Amendment exercise.

has anyone ever started a twitter thread that just kept going and never stopped?

Let's ask Carter Page!

i believe the bailiff of twitter has indicted abramson for treason and i take no pleasure in that

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, November 7, 2017 11:29 AM (fifty-two seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha

Yeah, it began last year and I still haven't woken up

xxp

BOMBSHELL #2: Page admits meeting multiple Kremlin agents and discussing Kremlin "outreach"—offers to cooperate—with *top Trump aides*. Rep. Conaway says on the record that Page has wrongly withheld docs from the Committee's majority to the point at which he's "offended." Page reveals he met with the FBI five or six times—at a minimum—in 2016 and 2017. Wow—that is a *lot* of times.

67/ Though to be clear, he says Russia didn't do anything whatsoever during the election, so his crazy claim about Steele isn't surprising.

tweet storms with capitalized names are like reading a shitty first draft of a screenplay

please can we stop posting abramson stuff. find someone else saying the same thing who doesn't have a record of menschianism, or silo it off in a quick poll about Russia and Donald Trump.

or the high sherriff of ILX will charge you all with conspiracy against the US and i take no pleasure in that

Carter Page reminds me of the time when my 21-year-old roommate was successfully handling a visit from the cops re: a noise complaint when my underage & massively-drunken self butted in with what he was convinced was a much more compelling argument for turning the police away.

otm – Carter Page is every dumbfuck friend of a friend who makes a situation under control worse

'Offsifser, jusslemme esplain for minnit. M'pleadin' a fifth.'

his phd reflects appallingly on the SOAS

phd defense by narrative

What I like about the Page transcript - and there is so much to like, beginning with how "The Page Transcript" would make a great name for an indie movie, short story of prog band - is that you don't have to be some sort of expert to read it and catch him fucking up. It's all there, one after the other. Like, he says he was wary of going to Russia and wanted to be careful, and Gowdy asks him, if you needed to be "super" careful, then why did you even go? And Page's response is literally "Because I'm trying to live my life." I so wanted him to tag a "maaaaaan" on there at the end. The Page abides.

"short story or prog band," I messed up my own joke, thanks Carter Page, Ph.d/USM.

Carter Page, the Unstoppable Sex Machine

Carter Page, Ph.d/USM.

I gave credit where credit was due, dude worked hard for those letters.

lol I completely missed that, sorry

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the Chris Hayes interview from earlier this year is one of the most batshit pieces of TV I've seen outside "Pee-Wee's Playhouse."

it is p baffling that he has a doctorate

At this point I'm not sure we can even be positive of that.

xpost I had no idea and genuinely thought I was misreading when I kept seeing them refer to him as 'Dr. Page' in the transcripts.

So a PhD is basically worthless, is my takeaway here.

I feel like every time I had to read Schiff say "Dr. Page", I died inside a little

he's a dignity wraith, dead inside

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Karl Malone, have at this

what's baffling is that no one has looked it up and proved that his thesis was plagiarized yet

Dr. Carter Page is like the name of the evil scientist with a dark secret who tags along with the mission and ultimately betrays his fellow man by secretly impregnating them with alien spores that will then grow up, burst out of their chest and vote GOP.

Photoshoppers, have at this:

http://props.steinschneider.com/aliens/carter_burke/carter_burke_04.jpg

Didn't know Trump University gave out doctorates

that transcript reminds me of when Trump said he was sure that Russia didn't interfere because he asked Putin twice, but phrased the question differently each time. I guess that's the sort of expert interrogation technique that actually works on his own employees.

has anyone seen page and trump together? we don't know for sure trump isn't page without the wig on

He's more accredited that Gorka, but does he have a sweet Mustang with vanity plates

Karl Malone, have at this

it's already top notch, lol! he is like a really annoying cartoon character

GOP confused that their "middle class tax cut" bill does not actually focus on the middle class

interesting that Manchin is kind of holding his fire, I don't think that's going to last

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/07/gop-on-defensive-analysis-tax-hike-244642

like that quote is basically him setting himself up for a "Trump lied to me to my face" moment later

All these choads who think they're not going to get fucked over by trump and then end up getting fucked over by trump are like the president in the 70s battlestar galactica pilot when he realises the cylons have slaughtered the humans at the peace rallies and baltar is now suspiciously nowhere to be found

apologies if my analogy is a little obscure

Trump is not as smart as Baltar