US Politics November 2017

The plan: hold your nose, embrace the skunk, then take a bath in milk, hoping no one notices the stench.

It would be great if people would stop holding on to this fiction that the Senate is going to block Moore from being seated.

i have a better method for avoiding skunk stank but whatever floats their boat

yeah they're going to seat him, period. the game plan is to simply prevent him from getting past the post, but with sufficient deniability.

This is a disaster for GOP but it should be an even bigger disaster for the Bannon / Breitbart wing. They wanted Moore instead of Strange, and it has been a catastrophe. But they are going to continue on in 2018 as if nothing has happened, right? I don't get where they get the money, even the Mercers must at some point realize they can't deliver whatever it is that these people want.

The people who brought you the unmerged layers of the Obama birth certificate PDF are not to be dissuaded by a grown attorney's signature in a dated yearbook, come on. That could have been written in yesterday by a snickering Hillary Clinton. Better get pajamaheddin amateur ink analysts to show that the pen used was manufactured in the late 2000s. See? It's Ra(th)ergate again!

I think we may only be a year out from a republican candidate who makes public appearances slathered in the viscera of the person he's most recently serial murdered. And who wins, naturally.

the pen used was manufactured in the late 2000s.

Surely the Deep State® has better forgery resources than that!

NRSC Chairman Cory Gardner on Moore: "he is unfit to serve in the United States Senate and he should not run for office. If he refuses to withdraw and wins, the Senate should vote to expel him" pic.twitter.com/VVoureII4c

— Alexis Levinson (@alexis_levinson) November 13, 2017

a republican candidate who makes public appearances slathered in the viscera of the person he's most recently serial murdered

Slogan: "He's not soft on crime victims!"

i'm sure some enterprising young future GOP Senator is working on a compare n contrast, show that this new accuser is actually a crisis actor and here look, you can see her crying in the crowd in after the Route 91 festival.

https://realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2017/senate/al/alabama_senate_special_election_moore_vs_jones-6271.html

Last three polls:

Tie
Jones +4
Moore +10

This last could be "rally round our embattled hero", could be "don't tell us what to do," could just plain be a bad poll.

we're still a month out, I expect polls are gonna be all over the place for awhile

Emerson had McMullin winning Utah iirc.

SCOOP: Turns out Donald Trump, Jr. corresponded with Wikileaks during the 2016 presidential campaign. My latest. https://t.co/pVGEBqmB9O

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) November 13, 2017

Thirstyleaks, more like

HOLY LORD: pic.twitter.com/h6Kf1j6mch

— Mr. Fun Guy (@Mister_Fun_Guy) November 13, 2017

It's like he's the Patient Zero of them all going to jail

At one point, Trump Jr. accepted a password to a website from them. If he used the password to access the website, that’s a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) November 13, 2017

lol that SNL made Jr the smart one in their impressions

he could very well be the smart one!

lol

Allred/Moore, his son in further legal jeopardy ... this should really get Pops Trump to freak out.

what does "accepted" a password mean?

As in, accepted it as a gift. Like, "here's the password!"

Remember the Trump judicial nominee who never tried a case or argued a motion in his brief legal career? It turns out he's married to a White House lawyer and never disclosed it. That explains how he was nominated to a job he's completely unqualified for. https://t.co/spqcMgkmUJ

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) November 13, 2017

“In relation to Mr. Assange: Obama/Clinton placed pressure on Sweden, UK and Australia (his home country) to illicitly go after Mr. Assange. It would be real easy and helpful for your dad to suggest that Australia appoint Assange ambassador to DC.”

Wikileaks even imagined how Trump might put it: “‘That’s a real smart tough guy and the most famous australian you have!’ or something similar,” Wikileaks wrote.

lol ffs

That tweet is just incidental, just more bad shit. But when it comes to breaking the law re: this Russia stuff, accepting anything from an enemy or criminal or foreign power - or all those things - is illegal. Stolen emails, passwords, information, anything given as help/a helpful gift, I think.

I admit I started this month in a slightly different mindset from the one I have now.

you can't accept a DM any more than than you can accept a piece of mail. this is some deeply nefarious and incriminating shit, but "accept a password" is innuendo that the article doesn't use and mariotti is better than.

jr's reply to the password message doesn't mention the password and there's no evidence he used it.

also i think it's going to be hard to demonstrate mens rea in a person with a room temperature IQ:

Back in July, Assange said that he sent this message personally. https://t.co/nkPe67zkdV pic.twitter.com/RzWnpp7Uck

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 13, 2017

Based on a number of calls this afternoon, WH is engaged w/ Ivey and McConnell. But everyone waiting on Pres. Trump. Whatever he decides, his circle tells me they want to be ready to make moves re: AL SEN race...

— Robert Costa (@costareports) November 13, 2017

... and there is talk about AG Sessions getting in the mix. But not yet something that's moving forward. He's not angling for it and people close to him say he'd only consider the idea if Pres. Trump made the ask. And it's not clear at all what Trump will do re: Alabama/Moore.

— Robert Costa (@costareports) November 13, 2017

lol what are they going to do - give Sessions his seat back and then voila Trump gets a new AG too? jfc

Moore will become the AG

Given the new normal, you know what's going to happen? Doug Jones is going to win, and the senate republicans will find some way to refuse to seat him

there is no way Senate Dems would vote to expel Jones, and Senate GOP would need Dem votes to do so

I keep waiting for the first Juanita Broaddrick reference

Gov Ivey to appoint Foghorn Leghorn to replace Moore

APPOINT that is

lol

This guy has found a sense of humor

Straightforward from here:
1. McConnell endorses Sessions as write-in candidate for AL Sen.
2. Sessions quits as AG to run.
3. Sessions wins.
4. Trump appoints someone already in Senate-confirmed position as new AG.
5. New AG fires Mueller.
6. Sen Sessions votes to impeach Trump.

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 13, 2017

Ha.

I was joking about Jones being expelled, but seriously, what was the rationale for holding the SC seat for 8 months? How did they pull off that heist?

xp
I worry that the first 5 of those things are going to happen

We've now updated the story with @ByronTau's great catch: @realDonaldTrump tweeted about the release of Podesta's emails *15 minutes* after @Wikileaks wrote to @DonaldJTrumpJr about it. https://t.co/pVGEBqmB9O pic.twitter.com/pOszShJ7JY

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) November 13, 2017

what was the rationale for holding the SC seat for 8 months? How did they pull off that heist?

they spent all night looking for their senses of shame and dignity, then buried them deep deep underground and never talked about it again

It's just that easy.

i still can't believe they pulled if off so brazenly

It's fucking scandalous. Against a backdrop of course of the SC literally gifting the 2000 election to Bush. Did not even wait to count the votes. Would have been bad for stability and trust or something. It's just "let the big dogs eat". Every time.

i kind of felt like the dems and obama acted like pushovers though because they assumed clinton was gonna win

just a reminder that the GOP threw their unanimous support behind this guy

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