US Politics November 2017

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?

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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

https://i.redd.it/ens8yvcohtxz.png

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but by doing so they ceded the right to complain loudly and frequently about what total bullshit it was, esp. after the election. the whole fiasco comes up every once in a while, i maybe see a reference to it around every month or so, in some form or another. if democrats would have done the same to republicans it would have been bigger than #benghazi

Sen Richard Shelby R-AL on Roy Moore: "I think he ought to seriously think about dropping out"

— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) November 13, 2017

Seriously, dude. Seriously.

yeah but the will of the voters

Shelby is the first state party guy to turn on him, yeah?

"Hey, Roy, so, uh, do you like to state party?"

The gov turned on him, does she count?

Shelby was one of the old boll-weevil conservative Southern Dem politicians - turned (R) after the Gingrich wave election. Presumably this makes him a RINO to half of his audience.

No ped, no cred.

The rats are fleeing

.@realDonaldTrump should strike a deal with @SenMajLdr & Roy Moore to replace Moore with AL Rep. Mo Brooks, rock-solid conservative.

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) November 13, 2017

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A fun day all around for people!

I cannot confirm the alleged DM's from @DonaldJTrumpJr to @WikiLeaks. @WikiLeaks does not keep such records and the Atlantic's presentation is edited and clearly does not have the full context. However, even those published by the Atlantic show that: 1/

— Julian Assange 🔹 (@JulianAssange) November 13, 2017

The gov turned on him, does she count?

did she? I thought she'd been keeping quiet.

Nah, she's made some statements.

She's been cagey. Like, the fact that she would even humor then decide against postponing the election implies she knows there's trouble.

saying she is "not considering postponing the election" is not exactly a repudiation of Moore, it's an elliptical statement at best

This is going to keep going, isn't it.

Alabama GOP Sen. Richard Shelby on a potential write-in candidate: "A strong one would be Sen. Sessions."

— Emma Loop (@LoopEmma) November 13, 2017

So if there's a write in campaign, that really favors Jones, right? Divide and conquer?

I'm sure Trump loves this idea cuz it would be an opportunity to put Sessions back in the Senate, keep Moore out, and get himself a new AG that he could then pressure to fire Mueller.

a write-in campaign definitely favors Jones - vote-splitting, depressed turnout from the GOP etc.

There's nothing on this ballot besides the Senate seat, right? A write in campaign with no other issue to vote for would keep a lot of people home.

Yup, just the Senate seat.

And now...

Locals Were Troubled by Roy Moore’s Interactions with Teen Girls at the Gadsden Mall https://t.co/pOBdKR8N5f

— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) November 13, 2017

The person who should step aside is @SenateMajLdr Mitch McConnell. He has failed conservatives and must be replaced. #DrainTheSwamp

— Judge Roy Moore (@MooreSenate) November 13, 2017

can't imagine him ever backing down, this is just gonna get uglier and uglier. POTUS tweets imminent I assume.

That was from earlier today so who knows.

Meantime, Breitbart's apparently backing away:

Is Bannon about to throw Roy Moore over the cliff? pic.twitter.com/XFNrkAPpQ6

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 13, 2017

so he was simultaneously an assistant district attorney AND banned from his local mall for harassing young girls

the mind boggles

curiouser and curiouser

time to break out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD3bGEFxGC0

Where the skies are so blue

Roy Moore's press conference just now, he said of Beverly Young Nelson claims-
"This is absolutely false. I never did what she said I did. I don’t even know the woman. I don’t know anything about her. I don’t even know where the restaurant is or was." He did not take questions.

— Jack Royer (@JackRoyer) November 13, 2017

he signed a lot of teenage girls' yearbooks back then, he can't be expected to remember all of them!

I don't even know the woman whose 1977 yearbook I signed affectionately.

Classic old prosecutor, only what he knows matters. I wonder if he ever won against any firms bigger than four people (or public defenders)

And the local Alabama paper just came out with a story with local residents backing up all the allegations against Moore https://t.co/wyy7uHtPDw

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) November 14, 2017

how in the world did this asshole's career make it as far as it has?

Alabama

Big wheels keep on turnin

I lol'd

"Now that I've been banned from the mall, I can pursue my true passion, the ten commandments"

— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) November 14, 2017

Cruz finally caved

"I am not able to urge the people of Alabama to support his candidacy so long as these allegations remain unrefuted," Sen. Cruz said when asked if he pulls his endorsement of Roy Moore.

— Marianna Sotomayor (@MariannaNBCNews) November 13, 2017

That’s a lot of negative modal conditionals.

Hey, Don Jr.'s on it!

Here is the entire chain of messages with @wikileaks (with my whopping 3 responses) which one of the congressional committees has chosen to selectively leak. How ironic! 1/3 pic.twitter.com/SiwTqWtykA

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 14, 2017