US Politics November 2017

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CGyASDjE-U

Please no pullouts or withdrawing or non-seating or appointee switcheroos or delaying the election or any of that.

Josh has it right.

1. Election goes forward as planned.
2. Moore stays in.
3. Some people advocate Strange as the write-in candidate.
4. Some people advocate Sessions as the write-in candidate.
5. Some people advocate Brooks as the write-in candidate.
6. Some people advocate circling the wagons and staying with Moore (to stick it to the establishment).

Republicans then fail to coalesce around any of those options, and: Senator Doug Jones (D-AL).

Montgomery Advertiser, Oct. 13, 2002. Guess some of these people finally started talking. pic.twitter.com/9Psc2iThdz

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 14, 2017

Of course he's from a place called fucking Gallant.

Yeah, but he went to school in Goofus.

Meanwhile: treason!

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Monday that he would support the Democratic candidate in the Alabama Senate special election over GOP candidate Roy Moore.

"If this choice is between Roy Moore and a Democrat, a Democrat,” Flake told reporters Monday in response to a question about who he would support. “For sure.”

Flake already has a target on his back so why not keep going?

It's getting good.

LOL. Anderson Cooper breaks into the telecast to show live footage of Pence throwing Don Jr under a bus. pic.twitter.com/ASw1SzmPfQ

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 14, 2017

yeah, there were two fascinating development, today

The Nelson interview and the explosion it's caused.

The circling noose for Donald Jr. and the written revelation of just how sleazy and frightening Wikileaks is

mike pence does not seem very bright

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-considering-second-special-counsel-to-investigate-republican-concerns-letter-shows/2017/11/13/bc92ef3c-c8d2-11e7-b0cf-7689a9f2d84e_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_justiceletter-815pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

8 months ago...

I asked for their candid and honest opinion about what I should do about investigations, certain investigations. And my staff recommended recusal. They said that since I had involvement with the campaign, I should not be involved in any campaign investigation. I have studied the rules and considered their comments and evaluation. I believe those recommendations are right and just.

Therefore, I have recused myself in the matters that deal with the Trump campaign. The exact language of that recusal is in the press release that we — we will give to you. I've said this, quote, “I have now decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matter relating in any way to the campaigns for president of the United States.”

are they gonna appoint that 36 year old shit for brains thats never argued a motion in court to be special counsel of benghazi 3.0

Why are you all acting like this is some big deal? No one can remember what they said in a press release eight months earlier. And that was all so long ago that there's no reason to think it still applies or even ought to apply in this case. Remember, this man is the Attorney General of the United States, and I think he would know what is right and what isn't. /sarah_huckabee_sanders_mode

back to the trump jr/wikilieaks DMs: while I don't think they're evidence that trump jr did anything illegal wrt to the CFAA, they are an admission of guilt by wikileaks.

https://cdn1.nyt.com/images/2017/03/19/fashion/19DONJRJP1/19DONJRJP1-superJumbo.jpg

thinking baout things

"He's a jar, with a heavy lid"

lol

i spent the last seven minutes staring at that picture while listening to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AWIqXzvX-U

2nd lol

https://i.imgur.com/dmx1WQR.jpg

hahaha!

Ha, the best.

it's kind of weird but i wouldn't mind having a 1960s-sized GI Joe version of Trump Jr

or just a pez dispenser version, whatever

Pretty sure DJTJ is a pez dispenser.

Anyway, it's only fair that if there is a special prosecutor looking into the Trump campaign for proof they conspired with Russia to rig the election, among other things, that there should be another special something looking into Not President Clinton for something that would have looked bad had she been elected president, except she wasn't, because people already assumed the worst of her, which may or may not be true, but hey, she's not president, and anyway, now the Russians have nukes and she is rich! But not as rich as the current president and his cronies, who got everything they have through honest means, which is why that should not be looked into.

Also, they should look into Obama, too. Just because. I heard he secretly smokes and he might have acknowledged some drug use in some book once. Someone should read that, stat.

https://cdn1.nyt.com/images/2017/03/19/fashion/19DONJRJP1/19DONJRJP1-superJumbo.jpg

Literally under a cloud.

Re: this nob, hmm, strange that wikileaks claims it has no copies of the emails, but DJTJ, for some reason, kept his. And I'm sure he kept all of them, right, and made sure to turn them over as promised? I mean, if he says he only responded a couple of times then he must be telling the truth. Besides, how could he have anything to hide? He's putting everything out there proactively, just like the secret wikileaks messages that were just leaked out had secretly suggested he do before. Nothing suspicious about that at all.

Didn't Two Scoops promise/threaten to make some big announcement tomorrow? Because who cares, once again anything he has to say will be lost in the shuffle of all this shit.

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

You're funny!

What's truly ironic is that you're complaining about leaks. This was you 13 months ago. pic.twitter.com/WoT5pKE5Cl

— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) November 14, 2017

Also, here's your dad tweeting just after Wikileaks reached out to you on Oct 12, 2016 talking about how the press is "missing" stories.

Notice the similar complaint from your dad? pic.twitter.com/13WMdXyJk3

— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) November 14, 2017

I liked the last tweet from that guy in the same string

"You guys were willfully conspiring with Wikileaks, which you knew was releasing emails hacked by Russia. You guys are guilty as fuck.

Fuck you. And fuck your dad."

strange that wikileaks claims it has no copies of the emails

they needed the space, for all of the things, that they leak

man, Shaun King has gone full Morbius today with his non stop Bill Clinton criticism. Like, there are more relevant fish to fry. time to stop following.

I unfollowed King last week when he was the one and only person in my feed defending Donna Brazile after she displaced Greenwald as Tucker Carlson's new favorite guest.

gone full Intercept

you guys have great criteria, gives me hope for the future, all 2 years of it.

criteria?? more like great bacteria!

looks like we're gonna get to relive the 90s

As gross and cynical and hypocrtical as the right's "what about Bill Clinton" stuff is, it's also true that Democrats and the center left are overdue for a real reckoning with the allegations against him.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 10, 2017

I am 100% in support of making Bill Clinton's final years hell, fwiw