US Politics December 2018: ~very legal and very cool~

I understand people's delight in seeing AOC mock Shithead Junior, but in the end I fear it all just becomes noise.

the trick is to do it well enough that it rises slightly above the noise and is widely noticed. trump, otoh, is the Phil Spector of noise.

XPS Second tweet brings up Cohen's toadstool penis.

BTW, I was at Fry's the other day and they had a full dumpbin of Toad pillows (shaped like his head and hat) and ohhhhhh the mis-timing!

I understand people's delight in seeing AOC mock Shithead Junior, but in the end I fear it all just becomes noise.

Nothing I've ever seen you post has indicated that you understand delight, joy, pleasure, happiness...

such is the life of a mets fan

very untrue, unperson, you must've missed about 1200 posts

I love AOC but dunking on Junior just feels way too easy at this point

I think the mueller stuff today will be good

yeah but she's so good at twitter that it's just part of the package i think.

that trump tweet on tillerson is objectively hilarious. i know we spend too much time on his tweets here and i'm guiltier than most but c'mon, that's one for the history books. good to know that when he hires "the best people" it doesn't mean they won't prove to be incompetent, lazy, and dumb as rocks.

no see that is what makes them the best people in the first place

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/what-s-driving-toned-down-trump-n943611

this aged well! i look forward to reading it again when he acts like a big boy for 30 minutes sometime

I have chosen one of the truly great business leaders of the world, Rex Tillerson, Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil, to be Secretary of State.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2016

The thing I like best about Rex Tillerson is that he has vast experience at dealing successfully with all types of foreign governments.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2016

Bar one.

NBC news is so incredibly stupid for writing that

a potato is allowed to change its "mind"

The 306 words Trump has written about Rex Tillerson on twitter: pic.twitter.com/doiMBiDwRx

— Aaron Bady (@zunguzungu) December 7, 2018

not quite ‘for sale: baby shoes, never worn’ but not bad

Heh, that was my first thought, too.

what the fuck! it that NBC article from march 2017 or some shit? we are long past the time where dumb shit becomes "presidential"

prime example of the reality that if this asshole didn’t completely shit himself everyday the fake failing news media would be propping this guy up beyond belief.

A good example of unreliable narrator, if ever saw one.

Trump on Rex deserves to be in with the 2018 Bad Sex in Fiction nominees.

ew

did y'all see the byline on that NBC story

Well in general it's because he shits himself so often that those few days where he doesn't are miracles by comparison.

xps

“What was challenging for me coming from the disciplined, highly process-oriented ExxonMobil corporation,” Tillerson said, was “to go to work for a man who is pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports, doesn’t like to get into the details of a lot of things, but rather just kind of says, ‘This is what I believe.’”

Yeah, this was the moment Trump that decided Tillerson is undisciplined and lazy as hell

*the moment that Trump decided

what the fuck! it that NBC article from march 2017 or some shit? we are long past the time where dumb shit becomes "presidential"

prime example of the reality that if this asshole didn’t completely shit himself everyday the fake failing news media would be propping this guy up beyond belief.

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, December 7, 2018 3:14 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it was in fact from december 4 reacting to the fact that the president of the united states did not, in fact, stick his dick in the mashed potatoes at george hw bush's funeral

is that a fact?

Yeah he didn’t

Also I don't think Trump is sexually attracted to Karl Rove

I don’t know, Rove has a certain quality, like a cornered oppossum.

turd blossom

This thread has taken a turn...

The 306 words about Rex read like a Statler & Waldorf skit

hahaha

totally

let's run the country like a business ; )

"Federal prosecutors said in a new court filing that President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen should spend significant time in prison — saying his assistance to investigators probing the president does not outweigh his past crimes."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/federal-prosecutors-recommend-substantial-prison-term-for-former-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen/2018/12/07/e144f248-f7f3-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html?utm_term=.f965526d9158

here we go

wait, so he *didn't* have/give up the dirt on Trump? *sigh*

This is all for stuff done at trump’s instruction right? Not the taxi stuff?

I would read it but i’m lazy and like to impose on people

only according to Cohen, Trump denies it, there's no proof

aiui

“He seeks extraordinary leniency — a sentence of no jail time — based principally on his rose-colored view of the seriousness of the crimes; his claims to a sympathetic personal history; and his provision of certain information to law enforcement,” prosecutors wrote in their filing. “But the crimes committed by Cohen were more serious than his submission allows and were marked by a pattern of deception that permeated his professional life.”

The filing also suggests Cohen’s cooperation with law enforcement was not so significant to the investigations swirling around the president.
"To be clear: Cohen does not have a cooperation agreement and is not receiving a Section 5K1.1 letter either from this Office or (special counsel Robert S. Mueller III), and therefore is not properly described as a ‘cooperating witness,’ as that term is commonly used in this district.”

wait, so he *didn't* have/give up the dirt on Trump? *sigh*

― Οὖτις, Friday, December 7, 2018 5:11 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I first interpreted it as the crimes were too bad or too many to be completely forgiven despite the information he had. So opposite.

Which is it really?

maybe his testimony is important as a corroborating account but they have other supporting evidence so it's not like it hinged on cohen? dunno

like, thanks for your testimony that booth shot lincoln, but it was a crowded theater

yeah that's what I thought, that "not so significant to the investigations" means they already had plenty of proof

The stormy daniels payments were proven to have been ordered by trump by that tape. And that seems to be one of the more serious charges (campaign finance stuff, misleading banks, etc)