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

xpost That's what I've been saying, too. This shit has been going on for years - years! - and not only has not a single week has gone by without things looking worse, never, not once, have we learned anything exculpatory.

Which is to say, not only are the folks around Trump bad people, but I'm beginning to think he might not be a good person, either.

I want to line up every person who favored the installation of DJT because they thought they had a firm grip on the Dipshit-Bot 5000 remote control (Putin, you can be first) and slap the living shit out of them, one-by-one.

surely slapping is not harsh enough

how about stabbing

It is amusing how even the Russians seem to have underestimated his incompetent turdiness.

this shit has been so obvious since day 1, the only shocking thing is that so few people have managed to convince so many others that it wasn't

Totally clears the President. Thank you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2018

This is a creepy level of gaslighting

"That Individual-1 guy, on the other hand..."

all the redacted stuff is about hillary and soetero, right?

The aforementioned felony is not related to Russia though, it's about DJT directing Cohen to use his campaign finances for the payouts of hush money... which he (and now obviously Rudy) lied about several times in public as well as most likely in writing to the SCO.

xxxpost What does he have to lose by positing the polar opposite of reality at this point, really.

Like wtf the charges were all for crimes either carried out on trump’s behalf or ordered by trump

lmao

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— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) December 7, 2018

OL otm. Compulsive lying, even when it's to a laughable degree vs reality, has gotten this man to be a "billionaire" world leader.

What does he have to lose by positing the polar opposite of reality at this point, really.

Climate change. Inauguration sizes. Central Park Five. Trump properties are classy. Long fingers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mueller-says-manafort-told-discernible-lies-including-about-contacts-with-employee-alleged-to-have-russian-intelligence-ties/2018/12/07/3c9c6172-f99c-11e8-863c-9e2f864d47e7_story.html?utm_term=.abe072220c4a

Friday night

when a fairly consistent 40+% of Americans (with a substantial electoral advantage, no less) are sticking w him literally no matter what he does or says why would he change course?

^^^

and 98% of Republicans afaict

yep. honestly doing anything differently than declaring his innocence and loudly dumping all over the investigation and anyone who supports it would be one of the *actual* dumbest things he could do. and this is a guy who is fucking dumb & loves doing dumb shit. but even he (or enough ppl in his ear) seems to know the hand he's got.

Ever since his “shoot someone on 5th ave” comment

which honestly i'd support as long as it's one of his shitty kids or son-in-law

if he shot someone could he be indicted

i think it's extremely dumb that cohen will go to jail for stuff trump ordered him to do and trump remains the fucking president

One of the less dumb things he could try is shutting the fuck up about an active investigation.

I'm increasingly thinking most of this won't come to a legal conclusion until well after he's out office

in which case maybe he'll be begging AOC for a pardon in 2024 lol

I doubt the Supreme Court will entirely defend him either, although there are likely to be some exceptionally narrow pro-Trump rulings that will enable them to avoid setting precedent for when they want to nail a Democratic president to the wall

i think it's extremely dumb that cohen will go to jail for stuff trump ordered him to do and trump remains the fucking president

remember the Access Hollywood tape, when the guy bragging about committing sexual assault went on to become President and the guy who was nervously laughing alongside him lost his job and effectively ruined his career

rip billy hw bush

Delicious ratio. Even the bots can't help

Totally clears the President. Thank you!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2018

the trend toward third person has been fun to watch

I love that his death is literally going to be a national holiday.

if he shot someone could he be indicted

he could be impeached and it's hard to imagine he wouldn't be. then he could be indicted, convicted and imprisoned. in theory.

shooting someone would, paradoxically, fall more under the "misdemeanors" criterion than the "high crimes" one, if you were using a Scalia-like interpretation of the constitution, based on how the framers would have interpreted that language.

it's hard to imagine he wouldn't be.

let's be real, with this Senate it would depend entirely on who he shot

like if he shot Dick Cheney in the face, by accident, maaaaaaaaaaaaybe

if he shot a random black guy, he'd be safe

Think it’s more likely that Cheney will shoot Trump in the face tbh

That’s kind of his thing

he could be impeached and it's hard to imagine he wouldn't be. then he could be indicted, convicted and imprisoned. in theory.

i'd like to believe this but i honestly don't know

at least we're all collectively learning to manage our expectations

check the replies

In prior eras, if the Justice Department wrote in a public filing that the President of the United States directed someone to commit a serious crime, that could mean the end of that Administration.

Tomorrow will any Congressional Republicans have the integrity to do *anything*?

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) December 8, 2018

yeah this is officially at nixon level now

Like Trump could handle a whole gun with those hands...

Trump will serve out his entire term.

Nixon had to face large Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. If he'd faced the 2016 or 2018 situation, there probably wouldn't have been a resignation.

Nixon didn’t have as significant propaganda extension of his messaging

Inspiring reminder: In America anyone can grow up and become Individual-1

— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) December 8, 2018

ahahahahaha

Looks like George Papadopoulos's wife forgot to switch accounts before posting. Quickly deleted this tweet. pic.twitter.com/GpGpTD17lG

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) December 8, 2018

Its so sad when people do this

when it's these people, it's funny and should continue

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/ammon-bundy-quits-militia-movement-defends-migrant-caravan.html

So, this being 2018, Bundy naturally just disavowed the militia movement in solidarity with the migrant caravan, suggested that nationalism is actually the opposite of patriotism, and said that Trump’s America resembles nothing so much as 1930s Germany.

My head hurts