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

seems like a long time for you but when you get to be my age

Last time everybody was wrong about the presidential election: 2016

Morbs otm

huh https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/jerry-falwell-jr-michael-cohen-pool-attendant-lawsuit

A pool boy and Jerry Falwell, Jr.:

nfluential evangelical leader and Donald Trump backer Jerry Falwell Jr. went into business with a young pool attendant he and his wife met while staying at a luxury hotel in Miami Beach, according to a lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade County.

The suit, which has not been previously reported, was brought by a father and son who claim that after they helped conceive of the business, the pool attendant and Falwell wrongly cut them out of it. The suit says that while Falwell Jr. and his wife were guests at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach in 2012, they developed a “friendly relationship” with the pool attendant, Giancarlo Granda; flew Granda in a private jet; and eventually backed him in a business venture, setting up a hostel that offers low-cost dorm-style nightly accommodations to visitors. The pool attendant, according to public records databases, was 21 when he met the Falwells.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/jerry-falwell-jr-michael-cohen-pool-attendant-lawsuit

Like so many things from the last two years, a bit on the nose

who among us has not tried to help out the pool boy

great site admin pool boy

the word ‘conceive’ seems to be hinting at more than just the birthing of a crackerjack business to me

Academics and writers are going to have to be much crisper about discussing the involvement of online disinformation in real-world events. The Russian trolls love to draft behind legitimate movements; IRA pushed #BlackLivesMatter, that doesn’t invalidate BLM’s legit issues. https://t.co/Rexf25PtxZ

— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) December 8, 2018

Effective propaganda has always taken advantage of whatever strongly motivates its target audience and then harnesses that motivation as a means to its own ends. The amount of disinformation included is just enough to direct the energy into the desired course. A good propagandist uses accepted truth and facts wherever possible, because that lends legitimacy to the entirety of the contents.

This stuff is all elementary and everyone in the media ought to know it before they toddle into their first assignment.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ayers-not-taking-job-as-white-house-chief-of-staff/ar-BBQIS0X?ocid=spartanntp

Trumpie couldn't even get this right.

This stuff is all elementary and everyone in the media ought to know it before they toddle into their first assignment.

― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, December 9, 2018 8:02 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But do they know it's Christmas

narrator: maybe?

Not sure if this will embed but tommorow oughta be interesting.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BrL2FjyhqBO/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=rr7t666croxy

Smock weed every day iirc

good morning!

"Smocking Gun" is my favorite Robert Cray jam...

Our president and his brain worms

The brain worms are what his fans love about him!

Smocking guns would come in very handy for unsmocked art teachers whose hands are already covered in paint, wishing Dems luck in their continued search.

Just, again: I hate that I have to be alive during this particular stretch of the human experience. I wonder how much it costs to have a coma induced upon oneself.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0d/30/d2/0d30d29de50542a19b6099a66f971b96.png

ffs that wasnt even i typo he misspelled it twice, he for reals can't spell smoking .

Found this v helpful.

https://sewguide.com/smocking/

My mom used to be super into that. All my handmade dresses had smocked front panels for a while.

Just, again: I hate that I have to be alive during this particular stretch of the human experience. I wonder how much it costs to have a coma induced upon oneself.

look on the bright side: there's a pretty good chance that when you're revived the world will be worse than when you went under

The world could always be worse. I just shudder to think that it could somehow be stupider.

https://i.imgur.com/We9qIq2.jpg

7D tic tac toe

The brain worms are what his fans love about him!

― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili),

Unreal

thanks obama

Top Obama aides are running the health care front group aiming to kill Medicare for All. https://t.co/21Nb89tQJM

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) December 10, 2018

Butina to flip, per court filing

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) December 10, 2018

i don't know who that is

ah yes now i remember

She's big, because she could further hurt the (failing?) NRA.

yes

The possibility of someday watching the NRA implode may be worth staying out of a coma for.

i just remembered oliver north is the president of the nra

what a country

Butina was prosecuted by U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, rather than special counsel Robert S. Mueller III — an indication that Mueller may have determined that her activities did not directly connect to his investigation, which involves scrutinizing any links between Russia and President Trump’s campaign.

is it wrong that I am kinda hoping for an economic crash in terms of how that will affect Trump's political fortunes and global GHG emissions

I have a tab open every day this past week to watch the dow fall it kinda sucks but what can u do

boy, POLITICO doesn't miss a shot to frame stories establishment vs insurgents, eh

Roberts and Kavanaugh vote against allowing states to cut off PP funding

that's... not what happened

Chief Justice John Roberts and the newest justice, Brett Kavanaugh, joined the court's four liberal jurists in turning away a pair of petitions from Kansas and Louisiana seeking the ban on abortion providers.

Did I phrase it wrong? lol

idk I guess it was ambiguous to me, nm

that's... a pleasant surprise?

In the most positive sense of the utterance, I must ask...WTF?

Thomas wrote a dissent for the three conservatives, saying the court isn't doing its job.

"What explains the Court's refusal to do its job here?" Thomas wrote.

"I suspect it has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are named Planned Parenthood," he wrote.