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

Is there any way for Congress to undo these China tariffs? I don't think they are well liked by either party. It just seems like something Trump imposed on everyone for no discernible reason, and it would cause widespread relief if they stopped.

What happened to the FBI people who were fired over the last year. Is McCabe going to get his pension back? Serve out his last 2 days honourably etc

& what of Strzok? Setting crowdfunding records, anything newer?

Anyone who gives one cent to that crowdfunding campaign is a complete idiot, my god

good morning!

What's the haps on the craps?

trump has not taken a shit since october 2011 iirc

he sure shat himself yesterday tho amirite ayooo

so about that flynn defense team sentencing filing, casting aspersions on mccabe and strzok while requesting no jail time

The presence of Strzok is pretty much all the Trump/Fox crowd needs to throw out the whole investigation. But legally I'm not sure the defense of "I never would have incriminated myself if I'd known they weren't on my side" seems flimsy. It's basically the old "Jeez I didn't know he was a narc." Except obv in this case he knew they were FBI agents.

Iirc it's not fair/legal if you don't announce "ready or not, here I come!" first. Would have also accepted "I'm going to get you!"

Really, the sophistry, if it weren't so sad, would be overwhelming. Clinton, Comey et al., dozens of investigations and next to nothing to show for it, therefore ... we have to keep looking! Trump and his cohort, numerous indictments and guilty pleas, with more in the pipe, but ... those aren't real crimes, so who cares!

reality is melting

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DuMUv0GWsAAe8e6.jpg:large

Is Deputy Space Force Commander a comic book character or was he really named Deputy Space Force Director? Or is it both?

If it appears in a self-published right-wing comic book, you can pretty much assume that it's reflective of reality. Because we're in hell.

Reality: based on a true story.

Inspired by true events.

Based Upon 'The Odyssey' by Homer

Hard to tell that the character in that comic is Gorka since he’s not sieg heiling

Does Gorka turn into MAGAtron?
Also, someone braver than I should zoom in on his crotch and see what's on his huge belt buckle.

gonna go out on a limb here and assume it's the emblem of an obscure hungarian nazi-adjacent group

From the bull/steer head on it I'm guessing a rodeo or showstock award buckle.

Gorka looks like Julian from Trailer Park Boys there

I had glossed over this from yesterday's exchanges:

“If we don’t get what we want — one way or the other, whether it’s through you, through a military, through anything you want to call — I will shut down the government, absolutely... And I’ll tell you what, I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck.”

I know this is normal Trump bluster, but that phrase "whether it's through you, through a military, through anything" sorta jumps out. The best-case interpretation is that he means he'll send the military to build the wall (which he obviously can't do). The worst-case interpretation gets is a lot worse.

pretty sure using the military to build a wall can be filed under the hundreds of moronic ideas he wants to implement that are sadly illegal. stuff he keeps getting mad at his staff for not letting him do.

Anyone else catch his clearly bullshit claim that we have caught something like 7 terrorists at the border already? Uh huh, sure Trump.

it was 10 iirc - each one of them a v bad hombre, one assumes

I saw some clickbait shared on FB yesterday (Ben Shapiro or Daily Caller or shit like that) boasting about the Military building the wall. So The Base is into it.

Base: how low can you go?

i learned yesterday that the avg # of people turned away from US ports of entry (for terror-related reasons) is 10/day, and that trump was making a confused reference to that fact. that’s 10/day across all US ports of entry, and that includes reasons like simply being from the wrong country

we should erect MAGAtron statues at each port of entry and every ten miles along the wall imho

lol josh

Put one of these up every few miles:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Michael_Jackson_sculpture.jpg/300px-Michael_Jackson_sculpture.jpg

Xpost ^yeah josh that's next month's title

The way Trump phrased it, I wasn't entirely clear on whether he wanted to have the military build the wall or whether he intended for them to configure themselves into some massive human sculpture and effectively become the wall. Given the source, I'd say either interpretation is equally plausible.

mexico's army is going to pay for and build the wall iirc

In this same interlude it doth befall
That I, one Snout by name, present a wall.
And such a wall, as I would have you think,
That had in it a crannied hole, or chink,
Through which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisbe,
Did whisper often very secretly.
This loam, this roughcast, and this stone doth show
That I am that same wall. The truth is so.
And this the cranny is, right and sinister,
Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper.

Meanwhile at Cohen's sentencing:

On his client's treatment, Petrillo said: "Mr. Cohen had the misfortune to be counsel to the president."

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) December 12, 2018

Cohen began his remarks by stating that: "Today is the day that I am getting my freedom back." ... "I have been living in a personal and mental incarceration ever since the day that I accepted the offer to work for a real estate mogul whose business acumen that I deeply admired."

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) December 12, 2018

Cohen was silent for a few moments. He just sniffled.

— erica orden (@eorden) December 12, 2018

My coworker just noted that based on Cohen fun this morning we could easily see a lawyer for one of the family members of the president eventually saying "You don't get to pick your family!" in court.

"Mr. Cohen had the misfortune to be counsel to the president."

Fate is a cruel mistress, indeed.

Had no idea this was an hereditary position before today. Mind blown.

if it weren't for the fact that he needs a forever wall to fire up his idiots, i'd have expected trump to declare victory by now, adding a beautiful imaginary 2000-mile wall to his list of accomplishments that no other president has ever approached

maybe it has the same stealth technology as those fighter jets you literally can't see

admiring trump’s business acumen should be carceral offence in its own right

lotta thred titles in there

I would be honestly surprised if someone in the long train of Trump associates facing charges doesn't explicitly attempt a defense based upon having been brainwashed by what they now recognize to be a very bad and evil cult of personality.

Pauley: Cohen's cooperation "does not wipe the slate clean."

"This court ... believes a significant term of imprisonment" is justified, Pauley says.

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) December 12, 2018

BREAKING: Cohen is sentencing to 36 months of imprisonment.

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) December 12, 2018

eek

36 months is significant for a white man, yes

i bet he's out in less than 18