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

Trump's use of "frankly" right before he's going to brag about something is so great

Rep. Colin Peterson (D) on siding with GOP on Yemen vote: “Our party gets off on tangents”

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) December 12, 2018

Shakey Downer...

HISTORIC VICTORY: The Senate has voted to stop U.S. military support for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen. This is the first time ever that the Senate has voted to end an unauthorized war. https://t.co/8SLVTA5m2d

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) December 13, 2018

Hi everyone—-The Fox News transcript apparently has a typo in it. President Trump apparently said he has the greatest BASE in the history of politics, not “FACE”. I deleted my last tweet. Transcript (w/typo) attached! pic.twitter.com/7PcXLn63K5

— Vivian Salama (@vmsalama) December 13, 2018

Face of Base.

what's sad is that trump saying he had the greatest face in politics didn't even surprise me, like not even a little bit. it seemed like a thing he would say

speaking of faces -- have Bernie, Mike Lee, and Chris Murphy been photographed together before today?

If Pecker told Mueller this, the question of Trump's culpability on the campaign finance charges is settled. https://t.co/r8wYeP5lwF

— Philip Bump (@pbump) December 13, 2018

cool so we just wait 2 years for an indictment, right?

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/a68c6b30-0d56-4320-bda6-04bbc9f5fd7e

BREAKING: Trump inauguration spending under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors; probe partly arises out of materials seized in investigation of Michael Cohen - Dow Joneshttps://t.co/vkI6jV6Gvm

— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) December 13, 2018

yeah but so many people attended

hahahahahahahaaaaaa

this is almost certainly about the Russian dudes there and their funding, right?

or "donations" or whatever it was

it is really starting to seem like these investigations are fruiting exponentially

Donald Trump was the third person in the room in Aug. 2015 when Michael Cohen and National Enquirer publisher David Pecker discussed ways Pecker could help counter negative stories about Trump's relationships with women, @NBCNews has confirmed. https://t.co/MG85CRHEE2

— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 13, 2018

it's like an animated fractal generator but with shit

more on the inauguration thing

The Manhattan U.S. attorney's office is probing whether donors gave money to Trump's inaugural committee in exchange for access to the Trump administration, policy concessions or to influence administration positions in violation of anti-corruption laws.https://t.co/FVekGLk6pK

— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) December 13, 2018

xp three guys in a room just getting back to basics, falling in love with payoffs all over again

well, that's it

i can no longer keep track of all of these investigations

holy shit

is there a @Taniel esque person who keeps a giant spreadsheet with all of the investigations and their current status?

I guess that’s the thing with a guy like Cohen working in the territory he was in, he was capable of violating probably more laws at any given time and he even knew.

Than he even knew

I wonder if after all this stuff is served up and sorted out we'll still get a pee tape

like a kind of digestif

is there a @Taniel esque person who keeps a giant spreadsheet with all of the investigations and their current status?

trumpmc.xls

Yemen vote seems like a big deal even if it doesn’t get to the floor

yessss

NEW: Trump considering Jared Kushner for chief of staff, @svdate reports https://t.co/4QxSVw4zm1

— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) December 13, 2018

Telling ya, have it both him and Newt, let them argue.

in space

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) this week got frank about President Donald Trump’s decision to send troops down to the US-Mexico border, calling it “made-for-television bullshit.”

In an interview with the New Yorker, the outgoing Democrat discussed the migrant caravan Trump had used repeatedly as a talking point against immigration during election season.

“I do think that the caravan presented a problem,” McCaskill said. “It just wasn’t a problem that was presented to the American people that, somehow, we needed to have the military on the border to—what? Mow ’em down as they came across the border? Shoot ’em?”

“I mean, that was made-for-television bullshit,” she scoffed.

i could be misreading missouri politics, but i think she would have done better had she adopted this tone from the beginning of the 2018 campaign

Missourians like cursing, right?

to the point of not even noticing it

Is Jared going to have clearance after January

so assuming the current Congress doesn't arrive at a deal (looks likely) and the gov't shuts down until January 1st... what happens when the new congress comes in? Pelosi isn't gonna give Trump his $5 billion, does 25% of the gov't just shut down indefinitely?

feel like a lot of major western imperial powers are holding a gun to their own heads rn and muttering threats to shoot

fire away sez I

Genius!

Kevin McCarthy, when I asked about Trump being implicated in two crimes and his campaign allegedly working with AMI to conceal hush-money payments before elections, blamed Michael Cohen.

"If you hire an attorney to solve a problem, do you expect the attorney to do it legally?"

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 13, 2018

great excuse

tbf there is no way to know that paying hush money to a porn star for silence during a presidential election campaign is iffy

It was done in my name, by my paid personal representative, after close consultation, at my behest, but I have nothing to do with it.

i kind of believe them when they say it was just a business as usual pay-off, though. i mean they should have known better because of the campaign, but this was probably like the 25th person cohen had paid off, the 10th time national enquirer was involved. just making those numbers up but i long ago learned to just assume the worst happened with this fucking guy

What happened with Florida's Amendment 4 , just saw last night's Samantha Bee after not thinking about it since i heard it passed and it sounds like the Republican party have tried to sweep it under the rug. Put it on deep backburner etc. Is it too early to say or have they actively tried to suppress it.

She had a feature on Republican attempts to derail popular election results.

Our governor-elect!

https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/12/04/confusion-and-uncertainty-cloud-restoration-of-felons-voting-rights/

Here's another story, and I saw it coming. No way would the Florida GOP allow almost a million former felons, most of whom are people of color, back on the voting rolls without a fight:

All this talk about the legislature is baffling to elections supervisors and civil rights groups, who say the amendment was designed to be self-executing. The state Supreme Court unanimously approved the amendment’s language as clear and specific, saying voters could understand that the point was to “automatically” restore the affected population’s voting rights.

“I don’t think you need the legislature,” Manatee County election supervisor Mike Bennett told TPM.

A self-described “strong Republican” who tried to enact felon rights restoration during his 12 years in the state Senate, Bennett called himself an “advocate” for Amendment 4. As Bennett noted, the Senate Ethics & Elections Committee won’t have its first meeting until March, and any proposed measures will then have to pass the House, the Senate, and be approved by DeSantis.

“That process will take more time whereas if the secretary of state’s office handled it and came up with the definitions and clarifications, they could do it much faster,” he said.

Did Maine ever implement Medicare for all or whatever the voters voted for? Isn't their asshole gov. refusing to implement the will of the voters as well? That kind of shit seems ... unconstitutional.

"unconstitutional" means a democRAT did it. what republicans do is constitutional by definition iirc

republicraps imo ty good night

ZOMG, voices on the right are starting to ring the alarm on the deficit! Congress should get right on that ... in January ... when the Democrats take charge ...