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

too much face

So has Corsi flipped? This was never clear to me

i missed that the washington post has introduced a change to their fact checking scale. no, they didn't change it from something other than the infantile pinnochio system. instead they doubled down and added the "bottomless pinnochio" rating for a lie that has been repeated at least 20 times.

Trump’s willingness to constantly repeat false claims has posed a unique challenge to fact-checkers. Most politicians quickly drop a Four-Pinocchio claim, either out of a duty to be accurate or concern that spreading false information could be politically damaging.

Not Trump. The president keeps going long after the facts are clear, in what appears to be a deliberate effort to replace the truth with his own, far more favorable, version of it. He is not merely making gaffes or misstating things, he is purposely injecting false information into the national conversation.

To accurately reflect this phenomenon, The Washington Post Fact Checker is introducing a new category — the Bottomless Pinocchio. That dubious distinction will be awarded to politicians who repeat a false claim so many times that they are, in effect, engaging in campaigns of disinformation.

as of today, all 15 bottomless pinnochios are from donald trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/10/meet-bottomless-pinocchio-new-rating-false-claim-repeated-over-over-again

here's a 25K greg sargent tweet thread pointing out, for the billionth time, he lies on purpose

1) As Trump ends the year with a flood of lies about his wall, we need to recapture a core truth about this presidency.

Trump isn't “twisting the truth” or “stubbornly refusing to admit error.”

Trump is engaged in *disinformation.*

This is a different thing entirely.

*THREAD*

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) December 30, 2018

bottomless pinnochio

I saw a porn movie called this once.

must not have been very good if he was bottomless

another reason they should change their lie rating system mascot.

how about a pitchfork style system, decimal points, best new lie, best reissued lie. october for lies magazine is just straight up real estate listings

Snail Mail picks her favorite lies.

Federal prosecutors have requested records related to a https://twitter.com/CREWcrew/status/94610863933671424085 million loan that Deutsche Bank gave Jared Kushner’s family real estate company one month before Election Day https://t.co/l7gw4cxkFL

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) December 27, 2017

lol ILX code is like debugging a one hour undergrad hackathon. Why comes a dollar sign in a twitter embed turns into some recursive re-render?

Should read:

Federal prosecutors have requested records related to a $285 million loan that Deutsche Bank gave Jared Kushner’s family real estate company one month before Election Day

(remember that Deutsche Bank HQ in Frankfurt was raided a month ago by digital forensic agents)

That tweet is from a year ago but the news is on a loop so really how could we even tell

There's an old saying in Tennessee... I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee... that says, fool me once, shame on... uh, shame on you. Fool me... uh... you can't get fooled again.

I don't know where else to post this incredible piece about life in America.

The wife begging her to restore her husband's fox news was fucking brutal.

That is an amazing article.

So, the US Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Interior, Ambassador to the UN, and Chief of Staff are all on their last day.

2019 is gonna be fuckin lit

good morning!

good riddance, 2018!

So, the US Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Interior, Ambassador to the UN, and Chief of Staff are all on their last day.

2019 is gonna be fuckin lit

otm

Warren's War On The Moron Is More On

presidential harassment!

I don't know where else to post this incredible piece🕸 about life in America.

XP Grab 'Em By The #SchumerShutdown

Year-end gripe: I am so sick of hearing Trump apologists talk about how we have "the lowest African-American and Hispanic unemployment rates in history." It's creepy. I know that the talking point is supposed to signal "See, we ARE good for them even if they always vote for Democrats." But what it really signals is, "See, we got their lazy asses to work." And a bunch of other weird coded racist stuff.

they arbeit so hard they done got macht frei!

No they are just super concerned about the plight of minorities in US, I don't know how once could ascribe an ulterior motive there

Hmm

Interesting. Government just filed a joint status report under seal for Sam Patten, a Manafort/Kilimnik associate who pleaded guilty in August to failing to register as a foreign agent and admitted to steering foreign funds to Trump's inaugural. He's been cooperating ever since. pic.twitter.com/pgedX5KtcE

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) December 31, 2018

SHE’S RUNNING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbH0RU4GcVo

Squad, assume circular formation and commence firing!

good. she'd be a good president.

my thinking since early 2017 was that the 2020 Dem ticket would be Biden/Warren but i guess Beto/Harris is the new fashionable bet

good luck usa

i mean biden would be 82 at the end of his first term but maybe that's an actual selling point for the right

I don’t think either of those are more likely than Harris/A White Man

i have a hard time believing the dems are going to double down on a female nominee in the face of a second term of Trump
but of course, I (and everyone else) don't know anything about anything in this brave new world and every assumption that was bedrock crumbles in unexpected new ways virtually every day
happy new year

If Biden runs, he'll crash and burn after the first wave of primaries, like he always does. He's the only person who wants him to be president. Well, except for journalists, and they only want him because he's fun to hang around with, so fuck what they think.

i'd happily vote for professor warren, just like i did hillary. but they'd crooked-hillarize witch hunt the shit out of "pocahontas" in a way that would give "conservatives" cover for voting donnie 'lesser of two evils' moscow

men should be banned from running for president

worth a shot tbh

The right wing noise machine doesn’t have the decades of history poisoning the well for Warren or Harris or Gillebrand or whomever like they did for HRC. Her negatives weren’t the result of two years of campaigning.

but they'd crooked-hillarize witch hunt the shit out of "pocahontas" in a way that would give "conservatives" cover for voting donnie 'lesser of two evils' moscow

they'd do this to anyone. warren has one of the cleanest records, seemingly.

she is a completely different kind of figure than hillary, who had been around for like 20 years and for that entire time had been one of the leading devils in the conservative fever dream.

or silby otm

i predict warren carries all 50 states in the general

men should be banned from running for president

rogermexico should be banned from this thread

favorite deleted presidential tweet of the day. l=e=a=d=e=r=s=h=i=p

realDonaldTrump: I'm in the Oval Office. Democrats, come back from vacation now and give us the votes necessary for Border Security, including the Wall. You voted yes in 2006 and 3013. One more yes, but with me in office, I'll get it built, and Fast!

it's the year 3030, and here at the corporate institutional bank of time

deltrump 3030

People will be shocked how quickly and easily Warren effectively becomes the new Hillary in terms of being a reviled figure but ultimately she could still carry it. A slightly less unpopular figure could have won in 2016