US Politics January 2019: we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger

Re: the entrenched nutters we'll have to live with the rest of our lives, read of the evangelical simile of Trump to the biblical Cyrus, the Persian king who released Judean elites from Babylonian captivity in 538 BCE.

Vox: The biblical story the Christian right uses to defend Trump
Times of Israel: Who is King Cyrus, and why did Netanyahu compare him to Trump
BreakingIsraelNews (an evangelical site): Zechariah's Prophecy: Trump, Cyrus, Blood Moons and the Third Temple
NYT: Why Trump Reigns as King Cyrus

Aside: its likely ideas of ethical monotheism, transcendant souls, heaven, hell, and apocalyptic eschatology were all imparted to Judaism and the West from Zoroastrianism during the couple centuries of Persian hedgemony over the Levant. Its hard to overstate the historical Cyrus's influence on the modern world.

JUST IN: According to Mueller and DC USA, discovery in the Roger Stone case is "both voluminous and complex," and "is composed of multiple hard drives containing several terabytes of information"—including bank records & comms taken from iCloud/email accounts, electronic devices. pic.twitter.com/JkIJFoZHau

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 31, 2019

I wonder how many rare Pepes?

Finely crafted.

alt-rightisanal

fuck, "artisanal-right" was better.

Fun!

BIG: WH security specialist, Tricia Newbold, has been suspended without pay for defying supervisor Carl Kline after Kline approved Jared Kushner for secret clearance over objections. Newbold filed a discrimination complaint against Kline three months ago. https://t.co/kXApBof8xb

— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) January 31, 2019

What the hell at the final three paragraphs:

In her EEOC complaint, Newbold, who has a rare form of dwarfism, accused Kline of discriminating against her because of her height.

Her complaint states that, in December 2017, Kline moved security files to a new location that were too high and out of her reach. "You have people, have them get you the files you need; or you can ask me," he told Newbold, according to her complaint.

Two sources who did not want to be identified confirmed that Kline had moved files out of Newbold's reach.

nothing helps your discrimination case quite like getting fired after going on the record about the aforementioned discrimination

fwiw herman cain is a former chairman of the kansas city federal reserve bank, so he's probably more qualified than most of the people trump nominates for things

we need a report, Alfred

Bay of Pigs 2: Pence Protocol https://t.co/XtsBtadzjR

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) January 31, 2019

I love those moments when dudes are like ~~so close~~ to realizing conservatism is a fucking sham but they don't quite get there

How do we conservatives apply our professed belief in the virtue of the individual over the state . . . in an emergency like the one they're having in Michigan this morning? https://t.co/yLjbepSpoa

— Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain) January 31, 2019

I realize that often when Democrats tell us we have to “do our part” or “pay our fair share,” these are in fact Bolshevik arguments to justify the further confiscation of private wealth.

The subtlety of Herman Cain's dialectical thought.

LOLshevik more liek

fwiw herman cain is a former chairman of the kansas city federal reserve bank, so he's probably more qualified than most of the people trump nominates for things

― mookieproof, Thursday, January 31, 2019 12:29 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eh kind of https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/10/herman-cains-fed-years-what-did-he-actually-do.html

he's also a goldbug

Herman Cain, writing in the @WSJ opinion pages in 2012:
"A dollar should be defined—as it was prior to 1971 under the postwar Bretton Woods system—as a fixed quantity of gold." https://t.co/kmVJls8eVG

— Tim Hanrahan (@TimJHanrahan) January 31, 2019

Maybe they’ll base the value of a dollar on something more rare and valuable like Vibranium.

or LibTears

and the dow skyrocketed today after reports that the federal reserve plans to replace money with pizza

here's a dumb question: what are the chances that lindsey graham is being explicitly blackmailed into being a trump supporter? and wouldn't that be a fun thing to take down the whole administration?
#thursdaythoughts

Meantime...

Stone is now subject to a protective order. He can't talk about what the government shows him in terms of evidence prior to the trial. https://t.co/j2kfxDmC4T

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) January 31, 2019

what are the chances that lindsey graham is being explicitly blackmailed into being a trump supporter?

one hundred percent

Seriously, his bloviation during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings was some of the least convincing scenery chewing I've ever seen.

sorry to be dim but blackmailed with what?

blowjobs

seriously tho there are long-running rumors that lifetime eligible bachelor Lindsay Graham is a closeted gay

SHOCKED ah say SHOCKED by these allegations

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/01/the-real-story-of-the-fall-of-lindsey-graham.html

maybe the Russians know how many underage boys are buried under Lindsey’s DC brownstone

the NYT Mag profile of McConnell (speaking of) made it clear he loathes Yam but is delighted w/ the opportunity to remake the courts for a generation

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-allies-think-ruth-bader-ginsburg-is-hiding-or-dead-it-started-on-qanon

fuck these people are stupid as shit .

And then there's

New with @swin24: investigators probing the leak of Jeff Bezos' texts to the National Enquirer have questioned the brother of Bezos' mistress, who also happens to be an acquaintance of Roger Stone and Carter Page https://t.co/Cvz5gVZ6gm

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) January 31, 2019

It Started on QAnon would be a pretty good title for a sequel to It Follows

It always makes me think of the Larry Cohen movie.

potential February thread title

It’s almost like a funny version of an S&L skit. https://t.co/JSYVOyJZNk

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 31, 2019

how is babby 2 seconds formed

Well, he's right that savings and loan skits are never funny.

There might be a 'stigmata' with a title like that ...

Democratic Platform 2020: Also, You're Racist
interesting messaging but who could argue?

lmao A+ photo choice WaPo

https://i.imgur.com/fTACxwM.png

Meanwhile, some hilarity:

oh my god https://t.co/PIwkDsL3dR pic.twitter.com/MEWyD3gm2E

— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) January 31, 2019

if ever two people deserved each other

like watching a hill of red ants eat a dead tapir

lmao

Don't besmirch ants, they are wonderful creatures that play a crucial role in their environment.

would happily toss an anthill on Kasich and Christie

need a p big anthill

This is a thing Trump said today: "So I didn't see the report from the intelligence. When you read it, it's a lot different than it was covered on in the news."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 31, 2019

long, very small print

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— Richard Rubin (@RichardRubinDC) January 31, 2019