US Politics February 2019: This is one of the great losers of all time.

That’s not a smile; on the Amazon logo it’s an arrow indicating they’ll sell anything from A to Z.

I know but they call it the “smile” in brand guidelines iirc from working there

it's both at once, obvs

sort of like how the nike symbol is both a "swoosh" and a pipe, representing how the shoes were originally designed as slippers for men to wear while smoking a pipe in their dens.

Hm hm hm.

New: Washington Post reporter just said that Bezos’ investigator suspects that “a government agency” intercepted Bezos’ text messages.

— julie k. brown (@jkbjournalist) February 8, 2019

I kind of assume that NSA intercepts all text messages

Seeing a suggestion or two it doesn't have to be a US government agency but ehhh

Oh yeah meanwhile

New tonight: Former Roger Stone associate Jerome Corsi (aka "Person 1" in Stone's indictment) is suing ... Roger Stone, accusing Stone of defamation for repeatedly saying that Corsi lied https://t.co/p4JLz5aSsR pic.twitter.com/zXKWfHofUd

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) February 8, 2019

Oh and earlier today

WOW: Per new court filing, KONSTANTIN KILIMNIK, the Russia intelligence-linked PAUL MANAFORT deputy, was in DC for TRUMP's inauguration, & met with Manafort about a Russia-Ukraine peace plan that we know envisioned a role for Russia-aligned former Ukrainian president YANUKOVYCH. pic.twitter.com/qo4JX2YWPm

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) February 7, 2019

KEY CONTEXT FROM MUELLER: MANAFORT had motive to hide & lie about the $125k paid to him through the pro-Trump @RebuildingAmNow super PAC because:
1) he was trying to hide his financial problems.
2) he had billed himself to TRUMP (& the world) as working for the campaign for free. pic.twitter.com/6V8cWPXLkG

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) February 7, 2019

VERY INTERESTING: Prosecutors for MUELLER's team assert that the subject of PAUL MANAFORT's lies about his interactions with his Russian intel-linked deputy KONSTANTIN KILIMNIK during the campaign go "very much to the heart of what the Special Counsel's Office is investigating." pic.twitter.com/Rmttanp4eh

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) February 8, 2019

Kind of odd for Mueller’s team to be speaking about the case, right? They’re usually pretty tight-lipped

It’s a court filing....

It's consistent with the theory and of what we've seen in filings periodically, that unredacted details are the way Mueller gives us a road mapping of where the investigation is at.

hey, good morning!

Norm’s Superego (silby) at 9:29 7 Feb 19

I know but they call it the “smile” in brand guidelines iirc from working there


um pretty sure suzy went to high school with the Amazon logo so

Hahahaha no, but one of my closest friends from school moved to London with her husband, an Amazon SVP (he left a few years ago and is now a gazillion times happier running a big startup).

<3

tfw you live in London and work in Slough..

I hate billionaires but Bezos is acting admirably here. 👍

he is ably showing one how to deal with a bully

Right. It’s incredible AMI has been doing this so long and, seemingly, people caved every time.

Hey man they’re on the case.

BREAKING: AMERICAN MEDIA, LLC RESPONSE TO STATEMENT BY JEFF BEZOS: pic.twitter.com/SWg17REDyx

— Ryan Ruggiero (@RyanRuggiero) February 8, 2019

They can’t argue the pics were “newsworthy” if they were willing to stash them in exchange for terms. I’m no lawyer but

He's riled up this morning.

Not only did Senator Burr’s Committee find No Collusion by the Trump Campaign and Russia, it’s important because they interviewed 200 witnesses and 300,000 pages of documents, & the Committee has direct access to intelligence information that’s Classified. @GreggJarrett

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 8, 2019

Now we find out that Adam Schiff was spending time together in Aspen with Glenn Simpson of GPS Fusion, who wrote the fake and discredited Dossier, even though Simpson was testifying before Schiff. John Solomon of @thehill

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 8, 2019

The mainstream media has refused to cover the fact that the head of the VERY important Senate Intelligence Committee, after two years of intensive study and access to Intelligence that only they could get, just stated that they have found NO COLLUSION between “Trump” & Russia....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 8, 2019

...It is all a GIANT AND ILLEGAL HOAX, developed long before the election itself, but used as an excuse by the Democrats as to why Crooked Hillary Clinton lost the Election! Someday the Fake News Media will turn honest & report that Donald J. Trump was actually a GREAT Candidate!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 8, 2019

they interviewed 200 witnesses and 300,000 pages of documents

"Trump"

He's got a lot of time on his hands since he's stuck in the waiting room at the doctor's office.

it's weird for a guy who's been president for two years to be desperately insistent that he was a great candidate for president

It's weird for a human being to behave the way Donald Trump behaves throughout his every waking moment.

yeah its pretty clear that he doesn't fear any legal trouble (the idea of suffering any real consequence whatsoever is totally foreign to him) but the idea of people thinking's he's illegitimate or only won because of interference terrifies him

damn this Whitaker dude is a fucking stooge to the highest degree

lol he couldn't look more guilty if he tried

still doing better than Kavanaugh though

it's weird for a guy who's been president for two years to be desperately insistent that he was a great candidate for president

Jerry Nadler asks Matthew Whitaker if he has ever been asked to approve any request or action to be taken by the Special Counsel.

Whitaker: "Mr. Chairman, I see that your five minutes is up."

The response in the room is remarkable. Via CSPAN2 pic.twitter.com/UAcOyulX46

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 8, 2019

it's not so much chutzpah as the boneheaded hubris of trying to fly to the sun

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

If that's not a smile, then I guess they were trying to make an 'Er indoors joke.

who among these clowns is actually in jail serving a sentence at this moment? am I correct that the number is zero?

i think so. manafort is a convicted felon and his sentencing is currently scheduled for next month.

so Trump can still pardon everyone, right?

not totally sure about pardon timing but I believe it comes after sentencing, not conviction

If they're still cooperating, it would be obstruction of justice.

Jerry Nadler asks Matthew Whitaker if he has ever been asked to approve any request or action to be taken by the Special Counsel.

Whitaker: "Mr. Chairman, I see that your five minutes is up."

The response in the room is remarkable. Via CSPAN2 pic.twitter.com/UAcOyulX46
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 8, 2019

[polishes guillotine some more]

pardoning can happen any time. bush pardoned many of the iran-contra players before their trials were finished

so again my stance on all this gleeful hand-rubbing abt whatever "latest development" there is with Mueller is "wake me up when one of these people suffers actual consequences"

It's always step by step. Thus:

NEW: Federal prosecutors are reviewing the National Enquirer’s handling of its story about Jeff Bezos’ extramarital affair to determine if the company violated an earlier cooperation deal with prosecutors, according to two people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reports.

— Courtney Norris (@courtneyknorris) February 8, 2019

Pause a moment and consider the way Jeff Bezos was being threatened. Now envision what Trump’s pal at the National Enquirer has on Ted Cruz, and ask yourself why Cruz went from hating Trump to loving him. Now do the same thing for Lindsey Graham. And all those Evangelicals. 😈

— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) February 8, 2019

I mean, kinda makes sense

I mean, I wouldn't automatically assume that as a catch-all explanation but I certainly do assume that or something very like that as an explanation in many (perhaps even most) of the cases where some governmental figure or another is an unwavering stan of President Unflushed Toilet.

yeah, all those evangelicals would DEFINITELY turn on cruz and graham if they knew they had done sinful things!!

I think that's referring to people like Jerry Falwell Jr. and the pool boy story?

ooooooh, yeah, you're right, sorry! i misread it.

meanwhile...Candice Owens arguing that Hitler would've been fine had he just stuck to killing all the Jews in Germany? am I reading this right?

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