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

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?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dy5mIgdWsAAW90k.jpg:large

tfw your shameless right wing grift boxes you unto arguing that the holocaust was fine, actually

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'm envisioning various foreign governments intercepting private information about prominent figures, passing some of that info along to the Enquirer (and/or other parties), who will use it to blackmail those figures. maybe this sounds a little Louis Mensch or something, but Bezos's Medium post definitely points in this direction....

worrisome.

i mean, the governments of saudi arabia and russia and whomever else have a lot more power to snoop around than the enquirer or daily mail have on their own, but they also know that the enquirer has a long history of (effectively) blackmailing people and thus their information could be effectively passed through the experts in that profession.

Bezos’ investigator suspects that “a government agency” intercepted Bezos’ text messages.

Hmmm. He doesn't specify which nation's government.

so i assume Ronan Farrow's blackmail was over some gay dungeon video

trump is president and the national enquirer is a major source for news
everything is upsidedown

candace owens is so dumb

just like... that’s the best conservatives can do. really shows you how much power money has

XPS Ronan Farrow's is him enjoying A Midsummer's Sex Comedy.

He doesn't specify which nation's government.

Bezos hints:

Pecker and his company have also been investigated for various actions they’ve taken on behalf of the Saudi Government

Several days ago, an AMI leader advised us that Mr. Pecker is ‘apoplectic’ about our investigation. For reasons still to be better understood, the Saudi angle seems to hit a particularly sensitive nerve.

man Gavin de Becker is probably the best dude to have in your corner with this type of scenario.

I thought the bezos pics were likely stolen by Sanchez's brother who dutifully delivered them to Roger Stone who passed them on to pecker.

Pecker bozos pick fight with Bezos over pecker pics

Dirty Sanchez pics from Roger Stone were not the leverage pecker assumed over bezos.

We've finally reached the point in our journey to the wholesale implosion of reality where the absurdity of someone named Pecker threatening to release someone else's dick picks (sic) barely musters an ironic titter.

Pecker bozos pick fight with Bezos over pecker pics

A+

xpost How quickly we forget Anthony Weiner.

man Gavin de Becker is probably the best dude to have in your corner with this type of scenario.

― omar little, Friday, February 8, 2019 8:21 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah well when you can afford the very best....

https://img.fark.net/images/cache/full/T/TJ/fark_TJXZwoXCTe3Aol4gDzcOI1Axql4.png?t=xV6XlzcbW_ZrwsMErIZBiw&f=1549861200

Any editor worth their salt would scrawl 'TOO ON-THE-NOSE' across this manuscript and ship it back to its author.

Bowing out:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/john-dingell-my-last-words-for-america/2019/02/08/99220186-2bd3-11e9-984d-9b8fba003e81_story.html?utm_term=.f14506930445

Meantime, pretty as a picture.

Roger Stone argues against gag order, says he's no Kim Kardashian https://t.co/oMhVH1Obqx pic.twitter.com/57Prj3qHpk

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 8, 2019

he's right!

dick picks (sic)

hmmm

sick dick picks sic

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/Grateful_Dead_-_Dick%27s_Picks_Volume_11.jpg/220px-Grateful_Dead_-_Dick%27s_Picks_Volume_11.jpg

How do we know they're not talking about Grateful Dead bootlegs?

BEZOS HOARDS BETTY BOARDS.

a below-the-belt selfie, or "Grateful Dead bootleg"

Any editor worth their salt would scrawl 'TOO ON-THE-NOSE' across this manuscript and ship it back to its author.
― Shaved Cyborg (Old Lunch), Friday, February 8, 2019 8:48 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't recall any nose play being part of the threatened blackmail but maybe I should re-read the Medium post

I remember peckers, not noses

"Pecker bozos pick fight with Bezos over pecker pics"

Yes but it's also Pecker v. De Becker!

The past 24 hours seen an insane amount of news break about the Trump Org. To recap 1/

— Zach Everson (@Z_Everson) February 8, 2019

Rich Dick Picks De Pecker to Pressure Pecker on Dick Pics?

Jeff Bezos' Penis at the Old Renaissance Fairgrounds, Veneta CA 72

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/heres-why-your-tax-refund-is-lower-this-year.html

Yep I have to pay for the first time ever

because I was laid off and got a large-ish severance, I may get a refund for the first time in eons

Orange Shithead gets no credit

What da fuck

North Korea, under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, will become a great Economic Powerhouse. He may surprise some but he won’t surprise me, because I have gotten to know him & fully understand how capable he is. North Korea will become a different kind of Rocket - an Economic one!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 9, 2019

Flattery works on him, so...

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