US Politics May 2019: " If I was burned at the stake, I would ask for a mirror"

They need to subpoena mueller

This is dumb

Or he should give a pop up q and a in washington square park like vampire weekend did

give yourself a break, ok

Please.

i'll take that advice as well. ffs though it's really infuriating

the Baltimore Orioles ought to hire some of these guys...."the fact that you even got 62 ABs to go hitless in is actually really impressive...most of us would've been benched"

― frogbs, Wednesday, May 8, 2019 11:26 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII) wrote this on thread Nobody Knows Who The Hell Villar: THE 2019 BALTIMORE ORIOLES on board I Love Baseball on Apr 11, 2019

it's kinda cool if you think about it

oh my god how is this real

I love my wife. I apologize for rage tweeting about how Seth Meyers treated her. I don't like him, I think he's a hack, but I shouldn't have done that. I'm sorry to anyone I offended.

— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) May 8, 2019

I love my wife. I apologize for rage tweeting about how Seth Meyers treated her. I don't like him, I think he's a hack, but I shouldn't have done that. I'm sorry to anyone I offended.

— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) May 8, 2019

sorry, second one should be

pic.twitter.com/m3m1gXu6IU

— 17 follower guy whose pinned tweet is a reply (@boring_as_heck) May 8, 2019

i feel great that i had no idea what any of that meant until i spent some time googling

i refuse to know

it's totally cool, you're not missing anything as far as i could tell
i really wish seth myers were funnier or colbert was a better interviewer. can't they just do a show ala conan and richter? Why don't more people have two interviewers?

brad otm

House Judiciary Committee voted 24-16 along party lines to hold AG Bill Barr in contempt

you know what THAT means

*crickets*

How is that dude ever going to get another job with this black mark on his name?

his dad will help him. come on fred, donald needs your help him again, come back from the dead

oh wait, sorry, you meant bill barr.

come on fred, come back from the dead and help bill barr, donald's good friend

Roy Cohn, work your dark magic!!

Nadler's speech was no-nonsense.

did eric holder ever face any consequences after being held in contempt for withholding the Fast & Furious docs?

None except to his dignity. But the investigation stopped; don't think the Dems are.

This is interesting: GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenas Junior.

I'd missed this: White House revoked almost every single press pass (including all WaPo beat reporters) on an impossible new standard. Journos now access only under "exceptions" that can be revoked w/o cause anytime -- and some, like @milbank, barred altogether https://t.co/XNMeVUcSDh

— David Burbach (@dburbach) May 8, 2019

"@milbank eh, be better, bro"

a cool move by people who are definitely not doing anything wrong

Real America

THAT MAN HAS 10 EGGS AND NOTHING ELSE ON HIS PLATE https://t.co/Tt3Yjv1xmt

— 𝕄𝕒𝕥𝕥 𝔾𝕒𝕓𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕝𝕖 (@prof_gabriele) May 8, 2019

https://splinternews.com/a-journey-into-the-yolk-of-darkness-to-find-the-truth-a-1834615475

lol those are prop eggs ! Chris Hayes had a hard hitting exposé just now

Sorry don’t even read the linked article

It’s hard for me not to be pessimistic about all that is happening. I don’t think we’re ever going to see Trump’s taxes or any financial records from Deutsche Bank or anywhere else, there will be endless delays and then the Supreme Court will protect him. We’re not going to see any of his family members or aides or McGahn testify to congress. Mueller will be dissuaded from testifying somehow by the Justice Department and we won’t understand the full impact of the Mueller report until it’s way too late. SDNY is not going to be our savior. Trump won’t be held accountable on emoluments. Congress is not going to impeach. The press will continue their astonishingly disingenuous reporting, the economy will hold up, and I think Trump will be reelected. By 2024 it will be too late to save this country, we will have gone so far down the path to autocracy

those are my darkest thoughts about this. I want to be more hopeful

Don Jr. just got subpoenaed.

get in line, junior

i think Dan S p much otm about everything except Trump getting reelected. i think it'll be ugly but he'll lose.

then the economy tanks like 1 month after the new potus takes office. and that's when the real fun starts.

"i think it'll be ugly but he'll lose." I really hope so

The economy will not hold up. Lest I'm misunderstood, it's not a wish -- it's an inevitability.

yup. and a democratic president, house, and maaaaybe a senate(?) will be left holding the bag.

then a vigorous, nauseating rehab of trump cranks up.

I really don't think the senate will ever be in the hands of the democrats again in my lifetime

yeah don't know why i even entertained the idea of a 'maybe' in 2020. no way that's happening.

This LGM piece resonates strongly with me.

What happens if Donald Trump is president on January 21st, 2021? By “what happens” I mean what follows from that for you personally, both in terms of what political actions and personal life choices you may make.

I realize this is a disturbing and indeed horrifying prospect, but it’s one I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. It goes without saying that all of us will do our best to make sure it doesn’t come to that. But what if does? What then?

Of course a lot depends on how this should come to happen. An at least facially legitimate election is one thing, an apparently stolen one is another. And the possibility exists, even if it’s remote, that the results of the election won’t determine the outcome, and the political situation devolves into something like civil war. (A year ago I would have said the chances of that were so remote as not to be worth considering. I don’t think that’s the case any more).

The reason I’m asking this question is that at some point acceding to creeping fascism becomes collaboration. At what point does an authoritarian takeover become too obvious to be tolerable? At what point does resistance have to become something more than a slogan?

I really don't think the senate will ever be in the hands of the democrats again in my lifetime

― Dan S, Wednesday, May 8, 2019 10:01 PM (nine minutes ago)

I said this about the House in 2004 and 2014!

There are no certainties except (a) Jake Gyllenhaal (b) death

lol

The economy will not hold up. Lest I'm misunderstood, it's not a wish -- it's an inevitability.

You didn’t exactly put a timeline on that, though

Anyone who puts a strict timeline on that is fooling themselves.

well, this is ILX.

I’m willing to go out on a limb. This economy will not last...36 hours

ok i'll stop looking for a living wage then

this is all such shit, I hope you find a living wage