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

maybe she means the cover up is within another cover up.

on a trivial note, this was a silly move ("populism" at its most gratuitous)

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/444780-warren-ocasio-cortez-rip-game-of-thrones-finale-ugh-this-is

Trump cites Pelosi's statement this morning on a "cover up." "Instead of walking in happily to a meeting, I walk in to look at people who said I was doing a cover-up. I don't do cover-ups. You people know that probably better than anybody," Trump says to reporters.

lol dude even you dont believe this

“I hated the last three episodes … my two favorite characters, destroyed,” Gillibrand said.

rip Qyburn and Harry Strickland

"We do believe that it is important to follow the facts, we believe that no one is above the law, including the president of the United States, and we believe the president of the United States is engaged in a cover up, in a cover up," Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill.

♪♫ very thin ice, very thin ice ♫♪

OMG this sign

Podium set up in the Rose Garden with statistics on the Mueller investigation. pic.twitter.com/cZMytbKbvS

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) May 22, 2019

thats some hamfisted popaganda there ffs

"I don't do cover-ups. You people know that probably better than anybody," Trump says to reporters.

If by this he means his motives and actions are transparent as a six-year-old's, then he is right.

As with so much of the shit he pulls, the content of that WaPo story, in isolation and with no additional context, is really enough to demonstrate how unfit he is for office. Awwww, Pwesident Thinskin McPissypants got a widdle bit of cwiticism and now just can't even with the infrastructure of the country over which he presides? Shut the fuck up and do your fucking job, you mildewed beanbag.

he is doing his job!! sticking it to the libs!

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the television audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service. I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President does cover-ups. Well, I am not doing a cover-up. I've earned everything I've got.

Listen and listen good: if I'm saying words, they must be true.

The court stenographers are all transcribing Pelosi's statement starting with the words "He just took a pass," but heard in full context it's actually a pretty savage burn...

"The reason, maybe it was a lack of confidence on his part that he really couldn't match the greatness of the challenge that we have, and wasn't really respectful of the Congress and the White House working together - he just took a pass."

he's also had a chance to hear from his camp since the first meeting and they told him he could never get the money for that Bill and this is an easy way to just blame the dems

he should have brought candy to the meeting, that always works

he needed to tell her to relax and give her a shoulder massage, like that time w hit merkel. big power move.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTQY1Aw9zcs

when i read the times story on this i kept scrolling back to check the date stamp

Trump was searching desperately for a way to slither out of an infrastructure deal ever since Mitch told him he'd never move such a thing through the senate. Nancy offered him a way out. Now they're both happy, even though they are pretending to have had a pre-prom breakup.

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) May 22, 2019

"I don't do coverups", says the man who forces every single person he shakes hands with to sign an NDA

taps head : can't loss a negotiation , if there is no negotiation

fucking geniuses this guy is !let me tell ya

I don't do coverups", says the man who forces every single person he shakes hands with to sign an NDA tries to cover up his balding scalp daily.

― frogbs, Wednesday, May 22, 2019 3:30 PM (one minute ago)

Man, they fuck everything up...

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/harriet-tubman-20-bill-no-longer-coming-2020-mnuchin-says-n1008861

This is so fucking dumb. He had the “no collusion” sign set up before he even stormed out of the meeting.

i don't do cover ups, says the guy renowned for having his fixer work with national enquirer to purchase the rights of the stories of women he slept with so that his wife won't find out (quite as early as she would have)

we are all dumber, for having lived through this time

if you can call this living!

It's just occurring to me that any non-useless human in his position could easily pivot toward more positive endeavors, even an entirely facile and ineffectual and cynical attempt to do good and bring the country together and put all this divisiveness behind us, and get most people (up to and including those parties who might otherwise continue to investigate and possibly even impeach him) to forget all about the shit he's done. But he is just congenitally incapable of being anything other than a debased piece of shit, even to his own detriment.

yet the GOP Congress contains so many nihilists that even President Jeb! or President Rubio would pass nothing.

he doesn’t do coverups, what about those giant fuckin coats

the giant coat, the hair, the makeup

it's like the *only* thing he does

Trump notes captured by @jabinbotsford:
“They want to impeach me over acts that they did”
“Dems have no achomlishments [sic]”https://t.co/WUGczy4y2c pic.twitter.com/ealXzJEFJM

— Dan Eggen (@DanEggenWPost) May 22, 2019

"intentially"

Autocorrect must really help him out with the tweers

*tweets

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/while-teaching-elizabeth-warren-worked-on-more-than-50-legal-matters-charging-as-much-as-675-an-hour/2019/05/22/9ce56840-7ce0-11e9-8bb7-0fc796cf2ec0_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f17c02435ad6

really nice WaPo! you can fuck off right away with this shit . she must be really getting under the skin of a lot of powerful people

wapo: markets are good!

also wapo: omg wtf elizabeth warren charged the going rate for her services what a monster

been seeing a lot of articles like that about Bernie too - "he claims to want to redistribute wealth, but he owns 4 houses!! How can this be?!?", it's like conservatives cannot fathom the idea of someone wanting to pass a law that they wouldn't directly benefit from

I am paywalled here but is there something wrong with the Post reporting this? It's based on her own disclosures about doing bankruptcy advocacy, right? And for "a lot of powerful people"

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2019/05/22/warren-discloses-past-corporate-legal-work/ZyULPW4IyYcfn6zYaqTrzJ/story.html

I mean...it's hardly disqualifying but it's not irrelevant

I love EW but I think this context is valuable for voters who are no doubt mistaking her laudable fairness/anti-corruption crusade for a broader objection to the status quo

She's a former Republican who once advocated permanent immunity for Travelers Insurance from asbestos-related lawsuits

And I'lll vote for her! But let's not get it twisted.

to me it's just the way it is framed especially consider the context of all the other shit going on. idk maybe it's fine

it's not fine, lol

yeah newspapers should bury stories about candidates u like

Rex Tillerson, a man who is “dumb as a rock” and totally ill prepared and ill equipped to be Secretary of State, made up a story (he got fired) that I was out-prepared by Vladimir Putin at a meeting in Hamburg, Germany. I don’t think Putin would agree. Look how the U.S. is doing!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 23, 2019

the master of the self own ! hiring only the best people

Lemieux:

Frankly, I don’t trust people who charge people who can afford it the fair market rate for expert services. She should have inherited $400M illegally shielded from taxes from her daddy, or looted a casino, or refused to pay her bills, like a Real American.

The “best” part is going to be watching pundits who have spent weeks arguing that law professors have an absolute inalienable vested right to having their lucrative contracts as glorified dorm RAs perpetually renewed at their pleasure pivot to pretending to believe there’s something highly disturbing and unusual about prominent legal academics providing legal services.

The time between now and November 2020 will be the longest 100 years of my life.

I have chosen one of the truly great business leaders of the world, Rex Tillerson, Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil, to be Secretary of State.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2016

tbf the lizards were still in control of tillerson back then

Even when the story itself may be relatively innocuous & fact-based, such headlines are deliberate attempts to stir up a particular kind of #sexist #misogynistic shit. Media’s learnt nothing from ‘16, has it?

As many have pointed out, begun the Hillaryfication of @ewarren has. pic.twitter.com/OvmDoSPeng

— Kausik (@kausikdatta22) May 23, 2019

this otm regarding that article imo

because *every* presidential candidate doesn’t have his/her professional past scrutinized