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

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

it's not about the content of the article so much especially in a time where a lot of people don't even read the thing they just see a shady looking headline

But *all* headlines around these candidates are written to provoke.

“While teaching, Elizabeth Warren worked on more than 50 legal matters, charging as much as $675 an hour”

Clear misogyny!

The problem is that actual misogyny going to come hard and heavy...doing this now over the most standard-fare candidate vetting is going to inure ppl to the real deal, and alienate supporters of other candidates who resent the assertion

doing this now over the most standard-fare candidate vetting is going to inure ppl to the real deal

can't say i can see how this is true

I think we're more likely to see similar headlines about Bernie (This fact seemingly goes against candidate's anti-corporate image) than about the other female candidates

The problem is that actual misogyny going to come hard and heavy...doing this now over the most standard-fare candidate vetting is going to inure ppl to the real deal, and alienate supporters of other candidates who resent the assertion

― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, May 23, 2019 11:01 AM (five minutes ago)

or you can look at it as planting the seeds in the minds of voters before the hard and heavy stuff

stop saying hard and heavy, it's turning me on

basically is this is indicative of more things to come what is wrong with pointing it out now ? or just let us know when exactly it is ok to be offended

first they came for the capitalists, and i said something

In the world of billable hours $650 isn't shocking at all

I think that high figure came from when she was working with a law firm too. That whole article with headline is a mess.

I wonder if Obama ever made those Cantor Fitzgerald speeches that everyone got into such a huff about.

The Apocalypse News, August 2023 Edition

BREAKING: Lawyers Routinely Make $650/hour and More, Analysts Say

and some of these "lawyers" end up in positions of great authority. Sources say that some lawyers have even become president of the united states

not lady lawyers

re: Kausic^ the Post article is as indicative of the “Hillarification” (ugh) of EW as his tweet is reminiscent of the DNC playbook that helped stick us with a shit candidate: Responding to any callout on her corporate sympathies/warmongering/race demagoguing with accusations of misogyny in order to blunt the contrast with her opponent in the primaries.

Agreed, it’s gonna be a long season.

ftr I love Liz Warren, she’s my senator, she’s brilliant, she’s definitely no HRC, and I’d be very happy if she were president

I honestly don't even understand how calling out a politician on any behavior whatsoever is an efficacious maneuver at this point. It feels like the ship of holding them to any ethical standard has definitively sailed.

yeah newspapers should send out one lonely reporter to write down what the candidates say once in awhile

The story is that a person took normal rates for doing normal hours, and it's framed as if it's deeply nefarious, and it only works because of sexism.

ok