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

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poor Hope Hicks, trying to find the fortitude to resist subpoenas.

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 May 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link

Yeah, I read it -- good shit

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 May 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link

Was there LSD in my eggs and chorizo this morning? https://t.co/oPO4nVcyeb

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) May 26, 2019

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 May 2019 13:48 (five years ago) link

I wonder if dictators pass a burn book between them.

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 May 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link

good morning!

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 May 2019 14:31 (five years ago) link

(looks at watch. shakes it. looks again. purses lips. shakes head. walks off.)

A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 00:46 (five years ago) link

...what is happening

No really, good job everybody. pic.twitter.com/NgO8G1Pvo8

— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 28, 2019

i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 05:24 (five years ago) link

i checked - it's real

i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 05:24 (five years ago) link

between that, the fawning Hope Hicks "existential crisis" profile and glamor photo and the front page Trump nicknames chart....

Dan S, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 05:31 (five years ago) link

the editors of the NYT and WP can't be that naive, I think Jay Rosen was right in what he said about the NYT, that “they are tempted to look right and see one kind of danger, then look left to spot another, equal and opposite. They want to push off from both sides to clear a space from which the truth can be told. That would make things simpler, but of course things are not that simple. The threat to truth telling - to journalism, democracy, the Times itself - is not symmetrical. They know this.”

Dan S, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 05:44 (five years ago) link

US terrorist supporters will always support US terrorists. When I read shit like this, my admiration for the Cuban Revolution increases. The Sandinistas were too democratic; and if US imperialists hate anything, it's democracy. https://t.co/4mV9KIUX5Y

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) May 28, 2019

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link

WASHINGTON — A single House Republican again blocked final passage of a long-delayed emergency aid package, the second Republican in a week to use the power of an individual lawmaker to ensure the delay of relief for communities and farmers still recovering from natural disasters.

House Democrats tried for a second time on Tuesday to use a procedural vote to pass a Senate-approved $19.1 billion package while most lawmakers are spending a weeklong recess outside of Washington. But Representative Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, used the power of a single lawmaker to object to the vote, pushing for the full chamber to be present to vote on legislation.

“If the speaker felt that this was must-pass legislation,” Mr. Massie said, “the speaker should have called a vote before sending members home.”

...
Without lawmakers in town, passage through the House would have to be unanimous. On Friday, Representative Chip Roy, a freshman Republican from Texas, postponed returning to his Texas district to prevent the package’s passage during an identical procedural vote, calling the maneuver “a very swampy thing to do.”

Like Mr. Roy, Mr. Massie outlined his concerns with the vote on the House floor, complaining about a vote during recess. Separately, Mr. Roy had also cited fiscal irresponsibility and the decision to leave out the White House’s request for about $4.5 billion for the southwestern border as reasons to take issue with the legislation.

...Mr. Massie, often a thorn in the side of House leadership regardless of party, lauded Mr. Roy’s decision to block the vote, calling the gesture “Hero level, over 9000” on Twitter.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/us/politics/disaster-relief-bill.html

i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link

delaying aid for a bunch of people whose lives were ruined...and then making a dragonball z joke in praise of the delay.

wtf

i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 21:08 (five years ago) link

Holy shit at that Amash town hall. He had support.

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 00:12 (five years ago) link

McConnell needs to die in the most horrific way possible imo

(•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 12:22 (five years ago) link

Good morning!

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 12:54 (five years ago) link

McConnell said if a SC Justice died in 2020, Republicans would hold a vote to confirm a new one, in case anyone is wondering.

This description in the NYT seems rather understated...

Mr. McConnell’s most common explanation for blocking Mr. Garland — that a new president should get to fill a Supreme Court opening that occurs close to an election — struck Democrats as disingenuous at the time, and many said it looked even more so after Tuesday’s comments

i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:08 (five years ago) link

tbh I'm glad he's at least not pretending anymore

frogbs, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:09 (five years ago) link

like it's not the evilness and the brazen breaking of the rules, it's the longwinded justifications like "well ACTUALLY we've been VERY consistent on this if you look at the late 1800s you will find blah blah blah" that really annoy me honestly

frogbs, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:11 (five years ago) link

well it's like he said in that long profile - he makes decisions based on whatever will deliver the most "conservative" outcome. this is entirely consistent with that.

Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:13 (five years ago) link

oh NO

not disinGENuousness

j., Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:17 (five years ago) link

I’m starting to think this Mitch McConnell guy is just a straight-up liar!

i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:20 (five years ago) link

McConnell needs to die in the most horrific way possible imo

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, May 29, 2019 8:22 AM (fifty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Good morning!

― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, May 29, 2019 8:54 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no, GREAT mourning!

rob, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link

The NYT's eyebrow twitches slightly as though trying to be raised.

jmm, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:22 (five years ago) link

Try again
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTMCeSZOYCxORs481iukwXQ

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:24 (five years ago) link

Huh. Anyway, that's the kickoff ad from Jaime Harrison, former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, who is challenging Lindsey Graham. Don't know anything about Harrison, even after that video, but he's got my support.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link

Mueller gonna speak at 11?

Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link

oh man this is gonna finally be the end of the trump presidency, i can FEEl it

a promiscuous, flighty art student looking for love (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:50 (five years ago) link

probably wants to complain about Game of Thrones

Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:51 (five years ago) link

I saw some news/rumor item late last night claiming that mueller had, at one point, prepared an obstruction allegation against Trump. Maybe he’s coming out of his shithole to make sure everyone knows that’s not true. There is too much hope in the world

i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link

while we wait for mueller's pronouncement that mcdonalds should make the mcrib a permanent menu fixture, here's a fun thread on the shocking news that trump's tax cuts enriched the rich and did nothing for wages or the economy

Congressional Research Service—which is nonpartisan, independent, and highly-respected—just published a report that dismantles claims that the GOP tax law is doing much good for the economy. https://t.co/rAkDIbVHjv

Here are some quotes…

— Harry Stein (@HarrySteinDC) May 28, 2019

a promiscuous, flighty art student looking for love (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link

US Justice Dept. says Mueller's statement will be "on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election. This will be a statement only, no question and answer period to follow."

i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:56 (five years ago) link

I expect this to be deeply disappointing, probably something along the lines of "trust whatever Barr says".

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:01 (five years ago) link

I saw some news/rumor item late last night claiming that mueller had, at one point, prepared an obstruction allegation against Trump.

yeah, the new Michael Wolff book:

In his chapter on Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election, Wolff says there was a draft version of a three-count criminal indictment against President Donald Trump as early as March 2018. He says the three charges (under Title 18 of the federal code Sections 1505, 1512 and 1513) did not stem from the Russian interference itself but from Trump's efforts to thwart the investigation.

Wolff links this draft to Mueller's deputy Andrew Weissmann and reports that Mueller let it languish for nearly a year while preparing his own report, ultimately deferring to a longstanding Justice Department policy that a president could not be indicted while in office. Wolff says he got a look at the draft, and other related memoranda regarding that no-indictment policy, from "a source close to the Office of Special Counsel."

But the Office of Special Counsel on May 28 released a statement denying that account. "The documents you describe do not exist," said Peter Carr, responding to questions from The Guardian and other media organizations.

Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link

what a time for the krassenstein brothers to be banned from twitter

a promiscuous, flighty art student looking for love (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link

he could at least do a better version of faking it: Giacometti biography, book about African art, Winston Churchill, Gladstone, Jess Phillips...

calzino, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link

oops wrong thread

calzino, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link

i have little doubt this won't be totally infuriating

(•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:27 (five years ago) link

for forty days and forty nights, we have waited for mueller to speak

i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link

we have eaten normally during this time

i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link

it'd be neat if he coolly took to the stage and delivered an unbroken fifteen-minute series of howls, shrieks and dolphin noises into the mic before adjusting his tie, stepping down from the lectern, walking through the main doors of the department of justice building and disappearing in a dazzling blast of hot pink light, never to be seen again

a promiscuous, flighty art student looking for love (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:39 (five years ago) link

mueller: LIVE!

i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link

"It's worse than you think!" Claws out eyes.

Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link

one minute later, on the internet: "...whoa man...live spelled backward is evil...let's follow the money"

i will never make a typo ever again (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link

it'd be neat if he coolly took to the stage and delivered an unbroken fifteen-minute series of howls, shrieks and dolphin noises into the mic before adjusting his tie, stepping down from the lectern, walking through the main doors of the department of justice building and disappearing in a dazzling blast of hot pink light, never to be seen again


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Tiltin' My Lens Photography (stevie), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link

can't believe they're finally gonna lock her up

frogbs, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link

We begin bombing Russia in five minutes.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:55 (five years ago) link


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