US Politics, October 2019 — I guess statement you could say with thread. I made a thread. The thread was PERFECT.

Assuming he's still in office in a year, I'm having a hard time believing he'll agree to any debates.

he'll tweet the answers per agreement with the networks

Welp Federalist and FoxNews both say they have a source saying Volker's testimony is a setback for Schiff so impeachment is over guys, sry to be bearer of bad news

WEll it was a nice try but you just can't win against this epic goodness can you?

Have just been hoping that there's no way that the requested quid pro quo being a thing of conspiratorial fiction wasn't something they could spin. Given the right judge or whatever, can't6 indict such a saint over a fictional server can you?

Did t go to Ukraine to ask them to out that Ukraine had helped concoct the russian hoax. Really don't see what was supposed to be in ukraine's interests to do that. Or was it just that the current Ukraine President would be throwing the previous one under the bus and everybody knows that any real winner would be all about that wouldn't they? Can't quite get into the mentality

Quid pro quo is irrelevant (though of course it is obviously there). The truth of the Biden stuff is also irrelevant (though of course it is not true).

Soliciting foreign help in elections is plainly illegal on its face.

...doesn't need to have been paid for, doesn't need to have worked, doesn't need to have been decisive.

And, get this, it is still illegal *even if someone else has also done it*.

Just as if I am speeding and someone else is also speeding and I get caught, I still get a ticket. Amazing how laws work.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/trump-has-been-obsessed-with-moats-for-at-least-35-years.html

In 1984, Trump was just coming off the buzz of opening Trump Tower. His Trump Plaza on Third Avenue was about to open, and he had wildly ambitious plans to build more. And what better architect to design it than Philip Johnson, whose AT&T Building, with its pseudo-Chippendale roof, had landed Johnson on the cover of Time? Trump was no aesthete, but great press was something he understood. In fact, Trump Tower had been — as it’s described in Mark Lamster’s 2018 Johnson biography The Man in the Glass House — “a glitzified imitation of Johnson’s IDS Tower in Minneapolis, right down to its zigzag corner and retail atrium.” It wasn’t long before Trump was visiting Johnson’s offices, the Times reporter William E. Geist in tow. “Trump is mad and wonderful,” Johnson told Geist, as his staff brought out a model of a project called Trump Castle. It was bizarre, even for the ’80s: six cylindrical towers, like the round turrets at the corners of a medieval English castle, their floor plans overlapping slightly. And (you knew this was coming) surrounding the whole thing was a moat. With, yes, alligators. At Madison and 60th Street! (In the warm months, at least; no record seems to exist of whether the moat would be heated, or whether the gators would accompany the building’s older residents to Florida each winter.)

I can’t imagine the pee tape being more than a day’s news at this point, unless they’re boys and/or underage.

ELECTION INTERFERENCE!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 3, 2019

he just....tweeted it out

HIGH CRIMES! HANG ME BY THE NECK UNTIL I AM DEAD! SAD!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 3, 2019

"BOXCAR!"

deep (state) cuts

btw I know this week has been nuts but Trump basically confessed his crimes on TV today and then committed a few more

It's quite literally nuts that they are simultaneously pushing the SECOND-HAND FAKE line and totally confirming everything in the complaint and doing it even more. It feels like a Monty Python skit.

“Trump is mad and wonderful,” Johnson told Geist, as his staff brought out a model of a project called Trump Castle. It was bizarre, even for the ’80s: six cylindrical towers, like the round turrets at the corners of a medieval English castle, their floor plans overlapping slightly. And (you knew this was coming) surrounding the whole thing was a moat.

the man did love his fascists

it's time for some more vic berger videos.

I'll confess I thought moats were cool when I was young.

I apologize for suggesting yesterday that Trump didn't know what a moat Moot was. It appears that I am nothing more than deep state fake news, so dishonest and so corrupt in my hunt for the Witch of Perfect Calls.

again: entirely possible he thought they were "alligator ditches" or that he ha since forgot

Moats ARE cool. He can't take that away.

Mutherfucker better not start proposing trebuchets

Why not quicksand?

Because alligators can wear gopros capturing footage for tv

it's a perfect gator, perfect

So do you need to feed the moat dwellers or is that supposed to all be taken care of by the moat intruders? Wouldn't you get the ASPCA on your back for animal mistreatment?

I mean quite apart from all other levels of simple incredible barbarism that might be recognised along the way.

Trump doesn't really <get> animals anyway.

Don't talk about his kids that way, c'mon

Doesn't get em, definitely fucks em

It seems ironic that the US Embassy in London was designed with a moat, before Trump and his stooge Woody Johnson even got around to infesting the place.

Counterpoint: "Woody Johnson" would be a great porn name.

WOODY JOHNSON

"Welp Federalist and FoxNews both say they have a source saying Volker's testimony is a setback for Schiff"

sounds like it was just the opposite, surprise

Lol yup

Are we going to get a "foreign interference in elections is actually fine" pivot at some point?

i think we already have?

Yeah they’ve already said it’s welcome and expected, everybody does it

Good news:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/03/stunning-rebuke-predatory-wall-street-megabanks-california-gov-signs-law-allowing

At least the "digging up dirt on rivals is fine! WHo cares who you ask!?" angle on it anyway.

BTW dont they teach civics even in the crappiest schools in the US? How come many people dont seem to get how all this stuff works?

"He doesn’t see it as a violation of the law,” the source added, noting Trump has theorized his opponents have been doing the same thing to him"

It's adorable how his widdle mind works

xp well there's a funny thing about how they teach in crappy schools

Great news, kingfish!

https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/464317-gop-senator-defends-trump-asking-for-biden-probe-wouldnt-democrats

God these fuckstains need to all have their arteries harden.

Schools in the US stopped teaching “civics” decades ago - they changed the name of the classes to “social studies” and “government” and IIRC they become electives, not mandatory, sometime around the age of 14. Happy to be corrected on this point.

Rick Perry resigning https://t.co/6iKeMgatGu

— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) October 3, 2019

Wow

When you lose PERRY...

you lose his glasses too

Trump just needed him to tackle another swamp

XP ...and his hair.