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

Oh won't you show us the tax returns?

Once you've lost the '70s AOR stalwarts, it's all downhill.

What do Don 'n' Ghost of Glenn think?

Joe Walsh too.

xp!

he's mad at Fox

From the day I announced I was running for President, I have NEVER had a good @FoxNews Poll. Whoever their Pollster is, they suck. But @FoxNews is also much different than it used to be in the good old days. With people like Andrew Napolitano, who wanted to be a Supreme....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 10, 2019

...Court Justice & I turned him down (he’s been terrible ever since), Shep Smith, @donnabrazile (who gave Crooked Hillary the debate questions & got fired from @CNN), & others, @FoxNews doesn’t deliver for US anymore. It is so different than it used to be. Oh well, I’m President!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 10, 2019

How do his fans read this stuff and not think just a little bit that he might be a whiny bitch?

Game fail to recognize game, I guess.

At any rate, this is a whiny bitch tangent I can get behind 100%.

that is pretty much the most baffling thing to me about the DJT cult of personality

I enjoy the ambiguity of "doesn't deliver for *US* anymore"

the idea that Fox News's job is to make up fake polls kinda says it all about his worldview

There is a non-negligible chance that, before our national nightmare has ended, Trump will have tweeted a scathing denunciation of at least one member of his immediate family.

When your world view is so corrupt and crazy that conspiracy theorists are your primary source of news and information, even a organization 95% in the tank for you like Fox is going to seem suspect.

I read that thing about "raid the fuckers" and while I agree with the spirit, it is ignoring the central fact here: pretty much all the people with guns work in the Executive Branch and therefore the President is their supervisor.

There is a Capitol Police Force, theoretically accountable to the Legislative Branch, but it is kinda severely outgunned by the Secret Service, Federal Protective Service, and the FBI - not to mention the Army, Marines, Navy, etc. (all of whom work for the President and cannot be ordered to arrest him nor allow a raid on his office).

Who needs a gun when you have the old index finger in the jacket pocket trick?

Yeah but until the House tries to use the Capitol police to arrest people who are ignoring subpoenas, the Republicans are implicitly using force to violate the Constitution... arresting people and jailing them will either A. work and they'll start getting some testimony and evidence or B. make explicit that Republicans are using force, criminally, defying the law. Same theory with making Republicans in the Senate vote on impeachment... probably won't work in the sense that Trump won't be impeached, but it moves the blame for Trump where it belongs, on the entire Republican party, not just Trump.

the Secret Service, Federal Protective Service, and the FBI - not to mention the Army, Marines, Navy, etc.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/giuliani-pals-tied-to-ukraine-scheme-arrested-on-campaign-finance-charges

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGhYhgoWoAEYS77?format=jpg&name=medium

is Eric drinking a Manhattan?

or Old Fashioned?

That's DJTJ. Given the amount of coffee on the table I'm going to say it's early, so ... iced tea. Spiked with whiskey.

Seems like the Trumps would be all about drinking iced tea from Jack Daniel's bottles.

People of the future are going to ask how people of the past could have possibly ever failed to see such brazen and overt and far-ranging corruption for what it so obviously is.

the last few years have cemented the idea (to me, at least) that people do see it, they just don't care as long as they think it's working for them

...which is probably how people end up joining in on corruption if they get a chance

very nice of the president to spread the Good News about corruption to the population at large

idk, people are impressed by expensive watches. People are fucking dumb.

It's like a murder mystery where the investigators stand gathered around the mutilated remains unable to ascertain whether a homicide even took place while the guilty party walks among them wearing the victim's head like a hat.

more like Prosecutors pointing at the head and half of the jury thinking, "But if he was guilty he wouldn't be wearing the head."

white ethnocentrism combined w low or no taxes for billionaires & corporations is apparently the magical elixir

It's hard to construct a sufficient metaphor given the fact that the world has become so much stupider than I ever could've imagined. And I can imagine some truly stupid shit.

*guy with head on his head nods*

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/giuliani-pals-tied-to-ukraine-scheme-arrested-on-campaign-finance-charges🕸

People of the future are going to ask how people of the past could have possibly ever failed to see such brazen and overt and far-ranging corruption for what it so obviously is.

This seems like a new kind of bad news for the president and kind of a big deal?

in one reality, yes.
but in another, it is more evidence of a coup

xpost I mean like asking how anyone who remained largely coma-free from 2015 on could have possibly failed to connect the dots which Trump & Co. have very generously painted in day-glo colors and pointed to daily, saying 'here is a dot, and there is the next dot, please let me know if you need help locating the dot after that one'.

The duo were arrested Wednesday night at Washington-Dulles International airport, while reportedly trying to flee the country. They had depositions before Congress scheduled for today and tomorrow.

hmm

Tomboto re: FBI/Army:

All of these people swear an oath to defend the Constitution, not the office of the President.

True, but they also all know what their chain of command is and where it ultimately leads. If no one with direct authority over them tells them to do something, they won't do that thing.

Of course, while I was having these thoughts for the bazillionth time, someone seems to have been able to order arrests of the Rudy Boys. So maybe there's someone with a pulse out there.

It's like a murder mystery where the investigators stand gathered around the mutilated remains unable to ascertain whether a homicide even took place while the guilty party walks among them wearing the victim's head like a hat.

https://media1.giphy.com/media/e0ewvqOW0Z9PG/giphy.gif

https://cdn.talkingpointsmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Screen-Shot-2019-10-10-at-11.36.39-AM.png

just two guys trying to get to the bottom of potential corruption in ukraine...that involved joe biden and his son, i mean

https://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Thing-Marvel-Comics-Fantastic-Four-Ben-Grimm-Early.jpg

Not sorry so huge.

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i didn't realize that these two guys were supposedly advising trump as part of giuliani's dream team of lawyers

John Dowd used to represent President Trump in the Mueller probe. He currently represents Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, the two men arrested this morning as they tried to leave the country via Dulles airport. In his letter to Congress of October 3rd, Dowd explained that Parnas and Fruman worked with Rudy Giuliani on his representation of President Trump and thus were shielded (at least on some topics) by the Attorney/Client privilege between Giuliani (Attorney) and Donald Trump (client). Dowd also claimed that Giuliani also represented Parnas and Fruman in “their personal and business affairs.” He finally claimed that the two men provided services to Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing, the two GOP power lawyers who appear to be neck deep in the broader Trump/Rudy/Ukraine extortion scheme.

"provided services"

It may never become clear but it would be fascinating to know of the many dirty players in this game which came first wrt their explicitly shady undertakings: the lure of wealth & power or the kompromat.

This is the bit that, if true, is interesting. But is it spin?

Bill Barr has known about investigation into Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine henchmen for months: report https://t.co/OgiPjsZ0kG

— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 10, 2019

Once again

The Annual Rudy Giuliani Parade was a total disaster https://t.co/mAG5NtJts7

— M i s t e r A m e r i c a (@timheidecker) November 30, 2018

Why does everyone involved in this look exactly like a stock character?