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

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.

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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?

trump loves central casting

that video is timeless American poetry

lol, that video is the exact caricature of what godfearing midwesterners fear about NYC

exact caricature is my slacker band from the late oughts btw

lol
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/465195-liberal-news-site-splinter-shutting-down

I guess just adding snarky superlatives on top of other news sites' reporting wasn't a successful journalistic model after all

Quite honestly at first glance I thought this tweet from this morning was about Parnas and Fruman.

SMALL MEN

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set

Lin Yutang pic.twitter.com/XKz8HKwuDv

— Mark Horsley (@MarkHorsleyUK) October 10, 2019

splinter had its issues, but i'm not going to cheer for the continual shrinking of the internet

lol, that video is the exact caricature of what godfearing midwesterners fear about NYC

come on now... aside from the skyscrapers, everything in that video is available on tap in the heartland... the giant sport utility vehicles, supercilious politicians, and full-throated invective from the hoi polloi

not so much shrinking as just consolidating into one monolithic boring cube

I don’t think any of thosw kinja sites are going to survive to be honest. Maybe like the Onion.

Hope I’m wrong. I don’t read Jezebel or Deadspin but they seem like significant parts of the Internet.

I've linked to two Splinter stories in my storied career.

Don’t let a private equity company shut down your blog alfred

I've linked to two Splinter stories in my storied career.

That's two more than I've ever finished reading.

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

IMPORTANT: Fruman and Parnas' lawyer (former Trump lawyer John Dowd) just laid out all of their connections to Trump world (in his famous Comic Sans letter).

It's not just Giuliani but DiGenova, Toensing -- and they even helped with Trump-related legal work. >>> pic.twitter.com/ITnTGvrhHu

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 10, 2019