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

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Thursday that he’d return campaign donations from a pair of Ukrainian-Americans working with Rudy Giuliani to boost President Trump after the two men were arrested for allegedly violating campaign finance laws.

bolton seems like a guy who might be willing to bury trump

Another photo of Trump with one of the men he claims not to know. Wonder what else is on his locked instagram page. pic.twitter.com/pBEBwl2T3h

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 10, 2019

Click on the post for a very personal thank to to Trump "my friend."

yeah, Bolton twisting the knife would be funny

Trump would of course label him a Bush crony, a failure, secretly a Democrat etc.

weak, mustache is fake, very sad

Far be it from me to offer helpful advice to republicans, but any among their number who aren't directly caught up in this shit really ought to consider cutting bait at this point. We seem to be moving into a phase where it's going to be increasingly difficult to pooh-pooh and handwave away what appears to be a wholly non-theoretical conspiracy.

xxps saw something on twitter today about Gowdy not being able to come on board until January because of a lobbying restrictions, with speculation that he might not ever be a significant part of the impeachment defense

He's just serving as a horcrux

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that his political committee will return a $50,000 donation received last year from two South Florida businessmen who were arrested Wednesday and accused of funneling illicit contributions into state and federal campaigns.

Also returned his botox cream

Issues, issues.

EXCLUSIVE: Fiona Hill to testify to Congress that Giuliani, Sondland circumvented the NSC and normal White House process to run a shadow #Ukraine policy, a person familiar with her testimony tells @NBCNews

— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) October 10, 2019

"two South Florida businessmen" has a certain ring to it, doesn't it

Xpost

So the White House is a....deep state?

"South Florida" and "businessmen" is a pleonasm.

CW: Nickelback.

LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH pic.twitter.com/vy92z1MyXb

— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) October 10, 2019

Three bros, having fun.

at least there’s no video pic.twitter.com/JVaUyJpm4V

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) October 10, 2019

the three stooges

🐦[Another photo of Trump with one of the men he claims not to know. Wonder what else is on his locked instagram page. pic.twitter.com/pBEBwl2T3h🕸
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 10, 2019🕸]🐦

Looking forward to the 35 volume equivalent of All the President’s Men for the Trump era

the film would be a 14-hour It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

House Democrats subpoena Rick Perry and Giuliani associates for impeachment inquiry

"the film would be a 14-hour It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"

There would be a lot of paunchy, pasty white guys with weird hair getting work all over the place in that production.

Also, that chain the guy in red is flying is awesome.

TS: "Shoeless" Joe Jackson vs. "Clueless" Joe Biden

These people are such idiots. All of them.

This would be hilarious if they weren't in power, like if this were a Burn After Reading sequel or something

Anatevka?!?!?!

named after the Fiddler village

https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-real-life-anatevka-ukraines-jewish-refugees-cling-to-tradition/

Sounds like Sondland testimony is back on for next week.

top Pompeo advisor resigns

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/10/politics/john-shimkus-pulls-trump-support-kurds/index.html

A quadrillion things before this should have brought these lawmakers to the same decision and I'm surprised that this, of all things, is what's putting some of them over the edge. But whatever it takes.

Shimkus also made it clear he does not support the impeachment inquiry fwiw

Last night's rally was apparently even rantier than usual.

In one of his most vitriolic appearances to date, President Donald Trump on Thursday night railed against the Washington establishment and his other perceived foes as an existential threat to the nation’s democracy.

From House Democrats to the Biden family, a wide spectrum of “the swamp” came under fire during the president’s political rally in Minneapolis — his first since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment investigation against him more than two weeks ago. Rather than focusing on usual “Make America Great Again” topics like the economy or border security, Trump used over 40 minutes of his stage time to go hard after his adversaries in Congress and the media.

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“The do-nothing Democrat extremists have gone so far to the left that they believe it should not be a crime to cross our border illegally and that it should be a crime to have a totally appropriate, casual, beautiful, accurate phone call with a foreign leader,” Trump said during the Thursday rally. “I don’t think so.”

He also repeated unfounded claims that the former vice president worked to nix a Ukrainian investigation into his son when Hunter Biden sat on the board of an energy corporation in the country. (Trump expressed frustration over the media’s reports that the claims have been debunked, saying during the rally: “It’s not unsubstantiated, you crooked son of a gun. It’s 100 percent true.”) The president’s team has often recited the claims to counter the accusations of fishing for foreign election assistance. Shortly before his father took the stage, Eric Trump led the audience in a chant of “Lock him up,” referring to Hunter Biden.

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Polls have recently shown increased public approval for the impeachment inquiry, including a Fox News national poll that showed 51 percent of voters supporting Trump’s impeachment and removal from office. During the rally, he denounced the surveys as “crooked” and the media as “so bad for our country.”

At times, Trump seemed more fed up than riled up in his rhetoric. He railed against the constant scrutiny his administration has been under since taking office. He went after former special counsel Robert Mueller for disrupting his administration by investigating him and his circle over several months. He accused the media of unfairly targeting his people while working in tandem with Democrats.

“They took people that were full of life and energy and vigor — we’d just won the greatest campaign in the history of American politics, it’s true — and they destroyed their lives!” Trump said of the numerous investigations into his administration and campaign.

“They destroyed people, good people, people that ended up paying far more money in legal fees than they made,” he continued. “And the media was behind every single step.”

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The president also went back deep into the early days of the federal investigations into the 2016 election. He invoked former FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who had a romantic relationship, with a mocking dialogue: “‘Oh, I love you so much. I love you, Peter!’ ‘I love you too, Lisa! Lisa, I love you. Lisa, Lisa! Oh God, I love you, Lisa.’”

My timelines last night were full of left-wing Minnesotans laughing at chuds/pics of protest signs etc.

One thing people did was to book tickets to the rally under fake names/emails and then (obviously) not go.

tbf why should it be a crime to have an accurate phone call?

Even as he worked with Mr. Parnas’s company, Fraud Guarantee, Mr. Giuliani increasingly relied on Mr. Parnas to carry out Mr. Trump’s quest for evidence in Ukraine that would undercut the legitimacy of the special counsel’s investigation into Russia’s interference on his behalf in the 2016 election and help him heading into his 2020 re-election campaign.

oh come on

"just wanted to thank my loyal supporters by name. Thank you for coming out tonight...

Buttface McGee
Dan Druff
Maximilian Robespierre
Bob Struction"

Xpost lol

‘I love you too, Lisa! Lisa, I love you. Lisa, Lisa! Oh God, I love you, Lisa.’”

told you this dude was basically Tommy Wiseau

Uh oh he misrepresented what Peter actually said. TREASON!!!

vibe outside the Target Center was pretty chill last night, saw a few arguments, def some chuds walking through the crowd desperately wanting someone to fuck with them so they could get it on video

didn't see oathkeeper dorks who were going to protect trumpers from antifa or whatever fantasy shit

part of it was is that I think they told attendees to come in through the skyway

Everybody betrayed me, I fed up with this world xxp

Even though it was directed at a particular couple, I assume he was more generally expressing his contempt toward people regarding one another with warmth and affection.

Which buttresses my theory that Melania will wind up being the one to finally drive a steak knife into his neck.

Good morning!

President Trump played Prince’s “Purple Rain” tonight at a campaign event in Minneapolis despite confirming a year ago that the campaign would not use Prince’s music. The Prince Estate will never give permission to President Trump to use Prince’s songs. pic.twitter.com/FuMUPzSWOe

— Prince (@prince) October 11, 2019

(via JJJ)

Do we know if Jacob Frey got the campaign to pay up for security etc before the event?

no

he didn't get them to pay
but grandstanding over 500k is perfect for our North Loop Justin Trudeau

Those two shady Trump chumps, they had a company called Fraud Guarantee, but they also had a beach club called Mafia Rave!!!!