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

the WH's legal defense is such blatant horseshit

The incompetence is as breathtaking as the corruption, always.

Will they? I'm not at all convinced that the end game here is for the court to help establish a conservative dictatorship and to hell with constitutional precedent.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, October 11, 2019

Back to 1935!

Pretty much. We talk about the insanith of ceding power to the president as if the Senate hasn't already embraced this path.

jfc

This guy is teaching his young son how to boo the press. “Boo ... bad media ... thumbs down,” he said. pic.twitter.com/egVyJNZAhd

— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) October 11, 2019

My brother is on a @united flight from LA to Boston and saw this guy boarding with a shirt that reads “Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some assembly required.” #thread pic.twitter.com/MWy5HnDxzI

— Jessica Sidman (@jsidman) October 11, 2019

maybe when the next Dem president levels up w/ this new steroidal immunity-free Exectutive Power she can bribe/extort her way into fulfilling their darkest fantasies, actually taking away their guns and stuff

You'll be cool w/ that, right MItch?

xp would have a hard time not fighting that guy tbh

maybe when the next Dem president levels up w/ this new steroidal immunity-free Exectutive Power she can bribe/extort her way into fulfilling their darkest fantasies, actually taking away their guns and stuff

honestly I think this is the only thing that might give the Roberts' court pause. The Senate knows they can fight their legislative battles essentially one at a time, but the courts work more slowly and are (ostensibly) bound by precedent. If they box themselves into a corner where they have to write very narrow rulings one way for one party and very narrow rulings another way for the other party... I dunno how tenable that is, it will make a total mess of jurisprudence.

yeah depending on my BAC pre-flight i'd be somewhat inclined to talk shit. what the guy going to do? swing at me at an international airport? fucking please. please do.

just read that thread and saw that the brother was asked to leave the flight for perceiving the shirt as a threat. U! S! A!

Jesus Christ.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-marie-yovanovitch-s-prepared-deposition-statement/dffbf543-a373-46e0-a957-bc12a9371af4/

he was asked to get off the plane to discuss it, but i think he took the flight.

Good news:

A federal appeals court held on Friday that Trump’s claims that he is immune to congressional oversight have no basis in law.

If the Supreme Court does not interfere with this decision, that means the House Oversight Committee will soon gain access to many of Trump’s financial records — potentially including his tax forms.

The case, Trump v. Mazars USA, is an especially significant one because it represents House investigators’ best opportunity to shake records loose from a president who’s offered maximal resistance to any attempt to make him disclose information that he does not want disclosed. The House committee seeks financial records that Trump turned over to his accounting firm, Mazars USA, and the firm has indicated it will comply with the committee’s subpoena if it is ordered to do so.

Trump cannot simply refuse to turn over these records because they aren’t under his control.

Judge David Tatel, a Clinton appointee on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, wrote the majority opinion in Mazars. And, as his opinion explains, the law governing this case is pretty straightforward. As a series of Supreme Court decisions that stretch back to the 1920s Teapot Dome scandal lay out, Congress has broad authority to conduct investigations so long as those investigations have a “valid legislative purpose.” Such a purpose exists as long as the investigation touches upon a matter “on which legislation could be had.”

Supreme Court getting so many chances to prove their value to their Republican overlords

A bill of impeachment is a piece of legislation.

Ben Shapiro warns that if politicians try to mandate LGBTQ 'indoctrination' at all schools, then he will "pick up a gun." Further adding "Beto O'Rourke does not get to raise my child. And if he tries, I will meet him at the door with a gun" pic.twitter.com/Hq7SyF7FeI

— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) October 11, 2019

what are you gonna do shoot him in the foot

did he impregnate someone?????? awww

These "get my gun" tough guys all model their dialogue on gangster movies and television programs.

WASHINGTON — Marie L. Yovanovitch, who was recalled as the American ambassador to Ukraine in May, testified to impeachment investigators on Friday that a top State Department official told her that President Trump had pushed for her removal for months even though the department believed she had “done nothing wrong.”

In a closed-door interview that could further fuel calls for Mr. Trump’s impeachment, Ms. Yovanovitch delivered a scathing indictment of how his administration conducts foreign policy. She warned that private influence and personal gain have usurped diplomats’ judgment, threatening to undermine the nation’s interests and drive talented professionals out of public service. And she said that diplomats no longer have confidence that their government “will have our backs and protect us if we come under attack from foreign interests.”

nice

Deep state demoncrat

has anyone checked her phone for text messages to her looover ??

Man, Ben Shapiro sure is terrified of the urges he might fulfill if ever face-to-peen with another man.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/oct/11/donald-trump-news-today-impeachment-inquiry-ukraine-politics-live-updates?page=with:block-5da0cf9f8f084862358fc85f#block-5da0cf9f8f084862358fc85f

I thought there was already a SC ruling that said he could divert the military funds for a border wall, confused as to how this is related...

if politicians try to mandate LGBTQ 'indoctrination' at all schools

As far as I can see LGBTQ "indoctrination" consists of teaching the shocking idea that LGBTQ people are in fact people and thus deserve the same rights and dignity as other people, rather than being automatically viewed as perverted immoral criminals. I'm not really aware of any more elaborate doctrines the LGBTQ community is trying to push into schools. However, the doctrine that threats, guns and violence are a good way to disagreements seems like one that has no place in schools.

when you're a rich white conservative they let you do it

Conservative denunciations of illusory bouts of leftist indoctrination are basically just assertions that only they have the right to indoctrinate the youth.

They are afraid of other viewpoints being presented alongside their own because theirs is always gonna look like a pile of hateful pigshit in comparison.

i wonder if ben shapiro spends much time thinking about innocent children being indoctrinated with the idea that there is a strong probability that they will burn in hell for eternity

he probably does

does "they" equal jews because it's just wild as hell to me that conservative jews can make common cause w people who are going to come after them, too, just as soon as they stamp out the cultural marxists.

AIPAC's been doing it for decades

i know it was like a whole trumpyear ago, but i'm still stuck on 'they weren't with us at normandy'

well they weren't

RIP

Per a Fox News spokesperson, Shep Smith is stepping down from Fox News. This afternoon was his final show.

— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) October 11, 2019

man i guess Barr getting in Rupe's ear did the job huh

neither was Turkey but he just did them a solid

MEDIA ALERT: Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl to hold press conference with Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff’s former drug dealer pic.twitter.com/3rGSxAsC2y

— Jack Burkman (@Jack_Burkman) October 11, 2019

maybe this explains where Chuck's imaginary suburban centrist friends come from

rip big man, heaven needed a slightly cuddlier fascist who nonetheless enjoyed screaming at waitresses

xp eastern DAYLIGHT time, asshole

i'm still stuck on 'they weren't with us at normandy'

You know who else wasn't with us at Normandy? Chiang Kai-shek. And we thought he was cool.

A contingent of U.S. Special Forces has been caught up in Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in northern Syria, days after President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart he would withdraw U.S. troops from certain positions in the area.

Newsweek has learned through both an Iraqi Kurdish intelligence official and senior Pentagon official that Special Forces operating on Mashtenour hill in the majority-Kurdish city of Kobani fell under artillery fire from Turkish forces conducting their so-called "Operation Peace Spring" against Kurdish fighters backed by the U.S. but considered terrorist organizations by Turkey.

The senior Pentagon official said that Turkish forces should be aware of U.S. positions "down to the grid." The official could not specify the exact number of personnel present, but indicated they were "small numbers below company level," so somewhere between 15 and 100 troops.

https://www.newsweek.com/us-troops-syria-turkey-1464727

if you weren't with us at normandy, you were against us at normandy

Only 3 days after Trump said:

US official tells @NBCNews no US troops have left Syria. They are not packing. No orders to pack. So, Trump’s apparent green light to Turkey for a military operation against the Kurds has trigged confusion and panic, but not real change, for now.

— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) October 8, 2019

Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions

i thought they weren't backed by the US any longer?

So Trump left our troops in a Benghazi like situation?

it's considerably worse than that

some gave all (for Trump Towers Istanbul)

Coalition official tells me after Turkish bombing near US base Mashtenour hill: “They know we are there, we told them our position. There’s no other target in the area. They’re trying to drive us out. If Turkey can get us to leave so they can seige Kobane, it’s all over.”

— Josie Ensor (@Josiensor) October 11, 2019

wonder how many Republicans are going to give a shit about Trump directly getting our troops blown up

lol these were immediately leaked to the Post as well

The White House accidentally sent Democrats a list of talking points related to ex-Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s Friday House deposition, two sources with knowledge of the email told The Hill, the second time in a month the administration has sent its Ukraine talking points to Democrats.

The email included guidance for Republicans seeking to defend the president from potentially damaging witness testimony from an ambassador who was removed from her post in May under controversial circumstances.

In copies of the guidance shared with The Hill, The White House encouraged Republicans to adopt a series of messages designed to turn the tables back on Democrats, including attacks on House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s (D-Calif.) handling of the probe.

Yovanovitch told House lawmakers that she was removed after “a concerted campaign against” her from President Trump and his allies.

She also said in her opening statement that the State Department had "been under pressure from the president to remove me since the summer of 2018."

Yovanovitch’s ouster came two months before Trump’s July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president — now at the center of Democrats’ impeachment inquiry — in which Trump asked Kiev to open an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading 2020 presidential candidate.

“We are not concerned with any information Yovanovitch might share, because the President did nothing wrong,” the White House email meant for Republicans said. “But we are concerned that Schiff is putting her a precarious position by having her testify in secret without State Department lawyers be present.”

"It raises serious questions about why Schiff is willing to put career officials in such risky situations while bullying them with legally unfounded threats of obstruction charges," the email continued.

It added that Schiff "is willing to ride roughshod over fair process and to use career officials to further a baseless political objective."

The email marks the second time the White House has unintentionally sent talking points to Democrats in recent weeks, after an administration official inadvertently emailed them suggested rhetoric defending the July 25 phone call.

The White House did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment.

wonder how many Republicans are going to give a shit about Trump directly getting our troops blown up

tbf a lot of the GOP hawks are super-pissed about this already