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

But what the Dems really need is more vacation time

It's probably difficult for Trump to remember if Rudy is his attorney because they only ever met that one time at that fundraiser years ago and probably only exchanged a word or two.

He takes photographs with tons of people

omar otm. NO ONE IN THE GOVERNMENT BESIDES TRUMP wanted turkey to invade syria, without even giving the kurdish forces a chance to secure their ISIS captives or hand them over to US custody. it is INCOHERENT. and it was done impulsively, at the direct request of erdogan.

if trump supporters can't understand that, maybe they're dumb. never wanted to float this possibility before.

decisions are either being made randomly or due to pure venality.

i think the trump voters don't care about most of this stuff but you'd imagine that they'd care that he has literally put the sacred american troops in danger? maybe not tho, who knows

He takes photographs with tons of people

he gets filmed kissing tons of mayors in drag

that Nuzzi stream of tweets is hilarious

"trump voters" are not a monolith. there's "people who voted for Trump" and there's "people who would gladly tongue-bathe his balls for all eternity".

i guess. i think even in the mainstream, anti-trump press, there should be more coverage of the turkish invasion of syria.

rather than, like, millennial journalists snarkily posting their texts with trump goons

i agree that this is just...unthinkably stupid and obvious, especially when paired with the infamous tweet which was about that same dumbass decision "“As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!)"

- however -

is there reported anywhere else yet? don't see it in my usual boring news spots (nyt/washpo/guardian/tuckercarlson)

CNN has been running with Shep Smith's exit for hours now as their big font front page headline news

Who would have guessed it?

It’s a near certainty that Dmytro Firtash is mixed up in this. He’s in Vienna fighting extradition to the US and has just replaced his legal team with two Giuliani associates (diGenova and Toensing).

― ShariVari, Friday, 11 October 2019

is there reported anywhere else yet? don't see it in my usual boring news spots (nyt/washpo/guardian/tuckercarlson)

― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Friday, October 11, 2019 7:31 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The times had it at the top yesterday but the columnists mostly were still talking about ukraine. Which is a big story too, but this one seems like such a clean shot. It’s a decision no one but trump seems to have agreed with.

Also, it seems impulsive, but didn’t mattis resign a few years ago because trump threatened to do this? How long has he been thinking of ditching the kurds and more importantly why?

bc the sdf are lefties prob

Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security since April and the fourth person to serve in that post since the Trump presidency began, submitted his resignation to the White House on Friday, President Donald Trump announced Friday.

Lot of totally cool, normal, perfect things happening every 15 minutes lately.

Ah, Rudy.

hE RESPONDED
good to know the president’s lawyer responds to prank texts
our nation is run by senescent crime goons pic.twitter.com/CVi7ETPTF8

— Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) October 12, 2019

"I think we should stop texting about the crimes and just tell them over the phone so the crimes don’t leave little crime footprints"

First as tragedy, then as farce:

This is so insanely melodramatic and overwrought and the last few seconds still somehow manage to come as a shock. Just...wait for it. pic.twitter.com/7BBB9EXNdJ

— jordan (@JordanUhl) October 12, 2019

lmao
cometh the hour, cometh the [spoiler]

what the fuck

i remember reading a few months (or days?!) ago how the Murdoch kids were starting to strategize long-term and preparing to tack twd the center

this^ acutually sounds like undiluted Stephen MIller, you have to wonder if Barr didn't bring an entire script to that recent lunch w/ Rupert and they just decided nah fuck it let's go all in

"i'm talkin' bout the 1850's"

"idunnameanawarr"

oh bannon i didn't watch to the end

“Emotional Civil War”

They must have put half an inch of pancake makeup on Bannon for that.

Attorney General Bill Barr: "This is not decay. This is organized destruction. Secularists and their allies have marshaled all the forces of mass communication, popular culture, the entertainment industry, and academia in an unremitting assault on religion & traditional values."

the fucking balls on these clowns

retro LOL at all the reassuring Bill Barr talk when he was appointed—guy's a professional, straight shooter, institutionalist etc etc

this guy is making John Ashcroft look like Elliot Richardson

"secularists"

"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion"

Added Barr: "We got dogs marrying cats!"

I love* when Catholics get all preachy about values/sexual politics when the last 20+ years have blown open thousands of scandals that sexual abuse/predation in the church here & abroad is rampant beyond belief.

*I really don't love fwiw.

they're running our of bullets and it'll only get worse

they don't have the debt or fiscal responsibilty anymore, they lost the first-wave culture wars on gays and brown ppl, they can't lead w/ gun rights anymore

it's just going to be jesus and immigrants for the foreseeable future

And to fight all of those very important enemies, Barr has to...help trump cover up crimes in Ukraine? What a fucking asshole

i lold hard at that fox tweet

i remember reading a few months (or days?!) ago how the Murdoch kids were starting to strategize long-term and preparing to tack twd the center

"outsiders wonder if the less-fascist Murdoch children will have a moderating influence on the company, but insiders expect Lachlan to be placed in charge" has been a recurrent article for over twenty years

it's eight years since Rupert bought Shine and TWENTY-THREE since he bought Rawkus ffs!

xp see also Succession

i lold hard at that fox tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trumps-envoy-who-denied-quid-pro-quo-now-says-he-isnt-certain/2019/10/12/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trumps-envoy-who-denied-quid-pro-quo-now-says-he-isnt-certain/2019/10/12/4abe0902-bc19-44e8-8c38-9aa35c544859_story.html

Aw, so sad.

The U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, intends to tell Congress this week that the content of a text message he wrote denying a quid pro quo with Ukraine was relayed to him directly by President Trump in a phone call, according to a person familiar with his testimony.

Sondland plans to tell lawmakers he has no knowledge of whether the president was telling him the truth at that moment. “It’s only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth,” said the person familiar with Sondland’s planned testimony, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic matters.

The key quote is hilarious

“there’s a good chance I may have committed some light treason...”

“It’s only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth,”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4XT-l-_3y0

Lol ok

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/10/12/politics/trump-threatens-sue-schiff-pelosi/index.html

Jesus and the Immigrants

https://www.cltampa.com/music/music-news/article/21091974/heres-a-clip-of-former-fox-news-host-shepard-smith-covering-gg-allin-shitting-on-a-stage-in-orlando