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

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

Grifter's defense of Adolph Giuliani included he's "rough around the edges"

I saw the New York date of that GG Allin "tour." I'm in the movie Hated for a few seconds.

“ Trump, who has a long track record of calling for lawsuits against his critics and not following through, ”

Finally starting to call a duck a duck after... 5* years?

*5 years of candidacy/office

SNL of all places brought this to my attention, but onstage at the Minnesota rally Trump acted out a very passionate scene between the FBI 'Lovers'.

Did anybody else initially parse that headline as:

“Here's a clip of former Fox News host Shepard Smith covering GG Allin, shitting on a stage in Orlando in 1991“

yes

disappointing

Mnuchin claiming that Trump has allowed him power to shut down the Turkish economy "at a moment's notice" on ABC This Week.

Good morning!

Mnuchin claiming that Trump has allowed him power to shut down the Turkish economy "at a moment's notice" on ABC This Week.

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FixedDeficientIlladopsis-small.gif

https://ahvalnews.com/mcdonalds/mcdonalds-turkey-going-sale

oh shit it's begun

Return of ISIS necessary for further crackdown on immigration &on all civil liberties.Trump is dumb/mentally ill but Miller & Bannon(whom Pompeo & Barr just met w/in Rome)really do have plan on how to break down this nation & rebuild it as totally other entity.Putin on same page.

— Jorie graham (@jorie_graham) October 13, 2019

Yup, that makes sense

Heh, knives out
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/465582-cruz-of-course-its-not-appropriate-to-ask-china-to-investigate

little plastic butterknives

That’s all he’s got

Yup, that makes sense

Yes