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

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

http://drewfriedman.blogspot.com/2019/10/drawing-president-trump.html

this seems fine https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/14/fake-video-of-trump-shooting-media-and-opponents-shown-at-presidents-resort

love my big moist murdering president

Oh, that was a fake video? Thanks for clearing that up, Guardian headline writer.

seems like appropriate caution tbh

The setting for the massacre is the "Church of Fake News," capturing Mr. Trump's familiar refrain about news stories and organizations he says he considers to be producing fake news....

In the video, Mr. Trump's critics and media members are portrayed as parishioners fleeing his gruesome rampage. The fake Trump strikes the late Sen. John McCain in the neck, hits and stabs TV personality Rosie O'Donnell in the face, lights Sen. Bernie Sanders' head on fire and shoots or otherwise assaults people whose faces are replaced with news organizations' logos.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-graphic-video-depicting-trump-like-figure-assaulting-foes-media-shown-trump-doral-miami-resort-new-york-times/

why would anyone go see Joker when they can just read news about Trump to get the same effect

^ Exactly why I will never see Joker

today was the day Decker became reality

Decker is pretty much the only modern political satire that actually works

Vote for good guy @seanspicer tonight on Dancing With The Stars. He has always been there for us!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2019

Matt Gaetz emerges from closed-door interview with Fiona Hill saying he was kicked out by House Democrats bc he’s not a member of the three committees conducting the interview. He said he consulted with the House parliamentarian, who ruled that he could not be there.

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 14, 2019

House parliamentarian otm

xxp ELECTION INTERFERENCE!

He was just trying to learn about possible caravans, give him a break

President Trump’s acquiescence to Turkey’s move to send troops deep inside Syrian territory has in only one week’s time turned into a bloody carnage, forced the abandonment of a successful five-year-long American project to keep the peace on a volatile border, and given an unanticipated victory to four American adversaries: Russia, Iran, the Syrian government and the Islamic State.

Rarely has a presidential decision resulted so immediately in what his own party leaders have described as disastrous consequences for American allies and interests. How this decision happened — springing from an “off-script moment” with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, in the words of a senior American diplomat — likely will be debated for years by historians, Middle East experts and conspiracy theorists.

But this much already is clear: Mr. Trump ignored months of warnings from his advisers about what calamities likely would ensue if he followed his instincts to pull back from Syria and abandon America’s longtime allies, the Kurds. He had no Plan B, other than to leave. The only surprise is how swiftly it all collapsed around the president and his depleted, inexperienced foreign policy team.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/world/middleeast/trump-turkey-syria.html

"likely will be debated for years by historians, Middle East experts and conspiracy theorists." = the classic 'was he trying to play chess, or is he just really, really fucking stupid' debate

"He had no Plan B, other than to leave." = fake opinion; plan B is always to sue them

springing from an “off-script moment” with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, in the words of a senior American diplomat

that's an extremely generous characterisation of what happened

btw, countdown to the moment trump declares that the kurds are traitors, because now they're fighting with Assad against Turkey. this will happen within the week, i would guess, possibly even this afternoon

Check Twitter.

"....Democrat’s game was foiled when we caught Schiff fraudulently making up my Ukraine conversation, when I released the exact conversation Transcript, and when Ukrainian President and the Foreign Minister said there was NO PRESSURE, very normal talk! A total Impeachment Scam!"

got that far, gave up

very normal talk