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

ok lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EG8G00pX0AAh-oI?format=jpg&name=large

Aw.

Rudy Giuliani is parting ways with the personal attorney representing him so far in matters related to the impeachment inquiry. Giuliani confirmed to CNN Tuesday that his current attorney, Jon Sale, is ending his representation of the former New York City mayor shortly.

— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) October 15, 2019

correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't all this Hunter Biden stuff investigated years ago?

The Republicans ran six investigations into Benghazi. QED.

Who is doing the dumping

May be mildly relevant that Rudy Giuliani is also in the middle of a nasty public divorce. (Again. Memorieees…)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/third-time-was-not-the-charm-rudy-giulianis-latest-divorce-is-bitter-expensive-and-very-public/2019/10/14/2e028b8a-ec3c-11e9-85c0-85a098e47b37_story.html

he and trump live for that stuff though. get to be in the paper, get to feel victimized--life is good.

is THIS the giant dump that was prophesized on twitter in the late stages of the campaign, that someone or something has been holding onto for all this time, finally to be expelled?

What dump? Trump poop himself again?

The legendary Rick Wilson dump

I assume all the prophecied dump dumped out and did nothing.

the Rick Wilson thing was the Steele Dossier iirc

Are we playing the oldies today?

her strongest opponent just raised $3.2 million in the last quarter

Sen. Susan Collins’s (R-Maine) approval rating is deeply underwater about a year ahead of her reelection race, according to a new poll from the left-leaning firm Public Policy Polling.

Thirty-five percent of Maine voters approve of the job Collins is doing, while 50 percent disapprove. Collins trails a generic Democratic candidate 44 percent to 41 percent in the 2020 Maine Senate race, a drop from September when she led a generic Democrat 44 percent to 38.

Perhaps now the MSNBC crowd can stop inviting Claire McCaskill to moan about her Kavanaugh vote costing her the election when it's obvious Collins' vote is hurting her too.

i still need to figure out what to do with susancollins2020.com

i still need to figure out what to do with susancollins2020.com

Go with a classic:

goatse.jpg

Lost in that Giuliani lawyer ghosting him is that said lawyer informed Rudy that he needed an attorney with more criminal expertise!

the stand up comedy routine trump is doing at the "values summit" is--predictably--fucking insane

it's hard to be surprised in 2019, but that gives me the chills. he's full-on mad king. it's remarkable how he sounds like every paranoid tyrant ever

it's also disturbing how everything he is saying is met with cheers, laughs and encouragement

the "sir" tell is a definite

stopping at any point in that value summit thing and listening to anything for four minutes betrays his degree of unhingedness
i got some sort of a monologue about beautiful soldiers carrying caskets with wailing sisters on top. it's utterly mad.

Rudy openly defying the subpoena, I guess the whole "laws don't apply to Republicans" thing is really about to get tested

Carried in by sergeant at arms

the windows are being broken from inside the house

Others have noted there was actually a third guy indicted along with those Giuliani cronies, his current whereabouts unknown. Some folks theorizing that he is taking it easy in a nice hotel room right now courtesy the FBI.

Pelosi press conference imminent.

they're gonna have a vote and the GOP's gonna have to suck it

also lol

The federal grand jury in New York is seeking records and other information from Sessions (R-Tex.) on his interactions while in Congress with President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and two Giuliani associates charged last week with a scheme to funnel foreign money to U.S. politicians, according to two people familiar with the investigation.

What the fuck was Mueller doing all that time? Could any of these current goings-on be things he forwarded on to others during the course of his own investigation?

he pretty clearly didn't wanna be the guy

He’s a Republican cop idk if it was smart to put that much faith in him

Mueller was not appointed by Congress, totally different scope of investigation

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday she will not stage a vote on the House floor to officially launch an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

Trump and his Republican allies have been pressuring Pelosi to hold a formal vote to begin the investigation — a move they believe would grant them more power and influence in the process, including the ability to call and subpoena their own witnesses.

I'm surprised tbh. This means there's a significant portion of the caucus that didn't want to go on the record as voting for the inquiry, much less impeachment. She doesn't have a solid majority.

or she doesn't want the GOP to hijack the process, drag Biden into it?

hmm

seems dumb to have a press conference to announce something you haven't done and still have no plans to do. looks weak.

especially on the evening of your party's debates

yep, it sure does seem fucking dumb, the entire thing. wtf

Just gives the GOP ammo to continue making an issue out of it

Someone reported that the scuttlebutt is they don't want to make it appear that the White House has any power in determining the course of the investigation.

Stoked for y'all to watch this debate so I can experience it vicariously through you

God help me, I have it on now

Guess prayer really does work, reception's out

poor Pelosi leadership

Is this story on the US news? Naturally Trump seems to have fucked up the meeting by ambushing the parents and thinking he was in some kind of fucking reality show. So, good for them they didn't go along with it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-50064595

Harry Dunn's parents say the "bombshell was dropped" that the woman involved in their son's death was in the room next door to meet them as they met with President Trump.

They've refused to meet Anne Sacoolas unless it's on UK soil.

More here: https://t.co/QdL6dS1IH8 pic.twitter.com/DB1UbhgmbY

— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 16, 2019

'she killed your kid... and she's here tonight! big hand ladies and gentlemen for mrs! Anne! SACOOLAAAAAAAAS!'

Just in: Senior US official confirms what Kurdish sources have been telling me - that Turkey is advancing on the border town of Kobani, which Erdogan promised Trump he would not attack.

— Lara Seligman (@laraseligman) October 16, 2019

huh, weird that erdogan would take trump for a fool

Erdogan: “When Trump comes here I will talk to him” Turkey’s president says while snubbing Pence and Pompeohttps://t.co/llurmS1KXJ

— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) October 16, 2019