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

Does diplomatic immunity extend to perjury? Asking for a friend.

Sondland is just kind of a minimalist testifier

US Special Envoy for Syria Jim Jeffries

comedy audiences grew hostile towards him, so he got an easier job

true story: Jim Jefferies changed his stage name from Jim Jeffries to Jim Jefferies to avoid confusion

Once again?

SCOOP: An internal memo obtained by @Axios warns that "the White House is posturing itself to be electronically compromised once again.” At least 12 top- or high-level officials have resigned recently from a key WH cybersecurity team. https://t.co/aEPp8FmIv1

— Alexi McCammond (@alexi) October 23, 2019

the russians used kompromat to get trump to try and bribe the president of the ukraine

― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, October 23, 2019 2:25 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

that Trump's criminal proclivities happen to dovetail nicely w Putin's anti-Europe manuevering doesn't mean he's not compromised

kind of baffled that there are ppl in here who still don't understand (or what? don't want to believe?) that for decades our now-president has been laundering what is essentially mob money w/ Russian oligarchs and they have him over a barrel

yes, puppetry

they're very sensitive about nu-mccarthyism

or are just sick of basically baseless assertions?

xposts Why do I feel like we should brace ourselves for explanations of why using an unsecure email server is way way worse than using Dropbox or Google Drive or whatever mindblowing dumbfuckery is going on rn.

NEW: Susan Collins will oppose Trump's controversial judicial nominee Steven Menashi https://t.co/R2L3GiOMlk

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) October 23, 2019

for some reason i don't believe her...

Ah, of course.

The latest developments on Republicans storming the Intelligence Committee room, including the detail that Matt Gaetz's office gave uncredentialed reporters and crew from HBO's "The Swamp" expired congressional passes to cover this circus.https://t.co/R1N8fPYsdz

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) October 23, 2019

xxxp baseless assumptions lol

jim are you honestly not aware how Trump has been kept afloat all these years?

https://themoscowproject.org/collusion-chapter/chapter-1/

I mean, start here ffs chapter 1

xxxpost

Dr. Morbzvago

the idea, still, that this some kind of nutjob conspiracy theory smdh

no pee pee tape, no credibility

Morbs don't worry you won't be docked any anti-HC points for admitting that, yeah, she knew exactly what she was talking about

lol

the ilxdnc

you are an insane person

I'm just glad she didn't say "the sky is blue," this painful to watch

this is

I guess they're totally baseless if you're totally ignorant about their bases

Update from the SCIF: sources tell me Rep. Louie Gohmert has begun using an astronaut toilet, the one with the suction cups, in front of everyone because "this is how you pee in the SCIF." Unclear where he got the toilet but it's not in fact part of the SCIF.

— lvl 45 CHAOS GHOSTUS (@thetomzone) October 23, 2019

Asking because I genuinely don’t know the answer but if Warren gets elected next year what would we anticipate her solution to the tension between Kurdish statehood and Turkish nationalism to be? The line a lot of Democrats are taking is that they support withdrawing US troops, but not like this. Is there any clarity on what needs to happen before the US can pull back ‘properly’?

wtf does morbs now not believe in russian election meddling? what the fucking hell

Hade, u r a Yankee fan

I spose the Clintons *could've* overheard something at that Trump wedding

wtf does morbs now not believe in russian election meddling

yeah, where the fuck did i say that?

bye guys

you shoulld defer to someone with wisdom enough not to go to Flushing to watch baseball

as always w/ apologies to Mookieproof

true story: Jim Jefferies changed his stage name from Jim Jeffries to Jim Jefferies to avoid confusion

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Wednesday, October 23, 2019 1:46 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

no my name is jefferies

http://www.wingclips.com/system/movie-clips/spartacus/i-am-spartacus/images/spartacus-movie-clip-screenshot-i-am-spartacus_large.jpg

"No! I am Jeffries!"

he just...tweeted it out

BREAKING--> My report from inside the SCIF hearing room where we are exposing Adam Schiff's secret so-called impeachment inquiry. pic.twitter.com/fPcPJ94R9y

— Rep. Alex Mooney (@RepAlexMooney) October 23, 2019

lol these guys are so stupid that "beneath contempt" is a compliment.

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said on Wednesday that it was difficult to draw "hard, fast conclusions" from a top U.S. diplomat's closed-door testimony but that the "picture" from initial reports was "not a good one."

"The picture coming out of it based on the reporting that we've seen is, yeah, I would say not a good one," Thune told reporters when a reporter characterized William Taylor's testimony as "troubling."

"But I would say also that, again, until we have a process that allows for everybody to see this in full transparency, it's pretty hard to draw any hard, fast conclusions," Thune added.

Thune noted at the time that he had not read Taylor's testimony but had seen only initial reports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI_Oe-jtgdI

Not sure how labeling a very real impeachment inquiry "so-called" is supposed to work in his favor.

Kinda sad I wished for Scalise's recovery at one point

Can't quite put my finger on why this particular stunt is enraging me to the extent that it is, but it will pale in comparison to the rage I'll feel when these dumbfucks manage to skirt any real and effectual punishment for their dumbfuckery.

he just...tweeted it out

is it not like...totally illegal to do this

god sometimes I really wished the law applied to Republicans

Not sure how labeling a very real impeachment inquiry "so-called" is supposed to work in his favor.

White House strategy is to claim they don't have to cooperate with the inquiry because the House has not yet voted to open an inquiry.

it's almost as if the party that couldn't successfully manage a governing majority in Congress doesn't actually understand how Congress works

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/after-clinton-spectacle-benghazi-panel-goes-back-behind-closed-doors/447768/

let's not forget the time the dems stormed into these closed door sessions

Lady Lindsay Demands Decorum!

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday rebuked the GOP congressman who stormed a closed-door hearing earlier in the day to protest the Democrats' impeachment inquiry protest, calling the act “nuts.”

“That’s not the way to do it,” Graham said of the GOP House members moves, according to a report by The Associated Press.

Dozens of Republican members of the House crashed, including some members of leadership like House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), barged into the secure hearing room in the Capitol basement delaying the testimony of Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia.

This is the most pernicious aspect of Trump's presidency imo. Not what he specifically gets away with but the extent to which his unbridled id begins to influence others to wantonly thwart norms like it's all some big goddamn joke.

This was interesting. And by interesting I mean terrifying.

A few words on why Gaetz stunt to storm the SCIF to disrupt Laura Cooper's deposition is a VERY serious national security problem.

Note, I worked in that SCIF for HPSCI and handled cybersecurity issues while there.

— Mieke Eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) October 23, 2019

no doubt Trump's ability to face no consequence whatsoever for his flagrant lawbreaking has rubbed off on other members of the GOP

Reminder: a young Navy sailor was prosecuted and convicted for taking photos in the classified areas of a submarine.@RepAlexMooney tried to livestream his entrance into a SCIF. https://t.co/MC1BuTrlgn

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) October 23, 2019

REMEMBER SAILOR!!!

doopdedoo how long til this gets to the Supreme Court

The State Department must begin turning over documents related to the Trump administration's dealings with Ukraine within 30 days, a judge ruled Wednesday.

American Oversight, an ethics watchdog organization, filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department in early October in an attempt to gain access to documents related to communications between President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and top State Department officials regarding Ukraine.

The group also requested records related to the recall of Marie Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled Wednesday that the records sought were of public importance and that the State Department needed to begin disclosing documents within 30 days, NBC New York reported. Cooper reportedly advised American Oversight to meet with the government to narrow the request.

“Despite the ongoing obstruction of Congress, the Trump administration will now have to start releasing records concerning its dealings with Ukraine," Austin Evers, executive director at American Oversight, said in a statement to The Hill.

"This is an important victory for the American people’s right to know the facts about Ukraine, and it is a major setback for the White House’s stonewalling. The court recognized the importance of these documents and the need for the State Department to rapidly release them, and American Oversight will continue fighting to make sure the truth comes out.”

The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.

Your regular reminder that national security is a farce and Edward Snowden is a saint

Signed,

Glenn Greenwald (NOT A TRUMP GUY)

the very notion of a SCIF was invented by spy agencies - liberals who hold meetings in them are just untrustworthy hypocrites

signed

Matt Taibbi

Doug Henwood tweet

Signed

Morbs