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

i always figure that's more of a favor between senators and costa - they want to maintain a non-negative relationship with costa (and other reporters writing their version of "Trump becoming unhinged" for the week) but don't want to make the big idiot mad, so they go off the record

another asshat

Coming in the middle of our national pastime’s championship series, the “Lock him up” chant was some of the most striking evidence to date that we live in a country where portions of both parties believe the leaders of the others should be in prison. https://t.co/GP6hMs5UzV

— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) October 28, 2019

I mean, when said leaders commit crimes, yes

but her emails

Gee it's almost as if one side was chanting to lock up a political enemy simply because they didn't like her and the other actually wants their enemy locked up because he has committed crimes that a non-sitting President would be sitting in prison for

Xpost DAMMIT

You could arguably prosecute Hillary Clinton for something that happened during her tenure as Secretary of State but it's very, very unlikely to be successful, largely because she is such a process freak that you would likely need to change the law to make her actions retroactively illegal; on the other hand, I would bet money that Trump committed tax fraud as a private citizen.

the most striking evidence to date that we live in a country where portions of both parties believe the leaders of the others should be in prison.

ah, the observant insight haver has logged on.

truly, we live in a society

Your honor, we feel that it's only fair and balanced to consider whether there might not be a reason to incarcerate the plaintiff, as well.

there was also that whole NYT tax fraud investigation thing from last year that literally zero people on the entire planet cared about:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

Mr. Trump won the presidency proclaiming himself a self-made billionaire, and he has long insisted that his father, the legendary New York City builder Fred C. Trump, provided almost no financial help.

But The Times’s investigation, based on a vast trove of confidential tax returns and financial records, reveals that Mr. Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire, starting when he was a toddler and continuing to this day.

Much of this money came to Mr. Trump because he helped his parents dodge taxes. He and his siblings set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents, records and interviews show. Records indicate that Mr. Trump helped his father take improper tax deductions worth millions more. He also helped formulate a strategy to undervalue his parents’ real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns, sharply reducing the tax bill when those properties were transferred to him and his siblings.

These maneuvers met with little resistance from the Internal Revenue Service, The Times found. The president’s parents, Fred and Mary Trump, transferred well over $1 billion in wealth to their children, which could have produced a tax bill of at least $550 million under the 55 percent tax rate then imposed on gifts and inheritances.

The Trumps paid a total of $52.2 million, or about 5 percent, tax records show.

2015-present is basically just ""You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order!"

It's 2019. Our national pastime is soccer or basketball if it's anything.

Coming in the middle of our national pastime’s championship series, the “Lock him up” chant was some of the most striking evidence to date that we live in a country where portions of both parties believe the leaders of the others should be in prison. https://t.co/GP6hMs5UzV

— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) October 28, 2019

i know costa writes the same article all the time, but this is good after reading the most recent one

A real beauty, via @playbookplus

President DONALD TRUMP urged Republicans this morning to drop their crusade on the process....

“I'd rather go into the details of the case rather than process. ... Process is good, but I think you ought to look at the case."

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) October 28, 2019

My wife took a nice picture of the protest in progress downtown, hope this link works:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/NF9AyUhVS11Y9FXL6

Nope.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/V64rFt7dcoFOBRzKGApVJLLZkwWoo-ApnbW7ngyi8QHoCQJIss4ni0-dHYTGtcWgZkzu8tndDWAo_R4Ir55k36HB5xnPR6UUgMl4Rh3TrqqOv1K5BOgxjPE0lC9GrNDBmdNeiu-IpuU=w2400

Greg Walden (R-Ore.), the top Republican on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, will not seek reelection next year — another sign that GOP lawmakers are pessimistic about retaking the House majority in 2020.

Nice pic. I'll see if I can get a view of it from my building (also pictured) as I won't be getting out of work until it's over.

I've watched Greg Walden's career since the beginning. He clearly decided that the way to get along was to go along and he rose into a powerful leadership position among House Republicans basically by eating every shit sandwich he was offered by those who outranked him, even when it hurt his constituents - like Paul Ryan's wretched bill to replace the ACA. His constituents are getting restless. He's gittin' out while the gittin's good. It's a good choice for everyone concerned.

MST3K is here to save us all:

TIRED: reminding @JoeNBC that these situations are completely different

WIRED: reminding @JoeNBC that he should *also* be locked up for killing his young aide in 2001 https://t.co/sXbAUXDSM1

— Bowl of Slimy Eyeballs Corbett (@BillCorbett) October 28, 2019

These reactions are so predictable but so annoying. I thought we’d decided to blame millennials for the death of irony

Just saw that Gaetz, of all people, was one of the few people of either party to come to the defense of Hill (however self-serving it could be, in his case):

This is just absurd. The only person who seems to have a gripe is @RepKatieHill’s soon-to-be ex.

Who among us would look perfect if every ex leaked every photo/text?

Katie isn’t being investigated by Ethics or maligned because she hurt anyone - it is because she is different. https://t.co/Czrc2k8z8X

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) October 24, 2019

remains stunning to me that people text/send photos with incriminating evidence to one another; i don't even talk shit over the phone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NttlPwNKd_M

You want amazing? If it weren't so lame and embarrassing this would be the stuff of kitsch dreams. Hipsters are going to have a thrift store field day in a few years.

The Trump campaign began selling merchandise Monday riffing off the Disney movie “Hocus Pocus,” deriding the impeachment inquiry as a witch hunt.

Limited edition “Stop the Witch Hunt” T-shirts and “fine art” posters hit the online campaign store by early afternoon, after first being announced by Breitbart. The items recast Schiff, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) as the witches. In a crystal ball below them, Trump grips an American flag.

“HOAXUS POCUS!” says the description. “The Greatest Witch Hunt in the history of the USA continues. The only people scared this Halloween are Shifty Schiff, Nervous Nancy and Democrat Hack Jerry Nadler about their chances in 2020!”

Keep it classy, President Trucknuts.

Missed Opportunity for 'Jumpy Jerry'.

...or 'Jealous Jerry', or 'Jelly Jerry'.

"Hoaxus Pocus" rolls off the tongue like a cinderblock.

Hoaxus POTUS, come on!

Greg Walden (R-Ore.), the top Republican on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, will not seek reelection next year

amazingly great news, fuck this guy forever

The sexual assaults alone should be enough to shout 'Lock Him Up' at Trump for the rest of his live.

Oh yeah, forgot the detail that he bragged about those assaults. But no, nobody can ever say he deserves to be punished for stuff like that.

CNN correspondent Kyung Lah said today a GOP operative told her they have over 700 revenge porn pics of Katie Hill.

Imagine Republican men passing around these naked pictures and leering at them. This is sick.

No wonder she resigned. She must feel like her life is over.

— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) October 28, 2019

Walden's seat is presumably a very safe (R) - he's won every one of his elections by huge landslides, until 2018, when it was "only" 56-39-4. The 4 was an independent best known for rambling about how people are too dependent on the government, and for calling Melania Trump a "hoebag" on Twitter, so I don't know what that says.

xpost So when are her ex-husband and those responsible for disseminating said pics going to be arrested, exactly?

o yah to be clear I'm not optimistic the seat will flip, but Walden leaving is great news regardless

(xp I think)

i love that these fuckers seem to think a witch hunt is witches hunting people

no YOU'RE the witch!

I got 99 problems but a witch ain't one (hit me)

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/rosemarys-baby/images/3/3d/Frontpageof_allofthemwitches.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20160208092646

The D stands for Danforth

BREAKING: In major victory, Court throws out NC Congressional Map for 2020. pic.twitter.com/lmdDxEywp8

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) October 28, 2019

good ol' The Court.

Impeachment vote incoming. That'll surely legitimize it, put an end to all process criticisms, and make the White House extremely cooperative, right?

and John "Swing Vote" Roberts has said he'll honor state courts when it comes to voting decisions

Well...that was before.

no not like that tho

In fairness to Trump — as it appears the neurosyphilis is starting to eat right into his brain stem — he probably thought he was going to a *White* Nationals baseball game and assumed a very different crowd response

That’s a dad joke