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

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

Which reminds me, why didn't Trump condemn all those shark attacks?

Stephen Miller told him all those sharks were "Great Whites"!

please don't

It shouldn't surprise me that a former film critic I read with delight wrote the following about Katie Hill on FB:

What Americans need to grow up about is sex. No it’s probably not a good idea to sleep with a subordinate. But the notion that this is one step away from abuse reveals there are people who actually believe all power dynamics can and should be stripped from sex and unless social status is absolutely equal it’s potentially abusive. That this is accepted as common sense is an indicator of the moral panic we live in. Yes it’s against the law for House members to sleep with a subordinate. I hear that cited as an end to the argument and think, So you’re fine with the government being able to tell consenting adults who they can and cannot sleep with.

These white dudes love lecturing about the right to their libidinousness.

Yeah, that was kind of stunning.

Not the troops!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/us/politics/Alexander-Vindman-trump-impeachment.html

This is the World Series keeper, btw:
https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5db72881084f75000810047f/16:9/w_2560%2Cc_limit/trump-boo-face.jpg

http://cdn.hasshe.com/img/s/ScZdP7-EH9KaRtna8ybhXQHaEA.jpg

lmao

http://africageographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Bushveld_Rain_Frog_3-001.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/KxXby3p/downloadfile-14.png

"You don't understand,"Not Declassified" is the name of my dog"

(I know, I know, I've been away)

What a ridiculous, hilarious fuck-up this Ukraine stuff is. These chuckleheads ... one after another, another witness, another first hand account, another contradiction, another person who formally objected at the time or complained to a higher-up. All esteemed career military, foreign service, etc. with impeccable credentials. I know impeachment is going to happen, and probably not removal, but it'll be a hoot watching the GOP morons go all mush mouth trying to defend (or avoid defending) this shit. Noticed Kenny Starr float the idea of censure, wouldn't be surprised if the GOP eventually took up that mantle, though I can only imagine a push to do so if they actually thought there was a chance he could be voted out. And if that were the case, no way will the Dems take their eyes of that particular brass ring.

good morning!

the GOP is all chained to him and he is petulant and vicious - anyone wavering in the direction of censure would be "joining the witch hunt," "a big time Coward, practically a traitor, really one of the worst traitors in american history," "a real loser and as everyone knows an ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!!!" etc. just wait til they get primary challengers. "Very excited today to support Brad Blah who is WITH US and against the fake, traitor coward Bob Blerg, one of the worst Witch Hunt guys, and I think really a Democrat!"

"Bob Blerg never came to congratulate me when we won (by huge margins) in 2016, he has no committment to making America great again! So good to see real Republican Brad Blah going up against this weak, witch hunt traitor. As your president, We must DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!!"

The most incredible thing about the Bill Taylor testimony to me was just how long and how fucked up the whole sad caper was, and how many were trying to stop it and get them to understand it was fucked up, and then Trump went on the phone and basically made the whole thing explicit. It's like if Watergate was really Nixon trying to get everyone to spy on the Democrats, and then took a phonecall with someone saying that we'd better watch what those sneaky Dems are doing, and then released the call of his own free will.

3D chess!

I heard Bob Blerg was thinking of retiring, so maybe he will turn on Trump on his way out.

We have a decorated Lt. Col. who is testifying as a corroborating witness to Sondland demanding dirt on Biden, and already the GOP line is that he's really a Ukrainian spy.

Although it could be difficult to prove he's a spy now that Sondland is saying maybe there was a quid pro quo after all.

I know it's not really relevant, but this big Danish news site I was reading is consistently referring to the security advisor as Michael Bolton, and I honestly think it might be an auto-correct they haven't adjusted.

lol

Michael Bolton is 100% deep state.

weird. so this guy Vindman has a twin brother and they have offices opposite each other in the west wing

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/us/politics/who-is-alexander-vindman.html

it's not just one spy, there's a sleeper cell in the WH!

xpost https://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/f372/screens_feature2-1.jpg

Said I loved Trump
(But I lied)

Very suspicious, which brother was it, who really made the call? Are they really secret lovers claiming to be twins? Which one is merely standing next to a mirror?

WHICH HUNT

Which witch is which!?!!

Moreover, it was a heck of a job to track him down, Trump emphasized. “You know, these people are very smart,” he said. “They’re not into the use of cellphones anymore . . . . They’re very technically brilliant. You know, they use the Internet better than almost anybody in the world, perhaps other than Donald Trump.”

I would now like a reporter to hand Donald Trump a laptop and then demonstrate how to open a web browser and navigate to a website by entering a URL. I would very much like to see his fumbling, failed attempt at accomplishing this rudimentary task.

Although I guess if 'getting other people to print out web pages for you' is the metric by which one is measuring internet mastery then he's basically achieved god-level status.