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

"Is that a shiv in your pocket, and if so, upon whom do you intend to employ it?"

"Is it true that your former deputy NSA Director Charles Kupperman is 'The Eggman'?"

"do you think it's fucked up that you stand as a symbol of relative integrity in the trump administration even though you are one of the least ethical people on the planet relevant to normal people?"

"Alan Dershowitz praised you recently at a private dinner. How slimy do you still feel, or in fact does your own slime cancel it out?"

xpost Come now Karl, we're here for SERIOUS questions.

This line of questioning is completely inappropriate, and a shameful display of disrespect for a man who delivered one of the finest renditions of "When a Man Loves a Woman" ever recorded.

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how could i forget!

"would you prefer to have a king rather than endure a democrat elected to the white house?"

"Top or bottom?"

"Mr. Brimley, what's it like to work with Steve Guttenberg?"

https://youtu.be/MhvDMvV5FfE

Meantime...

Colleague John Roberts rpts NSC staffer Tim Morrison leaving WH. Was scheduled to testify tomorrow before House investigators

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) October 30, 2019

man ngl the Omar shit is bumming me out.

yeah

Official Trump ad running during World Series

<INCLUDES FAKE SITUATION ROOM PHOTO>

right-wing internet folks very excited to have doxed the whistleblower.

have they?

There's a name going around far right wing fringe media only.

Like confined to sites with Examiner in the name.

Would be amazed if it was accurate. Most likely reverse engineered

oh yeah, found that. it's meaningless to me and I really don't care who it is if it's not someone whose name I recognize (and it isn't). I also see that the leak of the name seems to have started with Devin Nunes' office. Fuck that shithead.

Trump spelled Nunes wrong in a tweet the other day.

Actually just said by Donald Trump Jr: "I wish my name was Hunter Biden. I could go abroad and make millions off my father's presidency. I'd be a really rich guy" pic.twitter.com/9ohFDbwJn4

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) October 31, 2019

would be nice

hey so did the coloring book in Reagan's library incinerate or

Still holding on, afaik.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iuNpn17pfM

lmao classic

kendall roy up there looking more and more like the embodiment of evil v3

Lots of good jokes about the Reagan Library but this was the best one imho

Ronald Reagan Ronald
presidential library Reagan
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currently on fire https://t.co/NwWsQh6UrW

— Liv (@LivPosting) October 30, 2019

I dislike Trump obviously but merely seeing Jr.'s face (let alone listening to him!) gives me such a visceral reaction of disgust and rage.

Eric is even worse to gaze upon.

Actually just said by Donald Trump Jr: "I wish my name was Hunter Biden. I could go abroad and make millions off my father's presidency. I'd be a really rich guy" pic.twitter.com/9ohFDbwJn4
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) October 31, 2019

In light of the irony on display, we may be overlooking the implicit wish for his name to not be Donald Trump.

good morning!

morning, alfred. happy halloween. lovely day for impeachment

c'mon man, where are the taxes

It's amazing that after all that's happened, news keeps coming out showing it's all way more idiotic than I can possibly grasp

Why Lev Parnas gave his company the somewhat questionable name of Fraud Guarantee: It was in part to clean up his Google search results, ensuring that the word “fraud” and his own name would be paired in a positive light. https://t.co/uqo9rsvL2F

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) October 31, 2019

Guaranteed!

loooooooool

that cannot be real. i'm going home and going back to bed. WTF

this fucking guy jetsets around the world with famous assholes, what a world

ah if only Louis CK had named his production company Non-Consensual Masturbation

If only Madoff had named his company Not a Ponzi

Ummm...huh. Well.

I've said variations of the same dozens of times at this point, but I'm always genuinely surprised when brain geniuses of this caliber manage to make it well into adulthood without accidentally killing/crippling themselves in an astoundingly stupid way.

So, what negative brush will the ex-NSC adviser be painted with today?

listening to some of the speeches for the house vote on impeachment earlier this morning, i was struck by how often the republicans blurt out the truth, shielded only by a tone of voice that makes it seem ok to their own side.

eg, "this is not about fairness. this is about winning."

232-196

Press Secretary still calls it illegitimate.

Game recognize game

sure but Trump won the vote if you don't count the reps from Blue states

Indiana announced Thursday that it is suspending its Medicaid work requirements until a lawsuit challenging them is completed, the latest blow to a signature Trump administration health care policy.

Indiana’s state government cited a lawsuit filed against the work requirements in federal court last month, by the same advocates who have been successful in getting Medicaid work requirements struck down in other states.

“The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration announced today that it will temporarily suspend the reporting requirements of the Gateway to Work program due to a pending legal challenge,” the state agency said in a statement.

A federal district judge has already struck down Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas, Kentucky and New Hampshire. Those cases are now being appealed.

The Trump administration has approved Medicaid work requirements for the first time in the history of the program in states that have chosen to apply. The Trump administration argues the move helps lift people out of poverty by making sure they are working.

In 1978, Speier was shot five times as a congressional staffer trying to save people from the cult at Jonestown. She survived after being left for dead on airstrip for 22 hours. Speier almost never talks about the experience, so this is a real rebuke of Nunes. https://t.co/2dasNaH4DM

— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) October 31, 2019

xpost to the things you were shockingly old thread

I never knew about this element of the Jonestown story until today, that's completely insane and fucked up

Speier is a complete badass, excellent representative, and one of the great arguments against term limits.