US Politics, November 2019: These people are truly sick.

Senator Lindsey Graham, still hilarious, in a Batman-villain kind of way.

can't tell anymore whether or not any new story will have an impact

CNN BREAKING --->

Giuliani associate PARNAS willing to tell Congress that Rep NUNES met with ex-Ukrainian official to get dirt on BIDEN@ChrisCuomo and @VickyPJWard will break it down shortly on CNN - @CuomoPrimeTime https://t.co/9dYN8JTPak

— Vaughn Sterling (@vplus) November 23, 2019

uhoh

Pfft that's just politics. Everyone tries to get dirt on opponents. Crooked Hilary worked with foreign entities to try to get dirt on Everyone's Favorite President.

confirms to me that Eric Swalwell was one of the sharpest questioners of the impeachment hearings

Nuuuuuuuuunes.

the word "damned" keeps getting thrown around with these things, and yet they're not damned yet, but here i go again,

the damning thing about it is that nunes didn't disclose his previous work with parnas, or his meeting with former prosecutor Shokin. i mean, if that's true, you have to disclose that. x100000 if you're gonna be a fucking prick for the entire time and mock the entire idea as a circus.

also, he has this really annoying habit:

Over the past two weeks, CNN approached Nunes on two occasions and reached out to his communications staff to get comment for this story.

In the Capitol on Nov. 14, as CNN began to ask a question about the trip to Vienna, Nunes interjected and said, "I don't talk to you in this lifetime or the next lifetime."

"At any time," Nunes added. "On any question."

Asked again on Thursday about his travel to Vienna and his interactions with Shokin and Parnas, Nunes gave a similar response.

"To be perfectly clear, I don't acknowledge any questions from you in this lifetime or the next lifetime," Nunes said while leaving the impeachment hearing. "I don't acknowledge any question from you ever."

no need to be so absolutist ALL the time EVERY DAY devin. i also recall him asking sondland something that involved if anyone on the planet knew something.

fredo would have wiped the floor with these losers

if only he would hurry along into the next lifetime

by emphasizing that he won't be talking to them in the next lifetime, either, he's trying to save himself from the hassle of having to deal with the press again in the next lifetime, which will apparently be much the same as this lifetime. but he hates talking to the press in this lifetime, that's for sure. so do we know that there wasn't a previous lifetime where nunes warned that he wouldn't speak with the press in the next (meaning, this present one)? has he forgotten, or did we forget?

Can he be stripped of whatever remaining authority he has in the House by Pelosi?

No

They could censure him or something i suppose

I mena, come on:

The group, according to Parnas’s lawyer, included Rudy Giuliani, Lev Parnas, the journalist John Solomon, and the married attorneys Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing.

— Vicky Ward (@VickyPJWard) November 23, 2019

lol

FOIA application from American Oversight resulted in documents being released tonight by the State Department show a paper trail between Pompeo, Giuliani and Trump’s assistant Madeleine Westerhout in March to facilitate Giuliani’s smear campaign against Yovanovitch

It also appears that there are many other documents still to be analyzed

yep! from a friend:

At this moment, the website for AmericanOversight.org is down because so many people are trying to download the hundreds of documents a court ordered the State Dept. to release tonight after a FOIA lawsuit. The Giuliani Pompeo Trump loop is closing. The group has dozens more FOIA lawsuits pending over any document mentioned during the investigations that Congress can not get. That means you or I can get documents through FOIA from the government that the administration will not provide to Congress, who is lawfully entitled to them. Obstruction plain and simple.

it’s still shocking to me how much evidence there is and how easy it is to follow, even for someone not paying close attention

For days I've thought "don't end this now. Announce that the House can move to decisions about when to vote on this matter only AFTER we hear from critical witnesses who're now violating subpoenas. So until we hear from Pompeo, Pence, etc, about Ukraine, the House will now turn to emoluments, and then business and taxation issues..." and just start carving. Make the fucker try to dissolve Congress or something. Siege.

^ the most beautiful fancy I’ve been able to imagine in three years

pelosi would stroke out just thinkin of the negative voting ~implications~. she's probly not wrong.

counterpoint: what about the positive voting implications

good morning!

High School Devin Nunes looks like he got kicked out of Cobra Kai for farting. pic.twitter.com/JgDNz07mP3

— followed by no one you're following (@benschwartz_) November 23, 2019

gross

The farting or the hair

what's the difference

OK, Nunes is roughly my age. Plenty of dudes in my high school had that look.

And every one of them formed NKOTB

Devin Nunes IS my age. That look was never good even when it was in.

Nunes is a Dwayne Schintzius lookin-ass motherfucka

lol i knew this convo felt familiar

apropos of nothing, but still u&

― stanley weebeard (bizarro gazzara), Monday, April 3, 2017 4:21 PM bookmarkflaglink

the most qualified candidate ever to run for president

I still have no idea wtf this is supposed to mean when it's trotted out, what even qualifies someone to be the most powerful human being in existence?

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, April 3, 2017 4:23 PM bookmarkflaglink

'is a democrat'

― stanley weebeard (bizarro gazzara), Monday, April 3, 2017 4:23 PM bookmarkflaglink

no. of pussygrabs

― Οὖτις, Monday, April 3, 2017 4:25 PM bookmarkflaglink

are you sure that pic is Nunes and not like...Dwayne Schintzius

― Neanderthal, Monday, April 3, 2017 4:25 PM bookmarkflaglink

^ assumed you were making up a generic high school dweeb name until this repost, like the American equivalent of Dwayne Dibley

https://i.ibb.co/bHVjcLY/MV5-BZWMx-OGE1-N2-Et-OWVi-Yy00-Y2-Qw-LWEx-MTIt-Zm-Ux-NTc2-OTQ2-ODBl-Xk-Ey-Xk-Fqc-Gde-QXVy-MTA2-Nj-Y2-Nz-Q0-V1-UX214-CR0-0-214-317-AL.jpg

I thought it was a joke but apparently the Beastie Boys really did coin the term "mullet."

So is Nunes going to follow through on his threats to sue CNN and the Daily Beast?

The Washington Post keeps saying that Pelosi and moderate Dems in House want a new Nafta deal because they think it will prove to voters in moderate Dem jurisdictions that not just impeachment is going on (while progressives contend it will only give 45 a victory). American Prospect says though:

the vast majority of the House Democratic Caucus are progressives on the issue of trade. They have staunchly insisted that without drastic changes, a new NAFTA is not worth having. They have taken their cues from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, the offstage hero of this saga, who engaged with his own Twitter war with Trump this morning....

Two members of the working group have confirmed to me that nothing will be approved unless Trumka signs off on it.

my sources confirmed that the two sides are nowhere near an agreement. And of course, if Trump’s revised NAFTA is not approved in 2019, it will certainly not be approved in an election year as the impeachment drama reaches its climax.

Well played. https://prospect.org/labor/killing-nafta-softly/

Trumka vs Trump which Trum will will

Announcing a new NAFTA helps the largely victory-free Trump admin more than it helps Dems, imo. And even then, "we signed a new NAFTA!" doesn't seem a particularly good hook on which to hang a campaign. Better to let him keep scrambling wildly for deals, and let the Dems offer up instead the long list of voter-favored legislation they have put forward that the senate has not taken up.

Today I realized Nunes is pronounced more like “Noons” than “Núñez”

Is it? I thought the opposite

Like noon-ez

nooner

FAKE NUNES

Omg

There was a girl I went to high school with whose last name was Nunes, and she pronounced it noons.

I like Betsy Woodruff Swan's reporting on this

President hiding in his bedroom

The Oval Office is the traditional epicenter of power for American presidents, but a new one is emerging that’s more exclusive, more secluded and more convenient.

President Donald Trump is increasingly morphing the White House residence into a second Oval. It’s become the place where Trump feels most productive, where he avoids meddling by his staff and where he speed-dials his network of confidantes, GOP lawmakers and TV pundits.

The residence was where Trump made the infamous July 25 phone call to the Ukrainian president that’s now at the center of impeachment proceedings. It’s where Trump often meets his personal attorneys to plot legal strategy or campaign advisers to shape 2020 campaign moves. And last week it became the location for a Trump meeting that’s as official as any, hosting Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell — the target of countless Trump twitter attacks — along with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for a Monday morning discussion of monetary policy.

Maintaining a sanctuary to work and think has taken on greater importance for the president as he increasingly feels under siege by the Democratic impeachment inquiry. Frustrated by the whistleblower complaint and a parade of administration officials testifying on Capitol Hill, Trump is as wary as ever of the staffers around him and distrustful of the traditional White House infrastructure. Working from his private quarters gives him space away from what he perceives as prying eyes and guards against his omnipresent fear of leaks to the media.

sounds like he's.... increasingly isolated

Someone leaked a photo:
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/long-white-hair-outgrown-fingernails-pills-dark-rooms-and-tissues-to-picture-id515543846?s=2048x2048