US Politics, March 2018: Why do people leave the White House for good?

there's just no way Dershowitz doesn't have some weird skin in this game. I used to kind of get (?) his regular-old-contrarian bit but come on

what a fucking creep

Dershowitz def has weird skin

I saw OJ was piping up about kneeling for the anthem this week, maybe they are warming up for a reunion

vg ha

Guess it's a late Friday night in DC.

out suckin' up blood

Crap, and spousal privilege against testifying lasts past the end of marriage. I just looked that up.

The gerrymanderers are angry

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/16/politics/pennsylvania-special-election-gop-investigation/index.html

so is every close election going to turn into an INVESTIGATION from now on instead of just a recount

RIP democracy

Got to love how the party that actively tries to disenfranchise democratic voters complains that they didn't win for the same reasons they intentionally impose on others.

When my winning streak in the 500 yard dash is threatened because the judges have decided it's only 'faaaaaaaair' to take the blindfolds and leg irons off of my opponents, you'd better believe I'm feeling miffed.

Republicans have successfully pushed the "dead, non-citizens, and fake individuals largely vote Democratic" for years without ever offering any substantial evidence, so they'll keep trying to suggest this happens.

in PA, the state GOP was even talking about impeaching the judges who made them redraw the district maps. they're a particularly garbage group of human beings.

our hell timeline has branched off into a new, even more hellish timeline https://t.co/OQHWQ1ISWi

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) March 17, 2018

And here we go!

“I pray that Acting Attorney General Rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and bring an end to alleged Russia Collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe’s boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt Dossier,” Dowd then wrote.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-lawyer-its-time-to-fire-robert-mueller?ref=home

feeling a little queasy

alright, time for me to divest for a week or so. my blood pressure shouldn't be this high at 10:30 am.

really though firing Mueller would only be a short-term victory for Trump anyway, much as firing Archibald Cox was barely one for Nixon.

I half-expect Mueller to say "this firing is illegal - the investigation continues" if it happens (though nobody would comply with subpoenas obviously).

Betsy Woodruff reporting that Dowd just emailed her to walk it back, no doubt McGahan flipped out on reading this.

Also (I am not shitting) she just outed Dowd for emailing in Comic Sans, purple no less, repeatedly.

hahaha

I seriously don't know how I'm still here at this point. I qualify to emigrate to Canada, my job would still be there for me. and I'm a very independent guy who can live in isolation without cracking. guess just uprooting oneself after spending almost 40 years in an area is difficult.

it's just such a toxic country now and I know people around say "divest from the news" for a bit but the ugliness isn't just in the news anymore. I saw a shitty Pro-Trump billboard at a business just yesterday, I see offensive Islamophobic bumper stickers/shirts all the time, asshole alt-right dickheads showing their ass in public. None of this shit's new, it was always there, only now nobody in the Executive Branch cares to do anything about it.

On the other hand, asshole GOP candidate apparently just shamed out of his Maine seat race for being a racist, homophobic conspiracy mongerer.

Yeah there are some reasonable half-measures, Neanderthal, like moving to a different state.

East ATL is kinda bohemian.

tbh though I'm not far from a bohemian area where I am! it's just too small.

the Maine thing was awesome

happy st. patrick's day! the american president claims he fired the american secretary of state on the john while the american president is suing a porn star for $20 million (using the same lawyer that bankrupted gawker?) while the american president is under investigation for treason with russia (who is murdering ex-russian pats in great britain) and the american president's son is getting divorced and the american president's son-in-law owns 666 5th avenue (a property a $1 billion+ underwater) -- slainte!

And none of it matters. Nothing will happen. Eventually the Dems will gain control again and be completely ineffectual, and the Republicans will continue to ensure America is only for rich, white, christians. There is no positive ending to this. There is no way we are better off in 10years as a country. The only way is down.

But, the suns out this morning, so I'm going for a bike ride.

Canada is really nice but the weather might get to you

I would celebrate St. Patrick's Day if it resulted in snakes being driven into the White House.

Neanderthal - you're in Orlando area correct?

i reside in east ATL and all things considered it feels pretty good compared to central FL -- where i am right now for work (DeLand)

BTW, I can't even parse the double negatives at work in the Cohen/Stormy stuff. So Cohen, representing no one, is suing for damages - to who? - based on an NDA - that does not exist? - to be awarded to an unsigned party - who is definitely not the president - for breaking the terms - of which there are none - of an agreement that no one agreed to.

lol that's a pretty good summary!

every one of these people has to be on massive amounts of cocaine

BTW, I can't even parse the double negatives at work in the Cohen/Stormy stuff. So Cohen, representing no one, is suing for damages - to who? - based on an NDA - that does not exist? - to be awarded to an unsigned party - who is definitely not the president - for breaking the terms - of which there are none - of an agreement that no one agreed to.

and to top it all off, none of that is happening at all, according to some trump supporters. it is literally not happening and it all fake.

a nothing that really matters, anyone can see

will yes I am.

yr givin me ideas now lol. i stayed in East ATL last year and loved it

what neighborhood, out of curiosity? (admittedly, shit's changed so much since i left home so may not even mean much to me at this point but...)

every one of these people has to be on massive amounts of cocaine

for myself, i was in Candler Park when i moved here 2 yrs ago and just recently moved about a mile away to Edgewood/ Kirkwood area, a little closer to EAV

East Atlanta Village?

xposts sorry

have we talked about this Cambridge Analytica thing

xxpost it was on Metropolitan Ave SE less than a mile from The Earl in the Village

<3 the Earl

me too. one of my favs

dig! i grew up further out, technically in decatur but more like tucker. suburbs built out in the 60s. i know adults living now in the areas in between (mix of old streetcar neighborhoods and like 1980s/90s apartment buildings) and they all seem to be making it work happily.

Much like fired FBI Director James Comey, CNN has now learned there are memos former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe wrote documenting his conversations with the President, among other things, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.

— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) March 17, 2018

the paper industry must be thriving in this admin

so hypothetically, somehow Mueller is fired. what happens? do all of his findings become unusable? or does he still get to turn everything over to Congress to review?

and can any of it legally be made public if he opted to?

Living in Orlando might be better than east Georgia depending on tolerance for gay Disney cast members.

have we talked about this Cambridge Analytica thing

― had (crüt)

not yet, I don't think.