US Politics, April 2018: Getting more dangerous (looks like moo vaughn's dreams are coming true)

How many Trump properties could Bezos just buy outright, if the mood struck him? All of them? Even if Trump wouldn't sell, the ability to make a credible bid would be a serious humiliation.

^this would amuse me, and it gets to a troubling thought that i had earlier today, which is that all of this is going to somehow make jeff bezos appealing to people just because he's in opposition to our racist dickhead president

i cheer for the megabillionaire corporate overlord to overthrow my racist billionaire president overlord, in a state where my vote for governor this fall will come down to a billionaire republican vs a billionaire democrat

otm

Maybe Bezos will flee to London where he will die mysteriously

KM otm. Fuck Bezos but fuck the reason Trump is pursuing this Nixonian vendetta even more.

I want to cheer for a guy who isn't a megabillionaire but could count on the money of several of them in taking on the fake billionaire fake president. Too bad there's probably no chance he'll run, in part because no one (except a whole lot of famous people) knows who he is.

looks like mocking him in thread title hasn't sent the shitbird to hell

Moo has abundant self-confidence, the justification for which he alone understands.

These teacher strikes are truly inspiring to me. First West Virginia, now Oklahoma and Kentucky, perhaps Arizona next. I almost bumped an old "strike!" thread to talk about the teacher stuff, assuming there's a way to talk about it outside of the broader political context. But you've got to figure, depending how they all pan out, that they'll further help galvanize voting and voter turnout in November, right? Following Kansas throwing in the cut-cut-cut! budget towel last year, these seem like red state citizens finally calling bullshit and fighting back. I wonder (and maybe we'll see) if it really has been a matter of democrats or otherwise not republicans just being fatalistic and assuming This Is How It Is, and forgetting that West Virginia, Oklahoma, etc. were not always default red states, and that grassroots mobilization can make a difference in the face of complacency, whether putting your foot down over cuts to important programs or actually running candidates in races you assumed you couldn't win.

Me too. Not clear to me what it “means” other than if you shit on ppl long enough materially and philosophically, they do react.

NEW: George Papadopoulos reportedly incriminated Atty General Sessions, telling a guy in a Chicago bar “Sessions encouraged me” to find out anything he could about the Russia-hacked Hillary Clinton emails mentioned by Malta Prof Mifsud. #Maddow @JuddLegum https://t.co/JuGvNwNYsF pic.twitter.com/wC07SeuLhV

— Paula Chertok🗽 (@PaulaChertok) April 3, 2018

Trump tweeted "caravan" like 3 times today, did he learn a new word or something

he's a character in Pontypool

late ballot for van the man poll

Trump tweeted "caravan" like 3 times today, did he learn a new word or something

― frogbs, Monday, April 2, 2018 8:43 PM (nineteen minutes ago)

It's sponsored content from Dodge.

sorry, just one more shot before i go to bed. suitable for framing!

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/29597958_10215901498356288_2275511085449333159_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=68145206cf9015b6b1b8d4d49553fbed&oe=5B6A3A41

so much joy on their faces for the children...

Did someone edit his teeth in that one?

Meantime, to know what's behind the blacked-out parts...

In response to Manafort's claim that Mueller is acting outside his authority, Justice Department reveals existence of previously classified extended authorization for specific crimes to be investigated by Mueller's team https://t.co/z9bdR2SfWo pic.twitter.com/PX7skxvxKD

— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) April 3, 2018

How many Trump properties could Bezos just buy outright

[All of them](https://www.forbes.com/donald-trump/#6aa62b642899), in cash, [about 36 times over](https://www.forbes.com/sites/cartercoudriet/2018/03/08/jeff-bezos-nearly-40-billion-net-worth-jump-is-the-biggest-increase-this-century/#48c6edf221f7).

dammit: All of them, in cash, about 36 times over.

the idea of trump getting in cash whatever hyperinflated value is attached to all his holdings is sickening, but on the other hand jeff bezos getting ripped off for that much would be mildly cool

whoever wins... we lose

i'd be okay with a trump/bezos knife fight to the death tho

good mourning!

apparently during that easter bunny shot he was blabbing on and on about how we were going to have a much bigger, better military

it's what jesus would have wanted

It's so cool to have a president who can't even pretend to be a normal human being.

love it when the easter bunny appears more presidential than the man currently occupying the oval office

Am I wrong, or is there a passage in Revelations that basically describes the tableau in that photograph?

ah yes here we go, video if you can stomach it

he's saying this next to the Easter Bunny https://t.co/DVmgHZAJ0N

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) April 2, 2018

"'Frottage' by Squamous Walrus," sounds like a lost 1960s experimental acid jam, thanks Old Lunch

Always happy to arrange words into unpalatable configurations.

tbf Squamous Walrus did some impressive work before their nightmare descent into drugs and groupies. It's a pity, really. The swirling Farfisa and tabla work on Frottage was groundbreaking, especially the title track. Didn't Glyn Johns produce that album?

he's such a loathsome piece of shit !fucking die already

bit harsh on glyn johns tbh

yeah his drum mic'ing techniques are legendary i don't care if that makes me "neoliberal scum"

amazon...... welcome to the resistance

Love these Richard Lloyd stories of Andy Johns:

The first day in the studio came in November 1976. We had a 2pm start. Andy was nowhere in sight. Finally, about 4.30pm, he came traipsing in. He said, “I came in yesterday, to see what the place was like, and… I can’t work here!” He started listing all the technical tools these old studios didn’t have. We tried to calm him down. Finally, grudgingly, Andy said, “Well, I did manage to set the drums up last night. Got a good sound. Wanna hear it?”

He put on this tape he’d made. And, by God, from the speakers came this humongous, pumped-up John Bonham drum sound. Tom started freaking out. “No! No, no, no, no, no! We don’t want that! You need to take that apart!”

Andy was outraged. “Well, why did you hire me? That’s what I’m famous for. Fuck this! I’m getting a flight back!”

One day, Andy didn’t show up until 6pm. It seems he’d picked up two hookers the night before, who talked him into letting them handcuff him to his bed – then, of course, they took his wallet and blew kisses as they left. The hotel had to free him with a hacksaw. Another day, we came in and Andy was flat out in the producer’s chair in the control room, snoring, holding a three-quarters empty bottle of red wine, with empty bottles scattered around on the floor. We looked at him, then at the tape operator. We said, “Listen. All the mics are set up. Can we just keep the volume down in here and run a song around him?”

So we went in and did “Prove It”. Then we came back to listen back. It sounded pretty good. So we played it back again, a little louder. And we kept increasing the volume until, finally, Andy snorted himself awake.

He sat bolt upright, panicky, paranoid as hell. The music’s playing, and he’s looking between us all, demanding, “Did I record this?”

We said, “Well, sure Andy.” He breathed a sigh of relief. “God, I’m good.” That was Andy. And that’s the cut of “Prove It” that’s on the record.

One down

https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/a-lawyer-who-admitted-lying-to-the-special-counsels-office?utm_term=.ynglGeaaV#.msrm9nrrx

After he finishes his prison sentence, Jackson ordered him to serve two months of supervised release, and he would be required to pay the $20,000 fine in full. However, the judge said she would permit him to voluntarily self-deport from the United States if Immigration and Customs Enforcement allowed it.

He's a rich Dutch citizen living in London who, as a convicted felon, will be disbarred, so I assume self-deporting is indeed the way this dude will go. Staying here would be more like self-immolating. How does disbarring work internationally? If you have been disbarred in the US, does that affect your ability to practice law in England or the Netherlands?

I imagine that when it comes to retaining your license to practice law outside the US, the fact of your disbarring is less important than the reason for your disbarring. In this case, the perp knowingly and carefully planned to deceive the agents of the court regarding material facts during the investigation into a crime. I think every legal system in Europe would take a very dim view of that.

Had a colonoscopy today. My doctor was actually Russian. Now THAT is what I call RUSSIAN MEDDLING! They put me to sleep w/ same stuff Michael Jackon used. When I woke up, I MOON-walked right out of the hospital!

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) April 3, 2018

I think that's what you would term Asstral Projection

Huckabee was clearly never schooled in the differences between "can" and "should."

Twitter comments are pretty funny on that one.

"Jackon"? More like the opposite.

Stop Asking Billionaires to Save Us for the Love of God

There are few political solutions being floated today that rankle more than “the billionaires will save us.” They will not. With Bezos, the world’s richest man, as our most shining example, billionaires become billionaires because they’re highly skilled at subverting what’s good for people in favor or what will enrich them personally. They are oligarchs and monopolists who dodge taxes and treat workers as another expendable resource to be exploited. We are fools for ascribing any degree of magnanimity to their actions.

WASHINGTON — President Trump says he wants to use military to secure US-Mexico border until wall is built, calls it ‘big step'.

I'll say