US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

guarantee you tomorrow there will be an announcement that the victim no longer wishes to come forward, and they will use some claim of intimidation as reason

it's amusing that they basically played right into it, but not shocking. Wohl is not the sharpest tool in....well....the tools section at Home Depot

he's not even the sharpest tool in the bucket of pool toys

sorry I don't know who we're talking about that joke just occurred to me

Further: @realDonaldTrump WH called the top #PA and #Pittsburgh officials one at a time and lied to each that the others had agreed. WH did the same to #Schumer and #Pelosi. No one bit. WH also trying to push #Trump into hospital rooms of victims but most want no part of him.

— Howard Fineman (@howardfineman) October 30, 2018

whaaaaaaaa? this is so pathetic

Time to put in a call to John Barron!

not the sharpest Wohl, says Sted

Trump would be the most pitiable sad sack in existence if he weren't also nuclear-grade sympathy kryptonite.

wait, jacob wohl - that creepy twitter dude who keeps showing up in trump’s mentions? holy lol

his source must have been hanging out in a hipster coffee shop

that's where i go to talk about *whispers* the resistance

just watched the Acosta/Sanders clip, got a kick out of her at the end with marbles in her mouth, saying "Despact the fite" twice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqk0RAXsEzk

I want to believe in miracles

Compared to the same time period in '14, voters under the age of 30 in Texas have increased their turnout by 508% (not a typo). Voters over the age of 65 in TX increased their turnout by 96%.

— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) October 30, 2018

Despact the fite with covfefe, bigly.

I need to see that tweet again but with actual numbers of voters instead of percentages pls

that seems like good news, but for context we would need to know the raw numbers of voters under 30 and over 65, and the percentage that voted for them in 2014. if barely any young people voted in 2014 and it quintuples in 2018, that might not outweigh the relative large number of older people who voted in 2014 and then doubled that in 2018

xp yep

No numbers! *signs executive order*

508 youngins voted this time

so the Wohl Burkman story is weirder than I thought.

the story about them paying women to come forward with sexual assault was sent to many journalists by someone claiming to be a woman who, upon all research, did not seem to exist, whose company indicated she didn't work there, and when someone texted the number she provided, seemed to be someone who was all too willing to give up dirt on who was behind the fraud. the woman wasn't willing to talk to reporters at all.

but then Wohl and Burkman actually went forward with the accusations anyway....so what's going on?

1) the woman was truthful, but used a pseudonym and was afraid of reprisals, and they snuffed out the story before it broke?

2) Wohl/Burkman actually sent the email in an effort to discredit the media/accuse them of bias?

3) they're trying to prove Democrats are hypocrites?

this is just weird

Trying to imagine the type of person who sat out the last election and is only just now excited enough to rally and cast a vote for Cruz. I guess that's long enough for full-blown dementia to manifest.

23 yr old dude I give a ride to open gym bball asked me "so what's all this about McSally and Sinema??" and I was surprised cause didn't think he was the type to even know there were upcoming elections. Turns out that their names and that they were competing in an upcoming election were the only things he did know. I had to try to explain to him Democrats and Republicans...

Paul Ryan fragging Yam on the 14th amendment

Grifter havin a great day

"Well you obviously cannot do that. You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order. We didn’t like it when Obama tried changing
immigration laws via executive action, and obviously as conservatives we
believe in the Constitution."

This sounds a lot like a wind-up to "but considering that our opponents don't play fair.."

'Which is why we're introducing Constitution 2: Electric Boogaloo!'

Here's some data on how Democrats are way over-performing in the Midwest, relative to other regions. We're showing a net gain of +14 D house seats in the Midwest. Although, note that they're projected to make gains in the other regions too. https://t.co/Dyb6TgSE0F pic.twitter.com/teGXYNen7O

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 30, 2018

No numbers! *signs executive order*

these outrageous EOs are going be shot down by the ILX supreme court anyway

an I reading that Nate Silver tweet right that he's currently projecting ~40+ Dem seat gain total

you are correct in your reading

lmao

Pro-tip, Dave.

When you try to cook up a fake website for a fake company as part of a conspiracy involving wire fraud and obstruction of justice, they generally advise against putting your name in the registration record. pic.twitter.com/e8pChX66ek

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 30, 2018

Wow, their sentencing is going to be really delicious.

hahahahaha

oh my god

New from me + @brandyzadrozny + @tom_winter:

A company called “Surefire Intelligence” has ties to this Mueller smear.

Jacob Wohl denied having ties to Surefire.

Surefire’s official phone number redirects to a voicemail box registered to Jacob's mom.https://t.co/aVPzVDjGR4

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 30, 2018

didn't a bunch of GOP senators pretty much imply they were gonna do exactly this to anyone who criticized the president

Atlantic/Mueller/FBI clowning him *before* this "info" even drops is next level jujitsu

lindsey graham implied they'd do it to the next democratic supreme court justice nominee

also hi

FLORIDA
Amendment 4, restoring voting rights of Floridians with felony convictions after they complete all terms of their sentence ...
Support 69%
Oppose 23%
(U. of North Florida, LV, 10/23-26/18)

— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) October 30, 2018

Atlantic/Mueller/FBI clowning him *before* this "info" even drops is next level jujitsu

All these follow-up stories are amazing. Some real entertainment after these last few days.

we tried to pick an off time and a low-traffic location to do our Georgia early voting and the place was packed

huh I would've thought one would overhear how to correctly smear your political opponents whilst hangin in hipster coffee shops

Oops.

Scoop w/@eilperin: Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has been referred to DOJ for an investigation by his agency's inspector general. https://t.co/NqKWIzMZYd

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 30, 2018

Worth it for the photo.

Stone hired a Trump lawyer from Fla for his legal fight https://t.co/u0qZgiILU3

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 30, 2018

my brave governor and senatorial candidate:

“I believe legal immigration makes us a better and stronger country, but illegal immigration does the opposite. I have not seen the details of what the president is suggesting and would need to fully review the proposal. While I’ve been clear that Florida is a great melting pot, America’s immigration system is broken and Congress — including Senator Nelson — has done nothing to fix the problem. My priorities continue to be securing the border and fixing the long-broken immigration system.”

I understand that a photo of Mueller's accuser has leaked. It appears to be a snapshot of Jacob Wohl wearing a t-shirt that says 'IM A GIRL'.

obvious next step: "who are you to say she isn't??"

I guess the consolation prize here is that these dipshits are Guinness World Record shoo-ins (I assume there's an award for 'criminal conspiracy which most quickly unraveled in public and with almost no expenditure of effort').

so beautiful

Seems unfair that Jacob’s mom built the Wohl and also has to pay for it

— Student Loans 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) October 30, 2018

i think they're more likely to be Darwin award recipients
xp

lmao

xp

I've counted more than 25 news outlets who have reported allegations against me, claiming that I offered to pay women to make accusations against Mueller

I've looked into this "Lorraine Parsons"! Looks like she doesn't even exist!

IT'S A FAKE NEWS CON JOB!

— Jacob Wohl (@JacobAWohl) October 30, 2018

why is that funny? cos as of yet, no news outlet (that I'd seen) had provided the name of the person who contacted them