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

Dat's a beeeen-go!

haha!

I am doing the second Sam Byck monologue at rehearsal in ten minutes and the inspiration for the anger in this scene is so easy to draw from this week

xp

I've donated to Scholten and actually met him. On some level, of course he'll disappoint me because I think the farm bill and ethanol subsidies are terrible and no way he can play that way.

But yeah, let's get Steve King.

Moodles is legit imo

This might be my ILX high water mark!

TBRR, I copy and pasted a tweet. I think the numbers are accurate, but not 100% sure.

Jacob Wohl's fiasco today reminds me of how in Heat, DeNiro's character knows Pacino is aware that he is going to rob a bank the next day, and does it anyway

Who is Waingro in this scenario though

Hey let's not ignore this sweet grift.

Loren Jacobs, who was invited onstage by VP Pence to speak at a rally in Michigan, was defrocked 15 years ago, according to a spokeswoman for the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations. https://t.co/NofWyH2UmM

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 31, 2018

so Epstein/Pence couldn't find an actual rabbi. Lena Epstein deserves to lose her race.

From a bit further down the 'jury duty' tweet

There is a gym on the 19th floor of the St Regis pic.twitter.com/9ypDBeqFHl

— Pet Emetary 🎃 (@FormalScrunchie) October 30, 2018

Though now I am wondering if this is bait to get "Dems visibly challenging inaccurate memories of rape victims" out there.

(It's mentioned in the comments that the 19th floor gym was a renovation in 2013.)

Yea refuting facts in these idiots' stories only plays into their hands

I dislike hashtags but I really dislike incorrect hashtags and how the right subtly bastardized #believewomen to #believeallwomen in order to mock.

i thought all distractions must be answered in full

Duly noted. But that's on you, mate.

Yea refuting facts in these idiots' stories only plays into their hands

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), 31. oktober 2018 12:28 (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It does not. This shows how tough it actually is to fabricate these stories, and how easily spotted falsehoods are. It makes it smarter, rather than stupider, to say that when it's word against word, the proper thing to do is to #believewomen.

Burden of proof is on them and they've been hilariously clowned nd humiliated and discredited at this point.

Continuing to refute individual facts like "lol the 18th floor is a gym" lends the illusion that people are taking the allegations seriously. Which nobody is, because right now there ARE no actual specific allegations and cos the whole thing was so badly bungled.

This isn't a Devin Nunes scenario where you have to attack him on all fronts because he is a weasel with power who can exert influence. This shit never got off the ground

Like there is no woman to believe or disbelieve at the moment

good mourning!

RIP Muellergate (2:30-2:32 CST, 10/30/18)

Happy Halloween. I am going as an Executive Order

*signs*

https://www.snoopn4pnuts.com/images/products/zigzagtowel.jpg

good grief

Executive Ordure

The president: I went to the site of a mass murder and everyone was very nice to me. pic.twitter.com/NITHYfWEta

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 31, 2018

That's nice for him :)))))

aw

Meanwhile: North Dakota!

State officials say it is easy for anyone without a residential address to get one. In a letter to tribal leaders last month — just after the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit let the requirement take effect, in a decision later affirmed by the Supreme Court — Secretary of State Al Jaeger’s office wrote that voters could contact their county’s 911 coordinator, describe the location of their home and have an address assigned “in an hour or less.”

In practice, it isn’t always so simple.

Voters’ experiences have varied greatly based on which county they live in. In Rolette County, where the Turtle Mountain Reservation is, they have been able to get addresses from the county and IDs from the tribe without much red tape. But at Standing Rock, in Sioux County, the 911 coordinator is the sheriff, Frank Landeis. That’s a deterrent to people who are afraid to interact with law enforcement, much less tell the sheriff where they live, and Sheriff Landeis is not easy to reach.

When Ms. Finn called him on Oct. 12, three days after the Supreme Court ruling, he was out. On Oct. 15, he said he was transporting prisoners and could not assign addresses that day. He was also unavailable when The New York Times called on Friday.

And in an episode recounted independently by Ms. Finn, Mr. Semans and Ms. Young, a tribal elder, Terry Yellow Fat, got through to Sheriff Landeis only to be assigned the address of a bar near his house. Mr. Semans worried that, in addition to playing into stereotypes about Native Americans and alcohol, this could expose Mr. Yellow Fat to fraud charges if he voted under an address he knew was incorrect.

So, with help from Four Directions and others, some tribes are creating addresses themselves — and preparing to do so until the polls close.

Jesus christ that trump tweet xp

No one else on earth would be capable of making a tragedyd like this about themselves

yeah they would, they just all happen to be part of the same party he is

Idk bro. This is deranged

Yeah even more deranged are the people that see no problem with it

if we get WWIII, it will definitely be about him

here's some mueller catnip for the fans

I don’t really think about the mueller thing but this article is phenomenal reporting and docket analysis. The speed of whatever this is can’t be accounted for unless they’re right. https://t.co/X9flQzlzUz

— warrior cop (@wyatt_privilege) October 31, 2018

I heard that one major reason that the Pittsburgh people didn't want the president to come was taht security was already fully stretched. & in the wake of one attack it might very well be necessary to further protect survivors.
So having a V.i.P. arrive needing further protection would mean focus would be where it didn't need to be.
So it was a matter of getting one thing done before somebody arrives demanding to be the focus.
So yeah very much making everything about him as per usual.

Thankfully nothing further was attempted, but could see him being there being seen as a sanction.

& if that's 2 events already this week, wonder what the next one will be.

I do think it's interesting that Giuliani basically disappeared in the last couple months

never wanna see "interesting" and "Guiliani" in a sentence tbh

it'll be interesting when his rotting corpse is dragged through the streets of NY by an angry mob

Re: Giuliani, he's on a world tour to Armenia and the Ukraine.

Rudy Giuliani, the prez’s unpaid lawyer on the Russia probe, has been making mysterious appearances abroad. He was just in Armenia, hosted by a Putin ally.

“I don't recall seeing anything like this before,” one expert told us.

Our latest w/@WNYC: https://t.co/dfKHKT8CQe

— ProPublica (@ProPublica) October 31, 2018

If you're being tried as let's say an arsonist, I'm pretty sure it's just SOP for your lawyer to be regularly seen hobnobbing with arson enthusiasts in public.

the optics? fuck the optics.

Paul Ryan should be focusing on holding the Majority rather than giving his opinions on Birthright Citizenship, something he knows nothing about! Our new Republican Majority will work on this, Closing the Immigration Loopholes and Securing our Border!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2018

possibly the only thing Trump ever does that makes me happy is when he takes a giant shit on the simpering toads who aid and abet him.

and please no one chime in to remind me that either way Ryan got all he ever wanted, which was a fat tax cut and a future lobbying sinecure.

plus some sick abs
https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalmemo.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F07%2FPaulRyanWorkout.jpg&f=1

being told by the Grifter you know nothing has got to stir many mixed emotions in the Granny Killer

Trumpian disdain is like a reverse Geiger counter. As it gets louder, you can be assured you're heading away from abject toxicity.

fucksake America, enough is enough. You can keep babies in cages, bomb the living daylight out of the I-ranians and cosy up to murderous dictators all you want but for God's sake leave our slightly run down seaside towns out of it...

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/E6BF/production/_104117095_jaywick2.jpg

Although, to be fair it is a Tory council so, you know, fuck 'em.