US Politics December 2018: ~very legal and very cool~

Strong story here about why this week looks like it'll be a truly big one.

The Manafort memo on Friday "will be public," Mueller's office tells me, indicating prosecutors will detail for all to read what prosecutors believe the ex-Trump campaign chair lied about. Should be interesting reading. https://t.co/dDQhgDJlh3

— Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff) December 3, 2018

Useful Marcy Wheeler thread on tomorrow's Flynn sentencing

As a strong proponent of the "Bob Mueller makes the most out of his court filings" school, I want to warn that we MIGHT NOT get a lot of juice in Mike Flynn's memo.

I say that for two reasons.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) December 3, 2018

Now thats some serious ratfucking you done there NC GOP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/north-carolina-election-fraud-investigation-centers-on-operative-with-criminal-history-who-worked-for-gop-congressional-candidate/2018/12/03/7b270a90-f6aa-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html?utm_term=.89d14b90e684

i think michael cohen is a fascinating figure

it's rare to see someone do this kind of 180. also, it seems like he was being really careful to document the semi-legal stuff he's been doing for trump for years, as if he expected he would need information to protect himself from getting thrown under the bus by trump. seems smart... and yet he spent his career as trump's thuggish "fixer"

the only 'fascinating' thing about him is that he got caught

don't get all starry-eyed treeshy

it's rare to see someone do this kind of 180. also, it seems like he was being really careful to document the semi-legal stuff he's been doing for trump for years, as if he expected he would need information to protect himself from getting thrown under the bus by trump. seems smart... and yet he spent his career as trump's thuggish "fixer"

― Trϵϵship,

what an awful thing to say about Trudeau

It's intersting that one of the Trump toadies I always found the most deeply unlikable flipped so radically but I don't know that I'd call him fascinating. Particularly since it seems like the result of his dad doing some late-stage parenting he really should've undertaken decades earlier.

So...there's a rumor going around that that video of Trump walking away from the president of Argentina, grimacing and muttering "Get me out of here," is in fact footage of Trump literally shitting himself in public.

As people used to say, I WANT TO BELIEVE.

so theres a piss tape and a shit tape

you can never be too careful

"Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko responded by introducing martial law for 30 days in much of Ukraine. For the duration of martial law, Ukrainian authorities barred entry to all Russian males aged 16 to 60 in a move the Ukrainian leader said was needed to prevent Russia from further destabilizing the country."

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ukraine-calls-reservists-amid-tensions-russia-59570234

It's intersting that one of the Trump toadies I always found the most deeply unlikable flipped so radically

― all lite up and very romatic (Old Lunch), Monday, December 3, 2018 10:11 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah for sure. remember his threats to the daily beast? he was a true ghoul

he's only fascinating as like a character in a story. not saying i am going to become pen pals with michael cohen.

You totally should, though. He's gonna need some where he's going.

summer camp?

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1400/1*o6dNQkHFQKj-4y04LfAHww.jpeg

Some of these people look so unwell I wonder how they stay alive.

new board description

they say I walk around
Like I got an S on my chest

If you ever wondered what Henry Winkler looked like pulling a Jeffrey Tambor face...

So President DumDum will be at the Bush funeral, right? I assume he'll be seated with former presidents, like Obama and W and Bill (who will be there with Hillary)? Will this be the first time they've been in the same orbit since his election? Will they shun him? Tell him to fuck himself? Shake his hand? Move seats?

“You can’t sit with us.”

'Hello, DONALD. How are you, DONALD? Very good to see you, DONALD.'

they'll be perfectly civil to him, because civility is more important than anything else in politics iirc

@nbcwashington
Out of respect for the 41st president of the United States, @USPS will suspend regular mail deliveries on Wednesday, Dec. 5

weird

Gonna screw over Amazon and lying Washington Post any way they can ;-)

Uh...wut?

Is this a thing they've done in the past?

I was just at the PO and can confirm. Guess it's another manifestation of the Reagan-Bush contempt for the federal guv'mint.

are the postal workers getting paid for their impromptu day off?

I'm sure like late payment fees etc. will be happily waived on account of Bush funeral mail delays. This should work out fine for everyone.

it's rare to see someone do this kind of 180. also, it seems like he was being really careful to document the semi-legal stuff he's been doing for trump for years, as if he expected he would need information to protect himself from getting thrown under the bus by trump. seems smart... and yet he spent his career as trump's thuggish "fixer"

― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 2:58 AM (thirteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what's funny to me is if trump treated cohen with a little bit more than utter contempt and actually repaid his 'loyalty' he wouldn't be in this mess

Yes, as amply demonstrated, Trump creates 99.9% of his own problems.

I'm sure like late payment fees etc. will be happily waived on account of Bush funeral mail delays. This should work out fine for everyone.

― Mom's out working, for fulfillment (Old Lunch), Tuesday, December 4, 2018 4:04 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for real, an unscheduled total shutdown of the USPS is probably going to srsly fuck some people. and for what.

Well, it'll probably just be poor people who don't pay for stuff online like us normals, NBD.

GERRY FORD DIDN'T GET NO POSTAL SHUTDOWN

He got his airport draped in black bunting and a ceremonial fly-over though.

God, I'm just imagining so many needlessly tragic incidents where people living on a razor's edge didn't think to check the USPS Twitter feed before they send out their bills or while they're waiting for some payment or medication they desperately need. Fuck this shit.

If the postal service can assure me that no one will be evicted or go a day without insulin because they shut down, cool, go for it. Otherwise, go die.

https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intelligencer/2018/12/03/03-george-bush-donald-trump.w700.h700.jpg

well since you can't think about GHWB without thinking about the post office this seems entirely appropriate

XP GONNA TEAR DC UP

imagine what Bar and Marla Maples talked about over wine

how delicious poor people are?

also grocery checkout scanners will be shut off

how delicious poor people are?

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 11:47 AM

too many bones iirc

the tattoos make the skin taste weird

Problems, problems.

BREAKING: House GOP campaign arm @NRCC suffered major hack during heat of 2018 midterm election. w/@BresPolitico https://t.co/HceWShPwmu

— Alex Isenstadt (@politicoalex) December 4, 2018

I'm absolutely certain none of them will accuse the dems of being involved. No chance of that whatsoever.

Allegedly they think it's a 'foreign entity.' Mm.

Meantime, I know you were all waiting with bated breath.

Please see my statement below regarding 2020. pic.twitter.com/ztCfZUY6hA

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) December 4, 2018

NONONONONONO THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING NOOOOOOOO