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

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/us/politics/patten-fara-manafort.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true

Well, pled guilty — that’s from August.

How did Scott Walker come up with the brain power to pull off a power grab when he doesn't even know how Venn diagrams work?

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/14/18141221/scott-walker-gop-power-grab-venn-diagram

That is certainly the face of someone who misunderstands Venn diagrams. Can't wait to see what people do with this photo.

Good morning!

xpost Weird, I wonder why it didn't ring a bell or that I didn't come across it earlier?

I think the president just had a stroke

A REAL scandal is the one sided coverage, hour by hour, of networks like NBC & Democrat spin machines like Saturday Night Live. It is all nothing less than unfair news coverage and Dem commercials. Should be tested in courts, can’t be legal? Only defame & belittle! Collusion?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 16, 2018

How could he possibly still not understand what 'collusion' means.

He feels belittled. Sad.

dem dry commercials

Well, here it comes
Here comes the sound
The sound of collusion

Up next for pardon, a war criminal?

At the request of many, I will be reviewing the case of a “U.S. Military hero,” Major Matt Golsteyn, who is charged with murder. He could face the death penalty from our own government after he admitted to killing a Terrorist bomb maker while overseas. @PeteHegseth @FoxNews

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 16, 2018

I'm just reading about this case and it's insane that this guy hasn't been charged already.

*hadn't, rather

lol @ Trump of all people wanting the Fairness Doctrine back.

Trump otm

yo prognosticator! xps

that's some word. day he became president imo.

Oct. 3, 2016: Wikileaks DM to Don Jr. ‘great if you could.. push this story’.
Oct. 3. Don Jr. to WL: “Already did that earlier today,” 1/

— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) December 16, 2018

all i want for christmas is you don jr to go to jail

A very low-level son, who despite his loyalty is a great disappointment to me. I beat him like a dog in front of his friends!

probably accurate

literally accurate, iirc sic is referring to an eyewitness account of an incident from when Don Jr was in college

I knew it had the ring of truth

I was hanging out in a freshman dorm with some friends, next door to Donald Jr.'s room. I walked out of the room to find Donald Trump at his son's door, there to pick him up for a baseball game. There were quite a few students standing around watching, trying to catch a glimpse of the famed real estate magnate. Don Jr. opened the door, wearing a Yankee jersey. Without saying a word, his father slapped him across the face, knocking him to the floor in front of all of his classmates. He simply said "put on a suit and meet me outside," and closed the door.

and

Donald Jr. was a drunk in college. Every memory I have of him is of him stumbling around campus falling over or passing out in public, with his arm in a sling from injuring himself while drinking. He absolutely despised his father, and hated the attention that his last name afforded him. His nickname was "Diaper Don," because of his tendency to fall asleep drunk in other people's beds and urinate. I always felt terrible for him.

jesus christ

hard to believe thats whats in store for ye after chelsea

I kinda love that for all the chest-beating the GOP may not simply have enough people in town to do anything.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/us/politics/congress-trump-shutdown.html

i missed this important photo from back in february

I saw this image of Rep. Mike Bost delivering Trump a bag of 'thoughts and prayers' and thought it was satire or The Onion.

Nope, this really happened. pic.twitter.com/bYWgwsnGiW

— Austin Braun (@AustinOnSocial) February 19, 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/16/new-report-russian-disinformation-prepared-senate-shows-operations-scale-sweep/

A report prepared for the Senate that provides the most sweeping analysis yet of Russia’s disinformation campaign around the 2016 election found the operation used every major social media platform to deliver words, images and videos tailored to voters’ interests to help elect President Trump — and worked even harder to support him while in office.

The report, a draft of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is the first to study the millions of posts provided by major technology firms to the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), its chairman, and Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), its ranking Democrat. The bipartisan panel hasn’t said whether it endorses the findings. It plans to release it publicly along with another study later this week.

The research — by Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Project and Graphika, a network analysis firm — offers new details of how Russians working at the Internet Research Agency, which U.S. officials have charged with criminal offenses for interfering in the 2016 campaign, sliced Americans into key interest groups for targeted messaging. These efforts shifted over time, peaking at key political moments, such as presidential debates or party conventions, the report found.

it’s pretty impressive tbh

They’ve done a great job out there

Yeah, just imagine all of that effort and strategy and manpower being put into something beneficent, or even just something not actively malignant. Imagine that world for a minute, won't you.

some interesting stuff with giuliani tonight:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/16/politics/rudy-giuliani-trump-tower/index.html

(CNN)President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani suggested on Sunday that Trump had spoken with his former attorney Michael Cohen past January 2016 about a Trump Tower in Moscow.

On ABC's "This Week," Giuliani seemed to reference Trump's written responses to special counsel Robert Mueller, saying the conversations about the proposed Moscow project might have gone as far as the tail end of the general election period.

"According to the answer that he gave, it would have covered all the way up to November of -- covered all the way up to November 2016," Giuliani said. "Said he had conversations with him -- but the President didn't hide this."

Asked about the difference between that comment and the previous claim that Trump's discussions about the project ended in January 2016, Giuliani said, "Until you actually sit down and answer the questions and you go back and you look at the papers and you look at ... you're not going to know what happened."

so, trump told mueller the trump tower/moscow shit could have kept continuing a long time, until election day. which is already quite a bit later than people were thinking. but then,

CNN has previously reported that Trump's lawyers balked at answering any questions that ran past the election because they believed they could argue the transition period after Trump's victory was covered by executive privilege.

so that means they indicate the discussions might have kept going all the way to election day, but that the only reason they give that as an end date it's because they're not answering questions about after the election, period. so, uh...if the whole executive privilege gambit doesn't work this could get interesting

not only does 33-year-old stephen miller share the views of brainwormed white men twice his age, he also shares their love of home shopping network hair-in-a-can

Stephen Miller went on @FaceTheNation with spray on hair and looks ridiculous. (I suspect the make-up person hates him.) pic.twitter.com/B3ut9TmsbQ

— Cornelia (@PaladinCornelia) December 16, 2018

It's not the crime, it's the cover-up.

(not my joke but A+)

baldness is not a crime

*balding-man defensiveness intensifies*

Re: baldness, the cover-up is almost always a crime.

(Adjusts very normal-looking toupee man hair.)

I also heard his fake hairline described as a nest of angry ants.

That whole twitter thread above is actually full of good stuff.

The first thing I thought of:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/5/5a/Black.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20071203233349

https://freeform.azureedge.net/showms/2018/10/00373eb9-02da-404d-98de-781e480f6c70.jpg

jesus god wtf is that

pointillist hair, what a time to be alive

good morning!

Joey Lawrence's forthcoming work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade_(film)

He has been married to Chandie Yawn-Nelson since July 3, 2005

chandie... yawn-nelson

THat's the old Sabrina grown up innit?

Or taht is to say Melissa is.