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

I don’t need more than the URL slug for that one

I agreed to let a sewage disposal company empty a septic truck into my home, now my house is ruined. Halp.

People have asked me, “Didn’t you listen to Trump when he said that he would build a wall?” I didn’t take the idea seriously during the campaign. I knew he couldn’t get Mexico to pay it — that’d be like asking Hurricane Harvey to foot the bill for rebuilding Houston

hmm is it now

"And let's be honest, if he does build a wall, well...I'm already here"

"I mean all politicians lie, whereas Trump tells the truth. He tells it like it is. Except for the Wall, I totally didn't think he meant that. Or the Muslim ban."

USA Today reports:

After roughly a quarter century in elected office, Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee will retire after 2020. The former Republican governor, who has served in the Senate since first being elected in 2002, said Monday that he will not seek a fourth term in the upper chamber.

I mean he’s 78 he might not last that long

I'd point you to Pete Buttigieg, who just announced that he won't run for re-election as mayor of South Bend. (IE, he's probably running for president.)

Well, I suppose so. https://t.co/gaY1qLIfXp

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) December 14, 2018

Trump only needs to call that guy Pete Buttplug once and he's toast xp

Lamar! rest in retirement big man. heaven needed a spineless turd. i hope you choke on a school voucher

Never forget

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/Lamar-Alexander-red-plaid-1996-blog.jpg

lamar's red plaid was the santorum sweater vest of 1996. enuff said.

That's where Jeb! got the idea for the exclamation point.

nah. in 1992, the extremely flaccid personality of the Republican Oregon governor running for re-election chose the slogan of "Atiyeh!" for all his bumper stickers and lawn signs. The political 'hype-ostrophe' has to predate this use, because consultants steal these ideas far more often than they originate them

Oh yeah BTW

This will be big.
Judge in Flynn case says that the memo, written by FBI agents following their interview with Michael Flynn at the White House, should be made public, with some redactions allowed, and will be relevant at his sentencing. This memo had only been filed under seal.

— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) December 17, 2018

Per judge's order tonight, prosecutors have now filed the redacted 302 (FBI interview notes) prepared after agents sat down with Michael Flynn on 1/24/17. Here it is: https://t.co/c3tX2Rz8wf pic.twitter.com/n8W1Vg1vqG

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) December 17, 2018

Flynn began by talking about his first trip to Russia in 2013 when he was director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Flynn then describes several contacts in 2016 with now-former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak — post-election convos + condolence calls pic.twitter.com/IZVBIQ5lcT

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) December 17, 2018

Gotta say, Flynn really did himself no favors

https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/12/17/mike-flynn-steps-in-it-in-a-bid-to-feed-the-frothy-right-he-leads-to-damning-new-details-showing-he-lied-to-protect-trump/

Some people somehow never learned that there’s no such thing as just giving a friendly and nonadversarial interview to the cops

Roger Stone is selling ‘Roger’ stones https://t.co/rsMfGf5Sym pic.twitter.com/Kb5qzzDwqK

— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) December 17, 2018

"Come get Rogered."

People in high positions of wealth or power often assume that police are their natural allies, who exist almost exclusively to serve them and protect them.

Oh this is hilarious

https://www.wsj.com/articles/roger-stone-admits-spreading-lies-on-infowars-11545093097

Non-paywall discussion here

https://splinternews.com/roger-stone-lied-about-a-chinese-businessman-on-infowar-1831162926

not only are these people evil, they’re also insanely tacky

Mueller is a CORRUPT COP and his SC investigation is POLITICALLY MOTIVATED and CRIMINAL in its METHODS -- I can give testimony to this from my personal experience with Mueller as I detail in my eBook https://t.co/Pm1xPi1ynV SILENT NO MORE - With the HELP of GOD we will WIN! pic.twitter.com/cGClgWCW9b

— Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@jerome_corsi) December 17, 2018

how come he's only got three stars, guy like him you'd think he'd throw at least another couple two or three on there

Listening back through episodes of Mueller she wrote talking about cases coming against Whittaker about legitimacy of role. Has anything come of that or does it get sidestepped by nomination of Barr who himself seems problematic.

Woof. That seems like ... the wrong way to counter the special counsel.

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Not for the first time, the behavior of people in this administration and in its orbit reminds me of Rhodes wasting his last breath on a vituperative 'CHOKE ON EM! CHOKE ON EM!' while he's being ripped apart by the living dead.

on tax returns?

That's the implication, yes.

gotta say "Twitter is biased for deleting all my Russian bot followers" is my favorite genre of chud-tweet

Facebook, Twitter and Google are so biased toward the Dems it is ridiculous! Twitter, in fact, has made it much more difficult for people to join @realDonaldTrump. They have removed many names & greatly slowed the level and speed of increase. They have acknowledged-done NOTHING!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 18, 2018

It's a long list with many strong contenders, but few things make me want to give Trump a megaswirlie quite as much as his whining about Twitter's obvious bias against him. Although I suppose it's in keeping with his tendency of eventually turning on every ally he's ever had.

love when i lose aobut 100 followers immediately after making a beautiful post. the weak shriveling up into dust. Thats called darwin

— wint (@dril) January 23, 2018

donald trump is the mirror-universe dril

"White House says it wants to avoid government shutdown, will find other ways to fund border wall"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/white-house-signals-its-backing-down-in-shutdown-dispute-will-find-other-ways-to-fund-border-wall/2018/12/18/159994dc-02d9-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html?utm_term=.64eac33544f8

I'm sure Trump is trashing the Oval Office right now.

"God DAMN it, you're all against me! YOU! Secret Service! Kill yourself right now to prove you're an American!"

Test

Also:

President Trump has agreed to shut down his embattled personal charity and give away its remaining funds amid allegations that he used it for his personal and political benefit, the New York attorney general announced Tuesday.

New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced that the Donald J. Trump Foundation is dissolving as her office pursues its lawsuit against the charity, Trump and his three eldest children.

good morning1

Lol

he really is facing unprecedented legal "exposure" for a president right now, on so many different fronts. it feels like at any moment the house of cards could come down. but yet, we will continue like this for months and months to come.

I assume dissolving the “charity” doesnt stop the lawsuit from moving forward...?

Jerome Corsi blocked me on Twitter :(

Yeah, I don't think it works like that. If you're caught doing something criminal and stop doing that criminal thing, it's not like it wipes the slate clean.

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Yeah, it's like that time I used that shell company to launder money for years and then quickly shut it down when it seemed like the authorities were starting to catch on and yet I'm still currently posting from federal prison. So unfair!

I stopped doing it, guys! I stopped!

Can Trump be dissolved next?

if you dissolve a company, then technically nothing that company did ever happened, that's the law iirc