US Politics March 2019: “I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled”

https://www.scribd.com/document/402800029/Report-from-the-Special-Counsel-Investigation-into-Russian-Interference-During-and-Before-the-2016-Presidential-Election

ah yes ok xxp

Oh my god, this is earthshattering stuff. I had a suspicion about how the mold got broken, but to see it spelled out in black and white...wow.

wow, it starts coming and doesn't stop

Oooh. LXVIII, damning stuff.

smash mouth was right xp

well, i definitely wrote that before clicking the link

At least it gets O'Rourke out of the news.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) March 22, 2019

holy shit that report

rip trump family

Can’t believe they didn’t censor exhibit D

Ilxors have connections though, you guys write for rolling stone and stuff. Plz discretely ilxmail me the report thank you

In other news which now seems entirely inconsequential, Lachlan Murdoch officially succeeded his pop as the head of Fox News this week. It remains to be seen whether that means a goddamn thing, but I'll take whatever slim chance there is that he sees the power he now wields and decides that he'd prefer to go down in history as maybe just a medium-grade POS rather than the hardcore + unalloyed variety favored by so many of late.

gonna rank the ten most delicious findings in the Mueller report brb

Poppy Trump Interzone

If I wanted to write a review of the mueller report for pitchfork, who should I pitch that to?

Pitchfork?

I'll take whatever slim chance there is that he sees the power he now wields and decides that he'd prefer to go down in history as maybe just a medium-grade POS rather than the hardcore + unalloyed variety favored by so many of late

No one actually cares where they'll "go down in history."

i have not clicked the link so i have no idea if any of you are taking the piss

Yeah, they are rick rolling. sigh.

Time to shift our hopes and dreams to the House Oversight Committee's investigations Bernie-Oprah.

To Mueller Forever

No one actually cares where they'll "go down in history."

― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, March 22, 2019 5:54 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not everyone is faced with the decision of whether to tap the brakes on a media outlet that's been actively leading the POTUS by the shorthairs towards his worst impulses or whether to say 'fuck it' and snap off the steering wheel as we hurtle towards the abyss. I can see where someone in that situation might ponder how their choices will be viewed in the future (either by subsequent generations or whichever intergalactic travellers happen upon the desiccated husk of what was once a life-giving world, depending).

man sure enjoying all the civilians who became political analysts overnight (not itt, elsewhere)

Does the office of Special Counsel dissolve on the presentation of the report, think I heard a presenter say that this week.
So does that mean that Mueller is totally through and anything else in the hands of the other law departments he's handed findings over to.

JUst read comment that Ecuador are expelling Assange from the embassy.

JUst keeping fingers crossed that something more comes of this and Barr can't get away with simply suppressing everything

it doesn't dissolve, it melts

Heads up: rumor has it Mueller is finishing his report and it will be filed within the next couple of months.

Rumor is everyone should start drinking/campaigning/filing for visas or hope that SDNY has something in the bag.

to state the obvious...no further fucking indictments? i understand why trump wouldn't be one of them - pointless because of the dumbass policy about not being able to indict a sitting president - but how the fuck did don jr get out of this? he even expected to be indicted, right?

i suppose it could always be something akin to option 4 on this marcy wheeler post?

4. No further indictment, but a report showing a great deal of evidence a conspiracy took place, with The Report explaining why (including Presidential prerogative on foreign policy) it can’t be indicted, with or without an accompanying HJC Road Map.

Nothing concrete means months and months of more bullshit. it will never end.

If the report is made public and it is damning, isn't it a massive boost for dems entering the elections? + Trump can be indicted as soon as he is out of office?

Rumor is I'm going to stay drunk through November 2020.

Not everyone is faced with the decision of whether to tap the brakes on a media outlet that's been actively leading the POTUS by the shorthairs towards his worst impulses or whether to say 'fuck it' and snap off the steering wheel as we hurtle towards the abyss. I can see where someone in that situation might ponder how their choices will be viewed in the future (either by subsequent generations or whichever intergalactic travellers happen upon the desiccated husk of what was once a life-giving world, depending).

The people with that kind of power are precisely those who care least. They're filthy rich, their descendants are filthy rich, they don't give a fuck. The feelings of the eggheads and the poors mean absolutely nothing to them.

this is gonna be the phantom menace of politics isn't it

meesa think so

https://media.giphy.com/media/6NhHFB86oCaUU/giphy-downsized-large.gif

Thread title otm.

Not everyone is faced with the decision of whether to tap the brakes on a media outlet

If only James had been appointed instead, by next Wednesday we could have Trump tweeting angrily about Soundbombing II only getting 3 mics in The Source - "very unfair!", and signing executive orders to reopen vinyl plants to get Pharoahe Monch's solo debut back into print

Phantom Menace is stretching it, maybe the Holiday Special.

maybe a fan edit

Word is that Lachlan is even more of a one-eyed conservative mf than his dad, I don't think he has any warm/fuzzy ideas re social responsibility and media.

again, i think we should retire the word "conservative" at least in re. folks like this. fox news went straight-up fascist a while ago. it's like calling lenin a "progressive."

my congressman doesn't hold town halls or other truly public meetings. he has a tight circuit of nursing homes, contracting businesses, and christian schools that he visits for photo ops. all white folks, mostly men, mostly old. here's his latest event:

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america!

loool

you have to admit it's a novel rendition of the last supper.

props to the tearaway with the Mike Tyson eye tattoo though

some other recent events

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https://scontent.fagc1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/45095165_10156061191352815_8207409737872965632_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_ht=scontent.fagc1-2.fna&oh=62fcea8000bb3cc9fc9a1ff34730f0c2&oe=5D02707F

that first one might be the most WHITE MAN AMERICA picture i've ever seen

- the red-tinted hard plastic coke cups
- the fluted plastic pitcher of icewater (even though judging by what they're wearing it's cold outside)
- the low-ass ceiling
- the off-center "fancy" ceiling fan
- the haphazard jumble-sale americana
- the importance of having a tv within sight
- the tidy stacks of individual plastic containers of smucker's
- the faux old-timey "pioneer" stonework columns
- the general air of hopeless small-town malaise

Cigar store Indian...

Is lacking a flag though.

good morning!