US Politics, December 2019: Profound procedural deficiencies

Such as their repressed homosexuality

BREAKING: ABC News can confirm that the Trump “family member” referenced in the Inspector General report who had a friendship with dossier author Chris Steele, was Ivanka. She met him in 2007 at a dinner in London when he was still working for MI6. https://t.co/W64i5GPqVK

— Julia Macfarlane (@juliamacfarlane) December 9, 2019

Hahahahaha

Most Americans are flummoxed and confused by anything connected to legalities or legal procedures, so the Republican base will be perfectly happy to accept any nonsense a GOP-apologist legal counsel babbles on television. I mean, they still think Giuliani is a crackerjack lawyer.

Guessing Ivanka neglected to tell daddy who her friends were

Also a blow to Trump, tho supposedly Barr will publicly disagree with the findings:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-watchdog-finds-russia-investigation-improper-missteps/story?id=67599147

barr is a real piece of shit

the url for that "blow to Trump" gives the opposite impression of what the story it links to says

"We're going to keep ordering investigations until an investigation produces the result we have predetermined that we want to see" is a curious way to run an agency whose mission is... conducting impartial investigations. But what do I know.

Yea they shoulda wrote "not improper" for the URL

Oh he already made that statement. Kinda dumb to do it simultaneously, now it gets folded into the Horowitz story rather than covered on its own.

exactly, and that's why they did it.

in other words, now the horowitz story immediately gets "bill barr disagrees" folded into it

Barr is a much worse piece of shit than Jeffery Beauregard Sessions, which is really saying something.

xp if barr delayed his response, the question would be why they didn't immediately dispute it, since barr would have the chance to review it long before it's publicly released

Trump's most ardent cronies have so inexorably lashed their own fates to that of their god-emperor that it's completely unsurprising at this point to see them do/say absolutely anything that putatively favors him, irrespective of how far outside the bounds of morality or normalcy or legality their actions may be. And to a man, they seem to have missed the news that impeachment proceedings aren't going to result in Trump being removed from office, so what the fuck is it all even for? Just to retain his personal favor?

I'm not convinced Bill Barr's disagreement will move anybody other than people who already believed there was spying to begin with.

This is much more of a nothingburger report than Mueller's, low info voters may not even notice he disagreed.

The article title mentions nothing about Barr here, nor does CNN's. In both cases you have to actually read it to find that out.

Wouldn't be surprised if later articles incorporate that into the title, but your serial cut and pasters that don't read the lede will probably not even notice.

i assume it's just so that they awarded with a larger mansion on the secret island they're all retreating to after all this is over

xp

gohmert is talking about how they already have enough evidence to impeach biden

Barr's traducing his oath of office yet again is another good reason why accosting and scolding these assholes wherever they appear in a public space seems like an idea to ponder seriously. It has both its attractions and its drawbacks.

The attractions are obvious. But one drawback that I can easily imagine would be the high likelihood that such public scolding would be breathlessly reported by FOX News as a form of shocking political violence, inspiring their audience to retaliate against the liberals 'in the same coin', except that 'same coin' would come in the form of physical violence. Because there are never any bad consequences to deliberately blurring the distinction between verbal scolding and physical assault.

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gohmert must be referring to all that sworn testimony Giuliani gave on tv talk shows

These knuckleheads have a real thing for Adam Schiff. How long until they start imitating his sex noises?

They're recording them?

uuuuuugh matt gaetz is the fucking wooooooorst

he just listed off a series of issues that are more important than impeachment, including climate change

https://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/matt-gaetz

Maybe that's how we get them to finally care about it

Trick them

I wonder if there could be any way that progress on climate change and impeachment might have any connection to each other? Or is that too far-fetched?

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) speculated that, should Joe Biden be elected president, he could be impeached on the grounds of the bogus Burisma allegations President Trump has pursued. “You have set the bar so low I’m afraid it’s irreparable,” he said. Pondering a potential Biden impeachment, Gohmert said: “We’ve already got the forms. All we have to do is eliminate Donald Trump’s name and put Joe Biden’s name in there, because he’s on video. He and his son. He basically has admitted to the crime that’s being hoisted on the President improperly.”

try to worm your way out of THAT, democrats!

xp if not for impeachment, the heroic matt gaetz would be leading the fight on climate change. but instead, he has to be sitting there, asking these questions. to our children and our children's children, we are sorry. matt gaetz just did not have enough time

i don't know what to make of christopher steele's friendship with ivanka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8oAQOvOEXY

Chris bought her gifts? lol that’s a plot twist I was not expecting

MICHIGAN
2020 GE:
Trump 46% (+5)
Biden 41%

Trump 48% (+6)
Sanders 42%

Trump 47% (+9)
Warren 38%

Trump 48% (+11)
Buttigieg 37%

Trump 48% (+11)
Bloomberg 37%@Be0ptimus/@FirehouseStrat 12/3-5https://t.co/eQbNfxdFl9

— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) December 9, 2019

WISCONSIN
2020 GE:
Trump 48% (+9)
Biden 39%

Trump 49% (+11)
Buttigieg 38%

Trump 49% (+12)
Bloomberg 37%

Trump 50% (+13)
Warren 37%

Trump 51% (+13)
Sanders 38%@Be0ptimus/@FirehouseStrat 12/3-5https://t.co/eQbNfxdFl9

— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) December 9, 2019

PENNSYLVANIA
2020 GE:
Trump 45% (+4)
Bloomberg 41%

Trump 46% (+5)
Biden 41%

Trump 46% (+6)
Buttigieg 40%

Trump 47% (+7)
Warren 40%

Trump 48% (+10)
Sanders 38%@Be0ptimus/@FirehouseStrat 12/3-5https://t.co/eQbNfxdFl9

— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) December 9, 2019

gee looks like Hannity was right all along, pack it up Dems

FIREHOUSE STRATEGIES IS A FULL-SERVICE PUBLIC AFFAIRS FIRM THAT FOCUSES ON DELIVERING TARGETED PERSUASION CAMPAIGNS FOR A WIDE VARIETY OF CORPORATE CLIENTS.

uuuuuugh matt gaetz is the fucking wooooooorst

― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Monday, December 9, 2019 4:29 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he just listed off a series of issues that are more important than impeachment, including climate change

https://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/matt-gaetz

― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Monday, December 9, 2019 4:30 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink The mere sight of his smarmy visage triggers violent urges, and then he speaks and it's just

the most punchable face in America. The mere sight of his smarmy visage triggers violent urges, and then he speaks and it's just..

so I just learned from a GOP congressman that "Democrat" lawmakers wanna ban air travel

works for me

I also want to take all their guns away

empty Wal Mart FEMA re-education camps would at least keep them busy, if not actually achieve the intended purpose.

The Firehouse Strategies polling "methodology" includes "peer-to-peer text message"

also "lying"

Is republicans are pure filth the correct formulation?

Hate to think any of these individuals are going to go onto continued careers.

this is a list of 430 polling firms, rated by 538.

https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/pollster-ratings/pollster-ratings.csv

firehouse doesn't appear.

also, this is the firehouse strategie's wikipedia description: "Firehouse Strategies is a public relations consulting firm headquartered in Washington, DC. It was founded in 2016 by Republican strategists Terry Sullivan, Alex Conant, and Will Holley, who served on Senator Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential campaign.[1][2]"

Can't trust a sub shop to poll people accurately, they got only two hands

you know what Rubio has to say about hands

They're permanently calloused from all the Brilliantine lathering?

how soon we forget
https://dailycaller.com/2016/02/28/rubio-goes-nuclear-on-trump-by-attacking-the-size-of-his-hands/

oh, looks the other firm mentioned (@Be0ptimus/@FirehouseStrat) is on there: Optimus. they've only done 15 polls so far, so ratings are preliminary, but currently they have a score of C/D

xp

rubio OBLITERATES trump!!!

Trump's bump

I wholeheartedly support the GOP's attempts to inflate Trump's chances of re-election. Keep complacent republicans home on election day and draw concerned democrats to the polls.

inclined to agree w that point