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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
So you want to get an American VISA, Mr. Chinese Investor? Give me $500,000 and I'll make it happen.

https://twitter.com/TomLasseter/status/860836677392121857

https://twitter.com/emilyrauhala/status/860755144891187200

By the way, I'm Jared Kushner's sister, you may have heard of Jared, he's good friends with our President, so you know I can make this happen!


And I'm not sure if this has been posted, but during the transition, Donnie's people were copying and removing documents from the SCIF, back when Flynn was their point person for a lot of this poo poo, including contingency plans. Great!

https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/860637529325883394

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Meetings :cripes:

https://twitter.com/sparksjls/status/860993011307687937

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
This post has nothing to do with politics. There is something very special in this picture that the New York Mets tweeted out. The New York Mets deleted their tweet when they found the problem.

See if you can spot it. Here's a hint: it's probably :nws:

http://i.imgur.com/BmW4vHl.jpg

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
he's got a high hard one and a wicked curve

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

what is yates gonna say tomorrow

Paraphrased: I literally told you about Flynn and you didn't listen and then lied about it https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/861263605265821697

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Good guy appears to have won in France, 65-35. Possibly one of the biggest potential polling errors ever, as polls only had Macron beating Le Pen by 20, not 30.

https://twitter.com/France24_en/status/861279279996391426

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/861311727287324673

"dangerous gay psychopath"

Edit: The Macron campaign may have deliberately let themselves get phished in certain circumstances, just to place false information, per the Daily Beast. Good poo poo.

https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/861064174914457600

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 23:06 on May 7, 2017

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Possibly something, probably nothing. There's some weird poo poo going on with Air Force One at the moment.

k nevermind

https://twitter.com/stevebruskCNN/status/861391625385365508

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 02:29 on May 8, 2017

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha

Kushner said Donnie was "working on something".

Know what he was actually doing?

Barry's back.

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/861395929240281089

https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/861398104465170433

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Oh hell yeah, I'm away from my desk this morning and was worried that I was going to miss it.

Donnie's already tweeted this morning about "WELL OBAMA DID IT" and promptly made everyone say "uh Obama fired him and you made him National Security Advisor". Donnie seems determined to have Flynn roll on him.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
1) it's counsel not council :downs:

2) generally it's good to get water or a fire extinguisher when there is a blaze going on, not a can of gasoline

https://twitter.com/CillizzaCNN/status/861556350618411008

Edit: well gently caress, Gorka is staying around because Donnie and Bannon intervened https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/861558426601697280

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 13:34 on May 8, 2017

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

lightpole posted:

Hahah

"But he worked for Obama, Obama gave him a security clearance!"

What happened that people can no longer look past a simple talking point and do any sort of in depth analyzation?

The fundamental trumpian assumption is that his audience is as stupid as he is.

Which is right.


Edit: oh great Donnie's pissed at one of the sane voices in his administration over some bullshit https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/861618024620666882

Edit2: omfg https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/861620342552489984

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 17:35 on May 8, 2017

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Comey has the best description of Twitter that I've ever seen, a dive bar where everyone is yelling at the TV.

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/861643065370587137

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Sally Yates killed the zodiac killer.

Fuckin hell.

:patriot:

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
I don't like direct-linking to trump tweets, but you have to see this poo poo now on his profile.

https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/861746463101071360

Scared as hell.


Bonus: Congressional walkout in front of a bunch of kids https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/861743506657865729

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
uh


woops

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/861780511601111041

And Kimmel comes back swinging, from an advanced transcript http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/jimmy-kimmel-healthcare-son-update-media-1202419303/

Edit: ahahahah that congressman that left that interview with the kids actually went to a town hall meeting and got his rear end handed to him there too https://twitter.com/edatpost/status/861789827271970820

quote:

DUBUQUE, Iowa — An Iowa congressman walked out of a television interview on Monday, declining to explain why his staff is pre-screening constituents who plan to attend his town hall meetings this week.

A few hours later, Rep. Rod Blum (R-Iowa) showed up at his town hall meeting where most of the pre-screened audience screamed at him.

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 04:56 on May 9, 2017

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Lindsey Graham: cocktease

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/861960559897567233

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Hanford, Washington (state) looks like it had another incident at a plutonium finishing facility where a tunnel collapsed and workers are now sheltering in place and being told not to drink or eat anything. The tunnel had radioactive poo poo in it.

http://www.king5.com/mb/news/local/hanford/breaking-tunnel-at-plutonium-finishing-plant-collapses-in-hanford/438116235

For reference, it's commonly called "the most contaminated nuclear waste site in the United States" http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26658719

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Press us standing by for Spiceytime, Spicey is 25 minutes late. Gonna be Russia-heavy.

https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/862003053922267137

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Today's Spicey level was Wonderbread.

That didn't make any sense and neither did Spicey.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Terrible Robot posted:

Is that story covered anywhere else?

Here's WaPo and NBC, reports from the Department of Energy https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...te-reports-say/ http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hanford-nuclear-site-tunnel-collapse-causes-workers-take-cover-n756896

But I really came here to post this: https://twitter.com/CNN/status/862035566321336321

:stare: :stare: :stare: :stare: :stare:

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
I also came here to post this, since apparently Newt Gingrich and James Comey aren't good at resisting phishing attacks, but at least they didn't click the links.

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/862039685312413698

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
HOLY gently caress THEY JUST FIRED COMEY

https://twitter.com/HallieJackson/status/862060326820487169

https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/862061151831564288

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Here's the letter basically stating why.

He was too hard on Hillary for her emails.

https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/status/862062047357542400

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
It's a weird kind of fun living through history.

https://twitter.com/NixonLibrary/status/862083605081862145

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Two Finger posted:

I thought he did. Or was it just the head investigator he fired

Head investigator. Kept clearing house of Attorney Generals until one did what he wanted.

Office Pig posted:

There's nothing loving fun about this.

Oh nobody hates this poo poo more than me. I continue to laugh like hell at how it continues to get worse and worse and worse on a daily basis. That's why I post like The Twitter Whisperer because I'm going to be on the right side of history when poo poo goes south.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
ahahahahaha this combination

https://twitter.com/MikeDelMoro/status/862085578942287872

https://twitter.com/SarahMMimms/status/862082100995948545

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
the best

oh my god this is just the best

https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/862090285584498688

:swoon:

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

MazelTovCocktail posted:

Didn't most people here want Comey fired?

Always been a duality for me. I think he really hosed up, but his reasoning was sound. So, I personally really disliked him, but he had the thinking I'd generally want from an independent FBI director as a total political shitstorm is surrounding him.

So personally, I disliked him and though he was stupid politically. Professionally, fine with him.

Or, fire him on day one. Not a few weeks after he confirms an investigation into Donnie.

Edit: lol LA

https://twitter.com/passantino/status/862100416552607745

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
:siren:

Oh poo poo, CNN: Grand Jury Subpoenas issued for Michael Flynn's associates

https://twitter.com/PamelaBrownCNN/status/862111970912333825

https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/862111722827640832

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Bless Harry Reid.

https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/862130735796207616

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
This entire article is filled with filthy, filthy smut.

https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/862156871981039620

quote:

President Donald Trump weighed firing his FBI director for more than a week. When he finally pulled the trigger Tuesday afternoon, he didn't call James Comey. He sent his longtime private security guard to deliver the termination letter in a manila folder to FBI headquarters.

He had grown enraged by the Russia investigation, two advisers said, frustrated by his inability to control the mushrooming narrative around Russia. He repeatedly asked aides why the Russia investigation wouldn’t disappear and demanded they speak out for him. He would sometimes scream at television clips about the probe, one adviser said.

Trump had grown angry with the Russia investigation — particularly Comey admitting in front of the Senate that the FBI was investigating his campaign — and that the FBI director wouldn't support his claims that President Barack Obama had tapped his phones in Trump Tower.

By Tuesday evening, the president was watching the coverage of his decision and frustrated no one was on TV defending him, a White House official said. He wanted surrogates out there beating the drum.

Instead, advisers were attacking each other for not realizing the gravity of the situation as events blew up. "How are you not defending your position for three solid hours on TV?" the White House aide said.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
50% of me believes that Donnie is just totally oblivious to everything and will simply fire anyone who says anything bad about him, simply because they said anything bad about him. If they're not on his side and/or can be controlled, they get dealt with.

25% of me believes that there actually IS something to this Russia thing and that Donnie knew about it and everything, the whole way.

25% of me believes that Donnie is scared as hell because he legitimately has no idea if he's russian-infested or not, because he never cared.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Nothing matters until McConnell (R-Turtle) decides that it does. https://twitter.com/mviser/status/862301905053253633

But, here's a chaser: https://twitter.com/ChuckTingle/status/862309658547036160 :shobon:

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

psydude posted:

In theory, couldn't the Senate still override McConnell if they managed to get a bipartisan supermajority? Not that getting 12 Republicans would be easy, but in a perfect world it would be doable, correct?

You're too much into pigs flying territory. The Majority Leader of the Senate mostly controls the schedule of when bills hit the floor, committee appointments, etc. There is some arcane poo poo like discharge petitions that force votes past the Majority Leader, but in the vast majority of cases, if the Majority Leader doesn't want it, it goes away or never comes up.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
mmmmmmm leaks

https://twitter.com/fordm/status/862330894744506368

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
HBCU graduates at Bethune-Cookman basically told Betsy DeVos to go gently caress herself

https://twitter.com/GenePark/status/862383109165240320

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Flynn just got subpoenaed by the Senate for documents he denied to give them.

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/862434218034507776

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

KildarX posted:

I'm not sure how you market the AHCA to anyone that doesn't fall into a foaming rage when they hear the word Obama.

There's a reason why you've heard almost no members of Congress defend the AHCA other than the few exceptions that say "obumbo bad obumbocare bad too".

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
WaPo broke the high score with thirty, three-zero, 30 sources on this one. Linking in case you're not subscribed.

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/862468904538578948

Basically, Donnie fired Comey because he had a mad about the Russia stuff and Comey not backing him up on "wiretapp".


And Spicey's Power Hour may be nearing an end: https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/862470103383900161

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