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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/weedguy420boner/status/1068732045650612224

https://twitter.com/virgiltexas/status/1068732675178094593

https://twitter.com/WillOremus/status/1068731765794123778

Hot take: HW didn't seem like too terrible of a President.

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/12/05/fort-carson-fatal-shooting-accident/

quote:

Affidavit: Fort Carson soldier’s joke turns deadly when he kills a man

COLORADO SPRINGS — A witness tells authorities that an accidental fatal shooting by a Fort Carson soldier was a joke that turned deadly.

The Gazette reports 21-year-old Pfc. Isaac James Klippert, of Yakima, Wash., faces charges of manslaughter, first-degree assault and prohibited use of a weapon in the killing Saturday of 25-year-old Cesar Diaz.

Court records show Klippert posted $25,000 bail on Monday.

According to the arrest affidavit, Klippert says he did not mean to shoot Diaz. It says Klippert told police he grabbed what he thought was an empty gun, racked the slide and pulled the trigger while pointing it at Diaz.

Friend and witness Brandon Rock told police the three often “play jokes on each other” because they’re “young, dumb and in the military.”


Klippert is assigned to the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
MG: I would like to see the value added of this training event, please demonstrate!

CSM: I'm not sure that's a good ide-

CPT: Show the General your weaponhandling skills learned during this training event!

2LT: YES SIR :downs:

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1070735059458633728?s=19

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1070543855924244481?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Certainly is a thing that the VA Secretary is a neocon(federate).

Weird to have losers in charge of things.

Edit: nevermind, Cohen sentencing

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Dec 7, 2018

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Well gently caress, the Manafort posting is going to be redacted a lot.

https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1071164753115037699

And if Donald Trump wasn't President right now, he'd probably be a felon.

https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1071162279247429632

https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1071164895993970688

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Stultus Maximus posted:

Someone translate that into real human please.

Cohen is probably going to prison for around four years.

Cohen has also been bullshitting how much he has been cooperating. Mueller's office thought he gave some good information, but there was never an official agreement between the two sides *and* Cohen lied to Mueller at least once (repeating his lie to Congress).

Flynn fully cooperated and got a 5K letter, which is basically a "Please Mr/Mrs Federal Judge, discount his time please". Cohen didn't fully cooperate and got the equivalent of a "Meh." letter from Mueller's office.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
The Mueller memo about Manafort's lying is starting to trickle out in pieces.

https://twitter.com/JoshNBCNews/status/1071178391087390720

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

FAUXTON posted:

lmao the president at the time those crimes were happening was Obama, I see how this works

The best part is that it's really, really hard to violate campaign finance laws nowadays. Due to the Supreme Court case, you have to both gently caress up and *know specifically that you are loving up when you are loving up*. It's a weird thing where ignorance of the law is actually a valid defense.

SDNY/Mueller are basically saying that Donnie met that standard. Not only did he commit a felony campaign finance violation, he likely knew it was a felony campaign finance violation when he told Cohen to do the felony campaign violation.

Very legal and very cool.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
The absolute WEIRDEST THING is when the President of the United States's literal words are written down, then people are asked to respond to said words, verbatim.

https://twitter.com/ChrisMegerian/status/1071526148524466180

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
lol the freedom caucus chair is going to be the new chief of staff

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1071878439228108800?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
"An alleged ISIS supporter and a woman accused of planning a terror attack arrested in Ohio"

Ok this seems like semi-standard lone wolfy typ-WAIT WHAT

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1072224657577836544

Wait, what are these "niche communit"-WHATTHEFUCK HOW ARE FURRIES INVOLVED HERE THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT BY LONE WOLFY

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1072227120313786368

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Hexyflexy posted:

She isn't going to get Novichok'd in the US. Putin is a mad motherfucker, but he isn't that mad.

She's going to stumble into a vat of black paint and get shot by the police. It happens.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Video is coming, but this meeting turned into a clusterfuck in front of cameras, with the President going galaxy brain.

https://twitter.com/swdoody/status/1072537103353958400?s=19

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1072538320847233029?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Have fun y'all: https://www.c-span.org/video/?455813-1/president-trump-democratic-leaders-clash-border-funding

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1072541296210911234?s=19

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Dec 11, 2018

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

That Works posted:

Why the gently caress Nancy or Chuck didn't just say "get mexico to pay for it like you promised" is a mystery to me.

Picture yourself going into that room, with that line inside your head. Now, the President of the United States is sitting there, yelling MY DICK IS A FULL FOOT LONG AND MY FACE IS MADE OF PIZZA AND YOUR POSITION IS APPLES DISHWASHER TABLETOP SPRINGWATER AND I WON THE SENATE while Pence is just sitting there.

At some point, the crazy man's rantings should be left alone to speak for themselves. Schumer got his first boner in a decade when Trump was rambling about YEAH I WANT A SHUTDOWN FOR MY WALL, IT'S MY SHUTDOWN AND SHUTDOWNS ARE AWESOME.

Nancy had some boss bitch owns, but at some point, there's diminishing returns on sending an own at the President when he's actively owning himself and you don't actually control the House until January.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
When you didn't get owned by Chuck and Nancy

https://twitter.com/EamonJavers/status/1072592109167935488?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
If I Did It by Donald J. Trump

https://twitter.com/jeffmason1/status/1072649097541226496

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

Cohen in court now, sentence imminent

https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1072896373270437888?s=19

Fun! I'm betting he gets four years.

Edit: he got 3

https://twitter.com/LEBassett/status/1072900948446580739?s=19

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Dec 12, 2018

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

EBB posted:

Cohen got 3 years

https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1072902071936987136?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Duzzy Funlop posted:

But is the president tweeting yet?

Supposedly, he didn't leave the residence until like noon, so he's been mainlining Fox News and stuff. Should be fun in the White House today!

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
The Trump Campaign may have committed some light felonies.

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1072928072440180736?s=19

https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1072927575792672768?s=19

Basically ballgame for a campaign finance felony. Foreknowledge of the payment being illegal is the standard nowadays.

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Dec 12, 2018

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
All hail Chief of Staff Javanka

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1072972304899018752?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

DoktorLoken posted:

This is like a combo speed run on Watergate and the Harding administration.

Peepot Dumb

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

facialimpediment posted:

All hail Chief of Staff Javanka

GODDAMNIT I WAS loving JOKING

https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/1073337153676034054?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

FAUXTON posted:

Christie says no to the chief of staff job lmao.

About an hour ago, Christie was the #1 choice. RIP

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
FBI responded to reports and stuff saying Flynn was entrapped into lying. The FBI basically said "dude, he was lying for weeks before we got there."

https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1073670358094544896?s=19

Popehat disclaimer: never talk to the FBI without a lawyer

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Lawyer: LTG Flynn, in this situation, it is illegal to lie.

DOJ: So, about your-

LTG Flynn: MY HAIR IS MADE OF PASTA, I CAN WRAP MY DICK IN A KNOT, AND I AM A SMART PERSON

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1073675830109372416?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Before everyone completely panics about the ACA/Obamacare:

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1073758094704947200

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Hot Karl Marx posted:

He said no one talked to him and he doesn't want the job. I posted it like 4 hours ago -_-

The real story is pretty drat funny.

https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1073781786512101376

NEVER MIND THAT BUDGET poo poo, YOU'RE MY CHIEF OF STAFF NOW

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Stultus Maximus posted:

I thought this already happened, but then I realized I was thinking of all the other top posts who resigned due to graft and corruption.

Apparently Mulvaney floated taking the Chief of Staff position behind the scenes. He basically made the argument that OMB was one of the few federal agencies that hasn't had a gigantic scandal, therefore he would make a good Chief of Staff, at least for a little while.

The funny thing is that he's completely right. Basically, every other federal agency has had some scandal due to Donnie hiring The Best People to run them.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

EBB posted:

sunday shitposts is my favorite part of the CE news cycle since gently caress all happens until the sun sets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GeF7A05zQ8

https://twitter.com/KT_So_It_Goes/status/1074502745552506880

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Happy Reading! Here are the Michael Flynn FBI 302 interview notes.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5633260/12-17-18-Redacted-Flynn-Interview-302.pdf

https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1074813472389648384

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Fuckin Moses, England really did lose their minds, didn't they?

https://twitter.com/SeemaMalhotra1/status/1075034762362978306?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
The Trump administration is basically a modern Catch-22. If he's not working, he's not loving anything up, but he's probably on the shitter tweeting. If he's not tweeting, he's probably working and loving tons of poo poo up.

I'm not sure which is best.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Gunchat alert!

Supposedly the administration is going to do an outright ban on bump stocks, requiring destruction and everything. I wonder if the NRA is going to drop a lawsuit because I'd bet the NRA would win.

https://twitter.com/dominicholden/status/1075053766439768066?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Flynn sentencing underway and looool the judge ain't happy:

https://twitter.com/evanperez/status/1075063498693099521?s=19

https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1075064468852350976?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

hobbesmaster posted:

Flynn's strategy seems... odd. This is the sequence, right?

Judge: Wow, your filing is alleging serious misconduct by the FBI that undermines the guilty plea and could be considered a crime itself! Could you elaborate?
Flynn's lawyers: uhhhh, erm

Exactly. Lawyers were trying to angle for a pardon and get MAGAworld all excited while also hoping to get Flynn zero jail time.

Contradictory positions, so the judge is all like "uh, so if you're not going to take responsibility for your actions, why should I be lenient here???" and that set off a lot of ums and neverminds from Flynn's lawyers.

Still might work though! The guilty plea has been accepted, just waiting on the sentence.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Sorry to keep live tweeting but holy gently caress Flynn is staring at jailtime when I went in thinking it was a slam-dunk probation case, since Mueller even wanted zero jailtime:

https://twitter.com/awprokop/status/1075068883353133061?s=19

https://twitter.com/awprokop/status/1075069476322844672?s=19

I think the judge is asking: "Hey, if I sent this rear end in a top hat to jail for a while, would it sabotage any of your cases?"

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

M_Gargantua posted:

So if I put a bet on a 5 year sentence is it price is right rules or is it very stable rule of law rules?

Sentencing guidelines for this is 0-6 months. The major thing is that Flynn didn't get charged on the Turkey poo poo, even though he participated, and the judge can still use that as part of the sentencing.

Aaaaaaaand the judge looks like they're going to do that. Holy fuckballs.

https://twitter.com/stevenportnoy/status/1075072332853624844?s=19

Or not! https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1075073532151836672?s=19

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