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« Reply #26940 on: December 11, 2018, 11:49:34 AM »
Literally tens of people want this job! Some of them not even employees of Fox News.

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« Reply #26941 on: December 11, 2018, 12:56:03 PM »
Political supergenius Donald Trump announces in front of the cameras that if there's a government shutdown he's the one responsible.

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« Reply #26942 on: December 11, 2018, 01:16:37 PM »
Look at the shit eating grin on Schumer's face after he said that:

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1072544387178131459
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« Reply #26943 on: December 11, 2018, 01:22:14 PM »
Government shutdowns are good and easy to win.
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« Reply #26944 on: December 11, 2018, 01:24:22 PM »
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1072542208346243072
Holy shit the fuckery

The show is about to become great again.  :doge

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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Plea Deal December
« Reply #26945 on: December 11, 2018, 04:45:45 PM »
Goes in here I guess?

https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1072474968078893056

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Time magazine has chosen "The Guardians," a group of journalists who have been targeted for their work, as Person of the Year.

A series of four black-and-white covers highlights what the magazine calls "the War on Truth."
The group includes Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post contributor who was killed at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in October. This is the first time that a Person of the Year is a deceased person.
Another cover features Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two Reuters journalists who were arrested late last year in Myanmar while they were working on stories about the killings of Rohingya Muslims, a minority population in Myanmar's Rakhine state. The two men remain behind bars. Their wives were photographed for the cover.

https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1072597928831791111

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« Reply #26947 on: December 11, 2018, 05:34:54 PM »
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A lawyer for Mr Trump celebrated the ruling as a "total victory".

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« Reply #26951 on: December 11, 2018, 08:27:24 PM »
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« Reply #26952 on: December 11, 2018, 08:30:30 PM »
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« Reply #26955 on: December 11, 2018, 08:45:33 PM »
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« Reply #26956 on: December 11, 2018, 09:06:02 PM »
Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu tears into Republican colleagues during Google hearing: 'If you want positive search results, do positive things'


WASHINGTON — A Democratic representative went after a Republican colleague on Tuesday during a hearing with the CEO of Google, citing negative search results about a congressman who has repeatedly been accused of making racist remarks.

During a House Judiciary Committee hearing in which Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified, Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu of California singled out Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa, who recently saw many high-profile donors retreat from supporting him in the wake of increased scrutiny over his remarks and actions.

Lieu read headlines from a Google search about House Majority Whip Steve Scalise. Noting that the first few articles about Scalise were favorable to him and included those from conservative media outlets, Lieu asked Pichai whether people at Google were manipulating those results to favor Scalise.

"You don't have a group of people at Google sitting there thinking, 'Hey, we like Steve Scalise, so we're going to generate positive articles on these search results,'" he said. "That's not what's happening, right?"

Pichai said no, adding, "We don't deal with individual queries and with any viewpoint."

But then Lieu pivoted, pulling out his smartphone for a Google search in real time and entering King's name.

King, who was sitting across the room on the powerful House panel, became visibly perturbed.

"I'm going to change one word. So I'm going to search for 'Congressman Steve King,' I'm going to hit the 'News' tab," Lieu said. "First article that pops up is from ABC News. It says 'Steve King's racist immigration talk prompts calls for congressional censure.'
That's a negative article. But you don't have a group of people at Google sitting there thinking and trying to modify search results — every time Steve King comes up, a negative article appears. That's not what's happening, right?"

Pichai again said no, reiterating that Google does not manipulate results for people in that way.

"So let me just conclude here by stating the obvious," Lieu responded. "If you want positive search results, do positive things. If you don't want negative search results, don't do negative things.

"And to some of my colleagues across the aisle, if you're getting bad press articles and bad search results, don't blame Google or Facebook or Twitter — consider blaming yourself," he added.
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« Reply #26957 on: December 11, 2018, 10:36:28 PM »
Political supergenius Donald Trump announces in front of the cameras that if there's a government shutdown he's the one responsible.

Cue ten paragraph post, complete with fan fiction, Nintexsplaining why this is a strategically brilliant move.

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« Reply #26960 on: December 11, 2018, 11:01:54 PM »
gotta take that ?s=21 off the link

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« Reply #26961 on: December 12, 2018, 09:03:21 AM »
Does Mike Pence's face ever show genuine human emotion or is he perpetually stuck in RBF-mode?
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« Reply #26962 on: December 12, 2018, 09:14:02 AM »
It's the face of a person who says he's a christian, but sold his soul to the devil for a shot at the big time.

To be a fly on the wall when it's his turn at the pearly gates. :lawd
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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Plea Deal December
« Reply #26963 on: December 12, 2018, 09:47:34 AM »
Does Mike Pence's face ever show genuine human emotion or is he perpetually stuck in RBF-mode?

Here's what I don't get about Mike Pence and the VP role in the Trump administration. Dick Cheney was basically the de facto shadow president with all of his duties he was carrying in Bush II's administration until the Libby shit went down, but that was late into the 2nd term. Biden was as involved as you can get into Obama's administration policies, more of a partnership, but still, Biden had a lot of power.

Despite rumored that any VP or Mike Pence agreed to be VP because he basically got whole policy over various issues such as domestic, education, etc. And the chaos and violity of the Trump administration, Mike Pence seems like the weakest ass VP we had in a long while.

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« Reply #26964 on: December 12, 2018, 10:42:22 AM »
It's the face of a person who says he's a christian, but sold his soul to the devil for a shot at the big time.

To be a fly on the wall when it's his turn at the pearly gates. :lawd

That’s like all Christians in the age of trump, except for maybe Catholics.

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« Reply #26965 on: December 12, 2018, 10:55:22 AM »
That’s like all Christians in the age of trump, except for maybe Catholics.
you don’t know enough white Catholics

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« Reply #26966 on: December 12, 2018, 12:13:54 PM »
Three years in the sneezer for Cohen.
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« Reply #26967 on: December 12, 2018, 12:31:55 PM »
nice.
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« Reply #26968 on: December 12, 2018, 01:34:23 PM »




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« Reply #26969 on: December 12, 2018, 01:40:00 PM »
Rick Santorum declined the job.

When you've scraped the bottom of the barrel but keep scraping
https://twitter.com/kathrynw5/status/1072920025756065793

https://twitter.com/GMB/status/1072737388554801152

https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1072870904823205889

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Ben Carson also doesn't want the job
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« Reply #26970 on: December 12, 2018, 02:35:40 PM »
https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1072922914956156929

Now that he's in the clear, maybe Bat Boy is up for being Trump's Chief of Staff.
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« Reply #26971 on: December 12, 2018, 03:27:10 PM »
https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1072922914956156929

Now that he's in the clear, maybe Bat Boy is up for being Trump's Chief of Staff.
The hardcore Trumpists actually want Mike Flynn back as Chief of Staff.
After all he could escape jail time.  :doge
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« Reply #26972 on: December 12, 2018, 03:56:53 PM »
I would love Ben Carson for Chief Of Staff.

Hilarity would ensue. I’m pretty sure he’s got aspbergers which would surely make him amazing at managing all of those personalities.

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« Reply #26973 on: December 12, 2018, 04:09:11 PM »
Even more embarrassing when you realize he barely has any friends and has to settle for toadies.
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« Reply #26974 on: December 12, 2018, 04:10:53 PM »
one of the most embarrassing things to read about that has been consistent through not only this presidency but his campaign was Trump's tendency to go directly to "friends" for staffing positions. Chief of staff is an important job with specific requirements, the last person to hold the position that was any bit qualified to do so was Reince Preibus.
Kelly did Ok-ish considering. But I read on MSNBC that apparently Jared and Ivanka get the final say on who's the next COS and that Melania can pressure Trump to fire people she doesn't like.  :doge

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« Reply #26975 on: December 13, 2018, 12:03:33 AM »
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Michael Cohen, the former lawyer and fixer for President Donald Trump, is willing to reveal publicly what he knows about his former client once Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is complete and findings are released, Cohen’s lawyer said Wednesday.

“There will come a time after Mr. Mueller is done with his work that Michael Cohen will be sitting in front of a microphone before a congressional committee and what he has to say about the truth will be judged by the members of Congress listening and then will be up to people to decide whether he has got the facts or not,” Cohen attorney and spokesman Lanny Davis said in an interview on Bloomberg Radio’s “Sound On.”
So next week after Christmas January Early Spring May 6th Mid-Summer Q4 2019/Q1 2020 huh?

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« Reply #26976 on: December 13, 2018, 01:49:05 AM »
 :drudge


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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Plea Deal December
« Reply #26978 on: December 13, 2018, 01:52:32 AM »
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/12/12/walls-work
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Walls Work
Release Date: December 12, 2018
WE ARE BUILDING THE FIRST NEW BORDER WALL IN A DECADE.

DHS is committed to building wall and building wall quickly. We are not replacing short, outdated and ineffective wall with similar wall.  Instead, under this President we are building a wall that is 30-feet high.

FACT: Prior to President Trump taking office, we have never built wall that high.
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How effective is this new border wall? On Sunday when a violent mob of 1,000 people stormed our Southern border, we found the newly constructed portions of the wall to be very effective.  In the area of the breach, a group of people tore a hole in the old landing mat fence constructed decades ago and pushed across the border.  U.S. Border Patrol agents who responded to the area ultimately dispersed the crowd, which had become assaultive, and apprehended several individuals.  All of the individuals were either apprehended or retreated into Mexico.  That evening, the fence was repaired.  There were no breaches along the newly constructed border wall areas.

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« Reply #26979 on: December 13, 2018, 01:56:15 AM »
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/12/12/walls-work
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Walls Work
Release Date: December 12, 2018
WE ARE BUILDING THE FIRST NEW BORDER WALL IN A DECADE.

DHS is committed to building wall and building wall quickly. We are not replacing short, outdated and ineffective wall with similar wall.  Instead, under this President we are building a wall that is 30-feet high.

FACT: Prior to President Trump taking office, we have never built wall that high.
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How effective is this new border wall? On Sunday when a violent mob of 1,000 people stormed our Southern border, we found the newly constructed portions of the wall to be very effective.  In the area of the breach, a group of people tore a hole in the old landing mat fence constructed decades ago and pushed across the border.  U.S. Border Patrol agents who responded to the area ultimately dispersed the crowd, which had become assaultive, and apprehended several individuals.  All of the individuals were either apprehended or retreated into Mexico.  That evening, the fence was repaired.  There were no breaches along the newly constructed border wall areas.
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« Reply #26980 on: December 13, 2018, 02:02:24 AM »
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/12/12/walls-work
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Walls Work
Release Date: December 12, 2018
WE ARE BUILDING THE FIRST NEW BORDER WALL IN A DECADE.

DHS is committed to building wall and building wall quickly. We are not replacing short, outdated and ineffective wall with similar wall.  Instead, under this President we are building a wall that is 30-feet high.

FACT: Prior to President Trump taking office, we have never built wall that high.
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How effective is this new border wall? On Sunday when a violent mob of 1,000 people stormed our Southern border, we found the newly constructed portions of the wall to be very effective.  In the area of the breach, a group of people tore a hole in the old landing mat fence constructed decades ago and pushed across the border.  U.S. Border Patrol agents who responded to the area ultimately dispersed the crowd, which had become assaultive, and apprehended several individuals.  All of the individuals were either apprehended or retreated into Mexico.  That evening, the fence was repaired.  There were no breaches along the newly constructed border wall areas.

Everything about that press release sucks. Like who approved the language? It’s all grammatically fucked up. It’s like it was written by the guy from idiocracy.

And the pictures look weird, like photoshop.

And if the money was appropriate in fy2017... doesn’t that mean it was done in October of 2016 when Barack O’drama was Prez?

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« Reply #26981 on: December 13, 2018, 02:05:27 AM »
Everything about that press release sucks. Like who approved the language? It’s all grammatically fucked up. It’s like it was written by the guy from idiocracy.
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« Reply #26982 on: December 13, 2018, 02:07:41 AM »
The real wall test should be how many balls Trump can send through the holes. Too many and the wall needs to be TALLER.

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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Plea Deal December
« Reply #26983 on: December 13, 2018, 02:24:23 AM »
Christof Sieksbi  jayk • 5 days ago

Taibbi is like a FAT COP watching your daughter be kidnapped by guys off the street, to be raped and murdered in a ditch.

Taibbi just sat there finishing his lunch.

ONLY AFTER THE FACT does Taibbi speak up.

By law, that makes him an accomplice, as ALL "journalists" are directly responsible for all crime, all fake wars, all poverty, all homelessness, all consumer fraud, etc etc.

THERE CAN BE NO EVIL IN THE WORLD... unless the press covers it up.

They can stop ANY major company or politician in minutes. (That's WHY the rich created the press. To trick you sheep to kneel forever.)
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« Reply #26984 on: December 13, 2018, 03:31:13 AM »
:ohhh

Thank you, Christof

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« Reply #26985 on: December 13, 2018, 06:04:32 AM »
But how can you cover up something that doesn’t exist unless you’ve already covered it up? :thinking
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« Reply #26986 on: December 13, 2018, 08:53:22 AM »
If I didn't read about it, it didn't happen.  :hmph
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« Reply #26988 on: December 13, 2018, 01:38:21 PM »
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FACT: Prior to President Trump taking office, we have never built wall that high.


How the hell did this get into an official government press release.

Is John Kelly no longer restraining the WWE champion  :rejoice
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« Reply #26989 on: December 13, 2018, 02:00:02 PM »
It is quite amazing that Trump is back to where he started all those years ago when he came down the escalator.
Except he's now in a different office.

He's back to being fixated on a wall to keep bad hombre's out.
As well as telling everyone he will hire the best people while trying to troll and/or best his political opponents with publicity stunts. 

Despite dumpster fires blazing all over the place, he's completely fixated on those things.


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« Reply #26990 on: December 13, 2018, 04:16:51 PM »
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« Reply #26991 on: December 13, 2018, 05:48:55 PM »
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1073346293559410688

Jared's pulling a Cheney

Trump says he's down to 5 candidates. These names have been floated now or have visited the white house this week:

- Jared Kushner
- Matt Geatz
- Newt Gingrich
- Chris Christie
- Sean Hannity

Newt is the front runner. Can you imagine, Newt and Trump. An arsonist and a guy carrying the gasoline.
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« Reply #26992 on: December 13, 2018, 06:16:51 PM »
Newt wants that Space Force Moon Base

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« Reply #26993 on: December 13, 2018, 06:47:46 PM »
It will be Kushner. It was always going to be him.

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« Reply #26994 on: December 13, 2018, 07:16:14 PM »
It was inevitable.

Newt is a solid guess also but I'm not sure if the White House is big enough to house both their ego's.
Trump already had trouble dealing with Bannon when he took center stage. Newt is even more of a 'presence'.
Kushner would basically mean Trump can do whatever the fuck he wants and so can everyone else. He'd be even less effective than Priebus.
Maybe that's why McConnell moved the Prison reform vote. To give Kushner some sort of 'accomplishment'.
As that was Kushners things and basically all he has achieved aside from acting like a little bitch and enabling a Saudi coup.

This show is a lot of things but it is at times not predictable. No one suspected that the guy groomed for months to take over from Kelly would walk out after Kelly got fired.
Maybe Kelly sat down with Ayers to discuss what the job was like or Pence wanted to protect his golden boy from the Trumpverse blackhole.

It's gonna be fun to watch this circus repeat itself once Nielsen, Sarah and Mattis are out. A Mattis replacement should be doable (maybe at the expense of John Bolton) but finding someone to fill the shoes of Sarah or in charge of keeping the bad hombre's out...
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Remember the times when Ann Coulter told Trump he couldn't hire his family for cabinet positions. Apparently no one gives a fuck anymore.  :lol
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« Reply #26995 on: December 13, 2018, 07:38:50 PM »
I was going to say that bringing in Newt all these years later would be like the Raiders hiring Gruden, but he at least won a Super Bowl.

This would be like bringing back... Steve Mariucci? Jim Zorn?

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« Reply #26996 on: December 13, 2018, 07:47:22 PM »
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/13/trump-inauguration-spending-under-criminal-investigation-by-federal-prosecutors-dow-jones.html

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Trump inauguration spending reportedly under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors


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« Reply #26998 on: December 13, 2018, 07:56:00 PM »
 CAn he really be that dumb?!

This is like money laundering for babbies.

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« Reply #26999 on: December 13, 2018, 08:42:44 PM »
On the Trump investigation front though, it looks like Mueller is looking hard at the suspicious inauguration spending and where the record setting money disappeared to. Of note, Rick Gates was considered the shadow chair of the inauguration.

Propublica's series did a story for their Trump Inc. podcast on it.

And

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=44608.msg2425776;topicseen#msg2425776

Probably worth a newly relevant bump.

Also worth highlighting as we talk about Trump criminal competency:

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Another thing we found on this week’s “Trump, Inc.”: Two members of President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee have been convicted of financial crimes, and a third — the committee’s treasurer — was an unindicted co-conspirator in an accounting fraud.

Not an expert, but I kind of feel like if you are going to commit accounting fraud, you should pick the guy that didn't get exposed in a previous accounting fraud.  :idont


EDIT: It's in the link but the OpenSecrets and reporter Christina Wilkie's docs on individual and group contributors, which is fun to look at and contrast with the sort of regulatory and policy priorities the administration has had;

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MgxCjiw0niZxuSlfUEqbHpiLhrSL97XYOisgTzYbmVc/edit#gid=899971993
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JaV4FmB9eoS78HR1WlHIZ0aw6GEqkYi6ccdiupVmfOA/edit#gid=2076979633
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