Oh god damnit

I swear if this ends up "they tried to frame me because they're afraid of me" I will throw a whole ass dining room table

Not that I want some other woman to be hurt but him being imprisoned on false charges would just be, so, so annoying

@Unionhawk this group has been dubbed #FiveWhiteGuys on my TL

#blessed

lol of course (sorry @GodEmperorDune for the steal)

Noted progressive voice Jeff Van Drew, who rallied against marriage equality and raising the minimum wage

@TimStone yeah i dunno which of these are the 5 white guys

Yeah I'm wary of this absent an actual alternative speaker candidate whomst is good

for all my complaining about dem leadership and centrists, nancy pelosi extremely has her shit together and gets things passed

not perfect things, but decent things

i would love to drag her left with overton window and whatnot

but to quote the kids these days "this aint it, chief"

@GodEmperorDune Ryan, Perlmutter, Schrader, Foster, amd Moulton

@TimStone thanks

@GodEmperorDune eh, idk if I'd say extremely, but, certainly more than minority leader deals

Yeaaaah kind of feel like the guy who just kinda let all that Facebook shit slide for personal reasons should perhaps not be Senate Minority Leader idk

@Unionhawk certainly more than newt, john"420 is good now" boehner, and paul "kegstands to wreck the poors" ryan" as well

@TimStone same, i wonder if they would want to revote after this

but then again, neolibs

@GodEmperorDune probably more so than anyone this group of winners would go for too

@TimStone basically im at minimum a triple idiot - rich lather

lol

Absolutely not

I refuse this news

@TimStone how does he not learn this after hitting the same issues in every field he branches into?

@TimStone lmao "rich lather dba helldude"

@GodEmperorDune When you're rich you don't have to learn taps head

@TimStone "and i would've gotten away with it too if not for that meddling SEC"

Uh oh they're sending her to a farm upstate

Melania is ice cold

@TimStone NK embassy duty

Expendable Deputy Ambassador to Saudi Arabia

@TimStone Mira Bone Saw

According to law enforcement the claims against Avenatti include visible bruising on the woman in question, so indeed pretty serious

@TimStone just some other person than his wife

Correct

the facts here are insane but like either way,

the esteemed member of the new york bar is,

uh

nothx

@TimStone "him being imprisoned on false charges would just be, so, so " fascist?

I mean it would depend on the source of said charges, from the currently available information he should have been arrested, we'll see how things go

But you know, please not like this

lol rumours May might get no confidenced which just chef's kiss

@TimStone congratulations to the next PM, boris johnson

@TimStone everyone's favorite banned trader RTed this on main

lol

Of course

(the surefire intelligence twete, not the many QTs with commentary)

You'll be happy to know Weird Mike also has a take which is odd coming from someone with a sexual battery charge

Ahh Florida

@TimStone uhhhh where are the ballots

They're in those boxes in the back I assume, but what they're actually doing idk 🤷🏼‍♂️

sounds like the EU's going to be fucked

from what Phillip DeFranco has said it seems that Youtube will just block the EU rather than implement the systems to work with Article 13 (which just sound stupid because everything i hear is that it doesn't have a difference between piracy and fair use)

there's also a story on the Swatting thing. really fuck the 2 CoD Gamers and double fuck the Swatter, have him rot in prison. and there a report he was paid by another gamer $30 to swat someone else in the past so fuck that gamer to. if you encourage someone to swat regardless how connected you are to it, any death from that swatting is on you as well. you are going to be judged for the murder either here in life or in whatever afterlife

sorry, just every time i hear how it all started from 2 gamers fighting over a stupid bet it just pisses me off that someone totally unrelated had to pay the ultimate price because people are so stupid

> "I'm going to declare my gender today - as I can - to be a woman, and then you'll no longer be able to attack me," he said.

ummm, no, that's not how it works

@Memor-X Well, if Youtube is going to just block the EU, then it's unlikely that Twitch and Netflix are going to do it any different

@Nzall Netflix would be different because they don't have users uploading stuff would they?

@Memor-X oh right

@Memor-X I give him a B for effort.

@Memor-X goddammit ><

@TimStone might just be trying to take credit without having anything to do with this. But if he's actually involved, this would be such a giant mess

> don't miss out on owning a piece of American history

i love the line a journalist on ABC (Australia) said about this

> now you can sleep with the US President without needing to be a porn star

still bet you there's a "Made in China" tag on it

Man everything here is so fukt

@Memor-X There is

…

I'm not sure if they're still trying to frame it as unplanned or what because I'm still extremely unclear why the dismemberment was supposed to have been necessary if we were to believe that

@TimStone oh no they were trying to find something to revive him but kept tripping and dropping really big and sharp knives that cut him up, and when they tried to get his body out they tripped and it fall into a vat of acid

So uhh, is somebody new getting indicted soon?

rolls magic 8ball Signs point to yes

@Kevin lol

@TimStone i think i read that Mueller was preparing like 8 more i think. and something about someone called Gates

@TimStone hmm, Mr President, you're watching a video of the White House

@TimStone Oh snap, they're requesting the death penalty for 5 of the 11 defendants

Imagine executing a dissident only to be executed by your government for doing it so badly

Continuing our series of 1 step programs: Don't execute dissidents

@TimStone i got the ABC (Australia) 24 hour news channel on now and they just said that one of them was the lead negotiator to talk to Khashoggi

and he's one of the people getting the death penalty

> ok we need you to go talk wink to Khashoggi so that he will keep quite wink wink

though saying wink does not mean the same as actual winking

Trump's persecution complex is strong.

@MadScientist Gonna be real weird for anyone to argue about the scope of the investigation when the President apparently wants it to cover all possible corruption ever in the entirety of government

Nobody was burned at the stake yet, so "like no other witch hunt" doesn't seem entirely accurate

Yeah the qualifier "in American history" when we've literally had hunts for witches is a classic Trump choice

Just fantastic

Good luck in your no confidence vote lmao

OH MY GOD

The couple stealing money from the homeless man's gofundme has somehow turned into all three of them being in on it together?

1. I misread this at first and thought that one of the soldiers got entangled

2. He got entangled fleeing back to Mexico after Border Patrol tried to intercept him

/cc @Unionhawk, because I'll give you 1 guess who the governor is

Watch a slow motion train wreck unfold live!

Hooray!

The fragile house of cards that has been sustaining everything for the past year is finally crashing down

Mass Effect voice but also The Queen: Assuming Direct Control

@TimStone i heard about this and heard about the couple getting into trouble. this is just making it worse

pls

@TimStone I mean he might be on to something but won't ever consider why these kinds of shooters dehumanize people

Golly gee I'm just a simple governor and former presidential primary candidate

Which covers my bases for at least 6 governors just in case it isn't kasich

lol no it's Bevin

> “We’ve had things that are fueled by both people that are insane, people that are hateful and people that are just bent on wreaking havoc and perpetuating evil,” he said.

But enough about you

Shit

The only governor who didn't run for president

Yeah, I don't think Kasich would specifically call out zombie shows because that's just an oddly specific thing to bring up

He did generalize afterward, but

Counterpoint: it's an oddly specific thing to bring up

@fredley Politics is extremely regular here

it sounds like she's getting no confidenced

congrats to PM Boris Johnson

BoJoooooooo

@Unionhawk 10/10 tweet

k

@Unionhawk Wonderful

@TimStone BoJo Walrusman?

@TimStone Kids these days!!! shakes fist

> A Japanese minister in charge of cyber security has provoked astonishment by admitting he has never used a computer in his professional life, and appearing confused by the concept of a USB drive.

But he's an expert on the cyber.

@Yuuki When seniority trumps expertise

cc @fredley

@TimStone super yikes.... since this is in philly maybe gritty will fix it

@Yuuki The perfect cyber security posture

@TimStone jfc

@Yuuki I mean maybe he’s an expert on the social engineering part of cyber?

Oh boy here we go

@fredley what happens if the no-confidence vote succeeds? Is a no-deal Brexit the only choice then?

> The 1922 Committee, formally known as the Conservative Private Members' Committee

???

@MadScientist No confidence in the Prime Minister

Essentially it would mean a leadership election within the Tory party, now, after which we'd have a new PM

Basically complete and utter fucking chaos, when we need to be our strongest, and most stable

which would be unlikely to follow the agreement that lead to the removal of the previous PM

@Unionhawk 💫 The Conservative Party 💫

@Yuuki What we want is simple, a border with the EU so that we can trade on our own terms, but also definitely not a border in Ireland because that will start a war

(what we really want is no brexit, even if that's not what we think we want)

@fredley I'm pretty sure there's a not-insignificant number of people who know they really want no Brexit.

@Yuuki Probably at least 48.1%

So, this is probably a really stupid question, but why doesn't the UK just say "the Brexit election was rigged, it was only advisory anyway, many people regret their vote, and actually exiting the EU is a really bad idea, so we just won't do it" ?

@BradC Political capital

@fredley meaning... nobody with power is willing to risk their political skin to take that stand? Or... something else?

Regardless of whether or not it's the 'right' or 'best' thing to do, unfortunately the idea of Brexit has been sold to a lot of people who, at last count, have a large majority in some areas. In a future election, to go against what the majority of people in your constituency voted for is a ticket to getting unseated. At worst, someone even more fanatically Brexit could get the seat.

Unfortunately, democracy is rooted in representation.

@fredley But I got the impression (from afar, admittedly) that enough people regretted their vote that it isnt' any longer a majority opinion?

@BradC We wouldn't know unless we have another referendum

And most recent modelling suggests we'd be worse off reversing our decision than going into a soft Brexit at this point

Hmm, what a f...ing mess.

(no less of a mess than the US is in, admittedly)

@fredley Hey, at least you'll have a ton of money in EU fees that you can not give to NHS now.

@fredley lmao

Another referendum is a possibility, but current polling does not suggest that remain would easily win

Imagine going on the record to say that it's not a car crash. Definitely not. No car crashes here.

@fredley Good to know. And I would imagine that a confirmation of exit would be worse than not holding a new vote

@fredley thesis: technically correct is actually the worst kind of correct. In this essay,

@BradC Any certainty about anything would be much appreciated, particularly by Mr GBP

@fredley We pause from this dumpster fire to bring you this:

rubs temples

Comin' for u Jeff Bezos aka Amazon

@TimStone Lot of weirdness there, not sure what is going on. The wife confirms it wasn't her; so it must have been another woman?

@TimStone I believe the technical term here is "car crash"

@TimStone In this timeline, it really wouldn't be much of a surprise if Jacob Wohl was involved. He seemed to be pretty good at making terrible decisions

Doesn't change my opinion that Avenatti would be a horrible choice for dems in 2020

@BradC Yeah, it seems the original report was wrong, it's possible that someone just assumed it was his wife

She obviously said it wasn't her but some other source said it was another woman too

@MadScientist Yeah but then we'd have to believe he was actually able to get the police to arrest someone on false charges which on the one hand the police but on the other hand Jacob Wohl

> Asked by BBC News whether the Leave campaign told lies, former UKIP leader Nigel Farage said there had been "50 years of lies" from the EU.

So, he didn't say they didn't lie

A lie for a lie makes the whole world Brexit

@TimStone also apparently a pod save america guy was a part of this firm which lmao

@TimStone You're Fake News

@Unionhawk Yes, lol

@TimStone so young banned trader has now filed fake police reports?

@TimStone Narrator: He actually didn't

@TimStone sad that we won't get to hear the interesting contributions of a Jeb! 2016 guy

@fredley good thing farage has never lied before

@GodEmperorDune Yeah fucking great innit

for values of we meaning absolutely not me

I will only listen to that godforsaken podcast if someone recommends a particular segment wherein jon, jon, or dan get owned

I have also now learned this for the first time, today

And thus you must all learn it now too

The. Lady. And. The. Trump.

@Unionhawk CNN person going off about how they almost hired Benny J but then found out he was a plagiarist so the deal was off but somehow it wasn't off by virtue of him being Benny

@TimStone you monster

@TimStone chuckles nervously what the fuck

@TimStone listen they needed to find someone for the job

say what you will about Tim or anyone else's entire value system, this is all kind of just a game

the new sports

Imagine employing Cillizza and then thinking "Ah but can we do worse?"

@Unionhawk counterpoint tho: no

> World Patent Marketing also said "time travel" could be "possible, perhaps within the next decade" to raise money for a "theoretical time travel commodity tied directly to price of Bitcoin." Time Travel X was branded as "an investment vehicle" that could help users "relive moments from your past" or "visit your future."

syracuse.com/us-news/index.ssf/2018/11/…

That's the company the current acting attorney general was involved in

Has someone photoshopped her onto corn yet?

Golden has just won ME-2 via ranked choice

Collins is now the sole Republican Congressperson from New England

@TimStone The GOP haven't actually gotten a single additional seat since election night, have they?

All the undecided on election note regions have gone to the democrats so far I think

Uhh I guess it depends on exactly what you mean but at least not really, no

@Wipqozn No, there have been some. Its just the blue flips that have been mentioned.

Still holding out hope for Nunes to lose, but I don't think that's likely at this point

@BradC I'm not talking about flips

I mean that all the areas that were still undecided on election night have only gone to the dems

So at election night I think the GOP had 198 house seats, and 51 senate, and that hasn't changed

538's "undecided races" article is being updated as races are finalized, and yes, some have resolved toward repubs. But I guess it depends on what your "baseline" is.

fivethirtyeight.com/features/…

538, for one, already had most of those races "leaning" in the direction they ultimately resolved.

Oh yeah, I had forgotten about this

> Trump Just Blurted Out, Unprompted, That He Installed His Pet Attorney General Over the Russia Probe

I no longer have temples.

They have been worn away due to friction.

source

he just tweeted it out

dumbest timeline

@GodEmperorDune This tweet should be pinned for all of eternity.

@TimStone Incidentally, Trump (and Cruz, IIRC) have not mentioned the caravan at all since the mid-terms.

Same with Fox.

Scare tactics work, people, because my co-workers were talking about the caravan right before Election Day.

"Ehhh it's a snow day go home and also a reminder CNN is actually the most boring acronym ever"

@TimStone Unfortunate counterpoint

@TimStone goddammit

I'm sorry what

We're Mike Flynning it up because we don't want the Saudis to take heat for needlessly murdering and dismembering a critic trying to get married

Okay

@TimStone uhhhh didn't mike flynn get in trouble with the FBI for this kinda thing?

@GodEmperorDune man good thing facebook shuts this kind of thing down

an aide brings me a piece of paper we are being informed that actually what they shut down is antifascist action

@Unionhawk how much did soros pay you to criticize facebook?

$3

@GodEmperorDune Yeah but only because he wasn't allowed to kidnap people for foreign powers

@TimStone yay the power of the state

I just don't even understand this whole train of thought though

@TimStone mister bone saw told jared it was a great idea

Who is going to do something about the Saudis if not us? And if we're just going to say "We don't give a shit", who cares what Erdogan does?

@GodEmperorDune God probably

Why do they keep trying to play 4D chess with checkers instead of just yelling YAHTZEE?

Hmm Grassley seems to be putting his weight behind bringing the Mueller bill to the floor

I still haven't read it to know what it actually does, but it seems likely we'll eventually get a vote on it unless McConnell can wear down Flake

it forces people to thank jeff flake for his service

and erect a billboard in his honor like "JEFF FLAKE PUT COUNTRY OVER PARTY WILL YOU"

along my driving route to DSA stuff, next to the john mccain one

Good dog

@TimStone I assume this is the same Turkish dude in exile that Flynn was reportedly strategizing about ways to kidnap before inauguration?

@BradC yeah

Some days I'm still flabbergasted that none of these scandals, many of which are astounding in their corruption and brazenness, seem to really have a lasting impact.

Just goes to show that if you don't have any shame, then you can get away with a whole crap-load of stuff before someone comes along with the power and will to stop you

Single-issue voters only care about single issues.

My copy of Seth Abramson's "Proof of Collusion - How Trump Betrayed America" just arrived. Haven't had much chance to get into it to far, but it looks like it will be good on a number of levels:

1. Good reminder of the consequential reporting that we've long forgotten about

2. Nice chronological summary of events; so much of the mainstream reporting was out-of order

3. Ties it all together in a cohesive narrative

As Seth says in the intro, we're just so programmed to think "it can't really be that bad, can it?"

The President of the United States didn't really knowingly cooperate with a hostile foreign power for money, and to win an election?

Yes, yes he actually did.

cc David Brooks

I'm hoping that the book gets some traction, but "these 300 pages paint a plausible narrative" isn't quite as headline-grabbing as individual stories that uncover some small single new piece

My understanding is that Jonathan Franzen has regrettably done something, again, but I do not currently know what that is and whew is that a relief

why is the district attorney a dot org

and not like, a dot ny dot gov

The internet is a bad place, okay

If you'll recall Newsweek management was originally under investigation for ad fraud

This is apparently a separate other type of fraud which related people also did, as one does

Extremely skeptical

I mean are they going with "not a threat; a promise" here?

Possibly. But I refuse to believe he didn't threaten anything, even if it was completely unrelated

"I'm gonna nuke a country if I don't get a coke" or something asinine like that

Ontario PCs slash spending and oversight, unveil tax cut and new LCBO hours in 1st economic plan: cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/…

Of course they are

The bad news, is that we are dissolving every government function

BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS YOU CAN BUY BEER 1 MORE HOUR PER DAY

> Exempting new rental units from rent control, which the government says will encourage developers to build more affordable housing

🤔

I know they just don't care but how is that supposed to make sense?

YIMBY mindset

the free market will just build affordable housing,

It will be interesting when Quebec invades over these anti-French actions though

because there is incentive to build units

which is why there are no empty units in say, cincinnati, or seattle

bc they reduce rent rather than let them sit empty waiting for someone willing to pay high rent

(this is, as it turns out, not what happens in the real world!)

> The government intends to extend hours of LCBO stores, allowing them to sell alcohol between 9 a.m. and 11 p.m. every day of the week. It also committed to developing a plan to bring beer and wine sales to convenience and big box stores.

Yes! We are allowing developers to build rent uncontrolled units, but did we mention BEER???

#forthepeople

what do you think the next move here is

allowing developers to rebuild currently controlled units?

There is, 100% honest, a "fire can't melt steel beams" take on Twitter dot com re the California fires

@TimStone What, that they don't exist?

Someone set them on purpose?

@TimStone how'd they get around KY's bizarre "murder can't be a hate crime" thing, by charging him with battery with a firearm too?

Because the latter is entirely likely. One of the biggest fires of last year was started intentionally.

@Yuuki Would you buy space lasers?

@Unionhawk I assume because it's a federal charge they can just not care that Kentucky is dumb as hell?

Oh I missed federal and am stupid

In that order

I mean it's an important point here that Kentucky is dumb as hell in that regard

Remembering battery with a firearm as a charge reminds me of the van dyke verdict read

Yeah that's not it

(but also she's doing this again)

hell yeah

That was a good day

There is a Ratio in progress

1k / 30 in 15 minutes, my god

@Yuuki current thinking is that it was downed power lines

thats democracy baby

awoouu

(wolf howl)

@Unionhawk not just a majority, a supermajority? holyshit

DEMOCRACY

status-bydesign

the system works

@GodEmperorDune For this year's wildfires?

totally legitimate

@Yuuki the two big ones in california right now, yes

sparks + high winds + low humidity

damage magnified by building housing in fire prone areas

and fire intensity magnified by prolonged drought from climate change and water policies

to be fair, the definition of fire prone areas is expanding

sure, there is some difference in what we thought was fire prone before and now new research and such

no I mean in that eventually goddamn everywhere is going to be fire prone

and that we have 12 years for that to not be the case

Counterpoint some of it will be underwater and thus not