@TimStone THis is my shocked face. It looks very similar to my regular face.
@puzzlepiece87 It's honestly both hilarious and unsettling how close this is to the dilbert quote I'm thinking of, especially since I'm pretty sure Scott Adams thinks Donald Trump is the second coming or something.
@MadScientist The SDNY one is less forgiving I think
Mueller's document details the extent to which Cohen has cooperated in the SCO's investigation, though points out he still lied a lot and that what he did was pretty serious. It doesn't make a recommendation of sentence length but says it would be appropriate that time served be concurrent with the charges from SDNY
> Fourth, Cohen described the circumstances of preparing and circulating his response to the congressional inquiries, while continuing to accept responsibility for the false statements contained within it.
Meanwhile, in Manafort-land: The judge just entered an order indicating Mueller's office is submitting its memo to the court about Manafort's alleged plea breach under seal, and the judge ordered the redacted version be filed publicly
So anyway yeah the President, per prosecutors, did a felony. Very cool. It doesn't matter because no one's going to impeach over financial crimes because whomst amongst us, but
> The company, backed by investors including private equity firm Willis Stein & Partners of Chicago, is the latest in a series of for-profit colleges to close after allegations that they were loading students up with debt while not providing them with marketable skills
> Birmingham, Alabama-based Education Corp. of America said it was closing schools operating as ... Golf Academy of America
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> two-year golf college offering an associate's degree in Golf Operations and Management with a curriculum of golf instruction and golf business management
> Politics is, as Chris Hooks wrote in 2016, “the way we distribute pain”—it’s “how we determine who gets medication and who dies young, who learns in a class of twenty kids and who learns in a class of thirty.” But what is politics if you’re privileged enough to insulate yourself from that pain?
If you're wondering how Sean Hannity is reacting to the Cohen news on his radio show, he's currently fantasizing about Trumps new AG investigating Hillary
tfw you start a lobbying firm before you're done with the whole voting on bills thing
The current topic at the right-wing American Priority Conference in DC: "Why you should subscribe to PewDiePie." Perhaps a dozen people are in the audience.
> Ethics watchdogs say the situation makes a mockery of the rules restricting lawmakers from working as lobbyists until they’ve been out of office for at least one year.
Amber Heard shared that if Jason Momoa felt he wasn’t getting enough attention from her, he would tear pages out of whatever book she was reading at the time https://vult.re/2EhonG4
Trump has finally realized he just might be in some trouble, Roger Stone says:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/us/politics/manafort-special-counsel-lies.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
