This Is Fine - 2018-06-24

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2:03 AM

@Unionhawk Ugh, seriously?

2:32 AM

When the Blackberry's came up at the May 30th hearing, Cohen whispered something to his lawyer, who then said the phones were very old, might belong to his wife, and they were unsure what, if anything was on them. @mattshuham https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/judge-rejects-cohens-attempt-to-drag-out-doc-review https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1010657550524669952?s=19

Tweeted by TCleveland4Real on June 24, 2018 at 2:30 AM

lol "Look my wife might have done crimes who knows?" defense

3:22 AM

@TimStone i just heard this on the news a few seconds ago, i cracked up laughing

3:51 AM

@SaintWacko yep

I'm actually completely surprised nobody got arrested

I thought for sure one of the socialist alternative members would face arrest

4:06 AM

Here was my on the ground view of officer rainbow Oktoberfest telling us to wrap it up:

Tweeted by Unionhawk on June 23, 2018 at 7:17 PM in reply to Unionhawk

tag yourself, im officer rooftop

For real though, that sucks

Definitely not the scenario I had planned on having police interaction this year lol

(my planned scenario was Spencey but since he's out of money and couldn't pay UC for the security costs he would incur, or because he decided it wasn't worth the investment to have 2 guys show up to listen to his bullshit, that has been cancelled)

Fun additional story: the SWAT squad was across the street from some absolutely trash "Jesus is coming" sign dude

Like if you're going to even fuckin be here why not zip tie that guy lol

Imagine bringing in the cops in any capacity beyond blocking roads lol

And even then like they parked a city dump truck in the middle of a closed highway exit

Like that guy and the DOT sign has that exit covered

10 hours later…

2:17 PM

Kushner: Mideast peace plan will be released soon http://hill.cm/BhK2ztU

Tweeted by thehill on June 24, 2018 at 2:09 PM

lol

@TimStone what is his job in the White House? because i thought he didn't have the security clearance

He does now magically

the fact that the white lady who called the cops on a black 8-year-old selling water 'without a permit' makes a living selling weed to dogs is so incredibly 2018

Tweeted by evepeyser on June 24, 2018 at 7:29 AM

I had seen the reports of what happened but I missed this follow up detail and for the love of god 🤦🏼‍♂️

user15026

2:52 PM

Like...shes the epitome of White People

3:04 PM

@TimStone the only question will be just how terrible that plan will be.

Former Trump adviser to black panelist: "You're out of your cotton-picking mind"

they're not even bothering with hiding their racism anymore

Yeah, it's...it's not good :/

But don't worry I'm sure today will be sa...ah the President has tweeted again

@TimStone multiple people have made this observation, but a certain kind of white person uses 911 as their dang customer service line

The Pokemon Evolutions of Sarah Sanders

New CBS News Battleground polls in three diverse Senate battlegrounds: FL: Rick Scott (R) +5 over Bill Nelson (D) (46-41%) AZ: Kyrsten Sinema (D) +8 over Martha McSally (R) (45-37%) TX: Ted Cruz (R) +10 over Beto O'Rourke (D) (50-40%) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-battleground-tracker-arizona-florida-texas-immigration-and-key-senate-races/

Tweeted by HotlineJosh on June 24, 2018 at 3:14 PM

3:29 PM

Apologies in advance for a hot take but I gotta address this sentiment as a whole:

Last week: Anthony Bourdain was amazing because he taught us about breaking bread with different kinds of people and getting to know each other over food. This week: But not you.

Tweeted by karol on June 24, 2018 at 4:35 AM

WE ALREADY KNOW WHO SARAH SANDERS IS: A BAD PERSON

@TimStone also lol because bourdain had a specific policy against breaking bread with kissinger

Yes, lol

But it's just such a tired argument, like she didn't have to really work at being horrible for this to have happened

I can't even remember Obama's press secretaries except the last one and while I can remember what he looks like I'm having a hard time remembering his name

Yet we all know Sarah Sanders because she makes a point of being horrible

Didn't know Raj Shah was deputy press secretary until he started saying absurd shit too

Who would even care about Stephen Miller if he didn't feast on the flesh of the innocent while doing racisms?

Florida AG driven out of screening of Mr. Roger's movie by protesters chanting "shame on you" http://hill.cm/C9y3uS8

Tweeted by thehill on June 24, 2018 at 8:46 AM

No one would even know who Pam Bondi was if her whole schtick wasn't being corrupt as hell

Top government ethics official says that a $500 million loan from the Chinese government to an Indonesian real estate development that includes Trump-brand properties “raises serious concerns.” But only Congress has authority to investigate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-business-dealings-raises-serious-concerns-ethics-office-says/2018/06/22/b71de20a-7642-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html?utm_term=.bbdc9de39728

Tweeted by RobertMaguire_ on June 24, 2018 at 3:39 PM

🤷

Look people are committing crimes every day but people really only make a point of penalizing the worst individuals

(please click thru)

3:49 PM

@TimStone i just got 14 cavities by looking at that

Erie, PA was a mistake

Oh boy

4:03 PM

did we really expect trump to take any kind of hard stance on russia, given his personal history?

I mean not really but I guess the insinuation here is that Russia is coming after more than just Crimea

(although lol that trump thinks putin called him brilliant once back in the day due to a mistranslation of "flamboyant")

4:32 PM

@GodEmperorDune the other day I saw a bit of him driving a Tesla like "it handles crushing the 99% under it very well"

4:53 PM

secim.ntv.com.tr ughhhhhhhh

erdogan is winning

only 55% of the votes are read but still

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ughhhhhhhhhhh

@Ave sorry fam

hm now I see why it's illegal to sell alcohol on election day

that's a weird rule

With a little tweaking that map could be coming up Jeb!, which would be an improvement here :/

5:28 PM

Non-TR tweeps: this is very likely not true. It is the report from state run AA news agency which is almost certainly misreporting the results to demoralize election monitors abd build a narrative of Erdogan legitimately winning. https://twitter.com/ap/status/1010927432369664000

Tweeted by akcayerol on June 24, 2018 at 5:19 PM

5:47 PM

.@SenSanders declines to join call for abolishing ICE on #CNNSOTU https://cnn.it/2Mkz4rn

Tweeted by jaketapper on June 24, 2018 at 4:45 PM

movement not brand, policies not politicians

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7:14 PM

@GodEmperorDune interesting

ince also tweeted about that

but IDK

Sandık görevlisi arkadaşlarım; an itibariyle YSK’nın sisteminde sandıkların yüzde 37’si açılmış gözükmektedir. Televizyonlarda ise Anadolu Ajansı kaynaklı sandıkların yüzde 85’inin açıldığı yönünde haberler yapılmakta/sonuç açıklanmaktadır. Sandıkları terk etmeyin!

Tweeted by vekilince on June 24, 2018 at 6:19 PM

"My dear <people who handle voting stuff voluntarily> friends, right now the systems of <govt's election dept> YSK say that only 37% of the ballot boxes have been opened. The AA stats state that 85% are open. Don't leave your ballot boxes."

user15026

So basically, they're saying more is done than it is to make it sound like he is winning with a lesser chance of not winning so people will give up and give in and not try to vote for change?

user15026

That's icky.

@Ash voting is done

this is more about people leaving their counting jobs. We're still on paper ballots etc.

user15026

Ah, okay

user15026

It's still icky and ridiculous.

user15026

7:26 PM

:(

@TimStone lol oh boy

WaPo editorial board, did you just wake up from a 50 year coma? https://www.propublica.org/article/for-abortion-providers-a-constant-barrage-of-personalized-harassment

Tweeted by ParkerMolloy on June 24, 2018 at 7:29 PM

yup

Inject the false equivalence directly into my veins

OK I gotta say it confuses me so much when people complaining about dasharez0ne "being political" or calling dril "our guy" and it's like have you ever read these tweets

lol

7:53 PM

HUGE: Detained migrants tell @TexasTribune they’ve been promised their kids in exchange for deportation https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/24/kids-exchange-deportation-migrants-claim-they-were-promised-they-could/?utm_campaign=trib-social-buttons&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social via @byjayroot

Tweeted by eramshaw on June 24, 2018 at 4:09 PM

me as teen with an f-150 growing up in ft worth: “oh hell yeah” me as a grown man: “god is dead” https://nyti.ms/2MRlI7b?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Tweeted by MikeIsaac on June 24, 2018 at 4:39 PM

It's somehow not a joke, it is in the article

BREAKING!!! Los Angeles City Council Pres. @HerbJWesson has introduced a motion to amend the City Charter to allow LA to form a public bank! The measure will be placed on the Nov 2018 ballot for the State General Election. Show up to support June 26th! https://www.facebook.com/events/2132587770359120

Tweeted by publicbankla on June 23, 2018 at 6:36 PM

Hmm

8:17 PM

The Trump Administration Is Threatening to Pull Title X Funding From Organizations That Provide Abortion Services

> While the focus of the rule may be abortion, however, the largest impact will be to cut off people (women and men alike) from affordable birth control. Both of the people chosen to run the Title X program under the Trump administration promote policies and messaging that say sex is for procreation only, and that people should wait until marriage to have sex.

Did you guys know it's the 1800s?

In America it is! WEEEEEEEE

Or the GOP is trying their hardest to make it that way

REMEMBER THE GOOD OLD DAYS WHEN OLD WHITE MEN HAD IT THE BEST? THE GOP REMEMBERS!

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oh huh

C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America

C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America is a 2004 American mockumentary that is directed by Kevin Willmott. It is an account of an alternate history, wherein the Confederacy wins the American Civil War and establishes a new Confederate States of America that incorporates the majority of the Western Hemisphere, including the former contiguous United States, the "Golden Circle", the Caribbean, and South America. The film primarily details significant political and cultural events of Confederate history from its founding until the early 2000s. This viewpoint is used to satirize real-life issues...

that's where that commerical was from

I bet this film is more relevant than ever

> The Title X programs has been rewritten to eliminate any mention of contraception. Instead, Trump officials have argued, women should be taught “refusal skills” (aka abstinence). The Department of Health and Human Services announced that funds will be directed to “just say no” programs instead of comprehensive reproductive health programs

The more I read the worse it gets

> In Texas millions of dollars earmarked for contraception services went instead to anti-choice organizations like the Heidi Group, an anti-choice group run by Infowars guest and conspiracy theorist Carol Everett, who claims that birth control leads to beastiality, that abortion providers throw fetal tissue into the water supply and expose the population to HIV and Ebola, and that sex education turns teenagers gay. The Heidi Group received more the $13 million in family planning dollars in 2017.

And worse

IT didn't work of course, and they had 4 million of that revoked

not all of it, just some of it

not even half

I'm assuming this is coming more from Pence than Trump, because something tells me "wait until marriage" isn't something Trump believes in

8:33 PM

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:(

this is AA data but still

i'm fucking loving the memes tho

one, two, three

9:03 PM

My son just said "Power to the people" and I'm not sure when he was hanging out with @Unionhawk

9:16 PM

@TimStone mauve your son IS @Unionhawk

:O

@TimStone maybe your son IS @Unionhawk

Gosh darn it mobile

lol @ mauve being the first autocorrect suggestion

Yeah it's good stuff

9:49 PM

@TimStone welcome to the resistance @SonStone

10:25 PM

@SonStone join YDSA

actually that's not quite news

1. Unsurprisingly, this bit of kneejerk onanism from the WaPo editorial board completely misses the significance of this whole episode. In fact, it gets it wrong in exactly the same way Very Serious People have been getting in wrong in DC for decades. https://twitter.com/lfung/status/1010961280197259264

Tweeted by drvox on June 24, 2018 at 7:20 PM

@Unionhawk I regret to inform you that he's joining a group with @Yuuki instead because technically he was just repeating a pun about switches we heard on How It's Made

@TimStone +1 for raising your child on the correct shows

@GodEmperorDune Yeah, I got mad about this above (but not via this thread)

@TimStone Listen, as long as that isn't a democratic centralist organization,

10:28 PM

@TimStone tbh your veins are going to overload from all the false equivalence and other bad takes

At least it will end

The owner of the restaurant Sanders got kicked out of polled her staff to decide what to do and this was the result. Like to have whoever happens to be working a) know who you are b) be unhappy knowing who you are, maybe you just in fact are Bad

@TimStone yeah i read the wapo profile of her and it seemed reasonable

she even comped the meal they had so far after SHS offered to pay

Part of it is Trump himself, possibly, but like, if Sonny Perdue walked into a restaurant as Trump's USDA chief it seems unlikely anyone would kick him out because no one has been made to care who he is by his mere minor commitment to doing Bad Things

I know he's a heavier set white Southern dude but that would not help me pick him out of a lineup

Sanders job is to be in the media light but she'd still be far less relevant herself if not for the gaslighting she does on a regular basis

whereas pruitt would get tossed immediately, which is why he has his aides eat for him then regurgitate it later

@GodEmperorDune lol wait she tried to pay but then got on Twitter and put on the tough act?

10:41 PM

@TimStone yepppp

@GodEmperorDune I'd just serve him some army base water

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