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Ahahahahahaha

> i don't recognize the authority of a court that is run by LIZARD PEOPLE!

@TimStone holy shit into the sea

@TimStone goddammit

@TimStone is trump foolish enough to assume that all foreign election interference will benefit him?

@TimStone this is gonna be gud

@GodEmperorDune I suspect the most likely explanation is that they're trying to free up a slush fund within DHS to build the wall

@Memor-X Contracts... Contractors... Guys, I think I know how he's going to get the wall built without having any money for it!

@SaintWacko It's going to look pretty shitty when the prez stiffs the people building the very thing he promised they'd be paid for.

Oh...oh dear :|

I mean, everyone involved seemed to want to be involved so like...whatever from that perspective, but uhhh this is going to be hard to separate if my son tries to bring up one of those videos on his tablet >_>

@TimStone uhhhhhhh wat

@TimStone ok I cannot stop laughing at the artists rendering

Hard to say who to trust more but Rod Rosenstein hasn't set up a GoFundMe for himself yet so I'm leaning in that direction 🤷‍♂️

It really makes the most sense at this point

presented as honestly the occam's razor theory at this point

@TimStone Ugh I guess I am in agreement with the President

Except for the last part where the campaign that didn't even bother with Wisconsin had a backup plan in case the guy who definitely wasn't going to win won

Because c'mon now 🙄

Ah, well

lmfao

Love too have my own party pray I don't ruin everything

@TimStone Daaamn, 18 crashes in 0 km. Did they just park a car on a highway?

lol

@TimStone what is this, 1986?

Link posted last night by Tim, but worth a re-up so it doesn't get lost in the noise:

> “The clear assessment from the intelligence community is that 2020 is going to be the perfect storm,” said a DHS official familiar with the teams. “We know Russia is going to be engaged. Other state actors have seen the success of Russia and realize the value of disinformation operations. So it’s very curious why the task forces were demoted in the bureaucracy and the leadership has not committed resources to prepare for the 2020 election.”

"""curious"""

Right. Less curious and more right-in-line-with-what-I'd-expect-of-this-clearly-corrupt-administration

lol

@TimStone this is the plan that was due early last year?

@TimStone I assume the plan depends on the reelection of netanyahu (I'm not correcting that I don't care you know who I mean)

the plan will be dead on arrival anyway

or the refusal of the Palestinians to agree with it will be used as justification to just support Israel outright

@MadScientist i mean the plan will probably call for a lot of palestinians to die

@Unionhawk This is my assumption too, that it's actually just "What if Bibi did more war crimes? 🤔"

the war with Iran is still on the schedule somewhere

Barr will be confirmed at 12:30 today

we r going to go somewhere else where people won't complain about us, one of the largest companies in the world, getting gifted three billion public dollars

> We do not intend to re-open the HQ2 search at this time. We will proceed as planned in Northern Virginia and Nashville,

Seems to be consensus on this point tho

> Thank you again to Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio, and the many other community leaders and residents who welcomed our plans and supported us along the way.

He's running down to the local courthouse now to certify his name change screaming "Come back, come back!"

@TimStone Palestine will have to compromise on not having their own state and Israel will have to compromise on not being allowed to genocide Palestinians.

(For three months. After that, anything goes)

(for those that don't remember Andrew Cuomo literally said "I will change my name to Amazon Cuomo if that's what it takes for them to come here" because he is Andrew Cuomo)

@TimStone bootlicker of the highest order

not the maximum bootlicker tho

I want to just tweet this link at him now

@Ash Yeah, they need to revisit their idea of making gun shelters for schools

Yes that's actually a thing, and it wouldn't even fit all the students

RICH CHILDREN FIRST PLEASE

Looks like the UK is getting in on the whole civil asset forfeiture thing: twitter.com/LancsARV/status/1088301508192542720

@Ash amp.businessinsider.com/…

> The first shelter was installed at an Oklahoma elementary school in 2015, and hundreds of American schools have them today.

> This 5-by-6-foot shelter was constructed for a classroom at Healdton Elementary in Oklahoma. Featuring 6,000 pounds of steel, it can fit 20 students and costs $20,000.

Oh looks like they did a school shooting drill too!

@Ash I assume they aren't joking at all, that's literally how it works in the US -- the assets seized go to the police department (or are split between them and the feds, depending)

I don't know if it works the same way in the UK but I would not be surprised.

An eternal truth, brought to you by Andrew McCabe, excerpted by the Atlantic:

Every Day Is a New Low in Trump's White House

I think it might be time to recognize that the Cold War has started up again, and Russia's a lot better at it this time

It's too bad

it's made me a lot of money so I'm not complaining

I would have enjoyed visiting Russia, but considering I currently work for a defense contractor... that seems like a bad idea

checks clock Oh, Barr has been confirmed

🦀🦀🦀R KELLY IS GOING TO JAIL🦀🦀🦀

Avenatti is just a rollercoaster of a character in this whole story

Avenatti seems to have his fingers in every pie these days

He also just gave up his law firm so this is all very confusing

hes running

From jail time, yes

@Unionhawk highly doubtful that he would get any serious traction at this point.

That's too bad for my friend who bet his SA account on him being the next president again, after getting banned because he said he wasn't running

Oh I guess Rosenstein is on his way out now too?

And Whitaker is back to selling toilets

Tim Faust on Pramila Jayapal's upcoming M4A bill

"See it's actually good to push people to the point of revolution" is certainly a take

(a key specific difference between Rep Jayapal's bill and Sen Sander's bill is a more robust commitment to the core principle of "comprehensive care", by including long term care rather than delegating it to state medicaid programs)

(sherrod brown is additionally expected to release a plan to just reduce the medicare age to 50 and call that good enough (to be clear it'd be good I guess but not good enough))

Vote closed 54-45 on Barr

what is that, just every republican?

Uhhh good question

Ughhhhhhhhhhh

Yeah I'm sure the banks making their own individual cryptocurrencies isn't the dumbest thing ever and won't cause huge issues

ffs

@Unionhawk No, Rand Paul did in fact vote no

Jones, Manchin, and Sinema

so all except paul

with no opposition defections

sips coffee

Yeah, though I guess I didn't know enough about Sinema

She used to be cool but now she isn't

essentially

Checks out

like literal former freegan anarchist

still photographs reveal note saying "Agreement to Let Me Do Crimes"

@TimStone A cryptocurrency tied to the US dollar?

What is that even?

Why not just use US dollars?

so that you can leverage the blockchain in the cloud to do synergy

and create opportunities to create value

business business business

I have just been informed that those 3 messages qualify me for an MBA

not one from an accredited college or anything but

It's true, it's just Science Business™

@TimStone Is that good or bad for those that want Trump to be punished if Mueller manages to prove collusion?

Ehhhhhh, possibly not great? I can't say for certain. But it's generally bad for other reasons

It's...probably a better state of affairs than having Whitaker as acting AG

Its generally thought that he's more qualified for the job of attorney general, at least relatively speaking.

But in this case that may in fact mean "more adept at doing Trump's bidding in hindering and/or obfuscating the results of the Mueller investigation", then that's not necessarily good news

Perhaps. Didn't Congress pass a bill that a summary has to be provided to them, regardless of what happens to the full report?

@Frank not that I'm aware of, no.

At least not both houses

@Frank Some speculation that House committees could request or even subpoena the report, but it is unclear whether they intend to do so, or whether it would be honored

moran

@BradC he'll also declare a national emergency

nytimes.com/2019/02/14/us/politics/…

So he will sign the bill keeping the government open, but will also declare an emergency as a way to try to scramble some alternate source of funding? Guess I'll wait and see what happens

I'm sure we'll get some really intelligent take from like, ross douthat, or someone, that says like "see you just need to work with this president"

"why congress should have approved funding for this pointless monument to racism"

looooooooooooooool

This is likely going to get really bad and dumb but otherwise this is amazing

good thing the senate minority leader hasn't been packing the courts with vampires

wait

hm

Yeah, I'm not sure exactly how challenges work here, but I guess we'll find out

It's just incredible that if you were actually going to do this you'd wait until you already looked bad for shutting the government down and then accepting a deal that your talking heads don't even like

challenges fail here because gestures broadly at the number of guys leader schumer traded for like 9 days of campaigning

@Unionhawk tbf I assume the challenge would be heard in the D.C. Circuit court which only has one Trump-nominated judge (two if Neomi Rao is confirmed). I'm not sure what the general feel here is either because it's just remarkably dumb

@TimStone yeah but his base doesn't care.

Like there's probably not much disagreement about the goal but you can get there in far less dumb ways

On the plus side we've already gotten my fiancee's tax refund which is a little shocking

I've still got to figure out how the hell to file a 1099-B that just says "yeah there was a sale grossing this much on this day but idk anything else about it"

Because the answer is not "just treat it as a 100% short term gain"

absolutely not, I am not flipping from like $1500 refund to $500 owe

That's Taxes™

I'd also be remiss if I didn't point out that Sarah Sanders announced that Trump would do a national emergency in the notes app

I think I have it figured out?

The Corporation Wars are starting out a lot more boring than I anticipated

Yay democracy

You should tbh

WE COMPETED AND WONL>KSHFLKJDSHLKJDJHFD

who wants to play: "GIVE! AMAZON! THREE BILLION DOLLARS!"

$11B profit in 2018 $0 in federal tax

our main headquarters is actually on the internet not in seattle

Ohhhhhhhh

lmao

You guys seriously need to leave Amazon alone. It's just a small, family run business struggling to get by. Why Bezos can't even afford a proper table!

25,000 tech jobs in queens is called "25k new gentrifiers" btw

So with the emergency declaration the House can vote on a joint resolution to disband it and then the Senate is required by law to bring it to the floor

Within like 18 days

Narrator: There would be and that's a dumb thing to even say

Oh okay, so he does take cholesterol medicine

That makes more sense now, I thought we were pretending he didn't

@Unionhawk jfc

He gained 4 pounds

which pretty much is meaningless

Public Citizen and the "I voted for Trump to build a metaphorical wall through my butterfly preserve" people are both already preparing legal action against the emergency declaration

given that most people fluctuate by roughly that amount on a year to year basis

A thread with some very questionable takes from the state Senators :|

Look, we need to be able to legally execute jesus again if the time comes

that's just common sense

everybody knows that

(amazon threatened to do this unless the head tax got repealed)

Question: if Trump now uses a National Emergency for his wall, could a Democratic president decide to trigger one for gun control or climate change?

@Nzall That's exactly why even a lot of Republicans were iffy about a declaration of national emergency.

> Trump is apparently so eager to please the pro-gun extremists at the National Rifle Association (NRA) that he scrubbed a mention of “gun violence” from his official statement about the anniversary of the tragedy, bizarrely replacing it with the phrase “school violence.”

i think there's a pattern here

@murgatroid99 oh ffs

And I thought Obama going wild with drone strikes was a bad use of presidential powers

you know there doesn't need to be a special place in hell for those who wanted Brexit without having a plan for it. i think they are just making it already in the UK

@Ash The cat with the lion roar killed me

@Unionhawk I dunno; a company actively avoiding it's tax burden doesn't seem like a win for any city.

@Frank (Lloyd is senior chairman of Goldman Sachs, and former chief executive officer)

@Unionhawk So, basically, all about the money.

Yeah he does not care about this move except to the extent that it impacts his "coincidental" investments

@BradC It's weird too because they used the correct line in callout quote in the WH mailer