Like if he was just a random senator it'd be one thing but foreign governments are just going to punish his state specifically so 🤷🏼‍♂️

@TimStone he's a bit fuct either way

either foreign pressure on his constituents or trump campaigns against him

@TimStone LOL

@GodEmperorDune I mean maybe, but he's not even up for reelection until 2020, and if Trump's still around then I doubt he'll have much time to pick on him

what about your name tho?

does giuliani get paid per ridiculous thing he says that gets picked up by the media?

No but he also thinks he does

lolsob

@TimStone Hmmmmmmmm

It's an unauthorized disclosure of information investigation

There's no way the DOJ is going after Nunes but I would be able to die happy if they did

Yeah, legal Twitter says it must be a SSCI leak

@TimStone ahahahahaha

In dropping the case the agreement stated that Greitens' team acknowledged the DA had sufficient evidence to move forward

(for the computer-tampering charge; part of the agreement was that he would resign)

@TimStone "Gun graduation pick"?

err autocorrect, *picture

Still not familiar.

mmm

NRA took a picture of her at her "graduation" with an M16 for protection

@quartata Normally this would be just normal stupid but of course she got many job offers and is now a minor celebrity for no particular reason so it is in fact Extra Stupid

I also feel like we covered it briefly but I can't find it in here

indeed.

I uhhhh

As...one...does?

I talked to a reporter once better shut this show down

Hooly shit

@TimStone and this was what i woke up too

he really doesn't know how to shut up does he?

did we do kevin hart yet

its not even worth posting a specific example, everyone knows what im talking about. lets all point and laugh and be done with it

You'll never guess what Trump discussed at that FEMA event the water bottle gif is from

Himself!

Somehow still not the Onion

Also one assumes major points against his "we love Chick-fil-A" claim

I would love to never speak of Jake Paul again but that's horrible for so many reasons and it is terrible that society continues to reward someone like that

@TimStone yeh, it's almost like that "redemption" tour he did after his Japan Visit improved nothing about him

or was that Logan Paul

@Memor-X this

(I didn't know who either of them were until the whole Logan Paul fiasco)

@Chippies ahhh, keep getting the 2 confused

@Memor-X I also for quite some time, when saw someone mention Jake Paul, thought to myself "isn't his name Logan?"

I assume they're siblings

@Chippies they are

Into the trash can with the lot of 'em

it kinda annoys me that there are complete douchebags that don't bring anything to the world and get insane money for being douchebags

but I also support being able to do your own thing and get paid for it, so there's conflicting feelings

I mean, it's pretty cool that someone of their age could be making a ton of money by doing what they enjoy, but I hate that so many douchebags get rewarded for being douchebags

Indeed

There's probably plenty of people doing good stuff we don't hear about but I'd still be alright not hearing about the douchebags on account of them not being notable

@TimStone the worst part is that them being notable for doing bad stuff is only helping them in the long run

most of their fans will love them regardless of what they do and the bad publicity means people who hadn't heard of them have a reason to check them out so while they might be getting some backlash from some people, overall it's a win for them

It has been 5 years since the Edward Snowden PRISM leaks

wow, time flies

🙂

Work to your dead is the solution to all the worlds problems

@Unionhawk To be fair, the tweet is misquoting the article which is confusing since its their own publication 🤔

To be fair, loud farting noises

🤷

It's saying you might not be totally screwed if you have that option but doesn't say it's a good thing

Instead of the normative "should" they should use the descriptive "will have to [...] in order to survive"

I mean it's the same thing

why do we have to

is the more important question here

I disagree that it's the same thing, but agree on what the important question is.

Same

@TimStone I mean to be fair it's the more cautious opposite of "Wanted for attempted murder, show up for work at the White House"

He had previous things for assault and stuff too!

Just incredible background checking

@ToxicFrog I mean ultimately it doesn't matter, the "workers should just work forever" analysis exists whether or not politico is making that point here

"one cool tip to earn money when you reach retirement age 1) never retire"

"yeah actually the way things are going you guys might have to do that but that sucks"

@Unionhawk my point is more that "should" implies that you have a choice but one option is better than the others, or that it's a thing you might want to do that will make life easier for you later

Like, no-one says "millenials should be willing to breathe an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere and eat food"

I mean we should be willing to do that as it turns out

None of this is my fault because politico played telephone game with themself first

"might have to but that's bad" is just the next logical step from "should as in because making money is cool" really

er, maybe the next late capitalism step

I mean you need analysis to quantify problems, idk

But regardless

The President has made a joke

I apologise for nothing

you should be

@TimStone I suppose it is easy to discount this when we have the dumbest analysts possible in our current moment

There is a whole debate on the importance of theory on the left (you need both theory and praxis is the answer to the debate; meet people where they're at, but also don't just assume that people aren't ever going to get it)

Luckily for you I have some timely police-state / late-capitalism crossover material for you

@Unionhawk Sure, but I still don't know how to continue the questline to get Theory and I've almost maxed out the affinity chart for Praxis.

@TimStone That architect looks smarter every day.

@Yuuki amazon.com/No-Shortcuts-Organizing-Power-Gilded/dp/019062471X

@Unionhawk i'm not a millennial however so long as i get paid i'll work

@TimStone That shot with the kid, their lemonade stand, and a bunch of people in suits is just inherently comedic.

speaking of no shortcuts I need to read no shortcuts

@TimStone for a moment there i thought you was going to say he hit and run a cop on his way out

That would have been extremely 2018 but no we're not quite there

fuckin YO

hell yeah

@TimStone surprisingly the joke bit is not terrible, just dumb

I've heard worse jokes from @Yuuki almost every time he makes one

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fuck off

@Unionhawk If we can deport people who provide material support to terrorists, can we ship out the entire federal government for increasing aid to Saudi Arabia?

I have some bad news for you

Concerning the nature of the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia and israel

@Unionhawk Not only has this already been posted, it's the top starred item.

INB4-ED

@KevinvanderVelden I was just doing that but then I noticed the stars for double shaming

like I know the democrats didn't pick the embed image

but lol

@Unionhawk I was going to post this here but was uncertain about its news-worthiness

@quartata it's one of the two major political parties (accidentally) using our platform to promote their vision of more Americans having the care they deserve

our vision of course is s/more/all

> White House spokesman: Reports that Trump would skip G-7 summit made us laugh

What really happened is some intern pasted the article and vox happened to have our posters as their image

"He craves attention way too much for that"

lmao, that's an epic mis-link

(it was supposed to be this tweet)

@TimStone *slow clap*

:/

That's pretty brutal

So glad we're being respected like never before though

Okay trade wars are fun now

Canada isn't messing around though

(I had to rehash that several times to avoid an accidental pun)

@TimStone lol, dicks

Times they are a changin'

@puzzlepiece87 but the other one is more fun because trade wars give blue balls

Also that one gets a pass because it's not the graph-maker's fault that Democrats only suddenly realised a wall was Really Dumb when Trump took office

@TimStone Nope, Trump tried to swing his ego around and Justin was just "lol fuck you"

5-year-old kids are learning to survive school shootings with a nursery rhyme to the tune of 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

lol today's garrison is something

love to repeat propaganda numbers that are intentionally inflated

this is the one where the liberals are trying for some give neither of the others a majority by voting for us strat right?

@Ash i hope the orange one wins

But like I seem to remember that being their entire message

Which to be fair it pretty much also was in the UK with the lib dems trying for blairites as some rational center

That's probably right

Every Canadian election has just comes down to how the much the left vote splits between liberal and NDP. It's why we need to switch over to a proportional system.

why everywhere does tbh

Yeah

That I think would make left electoral politics in the US, viable, at all

wherein we have a reverse Labour/Lib Dem effect

@Unionhawk which is why both parties will never go for it

@Ash which wasn't a surprise. That promise was just to away left voters.

@GodEmperorDune YUP

ratchet theory baby

it's real

the democrats would rather hold us hostage, and the republicans would rather keep the system that keeps rightward velocity

it's still something on the giant list of reforms to advocate for, it's just a matter of how the hell

meanwhile KY medicaid work requirements are starting soon. We're going to be building specialized canvassing materials to contrast Bevin's vision and Our vision

confusing bullshit designed to make it cumbersome to recieve help, vs, you can go to the doctor without any of that

I...

...

there's currently a public info meeting about the work requirement stuff

and

what

I'm sorry did you say "HSAs"

We are still talking about Medicaid recipients right

jfc

lol usually boo to Maggie but she told someone in the replies

Wouldn't have it any other way we're all gonna die

Maybe we get to decide whether we get a trade war first, or a nuclear war

Choose your own Misadventure

lmao

@TimStone lol at “this is why we stand for the flag” reply

throws a table

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

STOP DOING THE CORRUPTION MAN, enough is enough

@Ash I guess technically, but I assume it's mostly just petty as hell

He's also not technically wrong in that, he's not going to be a deputy much longer

idk when the election is effective

This has a lot of dumb things that should not be necessary but watch Trump refuse it anyway

> Pelosi: If Dems win Hosue we'll look at Medicare for All

Nothing gets me more excited at the polls than half-hearted non-commitment

It's encouraging though because like, this shit usually comes in a wave of these idiots tripping over each other to get to the mic first about how actually I've always supported universal healthcare

We'll see, but

yeah

@TimStone Maybe. "Nothing gets me more excited at the polls than half-hearted non-commitment, maybe."

Ultimately I don't trust the democrats to hold firm though

but

@Unionhawk So we think that DSA work will end up counting towards the 80 hour community engagement requirement

since so far what we've heard is "any nonprofit"

and we're about to become 501(c)(4)

Jfc

🧐

@Fluttershy you can always just go to another lunch counter

@Ash I just don't understand how people in this country are still so stupid.

would be the equivalent 60s version of where we're currently at

@TimStone Apparently no one understands what the pardon power is for anymore

Damn, son

@TimStone "pulled off the improbable" lol

@Unionhawk We're now floating ideas to get people out like "help us organize against medicaid work requirements (COUNTS TOWARDS MEDICAID WORK REQUIREMENTS*) *DSA Cincinnati/NKY is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization incorporated in the state of Kentucky"

@Ash Basically usual summit stuff but saying "If the US doesn't want to bother trying to agree with the rest of the world, eff 'em"

We would want to clarify that with the state to make sure that such activities would in fact count as volunteer work for a nonprofit organization

@Ash iran deal presumably

But theoretically from what we know now I see no reason why it wouldn't

@quartata Yeah, looking back it's specifically this

See @quartata's comment, but it would be okay if Iran agrees

@TimStone the full quote is better

It wouldn't commit the US to anything but it would exclude us from a globally significant treaty which is an odd place for us to be in

it's all about ATTITUDE

A T T I T U D E

@quartata and golf (since @Unionhawk's like reminded me)

That's going to rule

They're going to both shoot an 18

*own

All right. The current J20 trial has wrapped up. All charges were found not guilty or deadlocked. The judge declared a mistrial on the deadlocked charges only, and the government can refile them within 30 days

:(

RIP

@Unionhawk How many defendants did they have at the peak? This is just unbelievably embarrassing for prosecutors

All the more reason someone should have told Trump that they wouldn't bring the case 🤷

@TimStone I think it was close to 200

Hang on

> In late November 2017, six people charged with rioting went on trial. Prosecutors alleged that these six people were taking part in DisruptJ20 protests and vandalism.[32] A jury trial found the six defendants not guilty on all counts in December 2017.[33] On January 18, 2018, the U.S. Justice Department dropped charges against 129 people, leaving 59 defendants to face charges related to the DisruptJ20 protest.[34]

194

I don't know how many were in this round but they'll likely be retried except one of them I think

@Unionhawk what were the deadlocked charges again

@quartata Various

engaging in a riot and such

stares tiredly at the screen

All right let's see... Seth Cadman may still face misdemeanor engaging in a riot; Anthony Felice found not guilty on assaulting a police officer but deadlocked on all others (idk what all means here); Michael Basillas is mistrial on all charges

"One Summit Later..."

@TimStone cc @KimJongUn

I don't know why I thought that was so funny, to end the tweet like that

anyways so that's definitely not happening

🤷

WE ARE OFFICIALLY A REAL NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION

Woo!

now iirc we still need to talk to the IRS to get a bank account

(we need a federal EIN I think)

@TimStone -_-

@TimStone IIRC, you can't subpoena the President?

Or you can, but the President isn't required to testify?

shrugs

Easiest way is to just Not Have the President Do Crimes but I guess we'll see

But! Now we get to potentially enact operation: we're a nonprofit and your work requirement says we can do this

@TimStone No, I mean I thought this was brought up and answered during Nixon?

> The Supreme Court confirmed the legitimacy of this doctrine [executive privilege] in United States v. Nixon in the context of a subpoena emanating from the judiciary, instead of emanating from Congress. The Court held that there is a qualified privilege, which once invoked, creates a presumption of privilege, and the party seeking the documents must then make a "sufficient showing" that the "Presidential material" is "essential to the justice of the case".

So the President can only be subpoenaed by Congress.

No, we don't really have an answer about whether the President themselves can be subpoenaed

The Nixon situation dealt with things covered under executive privilege

But that's different than making the President show up

you think the sergeant at arms would physically drag the president into congress

because that would be cool

@Unionhawk by the arms of course, hence the name

Meanwhile, in hate

lmao

@Yuuki not true, clinton was subpoenaed for the monica lewinski thing, they fought it until they lost, but made some sort of deal with ken starr for clinton to testify voluntarily if they withdrew the subpoena compelling him to testify (as a face saving move for clinton)

@TimStone BREAKING NEWS: Giuliani talks out his a-- to get TV coverage.

definitely not about the cakes

Really, the Supreme Court should've just ended up throwing the case out if they were going to make this decision.

The dumbest part is that even completely misreading the cake case as a general endorsement of their position doesn't get you to where these people need to be

Because now everyone's going to interpret their ruling incorrectly.

reading the article, this happened before the cakes but i'm sure they will use the cakes as justification now

Since the bit in the cakes thing was about the expressive aspect of adding something to the cake, and like, selling tools or following a district policy is not that

@TimStone and the supreme court didn't even touch that

Right

it was "your enforcement procedure was tainted"

So trying to fall back on that is going to extra lengths to be dumb as hell, heh. Unfortunately that still has consequences on people :/

actually not even the whole procedure, just the biased words in the decision

yeah, a lot of LGBT+ people will get hurt because people feel empowered in bigotry

but this teacher, ugggh

> Kluge said he was uncomfortable with this, feeling that using the preferred name implied agreement with the student's decision to identify as transgender. Kluge said that even though he doesn't agree with some of his students' decisions, he respects them.

if you respect them, then call them by the name they want to be called

@GodEmperorDune His students should just call him by a middle name or a nickname.

@Yuuki apparently he gets around this by calling everyone by last name

talk about taking 3 right turns instead of making a left

"Calling you 'Mr. Kluge' implies agreement with your decision to identify as someone respectable. Even though I don't agree with your evaluation of yourself, I respect you, Mr. Bumbumface."

hue

@GodEmperorDune But what if one of the students is FTM and their last name is Silverman?

well back to govt corruption and wtf

you heard that right, spending taxpayer dollars driving around in search of a lotion

@GodEmperorDune ... hotels sell lotion?

@GodEmperorDune In search of a lotion sold by a hotel, in fact.

also just order it online like everybody else

maybe this was some sort of plan to personally cause more pollution by driving more

Not the Onion: Cops shoot at autistic man playing with a toy in the street, bullets hit black man instead.

@Yuuki 2016

Yeah, but still happened.

@Yuuki I heard about it then :P

@Yuuki ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

I feel like this onion article be sent en masse to all politicians every time something like this happens

@Yuuki Ah-ha, the first proof of minority-seeking bullets!

"stick to their guns" I see what you did there. A committed minority of 25-30% can overturn the social norm of a more ambivalent majority.

30% DSA go go

We're working on it

We still do need a majority eventually I think

to be able to hold power

Seems like if we're going to treat them like criminals we gotta go all the way and handle their cases under criminal court laws instead of Jeff Sessions' Judicial Jaunt 🤷🏼‍♂️

@puzzlepiece87 What if there's a committed minority of 25-30% on each side?

25/25 split still leaves a more ambivalent 50% majority.

We just need to offer the more compelling vision that meets peoples material needs

And I think we do have that to offer