This Is Fine

12:04 AM

> Michael Pillsbury, outside advisor to the White House on trade: "I tried to bring up the topic in Beijing, of just tell me what happened with Hunter Biden. And that -- I have never seen them get so secretive in my entire life."

lmfao

"Ahhhh u see, the President, he's joking,,,"

Tim Stone

12:21 AM

jfc, look at that PG&E shutoff map

murgatroid99

@TimStone Fortunately I'm not currently getting impacted

Yuuki

12:58 AM

> Trump defends abandoning Kurds by saying they didn't help US in WWII

Memor-X

@Yuuki so can we abandon Trump then because he helped no one in the military because he weaseled out?

Wipqozn

@TimStone But remember kids, global warming isn't real

Yuuki

1:23 AM

> There were fine people on both sides of the road

Tim Stone

@Yuuki It's impressive that despite being really dumb as a premise he's also somehow still wrong

Yuuki

1:37 AM

@TimStone Specifically that they didn't help in Normandy.

GodEmperorDune

3:15 AM

@TimStone love too capitali strike for fun and future profit

Yuuki

3:29 AM

Blizzard has disabled all authentication methods to prevent users from deleting their accounts.

Unionhawk

(which is probably a gdpr violation since iirc it says something about it needing to be easy to delete your account)

Stormblessed

4:10 AM

Twitter is idiotic

I get an email

Every single time

I LOG IN

Twitter puts tons of crap on my phone, so I need to clear cookies frequently, logging me out

Memor-X

4:43 AM

@Yuuki yeh i saw someone mention this on Discord. also suggested this could be theft for those who want to cancel their subscriptions for what i assume is WoW

Trump says he'd cooperate with impeachment inquiry "if the rules are fair"

> Trump was asked twice during an event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House if he would cooperate with Democrats leading the impeachment inquiry.

“We would if they give us our rights. It depends," Trump said initially, indicating that he would not be inclined to cooperate with the probe if Democrats "say you can’t have lawyers, you can’t ask questions, you can’t have anybody present, all of these crazy things."

umm, aside from the lawyers bit the rest seem like the normal process to me

i would find it a bit odd that someone can't have their lawyer, assuming their lawyer isn't also being investigated but then again Trump should have other lawyers right? *looks at Cohen in prison* right? *looks at Giuliani ranting like Alex Jones*

Nzall

7:23 AM

@Yuuki Careful when clicking that link, someone posted Mei exposing herself with "Commies hate boobs" bars for censorship

Tim Stone

12:04 PM

> Trump's push to save coal is failing. Coal demand to plunge to 42-year low

Wipqozn

12:15 PM

@TimStone Of course it is. Which is why,if Trump actually cared about the average person (as opposed to just helping the rich stay rich), he'd invest all that government money into training programs focused on retraining coal workers so they don't go jobless.

Memor-X

12:49 PM

@Wipqozn or even for the grander picture when jobs get automated

which coal execs would love to have automated mining since it means they don't have to pay as many people

Unionhawk

they pretty much do have this

strip mining and mountaintop removal takes way less people

coal jobs have been declining rapidly pretty independently from demand

MBraedley

1:11 PM

> don't have to pay ~~as many people~~ insurance premiums for as many people

FTFY

Tim Stone

1:36 PM

Ahahahahahahahahahaha

> Two Foreign-Born Men Who Helped Giuliani on Ukraine Arrested on Campaign-Finance Charges

> An invasive fish species that can breathe air and survive on land has been found in Georgia for the first time. And officials are warning anyone who comes into contact with the species to kill it immediately

BradC

1:55 PM

@Memor-X The only way Trump would regard an impeachment as "fair" would be if it was impeaching Hillary

@TimStone So... that can't be good for the "everything was above board" argument

Tim Stone

@BradC Flip them! Flip them!

I assume when finally caught Rudy just melts like the witch from Wizard of Oz

Tim Stone

2:22 PM

Ah. I see.

Would Congressman-1 please raise their hand

Elva

Is it "known" who that is?

(like individual-1 was clearly herr drumpf)

Tim Stone

I don't believe it is at this time but I'm excited to find out!

Ah, correction!

> The Daily Beast wrote a couple days ago about how illegal contributions flowed to Congressman Pete Sessions, who wrote a letter targeting the ambassador

Elva

Oh nice

I had hoped it was moskow mitch but you can't have everything

BradC

Ha! Tweet by Andrew Desiderio

> This quote is from someone who works for Russian state media and is amplifying a baseless conspiracy theory.

Elva

Also I fear mitch is too competent for this

BradC

2:27 PM

(And he's tweet-quoting Trump)

Tim Stone

(source)

@TimStone Parnas maxed out donations to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy too

> For the First Time, DiGiorno Is Defying Its 'Not Delivery' Slogan and Delivering Pizzas

IS NOTHING SACRED?

Elva

No

Yuuki

2:44 PM

@TimStone Delivering "pizzas" because you still have to bake the damn thing yourself.

Tim Stone

I'm still angry at the premise tbh

@TimStone clears throat LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH, EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Glad to see the failson was not excluded from doing crimes

> As of today, Splinter will cease publication. It has been my greatest honor to have been the editor of this site and I will love this staff to my dying breath. Thank you to all of our readers, fans, and haters—it’s been a thrill. Further details TK. Splinter forever

Unionhawk

3:18 PM

Fuck

Fortunately, they were @gmgunion

So the writers have a safety net

BradC

3:43 PM

To nobody's surprise: Bill Barr has known about investigation into Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine henchmen for months

GnomeSlice

4:12 PM

fstoppers.com/bts/…

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk sad lol

> when I asked Rudy about prospect of the FBI flipping Parnas and Fruman to get to him, he replied “Good luck.”

lol, Rudy is the villain we deserve

Imagine making Michael Cohen seem competent smh

> NOT LISTED IN THE INDICTMENT: The company LEV PARNAS & IGOR FRUMAN used for political donations, GLOBAL ENERGY PRODUCERS LLC, also donated $50k to the TRUMP-endorsed Florida gov candidate @RonDeSantisFL in June 2018, then Parnas co-hosted a DeSANTIS fundraiser the next month

Naturally

They've also now been subpoenaed by House Democrats

Tim Stone

5:00 PM

> Kevin Downing and Thomas Zehnle best known for representing Paul Manafort, will be representing Fruman and Parnas today (temporarily)

BradC

6:07 PM

Deutsche Bank Does Not Have President Trump's Tax Returns, Court Says

this seems unusual, to say the least

> Federal court says @DeutscheBank doesn't have @realDonaldTrump's tax returns.

> Which is odd, because numerous current and former bank execs have previously told me DB had portions of his returns for multiple years.

Tim Stone

lol that's a very odd way of wording it too, like they definitely have his returns but not "the president's returns" because he wasn't president yet

I'm sure that's not the intended argument it's just weird phrasing

BradC

Oops! Accidentally got put in the "to shred" pile!!

Tim Stone

Parnas has a business associate and coconspirator David Correia, who is still at large

They also had lunch with Giuliani at Trump's hotel yesterday and then booked one-way tickets to leave the country

MBraedley

6:47 PM

@TimStone that looks completely non-conspiratorial. /s

Tim Stone

That totally normal thing one does

Especially when you're supposed to testify before a congressional committee

Tim Stone

7:27 PM

> Lindsey Graham dishes on Trump in hoax calls with Russians

> But Graham also expressed sympathy for Turkey’s “Kurdish problem” and described the Kurds as a “threat.”

Womp womp Lindsey

> “I think President Trump likes President Erdogan. I think he’s a strong man and we need to deal with strong people."

*strongman

Tim Stone

8:50 PM

Nice news network you've got here, would be a real shame if they said something marginally critical of the President

> President Trump says he just learned that Trey Gowdy can’t start as his outside counsel until January because of “lobbying rules.” They announced his position last night

I for one would definitely want the lawyer who didn't know this to help with my checks notes impeachment inquiry

BradC

@TimStone I'm sure he'll be totally fine to wait until January... this is moving so slowly at the moment

And of course there is zero chance of Trump doing more criming between now and then

Because he's being so careful and level-headed and restrained right now

Tim Stone

> "Again, I don’t know how he knows these people...I haven’t spoken to Rudy about it...They said we have nothing to do with it."

camera pans to the pictures

Memor-X

9:49 PM

@BradC and that the sole decision is by him alone because i would think that any due process for him is unfair

@BradC who is Trump quoting there? John Kiriakou or Tucker Carlson?

Tim Stone

> Rudy Giuliani was also planning to head to Vienna tonight--one day after Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were trying to do the same with one-way tickets

Ahahahaha

GodEmperorDune

10:12 PM

wait did he get arrested too?

Tim Stone

Unfortunately not, that would have been hilarious

He says he was going for Totally Unrelated Reasons

As one does

GodEmperorDune

i mean ask him 30 seconds later and he'll tell you the real reason

Tim Stone

@TimStone Oh he covered this, lmao

"I have pictures with everyone, all the potential criminals really"

> Parnas laughed and said he’d grown up “idolizing” Giuliani

> Save for introducing himself when I arrived, Fruman was quiet. Parnas told me they were all “great friends” and all “work together.”

Fruman right now: ":|"

Ronna McDaniel is somehow still not mad at herself for changing her name but is mad at checks notes Buffalo Wild Wings for cancelling a checks notes again viewing party for a Trump rally?

Yuuki

> [Rick Perry] has been subpoenaed by three committees, House Intel, Ethics and uh let's see... I can't, the third one. Oops.

GodEmperorDune

10:28 PM

@Yuuki hue

Tim Stone

10:54 PM

@TimStone [Actually The Onion]: ‘They Can’t Arrest Both Of Us,’ Says Giuliani Handcuffing Himself To Times Square Pikachu

Tim Stone

11:12 PM

Ahahahaha throwing Trey Gowdy under a bus before it even begins

Tim Stone

11:35 PM

> Fiona Hill plans to testify to Congress that Giuliani and Amb. Sondland circumvented National Security Council and normal White House process to run shadow Ukraine policy, person familiar with her testimony tells @NBCNews

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