This Is Fine

12:12 AM

Somehow I missed that Laura Looked was suing CAIR because she was convinced they got her kicked off Twitter, but anyway she lost because that whole story was a prank, obviously

Tim Stone

12:41 AM

> Gordon Sondland put his luggage in the wrong overhead bin, then said "my whole day has been like this"

lol I guess he made his flight

GodEmperorDune

1:26 AM

nunes worked on investigations with now jailed parnas

@TimStone hue

@TimStone isn’t there a Pokémon that does this?

murgatroid99

@GodEmperorDune You're probably thinking of Cubone, but I'm pretty sure it actually wears the skull of an adult

Wipqozn

@murgatroid99 I think it's always the skull of its mother.

Tim Stone

Good times

Memor-X

@Wipqozn it is

> On its head, Cubone wears the skull of its dead mother as a helmet.

Wipqozn

Good Christmas gift

Memor-X

1:34 AM

bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Cubone_(Pok%C3%A9mon)

Stormblessed

1:54 AM

There’s still no easy web browser on the Switch...

Tim Stone

3:04 AM

@Unionhawk Surprisingly it seems on the surface the governor had a quick turnaround?

Unionhawk

4:15 AM

@TimStone yeah I heard there was an emergency board of education meeting about it

Memor-X

4:34 AM

The Sneaky Plan to Subvert the Electoral College for the Next Election

►

GodEmperorDune

trump, zuckerberg, and thiel had a secret dinner

Yuuki

Trump's notes.

Memor-X

4:57 AM

@Yuuki "this is the final word from the pres of the US" lol, if only that meant he knows the jig is up

fredley

11:07 AM

Meanwhile, in tshirts

Memor-X

@fredley lol, i was expecting that

Tim Stone

12:42 PM

The Trump campaign has already promoted a clip of Gabbard attacking the Democratic party which tbf I'm not entirely sure she was wrong but also she's an Assadist so maybe the party should just eject her already idk 🤷🏼‍♂️

Wipqozn

@fredley 0/10 not Friday

Is their another testimony today for the impeachment hearings?

Seems to be a summary of yesterday's events for folks, like myself, missed it cbc.ca/news/world/trump-sondland-impeach-forcefield-1.5367243

Including how the GOP are already trying to dismiss it all as nonsense

Although as always

> And it seemed once again that Republicans would keep rolling their eyes at impeachment; that Trump's overall approval rating, which has not budged in 18 months, would remain mired in cement; and that if Trump gets impeached by the House, it's almost inconceivable the Republican-led Senate will remove him.

IT DOESN'T MATTER WOOOOOOOOOOOO

Everything is terrible

Tim Stone

2:05 PM

@GodEmperorDune I only now realised you inb4ed me

@TimStone Oh good The President has now stepped in to make sure the war criminal can keep war criming

Unionhawk

I don't know which one so I'm just going to take a guess and hit open in new tab

I was wrong but I shouldn't have been oh well

that makes way more sense than any world leader

Tim Stone

They should just remove him anyway and say they don't read Twitter, since god knows he didn't bother to make an order properly

I hate the debates but,

> Biden says he’s endorsed by the only African American woman ever elected to the senate. Kamala Harris on stage laughs maniacally

That was a really Joe Biden moment

GnomeSlice

PayPal to shell out a whopping $4 billion to acquire browser extension Honey

Wtf??

I use honey too but I don't think it's worth more than a lot of countries

Tim Stone

Yeah, we touched briefly on that yesterday, the valuation seems really confusing but PayPal may feel differently since they already have arrangements with vendors I guess?

Since Honey makes money from the sellers directly

But if I were a Honey user I'd be super concerned about the longer term impact of the merger

Since PayPal is just kind of crappy, heh

Nzall

2:21 PM

@GnomeSlice I mean, there are only 3 countries with a GDP of less than 4B: Tuvalu, Micronesia and San Marino

GnomeSlice

Big year for paypal

Tim Stone

lmao Nunes is walking right into Fiona Hill's crossfire with this opening statement

Nzall

San Marino is about 2B, next biggest is Eritrea at over 8B

Tim Stone

What a dumbass

GnomeSlice

@TimStone yeah I don't think they were super concerned about their users when they took the 4B

Nzall

2:22 PM

Oh wait, this is not an all countries video

GnomeSlice

@Nzall some countries then

Nzall

Turns out there are about 30 countries with a GDP smaller than 4B

Tim Stone

2:39 PM

@TimStone Oh good the President is attempting this excuse too

Just the dumbest people

Memor-X

@TimStone i swear i've read that before today

Elva

2:58 PM

@TimStone slowclaps

Frank

@TimStone Doesn't that mean he, himself, wouldn't understand it?

Since he's obviously also listening on the speakerphone?

Or is this one of those, "I get my phone, you plebes can listen in on this here speaker" type of deals?

Tim Stone

He's just saying that since Sondland didn't have him on speaker phone no one could hear what he said while sitting by Sondland

Which is just dumb

He shouts when he calls into Fox & Friends, literally no one believes this

Frank

Usually the people shouting are also the people that are hard of hearing.

Tim Stone

Also true

But yeah, most people have overhead a phone conversation even if the phone wasn't on speaker, let's be real

Plus Sondland already said the call happened!

Frank

The GOP strategy seems to be, "shotgun anything and everything at the wall, and see what people actually seem to buy."

And then triple down on it even after it stops being believable.

Yuuki

3:10 PM

Just heard some of the testimony and that Sondland visibly held the phone away from his ears presumably because the President was talking so loud is hilarious.

Elva

But completely believable

Tim Stone

Fiona Hill just told "members of the committee" that she would "ask them not to promote falsehoods promoted by Russia" re: the nonsense Nunes is on about

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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> Indictments against Israeli PM Netanyahu will be announced in 2 1/2 hours

Nzall

Always fun when a politician asked questions by a journalist about current events says he didn't pay attention because he was working "and it sounds like you might not have been".

Like, it's literally the entire job of journalists to look at current events for those of us who don't have the time to do so

Frank

3:28 PM

@Nzall But it's a way to cast reporters as lazy bums, accosting the poor working stiffs who just want to do their job!

Tim Stone

3:57 PM

> Hill says John Bolton described Rudy Giuliani as a "hand grenade that's going to blow everyone up." She says he was right, and "that's why we're here today."

Tim Stone

4:13 PM

> Canada reverses UN stance on Palestinians in break with U.S. over settlements

> Canada voted for a UN resolution on Tuesday in support of Palestinians' right to self-determination

Canada has previously declined to substantially support the same resolution the last 14 times

Yuuki

> Rooster Teeth VP arrested after wife alleges brutal abuse, strangulation

> AUSTIN (KXAN) — In an arrest warrant, the wife of a vice president at Austin-based company Rooster Teeth alleges that her husband brutally attacked her on Nov. 8 and that the attack was part of a pattern of years of abuse.

The warrant states that the Travis County Sheriff’s Office believes that Michael Jonathan Quinn committed family violence through aggravated assault, a second-degree felony. This document was filed on Nov. 13.

Tim Stone

4:30 PM

jfc

@TimStone Bribery, fraud, and breach of trust charges against Netanyahu

Wipqozn

5:45 PM

Reuters went inside the Hong Kong school reut.rs/2O5WCE7

Unionhawk

A jury has found No More Deaths activist Scott Warren NOT GUILTY after just 2 hours of deliberation in the retrial

Tim Stone

6:02 PM

> Senate votes 74-20 to pass another CR through Dec. 20

I for one am glad the government is barely limping along so we can face another shutdown just in time for Christmas

user15026

6:16 PM

@TimStone what does this mean?

Tim Stone

Instead of settling on a new actual budget we're just going to go along with the existing one for the time being to keep the government open

Much like if you remember the last time the government shut down despite Republicans controlling the whole shebang

So there was some disagreement but for the moment no issue, they'll come back around in a month's time and then maybe there will be an issue then or maybe there won't or maybe they'll kick the can again like this time

Wipqozn

Bloomberg has filed the paperwork to be a democratic nominee for president

I, for one, look forward to the USA being at the forefront of having all political leaders be part of the 1%.

Cyberpunk dystopian future time baaabbbbyyyy

Tim Stone

> GOP adds new sign during the break

🤔

Unionhawk

yeah, there's no way that sign is in order either guys

I'm not an expert in the house rules but I do know Robert's, and if I were chairing I'd rule that out of order

MBraedley

> 0 hours since Devin Nunes followed committee rules

Tim Stone

6:26 PM

Look they aren't smart people

> US immigration officials, including asylum and refugee officers, were told Thursday that they would be fired for leaking information to the media, according to an email sent to staff and...LEAKED to BuzzFeed News

As we all know, it's a sign of extremely good morale that the someone's first response here was "Ah how about screw you" as they forwarded it off

> Hill responds that ANY family member of a US government official raises serious issues about outside influence. Clearly referring to Jared and Ivanka. Castor scrambles to divert to a new line of questioning

> Fiona Hill says Sondland was not coordinating with the National Security Council because "he was involved in a "domestic political errand" while she was involved in national security

Unionhawk

actually wait hold the fuck on

Tim Stone

presses pause

Unionhawk

0 days since "did a thing" means "constantly does the thing" not "has never done the thing"

Tim Stone

Yes

12 mins ago, by Tim Stone

Look they aren't smart people

They just took the workplace safety sign and ran with it because they don't know how good and bad things work

Fiona Hill also made a point about not being able to fully express her anger over the situation because she notes that often when women do this they're dismissed as "being emotional"

> Hill now saying Morrison inflated and misconstrued her concern about LTC Vindman. She says she did not in any way his overall judgement or his expertise

> Netanyahu says indictments against him are "an attempt for a coup"

Oh buddy bad news did you forget you don't have a government?

> Royal briefings are making it clear disgraced royal Prince Andrew was fired—and the termination is permanent, as he prepares to speak to investigators about his ties to dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

The Queen sitting there shaking her head, "Have you seen all of the things we've been able to get away with? All you had to do was not be a pedophile! AND YET!"

Gym Jordan getting flustered now that checks notes Holmes didn't get a megaphone out and start shouting that the President was doing crimes, I guess?

Nzall

7:02 PM

JFC Biden. You REALLY need to start choosing your words better

Tim Stone

> As an 11-year-old, Hill's friends said she used her bare hands to put out a fire set to one of her pigtails by a male classmate, and proceeded to finish a test she was in the middle of taking

Nzall

Like, why would you even include the words "keep punching" in an answer about domestic violence, not once, not twice, but three times?

Tim Stone

This seems like a completely irrelevant aside here but also my god

@Nzall Ah Joe Biden, always being Joe Biden

user15026

→ 1 message moved to The Bridge

user15026

DOne :)

Frank

7:07 PM

Man, I can barely figure out how to do it in a browser, let alone a phone.

user15026

I did it on browser, phone would be tricky

Unionhawk

yeah you can do moves on mobile, but you shouldn't

and you can only do a single message afaik

Tim Stone

7:20 PM

> The Secret Service spent $250K at @realDonaldTrump's properties in his first 5 months in office -- paying POTUS's business $2,000 a day in taxpayer funds, new documents show

Tim Stone

7:56 PM

> As Stewart continued, a staffer changed out a poster behind him that had said 0 days since Schiff followed the rules to “witnesses Schiff has refused to call"

I'm…going to assume that it's a different poster with some non-zero number of supposed uncalled witnesses and not that they just slapped "witnesses Schiff has refused to call" under the 0

Unionhawk

or a list of names

@TimStone also yeah they said he has "stepped down from duties" but like, what exactly does a prince of england do

Tim Stone

Well I mean I guess we know now and it's Not Good

Unionhawk

what duties

Tim Stone

I think it's mostly going around to places reminding them that they were colonized at some point

Unionhawk

oh ok then

seems like an important job

Tim Stone

8:01 PM

> White House backs full Senate trial if House impeaches Trump

He's going to demand they put him on the stand so he can start ranting until his mouth froths over

Wipqozn

@TimStone please let this happen

Tim Stone

I honestly don't see how else this could play out. It'll happen, and then he'll be reelected

Because we live in hell now

2016 forever blame @badp

Yuuki

oh god it's been 3 almost 4 years since 2016

> 0 hours since Devin Nunes's been suing a fictional cow on Twitter.

Tim Stone

lol Swalwell read into the record Nunes' involvement with Parnas

and said that given Nunes' insistence that Schiff is a fact witness, the story makes Nunes a fact witness too

> Fiona Hill says she heard Putin say directly in 2011 "that he saw American fracking as a great threat to Russian interests."

Ah, shit, gotta frack the country to beat the Russians now though

> New FEC disclosures show a single large RNC payment of $94,800 to Books-a-Million in October, a few days before "Triggered" was released. An RNC spokesman confirmed that the expenditure was connected to their promotion of Don Trump Jr.'s book

lol

Tim Stone

8:43 PM

> The White House ousted a top U.S. homelessness official last week because he wasn't on board with final preparations for the California crackdown. Trump could receive a final menu of options from aides in the coming weeks

Wipqozn

@TimStone I just hope no one realizes everything went to hell after I got a diamond.

Frank

@TimStone Prediction: he gets so angry his heart gives out.

Yuuki

@Frank Prerequisite: a heart.

Frank

But he's in such good shape that he's the most fit President ever, the best President, nobody better.

Wipqozn

@TimStone Also, if he gets reelected, I wonder what the odds of him just Declaring himself the Forever Pres are, since at that point he'll have proven he can get away with literally anything.

murgatroid99

8:49 PM

@Wipqozn Also, if he doesn't get reelected

Frank

@murgatroid99 It'll depend on who the military will be loyal to, I think.

Nzall

@murgatroid99 Wanna bet that before the election, he's going to imply that if he doesn't like the results of the election he's just going to ignore it?

Frank

@Nzall He was already slanting that way prior to the 2016 election.

Positioning it so that the Deep State was preventing him from getting into power.

murgatroid99

@Frank If the military gets involved we're already in a lot of trouble. I do still have hope that civilian law enforcement can ensure a proper turnover of power

Frank

@murgatroid99 I hope so, too. I guess I was more referring to law enforcement in general, and I hope it doesn't escalate to the military.

Wipqozn

9:02 PM

@murgatroid99 Also that

Unionhawk

congrats to Bill on reclaiming his title of the richest man in the world, now valued $110B. Having trouble picturing what $110B looks like? Here's a handy visual aid with some common comparison points: twitter.com/betty__cam/status/1196933769862643713

Nzall

9:24 PM

@Unionhawk I think I read somewhere that Bill Gates make so much money that if he were to drop a stack of dollar bills worth 5,000 dollars while working, it would actually cost him more money in missed income from not working during those couple seconds than he would gain from picking up that money

Unionhawk

9:43 PM

weird how these guys have such a brand of giving away tons of money and yet number go up still

Nzall

@Unionhawk There's realistically a limit to how much money you can give away without running into issues with either misappropriated funding or extreme overhead

Like, if you earn a billion a year and you want to pump half of it into charity, there are AFAIK only a limited amount of charities that would be able to handle an influx of a couple million USD

Elva

psst You can start new charities

user15026

@Nzall There are a lot of charities, there are a lot of individual humans you could help. Fill people's GFMs, help everyone on DonorsChoose, etc

Nzall

@Elva yeah, but again, A) Bill Gates already had an entire foundation for his charity work that he's pumping the money into for scale benefits, and B) just creating a couple hundred or thousand new charities every year causes issues where they're pretty much not gonna get funded

user15026

There's no reason that they couldn't find a way to do it.

Nzall

9:54 PM

Because a charity really needs long-term supporters, and already charities are having trouble keeping donors long-term

Elva

If you set up a billion dollar fund for a charity... it don't need no supporters

Just employees

Wanna do some good locally in the US? Build a non-profit producer of medicines

Nzall

@Elva I mean, that's already what Gates does

Elva

Globally? Get people to start distributing food

Nzall

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), previously the William H. Gates Foundation, is an American private foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the largest private foundation in the world, holding $50.7 billion in assets. The primary goals of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and, in the U.S., to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology. The foundation is controlled by its three trustees: Bill and Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett....

Elva

@Nzall and yet he can also buy several countries still

Anyway I'm gonna sleep

Nzall

9:57 PM

same here, I don't really want to argue about the biggest private charity foundation in the world not doing enough charitable work

user15026

....the point is not that they're not already doing good

user15026

the point is that they still have more money than any one person needs in the history of ever

Unionhawk

The foundation also does a fair amount of bad iirc on top of like, the money came from somewhere so like, giving some of it back in a way that also helps obscure that fact isn't just in any real way

(iirc they're also involved in charter school stuff in particular)

(or that might be bill directly idk)

see also medium.com/@CitationsPodcst/…

Memor-X

11:34 PM

@Wipqozn that isn't the case now?

@TimStone what the fuck school did she go to?

@Unionhawk charity work

he also has this program that's run in a few universities. down here in ~~the flaming hells~~ Australia RMIT and Murdoch university are cutting ties with said program

> The Pitch@Palace competition aims to match young entrepreneurs with influential business leaders.

that's sounds like the reason why he said he initially did not regret his relationship with Epstein

@Yuuki 0 minutes since 2016 ended

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