This Is Fine

12:35 AM

> Trump Told World Leaders Crimea Is Russian Because Everyone There Speaks Russian

@fredley Can we come back?

IG found that on numerous occasions, COMEY used a personal GMail account to conduct official FBI business, according to source briefed on the report.

Tweeted by kyledcheney on June 14, 2018 at 5:42 PM

bye comey, pls turn in your resistance card at the door

Yuuki

... buttery males?

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki well i guess @Yuuki and I are rejoining spain

Memor-X

@Yuuki lol, by that logic the US must still be a British colony right?

GodEmperorDune

@Memor-X we speak spanglish here cabron

Memor-X

12:44 AM

@GodEmperorDune well i guess Spain and the UK can fight over who gets what....or rename the US to Spaigland

the or the USS, the United States of Spaigland

GodEmperorDune

@Memor-X i meant more my region

GodEmperorDune

12:58 AM

good afternoon https://www.thedailybeast.com/neo-nazi-to-plead-guilty-to-trying-to-derail-train-and-screaming-im-the-conductor-bitch/

Tweeted by KELLYWEILL on June 14, 2018 at 6:28 PM

quartata

Putting this in here

Just saw Ash retweet a thing that apparently people are saying cis is an acronym for Comfortable In Skin

What the fuck

GodEmperorDune

@quartata extremely what teh fuck

quartata

It's actually so stupid

GodEmperorDune

thats not how latin works at all

> When deputies searched Wilson, he attempted to claim a bulge in his pocket was “my dick,” according to a criminal complaint. The bulge was actually one of two fully loaded guns Wilson was carrying on him, one of which was in the waistband he’d allegedly attempted to reach during the struggle.

(this is back to the neo nazi train hijacker)

Memor-X

@GodEmperorDune it's a horrible story but i am laughing at someone yelling like Principle Lewis from American Dad

quartata

1:00 AM

First off it would take a literal chimp not to know cis- as a prefix

Yuuki

Or someone without a high school chemistry education.

Or someone who doesn't remember their high school chemistry.

quartata

And secondly, what the fuck is "comfortable in skin" supposed to mean anyway

Yuuki

@quartata It's like fur clothes with the hair stripped off.

GodEmperorDune

@quartata some by your logic bullshit to delegitamize trans people, i imagine

Memor-X

@quartata related to this?

GodEmperorDune

1:02 AM

like "well if you're comfortable after your transition, then you're cis" and like nope nope nope not how it works at all

quartata

Yes

Memor-X

also, dumb question, what actually is cis?

GodEmperorDune

@Memor-X opposite of trans

Tim Stone

@GodEmperorDune That is surprisingly apt

quartata

@Memor-X origin is Latin

Memor-X

1:04 AM

i see

quartata

Means "before" I think, it's not technically a root

Oh, Google says "on this side of"

That fits wth the chemistry meaning better

GodEmperorDune

@colorado_kitten @AnaMardoll It's Latin. I learned this from reading about Rome and her two colonies: "Cis-Alpine Gaul" and "Trans-Alpine Gaul"

Tweeted by jmshick0130 on June 14, 2018 at 8:31 PM in reply to colorado_kitten

quartata

Disclaimer: I don't do Latin

So people really have no excuse

GodEmperorDune

@colorado_kitten @AnaMardoll Literally: "Gaul on This Side of the Alps" and "Gaul on The Other Side of the Alps" Cis is literally just the Latin opposite of Trans (incidentally in Latin it's pronounced same as "kiss")

Tweeted by jmshick0130 on June 14, 2018 at 8:34 PM in reply to jmshick0130

@TimStone yeah neonazis can all go in the sea but the personality on this one is interesting

quartata

@GodEmperorDune i swear all these people are compensating

Like, all of the nazis I've seen on Twitter are obsessed with dicks

makes you think

Funny, as soon as I say that I get a notification that the sock Cantwell made to harass @socialistdogmom on Twitter got banned

only took them a month

GodEmperorDune

1:17 AM

@quartata i wonder if he'll cry about it

quartata

I don't know he still has a podcast for fantasizing about flooding cville with his pure offspring (almost a direct quote)

id like to think me @ing jack helped though

.@jack: its ok for The Brands to make jicama-cactus sundaes, and if you talk Shit about it you,re thrown into a black hole also @jack: horrid ms paint shops of mutilated dachsunds is an exception though, theyre ok. deal with it binch. what happened to the 1st commandment

Tweeted by quartatertots on June 13, 2018 at 3:21 AM

Anyways that's enough about that particular nazi

Let's move on to the one of the Cheeto variety

The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman, are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in $18,800,000 and gave out to charity more money than it took in, $19,200,000. I won’t settle this case!...

Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on June 14, 2018 at 3:09 PM

GodEmperorDune

@quartata best part is that he used the wrong AG

quartata

He doesn't seem to know who exactly is suing him, but he is very unhappy

SaintWacko

1:36 AM

@quartata Narrator: He settled

GodEmperorDune

Thread: SHARED WITH PERMISSION One of our followers sent us this letter she received TODAY from Homeland Security after applying for a passport. She is a US citizen.

Tweeted by ECMcLaughlin on June 14, 2018 at 11:56 PM

abolish ICE, prosecute everyone involved

Tim Stone

Vanessa Trump defends Trump Jr.'s new relationship, blasts media for obsessing over their private life http://hill.cm/SDiy5Gg

Tweeted by thehill on June 15, 2018 at 1:43 AM

Girl what

mm, seeing what she said, okay

JUST IN: AT&T announces it has completed acquisition of Time Warner http://hill.cm/YtQofYS

Tweeted by thehill on June 15, 2018 at 1:52 AM

That was quick

lol remember when we broke up AT&T and then it just recoagulated, still as AT&T

quartata

1:56 AM

@SaintWacko oh undoubtably

Yuuki

Joe Walsh welcome to the...? hrrrrrrk

Tim Stone

Rudy calls for Mueller team to be replaced by agents from New York field office - "whom I can trust implicitly." This would be the same NY field office suspected of leaking to Rudy in fall 2016 about Comey reopening the Clinton email probe https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1007434078793142278

Tweeted by brianefallon on June 15, 2018 at 1:39 AM

lol, c'mon

quartata

@Yuuki cursed phrase

Unionhawk

2:34 AM

@Yuuki it's been a weird day

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk funny, i don't see a verrit code

Unionhawk

@GodEmperorDune I'm not sure if he's hacked or not, legitimately

There's either a good point made here, or, I drunkenly have his account

And am making a good point anyway

Tim Stone

3:31 AM

#BREAKING: Dems beat GOP 21-5 in annual congressional baseball game http://hill.cm/572Gmpk

Tweeted by thehill on June 15, 2018 at 3:29 AM

lol

Yuuki

@Unionhawk Oh man, can't wait for a Democrat to bring up Hillary's emails in the run up to 2020 and we end up with another four years of Trump.

Unionhawk

3:46 AM

@Yuuki I mean the real point here is democratic presidents and such have done evil things and we must strive to be not that but yeah sure

And you damn well better believe that's presidents, plural

It is not enough to be against the GOP. There has to be an alternative to them.

Yuuki

4:31 AM

Oh yeah, Democratic presidents have done terrible things but as long as we're under a FPTP, winner-take-all system, I'd rather wait until we pull ahead significantly before we inevitably start shooting ourselves in the foot.

Memor-X

6:25 AM

Trump turns 72, frustrated with Russia probe #nhk_world_news https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180615_10/

Tweeted by NHKWORLD_News on June 15, 2018 at 2:18 AM

didn't know today (US Time) was his birthday

Wipqozn

11:16 AM

@fredley To be fair, it's only been a few years!

A few years is barely any time at all!

Especially when Brexit was just a political tool to get the rural vote

Oh man

fredley

Fuck David Cameron

Wipqozn

I just thought of something

fredley

@Wipqozn :(

Wipqozn

It's like that scene from The Dark Knight

Where Joker is all "I don't have a plan! I'm like a dog chasing a car! I don't know what I'd ever do if I just caught it!

fredley

@Wipqozn :(

ToxicFrog

11:19 AM

@Wipqozn I mean, that's basically how Brexit went down. The people pushing Leave 100% did not expect to get it.

fredley

WILL. OF. THE. PEOPLE.

Fuck everything

Wipqozn

@ToxicFrog Yeah that's why I said it was like that scene

The whole thing was a political ploy which backfire on everyone

Including the ones who voted for it, since those folks are probably goingt o get hurt the most

MAn I was going to google something but I can't remember what I was going to google

Something about Brexit

probably OH

Basically it was this:

Democracy simply doesn't work

►

Unionhawk

11:51 AM

@Yuuki I think asking the party via primaries to be against some pretty basic shit (ICE as a thing that exists etc) is reasonable.

Mad Scientist

1:29 PM

Trump wants “his people” to “sit up at attention” like North Koreans

He's giving a spontaneous interview to Fox, the last time that didn't end well

Unionhawk

lol at this table (No Shortcuts talks about Advocacy vs Mobilizing vs Organizing as strategies for affecting change, advocacy being the most shallow):

> People Focus:
> - Advocacy: none

(vs grassroots activists vs organic leaders)

Fluttershy

2:09 PM

But my emails. https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1007317351031861248

Tweeted by HillaryClinton on June 14, 2018 at 9:36 PM

This is really the only response she could've made to the IG report, tbh

Wipqozn

2:22 PM

@Fluttershy That's beautiful

Like slow clap for days

THat's wonderful

Kevin van der Velden

I kinda wanted to post that but it wasn't really news (and the ig report was already linked earlier)

puzzlepiece87

@GodEmperorDune @Ash Google has it also, I have that setup on Google.

Fluttershy

@KevinvanderVelden It's not news, but it's related to relevant news. So I figured it was probably okay.

GodEmperorDune

Wow way to bury the lede THR https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/star-trek-discovery-showrunners-alex-kurtzman-take-1120416

Tweeted by velocciraptor on June 15, 2018 at 12:22 AM

The people in charge of Star Trek discovery were jerks and have been kicked off the show

SaintWacko

2:45 PM

@Fluttershy I love the responses from people who clearly only watch Fox News

Unionhawk

xd yas kween slay, or something

Tim Stone

@MadScientist Just a wee bit disturbing :|

JUST IN: SecDef Mattis says Putin invaded Ukraine, “seeks to shatter @NATO, in speech to @NavalWarCollege, right after Trump claimed t was Obama’s fault. From prepared remarks: “FOR 1ST TIME SINCE WWII, RUSSIA IS THE NATION THAT HAS REDRAWN INT’L BORDERS BY FORCE IN GA & UKR”

Tweeted by DefenseBaron on June 15, 2018 at 2:47 PM in reply to DefenseBaron

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy commentary from political figures is fine

Yuuki

> FOR 1ST TIME SINCE WWII, RUSSIA IS THE NATION THAT HAS REDRAWN INT’L BORDERS BY FORCE
> korean war

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone he's gonna get fired

Wipqozn

2:55 PM

That rule is mostly concerned with calling out random nobodies on twitter

Yuuki

🤔

Mad Scientist

@GodEmperorDune I don't think so. I suspect Trump is afraid of Mattis ;-)

GodEmperorDune

major, major TW on this for abuse, disordered eating and assault. Chris Hardwick is a monster and @skydart is brave as hell for speaking out, especially about how emotional abuse works https://medium.com/@skydart/rose-colored-glasses-6be0594970ca

Tweeted by rachelmillman on June 15, 2018 at 8:05 AM

chris hardwick, i liked your work but time to get in the sea with the rest

Tim Stone

@Yuuki Russia and the US divided the peninsula by accident during World War II so technically it might not count

("by accident" in the sense either side thought their group of Koreans would come out on top post-war)

Yuuki

@TimStone Korean War was a proxy war between the US and China though?

Soviet Union in the Korean War

Though not officially belligerent during the Korean War (1950–1953), the Soviet Union played a significant, covert role in the conflict. It provided material and medical services, as well as Soviet pilots and aircraft, most notably MiG 15 fighter jets, to aid the North Korean-Chinese forces against the United Nations Forces. == Background == === Soviet Occupation of Northern Korea (1945–1948) === The Soviet 25th Army took part in the Soviet advance into northern Korea immediately after World War II had ended, and was headquartered at Pyongyang for a period. Like the American forces in the south,...

Okay, it was a bit of a side player.

Tim Stone

3:05 PM

@Yuuki Japan annexed Korea, the Soviet Union (finally) declared war on Japan and moved into Korea. The US was wary of them claiming all of Korea, so they said "Hey stop at the 38th parallel, and we'll clear out the south", and somehow that happened

So each side thought "Ah, great, once we're done with World War II eventually the Koreans I have helped garner power will take over once everyone reunifies"

But then the whole Cold War happened so things got a bit dicey, the Soviet Union left, and then we got the Korean War

fredley

Trump set to organise one-on-one summit with.... Russia!

> DO NOT CONGRATULATE

Tim Stone

3:20 PM

Scooter companies Bird and Lime are the fastest two US startups to ever reach $1 B valuation https://www.wsj.com/articles/scoot-over-a-two-wheeled-gold-rush-in-silicon-valley-1529064001?mod=e2tw#comments_sector

Tweeted by eliotwb on June 15, 2018 at 2:54 PM

lol this country my god

Yuuki

So they rent/share scooters. And they called themselves "Bird" and "Lime"?

I'm confused.

fredley

@TimStone Probably fast because they're on scooters amirite

Pres ended a 19-minute WH driveway press conference asserting that Pres Obama lost Crimea to Russia. "Because Putin didn't respect Pres Obama," said @POTUS. Said Putin didn't respect America under Obama and didn't respect Ukraine. "Pres Obama gave away Crimea."

Tweeted by markknoller on June 15, 2018 at 1:25 PM

@Yuuki Gotta pick a generic name for your startup, in case you want to pivot

Unionhawk

City of Cincinnati threatening to shut down Potluck for the People unless organizers pay them $500 per month to provide services to the homeless

Tim Stone

US to withdraw from UN human rights council: report http://hill.cm/RfX731e

Tweeted by thehill on June 15, 2018 at 3:28 PM

👍

Yuuki

Trump just felt like he put in so much work to be the head of the human rights council (which is typically given to countries with terrible human rights records to shame them) to no avail.

I think Saudi Arabia is the current head?

Unionhawk

3:30 PM

Potluck for the People will be occurring as scheduled Sunday

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk cops, man

@TimStone tbh i'm surprised we hadn't left yet

Tim Stone

@kwelkernbc Reporter: You spoke passionately about the circumstances that led to Otto Warmbier's death. In same breath, you're defending Kim Jong Un's human rights records. How can you do that? Trump: "You know why? Because I don't want to see a nuclear weapon destroy you and your family" https://t.co/RZLElM3qOV

Tweeted by NBCNews on June 15, 2018 at 1:51 PM in reply to NBCNews

Unionhawk

@GodEmperorDune what are they going to do, confirm that yeah actually the City does in fact not care?

seems like a winning strategy by those in charge

GodEmperorDune

ah its that we don't agree with israel being blamed for those bullets colliding with unarmed palestinians

@Unionhawk quietly ignore those providing services and pretend that homelessness not a problem

Yuuki

@TimStone He doesn't? I thought he loved the nuclear?

The power, the devastation?

Tim Stone

3:34 PM

We also supposedly were going to stop any potential attack with our awesome missile defense and preemptive strikes

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki i think its more of a threat

Unionhawk

@GodEmperorDune Well we're going to find out Sunday

GodEmperorDune

like stop asking me questions or imma nuke you

trump just got those fun size nukes

SaintWacko

@TimStone Oh goddamnit

Tim Stone

@GodEmperorDune I mean that's possible too since he told a reporter to be quiet because she was "obnoxious"

I think during the same series of questions

math.jpg

Not actually sure what any of those have to do with putting "America First"

Right after talking office Scott Pruitt got a former high ranking Virginia politician to write his daughter a Virginia law school letter of recommendation, then made his aides help his daughter get a WH internship. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/politics/scott-pruitt-epa-aides.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytclimate

Tweeted by KFILE on June 15, 2018 at 1:44 PM

GodEmperorDune

3:39 PM

@TimStone is there any ethics rule that pruitt hasn't shit all over?

Tim Stone

We're going to find out he pulled some favours for the family pet or something next

SaintWacko

@TimStone Haha, even this propaganda only says "appears to have" dismantled the nuclear test site

Tim Stone

Sen Graham to @CNN on his support of Trump admin: "I know how the game is played . . . and I don't give a shit"

Tweeted by NatSecCarlo on June 15, 2018 at 3:26 PM

🙄

How hollow do you have to be to think politics is just a game and not, like, consequential for the lives of actual people?

Yuuki

@TimStone Wow Lindsay Graham said an actual curse word?

Tim Stone

lol

REPORTER: Why did Sessions announce the family-separation policy? TRUMP: He's following the law. REPORTER: It's not a law! TRUMP: The Democrats gave us the laws. I want the laws to be beautiful. https://t.co/uJnMQ1IqAL

Tweeted by atrupar on June 15, 2018 at 1:25 PM in reply to atrupar

BREAKING: Judge has ordered Paul Manafort jailed pending trial. He was just stepped back into custody, gave a brief wave to his wife before going back into another room out of site. Judge denied request to stay pending appeal. He was not placed in handcuffs. More shortly

Tweeted by ZoeTillman on June 15, 2018 at 3:46 PM in reply to ZoeTillman

.@UChicago will no longer require students to submit SAT or ACT scores when they apply for admission. Will this be the new normal? http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/high_school_and_beyond/2018/06/big_step_in_testing_trend_university_of_chicago_makes_sat_act_optional.html?cmp=soc-edit-tw

Tweeted by educationweek on June 15, 2018 at 3:32 PM

Oh golly I hope so rubs hands together at the thought of College Board f'ing right off

Unionhawk

3:53 PM

RIP that one jacobin take

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone wut

@TimStone we can dream

Tim Stone

In the Oval Office, John Kelly defended the firing of Kelly Sadler. Trump thought Mercedes Schlapp axed her, and erupted. Kelly interrupted and told the president Mercedes didn’t fire her. “I did.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-more-independent-of-west-wing-advisers-relies-on-cabinet-1529055001

Tweeted by MichaelCBender on June 15, 2018 at 12:53 PM

I have to assume he was pissed purely on the basis he really, really liked the horrible comments about McCain

user15026

4:07 PM

@TimStone who is this?

user15026

@TimStone TIL the phrase "made it to unicorn" is a thing

Tim Stone

@Ash Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

@Ash Trump's former campaign manager who did all the money laundering and such

puzzlepiece87

@TimStone leaving out the most important part, substantial ties to Russia

fredley

Meanwhile, in fuckwittery

user15026

@TimStone ah, okay. I get all these people mixed up

Unionhawk

4:22 PM

@fredley he also blocked something related to excessive use of force in mental health units after a 23 year old died

GodEmperorDune

@fredley yeah this MP needs to get in the sea

Tim Stone

4:43 PM

@GodEmperorDune The good part is that the sea is never that far away in the UK, so that should be easy enough

user15026

@fredley Seriously, all it takes is one dude with an axe to grind yelling "object"? :(

user15026

(Although it sounds like they can still pass this eventually? Just with a lot more work?)

GodEmperorDune

@Ash apparently this dude has a hardon for making legislation go through the hard way

not objecting to the law, but how its being passed

Fluttershy

@TimStone Trump's response to Manafort being jailed was, "He had nothing to do with my campaign." :|

user15026

So he decides puttign people in danger with no recompense is better. GREAT WAY TO MAKE A POINT THERE FIREND

user15026

4:45 PM

@Fluttershy O.o

Tim Stone

@Fluttershy lol "look he only picked the vice president who even cares about Pence?"

GodEmperorDune

@Ash yes, exactly

it takes a lot of privilege to take that stance

user15026

Well, he's an old white dude with some power, so that covers that

GodEmperorDune

@Ash i wonder where his "process first" stance would be if this was a law criminalizing viagra theft or w/e

(not really sure what issue affects old white british men)

user15026

Probably different :(

GodEmperorDune

4:55 PM

hmmm, almost like it's actually not about the process at all

This guys Wiki page is just... • he called for the minimum wage to be abolished • he blocked a bill to protect poor countries from "vulture funds" • hosted a meeting of climate-science sceptics • voted against the legislation for same-sex marriage Etc!! What a guy.

Tweeted by RossalynWarren on June 15, 2018 at 1:51 PM in reply to RossalynWarren

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune I thought about how "sceptics" is pronounced and I realized that I'm fine with it.

user15026

@GodEmperorDune sounds like a real damn peach right there

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki what a shitty pronounciation

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune hue

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki #8B4513

Yuuki

5:37 PM

Is it possible that the US leaving the Human Rights Council has something to do with someone accidentally abbreviating it in a memo and Trump started screaming “lock her up” non-stop when someone read it to him verbatim?

Unionhawk

69% of millenials support #MedicareForAll

Tweeted by dsam4a on June 15, 2018 at 4:48 PM

quartata

yeah yeah

Unionhawk

this is a serious post about polling not a shitpost

clearly

quartata

i'm actually kind of sick of seeing that on my TL lmao

I didn't know the novelty could wear off with this sort of thing but I guess when everyone and their dog retweets it

Unionhawk

In order to build a mass movement at the end of the day we need a majority, which is why these numbers are encouraging

quartata

5:40 PM

what we really need is 420% support

Unionhawk

This is true

Yuuki

@Unionhawk nice

Unionhawk

I should dive into the wording of the questions though

there's some ongoing discussion about how we talk about m4a (medicare does not provide comprehensive coverage especially wrt long term care; what we really want is a single government program that does provide comprehensive care, medicare for all is just a nice slogan, and furthermore a proposal to leverage existing frameworks for providing federal health insurance)

Tim Stone

Wow, what a tough sentence for Paul Manafort, who has represented Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and many other top political people and campaigns. Didn’t know Manafort was the head of the Mob. What about Comey and Crooked Hillary and all of the others? Very unfair!

Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on June 15, 2018 at 5:41 PM

quartata

that can't be real

Tim Stone

5:43 PM

The head of the Mob was Trump's campaign manager, data accepted

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk nice

Unionhawk

@TimStone I mean probably

Tim Stone

He also thinks Manafort has been sentenced somehow

Unionhawk

He's a new york real estate guy lol

murgatroid99

Is anybody else saying that Manafort was the head of the Mob? Or is that something that Trump just randomly said out of nowhere?

Unionhawk

5:45 PM

I'm going to guess it's just him

but idk

Tim Stone

He's trying to say that Manafort's sentence, which doesn't exist because he hasn't gone to trial, is excessively harsh because he's not the head of the Mob, the person who would, apparently, receive the harshest of sentences

GodEmperorDune

@murgatroid99 i mean there have been articles about trump's personal mafia ties, as well as cohen's ties

but manafort was tied to ukranian and russian autocrats, not really the "mob" as one thinks about it

and definitely not "head" of the mob

Tim Stone

He's just bringing it up because the Mob is his familiar picture of Crimes

Alan Dershowitz re:Manafort on MSNBC: "Locking someone up before they have been convicted is an anethama to liberty." Um. Each day an estimated 700,000 people sit in jail because they can't afford bail. @AlanDersh can we expect you to speak for these people as well?

Tweeted by gkelly73 on June 15, 2018 at 2:41 PM

1. My dude

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone dammit dersh

Tim Stone

2. HE USED HIS BAIL TIME TO DO MORE CRIMES

quartata

5:48 PM

@TimStone lmao

buddy,

Tim Stone

The bar was so low there! "Don't do more crimes while waiting for your trial" "What if I tampered with witnesses instead?" "Uhhh..."

JUST IN: Judge rejects Cohen attempt to block Stormy Daniels lawyer from speaking to the media http://hill.cm/v2r7pDG

Tweeted by thehill on June 15, 2018 at 5:49 PM

Not surprising. Avenatti should stfu, but Cohen's attempt was legally half-assed

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone i haven't heard from avenatti in a while actually

Tim Stone

lol

yesterday, by Tim Stone

@quartata Mooooooooooooooooch

I mean to be fair to Trump I guess witness tampering is very mob-like

Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch to whom Paul Manafort allegedly owed $19 m, has a new CEO: Valery Pechenkin, a guy with 30 yrs working for Russian intelligence under his belt. 1997-2000, he was deputy director of the FSB. https://www.rbc.ru/business/15/06/2018/5b237e679a7947a1d8580a9f?from=newsfeed

Tweeted by juliaioffe on June 15, 2018 at 3:01 PM

lol this is a plausible point about why Manafort might not flip, his foreign connections are probably unhappy enough with him to kill him

Which usually would be an unrealistic thing to consider but they've been pretty flagrant about assassinations lately, so 🤷

Just avoid crimes kids, it's the best way

MBraedley

6:13 PM

@TimStone would star if in a different room

Yuuki

Clearly the solution is to quote it in a different room and then star it.

Unionhawk

@TimStone Unless it's anarchist praxis in which case do crimes

legal note: do not actually do crimes

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk be gay, do crimes

Tim Stone

7:10 PM

JUST IN: FBI has reconstructed 16 pages from Cohen's shredder http://hill.cm/Tu2vT7d

Tweeted by thehill on June 15, 2018 at 7:07 PM

> In addition, prosecutors said in the court filing that FBI agents had recovered more than 700 pages of encrypted messages between Cohen and other recipients from the private chat apps WhatsApp and Signal.

The AP has learned that Trump's 2020 re-election campaign is secretly working with former employees of Cambridge Analytica. https://apnews.com/96928216bdc341ada659447973a688e4

Tweeted by kylegriffin1 on June 15, 2018 at 5:10 PM

user15026

@TimStone I feel like this is a bad idea

Tim Stone

NEW: Rudy Giuliani tells @NYDailyNews "things might get cleaned up with some presidential pardons" when the "whole thing is over" in light of Paul Manafort being sent to jail. Story TK.

Tweeted by C_Sommerfeldt on June 15, 2018 at 6:26 PM

@Ash You'd think what with the everyone being unhappy about what they did

user15026

@TimStone Yeah, I just feel like being like "hello people who make people super mad because you did bad things with data join my team while I yell about someone else's emails" just is a weird idea....but that might just be me

Tim Stone

@TimStone Just for those of you playing at home, ignoring the fact that Manafort would surely go down on state charges anyway, he's literally charged with Conspiracy against the United States

So pardoning that is like, uhhh

@Ash His reelection manager Brad Parscale is a trash person, so :|

Oh also I guess Trump has stated Cohen isn't his lawyer anymore too? lol

Fantastic

Unionhawk

probably a solid plan

Tim Stone

7:16 PM

The bus comes for us all except those of us who don't partner up with someone who would, literally, shove us under a bus

I mean really the only thing preventing Trump from actually doing that is his likely distaste for public transportation

k this girl drank her dog's pee and i don't have hard data on this or anything, but i'm pretty sure this is why trump won https://theoutline.com/post/4940/heres-why-that-girl-drank-her-dogs-piss?utm_source=TW&zr=jjje4x3c&zd=1&zi=ea3mzmyo

Tweeted by ebruenig on June 15, 2018 at 7:17 PM

ಠ_ಠ

Unionhawk

that reminds me I need to mute "this is why trump won" and "this is why we have trump" forever

Tim Stone

I mean yes but IGNORING THAT

What

Arperum

How's the trade wars going over there? @TimStone @Unionhawk?

Tim Stone

I don't know if our low voter turnout is good or bad anymore because clearly there are a lot of severely misinformed people out there

@Arperum I just don't buy anything it's my secret

Natalie Portman says former friend Jared Kushner has become a "super villain" http://hill.cm/jCBNOVX

Tweeted by thehill on June 15, 2018 at 7:19 PM

lol why was Natalie Portman friends with Jared Kushner?

Unionhawk

rich people hanging out with rich people probably

Tim Stone

7:23 PM

Ah, they both went to raises pinky Harvard

Jeb Bush's son @georgepbush gives full throated support to @realDonaldTrump: “Are we gonna stand up for President Donald J. Trump. Are we going to reject the fake news and the liberal media? … Yes we are." #rpt2018

Tweeted by toddgillman on June 15, 2018 at 7:20 PM

My dude he insulted your mom and your name is George P. Bush, you can't afford to sacrifice this dignity

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone please no more george * bush presidents

Tim Stone

P. Bush, pee tape, makes u think

Unionhawk

no more dynasty presidents in general tbh

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk agreed

Arperum

@GodEmperorDune Granted: all of them will be Trumps forever. Assuming you leave the current Trump in office for long enough.

Tim Stone

7:30 PM

North Korea is building a gigantic resort complex on the same beach the military has used for testing ballistic missiles and massive artillery drills. We track the developments (thread) of the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Area in this @nytimes video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNEMV6EmYqs

Tweeted by trbrtc on June 15, 2018 at 5:14 PM

lol omfg, a thread

SaintWacko

7:46 PM

@TimStone In a homage to its previous usage, the resort will resemble missile silos and barracks

Tim Stone

8:06 PM

Okay we already covered this in parts but JFC The Hill, phrasing

@SaintWacko We joked before about Trump lifting sanctions for a hotel but like that might actually happen

#UPDATE: In a photo sent to 8 News NOW from Keith Aronson, the suspect has notes taped to the window of the vehicle he's barricaded in. One note says "Mr. President release the reports," according to a passerby. #HooverDam #8NN

Tweeted by 8NewsNow on June 15, 2018 at 7:55 PM

🤔

(see account for more information, person with gun standing off on Hoover Dam)

Tim Stone

8:25 PM

McConnell complains that Mueller probe has gone on "forever," says he "ought to wrap it up" http://hill.cm/gBBDL6Q

Tweeted by thehill on June 15, 2018 at 8:25 PM

🙄

GodEmperorDune

yall i am CONFLICTED

on one hand it is a tucker carlson twete

on the other hand it includes "69" so i am obligated to reply "nice"

what do

Tim Stone

lol I saw that

GodEmperorDune

Tweeted by nerdist on June 15, 2018 at 7:39 PM

nerdist fully cutting ties with chris hardwick

quartata

let's talk about this for a second here

Unionhawk

about how the vogons destroyed earth for their infrastructure project?

yeah

quartata

8:40 PM

but

more importantly

he thinks that saying his philosophy is like Isaac Asimov makes him cool and futuristic

Unionhawk

I dunno I still like the first observation especially since Boring has a contract to redo Chicago

murgatroid99

@quartata That's kind of unnecessarily dismissive

Unionhawk

Cincinnati Parks to Amend Policies after Protests

I guess we won't find out what they're going to do about it Sunday. They've waived the fee.

Hell yeah

They are also going forward offering fee waivers to groups performing free community services

Yuuki

8:57 PM

Is Elon Musk Three Laws compliant?

quartata

@murgatroid99 perhaps. but even if he might have been inspired by both Adams and Asimov's writing, their actual philosophies in my opinion don't mix in the "simple" way he claims to perceive

Yuuki

I'm honestly not sure what philosophy you can derive from Douglas Adams's literature.

Carry a towel and cricket is an incredibly offensive game?

quartata

@Yuuki there's lots of things there, actually

murgatroid99

@quartata Maybe, but claiming "He's only saying this because he thinks it makes him sound cool, and not because it's what he actually believes" is a very dismissive assumption

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk yay

Unionhawk

9:06 PM

@Yuuki no

Yuuki

@quartata To be fair, a philosophy derived from an author's literature is not the same as the author's philosophy. You could totally extract "abuse is a great way of building character so long as your child wasn't conceived under the influence of a love potion" from Harry Potter but I seriously doubt J.K. Rowling believes that.

quartata

I know. I'm basing "inspired by ... writing" from previous things he's said about this

Adams, for instance, does not think that humans were created as computational slaves to find out the question about life, the universe and everything

Yuuki

Incidentally, I think it's kinda f--ked up that by Harry Potter canon, Voldemort was evil mostly because he was born while his father was under a love potion and therefore he (Voldemort) was physically incapable of love.

> J.K. Rowling: It was a symbolic way of showing that he came from a loveless union – but of course, everything would have changed if Merope had survived and raised him herself and loved him.

J.K. Rowling: The enchantment under which Tom Riddle fathered Voldemort is important because it shows coercion, and there can’t be many more prejudicial ways to enter the world than as the result of such a union.

Okay, never mind, my headcanon has been fixed.

Although there are still problems (implication that a child of coerced union like rape for example is predisposed towards evil).

GodEmperorDune

9:40 PM

@Yuuki yeaaaaaaaaaaaah JK rowling put a lot of problematic things into the books

Yuuki

Which doesn't negate the good things, it's just that the problematic things need to be talked about so people can see them as being problematic.

GodEmperorDune

exactly

puzzlepiece87

9:53 PM

@Unionhawk Great news! Way to pressure them. Wonderful result!

Unionhawk

I suspect they weren't willing to face the result of us showing the fuck up anyway

GodEmperorDune

10:12 PM

The conspiracy? - ExxonMobil claims that these scientists are conspiring to deprive the company of its free speech rights. ExxonMobil claims that it has free speech rights to publish false information about climate change.

Tweeted by nielekane on June 15, 2018 at 5:35 PM in reply to nielekane

love to be on the wrong side of history

GodEmperorDune

10:38 PM

wow, theranos execs are being charged with CRIMES

GodEmperorDune

11:09 PM

@TimStone adam weinstein solved this dilemma for me but its a dunk/meme so can't post it here

quartata

I just read that

and it hurts

Unionhawk