The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

[Strat]

goddamn what a hunk

[96583UP]

just preparing for manafort to finger trump, and we will all be feverishly masturbating

[dimejinky99]

Id say trump is going to have an asphywank tonight. On himself or melania

[dimejinky99]

9 tweets from trump about the weather in the last 12 hours.
And him sitting in the middle of a shitstorm.
The irony

[McParadigm]

Pretty soon an entire political party will embrace the idea that these 3,000 people never existed.

[96583UP]

drain the swamp

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... trump.html

One of the most blandly unsettling passages in Bob Woodward’s Fear recounts the near resignation of Gary Cohn, one of the book’s likely sources and (therefore) heroes. In August 2017, Cohn, nauseated at President Trump’s equivocation over neo-Nazis demonstrating in Charlottesville, Virginia, attempted to quit. Trump berated Cohn for his weakness and, characteristically equating political loyalty to himself with loyalty to the country, accused Cohn of “treason.” “It was chilling,” Woodward reports.

Then Trump tried another approach. “If you leave now, taxes are over,” he warned. By this he meant the massive corporate tax cuts Cohn had helped to craft and from which he also stood to personally benefit. Cohn’s moral outrage began to drain, and he instead decided to stay on, prioritizing the taxes, or, as Woodward has him selflessly declaring, “helping the country.”

There is no better symbol for the Republican Party elite in the Trump era than Gary Cohn weighing the morality of opposing Nazism against corporate-tax-rate cuts and choosing the latter.

[Simple Torture]

We just talked about why this effectively nullifies any pardon ambitions earlier today.

On top of this--I don't 1000% understand this, but will try to find a source, so bear with me for a second--apparently, since Manafort has pled guilty, he effectively has given up his 5th ammendment rights if he gets pardoned. If he gets subpoenad to discuss something he's been pardoned for, he can't be charged with it, so he can't refuse to discuss it; if he did, he could be charged with contempt of court or obstruction, which he'd then have to be pardoned for again. Madness.

[LetMeSleep]

Kieven Flow

[tragabigzanda]

We just talked about why this effectively nullifies any pardon ambitions earlier today.

On top of this--I don't 1000% understand this, but will try to find a source, so bear with me for a second--apparently, since Manafort has pled guilty, he effectively has given up his 5th ammendment rights if he gets pardoned. If he gets subpoenad to discuss something he's been pardoned for, he can't be charged with it, so he can't refuse to discuss it; if he did, he could be charged with contempt of court or obstruction, which he'd then have to be pardoned for again. Madness.

i've read this too

[McParadigm]

I can’t imagine the horrors lurking in the shadows of this immigration policy.

[96583UP]

i always figured trump's plan was really to start abducting and murdering people

[McParadigm]

Today’s “in over their heads” reaction.

[96583UP]

as incompetent and despicable as uncle leo is, all i can do at this point is direct my utter dissatisfaction with the republican congress

trump and whoever may have done this shady shit with russia, and are treading water to save themselves

but few if any GOP congressmen were directly involved

and this asswipe POTUS has proven he is a danger to everybody

but then they prop him up

and thereby become complicit in his acts

fuck 'em

[tragabigzanda]

but few if any GOP congressmen were directly involved

I'm less confident in this after watching Dark Money last night. I have a hunch that a LOT of cash went from Russia, Israel, etc to GOP candidates in the form of dark money efforts

[McParadigm]

but few if any GOP congressmen were directly involved

I'm less confident in this after watching Dark Money last night.

I have watched nothing and yet, just by way of their continuous self-harm and the NRA laundering news, I have wondered.

[96583UP]

i would tend to classify the NRA money as more of an 'indirect' involvement

of course, if the candidate was totally aware that NRA was effectively laundering soviet money to influence them, then direct, yes, direct

this is the problem when we don't pay politicians a living wage!

[BurtReynolds]

I've been getting into the transvestigation community, and they might be on to something.

[dimejinky99]

And the dainty hands

[bune]

I honest to God don't know who that offends more and it's kind of exciting.

[BurtReynolds]

Flat Earth was just the tip of the iceberg.