Nothing spoils the Christmas mood like some thieving asshole. And while I'd rather watch these dripping dicks get blown up, that wouldn't exactly be in keeping with the spirit of the season - or the law, for that matter. It's just good to know there are people out there who know how to do stuff, and do it in a way that makes the point while staying inside the boundaries (something we've been sorely missing of late).
May the fake lord bless you and keep you, Super Nerds.
Just trying to head off some of the bullshit that's already starting to spout from the Repubs on this one: Sean Sullivan, WaPo: Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has appointed fellow Republican Rep. Martha McSally to the Senate, he announced Tuesday, picking a favorite of GOP leaders to fill the seat John McCain held for decades. -and - “I am humbled and grateful to have this opportunity to serve and be a voice for all Arizonans,” McSally said in a statement issued by Ducey’s office. She said she looked forward to working with Sen.-elect Kyrsten Sinema, the Democrat who defeated her in November. "Service" got nuthin' to do with it, lady. Martha McSally is a power hungry simp who'll say and do any-fuckin'-thing she has to say or do in order to gain access to the National Millionaire-Makers Club popularly known as the US Senate. The voters rejected her last month on the basis of her vote(s) in the House to repeal the ACA ("Let's fucking do this!"), coupled with the standard GOP bullshit mid-term campaign theme of "We're committed to protecting the rights of people with pre-existing conditions".
The bosses want her in there because she always does what the bosses tell her to do. Which makes this little episode all the more distasteful, as she's running for John McCain's old seat.
It didn't get all fucked up yesterday. We won't get it all unfucked by tomorrow. There's still an awful lot to do.
My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some things of those things #Thread
There once was a man from Japan Whose poetry never would scan When someone asked why He said with a sigh It's prob'ly cuz I put too many goddamned words in the last fucking line.
- and - There once was a lad From Cork who got limericks Confused with haikus
If you haven't done this yet, it's time you got to it. 1. An Unsettling Secret
2. Crawling In
3. Hang In There, Baby
4.Turn It Off
5. Double-Header
6. Disappearing Act
7. You can't Fire Me - I Quit
I remember a lot of this, but there are many new things and details in this story that blew me up completely. And I'll say it again - history does not repeat itself, but it sure as fuck rhymes. One final note: As far as my kinda neutral assessment of Poppy Bush - uh, yeah - fuck that guy.
An awful lot of dots have been connected over the last several months, revealing the various pieces of the Trump/Russia machinery.
We're getting a better look at the scope of it, and with the Butina plea, now we know there's a solid link between the Kremlin and the GOP, running through the NRA.
So another big part of the framework is in place, and they've hung a big ol' chunk of flesh on it.
Simply put, there's all but solid proof that the NRA has been laundering Russian money and pouring it into our government's policy apparatus, as well as our elections, via (mostly) GOP politicians and their campaigns. Don't assume I'm giving an asshole like 45* any props for being some kinda anti-hero, but in my brain right now, there are echoes of Butch & Sundance - the scene where Paul Newman is ranting about everything EH Harriman is doing to keep the Hole In The Wall Gang from robbing his trains. "If he'd pay me what he's spendin' to make me stop robbin' him, I'd stop robbin' him." Since everything 45* does has everything to do with some kinda cash transaction, I can imagine him thinking all he really has to do is make a deal that gets him out of this. When the Republicans finally manage to find their balls, and to tell him he has to go, I can hear him saying, "What's it worth to you for me to make this easier for everybody?" "Pay me what it's costing you to make me stop being president, and I'll stop being president." And a really interesting little wrinkle - like the shit that's falling on Michael Cohen's head, Maria Butina's case is not directly attached to the Mueller investigation. It goes wherever it goes; it exposes whatever it exposes; it links to whoever it links to - and Cult45 can't fuck with any of it. And then -
Starting at about 01:25
So we don't know what all that secrecy at the DC Circuit Court was about today, but we kinda do know because we're not putting up dots so we can draw lines later. We don't have to do so much of that anymore - now we're adding more dots to the lines that are already drawn, making those lines stronger as we go.
