US Politics

Sweet to see Bannon being attacked by all sides on the right.

I don't think Moore has conceded yet. Despite this tweet from Mike Huckabee: “Roy Moore won’t concede; says will wait on God to speak. God wasn’t registered to vote in AL but the ppl who voted did speak and it wasn’t close enough for recount. In elections everyone does NOT get a trophy. I know first hand but it’s best to exit with class.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/454607/math-alabama-doesnt-add-state-funded-recount
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Footage (with terrible audio) has emerged from pre Alabama-vote where a pal of Roy Moore’s recounts how back in ‘nam the two of them went to a brothel but didn’t screw any of the underage girls.

Wow. What a guy.

Plus this bonus level content for anyone who missed it.
https://youtu.be/bdqFEMYQi2A

https://youtu.be/8I_NkJ8VTEI

^his nearly 5 minute video refusing to concede.

tl;dw we are corrupt. we need to turn back to god. we have aborted kids and allowed boys to be girls. Im a massive rascist cunt and I im going to throw my toys out the pram until someone overturns the valid election result

Also Paul Ryan considering not standing for re-election at mid terms. Commentators presuming so he has a break to cleanse the trump stink off him before running in 2020 for president

Twitter seems to think Jared Kushner is getting indicted today.

Well, Kushner just deleted his tweets...

But...but...if Jared Kushner is going to prison, who is going to bring peace to the Middle East?

Fake news

https://www.snopes.com/did-jared-kushner-scrub-his-twitter-account-after-manafort-indictment/

No, not fake news. That article was from October and he scrubbed his Twitter account half an hour ago.

Edit: yes, probably fake news

He's never tweeted...

Well, once or twice but yes...you guys are right.

Regardless of whether he's tweeted before or not, i hope he gets fucking nailed by Mueller and team

Deleted tweets. Because there's certainly no backups anywhere, what with computer storage being so very, very expensive. And that backup could certainly never be subpoenaed as part of an ongoing federal investigation.

'Lock him up'?

https://www.snopes.com/did-jared-kushner-scrub-his-twitter-account-after-manafort-indictment/

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/941837194032857089
https://sciencealert.com/centre-disease-control-us-government-banned-words

Trump has banned the CDC from using the terms "evidence-based" and "science-based", among other things. Trying to hide the disparity between those parts of the administration still living in the real world and the nutjob conspiracy freaks in charge.

What can we expect to see next in terms of policies that need this protection? I wouldn't be surprised if anti-vaccination policy appeared, frankly.

Wtf. Is it possible for the government to ban words?
These "official documents being prepared for next year's budget" are presumably publicly accessible but not aimed at the general public? I don't get it. Whose sensibilities would the word "vulnerable" offend?

Whose sensibilities would the word "vulnerable" offend?

Trump's.

It's possible the ban comes from somebody in the administration who knows that using these words in documents will just make Trump reject them. If so, it may be a way of trying to help the CDC survive Trump, rather than censorship.

Madness.

Also, I thought he didn't actually read these things?

Kelly did not say why the words are being banned, according to the analyst, and told the group that she was merely relaying the information.

The Nuremberg defence. How reassuring!

Is it possible for the government to ban words?

1st amendment rights to free speech don’t apply when working for private business but do when working for government. So I think ‘no’ ?

What are they trying to distract attention from?

The forbidden words are “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.”

surely someone in murica has a thesaurus

Yeah, but fetuses can fuck off though. Entitled little shits just lying around all day doing nothing, yet expecting tax dollars to come to their rescue out when disease breaks out.