US Politics

I may have had a classic education like JRM, but I didn't have a nanny and I'm not a hedge fund manager or an MP so I'm pretty sure I'm not JRM. I was going to say I'm also not a total gitzoid like JRM, but meh, opinions vary.

The Special Counsel can only be terminated by Whitaker for "misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest, or for other good cause."

Whitaker has expressed the view that investigating Trump business finances is crossing a red line. So looking at a $300 million loan financed by Russian dirty money would be "other good cause". Is it possible that Whitaker can just say thank you, you have done a good job, now I am reassigning to anohter investigation, say into fake news and the Democrats.

There is a pretty compelling argument by George Conway that Whitaker was illegally appointed. Apparently any principle officer, I.e somebody who reports directly to the president needs to be confirmed by the Senate. This has been tested and proven in court twice in recent years.

Might mean Whitaker can do absolutely fuck all.

going by the theory thats Trump's just a useful idiot/stalking horse for the Republican right, surely now is the time to fuck him off and focus on getting someone more sane into the hot seat before the next elections or risk getting voted out themselves/country tearing itself to shreds (if any of them actually care).

They don't really think he'll get re-elected, do they?

On another point, how the fuck does the gaping moral chasm that is Sarah Sanders wake up to do the devil's work every day?

Insert her often included maiden name, and be reminded she is the spawn of;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Huckabee

AH.

Pedigree basket case then.

Why aren’t more people amused by the punny-ness of “Acosta”?

seems she was... accosted.

/puts on sunglasses.

I hardly knew her.

The Katyal/Conway opinion in the New York Times is very interesting. The Acting Attorney General that Nixon used to fire the prosecutor had passed Senate scrutiny as Solicitor General. Whitaker has only passed scrutiny as a federal prosecutor in Iowa in 2004. The article says that scrutiny has now expired.
So if Whitaker does take controversial action before being confirmed by the Senate he may face a legal challenge. The final say will be with the Supreme Court . . . . watch this space.

These assault accusations based on edited video are fully insane. We're deep in the twilight zone.

I hear you. Starting to think that all these survivalist nut jobs who have been digging bunkers and stockpiling weapons for the last 20 years might have been onto something.

Fucking mental. I have a feeling it's going to get even weirder really soon.

got a link?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/video-of-acosta-incident-posted-by-white-house-press-secretary-contains-extra-frames-2018-11-08

Cheers!

This twitter thread is something else https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1060227002832056320

Wow, these guys really are (sporadically) concerned about women getting abused, aren't they?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhZBhIDY8tc

Another form of voter suppression, in Florida
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/something-looks-weird-in-broward-county-heres-what-we-know-about-a-possible-florida-recount/

You have to give it to these people, they never seem to run out of ideas how to deepen a scandal:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/09/matthew-whitaker-acting-attorney-general-wpm-scam

The View, seeing it from different sides
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gu5RbOBwwE

oh dear god, he's been invited to the d-day commemorations

will he make it all about himself or put his foot in his mouth and insult huge amounts of people .... or both

Nazi salute?

" President Donald Trump blamed the fires on forest mismanagement and threatened to withdraw related federal funding. "

forest are mismanaged because you cut their budgets 2 years ago you steaming great wazzock

he cancelled the visit to honour the american dead because his hair might get wet