US Politics

Winston Churchill facing questions over his role as UK PM during WW2-era blitz campaign.

There is a precedent,
Northern Ireland peace process had to have a non-Brit running it,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_J._Mitchell

interestingly he's from the same town as this person:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_LePage#Public_opinion

I haven't even got started on Papadopoulos yet. :)

What a nasty piece of work LePage is,
standard issue Republican.
Who votes for these people?

Do your worst.

Aren't most of those elderly Republicans already likely sporting 'Senior pads',
so,
they will scarcely notice any additional stress-related faecal leakage anyway.

There are 4 other still sealed cases between Papadopoulos number 182 and Manafort at 201 at that DC court alone plus the other grand juries elsewhere. This is going to be exhausting.

Wondering when Trump will tweet again

When he's made it to Moscow?

Mueller is the 'smartest guy in the room'.
The Manafort/Gates indictments are purposefully about actions before any involvement with Trump, so there is no opportunity for Trump to sack Mueller, at the moment.

Seems likely Sessions has perjured himself,
today was just to apply some pressure to the conspirators,
with the Papadopoulos confession
creating an environment of uncertainty about who can be trusted to keep their mouths shut.

Mueller clearly has a lot more evidence,
but has decided to keep it secret, to see who will crack and try to negotiate.
One of those sealed cases ^ must surely be for Mike Flynn?

Interesting

https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/925103358817349633

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Some Washington Post coverage (zoom the pictures to read)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNdMMmMWAAErrA7.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNdMMmSX4AEi7hH.jpg

There's a bit in the article on the bottom of the second page that seems to allude to the tweet I posted above (about waiving client-attorney privilege so that lawyers - and other professional service providers - can safely spill the beans on what their clients asked them to do).

Off topic, but is there really a blue bubble behind the headlines on the printed edition or are we looking at some kind of online edition that tries to be user friendly?

I like it. Looks like os x 10.1

You know the way that Gen Kelly has been portrayed as this reasonable and principled guy, slightly embarrassed by his boss and trying to keep the excesses and inflammatory, divisive rhetoric to a minimum? About that...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/31/john-kelly-says-us-civil-war-was-prompted-by-inability-to-compromise

Jeez, that thread by Seth Abramson! Brutal.

So what happens when Trump fires Mueller?

Trump has woken up and started tweeting. More “fake news” bullshit.

yeah but seeing as he stopped right after the George Papadopoulos charges were revealed until now means someone probably stole his phone or he realised hes finally up shit creek.

He probably just gave up trying to spell Papadopocovfefvepolous and went to bed early.

Ah, that's why he tweets about "George"...

Unless you're already using it, I warmly recommend this chrome extension when you read his twitter rants. In addition to altering his twitter page it works on all pages where his tweets are embedded. Sort of takes the edge off.

Personally, I can't digest his shit raw. It has to be either sassy trump on youtube or trough the aforementioned twitter extension.

Character limits are not friendly to certain Greek names. :)