We're living in the part of the dystopian novel that most authors don't reveal...the cause of whatever downfall in which the story takes place.

At least we'll have twitter for some historical sources.

11/27/2018 10:31:57 AM

https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1067175336184606720

Quote :

"When we look at Auschwitz we see the end of the process. It's important to remember that the Holocaust actually did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed from words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanisation & escalating violence."

11/27/2018 10:53:35 AM

This escalating violence at the border should make it painfully clear that this hysteria over migration is not about electoral gamesmanship, but about consolidating state power by setting the table to retroactively determine citizenship and ones legal status.

11/27/2018 12:42:43 PM

^
I picked up Origins of Totalitarianism since it's seeming like more and more of a likely outcome. Time to get educated.

11/27/2018 2:15:50 PM

https://indyweek.com/news/soapboxer/trump-wants-you-to-be-very-afraid/

11/27/2018 2:21:31 PM

^^ it's a slog. The first section is mostly exposition. The majority of her analysis occurs in the second/third part of I remember correctly.

Honestly I'd recommend getting it on audiobook if you could (it's like 20+ hours long).

11/27/2018 3:14:20 PM

Cohen reaches plea deal pleading guilty to lying to Congress

The dominoes are about to start to fall....

11/29/2018 9:10:47 AM

11/29/2018 9:31:27 AM

Yeah this looks like ball game, at least for perjury charges.

11/29/2018 9:58:17 AM

How many times have we all thought this though? And then nothing...

11/29/2018 10:35:28 AM

Exactly.

Remember that time UNC got busted for having fake classes for like decades and the NCAA didn't do shit? This is like that.

[Edited on November 29, 2018 at 10:45 AM. Reason : Cancel the circle jerk]

11/29/2018 10:42:09 AM

Well he's still the President, and you can't indict him, that hasn't changed. There's nothing ambiguous about these public court filings though: Trump perjured himself in his written answers and Mueller has proof. Mitch McConnell is about to enter the worst 2 years of his life.

11/29/2018 10:51:30 AM

^^ Counterpoint: The NCAA lacked subpoena power and had a more amicable relationship with UNC than federal prosecutors have with President Trump.

11/29/2018 11:15:43 AM

the stakes are about a trillion times bigger, too

11/29/2018 11:37:37 AM

Ain't shit gonna happen, sadly.

Results will be bad politically, but not criminally.

Quote :

"Mitch McConnell is about to enter the worst 2 years of his life."

Can't be worse than that time his chin morphed into his neck.

11/29/2018 11:52:26 AM

If this goes to money laundering then yeah it will absolutely go criminal.

11/29/2018 12:07:07 PM

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/59vyxa/trump-michael-cohen-is-just-a-weak-person-making-up-a-story-about-my-business-dealings-with-russia

Quote :

"“He’s got himself a big prison sentence, and he’s trying to get a much lesser prison sentence by making up a story,” Trump told reporters Thursday morning after Cohen appeared in federal court. He then continued: “Even if he was right, it doesn’t matter because I was allowed to do whatever I wanted during the campaign.”"

11/29/2018 12:09:20 PM

^^ I'm talking about Trump.

[Edited on November 29, 2018 at 12:14 PM. Reason : obviously his henchmen will continue to face criminal issues]

11/29/2018 12:13:00 PM

he won't be president forever, he will get charged at some point

11/29/2018 12:20:26 PM

Deutsche Bank also raided today in relation to a money laundering investigation that may scoop up Kushner at least. Additionally:

https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1068181852001890304

11/29/2018 12:24:27 PM

Quote :

"I was very much looking forward to having a press conference just prior to leaving Argentina because we have had such great success in our dealing with various countries and their leaders at the G20....However, out of respect for the Bush Family and former President George H.W. Bush we will wait until after the funeral to have a press conference."

lol

12/1/2018 1:16:20 PM

https://youtu.be/iMpIMvbXsag

12/3/2018 11:01:34 AM

Stop. Reporting. On. Trump. Deals. He. Says. He. Made. With. No. Evidence.

How fucking hard is this?

12/4/2018 11:09:42 AM

Trump re-tweeted one of the dumbest things I've ever read from Charlie Kirk, and that's saying something

https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1069811169010089984

12/4/2018 6:22:30 PM

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/us/trump-bedminster-golf-undocumented-workers.html

12/6/2018 3:06:33 PM

My favorite thing is his orange makeup staining a shirt collar and him getting mad they couldn't get the stain out.

12/6/2018 6:47:55 PM

10:08
President tweets “FAKE NEWS ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE”

10:30
CNN New York evacuated for a bomb threat during don lemons show

12/6/2018 11:31:19 PM

It seems the Trump campaign and the NRA illegally coordinated ad buys.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/nra-trump-2016-campaign-coordination-political-advertising/

Quote :

"The National Rifle Association spent $30 million to help elect Donald Trump—more than any other independent conservative group. Most of that sum went toward television advertising, but a political message loses its power if it fails to reach the right audience at the right time. For the complex and consequential task of placing ads in key markets across the nation in 2016, the NRA turned to a media strategy firm called Red Eagle Media. One element of Red Eagle’s work for the NRA involved purchasing a slate of 52 ad slots on WVEC, the ABC affiliate in Norfolk, Virginia, in late October 2016. The ads targeted adults aged 35 to 64 and aired on local news programs and syndicated shows like Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. In paperwork filed with the Federal Communications Commission, Red Eagle described them as “anti-Hillary” and “pro-Trump.” The Trump campaign pursued a strikingly similar advertising strategy. Shortly after the Red Eagle purchase, as Election Day loomed, it bought 33 ads on the same station, set to air during the same week. The ads, which the campaign purchased through a firm called American Media & Advocacy Group (AMAG), were aimed at precisely the same demographic as the NRA spots, and often ran during the same shows, bombarding Norfolk viewers with complementary messages. The two purchases may have looked coincidental; Red Eagle and AMAG appear at first glance to be separate firms. But each is closely connected to a major conservative media-consulting firm called National Media Research, Planning and Placement. In fact, the three outfits are so intertwined that both the NRA’s and the Trump campaign’s ad buys were authorized by the same person: National Media’s chief financial officer, Jon Ferrell."

The three companies also share an address and ad buyers who were simultaneously making buys for both Trump and the NRA. Raycom sports gets a shout-out.

12/7/2018 2:32:36 AM

The President is in full on panic mode today.

12/7/2018 7:23:14 AM

^https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/vbapxx/trump-spent-the-morning-rage-tweeting-about-robert-mueller-again

12/7/2018 11:34:45 AM

Our "President" is a baby. Tillerson is dumb as a rock? Project much?

12/7/2018 3:22:34 PM

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/federal-prosecutors-concluded-that-president-of-the-united-states-committed-a-felony/

2 felonies to be exact

12/7/2018 5:57:39 PM

http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/dumb-as-a-rock-donald-trump-shoots-back-after-rex-tillersons-criticizes-him-1959526

This is 10 times worse and more deceitful than a circus filled with animal cruelty.

12/8/2018 7:29:20 AM

tbf Tillerson is dumb as a rock

12/8/2018 10:11:11 AM

Apparently John Kelly is no longer on speaking terms with Individual-1, and is resigning in the next few days.

12/8/2018 11:09:09 AM

Trump officially announced Kelly is leaving

I’m wondering if this is his way of forcing him out

Kelly is scum but I think Trump is entering his phase of fighting impeachment and conviction and Kelly probably wants no part of that. Every resource of the executive branch is now going to protecting trump and his family, even more so than before.



[Edited on December 8, 2018 at 1:54 PM. Reason : ]

12/8/2018 1:51:58 PM

The “campaign finance contribution stuff isnt illegal, but if it is, Obama did it too” narrative is kinda cute. Kind of.

Also, could Individual One be Hannity?

[Edited on December 8, 2018 at 2:18 PM. Reason : Or Trump’s kids?]

12/8/2018 2:15:02 PM

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/08/politics/jared-kushner-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman/index.html

Quote :

"Washington (CNN)The President's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, continued to have private conversations with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to The New York Times. Kushner offered the de facto Saudi ruler advice "about how to weather the storm" following the death of Khashoggi, the Times reported on Saturday, citing a Saudi source familiar with the conversations. Although White House protocol stipulated that National Security Council staff be present on all phone calls with foreign leaders, Kushner and bin Salman continued to chat informally after Khashoggi's death, the Times reported, citing two former senior American officials and two people briefed by the Saudis. The White House did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment on the story."

12/8/2018 11:39:58 PM

Jared Kushner's close relationship with Saudi officials is reportedly the result of a 2-year influence mission
http://www.businessinsider.com/report-jared-kushner-close-with-saudi-arabia-crown-prince-2018-12

12/9/2018 5:33:08 AM

https://www.facebook.com/227224587334395/posts/2014482878608548/

If you want to read responses from die hard trump supporters to the felony campaign finance news.

12/10/2018 10:40:26 AM

So the GOP narrative on trump’s felony actions is that it was not that big a deal, the law is too harsh

12/10/2018 11:12:23 PM

Seeing Orrin Hatch and John Kennedy’s quotes on this makes me sick. The GOP is lost forever with no way back. These are supposedly serious guys on the Judiciary.

Burn it down, fumigate it and start a new party. There is only Trump left for the GOP.

12/11/2018 8:23:00 AM

GOP is already on the wrong side of immigration opinion in America, now it's basically a joke for any Republican to say they believe in the "rule of law".

I'm hoping there's some Democratic operation out there collecting all these video clips to make some damning campaign ads.

12/11/2018 10:00:44 AM

Oh the 2020 election ad and debate season will certainly be one to remember.

12/11/2018 10:40:14 AM

Quote :

"I'm hoping there's some Democratic operation out there collecting all these video clips to make some damning campaign ads."

They can just contact John Oliver or The Daily Show.

12/11/2018 11:30:49 AM

If it's Beto (which it is), Obama's 2012 campaign operation will be basically running the show. They aren't fools, that anti-Romney "they made us build the stage they fired us from" ad basically won the election.

12/11/2018 12:07:54 PM

Lol Trump just got pasted by Pelosi and Schumer on national TV.

12/11/2018 12:10:05 PM

Let's all get behind the guy who couldn't beat the guy who couldn't beat Trump.

12/11/2018 12:31:41 PM

the transitive property doesn’t work in sports

12/11/2018 12:37:15 PM

You going for sarcasm or are you making a meta observation about the a-political sporting aspect of electoralism?

12/11/2018 12:53:09 PM