I salute Politico for running one of 2019's greatest headlines – it has since been changed, tragically, but it lives on as a URL https://t.co/9kv3ga3oir pic.twitter.com/rKvdjXJg2j
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) September 27, 2019
Here. pic.twitter.com/3GVnlsEmHA
— Jeremy Binckes (@jbinckes) September 27, 2019
Urban Dictionary attributes the original usage to Rahm Emmanuel in 2009.
The article, by “founding editor of POLITICO” John F. Harris, absolutely lives down to its original title:
… It is too early to tell what will come of House Democrats’ decision to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, but not too early to conclude that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has failed to revive the concept of solemnity in American politics.
That was the obvious intent Tuesday, when she stood in front of a bank of flags, invoking the Founding Fathers and Constitutional Convention of 1787, as she announced the impeachment inquiry.
But the reaction, underway even before she started speaking, made clear that for much of the country, it was just another day in what Rahm Emanuel, when he was Barack Obama’s chief of staff, called the metropolis of “Fucknutsville.” The news may be important, it may be swerving wildly in surprising ways, but never these days is it something that commands reverent attention.
People below a certain age may not have firsthand experience with news events that did indeed command that reaction — and impeachment proceedings against a president unambiguously would have been one of them…
He blames — you will no doubt be shocked! — what he calls ‘the Lewinsky Affair.’ The beclownification of which, of course, was very much a boon for the men who would later found Politico, but then irony is dead and therefore cannot sue for libel.
Because this remains the internet:
This inspired me, so I made a thing.https://t.co/wHv082EKEC
— Mike Kunkel (@M_Kunkel) September 27, 2019
Leto
Immediate Bigfoot. Impressive.
Timurid
F
rikyrah
But, of course ? ?
Matt Pearce ? (@mattdpearce) Tweeted:
NYT reports that NRA could be willing to bankroll some of Trump’s impeachment defense if Trump opposes gun control legislation. https://t.co/JU3XRUl8rQ https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1177692366095843328?s=17
Yarrow
They are so pathetic.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Way to fail civics 101 Tigerbeat on the Potomac
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition” James Madison
rikyrah
rev. howard arson (@Theophite) Tweeted:
“noncollege whites” is not what it sounds like.
the core of trump’s support isn’t, like, grocery clerks and millworkers, but local franchise owners whose politics consists of the belief that a regional car dealership entitles you to prima noctem. https://twitter.com/Theophite/status/1177439086979633152?s=17
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Yarrow: Giuliani first confirmed and then almost immediately canceled his scheduled paid appearance with Putin at a Kremlin-backed conference. PAID. There are people in this world stupider than truck-stop Trumpsters, because there are people who would pay Rudy Fucking Numbnuts Giuliani to show up and blither in Armenia.
This is the stupidest timeline.
Cheryl Rofer
Also, Rudy has decided that Armenia isn’t all that great at this time of year.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@rikyrah: Trump ushering in a era of Used Car Dealer overlords? These remakes suck, with William the Conquer and the Normans at lest one got to be oppressed by a guy who knew how to dress the part and were into infrastructure improvements.
Mnemosyne
Yup. They’re looking around at the world that they created and sneering, “Why did you guys let us do this?” ?
rikyrah
Dianna BeTheChange (@ArtistsPo) Tweeted:
These people never give up!
Frequent Flyer Tom Price
cost taxpayers over $1 mil
with his chartered trips and
was fired by Trump is now running
for Sen. Johnny Isakson’s seat (GA).
#GiveItUp https://t.co/rKI6dQSocr https://twitter.com/ArtistsPo/status/1177533889264402432?s=17
Cheryl Rofer
rikyrah
Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) Tweeted:
Trump is shaking down the NRA the same way he did with Ukraine.
Pay for my impeachment defense and I’ll make this whole gun control thing go away.
Folks, this is public corruption. https://t.co/9Z9ITdhkxw https://twitter.com/Scout_Finch/status/1177692951532707840?s=17
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
I don’t know. I don’t trust any GOOPer’s sincerity on this. This could be leading the Dems into a trap.
rikyrah
Very, Dear.???
Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) Tweeted:
Opinion | Just How Corrupt Is Bill Barr? https://t.co/cwPtDhbHzB https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1177582512505270277?s=17
Gravenstone
@Cheryl Rofer: Shopping for a country with low cost of living, and without an extradition treaty with the US. His nest egg isn’t quite he’d hoped to accumulate before the walls caved in on Trumpsville.
rikyrah
Yes ?? ?
9 & 10 News (@9and10News) Tweeted:
A Michigan Judge has struck down the lame-duck law passed by the Republican-led legislature that made it harder for voters to initiate ballot drives.
She ruled it was unconstitutional. https://t.co/rJ4RIirrAP https://twitter.com/9and10News/status/1177665355675820032?s=17
debbie
@rikyrah:
I can’t imagine Wayne ever parting with someone else’s money. //
rikyrah
Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) Tweeted:
The speed of this Ukraine story is stunning…
TUE: Formal impeachment inquiry announced
WED: Memo/notes of July 25th call released
THU: Whistleblower complaint released
FRI: Subpoenas sent/depositions set https://twitter.com/mmurraypolitics/status/1177680061656383489?s=17
cain
The NRA is nothing more than a money laundering organization where Russian money goes in and they go and help Trump. That organization needs to die. I don’t think they actually care about gun rights and gun manufacturers should be concerned that Russians have taken over the NRA. Or maybe it all works out for them.. I don’t know. But I do know that gun manufacturers are in trouble and they really need to have Democrats in charge to fear monger.
rikyrah
We’re Not Going Back (@raising_hill) Tweeted:
Let’s be honest. Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang are being propped up by Republicans. https://twitter.com/raising_hill/status/1177352293974495233?s=17
Mary G
I guess the Politico but never read the transcription of Nixon’s tapes where he swore in every other sentence.
Cheryl Rofer
Things are happening pretty fast…
cain
@rikyrah:
They need to slow it down some.. (foghorn leghorn voice) There are a lot of people to grab and have a conversation with them. Going after conversations with Putin will be very interesting. But we should definitely go after the people who have taken notes as well.
SRW1
@rikyrah:
Once the levee has broken the quid pro quo business becomes a sport.
debbie
@rikyrah:
We’ve got something similar going on in Ohio, where there’s a citizen’s petition drive to end the nuclear bailout just passed by the GOP Legislature. They awarded First Energy all kinds of goodies (big bucks, easing of EPA standards that would cripple the solar/green industries, etc.), and this petition thing is ticking them off. Their ads, as even they admit, are lies, and they have hired “intimidators” who are threatening citizens who solicit signatures (one of these guys has been charged with assaulting a guy looking for signatures) and have published an 800 number for reporting the signature gatherers (even worse intimidation).
As it turns out, the bailout began immediately, and it’s been reported that the cashflow will end as soon as the petitions are delivered and will not start back up until after the 2020 election. Ha on them!
I’m going to drive around until I can find someone with a clipboard.
lamh36
Gin & Tonic
@Cheryl Rofer: Life comes at you fast.
Tony Jay
+++++++++++++++BREXIT NEWS+++++++++++++BREXIT NEWS+++++++++++++++++
“ROLLING IN BLUNDER, UNDER THE BLUSTER. I GUESS THAT WHY THEY CALL THEM THE BLUES”
A week, so they say, is a long time in politics. I’ve got to admit that after picking through the wreckage of the last few days the events of a week ago seem like the half-remembered childhood memory of a lazy Polish summer before the Nazis came and broke everything. This must be how a goldfish feels, or an elephant with catastrophic brain-damage. What came before is a thing experienced by someone else entirely, and the present is so vividly horrific it renders the future almost a thing to be dreaded.
Because of these fucking people.
Faced with minority Government status and boxed in by the voting power of a (sort-of) unified Opposition, the Johnson Regime has responded with all the charm of a three-legged rat raised from infancy on a diet of skin-scrapings and electric shocks. They can’t pass any legislation because they pissed away the bare majority Theresa May left them in Parliament through failed strongarm gambits, and they can’t negotiate their way out of the problem this puts them in because the Brextremist ideology animating the corpse of the Conservative Party won’t let them treat the EU as anything other than a wartime enemy.
And you know what, in truth, it IS their enemy. Not Britain’s enemy, obviously, but definitely the enemy of the billionaire-worshipping cargo cult we see peeking out through all the holes in the pasty white skin of ‘Brexit Britain – the Bulldog with a Bollock for a Brain’. Like their unlamented central European predecessors, the modern-day Nationalist revolutionaries running Britain chose to declare war on the totalitarian colossus next door in the mistaken belief that all they had to do was kick in the barn door and the whole edifice would collapse, but again, like those predecessors, after three years of incompetence and wasted lives their relic empire is reduced to spewing out increasingly fantastical threats in all directions, blaming conspiracies of Everyone Else for the leadership’s many failures and relying on militias of grey-haired retirees and propagandised children to man the barricades against oncoming reality.
Godwin? Have you heard these bastards talk? For them its always 1941 and the Yanks are always oh so nearly coming. Any day now I’m half expecting the ever supine BBC to switch over to black-and-white coverage and standardised Basil Rathbone diction in solidarity with their political masters, though whether that would solve the Corporation’s own self-made problem with the melanin-positive presenter they’re insisting on punishing for having the temerity to say racist tropes are racist is another matter entirely. Apparently, BBC rules state that newswomen of dusky heritage aren’t supposed to answer the question “How does it make you feel to hear the President of the United States telling a woman of colour to ‘go home’?” with any kind of honesty, because the response “Sick, angry and frightened, mate, just like I feel when white people say it to me” is a sign of personal bias against… ugly white racists. Huh? Yeah. May want to retune your Acceptable Brown-Nosing gauge, Honky Channel Bigwigs, yours is broken and it has been since about 2010.
Anyway, back to the report. You probably all know by now that our underwear-stain of a Prime Minister and his Government of moral midgets responded to the humiliation of their 11-0 ballstomping by the Supreme Court in the most predictably cynical way. With prorogation dismissed as unlawful Parliament was open for business, and all afternoon Ministers took urgent questions on important issues from MPs and answered none of them. Not one. The policy was to dodge, divert and dissemble, stymieing the actual purpose of Parliament while providing ALL CAPS quotes for the TV News bulletins until the Opposition benches were steaming with frustration. Then, finally, the Bullingdon Bellend himself emerged to face the music. Shambling out of the House of Commons toilets half an hour late, ripped to the gills on six lines of premier-cru Charlie and utterly subsumed within the role of sneering pantomime villain, Johnson proceeded to spend the next three hours shitting all over the very concept of Parliamentary decorum and throwing stinking handfuls of it at the Opposition benches. Behind him the Beta monkeys of the troupe hooted and howled their approval, wanking each other off with furious gusto every time their red-arsed leader spat another sneering lie across the aisle. Noticeably a good chunk of the Tories in the chamber sat stony faced through the spectacle, applauding the odd line but clearly embarrassed by what the lust for Brexit had revealed about the Conservative soul. My sympathy for their discomfort is best expressed through the medium of its absence. Don’t like what you see? Get up and take a short walk. Otherwise sit and spin, you cowardly bunch of mediocre vote-whores.
Things really kicked off when a pair of female Labour MPs appealed to Johnson’s ‘honour and self-respect’ (uh-huh) by asking him to refrain from using loaded invective like “surrender bill”, “betrayal” and “traitors” when attacking the opponents of national hari-kari. One described how his words were being quoted approvingly by the far-Right terrorists who were sending death-threats to Remain supporting MPs, an entirely factual and well-supported claim that Johnson casually dismissed as “Humbug”, while the other reminded him that Labour MP Jo Cox had been murdered in the run up to the 2016 Referendum by a Brexit-hungry radical using the same extreme language, to which the Leader of Her Majesty’s Government responded that surely the best way of honouring the memory of a pro-Remain MP murdered because of her vocal opposition to Brexit was…. to enact Brexit as soon as possible.
That went down about as well as Bucktooth Twitchjaw at a Tourette’s Charity orgy. If the intention was to up the invective level and make most of Parliament incandescent with rage, it worked. In fact, let’s be honest, there’s no IF about it. This tactic has the acidic fingerprints of Johnson’s senior-adviser and all-round social malcontent Dominic Cummings all over it. In homage to Trumpelthinskin himself, the plan was to put fire in the bellies of the bile-gurgling Base and a boot to the face of the effete, Metroliberal opposition by jumping right into the sewer and then playing the victim for RW Media by claiming those other kids had pulled him in. Obedient Government drones have been filtering out along the usual lines of deployment, telling the BBC and friendly media that:
a) The Boss didn’t say nuffink wrong
b) Those bitches started it anyway
c) The only bullies are the ones bullying poor, little Brexit
I’m sure the nutters who get all of their information about the scary world they live in from the Times/Telegraph/Mail/Express/Sun bubble found this entirely convincing. The ones the BBC insists on vox-popping every single fucking day in places like Stoke, Stoke, and… errrr…. Stoke certainly did, but those people are from Stoke, which is basically Flat Appalachia and it rains a lot. With the majority of the country, however, this is liable to backfire in a major way. It’s super-hard to wail about those mean old Remainer thugs and their hateful language when Cummings (who it should be pointed out looks just like a Rudy Giuliani puppet sanded down to bare wood) is caught on video in the Commons telling a Labour MP that the obvious solution to the death-threats he and his family have been receiving is for him to vote for Brexit. Or when a pro-Brexit nutter inspired by Johnson’s rhetoric is arrested trying to kick his way into the offices of another Labour MP. Or when openly fascist scumbags like Stephen “Please call me Tommy Robinson ‘cos it’s well butch” Yaxley-Lennon and the organised hooligans of the so-called Football Lads Alliance are heard chanting Johnson’s name approvingly. Or when more and more female MPs are coming out with hard evidence of the sheer scale of abuse they receive every day from the pro-Brexit mob. Or when more and more ‘unnamed Government sources’ and ‘anonymous Cabinet officials’ (read: Cummings, D) are quoted warning about the inevitability of wholly justified riots, civil-war and attacks on Opposition MPs if Brexit isn’t forced through by Halloween.
To quote one wag – Brextremists are afraid Remainers are laughing at them, Remainers are afraid Brextremists are going to kill them. That’s not a sustainable situation, however hard the Media try to Both Sides and normalise the incendiary rhetoric coming from over there on the Right.
So, what’s next? Despite all the rhetoric being dialed up to 11 we’re still in the same situation as last week when Parliament was ordered to reopen. Johnson still doesn’t have a governing majority, he’s only pretending to negotiate any kind of revision to the existing withdrawal deal agreed with the EU, the Benn Act still dictates that he HAS to either have a new deal agreed with the EU that Parliament can vote on by the middle of October (not happening) or he has to ask the EU for an extension to the Brexit deadline (which he insists he won’t do) or he breaks the law and gets arrested (which would be great). However much he stamps his foot and demands a new Election he’s not getting one until after an extension is secured, and by the same token however disgustingly offensive he makes himself he’s not going to bait the Opposition into a Vote of No Confidence while there’s the slightest possibility that he might manipulate the rules to trick the country into a No Deal crash-out. And according to the Powers That Be in the Civil Service it’s too late now for an Election to be organised before the start of November, so that option is totally out anyway.
So, this is it, the new normal. We’ve got about three weeks until Johnson has to show the EU his detailed plans for a Deal at the summit on October 18/19, and supposing for the sake of argument that he’s telling the truth for once in his privileged stroll of a life, that’s when shit starts going down. OTOH we’ve got the Conservative Conference to go in Remain-voting Manchester (whose stupid bloody idea was that?) which could be a wet fart or an unmissable Zerg Rush of bonkers lunacy depending on how many drugs the alternately weeping and cheering delegates ram up their boom-tubes. Typically for Tories they expected the Opposition to meekly roll over and suspend Parliament for a week so their social superiors could enjoy a leisurely jolly. Like fuck, said Labour, and offered a compromise whereby no contentious debates or votes would be held at the start of the week and a short recess could be called from Thursday to ensure Manchester’s pimps, dealers and restaurateurs didn’t totally lose out on the Blue Pound. The Tories refused and insisted on a Parliamentary vote on their recess motion, which took Johnson’s litany of failure as Prime Minister to 8 votes, 8 defeats, and ended up with…. a compromise whereby no contentious votes will be held at the start of the week and a short recess will be called from Thursday.
Wankers.
Still, with a lot of Tories off up north getting shouted at by cosmopolitan Mancs, that leaves a quieter space in which the Opposition parties can work with the 21 shivering waifs who Johnson booted from the Conservative Party on maybe crafting legislative fixes to the Benn Act’s possible holes and, possibly, go further towards making a No-Deal completely impossible. The ex-Tories have already let it be known they’re not up for bringing forward the date Johnson has to ask the EU for an extension, but that was before the Government opened the valves on the toxic pipeline and declared war on civility, so who knows?
Anyway, that’s more or less the state of play over here. Endgame approaches, and decisions, decisions, decisions.
Have a nice Impeachment Week!
JPL
@Cheryl Rofer: His job at McCain institute appears to be jeopardy according to the article. I do hope he sings loud and proud.
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
Specifically, they’re being propped up by Ron Paul acolytes who are pissed that they got turfed out of the Republican Party, so they’re trying to take over the Democratic Party.
cain
@Tony Jay:
Hah! Glad to see the Brits are having their own infrastructure week. I’m sure Trump will show up there and tell them all that only he can negotiate a proper brexit deal. The wanker.
Bobby Thomson
@Cheryl Rofer: not the first House Republican. Gabbard announced earlier today.
JPL
@Tony Jay: Just glad I’m not you at this point I actually thought Johnson would be a smarter trump, but I guess not.
JPL
@Bobby Thomson: Amash supports it, but he’s black balled.
Ruckus
@Gin & Tonic:
Especially if you aren’t ready for it.
Cheryl Rofer
Free legal advice for Kurt Volker:
Bobby Thomson
@JPL: he excommunicated himself.
JPL
@Cheryl Rofer: lol DON”T TEXT RUDY
trollhattan
@Mary G:
Not just swearing like a sailor (which he was) but expressing his great love of Jews. Nixon proved worse than our imaginations, which was really something.
karen marie
I’m too lazy to change the extension I have that changes “Trump” to “Individual-1” but “fucknut” is tempting.
The extension that changes pictures of Trump into pictures of kitties works everywhere except twitter.
Roger Moore
@cain:
I think the NRA is a great example of how the right wing has effectively constructed a coalition where every special interest has accepted supporting all the other special interests as part of success. So you have a “gun rights” organization that spends a lot of time and effort supporting stuff far beyond guns, religious conservatives who have decided that being anti-union is an important biblical principle, etc. They’ve all adopted each other’s issues so that anyone who gets involved in one part of the right wing apparatus winds up swallowing the whole ideology.
That process then got mixed up with the need to ask for outside help to win elections. The NRA happened to be the group that was most successful at bringing in Russian money, but that’s just happenstance. It just as easily could have been Focus on the Family, ALEC, or any of dozens of other right wing groups that got there first. The key was that there were a whole bunch of right wing organizations that were all after the same thing, were all looking for money to support their candidates, and were all willing to go wherever the money was.
LivinginExile
Barr is in Italy? Where are Opus Deis’ headquarters?
cain
@Roger Moore:
Who says there isn’t russian money floating on Focus on the Family. They are all fronts. These people are living high on the hog taking money from the Russians, stealing it from good Christians, and spending lavishly. Ugh.
Ruckus
@JPL:
There are no smart trumpers. If they were smart they wouldn’t be trumpers in the first place. What they might be is people with more sense than that piece of toilet paper that trump had stuck to his shoe as he boarded AF1. But I wouldn’t count on it. If they had that much sense they would have left the fold long ago.
Tony Jay
@cain:
Oh he already did that. Part of me thinks that Theresa May’s decision to offer America’s first successfully impeached President a State Visit was when the clock started ticking down to her resignation.
@JPL:
A really smart operator would never have made himself the face of Brexit at this stage in the game, but no truly ambitious solipsist could refuse it. He’ll be out before Christmas.
Cheryl Rofer
@Tony Jay: Thanks for the update!
lamh36
MSM scooped by a college newspaper….if that don’t say something out the state of the big name political media today…I don’t know what does!
smh…they should be embarassed. Guess Maggie H didn’t see that coming.
Ruckus
@Roger Moore:
Are you calling them whores? Because I think you are. And that isn’t strong enough. Also some people may take offense at the concept.
We need a better concept for people who will take any position, no matter what, for money. Also for those who think the concept is OK in the first place as long as it doesn’t hurt their favorite group. I’d suggest republican as one possibility. There must be others.
Tony Jay
@Cheryl Rofer:
I’ve got to get that stuff out of my system or I’ll never sleep. 8-)
Ruckus
@Tony Jay:
Is it funny or what, the center of the basis of the right wing level of power in both countries is the news media that is Rupert Murdoch.
JPL
@Ruckus: The first question I want asked is how did you hear that Biden fired the prosecutor to protect his son.
Make them answer that question first. I am so tired of conspiracy stories originating in Russia becoming the truth. Maybe start with the time line.
Did You know they investigated Burisma two years before Hunter Biden joined the Board of Directors?
lamh36
Just a quick reminder…that Guilliani was goaded into publishing those Volker text by none other than Kamala Harris!
https://twitter.com/Jemsinger/status/1177550004795453441
here’s the video
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1177593059573424128
randy_khan
@rikyrah:
If he really were as rich as he says he is, the cost of the impeachment defense would be a rounding error.
JPL
@lamh36: I know. She’s going to be in Atlanta on the 6th of October and I was so tempted with my limited funds to go see her. I don’t know why she’s not gaining in momentum although MSM might have something to do with that.
lamh36
NRA playing some CYA!
Tony Jay
@Ruckus:
And Australia. Wherever that lich sinks his fangs, poison spreads.
It’s worth mentioning that one of the – other – reasons the British Media hates Jeremy Corbyn is that he supports and would push through reforms to Media ownership that the 5 people who run it all really don’t want. Has to happen, though, and not just here. None of this shit would be possible if the Baddies didn’t have all the megaphones.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Federal Appeals Court overturns lower court and rules Trump can be sued for emolument violations.
He’s having quite the week.
Aleta
This tweet too:
Leto
@Aleta: @lamh36:
Roger Moore
@Ruckus:
If I’m calling them whores, it’s for the second part of what I was saying, not the first part. The first part, where all the members of the coalition start adopting each other’s issues, is a fairly standard part of coalition building. You see it on the other side of the aisle, too. For example, in my area there was a joint commemoration of slavery, the Armenian Genocide, and the Holocaust; it was a deliberate attempt to get members of a diverse coalition to acknowledge and accept each other’s issues. I don’t think these two cases are exactly equivalent- I think there’s a lot more sense in getting people who were historically victimized to see themselves in other victims than there is in convincing gun nuts to oppose unions and abortion- but I don’t think they’re prostituting themselves by taking up the critical issues of other members of their coalition.
Aleta
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I believe there’s another issue too, because he may be violating his government lease on the old post office bld by profiting off of a historical building. The GSA has only been giving Congress the record of the yearly rent it receives, not monthly statements on how much profit is made. I believe a percentage of any profit is supposed to be paid in addition to the rent. But (the T-appointed head of, I think) the GSA is refusing to show those records.
noncarborundum
Regarding the Politico article: the German language has done us an inestimable service by giving us the word Backpfeifengesicht. Now I’m in need of a word to describe writing that makes you want to punch its author, regardless of how his face looks. I’m hoping the Germans are up to the challenge.
Amir Khalid
@Tony Jay:
Love the Elton John reference. Impressed that PM BoJo is imploding even faster than I expected.
SRW1
@noncarborundum:
I don’t think there is s specific German term for what you’re asking for. But there is one for the quality of the stuff being written, and that term is Geseich. I doubt you will find that explained in a dictionary, but it roughly describes the written stuff as being equivalent to having peed on the paper.
(((CassandraLeo)))
@Tony Jay: As usual, this is sheer poetry. Thanks for the continued updates.
Ceterum censeo factionem Republicanam esse delendam.
Procopius
@lamh36: Excuse me. Usually when a post is so ambiguous or convoluted that I can’t figure out what it means I just ignore it. I can’t resist this one though. What are you talking about? What college newspaper scooped the MSM? I presume (with 51% confidence) that Maggie H refers to Maggie Haberman, who I think works at the FTFNYT. What does she have to do with it?
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Procopius: Not lamh36, but: the scoop about Volker being involved in the Trump-Ukraine clusterfuck o’ corruption came from The State Press, the Arizona State University student newspaper. Maggie H is indeed Haberman. The NYT/MSM apparently got scooped because, among other idiocies, NYT reporter Ken Vogel (whose name I keep mixing up with Kurt Volker, because all these white guys look alike to me) had everything he needed to figure it out but was so focused on bothsidesing Biden that he missed the story staring him in the face.
Steeplejack
@Bobby Thomson:
You need a snark tag there, or maybe you missed someone else’s on Twitter today. Tulsi Gabbard is a Democrat (at least nominally).