Thanks to an intrepid White House pool videographer, we have footage of the President meeting with his cabinet today.
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Thanks to an intrepid White House pool videographer, we have footage of the President meeting with his cabinet today.
Open thread!
Footage of the President Meeting With (What’s Left of) His CabinetPost + Comments (71)
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The brave resistance fighters in the War on Christmas have risked life and limb to smuggle out this footage from War on Christmas detainee camp #6, also known by its official name of Camp Kringle. The conditions in the war on Christmas detainee camps are worse than anyone could have imagined…
The resistance informs me that since Camp Kringle is full, new detainees are being sent to Camp Sugar Plum Fairies (Camp 17), Camp Sleigh Bells (Camp 72), and Camp Lords a Leaping (Camp 134). All resistance units should be on alert for infiltrators and informants!
Stay Frosty. Just like those three guys in the front row the between the Santas…
Open thread!
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Who wants to tell her?
Since everyone is just now realizing his staffers role in the #RussiaHoax We have been asking questions! John McCain Still Refuses to Answer Questions About His Role in the Dossier https://t.co/acsVdH1GTq
— Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) December 21, 2018
She might want to try using one of these:
Don’t be like Katrina Pierson!
Open thread.
Yes, I know the article she’s linked to is from 2017, but the tweet is from today.
There’s Dumb and Then There’s Katrina Pierson Dumb!Post + Comments (173)
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FLYNN LAWYER NOW SEEKS TO DELAY SENTENCING.
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) December 18, 2018
Wants a sentencing delay to get the "last modicum" of cooperation benefit from EDVA case.
— Andrew Prokop (@awprokop) December 18, 2018
A status report on whether Flynn is ready for sentencing will be due by March 13 at noon
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) December 18, 2018
This morning’s sentencing hearing are not going well for LTG Flynn or his lawyers. Judge Sullivan, a jurist whose rise to the Federal bench would be impossible in today’s politics, is not amused!
Not that this should matter but Judge Sullivan was first appointed to judicial positions by President Reagan and then President George H.W. Bush.
He was later made into a federal judge by President Bill Clinton.
A liberal Deep State mole he is not.
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) December 18, 2018
Judge Sullivan started off displeased and moved to furious over the course of the morning’s hearing.
Judge requires Flynn to answer questions under oath, saying, "Mr. Flynn's brieifng concerned the court, as it raised issues that may affect or call into question his guilty plea, or at the very least his acceptance of responsibility….
— Spencer Hsu (@hsu_spencer) December 18, 2018
Sullivan reminded Flynn that lying while under oath could get him into “more trouble,” then asked Flynn at the time of the Jan. 24, 2017, interview, “Were you not aware that lying to FBI investigators was a crime
“I was aware,”Flynn said..
— Spencer Hsu (@hsu_spencer) December 18, 2018
Kelner also answered in the negative when asked by Sullivan if he contended that Flynn's rights were violated by the fact that no lawyer was present, that Flynn may have been dissuaded from a having lawyer present, at the Jan. 24, 2017 FBI interview…
— Spencer Hsu (@hsu_spencer) December 18, 2018
Judge Sullivan: Is Mr. Flynn still cooperating?
Gov: It “remains a possibility” that he’s still cooperating.
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) December 18, 2018
Judge Sullivan: So Flynn could’ve also been charged in that indictment unsealed in Virginia yesterday, right? Gov: Yes.
Judge Sullivan: “Exposure to Mr. Flynn would have been significant?” Gov: Yes.
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) December 18, 2018
Judge Sullivan to Michael Flynn: “Arguably, you sold your country out."
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) December 18, 2018
Judge Sullivan: “I’m not hiding my disgust, my distain for this criminal offense.”
Says he can’t guarantee he’s going to avoid incarceration. Gives Flynn yet another opportunity to speak with his lawyers.
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) December 18, 2018
Judge Sullivan even asked the government whether Flynn could have been charged with treason for interfering in Russian sanctions imposed by Obama administration. Government didn’t want to go there.
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) December 18, 2018
Also, Eli Lake is still an idiot and a useless idiot to boot:
Michael Flynn is Owed an Apology https://t.co/Gb9ZFzB0s2
— Eli Lake (@EliLake) December 18, 2018
Don’t lie to the FBI, its rude and upsets their feelings. Don’t have your lawyers play silly semantic games in their sentencing recommendation memos, its rude and upsets the judge’s feelings.
On their very best day, the very best federal judge is still that kid who might wish you away into the cornfield at any second https://t.co/vaNco3UD0P
— NotOutlandishHat (@Popehat) December 18, 2018
I seriously hope that this train wreck wasn't a complete surprise to General Flynn — that SOMEBODY warned him that it might go this way, and that the signs were that the judge was mad. A client getting blindsided because nobody told him the truth is unacceptable.
— NotOutlandishHat (@Popehat) December 18, 2018
Unfortunately we are now doomed to three more months and dozens more posts at The Federalist; hot takes by Flynn’s conspiratorial minded supporters led by Flynn Jr, who is also a useless idiot; and Fox News hosts and commentators, like the Blue Footed Booby of Budapest (also a useless idiot) asking if Flynn was set up, if he actually committed a crime, if this is not part of the actual “real” investigation that will bring down the Deep State and the global pedophile ring they’re running.
Now we will get months more of pieces at @FDRLST and broadcasts by Hannity and Pirro about how Flynn will take down the Mueller probe at his final FINAL sentencing hearing
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) December 18, 2018
Open thread!
Update at 1:15 PM
If anyone is interested, I’ve uploaded the Flynn 302s, which the Special Counsel’s Office released with redactions last night.
Breaking News: LTG Flynn’s Sentencing Is????Post + Comments (251)
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Noel Casler, who worked on The Celebrity Apprentice and on the beauty pageants the President used to own and run, had decided that his NDA doesn’t apply to stand up routines. It would be ashamed if this video got tweeted around a lot and, perhaps, at certain people:
Enjoy!
Open thread.
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A cover letter we received for the @today_explained internship pic.twitter.com/JWKs7eYFsQ
— sean (@rameswaram) December 10, 2018
I am not authorized at this time to confirm or deny that this is my cover letter or BettyC’s…
Open thread.
Florida Man or Woman Plans His or Her Escape!Post + Comments (42)
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These are, indeed, strange days!
Ammon Bundy helped lead two armed standoffs against the gov.
He told me he’s walking away from the ‘patriot movement’ and compared Trump’s supporters to that of 1930s Germany https://t.co/fLrn4K47JU— Salvador Hernandez (@SalHernandez) December 7, 2018
•grown disillusioned by his supporters’ unyielding support of POTUS
•calls Trump a “nationalist” and, not in a good way
•compares the unquestioning nature of Trump supporters to 1930s Germany— Salvador Hernandez (@SalHernandez) December 7, 2018
Salvador Hernandez at Buzzfeed has the story (emphasis mine):
Bundy led two armed standoffs against the feds in Nevada and Oregon, and his family quickly became the face of a growing militia movement, bringing a national spotlight to armed groups eager for a conflict with what they believed to be an overreaching government.
So when he logged on to Facebook last week to speak to his supporters in defense of the caravan of Central American migrants gathered at the southern border, a frequent target of President Trump, he figured he’d face some criticism.
“To group them all up like, frankly, our president has done — you know, trying to speak respectfully — but he has basically called them all criminals and said they’re not coming in here,” Bundy said in the video. “What about individuals, those who have come for reasons of need for their families, you know, the fathers and mothers and children that come here and were willing to go through the process to apply for asylum so they can come into this country and benefit from not having to be oppressed continually?”
Bundy went on, dispelling conspiracy theories that billionaire George Soros was behind the caravan or that terrorists were using the group to sneak into the US.
But the backlash from his supporters was immediate, with many repudiating Bundy for his views. Followers who had traveled to his father’s ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada, in 2014 during an armed standoff with federal agents over unpaid cattle grazing fees said they regretted doing so. Others claimed Bundy was being paid by left-wing “globalists” to switch sides. Some told him they wished he was dead, or that militias had never supported his family.
Bundy was shocked by the swift reaction.
“I expected to get a decent amount of pushback, but I also believed that I could explain to them why I’d taken those positions and why,” he told BuzzFeed News. “But you know, I’ve always had these kinds of thoughts that people were not really listening to the principles of things, that they had aligned with me for some other reasons, and that some of those [reasons] are good and some of those might not be, but this last video kind of confirmed that.”
So on Tuesday, Bundy shut down his social media accounts and said he was stepping away from the public light and the “patriot groups” that had gained national attention while supporting the Nevada ranching family. The decision to quit wasn’t an easy one, Bundy said, but the movement’s unforgiving opposition to the migrant caravan and what he called a dangerous and blinding support of President Trump left him with no choice.
“It’s like being in a room full of people in here, trying to teach, and no one is listening,” he said. “The vast majority seemed to hang on to what seemed like hate, and fear, and almost warmongering, and I don’t want to associate myself with warmongers.”
Much, much more at the link!
We are well and truly off the looking glass and through the map.
Also, obligatory:
Chew Hard!
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We Are Through the Map and Off the Looking Glass: Ammon Bundy Edition!Post + Comments (188)