tastefully arranged labia posted:

TBeats posted:

jesus how bad can it be

facialimpediment posted:

My best guess is that it's about the healthcare bill that's being kept secret, mostly because they know it's a pile of poo poo. So, they want to keep it completely away from the news and not let anything leak out about the discussio-

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ap-sources-trump-tells-senators-house-health-bill-48015512

Burt posted:

Needs way more love!

Burt posted:

Needs way more love!

facialimpediment posted:

I didn't get it.

I googled the guy's name.

I got it.

facialimpediment posted:

I didn't get it.

I googled the guy's name.

I got it.

facialimpediment posted:

I didn't get it.

I googled the guy's name.

I got it.

facialimpediment posted:

I didn't get it.

I googled the guy's name.

I got it.

M_Gargantua posted:

is it actually an IRA joke or was I laughing at the wrong sort of dark humor

Genocide Tendency posted:

Rick Wilson had a moment. And posted it on twitter.

https://twitter.com/therickwilson/status/874435986306027520

You should read all 21 tweets.

Genocide Tendency posted:

Rick Wilson had a moment. And posted it on twitter.

https://twitter.com/therickwilson/status/874435986306027520

You should read all 21 tweets.

Genocide Tendency posted:

Rick Wilson had a moment. And posted it on twitter.

https://twitter.com/therickwilson/status/874435986306027520

You should read all 21 tweets.

FIDEL CASHFLOW posted:

IRA joke, he's the leader of Sinn Féin and the party had/has strong ties to the IRA

psydude posted:

Strong ties? Try was a member of. His buddies at the IRA admitted in closed-session recordings that were released three years ago that he ordered the murder of at least one hostage.

Genocide Tendency posted:

Rick Wilson had a moment. And posted it on twitter.

https://twitter.com/therickwilson/status/874435986306027520

You should read all 21 tweets.

quote:

WASHINGTON — Last month’s appointment of Robert S. Mueller III as a special counsel to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia enraged President Trump. Yet, at least initially, he holstered his Twitter finger and publicly said nothing.

But behind the scenes, the president soon began entertaining the idea of firing Mr. Mueller even as his staff tried to discourage him from something they believed would turn a bad situation into a catastrophe, according to several people with direct knowledge of Mr. Trump’s interactions.

For now, the staff has prevailed. “While the president has every right to” fire Mr. Mueller, “he has no intention to do so,” the White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters late Tuesday after a day of speculation over Mr. Mueller’s fate.

Mr. Trump, angered by reports in Breitbart News and other conservative news media that Mr. Mueller was close to James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director he had fired, repeatedly brought up the political and legal implications of firing someone he viewed as incapable of an impartial investigation.

In recent days, the president has told his staff, his visitors, and his outside advisers that he was increasingly convinced Mr. Mueller, like Mr. Comey, his successor as director of the F.B.I., was part of a “witch hunt” by partisans who wanted to see him weakened or forced from office. But Mr. Trump has made no decision to act against Mr. Mueller and insists he knows the risks of doing so — but people close to the president say Mr. Trump is so volatile they cannot be sure that he won’t change his mind if he finds out anything to lead him to believe the investigation has been compromised.

Whether Mr. Trump can tolerate a free-ranging investigation, directed by Mr. Mueller, that could raise questions about the legitimacy of his Electoral College victory, the topic that most sparks his rage, will be a critical test for a president who has continued on Twitter and elsewhere to flout the advice of his staff, friends and legal team.

For Mr. Trump, the line between whim and will is always thin. It is often erased in moments of anger, when simmering grievance boils over into rash action, exemplified by the firing of Mr. Comey after a weekend of brooding at his resort in Bedminster, N.J.

When asked by the pool of reporters covering a midday meeting with Republican lawmakers at the White House whether he supported Mr. Mueller, Mr. Trump gave no answer, even though he often uses such interactions to make headlines or shoot down stories he believes to be fake.

That may have been by design, according to a person who spoke to Mr. Trump on Tuesday. The president was pleased by the ambiguity of his position on Mr. Mueller, and thinks the possibility of being fired will focus the veteran prosecutor on delivering what the president desires most: a blanket public exoneration.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions also declined to offer his support for Mr. Mueller during testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

But at a separate hearing, Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who appointed Mr. Mueller and continues to oversee the investigation, promised lawmakers he would not permit Mr. Mueller to be dismissed without legitimate reason.

“As long as I’m in this position, he’s not going to be fired without good cause,” Mr. Rosenstein said. “I’m not going to follow any orders unless I believe those are lawful and appropriate orders,” he said, emphasizing that the attorney general “actually does not know what we’re investigating.”

He added, “Director Mueller is going to have the full independence he needs to conduct that investigation appropriately.”

While the president is deeply suspicious of Mr. Mueller, his anger is reserved for Mr. Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia probe, and for Mr. Comey. Mr. Trump was especially outraged by Mr. Comey’s admission last week that he had leaked a memo with details of his interactions with the president in hopes of spurring the appointment of a special counsel.

Several senior Trump aides, believe that Mr. Comey went public with his doubts about the president’s behavior and trustworthiness with the intention of steering Mr. Rosenstein toward appointing his friend Mr. Mueller, according to one longtime Trump associate who remains close to the White House.

The two men worked closely together in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks when Mr. Mueller was F.B.I. director and Mr. Comey was a high-ranking Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration. Mr. Comey endorsed Mr. Mueller’s appointment when he appeared last week before the Senate Intelligence Committee, further angering Mr. Trump and his staff.

While the president’s aides have sought to sow skepticism about Mr. Mueller, whom they interviewed about the possibility of returning to the F.B.I. job the day before he accepted his position as special counsel, few have advocated his termination, reflecting the recognition that Mr. Trump’s angry reactions to the congressional and F.B.I. investigations now underway are imperiling his presidency.

The pushback also represented growing willingness among staffers to try to keep Mr. Trump from making damaging mistakes — an important internal change in a White House dominated by a president who often demands obeisance.

For all the talk of how no one in the West Wing tells the president “no,” many people do — though often unsuccessfully.

Among the aides most alarmed by the idea of firing Mr. Mueller, according to people familiar with the situation, was Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, whom Democrats mocked earlier this week for publicly saying he feels “blessed” to serve Mr. Trump. Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, has also advised against firing Mr. Mueller.

Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and adviser, supported firing Mr. Comey, but he has been less pugnacious lately, administration officials said. Mr. Trump’s wife, Melania, has adopted a more temperate tone, telling her husband that she believed the appointment of Mr. Mueller would speed resolution of the Russia scandal and expressing her view that he would be exonerated, according to two people with direct knowledge of her advice.

FIDEL CASHFLOW posted:

was being a bit diplomatic but yeah, sinn finn is basically the public facing front of the IRA

which reminds me, I need to find all the old IRA pamphlets my dad has somewhere, that might be a cool post. a former irish-catholic priest in like the 70s-80s... yeah he had ~~opinions~~ on what was going on in the homeland

FIDEL CASHFLOW posted:

I need to find all the old IRA pamphlets my dad has somewhere, that might be a cool post. a former irish-catholic priest in like the 70s-80s... yeah he had ~~opinions~~ on what was going on in the homeland

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

yes, please

facialimpediment posted:

This is both surprising and not.

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/874806846103707650

Donnie really WAS entertaining the thought of firing Mueller. I'll post more poo poo from the article in a few minutes.

quote:

But at a separate hearing, Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who appointed Mr. Mueller and continues to oversee the investigation, promised lawmakers he would not permit Mr. Mueller to be dismissed without legitimate reason.

“As long as I’m in this position, he’s not going to be fired without good cause,” Mr. Rosenstein said. “I’m not going to follow any orders unless I believe those are lawful and appropriate orders,” he said, emphasizing that the attorney general “actually does not know what we’re investigating.”

Two Finger posted:

I thought this deserves to be read too:

psydude posted:

No please, go ahead and fire Mueller. It'll definitely end well for you. While you're at it, would you please also stick your dick in the hornet nest over there.

facialimpediment posted:

I posted basically the whole drat article because it's one hell of a read and I paid for it, so why not.

I really can't figure out Rosenstein. I'm not sure if he's a moral guy, of if he's just a DOJ bureaucrat fighting for his professional life, or if he's up to his eyeballs in complicity, or what. I really don't know if he'd resign or play along if Donnie has a temper tantrum when the subpoenas start flying.

AP posted:

A company that owns buildings with Donald Trump and the family of Jared Kushner is a finalist for a $1.7 billion contract to build the FBI’s new headquarters.

Vornado is a partial owner with the Trump Organization in two buildings, one each in New York and San Francisco. It is also a major investor in 666 Fifth Ave., the flagship skyscraper of the Kushner Cos.

facialimpediment posted:

There's a West London high-rise apartment building currently on fire, with reports of people jumping out of said building.

Video below (no jumpers)

https://twitter.com/cnni/status/874826075574087680

https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/874825053015330820

Godholio posted:

How the gently caress does fire spread that fast through a building like that?

Godholio posted:

How the gently caress does fire spread that fast through a building like that?

quote:

We have blogged many times on the subject of fire safety at Grenfell Tower and we believe that these investigations will become part of damning evidence of the poor safety record of the KCTMO should a fire affect any other of their properties and cause the loss of life that we are predicting:

https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/fire-safety-scandal-at-lancaster-west/

https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/more-on-fire-safety/

https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/another-fire-safety-scandal/

https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/grenfell-tower-still-a-fire-risk/

In October 2015 a fire ripped through another KCTMO property, the 14 storey Adair Tower in North Kensington, causing mass panic and resulting in a number of residents taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation. It is reported that had it not been for the swift actions of the London Fire Brigade the consequences of this fire and potential loss of life could have been much worse.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11967592/50-rescued-from-burning-flats-in-Kensington.html

In the aftermath of the Adair Tower fire the London Fire Brigade found that the KCTMO had not been looking after the safety of residents properly and issued an Enforcement Order compelling them to improve the fire safety in the escape staircases and to provide self closing devices to all the tower block’s front doors. A further audit by the London Fire Brigade of the neighbouring Hazelwood Tower (located alongside Adair Tower) found similar breaches of health and safety legislation and an Enforcement Order was also issued for this property forcing the TMO to address the serious concerns of the Fire Brigade’s inspectors. What is shocking is that a decade ago a fatality occurred due to a fire at Hazelwood Tower and the Fire Investigation Team ordered that the grills on the fire escape staircase be covered over. This never happened and it is believed that the uncovered grills at Adair House (Hazelwood Tower’s twin block) acted like a chimney and were responsible for the accelerated spread of the fire and smoke damage.

redneck nazgul posted:

https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/kctmo-playing-with-fire/

Basically, this tower and its management company have been known for lax safety standards and lovely wiring for years now.


This particular link is from November 2016, there's other links going back to 2013.