7 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

Yes. I see people saying that white liberals are the only ones surprised by this, but I don't believe it.  I do think that other people have wrapped their heads around it faster because they've been here before in a sense. I find I just can't adjust to were we are.  It feels deeply unreal to me.  That so many people have fallen for it is incredible to me.

 

Mostly, I expected things like the challenge to birthright citizenship and harassment of ethnic minorities, racist incidents, etc., programs cut that help marginalized and low-income communities to happen but these bizarre events, like the one unfolding today is something that I still marvel at. 

 

This operation by Surefire Intelligence just feels like something lifted from the idea for a disregarded Kafka novel, or an idea that Ray Bradbury might have thrown away as being too preposterous to get published.

And I didn't even post the story published by The Daily Beast.

Any changes to the constitution would have to go through the states and as right-leaning as the court is it is hard to see Roberts approving of a change to the constitution by executive order and he is probably the most likely contender for swing vote moving forward (at least for some things). As for the scheme to set up Mueller, that has a potential to backfire in the election. After how much Republicans attacked the women who accused Kavanaugh it's going to be quite telling that they were the ones trying to set someone up and pay people to do it no less.

^ Yes. These strange incidents, the constant attempts at gas-lighting, it's all just bizarre. Also strange that we fought a war in which 60 million people died to put down fascism and here we have Trump and his ilk toying with it. Then about a quarter of the country seems ok with it and another chunk doesn't even see it happening.

 

The rest of what you mentioned is just normal Republican policy so I saw that coming too. 😄

It's not that I expected the challenge to birthright citizenship to succeed but I did expect him/them to try it.  

 

What I'm marveling at is the sheer frequency of these criminal operations.  It's as if Trump were the "Pied Piper" of underhanded/criminal operations to subvert the government.  They all are flocking his administration.

 

Also, I'm bracing for those tax cuts to bite the economy.  Trump is only good at making money for himself by gaming the system and short-changing people.  He's no good at creating equity for others.

This thread. 😄

 

The thread about Wohl approaching those financial firm for seed money and a bunch of perks was pretty funny too.

 

Case in point for Trump being some sort of odd Pied Piper for the corrupt and/or criminally-minded:

 

I know it's a busy news day, but this is remarkable via @eilperin @jdawsey1: a probe into the conduct of the Interior Secretary has been referred to DOJ for possible criminal investigation https://t.co/PkHOvLguMW

— Matea Gold (@mateagold) October 30, 2018

OMG people should read Jane Mayer's Twitter feed about Wohl!  It's quite something. They actually used a picture of Christoph Waltz, lol!

 

Odd. Jacob Wohl says he doesn't know nuttin' about Surefire Intelligence, the firm tied to the bizarre Mueller allegations. Take a look at the photos below of Mathhew Cohen, head of 'Surefire,' and of Jacob Wohl. pic.twitter.com/Q1rAW4wkPO

— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) October 30, 2018

Surefire Intelligence's "Financial Investigator" in Zurich is Christoph Waltz. What a great hire! pic.twitter.com/Leu1KLe0XC

— Aric Toler (@AricToler) October 30, 2018

Kim must have finally convinced him to take his meds.

 

 

Apparently someone added that to Christopher Waltz's Wiki bio. Hilarious. 

31 minutes ago, ReddFoxx said:

Kim must have finally convinced him to take his meds.

 

Well, it sure as hell took her long enough!

 

Next time, Kim, just slip the Lithium in his food or drink.

Jacob Wohl, for those out of loop, gained quite a bit of notoriety for becoming the youngest guy to ever get himself barred for life from the financial industry. Now he's waiting in our lobby to pitch something. We're a large merchant bank. 2/

— KeyserSozeBro (@KeyserSozeBro1) October 30, 2018

And he needs an answer today. Right now. Because there's a competing offer from Izzy Englander's firm Millenium (we know those guys well). We fight the urge to literally start laughing, but do ask him...hey, you the same guy who got banned by regulators? He didn't even flinch 4/

— KeyserSozeBro (@KeyserSozeBro1) October 30, 2018

One of my colleagues politely told Jacob that we don't usually do seed deals & when we do it's only after someone works here as a PM for a few years, so no. Take the deal with Izzy, kid. We ended the meeting right there. 6/

— KeyserSozeBro (@KeyserSozeBro1) October 30, 2018

The attorney letter was on obviously forged letterhead for Davis Polk (including a wrong address). Less than an hour later we get a call from someone we know at Millenium asking who the hell this kid using our name to get a meeting is. We had a laugh. Hey, the kid tried.

/fin

— KeyserSozeBro (@KeyserSozeBro1) October 30, 2018

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Way to go, Gristle Icarus. https://t.co/FZIeXn7vwD

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 31, 2018

Of the thousands of posts on Jacob Wohl, nothing tops this single paragraph in the NBC report. Oh, to be a fly on the wall in the Wohl household tonight. pic.twitter.com/9mJqgqtJGa

— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) October 30, 2018

Jacob Wohl, a tale of two tweets. pic.twitter.com/HLU8KzMdBG

— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) October 31, 2018

13 hours ago, ReddFoxx said:

Kim must have finally convinced him to take his meds.

 

 

 

More likely his manic phase is starting to peter out. A friend of mine who knows a bit about bipolar disorder told me that bipolar episodes last an average of 13 weeks.

Ironically, thirteen weeks is also the length of one cycle of a typical soap actor's contract.

17 hours ago, ReddFoxx said:

Kim must have finally convinced him to take his meds.

 

 

 

Are we sure this was Kanye? There are no CAPS LOCKS.