The plot sickens.


It’s going to be awesome when this all goes down and everyone’s defense will boil down to one of two strategies:

  1. “I was too incompetent to have actually done anything wrong!”

  2. “I was conning my way into Trump’s team, so I just said I could get things done with Russia, but I really couldn’t.”

“The money was just resting in my account!”

Is it pining for the fjords?

WASHINGTON — Federal investigators working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller are keenly focused on President Donald Trump’s role in crafting a response to a published article about a meeting between Russians and his son Donald Jr., three sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

The sources told NBC News that prosecutors want to know what Trump knew about the meeting and whether he sought to conceal its purpose.
[…]
A person familiar with Mueller’s strategy said that whether or not Trump made a “knowingly false statement” is now of interest to prosecutors.

“Even if Trump is not charged with a crime as a result of the statement, it could be useful to Mueller’s team to show Trump’s conduct to a jury that may be considering other charges.”

Pining for the fjords? What kind of talk is that?

Norwegian?

Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue.

I don’t like them. They wet their nests.

I love how we’re all so jaded now, how we expect so little of our government, that shit like this can hit and we’re like “eh what can ya do”


Mensch and Taylor (referenced multiple times earlier in the thread) were hoaxed by a fake news account:

The hoaxer, who fed the information to Taylor by email, said she acted out of frustration over the “dissemination of fake news” by Taylor and Mensch. Their false stories about Trump have included a claim that he was already being replaced as president by Senator Orrin Hatch in a process kept secret from the American public.

I’m not quite sold on the idea. In order to fight fake news, I’ll create more!

I was triggered by the phrase “just resting.” Python fans of my generation are powerless to resist.

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think strummer was quoting from the sketch too?

Ah, my bad, then. I don’t know it as well as I thought.