Welcome Back to Pottersville: Gotham City Digest: We're All Finnished edition

(Today, we are all Sauli Niinistö.)

Jesus, get well soon, Bernie. We need you more than ever.

Trump humper and all around right wing scumbag Rep. Chris Collins immediately resigns from Congress to spend more time with his stockbroker.

Sean Spicer as Carmen Miranda's gay cabana boy, huh? Anyone missing Tom DeLay's Lollipop Guild routine on #DWTS, yet?

Well, well, look what my homie Richard Neal's been up to, lately.

This is another reason why the south will never rise again except if a big enough meth lab blows up. This especially applies to Mississippi.

OK, make it FOUR countries and counting, NOT including Russia (yet)... Pretty soon, we're going to need a scorecard to see which countries with which Barr and Trump colluded. For those who don't have a scorecard, yet, the countries are: Ukraine, Italy, Great Britain and Australia.

Here's a sample of the story: "Barr has already made overtures to British intelligence officials, and last week the attorney general traveled to Italy, where he and Durham met senior Italian government officials and Barr asked the Italians to assist Durham, according to one person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue. It was not Barr’s first trip to Italy to meet intelligence officials, the person said."

Maybe they should change their name to the Oaf Keepers.

Gee, wouldn't THAT be a shock if Trump lied to Mueller? If the House prevails in uncovering the Mueller Reports' grand jury redactions and they had proof Trump lied to the Special Counsel (I know that'd be hard to swallow but bear with me for a minute), it'd give Democrats another ground for impeachment: Obstruction of justice, certainly one of the "high crimes and misdemeanors" specified in the Constitution.

Oh, Liz, you poor brain-diseased woman and spawn of Big Dick, you REALLY don't wanna be recycling quotes from Watergate, now do you?

I know this was intended to be funny when it was filmed 19 years ago but this reminds me of the incident in which a woman had recently accused Trump of raping her in a dressing room.

Yeah, they'd BETTER lawyer up. Because if they try to use attorneys from their own departments, they won't enjoy attorney-client privilege.

Not surprisingly, the NY Times helped delay the impact of the REAL story behind the story.

This story broke just two nights ago- Trump was just bagged asking the Australian PM for help in discrediting the Mueller investigation. This is fucking huge. Please share.

This is the House Intelligence committee demanding these documents, the same committee with which yesterday Giuliani had vowed not to cooperate as long as it was led by Adam Schiff. That would be the same guy for whose arrest Generalissimo Trump had called today.
So, this ought to be entertaining.

My God, can't you bloody Tory arseholes even have a conference without cocking it up?

Spoken like a typical self-interested, right wing billionaire.

Oh dear. It looks as if they'll have to do what Trump did and go running to the Russians.

Amber Guyger found guilty of murdering Botham Jean despite DA's best efforts to spike the case.

Meme intermission:

Your commander in chief, ladies and germs.

Now imagine nearly 200 assclowns just like this guy. That's Trump's House.

This is a seriously scary article on how sadistic, stupid and cruel Trump is regarding immigration (or anything else, for that matter). Alligators and snakes in a moat before a wall. No, that's not medieval at all.

While Zuckerberg's whining about his little antitrust rant getting leaked online, the irony hasn't hit him that Fuckbook does just that its 2.5 billion users. Our private calls on Messenger are being listened to by a million people that he hired just for that purpose. I'm still a Bernie Bro but if he keeps losing momentum like he had last summer and it comes down to Warren and whoever is left standing in the GOP after the last aftershocks of Ukrainegate fade away, I'd vote for her partly based on her promise to break up Fuckbook into little Fuckbooks. Do to it what we did to Ma Bell and Standard Oil. And then on to Jeff fucking Bezos and Amazon. We have had antitrust laws on the books since Teddy Roosevelt. It's about Goddamn time the FTC started enforcing them for a change.

Foggy Bottom's Inspector General Steve Linick had spoken today with members of eight, count 'em, EIGHT committees from both the Senate and House. The meeting has been called "urgent" as well "highly unusual and cryptically worded." It's so radioactive they had to have it in a secured room.

State's IG wouldn't be going to these lengths just to say, "Hi, how are you?" or that this Ukraine thing is all a big misunderstanding. This is not going to bode well for Trump.

         Recent developments:
         Why is States' Inspector General so anxious to speak to Congress?
         Mike Pompeo threatens Congressional Democrats about witness intimidation while intimidating witnesses himself.
        Volker, former envoy to Ukraine, who quit very suddenly last week is eager to depose himself before three Congressional committees.
          Republican support for impeachment rises.
       Walls close in, noose drops from ceiling over Trump's double-woven head. In the distance, "Taps" softly plays.
         Trump tweets furiously as usual to the bitter end.
         Fade to black.

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And I'm sure this generation's answer to Earl Butz fought tooth & nail to ensure that wouldn't happen.

Good for her. You go, girl.

"Divide-and-conquer allows the oligarchy free rein. It makes the rest of us puppets, fighting each other on a made-up stage.

Trump is the puppet master." - Robert Reich

"President" spends hours this morning tweeting about Do Nothing Democrats.

The phrase "conservative media" is a contradiction in terms. They're all glorified conspiracy theorists.

Here's your right wing family values- Not so young Turk steals $17,300 from her own demented mother then helped out Roger Stone.

Trump is personally responsible for 15% of El Paso's debt. Meanwhile, collection agencies are hiring cops to arrest people with student loan debt, others are getting arrested for owing penalties for overdue library books and we're denying small children food for unpaid lunch tabs.

When someone's accused of a serious crime, the surest sign of their guilt is when they start saying, "What about...?" of their political enemies. This was today in front of the president of Finland.

Pompous Maximus just got bagged for firing Volker, who's deposing himself before Congress tomorrow.

        FINNISH REPORTER: "Finland is the happiest country in the world."
        TRUMP: "Finland is a happy country."
        FINNISH REPORTER: "What can you learn from Finland?"
       TRUMP: "Well, you got rid of Pelosi and you got rid of shifty Schiff. Finland is a happy country. He's a happy leader, too."
        Thank you, Finland, for getting rid of Pelosi and Schiff and giving them to us? Meanwhile, Sauli Niinistö is calling for an Uber. And finally...

"Hey, lookit my African American over there! Oh, wait, never mind. That's a white guy standing in the shade."