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POTUS 45.60: He's Such A Delicate Boy and a Hysterical Man

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SJHovey said:
Excellent call. Didn't the Nixon administration attack Ellsberg and even want him prosecuted as a traitor or something?
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Yes. He was also initially anonymous but was sniffed out.

I didn't know this before doing some research but apparently American whistle-blowing really got its institutional support during the Civil War with an effort by Lincoln to empower civilians to rat out war supply profiteers. It was in fact called "Lincoln's Law" for a long time, and it remained very strong and substantially the same until defense contractors exercised their First Amendment Rights by lobbying to weaken it during the middle of the 20th Century.

Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose. The worm in the apple has always been the same.

D'ya ever get the feeling it's always been just the same 500 or so families? I mean whether it's slaves or banks or oil or weapons or data, that it's always been the same handful of as-sholes. No common characteristics -- nothing demographic, not even their politics. Just their money. That they themselves aren't really in control, but are just disease-bearing vectors, and that at the bottom of all the trouble is simply the money. Like blood, money needs to circulate, and like blood when too much of it collects in one place it leads to necrosis.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">How was the fact that the American ambassador to Hungary napping in his underwear with Viktor Orban not in the lede of this story? <a href="https://t.co/Ltz6d3BTIW">https://t.co/Ltz6d3BTIW</a> <a href="https://t.co/4i6DKWzKN8">pic.twitter.com/4i6DKWzKN8</a></p>— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) <a href="https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1187058390721351684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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SJHovey said:
You and Scoob don't think there is money to be made in this country as a whistleblower? I've got news for you.
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There's money to be made as a president holding global conventions at his own properties, also.

Somehow, you never bother to post your scathing commentary about stuff like that.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">How was the fact that the American ambassador to Hungary napping in his underwear with Viktor Orban not in the lede of this story? <a href="https://t.co/Ltz6d3BTIW">https://t.co/Ltz6d3BTIW</a> <a href="https://t.co/4i6DKWzKN8">pic.twitter.com/4i6DKWzKN8</a></p>— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) <a href="https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1187058390721351684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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There is a reason mookie gets pajamas from the stews when he flies ;)

Only an idiot would crease their pants when they otherwise don’t need to :p
 
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alfablue said:
How about we do just make this public? When the Russians ask about some server in Ukraine, he can reply that there is no evidence of that, anywhere. Where as he heard dumpy say stuff.

At this point, if they want to make it public, it sure seems as if it's going to really put them into an impossible position. Which is fine.
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Hearings will be public, after the pertinent information is gathered. You don't have witnesses to crimes testifying where other witnesses to the same crime can see what they have said, and modify their story to match.
 
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Peacefully protest white nationalism in Pittsburgh -> get arrested
Break into a secure facility in the Capitol and tweet -> sit and eat pizza
 
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Lol

“ A new book written by a former top aide to ex-Defense Secretary James Mattis reportedly claims that the retired general privately said he'd "rather swallow acid” than watch the massive Fourth of July military parade that President Trump wanted in D.C.”
 
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Arrest this a hole

JUST IN: GOP Rep. Alex Mooney shared audio of a phone call he made from inside a secure room at the Capitol after Republicans stormed a private impeachment inquiry hearing House Democrats were holding with a Pentagon official, a move that many have denounced as a violation of the rules governing the SCIF.
 
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"many have denounced"? It's a fact.

Was this from the Times?
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">TWELVE of the Republicans who protested are actually on the committees doing the impeachment investigation so they could already get in the SCIF and have been in the depositions already h/t <a href="https://twitter.com/emptywheel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@emptywheel</a> <a href="https://t.co/WjKBDprDb9">https://t.co/WjKBDprDb9</a></p>— Sarah Mimms (@mimms) <a href="https://twitter.com/mimms/status/1187108328498970627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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