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It Would Appear Donald Trump Lied About The Size Of His 'Obamagate'
Is that it? Bless his heart.
May 20, 2020 12:41 PM
Donald Trump and his slobbering Republican manservants in Congress are losing their shit trying to show the American people just how much #Obamagate there really was, what a Witch Hunt, what a DEEP STATE!111!! Oh my God they have been leaving snail trails all over the streets of Washington DC.
At the center of Obamagate -- as best as anyone can tell, and to be honest, our explanation is more lucid than anything that will ever slither out of the president's thin lips -- is that during the transition, the Obama administration sought to undermine the incoming president and fuck with the peaceful transition of power, chiefly by FRAMING Michael Flynn and tricking him into lying to the FBI about his improper secret conversations with the Russian government about sanctions relief. In reality, the Obama administration was faced with an unprecedented situation, namely the very real possibility -- as yet still not disproven! -- that the incoming administration and maybe the president himself were severely compromised (or worse) by Russia.
On Tuesday, the Trump administration declassified a section of an email former national security advisor Susan Rice sent herself on Inauguration Day, 2017, her last official act, to memorialize what was really going on with Flynn, so that there would be a paper trail. And kids, this declassified section was supposed to be their SMOKIN' GUN! That proves! that Obamagate! Was a thing! That happened!
Spoiler alert: It is, um, not that.
<p>It's an email Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley have been just <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senator-calls-susan-rice-inauguration-day-email-on-russia-disturbing" target="_blank">losing it over,</a> for <em>ages</em>. It recounts an Oval Office meeting on January 5, 2017, and here are some of the parts we already knew about, as breathlessly transcribed by Fox News in 2018:</p><blockquote>"President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities 'by the book,'" Rice wrote. "The president stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book."<br><br>Rice also wrote that Obama said "he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia."<br><br>She added: "The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would."</blockquote><p>OBAMAGATE! SMOKIN' GUN! Oh wait, that's not the Obamagate smokin' gun. The smokin' gun is the part Trump's fucking dipshit acting director of national intelligence Ric Grenell declassified yesterday. The part that was SEEKRIT before yesterday. The part that shows the OBAMAGATE!</p><p>Are you ready for it? No you cannot possibly handle it. Are you ready yet? Are you ready yet? No, you will never be able to <a href="https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1262839727675318272/photo/1" target="_blank">OH FUCK HERE IT IS!</a></p><p><br></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p><br></p><blockquote>[Comey] added that he has no indication thus far that Flynn has passed classified information to [former Russian ambassador Sergey] Kislyak, but he noted that 'the level of communication is unusual.' <br><br>The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.</blockquote><p>OBAMAGATE! </p><p>Or wait ... what? That's it? </p><p>OK, so the redacted section of this email that was supposed to be so incriminating was James Comey telling President Obama that he didn't <em>think</em> Michael Flynn had given the Russian ambassador classified intel, but that their "level of communication" was fuckin' <em>weird</em>. And Obama said to please tell him if anything happens that might make them reassess how much classified intel to give Flynn, you know, like maybe if they found out Flynn was leaking state secrets directly to the Russian government. Remember that Flynn had been tapped to serve as Trump's national security advisor, so this was <em>kind of a big fuckin' deal</em>.</p><p>#<em>ESCANDALO</em>!</p><p>So ... that's it. The sum total of OBAMAGATE! is that Barack Obama wanted all of this handled "by the book"; he wasn't directing any of it personally; but he did want to know if they found Michael Flynn -- <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/donald-trump-shocked-his-bestie-michael-flynn-was-literal-foreign-agent-this-whole-time" target="_blank">a literal actual foreign agent</a> -- giving state secrets to the Russian government. Oh yeah, and as the cherry on top of his fiendish plan, Obama had told Trump <em>personally</em> that he really shouldn't hire Michael Flynn -- like <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-warned-trump-against-hiring-mike-flynn-say-officials-n756316" target="_blank">right after the election</a> -- because that guy was a fuckin' <em>problem</em>. But therein lay the evil genius of OBAMAGATE! You see, because Obama knew Trump was so irrationally and small-dicked-ly resentful of the black president with the prettier face beloved by billions worldwide that he would obviously <em>hire Flynn anyway</em>, thus setting the stage for Obama to ... OBAMAGATE!</p><p>Yep. </p><p>(By the way, we want you to know that this declassification was <em>personally requested</em> <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/18/johnson-declassification-rice-email-flynn-265883" target="_blank">by Ron Johnson</a> AKA the <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/senates-dumbest-republican-wants-you-to-look-on-the-bright-side-of-coronavirus" target="_blank">Senate's Dumbest Republican.</a>)</p><p>This is the stupidest fucking thing we have ever heard. </p><p>It is not the stupidest fucking thing one of the world's stupidest fucking senators Marsha Blackburn has ever heard, though.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
</p><div id="950f5" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="ca5e37eb3a92453e1a3c11b4f2460fa2"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1262860720712146946" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Susan Rice knew exactly what she was doing. That’s why she wrote herself emails in a desperate attempt to cover her tracks.</div> — Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@Sen. Marsha Blackburn)<a href="https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/statuses/1262860720712146946">1589924433.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p></p><p>Susan Rice's email WOULD say that, says Inspector Gadget! THAT'S HOW THEY GITCHA! </p><p>It is not the stupidest fucking the world's stupidest fucking House minority leader Kevin McCarthy has ever heard:</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
</p><div id="55b80" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="4ad854bcb3ab8be3db3671b9974092b9"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1262910102039932928" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Democrats will try to spin the contents of Susan Rice's email. But there is one fact that cannot be denied: multipl… https://t.co/EAxlrOLVP8</div> — Kevin McCarthy (@Kevin McCarthy)<a href="https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/statuses/1262910102039932928">1589936206.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p></p><p>LOL okey doke, Kevin. "Spying." Because it's supposed to be some sort of "scandal" that the American government was intercepting the Russian ambassador's phone calls. In other words, in Kevin McCarthy's tiny squirrel brain, spying on the Russian government <em>is tantamount to</em> spying on the Trump administration. And, well, if that's the argument they're really wanting to make, then ... </p><p>OH HEY KEVIN, what was <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/the-top-768-796-reasons-putin-wants-trump-re-elected-for-gop-rep-chris-stewart-and-idiots-like-him" target="_blank">that thing you said</a> about how you think Putin pays Trump? You said it like six months before this meeting about "spying." We can't remember the exact quote. Something like "I think there are two people Putin pays -- Rohrabacher and Trump." And then you said you were dead serious. Oh well anyway!</p><p>Ted Cruz is pretending to be so stupid he doesn't see this email as the complete self-own it is:</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
</p><div id="20ab8" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="fed5469a9ca203be1cf9dcefff9bc19f"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1262833632596627459" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Wow. Ongoing spying from an outgoing POTUS on the incoming POTUS—directed by Obama himself—is unprecedented in the… https://t.co/7RGcwFjlmL</div> — Ted Cruz (@Ted Cruz)<a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/statuses/1262833632596627459">1589917974.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p></p><p>Poor thing, sounds like he needs to go <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/we-are-starting-to-for-real-worry-about-ted-cruzs-wifes-well-being" target="_blank">jerk off into an empty soup can</a> or something.</p><p>The Federalist <a href="https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1262839727675318272" target="_blank">reported</a> on the OBAMAGATE! email by leaving out all the parts that debunked the OBAMAGATE! conspiracy theory. This is expected behavior from The Federalist, because nobody even knows who funds The Federalist. Maybe there are THREE people Putin pays? Somebody should check on that, eh, Kevin McCarthy? </p><p>In response to the declassification of this email, former NSA Rice <a href="https://twitter.com/erin_pelton/status/1262875136065183745" target="_blank">has released</a> a statement that amounts to "Yeah that's my email, it's a fuckin' good one too." She adds that they really should declassify the transcripts of Michael Flynn's phone Snapchats with the Russian government, so that everybody can READ TEH tRANSCRIPT!</p><p>Surely the Trump administration isn't trying to hide anything in there, right? You know, like maybe Donald Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/nedprice/status/1262918912066424833" target="_blank">personally giving the order</a> to Flynn to tell Moscow to cool its jets, because President Russian Asset would fix that whole sanctions situation as soon as he had officially been sworn into the presidency Moscow helped him "win"?</p><p>Or maybe something like this?</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
</p><div id="b8616" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="41c62586dd0715ffb1f2d9d6c478fb74"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1262918913169424389" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Or does it have something to do with the fact that the former Acting AG, @SallyQYates, testified that Flynn’s “unde… https://t.co/oomqMQstri</div> — Ned Price (@Ned Price)<a href="https://twitter.com/nedprice/statuses/1262918913169424389">1589938307.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p></p><p>Guess there's only one way to find out. </p><p>RELEASE THE MEMO! READ TEH TRANSCRIPT!11!1 OBAMAGATE!</p><p><strong>Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/evanhurst" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE, DO IT RIGHT HERE!</a></strong></p><p><strong>Wonkette is fully funded by readers like YOU. If you love Wonkette, SUPPORT WONKETTE FINANCIALLY.</strong><br></p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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2020 presidential election
Obama Endorses Biden, Acts Shady The WHOLE ENTIRE TIME
We mean that in the good way.
April 14, 2020 04:22 PM
It is sometimes frustrating that Barack Obama doesn't steal the spotlight as much as we might selfishly want him to, but when he does speak, people listen. As America's last legitimate president, who is number one on Facebook, his words carry a weight that's missing in this country right now, especially as we find ourselves in the middle of a global pandemic with zero federal leadership.
Obama said he was going to stay out of the Democratic primary, and he did. But now that Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the race, and yesterday endorsed Joe Biden, President Obama has chosen to completely #RIG the primary by offering his own endorsement today.
As many have noted, it is just full of shade directed at the orange squatter in the White House. We are going to post the entire transcript, because if Donald Trump can put his thumb and forefinger together and pull his weenus on TV while he lies about coronavirus for three hours every day, Barry Bamz O'Sexxs-a-lot O'Bama can have some space at the Wonkette to talk about his old pal Vice President Uncle Joe.
Also we will post a picture signifying "shade" every time Bamz is a shady motherfucker.
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</p><p><br></p><blockquote>Hi everybody. </blockquote><p>Hi, Bamz!</p><blockquote>Let me start by saying the obvious – these aren't normal times. As we all manage our way through a pandemic unlike anything we've seen in a century, Michelle and I hope that you and your families are safe and well. If you've lost somebody to this virus, or if someone in your life is sick, or if you're one of the millions suffering economic hardship, please know that you're in our prayers. Please know that you're not alone. Because now's the time for all of us to help where we can and to be there for each other, as neighbors, as coworkers, and as fellow citizens.<br><br>In fact, over the past weeks, we've seen plenty of examples of the kind of courage, kindness, and selflessness that we're going to need to get through one of the most difficult times in our history. Michelle and I have been amazed at the incredible bravery of our medical professionals who are putting their lives on the line to save others. The public servants and health officials battling this disease. The workers taking risks every day to keep our economy running. And everyone who's making their own sacrifice at home with their families, all for the greater good.<br><br>But if there's one thing we've learned as a country from moments of great crisis, it's that the spirit of looking out for one another can't be restricted to our homes, or our workplaces, or our neighborhoods, or our houses of worship. It also has to be reflected in our national government. The kind of leadership that's guided by knowledge and experience; honesty and humility; empathy and grace – that kind of leadership doesn't just belong in our state capitols and mayors offices. It belongs in the White House.</blockquote><p>He is saying there are lots of badass governors and mayors, but the thing in the White House right now is hot filth.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p><br></p><blockquote>And that's why I'm so proud to endorse Joe Biden for President of the United States.<br><br>Choosing Joe to be my Vice President was one of the best decisions I ever made, and he became a close friend. And I believe Joe has all the qualities we need in a President right now.<br><br>He's someone whose own life has taught him how to persevere; how to bounce back when you've been knocked down.<br><br>When Joe talks with parents who've lost their jobs, we hear the son of a man who once knew the pain of having to tell his children that he'd lost his.<br><br>When Joe talks about opportunity for our kids, we hear the young father who took the train home each night so he could tuck his children into bed – and we hear the influence of Jill, a life-long teacher.<br><br>When Joe talks to families who've lost a hero, we hear another parent of an American veteran; a kindred spirit; somebody whose faith has endured the hardest loss there is.<br><br>That's Joe. Through all his trials, he's never once forgotten the values or the moral fiber that his parents passed on to him, and that made him who he is. That's what steels his faith – in God, in America, and in all of us.<br><br>That steel made him an incredible partner when I needed one the most.<br><br>Joe was there as we rebuilt from the Great Recession and rescued the American auto industry. He was the one asking what every policy would do for the middle class and everyone striving to get into the middle class. That's why I asked him to implement the Recovery Act, which saved millions of jobs and got people back on their feet – because Joe gets stuff done.<br><br><strong>Joe helped me manage H1N1 and prevent the Ebola epidemic from becoming the type of pandemic we're seeing now.</strong></blockquote><p>OMG that is so shady it gets the drunk tree.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><blockquote>He helped me restore America's standing and leadership in the world on the other threats of our time, like nuclear proliferation and climate change.<br><br>Joe has the character and the experience to guide us through one of our darkest times and heal us through a long recovery. <span style="background-color: initial;"><strong>And I know he'll surround himself with good people – experts, scientists, military officials who actually know how to run the government and care about doing a good job running the government, and know how to work with our allies, and who will always put the American people's interests above their own.</strong></span></blockquote><p><span style="background-color: initial;"></span>It's the part about "<em>actually</em> know how to run the government" part that's so shady. And "actually" know how to do a damn thing beyond that. And "actually" give a fuck about something more than enriching themselves. </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>Obama took some time to say nice things about Bernie Sanders, and it was not shady:</p><blockquote>Now Joe will be a better candidate for having run the gauntlet of primaries and caucuses alongside one of the most impressive Democratic fields ever. Each of our candidates were talented and decent, with a track record of accomplishment, smart ideas, and serious visions for the future.<br><br>And that's certainly true of the candidate who made it farther than any other – Bernie Sanders. Bernie's an American original – a man who has devoted his life to giving voice to working people's hopes, dreams, and frustrations. He and I haven't always agreed on everything, but we've always shared a conviction that we have to make America a fairer, more just, more equitable society. We both know that nothing is more powerful than millions of voices calling for change. And the ideas he's championed; the energy and enthusiasm he inspired, especially in young people, will be critical in moving America in a direction of progress and hope.</blockquote><p>And then it was back to the shade:</p><blockquote>Because for the second time in 12 years, we'll have the incredible task of rebuilding our economy. And to meet the moment, the Democratic Party will have to be bold.</blockquote><p>Golly damn fuck, how <em>does</em> this always happen, that a Democrat has to come in and clean up a disaster area, after any Republican has had a chance to spray inside the White House for any period of time? It is a mystery. A SHADY mystery!</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>Obama talked about how much the party, and the country, have changed since 2008 when he became America's most recent legitimate president, effectively endorsing the future of the party:<br></p><blockquote>You know, I could not be prouder of the incredible progress that we made together during my presidency. But if I were running today, I wouldn't run the same race or have the same platform as I did in 2008. The world is different; there's too much unfinished business for us to just look backwards. We have to look to the future. Bernie understands that. And Joe understands that. It's one of the reasons that Joe already has what is the most progressive platform of any major party nominee in history. Because even before the pandemic turned the world upside down, it was already clear that we needed real structural change.<br><br>The vast inequalities created by the new economy are easier to see now, but they existed long before this pandemic hit. Health professionals, teachers, delivery drivers, grocery clerks, cleaners, the people who truly make our economy run – they've always been essential. And for years, too many of the people who do the essential work of this country have been underpaid, financially stressed, and given too little support. And that applies to the next generation of Americans – young people graduating into unprecedented unemployment. They're going to need economic policies that give them faith in the future and give them relief from crushing student loan debt.<br><br>So we need to do more than just tinker around the edges with tax credits or underfunded programs. We have to go further to give everybody a great education, a lasting career, and a stable retirement.<br><br>We have to protect the gains we made with the Affordable Care Act, but it's also time to go further. We should make plans affordable for everyone, provide everyone with a public option, expand Medicare, and finish the job so that health care isn't just a right, but a reality for everybody.<br><br>We have to return the U.S. to the Paris Agreement, and lead the world in reducing the pollution that causes climate change. But science tells us we have to go much further – that it's time for us to accelerate progress on bold new green initiatives that make our economy a clean energy innovator, save us money, and secure our children's future.<br>Of course, Democrats may not always agree on every detail of the best way to bring about each and every one of these changes. But we do agree that they're needed. And that only happens if we win this election.</blockquote><p>And then Bamz threw more shade at Trump and Republicans:</p><blockquote>Because one thing everybody has learned by now is that the Republicans occupying the White House and running the U.S. Senate are not interested in progress. They're interested in power. They've shown themselves willing to kick millions off their health insurance and eliminate preexisting condition protections for millions more, even in the middle of this public health crisis, even as they're willing to spend a trillion dollars on tax cuts for the wealthy. They've given polluters unlimited power to poison our air and our water, and denied the science of climate change just as they denied the science of pandemics. Repeatedly, they've disregarded American principles of rule of law, and voting rights, and transparency – basic norms that previous administrations observed regardless of party. Principles that are the bedrock of our democracy.<br><br>So our country's future hangs on this election. And it won't be easy. <strong>The other side has a massive war chest. The other side has a propaganda network with little regard for the truth. On the other hand, pandemics have a way of cutting through a lot of noise and spin to remind us of what is real, and what is important. This crisis has reminded us that government matters. It's reminded us that good government matters. That facts and science matter. That the rule of law matters. That having leaders who are informed, and honest, and seek to bring people together rather than drive them apart – those kind of leaders matter.</strong><br><br>In other words, elections matter. </blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><blockquote>Right now, we need Americans of goodwill to unite in a great awakening against a politics that too often has been characterized by corruption, carelessness, self-dealing, disinformation, ignorance, and just plain meanness. And to change that, we need Americans of all political stripes to get involved in our politics and our public life like never before. For those of us who believe in building a more just, more generous, more democratic America where everybody has a fair shot at opportunity. For those of us who believe in a government that cares about the many, and not just the few. For those of us who love this country and are willing to do our part to make sure it lives up to its highest ideals – now's the time to fight for what we believe in.<br><br>So join us. Join Joe. Go to JoeBiden.com right now. Make a plan for how you are going to get involved. Keep taking care of yourself, and your families, and each other. Keep believing in the possibilities of a better world. And I will see you on the campaign trail as soon as I can.<br><br>Thanks.</blockquote><p>You're welcome, Barry Bamz, nice endorsement, would watch again.</p><p>In summary and in conclusion, here is the time Barack Obama gave Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which used to mean something in the olden days before Rush Limbaugh got one.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
</p><div id="176c5" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b952e7fd259390f22fe420634f4ba638"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1250124024572710912" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">JANUARY 12, 2017 -- Vice President @JoeBiden receives Presidential Medal of Freedom from @BarackObama.
Full video… https://t.co/POarMNBlxL</div> — CSPAN (@CSPAN)<a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/statuses/1250124024572710912">1586887768.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p></p><p>And here is a picture of Barack Obama and Joe Biden running together:</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>And here is a picture of that time Barack Obama beat the shitfire out of Donald Trump's feelings while he was <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/hey-remember-that-time-obama-busted-up-in-the-celebrity-apprentice-to-murder-bin-laden-right-in-trumps-face" target="_blank">LITERALLY CURRENTLY</a> killing Osama bin Laden:</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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Here Is Something Horrible For Your Christmas Stocking!
Yep, it's more bad judges, hooray!
December 23, 2019 02:55 PM
Guess what? Once again, everything is shit.
Earlier this month, the Senate confirmed two more Trump nominees -- Patrick Bumatay and Lawrence VanDyke -- to lifetime appointments on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Trump has now appointed 50 appellate court judges and 187 total federal judges in less than three years in office. Obama, by comparison, appointed 55 appellate judges over his eight years in the White House.
Let's learn more about these gaping human wounds!
<p>Like most of Trump's judges, VanDyke and Bumatay are young, conservative, and members of the Federalist Society. VanDyke also fits the Trump mold in two other ways: He is straight and white. Bumatay, on the other hand, is outside of the Trump mold in two ways: He is gay and Filipino. <br></p><p>I have to wonder how these two Trump nominees will get along, serving together on the Ninth Circuit. While Bumatay is openly gay, VanDyke is a known bigot who the ABA thought was <a href="https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/government_affairs_office/10-29-2019-vandyke-rating.pdf" target="_blank">unqualified for the bench</a>, in part because a majority of the members of its Federal Judiciary Committee didn't think he could be fair to LGBTQ litigants. </p><p>Remember <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/crying-trump-judge" target="_self">watching the gay-hatin' bigot cry</a>? Yeah, that was Lawrence VanDyke. And he now has a lifetime appointment to a federal appellate court.</p><p>Normally, presidents ask senators for help choosing judges from their state, but in the last three years, that has become just another convention that Trump refuses to follow. Both Bumatay and VanDyke were opposed by the senators from their states -- Nevada Senators Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto for VanDyke and California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris for Bumatay.</p><p>Bumatay is a former federal prosecutor who helped Trump kidnap children from families at the border. VanDyke made a career out of using the courts to fight against human rights, especially for women, LGBTQ people, and people of color. He has fought against marriage equality, hate crime and nondiscrimination laws, the rights of Native Americans, and abortion rights. He tried to take DACA status away from Dreamers. VanDyke has also spent a fair bit of time acting as a typical Republican shill, fighting against the environment and blue collar workers, and fighting for guns, hate groups, and the rights of corporate polluters.</p><p>Crazy Carrie Severino of the far right "Judicial Crisis Network" celebrated both confirmations -- which is just about all I need to know to understand that these guys are VERY BAD for the country.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
</p><div id="40499" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="C651A31577131512"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1204881020924911617" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">FIFTY CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES!
@RealDonaldTrump, @SenateMajLdr, @ChuckGrassley, and @LindsayGrahamSC reached a MILES… https://t.co/h3HsLGIVv5</div> — Carrie Severino (@Carrie Severino)<a href="https://twitter.com/JCNSeverino/statuses/1204881020924911617">1576100995.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p></p><p>The Ninth Circuit is one of the most important appellate courts in the country. It covers more people than any other circuit court in the country. With jurisdiction over cases from California, Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands, its rulings affect some <a href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US,WA,CA,NV,AZ,OR/PST045217" target="_blank">64.3 million people</a> -- nearly 20% of the US population. Additionally, the states that the Ninth Circuit covers are some of the most progressive states in the country and frequently enact cutting edge laws that are challenged by conservatives in court. </p><p>The Ninth Circuit was once considered a liberal haven, due <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-13/9th-circuit-court-trump-shifting-california" target="_blank">in large part</a> to a number of appointments President Jimmy Carter made to the court. After having some of his bullshit policies blocked by the court, Trump repeatedly attacked the judges of the Ninth Circuit. When conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts tried to defend the federal judiciary from some particularly nasty fuckery from the president, Trump did what he does and took to Twitter to attack both Roberts and the judges of the Ninth Circuit.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
</p><div id="f7b02" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="5WERPP1577131512"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1065581119242940416" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Justice Roberts can say what he wants, but the 9th Circuit is a complete & total disaster. It is out of control, ha… https://t.co/pdeDV726jf</div> — Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1065581119242940416">1542889311.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p></p><p>At the beginning of Trump's presidency, Ninth Circuit judges appointed by Democratic presidents had an 11-seat majority on the court. Now, that number is three. </p><p> Trump has appointed 10 of the Ninth Circuit's 30 circuit judges. Another four Ninth Circuit judges were appointed by George W. Bush. That means it's possible, or even likely, that Trump could end up flipping this notoriously liberal court to majority-conservative. Even if Democrats were to take the Senate in 2020 (and that's far from a given, considering the difficult map Democrats face for next year's Senate elections), Trump and Mitch McConnell still have another full year to pack the judiciary with extremists and sycophants.</p><p>Conservatives already dominate seven of our 13 circuit courts of appeal. Trump himself already flipped the Second, Third, and 11th Circuits. </p><p>All of this is bad, very bad.</p><p>For the vast majority of cases, circuit courts are the end of the road. In almost all cases, the Supreme Court gets to decide whether or not it wants to hear the case -- and it only hears around 100 to 150 cases of the 7,000+ cases it's asked to hear each year. In all of those cases that SCOTUS declines to hear, the opinion of the circuit court stands, and also becomes controlling precedent for all of the states within the circuit's jurisdiction.</p><p>Even the best possible outcome in the 2020 election will not undo the damage that Trump has already done to our federal judiciary. Unless Democrats win both the presidency and the Senate in 2020 AND come up with some creative solutions, judges appointed by Trump are likely to destroy legal precedent and lives for decades to come.</p><p><br></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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President Bigly Cyberbrain Uses Unencrypted Phone, *For Privacy*
Russia, if you're listening ... AND WE KNOW YOU ARE.
December 06, 2019 11:57 AM
BUT HER BLOODY EMAILS! While the State Department continues to send threatening letters to former Hillary Clinton staffers about retroactively classified emails from literally 10 years ago, Donald Trump and his team of dipshits are spilling the country's national security secrets over unsecured cellphone lines. The Washington Post reports that Commander OpSec and his personal attorney Rudy Loose Lips have likely supplied Russia (and China, and Israel, and Saudi Arabia ... ) with mountains of delicious intel as they plotted their Ukraine scheme over unencrypted commercial phones. About which the GOP says ... NOTHING. Because all their howling about Hillary Clinton's private server was bullshit, of course.
In fact, Trump has made a habit of yammering on his personal Obamaphone from the minute he waddled into the White House. Convinced that his nightly sexxxxx chats with studmuffin Sean Hannity were no one's business but his own, Trump refused to use a landline which would log the calls. Because he didn't want mean old John Kelly to find out about them and stop him from taking national security advice based on howler monkey noises from Jeanine Pirro on a bender.
<p>"He was totally paranoid that everyone knew who he was talking to," a source told the <em>Post</em>, and so the president of the United States, the most desirable intelligence target <em>on the planet</em>, used his regular, old, easily-hacked cell phone to blab to his pals. But not just his pals -- he talked to other world leaders, too, giving his number out to Boris Johnson, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Emmanuel Macron, and God only knows who else.</p><p>But wait, there's more! Trump's habit of outsourcing foreign policy to <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/rudy-giuliani-cybered-himself-again" target="_blank">Counselor Buttdial</a>, a guy so tech-stupid that he had to get the Apple store to unlock his phone after forgetting his password, has virtually guaranteed that foreign governments have recordings of all his conversations. How good is Rudy at THE CYBER?</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
</p><div id="03ddc" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="M6G9AW1575651919"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1198692617854341121" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">👀 https://t.co/fArRfXL4j6</div> — emptywheel (@emptywheel)<a href="https://twitter.com/emptywheel/statuses/1198692617854341121">1574625565.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p></p><p>Awesome. Good thing Rudy is constantly taking his unencrypted iPhone to the former Soviet Union and yakking over public cell networks which are owned by oligarchs and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/politics/bill-taylor-gordon-sondland-call-trump-security-concerns/index.html" target="_blank">rife with spies</a>. </p><p>From the <em>Post</em>: </p><blockquote>Trump and Giuliani have effectively "given the Russians ammunition they can use in an overt fashion, a covert fashion or in the twisting of information," said John Sipher, former deputy chief of Russia operations at the CIA. Sipher and others said that it is so likely that Russia tracked the calls of Giuliani and others that the Kremlin probably knows more now about those conversations than impeachment investigators.<br><br>"Congress and investigators have call records that suggest certain things but have no means whatsoever of getting the actual text" of what was said, Sipher said. "I guarantee the Russians have the actual information."</blockquote><p>And that's before the information even filters down through Rudy's henchmen Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman, Victoria Toensing, Joe diGenova, Devin Nunes, Derek Harvey, John Solomon, and the dozens of shady refugees from previous corrupt Ukrainian regimes. Brass tacks: Vladimir Putin has <em>all that shit</em>.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-twitter_embed">
</p><div id="c4667" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="VPEUFE1575651919"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1202727340889067521" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Here are @AndriyUkraineTe and @RudyGiuliani here in Kyiv, #Ukraine. At midnight, they are in lounge bar of the Prem… https://t.co/aqO9y3m2hi</div> — Jack Laurenson (@Jack Laurenson)<a href="https://twitter.com/JackLaurenson/statuses/1202727340889067521">1575587518.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p></p><p>But don't worry, you guys. After multiple briefings on NO CELL PHONE! NO CELL PHONE! YOU ARE THE CELLPHONE THAT PUTIN IS LISTENING TO, YOU GODDAMN MORON! and OBAMA WIRE TAPPS and DEEP STATE SPIES GRRR ARRRGHH, President Blabbermouth has finally agreed to use "a government cellphone that is hardened and routinely scrubbed." It's not a landline, but you can hardly ask the president of the United States to cramp his style for picayune shit like national security, can you?<br></p><p>[<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/phone-logs-in-impeachment-report-renew-concern-about-security-of-trump-communications/2019/12/05/2066fbf4-16fe-11ea-8406-df3c54b3253e_story.html" target="_blank">WaPo</a>]</p><p>Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/5DollarFeminist" target="_blank">Liz Dye</a> on Twitter!</p><p><strong>Please click here to keep your Wonkette snarking. You know you wanna!</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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