A.M. Links: Trump and Russia, Joe Arpaio Found Guilty, Venezuelan Regime Arrests Opposition Leaders

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  President Donald Trump reportedly dictated the misleading statement that Donald Trump Jr. issued after news broke of Trump Jr.'s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer.

• "New White House chief of staff John Kelly was so upset with how President Donald Trump handled the firing of FBI Director James Comey that Kelly called Comey afterward and said he was considering resigning, according to two sources familiar with a conversation between Kelly and Comey."
• Opposition leaders in Venezuela were reportedly taken from their homes in the middle of the night by government forces.
• Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, has been found guilty of criminal contempt in U.S. District Court.
• Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has reportedly been fired from One America News Network.
• "The United States began removing furniture and equipment from a diplomatic property in Moscow on Tuesday in the first sign of compliance with a Kremlin order to slash its presence in Russia as retaliation for new U.S. sanctions."

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[Fist of Etiquette]

President Donald Trump reportedly dictated the misleading statement that Donald Trump Jr. issued after news broke of Trump Jr.'s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer.

140 characters at a time.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

Well, you got your fisticuffs with Russia. Happy now?

Not sure why but FUCK YEAH!

[Bee Tagger]

President Donald Trump reportedly dictated the misleading statement that Donald Trump Jr. issued after news broke of Trump Jr.'s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer.

Officially a dictator, now.

[Rhywun]

Works for the Venezuela link too.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Opposition leaders in Venezuela were reportedly taken from their homes in the middle of the night by government forces.

I blame the United States.

[Memory Hole]

Trump has endorsed the strongman.

[Citizen X - #6]

"Endorsed" is a pretty odd euphemism for "hit with sanctions."

Also, fuck you for making me defend Trump.

[Rhywun]

fuck you for making me defend Trump

It's a troll's world, we're just living in it.

[Memory Hole]

Jesus fucking christ dude I didn't imply Trump endorsed Maduro. I was reminding you that Trump admires authoritarians like Duterte "you're doing a wonderful job murdering people for using drugs", Erdogan "calling to congratulate you for consolidating your power" or Putin "he's a great leader".

[Citizen X - #6]

Context matters, homeboy, and the context here is Venezuela - which is the country mentioned in the sentence Opposition leaders in Venezuela were reportedly taken from their homes in the middle of the night by government forces.

Your comment didn't imply anything - it straight up said that Trump endorsed "the strongman," who is, in Venezuela, Maduro. If you didn't intend that, maybe you could try getting better at English.

[$park? leftist poser]

maybe you could try getting better at English.

Excuse my barging in, but this is the Internet. The proper wording for your rebuke is 'GIT GUD!'

[Citizen X - #6]

Sorry. Maybe Memory Hole could get more gooder at Englishing.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The United States began removing furniture and equipment from a diplomatic property in Moscow on Tuesday...

The bugs stay.

[Bee Tagger]

The beard stays, you go

[Bee Tagger]

excellent work, as always

The beard stays, you go

[Fist of Etiquette]

Leave the working link. Take the cannoli.

[Bee Tagger]

according to two sources familiar with a conversation between Kelly and Comey."

Noreen Sally Adams and Neal Samuel Applebaum

[Bee Tagger]

The United States began removing furniture and equipment from a diplomatic property in Moscow on Tuesday

In Soviet Russia, you are your own repo man.

[Fist of Etiquette]

New White House chief of staff John Kelly was so upset with how President Donald Trump handled the firing of FBI Director James Comey that Kelly called Comey afterward and said he was considering resigning...

That Comey gets all the firsthand gossip.

[Tom Bombadil]

Comey has bravely earned zero sympathy from me.

[damikesc]

Yeah. Comey is a profoundly weird man. No wonder Schumer adores him.

[Citizen X - #6]

Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, has been found guilty of criminal contempt in U.S. District Court.

Chances this derails any of his future plans for despotic bullshittery: 0.07%

[Anomalous]

Will he be required to wear pink underwear? If not, it's a slap on the wrist.

[Tom Bombadil]

He's spent years building up an immunity to pink underwear.

[Zeb]

Yeah, put that fucker in a tent in the desert with pink underwear and make him eat moldy bologna.

[Citizen X - #6]

That is a hell of a euphemism.

[Thane Eichenauer]

Take away his shiny badge and Arpaio is just another old guy.

[Tom Bombadil]

Then this is no country for him.

[Citizen X - #6]

Call it, friendo.

[loveconstitution1789]

This is the best deal you're going to get. I won't tell you that you can save yourself, because you can't.

[Citizen X - #6]

Opposition leaders in Venezuela were reportedly taken from their homes in the middle of the night by government forces.

"Trust democracy" - joe from lowell

[Aloysious]

...taken from their homes in the middle of the night by government forces.

Hmm. Where have we seen this happen before?

[Zeb]

Everywhere there are police?

[Jerryskids]

Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, has been found guilty of criminal contempt in U.S. District Court.

Allegedly, according to sources.

[Thane Eichenauer]

Not allegedly. He was actually convicted, according to U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Reportedly.

[Rebel Scum]

New White House chief of staff John Kelly was so upset with how President Donald Trump handled the firing of FBI Director James Comey that Kelly called Comey afterward and said he was considering resigning

///draintheswamp

according to two sources familiar with a conversation between Kelly and Comey."

Uh huh... ///anonymoussources

[pan fried wylie]

mmm, chocolate moussources, /drool

[Rebel Scum]

Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has reportedly been fired from One America News Network.

Make America News Network Great Again. ///MANNGA

[Rebel Scum]

President Donald Trump reportedly dictated

///penandphone

[Rebel Scum]

Opposition leaders in Venezuela were reportedly taken from their homes in the middle of the night by government forces

Inherent violence and tyranny of a socialist state is inherent.

[Necron 99]

Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!

[loveconstitution1789]

What government force really is.

[creech]

Is anyone giving odds of a military coup by Sept. 1st?

[Philadelphia Collins]

Ask Sean Penn.

[Dillinger]

midnight hoops...winner gets Caracas.

[damikesc]

Does Sean Penn still think Venezuela is hella groovy?

[Domestic Dissident]

Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has reportedly been fired from One America News Network.

Leftards in the JournoList are actually still obsessed with this guy? Normal Americans are all like "who the fuck is Corey Lewandowski and what the fuck is the 'One America News Network'?"

[Rufus The Monocled]

Yeah but 'Two Americas News Network' hired him.

[$park? leftist poser]

Normal Americans are all like...

"...ohmygoduh!"
"...whatevs dudes."
"...no way! Then I was all like, yeah! And then they were all like, no way! Then I was all like, yeah!"
"...getthefuckouttahere."

[Zeb]

And you are still obsessed with the leftards in your head. So all is right in the world.

[Citizen X - #6]

Did you know that the JournoList was disbanded in 2010? Simple Mikey doesn't!

[paranoid android]

Mikey, you should know that the vagrants and hillbillies that reside in the crack house where you huff glue and masturbate to your own misogynistic rants are not most people's idea of normal Americans.

[Mmmmmm]

But enough about your family...

[Palin's Buttplug]

If John Kelly has an ounce of decency (and he probably does) he might be waiting for the right time to knife the Con Man in the back if for nothing else Trump's disrespect for the US military and Gold Star families.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

Trump's disrespect for the US military

"Disrespect" in this case to mean "not launching ICBMS at them like my new neocon BFFs wanted to do."

[Libertarian]

So disrespectful that he patiently waits for a general to retire before hiring him.

[Citizen X - #6]

Are you waiting for the right time to pay your bet?

[BestUsedCarSales]

What was this bet anyway?

[Citizen X - #6]

If i recall correctly, shreek bet somebody (i forget who; probably one of those we lost in the Glibbening) that ?Jeb! was going to be the Republican nominee for president, or would stay in the race longer than Cruz, or something like that. Loser was supposed to donate a sum to Reason. Shreek claimed to've paid up, but Welch confirmed several months later that no such donation was received.

[Dillinger]

not a good bet. gracias for the update.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Was it about Jeb? This whole time, I may have been confusing it with his stock market bet with Playa, the one where shreek's stock lost like 90% of its value.

[Citizen X - #6]

That was another one. He also tried to get some action going on gold becoming basically worthless, but i don't recall if anyone took him up on it.

[Mmmmmm]

It was the stock thing with Playa. He never made a bet on the election, despite many attempts to force his hand with juicy terms

[Dillinger]

yes, what was the bet and what kind of dummy makes a public bet and doesn't pay up?

[Citizen X - #6]

The kind of dummy that thinks calling himself "Palin's Buttplug" is a trenchant political statement.

[Dillinger]

one man's humor is another's ick...

[Dillinger]

is One America News Network newsworthy?

[Rhywun]

It's so newsworthy you're going to get sick of all the newsworthiness.

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