All I Want for Christmas Is You is a song by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey from her fourth studio album, Merry Christmas. It was released as the lead single from the album on November 1, 1994 by Columbia Records. The song was written by Carey and Walter Afanasieff, the latter co-arranging and producing the song as well. As an up-tempo love song, it also incorporates pop music and traditional beats. The song’s lyrics describe an event in which the protagonist declares that she does not care about Christmas presents or lights; all she wants for Christmas is to be with her lover.
They were made for each other.
https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/936596908663066624
Crooks.
https://twitter.com/BillMoyers/status/936715782939185153
Well, I just called my Republican senators, again. Except this time I was really mad.
Do y’all remember this baby?
The absolute recklessness is beyond comprehension.
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/936681768987582466
https://twitter.com/nytpolitics/status/936680075025616897
https://twitter.com/MeritLaw/status/936702596928147457
99/ This, then, is the key *political*—rather than legal—debate of our moment and perhaps our time: conservatives trying to squeeze as much political value as possible out of a presidency that will end in not just disgrace but public acceptance as the worst America has ever seen.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 1, 2017
Senate Republicans just voted down my amendment to make the modest middle-class tax cuts permanent, instead of a tax increase in a few years. Proof that this GOP tax bill was never about helping the middle class.
— Bill Nelson (@SenBillNelson) December 1, 2017
This is so bad. We have just gotten list of amendments to be included in bill NOT from our R colleagues, but from lobbyists downtown. None of us have seen this list, but lobbyists have it. Need I say more? Disgusting. And we probably will not even be given time to read them. pic.twitter.com/Mn0i56JeZg
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) December 1, 2017
BWA HA HA HA HA HA H HA
John Harwood @JohnJHarwood
1/24: Flynn lies to FBI about interactions w/Russian govt
1/26: Yates warns WH Flynn compromised
1/27: Trump asks Comey for loyalty
1/30: Trump fires Yates
2/13: Flynn resigns after WashPost reports Yates warned of blackmail risk
2/14: Trump asks Comey to drop Flynn probe
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From BJ:
Question is…who are all these people that Flynn just snitched on?
Check this out. Dogs can be so awesome…
https://twitter.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/934296962437746688
If that were me, that dog would be going home with me. I’d claim him.
LOL Loves it. Don’t start none, won’t be none.
The usual Trump World tactic won’t work with Michael Flynn
12/01/17 12:48 PM—UPDATED 12/01/17 01:14 PM
By Steve Benen
Whenever the Trump-Russia scandal ensnares another member of Team Trump, the president’s team has a standard tactic it relies on instinctively: pretend not to know the guy in trouble.
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Cobb also described Flynn as someone who worked with the president for just “25 days.”
Let’s make this plain: there’s no such thing as a low-level White House National Security Advisor.
Donald Trump considered Michael Flynn as his running mate. Trump repeatedly and publicly praised Flynn last year. Trump put Flynn in a position to guide the White House’s policy on matters related to national security.
Trying to characterize Flynn as a peripheral figure, far from the president’s orbit, may be the fist play in the Trump World playbook, but in this case, it’s plainly ridiculous.
Michael Flynn’s plea agreement: https://t.co/TKsi4HYC3s
“your client’s cooperation may include…answering questions; providing sworn written statements; taking government-administered polygraph examination(s); and participating in covert law enforcement activities.” pic.twitter.com/Zsm8dOP71P
— erica orden (@eorden) December 1, 2017
Does this mean he was WEARING A WIRE IN TALKING WITH DOLT45?
Where’s tiny hands #45? Is he waiting for the GOP vote on that tax scam bill, before he throws out the next shiny object in 140 characters?
LOL
Michael Flynn, the architect of “lock her up”, is now a convicted criminal and Bob Mueller’s bitch. pic.twitter.com/Wj31OEY7Dj
— BWD 🤢 (@IrisRimon) December 1, 2017
“Among the transition officials who met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago [12/29] were Stephen Miller, K.T. McFarland, Kellyanne Conway, Steve Bannon, and Reince Priebus, a Trump spokesman said at the time.” https://t.co/MQKQH3pQnT
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) December 1, 2017
Are Trump’s hands shaking too much to tweet today?
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) December 1, 2017
Dear Jared,
Do you hear the bus? It’s coming for you.
Bloomberg reporting that Kushner is the the one who ordered Flynn to contact Russia:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-01/kushner-is-said-to-have-ordered-flynn-to-contact-russia
LOL
TEE HEE HEE
JARED KUSHNER STILL DOESN’T HAVE WHITE HOUSE SECURITY CLEARANCE AFTER TEN MONTHS
BY GRAHAM LANKTREE ON 11/17/17 AT 4:26 AM
http://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-still-doesnt-have-white-house-security-clearance-after-ten-714505
And now we know WHY
What Does Flynn Plea Deal Mean?
By Kate Brannen, Asha Rangappa and Alex Whiting
Friday, December 1, 2017 at 10:56 AM
https://www.justsecurity.org/47552/flynn-plea-deal-mean/
We’ll see
6/ Deals like this are offered *only* when a witness can incriminate someone “higher up the food-chain” than them. In the case of the nation’s former National Security Advisor, the *only* people above him in the executive-branch hierarchy are the President and the Vice President.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 1, 2017
Thanks to John Oliver of Last Week Tonight for creating the domain shortcut to make your voice heard by FCC on net neutrality.
Go to: https://t.co/0eYs0wdNq1
Goes straight to the comment form.
I just did. Doubtless my best use of 2 minutes of this day.
— Ignatius J. Reilly (@jaguar06_rick) November 24, 2017
It keeps getting worse. Johnson is reportedly trying to negotiate his and Trump’s tax rate down from 30.8% to 28.9% (by expanding the deduction from 20% to 25%).
That would be another $22,000 annual tax cut for Johnson & another $3 million for Trump. (again, this is rough)
14/
— Seth Hanlon (@SethHanlon) November 30, 2017
In case you were wondering what’s next:
Rep. Jeb Hensarling is very clear in this interview with @kevcirilli … if tax cuts don’t pay for themselves, the next step is spending cuts, including “entitlement reform.”https://t.co/DfYEsUHbJE
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) December 1, 2017
Straight UP ROBBERY of our hard-earned money.
OMG, this is too funny. If it were not for the tax bill, I would be having such a good day.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/936640835784970240
GTFOH all the way OUTTA HERE. Obama & Sally warned the orange POS #45 to stay away from Flynn.
You own him, MOFOS.
All Trump can do is lie. He will set a world record for lies told by one person. No one will even come close.
The corruption is glaring.
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/936635911764369408
McConnell said he’s got the votes now to pass the bill. The “holdouts” have all fallen into lockstep.
From Silverman at BJ:
That’s good. History just can’t stop repeating itself.
Day just keeps on getting better
#BREAKING the government wants Martin Shkreli to hand over the Wu Tang album in forfeiture (!!!) pic.twitter.com/bOzWjlLeOx— David Mack (@davidmackau) December 1, 2017
GOP tax-scamming bill?
My TED Talk is Live on TED.com! Awesomely LuvvLetter Issue #39
GET COMFORTABLE WITH BEING COMFORTABLE
https://www.ted.com/talks/luvvie_ajayi_get_comfortable_with_being_uncomfortable
Mrs. Flynn told that muthaphucka that HER SON wasn’t going to jail for Dolt45, so his azz better start singing arias to Bobby Three Sticks.
BWA HA HA HA HA H HA HA HA HA HA
You betcha. You know this is about sonny boy. If it were just about the old man she’d probably be okay with it.
“AS A CANDIDATE” https://t.co/dIERfYD7uz
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) December 1, 2017
Just now: @BrianRoss on @ABC News Special Report: Flynn promised full cooperation to the Mueller team and is prepared to testify that candidate Trump “directed him to make contact with the Russians.” https://t.co/E0tA37GOo0 pic.twitter.com/PmNEO7eekt
— Dan Linden (@DanLinden) December 1, 2017
Someone pointed this out at another blog about Flynn:
Exactly right. It’s ONE CHARGE. He plead down to one charge. Imagine what he must have given Mueller to get that….
Oh, the arias…….
BWA HAHA HA HA H AH HA HAH A
KARMA’S a BITCH ain’t it Laurer?
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAH A\\\Sources with direct knowledge tell ABC News the President & his legal team learned about the Flynn plea via news reports this morning.
— Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) December 1, 2017
Flynn is the fourth member of Trump’s campaign to be charged with a crime. He’s the first who led a “lock her up” chant at the Republican convention.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 1, 2017
The General Information on how to call and text Congress:
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Kim Jong Un Fears That G.O.P. Tax Bill Makes His Plan to Destroy U.S. Redundant
By Andy Borowitz10:55 A.M.
PYONGYANG (The Borowitz Report)—Kim Jong Un is concerned that his long-standing plan to destroy the United States has been made totally irrelevant by the Republican tax bill moving through the Senate, a source close to the North Korean dictator said on Friday.
The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that Kim fears that his scheme to turn the United States into an uninhabitable hellhole has been to a large extent upstaged by a similar proposal from congressional Republicans.
“You have to understand, destroying America is something that Kim and his family have been plotting for decades,” the source said. “To see the Republicans swoop in at the last second and basically steal that idea—it’s got to hurt.”
According to the source, Kim has been watching C-span non-stop, praying that the Republicans’ plan to end life as Americans know it might come undone at the last moment, but he is “not getting his hopes up.”
“After having such a wonderful missile test, he should be on top of the world this week,” the source said. “Instead, he’s afraid that all his hard work has been for nothing. He now understands why so many Americans despise the Republicans.”
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/kim-jong-un-fears-that-gop-tax-bill-makes-his-plan-to-destroy-us-redundant
HA HA HA HA HA
Trump faces new obstruction allegations in Russia scandal
12/01/17 08:00 AM
By Steve Benen
For months, the nation has faced the very real possibility that Donald Trump obstructed justice in the federal investigation into the Russia scandal. Indeed, Special Counsel Robert Mueller already appears to be examining allegations that the president allegedly pressured the director of the FBI in the matter, and then fired him in order to help derail the probe.
But as Rachel explained on last night’s show, those allegations grew louder with this New York Times report.
https://www.facebook.com/uniladmag/videos/3781217948567903/?hc_ref=ARRsTlWyeFyEaZFieZNMoqifhAd2GX_YyCyxcvAj3W9D0RAPWc7Jl-yapDmQbEH-WbQ
He’s Back! Why Santa Larry Jefferson’s Return To Mall Of America Is Important
Last year, Jefferson was the mall’s first black Santa.
https://blavity.com/hes-back-why-santa-larry-jeffersons-return-to-mall-of-america-is-important?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Blavity%20Daily%20Newsletter%20120117&utm_content=Blavity%20Daily%20Newsletter%20120117+CID_ce3b77ecbb476405e85ca1dc74e5e461&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor&utm_term=Santa%20Larry%20Jeffersons%20return
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/30/17
Trump obstruction eyed in Sessions avoidance of pressure question
Rep. Jim Himes of the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about new Trump obstruction questions after Jeff Sessions refused to tell Rep. Schiff in testimony before the committee whether Donald Trump pushed him to hinder the Russia investigation.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/30/17
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin fails to deliver promised tax report
Rachel Maddow shows Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s repeated claims that he had a hundred experts working on an assessment of the Republican tax bill, only to deliver nothing in time for the vote because reportedly there is nothing to deliver, no report was done.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/30/17
Wray surprises with mention of ‘foreign influence’ task force
Rachel Maddow reports on the latest developments in the investigation into Russia’s attack on the 2016 U.S. election, including FBI Director Wray announcing a previously unheard of task force to counter foreign influence in elections.
Remember: This is the conversation about which Michael Flynn also supposedly lied to Vice President Mike Pence, which was then used as justification to fire Flynn. This could be Mueller’s in-road to Pence. https://t.co/vTosOmHCSe
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) December 1, 2017
Pence is in trouble. 🙂 https://t.co/QIGGAGig0m
— Richard Brown (@Richard___Brown) December 1, 2017
I’ve told you…Race Bannon is up to his eyeballs in the Pence mess.
Special Counsel Mueller takes lying and obstruction very seriously. Very.
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) December 1, 2017
BREAKING: Word is the tax bill is facing major obstacles this morning. Votes may be lost.
Pour it on.
Will tweet in a bit if interested.
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) December 1, 2017
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/30/17
Trump pushed top GOP senators to end Russia probe: NYT
Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump’s potential legal jeopardy for obstruction of justice in light of new breaking news from the New York Times that Trump pressured senators over the summer to end the probe.
Hear me out
UNSC 2334…
This was the one where Obama abstained and people went crazy. Trump was pissed. Russia voted for it.
So looks like Trump told Flynn to tell Russia to do this. Which would be beautiful https://t.co/mknEXRNnh0
— Morgan Carlston (@MorganCarlston) December 1, 2017
Breaking — Special Counsel Robert Mueller has charged former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn with “willfully and knowingly” making “false, fictitious and fraudulent statements” to the FBI regarding conversations with Russia’s ambassador.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 1, 2017
FLASH: MICHAEL FLYNN TO PLEAD GUILTY TODAY IN MUELLER CASE, OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL SAYS.
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) December 1, 2017
The NYT Reports last night of calls Dolt45 made to several Senators, including Burr – head of the Intelligence Committee- to get the Russia investigation ended. When the calls to Burr didn’t close it, he began calling other Senators to get them to call.
Now, others have pointed out what would have happened if 44 had called Senators to ask to STOP the investigation.
Last night, it was pointed out the Curve for Unqualified White Men Excuse:
A “newcomer unfamiliar with appropriate conduct” is how GOP leaders describe Trump’s attempts to obstruct justice last summer. Do you know how many black/brown men, and how many poor people, have not been afforded that excuse for similar conduct?
But, now that they are near the end to getting those tax cuts?
They are greasing the skids to rid themselves of Dolt45. Someone had to tell the papers about the phone calls. They are adding to his obstruction charges. Don’t think that it’s a coincidence that this is revealed during the time of their GOP TAX SCAM. I think not.
I’ve said it for awhile…
He was too phucking stupid to realize just how much the GOP Congress WAS covering for him.
And, when they decided to STOP covering for him, things would get ugly AND FAST.
Someone at BJ pointed out:
They all let their names go on the record, which for Washington is like shooting at somebody. This indicates to me that they are signaling both to Trump and Mueller that “we will have no part of obstruction of justice so to protect ourselves we’ll repeat everything the President says to us one-on-one. No indictments, please!”
Slime bags. Every last one of them.
It’s on an poppin’ now!!!!
Awe Sookey Sookey Now….
Go Bobby Three Sticks!
From Twitter: “BREAKING FROM SPECIAL COUNSEL: The court has scheduled a plea hearing for Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn (Ret.), 58, of Alexandria, Va., at 10:30 a.m.”
https://twitter.com/shomaristone/status/936602806533967872
Breaking News: Michael Flynn to plead guilty for making false statements to the FBI.
He better have the goods.
We need more reporting on this…
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/936429904656179200
Rubio: Offset Tax Cuts By Reducing Social Security, Medicare Benefits
NOVEMBER 29, 2017 • TRACEY LONGO
Tax reform is only one piece of the overall puzzle needed to revitalize the American economy, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told a group of Washington, D.C., lobbyists and policy analysts this morning at a Politico Playbook Interview sponsored by the Financial Services Roundtable. The other part? Reduce the deficit and offset the cost of the reform, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates at $1.3 trillion.
“I analyze this very differently than most,” Rubio told the crowd. “Many argue that you can’t cut taxes because it will drive up the deficit. But we have to do two things. We have to generate economic growth which generates revenue, while reducing spending. That will mean instituting structural changes to Social Security and Medicare for the future,” the senator said.
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If lawmakers can act strategically sooner rather than later to come up with some combination of reforms to reduce benefits and raise retirement age, the pain of change and reduced benefits will be greatly mitigated, said the lawmaker who ran for president in 2016 and is once again sounding presidential.
“We don’t need to reduce benefits on current retirees or even near-term retirees, but we can make changes for future generations such as mine, and do so in a way that people can prepare for, so the changes will barely be felt,” Rubio said.
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https://www.fa-mag.com/news/rubio–offset-tax-cuts-by-reducing-social-security–medicare-benefits-35928.html
Here’s how they can start gutting Medicare
Senate Tax Bill Would Trigger Medicare Cuts
by Dena Bunis, AARP, November 28, 2017
If you read through the umpteen pages of the Senate tax bill, you won’t find a clause that says it dramatically cuts Medicare spending. But the effect of the legislation being debated this week would be to slash up to $25 billion from the health program in 2018 and possibly more in the future.
That’s because the tax measure would prompt the “pay-as-you-go” law, commonly referred to as PAYGO. The law was designed to keep the deficit in check by requiring the administration to institute spending cuts in many mandatory federal programs if Congress passes any measure that increases the deficit but doesn’t include offsetting revenues.
The Senate tax proposal would add $1.5 trillion to the federal deficit over the next 10 years. Under PAYGO, if this bill were to become law, the government would have to lop off $150 billion in spending every year for 10 years.
Medicaid, Social Security, food stamps and other social safety net programs are exempt from the PAYGO law, which went into effect in 2010. But Medicare and other programs — such as federal student loans, agricultural subsidies and the operations of the Customs and Border Patrol — are not exempt.
The law caps how much the government can trim from Medicare at 4 percent. That’s $25 billion the first year…
The $25 billion reduction would affect the payments that doctors, hospitals and other health care providers receive for treating Medicare patients. Individual benefits would not change and neither would premiums, deductibles or copays. But with so much less money going to providers, the cuts could have major impacts on patient access to health care — such as fewer physicians accepting Medicare patients.
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Congress has the authority to waive the PAYGO law and forestall such cuts. But it is not yet clear whether lawmakers would do so. And waiving the rules would simply cause higher deficits in later years.
https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/advocacy/info-2017/senate-tax-medicare-cuts-fd.html
When I say we need more reporting, I am referring to MSM, like MSNBC and CNN. They are talking about sexual harassment while the social safety net is on the block to be decimated, directly and indirectly.
Yes, and remember #45, the pussy-grabbing POS got elected to the highest office in the land, and the MSM moved on from it with a quickness.
And they still won’t talk about Trump’s sexual predatory problem, just everyone else’s especially Democrats and liberals.
Good Morning! Wishing all of you a great day!
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Howdy, yahtzee. Loving the holly.
Good morning, ladies!
Good morning, Vitamin. Hope your day is wonderful. I hope you don’t have too many packages to deliver.
Howdy, vitaminlover!
It’s that time of the year. SG2 spoils us with the best Christmas music 😄😄😄
Yes, she does! And, I love it!
Christmas!!!
All right now! SG2’s bringing us the Christmas holiday cheer, for real, SNOW & ALL.
I.LOVE.IT. December’s my favorite time of year on 3Chics. Thank you, SG2.
Christmas is coming…..
UH HUH UH HUH, in my best rikyrah voice. LOL
I thought SG2 was starting early and then realized today is December 1. So 2017 is almost over.
Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄