US Politics November 2017

All these choads who think they're not going to get fucked over by trump and then end up getting fucked over by trump are like the president in the 70s battlestar galactica pilot when he realises the cylons have slaughtered the humans at the peace rallies and baltar is now suspiciously nowhere to be found

apologies if my analogy is a little obscure

Trump is not as smart as Baltar

Those facts versus Adelson, Koch and Ricketts ads. Saw one during the World Series

“What’s in it for you?” asks a new ad, reportedly backed by $10 million, from the “45 Committee,” founded by Adelson and Ricketts. Axios, in a report “presented by Koch Industries,” says the 45 Committee will spend “at least $10 million” on the ad. “The Republican tax cut saves middle class families more than $1,200 a year, according to independent analysis. The first $24,000 of your income would be tax free,” the announcer says, over images of a factory floor. “It will simplify your taxes and close loopholes so everybody pays their fair share. More money in your pocket. A stronger economy. That’s what’s in it for you.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/whats-in-it-for-johnny-lunchbucket/2017/11/03/d867a758-c08e-11e7-8444-a0d4f04b89eb_story.html?utm_term=.a665ba47d88f

fully expect dueling ads about this, Dems will need to be mobilized to call their Reps/Senators just like w healthcare

How about: it's mighty rich how all of these people who've been baffling proponents of getting hit in the nuts with a spiked bat are aghast at the realization of how much it sucks once their own nuts are on the dresser. BLAOW.

$1200 savings, why that's enough to buy a car, or a family vacation

it's mighty rich

appropriate analogy

Trump is not as smart as Baltar

― Οὖτις

this seriously gives me comfort

imo emo philips should play page in the movie

Was reminded this morning that there is another debt ceiling debate imminent in December, when they are also working on taxes, DACA (supposedly) and god knows whatever other messes they have to clean up. Person basically said the Dems should hold out for pie in the sky, everything from a DACA fix to funding the ACA to not defunding Planned Parenthood and definitely not funding a fucking border wall. The GOP can't keep the government open without Dem votes, yet this is the rare shutdown debate that will take place with both a GOP congress and a GOP White House, so if it goes belly up and the government seems like it will shut down, the Dems can just say "go fuck yourself, you're the majority government, why don't you govern? But if you need our help it's going to cost you."

that strategy is definitely likely, Pelosi is good at holding her caucus together and relishes twisting the knife on Ryan

Brady's bill pummeled by Club For Growth for not cutting taxes for the rich *enough*

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/conservatives-demand-changes-to-house-gop-tax-bill/2017/11/07/e70046a4-c3cb-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_taxreform-340pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.3fd6100189b8

Club For Growth would probably consider a fully regressive income tax, with zero tax on income above $1 million, rising to 40% on income up to $50,000/year, to be a bold experiment in unleashing the power of capitalism to expand the economy through reinvestment and wealth creation.

True conservatives will always be disappointed that the trauma they inflict upon the poor is insufficiently cruel.

facebook reminded me of something i posted on this in 2013:

The dual process of cutting both taxes and social programs involved, however, a striking difference in the assumptions of the motivations governing the behavior of the affluent and of the poor. For those in the upper brackets, and for those managing corporate decision-making processes, the underlying assumption of the tax cuts was that the creation of new tax incentives would encourage more work, more investment, and more savings, that the best way to achieve sought-after behavior is to reward it, in this case with lowered tax rates on corporations, savings, executive stock options, and estates. At the bottom of the scale, the dominant assumption behind social program cuts was precisely the opposite: the best way to achieve increased work is by making life tougher.
– Thomas Byrne Edsall
The New Politics of Inequality (1984)

Some thoughts:

1) I find it funny whenever Trump meets with people (or countries) he's bad-mouthed and turns into a total pussy.
2) Wouldn't it be great if master tweeter Trump totally falters and fails with his new expanded word count?
3) At the Menendez trial in NJ, apparently a juror asked the judge what a Senator is.

...and that juror's name...
Donald J. Trump...
and now you know
the rest of the story
Good Day

Trump meets with people (or countries) he's bad-mouthed and turns into a total pussy.

He has two default positions. He's either all negativity and threats, or else all compliments and flattery. He alternates these approaches at whim, which he views as the very foundation of his superb negotiating skills.

He alternates these approaches at whim, which he views as the very foundation of his superb negotiating skills.

No, he's a giant pussy who retreats every time he comes face-to-face with someone he's shit-talked, which he and his sycophantic cultists then retcon into "superb negotiating skills."

he's a rich fuck asshole who's dragged us all back to high school to gawk at the new car his parents bought him for his 16th birthday (he did nothing to deserve). that's how mature we are as a "meritocratic" country at the moment and have been for some time

US Attorney has dismissed the case against the woman who laughed during AG Sessions' confirmation hearing, @LauraAJarrett reports.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 7, 2017

anyone else wasting their evening watching the results come in?

bye, fucker: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/07/lobiondo-retire-congress-244647

Syria signs Paris Accords, US is now the only holdout way to go Two Scoops, may your bloated corpse be used as a raft by climate refugees

nyt currently estimating dems win va by 4-5%

What, already?

"nyt currently estimating dems win va by 4-5%"

which race? gillespe is up from what I just saw.

NoVA isn’t in yet

they model per-precinct based on previous elections and extrapolate from there

https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/virginia-governor-election-gillespie-northam

Projection: Ralph Northam (D) has been elected next governor of VA, defeating Ed Gillespie (R). #VAGOV

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2017

the GOP candidate usually dominates in southern Virginia in early raw votes, I remember reading a few years ago.

apparently turnout in trump country is low

In Bannon's view, Deplorables turned out, owing to statues + immigration. Trump voters did their job. Suburbs are GOP establishment's problem. #VAGovRace

— Robert Draper (@DraperRobert) November 8, 2017

(huge sigh of relief)

whats funny is all the pundits warning 'well governor's races aren't easily bellweathers for the next national election' when shit was getting super close will be forgotten with the dems win and everyones going to be saying this is predictive of the future.

Steve Kornacki just announced that Gillespie is getting buried in north Virginia, "worse than Donald Trump" last year.

That’s uh....really early to be calling this

Landslide would be amazing though, considering Northampton is basically a wet noodle

a trans candidate and a socialist also got elected to the house of delegates

i'm all about stomping these clowns in the neck tbrr xp

Seeing rumblings that DeVos may be on her way out at DOE.

https://i.imgur.com/TxIt2Rz.png

it's amazing how much we've accomplished just by changing the thread title

Bye, fucker https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/07/ted-poe-texas-congress-2018-244668

xpost why would that asshole even want to be at DoE? she's a billionaire, and it must be hell on Earth for her. see also: Trump.

"These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power.

"In vain they seek to hide behind the Flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the Flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

is it unusual for so many departures like this? will they be replaced by real nuts?

No idea how people are reading my DeVos profile and concluding that she's soon to resign. Did they miss this part? https://t.co/IhoXdcG2n5 pic.twitter.com/QrTbpUGpQ6

— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) November 7, 2017

in texas, yes xp

If turnout sucks in 2018, yes.

xpost