US Politics November 2017

Stephen Miller and Hope Hicks, jesus that's a terrifying pair.

Congratulations to our "president" and the impending MASSIVE head trauma he'll suffer when he finally falls face-first onto that running table saw like I've been praying he would for the past year!

Why does Stephen Miller look like he's 54?

Wow, he's really going with "Yeah? Well, a year ago, we won, so fuck you!" Pathetic.

http://victory-bible-studies.com/images/no-shame-only-power_004.png

love that he is forced to qualify it as an electoral college victory, tho.

(Plenty of hard-luck immigrant stories out there, but I am not aware of Italians being bought and sold in the public square. Just sayin.)

http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/the-forgotten-white-slaves-part-ii-nehesy/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude_in_the_Americas

(still not the same, but worth noting)

we were talking about "whiteness", not who was or was not a literal slave (these are related - duh - but not the same thing)

i've never seen so many bad thumbs-ups in one place, it's like watching moe szyslak try to smile.

― omar little, Wednesday, November 8, 2017 12:27 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I wonder if that one was the seventh take or the 12th take.

Why does Stephen Miller look like he's 54?

― Bernard Crunderdunder (Old Lunch), Wednesday, November 8, 2017

smoking in Russian planes

I like how the cover of that book looks like a guy preparing to be consumed by the fire from a nuclear explosion.

xposts

trump is celebrating his electoral college victory today? wtf is that?

"whiteness" has always been some nasty evil divide-and-conquer shit, and it works like a fucking charm.

wtf is that?

greatest hits album

maybe Trump was in a furious rage over last night's results and was about to order a nukin' and cooler heads distracted him with "hey happy anniversary!" and they stuck a camera in his face and he forgot about WW3.

https://www.thenation.com/article/our-revolution-candidates-won-big-last-night/

To go with those youth turnout tables posted upthread.

Trump seems very not mad right now

'whiteness' is a major topic of discussion in my house w/r/t middle easterners and jewish people. my wife is armenian, and we have a lot of persian friends as well. there are people in those communities who claim whiteness. likewise, many jewish people claim whiteness. the thing about whiteness is it's something that in conferred upon; and can be taken away.

that IS conferred upon. I'm a lousy typist these days

The photo of the Trump head cake in the Esquire election-night '16 piece is quite nightmarish.

Good exit line by Gary Johnson tho.

I could barely make it through that piece, it felt like PTSD coming on

my most vivid memory immediately after the election was going to the Mexican store to pick a few things up and feeling the clientele just staring daggers through me in a way I'd never experienced before. I almost wanted to say, "no, no, I'm one of the good ones!"

For a little more buzzkill, I'm not sure I've ever even heard of this "Article V convention of the states to propose amendments to the federal Constitution" shit:

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a13451178/wisconsin-constitutional-convention-vote/

It would hasten the End, though.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/960x540/p03vxshb.jpg

We need to poll America's worst governors:

In a statement Wednesday morning, LePage said he would not allow expansion to go into effect until the program “has been fully funded by the Legislature at the levels DHHS has calculated.”

But Mainers for Health Care, the organization behind the campaign to expand Medicaid, said despite LePage’s bluster, he can’t stop the expansion train without violating state law.

“Under the state constitution, 45 days after the legislature reconvenes, Medicaid expansion will become the law of the state,” the group’s spokesman David Farmer told TPM. “According to the statute, the Department of Health and Human Services has 90 days after that to submit an implementation plan to the federal government, and the implementation itself will take place in mid-August of 2018.”

“If the governor isn’t willing to follow the law,” he added, “we will take it to the courts if necessary.”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/lepage-threatens-to-block-medicaid-expansion-after-decisive-statewide-vote

Evidently Putin was off his game yesterday.

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) November 8, 2017

More Cuba restrictions.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Predictably, the Trump quote from a speech last June: "“our policy will seek a much better deal for the Cuban people and for the United States of America."

This man and his fucking deals. We had a deal, bozo. You just broke it.

We...we don’t have that many players.

— Mariners (@Mariners) November 8, 2017

In response to:

BREAKING: 80,000 Mariners will get Medicaid coverage.

The people overturned LePage's veto.

— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) November 8, 2017

Trump seems very not mad right now

I LOLed, Evan

https://www.ft.com/content/149b22dc-c494-11e7-a1d2-6786f39ef675

AT&T has been told by the US Department of Justice that it needs to sell CNN, Time Warner’s cable news channel, to get its $84.5bn acquisition of the media company approved, according to three people with direct knowledge of the negotiations.

The sale of CNN, which President Donald Trump has fiercely criticised as a broadcaster of “fake news”, is just one of the demands being made by the US antitrust authority in order to sign off on the deal, those involved in the talks said. But it could prove a stumbling block.

AT&T is opposed to selling the TV network and is preparing to take the Trump administration to court, arguing the deal with Time Warner does not pose any competition violations.

“It’s all about CNN,” said one person with direct knowledge of the talks between the company and the DOJ, adding that the regulator made it clear to AT&T that if it sold CNN the deal would go through.

thoughts and prayers going out to morbz on this day

btw I had to google "Bo Dietl" cuz I was like who is this dipshit then I was like the fuckin paisano dude from the ARBY'S commercials??? what a country

have no idea what Citroen and uppmiss are on about... anyhoo

i've never seen any Bo Arby's ads, one of the blessings of becoming too poor for TV.

I love that even the electoral college result that Trump has to reach for as a "landslide" is actually the 13th closest EC result of the 58 elections held so far. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_Electoral_College_margin

GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch says election losses could complicate tax reform
Hatch and other Republican leaders seeking to overhaul the tax code face head winds from a new $74 billion hole in their plan and political fallout from state and local election losses on Nov. 7.

And this was before the just released CBO score that says the tax plan blows a $1.7 trillion hole in the deficit.

deficits don't matter anymore !

they do when you're trying to pass bills through reconciliation

lol at the washington post right now

"Fresh evidence that the ground is shifting beneath the GOP
The Republican message of low taxes and common-sense governance wasn’t enough. Will that hold true in 2018?"

is ... that the republican message?

also "racism"

"Is the tape recorder on? Okay, now tell him what the 'NFL' stands for..."

This is 100% Scavino tweet, not Trump himself: Trump never uses the final outcome, 304 EVs, instead of the 306 EVs he earned in the voting. pic.twitter.com/xSHCdPHiFo

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 8, 2017

twitterology

Worthwhile thread from Scott Benson of “Night in the Woods”

oh no it's a year after all the Trump Country stories and now we're gonna get all the One Year Later In Trump Country stories

— Dismember November (@bombsfall) November 8, 2017

Issa now a "no" on House tax bill lol i wonder why

Issa no

Heard on the radio some pundit opine that if the tax bill passes as is, the GOP would be virtually decimated in any state with high property taxes. NY, NJ, CA ...