US Politics November 2017

Thread of Missing #Benghazi

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Oh I love it when they do the throwbacks.

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Sean Hannity breaking with Roy Moore: "For me, the judge has 24 hours. You must immediately and fully come up with a satisfactory explanation for your inconsistencies... You must remove any doubt. If you can't do this, then Judge Moore needs to get out of this race."

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 15, 2017

Someone tell me that The Hill has turned into a satire site: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/360346-limbaugh-moore-was-a-democrat-at-time-of-sexual-misconduct-allegations

The Hill has gone full Detective Friday in its dry coverage of our all-day-err-day WTF. I never used to keep them in an open tab, but I have done so for the last several months. It's like Gawker on Mars.

hey everybody it's time to stop talking about the Alabama mallcreeper and start talking about the shitshow that is the Senate tax bill / Obamacare backstab

I wonder who they are placating by allowing that ACA mandate repeal to bet tacked on? The fact that the House hasn't added it suggests that this was designed to be eliminated in conference committee, and since the House is usually the crazier body, it appears this was a favor by McConnell and Ryan to some senator(s) who felt it would help them for it to be there.

The big question is will the bill even get passed by the senate so it can get as far as conference committee. This is just weird stuff that's hard to read. Why would the three dissenting senators on the ACA replacement bills vote for this? (Hmmm. Do I smell a McCain about to pull a McCain on us?)

They're all going to vote for it

This clip pretty clearly lays out the logic behind the Republican tax plan

Does the #GOPTaxPlan treat corporations & individuals the same in terms of who gets to keep deductions & who doesn’t? Nope, not even close. pic.twitter.com/2h2iQzqXl0

— Rep. Suzan DelBene (@RepDelBene) November 6, 2017

wow

those questions (and answers) couldn't be any more on point

gilded age not gilded enough!

Jonah!

I was going to do this as a column for tomorrow, but since Shep beat me to the punch I’ll do it as a Corner post. Shep is right. The Uranium One story is crap.

Just for kicks, though, he has no problem with DOJ investigating Clinton.

While in the Philippines I was forced to watch @CNN, which I have not done in months, and again realized how bad, and FAKE, it is. Loser!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2017

https://notesfromachair.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/watching-a-lot-of-tv.jpg

Imagining Duterte strapping Trump into a chair and subjecting him to hours of CNN Ludovico style. 'Forced'. And what the fuck is that errant 'Loser!' about?! This person would be rightfully ignored as a senile lunatic in any other sphere.

Do you think the three UCLA Basketball Players will say thank you President Trump? They were headed for 10 years in jail!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2017

they should tell him to fuck off. what's he gonna do, send them back to chinese jail?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/14/1715575/-A-OK-in-Oklahoma-Democrats-flip-their-14th-special-election-from-red-to-blue-on-Tuesday

Tuesday’s flip was in Senate District 37, a seat just west of Tulsa that went 67-27 for Donald Trump in 2016 and 69-31 for Mitt Romney in 2012. Last fall, Democrats spent $200,000 to try to win this seat, only to lose to the GOP by 15 points. This time, Democrat Allison Ikley-Freeman, a therapist at a non-profit community mental health agency who campaigned on ending Oklahoma’s education crisis and expanding access to health care, won 50.3 to 49.7—performing 40 points better than the presidential results just a year ago to secure this victory.

Based on that video linked upthread, I’m going to have to give some coin to Rep. Suzan DelBene.

Do you think the three UCLA Basketball Players will say thank you President Trump?

why are Those Black People never sufficiently grateful

One might even call them... uppity

Democratic New Mexico State Auditor Tim Keller has wrestled control of New Mexico's largest city from the GOP to become Albuquerque's next mayor.

Unofficial results show Keller beating Republican Albuquerque City Councilor Dan Lewis with 62 percent of the vote compared to 38 percent on Tuesday.

Both were seeking to replace Republican Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry, who opted not to run for re-election after eight years.

Tbf, New Mexico was already bluer than I thought, with two dem senators, but the trend defined last Tuesday seems to be undeniable.

Quite a Drudge headline pic.twitter.com/vO9M2VANXw

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 15, 2017

drudge added a question mark to this headline since the tweet was posted

The vocabulary here is the definition of 'getting high off your own supply'

Moore from source close to Bannon:

“Mitch McConnell and his pack of liars have failed America and must step out of the way for new strong Republican leadership. The people of Alabama are too smart to be fooled by McConnell and his fake news locusts at swamp papers.” https://t.co/7AHOo48DOX

— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) November 15, 2017

Fake News Locusts a great band name.

Tbf, New Mexico was already bluer than I thought, with two dem senators, but the trend defined last Tuesday seems to be undeniable.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, November 15, 2017 10:13 AM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm still new to NM but i think it's a pretty liberal state in general, at least compared to all its neighbors

they have a GOP governor, but she's term limited--a very nice opportunity for the Dems to gain a governorship in 2018

🐦[Quite a Drudge headline pic.twitter.com/vO9M2VANXw🕸
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 15, 2017🕸]🐦

drudge added a question mark to this headline since the tweet was posted

"fake news locusts at swamp papers"!

sounds like a Frank Deck rant

This must be a rough time for those who aspire to the status of 'worst imaginable public figure', but god bless those who are truly giving it their all amid such intense competition.

it's the new golden age of worst imaginable public figures

xpost And I want to say the NM GOP Gov was mostly a reaction to former Gov Bill Richardson and his perceived (real?) corruption.

New Quinnipiac poll:

Only 25% approve of the GOP tax plan.

Only 16% (!) think the GOP plan will reduce their taxes.

61% say it will benefit the wealthy most; only 24% say it will help middle class the most. pic.twitter.com/EYofMxkiI5

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) November 15, 2017

great tax bill eveyrone, lets win in 2018.

this is a fucking suicide pact.

Supposedly a rising star on the conservative side:

Wes Goodman - former top staffer for Jim Jordan and Heritage - resigns from Ohio state house over "inappropriate behavior" https://t.co/SjBgBN4Lmt

— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) November 15, 2017

Someone’s not getting a 401(k) match this year... https://t.co/1n4Cu5os3x

— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) November 15, 2017

In unrelated news: Christian Bale is Cheney-ing along at a decent clip

christian bale looks like a chef in a food magazine talking abt how his love of cooking helped him kick his drug addiction pic.twitter.com/mkJwwRCfJO

— KRANG T. NELSON (@KrangTNelson) November 15, 2017

???? what thread is this

this is the "kingfish posts random shit" thread

unfunny krang tweets are policy now, i got it

Hey now, attempts at congealing a biopic form of Cheney is massively relevant in a year where no shortage of Dubya-Era scumfucks are being rehabilitated by panicky media scribes casting about for something

Ashcroft/Rumsfeld (re)evaluative pieces are a-comin’, just wait

are there any genuine attempts being made to rehabilitate those fucks? I haven't seen any.

There were a fair number of "at least Dubya had dignity" tweets/pieces

Particularly right after he came out "bravely" against white supremacy a few weeks back

yeah Dubya's been doing PR for himself over the past year, it's nakedly transparent

The stupid "GWB, amateur painter" profiles were more of a rehabilitation attempt than those tweets/pieces, most of which didn't put forward "I guess GWB wasn't as bad as we thought" but rather "holy shit, I didn't actually think it could be this much worse than GWB"

The best ‘grift’ this morning is having a guy named Weinstein criticize young people for wanting fewer hands in their pockets. Too good.

— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) November 15, 2017

Uh...huh.

In re #RoyMooreChildMolester It is not #McConnell vs #Bannon It is all up to @seanhannity If he says the judge stays, he stays. If he says judge is toast then wait for the smell of burning bread. Sean's 2d most powerful person in the country right now. Ask #Keurig & Watch tonight

— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) November 15, 2017