US Politics November 2017

nytimes not awake yet i guess

Please, someone tell us again that Pence wouldn't be any better than this human diarrhea spray.

A critical mass of reports to Twitter objecting to BF and Il Douché might rid one platform of the former.

Matt Lauer business gonna completely overshadow this in the US

Even Paul Joseph Wasteman is giving Trump the side-eye on this shit

that truly is incredible. when you've lost Mr. Infowars...

Like Salacious Crumb being offended by Jabba.

josh otm. a reverse 'atlas shrugged' might slap some sense into koch / fox nation, if not the kochs and murdoch gang themselves

tombot otm

"party of trump" forever. grind them to dust. they'll teach schoolkids about republicans some day. "what was that, daddy?" "bad people, sweetie"

I know this has been a hell morning (even moreso than others) but man some of y'all are dreaming in five dimensions

All three of those videos posted by Jayda Fransen and retweeted by Trump are moe than 6 months old. 2 are from 2013. pic.twitter.com/W1r62uKXs1

— Alastair Reid (@ajreid) November 29, 2017

The GOP has been sick since January 1981. Trump is the culmination. Never forget.

5-D dream chess

Mark my words—the bigoted films tweeted out by Trump today will be used as evidence of his discriminatory intent by the State’s Attorneys General challenging the travel ban. https://t.co/i4XvMtSKmY

The Dutch Boy one features an assailant who is both Dutch and not a Muslin. I was going to say "Notably..", but who the fuck even knows what matters anymore?

Good time to remind the US that the guy who assassinated a British member of parliament, female of course, last year shouted Britain First as he was murdering her.

yes i posted a tweet by her widower upthread

Once it's clear that Trump has predictably suffered no substantive backlash from this latest stunt, I'll be comfortable declaring that nothing matters anymore.

Shut down the government.

I'll declare it right now, there will be no backlash, nothing's mattered for 2 years now

just a complete pile of fucking shit he is, i really have no constructive words at all. it's so utterly depressing to see this shit every fucking day

I think I can pinpoint "check out sex tape!!" as the exact moment where I started to regret ever finding this man amusing because he clowned on Jeb Bush

hopelessness is useless and helps your enemies

OK, OL: Pence wouldn't be any better than this human diarrhea spray.

Think about the real-world consequences, not just the simian behavior

morbs OTM having Pence in there would give the GOP no excuses to get behind whatever shit the WH pushes

the only benefit to Pence (beyond propriety) would be a potential slight decrease in confidence among outspoken white supremacists, and even that's highly debatable

whoa did Trump just reference the dead intern story

So now that Matt Lauer is gone when will the Fake News practitioners at NBC be terminating the contract of Phil Griffin? And will they terminate low ratings Joe Scarborough based on the “unsolved mystery” that took place in Florida years ago? Investigate!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2017

Once it's clear that Trump has predictably suffered no substantive backlash from this latest stunt, I'll be comfortable declaring that nothing matters anymore.

wait until Moore wins a Senate seat

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Think about the real-world consequences, not just the simian behavior

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, November 29, 2017 8:12 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Counterpoint: Trump's simian behavior has real-world consequences beyond the legislative. Even if he never manages to accomplish anything of significance, imagine what effect four (or, hey, why not eight or more!) years of this behavior will have upon the country and the culture. We might very well have an explicit Nazi party by the time 2020 rolls around.

xp lmao he just fixed a typo

Someone literally murdered a woman last year while he shouted Britain First. So stop claiming this has no 'real world consequences'.

He should banned from entering the UK, he won't be as long as the Tories are in charge.

this is an even crazier than usual morning, I kinda wonder if Trump's reacting to something

Tumor pressing harder against his brain

And will they terminate low ratings Joe Scarborough based on the “unsolved mystery” that took place in Florida years ago?

ok this made me smile

re: Trump vs Pence or Ryan, it's a toss-up, do you want a fringe-loon-emboldening but largely ineffective administration or do you want a polite one that "respects the office" and implements virtually the same agenda with (we can imagine) relative precision and efficiency

That seems to way overestimate the precision and efficiency of Pence and Ryan...

Very possibly.

A summary of the latest Flynn findings.

i don't give a swift shit about weighing up the relative merits of pence and ryan, i want this piece of garbage gone

Gonna pass the Senate: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/29/senate-republicans-tax-plan-votes-267923?lo=ap_c1

Trump's simian behavior has real-world consequences beyond the legislative

Sure. So in balancing the different nightmares, it's likely they come out somewhere near equivalent.

(unless we get nuked next week)

Morbs…otm?

lol the tax plan was never in doubt

I'll declare it right now, there will be no backlash, nothing's mattered for 2 years now

― frogbs, Wednesday, November 29, 2017 9:04 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup

And see, that is almost the purest distillation of what I fear will happen the longer he's allowed to occupy the big boy seat. How long will it take for people in general to start behaving in kind? If the president can just do and say whatever without ever suffering any consequences, why don't I give that a try?

What fucking incentive do we have to aspire to any higher ground when the POS running the country demonstrably gives zero shits about anything or anyone but himself?

it happens; a recent president normalized drone wars and on-demand surveillance

xp

I don't really get why anyone pays attention to Trump's tweets tbh, he's just trolling the opposition/riling up his fanbase. outside of the legal ramifications (which are all, generally speaking bad for him) seems like the wiser course of action is to ignore them.