US Politics December 2018: ~very legal and very cool~

i know we have google and all but its more fun to ask here and get more creative answers please what is the malaise speech

In 1979 Carter convened a meeting of elites (writers, thinkers, economists) on a mountain, came down off it (really, the jokes write themselves if you're George Will), and deliverd a televised address in which he said we faced a "crisis of confidence" stemming from a decade of assassinations, the Vietnam War, Watergate, and so on. To this day I don't know what the hell was wrong with it other than that Carter is a zero as a public speaker (I remember him balling his fists at one point; he looked like Mark Hamil acting tough).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tGd_9Tahzw

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jimmycartercrisisofconfidence.htm

What went wrong was that Carter didn't say "USA #1." xp

The whole thing (33 minutes!) is here:

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/july-15-1979-crisis-confidence-speech

I've tried to imagine JFK's 'ask not...' bit being delivered today without the utterer getting pelted with tomatoes, can't do it.

that 'malaise' speech was super popular at the time, but when Carter started firing cabinet members a few weeks later the press marked it as the beginning of the crisis of his presidency

there's a good relentless picnic episode about carter and what his whole deal was

https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/bn1a9jq9g0qlldcnggvpea.png

our crisis of confidence....
*balls up fists*
must be transformed into patriotic righteousness https://i.imgur.com/c9yRzgC.jpg?1

I might be interested in a serious biography of Carter. Is there a good one?

One published this year.

This one.

the nascent conservative outrage machine really did a number turning it into the equivalent of 'Dems just hating America i guess'

that's not a bad book Al but it's hard to call it a "serious biography" given that it was written by one of his high level staffers. It's a decent read tho.

I had no idea he was an undersecretary of commerce or whatever. You read it then?

guess Manafort got let out

Moments after a a Pennsylvania man was released from custody, police say he stole a car in the jail's parking lot. https://t.co/sKiHhDfADu #odd

— AP Oddities (@AP_Oddities) December 5, 2018

Yeah read it out of curiosity, a friend of mine in the hood gave it to me.

(hood = neighborhood)

If i had done 1/10th of what she did .....
& he's not getting time?

Cheerleader for jailtime for non-criminals not getting time seems a little unjust surely?

don't let us down, Philly

Politico reports:

President Donald Trump will attend the Army-Navy football game Saturday in Philadelphia, the White House told reporters on Wednesday.

Trump attended the game between the two military academies in 2016 as president-elect. He tweeted in 2017 that he would watch the game remotely, thanking the two branches for their service. President Barack Obama attended the game in 2011.

Sitting presidents have routinely made appearances at the games, and they traditionally switch sides of the field at halftime.

as long as hillary is free, all of us are in chains. Xp

psyched to see trump get pelted with batteries tbh

He should parachute in!

Just like he trained for in Vietohwait.

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.amz.mshcdn.com%2Fw1Ihe3Wef7CJxbYqjnfu0Dg7Wmo%3D%2Ffit-in%2F1200x9600%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fuploads%252Fcard%252Fimage%252F429620%252Fc7e9fa99-ad33-4948-8bd6-d2c7168c9fac.jpg&f=1

i bet one of the only things trump is good at is farting

one might say it's his manaforte

Dems' national lead in House votes just surpassed 9.7 million (now 8.6%). Largest midterm raw vote margin ever; largest % margin since 1986. https://t.co/0pm7oW1pFE

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) December 6, 2018

I really don't care one way or the other if someone says or doesn't say a prayer at a funeral, but imagine the avalanche of "He's a Muslim!" shit we'd have to sit through if Obama had been the one to not recite the Apostles' Creed during a Presidential Funeral.

Carter's lite Reaganism is too depressing to write an entire book about.

Good retiree, though.

I lo ove satan

Oops rong thred

Satan is pretty fucking cool I admit. My watching of 5 episodes of the new Sabrina have convinced me.

A suprisingly thorough story, given the source, about how Bill Nelson lost just enough Hispanic voters.. Worth the read.

Twice I flipped channels to NPR today, and both times weren't they just yammering on about how ex-presidential deaths do wonders to the unite the country. This struck me as some bullshit. But is it historically true? Even if so, isn't it a little farfetched in 2018?

it unites the ruling class

I'm literally vomiting with rage imagining A) all the fawning headlines that'll be run when Trump dies and B) Obama's inevitable "now he and I have had some differences *pause for light laughter*, but..." speech

on the plus side that fucker will be dead

It made me pukey too

If the ruling class includes the legislative and executive branches, then I'm not holding my breath for unity. In fact, I can't imagine unity would be a good thing while half the people in power are basically cartoon villains.

With any luck we won't have to wait long for Trump's own giant waste of federal money.

Couldn't we bury him now and save time and stress about fitting it in later?

it unites the ruling class

the only people who count

(or get counted)

Dump Pence!

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/mike-pence-2020-mueller-trump

I thought Pence was a Milquetoast with a poor reputation that would only have been picked by Trump in the first place so would be unlikely to be much of an anything if standing on his own in a Presidential race

well, good morning!

“Look at how he’s been. It’s presidential,” a former West Wing aide said.

the standards, they are low

Technically speaking, it's accurate. Incoherently rage tweeting on the shitter is now presidential.

wtf i'm presidential now