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

He was talking like this in the Pelosi/Schumer conversation, iirc? Using 'wall' as like a mass noun.

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McConnell is delivering his farewell tribute to @JeffFlake on the Senate floor, notes he once topped the Hill's 50 most beautiful list.

"Talk about an achievement that a few of us could even aspire to."

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) December 13, 2018

McConnell's farewell tribute will be delivered in a public toilet.

Oh come now, Mitch, you're still one of god's creatures. Your beauty is akin to a mass of kelp being buffeted by the ocean's currents, maybe not a mug you want to glare at for too long but still among nature's miracles.

McConnell's farewell tribute will be delivered in a public toilet.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, December 13, 2018 11:10 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Given the rumors, this is more true than you think.

No, you're thinking of Lindsay Graham.

Wide stance?

many campaign finance lawyers

how do these multiple specialists find enough work to keep busy in the two years between elections

ugh I hate it when people tweet-thread with ellipses

infuriatingly, despite being on twitter 19 hours a day, he has not yet learnt to thread his tweets.

No, you're thinking of Lindsay Graham.

― grawlix (unperson),

Huckleberry too.

good afternoon!

and the tax returns?

wither the taxes

where my taxes at?

in the wall

false: wall is transparent

How I Shot Wall

he has told people close to him in recent days that he is alarmed by the prospect

when you've gotten away with fraud and malfeasance for so long, it comes as a shock to learn that there may be serious consequences to telling lies and committing non-violent crimes. just the way he treated the funds in his "charity" gives an open window into his usual mindset about such stuff.

how is wall formed

I mean, people say things all the time and they don't actually mean anything. Like when you say you're going to pay a contractor to do something. Nobody takes that seriously. Whodathunk that someone might have the wherewithal and ability to actually, like, follow through on a declared intention?

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/nepkkq/alleged-russian-agent-maria-butina-admits-to-conspiracy-against-us?utm_source=dmfb

every time you read about paul erickson today

https://i.imgur.com/7VqBJpD.jpg

can we not give the white supremacist shitrag clicklinks plz

xp

paul erickson is roger furlong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfaALtuZ7vM

(3) The notion that getting rid of Trump via the 2020 election is going to have any effect whatsoever on the fact that 40%, more or less, of the population is made up of people who support what the Trump political phenomenon represents (white ethno-nationalism with strong authoritarian overtones) is wishful thinking. Trump is much more a symptom than a cause. He will have many heirs in the Republican party, some of whom will be far more competent politicians and/or less dysfunctional human beings.

(4) That said, most people don’t follow politics very closely. We can hope that a lot of Trump’s support is made up of what could be called “soft” ethno-nationalist authoritarians, who are not particularly zealous about pursing the proto-fascist herrenvolk democracy that is the political ideal for Trump’s core support. One great question of the moment is what exactly the proportion is between Republicans in the former and latter categories.

DONALD TRUMP IS AS POPULAR AS EVER AMONG REPUBLICANS, AND HAS A GOOD SHOT AT BEING RE-ELECTED

For Shakes...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/maria-butina-pleads-guilty-russia-768777/amp/

sounds about right

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I like to take solace in the fact that there are fewer republicans these days but yeah .. =|

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the point about others following in his footsteps is the most worrying thing. i'm trying to think of the loudest, most competent asshole

is joe rogan competent?

i don't want to experience the next 20 years

Gohmert 2024

gohmert can barely walk through a door

Remember there were like 12 other guys running in the primary against Trump, I don't see any new contenders that have broken out of that kind of pack, with the required star power that Trump brings. the party's gonna be in disarray without him.

mostly cuz right now everyone's either got their heads down and just trying to get along (various Senators), a rabid Trump surrogate (also most often a corrupt moron ie Nunes), or old guard trying to survive (Kasich et al)

there's still a lot of time until 2024 for the republicans to find a successor

It’s going to be one of these popular nazi-adjacent youtubers isn’t it

is joe rogan competent?

I could see Dwayne Johnson/the Rock making a go of it

the rock / kid rock imo

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President Trump: Do we know for sure that Michael Cohen even exists?

let's not get ourselves into a "oh no i hear rick perry is from texas and is unstoppable" type lather just yet. what you'll actually see is on the one hand a bunch of marco rubios - robotic plastic conservatives awkwardly and pathetically trying to imitate trumpiness. on the other, a bunch of genuinely trumpy loons who are creepy and gross and shitty, we've seen this in a lot of the lower-level races over the last couple years. of THOSE, half will crash and burn in the primaries (again look at the last couple years) and the other half just won't be able to put together the kind of electoral map that let trump win. their appeal will be too niche, their fascist only-i-can-fix-it boasts won't resonate right, they won't be running against hillary clinton, and their gross opinions and misconduct will stick to them in ways it didn't to trump, even if his opinions and misconduct are massively worse. he's not easily copied imho.

I would like to hope that one very very small positive that might maybe result from this era is a slight uptick in people's general ability to reckon constructively with the ever-shifting ontological landscape of the pathological liar.

I could see Dwayne Johnson/the Rock making a go of it

― Οὖτις, Thursday, December 13, 2018 10:14 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

too moderate and not white, don't see it

I agree w Doc Casino about the field, ppl that will be able replicate Trump's success are thin on the ground

he's not easily copied imho

Even less easy to copy is winning the electoral college while losing the popular vote by more than 3,000,000 votes.

I'm sure I'm not the first to do this, but couldn't resist.

https://i.ibb.co/T4H12Gn/Dirty-Deeds-DT.jpg

he's not easily copied imho.

it's true. i still think he'll inspire a lot of other people to attempt to follow in his footsteps, though. the trump election refreshed a racist strategy that many thought had expired. his election came in the aftermath of the 2014 election GOP autopsy about immigration where it seemed like everyone was getting on board with the idea of not rallying around xenophobia quite so intensely. it's not exactly the same, but it kind of reminds me of reagan's triumphs of the 80s, as a throwback to 1964 goldwater-style conservatism that many thought was long discredited.

trump's successes (with his base) gives future GOP candidates a recent example of how effective xenophobia and fearmongering can be. if there's a time in the 2020s when a more moderate GOP candidate loses, the desire among the republican base for a proudly cruel leader will just intensify. his popularity now almost guarantees that someone will make a bid to follow in his footsteps later. i don't think the successor will look or talk like trump. they'll be a mutation of him, just as he's a mutation of reagan

(Aimless gazes deep into his crystal ball, impressively waving his hands across its surface several times.)

The unmasking of such a large bloc of voters who do not blink or flinch at Trump's xenophobia, autocracy, and undisguised white supremacy means that someone will certainly grasp for his mantle and try to ride that bloc into nationally-based power. The necessity of creating broad coalitions in order to be elected president makes this strategy a tricky one to ride all the way into the White House, but it does ensure that unapologetically racist politics will have plenty of champions in Congress and statehouses where the Trump numbers are most favorable.

Far from discrediting racism, Trump's impressive support through all the corruption, gaffes, scandals, and chaos has brightly illuminated just how slavishly devoted the quasi-racist voter bloc is to those who win their loyalty.

is joe rogan competent?

i don't want to experience the next 20 years

― Karl Malone, Thursday, December 13, 2018 6:04 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dana White 2024 tbh