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

so Trump otm about pulling troops out of Syria? I know a little about geopolitics, I guess, hence my disgust at seeing The Bipartisan Foreign Policy Community tearing him a new one.

Not otm. It's a betrayal of the Kurds. Yet again.

Meantime, mild surprise here

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/house-intelligence-committee-votes-unanimously-give-mueller-documents-trump-ally-roger-stone/

In that I would have thought Nunes would be all "NOOOOO!" But.

loooooool

When I begrudgingly signed the Omnibus Bill, I was promised the Wall and Border Security by leadership. Would be done by end of year (NOW). It didn’t happen! We foolishly fight for Border Security for other countries - but not for our beloved U.S.A. Not good!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2018

surprised he didn't write "US of A."

Will he be able to go to Mar-a-lago, the pain, the pain...

hoho

Ryan’s press conference has suddenly been canceled or postponed. Trump sent this tweet after speaking with Ryan. https://t.co/kUJrIRfAWb

— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) December 20, 2018

Like P.G. Wodehouse said, "to find a man's true character, play golf with him."

Would love to play a round with the Orange One and call him on BS. "Mr. President, I had you for an eight, before the 8 foot putt you gave yourself."

Guessing one or two holes of honest golf, he'd spin into a rage and lose control for the rest of the round.

Honestly, part of the fun of golf is the (thankfully rare) double-hitting a simple chip, feeling that flash of disappointment/rage/impotence, and then calling myself for an extra stroke.

If only Trump's documented golfing transgressions could turn the golfing community against him.

And here I'd been under the impression that golf was one of the like two skills (along with flimflammery natch) in the known universe at which Trump wasn't an unmitigated flop.

shutdown/border wall flare-up in the House GOP caucus is hilarious, proving Pelosi right yet again

is the shutdown a possibility again? just got a nyt alert that trump shit the bed

guess we'll know more after he gets out of this meeting with republican house members at noon ET

republicans are psyched out. too much 13th floor elevators on thanksgiving break

Freedom Caucus is doing their usual shit and ran an endgame around Ryan direct to Trump, saying they would support a $5 billion wall bill. Of course, there's no guarantee a majority of the GOP caucus would even produce the necessary votes, and such a bill is DOA in the Senate so... same as it ever was. Ryan gets to go out on one last humiliating, totally unnecessary defeat.

this will be a good meeting

I am now told that the following people are going to the White House:

Paul Ryan
Kevin McCarthy
Mark Meadows
Jim Jordan

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 20, 2018

lol

enjoy your flameout into minority status, assholes!

summoned to the principal's office, where they'll find Ed Rooney covered in diarrhea and KFC

Yesterday:

We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 19, 2018

& Today:

....Russia, Iran, Syria & many others are not happy about the U.S. leaving, despite what the Fake News says, because now they will have to fight ISIS and others, who they hate, without us. I am building by far the most powerful military in the world. ISIS hits us they are doomed!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2018

we defeated ISIS and the next day they came back as the New Order

make that the First Order

we defeated ISIS and the next day they came back as the New Order

I thought they changed their name to Celestial.

https://2fnwas1oea9y31r31yme9a19-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/unnamed-3-820x1179.jpg

I assume the GOP can't wait until January 2021 when they can oppose a Dem prez like old times.

oh definitely. that will also be a month when they suddenly remember the national deficit and demand spending cuts

Yay I mean whuh?

a truly bonkers story from @JasonLeopold & @a_cormier_ about how officials at the highest levels of US Treasury in 2016 agreed to use a secret Gmail account to backchannel w/Russian agents seeking financial info on Clinton backers & other US citizens https://t.co/TqyZy4mumv

— Azeen Ghorayshi (@azeen) December 20, 2018

Now there's a pose

BREAKING Ryan says Trump won’t sign Senate passed CR: “He will not sign this bill” pic.twitter.com/mFT6p64fMw

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) December 20, 2018

I would think if ur dems it’s “better” this happen now w all branches in R control right? Stopgap spending bill would end during D House and let DT claim they’re being obstructionist or whatevrr

NPR did an exit profile this morning in which Paul Ryan said "I'm the same person I was when I got here"

lowest bar ever

yet in that photo he's posing as Eustace Tilley

When I told Sen. Collins about the CR: “You’re ruining my life.”

— Jordain Carney (@jordainc) December 20, 2018

i'm sure she's joking, but i hope she's not

Indeed.

Rush Limbaugh just stated @realDonaldTrump notified him personally that he is either getting money for the border, or he is shutting the government down.

— Chris Stigall (@ChrisStigall) December 20, 2018

Trump should quit in protest.

he went straight to the Dalai Rush

am I understanding this right or was Trump all ready to sign the CR until FOX ran a headline that said "Trump caves on wall" or something

He was ready to sign it until jordan and meadows got in his ear

How long has trump been directly consulting with rush fucking limbaugh?

I think Ann Coulter got under Yam's peel this week?

frogbs, id bet on it

Doing a little math here.

We had 380 members vote this morning. A two-thirds majority to override the veto would be 255. We have 171 Dems here, and could probably get another four. (Call it 175.)

You'd need 80 Republicans to override the veto. Not impossible.

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) December 20, 2018

CORKER: “Mitch is on the phone with Paul now, so....” *corker starts laughing*

Q: Why are you laughing?

Corker: “Well, why not?”
///
Corker: “Ya’ll have fun! I may not see ya’ll again for a while...”

Q: You’re not going to come back from TN for votes?

Corker: “I doubt it.”

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) December 20, 2018

Haha

yet in that photo he's posing as Eustace Tilley

nah, p sure its
https://bilder.buecher.de/zusatz/41/41138/41138144_deta_4.jpg

Q: What’s going to happen?

CORKER: “Who knows? Does the person sitting beside him at the WH know?”

*Ted Cruz walks by and says to a reporter: “I think we need to follow through and fund the wall.”*

*Corker starts laughing again.”

CORKER: “You can’t make this stuff up!”

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) December 20, 2018

no dark sarcasm in the Dome

lmao of course

Oh my god the Wall Go Fund Me is a money laundering scheme. What a close out to the year https://t.co/DMsWz7LclZ

— American Propagandist (@ArmyStrang) December 20, 2018

woooowww my boy, defeated congressmen Carlos Curbelo, is livid on MSNBC.

Is there anyone outside the talker class who thinks Trump and Rs can "win" the shutdown here?

— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) December 20, 2018

this is totally a self-inflicted wound and they are really gonna do their damnedest on it so let's popcorn.gif this motherfucker

A happy day!

DON YOUNG, the dean of the House, just went up to the house well and SCREAMED at Doug Collins, who is presiding over the vote, to close voting.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 20, 2018