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

that gofundme is not a kickstarter! the money changes hands immediately!

There is a vetting process w/GoFundMe before the funds are handed over (don't ask how I know). I guess the money is held in escrow, but I'll bet dollars to donuts that money won't be collected, and if it is, I'll further wager that it ain't paying for no wall. But then chuds loved to be scammed so...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/22/us/politics/trump-two-years.html

more isolated than ever

Again.

Senate adjourned until Thursday. Merry christmas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mz5AEgE24o

I feel like the nyt is just trolling us with these articles .

Lonely Trump Is The New Interviews With Red Hatters In Diners.

that would imply they stopped doing the diner interviews

thought this was good:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/outlook/2018/12/22/terms-fighting-trumps-turf-lets-make-shutdown-last-straw/?__twitter_impression=true

basically, time to stop fighting on the idiot's terms. he no longer gets to set the agenda.

Next time we have a gov shutdown, Congressional salaries should be furloughed as well.

It’s completely unacceptable that members of Congress can force a government shutdown on partisan lines & then have Congressional salaries exempt from that decision.

Have some integrity. https://t.co/BgueNNjf0f

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 22, 2018

He's at it again on Twitter...

https://i.imgur.com/UIq7Cod.jpg

He's rallying the troops, who are probably busily slurping spiked eggnog and in no mood to be rallied.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/magazine/democrats-trump-investigation.html

At noon on Jan. 3, the 435 members of the House of Representatives of the 116th Congress will convene for the first time in the Capitol. The chaplain will offer a prayer, the clerk will lead the chamber in the Pledge of Allegiance and a roll-call vote will be held to elect Nancy Pelosi speaker of the House. Then the new speaker will grasp the gavel and swear in the representatives-elect — their right hands raised, some of them clutching Bibles or Torahs or Qurans in their left. There will be speeches and family photos and, among the Democrats, who will now be in the majority, much celebration. But before any of that happens, Representative Elijah Cummings will have sent out letters.

aw yeaaaah LETTERS

Favorite zings I've seen lately: 1) That 5th avenue should be renamed Barack Obama Ave. so that Trump will have to use that as his mailing address for the rest of his life and 2) the observation that Trump might be the first person to have *fewer* things named after him after becoming president.

Representative Elijah Cummings will have sent out letters.

One step at a time, j. Letters requesting documents and information are the first step. The next step is sending out subpoenas.

My sources in the White House describe Trump as "watching television harder than they've ever seen him do it before" and "damp to the point that, when he moves, it makes a sound like a dish sponge being squeezed."

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) December 22, 2018

hot

damp?

what is "it"

"it rubs the lotion"?

Damp the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

It's it

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DirectNegligibleHackee-max-1mb.gif

https://www.itsiticecream.com/products

So mattis out Jan 1 instead of sticking around through the month like first planned

do we have a january thread title yet because "a dish sponge being squeezed" feels right

Patrick Shanahan name acting defense secretary.

Trump already had the resignation letter when he tweeted a few days ago praising Mattis on his departure. He either never read it or understood what a sick burn it was until foxy news people told him so. Now he is firing Mattis lol

trump's like "wait, mattis is mad about syria?!?!"

Has Webster's or whoever put out their annual list of new words for 2018 yet? There should be a spot on there for aflurryofangrytweets.

do we have a january thread title yet because "a dish sponge being squeezed" feels right

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver

Not sure I want to think about Trump's dampness for a month.

My dubious contribution is
"SHUTDOWN FOR WALL" by Lil' D Jon T (featuring Steel Slats and Spikes)

Amy D Sorkin’s NYer editorial was about how Trump should get primaried and now a promo for Titan Games is airing behind me in this burger restaurant so imo The Rock should primary Trump

I dread the prospect tbh

I dread any editorial whose byline is "Sorkin"

no relation afaict

Trump obviously not reading and/or understanding that Mattis letter until Fox broke it down for him is fucking... ugh, not remotely surprising but... yeah, Jesus Christ.

the Mattis letter was altogether too polite for Trump to understand the underlying contempt

I don’t know why he wrote it so diplomatically.

Also it used written words, a blind spot for Trump.

It’s fucking dumb that these people refuse to actually criticize him. You can’t “respect the office” when it’s occupied by someone who has no respect for anything.

Treeship sometimes superficial politeness is the most powerful own of all

Look how far it got Obama!

i am constantly owning everyone on ilx all day long

oh to be a fly on the wall for this closed-doors convo

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/12/23/mulvaney-trump-now-realizes-he-cant-fire-fed-chief-jerome-powell/2403176002/

Mnunchin’s gonna get fired next

"don't be telling people I can't fire people!"

Worst day of trading ever for a Christmas eve

i hope the stock market dies