US Politics January 2019: we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger

i wonder if the president gets to do whatever he wants in the betsy ross museum

I assume it's a kiddie seat

He's a Republican with a passport - it's a gimme.

"Did I do that?"

NEW: The Justice Department is investigating whether Ryan Zinke lied to Interior's inspector general. W/ @mattzap @jdawsey1 and @Reinlwapo https://t.co/9FXrd0UAD2

— Juliet Eilperin (@eilperin) January 3, 2019

Encouraging:

Nancy Pelosi's speech today as Democrats take over the House places the climate crisis front and center, describing it as the "existential threat of our time": pic.twitter.com/Hpu4ZL9QJw

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 3, 2019

Great. Let's see daily followthrough on that.

that is the right language to use

Precisely the lazy thinking that characterizes Isaacson's books. https://t.co/lvr2ZOpdvx

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) January 3, 2019

every time I see Zinke I'm reminded of this dude from idiocracy

https://d3jjg4nf4bbybe.cloudfront.net/u/97686/b2afcce41a7e4dc40d9781182677b0aa7c63a39f/original/crazy-danny.gif/!!/b%3AW1sic2l6ZSIsInBob3RvIl1d.jpg

Can "kind" just be removed from the lexicon, all it means was he says nice things to affluent wite ppl

derply moral

she breaks their brains

Republicans have stayed quiet as Democrats casts votes for @NancyPelosi but some decided to boo as @AOC voted for her.

— Lindsey McPherson (@lindsemcpherson) January 3, 2019

re Romney the republicans really have pretty much every flavor of marvel villain covered

- greedbag bully with his name in gold letters on a tower who thinks he's charming
- corporate raider with shark-like smile who runs "bain capital"

actually they all kind of fit into those categories

unfortunately for us all, the first one of those is marvel's flagship *hero*

and the latter are always so boring that people forget to keep hating them by the time they leave the theater. so we're doomed.

Here is America’s favorite commie know-it-all acting like the clueless nitwit she is...
...High School video of “Sandy” Ocasio-Cortezpic.twitter.com/s723Vga9zF

— AnonymousQ (@AnonymousQ1776) January 2, 2019

Man...they're really afraid of her, huh?

I'd hang out with her.

goodness, she danced in high school, she's ruined

She's a...theatre kid?

Remember that these people chortling at young AOC also think "President Ivanka" is a good thing.

College. And I think she produced the video?

here's the whole thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj2Xald7NYQ

Can't wait until the next big political hope is brought down by a dumb fan video of "Happy" they appeared in from 2014 goes viral.

Governor-elect Ron DeSantis jigging his boobies imitating the Buffalo Bill scene in The Silence of the Lambs.

"I apologize if anyone was offended by my Bird Box challenge video. In my defense it was the '10s."

it boggles the mind that people could view her as clueless know-it-all yet think DT is a genius.

Haha it's so harmless. Easy to forget these days that footage of someone from politics merely existing before political involvement isn't inherently "dirt" I suppose.

She lacks the consistency of comportment we need in a political leader. Why, just look at our president, who has steadfastly remained a sour little pig's anus for seven decades.

Or perhaps can we just

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

jfc stop with the "He's obv awful but you have to give him some credit on _____"

He's obv awful but you have to give him some credit on being absolutely terrible too

xp i'm frankly stunned that's the most incriminating footage they could find; i kinda assume anyone in their twenties has pictures of their genitals on a server somewhere

applebee's?

the irony is that between recreating dances from a 30 year-old movie, being really into Star Trek apparently, and I think I saw in the yearbook reveal yesterday that she was in Key Club, AOC is actually a damn nerd.

xp i was thinking señor frogs, but sure

The delightful dancing video of AOC that is being circulated right now* is actually part of a pretty storied, if now mostly forgotten, remix culture phenomenon. If you'll allow me...

--
* apparently by numbskulls incapable of joy

— Parker Higgins (@xor) January 3, 2019

re Romney the republicans really have pretty much every flavor of marvel villain covered

- greedbag bully with his name in gold letters on a tower who thinks he's charming
- corporate raider with shark-like smile who runs "bain capital"

actually they all kind of fit into those categories

idk: out of the major Marvel villains, this covers Perelman and Perlmutter OK, but while you can probably map Cheney to Goodman and Bush-as-veep to Shooter, it's going to be hard to find a gladhanding backstabber who steals credit from everyone while achieving very little, gets paid millions specifically for fucking other people over, and is regarded as a PR genius for spouting a handful of tired catchphrases for decades on end, all the while wearing a ludicrously obvious hairpiece.

(Jemas = Scaramucci.)

So republicans openly hate fun and dancing? Nice

https://media.giphy.com/media/Qjmp5vKEERPyw/giphy.gif

"I can't dance, I can't sing..."

AOC's 2028 presidential campaign will be the second remake of Footloose

I see what u did there sic

(also lol)

was fun while it lasted but I just don't see how AOC comes back from this

can’t believe morbs thinks we’ll make it to 2028 tbh

I should have mentioned multiple business bankruptcies ending in court fights & settlements & convictions, or licensing their name to grotesquely poor-quality products, but was just going top of the dome after Perelman and Perlmutter

Dance Like Qanon Is Watching You

— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) January 3, 2019

Apparently some sort of last minute Trump presser happening, probably complaining about the dance video.

Hopefully he is resigning

Boring

"You can call it a wall, you can call it a barrier, whatever you want," Trump says, adding that people "want" security.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 3, 2019

i had honestly forgotten about the breakfast club/phoenix thing; simpler times

Trump just promised that he and Pelosi are going to get lots done on infrastructure--wasn't infrastructure some kind of code for impending doom at one point near the beginning of Trump's term?

hah sic yes i meant to say all the national-stage republicans fit those two categories - i imagine marvel is quite a bit more imaginative than the GOP

President Trump is making a formal briefing from the White House press briefing room for the first time in his presidency. pic.twitter.com/CFzkFRPpS1

— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 3, 2019

This is like a casting call for the next Lex Luthor

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 3, 2019