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

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...

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* 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

I just remembered that there exists a video of Trump motorboating Rudy Giuliani

nah Tracer, in between Goodman and Disney it's pretty much all hedge funds, all the time

i imagine marvel is quite a bit more imaginative than the GOP

NARRATOR: they were not

He's taking no questions

Of course, he ghosts once he's done foaming at the mouth.

republicans are mad about AOC because she makes them too horny

why do they cover this fucking propaganda bullshit ?

why do i even ask? forget it

wonder what the people shaming AOC for dancing in a video think about Brett Kavanaugh getting blackout drunk and sexually assaulting young ladies in high school

They’re all monsters

ehhh boys being boys iirc

So one of the baldheads mentioned he worked for 10 years in Naco, AZ and they need a wall... there's been a wall there for over 40 years (here's a google streetview from 2011):

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.3345331,-109.9421873,3a,75y,178.52h,84.51t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s9rdzGhwZl5csQG4qQ2z0wg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D9rdzGhwZl5csQG4qQ2z0wg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D142.06607%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

Not only that but 3 years ago the DHS found a 900 foot tunnel under the aforementioned wall.

Trump was just trying to get the spotlight off Pelosi

Not only that but 3 years ago the DHS found a 900 foot tunnel under the aforementioned wall.

lol

there's absolutely a lot of tunnels across the border.

College. And I think she produced the video?

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

― dan selzer, Thursday, January 3, 2019 3:00 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

video is 4:20 long, nice 😎

I don't think there will be Wall ever, but am pretty curious how they'd all respond when an illegal immigrant commits murder after it's in place

war of conquest obvi

y'know, again

Former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) said Thursday that he’s done with elected office.

“There’s no way I’ll return to it,” Gowdy told The Greenville News. “I’m not going to lobby. And if I enjoyed politics, I wouldn’t be leaving.”

Instead, he’s joined Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough as head of the firm’s white-collar defense and government investigations team, the News reported.

“If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn’t have run for Congress in the first place,” Gowdy said, adding: “I will keep the relationships, but I will not be on the ballot ever again.”

must be hard to realize you belong to a party of complete fucking assholes who should be ashamed of themselves for every millisecond of every life they ever live again throughout eternity

Trump floating Webb's name as Mattis replacement. Bipartisanship!

https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5c2e729f0df1762f6b2d6c50-1920-960.jpg

nice

What's Paul Ryan still doing there? (bottom left)

He reverted to his child mode.

Funny that it took the right so long to find that AOC video, which I came across the day after she won the primary.

We need more people in Congress who participated in the Lisztomania Brat Pack Mashup meme. pic.twitter.com/re8pJ89oJq

— John M. Cunningham (@jmcunning) June 27, 2018

This is such a stupid non-story.

aoc.xls

It is a story. The story is conservative twitter want people to be miserable and never smile.

it's better than a non-story it only has people liking her more imo

It’s part of their whole agenda. Poverty wages. Paranoia.

It's a nice story about people dancing to a great song and having fun. Makes me want to listen to Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix again for the first time in years.