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

"And while you are at it, here is a room full of straw which you must spin into gold for me," Trump said to his aides and advisors, " Pronto!"

just delegatin'

If Nancy took the dollar, progressive libs would eat her alive

NANCY CAPITULATES

This was all meant to make him look good to his die-hard base. It won't matter to them that he will lose this stupid fight because he'll just blame Democrats and they'll accept that without any problem. It won't diminish their love for him one bit. So, mission accomplished, insofar as there was anything you could call a mission here at all. No matter how you slice it, it's still governance by catering to stupidity.

Leaked Trump plans for $1 Pelosi wall:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DT1ZRGmW0AAPmFf.jpg

Trump should just say he already built the wall. Hell, he should just say he used his own money, billions of it! His fans would love it and, let's face it, America would be much safer.

think that the problem may have been that there was a border wall in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

The wall just got 10″ higher

It's not your job to be as confused as Donnie is

The New York Times reports:

President Trump announced on Monday that he would address the nation from the Oval Office on Tuesday evening to discuss what he called the crisis at the southern border, and the White House said that later in the week he would travel to the border as part of his effort to persuade Americans of the need for a wall — the sticking point in negotiations with Democrats which caused a government shutdown.

It was not immediately clear which outlets would carry his address. The four major broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC — confirmed receiving the White House request on Monday for Mr. Trump to speak during the 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time slot, but producers had not decided whether to grant him the time. Pre-empting prime-time coverage is an expensive proposition for television executives, who have sold millions of dollars’ worth of advertising against entertainment programming.

I'm already picturing some Coen-esque farce with 'human traffickers' he's hired to 'kidnap' him at the border and free him from the crushing misery of an unwanted presidency but who ultimately wind up getting him horribly killed through an increasingly-absurd series of mishaps.

Bob Roberts "assassination attempt"

would watch.

it does strike me that none of the major networks giving him any airtime for this would probably hit him deeper than anything else so far

Is he going to set fire to the Reichstag border patrol HQ?

so liberal media once again hating an American president #tuckercarlson

Like Fox won't carry it

Fox the entertainment network? Do they have any Tuesday night hits?

Dem Senate strategy gaining steam - Warner, Harris, Kaine, Merkley and Carper all behind it now too

Maybe they can do a picture in picture type of thing and have him mumbling in the corner while a Depends commercial plays at full volume.

XPS Fox has got new eps of Lethal Weapon and The Gifted tomorrow night. That'll be a problem w/all the networks, as that night features a load of first new eps of the year.

sweet

I was looking through charity shops earlier today and came across a book of advice on various subjects by celebrities, including a chapter on negotiating by Donald Trump. Was he taken seriously at one point.

won the Republican primaries in 2016 iirc? maybe someone can check

The Apprentice allowed him to pretend he was taken seriously as a business titan and I t
hink the bemused culture industry just entertained the notion out of an interest in selling shit

worth mentioning that none of the networks carried Obama's immigration speech in 2014

Yeah, I suspect these pussies will roll over for this guy, but they really shouldn't

cnn will broadcast it, so

that's how we'll know it's fake

Would watch if Trump did it in front of big-budget green screen action.

would watch it if trump did it in front of a huge screen showing footage of tortoises fucking

In his 2008 book, Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges into Success, Donald Trump recalls how he set out to build his first golf course, in Florida in the late 1990s. The Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach was going to be among the greatest ever built, of course. The Donald committed $40 million to the project. But his team ran into extra obstacles that he’d never encountered in his Manhattan skyscraper deals.

“It was around this time I heard about the gopher tortoises,” Trump wrote. “This was definitely a new dilemma.”

This Chris Hayes take seems a likely outcome: "One way out of this impasse is for Trump to invent some dubious unilateral authority to "build the wall" or whatever, end the shutdown having saved face, and then the courts stop the whole thing in its tracks and everyone just moves on."

goes without saying, but this whole thing is sooooooooooo stupid

I said that like 50 posts ago

xp

“It was around this time I heard about the gopher tortoises,” Trump wrote. “This was definitely a new dilemma.”

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, January 7, 2019 4:51 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

DT: "You know talking to you reminds me a lot of when I built my first golf course"

Mitch: "How so?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/politics/mulvaney-south-carolina-chief-staff.html

Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, as recently as late last year explored the possibility of becoming president of the University of South Carolina, four people familiar with the discussions said.

Mr. Mulvaney, a congressman from South Carolina for six years before joining the Trump administration, initiated a discussion with a senior official at the university late last year about the position, which is going to become open this summer.

By then, Mr. Mulvaney already had two other jobs — he led the federal Office of Management and Budget, as well as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But he was weeks away from getting a third job that he had lobbied President Trump for over several months: White House chief of staff.

lol this fuckin guy

save some jobs for the rest of us why dontcha

either way he's in charge of a bunch of cocks

fully two-thirds of all the jobs created since trump’s inauguration have been filled by mick mulvaney iirc

it's actually only half. other half filled by jared

Gopher Tortoises '20

Gopher Cars Elves

So every network is going to carry this fucking speech,

Between this and the spree of articles about prisoners getting a couple of decent meals over the holidays the liberal media is really outdoing themselves.

all I'm seeing is that CNN and Fox are going to carry it? which is not surprising

Despite the White House P.R. blitz, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and other senior Republicans believe that “a significant bloc” of House Republicans could vote with Democrats on the funding measures, according to GOP lawmakers and aides.

A senior House GOP aide said McCarthy and his top lieutenants believe 15 to 25 Republicans will vote with Democrats this week, possibly even more.

"We have a lot of members who are gonna want to vote for these things," said the GOP aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "Publicly, we will never tell them to do it. Privately, we will tell them to do what they have to do."

However, GOP leaders say they can keep that number below 55, a key threshold for political purposes. That many Republican defections, coupled with all House Democrats, would reach 290 "yes" votes, a veto-proof majority. While House Democrats can't overcome Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) refusal to bring up their bills, it would signal the House can override a Trump veto, a major blow to the president and his allies.

“The biggest thing we can do to back the president up is to keep it below veto proof,” the GOP aide added. “That's a win for us.”

Update to the update: NBC, ABC, and CBS will all carry Trump's address Tuesday night. Wall to wall coverage of his pro-wall speech. Hopefully surrounded by fact-checking. https://t.co/ttRKY7xVWG

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 7, 2019

blech

fuck that shit