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

are there standing penalties for declaring false states of emergency?

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/424371-trump-fed-pick-withdraws-after-gop-criticism

Oh my god. I'm talking about W justifying war, not racist O digs

the "crisis" as far as this administration is concerned is that he might not win reelection

Obama once told us we could keep our doc if we wanted to...so yanno, samesies.

just sayin': he lied about a lotta shit, fuck Obama

Makes me wonder if Manafort's law firm dgaf anymore and did this on purpose.

Well, Manafort is now bankrupt, and I don't just mean his morals, although that, too.

Countdown to Morbsian nonsequitur re: the Clintons in 3...2...

quick, someone start a campaign to donate ladders/trampolines/trebuchets to Mexico

Frogbs otm. Best thing would be to air it with an hour delay, to allow fact checkers to point out the most blatant lies. Or better: to bleep out the lies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85mIjzJ7WuI

I wonder if we're finally going to get this cleared up

BREAKING: Supreme Court denies the foreign country-owned company's request to stay a contempt order resulting from its refusal to comply with a grand jury's subpoena. Chief Justice Roberts' "administrative stay" is vacated, so the result is the contempt order is back in effect. pic.twitter.com/cWJ2ed65nb

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) January 8, 2019

Intriguing conspiracy that Manafort's people intentionally failed to adequately redact Manafort's lies in order to reveal to Trump/Russians etc. exactly what they apparently caught him lying about.

this is freaky

Does being a big Democratic donor get you get a pass on (allegedly) murdering people, at least if they're young, black, gay men? So far the answer appears to be yes. https://t.co/4vtFL7GaAs

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) January 8, 2019

wtf is this r/conspiracy ?

To Mr. Jon Schwartz
Re: Getting Away with Murder

Allow me to bring it to your attention that being very wealthy has always improved one's odds of a favorable outcome in any question of criminality, whether it involves interaction with the police or the courts. Being a donor to the Democratic Party or its candidates is entirely coincidental to this fundamental fact.

Yours,

no i'm sure it has to do with the clinton crime family's vast network of pedopizza basement murderers

p sure he wasn't saying Pizzagate was a cofactor

but y'know, one step beyond Weinstein

oh cool we got our own Ben Garrison

https://www.datocms-assets.com/4857/1546964770-eli-valley-trump-tlaib-disgrace.jpg

idk that brushwork is leagues ahead of Garrison

eli is not ben garrison by any stretch

yeah i know eli personally and comparing him to garrison is... nearly offensive?

eli valley is good

fyi

don't know him, but he's a crossword clue waiting to happen

valley, collegiately

folks don't take it the wrong way. our version of bad things are actually good :)

Serious question: what is the significance of the roast pig in that picture

If you're looking for anything even remotely worth watching tonight at 9pm EST, I will be folding laundry in my underwear for 8 minutes on Instagram live. https://t.co/GhMowscZMP

— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) January 8, 2019

isn't it fair to dig deeper into the Buck scenario while also lambasting how ridiculous it is that he's basically already being called a murderer?

Serious question: what is the significance of the roast pig in that picture

we are the pig

sad blobfish is sad
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/424415-mcconnell-accuses-democrats-of-jamming-senate-over-tantrum

Just checking, the crickets I'm hearing atm...that's the networks refusing to acknowledge that they've been played by President Pledgedrive, right?

just sayin': he lied about a lotta shit, fuck Obama

Well this is the 1st I've heard about it from you

tobo73: i assume it's a black mirror reference
https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/09/20/black-mirrors-pig-porker-episode-comes-true

Remember when Trump goaded every news network into carrying that brief "ok, Obama was born in the USA" press conference and then accepted no questions and then turned the event into an advertisement for his hotel

Trump turning national address into a political fundraising opportunity.

Earlier, his campaign send an email seeking donations totaling $500k so “Dems and Fake News won’t be able to ignore.” pic.twitter.com/3jhzCb5udY

— Julie Bykowicz (@bykowicz) January 8, 2019

truly they have learned nothing

cool party they have there

Notably, 69 percent of Republican voters blame congressional Democrats, and 15 percent blame President Trump for the government shutdown. Among the same group, the president's approval crept upward, with 84 percent approving and 15 percent disapproving of his performance this week, compared to 81 percent approval and 18 percent disapproval pre-shutdown.

nihilism SO HOT right now

as 538 reminds us, tho, there is some tiny consolation in the fact that at this point, "identifies as republican" is nearly the same thing as "supports trump." anybody going out of their way to call themselves "independent" because of him doesn't show up when the stats are "among republicans." can't be THAT many of those folks, obviously. but maybe enough to matter in 2020.

are you all gonna watch this program

hell no, i'm waiting for the highlight reel.

fuck no. I don't even have a way to watch broadcast TV if I wanted to

the short BBC news brief i just listened to informed me that both trump and the democrats have painted themselves into a corner. trump for obvious reasons. democrats because pelosi called the wall "immoral" so it will be hard for them to make any concessions like partial funding for the wall

xp i would definitely be watching, but for once i have plans to meet at a IRL bar with friends and i probably shouldn't flake out on that to watch trump tonight

Watching hockey instead. Easy decision.

I’m going to be at a movie w/ a pal & then going to a brewery, but will check this thread for a summary afterward

I have to finish up a work assignment so i’ll probably listen to this while I do that and then die of misery

hey treesh

don't

here's what he's going to say

mexicans bad, ms13 bad, democrats bad, don't want to help in keeping the country safe, creating chaos with government shutdown, some maga platitudes, give me money, the end

Maybe he’ll say he resigns and that he’s sorry for all the hurt he’s caused over his sad and sordid life and, while he knows it’s too much to ask our forgiveness, he asks that they give him the dignity of obscurity as he spends the reat of his life in a state of repentence, in prison if need be.

That one would be good.

p sure you can watch the circus online, kiddies