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

The Southern border hasn't been a main entry point for drugs for some time. My God, more drugs come in at the port of goddamn Newark ..

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) January 9, 2019

Obviously it was full of lies and completely nonsensical. But it's all about delivery. You can sell anything with the right delivery. Most people are checked out or know their side and stick to it, and a "please, think of the children" soft touch Trump plays really well. Low bar, but still - definitely did better than I expected.

Chuck & Nancy did what they could.

― flappy bird, Wednesday, January 9, 2019 3:21 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They both sounded like that aunt who wants to speak at the funeral of one of your parents, and you desperately try to stop her, because it's better for everyone involved that she not speak at all, but you fail miserably and she gets up on the stage anyway and delivers a worrying speech. You feel embarrassed and extremely uncomfortable at the time but will ultimately forget about it.

Trumps delivery was bad, obv. He's scum, so it's bad. But come on, that Dems reply was like a state funeral speech.

Dude even Fox News was going on on him

Don’t need heroin coming over the border when the sackler gang will sell you all the opioids you need.

Mrs. Maisel's parents are not happy. pic.twitter.com/uguaQy2Pl1

— bertolt blecht !¡!¡ (@benschwartzy) January 9, 2019

if you're old enough to collect social security you should not be allowed to hold office at the national level

tell it to all the Pelosi fans on the board

Didn't watch, but if dum-dum did everything in dazed 3rd grader book report mode rather than as asshole blusterer, I'm sure he would be much more successful.

Idgaf how pelosi comes off on prime time tv tbh, not an important part of her job

otm and no one was listening except us and talk show hosts

the president's kremlin creditors were probably listening too fwiw

Have Eastwood write the next speech

https://media.giphy.com/media/e4Jyxh9zQjgnC/giphy.gif

Still kinda wondering if anyone said anything about airplanes (sorry to be a broken record on this point) but am absolutely not going to listen/watch any of this.

I will try to read things in the AM.

nobody said anything about airplanes

https://youtu.be/-BRdsPGRQ6A

You know the Democratic response was good when the best meme that twitter mediocrities can come up with is that Pelosi and Schumer are old.

— InsleeBro is a slur (@agraybee) January 9, 2019

^^who is this idiot

(@agraybee)

lmao @ their whining about AOC being on MSNBC

You don’t have to die on the hill of “They old lol”. You can just admit that’s right, come from a slightly less mindless place about things.

trump's eyes -- particularly the right one -- kept narrowing and narrowing but it ended before he could fall asleep

god that would have been too fucking good

the judgment's in

A fine speech that vastly exceeded the ridiculously low expectations created by the media

— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) January 9, 2019

Boorishness, too, has its geniuses, and who will call nature to account for having proclaimed this gift to its possessor through the flattering feeling of strength and superiority and self-contentment? The ways of heaven are dark and devious and its comforts manifold.

When the dry mouth hits pic.twitter.com/tOa8TfW7nl

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 9, 2019

The dolly shot that opened the Democratic response was very The Shining

The AOC clips I’ve seen from MSNBC are pretty good. Even if they would have asked her to give an official party response it’s just way better to do so in an interview context since there’s something always off about those official response things.

catching up on the speech now

gosh, who could have predicted that this man would use millions of dollars of broadcast airtime, if given freely to him, to issue an incessant stream of absolute racist bullshit

following on from his lie that he was writing it himself

You can just admit that’s right, come from a slightly less mindless place about things.

i'm glad you've embraced the limits of the old guard Dem-crats' ambition.

Idgaf how pelosi comes off on prime time tv tbh, not an important part of her job

THE MORON POTUS WAS A MOTHERFUCKING REALITY SHOW STAR

THE TEEVEE IS IMPORTANT

why did any of you watch this

good morning!

President Thing-in-a-Wig found it a very intersting experience. Glad he finally got the opportunity to ramble incoherently on-camera, everyone should have the experience at least once in their life.

Rumors going around that Rosenstein's planning on leaving soonish (who could blame him, and after Sessions was canned his specific role ultimately wasn't going to matter), but that said I buy this:

CNN: Rod Rosenstein has signaled to officials that he would leave the job when he was satisfied that Mueller’s investigation was either complete or close enough to completion that it was protected.

— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) January 9, 2019

So much water is now under the bridge that I suspect momentum will carry things forward.

Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forrest fires that, with proper Forrest Management, would never happen. Unless they get their act together, which is unlikely, I have ordered FEMA to send no more money. It is a disgraceful situation in lives & money!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2019

save your own damn Forrests

I'm not a smart man but I know how motherfucking 'forest' is spelled.

It sure is swell to have someone with a second grade education consigning thousands of people to fire-related homelessness.

You can just admit that’s right, come from a slightly less mindless place about things.

or i can go through that knob's concern troll attempts to dunk on AOC

good burning!

Chuck Schumer's? xp

Forrest Trump

— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) January 9, 2019

what a disgusting fucking prick! My parents lost their home in the 2003 Cedar Fire . My parents don't live in a "Forrest" no amount of management would have saved their house from 50mph santa ana winds that carries embers for miles . fuck this motherfucker

nah the twitter feed of the this cool guy @graybee

xpost to morbs

free paul manafort!

No thanks, we're full up.

Full statement from Randy Feenstra, Iowa state senator challenging Steve King in a primary pic.twitter.com/NwwXJ6REkg

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) January 9, 2019

The Speaker of the House is a totally different position from POTUS Morbz, do keep up

many xps