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

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

If the President declares a national emergency and starts using eminent domain and reprogrammed dollars to build a wall, it is only a matter of time before a progressive President declares climate change a national emergency and uses eminent domain to shutter coal plants, etc.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 8, 2019

sounds great Erick

it's precisely that kind of forethought that is going to give a conservative majority on the SC pause in ruling in the shitbag's favor over these kinds of executive abuses of power. If they want to give him a pass, they have to find a way to rule very, very narrowly in his favor without setting a precedent they will regret.

If they want to give him a pass, they have to find a way to rule very, very narrowly in his favor without setting a precedent they will regret.

They'll just do what they did in Bush v. Gore: "This ruling only applies to this one case, fuck off forever."

they might try, but I think they'll have a hard time of it

and they will also be thinking "do we really want to overthrow our system of checks and balances, and by extension our own institutional power, for this bullshit"

No they won't. Five of them (six if RBG never makes it back to the bench) will be thinking, "This is what our fellow Republican wants."

Roberts doesn't seem to be eager to rule on such narrow concerns. see his ARRA ruling etc.

don't get me wrong I hate him and it sucks that he's the "swing" vote now but

Kavanaugh will pour shots down him until he caves.

i'm probably wrong but i fear the Court's medium-term to long-term ability to fraudulently except Trump's practices is dependent mostly on GOP "acceptance" of Trump's continued legitimacy and the existing power structure's inability to enforce his removal.

But in a potentially perilous sign for Trump on the 18th day of the partial shutdown, cracks were multiplying within GOP ranks even before Pence ventured to Capitol Hill late Tuesday. The dissension was especially evident over whether Trump should declare a national emergency that would allow him to circumvent Congress and draw on military construction funds to build his wall, with some normally reliable supporters voicing concerns over the approach.

“Right now, I don’t support that. We need to go through the system,” said conservative Rep. Roger Williams (R-Tex.). “I think there’s better ways to do it.”

Opposition also came from members of the House Armed Services Committee, who voiced concerns over cannibalizing the military budget to pay for the wall.

“I think border security is very important. It is not a responsibility of the Department of Defense,” said Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Tex.), the top committee Republican. “In short, I’m opposed to using defense dollars for non­defense purposes.”

...

In the Senate, Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, noted that lawmakers remained far apart on the Homeland Security spending bill that funds the wall, so “Eventually maybe we go to the ones that are already settled, pass those,” while continuing to negotiate on the Homeland Security bill.

“Those bills, some of them have been passed all the way out of the Senate, some of them have just been passed through the Appropriations Committee. I would imagine it could happen very quickly. I want the government to reopen,” Capito said, adding she wanted to hear what the president had to say first.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), whose state has many federal workers and vast stretches of federal land, called for Congress to pass bipartisan bills that would reopen much of the unfunded parts of the federal government, separating their funding from the debate over the border.

“I continue to stress that there is no good reason for a shutdown,” Murkowski said Tuesday. “It’s possible to provide for security and to address the humanitarian crisis on our border, while still doing our jobs to keep the government fully functional.”

“I continue to stress that there is no good reason for a shutdown,” Murkowski said Tuesday.

sure there is ~ cover-up for joe rappaquiddick pro quo etc.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/donald-trumps-america/109828677/hollywood-bit-player-had-curious-walkon-role-in-manafort-loan

Run, Forrest, run

(Joek that is several posts too late)

are we even sure he writes his own tweets these days? i could easily see some staffer intentionally mimicking his tics and general idiocy

I obviously have no insider info, but I'd be surprised if Trump were to delegate all tweeting to a staffer. He seriously believes they are a critical component of his popularity and there's evidence to support that idea. I'd guess at the least he reviews all drafts of tweets going out under his name and often edits them to his liking.

I dunno, maybe somewhere there's like a tweet sweatshop where beleaguered interns operating under ironclad nondisclosure agreements have to take shifts as designated trumptweeter.

4 am, undisclosed location. CHAD enters. BIFF gets up off a gold toilet and hands CHAD a wig and an empty chicken bucket.

"Okay, you're on. Make sure you misspell 'collusion'. Last week your typos were down 3%, and people noticed."

@thedailybeast
WATCH: Trump argues that we need a border wall to stop migrants just driving right across in their "unbelievable vehicles... stronger, bigger, and faster vehicles than our police have, than ICE has"

the Mexican Megatanks

Mnuchin finally showed him Fury Road?

Regarding the Butte county FEMA fire aid, this will probably surprise him and perhaps some of you but that was a +3.69 Trump/Pence district... yet probably not for much longer!

yeah they were *not* happy about his post-fire "visit". that District will flip on him.

He couldn't even get the name of the destroyed town right, he called Paradise "Pleasure" in his TV spot.

doesn't Dan Scavino write some of Trump's tweets?

Moderate senators are trying to schedule a meeting for later Wednesday to discuss the shutdown, according to congressional sources. https://t.co/eshB70Ip84

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) January 9, 2019

there are no moderate senators

@thedailybeast
WATCH: Trump argues that we need a border wall to stop migrants just driving right across in their "unbelievable vehicles... stronger, bigger, and faster vehicles than our police have, than ICE has"

― mookieproof, Wednesday, January 9, 2019 1:28 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The fuck?

lol

https://i.ndtvimg.com/i/2017-03/donald-trump-truck-afp_650x400_41490320339.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/zM5JlEr.jpg

he must be talking about that. STRETCHABLE METAL !!!

is that driven by some masked wrestler?

“I think border security is very important. It is not a responsibility of the Department of Defense,” said Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Tex.), the top committee Republican. “In short, I’m opposed to using defense dollars for non­defense purposes.”

So the wall isn't about defense, got it.

No, it's about dewall, getcher head in the game.