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

The dumbest nonsense

That'll learn him...

Where is the thread about marie kondo? Rather talk about that than donald trump

some discussion on the netflix thread

The dumbest nonsense

You're welcome.

You didn’t cause the election trump to my knowledge

in the 15-year period leading up to the millennium news relating to Donald Trump made the front covers (of the nypost or daily news) on 87 occasions; in contrast, the AIDS crisis, which during the same period claimed the lives of over 75,000 New Yorkers, featured just 13 times.

He’s always been like a window into our society’s misplaced priorities

apparently the takeaway quote from the Texas visit: "lots of death, lots of death"

where'd he go, a Hospice unit

In my fantasy world, the future Democratic president-elect has a two-word victory speech.

"You're fired."

btw is every newspaper with Examiner in the title right wing crap

Yeah

I really hope they build that wall before the caravan gets here.

So the ACoE build a wall, and then South Carolina gets washed into the ocean in a couple years which, you know, maybe a seawall built by the ACoE could have prevented...

well telescopes are socialism run amok anyways

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/10/hubbles_main_camera_busted/

Thread time...

THREAD: What does the recent revelation that Paul Manafort provided internal polling data from the Trump campaign with an alleged Russian intelligence operative tell us? (A lot.)

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) January 11, 2019

We lose 300 Americans a week, 90% of which comes through the Southern Border. These numbers will be DRASTICALLY REDUCED if we have a Wall!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2019

that statistic sounds totally real and not at all like something somebody made up while typing

> We lose 300 Americans a week

How many die from gun crime? Lack of health care? Poverty?

saw a tweet that posited that he dropped the word 'heroin', since that is a number he repeats elsewhere, so apparently the point is supposed to be that 'securing the border' would end the drug problem too

The veteran spearheading a crowdfunding campaign to fund the border wall raised thousands of dollars for vet programs, but the hospitals have no record of the donations - and a lot more crazy stuff uncovered by @bri_sacks https://t.co/l3BIYoUTnx

— Salvador Hernandez (@SalHernandez) January 11, 2019

Let’s not dabble over his exact wording, the point is that 300 are dying a month and only trump can save them by wall

/barrier

300 a *week*

TBF, he didn't say they were dying. They've just been lost. Misplaced, perhaps.

“It kind of fell apart,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said, wearing a dejected expression. “I have never been more depressed about moving forward than I am right now. I just don’t see a pathway.”

looooool fuck off dude, i have a major pet peeve with people who use "depressed" in this way, and even if it were depression, i don't wish it on anyone but i wish it on him forever for the kavanaugh bullshit alone

god, i'm just reading about this latest plan

In a brief statement not long after, Mr. Graham declared, “It is time for President Trump to use emergency powers to fund the construction of a border wall/barrier.” He added, “I hope it works.”

The administration appeared to be looking into just that: using extraordinary emergency powers to get around Congress in funding the wall. The White House has directed the Army Corps of Engineers to examine emergency supplemental funds allocated last year after devastating hurricanes and wildfires that could instead be used to pay for the wall, according to congressional and Defense Department officials with knowledge of the matter, who insisted on anonymity to discuss the possibility.

i was wondering why he was threatening to withhold FEMA funding for Florida unless they get their act together with "forrest" [sic] management, or whatever he said. (this coming from the guy who was saying we could learn about forest fire management from Finland about a month ago). god, what a fucking asshole

The fires were in California not Florida

wtf, i don't why i typed that. well i do (the empty glass on my table winks) but yeah i don't know what happened there

i guess i might raise this again tomorrow when US people are awake and i am more clearheaded, but where would you all place yourself on the rage-o-meter for this:

And he [Pence] indicated that the president was disinclined to accept the idea behind a bipartisan plan that had been under discussion in the Senate — similar to a measure that Republicans and Democrats supported last year, but that the White House rejected — that would trade wall funding for legal status for undocumented immigrants facing the threat of deportation, including the Dreamers and people who previously held Temporary Protected Status.

I can’t raise any rage or anger or mild annoyance at statements from Mike Pence, who has shown no signs of being a sentient creature in the last 2 years

and even if I could, I wouldn’t at second-hand reports of things he may or may not have third-hand reported about someone else saying about a vague theoretical notion of a policy that does not and will not exist

Nobody in any party, bar Lindsay Graham, should make any facehole noises about trading wall funding for any concessions short of UBI and a full NHS. It’s a ludicrously, droolingly demented concept, if you’re going to pay it any lip service then shove the Overton Window all the way back.

Now that people are officially missing paychecks, the question is which will come first: WH suicide run using emergency powers for funding or senators pressured to come up with a veto-proof majority. Because these capricious GOP assholes only care, in the end, about reelection, and as much as they provide lip service to Trump they've got their own polling and constituents and whatnot to push them around. Not to mention the very real possibility of some sort of disruptive labor revolt in the TSA or FBI or wherever second-hand reports of early grumblings are loudest. Or, for that matter, the reaction of Texans if the government actually starts seizing their land.

Speaking of Pence (sorry), what is up with his perpetually beatific visage? Is he just thinking of the Rapture?

the calm, peaceful expression of god's perfect idiot iirc

He's thinking of mother

good morning!

build the wall! most of all i admire 2scoops' shamelessness. wish i could get away with making shit up, getting caught, and doubling down. them koch boys, and their stalin-loving father, too. #MAGA!!

the very real possibility of some sort of disruptive labor revolt in the TSA

oh no, not... not the TSA

i do enjoy the thought of mass industrial action by one of the most chud-friendly parts of the us government, tho

TSA is not ICE. Security is often stupid and lame and frustrating, but they're just modestly paid workers doing their thing. However, as currently arranged airports can't operate without them.

the TSA thing pretty significantly contradicts Trump's "national security first" reasons for the shutdown

Pence is constantly thinking of all the amateur gyno exams he could be doing.

New party, who dis? https://t.co/2cznisv8tB

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 11, 2019

Ha.

xpost Well, they haven't stopped working yet! Historically Trump has no problem not paying people.

the TSA thing pretty significantly contradicts Trump's "national security first" reasons for the shutdown

But the only thing preventing govt from reopening is Democrats so clearly it is them who aren't concerned about national security

Pence is constantly thinking of all the amateur gyno exams he could be doing.

― Yerac, Friday, 11 January 2019

Rumour mill says something completely different, LOL

Pence is constantly thinking of all the gyros he could be eating.