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

fuck the wall. MEDICARE FOR ALL

Oh, and the WaPo/ABC poll finds net support for declaring an emergency at -35.

— Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz) January 13, 2019

A sign of how bad Trump is at negotiating. Declaring a national emergency would be highly unpopular, even more so than the wall itself, and would create a lot of awkward arguments within the GOP. Threatening to declare one creates an incentive for Democrats *not* to compromise. https://t.co/9nZ92heXPn

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) January 13, 2019

A sign of how bad Trump is at negotiating.

At this point, he's not negotiating but performing, partly because he doesn't know what else to do with the mess he's made. But unless Trump negotiates, he'll do so much damage to the government and to all the tens of millions of citizens who depend on a functioning government, that many people will die and the lives of most US citizens will be direly altered for the worse.

This is a man who declared bankruptcy four different times, after totally screwing over his lenders and business partners, but he can't just magically wipe away his mess this time.

However, Trump is against abortion, so we know he is God's Chosen Leader and this is no doubt part of God's Master Plan for The Greatest Nation on Earth.

the shutdown is just unspeakably bad and makes me so fucking mad. i haven't reached this level of angry since 2016.

However, Trump is against abortion, so we know he is God's Chosen Leader and this is no doubt part of God's Master Plan for The Greatest Nation on Earth.

Correct, except he’s probably not against abortion, he just says he is because it’s the right answer for conservatives. I’m sure they will be *shocked* when he declares that abortion is fine, post-presidency.

(but yes, i know, it doesn't matter what he actually thinks, only what he does)

(psst Aimless knew that)

If we stopped telling each other things we all know we all know what would this thread be for?

Has anyone here seen their food supply severely affected? I saw photos of empty produce stands at the big farmers market where I used to live in DeKalb County, GA

by the shutdown I mean

~networking~

xxp

late to the party but i am supportive of a "MAGAlowmaniac" hashtag btw

Has anyone here seen their food supply severely affected? I saw photos of empty produce stands at the big farmers market where I used to live in DeKalb County, GA

― zwei dunkel jungen (crüt), Sunday, January 13, 2019 2:49 PM (three hours ago)

Is this YDFM? I was thinking about making one of my regular grocery runs to Atlanta in the next few weeks but maybe I should hold off.

i wasn't really sure that "governmentless" was a word even but i gotta say it's nomenclature that ably meets this stupid, stupid moment

We've already noted the trend that every single week makes things look worse from Trump, never better. With no exceptions, afaict. Always more and more suspicious and alarming, never the opposite direction. You'd think if there was anything exculpatory or mitigating, we would have even gotten a hint of it, from the WH, from some reporter somewhere, but we haven't, which at this point implies the obvious: that he is guilty. I mean check out this thread, which further fills out the timeline in sequence:

THREAD: Has anyone noticed the very disturbing overlap between Trump’s insistence on preventing his own staff from learning about discussions with Putin at the Hamburg G20 meeting in July 2017 and how he handled initial revelations about the infamous Trump Tower meeting? 1/ https://t.co/t60jRyrhis

— Andrew S. Weiss (@andrewsweiss) January 14, 2019

The guy is just shady as hell *at best*, so it's become a matter of *how* guilty is he, and exactly what he is guilty *of.* My best guess, given everything, is that he is easily manipulated and ignorant but largely incompetent, and that while it therefore seems unlikely there was collusion per se - which implies cooperation, which implies intent - I suspect he (like his son) happily accepted offers of help, possibly ignorant of the repercussions and legal implications.

Flynn, Manafort, Roger Stone - these sorts sought out foreign aid and money and contracts and stuff. But Trump? He's a stupid bush league asshole who really stepped in it and has pretended the stink isn't there ever since.

It didn't get the attention it deserved, but @realDonaldTrump recently signed a bill into law that will empower women all over the world. @IvankaTrump was instrumental in making the #WEEEAct a priority.

Another huge success for the Trump admin!https://t.co/UGet9NpD8Z

— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) January 13, 2019

Just want it entered into the historical record that the Republicans came up with something called the WEEE Act and had Trump sign it.

good morning!

Just occurred to me how hilariously ironic it would be if the FBI tried to flip Trump to work on behalf of the United States.

#weeebest?

xp

but THIS holiday season...a triple agent...is the president....of the united states!

(cue "Bad To The Bone")

TRUMP says he plans to serve the Clemson national championship football team "McDonald's, Wendy's, and Burger King with some pizza" when they visit the White House tonight.

"I would think that's their favorite food," he says, earnestly. 😳 pic.twitter.com/Gup28pERfh

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 14, 2019

US Politics February 2019: And I think we're going to serve McDonalds, Wendys and Burger Kings with some pizza. I really mean it. It'll be interesting, and I would think that's their favorite food. So we'll see what happens.

It'll be hard for any phrase this week to top "comma, earnestly"

comma comma?

comma commaleon

comma, Leon*

instant comma's gonna getchoo

I’d say we’d be taxing 70% of Trump’s income, but he probably hasn’t made more than $10 million in years - and that’s the real reason he’s hiding his taxes 😉

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 14, 2019

*insert gif of teens wilin' out*

Good burn but I don’t think that’s why he’s hiding his taxes.

he sounds more and more like a very exhausted gilbert gottfried bit

if Trump told the translator to hand over the notes and then told the translator not to tell anybody what they talked about, wouldn't the only two people who knew that happened be Trump and the translator?

Deep Translator

Trump suddenly all about trans rights

Committee to Hide Orations with Authoritarian Despots

gah, the unitary turds stating their distress, because it MUST BE within the pres’s exec authority to fraudulently act to injure american interests and undermine the constitution ~if he wants to and sincerely has other feels about stuff~ ,and the FBI WAS OUTTA CONTROL if they initiated anything on the matter.

i mean “interesting question” shit save it when there’s signs the other branches are compromised by party allegiances.

*realizes that sooner or later you just hanging out in infowars land. 😑*

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/425199-supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-case-challenging-constitutionality-of

^^^ SC upholds Constitutionality of CFPB

if Trump told the translator to hand over the notes and then told the translator not to tell anybody what they talked about, wouldn't the only two people who knew that happened be Trump and the translator?

Not when the State Department and the National Security Council routinely asked the translator for a copy of their notes and were informed that Trump had the only copy.

Contraception rule blocked in court:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/13/trump-contraception-rule-1072909

So much winning...

Houston's George Bush International Airport has closed one of its terminals due to staffing issues.

well I guess I'm gonna buy flight insurance for our trip in April

I head to NYC on Thursday and anticipate being in line at LGA next Monday for thirty-seven hours.

in new york it's on line for 37 hours

FWIW I’m at a conference with 600 people who travelled from all over on Sunday and as far as I can tell not one of them had any more tsa trouble than usual.

Perma-construction at LGA is probably more problematic.

BTW, anyone ever notice that those little dog dishes you put your stuff into at TSA are actually dog dishes? Like, from PetCo and stuff? I wonder how much government money is going to pet stores.

No wonder they let vets board first

lol