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

xpost Huh

87% of republicans are for the wall supposedly

i don't know what to make of that supposed fact but it's pretty fuckin wild if it's within shouting distance of the truth

87% of republicans should fall down dead

This is kinda hilarious: https://www.wsj.com/articles/shutdown-has-been-a-year-in-the-making-11547498818

It’s less surprising than like 90% of them or whatever supporting Trump

I have to assume her protest outside twitter headquarters was a success if she’s moving on to this

“ever wonder what happened to Laura Loomer? no? well you're gonna find out anyway: she just set up a tent outside of Nancy Pelosi's house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hm8-OQSG18”
― frogbs, Monday, January 14, 2019 12:33 PM (thirty-three

I'm not surprised that many are for the wall, generally speaking. I wonder what percentage think the situation at the southern border rises to the level of national crisis and what percentage is cool with shutting down government over it.

the argument I've seen basically boils down to "Obama was for fencing in 2006, why are you hypocrites rejecting it now?"

Fox news plays misleading footage on a loop. It gets hared all over the place.

He, the Danish socialist party is proposing a marginal tax rate of 70%. Thanks AOC, I guess :)

Alcee Hastings has pancreatic cancer. There's no chance that district's gonna flip if/when he dies, is there?

Pretty solid D from what I gather but I defer to Floridians.

No one lives in Florida, the state is a myth.

and now that shitbag contraception rule has been blocked nationwide:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/14/federal-court-block-trump-birth-control-1099488

I like how we've had zero discussion Steve King debacle on here, altho I get the impression GOP congressional leadership is relieved to have someone they can feel good about heaping abuse on, as opposed to having to talk about the shutdown

(and when I say "like" I just mean that we haven't really talked about it because "OMG STEVE KING IS RACIST" is not a revelation for any of us)

Yeah, there's nothing to discuss or debate.

The only thing I almost posted was this McCarthy quote re: King: "That is not the America I know, and it is most definitely not the party of Lincoln. I have a scheduled meeting with him on Monday, and I will tell you this: I've watched on the other side that they do not take action when their members say something like this."

The "other side?" Oh, you mean all those times an openly racist Dem explicitly defended white supremacy and nothing was done about it?

That Klansman Robert Byrd

goddamn Hugo Black

p sure McCarthy is referring to when black or other minority Dem caucus members call someone racist

"Much of the residence staff at the White House is furloughed – so the President is personally paying for the event to be catered with some of everyone’s favorite fast foods," Sarah Sanders on tonight's Clemson party at the White House.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 14, 2019

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dw6BjUfU8AAS3Xr.jpg:large

lmao

he looks like a crying little boy wearing his dad's suit

"I SAID I WANTED A HAPPY MEAL DAAAAAAD!"

xpost hence the fast food spread.

I wanna try this Burger Kings

Pretty sure we fought the Revolutionary War so that we would not have any Burger King.

I see they're well-stocked with Wendy's Anti-Abortion Burgers

Cold fast food hamburgers, delicious

nothing better than a wendy's burger that has been sitting in it's wrapper for like an hour

maybe my favorite photo of this presidency

next to the Romney one of course

Every GOP evocation of 'the party of Lincoln' feels like a slur to me. Sort of like any republican self-identifying as a Christian.

today is the day Trump finally became president

I mean...Lincoln would never have stooped to serving cold Wendy's burgers to anyone.

Truly, the dumbest of all the fucks.

To see a White House table laden with stone cold Filet-o-Fish sandwiches is to finally, gratefully, blissfully see the end of the American empire, or, perhaps, its final recrudescence.

he should have just rented out the family fun zone at McDonald's, kids love that.

Trump is like school on Saturday: no class.

"Much of the residence staff at the White House is furloughed – so the President is personally paying for the event to be catered with some of everyone’s favorite fast foods"

Huh, maybe he's not a multi-billionaire after all...

yes, the favorite food of top-flight athletes is the same garbage you eat

what a steaming sack of shit

tbf they are cold, not steaming

I appreciate SHS pointing out that our billionaire president very generously funded a 'meal' that my broke ass could've catered on a tight week.

I would wager even the fast food corporations in question are embarrassed rn.

Doesn’t he own a hotel across the street, I’m sure they do catering.

they will be telling their grandkids about this, about the time they met the traitor idiot asshole racist president and he served them Wendy's.

The candles do class it up.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/62/cc/37/62cc37cde7f91cd0a16f7e097a415e47.png

Those guys probably had a better meal on their flight to DC.

life is a bad photoshop from an Onion article now