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

this hasn't been linked in a while but whoever runs this is a hero

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/

(this covers yesterday, obv)

The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the appointment of Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general.

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So...so why is it suddenly a thousand? Why a fucking thousand? Why? Why? What the fucking fuck is wrong with you that you feel the need to make it a fucking thousand?

I know it's just textbook pathology but the compulsive need to lie when there isn't even a sliver of material advantage in doing so feels like a window into some profound internal damage.

"We have pizzas, we have 300 hamburgers, many, many French fries, all of our favourite foods. It's American, I like it. It's all American stuff."

I know his speech patterns are very idiosyncratic but this reads like a crap robot in a straight-to-video science fiction comedy undercover in the heroes saying "I'm a human. I do human things like you, I mean us."

200 Riverside Blvd 48/46

Oooh! Close!

Dear Disney World, please to update Hall of Presidents with new dialogue ASAP.

I remember when my great uncle went full dementia he did a lot of random shit like this, talking about how his wife was making chicken for the picnic and we were just like "what picnic"

— politeworkaccount (@politeworkacco1) January 15, 2019

there were salads

howbout we get back to the important shit

Bashing Hillary?

She would have order Panera, which is totally not as healthy as she thinks it is!

you guys are gonna love the next classy neolib drone-bomb prez soooo much when (s)he puts out hummus for this shit

Morbz I have surprise for u, if you look to both ur left and ur right u will find that this piano plays more than just the one note

Not complaining, though, the note you've picked is a beautiful soporific. Zzzzzz....

dril going ham(derder)

just got word from a trusted source: the guy who said he would fuck his daughter on "The View" is in hot water for spelling hamburger wrong

— wint (@dril) January 15, 2019

It is very early, but even though sides have been staked and the usual bullshit invoked, the GOP on the judiciary committee seems imo a little less emboldened than the last time they publicly convened. Let's see where this goes.

In positive news:

BREAKING: Federal court blocks citizenship question from 2020 census.

“The evidence is clear that Secretary Ross’s rationale was pretextual...the court can not sustain agency action founded on a pretextual or sham justification that conceals the true “basis” for the decision.”

— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) January 15, 2019

Can you please stop it with the winning? This is exhausting.

I was dying when he (Barr) introduced his entire lawyering family.

lmaooo at that @dril tweet

https://s.productreview.com.au/products/images/151304_shamwow.jpg

anyway guys I give 'hamberder' another 3 hours, then I'm gonna have to ask everyone to knock it off. thanks

It could be the candidate, it could be any number of things, it could all change, but right now this hearing is proceeding as if they met beforehand and agreed to at least the pretense of a chill the fuck out reset.

I don't know Graham did open the hearing w high dudgeon "PETER STRZOK!" bullshit

Grassley had a yelling at the clouds moment too.

william barr will roll through the process pretty easily, i think. i doubt anyone formally agreed on a chill the fuck out reset, but i do think that democrats want to demonstrate to trump that if he nominates someone that is competent, he wouldn't have so many problems

Which he then followed by saying please ignore my raising my voice, I'm not mad at you or something. And they have mentioned the FBI high drama bullshit, and Clinton. They just don't seem to be crusading on the matter. I mean, Graham also said some balanced stuff, and also snidely referred to Trump as a one-page memo kind of guy. So I expect the usual shit, but it's also so far seemed less theatrical/confrontational on both sides. And Barr seems less evasive and combative than the usual Trump nominee.

he's been around the block a few times

Yeah.

just wanna make sure that we don't miss the nyt's rundown of how trump's inauguration committee spent their money, a decent chunk of which went straight into trump org coffers - information which will of course be completely forgotten about by the end of today at the latest

- $10,000 on makeup for 20 aides

- $1.5 million at Trump International Hotel in D.C.

- $30,000 in per diems to dozens of contract employees, “in addition to their fully covered hotel rooms, room service orders, plane tickets and taxi rides, including some to drop off laundry,” according to the Times

- $6.4 million in hotel room reservations for guests who ended up using other accommodations

- $2 million to Trump campaign official Brad Parscale’s firm for online advertisements

- $1.6 million in a fee to WIS Media Partners, a firm created for the inauguration and run by close friend of Donald Trump’s Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, which managed broadcast rights and worked on a documentary that never came to fruition

due to a large order placed yesterday, we're all out of hamberders.
just serving hamburgers today.

— Burger King (@BurgerKing) January 15, 2019

ugh

Deep State!

burger king,,,

your cancelled

ok, joke's over

you guys are such killjoys. we deserve to enjoy hamberders for at least a little while longer. 1,000 joke writers typing for 1,000 years on 1,000 typewriters couldn't have topped it.

the problem is none of the jokes are as funny as the original

That Barr says he has not researched the emoluments clause and doesn't know what it says. bish puh-leez.

you guys are such killjoys. we deserve to enjoy hamberders for at least a little while longer.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, January 15, 2019 5:56 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I googled the word just now and my first result was, of course, a Vox explainer :-(

ermahgerd I'm so over this!

Hamberderd I'm so over this!

xpost I half believe him, since as I (barely) understand it the clause is sort of legally unclear and, as he rightly points out, is literally being adjudicated in a couple of cases right now. Same with him talking about how hard it is to define "corrupt." Can't really complain about a lawyer getting all legal about shit. He did seem pretty clear about promises to support Mueller in all his enterprises.

Meanwhile, another delay in Rick Gates sentencing.

I've been known to occasionally write 'hamborder' because before today such an ott egregious misspelling was almost hilariously beyond belief but I'm afraid that this is the day the laughter died.

lol: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/425425-democrats-turn-down-white-house-invitation-for-shutdown-talks

Nancy runs a tight ship

Overton window = moved

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her Republican critics have both called her proposal to dramatically increase America's highest tax rate "radical" but a new poll released Tuesday indicates that a majority of Americans agrees with the idea.

In the latest The Hill-HarrisX survey, which was conducted Jan. 12 and 13 after the newly elected congresswoman called for the U.S. to raise its highest tax rate to 70 percent, found that a sizable majority of registered voters, 59 percent, supports the idea.

hell yes

shakey i think you're being too glib about DC statehood. it's not like there were a bunch of people unsure about a 70% rate and we had a serious debate for months and the overton window moved. it just took someone to say it out lood and not turn into a pillar of salt and people are like "huh, i never thought about that, that's cool, and maybe it's in the realm of the possible".

the overton window applies to the policy question of DC statehood in the same way IMO, and it's awesome that a prominent person is advocating for it. (political practicalities aside).

It's going to get worse before it gets better.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dw9o-DJWkAYoLFT.jpg

hamburders > cofveve

ok this is actually pretty funny

the president was clearly trolling the deep state by tweeting out the word [consults urban dictionary] ham-satan pic.twitter.com/yoUsjT61bB

— KT Nelson (@KrangTNelson) January 15, 2019

AOC is just doing a better job of unabashedly voicing policy thats actually popular than dems in the past.