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

I'm guessing 'having fun and joking around with' is basically code for 'making a clumsy attempt at killing and eating'.

lmao he couldn't pick Barron out of a lineup

love too quote The Constitution when addressing the president

joke's on pelosi tho cuz not only has he never read the constitution, he's not gonna read this letter either

he will hear about it on Fox though

Does Barron Von Trump even live in the WH?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/politics/syria-attack-us-patrolled-city/index.html

cool Trump's got his own Benghazi now

There are fake print editions of The Washington Post being distributed around downtown DC, and we are aware of a website attempting to mimic The Post’s. They are not Post products, and we are looking into this.

— Washington Post PR (@WashPostPR) January 16, 2019

.@washingtonpost you might want to deal with the lady handing out fake copies of the Post outside Union Station. I tried to explain why this is problematic but she wasn’t having it. pic.twitter.com/pjohcCFSx7

— Ian Kullgren (@IanKullgren) January 16, 2019

xpost That's just not possible, ISIS was destroyed and we pulled out of Syria.

nice. someone send me a copy, love newspaper parodies.

McCaskill: I don't understand these young people with the socialism and the justice and the antiwar and whatever their mouths say!
MSNBC: We'd like to pay you to hear more of this. https://t.co/LpaESkdbWR

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) January 15, 2019

barf

She's no Adam Driver.

Someone better tell the Ewoks to stop the celebrating!

http://nerdreactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/star-wars-ewok-celebration.jpg

hfior?

Pelosi move re: SoU looks specifically designed to humiliate Trump/rub his face in his failure

the equivalent of publicly telling him his show is cancelled and it's his fault

If only she had the power to force him to write the SOTU himself by hand.

i want him to submit the SOTU in the style of the Highly Anticipated 2017 Fake News Awards, which was around the time that i fully realized how incompetent everyone surrounding him is

https://gop.com/the-highly-anticipated-2017-fake-news-awards/

The shutdown must have effected this year's Fakies.

they might have also noticed that the 2017 fake news awards website was visited only 822 times (and at least 20 of those were me)

Per pool, WH on mtg today: “The President and his team had a constructive meeting with bipartisan members of the problem solvers caucus. They listened to one another and now both have a good understanding of what the other wants. We look forward to more conversations like this.”

— Lissandra Villa (@LissandraVilla) January 16, 2019

http://litreactor.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/content-small/images/column/2014/07/30-rock405-problem-solvers.jpg

one side wants a stupid wall or else
the other side doesn't want the stupid wall, and refuses to talk about it until the rest of the government is released from its hostage situation

can't wait for them to follow up on this soon and have more conversations like that!

Have they thought about constructing a border length moat? The could make it a public works project. All of his supporters can just grab a shovel and get to work, to be paid in all the ways they will benefit by 100% halting the flow of illegal immigrants from Mexico.

BREAKING: Senate GOP defeats Dem measure to enforce sanctions against companies controlled by Russian oligarch OLEG DERIPASKA.
Dems needed 60 votes, only got 57, even after GOP defections.
Sanctions now all but certain to be lifted this week pursuant to TRUMP administration deal.

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) January 16, 2019

wonder why they wouldn't want to enforce sanctions

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/05/08/putins-proxies-helped-funnel-millions-gop-campaigns

Tsk tsk.

New — Inspector General for GSA, the agency that leases Trump his DC hotel, has issued report saying agency ignored the Constitution in allowing Trump to keep the deal. More coming.

— Jonathan O'Connell (@OConnellPostbiz) January 16, 2019

at this point I think people are going to have to die - in a plane crash, in a terrorist attack - before the GOP Senate caucus ends the shutdown

yeah I was just talking about that with someone in my office, about how crazy it is that these assholes would be willing to even take the relatively tiny risk of a plane crash that could be traced to a lack of sufficient inspections, or a food contamination outbreak, or probably about a hundred other long-shot Bad Things that nonetheless are decidedly not out of the realm of possibility. Setting aside the obvious tragedy of something like that happening, just from a CYA perspective the political ramifications of that would have to be devastating, even for a death cult like the modern Republican party.

after which they'd blame the Democrats for the deaths

this is the dumbest shutdown, and that is tough to achieve

People have been wondering how they'd deal with a real full blown catastrophe for the last couple of years. Now they're just setting things up to show us.
Odd how they are courting disaster as are the Tories?

Just wait until they don't hire back all the furloughed workers. Smaller government!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-shutdown-is-giving-some-trump-advisers-what-theyve-long-wanted-a-smaller-government/2019/01/14/70b22348-1427-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html

the Republicans forced through a rapist on the Supreme Court who swore revenge on the Clintons even though there are a thousand other judges who would've voted the same way. I don't think they give a shit about "political ramifications" and any such disaster would immediately be placed on the Democrats for not caving for the wall

“We . . . found that (the agency) improperly ignored these Emoluments Clauses, even though the lease itself requires compliance with the laws of the United States, including the Constitution,” the report said.

Even us armchair dummies recognized this at the time. It's like for years all these morons have been operating in a dream-state, willfully oblivious to what is obvious.

meh the new AG doesn't even know what Emoluments is so no worries

any such disaster would immediately be placed on the Democrats for not caving for the wall

guessing that 38-42% of the country that makes up DJT's base probably isn't going to see it that way

that's how the GOP would spin it, but I don't think it would work out for them. polling is trending against them and their constituents are gonna be pissed. It's clear the Senate GOP doesn't like being in this position already.

xp

The latest polls have voters blaming Trump for shutdown by a wide, 25-30 point margin. And his approval rating has taken a beating this week. He's actually -22 on Gallup.

It's independents mostly switching

yeah I think this is going to be the thing that actually erodes his base as low as it can go tbh

He's going to lose a good-sized portion of the federal employees who voted for him, even though he doesn't believe they ever existed. He's constantly chipping away at the edges of his base by pursuing policies such as his trade wars, that directly attack some of his loyal voters, even if they also reward some of the others.

just checked the 538 aggregator and yeah, there is definitely some clear downward movement there. still I remain somewhat skeptical - he's never really had a "good" week, just one disastrous week after another, and his approval held steady through all of 2018, even rising somewhat. I guess putting hundreds of thousands of people out of work could change things.

“We . . . found that (the agency) improperly ignored these Emoluments Clauses, even though the lease itself requires compliance with the laws of the United States, including the Constitution,” the report said.
Even us armchair dummies recognized this at the time. It's like for years all these morons have been operating in a dream-state, willfully oblivious to what is obvious.

the thing i can't stop thinking about is how unfairly trump has been treated

very unfairly

the lack of success the GOP is having in pinning this shutdown more on the Dems is a bit surprising to me, but that's only because the GOP has been pretty damn good at it before. But this is so clearly the result of a Trump temper tantrum, and the Dems seem fairly level-headed and patient right now.

agreed, I won't get my hopes up but it's a little refreshing to see

it makes me mad that more than 0% of the public pin the blame on the democrats. they had a vote to fund the government that was unanimously supported in the senate, then trump took the whole thing hostage for his idiotic wall (literally the day after the unanimous senate vote, if i remember correctly?) and it all fell apart. it can't be more cut and dry than that. and as films and tv have reminded us for years, you don't negotiate with terrorists

He owned up to it before he went ahead and did it. Was broadcast pretty widely on tv and social media.
So people have been surprised that he still feels he's able to disown it.