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

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kindergarten stuff

Trump responds. pic.twitter.com/Bs02f2sdDj

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 17, 2019

the "fly commercial" line seems dangerous https://t.co/Ni5V3hvgGh

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) January 17, 2019

(bc tsa/air traffic isn't getting paid and she might just do it)

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) January 17, 2019

i'm surprised the president has the authority to cancel congressional delegation trips

of course Trump doesn't get that everyone else isn't like him when it comes to going into an apoplectic rage when he doesn't get a goody.

Lol reports are that the trip was cancelled anyway since they aren't likely to recess in time.

He just keeps...taking...the bait.

"even more forward"

lmaoo

Wow, thank you https://t.co/3KvfwUgUSO

— nathan fielder (@nathanfielder) January 17, 2019

i.e. he may actually have written this himself or at least dictated it

i think this would have been a military flight, hence his ability to cancel it?

You know what they say. When someone hits you, you have to close your eyes, spin around 3 times, then wildly swing your arms around as sway around the immediate area until you hit something back

I love the thought of Trump dictating that letter. 'No, no, do it again. Not enough random Punctuation. Sad!'

https://i.gifer.com/2ioh.gif

'I don't think that's how you spell 'progative'.'

lol this trip was supposed to be top secret

Are you serious?

jfc

Pelosi's trip to Afghanistan had been a closely held secret due to security concerns, of course. Very few people knew she was heading there. @SteveScalise mentioned Pelosi was headed to Brussels in his presser this morning, which angered Dems.

— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) January 17, 2019

Third in line to the presidency, specifically. https://t.co/EfHJM7Xpte

— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) January 17, 2019

lol he can't even retaliate right

It's like shitting your pants to spite a roomful of people who immediately get up and leave you to sit in it for the rest of the day.

I thought you couldn’t fly commercial to afghanistan but then i looked it up and turns out you can

I probably won’t though

lol burn

The President of the United States just compared visiting our troops in a war zone to a "public relations event." Another sad day for our nation when that's how the Commander in Chief sees such a visit. https://t.co/I7F6jlJUBF

— John Kerry (@JohnKerry) January 17, 2019

if President Hillary did this she would've been impeached an hour later lmao

As long as someone can guarantee that our current president will eventually be fed into a thresher, I don't feel a need to put a hard deadline on it.

East coast elites may scoff, but talk to any coal miner stopping at the diner on the way home -- the heartland wants Mnuchin to make this trip. https://t.co/ipdLkaKvKR

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 17, 2019

jfc the House has been under Democratic control for two whole weeks

I knew things were gonna spiral downward but not this quickly

tbh pelosi visiting the troops in a war zone was probably going to be a public relations event

I don't know, maybe they were sending her in armed, to end this once and for all?

wonder if there's more to come here

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/17/politics/tom-marino-announces-resignation/index.html

tbh pelosi visiting the troops in a war zone was probably going to be a public relations event

― k3vin k., Thursday, January 17, 2019 3:40 PM

aren't they all but it's a little rich coming from these fake military loving jerks

Idly wondering whether Pelosi's planned trip is what triggered Trump to go to Iraq over Christmas, so it couldn't be said she'd visited troops stationed in a war zone when he hadn't.

https://www.joemygod.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Disin.png

grifters gonna grift

TRUMP NEEDS $$$$$ NOW GIVE LOVE HIM

"President Man-Baby" now official Washington terminology.

Kildee calls Trump response to Pelosi request to postpone SOTU just the President "being a man baby all over again" pic.twitter.com/RtYWCV5D5z

— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) January 17, 2019

this is real

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxJH9FFX4AUfdrk.jpg:small

Jonah!

I’m not taking Pelosi’s side in this as a political or policy matter, but I would love to see it dawn on Congress that the executive branch is not in fact the boss of the legislative branch and that, over the long term, Congress actually has a lot more power over the executive than the other way around. Given the politics of the moment, I think things would have to get a lot worse before GOP congressmen see themselves more as defenders of their institution than their party. But it seems this is the way such a long-overdue awakening could start.

https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/house-floor-erupts-go-back-puerto-rico

chicken shits

Ah, of course

The acting attorney general's wife wrote a letter to @mjs_DC https://t.co/uDFIeltkpd

— Nick Riccardi (@NickRiccardi) January 17, 2019

Three Bernie Sanders Bills to Arrest the Highway Robbery in the Prescription Drug Market: https://t.co/aMCeS6sofl by @deanbaker13

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) January 17, 2019

I'm sure Pelosi feels absolutely owned after the last-minute cancellation of her trip to *checks notes* Afghanistan

Trump is reportedly pleased at the news coverage of this. By which he probably means Fox considering every other outlet is framing it as manchildery.

Can someone leak the next time Trump has an unannounced travel engagement

Please

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― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Thursday, January 17, 2019 11:40 AM (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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she should invite him back for the SOTU and then administer a proper caning, in the rich tradition of our hallowed congressional halls

that Cillizza "analysis" is a man trying to shit out a lukewarm "actually both sides are equally wrong" turd, fuck that mediocrity forever.

was just coming here to post the same thing.

Like one of the two was an attempt to force the hand of the sole guy who is stonewalling the government from re-opening.

the other was a guy with sandpaper wedged in his asshole feeling bad that he got embarrassed by a girl

Let it be so.

New — President Trump was startled as he watched Bill Barr describe his warm relationship with Robert Mueller, bristling at his glowing remarks and telling people he didn’t realize how much their work overlapped. https://t.co/fAdKh1Px61

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 17, 2019