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

extremely canny

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Advisers, including Jared and Ivanka, pushing Trump to fire Giuliani after string of disastrous interviews. My latest:https://t.co/E2GQlPXuqS

— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) January 23, 2019

his eyes are adjusting to his new layer of hell

and it's all of his own maaaaking! *snarls and gnashes with flames*

of the scant scraps of tin foil adorning the shitstorm cloud that is the trump administration, the public deterioration of rudy is one of the least unpleasant

gabriel sherman is a tease

for two years now, sources familiar with trump’s thinking have assured us that he is batshit insane, but i have yet to see him knife a hobo

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can someone post it? the t.co link hid that I was using my last Vanity Fair article of the month and it threw a pop-up over the article

Still in his inbox are a slew of important vacancies to fill, including defense secretary, interior secretary and chief of staff. His attorney general, United Nations ambassador and Environmental Protection Agency chief are all serving in an acting capacity while waiting for Senate confirmation votes of his nominees. The White House on Tuesday sent 51 judicial nominations to the Senate, returning names that had gone unacted on last year.

Mr. Trump expressed no urgency when asked by reporters recently about all the acting officials in the upper echelon of his administration. “I like acting,” he said. “It gives me more flexibility.”

deep sigh. it gives you more flexibility, while also introducing uncertainty among the people who actually have to do the work (when they're paid to work, that is) and aren't sure what their agency's major initiatives will be until someone comes in on a permanent basis.

https://i.imgur.com/xyGAvyr.png

it's Tessio and Michael Corleone

lol

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, January 22, 2019 7:03 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

old white guy Democrats from Vermont

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, January 22, 2019 7:03 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Old white guy democrats from Vermont proposing bill to make sure federal employees are paid. Solid angle!

https://vtdigger.org/2019/01/22/welch-bill-prohibit-forcing-federal-employees-work-without-pay/

this whole shutdown/not hiring thing is making me think that grover norquist’s fantasy of shrinking government and drowning it in the bathtub is coming true

old white guy democrat made his good point hugely clumsily but responded with very genuine apology

I am trying to imagine what Giuliani's television appearances will sound like AFTER Trump fires him. He's plenty unhinged now.

Giuliani looks like if the Danny DeVito Penguin had a lovechild with Darth Vader after he's taken his mask off

the best thing about that analogy is imagining the sex

*lies back, closes eyes*

itishappeningagain.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dxh5ortX0AAXOrH.jpg

(v cool that this fucking twerp is still tweeting - and verified! - despite attempting the world's least convincing smear on a former fbi director)

Is it too much to hope at some point that Jacob Wohl finds himself NOT eligible to waive his one-way ticket into deep space

he'll be eligible to run for president in december 2032 btw, be sure to mark yr calendars

well, good morning then!

(v cool that this fucking twerp is still tweeting - and verified! - despite attempting the world's least convincing smear on a former fbi director)

is this being prosecuted btw?

i fuckin' hope so

damn the president joke was the first thing i thought of too but i went into a siezure and couldnt post it first. It’s bad to be conscious again

Giuliani looks like if the Danny DeVito Penguin had a lovechild with Darth Vader after he's taken his mask off

lol spot on

it wouldn't be very romantic to make a lovechild with the mask on

He's daring her to cancel

President Trump said Wednesday he will forge ahead with plans to deliver the State of the Union address in the House chamber on Jan. 29, despite objections from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

In a letter to Pelosi, Trump said he has been assured by national security officials there are “no security concerns regarding the State of the Union address” and “therefore, I will be honoring your invitation.”

“It would be so very sad for our country if the State of the Union were not delivered on time, on schedule, and very importantly, on location!” Trump wrote.

The head of the Democratic Caucus said Wednesday that it’s all but certain party leaders will prevent President Trump from giving his State of the Union address if the government remains closed on its scheduled Jan. 29 date.

“It’s absolutely not clear … what his present intention is,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told reporters in the Capitol. “But I can say that unless the government is reopened, it’s highly unlikely that the State of the Union is going to take place on the floor of the United States House of Representatives.”

Maybe he will vlog himself basejumping from the top of the capitol building.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/426555-poll-7-percent-support-building-border-wall-if-its-only-way-to-end-shutdown

this is sorta interesting

In the new Politico–Morning Consult poll, 72 percent of voters said they oppose putting funding toward a wall even if it's the only way to end the government shutdown.

The poll also found that 43 percent of respondents support the construction of the wall while 49 percent oppose building the wall.

so 29% only support the wall if mexico will pay for it?

er duh i did my math wrong there but point being support seems to drop dramatically when the us paying for it is involved

Polls often don't make sense

I’m so pumped for my buffalo chicken bowl at sweetgreen

My support for a pool in my backyard drops precipitously as the likelihood of my neighbors paying for it decreases.

Wrestlemania at the SOTU!

Fruloughed federal workers are protesting at the Hart Senate Office Building. #OccupyHart. #StopTheShutdown @juliemason @PoPville @dcist @bpshow pic.twitter.com/0XVnFR2beV

— Phil Yabut (@philliefan_99) January 23, 2019

why are they all holding paper plates

gonna rush the cafeteria

probably something about empty plates -- a number of literal food lines set up to serve furloughed workers around the district this last week

Hmm.

pic.twitter.com/YGSjuaXenv

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 23, 2019

Strikes me as legal positioning to some degree but clearly a sympathy play.

saying the president is threatening yr family looks... odd

totally fine in 2019, smoke this doobie and try not to think about it

Otm

So fucking weird because it’s probably true that trump has threatened him in some way. Must be weird to get a visit from a trump fixer who threatens you the way you used to threaten other people as trumps fixer

Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president

...'s ex-lawyer's family from the president?

Trump's idea of a threat sounds like, "If you're not careful, I'm going to FedEx this week-old bologna sandwich to your mom's."

Big Pussy is in a prime position to know what an unscheduled visit from Paulie Walnuts means.

xpost yeah i don't know, trump used to have people like cohen make threats like

"I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we're in the courthouse. And I will take you for every penny you still don't have. And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know," Cohen said. "So I'm warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I'm going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me?"

"You write a story that has Mr. Trump's name in it, with the word rape, and I'm going to mess your life up … for as long as you're on this frickin' planet … you're going to have judgments against you, so much money, you'll never know how to get out from underneath it," he added.

if some asshole walked up to me and said that, i'd feel really threatened, even if it was obvious that the asshole was also really dumb

this has pretty much been trump's way of business for a very long time, threatening people with lawsuits and figuring that they'd back down or settle rather fight an endless legal battle. i'm sure he thought he'd be able to continue this strategy in a modified fashion as president, perhaps having even more tools of aggression and intimidation at his disposal as the head of state.