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

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*

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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.

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— 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.

Trump issuing threats is witness tampering/intimidation and obstruction

So fucking weird because it’s probably true that trump has threatened him in some way.

"probably true" fact-check: he did it on both twitter and TV

small upside of Trump’s nightmare regime is all the moral pretense about human rights and democracy is stripped away and these acts can’t be viewed as anything other than naked power grabs targeting the country with the largest oil reserves in the world. https://t.co/GnzkolslKT

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) January 23, 2019

Um...

there it is

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday she will block President Trump from delivering the State of the Union address in the House chamber on Jan. 29.

In a letter to Trump, Pelosi said she would not move forward with the legislative steps needed for the address to take place.

“The House of Representatives will not consider a concurrent resolution authorizing the president's State of the Union address in the House chamber until government has opened,” she wrote.

Pelosi’s move comes just hours after Trump informed her in a letter that he would move ahead and deliver the address at the Capitol on that date, essentially daring the Speaker to scrap his plans.

is this literally going to end with trump delivering a quasi-SOTU that is actually a plea for a border wall to a mostly empty congress with a few stray republicans showing up?

i do kind of admire how he is gradually morphing reality to match his vision of him being president of only his base

xp yes

He's going to post another of his hostage videos on Twitter and call it a SOTU. Like I'm not a betting man but I think I'd be comfortable putting some money on that one.

Didn’t he send someone to threaten Stormy Daniels when she was out alone with her kid?

he might deliver it in the Senate. I don't think he can technically just barge into the House and deliver a speech to an empty floor, even if he wanted to.

xp

He can't. Speaker controls who is speaking, the end.