US Politics February 2019: This is one of the great losers of all time.

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Hannity: "On this so-called compromise, I'm getting details. 1.3 billion and non even a wall or barrier... Any Republican that supports this garbage compromise, you will have to explain." pic.twitter.com/9HXaooxBGP

— Contemptor (@TheContemptor) February 12, 2019

Well, tbh he can stake that position because he's not in Congress.

i suppose. american politics is a weird game. you can speak the truth if you're not in congress. and you can speak the truth if you're trying to be the president (i don't expect harris, warren, sanders, gillibrand, or even booker to vote for it). but anywhere in between and you have to be a fucking asshole

!!! Trump: "Certain types of dogs. You do love your dogs, don't you? I wouldn't mind having one, honestly, but I don't have any time. How would I look walking a dog on the White House lawn?...Feels a little phony to me...That's not the relationship I have with my people."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 12, 2019

is he making an announcement or is this just a thing he's doing to feel good

Dale is livetweeting from Trump’s campaign rally in El Paso

was there a firestorm over this? just wondering

Yes, in Jewish circles people noticed that Eric Trump accused Bob Woodward of criticizing Trump "for shekels" and were like uuuuuuggggghhhh.

But it didn't make a big splash outside those circles, because the sad truth is that everyone already expects people like Eric Trump to casually traffic in anti-Semitic stereotypes. It's a man bites dog story.

Eh. It was just culturally commonplace Merchant of Venice stuff, like "pound of flesh."

good morning!

honestly, mad respect to Yglesias for this, I'd love to see every major pundit/columnist try this exercise

Here’s eight big politics things I remember having been pretty confident about that turned out to be wrong and why I am trying to be less confident about things. pic.twitter.com/2JcRhauJXN

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 12, 2019

i'd be equally, if not more, interested to see a list of what he and other pundits actually got right tbh

Confidence is among the most overrated of human qualities (he stated with unflinching confidence).

I feel like I'm going insane

Tentative bipartisan deal calls for $1.375 billion for 88 kilometers of border fence, according to congressional aides.

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) February 12, 2019

only $4,762.49 per foot!

it's so crushingly disappointing to see the centrism on display everywhere right now - in this wall debate, the Omar quote, the primaries. we deserve the coming apocalypse.

a brilliant deal in that it will piss absolutely everyone off

i hope those 88km are equally spread across the whole of the border, just little sprouts of fencing a few centimetres in width spaced out across 3,200km of border

or maybe one thin fence going straight up 88km into space

no I mean am I seeing things or is this another thinly veiled Nazi reference, what kind of chud measures things in km

Marty! I just got back from 2050 and the 88.6 miles of wall are still under construction and this text barely fits into the .gif anymore!

the creeping covert conversion of america to the metric system continues apace

i think yr probably reading too much into this one, frogs, altho anything is possible in hellworld i guess

I mean if they hadn't tried the "nearly 14 of every 88 immigrants" thing, yeah, but I dunno man, this administration has successfully gaslighted me

It would be funny if the 88km of fence was not contiguous.

that's what i said!

ha when i see a person especially a certain type of person use km for ground figures i suspect army, but that guy herman is voa

xpost Yeah, decorative wall bits! Christo is still alive, right?

They could commission a host of conceptual artists. Christo, Banksy, Richard Serra ...

88, eh?

Kinda feel like it's cool to attribute intentionality to any whiff of possible racism you might perceive from this administration. The odds are in your favor.

Ilhan Omar Thankful For Colleagues Educating Her On Painful History AIPAC Lobbyists Have Had To Endure https://t.co/W2g7nTATi1 pic.twitter.com/K8xZS1mll4

— The Onion (@TheOnion) February 11, 2019

the onion is so fucking good

it's so crushingly disappointing to see the centrism on display everywhere right now - in this wall debate, the Omar quote, the primaries. we deserve the coming apocalypse.

― sleeve, Tuesday, February 12, 2019 8:45 AM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for someone who constantly complains about other people's posting styles can u not

House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy: Pelosi and Democrats caved on Trump's border barrier demand https://t.co/MRaBVOJdVr

— CNBC (@CNBC) February 12, 2019

well done Democrats

these fuckin idiots, unbelievable

that said I dunno if Trump is gonna accept this so the Dems might get bailed out anyway

xps sorry Brad, fair point

The Dems should characterize it as a slap to his face, so that he will freak out and not sign it.

If Ds get Trump tax returns, some Rs warning what goes around comes around. 'Once you go down the road, there's no turning back...There are lots of people we could have subpoenaed their tax returns the last few years that would be very interesting.' https://t.co/7qt3h8HLgG

— Byron York (@ByronYork) February 12, 2019

oh no, whatever will we do if presidential candidates have to release their tax returns

It seems insignificant, 50 miles of slats? But there's not even time to evaluate it for meaning because the NYT app is surely pushing "House hands Trump a huge win on border security" notifications and that's what it's all about.

A fence is just a bridge turned on its side, think about it.

a river is just a lazy waterfall

that's almost poetry

all in all it's just a...nother slat in the fence

“I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled,” Trump told reporters during a Cabinet meeting.

March thread title

"Sometimes I feel so happy, sometimes I feel so sad, sometimes I feel so happy, but mostly you just make me mad," Trump told reporters during a Cabinet meeting.

according to josh marshall, "Democrats insisted that the limited funding for reinforcing the southern border can only be in the form of more of the fences that were approved and built before Trump’s presidency."

not sure where he's getting that from but i'm busy at work so i can't track it down

tangent but i would love to see the josh marshall version of the yglesias tweet

pr0n iirc

ilhan thrown under the bus, funding for wall agreed. With these bipartisan vibes, truly we are Stronger Together

“I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled, the dreams in which I have been are the ones where I am killed,” Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith told fans during a concert, raising the prospect of a mad world.