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

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.

the Ilhan Omar thing still has me seeing red

didn't they try to get her on some "Omar claims Lindsay Graham is a closet homosexual and is being blackmailed" shit a few weeks back? when in reality all she said was "he's acting very strange, as though someone has something on him".

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/429609-trump-calls-on-omar-to-resign-over-remarks-condemned-as-anti-semitic

well done Dems, great work

I don't think I'm ready for a full day of "the liberals gave Trump the idea to attack the Muslim congresswoman"

— GhostTrace (@owenrumney) February 12, 2019

yes but the Dems immediately coming out and calling her an anti-Semite is why the story's not "shut the fuck up, Donald 'it was a Sherriff's Star!' Trump"

Lol okay

She did apologize for her poor choice of words in a good statement ffs. Her spot on the committee is probably safe at this point.

maybe we can put all the right-wing bad-faith critics out of work if we just choose to do it to ourselves instead!

Hey Anvil where did you get the idea that they agreed to give him funding for the wall?

She did apologize for her poor choice of words in a good statement ffs. Her spot on the committee is probably safe at this point.

― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Tuesday, February 12, 2019 12:14 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also my feeling, but i'm an unwavering centrist

NEW: @MaxRose4NY says it’s time to move on from Rep. Omar’s latest comment on Israel & money. (He was one of the first to call her out)

He also said GOP can’t be “chickenshit” when it comes to anti-Semitism either pic.twitter.com/7UII4toPGK

— Bo Erickson (@BoKnowsNews) February 11, 2019

After Liz Cheney called for @IlhanMN to be removed from the foreign affairs committee, Dem congressman appropriately reminds her that she is Liz Cheney... https://t.co/4dIgxrwGgn

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) February 11, 2019

Shelby acknowledges that Trump would have gotten more money for border security had a Homeland Security funding bill that moved through Senate Approps last year become law.

“I would have liked that,” he said.

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 12, 2019

wait so the 1.4b isn't on top of the 1.6b from last year's bill? so he's actually getting less?

President Deals

I'd rather have Hannity saying this isn't enough (and Trump saying he's not happy with it) than a grotesque parade of saying it's a major Trump victory.

eh that sort of thing bothered me less once it became clear how desperate the MSM is to spin anything as a "Trump victory". truth is there were probably 3-4 times when Trump easily could've had much much more than this and he decided to hold out for the full amount and got miserably owned.

NEWS: Mitch McConnell says the Senate will be voting on the Green New Deal

— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) February 12, 2019

seems like a smart move by him tbh