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

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

https://www.theonion.com/god-answers-prayers-of-paralyzed-little-boy-1819564974

next thread title?

Trump: "Socialism does not work too well. And we don't want that as part of our country and as part of our heritage. We just can't have it. Everything would come to an end and rapidly and then all of a sudden you'd see things happening and you'd say 'What's going on.'"

Trump... gets it?

Everything would come to an end and rapidly and then all of a sudden you'd see things happening

No, you wouldn't. Because you just said everything came to an end. Which would mean that there were no things happening.

and you'd say 'What's going on.'"

Except no, once again. You WOULDN'T say that. Because nothing would be going on! You literally JUST established that everything came to an end.

Also, someone else please insert Linda Perry hat-goggle gif here because I'm too tired

https://66.media.tumblr.com/df6833cd787664628258b0bde6739b64/tumblr_mmdivxhE1b1s030vuo1_500.gif

was that particular steampunk look well established by the mid 90s or was she an innovator?

Burning Man moved to Nevada ~1990 and she was prime "burner" material...

Grisso/McCain = hero

this guy is the worst

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/12/politics/trump-green-new-deal-socialism/index.html

this guy = Cillizza

All these people whining about how much it would cost to implement the GND while being fine with spending TRILLIONS on tax cuts for the rich and stupid wars that nobody asked for should kill themselves STFU.

And Trump is talking about a frickin' Space Force and Mars adventures too, which I'm sure will also cost trillions.

I wrote about how McConnell's attempt to troll Democrats will actually be very good for the Green New Deal. https://t.co/0BsrlKw2wV

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) February 13, 2019

can't quite believe Shithead knows what the Trail of Tears was

also most of his stupid wars were started by his predecessors

I finally saw Wellman’s The Purchase Price. Pretty good I think I liked it more than you did. Stanwyk is great but all the pre-codes of his I’ve seen are pretty bracing in the way the narrative shifts unexpectedly imo

such good news: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/11/18220721/utah-medicaid-expansion-prop-3-sb96

^^^did the brits hear about this

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.

dog bites man

he bit him like a dog

it's literally tearing me apart Lisa

ha whoops for Tommy Wiseau thread^

dog bites man

oops yeah i pretty much got screwed by the pooch

that escalated quickly

Good morning!

The Gallup Poll just announced that 69% of our great citizens expect their finances to improve next year, a 16 year high. Nice!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 13, 2019

actually a good tweet