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

"You want to talk about a national emergency?" Speaker Pelosi says. "Let's talk about today, the one-year anniversary" of the Parkland shooting.

"Why don't you declare that a national emergency? I wish you would. But—a Democratic president can do that." https://t.co/RtDFa4fl1T pic.twitter.com/nohS0WmH2u

— ABC News (@ABC) February 14, 2019

no way would a Democratic president actually do this BUT I think "we'll actually take your guns next time" is actually kind of an effective message

"It would be a pretty dramatic expansion of how this was used in the past," says GOP senator Ron Johnson of Trump declaring a state of emergency.

Marco Rubio: "It's a bad idea."

Republicans seem very caught off guard by this.

— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) February 14, 2019

guys can we please stop the whole "we're very uncomfortable with what Trump is doing but will do absolutely nothing to stop it" routine, both sides have to be utterly sick of it by now

but Chuck Todd never is!

Oh man I can't wait for which passive aggressive bible verse Marco Rubio is gonna tweet

President Big Chungus pic.twitter.com/iTRUc3iofm

— kyle robbins (@kylerrobbins) February 14, 2019

there is no way Trump is 6'3". Jeb! is 6'3".

lol piss on this turd: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-emergency-declaration-border-wall-funding-not-national-emergency/

I kinda forgot about IronStache but he still owns

Happy Valentine’s Day.
Many can’t even afford to ‘supersize it’ today.
Thanks for making us aware you’re in a better place.

— Randy Bryce (@IronStache) February 14, 2019

I Love My Curvy President

"Trump is now pushing the presidency’s organizational resources, in the form of presidential emergencies, to their limit. Like Carter, he’s got resources at his disposal that John Adams did not have. But as was true of Carter, Trump’s dependence on those resources is not a sign of strength but weakness."

http://coreyrobin.com/2019/02/14/what-does-trumps-pending-declaration-of-emergency-mean-about-his-power-and-the-state-of-his-presidency/

So the Dems devised a compromise bill that Asshole may or may not sign but he's declaring an emergency for money anyway? Why shouldn't they just take the border money off the table again, if he's waving his ugly dick around?

um

There are police here on the hill circling politicians when they come in for the vote, keeping reporters away from them. This is not normal.

— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) February 14, 2019

This is fucked. The police say they're just "escorting" the senators to the vote. In effect, they're shielding them from taking questions. Never seen this before.

— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) February 14, 2019

nazis! . . . half-off . . . at the hazard county fair

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzaI0bTVAAAkhRx.jpg:small

every good URL has a space in it

I’m a nationally syndicated doctor

the land of oz

XP I own a mansion and a yacht

you are a patriot and my role model

tbf P and . are separate characters

"trump plans national emergency" is a weird headline

weird, or inevitable?

donald trump: "weird, inevitable and legal!"

I thought people were having a hard time believing that trump was 6'2 last year so finding it odd that he's gained an imaginary inch since then.

good morning!

On CNN last night, talking about the new Attorney General, one of the hosts said something to the effect of "And to start today, of all days, in the midst of all this turmoil."

Would that not apply to every single day of this presidency? I don't recall the downtime.

Apart from the day of his inaug?

I thought people were having a hard time believing that trump was 6'2 last year so finding it odd that he's gained an imaginary inch since then.

What people were saying last year is still available to be checked

the girther movement!

Weld to challenge to God-Emperor. I can't imagine him getting much support, but discord on the R side is generally a good thing.

Here's to hoping his chutzpah leads to similar challenges from people I've actually heard of before.

Good luck USA

Wow, he is babbling

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CavernousCorruptHyrax-size_restricted.gif

Weld was the Libertarian VP candidate. He's a well-spoken moderate R, and alarmed by Trump, in the last weeks of the '16 campaign, urged independent voters to vote for HRC rather than his own party in swing states. I like him.

"I'm going to be signing a national emergency, and it’s been signed many times before. It’s been signed by other presidents from 1977 or so it gave the presidents the power," Trump said. "There’s rarely been a problem. They sign it, nobody cares. I guess they weren’t very exciting."

waht

The Guardian live coverage is interesting in that it's embedding in each part of the story that Trump's side of it is complete horseshit.

Carter wasn't very exciting iirc

someone needs to be collecting all the great/depressing thread titles that come too early in the month to have a chance. "There's rarely been a problem," "They sign it, nobody cares," "I guess they weren't very exciting"... all strong contenders that just missed their window.

I'd personally favor your current dn, Dr. C.

"Ann Coulter, I don't know her, I hardly know her, I haven't spoken to her in a year"

The Guardian live coverage is interesting in that it's embedding in each part of the story that Trump's side of it is complete horseshit.

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, February 15, 2019 5:07 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's the only way to try to do basic reporting about this.

Yeah, that it's so remarkable is sad.

TBF, most 'journalists' aren't really engaged in basic reporting these days.

I heard about it from a woman I said what are you talking about then I read it in a paper and I put out a statement that said don't do it

"He had rocket ships flying over Japan"

Jim Acosta, who the president doesn’t like, asks Trump why he is declaring a national emergency at a time when statistics show undocumented immigration has just dropped to its lowest level in a decade.

“You don’t really believe that stat do you?” Trump says. That stat comes from his own government.

Trump says he has seen statistics which contradict the numbers reported by the government’s Customs and Border Protection bureau.

The president is asked where he is getting those statistics from.

“I use many stats,” Trump says.

based on his medical report, he might need many stents

Trump, responding to my question, concedes there’s no national emergency to justify building his wall: “I didn’t need to do this... I just want to do it faster.”
That answer will complicate his legal case.

— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) February 15, 2019

I thought SCOTUS made a habit lately of disregarding intentions

starting to think this trump fella is a bad president tbh