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

I know that these people will never suffer for their actions, and that upsets me.

from the progression of his talking points, and what he has been willing to support and justify, over the past two years, it's obvious that there is literally nothing that the president and his administration might do that my representative and most other GOP reps could not find it in themselves to support. arrests of journalists, concentration camps, genocide. it's all fine with them. or would be fine if we prepare for it by a few increments. when i see his never-not-bland face i see the face of those that murdered my relatives in Theresienstadt.

if that seems extreme to you, you're not paying attention.

I don't catch up until late in the day, so I'm sure this has been discussed lots already, but "I didn’t need to do this...I just want to do it faster" on the day the emergency is declared and the legal challenges are launched is beyond surreal. Not to mention relegating the emergency to fifth or sixth on the press conference agenda. Or the sing-songy 9th-Circuit rap.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/430191-trump-predicts-ninth-circuit-will-block-emergency-wall-declaration?jwsource=cl

Image if he wasn’t a fucking idiot??

that sing-song 9th Circuit rant was really unhinged

Holy shit, what the fuck.

Sometimes I just need to say it explicitly and really let it sink in: this man is the President of the United States.

wow, what the hell

Mustard needs to set that to a great beat

Our auto-autotuning POTUS.

Sometimes I just need to say it explicitly and really let it sink in: this man is the President of the United States.

sort of the natural end product of that shining occupation

National Emergency, Day 1. A nation holds its breath in terror. Will we survive this? pic.twitter.com/HrmoChgC1e

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) February 16, 2019

Also....THAT'S the private club that's supposed to be the height of members-only luxury? I've seen breakfast rooms as nice as that at airport Ramadas.

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) February 16, 2019

United Club is better than that

Nice Vampire Weekend tribute in the next room tho.

Man, that omelette station chef could do us all a favor and take one for the country.

I’d like to think the egg mix has had a distinct scrotumy taste for a while now.

Omelet station has a choice of the finest... ketchups

Goddess, goddesses, gods or God, end this world please

tbf, i think i see tabasco there too.

Did he really declare a national emergency? I didn't get a Presidential Alert about it on my phone.

What's up with his face?

Ark of the covenant opened

We’re all gonna ignore the “walk the walk” poster?

Trying to

fucking nytimes, this is just an enraging subhed at the top of their homepage right now:

Data suggested that the harsh immigration policies may be achieving some of their intended effects.

what are these "intended effects" ny times? what is the INTENTION behind trump's harsh immigration policies - policies like locking up thousands of children? like building a giant medieval wall? if you listen to trump, you hear that it's "because we have tremendous amounts of drugs flowing into the country" or because violent criminals cross the border and attack people.

but the piece goes on to profile a woman named natali who's fleeing a honduran gang who had threatened her. and a guy named elde, who wasn't dissuaded by trump's policies at all and tried crossing the border but failed. "i'll just keep trying" he says. and a 50-year-old woman with her teenage daughter who, when asked if she would try crossing illegally if that were her last option said "yes".

LITERALLY NONE OF THE STATED "INTENDED EFFECTS" OF TRUMP'S POLICIES ARE BEING BORNE OUT IN THESE INTERVIEWS

but all that aside - the ACTUAL "intentions" of trump's immigration policies is just as likely, and arguably more likely, to be aimed at bolstering his poll numbers and to deliver on demagogic promises he made in the 2016 campaign.

so we have a story about some people finding it difficult to cross but basically saying they're going to keep trying anyway because their lives suck so hard where they come from. the headline to that might read: "MIGRANTS SEEK US RESIDENCE DESPITE SETBACKS"

or: "TRUMP POLICIES FAIL TO DETER HARD-LUCK MIGRANTS"

or if you were writing a story about trump's "intentions" with these policies you might write: "TRUMP APPROVAL STUBBORNLY LOW DESPITE EMERGENCY"

but instead?

Data suggested that the harsh immigration policies may be achieving some of their intended effects.

Hear, hear Tracer.

I recently had a minor epiphany of sorts, which I haven't yet been able to put into practice, that I should be challenging the "immigration problem" rhetoric I still occasionally encounter among my acquaintances* by asking them to answer two simple questions: Do you think the "problem" has gotten worse since the Clinton years? And do you know what the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 did?

*Mostly white, Southern old-timers from 12-step meetings, who seem pleasant enough until they get to running their mouths outside in the smokers' circle

Sorry for the HuffPo

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c67b7a3e4b033a79942d86d?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=main_fb§ion=politics&utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&__twitter_impression=true

good morning!

"...a thing called the Nobel Prize,”

that's a great link bernard. vox really delivers the goods sometimes.

Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2019

otm, get it done america

It's true his tweets are funnier than SNL

I totally support Trump and the GOP starting their own competing comedy show.

WASHINGTON — Senator Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vowed on Sunday to investigate whether the top officials at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. plotted an “attempted bureaucratic coup” to remove President Trump from office, and said he would subpoena the former F.B.I. director and the deputy attorney general if necessary.

Mr. Graham was reacting to an interview in which the former F.B.I. deputy director, Andrew G. McCabe, confirmed an earlier New York Times report that the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, had suggested wearing a wire in meetings with Mr. Trump and that Justice Department officials had discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from office.

Mr. Rosenstein has disputed the account.

“I think everybody in the country needs to know if it happened,” Mr. Graham said on the CBS program “Face the Nation,” calling Mr. McCabe’s assertion “beyond stunning.” He added: “I’m going to do everything I can to get to the bottom of Department of Justice, F.B.I. behavior toward President Trump and his campaign.”

Asked by the program’s host, Margaret Brennan, if he would subpoena Mr. McCabe and Mr. Rosenstein to testify, Mr. Graham said, “How can I not if that’s what it takes?” He promised to have a hearing to find out “who’s telling the truth.”

was lindsey graham always this loathsome? he's gone from 95th percentile asshole to 99.999th god-tier over this past year

He tweeted that about SNL just to twit Lorne Michaels into having Stephen Miller host it. Lorne would 100% do it, if asked.

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def most likely to have a a closet full of skeletons in David Pecker's safe

xpost Graham

He tweeted that about SNL just to twit Lorne Michaels into having Stephen Miller host it. Lorne would 100% do it, if asked.

speaking of NBC late-night hosts, i have to admit i wouldn't mind watching jimmy fallon rustle and tussle the top of stephen miller's head like he did trump's

Lindsay Graham's performance as Compromised Senator #2 is a little too on-the-nose for my liking but tbf the script is also to blame, as his crooked motivations shouldn't be this glaringly telegraphed this early in the story.

Weird how at one point South Carolina of all places had an Indian-American governor, an African-American senator and um, Lindsey Graham.

Someone forgot to bring the applesauce sign to Europe with them.

Speaking to a security conference in Munich, Pence tells his audience he brings greetings from President Trump... and not a single person claps. #awkward pic.twitter.com/JkFpsKqfgk

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 16, 2019

OMG -- Pence was visibly shook in Poland when he received absolutely no reaction to what was clearly supposed to be an applause line about how "the time has come for our European partners to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal." pic.twitter.com/biRxARZkcM

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 16, 2019

The idea that Pence didn’t have more self awareness how unpopular this decision was internationally might negate the perception that he’d be more skillful at getting through bad policy ideas than Trump has been.

He’s extremely stupid, and there’s a long public record of his stupidity to back it up.

o do i have this right

1) there is a national emergency on the texas border
2) the president is vacationing in florida
3) the veep is out of the country

xpost i wasn't that familiar with pence before he became VP, so i always kind of thought people were exaggerating his stupidity. but he really is fucking stupid and his trademark blank look is a result of the complete inactivity inside his head rather than any sort of steely resolve or poker face

theoretically someone could fill up his cavernous brain cavity with an agenda or information or some sort of purpose, but no one has done it so he's just the weekend at bernies 2 dead guy, standing there and occasionally making his arms move to sign documents

he says the words that mean the things, and he says them in the right order, what more do you want?? does he have to SHOW you his pair of gray Bike coach's shorts for to understand he's that kind of solid dude? come on now