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

Paul LePage, everybody!

Speaking to the hosts of the WVOM morning show this week, former Governor Paul LePage lambasted a bill being considered by Maine’s legislature to join with other states to essentially bypass the Electoral College and ensure that the President is elected by the national popular vote.

“Actually what would happen if they do what they say they’re gonna do is white people will not have anything to say. It’s only going to be the minorities that would elect. It would be California, Texas, Florida,” said LePage.

The former governor, calling into the show from his home in Florida, also labeled the proposal “an insane process” and warned that “we’re gonna be forgotten people.”

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LePage’s rhetoric continues a trend among Republicans of mainstreaming beliefs formerly relegated to the white supremacist fringe. In 2016, then-governor LePage held a press conference, ostensibly to apologize for leaving a vulgar and threatening voicemail, in which he announced that “the enemy right now” is “people of color or people of Hispanic origin.”

Since leaving office and leaving the state, LePage has continued to call in to conservative radio shows on a weekly basis. He has also repeatedly threatened to challenge Governor Janet Mills for re-election in 2022. Earlier this month, Maine Republican Party Chair Demi Kouzounas declared that LePage would soon move back to Maine and lead a political organization to “counteract the Maine People’s Alliance.”

What's wrong with being racey?

might be helpful for him to look up what the word 'minority' means

The unspoken subtext of which is 'white people increasingly have to cheat in order to have any chance of winning'. Which in turn is laden with the subtext that white people have only gotten this far by cheating like absolute motherfuckers.

pretty sure that's just the text and that text is eighth grade history books

no racial bones

Meadows tells CNN's @SunlenSerfaty "anyone who knows me knows that there is not a racial bone in my body" in response to questions about his Obama birther comments in 2012. Note: Obama had been president for 4 years at that point and Meadows said he should go "back to Kenya."

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) February 28, 2019

just using the word "racial" basically tells you "i am an old white racist person"

I love how it’s a mini-controversy that meadows supported birther shit for a while, when trump was the leader of the entire “movement” from the beginning to its bitter, bitter end

yeah, but welcome to our moment.... cf. billy bush, steve king...

(billy bush? bobby bush? bozo bush? i honestly can't remember)

I think he meant to say "racially charged bone"

His brain thinks racial and his mouth speaks racial but his bones are impeccable

racialbone.com amazingly still available

Woulda thot Bizzy was squatting on it

Racial bone thugs n harmony

You don't even need an x-ray to detect the absence of racial bones in someone who is so quick to trumpet their anti-racial bona fides. I mean, did you see how vociferously he talked over that Muslim woman who had the audacity to suggest his chosen course of action was in any way racial? No racial bones in that dude, no sir. Noooooo sir.

I have to assume that one of the ways that Cummings and Meadows express their very good friendship is taking long leisurely strolls allllll the way around any difficult conversations about race.

i drink milk for strong racial bones

the whole "this racist senator is my good friend" thing drives me crazy. can you imagine being elected to office and wanting to be friends with these absolute pieces of shit? maybe it's all for show, i don't know, but certainly this sort of colleagiality or civility or whatever has not gotten democrats anywhere. might as well tell 'em to go fuck themselves.

I read that whole exchange as grandpa politely trying to keep his granddaughter from yelling at her dad at the thanksgiving table

Whenever I hear any congressman refer to another as "my friend" I just assume that means "that asshole" or "our friends" as "those assholes."

And while CPAC trundles along...

“They are people who can put meat on the flesh to what Michael Cohen offered. They are people who know intimately the details of the Trump personality and business.” https://t.co/imdkdn5HTF

— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) February 28, 2019

work on your metaphors, guys

general question: do the legislators and the mueller investigators share any information?

for example, if mueller has evidence that, say, Trump Jr did something, would the house investigators know that? If they called Trump Jr to testify would they be able to ask him questions about it, effectively forcing him to admit something terrible or lie under oath? Or is it all kept separate?

Kept separate, unless the House committee specifically asks for or subpoenas the relevant material and the Justice Department agrees to provide it.

ty!

To which I would add, that if Mueller requested that the committee not pursue a line of questioning in a public hearing, as jeopardizing his investigation by making certain information public, then the committee chairman and ranking minority member would almost certainly agree to reserve that info from their public hearings. The committee can always hold closed hearings, or depose a witness out of public view.

Meantime, the skill!

jacob wohl is giving his cpac presser while flanked by a tiny security guard with a single airpod in his ear pic.twitter.com/tGt4vjI6oh

— Caleb Ecarma (@calebecarma) February 28, 2019

that's a Morpheus cosplayer heading to a con

I thought it was a budget new beat coldwave band.

If someone testifies that a POTUS is a criminal and all-around heinous individual, yet you have major concerns as to the testifier's credibility, wouldn't you ask testifier to name any and all people who could corroborate his/her testimony and seek to question those he/she names ASAP? Nah just rain shit onto the testifier and be done with the whole matter.

maybe, but first you should ask that person to pledge to never sign a book deal about his experiences

Cover of the new Thievery Corporation CD. xp

all you need to do is re-listen to Possession by Sarah McLachlan and it's pretty clear!

oops sorry wrong thread!

this thread could use some McLachlan imo

is wohl going to experience no fallout from trying to set up mueller?

all you need to do is re-listen to Possession by Sarah McLachlan and it's pretty clear!

all you need to do is re-listen to Possession by Sarah McLachlan and it's pretty clear!

ARGH, I meant to do this hilarious thing:

is wohl going to experience no fallout from trying to set up mueller?

all you need to do is re-listen to Possession by Sarah McLachlan and it's pretty clear!

march thread title

Even funnier

The Curse Of The Double C'N'P.

tbf I have that loaded on my clipboard at all times

Meantime

EXCLUSIVE: The White House chief of staff at the time, John Kelly, wrote a contemporaneous internal memo about how he had been “ordered” by the president to give Jared Kushner the top-secret clearance. w/@maggieNYT @adamgoldmanNYT @anniekarni https://t.co/cDkJjvVzgh

— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) February 28, 2019

all this stuff would be enough to impeach like sixteen democratic presidents

Is that the going conversion rate?

you know the 1000s of impeachable things we've learned about over the past couple years?

every single one of them are fake news

It’s such a fucking joke

I kinda like how people are saying nothing has happened when people are, you know, in jail and/or pled guilty and all.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, February 26, 2019 10:10 AM

who is actually serving sentenced time in jail at this moment?

ahhhh, yes, john kelly, i forgot about him. he was the serious grownup who was going to get trump to shape up and fly straight, right?