US Politics March 2019: “I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled”

so is this another one of those "holy shit members of the Trump admin committed felonies in broad daylight" dealies that everyone's just gonna forget about in 2 days

I guess if you are going to break bad, might as well go all the way. That whole thing with Trump having pictures at the Superbowl with the Chinese woman that owned Day Spa's implicated by the FBI in a sex trafficking crime and the owner of the Pat's implicated did not even seem to make much of a blip.

Well, he doesn't even know her, right?

Have we ever seen this degree of brazen, pathological mendacity in American public life? One day he makes a harmless slip of the tongue, something any mentally balanced person would laugh off.

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 14, 2019

(long ranting thread)

that thread is the question i ask every fucking day for the past... 4 years?

does George Conway ever ask this question over the dinner table while looking into his beloved wife's eyes

It's how he starts foreplay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLjtdiNLK10

Was at a non-political function recently and GC was in the house, wandering around while everyone tried to keep their distance. He is a certifiable schlub in person.

Birch Bayh has died.

*stereotypically white sounding voice* as a centrist i dont have strong feelings about this one way or another

The House just passed a resolution 420-0 calling for the public release of the Mueller report. https://t.co/XoC5CNBFb1

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) March 14, 2019

https://apnews.com/b7c693b602744f63bddd2efbf52ef5c6

420 huh, nice *tokes*

Yam Republic dogwhistle

Trump to Breitbart on how the left plays tough: "I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump — I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point and then it would be very bad, very bad."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 14, 2019

Mmmm yeah how does the military feel about that statement

wait Bikers For Trump is supporting Trump this year?

huge if true

My senator Tillis actually bothered to write a whole op-Ed criticizing the declaration iirc. I mean I guess he could always still vote no but that would make the op-Ed a pretty weird flex.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Sunday, March 3, 2019 7:37 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I should know better by now than to ever underestimate the spinelessness of these ham-brained fucks.

Gotta say, though, 59-41 is a bigger slap from the Senate than I expected.

VETO!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 14, 2019

is this how he thinks vetoing works

"i declare Veto"

Veto O'Rourke

prezzing by twit

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/9/96/Vito_portrait.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160306145734

I want to skip to the chapter where we find out who exactly has what dirt on Lindsey Graham.

He went on a "charm offensive" last week or so, doing the interview rounds, and he was wholly unconvincing. "When I agree with the president I will say so, and when I disagree with the president I will say so, too." He brought up Syria and the murder of the journalist in SA as areas in which he disagrees with the president, and the interviewer pressed him and asked, basically, so what are you going to do about it? And he gave the same runaround. "I will do what I can when I can, etc., sometimes behind closed doors, but I am not going to confront this president just for the sake of blah blah..." "I am the same Lindsey Graham I have always been blah blah." "My good friend John McCain didn't agree with Obama on everything but offered to support him when he could, and I am doing the same with blah blah."

He also conceded (no surprise) that he's in the business of politics, so he knows it's more politically beneficial to support Trump than spar with him.

yeah i'm just going to be over here assuming the absolute worst about Lindsey

(re dirt)

why stop there

Eh, the worst is bodies in the basement. I think he just fucks/is fucked by men.

I honestly believe he's more terrified about the latter being made public than the former.

ehh Lindsey has plenty of shit to give him a hard time about let's let this stuff a rest

you know who else has got to be a closet case is orrin hatch

we could ask his son but he is no longer on ILX

ftr my suspicions have nothing to do with Graham being a closet case and everything to do with him being a kiddie fucker

agree with carne asada

So Thom Tillis NC writes a prominent op-ed in the Washington Post arguing against Trump’s emergency declaration and then votes to uphold it?

Is it not more likely that Lindsay's always been an awful piece of shit, and he saw a career opportunity in opposing Trump, but that didn't pan out so now he's firmly on the Trump train? Have none of us ever watched a gangster movie before?

No surprises, but this morn Two-Scoops went from tweeting about helping New Zealand to the "Jewexodus" for the Democratic Party & Obama spying on him (both latter stories from Fox and Friends, natch).

Excuse me, "Jexodus".

who knew you could link the word exodus to the jews

"@twitt_be_cray: @realDonaldTrump go fuck yourself you dumb fuck" When was the last time you had a date-such terrible language (& picture).

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2013

Interesting development - Mueller not done with Rick Gates. Since Mueller *is* done with Manafort, that means Mueller is working toward someone else with Gates ...

Would love to see Tom Barrack indicted

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-politics-beto-orourke/

who knew that the "cramped calves" tweet was a reference to beto's writing all along

http://www.textfiles.com/groups/CDC/song.of.the.cow

ULTRA TRENDY: "Well... the reason I don't go in the pit, is... well... see, I uh... broke my leg... yeah, I broke my leg... and I'm not wearing a cast because... uh... because... because I'm tough! Yeah... I'm tough... I don't need a cast.... By the way, did you get the new Sex Pistols bootleg?" -- an actual thing beto said this is INCREDIBLE