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

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

self x-post re Barrack

Today, @PostKranish @marycjordan @thamburger and I took a close look at the Chairman’s Global Dinner, the glitzy kick-off to Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugural. (1/7) https://t.co/6s279V1VNk

— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) March 15, 2019

Per pool: Trump called the terror attack a "horrible, horrible thing" and said he called the PM to convey US "sorrow," then turned to “crimes of all kinds coming through our southern border.” He added, "People hate the word invasion, but that’s what it is.”

someone really need to deal with these invaders maybe take it into their own hand and show them where they belong

I just had that increasingly infrequent shock of realization and disbelief that Donald Trump is the president of the united states

I just had that increasingly infrequent shock of realization and disbelief that Donald Trump is the president of the united states

Direction and view of economy by young voters and older voters. For first time, we see younger voters less optimistic about direction of US. pic.twitter.com/D91ay4ov9o

— Adrian Gray (@adrian_gray) February 27, 2019

these goddamn millennials

I know enough of those goddamn millennials to agree with them.

what took them so long

defense of the right to exclude takes up 98% of the amygdala xxxxxp

he called the PM to convey US "sorrow," then turned to “crimes of all kinds coming through our southern border.” He added, "People hate the word invasion, but that’s what it is.”

This man cannot leave office soon enough. He's a walking plague virus.

drossier

Christopher Steele used information from 2009 posts to CNN’s “iReports” site to help him prepare his dossier, believing they were written by CNN journalists. In fact they were posted by unknown users. This reportedly from depositions in the XBT/Webzilla suit. https://t.co/u0fIvQH69R

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 16, 2019

good morning!

are these cites material and detrimental to the supportability of the overall or specific assertions, or is taibbi offering these to publicly undermine steele’s reliability and method? Either way it’s not a bad find, but based on the totality of info i’m inclined to say hard nope.

Direction and view of economy by young voters and older voters. For first time, we see younger voters less optimistic about direction of US. pic.twitter.com/D91ay4ov9o

uhh did anyone actually look at this graph? it's pretty clearly not the first time this has happened... also both older & younger voters seem to be more optimistic than at any point in the past 10 years? I don't get this tweet at all???

https://i.imgur.com/SxiNF14.png

oh doi. there were two graphs. that's the other one.

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