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

he's going to keep reminding them

She’s a piece of shit but that’s obviously not what she meant, she was emphasizing how serious the accusations were. lol that it’s the nypost though.

yeah, her line was "the media and democrats have called the president an agent of a foreign government...that is an accusation that is equal to treason, which is punishable by death in this country."

people are gonna forget about this in 2 weeks

― frogbs, Monday, March 25, 2019 5:26 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup. or at least the republicans will stop doing their victory dance if they have any sense. it's clear from barr's letter that the report is full of evidence that trump obstructed justice. it's in their interests to move on.

p.s. schiff should be primaried from the left. he fucken sucks.

We should probably give up on 2020 as a lost cause, given that something good happened for trump 19 months before the election and he’ll be steering a tight ship with the utmost competence for the rest of his term.

Clinton's final "exoneration" in the emailgate cost her the election because it brought back up ugly associations. If the Pubs are wise, they'll take their victory lap and move on.

Dems should not let it happen tho. Make Barr and Mueller testify. Get the whole report released. Continue with your investigation.

Lol Joe

This is getting pretty... funny I guess?

JUST NOW: McConnell blocks Schumer measure calling for Mueller report to be made public

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) March 25, 2019

Goddamn Trump called for it to be public. Put the fucker out there and stfu.

Myrtle speaks:

No collusion. No conspiracy. No obstruction. It’s good news that we can conclusively set aside the notion that the president and his team had somehow participated in Russia’s interference in our electoral process.https://t.co/OAfiDBeZ8d

— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) March 25, 2019

here's what some very smart and sincere left-wing activists are saying on my fb feed:

watching the media and other bloviators tie themselves in knots is something to behold. As Matt Taibbi said, its this decades WMDs. Sad.
Time to talk about what's going on in peoples lives and the destruction of the federal government from within thats happening in plain sight every day. And then work to change it.

i can't help but feel that making this an either/or thing (we either concentrate on the russia stuff, or we work together to make the world a better place, or whatever) suggests a lack of imagination. no, mueller was never going to don a cape and save us. only idiots and grifters put any faith in that. but if you think that trump and the GOP's mercenary corruption and alliance with wordlwide bad actors isn't congruent with--a basic part of--the essential challenges we face toward achieving progressive goals, then... well like i said it suggests a lack of imagination.

i mean, i'm certainly more sympathetic to that view than to the louise mensches (sp?) of the world, though frankly i haven't really encountered those sort of "it's mueller time!" people in the wild and kind of doubt they exist in great number (even if some folks here have testified to their mothers brothers uncles workmates etc. being susceptible to that sort of wishful thinking). but again, the fact that our president is both a grifter and someone easily manipulated by flattery, a man whose instincts draw him to authoritarians, despots, and bigot -- all of which is part of the "russiagate" stuff--is a central fact of our political moment. and it's congruent with the antidemocratic, authoritarian MO of the contemporary GOP and the fascist media driving that.

I especially love how the Taibbi fans boy use Trump lingo ("Sad!"). But to be fair they're not alone -- a credulous media loves its presidents' language. Hence my avoiding "shellacking" and "normalcy." I only respond to "Fourteenth Amendment."

McConnell blocks Schumer measure calling for Mueller report to be made public

This was as predictable as the sun rising. Every attempt will be made to block the release of anything beyond Barr's summary.

tbf i don't think trump ever had a copyright on "sad!"

mcconnell might be the single worst actor in our entire contemporary political drama. he's certainly worse than trump, who at least has the excuse of being an addled syphilitic idiot.

i wonder if mcconnell even pretends to any aspiration beyond the accumulaton and exertion of power for its own sake, to himself.

maybe he'll choke on his own cock tonight

"it's mueller mcconnell choking on his own cock time!"

or y'know, die of old man with uncured mumps disease

still have no idea where McConnell's ex-boyfriends are

people are gonna forget about this in 2 weeks

well, certainly by the election, unless they don't

from the nyt:

MUELLER REPORT
Trump and Republicans Seek to Turn the Tables in Post-Mueller Washington

President Trump and his allies vowed to pursue those behind the Russia inquiry after the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, found no conspiracy.
Mr. Trump denounced adversaries, calling them “treasonous” people who are guilty of “evil deeds” and saying they should be investigated themselves.

great job, america!

Feel like this is familiar but I can't beng my hazi on why

“treasonous people who are guilty of evil deeds”

I think he's been watching Advise and Consent: (Charles Laughton) "You're dealing with devious men, senator, yes sir. Devious, powerful men."

just our luck that this syphilitic goblin who doesn't exercise and eats 16 hamburgers a day would beat the actuary tables

Would one valiant KFC employee be reckless in his or her application of toxic chemicals while cleaning, the odds would change

xpost

apologies to syphilis, which doesn't deserve the association

mcconnell might be the single worst actor in our entire contemporary political drama. he's certainly worse than trump, who at least has the excuse of being an addled syphilitic idiot.

― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Monday, March 25, 2019 5:38 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i wonder if mcconnell even pretends to any aspiration beyond the accumulaton and exertion of power for its own sake, to himself.

― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Monday, March 25, 2019 5:39 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can't remember if it was posted here or not, but the recent Pareene profile of McConnell is good.

The Mueller Report is never going to register, organize, and do the GOTV required to beat @realDonaldTrump.

That's our job!!!

Stop waiting to participate in the hard work of democracy.

If we put in the work, we win.

— Andrew Gillum (@AndrewGillum) March 25, 2019

i'm posting this b/c i think this is a good, non-snarky way of phrasing this common and correct sentiment

but also, surely some indie band rehearsing as we speak is renaming themselves 'the mueller report'

xpost

i'll try to read that article about mcconell, but i'm worried i'll grind my teeth down to stumps in the process.

the NYT's framing is so consistently awful that it has to be willful, right? editors are in the tank for trump?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/us/politics/trump-robert-mueller.html

For President Trump, it may have been the best day of his tenure so far. The darkest, most ominous cloud hanging over his presidency was all but lifted on Sunday...

His graciousness in the face of 'victory' would tell everyone everything they need to know about this shitbag, were they of a mind to pay attention.

wonder what all the people saying this will irreversibly damage the DNC said about 9 Benghazi investigations

Big news — Trump’s Justice Department says in a new court filing that the entire ACA should be struck down in a lawsuit (this is a shift; DOJ previously didn’t go that far).https://t.co/tlo3fVedPa pic.twitter.com/C4OfDs79jF

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 26, 2019

I mean the Russia investigation started with a Republican Congress and that's already been forgotten so xpost

Andrew Gillum otm

Teen Vogue also nails it here:

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/robert-mueller-finished-investigation-stop-obsessing-over-russia

also fuck the NYT forever

Dems like Pelosi need to set up meetings with Trump and just start hour long shouting matches with Trump until the fucker has a stroke.

But yes Gillum and TV otm

I am probably the most upset at the current state of things that i have been since 2017 tho

A good breakdown of how much Barr's letter elides in weasel words:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/mueller-report-barr-summary-obstruction-conspiracy-close-reading.html

He can stay, he can go. He can be impeached, or voted out in 2020.

But removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; the dark money that funded him; the online radicalization that drummed his army; nor the racism he amplified+reanimated.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 24, 2019

Big news — Trump’s Justice Department says in a new court filing that the entire ACA should be struck down in a lawsuit (this is a shift; DOJ previously didn’t go that far).https://t.co/tlo3fVedPa pic.twitter.com/C4OfDs79jF
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 26, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, March 25, 2019 10:54 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

god love these fucking dopes for gaining a shred of political capital in the past few days and then immediately shooting themselves in the dick.

awesome news for Dem presidential candidates and House/Senate candidates.

Good morning!

@_waleedshahid
"The solution to climate change is not this unserious resolution...the solution to so many of our problems at all times and in all places is to fall in love, get married, and have some kids." -@SenMikeLee on @AOC and @SenMarkey's Green New Deal

i just lost 80,000 brain cells

Mike Lee is considered one of the greatest constitutional scholars of his generation.

kids are so bad for the carbon footprint

i like how it's not just the solution to climate change, it's the solution to everything

oil spill? can't make rent? shin splints? get fuckin

Then hurl the children into the sun, that'll show it!