US Politics May 2019: " If I was burned at the stake, I would ask for a mirror"

yep, your last sentence there sums it up very nicely. which is why, for instance, I'd put the odds about equal of waking up one day to war with Iran and waking up one day to learn of a "really great, really beautiful deal" with Iran that puts us back in the exact same spot with them as we were in 2016.

As democracies go, it sure seems awful arbitrary.

House Judiciary Committee just subpoenaed Hope Hicks

i guess their plan is to hold the entire trump administration in contempt

they'd better pick up the pace

countdown to Trump coming up with a complimentary nickname for everyone who has been held in contempt by congress, ie, how 'the deplorables' became a badge of honor for idiots

the Held in Contempt panel is going to be amazing at CPAC 2019

contemptibles obv

doesn't work; too many letters for trump

too long; cannot read

Hey maybe if we all agree to use only words comprised three or more syllables Trump will just start doing that confused head cocking thing that a dog does when it hears a weird sound and then wander off in a haze and accidentally lock himself in a shed that a White House gardener accidentally left open and then because no one would ever think to look for him there he just starves to death. It's a long shot but it's worth a try.

am i counting wrong or is contemptible is only two more letters than deplorable

what's this i hear about Pelosi feeling some real heat to do something ?

If you put a lobster in a pot and turn up the heat after it never feels itself die

good morning!

impeachment is trending w/in the Dems it seems

"We do believe that it is important to follow the facts, we believe that no one is above the law, including the president of the United States, and we believe the president of the United States is engaged in a cover up, in a cover up," Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill.

FYI our pres is involved in a cover up nbd tho

she's gonna get the papers, get the papers

Nancy Two times has a nice ring

its a demo its a demo its a demo its a demo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-takes-aim-at-house-democrats-as-they-prepare-to-discuss-impeachment-calls/2019/05/22/a36ea0d0-7c79-11e9-8bb7-0fc796cf2ec0_story.html?utm_term=.764d9f9f6367

I literally cannot imagine being so dumb as to be impressed by this behaviour

has anyone asked Trump or his people why the man is so against an investigation into Russian election meddling? it's so bizarre that "leader of the country" is constantly disparaging an investigation into an "attack" on US.

maybe she means the cover up is within another cover up.

on a trivial note, this was a silly move ("populism" at its most gratuitous)

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/444780-warren-ocasio-cortez-rip-game-of-thrones-finale-ugh-this-is

Trump cites Pelosi's statement this morning on a "cover up." "Instead of walking in happily to a meeting, I walk in to look at people who said I was doing a cover-up. I don't do cover-ups. You people know that probably better than anybody," Trump says to reporters.

lol dude even you dont believe this

“I hated the last three episodes … my two favorite characters, destroyed,” Gillibrand said.

rip Qyburn and Harry Strickland

"We do believe that it is important to follow the facts, we believe that no one is above the law, including the president of the United States, and we believe the president of the United States is engaged in a cover up, in a cover up," Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill.

♪♫ very thin ice, very thin ice ♫♪

OMG this sign

Podium set up in the Rose Garden with statistics on the Mueller investigation. pic.twitter.com/cZMytbKbvS

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) May 22, 2019

thats some hamfisted popaganda there ffs

"I don't do cover-ups. You people know that probably better than anybody," Trump says to reporters.

If by this he means his motives and actions are transparent as a six-year-old's, then he is right.

As with so much of the shit he pulls, the content of that WaPo story, in isolation and with no additional context, is really enough to demonstrate how unfit he is for office. Awwww, Pwesident Thinskin McPissypants got a widdle bit of cwiticism and now just can't even with the infrastructure of the country over which he presides? Shut the fuck up and do your fucking job, you mildewed beanbag.

he is doing his job!! sticking it to the libs!

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the television audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service. I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President does cover-ups. Well, I am not doing a cover-up. I've earned everything I've got.

Listen and listen good: if I'm saying words, they must be true.

The court stenographers are all transcribing Pelosi's statement starting with the words "He just took a pass," but heard in full context it's actually a pretty savage burn...

"The reason, maybe it was a lack of confidence on his part that he really couldn't match the greatness of the challenge that we have, and wasn't really respectful of the Congress and the White House working together - he just took a pass."

he's also had a chance to hear from his camp since the first meeting and they told him he could never get the money for that Bill and this is an easy way to just blame the dems

he should have brought candy to the meeting, that always works

he needed to tell her to relax and give her a shoulder massage, like that time w hit merkel. big power move.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTQY1Aw9zcs

when i read the times story on this i kept scrolling back to check the date stamp

Trump was searching desperately for a way to slither out of an infrastructure deal ever since Mitch told him he'd never move such a thing through the senate. Nancy offered him a way out. Now they're both happy, even though they are pretending to have had a pre-prom breakup.

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) May 22, 2019

"I don't do coverups", says the man who forces every single person he shakes hands with to sign an NDA

taps head : can't loss a negotiation , if there is no negotiation

fucking geniuses this guy is !let me tell ya

I don't do coverups", says the man who forces every single person he shakes hands with to sign an NDA tries to cover up his balding scalp daily.

― frogbs, Wednesday, May 22, 2019 3:30 PM (one minute ago)

Man, they fuck everything up...

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/harriet-tubman-20-bill-no-longer-coming-2020-mnuchin-says-n1008861

This is so fucking dumb. He had the “no collusion” sign set up before he even stormed out of the meeting.

i don't do cover ups, says the guy renowned for having his fixer work with national enquirer to purchase the rights of the stories of women he slept with so that his wife won't find out (quite as early as she would have)

we are all dumber, for having lived through this time

if you can call this living!

It's just occurring to me that any non-useless human in his position could easily pivot toward more positive endeavors, even an entirely facile and ineffectual and cynical attempt to do good and bring the country together and put all this divisiveness behind us, and get most people (up to and including those parties who might otherwise continue to investigate and possibly even impeach him) to forget all about the shit he's done. But he is just congenitally incapable of being anything other than a debased piece of shit, even to his own detriment.

yet the GOP Congress contains so many nihilists that even President Jeb! or President Rubio would pass nothing.

he doesn’t do coverups, what about those giant fuckin coats