The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

lol xp

sometimes the Grifter accidentally breaks through to something like unprecedented presidential honesty

can I just point out how odd it is how quickly the Magasphere turns on guys like Bolton the instant they get fired, the Republican party really is just a dumb cult right now

Here’s an idea: When a party wins more votes, but fewer seats, it triggers an automatic nonpartisan remapping. The 59 million Americans living under entrenched minority rule deserve nothing less. https://t.co/u1qFDfmuom

— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) September 13, 2019

wish there were more Schwarzenegger Republicans our there tbh

seems like that group contains one (1) person

who?

tina fey

have a great weekend. the president makes such a thing possible for us all pic.twitter.com/KBaOZ2VPxB

— Brendan Karet 🚮 (@bad_takes) September 14, 2019

was a sleeper just activated?!?!?

Dr Morbius is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life

Probably not the place for it but we don’t seem to have a vaping and e-cigs thread. Vaping and e cigs have vastly improved the experience of going out in places without comprehensive workplace smoking bans. I’m in Japan now and there’s been a 31% drop in cigarette smoking mainly in favour of e-cigs. It’s not perfect and I’d prefer everywhere to be non-smoking but it’s orders of magnitude better than it was even a handful of years ago.

here's a vape thread for everyone to talk about vapitos shit because nobody else cares

really glad to hear that Ed

can I just point out how odd it is how quickly the Magasphere turns on guys like Bolton the instant they get fired, the Republican party really is just a dumb cult right now

Good point. The only reason someone could possibly argue this isn't damning evidence of cultism is because they are in the cult.

Democratic senator from D+6 state: https://t.co/czOCD3HLMr

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) September 16, 2019

wow, deja vu all over again

Coons is the new Lieberman

"I’m a gun owner," Coons said Friday in an interview on CNN. "My sons and I have gone skeet shooting and hunting and, frankly, I don’t think having our presidential candidates, like Congressman O’Rourke did, say that we’re going to try and take people’s guns against their will is a wise either policy or political move."

luv2skeet with my boys

with semiautomatic weapons

My sons and I enjoy lighting bottle rockets on the 4th of July and, therefore, I find it very untoward for a presidential candidate to suggest that the government is going to confiscate everyone's C-4. Now if you will excuse me, I must change my brain surgery dressings.

They failed on the Mueller Report, they failed on Robert Mueller’s testimony, they failed on everything else, so now the Democrats are trying to build a case that I enrich myself by being President. Good idea, except I will, and have always expected to, lose BILLIONS of DOLLARS..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2019

....for the privilege of being your President - and doing the best job that has been done in many decades. I am far beyond somebody paying for a hotel room for the evening, or filling up a gas tank at an airport I do not own. These Radical Left Democrats are CRAZY! Obama Netflix?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2019

war just prior to election is standard cryptofascist playbook shit; this looks bad

Obama Netflix?

Is he asking O out?

the IC whistleblower has info that Trump ordered the attack on the Saudi oil fields as a pretext for starting a war with Iran to secure the 2020 election, you heard it here first

Obama Netflix?

Is he asking O out?

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, September 16, 2019 11:53 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

starting a new verse to 'we didn't start the fire' but he can only think of two things that happened this decade

I'm like 99.9998% sure that he misread/misheard something that led him to believe that Obama owns Netflix.

Obama and chill

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/administration/461559-trump-house-judiciary-should-investigate-obama-netflix-deal-instead%3famp

Oh of course

this is going to shock everyone, but it's a shitload of projection for trump to criticize obama for the netflix deal when the trump family's plan after losing the 2016 election was to start up a trump tv network

If I were Obama, I would start a tv network with 'Trump' somewhere in the name.

how quickly the Magasphere turns on guys like Bolton the instant they get fired

e.g. Steve Bannon was the super-genius who steered Trump to MAGA victory one minute, the next minute he got fired for the usual petty reasons. now has to go to Britain to get anyone to listen to him at all.

I bet the whole Trump family shares the same Netflix password.

Yes, from Stephen Miller's account.

Nah, you can’t use miller’s account because his algorithm only recommends nazi shit at this point

Exactly.

plus "Great British Baking Show"

this is going to shock everyone, but it's a shitload of projection for trump to criticize obama for the netflix deal when the trump family's plan after losing the 2016 election was to start up a trump tv network

― Sally Jessy (Karl Malone), Monday, September 16, 2019 5:05 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

and the plan after 2020 is to harvest as much money as possible from saudi arabia, qatar the uae and israel

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) pressed Monday that he personally believes President Trump should be impeached as senior Democrats try to defend their recent muddled messaging on the issue.

“Personally, I think the president ought to be impeached,” Nadler told WNYC’s Brian Lehrer. He acknowledged that impeachment is unlikely to lead to Trump’s removal, given widespread opposition from Republicans in the Senate. But he argued it is is necessary to establish a standard for future presidents.

“Impeachment is imperative not because he’s going to be removed from office. The Senate won’t do that. But because we have to vindicate the Constitution,” Nadler said.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/jerry-nadler-talks-investigations-impeachment-rules/

WHERE'S THE TAX RETU-

oh

State prosecutors in Manhattan have subpoenaed President Trump’s accounting firm to demand eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.

The subpoena opens a new front in a wide-ranging effort to obtain copies of the president’s tax returns, which Mr. Trump initially said he would make public during the 2016 campaign but has since refused to disclose.

The subpoena was issued by the Manhattan district attorney’s office late last month, soon after it opened a criminal investigation into the role that the president and his family business played in hush-money payments made in the run-up to the election.

This is what life is now. #DWTS @seanspicer pic.twitter.com/heFCEwfjfT

— Matt Wilstein (@mattwilstein) September 17, 2019

Meanwhile, very cool and totally not self-defeating things happening with Democrats in North Carolina. I think we just might be doomed.

Unreal. Half of North Carolina Senate Dems largely voted for the GOP's new modestly-less-gerrymandered map, likely in part because some Dems got favorable seats to protect neighboring GOP incumbents. This happened in MO, OH, & PA after 2010, now it's happening again #NCpol #NCGA https://t.co/GPuGKXeLmN

— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) September 17, 2019

Dems: We Don't Mind Losing Too Much

Dems: Thank You Sir May I Have Another?

Can you even grift enough as a State Senator to make it worthwhile?

is it just me or is this a really bad metaphor to use in a discussion about sexual assault

I call for the Resignation of everybody at The New York Times involved in the Kavanaugh SMEAR story, and while you’re at it, the Russian Witch Hunt Hoax, which is just as phony! They’ve taken the Old Grey Lady and broken her down, destroyed her virtue and ruined her reputation...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2019

Yuck.

He definitely didn’t write that one so I assume the subtext is intentional.