The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

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.

beginning to think old donny t might be an "asshole"

View from my backyard.

Our neighbor, Scott McNealy, decided to host a Trump re-election fundraiser 🤢🤮, and the protestors are on top of it. Cops are swarming around Portola Valley. Trump is here.

I’m going to put my DSLR camera away before a sniper shoots me. pic.twitter.com/pmFBVVf6fP

— Marissa Louie (@malouie) September 17, 2019

starting to think Dan Crenshaw is actually a fucking moron

Watching Bernie pander to different groups to get their vote has always disgusted me, but now it’s personal.

I didn’t go to war so that you would take care of me, Bernie. I went because I wanted to serve and our country needed it. https://t.co/ADhxrvtIA9

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) September 17, 2019

don't worry though Mike Gravel is on top of it

"I didn’t go to war so that you would take care of me, Bernie. I went because I wanted to kill helpless Iraqi kids, get PTSD, and get no help from the government that made me a suicidal wreck." https://t.co/ivQgbkiRLA

— Mike Gravel (@MikeGravel) September 17, 2019

damn son

Gravel Teens 2036

Stupid POtuS parked his plane next to my work.

here's your big chance

just do it and be a legend man

i was wondering who this McNealy guy was

He is married to Susan McNealy; they live in Portola Valley, California, and have four sons: Maverick, Dakota, Colt, and Scout. Maverick, Dakota, and Colt currently[when?] attend Stanford University, while Scout is a high school student at the Harker School. He is known to be an enthusiastic ice hockey player and has been ranked as one of the best golfers in executive ranks.[4][15]

He is the commissioner of the Alternative Golf Association*** (known as "Flogton").[16]

McNealy is estimated to have a net worth of approximately $1 billion USD.[17]

***The Alternative Golf Association, also known as Flogton ("not golf" backwards), is a group of Silicon Valley executives that encourages golf participation by relaxing or ignoring traditional rules to reduce player frustration.[1][2][3] According to the National Golf Foundation, there were declines in golfers and rounds played compared to 2005. Flogton aspires to stimulate golf as snowboarding helped skiing. Patrick J. Gallagher (CEO), Scott McNealy (Commissioner) and Bob Lurie are involved with Flogton.

Flogton encourages nonconforming equipment such as lubricant applied to club faces, wedges textured like cheese graters and Polara Golf Ultimate Straight balls.[1]

Did that dude name all of his kids after cars

McNealy also used to run Sun.

Maverick, Dakota, Colt, and Scout

fuuuuuuuuuuuucckkk offfffff

california republicans are the worst republicans

The NC republicans seem to be in the running for that, too

now now folks theres enough terribleness for all of em

Crenshaw meant nothing to me til I was reminded he appeared on SNL with that unfunny Keebler elf cast member

Maverick, Dakota, Colt, and Scout

helluva law firm

Ahem AZ Republicans are a real treat also https://m.imgur.com/gallery/tASgoe7

Maverick, Dakota, Colt, Scout, Walker, and Texas Ranger

Got to stick it to the libtards and their libtard kids, like Prius, Volt, and Marx.

California Republican politicians are irrelevances. It’s the California Republican voters and donors especially.

straight balls

Democratic donors aren’t great either btw

Breaking: The prominent Democratic donor and LGBTQ political activist Ed Buck was arrested Tuesday and charged with operating a drug house and providing methamphetamine to a 37-year-old man who overdosed last week, officials said. https://t.co/Y3CtR66oMG

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) September 18, 2019

Prosecutors want bail for Ed Buck set at $4M, describe him as a “violent, dangerous sexual predator.” @KNX1070 pic.twitter.com/2g406Dg5hC

— Claudia Peschiutta (@ReporterClaudia) September 18, 2019

There is a NYT op piece today about richies flocking to the Dems, don't know who wrote it

This is why the NSC—and the entire national security apparatus created in *1947*—needs to be subject to congressional oversight and eventually abolished and replaced. https://t.co/Z8x8TUhRmi

— Daniel Bessner (@dbessner) September 18, 2019

cool, a hostage negotiator as the NSA. on one hand, taking a hostage is trump's signature negotiation move (i.e., threatening more tariffs on mexico unless they agreed to help prevent endangered migrant families from seeking safe haven in the united states). it's also the standard tactic of the republican party (government shutdowns, debt ceilings, etc).

of course, i assume o'brien's expertise is in resolving hostage negotiations, not creating them on a worldwide scale. i also imagine that things could tense between o'brien and trump because the latter truly believes himself to be the world's greatest negotiator even though he shits his pants in public on a daily basis

https://www.thefader.com/2019/09/18/donald-trump-asap-rocky-hostage-envoy-robert-obrien-national-security-advisor

apparently o'brien was played a prominent the recent crisis in Sweden, which took A$AP Rocky hostage

prominent ^role^