The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

Nixon would not have been impeached for the secret bombing of Cambodia

this is like when perry mason makes someone break down and confess on the stand except the bailiffs never come to take him away

VERY BIG ON PORK

Love it.

cant take this any more, he is such a whiny bitch

It's funny that Trump obviously did not mean Nancy is literally no longer speaker anymore but it still looks bad given his love of authoritarianism

just keep talking perp

he just said "laugh their asses" off twice

he called Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh "great guys"

LITTLE ADAM SCHIFF

clearly in command, full faculties

https://fitz933.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/grima_and_king_theoden_-_two_towers.png

OTHER COUNTRIES THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE PLAYING GAMES

i heard ten seconds of this; no idea how/why you folx listen

Because why get filtered fake news when I can get the real stuff straight from the man himself?

Morbz otm for once

xp

his voice and the words the slime out of his face are probably the grossest thing i could imagine right now. i much prefer reading summaries of what he said than having to listen to a single sounds from that garbage dump of a man.

sorry but it was def the first speech of his i enjoyed

I never listen to him but tuned into this. Yelled at my screen 5 times in 2 minutes and couldn't take anymore. I kinda don't like the guy as it turns out.

I don't know what you guys are talking about this guy is dope, great speaker, killer hair

fashionable tie length

he says what i'm thinking but i'm afraid to say

which is, ima rich little boy who got everything handed to me and i tried to cheat to get something i wanted and i got caught and it's not fair, waaaaah

god i would love to say that, but i am not brave

im just here for some of the best words

I like seeing the dope on the ropes.

Fox show completely implodes when Juan Williams notes that conservative media is regurgitating talking points from the White House pic.twitter.com/EZ13ChimO6

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) September 25, 2019

those androids can be difficult to reprogram once their orders have been fed in.

Impeachment count now reportedly 218, that's the magic number.

Juan Williams explains that what Trump's doing is illegal
some fox guy says "did you get that from Media Matters, Juan?"

fucking idiots

"do you get yours from 4chan?"

Schiff said: “I just want to say I’ve had the opportunity as have members of the committee to read the whistleblower complaint. I found the allegations deeply disturbing. I also found them deeply credible and I understand why the inspector general found them credible.”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 25, 2019

apparently they were not even given the entire whistleblower report.

Sasse following Romney's lead in calling what he read "troubling" and cautioning GOP peers not to circle the wagons.

https://tenor.com/view/phil-hartman-sass-sassy-smile-gif-4440185

"I just stepped in a big pile of UKRAINE"

My Twitter feed is nothing but wall-to-wall Godfather memes now.

i heard ten seconds of this; no idea how/why you folx listen

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, September 25, 2019 2:13 PM (two hours ago)

I carefully avoid exposure to the voices of any politician from Trump to my inspiring congressperson who I am completely in the tank for.

hearing them talk, that's how they get you

Generally I try to avoid hearing him speak for any longer than three seconds. Don't need a rage stroke.

i like to get a bit every few months or so just to restore my reservoirs of contempt, with just words on the screen it's too easy to become lax and believe he's just run-of-the-mill stupid

how did he Corleone?

I can just barely take the length of the clips NPR plays on the news.

I like that he tried to get Pence in on the action by offering up his callls

I dunno what the Corleone business is about buuuut I'd guess it's a reference to Fredo mindlessly blabbing his complicity with Michael in earshot just before mewling 'fake news!'

Uh oh

🚨🚨🚨🚨 REPUBLICAN SOURCE: “[The whistleblower] paints a clear path to impeachment.” - https://t.co/WrF41MiKat

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) September 25, 2019

I'm not gonna believe it until they physically throw him out of the White House.

https://pics.me.me/if-bronzehammer-follow-well-ld-like-to-see-ol-donny-35705466.png

lol, here's today's white house eblast propaganda sounding increasingly more like a fourteen year old wrote it

How to waste a year of America’s time

Americans “want a Congress that delivers results for the people, opening up opportunity and lifting up their lives. When our new members take the oath, our Congress will be refreshed, and our democracy will be strengthened by the optimism, idealism and patriotism of this transformative freshman class.”

That was newly elected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on January 3, during the opening session of the 116th Congress. Whether she meant those words at the time is now irrelevant, as the actions of her party this year have betrayed any such vision of a real legislative agenda for working Americans.

Yesterday, Congressional Democrats gave yet another snapshot of how they spend their days now. After months of pressure, Speaker Pelosi caved to the far-left base (sorry, “transformative freshman class”) that she has been unable to appease, announcing that she is launching official impeachment inquiries into President Trump. Although Democrats have been hinting at impeachment as a political weapon for two years, the latest excuse they give comes as a response to hyped-up reports of a supposed “quid pro quo” offered to President Zelensky of Ukraine.

Slight problem: It turns out the story was completely false. The transcript released by the White House today proves that Democrats simply made up their claims of a “quid pro quo” between President Trump and President Zelensky.

Here we go again.

Democrats in Congress devote all their time and energy to rumors and innuendo rather than governing. It doesn’t matter if none of it turns out to be true—by then, their media surrogates have spread the lie far and wide. In the process, Speaker Pelosi’s ranks have squandered nearly a year’s worth of time on a single failed agenda item: endless investigations and obstruction. Yesterday’s antics explain why Americans are fed up with Washington and why Congress’ approval numbers sit at an abysmal 18 percent.

Imagine all that could have been accomplished had Democrats devoted this year to issues that actually matter to middle-class Americans, White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement:

Americans deserve elected officials who focus on key issues to improve the lives of families, strengthen our communities, grow our economy, and keep our country safe. In President Donald J. Trump they have someone who has not only focused on those goals, but delivered results.

In a far departure from all of the work and results of this President, House Democrats have destroyed any chances of legislative progress for the people of this country by continuing to focus all their energy on partisan political attacks. Their attacks on the President and his agenda are not only partisan and pathetic, they are in dereliction of their Constitutional duty.

The Trump Administration will continue to be vigorous in laying out the facts and standing up for the many forgotten men and women who elected him.
The window for Democrats to do anything of substance this year is closing fast. When Nancy Pelosi spoke about a “new dawn” while accepting the gavel as Speaker earlier this year, she gave the impression that Congress would finally function differently under her watch.

It doesn’t. And no one’s holding their breath that her party will start putting the American people before their political ambitions.

Must read: “The Impeachment Farce Is A Slap In The Face To American Voters”

NOTHING TO SEE HERE: “Democrats Wrote to Ukraine in May 2018, Demanding It Investigate Trump

Is it a federal crime if White House staff use White House copy machines to make copies of their resumes?

the "Ah! Nevertheless" tweet was accidentally deleted today, RIP

https://twitter.com/bronzehammer/status/782408312730095616

Symbolic

.@murraywaas on Giuliani: "The Ukrainian initiative appears to have begun in service of formulating a rationale by which the president could pardon Manafort, as part of an effort to undermine the special counsel’s investigation." Wow. https://t.co/LrBOcAxgo9 @nybooks

— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) September 26, 2019