The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

according to the internet, adam schiff is 5'11"

And that's just his genitals, so take that, Trump.

why does every ILX thread turn into a variant of tentacle porn

mother!

On election night, Karen Pence refused to kiss her husband. “You got what you wanted, Mike,” she told him. “Leave me alone.” https://t.co/vljFqJw01o

— Scott Bixby (@scottbix) September 27, 2019

That was in the woodward book iirc

"why does every ILX thread turn into a variant of tentacle porn"

= new board description

This Is Just To Say

that is not
a hyphen
that you typed
in your tweet

and which
you somehow think
gives
your nonsense meaning

Forgive me
it's an apostrophe
that hides
other letters

— DJP (@djperry1973) September 27, 2019

is liddle' supposed to be pronounced "lid-lay" because that's how I'm reading it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liddle%27s_syndrome

That feeling you get when you flip on the bathroom light and a massive centipede scurries over your bare foot? That's the closest equivalent I can think of to the feeling I get from witnessing a full-grown human being grouse about someone misspelling Liddle'.

I admit I kind of like the phrase "a small but never ending situation." Obvs thread title candidate if nothing else

― rob, Friday, September 27, 2019 5:31 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

It’s rare he has a good turn of phrase

― treeship., Friday, September 27, 2019 5:34 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

sounds like something a person not very good at English yet would come up with accidentally. which is exactly what happened I guess.

If that perfect phone call with the President of Ukraine Isn’t considered appropriate, then no future President can EVER again speak to another foreign leader!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 27, 2019

I know we mock the whole "he's more unhinged than ever!" thing but I really think he's kicked it up to a previously unseen level of Trumpiness

sounds like something a person not very good at English yet would come up with accidentally.

admittedly I still love the phrase "very rude elevator screamers", I think its badass

sounds like a GBV song title

or a PWEI song title

If i were trump i’d try to make a deal to resign with limited legal culpability. However, i’d likely never get in the predicament of being a widely despised white nationalist demagogue caught abusing public office for personal gain.

or WOULD YOU

one day I tweeted Liddle
tweeted nonsense at Liddle
then I got dragged for Liddle
then I got re-elected in 2020

(speaking of songs it reminds you of)

sometimes think we could've saved the world if we'd only earlier lured trump to ILX so that he could just troll here instead of the world at large

shut your goddamned mouth

never ending situation

https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_crop,h_1123,w_1997,x_103,y_0/f_auto,q_auto,w_1100/v1563506974/shape/mentalfloss/67303-warner_home_video.jpg

What would trump’s handle be on ilx?

CRW

Liddle' bigly (realdonaldtrump)

Invite trump to 77

I wonder if he even likes music

he is a huge A$AP Rocky fan, the hugest

In political discussions, would people side with ilx user redonaldtrump perversely because they don’t want to be on the same side of an argument as frederik b?

he'd be banned all the time for insulting everyone

Would probably get a few Zing repost tbh

Whiney would constantly make devil’s argument posts for bringing him back because at least he wasn’t dull

shut your goddamned mouth

(my mentions of other ilx posters are always meant with affection btw. should have asterisked that on my last two posts)

treeship generally otm

Always hard to tell with u, treesh, you radiate such a vibe of unrestrained malevolence.

SAD... SO SAD

What would trump’s handle be on ilx?

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, September 27, 2019 11:37 AM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

esby

he's always insulting the politics threads cause he knows we're onto him

impeachment support still below 50%

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/463408-support-for-impeachment-rises-12-points-in-new-poll

I wouldn't spin it that way, not when it's risen 12 points.

we wanted him impeached bc of our feewwwings and we'll regret it i guess

feel like a lot of the anti-impeachment sentiment is "Pence would be worse"

I kinda wonder how many people polled actually know what the impeachment process is.

it's likely to go higher, and GOP Senate is currently keeping their mouth shut to see if that happens. If it goes up close to 60%, I think we'll see "swing" votes (Sassy Sasse, Mindy Moderate, maybe Murkowski, probably Deeply TroubleMan) start to break

Pence would not be worse

would be funny if Cruz or Paul decided to leap in and twist the knife, I could see it

Some dumb liberals like Doug Henwood's followers keep loling on Twitter PRESIDENT PENCE as if they haven't read a book in thirty years.

xp lol a moment cruz has lived his whole life for

it's disturbing to realize how many people have absolutely no fucking clue how impeachment works (which is fine) and put zero effort into taking the 2 minutes it would take on wikipedia to have a basic understanding of it (which is not)

At the time the Watergate hearings began, 19% of americans polled thought Nixon should be removed from office.

And yeah, impeachment isn't removal from office. Can definitely lead to it, though.

lol a moment cruz has lived his whole life for

he just won re-election, so he has some complex calculus to work out - 5 years from now will it be better to be seen as the moral arbiter of the party that bravely stabbed Trump in the back (as he would no doubt personally love to do), or to have stuck by Trump and somehow emerged unscathed?

xp fwiw at the time they actually recommended impeachment hearings, it was closer to 50%