Impeach Trump Y/N

Clemenza, I mean

Thanks, but I think you're mixing up The Out of Towners with The In-Laws.

Trump calling himself a "stable genius" (so we don't get him confused with the Delmore Schwartzes and Syd Barrets of the world) counts as the Maximum Possible Error, like when Sports Illustrated picked the '87 Indians to win the World Series and they finished with the worst record in baseball.

And weird is still possible: a tweet with "BULLSHIT" in all caps, but censoring himself on "blank-strap."

Like William Styron, Trump often fears he will meet the same fate as Delmore Schwartz.

He thinks about Delmore all the time.0

Wait i was thinking of randall jarrell

Oof. And i thought trump was the illiterate one.

Somehow it really bothers me he didn’t shake the Finnish president’s hand - oh, I guess about the same as when he crossed the NK DMZ - this dude is nutso.

Is he still doing the excessive handshake thing he was getting notice for a couple of years ago or are people avoiding it.

no, now he's patting thighs

sorry for that post, struggling to comprehend all of it

Like William Styron, Trump often fears he will meet the same fate as Delmore Schwartz.

― treeship.

to have a velvet underground song dedicated to him? i think he's out of the woods on that one

I think schwarz essentially drank himself to death in the chelsea hotel. I had confused him with jarrell, who purposefully walked into traffic, and who william styron talks about in his book about depression.

Anyway, trump will resign for the good of the country and then devote the rest of his life to making amends, voluteering his time and fortune to a good cause.

Like the Grinch, he’ll die a beloved figure and no one will even remember he tried to steal Christmas.

I think schwarz essentially drank himself to death in the chelsea hotel. I had confused him with jarrell, who purposefully walked into traffic, and who william styron talks about in his book about depression.

― treeship.

can't imagine the poet who wrote "the death of the ball turret gunner" could possibly have any mental health issues

about the IG briefing this afternoon:

The State Department Inspector General briefed congressional staff and a member of Congress Wednesday on a mysterious packet of Ukraine-related “disinformation,” according to a member of Congress, that had landed on the watchdog’s desk.

House Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) told reporters that Inspector General Steve Linick did not discuss alleged retaliation against State Department employees for cooperating with Congress, as some outlets had reported the meeting was expected to be about.

Rather Linick provided for the attendees the unclassified packet, which the official said was provided to him by the State Department’s legal counsel after if started circulating around the Department in May, according to Raskin.

The packet appeared to have White House calligraphy and was addressed to Secretary Pompeo.

apparently there's good reason to believe the bogus package of disinformation is the product of one rudy giuliani, and that pompeo played an active role in circulating it around state:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-rudy-dossier

isn't there any hero

feels like there should be at least one person with a conscience in all of this

As a befuddled bystander, the heroism I consider somewhat noteworthy are those elements of the media who are able to maintain some objectivity while sticking to the pertinent facts of the matter. I maintain that Twitter in particular really has been a big fucking mistake, at least in its current guise. No props to FB or any of the other social media culprits either.

I'm a leftist somewhere near the Bernie camp and personally I've lately been convinced that despite my reservations of the political effectiveness of impeachment that it is now a historical necessity, if only to put this shit on the record. The phone call was where have him really crossing the line, and without this unironically brave hero of a whistleblower it too could have easily blown over like every other ill wind in this shitstorm.

In what should have been the least surprising development ever, the New York Times twisted a story about Schiff following procedure into something weird, and gave the right the ammunition they needed. Great job all around.

Campos has some good ideas about how to read the numbers: http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/10/poll-finds-nearly-two-thirds-of-americans-dont-oppose-removing-trump-via-impeachment-and-conviction

Just to be clear, Trump is currently, this morning, calling on foreign leaders to investigate Biden in the midst of an impeachment proceeding about whether he has encouraged foreign leaders to investigate Biden

— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 3, 2019

it's kind of classic trump: just do the thing, openly, that everyone is saying is wrong and illegal, while making the argument that it's fine (and later, that everyone else lied)

every now and then I step back and think: This is exactly the kind of shit we expected when Trump got elected. In fact, it's not even as bad as what we expected.

He's just forcing Republicans to support these things, and they will, gladly.

very trump 2019 video clips:

President Trump says he wants both Ukraine and China to investigate Joe Biden and his son https://t.co/61W3znhPM1 pic.twitter.com/dhC0tXKhww

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 3, 2019

2/3 of the screen is given over to debunking the thing that he's screaming about, once again, over the deafening roar of helicopter blades

the aesthetic of this presidency is fucking disgusting

At least it turned out that he's too craven to actually declare war on anyone.

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i know he's a teetotaler, but is he in the "god, someone please punch me *sobs* just punch me in the fucking face and in the niiiight *barf*" part of the blackout drunk night?

if yer gonna do crimes, do them daily on TV

maybe Trump would be more chill if he’d had a drink or two in his life

or, alternatively, maybe his heart & liver would have given out by now.

i get as annoyed at the attempts to psychologically evaluate trump as anyone else does

BUT

doesn't he exactly resemble a, say, 8-year-old spoiled shithead brat who never really gets in trouble? it's like he's begging for punishment! seriously

a drunken trump would be even worse, so imo he needs to smoke some fucking weed

Didn't his older brother drink himself to death? You've got to imagine that might have fucked him up. If he was a normal human being that is - which, of course, he isn't.

Trump may not drink, his surrogates otoh...

Last night on Fox Business, Corey Lewandowski looked so drunk that even the host asked him, "did you have a little Merlot with dinner?" pic.twitter.com/cvsBDztNUn

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) October 3, 2019

The fuzz brought him in for indecent exposure, and they expected his vehement claims of innocence but the simultaneous and incessant dick-waggling is making them question everything they thought they understood about human behavior and how reality is supposed to function.

Didn't his older brother drink himself to death? You've got to imagine that might have fucked him up

normally i'd imagine that to be the case, but in the case of the trump family i'm sure fuckface was just informed that his inheritance just increased 20%

anyway, fun detail on this morning's latest impeachable offense: trade talks with china are set to resume next week. does anyone have any doubt that (if Xi were 1% as dumb as trump) if China did provide any investigative assistance with biden, trump would make a deal with them on trade?

"hey china, we're in the middle of a years-long trade war that i started that affects billions of people - will you do me a political favor?"

It is not in China's interest to help Trump, more likely they want him out of office so they can have a more sensible/predictable negotiating partner

what would be funny is if they goaded him into making his situation worse - ie, "sure, we'll help you out, can you please spell out exactly what the quid-pro-quo you want is please? Also, speak clearly into this microphone...."

It is not in China's interest to help Trump, more likely they want him out of office so they can have a more sensible/predictable negotiating partner

exactly - i'm sure they're counting the days to nov 2020 just like all of us. it's hilariously sad that trump doesn't realize he's blown all his leverage

every now and then I step back and think: This is exactly the kind of shit we expected when Trump got elected. In fact, it's not even as bad as what we expected.

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, October 3, 2019 10:57 AM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I mean I guess not as bad in that he hasn't yet started a new war, but I really didn't think he would so purposefully destabilize things internationally. He's made new wars more likely on multiple fronts and is really much worse even than what I expected.

"if i did it you wanted quid pro quo"

Did she say that she loves this country so much that she would like to hug it 'til it squeaks? Because that's equally if not more weird than Lewandowski slurring a few words. Like, I truly can't tell the difference between his little rant there and any other talking head on Fox, so why did she single him out?

because they're all crabs in the bucket at the end of the day

Kennedy tells Lewandowski he sounds a bit "Biden-esque", but isn't Biden teetotal?

No! he's a secret drunkard! He pours Negronis into his O'Doul's!

he only drinks o'douls (0.4% ABV), but he drinks around 20 to 30 of them a day

O'Doul riles!

Oops

No quid pro quo? Bill Taylor, the top US diplomat to Ukraine, certainly thought there was. "I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign," he texted to fellow diplomats -- texts Kurt Volker just gave to Congress. https://t.co/apYDBshJTL

— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) October 3, 2019