US Politics, October 2019 — I guess statement you could say with thread. I made a thread. The thread was PERFECT.

This news, it sounds...fake.

the bigger they are, the harder they fall. can't wait to see this guy eat shit.

nearly half! that's just one hanging chad away from a majority!

i'm still waiting for W to eat shit

Still waiting for someone to throw a shoe at Trump and not miss

Breaking — Ambassador Gordon Sondland has been told by the State Department to not appear this morning before the House regarding his role in the Ukraine scandal. His attorney said he has no choice but to comply.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 8, 2019

I know this whole last couple of years has felt like a fever dream but the president of the united states announcing on twitter that the speaker of the house is guilty of treason feels extra crazy.

― Fetchboy, Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:16 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Does he actually know what he is saying though?

Um, yes. His choice of words is always intentional how ever slurred they may be or however bereft his point may be when rambling at the base.

to him treason = betraying the United States and the United States is Donald Trump so

Pulling out of Open Skies is next-level stupid

not if you personally owe the putin gang $1+ billion and your bigly white house

I know the White House is trying to force the Inquiry vote, but why would they shutdown the testimony of a guy who was likely to help their narrative?

Because acceding to any request made by Democrats is giving in, and giving in is for sissies?

Hopefully he'll be butthurt enough that he flew from Brussels for nothing....ok i almost said that with a straight face

https://www.axios.com/adam-schiff-gordon-sondland-text-messages-emails-state-department-824b77a6-6ef1-411c-9954-e4a62156e3c3.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100

Preemptive stfu sic

Fair to say all this noise is simply leading up to Trump's inevitable impeachment and a host of contempt charges for others, no more no less?

Trying to imagine a Trump official who would be the slightest bit inconvenienced by a contempt charge.

"Contempt of Congress? Yes, that's absolutely right - I DO hold Congress in contempt."

"Also: neener neener; nanny nanny boo boo; I'm rubber, you're glue; whatcha gonna do about it?"

"Contempt of Congress? Yes, that's absolutely right - I DO hold Congress in contempt."


At least half of Congress: so do we! That was, in fact, our campaign platform, arguably the only coherent part of it. Also, run government like a business

Half of America: what’s wrong with this country?! We don’t understaaaaand, we just want everyone to follow the laaaaaw

Can't wait until our society evolves to the point where a majority of adults no longer behave like toddlers who desperately need a nap. Or until we all just die, which is probably more likely.

(TBF, I kind of would like a nap.)

I'm guessing your need for a nap doesn't spur you to insist that everything must be exactly the way you want it to be all the time or else you will hold your breath until your face turns blue.

Preemptive stfu sic

luv 2 support journalism by paying lawyers a few hours’ profit as a fine for deliberately destroying thousands of journalist’s careers and shuttering dozens if not hundreds of outlets altogether

They’re all going to get away with this. The Democrats are useless.

oh good, everyone can stop then

It's funny how we always come back to this same pointless defeatism itt.

Like idk do you get an erection every time you say "it's all pointless, Dems are useless, hail dictator Trump", or does the boner precede the statement

People like brotherslovedub want reassuring hugs more than message boards.

sic, was that intentionally supposed to be an AMP link?

brotherloveshugs

xps god if only there were ever an erection, before, after, or during posting

but especially before

but ESPECIALLY during!!!

I don't know if it's so much that Dems are useless as it is the fact that our political system has a huge "prisoner's dilemma" component to it and if one side is brazenly willing to say "we will screw you over every chance we get" there really ain't that much recourse for the other side. Our government isn't really equipped to handle the "what if the President and every Republican Congressman was a bad faith actor" scenario

vc - lol dammit, I’m on phone and they tricked me by hiding it in the middle

YA BURNT SIC

this is all moving in the right direction. And the less strategic/coordinated the WH response is with congressional GOP, the more likely this is going to get worse for Trump.

The Washington Post–Schar School poll released early Tuesday found that 58 percent say the House was correct to launch the inquiry, compared to 38 percent who disagreed.

Almost half — 49 percent — said lawmakers in the lower chamber should impeach Trump and call for his removal from office.

Just 6 percent support the inquiry, but not Trump’s removal from office.

Pollsters found a partisan divide on the issue, with more than 8 in 10 Democrats endorsing the inquiry and about 7 in 10 Republicans saying they do not support the inquiry.

Nearly 8 in 10 Democrats favor a vote to recommend that Trump be removed from office, while almost one-fifth of Republicans agreed.

More than half of independent voters — 57 percent — said they support the impeachment inquiry, and 49 percent said the House should vote to remove Trump from office.

Support for an impeachment inquiry has risen among all three partisan groups since a July poll, with Democratic support rising 25 points from July, Republican support rising 21 points and independent support rising 20 points, based on the poll.

I do worry that the inquiry wraps up fairly soon, the House votes to impeach, it goes to the Senate and they don't vote for removal, and now it's like November or December or whatever and we still have almost a year until the election and this whole scandal just becomes Another Thing That Happened and has little bearing on 2020.

Wait do none of yall type with your penis

I do worry that the inquiry wraps up fairly soon, the House votes to impeach, it goes to the Senate and they don't vote for removal, and now it's like November or December or whatever and we still have almost a year until the election and this whole scandal just becomes Another Thing That Happened and has little bearing on 2020.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j),

Now recite this without a breath in front of a mirror.

can we do these threads with less erection talk please? ymmv but to me it makes this place feel like a gross dudebro space.

xpost -- idk, if i'm making a prediction that's just what I think happens, I think it's the most likely way this thing plays out based on past results and the parties involved.

co-sign

xp

President Baby doesn’t understand that one can do anything with a mobile phone other than tweet, because he doesn’t

....to see. Importantly, Ambassador Sondland’s tweet, which few report, stated, “I believe you are incorrect about President Trump’s intentions. The President has been crystal clear: no quid pro quo’s of any kind.” That says it ALL!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 8, 2019

Whoa wait: he's almost mastered comma placement!

there are like 5 separate committees looking into impeachment. I don't think this'll be over anytime soon.

how trump thinks trials work

DEFENDANT: i didn't do it
PROSECUTOR: good try team, but i think that settles it. where should we go for lunch?

this is not going to be over any time soon because Trump is going to block all attempts to gather evidence/testimony. Which means subpoenas, court battles, etc.

xp

The impression I got is that the Dems are just adding this stuff to the list under the "obstruction" header. That is to say, they want this testimony, but they're not going to be drawn into a trap of waiting months and months for it. I mean, impeachment really is a foregone conclusion, isn't it? I don't see how it isn't. So the more evidence they have ... the more evidence they have, but it doesn't change the inevitable result we're careening toward.