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

pretty 'bad ass' of her to represent so many people with brain damage, when you think about it

man that gowdy head is something. i mean phrenology is a p bad look in 2019 but man when it comes to conservatives' heads...

isn’t “rich and powerful people commit crimes and stonewall their way out of them while the poor and working class get locked up for a while over minor crimes” kind of a working class concern

i see what ya did there (tho it took 2 hours to figure out "St Bernard")

perhaps not an IMMEDIATE working class concern, esp as no president is changing it

man that gowdy head is something. i mean phrenology is a p bad look in 2019 but man when it comes to conservatives' heads...

this is the pitch Quillette has been waiting for

powerful roger stone energy from gowdy for sure

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyR8lRrV4AErfgb.jpg

no wonder he covered his back with a richard nixon tattoo. anything, absolutely anything, to distract from the shape of the head

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1073821172905603072/0KzMnw9m.jpg

honestly between the pinheads and the weird overly-large amorphous Newt Gingrich-style heads this could prob be its own thread

I hope someday we're able to pass legislation wherein any elected official who employs bad faith hyperbolic rhetoric (like say 'destroying the country') to denounce another official for doing their job will receive one solid punch square in the throat. For each offense. From like whoever. Maybe we can appoint an official throat-puncher. There are some bugs to work out but I think it could dissuade at least some irresponsible behavior.

is it ok if politicians say that trump is destroying the country, though?

iirc entire time zones are currently exploding

honestly between the pinheads and the weird overly-large amorphous Newt Gingrich-style heads this could prob be its own thread

You could call it "talking heads."

Slotkin's my rep; the place where she got yelled at by crazies is in the gerrymandered-as-shit part that aims to negate the influence of the much more liberal area full of state employees and university people. That particular town is 97.94% white and full of serious white-flighters from the Detroit exurbs and is not far from the town most associated with the KKK in Michigan.

She won last year by 4 points in a district that had been held by a republican since 2001, so I'm not TOO worried about her.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/world/middleeast/turkey-attacks-syria.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

is this as fucked up as it sounds?

well, yeah

just a unilateral decision to let turkey invade syria? what possible benefit to the US could this have?

he is lying when he says that this means american troops are "going home" btw. at least according to this.

https://www.vox.com/world/2019/10/9/20906227/trump-turkey-invades-syria-middle-east-tweet

“The United States does not endorse this attack and has made it clear to Turkey that this operation is a bad idea,” Mr. Trump said in a statement released by the White House.

Noting that American soldiers had been moved from the area in advance, Mr. Trump limited his criticism of Turkey and made no mention of punitive action against it.

????

everyone knew this would happen as soon as he announced he was moving troops away from the area.

there is no benefit to the US. only to Russia.

Here's an interesting wrinkle. Not sure if this will stand up/work but

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/09/warning-pompeo-pocan-calls-suspending-salaries-trump-officials-holding-witnesses?cd-origin=rss

Okay, so you won't testify, provide evidence, or cooperate with congressional investigations?

okay. Power of the purse. No salary for you. Check the law, motherfucker.

Interesting if true

He's just helping out a fellow fascist, nothing to see here.

don't worry, he said that if turkey does anything that he considers "off limits", he will obliterate their economy. you might ask, since one of his underlings wrote that it was a "bad idea" on a statement that he signed off on, does this mean that what they're doing right NOW is off limits? and if not, what would be off limits? if they, amazingly, fail to keep track of the ISIS POWs, or if the invasion goes beyond the "buffer zone" in syria that turkey wants? and you might also ask if it's kind of odd that trump's stance is that if a putative NATO ally doesn't do what he vaguely wants, he will destroy their economy. but don't ask any of those questions, and don't worry about what will happen as a result of all this. "we'll see what happens"

xps

you almost got to hand it to Erdogan, he knew he could trick Trump into pulling US troops with a simple phone call and apparently was so confident that he had his tanks in motion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKp9e9fcMSY

I've just been informed that you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Erdogan

you almost got to hand it to Erdogan, he knew he could trick Trump into pulling US troops with a simple phone call and apparently was so confident that he had his tanks in motion

he knew that all he had to do was tell trump that he could blame it all on obama

This situation is deranged

Pomeo's GoFundMe is going to be peak 2019

Happening right now at the Trump Tower Hotel in Las Vegas.#KurdsBetrayedByTrump pic.twitter.com/QbZyOXkiNn

— Paul Lidicul (@PaulLidicul) October 9, 2019

Good. This is really, really fucked up. You don’t throw an ally to the wolves.

xp, or maybe erdogan just started the conversation with "so, Trump Tower Instanbul, it is beautiful! Very excellent and the best, many people here are saying"

This seems so much worse than asking for dirt on biden. He’s enabling imperial aggression.

Of a middle eastern despot. Against an ally.

It’s not about interventionism or not. The Kurdish people have *already* sacrificed a lot aiding us in our fight against ISIS.

xp evol j, beware of deepfakes

We all know your video wizardry.. why try to make people think it's real.

— I DONT THINK ITS OK! (@Ajrosner68) October 9, 2019

and the person who posted that video's response:

Whether that banner was physically or digitally put there is irrelevant - the statement is MADE, the public outrage is REAL and the message is spread.

If you're following me, I'd think you'd already understand that.

— Paul Lidicul (@PaulLidicul) October 9, 2019

lol what a dumbass

i know this isn't the thread but i don't think the world is prepared to be faked out as much as they're going to be faked out

Seems a little outside Greenpeace's scope

it definitely isn’t xp

#evoljbetrayedbytommyvietor

He’s enabling imperial aggression

another presidential first

new sexual assault allegations from FORTY-THREE women - all of whom are lying for personal gain, obviously

In time, Johnson said, the calls stopped. She never went back to Mar-a-Lago. She eventually told the relative who was with her at the New Year’s Eve party what had happened, but she never told her dying husband. Years later, Johnson was shocked to hear Trump describing on the Access Hollywood tape exactly what he had done to her. “When he says that thing, ‘Grab them in the pussy,’ that hits me hard because when he grabbed me and pulled me into the tapestry, that’s where he grabbed me—he grabbed me there in my front and pulled me in,” she told us.

Asked about his move to abandon the Kurds, Trump says Turkey has "been wanting to do this for many years" & "they have been fighting each other for hundreds of years" as if that justifies it.

"You have the PKK which is the natural enemy of Turkey ... possibly always will be" pic.twitter.com/MoDbvYExmM

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 9, 2019

“natural enemy”

Asked about the possibility of ISIS escapees, Trump says "Well, they're going to be escaping to Europe."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 9, 2019

jfc

this is pretty sickening

really sickening. he’s making life and death decisions that affect millions of people.

in the Middle East too

That is who i am talking about