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

the subject line for today's white house propaganda eblast is "Anti-Trump Rep. Schiff’s Secret Impeachment Hearings Are a Witch Hunt in a Fantasyland"

wow, fantasyland. got 'em

Uh oh, Disney lawsuit incoming!

you're bound to find more witches there tbf

keeping two sets of books

"That makes me smart!"

President Donald Trump on Wednesday insulted Kurdish forces under siege by the Turkish military in northern Syria, remarking from the Oval Office that those U.S.-allied soldiers who led the charge against Islamic State fighters in the region are “not angels.”

This was Rudy's favorite move every time the NYPD murdered a black person.

So tax fraud. We got em

Mission Accomplished. I might duck out of work early to catch a glimpse of trump getting hauled into federal court in manhattan.

I'd like to see ol' Donnie Trump wriggle...

He'll be locked up in the Bastille in no time.

Trump pulls out the juvenile arrest records for the Kurdish forces

It’s all over. Pence resigned too. Pelosi’s president.

pelosi is awaiting execution for treason

Oh no! Another turn of the screw. Crazy news day but not much different from usual

anyway

Michael McKinley, the former senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo until his sudden resignation last week, will tell House impeachment investigators Wednesday that career diplomats were mistreated during his tenure and some had their careers derailed for political reasons, according to a person familiar with his testimony.

McKinley will outline how his concerns culminated with the recall of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, a punitive action he and many other rank-and-file diplomats viewed as wholly unjustified.

“The unwillingness of State Department leadership to defend Yovanovitch or interfere with an obviously partisan effort to intervene in our relationship with Ukraine for the political benefit of the president was too much for him,” said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid.

Mission Accomplished. I might duck out of work early to catch a glimpse of trump getting hauled into federal court in manhattan.

― treeship., Wednesday, October 16, 2019 11:07 AM

jfc

President Trump says he wishes Russia and Syria a lot of luck as US troops pull out of northern Syria, and asserts that the former Soviet Union is now called Russia because “they lost so much money in Afghanistan that they had to downsize – a very big downsizing.”

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 16, 2019

was a rough day when they had to lay off the Berlin Wall

so many holes in his brain, all of them weeping for death

They couldn't afford a two-word name anymore.

they couldn't pay the light bill on the "Soviet Union" neon sign in Red Square iirc

trump is big and great he makes the big words small and great for the small men we are all men, trmp good we love great again

President Trump says he wishes Russia and Syria a lot of luck as US troops pull out of northern Syria, and asserts that the former Soviet Union is now called Russia because “they lost so much money in Afghanistan that they had to downsize – a very big downsizing.”

FFS can someone in the room just for once hear this shit and say out loud " what are you even talking about, that makes no sense at all?"

I had completely forgotten about Bernie Kerik. I guess part of me wanted to believe he'd been shanked in prison.

I call for an indictment of @AdamSchiff and his arrest for intentionally making false and misleading statements while in his official capacity, to prosecute and impeach @realDonaldTrump! You cannot break the law to enforce it! https://t.co/qRrt5KG5fp

— Bernard B. Kerik (@BernardKerik) October 16, 2019

uh guys

3 US diplomats incl US defense attache detained by Russian authorities, taken off train near Severodvinsk near site of mysterious radiation leak. State Dept spox to Fox: “The American diplomat’s were on official travel & had properly notified Russian authorities of their travel.”

— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) October 16, 2019

Trump touts turning the US military into something equivalent to a mercenary force for Saudi Arabia pic.twitter.com/HCTQwcMXaC

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 16, 2019

I call for an indictment of @AdamSchiff and his arrest for intentionally making false and misleading statements

I can see how a convicted felon whose eight counts of felony consisted of making false and misleading statements to investigators about his unreported interest-free quarter million dollar loan and subsequent federal tax evasion might feel like everyone who said anything not in total alignment with the objective facts should also be convicted of a felony, because, you know, fair is fair. But he may not have thought this through entirely in regard to Trump.

Gallup has 52% of Americans supporting Trump's impeachment/removal from office.

For Clinton, that never got higher than 35% before the GOP-led House voted to impeach him.

For Nixon, it got to 58% by Aug 1974 https://t.co/DjTT7ZsDDq

— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) October 16, 2019

approval of congress ticking up seems at least as significant to me as support for impeachment

I keep thinking there must be a point when GOP support for Trump will start to crumble. Throws our allies to the wolves? No? Lets Russia just scoop up diplomats to unknown ends, such as those who were killed in the infamous Benghazi attack you're so clearly still worked up about? Still doesn't bother you?

And then I come to my senses and remember that most republicans would wince through the pain and still manage a feeble thumbs up if Trump were backing over their lower extremities with a Humvee.

Please please please don't turn this thread into an afternoon MSNBC talk show.

I would happily use that as my compass if I had watched more than five minutes of MSNBC in the past six months and had any idea of what to avoid.

can you imagine what they say if Obama backed over your lower extremities with a Humvee?

President Trump says he wishes Russia and Syria a lot of luck as US troops pull out of northern Syria, and asserts that the former Soviet Union is now called Russia because “they lost so much money in Afghanistan that they had to downsize – a very big downsizing.”

FFS can someone in the room just for once hear this shit and say out loud " what are you even talking about, that makes no sense at all?"

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, October 16, 2019 11:47 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Presumably this is referring to Russia's war in Afghanistan being seen as one of the contributing causes to the fall of the Soviet Union (which was "downsized" in the sense of losing its former republics). I think it's a pretty funny line tbh.

its not gonna happen until Trump's numbers with GOP voters start going down

Trump's incessant labeling of all criticism as fake news seems to have created a situation where, whenever any news story shows Trump in a bad light, even if it does so by means of video footage of Trump doing or saying something objectively stupid, harmful or untrue, his true believers automatically turn it on its head and believe what Trump did or said must actually be very smart, good and true. I think Orwell had some cogent things to say about societies where people all agree that black is white, if Big Brother tells them so.

A majority of Americans surveyed in a new Gallup poll, or 52 percent, say they want President Trump impeached and removed from office as House Democrats pursue an impeachment inquiry against him.

The results from a poll out on Wednesday marks a 7-point rise in support for Trump's impeachment since a Gallup survey in June, soon after the release of former special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

But 46 percent of respondents in the new poll said Trump should not be impeached and removed, according to the latest poll.

Support for impeachment remains overwhelming among Democrats at 89 percent, while 55 percent of independents polled said the same. Only six percent of Republicans said they supported Trump’s impeachment and removal, one point less than in June.

The poll also found a rise in approval for Congress in the past month, with 25 percent of U.S. adults saying they approve of its job performance, up from 18 percent in September before Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced the launch of an impeachment inquiry into the president over his contacts with Ukraine.

I don't think this means impeachment will happen, but it definitely signals massive election liability for the GOP

The House has overwhelmingly voted its bipartisan condemnation of President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of American forces from northern Syria. Despite stark divisions over Democrats’ Trump impeachment inquiry, Democrats and Republicans banded together Wednesday and approved a nonbinding resolution by 354-60 vote.

sternly worded

nonbinding

ie wgaf

Remarkable day in Syria: The US military carried out airstrikes to destroy the headquarters for its counter-ISIS campaign after Turkish backed forces closed in on the base. US military says it is carrying out "deliberate withdrawal." https://t.co/b7zzYJyjFC

— Dion Nissenbaum (@DionNissenbaum) October 16, 2019

Is this resolution nonbinding in the same way that, say, a congressional subpoena is nonbinding? Just trying to get a sense of what actually is 'binding' these days.

does this mean that nine months from now Syria is going to have a half-American baby

insane that this is an accurate headline

https://i.imgur.com/8yBtyUg.jpg

all I can think of is Tim Heidecker at the end of the trial wishing the Electric Sun 20 were still alive so he could celebrate the verdict with them

your son is in hell, delgado!

Can't wait til we (US taxpayers) have to pay to rebuild the base that we built and then destroyed in hasty retreat...

does trump have *any* domestic supporters of the withdrawal from syria? maybe matt gaetz, i guess

Tulsi Gabbard?

xxxp it’s so fucked, like some shitty Apprentice stunt. Glad they didn’t go along with it