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

mom and dad are fighting
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/466113-trump-hits-back-at-graham-over-syria-criticism

Congress can't reverse this, and Trump knows it and dgaf about Congress anyway. This gives the GOP Senators and Congresspeople cover for crossing him - it makes them look independent and gives them something to talk about besides impeachment. And Trump gets to strut around like an asshole like usual. It's win-win!

That letter is nuts, you couldn't make a better parody.

say what you will but the trump library is going to be amaaaaazing

'i will call you later'

lmao

pic.twitter.com/hloB5YDOjo

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) October 16, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55AqyBlpKAY

mental gear solid

.@SpeakerPelosi, exiting White House: “What we witnessed on the part of the president was a meltdown.” Said Trump claimed some ISIS members are communists and that “might make you happy.”

— Cameron Joseph (@cam_joseph) October 16, 2019

remember when conservatives spent an entire week foaming at the mouth because Obama bowed to someone in Japan

I read that letter and now the only things I can think of are the samples from "If Madonna Calls" by Junior Vasquez

President Trump had a “meltdown” and called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) a “third-rate politician” during a meeting with congressional leaders on the situation in Syria, Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters after they left meeting.

I bet that went over well

at least trump hasn't used the phrase 'red line' because that would wreck american credibility

That's strike one, Mr President

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully or write poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2014

and eating a bucket of KFC after it's been in the sun covered in mayo.

Obviously Trump handled this in the stupidest and most haphazard way possible, but what is our actual objective in Syria and how are we supposed to achieve it?

"Erdy, don't be a hero
Don't be a fool with your life
Erdy, don't be a hero
Come back and make me your wife"

http://giphygifs.s3.amazonaws.com/media/S3u5avXTl0rRe/200.gif

"Don't be a tough guy. Don't be a fool." for thread title

"Don't be a tough guy. Don't be a fool."

*watches pelosi summary* that seemed weirdly sympathetic. are there rumors of a gop 25th amdmt squad being dropped somewhere or something?

it's all so morbidly funny but I get so scared sometimes

say what you will but the trump library is going to be amaaaaazing

It'll have the tallest waterslides, for sure.

*watches pelosi summary* that seemed weirdly sympathetic. are there rumors of a gop 25th amdmt squad being dropped somewhere or something?

I think nothing would cause him to lose it even more than being treated with condescending pity. Which...that read as.

grandmas often have deep wells of pity for small, lost children

*removed trump from moscow* “it’s total bullshit, nobody, not the gop, not the dems, nobody can deal with the fact that usa is failing, and the failed us govt can’t fix. I took the steps to fix, people know, everyone knows that i am the only one with the guts and brains to fix it. but the politicians, they’re terrible, the american people are getting screwed. So their kids are sitting in a sandbox getting shit at for the next hundred years, and they want that stopped. And i was doing that. Its sad. It’s more than sad. But now i can get back to business, putin, like i always said, he knows how to do business.”

it's all so morbidly funny but I get so scared sometimes

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, October 16, 2019 4:06 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's honestly crazy to think how much worse the past three years could've been. we've basically been saved by dumb luck, incompetence, and a democratic house victory.

it's all so morbidly funny but I get so scared sometimes

i keep hearing "oooooh a tough guy!" in a three stooges voice

turkey has never been held accountable for their shit, I don't expect that to start now.

I'll hand it to Trump: every time I think it's impossible to be further flabbergasted by his behavior, he finds a way to prove me wrong. Like encouraging another despot to consider whether history will view his actions unfavorably. I wouldn't have guessed that such a consideration would ever have entered his mind, and now I'm forced to assume that he honestly does believe that the people of the future will embrace his empty hype as gospel.

"I pray for the president all the time, and I tell him that. I pray for his safety and that of his family. Now we have to pray for his health, because this was a very serious meltdown on the part of the president," Pelosi said at a press conference after returning to the Capitol.

A reporter later sought to clarify whether Pelosi was suggesting Trump is mentally unwell.

"I'm not talking about mentally. I'm just talking about handling — just handling the truth," Pelosi replied.

heh this is pretty lol

tbf I do pray for his health (to fail dramatically and fatally) on a near daily basis

He is totally transactional and does not care of future opinion since he only knows that history is written by the winner and he will win as hard as he can and fuck the rest of yas. Imo.

Pelosi said he called her "a third-GRADE Speaker" btw

Trump at meeting, per Dem source, also insulted his first defense secretary - Jim Mattis, calling him “the world’s most overrated general. You know why? He wasn’t tough enough. I captured ISIS. Mattis said it would take 2 yrs. I captured them in 1 month”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 16, 2019

How is this different from how he speaks of every other cabinet-level official he has appointed, then driven out of office? The only ones he speaks well of are those who resigned over their criminally scandalous behavior.

In the meeting, Trump said fewer than 100 ISIS prisoners have escaped. “The least dangerous” ones, he said. Defense Sec Esper confirmed the number, but not that they were the “least dangerous.” Asked if he agreed on that last part, Esper said, “I don’t know that.” Per @mkraju

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) October 16, 2019

it's always the least dangerous ones who manage to escape everybody knows that

He prefers terrorists who don't get captured iirc.

whew just the least dangerous, I was worried there for a sec (not really, cause ISIS is a bogeyman in US anyway)

what a raving asshole the president of the united states is. it's kind of breathtaking.

I can't breathe

Let’s see.

Which one looks more meltdowny here? pic.twitter.com/xbJAYhu5qd

— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) October 16, 2019

But this one is the photo for the ages:

pic.twitter.com/D0ucBGimWO

— Tracy Loughlin (@Tracy_Loughlin) October 16, 2019

ahaha the source for that leaked letter to erdogan has been identified

I love how both the letter and the photo are Trump thinking he was creating major owns.

All Turkey quakes with fear at Trump's masterful use of wheedling and empty threats.

Who leaked (DJT?)

2. You had to know this was coming...the Speaker has used the image the president tweeted out for her Twitter banner pic.twitter.com/raquK2fJQb

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 16, 2019

lmao

It's an awesome own in the form of a panorama.