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

"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.

some amazing zingers from this trump post just now

"Nancy Pelosi needs help fast! There is either something wrong with her “upstairs,” or she just plain doesn’t like our great Country. She had a total meltdown in the White House today. It was very sad to watch. Pray for her, she is a very sick person!"

turns out it was pelosi who had the meltdown

he has shown everyone who the true third grade politician is

No meltdown. No meltdown. YOU'RE the meltdown!

You dare pray for me? No, I am the one praying for you!

Trump is like that stupid demon in The Good Place, who Michael interrupts and suggests that rather than torturing humans with something boring like penis-flatteners and bees with teeth, he should try shaking it up with teeth-flatteners and bees with penises. The dumb demon mocks the idea … then furtively writes it down.

Molten Downey

ack, Molten Donny

time for a dedicated republican primary thread!!

Mark Sanford kicked off his presidential campaign against Donald Trump in Philly. One person -- a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer there to cover the event -- showed up. https://t.co/jpT9ooKIYX

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 16, 2019

Lonely Mark Sanford couldn't get anybody in the press to see him.

SAD!!!

House reportedly making criminal referral on Erik Prince.

schumer's red glasses are really something

House reportedly making criminal referral on Erik Prince.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, October 16

about time

really, who knows peace better?

George W Bush takes a direct shot at Trump: “An isolationist United States is destabilizing around the world. We are becoming isolationist and that’s dangerous for the sake of peace.”

— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) October 16, 2019

We are becoming isolationist and that’s dangerous for the sake of peace

he's still got it

i think as a statement that is right

There’s a wide range of options between interventionist and isolationist

Bush invaded another country using a pretext so thin that even had it been true, instead of being a passel of pure lies, it still would have been illegitimate under international laws the USA supposedly subscribes to under the UN treaty. I think that puts him pretty solidly into the more extreme part of the interventionist camp.

Yes. The “not totally wrong” part of his statement is that a truly isolationist USA would be really terrible for the world order in other ways. The US has to have a more substantial and sophisticated foreign policy than “don’t wanna”

I thought our foreign policy was “fuck you, pay me”.

lolll I am just now catching the end of that Erdogan letter

"I will call you later."

u okay w chinese tonight hmb

I thought our foreign policy was “fuck you, pay me”.

"YOU WILL FOREVER BE KNOWN AS THE DEVIL. Chat later."

Don’t they have emails? The fuck is with letters? Erdogan is going to receive a copy of this in 2 days?

End of that letter was some real Tommy Wiseau shit.

Have not read deeply into this, but that had to be leaked by Trump, right? Like it’s exactly the sorta thing he thinks would make him look tough and “on top of it”.

Don’t they have emails? The fuck is with letters? Erdogan is going to receive a copy of this in 2 days?

but that had to be leaked by Trump, right? Like it’s exactly the sorta thing he thinks would make him look tough and “on top of it”

No leak, he's so proud of his work he handed out copies at the meeting with Pelosi and Schumer today.

Ok, somehow more pathetically obvious than I even thought.

I'm also proud of the first letter I ever wrote

Latest polls asking if Trump should be impeached *and* removed from office, w/ change in net points pre-inquiry:
Fox News: 51-40 (+14)
Qunnipiac: 45-49 (+16)
Morning Consult: 50-43 (+20)
CNN: 47-45 (+15)
HarrisX: 50-38 (+16)
WaPo: 49-38 (+33)
Gallup 52-46 (+15)

Brutal for Trump.

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) October 16, 2019

(note those changes are net, the actual increase in fraction supporting impeachment is about half that)