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

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)

“Now, the P.K.K., which is a part of the Kurds, as you know, is probably worse at terror and more of a terrorist threat in many ways than ISIS.”

i didn't catch this one today. wtf.

worse at terror, and more of a terrorist threat

want to apologize to future generations for this moment in history now and just beat the rush

Elijah Cummings RIP

Whoa. And 68—I would have guessed way older.

i trust trump's response to this will be in keeping with the rest of his statements about cummings

If this dummy could manage to be earnestly respectful, generous for even ten seconds—"we disagreed but he was a good man"—it would completely paralyze the media for the day and probably get his numbers up a tick or two.

He won't, he can't

RIP Elijah Cummings.

actually this is somehow worse than an outright final insult towards cummings, what a shitheel

My warmest condolences to the family and many friends of Congressman Elijah Cummings. I got to see first hand the strength, passion and wisdom of this highly respected political leader. His work and voice on so many fronts will be very hard, if not impossible, to replace!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 17, 2019