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

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

nah, that's literally about the best he could do (assuming someone else wrote it). i would like to see him leave it at that and never say anything about cummings ever again.

i would very much like to see his death not be subsumed into whatever trump thinks about it

otm

otm

A Fraud Guarantee investor is wondering what happened to their money. “I’m afraid myself,” the person said. “I invested money. I never got anything back. And now I’m sitting cold. It’s a bit scary. That’s it.” https://t.co/l33GXl2RlB @politico

— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) October 17, 2019

who can you trust if not Fraud Guarantee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz1Jwyxd4tE

https://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/the-day-the-violence-died15.png?w=584

is the next courageous chair of the house oversight and reform committee...Carolyn Maloney? not sure how succession work in these committees.

Sondland, adopting the strategy that helped Don Jr avoid an indictment: he was too stupid to know he was breaking the law. https://t.co/qYQApGlTDW

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) October 17, 2019

whos in the mood for more financial crimes

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/the-mystery-of-the-trump-chaos-trades

There is no way for another trader, let alone an outsider such as me, to know who is making these trades. But regulators know or can find out. One longtime CME trader who has been watching with disgust says he’s never seen anything quite like these trades, not at least since al-Qaida cashed in before initiating the September 11 attacks. “There is definite hanky-panky going on, to the world’s financial markets’ detriment,” he says. “This is abysmal.”

In the case of Trump, market manipulation also yields political dividends. Perhaps the most obvious example dates to late August, when Trump, desperate to reignite trade talks with China, boasted during the G7 summit that his counterparts in Beijing had come back to the table. “We’ve gotten two calls—very, very good calls,” he told reporters. “They mean business.” The market rose more than 900 points over the next few days. But a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry said he was not aware of any such calls. An editor at the Global Times, the state-controlled newspaper, tweeted that he knew of no calls made in the days leading up to the G7 meeting and that “China won’t cave to US pressure.” Two U.S government officials later told CNN that Trump misspoke and “conflated” comments from China’s Vice Premier Liu He with direct communication from the Chinese. According to CNN, the officials said Trump was “eager to project optimism that might boost markets.”

Indeed, this single Trump lie briefly inflated domestic markets by hundreds of billions of dollars. “What this describes is, quite literally, market manipulation that constitutes criminal violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,” commented George Conway, the conservative attorney and Trump critic.

i don't trust anyone who would marry kellyanne conway, but everything else about that has the ring of truth. the broader market has been hopping up/down 1.5% based off of rumors about china trade talks for over a year now, it's insane

He also posted a very leading tweet before a jobs report was made public last year.

Picture some young GOP intern-weasel composing this while Trump froths and thrashes in the background https://t.co/nbUkj7yTul

— Roy Edroso (@edroso) October 17, 2019

Warmest condolences still sounds odd to me

he had been sitting on them for years

I'm gonna go ahead and predict that we don't get through an entire 24 hours before he says/does something to undermine that completely rote expression of decency. Perhaps by retweeting something racist about Cummings? Who can say.

There is no way for another trader, let alone an outsider such as me, to know who is making these trades. But regulators know or can find out. One longtime CME trader who has been watching with disgust says he’s never seen anything quite like these trades, not at least since al-Qaida cashed in before initiating the September 11 attacks. “There is definite hanky-panky going on, to the world’s financial markets’ detriment,” he says. “This is abysmal.”
In the case of Trump, market manipulation also yields political dividends. Perhaps the most obvious example dates to late August, when Trump, desperate to reignite trade talks with China, boasted during the G7 summit that his counterparts in Beijing had come back to the table. “We’ve gotten two calls—very, very good calls,” he told reporters. “They mean business.” The market rose more than 900 points over the next few days. But a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry said he was not aware of any such calls. An editor at the Global Times, the state-controlled newspaper, tweeted that he knew of no calls made in the days leading up to the G7 meeting and that “China won’t cave to US pressure.” Two U.S government officials later told CNN that Trump misspoke and “conflated” comments from China’s Vice Premier Liu He with direct communication from the Chinese. According to CNN, the officials said Trump was “eager to project optimism that might boost markets.”

Indeed, this single Trump lie briefly inflated domestic markets by hundreds of billions of dollars. “What this describes is, quite literally, market manipulation that constitutes criminal violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,” commented George Conway, the conservative attorney and Trump critic.

I am pretty ignorant on stock market stuff but i saw this transparent shit and had to believe i wasnt the only one

I swear every time the stock market takes a hit there is "news" of optimism regarding a trade deal with China so it goes back up. seems odd but idk anything about this shit

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, September 25, 2019 5:38 PM (three weeks ago)

dude, seriously. The "eCoNOmy & mY 401k" is his supporters main crutch for the last 2 years.

there were definitely a lot of rumors in 2017 that someone was making tons of cash by knowing in advance when he was gonna tweet something that would affect the markets but I forgot about it amongst all the other corruption

some young GOP intern-weasel

Flagged for this egregious and uncalled-for insult to weaselkind.

sea otters are weasels you clod

All the mustelidae are sleek and fleet (indeed, on fleek).

They are a noble lineage