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

xp i thought you were kidding but of course you're not
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7581913/Social-media-lights-Italian-translators-reaction-Donald-Trump.html

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Watching MSNBC cover Italian President Sergio Mattarella’s visit to White House and the bewilderment on his translator’s face as she translates Trumpese to English then to Italian. pic.twitter.com/TV4iXfP75c

— James M. Reeves (@jimnassau) October 16, 2019

It's the Great Pumpkin!

I like the idea of him eating just one ... more ... little ... mint, and then getting choked unconscious by his tight collar.

Presumably in response to Sondland but we'll see

Inbox:
Mulvaney to do a press briefing at the White House podium at 12:30 p.m.

— Tal Kopan (@TalKopan) October 17, 2019

"in conclusion, Trump has ended the impeachment inquiry and Nancy Pelosi is in jail."

Turkish government sources told BBC News: “President Erdogan received the letter, thoroughly rejected it and put it in the bin.” On the day the letter was received, Turkey launched a cross-border offensive against Kurdish-led forces in Syria.

Mulvaney says from the White House podium that the G-7 will be at Trump National Doral, Trump's golf course.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 17, 2019

Amazing

One final cash grab...

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maybe this announcement was intended as a distraction from the sondland testimony? we can only process so many absurd things at once

Jimmy Carter should hold a shadow G7 at his peanut farm

He doesn't have a peanut farm because he had integritude and divested when he became presidetn

I see that the president has moved into the scorched earth phase of his decades-long trollfest.

So apparently there are anti-impeachment rallies going on...good use of time there

Still bummed about Cummings :(. Always found him to be an upstanding guy and one who wasn't afraid to go toe to toe with assholes like Chaffetz and Nunes

I don't exactly get why the G7 announcement is such big news. Haven't we known about this for a while? And hasn't Trump been using his properties this way since day 1?

It's just brazen considering he's facing impeachment and still does things like this in the open

he has not hosted an international summit at any of his properties before

He also wants Putin there.

the big news is the other 6 countries apparently being as pissweak as cowed Republican congresspersons and going along with it

Did either Bushes host shit at Kennebunkport or Texas?

no

The Bushes own Texas?

wouldn't be equivalent to what Trump is doing even if they had

"A reporter then questioned Mulvaney on his explanation saying it sounds like a quid-pro-quo to which Mulvaney said: “We do that all the time with foreign policy.”

Like...poor choice of words there

I hear Merkel's gonna cherrybomb the plumbing, and Trudeau's gonna tp the Ivanka wing.

The Trump family's brazenness runs on different lines than the Bush family brazenness. The Bushes grabbed at global power using the US military and were content to let the money roll in on its own, in the form of people who insisted on cutting them in on sweet deals like obscene speaking fees and sitting on a dozen corporate boards. How could they refuse?

These guys that stick around like Mulvaney and Pompeo, I always have to wiki their history to remind myself why they suck on their own and how it's likely they will hang on until the end.

wow.

US says Turkey agrees to a ceasefire in Syria

Vice President Mike Pence said at the news conference announcing a ceasefire in Syria that the United States will not impose further sanctions on Turkey as part of the agreement.

"Part of our understanding is that with the implementation of the ceasefire, the United States will not impose any further sanctions on Turkey," Pence said. "And once a permanent ceasefire is in effect, the President has agreed to withdraw the economic sanctions that were imposed this last Monday."

More background: On Monday, Trump said he was applying harsh new sanctions on certain Turki
sh officials. In a phone call with Turkish President President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Trump "could not have been more firm" in expressing his displeasure at the incursion, according to Pence, who updated reporters at the White House on Monday evening.

trump is so, so strong, so tough

turkey/syria is like a tv channel that he is trying to turn off. he's bored thinking about it

(note to future generations scanning this messageboard's history into their turbonanos: every single time i wrote something positive about donald trump, it was was written in extremely whiny sarcastic voice)

According to the details of the plan, the ceasefire will last until American television audiences have moved on to some other distraction. Sources indicated that this likely refers to the 97th season finale of "600-Pound Bachelorette Hoarder Dance-Off."

In related news, a third Trump Istanbul Tower has been approved....

"Listen Mr. Erdoğan, I'm displeased at this incursion. Very displeased. Do you know what this has done to my numbers? They're still great numbers, by the way, fantastic numbers! But, displeased, yes, very. And I'm not nice when I'm displeased, you get my drift? Not nice. Not nice."

The Trump family's brazenness runs on different lines than the Bush family brazenness. The Bushes grabbed at global power using the US military and were content to let the money roll in on its own, in the form of people who insisted on cutting them in on sweet deals like obscene speaking fees and sitting on a dozen corporate boards. How could they refuse?

“Today, we have agreed to a cease-fire in Syria,” Mr. Pence said, noting that there would be a five-day pause in military operations while the United States facilitated the withdrawal of the Kurdish-led Y.P.G. militia from affected areas in the safe zone.

“Once that is completed, Turkey has agreed to a permanent cease-fire,” Mr. Pence said.

In return, he said, President Trump agreed not to impose any further sanctions on Turkey, and to remove the economic sanctions that were imposed on Turkey last week once the permanent cease-fire took place.

it's going to be SHOCKING when it turns out the kurds don't leave the 20-mile buffer zone (that is in Syria) in five-days, resuming the war immediately while - SHOCKINGLY - not leading to the resumption of US sanctions, since the Kurds clearly violated the incredibly strong and intelligent peace deal

meanwhile, trump will get to watch an extra 90 minute of evening fox news, win-win

this is a great day for civilization

yes KM, the (interim) chair goes to Maloney

what else has happened today?

I don't exactly get why the G7 announcement is such big news. Haven't we known about this for a while? And hasn't Trump been using his properties this way since day 1?

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, October 17, 2019 12:29 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Consider the scrutiny you would be under if the investigations into your (alleged!!!) extensive untoward behavior were headline news every single day. Might you, under those circumstances, make at least the barest attempt to deflect the charges levied against you, to appear a more upright citizen than much of the world believes you to be? Or would you flip a double bird at the cameras and say BRING IT MOFOS just before stripping naked and steering your dirt bike through the front window of an Arby's?

yeah but that night at arby's was the wildest night since

while - SHOCKINGLY - not leading to the resumption of US sanctions, since the Kurds clearly violated the incredibly strong and intelligent peace deal

Maybe T. needs to describe a line that Turkey cannot cross without repercussions. Perhaps that line could be designated red (the color of strength and winning, per U.S. election maps).

it should involve the use of chemical weapons, i'd say

the world should know that the use of chemical weapons is a "red line" that the United States of America will never accept

Maybe T. needs to describe a line that Turkey cannot cross

That should be Mr. T.

Trump's very into redlining, iirc.

Reactions to these developments have been quite cynical, I must say. Did you all miss the part where our leader brought Erdogan to heel by being very, very firm? I think, having faced such unprecedented firmness, Turkey has seen the error of their ways and won't chance eliciting such a firm response again.