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

“The timeline will depend on the truth line,” Pelosi told reporters at the Capitol amid a busy day of developments.

truth is negotiable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc6tmYYhOUU

our love is on the truth line

truth isn't aaaaaalwaays on tiiiime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4fwrdr_bZo

House doesn't really need to subpoena any of Trump's staff, just stick them in a press conference

Schiff could show up at the press conference in a fake mustache and ask questions

"Hello I am Mr... Ffisch."

"you got trouble...right here in Washington DC"

I plead the fifth with respect to the crimes I will detail for you now

.@RepAdamSchiff: "Things have just gone from very very bad to much much worse." pic.twitter.com/JiBD30dmCV

— CSPAN (@cspan) October 17, 2019

I personally would have gone with "Adam Shiftless" if I were going for a disparaging nickname, but I am not the president of anything so what do I know

Not anti-semitic enough

Funny how it works

NEW: Mulvaney walks back today's press briefing: “There never was any condition on the flow of the aid related to the matter of the DNC server.”

— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) October 17, 2019

lmao

I know it's been said before, but we're very lucky these thoroughly corrupt assholes are also thoroughly incompetent

...but if there were a condition, that would be fine and smart

A majority of Americans endorse House Democrats' decision to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Trump and his administration's dealings with Ukraine, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center.

The survey, which was released on Thursday, found that 54 percent of Americans support the impeachment inquiry, while 44 percent oppose it. The figure represents a four-point increase in support from a similar survey in September.

These numbers are creeping up. McConnell's gonna start sweating it pretty soon if this continues.

“The administration’s announcement that President Trump’s Doral Miami resort will be the site of the next G7 summit is among the most brazen examples yet of the president’s corruption,” Mr. Nadler said. “He is exploiting his office and making official U.S. government decisions for his personal financial gain. The emoluments clauses of the Constitution exist to prevent exactly this kind of corruption.”

that's an easy impeachment article

Murkowski stickin her neck out

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) pushed back on the idea endorsed by the Trump administration this week that withholding foreign aid to other countries for political purposes is a routine and appropriate way of doing business.

“You don’t hold up foreign aid that we had previously appropriated for a political initiative,” Murkowski, a senior appropriator, told reporters on Capitol Hill Thursday afternoon. “Period.”

Any appropriations committee member who doesn’t have that stance obviously doesn’t care about or understand a single thing about their job

these guys forgot to lie again.

would you like me to list the other members of the appropriations committee just to double-check

xp

tombot otm the notion that congressional appropriations can be treated as extensions of personal largesse by an executive officeholder is so deeply offensive to the assumptions of the us constitution that i struggle for language

Why, when I try to picture Trump being firm with an incalcitrant world leader, do I picture MacGruber's stock reaction when he finds himself in hot water?

― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Thursday, October 17, 2019 2:05 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

FP'd Old Lunch for making me imagine Trump prancing around with a stick of celery sticking out of his butt

off topic...I understand the desire to prevent Trump henchmen from avoiding legal consequences, but this strikes me as a dangerous road to start going down, one that might have some really terrible unintended consequences

do we have an borad lawyers who could weigh in (or really anyone who knows more than me which is most of you)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/16/trump-pardons-new-york-gov-andrew-cuomo-enacts-double-jeopardy-law/3998466002/

eh doesn't worry me too much, Presidential pardon power has always struck me as bullshit tbh

yeah like i said i don't know, i just worry it could be more broadly interpreted in some way to undermine actual double jeopardy

it's partially this weird thing that's developed where libs are like praising the CIA and stuff and saying what kind of man says the CIA isn't trustworthy or doesn't believe in the FBI, like just falling in line with these horrible authoritarian orgs just because they are a stick to beat Trump with

or just the idea of undermining things just to combat trump in the short term that could be later exploited in all kinds of bad ways

I think Trump genuinely believes that things which personally enrich him are by definition good for the country. Viewed through that lens his actions make more sense, although it's a fundamentally corrupt worldview and demands impeachment.

xp

insert A Man For All Seasons clip here

the notion that congressional appropriations can be treated as extensions of personal largesse by an executive officeholder is so deeply offensive to the assumptions of the us constitution

Trump has never read, does not know anything about, and cares even less about the US Consitution

I think Trump genuinely believes that things which personally enrich him are by definition good for the country.

Trump does not have a comprehension of what a country is, and barely even believes his children are people.

make them vote to acquit

One of those rare swing state polls with a competitive senate race shows Hickenlooper beating incumbent GOP Sen Gardner 53-42%, which resembles support for impeachment (54-43%), with unaffiliated voters backing it 61-34%.

Trump’s fav/unfav: 38-60%https://t.co/6lvJ0dilDj

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) October 18, 2019

Nice

OMG...what if the GOP backs President Dumpsterjuice all the way down the line and winds up losing both the WH and a shitload of Senate seats?

why doesn't the house (if pelosi's refusal to hold a vote means she doesn't have the votes) support it, then? you'd think that since districts are much more polarized than states, it would be even more advantageous to support it.

That’s the dream

Xp

Give it a day or two KM

I really doubt they don't have the votes.

They just want to maximize the damage first and also don't want to appear as if they were bullied into it by the White House.

I think the whip count established more than the needed number appear to support the inquiry at least

Yeah but they dont have to vote for that

Trump calls Rep. Louie Gohmert "a man who is smart as hell."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 18, 2019

Takes one to know one

They just want to maximize the damage first and also don't want to appear as if they were bullied into it by the White House.

but that's also kind of weird, right? if it's advantageous to get republican senators on the record as supporting (or opposing!) trump on an impeachment inquiry, wouldn't it also be useful to have house republicans on the record, since it's even more difficult to flip those districts? if it's obviously heading toward impeachment, why not do it now?

hopefully it will just be two days, but the window might be closing if it becomes so obvious that even safe house republicans realize they're supporting an ongoing criminal presidency

One of those rare swing state polls with a competitive senate race shows Hickenlooper beating incumbent GOP Sen Gardner 53-42%, which resembles support for impeachment (54-43%), with unaffiliated voters backing it 61-34%.

Trump’s fav/unfav: 38-60%https://t.co/6lvJ0dilDj

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) October 18, 2019

Keep up dude

you expect me to bookmark a thread sober?

"OMG...what if the GOP backs President Dumpsterjuice all the way down the line and winds up losing both the WH and a shitload of Senate seats?"

that's the hope

sounds cool except there will probably be some massive new recession to deal with