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

The only way the Dems could run someone less popular is a Weiner candidacy.

Feel the wein

Weinmentum

Weiner takes all

It's Weiner O'Clock Somewhere

Weiner: Because Americans love pricks.

Morning Consult finds that “Republicans representing Colorado, Arizona, North Carolina, Maine and Iowa all saw their net approval — the share of voters who approve of a senator’s job performance minus the share who disapprove — decline between the second and third quarters of 2019.” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), who could not manage to tell us whether it is wrong for the president to enlist a foreign government to influence our elections, are down 9 points and 3 points, respectively.

Ernst is in particular trouble. “The slide places her underwater with Iowa voters (39 percent approve and 43 percent disapprove) for the first time and among the 10 most unpopular senators in the country,” the polls found. “Iowa voters of all partisan leanings soured on the first-term senator, but GOP voters were most likely to take a dimmer view of her job performance. Her net approval dropped by 13 points among Republicans, compared with respective 9- and 7-point drops among Democrats and independents.” Uh-oh.

Ernst is not alone. “Ernst is not the only Republican up for re-election next year with a home-state approval below 40 percent: Among the vulnerable incumbents, Martha McSally of Arizona, Cory Gardner of Colorado and Thom Tillis of North Carolina are all below that threshold following a quarter where each saw little movement.”

Meanwhile, vulnerable Democratic incumbents are rising in polls. Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Doug Jones (D-Ala.) are up 1 points and 3 points, respectively. If these sort of numbers persist, or get even worse for Republicans, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will lose his majority.

would've assumed Doug Jones was toast tbh

let me just check the nypost weiner pun log (https://nypost.com/tag/anthony-weiner/)...somehow prick isn't on there! nice :)

xp

Prick up your ears! Weiner's coming!

-three dog night

Luckily for those republicans whose Trump support is causing their approval to tank, those two weeks before the election when they abruptly turn on the dude should be enough time for voters to forget all about their former complicity.

feel like breaking from Trump would cause their approval to tank even more

A real shame that "Scandal Dogs Weiner" wasn't the go-to headline on every paper.

Hopefully this is the beginning of a trend

Wow. GOP @RepRooney says he thinks Pelosi "has a point" when she said that with Trump, all roads lead to Russia.

"I was skeptical of it like most Republicans were, but I gotta say this business about the Ukraine server ... tells me, what, are we trying to exculpate Russia?" pic.twitter.com/CGXKxTO3m9

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 18, 2019

Erdogan tells news conference the letter sent by Trump telling him not to be a ‘tough guy’ wasn’t in line with diplomatic or political customs. He said they wouldn’t forget the lack of respect. “When the time comes necessary steps will be taken”

lmao

follow the polling xp

Is...is it possible, maybe, that the democrats aren't simply partisan communist witch-hunting enthusiasts? I'm beginning to wonder if some of Mr. Trump's utterances might not be entirely on the level.

Welp

https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Shelling-gunfire-continues-in-Syria-day-after-ceasefire-deal-605053

I thought only Trump was allowed to renege on a deal.

lolsob at Erdogan responding to "don't be a tough guy" with "I will, in fact, be the toughest tough guy who ever toughed"

Do we even have one ounce of legitimate leverage against Turkey at this point? Besides the strongly-worded letters of an illiterate?

well there's always the international community

good one

You mean besides Russia, right? Still amusing.

While " Get over it " nicely captures the essence of the Trump administration, I still prefer Ron Ziegler's " That statement is no longer operative "

It had a Nixonian elegance that Trump's catspaws can never hope to match

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) October 18, 2019

It's so adorable watching Kevin McCarthy, Meadows, and Jordan whine like anybody gives a fuck

Turkey needs to be kicked out of NATO and the UN. Again, everyone is such a goddamned pussy I don't expect them to do it.

What part of Mulvaney's briefing did you not understand? He very clearly said "get over it", but none of you are taking him at his word!

Mattis made some joeks

Former Defense secretary James Mattis responded to President Trump calling him “the world’s most overrated general” during a meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday.

At the Al Smith Memorial Foundation dinner on Thursday, Mattis opened his speech with a caustic blow about Trump's deferment from the draft during the Vietnam War.

"I earned my spurs on the battlefield; Donald Trump earned his spurs in a letter from a doctor” he said.

The general continued on with more Trump references, stating, “I’m not just an overrated general. I’m the greatest, the world’s most overrated." Mattis was the keynote speaker at the 74th annual event.

"I'm honored to be considered that by Donald Trump because he also called Meryl Streep an overrated actress. So I guess I'm the Meryl Streep of generals, and frankly that sounds pretty good to me,” Mattis continued.

fuck him and his impotent zingers

I'll take my allies where I can find them tyvm

look at this for 20 seconds straight:

https://i.imgur.com/wsyUzfG.jpg

thank you. you are now inducted into the final gathering of the damned

tough guy and might seduce your dad guy

Turkey needs to be kicked out of NATO and the UN.

It's all about the Turkish air bases now. So much easier than running operations off aircraft carriers.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/g8AI8Im4VK8/hqdefault.jpg

lol

tbf the Al Smith dinner always has political types flinging "professionally" written lame zingers

Yes but now we have a president who is unlikely to brush those zingers off as the faintly-amusing fripperies they are. Prepare for a weekend of Trump battening down the hatches!

Mattis's spurs zinger wasn't all that bad.

SAD-dog Mattis, people are saying he may be the lowest ranked general in history, it's true

I know the moment is past but:

Now is the Weiner of our discontent

happy 1,001th day of the trump administration everyone

er, that was yesterday. guess i missed it.

can't believe no one's posted this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWditrKW43o

Well, yeah

kind of devastating series of paragraphs here

After 1,000 days in office, Mr. Trump has redefined what it means to be presidential. On the 1,001st day of his tenure, which was Thursday, all pretense of normalcy went out the window. It was a day when he boasted of saving “millions of lives” by temporarily stopping a Middle East war that he effectively allowed to start in the first place, then compared the combatants to children who had to be allowed to slug each other to get it out of their system.

It was a day when he announced without any evident embarrassment that officials of the federal government that answers to him had scoured the country for a site for next year’s Group of 7 summit meeting and determined that the perfect location, the very best site in all the United States, just happened to be a property he owned in Florida.

It was a day when he sent out his top aide, an adviser who has served as “acting” White House chief of staff for nearly 10 months without ever being granted the respect of earning the title outright, to try to quell the whole impeachment furor, only to have him essentially admit the quid pro quo that the president had so adamantly denied.

It was a day that ended with a rally where one of the warm-up acts, the Texas lieutenant governor, declared that liberals “are not our opponents, they are our enemy,” and the president called the speaker of the House “crazy,” a rival candidate “very dumb,” a House committee chairman a “fraud” and the governor of another state a “crackpot.”

it sure was a day. and really, it's a lot like any other recent day. the last several days (weeks?) have been like this.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/17/lev-parnas-giuliani-ukraine-past-049677

On Oct. 25, 2008, the owner of a property in Florida in which Lev Parnas had been living told Parnas to leave. When the men began to argue and the owner told Parnas he would call the police, Parnas told the man, "If you call the cops, they are not going to find you ever," according to a petition for a restraining order filed by the landlord in Miami-Dade county court and obtained by POLITICO.

He was staying in a Trump condo, btw.

Just imagine if Trump had actually followed through and dialed.

good news! "They're back to the full pause," sez the Peacedealer.

It's adorable that he actually thinks he has any control over the situation.