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

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.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Trump-says-Texas-made-a-fortune-on-14544214.php

“You made a fortune on the hurricane,” Trump said of Hurricane Harvey, which devastated Houston and much of Southeast Texas in 2017, killing more than 100 people and destroying or damaging more than 100,000 homes.

But Trump — speaking with a smile as the crowd laughed — said all that money that wasn’t enough for U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn and state officials such as Gov. Greg Abbott whom he said came to him asking for more.

“‘Sir, we want one more small request,’” Trump said recalling the conversations. “‘It’s not much and we appreciate you listening to us. We want to build a dam in the ocean.’”

Trump said he asked them how much it would be.

“They say it’s only $10 billion, I’m supposed to be happy,” Trump said. “Oh, let’s see can we give Texas an extra $10 billion for some crazy thing that may work or it may not?”

Since Hurricane Ike hit Texas in 2008, state and federal officials have been studying the idea of a 70-mile coastal barrier aimed at protecting Houston’s shipping channel from hurricanes. Often called the Ike Dike, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has estimated it could cost up to $31 billion to build.

Pelosi should alert the press that she meant to say "All roads do NOT lead to Russia *WINK WINK*"

I've typed and deleted a half dozen responses to that rally anecdote but they all boil down to: everyone voluntarily gathered under that roof is a fucking monster, many of whom are clearly champing at the bit to express their monstrosity in deference to their monster king. Obvious, I know, but it just can't be said enough.

$10 billion for some crazy thing that may work or it may not, you say

'Your state sure got fucked up and a bunch of your neighbors died, but you made a lot of money out of the deal so it's cool.'
(RIOTOUS LAUGHTER)
'Your senators wanted more money to help prevent some shit like that going down again, but I felt personally inconvenienced so I told them to fuck off.'
(VOLUME OF LAUGHTER INCREASES)
'I hate every single person in this room.'
(ROLLING IN THE AISLES)

tough guy and might seduce your dad guy

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, October 18, 2019 12:44 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

damn between this and the Gang Starr joke you are officially en fuego.

https://slate.com/business/2019/10/vanity-fairs-trump-chaos-trades-story-is-a-fantasy.html

Ok that settles it