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

Doug Henwood tweet

Signed

Morbs

going back to McConnell's current "defend the president on the process" tactic:

“The transcripts are all going to be released publicly, and there will be public hearings,” Lieu told us. “So all of these stupid process arguments that Republicans are making are going to go away.”

it's almost as if McConnell knows he has a weak hand and is just playing for time

oh Hucklepaws

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) walked back his earlier comments that called out a group of House Republicans for storming into a closed-door deposition that is part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump on Wednesday.

Graham tweeted a “correction” saying that when he told reporters “that’s nuts” in response to his fellow Republican lawmakers’ actions, he had been misinformed on the nature of the disruption.

“I was initially told House GOP took the SCIF by force – basically like a GOP version of Occupy Wall Street,” Graham tweeted. “Apparently it was a peaceful protest. Big difference. I understand their frustration and they have good reason to be upset.”

Yes entering a building screaming while breaking laws = perfectly legal peaceful protest, good one

I wonder if literally sending a squad of goons to disrupt an investigation counts as obstruction of justice? I wonder...

Could someone please subpoena Graham's phone records spanning the moments when he publicly veers from the party line until his inevitable retractions (which are in no way precipitated by someone reminding him about those photos that are still in that safe deposit box)?

If we don't someday learn that he has been deeply, deeeeeeply compromised by some foreign entity at least throughout the course Trump's presidency, I will quite literally eat my hat.

shouldn't these idiots' phones be confiscated by now

Major league umpire Rob Drake tweeted “I will be buying an AR-15 tomorrow, because if you impeach MY PRESIDENT this way, YOU WILL HAVE ANOTHER CIVAL WAR!!! #MAGA2020”, according to a copy of the tweet obtained by ESPN. MLB says it is aware of it. News: https://t.co/Qf7VMAXEoJ

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) October 23, 2019

MORAN!

Get that man on the Supreme Court! It's all just balls 'n' strikes, right?

He later complained that his account was "hicked"

shouldn't the 2020 slogan be Make America Great Again, Again

it should be MAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGA

a la Billy Joel's "Movin' Out"

An amusing bit:

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/23/trump-impeachment-offensive-conservative-056063

Miller said Republican lawmakers need to do a better job of strategically leaking information to the media from the behind-closed-doors testimony to build Republicans’ nothing-to-see-here argument. He alleges Democrats are leaking tidbits of information every day to drive news cycle favorable to them.

Which could also imply...there's nothing pro-Trump to leak.

Notably, according to a list provided by Gaetz's office of the Republicans who RSVP'd to join the protest, 12 of them are members of the Oversight or Foreign Affairs committees — including Rep. Jim Jordan, the ranking member on the Oversight Committee — meaning they have been allowed to sit in on all depositions held in the SCIF in recent weeks.

virtue signallers

Hmm, of course.

Rudy Giuliani is looking for a defense attorney, sources sayhttps://t.co/qp8u1IA9RN

— Mike Warren (@MichaelRWarren) October 24, 2019

but he's so good he can defend himself, no?

Fool for a client etc.

He's so good he doesn't even *need* to defend himself.

I am not a lawyer but it seems pretty clear to me that if you are the president's lawyer you are allowed to commit crimes because executive privilege, etc.

6) Fox is told there was never any chance mbrs who barged into SCIF would be arrested by USCP wBut some mbrs members asked to be arrested. They wanted the optic of being frog marched out of the SCIF in front of TV cameras. That would help w/GOP narrative of Dem process abuse

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) October 24, 2019

Apparently our man Barry is supposed to speak at Cummings’ service so coverage of this could lead to the heart attack we’ve been hoping for

dummy just said he's building a wall on the Colorado border

It borders Second Mexico

New Mexico gon' pay!

2 Mexico

2 Furious

missed this detail earlier

In fact, Mr. Trump is said to have given them a thumbs-up the day before. On Tuesday, he “met with about 30 House Republicans at the White House to talk about the situation in Syria and the impeachment inquiry,” at which time the members “shared their plans to storm into the secure room,” Bloomberg News reported. Mr. Trump told them he thought it was a good idea.

trump + these thirty are going to be like the alamo only if you weren't sure how to reload the guns

I guess statement you could say with tweet. He made a tweet. The tweet is perfect:

(Kiddingly) We’re building a Wall in Colorado”(then stated, “we’re not building a Wall in Kansas but they get the benefit of the Wall we’re building on the Border”) refered to people in the very packed auditorium, from Colorado & Kansas, getting the benefit of the Border Wall!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2019

*curb your enthusiasm music plays *

how surprising that his clarification makes less sense than the original statement

I'm glad he cleared it up for us, he's got my vote back.

He said this in Pennsylvania, right? How many people from Colorado and Kansas were there?

I don't know why it's so hard for us to tell when President Ragestroke is just kidding around. It must be so exhausting for him to have to explain all of his flights of whimsy after the fact.

I know it gets said a lot but just lmao that people are basing their entire personality around this guy and alienating all their friends

if they're alienated then they weren't really your friends

growing up in the south, everyone i knew HATED donald trump as the perfect embodiment of what a rich, crass, shitty yankee was; i gotta believe that regional division still burns bright in their heart if someone can just give it a little push
oh that warren had a southern accent

semi xpost:

I know he theoretically has 99% support among Republicans, but I wonder if by the end he'll have alienated enough people that next November instead of talking about "Reagan Democrats" political reporters will have to start talking about "Warren [or Biden, or Sanders] Republicans."

Ah, who am I kidding? Political reporters never give up their treasured mythological frameworks. And yes, Morbius, we all know Warren used to be a Republican. Save it.

growing up in the south, everyone i knew HATED donald trump as the perfect embodiment of what a rich, crass, shitty yankee was; i gotta believe that regional division still burns bright in their heart if someone can just give it a little push
oh that warren had a southern accent

I don't know if all these ride or die Trump supporters are thinking that relationships that disintegrated over their support will be fine again when Trump is gone.

I will not stop pissing on my neighbor's car even after Trump's removal

xp knowing my dad, yes (he's wrong)

Andrew Napolitano: "As frustrating as it may be to have these hearings going on behind closed doors ... they are consistent with the rules. ... When were the rules written last? In January of 2015. And who signed them? John Boehner. And who enacted them? A Republican majority." pic.twitter.com/Zl10ZNugf4

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) October 24, 2019

That news sounds...fake.

Was there any place where people DID like him prior to this bizarre befuddling cult? He was a joke since he appeared on public stage

Republicans really are the dumbest of all the fucks.

ohhhh, I bet Trump is shitting an unelected fake brick at that clip

Graham is facing increasing pressure from Trump’s allies, who have used the #WheresLindsey hashtag on Twitter in recent days to call on Graham to more strongly defend the president from impeachment.

lol

Lick that boot, Lindsey!

gonna be a lot of GOP posturing/headline dominating today while the Dems are all off at Cummings' funeral