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

Murking means to become a mediocre Senator in Alaska

John Bolton's lip Merkin?

last night i learned that my racist texan republican stepmother has no time for trump (or ted cruz), which is interesting

her husband, who probably voted republican until the turn of the century, is intrigued by mayor pete -- it's incredibly in character for him to believe in mckinsey magic -- but worries that a gay dude cannot win the general election

'murika

Good news everyone!

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/467473-trump-dismisses-need-for-impeachment-team-im-the-team

hahahaha

!! Rudy Giuliani butt-dialed an NBC News reporter — twice — leaving long voicemail messages in which he's heard discussing Joe Biden, business in Bahrain and his need for cash.

"The problem is we need some money," Giuliani says to unidentified man.https://t.co/GTewUkCgSS

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 25, 2019

"I will say this: If anything ever happened with this phony witch hunt that the Democrats are doing ... I really believe you’d have a recession, depression the likes of which this country hasn’t seen," Trump said, questioning how Democrats could impeach "one of the most successful presidents."

Such a predictable jerk off .

'why can't i just admit no wrongdoing and settle out of court?'

"This buttcall may be recorded for quality assurance purposes."

clowncar of murked Muriccans mucking about

that tweet about giuliani is hilarious

lol aimless

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHvwTCwWoAAhWGm?format=png&name=small

This is like when last week the student who had accidentally invited me to join a What'sApp chat posed the site where she found the midterm and six people left the group at once.

lol, awkward

Lol Huckleberry’s got every GOP Senator except Murkowski, Collins, and Pierre on board... but it will never get a vote.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who supports the resolution, has not said if it will come up for a vote. If it did, it would currently fail to overcome a procedural hurdle that requires legislation get 60 votes in order to advance on the Senate floor.

Total empty stunt to reassure Trump

https://outnaboutdotblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/spike-and-chester.gif

Total empty stunt to reassure Trump

And who knows, they may need a pardon some day.

that Giuliani voicemail seems suspiciously loaded...."there's plenty more to come out" "he's got a drug problem" etc.

I know, he's probably not clever enough to fake a butt dial in order to muddy the waters, but OF COURSE by the end of the day we are going to see R's pointing at this message as evidence bolstering their case

Supreme Court gonna be pretty busy protecting "their guy" next year
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/467506-judge-orders-doj-to-release-grand-jury-material-from-mueller-report

this horowitz stuff is such a damp squib.

everyone knows that jfk junior and donald j trump already compromised the clintons and obama to a permanent end and replaced them with non-satanic doppelgängers

heh

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

I have to admit, between the impeachment investigation, all the madness with Giuliani, Trump's increasingly desperate and panic-stricken tweets and helipad bellows, his company peeling his name off the ice rinks in Central Park and looking to sell the DC hotel, I'm feeling an odd sense of warmth. The fucker eventually craters everything he touches, and this, the largest of his cons, is finally really starting to fall apart.

Oh, and this is an old story but a fun one.

Nine years before becoming president, Donald Trump went on an expletive-filled tirade during a meeting with New Jersey officials about a real estate proposed development, at one point saying the state was “f—ed up” and deriding South Jersey Democratic power broker George Norcross and his brother Phil as “useless.”

The May 8, 2008, meeting at Trump Tower in New York City between the future president; Gary Rose, an adviser to former Gov. Jon Corzine; and former New Jersey Division of Law Director Robert Gilson has become the stuff of legend in New Jersey political circles.

The Record newspaper of northern New Jersey earlier this year reported some details from the meeting. However, a contemporaneous memo authored by Gilson and recently obtained by POLITICO provides more detail than previously known, including the references to the Norcross brothers, who have come under scrutiny over how they crafted and took advantage of New Jersey‘s tax incentive programs, from which they and some of their allies and clients have benefited.

link to the full memo

During this discussion, at one point, Mr. Trump threw his pen at his desk and it ricocheted off and hit his daughter.

and she blamed the pen manufacturer, who was clearly a RINO

given my shallowish non-transactional background on RE matters, i have always guessed most developer meetings are exactly like that.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/26/trump-will-address-nation-sunday-morning-after-tweeting-something-very-big-happened.html

President Donald Trump will make a “major statement” to the nation at 9 a.m. ET Sunday, the White House said late Saturday night.

It wasn’t immediately clear what Trump would discuss in his speech. The president tweeted earlier Saturday night that “Something very big has just happened!” but did not follow up with further details.

“The President of the United States will be making a major statement tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock from the White House,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement that came more than an hour after Trump’s tweet. The White House initially said Judd Deere, another spokesman, had made the statement.

Hoping for "I have been selected God-Emperor of Dune and will be leaving the planet. Good luck! Make Arrakis Great Again!"

'Judd Deere' is recognized on the list of Trump Crew W/Pynchon names, yes?

I bet this about him going to Game 5 tho.

He's gonna throw the first pitch and get fake snipered.

The president will announce that he's nuked another golden toilet

The fact that it's so easy to predict how this will play out is both hilarious and depressing.

this will be a big thing for about a day and then will devolve into a grievance abt how Trump doesn’t feted like Obama with OBL and Dems don’t agree to end impeachment inquiry because this guy got killed. https://t.co/Y1mQFLJ3pX

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 27, 2019

In fact, it's probably a safe bet that the Obama grievance part will be right there in his major statement tomorrow morning.

Dancers, models and actresses staying at Mar-A-Lago for an event or performance described waking up in the wee hours to find him standing at their bedsides.

One woman, interior designer Jill Harth, recounted Trump pouncing on her while they stood assessing Ivanka’s childhood bedroom at Mar-A-Lago for renovations. She was so repulsed by this that she vomited next to Ivanka’s canopy bed. You’d think if a woman hurled her lunch at your touch you’d get the hint. Not Donald. Trump took her disgust as playing hard to get, Harth believed. For weeks afterward he called her begging, “I love you baby. I’m going to be the best lover you’ve ever had… You need to be with me, you need to step it up to the big leagues.” When Trump was trying to persuade a woman whose husband was dying to fly away with him for a weekend he argued that her husband was so near death, “He’ll never notice you’re gone.”

It’s easy to see, even if you are among the few women in North America not molested by him, that Donald Trump is a brute and a boor. So why do we need 300-plus pages of detail? Only his decades-long rampage offers insight into his fitness, or unfitness, for office.

"the wee hours" :(

so did we kill Osama

He is new Dept of Energy head

remind me, how many times is it now that trump has completely defeated isis

How many times did u have to beat Koopa on Mario?

Patience!

https://politics.theonion.com/trump-cancels-white-house-subscription-to-highlights-1839272069

WASHINGTON—Shutting down a regular monthly delivery that had been in place since the Truman administration, President Donald Trump canceled the White House’s subscription to Highlights magazine Tuesday over what he deemed to be rampant anti-Goofus bias. “Everyone’s getting on his case all the time—Goofus has been treated very, very unfairly,” said Trump, decrying the 60-year-old children’s magazine’s obvious pro-Gallant agenda while praising Goofus as a bright kid smart enough to look out for number one and who knew how to cut a deal. “‘Gross Gallant’ is no angel either! I hear he’s in bed with some pretty shady figures, I won’t say who. Too bad for Highlights, a once-great publication that has gone downhill in recent years. Unfair that they never publish your drawings when you submit them. Also, I looked at that scene of the kids playing, and the second picture? No differences! None at all! And I was in that terrible maze for hours. Not good. There was clearly no exit.” At press time, Trump had reversed his position and instructed an aide to renew the White House’s subscription after discovering Highlights gave him some positive press by mentioning him in a list of U.S. presidents.

defeating Isis is always the best part of infrastructure week

"Please, please Mr. President, it's too much winning! I can't take it anymore!"--bizarro gazzara

otm

wow this press conference is...well it's exactly what you'd expect. turned it off when he started telling everyone how he was the only one who'd heard of and was paying attention to Bin Laden in 2000

He stopped just short of saying that 9/11 would never have happened if people listened to him, but he came very close.

Also kept calling Bin Laden's son tall and handsome.

If only the planes had hit his building

From a meta level, it's kind of funny how ruthlessly he shreds past republican fables & conspiracy theories. Like I guess Clinton *didn't* missile strike al-qaeda to distract from the Lewinsky scandal, and I guess we *do* invade middle eastern countries exclusively to secure access to oil.

quiet part loud etc

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/politics/trump-world-series-nationals

He said he would go on Sunday if the best-of-seven contest reaches a fifth game but even then would not throw the first pitch because he would look fat in the Kevlar vest he would have to wear.

“I don’t know. They’re going to have to dress me up in a lot of heavy armor,” he told reporters on Thursday. “I’ll look too heavy. I don’t like that.”