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

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.”

again, you couldn't write better parody than real life provides

Heavy doodie.

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

lmao

lol

The Baghdadi raid reportedly took place yesterday at 3:30PM EST.

According to yesterday's pool report, Trump and crew didn't leave Trump National Golf Club until 3:30PM EST.

So, as Pete Souza points out, the Trump "war room" photo tweeted by @DanScavino was clearly staged. pic.twitter.com/aUKBzSN4sL

— Avi Bueno (@Avi_Bueno) October 27, 2019

Which explains why Pence looks as if he's proud that he learned how to pee sitting down.

Trump is going to crow about this for as long as possible but the fact is that Al Baghdadi was not the household name that Osama was, and he is not going to get the kind of credit for this that Obama did (which frankly wasn't enough).

Obama had the likes of John Brennan crowing about it for days iirc

I hate this extra-judicial killing, by the way, no matter who does it. Too late for scruples, I guess.

lol "staged" is trending above "ISIS" and "trumppresser"

"#wekillpeople" nowhere to be found of course

My guess is that very few people give a shit about this at all

It should be noted that when he tweeted about "Something Big Just Happened", many of his followers initially mused that it was the arrest and jailing of a prominent Democrat or Democrats.

All his base cares about is putting people who aren't them in jail.

Releasing this 'big news' on a Sunday means that, if it isn't discussed during the televised NFL games, lots of ordinary (i.e. low information) voters won't hear about it.

when bin laden was killed it preempted the apprentice, trump is much more respectful of prime time tv

The hashtag "WaPoDeathNotices" is generating some entertaining tweets - apparently the Post described al-Baghdadi as "an austere religious scholar with wire-frame glasses" and "a shy, nearsighted youth who liked soccer but preferred to spend his free time at the local mosque"...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EH5SAuDWkAAvoEW.jpg

So now we get:

#WaPoDeathNotices Joseph Stalin, former seminarian and noted agrarian reformer, dead at 74.

— Stephen F. Knott (@publius57) October 27, 2019

Martin Luther King, noted Black agitator found dead in potentially racially charged attack. Some say his rhetoric inflamed tensions on both sides. #WaPoDeathNotices

— Wes Ghoulbar 🎃 (@wgobar) October 27, 2019

Jim Jones, passionate community organizer and religious leader, dead at 47.#WaPoDeathNotices pic.twitter.com/OP8YBvehBV

— Dan Crenshaw's Eyepatch (@DansEyepatch) October 27, 2019

“The only ones remaining were Baghdadi in the tunnel and he had dragged three of his young children with him. They were led to a certain death. He reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down.

bullshit

"Oh, you let children be killed by dogs? What a big strong man you are! Trump 2020! MAGA! MAGA!"

The only use Trump has for dogs.

Other than eating

And using to describe women he feels are unattractive.

ACTUALLY the children were killed by baghdadi’s SUICIDE VEST

which is definitely not a euphemism for u.s. special forces, honest

When Donald goes on national television this morning to take a victory lap for killing Baghdadi, keep this gem in mind. There really is a tweet for everything. pic.twitter.com/nsPTl0pxvW

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 27, 2019

I was half-asleep, but I'm pretty sure that at one point Trump essentially said, "...a canine--for you lay people, that's a dog."

Self-Portrait:

The thug who tried so hard to intimidate others spent his last moments in utter fear, in total panic and dread — terrified of the American forces bearing down on him.

he's gloating in grisly detail about a raid in which three children died

"This raid was impeccable"

clemenza that's amazing if true and why wouldn't it be?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/us/politics/trump-syria-oil-fields.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

Trump’s message is puzzling to former government officials and Middle East analysts who say that controlling Syria’s oil fields — which are the legal property of the Syrian government — poses numerous practical, legal and political obstacles.

They also warn that Mr. Trump’s discourse, which revives language he often used during the 2016 campaign to widespread condemnation, could confirm the world’s worst suspicions about American motives in the region.

Trump has been talking about “blood and treasure” in the Middle East, along with “beautiful oil”, since the mid-2000s. One of his main complaints about the Iraq war and Obama was that we didn’t take enough oil. He made this. It was a repeated talking point during his 2016 campaign and rallies.

"Oh, you let children be killed by dogs? What a big strong man you are! Trump 2020! MAGA! MAGA!"

He's waaay ahead of your sarcasm. During the 2016 campaign he made a point of how he would destroy ISIS by murdering their families. His supporters, of course, loved it.

New York times headline claims this raid was opportunistic, and happened in spite of Trump, not because of him.

i just don't understand what he means by "take the oil." the (alleged) bush way was install puppet regimes that would give favorable contracts to US oil companies. in the case of syria, it would mean establishing favorable terms with assad in order to do this?

like what does he mean we have "secured" oil fields

There's little reason to doubt that the intelligence agencies and military would have been tracking the whereabouts of Baghdadi as best they could, along with having a few contingency plans for killing him, if the chance presented, without Trump ever having been involved in it right up to the moment that his authorization was needed. But the operation would absolutely have needed authorization. Too many political considerations come attached to assassinations for such a thing to happen without it.

Hill resigning.

👻

Trump made good on his threat to show up at a World Series game. It went either really well or really poorly, depending on your perspective. (There's another video of people chanting "Lock him up!")

Here’s video of Trump getting booed again, this time by the whole stadium. pic.twitter.com/ppRpQzWWap

— Scott Dworkin (@funder) October 28, 2019

Look how Trump’s face changes when he realizes an entire stadium is booing him pic.twitter.com/E46rzbzmbl

— Arlen Parsa (@arlenparsa) October 28, 2019

exquisite

John Conyers Jr has died