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

automated robot voice: "hi, this is gallup land line polling agency limited, incorporated dot com. if you had to choose, would you rather donald trump win the 2020 election, or elizabeth warren be proclaimed queen for life?"

Jesus is king

Kanye's still popular iirc

I was thinking about that the other day and realized that while I would've grumbled loudly and been appalled on a daily basis, I definitely could've lived if McCain or Romney had won. Hindsight is a helluva thing.

I would never countenance a king, don't care who it is

(says a guy who likes to irritate britishers by asking why they haven't had the royal family shot yet)

Kanye's still popular iirc

is he?

I would never countenance a king, don't care who it is

exactly, i'm with you. i am scared of americans, though (i think conservatives would overwhelmingly choose a king in those circumstances, like 90%+, and i think at least 50% of left-leaning people would choose queen warren (or king mayor pete or whoever else)

When threads collide!

And now Chile's president has cancelled the APEC summit next month.

This throws the Trump-Xi meeting and "phase one" trade deal signing up into the air.

— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) October 30, 2019

we have now reached the part of the work week where i make up retcon old arguments with my dad and then make up hypothetical scenarios so that i can stand apart from the bad people in my mind. my work here is done, which means i should probably go back to my actual work

Take our Royal Family, please.

how many americans do you think would rather have a king than a president?

― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard!

Most heterosexual American men want to be topped by a man called “Coach,” tbh

Did we mention that Greg Walden won't run for reelection?.

https://i.imgur.com/mXLZ2Y4.jpg

Sullivan's testimony has been amusing.

Russian Amb. nominee John Sullivan on whether he was aware of the effort to smear then-Amb. to Ukraine Yovanovitch:

"I was."

Sen. Menendez: Was Rudy Giuliani involved?

Sullivan: "I believed he was, yes." pic.twitter.com/wOv1XUnawp

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 30, 2019

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/30/john-sullivan-ukraine-phone-call-061694

it is crazy that everyone is lying so much. wow, guess i should go to conservapedia and look up deep state, i didn't know how many people were involved.

fires are threatening the Reagan Library

I really hope that all the people who work there and any human beings anywhere near it have safely evacuated with their families, and then that the entire structure and contents are turned to ash

won't someone think of the jellybeans?

There's currently an Egyptian antiquities exhibit there that I wanted to see, so maybe it should burn next year.

i hope the fire doesn't burn the library's exhibit dedicated to reagan's early action on dire warnings about climate change that were already present and swirling around Exxon and the White House by the late 70s

There’s that cool vitrine too with the scale model reproduction of workers removing the WH solar panels.

Well, he was once a spokesman for an electric power company, and an electric power company is implicated in recent wildfires, so.

(No idea where to take that, sorry)

Pollution comes from trees

Air Force One sits on display at #reaganlibrary as the #easyfire burns in the hills of Simi Valley. #latimes @latimes pic.twitter.com/xdnS1QGVCc

— Wally Skalij (@WallySkalij) October 30, 2019

21st Century version of Crying Native American looking at pollution.

All cleared up!

Ran into @IlhanMN on the Hill and asked if I could ask her about the Armenia genocide vote and statement and her answer was “you may not.”

— Miriam Elder (@MiriamElder) October 30, 2019

cancelled

it's like a Cenk Uygar AMA

Gov. Tom Wolf (D) will sign a bill compromising with GOP to finally give Pennsylvania no-excuse absentee voting, a permanent mail voting option, & a shorter registration deadline. However, it also ends straight-ticket voting, which could hurt black turnout https://t.co/lpX5DdhU9C https://t.co/xgY8zEW52u

— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) October 30, 2019

Anyone know why this would hurt black turnout?

oh i see

Because precincts in Democratic areas of the state, particularly in Philadelphia, are heavily under-resourced relative to the size of the voting population, banning straight-ticket voting would mean much longer lines at the polls, as each voter needs more time behind the curtain. Studies have shown the longer lines depress Democrat turnout significantly.

Studies have shown the longer lines depress Democrat turnout significantly.

With much-extended mail-in absentee voting now possible, I should think that the GOTV effort in black neighborhoods needs to adjust their strategy to emphasize early voting.

Inevitable:

NBC News confirms Fmr Nat'l Security Adv. John Bolton will report to House for deposition next week

— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) October 30, 2019

yesss

"Mr Bolton, what is yr favorite Fresh Prince episode"

"Do you dye your mustache?"

"Is that a shiv in your pocket, and if so, upon whom do you intend to employ it?"

"Is it true that your former deputy NSA Director Charles Kupperman is 'The Eggman'?"

"do you think it's fucked up that you stand as a symbol of relative integrity in the trump administration even though you are one of the least ethical people on the planet relevant to normal people?"

"Alan Dershowitz praised you recently at a private dinner. How slimy do you still feel, or in fact does your own slime cancel it out?"

xpost Come now Karl, we're here for SERIOUS questions.

This line of questioning is completely inappropriate, and a shameful display of disrespect for a man who delivered one of the finest renditions of "When a Man Loves a Woman" ever recorded.

xp
how could i forget!

"would you prefer to have a king rather than endure a democrat elected to the white house?"

"Top or bottom?"

"Mr. Brimley, what's it like to work with Steve Guttenberg?"

https://youtu.be/MhvDMvV5FfE

Meantime...

Colleague John Roberts rpts NSC staffer Tim Morrison leaving WH. Was scheduled to testify tomorrow before House investigators

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) October 30, 2019

man ngl the Omar shit is bumming me out.

yeah

Official Trump ad running during World Series

<INCLUDES FAKE SITUATION ROOM PHOTO>

right-wing internet folks very excited to have doxed the whistleblower.

have they?