US Politics, November 2019: These people are truly sick.

Halloween was yesterday, ain't gotta give me nightmares today

Speaking of Fireside Chats, when did Presidents stop doing weekly radio addresses? I remember hearing recaps on weekend news at least through Clinton and maybe some of W.

Great costumes! Thomas, #OutOfTheWill! https://t.co/ta6aJqfYq3

— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 31, 2019

Donald Trump continued the weekly video address for the first nine months of his administration, after which he put the address on hiatus.[2] He later released occasional "weekly" addresses before discontinuing the tradition entirely in June of 2018

DJTJ and his Fox News gf went as a hunter and a witch, respectively.

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I have little doubt that Trump's "dream of building a mega-church" rests largely on his knowledge of how lucrative they can be.

― A is for (Aimless), Friday, November 1, 2019 12:47 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Of course, it's literally the only reason he would even consider it.

Tax Exemptions too

i'd honestly be curious to see how he'd manage to make that hemorrhage money.

read a pretty convincing argument that Trump literally does not know what "quid pro quo" is which is why he talks about it in such bizarre terms

clearly he doesn't understand what a "witch hunt" is either

he's best pals with the falwell mega church empire, of course it's all about money

good afternoon!

i'd honestly be curious to see how he'd manage to make that hemorrhage money.

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, November 1, 2019 1:22 PM (fifty-two seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Stops paying contractors, roof left unfinished, black mold infestation, settlement of class action lawsuit from surviving parishioners whose loved ones subsequently died in droves from various lung diseases.

Trump has my vote.

can we not use "Trump" and "hemorrhoids" -- sorry, "hemorrhage" -- in the same sentence

how hilarious would it be to be fly on the wall when some underling has to explain shit like quid pro quo to Donnie

''Quid'? You mean like an octopus?'
'No, President Trump. You're thinking of a squid.'
'No, that octopus thing is called a quid.'
'Of course it is, sir.'
'And what the hell is a 'proke whoa'?'

I'm starving. Order me one of those squid pork rolls you mentioned earlier.

a huge stained glass portrayal of a beaming trump leaking sickly orange sunlight down onto thousands of hooting prosperity-gospel chuds is the next logical step for him, dunno why it’s taken him so long to get moving on it

other than his skull is filled with porridge cooked with rancid piss, obv

That's going to make communion unpleasant.

communion is done with dried Burger King patties that only represent the piss porridge

would be nice to see Eisenberg go to jail, could see Trump sacrificing him

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-official-who-heard-trumps-call-with-ukraine-leader-testified-that-he-was-told-to-keep-quiet/2019/11/01/dbed7fae-fc07-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html

Man, Jesse Eisenberg is everywhere

I was on a supply job yesterday, and--because it was at my old school and I knew the students--the music teacher arranged for me to cover two of her periods involving guitars. So I switched with the teacher who was in for her: Ms. Trump. She was in her late 20s, so it was probably her first or second year supplying. I wouldn't wish that name on anybody--"Good morning grade 8s, I'm Ms. Trump"--much less someone new.

surely with Hitler a surname doomed to obsolescence

If not for horrors to come just the pure clown quotient

like you hardly meet any Shitforbrains these days

is 'supply job' canadian for substitute teaching?

I used to know a guy named Gruber whose family changed it from Schicklgruber a few generations earlier. I guess Tiffany's and Barron's kids will have to go in a totally different direction -- Jones, maybe, or O'Bama.

lads

🏆 COVFEFE has won the @BreedersCup Filly & Mare Sprint. pic.twitter.com/gPMc1hoj2F

— World Horse Racing (@WHR) November 2, 2019

hit the trifecta with longshots Smocking Gun and Phone Tapp

(xpost to mookie) Yes--when I was supplying in the early-'90s, before I moved to full-time, I had an American tell me he thought it meant I came in and organized the supply cupboard.

The President is here and the boos are deafening. #UFC244 pic.twitter.com/MbQdKIvuil

— Ricardo Montero (@RicardoMonteroH) November 3, 2019

wow, impossible to prove from the recording but the house music certainly seems to get louder about 30 seconds in. could just be the phone recording but it also seems like something the president's handlers would tell the production crew ahead of time, juuuuuuuuuust in case maybe the entire stadium wants to boo at the worst fucking dipshit on the planet

This WaPo story fills in some blanks. It’s kind of funny because it’s all these guys going, “We could just never understand where his obsession with Ukraine came from ...”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/a-presidential-loathing-for-ukraine-is-at-the-heart-of-the-impeachment-inquiry/2019/11/02/8280ee60-fcc5-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html

In the fall of 2017, Trump was set to meet with then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko at the United Nations in New York. At the time, U.S. officials were working to convince Trump that Ukraine, locked in a long war with Russian-backed forces, was worthy of American support.
Then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Volker that he would have about 45 seconds to brief Trump ahead of his meeting with Poroshenko. If Trump was interested in learning more, Tillerson said, the president would ask questions. Volker rushed through his pitch, according to former U.S. officials who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic topics.
Trump then peppered Volker with his negative views of Ukraine, suggesting that it wasn’t a “real country,” that it had always been a part of Russia, and that it was “totally corrupt.”

His entire worldview is parroted Russian talking points.

Getting booed by the UFC crowd is really something

good morning!!

We slept the whole night through

wow, the UFC crowd really hate AC/DC

Fake blues!

Then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Volker that he would have about 45 seconds to brief Trump ahead of his meeting with Poroshenko. If Trump was interested in learning more, Tillerson said, the president would ask questions. Volker rushed through his pitch, according to former U.S. officials who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic topics.


Come on Volker, step up your gain. You can’t rush your 45 second pitch on Ukraine, we’ve been over this

Step up your gain. Sigh. This is how facts gets distorted.

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The Angry Majority!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2019

what's weird is that just before that he was bragging about his 95% approval rate among republicans. so is that who is angry? it must be, right? he's not going to say republicans aren't in the majority (even though they're not)

No I think he means his base, the majority, is rightfully angered

tbf though almost everybody is pretty angry

I think there's gonna be a fight

an ultimate fight

there was a long ass NPR opinion piece yesterday kind of chiding him for goiing to UFC when there are lots of nice things to do in NYC this weekend that don't involve people beating the fuck out of each other, and noted that the audience for this was likely to be more welcoming to him than the baseball audience. Well, guess not.

pic.twitter.com/11nzKwOCtU

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2019

Sorry, I'm ridiculously late.

'ctrl + f rocky' was not enough.

worth a second look imo hubba hubba

Great White Hope? or Big White Stiff?

Time for a new one?

I suppose "The President of Ukraine has just again announced that President Trump has done nothing wrong" is too long for the title?

gotta be “i want nothing”

US Politics, December 2019: Profound procedural deficiencies

Feels like it's occasionally worth remembering/pointing out that the president who decries partisanism at every turn is the same president who has painted everyone outside of his own party as an enemy of America.

Ooops, wrong tread.

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