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

source?

ILX

Too believable.

I do recall some Chinese official being interviewed by Norwegian television shortly before the 2016 election; when asked whether they were worried at the possibility of Trump being elected, he was visibly taken aback, and said something like "uh, well, no, that would not be a great worry".

very normal white house

Former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley claims that ex-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and ex-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly secretly subverted President Donald Trump–and tried to convince her to do the same.

“Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the President, they weren’t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country,” Haley writes in her upcoming book “With All Due Respect,” obtained in advance by the Washington Post on Sunday.

According to Haley, the two senior officials argued their decisions “were in the best interests of America” because they believed Trump “didn’t know what he was doing.”

In a pre-taped “CBS Sunday Morning” interview with reporter Norah O’Donnell, Haley recounted the “offensive” conversation, during which Tillerson also allegedly told her that people “would die” if he didn’t resist Trump’s decisions.

“It absolutely happened,” she said. “And instead of saying that to me, they should’ve been saying that to the President, not asking me to join them on their sidebar plan.”

Haley said Tillerson and Kelly should’ve merely quit if they didn’t like what Trump was doing.

“But to undermine a president is really a very dangerous thing,” she added. “And it goes against the Constitution, and it goes against what the American people want.”

“If by resistance and stalling she means putting a staff process in place…to ensure the [President] knew all the pros and cons of what policy decision he might be contemplating so he could make an informed decision, then guilty as charged,” Kelly told CBS News in response to Haley’s account.

file this with the recent "president settles $2 million charity financial fraud" case under "very minor news in november 2019"

It's being reported that Trump has fired Lt. Col. Vindaman.

Lol add it to the list.

tbf a firing is always the final scene of the week's episode

have there been any reported instances of Trump firing anyone himself during this entire administration?

didn't he fire some general via twitter

Peter King is retiring, will not seek re-election in 2020. When the Republicans have lost Staten Island...

Just kidding. The Republicans will never lose Staten Island. They'll find some ex-ICE agent with an Iron Cross neck tattoo to run and he'll win in a landslide.

Lol

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/11/donald-trump-jr-book-talk-ucla-derailed-by-far-right-protesters/?tid=sm_fb

My mistake above; Peter King represents Long Island, not Staten Island. His successor will still be a knuckle-walking goon, of course.

Good morning!

where is piss-chugger Joey Saladino running? Staten Island?

Our country may burn to the ground, but at least we'll always have this moment.

So it seems like Don Jr’s book tour is going well pic.twitter.com/m0mZQQMHSi

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 11, 2019

"I bet that you engage in online dating"

daaaamn

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/782081245249310720/rLWU8Qrf_400x400.jpg/

someone seems... triggered

No triggered, no triggered. You're the triggered!

all because they cancelled the Q&A. amazing.

Just kidding. The Republicans will never lose Staten Island. They'll find some ex-ICE agent with an Iron Cross neck tattoo to run and he'll win in a landslide.

― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, November 11, 2019 7:19 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

the current representative from staten island is democrat Max Rose.

Peter King represents Long Island, not Staten Island. His successor will still be a knuckle-walking goon, of course.

Did someone say... Buttafuoco?

Peter King stood head & shoulders above everyone else

He’s been principled & never let others push him away from his principles

He’s fiercely loved America, Long Island, and his Irish heritage and left a lasting mark on all 3

I will miss him in Congress & value his friendship https://t.co/GSXizZ2c5D

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) November 11, 2019

holy shit Chuck

above everyone else

above...EVERYONE else?

he definitely believed he stood head and shoulders above migrants and refugees, that's for sure

Yeah when you advocate torture it's a good idea to be head and shoulders above the people you're torturing.

struggling to work out what leaving a lasting mark on his irish heritage means tbh

I wonder, when the party inevitably splits in two somewhere down the road, which side will get/want to keep calling themselves 'democrats'.

Peter King always struck me as a behind the scenes villain's hapless proxy mayor in a Batman movie.

Peter King is an Islamophobe who held McCarthyite hearings targeting American Muslims, said “there are too many mosques in this country” and blamed Eric Garner for his own death at the hands of police.

Good riddance. https://t.co/cYZOrnaK2M

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) November 11, 2019

She back

take notes Chuck

is politics local

Her timing is exquisite.

struggling to work out what leaving a lasting mark on his irish heritage means tbh

Being a big supporter of the IRA, I guess?

Making it harder for women to get birth control...is all i got

Also is Chuck aware that Peter isn't dead

Like he just retired, you don't gotta lick his balls with that faux bipartisan reverent tone thing u do

It's of the utmost importance that a public which only knows a politician on the basis of his shitty politics also be made aware of what an awesome golfer and Tex-Mex chef the representative in question is.

It's like going on the Yelp page for your brother-in-law's abysmally-rated plumbing company and regaling the haters with paeans to the dude's model car collection. IE, who the fuck cares.

“You can shoot me but you’ll have to kill us all. Something”

WTF was that??
pic.twitter.com/iH2VfXLvYS

— LiA (@LibsInAmerica) November 11, 2019

That's next month's title sorted early

surprised that isn't a super deluxe remix

Hamlet: (parenthetically) Something.

https://consequenceofsound.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/metallica-kill-em-all-album-cover.png?w=800

That's very "fool me once ... won't get fooled again."