US Politics, January 2020. Because we hate ourselves.

happy anniv

On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down one of its worst and most activist decisions ever. https://t.co/PggwjFzN9l

— Nathaniel St. Clair (@NatStClair) January 21, 2020

And as I say often, they're also all dedicated to playing a game where if anyone else tries to point out something that is supposed to make them reconsider or even just reflect on their position in regards to any GOP talking point, they will instead dig in their heels out of spite.

This is not a game, it's human nature

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds

I framed it that way semi-sarcastically because i've never seen such a stubborn dedication to that "rule" (as I described it) before the Trump era, to this much of a cartoony extreme degree.

such a stubborn dedication to that "rule" (as I described it) before the Trump era

When your job depends on figuring out what an amorphous blob of hundreds of thousands, or millions, of voters might "think" in the aggregate, you adopt a very heuristic attitude. Trump did things no professional politician would have dared to try before 2016, but he succeeded, so it became monkey-see, monkey-do time in DC.

Del. Lee Carter, the Virginia General Assembly's sole Democratic socialist, just passed his first bill. It prevents employers from classifying workers as tipped employees if they're prohibited from soliciting tips. https://t.co/ucRe1p5Mpi

— Ned Oliver (@nedoliver) January 22, 2020

He appears to be celebrating by shitposting from the House floor https://t.co/Z5jyeC3dvT

— Ned Oliver (@nedoliver) January 22, 2020

that's a good tweet

I agree w TRAINS

Ruining the non-sequitLOLs a bit, but if you click on Lee's tweet, it's in regards to a separate train bill that passed afterwards

Still a good tweet tho

Are we sure it's not a zombie who can't correctly spell BRAINS?

Don't trains have . . . BOXCARS?!!!

rarely ime

Trump promised his mileage standards would make cars cheaper and safer. New documents raise doubts about that.
Top Senate Democrat argues that revised rule “will lead to vehicles that are neither safer, nor more affordable or fuel-efficient.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/01/23/trump-vowed-his-mileage-standards-would-make-cars-cheaper-safer-new-documents-raise-doubts-about-that/

The Trump administration on Thursday signed its long-promised regulation to remove millions of miles of streams and roughly half the country’s wetlands from federal protection, the largest rollback of the Clean Water Act since the modern law was passed in 1972.

The move delivers a major win for the agriculture, homebuilding, mining, and oil and gas industries, which have for decades sought to shrink the scope of the water law that requires them to obtain permits to discharge pollution into waterways or fill in wetlands, and imposes fines for oil spills into protected waterways.

But Politico contends:Legal experts say the Trump rule is likely to be placed on hold by federal courts in at least some states, if not nationwide, as the litigation works its way through the courts. In the meantime. developers and other industries will have to decide how much of a risk they're willing to take.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/23/trump-epa-curbs-water-protections-102779

doubts are raised and democrats argue but god forbid the washington post weigh in either way

Doesn’t get more humiliating than this. Trump is in a meeting with the president of Iraqi Kurdistan Nechirvan Barzani, but he mistakes him for the leader of the Syrian Kurds & goes on & on talking “safezones” in Syria & Turkey. Truly astounding ignorance.pic.twitter.com/YQbu4SA3it

— Sina Toossi (@SinaToossi) January 22, 2020

president toddler fuckaduck is a a big boy who knows a lot

can't humiliate the unhumiliatable

As such, it's genuinely a wonder that he wears a diaper in lieu of just copping a squat wherever he happens to be when the spirit moves him. He's pure shameless id made manifest, what's really stopping him.

think it might've made the news if Barzani had treated it like a gameshow and at the end said "I am ACTUALLY..."

you fools, haven't you learned how to be right all the time? he didn't mix the two leaders up. no he didn't. that didn't happen.

yup, just gotta play your kurds right

and what many people are saying is how bad it is when YOU mixed up the two leaders. you did that. very dumb of you.

I was shitposting! Haha and you guys fell for it. I love winding you up. God it’s so easy! Try harder n00bs! 😂😂😂

Has there been an instance yet that we're aware of where he's publicly addressed someone by the wrong name, they corrected them, and he then doubled down and insisted that the name he chose for them was correct? If not, it's really only a matter of time, I assume.

Can't wait until he has a mini-stroke in the midst of naming the country that he's president of and then insists at every subsequent turn that he absolutely meant to call it Amrilkull because that's what it's called, and maybe even has the presidential seal altered accordingly.

i mean, shifty schiff keeps going by adam, even though trump keeps correcting him

Has there been an instance yet that we're aware of where he's publicly addressed someone by the wrong name, they corrected them, and he then doubled down and insisted that the name he chose for them was correct?.

he was honoring the unknown soldiers, whose name by definition is disputed

also, YOU did that

only when you did it, it was a specific soldier with a real name and you got it wrong

If he insisted George Benson wrote and performed the Ghostbusters theme and got corrected, the Justice Department would have the deepfake music video by Tuesday

Reagan asked his HUD secretary -- only black Cabinet member -- "how are things going in your city, Mr Mayor?" once

^that was shortly after he'd been shot so

I won't finish my thought

mea culpa km, you are right, apologies to Dear Leader

thank you, hadrian. now, please face the other direction and walk down this long hallway

outside is in that direction!

but my children

the state will take care of them
just kidding

ugh, the feeling when someone passes your impromptu "point at ukraine on an unmarked map" test, which you thought to be impossible

Wow. @NPR's @NPRKelly just now on @npratc says @SecPompeo was furious about being questioned about Ukraine in her interview. Took her into his office, cursed at her, dropping f-bombs, made her point to Ukraine on an unmarked map (she did). It's just...shocking.

— Lulu Garcia-Navarro (@lourdesgnavarro) January 24, 2020

can trump point to ukraine

Currently is iirc

XP He did, and it was perfect!

I think I.F. Stone wd've told Pomp to fuck off

for the last 20 hours, the pinned tweet of the president has been this

pic.twitter.com/Acyh0HStm8

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2020

i guess he's retreating to the base within his base: trolls

Someone asked Trump to point out Ukraine on a map and he confidently stabbed his finger in the direction of a stapler on an adjacent table, just like any good American with a sound sense of world geometry. Geology. Maps, the...the, uh, class that was about maps.

Trump apparently will be speaking at the March For Life, a Pro-Life rally. He's the first President to do so.

It's sort of amazing how many contenders there are for "no wait -- that guy, THAT GUY is the very biggest asshole in the building." (Today I'm thinking Pompeo but a day will pass and there'll be some other astonishing feat of assholery from another human sphincter in a position of high responsibility)