US Politics January 2019: we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger

maybe the Russians know how many underage boys are buried under Lindsey’s DC brownstone

the NYT Mag profile of McConnell (speaking of) made it clear he loathes Yam but is delighted w/ the opportunity to remake the courts for a generation

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-allies-think-ruth-bader-ginsburg-is-hiding-or-dead-it-started-on-qanon

fuck these people are stupid as shit .

And then there's

New with @swin24: investigators probing the leak of Jeff Bezos' texts to the National Enquirer have questioned the brother of Bezos' mistress, who also happens to be an acquaintance of Roger Stone and Carter Page https://t.co/Cvz5gVZ6gm

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) January 31, 2019

It Started on QAnon would be a pretty good title for a sequel to It Follows

It always makes me think of the Larry Cohen movie.

potential February thread title

It’s almost like a funny version of an S&L skit. https://t.co/JSYVOyJZNk

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 31, 2019

how is babby 2 seconds formed

Well, he's right that savings and loan skits are never funny.

There might be a 'stigmata' with a title like that ...

Democratic Platform 2020: Also, You're Racist
interesting messaging but who could argue?

lmao A+ photo choice WaPo

https://i.imgur.com/fTACxwM.png

Meanwhile, some hilarity:

oh my god https://t.co/PIwkDsL3dR pic.twitter.com/MEWyD3gm2E

— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) January 31, 2019

if ever two people deserved each other

like watching a hill of red ants eat a dead tapir

lmao

Don't besmirch ants, they are wonderful creatures that play a crucial role in their environment.

would happily toss an anthill on Kasich and Christie

need a p big anthill

This is a thing Trump said today: "So I didn't see the report from the intelligence. When you read it, it's a lot different than it was covered on in the news."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 31, 2019

long, very small print

🍿🍿🍿 pic.twitter.com/nKyvJU8KPC

— Richard Rubin (@RichardRubinDC) January 31, 2019

tax returns?!

Now it's been said.

any update on the Republicans' total blocking/obstruction of the entire House Intelligence Committee? cuz that seems like a major problem to me.

I couldn't follow what was happening there tbh

it's over https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-gop-intelligence-committee-trump-russia-1312110

ranking member Devin Nunes

those adjectives will never stop delighting me

xp thank you, caek

xp just clicked this thread and read “it’s over” and my first thought was that trump died

the split second sense of relief

and then disappointment

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/590954de6552fa0be682cd5f/16:9/w_1200,h_630,c_limit/Vertigo-465.jpg

whoah I had no idea we were just 1 state away from ratifying the ERA: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/this-woman-just-derailed-the-equal-rights-amendment-yet-again/2019/01/31/9e32ec22-2551-11e9-90cd-dedb0c92dc17_story.html?utm_term=.b8896840d2fd

oh for fuck's sake

shouldn't we have a national conversation about the ERA on sean hannity and justice with judge jeanine before we go ahead with this?

"But then a tiny subcommittee in Richmond — the House Privileges and Elections subcommittee — voted along party lines to block the amendment from reaching the House floor after heavy lobbying from Cobb, president of the conservative Family Foundation of Virginia."

this is such a groovy time to be alive

Well ready that didn’t just piss me the fuck off.. nope not at all

Reading*

good morning!

Huh

Senate investigators have reportedly obtained records showing that Donald Trump Jr.'s phone calls ahead of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting were not with his father, as Democrats have long suspected.

CNN reported Thursday citing three sources with knowledge of the matter that records obtained by the Senate Intelligence Committee show Trump Jr. was speaking with two business associates.

The network said it had not confirmed the identity of the associates or the content of the calls. The associates were not named in the report, which said that the information about the blocked number emerged recently.

Eh, could be.

Maybe. But why did he just not say that?

do innocent people ever talk this way

Just out: The big deal, very mysterious Don jr telephone calls, after the innocent Trump Tower meeting, that the media & Dems said were made to his father (me), were just conclusively found NOT to be made to me. They were made to friends & business associates of Don. Really sad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 1, 2019

his father (me)

he really does think everyone is as dumb as him

him bragging about this is so fucking weird that I almost wonder if this is fake news

whoah I had no idea we were just 1 state away from ratifying the ERA

There's some question about whether the recent ratifications actually mean anything in terms of the amendment's passage. The original deadline for ratification passed decades ago. Arguably the amendment would have to be reintroduced, and all the states would have to vote again.

from the new NYT interview:

“I lost massive amounts of money doing this job,” he said. “This is not the money. This is one of the great losers of all time. You know, fortunately, I don’t need money. This is one of the great losers of all time. But they’ll say that somebody from some country stayed at a hotel. And I’ll say, ‘Yeah.’ But I lose, I mean, the numbers are incredible.”

Would be interesting to get him to define what he views as the role of President in depth and see how damning that was in itself. I thought it was supposed to be viewed as duty/responsibility much more than prestige.
Still don't get what exactly the long term politicians who slavishly follow him see in him. Does he exude pheromones or something? Comes across as a bumbling idiot from a distance.
Well hopefully when he goes he'll take a lot of them with him. Just hope there's going to be something left in his aftermath.