The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

Forget Grover, what about poor Duncan Hunter? First he's indicted, and now this!

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Ms Miller otm

Also vapes smell WAY less horrible than cigarettes.

true BUT something can still be more alarming to smell even if it's 'better'

Al Cardenas, who looks like a ham hock wrapped in several cool layers of prosciutto di parma, otm.

With the announcement that Trump could be implementing a ban on most e-cigarettes, it's worth exploring how harmful this could be to his re-election prospects. There are 13 million adult vapers in the US. They vote. Their families vote.https://t.co/7DfDOpg6O7

— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) September 12, 2019

YES

ENSHALLAH

loool

There are 13 million adult vapers in the US. They vote. Their families vote. At about the same ~55% average rate as other eligible US voters.

gotta court the vape bloc

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday brought back to life an emoluments-related lawsuit against President Donald Trump. The lawsuit filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) had previously been dismissed for lack of standing. The lawsuit is revived at a time when “potential violations of the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses of the Constitution ” are under the microscope.

The case at hand was argued before and decided by Circuit Judges Christopher Droney, Pierre Leval and John Walker. The Court decided that U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels’ dismissal of the suit was vacated and sent back to the lower court. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of high-end hospitality business plaintiffs, alleged that the plaintiffs have been harmed by the president unlawfully profiting off of his office, as “foreign and domestic government clientele” keep patronizing Trump properties.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/u-s-court-of-appeals-brings-emoluments-lawsuit-against-trump-back-to-life/

a time when “potential violations of the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses of the Constitution ” are under the microscope

As per usual regarding restrictions upon executive power, all the enforcement measures in the US constitution are incredibly weak, because in reality they all boil down to impeachment by Congress or an adverse SCOTUS decision - and neither of these "co-equal" branches has a mechanism to enforce their verdicts, aside from broad public acceptance of their legitimacy.

Waiting to meet w/Egypt’s authoritarian president at the G7, Trump called out in a loud voice to the group of U.S. & Egyptian officials: “Where’s my favorite dictator?” His question was met w/stunned silence, per @nancyayoussef @vmsalama @MichaelCBender.https://t.co/EsnQbOt1XY

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) September 13, 2019

https://i.imgur.com/k8hvTYP.png

his question was met with stunned silence. everyone in the room knew that there were at least a handful of other dictators who were clearly more favored by trump than Egypt's President Sisi

lol xp

sometimes the Grifter accidentally breaks through to something like unprecedented presidential honesty

can I just point out how odd it is how quickly the Magasphere turns on guys like Bolton the instant they get fired, the Republican party really is just a dumb cult right now

Here’s an idea: When a party wins more votes, but fewer seats, it triggers an automatic nonpartisan remapping. The 59 million Americans living under entrenched minority rule deserve nothing less. https://t.co/u1qFDfmuom

— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) September 13, 2019

wish there were more Schwarzenegger Republicans our there tbh

seems like that group contains one (1) person

who?

tina fey

have a great weekend. the president makes such a thing possible for us all pic.twitter.com/KBaOZ2VPxB

— Brendan Karet 🚮 (@bad_takes) September 14, 2019

was a sleeper just activated?!?!?

Dr Morbius is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life

Probably not the place for it but we don’t seem to have a vaping and e-cigs thread. Vaping and e cigs have vastly improved the experience of going out in places without comprehensive workplace smoking bans. I’m in Japan now and there’s been a 31% drop in cigarette smoking mainly in favour of e-cigs. It’s not perfect and I’d prefer everywhere to be non-smoking but it’s orders of magnitude better than it was even a handful of years ago.

here's a vape thread for everyone to talk about vapitos shit because nobody else cares

really glad to hear that Ed

can I just point out how odd it is how quickly the Magasphere turns on guys like Bolton the instant they get fired, the Republican party really is just a dumb cult right now

Good point. The only reason someone could possibly argue this isn't damning evidence of cultism is because they are in the cult.

Democratic senator from D+6 state: https://t.co/czOCD3HLMr

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) September 16, 2019

wow, deja vu all over again

Coons is the new Lieberman

"I’m a gun owner," Coons said Friday in an interview on CNN. "My sons and I have gone skeet shooting and hunting and, frankly, I don’t think having our presidential candidates, like Congressman O’Rourke did, say that we’re going to try and take people’s guns against their will is a wise either policy or political move."

luv2skeet with my boys

with semiautomatic weapons

My sons and I enjoy lighting bottle rockets on the 4th of July and, therefore, I find it very untoward for a presidential candidate to suggest that the government is going to confiscate everyone's C-4. Now if you will excuse me, I must change my brain surgery dressings.

They failed on the Mueller Report, they failed on Robert Mueller’s testimony, they failed on everything else, so now the Democrats are trying to build a case that I enrich myself by being President. Good idea, except I will, and have always expected to, lose BILLIONS of DOLLARS..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2019

....for the privilege of being your President - and doing the best job that has been done in many decades. I am far beyond somebody paying for a hotel room for the evening, or filling up a gas tank at an airport I do not own. These Radical Left Democrats are CRAZY! Obama Netflix?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2019

war just prior to election is standard cryptofascist playbook shit; this looks bad

Obama Netflix?

Is he asking O out?

the IC whistleblower has info that Trump ordered the attack on the Saudi oil fields as a pretext for starting a war with Iran to secure the 2020 election, you heard it here first

Obama Netflix?

Is he asking O out?

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, September 16, 2019 11:53 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

starting a new verse to 'we didn't start the fire' but he can only think of two things that happened this decade

I'm like 99.9998% sure that he misread/misheard something that led him to believe that Obama owns Netflix.

Obama and chill

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/administration/461559-trump-house-judiciary-should-investigate-obama-netflix-deal-instead%3famp

Oh of course

this is going to shock everyone, but it's a shitload of projection for trump to criticize obama for the netflix deal when the trump family's plan after losing the 2016 election was to start up a trump tv network

If I were Obama, I would start a tv network with 'Trump' somewhere in the name.

how quickly the Magasphere turns on guys like Bolton the instant they get fired

e.g. Steve Bannon was the super-genius who steered Trump to MAGA victory one minute, the next minute he got fired for the usual petty reasons. now has to go to Britain to get anyone to listen to him at all.

I bet the whole Trump family shares the same Netflix password.