US Politics November 2017

it's as if Trump has something he'd like to detract attention from

the Democrats paid the Russians to rig the election so that Hillary would win, right? guess it didn't work! MAGA

Chuck Schumer‏
@SenSchumer 2h2 hours ago
I guess it's not too soon to politicize a tragedy.

I have just ordered Homeland Security to step up our already Extreme Vetting Program. Being politically correct is fine, but not for this!

A depressing thing about this is that the bolded section won't actually lose him any votes why because pissing on brown people.

i think NOT IN THE U.S.A.! shd be part of thread title

fuck Schmuck too:

President Trump, where is your leadership? The contrast btwn Pres Bush’s actions after 9-11 & Pres Trump’s this am couldn't be starker.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) November 1, 2017

has Yam started two wars ALREADY?

i mean he's right in the sense that trump didn't immediately start putting plans into motion to invade afghanistan, but somehow i doubt that's the angle he had in mind xp

Can we add "DO SOMETHING!" to the thread title?

NEW: These are the first two Russian-bought Facebook ads to be released by Congress. pic.twitter.com/1ThgzYNdTf

— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) October 31, 2017

'hillary clinton has a 69 percent disapproval rating'

nice

check the DEMS!

check the record check the record check the DEMS rock record

oops track

a punch in the nose

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/manafort-fight-over-attorney-speaking

what about all the bad things Hillary Clinton said about Russia? We demand equal time!

mr. trump's tax returns are going to be a doozy :)

'hillary clinton has a 69 percent disapproval rating'

nice

― proton, neutron, electron and crouton (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 15:09 (thirty-four minutes ago) Permalink

Trump: I'm going to have an even better approval rating. I'm going to have the best approval rating you've ever seen, a 420 percent approval rating.

morbz otm

ban marcos

lol

Awaiting Trump's coal comeback, miners reject retraining

When Mike Sylvester entered a career training center earlier this year in southwestern Pennsylvania, he found more than one hundred federally funded courses covering everything from computer programming to nursing.

He settled instead on something familiar: a coal mining course.

”I think there is a coal comeback,” said the 33-year-old son of a miner.

Despite broad consensus about coal’s bleak future, a years-long effort to diversify the economy of this hard-hit region away from mining is stumbling, with Obama-era jobs retraining classes undersubscribed and future programs at risk under President Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 budget.

Trump has promised to revive coal by rolling back environmental regulations and moved to repeal Obama-era curbs on carbon emissions from power plants.

“I have a lot of faith in President Trump,” Sylvester said.

But hundreds of coal-fired plants have closed in recent years, and cheap natural gas continues to erode domestic demand. The Appalachian region has lost about 33,500 mining jobs since 2011, according to the Appalachian Regional Commission.

Although there have been small gains in coal output and hiring this year, driven by foreign demand, production levels remain near lows hit in 1978.

A White House official did not respond to requests for comment on coal policy and retraining for coal workers.

BRAEKING NEWS SEBASTIAN GORKA PARKS ILLEGALLY ON SIDEWALK

Despite @ArlingtonVA laws prohibiting this behavior, I came across this car that had just been parked on the sidewalk at Gateway Park pic.twitter.com/UYrDwnxWos

— Bilsko (@Bilsko) October 31, 2017

^ Shocking proof that Gorka is not as angelic as we thought he was!

hey miners, i have also have a profession that is vanishing out of existence. suck it up and adjust.

xxp

AN INSIDE SOURCE JUST TOLD ME MUELLER IS CHARGING GORKA WITH OBSTRUCTION OF SIDEWALK. STRATEGY IS TO TURN HIM AND GET HIM TO GIVE UP OTHERS. #THERESISTANCE

Energy Secretary Rick Perry recently released a proposal aimed at saving coal from cheap renewable energy

so much for a free market economy

That Reuters article is grim. Why the fuck is a job training center offering a coal mining course?

to go along with the shoe cobbling courses

Hellow job center, I would like a job selling black and white televisions, show me how

doubling down

President Bush, in a moment of national tragedy, understood the meaning of his high office & sought to bring our country together.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) November 1, 2017

buckle up for 8 years thx to shitbags like this

I kinda have to say... fuck these morons (re: recalcitrant former coal miners)

xp

hmm

https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/660094?unlock=MYK56MKQA8DVOT86

First, a newly released batch of Morning Consult polls testing senators’ popularity is showing that three of the most vulnerable Democratic senators—North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp, West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, and Montana’s Jon Tester—hold job-approval ratings above 50 percent, while the one swing-state GOP senator up for reelection (Nevada’s Dean Heller) has an approval rating among the lowest in the Senate. Among all Democratic senators up in 2018, only Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri is in truly precarious territory (with 42 percent approving, 39 percent disapproving).

Second, Democrats hold an imposing fundraising advantage. All 10 red-state Democrats banked over $3 million in their campaign accounts at the end of the quarter ending in September—with seven topping the $5 million mark. Not a single Republican challenger raised $1 million—something of a Mendoza line for Senate fundraising. Heller was outraised by Democratic challenger Jacky Rosen. Even Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Alabama nominee Roy Moore were outraised by long-shot Democratic opponents.

https://thinkprogress.org/papadopoulos-plea-includes-more-evidence-that-sessions-lied-under-oath-05fc02506be9/

of course he lied under oath. there will be no consequences for that, however. that's not something Mueller will bring charges on, it's something the Senate has the purview to pursue.

i still can't get over that he drives a mustang

you were expecting one of those little Shriner cars?

SCOOP:Trump wants to name tax bill “The Cut Cut Cut Act” but Hill leaders disagree <24 hrs out name still undecided https://t.co/GsEuylUdj9

— Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) November 1, 2017

lol whut

the bill so good they named it thrice

No. Stop. Seriously, stop it.

“The Cut Cut Cut Act”

Trump certainly understands his voters.

House GOP bill reportedly will now keep top income tax rate as is. Missed their deadline for releasing the bill, however...

if this top news would have come out yesterday it there'd definitely be at least three repeating words in this thread title

Still, behind closed doors, there has been back-and-forth between House Speaker Paul Ryan, and House Ways and Means chairman Kevin Brady about the naming of the bill, including multiple phone calls in the past week.

Ryan initially kicked the naming over to Trump because of his penchant towards branding, according to a senior Hill aide.

Ryan and Brady have pushed back on the naming of the bill. However, Trump has held firm.

Trump has been insistent that the bill be called “The Cut Cut Cut Act.”

even the thing that trump is supposedly good at, he is bad at

cut cut cut

cut cut cut

cut your taxes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3fZuW-aJsg

I find myself thinking more and more of the alternate universe where the unmoneyed Trump is in the nursing home where he belongs.

Kevin B is on the cut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nfj4Y9WdUQ

you were expecting one of those little Shriner cars?

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, November 1, 2017 11:50 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no it's just mustangs are like...i dunno...seem like such a "this is a used car that a 16 year dude saves up for because it's 'cool'" just fits his kinda sad macho wannabe thing

The QVC president

Oh shit didnt even realize that was Gonzalez!

I wanted him to be mayor so bad.

Xp

Tax bill vote cancelled for now

People are saying it was the biggest tree lighting ceremony ever.

We're down to the nut-cutting

Xp

Every obstacle to passage helps. If one senator gets their goodie inserted, maybe another one will object and pout.

Seems like that's what's happening, yes

maybe if trump / mcconnell / ryan retroactively tax the tuition remissions of everyone's MAs and PhDs etc going back to the good old days (enron's bankruptcy) that will help out fiscally conservative deficit hawk republicans trying to meet reconciliation parameters

For the many not the new is so simple even the dnc could fuck it up

taxes go up on the middle class so that trumpkins / kochs / waltons can enjoy their eight figure inheritances tax free. let them eat hannity

They take from the medium poor to
Give to the needy poor
Via the government poor
Give it to the poor poor
They're knocking on my door
Entrance
Entranced

Stick it in the mud
Stick it in the gut

no quoting Don Henley here

boffins bray -- boffins brag

I repeat: these characters aren’t even competent at playing boring white guys in suits.

if only the building would catch fire

deficits don't matter

Monuments don’t matter

Posts dont matter

NEW: McConnell says no more votes until 11 am tomorrow.

The tax bill won't finish tonight.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) December 1, 2017

For the many not the new is so simple even the dnc could fuck it up

i want going to say anything out of respect for your feelings

FOX NEWS HOST TO @tedcruz: You cool working with alleged child molester Roy Moore if he's elected?

CRUZ: Sure, no problem, that's up to the voters.

FOX NEWS HOST: And what about alleged groper Al Franken?

CRUZ: Now that's a very serious problem. I'm extremely concerned. pic.twitter.com/1QzMq0Hud5

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 30, 2017

(wonder what's taking imago so long to start the new thread)

wake up! you have thirty minutes, America

haha n/r

US Politics, December 2017: I guess there’s always 2018

Oh wtf

US Politics December 2017: Deficits Don't Matter