US Politics November 2017

too true!

lol

sounds like a december thread title

doesn't beat previous contender "nobody knows it but everybody's saying it"

MURKOWSKI: Alexander-Murray *NOT* a precondition for her vote; she remains undecided on the tax bill https://t.co/Zvl5rCVUV0

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) November 17, 2017

🤔

i swear the tax cuts will work this time guys

the audacity of hope

I finally watched the Orrin Hatch clip. Man, this pustule has been a menace to the public as long as I've paid attention to politics. Can he choke on a turkey bone or be caught with five dead boys?

Surely he’s at least 100 years old

lol

I’ll never forget “orrinating” from this Newsweek bit during the Clarence Thomas hearings

http://www.newsweek.com/buzzwords-203554?rx=us

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/us/politics/trump-russia-kushner.html

The subject line of the email, turned over to Senate investigators, read, “Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite,” according to one person who has seen the message.

That’s too many double entendres for one day, shut it down

hahaha!

subject: secret spy stuff, do not share!!!!

oh god that's ridiculous. good thing kushner still has security clearance.

"I know that Cory Booker is made up entirely of either kumbayah or the distilled essence of treachery depending on who you talk to but this move makes no sense from either angle."

maybe menendez is innocent? I dunno much about tbh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DO9X619XUAIfHPP.jpg
Is Hope Hicks an alien?

Yes

Instead of tax reform, why not just require every poor and middle class person to send a check for, say, 000 to their favorite rich person.

— Barbara Ehrenreich (@B_Ehrenreich) November 18, 2017

The GOP has a huge political problem with their tax bill, which is that the public seems to understand it. pic.twitter.com/fo6s3zIj5w

— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) November 19, 2017

The GOP tax policy for the poor and middle class has always been jam tomorrow, and never jam today.

and that’s why phish fans vote democrat

Sen. Jeff Flake(y), who is unelectable in the Great State of Arizona (quit race, anemic polls) was caught (purposely) on “mike” saying bad things about your favorite President. He’ll be a NO on tax cuts because his political career anyway is “toast.”

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2017

Where do you begin with this one

jeff flake said bad things about eisenhower?

Never occurred to me how much the "extra" twitter characters would offer our "President" in the way of quotation "marks" !

Jeff Flakey... Al Frankenstein... christ I'm waiting for trump to tweet NO U or YO MAMA SO FAT at someone.

that was basically his approach to kim jong-un fyi

Someone needs to alert Melania of this cyberbully, stat.

Shoplifting is a very big deal in China, as it should be (5-10 years in jail), but not to father LaVar. Should have gotten his son out during my next trip to China instead. China told them why they were released. Very ungrateful!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2017

lol he's still on this

classy

well it hits upon his two favorite black people tropes (ungrateful + criminals) so I suspect he'll be on it for a while

Also they're good at sports.

There are not two more media figures that deserve each other than Trump and LaVar Ball.

It's one of the more peculiar bits of genius Trump's pulled off--He's this "famous for 'being famous'" guy who's really connected with his base by dissing and feuding with genuinely talented people.

and LaVar Ball too

Definitely a nexus of horsexxxt when those two tango, hopefully they go all in.

I read Dave Weigel of the Washington Post tweet that not a single Democratic Senator was on the talk show circuit Sunday (and thus only Republicans got to talk about the tax bills)

I’ve been told all my life the Sunday talk shows exist but i have never ever seen one; I don’t think I know anyone who has.

They exist mainly to provide pull-quotes for news articles and sound bites for television news. Also, to fulfill public service programming in time slots that wouldn't sell ads anyway. As I understand it only political junkies ever watch them.

Political Junkies who are--if the non-PSA commercials are to be believed--also in the market for prescription and/OTC drugs with side effects including vomiting, diahrrea, constipation, blurry vision, suicidal thoughts, and errections lasting more than four hours.

eh, aren't the ads all about how Archer Daniels Midland is saving the world, etc?

Definitely a nexus of horsexxxt when those two tango, hopefully they go all in.

I misread this very badly

haha

also in the market for prescription and/OTC drugs with side effects including vomiting, diahrrea, constipation, blurry vision, suicidal thoughts, and errections lasting more than four hours.

coincidentally also the side effects of watching Sunday political talk shows

my dad and i would yell at each other about Reagan in the '80s when the Sunday shows were on, and my mom would literally run in and turn the TV off.

good times

http://images.rcp.realclearpolitics.com/329890_5_.jpg

pbs fridays -- shields and (boo!) brooks -- is where it's at

ok *now* I think Franken could be in real trouble: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/20/he-put-his-hand-full-fledged-on-my-rear-why-al-franken-is-in-a-lot-more-trouble-now/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_fix-franken-1040am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.263c95b22692

but we'll see

Keystone XL pipeline is a go, kinda

gross