US Politics, March 2018: Why do people leave the White House for good?

tbf the author is a britishes who i think lives in DC

not that such things don't go on in NYC, but i myself have never hosted politicos here at my important brooklyn pied-à-terre

it's very tedious how the world writes about greater Washington like nobody's from there, nobody likes it there, and nothing happens there

i lived in dc for 10 years and the handful of times i interacted with the political machine it was laughably absurd. these people hosting parties with tommy-carrying churchill have no clue about how people live in dc or america at large and deserve to be utterly dragged forever

usually when I read accounts from normal people about their tenures working in thinktanks or anything like that in DC they describe it like they lived through the last reel of Society

mookie otm, those people deserve to be dragged far more intelligently and interestingly than that Instagram listicle or whatever that piece ought to be called.

Lewis Lapham surely wasn’t that good, these people make him look really good, do better

silby I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not

I’m not being sarcastic! It is tedious that that happens. I am from Arlington!

I’m pro-Washington.

i almost miss lewis lapham's boilerplate us politics --> fall of rome column

he was endlessly ahead of his time

I'm anti-Washington, and Tombot's fury reminds me of his "Chuck Schumer is the senator from NY, OF COURSE he munches Wall Street's ass for cash every waking moment and you shouldn't be remotely upset about it" take.

btw, some bipartisan bill writing on behalf of mega-banks here

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/02/crapo-instead-of-taking-on-gun-control-democrats-are-teaming-with-republicans-for-a-stealth-attack-on-wall-street-reform/

Josh Marshall introduced the word failson to lots of new people yesterday

Trump gave a failson dork carte blanche to run US foreign policy and he pursued a policy focused on coming up with a billion in personal loans to save the family business his idiocy helped destroy.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 3, 2018

btw does anyone have images of Putin's PowerPoint in his Supernuke speech the other day, with the animated missiles pointed at Florida?

https://openclipart.org/image/2400px/svg_to_png/261323/rocket-312767.png

https://www.sixflags.com/sites/default/files/dsc_0367_1.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51blz0tgToL.jpg

I missed tombots stirring defense of ass eating

Take it to the gay thread, sailor.

ask a tombotty cleaner

🚽 🦆

It was a real lapse in my jingoism when I voted for the Australian version

a prolapse

No wonder he’s grumpy!https://t.co/iVsni6kHR9

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) March 3, 2018

Let the man eat

yes, preferably something coated in arsenic

Or at least let him go heavy on the dressing.

imagining a Trump salad having huge chunks of hamburger tossed in and like 2 feet of thousand island

"imagining"

I ask you, is a pureed double quarter pounder not technically a soup?

Burger smoothie!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IJYXolap8DE/VEQCshIi7EI/AAAAAAAAQYs/fWE_fhJyelU/s1600/DSCN4040.JPG

i.e. artist rendering of the Trump brain.

My wife was a vegetarian for maybe 15 years. When she would visit some of her family in Omaha they (family and restaurants like) just could not make her a salad with no meat for the life of them. She'd order a salad and it would come with bacon, or fish, or something to negate to whole purpose, as if "salad" meant vegetarian no matter what was on or in it.

In this case, I suspect their real message was: you are deeply wrong to reject meat and if we put some right under your nose when you are hungry, you will come to that happy realization and be saved from your terrible folly.

this is the vegetarian's plight, also people for some reason assuming meat=beef and poultry I guess is a vegetable?

i had a cousin who was vegetarian in her late teens and college. this was the mid-90s in east Tennessee. it made her parents apoplectic.

(which, tbf, might have been a small bonus for her)

Well, somebody shot himself right in front of the White House today

Another year of this and they'll be lining up around the block

Instead of Taco Trucks on every corner, we get these...

https://media.giphy.com/media/ENB1fIlVnMRcQ/giphy.gif

some xposts

i had a vegetarian girlfriend in college who visited family in rural pennsylvania. she told them she didn't eat meat, so they made her hamburger helper.

Georgia rush-removed a $40 million tax break on jet fuel from Delta as punishment for dropping their NRA discount.

Number of tickets sold in the lifetime of the discount program: 13.

just bein helpful

xpost

unbelievable.

Sic, you’re behind, Delta already called their bluff

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/02/delta-ceo-our-values-are-not-for-sale.html

Anyway

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376573-secret-service-shots-fired-white-house

the only way to stop a guy with a gun is that same guy with a gun

Oklahoma teachers might follow W VA's lead

http://ktul.com/news/local/oklahoma-teachers-planning-a-statewide-strike

This post makes a valid point. Yes, it's bad that Republicans are rescinding a giant corporate tax break to Delta Airlines in order to punish them for not fellating the NRA enough...but giant corporate tax breaks of that sort are themselves bad, and it's important to keep that in mind when it's time to decide whether to scream "Those dastardly Republicans!" or not.

my concern is that corps learn their 'lesson' and will quickly trade any notional social responsibility for their sweet sweet tax cuts

i mean good on Delta for not going back on it, but might it not cow others into keeping their mouths shut or outright supporting wingnut agendas of their state governments?

It doesn’t exactly make GA look like a good destination for corporations

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-skelton-adam-schiff-congress-20180222-story.html