US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

I kinda don't care about NYT's "bombshell" tbh - it's too late, it confirms what anybody paying attention already knew/suspected, and it won't get prosecuted (if at all) until well after he's already gone from office.

Graham defends Trump's insulting of Dr. Ford last night. "Everything he said was factual," he says. "This is what you get when you go through a trailer park with a 00 bill." Audience gasps. Somebody in my row: "Are you fucking kidding me?"

— Rob Pegoraro (@robpegoraro) October 3, 2018

lol @ this code

"This is what you get when you go through a trailer park with a $100 bill."

to be fair that's a james carville line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money. trump appears to argue that the story boils down to: he's rich now because he made money early in life.

"This is what you get when you go through a trailer park with a $100 bill."

A tenured psychology professor?

"Upstairs, downstairs, where was it? I don’t know,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd applauded. “But I had one beer. That’s the only thing I remember.”
"Everything he said was factual"
"Upstairs, downstairs, where was it? I don’t know,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd applauded. “But I had one beer. That’s the only thing I remember.”
"Everything he said was factual"
"Upstairs, downstairs, where was it? I don’t know,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd applauded. “But I had one beer. That’s the only thing I remember.”
"Everything he said was factual"
"Upstairs, downstairs, where was it? I don’t know,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd applauded. “But I had one beer. That’s the only thing I remember.”
"Everything he said was factual"
"Upstairs, downstairs, where was it? I don’t know,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd applauded. “But I had one beer. That’s the only thing I remember.”
"Everything he said was factual"

republcians hate women and constituents of theirs that happen to live in trailer parks

is it just me or did lindsey graham totally lose his fucking mind after mccain died? he's always been bad but i wouldn't have put him in the inner circle of hell until this fall

It seems like he needs a big shot to latch onto and now he’s all in for trump

It is his nature to be a sidekick

"I don't like what the president said last night," Sen. Lindsey Graham says about Pres. Trump's mockery of Dr. Ford at a rally.

Booed by the audience when he says Kavanaugh "was treated like crap," Graham responds, "Yeah, well boo yourself." https://t.co/03Z8GCYmx6 pic.twitter.com/WqrTvSEZhn

— ABC News (@ABC) October 3, 2018

sick burn, Aunt Pittypat

this is silly and anecdotal, but it seems like in recent years it's become more common and acceptable to boo or heckle public figures in public, on camera, at events where people once sat quietly. public heckling of public figures used to lead to the shaming of the public figure, both at the moment it occurred and afterward, in accounts of the event. that all seems to have changed. now the heckling and the booing is more common, but it's also standard practice for the person being booed to essentially say "fuck you" and move on. if a joe wilson type would yell "you lie!" at trump during a state of the union, for example, instead of sternly looking back at him, trump would be expected to say "no, you're the liar, and you're lucky i don't tell the lying media about what you did, you know what you did, a lot of people are saying that you did that, but i'm not going to say that because i'm a nice guy", or whatever. trump takes hitting back to the extreme, of course, but his childishness seems to have spread to other politicians in ways that were once unthinkable

I think Graham has been promised a 2020 cabinet position by Trump

Is he afraid to lose his senate seat? I’d rather be a senstor than work for Trump and get the jeff sessions treatment

remember when Republicans were aghast that Obama would weigh in on black men getting murdered cause it wasn't right for the President to involve himself with ongoing investigations? lol

i think he's really into the idea of becoming secretary of defense and getting to do smart and realistic things like convincing china to assassinate kim jong un and replace him with a US-controlled puppet

^^^

he wants out of the Senate and sees Trump as his ticket to the executive branch

lindsay graham wants to live his dream of incinerating random poor brown people around the world like he's been pining for for decades

My friends who went to DC area private schools in the first half of the ‘80s/knew guys who did say the FFFF thing was in a song by the Mentors, a band fratty douchebros really liked because of that song.

― suzy, Tuesday, October 2, 2018 11:35 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow this is basically a (obviously gross) stoner metal song not what i expected

DO NOT CALL our president stupid, dismissive nicknames. It is dumb, and the problems he has created are too real to risk popular acceptance. Resist. But only in sincere, meaningful, and EFFECTIVE ways.

― Hunt3r, Wednesday, October 3, 2018 2:39 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what is this, 2003

i mean if someone is trying to actively harm me and my loved ones and people I do not know but know to be on my wavelength I'm going to kick them in the nuts, fair fight or not. the complaint is just that all ur nicknames suck imo

but hey ive helped start this debate again...

friendly fire is very helpful. i'm sure that if ideologically-sympathetic non-"conservatives" tell each other off enough the GOP will lose this time

Question for those who might know better than me: Here in NJ I'm seeing lots of TV ads about what a piece of shit Bob Menendez is (which he kinda is), and lots of ads about what a swell guy Bob Hugin is (he's not, he's a rich pharma scumbag), but no pro-Menendez ads at all. Either he thinks he's got it in the bag, polls be damned, or he's already surrendered. Does anybody know which it is?

Bush Jr was the proper level of patronizing dismissiveness without sounding like nails on a chalkboard IMO

This FiveThirtyEight piece says things look bad for Menendez, but it's the only thing I've really read about the race.

I thought Ford’s testimony might stick because she went to a superior private school to BK, obviously posh etc so Graham can GTF with the trailer park shit.

It’s disgusting to imply, as graham did, that people with less money and education are more likely to lie

Fuck that trailer park comment. Fuck people who make similar comments about ghettoes and projects, like the countrywide (i think) lenders who called their subprime borrowers “mud people”

this was the last thing I'd read about Menendez: https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2018/09/16/bob-menendezs-political-fight-for-survival-609491

If the Democrats were running literally anyone else they would have this in the bag, kinda wish Menendez had resigned or been convicted so that the seat was open.

This country sucks. The rich benefit enormously from a predatory economic system and then turn around and spit on the people they stepped over. Graham’s comment was not just offensive to Blasey Ford—who after all is upper class—but to everyone

welcome to the world treeship

are you day drinking

"This country sucks. The rich benefit enormously from a predatory economic system and then turn around and spit on the people they stepped over. Graham’s comment was not just offensive to Blasey Ford—who after all is upper class—but to everyone"

The only reason that open rebellion has nto occurred si the middle class is too content with NFL beer and cookies - but if things get worse you will see more political upsets - more Bernie "new deal" types

just received an obnoxious "Presidential Alert" test on my phone

commiserate w/us over here

the presidnet just called me

Tiffany Trump Receives First Ever Text From Father https://t.co/GRuTbsKfTF

— The Hard Times (@REALpunknews) October 3, 2018

Menendez +11 in a poll just released today, his average advantage is +6.8 points in recent polls per fivethirtyeight.com

why has this shit been rebranded as a "presidential alert"? they have had these FEMA alerts before. Ego?

SAD!

https://people.com/politics/tiffany-trump-strained-relationship-dad-donald/

this was the last thing I'd read about Menendez: https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2018/09/16/bob-menendezs-political-fight-for-survival-609491

If the Democrats were running literally anyone else they would have this in the bag, kinda wish Menendez had resigned or been convicted so that the seat was open.

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, October 3, 2018 1:59 PM (fifty-one minutes ago)

yeah it fucking sucks i have to hold my nose and vote for this shithead

Guys, he meant to press the Diet Coke button, and pressed the presidential alert button instead.

Menendez held back the ads after he saw Shakey's post this summer that he can't lose.

Re dumb Trump nicknames: one that I'm surprised doesn't turn up more often (ever?) is Tramp, as this is the actual back-transcription of the Russian spelling of his name, До́нальд Джон Трамп.

"You probably don't even have 25 cents..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKlCA0-Arks

Certain to vote in '18, based on late-Sept. Gallup poll:
65+ 82%
50-64 69%
30-49 55%
18-29 26% <----- 🚨https://t.co/KDFFg2xhI8

— Justin Levitt (@_justinlevitt_) October 3, 2018

god damn that's depressing