US Politics January 2019: we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger

Maybe i am dumb. I didn’t know about any of this.

I knew he had a strong base among evangelicals. Didnnot think they considered him a divine king.

these fucks simply can not die soon enough

This is horrifying

It also seems extremely blasphemous. Where are the christians speaking out against this?

who had 13 hours in the treeshy's first horrifying epiphany of 2019 poll

Lol at least i’m not in the death pool this year

where's the tax returns?

i’m still compiling my ballot tbf xp

Did not think they considered him a divine king.

There are definitely some evangelicals who long for a theocracy, as the correct and biblically ordained form of government. There's even a fancy term for their movement that escapes me atm, something with 'dominion' embedded in it, I think. They'd respond very favorably to such propaganda.

I don't believe that sort of craziness is widely accepted among evangelicals, yet, but you can never hurt yourself with evangelicals by quoting some bible verse that appears to bolster your position. And there aren't a lot of bible verses that endorse checks and balances between the three branches of a democratically-elected and constitutionally-based government.

dominionism

Wondering suddenly if Mittens ran for senate just as a launchpad to primary Trump. Thinking it’s more likely he runs in ‘24, why would he stick his neck out

In the meantime, I am in SW DC, one block from the National Mall, and the usual torrent of humanity is more like a trickle. A restaurant in this building is closed for the duration, and another has drastically cut back it's hours.

A primary challenge to trump would fail.

Good morning!

I would be interested in seeing tax returns fwiw

A primary challenge to trump would fail.

― Trϵϵship,

Whats the earliest/latest this could happen? I'd have ruled it out as impossible even just a month or so ago but now I'm no longer sure

hate to see a good thread title go waste

The truth is @MittRomney lacked the ability to save this nation. @realDonaldTrump has saved it. Jealously is a drink best served warm and Romney just proved it. So sad, I wish everyone had the courage @realDonaldTrump had. https://t.co/mbxoTqbSX6

— Brad Parscale (@parscale) January 2, 2019

It will fail, of course, but I would still root for it as a step towards schism between the semi-sane Republicans and the death cult.

""semi-sane Republicans"" <----sorry, who?

The ones who just want a feudal plutocracy, not the ones cheering on Biblical apocalypse.

pretty sure that is also a strong path to apocalypse

If you can trap Jeff Flake on an elevator he temporarily grows a conscience

But tomorrow he’s dying and getting reborn in the private sector, so not much time there

For Romney, that's not bad.

^^^ centrist

cold. blooded.

Blood isn’t thicker than maga https://t.co/2EDgjUC7XQ

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) January 2, 2019

Romney editorial does seem to be a shot across the bow but I doubt he's gonna go for the primary in 2020. Let Kasich take that bullet and then run in 2024 like the loser he is.

Today in "Jesus, what a pathetic asshole", note the poster on the table for the Situation Room meeting between Trump and Congressional leaders:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dv7Ap5jWwAEo0AU.jpg

Can a dog shit on that ASAP

that isn't the situation room. guess they realized they couldn't get cameras in there.

the situation room isn't for meetings between the prez and congress

right, but that's where they announced the meeting would be:

The gathering Wednesday afternoon should be different, at least publicly. It is being held in the White House’s secure “Situation Room,” and the media will not be invited for any portion of it, according to guidance sent from the White House.

maybe this isn't that meeting, maybe they're full of shit.

Yeah, it's possible the photo was misidentified on Twitter. It's rare, but that does happen...

what is that a poster *for* exactly

i feel like a doof, but what sanctions do they refer to? sanctions coming November? the ones on russia from november 2018? it's january 2019 in the not situation room, wtf

let me just check with my buddy Q

It's a pretty old image at this point I think. I remember seeing it awhile ago...

I think it was just a Game of Thrones joke image someone in maga headquarters made

Iran according to this piece from the time

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-game-of-thrones-iran-sanctions-are-coming-twitter-us-white-house-tweet-a8614976.html

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dv7J1pcXgAA6m11.jpg:small

there are no mavericks

Apparently he's been saying all sorts of fun things in the last half hour.

Yeah it’s a blast

my god we're going to have endure one awful perfect still of Brylcreemed Mitt for six years, eh

Those are not the Mavericks you’re looking for

cursed liberal opinions right there. (in re: mavericks)

man i really really want off now

While Mitt is fueling today's flashbacks to 2012, let us not forget to say our final farewells to another veteran of that fraught election season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4xnTcnHZbU

Goodnight, ripped prince.

Trump says he had a meeting about Iran and the Middle East with lots of good-looking generals: "Like from a movie. Better looking than Tom Cruise, and stronger."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 2, 2019

well, that's encouraging

the split second sense of relief

and then disappointment

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/590954de6552fa0be682cd5f/16:9/w_1200,h_630,c_limit/Vertigo-465.jpg

whoah I had no idea we were just 1 state away from ratifying the ERA: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/this-woman-just-derailed-the-equal-rights-amendment-yet-again/2019/01/31/9e32ec22-2551-11e9-90cd-dedb0c92dc17_story.html?utm_term=.b8896840d2fd

oh for fuck's sake

shouldn't we have a national conversation about the ERA on sean hannity and justice with judge jeanine before we go ahead with this?

"But then a tiny subcommittee in Richmond — the House Privileges and Elections subcommittee — voted along party lines to block the amendment from reaching the House floor after heavy lobbying from Cobb, president of the conservative Family Foundation of Virginia."

this is such a groovy time to be alive

Well ready that didn’t just piss me the fuck off.. nope not at all

Reading*

good morning!

Huh

Senate investigators have reportedly obtained records showing that Donald Trump Jr.'s phone calls ahead of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting were not with his father, as Democrats have long suspected.

CNN reported Thursday citing three sources with knowledge of the matter that records obtained by the Senate Intelligence Committee show Trump Jr. was speaking with two business associates.

The network said it had not confirmed the identity of the associates or the content of the calls. The associates were not named in the report, which said that the information about the blocked number emerged recently.

Eh, could be.

Maybe. But why did he just not say that?

do innocent people ever talk this way

Just out: The big deal, very mysterious Don jr telephone calls, after the innocent Trump Tower meeting, that the media & Dems said were made to his father (me), were just conclusively found NOT to be made to me. They were made to friends & business associates of Don. Really sad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 1, 2019

his father (me)

he really does think everyone is as dumb as him

him bragging about this is so fucking weird that I almost wonder if this is fake news

whoah I had no idea we were just 1 state away from ratifying the ERA

There's some question about whether the recent ratifications actually mean anything in terms of the amendment's passage. The original deadline for ratification passed decades ago. Arguably the amendment would have to be reintroduced, and all the states would have to vote again.

from the new NYT interview:

“I lost massive amounts of money doing this job,” he said. “This is not the money. This is one of the great losers of all time. You know, fortunately, I don’t need money. This is one of the great losers of all time. But they’ll say that somebody from some country stayed at a hotel. And I’ll say, ‘Yeah.’ But I lose, I mean, the numbers are incredible.”

Would be interesting to get him to define what he views as the role of President in depth and see how damning that was in itself. I thought it was supposed to be viewed as duty/responsibility much more than prestige.
Still don't get what exactly the long term politicians who slavishly follow him see in him. Does he exude pheromones or something? Comes across as a bumbling idiot from a distance.
Well hopefully when he goes he'll take a lot of them with him. Just hope there's going to be something left in his aftermath.

He’s like a primary school kid who gets elected class president for a month and thinks that means he. An order people to do things.

That Trump tweet is like the least unexpected thing ever. He cannot wait to point out a damning accusation which has been seemingly disproven. Because those things completely exonerate him of all wrongdoing dontchuknow.

good morning!

I'd be content with "Really sad!" as the subtitle to the February thread.

The great losers line is good too

US Politics February 2019: This is one of the great losers of all time.