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

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

I mean, it's a suspect porn setup but then again

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

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, January 2, 2019 2:18 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah it’s a blast

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, January 2, 2019 2:19 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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poetry

Trump says he was all alone in his "big house" over the holidays -- "except for all of the guys out on the lawn with machine guns." He says that he's never seen so many machine guns, and they didn't even wave at him. He adds, "All alone with the machine-gunners."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 2, 2019

Yeah, I'm sure a week in relative isolation did absolute wonders for his mental state.

Ah yes

Trump: "Russia used to be the Soviet Union. Afghanistan made it Russia because they went bankrupt fighting in Afghanistan. Russia."

Trump then goes on to endorse the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Via Fox. pic.twitter.com/oE0fuDLXyz

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 2, 2019

Elsewhere

Not a joke: A Canadian man was arrested early this morning outside the White House fence, telling @SecretService he came to the U.S. hoping @realDonaldTrump could help him find a wife. He said he brought two bottles of @CrownRoyal for the president.

— Mike Levine (@MLevineReports) January 2, 2019

change you can't believe is happening

So any guesses as to what vacated cabinet position this man will soon be filling?

trying to parse out that afghanistan word salad has made my brain 12% smoother

It all makes sense now, we are living in an episode of Trailer Park Boys

I wonder what % of his supporters will continue to champion their leader once his public statements have devolved into endless spells of recursive babbling without the merest whiff of measurable linguistic content.

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.