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

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.

I mean, yeah, we're almost there, but to his credit he is still capable of forming words.

I can't tell the difference.

I still watch the Republican debate footage from time to time and it's crazy how much more lucid and coherent he was then compared to now. Its only been 3 years

consider how fast Barack Obama went grey, and then apply that trajectory to DJT's higher brain functions

i agree with frogbs. he was never very articulate, lol, but the way he talks now is much more disjointed than it used to be.

I prefer to remain blissfully ignorant of how he speaks now, since I can't bring myself to ever actually watch him talk

ha

"I haven't decided who I'm going to endorse in 2020," Romney tells @jaketapper

— Rick Klein (@rickklein) January 2, 2019

until I see an actual vote against Trump I'm consider all this just a lot of posturing bullshit akin to his "maverick" predecessors

yup, for sure

ask and ye shall ... not receive

.@MittRomney to @jaketapper on shutdown: "i'll be with republicans. I think it's important to secure the border."

— Abigail Crutchfield (@ACrutchfield14) January 2, 2019

also important to secure dogs to roofs of cars iirc

"I acknowledged the president was successful and I was not," Romney said. "He did something I couldn’t do. He won, and I recognize that and appreciate that. But no, I’m not running again and we’ll see whether someone else does in a Republican primary or not."

the most common rebuttal I see to dunking on the flakes and romneys for their pearl clutching is “well what do you want them to do, abandon GOP policies” and well friends let me remind you the GOP has exactly zero policy positions except whatever trump says they have

— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) January 2, 2019

Why — why — why — why is he not running one of those outlet malls. Why in the name of God can’t you tell me that? https://t.co/jFLn7Ga6za

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) January 2, 2019

I just realized that, now that it's January, we all can look forward to another State of the Union address from our current president. It may be the longest thing he reads all year.

isn't the Speaker of the House in charge of scheduling those lol

someone suggested upthread that she will request one during the shutdown for maximum embarassment, which would be lol

i think the suggestion was to request it on the day the next shutdown would have begun, but since we're already in shutdown ...

oh right

I wouldn't be surprised if this shutdown dragged on for weeks and maybe even months, Trump is so fucking stupid

and now is not a good time for the IRS to be furloughed btw

By 2/16/18, the IRS had paid out 01.2 billion in refunds. That's still six weeks away, but people will notice that. https://t.co/Mz6lMWaiTR https://t.co/v7Lglm88nr

— Richard Rubin (@RichardRubinDC) January 2, 2019

it's political suicide for him but hey what the hell