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

I couldn't follow what was happening there tbh

it's over https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-gop-intelligence-committee-trump-russia-1312110

ranking member Devin Nunes

those adjectives will never stop delighting me

xp thank you, caek

xp just clicked this thread and read “it’s over” and my first thought was that trump died

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.