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

Intetesting that McConnell is leaking this ahead of time
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/mcconnell-privately-cautioned-trump-about-emergency-declaration-on-border-wall/2019/02/01/5ff1262c-2646-11e9-81fd-b7b05d5bed90_story.html?utm_term=.c4287bf1480b

Which signals he cant keep his caucus in line and would be willing to bring something to the floor to appease them/confront Trump

29yos were alive in a single "eighty" unless we can agree that life begins at conception

“I did not shoot the sherif. How can I be so sure? Because I have such a vivid memory of shooting the deputy.”

— Tim Stanley (@timothy_stanley) February 2, 2019

'Willful Ignorance.' Inside President Trump's Troubled Intelligence Briefings

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s renewed attacks on the U.S. intelligence community this week, senior intelligence briefers are breaking two years of silence to warn that the President is endangering American security with what they say is a stubborn disregard for their assessments.

Citing multiple in-person episodes, these intelligence officials say Trump displays what one called “willful ignorance” when presented with analyses generated by America’s $81 billion-a-year intelligence services. The officials, who include analysts who prepare Trump’s briefs and the briefers themselves, describe futile attempts to keep his attention by using visual aids, confining some briefing points to two or three sentences, and repeating his name and title as frequently as possible.

What is most troubling, say these officials and others in government and on Capitol Hill who have been briefed on the episodes, are Trump’s angry reactions when he is given information that contradicts positions he has taken or beliefs he holds. Two intelligence officers even reported that they have been warned to avoid giving the President intelligence assessments that contradict stances he has taken in public.

I was alive in 89

Trump needs to be removed from office. If a democratic president was displaying this behavior, i don’t think the party would enable it.

lmao Northam's wife prevents him from actually moonwalking at press conference to prove he was a fan of Michael Jackson, presumably to justify blackface

so he says he's not in the photo, but he did wear blackface in med school

well, that's very different

I was alive in 89

Many people have forgotten that 2019 is still very new on the scene. It seems like its been here for ages.

xp and his nickname was "Coonman"

the drumming on that Soundgarden song is immense imo

holy shit

The freezing prisoners at the Metropolitan detention Center in Sunset Park are banging out SOS for all of us to hear. #SunsetParkGulag pic.twitter.com/f9O8KIVAxZ

— Brad Lander (@bradlander) February 1, 2019

that's about 2 miles from me

(and Lander is my councilman)

Apparently said detention center received a court order to attend an evidentiary hearing on 2/5. Good.

Glad all their lies are being swiftly refuted.

soto lol

xp and his nickname was "Coonman"

Come together with your Klan

:D

Northam’s game is to survive 48 more hours. Let Super Bowl and then SOTU take the media glare away and ride it out. Then apology tour.

— Advance Guy Notes (@AdvanceGuyNotes) February 2, 2019

Trump's perma-tan is the result of “good genes,” according to a senior administration official who would speak only on the condition of anonymity. https://t.co/Tu6LCCBbjo

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) February 2, 2019

they lie about the dumbest shit

when i was a kid, the only thing i knew about trump was that he refused to admit his hair was a toupée

right-o! it appears to be not a toupee, but some strange, cyclonic hyper-comb-over

he admits he takes antibiotics for a skin condition, right? rosea or something? he probably uses makeup to counteract the blotchiness.

Christian Bale’s combover from American hustle explains everything you need to know about Trump’s Hair.

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

A truly glorious human specimen.

Here is the Trump "tan" that the New York Times just described as "sun-kissed" and "vibrant"

This is real and undoctored, straight off the TV pic.twitter.com/vWbieYI0uN

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 3, 2019

How Trump Survived Explosion in Max Factor Factory

not surprising, but new MO senator josh hawley basically spent his two years as attorney general using his office to run his senate campaign and broke a bunch of laws doing it.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article225334655.html

the chief law enforcement official of the state breaking a bunch of laws? imagine that!

fuck missourians for not knowing wtf to do when they get shown something

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) had the best fundraising quarter of her career after she delivered a pivotal vote that helped seat Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, according to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission.

The Bangor Daily News reports that after announcing her decision to vote in favor of Kavanaugh’s nomination during a speech on the Senate floor in early October, Collins raised $1.8 million in the final quarter of 2018.

The records show that of the nearly $900,000 Collins received from individual donors who contributed more than $200 to her campaign, just $19,000 came from individuals with Maine addresses.

reminds me that i registered susancollins2020.com the day that she made her fucking terrible speech about kavanaugh

haha awesome. i hope her people end up offering you a significant amount of money for it, that you can then turn around and donate to her opponent.

fuck her

i expect to make as much money off of it as i did doonaldjtrump.com (losing a couple hundred $ on hosting costs)

but yeah, fuck her. god, i still fill the goosebumps of rage when i remember that day

fuck missourians for not knowing wtf to do when they get shown something

Clever post!

heavy conservatism backed by the surety of 'common sense' is archetypal in missouri, it's nauseating

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-watershed-moment-trump-faces-crossroads-amid-mounting-threats-on-all-sides/2019/02/02/0f019554-2587-11e9-81fd-b7b05d5bed90_story.html

not MORE isolated than ever but AS isolated AS ever

that IS a watershed moment

But will he finally become presidential with his state of the union speech??????????

Someone leaked 3 months' worth of Trump's daily schedules to Axios; you can read them all here:

https://www.axios.com/read-trumps-private-leaked-executive-time-schedules-00e9313a-3066-4988-a6dc-711a47de661e.html

Basically, he now spends 60% of his day on "Executive Time."

I generally take my executive time done around 10am

More fibre in you diet will help executive time go a lot quicker.

"Be right back, gotta go make an executive decision."

Don't get mad about Jesse Watters's ignorance, there will always be people who believe nothing can or should change. 150 years ago Watters would have been incredulous at the idea there could be any other source of indoor lighting except whale oil. https://t.co/uiVX0FxIca

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) February 3, 2019

JUst being reminded of the idea that Trump was picking up so called facts which were actually details from the film Sicario. Isn't it that film that rather significantly features people smuggling things through a tunnel disguided in the boot of a stationary car?
Which would ten dto undermine the whole idea of a wall being effective.
THought about this a few days ago and wondered if somebody showed him the film saying that it was a more realistic view of how drugs were smuggled and more nefarious activity was carried out. & he then extrapolated that all details in the film were likely to be constants. While somehow ignoring the get around of any wall.

Oh that & things like aeroplanes & drones being pretty significant disadvantages to walls as effective deterrents.

you're suggesting he learns

xp jfc they work better!

Trump's certainly changed his worldview to accommodate the additional information he was fed from the trailer for Day of the Soldado, "it's crazy they're killing people on the streets with a gun they can stick their finger sideways and make it shoot fast, it's the most terrible thing you've ever seen."

Sometimes feel like we need a rolling AOC thread...

The average NFL salary is $2.1 million, so most players would never experience a 70% rate.

The owners who refuse to hire Kaepernick would, though. https://t.co/AnST2lCiU9

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 4, 2019

I’m proud to announce that my #StateOfTheUnion guest will be @AnaMariaArchil2.

Ana Maria is the NY14-er who famously jumped into the elevator with Sen. Flake to elevate the stories of survivors everywhere.

She‘s living proof that the courage within all of us can change the 🌎. https://t.co/OLSeNbP4Z2

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 4, 2019

I’m proud to announce that my #StateOfTheUnion guest will be @AnaMariaArchil2.

Ana Maria is the NY14-er who famously jumped into the elevator with Sen. Flake to elevate the stories of survivors everywhere.

She‘s living proof that the courage within all of us can change the 🌎. https://t.co/OLSeNbP4Z2
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 4, 2019

not to be a cynic but if this is proof of anything isn't it that even "moderate" or "principled" Republicans will do exactly what McConnell wants them to do when the chips are down? it's not like they actually changed Flake's mind.