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

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.

it's not like they actually changed Flake's mind

but they definitely changed his calculations

a lot of good it did the republic.

i'm not dragging the women who did that. they are heroes. but i'm not sure we can take away anything particularly hopeful from it.

there is plenty in that action to be hopeful about, but no single act of resistance is going to change the republic, but this act demonstrated that actions do have impacts. it invites emulation. understanding politics, as practiced in a nation of 330 million people, requires a breadth of vision. there are a thousand fronts in the war against entrenched power. join one.

sorry about the doubled up 'buts'

never apologize for doubled up buts

https://m.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=fK9hK82r-AM

(Double Dutch Bus)

so not only is Northam hanging on, there is a sex assault allegation vs the lt gov (by a righty blog)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/virginia-lt-gov-fairfax-denies-sexual-assault-allegation-northam-faces-n966671

Clearly Fairfax should have said he wasn't sure if it was him.

WaPo apparently declined to publish those allegations ahead of the election. seems kinda flimsy and this seems like some quality ratfucking to me, esp since it didn't come out until there was some question that Fairfax might actually end up governor.

yup

A Russian-born lobbyist who attended the controversial Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 received a series of suspicious payments totaling half a million dollars before and after the encounter.

Documents reviewed by BuzzFeed News show that Rinat Akhmetshin, a Soviet military officer turned Washington lobbyist, deposited large, round-number amounts of cash in the months preceding and following the meeting, where a Russian lawyer offered senior Trump campaign officials dirt on Hillary Clinton.

The lobbyist also received a large payment that bank investigators deemed suspicious from Denis Katsyv, whose company Prevezon Holdings was accused by the US Justice Department of laundering the proceeds of a $230 million Russian tax fraud.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmaloop/trump-tower-meeting-russian-lobbyist-akhmetshin-suspicious-p

To visualize Trump’s natural appearance, awhile back tried matching the rest of his artificially tanned face to the natural skin color around his eyes.
cc: @GreatDismal pic.twitter.com/rzhvFFYofc

— Ron Martínez (@ronmartinez) February 4, 2019

When I went to see GG Allin in 1992, he got through maybe half a song before turning around and shitting on the floor. Seconds later, what had been a full (if small) room was an empty room, as we all turned around and sprinted for the exit. As we got to the next room (followed by flying chairs, thrown by GG) the bartender laughed at us, saying, "Where are you going? Isn't this what you wanted? Get back in there and party with him!"

This story reminds me of that one.

holy shit eliza xp

US wants to avoid pulling what may be thousands of migrant children from 'sponsor' homes to rejoin parents, saying it "could be traumatic to the children." https://t.co/F4QSj2esun

— AP West Region (@APWestRegion) February 3, 2019