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

He’s extremely stupid, and there’s a long public record of his stupidity to back it up.

o do i have this right

1) there is a national emergency on the texas border
2) the president is vacationing in florida
3) the veep is out of the country

xpost i wasn't that familiar with pence before he became VP, so i always kind of thought people were exaggerating his stupidity. but he really is fucking stupid and his trademark blank look is a result of the complete inactivity inside his head rather than any sort of steely resolve or poker face

theoretically someone could fill up his cavernous brain cavity with an agenda or information or some sort of purpose, but no one has done it so he's just the weekend at bernies 2 dead guy, standing there and occasionally making his arms move to sign documents

he says the words that mean the things, and he says them in the right order, what more do you want?? does he have to SHOW you his pair of gray Bike coach's shorts for to understand he's that kind of solid dude? come on now

Talk about a bubble... everywhere that guy goes, people are cheering in the right places. It must be confounding to hear that stone cold silence. He may have excused it in his head that the mic must've dropped out.

I posted this a few months ago. Doesn't matter how big the crowd, Pencey still gonna do the booming Political Title FIRSTNAME LASTNAME when he gets to do it.

https://t.co/eJG4oDztLV

— Together (@IndivisibleLRCA) September 21, 2018

bless his heart, as they say in parts of the country (not sure about indiana).

"mom, i said the words"

*cries*

Trump will be on campus in a couple hours. Two buildings away an anti-abortion group, the kind that loves gruesome blown up photos of eviscerated fetuses, has its annual display. He'll love it!

a guy with his history and profile seems soooooooooo open for criticism on this angle. i could build a 50 acre toxic sludge lagoon with potential shitposts tbh.

The editor of a small-town Alabama newspaper published an editorial calling for “the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again” against “Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats [who] are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama.”

Goodloe Sutton — who is also the publisher of the Democrat-Reporter newspaper in Linden, Alabama — confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser on Monday that he authored the Feb. 14 editorial calling for the return of a white supremacist hate group.

“If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we’d all been better off,” Sutton said. Asked to elaborate what he meant by “cleaning up D.C.,” Sutton suggested lynching. “We’ll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them,” Sutton said.

https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2019/02/18/alabama-newspaper-ku-klux-klan-to-night-ride-again-linden-democrat-reporter-goodloe-sutton/2910436002/

I bet that editor is a registered Republican.

Then why is it the DEMOCRAT reporter?

legacy name

wait till john roberts hears that racism still exists

Goodloe Sutton

we're living in a terry southern novel

Aimless got so durn caught up in 'splaining, he plumb missed the part where Jimmy was cracking a joke.

hell and damnation, pplains. if'n a man asks a question, why wouldn't he want an answer? and answerin' a straight question ain't what yer callin' 'splaining. if'n the question ain't straight, then the least a man can do is wink real big.

o no who shall save us

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/19/us-deputy-attorney-gen-rosenstein-to-step-down-in-march-doj-official.html

@realDonaldTrump
The Washington Post is a Fact Checker only for the Democrats. For the Republicans, and for your all time favorite President, it is a Fake Fact Checker!
3:22 PM - Feb 19, 2019

He admits it.

God these people are the biggest dumbfucks in the history of the world, it's hilarious

JUST IN: Judge Amy Berman Jackson orders Roger Stone to explain why the gag order AND/OR his conditions of release shouldn't be changed after yesterday's Instagram post. pic.twitter.com/LSzwoaxmg5

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) February 19, 2019

IMO it's that they literally don't care because they're all gonna get pardoned anyway

your all time favorite President

I read that and picture him in clown make-up, waving his small hands in the air, and a Jimmy Durante "ha-cha-cha!"

@realDonaldTrump
The Washington Post is a Fact Checker only for the Democrats. For the Republicans, and for your all time favorite President, it is a Fake Fact Checker!
3:22 PM - Feb 19, 2019

haha, and this month's thread title already made me sing Locomotive Breath every time I saw it

https://theweek.com/speedreads/824430/white-house-says-pence-greeted-applause-after-mentioning-trump-speech-wasnt

“Your all time favorite president”

He maintains an impressive balance between his abject neediness and his willingness to grotesquely parody that neediness for the sake of trolling the American public. Both very solid, admirable qualities in a world leader.

what's great is that there's a bot-network that always appears just beneath his tweets, and they all say

"Best. President. Ever."

he probably doesn't even know they're bots

The Associated Press reports on nicknaming being the new ratfucking:

Inside the West Wing and in conversations with outside allies, Trump has been workshopping new attempts to imprint his new adversaries with lasting labels, according to two people on whom the president has tested out the nicknames.

They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations with the president. He is also testing out lines of attack in public rallies, exploring vulnerabilities he could use against them should they advance to the general election.

Nicknaming opponents started in the nineteenth century. It had just fallen out of favor until Trump came along.

Oops.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/politics/trump-investigations.html

As federal prosecutors in Manhattan gathered evidence late last year about President Trump’s role in silencing women with hush payments during the 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump called Matthew G. Whitaker, his newly installed attorney general, with a question. He asked whether Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York and a Trump ally, could be put in charge of the widening investigation, according to several American officials with direct knowledge of the call.

Mr. Whitaker, who had privately told associates that part of his role at the Justice Department was to “jump on a grenade” for the president, knew he could not put Mr. Berman in charge, since Mr. Berman had already recused himself from the investigation. The president soon soured on Mr. Whitaker, as he often does with his aides, and complained about his inability to pull levers at the Justice Department that could make the president’s many legal problems go away.

Trying to install a perceived loyalist atop a widening inquiry is a familiar tactic for Mr. Trump, who has been struggling to beat back the investigations that have consumed his presidency. His efforts have exposed him to accusations of obstruction of justice as Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, finishes his work investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

"Finishes"? Are we there yet?

The whole piece is useful both as a general timeline and for some further details.

So many crystal clear examples of obstruction of justice, it’s insane that we are living through all this

I'm pretty sure I said it at least 18 months ago. Obstruction of justice, however obvious it might be, won't be enough to successfully impeach him or even change anyone's minds about his fitness to be president.

Sure, I’m with you there. It’s just a reflection of the bizarre times we live in - a single incident of these clear cases of corruption would have been enough to make a politician resign in disgrace as recently as 3 years ago

should we make a thread about all the insane things about this presidency that's faded from public memory? just for posterity? I mean stuff like

Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me "old," when I would NEVER call him "short and fat?" Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend - and maybe someday that will happen!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2017

a single incident of these clear cases of corruption would have been enough to make a politician resign in disgrace as recently as 3 years ago

It still works on Democrats!

Except in Virginia!

On Tuesday, after The Times article published, Mr. Trump denied that he had asked Mr. Whitaker if Mr. Berman could be put in charge of the investigation. “No, I don’t know who gave you that, that’s more fake news,” Mr. Trump said. “There’s a lot of fake news out there. No, I didn’t.”

the NYT replied "Yeah huh!!"

They trotted out Kellyanne Conway on CNN tonight--I haven't seen her for ages, but that doesn't necessarily mean she hasn't been on there. Anyway, I take that as a sign there's real concern over this McCabe thing. (I wish there were a Mrs. Miller somewhere in the mix.)

Maybe Stephen wouldn’t be so fucking awful if there was.

https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/multiple-whistleblowers-raise-grave-concerns-with-white-house-efforts-to

Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued an interim staff report after multiple whistleblowers came forward to warn about efforts inside the White House to rush the transfer of highly sensitive U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in potential violation of the Atomic Energy Act and without review by Congress as required by law—efforts that may be ongoing to this day.

Yikes!

but you don't understand, it's part of the deal

fuck.

Sell everything! https://t.co/L0W3QioYe8

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) February 19, 2019

The lawyers settled on it. pic.twitter.com/V6SadQkyBb

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) February 20, 2019

so the Covington MAGA teen is suing WaPo for $250,000,000. cool country we live in