US Politics March 2019: “I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled”

Good

expect this to be _severely_ redacted, they're just buying time

this will look like a book of Ad Reinhardt paintings

It seems like the redactions are meant to follow specific rules and will be put into place in coordination with Mueller.

People who still have hope that things will improve are the worst.

Cool, thanks

Trump on reversing North Korea sanctions: "In a certain way it's like the Special Olympics. For many years it hasn't been approved and then at some point it gets negotiated out in Congress. Well, I went out, and I said we're going to have funding for the Special Olympics." ?

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 29, 2019

thank you Trump for finally funding the Special Olympics

Larry Kudlow did a tv show with Jim Cramer back in the early 00's. It was the show before Cramer got his big button.

Anytime I see Larry Kudlow’s name I think it’s Jim Cramer and think “of course that’s who Trump hired”

thank you for finally clearing this up for me

WrestleMania Year Zero

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/436536-trump-campaign-starts-selling-pencil-neck-adam-schiff-t-shirts

yeah, it's like that mixed with jerry springer

this is lacking your kofi kingston and your becky lynch so

when trump does tv interviews on fox he's like springer guest starring on maury

sign of the times: trump has been repeatedly warning that he will close the southern border next week, and it doesn't even make the news or, more importantly, this thread

The DEMOCRATS have given us the weakest immigration laws anywhere in the World. Mexico has the strongest, & they make more than $100 Billion a year on the U.S. Therefore, CONGRESS MUST CHANGE OUR WEAK IMMIGRATION LAWS NOW, & Mexico must stop illegals from entering the U.S....

....through their country and our Southern Border. Mexico has for many years made a fortune off of the U.S., far greater than Border Costs. If Mexico doesn’t immediately stop ALL illegal immigration coming into the United States throug our Southern Border, I will be CLOSING.....

....the Border, or large sections of the Border, next week. This would be so easy for Mexico to do, but they just take our money and “talk.” Besides, we lose so much money with them, especially when you add in drug trafficking etc.), that the Border closing would be a good thing!

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Mexico must use its very strong immigration laws to stop the many thousands of people trying to get into the USA. Our detention areas are maxed out & we will take no more illegals. Next step is to close the Border! This will also help us with stopping the Drug flow from Mexico!

(note: i don't blame the news or this thread for not mentioning it. he is just cosplaying his idea of how a president announces policies, through twitter. still, super weird and surreal for this to be a thing that everyone is so used to that it doesn't even merit a mention)

he's mentioned a bunch of bullshit because he feels emboldened, but Barr letter changed nothing and most people still think he's a buffoon blowhard to be ignored.

It's been on the news - it's just been treated as "big dumb asshole says dumb shit, here's a response from the president of Mexico." I think a growing subset of the media is starting to give Trump utterances the correct response, which is, "Yeah, yeah, we'll believe it when we see it."

it's a bit late when you can see it, tho

what a world

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-bezos-investigation-finds-the-saudis-obtained-his-private-information?ref=home

You got us again, Saudi Arabia. Now we're only going to give you 327 more chances. On the other hand, it's just so hard to stay mad at you, so carry on, I guess.

“We as Saudis will never accept to be attacked by the Washington Post in the morning, only to buy products from Amazon and Souq.com by night! Strange that all three companies are owned by the same Jew who attacks us by day, and sells us products by night!”
“Our weapon is to boycott… because the owner of the newspaper is the same as their owner.”
“We're after you - the Jew, worshipper of money, will go bankrupt by the will of God at the hands of Saudi Arabia... the owner of Amazon and Souq is the owner of the Washington Post is the spiteful Jew who insults us every day.”

Bezos is not Jewish, but you get the point.

I like this guy's brand of snark:

Though relatively benign at first (“Al Gore’s Diet Is Making Him Stupid”), the Trump/Pecker relationship has metastasized: In effect, the Enquirer became an enforcement arm of the Trump presidential campaign, and presidency, as the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York laid out in its case against Michael Cohen, who has pleaded guilty. The U.S. Attorney has done the country a service by levying extensive controls on AMI, David Pecker, and his deputy Dylan Howard, through a non-prosecution agreement that requires them to commit no other crimes for three years, and requires everyone at AMI to attend annual training on federal election laws. I’m guessing that’s not how they used to spend their time.

Time to get to work on April's thread title. On this subject I shall defer to my betters.

April: I, myself, have almost had like a form of psychosis

New NBC poll:

Only 29% say Trump has been cleared of wrongdoing:https://t.co/OdfGaSqqaG

New WaPo poll:

Only 32% say Trump has been exonerated on obstruction (but public is evenly split on whether Trump committed wrongdoing re Russian interference):https://t.co/gxvlFXeXgq

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 31, 2019

Maybe people have been noticing that he has consistently and relentlessly acted guilty as hell since the day he fired Comey and Mueller was named as special counsel and they decided this probably means what it looks like it means.

Looking at the most recent tweets, the phrase that sticks out is "weak and very stupid".

^^That's re: April thread title.

April: record deepness

But perhaps the most startling story concerned a round with the sportscaster Mike Tirico before Trump was elected.

Tirico, the Post wrote, “hit the shot of his life, a 230-yard 3-wood towards an elevated green he couldn’t see. But he knew it was close. When he got to the putting green, however, Tirico’s ball was nowhere to be seen. Instead, it was 50ft left of the hole in a bunker. It made no sense – until Trump’s caddy caught up with him after the round.

Tirico was quoted as saying: “Trump’s caddy came up to me and said, ‘You know that shot you hit on the par 5? It was about 10ft from the hole. Trump threw it in the bunker. I watched him do it.’”

he is a comically evil person, just absolutely without any redeeming features.

No man's land: How Trump Tower became Chicago retail's biggest failure

About a year before the 2005 groundbreaking for Trump International Hotel & Tower, Trump Organization executive Charles Reiss met the late Chicago real estate broker Bruce Kaplan and his colleague, Leslie Karr. The Trump family, Reiss said, wanted advice on how to market the retail space that would face the Chicago River at the tower’s base.

“The way it’s designed now, it’s never going to lease up,” Karr recalls telling Reiss. The roughly 70,000-square-foot deck’s 10-foot ceilings, undulating facade and sunken location would be too awkward to attract customers, she said.

...

“It’s a dreadful space,” said Karr, who is now senior vice president for retail at SVN Chicago Commercial. “You could have some kind of luxury call center there, or maybe a high-end med spa, but not at the prices they were asking.”

A decade after the tower opened in 2009, it has just one retail tenant, a salon that occupies an enclosed 3,400-square-foot suite above the hotel lobby. The entire deck-level space remains empty, its blank beige walls on full display for the millions of tourists who stroll along the river each year. No part of it has ever been leased, according to Trump Organization tax appeal documents filed in Cook County and analyzed by The Real Deal.

i try to take one of these pics every time i drive over there, but it depends on the traffic lights.

https://i.imgur.com/CmpqKSd.png

maybe if we just don't have an April thread nothing bad will happen and everyone can have a nice time

POLL

The funny thing, it's actually a nice looking building that works well in the skyline! For that one year or whatever before they farted his name on the front it fit right in. Now it just gives you something to scowl at as you float by on a water taxi. Even the fancy restaurant had to close and reboot with a new chef because everyone was shunning it.

"TRUMP" should have a negative brand value. Stick those letters on a building and vacancies rise, while rents and sales prices fall.

I haven't had the opportunity to decline to attend a conference or wedding reception held at a T. property, but it would have to be easier than estrangement from MAGA-hat family over the past couple years.

Our grandchildren should all know him as the amoral buffoon who made the heat waves, famines, and migration crises of their own times incrementally worse. One of the reasons given for inaction on climate is those most responsible won't be affected. We should consider "visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations" as one way of encouraging good leadership, and if that requires dragging Ivanka's surname through the mud for decades, I'm game.

So, what's the new thread gonna be?

miserable

morning!

xpost It's been mentioned before, but he's the rare person whose election to the White House will result in his name on fewer things, not more.

https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/56659756_2203704173024836_5069491298382118912_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_eui2=AeEAwuaSAC0Uaxn7Qg6j3yf_fiNOZ8ykF2K0TE1uUadQMi-oERD_dExeuese32pxeJzIQlCE5jw75HDPEJqfia7W6RCyociR8UZaslw4g-k2Rw&_nc_ht=scontent-dub4-1.xx&oh=13f2a92bf05c9340d936cb3cbdaa68b0&oe=5D4488A2

https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/56659756_2203704173024836_5069491298382118912_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_eui2=AeEAwuaSAC0Uaxn7Qg6j3yf_fiNOZ8ykF2K0TE1uUadQMi-oERD_dExeuese32pxeJzIQlCE5jw75HDPEJqfia7W6RCyociR8UZaslw4g-k2Rw&_nc_ht=scontent-dub4-1.xx&oh=13f2a92bf05c9340d936cb3cbdaa68b0&oe=5D4488A2

BUt might just be that anything said by him today is going to be thought to fall under the same rubrik, maybe should be every other day too.

i think that might be photoshopped

i can tell by the pixels

those middle finger photos are so satisfying

US Politics April 2019: "We apologize for the error — lol, April Fools!"

xpost Yes. I have to avert my eyes to avoid seeing that shit on the walk to and from the train every weekday, who knew a flying bird would be the perfect complement.

US Politics April 2019 Thread: 'I find that pretty hard to believe'