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

Is all of this real? I just woke up.

wtf

Think about when you were six and got mad at your folks and threatened to run away, and remember how six-year-old you eventually grasped some nascent conception of the potential consequences of following through on your threat and begrudgingly remained with the family who refused to let you stay up past your bedtime. Our president lacks that capacity, and he's mad at his folks all the goddamn time.

it's weird how often he slips into cosplay

this time he's cosplaying a tv legal guru (tv - "just in: ", legal guru - "absolute legal right, "hereby")

basically he misses Jeanine Pirro

I don't even know where he is on the lawful/neutral/chaotic - good/neutral/evil scale anymore :(

he is chaotic evil, and he was born that way

otm

.@presssec Sarah Sanders tells Fox News’ Chris Wallace “frankly, Chris, I don’t think Congress — particularly not this group of congressmen and women — are smart enough to look through the thousands of pages that I would assume that President Trump’s taxes will be.”

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 14, 2019

Sarah Huckabee: BA in Comms/PoliSci from Ouachita Baptist University, currently ranked #171 in National Liberal Arts Colleges by U.S. News & World Report.

I don't know about 'born' but, like his own children, he was incubated in such a stew of chaotic evil that the deck was stacked against his turning out any other way.

everyone in the white house is 5 years old

xp as high as #171?

tbf, she didn't say she would be either.

we’re all born chaotic evil.

What's going on with Rosenstein. is he simply a turncoat or has he been operating from unexpected motivation from the start.

dunno about him but this is when i start to imagine the copilots and flight crew are trying to arrange the most “survivable” jumbo jet crash they can, which has made for some weird positioning.

then i remember occam, and i’m back to just, “these ppl are some assholes.”

.@IlhanMN’s office has seen “off the charts” increase in death threats since Trump’s tweet; she already was receiving about one a day

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) April 15, 2019

sure am glad the Dems spent a whole week being angry with her for suggesting AIPAC had a lot of influence in US Politics

cool

Before Nancy, who has lost all control of Congress and is getting nothing done, decides to defend her leader, Rep. Omar, she should look at the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and ungrateful U.S. HATE statements Omar has made. She is out of control, except for her control of Nancy!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 15, 2019

can't quite parse what you're trying to say here though, maybe delete and try again

uh

THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN (We will never forget)!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 15, 2019

this is why there is no political downside at all for pelosi to stand up for omar--trump is gonna use omar as a brush to attack her anyway. but i guess the donor is king

xp

hmmm idk did you consult David Frum before you came up with that take

"They Spied On My Campaign (We Will Never Forget)"

hmmm idk did you consult David Frum before you came up with that take

― Simon H., Monday, April 15, 2019 9:27 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i only subscribe to frum's newsletter for the recipes

since leaving the Bush administration Frum likes craft beer iirc

If it’s any day of the week and any time of day, @ewarren has a new policy rollout https://t.co/qkyKwkbFnx

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) April 15, 2019

The Atlantic reports:

At the meals in the small dining room off the Oval Office, Trump keeps a big-screen TV tuned to cable news. Aides who have walked in have seen Trump yelling at the TV as he sits with Pence and their deputies over plates of chicken and cheeseburgers.

When he sees something on the screen that he dislikes, Trump on occasion will interrupt the lunch and summon aides to discuss a response, people familiar with the lunches said.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/04/how-key-aides-have-survived-trump-white-house/587038/

oh cool. another one of those articles.

this one is more like "Pence is real-life Mr Smithers" sandwiched between brief profiles of Miller and Conway, not that I'm suggesting you read it

Mueller Report comin' Thursday

[redacted] [redacted] coming Thursday

It's gonna be one long black stripe

trump's dumps was a good song

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/science/2018/07/08/TELEMMGLPICT000168753591_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqj7_LGHWhWFZy-JC1sdVNlMlDWjNqc2Lt9DTi8J-FvKU.jpeg?imwidth=450

Really wish a team of carpenters would wait for Trump to take his daily trump then build walls around the bathroom, sealing him in the walls forever

Remember when this happened?

http://thebullelephant.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/dons-johns-tape.jpg

Pretty much set the stage for the subsequent few years.

trump's dumps was a good song

― Fictitious Business Name: (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, April 15, 2019 11:34 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Trump's dumps are the messengers of your doom and your destruction

Is that a lyric?

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Spoke to @TigerWoods to congratulate him on the great victory he had in yesterday’s @TheMasters, & to inform him that because of his incredible Success & Comeback in Sports (Golf) and, more importantly, LIFE, I will be presenting him with the PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 15, 2019

Very Cool Tiger, Thank You!

From one serial adulterer to another.

Sports (Golf)

well

https://www.wmur.com/article/republican-bill-weld-makes-it-official-hes-challenging-trump-for-gop-presidential-nomination/27153885

can't see that mattering a fig but of course causing a sufficient ruckus in New Hampshire will at least be good for a funny news cycle

get a load of all these fuckin berniebros, smdh

Bret Baier just polled the Bernie Town Hall audience who would be willing to switch to #MedicareForAll. It backfired spectacularly. pic.twitter.com/dQJ9gfQ137

— jordan (@JordanUhl) April 15, 2019

in case there was any doubt

REPORTER: Congresswoman Omar says your video led to direct threats on her life. Any second thoughts?

TRUMP: "No, not at all." pic.twitter.com/wiSNptg0F3

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 16, 2019

Don’t ask yes/no questions. https://t.co/HHd7LxPbs0

— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) April 16, 2019

Got to wonder what other kinds of creepy deals like this are happening out there.

https://www.wuky.org/post/formerly-blacklisted-russian-company-invest-kentucky-mill

“This resolution is an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities, endangering the lives of American citizens and brave service members, both today and in the future,” Mr. Trump said in his veto message.

https://nyti.ms/2v7UNfo

lovely