The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

It's quite possible that Bolton made the mistake of crowing "ha-ha! I told you so!" to Trump, after he broke off talks with the Taliban yesterday and Trump fired him for it.

Forced to turn in his mustache

A fitting end for America’s worst walrus

Can't find the meme, so...

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e2/c8/87/e2c8874b518e378c4d0a8395bcc054ff.jpg

WORST WES ANDERSON FILM EVER

I offered to resign last night and President Trump said, "Let's talk about it tomorrow."

— John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) September 10, 2019

He offered to resign and the President said FFS not during infrastructure week

"Call back later, I'm watching my stories!"

I guess only one brutish narcissist can coexist with the Grifter

NBC News reports:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that he may annex the Jordan Valley and other parts of the occupied West Bank “in coordination” with the United States — a move that risks shattering the fragile status quo in the volatile region.

“This is a historic opportunity to apply sovereignty to communities in Judea and Samaria,” he told reporters in Jerusalem Tuesday, referring to the West Bank.

“I request a mandate to apply Jewish sovereignty to all communities and I intend to do so in coordination with the United States,” he said, adding that the U.S. would present its long-awaited Israel-Palestinian peace plan a few days after the election.

"If I choose, I will contain Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea. This will be the first step if I choose," he said.

His announcement was an apparent last-ditch attempt to attract right-wing voters before Israel heads to the polls in an unprecedented repeat election next week.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/netanyahu-seeks-annex-jordan-valley-coordination-u-s-n1051901

JUST IN: The FEMA official who oversaw the reconstruction of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid after Hurricane Maria in 2017 has been arrested in connection with fraud and conspiracy charges.

— Ari Natter (@AriNatter) September 10, 2019

had a feeling that guy wasn't on the up and up

Clearly he forgot to kick back (via renting a suite at Trump's hotel).

that israel peace plan is going to be a winner, have no doubt

Is it still his son-in-law that's fixing everything?

lol I was going to say 'how will this jive with Jared's peace plan of "give Israel whatever it wants"'

"fixing everything"

https://cdn.psychologytoday.com/sites/default/files/styles/amp_metadata_content_image_min_1200px_wide/public/blogs/34819/2010/06/44518-30005.jpg?itok=qxGhhcs9

Is it still his son-in-law that's fixing everything?

Guess I'll be doing BDS forever. Anyone want a unopened SodaStream white elephant gift?

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/460746-mcconnell-white-house-preparing-gun-violence-proposal

some weird shit going on, GOP Senate playing chicken with the NRA hoping Trump will give them cover (I sort of doubt he will - he'll probably propose something and then undermine it the next day)

John Bolton's sudden departure is a symbol of the disarray that has unnerved our allies since day one of the Trump Administration. Steady leadership & strategic foreign policy is key to ensuring America’s national security. https://t.co/MQIYet8pnA

— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) September 10, 2019

wtf Nancy

Bolton sucks and it's good that he got fired

ffs let her troll

she doesn’t say “John Bolton is good and we should keep him”

it is dumb and bad to be constantly hiring and firing everyone around you (except your family)

Hey, firing people has always been his main schtick.

not having a lunatic warmonger as your NSA is also key to ensuring America’s national security

Which is why he SHOULDN'T HAVE HIRED HIM

run government like a business

zero doubt Pelosi prefers stable evil to other kinds.

I like my evil with a side of arugula and a martini, please.

if he has the attention span for this issue he's going to do some real harm

Quote from Trump official in this @boreskes story suggests intent of visit to LA is to exploit California homeless crisis, not seriously explore remedies https://t.co/aHnnPbTRF4

— Stuart Leavenworth (@sleavenworth) September 10, 2019

Luckily he doesn't have the attention span to finish a piss before wandering away from the toity. Just don't suggest that he might be wrong about something and it'll be fine.

So! In that NC special election Dan McCready is overperforming, surpassing his 2018 numbers in early voting.

He’s going to lose though

Yeah, it’s pretty close, but he seems to have lost.

I didn't think he would either, but the NC GOP's gotta be sweating.

Margin of victory: 2% - roughly 4200 votes.

Seems like this is every election in my recent memory. Could just a few more Dems get off their asses to the voting booth ffs?

That...kinda happened in the midterms?

Midterms were good, they were not the massive repudiation I would have wished.

Given the failure of the entire media and governmental infrastructures of the US to repudiate an openly treasonous looting of the country, the voting public did a reasonable job of gesturing towards it.

this is kind of a fun reminder that we're all going to have to go through Election Day 2020

sic realistically otm :(

Midterms were good, they were not the massive repudiation I would have wished.

― confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Midterms were better than expected by every metric.

you sound like... a baseball fan

Baseball fans are gay.

some! eg Nate Silver

this is kind of a fun reminder that we're all going to have to go through Election Day 2020

Newp. After voting Imma go into an extended news blackout / drinking jag / induced coma / remote cabin. Following partial returns is just not a thing I can do anymore. 42 years in DC, loads of political engagement and volunteering and just... no.

I am not going to sit in front of a television or computer while people talk about how with two percent of precincts reporting, Shmurp is up by fifty points, BUT WAIT, we just got results from Glurp County, which includes suburban Gleepburg. Those voters tend to be more blurpservative. So Shmurp is going to have to do really well with the college students and lacrosse moms in Norzberg County.

Gleepburg is more purple these days.

Yep. Putting myself through a repeat of election night 2016 might literally kill me. And I mean literally. Vote and then all contact with the outside world ceases until mo(u)rning.

cspan can fuck right off with this shit

"'Some people did something' said a freshman congresswoman from Minnesota…Today I am here to respond to you exactly who did what to whom."

Full video here: https://t.co/K2m92hUsMP#September11 pic.twitter.com/3DjjsPYzCw

— CSPAN (@cspan) September 11, 2019

Imagine still peddling this shit 18 years into a massive war crime that has killed countless women in Afghanistan https://t.co/1hLE2OVjmI

— Nora BarrowsFriedman (@norabf) September 11, 2019

xp "some people did something" is kind of a dubya-esque gaffe; omar was just setting the scene