The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

Tippy Top Shape for October title.

impeach the clearly corrupt president, let all the senate republicans vote against it

xp to shakey

but that would depress Dem turnout, somehow!

it would cause anxiety for the undecided

all of the people who voted for trump in 2016 will see that the impeachment failed and then decide to vote for trump again. they were definitely going to vote for warren or sanders or biden, if the impeachment worked, instead of voting for mike pence or whatever wretched fuck they nominate

or, they could just impeach the clearly guilty man and spend the next several months talking about how he's clearly guilty, and then let the wretched fucks lose their last shreds of dignity by defending him all the way to the 9th circle of hell

you guys are hilarious

in a kinda sad way

^nasty man

impeach the clearly corrupt president, let all the senate republicans vote against it

I'm sure McConnell would find some pithy way to not even bring it to a vote but y'know, "because my FEEWINGS" is always a good position to legislate from

last shreds of dignity

I mean lol they don't have any shreds, what is this fantasy you have about the moral high ground being so wonderfully consoling

you tell me what a better Dem leader would do, I'm at a loss. She holds the caucus together and passes bills with or without GOP votes, that's the job.

― Οὖτις, Friday, September 20, 2019 4:16 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmark

how many other cardboard cutouts couldn't have done the same thing though ? like you said it's the basics of the job. I think though all this shit we could have used a little more than all that.

"because my FEEWINGS" is always a good position to legislate from

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how many other cardboard cutouts couldn't have done the same thing though ? like you said it's the basics of the job. I think though all this shit we could have used a little more than all that.

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, September 20, 2019

I'm not totally on board with Shakey, but tell me how Seth Moulton and Tim Ryan would've held this caucus together. There was no one else gunning for the job.

anyway, cutting out all the bullshit that doesn't matter (eg focusing on me saying "last shreds of dignity", like that matters a fucking bit), your argument is they can't impeach because mcconnell won't let it come to a vote

what a fucking cowardly position to take

lol true i shouldn't be overestimating any of the goons waiting in the wings xp

when feelings coincide with illegality i think theyre cool

so did anyone ClimateStrike today?

your argument is they can't impeach because mcconnell won't let it come to a vote

what a fucking cowardly position to take

this is not my argument, my argument is probably buried in the 10000000th rehash of this stupid argument somwehere upthread, I'm not going to bother reposting it

https://www.cakenknife.com/peach-mint-moscow-mule/

anyway, cutting out all the bullshit that doesn't matter (eg focusing on me saying "last shreds of dignity", like that matters a fucking bit), your argument is they can't impeach because mcconnell won't let it come to a vote

what a fucking cowardly position to take

― Sally Jessy (Karl Malone)

i mean fucking hell we had a great win in 2018 of what ? lets gain the house to pass bills that will never go anywhere and golf clap at this corrupt pos president

one benefit of impeaching - not having this stupid argument again. the reason it comes up AGAIN and AGAIN is because it is something obvious that needs to be done and should have been done a long time ago.

"why are we having this stupid argument about playing Metal Machine Music at top volume for nap time at the orphanage? we've been through this over and over again, all of you think it's a bad idea, but i love metal machine music."

i mean fucking hell we had a great win in 2018 of what ? lets gain the house to pass bills that will never go anywhere and golf clap at this corrupt pos president

― (•̪●) (carne asada)

what did you expect when it looked like the Senate was out of reach? I expected one chamber of Congress to not pass shit that McConnnell and Trump wanted.

so did anyone ClimateStrike today?

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, September 20, 2019 1:35 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i did! it ruled tbh

kids at the school across the street emptied out around 3pm and circled the block with chants of HEY HEY HO HO CLIMATE CHANGE HAS GOT TO GO which was somewhat heartening
but then a subgroup started chanting PLUTO IS A PLANET PLUTO IS A PLANET and then a smaller subgroup started chanting OPEN AREA 51 OPEN AREA 51 so i question their overall commitment

looked awesome!

xps carne asada is just now waking up to the facts of American political life?

House Democrats were drawing up drug prices bills this summer (and there's a Senate one) when Pelosi blew it up because her office was directly negotiating with the White House. This is the result. McConnell doesn't seem to like it so basically a year was wasted on this. https://t.co/3U1iJlNeK6

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) September 19, 2019

idg why trump was pressuring ukraine to investigate the bidens — doesn’t he know any domestic ratfuckers?

He has always depended on the kindness of slavs.

I vaguely recalled a previous Trump use of "tippy-top." Turns out it was in this all-timer (from the 2018 Easter Egg Roll):

"I want to thank the White House Historical Association and all of the people that work so hard with Melania, with everybody, to keep this incredible house or building, or whatever you want to call it — because there really is no name for it; it is special — and we keep it in tip-top shape. We call it sometimes tippy-top shape. And it’s a great, great place."

I took my kids to the march today in SF. HUGE turnout!

same (well at least til 11:30am).

Our nuclear is tippy-top. But what about the cyber? Is it bigly?

yeah SF March was pretty big (I was getting my lunch, I got work to do!)

xps

omg i totally forgot about bigly

xp

I am watching this somehow turn into a story about Biden and am going to pass out.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 20, 2019

unbelievably bad politician

“Vice President Biden, it looks like Donald Trump tried to use government funds to bribe a foreign country into digging up dirt on you! What do you say about that?”

“I swear I didn’t do anything wrong.”

“Uh...” https://t.co/erP1ecBum9

— Daniel Radosh (@danielradosh) September 20, 2019

probably senate hearings in a week about why the Hunter Biden investigation was prematurely dropped

Better response from Biden:

NEW: Biden releases statement on reports of Trump's call with Ukraine president.

"If these reports are true, then there is truly no bottom to President Trump’s willingness to abuse his power and abase our country." pic.twitter.com/OPKMPV49Wt

— Henry J. Gomez (@HenryJGomez) September 20, 2019

well, not so much biden as it is biden's team that has been desperately trying to get him to shut the fuck up

get real, bigly was 'big league'

still awaiting Shakey comment on p4reene tweet re Grancy

I can't see tweets on ilx anymore for some reason

feel like mostly it's a blessing tbh

This story about Hunter Biden wound up being extremely prescient.

Especially this exchange, about the author of Clinton Cash/Breitbart editor Peter Schweitzer using the same funnel-to-the-New-York-Times playbook, and almost pulling it off once again.https://t.co/qhYbB4Ek5K pic.twitter.com/B4lvIdXDEP

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 20, 2019

so did anyone ClimateStrike today?

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius)

i did! it ruled tbh

― american bradass (BradNelson)

otm

10k or so in the streets, three hours of organising and activities in a park then a march to City Hall where teenagers spoke for a couple more hours. Turnout suppressed by local school boards refusing to allow kids out. Separate protest uptown for tech workers, bcz Seattle.

https://i.imgur.com/V80dk0P.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/6bsPt1m.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/TRz9xBi.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/eSoGqms.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/GBzpEjm.jpg

(80,000 turned out at home in Sydney, estimated 300k across Australia - biggest protests since the Iraq invasion in 2003)

Pelosi negotiated solely w/ White House on drug prices and wasted a year

but you stay insulated

All children of politicians from the House on up should be exiled to a comfortable private island for the duration of their parents' political careers.

also children of Baltimore mayors

Worst concept for a reality tv show, ever; unless there are lots of snakes.