The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

I'm knee deep in a bottle of wine, listening to Hannity at high volume, and blasting Shook Ones Pt. 2 and Hannity just said he welcomes the impeachment vote because he wants to know if the Democrats in swing states are going follow their socialist leaders.

Good strategy, impeachment is what willl totally turn them to Trump.

and who will turn Jake G to me

The Nixon impeachment proceedings were all very solemn and serious. Every representative and senator sought to sound as sober and serious as possible in their public statements. This time it's a freak show with crazies like Hannity and Giuliani shouting inanities and the president tweeting playground taunts and acting like the host of Let's Make a Deal.

Hannity's Inanities, where so much is on sale, it's crazy!

This is correct

This article should scare Giuliani and Trump because it shows there are lots of witnesses ready to talk.https://t.co/hkpFoMpLN9

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 25, 2019

I mean, this is insanely corrupt!!!

“Giuliani turned his attention to Ukraine, officials said, and soon began pushing for personnel changes at the embassy while seeking meetings with Zelensky subordinates.”

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 25, 2019

keep hope alive!

irl subdued lol reading my phone in a bar

wau, 35 mins of xposts, thread got busy

The Nixon impeachment proceedings were all very solemn and serious. Every representative and senator sought to sound as sober and serious as possible in their public statements. This time it's a freak show with crazies like Hannity and Giuliani shouting inanities and the president tweeting playground taunts and acting like the host of Let's Make a Deal.

― A is for (Aimless)

It was solemn and serious because of kayfabe, Watergate was a complete fucking farce and people pretended to take it seriously because the Future of Democracy was at stake (which didn't prevent them from totally screwing the Future of Democracy while making very grave speeches about its importance). Find me somebody who can tell me today there is a Future of Democracy with a straight face and I'll put them on a game show.

All sorts of shit happening at warp speed. I assume they will try to throw Rudy under the bus, but Rudy seems extremely likely to throw everyone else under the bus before he goes between the wheels himself.

GOP douchenozzles probably will turn on Trump but only after he's out of office and once it's clear that his brand is inexorably tainted and he has absolutely nothing left to offer them. This triggers the part of me that hopes he lives through another couple decades of legal woes and money hemorrhaging and abandonment by everyone until he finally expires at 109 while trying to fish a half-eaten taco out of a dumpster.

That Wash Post article about Giuliani and Ukraine highlights what a ridiculous self-own this whole thing is. What a bunch of hapless fucking idiots.

Xp please let it be a TT taco salad.

Question: if any in the GOP turn on Trump, and Trump is removed from office or loses the election, who are his psycho base going to turn to? Or are they just going to go more nuts and occupy national parks and stuff?

Jill stein

I think 1/2 would stick with him and vote for some qanoj psycho third party candidate who would emerge. And the republican vote would be fatally divided. That’s why they are so fearful of crossing him.

*qanon

https://giphy.com/gifs/jake-gyllenhaal-7agtFeY315ugw

http://gph.is/1c65BXT

https://66.media.tumblr.com/3aee50b14e08b355098428666d7ea54a/tumblr_o21ik53eDH1sk2fc0o2_500.gif

President Jake wearing nothing but roller skates.

you know potus is having a bad day when this is the image WashPo uses as their header

https://i.imgur.com/8wbIF2N.jpg

God, imagine if the whistleblower turns out to be hot

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) September 25, 2019

I'm digging this "whistleblower = Bolton" fantasy

oh that would be amazing

President Jake wearing nothing but roller skates.

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain)

the price of medicine!

Whistleblower is Danny Aiello

Bolton didn't have enough time in the shitbin to prompt a full Inspector General's investigation and report by a couple of days ago.

i don't think it's a high level official

xpost -- His disaffection was clear enough in recent months. I don't think it's him but at the same time I think there's a non-zero chance it is.

from the annals of good faith

Senate Republicans on Tuesday argued there is no basis for impeachment, especially after Trump pledged to release an unredacted transcript of his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, said, “You can’t tell me they’re talking about impeachment when the president is cooperating with them 100 percent to release these things.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/462890-senate-gop-vows-to-quash-impeachment-articles

They can't impeach, he said he maybe might possibly cooperate-ish

President 100% Cooperation. When you think Trump, you think cooperation.

Just wondering how Space Force is coming along

— rosanne cash (@rosannecash) September 24, 2019

genuine lol

The Nixon impeachment proceedings were all very solemn and serious... This time it's a freak show.

see also: American culture across the board

Old & busted: Deep Throat

New hotness: Deep State

Senate Republicans on Tuesday argued there is no basis for impeachment, especially after Trump pledged to release an unredacted transcript of his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The stupidity of this position is that, transcript and whistleblower testimony aside, Trump has already admitted what he did.

"He's being transparent!"

I see no reason why we should prosecute him for hacking up and eating his neighbor when he willingly gave us copies of the home movie he made documenting his actions. Case closed AFAIC.

fwiw Rudy was known to talk like this to reporters fairly often as mayor

Rudy Giuliani attacks Fox guest: "I should sue you for libel... Shut up moron! Shut up! Shut up! You don't know what you're talking about, idiot!" pic.twitter.com/zeXMzGMjDI

— Contemptor (@TheContemptor) September 25, 2019

man Yoo concern trolling in the pages of the NYT about impeachment doing long term damage to the Office is just,,,, the most 2019 thing ever

Yes, my leg is broken, but isn't it possible that in attempting to mend the fracture we run the risk of reducing my femur to a fine powder?

Can we all put our heads together to come up with a quick n' pithy dismissal to the increasing number of 'arguments' posed in obvious bad faith? Is 'fuck you' enough to get the point across?

“fuck yoo”

Yooooooo the line for this judiciary hearing is DEEP. Just walked past on my way to lobby for something else and I’m gonna have to go back just to witness this.

I can't read the article but NYT has a headline that Trump told Ukraine leader to work with Barr

Yeah, the transcript may be heavily modified or doctored, but still is so doing extremely bad for Trump and team.

Transcript released: Transcript of Trump’s call with Ukrainian president shows him offering U.S. assistance for Biden investigation

lol it's better than I'd hoped:

Mr. Trump specifically asked his Ukrainian counterpart to “do us a favor” by looking into an unsubstantiated theory pushed by Mr. Giuliani holding that Ukrainians had some role in the emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee.

“I would like to have the attorney general call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of that,” Mr. Trump said on the call, also referencing Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel who investigated Russia’s election sabotage. “Whatever you can do, it’s very important that you do it, if that’s possible.”