The September 2019 US Politics Thread is great Great GREAT GR8

*a giant floating alien ship appears out of nowhere and loudly deploys a bunch of laser beams pointed at all women and children*

Tweet: "...anyone think it's weird that this giant spotless ship has a dusty patch on the back of it? i could see the bottom of the ship, but very suspicious that the dust is on the back. something to watch?"

Zelensky with two Ys in the shamscript invalidates the whole thing as evidence sorry.

there are lots of reasons that call could have taken 30 minutes

trump might have been xanned out of his mind and taking forever to roll each word around his mouth like he was at the un, for example

"As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance"

love that they left this in

Also, this is probably the only time Biden's been good for anything.

if we must sacrifice the candidacy of joe biden on the altar of impeachment then so be it, thx for yr service joe

it's this kind of stuff that i particularly dread. this instant need to come up with a hot take that no one has thought of. there are lots of reasons that call could have taken 30 minutes.

iirc Ze doesn't take official calls in English so i can imagine there was a very confused translator acting as an intermediary.

Kevin McCarthy outright lying and saying the document doesn't mention Biden

Remember this? https://t.co/Y4iDLbZAAi

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) September 25, 2019

President-in-waiting Mike Pence is pleased.

I really don't understand the point of noting that this isn't a word-for-word transcript. However accurately it reflects the actual conversation, it looks bad. So it either makes the call seem worse than it actually was (in which case, why would releasing it be at all helpful in attempting to stave off impeachment) or, on the other hand, it's somewhere between accurate and a bowdlerization of something way worse. The fact that this isn't a verbatim reflection of the conversation seems about as substantive as noting what paper stock they used for the printout.

there are still a bunch of ellipses where the real damning stuff would be but yeah this is really bad and the fact that Trump thinks its good means its much worse

Pence says he and Ukraine President Zelensky “discussed America’s support for Ukraine and the upcoming decision the President will make on the latest tranche of financial support in great detail.

"But as President Trump had me make clear, we have great concerns about issues of corruption.”

It’s also one of a series of actions/conversations that lead to the whistleblower report.

xpost Well, for example, maybe on top of all of this the actual conversation included an explicit quid pro quo, which would be like extra whipped cream on the impeachment sundae.

The quid pro quo is implied. He uses the term “fsvor” after regaling how much the US helps Ukraine—how much more they do than Germany

lol I suspected my household was not the only one rockin the Honeydrippers last night

xxps

OK, don your foil caps:

The White House transcript of the Ukraine call uses three ellipses - all when Trump is making requests, like here. pic.twitter.com/vCGJlAg2la

— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) September 25, 2019

Holy shit, they have footage of the discussion!

https://gfycat.com/pertinentaggressivekrill-montypython-protection-comedy-racket

Goddamit.

https://img.youtube.com/vi/DNj1dXi-z0M/0.jpg

200 House Democrats are now calling for an impeachment inquiry into Trump

actually 199 House Democrats and Amash

goddamn lying CNN

FAKE BLUES

mitt romney is also "deeply troubled"

I'm honestly surprised the transcript is even worse than I thought. WTG Bob Barr you're really killing the game lately.

It just dawned on me that Trump is Reese & Hillary is Malcolm

mitt romney is also "deeply troubled"

No, it's the memo that's 'deeply troubling', 'troubling in the extreme'. He himself remains untroubled.

Maybe someone blew their nose on his copy.

Hmmm… The White House just sent its talking points on Ukraine to House Democrats.

Here are some screenshots, per source. pic.twitter.com/VvNAaqKP3D

— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) September 25, 2019

Source says the White House just sent a follow-up to “recall” the email to House Democrats containing talking points...

— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) September 25, 2019

hahaha. "unsend! unsend!"

i'd be delighted to see Barr get eaten by this too.

I would like to thank @WhiteHouse for sending me their talking points on how best to spin the disastrous Trump/Zelensky call in Trump’s favor. However, I will not be using their spin and will instead stick with the truth.
But thanks though.

— US Rep Brendan Boyle (@RepBrendanBoyle) September 25, 2019

Sticking with the truth, huh? Yet another example of the 'Deep State'.

They accidentally sent an email to Democratic members of Congress?

i mean for how long have we read the the WH is an understaffed disaster? surely something like this will send them into a tailspin like no other.

Zelensky with two Ys in the shamscript invalidates the whole thing as evidence sorry.

― nashwan, Wednesday, September 25, 2019 9:49 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

they did this again in the talking points email!!!

"Drain the Swamp (and Fill It with Chuckleheads)"

the WH's next steps are to release a vlogger apology video.

"hey guys, "

Jake Paul for Secretary of Energy Drinks

Apparently Zelenskyy is the 'official' spelling and appears as such in his passport my bad.

the extra y is for yucks

Yay Yulia

Zelensky, Zelenskiy, Zelenskyi and Zelenskyy are all fine but he has decided to make the latter the official one. There is not any great logic behind it afaict.

i feel like i'm watching someone trying to write a 15-page paper in the middle of the night, having waited until the night before it was due to start

I'm reading a few of those as I type.

extra y for extra biglyy

I don't know why the WH is doing anything other than maxing and relaxing given the fact that the president cannot commit a crime. This is 'What, me worry?' time, bros!

Trump’s name transliterated into Ukrainian and back is Donald Tramp so the Zelenskyy confusion could be worse.