US Politics, October 2019 — I guess statement you could say with thread. I made a thread. The thread was PERFECT.

Hopefully from a jail cell

It’s wild to me how people crawled over my 60 mins interview with a fine-toothed comb to find any word or reason to claim I’m unfit for the job, yet here Kevin McCarthy (the GOP Leader!) is a bumbling, sloppy, dishonest mess & his mediocrity is accepted as a matter of course. https://t.co/zx7qlhW9dh

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 30, 2019

YES

Damn!

hard bigotry of high expectations

the way mccarthy says 'the defense of what?' and thinks he's clever

the phrase "snake-filled moats" just popped up on my NYT alerts
welcome to 2019 i guess

even by 2019 standards, this is a tour de force

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/politics/trump-border-wars.html

The Oval Office meeting this past March began, as so many had, with President Trump fuming about migrants. But this time he had a solution. As White House advisers listened astonished, he ordered them to shut down the entire 2,000-mile border with Mexico — by noon the next day. The advisers feared the president’s edict would trap American tourists in Mexico, strand children at schools on both sides of the border and create an economic meltdown in two countries. Yet they also knew how much the president’s zeal to stop immigration had sent him lurching for solutions, one more extreme than the next.

Privately, the president had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate. He wanted the wall electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh. After publicly suggesting that soldiers shoot migrants if they threw rocks, the president backed off when his staff told him that was illegal. But later in a meeting, aides recalled, he suggested that they shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down. That’s not allowed either, they told him.

“You are making me look like an idiot!” Mr. Trump shouted, adding in a profanity, as multiple officials in the room described it. “I ran on this. It’s my issue.’’

Ms. Nielsen, a former aide to George W. Bush brought into the department by John F. Kelly, the president’s former chief of staff, was in a perilous position. She had always been viewed with suspicion by the president, who told aides she was “a Bushie,” and part of the “deep state” who once contributed to a group that supported Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign.

Mr. Trump had routinely berated Ms. Nielsen as ineffective and, worse — at least in his mind — not tough-looking enough. “Lou Dobbs hates you, Ann Coulter hates you, you’re making me look bad,’’ Mr. Trump would tell her, referring to the Fox Business Network host and the conservative commentator.

The happiest he had been with Ms. Nielsen was a few months earlier, when American border agents had fired tear gas into Mexico to try to stop migrants from crossing into the United States. Human rights organizations condemned the move, but Mr. Trump loved it.

We can close the border, she told the president, but it’s not going to fix anything. People will still be permitted to claim asylum.

But Mr. Trump was unmoved. Even Mr. Kushner, who had developed relationships with Mexican officials and now sided with Ms. Nielsen, could not get through to him.

“All you care about is your friends in Mexico,” the president snapped, according to people in the room. “I’ve had it. I want it done at noon tomorrow.”

so what was the cost of a snake moat? asking for a friend.

the president is a racist eight year old

https://media.makeameme.org/created/strategy-you-gave.jpg

“Sir, I know you’re really frustrated,” she told him. The president invited her to meet with him on Sunday in the White House residence.

Ms. Nielsen knew that Miller wanted her out, so she spent the flight huddled with aides on a strategy for getting control of the border, a Hail Mary pass. She called it the “Six C’s” — Congress, Courts, Communications, Countries, Criminals, Cartels.

Unbeknown to her, Ms. Nielsen’s staff started work on her letter of resignation.

When Ms. Nielsen presented her plan to Mr. Trump at the White House, he dismissed it and told her what he really needed was a cement wall.

“Sir,” she said, “I literally don’t think that’s even possible.”

sorry: meant to say an insane racist eight year old

should've just added a seventh C

xp

Cell?

Calum?

IN THE NAVY!

https://howmuch.net/costs/wall-block-install
i'm sure it's the same cost no matter where you put it of course.
1,954 miles = 10,317,120 Feet divided by 350 = 29,478 multiplied by $20,061 = $591,358,158
let's assume the laws of physics clearly don't apply and you don't need to provide additional support so just multiply that times 6 and bingo bango you got a 36 foot tall, 2,000 mile long border wall for 3.4 billion
SO DON'T TELL ME I'M KIM POSSIBLE

the president of the united states demanded that his staffers look into the cost of digging a moat along the mexico/us border and filling it with snakes and not only are you not surprised, it doesn't make you feel any differently toward him than you did before you had that information
truly the stupidest universe

how many snakes would it take to fill a 2000 mile moat?

"Fill" needs better quantification there. Call in a consultant.

does the Rio Grande have many snakes and alligators in it? If so, jobs half done, someone could've taken a few photos and been promoted, missed opportunity there.

how about rubber snakes and alligators. from China.

I want to get off this boat.

how many snakes would it take to fill a 2000 mile moat?

There's only one snake, but the catch is you don't know where it is at any given moment

What about anacondas? it would take far fewer snakes. get Jon voight on it asap!

How is he the president?

It’s an important job!

Does he really want desperate refugees eaten by alligators?

https://seminoletribune.org/read-offline/16753/alligator-namesake-trumps-trump.print

"Though not the largest gator in the swamp, the beast was deemed dangerous, captured and forced into isolation. He has lived alone in his private pit ever since."
let us pray

Does he really want desperate refugees eaten by alligators?

Did he say "eaten" by the alligators? This is a falsification that amounts to treason!

There's only one snake, but the catch is you don't know where it is at any given moment

re the reptile moat, do you think it'd be worth it to encourage his name being replaced by "Blofeld" on Twitter?

the State Department IG wanting a meeting with congressional committees tomorrow seems interesting

https://i2.wp.com/www.inpapasbasement.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Hellraiser-I-am-in-hell-help-me.jpg

lol

The fainthearted lions of the Senate ought to bear in mind that a defiant citizenry inflamed by indignation and jealous of its rights can overwhelm a corrupt regime’s dirty electoral plans. An election with an impeached Donald Trump at the top of the Republican ticket is an invitation to an electoral uprising that should haunt Mitch McConnell’s dreams.

this is well done

https://nyti.ms/2p5iWDQ

So which Steve Linick will show up tomorrow?

The unprofessional, flighty, politically vindictive one...

State Department Inspector General Steve Linick during the financial crisis targeted a whistleblower friend of mine, a whistleblower who is one of the most honorable men I know. From what I understand Linick is unprofessional, blows with the wind, and is politically vindictive.

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) October 2, 2019

or the smart, honest, serious one:

I worked with Steve Linick, the State Department’s IG who has requested an urgent briefing with Congress, in the 1990s at the USAO. Smart, honest, and not a guy to mess with.

— MoatSnakeHat (@Popehat) October 1, 2019

let’s throw it back to 2011:

“Maybe they'll need a moat," Obama said mockingly to laughter from the crowd. "Maybe they'll want alligators in the moat."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-mocks-gop-jokes-they-want-border-moat/

There's only one snake, but the catch is you don't know where it is at any given moment

Schrodinger's Snake

Now the press is trying to sell the fact that I wanted a Moot stuffed with alligators and snakes, with an electrified fence and sharp spikes on top, at our Southern Border. I may be tough on Border Security, but not that tough. The press has gone Crazy. Fake News!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2019

just an amazing tweet

the story is moot

wow that's what I was going to have for lunch, a moot stuffed with alligators and snakes

its true, he never said he wanted a Moot

just around his Scottish hotel

At least the backtracking "I never said I wanted a wall with spikes, or a moat full of alligators!" tweets prove that Trump is still capable of embarrassment. On some level, he knows what a stupid worthless asshole he is.

I gotta hand it to Steyer for consistently putting his money where his mouth is

A pro-impeachment group is targeting GOP senators in battleground states with a round of ads as they try to build pressure on Republicans to break with President Trump in the growing battle.

Need to Impeach, which is mainly funded by Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer, announced that would run $3.1 million in TV and digital ads against Republicans in a number

The group will target Sens. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) over the next two weeks, while lawmakers are back in their home states for the recess.

Gonna need more upward movement in the polls than this

A CNBC All-America Economic Survey released on Monday found that 47 percent of Americans oppose impeachment, compared to 44 percent who approve.

But 88 percent of Republicans, according to the same poll, oppose impeaching Trump.

wonder if those will change at all as the corner of the rug starts lifting