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

yeah, that's what chaffetz was referring to with "137 Democrats voted against on the last vote.” (i think)

xps to neanderthal

Ahh got it.

Tulsi gets David Duke’s endorsement the same day she goes on Tucker Carlson’s show to attack Hillary Clinton.

Any more questions?

https://t.co/ogOvCyfbxL

— Angry Staffer (@AngrierWHStaff) October 19, 2019

she's a nightmare, she should go away. I'm sure she's priming herself for a 3rd party run, but I don't see her pulling support away from the Dem nominee; her appeal seems to be almost 100% with the sorts of people who backed Ron Paul. Could be wrong though.

I kind of think Trump just has a large fupa.

my man is definitely diaped up.

my mom has bladder issues and started wearing one at a relatively young age, so i understand the inclination to not bring it up but...

i 1000% support bringing it up every moment of everyday until he just rage-fills it on live tv. i don't think any of the front runners should address it obv, but one of these no hope dead-enders should absolutely get on diaper duty now. every day he needs to be calling in to Fox & Friends and angrily denouncing these vicious and very unfair rumors until his heart stops.

On Fox, two-term GOP FL Rep Francis Rooney tells colleague Leland Vittert he will not seek re-election. Rooney spoke to a gaggle of reporters yesterday where he criticized the administration, Mulvaney & indicated he wasn’t sure if he would run again

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) October 19, 2019

h's not sure, but he guesses that if what he heard about impeachment is right, just in terms of the way it works, which is in the black box of "law" (see: Stalker, "the zone"), which cannot be fully comprehended, it could be bad for him, since everyone he knows is unsure as well

law is bad because sometimes stupid law people try to turn very good winning into bad losing

I probably asked this same question in 2016--it hasn't gone away: what is John Kasich after? Is he actually angling for another run in 2024?

should probably assume that everyone who runs for president would still want to be president until they die and will look for any way to swing it

Including HRC.

its like lord of the rings

myyy presssshhidency

Except you want Sauron to win

what is John Kasich after?

relevance outside of Ohio

Ahahahahahahahaha

....Therefore, based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we will no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the Host Site for the G-7 in 2020. We will begin the search for another site, including the possibility of Camp David, immediately. Thank you!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 20, 2019

Lmao

We have been Told shit by Our lawyers

damn I wanted a commemorative plate

swamp: drained!!!

Call off the impeachment

next to MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, has tremendous ballrooms

Hmm

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4823553/trump-flips-women-astronauts

Mark Esperanto

Oh man, story of the day. So that McKay Coppins piece on Mitt Romney runs:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/10/mitt-romney-middle-impeachment-fight/600373/

In the middle of it, this paragraph:

“That’s kind of what he does,” Romney said with a shrug, and then got up to retrieve an iPad from his desk. He explained that he uses a secret Twitter account—“What do they call me, a lurker?”—to keep tabs on the political conversation. “I won’t give you the name of it,” he said, but “I’m following 668 people.” Swiping at his tablet, he recited some of the accounts he follows, including journalists, late-night comedians (“What’s his name, the big redhead from Boston?”), and athletes. Trump was not among them. “He tweets so much,” Romney said, comparing the president to one of his nieces who overshares on Instagram. “I love her, but it’s like, Ah, it’s too much.”

I shared that out and joked that Ashley Feinberg should be alerted.

She came through!

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/mitt-romney-has-a-secret-twitter-account-and-it-sure-looks-like-its-this-one.html

Meet, if this is him, Pierre Delecto!

https://twitter.com/qaws9876

Account now protected as noted -- but all sorts of fun to be had. Thread with some screencaps starts here:

lmao pic.twitter.com/k01b7K2rJE

— kilgore trout captured isis (@KT_So_It_Goes) October 20, 2019

Seriously, WTF at Pierre Delecto. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Marrioti suggested it might be this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_pari_delicto

Which is so skullcrushingly boring and sad that...yeah, it's him.

jokin around with erick erickson, what fun

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aI4Bk4Dv2m0

Buncha turds with punchable faces:

NEW: The private Instagram account of Lev Parnas reveals new clues about his access to the Trump family and his close relationship with Rudy Giuliani.

https://t.co/oXcW96zdhb
w/ @emmatscott @LaurizzleK @WSJVideo pic.twitter.com/Z6XNZhMfkh

— Shelby Holliday (@shelbyholliday) October 21, 2019

good morning!

Reading that Twitter thread now, and apparently Donald taught Melania how to write her name:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHZSgA2XYAA-5j6.jpg

lmao @ "Pierre Delecto" I kinda like Romney now

Mitt's porn star name

ashley feinberg's such a great digital gumshoe

why are they going full speed ahead with the syria withdrawal, whereas with the G7 thing they caved immediately?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/world/middleeast/us-withdrawal-syria-iraq.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

That Photo of Trump kissing Melania for November Thread Title.

yeah i kinda sighed and admitted it was dece dadjoeky+ name xp

Trump's avg approval ratings at RCP now the worst they've been in six months. And seem to be consistently declining.

Should be much lower obv but lol @ us

xp yeah I couldn't figure out what Twitter's take was on the Romney/Delecto thing. Like, does anyone think this makes him look bad?

there must be new content, every day

twitter was flagrante delecto

Can someone help me break down what this means? It says SC overturned the lower court ruling, which struck down the gerrymander as partisan/favoring the GOP, but further on it says that the challenge failed so... wait waht? Does the lower court just have to write a different ruling (I assume they could come to the same conclusion under different reasoning?) I am confused.

The Supreme Court in another defeat for gerrymandering reformers overturned a lower court's ruling that Michigan's electoral districts are overly partisan and need to be withdrawn.

Monday's order follows a June decision from the nation's top court that questions over partisan gerrymandering are not under the jurisdiction of federal courts.

The new order returns the case to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. A three-judge panel in that court had ruled that 34 state legislature and congressional districts needed to be redrawn because they were designed to favor Republicans.

The League of Women Voters and a group of Michigan voters had argued that GOP officials in the state had "engaged in a concerted effort to redraw district lines to benefit Republican candidates while disadvantaging their opponents."

The three-judge district court panel agreed, writing, "Federal courts’ failure to protect marginalized voters’ constitutional rights will only increase the citizenry’s growing disenchantment with, and disillusionment in, our democracy, further weaken our democratic institutions, and threaten the credibility of the judicial branch"

The case had been put on hold by the Supreme Court as it considered similar challenges in Maryland and North Carolina, which led to the sweeping decision earlier this year and all but guaranteed that the challenge in Michigan would fail.

like, if the SC says this isn't under their jurisdiction, why are they overturning a lower ruling? Isn't that the opposite?

The three-judge district court panel agreed, writing, "Federal courts’ failure to protect marginalized voters’ constitutional rights will only increase the citizenry’s growing disenchantment with, and disillusionment in, our democracy, further weaken our democratic institutions, and threaten the credibility of the judicial branch"

I'm guessing the "Federal courts" thing is why they're overturning.

but if the lower court has no jurisdiction either, why did the ruling get kicked back down to them?

i found the GOP candidate for 2024:

Gene Gorelik, a property developer in Oakland and an aggressive critic of the homeless, recently suggested luring the thousands of homeless people in the San Francisco Bay Area onto party buses stocked with alcohol and sending them on a one-way trip to Mexico. “Refugee camps in Syria are cleaner than this,” he said in an interview at a fast-food restaurant in Oakland that overlooks a homeless encampment.

...Although rarely as coarsely as Mr. Gorelik — who made headlines recently when he tried to shower a homeless encampment in Oakland with dollar bills to persuade those living in tents to move elsewhere — residents say they have found themselves weighing concerns for the less fortunate against disruptions to their own quality of life.

...Few have been more outspoken about the homeless than Mr. Gorelik, the property developer. “Compassion is counterproductive,” he said, adding that services for the homeless only encourage homelessness to flourish. Charities in California provide food, clothing and tents to homeless people. California cities also provide many services. But shelter is more elusive in the state, where more than two-thirds of the homeless live outdoors, compared with 5 percent in New York.

...Mr. Gorelik said he saw a connection between the 90 homeless encampments in Oakland and crime. His construction sites have been burglarized nine times, he said, and his car has been broken into twice.

https://i.imgur.com/PkoHROs.jpg
2024 President of the United States, Gene Gorelik

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/us/california-homeless-backlash.html