US Politics, November 2019: These people are truly sick.

the Democrats hate Trump; the call was perfect; they'd do it, too.

Worst verse of "Cell Block Tango".

NEW: The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court's ruling that the President cannot stop a grand jury subpoena seeking his tax documents, as sought by the Manhattan D.A.

This now likely sets up a Supreme Court fight.

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) November 4, 2019

where's the tax retur-

oh. still working on it. we can trust the golden boy brett kavanaugh to make the right call!!!

Transcript of Trump's next perfect phone call: "I went to bat for you, brett. You know what to do."

I've said this before but a huge majority of Trump's legal strategy is banking on "his guys" at the Supreme Court to save his ass. Whether Roberts will allow this to happen remains to be seen, but it's sort of insane the number of huge Constitutional issues Trump is throwing at the SC.

!!! The State Dept pulled Yovanovitch from Ukraine in such a rush because they were trying to get ahead of a potential Trump tweet. pic.twitter.com/u9l2hnFJN0

— Miriam Elder (@MiriamElder) November 4, 2019

Quite a few sporting events for the president of late https://t.co/8gsnz6KA0P

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) November 4, 2019

hahaha he's desperate to attend one event where he won't get booed

He is gonna invent his own sport to prevent it

Are there no Monster Truck rallies these days?

Or Toby Keith concerts?

Surely there's like a shuffleboard tournament on a cruise ship somewhere that he can chopper in to.

MAGA Ball

There's no actual ball, players just run around proclaiming how many points they scored and then blow each other

so, lacrosse?

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration formally notified the United Nations on Monday that it would withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change, leaving global climate diplomats to plot a way forward without the cooperation of the world’s largest economy.

The action, which came on the first day possible under the accord’s complex rules on withdrawal, begins a yearlong countdown to the United States exit and a concerted effort to preserve the Paris Agreement, under which nearly 200 nations have pledged to cut greenhouse emissions and to help poor countries cope with the worst effects of an already warming planet.

you see, the trump administration is definitely capable of punctually taking action on important issues, as long as they're evil

conveniently, the yearlong countdown to the US exit will end on Nov 4, 2020 - the day after election day

then it will hopefully be time for the US to rejoin the paris accords. by the time all of that paperwork gets finalized, it should be just about time for the US to elect some other complete dumbass in 2024 and withdraw again

Ornaldo Bloomps imo

Upside to existential issues is no one is gonna be around to sweat the fumbles.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-trails-democratic-rivals-in-national-survey-as-independents-move-away/2019/11/04/e068afac-ff38-11e9-9518-1e76abc088b6_story.html

This was heartening. Trump's just not going to catch anyone past the chud base. Biden +17, Warren +15, Sanders +14, Buttigieg +11, Harris +9.

How long til he privately blames Pence and starts saying he wants a new veep

One that won't spill
Or cost too much

too busy freaking out about democrats' piss poor showing in battleground states to be happy about the national advantage. :(

nothing heartening about Biden having any support at all tbh

I'm not worried about either poll.

yeah this stuff is meaningless this far out

In 2016, Australia held their second-longest federal election campaign ever, after the Senate were dismissed six months early (essentially combining mid-terms & the regular election, in US semi-translation). This marathon campaign lasted 54 days.

How long til he privately blames Pence and starts saying he wants a new veep

― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, November 5, 2019 8:44 AM (twenty-eight minutes ago)

BREAKING: Pence OUT, Kurt Suzuki IN

I agree that polls are meaningless right now but Biden consistently trending down seems significant

Maybe he shoulda thought twice about doing Ukraine, huh

Sondland's memory was jogged and he finally testifies there was indeed a quid pro quo regarding Burisma investigation holding up Ukraine aid:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/us/politics/impeachment-trump.html

Funny how it works

jokes on us because quid pro quo is totally cool now

yeah, part of the pivot. Can't deny it, now just argue that it's totally cool cuz the Bidens are corrupt.

he should just murder somebody and get it over with. Maybe Giuliani.

More than 60 percent of respondents who support President Trump say they support him no matter what, according to a new survey.

The Monmouth University poll released Tuesday found that 62 percent of Trump supporters said they could not think of "anything that Trump could do, or fail to do, in his term as president that would make [them] disapprove of the job he is doing." The sample size for the question was 401 adults age 18 and older.

The numbers released in the poll show Trump supporters becoming more entrenched in their belief of the president, with a 12 percent increase from the last time the question was asked in January of 2018 to a sample of 341.

On the flip side, among respondents who disapprove of the job Trump is doing, 70 percent said there's nothing the president could do to gain their support.

Forty-three percent of respondents in the survey approve of the job Trump is doing as president, compared to 51 percent who disapprove, on par with the numbers from the September poll.

The findings come as Trump is facing an impeachment inquiry that has divided lawmakers in the House. The chamber voted last week along party lines for a resolution approving procedures for the inquiry. No Republicans voted in support of the resolution.

The Monmouth University poll was conducted between Oct. 30 and Nov. 3 and surveyed 908 adults by phone. The margin of error for the total sample is plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.

figured this was coming, wasn't there a story last week that the GOP was going to transition to "quid pro quo, so what?"

yes

there was a GOP Senate luncheon where they made this decision

More than 60 percent of respondents who support President Trump say they support him no matter what, according to a new survey.

Right-wing internet has consistently made the point that polls are designed to manipulate public opinion, not measure it.

And further, polling organizations are largely media and academia (in other words, THE ENEMY and THE OTHER ENEMY). As a result, I'm going to assume that almost every poll response coming from a rightward direction is 97% "fuck you, next question" and maybe 3% "this is exactly how I think and feel."

right-wing internet has made the point that if your parents leave you $500,000,000, and you're willing to cut taxes and promote fascist judges, the law doesn't matter. mrga

I wonder how granular you could get with that line of questioning and still get the same response. Would you continue to support President Trump if he ate your children in front of you? If he insisted that you grab a fork and join him?

I mean genuinely...what kind of goddamn monster would support a person NO MATTER WHAT

are you worried about other sixth and seventh graders teasing you? vote trump

funny how this will be the headline and not the "70 percent said there's nothing the president could do to gain their support". I guess it's nice to have gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the electoral college on your side otherwise something like that might actually matter

tens of millions approve of rich kid dumbfuck bully don trump. and america, you really did begin in slavery

Is it uncool and conservative to believe that 2020 Trump voters should have that fact branded onto their faces such that the rest of us know to steer the everloving fuck clear of them at all times forever? Or is that just something they'd proudly embrace anyway if it were mildly suggested to them?

When did qualmsey return? And more importantly, where are the tax returns?

tax returns will be coming as soon as the golden boys puts his stamp of approval on it. should be very soon

good afternoon!

I'm sure the GOP will be very, very concerned about this case of voter fraud

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/469082-authorities-looking-into-possible-election-fraud-in-marion-ohio

Trump rejects Native American Heritage Month, proclaims November “National American History and Founders Month.” https://t.co/ZnBGIaUcXj

— Simon Moya-Smith (@SimonMoyaSmith) November 5, 2019

cool

Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he won't read any of the transcripts, and dismissed Sondland's reversal.

"I've written the whole process off ... I think this is a bunch of B.S."

Per @alanhe

— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) November 5, 2019

new GOP strategy is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD8se6iN548