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

there's obv still gonna be awful Republican prez candidates but it'll really be hard to find anyone truly as awful a human as DT

they're all awful human beings if they believe being rich and white and male makes them God's chosen

there's obv still gonna be awful Republican prez candidates but it'll really be hard to find anyone truly as awful a human as DT

Gauntlet thrown down!

the President has been ordered by a judge to pay $2 mil fine for using charity funds for personal expenditures and it's barely a news story

if Obama had etc etc

I know the easy response is that the GOP would never support a woman at the national level

Son, ain't your elders ever made sure you heard tell of a lady that some called Sarah of Wasilla?

the one dude I worry about is that TX rep with the eye patch, Crenshaw or whatever. he's dumb as shit but the MAGA crowd loves him

yesterday I heard him going ham on someone asking if making govt. contractors sign anti-BDS pledges was against the 1st amendment

XP Yup. GOP kingmakers see Crenshaw as their AOC.

the President has been ordered by a judge to pay $2 mil fine for using charity funds for personal expenditures and it's barely a news story

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, November 8, 2019 11:20 AM (eleven minutes ago)

this would be a scandal of huge proportions at any other time with any other pres

plus he's pretty good at making idiotic bad faith arguments on Twitter which plays pretty well with the GOP base

Thanks for the PSL, @RollCall. pic.twitter.com/VEmFAZ25wu

— Rep. Dan Crenshaw (@RepDanCrenshaw) November 6, 2019

totally normal dude accepting drinks from random strangers who know what you do for a living

this would be a scandal of huge proportions at any other time with any other pres

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, November 8, 2019 11:33 AM (forty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It’s super weird. I guess people were saying repub voters going forward will want offensive candidates. I wonder if they’ll want their candidate to be a criminal from now on too.

When being a Republican is outlawed, only outlaws will be Republicans

Yeah for every headline that goes like "OMG Trump has ignored norms" or "OMG Trump has bucked tradition" or "OMG Trump is hollowing out the experienced Federal workforce" or "OMG Trump is undermining our institutions"? My reaction is, like DUH.

That's exactly what he said he was going to do and he's kept his promise.That was his stated purpose. And it was the motivation for most of the votes he got. Most of his voters will acknowledge that shredding norms was, and is, his selling point. It is a feature, not a bug.

It would be silly and pollyannaish to now be like, "oh, but we didn't want THOSE norms shredded! We only wanted you to shred THESE norms!"

i feel like burisma type jobs always exist for these failkids, even when dads are revealed as faildads.

or in this case feeldads

xp (sorry, my viewable string ended way up on milo z's djtj post so my post above was, super xp now)

also, thanks to current events/the wire/commentary for explaining what it means when the boss insists nobody take notes, and what it means when the boss tells a mark "talk to (fixer guy name), talk to him" over and over.

Also, 'reasonable' conservatism is mostly that the rich should have all the money and everyone else should suffer and die, and that message isn't really that popular.

― Frederik B, Friday, November 8, 2019 9:51 AM

Do you know many poor white Americans? Cause they LOVE that message.

poor white americans have this fantasy that someday they're going to get rich too, though they're fuzzy on the details of how it might happen

keep brown ppl from getting rich first iirc

They're happy to take a sock on the arm as long as people of color get a broken jaw, and there are tens of millions of those fuckers out there.

it's going to be so amazing when Trump throws Don Jr under the bus:


The White House tried to distance the president from his son’s actions, despite Trump's repeated calls for the whistleblower’s identity to be revealed.

The White House told reporter Yashar Ali that neither “the president nor any senior administration official was aware in advance that the president’s eldest son was going to tweet out the name of the alleged whistleblower.”

A defiant Don Jr. told Ali that the “outrage” over his outing of the purported whistleblower was “BS.”

The White House tried to distance the president from his son’s actions, despite Trump's repeated calls for the whistleblower’s identity to be revealed.
The White House tried to distance the president from his son’s actions, despite Trump's repeated calls for the whistleblower’s identity to be revealed.
The White House tried to distance the president from his son’s actions, despite Trump's repeated calls for the whistleblower’s identity to be revealed.
The White House tried to distance the president from his son’s actions, despite Trump's repeated calls for the whistleblower’s identity to be revealed.
The White House tried to distance the president from his son’s actions, despite Trump's repeated calls for the whistleblower’s identity to be revealed.

maybe next time, Kendall Roy.

i ordered some pizza earlier. in fact, i ordered the pizza and demanded that my pizza arrive quickly on social media for the next 30 minutes. i tagged everyone i could think of.
and now you're telling me that the delivery person, who is also my son, is gonna show up at MY house, with the pizza **I** ordered, in 30 minutes? after i directly messaged my son and asked him to bring me my pizza that i ordered?

it goes without saying that i am distancing myself from my son's actions

He hardly even knows Don Jr.

I've said it before and again, going back up to poor white people.

My dad had multiple strokes and barely talks now. he can no longer work. He has gone bankrupt twice in the last 11 years, can barely afford his rent, and without me and my brother, he and my mother would likely be on their asses.

and after a very quiet afternoon where he hadn't spoken much, he saw a homeless person in the street and managed to say the first thing he said in over an hour, without stammering - "get a job!". and he complained about freeloaders, which sitting next to me, with zero sense of irony.

I love the man but he epitomizes the whole "I identify with rich folk so I am one even though I'm not" white person. my mother, on the other hand, has gotten fairly woke.

oh that is heartbreaking pathology

also sorry neanderthal

thank you. It especially stung because they have been coming to me for money since I was 18, not due to circumstances (both were always gainfully employed with decent paying jobs), but buying things they couldn't afford, living above their means, etc. so that now, when they have a legitimate reason tehy're struggling, they have no safety net.

to go through all that and still bite his thumb at homeless people really pisses me off.

wtf w this nonsense, they're more interested in a Constitutional legal argument being resolved than in whether or not Bolton actually testifies? Does he want to testify or not jfc

An attorney for former national security adviser John Bolton and former deputy national security adviser Charles Kupperman said Friday he is "dismayed" that his clients will not be be compelled to testify in the ongoing House impeachment inquiry after lawmakers declined to issue subpoenas.

Charles J. Cooper, whose clients declined to testify voluntarily, wrote in a letter to House General Counsel Douglas Letter obtained by The Hill that he had hoped to determine in court whether House subpoenas to testify or the White House's assertion of executive privilege took precedence.

"We are dismayed that the Committees have chosen not to join us in seeking resolution from the Judicial Branch of this momentous Constitutional question as expeditiously as possible," Cooper wrote. "It is important both to Dr. Kupperman and to Ambassador Bolton to get a definitive judgment from the Judicial Branch determining their Constitutional duty in the face of conflicting demands of the Legislative and Executive Branches."

"Dr. Kupperman stands ready, as does Ambassador Bolton, to testify if the Judiciary resolves the conflict in favor of the Legislative Branch’s position respecting such testimony," he added.

House Democrats had scheduled Bolton to appear on Thursday, but said they wouldn't issue him a subpoena after he declined to appear.

"Mr. Bolton would take us to court if we subpoenaed him," a House Intelligence Committee official said in a statement.

bolton likely actually believes unitary executive bullshit and while he respects rules enough to preserve his freedom, i imagine he would likely prefer both to avoid testifying and to have this type of executive privilege to be created/blessed by courts.

WmC otm

i know so many of these people in real life it's stupefying

yeah, the NYT has a similar article with this quote:

"House Democrats have argued that ongoing court proceedings to compel Donald F. McGahn II, the president’s former White House counsel, to testify on other matters should guide Mr. Bolton and Mr. Kupperman. But Mr. Cooper said any final judgment on Mr. McGahn would still not answer the question about whether his clients should testify because they would be asked about national security matters in a way that Mr. McGahn would not be."

Ned Price is speculating that all of this may have more to do with Bolton's book deal than with impeachment (I'm not sure how exactly)

I only got on that subject because I wanted to counteract Fred B's self-assured and very wrong notions about what messages are and aren't popular in America.

click to die instantly

found the best one, i'm about to give up after this pic.twitter.com/So2B4a12v4

— Aric Toler (@AricToler) November 8, 2019

man, fuck you stupid ass teenager

get that kid a GOOD Music record deal

these people are truly sick

top that!

no fuckin way i'm clicking that, not today satan

I hope you’ll consider my #MAGAChallenge, Mr. President. I had a blast making this. pic.twitter.com/YAd2VnaLR4

— Richard Armande Mills (RAM) (@RAMRANTS) November 8, 2019

I'm not going to watch the video and imagine it's some kind of Aristocrats type of abasement and that they wind up dead at the end of the video

ahahahha he's doing a "BLACKS FOR TRUMP" event today no wonder this is happening

I admit I feel some hesitancy to clown teens on twitter

no matter how obnoxious they're being

xxpost

IS HE EVER

https://i.ibb.co/JpPXYj3/EI3-UFd7-Xk-AABZFn.jpg

xps no

it is you who will die

signed,

a corpse