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

that's p tight

idk how many people like this there are (not a lot, I would guess) but we're gonna need as many of them to either stay home and not vote, or vote Dem, as possible

Warm up the police wagon!!!

—>Today, Rick Gates contradicted Trump’s written answers to Mueller’s questions.

Trump said he did not "recall" any conversations with Roger Stone re WikiLeaks & he first learned about the hacked emails "at or shortly after the time it became the subject of media reporting." 1/

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) November 12, 2019

When the only thing your supporters are able to cling to is "but the economy is booming!" it's good to inflate those numbers by bajillions.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/trump-ivanka-created-14-million-jobs-lie.html?fbclid=IwAR09z0AkC8OVBVrWUzeaW3YDsly0yN3MlMnj17GmXlXmj4p3-EFq24nDF_w#comments

idk how many people like this there are (not a lot, I would guess) but we're gonna need as many of them to either stay home and not vote, or vote Dem, as possible

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, November 12, 2019

or die of a Doritos-induced heartburn

"Dictators, it's okay, come on in, whatever's good for the United States."

Trump tells his story about how the first thing nearly every leader says to him is "congratulations on your economy." He says this includes prime ministers and presidents, kings and queens, dictators. "Dictators, it's okay, come on in, whatever's good for the United States."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 12, 2019

nKentuckian of note Tarence Ray looks back on the Kentucky gubernatorial election

If the Trump strategy is going to work for a governor, then, he must set his sights on select internal enemies of his state. Bevin unwisely chose public sector workers as his target, and he paid the ultimate price for it: these people are mostly middle class, they have nuclear families and mortgages, and they vote. He insulted them, then implemented harsher austerity measures on them in a ham-fisted attempt to fix the pension crisis, and then insulted them some more for whining about it. It’s no coincidence that he didn’t perform well in the suburbs. Bevin forgot the first rule of neoliberal governing: never insult the people you’re putting the screws to. This is America. You have to convince them that the austerity is in their best interest. We like to believe we’re free and democratic in this country, that we’ve chosen our own fate, and Bevin was shattering that illusion.

He was also fucking up the bag. A governor of an economically distressed state like Kentucky has one overriding task, which is to make the state attractive to investment. This includes things like handing out tax breaks to banks, and making workers maximally exploitable through union-busting laws. Bevin did both, but he alienated too many people in the process. Most voters remember that life was more or less the same under Bevin’s predecessor Steve Beshear, minus the circus politics, and so they voted for his cardboard cutout son.

https://thebaffler.com/latest/nothing-to-learn-ray

i had to read all the way to the link to figure out which side was being cynical, well played. i'm sympathetic to the analysis tho

I mean, "national media misreads implications of Southern election" not exactly a huge stretch.

yup/sigh

So are the Republicans gonna do what they did in I forget which state, and hold a late-night lame-duck session to strip the governor's office of all its powers (to be reinstated the minute there's a Republican in there, of course)?

The only Democrat who filed to run against Sen. Tom Cotton dropped out of the race just hours after filing deadline - https://t.co/qRHEy7X0ln

— Reid Wilson (@PoliticsReid) November 12, 2019

that was Virginia and iirc it failed?

xp

it was Wisconsin and I'm still pissed about it

ah, right thx

and North Carolina

Genuinely thought that said John Mahoney

ah North Carolina must've been what I was thinking of, it was one of those "purple" southern states

Speaking of NC, the terrible idiot 36 year old man-child who just got elected to head the state board of education a few years ago has now decided to run for lieutenant governor. In his announcement today he professed that working in state government has allowed him to witness “the deep state of state bureaucracy” up close.

By which I guess he means me, reading Tom Scocca’s tweets and posting in this thread while at work.

I want to use deep state as a boogie monster substitute to belittle right-wing political appointees who can’t get anything done. “Oh, did the deep state getcha? Awww.”

Impeachment scheduling alert: Senate Intel Chairman Richard Burr says trial will last for "6 to 8 weeks." It will run for 6 days a week, from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m., a big chunk of time for senators also running for president hoping to be in IA, NH or anywhere but DC in Dec/Jan/Feb.

— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) November 12, 2019

V predictable

Who needs Disney+?

HAIL SATAN

I m doronk

Me fore persidetn

Beto picked the wrong time to drop out.

aren't IA and NH voters already armed with sufficient information to vote

really hate Nikki Haley

i really hate her now, that's for sure.

same

Nikki Haley and that eyepatch motherfucker and like Tom Cotton are going to be running the show within 8 years fml

Cotton has the charisma of tapioca, I’m not worried about him. Eyepatch seems especially fucking stupid but that’s hardly been an impediment to the party lately.

I hope Cotton dies on the fuckin toilet and someone photographs it

agree that Tom Cotton seems so uncharismatic it's hard to see him as much of a threat

Good morning!

Well before Representative Peter King announced that he would retire next year, enough evidence existed that his prospects for re-election on Long Island as a Republican were narrowing.

Like so many suburban areas around the country, Long Island is undergoing a profound political shift, a transformation evident in the voter rolls, in the county seats, in recent election tallies and in census data.

Democrats now outnumber Republicans on Long Island, a once unthinkable development in a traditional conservative stronghold where voters backed every Republican presidential candidate, bar two, from 1900 to 1988.

Last year’s midterm elections saw Democrats capture six of the island’s nine State Senate seats, helping the party gain control of that legislative body for only the third time in the last 50 years.

sub in that yale kid who beat McCaskill for Cotton

Is it too early to take a shot of everclear every time Nunes said "Steele dossier"?

I really hate Devin Nunes

this is gonna be hours and hours of the GOP attacking Dems & whining about partisanship and never once addressing the actual allegations

not to mention the fact that Trump and his administration admitted to everything the whistleblower said lmao

This is already fascinating. The GOP is going to ask exclusively conspiracy theory-based questions, and the Dems will draw on facts.

I feel like you could not understand a single word Nunes said unless you've watched 1000 hours of Fox News

Nothing mutes a signal like some noise, eh.

xp similarly I’m afraid Fox viewers have no idea what Schiff and these witnesses are talking abt

These people are truly sick.

tbf there is literally zero defense for this, there already has been a ton of damning testimony & admissions from Trump's own people, they can't even pull the "but what if a DIFFERENT guy raped you" defense

I mean

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJQ99j-XkAAF0DR.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJQ99j9XUAA0Eg5.jpg

apparently mike scott led me astray re: the pronunciation of kiev

xo that’s nauseating