Trump has like 92% GOP approval, nobody's ditching him
― frogbs, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
lmao that they fall for this every single time
https://www.facebook.com/KingforCongress/photos/a.169008886506462/3308164285924224/?type=3&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARD-lWjXuqWUBezdEeDUgfq9Bljy7HOuylSXDHjEARH7Cd5XBgxPoXcLynRN0sRegwCm5GxDDU_2WnTRfG9BwzMvqU2TFHh3NDgVn9Oax46MsTJbnrLdybmjL0Y__a_QUEm55epx8OIiaIQqCkPrQd_YYwJrZ02rNmLqvj2ieUC8R_hjvzAk6SuziIzURCVn1mfyDHpHNb7F2UTGCjnveFVll-6rABjPZ4ip-AVree-DbLYnMA4yyBQnvrTijjWtO8vM8dwkLYnEtH3-aWBYSQSnjXaqmPnW3dWQtU-4uxI6D1WCu-WwmxeiYVIDk4fXsUALRJcwzaJoQv4n3_X8lckS8g&__tn__=-R
― frogbs, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
Republicans of conscience are like boy scouts who disdain camping and tying knots. Adoption of that particular identity is at odds with your stated goals/ideology.
― Children Devouring Their Cronuts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
truly astounding (or not at all) that Devin Nunes got busted playing footsie w Lev Parnas, Giuliani et al and Dems are getting backfooted on questions of wrongdoing as to how, exactly, they find out
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
"And who were you listening in on, Mr. Police Officer, when you learned this murder was taking place?"
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
OK so Ukraine, known 2016 election meddlers, is supposed to be the ones that conduct your super important investigation into the Bidens?
― Martialarts Ali (Leee), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
Clearly they know how to get stuff done!
― Children Devouring Their Cronuts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
If somebody dreamt up what T did I think people might just dismiss it as far fetched. It's like an extended Mr magoo cartoon or something. JUst a total bungle that ought to just make him look like an idiot except it has obvious repercussions in terms of real world protocols.What he was looking for initially outside of the visible act of showing that Ukraine were supposed to be going along with things willingly is a total fiction based on a misunderstanding of current information technology.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
Good times
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000016f-1562-d580-a96f-3f66e9950000
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
how long would it take him to write something that long?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
Exclamation points!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
He just yelled at some poor staffer taking dictation for an hour and then a small team turned it into a letter.
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
Charming. I wonder who actually wrote the bulk of the letter before he dipped his dick in fingerpaint and slapped it at random across the pages.
― Children Devouring Their Cronuts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
Again, this is precisely how a normal and functional person proclaims his innocence.
― Children Devouring Their Cronuts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
well it's on the record now.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
you have cheapened the importance of the very ugly phrase, good mourning!
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
and HERE are my tax returns! *flings mud pie*
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
That letter does capture the authentic voice of our president. It is the voice that lives inside his head all day every day. That is such a scary thought that I spend as little time thinking it as I humanly can.
I can't imagine he has read an entire book from start to finish in decades, including those he published under his own name.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
whoever wrote that has a sick, disturbing, and nauseating fetish for triple adjectives
― rob, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
Hey, you know what's maybe the grossest and most offensive thing about that letter? The goddamn POTUS put more effort into drafting a pissy litany of grievances than he has into three cumulative years of governing the fucking country.
― Children Devouring Their Cronuts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
it may not be comforting to imagine effortfulness on his part
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
At the very least it underscores just how much the idea of getting impeached gets under his skin. He could just stay silent (hah) wait until the senate shit is done, then write an in-your-face screed (which he will anyway), but going full-bore like that means he's bristling at getting (another) asterisk attached to his name.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
Does Steele's friendship with Ivanka undermine his credibility? Does t feel this way about any of his daughter's other friends. Is it just jealousy?
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius)
especially on the toilet after another KFC chicken bucket.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
Based on his interviews, correspondence and biographical profiles over the last four decades, All Quiet On The Western Front is either the last book he read, or the only book he has ever read.
― insecurity bear (sic), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
xpost President Porcelaincracker
Yeah yeah, I know, it's definitely a good thing that he's a pathologically lazy and incurious and ineffectual fleshpile. It's just, y'know, a goddamn travesty that someone who fits that description has the entire goddamn country wrapped around his tiny little finger.
― Children Devouring Their Cronuts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
I’d love to see a letter back from Pelosi that reads in its entirety:“Mr. President, it is not the ‘Democrat’ Party. The word is Democratic.Good day, sir.”
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
Memo to Nancy Pelosi. Drop the "Good day, sir." It's petulant. Use "I continue to pray for you every day" instead. He hates that.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
now imagine that thing in an anthology next to
https://s3.amazonaws.com/loa-production-23ffs35gui41a/volumes/images/000/000/452/listing/9781598530537.jpg?1447174672
― j., Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
I've seen more well-composed fourth grade book reports.
― Children Devouring Their Cronuts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
his lie-detector signature is still the best punchline to anything official with his name on it
― rob, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
lol there is no way in all the possible worlds that trump knows what the star chamber is
― j., Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
It's his nickname for "seventh floor bathroom" in the Trump Doral iirc
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
so he's definitely getting impeached tomorrow, correct?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 21:33 (four years ago) link
Oh, it's on.
― henry s, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
Drinks at my place!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
he is definitely getting impeached tomorrow but who even cares at this point. though it's kind of nice to know that he's freaked out about it, despite the practially non-zero chance the senate will do a thing about this.
― akm, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
Why is it journalistic convention to refer to the language in texts like Trump's letter as "scathing"? Doesn't that imply rhetorical effectiveness?
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
the headline I'm seeing is "Trump sends fiery letter to Pelosi" which is just lmao
amazing that after 4 years of this the media either has no clue how to cover Trump or just can't be bothered to do it properly, like the way they constantly write articles that start with "The White House is considering blah blah blah" when its abundantly clear that "we're looking into it" is Trumpspeak for "I have no idea what you're talking about"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
Has there been even one instance in this administration of "we're going to be looking into it" where "it" clearly got looked into?
― henry s, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
they're looking into that
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
― akm, Tuesday, December 17, 2019 4:51 PM bookmarkflaglink
Why are you still of the opinion that there was only a point to impeachment if removal was guaranteed?
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
Why is it journalistic convention... Doesn't that imply rhetorical effectiveness?
The journalistic convention being followed here is that, no matter what, the president must be regarded as as a functioning, capable human being. The Trump they are referring to there not the real Trump, but America's imaginary friend.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
"Trump sends fieryfarty letter to Pelosi"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
I'm not of that opinion.
― akm, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
from the Trump missive:
Your chosen candidate lost the election in 2016, in an Electoral College landslide (306-227)...
...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Cartogram%E2%80%942016_Electoral_Vote.svg/381px-Cartogram%E2%80%942016_Electoral_Vote.svg.png
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 23:08 (four years ago) link
TBF he "won" 306 but there were 2 faithless electors who voted for John Kasich & Ron Paul instead.
― oncle rasélonguebite (crüt), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:51 (four years ago) link
Yes, but by the same rule, Clinton won 232. There's no way he won 306 and she won 227.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
The Dems suck at 'messaging.' It comes from catering to their 'centrist' caucus.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 01:13 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMCB1nPUcAA6XP4.jpg
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 03:00 (four years ago) link