US Politics, December 2019: Profound procedural deficiencies

He just yelled at some poor staffer taking dictation for an hour and then a small team turned it into a letter.

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.

Again, this is precisely how a normal and functional person proclaims his innocence.

well it's on the record now.

you have cheapened the importance of the very ugly phrase, good mourning!

and HERE are my tax returns! *flings mud pie*

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.

whoever wrote that has a sick, disturbing, and nauseating fetish for triple adjectives

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.

it may not be comforting to imagine effortfulness on his part

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.

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?

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)

especially on the toilet after another KFC chicken bucket.

I can't imagine he has read an entire book from start to finish in decades, including those he published under his own name.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

now imagine that thing in an anthology next to

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I've seen more well-composed fourth grade book reports.

his lie-detector signature is still the best punchline to anything official with his name on it

lol there is no way in all the possible worlds that trump knows what the star chamber is

It's his nickname for "seventh floor bathroom" in the Trump Doral iirc

so he's definitely getting impeached tomorrow, correct?

Oh, it's on.

Drinks at my place!

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.

Why is it journalistic convention to refer to the language in texts like Trump's letter as "scathing"? Doesn't that imply rhetorical effectiveness?

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"

Has there been even one instance in this administration of "we're going to be looking into it" where "it" clearly got looked into?

they're looking into that

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, 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?

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.

"Trump sends fieryfarty letter to Pelosi"

I'm not of that opinion.

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

TBF he "won" 306 but there were 2 faithless electors who voted for John Kasich & Ron Paul instead.

Yes, but by the same rule, Clinton won 232. There's no way he won 306 and she won 227.

The Dems suck at 'messaging.' It comes from catering to their 'centrist' caucus.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMCB1nPUcAA6XP4.jpg

the trump letter is honestly pretty good.

More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.

he plays the hits

the trump letter is honestly pretty good.

More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.

he plays the hits

its the most purestrain Trump we've gotten in a while

cousin ashley i am disappoint

The day the Washington Post ran the headline on the left, Bill Clinton’s approval rating was in the 60s, as it had been all year.

The day the Washington Post ran the headlines on the left, Donald Trump’s approval rating was below 50, as it has been every day of his presidency. pic.twitter.com/3HVvytU1yG

— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) December 18, 2019

apples and oranges

If it's ok with Asshole, I'd be OK with the Senate approving Salem Witch Rules for this trial.

Bring back pressing.

NYT:

The accusations, untruths and wayward exclamation points piled up by the paragraph.

Some of the president’s closest advisers were involved in drafting the letter, but they did not include Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel who will play a large role in a Senate trial.

Instead, Eric Ueland, the director of the Office of Legislative Affairs, led the process, with input from Stephen Miller, the president’s top policy adviser, who often scripts many of Mr. Trump’s public remarks.

hey guys, anything going on today in american politics

good morning!

i see what u didn't do there