US Politics, December 2019: Profound procedural deficiencies

this has been my shtick here forever, but you white people never listen -- you must always be hugged.

3 years of this indicates there are no minds that can be changed. This is all theater for the benefit of historians.

I suppose historians could write that the Fox News demographic were committed to nursing homes, and younger, more diverse, and less religious demographics started voting in higher proportions as they entered their 30s and 40s; and that will probably be closer to the real story. But ideological debate makes for a better narrative, and the textbook sidebar will note the moral bankruptcy of the "drown it in the bathtub" partisans hit an apex in their defense of Trump.

gonna be hard to write all that on a slab of stone with a makeshift chisel while the mutants pursue you over the fallout stunted landscape but maybe that's just a skill future historians are gonna have to pick up.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-majority-approve-trumps-impeachment-201802352.html

just one poll, so could be an outlier, and shouldn't overreact to it. but shows that public opinion is still gravitating towards supporting impeachment AND removal. curious to see what other follow-up polls say. this is the first post-impeachment poll that has surfaced

a new poll from Politico and Morning Consult shows a majority of respondents supporting the articles of impeachment, Trump's impeachment and his removal from office.

Which is why forcing the Senate Republicans to publically vote on articles of impeachment has always been a good idea, even if we know in advance the bastards will all vote to acquit him. Make those shitheels stand up and say that Trump's egregious misconduct in office doesn't faze them a bit and let the public decide what that means about their own ethical standards and conduct in office.

good morning!!

and a good morning to you, too!

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

(The more I watch this ad, the more disturbing it seems. Those kids could've absolutely destroyed that house and these two would've had no idea until that coffee-maker timer kicked in. Anyway, good morning!)

as long as we're having this conversation
https://www.gq.com/story/folgers-incest-ad-oral-history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQk_pWmisA
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Folgers%20%22Home%20for%20the%20Holidays%22%20Commercial/works

Timothy Simons (cameraman for auditions and callbacks): This was a very long time ago and if you asked me if I would end up being interviewed about this commercial that I worked on, 10 years later, I would not have believed you, because it was altogether pretty unremarkable. It’s not something I have a lot of memories about, outside of the fact that ultimately the commercial kind of seems like the brother and sister are going to have sex. That’s why we’re talking, right?

wow, that was.... something

Actually all of the Folgers ads are something

Also, do we have any theories on what Peter brought her? Or maybe it doesn't matter because ... Peter is the present after all, etc.

the comedy central "extended version" has it as an engagement ring

Lads! There's already another whole thread for this ad.

lol, we independently pulled the same quote

WASHINGTON — About 90 minutes after President Trump held a controversial telephone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in July, the White House budget office ordered the Pentagon to suspend all military aid that Congress had allocated to Ukraine, according to emails released by the Pentagon late Friday.

A budget official, Michael Duffey, also told the Pentagon to keep quiet about the aid freeze because of the “sensitive nature of the request,” according to a message dated July 25.

wow, what an enormous coincidence! OH WELL, gotta hold out for solid proof of wrongdoing!!!

oh great there's a new wave of liberal McCain love in my FB feed today

not even death can kill it

unfollowing is the only way

what did McCain do now?

he reached across the aisle to work out a bipartisan compromise with heaven

get it? because he's in hell. that's where he went after he died because he was bad.

haven't checked Morbs' FB feed but he prominently features (over swelling "important stuff" music?) at the end of The Report.

I think it's just that he posthumously supports impeachment

“I never understood wind. I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody. I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany mostly, very few made here, almost none, but they are manufactured, tremendous — if you are into this — tremendous fumes and gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right?”

“So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint, fumes are spewing into the air, right spewing, whether it is China or Germany, is going into the air.”

“A windmill will kill many bald eagles. After a certain number, they make you turn the windmill off, that is true. By the way, they make you turn it off. And yet, if you killed one, they put you in jail. That is OK. But why is it OK for windmills to destroy the bird population?”

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-attacks-windmills-in-speech-to-conservative-group-i-never-understood-wind/

I see this was posted in the general Trump thread

I assume he started calling Melania “Dulcinea” after this?

Pretty coherent speech for a Turning Point event.

I tangented at the Mediaite link to laughing at the Vogue editors' humble brag, product placement Xmas destinations and the Twitter responses to same. Well done, thread.

"You know we have a world, right?" for January thread title

On Instagram, we learn President Trump welcomed Eddie Gallagher, who posed for photographs with a prisoner's corpse, to Mar-a-Lago last night. pic.twitter.com/AVFVmQJ8VL

— David Gura (@davidgura) December 22, 2019

this is the dude whose own unit had to tamper with his scope because he loved shooting civilians so much

The best people

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/a-conversation-with-rudy-giuliani-over-bloody-marys.html?fbclid=IwAR2vfBZg84xlJQzc8Oa7YwEe2TK2AuuKR2ZQJssqTuahRAx9goj3aaIBuL8

seriously, this is a darkly hilarious piece that seems like it couldn't possibly be true

The whole thing is a pull quote

The brain worms are contagious.

fbclid=IwAR2vfBZg84xlJQzc8Oa7YwEe2TK2AuuKR2ZQJssqTuahRAx9goj3aaIBuL8

^^January Title

Guiliani piece is wild and great. Where are these anarchist District Attorneys supposedly installed?

we meet in my basement on thursday evenings, revolution tentatively scheduled for third week of feb 2020

I could see how a conservative idiot would consider it anarchy that Chesa Boudin doesn't want to jail the homeless for their lack of bathroom access.

I just got off the phone with Rudy Giuliani, who decided to call me to yell at me after he read “five paragraphs” of my story. He told me, “it’s useless to talk to you. You’re a lost cause.” He then talked to me for another six minutes and said he’d go read the rest of the story. https://t.co/Kbyh5HFuaJ

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) December 23, 2019

hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

There's a sick part of me that wants to ask around for his number, just to see what I could get him to admit via a couple coyly worded texts. But that just doesn't seem fair

do it and be a legend

he reached across the aisle to work out a bipartisan compromise with heaven

― peloton for the painfully alone (m bison)

solid irl LOL, thanking u sir

re: the latest dumb trump thing he said about there being wind turbines and how he has studied them very much and there being a world and fumes, I found myself surprised that he didn’t bring up birds, which is usually the central point of bird lovers who are against renewable energy. Turns out that he did cover this important issue:

“A windmill will kill many bald eagles,” Trump said. “After a certain number, they make you turn the windmill off, that is true. By the way, they make you turn it off. And yet, if you killed one, they put you in jail. That is OK. But why is it OK for windmills to destroy the bird population?”

looking forward to him advocating tearing down buildings, which kill more birds than wind turbines.

more likely: a long screed complaining about nyc's proposed requirements for bird-dissuading glass on new buildings

buildings are fine, because they are held up by walls

And cats kill more birds than windows and windmills combined! Announcing the War On Cats!

brb, i gotta go turn the windmill off

careful, you will stop the wind if you do that