US Politics, February 2020. They want to kill your cows.

I guess Pelosi's political genius has peaked

the rest of the article goes on to say that the gop is more popular than it's been since 2005, it's very encouraging

I maintain my belief that a disproportionate number of people just want to be dead and are willing to do whatever they can to hasten that without having to take any direct + immediate action toward that end.

i still take 538's word for this, which shows his approval ticking upward but he's still around 43-44%

which fwiw is higher than he’s been since winter of 2017

Yea, never overreact to one poll. Gallup also skews right, though 49% is much higher than he's been in a while.

Also Trump has had several temporary bumps that never last, much as his dips don't last

Also the poll ran from 1/16 - 1/29. Polls ran only last week by other pollsters look quite diff

I think the lesson here is that if he reins it in just a touch and tries flying under the radar just a little bit (as he seems to have done at least since the impeachment trial started, at least relative to his usual tack of cranking it to eleven), he doesn't tend to stoke quite as much fervent hatred among his constituents. Thankfully, Trump has never met a lesson that he didn't stubbornly flip off.

Wait til he either debates or refuses to debate

I wish the fact that he's consistently his own worst enemy actually mattered. He could've come into office, put his head down, been an incurious bag of shit in relative privacy, and probably coasted to an easy second term. Instead, he spends four years being an amalgam of every intolerable human quality every single goddamn day and...isn't exactly a shut-out wrt reelection.

It's pretty depressing having the few ppl I know who are ""independents"" say "yeah Trump is obv a dumb piece of shit...but my 401k has been doing well"

Somebody kidnap all mutual fund managers for ten months

After much deliberation, I have decided that I will not use my presence at a state ceremony to normalize Trump’s lawless conduct & subversion of the Constitution.

None of this is normal, and I will not legitimize it.

Consequently, I will not be attending the State of the Union.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 4, 2020

good. she's awesome.

good decision. the right is going to lose their minds

of course, the proper way to register opposition to the president is to attend and shout "YOU LIE!" in the middle of the proceedings

aoc otm imo fwiw

Massive booing through the whole speech would be pretty cool.

aoc fucking rules

I'm thrilled she's not going, but not in a million years would I click and read the replies to that tweet.

Wise decision

how many times will OG say "socialism" tonight?

there's got to be at least a 50% chance that he has an utter brain meltdown and let's the speech devolve into nothing but ad libbed inanity

The other scenario is that he monotones his way through it like he's being forced to stay on message

Pressley out too:

Ayanna Pressley is boycotting SOTU pic.twitter.com/GknxipIgru

— Alana Abramson (@aabramson) February 4, 2020

Meanwhile, the Democrats' guests include Jamal Khashoggi's fiancee and one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims.

There's at least one other person blowing it off, but I can't remember who.

oh, you're probably thinking of people itt who will be proud to not watch this tonight. way more than one

as a true patriot i plan on facing the other way from the screen as the president talks

i, on the other hand, will finish a job interview, fix myself a manhattan and get ready to hatewatch

i’m going to see poppy

i mean, he's dead, so

sotu = shit on the union

don't look, at the pulpit
i excreted something, awfulonit

i'm really into the song puns today, what else do we got

I would bet Tlaib isn't showing up either

Tlaib of all people should be loudly disrupting the speech.

GET HER OUT OF HERE, OUT OUT GET HER OUT

I am now going to rewatch George Cukor's classic Holiday with Grant and Hepburn

okay it’s on me for turning it on but tf is this “freedom unifies the soul” nonsense

First headline I came across, from CNN: 'Will Trump gloat tonight? Dems are in chaos and he's about to be acquitted'

Am I wrong for feeling that pretty much every ''''journalist'''' with a nationwide reach needs to be immediately jettisoned into the airless vacuum of space, if only to encourage the prospective journalists of the future to think twice about being useless muckraking douchenozzles whose only apparent goal is to spray gasoline on the last smoldering remnants of civil society?

otm

yep.

otm

the only moment worth remembering is Pelosi ripping up the speech at the end

the extent to which journalists cover politics like they're sportswriters is so fucking disgusting

the anger seemed to be leaking out of her pores

not surprisingly, Fox is one of the few networks that is only focusing on Trump's handshake snub and pretending the 'rip' didn't happen

disgusting

otm, but the business side of journalism will always rewards this behavior. it is simple to produce in large quantities, attracts a good sized audience of sensation seekers who don't want to think hard about politics, and is a low risk for alienating advertisers.

Just absolutely neurologically tip-top. The healthiest president in history.

"He direderd the December dersalt" pic.twitter.com/wZ0Dy5OsCR

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 5, 2020

he's just old

pelosi is that old, she fucks up in the same ways all the time.

they're all fucking old

generally, you don't get to be a leader in this country unless you're about to die. you peak in power and then you make no sense and die

I try and bail out

never forget

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-time-donald-trump-turned-away-in-disgust-while-a-man-bled-to-death-in-front-of-him

What happens is, these 10 Marines from the back of the room… they come running forward, they grab him, they put the blood all over the place—it’s all over their uniforms—they’re taking it, they’re swiping it

Mike Huckabee says Trump "could personally sick the virus out of every one of the 60,000 people in the world, suck it out of their lungs, swim to the bottom of the ocean and spit it out, and he would be accused of pollution for messing up the ocean." pic.twitter.com/X7xbC5ebDz

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 28, 2020

now we know who was hugging and kissing Trump

someone tell Trump the bottom of the Pacific Ocean smells like coronavirus vaccine

someone tell Trump the bottom of the ocean is made out of well-done steak

Put ketchup bottles down there too

The real world version of the Joker, like the dude in the high-security psychiatric hospital who fancies himself a stand-up comic but actually just sounds fucking batshit all the time, that's Huckabee. What a lugnut.

Also let's just say it in case it needs to be vocalized: yes, Donald Trump, as the POTUS the fucking buck stops with you, you sniveling little bitch.

it's a public responsibility this guy's in office. "the market" always crashes when republicans have the white house. how can enough people keep pretending not to notice that?

I see that you wrote a post, and I understand what you're saying and nod my head vigorously in agreement while I'm reading it, but once I've reached the end I forget what I've just read and start chanting 'Trump! Trump! Trump!' It's weird!

life is weird

Jesus loves the little children
Just not yours
Fuck their feelings

Good news, everyone!

WaPo: Trump officials discuss tax cuts, other emergency measures in hopes of tackling coronavirus fallout

Trickle down vaccines

Maybe next time don’t vote for Iran sanctions, the “humanitarian” exemption was always bullshit as any anti-war activist could have told you. Sanctions are designed to kill and here, again, this is what they’ve done. https://t.co/kqTSGbLZqd

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) February 28, 2020

oooh burn

Anti-war activists often consulted before votes in the Senate

they will be when we perfect this thing

Anti-war activists often consulted before votes in the Senate

... maybe that's the problem?

WATCH: President Trump encourages South Carolina Republicans to vote for a Democratic presidential candidate in tomorrow's open primary.

He takes a poll: "Who the hell is easier to beat? Crazy Bernie or Sleepy Joe?" The crowd cheers.

"I don't know. I think Crazy Bernie has it." pic.twitter.com/hC1dD5IwRt

— Nicole Sganga (@NicoleSganga) February 29, 2020

Trump trying to bring the conversation back to himself as usual

US Politics, March 2020 — There’s a very good chance you’re not going to die.