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

Off to Impeachment-land we go!

At some point, I’m going to sit down, perhaps as a fireside chat on live television, and I will air the tape and allow the American people to decide for themselves whether I was being 'peed on'.

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has this bimbo ever told the truth?

Having called around some, reassured in my judgment that those House Republicans open to voting for impeachment simply decided to stick with the party yesterday, and to save their dissent for the real vote. No point telegraphing the jail break to the prison guards ahead of time.

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 1, 2019

His moron logic makes no sense. Republicans on deep background share their disagreements with the president, but publicly vote to support him. Again on deep background they claim they really do disagree with him, but claim next time they might not vote to support him. Sure. Fool me once ...

I am sure the transcript will not have been altered with a Sharpie

Or a Shar-pee

Just as the dog who totally did not pee on the President was not a shar-pei

All I can say is that if the President goes on the radio, urine for a surprise

I had a dream last night that Trump died of massive organ failure in American Samoa. The big news item was the fight over the body — the Samoans insisted he had to be buried there immediately.

Imagine my disappointment when I woke up to find he’s still alive.

I'm sure his organ often fails but I'm equally sure that it's far from massive.

ted cruz has... i dunno, i guess you could call them 'thoughts' in the broadest possible sense of the word

Hmm. Only 169 retweets. It’s almost like the 3.4M people who chose to follow this account never saw this particular tweet.... Wonder why? https://t.co/p1VdOKqxAK

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 31, 2019

thought immediately of the @dril tweet that was like "my impressions are down! I'm fucked!!" and was glad to see it in the replies

i think some of these politicians think that just because they put it on twitter, the entire universe should be seeing or hearing about it.

Check yr mailbox, Ted, I just shot one of these your way

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xp well everyone else thinks that too, so it's nice to feel reflected in the leadership of the country

dang I wish the concept of shadowbanning had existed when I had to run social media accounts for work

Aaaand they just did it *again.*

They brought us into session this morning, saw all the Dems were there, so they called a recess,

then another,

then another,

then another,

then another,

and every time we came back all the Dems were there.

So they cancelled the vote.

— Sen. Jeff Jackson (@JeffJacksonNC) October 31, 2019

lmao at these people crying about the process

every kid who reached over and hit the reset button on the N64 when they were losing at Goldeneye is now a Republican

What, are you just supposed to accept that any aspect of the known universe might not be operating in your particular favor at a given moment? Absurd!

Kristol is terrible, but?

I'll go with Bill's call. https://t.co/TEBm0HCV5n

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) November 1, 2019

Bullshit, maybe they'll get like two votes. The GOP is bat shit.

brave GOP congressmen who anonymously complain about Trump and publicly support everything he does will one day have a memorial on the DC mall

this is going to be straight party line votes all down the line - with maybe a couple vulnerable GOP Senators defecting (to no avail)

always bears repeating that Kristol is a fucking idiot who should be in jail for his role in the Iraq War

XPS Memorial in the shape of a giant waffle.

Re: Bill Kristol's nonsense. If House Republicans can't muster the courage and integrity to vote in favor of examining the evidence to determine whether the president committed an egregious abuse of power, then there's no reason on earth to think any of them will suddenly acquire courage and integrity when the evidence proves he did commit a high crime.

should also be noted that the subset "House Republicans open to voting for impeachment" is probably like 5 people

What vote was cancelled? re: Jackson's tweet

NC veto override

Ah yes of course

Revealed: Trump wanted to build a mega-church. His spiritual advisor and friend, @Paula_White, told me it was "dream" of @realDonaldTrump -- and they still might do it! https://t.co/6LOgcnMzSe pic.twitter.com/O7XzQXqYF0

— Paul Bedard (@SecretsBedard) November 1, 2019

surely that's supposed to read maga-church

Finding Trump Over Trials

I'd think it would be difficult to believe in a god who takes such a light touch with the living, breathing embodiment of blasphemy.

their god is money

head like a hole

Bullshit, maybe they'll get like two votes. The GOP is bat shit.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, November 1, 2019 12:07 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i don't think they'll even get 2 (unless you count that independent libertarian guy). they'll get will hurd and that's it.

Amash will vote for it

of course he's no longer GOP, as you note

I have little doubt that Trump's "dream of building a mega-church" rests largely on his knowledge of how lucrative they can be.

He wants to go to superHeaven, where they get the ape channel

A Donald Trump fireside chat would be De Niro's talk show from CASINO, to the 10th power. This needs to happen. And it can't be a one-off. We need Fox News to give him 90 minutes a night if he wants it - sitting in that bizarre defecatory posture in the Oval Office, sniffing like someone stuffed steel wool into his nostrils, squinting at the camera because he's too vain to wear his glasses...

Halloween was yesterday, ain't gotta give me nightmares today

Speaking of Fireside Chats, when did Presidents stop doing weekly radio addresses? I remember hearing recaps on weekend news at least through Clinton and maybe some of W.

Great costumes! Thomas, #OutOfTheWill! https://t.co/ta6aJqfYq3

— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 31, 2019

Donald Trump continued the weekly video address for the first nine months of his administration, after which he put the address on hiatus.[2] He later released occasional "weekly" addresses before discontinuing the tradition entirely in June of 2018

DJTJ and his Fox News gf went as a hunter and a witch, respectively.

XP Thanks!

I have little doubt that Trump's "dream of building a mega-church" rests largely on his knowledge of how lucrative they can be.

― A is for (Aimless), Friday, November 1, 2019 12:47 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Of course, it's literally the only reason he would even consider it.

Tax Exemptions too

i'd honestly be curious to see how he'd manage to make that hemorrhage money.

read a pretty convincing argument that Trump literally does not know what "quid pro quo" is which is why he talks about it in such bizarre terms

clearly he doesn't understand what a "witch hunt" is either

he's best pals with the falwell mega church empire, of course it's all about money

good afternoon!

where's the tax returns?

where's the tax returns?

― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, November 27, 2019 8:17 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

At least something is right in this world.

lol @ capn save-a-SEALs in this thread wtf

People Democrats Love

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2019

i just

is that Rutger Hauer

lol wtf

How old were you that time when Trump beat Obama in that election that never happened?pic.twitter.com/uyVCtb4iwS

— Covfefe Jones- King Of Shade👑 (@King_Of_Shade) November 27, 2019

Like part of me recognizes that we need to burn this era into our brains and never forget how far we've fallen but there's definitely another part that just wants to see the entire Trump tenure get the full Akhenaten treatment.

If you feel like you can’t be surprised by the depths that ICE will go to in order to fuck with people, well: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/11/27/ice-arrested-250-foreign-students-fake-university-metro-detroit/4277686002/

Seriously every sentence makes this more insane and evil.

Disgusting

your tax dollars at work

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tower-financial-fraud-lenders-propublica-2019-11

If you feel like you can’t be surprised by the depths that ICE will go to in order to fuck with people, well: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/11/27/ice-arrested-250-foreign-students-fake-university-metro-detroit/4277686002/

Seriously every sentence makes this more insane and evil.

― JoeStork, Wednesday, November 27, 2019 11:07 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

"Records filed with the state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) show that the University of Farmington was incorporated in January 2016."

also

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/nyregion/students-at-fake-university-say-they-were-collateral-damage-in-sting-operation.html

i.e. this sting is an obama-era innovation

Oh then I love it.

just saw our President is waging a war against the War on Thanksgiving! This is why he is the chosen one in case you libs were wondering .

I eagerly await the conservatives exposing the dastardly Wars on New Year's Day, Valentines Day, St. Patrick's Day, May Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Halloween, and Veteran's Day!

I was pretty disgusted by the university sting until I read later in the article that the students had continued to pay despite there being no staff and no classes, i.e. they were enrolled for the visa status and not to learn anything.

up on top: disgusting clown dancing around honking a bicycyle horn, projectile shitting onto anything in range of his mouth

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down underneath: people getting herded up and detained and deported, second- and third-world countries paying into a protection racket

it's really amazing to me that no one has yet shot this guy

Tighten it up, deep state

this seems like it would be a big deal, but a lot of things do now

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/giuliani-was-in-talks-to-be-paid-by-ukraines-top-prosecutor-as-they-together-sought-damaging-information-on-democrats/2019/11/27/636c3e86-112d-11ea-b0fc-62cc38411ebb_story.html?tid=sm_fb

@ MatthewK - read it again. that was SOME of the students. and ALL of them were lured under false pretenses and fucking paid the government tuition and fees. like.... they could have gone to an actual real college, and gotten educated, and not been prosecuted and deported for the crime of ...being defrauded by the US government. and I don't actually care about the ones that hung around after it was clear something was fishy - why are they the villains here?

At best it was entrapment.

yeah it's pretty disgusting however you slice it

Not enough record scratches for today

Three women, named and on the record, accuse Sondland of sexual misconduct. https://t.co/EbYZMZcNsK

— Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) November 27, 2019

not even remotely surprised by that

I'm willing to accept that it's real because Trump and his dipshit goons would never think to make something like that up, or be capable of recruiting women to come at the guy.

Report indicates this was all before he was an ambassador and just a hotel business goon.

now just an ambassador goon

now just an ambassador goon

doesn't really matter. hist testimony didn't hinge on his character being impeccable.

it matters to the women, but not to his testimony

More corroboration of the other day's rumors.

Granted I will be more secure when it comes out. Expect Trump to drag the lawyer who might be charged through the mud on Twitter

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/472313-justice-review-of-russia-probe-to-find-no-spying-by-fbi-ny-times

deep state cover up. AG Barr will be sure to set the record straight with a devastating summary of the attempted coup

I actually don't understand that ICE fake university program. What is it supposed to accomplish? Discouraging international student visa fraud?? It seems like a frankly bizarre way to target that problem.

My first choice in 2016. I don't regret it.

Martin O’Malley just drove Ken Cuccinelli out of the Dubliner in DC w/ a passion-laced and shame-invoking tirade on behalf of immigrant refugee children!!!

— Siobhan Houton Arnold (@siobhanphilly) November 27, 2019

Lol the Dubliner

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2019

Sorry, I'm ridiculously late.

'ctrl + f rocky' was not enough.

worth a second look imo hubba hubba

Great White Hope? or Big White Stiff?

Time for a new one?

I suppose "The President of Ukraine has just again announced that President Trump has done nothing wrong" is too long for the title?

gotta be “i want nothing”

US Politics, December 2019: Profound procedural deficiencies

Feels like it's occasionally worth remembering/pointing out that the president who decries partisanism at every turn is the same president who has painted everyone outside of his own party as an enemy of America.

Ooops, wrong tread.

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