US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"

Like, Cardin's a decent Senator. I've got no complaints. Go somewhere else and pull that shit.

Utah?

'decent' senators can defend their records, then

Move, bitch

Lol. Damn.

the enemy of the Security State IS my friend

blow everybody's cover everywhere (ie, die, bitches)

hm

Morbs, did you watch I, Tonya or something tonight?

four silent comedy shorts

i've had it with El Spooko's bullshit

is this about Chelsea Manning?

Her beyond awful experiences may or may not make her a good candidate.

She’s not a candidate, she’s a symbol. Glad I don’t live in whatever district she’s running in; that’s gonna be one seriously insufferable campaign. (Yes, I’ll recant if she turns out to be Danica Roem II.)

she's filed for the senate race in MD

Then I know she’s not serious, and I’m all done caring. If she was running for the House I could be convinced she actually wanted to win. But a Senate run is just a grift. She’s no different than Joe Arpaio as far as I’m concerned, just milking a different bunch of suckers.

so many FPs, so little time

She’s no different than Joe Arpaio as far as I’m concerned

http://i11.tinypic.com/53ucxtl.gif

must not be v concerned

My sappy post from earlier made tweeted flesh:

1. I’ve never tweeted before but today felt like a good day to start.

— Gary Lee (@whoisgarylee) January 13, 2018

Also Ronnie Jackson

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-stock-market-won-happy-health-exam-bad-article-1.3751772

vs Woody Johnson

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-london-british-embassy-robert-woody-johnson-battersea-a8157376.html

woody... johnson?

that Gary Lee thing was sweet

The one upside to Chelsea Manning running for office is that it really drives all the transphobic asshats out into the open.

“Inny or outty no inbetweeny,” said the person using the photo of a murder victim to further their political agenda as their profile pic. pic.twitter.com/KPjQKUiJdF

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) January 14, 2018

hmmmm, a symbol, you mean like the neoliberal cop Letterman just interviewed

This guy?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_cJ2yAvNHFE/movieposter.jpg

with that belt buckle no wonder Clooney's breathless

republicans control the entire government. whatever 'bad things' happen are their fault. even johnny and brenda redneck get that

― reggie (qualmsley)

wishful thinking sir

Yeah, I still don't get that. If the GOP has a bill they want passed to keep the government open, and they need a few Dem votes, and the Dems refuse to sign on to it in the necessary numbers, then that's totally on the Dems. They just need to own it and be righteous about it to win the message war, like they did with taxes (to some extent), where the GOP got a win that was also a potential loss. Some Dem needs to come right out and say the bill is a piece of shit, we were almost there until these assholes fucked it up, and until they get their shit together we refuse to play ball. They need to stress again and again (if a shutdown looms or hits) that the GOP is being derelict and irresponsible and that as soon as they step up and work together the Dems will move forward with them (whether or not they actually do).

Was thinking about Oprah this morning, and how awesome it would be if instead of focusing on president she instead launched a huge registration and GOTV effort, backed by her money, public appearances, personality push. If she can help further mobilize women and people of color - to register, to vote, to run for office - the country would be better off. And she could still run, if she wanted to.

republicans need democratic votes because of the idiotic 2011 sequester. trump can lower his defense spending request and meet the budget cap. that's not on the democrats

Well, sure. And the GOP could adopt every tenet of the Dem platform and get every single Dem vote. The party in power tries to set the agenda, it's up to the minority party to decide if they want to go along or not.

Refresh my memory, but did the Republicans pay a political price for forcing a government shutdown in 2013? No, right?

nope

just last month the GOP rammed through a $1,000,000,000,000,000+ tax cut for their donors (popular with 25% of the general public) and are now they're whining that they can't pass a budget without democratic cooperation. fuck them. shut er down

That's what I say! And the Dems should take proud credit for highlighting GOP incompetence and malfeasance.

just played WSOP online with a dude named "Trump". he accumulated a fortune by chance early on, spent most of the match trying to protect that fortune, then he ran away when it got hard.

DACA is probably dead because the Democrats don’t really want it, they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our Military.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 14, 2018

god i hate this fucker

you could always leave the corporate income tax rate alone and fund the military to your heart's content, baldy

does anyone really believe we are at risk because we don't spend enough $$ on the military jeesh

tens of millions of gaslit "conservatives"

$1,000,000,000,000,000+ tax cut

point taken. but you lost count of your zeroes. quite understandably.

just last month the GOP rammed through a $1,000,000,000,000,000+ tax cut for their donors (popular with 25% of the general public) and are now they're whining that they can't pass a budget without democratic cooperation.

don't forget that the tax bill required only 50 votes in the senate (via "budget reconcilation" process, whereas the federal budget vote requires 60. they did not need democratic cooperation to pass the tax bill. they do need democratic cooperation to pass a budget.

dems should say: "raise the upper bracket income tax to eisenhower levels and we won't need to filibuster your bullshit budget"

we're pretty much fucked anyways if we don't arrest this slide toward feudalism

humans have had a good run, time to give the earth back to more mystical creatures like centaurs and manticores

the overton window ain't gonna move itself

just last month the GOP rammed through a $1,000,000,000,000,000+ tax cut for their donors (popular with 25% of the general public) and are now they're whining that they can't pass a budget without democratic cooperation.

don't forget that the tax bill required only 50 votes in the senate (via "budget reconcilation" process, whereas the federal budget vote requires 60. they did not need democratic cooperation to pass the tax bill. they do need democratic cooperation to pass a budget.

― Karl Malone

in a sense, they did need democratic cooperation to pass the bill through budget reconciliation because they were just copying a move the democrats came up with to pass the aca! it was clever when the democrats did it. the republicans are too stupid to come up with anything like that on their own.

this is what happens when your political party crowdsources their opinions: https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-senator-now-says-trump-not-use-word-160807678.html

several days later, GOP shitheel perdue is pulling the old "no YOU'RE the liar, no backsies" routine on shitholegate

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/us/politics/david-perdue-trump-shithole.html

WASHINGTON — A Republican senator who attended a Thursday immigration meeting at the White House forcefully denied on Sunday that President Trump had used the phrase “shithole countries” in describing Haiti and African nations, saying a Democratic senator’s account of the session was “a gross misrepresentation.”

Senator David Perdue, Republican of Georgia, said on ABC’s “This Week” that Mr. Trump “did not use that word,” and accused Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, of distorting what the president had said at the meeting, which included more than a half-dozen lawmakers.

Senator Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, joined Mr. Perdue later in the morning in questioning Mr. Durbin.

“I didn’t hear that word either,” he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “And I was sitting no further away from Donald Trump than Dick Durbin was.”

Mr. Cotton said Mr. Durbin “has a history of misrepresenting what happens in White House meetings,” a comment that Mr. Perdue echoed in his interview Sunday morning.

Ben Marter, a spokesman for Mr. Durbin, immediately attacked their assertions.

“Credibility is something that’s built by being consistently honest over time,” Mr. Marter wrote on Twitter. “Senator Durbin has it. Senator Perdue does not. Ask anyone who’s dealt with both.”

whoops, same time

there is no worse human being on the planet than a GOP Senator. well, ok....other than a GOP Speaker of the House

god, i fucking knew this would happen. i knew they'd just deny that it happened. it doesn't matter that durbin said it happened, that graham said the washPo's account was basically accurate, and that the WH didn't deny that the words were spoken. now there are multiple people in the room who say that it didn't, and that is more than enough for the right wing to support a revised alternate universe where the liberal media and democrats are lying.

i expected it from the get-go. just came later than I thought it would.

After firing an aid for not focusing on taking down Hillary, Trey Gowdy was sued for 50,000. Gowdy paid him off with taxpayer funds.

Now, Gowdy is resigning from the House Ethics Committee.https://t.co/FA7kcbh1kx

— Victor Stoddard (@VicStoddard) January 13, 2018

for whom does the ben ghazi, it ghazi's for thee