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

Could be. We didn't really stop to check.

how could they distinguish the garbage truck from GOP members

ah there it is again - the queasy, vertiginous feeling that reality is being orchestrated by writers of terrible, obvious satire

Was the garbage truck on fire?

some reports saying everyone is fine, some saying someone is dead.

twats on twitter calling it false flag, for some reason

gowdy not running for reelection

There is a time to come and a time to go. This is the right time, for me, to leave politics and return to the justice system. Full statement here → pic.twitter.com/7I8AApqvs1

— Trey Gowdy (@TGowdySC) January 31, 2018

some reports saying everyone is fine, some saying someone is dead.

― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, January 31, 2018 9:10 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the former comes from the GOP, the latter from the civilian authorities maybe?

Wonder what story about Gowdy is about to break xpost

The book of Ecclesiastes teaches us there is a time and a season for all things

p sure that was the Byrds, dude

DEVELOPING: Train carrying GOP lawmakers to retreat collides with trash truck https://t.co/l1iAPNzniZ pic.twitter.com/E8YsuJV1uV

— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 31, 2018

gowdy did 9/11 xp

On the day of the blue-blood eclipse, the GOP train literally collides with a trash truck.

msnbc says one killed (and paul ryan unhurt)

I wonder what connection the truck drivers had to Clinton

There is a time to come and a time to go. This is the right time, for me, to leave politics and return to the justice system.

I would like a lot more of them to return to the justice system, but probably not in the way he means.

Or maybe ... he's going to become the new AG. Or deputy AG. Or Head of the FBI.

I understand the CDC is in need of a director who's willing to demonstrate an intransigent lack of concern toward the control of diseases.

What does thing bring the count to now? Of scaredy-cats?

if Gowdy becomes AG or head of FBI I’m going to vomit

that's true for me if he becomes anything other than "dead in a gasoline fire"

sounds like he is going to serve out his term though

and a second one

he's apparently joining the newly created position "Lead Benghazi Inquisitor"

Paul Ryan was on the train apparently.

Unfortunately, he's ok.

or at least, as ok as he was before.

That, but mainly (for me) the whole needless antagonizing thing

― Simon H., Wednesday, January 31, 2018 2:38 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm not sure I buy that antagonism of Russia or NK is "needless"

one's systematically & brazenly undermining representative democracies everywhere and the other is waving nukes around after two decades of the planet begging them not to seek nukes

sanctions won't make progress towards resolving these problems, but neither does pretending they don't exist. nor are they irrevocably war prelude.

fuckin idk

this timeline sucks

Feds will not retry Bob Menendez

if there really must be nukes in this world, N Korea should have some (as should Iran). but that's a debate for another thread lol

A seat on the Fourth Circuit Court, which covers South Carolina, became vacant just yesterday, and the current U.S. attorney in South Carolina is serving in an interim role

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/another-gop-chairman-to-retire-trey-gowdy-announces-hes-out

That's an insane opinion, Simon...

xp no nukes for iran

I've been after Sanders for not offering a different fp vision, but careful what you wish for, I guess. Yikes...

was russia "needlessly antagonizing" us when they fucked w/ our election? yeesh.

xp

iran's brand of revolutionary islam is extremely oppressive and shitty, and they really are supporters of terrorism

allowing them nukes would just prop up the current shitty regime and embolden them to build regional power, export their brand of islam, etc

not cool.

(I don't think anyone should be handing out nukes or advocating for them - disarmament all the way. I just don't like the USA having a monopoly on or outsized comparative capacity for force.)

the USA aren't supporters of terrorism? gimme a break.

Well well. The FBI has formally gone all out:

BREAKING: FBI on The Memo "we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.” pic.twitter.com/ZAGWmu9o9o

— Ryan J. Reilly 🦅 (@ryanjreilly) January 31, 2018

(I don't think anyone should be handing out nukes or advocating for them - disarmament all the way. I just don't like the USA having a monopoly on or outsized comparative capacity for force.)

― Simon H., Wednesday, January 31, 2018 6:31 PM (one minute ago)

yeah cuz the world sure did get notably safer when the soviets got nuclear weapons, didn't it?

the USA may or may not be supporters of terrorism but why would you want more int'l supporters of terrorism?

they are, and I don't want that, but an iran with nukes seems less likely to me to get nuked by the US at some point down the line than one that doesn't, and I'd much prefer no one got nuked tbh

Iran is in a different league of terrorist supporter than the US, more comparable to the Saudis, and no, the Saudis should not have nukes either. Which they absolutely would get if Iran got them.

But there is in fact a thread for these types of questions, which is mostly used to discuss kleptocracy every half a year or so, but could def use a bump.

xp well i am not sure i agree w/ that and besides i think there are more effective ways to keep iran from being nuked w/ less unhappy side effects

I'm open to persuasion, and yeah if there's another thread we can def go there but my searches turned up nothing definitive

America needs a new foreign policy

If we were all implanted with subcutaneous nukes at birth then no one would use nukes because if they did it would be a chain reaction of little nuclear explosions that would mutually-assured destroy all of us.

Simon, the most likely cause of nuclear war always has been and always will be tragic mistake or systems malfunction, the more countries have nukes the more likely that becomes

Re Trey Gowdy: the Hill article I read said that a judicial seat in the 4th Circuit court opened up the day before his announcement, so maybe that's his plan.

ums I replied to you in the other thread

in conclusion, Grey Towdy

bengowdy :(