US Politics December 2018: ~very legal and very cool~

TBF, isn't kicking the can down the road like conservatism 101?

W famously told an aide "I'll be gone"

Now you see why he put the city's war room in the World Trade Center? https://t.co/19kKLOMeJ5

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) December 5, 2018

Somebody redid the Person of the year Trump cover of Time as Arsehole of the year.
One where he's seated in a cinema chair or whatever. Turning to face you, chair facing away from you.
So i think it's been circulating as a meme.

Ahh, okay. So then the great-grandpas of the world are forwarding it to one another and mistaking it for an actual magazine cover, makes sense.

what is it about boomer brains specifically that has made them so susceptible to crumbling like feta cheese when exposed to social media

> Twitter allowed someone to invade my text with a disgusting anti-President message.

wow, this makes me wonder what kind of security expert he is

Which was Trump's fake Time cover? Was it the original of that one anyway. I just remembered there was some scandal about him having a framed fake Time cover up in a couple of places a couple of years ago.
Would make it funnier possibly if Giuliani hadn't recognised the history of that one.

Trump otm

tbh making anything that looks like a link into a link is a bad design choice that mostly exists to baffle grandpas

I applied for one of those anti-Trump cards but I hear they're harder to get than blue checkmarks

really not looking forward to the MSM slobbering all over Trump cuz he managed to sit through an entire funeral without shitting his big boy pants

oh god totally

he didn't wear his glittery party hat or anything, it's truly the day he becomes presient

DEVELOPING: After election losses, Republicans in Wisconsin Senate push through bill just before sunrise that is designed to empower the GOP-controlled Legislature and weaken the Democrat replacing the outgoing Republican governor; Assembly vote to come. https://t.co/x69Dat25Gu

— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 5, 2018

one last fuck you from scott walker, what a shitheel

fucking disgusting

oh sweet!

In one concession, Republicans backed away from giving the Legislature the power to sidestep the attorney general and appoint their own attorney when state laws are challenged in court. An amendment to do away with that provision was part of a Republican rewrite of the bill, made public around 4:30 a.m. after all-night negotiations.

see, they're willing to reach across the aisle, what's the big deal

Is there a particular address in WI where we can send torches and pitchforks, or are there maybe like drop-off bins at the border?

Can we throw together a covert op to kidnap Scott Walker until the new governor is seated so he can't sign any of this?

if anyone has access to an orbital railgun platform, the address of the governer's mansion is easily googled

IIRC when struck by orbital lasers scott walker will just mutate into a titanic blob of flesh and machinery consuming all social services and human decency in its path

Not to get all 'dewy-eyed naïf' up in this piece, but I don't even know how government can play-act at representing the will of the people when they pull shit like this.

so doc c, you're saying walker was hit by orbital lasers seconds after being elected

cause "The People" exist mainly in their own mind

Here's one of the guys who wrote twitter's code lolling at Rudy:

Hey @tw and @bcherry, remember all the debates we had about the linkifying regex around edge cases like this? Rudy is super upset with us for "https://t.co/3YnF3iGucu"

Rudy, if you don't like it this behavior, put spaces after periods or send patches to https://t.co/CLidW5MrZX https://t.co/btByWkExYF

— Patrick Ewing (@hoverbird) December 5, 2018

I don't even know how government can play-act at representing the will of the people when they pull shit like this.

They don't want to have to play-act, they want to do this stuff under the rug and hope nobody notices. They didn't succeed. Getting the election moved to benefit their supreme court candidate was a big goal and that got killed once people got wind of it. This is dirty as hell but they can't really change the fact that there's going to be a new governor and a new attorney general and a lot of things are going to be fundamentally different around here for the next four years at least. And they are cementing their reputation as the dirty party in the process. I think this is a mistake for them in the long term.

counterpoint: there is no long term

If they ram this through, do the Dems have enough legislative votes to reverse it next year?

i feel like this is exactly the type of move that feels good in the present but will backfire on them

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/419527-exclusive-consumer-bureau-analysis-says-name-change-could-cost-firms-300

tl;dr mick mulvaney wants to change the name of the CFPB to "BCFP". the adminstative burden of this will cost banks $300m. cry me a river, but these administration people are so weird (as well as stupid).

If they ram this through, do the Dems have enough legislative votes to reverse it next year?

No. If that were the case, there would be no point. The idea is that thanks to the current district lines, which among other things fold large chunks of (Democratic) Milwaukee county into hard-red suburban districts, Dems would have to win the statewide vote by 8 points or so in order to get an Assembly majority. That's more than Walker ever won by. The legislature is trying to grab power for itself because it's the only branch of the government that's successfully immunized itself from public anger.
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xp arbitrarily changing the names of things and other twiddling is an economic stimulus/job creation tactic, surely

it’s a ‘desperately trying to look busy’ tactic, sure

Not much different than corporations reconfiguring initiatives and retitling divisions in order to highlight new executive 'achievements'.

the agency doesn't match the name described in the bill, we need to make it technically correct: the best kind of correct

I posted this elsewhere but might as well ask here as well, any details welcome.

It's so despicable and infuriating that we can declare a national holiday with ~24 hours notice (totally screwing over many thousands of people in the process due to disrupted mail delivery) because a vile mass murderer died, yet Election Day remains a regular workday. I would love more info about this disgusting abuse of power if people can provide details - who signed this order, how did it happen? This has Miller written all over it.

uhhhh... it’s happened every time a president’s died for awhile now.

link?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_day_of_mourning

that doesn't say anything about shutting down the government, just flags at half-mast.

I became a Fed in 2006, so I can’t speak for anything earlier than that, but I got a day off today and when Ford died.

weird, there are zero details about any Ford-related shutdowns here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Gerald_Ford

just another "National Day Of Mourning" with no details...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/04/26/closing-government-for-funeral-is-us-tradition/45935dce-4fe2-4876-953c-d68c02c46802/

Ah thanks, what a bunch of bullshit. My point about Election Day stands, and I can now assume that Trump ordered this directly.

Over the top In ethical behavior

wonder how different today would be if it were jimmy carter who'd died

otm

national new peanut tariff day