US Politics March 2019: “I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled”

really delightful that Rush Lumbago is screaming HOAX

im not sure who need to get over themselves more twitter resistance twerps or their haters, but luckily neither of them are capable of embarassment so here we are

Just a reminder that @DaftLimmy is probably the most prescient political commentator we've had in recent history. pic.twitter.com/GDG7yh96o8

— Madeley (@Madeley) March 24, 2019

Why does he get away with everything though? Why him?

It’s still weird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo8s5fuSwo8

Because he is the most unfairly treated president of all time

xp

I'm always here for Jane Child.

it is weird. I mean the guy is more Teflon than Reagan now.

is he just lucky? he definitely was dancing along the edge of impropriety his entire life and yet, while almost all of his inner circle was taken down by mueller--for reasons other than conspiracy--he is "vindicated" somehow.

it is preposterous that michael cohen is going to jail and trump is not.

the Cohen thing is totally separate though

Part of the charges were related to campaign finance violations and lying to congress about trump tower moscow

He’s not just going to jail for taxi medallions

it is weird. I mean the guy is more Teflon than Reagan now.

― akm, Monday, March 25, 2019

Reagan averaged over 50 percent approval for most of his presidency and was personally popular like his party wasn't.

limmy rules. his take is right until we make it not right.

i guess in favor of resist twerps, theyre at least kicking against assholes, possibly distracting opposition, and i think being ridic overly optimistic in good faith. It’s not always a straight self-interested grift in the case of several, tho definitely not for all.

Twerp resistance haters are sort of interesting. Profiles seem to point a lot to “haters of establishment that FAILS US,” “haters of clintons,” “haters of women,” “haters of privilege,” “haters of _ANY_ support of status quo,” “haters of dems,” and even “haters of losers.”

I think the preferred one to me “haters of failure to recognize the valuable causes”

We definitely need to steer more in the direction of encouraging putative allies to tighten up their perspectives/messages rather than unburdening our would-be conquerors the effort of dividing us. I mean, our 'narcissism of small differences' game is on point, but maybe it's worth considering whether that might be a pointless act of self-annihilation, idk.

Idk. It seems russiagate was a catastrophic distraction there should be some soul searching here

Here's an oxymoron to contemplate: GOP hairshirt.

It seems russiagate was a catastrophic distraction

catastrophic? oh, puh-leeeze spare us. what marvelous things were denied us because the nation was too distracted by russiagate? what catastrophe has overtaken us that was not born of Trump's election, rather than our distraction from... remind me what were we supposed to be doing instead?

Treesh bb are you having a time again

necessary esp given the gop buy-in for trumps hardcore oligopoly model.

russiagate has some dimensions. still it was necessary to ask 1 was it real, 2 should it be criminal and was it, and 3 should it disqualify pres? Answers for resist are yes, yes and yes. Answers from mueller are, so far, 1 yes, 2 only for a few flunkies and russians, and 3 ?!?

play on imo.

the idea that Mueller would find proof of Donald Trump, who does not use a computer, writing something like "YES I WILL DROP SANCTIONS IN EXCHANGE FOR HILLARYMAILS. BEST, [EKG-like signature]" was always a pipe dream, especially since Jr. leaked proof of himself doing just that and got away scot-free

there should be some soul searching here

pvmic

https://www.vox.com/2019/3/25/18280122/congress-investigate-trump-tax-return

by the way, even if they *HAD* found that proof, wouldn't that just lead to months of "So what, it isn't a crime!!! He's just willing to do what it takes to win!! He's a winner!!!", which I think would raise my blood pressure even more

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/mueller-non-russia-trump-scandals-congress/585643/

remind me what were we supposed to be doing instead?

organizing voters and describing socialism to them

^^^ otm, also pushing for voting reform everywhere i.e. vote by mail not the dumb "election day holiday" idea

i confess that part of my desire to see this vermin squashed is not just revulsion at trump’s disgusting and abusive and actually harmful core qualities, but wanting to remove the social and political impulses to install stronger larger fash policies and extractions. and also to deny his type greater access to actual levers of power. systems can fail worse than this. If you think it cant be worse, you are mistaken. If you think there’s a better oppty to eradicate it than now, i actually fear you may be wrong.

indeed!

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/435681-trump-campaign-sends-memo-asking-tv-producers-challenge-past-guests-who?#_=_

Honestly this is such a gift to his campaign

I guess, but are any of the current dem candidates the ones that focused on collusion?

Funny you should ask. Charles Pierce is following a few candidates:

Put simply, anyone who's telling you that the Democrats are in danger of overreaching in their criticism of El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago is selling you wooden nutmeg. In my first weekend following the 2020 election around, I heard general questions and answers about the president*'s character. (Pro tip: he has none.) And I heard a lot of talk about prying the presidency loose from the brigade of grifters, temp workers, and clucks he's installed in those executive branch jobs he's deigned to fill. But, mostly, I heard dialogue about a lot of problems and possible solutions that stretch beyond the green rooms of cable news—an environment, I admit, not unknown to me, and even less unknown to Cory Booker, truth be told. For example, remember criminal justice reform? Remember the carceral state? It's still out there as an issue.

no shit

Remember the carceral state?

never seen someone identify his audience so clearly in so few words

I had to talk a white male acquaintance off a Facebook ledge yesterday after he moaned that Donald Trump was re-elected.

Put simply, I'm really fucking tired of some of you guys on this thread implicitly begging Trump to win so you can return to moaning about how awful things are.

Those of us who are brown and gay in a state that Ron DeSantis barely won thank you for the leftist solidarity.

before the internet, you'd bury the lachrymose drivel in a spiral bound notebook. Congratulations.

White House spokesman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that media figures and Democrats who accused President Trump of working with Russia were guilty of treason — and could face the death penalty.

“They are literally, the media and Democrats have called the president an agent of a foreign government. That is an accusation equal to treason, which is punishable by death in this country,” she said on NBC’s “Today” show.

The fuck

Oh maybe she is just saying the dems accused trump of treason. The paper of record (nypost) is suggesting she is saying schiff and co committed treason

No, "media figures and Democrats who accused President Trump of working with Russia were guilty of treason — and could face the death penalty" means "media figures and Democrats who accused President Trump of working with Russia were guilty of treason — and could face the death penalty."

"Anyone I don't like and that has said mean things to me...BOOM! DEATH PENALTY!"

what's new guys ?

I think at this point charging Schiff with treason would be an interesting test of our country's health.

It’s not cool

You know that this would never happen right guys

Like I'm not saying inflammatory language as such isn't alarming but uhh it's also what the Trump admin does daily and we're not going to wake up to guillotines tomorrow

yeah I'm just saying it'd be interesting for them to try