US Politics, January 2020. Because we hate ourselves.

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I framed it that way semi-sarcastically because i've never seen such a stubborn dedication to that "rule" (as I described it) before the Trump era, to this much of a cartoony extreme degree.

Evan, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link

such a stubborn dedication to that "rule" (as I described it) before the Trump era

When your job depends on figuring out what an amorphous blob of hundreds of thousands, or millions, of voters might "think" in the aggregate, you adopt a very heuristic attitude. Trump did things no professional politician would have dared to try before 2016, but he succeeded, so it became monkey-see, monkey-do time in DC.

A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link

Del. Lee Carter, the Virginia General Assembly's sole Democratic socialist, just passed his first bill. It prevents employers from classifying workers as tipped employees if they're prohibited from soliciting tips. https://t.co/ucRe1p5Mpi

— Ned Oliver (@nedoliver) January 22, 2020

... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link

He appears to be celebrating by shitposting from the House floor https://t.co/Z5jyeC3dvT

— Ned Oliver (@nedoliver) January 22, 2020

... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link

that's a good tweet

j., Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link

I agree w TRAINS

Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link

Ruining the non-sequitLOLs a bit, but if you click on Lee's tweet, it's in regards to a separate train bill that passed afterwards

... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link

Still a good tweet tho

... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link

Are we sure it's not a zombie who can't correctly spell BRAINS?

Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 January 2020 00:26 (four years ago) link

Don't trains have . . . BOXCARS?!!!

nickn, Friday, 24 January 2020 00:44 (four years ago) link

rarely ime

don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Friday, 24 January 2020 02:44 (four years ago) link

Trump promised his mileage standards would make cars cheaper and safer. New documents raise doubts about that.
Top Senate Democrat argues that revised rule “will lead to vehicles that are neither safer, nor more affordable or fuel-efficient.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/01/23/trump-vowed-his-mileage-standards-would-make-cars-cheaper-safer-new-documents-raise-doubts-about-that/

curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2020 04:34 (four years ago) link

The Trump administration on Thursday signed its long-promised regulation to remove millions of miles of streams and roughly half the country’s wetlands from federal protection, the largest rollback of the Clean Water Act since the modern law was passed in 1972.

The move delivers a major win for the agriculture, homebuilding, mining, and oil and gas industries, which have for decades sought to shrink the scope of the water law that requires them to obtain permits to discharge pollution into waterways or fill in wetlands, and imposes fines for oil spills into protected waterways.

But Politico contends:Legal experts say the Trump rule is likely to be placed on hold by federal courts in at least some states, if not nationwide, as the litigation works its way through the courts. In the meantime. developers and other industries will have to decide how much of a risk they're willing to take.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/23/trump-epa-curbs-water-protections-102779

curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2020 04:41 (four years ago) link

doubts are raised and democrats argue but god forbid the washington post weigh in either way

mookieproof, Friday, 24 January 2020 04:43 (four years ago) link

Doesn’t get more humiliating than this. Trump is in a meeting with the president of Iraqi Kurdistan Nechirvan Barzani, but he mistakes him for the leader of the Syrian Kurds & goes on & on talking “safezones” in Syria & Turkey. Truly astounding ignorance.pic.twitter.com/YQbu4SA3it

— Sina Toossi (@SinaToossi) January 22, 2020

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link

president toddler fuckaduck is a a big boy who knows a lot

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link

can't humiliate the unhumiliatable

chapoquidditch (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link

As such, it's genuinely a wonder that he wears a diaper in lieu of just copping a squat wherever he happens to be when the spirit moves him. He's pure shameless id made manifest, what's really stopping him.

Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link

think it might've made the news if Barzani had treated it like a gameshow and at the end said "I am ACTUALLY..."

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link

you fools, haven't you learned how to be right all the time? he didn't mix the two leaders up. no he didn't. that didn't happen.

But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link

yup, just gotta play your kurds right

Evan, Friday, 24 January 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link

and what many people are saying is how bad it is when YOU mixed up the two leaders. you did that. very dumb of you.

But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link

I was shitposting! Haha and you guys fell for it. I love winding you up. God it’s so easy! Try harder n00bs! 😂😂😂

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link

Has there been an instance yet that we're aware of where he's publicly addressed someone by the wrong name, they corrected them, and he then doubled down and insisted that the name he chose for them was correct? If not, it's really only a matter of time, I assume.

Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link

Can't wait until he has a mini-stroke in the midst of naming the country that he's president of and then insists at every subsequent turn that he absolutely meant to call it Amrilkull because that's what it's called, and maybe even has the presidential seal altered accordingly.

Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link

i mean, shifty schiff keeps going by adam, even though trump keeps correcting him

But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link

Has there been an instance yet that we're aware of where he's publicly addressed someone by the wrong name, they corrected them, and he then doubled down and insisted that the name he chose for them was correct?.


Didn’t he do this w/ a soldier at State of the Union a couple years ago?

Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link

he was honoring the unknown soldiers, whose name by definition is disputed

But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link

also, YOU did that

But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link

only when you did it, it was a specific soldier with a real name and you got it wrong

But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link

If he insisted George Benson wrote and performed the Ghostbusters theme and got corrected, the Justice Department would have the deepfake music video by Tuesday

... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link

Reagan asked his HUD secretary -- only black Cabinet member -- "how are things going in your city, Mr Mayor?" once

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link

^that was shortly after he'd been shot so

I won't finish my thought

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 January 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link

mea culpa km, you are right, apologies to Dear Leader

Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 24 January 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link

thank you, hadrian. now, please face the other direction and walk down this long hallway

But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link

outside is in that direction!

But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link

but my children

Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 24 January 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link

the state will take care of them
just kidding

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 January 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link

ugh, the feeling when someone passes your impromptu "point at ukraine on an unmarked map" test, which you thought to be impossible

Wow. @NPR's @NPRKelly just now on @npratc says @SecPompeo was furious about being questioned about Ukraine in her interview. Took her into his office, cursed at her, dropping f-bombs, made her point to Ukraine on an unmarked map (she did). It's just...shocking.

— Lulu Garcia-Navarro (@lourdesgnavarro) January 24, 2020

But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:28 (four years ago) link

can trump point to ukraine

mookieproof, Friday, 24 January 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link

Currently is iirc

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:51 (four years ago) link

XP He did, and it was perfect!

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link

I think I.F. Stone wd've told Pomp to fuck off

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link

for the last 20 hours, the pinned tweet of the president has been this

pic.twitter.com/Acyh0HStm8

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2020

But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link

i guess he's retreating to the base within his base: trolls

But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 January 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link

Someone asked Trump to point out Ukraine on a map and he confidently stabbed his finger in the direction of a stapler on an adjacent table, just like any good American with a sound sense of world geometry. Geology. Maps, the...the, uh, class that was about maps.

Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Saturday, 25 January 2020 00:17 (four years ago) link

Trump apparently will be speaking at the March For Life, a Pro-Life rally. He's the first President to do so.

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 January 2020 00:44 (four years ago) link

It's sort of amazing how many contenders there are for "no wait -- that guy, THAT GUY is the very biggest asshole in the building." (Today I'm thinking Pompeo but a day will pass and there'll be some other astonishing feat of assholery from another human sphincter in a position of high responsibility)

Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 25 January 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link

oh my fucking GOD pompeo, jfc

The Secretary of State has issued this statement regarding his NPR interview: pic.twitter.com/Jp6vl3wny9

— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) January 25, 2020

for those who may have missed this, i'm sad to say this is real:

after throwing a tantrum because he was a fucking moron during an interview, he pulled Kelly into a separate room (off mic) and yelled at her for several minutes, then asked her to point to Ukraine on a map and asked his aides to produce an unmarked global map. then she pointed to Ukraine on a map, according to Kelly. I believe her. i at least believe that she would point to the correct continent, which should go without saying except that...in Pompeo's statement above, he is clearly hinting that she pointed to Bangladesh.

But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 25 January 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link

Ukraine is not particularly difficult to find for someone with a basic sense of geography and geopolitics. The Crimean peninsula is fairly recognizable. But on the chance that she did get it wrong, I find it extremely hard to believe that she would've pointed somewhere not even close to eastern Europe. Like, if you're going to make shit up, say she pointed to Belarus or Georgia or something.

jaymc, Saturday, 25 January 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link


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