US Politics, January 2020. Because we hate ourselves.

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

rarely ime

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/

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

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

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

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

can't humiliate the unhumiliatable

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.

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

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.

yup, just gotta play your kurds right

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?.

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

also, YOU did that

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

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

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

^that was shortly after he'd been shot so

I won't finish my thought

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

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

outside is in that direction!

but my children

the state will take care of them
just kidding

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

can trump point to ukraine

Currently is iirc

XP He did, and it was perfect!

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

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

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

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.

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

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)

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.

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.

we have to grapple with the real possibility that she pointed to somewhere like belarus, and pompeo thought it was bangladesh

i know everyone is bad at geography and lots of people don't know who the vice president is, etc etc, but imagine kelly being asked to point to ukraine and then pointing to bangladesh on this map

https://i.imgur.com/ZR1BvWm.jpg

I couldn't identity Ukraine on a map in the same situation

lol @ the implication that Pompeo can pinpoint Bangladesh on a map.

a lot of people couldn't. a lot of people in the united states can't point to new hampshire. and especially not to american samoa.

but would you at least point to the right continent?

I do like to think that even the most ignorant American journalist knows that Ukraine is next to Russia. And Russia is easily recognizable because it's BIG.

Of course she knows where Ukraine is. Pompeo is just straight up lying

It is worth noting that Pompeo is not a reptile in the literal sense.

i just find it so shocking that mary louise kelly, who got her masters in European Studies at Cambridge, pointed to bangladesh instead of Ukraine. but you gotta trust pompeo on this one, he is the secretary of state!! and after all, would someone who asked a journalist to point to Ukraine on an unmarked map be so petty to lie about her answer??