US Politics November 2017

*stinkeye*

boooooo

no

A mod can change it later. Quite like this though. Already feels calming

Yeah, I think we're in for smooth sailing from here on out.

http://jackcanfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/how-to-meditate-jack-canfield.jpg

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wtf this dude isn't even american ? we need some extreme vetting for thread starters .

that's very isolationist of u

http://www.marketwire.com/library/20110421-2via800.jpg

GOOD mourning!

wtf this dude isn't even american ? we need some extreme vetting for thread starters

ban lj

LJ otm but ban lj

Thanking u ppl across the pond for MingAGA

lmao wow really powerful statement now this thread totally won't be 100 percent the exact same obsessing about Trump except without a good title

you guys should work for John Oliver

thing is, we deserve Trump threads

lj sorry I love you it pains me to do this but ban lj

oh fer fuck's sake

not using his name = typical lib empty move

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, November 1, 2017 7:36 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

morbz otm

A poll of the Trump Year One thread titles has given me a greater appreciation of minimalism *clinks tankard of terrible beer with imago, pours beer into potplant*

ban andrew farrell

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3PakAiTZWAs/hqdefault.jpg

me rn, blessig u lj

so is Trump really going to try to blame Chuck Schumer directly for this terrorist attack

worked for lee atwater

Schumer did 10/31

where's the tax returns?

it's as if Trump has something he'd like to detract attention from

the Democrats paid the Russians to rig the election so that Hillary would win, right? guess it didn't work! MAGA

Chuck Schumer‏
@SenSchumer 2h2 hours ago
I guess it's not too soon to politicize a tragedy.

I have just ordered Homeland Security to step up our already Extreme Vetting Program. Being politically correct is fine, but not for this!

A depressing thing about this is that the bolded section won't actually lose him any votes why because pissing on brown people.

i think NOT IN THE U.S.A.! shd be part of thread title

fuck Schmuck too:

President Trump, where is your leadership? The contrast btwn Pres Bush’s actions after 9-11 & Pres Trump’s this am couldn't be starker.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) November 1, 2017

has Yam started two wars ALREADY?

i mean he's right in the sense that trump didn't immediately start putting plans into motion to invade afghanistan, but somehow i doubt that's the angle he had in mind xp

Can we add "DO SOMETHING!" to the thread title?

NEW: These are the first two Russian-bought Facebook ads to be released by Congress. pic.twitter.com/1ThgzYNdTf

— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) October 31, 2017

'hillary clinton has a 69 percent disapproval rating'

nice

check the DEMS!

check the record check the record check the DEMS rock record

oops track

a punch in the nose

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/manafort-fight-over-attorney-speaking

what about all the bad things Hillary Clinton said about Russia? We demand equal time!

mr. trump's tax returns are going to be a doozy :)

'hillary clinton has a 69 percent disapproval rating'

nice

― proton, neutron, electron and crouton (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 15:09 (thirty-four minutes ago) Permalink

Trump: I'm going to have an even better approval rating. I'm going to have the best approval rating you've ever seen, a 420 percent approval rating.

morbz otm

ban marcos

lol

Awaiting Trump's coal comeback, miners reject retraining

When Mike Sylvester entered a career training center earlier this year in southwestern Pennsylvania, he found more than one hundred federally funded courses covering everything from computer programming to nursing.

He settled instead on something familiar: a coal mining course.

”I think there is a coal comeback,” said the 33-year-old son of a miner.

Despite broad consensus about coal’s bleak future, a years-long effort to diversify the economy of this hard-hit region away from mining is stumbling, with Obama-era jobs retraining classes undersubscribed and future programs at risk under President Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 budget.

Trump has promised to revive coal by rolling back environmental regulations and moved to repeal Obama-era curbs on carbon emissions from power plants.

“I have a lot of faith in President Trump,” Sylvester said.

But hundreds of coal-fired plants have closed in recent years, and cheap natural gas continues to erode domestic demand. The Appalachian region has lost about 33,500 mining jobs since 2011, according to the Appalachian Regional Commission.

Although there have been small gains in coal output and hiring this year, driven by foreign demand, production levels remain near lows hit in 1978.

A White House official did not respond to requests for comment on coal policy and retraining for coal workers.

BRAEKING NEWS SEBASTIAN GORKA PARKS ILLEGALLY ON SIDEWALK

Despite @ArlingtonVA laws prohibiting this behavior, I came across this car that had just been parked on the sidewalk at Gateway Park pic.twitter.com/UYrDwnxWos

— Bilsko (@Bilsko) October 31, 2017

^ Shocking proof that Gorka is not as angelic as we thought he was!

hey miners, i have also have a profession that is vanishing out of existence. suck it up and adjust.

xxp

AN INSIDE SOURCE JUST TOLD ME MUELLER IS CHARGING GORKA WITH OBSTRUCTION OF SIDEWALK. STRATEGY IS TO TURN HIM AND GET HIM TO GIVE UP OTHERS. #THERESISTANCE

Energy Secretary Rick Perry recently released a proposal aimed at saving coal from cheap renewable energy

so much for a free market economy

That Reuters article is grim. Why the fuck is a job training center offering a coal mining course?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/2017/11/30/c2118302-d5e7-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html

The Republican plan for a massive tax overhaul slammed into late-stage drama on Thursday as party leaders scrambled to prevent several members from derailing the entire effort.

The tension played out during a tense 62-minute standoff on the Senate floor, as Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) refused to vote with their colleagues until they had assurances that more changes could be made to the bill.

Corker and Flake had just been informed that their proposed “trigger,” a mechanism to raise taxes if economic growth came in slower than projected, would not be allowed by the Senate’s parliamentarian.

...

The competing demands sent GOP leaders scrambling. They control just 52 votes in the 100-seat chamber, and they can’t afford to lose three Republicans if they want the bill to pass. After Corker, Flake, and Johnson agreed to let the debate proceed, GOP leaders conceded that numerous changes were now under consideration.

dragging out the inevitable, most likely

for sure but it is amazing how bad they are at this

you mean governing?

being humans

Chuck Todd said they have to prove they're good at governing, see.

read that post in the voice of Edward G. Robinson

It's a bad idea for Senate Dems -- not all of them -- to insist that this thing will Blow Up the Deficit. We know what's coming. When the deficit blows up, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and the tired wretched bodies of the poor are next -- if any rubble is left standing when this excrescence is signed.

yeah the deficit stuff is all basically a weak dodge, the better argument is "the rich get all your money, you get nothing"

Being humans? They’re not even good at being boring white guys in suits

I really don't get why dems are constantly wringing their hands over the deficit. They got burned by that line of thinking repeatedly under Obama, and it looks like they still haven't learned anything.

Donors

Deficits dont matter

we poors are still really bad at class warfare you know.

Deficits dont matter

― Οὖτις, Thursday, November 30, 2017 7:13 PM

Cheney's only truth.

(and to those making this policy, 99.5% of us are poors) xp

Badass comment by defense attorney after his undocumented client is acquitted in murder case Trump and Sessions used to drum up xenophobia. pic.twitter.com/UXr7GoKe80

— David Menschel (@davidminpdx) December 1, 2017

Matt Gonzalez rules

The National Tree Lighting ceremony was beautiful this evening - but hard not to notice the empty seats. #Christmas #DMV #USA pic.twitter.com/oKMrnnBekG

— Steve Rudin ABC7 (@SteveRudinABC7) November 30, 2017

US politics december 2017: the may themselves soon avail themselves

there's a new Labour video kicking around that just nails the right tone and message re class war

When bankers like Morgan Stanley say we’re a threat, they’re right.

The next Labour Government is a threat to a damaging and failed system that’s rigged for the few. pic.twitter.com/v1ujMkngdv

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) November 30, 2017

Can you brits loan the Democratic party here some Corbynism of the above variety? We're a bit short right now. We'll pay you back after November 2018, we swear.

Oh shit didnt even realize that was Gonzalez!

I wanted him to be mayor so bad.

Xp

Tax bill vote cancelled for now

People are saying it was the biggest tree lighting ceremony ever.

We're down to the nut-cutting

Xp

Every obstacle to passage helps. If one senator gets their goodie inserted, maybe another one will object and pout.

Seems like that's what's happening, yes

maybe if trump / mcconnell / ryan retroactively tax the tuition remissions of everyone's MAs and PhDs etc going back to the good old days (enron's bankruptcy) that will help out fiscally conservative deficit hawk republicans trying to meet reconciliation parameters

For the many not the new is so simple even the dnc could fuck it up

taxes go up on the middle class so that trumpkins / kochs / waltons can enjoy their eight figure inheritances tax free. let them eat hannity

They take from the medium poor to
Give to the needy poor
Via the government poor
Give it to the poor poor
They're knocking on my door
Entrance
Entranced

Stick it in the mud
Stick it in the gut

no quoting Don Henley here

boffins bray -- boffins brag

I repeat: these characters aren’t even competent at playing boring white guys in suits.

if only the building would catch fire

deficits don't matter

Monuments don’t matter

Posts dont matter

NEW: McConnell says no more votes until 11 am tomorrow.

The tax bill won't finish tonight.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) December 1, 2017

For the many not the new is so simple even the dnc could fuck it up

i want going to say anything out of respect for your feelings

FOX NEWS HOST TO @tedcruz: You cool working with alleged child molester Roy Moore if he's elected?

CRUZ: Sure, no problem, that's up to the voters.

FOX NEWS HOST: And what about alleged groper Al Franken?

CRUZ: Now that's a very serious problem. I'm extremely concerned. pic.twitter.com/1QzMq0Hud5

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 30, 2017

(wonder what's taking imago so long to start the new thread)

wake up! you have thirty minutes, America

haha n/r

US Politics, December 2017: I guess there’s always 2018

Oh wtf

US Politics December 2017: Deficits Don't Matter