US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"

After a tie-breaking name drawing by Virginia State Board of Elections officials, Republican David Yancey has officially been declared the winner in the 94th Virginia House of Delegates District seat in Newport News.

Yancey, the incumbent, maintains his seat in the House of Delegates after an unconventional end to the Virginia race. Republicans now hold a 51-49 majority in the state House.

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guy must have lucky charms

well, looks like republicans in the state of Virginia have their mandate to impose their will on the entire state

let god take the wheel and then drive it off a cliff

really should have been a duel

his name was picked from the ceramic bowl.

In all seriousness, delete America.

The oracle has spoken!

😂😂😂
Scaramucci: Some of us have different views, but lets subordinate all that nonsense and work for the president and knock it off.

Ruhle: Anthony, you said 6 months ago that you think Steve Bannon tries to suck his own penis. pic.twitter.com/a5AAcIVn5o

— Lis Power (@LisPower1) January 4, 2018

"Legislative power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical ceramic ceremony."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bqQ-C1PSE

lol The book is a bestseller on Amazon and it's not even released

In the span of one day, Michael Wolff’s bombshell book about President Donald Trump and his administration, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, moved 48,448 positions up on Amazon’s best-seller list to reach the no. 1 spot. As of 10:00 a.m. ET on Thursday, it has retained its status. (The book is still in pre-order stages; it will be released on Jan. 9.)

can't wait for Trump to take credit for having a new best selling book out

I'm not going to say there won't be political candidates who get some serious traction by speaking directly to Trumpist grievance/dem baiting/racism, because there absolutely will be. But I absolutely believe that Trump eked out a win largely on the basis of celebrity/name recognition. If some no-name GOP senator had replicated Trump's campaign note-for-note, he wouldn't have come within spitting distance of the presidency.

― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Thursday, January 4, 2018 8:08 AM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's also important to note he was going up against probably the most hated candidate the democrats could have nominated, the bête noire of the entire GOP establishment and idiot fox viewership and a just-large-enough segment of the left.

and whose stirring get-out-the-vote label was 'Qualified'

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the mooch video is funny but it also saddens me because it reminds me that i can never run for any sort of public office. "KM you argue for policies which remove the incentive for electricity utilities to increase sales as a means of increasing revenue and profits...but a recent comprehensive analysis of your posts on the internet found that you used the word "fartz", with a 'z', more than 750 times in the last ten years, including one period in August 2011 where it was used over 200 times."

Weird scenes etc

Trump on Bannon: “He called me a great man last night...he changed his tune pretty quick.”

Adds: “I don’t talk to him”

— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) January 4, 2018

xpost You're still stuck in that 2016 way of thinking! There are literally no barriers to entry at this point. You just have to be vehemently unapologetic about the 'fartz'-ing, perhaps even suggesting that those who spell it 'farts' are terrorists who hate America.

damn i was about to que up a morbs addition to the shitty candidate hillary discussion but you beat me to it irl xxxp

Oh, actually, basic decency and a healthy sense of shame are probably barriers to entry now so you may want to work on stamping those qualities into the dirt.

If some no-name GOP senator had replicated Trump's campaign note-for-note, he wouldn't have come within spitting distance of the presidency.

definitely some truth to this. haven't completely awful candidates run in the past and gotten trounced? Trump definitely had an extraordinary sense of shamelessness, unaccountability, and an ability to bait the media that I don't think anyone who has held public office could properly replicate. how did Trumpism do in 2017?

I like how calling him a great man is somehow the opposite of "I believe your son committed treason and you are likely implicated yourself" https://t.co/z4VErrJaHQ

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) January 4, 2018

Also on the fun tip

per @MichaelWolffNYC, @TuckerCarlson was offered the WH press secretary job and declined https://t.co/RNZncw3Jig

— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) January 4, 2018

can't wait for Trump to take credit for having a new best selling book out

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, January 4, 2018 4:56 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this will absolutely happen in some form

While Trump was in most ways a conventional misogynist, in the workplace he was much closer to women than to men. The former he confided in, the latter he held at arm’s length. He liked and needed his office wives and he trusted them with his most important personal issues. Women, according to Trump, were simply more loyal and trustworthy than men. Men might be more forceful and competent, but they were also more likely to have their own agendas. Women, by their nature – or Trump’s version of their nature – were more likely to focus their purpose on a man. A man like Trump.

I'm wondering if a judicious editor forced the attribution of the views to Trump. Either way, gross.

https://s.faketrumptweet.com/jc0re8jw_1iu3z6n_cje3ll.png

that tweet has a KNEEL BEFORE ZOD tone

where is Zod when we need him?

TURMP MAAAAADDDD

that's fake, no? all i see from him today are his usual ravings about the Dow, retweets about the NFL, taking credit for the Korean talks, and the terrifying specter of voter fraud (two tweets).

he's got a FOX talk show at 3 p.m. Saturday afternoons.

it's all too easy to sound like Trump

Weird scenes etc

🐦[Trump on Bannon: “He called me a great man last night...he changed his tune pretty quick.”

Adds: “I don’t talk to him”
— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) January 4, 2018🕸]🐦

we are seeing the virtue of selfishness in action, the galtiest galt to ever galt

By tomorrow, these two will again be chatting once or twice a day (which they've been doing since Bannon was fired). Reminds me of an internet spat on social media. One person publicly attacks another on Twitter. Then quietly sends a DM to patch things up. pic.twitter.com/V4pw86x8mb

— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) January 4, 2018

Realize this is petty, but Wolff's book has the worst looking book cover of any bestseller in decades. The 911 commission had a better cover. I wonder if it was an intentional kludge to reflect the depicted administration.

i don't know if trump and bannon will make up, but the RIP Bannon stuff seems very premature to me. sorry to bring up my close family as anecdotal evidence again, but they not only read breitbart, but they also track down books influenced by bannon or directly connected to him, like "the fourth turning" and shit. bannon really does hold a lot of influence with a loooooooot of very impressionable people. there are a lot of people who WANT the apocalypse to happen (via a global war with Islam), and bannon is maybe the most powerful person in the united states who supports that vision. he's not going away.

Pretty much as was tweeted

.@SenCoryGardner on Attorney General Jeff Sessions' #marijuana policy change: "I will be holding all nominations for the Department of Justice. The people of Colorado deserve answers." pic.twitter.com/BnVEkA54ag

— CSPAN (@cspan) January 4, 2018

Cory Gardner for secretary of the bongzilla

From Fire and Fury, here's Trump on his friends' wives --> pic.twitter.com/9imNBaSqm1

— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) January 3, 2018

Feel sad for them, why don't you?

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/04/retiring-members-congress-2018-216209

I'm sending Booker's office some Doritos rn

xp the problem with creating an environment of "whether or not it's true, it sure SOUNDS true" is that applies to you too

xp I mean Gardner's office. Shit.

xxxpost That person clearly doesn't understand how a highlighter works. So annoying to look at.

lol i thought the same thing

i would have gone with a single vertical highlighted line in the margin

Like...I've often said as much in my patented hyperbolic fashion, but is it actually possible that Donald Trump is the worst living American who hasn't (as far as we know) murdered anyone with his own hands? Not sure what metrics to use in measuring someone's awfulness quotient, but I think 'never positively contributing to humanity in any way' and 'exerting considerable effort to be a human bag of shit in pretty much every arena' go a long way in that regard.

how dare u he created jerrrrrrbs

jeerrrrrrbbbbbbs

he created gerbils

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-meadows-jim-jordan-jeff-sessions-resign-mueller-2018-1