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

but the entire UK is roughly the size of Minnesota.

Actually a fair bit bigger than Minnesota but smaller than Michigan.

🐦[NEW: "Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina spoke up and made a direct comment on what the president said. I was very proud of him. It took courage for what he did," Sen. Dick Durbin says, firing back at Pres. Trump’s denial of "sh*thole countries" comment pic.twitter.com/YH4pCVdcjP🕸
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 12, 2018🕸]🐦

"The most disheartening thing to me is, my belief that, that was the first time words that hateful have been spoken in the Oval Office of the White House," Sen. Dick Durbin says

Well now let's not get too far ahead of ourselves here.

I forget the tweet, but the whole "some exceptional people come from those countries!" take is so fucking bad

OTM, and as someone else on Twitter said (paraphrasing), he's not asking for more doctors or engineers or physicists or teachers, he's asking for more Norwegians, which is not a skill.

You need both protest and organization in order to build a movement capable of activating a sufficient portion of the public to make abandonment of the social-institutional & bureaucratic structures of support of the office of the President a politically sound proposition--spontaneous mass mobilizations and stable infrastructure prepared to rapidly absorb the spontaneous energy into sustained & ongoing strategic work. The strategic organizers are divided, lots of comfortable people feel protest is useless ("what did the Women's March accomplish? checkmate!"), and the GOP continues to get something out of Trump being in office, even if it's just cover for their policy wet dreams. Paul Ryan will, hopefully one day soon, be confined to a nice little yard where he can't hurt anyone anymore.

the first time words that hateful have been spoken in the Oval Office of the White House

Was gonna say! There may be a few hundred years of counterexamples.

i definitely want him to suffer legally (incl imprisonment, which lol will never happen), personally, financially. but i do think if he dies in office he'll become a folk hero. and even the press that's been adversarial will "reassess" his legacy in pretty short order.

now his enablers from the top on down, otoh...

but i do think if he dies in office he'll become a folk hero.

The best case (and I think most likely) comeuppance scenario is that it will be no longer tenable to advertise apartment buildings, casinos, or golf courses with the name Trump

Just listened (Slow Burn podcast) to a recounting of Nixon's fatal slurs on Ed Muskie — among them that Muskie once laughed when a colleague referred to Canadians as Canucks

How quaint

Honestly, I don't wish for Trump's death because I want him to live long enough to choke down the 750 years of karmic payback he has coming to him.

don't see why that can't coincide w/ a slow and painful death

I think if he dies in office the country will move on so fast, save the people who refuse to believe he's dead, or think he was killed.

Surely his tombstone will refute the death

FAKE DEATH

To contaminate perfectly good soil like that...

surely there must be recordings of this meeting?

release the pee tapes and the shit tapes

best case (and I think most likely) comeuppance scenario is that it will be no longer tenable to advertise apartment buildings, casinos, or golf courses with the name Trump

^^agree and i'll happily settle for this

already happening, to some extent. name taken off at least two hotels last year, iirc.

was in vancouver last month and was surprised to see a Trump hotel there and from my view from across the street it looked to be doing ok business? it was kind of jarring stumbling upon it.

it’s usually lindsey admiring dick

in private anyway

Haiti’s US Ambassador Paul Altidor tells me Haiti’s government has formerly summoned a US official to explain Trump’s comments to Haiti’s officials. “Haitians fought along US soldiers in the revolutionary war and we continue to be great contributors to American society,” he said https://t.co/adRajn3O5y

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) January 12, 2018

I just talked to Haiti’s Ambassador to the United States Paul Altidor who said he and the Haitian government “vehemently condemn” President Trump’s comments which they believe are “based on stereotypes.” “Either the president has been misinformed or he is miseducated.”

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) January 12, 2018

xxpost Now just imagine how jarring it is seeing the two-story high TRUMP on his downtown Chicago building on the way to and from work every single weekday.

I'll be okay if they just remove the letter T.

Or replace it with "CH"

remove ‘TR’ and ‘MP’, replace with ‘C’ and ‘NT’ imo

CHRUMP

lmao

Now just imagine how jarring it is seeing the two-story high TRUMP on his downtown Chicago building on the way to and from work every single weekday.

ha yeah my girlfriend was up there or work a couple months back and a partner at her firm wanted to take them out to the "best rooftop (or view?) in the city"; they ended up at Trump tower. she and the other associates were kinda like wtf, especially since the partner seemed/s to think Trump's an idiot and (probably) racist, etc. I guess just not horrible enough to refrain from giving him $$$.

KRUMP

i guess one of the primary advantages of looking at the view from trump tower is that you don’t have to see trump tower on the skyline

I was going to say, that is by default the best view.

resistance folk/ dirtbags should get jobs at Trump properties and just spend their entire workday stealing everything possible and just generally making it the worst place possible for guests. you'd be in a way a like a 'paid protester' that we keep hearing about.

yes i am basically 14 yo

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-ambassador-panama-resigns-donald-trump-john-feeley-not-work-president-a8156116.html

So Morning Consult did some breakdowns of who has/hasn't changed their minds about Trump, and by how much.

I don't think I had seen this kind of data before - I mean, can see his overall ratings going up and down, and it's clear that he has a diehard base that isn't going to budge. But if inquiring minds want to see who is disgusted and who isn't, it's at

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/11/us/politics/trump-approval.html?_r=0

If I'm reading that correctly, his approval has fallen among...literally everyone?

I mean it's a negligible drop among his supporters, obvs, but a drop is a drop.

at any moment I can turn around and read the letters TRUMP on a building visible from my window

and unlike other licensing deals, he owns the dang thing

Rep. Brendan Boyle of PA is today's new hero.

Doctors, lawyers and soldiers have to prove that they’re mentally competent to do their jobs. Should the president?

That’s what Rep. Brendan Boyle, a Pennsylvania Democrat, proposed on Tuesday, when he introduced a bill that would require the president-elect to pass a physical and mental medical examination before swearing in. Although written to broadly encompass anyone elected to the nation’s highest office, the bill is clearly aimed at President Trump. It’s even named after one of the president’s recent tweets: the Standardizing Testing and Accountability Before Large Elections Giving Electors Necessary Information for Unobstructed Selection Act. (That’s STABLE GENIUS in acronymese.)

A profile in courage

Paul Ryan calls Trump comments referring to Haiti and African nations as a “shithole’ as "very unfortunate, unhelpful."

— Anthony De Rosa 🗽 (@Anthony) January 12, 2018

I'm willing to bet that before the end of the year, Trump will say the N-word either into a live mic, or on an Oval Office recording that becomes public. I think we should start an ILX pool.

paul ryan retire bitch

Paul Ryan calls Trump's use of the n-word "very unfortunate, unhelpful."

Paul Ryan calls the stream of Donald Trump urine currently cascading across Ryan's face "blvery blunfortunate, blunhelpfulblbl."

What a difference a day makes! Yesterday:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/11/trump-davos-mnuchin-hangout-for-globalists-336503

"I don’t think it’s a hangout for globalists," Mnuchin said, using a term popularized by the nationalist wing of the Republican Party.

And today:

“I didn’t realize that it was the global elite," Mnuchin says of the World Economic Forum gathering Davos, Switzerland.

— Alan Rappeport (@arappeport) January 12, 2018

how are they so fucking dumb

they have learned NOTHING from a year in power ffs

learning is for socialists