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

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

KY going to be first to enact Medicaid work requirements. Wonder how those folks will find a way to pin this on Clinton/ Obama?

if obama and clinton hadn’t tanked the economy this belt-tightening would be necessary, obv

er, wouldn’t

pic.twitter.com/WZBAhl09Eb

— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) January 12, 2018

I knew nothing good was gonna come from Shadow President Hillary tossing wads of bills into the streets from her private helicopter. Thanks, Blomamba!

Paul Ryan calls the stream of Donald Trump urine currently cascading across Ryan's face "blvery blunfortunate, blunhelpfulblbl."
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Friday, January 12, 2018 12:58 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

The whine of whipped curs

NEW: Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue issue joint statement on President Trump's reported "sh*thole" comment, saying "we do not recall the President saying these comments specifically." https://t.co/2sBsSAqrLY pic.twitter.com/NMMSAxUHBi

— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 12, 2018

And in contrast:

meanwhile Sen. Tim Scott has talked to fellow South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, who was also in the meeting and Graham confirmed reports of Trump's comments are "basically accurate." https://t.co/0lSW8LSg5k

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) January 12, 2018

tom cotton's mouth is a shithole

he's up there with ted cruz in the execrable conservatives rankings

i don't much about Perdue. but he just issued a joint statement with tom cotton, so i'm assuming ew

lying for god and country

And to what fucking end, really.

Reuters: U.S. ambassador to Panama has written a letter to the State Department announcing his resignation saying he resigns on principle and can no longer serve the Trump administration

— Sky News Newsdesk (@SkyNewsBreak) January 12, 2018

...Donald Trump urine currently cascading across Ryan's face "blvery blunfortunate, blunhelpfulblbl, burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb Grim Reapah!"

Some people say he said a bad word, other people say he didn't say it.

So naturally the public consensus should be that it's reasonable doubt, unprovable, he said/he said, nonissue, nothingburger; can't we move on from this pettiness and get on with doing the important work of MAGAing.

He may as well just have taken a dump on the desk, then directed several people to say they "don't recall" any desk-dumping. Any reports to the contrary are fake news from the dishonest media.

re: Panamanian ambassador - doubtless that ambassador will be replaced by someone who doesn't believe in the Panama Canal.

Many people are saying the White House is the best managed, most beautiful shithole.

didn't he already call the White House a dump lol

kinda going off what y'all were talking about above, there was a recent Deadcast where they tried to recap Trump's first year so far, there's so much that everyone just forgot about. gonna be amazing to read a week-by-week recap of all this one day

President Trump freely admits to defecating on the Oval Office desk before members of congress and the media but refutes the assertion that he prefaced the act by declaring that he was going to 'take a (s-word) all over this (b-word)'. The public remains divided on the appropriateness of the use of profanity by a standing president in referring to a bodily function such as this.

re: Panamanian ambassador - doubtless that ambassador will be replaced by someone who doesn't believe in the Panama Canal.

At the rate they're going, it's doubtful they'll replace him at all.

The Trump Administration: Putting the "anal" in "canal."

it's frankly ridiculous that the obummer administration saw fit to appoint an ambassador for a style of hat anyway, this opportunity to shrink government is a good thing and should be embraced by a grateful nation

xp to frogbs

when the Arpaio for Senate announcement came out, I had the uncomfortable experience of needing to recall that Trump had pardoned him, an incident that would have haunted previous administrations. I still vividly recall the Marc Rich pardon scandal and that was on Clinton's last day in office.

The Trump Administration: Putting the "anal" in "canal."

― mime kampf (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, January 12, 2018 1:57 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Trump putting the everything-besides-"ry" in (our) shithole country

OK that's it, no more puns today

I keep thinking of that FDR statue upthread and how there will one day be a trump statue with "all haitians have aids" or something inscribed on it

with KFC bucket replacing Fala

Trump's statue has to have him tossing a roll of paper towels

But of course

NBC: As a Korean woman was briefing trump on Pakistan, the president asked why the “pretty Korean lady” wasn’t negotiating peace w North Korea. pic.twitter.com/HgpMfFP277

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) January 12, 2018

with KFC pee bucket replacing Fala

fixed

I can't stop laughing at @jaxalemany's write up of a White House conference call gone wrong: https://t.co/pt1HSUboRb pic.twitter.com/LvzMpFMyCa

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) January 12, 2018

Isn't Trump half-Scottish? Let him be U.S. Ambassador to Scotland.

brb, gonna tweet bizarro's digits to the Trumpmeister real quick

hahahahah "it's the illegitimate media" is 9000% stephen miller or some reporter horsing around

"This is Kim Jong Un calling for Donald Trump"

one might assume at this point that trump hates the job and is actively trying to get fired

brb, gonna tweet bizarro's digits to the Trumpmeister real quick

www.conferencecall.gov
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i can confirm that many govt conference calls go just like that, at all levels

conference calls are the worst means of communication the human race has yet devised

xps to TLG, I don't think so. This isn't complicated. He's a narcissist so he loves adulation. And because he is a terrible person, the cheapest/easiest adulation he can get is the adulation of terrible people. Anything else would require effort, and he's lazy.

It's the same as wanting a Big Mac while living in an RV that is parked in a McDonald's drive-thru lane. Sure, you COULD go buy some broccoli, but why?

What incentive is there for Trump to seek the approval of anyone other than the people who already love him and gleefully cheer at every despicable thing he does? I mean, it's not as if he can suddenly become a person that Bill Kristol approves of - let alone Rachel Maddow - so why should he try?

yeah i was just kidding

it's just comically absurd how awful he is