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

just last month the GOP rammed through a $1,000,000,000,000,000+ tax cut for their donors (popular with 25% of the general public) and are now they're whining that they can't pass a budget without democratic cooperation. fuck them. shut er down

That's what I say! And the Dems should take proud credit for highlighting GOP incompetence and malfeasance.

just played WSOP online with a dude named "Trump". he accumulated a fortune by chance early on, spent most of the match trying to protect that fortune, then he ran away when it got hard.

DACA is probably dead because the Democrats don’t really want it, they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our Military.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 14, 2018

god i hate this fucker

you could always leave the corporate income tax rate alone and fund the military to your heart's content, baldy

does anyone really believe we are at risk because we don't spend enough $$ on the military jeesh

tens of millions of gaslit "conservatives"

$1,000,000,000,000,000+ tax cut

point taken. but you lost count of your zeroes. quite understandably.

just last month the GOP rammed through a $1,000,000,000,000,000+ tax cut for their donors (popular with 25% of the general public) and are now they're whining that they can't pass a budget without democratic cooperation.

don't forget that the tax bill required only 50 votes in the senate (via "budget reconcilation" process, whereas the federal budget vote requires 60. they did not need democratic cooperation to pass the tax bill. they do need democratic cooperation to pass a budget.

dems should say: "raise the upper bracket income tax to eisenhower levels and we won't need to filibuster your bullshit budget"

we're pretty much fucked anyways if we don't arrest this slide toward feudalism

humans have had a good run, time to give the earth back to more mystical creatures like centaurs and manticores

the overton window ain't gonna move itself

just last month the GOP rammed through a $1,000,000,000,000,000+ tax cut for their donors (popular with 25% of the general public) and are now they're whining that they can't pass a budget without democratic cooperation.

don't forget that the tax bill required only 50 votes in the senate (via "budget reconcilation" process, whereas the federal budget vote requires 60. they did not need democratic cooperation to pass the tax bill. they do need democratic cooperation to pass a budget.

― Karl Malone

in a sense, they did need democratic cooperation to pass the bill through budget reconciliation because they were just copying a move the democrats came up with to pass the aca! it was clever when the democrats did it. the republicans are too stupid to come up with anything like that on their own.

this is what happens when your political party crowdsources their opinions: https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-senator-now-says-trump-not-use-word-160807678.html

several days later, GOP shitheel perdue is pulling the old "no YOU'RE the liar, no backsies" routine on shitholegate

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/us/politics/david-perdue-trump-shithole.html

WASHINGTON — A Republican senator who attended a Thursday immigration meeting at the White House forcefully denied on Sunday that President Trump had used the phrase “shithole countries” in describing Haiti and African nations, saying a Democratic senator’s account of the session was “a gross misrepresentation.”

Senator David Perdue, Republican of Georgia, said on ABC’s “This Week” that Mr. Trump “did not use that word,” and accused Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, of distorting what the president had said at the meeting, which included more than a half-dozen lawmakers.

Senator Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, joined Mr. Perdue later in the morning in questioning Mr. Durbin.

“I didn’t hear that word either,” he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “And I was sitting no further away from Donald Trump than Dick Durbin was.”

Mr. Cotton said Mr. Durbin “has a history of misrepresenting what happens in White House meetings,” a comment that Mr. Perdue echoed in his interview Sunday morning.

Ben Marter, a spokesman for Mr. Durbin, immediately attacked their assertions.

“Credibility is something that’s built by being consistently honest over time,” Mr. Marter wrote on Twitter. “Senator Durbin has it. Senator Perdue does not. Ask anyone who’s dealt with both.”

whoops, same time

there is no worse human being on the planet than a GOP Senator. well, ok....other than a GOP Speaker of the House

god, i fucking knew this would happen. i knew they'd just deny that it happened. it doesn't matter that durbin said it happened, that graham said the washPo's account was basically accurate, and that the WH didn't deny that the words were spoken. now there are multiple people in the room who say that it didn't, and that is more than enough for the right wing to support a revised alternate universe where the liberal media and democrats are lying.

i expected it from the get-go. just came later than I thought it would.

After firing an aid for not focusing on taking down Hillary, Trey Gowdy was sued for 50,000. Gowdy paid him off with taxpayer funds.

Now, Gowdy is resigning from the House Ethics Committee.https://t.co/FA7kcbh1kx

— Victor Stoddard (@VicStoddard) January 13, 2018

for whom does the ben ghazi, it ghazi's for thee

I fucking hate David Perdue

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jeff-flake-meeting-attendees-told-me-trump-said-shthole-before-those-words-went-public/

breaking: flake slams trump’s shithole

jeff bootyflake

ongoing great conversations
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/rick-wilson-shreds-john-fredericks-in-vicious-cnn-shthole-debate-i-will-gut-you-like-a-fish/

“No, John. You don’t appreciate it,” Wilson interjected. “You’re a weak, impotent person who can’t handle the fact that there are people who don’t look like you, who want to come to this country because our system is awesome.

rick wilson earlier today:

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2015/01/13/13-everything-is-awesom.w529.h352.jpg

I will gut you like a fish!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/new-alarm-among-republicans-that-democrats-could-win-big-this-year/2018/01/13/9be31acc-f8a8-11e7-beb6-c8d48830c54d_story.html

A raft of retirements, difficulty recruiting candidates and President Trump’s continuing pattern of throwing his party off message have prompted new alarm among Republicans that they could be facing a Democratic electoral wave in November.

The concern has grown so acute that Trump received what one congressional aide described as a “sobering” slide presentation about the difficult midterm landscape at Camp David last weekend, leading the president to pledge a robust schedule of fundraising and campaign travel in the coming months, White House officials said.

But the trends have continued, and perhaps worsened, since that briefing, with two more prominent Republican House members announcing plans to retire from vulnerable seats and a would-be recruit begging off a Senate challenge to Democrat Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota despite pressure from Trump to run.

etc.

"He was concerned primarily with reminding everyone in Rome how strong, handsome, and literally God-like he was, spending his time commissioning hundreds of statues of himself as Hercules while neglecting important matters of state ... Commodus' gullible nature and lack of interest in imperial duties meant that any number of sneaky intrigues and political conflicts began to fester."

"His great simplicity, however, together with his cowardice, made him the slave of his companions, and it was through them that he at first, out of ignorance, missed the better life and then was led on into lustful and cruel habits, which soon became second nature."

“in a sense, they did need democratic cooperation to pass the bill through budget reconciliation because they were just copying a move the democrats came up with to pass the aca! ”

Bush’s tax cuts were passed using reconciliation.

"He was concerned primarily with reminding everyone in Rome how strong, handsome, and literally God-like he was, spending his time commissioning hundreds of statues of himself as Hercules while neglecting important matters of state ... Commodus' gullible nature and lack of interest in imperial duties meant that any number of sneaky intrigues and political conflicts began to fester."

"His great simplicity, however, together with his cowardice, made him the slave of his companions, and it was through them that he at first, out of ignorance, missed the better life and then was led on into lustful and cruel habits, which soon became second nature."

― reggie (qualmsley)

stop using cracked.com as a historical primary source

Bush’s tax cuts were passed using reconciliation.

― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries)

thanks for the correction!

White House official told me tonight there is debate internally on whether Trump said "shithole" or "shithouse." Perdue and Cotton seem to have heard latter, this person said, and are using to deny.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 15, 2018

A shithouse is just a technologically advanced shithole tho

was just about to post that

regardless of hole or house, if perdue and cotton's actually believe it was 'shithouse' and then made a statement along the lines of "he didn't say 'shithole'" without mentioning that they think he said 'shithouse', i...

this is the dumbest fucking thing in the entire universe, just gotta throw that in there

As long as the GOP makes it a debate about which profanity the president used, the overt and unquestionable racism informing its usage is obscured.

i feel like all of us are part of a larger organ that is being slammed against a brick wall over and over again.

PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump declared on Sunday night that he was “not a racist” and insisted that the derogatory comment attributed to him during an Oval Office meeting on immigration last week did not occur.

“I’m not a racist. I’m the least racist person you will ever interview, that I can tell you,” Mr. Trump said as he arrived at Trump International Golf Club for dinner with Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the majority leader.

he is like a fucking tape loop.

what's amazing about all this is that many people say that trump is the last racist person you've ever met

― Karl Malone, Thursday, January 11, 2018 6:36 PM (three days ago)

you can just impersonate the dumb things that the thinks and says, and then, he'll just say them almost verbatim. he has like 25 things that he says, over and over.

gotta admit though, i'm having trouble thinking of anyone who is less of a racist than donald trump

there's an old burlesque routine about 'the Shithouse Quartet' that i will not have sullied by this ongoing shitstorm.

the overton window ain't gonna move itself

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, January 14, 2018 6:16 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Amen

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/01/the-curse-of-bipartisanship

bipartisanship exists because without it america isn't governable as a democracy.

unfortunately at this point america isn't governable as a democracy with or without bipartisanship.

People who used to say there could never be a liberal Infowars clearly didn’t see the 2016 election coming https://t.co/Dq6a9UJChU

— derek davison (@dwdavison9318) January 15, 2018

lmao the Chelsea Manning campaign for senate - assuming it goes forward - is gonna expose a lot more very bad opinions

DRAIN THE SWAMP

How dare anyone object to rubber-stamping of RussiaRussiaRussia incumbents

at this point it might be easier just to enumerate the very few things in american public life which aren't sinister russian plots

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